Lasting from 5 – 20 April 1948, its objective was to break the Siege of Jerusalem by opening the Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem road blockaded by Palestinian Arabs and to supply food and weapons to the isolated Jewish community of Jerusalem.

Lasting 20 weeks, it includes one week of commando testing, 6 weeks of preparatory training, 4 weeks of evaluation, the actual commando training for 7 weeks, and 2 weeks of paratrooper training.

Lasting 1 hour 40 minutes, it is the first full-length score for the Royal Ballet in 20 years.

Lasting about 30 – 60 minutes, oratorio volgares were performed in two sections, separated by a sermon ; their music resembles that of contemporary operas and chamber cantatas.

Lasting nearly four minutes, it was the most powerful recorded earthquake in U. S. and North American history, and the second most powerful ever measured by seismograph.

Lasting two hours and fifty minutes, commentators felt this match was worthy of a final.

Lasting nearly 9 minutes, the full 12 " single version of the song is longer than even " Blue Monday ", New Order's 1983 dance epic.

Lasting around twenty minutes ( far longer than other films of this time ), the visual sense is stimulated as with no spoken soundtrack the viewer has to concentrate that particular sense on the film in order to follow the narrative that is unfolding.

Lasting for forty-five minutes, the episodes attracted many famous singers and dancers of the day: Josephine Baker appeared in an edition broadcast on 26 June 1948 and the Italian vocal group Quartetto Cetra appeared the same year.

Lasting 42 million years, the Paleogene is most notable as being the time in which mammals evolved from relatively small, simple forms into a large group of diverse animals in the wake of the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event that ended the preceding Cretaceous Period.

Lasting in excess of 1, 000 years — Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care ( Troyes, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 504 ), for example dates from about 600 and is in excellent condition — animal vellum can be far more durable than paper.

Currently, the term is most commonly used to refer to someone so appointed under the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to act in this manner in a Lasting Power of Attorney.

Lasting four days, it is held during the second week of July in Browning.

Lasting five days during the Memorial Day weekend, it is significantly smaller than Burning Man, with 2007 tickets sold in 2007, compared to about 50, 000 participants for Burning Man.

Lasting Impressions is a small gallery containing speciments of rocks, plants and minerals, of which most can be touched.

Lasting from 1598 to 1599, it is also called War of Deposition against Sigismund, since the focus of the conflicts was the attempt to depose the latter from the throne of Sweden.

It is a registered 527 group, and its current slogan is " Building a Lasting Majority ".

Lasting only 9 months, the price shock was less extreme and of shorter duration than the previous oil crises of 1973 and 1979-1980, yet the rise in prices is widely believed to have been a significant factor in the recession of the early 1990s.

There is also still a hardcore / punk scene in Arkansas, such as Lasting Era, Jungle Juice, Dead Beat, Weeknight Rodeo, and Hollywood Homicide.

Lasting almost seven hundred years it is by some measures the longest lasting treaty in history.

Powers similar to next of kin as defined in other jurisdictions can be explicitly delegated to another person using Lasting power of attorney, under the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 ( note that this Act does not relate specifically to mental health and is largely unrelated to the Mental Health Act ).

He is currently writing a book with the working title The Kennedy Half-Century: The Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy.

She played one of the leads in the giallo La controfigura ( The Double, 1971 ) directed by Romolo Guerrieri, as well as leading role in Quando l ' amore è sensualità ( When Love is Lust, 1973 ) and played an undead avenging angel in Joe D ' Amato's gothic horror film La morte ha sorriso all ' assassino ( Death Smiles at Murder, 1973 ) and also appeared in the thriller Una vita lunga un giorno ( Long Lasting Days, 1973 ) all in the same year.

Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series ( behind Gunsmoke ) and still continues to air in syndication, The show centers around the Cartwright family, who live in the area near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Lasting a total of 187 days, or 6 months and 4 days, these games were the longest in modern Olympics history.

Lasting 25 days, the battle of Huế became one of the longest and bloodiest single battles of the Vietnam War.

Lasting 2 years and costing 13 million pounds, the first Anglo-Burmese War was the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history ended in a decisive British victory.

Lasting for more than 13 hours, Hutton's innings was the longest in first-class cricket at the time.

Lasting from 1648 to 1669, it was the longest siege in history.

Lasting over eight months, the Charmbracelet World Tour: An Intimate Evening with Mariah Carey, became her most extensive tour to date, spanning sixty-nine shows around the world.

Lasting slightly more than a century, these conquests brought much of the ancient world under Arab rule.

Above the first program note was a miniature manifesto stating their intention to “ overcome the economic, social and political burdens of an art in chains .” Lasting for 19 years, The Collective came to embody the under-defined moment between the canonized generation of “ the essential cinema ” and the transfiguration of film as “ new media ” embraced by the institutional hierarchy of the art world and subject to the theoretical, critical and economic tidal forces therein.

Lasting only one season with the company was Bette Davis.

Lasting eleven years before being merged with The WB network to become The CW in 2006, UPN would feature many of the shows it originally produced for other networks, and would take numerous gambles on series such as Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise that would have otherwise either gone direct-to-cable or become first-run syndication to independent stations across the country.

Lasting for twenty-six seasons in its original form, it was successfully revived from 2005, now having 33 seasons.

Lasting over just two hours, the recut version shown in North America received much criticism and flopped.

Meanwhile the Mind controlling Masaq Orbital, previously the General Systems Vehicle Lasting Damage, assists Ziller in the preparations for the performance of his composition.

In some respects Look to Windward serves as a loose sequel to the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas: the GSV Lasting Damage fought in the Idiran-Culture War, and Ziller specially composes a work to commemorate the arrival of light from a supernova triggered during the war.

In 1980, Thelma Houston recorded " Before There Could Be Me ", " Breakwater Cat ", " Gone ", " Long Lasting Love ", and " What Was that Song " on her album Breakwater Cat.

Also in June 2012, ESPN Classic first showed the documentary Sporting Chance: The Lasting Legacy of Title IX, narrated by Holly Hunter.

Lasting 12 years, the Colony was a feather in their personal, creative caps – for which they received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation (“ Genius ”) Award in recognition of theior groundbreaking work.

Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centres and the countryside.

Lasting from A. D. 702 ( Stela 21 ) to 798 ( Ballcourt Marker 3 ), this period lacks any hieroglyphic texts.

* Note, Alexander M. Peterson " Sino-Japanese Cooperation in the East China Sea: A Lasting Arrangement?

Lasting three seasons, the animated series would provide The Tick's greatest mainstream fame.