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In the second half of the 17th century renewed action against the Protestants in the isolated mountain valleys resulted in the expulsion of Protestant ministers with the peasants who would not give up Protestantism ; about 30, 000 chose compulsory emigration to Transylvania over conversion.
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The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.
The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.
I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.
In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.
My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.
Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.
During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.
The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.
At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.
The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.
The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.
The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.
Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.
Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.
Wait for me, Laban, I'll be dressed in half a second ''!!
It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.
With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.
As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.
In the second half of 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.
In the second half of 1231, Andrew led his armies to Halych and managed to ensure his youngest son's rule in the principality.
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The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.
This doctrine is a 17th century innovation, although it is now applied retrospectively for centuries ; the seventh Baron De La Warr had three surviving sons ; the first died without children, the second left two daughters, the third left a son.
In the second, third and fourth chapters, the order of the 16th letter ( ע ) and the 17th ( פ ) is reversed.
Mail armour and equipment of Polish medium cavalryman, from the second half of the 17th century
The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century ; it was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire and the fifth largest in Europe.
In France, a resurgence of the guilds in the second half of the 17th century is symptomatic of the monarchy's concerns to impose unity, control production and reap the benefits of transparent structure in the shape of more efficient taxation.
In the second half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th century, the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth was a huge state in central-eastern Europe, with an area approaching one million square kilometers.
In Germany in the second half of the 17th century, diatonic single-row harps were fitted with manually turned hooks which fretted individual strings to raise their pitch by a half step.
From the second half of the 17th century onwards, a time of political and religious turmoil existed in the kingdoms.
Despite the success in domestic cups, Liverpool was 17th in the table over the second half of the season to finish the season eighth, their worst showing in the league since 1994, failing to qualify for Europe's Champions League for a third straight season.
In the second half of the 17th century lutes, vihuelas and similar instruments started losing popularity, and almost no music had been written for the instrument after 1750.
The second half of the century saw no composers equal in stature, but in the early 17th century Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger ( c. 1580 – 1651 ) and Alessandro Piccinini ( 1566 – 1638 ) revolutionized the instrument's technique and Kapsberger, possibly, influenced the keyboard music of Frescobaldi.
* 1983 October 21The 17th CGPM defines the metre as equal to the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of of a second.
In the second half of the 17th century and most of the eighteenth, Poznań was severely affected by a series of wars ( and attendant military occupations, lootings and destruction ) – the Second and Third Northern Wars, the War of the Polish Succession, the Seven Years ' War and the Bar Confederation rebellion.
Sunspots were rarely recorded during the second part of 17th century.
Sunspots were rarely observed during the Maunder Minimum in the second part of the 17th century ( approximately from 1645 to 1715 ).
In the 16th century, no single person or small group dared to hold up proceedings, but, from the second half of the 17th century, the liberum veto was used to virtually paralyze the Sejm, and brought the Commonwealth to the brink of collapse.
In the second half of the 17th century, tensions between Catholics and Protestants grew, similarly to religious wars throughout Europe.
Apart from their second wire mill at nearby Whitebrook, there were no other wire mills before the second half of the 17th century.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Council of Zurich adopted an isolationist attitude, resulting in a second ring of imposing fortifications built in 1624.
The periods he examined included the second half of the 17th century.
Although the Kuhl incident received the most publicity, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul G. Bennett of C Battery, 17th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, under similar circumstances on August 10, 1943 at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital.
Used generally to describe a series of economic events from the second half of the 15th century to the first half of the 17th, the price revolution refers most specifically to the relatively high rate of inflation that characterized the period across Western Europe, with prices on average rising perhaps sixfold over 150 years.
The art form rose to great popularity in the metropolitan culture of Edo ( Tokyo ) during the second half of the 17th century, originating with the single-color works of Hishikawa Moronobu in the 1670s.
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