Other Greek cities set up democracies, and even though most followed an Athenian model, none were as powerful, stable, nor as well-documented as that of Athens.

Malenkov's resignation made Khrushchev the senior member within the Secretariat, and made him powerful enough to set the agenda of the Presidium meetings alongside Malenkov.

Earnhardt swept both races for the year at Talladega, leading most observers to conclude that Earnhardt's talent had become limited to the restrictor plate tracks, which require a unique skill set and an exceptionally powerful car to win.

The emperor, over-awed with having to cohabit with these two powerful deities, set up separate enshrinements to house them.

It was not until 1915 that the effect of backlighting of the actors by the sun was fully mimicked in studio lighting, by using a powerful arc spotlight shining from above and behind the set down onto the actors.

This period also saw the eclipse of Florence's formerly powerful rival Pisa ( defeated by Genoa in 1284 and subjugated by Florence in 1406 ), and the exercise of power by the mercantile elite following an anti-aristocratic movement, led by Giano della Bella, that resulted in a set of laws called the Ordinances of Justice ( 1293 ).

Himmler developed the SS into a powerful group with its own military, and, following Hitler's orders, set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps.

He set the context for the rise of power to much more powerful monarchs like Saint Louis and Philip the Fair.

While Julia Maesa tried to position herself as the power behind the throne and thus the most powerful woman in the world, Elagabalus would prove to be highly independent, set in his ways, and impossible to control.

In 1633, the year the larger set was published, Lorraine had been invaded by the French in the Thirty Years War and Callot's vision still stands with Francisco Goya's Los Desastres de la Guerra ( The Disasters of War ), which was influenced by Callot, as among the most powerful artistic statements of the inhumanity of war.

In more extreme cases paradox can cause Quiet ( madness that may leak into reality ), Paradox Spirits ( nebulous, often powerful beings which purposefully set about resolving the contradiction, usually by directly punishing the mage ), or even the removal of the Mage to a paradox realm, a pocket dimension from which it may be difficult to escape.

He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a powerful tool in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, ordered sets, etc.

The series is set in a fictional galaxy as part of an alternative universe, where planets are overseen by a powerful race of space-travelers known as Ancients.

The set continuum is, in contrast, generated by a totally new and more powerful principle, namely the power set axiom.

The middle four ( sometimes called the " engine room " or " power house ") are usually the less technical, but more powerful rowers in the crew, whilst the bow pair are the more technical and generally regarded as the pair to set up the balance of the boat.

That same year, it set off a powerful bomb in the offices of the governing party, Popular Action.

The court was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against prominent people, those so powerful that ordinary courts could never convict them of their crimes.

The court was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against prominent people, those so powerful that ordinary courts could never convict them of their crimes.

The theatrical movie Be Forever Yamato, set in the year 2202, sees the Black Nebula Empire launch a powerful weapon at Earth, a hyperon bomb which will annihilate humanity if they resist a full-scale invasion.

By establishing a pattern, sometimes with the use of a powerful computer, mathematicians may have an idea of what to prove, and in some cases even a plan for how to set about doing the proof.

Politically, he set up a governmental system that balanced out the most powerful Japanese warlords ( or daimyo ).

This is important because it makes every set susceptible to the powerful technique of transfinite induction.

In 1953, however, they set a record of conceding only 959 points in the home-and-away games due to a powerful defence featuring Wally Donald, Herb Henderson and Jim Gallagher.

He set the stage for future greatness by marrying Nicippe, a daughter of king Pelops of Elis, the most powerful state of the region and the times.

Pueri aquam de silvas ad agricolas portant, a delightful vignette set in the unforgettable epoch of pre-Punic War Rome.

* A. D. ( miniseries ), a 1985 television miniseries set in ancient Rome

Category: Plays set in ancient Rome

Ochino almost immediately received a citation to Rome, and set out to obey it about the middle of August.

It is an impressive testament to the strength of tradition how little these arrangements had changed since the office, then known by the Latin version of its title, had been set up in 330 to mirror the urban prefecture of Rome.

A sacred precinct was set apart for his worship at Miletus in the province of Asia and two temples were erected for worship of him in Rome.

A famous marble set, probably 2nd century, was brought to St Peter's, Rome by Constantine I, and placed round the saint's shrine, and was thus familiar throughout the Middle Ages, by which time they were thought to have been removed from the Temple of Jerusalem.

Thus traditional exegesis supposes that after his release Paul sailed from Rome into Asia, passing Crete by the way, and that there he left Titus " to set in order the things that were wanting.

Moses set up a senatorial priestly aristocracy, which, like that of Rome, resisted monarchy.

During the 5 years of Italian rule over the whole Horn of Africa ( a colony in Eritrea was set by Rome in 1870 and Ethiopia occupied in 1936 ), Italian geographers accurately mapped the population of their colony and eventually referred to the Oromos preferably as Gallas in all the official maps as well as in a guide-book still available nowadays called " Guida all Africa Orientale Italiana " (" A Guide-Book to Italian Eastern Africa ").

She spoke Italian again as a flashy prostitute in Woody Allen's 2012 To Rome with Love and she is set to reunite with Italian director Sergio Castellitto in his war tale Venuto al Mondo as Gemma.

Rome could use Sicilian markets, Carthage could buy and sell goods at Rome, and slaves taken by Carthage from allies of Rome were to be set free.

His personal problems were contrasted with his religious accomplishments, which included restoring Saint Lawrence outside the Walls, encouraging his personal secretary Saint Jerome in his Vulgate translation of the Bible, and presiding over the Council of Rome in 382, which may have set down the canon of Scripture ( based upon the Decretum Gelasianum, which some consider a sixth century work ).

He also opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Antonio Maria Abbatini of the Sistine Chapel Choir to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara.

Clement X confirmed the exemptions granted by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ) to the German College at Rome in 1671 ; and then, on 16 October 1672, he ordered the pupils to swear that at the close of their studies they would set out for Germany without a day's delay.

Continued troubles in Italy, as well as pleas from figures such as Petrarch and St. Bridget of Sweden, caused Urban to set out for Rome, which he reached on 16 October 1367.

Being thus secure in Rome and the surrounding country, he next set himself to oust the Republic of Venice from Faenza, Rimini, and the other towns and fortresses of Italy which it occupied after the death of Pope Alexander.

" He then chose to withdraw rather than set the empire to war with Rome again.

Sometime around 162, Septimius Severus set out for Rome seeking a public career.

Rome Historical marker | flood marker, 1598, set into a pillar of the Santo Spirito hospital near Basilica di San Pietro

Although he rejected Frith ’ s radicalism, by 1534 he clearly signalled that he had broken with Rome and that he had set a new theological course.

After setting up Roman defenses for the city, the two consuls receive instructions from Rome that Vulso is to set sail for Rome, taking most of the fleet with him.