* 1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.

By the late 1970s, melodrama was nearly finished as an overt genre, as the hunger for realism dominated film in groundbreaking movies like Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

In 1970, he wrote a number of papers that outlined a new approach to database construction that eventually culminated in the groundbreaking A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.

He, like Loewi, won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in endocrinology.

Being a pioneer of peace making in the region and driven from its belief that a peaceful Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the third Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty represented a fundamental shift in the politics of the region ; from a strategy of confrontation to one of peace as a strategic choice.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

He is better known, however, for his work as a social researcher, publishing an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle, later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor ( 1851 ), a groundbreaking and influential survey of the poor of London.

In Shannon's revolutionary and groundbreaking paper, the work for which had been substantially completed at Bell Labs by the end of 1944, Shannon for the first time introduced the qualitative and quantitative model of communication as a statistical process underlying information theory, opening with the assertion that

As the date for groundbreaking approached, Pedersen suggested to his boss that a slightly different approach would make construction easier.

Polk oversaw the opening of the U. S. Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution, the groundbreaking for the Washington Monument, and the issuance of the first postage stamps in the United States.

At the November 2006 groundbreaking for a new ballpark for the New York Mets, Citi Field, it was announced that the main entrance, modeled on the one in Brooklyn's old Ebbets Field, would be called the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.

The term was introduced by Darwin in his groundbreaking 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described by analogy to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

Throughout the 1950s, Mad featured groundbreaking parodies combining a sentimental fondness for the familiar staples of American culture — such as Archie and Superman — with a keen joy in exposing the fakery behind the image.

The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 was awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov while at Radboud University " for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.

One of the leading authorities continuing the search for a coherent TOE is Edward Witten, a theoretical physicist who formulated the groundbreaking M-theory, which is an attempt at describing the supersymmetrical based string theory.

Hit singles such as " Jam-Master Jay " and " Hard Times " proved that the group were more than a one-hit wonder, and the landmark single " Rock Box " was a groundbreaking fusion of raw hip-hop and hard rock that would become a cornerstone of the group's sound and paved the way for the rap rock movement of the late 1990s.

Starting with the mostly original score composed by Joseph Carl Breil for D. W. Griffith's groundbreaking epic The Birth of a Nation ( USA, 1915 ) it became relatively common for the biggest-budgeted films to arrive at the exhibiting theater with original, specially composed scores.

Shrine Shinto is associated in the popular imagination with summer festivals, good luck charms, making wishes, holding groundbreaking ceremonies, and showing support for the nation of Japan.

The groundbreaking tragic playwright Aeschylus is said to have been especially loved for his satyr plays, but none of them have survived.

After leaving university in the mid-1960s he joined Sydney television station ATN-7, where he worked as a production assistant on the groundbreaking satirical comedy program The Mavis Bramston Show.

On 4 May 2012, the Land Transport Authority ( LTA ) marked the start of construction of the Tuas West Extension with a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the future Tuas Link station.

This station is also the birthplace of the Metro, as the initial groundbreaking was held here on December 9, 1969.

On September 8, 1982, groundbreaking for the station occurred.

* A new Metra station ( Jones / Bronzeville ) on the Rock Island line ( designed by Infrastructure Engineering, Inc .) worth $ 7. 9 million was planned to be opened in 2009, but due to a year long delay of construction the station opened in 2011 after groundbreaking on June 29, 2009.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the station was held on 15 May 2009.

Around this time, KIRO also picked up Herb Jepko's " Nitecap ," a groundbreaking overnight telephone-talk show from Salt Lake City sister station KSL.

On 28 November 2011, LTA marked the start of construction of Downtown Line 3 ( DTL3 ) with a groundbreaking ceremony at this station.

WKMH-FM similarly became WKNR-FM, and chiefly simulcast Keener AM ( with automated Top 40 programming during non-simulcast times ) until 1969, when, inspired by the success of groundbreaking progressive rock station 99. 5 WABX, the station adopted its own progressive rock sound.

It was a groundbreaking station airing an all-local news format called Newswatch 43 which ran initially from 9 in the morning to 5 at night before expanding to 7 in the evening.

The groundbreaking occurred in 2010.

The Hall is the result of a groundbreaking, intensive collaboration that occurred between Museum curators and First Peoples representatives during the planning stages.

The groundbreaking for this addition occurred in 2008.

The groundbreaking and official naming ceremony of Shasta Dam occurred on September 12, 1937 in the small town of Kennett shortly upstream of the dam, which would be flooded under the rising waters of the lake fewer than five years later.

The actual groundbreaking for L ' Enfant Plaza occurred on December 9.

Preliminary planning for the library ( including the site choice ) began in 1997, while groundbreaking for the complex occurred on December 5, 2001.

A second groundbreaking occurred on 2 April 1984 at the new site.

A groundbreaking ceremony occurred in 2010 for significant new complex of buildings including the Paul and Swanee DiMare Science Village, Dr. Jane Hsaio Tropical Research Laboratories, Clinton Family Conservatory and Burns Building.

Coincidentally, the groundbreaking ceremony for Liberty Place occurred within minutes of the catastrophic confrontation between the Philadelphia Police and MOVE in West Philadelphia.

The groundbreaking ceremony occurred June 27, 1997 and featured high-ranking Oregon politicians.

In 2007, several groundbreaking storylines took place on Coronation Street, such as Tracy Barlow murdering Charlie Stubbs and claiming it was self-defence, as well as the show featuring its second two hander with Tracy Barlow confessing to her mother Deirdre Barlow she had planned to kill Charlie all along.

Because St. Louis was geographically isolated from both the dominating teams and the major sports media ( newspapers ) of the era ... all centered in and focused on the East ... Cochems ' groundbreaking offensive strategy was not picked up by the major teams.

* In the TV series Dark Angel gene therapy is mentioned as one of the practices performed on transgenics and their surrogate mothers at Manticore, and in the episode Prodigy, Dr. Tanaka uses a groundbreaking new form of gene therapy to turn Jude, a premature, vegetative baby of a crack / cocaine addict, into a boy genius.

On January 19, 2010, Wyandotte County approved the bonds to help finance the stadium, and on January 20 the groundbreaking ceremony was made, with Wizards CEO Robb Heineman using heavy machinery to move dirt on the construction site.

The first West Coast punk scenes emerged in San Francisco, with the bands Crime and The Nuns, and Seattle, where the Telepaths, Meyce, and The Tupperwares played a groundbreaking show on May 1.

Sakamoto would alternate between exploring a variety of musical styles, ideas, and genres – captured most notably in his groundbreaking 1983 album Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia – and focusing on a specific subject or theme, such as the Italian Futurism movement in Futurista ( 1986 ).

He then became involved with the avant-garde, performing on Jazz Advance ( 1956 ), the debut album of Cecil Taylor, and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival ; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans album.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Capitol took place on September 18, 1793.

* Combat Mission-( Big Time Software, 2000 )-not the first 3D tactical wargame ( titles such as Muzzle Velocity preceded it ), but a groundbreaking game series featuring simultaneous order resolution, complete orders of battle for numerous nationalities, with three titles based on the original game engine.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.

In 1772, he published another paper on integral calculus which was widely hailed as a groundbreaking paper in several domains.

After years of speculation that the Yankees would build a new ballpark to replace Yankee Stadium, construction on a new facility began on August 16, 2006 with a groundbreaking ceremony across the street in Macombs Dam Park, the site of the new stadium.

The groundbreaking ceremony for Heritage Field took place on June 29, 2010.

The work was groundbreaking and laid the foundations for a rapid advance in infection control that saw modern aseptic operating theatres widely used within 50 years ( Lister himself went on to make further strides in antisepsis and asepsis throughout his lifetime ).

Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, various railroad stations ( including the New Haven Union Station ), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D. C .. His reputation declined among some professionals during the age of Modernism, but he was on the design committee that guided and eventually approved the modernist design of Manhattan's groundbreaking Rockefeller Center: when considering Gilbert's body of works as whole, it is more eclectic than many critics admit.

A ceremonial groundbreaking for the DHS consolidated headquarters took place at St. Elizabeths on September 11, 2009.

In his groundbreaking 1964 paper, " On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox ", physicist John Stewart Bell presented an analogy ( based on spin measurements on pairs of entangled electrons ) to EPR's hypothetical paradox.