Dorothea Lynde Dix proclaims that “ Perhaps no flower ( not excepting even the queenly rose ) claims to be so universal a favorite, as the viola tricolor ; none currently has been honored with so rich a variety of names, at once expressive of grace, delicacy and tenderness .” Many of these names play on the whimsical nature of love, including “ Three Faces under a Hood ,” “ Flame Flower ,” “ Jump Up and Kiss Me ,” “ Flower of Jove ,” and “ Pink of my John .”

Canova has a lightness and grace, where Thorvaldsen is more severe ; the difference is exemplified in their respective groups of the Three Graces.

Like other Reformed churches, they teach that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone, follow Reformed ( Calvinist ) theology, and have adopted the Three Forms of Unity ( Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, and Canons of Dort ) as their doctrinal standards.

Three biblical holy women, Magna Peccatrix ( the Great Sinneress, Luke 7: 36 ), Mulier Samaritana ( the Samaritan woman, John 4 ), and Maria Aegyptiaca ( Acta Sanctorum ), plead for Faust's soul, while Una Paenitentium ( previously Gretchen ), also pleading for grace, offers to lead the reborn Faust into the higher spheres of heaven.

Three separate courtyards — Alvarez ( Main ) Court, Potty Court, and Stone Court — grace Trumbull's interior.

At the end of the book series, Visser Three accepts his defeat with relative grace, deciding to let the Animorphs capture him (" any punishment you inflict would be nothing compared to what the Council of Thirteen would do ").

The grand neo-Classical Cunard Building was the third of Liverpool's Three Graces.

" Three teams — an AT & T Research Team called BellKor, commendo's team BigChaos, and Pragmatic Theory — combined to win the 2009 grand prize competition for $ 1 million.

In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he received the nickname " Ma Chao the Splendid " due to his elaborate armour and grand skill as a warrior.

* ... And Then There Were Three ...: Hammond T-102 organ, Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano, ARP 2600, Moog Music Polymoog, ARP Pro Soloist, Roland RS-202.

Three of the Hong Wu emperor's ancestors were buried here, his grand father, his great gradfather, and his great great grandfather.

Three federal grand juries were called to hear testimony on the Aquash murder: in 1976, 1982 and 1994, but it was more than a quarter of a century before any suspects were indicted and tried for the crime.

The Battle of Ksar El Kebir, also known as Battle of Three Kings, or " Battle of Oued El Makhazeen " in Morocco, and Battle of Alcácer Quibir in Portugal ( variant spellings are legion: Alcácer-Quivir, Alcazarquivir, Alcassar, meaning grand castle in Arabic ), was fought in northern Morocco, near the town of Ksar-el-Kebir and Larache, on 4 August 1578.

Three days later, he had five RBIs again and hit his first career grand slam ( a game-winner against Omar Olivares ) as the Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9 – 5.

It formed the basis for the grand plan of the warlord Liu Bei and later the Three Kingdoms state of Shu.

Three people won the grand prize on Russian Roulette:

In Poland, Epiphany, or Trzech Kroli ( Three Kings ) is celebrated in grand fashion, with huge parades held welcoming the Wise Men, often riding on camels or other animals from the zoo, in Warsaw and other cities.

Many people would think that Han Xin was the first person to propose the grand plan for unifying China: he started his plan together with ( Emperor ) Gaozu in Hanzhong, conquered the Three Qins, led a northern campaign to attack the kingdoms of Wei, Dai, Zhao, Yan and Qi, moved south to destroy Chu in Gaixia.

Three years later a similar programme was given, though this did contain a full concerto – Mendelssohn ’ s First Piano Concerto played on the ‘ grand pianoforte ’ by Master G G Stocks.

A friend, with whom he was sharing a flat in neighbouring Wallington, recalls those days: " Three things already stood out in him at the age of seventeen: his prodigious talent as an artist – he could paint original work in the style of any of the grand masters ; his natural ability as a musician – he could pick out any tune on the piano by ear ; and his zany sense of humour – he idolized the comedian Jerry Lewis.

Three of his homers came in the second game, including a record-tying two grand slams in consecutive innings ( July 4, 1939 ).

Prior to his single grand prix entry, Morgan raced a Mini in the mid-1960s, and soon moved on to Formula Three.

As an undergraduate, he performed a puppet version of Wagner's Ring cycle, and directed a minimalist production of Three Sisters, with mature birch trees on the stage apron at Loeb Drama Center and Chopin Nocturnes played on a concert grand piano seen through a suspended gauze box set.

Contrary to popular belief, the long staircase is not the same one used by The Three Stooges in their 1941 film An Ache in Every Stake.

Three paintings by Robert LaPalme are located over the main staircase leading to the Yellow Line terminus.

Bingley Three Rise Locks is a staircase of three locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley, West Yorkshire, England.

Three Men Walking II, 1949, painted bronze sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three of the unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police were shot dead on the first day of the Rising and their Commissioner pulled them off the streets.

He is also represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and in English provincial museums ; the Metropolitan Museum, New York owns his " The Three Graces ," considered by many his masterpiece.

* Three Ages of Man or Rustic Idyll ; 77. 5 x 11. 8 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art

She also sang her first Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera and performed Berg's Three Excerpts from Wozzeck and Lulu Suite with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and James Levine.

Three of the 82 designated Major Activity Centres identified in the Melbourne 2030 Metropolitan Strategy are located in Richmond — the commercial strips of Victoria Street, Bridge Road and Swan Street.

* Eucharist, Bishop, Church: The Unity of the Church in the Divine Eucharist and the Bishop during the First Three Centuries by the Professor Metropolitan of Pergamus and Chairman of the Athens Academy John Zizioulas

Three Men Walking II sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, 1949, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bronze ; H. 30-1 / 8, W. 13, D. 12-3 / 4 inches ( 76. 5 x 33 x 32. 4 cm.

Three objects from Cyprus ( held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ) were cast as by the lost-wax technique, from the 13th and 12th centuries BC, namely, the Amphorae Rim, the rod tripod, and the cast tripod.

* Live at the San Diego Metropolitan Correctional Center ( 2001, Three One G )

Three counties and one independent city are included in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area.

* The Three Mile Island accident is an accident that occurred in 1979 in a nuclear plant run by Metropolitan Edison.

Jack Herbein was the Vice President of the Metropolitan Edison power company that managed the nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the Three Mile Island accident occurred in 1979.

Three of these shorts ( Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc?

* त ी न प ै श ां च ा तम ा श ा ( Teen Paishancha Tamasha ) – 1978 ... based on Bertolt Brecht's The Three Penny Opera '

*" Moritat ( A Theme from ' The Three Penny Opera ')" ( US # 17, March 1956 )

* Philip Glass: opera, Akhnaten: An Opera in Three Acts ( 1983 ; CBS Records, 1987 )

3, is also Opera in Three Acts with text and music by Siegfried Wagner ; his third opera and it was completed in 1903.

* Victor Herbert Eileen: Romantic Comic Opera in Three Acts ( 1998 ) Ohio Light Opera, James Stewart, Artistic Director ; Newport Classic ( NPD 85615 / 2 )

Carmichael and a white student and civil-rights activist, Tom Kahn, helped to fund a five-day run of the Three Penny Opera, by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill: " Tom Kahn — very shrewdly — had captured the position of Treasurer of the Liberal Arts Student Council and the infinitely charismatic and popular Carmichael as floor whip was good at lining up the votes.

* Watch Your Thirst: A Dry Opera in Three Acts ( 1923 )

Most of my roles since The Hunchback, such as The Phantom of the Opera, He Who Gets Slapped, The Unholy Three, etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation.

In 1990, he conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra del Teatro dell ' Opera di Roma in the first ever Three Tenors concert in Rome, joining the tenors again in 1994 at the Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles.

Houseman produced numerous Broadway productions, including Heartbreak House, Three Sisters, The Beggar's Opera, and several Shakespearean plays, including a famous " Blackshirt " Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles in 1937.

His theatre career as an actor includes several roles at the Stratford Festival, including Romeo in Robin Phillips ' production of Romeo and Juliet, and at Soulpepper, including the title roles in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Chekhov's Platonov, the Stage Manager in Our Town, Henry in The Real Thing, Alceste in The Misanthrope, Vershinin in Three Sisters, Astrov in Uncle Vanya, El Gallo in the Fantasticks, Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross and Macheath in The Threepenny Opera.

By his own admission a " wretched student ," he transferred to Goddard College and became involved in theatre, where he performed in ensemble productions of The Three Penny Opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream and a wide variety of contemporary and improvisational pieces.

* The Three Graces, 1908 opera which opened at the Chicago Opera House and starred such performers as Trixie Friganza

Three years later, the production of Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d ' Hoffmann followed at the Hamburg State Opera, and in 1990 Così fan tutte was performed in Amsterdam.

She participated in several theatrical productions at Gallaudet including The Three Penny Opera and poetic characterizations of the Spoon River Anthology.

She created many productions for the theater including Moon Mysteries: Three Plays for Dancers by William Butler Yeats, Fire and Ice ( a cycle of poems by Robert Frost commissioned by the Library of Congress ), Gauguin in Tahiti and The Shining House: A Dance Opera of Pagan Hawaii.

The first staged performances of the " Three Queens " operas together in the US took place on 7 March 1972 when the trio earned some degree of fame when American soprano Beverly Sills promoted them as a series at New York City Opera.

Roberto Devereux was first performed by the New York City Opera in October 1970 as the first part of the " Three Queens " trilogy.

A stage actress since the 1950s, she appeared in Three Wishes for Jamie, The Threepenny Opera, Li ' l Abner, and Pickwick.

Best-selling disc – The Three Tenors in Concert, 1994 ; José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti ; Los Angeles Music Center Opera Chorus ; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta, Teldec