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Grand Ages: Rome

They then choose which family to associate their character with, selecting between the Flavii, Valerii, Julii, Aemilii or Lucii, each with unique traits that benefit the player in military, civic or economic ways.


Adam Maida

On November 26, 1994, Pope John Paul II elevated Maida to the Sacred College of Cardinals as Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio.

Ammi B. Young

His first monumental work was the Second Vermont State House, a cruciform Greek Revival structure built between 1833 and 1838, which combined a Doric portico modeled on the Temple of Theseus in Athens, with a low saucer dome inspired by the Pantheon in Rome.

Apostoli

Santi Apostoli, Rome is a 6th-century basilica in Rome, dedicated originally to St. James and St. Philip and later to all Apostles.

Charles T. Murr

On May 13, 1977, in the Basilica of SS. Giovanni e Paulo (Monte Celio), Charles Theodore Murr was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, Pericle Cardinal Felici ordaining.

CivCity: Rome

The player is granted various ranks, progressing through such titles as: Quaestor, Aedile, Censor, Tribune, Praetor and Consul.

In the game, there is also chance that certain people, (Cleopatra, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar, etc.), can increase or decrease city happiness by sending messages.

Column of the Immaculate Conception, Rome

The monument was designed by the architect Luigi Poletti and commissioned by Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies.

Dimitrije Popović

His crucifixions entitled “Corpus mysticum” were exhibited in Rome in Sant Andrea al Quirinale, Santa Maria del Popolo, and the Pantheon in the occasion of the celebration of two thousand years of Christianity.

EUR, Rome

The location was also used as the headquarters of Mayflower Industries in the 1991 movie Hudson Hawk and served as a backdrop for scenes from the 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Forty Hours' Devotion

Already before the year 1550 this, or some analogous exposition, had been established by St. Philip Neri for the Confraternity of the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome; while St. Ignatius Loyola, at encouraged to the practice of exposing the Blessed Sacrament during the carnival as an act of expiation for the sins committed at that season.

Fountain of Neptune, Rome

The lower part of the basin consists of white marble and the upper part of the local stone from Pietrasanta.

Gaetano Koch

Koch was born in Rome, where he made his name with several major works - Palazzo Koch, seat of the Banca d'Italia, and the two porticoed palazzi which form Piazza della Repubblica, and the central Piazza Vittorio.

Giovanni Battista Calvi

Prior to working for the Spanish Monarchy he worked as a civil engineer in Rome, under the direction of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, on the façade of Palazzo Farnese.

Humphrey Berisford

Christopher Green's 'F' manuscript, now in the English College, Rome, says of Berisford that he was a gentleman of Derbyshire, the son of an esquire, whose father was a Protestant, and that he studied at Douay for about two years.

Humphrey Leech

After some time at Arras, in 1609 he entered the English College, Rome, under the assumed name Henry Eccles, and on 2 May 1610 he took the college oath.

Hypaethros

In the conjectural restoration of the opaion or opening in the roof shown in Cockerells drawing, it has been made needessly large, having an area of about one quarter of the superficial area of the celia between the coltirnns, and since in the Pantheon at Rome the relative proportions of the central opening in the dome and the area of the Rotunda are I: 22, and the light there is ample, in the clearer atmosphere of Greece it might have been less.

John and Paul

The basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Rome is dedicated to them, as well as the Basilica di San Zanipolo in Venice ("Zanipolo" being Venetian for "John and Paul").

Julia Thornton

Andy MacKay & The Metaphors (2009) London! Paris! New York! Rome!

London Colosseum

Initial plans to sell panoramic views came to nothing, but an elaborate scheme to create a 360-degree panorama on the inside of a dome of the Colosseum, specially built in Regents Park (and resembling the Roman Pantheon rather than the Roman Colosseum), came to fruition, but at such expense that its principal backer, Rowland Stephenson MP, had to flee to America in 1828, soon followed by Horner.

Luigi Fontana

Apart from his native town, his works are present in Rome in the basilicas of Santi Apostoli, San Lorenzo in Damaso, San Giovanni in Laterano, Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Maria sopra Minerva and other palaces, as well as in the cathedrals of Macerata, Montefiascone, and Tivoli.

Maplesville, Alabama

The Selma, Rome, and Dalton Railroad completed their line in 1850, and the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway followed in 1853.

Modello

There are alternative, unrealised, modelli for many famous buildings, including St Peter's, Rome and the "Great Model" of St Paul's Cathedral, London, showing a different design by Sir Christopher Wren from that actually built.

Paolo Sardi

On 20 November 2010, he was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice in Via Tuscolana.

Paul MacPherson

Paul McPherson, the first secular Scottish priest to be rector of the Scots College, Rome, was born in Scalan, Aberdeenshire on 4 March 1756.

Rashtrapati Bhavan

Lutyens said the design evolved from that of the Pantheon in Rome, while it is also possible that it was modelled partly after the great Stupa at Sanchi.

San Giovanni a Carbonara Church

The church was completed in the early 15th century under King Ladislaus of Durazzo, who turned the church into a Pantheon-like tribute to the last of the Angevin rulers of Naples.

San Teodoro, Rome

It was rebuilt under Pope Nicholas V, had its long-held titular-church status suppressed by Pope Sixtus V, was renovated by Francesco Barberini in 1643, and rebuilt and given to the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Pope Clement XI and his architect Carlo Fontana in 1703-1705.

Sant'Angelo, Rome

The regio was named after the Circus Flaminius, the second-largest circus of Rome, built here during the 3rd century BC by Gaius Flaminius Nepos.

Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Rome, also known as Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio on the Celian Hill in Rome

Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, Rome

The main altar has four columns of African black marble, and was built in 1616 by designs of Domenico Pozzi.

Shawnee Mission East Choraliers

The choir has performed at Carnegie Hall, Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, Great St. Mary's Cathedral in Cambridge, the Pantheon and at the Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Lutheran Church), a church in Leipzig, Germany where Johann Sebastian Bach held the position of cantor.

Technological history of the Roman military

They used such new materials to great advantage in their structures, many of which survive to this day, like their masonry aqueducts such as the Pont du Gard and buildings such as the Pantheon and Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

The New Tetris

The game is notable for showing scenic fly-bys of famous structures (for examples the Sphinx, the Pantheon, Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Mayan temple, and others) rendered in realtime.

Thomas Hardwick

Hardwick altered the design to create a suitably grand facade, with a Corinthian portico six columns wide, based on that of the Pantheon in Rome, and a steeple, its top stage in the form of a miniature temple, surrounded by eight caryatids.

Vincenzo Seratrice the Elder

He uncovered evidence of the 13th-century Vassalletto family of marble carvers of the thirteenth century, who helped carve the columns of a choir in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome.


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