Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

The Timaeus remained known in a Latin rendition by Calcidius through the Middle Ages, and the allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up by Humanists in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Thomas More's Utopia.

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The song is heard in a choral rendition by Ken Darby in the 1968 John Wayne film, The Green Berets, based on Moore's book.

Several groups claim that the military base on Diego Garcia has been used by the US government for transport of prisoners involved in the controversial extraordinary rendition program, an allegation formally reported to the Council of Europe in June 2007.

CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

The acts also teamed for two yuletide favorites: a frantic, melodious, harmonic rendition of " A Merry Christmas at Grandmother's House ( Over the River and Through the Woods )", and another duet by Danny & Patty, " All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth "

Since this affected the rendition of cymbals at playback, sound engineers of the time remedied the situation by asking drummers to play the content of the cymbals onto woodblocks, temple blocks and cowbells for their loudness and short decay.

These same visible lines, accompanied by the emission lines of trivalent europium and trivalent terbium, and further accompanied by the emission continuum of divalent europium in the blue region, comprise the more discontinuous light emission of the modern trichromatic phosphor systems used in many compact fluorescent lamp and traditional lamps where better color rendition is a goal.

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

In 1978 as part of their album, also called Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Geraint Jarman a ' r Cynganeddwyr recorded a version of the Welsh national anthem using electric guitars, inspired by Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.

At 16: 00, Ben-Gurion opened the ceremony by banging his gavel on the table, prompting a spontaneous rendition of Hatikvah, soon to be Israel's national anthem, from the 250 guests.

Apollo Command Module flying at a high angle of attack to aerobrake by skimmimg the atmosphere ( artistic rendition )

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Death of Lucretia, an artistic and symbolic rendition of the event by Sandro Botticelli.

The third rendition, The Sims 3, was released by EA in 2009.

Before recent advances in digital photography, transparencies were widely used by professionals because of their sharpness and accuracy of color rendition.

She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit " Fever " written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport, to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics (" Romeo loved Juliet ," " Captain Smith and Pocahontas ") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's " Is That All There Is ?".

This senryū, which can also be translated " Catching him / you see the robber / is your son ," is not so much a personal experience of the author as an example of a type of situation ( provided by a short comment called a maeku or fore-verse, which usually prefaces a number of examples ) and / or a brief or witty rendition of an incident from history or the arts ( plays, songs, tales, poetry, etc .).

Prokofiev composed the score for Eisenstein's film and Eisenstein reciprocated by designing sets for an operatic rendition of War and Peace that Prokofiev was developing.

The album opens with her rendition of the traditional tune Morning Has Broken popularized by Cat Stevens.

Despite listening to the judges ' comments to sing a contemporary song, her rendition was criticized from the judges ; Randy Jackson thought the note was too big for Stevens while Ellen DeGeneres felt Stevens did not sell the lyrics.

The song heard over the end credits is a rendition of Barbra Streisand's " People ," sung by Sally Stevens.

A rendition typically lasts forty minutes and is very demanding on both players.

John Elliot, however, suggests that the notion of Silvanus as secretary or author or drafter of 1 Peter represents little more than a counsel of despair and introduces more problems than it solves because the Greek rendition of 5: 12 suggests that Silvanus was not the secretary, but the courier / bearer of 1Peter.

One comes between basketball practice in the gym and the exterior at The Rig-Wam drive-in ; it has Jacy, Duane and Sonny riding along in her convertible ( and being chased by an enthusiastic little dog ), singing an uptempo rendition of the more solemn school song sung later at the football game.

The film series also has another character, ' Dynamite Harry ', as the little brother of Benny Frandsen, which is also featured on the Norwegian rendition of the episodes – is the demolition expert ( although his nerves are very easily shaken due to years of having dealt with explosives and alcohol ).

He then went on to sing an off-key rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner with the lyrics replaced by those of a fictitious " Kazakh national anthem ", beginning with " Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world / All other countries are run by little girls ..."

Mike Ness, usually placated by the beer which they somehow always found the money for, lets out a little frustration one night at a small impromptu show, breaking out in a frenzied, seizure-looking rendition of the worm during his performance.

Music praised Clarkson's rendition of the song, calling it " perfectly fine " despite the saying that it was " a little reminiscent of those many mediocre, superficial ballads trotted out on ' Idol.

This was a poem by Christine Steele, recited over Cassius Khan's vocal rendition of the ancient Urdu poem set to music, " Darbari Raag ".

Thirty years after its premiere, William Grossman and Jack Farrell denounced the entire Aeolian concert, including Rhapsody in Blue, saying the " clumsily syncopated ' jazz ' was gradually replaced with ponderous pseudosymphonic harmonies played over dance rhythms, culminating in the concert rendition of Gershwin ’ s Rhapsody in Blue, one of the most ludicrous of the popular attempts during the 1920s to merge jazz and ' serious ' music ".

Ron Griffith of Badfinger ( known at this time as The Iveys, and the first band to join The Beatles-owned record label Apple Records ), recalled that on their first day in the studio, " Paul walked over to the grand piano and said, ' Hey lads, have a listen ', and he sat down and gave us a full concert rendition of ' Hey Jude '.

It has also campaigned against rendition flights, including introducing a debate in the Scottish Parliament over the issue, and against the lack of response from the UK government in Israel's war on Lebanon.

Despite repeated denials about his complicity in extraordinary rendition — he once dismissed the suggestion of UK involvement in the practice as a " conspiracy theory "— Straw has been dogged for years over his alleged leading role in it, most recently facing scrutiny over the case of Abdel Hakim Belhadj.

* The first artist broadcast from space when astronauts played his rendition of Waltzing Matilda from Space Shuttle Columbia as it passed over Australia on its maiden flight in 1981.

This led to an invitation to perform at producer Eddie Barclay's trendy "", performing a forty minute rendition of " We Did It Again ", singing the refrain over and over, achieving a Zen-like quality.

Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague demanded an explanation from the incumbent, David Miliband, as comparisons were drawn with his previous embarrassment over the US use of Diego Garcia for extraordinary rendition without British knowledge, with one commentator describing the affair as ' a wake-up call ' and ' the latest example of American governments ignoring Britain when it comes to US interests in British territories abroad '.

Legal and moral doubts also arose over the US government's extraordinary rendition process, which ignored extradition treaties and officially sanctioned the kidnap and extrajudicial transfer of people ( some of them British citizens ), from one country to another, sometimes to one of their covert CIA-run prisons, known as black sites, other times to Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Michelle Pfeiffer's memorable rendition of " Makin ' Whoopee ", sprawled over a piano in a red evening dress, has been referenced and parodied numerous times, entering pop culture as an iconic image.

Originally a duo formed by classically trained musician Warren Fischer and video-artist and experimental theater performer Casey Spooner for an impromptu rendition of their makeshift track " Indian Cab Driver " at the Astor Place Starbucks, the group grew to over 20 performers, most of whom are dancers and guest vocalists.

After Clayton said a final goodbye, the credits rolled over a rendition of " Auld Lang Syne ".

The title sequence of the show, in fact, was the title of the show superimposed over a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, with a slightly reworked rendition of the movie's signature hit theme.

A rendition of the Royal Arms of British Columbia is visible in the gable above the Ballroom's south facing bow window, which commands a view over Ross Bay and the lower part of the Fairfield neighbourhood, across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.

Tom Jones ' rendition of " Kung Fu Fighting " plays over the end credits, followed by a song specially written and performed for the film by the band Devo, entitled " Supercop ".

Currently the administration continues to allow rendition only " to a country with jurisdiction over that individual ( for prosecution of that individual )" when there is a diplomatic assurance " that they will not be treated inhumanely.

In a resolution passed on 14 February 2007 MEPs approved by a large majority ( 382 voting in favour, 256 against and 74 abstaining ) their committee's final report, which criticized the rendition program and concluded that many European countries tolerated illegal CIA activities including secret flights over their territories.

When questioned as to whether the government had deliberately misled the public over rendition, the Foreign Secretary apologised and stated that the government had simply " made a mistake ".

In the week prior to the Rams game, the fire-brand Lombardi inspired his team all week with a rendition of St. Paul's Run to Win letter to the Corinthians and, in what Bart Starr would later say was Lombardi's most rousing pre-game speech, incited his team to a 28 – 7 victory over the Rams at Milwaukee County Stadium.

During his run on the show, he gave several performances that earned him high praise from the judges, including his rendition of Simon & Garfunkel's " Bridge over Troubled Water ", Foreigner's " I Want to Know What Love Is " and Andrea Bocelli and Céline Dion's duet " The Prayer.

* Jeff Astle Sings-former West Bromwich Albion player ( and Frank's idol ) Jeff Astle would come in at the end of the show and lead the guests in an improbable rendition of a classic song over the credits.

Martindale's rendition of the spoken-word song " Deck of Cards " went to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold over a million copies in 1959.