It is estimated that, between 1493 and 1793, sejms were held 240 times, the total debate-time sum of which was 44 years.

Over the proceedings of the next few sejms, the veto was still subject to occasional overrulement, but the acceptance of it was gradually extended.

This sejm was open to all members of the nobility who desired to attend it, and as such they often gathered much larger number of attendees than the regular sejms.

No set time of a year was defined, but customarily sejms were called for a time that would not interfere with the supervision of agriculture, which formed the livelihood of most nobility ; thus most sejms took place in late fall or early winter.

Provisions for extraordinary sejms were made, as well as for a special constitutional sejm, which was to meet and discuss whether any revisions to the constitution were needed ( that one was to deliberate every 25 years ).

The pro-majority-voting party almost disappeared in the 17th century, and majority voting was preserved only at confederated sejms ( sejm rokoszowy, konny, konfederacyjny ).

Sejmiks were significantly reformed by the Constitution of 3 May, 1791 with the Prawo o sejmikach, the act on regional sejms, passed earlier on March 24, 1791 ( article VI ), recognized as part of the Constitution.

After the Constitution of May 3, 1791, sejms were to be held every two years and last 70 days, with a provision for an extension to 100 days.

The Constitution of May 3 specified that the deputies were elected for two years, and did not require reelection in that period if any extraordinary sejms were to be called.

32 sejms were vetoed with the infamous liberum veto, particularly in the first half of the 18th century.

The process gave the nobility a great deal of power over the king, but the sejms ( meetings of delegates ) to elect kings and conduct other business were in later years paralyzed by the institution of the Liberum Veto, which gave any individual in the sejm the power to negate its decisions.

* between sejms, 16 resident senators were to be at the king's side as his advisers and overseers.

In the period of 1573-1763, about 150 sejms where held, out of which about a third failed to pass any legislation, mostly due to liberum veto.

In the period of 1573-1763, about 150 sejms where held, of which 53 failed to pass any legislation.

Historian Jacek Jędruch notes that out of the 53 disrupted sejms, 32 were disrupted due to liberum veto.

After 1764, sejms were frequently confederated.

After Poland regained independence, provincial sejms were restored in the Second Polish Republic, although they used the word sejm, not sejmik, as their names.

Powiat sejms were common on Lithuania, but were rare in the Crown of Poland, were in turn voivodeship sejms were much more common.

Three special sejms handled the process of the royal election in the interregnum period.

In the period of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 10 elections ( composed of the convocation, election and coronation sejms ) were held in Poland, resulting in the elevation of 11 kings.

Following unsuccessful attempts at reforming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth undertaken at sejms between 1744 and 1750, the Familia distanced itself from the royal court.

There were also special Sejms when needed, for example the coronation sejms.

It is estimated that between 1493 and 1793 sejms were held 240 times.

Extraordinary sejms could be called in times of national emergency, for example a sejm deciding whether to call pospolite ruszenie ( a general call to arms ) in response to an invasion.

Until the Union of Lublin ( 1569 ), sejms were held in Piotrków Trybunalski Castle, located in Piotrków, a town chosen for its proximity to the two major provinces of Poland, Greater Poland and Lesser Poland.

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The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

His large house ( purchased in 1509 from the heirs of the astronomer Bernhard Walther ), where his workshop was located and where his widow lived until her death in 1539, remains a prominent Nuremberg landmark.

The campaign seeks to gain World Heritage Status for the iconic Angus landmark that was the birthplace of one of Scotland's most significant documents, the Declaration of Arbroath.

He described it as brown in colour and the size of a wagon load ; it was a local landmark for more than 500 years.

The Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 was the landmark in the legal history of land reforms in Rajasthan which was followed by Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 that became applicable to the whole of Rajasthan.

Her work in choreographing the landmark 1986 production of Lully's 1676 tragedie-lyrique Atys was part of the national celebration of the 300th anniversary of Lully's death.

The Catalina Casino, a famous landmark overlooking Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island, California, has never been used for traditional games of chance, which were already outlawed in California by the time it was built.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy ( Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins ), psychology ( taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce ), and mathematics ( taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic ).

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Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

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Attempts at redeveloping the site were unsuccessful until its landmark status was established.