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Fifty years ago the general raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen was an example of this movement.
* B. V. L ’ vov ( 2005 ), Fifty years of atomic absorption spectrometry ; J. Anal.
Fifty years after the opening of the gallery, the BJU collection included more than 400 European paintings from the 14th to through the 19th centuries ( mostly pre-19th century ), period furniture, and a notable collection of Russian icons.
Fifty years later they are renamed in his honour by Russian Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern.
Fifty years later, Abraham Robinson provided a rigorous logical foundation for Veronese's work.
Fifty years after the death of Aurangzeb, the great Mughal empire had crumbled.
After that the Lazic War in the North continued for several years, until a second truce in 557, followed by a Fifty Years ' Peace in 562.
Since the soul is a spiritual substance it is not brought into being through transformation of matter, but directly by God, whence the special uniqueness of each person .." Fifty years later, Pope John Paul II, stating that scientific evidence now seemed to favour the evolutionary theory, upheld the distinction of Pius XII regarding the human soul.
Fifty years before Christopher Columbus, Chinese navigator Zheng He traveled the world at the head of what was for the time a huge armada.
Fifty years later when asked what one thing he would have done different in his life, Williams replied, " I'd have done better in the ' 46 World Series.
Fifty years ago, the common perception was that water was an infinite resource.
* Peter Selz ( 2004 ) Beyond the Mainstream: Fifty years of Curating Modern and Contemporary Art.
:" Fifty years later, the popular Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi made her story into a drama of a “ tigerish woman ” of “ unrelenting pride .” In a combined effort by two of the greatest literary talents of the era, Friedrich von Schiller translated the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe directed it on the stage in Weimar in 1802.
Fifty years later, his house had collapsed into the cellar and the location of his grave had been forgotten.
Then the priest blesses kolyva ( boiled wheat with honey and raisins ) which is distributed to the faithful in commemoration of the following miracle worked by St. Theodore on the First Saturday of Great Lent: Fifty years after the death of St Theodore, the emperor Julian the Apostate ( 361-363 ), as a part of his general policy of persecution of Christians, commanded the governor of Constantinople during the first week of Great Lent to sprinkle all the food provisions in the marketplaces with the blood offered to pagan idols, knowing that the people would be hungry after the strict fasting of the first week.
Fifty years ago ( since 2010 ), the common perception was that water was an infinite resource.
Fifty years before the events of Myth: The Fallen Lords, the capital of the Cath Bruig Empire, Muirthemne, was sacked and destroyed by Balor and his lieutenants, now collectively known as the Fallen Lords.
Fifty years later the city fell into the hands of the Arian Visigoths, and became one of the principal residences of their kings.
Fifty years later, the historian Cleitarchus expanded and embellished the story.
The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented: Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock ’ s sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence.
Fifty years later ( 1932 – 1933 ) a second IPY occurred.
Fifty years before, the Kamakura bakufu had agreed to Korean demands that Japanese pirates ( wako ) be dealt with to stop their raids, and this bit of good diplomacy had created a cooperative relationship between the two states, such that the Koreans, helpless with a Mongol occupation army garrisoning their country, had sent much intelligence information to Japan, so that along with messages from Japanese spies in the Korean peninsula, the bakufu had a good picture of the situation of the pending Mongol invasion.
Fifty years of subsidies had made the owners of arable land millionaires through mechanised cultivation and, with a crisis of over-production ; the European Community was rewarding them for growing no crops on part of their land.
Fifty years later Eleanor of Aquitaine upheld the communal charter promulgated by her father, and for the first time in France, a city mayor was appointed for La Rochelle, Guillaume de Montmirail.
Fifty years earlier, at a time of civil war, John Milton wrote his pamphlet Areopagitica.

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Rock Is Fifty also hosted additional celebrations in Los Angeles in July, 2005, as part of a " Rock Around the Clock-a-Thon " to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the date the song reached the No. 1 spot on the American charts, as well as to observe what would have been Haley's 80th birthday.
Fifty species of mammal have been recorded.
His book A Pirate Looks At Fifty went straight to No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller non-fiction list, making him one of eight authors in that list's history to have reached number one on both the fiction and non-fiction lists.
Fifty of these containers have been joined and painted with bright colors to create of spaces used to house workshops, restaurants, galleries and other businesses.
Rock musicians, most notably The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Daevid Allen ( who learned directly from Terry Riley, and has created entire pieces from tape loops throughout his career ), Soft Machine ( who learned from Daevid Allen ), Fifty Foot Hose, Can, and Pink Floyd, have used tape loops on their albums.
Fifty of Sweden's fifty-one Eurovision representatives have come from Melodifestivalen.
He thus happened upon a treasure of unknown tunes, claiming to have discovered almost one thousand melodies, and incorporated one hundred of these into his work list ; Fifty folktunes from Hardanger for piano op.
Fifty waterholes have been constructed to attract animals and so improve the viewing prospect for visitors.
According to a press release from Ensign's office, " Fifty states currently have laws against dogfighting and forty-nine have laws against cockfighting.
Some have alleged that this Quorum of Seven might have existed as a subcommittee within the Council of Fifty, but the Cutlerites have never advanced any such interpretation or otherwise addressed that particular subject.
Fifty years later the lay subsidy rolls of 1327 and 1332 show Birmingham to have overtaken all of these towns to become the third largest in the county, behind only Warwick itself and Coventry – at the time the fourth largest urban centre in England.
Fifty were built in 1942 but none are known to have been used-the 17 pounder anti-tank gun gave the British the necessary firepower.
Fifty Lustrons have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fifty novels and volumes of collected stories by Couperus have been published.
Fifty other worlds have been destroyed in the same way as Earth, but the Seeker has always arrived too late to observe it and this is the first time he has found survivors.
Fifty thousand people have already died in that area, more than a million are homeless and it has been labeled an act of ongoing genocide, yet, neither one of you — or anyone else connected with your campaigns or your administration that I can find — has discussed the possibility of sending in troops.
Fifty Million Frenchmen was the first of seven Porter musicals to have the book written or co-written by Herbert Fields.
Fifty four species of birds have been recorded in the Kopuatai Peat Dome.
In August 1713 Gibbs discovered that an architect by the name of William Dickinson was resigning as architect from the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, the commissioners included Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh and Thomas Archer, with the backing amongst others of the Earl of Mar and Sir Christopher Wren, Gibbs was appointed architect to the commission on the 18 November 1713, where he would have worked with Nicholas Hawksmoor, his fellow architect to the commission.
Fifty years after one of the most extraordinary episodes of social upheaval in American history, we seem to have forgotten what activism is.

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