He also met several important figures Thomas Coke, later 1st Earl of Leicester, with whom he toured Northern Italy in the summer of 1714 ( a tour that led Kent to an appreciation of the architectural style of Andrea Palladio's palaces in Vicenza ).

It was built in about 1720 A. D. Khafi Khan, the author of Muntakhabu-1-Lubab, referring to Sayyad Husain Khan ’ s viceroyalty of the Deccan ( 1714 – 1719 ) says " the reservoir at Shah Ganj was begun by Sayyad Husain Ali, and although Aazu-d Daula Iraz Khan enlarged and made higher the buildings and mosques still Sayyad Husain Ali was the originator of that extensive reservoir, which in summer, when water is scarce relieves the sufferings of the inhabitants ".

The Scriblerian club comprised Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, and Thomas Parnell most consistently, and the group met during the spring and summer of 1714.

Formerly a Swedish chancellor's estate, Strelna was chosen by Peter the Great as a place for his future summer residence in 1714.

Augustus II wanted to strengthen royal power in the Commonwealth and to that end he brought in troops from Saxony ( by the summer of 1714 more than 25, 000 Saxon troops were inside Commonwealth's borders ).

Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

Nor should we lose the opportunity to use this summer for training on university campuses.

In addition, by starting the Peace Corps now we will be able to begin training young men and women for overseas duty this summer with the objective of placing them in overseas positions by late fall.

( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.

I must add at once that these animals are what we call `` queens '', young females that have mated in the previous summer or autumn.

I may settle on some makeshift arrangements for the summer and wait until you return in the fall so we can work out together the best.

Pytheas description of Thule as a land six days sailing north of Britain, where there is no nightfall in summer, might be the first written reference to what we today know as Norway.

From records of the Hamilton and Dill families, we find that General George Washington and his wife Martha did spend some time at the Springs during the summer of 1799 when John Hamilton was proprietor of the place.

In the twilight of the summer evenings we were wont to sit at the front of the old home and hear the pleasant and oft recurring sound of the boatman ’ s horn miles away, wafted across the river and giving signal to the keeper of the outlet lock West Nanticoke to make ready for the passage of boats in and out of the canal.

He died probably in 427 BC, certainly before the summer of 426 BC, when we find his son Agis II on the throne.

Among other sights in Hrodna and its environs, we should mention the Orthodox cathedral, a polychrome Russian Revival extravaganza from 1904 ; the botanical garden, the first in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded in 1774 ; a curiously curved building on the central square ( 1780s ); a 254-metre-high TV tower ( 1984 ); and Stanisławów, a summer residence of the last Polish king.

" We can hear him read now, just as he did that summer day, when we were busy quilting upstairs, and he lay near the door, his voice rising denunciatory and thrilling — strong and loud as the roar of wind and waves, then soft and soothing as the balmy airs that quivered the morning-glory leaves about his gray beard.

In a postwar analysis of the unpreparedness of U. S. Army forces deployed to Korea during the summer and fall of 1950, Army Major General Floyd L. Parks stated that " Many who never lived to tell the tale had to fight the full range of ground warfare from offensive to delaying action, unit by unit, man by man ... hat we were able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat ... does not relieve us from the blame of having placed our own flesh and blood in such a predicament.

Collins: We went to another place actually, we went to California, to the California Folk festival in Berkeley, this was sometime in the summer.

I mention specially every season of the year because we, as a nation, I think, are coming to realize that the summer is not the only time for play.

His childhood was surrounded by music-" every Sunday in summer we used to hire three large open carriages and go out into the country.

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz notes that in his memoirs Husseini recalled that Heinrich Himmler, in the summer of 1943, while confiding some German war secrets, inveighed against Jewish " war guilt ", and, speaking of Germany ’ s persecution of the Jews said that " up to now we have exterminated ( in Arabic, abadna ) around three million of them ".

If the lifestyle of the family still seems to us lavish, even wasteful, nevertheless we have the half sense that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Edwardian summer, that the era of country-house living has entered its final phase.

In the summer of 2000, Malkmus called Kannberg and told him, " You need to change the website to say we aren't a band anymore.

So we can win five games because we're lousy and we get in the eighth spot and lose four straight and get embarrassed and then get shelled all summer?

In the summer of 1991 at Open Air Regents Park she played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Adriana in The Boys from Syracuse ( then toured as Adriana ; " hen the gleefully statuesque, not-so-pure Gold ripped into the splendid trio of " Sing for your Supper ", we would have believed anything ").

" For one glorious summer " opined music critic Sean Michaels " we were all Paul Rodgers ".

Later that summer, the band played several club gigs to almost empty venues ; when they finished a song, apart from the low hum of conversation, the band would hear Jesperson's loud whistle and fast clapping.

During the summer of 1874, Smetana began to lose his hearing, and total deafness quite quickly followed ; he woke on the morning of 20 October to find himself completely unable to hear anything.

There are many opportunities to hear traditional Irish music in the town, particularly during the summer tourist season.

And that particular area was a nationalist enclave, while next door was the parish where the Orange Order was founded ; we'd hear the drums on summer evenings.

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it

Jaap Eggermont originally created the " Stars on 45 " concept after the managing director of the Dutch publishing company Red Bullet Productions, Willem van Kooten, in the summer of 1980 by sheer coincidence happened to hear a disco medley being played in a record store.

This is now considered mere superstition ( however one can hear old men talk of it ), as fruit production for a given summer is related to weather conditions the previous summer, with warm, dry summers increasing the amount of stored sugars available for subsequent flower and fruit production ; it has no predictive relationship to the weather of the next winter.

This was the height of his popularity, when, as described in Vlady's book about her husband, walking down the street on a summer night, one could hear Vysotsky's recognizable voice coming literally from every open window.

On early summer evenings you can sometimes hear snipe drumming, and even the rasp of a corncrake.

* " On the idle hill of summer / Sleepy with the flow of streams / Far I hear ..." ( A. E.

In response to player criticism, SOE organized a summit in the summer of 2004 to hear the main concerns of the playerbase towards Gates of Discord and EverQuest in general.

Administrators from many of the world's leading opera houses visit Glimmerglass throughout the summer and hear the Young Artists in performance.

While WABC was busy broadcasting New York Mets baseball games in the summer of 1963, WMCA was the music-intensive station that one would hear coming out of transistor radios at the pool and the beach ; starting in 1963, the Good Guys were really on their game.

Emma Hall is a high school student whose first ( and only ) boyfriend died in the summer in a car accident She spends far too much time in the cemetery at Nathan ’ s grave and begins to see things she ’ s never seen, and to hear things that no one else hears.

" USA Today in an article on summer literary gatherings, said of Bread Loaf, " There is nowhere in America where you can hear more great writers reading more great work in such a short space of time.

Students also attend rehearsals and performances of the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center and meet visiting composers throughout the summer – a rare chance to learn and hear firsthand from some of the world ’ s leading composers.

During Doremi and her friends ' summer vacation, they visit her grandparents in the fictional mountains of Fukuyama, where they hear of a mysterious legend of Mayuri and Zenjuro, two star-crossed lovers that died in the Edo period.

In the summer of 2009, a photo of Boyd with the caption " I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am " was circulated among police staff by e-mail, prompting Boyd to launch an investigation.

For Haydn, writing the Mass in the late summer of 1798, the mood in Eisenstadt was one of foreboding, to the point of terror, and this is what we hear as the great work opens: Haydn chose to write the opening movement in D minor.

We then hear Raucher ( voiced by Robert Mulligan ) recalling the summer he spent on the island in 1942.