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An agreement between the leaders of four parties which contested indecisive elections on Oct. 15 was reached after almost 18 hours of political bargaining under the threat of an army coup d'etat.
It was made capable of making war and peace, negotiating diplomatic and commercial agreements with foreign countries, and deciding disputes between the states, including their additional and contested western territories.
Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.
Reinforced by Phocian and Orchomenian troops and a Spartan army, he met the confederate forces at Coronea in Boeotia, and in a hotly contested battle was technically victorious, but the success was a barren one and he had to retire by way of Delphi to the Peloponnese.
The city of Sassari surrenderd in 1323, but rebelled three more times and was contested by Genoa.
But time and the investigations of subsequent explorers have shown that Abbadie was quite trustworthy as to his facts, though wrong in his contention — hotly contested by Beke — that the Blue Nile was the main stream.
The idea that Domnall II of Strathclyde was a son of Áed, based on a confusing entry in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, is contested.
European control of the Bandas was contested up until 1667 when, under the Treaty of Breda ( 1667 ), the British traded the small island of Run for Manhattan, giving the Dutch full control of the Banda archipelago.
Sanader was reelected in the closely contested 2007 parliamentary election.
Belize was contested between the Spanish Empire and the British Empire, a dispute that continued after the independence of Guatemala, who considered Belize to be a Guatemalan department.
Ernst Mayr remarks that the theory was hotly contested by some famous geneticists: William Bateson, Wilhelm Johannsen, Richard Goldschmidt and T. H.
The legacy of Genghis Khan has been contested between China, Mongolia, and Russia, all three states having significant numbers of ethnic Mongols within their borders, and holding territory that was conquered by Khan.
After the New England Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of New England, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France.
A stronger belief in an afterlife for each person developed during the Second Temple period but was contested by various Jewish sects.
This dispute was hotly contested by all concerned who felt passionately for their cause, and the case caused minor waves within punk circles.
When the Western renamed itself the American League for 1900, it was still a minor league, but next year it broke with the National Agreement and declared itself major, openly competing with the National League for players, and for fans in three contested cities.
Although its canonical status was contested, its authenticity was never doubted by the Early Church.
Henry's succession was strongly contested by the Catholic League and by Philip II, and Elizabeth feared a Spanish takeover of the channel ports.
An otherwise identical, but smaller replica was also made by Fattorini, the North Wales Coast FA Cup trophy, and is contested annually by members of that regional Association.
Cleveland's margin of victory was, at the time, the largest in a contested New York election, and the Democrats also picked up seats in both houses of the New York State Legislature.
Among the Democrats, Samuel J. Tilden was the initial front-runner, having been the party's nominee in the contested election of 1876.

was and Gibbons
In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by his future wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio " El Indio " Fernández.
Disco was an influence on house music, which was also influenced by mixing and editing techniques earlier explored by disco DJs, producers, and audio engineers like Walter Gibbons, Tom Moulton, Jim Burgess, Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, M & M and others who produced longer, more repetitive and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings.
As William Gibbons writes, " Pastor Thomas also mentioned that the two pygmies mimicked the cry of the animal as it was being attacked and speared ... Later, a victory feast was held, during which parts of the animal were cooked and eaten.
Gibbons v. Ogden ( 1824 ) was another influential case involving the supremacy clause.
Consisting of Gibbons, Lanier Greig on keyboards and Moving Sidewalks ' drummer Dan Mitchell, the group was signed to London Records by manager Bill Ham, and released two singles —" Salt Lick " and " Miller's Farm ".
Billy Gibbons stated in an interview in August 2011 that the new album had been recorded, with initial recording taking place in Malibu, California, before moving to Houston, but was still unnamed and had yet to be mixed and mastered.
Gibbons said that the expected release date was sometime in March or April 2012 but most recently a release in the late summer or fall has been announced.
DJ Screw was a major influence on the album as well, particularly because Gibbons and Screw both worked with the engineer G. L.
The first price guide was the Stanley Gibbons catalogue issued in November 1865.
On the Pacific Coast of North America, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus was praised by Euell Gibbons ; Strongylocentrotus purpuratus is also eaten.
The abbey church was remodelled according to the plans of James Smith, and was fitted with elaborate thrones and stalls for the individual Knights of the Thistle, carved by Grinling Gibbons.
The art direction was by Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell and the costume design by Adrian.
It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color ( Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis ), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Picture.
The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Walter Pidgeon ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ( Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture, and Best Sound, Recording ( Douglas Shearer ).
The credits of Dummy indicate that at this juncture, Portishead was a duo of Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons.
One of the surviving occupants, 14-year-old Brian Gibbons, was later awarded the George Medal for bravery, as well as the Carnegie Award.
Belmont railway station opened in May 1865 and was originally called ' California Station ', named after the California Arms public house on the opposite side of Brighton Road which was built by John Gibbons in approximately 1858.
The original music score was by Bronislau Kaper, the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg and Robert Surtees, the art direction by Randall Duell and Cedric Gibbons and the costume design by Helen Rose.
The organ was commissioned in 1694: the current instrument is the third-largest in Great Britain in terms of number of pipes ( 7, 266 pipes ), with 5 manuals, 189 ranks of pipes and 108 stops, enclosed in an impressive case by Grinling Gibbons.
William Hogarth was born at Bartholomew Close in London to Richard Hogarth, a poor Latin school teacher and textbook writer, and Anne Gibbons.

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