The final vignette in James Joyce's Dubliners, " The Dead ", employs a winter motif in conjunction with themes of regret and isolation.

The final vignette is an allusion to the Marquis de Sade's novel 120 Days of Sodom ; the intertitle reads: 120 Days of Depraved Acts, about an orgy in a castle, wherein the surviving orgiasts are ready to emerge to the light of mainstream society.

Australia defeated Sri Lanka in the final by 53 runs ( D / L ), in farcical light conditions, extending their undefeated run in the World Cup to 29 matches and winning three straight World Cups.

* 1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board.

From 2007, Shepherd appeared on the Showtime drama, The L Word as the character Phyllis Kroll for the show's final three seasons.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

Through the nineties, the music grew to become one of the most popular genres in France ; in 1997, IAM's release " L ' école du Micro d ' Argent " sold more than 1 million discs, with NTM moving more than 700, 000 copies of their final album " Suprême NTM ".

Other late Wyler films include The Children's Hour, The Collector, Funny Girl, and his final film, The Liberation of L. B.

As the title character in L ' après-midi d ' un faune the final tableau ( or scene ), during which he mimed masturbation with the scarf of a nymph, caused a scandal ; he was defended by such artists as Auguste Rodin, Odilon Redon and Marcel Proust.

After 150 performances of L ' Homme de La Mancha, Brel gave his final performance in the role of Don Quixote on 17 May 1969.

In 1973, Brel appeared in his tenth and final feature film, L ' emmerdeur ( The troublemaker ), directed by Edouard Molinaro and co-starred Lino Ventura, Caroline Cellier, and Jean-Pierre Darras.

The consolidation represented the second and final step in the acquisition of Corel by Corel Holdings, L. P., a limited partnership controlled by an affiliate of Vector Capital.

In his later years he spent much time preparing the posthumous collection of poems now known as Les Destinées ( though Vigny's intended title was Poèmes philosophiques ) which concludes with Vigny's final message to the world, L ' Esprit pur.

As 1891 came to a close, Whitman prepared a final edition of Leaves of Grass, writing to a friend upon its completion, " L. of G. at last complete — after 33 y ' rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old ".

The XG was reduced in size to 3 L for 2004 season and it won one race in 2005 during Chevrolet's final season in IRL.

" The de Noailles, both Catholics, were threatened with excommunication by The Vatican because of the film ’ s blasphemous final scene ( which visually links Jesus Christ with the writings of the Marquis de Sade ), so they made the decision in 1934 to withdraw all prints from circulation, and L ' Age d ' Or was not seen again until 1979, after their deaths.

The final report was published by the Carnegie Institution as Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico, by H. E. D. Pollock, Ralph L. Roys, A. L. Smith, and Tatiana Proskouriakoff ( 1962, Publication 619 ).

In January 2001, the Clinton administration in its final weeks declared a new drinking water standard of 0. 01 mg / L ( 10 parts per billion, or ppb ) arsenic to take effect January 2006.

* June-The final edition of the nationalist newspaper L ' Heure Bretonne is published.

The film is notable for featuring the final film appearances of James Cagney and Pat O ' Brien ; as well as early appearances, in small parts, by Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Daniels, Fran Drescher and John Ratzenberger.

This was the final spur for Gabriel Hanot, the editor of L ' Équipe, who had long campaigned for a Europe wide club tournament to be played under floodlights.

Designed by Charles L. Carson, its Romanesque Revival architecture became a target of criticism from journalists during the structure's final years of existence.

L to R: Bunney Brooke as Flo, Dina Mann as Debbie, Sheila Kennelly as Norma, Frances Hargreaves as Marilyn, and Pat McDonald as Dorrie in the final episode of Number 96 ( TV series ) | Number 96.

* The short story " A Christmas in Padua " in F. L. Lucas's The Woman Clothed with the Sun ( 1937 ) retells the final hours of Vittoria Accoramboni ( the original of Webster's White Devil ) in December 1585, slanting the narrative from her perspective.

By the show's fourth and final season, Zack and Ivy were regularly teaming up with their former nemesis to stop considerably less moral criminals from taking over V. I. L. E.

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

Ampère's final work, published posthumously, was Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, ou exposition analytique d ' une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines (" Essay on the philosophy of science or analytical exposition on the natural classification of human knowledge ").

Alexios V Doukas, surnamed Mourtzouphlos (, d. December 1205, Constantinople ) was Byzantine Emperor ( 5 February – 12 April 1204 ) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.

Nonetheless, despite the change in Guatemalan military government, further civil unrest prompted two officers, Captain Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán and Major Francisco Javier Arana, to lead a final coup d ’ état and depose the dictatorship of the generals.

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

A few days later, the ministers of the church came to visit him, and he bade his final farewell, which was recorded in Discours d ' adieu aux ministres.

Thus the ceremony held at the site of the demolished Bastille, organized by the foremost artistic director of the Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, in August 1793 to mark the inauguration of the new republican constitution, an event coming shortly after the final abolition of all forms of feudal privilege, featured a cantata based on Rousseau's democratic pantheistic deism as expounded in the celebrated " Profession de foi d ' un vicaire savoyard " in Book Four of Émile.

In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d ' or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville ( 1787 — 1865 ).

Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d ' un homme de qualité ( Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality ).

** Elizabeth of Pomerania, fourth and final wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1393 )

His 1979 film Tess was dedicated " For Sharon ", as Tate had read Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d ' Urbervilles during her final stay with Polanski in London, and had left it for him to read with the comment that it would be a good story for them to film together.

As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi ( d. 129 BC )

As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi ( d. 129 BC )

The variety of Spanish spoken in this province displays some of the characteristics of Andalusian speech, such as dropping of final-s in plural formation: gafa for gafas ( and consequent final vowel opening ) in the word " glasses ", or dropping of / d / in intervocalic position in regular participles of verbs: e. g. acabao for acabado.

* Bonne ( d. 1432 ) married to Louis of Piedmont, the final of the Savoy-Archaea Branch ; see also Thomas II of Savoy

Its motto, from Figaro's monologue in the play's final act, is " Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n ' est point d ' éloge flatteur " (" Without the freedom to criticise, there is no true praise ").

Goods would be transshipped at Arles into sailing barges called allèges d ' Arles for the final run down to the Mediterranean.

One of Tweety's most noticeable is that / s /, / k /, and / g / are changed to / t /, / d /, or ( final s ) / θ /; for example, " pussy cat " comes out as " putty tat ", later rendered " puddy tat ", and " sweetie pie " comes out as " tweetie pie ", hence his name.

The Battle of Four Lakes was the final battle in a two-phase expedition against a confederation of the Coeur d ' Alene, Spokane, Palouse and Northern Paiute tribes from the states of Washington and Idaho ( the " Confederated Tribes "), which began in August 1856.

Shortly thereafter, Lesney co-owner Jack Odell ( b. 1920 – d. 2007 ) created a toy that effectively provided the final, missing link to the company's future.

The final large reception room on the first floor is the Hondecoeter Room ( 16 ), so named because of the three huge oil paintings by Melchior d ' Hondecoeter ( 1636 – 1695 ), depicting scenes of birds in courtyards, which are fitted into the neo-Carolean panelling.

The Scottish setting, the artists in the colony, the train-ticket puzzle, and the final chase place this triumph among the four or five chefs d ' oeuvre from her hand.