* Commissioned: Publishers made publication arrangements, and authors covered all expenses ( today the practice of authors paying for their publications is often called vanity publishing, and is looked down upon by many publishers, even though it may have been a common and accepted practice in the past ).

Commissioned by Ammannati for funeral of his wife poetess Laura Battiferri ( painted as old woman with the book ).

Commissioned by Philips to publicise the museum, it was shown as a trade test colour film on the BBC from 1968 to 1972.

Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history of the city.

Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, it was led by two Virginia-born veterans of Indian wars in the Ohio Valley, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

Commissioned in Pakistan Army in 1964, Musharraf rose to national prominence after being appointed to the four-star assignments in October 1998 by then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

In addition to its civilian employees, NOAA research and operations are supported by 300 uniformed service members who make up the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps.

Commissioned in 1995, it was finally put on disk in 2000 by the San Luis Obispo Symphony.

Commissioned by the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ), the Information Science Research Institute ( ISRI ) had the mission to foster the improvement of automated technologies for understanding machine printed documents, and it conducted the most authoritative of the Annual Test of OCR Accuracy for five consecutive years in the mid-90s.

Commissioned by Napoleon III to instigate a program of planning reforms in Paris, Haussmann laid out the Bois de Boulogne, and made extensive improvements in the smaller parks.

** Commissioned by F. Augustus Heinze, this eight-story low-rise building has an internal steel frame.

Commissioned by churches and individuals, artists created sacred images called Santos of Roman Catholicism.

Commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1808 and finished in 1832 a statue of Adonis is one of the few works in marble carved solely by Thorvaldsen's own hand, and at the same time it is one of the works that is closest to the antique Greek ideals.

Made of Aswan pink granite 9. 24 m. high, mounted on a modern plinth and surmounted by an ornamental star: overall height 17. 26 m. Commissioned by Hadrian and probably erected at the Antinoeion of his villa in Tivoli.

Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula for the centenary of the latter's first publication.

Commissioned in 1939 by journalist Loren Pope and his wife Charlotte Pope, it followed Wright's Usonian design principles and was completed in 1941.

During the war, Howard shipyards was Commissioned by the Navy to produce landing craft.

Detention Enforcement Officers are Deputized and fully Commissioned Federal Law Enforcement Officers by the US Marshal.

Commissioned and sponsored by Timex, it first aired on NBC on December 18, 1962.

Commissioned by George Nixon Black, the Peabody and Stearns-designed residence has been hailed as the zenith of the Shingle style substyle of the Queen Anne style of architecture.

Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Educating Rita premièred at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980 starring Julie Walters and Mark Kingston.

Commissioned by the Duchess in 1730, it was designed by William Kent, and statues of the Duke and Duchess depicted as Caesar and Caesarina adorn the great sarcophagus.

Commissioned by the Boston publisher Ginn and Company, Old Indian Legends was a collection of stories gathered from various tribes and published in 1901.

Commissioned captain, USN, 4 March 1799, Little was given command of the frigate Boston, which was still under construction.

Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and first performed by them in 1977 under Georg Solti, its one-movement form encompasses the traditional four-movements of the classical symphony.

Commissioned by Bayern Radio to Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ,.

Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its 100th anniversary.

Commissioned by the Suntory LTD. First performance on 2 November 1989 in the Suntory Hall of Tokyo by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, N. Totsuka ( cond ).

Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Commissioned by Sir Jon and Lady Lyons for Mstislav Rostropovich and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Commissioned by the Nuernberg Symphony Orchestra.

Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to Mariss Jansons.

Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Commissioned by the Northern Arizona University Wind Symphony for their Centennial Celebration

Commissioned by the Hanover Wind Symphony for their Fifteenth Anniversary

* Symphony No. 3 ( 1979 ) Commissioned by Musica Nova.

* Symphony No. 4, Passeleth Tapestry ( 1988 ; numbered as a symphony 1996 ) Commissioned by Renfrew District Council together with Strathclyde Regional Council to mark Paisley's 500th anniversary as a Burgh of Barony.

* Symphony No. 5 ( 1998 ) Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

* Chamber Symphony ( 1990 ) Commissioned by Paragon Ensemble and Glasgow District Council as part of the celebrations during Glasgow's reign as European City of Culture 1990.

Commissioned by Renfrew District Council to mark Paisley's 500th anniversary as a burgh of barony, it was premiered on 6 August 1988 in Paisley Abbey with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Bryden Thomson.

Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestral Association to honor the memory of Ken and Judy Dayton, it was premiered at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis in 1996.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and composed by Hugh Harrison, the song struck a chord with Singaporeans, especially when they heard it performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and so the first ' official ' National Day Song was born.

Commissioned by the Hallé Orchestra as part of their Mahler centenary celebrations, his " Crossing the Alps " for Chorus and Organ, on a text by William Wordsworth ( The Prelude, Book VI ), was first performed by the Hallé Choir, conducted by Markus Stenz, at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, in January 2010.

* Concerto For Piano and Orchestra ( 1985 ) Commissioned by Bryden Thomson for David Wilde and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

* Violin Concerto ( 1993 ) Commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and BP for Ernst Kovacic.