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This can lead to very high prices as dedicated collectors compete for the very best specimens of, for example, each date and mint mark combination.
" I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it .... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts ..." Cukor was relieved of his duties, but he continued to work with Leigh and De Havilland off the set.
It has grossed over $ 309 million to date, making it her domestic highest grossing film and the first movie in history to pass the $ 200 million mark with only one top-billed female star.
The mint mark on the coin is located on the obverse at the bottom right hemisphere under the supposed date.
Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating mark up then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.
The " HD " Version of the game has a completion date of October 2012 listed, but it might be delayed to December 2012 or early 2013 since hitting the $ 650, 000 mark.
*( September 7 ), 1251 BC: A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
* 1251 BC — September 7, a solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
He became the first truly autocratic native Swedish sovereign and was a skilled propagandist and bureaucrat, with his main opponent, Christian's, infamous mark as the " tyrant king " and his alleged adventures during the liberation struggle still widespread to date.
These craft traditions have withstood the ravages of time and numerous foreign invasions and continue to flourish till date owing to the assimilative nature of Indian culture and broadmindedness of the handicraftsmen to accept and use new ideas. Therefore the handicrafts are a mark of golden history of our country.
The fair was originally conceived in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious.
Believing that more people would turn out for the march on a Sunday, and so as to mark the date of the start of the Stonewall uprising, the CSLDUC scheduled the date for the first march for Sunday, June 28, 1970.
To mark the exact date of its original start-up, Wonderful Radio London International ( WRLI ) was planning its own return as a full time radio station broadcasting from off the coast of England beginning in December 1984.
Ovid gives the dedication day as June 1, but it appears as December 23 in the Fasti Antiates Maiores ; this latter date may mark a renovation, or there may have been more than one temple to the Tempestates.
While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey date to the 8th century BC and mark the beginning of Classical Antiquity.
The Lecture is held on or close to 6 July every year to mark the date in 1929 when Amy Johnson was awarded her pilot ’ s licence.
Victory in Europe Day — known as V-E Day or VE Day — was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 ( in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945 ) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe.
The obverse shows a left-facing bust of the queen, with a rose behind her and the legend -- Elizabeth, by the grace of God a rose without a thorn — while the reverse shows the royal arms with the date above the arms and a mint mark at the beginning of the legend reading -- City of London, the Tower Mint.
Though during his own lifetime Odoacer maintained the legal fiction that he was actually ruling Italy as the viceroy of Zeno, historians mark 476 as the traditional date of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West.
The article noted that Kilroy had marked the ships themselves as they were being built — so, at a later date, the phrase would be found chalked in places that no graffiti-artist could have reached ( inside sealed hull spaces, for example ), which then fed the mythical significance of the phrase — after all, if Kilroy could leave his mark there, who knew where else he could go?
The Book of Common Prayer in the versions of the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada mark the date as the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In many countries the postmark even comes in two parts ; the location / date circle, and the " killer ", a pattern of straight or wavy lines intended to mark the stamp.
Unfortunately, they did not change the mark on the tree or alter the date.

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I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.
When a hole is to be bored to a predetermined depth, mark the depth on the side of the stock, then run the bit down so that it is even with the mark.
At this point the drains are readjusted so that the suds box drain will discharge directly into the waste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2 mark on the drain gauge.
Generally, it is necessary to mark distances on a specimen ( or garment ) in both lengthwise and widthwise directions and to measure before and after laundering.
Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.
A century ago, Newman saw that liberalism ( what we now might call secularism ) would gradually but definitely make its mark on English Protestantism, and that even high Anglicanism would someday no longer be a `` serviceable breakwater against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own ''.
Even at that distance, with no sound but the sound of the tractor, I could tell the fierce mark of brutality on the boy.
Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.
In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.
Ballots which mark every candidate the same ( whether yes or no ) have no effect on the outcome of the election.
In journals and newspapers, quotation mark double / single use depends on the individual publication's house style.
When the students were asked to comment on the accuracy of the test with a rating more than 40 % gave it the top mark of 5 out of 5, and the average rating was 4. 2.
If the traffic on a virtual circuit is exceeding its traffic contract, as determined by the GCRA, the network can either drop the cells or mark the Cell Loss Priority ( CLP ) bit ( to identify a cell as potentially redundant ).
However, a special event to mark the signing is held every year on the 6th of April and involves a street procession and short piece of street theatre.
A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.
Height above sea level: there is a spot height outside the Market Hall which is 133. 5m ; the bench mark on the side of the neighbouring Town Hall is 441. 10 feet.
It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.
For the first time, not only manufacturers, but also importers and distributors share a responsibility to ensure Electrical and Electronic Equipment within the scope of RoHS comply with the hazardous substances limits and have a CE mark on their products.
In the diagrams, the dots mark the squares where the piece can move if no other pieces ( including one's own piece ) are on the squares between the piece's initial position and its destination.
Chaplin also wished to " do something more " than comedy, and — as Louvish says —" make his mark on a changed world.
In the 1970s Clannad made their mark initially in the folk and traditional scene, and then subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional Celtic and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements from New Age, smooth jazz, and folk rock.
The local Indian population left their mark also on the language with some 400 Taíno terms and place-names of the island.

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