In 1472, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, Sophia Palaiologina, married Ivan III, grand prince of Moscow, who began championing the idea of Russia being the successor to the Byzantine Empire.

In all of them I now note that there is less musical science, less of the grand idea, but more color, sunlight, flavor of olives.

This idea somewhat anticipates the modern concept of an ultimate grand unification theory that finally explains all of existence in terms of one inter-related sub-atomic reality which applies to everything.

Central to Alexander ’ s urbanism was the idea of teatro or urban theatre whereby his urban interventions became the grand settings or showpieces appropriate to the dignity of Rome and the Head of the Catholic Church.

While it is a grand idea to mimic the real world transactions with cash on the Internet through the use of an anonymous transaction system, at this moment it still poses a lot of logistics and legal problems and possible security hazards.

Wagner's idea of music drama ... was originally developed by way of grand opera ... his ideas could never have been realised in their particular form without the pioneering development ... that Meyerbeer's operas were the first to demand.

Due in part to contacts with Benjamin Franklin who was there contemporaneously he conceived of the idea of separating the grand duchy from Sweden.

In 1848 Guerrazzi was appointed a minister, with some idea of mediating between the reformers and the grand duke of Tuscany, Leopold II.

Marged Haycock and Mary Ann Constantine reject the idea that Cad Goddeu encodes ancient pagan religions as Graves believed but rather see it as a burlesque, a grand parody of bardic language.

Therefore the idea of grand theory that can explain society in all its forms is treated with skepticism at the very least.

Thus, the doctrine of Proporz is intimately linked to the idea of the grand coalition, in which the major political parties, in the case of post-war Austria the SPÖ and the ÖVP, share in the government.

The still hypothetical idea of a grand unified theory allows for the changing of a baryon into several leptons ( see B − L ), thus violating the conservation of both baryon and lepton numbers.

After approximately one month of discussion, Hearst's original idea for a modest dwelling swelled to grand proportions.

Kennan rejected the idea that Stalin had a grand design for world conquest implicit in Nitze's report and argued that he actually feared overextending Russian power.

Something led to me to speak of my admiration of Virgil and of an idea I had formed of a grand opera on the Shakespearean model, to be founded on the second and fourth books of The Aeneid.

George Boldt's wife, Louise Kehrer Boldt, was influential in evolving the idea of the grand urban hotel as a social center, particularly in making it appealing to women as a venue for social events.

The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA ) Chicago was created as the result of a 1964 meeting of 30 critics, collectors and dealers at the home of Critic Doris Lane Butler to bring the long-discussed idea of a museum of contemporary art to complement the city's Art Institute of Chicago, according to a grand opening story in Time.

It is thought that she introduced grand Byzantine ceremonies and meticulous court etiquette in the Kremlin, the idea of Moscow as a Third Rome evidently pleasing her.

Margaret Archer ( 2004 ) in a revised edition of her classic work Culture and Agency, argues that the grand idea of a unified integrated culture system, as advocated by early Anthropologists such as Bronisław Malinowski and later by Mary Douglas, is a myth.

An idea of the plan and structure of some of the flourishing monasteries may be found from the account of Xuanzang, who referred to the grand monastery of po-si-po, situated about 6. 5 km west of the capital city of Pundravardhana ( Mahasthan ).

This leads to a conflict between the men on several levels, most notably over the idea of killing for sport such a grand animal.

The Druidical Circle, represented in the accompanying plate, is to be found on the summit of a bold and commanding eminence called Castle-Rigg, about a mile and a half on the old road, leading from Keswick, over the hills to Penrith ,— a situation so wild, vast, and beautiful, that one cannot, perhaps, find better terms to convey an idea of it than by adopting the language of a celebrated female writer, ( Mrs. Radclifle ,) who, travelling over the same ground years ago, thus described the scene: " Whether our judgment ," she says, " was influenced by the authority of a Druid's choice, or that the place itself commanded the opinion, we thought this situation the most severely grand of any hitherto passed.

Further, he was against the idea of making his entry into Paris as grand as possible as advertisements and other so-called ' trumpetings ', in the words of Henrietta ' Jetty ' Treffz reached 10, 000 francs a day.

The idea of constructing a grand Indonesian national mosque was launched by KH.

Most scholars reject the idea that Hamlet is in any way connected with Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in 1596 at age eleven.

Harold Jenkins criticised the idea of any direct personal satire as " unlikely " and " uncharacteristic of Shakespeare ", while G. R. Hibbard hypothesized that differences in names ( Corambis / Polonius: Montano / Raynoldo ) between the First Quarto and other editions might reflect a desire not to offend scholars at Oxford University.

Some mainstream academics also argue the Oxford theory is based on simple snobbishness: that anti-Stratfordians reject the idea that the son of a mere tradesman could write the plays and poems of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, on the other hand, uses two sets of twins, which, according to William Connolly, “ dilutes the force of situations .” One suggestion is that Shakespeare got this idea from Plautus ’ Amphitruo, in which both twin masters and twin slaves appear.

Cecil, portrayed by David Thewlis, is in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere.

Wentersdorf also discusses the idea that Shakespeare penned both plays, and that A Shrew may have been either an early version of The Shrew written before it, or an abridged version written after it.

Meyer said the idea for having the Klingons claim Shakespeare as their own was based on Nazi Germany's attempt to claim the Bard as German before World War II.

From Sheridan Morley's authorised biography: " Accustomed as we have now become to ... the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, it is almost impossible to conceive how revolutionary John's idea was for the West End of 1937, where there had simply been nothing like it since the heyday of Henry Irving and the actor-managers more than fifty years earlier.

Arden Hamlet editor Harold Jenkins, for example, criticised the idea of any direct personal satire of Burghley as " unlikely " and " uncharacteristic of Shakespeare ".

* In an episode of their BBC radio show on Shakespeare's plays, the Reduced Shakespeare Company suggests that Cardenio is a " children's play about the legend of King Arthur ", and performs a short sketch based on this idea.

To this tale Shakespeare was possibly indebted for the idea of Venus and Adonis.

" The episodic nature of the play combined with the Act Four ’ s lewdness troubled Dowden because these traits problemetised his idea of Shakespeare.

He hypothesizes that the play was perhaps written before Shakespeare came to London, with an idea towards using the famous comic actor Richard Tarlton in the role of Launce ( this theory stems from the fact that Tarlton had performed several extremely popular and well known scenes with dogs ).

Papp spent years of entrepreneurial zeal and dogged persistence promoting his idea of free Shakespeare in New York City.

Some commentators have accepted the possibility that Shakespeare might have performed a revision — while others have rejected the idea.

" ( Anton Zeilinger )... By realism, he means the idea that objects have specific features and properties — that a ball is red, that a book contains the works of Shakespeare, or that an electron has a particular spin ... for objects governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, like photons and electrons, it may make no sense to think of them as having well defined characteristics.

Shakespeare later used the same idea in the late romance Cymbeline ( circa 1609 – 1610 ).

Intrigued with the idea of starting a Shakespeare theatre in a remote Canadian location, he enlisted Tanya Moiseiwitsch to design the thrust stage, and actors Alec Guinness and Irene Worth to star in the inaugural production of Richard III.

An early copy of the portrait from c. 1670, which may give a clearer idea of the original appearance of the beardIn 2006, Tarnya Cooper of the National Portrait Gallery completed a three-and-a-half-year study of portraits purported to be of Shakespeare and concluded that the Chandos portrait was most likely a representation of Shakespeare.

" Some Victorians recoiled at the idea that the Chandos portrait represented Shakespeare.

According to Knopfler, it was Dylan's idea to recruit Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar as the rhythm section.

As Feeley notes, " The idea of fairies forming a hidden supernatural aristocracy certainly predates Spenser and Shakespeare, and seems to distinguish the English tales of wee folk from those of Scotland and Ireland.