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 1664 – 1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier " Black Death " pandemic ; it was remembered afterwards as the " great " plague only because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the four-hundred-year timespan of the Second Pandemic.

During this period, no large scale territorial conquest was intended by the Portuguese ; only a few minor settlements were established in the immediate hinterland of Luanda, some on the last stretch of the Kwanza River.

Reviewers and fans of the earlier books noted a slowing of the pace of events in the last few installments owing to the expansion of scale of the series as a whole.

* 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.

There was great but sporadic violence from the last decade of the 8th century on England ’ s northern and western shores: Viking raids continued on a small scale across coastal England.

; that during the present year the Alabama Indemnity has been paid, and the charge of the Ashantee War will be met out of revenue ; and that in estimating, as we can now venture to do, the income of the coming year ( and, for the moment assuming the general scale of charge to continue as it was fixed during the last Session ), we do not fear to anticipate as the probable balance a surplus exceeding rather than falling short of 5, 000, 000l ... The first item ... which I have to set down in the financial arrangements proper for the first year is relief, but relief coupled with reform, of local taxation ... It has ... been the happy fortune of Mr. Lowe to bring it income tax down, first from 6d.

The strike quickly turned into a disastrous lockout which would last for six months and result in a failure for the colliers as the sliding scale stayed in place.

The last large scale invasions were those of the Mongols of 1241, 1290, and 1343.

been going on upon a scale beyond all precedent: immense progress in man's knowledge and in his powers over nature, and at the same time a steady increase of rivalries, distrust, hatred and at last " the most horrible state of war ".

These were the last and greatest of all of these four commissions, and are on a monumental scale, measuring some 18 ft by 12 ft.

Over the last few years the task of large scale urban redevelopment of Cagliari has begun.

" Nizar Kabbani, perhaps the Arab world's most renowned modern poet, described him as ` the last prophet `, and the scale of popular veneration for him in Egypt, or the wider Arab world, is " arguably greater than that of any other political leader since the prophet Muhammed ," according to author Tarek Osman.

Although a large scale effort at disarming militias has succeeded, with the aid of the UN troops, the last militias are only being disarmed in 2007.

East-Timor, Kosovo and Afghanistan are all examples ; the last large scale military action of the Portuguese Armed Forces entering alone was the overseas conflict ( 1961 – 1974 ).

After its acquisition by UPT, ABC at last had the means to offer a full-time television network service on the scale of CBS and NBC.

In May 1945 he wrote his last major contribution to Jewish refugees, the pamphlet " Nowhere to Lay Their Heads ": The Jewish tragedy in Europe and its solution, a personal appeal for the opening up of Palestine for large scale Jewish immigration from Europe, which he distributed for free and was a great success.

Before the earthquake of February 27, 2010, which measured 8. 8 on the moment magnitude scale, the last catastrophic earthquake to strike Valparaíso devastated the city in August 1906, killing nearly 3, 000 people.

Along with his collaborator Théodore Simon, Binet published revisions of his intelligence scale in 1908 and 1911, the last appearing just before his death.

The claws form from the last scale on the toe.

Charles Baudelaire is, for Walter Benjamin, the last European example of lyric poetry " successful on a mass scale.

In the last two cases, the Pythagorean theorem is invalid ( but discrepancies are only detectable in triangles whose sides ' lengths are of cosmological scale ).

Analysis of data from WMAP implies that on the scale to the surface of last scattering, the density parameter of the Universe is within about 0. 5 % of the value representing spatial flatness.