In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

Although SNL's use is perhaps the most widely known, it is predated by the "' John Garfield Still Dead ' syndrome ," which originated as a result of extensive coverage in the wake of the actor John Garfield's death and funeral in 1952.

In the wake of the successful Universal Studios ad hoc syndicated package Operation Prime Time, which featured first a miniseries adaptation of John Jakes ' novel The Bastard and went on to several more productions, Paramount had earlier contemplated its own television network with the Paramount Television Service.

According to the Haley biographies Bill Haley by John Swenson and Rock Around the Clock by Dawson, the song was offered to Haley in the wake of his first national success " Crazy Man, Crazy " in 1953, after being copyrighted with the U. S. Library of Congress on March 31.

John Fine points to the clemency shown by Thrasybulus and other democrats in the wake of their victory over the Thirty as a key contribution towards reestablishing stable government in Athens.

By the late 1930s the Western film was widely regarded as a ' pulp ' genre in Hollywood, but its popularity was dramatically revived in 1939 by the release of John Ford's landmark Western adventure Stagecoach, which became one of the biggest hits of the year released though United Artists, and made John Wayne a mainstream screen star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns.

In the wake of Romanos ' death, his Empress Dowager, now Regent to the two co-emperors, her underage sons, was quick to marry the general Nikephoros Phokas, and acquire another general, John Tzimiskes, as her lover, having them both elevated to the imperial throne in succession.

According to the DeCavalcante capo-turned-informant Anthony Rotondo, Gotti attended his father's wake with numerous other Gambino mobsters in a " show of force " and forced boss John Riggi to agree to run his family on the Gambino's behalf.

In the wake of Nixon's loss to John F. Kennedy, however, the studio head made arrangements to attend a fundraiser at the Los Angeles Palladium in honor of the president-elect.

Robert Plant started his own label, Es Paranza Records, in the wake of the closure of Swan Song, while Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones returned to Atlantic Records.

On 12 November 2001, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300, crashed in the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens, New York, just after departing John F. Kennedy International Airport due to the first officer's overuse of the rudder in response to wake turbulence from a Japan Airlines 747.

John and Bob Leinbach joined Larry up in Ithaca to play at a memorial for Wells ( Lance had been unable to make the wake due to another commitment ).

Perhaps the most important contribution of British blues was the surprising re-exportation of American blues back to America, where, in the wake of the success of bands like the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac, white audiences began to look again at black blues musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf and John Lee Hooker, who suddenly began to appeal to middle class white Americans.

Wings reconvened in January 1981 to work on the Cold Cuts album of previously unreleased songs, and Denny Laine continued to participate in the Tug of War recording sessions in Montserrat in February, but on 27 April 1981, Laine announced he was leaving Wings due to McCartney's reluctance to tour in the wake of John Lennon's murder.

The film was based on a 1935 novel written by John O ' Hara in the wake of the success of his critically acclaimed Appointment in Samarra.

In the wake of the 2010 landmark case filed by Citizens United that allowed unlimited political spending by unions and corporations, Republican Senator John McCain, co-crafter of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, said " there's going to be, over time, a backlash ... when you see the amounts of union and corporate money that's going to go into political campaigns ".

Channel 4 already had great success with ' The Word ' and in its wake The BBC launched The 8: 15 From Manchester, a Saturday morning kids ' TV show ( with a themetune by the Inspiral Carpets, a re-write of " Find out Why ") and Granada Television also jumped on the bandwagon with a cheaper version of The Word, called ' Juice ' presented by John Bramwell and Joan Collins ' daughter Tara Newley.

The Trade Division was abolished in 1909 in the wake of the Committee of Imperial Defence inquiry into the feud between the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John Fisher and former Commander-in-Chief Channel Fleet, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, when it was discovered that the captain heading the Trade Division had been supplying the latter with confidential information during the inquiry.

On 26 October 1989, Hurd moved to the Foreign Office, succeeding John Major, whose rapid rise through the Cabinet saw him become Chancellor of the Exchequer in the wake of Nigel Lawson's resignation.

However, in the wake of a poor Labour performance in the local council elections of 4 May 2006, Clarke was dismissed in the biggest cabinet upheaval in the history of the Blair governments, to be replaced by Defence Secretary John Reid.

In February 1971, in the wake of the emergency nationalisation of Rolls-Royce Limited, the then Conservative government under Edward Heath and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, John Davies, announced a policy that refused further state-support for " lame duck " industries, which led to a crisis of confidence amongst UCS creditors and resulted in severe cash flow problems for the company.

During the wake, Superman, Batman, and the Martian Manhunter discuss their dreams.

In the aftermath of Superman's apparent death, four super-beings appeared in his wake, two of them declaring themselves to be the " real " Superman.

In the episodes " Hereafter ( Parts 1 and 2 )" ( written by Dwayne McDuffie and directed by Butch Lukic ), Superman is sent into the future by a device of Toyman's, only to wake up to a red-sunned Earth populated by giant bugs, mutant wolves, and Vandal Savage.

Conceived by Ilya Salkind in the wake of the apparently waning critical and U. S. box office success of 1983's Superman III and its immediate follow-up, 1984's Supergirl, Santa Claus: The Movie was directed by Jeannot Szwarc, who had directed Supergirl, from a story by David and Leslie Newman.

Later continuity established that the team's earliest incarnation was expressly formed to fight monstrous menaces as a replacement for the Justice Society of America, whose members had mostly retired in the wake of unjust accusations during the McCarthy Era.

In the wake of the Great Depression, a group of right-wing members, led by Henri de Man in Belgium, founder of planisme, and in France Marcel Déat, Pierre Renaudel, René Belin, the " neo-Turks " of the Radical-Socialist Party ( Pierre Mendès-France, etc.

While the rest of the League kept an eye on the other Martians in case the renegade tried to ' wake them up ', the Wayne Martian was defeated by a team consisting of Green Lantern, Steel, Big Barda, Orion, and Plastic Man ( selected because they didn't know Batman's identity and thus wouldn't ' tip ' the telepathic Martian off to the fact that he was a fake ), Orion deliberately setting himself on fire to attack the Martian until Green Lantern threw a car onto the Martian to knock it out.

In the wake of the French Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote The Rights of Man ( 1791 ) as a response to Burke's counterrevolutionary essay Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ), itself an attack on Richard Price's sermon that kicked off the so-called " pamphlet war " known as the Revolution Controversy.

His assistant was Percival, a messenger pigeon who would wake him from his statue mode with the words " Granite Man, Oh rock of power, Awake and face this dangerous hour!

Published in the wake of the 1989 Iranian fatwa against Rushdie and the Bradford book-burnings that followed, Burgess's letter has been compared to the Essay on Man of Alexander Pope.

Ney's best known Congressional work was on the election reform efforts founded in the wake of the confused 2000 voting in Florida, and his support and backing for the " Stand Up For Steel " crusade and resulting laws.

The record dropped in North America for the Christmas buying season, in the wake of the Stones comeback Steel Wheels / Urban Jungle Tour, and well into pre-production for his second studio album Main Offender.

The hypothalamus regulates sleep and wake cycles, eating and drinking, hormone release, and many other critical biological functions.

In the wake of these changes new religious and philosophical movements have drawn freely upon many of the world's religions to attract new initiates.

In the wake of this massacre the authorities closed many of the patriotic clubs, as well as radical newspapers such as Jean-Paul Marat's L ' Ami du Peuple.

In the wake of his most famous works, he attracted many uncritical hangers-on, but many others who sought him found him aloof and even dull.

Contrast the importance of house-destruction, tent dwelling and house rebuilding in the wake of many natural disasters.

Moreover, many wake sightings describe something not conforming to the shape of a boat.

In the wake of the bombing, the national media seized upon the fact that nineteen of the victims had been babies and children, many in the day-care center.

His mayoral victory came in the wake of the Great Depression and the deep resentment many Chicagoans had of Prohibition and the increasing violence resulting from organized crime's control of Chicago, typified by the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Many Greeks migrated to Alexandria, Antioch, Seleucia and many other new Hellenistic cities founded in Alexander's wake.

Bauhaus combined a number of influences including punk music, glam rock, and Krautrock — even funk and dub — to create a gloomy and introspective sound which appealed to many fans left disillusioned by the New Wave that arose in the wake of punk's collapse.

A few years after the Ambrosiano scandal, many suspects pointed toward Gelli with reference to his possible involvement in the murder of the Milanese banker Roberto Calvi, also known as " God's banker ", who had been jailed in the wake of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano.

During the 1920s, in the wake of Modigliani's career and spurred on by comments by André Salmon crediting hashish and absinthe with the genesis of Modigliani's style, many hopefuls tried to emulate his " success " by embarking on a path of substance abuse and bohemian excess.

In the immediate wake of The Beatles ' momentous Australian tour, many local groups that had formerly played guitar-based instrumental music recruited singers and took up the new ' beat ' style.

In the wake of this change, many daimyo remained in control of their lands, being appointed as prefectural governors ; however, they were soon relieved of this duty and called en masse to Tokyo, thereby cutting off any independent base of power from which to potentially rebel.

A cargo cult is a religious practice that has appeared in many traditional pre-industrial tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures.

Cargo cults — the religious practice that has appeared in many traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures — focus on obtaining the material wealth ( the " cargo ") of the advanced culture by building mock aircraft, landing strips, and the like.

In the wake of the famine, many thousands of poor farmers emigrated to seek a better life in America and elsewhere.

The village also saw an influx of population from eastern Kentucky in the wake of the closure of many of that area's coal mines.

Fearing that his sons were about to be drafted into the Czarist army, Jacob Rothkowitz emigrated from Russia to the United States, following the path of many other Jews who left Daugavpils in the wake of Cossack purges.

Glassport lies along the east side of the Monongahela River in the " Mon valley ", where many blue-collar municipalities have suffered severe economic decline in the wake of the loss of steel-making throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area.

In 1979, Pilger and two colleagues with whom he collaborated for many years, documentary film-maker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper, entered Cambodia in the wake of the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime.

In the wake of the Allman Brothers Band's success, many other Southern rock groups rose to prominence, including the Marshall Tucker Band ( who played as the Allman Brothers Band's opening act for many shows on their 1973 tour ) and Lynyrd Skynyrd.