Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; ;

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.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

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.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

The central part, which reaches the last floor, is a multicolored section with protruding balconies.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

It treats in its first part the doctrines of God and his attributes ; in its second, those of creation and sin ; in its third, those of redemption and atonement ; and, in its fourth and last, those of the sacraments.

A substantial piece of the last part of the book is set in the resulting riotous trial at the Bronx County Court House.

The biggest, and most important, program of the FAB in the last years is the SIPAM ( Sistema de Proteção da Amazônia-Amazonian Protection System ), the operational part of the SIPAM is known by SIVAM ( Sistema de Vigilância da Amazônia-Amazon Vigilance System ).

The larger part of the country is covered by a peneplain, which forms a gently undulating landscape with, in some areas, a few isolated hills, the last vestiges of a Precambrian massif.

( This last mission, that of Nehemiah, is not part of the Book of Ezra.

Before sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, Borneo was part of the mainland of Asia, forming, with Java and Sumatra, the upland regions of a peninsula that extended east from present day Indochina and Thailand.

The Borough of East York was the last Toronto municipality to hold this status, relinquishing it upon becoming part of the City of Toronto on January 1, 1998.

In contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.

* Introductory cosmology and general relativity without the full tensor apparatus, deferred until the last part of the book.

Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).

However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.

Later, the Marinids tried to recover the former Almohad territories in the Iberian peninsula, but they were definitively defeated by Sancho IV, Ferdinand's grandson, and King Afonso IV of Portugal in the Battle of Salado, the last major military encounter between large Christian and Muslim armies in the Iberian peninsula.

The title of Viceroy being awarded to members of the nobility, Viceroys, Governors and Governing Commissions were many times interleaved until the last Viceroy Afonso, Prince Royal of Portugal, in 1896.

The master was to await the arrival of Afonso ( 1248 – 1279 ) so that they could unite their forces and remove the last vestiges of resistance in the Algarve.

During the struggle between Afonso V of Portugal and Ferdinand of Aragon for the right of succession to Henry IV of Castile, the last male of his house ( 1474 ), much depended upon the attitude of Calatrava.

In 1441, Tristão was dispatched by Henry in one of the first prototypes of the lateen-rigged caravel to explore the West African coast beyond Cape Barbas, the furthest point reached by Henry's last captain five years earlier ( Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, in 1436 ).

The official royal letter of 29 October 1462 states that it was Diogo Afonso, the king's scribe, who had discovered the other ( last ) seven islands that were mentioned in the royal letter of 19 September 1462.

* 1249-King Afonso III of Portugal takes Faro ( in the Algarve ) from the Moors, thus removing the last Muslim state from Portuguese soil and ending the Portuguese Reconquista.

Nevada Stoody Hayes ( born at Sandyville, Ohio, USA on 21 October 1885, and died at Tampa, Florida, on 11 January 1941 ), sometimes called Nevada de Bragança, was an American socialite who became the wife of Infante Afonso, Duke of Porto, whose nephew, Manuel II, was the last king of Portugal.

Her fourth and last husband was the 3rd Duke of Porto, Dom Afonso of Braganza ( 1865 – 1920 ), whom she married morganatically on 26 September 1917 in Rome, and, again, in a civil ceremony, on 23 November of that year, in Madrid.

In accordance with this last policy, the marriage of the Countess Matilda of Tuscany with Guelph of Bavaria was promoted ; Prince Conrad of Italy was assisted in his rebellion against his father and crowned King of the Romans at Milan in 1093 ; and Henry IV's wife, the Empress ( Adelaide ), was encouraged in her charges of sexual coercion against her husband.

Covers the last few months of James IV's reign and ends with the Battle of Flodden ( 1513 ).

On the last occasion he was one of the four delegates charged with signifying Nicholas IV's desire for the deposition of Munio de Zamora, who had been master of the order from 1285, and was deprived of his office by a papal bull dated April 12, 1291.

Generally these involved increasing the Panzer IV's armor protection or upgrading its weapons, although during the last months of the war with Germany's pressing need for rapid replacement of losses, design changes also included retrograde measures to simplify and speed manufacture.

George IV's coronation banquet was held in Westminster Hall in 1821 ; it was the last such banquet held.

Ferdinand IV's hypothetical reign didn ’ t last long ; the House of Habsburg-Lorraine was formally deposed by the National Assembly on 16 August 1859.

He was Lord High Steward at King William IV's coronation in 1831 and Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838, and remains the last person to have undertaken this duty twice.

However, its use as a military tactic predates this by an untold number of centuries, though typically as an occasional measure of last resort as in Baldwin IV's defense of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ( one of the crusader states ).

He held the honorary office of British Historiographer Royal during the last years of William IV's reign.

He was appointed Historiographer Royal during the last years of William IV's reign, and published several official pamphlets.

The last of the direct Capetians were the daughters of Philip IV's three sons, and Philip IV's daughter, Isabelle.