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She won her heat by a landslide with a stunning version of " Everything I Do " by Bryan Adams, receiving over half of the total votes cast for her group.

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Through the remainder of the 13th century, French control over Flanders steadily increased until 1302 when an attempt at total annexation by Philip IV met a stunning defeat when Count Guy ( who had the support of the guilds and craftsmen ) rallied the townspeople and humiliated the French knights at the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
More recent historians, such as Donald Kagan and R. J. Buck, have tended to support this analysis, pointing to the role that Thrasybulus played in crafting Athenian strategy in all these battles, and specifically to the decisive action he took at Cyzicus, which saved Alcibiades's force from being swamped, and turned a potential Athenian defeat into a stunning victory.
However, the corrupt and disorganised war effort, the stunning loss of life suffered by the Italian army, especially at the great defeat of Caporetto, and the economic depression that followed the war turned the King against what he perceived as an inefficient political bourgeoisie.
In his native land, Schmeling was regarded as a hero and promoted by the Nazi propaganda machine as a perfect example of German supremacy over the rest of the world by virtue of his stunning defeat of the current champion, Louis.
Although he served throughout the war, usually with distinction, Hooker is best remembered for his stunning defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.
The imperial army suffered its most stunning defeat, losing a thousand men, many of whom drowned.
The defeat of the Relugas conspirators in the wake of this stunning victory was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies in British political history ".
This stunning defeat of Italian forces did not go unnoticed and soon the Deutsches Afrikakorps, commanded by Erwin Rommel were sent in to reinforce them.
On June 4, a small British army inflicted a stunning defeat on the French in the Battle of Maida, in Calabria.
This stunning and unexpected defeat led to the Russian Revolution of 1905.
This stunning defeat, with only one year left to run on the patent, destroyed Selden's income stream.
In 1921, the Spanish army suffered a stunning defeat in Morocco at the Battle of Annual, which discredited the military's North African policies.
British fears over Russian expansion, however, subsided following Russia's stunning defeat in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.
* 21 March – 28 March-Regional elections held, in which the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin suffers a stunning and unprecedented defeat.
The capture of Charleston, South Carolina in 1780 not only marked a stunning defeat for American forces, but also signaled the end of the first phase in a new British war strategy.
The most stunning defeat was that of U. S. Sen. George S. McGovern ( D-S. D.
The Alliance was crucial in enabling Chōshū to withstand a punitive expedition mounted by the Tokugawa shogunate in the summer of 1866, which led to a stunning defeat for the Tokugawa armies.
He lost his next fight to Joe Bugner, surrendering all his titles in a stunning first round knockout and retired after his next fight, a fifth round defeat to big hitting Kallie Knoetze in the Ellis Park Tennis Stadium in Johannesburg.
After a stunning knockout defeat to club-fighter Willie Tiger in 1967, Fernandez announced his retirement.
Following the stunning Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, the Union commander at Hoke's Run, General Robert Patterson, was assigned popular blame without participating while the Confederate commander at Hoke's Run was assigned glory for his actions during the first major battle of the War ; thereafter, the two commanders and two engagements, one a brief skirmish and the other a major battle, cannot be uncoupled in retroanalysis.
It marked the first significant victory for the army since the stunning defeat of General George Custer at Battle of Little Bighorn in June.
The defeat was stunning.
Trailing 1 – 0 Manchester scored two goals in stoppage time, condemning Bayern to a stunning defeat.
What Haydn did not know when he wrote the Mass, but what he and his audience heard ( perhaps on the very day of the first performance September 15 ), was that on Aug. 1, Napoleon had been dealt a stunning defeat in the Battle of the Nile by British forces led by Admiral Horatio Nelson.

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His most famous moment occurred in the 1970 World Cup against Brazil, where he pulled off a stunning save from a goalbound header from Pelé, which is often regarded as arguably the greatest save ever.
There are three general manifestations of such trauma-the typical knock out which results in a sustained loss of consciousness ( comparable to general anesthesia-where the recipient emerges and has lost memory of the event ), a " flash " knock out where a very transient ( less than three seconds ) loss of consciousness occurs ( where the recipient often maintains awareness and memory of the combat ), and lastly a " stunning " where consciousness is maintained despite extremely distorted proprioception, visual fields, and auditory processing.
The success of these pavilions further influenced the 1967 Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, where multi-screen highlights included In the Labyrinth, hailed by Time magazine as a " stunning visual display ," their review concluding: " such visual delights as Labyrinth ... suggest that cinema — the most typical of 20th century arts — has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities ," as well as A Place to Stand, which displayed Christopher Chapman's pioneering " multi-dynamic image technique " of shifting multiple images.
Of particular note is the Plaza de San Nicolas ( Plaza of St Nicholas ) from where a stunning view of the Alhambra can be seen.
He then achieved a stunning victory in Livonia, where he established the city of Saint Petersburg.
Various halal food authorities have more recently permitted the use of a recently developed fail-safe system of head-only stunning where the shock is less painful and non-fatal, and where it is possible to reverse the procedure and revive the animal after the shock.
After the stunning loss, the Spurs traveled to Los Angeles for Game 6, where they lost the game and the series.
Both battles were seen by contemporaries as stunning victories of commoners over superbly equipped, mounted, military professionals, where victory was owed to the use of the pike and the brave resistance of the commoners who wielded them.
One stunning example is the Glens of Antrim in Northern Ireland where nine glens radiate out from the Antrim plateau to the sea along the coast between Ballycastle and Larne.
It is also the site of the famous ' Staircase to the Moon ', where a receding tide and a rising moon combine to create a stunning natural phenomenon.
( This is borne out by some limited self-experimentation by early designers of the electric chair and by research from the field of animal husbandry, where electric stunning has been extensively studied.
One of the most stunning finds of royal statues dating to his reign was made as recently as 1989 in the courtyard of Amenhotep III's colonnade of the Temple of Luxor where a cache of statues was found, including a-high pink quartzite statue of the king wearing the Double Crown found in near-perfect condition.
Hitchcock continues the interplay of light and dark throughout the film: Guy's bright, light tennis attire, versus " the gothic gloominess of Arlington mansion "; the crosscutting between his game in the sunshine at Forest Hills while Bruno's arm stretches into the dark and debris of the storm drain trying to fish out the cigarette lighter ; even a single image where " Walker is photographed in one visually stunning shot as a malignant stain on the purity of the white-marble Jefferson Memorial, as a blot on the order of things.
Barun Valley provides stunning contrasts, where high waterfalls cascade into deep gorges, craggy rocks rise from lush green forests, and colorful flowers bloom beneath white snow peaks.
The Victoria Harbour is world-famous for its stunning panoramic night view and skyline, particularly in the direction towards Hong Kong Island where the skyline of skyscrapers is superimposed over the ridges behind.
Most events take place at the famous Pitlochry Festival Theatre, where every year you can get together with over 40 authors, broadcasters, wordsmiths and personalities in a stimulating environment and a stunning place.
It is also possible to walk around the cliffs to the north of the beach, a lovely walk, which one begins, opposite the " La Mona Lisa Restaurant " which takes one up, over the cairn ( kern ), from where there are stunning views of Clay Head to the south. A laxey, born & bred person would say ," I ` m going over the kern for a walk ".
In it, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician-and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a " magician " in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks and the shoring up of a holy well.
The club was founded in 1839 and play on the famous Hare Hill ground where the stunning Pennine scenery provides a dramatic backdrop to the matches played there.
Nearby are the castles at Trematon and Ince, as well as the nature reserve at Churchtown Farm, where there are some wonderful walks, with stunning views of the river.
Much of his archive is held in the archives at Pembroke, where there is also a stunning stained-glass representation of a page of his work in the College's Library.

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