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!

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

a 8 days ban from August 12, 1959 after the August 7 flood ( 八七水災 ), the last big flood before the 88 Taiwan Flood.

The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of 1966, with 4, 500 m³ / s after rainfall of in Badia Agnano and in Florence, in only 24 hours.

The Passion Plays were held in the last month of the inundation ( the annual Nile flood, coinciding with Spring, and held at Abydos / Abedjou which was the traditional place where the body of Osiris / Wesir drifted ashore after having been drowned in the Nile.

) with the growth rate of 0. 1 percent, much lower than the expected growth rate of 3. 5 percent due to severe damage from the historic flood the Kingdom confronted mainly in the last quarter of the year.

In 2012, the Thai economy is expected to grow by 5. 5-6. 0 percent, a V-shaped recovery from last year ’ s flood.

It was the last major flood to affect central London, and, particularly following the disastrous North Sea flood of 1953, helped lead to the implementation of new flood-control measures that culminated in the construction of the Thames Barrier in the 1970s.

After the heavy inundation by the North Sea flood of 1962 the western section of the Southern Elbe was separated, becoming the Old Southern Elbe, while the waters of the eastern Southern Elbe now merge into the Köhlbrand, which is bridged by the Köhlbrandbrücke, the last bridge over the Elbe before the North Sea.

Wetting of the floodplain soil releases an immediate surge of nutrients: those left over from the last flood, and those that result from the rapid decomposition of organic matter that has accumulated since then.

It has experienced explosive growth in the last ten years as a flood of people working in Jacksonville built new homes across the county line.

Most coral reefs were formed after the last glacial period when melting ice caused the sea level to rise and flood the continental shelves.

Development along U. S. Route 101 to the north of Tillamook during the last part of the 20th century has blocked part of the flood plain of the Wilson River, contributing to repeated winter flooding in the city.

In 1885 the explorer Archibald Meston described the Barron Falls in flood where the raging waters " rush together like wild horses as they enter the straight in the dread finish of their last race ... ( where ) the currents of air created by the cataract waved the branches of the trees hundreds of feet overhead ... the rock shook like a mighty steamer tumbling with the vibrations of the screw.

The last major flooding was in May, 2004 when the water reached 8. 13 feet ( flood stage is 6. 5 feet ) and the event was declared a disaster.

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

The city was partially destroyed by flood in 1865 and by both flood and fire in 1866 and again in 1882 ; on this last occasion, several oil tanks that were struck by lightning gave way, and Oil Creek carried a mass of burning oil into the city, where some 60 lives were lost and property valued at more than $ 1 million was destroyed.

Center Benwood used to be hit very hard by the devastating floods of the Ohio River, but a flood wall was constructed along Water Street ( the street that runs along the banks of the Ohio River ) in 1982, thus protecting that section of Benwood from the river floods seen in the last three decades ( 1990, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2005 and 2011 ).

Following the last of these incidents, Soldiers Grove and other area communities petitioned the United States Congress to provide funds for a flood control project.

The last serious flood was in 1947 and reached far beyond the railway line, most of Queens Road was flooded as was Nether Street.

Azazel is represented in the Book of Enoch as one of the leaders of the rebellious Watchers in the time preceding the flood ; he taught men the art of warfare, of making swords, knives, shields, and coats of mail, and women the art of deception by ornamenting the body, dying the hair, and painting the face and the eyebrows, and also revealed to the people the secrets of witchcraft and corrupted their manners, leading them into wickedness and impurity ; until at last he was, at the Lord's command, bound hand and foot by the archangel Raphael and chained to the rough and jagged rocks of Duduael (= Beth Ḥadudo ), where he is to abide in utter darkness until the great Day of Judgment, when he will be cast into the fire to be consumed forever ( Enoch viii.

The Altamaha River flows through a flood plain up to five miles ( 8 km ) wide and consisting of some of the last remaining hardwood bottomlands and cypress swamps in the American South.