* 1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

The Indians broke the Opening Day attendance record for Progressive Field with 43, 190 against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 5, 2012.

* Deleted: Opening credits ; Moved to the end of the film and changed to white credits against a black background with the original Ifukube cue.

It is usual that the head of state, particularly in parliamentary systems as part of the symbolic role, is the one who opens the annual sessions of the legislature, e. g. the annual State Opening of Parliament with the Speech from the Throne in Britain.

Opening a Changsha branch, Mao replaced the usual textbooks with revolutionary tracts in order to spread Marxist ideas among the illiterate peasantry.

Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the Israeli team commemorated the massacre: when they entered the stadium at the Opening Ceremonies, their national flag was adorned with a black ribbon.

Two of his works from this period are the Senji Shō ( 撰時抄: " The Selection of the Time ") and the Hōon Shō ( 報恩抄: " On Repaying Debts of Gratitude "), which, along with his Risshō Ankoku Ron ( 立正安国論: " On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land "), Kaimoku Shō (" The Opening of the Eyes "), and Kanjin no Honzon Shō (" The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind "), constitute his Five Major Writings.

* Opening snap, a heart sound present in individuals with AV valve stenosis

Every president since Taft, except for Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare.

The restrictions were tightened by the Defence of the Realm Act of August 1914, which, along with the introduction of rationing and the censorship of the press for wartime purposes, restricted pubs ' opening hours to 12 noon – 2: 30 pm and 6: 30 pm – 9: 30 pm Opening for the full licensed hours was compulsory, and closing time was equally firmly enforced by the police ; a landlord might lose his licence for infractions.

On Sunday, April 1, 2007, Major League Baseball's 2007 Opening Night, the Padres announced that they had agreed to terms on a four-year contract with 1B Adrian Gonzalez, keeping him in San Diego until 2010 with a club option for 2011.

Richard Nixon throwing Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | RFK Stadium on April 7, 1969 with Ted Williams ( left ) and Bob Short ( right, partially obscured by Ralph Houk ).

Other ceremonies sometimes associated with the Westminster system include an annual Speech from the Throne ( or equivalent ) in which the Head of State gives a special address ( written by the government ) to parliament about what kind of policies to expect in the coming year, and lengthy State Opening of Parliament ceremonies that often involve the presentation of a large ceremonial mace.

Opening with the spoken / screamed line, " Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard but I think, oh bondage, up yours!

* August 2 – Opening of the Stalin White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal, a 227 km navigable waterway constructed using forced labour in the Soviet Union connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the Baltic.

This policy has continued with the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, where Canadian Chantal Petitclerc became the first athlete with a disability to carry her country's flag in the Opening Ceremonies of an integrated games.

Opening to rave reviews, From Here to Eternity proved to be an instant hit with critics and the public alike, the Southern California Motion Picture Council extolling: " A motion picture so great in its starkly realistic and appealing drama that mere words cannot justly describe it.

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Opening with a letter to the playwright Halcott Glover, the book takes a variable but generally satirical, cynical and critical posture, and belabours Victorian and Edwardian cant.

Opening with a simple but clear dedication to King Charles I, the quarto has 17 chapters which give a perfectly clear and connected account of the action of the heart and the consequent movement of the blood around the body in a circuit.

Evening, 8 o ' clock Opening Night, followed by notes from the director, visits with friends from the audience, and maybe a party nearby.

Prompted in part by this declaration, Chandler suspended Durocher from baseball for a year just days before Opening Day, citing " conduct detrimental to baseball ".

Their first release, Grand Opening, appeared in 1994 on David Byrne's label Luaka Bop.

During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists.

Edward refurbished the royal palaces, reintroduced the traditional ceremonies, such as the State Opening of Parliament, that his mother had forgone, and founded new orders of honours, such as the Order of Merit, to recognise contributions to the arts and sciences.

The name " Orangutan Opening " originates from that game: the players had visited the zoo the previous day, and Tartakower had consulted an orangutan there about what move he should open with the next day.

Kaufman reportedly had nothing to do with the production, although he did verbally support Kortum's adaptation and attended the production on Opening Night.

Opening the batting, Gower made only 10 runs in the first innings as England were bowled out for 164, however after the West Indies had made 201 Gower fell short with 49 in the second innings, stumped off a spin bowler.

Opening in 1970, the store, which was named Divine Trash, sold items that Divine had purchased in thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales, although had to move from its original location after he had failed to obtain a license from the local authorities.

In fact-checking Johnson's books Darwin on Trial and Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, one reviewer argued that almost every scientific source Johnson cited had been misused or distorted, from simple misinterpretations and innuendos to outright fabrications.

He was one of the very few modern Grandmasters to have employed Bird's Opening ( 1. f4 ) with any regularity, and had a long-term association with the move 1. b3, a system commonly known as Larsen's Opening or the Nimzo-Larsen Attack in his ( and Aron Nimzowitsch's ) honor.

Architektin, featuring Helen Morse, Ksenja Logos, Craig Behenna, Duncan Graham, Antje Guenther, Michael Habib and Nick Pelomis, produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and directed by Adam Cook, had its Opening Night on 2 September 2008 at the Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, South Australia.

Opening day ceremonies at the Centennial Exhibition, 1876, first World's Fair in the US. Politically the city was dominated by the Republican Party, which had developed a strong political machine.

Opening of the opera in 1950 had a profound influence on Georgian urban societies and soon a new style songs became very popular.

On May 24, he replaced Kevin Jordan ( who had been filling in for injured Opening Day first baseman Rico Brogna ) as the Phillies ' first baseman.

Lefty Grove had a no-hitter through seven innings on Opening Day, and said in response to Feller's performance to the Tigers, " I'm not sorry I didn't get a no-hitter.

The film had an Opening weekend U. S. gross of $ 37, 804, 076, with a total U. S. box office gross of $ 108, 360, 063

Opening Day in 1946 had Lemon as the Indians ' center fielder.

All the materials he had to work with was a strip board nailed to the floor with a row of tallow candles It wasn ’ t until 1849, when Jefferson returned to New York that he began to earn both critical and financial success though not nearly to the extent he would earn later in life In 1861 due to his failing health and the death of his wife, he left to go to San Francisco and then on to Australia After spending four years in Australia, he left for London and met Dion Boucicault who would revise Rip Van Winkle, turning it from just a play in Jefferson ’ s repertoire to being “ a pronounced success and ran for one hundred and seventy nights .” Opening night on September 5, 1865 at the Adelphi Theatre in London sparked what would become one of the most celebrated characters of the stage in the 19th century.

Opening a meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs, she said that the perpetrators of the coup were " false prophets " motivated by greed, who were inciting racial strife and uncertainty with their threats, and that the coups had brought Fiji to its knees.