From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by the way of Stoicism through the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity.

This red sandstone-clad building, with its distinctive ' wave-shaped ' organic roof, planted with sedum, houses displays on the history of the Abbey and some of the best surviving stonework and other relics.

In its 12-year history as an amateur league, the Brooklyn Atlantics won seven championships, establishing themselves as the first true dynasty in the sport, although, the New York Mutuals were widely considered to be one of the best teams of the era as well.

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

The film's depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge is often considered one of the best movie battles in cinema history.

Jerome Holtzman, Major League Baseball's official historian from 1999 until his death in 2008, believed Selig to be the best commissioner in baseball history.

The London Cartoon Strip was created by 15 of Britain's best known cartoonists and depicts the history of London.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

Although they fell to the " Hitless Wonders " White Sox in the 1906 World Series, the Cubs recorded a record 116 victories and the best winning percentage (. 763 ) in Major League history.

In addition, Walker, who had been with the team since 1995 and was widely regarded as the best player in team history, was now 37 years old, and injuries prevented him from playing much of the time.

In addition, the pitching staff posted a 4. 66 ERA — the best in team history — and starters Jason Jennings, Aaron Cook, and Jeff Francis had good seasons.

In addition, some scholars contend that China has never operated under a decentralized democratic regime in its several thousand years of history, and therefore it can be argued that the present political structure, albeit not up to Western moral or political standards, is the best possible option when compared to the alternatives.

Colonial administration by France throughout the history of Acadia was contemptuous at best.

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

There is a close connection between machine learning and compression: a system that predicts the posterior probabilities of a sequence given its entire history can be used for optimal data compression ( by using arithmetic coding on the output distribution ), while an optimal compressor can be used for prediction ( by finding the symbol that compresses best, given the previous history ).

Zoff was a goalkeeper of outstanding ability and has a place in the history of the sport among the very best in this role, being named the 3rd greatest goalkeeper of the 20th century by the IFFHS behind Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

He traded most of the club's best players in one of the biggest fire sales in sports history.

The Marlins finished 79 – 83, second best season in team history up to that time, but their fifth straight losing season since winning the World Series.

In a trade considered one of the best in team history, the Marlins acquired Hanley Ramírez and Aníbal Sánchez among others from the Red Sox for World Series MVP Josh Beckett and fan favorite Mike Lowell in a Thanksgiving blockbuster.

Historians have recognized La Guardia as among the best mayors in New York City history and perhaps among the greatest in modern U. S. history.

In view of this complex and multi-layered history it is meaningless to speak of a single " author " of John, but the title perhaps belongs best to the evangelist who came at the end of this process.

The Kamanyola Division, at the time considered the army's best formation, and considered the president's own, was assigned permanently to Shaba.

The process of its formation probably took several hundred years, from the 8th century to the 6th, and its authors have been variously identified as prophetic circles ( because the concerns of Deuteronomy mirror those of the prophets, especially Hosea ), Levitical priestly circles ( because it stresses the role of the Levites ), and wisdom and scribal circles ( because it esteems wisdom, and because the treaty-form in which it is written would be best known to scribes ).

Intermediate topography affords the best conditions for the formation of an agriculturally productive soil.

The third, and perhaps best, alternative starting positions have been designed to make the formation of stalemate wedges less likely.

In Europe, some of the best toolmaking flint has come from Belgium ( Obourg, flint mines of Spiennes ), the coastal chalks of the English Channel, the Paris Basin, Thy in Jutland ( flint mine at Hov ), the Sennonian deposits of Rügen, Grimes Graves in England, the Upper Cretaceous chalk formation of Dobruja and the lower Danube ( Balkan flint ), the Cenomanian chalky marl formation of the Moldavian Plateau ( Miorcani flint ) and the Jurassic deposits of the Kraków area and Krzemionki in Poland.

Of the many ensembles that Piazzolla set up during his career it was the quintet formation which best expressed his approach to tango.

These conditions result in the best environment for the formation of polar mesospheric clouds.

Human influence on, or adjustment to, the factors and processes of soil formation can be best controlled and planned using knowledge about soil genesis.

The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire is the best known formation made up of barbarian mercenaries ( see next section ).

The phalanx formation used by Greek armies had a distinct tendency to veer to the right during battle, " because fear makes each man do his best to shelter his unarmed side with the shield of the man next him on the right ".

Flint is best known as the birthplace of General Motors ( GM ), and also the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936 – 37 that played a vital role in the formation of the United Auto Workers.

Shoals is best known for the Jug Rock, the only free-standing table rock formation East of the Mississippi River.

It had been decided in an election by a margin of 14 votes, prior to the formation that the " geographic center of the county " was best suited to be the settlement's site.

The divisions were also specially trained in anti-airborne operations ; during their formation both divisions had undergone month-long anti airborne exercises whilst waiting for their heavy equipment, and had also spent the last 15 months studying the best reactions to a parachute attack in classroom and field exercises.

The best known rock formation in the mountain range, the Falkenstein, is also found in this area.

It is best explained as a purposely obscure pseudo-Greek or pseudo-Hebrew formation of Renaissance magic.

Others suggest that the term social software is best used not to refer to a single type of software, but rather to the use of two or more modes of computer-mediated communication that result in " community formation.

Actually, since the resistivity of the mud is measured in series with the resistivity of the formation, laterolog tools give best results when mud resistivity is low with respect to formation resistivity, i. e., in salty mud.

Induction tools therefore give best results when mud resistivity is high with respect to formation resistivity, i. e., fresh mud or non-conductive fluid.

With this formation, a typical British practice of the time, Gates was placing the untested militia, his weakest forces, against the most experienced British regiments, while his best troops would face the weaker elements of the British forces.

Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE ( 28 April 1831 – 4 July 1901 ) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline.

The Camp des Loges was recognised by the FFF as one of the best formation and pre-formation centres in France, being classified as Elite in 2009.