She granted a royal charter to the Muscovy Company, whose first governor was Sebastian Cabot, and commissioned a world atlas from Diogo Homem.
It was commissioned in a world that ended somewhere over the horizon beyond Ireland.
Gildenhorn is a former chairman of the DC boxing and wrestling commission and supervised a world heavyweight title fight between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe.
It is one of the most significant federal commissions by a world-renowned artist to grace a suburban post office.
One of Henry Moore's first commissions, a first world war roll of honour board that he carved for his school, has gone on display in an exhibition charting the artist's early years.
Walt Disney is working on several exhibits, one of which is entitled "One Nation Under God", & will include life-size mechanized models of all the past Presidents of the U.S. Ferde Grofe has been commissioned to write a World's Fair Suite.
As part of festivities commemorating the Belgian artist's life and work, the Magritte Estate commissioned an immersive world to be constructed from high resolution scans of his most famous paintings, such as The Treachery of Images, Golconda, and The False Mirror.
Word spread among farmers that the commission intended to create a world government and was responsible for depressed crop prices.
The game was informally called by the grandiose Super Bowl name — coined by the Kansas City Chiefs' owner, Lamar Hunt — and Rozelle commissioned Tiffany to create a world professional football championship trophy (later renamed for Vince Lombardi).
$3,548,960: A two-tiered sculptural rectangular bar (1965) in nickel silver and brass supported by four blowtorch-cut steel feet, François-Xavier Lalanne's first commission from Yves Saint Laurent, which achieved a world record for the artist at auction.
Among the works on show is Moore's first commission from his student days, a World War One roll of honour for his secondary school, which has never before been seen outside his hometown of Castleford, in West Yorkshire.
