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 last volcanic activity in Fuerteventura was between 4, 000 and 5, 000 years ago.

The last eruption had an estimated VEI 8 ( described as " mega-colossal "), making it possibly the largest explosive volcanic eruption within the last 25 million years.

A few researchers have favored Tektites originating from the Moon as volcanic ejecta, but this theory has lost much of its support over the last few decades.

It may have been one of the largest volcanic eruptions on Earth in the last few thousand years, with an estimated 7 on the VEI ( volcanic explosivity index ).

The Siberian Traps were formed by one of the largest known volcanic events of the last 500 million years of Earth's geological history.

* The last major volcanic eruption occurs of Sunset Crater, in Arizona.

The declining volcanic activity and increasingly crystalline lava extruded over the last 650, 000 years, as well as other trends, suggest that the magma reservoir under the caldera has now largely crystallized and is unlikely to produce large-scale eruptions in the future.

Reginald Aldworth Daly offered a somewhat different explanation for atoll formation: islands worn away by erosion, by ocean waves and streams, during the last glacial stand of the sea of some below present sea level developed as coral islands ( atolls ), or barrier reefs on a platform surrounding a volcanic island not completely worn away, as sea level gradually rose from melting of the glaciers.

There have been over 70 serious volcanic eruptions in the last 500 years and earthquakes common.

It is proper ,' he observes in continuation, to derive our explanations from things which are obvious, and in some measure of daily occurrence, such as deluges, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and sudden swellings of the land beneath the sea ; for the last raise up the sea also, and when the same lands subside again, they occasion the sea to be let down.

The most recent volcanic activity was at Mt Eccles, which last erupted a few thousand years ago.

The landscape of Hamilton was formed by the last eruption of the Lake Taupo volcano complex 1800 years ago which sent waves of volcanic debris northwards and changed the path of the Waikato River to its present path.

( Volcanology, 2007 ) The volcanic soils underlying Pāhoa are considered to have been generated by lava flows within the last 125 to 500 years.

The fractured and faulted volcanic tuff that Yucca Mountain comprises reflects the occurrence of many earthquake-faulting and strong ground motion events during the last several million years, and the hydrological characteristics of the rock would not be changed significantly by seismic events that may occur in the next 10, 000 years.

During the last ice age, numerous volcanic eruptions occurred under Vatnajökull, creating many subglacial eruptions.

Corregidor and Caballo islands are remnants of a volcanic crater, the Corregidor Caldera, which was last active about one million years ago.

The last volcanic eruptions in the Laacher See volcanic site took place around 10, 000 years ago and generated a huge volume of volcanic ash, now found in thin ash layers in contemporaneous sediments throughout Europe.

The borough of Florenceville lies on a flat that has extremely rich soil due to past volcanic activity before the last ice age.

West Thumb is about the same size as another famous volcanic caldera, Crater Lake in Oregon, but much smaller than the great Yellowstone Caldera which last erupted about 640, 000 years ago.

On July 10, 2009, PHIVOLCS raised the status from Alert Level 1 ( low level unrest ) to Alert Level 2 ( moderate unrest ) because the number of recorded low frequency volcanic earthquakes rose to the same level when a phreatic explosion occurred last August 2008.