* 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 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.

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

The progression for officers, together referred to as the Commissioned Gentlemen, was to enter the company as a fur trader.

In the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, and United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as well as in all branches of the British Armed Forces, Polish Armed Forces, Canadian Forces, Turkish Armed Forces, Swedish Armed Forces, Norwegian Armed Forces, and Hellenic Armed Forces, Russian and all former Soviet republic forces, hand salutes are only given when a cover ( protection for the head, usually a hat ) is worn.

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 a second lieutenant in a provincial artillery regiment, he spent the summer at Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George in New York as part of an abortive plan for the capture of Fort St. Frédéric.

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

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 for the dispossession of British Petroleum Company during the government of Dr Mossadegh and appointed as the first general manager of the National Iranian Oil Company

In the US, there are non-military, administrative, training and certification Corps for commissioned officers of the government's uniformed services, such as the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps.

Commissioned an ensign, he spent the next one and a half years in Guam as a cryptologic officer for naval intelligence, where he served at sea and ashore.

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.

Three Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Atherstone for the town: Commissioned in 1916, 1939, and most recently, 1985.

Following the ending of National Service in the UK and the closing of the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot ( which had trained Short Service Commissioned Officers ) in 1972, the RMAS became the sole establishment for male initial officer training in the British Army.

The Surgeon General reports to the Assistant Secretary for Health ( ASH ), who may be a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ( PHSCC ), and who serves as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on public health and scientific issues.

The Surgeon General is the overall head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a 6, 000-member Commissioned Corps of the USPHS, a cadre of health professionals who are on call 24 hours a day, and can be dispatched by the Secretary of HHS or the Assistant Secretary for Health in the event of a public health emergency.

The Assistant Secretary for Health ( ASH ) oversees the PHS and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps employs more than 6, 000 public health professionals for the purpose of delivering public health promotion and disease prevention programs and advancing public health science.

File: British Army Ensign00. svg | Royal Logistic Corps Ensign for vessels commanded by a Commissioned Officer

* Commissioned a monument for St Pancras Old Church, containing the names of many people whose bodies had been dug up from the churchyard to make space for the railway.

Commissioned by former Cardinal Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphili, with the approval of Pope Alexander VII, Sant ' Andrea was the third Jesuit church constructed in Rome, after the Church of the Gesù and Sant ' Ignazio.

Commissioned artists include Ken Howard, Linda Kitson, John Keane, Peter Howson, Steve McQueen ( see Queen and Country ) and Langlands & Bell, responding to conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Commissioned by Opera Australia, Brett Dean and Amanda Holden wrote an opera of the same name, which premiered in March 2010 at the Sydney Opera House, directed by Neil Armfield, conducted by Elgar Howarth, and Peter Coleman-Wright as Harry Joy.

Officers of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps are classified as non-combatants, but can be subjected to the Uniform Code of Military Justice ( UCMJ ) and the Geneva Conventions when designated by the Commander-in-Chief as a military force or if they are detailed or assigned to work with the armed forces.

Commissioned officers cannot be reduced in rank by a court-martial, nor can they be given a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable discharge.

* A former non-commissioned officer or soldier of the British Army ( Commissioned Officers are eligible provided they served for at least 12 years of non-commissioned service or if they have been awarded a War Disability Pension while serving in the ranks )

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 officers were not required to work, although they could volunteer.

During the British Raj, they were known as Viceroy's Commissioned Officers ( VCOs ), but since the Indian independence movement, they have been called Junior Commissioned Officers ( JCOs ).

Commissioned officers are drawn from the band, although Drum Majors are career Marines and are selected from Fleet Marine Force bands, as they are responsible for the military development of the band's members.

Commissioned by the Australian government, they have developed a unique building rating system called NABERS which measures the ongoing environmental impact of existing buildings.

Commissioned by the president of the Ottawa Silica Company, the Effigy Tumuli earthwork in Illinois is composed of five abstract animal earthworks reclaiming the site of an abandoned surface coal mine along the Illinois River ; the shapes ( 1983-85 )— a frog, a water strider, a catfish, a turtle, and a snake — reflect the environment of the site, which overlooks the river.

Commissioned by the Franciscans and Dominicans of Ascoli, Crivelli's work is exclusively religious in nature.

The last two appointments are not now used in majority of units, the duties being taken up by the Naib Subedar Quartermaster and Subedar Adjutant ( both Junior Commissioned Officers ).

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.

Commissioned works include Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Spoonbridge and Cherry ( 1985 – 1988 )

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.

File: Sabre-seconde-guerre-mondiale-p1000712. jpg |" Type 95 " Non Commissioned Officer's sword of World War II ; made to resemble a Commissioned Officer's shin guntō.

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 officers rise through a series of six ranks, namely ( in English translation ): Sub-Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Captain, Commandant, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel.

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.

* May 22 – Commissioned Officer Corps of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers as a predecessor to the current U. S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

** NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps.

* July 16 – The Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen Act is signed into law, creating the Marine Hospital Service, the forerunner to the current United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

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 October 1942, this group saw combat in November 1942 during Operation Torch on the North African coast.