He stayed there for ten years, and on returning to London published his largest work, Oriental Scenery, in six large volumes, not completed until 1808.

These are Views of Calcutta ; Oriental Scenery, 144 plates ; Views in Egypt ; Excavations at Ellora ; Picturesque Voyage to China.

He travelled extensively in the Far East, helping to produce one of the finest illustrated volumes of the period-" Oriental Scenery ".

The Daniells ’ great work on India, Oriental Scenery, was published in six parts over the period 1795 – 1808 ).

The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, when it took a different position over Christological theology from that of the Eastern Orthodox Church ( not to be confused with the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria ).

In 1816 a force of 10, 000 Portuguese troops invaded the Banda Oriental from Brazil ; they took Montevideo in January 1817.

As well as his education at Cambridge, Powell took a course in Urdu at the School of Oriental Studies, now the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, because he felt that his long-cherished ambition of becoming Viceroy of India would be unattainable without knowledge of an Indian language.

His early education took place at the Oratorian college there, and a bursary enabled him to study theology at Paris, where he showed an interest in Hebrew and other Oriental languages.

When British troops took Baghdad ( 10 March 1917 ), Bell was summoned by Cox to Baghdad and given the title of " Oriental Secretary.

Whereas Wizards of the Coast overhauled the rules for 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons, Kenzer & Company took the opposite action by revising the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First and Second Edition rules ( including various supplements such as 1st Edition Unearthed Arcana and Oriental Adventures and the mid-90's Skills & Powers supplements ) into a more coherent system and adding an element of parody.

In his early retirement, Howe took on a number of non-executive directorships in business and advisory posts in law and academia, including as international political adviser to the US law firm Jones Day, a director of Glaxo and J P Morgan, and visitor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

The trio took on an Oriental religious cult that burns alive children before facing a potential Fourth Reich when a craze for Nazi uniforms leads to the reawakening of Hitler himself ( revealed to be an alien criminal ).

With the non-aggression pact arranged with Paraguay early on, most of the initial conflict took place at the Upper Peru at the north and the Banda Oriental at the east.

St. Denis then took over with instruction in Oriental and yoga techniques.

It took a route that went from the hot and humid, flood-swept plains of Colombia to the icy mountain pass of the Páramo de Pisba, at an altitude of 3, 960 meters ( 13, 000 feet ), through the Cordillera Oriental.

The route that the small army of about 2, 500 men — including a British legion — took went from the hot and humid, flood-swept plains of Venezuela to the icy mountain pass of the Páramo de Pisba, at an altitude of 3, 960 meters ( 13, 000 feet ), through the Cordillera Oriental.

Delivery took place in Mandarin Oriental hotel in Singapore.

The words of the Ethiopic liturgy are representative of the faith of Oriental Orthodoxy: " I believe, I believe, I believe and profess to the last breath that this is the body and the blood of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ, which he took from our Lady, the holy and immaculate Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

He took up the study of Oriental languages, in particular Sanskrit at universities in Berlin, Göttingen and Halle, earning a doctorate in philology in the winter of 1885.

Turkish and Oriental scenes attracted him, and he took to painting Eastern figures dressed in richly coloured garments ; many of these paintings remain extant.

He soon accepted the futility of his actions and took stock of his bearings, began to pay off his debts, sold his personal collection of Oriental manuscripts and his own unpublished works.

He was born in Olten, and studied science and history at the University of Bern, then later took courses in Oriental studies at Munich University and the Sorbonne.

On September 18, 2007, Rodolfo Valencia, Representative of Oriental Mindoro filed House Bill 2594, that declares Malvar as the second Philippine President, alleging that history is incorrect in making Manuel L. Quezon as the Second President of the Philippine Republic serving after Emilio Aguinaldo: “ General Malvar took over the revolutionary government after General Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Republic, was captured on March 23, 1901, and exiled in Hong Kong by the American colonial government — since he was next in command .”

From the beginning the Oriental Churches often took their patriarchs and bishops from the monasteries.

In 1784 he was appointed professor of Oriental languages and hermeneutics in the university of Lemberg, when he took the degree of doctor of divinity ; and shortly afterwards he was released from his monastic vows on the intervention of the emperor.

Back in Vienna in 1894 he took up a post at the Oriental Institute as an assistant to the indologist Georg Bühler.

Among the stories she recounted about her world travels was an episode on the Oriental Express, when she encountered two Russian soldiers " who started deriding the United States and talking about the plight of Negroes in this country, During the course of the conversation, one took my glasses and refused to give them back.

From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade-handled magnifying glass.

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

It has occasionally been argued that its origins were in heterodox Judaism or Oriental and Grecian philosophies.

In the case of both Catholics – ( Western and ) Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox, they are usually leaders of territorial units called dioceses ( or its equivalent in the east, an eparchy ).

Mandarin Oriental also embarked on its strategy to double its available rooms and capitalize on its brand.

The firm ’ s business interests include Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors, Hongkong Land, Dairy Farm, Mandarin Oriental, Jardine Cycle & Carriage, through which its interest in Astra is held, and Jardine Lloyd Thompson.

The group ’ s flagship hotel, Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, has been recognized as one of the world ’ s leading hotels since shortly after its opening in 1963 along with the equally world-renowned Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok, previously known as The Oriental.

* Theophany / Epiphany ( Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy ), and its related observances:

The martial arts movies of the 1960s and 1970s served to greatly increase its popularity and the word " karate " began to be used in a generic way to refer to all striking-based Oriental martial arts.

The New York Times review of the 1984 revival stated that " the show attempts an ironic marriage of Broadway and Oriental idioms in its staging, its storytelling techniques and, most of all, in its haunting Stephen Sondheim songs.

The Congregation for the Oriental Churches has its origins in the " Congregatio de Propaganda Fide pro negotiis ritus orientalis " founded by Pope Pius IX on January 6, 1862.

Translated into English, República Oriental del Uruguay becomes Oriental Republic of Uruguay ; The Eastern Republic of Uruguay It is named after its geographic location next to the Uruguay River.

Once the troops from Buenos Aires had withdrawn, the Banda Oriental appointed its first autonomous government.

The Polish nobleman Jan Potocki's novel Saragossa Manuscript ( begun 1797 ) owes a deep debt to the Nights with its Oriental flavour and labyrinthine series of embedded tales.

Jose Rizal delivered a speech in 1884 at a banquet and mentioned " the Oriental chrysalis ... is about to leave its cocoon ", comparing the emergence of a " new Philippines " with that of butterfly metamorphosis.

The Royal Pavilion is a former royal palace built as a home for the Prince Regent during the early 19th century, under the direction of the architect John Nash, and is notable for its Indo-Saracenic architecture and Oriental interior.

Oriental hip hop owes much of its origins to hip-hop groups that were briefly mentioned earlier: Islamic Force and Cartel.

But nationalism is not absent from the German rap scene ; on the contrary, there is an implicit ( and sometimes explicit ) conflict over national identity that finds expression, on the one hand, in charges that the attempt to form a ' German ' rap culture is inherently exclusionary, and on the other, in the growth of a counter-nationalism in the form of ethnic-Turkish or so-called ' Oriental hip hop '" ( 142 ) In " From Krauts with attitudes to Turks with attitudes: some aspects oh hip hop history in Germany ", written by Dietmar Eleflein, " Yet at the same time, the title Krauts with Attitude also played with a kind of non-dissident identification of a part of the West German hip-hop scene with its role models.