Cuban-exiled architect Enrique Gutierrez created a building that was hurricane-proof, using a system of steel cables and pulleys which allow the building to move slightly in the event of a strong shock.

He concluded they had been created by some great explosive event, but believed that this force was probably volcanic in origin.

In recent decades the term extreme sport was further promoted by X Games, a multi-sport event created and developed by ESPN.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

The event was created by the Singapore Floorball Association together with the cooperation of the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation ( AOFC ).

The upper ( Cretaceous ) boundary is set at the Cretaceous-Tertiary ( KT ) extinction event ( now more accurately called the Cretaceous – Paleogene ( or K – Pg ) extinction event ), which may have been caused by the impactor that created Chicxulub Crater on the Yucatán Peninsula.

A significant event of 1863 was the Salon des Refusés, created by Emperor Napoleon III to display all of the paintings rejected by the Paris Salon.

* The Peruvian meteorite event – On 15 September 2007, a stony meteorite that may have weighed as much as 4000 kilograms created a crater 13 meters in diameter near the village of Carancas, Peru.

After mass shootings such as the Columbine High School massacre and the Virginia Tech incident, many school administrators in the United States have created plans to protect students and staff in the event of a school shooting.

" Theorising a new theatrical form that would be immediate and direct, that would link the unconscious minds of performers and spectators in a sort of ritual event, Artaud created the Theatre of Cruelty, in which emotions, feelings, and the metaphysical were expressed not through language but physically, creating a mythological, archetypal, allegorical vision, closely related to the world of dreams.

A tradition may be deliberately created and promulgated for personal, commercial, political, or national self-interest, as was done in colonial Africa ; or it may be adopted rapidly based on a single highly publicized event, rather than developing and spreading organically in a population, as in the case of the white wedding dress, which only became popular after Queen Victoria wore a white gown at her wedding to Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

According to the Board Chair, " with any charity created after 9 / 11, the farther you get away from the event, the more difficult it is to raise funds.

His meeting with Cesare Zavattini was a very important event: together they created some of the most celebrated films of the neorealistic age, like Sciuscià ( Shoeshine ) and Bicycle Thieves ( released as The Bicycle Thief in America ), both of which De Sica directed.

According to one study, a single domestication event occurring in the region of modern Thailand created the modern chicken with minor transitions separating the modern breeds.

Many films have been created which attempt to use a historic event or setting as a backdrop and actors portray fictional or historical figures set in these events.

The event featured the only known public airing of an experimental sound collage created for the occasion by Paul McCartney of The Beatles – the legendary Carnival of Light recording.

First held in 1949, the Badminton event was created after a poor performance by the British Eventing Team at the 1948 Olympic Games, with the purpose of being a high-class preparation event, and as extra exposure for the military horses, who very rarely had the chance to compete.

While it is not impossible that some binaries might be created through gravitational capture between two single stars, given the very low likelihood of such an event ( three objects are actually required, as conservation of energy rules out a single gravitating body capturing another ) and the high number of binaries, this cannot be the primary formation process.

In spite of the event's strong pedigree in the modern Olympics, and its status as the only event created specifically for the modern Olympic Games, its lack of widespread popularity outside Eastern Europe has led to calls for its removal from the Olympic Games in recent years ; however, a vote by the IOC on July 8, 2005, keeps it in the Olympic program at least until 2012.

Sweetscent is shown footage of a healthier, younger Molinari in uniform and is led to believe that an android look-alike of the President has been created for public appearances, a notion that does not account for the fact that there is at least one other Molinari on the premises, a bullet-ridden corpse that is being preserved for use in the event of certain possible future developments.

It cannot be created by volcanic action ; the only known mechanism of creating it is through an impact event ( or artificially through a nuclear explosion ).

Ishikawa diagrams ( also called fishbone diagrams, herringbone diagrams, cause-and-effect diagrams, or Fishikawa ) are causal diagrams created by Kaoru Ishikawa ( 1968 ) that show the causes of a specific event.

The ordinary man and woman, however, saw little of the great professional games of those Golden Days, or of any other sporting event for that matter.

We live in the bright daylight of that great event ; ;

Of another colleague, George Santayana, he could write: `` The great event in my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book.

In the event of heavy precipitation, the load on the sewage treatment plant at the end of the pipe becomes too great to handle and raw sewage is dumped into holding tanks, and sometimes into surface water.

When the idea of a modern Olympics became a reality at the end of the 19th century, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the ancient glory of Greece.

Although he spoke with apprehension at his award speech about the danger which the authority of the prize would lend to an economist, the prize brought much greater public awareness of Hayek and has been described by his biographer as " the great rejuvenating event in his life ".

Whilst this was primarily an English event, the so-called " Glorious Revolution " had a great impact on Scottish history.

Some believers claim that Jonah did die in the belly of the great fish, and was then resurrected by God since Jesus himself associated this event in Jonah's life with his own death and resurrection.

In any event, it was re-released to great acclaim in 1988.

In 1991 Palin worked as producer and actor in the film American Friends based upon a real event in the life of his great grandfather, a fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

The most remarkable event of Clement VIII's reign was the reconciliation to the Church of Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ), after long negotiations, carried on with great dexterity through Cardinal Arnaud d ' Ossat, that resolved the complicated situation in France.

An important event that coincided with Innocent's pontificate was the fall of Granada in January 1492, which was celebrated in the Vatican with great rejoicings.

The marriage was celebrated with great pomp and splendour and many feasts and entertainments, and public parades, and celebrations followed, to commemorate the event.

With more than 30 wineries currently located on the shores of Seneca Lake, the winter ' Deck the Halls ' event is a great time at the lake with participating wineries showcasing their vintages and pairing these wines with distinctive, tasty treats.

His death was the epoch event beginning the troubled Crisis of the Third Century where a succession of short-reigning military emperors, revolting generals, and counter claimants presided over governmental chaos, civil war, general instability and great economic disruption.

Today, this version of the novel is considered to be a significant literary event in the history of Argentine literature ; however, when published it did not bring any great renown to the author, nor did the publication of Gombrowicz's drama Ślub in Spanish ( The Marriage, El Casamiento ) in 1948.

: The Games of 1944 had been allocated to London and so it was that in October, 1945, the chairman of the British Olympic Council, Lord Burghley, went to Stockholm and saw the president of the International Olympic Committee to discuss the question of London being chosen for this great event.

The great event of Elizabeth's later years was the Seven Years ' War.

I have received the news of a great event.

" The great event which snatched him from destruction was the death of the Russian empress ( 5 January 1762 ( N. S.

News of this event was received in Paris with a great show of rejoicing and the Pope's effigy was publicly burned in the gardens of the Palais Royal to the accompaniment of ribald jokes and songs.

In 1716 Antonio Vivaldi, on commission by the republic of Venice, composed the oratorio Juditha triumphans to commemorate this great event.

The first event in the history of Ionia for which there is a trustworthy account is the inroad of the Cimmerii, who ravaged a great part of Asia Minor, including Lydia, and sacked Magnesia on the Maeander, but were foiled in their attack upon Ephesus.