These resources were overstrained by the completion of the Grand Canal, a monumental engineering feat, and in the undertaking of other construction projects, including the reconstruction of the Great Wall.

After the fire, Justice Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L ' Enfant's design for Washington, D. C. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a baroque styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the city's theater district, which facilitates traffic patterns along the city's tree-lined boulevards and parks.

After the fire of 1805, Justice Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L ' Enfant's design for Washington, D. C. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a baroque styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the city's theater district, which facilitates traffic patterns along the city's tree-lined boulevards and parks.

In 1742 he made a monumental portrait bust of Manuel Pinto de Fonseca, Grand Master of the Order of Malta.

The present monumental principal facade was created in 1807 for the newly elevated Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Elisa Bonaparte.

* Le Grand cheval de Léonard: le projet monumental de Léonard de Vinci, Adam Biro, 1990, ISBN 2-87660-096-X

But the forceful presentation of new issues for the sciences to work on is itself a monumental task.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Most of our information about him is derived from Herodotus ( 2. 161ff ) and can only be imperfectly verified by monumental evidence.

The manuscript, which is being edited for publication by G. Maltsiniotis, later led to another of his monumental works, Les Dérivateurs.

The bulk of Grothendieck's published work is collected in the monumental, and yet incomplete, Éléments de géométrie algébrique ( EGA ) and Séminaire de géométrie algébrique ( SGA ).

Besides the two for the Roman Pontiffs already mentioned, there is one for Alfieri, another for Emo, a Venetian admiral, and a small model of a cenotaph for Horatio Nelson, besides a great variety of monumental relieves such as the Stele Tadini in the Chapel of the Accademia Tadini in Lovere.

Black and White # 1 ( 1959 ) is one of Alston's more " monumental " works.

For example, the Rogalin Landscape Park is famous for about 2000 monumental oak trees growing on the flood plain of the river Warta, among numerous ox-bow lakes.

There is special force in the " Death and the Maiden " panel of 1517 ( Basel ), in the " Weather Witches " ( Frankfurt ), in the monumental panels of " Adam " and " Eve " ( Madrid ), and in his many powerful portraits.

He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author ( with his brother ) of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Considered one of the most perfect statements of his architectural approach, the upper pavilion is a precise composition of monumental steel columns and a cantilevered ( overhanging ) roof plane with a glass enclosure.

The glass pavilion is a relatively small portion of the overall building, serving as a symbolic architectural entry point and monumental gallery for larger scale art.

" It is unnecessary to imagine more than that it was monumental, and a monument of more than one king of Egypt.

:" My Administration's position is very clear: if the Task Force and the Bush Administration stand by their 2005 conclusions, then for over 50 years the U. S Government has perpetuated a ' monumental hoax ' on the people of Puerto Rico, on the people of the United States and on the international community.

Valéry's most striking achievement is perhaps his monumental intellectual diary, called the Cahiers ( Notebooks ).

There are two fine monuments to members of the Prideaux family ( Sir Nicholas, 1627 and Edmund, 1693 ): there is also a monumental brass of 1421.

He is the editor in chief of a monumental History of Rhetoric in Modern Europe.

Mesopotamia is generally considered to be the location of the earliest civilization or complex society, meaning that it contained cities, full-time division of labor, social concentration of wealth into capital, unequal distribution of wealth, ruling classes, community ties based on residency rather than kinship, long distance trade, monumental architecture, standardized forms of art and culture, writing, and mathematics and science.

The TRC is unquestionably a monumental process, the consequences of which will take years to unravel.

No currently existing algorithm is yet able to consistently predict a proteins ' tertiary or quaternary structure given only its primary structure ; learning how to accurately predict the tertiary and quaternary structure of any protein given only its amino acid sequence and the pertinent cellular conditions would be a monumental achievement.

The city is famous for having preserved almost intact its medieval spatial layout and many Gothic buildings, all built from brick, including monumental churches, the Town Hall and many burgher houses.

Perhaps the most outstanding facet of the monumental work is its sheer length: a full performance of the cycle takes place over four nights at the opera, with a total playing time of about 15 hours, depending on the conductor's pacing.

Linear Elamite is a writing system from Iran attested in a few monumental inscriptions only.

* This is also the approximate date of completion of Ptolemy's monumental work Almagest.

Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.

This was certainly a monumental task at best in those times.

He is best known for the monumental shrine, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, erected for him by order of his sister and widow Artemisia ; Antipater of Sidon listed the Mausoleum as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

He is best known for Wanderjahre in Italien, his account of the walks he took through Italy in the 1850s, and the monumental Die Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter ( History of Rome in the Middle Ages ), a classic for Medieval and early Renaissance history.

Mesoamerican architecture in Mexico is best known for its public, ceremonial and urban monumental buildings and structures, several of which are the largest monuments in the world.

Her best known works are probably the monumental Pope John Paul II in St Patrick's College Maynooth and the carved altar in the University College Cork chapel.

His best monumental work is admired for its pathos and simplicity, and for the alliance of a truly Greek instinct for rhythmical design and composition with the spirit of domestic tenderness and innocence that is one of the secrets of the modern soul.

In England's 20 – 17 victory over Australia, Johnson also performed at a monumental level, leading the former Australian captain, John Eales ( who retired in 2001 ), to commend his display as ' among the best ever by a lock forward '.

These accomplishments didn't come out of blue, but are a product of multicentenary tradition in Croatian language — therefore it is no surprise that Croatian linguist Stjepan Babić's monumental monograph " Tvorba riječi u hrvatskome književnom jeziku " ( Word-formation in Croatian literary language ), 1986, is considered still the best work on the topic in the entire Slavic philology.

He is best known for three major silent films: J ' accuse ( 1919 ), La Roue ( 1923 ), and the monumental Napoléon ( 1927 ).

Francis Parkman ( September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893 ) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America.

He is best known for his monumental Vorlesungen über die Algebra der Logik ( Lectures on the algebra of logic ), in 3 volumes, which prepared the way for the emergence of mathematical logic as a separate discipline in the twentieth century by systematizing the various systems of formal logic of the day.

Albinus is perhaps best known for his monumental Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, which was first published in Leiden in 1747, largely at his own expense.

At their best his works, although massive and monumental, suggest movement and tension.

Alto de Cabanas is one of the best natural lookouts in the region, and the area of Valinhas, with its monumental oak forests and curious chapel, near the Fervença waterfalls ( or the Leça River ), are almost obligatory natural sites of the landscape.

The work of these two sculptors and architects epitomises the Gothic style in Venice: they are best known for their work on the Doge's Palace and in particular the Porta della Carta with its monumental sculpture of the judgement of Solomon.

He is best known for his monumental book The Classic of Tea (), the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea.

Lubyanka Square is best known for Aleksandr V. Ivanov's monumental building from 1897 – 1898.

Maclyn McCarty, who devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying infectious disease organisms, was best known for his part in the monumental discovery that DNA, rather than protein, constituted the chemical nature of a gene.

Paul Mark Scott ( 25 March 1920 in Southgate-1 March 1978 in London ) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet.

Even in Europe, the distinction is unhelpful for Early Medieval art, where although " fine arts " such as manuscript illumination and monumental sculpture existed, the most prestigious works, commissioned from the best artists, tended to be in goldsmith work, cast metals such as bronze or other techniques such as ivory carving.

It also has the best collection of medieval monumental effigies in Kent, including one to Jane Kerriel ( c. 1455 ) which reveals a unique horseshoe head-dress.

His best known work is the monumental History of Kashmir.