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* In The Hand-Writing upon the Wall ( 1803 ), James Gillray caricatured Napoleon in the role of Belshazzar.
Other political caricatures include: Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis, a picture in which Pitt, so often Gillray's butt, figures in a favourable light ; The Bridal Night ; The Apotheosis of Hoche, which concentrates the excesses of the French Revolution in one view ; The Nursery with Britannia reposing in Peace ; The First Kiss these Ten Years ( 1803 ), another satire on the peace, which is said to have greatly amused Napoleon ; The Hand-Writing upon the Wall ; The Confederated Coalition, a swipe at the coalition which superseded the Addington ministry ; Uncorking Old Sherry ; The Plumb-Pudding in Danger ( probably the best known political print ever published ); Making Decent ; Comforts of a Bed of Roses ; View of the Hustings in Covent Garden ; Phaethon Alarmed ; and Pandora opening her Box.

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The single " Don't Box Me In ( theme From Rumble Fish )", a collaboration between Copeland and singer / songwriter Stan Ridgway ( of the band Wall of Voodoo ) received significant airplay upon release of the film that year.
The turning point in Germany, called " Die Wende ", was marked by the " Peaceful Revolution " leading to the removal of the Berlin Wall with East and West Germany subsequently entering into negotiations toward eliminating the division that had been imposed upon Germans more than four decades earlier.
At various times, when there is fear of Arab rioting upon the mount resulting in throwing stones from above towards the Western Wall Plaza, Israel has prevented Muslim men under 45 from praying in the compound, citing these concerns.
At a time when Chinese territory was encroached upon by foreign nations, leading Kuomintang historian Xiao Yishan emphasized the role of Qin Shi Huang in repulsing the northern barbarians, particularly in the construction of the Great Wall.
If the next unelected candidate has died or declines the offer, it is offered to each subsequent candidate on the list until one accepts the seat, such as was the case upon the resignation of Darren Hughes in March 2011, where Louisa Wall was elected after the five list candidates above her on the New Zealand Labour Party's list declined the seat.
The East Wall contains a badly preserved scene of a female warrior ( bellatrix ), possibly Roma, apparently sitting on a pile of weapons confiscated from the enemy, thus forcing peace upon them by rendering them unable to make war.
Through his Princeton classmates, he was hired by Wall Street insurance firm Johnson & Higgins upon his return to the United States.
Their name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story " The Mark on the Wall " which reads, " I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.
William Stukeley wrote that " part of Rigning Way north from Wall was very fair with a high straight bank " and that " upon the hill south of Littleover, Rigning is under the eye as far as Etocetum, and the hills beyond it.
Hinton novel also had a song released to radio on A & M Records " Don't Box Me In " ( UK Singles Chart n. 91 ) — a collaboration between Copeland and singer / songwriter Stan Ridgway, leader of the band Wall of Voodoo, that received significant airplay upon release of the film that year.
* Byker Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This being inclosed with a strong Brick Wall, and having a Walk round, and two cross Walks, decently planted with Yew-trees, the four Quarters may serve four Parishes, where the Dead need not be disturbed at the Pleasure of the Sexton, or piled four or five upon one another, or Bones thrown out to gain Room .</ br > Wren, Letter of advice to the Commissioners for Building Fifty New City Churches, 1711 </ ref > In 1830, George Frederick Carden, editor of The Penny Magazine, successfully petitioned Parliament about the parlous state of London's over-full church burial yards.
Many of these formed in the low ground to the north of the Whin Sill escarpment upon which part of Hadrian's Wall runs.
" It called upon Israel to dismantle all existing settlements outside of the 1967 border, to halt construction of the so-called “ Separation Wall ,” to end home demolitions in the West Bank and Gaza, and to dismantle its nuclear weapons program and join a Middle East non-proliferation treaty, and to engage in " serious and unconditional " negotiations with the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.
Because most consumer interest rates are based upon the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate, when this rate changes, most consumers can expect to see the interest rates of credit cards, auto loans and other consumer debt change.
It is now buried outside the entrance of Nickelodeon Suites Resort, also in Orlando, contained items deemed important to the children of 1992 as voted upon by Nickelodeon viewers, including bubble gum, a skateboard, a history book, a comic book, a phone book, a world atlas, news reports from Desert Storm, news reports from the AIDS Crisis, news reports from the end of the Soviet Union, a Home Alone VHS, a Back to the Future VHS, assorted photographs of bicycles, trains, cars, politicians, and celebrities, a piece of the Berlin Wall, lead pencils, the Orlando, Florida TV Guide from the week of April 30, 1992, a baseball, a Barbie Doll, a Nintendo Game Boy, a Nicktoons t-shirt, Michael Jackson CDs, MC Hammer CDs, Twinkies, an issue of Nickelodeon Magazine, Rollerblades, a can of Nickelodeon Gak, Reebok Pump sneakers, and a copy of the Book of Endangered Species.
* Author / musician / occultist Julian Cope provided the spoken-word vocals of the 25-minute song " My Wall " on White1, telling a Wodenist death tale that takes place upon England's medieval 46-mile land barrier Wansdyke, Cope integrating O ' Malley and Anderson into the fabric of the text.
" It's not for nothing that they call me " The Plunger "," he once boasted, an apparent reference to sticking doggedly with a stock despite low fluctuations, although this nickname was in fact bestowed upon him not by Wall Street investors but by the Plumbers ' Union.
For Dusty Springfield's mid 1960s hits like " I Only Want to Be with You " — which were the best British equivalents to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound-he relied heavily upon arranger Ivor Raymonde.
Wall, Edward A. Clarke, John T. Lesley, Stephen M. Sparkman, William C. Brown and S. A. Jones, " to construct and operate a line of railway or railroads on any or all of the streets in the city or town of Tampa ... and on any or all of the avenues leading into or running near said city of Tampa, included within the area of land lying between the Hillsborough river and the creek known as the six mile creek east of said city of Tampa, and of also extending one or more of said lines of railway to and across the island at the mouth of the Hillsborough river, and the island known as Depot island, and said company shall further have the rights to operate said line or lines of railroad or any of them with steam or horse power, and shall have the right to purchase or construct and to run steamboats or other vessels, and to use and navigate the same on Hillsborough and Tampa bays, and upon all the streams ending therein.
Hugo Gerhard Ströhl: coat of arms of the Bohemian crown lands ( until 1635 ), clockwise from left above: ( checked ) Eagle of Moravia, Piast Eagle of Silesia, Ox of Lower Lusatia, Eagle of Upper Silesia, Wall of Upper Lusatia, en surtout Bohemia n Lion, upon Crown of Saint Wenceslas, garlanded by Tilia | lime
In 1874, the city of Kraków offered him the arsenal in the Old Wall as a museum, which he called upon Viollet-le-Duc to renovate, who in turn delegated the project to his son-in-law Maurice Ouradou.

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Paisiello conducted the music of the court in the Tuileries with a stipend of 10, 000 francs and 4800 for lodging, but he entirely failed to conciliate the Parisian public, who received his opera Proserpine so coldly that, in 1803, he requested and with some difficulty obtained permission to return to Italy, upon the plea of his wife's ill health.
They were finally secularised in the 1803 German Mediatisation upon the territorial losses to France in the Treaty of Lunéville, except for the Mainz prince-archbishop and German archchancellor Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, who continued to rule as Prince of Aschaffenburg and Regensburg.
According to " The Boone Family " book by Hazel Atterbury Spraker ( 1982 ), " was buried near the body of his wife, in a cemetery established in 1803 by David Bryan, upon the bank of a small stream called Teuque Creek about one and one-half miles southeast of the present site of the town of Marthasville in Warren County, Missouri, it being at that time the only Protestant cemetery North of the Missouri River.
This was a remarkable act, given that the rebellion had just occurred with great loss of life, and one that could never be enlarged upon as Kilwarden was unlucky enough to be killed in the riot starting Emmet's revolt in 1803.
In 1802 the colonies were returned to the Batavian Republic under the terms of the Treaty of Amiens, but the United Kingdom seized the colonies again less than one year later upon resumption of hostilities with France in the Napoleonic Wars in 1803.
This is the older prize awarded by the Academy, named after Carl Linnaeus: the prize was instituted upon a donation by Linnaeus widow, Sara E. Linnaeus, on 8 September 1803.
The Northwest Territory ceased to exist upon Ohio statehood on March 1, 1803 ; the lands in Ohio that were previously part of Wayne County but not included in Trumbull County reverted to an unorganized status until new counties could be formed.
The town was increased by an addition from the town of Woodstock in 1800, but was later decreased upon the formation of the towns of Cairo ( 1803 ) and Athens ( 1815 ).
In 1803, the United Kingdom Parliament bestowed upon him an annuity of £ 1200 a year ( Annuity to Admiral Saumarez Act 1803 ).
He fought in the Northwest Indian War of 1793 in Ohio, studied law afterward, and upon getting admitted to the bar in 1803, he began practicing in Brattleboro, Vermont.
It had been set off by A Few Cursory Remarks upon the State of Parties ( 1803, anonymous, by Thomas Richard Bentley ).
In 1803, Jaucourt entered the French Senate, and next year, upon the establishment of the First Empire, he became attached to the household of Joseph Bonaparte.
** Preliminary Confessions, devoted to the author's childhood and youth, and concentrated upon the emotional and psychological factors that underlay the later opium experiences — especially the period in his late teens that de Quincey spent as a homeless runaway in Oxford Street in London in 1802 and 1803.
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson's ambassadors to France arranged the purchase of the Louisiana territory in conflict with Jefferson's personal belief that the Constitution did not bestow upon the federal government the right to acquire or possess foreign territory.

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Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).
In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.
This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:
The most famous example is the Acropolis of Athens, which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it ( most notably the Parthenon ), is known without qualification as the Acropolis.
This, combined with their post-battle rewards, prompted them to raise Alaric " on a shield " and proclaim him king ; according to Jordanes ( a Gothic historian of varying importance, depending upon who is asked ), both the new king and his people decided " rather to seek new kingdoms by their own work, than to slumber in peaceful subjection to the rule of others.
Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.
In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.
After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible ( for he was wearing Hades's helm ), and killed the sea monster.
The early translators included Mashallah, who helped to elect the time for the foundation of Baghdad, and Sahl ibn Bishr, ( a. k. a. Zael ), whose texts were directly influential upon later European astrologers such as Guido Bonatti in the 13th century, and William Lilly in the 17th century.
However, upon immunization with SRBC ( sheep red blood cells ), these mice demonstrated a deficiency in the maturation of an antibody response ; they were able to generate normal levels of IgM, but could not develop specific IgG levels.
He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.
Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.
As the electrical resistance of most metals is dependent upon the temperature of the metal ( tungsten is a popular choice for hot-wires ), a relationship can be obtained between the resistance of the wire and the flow speed.
For recent events the Chronicle, like his Ecclesiastical History, relied upon Gildas, upon a version of the Liber pontificalis current at least to the papacy of Pope Sergius I ( 687 – 701 ), and other sources.
In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).
The morphologic variations in the size, shape, volume, tissue density, pectoral locale, and spacing of the breasts determine their natural shape, appearance, and configuration upon the chest of a woman ; yet such features do not indicate its mammary-gland composition ( fat-to-milk-gland ratio ), nor the potential for nursing an infant child.
The supensory ligaments sustain the breast from the clavicle ( collarbone ) and the clavico-pectoral fascia ( collarbone and chest ), by traversing and encompassing the fat and milk-gland tissues, the breast is positioned, affixed to, and supported upon the chest wall, while its shape is established and maintained by the skin envelope.
During his highschool days in Galatasaray High School ( and later in Şişli Terakki High School ) he formed his first band, Kafadarlar (" The Buddies "), allegedly upon seeing Erkin Koray's band performing, all students of Deutsche Schule Istanbul ( İstanbul Alman Lisesi ), a nearby highschool.
Philip now took the offensive himself, and in maneuvoering to get a good cavalry ground upon which to fight he offered battle ( 27 July ), on the plain east of Bouvines and the river Marque.
All eyewitnesses ( apart from the soldiers ), including marchers, local residents, and British and Irish journalists present, maintain that soldiers fired into an unarmed crowd, or were aiming at fleeing people and those tending the wounded, whereas the soldiers themselves were not fired upon.
Appalled at the depredations visited by feral pigs upon the island's Brown Booby and Masked Booby colonies ( reduced to 500 and 150 birds, respectively ), Stager procured a shotgun and proceeded to hunt down and kill all of Clipperton Island's 58 pigs.

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