There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

The controversy would surface in the Thomas Becket affair under Henry II of England, the Great Charter of 1217, the Statutes of Mortmain and the battles over Cestui que use of Henry VII of England, and finally come to a head under Henry VIII of England.

Her " incredible controversy " is characterized by David Hartwell in the opening sentence of a book chapter entitled " New Wave: The Great War of the 1960s ": " Conflict and argument are an enduring presence in the SF world, but literary politics has yielded to open warfare on the largest scale only once.

* They recall that, during the 40-year Great Western Schism, while nobody claimed that the see of Rome was vacant, there was uncertainty about which of the two ( eventually three ) claimants was the true pontiff, with even canonized saints taking opposing sides in the controversy.

* Great Controversy ( fundamental belief 8 )— Humanity is involved in a " great controversy " between Jesus Christ and Satan.

The controversy was largely resolved when Kingsbury resigned in 1916, but university operations were again interrupted by World War I, and later The Great Depression and World War II.

Great controversy rages because the use of greyhounds to hunt wild animals is a fairly common occurrence.

The First Sunday of Great Lent is the Feast of Orthodoxy, which commemorates the restoration of the veneration of icons after the Iconoclast controversy, which is considered to be the triumph of the Church over the last of the great heresies which troubled her ( all later heresies being simply a rehashing of earlier ones ).

However, Protestant and Evangelical Christian denominations have made inroads among Cajuns, but not without controversy — many Cajuns will shun family members if they convert to any form of Protestantism because of the extreme persecution the Cajuns were subjected to by Protestants during the Great Expulsion of 1755, and throughout their history for maintaining their Catholicism.

A controversy arose in January 2009 over a Georgian Public Broadcaster ( GPB ) television program, Sakartvelos Didi Ateuli ( საქართველოს დიდი ათეული ; " Best Georgians " or " Great Ten Georgians ") — a show which invited viewers to pick Georgia's top historical personages through polling by telephone, text messaging, and the Internet.

Lilly caused much controversy in 1652 for allegedly predicting the Great Fire of London some 14 years before it happened.

There is no distinction made between mortal and venial sins, no doctrine of Purgatory-although there is a strong tradition of a period of " purification after death " and prayers for the dead ,( this was a recurring controversy leading to the Great Schism between the West and the East ), and no Treasure House of Merit.

Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal to traffic on 15 August 1914, a controversy with Great Britain respecting the interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty arose.

Pindling went on to lead Bahamians to independence from Great Britain on 10 July 1973 amid controversy.

The normative Christology of the Assyrian church was written by Babai the Great ( 551 – 628 ) during the controversy that followed the First Council of Ephesus ( 451 ).

Ronald Hutton wrote on the decline the " Great Goddess " theory specifically: " The effect upon professional prehistorians was to make most return, quietly and without controversy, to that careful agnosticism as to the nature of ancient religion which most had preserved until the 1940s.

On 31 July 2012 Hollande created controversy when he criticized the gold medal count of the 2012 Olympic Hosts, Great Britain, versus France, even though Britain went on to gain twice as many medals as France during the Olympics.

Father Étienne Souciet entered the field in defence of Fréret ; and in consequence of this controversy Newton was induced to prepare his larger work, which was published in 1728, after his death, and entitled The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended, to which is prefixed a short Chronicle from the First Memory of Kings in Europe to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.

He wrote an Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth ( 1804 and 1819 ), a work which has been translated into French and Italian and which produced a controversy between the author and Lord Brougham ; The Depreciation of the Paper-currency of Great Britain Proved ( 1812 ); and other writings of a similar nature.

Sweetenham's tenure with Great Britain was marked by medal success at World Championship level, Olympic disappointment, and recurring controversy on his man-management methods.

Great controversy followed the installation of a large circular altar in travertine marble by Henry Moore, commissioned by Varah and his churchwarden Lord Palumbo.

Holyoke's administration began during the religious revivals of the Great Awakening and lasted until the revolutionary controversy with England was entering its final phase.

The famous Royal tombs, also called the Neo-Sumerian Mausolea, located about south-east of the Great Ziggurat in the corner of the wall that surrounds the city, are nearly totally cleared.

Herod the Great built the wall which still surrounds the Cave of the Patriarchs.

The high brick wall, reminiscent of that at nearby Woburn, which runs for some distance adjacent to the road, now neglected and ruined in places, surrounds the 70-acre ( 280, 000 m² ) park which once housed the principal seat of the Duncombe family, Great Brickhill Manor.

The Carina Nebula ( also known as the Great Nebula in Carina, the Eta Carina Nebula, or NGC 3372 ) is a large bright nebula that surrounds several open clusters of stars.

Much of the surrounding land is owned by the Ministry of Defence and is part of Windsor Great Park, the area is in the Green Belt that surrounds London.

In formally adopting the Western term Emperor for the ruler of Russia Peter the Great also adopted Western imperial symbols, including the form of the private crowns ( Hauskrone ) used by the Holy Roman Emperors, ( of which the only surviving example is the Austrian imperial crown of Rudolf II Imperial Crown of Austria ) in which a circlet with eight fleur-de-lis surrounds a mitre with a high arch extending from the front to the back fleur-de-lis.

2RE broadcasts on 1557AM in Taree, Wingham and surrounds, 100. 3FM in Forster and the Great Lakes and 100. 1FM in Gloucester, Barrington and surrounds.

It is based on the arms borne by Llywelyn the Great, the famous thirteenth-century Welsh prince ( blazoned quarterly Or and gules, four lions counterchanged langued and armed azure ), with the addition of the St. Edward's Crown atop a continuous scroll which, together with a wreath consisting of the plant emblems of the four countries of the United Kingdom, surrounds the shield.

Fail to prevent devastating logging in these regions, advocates claim, and a Great Ape species will likely become extinct, causing a critical link to the human past to be permanently lost.

After the Great Depression many men of the town were forced to find work in other fields including logging, levee building, and the growing petroleum industry in Louisiana.

Townsend is home to the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, which details life in pre-park days, and the Little River Railroad and Lumber Company Museum, which recounts the area's logging history.

In the 19th century, the logging industry harvested the large white pine and red pine trees, to produce lumber for domestic and American markets, as well as square timber for export to Great Britain.

In the early 1900s, railroad and sawmill innovations allowed logging firms such as the Little River Lumber Company and Babock Lumber to harvest the virgin forests of the Great Smokies and adjacent ranges.

During the late 19th and mid 20th centuries, it was used to transport timber from logging camps in the upper Sudbury District to Georgian Bay, where they were towed by tugs to sawmills on the Great Lakes.

It originally consisted of six themed areas: Carousel Plaza, the first section beyond the main gates ; small-town-themed Hometown Square ; The Great Midwest Livestock Exposition At County Fair with its | turn of the 19th to 20th century rural-fair theme ; Yankee Harbor, inspired by a 19th century New England port ; Yukon Territory, resembling a Canadian / Alaskan logging camp ; and the French Quarter-modeled Orleans Place.

The American-themed areas under Marriott's tenure of ownership included " Carousel Plaza " ( the first section beyond the main gates ); small-town-themed " Hometown Square "; " The Great Midwest Livestock Exposition At County Fair " with a Turn of the Century rural-fair theme ; " Yankee Harbor ", inspired by a 19th century New England port ; " Yukon Territory ," resembling a Canadian / Alaskan logging camp ; and the French Quarter-modeled " Orleans Place ".

After centuries of logging and other human activities which were devastating the swamp's ecosystems, the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1973 when the Union Camp Corporation of Franklin, Virginia donated 49, 100 acres ( 200 km² ) of land ; the refuge was officially established through The Dismal Swamp Act of 1974.

After centuries of logging and other human activities which were devastating the swamp's ecosystems, in 1973, the Union Camp Corporation donated 49, 100 acres ( 199 km² ) of land ; the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was officially established by the U. S. Congress through The Dismal Swamp Act of 1974.

It has recent published articles on subjects of modern controversy, such as acid rain, clear-cut logging, vanishing wetlands, and pollution of the Great Lakes.

In 1926, Townsend sold most of his Little River Lumber tract to the newly-created Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission, although he had been given permission to continue logging for most of the next decade.

The Great Bear Rainforest announcement is the culmination of what may be British Columbia ’ s most significant environmental campaign — a decade-long effort that saw blockades, international markets campaigns, and an unprecedented agreement between as unlikely allies as logging companies and environmentalists.