* Abend-David, Dror, ' Scorned My Nation :' A Comparison of Translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish, New York: Peter-Lang, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8204-5798-7.

In 2000, a number of Chinese artists were included in Documenta and the Venice Biennale of 2003.

Curtis was Guest of Honor at the 11th annual Gala and Fundraiser in 2003 for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, twelve-step program of rehabilitation for women in need.

He has exhibited at documenta ( 1972, 1982 ) and the Venice Biennale ( 1976 ), and his solo museum shows include the Centre Pompidou ( 1991 ), Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( 2003 ), Art Institute of Chicago ( 2005 ) and Santa Monica Museum of Art ( 2008 ).

In 1998, Ofili won the Turner Prize, and in 2003 was selected to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale of that year, where his work for the British Pavilion was done in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye.

Doherty was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize in 1994 and 2003, and has represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1993, Great Britain at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 2003 and Northern Ireland at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Quinn has exhibited exhibitions including Sonsbeek ’ 93, Arnhem ( 1993 ), Give and Take, Victoria and Albert Museum, London ( 2001 ), Statements 7, 50th Venice Biennale ( 2003 ) and Gwangju Biennale ( 2004 ).

* 2003 Zatōichi ( 座頭市 ): Silver Lion award winner at Venice Film Festival

In 2003, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin allowed the Hungarian artist duo Little Warsaw, Andras Galik and Balint Havas, to place the bust atop a nearly nude female bronze for a video installation to be shown at the Venice Biennale modern art festival.

Clotilde Courau announced her engagement on 10 July, and on 25 September 2003 at the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, she married Prince Emanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Rene Maria of Savoy, the Prince of Venice and Piedmont.

All of his films have received critical acclaim and awards, with Oasis, a story involving a mentally ill man and a woman with cerebral palsy, winning the prestigious Director's Award at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.

Fürstenberg's first husband, whom she married at Venice, Italy, on 17 September 1955, was Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg ( 1924 – 2003 ), who founded the Marbella Club, the Spanish resort.

Between 1997 and 2003 all four main-line certified locomotives saw frequent charter and locomotive hire use, including on the Venice Simplon Orient Express.

In 2003 he wrote his first book A Venetian Affair, ( 2003 ) a biography of his ancestor in 18th century Venice based on their correspondence ; and a sequel entitled Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon ( 2008 ).

In 2003, the KKB took part in the first Venezia in Musica international choir festival in Venice and Jesolo and Performed Bach's Johannes Passion for Easter, 2004.

Inglewood has produced a good share of All Blacks ( John Major, Dave " Trapper " Loveridge, Chris Masoe ), and also a leading contemporary artist, Michael Stevenson, who represented New Zealand at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

* Venice International Film Festival, Audience Award, Best Actor 2003: Omar Sharif

In an article published in 2003, Phillips stated " from Rome, through Constantinople to Venice and London, our ( European ) nations have a history of peacefully absorbing huge, diverse movements of people, driven by war, famine and persecution ; and there is no history of long-term ethnic segregation of the kind one can see in any US city.

A second conference in 1998 at Évian-les-Bains also addressed the causes of secondary PH ( i. e. those due to other medical conditions ), and in 2003, the 3rd World Symposium on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension was convened in Venice to modify the classification based on new understandings of disease mechanisms.

Modern revivals have been staged at the Vienna State Opera ( 1999 ), The Metropolitan Opera ( 2003 ), the Teatro La Fenice in Venice ( 2005 ), the Paris Opera ( 2007 ), the Zurich Opera House ( 2007 ), the Staatstheater Stuttgart ( 2008 ) and De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam ( 2009 ) and the Tel Aviv ( Israel ) Opera.

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

When he fled to Venice in 1499 he found employment as an engineer and devised a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack.

Azienda Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano ( ACTV ) is the name of the public transport system in Venice.

The Venice People Mover ( managed by ASM ) is a cable operated public transit system connecting Tronchetto island with Piazzale Roma.

* November 10 – Fra Luca Pacioli's Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalità is published in Venice, containing the first printed account of algebra in the vernacular and the first published description of the double-entry accounting system.

* The Republic of Venice enacts a decree that new and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them, the first modern patent system.

Venice has a similar arrangement, although it is already unable to cope with very high tides ; a new system of variable-height dikes is under construction.

Uruk was extremely well penetrated by a canal system that has been described as, " Venice in the desert.

Jiangsu is also laced with a well-developed irrigation system, which earned it ( especially the southern half ) the moniker of 水乡 ( shuǐxiāng " land of water "); the southern city of Suzhou is so crisscrossed with canals that it has been dubbed " Venice of the East " or the " Venice of the Orient ".

The Lagoon of Venice is the most important survivor of a system of estuarine lagoons that in Roman times extended from Ravenna north to Trieste.

However he devised a system of usages for his own followers, which were recorded by Vital in his Sha ' ar ha-Kavvanot in the form of comments on the Venice edition of the Spanish and Portuguese prayer book.

Basically only Venice with its exemplary ( for the time ) system of government was going to survive the invasion of Italy as a completely independent state, but with the greatest difficulties, and at the cost of her strength and impulse.

It will provide an S-Bahn-like transport system to the main urban zones of Veneto, like Venice and Padua, and to the surrounding towns.

Venice, with its intricate canal system, attracts tourists from all over the world.

In the first half of the 16th century Venice fortified the town with a new system of defensive walls on the side facing land.

For a considerable period he was censor of the press in Venice, and in 1774 he was appointed to reorganize the university system at Padua where he remained till his death.

Similar phenomena are observed at Venice, resulting in the MOSE Project, a system of 79 mobile barriers designed to protect the three entrances to the Venetian Lagoon.

LaRouche has said that the dominant imperialist strategic force acting on the planet today is not the United States, but the " Anglo-Dutch liberal system " of the British Empire, which he asserts is an oligarchic financial consortium like that of medieval Venice, more like a " financial slime-mold " than a nation.

Venice developed methods of mass-producing warships in the Arsenal, including the frame-first system to replace the Roman hull-first practice.

On November 18, 2010 The Venice Commission published its report titled " The opinion of the Constitutional situation in Ukraine ", in review of the judgement of Ukraine's Constitutional Court, in which it highlighted " It ( The Venice Commission ) also considers highly unusual that far-reaching constitutional amendments, including the change of the political system of the country-from a parliamentary system to a parliamentary presidential one-are declared unconstitutional by a decision of the Constitutional Court after a period of 6 years.

Contarini ’ s description of his vestments, privileges and rituals can therefore be compared to Marin Sanudo ’ s description of the physical spaces of Venice in his essay In Praise of Venice.

Napoleon was seen as something of a liberator by the city's Jewish population, although it can be argued they had lived with fewer restrictions in Venice.

To reach Venice from Treviso airport people can catch a public bus from the company ATVO.

Venice is serviced by regional and national trains, which can connect the city to Rome in 3. 5 hours and to Milan in 2. 5 hours.

By road the city can be reached on freeway A14-bis from the hub of Bologna ; on the north-south axis of EU routes E45 ( from Rome ) and E55 ( SS-309 " Romea " from Venice ); and on the regional Ferrara-Rimini axis of SS-16 ( partially called " Adriatica ").

The winged Lion of St Mark, the symbol of Venice, can be seen at regular intervals adorning the fortifications.

In 1921, Loy posed for Harry Winebrenner's statue titled " Spiritual ," which remained in front of Venice High School throughout the 20th century and can be seen in the opening scenes of the 1978 film Grease.

In their original lineup photo, which can be seen inside their self-titled debut album, drummer Amery Smith is wearing a flipped up hat and under the bill are the markings " V13 ", which are initials for the gang Venice 13.

Used on solo albums ( most notably on Curtains ) and albums with the band ( like the recent Stadium Arcadium ), Frusciante's O-15s can be seen in action during live performances of songs, including Venice Queen ( most memorably at Slane Castle ) and Desecration Smile.

In 1725, the painter Alessandro Marchesini, who was also the buyer for the Lucchese art collector Stefano Conti had inquired about buying two more ' views of Venice ', when the agent informed him to consider instead the work of " Antonio Canale ... it is like Carlevaris, but you can see the sun shining in it.

Nearly contemporaneous, the Republic of Ragusa can be seen as a " thalassocracy ", a protégé of Venice.

On 13 May 1426, after a long period of war, the towns of western bank of the lake spontaneously joined the Republic of Venice, where they remained for the following three centuries: in the main square a column with the Lion of St Mark, symbol of Venice, can be found still today.

The concept of local waterborn public transport is known as Water taxi in English-speaking countries, vaporetto in Venice, water / river tramway in former Soviet Union and Poland ( although sightseeing boats can be called water tramways too ).

Very little reliance can be placed upon the authenticity of the thirty or more holy nails which are still venerated, or which have been venerated until recent times, in such treasuries as that of Santa Croce in Rome, or those of Venice, Aachen, Escurial, Nuremberg, Prague, etc.

Unlike in antiquity, the mizzen-mast was adopted on medieval two-masters earlier than the foremast, a process which can be traced back by pictorial evidence from Venice and Barcelona to the mid-14th century.

The usage in German language can be seen in the Banco del Giro founded in Vienna in 1703 ( to extend the financing business that Samuel Oppenheimer had brought from Venice in 1670 ).

The Campanile, along with much of the city of Venice, appears in the video game Assassin's Creed II, in which the playable character, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, can scale the tower in the years 1480-1499 to view the city from on-high.

The two gondoliers surrender their crown to Luiz and, though a bit disappointed that neither will be a king, they can return happily to Venice with their wives.

On the top of the gothic window there's also a marble frieze with a helmet surmounted with a spread lion which reminds the role of the doge as the captain of the republic ; at each side of the central helmet we can find two putti holding a shield which represents the Foscari's coat of arms with the winged lion, symbol of Venice.

There are " flocks of black birds, a forest that grows up in the canals of Venice, a countryside of bleak moors that can only be entered through mirrors, a phantom bell that makes people think of everything they have ever lost, a midnight darkness that follows an accursed man everywhere he goes ".

According to Bywaters, Jaffeir can be easily compared with the Popish betrayer Oates due to the proximity of the Popish Plot with the production of Venice Preserv ’ d, as well as the Catholic terminology that Pierre uses in reference to Jaffeir ( 2 ).