This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.

1867 edition of Punch ( magazine ) | Punch, a ground-breaking United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British magazine of popular humour, including a great deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene.

The political satire in " Part III " of the book reflects the author's view of Great Britain's treatment of Ireland.

He was the author of The Rehearsal, an amusing and clever satire on the heroic drama and especially on Dryden's The Conquest of Granada ( first performed on 7 December 1671, at the Theatre Royal, and first published in 1672 ), a deservedly popular play which was imitated by Henry Fielding in Tom Thumb the Great, and by Sheridan in The Critic.

In the shop window a number of Gillray's previously published prints, such as Tiddy-Doll the Great French Gingerbread Maker, Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings ; His Man, Talley Mixing up the Dough, a satire on Napoleon's king-making proclivities, are shown in the shop window.

The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and Muriel Angelus.

Moe's impersonation of Adolf Hitler highlighted these shorts, the first of which preceded Charlie Chaplin's controversial film satire, The Great Dictator, by months.

" Dave Petruska of the Tucson Citizen listed " Homer the Great " as his favorite episode " because it is such a wonderful satire on fraternal organizations and because of Patrick Stewart's hilarious guest-starring role as Number One.

It was in fact a satire of overly-earnest regional CBC radio programming, and featured the return of the character of Paul Moth ( played by Mack Furlong ), previously the hapless host of The Great Eastern radio comedy series.

A tragicomic satire of the life of an upper-class Bostonian from the mid-19th century to the Great Depression.

In A Great Lady has an Interview, Judy Garland, with six leading men, displays an unexpected flair for occupational satire.

Great thought has been given to making life easier for the growing boating population of the country ; ;

The miracle of democratic America comes home to one most strongly only when one has seen the endless Great Plains of the Midwest ; ;

Recent criticism of Great Expectations has tended to emphasize its symbolic and mythic content, to show, as M. D. Zabel has said of Dickens generally, that much of the novel's impact resides in its `` allegoric insight and moral metaphor ''.

J. H. Miller's excellent chapter on Great Expectations has lately illustrated how fruitfully that novel can be read from such a perspective.

For this latest addition to the Great Letters Series, under the general editorship of Louis Kronenberger, Miss Hardwick has made a selection which admirably displays the variety of James's genius, not to mention the felicities of his style.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".

Partly for this reason, Alberta has never developed a large presence in the industries that have traditionally started industrialization in other places ( notably the original Industrial Revolution in Great Britain ) but which require large labour forces, and large internal markets or easy transportation to export markets, namely textiles, metallurgy, or transportation-related manufacturing ( automotives, ships, or train cars ).

Under the Local Government Act 1972, since 1974, the town has formed part of the larger Borough of Hyndburn including the former Urban Districts of Oswaldtwistle, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood and Rishton.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

From the time of the end of the Seven Years ' War in 1763, Great Britain and its successor the United Kingdom has been one of the leading military and economic powers of the world.

This description in reference to the Act of Union 1801 which expanded the United Kingdom of Great Britain to include Ireland, has since been greatly expanded, although the primary date of UK Independence is now given as 1927.

The country has a multi-party system in which many of its legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of and precedents set by Great Britain's Westminster Parliament.

Because of this, it has a transportation system which includes more than of roads, 10 major international airports, 300 smaller airports, of functioning railway track, and more than 300 commercial ports and harbours that provide access to the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans as well as the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

The military has seized power three times in Colombia's history: in 1830, after the dissolution of Great Colombia ; again in 1854 ( by General José María Melo ); and from 1953 to 1957 ( under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ).

The church has an open canon which includes four scriptural texts: the Bible ( both Old and New Testaments ), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

Arcadian cult to Demeter links her to a male deity ( Greek: Πάρεδρος, Paredros ), who accompanied the Great Goddess and has been interpreted as a possible substitution for Poseidon ; Demeter may therefore be related to a Minoan Great Goddess.

In Harper's book ( The Passions Of Great Fortune ), his comment on the song ends ".. there must always be some hope that the children of ' Bloody Sunday ', on both sides, can grow into some wisdom ".

The Great Powers, defined in the 1815 Congress of Vienna as the United Kingdom, Habsburg Austria, Prussia, France, and Russia, would frequently coordinate interventions in other nations ' civil wars, nearly always on the side of the incumbent government.

Given the military strength of the Great Powers, these interventions were nearly always decisive and quickly ended the civil wars.

In the archaeology of northern Europe, for example for archaeological sites in Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, Ukraine, and Russia, the term " Mesolithic " is almost always used.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

Northern Ireland Railways was never part of British Rail, which was always confined to Great Britain, and therefore is not part of the National Rail network.

During Great Lent, when the celebration of the Liturgy is forbidden on weekdays, there is always Liturgy on Saturday as well as Sunday.

If a feast day falls on a Sunday it is always combined with the hymns for Sunday ( unless it is a Great Feast of the Lord ).

In Great Britain, Rococo was always thought of as the " French taste " and was never widely adopted as an architectural style, although its influence was strongly felt in such areas as silverwork, porcelain, and silks, and Thomas Chippendale transformed British furniture design through his adaptation and refinement of the style.

The Great apes have always been more ( Bonobo, Homo, Pan ) or less ( Gorilla, Pongo ) social animals, so Robinson Crusoe-like situations are either fictions or unusual corner cases to the ubiquity of social context for humans, who fall between presocial and eusocial in the spectrum of animal ethology.

King Louis the Great of Hungary and Poland always had a good and close relationship with Emperor Charles IV, and Sigismund was betrothed to Louis ' eldest daughter Mary in 1374, when he was 6.

John Edward Lloyd gave the following assessment of Llywelyn: Among the chieftains who battled against the Anglo-Norman power his place will always be high, if not indeed the highest of all, for no man ever made better or more judicious use of the native force of the Welsh people for adequate national ends ; his patriotic statemanship will always entitle him to wear the proud style of Llywelyn the Great.

According to Raeder: " The British have always considered the Mediterranean the pivot of their world empire ... Germany, however, must wage war against Great Britain with all the means at her disposal and without delay before the United States is able to intervene effectively. Gibraltar must be taken.

When a Saturday falls during one of the fasting seasons ( Great Lent, Nativity Fast, Apostles ' Fast, Dormition Fast ) the fasting rules are always lessened to an extent.

Thus, English names for creatures not native to Great Britain are almost always loanwords.

At the same time, in early November of each year and to commemorate Bob Hoffman ’ s birthday, a prestige lifting contest was always held as part of “ Bob Hoffman ’ s Birthday Party .” In 1971, it was decided to make this event the “ World Weightlifting Championships .” There was no such thing as ‘ teams ’ and thus was predominantly a whole bunch of American lifters, plus four from Great Britain and one from the West Indies.

The sun has always been a symbol in Iranian culture and is closely related to the folklore regarding Cyrus the Great himself.

Newbury is situated on the River Kennet, the valley of which has always formed an important east – west transport route, served by the Kennet and Avon Canal, and the Great Western Railway line from London to the West Country.

Westmere as a settled place is of recent origin, though being along the Great Western Turnpike, built in 1799, it was always a place migrants passed through on their way from Albany and New England to the western frontier.

The Indians said that this log jam, known as the Great Red River Raft, had always existed.

Taylor argued that the basic problem with an interwar Europe was a flawed Treaty of Versailles that was sufficiently onerous to ensure that the overwhelming majority of Germans would always hate it, but insufficiently onerous in that it failed to destroy Germany's potential to be a Great Power once more.

Although not always accredited as the first practitioner of psychological warfare, Alexander the Great undoubtedly showed himself to be effective in swaying the mindsets of the populaces that were conquered in his campaigns.

Originally known as the Great Parlour, this has always been the chief reception room of the house.