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The chief sights include the Rastrelliesque Stroganov Palace, the huge neoclassical Kazan Cathedral, the Art Nouveau Bookhouse ( Dom Knigi ), Elisseeff Emporium, half a dozen 18th-century churches, a monument to Catherine the Great, an enormous 18th-century shopping mall, a mid-19th-century department store, the Russian National Library, and the Anichkov Bridge with its horse statues.
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He goes off on his own planning on assassinating the chief of police, however when he gets him in his sights, he sees that the police chief is surrounded by his young children, and Enrique cannot bring himself to pull the trigger.
The church is a masterpiece of Abruzzese Romanesque and Gothic architecture and one of the chief sights of L ' Aquila.
Led by a warrior chief named Chief Gray Wolf, the Indians have set their sights on the San Gabriel mission, the most successful mission in Alta California.
Stroganov Palace ( now one of the buildings of the State Russian Museum ) is among the chief sights of Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg.
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* Senior Principal / Partner: Typically an owner or majority shareholder of the firm ; may be the founder ; titles may include president, chief executive officer, or managing principal / partner.
Other chief crops include coffee, bananas, and oil palms, which produce palm oil and kernels.
" Examples of parliamentary systems in which the head of state is notional chief executive include Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The sub-ordinaries include the inescutcheon, the orle, the tressure, the double tressure, the bordure, the chief, the canton, the label, and flaunches.
From the Muslim perspective, a chief source of information is Usamah ibn Munqidh, a soldier and frequent ambassador from Damascus to Jerusalem and Egypt, whose memoirs, Kitab al i ' tibar, include lively accounts of crusader society in the east.
Bruckner remarks that the name of the Lombards stands in close relation to the worship of Odin, whose many names include " the Long-bearded " or " the Grey-bearded ", and that the Lombard given name Ansegranus (" he with the beard of the gods ") shows that the Lombards had this idea of their chief deity.
Rutile group minerals have a ratio of 1: 2 ; the eponymous species, rutile ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) is the chief ore of titanium ; other examples include cassiterite ( SnO < sub > 2 </ sub >; ore of tin ), and pyrolusite ( MnO < sub > 2 </ sub >; ore of manganese ).
Typically, the British government agreed to pay a chief a stipend in return for a commitment from him to keep the peace with his neighbours ; other specific commitments extracted from a chief might include keeping roads open, allowing the British to collect customs duties, and submitting disputes with his neighbours to British adjudication.
Preliminary practices include all Sutrayāna activities that yield merit like hearing teachings, prostrations, offerings, prayers and acts of kindness and compassion, but chief among the preliminary practices are realizations through meditation on the three principle stages of the path: renunciation, the altruistic bodhicitta wish to attain enlightenment and the wisdom realizing emptiness.
Race Officials include the Chief of Race, chief of course, starters, timers, gate judges, referees, a jury and others who organize the event and ensure it is run safely and according to governing body rules.
Deputies assigned to the Muckleshoot reservation include six patrol officers, one school resource officer, and one chief assigned full-time to the reservation.
The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced.
Compilers include Doc ( the puzzle editor as well as chief setter ), Dumpynose ( an anagram for ' Pseudonym ') and Columba.
Examples include chief cells and Paneth cells
Examples include John Baker, founder of Desire2Learn, David Cheriton, co-founder and chief scientist of Arista Networks, Mike Lazaridis, co-founder and former co-CEO of Research in Motion, Prem Watsa, chairman of Fairfax Financial and the current chancellor of the Waterloo, Steven Woods, co-founder of NeoEdge Networks and Quack. com.
The university's three chief divisions include the Office of the President, Business and Financial Affairs, and Academic and Student Life ( ASL ).
University officers include Dr. James L. Gaudino, president ; Dr. Marilyn Levine, provost ; George Clark, chief financial officer ; Sherer Holter, Chief of Staff.
Several lineages are grouped into a political unit headed by a chief and a council of elders, each of whom is the elected head of a lineage — which itself may include multiple extended-family households.
Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and strawberries.
Other elected officials in Shelby County include the sheriff, the chief law enforcement officer, trustee, chief tax collector, and assessor, the chief property appraiser.
Some cities that had been particularly faithful to the Crown were awarded an heraldic augmentation of two or three fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms ; such cities include Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Le Havre, Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Tours, Limoges, Amiens, Orléans, Rouen, Argenteuil, Poitiers, Chartres and Laon among others.
Noted residents of Smallville include the Kent family, Jonathan and Martha Kent, or Ma and Pa Kent as they were often called, and their adopted son Clark Kent ; Clark's friend, classmate and sometimes romantic interest Lana Lang ; Clark's best friend Pete Ross, and Smallville police chief Douglas Parker.
chief and Stroganov
The Stroganov chronicle says that On was killed by a chief called Chingii who spared Taibuga, sent him to fight the Ostyaks and granted him his own principality.
chief and Palace
On Friday, February 1, 2008, rebels, an opposition alliance of leaders Mahamat Nouri, a former defense minister, and Timane Erdimi, a nephew of Idriss Déby who was his chief of staff, attacked the Chadian capital of Ndjamena-even surrounding the Presidential Palace.
Also during this time, the Mayors of the Palace, originally the chief advisor to the kings, would become the real power in the Frankish lands ; the Merovingian kings themselves would be reduced to little more than figureheads.
Later in the year, a group of Egyptian soldiers and emirs attempted to assassinate Saladin, but having already known of their intentions, thanks to his intelligence chief Ali bin Safyan, he had the chief conspirator, Naji, Mu ' tamin al-Khilafa — the civilian controller of the Fatimid Palace — arrested, and killed.
The Winter Palace and the Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg remain the chief monuments of her reign.
As the Boleyn family's wealth and influence increased, the couple were given Beaulieu Palace as their chief residence, which George and Jane decorated with a lavish chapel, a tennis court, a bathroom with hot-and-cold running water, imported carpets, mahogany furniture and their own large collection of silverware.
On 15 November 1528 he became keeper of the Palace of Beaulieu and on 1 February 1529 was appointed chief steward of Beaulieu ( later in October 1533 he would be granted a life interest in the Palace ).
Like his father before him, he served as chief engineer at the Artuklu Palace, the residence of the Mardin branch of the Turkish Artuqid dynasty which ruled across eastern Anatolia as vassals of the Zangid rulers of Mosul and later Ayyubid general Saladin.
When the Dominion troops assembled at Buckingham Palace to receive their King George VI Coronation Medals, Chauvel led the parade, with Howard-Vyse as his chief of staff.
Article Four of the Law authorized the chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, with the approval of the Home Minister, to banish from Tokyo for three years anyone who was found to be inciting disturbances or scheming to disrupt public order within 7. 5 miles of the Imperial Palace.
The brightest were sent to the Palace institution ( Enderun ), and were destined for a career within the palace itself where the most able could aspire to attain the very highest office of state, that of Grand Vizier, the Sultan's immensely powerful chief minister and military deputy.
As Napoleon's chief residence, the Tuileries Palace was redecorated in the Neoclassical Empire style by Percier and Fontaine and some of the best known architects, designers, and furniture makers of the day.
Charles Theodore ’ s chief architect Nicolas de Pigage was charged to complete the Mannheim Palace, design the Schlosstheater and the gardens at Schwetzingen Palace ( including numerous pavilions, among them several artificial “ Roman ” ruins and a “ mosque ”) as well as Benrath palace.
The country's political elite paid their respects in Reunification Palace, where Communist Party chief Nông Đức Mạnh headed long lines of mourners who filed past Kiệt's coffin from early Saturday.
She once arrived at the Tuileries Palace, the then chief residence of Napoleon Bonaparte, supported by a black page, with eight sapphire rings and six toe rings, a gold bracelet on each ankle and nine bracelets on each arm.
* Ottoman Empire: Kapicibaşi, literally " chief doorkeeper " of the Topkapi Palace
Lehzen was installed at Buckingham Palace as a sort of unofficial private secretary, served as chief liaison for the royal residences, and carried the household keys as a sign of her position ; her signature was required for all payments of tradesmen's bills, for instance.
( 28 March 1923 – 15 August 1945 ) was a Japanese soldier, who was one of the chief conspirators in the plot to seize the Imperial Palace and to prevent the broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's surrender speech to mark the end of World War II.
In addition to directing and producing his own feature film, Me, Myself & I ( 1991 ) with George Segal and JoBeth Williams, he worked as an actor for Robert Downey Sr. in Greasers Palace ( chief cloud in the head ) as well as in Hugo Pool as a ( salsa dancer ).
The Government Palace of Peru, also known as House of Pizarro, was the house of the Peruvian government headquarters and was built over a huge Indian burying ground Waka that had a shrine of Indian chief Taulichusco.
The new Summer Palace, completed in 1744, was the chief residence of Empress Elizabeth in the Russian capital.
One of Mindon's chief consorts, the Queen of the Middle Palace, Hsinbyumashin, helped to broker a marriage between her second daughter, Supayalat and Thibaw, who were half-siblings by blood.
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