He established in 1393 the Consistory of Barcelona ( jocs florals ), imitating the same office in Toulouse.

The type of the scholarly recluse, Milà i Fontanals was almost unknown outside the walls of the university until 1859, when he was appointed president of the jocs florals at Barcelona.

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His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals.

The end of the eighteenth-century and the fall of the French monarchy closed the doors on Vallayer-Coster ’ s still life ‘ era ’ and opened them to her new style of florals.

The most common designs in today's production include sponge-stamped dots, abstract florals, speckles, windmills, and, of course, the famoous " peacock's eye.

* Service Charge: Sales Tax, Some quotes will include lighting, liquor permit, fire permits, draping, florals, valet and coat check.

More precise printing eliminated the need for dark outlines on printed designs, and new green dyes appeared in patterns of grasses, ferns, and unusual florals.

Combinations of florals and stripes were fashionable.

Ben Franklin Crafts stores carry creative products like needlecrafts, florals, wicker, paints, fabrics, yarn, and offer services like custom framing, craft classes, and the Ben Franklin Crafts Club.

Various types of florals and fruits are grown nearby, and additional lighting has been installed within the vicinity of the shrine for further monitoring of the site.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

Fuzzy caterpillars, snails with their sensitive horns, struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco, spit ''.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

They even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.

much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

He found tepid water in a pitcher and a last bit of soap, and he lathered his face and stood stropping the razor on his broad leather belt, its buckle held firm by a knob of the bedpost.

Blockade runners can be stopped -- by gunfire, if necessary -- searched and held, at least temporarily.

In addition, the right to vote the General Motors stock held by Du Pont was to be vested in Du Pont's stockholders, other than Christiana and Delaware and the stockholders of Delaware ; ;

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

If you are an income beneficiary of property held in trust or an heir, legatee, or devisee, you may deduct allowable depreciation and depletion, if not deductible by the estate or trust.

At December 13, 1960 the fund held by the Industrial National Bank of Providence, as trustee for payment of past and future service pensions to qualified members of the plan, totaled $2,412,616.

Practices are held regularly and the schedule of games is prepared by the student coach and the officers of the club.

) Vernon, however, held out for plain oyster roast, and plenty of it, unadorned by herbs or any seasoning but salt, though he did fancy a bit of lemon.

He had style: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third button of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses leaned at a curve, as if bent by the force of a gale, he leaned with them.

In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.

It consists of two blocks with flat surfaces held apart by shims.

The dirt on the soiled objects is mechanically held by surface irregularities to some extent.

In addition, dirt particles can be held onto a soiled surface by sticky substances or by the surface tension of liquids, including liquid greases.

Guilhem Molinier, a member of the Consistori del Gay Saber, which was the first literary academy in the world and held the Floral Games to award the best troubadour with the violeta d ' aur top prize, gave a definition of the syllable in his Leys d ' amor ( 1328 – 1337 ), a book aimed at regulating the then flourishing Occitan poetry:

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

Agnese del Maino, his wife's mother, convinced the condottiero who held Pavia to restore it to him.

An annual Festival Puccini is held at Torre del Lago.

On 13 February 2008, the band announced from their website that it would perform at the World Stage of the Rock in Rio — Madrid festival, being held in Arganda del Rey, Madrid with others artists who have ( then ) yet to be announced .< ref >

The only known original is held in the library of the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial near Madrid in Spain.

* December 27 – Siege of Bilbao-Third Carlist War -( 27 December 1873-2 May 1874 )- Campaigning in Navarre, Pretender Don Carlos VII and General Joaquín Elío besiege Bilbao, held by General Ignacio del Castillo and 1, 200 men.

In honour of St. Vitus, the official patronal saint as well as a native of Mazara del Vallo, the St. Vitus Feast ( Lu Fistinu di Santu Vitu ) is held every year.

The city has two long-running annual sporting events: the Giro al Sas ( a 10 km professional road running competition ) was first held in the city in 1907 and continues to the present, while the Giro del Trentino is an annual road cycling race which the city has hosted every year since 1963.

The last summit was held at Mar del Plata, Argentina, in November 2005, but no agreement on FTAA was reached.

This event was repeated in 1947, and in 1948 an even more ambitious one was held, the Gran Premio de la América del Sur from Buenos Aires to Caracas, Venezuela — Fangio had an accident in which his co-driver was killed.

After racing both NASCAR Sprint Cup and Speedcar Series, Villeneuve was invited by the Top Race V6 chairman Alejandro Urtubey to join the series in its major event of the 2008 season, called La Carrera del Año ( The Race of the Year ), held at the Buenos Aires circuit.

During a press conference held during the previous week before La Carrera del Año, Villeneuve stated that he would race the whole 2010 season if he did not get anything in Formula One or NASCAR.

Many of them volunteered for extreme right formations in the turbulent years after the war ( the Fascist Party took pride in this and adopted the style and the mannerism of Arditi ), but some of different political persuasions created the " Arditi del Popolo " ( People's Arditi ) and for some years held the fascist raids in check, defending Socialist and Communist Party sections, buildings, rallies and meeting points.

* The 53rd IMO was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, July 4 – 16, 2012.

Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.

Two of the most important wool markets were held in Medina del Campo and Burgos.

* Burton W. Chace Park — the Marina del Rey Summer Concert Series is held here on Thursdays and Saturdays from June to August.

The large Piazza del Duomo is lined with attractive original buildings as the Palazzo del Comune and the Palazzo del Podestà: it is the setting ( in July ) of the Giostra dell ' Orso (" Bear Joust "), when the best horsemen of the districts of the town tilt with lances at a target held up by a dummy shaped like a bear.

The first Feria Internacional Tapachula was held in 1963 with the name of Primera Gran Exposición Agrícola, Ganadera, Comercial e Industrial del Soconusco.

The contract was officially awarded to a company named Aguas del Tunari, a consortium in which Bechtel held a 27. 5 percent interest.