and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

This masterpiece has gaiety, too, but it is the gaiety of dancing people: earthy, salty and humorous.

Ranking from the very few bronzes survived to us is the masterpiece bronze Piraeus Apollo.

His sacral masterpiece and one of the most famous religious works of art of the later Middle Ages is The Legend of St. Sebastian and The Passion of Christ of the so called Sebastian Altar in St. Florian's Priory ( Stift Sankt Florian ) near Linz, Upper Austria.

The baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège in modern Belgium ( before 1117 ) is an outstanding masterpiece of Romanesque brass casting.

The 12th century temple of Angkor Wat is the masterpiece of Angkorian architecture.

His comparative approach is obvious in the following excerpt from Chapter III of Book I of what many consider to be his masterpiece, De l ' esprit des lois:

The development of a new life is a spectacular process and represents a masterpiece of temporal and spatial control of gene expression.

" Apocalypse Nows reputation has grown in time and it is now regarded by many as a masterpiece of the New Hollywood era, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made.

This work is perhaps De Sica's masterpiece and one of the most important works in Italian cinema.

The church is considered by many to be an exemplary masterpiece of Roman Baroque architecture.

The Why We Fight series is widely considered a masterpiece of war information documentaries, and won an Academy Award.

* Author William Goldman claims in his book The Princess Bride that the story he tells is an abridged version of the Florinese literary masterpiece by the great ( and fictional ) S. Morgenstern.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

One of the Arabic translations, ‘ Kitab ila Aglooqan fi Shifa al Amraz ’, which is extant in the Library of Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences, is regarded as a masterpiece of Galen's literary works.

The Histories — his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced — is a record of his " inquiry " ( or historía, a word that passed into Latin and acquired its modern meaning of " history "), being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information.

Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.

Bogart was unusually happy with it, remarking, " it is practically a masterpiece.

While the majority of his films lost money at the box office ( the main reason for Santana's end ), at least two of them are still remembered today ; In a Lonely Place is now recognized as a masterpiece of film noir.

Baldung settled eventually in Strasbourg and then to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he executed what is known as his masterpiece.

In 1691, he wrote the music for what is sometimes considered his dramatic masterpiece, King Arthur, with the libretto by Dryden and first published by the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1843.

* Rasperger ( Raspergero ), Christopher ( Christophorus, Christoph, Christophoro, Christophe ) Two hundred interpretations of the words: This is my Body, Ingolstadt, 1577 Latin text.

Such early discoveries are overlooked however, and the first sighting is claimed a few months later by Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner.

The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by Gottlieb Stephanie.

* Schmidt is also a talented pianist, and has recorded piano concertos of both Mozart and Bach with the well-known German pianist and conductor, Christoph Eschenbach.

Bruckner is greeted by ( from left to right ): Franz Liszt | Liszt, Richard Wagner | Wagner, Franz Schubert | Schubert, Robert Schumann | Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber | Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven | Beethoven, Christoph Willibald Gluck | Gluck, Joseph Haydn | Haydn, George Frideric Handel | Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach | Bach.

Christoph Bulst argues that Cinna was killed in “ an absolutely un-political mutiny ,” pointing out that there is no mention of specific opposition against Cinna, and that he did not even feel the need to travel with a bodyguard.

It is an hour's stroll from Weimar, where walked Goethe, Herder, Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Martin Wieland, the inimitable Kotzebue and others.

More recent scholarly literature ( such as the edition by Christoph Wolff ) suggests that there is no basis for such doubts.

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Christoph von Graffenried ordered that the layout of the town was made into the shape of a cross, although the town is not in the shape today due to growth of the town and towns surrounding it.

* December 10: Christoph Blocher and Hans-Rudolf Merz are elected to the Swiss Federal Council, Ruth Metzler-Arnold is not re-elected.

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

One of the theatre ensembles in Balve is the Kolpingtheatergruppe, directed by Christoph Rapp.

One of Anker's greatest admirers and collectors is former Swiss Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher, since the 1980s Switzerland's most influential conservative politician, who also published an apologetic essay on Anker.

St. Stephen's Cathedral () is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP.

This is virtually a revised edition of the incomplete translation published by Christoph Martin Wieland between 1762 and 1766.

The story is similar to the German folktale " Peter Klaus " by Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal, which is a shorter story set in a German village.

He is not to be confused with other similarly named members of the Bach family ( see Johann Christoph Bach ( disambiguation )).

* Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse is appointed composer to the court of Denmark.

The first is a compilation from many authors on the description and history of Muslim Iberia ; it was published by William Wright, Christoph Krehl, Reinhart Dozy and Gustave Dugat as Analectes sur l ' histoire et la littérature des Arabes d ' Espagne ( 1855 – 1861 ), and in an abridged English translation by Pascual de Gayangos ( 1840 – 1843 ).

" The governing idea of the work ", as the Bach specialist Christoph Wolff put it, is " an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject.

The Bach Compendium is a project started in 1985 to publish critical editions of Bach's entire writing, edited by Hans-Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff.

Avida, created by Christoph Adami, Charles Ofria, and Titus Brown, is used in scientific research about evolution.

This movement, " reform opera " is primarily associated with Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ranieri de ' Calzabigi.