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His life's work was the restoration of the Gothic kingdom in Italy, and he entered upon the task from the very beginning of his reign, collecting together and inspiring the Goths, defeating a poorly led Byzantine attack on the Gothic stronghold of Verona in the winter of 541, and scattering the stronger Byzantine army at Faenza ( Battle of Faventia ) in the spring of 542.
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In 2010 Jamison was conferred with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews in recognition of all her life's work.
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Philip made it his life's work to destroy Angevin power in France.
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He concluded from these visions that the pursuit of science would prove to be, for him, the pursuit of true wisdom and a central part of his life's work.
The Bob Moog Foundation was created as a memorial, with the aim of continuing his life's work of developing electronic music.
Set on making his obsession also his life's work, Wenders returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of United Artists.
He is now considered one of the best authorities on Dartmoor and its antiquities, having made it the subject of his life's work.
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He spent much of his time monitoring what he considers his life's work, the Three Gorges Dam.
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Russell wrote: " Piltdown was not a ' one-off ' hoax, more the culmination of a life's work.
Three months later Cavour, having seen his life's work nearly complete, died.
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He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by his recalcitrant insubordination.
In the last 50 years David has enjoyed a revival in popular favor and in 1948 his two-hundredth birthday was celebrated with an exhibition at the Musée de l ' Orangerie in Paris and at Versailles showing his life's works.
If Judge Landis was suspicious of an attorney's line of questioning, he would begin to wrinkle his nose, and once told a witness, " Now let's stop fooling around and tell exactly what did happen, without reciting your life's history.
Menelik was said to be a practising Jew who was given a replica of the Ark of the Covenant by King Solomon ; and, moreover, that the original was switched and went to Axum with him and his mother, and is still there, guarded by a single priest charged with caring for the artifact as his life's task.
He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay ; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
He was knighted in 1997 and in 2002 received the £ 1 million Templeton Prize, awarded for exceptional contributions to affirming life's spiritual dimension.
Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work.
George James Symons was elected to the council of the British meteorological society in 1863 and made it his life's work to investigate rainfall within the British Isles.
After writing the gamelan-inspired Triple Concerto of 1979, Tippett concentrated on the composition of The Mask of Time, a large-scale, ambitious choral piece that was in some ways a summation of his life's work.
Eventually it was established and named Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok, based on his life's work, in Har Nof, Jerusalem.
Abandoning his monumental life's work, he returned to die with his family, among whom he was regarded as a bum, artist, crazy or a genius.
This first research project was to define Burt's life's work in quantitative intelligence testing, eugenics, and the inheritance of intelligence.
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He lived just long enough to hear of the restoration of the Hesse constitution of 1831 ( June 21, 1862 ), which it had been his life's mission to destroy.
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A tale from India about the origin of the Buddha, Prem Sanyas depicts the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama ( portrayed by director Himansu Rai ), the man who became the Buddha, as he journeys from privilege and seclusion to awareness of the inevitability of life's suffering, finally renouncing his kingdom to seek enlightenment.
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