LTTE spokesman Anton Balasingham told the Indian television channel NDTV that the killing was a " great tragedy, a monumental historical tragedy which we deeply regret.

Peckinpah rewrote the screenplay, establishing Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as friends, and attempted to weave an epic tragedy from the historical legend.

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

Journalist and historical writer Nat Brandt has called the massacre of Christians in Shanxi " the greatest single tragedy in the history of Christian evangelicalism.

It can be classified as a history play ( though it does not completely adhere to historical account ), tragedy ( though not completely in Aristotlean terms ), comedy and romance.

Given the well-established traditional connections between the fictional Dido and Aeneas and the historical Antony and Cleopatra, it is no surprise that Shakespeare includes numerous allusions to Virgil ’ s epic in his historical tragedy.

James argues that in her extended description of this dream, Cleopatra “ reconstructs the heroic masculinity of an Antony whose identity has been fragmented and scattered by Roman opinion .” This politically charged dream vision is just one example of the way that Shakespeare ’ s version of the historical tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra destabilizes and potentially critiques the imperialist Roman ideology inherited from Virgil ’ s epic and embodied in the mythic Roman ancestor Aeneas.

Mr. Komkommer at once recognized that the diamond was one of historical significance and that it would be a tragedy to recut it.

The book is presented as a thesis that combines with Velikovsky's series Ages in Chaos, concluding through his revision of Egyptian history that the Greeks who wrote the tragedy of Oedipus may have penned it in likeness of the life and story of Akhnaton, because in the revision Akhnaton would have lived much closer to the time when the legend first surfaced in Greece, providing an historical basis for the story.

In one century, they experienced the tragedy of the Holocaust, with the end of the great centres of Jewish life, followed by the historical return to their Biblical homeland, with the parallel reestablishment of Jewish study and spirituality in Israel and America.

* Nero ( 1885 ), an historical tragedy ; called The First Part of Nero subsequent to the publication of Nero: Part II

Roger ( Cary Grant ) and Julie Adams suffer a tragedy when she miscarries in an earthquake during their 1923 stay in Japan ( a remarkably realistic re-creation of an historical event ).

The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross ( 1895 ) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States.

Still there in 1895, Barrett found fortune again with a production which would effectively become his most successful, the historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross.

Catharsis before the sixth-century rise of tragedy is, for the Western World, essentially a historical footnote to the Aristotelian conception.

A tragedy on the 1641 rebellion in Ireland (" Lirenda " is an anagram ), Burkhead presents the historical persons involved under pseudonyms: among others, the Duke of Ormonde is " Osiris ," and Sir John Borlace in " Berosus.

A series of historical novels — Pulmyouui yoksa ( Immortal History )-- depict the heroism and tragedy of the preliberation era.

Zapiski o XX i XXI wieku (" In the Whirlpools of History: Jottings on the 20th and the 21st Centuries "; Cracow, Znak, 2007 ) is a compilation of interviews and lectures, reflecting Kapuściński's training as a historian and dealing with contemporary issues and their historical and cross-cultural parallels ( including such issues as globalisation, Islam, the birth of the Third World, and the dawn of the Pacific civilisation ). Kapuściński's pronouncements on current affairs were noteworthy: he thought that the causes of the 9 / 11 tragedy, for example, were too complex to lend themselves to an exhaustively thorough analysis at present, although he offered an extensive and sophisticated exposition of some of the key elements of the puzzle in " Zderzenie cywilizacji " ( The Clash of Civilisations ); he told a BBC interviewer right after the attacks: " I greatly fear that we will waste this moment.

* Hannibal and Scipio ( acted 1635, printed 1637 ), a historical tragedy ;

Macbeth, set in the mid-11th century during the reigns of Duncan I of Scotland and Edward the Confessor, was classed as a tragedy, not a history, as were the plays that depict older historical figures such as Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and the legendary King Lear.

His first writings were poetry and dramas, among them being Amores Britannici ; Epistles historical and gallant ( 1703 ); and a tragedy, The Governor of Cyprus.

A tragedy typically ended with the death or destruction of a fictional or historical hero, whereas a comedy focused on the lives of middle to lower class characters and ended with their success.

* 1834: Charles the First: An historical tragedy ( play )

Though no historical support exists for the flag story in the Fellin battle either, it is not difficult to understand how a small and unknown place is replaced with the much grander battle of Reval ( Tallinn ) from the Estonia campaign of King Valdemar II.

The name Stockholm first appears in historical records in letters written by Birger jarl and king Valdemar dated 1252.

The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul, a deity or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or the Germanic Woden ( or other reflections of the same god, such as Alemannic Wuodan in Wuotis Heer (" Wuodan's Army ") of Central Switzerland, Swabia etc.

In 1861 he published another collection of Lyrical Poems and Romances and ~ fl 1862 the historical epic of Valdemar Seir, volumes which contain his best work.

In August 1882 he was awarded the gold medal for his magnificent historical painting " Valdemar Atterdag Holding Visby to Ransom, 1361 " ( Swedish, " Valdemar Atterdag brandskattar Visby 1361 ") in Vienna, Austria.

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361 is a historical painting ( oil on canvas, signed in 1882 ) by the Swedish historical painter Carl Gustaf Hellqvist ( 1851 – 1890 ).

In historical documents the name of Palanga was first mentioned in 1161 when the King Valdemar I of Denmark disembarked there with his army and captured the castle of the Curonians.

While freeing his mates, he witnesses Valdemar holding gladiatorial games for entertainment and for weeding out the " weak " from the " strong "; but then the despot is challenged and killed by Lucius, who reveals himself to be none other than the historical Nero and subsequently takes over Valdemar's forces.

Historical records indicate that Copernicus was unaware of the fundamental aspects of his so-called ' revolution ', unaware perhaps of its historical importance, he rested content with having produced a simpler scheme for prediction.

One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

It was `` the creation of a monstrous historical period wherein it thought it had to synthesize literature and politics and avant-garde art of every kind with its writers crazily trying to outdo each other in Spenglerian inclusiveness.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

Space was provided for short-time guest medical exhibits, and the Museum collected new accessions of microscopes, medical, surgical, and diagnostic instruments, uniform, and similar items of historical medico-military significance.

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.

According to the new theories, the nineteenth century corporate sovereign was `` sovereign '' in a quite new and different sense from his historical predecessors.

and it was filled then as now by quarreling tribes with no political or historical unity.

On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

This, in brief, was the historical background out of which Zen emerged.

NBC had gathered a lot of historical material which it was eager to share.

the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

The historical order was abandoned in Runic and Arabic, although Arabic retains the traditional " abjadi order " for numbering.

The Texas Historical Commission has erected a historical marker near the entrance of what was once his plantation.

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.