He donated 4 open ocean sailing yachts ( named Polynesian Concepts I, II, III and IV ) to the United States Naval Academy's Sailing Squadron in Annapolis, Maryland.

In 1864 Hellqvist started to study art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, and in 1875 he was awarded the Royal Academy's highest prize for his painting " Gustaf I anklagar Peder Sunnanväder och Mäster Knut inför domkapitlet i Västerås ".

After graduating at the top of her class from Starfleet Academy's medical school, Beverly married Lieutenant Jack Crusher, who served under Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the USS Stargazer.

The controversy, coupled with the Academy's ruling proved too much for Corneille, who decided to return to Rouen.

The nomination also caused protests, this time from pro-Israeli groups in the United States, who objected to the Academy's use of the name " Palestine " on its official website to designate the film's submitting country.

This prompted an announcement from the Academy president, Howard Estabrook, who said that under the circumstances " any voter ... may write on the ballot his or her personal choice for the winners ", thus allowing, for the only time in the Academy's history, the consideration of a candidate not officially nominated for an award.

Among the panel members were Charles Lindbergh, General Carl Spaatz, and Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon, who later became the Academy's first superintendent.

Immediately after arriving in Budapest, Milanković met the Director of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Koloman von Szilly who, asa mathematician, eagerly accepted Milanković and enabled in to work undisturbed in the Academy's library and the Central Meteorological Institute.

In 1773 she was appointed by the Academy with others to decorate St Paul's Cathedral ; and it was she who, with Biagio Rebecca, painted the Academy's old lecture room at Somerset House.

In 1905, he once more exhibited at the Royal Academy's summer exhibition, having submitted a drawing known as The Resurrection of Zoroaster, featuring beaked serpents swirling around the figure of the ancient Persian philosopher who founded Zoroastrianism.

The painting, however, brought him denunciation from Sir William Chambers, president of the Royal Academy, who objected to its being exhibited privately in advance of the Academy's exhibition.

Under assurances of strict confidentiality, Daguerre explained and demonstrated the process only to the Academy's perpetual secretary François Arago, who proved to be an invaluable advocate.

This award, founded in 2000, recognizes the extraordinary contributions of individuals who share the commitment of the Academy's founders, a group of patriots who devoted their lives to promoting the arts and sciences in service to the nation.

Established in 2002, this award recognizes the accomplishment of an alumnus / a who has demonstrated the Academy's mission through excellence in his or her chosen field.

Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Edwards Holbrook of South Carolina, Thomas Nuttall and Richard Owen of the United Kingdom, Georges Cuvier of France, and Alexander von Humboldt of Prussia were among the corresponding members ( members who lived far from Philadelphia ) of the Academy's first decades.

This outraged the Academy's Bureau of Military Justice, who made a formal protest to Belknap on November 20, 1870.

The Academy's petition to the city government for the additional land anticipated that if acquired, the space would be used to create perspective scenery ; it explains that the extra land would be used to build a theatre " along the lines laid out by our colleague Palladio, who has designed it to permit perspective views.

In the story, he is introduced as the strict and serious captain of Seishun Academy's (" Seigaku " for short ) tennis team who enforces order within his team, often making its members run laps.

It was there in the spring of 1917 that Jeanne Hébuterne was introduced to Amedeo Modigliani by the sculptor Chana Orloff ( 1888 – 1968 ) who came with many other artists to take advantage of the Academy's live models.

It was founded in 1594 by Crown Chancellor Jan Zamoyski in Zamość ( a city, also founded by Zamoyski ) with the assistance of poet Szymon Szymonowic, aka Simon Simonides ( who would be one of the Academy's lecturers ).

Massanutten Military Academy's stated mission is to provide a structured learning environment that produces confident, capable, productive citizens who are prepared for leadership and service.

The Defence Academy's current Director General is Peter Watkins who took up his post on 6 June 2011.

The Centre for Research is open, for three weeks from mid-August, to persons undertaking high-level research, working under the direction of professors who are highly qualified in the particular subject being studied, with the best results of the work being published in the Academy's collection.

presented at the Laureus Academy's discretion to people who have made an outstanding contribution to society through sport.

Perez, who had been the highest-ranking black and Hispanic woman in the Academy's history, was the first female West Point graduate to die in Iraq.

This requirement had previously prevented countries from submitting films where the majority of the dialogue was spoken in a language that was non-native to the submitting country, and the Academy's executive director explicitly cited as a reason for the rule change the case of the Italian film Private ( 2004 ), which was disqualified simply because its main spoken languages were Arabic and Hebrew, neither of which are indigenous languages of Italy.

Prior to the Academy's establishment, air power advocates had been pushing for a separate air force academy for decades.

The Academy's permanent site had not yet been completed when the first class entered, so the 306 cadets from the Class of 1959 were sworn in at a temporary site at Lowry Air Force Base, in Denver on 11 July 1955.

The Academy's men's and women's rugby teams have each won multiple national championships and the women's side recently had two players selected for the United States national team.

The first 30 years of the Academy's existence were relatively informal, since no statutes had as yet been laid down for the institution.

The decision was taken to continue the Academy's work until the five-year period, originally specified by Bennett, had been completed.

According to Roger Ebert, reliable sources said members of the Academy's documentary nomination committee had a system in which one would wave a flashlight on screen when they gave up on the film.

The Academy's Executive Director, Bruce Davis, took the unprecedented step of asking accounting firm Price Waterhouse to turn over the complete results of the voting, in which members of the committee had rated each of the 63 eligible documentaries on a scale of zero to ten.

The first 30 years of the Academy's existence were relatively informal, since no statutes had as yet been laid down for the institution.

From 1873 to 1876 on the Academy's allowance, Repin sojourned in Italy and lived in Paris, where he was exposed to French Impressionist painting, which had a lasting effect upon his use of light and colour.

Since then, it had become a part of the Madras Music Academy's Activities to conduct several expositions and concerts on Carnatic Music every December.

Because the stacks are visible from the floor of the central hall, the layout of the library is clear to the visitor at a glance, which was one of the goals the Academy's building committee had set for Kahn.

Also on the committee were Ed Weichers Jr. who had been the U. S. Air Force Academy's boxing coach more than 30 years and representatives from each command in the Air Force who were currently conducting combatives training of various sorts including the Air Force Security Forces and the Air Force Special Operations Command.

Bartley and Popper had a great admiration for each other, driven by their common stand against justificationism, a view which Popper fought at the British Academy's Annual Philosophical Lecture in 1960 for the first time.

In fall 2009, Chambly Academy's renovation and expansion work had been completed.

The celebrated opera librettist Pietro Metastasio ( 1698 – 1782 ) although he had his own differences with Arcadia, was a student of Gravina's, and a leading light of the Academy's second generation.

The Academy's drill team had been a pet of Colonel Ellsworth's, so that after the Civil War, when President Lincoln's body was brought through Chicago from Washington to Springfield, it acted as escort and guard of honor from Chicago to the State Capitol.

Handel wrote the work for the Royal Academy's 1726-1727 opera season, and also as homage to the newly crowned George II and the nation where Handel had just received citizenship.