The election of 1828 was a significant benchmark marking the climax of the trend toward broader voter eligibility and participation.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

The climax of the third book is the account of the Council of Whitby, traditionally seen as a major turning point in English history.

Leviticus 19: 18 is itself the climax of this chapter.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax.

The order from Pilate is eventually relayed to the guards, but in a moment parodying the climax of the film Spartacus, various crucified people all claim to be " Brian of Nazareth " ( one man shouting " I'm Brian and so's my wife ") and the wrong man is released.

At the climax, Adolf Hitler is ready to deliver a critically important speech, but begins chanting the marching song.

The heroine is at several points the catalyst to a powerful orgasm that condemned men are subjected to before they are slaughtered as they climax at the hand of those seeking the Mandragora flower.

Orgasm ( from Greek οργασμός orgasmos, from organ to mature, swell, also sexual climax ) is the sudden discharge of accumulated sexual tension during the sexual response cycle, resulting in rhythmic muscular contractions in the pelvic region characterized by an intense sensation of pleasure.

Resentment of David's presence by the locals slowly builds to a shocking climax when the mild-mannered academic is forced to defend his home.

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

The film's climax, a three-way Mexican standoff, begins with the melody of " The Ecstasy of Gold " and is followed by " The Trio.

Hagbard Celine claims towards the climax that the entire story is a computer-generated synthesis of random conspiracies: " I can fool the rest of you, but I can't fool the reader.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

In " Running Scared ", however, the entire song repeats to build suspense to a final climax, to be represented as A-A-A-A-B.

As the climax of the ceremonies at Eleusis, the initiates entered the Telesterion where they were shown the sacred relics of Demeter and the priestesses revealed their visions of the holy night ( probably a fire that represented the possibility of life after death ).

A recurring musical theme in many of Orbison's songs is a climax in a story that is represented by a raw, emotionally vulnerable confession sung in an " eerily high falsetto ", according to author Peter Lehman.

Many western North American species are represented in this climax ecosystem including elk, mule deer, bison, moose, bighorn sheep, antelope, mountain lion, wolves and black bear.

The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had ranged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria, carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte.

* November 10 – The dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution reaches a climax with the celebration of the Goddess " Reason " in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.

After the success of the French troops under the command of Marshal Pelissier, later Duke of Malakoff ( French: Duc de Malakoff ) and General Patrice de Mac-Mahon, the Russian defenders evacuated the entire city on the 8 September 1855 bringing a climax to the war.

A particularly fine example can be seen at the climax of Jean Renoir's 1954 film French Cancan.

French parterres originated in 15th-century Gardens of the French Renaissance, such as the Chateau of Versailles, and were elaborated out of 16th-century Baroque Garden à la française knot gardens, and reached a climax at Versailles and its many European imitators, such as Kensington Palace ( illustration, right ).

French concluded that " like an hour-glass full of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness as it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf.

Revealing the fact she had reached the climax of her career when she was 22 ( she defeated Steffi Graf in the first set of French Open final ).

Kingdom of France is the early modern period of French history from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century ( or from the French Renaissance to the climax of the French Revolution ).

The Chanson d ' Antioche is a chanson de geste in 9000 lines of alexandrines in stanzas called laisses, now known in a version composed about 1180 for a courtly French audience and embedded in a quasi-historical cycle of epic poems inspired by the events of 1097 – 1099, the climax of the First Crusade: the conquest of Antioch and of Jerusalem and the origins of the Crusader states.

A peaceful 4th waltz section in C is next ( Doch, mehr als Gold und Geld ) before the climax with cymbals in G ( Das war ' kein rechter Schiffersknecht ), and punctuated throughout with trombones and French horns.

He was admitted to the House of Lords long before the climax of the French Revolution and was involved in the creation of the Worcester Yeomanry Division which fought in Spain.

His death occurred during the climax of the battle when the French were surprised by 1500 Spanish arquebusiers.

There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.

* Climatic climax community, a biological community of plants and animals which has reached a steady state

The dot-com bubble ( also referred to as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble ) was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 – 2000 ( with a climax on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132. 52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62 ) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields.

They also obtained stock footage from the film The Mysterians from RKO ( the film's US copyright holder at the time ) which was used to not only represent the ICS, but which was also utilized during the film's climax.

Goebbels remained preoccupied with the annihilation of the Jews, which was now reaching its climax in the extermination camps of eastern Poland.

At its climax there appeared a poem by Sir Walter Scott, which we were obliged to memorize.

The film Requiem for a Dream concludes with " Act III: Winter ," in which the movie reaches its chilling climax.

The song built to a climax in which Nicks ' vocals were so impassioned that drummer and band co-founder Mick Fleetwood declared, " her < i > Rhiannon </ i > in those days was like an exorcism.

The climax came in the year 190, which had 25 suffect consuls — a record in the 1, 000-year history of the Roman consulship — all appointed by Cleander ( they included the future Emperor Septimius Severus ).

On drier sites in California, where Douglas-fir behaves as a climax species in the absence of fire, the Douglas-fir has become somewhat invasive following fire suppression practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries ; it is becoming a dominant species in many oak woodlands, in which it was previously a minor component.

The climax was the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which led immediately to the secession of South Carolina, followed by six other cotton states.

Making a trip to Paris in 1665, Wren studied the architecture, which had reached a climax of creativity, and perused the drawings of Bernini, the great Italian sculptor and architect.

Kook, first Chief Rabbi of Israel, stressed that the climax of the story, commanding Abraham not to sacrifice Isaac, is the whole point: to put an end to the ritual of child sacrifice, which contradicts the morality of a perfect and giving ( not taking ) monotheistic God.

A scene in which a character is threatened with blinding in the manner of Gloucester forms the climax of the 1973 parody horror Theatre of Blood.

With the music reaching its grand climax Astaire and Rogers rush toward the camera, then away in a series of bold, dramatic manoeuvers culminating in three ballroom lifts which showcase Rogers ' dress before abruptly coming to a halt in a final, deepest backbend, maintained as the music approaches its closing bars.

" No facts in recent history are established more incontestably … than the numerous cases of murder, assault, and various forms of intimidation for which the National Socialist Party in Germany has been responsible … The organized economic boycott of the Jews is the climax.

At the climax of the story, a great battle takes place on a hill near Alderley during which the children and their companions make a desperate last stand to protect the Weirdstone.

The dramatic phase that Freytag called the " climax " is the third of the five phases, which occupies the middle of the story, and that contains the point of climax.

In one instance it serves as a climax for a broadcast which begins with Costello receiving a telegram from Joe DiMaggio asking Costello to take over for him due to his injury.

On May 20, 1938, an election was held which was the climax to incorporating the town.

The story tells of the capture of Prince Igor and son Vladimir of Russia by Polovtsian leader Khan Konchak, who entertains his prisoners lavishly and calls on his slaves to perform the famous Polovtsian dances, which provide a thrilling climax to the second act.

* Race hatred has reached its climax ; peoples are more divided by jealousies than by frontiers ; within one and the same nation, within the same city there rages the burning envy of class against class ; and amongst individuals it is self-love which is the supreme law over-ruling everything.