The same year saw the release of " Kung Fu Fighting ", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached # 1 in both the U. K. and U. S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent.

The expedition, consisting of eleven ships and 1, 357 men under the orders of Admiral Corneille came into the bay, which they named “ Rade des Tortues ” ( literally meaning " Harbor of the Tortoises ") because of the great number of terrestrial tortoises they found there.

Sometimes a great length of time passes between nominations such as the eleven years between Stephen Breyer's nomination in 1994 and the nomination of John Roberts in 2005 to fill the seat of Sandra Day O ' Connor ( though Roberts ' nomination was withdrawn and resubmitted for the role of Chief Justice after Rehnquist died ).

Because of his influence, Cimarosa obtained a scholarship at the musical institute of Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, where he remained for eleven years, chiefly studying with great masters of the old Italian school ; Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini, and other musicians of repute are mentioned among his teachers.

It represents a great deal of recycling for a group whose core discography consists of four forty-minute albums and eleven non-album singles.

She was a strong-minded woman who exercised great influence over Lyons, while raising their eleven children.

Armstrong worked for eleven years as a solicitor, but during his spare time he showed great interest in engineering.

The great monument of his episcopate is the eleven famous charges in which he from time to time reviewed the position of the English Church with reference to whatever might be the most pressing question of the day — addresses at once judicial and statesmanlike, full of charitable wisdom and massive sense.

At the age of eight he is said to have written a history of Schaffhausen, and at eleven he knew the names and dates of all the kings of the four great monarchies.

The decoration of the lower walls, unprecedented in the history of art, are richly decorated with a great deal of subsidiary work connected with Dante, specifically the first eleven books of his Purgatorio, and with the poets and legends of antiquity.

In 1984 Eugenio Montes Cabeza finished, after eleven years, his presidency and was replaced by the cattle businessman Gabriel Rojas, who as vice president had worked hard and made a great effort to make possible the finishing of the Satdium.

In 1797, Frederica of Baden was celebrated here with great festivities, and in 1809, the deposed king was kept here under guards in the Chinese parlour for eleven days.

Jimmy Greaves once stated that " if I were picking my all-time great British team, or even a world eleven, John Charles would be in it ".

Robert Christgau called the album " eleven shots in the dark from the weirdest major rock and roller of the early ' 70s " and said " not counting the two available on must-own albums, the only great cuts are " Instant Karma " ( Lennon's best political song ) and "# 9 Dream.

Although it was built primarily to erect the image of the Great Sublime Paralytic, Apolinario Mabini, it now also serves as a repository for the bones of the thirteen martyrs of this place who died in the memorable battle of Mahabang-Dahilig, during the Philippine – American War namely: Tirso Sumadsad, Juan del Espiritu Santo, Ramon Ilagan, Julian Matulin, Bernardo de los Reyes, Enrique Castillo, Zacarias Castillo, Francisco de Claro, Moises Maramot, Nicolas Adalia, Pantaleon Panopio, Serapio Aspi and Gavino Garcia upon the advent of the American rule, the same peninsular territory of Bauan remained with the mother municipality, until, after great efforts had been exerted by the proponents of establishing a new municipality, independent of the town of Bauan, fortunately for this peninsula, such men as Don Regino Marasigan, then Municipal President of Bauan, and such illustrious sons of this community, namely: Don Francisco Castillo whose gallantry had been mentioned above ; Ignacio Leynes, who later on became the father-in-law of the famed revolutionary leader, Tomas Castillo, Indalecio Calangi, Anselmo Sandoval, Marcelino Castillo, Epifanio Abrigonda, Andres Castillo, Nicomedes Guia, Venancio Castillo, Esteban Castillo, Juan Dolor, Pedro Manalo, Bartolome Jusi, Agaton Axalan and many many others that cannot be mentioned for lack of space, left no stones unturned, and in the end, found the good graces of the then Governor General Leonard Wood and the great leader of our country, then Senate President Manuel L. Quezon, resulting in the declaration of the new municipality, comprising the eleven ( 11 ) barrios of the Calumpan Peninsula and the whole of the Maricaban Island, as an independent municipality, with the name of MABINI, derived from the great name of that Sublime Paralytic, Brain of the Revolution and Premier Adviser to the president of the erstwhile Philippine Republic, Gat Apolinario Mabini.

He was accepted into the studio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1830, at the age of eleven, becoming the favorite pupil of the great classicist, who came to regard him as his truest disciple.

John Piper points out that Christ warned the apostles that they would suffer great persecution for the sake of his name ( except John, all eleven, after Judas Iscariot, suffered martyrs ' deaths ).

The young Cloots, heir to a great fortune, was sent to Paris at age eleven to complete his education, and became attracted to the theories of his uncle the abbé Cornelius de Pauw ( 1739 – 1799 ), philosophe, geographer and diplomat at the court of Frederick II of Prussia.

Then Solve went to Sigtun, and desired that the Swedes should receive him, and give him the title of king ; but they collected an army, and tried to defend the country against him, on which there was a great battle, that lasted, according to report, eleven days.

According to HS Altham, " it was unquestionably A. G. Steel's bowling that made the difference between a good and a great eleven ".

When she turned eleven her parents placed her with a classical voice teacher ( Earlene Boyd ) who taught her the foundations of great vocal technique and exposed her to Opera.

Regarding his batting, Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack said, " The great batsman of the eleven was Armstrong.

Fear of the competition -- always a great motivating force in the American economy -- makes retailers who do not have suburban operations exaggerate both the volume and the profitability of their rival's shiny new branches.

Emma Abbott ( December 9, 1850 – January 5, 1891 ) was an American operatic soprano and impresario known for her pure, clear voice of great flexibility and volume.

Evliyâ Çelebi's account of the exploits of Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi is only three sentences long ( of a ten volume work ), but the story has great currency in Turkey.

The internal volume of the cartridge case, or case capacity, has a significant impact on the pressure developed during ignition, which has a great impact on the velocity of the bullet.

The latter led to “ the great upward movement in prices ” and an increase in “ the volume of merchant activity itself .”

Although the Sun is much denser than a GMC, the volume of a GMC is so great that it contains much more mass than the Sun.

The great volume of literature on Shakespeare makes it easy for Oxfordians to find mainstream scholars who have expressed opinions favourable to their theory.

The effect of the invention of valves for the brass was felt almost immediately: instrument-makers throughout Europe strove together to foster the use of these newly refined instruments and continuing their perfection ; and the orchestra was before long enriched by a new family of valved instruments, variously known as tubas, or euphoniums and bombardons, having a chromatic scale and a full sonorous tone of great beauty and immense volume, forming a magnificent bass.

The emergence of great factories and consumption of immense quantities of coal and other fossil fuels gave rise to unprecedented air pollution and the large volume of industrial chemical discharges added to the growing load of untreated human waste.

A great part of the remaining of the volume ( essentially caudate ) receiving from axonal endings from the frontal, parietal, temporal cortex forms the associative striatum.

Scientific data processing usually involves a great deal of computation ( arithmetic and comparison operations ) upon a relatively small amount of input data, resulting in a small volume of output.

Very great played at high volume when you're feeling shitty, because you'll never feel as shitty as this record ".

In the early days, sheep formed a large part of the agricultural base and the area boasted some of the largest sheep bands in the world, supplying a great volume of wool to, among others, the world-renown Pendleton Wool Works in Pendleton.

The mineral, vital for the production of fertilizers and other products, was soon being shipped out from the Port of Tampa in great volume.

Though this third collection cannot be interpreted as political verse to any great extent, there are many poems in the volume which reflect her preoccupation not only with the problems and aspirations of individuals, but also with the fate of her people, with freedom and self-determination.

Initially the messages logged by the VIs were sent to Wormwood Scrubs, but as the volume became so great, and Wormwood began to suffer German air attacks, the decision was made to seek larger premises.

The Abwehr was now monitored round the clock and the volume and regularity of the material obtained enabled Bletchley to achieve one of its great triumphs in December 1941, when it decoded the Abwehr's Enigma cypher, giving enormous insight into German intelligence operations.

The series was strictly limited in production volume, sold at a premium price, and was a great success.

In 1826 he published the first volume of his Atlas ethnographique du globe, ou classification des peuples anciens et modernes d ’ après leurs langues, a work of great erudition.

*::" Upon the blazing heap of falsehood and worn-out truth -- things that the earth had never needed, or had ceased to need, or had grown childishly weary of -- fell the ponderous church Bible, the great old volume that had lain so long on the cushion of the pulpit, and whence the pastor's solemn voice had given holy utterance on so many a Sabbath day.

Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.

In the third volume of the series, it was revealed that the U. S. Government had created the android Serpentor ( or, as he is called here, Serpent O. R., standing for Organic Robot ) using DNA from great historical war leaders and parts from Megatron.

The first volume of his great work, Système silurien du centre de la Bohême ( dealing with trilobites, several genera, including Deiphon, which he personally described ), appeared in 1852 ; and from that date until 1881, he issued twenty-one quarto volumes of text and plates.