Furthermore, Emperor Ai was highly controlled by his grandmother Consort Fu ( consort of his grandfather Emperor Yuan ), who improperly demanded the title of Grand Empress Dowager -- even though she had never been an empress previously and therefore did not properly have that title, and this led to the unprecedented and unrepeated situation of four women possessing empress dowager titles at the same time — Empress Wang ( Emperor Cheng's mother and Emperor Yuan's wife ), Empress Zhao Feiyan ( Emperor Cheng's wife ), Consort Fu, and Consort Ding ( Emperor Ai's mother ).

Its commercial tour of continental scope, visiting both Boston and San Francisco, was unprecedented and may be essentially unrepeated.

He set records in 1905, when he scored 341, still the highest total for Yorkshire as of 2011, and in 1906, when he completed an unprecedented and unrepeated double of 2, 000 runs and 200 wickets.

Evans felt that Fish deserved the medal for his service to the club, and so gave him his, in what was seen as an " unprecedented gesture ".

After concluding the nonaggression treaty, Stalin, in an unprecedented gesture, saw Matsuoka off at the train station.

In 1863, in an unprecedented gesture, Gramercy Park was opened to Union soldiers involved in putting down the violent Draft Riots which broke out in New York, after conscription was introduced for the Civil War.

In an unprecedented gesture of ecumenism, he even encouraged Catholics to attend Billy Graham's crusades.

In an unprecedented gesture, one of the prominent leaders of the revolutionaries, Oliver Cromwell, allowed the King's head to be sewn back on his body so the family could pay its respects.

But his concentration on personalities and his categorical assessment of their actions fail to convey the political complexities of a long generation harassed by world-wide war and confronted with the problem of adjustment to an unprecedented industrial and social transformation.

Based on the Motorola 68000 family of microprocessors, the machine sports a custom chipset with graphics and sound capabilities that were unprecedented for the price, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS.

Following unprecedented foreign led and domestic political interference with the CRTC's quasi-judicial independent regulatory process, within 6 months of its original decision, an abrupt CRTC " review " of its policy on third-language foreign services determined to drop virtually all restrictions and adopt a new " open entry " approach to foreign controlled " third language " ( non-English, non-French ) channels.

Eisenhower's profit on the book was substantially aided by an unprecedented ruling by the Treasury Department that Eisenhower was not a professional writer, but rather, marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus only had to pay capital gains tax on his $ 635, 000 advance instead of the much higher personal tax rate.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Detroit's industrialization took off on an unprecedented scale.

The PAIGC National Assembly met at Boe in the southeastern region and declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on 24 September 1973 and was recognized by a 93-7 UN General Assembly vote in November, unprecedented as it denounced illegal Portuguese aggression and occupation and was prior to complete control and Portuguese recognition.

By the mid-17th century fireworks were used for entertainment on an unprecedented scale in Europe, being popular even at resorts and public gardens.

Other examples of heads of state in parliamentary systems using greater powers than usual, either because of ambiguous constitutions or unprecedented national emergencies, include the decision by King Léopold III of the Belgians to surrender on behalf of his state to the invading German army in 1940, against the will of his government.

The Roman Senate declared a 20-day public holiday in Rome in honour of the unprecedented achievement of obtaining hostages from Britain and defeating Belgian tribes on returning to the continent.

The production attracted enthusiastic and unprecedented world-wide attention for the theatre and placed it " on the cultural map for Western Europe ".

He strengthened the position of the monarch to an unprecedented degree, as he ruthlessly subordinated the nobles to his will, exiling or executing many on the slightest provocation.

Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

The first such honour ever bequeathed on an illustrator or cartoonist, his fellows saw his knighting coming as gratitude for “ raising what had been a fairly lowly profession to an unprecedented level of respectability .” With knighthood, Tenniel elevated the social status of the black and white illustrator, and sparked a new sense of recognition of and occupational honour to his lifelong profession.

His assassination prevented further and larger schemes, which included the construction of an unprecedented temple to Mars, a huge theater, and a library on the scale of the Library of Alexandria.

Nehru remarked about the unprecedented popular response, “ it seemed as though a spring had been suddenly released .” Nehru was arrested on 14 April 1930 while entraining from Allahabad for Raipur.

In 1957, Menon was instructed to deliver an unprecedented eight-hour speech defending India ’ s stand on Kashmir ; to date, the speech is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council, covering five hours of the 762nd meeting on the 23 of January, and two hours and forty-eight minutes on the 24th, reportedly concluding with Menon's collapse on the Security Council floor.

The Situationist International was a restricted group of international revolutionaries founded in 1957, and which had its peak in its influence on the unprecedented general wildcat strikes of May 1968 in France.

Quit India became the most forceful movement in the history of the struggle, with mass arrests and violence on an unprecedented scale.

On 22 November 2005, the Seven Party Alliance ( SPA ) of parliamentary parties and the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) agreed on a historic and unprecedented 12-point memorandum of understanding ( MOU ) for peace and democracy.

A minor nuclear war with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas could produce climate change unprecedented in recorded human history.

An unprecedented amount of personal investing occurred during the boom, and the press reported the phenomenon of people quitting their jobs to become full-time day traders.

On polling day Atambayev withdrew his candidacy claiming widespread fraud, stating " due to massive, unprecedented violations, we consider these elections illegitimate and a new election should be held.

On 19 May 2011, Cannes Film Festival's board of directors declared von Trier persona non grata for comments he made during a press conference for his film Melancholia the day before, an unprecedented move for the film festival.

The unprecedented events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed.

* The Star Trek Franchise ( 1966 to present day ), consisting of many tv series, books and feature films, depicts a golden age for Mankind, in which earthlinks have achieved unprecedented social progress, mainly through technology, and uphold tolerance as a core virtue in their relations to neighbouring alien cultures.

They revolutionized the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity, set to songs specially composed for them by the greatest popular song composers of the day.

Containing an unprecedented sixty-six oils and fifty drawings from the Netherlands, and poignant excerpts from the artist's letters, it was a major public success and became " a precursor to the hold van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination ".

The killing caused an enormous public outcry — in an unprecedented move, ORT and several other Russian TV Channels shut down for the whole day on March 2, displaying only the picture of Listyev and the words " Vlad Listyev Has Been Killed.

With nine minutes and 29 seconds remaining in the game and Winnipeg holding onto a 28 – 27 lead, officials made the unprecedented decision to suspend play until the next day.

Erich Hartmann passed the 300 kill mark on 24 August 1944, a day on which he shot down 11 aircraft in two combat missions, bringing the number of aerial victories to an unprecedented 301 victories.

Communities like Levittown, Long Island or Lakewood south of Los Angeles saw new homes sold at unprecedented rates — more than one a day.

Together, they allowed for unprecedented accuracy in day bombing from high altitudes ; in testing the Norden demonstrated a circular error probable ( CEP ) of 75 feet ( 23 m ), an astonishing performance for the era.

At the end of the movement, there is an accompanied in-tempo cadenza, something unprecedented in Schumann's day, that leads into the final coda.

On the first day of the song being released to the radio and the media " Shame " received an unprecedented 694 plays on the radio and 153 plays on TV.

The storm, unprecedented in ferocity and duration, was generally reckoned by witnesses to represent the anger of God — in recognition of the " crying sins of this nation ", the government declared 19 January 1704 a day of fasting, saying it " loudly calls for the deepest and most solemn humiliation of our people ".

Although the Charlotte / Greensboro / Raleigh axis was beginning an unprecedented period of growth that still continues to this day, neither city was big enough at the time to support an NBA team on its own.

The writer had an unprecedented familiarity with the social environments, traits, opinions, manners of speech, means of expression and lifestyle choices of his day — from the rural atmosphere of his early childhood, going through his vast experience as a journalist, to the high spheres of politics ( National Liberal as well as Conservative, Junimist as well as socialist ).

In the late 1960s, with an unprecedented surge in trading leading to volumes of nearly 15 million shares a day on the NYSE in April 1968 ( as opposed to 5 million a day just three years earlier, which at the time had been considered overwhelming ), the paperwork burden became enormous.

On the day after the trial closed on December 6, 1999 the Globe and Mail published an unprecedented six-page section devoted to the murder and trial.

In the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center, Ireland declared an unprecedented full national day of mourning for the victims.

In 1970, Kathy Dobkin, Milton Hoffman, and Francie Camper produced an unprecedented, critically acclaimed 4½ day round-the-clock reading of Tolstoy's War And Peace.

The Club was created from an unprecedented event that was held in October 2001 in Madrid, a four day Conference on Democratic Transition and Consolidation ( CDTC ).

The Pennsylvanian drew delegate votes from all of the candidates and extended the balloting to an unprecedented third day.