He was also interested in history and culture, and commissioned Saxo Grammaticus to write Gesta Danorum, a comprehensive chronicle of the history of the Danes.

In 1944, he was also commissioned by Yehudi Menuhin to write a Sonata for Solo Violin.

He borrowed much from German sources, particularly from work commissioned by Hermann von Wied, Archbishop of Cologne ; and also from Osiander ( to whom he was related by marriage ).

During that time, Jawhar also commissioned the construction of al-Azhar Mosque, which developed into the third-oldest university in the world.

" The 1940 celebrations also included a concert at the Tokyo Kabukiza for which new works were commissioned from composers in France, Hungary, England ( Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, ultimately rejected ), and Germany ( Richard Strauss, Japanische Festmusik ).

Goya's works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits, but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville, the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting, and probably the etchings of Los Disparates.

In 1989 Greenpeace commissioned a replacement vessel, also named the Rainbow Warrior ( also referred as Rainbow Warrior II ), which was retired from service on the 16th of August 2011 to be replaced by the third Rainbow Warrior.

This campaign also put a dent in the armour of Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, who had commissioned the plans to invade the Dardanelles.

The republican government also enforced the Système International d ' Unités ( International System of Units ), commissioned by Louis XVI, which became known as the Metric System.

Rappaport also painted Simon's commissioned portrait at Carnegie Mellon University.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

( 1985 ), about the songs and poems of the UK miners ' strike, was commissioned by ITV's The South Bank Show, but also banned.

The Imperial Navy was the first to operate submarines successfully on a large scale in wartime, with 375 submarines commissioned by the end of the First World War, and it also operated zeppelins.

* The Red River Expedition ( 1806 ) and the Pike Expedition were also commissioned by Jefferson.

The oratorio, called Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), was commissioned to be part of the festival called Luminato in Toronto, Ontario, in June 2007, and was written / scored by Idle and John Du Prez, who also worked with Idle on Spamalot.

Maybe also that this hilltop dwelling, commissioned by Giovanni de ' Medici, Cosimo il Vecchio's second son, with its view over the city, is the very first example of a Renaissance villa: that is to say it follows the Albertian criteria for rendering a country dwelling a " villa suburbana ".

They were all mayors of Haarlem and their names were Anthony van Styrum ( 1679-1756 ), who also served in the admiralty of Amsterdam, Pieter van der Camer ( 1666-1747 ), who commissioned his own commemorative medal to celebrate 50 years in the service of the vroedschap of Haarlem in 1743, Jan van Dyck, and Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn ( 1694-1744 ), who himself was a collector of medals and who lived at Brederode.

Duke Wilhelm V commissioned the Jesuit Michaelskirche, which became a centre for the counter-reformation, and also built the Hofbräuhaus for brewing brown beer in 1589.

Also during this period, Michelangelo painted the Holy Family and St John, also known as the Doni Tondo or the Holy Family of the Tribune: it was commissioned for the marriage of Angelo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi and in the 17th century, hung in the room known as the Tribune in the Uffizi.

But the quarterly magazine also included newly commissioned articles and cartoons, as well as puzzles, bonus inserts, a calendar, and the other activity-related content that is common to kids ' magazines.

Some must also first serve as an apprentice before being commissioned or licensed to practice their profession.

Though Paganini also commissioned from him Harold en Italie for viola and orchestra, he never performed it, and instead it was premiered a year later by violist Christian Urhan.

He also immediately commissioned a representative tomb from the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger to be erected in the Sistine Chapel of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.

He also opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Antonio Maria Abbatini of the Sistine Chapel Choir to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara.

We also continued to run a series of ads featuring endorsement of Rhode Island by industrialists who had recently established new plants here.

The Institute also planned to furnish a regular series of articles, beginning in the fall of 1960, on its more significant Scientific Exhibits.

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

Taylor said Mrs. Huntley and her husband also will be questioned about a series of 15 Portland robberies in spring of 1959 in which the holdup men bound their victims with tape before fleeing.

However, the wei books were also destroyed in a series of Orthodox Confucian purges which culminated in a final proscription in 605.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

Graeme Base also created a series of riddles relating to hidden objects within each of the illustrations written especially for the wall frieze.

Atari also used the game for its other late ' 90s and 2000s anthology series.

The melting and boiling points of astatine are also expected to follow the trend seen in the halogen series, increasing with atomic number.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

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In 1905 England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2 – 0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.

Clarrie Grimmett's 29 wickets at 31. 89 for Australia in this high-scoring series were also important.

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Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

The former, also known as Iulus ( or Julius ), founded Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings.

He also wrote a Vita Abbonis, abbatis Floriacensis, the last of a series of lives of the abbots of Fleury, all of which, except the life of Abbo, have been lost.

* Atmosfear ( series ), also known as Nightmare, a video oriented boardgame famously known for introducing " The Gatekeeper "

The scheme also extended into the Kamppi district with a series of tall office blocks.

This structure can be also seen as a series of concentric circles, where the gospel begins in the center, Jerusalem, and is expanding ever outward to Judea & Samaria, Syria, Asia Minor, Europe, and eventually to Rome.

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Astérix, is themed around the series.