It would take the brilliancy of Sondheim, especially in the lyrics — Hwang's are bare-bones, devoid of panache — to pull off the necessary double act here: to succeed as worthy successors to the originals and satires of them at the same time.
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How long the young swells have envied Edgar the unusual and fulgurating brilliancy of his headgear!
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These flowers are much esteemed by the Japanese, who pay more attention to size and brilliancy of colour than to perfume.
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She also won a brilliancy award for her seventh round game with black against Cemil Can Ali Marandi for dangerously sacrificing a rook and a knight on the kingside.
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Their bidding and play are both believable and ineffective; except that the Unlucky Expert does exhibit his card-playing skill, including one brilliancy. Two deals later, Futile Willie attempts the same brilliancy, on the wrong hand; and it backfires, badly. As before, each deal and auction is shown in full, with Simon's comments; followed by a narrative description of the play and its aftermath; and finally a brief analysis of the result.
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Hay was described by George Hardinge as “a modest, virtuous, respectable, and sensible man; with no brilliancy of talent, but with a high sense of honour”. He died unmarried on 9 February 1786.
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"His Vindiciae Gallicae is a work of great labour, great ingenuity, great brilliancy, and great vigour."Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 102. After he changed political sides for a time, Mackintosh then began to excel as an "intellectual gladiator".
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The aims and methods of 'impressionism' found in him a champion of rare brilliancy. At the same time, in dealing with the works of the living, he was scrupulously kind and fair towards other tendencies with which he was less in sympathy.
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Christian Spirituality: An Introduction, 1999. 84–87 Ludolph described St. John as steadfastly loyal to Christ, but also "adorned with the brilliancy and beauty conferred by chastity."Coleridge, Henry James. Hours of the Passion Taken from the Life of Christ by Ludolph the Saxon.
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The name of the house, Sri Temasek, means "splendour of Temasek" in the Malay language. The Malay word seri or sri means "charm; quintessence; splendour; glory". or a "cynosure". (something that attracts attention by its brilliancy or beauty; a centre of attraction, interest, or admiration).
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Qe6 Qd8 22\. Rd6 Qb8 23. Rd7 Rxf3 24. d6 1-0 Rubinetti, Jorge - Seidler, Aldo Mar del Plata 1976. First Prize for brilliancy 1.e4 c5 2.Cc3 d6 3.Cge2 Cf6 4.g3 b5 5.Ag2 Ab7 6.d3 a6 7.0–0 e6 8.a3 Dc7 9.
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Citation: :Assuming command of a brigade, he rallied around his colors a mass of men from other regiments and fought these troops with great brilliancy through several hours of desperate conflict, remaining in command though wounded and inspiring them by his presence and the gallantry of his personal example.
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In the latter event he also won the brilliancy prize for his game against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. Timofeev participated in the FIDE World Cup 2005, where he reached the second round and lost to Emil Sutovsky. He won the Russian Cup in 2007 by beating Vadim Zvjaginsev 1½-½ in the final.
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To the last he occasionally wrote, chiefly on South Africa. Within a month of his death he contributed to the Standard (12 April) an article on "The Boer in the Saddle", which showed no loss of his old brilliancy and force, although the effort involved in writing it was nearly fatal.
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József Pintér (born 9 November 1953 in Budapest) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster and chess writer. He won the Hungarian Chess Championship in 1978 and 1979. Pinter gained his grandmaster title in 1982. He is well known for a 1984 brilliancy against his compatriot Lajos Portisch in that year's Hungarian Championship.
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In 1914, at the age of 72, Blackburne won a Special Brilliancy Prize for his win over Aron Nimzowitsch at the great St. Petersburg 1914 tournament, but failed to qualify for the final stage.The Grand International Masters' Chess Tournament at St. Petersburg, 1914, David McKay, c. 1915, pp. 2, 4.
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102 and Hood was posthumously commended, Bridport writing in his official dispatch that "No Praise of mine can add one Ray of Brilliancy to the distinguished Valour of Captain Alexander Hood". His body was returned to England and buried near his home in Butleigh, Somerset under a monument provided by his family.
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The ribs are strong, convex, simple, whitish. The interstices are irregularly marbled with brown. The interior is vividly pearly, with a rather large central spot of dull white notched in front, and bounded by the whitish muscle-impression. The rest of the inside has a nacre of unequaled brilliancy with opalescent reflections.
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Mrs. Pakistan World contest was launched in 2007 with Misbah Yasin-Iqbal being the first winner. Saiyma Haroon, Mrs. Pakistan World 2012 was the first Pakistani married woman to win from Norway. In 2018, Usma Kashaf was sent to Lady of Brilliancy in Taiwan and won the title "Lady of Popularity" for Pakistan.
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Construction completed by August of that year and light was finally displayed on 17 September 1878. The lens was a Chance Brothers 3rd order (500 mm focal length) revolving dioptric supported by a roller bearing pedestal and the characteristic mentioned was "attains its greatest brilliancy every minute", with visibility of . The tower was painted white.
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Goldsworthy Gurney, whilst at the Surrey Institute, published in 1823 an account of a new blowpipe so constructed as to enable the operator to produce a flame of great size, power and brilliancy by burning large quantities of the mixed gases with the utmost safety. Gurney went on to employ the principles in his Bude light.
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The ribs are more or less prominent, some specimens having them quite sharp while in others they are hardly raised. In one other exquisite variety the three sutural ribs and their interspaces are of a very rich purple-blue, which is not due to erosion. The umbilical rib is sometimes salmon-colored. The nacre is of great brilliancy.
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In 1911, he won the Moscow City Championship. In February–March 1911, he tied for 8th–9th in the San Sebastian chess tournament. His loss to José Raúl Capablanca in this tournament is remembered because Bernstein had complained that the unknown Capablanca had been allowed to participate. Capablanca was awarded the Brilliancy Prize for this game.
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For twenty-eight years he was a diligent worker for the daily press. His 'Lucid Intervals of a Lunatic' was a paper which at the time obtained much attention. He wrote often for The Observer, and was a theatrical critic of considerable acumen. Fitzgibbon made a great impression upon all who knew him by the brilliancy of his gifts.
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Upon immersion into the cauldron, the one who yielded went into shock and immediately died. One of the guards, Aglaius, was set to keep watch over the martyrs and beheld at this moment a supernatural brilliancy overshadowing them. He at once proclaimed himself a Christian, threw off his garments, and joined the remaining thirty-nine. Thus the number of forty remained complete.
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The work has three movements: # Adagio – Allegro moderato # Poco adagio # Allegro agitato A typical performance lasts about 22 minutes. Unlike his more famous violin work, the Violin Concerto in E minor, the sonata lacks a dramatic exposition. However, it does contain a calm beauty that is typical of the composer's chamber music, and it demonstrates the brilliancy of his early compositions.
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He also was the winner of the Philadelphia Open Championship (1969) and the Washington D.C. Championship (1969). While serving in the U.S. Army, he tied for first in the U.S. Army Chess Championship in 1970 and was awarded the Brilliancy Prize for his play in the U.S. Armed Forces Chess Championship that year. In 1988, Cornwall became the official Florida State Chess Champion.
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A trophy and 10,000 Euros brilliancy prize was presented to Luke McShane for his round five win against Hikaru Nakamura. The organisers announced that there would be another tournament in London in 2010. The tournament organiser and director was International Master Malcolm Pein, manager of the London Chess Centre and the executive editor of CHESS magazine. The Festival Organiser was Adam Raoof, FIDE Organiser and Arbiter.
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The theme of the poem is the redemption of mankind, and the poem starts with Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Klopstock's work shows he learned much from Milton. However, instead of strong contrasts, going from darkness to light, from misery to bliss, Klopstock attempts to portray a mental state of continuous, dazzling brilliancy. Instead of an alternation of clashes, there is contemplation.
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Field played for St George in the club's first ever game which was in Round 1 1921 against Glebe at the Sydney Sports Ground. The match was also Field's first grade debut. Glebe went on to win 4–3. The game was played on April 23 Saint George's Day and a newspaper report at the time said of the game it was "not remarkable for brilliancy".
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Her debut in March 1889 at "barely seventeen" as La sonnambula in Vienna, was critiqued as "extraordinary brilliancy of execution, in the best Italian manner, in smooth as well in staccato passages ...her voice is very thin" and she was given a distinctly favorable reception by the audience. Following this performance, the Imperial Opera put "the youthful bravura singer" on trial for one year.
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In 2018 and 2019, he won the 5th and 6th Arica Open. In September 2020, during the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020, Shirov won the Gazprom Brilliancy Prize for his win as Black against Danyyil Dvirnyy in the Slav Defense, involving a queen sacrifice in a queenside attack, and achieved an overall score of 13/15 (+12−1=2) playing for the Spanish team.
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Klinger has played for Australia in the World Teams Championships in 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1993, 2000, and each year from 2003 to 2016. He won the Pacific-Asian Open Teams in 1970, the Pacific-Asia Seniors Teams in 2006 and has won the Pacific Asian Open Pairs twice. In the 1976 World Open Teams Olympiad, he won the Bols Brilliancy Prize for best play.
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The Rev. Campbell of the Methodist Church South conducted it for a time. In the last year of its existence, it had several different publishers and editors. Its brilliancy steadily diminished until in the early part of 1879 when the sheriff attached it for debt, and its publication was discontinued. The plant and the files were stored in an outbuilding of Mr. Hollenbeck’s, who was one of the principal creditors.
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Rubinstein toured as a young violinist in Europe and the United States. She gave a recital at Carnegie Hall in 1922. "There is repose and poise in her performance," commented the New York Times reviewer Richard Aldrich, "but there is no lack of the brilliancy and spirit and rhythmic verve". She played in the American midwest and plains states in 1923 and 1924, and in California in 1925.
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Most of the fights occurred from 2-3 am so they were forced to close at midnight. Because cross-dressing was illegal at the time, police could use the presence of transgender people in a bar as a pretext for making a raid and closing the bar.Sears, Clare. “Electric Brilliancy: Cross-Dressing Law and Freak Show Displays in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 36, no.
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There he faced the reigning champion, the Scottish Terrier Heather Necessity, along with the King Charles Spaniel Ch. Ashton-More Wild Flowers, the Chow Chow Choonham Brilliancy, the Cairn Terrier Dochfour Timothy and the Greyhound, Pilot of Devoir.Jackson (1990): p. 196 The judges in the Best in Show round had a problem with deciding which dog should be the winner. It came down to Heather Necessity and Luckystar of Ware.
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Six years later in 1837, the Emanuel Brothers sold the Nassak Diamond at a public sale to Robert Grosvenor, the 1st Marquess of Westminster. At one point, the Marquess mounted the diamond in the handle of his dress sword. In 1886, the diamond was valued at between 30,000 and 40,000 pounds (today between £ and £), due in part to its vast gain in brilliancy from the re-cut by Rundell and Bridge.
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The raising of Lazarus Van de Venne left very few signed paintings. His oeuvre has been reconstituted based on signed or documented works which show his very individual style, subjects, use of light and brilliancy. His works are typically small-scale oil on panel compositions. Van de Venne specialised in caricatures of so-called ‘low-life’ subjects, such as card-players, tooth-pullers and musicians, and in expressive religious scenes.
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Steinitz in 1866 Steinitz was then sent to represent Austria in the London 1862 chess tournament. He placed sixth, but his win over Augustus Mongredien was awarded the tournament's brilliancy prize. He immediately challenged the fifth-placed contestant, the strong veteran Italian Master Serafino Dubois, to a match, which Steinitz won (five wins, one draw, three losses). This encouraged him to turn professional, and he took up residence in London.
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His 22 national wins include open teams twice and open pairs once. He has been featured in many bridge publications, the most recent being a hand featured in the book Easier Done Than Said: Brilliancy at the Bridge Table by Dr. Prakash K. Paranjape. His most frequent partner was Ashok Ruia. "Ollie", as he was popularly known was a fine technician and also one of the fastest players in the world.
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In 1946, at age 21, Yanofsky entered the first top-class post-war tournament, at Groningen, and defeated Soviet champion and tournament winner Mikhail Botvinnik, winning the brilliancy prize. During the next two years, he played several more European events, where his best result was second place behind Miguel Najdorf at Barcelona 1946. Yanofsky represented Canada at the Interzonals held in Saltsjöbaden 1948 and Stockholm 1962. He won the British Championship in 1953.
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Kxg4 Bc8+ 34.Kg5 h6+ 35.Kxh6 Re5 0–1 :Black threatens 36...Rh5# and 36...Bf8#, and White cannot stop both. This was voted the best game of that volume of Chess Informant. Here is another Zvjaginsev brilliancy, this time against super-grandmaster Vladimir Malakhov: Malakhov (2700) – Zvjaginsev (2654), 5th Karpov Tournament, Poikovsky 2004 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.0-0 e5 7.
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196–98 As the British historian George Peabody Gooch wrote, here was "a glittering vision of mind and muscle, of large scale organization, of intoxicating self-confidence, of metallic brilliancy, such as Europe has never seen".Field (1981), p.196 The antithesis of the heroic Aryan race with its vital, creative life-improving qualities was the "Jewish race", whom Chamberlain presented as the inverse of the Aryan Lobenstein-Reichmann (2008), pp. 186-217.
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Marache is perhaps best known today for losing the following brilliancy against Morphy in 1857,Chess historian Edward Winter wrote that Marache "is well known to us through being well known to Morphy". Edward Winter, Kings, Commoners and Knaves: Further Chess Explorations, Russell Enterprises, 1999, p. 137. . in which Marache played White in an Evans Gambit:Marache-Morphy, New York 1857 Marache-Morphy, New York 1857 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.
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This also compares with the lush red locks of Millais's earlier picture The Bridesmaid and with some contemporary works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Millais's biographer Marion Spielmann wrote that the painting was "the most modernly treated of Millais's early works...more consonant in its strong harmony with the audacious brilliancy of the present day [1898] than the more solid strength of forty years ago."Speilmann, M, Millais and his Works, Blackwoods, 1898, p. 70.
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Helen D'Arcy Stewart was born on 13 March 1765, and was the third daughter of the Hon. George Cranstoun, and sister of George Cranstoun Lord Corehouse, and of Jane Ann, later Countess Purgstall, both intimate friends of Sir Walter Scott. Her mother was Maria, daughter of Thomas Brisbane, of Brisbane in Ayrshire. As a girl she seems to have attracted notice by the charm of her manner and the brilliancy of her mind.
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Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, p. 549. Zigliara's early classical studies were made in his native town under the Jesuit teacher, Father Aloysius Piras. At the age of eighteen he was received into the Order of Preachers at Rome, and made his religious profession in 1852 and studied philosophy at the College of Saint Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum. From the beginning Zigliara was a student of uncommon brilliancy.
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It displayed a revolving light, which exhibited 'its greatest brilliancy once in two minutes'.London Gazette, Issue 18505, Page 1718, 16 September 1828 The construction of the permanent granite lighthouse began in 1829 to a design by Thomas Stevenson and it became operational on 11 October 1834. The light was provided by a three-sided rotating array of oil lamps, with ten lamps on each side, each lamp mounted within a parabolic reflector.
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She also won the brilliancy prize for her game against Pavlina Angelova. In the January 1989 Elo rating list, at the age of 12, she was rated 2555, which was number 55 in the world and 35 rating points ahead of the Women's World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze. In the six months since the previous list, she had gained a remarkable 190 rating points. Judit's quiet and modest demeanour at the board contrasted with the intensity of her playing style.
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Mr. Justice Ashurst's judgments, which are reported in Loffts and Douglas's 'Reports' and Chitty's 'Practice Cases,' are remarkable for their clearness and good sense. A contemporary writer thus describes his qualities as a judge: 'Sir William Ashurst is a man of liberal education and enlarged notions. His language has no peculiar neatness nor brilliancy, but it is perspicuous, pointed, and clear. He reasons logically, and knows well how to winnow the chaff and eloquence from argument and law.
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Comet seeker telescope, Helsinki observatory. Made by Utzschneider and Fraunhofer in 1830s. A comet closeup, visited by a probe in the early 21st century A comet as seen from Earth A comet seeker is a type of small telescope adapted especially to searching for comets: commonly of short focal length and large aperture, in order to secure the greatest brilliancy of light. This style of telescope was used to discover the asteroid 9 Metis in 1848.
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The cords of the early turns are of the most intense red, equaling the base in the brilliancy of this color. The 1½ nuclear whorls arewhite. The four postnuclear whorls are well rounded, the first and second marked by four equal, and equally spaced, strong, spiral keels. On the third, a fine, intercalated thread occurs between the strong cords, while on the last turn the number of fine spiral threads between the strong cords is doubled.
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In the early 1930s, Alekhine dominated tournament play and won two top-class tournaments by large margins. He also played first board for France in five Chess Olympiads, winning individual prizes in each (four medals and a brilliancy prize). Alekhine offered Capablanca a rematch on the same demanding terms that Capablanca had set for him, and negotiations dragged on for years without making much progress. Meanwhile, Alekhine defended his title with ease against Efim Bogoljubov in 1929 and 1934.
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During her visits to California, she recorded her concern with the destruction of the redwoods. She spent all of 1878 in various parts of India. In 1878 The Graphic reported an exhibition of Marianne North's works at Kensington, in which 512 of her oil paintings were put on public display. In a long article, the critic praised North for "her freedom of hand, the purity and brilliancy of colour and the accurate draughtsmanship of a consummate artist".
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Morley, pp. 203–205 Madge Kendal had the star part, but her husband's dashing army officer was also well liked, and The Morning Post praised Hare's "masterly" performance as the old colonel, giving "extraordinary zest and brilliancy" and "bring[ing] down the house in shouts of laughter and applause"."St James's Theatre", The Morning Post, 6 October 1879, p. 6 The partnership had another early success at the beginning of 1880 with a revival of Tom Taylor's popular play, Still Waters Run Deep.
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The University Match was a disappointment for Oxford, with Cambridge winning by nine wickets, and Blaikie scored 0 in the first innings, and 48 in the second, when he "hit away with amazing brilliancy", according to Wisden. This may have been the match which according to a Punch report came alive only when "Guy Blaikie came in to bat. Not only did he hit to the boundary. One ball went right over the fence and dropped into St. John's Wood Road".
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He led the county in runs scored despite only playing in 18 games out of a possible 25 during the season. He scored four centuries and played, according to Wisden with "amazing brilliancy" whilst The Guardian described him as "the most brilliant" of Kent's batsmen in a team with very strong batting.Quoted in Burnton S (2016) Op. cit. He was picked for the Gentlemen v Players match and was chosen as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1907.
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His single lines and single phrases have a brilliancy and force not to be found in French drama between Corneille and Victor Hugo. A complete edition of Rotrou was edited in five volumes by Viollet-le-Duc in 1822. In 1882 Louis de Ronchaud published a handsome edition of six plays--Saint Genest, Venceslas, Don Bertrand de Cabrère, Antigone, Hercule Mourant and Cosroes. Venceslas and Saint Genest are also to be found in the Chefs-d'œuvre Tragiques of the Collection Didot.
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Savory, who was an able operator, but averse from exhibitions of brilliancy, was a powerful and authoritative man in his profession, his lucidity of expression being almost as valuable as his great knowledge of physiology and anatomy. He died in London in 1895 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. He had married, on 30 Nov 1854, Louisa Frances Borradaile (1821–1867); they had an only son, Sir Borradaile Savory, rector of St Bartholomew-the-Great, who succeeded him as second baronet.
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It seems clear from Richter's compositions that he did not really fit in at the Mannheim court. Whereas his colleagues in the orchestra were interested in lively, energetic, homophonic music that focused on drive, brilliancy and sparkling orchestral effects gained from stock devices, Richter, rooted in the Austrian Baroque tradition, wrote music that was in a way reminiscent of Handel and his teacher Fux. Thus, when in 1769 an opening at Strasbourg's cathedral became known Richter seems to have applied right away.
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Although primarily a rover, he could play and succeed at any position on the ground, and was proficient at all skills: accurate kicking, high marking, speed and endurance. ::In all my experience I have never seen a more accomplished player — one qualified to rank on the hlghest rung of the ladder of fame among the football champions of Australia. His scintilatin brilliancy on the field was unfortunately cut short at the height of his fame by failing eye-sight. (George Cathie, 1943).
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After losing the title, Steinitz played in tournaments more frequently than he had previously. He won at New York 1894, and was fifth at Hastings 1895 (winning the first brilliancy prize for his game with Curt von Bardeleben). At Saint Petersburg 1895, a super-strong four player, multi- round-robin event, with Lasker, Chigorin and Pillsbury, he took second place behind Lasker. Later his results began to decline: 6th in Nuremberg 1896, 5th in Cologne 1898, 10th in London 1899.
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Pandya was present in the Rajasuya ceremony of Pandava king Yudhishthira (2:36,43). The Kings of Chera and Pandya, brought numberless jars of gold filled with fragrant sandal juice from the hills of Malaya, and loads of sandal and aloe wood from the Dardduras hills, and many gems of great brilliancy and fine cloths inlaid with gold. Singhalas gave those best of sea-born gems called the lapis lazuli, and heaps of pearls also, and hundreds of coverlets for elephants (2:51).
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Albert Atkins (26 March 1867 - 17 August 1943) was an Australian cricketer. He played twelve first-class matches for New South Wales and Queensland between 1895/96 and 1905/06. Atkins was a middle-order batsman and excellent fieldsman in the outfield, praised in 1896 for his "brilliancy and cat-like dash". He captained Queensland on several occasions, including the closely fought match against New South Wales in Sydney in 1902-03 when he made his two highest scores, 82 and 60.
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At 19, Gitta Gradova performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. She was a friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Vladimir Horowitz; Arturo Toscanini praised her work.David J. Craig, "Mother-son Relationship Troubled by her Musical Genius" B. U. Bridge (January 30, 2004). "Miss Gradova is a pianist whose own brilliancy, accuracy, and forcefulness become a transforming medium for what she plays," wrote a Chicago critic in 1931.Edward Moore, "Gitta Gradova Appears with Stock Orchestra" Chicago Daily Tribune (March 7, 1931): 19.
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Always there was the immediacy of things happening this very minute, but the real brilliancy of Wide World may lie in its avoidance of the TV interview. The only one attempted, at the Texas Fair, proved again that—given a microphone and someone to interview—an announcer can turn any subject into a crashing bore. The words needed in Wide World were supplied by Dave Garroway and kept to a literate minimum."The Week in Review", Time, October 31, 1955.
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He also formed the inner roof of finely fretted work, and overlaid > it throughout with gold. The external covering, which protected the building > from the rain, was of brass instead of tiles; and this too was splendidly > and profusely adorned with gold, and reflected the sun’s rays with a > brilliancy which dazzled the distant beholder. The dome was entirely > encompassed by a finely carved tracery, wrought in brass and gold. Such was > the magnificence with which the emperor was pleased to beautify this church.
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In > altitude the bases of the columns of light were about fifty miles above the > earth's surface, and the streamers shot up at times to a height of five > hundred miles. Thus over a broad belt on both continents this large region > above the lower atmosphere was filled with masses of luminous material. A > display similar to this, and possibly of equal brilliancy, was at the same > time witnessed in the Southern Hemisphere. The nine papers were mainly > devoted to the statements of observers.
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Nevertheless, Mazo still felt free to follow his own bent for brilliancy of execution and true-to-life naturalism. Mazo rarely signed his works, which furthered the confusion with the work of Velázquez, making it difficult to separate the authorship of their paintings. In fact, there are few extant paintings that scholars agree are his; these include View of Saragossa (1646, Prado); Portrait of Queen Mariana in Mourning Dress (1666, National Gallery, London); and The Family of the Painter (c. 1660–1665, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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The term implies "effect for effect's sake", therefore, while many pieces of Beethoven do require a high skill, they are not described as "bravura". Fuller-Maitland suggests the following arias as examples of bravura: "Let the bright Seraphim" from Samson, "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" (Act II of The Magic Flute) and "Non più mesta" from La Cenerentola. Musical terms "allegro di bravura" and "con bravura" indicate boldness, fire and brilliancy. The term "bravura" also refers to daring performance in ballet, e.g.
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He visited France and Germany in 1854, 1855, and 1856 for the oil industry. He became superintendent of the Glasgow oil works in Scotland, Geary Miller & Company, where the boghead mineral was being processed under the Scottish chemist James Young. The oils made by Young, known as "Bathgate naphtha", possessed an odor that was disagreeable to most people, resulting in a prejudice against paraffine oils. Atwood succeeded in refining his process to produce an oil that was colorless, odorless and burned in lamp wicks with brilliancy.
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Brilliancy ran in Garrod's family. Archibald was the fourth son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, a renowned physician who received his medical degree at the age of 23 and became a professor of medicine at University College, London by the time he was 32. He discovered the abnormal uric acid metabolism associated with gout. Garrod's father also successfully estimated the weight of crystals he obtained from a known quantity of blood, resulting in what Garrod called “the first quantitative biochemical investigation made on the living human body”.
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It enjoyed a final period of brilliancy, under Caesarius, but after his time it conferred on the occupant merely an honorary title. In consequence, however, of the extensive authority of Arles in the 5th and 6th centuries, canonical discipline was more rapidly developed there, and the "Libri canonum" that were soon in vogue in Southern Gaul were modelled on those of the Church of Aries. Towards the end of this period Caesarius assisted at a series of councils, thus obtaining a certain recognition as legislator for the Merovingian Church.
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David Converse, "The World of To-Day" Boston Home Journal (January 3, 1902): 6. "She comes from Southern France, the land of fire and passion, and is an artist of interesting and unconventional qualities, possessing a strongly marked sense of rhythm, brilliant and incisive touch, and her playing is marked with certainty, that adds tonal charm to brilliancy," observed one reviewer, adding "As a pianiste she is an artistic diplomat.""Chicago Grand Opera Season" The Muse (April 1903): 209. In 1905, she made recordings of Mendelssohn and Chopin works.
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Spassky vs. Fischer, Mar del Plata 1969 Zsuzsa Polgar,Spassky vs Polgar, Plaza 1988 and a famous brilliancy against Bronstein himself.Spassky vs. Bronstein, USSR Championship 1960 In 2012, an April Fool prank by Chessbase in association with Vasik Rajlich—inventor of chess engine Rybka—claimed to have proven to a 99.99999999% certainty that the King's Gambit is at best a draw for White. Revealing the prank, Rajlich admitted that current computer technology is nowhere near solving such a task. The King's Gambit is rare in modern high-level play.
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However, the bold decision taken by him has benefitted the future generation involved in music to maintain the distinction of their musical career. In spite of his inestimable contribution of musical brilliancy, he was never recognized with awards except a limited number of articles written particularly in English media. This article is an attempt to reminisce with honor the immeasurable contribution made by him to national music. It behooves all Sri Lankans to salute this great musician as a mark of gratefulness in recognition of his musical excellence to the nation..
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Yanofsky had the lead organizer role for Canada's first supergrandmaster tournament at Winnipeg 1967, to mark Canada's Centennial, and also played in the tournament, winning the Brilliancy Prize for his victory over László Szabó. The Winnipeg tournament was jointly won by Bent Larsen and Klaus Darga. Yanofsky earned the FIDE International Arbiter title in 1977. He played in his final Canadian Championship in 1986 at age 61 at home in Winnipeg, and qualified for another Interzonal appearance, placing tied 3rd-5th with 9.5/15, but generously ceded that opportunity in favour of a younger player.
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In 1976, the 16-year-old Wong won the Jamaican Chess Championship and became the country's youngest National Master. That same year he represented Jamaica at the World Student Team Championship in Caracas, scoring 3½/8. In late 1976 and early 1977 he played for Jamaica at the World Junior Chess Championship in Groningen, where he was awarded a brilliancy prize for his win against the Israeli junior champion Nir Grinberg. After winning his first three games to co-lead the tournament, he suffered five consecutive losses, eventually finishing with 5½/13.
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Rossolimo wrote two books: Les Echecs au coin du feu, a collection of his studies and endgames with a preface by Savielly Tartakower, published in Paris in 1947; and Rossolimo's Brilliancy Prizes, self-published in New York in 1970. He also made a record of songs in Russian, French, and English, with an album cover designed by Marcel Duchamp and produced by the Kismet Record Company.Nicolas Rossolimo – Russian Songs, Kismet Hi-Fi Recordings, vol. KR-5. He is the hero of a chapter in the book, Losing Moses on the Freeway.
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Blackburne, about 1890 Blackburne is an icon of Romantic chess because of his wide-open and highly tactical style of play. His large black beard and aggressive style earned him the nickname of "der Schwarze Tod" ("the Black Death", based on the plague of the same name) after his performance in the 1873 Vienna tournament. According to Chessmetrics, he was ranked second in the world at various times between 1873 and 1889. He was especially strong at endgames and had a great combinative ability which enabled him to win many brilliancy prizes.
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The first incident was an aurora witnessed by Church's pupil, the Arctic explorer Isaac I. Hayes. Hayes provided a sketch and description of the aurora borealis display he witnessed one January evening. Coinciding with Hayes' furthest northern movement into what he named Cape Leiber, the aurora borealis appeared over the peak. Describing the event, Hayes wrote: > The light grew by degrees more and more intense, and from irregular bursts > it settled into an almost steady sheet of brightness... The exhibition, at > first tame and quiet, became in the end startling in its brilliancy.
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She was a principal vocalist in the performance of Handel's 'Messiah' at the first Leeds Musical Festival at Leeds Town Hall in 1858. Throughout her singing career she received glowing reviews for her 'clear, ringing, sweet- toned soprano voice, and really excellent style'. When she performed in Sheffield in 1861 the Sheffield Daily Telegraph noted the 'animated brilliancy' of her rendition of 'Rejoice Greatly' from the Messiah. In May 1868 she sang part of Haydn's 'Creation' at Leeds Town Hall in front of the Prince of Wales during his visit to open Roundhay Park.
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Gazprom sponsored a brilliancy prize for the event, with the judges being 14 popular streamers and YouTubers: Anna Cramling, Maria Emelianova, Jesse February, Anna-Maja Kazarian, Daniel King, Ayelen Martinez, Carlos Matamoros Franco, Daniel Naroditsky, Antonio Radić, Michael Rahal, IM Eric Rosen, Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal (joint submission), Fiona Steil-Antoni, and Simon Williams. Nine of the games that were presented to the judges received votes, with the game totaling the most votes being -Alexei Shirov; Shirov, in the Slav Defense, executed a decisive queenside attack involving a queen sacrifice.
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Blackburn may have taken the sixth, but Greb's ability to throw far more punches, characteristic of his style, probably helped him to win on points."Harry Greb Winner Over Jack Blackburn", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pg. 10, 26 January 1915 The Pittsburgh Press noted Blackburn's "eel-like evasions of Greb's short range stuff", and that he "served flashes of former brilliancy", but Greb's youth, stamina, and strength was the final determinant of the fight's outcome.Jab, Jim, "Rooters Help Harry Greb to Ring Victory", The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pg.
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Four of them - "Sallie Gooden", "Ragtime Annie", "Sally Johnson/Billy in the Low Ground" and "Done Gone" - were released on Victor over the next two years. The other two, "General Logan Reel/Dominion Hornpipe" and "Brilliancy and Cheatum", remain unissued. Robertson's rendition of "Sallie Gooden" is now a classic since he played the traditional fiddle tune followed by 12 variations. Robertson's first record, with his solo "Sallie Gooden" on one side and duet "Arkansaw Traveler" on the other, was released on September 1, 1922, but was not widely circulated until the spring of 1923.
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Two additional tunes were recorded that evening, "Apple Blossom" and "My Frog Ain't Got No Blues", but were not issued. The next day, October 11, the band recorded "Brilliancy Medley", released in September 1930, and the ballad "The Island Unknown", released in December 1929. That day the band also recorded three additional sides that were not released - "My Experience on the Ranch" and remakes of "Arkansaw Traveler" and "Sallie Gooden". The week of September 20, 1940, Robertson recorded 100 fiddle tunes at Jack Sellers Studios in Dallas, Texas.
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Matsuno was born in Kawanishi City, Japan in 1979. His debut work, The Selfish Battleship of Class 2-3 (the release title changed to Aoba-kun and Uchuu-jin), under his pseudonym Akinari, received the Brilliancy Prize in the 2005 MF Bunko J Light Novel Rookie Award, the second work ever to receive this prize since its conception the year prior. His second work, MM!, which got adapted into an anime television series in 2010, had not been completed by the time of his death on the 18 April 2011 at the age of 32.
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A novelty are the distinct crescendo and diminuendo signs allocated "polyphonically" and sometimes even differing in the two voices played by the right hand. excerpt from the middle section of this étude (bars 40 – 42) In the middle section (poco più animato), characterized by rhythmic shifts and sudden harmonic turns, theme and accompaniment are fused into oscillating double notes. There are five eight-bar phrases. Leichtentritt observes that each eight-bar phrase is "ruled by a new motif" and that "each of these segments surpasses the preceding one in sonority and brilliancy".
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Captain Vashon, commander HMS Sybil, is recorded as saying "he had never seen a ship so ably fought as the Alliance." Captain Vashon is further quoted as saying of Barry, "every quality of a great commander was brought out with extraordinary brilliancy". Meanwhile, the Treaty of Paris which ended the war and recognized the independence of the United States had been ratified on 3 February 1783, some five weeks before the battle. The two American ships again headed home on the day following their brush with the British, 11 March, but separated off Cape Hatteras a week later.
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But the composer and organist Samuel Wesley, who was at the 1792 premiere, recollected that Haydn had executed the keyboard solo proficiently: :"His Performance on the Piano Forte, although not such as to stamp him a first rate artist upon that Instrument, was indisputably neat and distinct. In the Finale of one of his Symphonies is a Passage of attractive Brilliancy, which he has given to the Piano Forte, and which the Writer of this Memoir remembers him to have executed with the utmost Accuracy and Precision." A typical performance of the symphony lasts about 26 minutes.
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Yet, dedicating himself to the playing side of chess would have earned him insufficient sums to make a living. A number of his contemporaries believed that his talent could have placed him among the world championship contenders, had his circumstances been different. Nevertheless, in his time, he defeated most of his illustrious adversaries, the most notable exceptions being Emanuel Lasker and José Raúl Capablanca. His victory against Alexander Alekhine at Karlsbad in 1923 won the brilliancy prize, while his win against Milan Vidmar at San Remo in 1930 was described by Alekhine as the finest game played since the war.
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"Tonal quality completely congenial to the bravura soloist, neither string dull or unequal, but a splendidly free emission of sonorous strength and brilliancy..." Nemessànyi had a special gift with wood, always using beautifully flamed maple and tight-grained spruce for his instruments. He was often able to work as thin as 2.2 millimetre's under the bridge with his best quality spruce. The final shape of each instrument depended on the acoustic qualities of the wood he was working with, resulting in different measurements for nearly every instrument. It is also known that he was an excellent restorer.
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Daniel Mendoza on the Find a Grave website Pierce Egan, the author of Boxiana, a boxing history of the period, said of Mendoza that he was "a complete artist" and "a star of the first brilliancy." On the subject of race prejudice, Egan wrote, "In spite of his prejudice, he (the Christian) was compelled to exclaim – Mendoza was a pugilist of no ordinary merit."Great Jews in Sports, Slater, pg. 198 Egan further wrote "No pugilist whatever, since the time of Broughton (or even Broughton himself), has ever so completely elucidated, or promulgated, the principles of boxing as Daniel Mendoza".
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Znosko-Borovsky learned to play chess as a young boy. He won prizes in local and regional tournaments, whilst progressing to a first-class education at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Making his international chess tournament debut at Ostend in 1906, where he won the brilliancy prize for his game against Amos Burn, Znosko-Borovsky's playing career was frequently interrupted by other events in his life. Between 1909 and 1912 he was a prominent critic of the Modernist Apollo magazine, befriended many Russian poets and writers of the Silver Age, and was Nikolay Gumilev's second in his 1909 duel against Maximilian Voloshin.
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Similarly, although he learned a substantial part of his craft while playing in theatre orchestras, Coates wrote no musical shows. When he toured with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducting his own music, in 1940, the reviewer in The Manchester Guardian urged him to find a librettist and write a comic opera: "He ought to succeed greatly in that line. He is quick-witted, has a gift for lilting melody, deals in spicy and exhilarating harmony, and scores his music with a brilliancy that tells of experienced craftsmanship"."Palace Theatre", The Manchester Guardian, 20 November 1940, p.
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There was an elegant ballroom that was used for grand celebrations which happened frequently at the hotel. This is also where the final celebration of the season was held as the Hotel often closed for the winter months. One banquet in particular was noted for the extravagant decorations. It was for a local railroad magnate, T.S.C Lowe, who was being celebrated for his recently completed electric railroad erected up the Sierra Madre Mountains. The account was well documented in the Los Angeles Herald from August 31, 1893: “The hall presented its usual brilliancy, the appointments being perfect.
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Swarb's Lazarus, or just Lazarus were an English folk band formed by Dave Swarbrick ("Swarb") (fiddle, mandolin, vocals) with ex-Whippersnapper Kevin Dempsey (guitar, vocals) and ex-Fairport Maartin Allcock (multi- instrumentalist, vocals). They have released one album - Live and Kicking (2006),Squiggle Records: SQUIGGLECD2) a compilation of live recordings made in April and May 2006, which has received critical approval. The instrumental track The Brilliancy Medley And The Cherokee Shuffle was included on the Folk Awards 2007 Box Set Proper: PROPERFOLK03 The band's name is an ironic reference to Swarbrick having his obituary published some years before.
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The > prodigious quantity of individuals of this species which grow at the same > time, the very different periods of their expansion, the brilliancy and the > varied shades of their colours, present a prospect truly picturesque. The fungus was later placed in a new genus, Dictyophora, in 1809 by Nicaise Auguste Desvaux; it was then known for many years as Dictyophora indusiata. Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck placed the species in Hymenophallus in 1817, as H. indusiatus. Both genera were eventually returned to synonyms of Phallus and the species is now known again by its original name.
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Writer Joan Carroll Cruz said that Blaesilla had "yield[ed] to the promptings of grace" and chose to spend "the rest of her short life in great austerity". She studied scripture, learned to speak Greek with a perfect accent, learned Hebrew in a few months, carried books with her wherever she went, and demanded that Jerome write commentaries for her to study. Jerome, speaking about her intellectual talent, said: "Who can recall without a sigh the earnestness of her prayers, the brilliancy of her conversation, the tenacity of her memory, and the quickness of her intellect?"Jerome, p.
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I visited the temple, and found it richly adorned with a number of offerings, among which were two pillars, one of pure gold, the other of smaragdos, shining with great brilliancy at night. In a conversation I held with the priests, I inquired how long their temple had been built, and found by their answer that they, too, differed from the Hellenes. They said that the temple was built at the same time that the city was founded, and that the foundation of the city took place 2,300 years ago. In Tyre I remarked another temple where the same god was worshipped as the Thasian Heracles.
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As time advances the French miniature almost monopolizes the field, excelling in brilliancy of coloring, but losing much of its purity of drawing although the general standard still remains high. The English school gradually retrogrades and, owing no doubt to political causes and to the wars with France, appears to have produced no work of much value. It is only towards the end of the 14th century that there is a revival. This revival has been attributed to a connection with the flourishing school of Prague, a school which in the scheme of coloring suggests a southern influence following on the marriage of Richard II with Anne of Bohemia in 1382.
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Lethbridge was a Gaiety Girl, best known for performing a "skirt dance", in which she manipulated a voluminous long skirt while dancing, swirling the fabric to reveal glimpses of knees and thighs. Lethbridge's version of the skirt dance involved arching her back almost to the horizontal, a challenging position that may have inspired similar moves for American dancer Loie Fuller. In 1896 she was described as "the tallest dancer on the English stage". She was appearing in the musical farce A Man About Town in 1897, when George Bernard Shaw reviewed her work as "sufficiently hard-working and conscientious" but showing "no compensating brilliancy in the twinkling of her feet".
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The ceremonial first lighting of the lamp was arranged for 27 September 1851, again attended by the Governor, Masons of the Zetland Lodge, foreign dignitaries, senior residents of Singapore and other notables; the Singapore Free Press reported: "A simultaneous rising [of the guests from the dinner table] announced that the process of illumination had commenced. Three hearty cheers welcomed the light, the meteor-like brilliancy of which will probably serve to guide the midnight path of the mariner for a thousand years to come."Davison, p. 94. On 15 October the lighthouse was permanently turned on, and Thomson finally departed Pedra Branca for Singapore on the Hooghly on 18 November 1851.
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John Hervey Crozier (February 10, 1812 - October 25, 1889) was an American attorney and politician active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, during the mid-nineteenth century. Described as "an orator of uncommon brilliancy" and "one of the brainiest men ever sent by Tennessee to congress," Crozier represented Tennessee's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1845 to 1849. While originally a member of the Whig Party, Crozier switched his allegiance to the Democratic Party in the 1850s, and supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Crozier retired from public life after the war, and spent his remaining years engaged in scholarly pursuits.
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When zircon is heated it sometimes changes in color, or altogether loses it, and at the same time usually increases in density and brilliancy. The so-called Matura diamonds, formerly sent from Matara (or Matura), in Sri Lanka, were decolorized zircons. The zircon has strong refractive power, and its lustre is almost adamantine, but it lacks the fire of the diamond. The specific gravity of zircon is subject to considerable variation in different varieties; thus Sir A. H. Church found the specific gravity of a fine leaf- green jargoon to be as low as 3.982, and that of a pure white jargoon as high as 4.705.
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However, one of the most influential economists of the time, Alfred Marshall, commented in his review of Mathematical Psychics: :This book shows clear signs of genius, and is a promise of great things to come... His readers may sometimes wish that he had kept his work by him a little longer till he had worked it out a little more fully, and obtained that simplicity which comes only through long labour. But taking it as what it claims to be, 'a tentative study', we can only admire its brilliancy, force, and originality. Edgeworth's close friend, William Stanley Jevons, said of Mathematical Psychics:W.S. Jevons's "Review of Mathematical Psychics", 1881 at cepa.newschool.
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A past paper is an examination paper from a previous year or previous years, usually used either for exam practice or for tests such as University of Oxford, University of Cambridge College Collections. Exam candidates find past papers valuable in test preparation. Some organizations responsible for holding exams have made past exam papers commercially available by either publishing the papers by themselves or licensing a publisher to do the same. For example, UPSC papers in India, SAT papers in U.S. and GCSE and A level papers in UK are being sold, as well as other exams worldwide. Previous year question papers are to assess student’s brilliancy and capabilities.
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In 1860, he was appointed professor to the Art School in Weimar, and six years later took a similar position in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. His subsequent productions include “The Court of Frederick II in Palermo”; and, among his genres, most notable are his “Hermann and Dorothea” after Goethe; and “Luise,” after the poem of Johann Heinrich Voss, which latter was much admired for its brilliancy in design and execution. He also frescoed the walls of Luther's chamber at Wartburg; and for the Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar illustrated the tale of the “King of the Frogs.” He died in Munich in 1875.
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The Alma Mater for NP was written by Will George Butler Our Alma Mater, North Penn High A fond salute to thee, We hail with pride the blue and white, And strive to do and be. The hardest lesson of our school Is working out the golden rule, And with this rule we'll win the fight; All hail the blue and white. The enblem of sincerity When hearts beat strong and true, Is visioned in the firmament In clear and azure blue. And all the rainbow's brilliancy Betokened faith and purity, When blended by the spell of light; All hail the blue and white.
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Susskind made 65, his highest Test score and Wisden noted that he was "patience personified", and contrasted his "steadiness" to Catterall's "brilliancy": Susskind "took three hours and forty minutes to get his invaluable 65," it said. In the other first-class matches on the tour, Susskind had an unspectacular record, scoring steadily across the summer but not making headlines until the tour was almost over. Then, in late matches, he hit 137 in the match against Surrey between the fourth and fifth Tests. And in a festival match at the end of the season between a team representing the South of England and the South Africans, he hit a second century, making 101 in 130 minutes.
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The inaugural 2009 edition was advertised as "the highest level chess tournament in London for 25 years", referring to the Phillips & Drew Kings tournament held in 1984. It was held during the same time as the Chess World Cup 2009. The field of eight grandmasters comprised the top four English players, and four international players, with top billing going to the former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, plus the future World Champion and then-current number one in the live world rankings, Magnus Carlsen. The tournament was FIDE Category 18, and had a prize fund of 100,000 Euros including daily best game prizes and a 10,000 Euro brilliancy prize for the game voted the best of the tournament.
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In 1894, he returned to Galway in order to bring his step-father to New York. The night prior to departure, he visited Patsy Touhey and Patrick FitzPatrick, who noted his condition was not the best but not alarming. However, he died within a week while en route, and was buried at sea on his own request. O'Neill remarks of him: > Moore was not particularly distinguished for brilliancy of execution on the > chanter, but in the manipulation of the regulators he had few if any > superiors. Often when the reed in his chanter proved refractory or did not > “go” to suit him, he would play the whole tune through on the keys of the > regulators.
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Landscape, such as it was, soon became quite conventional, setting the example for that remarkable absence of the true representation of nature which is such a striking attribute of the miniatures of the Middle Ages. And yet, while the ascetic treatment of the miniatures obtained so strongly in Byzantine art, at the same time the Oriental sense of splendour shows itself in the brilliancy of much of the coloring and in the lavish employment of gold. In the miniatures of Byzantine manuscripts are first seen those backgrounds of bright gold which afterwards appear in such profusion in the productions of every western school of painting. The influence of Byzantine art on that of medieval Italy is obvious.
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An engaging movie with several bravura moments. Watch it for its absolute cinematic brilliancy!" Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the movie 4/5 stars, stating that "The revenge, filmed with an operatic slo-mo rhythm, is bloodier than anything you would have seen before. But if you liked Gangs of Wasseypur, there is no reason why won’t have another blast watching Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2. But be warned: be sure that your stomach for blood and gore doesn’t give way." Blessy Chettiar of DNA India gave the movie 4/5 stars, commenting that "Guns speak where abusive language fails. Patience and a real kaleja will see you through this fast-paced, exhilarating blood fest.
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She also adorns Dorothy's pet dog Toto with a green silk ribbon she ties around his neck (both Dorothy's dress and Toto's ribbon become pure white upon leaving the Emerald City. This is because of the green tinted spectacles the city citizens are forced to wear by the Guardian of the Gates to protect their eyes from being blinded by the city's brilliancy). Her character is strictly referred to as "the pretty green girl" in this story, and her youthfulness and kindness are emphasized by Baum. She is finally introduced by name in the second Oz book The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), where Baum elaborates more about her appearance in detail.
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He was a member of the Norwich Society of Artists and for a time its vice-president, but in 1816 he was one of a number of artists who seceded from the Society to form a separate association, which dissolved after only three years. The majority of Thirtle's watercolours are of Norwich and the surrounding Norfolk countryside, many being riverside scenes. His style, which was influenced by Thomas Girtin, Crome and (to a lesser extent) John Sell Cotman, was both technically accomplished and individual. His earlier landscapes were painted with a restricted range of buffs, blues and grey-browns, but he later developed a brilliancy of colour, producing works that included angular block forms.
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With later paintings (during the period 1814-19) he reached his peak, and according to the art historian Margarie Allthorpe-Guyton, his scenes were painted with "limpid, silvery tonality and broad assured washes". We went on to paint with greater brilliancy of colour, producing works that included angular block forms. The writer Derek Clifford compared John Crome with Thirtle, describing him as less able to "give the impression of an unaffected, unselected chunck of nature" than Crome, whilst still managing to organise his subjects harmoniously, without them being self-conscious or forced. His pictures of riverside landscapes of Norfolk have a trait that was peculiar to his style - a boat gliding along on the water from the left.
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"A Century Maker" Hutchings as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1907 Hutchings was regarded as a hard hitting and graceful batsman. Commenting on his 1906 permanence, Wisden writes that "the consistency of his batting was not less astonishing than its brilliancy". It goes on to say that "Batting so remarkable and individual as his, has not been seen since Ranjitsinhji and Trumper first delighted the cricket world", comparing him to two great cricketers of the time, although his obituary is clear that he did not fulfil the potential that the 1906 season clearly showed. He was considered an attacking batsman who could score all around the wicket with "a style that is entirely his own".
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Reviews of the novel were generally appreciative, while claiming that for many reasons it was unlikely to be a popular success. The poet James Thomson, writing in The Secularist, complained ironically: > As if he were not sufficiently offensive in being original, he dares to be > wayward and wilful, not theatrically or overweeningly like Charles Reade, > but freakishly and humoristically, to the open-eyed disgust of our prim > public.Ioan Williams (ed.) George Meredith: The Critical Heritage (London: > Routledge, 1995) p. 190. The Times said that Meredith did not have > the knack of stooping to the tastes of his readers…His books are over- > charged with brilliancy of thought, and overdone with epigram and sarcasm > and dry shrewd humour.
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Crocoite is commonly found as large, well-developed prismatic adamantine crystals, although in many cases are poorly terminated. Crystals are of a bright hyacinth-red color, translucent, and have an adamantine to vitreous lustre. On exposure to UV light some of the translucency and brilliancy is lost. The streak is orange-yellow; Mohs hardness is 2.5–3; and the specific gravity is 6.0. Crocoite crystal structure It was discovered at the Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines) near Ekaterinburg in the Urals in 1766; and named crocoise by F. S. Beudant in 1832, from the Greek κρόκος (krokos), saffron, in allusion to its color, a name first altered to crocoisite and afterwards to crocoite.
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More than half of his books were about chess, including books on the opening (Winning Chess Openings), the middlegame (1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations), and game collections (Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters), as well as biographies of Alexander Alekhine, José Raúl Capablanca, Paul Keres, Emanuel Lasker (co-written with Reuben Fine), Paul Morphy (Andrew Soltis completed and published this book years after Reinfeld's death), and Aron Nimzowitsch. Most of Reinfeld's chess books, such as The Complete Chess Player, were geared toward novice players. Many players received their first introduction to the game through his books. Reinfeld also wrote books for more advanced players, but they sold fewer copies.
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In a longish obituary, The Times of London acknowledges Ribeiro's role as an "[a]cclaimed Indian artist who pioneered the use of acrylics in the 1960s, producing a brilliancy of colour in his expressionistic works". The paper talks of Ribeiro's "increasing impatience" by the 1960s over the time it took for oils to dry, as also its "lack of brilliance in its colour potential." He took to the new synthetic plastic bases that commercial paints were beginning to use, and soon got help from manufacturers like ICI, Courtaulds and Geigy. The companies supplied him samples of their latest paints in quantities that he was using three decades later, according to the paper.
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At Lyons, where he passed his life, at once contemplative and active, he rendered service to the Church by the brilliancy of his writings and preaching and by the charm and splendour of his virtues. His part in ecclesiastical affairs was for a time also very important. For fully ten years he performed all the episcopal functions of the Church of Lyons, having been chosen for this work during the vacancy of the see by Philip I, Count of Savoy who, although not in Holy orders, bore the title of Archbishop of Lyon from 1245 to 1267. Because of Perault's long labours in ministering to the needs of the diocese, he himself came to be known as the Bishop or Archbishop of Lyon.
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With brilliancy in military strategy especially at a macro-level, and giftedness in civil affairs and in identifying ones with talent, Reinhard succeeds in attracting a great number of able officers, gaining as well the admiration of the public. In solidifying his grounds by gathering advocates, Reinhard does not miss an opportunity to take advantage of his handsomeness and other charming qualities. After being admitted to admiralty at the age of 21, Friedrich IV confers Reinhard the name of Lohengramm, a name of high noble rank which had been defunct until the occasion. As his next step, he quickly extends his influence over state matters, and shortly after the decease of the Emperor, eventually overthrows the pre-existing dynasty and marks the beginning of the Lohengramm Dynasty.
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Baháʼís are asked to engage in the practice of dhikr: to repeat the phrase Alláh-u-Abhá 95 times per day, as described by Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, his book of laws. Nader Saiedi explains that the significance of the number 95 originates from the Persian Bayán, where the Báb states that ninety-five stands for the numerical value of "for God" (lillāh), symbolizing the recognition of the manifestation of God and obedience to his laws, which are inseparable from each other, as confirmed by Baháʼu'lláh in the opening paragraph of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. The form ' is the nominative case of Allah "God". The form ' is the elative of the adjective ' "beauty, brilliancy".
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His dispute with Ben Meir was an important factor in the call to Sura which he received in 928. The exilarch David ben Zakkai insisted on appointing him as Gaon (head of the academy), despite the weight of precedent (no foreigner had ever served as Gaon before), and against the advice of the aged Nissim Nahrwani, a Resh Kallah at Sura, who feared a confrontation between the two strong-willed personalities, David and Saadia. (Nissim declared, however, that if David was determined to see Saadia in the position, then he would be ready to become the first of Saadia's followers.Yuchasin, section 3, account by Nathan the Babylonian.) Under his leadership, the ancient academy, founded by Rav, entered upon a new period of brilliancy.
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The comet of 1264 was described to have been an object of great size and brilliancy. The comet's splendor was greatest at the end of August and the beginning of September. At that time, when the head was just visible above the eastern horizon in the morning sky, the tail stretched out past the mid-heaven towards the west, or was nearly 100° in length. The chroniclers of the time mention the various remarkable events which occurred in Europe at this period, and in particular connect the appearance of the comet with the death of Pope Urban IV, who allegedly fell sick on the very day when the comet was first seen, and died at the exact time it disappeared on October 3, 1264.
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Believing that an exhaustive discussion of a > single aurora promised to do more for the promotion of science than an > imperfect study of an indefinite number of them, Professor Loomis undertook > at once to collect and to collate accounts of this display. A large number > of such accounts were secured from North America, from Europe, from Asia, > and from places in the Southern Hemisphere; especially all the reports from > the Smithsonian observers and correspondents, were placed in his hands by > the Secretary, Professor Henry. These observations and the discussions of > them were given to the public during the following two years, in a series of > nine papers in the American Journal of Science. Few, if any, displays on > record were as remarkable as was this one for brilliancy or for geographical > extent.
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The lyrics of the two versions of the Song to the Auspicious Cloud were based on a song written in Commentary of Shang Shu, which was said to have been sung by the ancient Chinese Emperor Shun, when he passed on the throne to Yu the Great. Its original lyrics in classical Chinese were: :"卿雲爛兮，糺縵縵兮。日月光華，旦復旦兮。" "How bright is the Auspicious Cloud, How broad is its brilliancy. The light is spectacular with sun or moon, How it revives dawn after dawn." The image of the song symbolized transfer and changing, which referred to the noble demise system of Chinese emperor relinquishing seats to others in Yao and Shun's era before the hereditary system of monarchy in ancient Chinese legends.
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The Prince of Wales visited him especially often, and many of his finest portraits were hung in the state apartments at St James's Palace, notably those of the prince himself, the Duke and Duchess of York, Lord Rodney and Lord Nelson. His other sitters included Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Wellington, Henry Bartle Frere and Sir George Beaumont.Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: > Competent judges have deemed his most successful works to be his portraits > of women and children... He was confessedly an imitator of Reynolds. When > first painted, his works were much admired for the brilliancy and harmony of > their colouring, but the injury due to destructive mediums and lapse of time > which many of them suffered caused a great depreciation in his reputation.
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Continent, also in February 1884, suggested that "the criticisms as a whole are severe, and justly so, the book being, with all its brilliancy, faithless and hopeless." The Springfield Republic suggested the author had "no sympathies beyond the circles of wealth and refinement", from which "the workingman is either a murderous ruffian, or a senseless dupe, or a stolid, well-meaning drudge, while the man of wealth is, necessarily, a refined, cultivated hero, handsome, stylish, fascinating." A letter in The Century Magazine deemed the novel "a piece of snobbishness imported from England... It is simply untruthful... to continue the assertion that trade unions are mainly controlled and strikes originated by agitators, interested only for what they make out of them." British critics were generally more favorable toward the book.
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Despite these inclinations, Hunt notes that Cofresí was well educated and describes him as possessing an "eye of remarkable brilliancy", which was reflected in an "intelligent countenance", who even expressed disdain in the lack of bravery that the average member of his crew exhibited. This biography includes an origin story, where he began plundering aboard a canoe with two black men as his crew, only to be dragged to the Dominican Republic during a storm, where he was placed in jail. There Cofresí gained the thrust of the jailer's wife and daughter, who would request him to do menial tasks and treat him as a member of the family. After waiting for a year, he is said to have employed another storm as a distraction to escape along his crew, docking at the Mona Passage for food before eventually returning to Cabo Rojo.
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Ludwig Babenstuber (1660 – 5 April 1726) was a German philosopher and theologian and vice-chancellor of the University of Salzburg. He was born in 1660 at Teining in Bavaria. Having completed his early studies he entered the novitiate of the Order of St. Benedict at Ettal Abbey in 1681, made his religious profession in 1682, and thereafter devoted the greater part of his life to teaching. At the commencement of his studies he had given no promise of brilliancy, but by his untiring application and industry he shortly acquired so vast a store of knowledge, that he soon came to be regarded as one of the most learned men of his day -- "vir comsummatae in omni genere dictrinae et probitatis", as he is styled in Dom Egger's Idea ordinis Hierarchico-Benedictini, and in the History of the University of Salzburg.
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As England had few effective pace bowlers on the tour, Hobbs opened the bowling in the first two Tests, as well as the batting.McKinstry, p. 110. In the third Test, he scored 93 not out to guide England to a three-wicket victory.McKinstry, pp. 107–08. However, the series was lost when England were defeated in the fourth match; Hobbs scored 0and 1, the only time in his Test career that he failed to reach double figures in either innings, and his worst match return in first- class cricket.McKinstry, p. 108. In the final game of the series, he scored his first Test hundred, opening the batting and sharing a partnership of 221 with Rhodes which was a record at the time for the first wicket in Test matches. Hobbs scored 187, an innings praised by Wisden for its "brilliancy".McKinstry, p. 111.
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The Acolyte, 1842. Oil on canvas His first exhibited work, Rabbi expounding the Scriptures, appeared at the Society of British Artists in 1840, and in the following year he sent to the Royal Academy My GrandmotherDNB, 1900. "now belonging to a cousin" and a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Fair Maid of Perth. These were followed (at the Academy) by a scene from the Vicar of Wakefield in 1842, another from Crabbe's Parish Register in 1843, and a third from Peveril of the Peak in 1845. The Breakfast Table, exhibited in 1846, and a further scene from the Vicar of Wakefield in 1847, attracted some attention. In 1848 appeared A Ball Room in the year 1760, and in 1849 the Academy for Instruction in the Discipline of the Fan, 1711, both of which pictures were distinguished by brilliancy of colour and careful study of costume.
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The Roaring Twenties (sometimes stylized as the Roarin' 20s) refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin,Anton Gill, A Dance Between Flames: Berlin Between the Wars (1994). Chicago,Marc Moscato, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago (2009) London,Lesley A. Hall, "Impotent ghosts from no man's land, flappers' boyfriends, or crypto‐patriarchs? Men, sex and social change in 1920s Britain." Social History 21#1 (1996): 54–70 Los Angeles,David Robinson, Hollywood in the Twenties (1968) New York City,David Wallace, Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties (2011) Paris,Jody Blake, Le Tumulte Noir: modernist art and popular entertainment in jazz-age Paris, 1900–1930 (1999) and Sydney.
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Immediately on his arrival in Calcutta he was appointed to command the two divisions of the Bengal army occupying the country from Calcutta to Cawnpore; and to the military control was also joined the commissionership of Oudh. Already hostilities had assumed such proportions as to compel Henry Havelock to fall back on Cawnpore, which he held only with difficulty, although a speedy advance was necessary to save the garrison at Lucknow. On arriving at Cawnpore with reinforcements, Outram, in admiration of the brilliant deeds of General Havelock, conceded to him the glory of relieving Lucknow, and, waiving his rank, tendered his services to him as a volunteer. During the advance he commanded a troop of volunteer cavalry, and performed exploits of great brilliancy at Mangalwar, and in the attack at the Alambagh; and in the final conflict he led the way, charging through a very tempest of fire.
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In a letter to Catherine Maria Fanshawe, dated February 18, 1809, Grant said:— Again, writing to the same friend, on 17 September 1810, Grant said, in reference to a tour which she had lately made with some English visitors :— Here is confession, unwittingly made, that the true spirit of sublime poetry never inhabited the mind of Grant. Historic, traditional, and poetical associations can light up their localities with brightness all their own. Heroes and heroines appear to advantage with a background of solemn or beautiful scenery, and the secondary charm of human interest is added by fictitious narrative to many an alpine spot. That charm, however, can invest any landscape, whether mountainous or marine, of the woodland or the plain: Cowper has difl'used it over the flat arable and pasture lands of Buckinghamshire; the Brontés have cast its lustre with fascinating brilliancy across the bleak and unpicturesque moors of Haworth.
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Both Halevy's Jaguarita l'Indienne and The Desert Flower probably owe their origins to the factual account by Captain John Gabriel Stedman of his adventures in Surinam/Dutch Guiana, titled The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). The last opera to be completed by Wallace, its premiere on 12 October 1863 at Covent Garden opened the 8th and final season of Louisa Pyne and William Harrison's English Opera Company. The Prince of Wales was in the audience, and Louisa Pyne herself sang the role of Oanita, with Harrison as Captain Maurice. A contemporary review pronounced the songs "pretty" and the music "pleasing" but noted that "there are no passages which, by their brilliancy and sweetnesss, raise the work to the heights which the composer has achieved in some of his former operas."The Rose, the Shamrock and the Thistle, p. 223.
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1853 advertisement At the time of his death, Chickering's company had built over 12,000 pianos and was producing about 1,500 a year worth $200,000, almost twice the sales of Timothy Gilbert, his largest competitor in Boston. His pianos at the London International Exhibition of 1851 earned a gold medal with special mention for the grand, which was noted for brilliancy and power as well as its great solidity. Chickering patented single piece iron frames combined with wrest plank bridges and damper guides in square pianos, and with massive wrest plank terminations in grands; Chickering & Mackays were assignees of an action patented by Alpheus Babcock, and licensed actions patented by Edwin Brown and George Howe. Chickering pioneered pronounced curved hammer strike lines in squares which permitted larger hammers, and is also credited encouraging Ichabod Washburn to develop the first music wire produced in the United States.
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According to Reuben Fine, Alekhine dominated chess into the mid-1930s. His most famous tournament victories were at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament (+13=2, 3½ points ahead of Nimzowitsch) and the Bled 1931 chess tournament (+15=11, 5½ points ahead of Bogoljubov). He won most of his other tournaments outright, shared first place in two, and the first tournament in which he placed lower than first was Hastings 1933–34 (shared second place, ½ point behind Salo Flohr). In 1933, Alekhine also swept an exhibition match against Rafael Cintron in San Juan (+4−0=0), but only managed to draw another match with Ossip Bernstein in Paris (+1−1=2). From 1930 to 1935, Alekhine played first board for France at four Chess Olympiads, winning the first brilliancy prize at Hamburg in 1930, gold medals for board one at Prague in 1931 and Folkestone in 1933, and the silver medal for board one at Warsaw in 1935.
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In May 1782 a feu de joie at West Point celebrated the birth of the Dauphin of France, and was witnessed by a Dr. Thacher. > The arbor was, in the evening, illuminated by a vast number of lights, > which, being arranged in regular and tasteful order, exhibited a scene vying > in brilliancy with the starry firmament. The officers having rejoined their > regiments, thirteen cannon were again fired as a prelude to the general feu- > de-joie, which immediately succeeded throughout the whole line of the army > on the surrounding hills, and being three times repeated, the mountains > resounded and echoed like tremendous peals of thunder, and the flashing from > thousands of firearms in the darkness of the evening, could be compared only > to the most vivid flashes of lightning from the clouds. The feu-de-joie was > immediately followed by three shouts of acclamation and benediction for the > Dauphin by the united voices of the whole army on all sides.
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Its reconstruction, in more grandiose form, began around 550 BC, under Chersiphron, the Cretan architect, and his son Metagenes. The project was funded by Croesus of Lydia, and took 10 years to complete. This version of the temple was destroyed in 356 BC by Herostratus in an act of arson. The next, greatest and last form of the temple, funded by the Ephesians themselves, is described in Antipater of Sidon's list of the world's Seven Wonders: > I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for > chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, > and the colossus of the Sun, and the huge labour of the high pyramids, and > the vast tomb of Mausolus; but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted > to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, "Lo, > apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand".
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Although, following Theodoret, we have given the name Ophite to the system described by Irenaeus, it will have been seen that the doctrine concerning the serpent forms a very subordinate part of the system. In the passage immediately following the chapter we have analysed, Irenaeus shows acquaintance with a section of the school who may be called Ophite in the proper sense of the word, some teaching that Sophia herself was the serpent, some glorifying Cain and other enemies of the God of the Old Testament. If we were to single out what we regard as the most characteristic feature of the scheme, it is the prominence given to the attribute of light as the property of the good Principle. This feature is still more striking in the derived system of Pistis Sophia, where the mention of light is of perpetual occurrence, and the dignity of every being is measured by the brilliancy of its light.
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A Dunedin cricket journalist later described Barton as "probably the finest batsman who has settled in the colony", a batsman "of uncommon brilliancy". Playing for Auckland against Taranaki later that season, he opened the batting and scored 74; no one else in the match reached 50. The Auckland Star commented that his innings showed why Barton had "the reputation of being the best batsman in the colony". He made his highest first-class score of 83 for Auckland against Wellington in 1884-85, once again the highest score in the match: "The Auckland crack had played a magnificent innings, his hitting on both sides being well timed and judicious, his leg strokes being made in his very best form." In 1884-85 Barton set a record for the highest score in a senior match in New Zealand when he made 190 for the Auckland Cricket Club; it was surpassed later in the season by a batsman in Christchurch who made 220.
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176-180 describes Coates' tenure at PAFA: > The reign of Mr. Coates at the Academy marked the period of its greatest > prosperity. Rich endowments were made to the schools, a gallery of national > portraiture was formed, and some of the best examples of Gilbert Stuart's > work acquired. The annual exhibitions attained a brilliancy and éclat > hitherto unknown... Mr. Coates wisely established the schools upon a > conservative basis, building almost unconsciously the dykes high against the > oncoming flow of insane novelties in art patterns... In this last struggle > against modernism the President was ably supported by Eakins, Anschutz, > Grafly, [Henry Joseph] Thouron, Vonnoh, and Chase... His unfailing courtesy, > his disinterested thoughtfulness, his tactfulness, and his modesty endeared > him to scholars and masters alike. No sacrifice of time or of means was too > great, if he thought he could accomplish the end he always had in view—the > honour and the glory of the Academy.
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' ...out of these uncouth materials she > had to compose her instrument and then to give it flexibility. Her studies > to acquire execution must have been tremendous; but the volubility and > brilliancy, when acquired, gained a character of their own... There were a > breadth, an expressiveness in her roulades, an evenness and solidity in her > shake, which imparted to every passage a significance totally beyond the > reach of lighter and more spontaneous singers... The best of her audience > were held in thrall, without being able to analyze what made up the spell, > what produced the effect—as soon as she opened her lips. Callas herself appears to have been in agreement not only with Ardoin's assertions that she started as a natural mezzo-soprano, but also saw the similarities between herself and Pasta and Malibran. In 1957, she described her early voice as: "The timbre was dark, almost black—when I think of it, I think of thick molasses", and in 1968 she added, "They say I was not a true soprano, I was rather toward a mezzo".
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The brilliancy of the morning star—which appears brighter than all other stars, but is not seen during the night proper—may have given rise to myths such as the Babylonian story of Ethana and Zu, who was led by his pride to strive for the highest seat among the star-gods on the northern mountain of the gods (an image present also in ), but was hurled down by the supreme ruler of the Babylonian Olympus. Stars were then regarded as living celestial beings. The Jewish Encyclopedia states that the myth concerning the Morning star was transferred to Satan by the first century before the Common Era, citing in support of this view the Life of Adam and Eve and the Slavonic Book of Enoch 29:4, 31:4, where Satan-Sataniel is described as having been one of the archangels. Because he contrived "to make his throne higher than the clouds over the earth and resemble 'My power' on high", Satan-Sataniel was hurled down, with his angels, and since then he has been flying in the air continually above the abyss.
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He owes his wide celebrity to the Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes (1595–1619), better known as the Guerras civiles de Granada, which purports to be a chronicle based on an Arabic original ascribed to a certain Aben-Hamin. Abed-Hamin is a fictitious character, and the "Wars of Granada" is, in reality, a historical novel, perhaps the earliest example of its kind, and certainly the first historical novel that attained popularity. In the first part, the events which led to the downfall of Granada are related with uncommon brilliancy, and Pérez de Hita's sympathetic transcription of life at the Emir's court has clearly suggested the conventional presentation of the picturesque, chivalrous Moor in the pages of Mlle de Scudéry, Mme de Lafayette, Châteaubriand and Washington Irving. The second part is concerned with the author's personal experiences and the treatment is effective; yet, though Calderón's play, Amar después de la muerte, is derived from it, this less picturesque second part has never enjoyed the vogue or influence of the first.
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In cover papers, Bradner Smith & Co. had the largest and best-assorteded stock in the US. The firm was the sole agent for the sale of Weston's pure linen ledger and record papers, which were awarded the gold medal at the Paris Exposition and the highest award at the Centennial Exposition for a combination of all the desirable qualities. They were also sole agents for the celebrated "commercial safety paper," for checks, notes, bills of exchange, bonds, letters of credit, and so on, which had been officially endorsed and recommended by the clearing-house authorities of the principal cities in the US. Bradner Smith & Co. used the finest inks, which were known for their brilliancy of color and durability. They also carried a full line of all colors, sizes, and styles of envelopes, and made odd sizes to order. All kinds of fancy stationery and stationers' sundries were kept in stock, and also a full line of illustrated advertising cards, manufactured by Marques, Gair & Bailey, of Paris, London, and New York City.
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John Clerk of Pennycuik, 2nd Baronet (1676-1755) In his style of painting, Mr. Aikman seems to have aimed at imitating nature in her pleasing simplicity: his lights are soft, his shades mellow, and his colouring mild and harmonious. His touches have neither the force nor harshness of Rubens; nor does he seem, like Reynolds, ever to have aimed at adorning his portraits with the elegance of adventitious graces. His mind, tranquil and serene, delighted rather to wander with Thomson in the enchanting fields of Tempe, than to burst, with Michelangelo, into the ruder scenes of the terrible and the sublime. His compositions are distinguished by a placid tranquility and ease rather than a striking brilliancy of effect: and his portraits may be more readily mistaken for those of Kneller than any other eminent artist; not only because of the general resemblance in the dresses, which were those of the times, they being contemporaries, but also for the manner of working, and the similarity and bland mellowness of their tints.
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Lowther took a sample of the gas and took it home to do some experiments. He noted, "The said air being put into a bladder … and tied close, may be carried away, and kept some days, and being afterwards pressed gently through a small pipe into the flame of a candle, will take fire, and burn at the end of the pipe as long as the bladder is gently pressed to feed the flame, and when taken from the candle after it is so lighted, it will continue burning till there is no more air left in the bladder to supply the flame."Penzel 28 Lowther had basically discovered the principle behind gas lighting. Later in the 18th century William Murdoch (sometimes spelled "Murdock") stated: "the gas obtained by distillation from coal, peat, wood and other inflammable substances burnt with great brilliancy upon being set fire to … by conducting it through tubes, it might be employed as an economical substitute for lamps and candles."Penzel 29 Murdoch's first invention was a lantern with a gas- filled bladder attached to a jet.
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American Art News (January 7, 1922) Painter John McLure Hamilton, who began his art education at the Academy under Thomas Eakins, in 1921 described the contributions Coates made during his tenure: > The reign of Mr. Coates at the Academy marked the period of its greatest > prosperity. Rich endowments were made to the schools, a gallery of national > portraiture was formed, and some of the best examples of Gilbert Stuart's > work acquired. The annual exhibitions attained a brilliancy and éclat > hitherto unknown ... Mr. Coates wisely established the schools upon a > conservative basis, building almost unconsciously the dykes high against the > oncoming flow of insane novelties in art patterns ... In this last struggle > against modernism the President was ably supported by Eakins, Anschutz, > Grafly, [Henry Joseph] Thouron, Vonnoh, and Chase ... His unfailing > courtesy, his disinterested thoughtfulness, his tactfulness, and his modesty > endeared him to scholars and masters alike. No sacrifice of time or of means > was too great, if he thought he could accomplish the end he always had in > view—the honour and the glory of the Academy.
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There was some disagreement over directions, with Cartagena arguing for a more westerly bearing. Magellan made the unorthodox decision to follow the African coast in order to evade the Portuguese caravels which were pursuing him. Toward the end of October, as the Armada approached the equator, they experienced a series of storms, with such intense squalls that they were sometimes forced to strike their sails. Pigafetta recorded the appearance of St. Elmo's fire during some of these storms, which was regarded as a good omen by the crew: > During these storms the body of St. Anselme appeared to us several times; > amongst others, one night that it was very dark on account of the bad > weather, the said saint appeared in the form of a fire lighted at the summit > of the mainmast, and remained there near two hours and a half, which > comforted us greatly, for we were in tears, only expecting the hour of > perishing; and when that holy light was going away from us it gave out so > great a brilliancy in the eyes of each, that we were near a quarter-of-an- > hour like people blinded, and calling out for mercy.
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An intellectual and social prodigy, Hurlbert wrote with flair and found that he could make a good living with his pen. For almost thirty years he worked for or edited newspapers. His skill as a wordsmith provided the foundation for his career. His first assignment as a daily journalist was a legendary success. Between 1857 and 1860, he wrote editorials for Henry J. Raymond’s New York Times. There he promptly displayed “those talents for which he became remarkable”—“quickness of perception, vividness of ideas, brilliancy of style,” and the “great art” of “writing for the press.”Hurlbert obituary, New York Herald, 7 September 1895. His “style and scholarship” were easily recognized and instantly “attracted attention.” He was “au courant with the transpiring of events abroad and at home;” he had historical perspective; and he was “extremely ready” with “rapid comment” when writing against a deadline about late-breaking news.Hurlbert obituaries, New York World, 7, 8 September 1895. Although James Gordon Bennett, Sr.’s New York Herald and Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune had more readers, the Times too had national perspective and commanded notice. Raymond made Hurlbert his right-hand man and second in command.
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The Soviet Union at Paris. In 1954, he tied for 2nd–3rd with Miguel Najdorf, behind René Letelier, at Montevideo at age 72. Najdorf protested that it was unfair to play such an aged opponent, and then became so confident of victory that he convinced the tournament organizers to double the First Prize money at the expense of reducing the payouts for the lesser prizes, a gamble that backfired in spectacular fashion as the septuagenarian Bernstein routed him in a 37-move Old Indian Defense that won Bernstein the Brilliancy Prize. Bernstein played at first board for France at the 11th Chess Olympiad in Amsterdam 1954 (+5−5=5). He was a member of the French team, at the 12th Olympiad in Moscow 1956, but he did not play because of illness. When FIDE introduced official titles in 1950, Bernstein was awarded the International Grandmaster title. He had level or nearly level lifetime scores against such outstanding players as the second World Champion Emanuel Lasker (+2−3=1),Chessbase Big Database 2012 Akiba Rubinstein (+1−1=7), Aron Nimzowitsch (+1−2=4), Mikhail Chigorin (+2−1=0) and Salo Flohr (+0−0=3). He had poor records, however, against the third World Champion José Raúl Capablanca (+0−3=1); and the fourth World Champion Alexander Alekhine (+1−8=5).
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