Some students from the University returned around six with a large pot containing enough hot soup to last me a week.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit world of the entities which previously populated it.

Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

A large collection of Maillol's work is maintained at the Musée Maillol in Paris, which was established by Dina Vierny, Maillol's model and platonic companion during the last 10 years of his life.

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

As his teaching and work with the imperial chapel continued, his duties required the composition of a large number of sacred works, and in his last years it was almost exclusively in religious works and teaching that Salieri occupied himself.

His last work on a large scale appears to have been the unfinished serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano in 1723.

The aurochs ( or ; also urus, ( Bos primigenius ), the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa ; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs, a female, died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627.

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.

At last her own woman, Potter settled into the partnerships that shaped the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband and his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and the predictable rounds of country life.

The large number of experiments exploring the physics and chemistry of these so-called " colloidal crystals " has emerged as a result of the relatively simple methods that have evolved in the last 20 years for preparing synthetic monodisperse colloids ( both polymer and mineral ) and, through various mechanisms, implementing and preserving their long-range order formation.

Chile won its formal independence when San Martín defeated the last large Spanish force on Chilean soil at the Battle of Maipú on April 5, 1818.

These large pterosaurs were the last representatives of a declining group that contained 10 families during the mid-Cretaceous.

However, the evolution has stopped by itself when the last descendant, an enormously large crab, was created, being unable to reproduce itself due to lack of energy and materials.

The last large scale military use of catapults was during the trench warfare of World War I.

By 1721, a whole generation of young Bostonians was vulnerable and memories of the last epidemic's horrors had by and large disappeared.

This dry weather during the last ice age may have killed off all the large diprotodonts.

Between 1591 and 1592 Oxford disposed of the last of his large estates ; Castle Hedingham, the seat of his earldom, went to Lord Burghley, it was held in trust for Oxford's three daughters by his first marriage.

The altitude of Geneva is, and corresponds to the altitude of the largest of the Pierres du Niton, two large rocks emerging from the lake which date from the last ice age.

The main feature that defines a galliard step is the last two beats consist of a large jump, landing with one leg ahead of the other.

The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large mammals known as megafauna, starting between 9, 000 and 13, 000 years ago, the end of the last Ice Age.

In Baghdad he found Abu Sa ' id, the last Mongol ruler of the unified Ilkhanate, leaving the city and heading north with a large retinue.

Although large airliners and, increasingly, smaller aircraft now carry their own terrain awareness and warning system TAWS, these are primarily backup systems providing a last layer of defense if a sequence of errors or omissions causes a dangerous situation.

The closest high-rise, Stateway Gardens, was located just south of the IIT campus boundary, the last building of which was demolished in 2006.

In the last twenty years the tourist industry has found the beaches and Maceió itself has changed from a rather sleepy little port with coconut palm plantations along its beaches to high-rise hotels.

However, Mark Ames, who was covering the last war for The Nation, stated that Tskhinvali's main residential district, nicknamed Shanghai because of its population density ( it ’ s where most of the city ’ s high-rise apartment blocks are located ), and the old Jewish Quarter, were completely destroyed.

Deciding this is the last straw, Robert storms to the high-rise office of Mr. Naville ( Ian Holm ) while Naville is berating Celine for the William Tell fiasco.

From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.

On 27 November 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality.

Most loans are made during boom real estate markets and these markets usually last fewer than ten years.

Munch spent most of his last two decades in solitude at his nearly self-sufficient estate in Ekely, at Skøyen, Oslo.

On the last occasion that the Estates-General had met, in 1614, each estate held one vote, and any two could override the third.

* 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

On May 22 Jefferson made his last entry in the ' Farm Book ', noting the price of lamp oil at a dollar twenty five cents a gallon and the cost of lighting his estate for the last month.

The issue of women's right to study at universities was raised during the very last session of the estate parliament in 1865 in a motion from Carl Johan Svensén, a member of the farmers ' estate.

* November 27 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.

The last structures Johnson built on the estate were a library and a reception building, the latter, red and black in color and of curving walls.

In Foundation's Triumph, the last book in the Second Foundation Trilogy authorized by Asimov's estate, another possible future for the Galaxy is discussed.

The bulk of Colbert's estate, estimated at $ 3. 5 million, was left to a friend, Helen O ' Hagan, a retired director of corporate relations at Saks Fifth Avenue, whom Colbert had met in 1961 on the set of the her last film.

His last published work was a slim history of Lyford Cay, which was established as a private estate for wealthy residents by the developer E. P.

Her last years were spent in Baltimore in the management of her estate, the value of which she increased to $ 1. 5 million.

Museum of Modern Art is selling its last vacant parcel of land in Midtown for $ 125 million to Hines, an international real estate developer based in Houston, the museum ’ s director said yesterday.

After the election results became known in August, his departure to Texas was delayed by a court appearance in the last week of October as co-executor of his deceased father-in-law ’ s estate, and he finally left his home near Rutherford in West Tennessee on Nov. 1, 1835, with three other men to explore Texas.

Bow spent her last years in Culver City, Los Angeles under the constant care of a nurse, living off an estate worth about $ 500, 000 at the time of her death.

The community grew slowly, but steadily throughout the rest of the century, with particular booms occurring in the decade after World War II and a real estate boom in the last quarter of the 20th century.

As such, real estate prices have remained at a premium for the last couple years.

In 1963, the last major segment of the Langley Park estate opened for development.

Today Colts Neck real estate prices remain high despite the economic downturn: the current average listing price of a house is $ 1, 455, 838, and home prices are up 1. 1 % since last year.

An original estate mansion, Brookwood Hall, has passed from its last private owners, the Thorne family ( originally of Great Neck during the Dutch colonial era ) and now serves as a municipal building within the government of the Town of Islip.