** David Alan Grier first hosted SNL during season 21 and reprised his In Living Color role as " Men on ..." critic Antoine Merriweather, which the end of the sketch included a surprise on-set appearance from Damon Wayans as Blaine.

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle ( 20 August 1517 – 21 September 1586 ), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs, and was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe ; " the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century ".

The linguist, Antoine Meillet, said Sans que l ' aspect extérieur de la langue se soit beaucoup modifié, le Latin est devenu au cours de l ' epoque impériale une langue nouvelle, " without the exterior appearance of the language being much modified, Latin became in the course of the imperial epoch a new language " and Servant en quelque sorte de lingua franca à un grand empire, le Latin a tendu à se simplifier, à garder surtout ce qu ' il avait de banal .... " Serving as some sort of lingua franca to a large empire, Latin tended to become simpler, to keep above all what it had of the ordinary ...."

For example, the Van Dyke collar is so-called from its appearances in 17th century portraits by Anthony Van Dyck, and the Watteau pleats of the robe á la française are called after their appearance in the portraits of Antoine Watteau.

The next appearance of Doinel was in the film short Antoine and Colette, which was part of the 1962 omnibus film L ' amour à vingt ans.

A major revolution would occur with the appearance of Antoine Galland's first French ( and indeed modern ) translation of the Thousand and One Nights ( or Arabian Nights ) ( in 1704 ; another translation appeared in 1710-12 ), which would influence the 18th-century short stories of Voltaire, Diderot and many others.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

They are the only poems that he rearranged as a group between their first appearance ( in Satires Of Circumstance ) and the publication of the Collected Poems.

Since the mid 1950s, when urethane foam first made its appearance in the American market, growth has been little short of fantastic.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first `` recital '' only when he has ceased to be a living voice.

It was a vivid, sharp February morning that Johnnie first made his appearance in my back yard, bringing some stuff Dad had ordered.

The period 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system.

Poirot's first appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( published 1920 ) and his last in Curtain ( published 1975, the year before Christie died ).

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Although popular from her first appearance in 1930, Jane Marple had to wait thirty-two years for her first big-screen appearance.

* 1521 – Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.

He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416.

Alaric's first appearance was as the leader of a mixed band of Goths and allied peoples who invaded Thrace in 391, who were stopped by the half-Vandal Roman General Stilicho.

# Where the appearance of the first object forces one's mind to think about the second one.

But the unexpected fall of Arkona had terrified the garrison, which surrendered unconditionally at the first appearance of the Danish ships.

Dedicated anti-tank vehicles made their first major appearance in the Second World War as combatants developed effective armored vehicles and tactics.

He appointed seventy-two abbreviators, of whom twelve were of the upper, or greater, and twenty-two of the lower, or lesser, presidency ( Parco ), and thirty-eight examiners on first appearance of letters.

In 1984, she released another pop-oriented Christian hit, Straight Ahead, earning Grant her first appearance at the Grammy Awards show in 1985.

This was the composer's first on-stage appearance in 12 years ; the hall was packed.

Botany was greatly stimulated by the appearance of the first " modern " text book, Matthias Schleiden's, published in English in 1849 as Principles of Scientific Botany.

The appearance of the exhibition galleries began to change as dark Victorian reds gave way to modern pastel shades.

These early canids probably evolved for the fast pursuit of prey in a grassland habitat ; they resembled modern civets in appearance.

Further, the international community offers development aid to weak states, which helps maintain the facade of a functioning modern state by giving the appearance that the state is capable of fulfilling its implied responsibilities of control and order.

All three offer the original visual appearance of the game whereas EDuke32 also supports OpenGL rendering including the capability to use fan-created modern graphics using the High Resolution Pack.

Human evolution refers to the evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of modern humans.

The transition to behavioral modernity has been characterized as a " Great Leap Forward ", or as the " Upper Palaeolithic Revolution ", because of the sudden appearance of distinctive signs of modern behavior in the archaeological record.

Though the thorn character ( whose appearance was usually similar to the modern " p ") was most common, the eth could equally be used.

The giraffe has intrigued various cultures, both ancient and modern, for its peculiar appearance, and has often been featured in paintings, books and cartoons.

The earliest appearance of anatomically modern people in Europe has been dated to 35, 000 BC, usually referred to as the Cro-Magnon man.

The European form was similar in appearance to modern populations, but was larger, being comparable in size to the brown hyena.

In its appearance and morphology, H. habilis is the least similar to modern humans of all species in the genus ( except possibly H. rudolfensis ).

At the prompting of team leader Cyclops, Drake learns to cover his body with hardened-but-flexible ice and adopts the hard crystalline appearance familiar to modern readers.

The most common modern dates of celebration are listed below, ordered and grouped by their appearance relative to the conventional Western calendar.

To reduce the appearance of flicker, virtually all modern projector shutters are designed to add additional flicker periods, typically doubling the flicker rate to 48 Hz ( single-bladed shutters make two rotations per frame – double-bladed shutters make one rotation per frame ), which is less visible.

Thus, in the opinion of Richard Klein, the ability to produce complex speech only developed some 50, 000 years ago ( with the appearance of modern man or Cro-Magnon man ).

The relatively short period is characterized by a series of glaciations, the appearance and expansion of anatomically modern humans, and their continuing impact on the natural world.

When ( modern ) Klingon Worf and his crewmates see an original-series Klingon, his crewmates ask about the stunning difference in appearance ; Worf says tersely that the matter is something Klingons " do not discuss with outsiders ".

Most modern Sifrei Torah are written with forty-two lines of text per column ( Yemenite Jews use fifty ), and very strict rules about the position and appearance of the Hebrew letters are observed.

It is similar in appearance and function to a modern sledgehammer but is sometimes shown as having a spear-like spike on the fore-end of the haft.

Though his details were fictitious, they have formed the basis for references to Anne's appearance even in some modern textbooks.

During this period the progress of the oxidation of the impurities is judged by the appearance of the flame issuing from the mouth of the converter: the modern use of photoelectric methods of recording the characteristics of the flame has greatly aided the blower in controlling the final quality of the product.

Milsom and Rigby envision them as vertebrates similar in appearance to modern hagfish and lampreys,

The better-known genera include, for example, Aysheaia, which was discovered among the Canadian Burgess Shale and which is the most similar of the Lobopoda in appearance to the modern velvet worms ; a pair of appendages on the head have been considered precursors of today's antennae.