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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.
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* 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.
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Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.
The progression for officers, together referred to as the Commissioned Gentlemen, was to enter the company as a fur trader.
Commissioned in 1939, she was successful during World War II until she was lost to friendly fire in 1944
Commissioned into the Royal Artillery, in 1818, Lt Everest was appointed as assistant to Colonel William Lambton, who had started the Great Trigonometrical Survey of the sub-continent in 1806.
Commissioned to celebrate 50 years of the city of Melbourne, it was displayed in the Melbourne Exhibition Building for nearly 30 years before being taken into storage.
Commissioned in 1973, it was the first inland foreign trade zone in the United States and continuously ranks among the most active FTZs in the nation.
Commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age, the Unisphere was conceived and constructed as the theme symbol of the 1964 – 1965 New York World's Fair.
Commissioned in 1973, it was the first inland foreign trade zone in the United States and continuously ranks among the most active FTZs in the nation.
Commissioned in 1875 by the Pickett Division Association, a group of veterans from his division, it was originally intended to be placed at Gettysburg National Military Park at the " High Water Mark " of Pickett's Charge, but was built in Richmond when the U. S. War Department refused permission for the battlefield placement.
Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its European premiere at the 1984 Proms was relayed on BBC television.
Commissioned by his son Magnus, it was written by the Icelandic writer and politician Sturla Þórðarson ( nephew of the famous historian Snorri Sturluson ).
Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé three times, in 1924, in 1926, and finally in 1942.
Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in 30th Infantry Regiment in June 1901, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in November 1903.
Commissioned officers within the Gurkha regiments held a Viceroy's Commission, which was distinct from the King's or Queen's Commission that British officers serving with a Gurkha regiment held.
She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as fourteenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993.
Commissioned by the wealthy merchant and financier Joost Vijdt for his and his wife's private chapel, it was begun by Hubert van Eyck, who died in 1426 while work was underway, and completed by his younger brother Jan van Eyck.
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Commissioned by impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte in the late 1880s, it was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt.
Commissioned by Charles Domvile in 1860, designed by Benjamin Woodward, in the Hiberno-Romanesque style.
Commissioned and presented by Joseph Strutt ( 1766 – 1844 ) a wealthy industrialist and major local benefactor, the Derby Arboretum was designed by John Claudius Loudon and had a major impact upon the development of urban parks.
Commissioned for the housing of foreign guests by the Foreign Minister Inoue Kaoru, it was designed by Josiah Conder, a prominent foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan ( o-yatoi gaikokujin ).
Commissioned by King Charles II, and designed by Sir Christopher Wren, the fine arch of Portland stone was constructed between 1669 and 1672.
Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Arts and Crafts style.
Commissioned by Michael Stoschek ( a keen rally driver and chairman of Brose Group ) and his son, Maximilian, the New Stratos was announced in 2010 based on the overall design and concept of the original seventies Stratos and was designed and developed by Pininfarina.
* Divertimento ( 1973 )-for Olivetti machines, 16 singers and jazz drummer ( 1973 ) ( 10 ') Commissioned by Olivetti for the opening of a new training centre at Haslemere, England ( designed by the world-famous architect James Stirling ) as ( a ) part of a ' Venetian ' concert conducted by Cary himself, and ( b ) the sound track of a film.
Commissioned to photograph the construction of the Paris offices of UNESCO, designed by the architects Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss.
Commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of Sir John William Dawson's appointment as Principal of McGill University, the building was designed in Victorian Gothic style by A. C. Hutchison and A. D. Steele.
Commissioned by Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, a former owner of Hickleton Hall, it was designed by Alfred Young Nutt, in 1914 who had been recently forceably retired as Surveyor to the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor.
Commissioned in 1807 by Sir Thomas Egerton, Grand Lodge was designed by Lewis Wyatt as an impressive main entrance to the park from the south.
Commissioned by President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, and designed by a team headed in part by architect Enrique Ciriani, San Felipe was designed to combine a high residential density with ample green space, and shopping, banking, and schooling opportunities for residents, and is widely considered the cornerstone of Jesús María's middle-class identity.
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