He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.

This also led to the collapse of the Tiwanaku civilization around Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia.

* Eurypyle, queen of the Amazons who was reported to have led an expedition against Ninus and Babylon around 1760 BC

This in turn led to the building of a deeper water pier a little around the bay at Hawkcraig, and to the development of hotels and many of the other services still on view today in the village.

An alliance of pro free-trade Conservatives ( the " Peelites "), Radicals, and Whigs carried repeal, and the Conservative Party split: the Peelites moved towards the Whigs, while a " new " Conservative Party formed around the protectionists, led by Disraeli, Bentinck, and Lord Stanley ( later Lord Derby ).

The Sargent moratorium led to the rerouting of I-95 away from Boston around the MA-128 beltway and the

Thinking that the man that the king is referring to is himself, Haman says that the man should be dressed in the king's royal robes and led around on the king's royal horse, while a herald calls: " See how the king honours a man he wishes to reward!

Campbell-Bannerman was able to rally the party around the traditional liberal platform of free trade and land reform and led them to the greatest election victory in their history.

Bunge & Born provided the Menem government with its first two economy ministers, and the combination of large rate increases on public services ( around 500 %), a simplified exchange rate and a massive, mandatory wage hike led to a sharp economic turnaround between July and November 1989.

Delimitation of international boundaries in the vicinity of Lake Chad, the lack of which led to border incidents in the past, is complete and awaits ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria ; dispute with Nigeria over land and maritime boundaries around the Bakasi Peninsula and Lake Chad is currently before the ICJ, as is a dispute with Equatorial Guinea over the exclusive maritime economic zone.

The discovery of Ceres led Gauss to his work on a theory of the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets, eventually published in 1809 as Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum ( Theory of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the Sun ).

The metaphor has been useful in helping a new generation of thought leaders to reason through new military strategies around the world, led largely by the US Department of Defense ( DoD ).

A more thorough police search for the children began around 8: 00 a. m. on the morning of May 6, led by the Crittenden County Search and Rescue personnel.

The success of his discovery soon spread around Europe and for example was used en masse in the Spanish Balmis Expedition, a three year long mission to the Americas, Philippines, Macao, China, and Saint Helena Island led by Dr. Francisco Javier de Balmis with the aim of giving thousands the smallpox vaccine.

Charlemagne actively sought to amass scholarly men around him and established a royal school led by the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin.

After Paul's departure, the churches were led astray from Paul's faith / trust centered teachings by individuals proposing " another gospel " ( which centered around salvation through the Mosaic law, so-called legalism ), whom Paul saw as preaching a " different gospel " from what Paul had taught.

* 1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.

For a number of years this volunteer led festival has concentrated mostly around film but, starting in the Year of Highland Culture-Highland 2007, its scope was widened, and it dropped the ' film ' from its title.

Lieutenant Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, temporarily commanding the First Brigade around Accra, led a bloodless coup that ended the Second Republic in January 1972.

This led to a further decline in his output around 1762, however, he was still capable of composing music of highest quality, and continued to write until his death on the evening of 25 June 1767.

Fox commissioned two Friends to travel around the country collecting the testimonies of imprisoned Quakers, as evidence of their persecution ; this led to the establishment in 1675 of Meeting for Sufferings, which has continued to the present day.

Ammianus and Jordanes mention the Huns as scarifying infants ' faces to prevent the later growth of beards ; the Chinese recorded General Ran Min having led a military campaign against a faction of the Xiongnu Confederation called the Jie, who were described as having full beards, around Ye in 349 AD.

An invasion of Caledonia led by Severus and probably numbering around 20, 000 troops moved north in 208 or 209, crossing the Wall and passing through eastern Scotland on a route similar to that used by Agricola.

Although parties were centered around the individual leaders, often bearing their names, two broad political tendencies existed: the liberals, led first by Charilaos Trikoupis and later by Eleftherios Venizelos, and the conservatives, led initially by Theodoros Deligiannis and later by Thrasivoulos Zaimis.

This has led many modern CPUs to require multiple identical clock signals to be provided to avoid delaying a single signal significantly enough to cause the CPU to malfunction.

The 8086 had to do effective address computation using its general ALU, which led to a significant clock penalty.

Hence Painter states that the killing of James restarted the clock that led to the destruction of the city and that the traditional dating of 69 AD simply arose from an over-literal application of the theologoumenon, and is not to be regarded as founded on a historical source.

This led to a controversial decision by head coach Dennis Green to run out the clock and let the game go onto overtime.

The 49ers ( now led by Steve Young ) tried to run out the clock on their ensuing possession, but San Francisco running back Roger Craig had the ball dislodged by nosetackle Erik Howard, and Lawrence Taylor recovered the fumble in mid-air with 2: 36 remaining.

The Patriots had no timeouts left for their ensuing drive, which led Fox color commentator John Madden to suggest that the Patriots should run out the clock and attempt to win in overtime.

This has led to a rising interest in multicore and multiprocessor architectures, since an overall speedup can be obtained by lowering the clock frequency and distributing processing.

Also, the low minimum density of ones ( 12. 5 %) sometimes led to increased clock slippage on the span.

The invention in 1955 of the caesium atomic clock has led to the replacement of older and purely astronomical time standards, for most practical purposes, by newer time standards based wholly or partly on atomic time.

At about five o ' clock in the afternoon, after observing the infantry battle from the hilltop, Sobieski led Polish husaria cavalry along with Austrians and Germans into a massive charge down the hillside.

Other examples of borrowed words are () for coffee and () for watch ( which led to () or " big watch " for clock ).

This event led directly to a period of city-to-city road races in France and other European countries, which introduced many of the features found in later rallies: individual start times with cars running against the clock rather than head to head ; time controls at the entry and exit points of towns along the way ; road books and route notes ; and driving over long distances on ordinary, mainly gravel, roads, facing hazards such as dust, traffic, pedestrians and farm animals.

Six o ' clock closing led to the notorious six o ' clock swill where customers would rush to drinking establishments after work and consume alcohol heavily and rapidly in anticipation of the 6 o ' clock closing.

During World War II the station was bombed, which led to the destruction of the wooden spire of the clock tower above the ticket office on 3 January 1941.

" Around ten o ' clock in the morning of 12 February Guildford was led towards Tower Hill, where " many ... gentlemen " waited to shake hands with him.

The continuation of this practice, despite lower performance per clock, led consumers to conclude that AMD's Athlon XP processors, because they had much slower clock speeds than Intel's Pentium 4 processors, were inferior to Intel's Pentium 4 microprocessors.

Together with the work of Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling, the genetic equidistance result directly led to the formal postulation of the molecular clock hypothesis in the early 1960s.

He also played a role in the introduction of the shot clock, and in the NCAA his dominating play around the basket led to the outlawing of defensive goaltending.

The advent of the portable recorder led to the elimination of the phrase, " film at eleven ", which meant that recorded video footage could be aired on the " 6 o ' clock news " ( evening news ), as it was no longer necessary to account for protracted film development processes.

The combination of the faster clock rate, fewer clock cycles per instruction, and the 16-bit bus led to a computer that was in the marketing sense too fast.

A little after eight o ' clock Peace was watching the Dysons ' house from a passage-way that led up to the backs of the houses on the terrace.