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marks and return
It is the triumph of rationalism and secular metaphysics which marks the point of no return.
* 1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return.
The blue line marks the outward from 11 < sup > th </ sup > June 1773 until to 8 < sup > th </ sup > October 1773, and the red line marks the return journey 5 < sup > th </ sup > March 1774 to 21 < sup > st </ sup > October 1774.
In the Treaty of Alton, Robert agreed to recognise his brother Henry as King of England and return peacefully to Normandy, upon receipt of an annual sum of 3, 000 silver marks, which Henry proceeded to pay.
This piece is a turning point in Adams's oeuvre, as it marks a return to pure instrumental writing and a re-engagement with tonality.
It marks Paramount's return to having its own animated division for the first time since 1967, when Paramount Cartoon Studios shut down ( it was formerly Famous Studios until 1956 ).
Alexander confirmed the grant in 1255 in return for 2000 ounces of gold per annum, the service of 300 knights for three months when required, and 135, 541 marks to reimburse the pope for the money he had expended attempting to oust Manfred from Sicily.
The Venetians would supply vessels and supplies for the crusaders and in return, the crusaders would pay 85, 000 marks (£ 200, 000 ).
The 5 data bits allow for only 32 different codes, which cannot accommodate the 26 letters, 10 figures, space, a few punctuation marks and the required control codes, such as carriage return, new line, bell, etc.
Then Richard the Lionheart, needing money to take part in the Third Crusade, agreed to terminate it in return for 10, 000 silver marks, on 5 December 1189.
He needed money to fund this venture, and pledged his Duchy of Normandy to William in return for a payment of 10, 000 marksa sum equalling about a quarter of William's annual revenue.
* December 3 – The ' 68 Comeback Special marks the concert return of Elvis Presley.
* Charles Taze Russell and the Bible Student movement claim this year marks the invisible return of Jesus Christ to earth.
Albert supported Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III in his struggle with the princes who desired reforms in the Holy Roman Empire, and in return for this loyalty received many marks of favour from Frederick, including extensive judicial rights which aroused considerable irritation among neighbouring rulers.
To this day, Hayes holds ten regular-season receiving records, four punt return records and twenty-two overall franchise marks, making him one of the greatest receivers to ever play for the Cowboys.
In the event that a student fails the writing requirement for three consecutive semesters, the school will ask the student to leave with the caveat that he or she can return after receiving high marks from an English class at another school.
His military and diplomatic service brought Percy substantial marks of royal favour in the form of grants and appointments, but despite this the Percy family determined to support Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV, on his return from exile in June 1399.
In his will Absalon forgives his clerk Saxo a small debt of two and a half marks of silver and tells him to return two borrowed books to the monastery of Sorø.
This marks both the start of his return journey and, from our current perspective, a new epoch in Orosius ’ s life that is lacking in sources of information for its study.
The reappearance of the pre-2001 Matchbox logo, albeit without its classic quotation marks, marked the return to this philosophy.
The rebels demanded the elimination of newer taxes by the nobility and a return to an older tax of two marks for every Hufe ( the Prussian hide measuring approximately forty acres ).
Charles was then released, leaving three of his sons and sixty Provençal nobles as hostages, promising to pay 30, 000 marks and to return a prisoner if the conditions were not fulfilled within three years.

marks and art
Freedberg argues that the intellectualizing aspect of maniera art comes in the artist expecting his audience to notice and understand this visual reference, the familiar figure in an unfamiliar setting surrounded by " unseen, but felt, quotation marks.
The fate of this opera marks an epoch in the history of Italian art ; for with it the gentle suavity cultivated by the masters of the 18th century died out to make room for the dazzling brilliance of a later period.
For John Shearman, Raphael's art marks " a shift of resources away from production to research and development ".
According to art historian Paul Ganz, the portrait of Amerbach marks an advance in his style, notably in the use of unbroken colours.
In fact, his arrival at the centre of artistic experimentation coincided with the arrival of two other foreigners who were also to leave their marks upon the art world: Gino Severini and Juan Gris.
In particular, Viktor Shklovsky, in 1917, wrote the essay art as a technique, which marks a significant shift towards this perspective.
Portraits of outstanding quality with the maker's marks of highly-regarded daguerreotypists such as Southworth & Hawes of Boston, George S. Cook of Charleston, Gurney, Pratt and others are now valued as photographic works of art rather than as antiques or curios, and they fetch corresponding prices when sold at auction.
Since 1971 the first weekend in November marks the Festival of the Arts, a juried fine art show that has grown to include over 100 artists.
This gave the landscape background an importance which marks an innovation in Venetian art, and was quickly followed by his master Giovanni Bellini and others.
It supported Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as simply the best painting of its day and the culmination of an art tradition going back via Cubism and Cézanne to Monet, in which painting became ever ' purer ' and more concentrated in what was ' essential ' to it, the making of marks on a flat surface.
Despite the disagreements between art critics, Abstract Expressionism marks a turning-point in the history of American art: the 1940s and 1950s saw international attention shift from European ( Parisian ) art, to American ( New York ) art.
The earliest fresco painting in King's church marks the supreme achievement of Byzantine art in the region.
Renaissance art marks the transition of Europe from the medieval period to the Early modern age.
Shortly after his death, his obituary in The Guardian newspaper declared that " For ten brief but glorious years, Sydney Newman ... was the most important impresario in Britain ... His death marks not just the end of an era but the laying to rest of a whole philosophy of popular art.
Satisfying tourists ' interests such as landscapes, seascapes, art, nature, traditions, ways of life and other products associated to them-which may be categorized cultural in the broadest sense of the word, is a prime consideration as it marks the initial phase of the development of a cultural destination.
In compliance with British law, the British fine art trade uses the term " white metal " in auction catalogues to describe foreign silver items which do not carry British Assay Office marks, but which are nonetheless understood to be silver and are priced accordingly.
Generally cited as the film that marks the transition between Fellini's earlier neo-realist films and his later art films, it is widely considered as one of the great achievements in world cinema, and won the Palme d ' Or ( Golden Palm ) at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
I was in favor of " pure " art in spite of the fact that I put quotation marks around " pure " or " purity " whenever I used them, because I don't believe there's any such thing as pure art.
Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works – his drip paintings – read as vast fields of built-up linear elements often reading as vast complexes of similar valued paint skeins that read as all over fields of color and drawing, and are related to the mural-sized late Monets that are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued fields of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.
However it is the influence of the works of Paul Cézanne that challenged Mori to move away from the realism that marks his earlier work and starts experimenting with a variety of styles which later formed to basis of modern art.

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