Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.

Abydos is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon in 200 BC.

After her thirteenth birthday in 28, Tiberius arranged for Agrippina to marry her paternal second cousin Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and ordered the marriage to be celebrated in Rome.

When the ambassadors of the Senate, entreating for peace, tried to intimidate him with hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he laughed and gave his celebrated answer: " The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!

His works yet extant show this, as he is celebrated among many for the writings which he has left.

The Executive Yuan approved Arbor Day in the spirit of Dr. Sun that year and has since been celebrated on March 12 for this purpose.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace.

But, there is " certainly no evidence for this view in the New Testament " and in the case of Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch the implication is not that it cannot be celebrated by anyone else, but that it ought not.

In the third century, this " concern for propriety " begins to be displaced by the concept of ' power ' to do so which means that in the absence of such a man it is " literally impossible " for a Eucharist to be celebrated.

Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).

During 248 AD, Philip the Arab celebrated Rome's first millennium, together with Ludi saeculares for Rome's alleged tenth saeculum.

Abergavenny was celebrated for the production of Welsh flannel, and also for the manufacture, whilst the fashion prevailed, of goats ' hair periwigs.

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

The British in the naval Battle of Trafalgar, for example, owed its success to the reputation of celebrated admiral Lord Nelson.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

However, Boxing Day is still celebrated the day following Christmas Day for many British people.

In 1881 the Roman Catholic mass was celebrated in Bodmin for the first time since 1539.

Albireo, designated Beta Cygni, is a celebrated binary star among amateur astronomers for its contrasting hues.

Tswana folk music has instruments such as gumba gumba Segankure / Segaba and for the last few decades, a guitar has been celebrated as a versatile music instrument for Tswana music.

A turning point for Nijinsky was his meeting Sergei Diaghilev, a celebrated and highly innovative producer of ballet and opera as well as art exhibitions, who concentrated on promoting Russian visual and musical art abroad, particularly in Paris.

It includes one of Saul Bass's most celebrated title sequences, an innovative musical score by Duke Ellington ( who plays a character called Pie-Eye in the film ) and has been described by a law professor as " probably the finest pure trial movie ever made ".

Sarah Williams Goldhagen ( 2012 ) celebrated the work of innovative architecture firms such as WOHA ( based in Singapore ), Mass Studies ( based in Seoul ), Amateur Architecture Studio ( based in Hangzhou ), and the New York City-based Steven Holl in the transformation of residential towers into " vertical communities " or " vertical cities in the sky " providing aesthetic, unusually-designed silhouettes on the skyline, comfortable private spaces and attractive public spaces.

was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker.

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year is the Design Museum ’ s annual exploration of the most innovative, interesting and forward looking designs produced over the last twelve months from around the world and celebrated in seven categories: Architecture, Transport, Graphics, Interactive, Product, Furniture and Fashion.

It offers a unique combination of the innovative and the entertaining in the work of its artistic director, Richard Alston, who, in 1998, celebrated 30 years of dance making.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

In close collaboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in perfecting his steam engine, which incorporated a series of radical improvements, notably the closing off of the upper part of the cylinder thereby making the low pressure steam drive the top of the piston instead of the atmosphere, use of a steam jacket and the celebrated separate steam condenser chamber.

His work is notable for the use of the zeta function ζ ( s ) ( for real values of the argument " s ", as are works of Leonhard Euler, as early as 1737 ) predating Riemann's celebrated memoir of 1859, and he succeeded in proving a slightly weaker form of the asymptotic law, namely, that if the limit of π ( x )/( x / ln ( x )) as x goes to infinity exists at all, then it is necessarily equal to one.

Other similar traditions that use the black-face disguise and are still celebrated within the United Kingdom are the

Director Quentin Tarantino has admitted that the celebrated animation-action sequence in his 2003 film Kill Bill was inspired from the use of 2D animated sequences in from actor Kamal Hassan's Tamil film Aalavandhan

Combination of reforestation efforts ( e. g. Arbor day was celebrated as a national holiday starting in 1949 ) and policies designed to reduce use of firewood as a source of energy ( e. g. restriction of inflow of firewood into Seoul and other major cities starting in 1958 ) helped to spark a recovery in the 1950s.

His feast did not appear in the Tridentine Calendar of Pope Saint Pius V. In 1602 it was inserted, under the date of 4 March into the calendar of saints for use wherever the Roman Rite is celebrated.

Its main period of use was, like the treble cornett, about 1550 to 1650, although it gained favor in England only after the beginning of the 17th century ; in 1622 the celebrated Norwich Waits possessed at least two.

The device is best known for its use in France, in particular during the French Revolution, when it " became a part of popular culture, celebrated as the people's avenger by supporters of the Revolution and vilified as the pre-eminent symbol of the Reign of Terror by opponents.

Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and " warrior priest " who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782 ; known alternately as " Serra's Chapel " and " Father Serra's Church ," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass.

In those Protestant churches in which the focus of worship is not on the Eucharist, which may be celebrated rarely, and in churches which want to make use of both a fixed and free-standing altar at different services, they are not only movable but are in fact occasionally moved.

In the valley of the Arcione River just to the west of Viterbo are a number of springs celebrated for the healing qualities of their waters, and in use since Etruscan and Roman days.

Kushite pharaohs expanded the Mut temple and modified the Ramesses temple for use as the shrine of the celebrated birth of Amun and Khonsu, trying to integrate themselves into divine succession.

In the mid-1970s, not long after Pollock celebrated its centennial, eight new apartments — housed in two buildings — were constructed for use by the elderly.

In nearly every country it was celebrated exclusively in Latin, but the use of many other languages was authorized both before the Council of Trent and in the course of the succeeding centuries leading to the Second Vatican Council.

In Masses celebrated without the people, Latin Rite Catholic priests are free to use either the 1962 version of the Tridentine liturgy, or what is now the " ordinary " ( normal ) form of the liturgy.

However, in Dalmatia, Croatia the liturgy was celebrated in Church Slavonic, and authorisation for use of this language was extended to some other Slavic regions between 1886 and 1935.

Permission was given for use, only in Mass celebrated with the people, of the vernacular language, especially in the Biblical readings and the reintroduced Prayers of the Faithful, but, " until the whole of the Ordinary of the Mass has been revised ," in the chants ( Kyrie, Gloria, Creed, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and the entrance, offertory and communion antiphons ) and in the parts that involved dialogue with the people, and in the Our Father, which the people could now recite entirely together with the priest.

Three years later, the instruction Tres abhinc annos of 4 May 1967 gave permission for use of the vernacular even in the Canon of the Mass, and allowed it to be said audibly and even, in part, to be chanted ; the vernacular could be used even at Mass celebrated without the people being present.

He replaced with new rules those of Quattuor Abhinc Annos on use of the older form: essentially, authorization for using the 1962 form for parish Masses and those celebrated on public occasions such as a wedding is devolved from the local bishop to the priest in charge of a church, and any priest of the Latin Rite may use the 1962 Roman Missal in " Masses celebrated without the people ", a term that does not exclude attendance by other worshippers, lay or clergy.

* In Masses celebrated " without the people ", every Latin Rite priest may use either the 1962 Roman Missal or that of Paul VI except during the Easter Triduum ( when Masses without participation by the people are no longer allowed ).