Save for brief periods in garrison or winter quarters, soldiers rarely enjoyed the luxury of a writing desk or table.

Cambodia enjoyed a brief period of prosperity during the 16th century because its kings, who built their capitals in the region southeast of the Tonle Sap along the Mekong River, promoted trade with other parts of Asia.

Gin emerged in England in varying forms as of the early 17th century, and at the time of the Restoration, enjoyed a brief resurgence.

The Taifa kings competed against each other not only in war but also in the protection of the arts, and culture enjoyed a brief upswing.

From 1950 to 1990, barring two brief periods, the INC enjoyed a parliamentary majority.

The party enjoyed a parliamentary majority barring two brief periods during the 1970s and late 1980s.

Following praise of St Helena ’ s coffee given by Napoleon during his exile on the island, the product enjoyed a brief popularity in Paris during the years after his death.

" series, which enjoyed a brief run of four titles altogether, and were published by ACE Books.

This sound bite, broadcast on nationwide radio, enjoyed a brief vogue as a humorous catchphrase.

Sevilla also enjoyed a brief golden era, finishing as runners-up in 1940 and 1942 before winning their only title to date in 1946.

Meant as a step up from the popular 4-track cassette-based studios, these recorders enjoyed a brief prominence before they were replaced by relatively affordable -- and far more flexible -- direct-to-hard drive recording on Windows and Macintosh based computers.

Howe then enjoyed brief success with GTR, another supergroup, formed with Steve Hackett of Genesis and produced by Downes.

Following this, zines enjoyed a brief period of attention from conventional media and a number of zines were collected and published in book form, such as Donna Kossy's Kooks Magazine ( 1988 – 1991 ), published as Kooks ( 1994, Feral House ).

It enjoyed brief periods of independence during the Isin-Larsa period, under kings such as ( possibly ) Ikūn-pî-Ištar ( ca.

Between 1986 and 1992 it enjoyed a brief formal existence, as the name Isle of Dogs was applied to one of seven neighbourhoods to whom power was devolved from the council.

Other early conjoined twins to attain notice were the " Scottish brothers ", allegedly of the dicephalus type, essentially two heads sharing the same body ( 1460 – 1488, although the dates vary ); the pygopagus Helen and Judith of Szőny, Hungary ( 1701 – 1723 ), who enjoyed a brief career in music before being sent to live in a convent ; and Rita and Cristina of Parodi of Sardinia, born in 1829.

During the 1920s, Expressionism enjoyed a brief period of popularity in American theatre, including plays by Eugene O ' Neill ( The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones and The Great God Brown ), Sophie Treadwell ( Machinal ) and Elmer Rice ( The Adding Machine ).

The Lincoln Brickyard enjoyed a brief period of prosperity under the leadership of Lorenzo Mumford.

Smetana was placed temporarily with his uncle in Nové Město, where he enjoyed a brief romance with his cousin Louisa.

His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).

The Presto name continued in the North East of England and Scotland for several years and even enjoyed a brief revival in the early 1990s when several new Presto stores began to open and a range of Presto own-label products was introduced.

In 1957, while living in Palmdale, California, Robinson teamed with a young librettist / lyricist, Leo McElroy, to create the score for a musical entitled Mermaid Tavern which enjoyed a brief flirtation off-Broadway and continues to be considered and produced in regional theatres.

This act hindered BUF activity, although in the years building up to the war they enjoyed brief success on the back of their " Peace Campaign " to prevent conflict with Germany.

" Dundrearyisms ", twisted aphorisms in the style of Lord Dundreary ( e. g. " birds of a feather gather no moss "), enjoyed a brief vogue.

Even though King Taksin had applied himself to reforming the Buddhist religion after its period of decline following the loss of Ayutthaya to Burma, gradually bringing it back to the normalcy it enjoyed during the Ayutthaya kingdom, since his reign was so brief he was not able to do very much.

Amidst the vogue enjoyed by existentialism and positivism in early 20th century Europe, Adorno advanced a dialectical conception of natural history that critiqued the twin temptations of ontology and empiricism through studies of Kierkegaard and Husserl.

Until his death in 1969, twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

The notion of the state of nature itself derives from the republican writings of Cicero and of Lucretius, both of whom enjoyed great vogue in the 18th century, after having been revived amid the optimistic atmosphere of Renaissance humanism.

The theme enjoyed a vogue during the fourth century on carved sarcophagi: at least twenty-nine have survived in full or in fragments.

The second part is concerned with the author's personal experiences and the treatment is effective ; yet, though Calderón's play, Amar después de la muerte, is derived from it, this less picturesque second part has never enjoyed the vogue or influence of the first.

However, around the turn of the 20th century, the contrabass sarrusophones in EE ♭ and CC enjoyed a vogue, the latter as a substitute for the contrabassoon, ( the French model patterned after the German Heckel model, having been introduced later around 1906 by Buffet et al.

In a retrospective comment on the festival The Times critic wrote of full houses and an apparent enthusiasm for " music which hitherto has enjoyed no exceptional vogue ", but wondered whether this new acceptance was based on a solid foundation.

Seen as exotic & romantic in the west, it enjoyed a vogue as part of men's luxury smoking outfit in the U. S. and U. K. in the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century.

" A hundred years ago it enjoyed a vogue, along with other now-forgotten pieces like Tchaikovsky's Chant sans paroles, Anton Rubinstein's Melody in F, Xaver Scharwenka's Polonaise in E-flat minor, Paderewski's Minuet in G, and Ignace Leybach's Fifth Nocturne, all of which were invariably found in collections with titles like " World's Greatest Piano Pieces.

Kenneth Gilbert More CBE ( 20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982 ) was an English film and stage actor, who enjoyed a tremendous vogue in the 1950's, earning many international awards.

The immediate success the tales enjoyed was partly due to the vogue for fairy stories ( French: contes de fees ) which had been started in France in the 1690s by Galland's friend Charles Perrault.

After several decades in relative obscurity Nugent began appearing in ‘ Gay Nineties ’ shows in the 1940s and, with her nostalgic appeal and lively presence, she enjoyed a brief vogue as a television personality in the 1950s.

His Elements of Experimental Chemistry ( 1799 ) enjoyed considerable vogue in its day, going through eleven editions in 30 years.

Hawaiian music ( especially slack-key guitar ) enjoyed an early vogue in the 1910s, influencing the developing genre of country music ( this is the source of the steel guitar sound that is characteristic of modern country ).

However, the many variants Maccaferri's plastic ukulele enjoyed a considerable vogue in the 1950s and sold in large numbers.

He enjoyed some reputation as a versifier, some of his lines being even mistaken for the work of Alexander Pope, greatly to the disgust of the latter ; and he wrote the lyrics incorporated in a comic opera, adapted from Richard Brome's The Jovial Crew, which was produced at Drury Lane in 1730 and had a considerable vogue.

While colonic irrigation enjoyed a vogue in the early 20th century as a possible cure for numerous diseases, subsequent research showed that it was useless and potentially harmful.

Ragtime introduced African-derived syncopated (" ragged ") rhythms into Western music and enjoyed a tremendous international vogue over the next twenty years, as well as exerted a huge influence on the subsequent development of jazz.

Murray Lachlan Young is a British performance poet whose humorous work enjoyed a spectacular but brief vogue during the mid-1990s.

This was followed in rapid succession by a series of fictions, similar in character, but wanting the attraction of novelty ; none of them enjoyed the same vogue as Fanny.

Mersey Railway condensing 0-6-4T No. 5 " Cecil Raikes " Other than examples for export, 0-6-4T tank locomotives enjoyed a brief vogue in the United Kingdom prior to the First World War, but were not widely used.

These enjoyed a brief vogue.