Noteworthy technical achievements of Mountbatten and his staff include the construction of an underwater oil pipeline from the English coast to Normandy, an artificial harbour constructed of concrete caissons and sunken ships, and the development of amphibious tank-landing ships.

For example, states and activities, but not usually achievements, can be used in English with a prepositional for-phrase describing a time duration: " I had a car for five hours ", " I shopped for five hours ", but not "* I bought a car for five hours ".

Among the main achievements of the reign of Edward I were the reforms of the institution of the English Parliament and its transformation into a source for generating revenues.

The publication of the Great Bible, the first authoritative version in English, was one of Cromwell's most significant achievements.

Claude Lorrain, (), traditionally just Claude in English ( also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, (), dit le Lorrain ) ( c. 1600 – 21 or 23 November 1682 ) was an artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting.

Godfrey Harold " G. H ." Hardy FRS ( 7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947 ) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis.

Cantona's achievements in the English League were further marked in 2002 when he was made an inaugural inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame.

As such, one of his achievements is the acceptance of millardo (" milliard ", 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >) by the Royal Spanish Academy in 1995 as an alternative to mil millones ( in English: one billion ).

This historiography has made impressive progress in quantifying and explaining the output and productivity achievements of English farming since the " agricultural revolution.

The major achievements in English blank verse were made by William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, and Milton, whose Paradise Lost is written in blank verse.

Arguably the most " professional " amateur club side in English history, Bath has struggled to match the achievements of the Eighties and early Nineties, after which, other clubs started paying their players making an even playing field.

Many thought that Ramsey's attitude to Robson was evidence of jealousy – even though Robson failed to match his achievements in winning the English championship with Ipswich and the World Cup with England.

Rush was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006 due to his achievements in the game.

It published in Cherokee and English, to showcase Cherokee achievements as well as to build unity within the Nation while under United States pressure for Indian Removal.

Peters was inducted, with former manager Ron Greenwood into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006 in recognition for his achievements as a player.

( 6 September 1908 – 24 August 1997 ) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light.

Robert Thornton ’ s greatest achievements are all linked to the Cheltenham Festival, at which the English jockey has shown a knack for riding winners in major hurdles races.

Sheppard was one of the finest English church composers of the Tudor era, his achievements matched in his generation only by Thomas Tallis.

Greenwood was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006, recognising his achievements as a manager in the English game.

Trescothick was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for his achievements in 2005, and was awarded an MBE in the 2006 New Year honours list with the rest of the English team.

The idea of the Renaissance has come under increased criticism by many cultural historians, and some have contended that the " English Renaissance " has no real tie with the artistic achievements and aims of the Italian artists ( Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello ) who are closely identified with the Renaissance.

This movement is characterized by the flowering of English music ( particularly the English adoption and development of the madrigal ), notable achievements in drama ( by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson ), and the development of English epic poetry ( most famously Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and John Milton's Paradise Lost ).

* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

* An exploration of the changes to the English Roman Missal affecting English speaking Catholics as of the First Sunday of Advent in 2011.

During his time at the archives, Steiner wrote Die Philosophie der Freiheit ( The Philosophy of Freedom or The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity — Steiner's preferred English title ) ( 1894 ), an exploration of epistemology and ethics that suggested a path upon which humans can become spiritually free beings.

Prompted to tell his story, the Patient begins to reveal all: An English gentleman, Geoffrey Clifton and his wife, Katharine, accompanied the patient's desert exploration team.

After a period of exploration by people from various European countries, Spanish, Dutch, English, French, Swedish, Russian and Portuguese settlements were established.

It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration.

His baroque, but somewhat classical and gothic architectural form was derived from his exploration of Antiquity, the Renaissance, the English Middle Ages and contemporary Italian baroque.

At the time of English exploration, the Algonquian-speaking Roanoke tribe used the site for seasonal fishing.

Vivian Stanshall ( born Victor Anthony Stanshall ; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995 ) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

John Balleny ( died 1857 ) was the English captain of a whaling schooner, the Eliza Scott, who led an exploration cruise for the English whaling firm Samuel Enderby & Sons to the Antarctic in 1838-1839.

Three other factors in the establishment of the English Renaissance were the Reformation, Counter Reformation, and the opening of the era of English naval power and overseas exploration and expansion.

He consolidated his reputation with a one-volume general history of England, The Spirit of English History ( 1943 ), but his most important work was the historical trilogy The Elizabethan Age: The England of Elizabeth ( 1950 ), The Expansion of Elizabethan England ( 1955 ), and The Elizabethan Renaissance ( 1971 – 72 ), respectively examine the society, overseas exploration, and culture of late 16th-century England.

The Delaware Valley had been inhabited by the Lenape ( or Delaware ) Indians prior to exploration and settlement starting around 1609 by the Dutch, Swedish and English.

The six year exploration license Gilbert had secured by letters patent from the crown in 1578 was on the point of expiring, when he succeeded in 1583 in raising significant sums from English Catholic investors.

He published Bestseller, an exploration of English popular fiction, Aspects of English History ( 1957 ), The Devil's Decade ( 1973 ), his history of the 1930s, and Union Power ( 1976 ).

Further impetus was given by more generalised exploration of non -" Irish " and non -" English " cultural identities in the latter decades of the 20th Century.

In the years of the wars related to Zulu expansion and the southern African slave trade, often referred to as the Mfecane or Difaqane, the Tlokwa people were first known in English as the Mantatees, after Manthatisi's name, in the literature of exploration, missions and empire.

In 1964 he published ABC In Sound, a book that combined his interest in sound and concrete poetry in an exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities of the English alphabet.

There are also non-political works such as the Sing, Ariel, that recalls Messiaen's stylized birdsong and sets a kaleidoscope of English poetry, and the opera Arianna ( 1995 )— written on a Rinuccini libretto for L ' Arianna, a lost opera by Monteverdi — is a typically idiosyncratic exploration of the soundworld of Italian Renaissance.

" The Court also noted that "... it is nothing less than sheer torture of the English language to suggest that a careful exploration of the outer surfaces of a person's clothing all over his or her body in an attempt to find weapons is not a ' search.