Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

The fact that metropolitan churches of the major denominations have moved approximately every generation for the last hundred years becomes somewhat more intelligible in the light of this struggle to maintain economic balance.

Samuel D. Goodis, representing the Philadelphia Hotel Association, objected on Tuesday to a proposed boost by the city in licensing fees, saying that occupancy rates in major hotels here ranged from 48 to 74 percent last year.

Dr. Hester, also one of the youngest men ever to head a major American university, succeeds Dr. Carroll V. Newsom who resigned last September to join Prentice-Hall Inc. publishing firm.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.

Alexander ’ s reign contained some of the last major building works constructed in Rome before the reign of Diocletian.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity ( the last was written by Procopius ).

* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.

* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

This battle was the last major one fought against the Persians.

In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

In July 1520 Dürer made his fourth and last major journey, to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him and to secure the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, who was to be crowned at Aachen.

Mineralized skeletons of bryozoans first appear in rocks from latest Cambrian period, about, making it the last major phylum to appear in the fossil record.

The last major structural additions were made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the East front which contains the well-known balcony on which the royal family traditionally congregates to greet crowds outside.

This setback for Parliament in Cornwall, and the last major victory for the Royalists, was reversed by Sir Thomas Fairfax leading the New Model Army at or near Tresillian Bridge, close to Truro on 12 March 1645.

Henry Purcell's last major work, composed in 1695, was music for play entitled Bonduca, or the British Heroine ( Z.

The last major element of many BRP games is that there is no difference between the player character race systems and that of the monster or opponents.

The first year of the Eastern Front offensive can generally be considered to have had the last successful major mobile operation for the German army.

The EU application was the last major international undertaking of the Račan government, which submitted a 7, 000-page report in reply to the questionnaire by the European Commission.

At last these disorders took the form of a major rebellion of 532, known as the " Nika " riots ( from the battle-cry of " Victory!

The Bridgewater Canal, the first successful canal, crossing the Manchester Ship Canal, one of the last canals to be built.

The Saltisford Canal Trust have restored most of the surviving canal over the last 25 years, including major piling works and restoration of a warehouse in 2007.

Although the coming of the county's first railroad a decade later heralded the end of the canal's usefulness, it wasn't until 1875 that the last canal boat passed through Covington.

The flood damaged the canals, which were subsequently abandoned, and destroyed the last of the canal boats based in the city.

The canal between Walton Summit and the Leeds and Liverpool link at Johnson's Hillock was last used in 1932 ( although a party in canoes managed to navigate the branch as late as 1969 with only two portages ) This section was closed in the 1960s, as a result of the M61 motorway proposal which would have required three bridges over the canal.

The third and last section would use 13 locks to bring the canal down to sea level at Ardrossan Harbour.

Clowes ' work on the canal gave him a reputation which made him highly sought after in the last five years of his life.

In 1871 the last of the debts incurred in the course of funding the canal including the Pelican Life Assurance Company loan were paid off.

The last significant development was in 1970 of Meadow Farm, now the four roads of timber-framed semi-detached houses between Beech Avenue and the canal.

However, the last five miles ( 8 km ) of the canal, from Chesterfield to Staveley, were in good condition, and restoration began in 1987, with Tapton lock being re-opened in 1990.

By the modern period this had grown into a huge established industry: the last mill in Aylesbury was closed in the 1990s ( Hills & Partridge on the canal behind Tesco ).

Only over the last few years the Isar was partly turned back from a canal into a more natural river.

Over the last two decades, the canal has seen a large increase in residential and commercial development.

The Love Canal came from the last name of William T. Love, who in the early 1890s envisioned a canal connecting the Niagara River to Lake Ontario.

The SU main line was the last trunk narrow canal route to be built in England.

At Wheaton Aston, the canal climbs its last lock to reach the summit level, fed by the Belvide Reservoir just north of Brewood ( pronounced " Brood ").

With much fanfare, the US Army Corps of Engineers completed its last dredging of the canal in 1955 and soon afterward abandoned its regular dredging schedule, deeming it to be no longer cost-effective.

Six years post the finalization of the canal, the last Swedish East India Company-ship arrived into Sweden.

In the last year of his life, he became one of George Washington's partners in the Patowmack Company, a business enterprise intended to link the middle states with the expanding West by means of a Potomac River canal.

Only two boats were working the canal by 1904, and the last commercial traffic was roadstone from Whipcott quarry to Tiverton, where there was a crushing plant.

Thomas Telford's report during the construction of the Standedge Tunnel covered every expenditure to the last bucket ; it was followed to the letter and the canal finally opened in 1811.

His last canal was the Montgomeryshire, where he succeeded his son John as engineer in July 1797.