In fact, he writes in the prelude that he first created a prose work and then used it as the basis for his poem Metres of Boethius, his crowning literary achievement.

The crowning achievement of naval artillery was the battleship, but the advent of airpower and missiles have rendered this type of artillery largely obsolete.

Much more than a renovation project however, Domitian's building program was intended to be the crowning achievement of an Empire-wide cultural renaissance.

Schmidt's crowning achievement was the oratorio Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln ( 1935 – 37 ), a setting of passages from the Book of Revelation.

While Albéniz's crowning achievement, Iberia, was written in the last years of his life in France, many of its preceding works are well-known and of great interest.

The signing of the Non-Aggression Pact in Moscow on 23 August 1939 was the crowning achievement of Ribbentrop's career.

Is he justifying the ruination of his crowning diplomatic achievement?

The publication of Denis Diderot's and Jean d ' Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers marked the crowning intellectual achievement of the epoch.

John H. Nuckolls, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1988 to 1994, described the system as “ The crowning achievement of the Strategic Defense Initiative ”.

In terms of an overall context, historian Ronald Mellor has stated that the Annals is " Tacitus's crowning achievement " which represents the " pinnacle of Roman historical writing ".

His crowning achievement was the victory at Kulm ( August 30, 1813 ), which cost him amputation of the left arm.

Simpson considered quantum evolution his crowning achievement, being " perhaps the most important outcome of investigation, but also the most controversial and hypothetical.

Its crowning achievement was its legal victory in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ) that rejected separate white and colored school systems and by implication overturned the " separate but equal " doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson.

The largest and most elaborate flood defences can be found in the Netherlands, where they are referred to as Delta Works with the Oosterschelde dam as its crowning achievement.

Andrew Kaufman praised it, saying that it was Heinlein's crowning achievement.

The crowning achievement of repertory theater in Canada is the world-renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival, founded in 1953 to primarily present productions of William Shakespeare's plays.

Jackson's crowning achievement came with his three-home-run performance in World Series-clinching Game 6, each on the first pitch, off three different Dodger pitchers.

In doing so, he essentially invented " drama ": his Oresteia trilogy of plays is seen as his crowning achievement.

Passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 was the crowning achievement of the temperance movement, but it soon proved highly unpopular.

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

The ceiling, and especially The Last Judgment ( 1535 – 1541 ), is widely believed to be Michelangelo's crowning achievement in painting.

The engagement, known as the Battle of the Wabash or as St. Clair's Defeat, was the crowning achievement of Blue Jacket's military career, and the most severe defeat ever inflicted upon the United States by Native Americans.

On July 16, 1969, as its crowning achievement in the Apollo space program, a Saturn V vehicle lifted the Apollo 11 spacecraft and three astronauts on their journey to the Moon.

In doing so, he essentially invented " drama ": his Oresteia trilogy of plays is seen as his crowning achievement.

" Alfred Brendel observes, " In Beethoven's own pianistic output, the figures 32 and 33 have their special significance: 32 sonatas are followed by 33 variations as a crowning achievement, of which Var.

Dean Thaddeus Seymour, wearing ski clothes, was crowning a beauteous damsel queen of the Carnival.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

The Ban Si was also known to wail at the crowning of the true king.

Such a cry was reported to be heard at the crowning of Brian Boru.

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet " Prince of the Humanists "; he has been called " the crowning glory of the Christian humanists ".

Monks were taken to Male and beheaded, The Satihirutalu ( the chattravali or chattrayashti crowning a stupa ) were broken to disfigure the numerous stupasm and the statues of Vairocana, the transcendent Buddha of the middle world region, were destroyed ; and the destruction was not limited to sculptures.

Pope Pius VII was present at the coronation of Napoleon I in 1804, but did not actually perform the crowning.

Lothair was unable to visit Rome immediately as Germany was rocked by the rebellion of the Hohenstaufen brothers, with Conrad Hohenstaufen elected anti-king in December 1127, followed by his descent into Italy and his crowning as King of Italy at Monza on 29 July 1128.

The possible reason was that they didn't want their crowning car to be powered by a variant of the lowly VW Golf engine.

It was one of the crowning achievements in the crossing of plains and high mountains westward by the Union Pacific and eastward by the Central Pacific.

Through his affairs in Eastern Europe in 1000, Otto III was able to extend the influence of Christianity by supporting mission work in Poland and through the crowning of Stephen I as the first Christian king of Hungary.

Szczerbiec () is the coronation sword that was used in crowning ceremonies of most kings of Poland from 1320 to 1764.

This joint crowning was similar to Melisende's own crowning with her father in 1128, and may have reflected a growing trend to crown one's heir in the present monarch's lifetime, as demonstrated in other realms of this period.