Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

For Eduardo De Filippo, he co-wrote the script of Fortunella, tailoring the lead role to accommodate Masina ’ s particular sensibility.

Sam De Grasse's role as John in the black-and-white 1922 film version shows John committing numerous atrocities and acts of torture.

De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John " Johnny Boy " Civello.

De re militari was divided into four books: who should be a soldier and the skills they needed to learn ; the composition and structure of an army ; field tactics ; how to conduct and withstand sieges, and the role of the navy.

An important point to note is that out of Scorsese's selection of Italian films from a select group of directors ( Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni ) Rossellini's films form at least half of the films discussed and analyzed, highlighting Rossellini's monumental role in Italian and world cinema.

In 1997, Hoffman starred opposite John Travolta in the Costa Gavras film Mad City and gained his seventh Academy Award nomination for his performance in Wag The Dog, in a role that allowed Hoffman the chance to work with both Robert De Niro and Denis Leary.

He remembers that Robert De Niro, the star of the film, " would do almost anything to succeed ," and even cut his weight down from 170 to 128 pounds for the role.

Film critic Marie Brenner writes that " for De Niro, it is a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather, part II, ... performance deserves to be compared with the very finest.

In 2012, De Mornay played the role of Finch's mom in the movie American Reunion where she portrayed an attractive MILF and a love interest of Stifler.

After playing the lead role in Two Nights with Cleopatra ( 1953 ), her breakthrough role was in The Gold of Naples ( 1954 ), directed by Vittorio De Sica.

William was introduced to the council on 31 May 1670 with full voting powers, despite De Witt's attempts to limit his role to that of an advisor.

DiCaprio made his big screen breakthrough in 1992, when he was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in This Boy's Life, co-starring Ellen Barkin and De Niro himself.

Willis ' acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.

Act I-In Clairton, a small working class town in western Pennsylvania, in late 1967, Russian American steel workers Michael ( De Niro ), Steven ( Savage ), and Nick ( Walken ), with the support of their friends Stanley ( Cazale ), John ( Dzundza ) and Axel ( Chuck Aspegren, his only movie role ; he was a steel worker from Gary, Indiana ), prepare for two rites of passage: marriage and military service.

Keitel had the starring role in Scorsese's Mean Streets, which also proved to be Robert De Niro's breakthrough film.

He later appeared with De Niro in Taxi Driver, playing the role of Jodie Foster's pimp.

In 1996 he did a major role in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's film, From Dusk Till Dawn, and in 1997 he starred in the crime drama Cop Land, which also starred Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta, and Robert De Niro.

De Burgh played a prominent role in the defence of England from the invasion of Louis of France, the son of Philippe II who later became Louis VIII.

De Havilland denied this in a 2006 interview, saying she had recently given birth to her son when offered the role, which had been a life altering experience, and was unable to relate to the material.

In 1991, Plimpton appeared in the Robert De Niro film Stanley & Iris in a supporting role.

Party discipline also played a role in the conflict between Kuyper and De Savorin-Lohman: Kuyper, the party leader, favoured strong party discipline, while De Savorin Lohman opposed strong parties.

In addition to The Sopranos, he has appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes, Two Family House ( with Sopranos cast mates Michael Rispoli, Kathrine Narducci, Matt Servitto, Michele Santopietro, Louis Guss, Rosemary De Angelis, and Sharon Angela ), Under Hellgate Bridge, Riding in Cars with Boys.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

Monsieur De Cury was incensed, of course.

Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.

A member of the IRSAC staff ( E. Van De Walle ) was recently delegated to cooperate with AIMO in the development of demographic statistics in this territory.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

the twelfth Marquis De Portago was intelligent, purposeful, and passionate.

The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.