The rural town is best known as the location of the pivotal American Civil War engagement the Battle of Pea Ridge, or, as it is locally known, the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, which took place approximately five miles east of the town.

Although the engagement did not end the First Bulgarian Empire, the Battle of Kleidion reduced its ability to resist Byzantine advances and can be considered the pivotal encounter of the war with Byzantium.

Remnants of the Narn starfleet not destroyed or interned by the Centauri eventually joined the struggle against the Shadows led by John Sheridan, the heavy cruiser G ' Tok in particular playing a pivotal role in an early engagement in 2260.

The siege of Nicea and the pivotal battle for Antioch, the single most important military engagement of the entire expedition, are featured here in vivid detail.

The Battle of Manila was a short land engagement between the United States and Spain at the end of the Spanish – American War, which occurred a couple of months after the pivotal American victory during the naval Battle of Manila Bay.

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

The famous and pivotal scene described in Chapter 10, in which Pilar describes the execution of various fascist figures in her village is drawn from events that took place in Ronda in 1936.

Snelson's main body of work began in 1959 when a pivotal exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art took place.

In the decade of the 180s, Pertinax took a pivotal role in the Roman Senate until the praetorian prefect Sextus Tigidius Perennis forced him out of public life.

A pivotal example of successful naval dive-bombing attacks took place in the decisive Battle of Midway in June 1942 when American Dauntlesses scored fatal hits on three Japanese aircraft carriers within a six minute timespan.

Arsenio Rodríguez took the pivotal step of replacing the guitar with the piano, which greatly expanded the contrapuntal and harmonic possibilities of Cuban popular music.

The Bulls took the next two games and the series, with Malone struggling from the foul line in the pivotal Game 6.

Chandler was pressured by MacPhail, a close friend who was pivotal in having him appointed Commissioner, but the commissioner also discovered Durocher and Raft might have run a rigged crap game that took an active ballplayer for a large sum of money.

A pivotal moment would come, when, in 1852, he decided he had discovered the " correct " interpretation of the Book of Revelation, after which he took a vow of poverty and left for Palestine as soon as his meager funds would allow.

The Missouri State Guard in Jefferson City retreated to Boonville, where a pivotal skirmish took place on June 17.

When the war of independence against the Spanish broke out, he played a pivotal role in the uprising of the province of Camagüey which took place on November 4, 1868.

The sniper fire and the bombardment continued until 23 June 1857, the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Plassey, which took place on 23 June 1757 and was one of the pivotal battles leading to the expansion of British rule in India.

Matthew Tait took his spot at outside centre which proved to be very pivotal, as Noon's young Newcastle teammate was one of England's standout players throughout the tournament, in particular the final where he ran 50 meters and evaded 5 Springboks tacklers, only to be pulled down a few metres short by a great cover tackle by Victor Matfield.

Along with Miller, the pair took 14 wickets between them, displaying their pivotal role in Australia's bowling attack, especially in the absence of the injured Johnston, who was unavailable for most of the tour.

Lombard as President of the Commission was pivotal in the exoneration of De Nobili and subsequently the Church took a whole new view to incultration of Christianity and it's missions to the unchurched.

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

A British Military Assistance and Training Team played a pivotal role in assisting the creation of the new army, and was still in place in 2000.

Most pride events occur annually and many take place around June to commemorate the Stonewall riots, a pivotal moment in the modern LGBT rights movement.

The pivotal role of this time and place is chronicled at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, part of the Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site.

* A 7090 / 1401 installation is featured in the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, with the 1403 printer playing a pivotal role in the plot ( it is the hiding place for a transistor radio ; which, when found and turned on by one of the three characters played by Peter Sellers in the film, reveals that the nuclear attack ordered by the deranged Air Force base commander is phony, and must be stopped at all costs ).

* In Gore Vidal's novel Creation, which takes place between 510 – 445 BC, Cathay is a pivotal setting.

In Christian teachings, the Transfiguration is a pivotal moment, and the setting on the mountain is presented as the point where human nature meets God: the meeting place for the temporal and the eternal, with Jesus himself as the connecting point, acting as the bridge between heaven and earth.

In Christian teachings, the Transfiguration is a pivotal moment, and the setting on the mountain is presented as the point where human nature meets God: the meeting place for the temporal and the eternal, with Jesus himself as the connecting point, acting as the bridge between heaven and earth.

Those delegates ended up being pivotal in helping Dion pass Gerard Kennedy for third place on the first convention ballot, and eventually win the leadership when Kennedy swung his own support behind Dion after the second ballot.

* A pivotal scene in Sidney Ayers ' paranormal romance novel Demons Prefer Blondes takes place in Hell, Michigan.

The courier industry has long held an important place in United States commerce and been involved in pivotal moments in the nation's history such as westward migration and the gold rush.

Although Diana Prince was frequently told not to accompany Trevor at pivotal moments of adventures because it was no place for a woman, Diana was actually the most competent person to tackle a crisis, whether by exercising her knowledge or her power as Wonder Woman, riding in with an all-girl cavalry of Etta Candy and the Beeta Lambda sorority.

In particular, the organ at the Jacobikirche, Hamburg, played a pivotal role in the organ reform movement beginning in 1925, as a series of conferences taking place at historical organ sites in Germany and Alsace was inaugurated there.

In the New Testament, Transfiguration is a pivotal moment, and the setting on the mountain is presented as the point where human nature meets God: the meeting place for the temporal and the eternal, with Jesus himself as the connecting point, acting as the bridge between heaven and earth.

When the technomages fled the galaxy in January 2259, Alwyn broke with the order in contempt of their decision to hide ; he then began engaging a guerrilla campaign against the Shadows ' minions, playing ( alongside Galen, who left the hiding place to fight ) a pivotal role in the outcome of the Shadow War.

The first one is a pivotal love scene that takes place on top of an English military blimp ( not in a cabin or gondola but actually on top of the blimp ), the other is the final scene of the film which has a twist ending.

When the Keeper dies, Kassia takes the throne, but at the pivotal moment of the ceremony is completed, she disappears, leaving the statue of Melkur in her place, now connected to the Source.

John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. ( January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960 ) was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family.

John Robert Brown ( December 10, 1909 – January 23, 1993 ) was a United States federal judge of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1950s and 1960s, one of the " Fifth Circuit Four " pivotal in the civil rights movement.

The Flames continued this good run of form, with the exception of a patch in mid January, leaving them top of the table, in a pivotal weekend ( 16 / 17th of Feb .) the Flames beat 3rd placed Milton Keynes 5-1 and 2nd placed Slough Jets 6-2 leaving them top of the table by 4 points with 6 games remaining.

In January 1864 he played a pivotal role in the creation of six regiments of U. S. Volunteers recruited from among Confederate prisoners of war (" Galvanized Yankees ") for duty on the western frontier.

Also, a lesser known but pivotal work of Russell's was recorded in January 1950 by Artie Shaw entitled " Similau " that employed techniques of both the works done for Gillespie and DeFranco.

The January 1993 outbreak of E. coli associated with Jack in the Box hamburgers turned out to be a pivotal moment in contemporary food safety history.

Emma Gillett ( July 30, 1852 – January 23, 1927 ) was an American lawyer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the advancement of legal studies for women.

The change of command also was a pivotal step in the realignment consolidation of Langley AFB and Fort Eustis into Joint Base Langley-Eustis, which stood up in January 2010.

Since its January 2005 premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, this innovative feature film played a pivotal role in renewing debate about the need for a suicide barrier on The Golden Gate Bridge as well as garnering praise and earning awards for its unique filmmaking style.