He ranted and prophesied the doom of his enemies, walking in circles in and out of his living place, drinking stolen whisky in great, gasping draughts until finally, incoherent and sick, he fell into his own oblivion.

After the Bihać fort finally fell in 1592, only small parts of Croatia remained unconquered.

During this time Almagro fell ill, and Pizarro and his brothers finally caught the opportunity to defeat him and his followers.

In 1669 the city of Heraklion, on Crete, which at one time boasted at least 120 painters, finally fell to the Turks, and from that time Greek icon painting went into a decline, with a revival attempted in the 20th century by art reformers such as Photios Kontoglou, who emphasized a return to earlier styles.

When the Soviet Union abandoned the Marxist Najibullah regime and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 ( the regime finally fell in 1992 ), the victory was seen by many Muslims as the triumph of Islamic faith over superior military power and technology that could be duplicated elsewhere.

Clean, low mileage examples have become extremely scarce and expensive by 2012, and in April 2012, when the Gooding & Company bidding ended and the auctioneer's hammer finally fell, the only 1 Red 968 Turbo RS 350 hp machine had fetched a hefty $ 346, 000 price.

Talfourd's Act was finally passed as the Copyright Act 1842, but " fell far short of Talfourd's dream of a uniform, consistent, codified law of copyright ".

Lanna's independent history ended in 1558, when it finally fell to the Burmese ; thereafter it was dominated by Burma until the late 18th century.

Several supplements were published for TNE covering most if not all of what the year 1201 was like, but before any of the meta-events could start to advance the timeline, GDW fell on a string of bad luck and finally was forced to close its doors, after twenty two years in which it had published one new product every 22 days on average ( not counting magazines ).

In heavy fighting Moriones secured a costly tactical victory over Carlist General Torcuato Mendíri, but the war continued another 18 months before Estella finally fell.

He often fell ill, finally causing the headmaster to contact his family with news of a " sort of a coma ".

Again Charles Martel came to the rescue, reconquering most of the lost territories in two campaigns in 736 and 739, except for the city of Narbonne, which finally fell in 759.

During the course of the 13th and 14th centuries the city fell more than once into the hands of the Counts of Provence, but finally remained independent even if related to Genoa.

On 23 January 1887, under the heading " Their First Flat Failure ; The First Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Not a Success ", The New York Times reported, " When the curtain finally fell there was hissing – the first ever heard in the Savoy Theatre.

Still, she finally told the Spanish ambassador that the proposal fell through because the Earl of Leicester refused to cooperate.

The Ruin of Esagila Chronicle mentions that the Seleucid crown prince Antiochus I decided to finally rebuild it, sacrificed, stumbled and fell, and angrily ordered his elephant drivers to destroy the last remains.

" When the House of Representatives finally took a roll call vote on February 9, 1941, the 260 to 165 vote fell largely along party lines.

After repelling Ottoman attacks for over 70 years, Belgrade finally fell in 1521, opening the way for Ottoman expansion into Central Europe.

When the Exarchate of Ravenna finally fell to the Lombards in 751, the Duchy of Rome was completely cut off from the Byzantine Empire, of which it was theoretically still a part.

Mouquet Farm finally fell to the 11th ( Northern ) Division, and the Canadians advanced from Courcelette.

When Mantle finally fell short, finishing with 52, there seemed to be a collective sigh of relief from the New York traditionalists.

Gandalf fell with the Balrog into the uttermost depths of Moria and fought the Balrog all the way up the Endless Stair, finally slaying it by throwing it from the peak of Celebdil, but sacrificing his own life in doing so.

As the group played faster and faster, Morrison spun around wildly until he finally fell senseless on the stage at Marty Balin's feet.

However, after taking a 3 – 1 lead in the best-of-seven first round series, the Magic fell to the Detroit Pistons 4 – 3 in the now infamous heartbreaker in which McGrady was quoted " It's nice to finally be in the second round " after still needing one more win to advance.

* In " The Friar's Club ," Kramer tries to copy Leonardo Da Vinci by only sleeping 20 minutes every three hours, but when he finally falls deeply asleep in his girlfriend Connie's arms, she thinks he is dead, puts him in a sack and dumps him into the Hudson River.

Then Frasier and Lilith spend the night together watching the television and finally falling asleep on the couch.

In the early hours of morning, he finally looked about him and saw the dancers asleep and in disarray.

Mrs. Mousekewitz, Fievel's mother, surmises saying that now that the mystery has been cleared up, Fievel may finally go to sleep, only to turn around and find him already asleep on the beach towel.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

And of course the news of who the composer was did finally begin to get around among his closest friends.

The movement finally gained fame around the world when California became swept up in the movement, then seemingly started to lead the trend itself, in, for example, the popular restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley.

The tactic proved unsuccessful, but when Tallard arrived to bolster the Elector's army, and Prince Eugene arrived with reinforcements for the Allies, the two armies finally met on the banks of the Danube in and around the small village of Blindheim.

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

He wrote his ' Enquiries ' ( Greek — Historia ; English —( The ) Histories ) around 440 – 430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history ( the wars finally ending in 450 BC ).

In the Languedoc and northern Italy, the Cathars would enjoy their greatest popularity, surviving in the Languedoc, in much reduced form, up to around 1325 and in the Italian cities until the Inquisitions of the 1260s – 1300s finally rooted them out.

Whereas several figures common to English Country Dance, e. g. arming and the straight hey, are found in the traditional dances and display dances such as morris, ECD's origins rest among the gentry, first at court, then spreading to bourgeois-London, finally moving into country manors around England.

They also note that the discoverers of the two planets around NN Serpentis were confronted with multiple suggestions from various official sources and finally chose to use the designations " NN Ser c " and " NN Ser d ."

Orwell had to scrabble around in the rubble for his collection of books, which he had finally managed to transfer from Wallington, carting them away in a wheelbarrow.

The Anstoss thus provides the essential impetus that first sets in motion the entire complex train of activities that finally result in our conscious experience both of ourselves and others as empirical individuals and of the world around us.

Somewhere around the time of the German declaration of war on the United States in December 1941, Hitler finally resolved that the Jews of Europe were to be " exterminated ".

When Ribbentrop finally got around to announcing his decision, the Hungarian delegation who had expected Ribbentrop to rule in favour of Romania broke out in cheers while the Romanian foreign minister Mihail Manoilescu fainted.

His funds came with some stipulations: he must travel around the Kainuu border regions and then on to the north and finally from Kainuu to the south-east along the border.

Romans scored other victories with proconsul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus and Gaius Marius ( elected in 113 BC ), but still the Lusitani resisted with a long guerilla war ; they later joined Sertorius ' ( a renegade Roman General ) troops ( around 80 BC ) and were finally defeated by Augustus ( around 28-24 BC ).

Electrons emitted from the filament move several times in back and forth movements around the grid before finally entering the grid.

Since the roads to the airport had not been cleared, the carriers became stuck in traffic and finally arrived around midnight.

The Tropical continental airmass ( CT ) finally retreats from most part of Nigeria, and the West African atmosphere around April to May, leaving an empty atmosphere over Nigeria.

A half-hearted attempt was made to complete the temple during Augustus ' reign as the first Roman emperor, but it was not until the accession of Hadrian in the 2nd century AD that the project was finally completed around 638 years after it had begun.

Natural features divide the country into seven distinct areas: Ruus al Jibal, including the northern Musandam Peninsula ; the Al Batinah plain running southeast along the Gulf of Oman coast ; the Oman interior behind the Al Batinah coast comprising the Al Hajar Mountains their foothills, and desert fringes ; the coast from Muscat-Matrah around the Ras al Hadd point and down the Arabian Sea ; the offshore island of Masirah ; and finally the barren coastline south to the Dhofar region in the south.

Tensions finally reached breaking point and a Workers ’ Uprising took place on 17 June 1953, to be quickly and brutally crushed when Soviet tanks rolled in, and some of the worst violence occurred around Potsdamer Platz, where several people were killed by the Volkspolizei.

' So I decided to do that way back when, never got around to it until finally now.

By the early 1970s, Amateur Radio RTTY had spread around the world and it was finally possible to work more than 100 countries via RTTY.