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Then, after one of the two makes some spectacular effort ( sometimes called the grand gesture ) to find the other person and declare their love, or through an astonishing coincidental encounter, the two meet again.
The first seam was discovered in nearby Pocahontas, Virginia in the backyard of Jordan Nelson which was, in the words of President Frederick Kimball of the Norfolk and Western Company, the " most spectacular find on the continent and indeed perhaps of the entire planet.
Criticisms included the unusual control scheme, which Game Informer considered awkward ; lack of focus on the story, making Entertainment Weekly compare the game to a " 1990s arcade game, filled with over the top battle sequences, spectacular visual effects – and a pretty weak plot "; and backtracking, stated by GamePro that inexperienced players " might find it exhausting to keep revisiting the same old places over and over and over ".
Perhaps the most spectacular find was the discovery in 1999 of a sarcophagus containing the remains of a high status, silk clad, Roman lady, complete with jet accessories and a unique glass phial.
The few tourists who reach the McMurdo Sound find spectacular scenery with wildlife to be seen, including killer whales, seals, Adelie penguins, and Emperor penguins.
Perhaps we can find in this film not only an indigenized sport but also indigenized practices of exhibition, objectification, and journalism, which recalls Appadurai's point in Modernity at Large that: indigenization is often a product of collective and spectacular experiments with modernity and not necessarily of the subsurface affinity of new cultural forms with existing patterns in the cultural repertoire.
In pottery, new forms and a new rich decoration, are characterized by the spectacular find, the Vučedol dove.
The adventurous will find a swim in some of the underground caves both refreshing and spectacular.
However, at this point it can be said that this expedition was ill-fated in that while he did in fact find Vilcabamba he believed it to be far less extensive than it actually was, and after describing one small sector and naming it " Eromboni Pampa " he abandoned efforts and continued his search based on rumors of another site that was far more extensive and spectacular.

spectacular and 2006
Local residents watched as the bridges were blown up in spectacular shows over several weeks, ending the following summer in 2006.
* Watch video of spectacular Strombolian eruption on 5th April 2006
The building itself was remodelled in celebration of the 2006 Winter Olympics, with its main rooms redesigned by Dante Ferretti, and " featured an imaginative use of lighting and mirrors in a spectacular display of some of the most important and impressive Pharaonic statues in the museum collection.
In June 2006, Mojo and radio honored Scott Walker with the MOJO Icon Award: " Voted for by Mojo readers and Mojo4music users, the recipient of this award has enjoyed a spectacular career on a global scale ".
Eliáš ' 2006 postseason campaign was spectacular, even though the Devils were eliminated by eventual Cup champions, Carolina, in the second round.
In 2006, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association ( NTRA ) wrote in Part 2 of their special series titled Spiraling To The Breeders ' Cup that " Arazi turned in what many still consider to be the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders ' Cup history.
During the 2006 ceremony at Crystal Cove State Park to celebrate this designation, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said “ it is really a spectacular gift that given to.
The 1902 collapse of the Campanile plays a role in American novelist Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in which an aeronautical battle between ambiguously fictitious airships results in the spectacular fall of the structure.
In 2006, Fortune magazine remarked that Ho had made " a spectacular misjudgment " in the purchase of Shin Corp shares.
Michael Jackson ( in 1993 ), U2 ( in 2006 ), Elton John, Maná, Juan Gabriel, Luis Miguel, Gloria Estefan, Jaguares, Lenny Kravitz, Ana Gabriel, The Three Tenors all have become part of the stadium's spectacular history.
On 8 September 2006, Anderton joined League One side Bournemouth on a ' pay-as-you-play ' basis, scoring a spectacular 40-yard free kick on his first team debut against Scunthorpe.
Baxter's death in 1969 the park has been increased to a total of, including the 2006 addition of a parcel of and spectacular Katahdin Lake.
On May 11, 2006, in the first inning of a game versus the New York Mets, Rowand made a spectacular play by smashing into the center field fence of Citizens Bank Park face first at full speed in order to run down a deep fly ball off the bat of Xavier Nady with the bases loaded, that would otherwise have scored three runs.
The 2006 – 07 campaign was an anti-climax — Hitchin were second league in December, but a spectacular collapse saw them 11th at season's end.
Bramble scored a spectacular volleyed goal against Chelsea on 8 May 2006 in a 1 – 0 victory that secured qualification for the Intertoto Cup.
Routledge impressed Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp in a home game against Bolton Wanderers in March 2006, when, with Bolton 1 – 0 ahead with only three minutes left to play, Routledge outpaced three Bolton players into the penalty box to connect with a long pass from Matt Taylor and set Azar Karadas up for a spectacular volley which levelled the match and ultimately earned relegation-threatened Portsmouth a crucial 1 – 1 draw, a result that began a run of good late season form for them.
The spectacular and innovative facility, which opened in time for the 2006 NFL season, was built on the former Tampa Bay Center mall site across the street from Raymond James Stadium.
Ryan had a spectacular game against the Miami Dolphins on September 17, 2006, when he recorded 3 sacks on Miami Quarterback, Daunte Culpepper in just the first half of the game.
On 15 May 2006, he was named in the Argentinian national team for the 2006 World Cup, and on 16 June, he capped a spectacular 24 pass Argentine interplay with a finish to score the second goal in a 6 – 0 victory over Serbia and Montenegro.

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It was a pity because she had planned to lay a wreath at the foot of the Garibaldi statue, towering over Rome in spectacular benediction from the highpoint of the Gianicolo.
He was, thus, an early and spectacular victim.
Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.
He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis ( 1502 ), The Sea Monster ( 1498 ), and Saint Eustace ( c. 1501 ), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.
The National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ) convened an ethics hearing, and Fisher was expelled for the forgery from the same organization that he had helped found ; Fisher's scheme had backfired in spectacular fashion.
The Walcott quarry produced such spectacular fossils because it was so close to the Stephen Formation — indeed the quarry has now been excavated to the very edge of the Cambrian cliff.
The introduction of free trade between Russia and Belarus in mid-1995 led to a spectacular growth in bilateral trade, which was only temporarily reversed in the wake of the financial crisis of 1998.
Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.
This was a spur to having primarily simple parts to play, and in the case of a resident virtuoso group, a spur to writing spectacular, idiomatic parts for certain instruments, as in the case of the Mannheim orchestra.
DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.
Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.
Nebuchadnezzar was a patron of the cities and a spectacular builder.
On 7 July 2010 it was announced that Coronation Street was working with The Mill and the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive ( responsible for the operation of Manchester Metrolink ) to film a spectacular and realistic tram crash.
The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).
In the South Pacific, it was sprayed aerially for malaria and dengue fever control with spectacular effects.
The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo boat size, prompted the Royal Navy to order a prototype turbine powered destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899.
The period was marked by the founding ( and, in many cases, spectacular failure ) of a group of new Internet-based companies commonly referred to as dot-coms.
David once again organized a spectacular funeral, and Marat was buried in the Panthéon.
He was courageous, a long, straight kick, he had a shrewd football brain and, above all, he was a spectacular, thrilling mark.
His assault was spectacular and within a month he had captured the forts of Mandu and Champaner.
Foremost among these was artist Bob de Moor, who collaborated with Hergé on the remaining Tintin adventures, filling in details and backgrounds such as the spectacular lunar landscapes in Explorers on the Moon.
" Although the spectacular rise in the Nazi vote in 1930 and July 1932 was caused mainly by the effects of the Depression, Goebbels as party campaign manager was naturally given much of the credit.

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