wordnet_head_of_state_110164747


# training instances: 59495
# testing instances: 8326
# true positives: 7980
# false positives: 643
# false negatives: 346
precision: 0.9254319842282268
recall: 0.9584434302185924
F1: 0.9416484748362735
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Gustav III of Sweden... edish War against Sweden, a conflict instigated by Catherine's cousin, King, who expected to simply overtake the Russian armies still engaged in war ...
Gustaf Vasa... h a yellow cross date from the early 16th century, during the reign of King. This flag was a swallow-tailed (double-tailed), and the first legal desc ...
Henry Tudor... brother, Richard, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle againstat Bosworth Field
Augustus... ndar. The calendar reforms were completed during the reign of his successor. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of Julius Caesar in 44 BC ...
Sigismund I the Old... ge was granted the title "Duke of Prussia" by his new feudal overlord, Kingof Poland, who was also his uncle. In a deal partially brokered by Luther, ...
Edward V of EnglandThe Princes in the Tower is a term which refers toand Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the onl ...
GDRT... E, the South Arabian kingdoms were in continuous conflict with one another.of Aksum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs, signing an alliance ...
John III's... banners. Prior to this, a similar flag appeared in the Coat of Arms of Kingduchy, which is today Finland Proper. The same coat of arms is still used ...
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe department was established on September 9, 1965, whensigned the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act into law. It st ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... hind Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support forat the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs M ...
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of YorkThe Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to Edward V of England and. The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabet ...
Domitian... he Jews, completed during the last year of the reign of the Emperor Flavius(between 1.9.93 and 14.3.94, cf. AJ X.267). In expounding Jewish history, ...
Louis XIV of France... rial army. The Pico family would reign as dukes until Mirandola, an ally of, was conquered by his rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and an ...
Herbert C. HooverThe 1928 Republican U.S. Presidential candidatemade his only southern campaign stop at Elizabethton and delivered his nat ...
St Edward the Martyr... he solemn translation of the relics of King Eadward II, soon to be known as, from their grave at Wareham to a shrine at Shaftesbury Abbey. In 984, in ...
John Tukey... e American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as, condemned the sampling procedure. Tukey was perhaps the most vocal criti ...
Stanley Jackson... uropean club in Chittagong in 1932, while Bina Das attempted to assassinate, the Governor of Bengal inside the convocation hall of Calcutta Universit ...
Edward IV of England... ard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the only sons ofand Elizabeth Woodville alive at the time of their father's death. Sometim ...
Woodrow WilsonIn 1916, Baruch left Wall Street to advise presidenton national defense and terms of peace. He served on the Advisory Commissi ...
Herod Antipas... ore precise than Mark in the titles he gives to rulers, and initially givesthe correct title of "tetrarch", yet he lapses into calling him "king" at ...
President... s in the White House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — firstCoolidge in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 193 ...
President... more people than ever before will be able to witness the swearing-in of thefrom a vantage point in sight of the Capitol." The Committee made this arr ...
Francisco Franco... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimoand Christopher Columbus as saints. According to his supporters, Pope Greg ...
John I of Castile... erdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married king, but popular sentiment was against an arrangement in which Portugal would ...
Charles de Gaulle... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of
Ma Ying-jeouIn the 2008 presidential election, KMT candidatedefeated DPP candidate Hsieh with 58.48% of the vote. The party also retai ...
Holy Roman Emperor... nce and central Europe. In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist whenFrancis II kept Francis I of Austria as his only official title. These ach ...
Jimmy CarterFollowing Ford's defeat by President, Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ...
Dhu Nuwas... d the Sabaean kingdom. They traded from the port of al-Muza on the Red Sea., a Himyarite king, changed the state religion to Judaism in the beginning ...
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor... ntil Mirandola, an ally of Louis XIV of France, was conquered by his rival,, in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke Rinaldo d'Este, the exiled male li ...
Magnus Birgersson's... a combination of King Albert of Mecklenburg's coat of arms of 1364 and Kingcoat of arms of 1275, and is blue divided quarterly by a golden cross patt ...
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor... "S" on the duchy's coat of arms represented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund., and Pope Clement VII objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided ...
Honorius... was the famous magister militum Stilicho, the chief minister of the Emperor
Gordon Campbell... , but failed to meet the required "supermajority" threshold of 60%. Premierannounced due to the large support shown for electoral reform a second ref ...
Alfonso X of Castile... rst with the Old Fuero (Charter) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted byin 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339. On the other hand, the town of ...
Xiang Yu... authority had collapsed in the face of rebellion. Two former rebel leaders,(d. 202 BCE) of Chu and Liu Bang (d. 195 BCE) of Han, engaged in a war to ...
Henry IIILeiden was sacked in 1047 by Emperor. Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she w ...
Caracalla... atterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by Septimius Severus and, who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. The city was th ...
Alexander the GreatAdrian Veidt / Ozymandias: Drawing inspiration from, Veidt was once the superhero Ozymandias, but has since retired to devote ...
Egyptian President... ul Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the thirdAnwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David A ...
Robert E. Lee... n sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of's army and inspired Southern morale
Richard... sumed killed) within a year of Edward's death. The king's youngest brother,, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against Henry Tudor at ...
Gustaf Vasa... 20, and became blue with a golden cross only during the early reign of King, who successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish ...
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel... his advisors went about arranging a marriage for him. Their eyes fell upon, the eldest child of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She w ...
Louis the German... ildren, but one illegitimate son, Hugh. The kings of East and West Francia,and Charles the Bald, agreed to divided Lotharingia between them, and in 8 ...
Zach Taylor... inch (76 mm) rifled gun and was purchased for $155 on June 25, 1892, by thePost No. 42 of the Grand Army of the Republic
Christian II... ho successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish Kingin 1521
Offa of Mercia... ounding agricultural region from the early Middle Ages The Anglo-Saxon Kingwas buried in the town in 796. In 886 it became a boundary town separating ...
Theodor Heuss... aced by a simpler Greek cross. On 1 October 1956, the President of Germany,, gave directions to use the Iron Cross as the official emblem of West Ger ...
Edward I... tagonist, a fictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns ofand Kublai Khan. Costain's narration includes technology such as the compa ...
Justin I... the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Emperorinvaded and annexed Yemen. About fifty years later, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan ask ...
Guillermo Rodríguez... rthrew the government of Velasco Ibarra. The coup d'état was led by Generaland executed by navy commander Jorge Queirolo G. The new president exiled ...
Augustus... ius Caesar in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour ofin 8 BC
William Henry Harrison... oint du Sable near the mouth of the Chicago River. That same year, Governorof the Indiana Territory appointed Kinzie as a justice of the peace
Jimmy Carter... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, Presidentreopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ...
Nixon Administration... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and thereversed all dishonorable discharges
Duke of Halland... went on a private visit to Wuppertal, Germany; at the same time, H.R.H. thewas on a private visit to Sainte-Maxime, France. The Government therefore ...
Shah Jahan... ed the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince, the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out ...
Louis XVIII... e island of Elba, and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of. They signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau (11 April 1814) and initiated th ...
Erichthonius... A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of Erechtheus/through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate that Erichtho ...
Robert E. Lee... ecame a doctor, and served as a surgeon on the staff of Confederate generalduring the American Civil War. He was a pioneer in physical therapy. His m ...
Frederick II of Prussia... a itself by Austrian troops; and, though the invasion of Bohemia in 1744 byenabled him to return to Munich, at his death on 20 January 1745 it was le ...
Constantine... he popes and the church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperorsand Theodosius, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western ...
President... any credit the speech by Robert F. Kennedy, who was in town campaigning forthat night, for helping to calm the tensions. Racial tensions heightened i ...
Carl XVI GustafUnder H.M., the present King of Sweden since 1973, the plain triple-tailed flag has ...
another brother... d brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather andwere executed for treason. Edward's two sons were imprisoned and disappear ...
President... ear conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the lateAnwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a str ...
Gerald Ford... unsel. After Nixon's resignation, the nomination was continued by President, and Scalia was confirmed by the Senate on August 22, 1974
Horst Köhler... the Ministry of Defence to decide on the matter. On 6 March 2008, Presidentapproved a proposal by Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung to institute a ...
Ferdinand II of Aragon... t the Jewish religion." These were the charges brought by the government ofand Isabella I of Castile against the Jews. They constituted the grounds f ...
Hadrian... known to the Romans, and the foundation of the town refers to the emperor,, with an inscription of somewhat doubtful authenticity. The bath-consciou ...
Æthelred... accession was disputed by his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wished her own sonto reign. Through the influence of Dunstan, Eadward was chosen and crowned ...
Theodosius... church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors Constantine and, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, ...
Xiang Yu... d copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later whenburned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC
Pope Paul VI... op Thuc had the power to ordain he did not have the authority to do so from, which is a requirement for licit episcopal holy orders in Roman Catholic ...
Samuel Pepys... the cult of the Martyr King; however, no other eyewitness source, including, records this. Henry's account was written during the Restoration, some 1 ...
Septimius Severus... ely rebuilt on Roman patterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, byand Caracalla, who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. Th ...
Richard Nixon... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. Presidentappointed him as the general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications ...
Caracalla... iption of somewhat doubtful authenticity. The bath-conscious Roman emperor,, once came here to ease his arthritic aches. Baden was also known as Aure ...
Isabella I of Castile... se were the charges brought by the government of Ferdinand II of Aragon andagainst the Jews. They constituted the grounds for their expulsion and ban ...
Coolidge... hite House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first Presidentin 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 1931 — choos ...
Gustavus Adolphus... ame coat of arms is still used by the province. Not until the reign of Kingin the 1620s, there is reliable evidence of a double-tailed blue flag with ...
Francisco Franco... s figures by anti-Franco Anarchists. After the civil war was won by General, Escrivá was able to return to Madrid. Escriva himself recounted that it ...
Sidgwick... ntral error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and. Since then, the term has become common in English-language ethical theor ...
NestorAs the battle turned against the Greeks, thanks to the influence of Zeus,declared that the Trojans were winning because Agamemnon had angered Achil ...
Elizabeth Woodville... ke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England andalive at the time of their father's death. Sometime around 1483, it is ass ...
George Washington... outing their choice to the clerk, as supporters cheered or booed. Candidatespent L39 for treats for his supporters. The candidates knew they had to " ...
Charlemagne... or, he should rule in Aachen, the capital of the first Carolingian emperor,, and in Rome, the ancient capital of emperors. Middle Francia (Latin Fran ...
Odin... e "-", anglicized as Hermod) is a figure in Norse mythology, the son of god
Premier... visive issue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by AlbertaRalph Klein and some Conservatives and Liberal backbenchers. However, Paul ...
Drusus Germanicus... riot relays, the emperor Tiberius hastened in 24 hours to join his brother,, who was dying of gangrene as a result of a fall from a horse
Titus... pression of the Jewish revolt, Josephus would have witnessed the marches of's triumphant legions leading their Jewish captives, and carrying treasure ...
Edward the Elder... rating Wessex and Danelaw. It was the seat of the Barony of Bedford. In 919built the town's first known fortress, on the south side of the River Ouse ...
Thomas Jefferson... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The Americanwas a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ...
George W. Bush... lo, co-founder of Yahoo!, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President; from entertainment Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Mi ...
Omar Torrijos... oric American achievement", and warned that it would fall into the hands of's "communist friends". It had appeared as an issue in the 1976 presidenti ...
King Farouk I... ssador in Tehran. In the same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of, married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then crown prince (later shah) of Ira ...
Robert E. Lee... fantry regiment would include two companies of pikemen, a plan supported by. Many pikes were produced but were never used in battle and the plan to i ...
Adolf Hitler... he visit would prove of benefit to Jews, Hearst visited Berlin to interview. Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press. "Because ...
Frederick I of DenmarkOn 1 March 1526 Albert married Princess Dorothea, daughter of King, thereby establishing political ties between Lutheranism and Scandinavia. ...
Alexandre Pétion... th, Port-au-Prince was the capital of the republic, under the leadership of. Henri Christophe renamed the city Port-aux-Crimes after the assassinatio ...
Henri Christophe... was the capital of the republic, under the leadership of Alexandre Pétion.renamed the city Port-aux-Crimes after the assassination of Jacques I at P ...
Pope Paul VI... m His sub-Vicar, with the automatic right of succession to the papacy after. On August 6, 1978, Pope Paul died and Domínguez claimed the papacy, proc ...
Edward (II) "the Martyr"... ar died two years after his coronation, and was succeeded by his eldest son. His accession was disputed by his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wished her ...
Franklin D. RooseveltHardy holds the distinction of playing both Winston Churchill and, and having played both roles on more than one occasion. He played Church ...
Shah Jahan... en he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas". Fearing the worstsealed an official Firman allowing the English to trade in Gujarat in the ...
Xiang Yu... s of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty the hegemonappointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named for its ...
Josep Sunyol... n the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising. On 6 August,, the club president and representative of a pro-independence political pa ...
Andrew JacksonOn June 15, 1832, President, displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ...
Harald I of Norway... tacks upon the Viking peoples. Another possible contributing factor is that("Harald Fairhair") had united Norway around this time, and the bulk of th ...
Henry VIII... e of Repeal Act (1553); the Protestant religious laws passed in the time ofwere repealed; and the Revival of the Heresy Acts were passed in 1554. The ...
Terry Sanford... ch-counter demonstrations in Greensboro, compelled him to run. Lake lost to, who ran as a racial moderate willing to implement the federal policy of ...
ClaudiusThe Emperorpaid a visit while Britain was being conquered and was honoured with the a ...
Ferdinand IOn the death of his half-brotherwithout a male heir in October 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure ...
Henry Tudor... ncastrian line had virtually been extinguished, and the only rival left was, who was living in exile
Septimius Severus... ntury the Roman Empire was plunged into a civil war. When the dust settled,emerged as emperor, establishing the Severan dynasty. Unlike previous empe ...
Memnon... of Patroclus, Achilles' closest companion was Nestor's son Antilochus. When, king of Ethiopia slew Antilochus, Achilles once more obtained revenge on ...
Francisco Macías Nguema... ngomo-based Esangui clan. Obiang was a general when he overthrew his uncle,
Abraham LincolnThe Act of Incorporation, signed by Presidenton March 3, 1863, created the National Academy of Sciences and named 50 ch ...
Kwame Nkrumah... lonialism, waged by the former colonial powers and other developed nations., who in 1957 became leader of newly independent Ghana, was one of the mos ...
Alton B. Parker... cated. The conservative wing of the party was ascendant and nominated Judgeinstead. An opponent of the British Empire, Hearst opposed American involv ...
Álvaro Obregón... he Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is also famous in Mexican history.(possibly O'Brian) was president of Mexico during 1920-24 and Obregón city ...
Conan the Barbarian... nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of thebooks
Elizabeth IIQueenapproved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ...
Laius... of Oedipus takes place before the opening scene of the play. In his youth,was a guest of King Pelops of Elis, and became the tutor of Chrysippus, yo ...
Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaIn July 2010, after the visit of Brazilian president,, the sale of a Barroso-class corvette to be constructed in Brazil was ann ...
Vicente Fox... 920-24 and Obregón city and airport are named in his honour. More recently,served as President from 2000 to 2006. Mexico also has a large number of p ...
John II of France... mongst Edward's successes were the battles of Crécy and Poitiers where Kingwas taken prisoner, and the capture of the King David II of Scotland at Ne ...
Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, reformed the calendar ...
Francisco Franco... y the railway system, which could have been used to transport artillery hadnot used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the Spanish Civil War ...
Adolf Hitler... served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it.resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the ...
George Washington... rtraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery,, and Abraham Lincoln. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simpl ...
Cephalus... nal Orion could be made immortal, as well as an astronomical scene in whichis thought to stand in for Orion and his constellation, also reflecting th ...
Beatrice... ber 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure the succession for Princess, Ferdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married ...
Anote Tong... e in March 2003 by a no-confidence vote and replaced by a Council of State.of the opposition party Boutokaan Te Koaua was elected to succeed Tito in ...
King John... meaning navel, because it was thought to be the navel of England. In 1203,granted Naseby its market charter and the village became a flourishing mar ...
Annie Besant... Home Rule League in 1916-18 with G. S. Khaparde and Muhammad Ali Jinnah and. After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radical factions, he g ...
Queen Victoria... f Foot, on 18 June 1853 (the 38th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo) by
Henry VI... s royal motto was modus et ordo, or "method and order"). The latter days of's government had been marked by a general breakdown in law and order, as ...
GDRT... riod the Kingdom of Aksum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs. Kingof Aksum acted by dispatching troops under his son, BYGT, sending them fro ...
Henry Bolingbroke... im after he promised that he had just come to reclaim his dukedom - just ashad done seventy years earlier. As he marched southwards he began to gathe ...
Ezra Taft Benson... urch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including two Church presidents:'26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Ch ...
Anote Tong... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati presidentsaid that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ...
Alfonso VIII of CastileIn 1187, Kingmade the abbot of San Emeterio lord of the town, and in 1248 Santander par ...
Erichthonius... t she eluded him. His semen fell to the earth and impregnated the soil, andwas born from the Earth, Gaia. Athena then raised the baby as a foster mot ...
Salvador Allende... ent which led to a revolution in the popular music of his country under thegovernment. Shortly after the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, he was ar ...
King Hussein... yrian position deteriorated, Jordan sent an expeditionary force into Syria., who had come under intense pressure to enter the war, told Israel of his ...
Anote Tong... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati presidentsaid that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ...
Louis the Younger... n Lotharingia but was defeated near Andernach by Louis. In 879 Louis's son,, was invited by a faction of the West Frankish nobility to succeed Louis ...
Warren G. Harding... gnised the Court's jurisdiction in, following a long and drawn out process.had first suggested US involvement in 1923, and in 9 December 1929, three ...
Richard, Duke of Gloucester... VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother. The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy ...
Polybus of Corinth... th, where Oedipus is taken in and raised in the court of the childless Kingas if he were his own
King Charles I... oor a small distance north of the village the Royalist forces, commanded by, battled the Roundhead army commanded by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax ...
Diocletian... These reforms were finally realized late in the century under the reign of, one of them being to divide the empire into an eastern and western half, ...
Richard I... was elected Bishop of Salisbury shortly after the accession of Henry's sonto the throne of England
Monivong... amily. An older sister of Pol Pot had been a concubine at the court of King. Three of the Paris group forged a bond that survived years of revolution ...
Wen Jiabao... o the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and its Premier is, who is also a senior member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee
Jacques Chirac... Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic called the war illegal. French Presidentcommented on the statement of the ten Eastern European countries saying: " ...
Charles X GustavAfter, the son of John Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded ...
Charles Tupper... ment until their deaths; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post; and, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private ...
David II of Scotland... here King John II of France was taken prisoner, and the capture of the Kingat Neville's Cross. During this period, the Tower of London held many nobl ...
Edward VIIn 1553, Mary I, a Roman Catholic, succeeded her Protestant half-brother,, to the English throne. Mary set about trying to restore Roman Catholicis ...
Qin Er Shi... worked, and the younger son Huhai became the Second Emperor, later known asor "Second Generation Qin.
Thomas S. Monson... atter-day Saints, including two Church presidents:Ezra Taft Benson '26, and'74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. ...
Hadrian... in agony under the heel of the emperor. She appeared on coins issued under, as a more regal-looking female figure. Britannia was soon personified as ...
Sun Yat-senIn 1906, the Chinese Republican leaderproposed that Hainan should become a separate province although this did n ...
President Bush... servative Republicans are not committed to improving public education. When's 2003 budget proposal threatened to cut education grants, she responded, ...
Louis the Stammerer... Younger, was invited by a faction of the West Frankish nobility to succeed, Charles's son, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, C ...
Prince George, the new Prince of Wales... e of the Prince. Upon the Prince's death in 1751, the education of his son,, became a priority and in 1755 Bute was appointed as his tutor. Bute arra ...
Paul Lazarsfeld... Robert Dahl, Philip Converse, and in the collaboration between sociologistand public opinion scholar Bernard Berelson
John F. Kennedy... to avoid inconveniencing the Chicago traveling public, including President. In a common pattern, Air Force One would land at a larger area airport, ...
Shah Jahan... ab. He was succeeded by his third son, Prince Khurram who took the title of. Jahangir's elegant mausoleum is located in the Shahdara locale of Lahore ...
Laius... t of religious pollution, caused because the murderer of their former King,, had never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him ...
Charles de Gaulle... dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under Presidentto leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he receiv ...
Roger II of Sicily... n Castle, widely known as the Castello Svevo (Swabian Castle), was built byaround 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by Frederick II of Hohensta ...
Ronald Reagan... campaign was managed by Thomas F. Ellis, who would later be instrumental in's 1976 campaign and also become the chair of the National Congressional C ...
John... rd's death in 1199, Walter helped assure the elevation of Richard's brotherto the throne. Walter also served John as a diplomat, undertaking several ...
third wife... England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after King Henry VIII's
Franklin D. Roosevelt... uch remained a prominent government adviser during this time, and supported's domestic and foreign policy initiatives after his election
Edward... by Portuguese historians as the "illustrious generation" (Ínclita Geração):, the future king, was a poet and a writer; Peter, the Duke of Coimbra, wa ...
Hu Jintao... has been described as a "rubber stamp" body. China's incumbent President is, who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and i ...
John Paul II... r 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, became Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Catholics rejoiced at the elev ...
Joseph Banks... cessor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir(President of the Royal Society), James Dickson (a nurseryman), William Fo ...
King Henry VIII's... Hertfordshire, in England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" afterthird wife
Tim Rice... ay writers from Bucks include Terry Pratchett who was born in Beaconsfield,who is from Amersham and who is from Aylesbury
Ludwig III of Bavaria... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing Kingto flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ...
Otto I... a bridgehead to Italy, which was re-affirmed during the Italian Campaign of. In the years 1007 and 1027 the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire granted ...
Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales... bellion of 1745, Bute moved to Westminster, London, and two years later metthere, soon becoming a close associate of the Prince. Upon the Prince's de ...
Cecrops... fered them the first domesticated olive tree. The Athenians (or their king,) accepted the olive tree and with it the patronage of Athena, for the oli ...
St Æthelberht... ce at Mass and the daily office. He visited the shrines of St Augustine and, and there are reports of a vision of angels who sang to him heavenly can ...
Emperor... capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of theValentinian I. Ambrose never married
Maria Theresa... an Succession, nominally a struggle over the legitimacy of the accession ofto the Austrian throne, began in 1740, but at first did not involve either ...
Qabus... ur and Merv to the borders of Khorasan, seeking an opening for his talents., the generous ruler of Dailam and central Persia, himself a poet and a sc ...
Louis XIV... return to the stage in 1659. He wrote the play Oedipe, which was favored by. In the next year, Corneille published Trois discours sur le poème dramat ...
Charles the Bald... itimate son, Hugh. The kings of East and West Francia, Louis the German and, agreed to divided Lotharingia between them, and in 870 they came to an a ...
Elizabeth I of England... the disaffected. In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of(1558) and its form has more than once been altered since. Up to the time ...
Henri Christophe... the Musée National is a museum featuring historical artifacts such as King's actual suicide pistol and a rusty anchor that museum operators claim wa ...
Queen Mary I... d-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from, some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged. "Weaned off u ...
Neil L. Andersen... presidents:Ezra Taft Benson '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 ...
AttilaThe few demonstrably historical characters mentioned in the poems, like, provide a terminus post quem of sorts. The dating of the manuscripts the ...
Augustus... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship ofand Traianus (or, less frequently, year 851 Ab urbe condita). The denomina ...
Lester B. Pearson... Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector;, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and Kim Campb ...
Zhang Zuolin... s under Japanese officers, as is charged." The Japanese had in their employ(Chang Tso-lin), a famous Honghuzi leader who led his men against the Russ ...
Friedrich Ebert... ber Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin, to the fury ofand James Mitchell, the leaders of the MSPD, who thought that the question ...
Edward Heath... e existing A3T missile. This decision was made official late in 1973 by theadministration, who changed the name from Super Antelope to Chevaline. The ...
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln... Carter was promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general and assigned byto engage cavalry based in Kentucky against Confederate held railroad line ...
Edvard Beneš... England. Many of these settled in Bucks as it is close to London. Presidentof Czechoslovakia lived at Aston Abbotts with his family while some of his ...
D. Todd Christofferson... Taft Benson '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen,'69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54 ...
Peter... ration" (Ínclita Geração): Edward, the future king, was a poet and a writer;, the Duke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; a ...
Pope John Paul II... ter II. Incidentally, the papacy of Gregory XVII closely overlapped that of. He died, aged only 58, a mere 11 days prior to the death of his "rival" ...
Abraham LincolnThe Declaration's relationship to slavery was taken up in 1854 by, a little-known former Congressman who idolized the Founding Fathers. Lin ...
Alexander I... eteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar. Finally, the two armies engaged in the Battle of Borodino on 7 September ...
David A. Bednar... S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69,'76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876 ...
King Edward VIIIIn 1920, the Prince of Wales (the future) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, he recommended the place in ...
St Louis... rchbishops, the two generals of the Carthusians and Cistercians, the king (), and three of his sons, the queen mother, Baldwin, count of Flanders and ...
Teburoro Tito... ts of the main island group would be resettled onto less-populated islands.was elected president in 1994. Kiribati's 1995 act of moving the internati ...
Richard Nixon... Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married's daughter Julie in 1968
George Reid... known as the "three elevens". When the Deakin government resigned in 1904,of the Free Trade Party declined to take office, resulting in Labour takin ...
Henry VI... ated the Lancastrians in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrianand Queen Margaret of Anjou were campaigning in the north of England, Warw ...
Harry S. TrumanIn 1946 Presidentappointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations ...
Napoleon III... was then nicknamed the European summer capital and reached its zenith underduring the 1850s and 1860s. The Russian writer, Dostoevsky, wrote The Gamb ...
Antoninus Pius... at the edge of the (known) world. Similar coin types were also issued under
George IV... e of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King. The film is also notable because it is the last film in which Michael Wi ...
Herbert Hoover... Hearst shared Smith's opposition to Prohibition he swung his papers behindin the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for Franklin D. Roosev ...
Richard Duke of Gloucester... te by an Act of Parliament of 1483 known as Titulus Regius, and their unclewas crowned as Richard III. There are reports of the two princes being see ...
Hamani Diori... -Nguesso, of the Republic of the Congo, Idriss Déby, president of Chad, andformer president of Niger
Jehoiakim... Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with. He brought Jehoahaz back to Egypt as his prisoner, where Jehoahaz ended ...
Thomas Telford... pment of the network, therefore, had to be left to other engineers, such as
Ho Chi MinhIn 1930founded the Vietnamese Communist Party by unifying three smaller communist ...
José Gustavo Guerrero... hi, Altamira, Anzilotti, Bustamante, Jonkheer van Eysinga, Henri Fromageot,, Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, Frank B. Kellogg, Negulesco, Mich ...
Henry II... ddle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress. Incorporated first by, a new charter was granted by Elizabeth in 1589. A high stone wall was bu ...
Stanisław Leszczyński... f the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and. Austria supported the former, France the latter; thus, a war broke out. ...
John of Lancaster... Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, at Greenwich in the 1430s, as well by his son,at Fulbrook. The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and par ...
Nabopolassar... lonian king was planning on reasserting his power in Syria. In 609 BC, Kingcaptured Kumukh, which cut off the Egyptian army, then based at Carchemish ...
Philippa of LancasterJohn I married in Porto on 2 February 1387, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Blanche of Lancaste ...
Henry VI... it is an honorary title and a royal style. The Dukedom became extinct after, as the original charter restricted it to 'heirs male'. Despite this, app ...
Alaric... negotiation to Leo. Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of—who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410—gave him pause
Menahem... ssume the throne , and Pekahiah's two-year reign was preceded by his father's ten-year reign . Menahem gave tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III, as is rec ...
Edward the Confessor... there and was a regular visitor himself. Other medieval residents included, who had a palace at Brill, and John Wycliffe who lived in
James I of England... piritual matters. The theory came to the fore in England under the reign of(1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). Louis XIV of France (164 ...
Woodrow Wilson... ong them Jo Byrns, Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably President. Although the Great Depression destroyed many Americans' disposable incom ...
Ahaz... began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC , and that Jotham's successorbegan to reign in his 17th year, 735 BC
Frederick I BarbarossaThe Hohenstaufen Emperorcreated a Reichsvogtei (roughly "Imperial Bailiwick"), and in 1180 put Wet ...
Sheri L. Dew... FO Gary Crittenden '76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO, and Matthew K. McCauley, CEO of children's clothing company Gymboree
Acting President... of the Polish presidential election on July 4, 2010, Bronisław Komorowski,, Marshal of the Sejm and a Civic Platform politician, defeated Jarosław K ...
President of Ghana... on's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the firstand the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocat ...
Henry of Monmouth, Prince of WalesThe third creation was on 10 November 1399, for, eldest son of the new king. In 1413, the 1st Duke ascended the throne as ...
Henry VIII... ongside population growth, inflation was a major reason for enclosure. Whenbecame King in 1509, the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the p ...
Akbar... verge of conversion," a notion which proved to be very false. Instead, bothand Jahangir studied this artwork very closely and replicated and adapted ...
Louis XIV of France... ign of James I of England (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625).(1643–1715), though Catholic, strongly promoted the theory as well
Pekahiah... year of Azariah (Uzziah) of Judah, i.e. in 740 BC. Also, Pekah assassinatedto assume the throne , and Pekahiah's two-year reign was preceded by his f ...
Charles the Bold... oyed an extremely refined court culture in his lands; she was the mother of
Anne Boleyn... ieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover andalso owned property in the same town. It is said that King Henry VIII made ...
Blanche of Lancaster... Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and. From that marriage were born several famous princes and princesses of Po ...
CharlemagneThe Kingdom of the Franks underwas particularly hard-hit by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine wi ...
Walter Scott... atchewan on 23 May 1906, by the first provincial government, led by Premier; the monumental Saskatchewan Legislative Building was built between 1908 ...
U.S. Presidents... sultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advisingWoodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a ...
Emperor Meiji... most famous such incident was his refusal to bow deeply to the portrait ofand the Imperial Rescript on Education in the formal ceremony held at the ...
Jotham of Judah... d by Hoshea, the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of. (; ; compare ; ; ) Tiglath-Pileser in an inscription mentions the slayin ...
Zhou Enlai... olicy is reportedly based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence of—non-interference in other states' affairs, non-aggression, peaceful coexi ...
Lynn Thorndike... stantially modified. Starting with works of Pierre Duhem, Raoul Carton, and, Bacon's advocacy of scientia experimentalis has been argued to differ fr ...
Holy Roman Emperor... s of Hungary and Bohemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted byMaximilian I in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by ...
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani... crisis in which the main candidates were Abdullah bin Jassim's eldest son,, and Hamad bin Abdullah's teenage son, Khalifa ibn Hamad Al Thani
President... itution needed for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner andJacques Delors. It was established on 1 June 1998
Henry VI... hey did not secure their independence nor become "abbeys" till the reign of. The Cluniac revival, with all its brilliancy, was but short-lived. The c ...
OdinIn Baldrs draumar,rides to the edge of Hel to investigate nightmares Baldr has had. He bring ...
Charles the Bold... ing with the astonishing battlefield victories of the Swiss cantons againstof Burgundy in the Burgundian Wars, in which the Swiss participated in 147 ...
Edward VI... tion (and therefore enclosures) until the Duke of Somerset was Protector of. Until then enclosures were seen as the cause of inflation, not the outco ...
Shah of Iran... traits of Jagger in 1975. One of these was owned by Farah Diba, wife of the. It hung on a wall inside the royal palace in Teheran. In 1967, Cecil Bea ...
Cao Pi... cracy and military governors to become warlords and divide the empire. When, King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han Dynasty cease ...
George II... nglish merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king,) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to t ...
Mohandas Gandhi... e and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring asin the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Ac ...
Abdoulaye Wade... cently Mourides have become more involved in the highest level of politics.who is the current president of Senegal is also a devout Mouride. The day ...
Omar al-Bashir... onsumption and extends serious penalties to offenders pursuant to President's policy of enacting Shari`a as national law. Despite this, there exists ...
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld... n 2 September 1967 in Saint Jacob's Church in The Hague. His godparents are, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra, and Queen
Ronald Reagan... V specials as the Timex All-Star Jazz Show and The Swingin' Years hosted by. She recorded infrequently after the expiration of her Verve contract in ...
Walter ScottIn the early 19th century,wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ...
Alexander I... n and many soldiers of allies or subject areas). He aimed to compel Emperorto remain in the Continental System and to remove the imminent threat of a ...
Bill Clinton... ng his opponent's term. Dole was defeated, as pundits had long expected, byin the 1996 election. Clinton won in a 379-159 Electoral College landslide ...
Jotham of Judah... is starting date in 752 BC. This date is consistent with the statement thatbegan to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC , and that Jotham's successo ...
The Prince of Wales... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by. Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ...
Sigismund II Augustus... llern with the Prussian dukedom. So he tried for gaining his brother-in-lawof Poland and finally succeeded, including the then usual expenses
Rudolph I... ad already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When the rightful king,heard of this and came to Wetzlar, the city leaders seized Tile Kolup and ...
Justina... ved a formidable task for Ambrose. In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother, along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially militar ...
Adolf Hitler... racy lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the Nazi Party andin 1933. The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and M ...
Charles II... seventeenth century Guildhall, built shortly after the restoration of King, is supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter ...
Henry VII... the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the prudence of his father. But this soon changed as Henry VIII doubled household expenditure and st ...
HosheaSoon after this Pekah was assassinated by, the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of Jotham of ...
Harold Wilson... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ...
George H. W. Bush... aw," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis' loss to. The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al ...
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster... hn I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 Philippa of Lancaster, daughter ofand Blanche of Lancaster. From that marriage were born several famous prin ...
Bill ClintonThe incumbent,, had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ...
Charles the SimpleIn 911, French Kingwas able to make an agreement with the Viking warleader Rollo, a chieftain ...
ClaudiusIt would seem that in the reign of(41-54 AD) the quaestors had become responsible for the paving of the stre ...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.... y campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against Richard Nixon and, and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry Southern states. Accordin ...
Henry VII... usation against Richard III on the matter. The Bill of Attainder brought bymade no definitive mention of the Princes in the Tower, though author and ...
Marie-Louise... impregnable lines of Torres Vedras) and to besieged Cadiz. Napoleon married, an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ensuring a more stable alliance ...
Charles III of Spain... s father considered other possibilities (such as marrying her to the future) before announcing the engagement of the couple. France demanded that Mar ...
Dushyanta... o sees Eastern parallels in the figures of Aqhat, Attis, Dumuzi, Gilgamesh,, and Prajapati (as pursuer of Ushas)
Conradine... latter case, most likely referring to wooden defences around the town). TheGebhard, Count in the Wetterau, and as of 904 Duke of Lorraine, had a Chur ...
Sali Berisha... greeted by many appreciative fans, including the then President of Albania,. During this trip, Wisdom was filmed by Newsnight as he visited a childre ...
Conan the BarbarianThe pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard, creator of the characteramong others, lived in Cross Plains from the age of 13 until his death by ...
Guy III of Spoleto... Arnulf their king, possibly under coercion. Arnful was initially opposed by, who eventually made himself king in Italy, and by Rudolph of Auxerre, wh ...
Barack Obama... ntion, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, Presidentnominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH ...
President... Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. The currentof the ECB is Mario Draghi, former governor of the Bank of Italy
Herbert Hoover... to school in 1925, where he received daily meals in a program organized by. In school, Zapf was mainly interested in technical subjects. One of his ...
Augustus... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship ofand Saturninus (or, less frequently, year 794 Ab urbe condita). The denomi ...
Adolf Hitler... ation. Among the holders of the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class was, who held the rank of . Hitler can be seen wearing the award on his left ...
Marshal Bernadotte... rians at Wagram, on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle thatwas stripped of his command after retreating contrary to Napoleon's orders ...
Thomas Jefferson... e its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of, who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders ...
Yu Shyi-kun... ulted into President Chen resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premierresigned, and Frank Hsieh assumed premiership on 25 January 2005
Edward I... d. The Scots king William the Lion was imprisoned in Newcastle in 1174, andbrought the Stone of Scone and William Wallace south through the town. New ...
Constantius IIAbout the same time, he wrote to Emperora remonstrance against the persecutions by which the Arians had sought to ...
King George V... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later, with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ...
Gratian... e as heads of the pagan priesthood, as would his Christian successors on to(r. 375–83). According to Christian writers, Constantine was over 40 when ...
Premier of the Republic of China... etropolis. Hsieh resigned from the office of mayor to take up the office ofin 2005. The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted i ...
Sigismund III Vasa... am, was successfully invested with the duchy in 1623 by the king of Poland,, thus the personal union Brandenburg-Prussia was confirmed. Many of the P ...
Elizabeth II... entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch,. The Sovereign is styled as Duke of Lancaster, regardless of gender, alth ...
Andrew Jackson... uent incursions into Spanish territory to recapture escaped slaves. General's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Semi ...
Elizabeth I... lliam Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queenfor most of her reign. The country house, with a park laid out by Lancelot ...
Gnassingbé Eyadéma... sident of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of Côte d'Ivoire,, former president of Togo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, of the Republic of the C ...
Arnulf of CarinthiaWhen in November 887called a council of the East Frankish nobility to depose Charles the Fat, ...
Frank Hsieh... resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier Yu Shyi-kun resigned, andassumed premiership on 25 January 2005
Frank B. Kellogg... ri Fromageot, José Gustavo Guerrero, Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns,, Negulesco, Michel Rostworowski, Walther Schücking and Wang Ch'ung-hui
Zwentibold... ent himself with a rump state. In 895 Arnulf appointed his illegitimate sonKing of Lotharingia. He ruled independently until he was overthrown and ki ...
Peter IV... his life, he had to contend with the son of his first marriage, the future
Gopal Krishna GokhaleTilak opposed the moderate views of, and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Ben ...
Friedrich Ebert... t modernising its form, including a reduction of the heads from two to one.initially declared the official German coat of arms to be a design by Emil ...
Abraham Lincoln... h as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simple and earnest, rather ...
Ashur-dan III... . He succeeded his father Adad-nirari III, and was succeeded by his brother. Very little information about his reign has survived
Robert E. Lee... of stagecoaches and military roads prior to the Civil War. It is said thatand U.S. Grant camped with their troops at a grove of live oak trees on th ...
Richard III... idence is ambiguous, and has led people to various conflicting conclusions.had eliminated the princes from the succession. However, his hold on the m ...
Frank Porter Graham... or for Willis Smith in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal. Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith (a con ...
Charles the Bold... brésis to the states of Burgundy was made impossible by the sudden death ofin 1477. Louis XI immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Ca ...
Anna Pavlovna of Russia... King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen
Henry the Fowler... t elect a replacement until 925, when under Gilbert's leadership they chose, the East Frankish king. In 930 Gilbert's decision was rewarded and he re ...
Akbar... hem various books, engravings, and paintings and, when they saw the delightheld for them, sent for more and more of the same to be given to the Mugha ...
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld... therlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and. From birth Willem-Alexander has the titles Prince of the Netherlands , P ...
Theodosius I... e powerful adversaries. The Goths, though partly tamed by Valens' successor(who accepted them once more as allies), were to remain as a distinct enti ...
Cephalus... ss; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, Leucippus (son of Oenomaus),, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. Fontenrose also sees Easte ...
Charles V... e was eagerly solicited by the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor) and by those of Francis I, King of France, and he appears to have receiv ...
James II... Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son ofand Blanche of Anjou. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urg ...
Peter III of Russia... 761), Peter, the Grand Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, succeeded to the throne as, and Catherine became Empress Consort of Russia. The imperial couple move ...
John Dudley... s one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact. The stables built byin the 1550s also survive and lie along the east side of the base court. T ...
Emperor Ferdinand I... d of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later
Sadyattes... –560 BC), considered to be the founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of, of the house of the Mermnadae
Richard Nixon... outcomes of real-world events such as the Vietnam War and the presidency of. In keeping with the realism of the series, although the costumed crimefi ...
Galerius... rship whichever deity they chose. A similar edict had been issued in 311 by, then senior emperor of the Tetrarchy; Galerius' edict granted Christians ...
Ion Iliescu... affected Romania or Bulgaria's chances for EU accession. Romanian Presidentcalled Chirac's remarks irrational, saying "such reproaches are totally un ...
Francis I... the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor Charles V) and by those of, King of France, and he appears to have received a large amount of money ...
Tiglath-Pileser III... s preceded by his father Menahem's ten-year reign . Menahem gave tribute to, as is recorded in (where Pul = Tiglath-Pileser) and also in Tiglath-Pile ...
Charles II... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders ofthe remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ...
John the Fearless... arts by Burgundy's possessions and John of Burgundy, an illegitimate son of, was made bishop. However what looked like an impending annexation of Cam ...
Emperor Wilhelm II... ied propaganda referred to Germans as the "Huns", based on a 1900 speech bypraising Attila the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of W ...
William II of the Netherlands... he Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of Kingand in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia
Juliana of the Netherlands... ands and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queenand Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. From birth Willem-Alexander has ...
Félix Houphouët-Boigny... mentioned are the recently deceased Omar Bongo, former president of Gabon,, former president of Côte d'Ivoire, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, former president ...
Stanisław Leszczyński... a Theresa's fiancé surrender his ancestral Duchy of Lorraine to accommodate, the deposed King of Poland. Maria Theresa's father compelled Francis to ...
Abraham Lincoln... U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican Party abolished slavery under, defeated the Slave Power, and gave blacks the vote during Reconstruction ...
Adad-nirari IIIShalmaneser IV was king of Assyria (783 - 773 BC). He succeeded his father, and was succeeded by his brother Ashur-dan III. Very little information ...
Charles V... to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother, and later Emperor Ferdinand I
Helgi Hundingsbani... seen as a whole in the Edda, but they consist of three layers, the story of, the story of the Nibelungs and the story of Jörmunrekkr, king of the Got ...
John Buchan... itics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and. Goldfinger was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the D ...
Emperor XuanzongThe Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. Chinesebrings the Tang Dynasty to its pinnacle. Nara period in Japan
Blanche of Anjou... Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens ...
Philip IV of France... , but there is some evidence that he left on a mission to the court of Kingto plead the case for assistance in the Scottish struggle for independence ...
Archduke Charles... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander,, failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ...
Rurik... along coastlines and along the major river valleys of north-western Europe.also expanded to the east and in 859 became ruler either by conquest or in ...
Valentinian I... igh in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Summoned to appear before Emperorat Milan and there maintain his charges, Hilary was mortified to hear the ...
Anne BoleynHoward was the great-grandfather ofand Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ...
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria... ted by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne was married to, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later Emperor Fe ...
Jack Straw... dinance preventing resettlement unlawful. In 2004, the Privy Council, under's tenure, overturned the ruling. In 2006 the High Court of Justice found ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... n the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and, records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many yea ...
King Hussein... en and levied illegal taxes—all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored.considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security ...
Oenomaus... vine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, Leucippus (son of), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. Fontenrose also ...
Grand Duke Constantine... Allies was confirmed by the decision to send in the Russian Imperial Guard;, Tsar Alexander's brother, commanded the Guard and counterattacked in Va ...
Augustus... all days after the Ides, and had some odd effects. For example, the emperorwas born in 63 BC on the 23rd day of September. In the pre-Julian calendar ...
Omar Bongo... nch control in Africa. Those most often mentioned are the recently deceased, former president of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of C ...
Akbar... ngir did not seem to have anything against Christianity. He wrote fondly of's reign, when "Sunnis and Shias met in one mosque, and Franks and Jews in ...
Tiglath-Pileser III... his from the Assyrian side, Stanley Rosenbaum maintains that the records ofdemonstrate that the Assyrian king distinguished between two kingdoms in t ...
Maximilian I of Bavaria... came a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. Consequently, Kingintroduced far reaching economic, religious and administrative reforms. Wh ...
Ronald Reagan... e helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, aiding's quest for the White House and helping many local and regional candidate ...
John Major... ct and misleading information given at the time Railtrack was created, whenwas Conservative . An increased offer of up to 262p per share was enough t ...
Maximilian I... s II was married to Mary of Habsburg, a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of, as stipulated by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne w ...
Cyaxares... d Babylonians. On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against, king of Media, a solar eclipse took place (see also Thales); hostilities ...
Edward III... he became dissatisfied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of, through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Thomas of Woodstock, 1s ...
Abraham LincolnOn December 8, 1863, Presidentissued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or ...
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Maximilian... ath Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1515. WhenI died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian, his cousin Georg v ...
President for Life... 972 Macias took complete control of the government and assumed the title of. The Macias regime was characterized by abandonment of all government fun ...
Stanisław August Poniatowski... d on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734–1783),, Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess Ekat ...
Aurelius Severus... his arthritic aches. Baden was also known as Aurelia Aquensis, in honour of, during whose reign Baden would seem to have been well known. Fragments o ...
Pope Pius XII... king and precedent-setting case quotes extensively from an address given byto medical professionals on the matter of preservation of life
Emperor Wu of Han... rtner. When, despite the treaty, the Xiongnu continued to raid Han borders,(r. 141–87 BCE) launched several military campaigns against them. The ulti ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ess, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson andon economic matters and became a philanthropist
Henry Tudor... rd's rival claimants; alternatively, he could have been acting on behalf of(later to become King Henry VII). On the other hand, if Buckingham were gu ...
Francisco Macías NguemaIn September 1968,was elected first president of Equatorial Guinea, and independence was gra ...
Philip V of Spain... to defend from foreign aggression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised's son, Don Carlos, as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of T ...
Maximilian I... hemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperorin 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal gua ...
Frank Hsieh... ds the Pan-Green Coalition since late 1990s, and Kaohsiung is no exception.of the Democratic Progressive Party was reelected twice as Mayor of Kaohsi ...
Norodom Sihanouk... Khmer Rouge", French for "Red Khmer," was coined by Cambodian head of stateand was later adopted by English speakers. It was used to refer to a succe ...
Archduke Charles'AfterAustrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ...
Nyerere... d Nkrumah therefore rejects the idea of an "African socialism" in the sense, one of the "ideology of continuity" (Hountondji left) was arrested from
Henry III of England... . His family appears to have been well-off, but, during the stormy reign of, their property was despoiled and several members of the family were driv ...
Franklin D. RooseveltOn the orders of allied leaders, Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and t ...
Zhou EnlaiOn 6 April 1936, Zhang Xueliang met withto plan the end of the Chinese Civil War. In the Xi'an incident (12 Decemb ...
Woodrow Wilson... is success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidentsand Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist
Bill Clinton... y Show with Jon Stewart. Dole was, for a short time, a commentator oppositeon CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's Brooke Shields ...
Catherine HowardHoward was the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of King Henry VIII. T ...
Ghanima... urner, and Chani dies giving birth to his only heirs, the twins Leto II and. Paul disappears into the desert, in accordance with Fremen custom for th ...
Georges Pompidou... taff for African matters for president Charles de Gaulle (1958–69) and then(1969–1974), is claimed to be the leading exponent of Françafrique. The te ...
William LaudArchbishopdescribed Charles as "A mild and gracious prince who knew not how to be, o ...
Walter Wild... in a meeting at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. Eleven players attended—(the first director of the club), Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Ku ...
Hu Jintao... 2006. The center was completed in 2009 and opened by the Chinese President
Uncle Claudius... film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes by Liev Schreiber,by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by Bill Murray
Pope John Paul II... e sanctifying value of work, and its fidelity to Catholic beliefs. In 2002,canonized Escrivá, and called him "the saint of ordinary life.
James MadisonIn the Federalist No. 39,argued that the Constitution was designed to be a mixture of state-based a ...
Nicholas II of Russia... ded more fuel to the already simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an eventhad hoped to avoid entirely by taking intransigent negotiating stances pri ...
Louis Bonaparte... unst-Gallerij). In 1808 the museum moved to Amsterdam on the orders of king, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as ...
Eleazar Wheelock... of a seal for use on official documents and diplomas. The College's founderdesigned a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal ...
Kenneth Clarke... ity of their MPs rebelled against the party line, including figures such as. The Liberal Democrats opposed the war, and their MPs were visibly unanim ...
Albert of Mecklenburg's... arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coat of arms is a combination of Kingcoat of arms of 1364 and King Magnus Birgersson's coat of arms of 1275, an ...
Charles de Gaulle... Foccart, who from 1960 was chief of staff for African matters for president(1958–69) and then Georges Pompidou (1969–1974), is claimed to be the lead ...
George W. Bush... same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both Bill Clinton andasserted that free trade would gradually open China to democratic reform. ...
Astyages... eded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of, King of Media
Shimon Peres... strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the Netanya ...
Louis William... French, who pillaged it in 1643 and left it in ashes in 1689. The margrave, popularly known as Türkenlouis, moved to Rastatt in 1705
James I... he remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her sonwhen he became King of England
Ho Chi Minh... litical lyrics "I'm goin' to Paris to stop this war" and "I had a chat with" both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace ...
Obama... d would receive copies of the swearing-in invitation and program, photos ofand Vice President , and a color print of the ceremony
Al Gore... Bush. The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 afterlost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President a ...
Madeleine Albright... residential appointees. However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State
Charles Knutsson... rding to this theory, the Swedish flag was created during the reign of King, who also introduced the Coat of arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coa ...
Andrew Dickson White... ters of the period carried this account further. For instance, according to, Bacon was repeatedly persecuted and imprisoned because of the opposition ...
Mount CithaeronIt emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on, and that he was given a baby, which the childless Polybus then adopted. ...
Louis XIV... y (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of(the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de ...
Harold Wilson... Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath,'s second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by Ma ...
Bill Clinton... exports in at the same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Bothand George W. Bush asserted that free trade would gradually open China to ...
Pope Pius XII... priest St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei was given final approval in 1950 by. In 1982, by decision of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church made it i ...
Oedipus... sent forms). Orion's blinding is therefore parallel to that of Aegypius and
Numa Pompilius... he calendar year was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to. Varro states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), ...
CroesusHe was succeeded by his son. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of Astyages, King of Med ...
Edward Heath... th Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson,, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally ...
Philippa of LancasterOn 11 February 1387, John I married, daughter of John of Gaunt, who had proved to be a worthy ally, consolida ...
Thomas Telford... ty of some turnpike trust. New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf,and John Macadam. The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the me ...
Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorIn 1543 Cambrai was conquered by, and annexed to his already vast possessions. He had the medieval monaste ...
Augustus... description of the road system, after the death of Julius Caesar and duringtenure, is as follows
Rex E. Lee... osition of Solicitor General of the United States, but the position went to, to Scalia's great disappointment. Scalia was offered a seat on the Chica ...
King Talal... in, among them Muammar Gaddafi, who mocked him and his schizophrenic father. The attempt to establish a peace agreement between the two sides failed. ...
Hadingus... what has often been interpreted as a trip to Hel. While having dinner, Kingis visited by a woman bearing stalks of hemlock who asks him if he knows w ...
Eric the HolyAccording to the mythology, the 12th century Swedish kingsaw a golden cross in the sky as he landed in Finland during the First Swe ...
Joachim Murat... ari was wakened from its provincial somnolence by Napoleon's brother-in-law. As Napoleonic King of Naples, Murat ordered the building in 1808 of a ne ...
Félix Houphouët-Boigny... ormer African colonies. It was first used by president of the Côte d'Ivoire, who appears to have used it in a positive sense, to refer to good relati ...
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands... has two younger brothers: Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, born in 1968, and, born in 1969. He lived with his family at the castle Drakesteijn in the ...
Ronald ReaganWhenwas elected President in November 1980, Scalia hoped for a major position ...
Henry the Navigator... uke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; and Prince, the duke of Viseu, invested heavily in science and the development of na ...
French President... tably come under intense criticism since the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as. Sarkozy has sought to make the ECB more susceptible to political influen ...
Konrad I of MasoviaUpon the invitation of Duke, the Teutonic Knights took possession of Prussia in the 13th century and ...
PeleusAchilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and, the king of the Myrmidons. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the han ...
Henry Tudor... reated to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt ofand Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other like ...
Magnus Birgersson's... flag. Blue and yellow have been used as Swedish colours at least since kingroyal coat of arms of 1275
Prince Friso of Orange-NassauHe has two younger brothers:, born in 1968, and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, born in 1969. H ...
Liliuokalani... irst order of business for the Provisional Government after the deposing ofwas to form an interim government while Lorrin A. Thurston was in Washingt ...
Stefan NemanjaThe medieval Serbian state is formed byand continued by the Nemanjić dynasty. By the end of the century, both the ...
James Bryce... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius,, Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ...
George W. Bush... went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to. In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President and was re-elected U.S. ...
Eleazar WheelockIt is often pointed out that the charter of Dartmouth College, granted toin 1769, proclaims that the institution was created "for the education and ...
Polybus... pherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that he was given a baby, which the childlessthen adopted. The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd from ...
Aurelian... enerable day of the sun, referencing the esoteric eastern sun-worship whichhad helped introduce, and his coinage still carried the symbols of the sun ...
Bona Sforza... ged the castle, which she made her residence, 1499–1524. After the death of, Queen of Poland, Bari came to be included in the Kingdom of Naples and i ...
Chen Shui-bian... ree recall motions votes in the Legislative Yuan aimed at ousting President. All of them had failed since the Pan-Blue Coalition lacked the two third ...
Henry VII... ted for himself, on Richard's orders, or in collusion with the Tudor party.(Henry Tudor) following his accession, proceeded to find a legal excuse to ...
Leopold II of Belgium... r husband Albert, Prince Consort, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother. These last two, Leopold and Carlota, were also first cousins of Ferdinan ...
Septimius Severus... s Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt), was made a colonia byin 193, having been part of the territory of Berytus on the Phoenician coa ...
Hu Jintao... development gap between urban and rural areas. As a result, under Presidentand Premier Wen Jiabao, the PRC government initiated policies to address t ...
Ezra Taft Benson... include former Secretary of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower,'26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor General under Pres ...
Kublai Khan... urney to the Orient, paying back the library by adding the Great Books from's Empire of Cathay to it upon Marco's return. The Venice Library was lost ...
Zachary Taylor... May 1846. The first battle of the war occurred on 8 May 1846, when Generalreceived word of the siege of the fort. They rushed to help, but were inte ...
Lorenzo Snow... was 245 at the 2010 census. The town received its name from Mormon apostle. He named it Portage after his birth place of Portage County, Ohio
RugilaThe death of(also known as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, A ...
Philip IIIn 1561, Kingmade Madrid the capital of the empire. The surrounding territories became ...
Manuel I KomnenosBari was occupied bybetween 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground; Frede ...
Henry II... ley. His efficiency in those posts led to Theobald recommending him to Kingfor the vacant post of Lord Chancellor, to which Becket was appointed in J ...
Menahem... on is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree withbeing king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC
Amélie of Leuchtenberg... diately went to the Janelas Verdes palace, where he met with his stepmother. The two had not seen each other in forty years, and the meeting was emot ...
Charles the Bald... lemagne’s death, his newly empowered warrior class grew stronger still, anddeclared their fiefs to be hereditary. The period of chaos in the 9th and ...
Spaak, Paul-Henri... ) - Sonian Forest - Southeast Limburgish dialect - South Tower (Brussels) -- Speaker of the Flemish Parliament - Special law - Spiere-Helkijn - Spiri ...
Rex E. Lee... of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ezra Taft Benson '26 and'60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan ...
Peter II of AragonIn 1213, forces led by King, came to the aid of Toulouse. The force besieged Muret, but in September ...
John II of Portugal... pe the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). It was later renamed (by King) the Cape of Good Hope (Cabo da Boa Esperança) because it represented the ...
Beatrice of Savoy... , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, and
Wen Jiabao... n urban and rural areas. As a result, under President Hu Jintao and Premier, the PRC government initiated policies to address these issues of equitab ...
Andrew JacksonThe situation was complicated by the American spoils system. Afterassumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ...
Bernadotte's... tled upon a secondary line of retreat through Brunn. The Imperial Guard andI Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under Lannes guarded the no ...
Duke MagnusThe house became extinct whendied in 1106 without sons; the family's property was divided between his t ...
Septimius Severus... gest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of(193-211 CE), whose coins first show the two temples. In commemoration, no ...
Asif Ali Zardari... cy on 18 August 2008 when threatened with impeachment, and was succeeded by, the current President. By its own estimates, Pakistan's involvement in t ...
Theodosius II... thers' accession, the Hun tribes were bargaining with Eastern Roman Emperor's envoys for the return of several s (possibly Hunnic nobles who disagree ...
Lady Jane Grey... een seven executions within the castle on Tower Green; as was the case with, this was reserved for prisoners for whom public execution was considered ...
Frederick II of Prussia... ich Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), andtook part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to strengthen the friendship betwe ...
Hummay... African traders, Berbers and Arabs, brought the new religion. Towards 1068,, a member of the Sayfawa establishment, who was already a Muslim, discard ...
Ronald Reagan... and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President. Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presid ...
Philip V... the region was not solved despite the several attempts. During the reign of, the intendencia was created as a policial and administrative division. N ...
Mahatma Gandhi... national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (birthdate of) are meant to be dry days nationally. The state of Andhra Pradesh had imp ...
Bleda... own as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, Attila and(Buda), in control of the united Hun tribes. At the time of two brothers' ...
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor... omnenos between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground;and King of Sicily, repaired the fortress of Baris but it was subsequentl ...
Maximian... he Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanc ...
Léopold Clément's... ews reached Vienna that he had died of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa.younger brother, Francis Stephen, was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa ...
Hoshea... ian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC andbeing king from 732 BC
Emperor Gaozu of Han... 280 CE). It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former re ...
John George KemenyIn 1970, longtime professor of mathematics and computer sciencebecame president of Dartmouth. Kemeny oversaw several major changes at the ...
Theodore RooseveltAmerican Presidentoffered to mediate, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his effort. Sergius ...
José Manuel Barroso... r a candidate from its own ranks. In the end, the EPP candidate was chosen:. On the same basis, the EPP endorsed again Barroso for a second term duri ...
Joanna of CastileOn 21 June 1511, queenordered the creation of the Consulate of Bilbao. This would become the mos ...
Daniel arap MoiAt Kenyatta's death (August 22, 1978), Vice Presidentbecame interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally aft ...
Alfonso XI of Castile... er James, who had refused to consummate the marriage. She was the sister of. Because of some favoritism he showed towards his second wife, the last y ...
Ulysses S. Grant... n was the first President to arrest and prosecute members of the Klan sinceabout 93 years earlier. He turned the themes of Christian redemption to pu ...
Cnut the Great... York. The Viking presence continued throughout the reign of the Danish King(1016–1035), after which a series of inheritance arguments weakened power ...
Benito Juárez... ken reeds." The "de Juárez" was added to the official name in 1885 to honor, the former president of Mexico. The seal for the city shows broken reeds ...
Santiago Bernabéu... cribed with the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman and Franco supporter. In preparation for the 1992 Summer Games two tiers of seating were insta ...
Francis Stephen... of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. Léopold Clément's younger brother,, was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa's father considered other possi ...
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Witch-king... terial derived from them) name the eight other than Khamûl; Er-Murazor (the, of Númenórean race), Dwar of Waw, Ji Indur Dawndeath, Akhorahil (Númenór ...
Hugh X of Lusignan... English Queen mother Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême and her second husbandfrom supporting the English side. Pierre Mauclerc did support the English ...
Valentinian I... in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor. Ambrose never married
Philip the Arab... entury BCE (reign of Augustus) and over a period of two centuries (reign of), the Romans had built a temple complex in Baalbek consisting of three te ...
Bill Clinton... censed, McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing the governor to, which Bush said was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President, Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ...
Wang Mang... t was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent. This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (20 ...
Margaret of Provence... e same year, he was married, and Blanche became Queen mother. Louis married, who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, an ...
Calvin Coolidge... e last months of the Roosevelt administration) and 10 June, and in 1925 (by) expanded the National Forest. An early supervisor of the forest was Will ...
AhazWhen Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram to attack, the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Ass ...
Kim B. ClarkBYU alumni in academia include former Dean of the Harvard Business Schooland Michael K. Young '73, current President of the University of Washingto ...
Richard III of EnglandHe was appointed Lord High Steward and walked in front of King, carrying the crown at his coronation. However, John was the eldest (alth ...
Prince Edward... Lewes in 1264 he was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, under which his son,, was given over to the rebels as a hostage. Edward was taken back to Keni ...
Thomas JeffersonMadeira was a favorite of, and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ...
Valentinian II... stern Emperor Gratian held orthodox belief in the Nicene creed, the younger, who became his colleague in the Empire, adhered to the Arian creed. Ambr ...
Philip II of Macedon... the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father,, and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries ...
Ronald ReaganIn 1938, Wyman co-starred within Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They ...
Ernest Fox Nichols... ng "refounded Dartmouth" and bringing it into national prestige. Presidents(1909–16) and Ernest Martin Hopkins (1916–45) continued Tucker's trend of ...
Elizabeth I of England... om of branding a criminal with the sign (fleurdeliser). During the reign of, known as the Elizabethan era, it was a standard name for an iris, a usag ...
Charles II of Spain... in as Charles III following the death of its ruler, and Charles's relative,, in 1700. He married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by wh ...
Alexander the Great... thod described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated ...
Tiglath-Pileser III... ith Rezin, king of Aram to attack Ahaz, the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to, the king of Assyria, for help. This the Assyrian king obliged, but Judah ...
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel... its ruler, and Charles's relative, Charles II of Spain, in 1700. He married, by whom he had his two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habs ...
George Washington... Thomas Jefferson, and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence., Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to ha ...
James Baker... m public remarks by President George H. W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of Statethat the economic sanctions would only be lifted when Saddam Hussein was r ...
Theodosius I... eed. Ambrose did not sway the young prince's position. In the East, Emperorlikewise professed the Nicene creed; but there were many adherents of Aria ...
Harry S. Truman... ons. After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President, then assumed the post of President at Columbia University
Saddam Hussein... for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 4th Infantry Division was able to capturein December 2003. The 1st Cavalry Division will follow on the heels of the ...
Quintin HoggAnnouncing his support for right of return legislation in Britain, MPstated that, "All the great nations of the earth have what the Jews call a ...
Philip IV of France... n Friday 13 October 1307 the Knights Templar were ordered to be arrested by. It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemas ...
George W. Bush... ffluent Teton and college county Albany. In the 2004 presidential election,won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice Presiden ...
Princess Margriet... lhelmina went to Canada in 1943 to attend the christening of her grandchildon 29 June 1943 in Ottawa and stayed awhile with her family before returni ...
Augustus... r divination. Starting in the last quarter of the 1st century BCE (reign of) and over a period of two centuries (reign of Philip the Arab), the Roman ...
Odin... n the Poetic Edda, Brynhildr's trip to Hel after her death is described and, while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In Snorri Sturluso ...
Yu the Great... of alcohol date back to the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC) in China., the first ruler of the Xia Dynasty, prohibited alcohol throughout the ki ...
George W. BushAfter(March 26, 2003) mentioned Warsaw's contribution prominently in a speech, ...
Albert FrederickOn 19 July 1569, whenrendered King Sigismund II homage and was in return enfeoffed as Duke of P ...
Henry VIII... yed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King. The king also destroyed Becket's bones and ordered that all mention of h ...
Hilaire Belloc... velopment of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents
Charles Martel... Europe in 711. So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, ...
Albert FrederickWhen Albert died in 1568, his teenage son (exact age is unknown)inherited the duchy. Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, who had co ...
Michael K. Young... cademia include former Dean of the Harvard Business School Kim B. Clark and'73, current President of the University of Washington. The University als ...
Ernest Martin Hopkins... ging it into national prestige. Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols (1909–16) and(1916–45) continued Tucker's trend of modernization, further improving cam ...
Rinaldo d'Este... rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke, the exiled male line becoming extinct in 1747
Trajan... when the sanctuary of the Heliopolitan Jupiter-Baal was a pilgrimage site.'s biographer records that the emperor consulted the oracle there. Trajan ...
Mitt Romney... '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan., former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential Candid ...
William IV... y coin between 1797 and 1970, occasional issues such as the fourpence underbetween 1836 and 1837, and on the 50 pence coin between 1969 and 2008. See ...
Juliana... gn of 57 years and 286 days, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of her daughter, because of advancing age and illness which had already caused two regenc ...
Jiang ZeminPresidentand Premier Zhu Rongji, both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in ...
Elizabeth I... nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn asin Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of ...
Simon de MontfortHenry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to, Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons' War ( ...
Joanna of CastilePhilip andhad six children
Holy Roman Emperor... ereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as, King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia (Charles III), Archduk ...
Edward IV of England... prowess on the field during the Battle of Towton, he won the admiration ofwho made him Constable of Norwich Castle, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suff ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser... ed by both sides throughout this period. Cuba, the Soviet bloc, Egypt under, and some governments of newly independent African states, charged the Un ...
Franz Joseph I of Austria... of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor
Franklin D. Roosevelt... accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving Winston Churchill and. Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leaders of the Jewish undergro ...
John Adams... Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin andare also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. On one occasio ...
Khalifa bin Hamad Al ThaniIn February 1972, the Heir Apparent, Sheikh, deposed his cousin, Ahmed bin Ali Al Thani, and assumed power. Key membe ...
Zhu RongjiPresident Jiang Zemin and Premier, both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in the 1990s. Under Jiang ...
Alexander the Great... in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect
George W. Bush... ated to serve". The leader for the Republican nomination was Texas Governor, who had the political and financial support of most of the party establi ...
John Sloan Dickey... roving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s., serving as president from 1945 until 1970, strongly emphasized the liber ...
Elizabeth I... nt college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter in 1592 underand was closed to Roman Catholics until Catholic Emancipation. The Catholi ...
Roger II of Sicily... moald increased the cult of St Nicholas in his city. He later did homage to, but rebelled and was defeated in 1132
George H. W. Bush... at the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started with Presidentin August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by President George H ...
Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach... gainst the Roman Catholic rule of the Teutonic Knights, whose Grand Master,, a member of a cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern, lacked the mili ...
Bagsecg... 0 the "Great Summer Army" arrived in England, led by a Viking leader calledand his Five Earls. Aided by the Great Heathen Army (which had already ove ...
John F. Kennedy... e, but colonial officials opposed the program anyway. The next year Senatorhelped fund the program, which trained some 70% of the top leaders of the ...
Telephus... left for the Trojan War, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King. In the resulting battle, Achilles gave Telephus a wound that would not h ...
Manuel I of Portugal... rgaret of Austria. The succession thereby passed to Queen Isabella and King. She died in 1498, while giving birth to a son, the Infante Miguel, to wh ...
Julian... ave reached about 361, within a very short time of the accession of Emperor
Charlemagne... ce as a mounted warrior. Both arose under the reign of the Frankish emperor, from which the knighthood of the Middle Ages can be seen to have had its ...
Joséphine... anyone about the upcoming battle because he did not want to disturb Empress. According to Frederick C. Schneid, the main concern of Napoleon was not ...
Tiglath-Pileser III... ed with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem. (; ) Ahaz appealed to, the king of Assyria, for help. Ahaz's "dread" of Rezin and Pekah, "Son o ...
Lord CurzonFollowing the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out byto weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged a boycott, regarded a ...
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall... Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk and Alice Tendring; by whom he descended from, through his illegitimate daughter Joan of Cornwall
Ahaz... 2 BCE, Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem. (; )appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help. Ahaz's "dr ...
Paul Kruger... e of 20, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship to South Africa to rescue, the embattled President of the Transvaal
Erechtheus... Parthenos. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of/Erichthonius through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate ...
Abraham Lincoln... scape, shortly before running into the First of the Fallen, in the guise of. There then follows a small break where he meets the spirit of a dead fri ...
Emperor of Japan... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of thein pre-Meiji eras
Thomas Jefferson... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate, the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ...
Samuel Pepys... hich an exact date is known, however, occurred on 7 January 1605, at Court.saw a Henry V in 1664—but it was written by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrer ...
Harry S. Truman... of Americans. Johnson gave the first two Medicare cards to former Presidentand his wife Bess after signing the medicare bill at the
U.S. President... a joined the group at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt andGerald Ford and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Uni ...
Isabel II... Letras (Liberal Arts) and Medicina (Medicine). In 1836, during the reign of, the University was moved to Madrid, where it took the name of Central Un ...
Henry III... a Carta, before it reverted to royal control early in the reign of his son,
Franklin D. Roosevelt... rate strong public support for public ownership of dams. In 1933, Presidentsigned a bill that enabled the construction of the Bonneville and Grand Co ...
John of Gaunt, 1st Earl of RichmondThe second creation was on 13 November 1362, for, who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edwar ...
George H.W. Bush... modest lifestyle, Dennis Ross, former Middle East negotiator for Presidentsand Bill Clinton, stated that Arafat's "walking-around money" financed a v ...
Ramiro I of Aragon... or his own scribes, but by the notaries of his half-brother, the petty king, whose notaries were also calling Ferdinand's predecessor as king of León ...
Douglas Fairbanks... ning, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin,, Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's ...
Athelstan... mous author of the earliest Life places Dunstan's birth during the reign of, while Osbern fixed it at "the first year of the reign of King Æthelstan" ...
David... ble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as on ...
Gratian... atiaria and Secundianus of Singidunum, confident of numbers, prevailed uponto call a general council from all parts of the empire. This request appea ...
Joan GamperFounded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence th ...
Alexander IIIThe reforms ofreplaced many of the traditional privileges of the German nobility with el ...
Grand Duke's... uchy of Tuscany; Charles had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbentdaughter, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine
Constantine I... ylvester II, alluding to Pope Sylvester I (314–335), the advisor to Emperor(324–337). Soon after he was elected Pope, Sylvester II confirmed the posi ...
Adolf Hitler... ayments to the victorious allies, and the controversial "War Guilt Clause".later blamed the republic and its democracy for the oppressive terms of th ...
Hugo Chávez... d theories strongly influenced the thinking of current Venezuelan president
Earl Bathurst... of discipline caused an enraged Wellington to write in a famous dispatch to, "We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers"
Rogge, Jacques... n - Retie - Rexism - Riemst - Rijkevorsel - Rivers of Belgium - Roeselare -- Rogier, Charles - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai - Roman Catholic ...
Jomo KenyattaIn 1947, former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ...
Henry the Lion... an be found in the town of Rerik (which still bears a Slavic name). In 1160conquered the region; afterwards German monks, peasants and traders arrive ...
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester... This collection continued to grow steadily, but when, between 1435 and 1437(brother of Henry V of England), donated a great collection of manuscripts ...
Alfonso... rdinand I in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son,. The title is currently carried by Prince Felipe, Prince of Asturias, the ...
Ashur-uballit II... ed around a general holding out at Harran, who had taken the throne name of. Necho attempted to assist this remnant immediately upon his coronation, ...
Theodore RooseveltThe Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve was established byin a presidential proclamation of 20 August 1902. Another presidential pro ...
Barack ObamaPresidentestablished a new position in the White House, the Assistant to the Presid ...
John, Prince of AsturiasPhilip's sister Margaret married, only son of Ferdinand and Isabella and successor to the unified crowns o ...
Hezekiah... is recorded in the Immanuel prophecy in where the birth of a son (possibly) is a sign of the defeat of both kings by the King of Assyria before the ...
George H. W. Bush... of John B. Anderson, and the Reagan camp was split: eventually designatingas his preferred candidate. At the convention, Helms toyed with the idea o ...
Richard Nixon... privilege. He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President,. He was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies, expanded ...
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-BiesterfeldShe also arranged the marriage of her daughter Juliana to, a German aristocrat. Although it was claimed that he was initially a sup ...
President McKinley... l equipment and is still a going concern. In 1900 Spalding was appointed byas the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games. In 1905, af ...
Robert of Courtenay... o fleets, one of which was commanded by Eustace the Monk, and an army under. With French forces defeated at Lincoln in May 1217 and then routed on th ...
Zachary Taylor... River. Black Hawk rejected the messages advising him to turn back. Colonel, a regular army officer who served under Atkinson, later stated that Atki ...
Henry V of England... y, but when, between 1435 and 1437 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (brother of), donated a great collection of manuscripts, the space was deemed insuffi ...
John Adams... ters in the elections of 1796 and 1800. In 1796, Federalist Party candidatewon the presidential election; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Re ...
Henry the Lion... s desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Bavaria to, duke of Saxony and son of Henry the Proud. In return, Austria was elevat ...
Ferdinand I... of Aragon gave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, Kingin turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, Alfonso. ...
Isaac Newton... , who was joining it, "I don't know any scientist who looks as much as likeas you do". May replied that "that could be my after dinner comment, thank ...
Henry of Grosmont, 4th Earl of LancasterThe first creation was on 6 March 1351, for, a great-grandson of Henry III; he was also 4th Earl of Leicester, 1st Ea ...
Shah of Iran... f a dozen royal families for Mardas, and had close contact with the deposed, who had moved to Mexico. The Shah was one of the first customers for the ...
Barack Obama... hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under the administration of. He is also the first and only Nobel Prize winner to be a Cabinet secreta ...
Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine... s had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent Grand Duke's daughter,
Friedrich Ebert... s of this treaty. The Republic's first Reichspräsident ("Reich President"),of the SPD, signed the new German constitution into law on 11 August 1919
Marcus Aurelius... . Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher Seneca and the emperor. Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is often criticized by some modern co ...
Pedro II... Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor, so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark. In 1845 some ...
Léopold Clément of Lorraine... e was raised early in her childhood. She was first engaged to be married to, who was supposed to come to Vienna and meet Maria Theresa in 1723. Inste ...
Khosrau IThe Persian king, sent troops under the command of Vahriz, who helped Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan t ...
Jimmy Carter... ctober 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when Presidentsigned the Department of Energy Organization Act. Originally the post focu ...
Sophie of WürttembergKing William III had three sons with his first wife,. However, when Wilhelmina was born, William had already outlived two of t ...
Pauline Green... cess, against the spirit of consultation that the new EU treaty brought in.MEP, leader of the Socialist group, stated that her group thought "Parliam ...
Don Carlos... throne, however, Charles was obliged to surrender the Kingdom of Naples toof Spain, in exchange for the minuscule Duchy of Parma
Duke of York and Albany... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English, the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ...
Conradin... owerful prince in southern Germany. He served as the guardian of his nephewof Hohenstaufen, and after Conradin's execution in Italy in 1268, Louis an ...
James O. FreedmanDuring the 1990s, the College saw a major academic overhaul under Presidentand a controversial (and ultimately unsuccessful) 1999 initiative to encou ...
Nicholas I of Russia... carried 14 passengers at 3 mph. It was successfully demonstrated to Emperoron the Neva River
Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford... ke of this creation died on 4 February 1399, the Dukedom passed to his son,. Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England fro ...
Henry... uring the revolt of 1173–74 he faced a significant uprising led by his son,, backed by the French crown. The conflict spread across England and Kenil ...
Blanche of Castile... in November and was succeeded by the child king Louis IX. But Queen regentallowed the crusade to continue under Humbert de Beaujeu. Labécède fell in ...
Prince Juan CarlosIn 1974, Mardas held an expensive party for the then Spanish heir,, which secured Mardas a contract. After the assassination of Admiral Carr ...
Marcus Aurelius... . The Lebor Gabála synchronises Conn's reign with that of the Roman emperor(161-180). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn date ...
Richard III of England... t Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of Kingwith whom he died in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field
Richard NixonPresidentfirst considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ...
Isaac Newton... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science.'s (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ...
Prince of WalesIn 1920, the(the future King Edward VIII) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, ...
Richard II... . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England from, ascending the throne as Henry IV, at which point the Dukedom merged in t ...
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands... ed two of them and only the childless Prince Alexander and the King's unclewere alive, so under the Semi-Salic system of inheritance that was in plac ...
Richard NixonFile:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US Presidentdoing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the W ...
Emperor Go-Toba... a shogunate completely excluded those of the imperial family descended fromfrom the Chrysanthemum throne, thus forcing Emperor Chūkyō to abdicate. Af ...
Murat's... s to contain the French at Vienna, and instructed the Allied Army to acceptceasefire proposal so that the allied army could have more time to retreat ...
Pervez Musharraf... s in the Kargil district led to the Kargil War of 1999, after which Generaltook over through a bloodless coup d'état and assumed vast executive power ...
Henry VII of England... , forcing them on shore near Melcombe Regis. The couple stayed as guests ofbut were in fact hostages for the duration of their stay. In order to get ...
Theodore Roosevelt... a post office was established. The town was named Burkburnett by President, who visited the area for a wolf hunt that was hosted by the wealthy ranc ...
Richard IHenry's successor,, paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth but under King John signi ...
Anne BoleynAmong those held and executed at the Tower was. Although the Yeoman Warders were once the Royal Bodyguard, by the 16th a ...
Jim Yong Kim... ebruary 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physicianon July 1, 2009
Prince ShōtokuSpying in Japan dates as far back as(572–622), although the origins of spying and assassination date much earl ...
Henry II... rs of the Anarchy (1135–54), delayed any further development of the castle.succeeded to the throne at the end of the Anarchy but during the revolt of ...
Emperor of Austria... an admirer of German Emperor Wilhelm II (his second cousin once removed) orFranz Josef I whom he described as "that idiot, that old dotard of a Franc ...
Conaire Cóem... riors dressed as women from Emain Macha to kill him at Tara. His son-in-lawsucceeded him as High King, and Conn's son Art would later succeed him. Th ...
William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach... ime period, Wilhelmina's heir presumptive was her first cousin once removed, and next in line was his aunt (and Wilhelmina's cousin) Princess Marie A ...
William Howard Taft... tter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice ...
Ernest BevinOn February 14, 1947,announced that the Jews and Arabs would not be able to agree on any Britis ...
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin... enthroned on 6 September 1898. On 7 February 1901 in The Hague, she married
Augustus of Saxony... 733–1738), which started as a dispute over the throne of the Poland between, the previous King's elder son, and Stanisław Leszczyński. Austria suppor ...
Victoria of the United KingdomIn 1895, Queen Wilhelmina visited Queen, who penned an evaluation in her diary
Robert II, Duke of Normandy... called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the castle built in 1080, by, the eldest son of William the Conqueror. The city grew as an important c ...
Agnes of Merania... and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and his controversial wife. Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped ...
John F. Kennedy... included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Shaw was quoted as saying: "Th ...
King Edward III... of Richmond, who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of. John had married Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster, daught ...
Stanisław August Poniatowski... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king, was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ...
Charles the Fat... t a sovereign, joined the other East Frankish lands in deposing their king,, in 887. Under a series of dukes that began under the child king Louis IV ...
Holy Roman Emperor... ry a legend appeared in various chronicles according to which the Pope, the, and the King of France demanded a tribute from Ferdinand. In certain ver ...
Bill Clinton... er is also the only secretary to be dismissed from the post. Hazel O'Leary,'s first Secretary of Energy, was first female and African-American holder ...
Henry III of England... muster an army to protect Capetian interests against rebellious nobles and. One of the barons tried to kidnap Louis. He took refuge in a castle and ...
Emperor Shijō... n 1232, he began his own cloistered rule, abdicating to his 1-year-old son,. However, being of a weak constitution, his cloistered rule lasted just u ...
Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster... Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edward III. John had married, daughter of the 1st Duke of the first creation. When John of Gaunt, the ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... stinguished Flying Cross, and he was awarded the Harmon Trophy by President
Alexander I... to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units. Tsarthen appointed general Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov to the commander-in-c ...
Gary Crittenden... ly, alumni of BYU who have served as business leaders include Citigroup CFO'76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO Sheri L. Dew, and ...
John II of Portugal... d sailing-master of the man-of-war, São Cristóvão (Saint Christopher). Kingappointed him, on 10 October 1487, to head an expedition to sail around th ...
Richard Nixon... rred during the 91st Congress. The presidential election of 1968 ended withreceiving 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had onl ...
Josiah... lley, but here he found his passage blocked by the Judean army. Their king,, sided with the Babylonians and attempted to block his advance at Megiddo ...
Armando Guebuza... bility and maintaining a local staff. After contacting Mozambican presidentto verify that the Mozambican government had no objections, the couple dec ...
Pope John XXIIIIn 1960,commented that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, ...
President's... ergy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of theCabinet, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The positio ...
emperor(March 22, 1212 – August 31, 1234) was the 86thof Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This reign spa ...
Valentinian III... attack the Visigoth kingdom of Toulouse by making an alliance with Emperor. He had previously been on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and i ...
Empress Carlota of Mexico... also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Consort,and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These last two, Leopold and Carlota ...
Archduke Charles, brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army ...
Pope Paul VI... ed that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, in 1964,praised the organization in a handwritten letter to Escrivá, saying
Francis I... ine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano - sailing in service of the French king- was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City ...
William Henry Harrison... buy as much Native American land as possible. In 1804, territorial governornegotiated a treaty in St. Louis in which a group of Sauk and Meskwaki lea ...
George Washington... vernment through the war that raised an army to fight the British and namedits commander, made treaties, declared independence, and instructed the co ...
Theodosius I... ricaded themselves inside the church, and the imperial order was rescinded., the emperor of the East, espoused the cause of Justina, and regained the ...
Zhengde Emperor... between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the. The handover of Macau (Macao) to Portugal in 1557 by the Emperor of Chin ...
Lugh... , and war and continued oppression followed. When the youthful and vigorousjoined Nuada's court, the king realised the multi-talented youth could lea ...
Prince Alexander... a was born, William had already outlived two of them and only the childlessand the King's uncle Prince Frederick of the Netherlands were alive, so un ...
Philip II of SavoyPico fled to France in 1488, where he was arrested by, at the demand of the papal nuncios, and imprisoned at Vincennes. Through ...
Jacques DelorsThe Presidential system had started to develop sinceand has since been cemented, a strong President with competent mandarins i ...
H. H. Kung... ie Soong, father of the Shanghai-born Soong sisters: Soong Ai-ling, wife of(once China's richest man); Soong Ching-ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soo ...
Josiah Bartlet... 006), his role as The Illusive Man in the Mass Effect trilogy and Presidentin the television series The West Wing
EadwigIn 955, Eadred died, and the situation was at once changed., the elder son of Edmund, who then came to the throne, was a headstrong y ...
Emperor... ment was entered into by Dejazmach Agew Niguse of Tigray, in revolt againstTewodros II of Ethiopia, to cede Zula to the French. Agew Niguse was defea ...
Alexander the Great... of France, and the Black Sea coasts. Greeks founded more than 400 colonies.'s conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenist ...
Leopold I... , Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and of, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of Ferdina ...
Cathair Mór... ding to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he took power after killing his predecessor. In other sources his predecessor is Dáire Doimthech. The Lia Fáil, the c ...
Clement Attlee... ustry (then state-owned since nationalisation by the post-war government of) over the closure of pits whose uneconomic operation accounted for the co ...
Maria Feodorovna... nd a note from Pope Leo XIII. Because of support from Russian tsarist widowand other donations, his financial situation improved remarkably
Benito Juárez... certain national holidays, such as Natalicio de Benito Juárez (birthdate of) and Día de la Revolución, which are meant to be dry nationally. The same ...
Valentinian IIIn 385 Ambrose, backed by Milan's populace, refused's imperial request to hand over the Portian basilica for the use of Arian ...
King William III... born on 31 August 1880 in The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child ofand his second wife, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her childhood was charac ...
Christina of Sweden... hn Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded his cousin Queenon the Swedish throne, Pfalz-Zweibrücken was in personal union with Sweden ...
King Henry VII... dfather of Elizabeth I. His titles were declared forfeit after his death by, but his son, the 1st Earl of Surrey, was later restored as 2nd Duke (the ...
Chiang Kai-shek... ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President
Licinius... tary superiority over his rivals in the crumbling Tetrarchy. In 313, he metin Milan to secure their alliance by the marriage of Licinius and Constant ...
Guthrum... Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking, arrived in East Anglia. They proceeded to cross England into Northumbria ...
Henry... custom of wearing a leek as an “ancient tradition” in Henry V. In the play,tells Fluellen that he is wearing a leek “for I am Welsh, you know, good c ...
Władysław I the Elbow-high... hts and then with the German Prussian state. The Kingdom was restored under, strengthened and expanded by his son Casimir III the Great. The western ...
Frederick, Prince of Wales... l stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden,who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjami ...
Emperor Go-TobaIn 1221, because of the Jōkyū Incident, an unsuccessful attempt byto seize real power, the Kamakura shogunate completely excluded those of t ...
Casimir III the Great... ored under Władysław I the Elbow-high, strengthened and expanded by his son. The western provinces of Silesia and Pomerania were lost after the fragm ...
Manuel I of Portugal... d Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Mi ...
Philip the Good... chiermonnikoog in writing dates from October 1440, in a document written by
Pope Pius XI... itical) should perform a function which can be performed by a smaller unit., in Quadragesimo Anno, provided the classical statement of the principle: ...
Pedro IIOn 6 September 1850 the emperor,, sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ...
Pope Paul VI... y Gómez (May 23, 1946 – March 22, 2005) was a self-proclaimed successor of, and was recognised as Pope Gregory XVII by supporters of the Palmarian C ...
Magnus Maximus... nciples of Ambrose, however his aid was soon solicited by the Emperor. Whenusurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy ...
King Henry VIII... and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of. Thus, through Anne Boleyn, he was the great-great-grandfather of Elizabe ...
Barack Obama... John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the 2009 inauguration ceremony for, along with Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill ...
Bolesław II the Bold... y a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under Casimir I. Casimir's sonbecame fatally involved in a conflict with the ecclesiastical authority, a ...
Bres... that their king must be physically perfect, and he was replaced as king by, a half-Fomorian prince renowned for his beauty and intellect. The Fomori ...
Emperor HorikawaThis 13th century sovereign was named after the 10th centuryand go- (後), translates literally as "later;" and thus, he is sometimes ca ...
President Clinton... Employment, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from thenfor inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide. In April 2002, K ...
King Arthur... ks he must complete before he can win her hand. With the help of his cousin, Culhwch succeeds and the giant dies, allowing Olwen to marry her suitor
Soong Ching-ling... Soong sisters: Soong Ai-ling, wife of H. H. Kung (once China's richest man);, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President C ...
Donna ShalalaThat same year, President George W. Bush appointed Dole andco-chairs of a commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medi ...
Pope John Paul I... denied Opus Dei's petition to become a personal prelature, Moncada stated., a few years before his election, wrote that Escrivá was more radical tha ...
Miguel Alemán Valdés... ommercial wharf and warehouses has been built. In the early 1950s Presidentupgraded the port’s infrastructure, installing electrical lines, drainage ...
Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies... Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Roberto I of Parma and, on 20 April 1893 at the Villa Pianore in Lucca in Italy, producing four ...
Leopold I... f Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor. The government of de facto collectively ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, seate ...
Juliana... onal and economic", according to one contemporary publication. The birth of, on 30 April 1909, was met with great relief after eight years of childle ...
Eadred... stan's appointment, in 946, King Edmund was assassinated. His successor was. The policy of the new government was supported by the Queen Mother, Eadg ...
Conn of the Hundred Battles... echt, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill. A rival towas Mug Nuadat ("Nuada's Slave"). The Delbhna, a people of early Ireland, ...
Bolesław I ChrobryMieszko's sonestablished a Polish Church province, pursued territorial conquests and wa ...
Norodom Sihanouk... e returned to the WPK's liberated areas. Despite friendly relations betweenand the Chinese, the latter kept Pol Pot's visit a secret from Sihanouk. I ...
Valentinian IIUnder Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian,and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p. ...
Louis XVIII of France... , lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived at Frieth. Much earlier, Kinglived in exile at from 1809 to 1814
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor... ing able to exercise his rule in Catalonia, until the death of his brother,; he returned to Vienna to assume the imperial crown. Not wanting to see A ...
Justinian I... cally a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors Theodosius I and) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came under the administr ...
Paul Wolfowitz... Bush nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeedas President of the World Bank Group. The Executive Directors unanimously ...
Queen Elizabeth I... rsonification of Britain, in imagery that was developed during the reign of. With the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish ...
Rajendra Prasad... ic of India was officially proclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr.as the first President of India, taking over from Governor General Rajgopa ...
Lugaid Riab nDerg... st time since Cúchulainn split it with his sword when it failed to roar for. In the saga Baile in Scáil ("The Phantom's Ecstatic Vision"), Conn tread ...
Thomas Jefferson... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and
Peter the Great... 18,000 of them were Nemtsy, which means either German or western foreigner.was greatly influenced by the international community located in the Germa ...
Nuadu Necht... haracters of the same name include the later High Kings Nuadu Finn Fáil and, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill. A rival to Co ...
Constance... an in England next to the king himself. After Blanche's death, John married, who had a claim to the kingdom of Castile, and John styled himself the k ...
Albert, Duke of Prussia... tonic Knights, Albert, secularized the order's Prussian territory, becoming. His duchy, which had its capital in Königsberg (Polish: Królewiec), was ...
Edmund... f great influence, and on the death of King Æthelstan in 940, the new King,, summoned him to his court at Cheddar and made him a minister
Stanislaus II of Poland... cember 1757 – 8 March 1758), fathered by Catherine's lover, the future King#Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to Friedrich Maximil ...
GratianUnder Ambrose's major influence, emperors, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. Ma ...
Richard I... s a leader involved in the massacre of the Jews at Cliffords Tower in York.dismissed the sheriff and constable of York and imposed severe penalties o ...
Robert Zoellick... 007, US President George W. Bush nominated former deputy secretary of stateto succeed Paul Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank Group. The Execut ...
Jotham... king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years. In the second year of his reignbecame king of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded ...
Nia Segamain... ated with the eagle or hawk. The name of the legendary High King of Ireland, which translates as "sister's son or champion of Segamon", may be relate ...
Mathieu Kérékou... about many changes of government. The last of these brought to power Majoras the head of a regime professing strict Marxist-Leninist principles. The ...
Aelia Eudocia... tine direction, and is said to have been built at the behest of the Empress. This pool, having been somewhat abandoned and left to ruin, partly survi ...
Alexander I... lexander (whom she greatly favored, and who subsequently became the emperorin 1801). Her harshness towards Paul probably stemmed as much from politic ...
Theodosius I... nius, and specifically a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperorsand Justinian I) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came unde ...
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor... and on the other hand influenced by Islamic (Saracen) ideals of furusiyya.(1459–1519) is often referred to as the last true knight. He was the last ...
Nuadu Finn Fáil... bly Nechtan. Other characters of the same name include the later High Kingsand Nuadu Necht, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill ...
Keynesian... trade policy of the United States and Britain during the 19th Century, withstimulus policies
Zog of Albania... while Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and Kinglived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile a ...
William II... e received the area's submission. This fortress was destroyed by the Danes.gave the barony of Bedford to Paine de Beauchamp who built a new, strong c ...
Francis II... ope. In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when Holy Roman Emperorkept Francis I of Austria as his only official title. These achievements, ...
Idi Amin... omplaining of the inconsistency of lifting them on Uganda immediately after's departure, but not Zimbabwe Rhodesia after Ian Smith's. Helms hosted Mu ...
Henry IV of Castile... city was Alvar Gomez de Cibdad Real, who had been private secretary to King. He was a protector of the conversos. Together with prominent conversos F ...
Pope Pius XII... population of about 50,000. In 1958, The Diocese of Acapulco was created by. It would become an archdiocese in 1983
President of the European Parliament... als in technical matters such as the free trade agreement with Ukraine. Themeanwhile articulates the EU's values
Edward III... aster inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of; their union, and combined resources, made John the second richest man in ...
Kyril... d by the People's Republic of Bulgaria, under which his sole surviving son,, was executed. On hearing of his son's death he said, "Everything is coll ...
Peter IJohn was the natural son ofby a woman named Teresa, who, according to Fernão Lopes, was a noble Galic ...
George Washington... is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Nero... the 2nd millennium BCE. The leek was the favourite vegetable of the Emperor, who consumed it in soup or in oil, believing it beneficial to the qualit ...
Galla PlacidiaWhen Valentinian discovered the plan, only the influence of his motherconvinced him to exile, rather than kill, Honoria. He also wrote to Attila ...
Valentinian IIIn 392, after the death ofand the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the p ...
George W. BushOn 30 May 2007, US Presidentnominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed Paul ...
James Madison... r notable Founding Fathers may have been more directly deist. These include, possibly Alexander Hamilton, Ethan Allen
Dáire Doimthech... er killing his predecessor Cathair Mór. In other sources his predecessor is. The Lia Fáil, the coronation stone at Tara which was said to roar when t ...
President of India... oclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as the first, taking over from Governor General Rajgopalachari. Subsequently India inv ...
Desta Damtew... ork married Dejazmatch Beyene Merid. Princess Tenagnework first married Ras, and after she was widowed later married Ras Andargachew Messai. Princess ...
Agamemnon... . It begins with Achilles' withdrawal from battle after he is dishonored by, the commander of the Achaean forces. Agamemnon had taken a woman named C ...
Charles VIII... ession of several Italian princes—all instigated by Lorenzo de' Medici—Kinghad him released, and the Pope was persuaded to allow Pico to move to Flor ...
King Richard III... , someone had left John Howard a note attached to his tent warning him that, his "master," was going to be double-crossed (which he was)
Vasili IIIThe earliest German settlement in Russia dates back to the reign ofin the 16th century. A handful of German and Dutch craftsmen and traders w ...
Alla Amidas... be supported by the die-links between his coins and those of his successor,. An inscription of Sumyafa' Ashwa' also mentions two kings (nagaśt) of Ak ...
Alexander the Great... contains at least one potential historical error: It apparently claims thatintended Alexandria to be the capital of his empire. Actually, he built it ...
Frank Capra... ue to "chronic illness". She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for thefilm A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady f ...
Claudius... en a crossing of the River Thames at Staines since Roman times. The emperorsent the Romans into Britain in 43 A.D and they settled in Staines the sam ...
Wen Jiabao... the name Unihub. It is owned by Wen Yunsong, son of China's prime minister. Unihib was a re-branding of PCCW's Business eSolutions division, from 1 ...
Henry of Grosmont, the Duke of Lancaster... nued to use Kenilworth as a royal castle until her fall from power in 1330., inherited the castle from his father in 1345 and remodelled the great ha ...
Kebek... e 11 day caravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khansand Qazan built palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan's summer pasture. ...
Princess Zenebework... children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai,, Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle Selassie
Richard Nixon... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover,politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ...
Mao Zedong... rm their way into organs of political authority and usurp important posts.", chairman of the People's Republic of China, was reviled for his persecut ...
Peter III... spicious of Catherine upon her accession because she had annulled an act bythat had essentially freed the serfs belonging to the Orthodox Church. Nat ...
Stephen I of HungaryThe alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given toby Sylvester in the year 1000 (hence the reign title 'Apostolic King') is ...
George H. W. Bush... press as a short list vice-presidential running mate for Republican nominee, and was named chairman of Veterans for Bush
Isaac Newton... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines ., influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ...
Michael Heseltine... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment,, formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ...
Yayi Boni... this was not changed and he stood down after the election of his successor,
President... (PNA)—the provisional entity created by the Oslo Accords. Arafat became theand Prime Minister of the PNA, the Commander of the PLA and the Speaker of ...
Emperor Joseph IIIn 1780, the son of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa,, toyed with the idea of determining whether or not to enter an alliance w ...
Princess TenagneworkBy Menen Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children:, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince ...
Hilaire Belloc... jection of this new program was due to the direct influence of the ideas ofover American distributists
Cyrus the Great... es of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire ofshortly after 550 BC. The Persians found the Ionians difficult to rule, ev ...
Ivar the Boneless... r encampment. The following year the Great Heathen Army led by the Brothers, Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking Guthrum, arrived ...
Francisco Solano LópezMeanwhile, in December 1864 the dictator of Paraguay,took advantage of the situation to establish his country as a regional pow ...
Emperor Zhao's... ilitary. The minimum age for the military draft was reduced to twenty after(r. 87–74 BCE) reign. Conscripted soldiers underwent one year of training ...
Henry IIBedford traces its borough charter in 1166 byand elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons
Henry Frederick... manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old sonking "acknowledgeth himself ordained for his people, having received from ...
Alexander IIThe decline of the Russian German community started with the reforms of. In 1871, he repealed the open-door immigration policy of his ancestors, ...
Alexander the GreatAfterconquered the Near East in 334 BCE, the existing settlement was named Heli ...
Menen AsfawBy, Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfa ...
Pope John Paul II... ins unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted Pope John Paul I (1978) and(1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Paul VI. Pope Gregory XVII is g ...
Henry VIII... seven schools established, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by Kingduring the Dissolution of the Monasteries to pray for his soul. In 2006, 3 ...
Charles II of SpainFollowing the death of, in 1700, without any ostensible heir, Charles declared himself King of S ...
James I of Scotland... d many distinguished prisoners. The heir to the Scottish throne, later King, was kidnapped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protege of John B. Connally and, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story f ...
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Sigismund IIIFollowing King's Prussian regency contract (1605) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg ...
Isabella I of CastileIn 1469 Queenand King Ferdinand of Aragon were married in the city; by the 15th century ...
Lugh... see a phantom, a tall beautiful man, on a throne, who introduces himself as. The woman is the sovereignty of Ireland, and she serves Conn a meal cons ...
Hadrian... iginally the Shrine of the Four Nymphs (Tetranymphon), a nymphaeum built byduring the construction of Aelia Capitolina in 135, and mentioned in Byzan ...
Pope John Paul I... of the Catholic Church remains unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted(1978) and Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Pa ...
Medferiashwork Abebe... Princess Wolete Israel Seyoum and then following their divorce to Princess. Prince Makonnen was married to Princess Sara Gizaw. Prince Sahle Selassi ...
John F. Kennedy... 62 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between Harold Macmillan and, the United States would supply Britain with Polaris missiles, launch tub ...
Van Rompuy, Herman... , Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - Van Hoegaerden, Victor -- Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - Emile Verhaere ...
Kaleb of Axum... e capital, killing many and destroying the church there. The Christian Kinglearned of Dhu Nuwas's persecutions of Christians and Aksumites, and, acco ...
Princess Fawzia... asha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran. In the same year,of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the ...
JehoahazOn his return march to Egypt in 608 BC, Necho found thathad been selected to succeed his father, Josiah. Necho deposed Jehoahaz, w ...
Gordon Campbell... e effectively portrayed the BC Liberals' new leader, former Vancouver mayor, as a pawn of big business and a dangerous right-wing extremist. Clark wa ...
Daniel Moynihan... that year, Kennedy created the Friends of Ireland organization with Senatorand House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconci ...
Bruno Amoussou... president) 27.1%, Adrien Houngbédji (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and(Minister of State) 8.6%. The second round balloting, originally scheduled ...
James VI of Scotland... the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish cousin,, to the English throne. He became James I of England, and so brought unde ...
Grand Empress Dowager Lü Zhi... rivate minting of coins. This decision was reversed in 186 BCE by his widow(d. 180 BCE), who abolished private minting. In 182 BCE, Lü Zhi issued a b ...
Charles the Bald... 817 was a further claimant besides Louis's three grown sons. A fourth son,, was born to Louis's second wife, Judith of Bavaria, in 823. When Louis t ...
Gustav IV Adolph... esses, they ended with two failures. Her Swedish cousin (once removed) Kingvisited her in September 1796, the empress's intention being that her gran ...
Santiago Bernabeu... pressive centralism and the fascist regime at management level and beyond (, the former club president for whom the Merengues stadium is named, fough ...
Thomas Jefferson... cases considered significant to the history of religious freedom. In 1779,wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, enacted in 1786 by the V ...
Genghis Khan... The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek and Qazan built palaces here on the site of's summer pasture. In 1364, Timur also built a fortified palace with moats ...
Prince Makonnen... nagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework,, and Prince Sahle Selassie
Bill Clinton... e Roadless Initiative passed on 5 January 2001, during the last days of theAdministration, and the initiative prevented the construction of new roads ...
Prince Sahle Selassie... ce Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and
George Washington... rea that would lie between the Capitol building and an equestrian statue ofto be placed directly south of the White House (see L'Enfant Plan). The Na ...
Theodosius IUnder Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II andcarried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p.100 quote: See al ...
Adrien Houngbédji... athieu Kérékou (incumbent) 45.4%, Nicephore Soglo (former president) 27.1%,(National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and Bruno Amoussou (Minister of State) ...
Jehoahaz... urned to Egypt. On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selectedto succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiak ...
Queen Beatrix... ouse of Orange dynasty, the later royal family of the Netherlands. In fact,is Countess of Buren. Also, the royals have been known to use the name Van ...
Isaac Newton... greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir, and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or me ...
Frederick III of BrandenburgDucal Prussia's full sovereignty allowed Electorto become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor Leopold I. T ...
Margaret Beckett... he entered the news after it emerged that he had managed to get through towhilst impersonating Gordon Brown, with her revealing "embarrassing indisc ...
Tewodros II of Ethiopia... entered into by Dejazmach Agew Niguse of Tigray, in revolt against Emperor, to cede Zula to the French. Agew Niguse was defeated by Emperor Tewodros ...
Queen Beatrix... a status retained by her daughter, Queen Juliana, and by her granddaughter,
Sargon of Akkad... empires succeeded the last, and conquerors grew in stature until the greatpushed his empire to the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. It would not be ...
George Washington... ss takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointingcommander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 2 ...
Charles I... o held their tenure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland),and Charles II
Franklin D. Roosevelt... soil. Several groups developed competing proposals, and in 1933, Presidentauthorized the Columbia Basin Project. The Grand Coulee Dam was the projec ...
Pekahiah... kh; "open-eyed"; ) was king of Israel. He was a captain in the army of kingof Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah (; ...
Pope Pius XI... ans of production, rather than the large units typical of modern economies.further stated, again in Quadragesimo Anno, "every social activity ought o ...
Demetrius Vikelas... irikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, and. Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Georg ...
Queen Victoria... f the navy, lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. By the time of, Britannia had been renewed. Still depicted as a young woman with brown o ...
Louis XIV of France... anish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, Philippe, Duke of Anjou,'s grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for almost 14 years. The Ki ...
Crispus... le of Mardia in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sonsand Constantine II, and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars
Holy Roman Emperor Francis II... ecisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I and, after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting. The battle took place nea ...
Edward II... many of the other English barons, found himself in increasing opposition to. War broke out in 1322, and Lancaster was captured at the Battle of Borou ...
Joseph Lyons... President of the Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial. Australian Prime Ministerdescribed the section of keel as "intimately associated with the discovery ...
Henry VI of England... France, and made his England bleed" – a reminder of the tumultuous reign of, which Shakespeare had previously brought to the stage in a trilogy of pl ...
Elizabeth I... age productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress asin the film Shakespeare in Love
Louis the Pious... awn up for a division of the Carolingian Empire on the death of the emperor. Unforeseen in 817 was a further claimant besides Louis's three grown son ...
George W. Bush... few left of them, so the once massive tributes are growing thin. Presidentwas the first American president who visited the cemetery, on 8 May 2005. ...
Arianna Huffington... n the "Robots Versus Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with, and Will Shortz. Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jocke ...
Saddam Hussein... at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by Jeffrey Archer in whichtries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly on July 4
Maria Theresa... h the agency of Prince Henry), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under) began preparing the ground for the partitions of Poland. In the first pa ...
James Madison... icenses from the Anglican Church. Both Patrick Henry and the young attorneydefended Baptist preachers prior to the American Revolution in cases consi ...
King Arthur... early medieval poem found in the Book of Taliesin describes a voyage led byto the numerous otherworldy kingdoms within Annwn, either to rescue the pr ...
Harold Wilson... sile submarines, later reduced to four by the incoming Labour government of, with 16 missiles to be carried on each ship. The Polaris Sales Agreement ...
Queen Elizabeth... in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against, but he was acquitted of those charges. He succeeded his father as Baron ...
Arthurian legends... tiltyard in an event called "the Round Table", in imitation of the popular
Prince HenryPrussia (through the agency of), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ...
Emperor of China... e Zhengde Emperor. The handover of Macau (Macao) to Portugal in 1557 by the(as a reward for services rendered against the pirates who infested the So ...
Chiang Kai-shek... at heroes of Chinese history". Ma compared him with the contemporary leaderand saw many parallels in the careers and policies of the two men, both of ...
King Cadwaladr... "Peter's Leek," Cenhinen Bedr) on St. David’s Day. According to one legend,of Gwynedd ordered his soldiers to identify themselves by wearing the vege ...
Catherine of Valois... lowing the victory at Agincourt, Henry attempts to woo the French princess,. This is difficult because he does not speak French well and she does not ...
Mwai Kibaki... s of the National Rainbow Coalition (NaRC) to parliament and NaRC candidate(b. 1931) to the presidency. Voters rejected the Kenya African National Un ...
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery... om Great Hampden and is revered in Aylesbury to this day and Prime Ministerwho lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note are William Penn who believed h ...
Augusto Pinochet... also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General
Frank Graham... issue up for discussion again at the 1954 bi-annual convention. ACLU member, president of the University of North Carolina, attacked the anti-communi ...
Dunama DabbalemiKanem's expansion peaked during the long and energetic reign of Mai(ca. 1203–1242), also of the Sayfawa dynasty. Dabbalemi initiated diplomat ...
Tsar Alexander I... Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded byand Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fi ...
Mwai Kibaki... s routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president, was elected President by a large majority
Henry III... d game. El Pardo was a region visited frequently by kings since the time of, in the 14th century. The Catholic Monarchs started the construction of t ...
Ferdinand II of Aragon... Domingo in 1498, far from the reach of the Medici and the Spanish King, butsoon found out and had Columbus put into chains
Albert, Prince Consort... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ...
Ferdinand IV of Castile... unicipal charter dated in Valladolid on June 15, 1300 and confirmed by kingin Burgos, on January 4, 1301. Diego López stablished the new town on the ...
Grigory Potemkinhad had involvement in the coup d'état of 1762. In 1772, Catherine's close ...
King Hussein of Jordan... ardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs.bought a fleet of cars that Mardas had customised, but the cars proved to ...
George Washington... . stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting Benjamin Franklin and. A few other countries issued stamps in the late 1840s. Many others, such ...
Charles II... enure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), Charles I and
George Washington... l carved nobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers.gave Connecticut the title of "The Provisions State" because of the materi ...
Alfonso XI... th the Royal Fuero, granted by Alfonso X of Castile in 1262 and ratified byin 1339. On the other hand, the town of Buitrago de Lozoya, Alcalá de Hena ...
Mitt Romney... letter was issued immediately before the Florida primary. Dole has endorsedfor the Republican nomination
King Charles IIDuring the reign of, Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ...
LiciniusIn the year 320,reneged on the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan in 313 and ...
Ferdinand II of Portugal... Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Co ...
ManassehDuring the long reign of(c. 687/686 - 643/642 BC), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennach ...
Justin I... rding to Procopius, was further encouraged by his ally and fellow Christianof Byzantium, who requested Aksum's help to cut off silk supplies as part ...
Ahaz... g of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded by his son,in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. William F. Albright has dated hi ...
King Edward VFor his support of King Richard III during the deposition ofin 1483, he was created The Duke of Norfolk, third creation, on 28 June 14 ...
German Emperor Wilhelm II... outbreak of the First World War, the young Wilhelmina visited the powerful, who boasted to the Queen of a relatively small country, "my guards are s ...
Malcolm IV... Crown came to his youngest son, David. David was succeeded by his grandsons, and then by William the Lion, the longest-reigning King of Scots before ...
Theodoric I... vitus, and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king(Theodorid) to ally with the Romans. The combined armies reached Orléans a ...
Persi DiaconisBorn in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career (likea generation later) was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the Univers ...
Van RompuySince the creation of the European Council presidency, Presidentand Commission President Barroso have begun to compete with each other as ...
Lindsay Thompson... being John Cain (1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was(1981–82), on 16 July 2008
Tony RundleAs of 24 January 2011, seven former premiers are alive, the oldest being(1996–98, born 1939). The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ...
Alfredo Poveda... oved by another military government. That military junta was led by Admiral, who was declared chairman of the Supreme Council. The Supreme Council in ...
Gunderic... taces. The remainder of his people subsequently appealed to the Vandal kingto accept the Alan crown. Later Vandal kings in North Africa styled themse ...
Justinian I... for the founding of the Justinian Dynasty that included his eminent nephewand for the enactment of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old ...
Theodosius I... ed at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of(379-395)
former President Lyndon Johnson... ular bluebonnets, some planted in an effort by "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of
Donna Shalala... sion to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with, a former member of the Clinton cabinet. Dole is married to former U.S. c ...
Walter Scott... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young, but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ...
King David... uel as being one of The Three, a distinct group of warriors associated with; scholars believe that the same individual is meant, and that the passage ...
King of ItalyLouis II the Younger (825 – Ghedi 12 August 875) was theand Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, ...
Jaime Roldós AguileraElections were held on April 29, 1979, under a new constitution.was elected president, garnering over one million votes, the most in Ecuad ...
Lothair... re for the benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons,, Pepin, and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punct ...
Barroso... European Council presidency, President Van Rompuy and Commission Presidenthave begun to compete with each other as Van Rompuy has benefited from the ...
Hosni Mubarak... n of one's first name was common; notable Egyptians such as Anwar Sadat anddid so. However, Arafat also dropped Abdel Rahman and Abdel Raouf from his ...
Harold Wilson... d of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Ministerand without an agreement on the succeeding governance. Their enemies, the ...
Constans... ceeded by his three sons born of Fausta, Constantine II, Constantius II and. A number of relatives were killed by followers of Constantius, notably C ...
Ronald ReaganWyman was the first wife of. They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public ...
Philip II of France... he spent little time in England, instead concentrating on the war with King, which began with Philip's attempts to acquire Richard's possessions on t ...
Christina of Sweden... ite of the city of Wilmington, which they named Fort Christina, after Queen
Abul Kalam Azad... 47, the nationalist leaders of British India—including Jawaharlal Nehru andrepresenting the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, and Mast ...
Jim Bacon... (1969–72), on 27 August 2004. The most recently-serving premier to die was(1998–2004), on 20 June 2004
Malcolm... tle at the hands of Macbeth, who was killed himself in 1057 by Duncan's son. The following year, after killing Macbeth's stepson Lulach, Malcolm asce ...
Maximilian IIIThe Administrator of Prussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order, son of emperor Maximilian II died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 161 ...
Peter III of Russia... 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husband, Emperor, but claimed by Catherine to be the son of her lover, Count Serge Saltyko
Anwar El Sadat... fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty., President of Egypt, was instrumental in the event and consequently becam ...
Pope John XPope Leo VI, a Roman, succeeded(914–928) as Pope in 928. He reigned a little over seven months; the exact ...
Odoacer... avenna. In 476, the last Western Empreror Romulus Augustulus was deposed by; for a few years Italy stayed united under the rule of Odoacer, but soon ...
Lothair I... was the King of Italy and Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his fatheruntil 855, after which he ruled alone. Louis's usual title was imperator a ...
Paul I of Russia#Emperor(1 October 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husba ...
Woodrow Wilson... re-enactments, and speeches from a host of dignitaries, including President, the first Southerner elected to the White House since the War. (Note: He ...
Lothair... for his succession, but Hugh Capet appointed Arnulf, an illegitimate son ofinstead. Arnulf was deposed in 991 for alleged treason against the King, a ...
Richard III... t, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to ...
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York... the monarchy), Richard III is described as "the undoubted son and heir" of, and "born in this land" — an oblique reference to his brother's birth at ...
Tipu Sultan... the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War broke out in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore,. Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture ...
Charles IIThe principal advisor to, the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ...
Euphemia... emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. His consort was Empress
Pepin... e benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, Lothair,, and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punctuated b ...
Constantius II... s there. He was succeeded by his three sons born of Fausta, Constantine II,and Constans. A number of relatives were killed by followers of Constantiu ...
Maximilian II... ussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order Maximilian III, son of emperordied in 1618. Albert's line died out in 1618, and the Duchy of Prussia pas ...
King Abdullah... ian revolution in 1935 which led him and his followers in rebellion againstof Jordan. And later at 1937, when they were forced to leave Jordan, Princ ...
Dave BarrettThe NDP first won election in 1972 under, who served as Premier for three years. The NDP passed a great deal of le ...
John CainAs of December 2010, five former premiers are alive, the oldest being(1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was Lindsay Thompso ...
Philip II of France... 's daughter, Margaret of Geneva, to France for her intended wedding to King. Thomas carried off Marguerite and married her himself, producing some ei ...
David... s successively became king. Eventually, the Crown came to his youngest son,. David was succeeded by his grandsons Malcolm IV, and then by William the ...
Jawaharlal Nehru... in India. In June 1947, the nationalist leaders of British India—includingand Abul Kalam Azad representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Mus ...
George V... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or asput it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ...
Yasser Arafat... asting peace." The failure to come to an agreement was widely attributed to, as he walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer ...
Jacques ChiracIn 1996,, then French President, granted the former French members of the Internat ...
Louis VII of France... aimed at all his friends and supporters as well as Becket himself; but Kingoffered Becket protection. He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abb ...
Ranjit SinghUndivided Punjab was ruled by a Sikh dynasty founded by Maharajafor 50 years from 1799 to 1849 AD, before its conquest by the British. Bef ...
Elizabeth I of England... mer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania asin her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Ju ...
Charles II... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs fromto George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ...
Anastasius I... s ability, rose through the ranks to become a general and under the Emperor; by the time of Anastasius' death in 518, he held the influential positio ...
Charles I... ntury history, while a film set in Bray, County Wicklow, in Ireland, covers, the English Civil War, the Commonwealth of England, The Protectorate, an ...
George Washington BainesJohnson was maternally descended from a pioneer Baptist clergyman,, who pastored some eight churches in Texas as well as others in Arkansas ...
Romulus Augustulus... tal was moved from Mediolanum to Ravenna. In 476, the last Western Emprerorwas deposed by Odoacer; for a few years Italy stayed united under the rule ...
John F. Kennedy... in a span of 12 months, coming as it did just after the deaths of Presidentand General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Bro ...
Alexander III... s succeeded by his son Alexander II. Alexander II, as well as his successor, attempted to take over the Western Isles, which were still under the ove ...
François Mitterrand... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by, the former Socialist President
Alcide De Gasperi... facsimile wartime letters from resistance leader and former Prime Ministerrequesting the Allies to bomb the outskirts of Rome in order to demoralize ...
Habibullah Khan... -Afghan War of 1919 was precipitated by the assassination of the then ruler. His son and successor Amanullah declared full independence and attacked ...
Justin II... ssimus and had Praejecta (b. ca 520), married to the senator Areobindus and(b. ca 520)
Akbar... ed Sheykhu Baba, he was the third and eldest surviving son of Mogul Emperor. Akbar's twin sons, Hasan and Hussain, died in infancy. His mother was th ...
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos... as followed in 1984 by León Febres Cordero from the Social Christian Party.of the Democratic Left (Izquierda Democrática or ID) party won the preside ...
Maria Clementina Sobieska... e female bust bears a resemblance to the Jacobite Queen and Polish Princess, wife of James the Old Pretender. The two putti with reddish hair who acc ...
Frederick II... had several times mediated between the Lombards and the Holy Roman Emperorreasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending parties. In the n ...
Oren B. Cheney... ar College Milo Parker Jewett, founder and first president of Bates College, founder and first president of Kenyon College Philander Chase, first pro ...
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Mao Zedong... ly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death ofand the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite fa ...
Henry VIIIThe chief minister of, the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Rom ...
Yan Xishan... of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchuria and even extended his inf ...
Philander Chase... Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Kenyon College, first professor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of U ...
Robin Cook MP... ng personal attack on the Prime Minister, calling his behaviour 'reckless'.and a few other government ministers resigned to the backbenches over the ...
Chen Shui-bian... e end of his term in 2000. That year Democratic Progressive Party candidatewon the national election with 39% of the vote in a three-way race. Chen's ...
Cadmus... ugh no classical source explicitly connects the two, Ino is the daughter ofof Tyre. Lewis Farnell thought not, referring in 1916 to "the accidental r ...
Albert Frederick... viate of Brandenburg became co-regents with Albert's son, the feeble-minded
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Henrietta Maria... r, Richard Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queenat the trial of the Earl of Strafford earlier that year; referring to John ...
Otto I... erbert with him. There Gerbert met Pope John XIII (965–972) and the Emperor, surnamed the Great (936–973). The Pope persuaded Otto I to employ Gerber ...
Rurik... al relation with the Varagians defending the cities that they ruled. Led byand his brothers Truvor and Sineus, the invited Varangians (called Rus') s ...
Abdalá Bucaram... D) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against(brother in law of Jaime Roldos and founder of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Pa ...
Louis... f Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, Lothair, Pepin, and. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punctuated by brief per ...
Charlemagne... of the Frankish Kingdom. On conquering the Lombard Kingdom of Italy in 774,had himself crowned King of the Lombards. Consequently, Tyrol came to be o ...
Alexander II... needed for the Crusades. William died in 1214, and was succeeded by his son. Alexander II, as well as his successor Alexander III, attempted to take ...
Charles II... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns ofto George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ...
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin... ine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and
Harold WilsonIn 1964, the new British government underannounced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ...
Ludwig III of Bavaria... A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, ...
AkbarIn 1600, whenwas away from the capital on an expedition, Salim broke into an open rebel ...
León Febres Cordero... ely succeeded by Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado who was followed in 1984 byfrom the Social Christian Party. Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic ...
Pharaoh... f Jehoiakim, he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance withHophra of Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah. . Nebuchadnez ...
Dalmatius... ives were killed by followers of Constantius, notably Constantine's nephews(who held the rank of Caesar) and Hannibalianus, presumably to eliminate p ...
Andrew Huxley... hysiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize withand Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Mohammed Nadir Shah... cated under pressure. The individual who most benefited from the crisis was, who reigned from 1929 to 1933. Both the Soviets and the British played t ...
Ermengarde of ToursHe was the eldest son of the Emperor Lothair I and. He was designated King of Italy in 839 and took up his residence in that ...
Alp Arslan... manus IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultanof the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the Battle of Manzikert. The ba ...
Avitus... troops from among the Franks, the Burgundians, and the Celts. A mission by, and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king The ...
Paul von Hindenburg... icher asked for new elections. On 28 January, von Papen described Hitler toas only a minority part of an alternative, von Papen-arranged government. ...
Éamon de Valera... ns. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Aire, or literally First Minister)was the highest official in the Republic at this time but was notionally o ...
Louis II... ed his kingdom between his three sons in the Treaty of Prüm. To the eldest,, went Italy, with the imperial title. To the youngest, Charles, still a m ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine... d to England to raise the king's ransom. Richard wrote to his mother, Queen, that Walter should be chosen for the see of Canterbury, as well as to th ...
George W. Bush... ong live for the 2004 Republican National Convention, saying that President, whom he said is a fan and a family friend, had asked him to write a song ...
Dennis Silk... ster and J. R. Ackerley. One of his closest friends was the young cricketer. He formed a close friendship with Vivien Hancock, headmistress of Greenw ...
Frank Capra... She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright (1950),on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rog ...
Henry VIII... nerations down to Catherine's sister, Anne, who would serve all six of King's
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George I... ious Stuart monarchs, chose to rely on a small committee of advisers. Undereven more power passed to this committee. It now began to meet in the abse ...
King Richard IIIFor his support ofduring the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of ...
Charles the Bold... t. Arnhem entered the Hanseatic League in 1443. In 1473, it was captured byof Burgundy. In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, took it from th ...
President of Ireland... s the national parliament of Ireland, the Oireachtas. It is composed of the, Seanad Éireann as the upper house, and Dáil Éireann as the lower house. ...
Henry VIII... ority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily underand Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I
Frederick II... ssia, was merged with the former Duchy of Prussia. On 31 January 1773, Kingannounced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as the Province of ...
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Augusto Pinochet... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led bytook place in 1973
Bill Clinton... osted the Sharm El-Sheikh "Summit of the Peacemakers" attended by Presidentand other world leaders
Eloy Alfaro... rorist group, "¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo!" ("Alfaro Lives, Dammit!") named after. However, continuing economic problems undermined the popularity of the I ...
George W. Bush... tiations suspended in July 2000, and in June 2003, Mubarak hosted Presidentfor another summit on Middle East peace process. Another summit was conven ...
Charles Lyell... as (though not his thoughts on evolution) by John Playfair in 1802 and thenin the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, tho ...
Kwame Nkrumah... r II, nationalist movements arose across West Africa. In 1957, Ghana, under, became the first sub-Saharan colony to achieve its independence, followe ...
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President of IndiaThe Constitution envisages a scheme of affairs in which theis the head of the executive in terms of Article 53 with office of the Pri ...
Saparmurat NiyazovThe last living person to be officially proclaimed president for life wasof Turkmenistan
Edward VI... the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542. Henry VIII's son and successor, the young, continued with further religious reforms but his early death in 1553 pre ...
Augustus... ond century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor. The Areopag ...
Augustus... to the revival of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors fromto Trajan, which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Afri ...
James Buchanan... th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President sincein 1856. Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th ...
Lucio Gutiérrez... e political capital, as illustrated by the most recent removal of Presidentfrom office by Congress in April 2005. Vice President Alfredo Palacio took ...
Alexander III... of government ministers of Russia who were personally appointed by the Tsarand by his son, Tsar Nicholas II. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway w ...
Eglon... om which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to putking of Moab to death, were probably the "graven images" (as the word is r ...
Trajan... val of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from Augustus to, which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Africanus. Th ...
Liu YuThe dynasty was founded by劉裕 (363–422), whose surname together with "Song" forms the most commonly u ...
Anne BoleynThe ghost of, beheaded in 1536 for treason against Henry VIII, allegedly haunts the ch ...
Chiang Kai-shek... . They miscalculated however, and his son quickly pledged his allegiance to, turning his forces over to Kuomintang control and supported Chiang in hi ...
Art RooneyPrior to the 1970 season, Rosenbloom, Art Modell of the Browns, andof the Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to have their teams join the ten AFL tea ...
Gerald Ford... cond longest-lived president after John Adams; both were since surpassed byand Ronald Reagan. He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, ...
Nicolae Ceauşescu... ut they have not proclaimed themselves as President for Life. For instance,of Romania, who ruled until his execution (see Romanian revolution)
Edward IV... or Woodville), sister of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of Kingconsort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1 ...
Charles II... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished.restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ...
Liu Shao... which at least partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emper ...
Abraham Lincoln... but that it was part of some elaborate and dangerous intrigue instigated by.
Peleus... ds and goddesses as well as various mortals were invited to the marriage ofand Thetis (the eventual parents of Achilles). Only Eris, goddess of disco ...
King Charles I... n applauded the English people for having the courage to depose and execute. In his poem, however, he takes the side of 'Heav'n's awful Monarch' (iv ...
Humphry DavySir's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of ele ...
William Whewell... ibed as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s,coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas ...
Henry Tudor... ately, the conflict culminated in success for the Lancastrian branch led by, in 1485, when Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field
Lothair II... ll a minor, went Provence. To the second eldest and namesake of his father,, went the remaining territories to the north of Provence, a kingdom which ...
Nicholas II... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ...
Amel-Marduk... reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor(Evil Merodach) as 562/561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's cap ...
Andrew Johnson... in the state and features call boxes built prior to the American Civil War., later president of the United States, was an apprentice tailor in Moores ...
François Duvalier... hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera, Josip Broz Tito anddied in office. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic af ...
Gunderic... ozen, to invade Gaul, which they devastated terribly. Under Godigisel's son, the Vandals plundered their way westward and southward through Aquitaine
Theodore Roosevelt... "higher authority" by wire, which turns out as an all-ears U. S. President(Attorney General William Henry Moody: "They say a billionaire from Scotla ...
Henry VIII's... ishment except death, without being bound by normal court procedure. Duringreign, the Sovereign, on the advice of the Council, was allowed to enact l ...
Paul von Hindenburg... Brüning was appointed as successor of Chancellor Müller by Reichspräsidenton 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General Kurt von S ...
Mullah Omar... gious force, reportedly in opposition to the tyranny of the local governor.started his movement with fewer than 50 armed madrassah students in his ho ...
Philip II... the Kingdom of Spain until 1561, when the city was destroyed by a fire and, born here, moved the capital to Madrid, starting a period of decadence f ...
President of India... me Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, chief advisor to the, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in ...
Ernest Rutherford... perty of matter, and isolated the radioactive elements radium and polonium.and Frederick Soddy identified two of Becquerel’s forms of radiation with ...
Arthur, Prince of Wales... man who sat on the commissions in the Welsh Marches and clerk controller to, at Ludlow Castle. Thomas More, writing when she was still alive, but old ...
JosiahZedekiah was the third son of, and his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he w ...
Lady Jane Grey... White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI,, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry o ...
Emperor Xiaowu... east partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao,, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was espe ...
President... cing the war himself. Nehemiah Clark, of the cast, expressed disapproval ofGeorge W. Bush and the Iraq War, coming into conflict with Rachel Moyal, w ...
Alexander the GreatAshkelon was soon rebuilt. Until the conquest of, Ashkelon's inhabitants were influenced by the dominant Persian culture. ...
David... byword or collective name for the oppressors of the Israelite nation before. Muslim tradition sees the battle with the Philistines as a prefiguration ...
Achilles... were invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis (the eventual parents of). Only Eris, goddess of discord, was not invited. She was annoyed at this ...
Charles Augustus Aiken... fessor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of Union College. Nine of Dartmouth's 17 presidents were alumni of the College
Philip III... him. It was made the capital of the kingdom again between 1601 and 1606 by. The city was again damaged by a flood of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers
Aurelian... , Constantine had reoccupied most of the long-lost province of Dacia, whichhad been forced to abandon in 271. At the time of his death, he was planni ...
Henry VIII... agued previous monarchs came to an end. The reign of the second Tudor king,, was one of great political change. Religious upheaval and disputes with ...
Li Zongren... d supported Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchu ...
Hosni MubarakThis support has continued to the present, with Presidentoften intervening personally to promote peace negotiations. In 1996, he ho ...
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Chen Shui-bianDuring the 2004 Presidential campaign, Presidentpublicly campaigned with Lee Teng-hui and developed a campaign platform, i ...
Edward VII... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by"in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ...
Frederick III... supporting Emperor Leopold I in the War of the Spanish Succession, Electorwas allowed to crown himself "King in Prussia" in 1701. The new kingdom ru ...
Rafael Correa... ce and remained in office until the presidential election of 2006, in whichgained the presidency
Haakon IV of Norway... age proper in Scotland is generally considered to be in 1266. In 1263, King, in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast ...
Álvaro ObregónPresidentwas awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Me ...
Ronald Reagan... ed president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by Gerald Ford and. He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, who had died in ...
Puyi... y 1932, and renamed to Manchukuo. The Japanese military commander appointedas regent (reign name Datong) for the time being and would become Emperor ...
Emperor Qianfei... ed to many military revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu,, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, m ...
Sangara... hat Shamgar may actually have been a Hittite, a similar name occurring with, a Hittite king of Carchemish; it is also the case that Anath is the name ...
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman EmperorGregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting, and the Catholic League against the Protestants--to the tune of a millio ...
William Howard Taft... ho did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant,and Herbert Hoover.
Alexandre Pétion... in fact successfully serve a life term. On the other hand, presidents like, Rafael Carrera, Josip Broz Tito and François Duvalier died in office. Ki ...
Duke of Gloucester... arl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When thebecame King in 1483, as Richard III, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice w ...
Richard Nixon... ng the Middle East destabilized. In a June 1973 meeting with U.S. President, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had proposed Israel pull back to its 1967 ...
Malcolm II... ven consecutive monarchs were either murdered or killed in battle. In 1005,ascended the throne having killed many rivals. He continued to ruthlessly ...
Carloman II... rer, Charles's son, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons,and Louis III, ceded western Lotharingia to Louis. The border between the ...
Sarpedon... d. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and, the three of whom became the three judges of the Underworld when they di ...
Engelberga... joint emperor at Rome by Pope Leo IV, and soon afterwards, in 851, marriedand undertook the independent government of Italy. He marched into the sou ...
Luise of Prussia... composer, writing an operetta called Die Maske and sending a copy to Queen. The official reply advised to him to write to the director of the Royal ...
Lord John Russell... he Corn Laws. His colleagues resisted this. Soon afterwards the Whig leaderdeclared in favour of repeal. On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared ...
Rafael Carrera... lly serve a life term. On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion,, Josip Broz Tito and François Duvalier died in office. Kim Il-Sung was na ...
Mahmoud Abbas... ustody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President
Rafael Correa... elected President, for a four year term. The current president of Ecuador,, exercises his power from the presidential Palacio de Carondelet in Quito ...
Alfonso VIII... grew rapidly, thanks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kingsand Alfonso X, as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconq ...
Josip Broz Tito... term. On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera,and François Duvalier died in office. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal Presid ...
Tommy Douglas... ession of the 1930s. The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier, and made major inroads in British Columbia
Aleus... nt Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by, Pausanias was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric an ...
Edward III... l lion was, according to Wilfrid Scott-Giles, "said to have been granted by". By the 19th century the city corporation had added supporters, two ange ...
Valentinian IIIEmperorsent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Triget ...
Herbert Hoover... ected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and.
Duncan I... nate opposition, and when he died in 1034 he was succeeded by his grandson,, instead of a cousin, as had been usual. In 1040, Duncan suffered defeat ...
Emperor of China... become Emperor of Manchukuo but that he could not reign using the title of. Manchukuo was proclaimed a monarchy on 1 March 1934, with Puyi assuming ...
Sigismund III Vasa... against the Protestants--to the tune of a million gold ducats)--as well as, King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire. ...
SpartaIn, Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical ...
Charlemagne... ty over much of central Italy, thus estabilishing the Papal States. In 800,was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope in Saint Peter's ...
Milton S. Eisenhower... 942 with Executive Order 9102 and officially ceased to exist June 30, 1946., then an official of the Department of Agriculture, was chosen to head th ...
Alfonso X... nks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings Alfonso VIII and, as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconquista
Julian the Apostate... him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 361, however, his nephewwrote the satire Symposium, or the Saturnalia, which denigrated Constantin ...
Frederick William I... East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regions. Crown Princeled the rebuilding of East Prussia, founding numerous towns. Thousands of ...
Minos... cluding Phoenix as a third. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons:, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon, the three of whom became the three judges of ...
Emperor Ming... ry revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei,, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a lar ...
Jacob Zuma... ith the country having one of the highest rates of violent crime, presidentstates that South Africa needs to handle crime differently than other coun ...
Chandragupta Maurya... E, Alexander the Great's empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded byand extended by Ashoka the Great until 185 BCE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom fou ...
Napoleon I... the little island of Saint Helena and stayed in the same building to whichwould later be exiled
President... ather. His daughter Renée had a supporting role in The West Wing, as one ofJosiah Bartlet's (Sheen) secretaries
Louis III... on, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, Carloman II and, ceded western Lotharingia to Louis. The border between the two kingdoms ...
Zachary Taylor... residency. (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.
Cleopatra VII... fell in 63 BC, and the area was incorporated into the Roman Republic. Queenused Ashkelon as her place of refuge when her brother and sister exiled he ...
King George VI... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage byas the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ...
Phocas... Scipio Africanus. This new Roman imperial fashion lasted until the reign of
Prince FaisalHis last words to his two sons, the future king Saud and the next in line, who were already battling each other, were: 'You are brothers, unite!
Elizabeth Woodville... self the basis for the story: when she found out about Edward's marriage toin 1464, Cecily flew into a rage. Mancini reported that the Duchess, in he ...
Ferdinand Marcos... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany,in Philippines, for example
Franklin D. Roosevelt... his era, de Haviland was also notable as a staunch liberal, campaigning forand Harry Truman. In 1946, determined to protect liberalism from infiltrat ...
Robert II, Duke of BurgundyHe was married to Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter ofand Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy. They had a daughter, Joan (Giova ...
Christian IV of DenmarkBishop Brynjólfur sent the Codex Regius as a present to King, hence the name Codex Regius. For centuries it was stored in the Royal Li ...
Sandy Alderson... Pillsbury, founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family,(San Diego Padres), John Donahoe (eBay), Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (IBM), Cha ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... spapermen and lobbyists. Johnson's friends soon included aides to President, as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President John Nance Garner. He be ...
Gustav Vasa... stemming from the early 16th century. All regents of Sweden, beginning with, have had their own motto during their respective periods of reign. The S ...
Elizabeth I... heretics. She died in 1558, and was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister. England returned to Protestantism, and continued its growth into a major ...
Zhang ZuolinZhang Xueliang, known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of, warlord of Manchuria in northeast China. For sometime prior to the Kuomi ...
Alfredo Palacio... ident Lucio Gutiérrez from office by Congress in April 2005. Vice Presidenttook his place and remained in office until the presidential election of 2 ...
James III of Scotland... pledged them as security on the dowry of his daughter, who was betrothed to. Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem ...
French PresidentIn reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then-, Charles de Gaulle, who was sceptical of the rising supranational power o ...
David... en each of the family lines that had descended from those appointed by king. Luke states that during the week when it was the duty of his family line ...
Emperor Houfei... rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a large number of his bro ...
Thomas JeffersonIn 1803 Presidentobtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ...
Ulysses S. Grant... other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor,, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.
Sparta... going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites. At, however, youths each sacrificed a puppy to Enyalios before engaging in r ...
Leopold I... masters under jurisdiction of the Emperor. In return for supporting Emperorin the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Frederick III was allowed to ...
President for Life... nda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example.is a title assumed by some dictators to try to ensure that their authority ...
Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy... o Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy and. They had a daughter, Joan (Giovanna), who married to John III the Good, ...
George III... esponsible for Lady Sarah Lennox's embarrassing rejection by the young King, as well as her disastrous marriage to Sir Charles Bunbury soon afterward ...
George W. Bush... t Chen, leading to a public rebuke of Chen from the United States Presidentin December 2003. It is believed that this rebuke in part was intended to ...
Rhadamanthus... Phoenix as a third. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: Minos,, and Sarpedon, the three of whom became the three judges of the Underworl ...
Charlemagne... carried the name. Monumental Constantinian forms were used at the court ofto suggest that he was Constantine's successor and equal. Constantine acqu ...
Ronald Reagan... other Hollywood figures, including her own star-recruit to the reform camp,. Ironically, given her role in galvanizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet ...
Thomas Henry Huxley... ion of "Why does opium cause sleep?" with "Because of its soporific power."compared vitalism to stating that water is the way it is because of its "a ...
Jean Rey... rojects of the day, such as the European Monetary Union. In 1970, Presidentsecured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President Roy ...
John of Gaunt... mily, the Neville's, were already established at court being descendants of's daughter Lady Joan Beaufort and her second husband, Ralph Neville, 1st ...
Shimon Peres... 994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and, for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas and other militant ...
Elizabeth of York... from the throne and replaced by Richard of Gloucester, Edward IV's daughterlater became the Queen consort of Henry VII of England. The grounds for Ti ...
President John F. Kennedy... ll, to avoid KKK mob domination of the city. In a telephone conference with, the President informed the HRC that after the Birmingham church bombing ...
Shah JahanIn 1622, Khurram (), younger brother of Khusrau Mirza, had murdered Khusrau in a conspiracy ...
Gratian... of Lucca and Cardinal Deusdedit inserted it in their collections of canons;excluded it from his Decretum, but it was soon added to it as Palea; the ...
Abraham Pierson... 1745–1766). Modern custom omits the use of the term "rector" and identifiesas the first Yale president (1701–1707). Clap is construed to have been th ...
George Washington... uccess of the Canadiens was underscored during the French and Indian War by's defeat at Great Meadows and Edward Braddock's embarrassment at the Mono ...
RehoboamE. R. Thiele offers the dates 914/913 – 911/910 BCE. As explained in thearticle, Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an int ...
Septimius SeverusThe Roman Emperorwas a native of Lepcis Magna in North Africa, an originally Phoenician cit ...
Ramiro I of Aragon... ave been William VII of Aquitaine), she may have previously been married to. They had two daughters, Agnes, d.after1110; m.1080 Ct Friedrich von Luet ...
Edgar of Scotland... odred Crovan was killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and Kingagreed a treaty. The islands would be controlled by Norway, but mainland t ...
Chiang Ching-kuoAs a skilled technocrat, Lee soon caught the eye of Presidentas a strong candidate to serve as Vice President. Chiang sought to move mo ...
Richard, Duke of York... House of York, so called because its head, a descendant of Edward III, was. Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son Edward ...
Claudius... st extent; the most notable being the conquest of Britain, begun by emperor(47), and emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia (101-102, 105-106). In the 1s ...
Thomas Spring-Rice... icability". He submitted a copy of this to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,, on 4 January 1837. This first edition was marked "private and confidenti ...
Nelson Mandela... choice of a new flag was part of the negotiation process set in motion whenwas released from prison in 1990. When a nationwide public competition was ...
Bill Polian... r assuming control from his father by firing Coach Lindy Infante and hiringto run the organization. Polian in turn hired Jim E. Mora to coach the tea ...
Pope Benedict XVI... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners,, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ...
Romano Prodi... os and being able to force the resignation of Commissioners. When Presidenttook office with the new powers of the Treaty of Amsterdam, he was dubbed ...
Rudolph of Auxerre... ed by Guy III of Spoleto, who eventually made himself king in Italy, and by, who had been elected king in the south of Lotharingia, in Transjurane Bu ...
JeroboamAccording to , Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of, and reigned for three years
Norodom Sihanouk... Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference. It was a derogatory term used by, dismissing the Cambodian leftists who had been organizing pro-independen ...
Seyyedeh Khatun... the last Buwayhid emir, was nominal ruler under the regency of his mother (). About thirty of Ibn Sina's shorter works are said to have been composed ...
Thomas Clap... to become Yale University was termed the "rector". As head of Yale College,was both the last to be called "rector" (1740–1745) and the first to be re ...
Cadmus... unding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by, for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung ...
Louis XVI... 9 April 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789
Godigisel... 00 or 401, possibly because of attacks by the Huns, the Vandals, under king, along with their allies (the Sarmatian Alans and Germanic Suebians) move ...
Jacques DelorsHowever the Commission began to recover under President' Commission. He is seen as the most successful President, being credited ...
Zulfikar Ali BhuttoZia died in a plane crash in 1988, and Benazir Bhutto, daughter of, was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was foll ...
Henry VI... e. Although he was victorious, his sudden death in 1422 left his infant sonon the throne, and gave the French an opportunity to overthrow English rul ...
Bette Davis... MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity (film);screams about it in All About Eve; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt a ...
Godred Crovan... Kings of Scotland and Strathclyde. In 1095, the King of Mann and the Isleswas killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and King Edgar of Sc ...
SpartaAccording to Pausanias, local inhabitants of Therapne,, recognized Thero "feral, savage" as a nurse of Ares
Hammurabi... d Testament, vol II (1888), pp 299ff) this king was usually associated with, who ruled in Babylon from 1792 BC until his death in 1750 BC. However, a ...
Edward V of England... and the Marches, a body that had originally been set up to help the futurein his duties as Prince of Wales. The prince was accompanied to Ludlow by ...
Porfirio Díaz... mber 20, 1910 when Francisco I. Madero planned an uprising against dictator's 31-year-long iron rule. Article 74 of the Mexican labor law (Ley Federa ...
Decius... Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up by Roman Emperorin a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 479, the ...
Emperor John VIIIIn 1428 Gemistos was consulted byon the issue of unifying the Greek and Latin churches, and advised that bo ...
George W. BushRossum, writing in 2006, beforeappointees Roberts and Alito had time to make an impact, said that Scalia ...
Charlemagne... ). A popular, but ultimately unconfirmed, attempt tries to relate Attila to
U.S. PresidentSheen has playedJohn F. Kennedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Atto ...
CycnusThere are accounts of a son of Ares,(Κύκνος) of Macedonia, who was so murderous that he tried to build a templ ...
new king... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the, and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ...
Vicente Fox... n the country would eventually lead to the end of the one party system whenwas elected president in 2000. PAN has since dominated most of the north o ...
Mubarak... o those that formed the backdrop to the overthrow of ben-Ali in Tunisia andin Egypt earlier in the year. "The remarkable spread of the 2011 Arab revo ...
Cassander... Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to Polyperchon, excluding, his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to recognize Polypercho ...
Henry V... ns; his success was partly due to the military skill of his son, the future. Henry V's own reign, which began in 1413, was largely free from domestic ...
Woodrow Wilson... s who were inspired by the Self-Determination of Nations (民族自決) proposed byafter World War I, and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka ( ...
Charles II of England... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of. In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ...
Augustus III of PolandKingdied in 1763, and therefore Poland needed to elect a new ruler. Catherine ...
Pope John Paul II... documents have led some to question the Church's commitment to ecumenism .personally endorsed Dominus Iesus, and ratified and confirmed it "with sur ...
Benazir BhuttoZia died in a plane crash in 1988, and, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime M ...
Abraham Lincoln... to gain statehood for Nevada before the next presidential election so thatwould have enough votes to win. They rushed to send the entire state const ...
Henry VIIISincebroke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the E ...
Queen Ranavalona... ing adventurer. It notes encounters with the "White Rajah" of Sarawak, withof Madagascar, and with Emperor Maximilian of Mexico; and service as a Uni ...
Glen Clark... rtheless and the party was led into the 1996 provincial general election by
D.H. Hill... tening Turner's Gap, and required assistance from the infantry of Maj. Gen.to defend the South Mountain passes in the Battle of South Mountain. His h ...
king... n London, where daily life is affected by the illness and then death of the. The couple are personally happy, having resolved many of the problems in ...
Humphry Davy... of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sirand independently by George Stephenson. However, the lamps proved a false ...
Hugh Capet... attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) by supporting(987–996). Capet became King of France, ending the Carolingian line of Kin ...
Prince of WalesEdward IV's eldest son was invested with the title ofat the age of seven months. At the age of three, he was sent by his father ...
Nelson Mandela... e 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, and for's 10 May inauguration. Although the flag had mixed reception, the interim ...
Chiang Ching-kuodied in January 1988 and Lee succeeded him as President. The "Palace Facti ...
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia... im a daughter named Anna Petrovna in December 1757 (not to be confused with, the daughter of Peter I's second marriage)
George Washington... ating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators.was given of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French a ...
Edward VIII... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surroundingand his relationship with Wallis Simpson
Louis the German... ry outside Italy, aroused his discontent, and in 857 he allied himself withagainst his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, and King Charles the ...
Henry Bolingbroke... in his own hands. In 1399, while he was campaigning in Ireland, his cousinseized power. Richard was deposed, imprisoned, and eventually murdered, pr ...
Somerled... m of Man and the Isles", but the Inner Hebrides came under the influence of, a Gaelic speaker, who was styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was ...
Bảo Đại... ệm, who was previously appointed Prime Minister of South Vietnam by Emperor, eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. Presid ...
Alexander the Great... is, Lycia, a port on the Pamphylian Gulf. The city was visited in 333 BC by, who envisioned himself as the new Achilles and carried the Iliad with hi ...
Benito JuárezThis day commemorates President's birthday on March 21, 1806. Juárez is popularly regarded as an exemplar ...
Lothair of France... olitics of his time. In 985, with the support of his archbishop, he opposed's (954–986) attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) ...
Odin... sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god
William the Conqueror... towns in England to fall to the Normans in the Norman conquest of England.ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby ...
George W. Bush... onal friends with several prominent Republicans, including former President
Chief Martial Law Administrator... stan's defeat in the war, Yahya Khan was replaced by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as. Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 1977. During this period Pakistan beg ...
Lee Huan... headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister, was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui and sought to block his accession ...
Antonio José de SucreThe icons of the Ecuadorian military forces are the Marshalland Gral. Eloy Alfaro. The Military Academy "Gral. Eloy Alfaro" (c. 1838) ...
Benedict XVIJoseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now), who was prefect of the CDF at the time when the Instructions were issue ...
Yu Kuo-hwa... a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier, and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui ...
EllacHis sons(his appointed successor), Dengizich, and Ernakh fought over the division ...
President of the United States... August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th(1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice Pres ...
Cadmus... n, the "sun-red" Phoenix. It is generally agreed that she had two brothers,, who brought the alphabet to mainland Greece, and Cilix who gave his name ...
Pat Riley... of the streak, Hearn was paired with several different color men, including, Keith Erickson, and Stu Lantz
Roy Jenkins... Rey secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, Presidentbecame the first Commission President to attend a G7 summit on behalf of t ...
Simón Bolívar... anish vicerroyalty. Once the Gran Colombia was dissolved after the death ofin 1830, Ecuador inherited the same border disputes and had the need of cr ...
Queen Elizabeth II'sHe is the only president serving duringreign to have never met her
President of the Republic... -creation of the Grito de Dolores by all executive office-holders (from thedown to municipal presidents) and lasts through the night
Richard III... d intermittently during his reign and those of his son Edward V and brother. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Richard. Ultimately, the co ...
Zulfikar Ali BhuttoWith Pakistan's defeat in the war, Yahya Khan was replaced byas Chief Martial Law Administrator. Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 197 ...
John F. KennedyAfter Presidentwas assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ...
Philip II... n during the 1550s, sheep husbandry was discouraged in certain provinces bydue to the harmful effects of fires used in transhumance. As early as the ...
Joy MacPhail... ared in the administration as Attorney-General Dosanjh and Finance Ministerchallenged Clark's legitimacy. The party and province endured a few chaoti ...
Hau Pei-tsun... Faction" of the KMT, a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General, Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrust ...
Abraham LincolnFollowing President's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemor ...
Yasser Arafat... tion (PLO) to the West Bank and Gaza and in the event of a victory promisedthat he would be given control of them. Hussein still saw the West Bank as ...
Kukrit Pramoj... Don Camillo was taken and adapted by the famous Thai writer and politician,, into his own 1954 novel, Phai Daeng (Red Bamboo)
Adolf Hitler... ich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leadertermed it "the final solution of the Jewish question"
Jacques Delors... il refused to renew his term, despite being the most 'dynamic' leader until
Charles the Bald... s the German against his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, and King. But after Louis had secured the election of Pope Nicholas I in 858, he b ...
Holy Roman EmperorWhen Otto II becamein 973 (he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967), he appointed Gerbert the ...
Adolf HitlerThe Queen called"the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ...
Holy Roman Emperor... pope Gregory IX who had several times mediated between the Lombards and theFrederick II reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending part ...
Saul... ars in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative of David and's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an is conc ...
Lord SalisburyCurzon became Assistant Private Secretary toin 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-w ...
Francisco I. Madero... commemorates the Mexican Revolution which started on November 20, 1910 whenplanned an uprising against dictator Porfirio Díaz's 31-year-long iron rul ...
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery... lpted in Carrara, Italy in 1882, and was unveiled by future Prime Minister,on 6 April 1882. Today, it features on the 2007 series of £5 notes issued ...
Charles de GaulleIn reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then-French President,, who was sceptical of the rising supranational power of the Commission, a ...
Rhys ap Gruffydd... xpanded into Welsh territory in 1195, causing a concern that the Welsh lordwould strike back across the border. In 1196, Walter quickly suppressed a ...
Henry VII of England... r, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of. The grounds for Titulus Regius, passed to justify the accession of Richa ...
ErnakhHis sons Ellac (his appointed successor), Dengizich, andfought over the division of his legacy, specifically which vassal kings wo ...
Robert Andrews MillikanIn 1909,began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by ...
Franco... . Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a changing room visit from's director of state security. He "reminded" them that they were only play ...
Edwin Anderson Alderman... th Governor of North Carolina, David Lowry Swain (president 1835–1868); and(1896–1900), who was also president of Tulane University and the Universit ...
Roman Emperor... es that these Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up byDecius in a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 47 ...
Millard Fillmore... he Massachusetts Militia, and the Continental Army. The mother of President, Phoebe Millard (Fillmore), was born in Northbridge. Ezra Taft Benson, Sr ...
Richard the Lionheart... orwich received a royal charter from Henry II in 1158, and another one fromin 1194. Following a riot in the city in 1274, Norwich has the distinction ...
Edward V... evertheless, continued intermittently during his reign and those of his sonand brother Richard III. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Rich ...
Rudolph... tried to swap Lotharingian allegiance to the West Franks, since their king,, was weak and would interfere less in aristocratic matters. In 939 Henry' ...
AshokaEmperorthe Great erected the capital to mark the spot where Gautama Buddha first ...
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi... e same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married, the then crown prince (later shah) of Iran. However, since the 1979 Isla ...
Cleopatra VII... after betraying Octavian in Sicily. Antony settled in Egypt with his lover,. Mark Antony's affair with Cleopatra was seen as an act of treason, since ...
Henry IINorwich received a royal charter fromin 1158, and another one from Richard the Lionheart in 1194. Following a r ...
James II... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ...
Jeroboam... by bringing Israel under his control. He waged a major battle against Kingof Israel in the mountains of Ephraim. gives the sizes of the two armies a ...
Nees von Esenbeck... r Clemens August of Bavaria. The first director of the Botanical Garden wasfrom 1818 to 1830. In May 2003 the world largest Titan arum, some 2.74 m h ...
Ulysses S. Grant... on, the sister of John Simpson of Ohio. John Simpson was the grandfather ofwho became President of the United States. This family bond meant that man ...
David... liath appears in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative ofand Saul's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an ...
President... ips to large number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities.Pervez Musharraf studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently
Charles V... elders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor. As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of ...
DengizichHis sons Ellac (his appointed successor),, and Ernakh fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which va ...
Edward IV... e of York. Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest sonled the Yorkists to victory in 1461. The Wars of the Roses, nevertheless, ...
Joseph Banks... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist, Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ...
Greco-Bactrian kingdom... of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela and Afghanistan became part of the new. Some eastern parts of the country were controlled by the Indian Maurya E ...
King Charles I... the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought againstand his supporters, the Cavaliers (Royalists), who claimed absolute power ...
Akbar... kbar had to hastily return to Agra and restore order. There was a time whenthought of putting his eldest grandson Khusrau Mirza on the throne instead ...
Louis XVI of France... cant impact throughout Europe, which only increased with the arrest of Kingin 1792 and his execution in January 1793 for "crimes of tyranny" against ...
John Sparrow David Thompson... succeeded prime ministers who died in office (John A. Macdonald in 1891 andin 1894), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an ...
Adolf Hitler... s Dei. There have also been allegations that Escrivá expressed sympathy for
Fidel Castro... isenhower administration also planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrowin Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry out.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi... al power, namely, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Sikhs. During this periodstated that a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh c ...
Jacques Delors... ommunity Council, Ruud Lubbers, and with the European Commission president,, pledging closer Japanese – European Community consultations on foreign r ...
Nicolas Sarkozy... chy-era identity documents. During the 2007 presidential election, however,was polled on the issue and stated that he favoured the collection of data ...
Franklin Roosevelt... lics to supporting repeal led by liberal politicians such as La Guardia and. She, and they, emphasized that repeal would generate enormous sums of mu ...
President of the RepublicTheexercises the administrative function, in collaboration with several Minis ...
Hafez al-Assad... ing even a limited defeat on the Israelis, the status quo could be altered., the leader of Syria, had a different view. He had little interest in neg ...
Harold Brown... awrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by Edward Teller and. The Navy accepted delivery of the first 16 warheads in July 1960. On May ...
Bill Clinton... East by reducing "people's tension". In a letter to presidential candidate, Hagelin accepted Clinton's offer to debate "any serious candidate" and i ...
John F. Kennedy... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked byto be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election
Jehoiakim... uch ben Neriah and his other family and advisors, as well as the example of, he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh H ...
Sun Yat-sen... 13. Luo himself was a member of the Tongmenghui, an organization founded byand was the precursor to the Kuomintang
John A. Macdonald... rnment Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office (in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894), a convention that has si ...
Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon)... rsian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire. In 330 BC,invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gau ...
Lien Chan... received Ph.D.s in the United States. Prominent among the appointments wereas foreign minister, and Shirley Kuo as finance minister
James III of Scotland... backed an attempt by Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, brother of King, to take the Scottish throne in 1482. Gloucester led an invasion of Scotl ...
Reagan... 1989, Dole was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President. Then, on January 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded him the Presidentia ...
Holy Roman Emperor... his mother, but he had good relations with the Papacy and, for a time, the
Neleus... up by a stripling, the youngest in his family (Nestor is the twelfth son of, David the seventh or eighth son of Jesse). In each case an older and mor ...
Mullah Omar... ystematic and they all lead back to the [Taliban] Ministry of Defense or tohimself.
Walter Hallstein... and the Commission of Euratom in 1967. The Commission's first president was(see Hallstein Commission) who started consolidating European law and bega ...
Edward II... However, gains in Scotland were reversed during the reign of his successor,, who also faced conflict with the nobility. Edward II was, in 1311, force ...
Edward IV... enhanced their standing. Catherine's grandfather, William, was part of King's court. William held the office of comptroller of the household from 147 ...
Basil I... o the lack of a fleet. So in 869 he made alliance with the eastern emperor,, who sent him ships to assist in the capture of Bari, capital of a local ...
Augustus... ereales, whose special duty was the care of the cereal (corn) supply. Underthe office lost much of its importance, its judicial functions and the car ...
He Yingqin... along the Great Wall in 1933. Then in 1935, under the accord signed between, the commander of Kuomintang armies in Northern China, and Yoshijiro Umez ...
Theodosius I... nded the legions attention on several occasions. After the death of Emperor(395), the Empire was divided into an Eastern and a Western Roman Empire. ...
George of PoděbradyPope Paul rejected Kingof Bohemia because he upheld the conventions of the Council of Basel in fa ...
President of ArgentinaBetween 1943 and 1946, the de factowas Edelmiro Farrell, whose paternal ancestry was Irish
Thomas Jefferson... members of the Danbury Baptist Association wrote a letter to then presidentexpressing their concern that as Baptists they may not be able to express ...
Sparta... rotector of not only Athens but also of many other cities, including Argos,, Gortyn, Lindos, and Larisa
Conn of the Hundred Battles... e after her father refused him her hand, so Tadg appealed to the High King,, who outlawed him. The Battle of Cnucha was fought between Conn and Cumha ...
Isaac NewtonIn the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned byin the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ...
Charles Scott Sherrington... class honours) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study underat Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Ph ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ve Party candidate Henry A. Wallace, who had served as Vice-President under. Wallace was running on an anti-lynching, pro-civil rights platform and h ...
Hosni Mubarak... protests took center stage, McCain urged that embattled Egyptian Presidentstep down and thought the U.S. should push for democratic reforms in the r ...
Alberto Fujimori... orted radical right-wing governments, such as those of Augusto Pinochet andof Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimori's ministries and pr ...
Emperor of Japan... ther argued that all people of Japanese heritage were loyal subjects of the; Japanese language schools, furthermore, according to the manifesto, were ...
Jawaharlal Nehru... hat a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh community.reiterated Gandhi's assurance to the Sikhs at the All India Congress Commi ...
Yahya Khan... economic downfall and internal instability. Ayub Khan's successor, General(President from 1969 to 1971), had to deal with a devastating cyclone whic ...
Zhang ZuolinDuring the warlord period in China, the warlordestablished himself in Inner Manchuria with Japanese backing. Later, the J ...
Emperor... f the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks , is dedicated to theHadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 AD ...
Jeconiah... zzar II, king of Babylon, after a siege of Jerusalem to succeed his nephew,, who was overthrown as king after a reign of only three months and ten da ...
Jacques Delors... of primus inter pares but had an increasing impact on the Community. Underit became increasingly presidential in style and now is the dominant force ...
Eloy Alfaro... Ecuadorian military forces are the Marshall Antonio José de Sucre and Gral.. The Military Academy "Gral. Eloy Alfaro" (c. 1838) graduates the army of ...
Diomedes... hrodite was able to persuade Ares to side with the Trojans. During the war,fought with and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans' side. Diomedes called fo ...
Simon de Montfort... aving the Crown to his nine-year-old son Henry III. Later in Henry's reign,led the barons in another rebellion, beginning the Second Barons' War. The ...
Áed mac Boanta... king of the Picts, his brother Bran and the king of the Scots of Dál Riata,, along with many members of the Pictish aristocracy in battle. The sophis ...
Augusto Pinochet... the organisation supported radical right-wing governments, such as those ofand Alberto Fujimori of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimor ...
Millard Fillmore... ain, the Residence of Ezra T. Benson 1830-1832, the birthplace of President's mother, Phoebe, and home to the Whitin Machine Works from 1831 to 196
Louis Bonaparte... were killed, over 2000 were injured and some 220 homes were destroyed. Kingpersonally visited the city to provide assistance to the victims. Although ...
Holy Roman Emperor... e region. Later counts would hold much of their territory directly from the. The Meinhardinger family, originating in Gorizia, held not only Tyrol an ...
Elizabeth WoodvilleEdward IV had ten legitimate children by, seven of whom survived him. They were declared illegitimate by Parliamen ...
Bill Clinton... nee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat. Dole is currently special counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of law ...
Richard Nixon... the 1968 New Hampshire primary, he ended his bid for reelection. Republicanwas elected to succeed him. Historians argue that his presidency marked th ...
Chaim HerzogAccording to
George W. Bush... s President, Saddam Hussein. The United States, under the administration of, argued that Saddam Hussein was a threat to global peace, a vicious tyran ...
Bill Clinton... pelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996, Presidentseized upon opponent Bob Dole's promise to take America back to a simpler ...
Chester A. Arthur... ng newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, fromto Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all ...
Emperor Kimmei... ficient material available for further verification and study. The reign of(509–571), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of ...
Saddam Hussein... the United States began to campaign for the overthrow of Iraq's President,. The United States, under the administration of George W. Bush, argued th ...
Brian Boru... on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king's army and for the Viking-led army opposing him. Irish and Viking literat ...
David... hence reflecting the changing tribal boundaries. claims that by the time of, the town was under the control of Philistines, but subsequently was give ...
Chris Ballew... My Own Planet, on CD and vinyl in 1998. It is essentially a solo effort by(ex-Presidents of the United States of America), recorded in Ballew's base ...
George Westinghouse... Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan,, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electri ...
Gerald Ford... Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and w ...
King of Kings... ium Dei/Domini) the Divine is held to have a superior imperium, as ultimate, above all earthly powers. Whenever a society accepts this Divine will to ...
Adolf Hitler... once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was Rudolf Hess,'s deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the last state prison ...
José Manuel Barroso... s responsible to Parliament which can censure him. The current President is, who took office in October 2004. He is a member of the European People's ...
Levon Ter-Petrossian... al between the authorities and opposition demonstrators led by ex-Presidentoccurred after the 2008 Armenian presidential election. The events resulte ...
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll... e was then called, was in the midst of arid and featureless grassland. When, and her husband, the then Governor General of Canada, passed through the ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... and the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role during's funeral
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Adolf Hitler... oviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving Erich Ludendorff andtook place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Republic, though, Bava ...
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Augustus... view that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was "the most foolish war since Emperorin 9 sent his legions into Germany and lost them", a reference to the Batt ...
Bette DavisMost accepted this situation, while a few tried to change the system.had mounted an unsuccessful lawsuit against Warner Bros. in the 1930s. De ...
George W. BushIn 2007, Presidentappointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at ...
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Edward IV... of only two courtiers to become Knight of the Garter in the second reign of. Sir William Parr could claim royal descent through King John of England, ...
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Ujjal Dosanjh... ch of his term in office, Harcourt and his newly-appointed Attorney-Generalsucceeded in regaining substantial public support by taking a hard line ag ...
Trajan... being the conquest of Britain, begun by emperor Claudius (47), and emperor's conquest of Dacia (101-102, 105-106). In the 1st and 2nd century, Roman ...
Henry II of England... the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict withover the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers ...
Barack Obama... ipartisan calls for his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates,and John McCain, were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said ...
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Franklin D. RooseveltPresidentauthorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1 ...
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Edward VIII... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of. Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ...
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Dowager Empress Maria... Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as thein the 1986 miniseries
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Jacques Delors... eded for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner and President. It was established on 1 June 1998
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Gerald Ford... Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President. Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from considera ...
Louis XI of France... by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England,, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Naples; one was the able ...
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Louis XVI... After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, Louis XVIII, the brother of, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged ...
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Nelson Mandela... n Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as. Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Ac ...
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Richard I... nobility. Henry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchsand John. Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's ...
Lee Teng-hui... Martial law was lifted one year later by Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang selected, a Taiwanese born technocrat to be his Vice President. The move followed ...
Marie Antoinette... ed in both French and English. Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen,; the actress's two children, Katherine and Sean, appeared as the queen's ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. Presidentformally dedicated the MSFC
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Harihara I... erritories of the Hoysala empire were merged with the areas administered byin the Tungabhadra region. This new Hindu kingdom resisted the northern in ...
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Eisenhower... eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. President
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Henry VIII... ller to King Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King. Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen Catheri ...
Empress Lü Zhi... Liu Ying with Liu Ruyi, as his desire was objected to by Liu Ying's mother. Because of this, Lü Zhi hated Qi deeply. Nevertheless Gaozu ordered Liu ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... help pass measures favored by the Democrats. Johnson, Rayburn and Presidentworked smoothly together in passing Eisenhower's domestic and foreign agen ...
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Emperor Gaozu... h day of the eighth lunar month every year, Qi would play a weiqi game within the bamboo forest on the north side of the palace. The winner would mak ...
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John... ry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchs Richard I and. Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's death, h ...
Lord Kelvin... n, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential too ...
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Nicolas SarkozyIn March 2011 media outlets reveled that French presidenthas started using a £10,000 armor-plated umbrella to protect him from atta ...
Frederick William III... ersity professor in Bonn, was banned from teaching. Only after the death ofin 1840 was he reinstated in his professorship. Another consequence of the ...
Eugène de Beauharnais... for this accession of dignity was the marriage of his daughter Augusta with. On March 15, 1806 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon
Liu Ying... who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that the crown prince(his eldest son) was an unsuitable heir to his throne. He tried several ti ...
Prince of Wales... Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. The Lancastrian heir, Edward of Westminster,, was killed on the battlefield. A few days later, on the night that Edwar ...
Barack ObamaOn October 25, 2010, the 44th President of the United States,, visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small Business Admi ...
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HenryLike the family of King's second wife, the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a ...
Amalric I... kuh's troops camped outside of Cairo, Egypt's sultan, Shawar called on Kingof Jerusalem for assistance. In response, Amalric sent an army into Egypt ...
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Ronald ReaganDole ran for the 1980 Republican Presidential nomination, eventually won by. Despite Dole's fame from the '76 campaign, he was viewed as a lower tier ...
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of YorkHis mother was the second surviving daughter ofand Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England ...
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Anne Neville... r (later King Richard III of England), were married to Isabella Neville and. They were both daughters of Warwick by Anne Beauchamp and rival heirs to ...
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Richard NixonAfter US Presidentmade his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ...
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Richard III of England... hers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daugh ...
second wifeLike the family of King Henry's, the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a result of roy ...
Edward IV of England... enet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister toand Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York ...
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Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa... alifa assumed the throne in March 1999 upon the death of his father, Shaikh, the ruler of Bahrain since 1961. He continued to implement democratic re ...
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Wen Jiabao... n favor of reforms, while others remain more conservative. In 2010, Premierstated that China needs "to gradually improve the democratic election syst ...
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Emperor GaozuQi was born in Dingtao, Shandong. She borea son Liu Ruyi, who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that ...
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Calvin Coolidge... the name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts.'s father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office. S ...
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Henry II of France... together. King Henry III of France confirmed the privileges granted them by, and protected them against such slanders and accusations as those which ...
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John F. Kennedy... he swore his son into office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidentsand Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource
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Richard III of England... er sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and
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Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa... irsty, undisciplined, unwashed (literally). The leader of the Third Crusadeopenly plotted with the Serbs, Bulgars, Byzantine traitors, and even the M ...
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Genghis Khan... at Bamian and the rock-cut topes of Haibak. The district was devastated by, and has never since fully recovered its prosperity. For about a century ...
Louis XIII of FranceUnderthe conversos of Bayonne were assigned to the suburb of St. Esprit. At St. ...
Nicholas Murray Butler... ously. The 8 electoral votes that Sherman would have received were cast for
Artaxerxes IIIAfterof Persia and all of his sons were killed by the vizier Bagoas, the vizier ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... by Kakadu National Park to encourage biodiversity. In 1937, U.S. Presidentinitiated a nationwide fire prevention campaign, highlighting the role of ...
Jehu... minently introduced into Israel by King Ahab and largely eradicated by King. In 1 Kings 18.27 it is possible there is a mocking reference to legendar ...
Arthur of Brittany... 's choice was John, but Walter initially leaned towards John's young nephew. When Marshall was insistent on John, who was an adult, the author of the ...
Frederick V... e. In November 1619, the royal crown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector,. (He was married to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I and VI of Engla ...
Atahualpa... rom the north, the Inca Empire was ruled by Huayna Capac, who had two sons:, being in charge of the northern parts of the empire, and Huáscar, seated ...
Frederick I BarbarossaThe elderly Holy Roman Emperorresponded to the call immediately. He took up the Cross at Mainz Cathedral ...
Bill Clinton... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy andhave also used The World Almanac as a resource
Chaim Herzog... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.)placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ...
President... Canadian province of Quebec, the Speaker of the National Assembly is termedsince 196
Hamid Karzai... llowing year, he was named "National Hero" by the order of Afghan President. The date of his death, September 9, is observed as a national holiday kn ...
Rehoboam... he House of David and the second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of David. The Chronicler ...
Louis the Pious... intered in Scandinavia. Several coastal areas were lost during the reign of(814–840). But the Vikings took advantage of the quarrels in the royal fam ...
Elizabeth... rown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, Frederick V. (He was married to, eldest daughter of James I and VI of England and Scotland). He became kn ...
Nero... Prior to this, in his early twenties, he traveled to negotiate with Emperorfor the release of several Jewish priests. Upon his return to Jerusalem, h ...
King George VI... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by. The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ...
Chanyu... jority that a limited engagement at Mayi involving the assassination of thewould throw the Xiongnu realm into chaos and benefit the Han. When this pl ...
Thomas Jefferson... ver was also sometimes referred to as McAllister's Town in its early years.spent the night of April 12, 1776 at the Sign of the Horse, an inn owned b ...
Vira Narasimha II... an politics that began a period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan.'s son Vira Someshwara earned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pand ...
Huáscar... o sons: Atahualpa, being in charge of the northern parts of the empire, and, seated in the Incan capital Cusco. Upon Huayna Capac's death in 1525, th ...
Solomon... second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson ofand the great-grandson of David. The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser... d the Anglo-French military attempt to topple the Egyptian dictator Colonel, and tried to prevent the US government from criticising the Israeli inva ...
Henry III of France... pt the Sabbath and feast-days as best they could, and prayed together. Kingconfirmed the privileges granted them by Henry II of France, and protected ...
Achilles... ge of the god, and never polled them afresh until the vow was fulfilled. Soconsecrated his hair to the river Spercheus and vowed not to cut it until ...
Abraham Lincoln... ilkes Booth made his escape through Charles County after shooting President. He was on his way to Virginia
Plutarco Elías Calles... regón’s and his allies’ (primarily Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Benjamín Hill and) resistance to Carranza. This movement soon came to dominate the politica ...
Xiang Yu... fall of the Qin Dynasty, however, civil war broke out between two warlords,and Liu Bang; the Minyue king Wuzhu sent his troops to fight side-by-side ...
David... was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of. The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ; )
Vira Someshwara... period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan. Vira Narasimha II's sonearned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pandyas and Cholas. The Hoy ...
Nicolas Sarkozy... independence has notably come under intense criticism since the election ofas French President. Sarkozy has sought to make the ECB more susceptible t ...
Marie François Sadi Carnot... September 187316 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of, President of the French Third Republic
Vespasian... e with forty of his companions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flaviusand his son Titus, both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to su ...
Alexander the GreatIn 334 BC,began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Per ...
Emperor Gaozu... ine Qi (died 194 BC), also known as Lady Qi or Consort Qi, was a consort of, founder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese ...
Alexander the Great... ning the Silk Road between the East and the West came with the expansion of's empire into Central Asia. In August 329 BCE, at the mouth of the Fergan ...
Veera Ballala II... yphal, though popular, anecdote recounts that the 11th century Hoysala king, while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hun ...
Margaret of Anjou... ns in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian Henry VI and Queenwere campaigning in the north of England, Warwick gained control of the ca ...
Augustus... ivine Augustus") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor' stewardship. It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which enco ...
Joseph Ratzinger... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth andand the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt
Bill Clinton... confidence in action", to which incumbent president and Democratic nomineeresponded, "We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build ...
Pius XII... his sermons mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses ofor Paul VI. Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact t ...
Vespasian... vius from his patrons. This was standard practice for "new" Roman citizens.arranged for the widower Josephus to marry a captured Jewish woman, who ul ...
Alexander the Great... f Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under. During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figu ...
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor... he belligerent victory of the Icamiaba “women” over the Spanish invaders to, who, recalling the of Greek mythology, baptized the river Amazonas, the ...
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer... t President by the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation;was a signer of the United States Constitution; and Thomas Stone was one ...
Coty... a short time in 1948. Pineau was designated as prime minister by presidentafter the February 1955 resignation of Pierre Mendès-France, but the Natio ...
Mohammad Najibullah... Cold War". After the collapse of the communist Soviet-backed government ofin 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of Bu ...
David... e the outcome in single combat, but Saul and all the Israelites are afraid., bringing food for his elder brothers, hears that Saul has promised to re ...
Francisco Franco... , Israel, India, and undemocratic anti-communist states such as Spain under, South Africa under apartheid, Greece under the military junta (1967–74), ...
Brychan... emi-legendary. Saints associated with kistvaens include Callwen daughter of, Geraint, Begnet, and Melangell. Foundation remains of stone slab- or gab ...
Thomas TelfordThe road was re-paved in the early 19th century bywho brought it back into use as a turnpike road for use by mail coaches br ...
Joe Ghiz... pitals; the then-governing Prince Edward Island Liberal Party under Premieracquiesced and the ban was upheld. The Government of Prince Edward Island ...
Stephen... ing royal action was the aftermath of the disastrous civil war between Kingand the Empress Maud. The two competing factions had hired mercenary soldi ...
Paul VI... mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of Pius XII or. Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact that he was ...
Asopus... colonists from Phthiotis, the seat of the Myrmidons, and from Phlius on the. Aeacus while he reigned in Aegina was renowned in all Greece for his jus ...
John F. Kennedy... terest afterward, feeling that since the country had accomplished President's goal of landing on the moon by the end of the 1960s, there was no need ...
Abelardo L. Rodríguez... a Prieta which was signed to formalize Obregón’s and his allies’ (primarily, Benjamín Hill and Plutarco Elías Calles) resistance to Carranza. This mo ...
Marcus Aurelius... e and started his own school. Tatian was one of his pupils. In the reign of, after disputing with the cynic philosopher Crescens, he was denounced by ...
Abraham Lincoln... after the end of the American Civil War and the assassination of President, its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Re ...
George V... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 andannounced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ...
Richard Nixon... ay that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election againstand Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry ...
Burhanuddin Rabbani... lah in 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of. Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud returned to the role ...
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom... ministration of the Seleucid Empire, and then with the establishment of thein Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign ...
Andrew Johnson... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President
Barack Obama... es, and John Kerry won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008,carried the state by 381,000 votes and with 56%. Republicans had a strongh ...
Richard IHenry II of England died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son(Lionheart) and Philip II. Richard inherited the crown and immediately beg ...
King Henry VI... oners in 1876. The Bridge Fair, as it is now known, granted to the abbey by, survives. Prayers for the opening of the fair were once said at the morn ...
Venustiano Carranza... n began in earnest, and Díaz was quickly deposed. The governor of Coahuila,, sought refuge in Sonora, and became one of the principal political leade ...
Elizabeth Woodville... a major European power. Edward then alienated Warwick by secretly marrying, the widow of a Lancastrian sympathiser, in 1464
Boudica... D between the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and the Briton leader
Mahmoud Abbas... hborhoods built over the Green Line. The Palestinian position, according to, at that time Arafat's chief negotiator: "All of East Jerusalem should be ...
Amalasuntha... Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter. Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. Theodahad, cous ...
Chen Shui-bian... arked the end of the Kuomintang's status as the ruling party. DPP candidatewon a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent James ...
Pius XI... as the first pope in decades not to have had either a diplomatic role (likeand John XXIII) or role (like Pius XII and Paul VI) in the Church
Antoninus Pius... s of a philosopher himself and traveled about teaching. During the reign of(138-161), he arrived in Rome and started his own school. Tatian was one o ...
Diana, Princess of Wales... high that television cameras were blown over. The audience, which included, was on the second evening soaked by rain and wind
Charles X Gustav of Sweden... o territorially connect his two fiefs. Yet, during the Second Northern War,invaded Ducal Prussia and dictated the Treaty of Königsberg (January 1656) ...
Jacquetta of LuxembourgElizabeth's mother was, widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her f ...
Leo VI the Wise... nd later on the Arabs, (who translated the text for their own use). Emperorincorporated much of Aelian's text in his own work on the military art (Τέ ...
Arsames... i and was serving at the time as a royal courier. Codomannus was the son of, son of Ostanes, one of Artaxerxes's brothers, and Sisygambis, daughter o ...
Edward... hree children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and, both of whom became English monarchs. She was influential in Henry's pas ...
Álvaro Obregón... orfirian elite. After Díaz was deposed, Carranza competed for power againstand others. The Yaquis joined with Álvaro Obregón’s forces after 1913
Barack Obama... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator. Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ...
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers... ow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her father,, was a new-minted baron. Elizabeth's marriage to Edward IV made the unmar ...
Hafez al-Assad... rown out of the window of a three-story building and Syrian police loyal to(Assad and Orabi were "close friends"), suspected Arafat was involved in t ...
Adolf Hitler... . Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those ofand Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in huma ...
Pope John Paul IIOn Sunday, October 9, 1979,celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ...
King Arthur... is epic to be based on a legendary English or Saxon king like the legend of
Annie Besant... mbraced Christianity and natural science. The split became irrevocable when, then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child J ...
William IV... eat, death, or resignation. The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was, who dismissed Lord Melbourne in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 201 ...
Arthurian legend... ted. Jenkins' run is more traditionally English in its themes, with Albion,, and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by Samuel ...
Kavadh I... (roughly modern-day Georgia). It details the campaigns of the Sasanian Shah, the 'Nika' revolt in Constantinople in 532, the war by Kavadh's successo ...
Louis XIV... iage of his daughter Liselotte to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, the brother of, king of France. In 1685, after the death of Charles Louis' son Elector C ...
Theobald IV... Champagne. He received an education befitting a young noble at the court of, count of Champagne: reading, writing, and the rudiments of Latin. On the ...
Lopez Arellano... anti-Salvadoran. This group put pressure on the Honduran president, General, to protect the property rights of wealthy landowners
Ali Abdullah Saleh... ion of Yemen. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for Presidentto resign
Æthelred the Unready... sinated at Corfe Castle, possibly at the instigation of his stepmother, andbecame king. His coronation on Low Sunday 31 March, 978, was the last stat ...
Karol Wojtyla... his papal name. This legacy was so remarkable that his successor, Cardinal, chose the same name
Lien Chan... dependent James Soong (formerly of the Kuomintang) and Kuomintang candidate. Chen garnered 39% of the vote. After the election, Soong formed the Peop ...
Charles de GaulleA World War II French Resistance leader and a close ally of, Pineau was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and survived Buchenwald conce ...
Justinian I... Ostrogothic position in Italy now showed itself. The Eastern Roman Emperoralways strove to restore as much of the Western Roman Empire as he could a ...
Henry II of England... g control of the city. In response to Strongbow's successful invasion, Kingreaffirmed his sovereignty by mounting a larger invasion in 1171 and prono ...
Emperor Wen... ouse sponsored many literary works, and many wrote themselves. The court ofwas especially active in literary circles, with Liu supporting the compila ...
Anote Tong... jing suspended ties on 29 November after failed attempts to lobby Presidentto change his mind. With relations first established with the PRC in 1980, ...
John F. Kennedy... ormed to oppose the Diem administration. The United States, under Presidentsent advisors and a great deal of financial support to aid the ARVN in com ...
Fidel... the President of the option of ending the embargo by executive order untiland Raúl Castro leave power and a prescribed course of transition is follo ...
Henry Tudor... h this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker than that of, who dislodged the House of York from the throne in 1485
Vicente Rocafuerte... who was ultimately deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Ar ...
Edward VIISince the reign ofa clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ...
John of England... reland, was founded in 1204 as a major defensive work on the orders of King. Following the appointment of the first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1229, the ...
Charles de Gaulle... ies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General. He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over question ...
Theodore Roosevelt... ry furnishings were rented from private collectors, including the estate of
Jawaharlal NehruRobeson was one of four hosts who gave speeches to welcometo Kingsway Hall to support his efforts in the Indian independence movemen ...
Peter III... alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI,, Paul I, and Alexander II
Bill Clinton... udents were given the results of student and national polls indicating thatwas in the lead. Others were not exposed to the results of the polls. Seve ...
Nestor... similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, where the youngfights and conquers the giant Ereuthalion. Each giant wields a distinctive ...
Veera Ballala III... ith such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana, Veera Ballala II and later. During this time, peninsular India saw a four way struggle for hegemony ...
Numitor... ded from the Trojan prince Aeneas and who were grandsons of the Latin King,of Alba Longa. King Numitor was deposed from his throne by his brother, Am ...
Veera Ballala II... r own empire in Karnataka with such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana,and later Veera Ballala III. During this time, peninsular India saw a four ...
Laius... he King. In lines 711 to 714, Jocasta relates the prophecy that was told tobefore the birth of Oedipus. Namely
Indira Gandhi... dollars. On 12 April 1980, he held a meeting with the Indian prime ministerbefore declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anan ...
John... d peers attempted to undo Henry's reforms by the Magna Carta forced on King, but by that time the reforms had progressed too far — and their superior ...
Juan José Flores... uccession of rulers. The first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born, who was ultimately deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such ...
Edward I of England... not permitted to live in Wales between the 1290 Edict of Expulsion—given by—and the 17th century. A Welsh Jewish community was re-established in the ...
Chiang Kai-shekFrom the 1930s onward a civil war was underway in mainland China between's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong. When ...
Franklin D. RooseveltPresidentfound Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particular ...
Mohammed Daoud KhanThe government ofincreasingly distanced itself from the Afghan communists and the Soviet Un ...
Perseus... similarities to Oedipus can for example be seen in the myth of the birth of
Ivan VI... n Russia alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years:, Peter III, Paul I, and Alexander II
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President of The United States of America... urpose design meant to serve as Air Force One, the secure transport for the. These models were in operational use from 1962 to 1990. The two aircraft ...
Robert E. Lee... n of Sharpsburg, where they engaged Confederate troops commanded by Generalat the Battle of Antietam
President... nited States diplomats to vote in favor of sanctions on Cuba, stripping theof the option of ending the embargo by executive order until Fidel and Raú ...
Gylfi... n chapter 53 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells Gangleri (kingin disguise) that two people, Líf and Lífþrasir, will lie hid in Hoddmímis ...
Chiang Kai-shek... ust before the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 12 December 1936, Generalissimo, the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Mars ...
Alyattes... me “Goliath” itself is non-Semitic and has been linked with the Lydian king, which also fits the Philistine context of the biblical Goliath story. , ...
Mitt Romney... Hampshire primary on January 8, defeating former Governor of Massachusettsin a close contest, to once again become one of the front-runners in the r ...
Simón Bolívar... t the Battle of Pichincha, near Quito. Following the battle, Ecuador joined's Republic of Gran Colombia – joining with modern day Colombia and Venezu ...
Isa Gambar... been observing and monitoring the election directly or indirectly declaredwinner in the October 15 election. Another view shared by many internation ...
Baroness Catherine Ashton... further five years. His vice president, as of 2010, is High Representative
Mahmoud Abbas... lestinians working there and other Gulf States, such as Qatar (where he metin 1961). These businessmen and oil workers contributed generously to the ...
Vishnuvardhana... transformation into a strong subordinate of the Western Chalukyas. Through's expansive military conquests, the Hoysalas achieved the status of a rea ...
Salvador Allende... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidatefor the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ...
Pope John Paul II... e of about a million at his home city of Lyon, in celebration of a visit by. Watching from Lyon Cathedral, the Pope began the concert with a good-nig ...
Al GoreWhile serving in the Army,was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ...
Emperor Wen... Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the reign of its third emperor,, is known for its political stability and capable administration, not onl ...
Robert I of Scotland... 3th century. Dublin prospered as a trade centre, despite an attempt by Kingto capture the city in 1317. It remained a relatively small walled medieva ...
Adolf Hitler... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda,in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example
Amulius... tor of Alba Longa. King Numitor was deposed from his throne by his brother,, while Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, gave birth to the twins. Because ...
Mohammed Daoud Khan... influence that became especially evident after the coup d'état that broughtto power in 1973: the coup was orchestrated by the Parcham faction of the ...
Fernando Henrique Cardoso... s. In 1998, a constitutional reform, led by the government of the President, introduced regulatory agencies as a part of the executive branch. Since ...
Hailsham... ial act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lords Home andwere only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation permitting the ...
Demetrius Zvonimir... by assassins. High medieval sources also mention the assassination of king(1089), dying at the hands of his own people who objected to a proposition ...
Holy Roman Emperor... the 13th child of the Emperor Leopold II. He is thus descended from variouss and other European royalty. His father, Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'H ...
Prince of Wales... irm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both asand as king
Jacques Chirac... ttempt to soothe public ire, Pei took a suggestion from then-mayor of Parisand placed a full-sized cable model of the pyramid in the courtyard. Durin ...
José Joaquín de Olmedo... deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as Vicente Rocafuerte;; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásub ...
Guillermo Rodríguez Lara... cial government. It was made a province by presidential decree by Presidenton 18 February 1973. The province is divided into cantons, each covering c ...
Emperor Wu... stability eventually led to the dynasty's destruction. However, its founderwas considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northe ...
President of the United StatesThe treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the So ...
James Madison... d Hughes bought a section of the grant and began subdividing lots for sale., the fourth U.S. President, appointed Hughes postmaster of the developing ...
King George IIIOn 16 February 1768, the Royal Society petitionedto finance a scientific expedition to the Pacific to study and observe the ...
Richard Nixon... was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States,and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leon ...
Astyages... mbyses I, who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of, a Median king
George W. Bush... r's abstention did not change who won that year's presidential election, asreceived a majority (271) of the electoral votes
James I of England... her Scottish cousin, James VI of Scotland, to the English throne. He became, and so brought under his personal rule the Kingdoms of England (and the ...
GensericThe Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who in 429 under kingentered Africa and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman A ...
Idi Amin... ted and/or military-backed leaders. Such is the case in many African states;in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for ...
Mao Zedong... . To propel the country towards a modern, industrialized communist society,instituted the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s, although this had de ...
George V... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King, responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ...
Adolf Hitler... i industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that Benito Mussolini andattended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 she disguised her ...
Alexander the Great... nd kingdoms ruled the region: the Persian Achaemenid Empire around 519 BCE,'s empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya ...
Queen Victoria... liticians. John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, wherepermitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a ...
Julie B. Beck... Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents ('73 and '20)
OdinIn the poem Vafþrúðnismál, collected in the Poetic Edda, the godposes a question to the jötunn Vafþrúðnir, asking who among mankind will s ...
Manuel de Ascásubi... osé Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta;; and Flores's own son, Antonio Flores Jijón, among others. The conservat ...
Henry IV... Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and(1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieval sources also menti ...
Philip III of Spain... he Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy andin their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate of Montferrat. In Septe ...
Karol Józef WojtyłaIn October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal, became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ...
Isa Gambar... 15, 2003, an official release of the Central Election Committee (CEC) gave— leader of the largest opposition bloc, Bizim Azerbaycan ("Our Azerbaijan ...
Æthelberht of Kent... y sited for communication with the Continent. In the late 6th century, Kingmarried a Christian Frankish princess named Bertha, possibly before becomi ...
Henry the Fowler... s through which the imperial authority could be exercised. By the reigns ofand especially of Otto the Great, comites palatini were sent into all part ...
George V... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon., who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ...
Burhanuddin Rabbani... ch of the Jamiat-i Islami ("Islamic Society"), whose chairman was professor. This Islamist organization opposed the rising communist and Soviet influ ...
King George II... n South Carolina. In 1730, Camden became part of a township plan ordered by. Kershaw County’s official web site states, “Originally laid out in 1732 ...
Roman Emperor... as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by theValens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Goth ...
Barack Obama... r the nomination, McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, whileand Hillary Rodham Clinton fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic no ...
Elizabeth I of England... trative rule in Ireland. Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queenestablished Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ...
Henry III... (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings(1589) and Henry IV (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieva ...
Puyi... ented a controversial portrait of Manchukuo through the memories of Emperor, during his days as political prisoner in the People's Republic of China
Herman De Croo... is 56.46 km² which gives a population density of 243 per km². The mayor is
Ronald Reagan... 1980, when U.S. President Jimmy Carter was running for re-election against, the misery index (the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rat ...
Harold II... he petty kingdoms of early medieval Britain. The last Anglo-Saxon monarch () was defeated and killed in the Norman invasion of 1066 and the English m ...
Pedro José de Arteta... Vicente Rocafuerte; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa;; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son, Antonio Flores Jijón, among o ...
premier... he would later seek to take revenge on Zhang. As Chiang was the legitimateof China at the time, Zhang’s actions could be characterized as treasonous ...
Julian the Apostate... the poor had to cope with ever-degrading bronze pieces. Later emperors liketried to present themselves as advocates of the humiles by insisting on tr ...
Pyrrhus of EpirusAfterfailed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ...
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy... 1616 the pope sent him as nuncio to the Duchy of Savoy, to mediate betweenand Philip III of Spain in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate ...
Ilham AliyevPresident's ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party got a majority of 73 out of 125 seats. The ...
Diego Noboa... aders such as Vicente Rocafuerte; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina;; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son, Antonio ...
Cyrus the Great... empire, as they are not mentioned as one of the ancient Iranian tribes thatand Darius I had fought with. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ...
Raúl Castro... st Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By meeting Presidentto discuss "mutual friendship and cooperation", he became the first Pacifi ...
Jimmy Carter... mber 1980, the highest in history. By the time of 1980, when U.S. Presidentwas running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the s ...
Eloy AlfaroThe coast-based Liberal Revolution of 1895 underreduced the power of the clergy and the conservative land owners of the hi ...
David... ctional persons. Among those still available are his letters to Jesus, King, Figaro the Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written ...
Ronald Reagan... e Curtiss-Wright Corporation. His character is also an oblique reference to, in that his ambitions lie not only in Hollywood, but also the Presidency ...
Eglon... ral hundred years. Another example may have been the murder of Moabite King, by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Ma ...
Cambyses I... th. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ancestry as his father was, who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of Astyag ...
Peleus... of Aeacus are mentioned by Ovid. By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and(father of Achilles), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to ...
President... rifle that bears his name, the Burnside carbine. The Secretary of War underJames Buchanan, John B. Floyd, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company t ...
David... d as a giant Philistine warrior, he is famous for his combat with the young, the future king of Israel. The fight between them is described in the He ...
Ali Abdullah SalehIn November 1989, the leaders of the YAR () and the PDRY (Ali Salim al-Baidh) agreed on a draft unity constitution o ...
Mao Zedong... en Chiang Kai-shek's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by. When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from ...
Dallin H. Oaks... Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66,'54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Juli ...
Anote TongIn September 2008, Presidentattended the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By ...
Philip II... . The people joined with the other Dutch and rebelled against Charles' heir. Overijssel became governed by the most powerful mayors and lords in the ...
Justinian I... ity of Rome. Their kingdom collapsed in the Vandalic War of 533–4, in whichmanaged to reconquer the Africa province for the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) ...
Holy Roman Emperor... l times for the permanent representative of the Frankish king, later of the, in a palatial domain of the crown (pfalz). Grafio is probably from the G ...
first emperor... n securely identified as belonging to the Liu Song: the Chuning Tomb of theof the dynasty. Two qilin statues of this tomb survive in the appropriatel ...
Alexander Severus... the Roman Emperor Elagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of. It is believed that Urban's pontificate was during a peaceful time for C ...
AugustusThe Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC,prepared a rationarium (account) which listed public revenues, the amounts ...
Laius... e Theban Cycle recounted the sequence of tragedies that befell the house of, of which the story of Oedipus is a part
Otto I... nce between the East and West Frankish kings. In 939 the East Frankish kingbrought the reigning duke Gilbert to heel and incorporated Lotharingia int ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton... McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while Barack Obama andfought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ...
Alexander... er made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, including two of's generals Nicanor and Philip. Another famous example come from the Thugg ...
principality of Wales... sh monarchy passed to the Norman conquerors. In the thirteenth century, thewas absorbed by England, and Magna Carta began the process of reducing the ...
Lord Camden... the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in honor of, the champion of colonial rights
Antonio Flores Jijón... iego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son,, among others. The conservative Gabriel Garcia Moreno unified the country ...
Henry II of EnglandThe Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act ofthat began the transformation of English law from such systems for decidin ...
Charles V... nd was known as het Sticht. The Bishops ceded the Oversticht to the Emperorin 1528, who styled himself Lord of Overijssel, thereby giving the provinc ...
Jeffrey R. Holland... postles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76,'65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relie ...
CrispusOn some date between 15 May and 17 June 326, Constantine had his eldest son, by Minervina, seized and put to death by "cold poison" at Pola (Pula, Cr ...
Roman EmperorUrban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of theElagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus ...
Louis XIV... held the role of the dominant power in Europe, as it had since the times of. In its place, the United Kingdom emerged as by far the most powerful cou ...
Robert Gates... tes by surprise. According to the future CIA Director and Defense Secretary, he was briefing a US arms negotiator on the improbability of armed confl ...
Kenneth Kaunda... pound at a rate of 2 kwacha = 1 pound (10 shillings = 1 kwacha). During theregime the value of the currency was fixed at a rate of approximately 1.2 ...
Elagabalus'Urban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of the Roman Emperorassassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus. It is beli ...
Fausta... on" at Pola (Pula, Croatia). In July, Constantine had his wife, the Empress, killed at the behest of his mother, Helena. Fausta was left to die in an ...
President... uino, Jr. triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule ofFerdinand Marcos. Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the pol ...
Shah Jahan... t Gosain and Princess Manmati, who gave birth to Prince Khurram, the future, Jahangir's successor to the throne. The total number of wives in his har ...
DecianFollowing thepersecution of 250–251, there was disagreement about how to treat those wh ...
Henry VIII... k. In 1527, with some of the money from the dissolution of the monasteries,built Southsea Castle and decreed that Portsmouth be home of the Royal Nav ...
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim... on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty. The task was given to, at the time a colonel in the Russian army, who travelled to China with F ...
Chiang Ching-kuo... ril 1975, and was succeeded to the presidency by Yen Chia-kan while his sonsucceeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang (opting to take the title "C ...
Babrak KarmalThis expansion promptedto demand that the Red Army resume their offensives, in order to crush the ...
Kenneth Kaunda... ckel 5, 10 and 20 ngwee were introduced. These coins all depicted presidenton the obverse and flora and fauna on the reverse. A twelve sided 50 ngwee ...
Ho Chi Minh... Far East Expeditionary Corps against the communist Viet Minh forces led by. The VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to ...
William Crookes... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and. Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ...
King of Bahrain... r term. The upper house, the Shura Council, has 40 members appointed by the. Among the members of the current Shura Council are representatives of Ba ...
José María Velasco Ibarra... tability and emergence of populist politicians, such as five-time President
Jezebel... ten erratic behavior related to those problems earned her the nickname "Theof Jazz"
Grover Cleveland... te: nine votes for Republican Benjamin Harrison and five votes for Democrat. Once the Republican party regained control of the state legislature, the ...
Getúlio Vargas... arge tracts of land. The original architect of this expansion was President, with the demand for rubber from the Allied forces in World War II provid ...
François MitterrandWhenwas elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for ...
Henry VII... nd Tower be built at the mouth of the harbour, which was completed in 1426.rebuilt the fortifications with stone, raised a square tower, and assisted ...
Richard of GloucesterAlthough his son was quickly barred from the throne and replaced by, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of ...
Queen Wilhelmina... e to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote a letter in 1899 toregarding his opposition to becoming a signatory to the Berne Convention f ...
Alexander the Great... t by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons.traced his ancestry (through his mother) to Aeacus
Yen Chia-kanChiang Kai-shek died in April 1975, and was succeeded to the presidency bywhile his son Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuominta ...
King Charles IIBy 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with, who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ...
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George V... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and fromboth as Prince of Wales and as king
Valerian... 354 speaks of Pope Stephen I as not a martyr. In the year 258, the emperorbegan persecuting Christians, and Stephen was sitting on his pontifical th ...
Richard IIIPrior to his succession, on 22 June 1483,declared that Edward V was illegitimate, and three days later the matter w ...
Mwai Kibaki... constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 election, which was won by. Widely reported electoral fraud on Kibaki's side in the 2007 elections r ...
Benjamin Harrison... n). The plan worked, and Michigan split its vote: nine votes for Republicanand five votes for Democrat Grover Cleveland. Once the Republican party re ...
Roman EmperorLouis II the Younger (825 – Ghedi 12 August 875) was the King of Italy andfrom 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which he ru ...
Fritigern... gs as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels) led by. The battle took place about north of Adrianople (modern Edirne in Europe ...
Pope Pius XII... since 1928, had strong connections to the Vatican Secretary of State, later. In return for pledging his support for the act, Kaas would use his conne ...
President... r Hersh that the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started withGeorge H. W. Bush in August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by ...
George H. W. Bush... .. did not feel that the group attracted the wrong element". Vice Presidentsaid of The Beach Boys, "They're my friends and I like their music". When ...
Lucius Verus... e poets Horace, Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leadersand Lycurgus which once graced the exedra whose political message was one ...
Jorge Rafael Videla... ach church's entries for the poor churches in the Third World. The visit of, president of the Argentine junta, to the Vatican caused considerable con ...
Barack Obama... ut you have to go within the system to find what you want." Leary supportedin the 2008 presidential election
PresidentIn 1988, Congress passed andRonald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on be ...
George W. Bush... ress taking positions in support of the U.S. Republican Party and Presidenton topics such as the validity of the 2000 Presidential Election results i ...
Valens... of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperorand Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alan ...
Sparta... ve been urged. It is also stated that they had common meals, resembling then system, at which they met in companies of ten
President Bartlet... olden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role ofin The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown
Adolphus Frederick... named Point Adolphus (today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) after, seventh son of King George III. In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a c ...
Pope Benedict XVI... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ...
Edward VIIIn the 1880s, Prince Edward (later) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ...
HadrianRufinus borrows from his Latin original of's letter
Emperor Napoleon III... e. She and her family left France due to her husband's public opposition toand settled in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 1870, however, Johannes Brahms per ...
Charles de Gaulle... mi-presidential system, developed at the beginning of the Fifth Republic by, are used in France, Finland, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka and several post ...
Jeremy Thorpe... umming-up by Mr Justice Cantley in the trial of former Liberal Party leader– a summary condemned for alleged bias in favour of Thorpe. Cook performed ...
Marcus Aurelius... ition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius,, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161
Georges Pompidou... nductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President, after whom another controversial museum was named. In an attempt to soot ...
Liu Chuyu... himself emperor Ming. He ordered Liu Ziye's brother Liu Zishang and sister, who were reputed to have participated in the late emperor's sexual immor ...
AkbarIn the year 1594 Jahangir's was dispatched by his father the Mughal Emperor, alongside Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak to defeat the ...
George W. BushOn December 13, 2001,gave Russia notice of the United States' withdrawal from the treaty, in ac ...
Frederick William III... ein-Universität) was then founded on October 18, 1818, by the Prussian king. It was the sixth Prussian University, founded after the universities in ...
Baldwin III of Jerusalem... er a five-month siege, the city was captured by a Crusader army led by King. It was then added to the County of Jaffa to form the County of Jaffa and ...
Queen Victoria... f the town's popularity, Leamington was granted a "Royal" prefix in 1838 by, who visited the town as a Princess in 1830 and as Queen in 1858. A statu ...
Esarhaddon... ole in the development of the Silk Road. Scythians accompanied the Assyrianon his invasion of Egypt, and their distinctive triangular arrowheads have ...
Madeleine Albright... rom the option of returning to Israel. According to U.S. Secretary of State, some of the Palestinian negotiators were willing to privately discuss a ...
Lucius Verus... from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, andhis adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161
Queen Elizabeth II... hy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch,, has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertak ...
Benjamin Harrison... chool District. Harrison City is named after former United States President
Ali Nasir Muhammad... president Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile. His successor,, took a less interventionist stance toward both North Yemen and neighbour ...
Agrippa II... lots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centuries-long dispu ...
Euric... successors. Among the Visigothic written laws had already been put forth by. Alaric II put forth a Breviarium of Roman law for his Roman subjects; bu ...
Walter Wanger... spondent (1940), based on Vincent Sheean's Personal History and produced by, was nominated for Best Picture that year. Hitchcock and many other Engli ...
Emperor Kammu... wned that day. The Japanese general Ki no Asami Kosami was "rebuked" by thewhen he returned to Kyoto
Abdul Fattah IsmailIn 1980, PDRY presidentresigned and went into exile. His successor, Ali Nasir Muhammad, took a le ...
Pope Paul VIOn 15 December 1969, he was appointed Patriarch of Venice byand took possession of the archdiocese on 3 February 1970. Pope Paul creat ...
George WashingtonDuring the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War,and the Continental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 de ...
Martin Van Buren... Iowa Territory. Some settlers started drifting into Iowa in 1833. Presidenton July 4, 1838, signed the U.S. Congress laws establishing the Territory ...
King George III... known humpback whale feeding area) after Adolphus Frederick, seventh son of. In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a coastal survey, saw "Adolphus" on ...
Emperor Joseph II... cademy had schools for theology, law, pharmacy and general studies. In 1784granted the academy the right to award academic degrees (Licentiat and Ph. ...
Henry II of England... lanvill, who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer. Walter served Kingin many ways, not just in financial administration, but also including dip ...
John AdamsAccording to US President, Ponet's work contained "all the essential principles of liberty, which w ...
Agrippa I... us and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great,and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centur ...
Edward I... During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by Henry III andas a base for attacks against France
Antoninus Pius... e date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to, Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 14 ...
Lee Teng-hui... Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo hand-pickedas vice-president of the Republic of China, first-in-the-line of successio ...
Valens... and the Breviarium of Eutropius, a handbook compiled in 369 for the Emperor, which has Constantine dying in a nameless state villa in Nicomedia. From ...
Marie Antoinette... n (1982), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), the ill-fated queenin the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, and the American t ...
Alexander II... re assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, and
Sixto Durán Ballén... try blamed the other for the onset of hostilities, known as the Cenepa War., the Ecuadorian president, famously declared that he would not give up a ...
Ronald Reagan... out the decisions of voters in other time zones. In 1980, NBC News declaredto be the winner of the presidential race on the basis of the exit polls s ...
Henry V... mouth as a threat, the French again sacked the city in 1369, 1377 and 1380.built the first permanent fortifications of Portsmouth. In 1418 he ordered ...
Justin I... the reign of Justinian in 518, which was actually the start of the reign of, Justinian’s predecessor and uncle. This discrepancy can be seen as part ...
Fulk of Jerusalem... as constantly unstable. In response to these incursions into Outremer, Kingconstructed a number of Christian settlements around the city during the 1 ...
Roosevelt... declared "the first international airport of the Americas" by US president
Mohammed Daoud Khan... DPA, حزب دیموکراتیک خلق افغانستان) orchestrated a bloody coup assassinating, his family and bodyguards and consequently assuming power. The PDPA soon ...
Pyrrhus of Epirus... mony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid ofin 281 BC, but this effort failed as well. In the 3rd century BC Rome had ...
King ArthurExcalibur is the legendary sword of, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful ...
John of Gaunt... ough his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of Edward III throughand his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan Beaufort, Countess of ...
Louis XV... ravelling around the Cape of Good Hope. The Port is named in honour of King. The first Governor was Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais
Josip Broz Tito... schar (1st Croatian), the first non-Germanic division, was formed, to fight's Yugoslav Partisans. This was followed by the 14th Waffen Grenadier Divi ...
Philip III of Spain... f the Inquisition. The New Christians of Portugal breathed more freely whencame to the throne. By the law of April 4, 1601, he granted them the privi ...
Edward III... m to the throne through his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter ofthrough John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan ...
Bill Clinton... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of, remarking, "There is no crisis in health care.
Edward III... roying much of the town, with only the local church and hospital surviving.gave the town exemption from national taxes to aid reconstruction. Only te ...
King Louis XIII... 'Ancre, a historical drama recounting the events leading up to the reign of. Frequenting the theater, he met the great actress Marie Dorval, and beca ...
Éamon de Valera... h rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under. The events of Bloody Sunday have survived in public memory. The Gaelic A ...
Andrew Jackson... imply was no popular vote for President in those states. Even in 1824, whenlost in spite of having pluralities of both the popular and electoral vote ...
Ronald ReaganThe treaty was undisturbed untilannounced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on March 23, 1983. On the ...
President... solution's language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late ChileanAugusto Pinochet, who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands confli ...
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor... schal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by, and later sacked by the Normans. This also agrees with the earliest know ...
Gamal Abdel NasserFollowing the Suez Crisis in 1956, Egyptian president, a leader of the Free Officers Movement, agreed to allow the United Natio ...
Kenneth KaundaUntil 1991, all Zambian banknotes featured a portrait of Presidenton the obverse. Since 1992, all notes have instead featured a fish eagle o ...
Paul I... emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III,, and Alexander II
Lluís CompanysUnder its two presidents, Francesc Macià (1931–1933) and(1934–1939), the republican Generalitat carried out a considerable task, d ...
Philip II of SpainFinally, after several years her pleadings by letter with Kingsecured relief. As a result, in 1579, the processes before the inquisition ...
Licinia Eudoxia... acidia, younger daughter of Western Emperor Valentinian III and of his wife, thus creating a bond between a member of the senatorial aristocracy and ...
Abraham Lincoln... , and imperfect but clear English on the other") to United States President, proposing an "alliance" between the two democratic nations and offering ...
James Madison... was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and
President of the United States of America... 0 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after James Monroe, fifth. Its county seat is the city of Rochester
EudociaThe margin of the Empress's copy of the Iliad has a note summarizing a Hellenistic poet who tells a ...
Jeconiah... em. Jehoiakim died in 598 BC during the siege, and was succeeded by his sonat an age of either eight or eighteen. The city fell about three months la ...
Mohammad Najibullah... n 1989, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime, then headed by, proved unexpectedly capable of holding its own against the mujahideen. B ...
Dadabhai Naoroji... and emergence of Indian leadership at both national and provincial levels.formed the East India Association in 1867, and Surendranath Banerjee found ...
Harry S. Truman... , and it set term limits to the presidency of two terms. It stipulated that, the incumbent at the time, would not be affected by the amendment. In 19 ...
Yazdegerd III... ned the official religion of Persia until the defeat of the Sassanian ruler—over a thousand years after its founding—by Muslim Arabs. In what is toda ...
Peter III... came to power following a coup d'état and the assassination of her husband,, at the end of the Seven Years' War. Russia was revitalized under her rei ...
Amlaíb Cuarán... new lands for long, dying just two years later in 941. He was succeeded by
Thomas Jefferson... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 byand James Madison
Valentinian IIIOlybrius married Placidia, younger daughter of Western Emperorand of his wife Licinia Eudoxia, thus creating a bond between a member of ...
Croesus... sits in the river Pactolus that were the source of the proverbial wealth of(Lydia's last historical king) were said to have been left there when the ...
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty... se afterwards was known “Gandhi Mandiram” in Chembukkavu. In the mean time,, the controversial Diwan of Cochin Kingdom from 1935 to 1941, was develop ...
Richard Nixon... bert Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's r ...
John Adams... rance, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President. Opposition to Federalists among Democratic-Republicans reached new heigh ...
Jigme Dorji WangchuckThe third Druk Gyalpo,, was enthroned in 1952. Earlier he had married the European-educated cous ...
United States PresidentThrees were elected following a process that selected them as a national nomine ...
PlacidiaOlybrius married, younger daughter of Western Emperor Valentinian III and of his wife Lici ...
Albert II of Belgium... r Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain,, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Count of Paris and the c ...
Jigme WangchuckUgyen Wangchuck died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son,(reigned 1926–52). The second Druk Gyalpo continued his father's centraliz ...
Ugyen Wangchuckdied in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, Jigme Wangchuck (reigned 1926–5 ...
Juan Carlos I of Spain... uchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of, Albert II of Belgium, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Co ...
Hadrian... rebellion. The last straw was a series of laws enacted by the Roman Emperor, including an attempt to prevent Jews from living in Jerusalem; a new Rom ...
Conan the Barbarian... Barry Smith for "The Shadow of the Vulture" and "The Song of Red Sonja" inissues 23 and 24 (1973), she did not have as full a figure and dressed a l ...
Guy of Lusignan... ncess Sybilla, sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband,, king
Ulpia SeverinaAurelian was married to, about whom little is known. Like Aurelian she was from Dacia. They are k ...
Frederick Jackson Turner... of American regions. It has been called "the typically American" region by. Religious pluralism and ethnic diversity have been important elements of ...
Clement Attlee... nomic activity. In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister, Francis Beckett states: "the government... wanted what would become know ...
Odin... the bird emblem perhaps represents the raven associated with the battle-god. Noted in Richard Hall, Viking Age Archaeology 1995:25 and fig. 9. He did ...
Ronald Reagan... Best Actor. Co-star Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husbandfor him, albeit unsuccessfully
Pervez Musharraf... ge number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. Presidentstudied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently
Sir Isaac Newton... even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those ofand Leonhard Euler. She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézo ...
Abraham LincolnOn August 27, 1856,spoke at a rally in Bronson Park, promoting the presidential candidacy of ...
Islam Karimov... d replaces provincial governors. Under terms of a December 1995 referendum,'s first term was extended. Another national referendum was held January 2 ...
George Washington... elphia in 1793. During his flight, Blanchard carried a personal letter fromto be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to la ...
James Madison... ted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by Thomas Jefferson and, which were foundational to the states rights theory that helped lead to ...
Kingdom of Cochin... 7, when India gained independence from the British rule, Thrissur was under. Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949, with the headquarters at T ...
Midas... historical king) were said to have been left there when the legendary kingof Phrygia washed away the "Midas touch" in its waters
Wang Mang... acter long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98% after the usurpingbanned all two-character names outright. Although his Xin Dynasty was shor ...
Arthur Balfour... nstitute. A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Ministerin October 1902. On the site previously had been cheap crowded inner-city ...
Diana, Princess of Wales... s of the Bavaria, Brazil, Parma, Saxony and the Two Sicilies. The late Lady(1961-1997) is a descendant of Lucrezia
George Stevens... outsiders, often "victim-heroes," - examples include the social climber in's A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock's I Conf ...
Ramsey ClarkNicholas Katzenbach (1964–1965),(1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as acting attorney general i ...
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Branch Rickey... a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It happened mainly due to General Manager's efforts. The deeply religious Rickey's motivation appears to have been ...
Thomas Jefferson... osition to them resulted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored byand James Madison, which were foundational to the states rights theory tha ...
Heydar AliyevThe National Council conferred presidential powers upon its new speaker,, former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party (1969–81) and ...
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg... Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, Albert II of Belgium,, as well as the Count of Paris and the claimants to the Thrones of the Ba ...
William Henry Harrison... cess of presidential succession had been known since the death of Presidentin 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendm ...
Al Gore... n effect on the content of the media. For example, according to Fair, ‘Whenproposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Adv ...
King James II... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of. During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ...
Richard III of England... y ship coming to an English port had to bring four bowstaves for every tun.increased this to ten for every tun. This stimulated a vast network of ext ...
Emperor Maximilian... y of Leuven. His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of, while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Ma ...
Jehoiakim... d been king for only three months, and replaced him with his older brother,. Necho imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver (about 3 3/ ...
Emperor Wu... of the Great Wall for additional goods. In a court conference assembled by(r. 141–87 BCE) in 135 BCE, the majority consensus of the ministers was to ...
Gundobad... sted in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew
Hadrian... nd 985 villages razed. Yet so costly was the Roman victory that the Emperor, when reporting to the Roman Senate, did not see fit to begin with the cu ...
Adolf Hitler... more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of, which began in the following year. Morison and a number of other histori ...
Napoleon III... 314. In all, thirty-four sovereigns, from Louis VI, the Fat, (1081–1137) to(1808–1873), spent time at Fontainebleau
Bill Clinton... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President. Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ...
Alexander the Great... not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns ofbut he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls "Maketa". The re ...
Lester B. Pearson... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations,, at the party's leadership convention in 1958
Thomas JeffersonThe presidents selected by the party were(1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ...
José Bustamante y Rivero... that his parents had separated. During the government of Peruvian President, Vargas Llosa's maternal grandfather obtained a diplomatic post in the Pe ...
President of Ireland... lsion from Fianna Fáil. Lynch also declined to accept nominations to become, a position he had little interest in. In 1992 he suffered a severe healt ...
Raymond Poincaré... he distributed as gifts to President Alexandre Millerand and Prime Ministerof France, to King George V of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological G ...
Romulus Augustulus... overthrow of the rebellious magister militum Orestes and his pretender sonin 476. In the East Theodosius II also barred the eunuchs from holding it, ...
Al Gore... rt of the working group of the IPCC which shared the Nobel Peace Prize withfor their dissemination of the effects of climate change
Gallienus... is successes as a cavalry commander ultimately made him a member of emperor' entourage. In 268, Aurelian and his cavalry participated in general Clau ...
George W. Bush... mber 11 attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor George Pataki, and Presidentvowed to rebuild the World Trade Center site. On the day of the attacks, G ...
Samuel Eliot Morison... worst vice presidents in American history in a 2008 Time Magazine article.wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the ...
Owen I of Strathclyde... aíb married the daughter of Causantín mac Áeda. He also allied himself with. In 937, Amlaíb led his allies into battle against Athelstan, king of Eng ...
US President... the air America/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a clear reference to thenRonald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly ...
Isabella of France... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife,, spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations
Henry VI... st force. The Tower was damaged by artillery fire but only surrendered whenwas captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of Richard Nevill ...
George W. Bush... istered voters participating. In the 2004 presidential election, Republicanreceived 49.9% of the vote in South Hackensack (499 cast), ahead of Democr ...
Sam HoustonTorrey Trading Houses opened as a part of thepeace policy to develop friendly relationships with native tribes. They bo ...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand... lso used, especially in the Middle East and Balkans (the initial attempt on's life was with a grenade). With heavy weapons, the rocket-propelled gren ...
Sisyphus... he absurd. In the titular book, Camus uses the analogy of the Greek myth ofto demonstrate the futility of existence. In the myth, Sisyphus is condemn ...
Edward V... ent is one of the most infamous events associated with the Tower of London.'s uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester was declared Lord Protector while the ...
Truman... tten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by theAdministration, although it can be said that the committee's investigation ...
Holy Roman Emperor... and in 1510 the Venetians obtained sixteen pounds per hundred. In 1507 theasked the Duke of Bavaria to stop cutting yew, but the trade was profitabl ...
Blanche of Lancaster... nd remodelled the great hall with a grander interior and roof. On his deathinherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edwa ...
Athelstan of England... m 934 to 941. Gofraid ua Ímair, his father, held both Dublin and York untilexpelled him from York in 927
James Monroe... the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and(1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state gover ...
Justinian I... it, although this restriction had been overturned by the 6th century. Under(r. 527-565), the title proliferated and was consequently somewhat devalue ...
Petronius Maximus... lavius Anicius Probus (suggested by Settipani) or, according to some clues,
Sakthan Thampuran... r the Srirangapattanam war. In the meantime, Rama Varma X, the successor ofsigned a treaty with East Indian Company, and made Cochin a subsidiary of ...
King George V... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ...
James Monroeconstructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ...
George Washington... d tyrants. It is its natural manure." In contrast to Jefferson's sentiments, who had been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in ...
Woodrow Wilson... Many Austrians and Germans regarded this as hypocrisy since U.S. presidenthad proclaimed in his famous "Fourteen Points" the "right of self-determin ...
King Gylfi... nning, where it is described partially in euhemerized form. In the chapter,sets out to Asgard in the guise of an old man going by the name of Gangler ...
Jean Hersholt... roval and resistance of the committee, Davis resigned, and was succeeded by, who implemented the changes she had suggested. Davis starred in three mo ...
Alexandre Millerand... even included a pride of lions, which he distributed as gifts to Presidentand Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King George V of the Uni ...
Theodore Laskaris... uccessor states, the most notable of these being the Empire of Nicaea under(a relative of Alexios III), the Empire of Trebizond, and the Despotate of ...
Anna d'Este... dern Europe including that of the United Kingdom. Through her granddaughter, Duchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestres ...
Thomas Jefferson, who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ...
Charles V... as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor. Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrol ...
Walter ScottIn contrast Lord Byron andachieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ...
James MadisonThe presidents selected by the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809),(1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated ...
Rafael Correa... ti-partisan National Assembly on August 4, 2010 but vetoed by the president, who wanted to keep the law strictly as it was originally redacted by his ...
George Washington... anklin, was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accusedof incompetence and financial irregularities, and "the blind, bald, crippl ...
Gregory Peck... cting the 1944 film, which was produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starred, among other luminaries
Theodosius II... ilitum Orestes and his pretender son Romulus Augustulus in 476. In the Eastalso barred the eunuchs from holding it, although this restriction had bee ...
Edward IV... Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time in 1470. However,soon regained control and Henry VI was imprisoned in the Tower of London, ...
Emperor Wen... the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu (r. 174–160 BCE) and(r. 180–157 BCE) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu su ...
Prince Philip... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ...
King of Bahrain... ework of a constitutional monarchy where the government is appointed by the, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The head of the government since 1971 is ...
Charles XIII... Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: Gustav III and. In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the ruling dynasties of ...
Alexander II... Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to
Ranavalona III... Paul Razafinkarefo. He was the son of Henri Razafinkarefo, nephew of Queenof Imerina, and Jennie (Waller) Razafinkarefo, the daughter of John L. Wal ...
Baldwin of Flanders... married to Maria Komnene, empress in the 1170s and 80s. Instead they placedon the throne. Boniface went on to found the Kingdom of Thessalonica, a va ...
Elizabeth I of England... r only color film made during the height of her career. To play the elderly, Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited o ...
Branch Rickey... nership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the shares of his co-owners,and the John L. Smith. Before long he was working to buy new land in Brook ...
QuintillusWhen Claudius died, his brotherseized power with support of the Senate. With an act typical of the Crisis ...
Mary McAleese... onoured with a state funeral which was attended by the President of Ireland, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and ...
Heraclius... ncreasingly influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century, when Emperor(AD 575 - 641) decided to make Greek the empire's official language. Certa ...
Boudica... ll) in Staffordshire, Manduessedum (modern day Mancetter - possible site of's last battle), Tripontium (modern day Newton and Biggin), Venonis (moder ...
Maximilian Joseph... s annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia. In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken,, the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zwei ...
Louis the German... to Lotharingia, and Alemannia (the eastern part) to the eastern kingdom ofwhich would become part of the Holy Roman Empire
Hyder AliHowever, during 1750-60from Mysore attacked Thrissur and was forced to become tributary of Mysore ...
Hákon Hákonarson... s Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of Kingat the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III. Godwinson was sub ...
Afonso V... na"), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of, St. Joana, who died in 1490. The presence of this royal personage, beati ...
Richard Duke of Gloucester... most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. Edward V's unclewas declared Lord Protector while the prince was too young to rule. The 12 ...
Omar al-Bashir... ritarian state where all effective political power is obtained by Presidentand the ruling National Congress Party (NCO)
Louis XIII of France... eneralitat, Pau Claris, declared a Catalan Republic under the protection of. This allowed French troops to draw that much closer to the heartland of ...
Peter of Holstein-GottorpThe choice of Sophia as wife of her second cousin, the prospective tsar, resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which Count Lestoc ...
Rædwald of East Anglia... the church beyond Kent encountered difficulties due to the attitude of King, who had become the leading king in the south after Æthelberht's death. R ...
President of Ireland... e age of 82. He was honoured with a state funeral which was attended by theMary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert ...
Agis II... began his kingship after the end of the Peloponnesian war after his brotherdied and was left without an heir. (Agis’ son Leotychidas was rumored to b ...
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Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya... a leading figure in the 2005 Mauritanian coup d'état that deposed President. In August 2008 General Ould Abdel Aziz led the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'é ...
Charles VII... burg on 23 September, Bavarian troops, for the first time since the days of, fought side by side with the French, and by the Treaty of Pressburg, sig ...
Gustav III... n") in Stettin, Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden:and Charles XIII. In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the rul ...
Constantius III... to the powerful magistri militum who dominated the state, such as Stilicho,, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize ...
Procopius Anthemius... s were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor Leo I the Thracian chose the noble. His association with Gaiseric did not harm Olybrius' career: in 464 the ...
Queen Mary... ngdom's dynasty as the future "House of Mountbatten", whereupon the Dowagerreportedly refused to have anything to do with "that Battenberg nonsense." ...
Barack Obama... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat, who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ...
Bill Clinton... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President
Conan the Barbarian... magazine. Buscema drew her again in this costume in issues 43, 44 and 48 of(1974) and Dick Giordano in the first issue of Marvel Feature (1975) befor ...
Louis XIV... to 150 million today. And if one starts the comparison at the time of King(the Sun King), then France would in fact have the same population as the ...
Justinian... Procopius writes that he was "a very particular friend and guest-friend of, who had not yet come to the throne", noting that Hilderic and Justinian ...
Walter O'MalleyReal estate businessmanhad acquired majority ownership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the ...
King Vanlandi... the 10th century skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir describing that, upon his death,went to Valhalla
Alexander the Great... Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus,, and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, ...
Joseph Lyons... of the 1930s, through Australia's recovery from the Great Depression underand into the early stages of the World War II under Robert Menzies
Odoacer... tilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it toto legitimize the later's rule in Italy after his overthrow of the rebelli ...
Augustus... imen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to Caesar's murderers and tohardly pass beyond the conventional style of the writer's day. The only pa ...
Robert the Bruce... ted chevauchée raids over the enemy territory to damage its infrastructure.counselled using these operational methods to hold off the English King Ed ...
Richard... d Edward was confined to the Tower of London along with his younger brother. The Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King Richard III in July. The prin ...
Calydonian Oeneus... mably the eponym of Hyria. He is also called Oeneus, although he is not the. Other ancient scholia say, as Hesiod does, that Orion was the son of Pos ...
James Madison... s, its population was 13,664. Its seat is Madisonville, and it is named for, the fourth president of the United States
President Jimmy Carter... process. There was a hopeful precedent in the 1978 Camp David Accords wherewas able to broker a peace agreement between Egypt, represented by Preside ...
Philip V of Spain... between 1700 and 1720. After it was assigned to Emperor Charles VI in 1714,briefly recovered the island in 1717, but in 1720 the European powers assi ...
Mao Zedong... n principles of guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works ofand Che Guevara. His forces were considered the most effective of all the ...
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor... raphic recuperation and some measure of economic recuperation. The reign ofas Charles I of Spain was a harmonious period, during which Catalonia gene ...
John Quincy Adams... ke down. The party split between Andrew Jackson and the incumbent President. What began as Jackson's ideas of democracy ("Jacksonian democracy") lead ...
King Edward's... he Bruce counselled using these operational methods to hold off the Englishforces when the English invaded Scotland, according to an anonymous 14th-c ...
Barack Obama... publican John McCain. McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democratwon 30% of the vote and 23,726 votes. Other candidates won 648 votes and 1 ...
Germanicus... also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of the imperial family,
Alexios V... rangled to death in January 1204. Alexios Doukas took the throne himself as; Isaac also died in January 1204, probably of natural causes
CroesusIn 547 BC, the Lydian kingbesieged and captured the Persian city of Pteria in Cappadocia and enslave ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... es in the 1954 election. He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leaderin the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas. Joe Mar ...
JulianIn the year AD 363, the Emperor's invasion of Persia was turned back by a scorched earth policy
Alexander III... e defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to. Godwinson was subsequently defeated within a month by another Viking des ...
Emperor Charles V... ter publication, Vesalius was invited as Imperial physician to the court of. He informed the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, w ...
Joseph LyonsFounding leaderbegan his political career as an Australian Labor Party politician and ser ...
James I of England... able shipbuilding location by John Wood, a shipbuilder, who petitioned Kingfor a land grant. The surrounding area was soon settled as a plantation co ...
Andrew Jackson... ess, but in the late 1820s, that system broke down. The party split betweenand the incumbent President John Quincy Adams. What began as Jackson's ide ...
Adolf Hitler... of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one toand one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Seraf ...
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa... nal monarchy where the government is appointed by the King of Bahrain, King. The head of the government since 1971 is Prime Minister Prince Khalifa b ...
President of Sri Lanka... framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby theis both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. ...
Henry VIII... ders have been the Royal Bodyguard since at least 1509. During the reign of, the Tower was assessed as needing considerable work on its defences. In ...
Lady Jane Grey... ilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to placeon the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tilty ...
Peter I of RussiaDuring the war,had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish ...
Arthur Goldberg... nd British were supporting Israel in the conflict, United States Ambassadorannounced that the U.S. forces were hundreds of miles from the conflict. A ...
Ulysses S. Grant... ebruary 1862, while preparing for an advance against Fort Henry, Brig. Gen.sent two wooden gunboats (timberclads) down the Tennessee River for one la ...
Philip the Good... inal manuscript. This copy remained in the royal library and then passed to, Duke of Burgundy, before reaching Brussels, where it was lost. It was re ...
Herbert Hoover... ng the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement in 1931, under the auspices of's Wickersham Commission. In 1934, the ACLU lobbied for the passage of the ...
John Quincy Adams... y") lead to the founding of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led byand Henry Clay, formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it e ...
Frederick William III of PrussiaKingappointed an Immediate Commission for the investigation of political dissi ...
P. V. Narasimha Rao... continuing the policies initiated by the previous Congress Government underand Manmohan Singh, pushed through major privatizations of big government ...
Margaret BeckettOther notable alumni include, a politician who in 2006 became Foreign Secretary
Henry Tudor... until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by the Lancastrian, who ascended to the throne as Henry VII
Barack Obama... Republican John McCain received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democratreceived 1137 (about 28%)
Tiberius... thor of a collection of historical anecdotes. He worked during the reign of(14 AD to 37 AD)
Zachary Taylor... egimental adjutant and the rank of first lieutenant, serving in the army of, although he personally did not participate in combat. After hostilities, ...
Truman... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against theadministration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption.
Princess of Wales... te the Book", aided by a music video featuring lookalikes of the Prince andundergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The song became Costello's ...
Pharaoh... chadnezzar, ceasing to pay tribute to him and entered into an alliance withHophra of Egypt. In 589 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II returned to Judah and again ...
Sigurd the Crusader... National Theatre, Bjørnson received an ovation, and his saga-drama of Kingwas performed at the opening of Nationaltheatret in Oslo
Wang Anshi... action at court, resolutely opposed to the reformist policies of Chancellor. Sima presented increasingly critical memorials to the throne until 1070, ...
Charles IVOn 29 October 1807, Manuel Godoy, chancellor to the Spanish king,and Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which authorized the pass ...
Anastasio Somoza Debayle... lebrated the left-wing rebels who had recently overthrown Nicaraguan despot, and the album was filled with songs driven by other political issues ext ...
Augustus... he king” (Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of, Alexander the Great, and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Light ...
Ted Theodore... dvocated orthodox fiscal management. When Labor reinstated the more radicalas Treasurer in 1931, Lyons and Fenton resigned from Cabinet
Sakthan Thampuran... and started the most spectacular cultural festival called Thrissur Pooram.laid the modern foundation stone of Thrissur and made the city in to a maj ...
Franklin D. RooseveltTheadministration proposed the New Deal to combat the depression. ACLU leader ...
John William DraperThe story begins in late April 1839, ashad just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serializing Oliver ...
Walter ScottThe castle's cultural prominence increased after Sirwrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ...
President... omy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence ofFranklin Roosevelt's New Deal
Andrew Jackson... anddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, t ...
7th Earl of Shaftesbury... red William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the. She was the favourite granddaughter of the Edwardian magnate Sir Ernest ...
Mary Stuart... opular comedy of De Nygifte (The Newly Married) and his romantic tragedy ofin Scotland. In 1870 he published Poems and Songs and the epic cycle Arnlj ...
Constantine the GreatThe First Council of Nicea was convened byupon the recommendations of a synod led by Hosius of Córdoba in the Easter ...
President of Azerbaijan... f Azerbaijan take place in a framework of a presidential republic, with theas the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of gove ...
Surendranath Banerjee... ial levels. Dadabhai Naoroji formed the East India Association in 1867, andfounded the Indian National Association in 1876
Beatrix of the Netherlands... ng over 90 stores and including parking for 2,300 cars, was opened by Queenin 1982. 34 miles (55 km) of urban roads were planned and a network of hig ...
Nixon Administration... 1), he voted to allow newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers despite the's contention that publication would have security implications. In his co ...
Holy Roman Emperor... ish contingent under the command of Richard Lionheart instead). The elderlyFrederick Barbarossa responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army ...
Alyattes II... ginning of the reign of King Alyattes (sometimes incorrectly referred to as), who ruled Lydia c. 610-550 BC. The first coins were made of electrum, a ...
Louis XIV... United States. While France had been very powerful in Europe at the time ofor Napoleon, the demographic decline the country experienced after 1800 re ...
Abraham Lincoln... her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adv ...
Wang Mang... oldest reference to a collapsible umbrella dates to the year 21 A.D., when(r. 9–23) had one designed for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd ...
Desta Damtew... Shum of Sidamo Province by Birru Wolde Gabriel who himself was replaced by
Barack Obama... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat, who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ...
Erskine Bowles... Richard Burr, who, like Elizabeth Dole two years earlier, defeated Democratto win the other North Carolina Senate seat. In September 2005, Random Hou ...
Tarquinius Superbus... Roman colony at an early date—according to some authorities in the time of,—but more probably about 390 BC. The existence of a previous population, ...
Manuel A. OdríaIn 1953, during the government of, Vargas Llosa enrolled in Lima's National University of San Marcos, the o ...
Ferdinand VII of Spain... and Spain, assemblies called juntas were established to rule in the name of
King Mohamed VIPolicies associated with foreign relations are determined by the king,, and his advisors, despite the fact that Morocco has a constitutional mon ...
Charles V of France... ose to the original. It is found in the inventory of 1373 of the library of. Furthermore, according to the illuminations, it can be dated to the year ...
Omar al-Bashir... c of Sudan was restructured following a military coup on 30 June 1989, when, then a colonel in the Sudanese Army, led a group of officers and ousted ...
Charlemagne... terms Solmonath (mud month) and Kale-monath (named for cabbage) as well as's designation Hornung. In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning ...
Joan Enric Vives Sicília... twelfth century. There is still a bishop of Urgell, who since 2003 has been. This role carries with it the position of joint head of state of Andorra
John Adams... of foreign debt payments. Even comparatively conservative commentators likeobserved that these levies were "heavier than the People could bear.
Pope Paul VI... s canonized by Pope Gregory XV, and in 1970 named a Doctor of the Church by. Her books, which include her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, ...
Leucippus... nt lover of the Divine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon,(son of Oenomaus), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. ...
Edward of Portugal... the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power
King Philip II's... y, the Knights Hospitaller based in Malta, and others, under the command ofillegitimate half brother, John of Austria) that defeated the Ottoman flee ...
Sakthan Thampuran... when he was collector of Thrissur district. He is also known as the secondof Thrissur by shifting the Municipal Stand near the M.O. Road to Shaktan ...
Edward III... Tower and release the prisoners held there. For three years he ruled whilewas too young to do so himself; in 1330, Edward and his supporters capture ...
Woodrow Wilson... yphal account, because he threw "a beer bottle into the window of Professor," future president of the United States). He spent several years at sea, ...
Chandragupta Maurya... in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The founder of the empire,, confronted a Macedonian invasion force led by Seleucus I in 305 BC and f ...
Holy Roman EmperorIn 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crownedas Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married ...
Princess Alexandra of Kent... Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (his maternal granduncle);(his 1st cousin once removed); the Earl of Euston; the Lord Elphinstone ( ...
Robert E. Lee... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician.'s final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the spring 1865. Here the ...
Louis X of France... 1309 to her son, Louis, king of Navarre and count of Champagne, the future
President of Russia... emlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. As major streets ...
Gerald Ford... after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially,and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventu ...
Mac Mahon... iment of Zouaves, were part of the Second Brigade of the Second Division of's Corps. The Foreign Legion acquitted itself particularly well against th ...
Alpha Oumar Konaré... t, National Assembly, and municipal councils were elected. On June 8, 1992,, the candidate of ADEMA, was inaugurated as the president of Mali's Third ...
Henry III... ant political services to his relative Conrad II, and afterwards to Emperor. He became widely known as an earnest and reforming ecclesiastic by the z ...
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud... ent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi,and Juho Kusti Paasikivi
James Madison... esolutions. Though the resolutions followed the "interposition" approach of, Jefferson advocated nullification and at one point drafted a threat for ...
Jimmy Carter... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President— recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ...
Conrad II... mily was of noble rank, and his father, Count Hugh, was a cousin of Emperor(1024–1039). He was educated at Toul, where he successively became canon a ...
Emperor Yingzong of SongIn 1064, Sima presented toa book of five volumes , the Liniantu (歷年圖 "Chart of Successive Years"). I ...
Philip II of France... pture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, Henry II of England andended their conflict with each other to lead a new crusade (although Henry ...
Ming... emi-legendary account of an embassy sent to the West by the Chinese Emperor(58–75 CE). Extensive contacts however started in the 2nd century CE, prob ...
Teucer... ean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, whereis said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor. Ar ...
Barack Obama... y won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidatewon by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47%
Henry the Fowler... ford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader Widukind. In Herford she met, who later became king of Germany
Albert, Prince Consort... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and. His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ...
Alexander IIn 1812 Czarwas able to render Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia useless by util ...
Mao Zedong... ones are included, they are noted via tone marks. In pinyin, 毛泽东 is written
James II of Scotland... mer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440. His temper while playing golf resulted inoutlawing the sport
Franklin D. Roosevelt... egislation which was finally enacted during the administration of Presidentthat created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Norris was later an important ...
Charles IIn 1649, the English Civil War raged and Kingwas beheaded in Whitehall, London. The execution resulted in the outbreak ...
Clinton Thomas DentIn 1885,, president of the Alpine Club, suggested that climbing Mount Everest was ...
President of FinlandKyösti Kallio (, April 10, 1873 – December 19, 1940) was the fourth(1937–1940). He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and served ...
James K. Polk... Place is named after North Carolina native and university alumnus President, and McCorkle Place is named in honor of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, the or ...
James Buchanan... idge. The county was originally named Buchanan County, after U.S. President, but was renamed in 1861 for Alexander H. Stephens, the vice president of ...
Ferdinand I of Aragon... 3, after the revolt of the last count, James II of Urgell, against the king
James Madison... eir fate at the hands of the Indians, including John Madison, the cousin ofthe future president, who was killed on a surveying trip in the area in 17 ...
Ferdinand I of Aragon... Ferdinand of Antequera, who after the Compromise of Caspe (1412), was named
IsabellaTo support's claim to the Spanish throne against her uncle, the French government de ...
President of FinlandLauri Kristian Relander (May 31, 1883 – February 9, 1942) was the second(1925–1931). A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a mem ...
George W. Bush... between its north and south. While the north (Oak Harbor) is conservative -received almost 65 percent of the 2004 vote and carried all precincts - al ...
Boniface of Montferrat, meanwhile, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his ...
Princess Beatrice... itish or Commonwealth realms monarch since Queen Victoria's youngest child,, was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter Bea ...
Dadabhai Naoroji... ir own country, albeit as part of the Empire. This trend was personified by, who went as far as contesting, successfully, an election to the British ...
Constantine I... ed in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperorin AD 325. This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain co ...
Holy Roman Emperor... 4, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, andas Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his son Maximilia ...
Queen Elizabeth II... s is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and a Commonwealth realm withas head of state (represented by a Governor-General)
Barack Obama... oted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, Democratwon 33,435 votes (71 percent) of the ballots in Webb County. McCain was a ...
Emperor Shenzong of Song... n 1067, Sima was invited to the palace to introduce his work in progress to. The new emperor not only confirmed the interest his father had shown, bu ...
Philip IV of FranceJeanne of Navarre, wife of(and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), asked Joinville to write Louis' ...
Alexios Angelos... id excommunication, or he may have wanted to meet with the Byzantine prince, Philip's brother-in-law and the son of the recently deposed Byzantine em ...
John F. Kennedy... ing commander-in-chief, and suggested two days later, on the anniversary of's assassination, that Clinton "better not show up around here [Fort Bragg ...
George Washington... Robert Rutherford, a Revolutionary War financier and an intimate friend of. In 1799, Rutherford sold his Forks of Buffalo holdings to James Brown of ...
The emperor... the lost revenue was recouped through heavily taxing private entrepreneurs.was at the pinnacle of Han society. He presided over the Han government bu ...
Henry II of England... stian states and to recapture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal,and Philip II of France ended their conflict with each other to lead a new ...
Owain GlyndŵrOne famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 whenfought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas. He strategically placed ...
Ray Lyman Wilbur... years earlier Ely had been executive assistant to Secretary of the Interiorduring the Hoover administration, and by 1950 headed a prominent law firm ...
President of the United States... of the United States twice, in Advise & Consent and The Man, as well as thein the made-for-TV Earth II
Pharaoh... circumcision" (Type III) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under thes, and "fibula" (in "infibulation") refers to the Roman practice of pierci ...
Beatrice... trice, was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter). As the child of the sovereign, Prince Andrew was styled from birth as H ...
James Madison... ing trip in the area in 1783. Although not necessarily as a result of this,did procure, as an investment, some land on Brush Run and Pyles Fork just ...
King Charles I... in earnest during the 1630s by the various investors who had contracts withto do so. The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, w ...
Charles the Bold... nfederation's power and wealth increased significantly, with victories overof Burgundy during the 1470s and the success of Swiss mercenaries
Marshal MannerheimOn the eve of the Winter War, whenonce again threatened to resign from his post as chairman of Finland's Def ...
Prince Albert... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husbandas well as on herself
Fidel Castro... companies to be sued in American courts if, in dealings with the regime of, they acquired assets formerly owned by Americans
AurangzebThe Mughal power in northern India had been declining since the reign of, who died in 1707; In 1751-52, Ahamdiya treaty was signed between the Mar ...
Sarah FergusonIn 1986, Prince Andrew married; the couple's marriage, subsequent separation and eventual divorce in 199 ...
President of Uzbekistan... zbekistan take place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby theis both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa... lving a long-running dispute on the length of President Kumaratunga's term.was nominated the SLFP candidate and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremes ...
President Svinhufvud... nd Progressive) and social democratic coalition which wanted to ensure thatwould not be re-elected. Kallio took a role of a parliamentarian president ...
Robert May... s. The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the English biologist, in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic e ...
Maximilian... urgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick's son. With the inheritance of Burgundy, the House of Habsburg began to rise to ...
Richard CrossmanIn March 1946, British Labour Party MPgave the following description of activity at the hotel: "private detectiv ...
George W. Bush... e Jeremy Deller won the prize with his film Memory Bucket, documenting both's hometown Crawford, Texas – and the siege in nearby Waco. The prize mone ...
Roman EmperorAurelian (; 9 September 214 or 215 – September or October 275), wasfrom 270 to 275. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni after a devast ...
Magnus the Good... ising the Baltic. As a reprisal, in 1043 it was attacked by the Danish king
Franklin D. Roosevelt... pular in New York during the 1930s. As a New Dealer, he supported President, a Democrat, and in turn Roosevelt heavily funded the city and cut off pa ...
The Duke of Edinburgh... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... e, has been associated with the Democratic Party since the 1932 campaign of. Since the 1950s, however, music has declined in importance in politics, ...
Eleanor of PortugalFrederick had 5 children from his marriage with
The Queen... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son ofand The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ...
George H. W. Bush... District Attorney, and ran unopposed in 2005. Although Suffolk voters gavea victory here in 1992, the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and cont ...
Ferdinand II of Aragon... ties of Roussillon and Cerdanya, which it had occupied during the conflict.("Ferdinand the Catholic") finally resolved the major grievances of the re ...
Duchess of Kent... s only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the, and her mother's advisor, John Conroy. Over the next four years Melbourn ...
Jimmy CarterOn September 9, 1979 Norman performed for US presidentand about 1,000 guests at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on ...
CharlemagneThe town was founded in 789 byin order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre river. A century later, ...
U.S. President... inent. In recognition of its support for the War on Terrorism, in June 2004George W. Bush designated Morocco as a major non-NATO ally
Dadabhai Naoroji... y, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rabindranath Tagore, and, as well as women such as the Scots–Irish Sister Nivedita, spread the pas ...
President of Sri Lanka... Commonwealth of Nations, with the last Governor General becoming the first. Under the first republican Constitution, the unicameral legislature was ...
Bill Clinton... voters gave George H. W. Bush a victory here in 1992, the county voted forin 1996 and continued the trend by giving Al Gore an 11-percent victory in ...
Gustavus Adolphus... hirty Years' War. Forced to retreat from the advancing Swedish army of King, Conti ordered his troops to burn houses, destroy villages and generally ...
The Duke of Gloucester... en Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were:(his maternal granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once ...
Tetricus... Aurelian won this campaign largely through diplomacy; the "Gallic Emperor"was willing to abandon his throne and allow Gaul and Britain to return to ...
Ronald Reagan... ca/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a clear reference to then US President, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the ...
George W. Bush... f that group's votes. In Webb County, Kerry received 23,654 (57 percent) to's 17,753 (42 percent). Nearly 57,000 registered voters in Webb County did ...
Amalric of Lusignan... accidental fall in 1197. Queen Isabella then married for a fourth time, to, who had succeeded his brother Guy, positioned as King of Cyprus. After t ...
King George IICreated by Royal Charter of, "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ...
Raúl Castro... dent of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until Fidel andleave power and a prescribed course of transition is followed. The bill al ...
Isabella I of CastileFerdinand's 1469 marriage tobrought about a dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon with Castile. In 151 ...
Edward I of England... e battlefields of France and Scotland. Their skill was exercised under King(r. 1272–1307), who banned all sports but archery at the butts on Sundays, ...
Constantine... nciple of "one god, one empire", that was later adopted to a full extent by. On some coins, he appears with the title deus et dominus natus ("God and ...
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George Washington... 1784, the name "Charlotte County" was changed to Washington County to honor, the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United ...
Al Gore... the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and continued the trend by givingan 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate Joh ...
Charles I... l Assemblies, moreover, met only at times and places approved by the crown.inherited a settlement in Scotland based on a balanced compromise between ...
Alexander the Great... s were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an ...
Queen Elizabeth... ." The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court ofto develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish s ...
Eleanor... e Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate ...
Henry II... own, he entered the household of Henri d'Angoulême, the illegitimate son of, governor of Provence. He served this prince as secretary in Provence, an ...
Adolf Hitler... manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewedfor United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPA ...
Louis PhilippeThe French Foreign Legion was created by, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831. The direct reason was that for ...
PresidentThe village was named afterGrover Cleveland
Charles IIFuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to. In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ...
Ugyen Wangchuck's emergence as the national leader coincided with the realization that th ...
Peter III of Aragon... ulture expanded into the islands of the Western Mediterranean. The reign of("the Great") included the conquest of Sicily and the successful defense a ...
Alexander the Great... the decisive Battle of Gaugamela in 330 BC against the advancing armies of. The Achaemenids were decisively defeated by Alexander and retreated from ...
Ibrahim NasirIn 1957, however, the new prime minister,, called for a review of the agreement in the interest of shortening the l ...
King Emeric... enice throughout the 12th century, but had rebelled in 1181 and allied withof Hungary and . Subsequent Venetian attacks were repulsed, and by 1202 th ...
Bill Clinton... ed his former Senate colleague Bob Dole for president, while Gantt endorsed. Although Helms is generally credited with being the most successful Repu ...
Augustus... to being "a son of god", "a son of a god" or "son of Heaven". Roman Emperorreferred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as ...
Cyrus the Great... ka as "Mykians" who were also previously involved in several conquests withand after the conquest of Egypt with Cambyses, they went to Sindh in comma ...
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor... oligarchies, in part through miscegenation with the local elites. In 1532,imposed a vice-king to Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, in order to prevent Cor ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of(the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ...
President Johnson... ski notes: “It was significant that, in contrast to his secretary of state,fully accepted the Israeli version of the tragic incident.” He notes that ...
King Charles IIIn 1670granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ...
Ludwig I... ll his death as a model constitutional monarch. On 13 October 1825, his sonsucceeded him
Jacques Chirac... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President
Elizabeth II... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ...
Stan Kasten... ncluding former Los Angeles Lakers player Magic Johnson, baseball executiveand film mogul Peter Guber, was announced on March 27, 2012. The total sal ...
Barack ObamaIn the 2008 presidential election, Democratreceived 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ...
William Henry Harrison... provide entertainment at political functions. The presidential campaign ofwas the first to greatly benefit from music, after which it became standar ...
Richard IIWhenwas crowned in 1377, he led a procession from the Tower to Westminster Abb ...
AgamemnonIn 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as. The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the scr ...
Emperor Gaozu... eror" (huangdi) at the urging of his followers and is known posthumously as(r. 202–195 BCE). Chang'an was chosen as the new capital of the reunified ...
Gregory Peck... red psychoanalysis and featured a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí.plays amnesiac Dr. Anthony Edwardes under the treatment of analyst Dr. Pet ...
Kaiser... became one of the most prominent critics of German expansionism and of the's war policies. He publicly attacked the Belgian annexation policy and un ...
Tiberius... tory of Pliny, by Pliny the Elder (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperorhad the cucumber on his table daily during summer and winter. The Romans r ...
Domitian... of the Third Century, earning him the title Restorer of the World. Althoughwas the first Emperor who had demanded to be officially hailed as dominus ...
President... pollution), a meticulously planned terrorist attack was staged against theand the Congress, which was afterwards referred to as "the President's Day ...
James II of Majorca... d Roussillon and the city of Montpellier were left as a kingdom for his sonas the Kingdom of Majorca. This division began a period of struggle that e ...
Warren G. Harding... evelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket ofand Calvin Coolidge. On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge i ...
Kanishka I... i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman Empire, the 2nd century Kushan Kingused the title devaputra meaning "son of God"
Sparta... . The Peloponnesian War, the large scale Greek civil war between Athens andand their allies, is a case in point
German kingIn 1440 he was electedas Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by ...
William, Duke of Nassau... rrounded by several outstanding buildings. The ducal palace was begun under. Its foundations were laid in 1837 and it was completed in November 1841 ...
Atahualpa... tage of a recent civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperorand Huáscar, and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated ...
German King... was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II asas Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 14 ...
Constantius... singly repressed, often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperorsand Constans declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in t ...
Ugyen Wangchuck... ntial Russian advances in Lhasa, wanted to open trade relations with Tibet., on the advice of his closest adviser Ugyen Dorji, saw the opportunity to ...
President's... of the Department of Defense. The Secretary of the Navy was a member of theCabinet until 1947, when the Navy, Army, and newly created Air Force were ...
Maximilian II... ng the force of public opinion against him, abdicated in favour of his son,
Alexander the Great... ty (c. 1000 B.C.) in China to Jimmu Tenno of Japan (perhaps c. 600 B.C.) to(c. 360 BC) have assumed titles that reflect a filial relationship with de ...
Kyösti Kallio... e sabotaged the prospects of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival, so that Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Relander's former Prime Minister, was ele ...
Maximilian I... an Emperor as Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his sonafter ten years of joint rule
John F. Kennedy... endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat. He told friends, "I will do almost anything to avoid turning my chair an ...
Calvin Coolidge... t, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and. On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge in which he offered ...
Henry Bolingbroke... as in the security of the Tower rather than Windsor as was more usual. Whenreturned from exile in 1399, Richard was imprisoned in the White Tower. He ...
Thomas Jefferson... Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President. Over the following days, they would reached the present sites of Kelso a ...
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty... city had been a breeding ground of famous politicians and bureaucrats like, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai ...
Emperor of the French... eaty of Fontainebleau stripped Napoleon of his powers (but not his title as) and sent him into exile on Elba
John Adams... s down in those communities in September and October. James Warren wrote toon October 22, "We are now in a state of Anarchy and Confusion bordering o ...
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud... ts of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival Kyösti Kallio, so that, Relander's former Prime Minister, was elected. In Relander's opinion, Ka ...
Cyrus the Great... soon fell a prey to the Achaemenian Dynasty during the reign of Achaemenid,(558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to Pliny's evide ...
Barack Obama... th Star Borough. In the 2008 presidential election, the Ester precinct gave379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for John Mc ...
Lee Teng-hui... er Chiang Ching-kuo. The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor,, which culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. ...
Jeanne of NavarreAt the request of, the queen, he began work on the Histoire de Saint Louis, which he comple ...
Huáscar... nt civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor Atahualpa and, and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated, such as t ...
Fidel Castro... had joined the FBI and in the 1960s had contracted to the CIA to eliminateusing Mafia bosses Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. In late 1971, the P ...
Risto Ryti... Continuation War. On August 27 he suffered a serious stroke. Prime Ministertook over his duties. Kallio's heart became weak while he knowingly took r ...
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen MotherThe Comet was a hit with passengers includingand Princess Margaret, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 ...
Chen Shui-bian... culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. In 2000,was elected the president, becoming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. ...
Augustus... the divine one) was specially, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor(as adopted son of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to Dom ...
Vladimir Putin... Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian Presidenton 25 July 2006
Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), as ...
Kyösti Kallio... by the fact that some of the party's key figures, such as Santeri Alkio and, declined to stand
Ugyen Wangchuck... the anti-British, pro-Tibetan ponlop of Paro—resulted in the ascendancy of, the Ponlop of Tongsa. From his power base in central Bhutan, Ugyen Wangc ...
William I of the Netherlands... next became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1830), andfounded a new university in 1816 in Leuven as a state university
Juho Kusti Paasikivi... Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and
Princess Margaret... t was a hit with passengers including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 hosted by Sir Geoffr ...
Bill Clinton... ummit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between United States President, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Ya ...
Charles I... f Arms Hotel. The hotel was built by Sir Thomas Morgan, during the reign of. Cardiff Arms Park was named after this hotel. From 1803, the Cardiff Arm ...
Ronald Reagan... Valley Days under the title Trails West; the series' original host had been. He also turned in an appearance as a hand surgeon in the Night Gallery e ...
Louis IXIn 1241, he accompanied Theobald to the court of the king of France,(the future Saint Louis). In 1244, when Louis organized the Seventh Crusad ...
Prince Charles... a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and, called Jacob's Vow. The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterized by c ...
Thomas JeffersonVice Presidentdenounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution
George Washington... he site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads.was served breakfast at Dobson's tavern on June 2, 1791. Joseph Kerner bou ...
Adolf HitlerIn his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, andlabelled Anthroposophy "Jewish methods." The anthroposophical institutions ...
Alexander the Great... the Achaemenid Persian Empire until the fall of the Empire in c. 333 BCE to. The period under Persian rule after the construction of the second Templ ...
Gopal Krishna Gokhale... all things British. The moderates led by leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji andon the other hand wanted reform within the framework of British rule. Tila ...
Henry V... pped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. The reign of(1413–1422) renewed England's fortune in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ...
Herbert Hoover... the protection of the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents,and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, ...
DiocletianUnder the tetrarchy reform of Emperorin 296 AD, Lydia was revived as the name of a separate Roman province, muc ...
Risto Ryti... f the electoral college, defeating the National Progressive Party candidateby 172 votes to 109. He was elected largely due to the fact that he attrac ...
JeffersonThe Democratic Party is often called "the party of," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ...
Domitian... sar as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used byand is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament
Humphry DavyClathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir
president's... wyer of the U.S. government. The attorney general serves as a member of thecabinet, and is one of only two cabinet department heads who are not given ...
Ma Ying-jeou... oming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. The 2008 election of Presidentmarked the second peaceful transfer of power, this time back to the KMT
Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Baseball, announced on April 20, 2011, that MLB woul ...
Yasser Arafat... nton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman. Ultimately, it was an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a "final status ...
George W. BushIn late 2005 Presidentvisited Kernersville's Deere-Hitachi plant to give a speech about the Amer ...
Islam Karimov... ratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU), but the party leadership, under President, remained in place. Independence brought a series of institutional change ...
James MadisonJefferson andalso secretly drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions denouncing the ...
Omar al-BashirIn December 1999, a power struggle climaxed between presidentand NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament Hassan ...
Harry S. Truman... the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and, left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, Eisenhower was ent ...
Ulysses S. Grant... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician.to cut Robert E. Lee's final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the sp ...
Frederick William IV... my, not Austria. In refusing to agree to the offer of the imperial crown to, Maximilian had the support of his parliament. In withholding his assent ...
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg... ckname of Reissu-Lasse ('Travelling Larry'). He was continually compared toand his performance as president
Grover ClevelandThe village was named after President
Zalman Shazar... nt to visit him and they were grandly received. One of Israel's presidents,, who was of Lubavitch ancestry, would visit Schneerson and corresponded e ...
Richard Nixon... hoose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republicanagainst Democrat John F. Kennedy. He told friends, "I will do almost anyth ...
Christopher Wren... ry tilt yard tower — the only surviving example of the five original towers;'s Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-ce ...
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford... irst as Souhegan East, then as Bedford in 1750. The town was named for Lord, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1748–1751), and a close ...
Kim Dae-jung... dress. . Donga.com. Retrieved March 8, 2007. In 2001, then Presidentannounced a plan for building up a Strategic Mobile Fleet. . Kim Dae-ju ...
Samuel Pepys... tube while in blossom, the Cucumber will grow to a most surprising length.’wrote in his diary on September 22, 1663: “this day Sir W. Batten tells me ...
Peter O'Malley... ayers from Asia; mainly, Japan, Korea, Iran, Iraq, and Taiwan. Former ownerbegan reaching out in 1980 by starting clinics in China and Korea, buildin ...
King George III... me a member of the Company of Surgeons. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon to
Alexios III Angelos... Isaac II Angelos was deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as, the new emperor had his brother blinded (a traditional punishment for tr ...
Fernando Belaúnde Terry... Sendero Luminoso uprising, Vargas Llosa was asked by the Peruvian Presidentto join the Investigatory Commission, a task force to inquire into the mas ...
Joseph... João V died on July 31, 1750 in Lisbon, and was succeeded by his son Prince
Charles V... ng of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the emperorobtained the help of the duke during the war of the league of Schmalkalden ...
King Henry VIII... dover and Anne Boleyn also owned property in the same town. It is said thatmade Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because Boleyn' ...
Haakon IV of Norway... attle of Largs in 1263 in support of Alexander III of Scotland against King. The Norwegian forces were defeated by the victorious Scots
Óengus mac Fergusa... ship, which had been stable for more than a hundred years since the time of(The accession of Cináed mac Ailpín as king of both Picts and Scots can be ...
Henry VI of EnglandAfter defeat at the Battle of Towton,crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of Q ...
Alexander the Great... scribed in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of, and Roman consul Julius Caesar (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of R ...
Richard NixonThe 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where formerspeech writer Ben Stein, in the role of a high school teacher, leads a cla ...
Theodore Roosevelt... th a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president,, and the fear of the soldiers. From 1902 till 1930, she and Matilda ran S ...
Stanley Rous... rst to run the full length of the pitch. It was opened on 23 August 1961 by, secretary of the Football Association. The 10,008 capacity all-seater st ...
Ulysses S. Grant... ntinued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by Presidentran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and th ...
Barack Obama... Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democratwon Klickitat County over Republican by only 21 votes or percentage wise 4 ...
Isaac II AngelosIt was also in 1195 thatwas deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as Alexios III Ange ...
Francis I... f Dreux and of Rethel, governor of Champagne (d. 1524), who was employed byin many diplomatic negotiations, more particularly in his intrigues to get ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... f only included one small paragraph about the Liberty in his autobiography,, Vantage Point, p.300–301 We learned that the ship had been attacked in e ...
Hans Sloane... ney to Paris. And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society — or at least, Sir, their president — in two dialogues, entitled The Transactioner. At Mount ...
King Charles I... med by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of, in 1634. The county was largely composed of farms and undeveloped land u ...
Philip II of Macedon... oabite King Eglon, by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the Book of Judges.(336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesa ...
George W. Bush... % of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, andall won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Obama won Klickitat Coun ...
Mihály KárolyiIn October 1918,established the Hungarian Democratic Republic, and Polanyi became Secretar ...
John Davenant... e, he was born at his father's rectory and was baptised on 19 June 1608. Dr, bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to John Aubr ...
Alexander III of Scotland... Clan Ross by tradition fought at the Battle of Largs in 1263 in support ofagainst King Haakon IV of Norway. The Norwegian forces were defeated by th ...
Al Gore... sage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) then-Vice Presidentmentioned the Smoot-Hawley tariff as a response to NAFTA objections voiced ...
Henry IV... , who married Anthony de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, and became the mother of, king of France
Pope Paul VI... or the Roman Curia to function". (Pastor Bonus, 172). It was established byon 15 August 1967. Its current President is Archbishop Domenico Calcagno s ...
Peter II of Aragon... erritory (the "Reconquista"); to the east, in 1213, the defeat and death of("Peter the Catholic") in the Battle of Muret put an end to the project of ...
Bill Clinton... county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan,, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Oba ...
Ferdinand... of opposition to the Habsburgs until in 1534 he made a treaty at Linz with, king of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the em ...
Queen Mary II... in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for King William III andof England. King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in ...
Menen AsfawOn 3 August he marriedof Ambassel, niece of heir to the throne Lij Iyasu
Grace Kelly... scheming villain, an ex-tennis pro who tries to murder his unfaithful wifefor her money. When she kills the hired assassin in self-defense, Milland ...
Mohamed Nasheed... r. Waheed opposed the arrest order and supported the opposition that forcedto resign. A day later, Nasheed stated that he was forced to resign at gun ...
Shah Alam II... athas under Mahadji Shinde recaptured Delhi and restored the Mughal Emperorto the throne in 1772
Patrick Hillery... h its nearest neighbour, the United Kingdom and Denmark, on 1 January 1973.became Ireland's first European Commissioner. In appointing Hillery Europe ...
Puyi... Mukden Incident and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with, the last Qing emperor, installed as the nominal regent and emperor. Manc ...
Abraham Lincoln... to which the United States should strive. This view was notably promoted by, who considered the Declaration to be the foundation of his political phi ...
Muryeong of Baekje... rean King. Kim has theorized that Emperor Keitai may have been a brother of, and they may be sons of Konchi of Baekje (곤지, 昆支). If so, then this lege ...
Pierre Nkurunziza... lections in June and July, on 19 August 2005, the good governance minister,, became the first post-transitional president
known posthumously... e Three Kingdoms (220–280 CE). It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang,as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9– ...
Henry the Fowler... ed the Magyars in their 915 campaign against the Duchy of Saxony under Duke
François MitterrandIn 1985, Presidentcommissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be ...
Francis I... 550 before he was born in 1553. By his wife Margaret d'Angoulême, sister of, he had a daughter, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre, who married Anthon ...
Holy Roman Emperor... n the county courts of Franconia. They received their jurisdiction from the, from whom they also received the capacity to pronounce capital punishmen ...
Roh Moo-hyun... rch 12, 2007. As a part of "Defense Reform 2020," which was proposed by theAdministration, the ROK Navy is required to reform the organizations under ...
Pope Pius XI... Ratti's expulsion climaxed in Warsaw. Two years later, Achille Ratti became, shaping Vatican policies towards Poland with Pietro Gasparri and Eugenio ...
James Monroe... party unity was greatly diminished and the party's organization faded away.ran under the party's banner in the 1820 election and built support by con ...
Harry S. Truman... hose involved wanted a similar framework for international trade. Presidentlaunched this process in December 1945 with negotiations for the creation ...
King William III... ounty was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named forand Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of t ...
Gia Long... h century a rebellion overthrew the Nguyễn, but one of its members, Emperor, by the aid of a French force, in 1801 acquired sway over the whole of pr ...
Marcos Pérez Jiménez... , though not yet cohesive. Already under the government of Division General, the American influence (cultural, political and military) became more pr ...
Ronald Reagan... arrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972),, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democ ...
Jimmy Carter... an outbreak of cancers, birth defects, and other health problems. Presidenteventually declared the Love Canal area a state of emergency, and all resi ...
Mohamed Nasheedwon the 2008 Presidential election, resulting in Gayoom having to step dow ...
Richard Nixon... ." In 1988 Michael Dukakis narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote.(1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the ...
Pope Benedict XVI... 4, 2010, a report by the New York Times cited the Fr. Murphy case to accuseof a cover-up while he was head of the CDF in 1996.However Father Thomas B ...
Sun Yat-sen#biography film Road to Dawn (China, 2007) featuring Winston Chao and Angel ...
Lê LợiIn 1428, a Vietnamese general namedfounded an independent dynasty in Vietnam which lasted till the end of the ...
Isaías Medina Angarita... lf), were the General in Chief Eleazar López Contreras and Division General
George W. Bush... ewers by television executives), the Iraq War and other foreign policies ofand Tony Blair, British cuisine, and organic farming. He supports Britain' ...
James I of Aragon... to the project of consolidating Catalan power over Provence. His successordid not fully consolidate his power until 1227; once he consolidated his i ...
President of Ireland... h century has been home to a herd of wild Fallow deer. The residence of the(Áras an Uachtaráin), which was built in 1754, is located in the park. The ...
William Ewart Gladstone... al to Peel were known as the Peelites and included the Earl of Aberdeen and. During 1859 the Peelites merged with the Whigs and the Radicals to form ...
Oenopion... otia, his visit to Chios where he met Merope and was blinded by her father,, the recovery of his sight at Lemnos, his hunting with Artemis on Crete, ...
Domitien Ndayizeye... ational human rights groups claimed that the current government was framingby torturing him into false confessions of a coup plot. Along with these a ...
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh... ersy continued to dog the National Coalition when the President of Ireland,, resigned in 1976 after being called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minis ...
William VThe succeeding duke, Albert's son,(called the Pious), had received a Jesuit education and showed keen attach ...
William McKinleyAfter the two terms of Democrat Grover Cleveland, the election ofin 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence of Republican dominance and is some ...
George III... rd (1987) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) in 1917, set in the trenches of ...
Henry the Lion... of importance only after the division of the duchy of Saxony on the fall of, when the archbishop of Cologne, duke of Westphalia from 1180 onwards, pl ...
Andrew Jackson... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to, a longtime political rival
Arthur Twining Hadley... ed in 1927 at Scollay Square, near the site of Yale's birth. Yale presidentpenned the inscription, which reads: "On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of ...
Maria of Montferrat... sitioned as King of Cyprus. After their deaths in 1205, her eldest daughter(born after her father's murder) succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem
Richard II... Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), rebelled against Kingand helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King Henry IV and ...
Qin Shi Huang... o well known in ancient China, as in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King(227 BC). In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, w ...
Érimón... and was the wife of Míl, that is Milesius, and the mother of Éber Donn and. Míl had given Neferhotep military aid against ancient Ethiopia and was g ...
Emperor NinkenEmpress: Kasuga no Yamada no Himemiko (春日山田皇女), daughter ofSatehime (紗手媛), daughter of Kose no Ohito no Ōomi (許勢男人大臣
Domitien NdayizeyeFormer Presidentand his political supporters were arrested in 2006 and accused of plotting ...
John Quincy Adams... the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, Henry Clay backedto deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longtime political rival
Grover ClevelandAfter the two terms of Democrat, the election of William McKinley in 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence ...
Maumoon Abdul GayoomElected to replace Nasir for a five-year presidential term in 1978 was, a former university lecturer and Maldivian ambassador to the United Nati ...
Zeno... he state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer.granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after his ov ...
President of IrelandControversy continued to dog the National Coalition when the, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, resigned in 1976 after being called a "thundering d ...
George W. Bush... in an internal e-mail message that reporters should not "artificially holdand John Kerry 'equally' accountable" to the public interest, and that com ...
King Harald FairhairIn 875,led a fleet from Norway to Scotland. In his attempt to unite Norway, he fo ...
Henry IV... ent, turned. He was presented by his countryman, the Cardinal Du Perron, to; and, though that economical prince did not at first show any great eager ...
King of Burma... of the white elephant, and Lord of the twenty-four umbrellas." In 1855 thedirected a letter to the Marquis of Dalhousie in which he styles himself " ...
Sun Yat-sen... ones. In addition to emperors, successful courtiers and politicians such asalso occasionally received posthumous titles
Jacques ChiracOn 12 July 2006, Presidentheld an official state ceremony marking the centenary of Dreyfus's officia ...
Richard I of England... away Byzantine province of Cyprus. But rather than return it to the Empire,sold the island to the Knights Templa
Albert V... many. William, whose death occurred in March 1550, was succeeded by his son, who had married a daughter of Ferdinand of Habsburg, afterwards the empe ...
Emperor Ōjin... etsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of, Keitai, came and ascended the throne
Imru Haile SelassieRas Makonnen arranged for Tafari as well as his first cousin, Rasto receive instruction in Harar from Abba Samuel Wolde Kahin, an Ethiopian ...
Émile Loubet... euil racetrack in Paris in 1899. In this incident, the President of France,, was struck on the head with a walking stick by Count Albert de Dion, own ...
Lord of the Isles... female line, and that later led to dispute between two rival claimants—theand the Duke of Albany. This resulted in the Battle of Harlaw 1411, where ...
Emperor BuretsuIf Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, thenwould have been the last monarch of the first recorded dynasty of Japan
Camille Chamoun... The deployment came in response to the urgent request of Lebanese presidentafter sectarian violence had erupted in the country. Washington considered ...
King James I... first permanent English settlement in the "New World", Jamestown. Named for, it was founded in May 1607 by Christopher Newport. In 1619, colonists to ...
President of France... reyfusards at the Auteuil racetrack in Paris in 1899. In this incident, the, Émile Loubet, was struck on the head with a walking stick by Count Alber ...
Martin Van Buren... in their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of, a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong ...
Anne of Brittany... incourt in 1415. Alain the Great, lord of Albret (d. 1522), wished to marry, and to that end fought against Charles VIII; but his hopes being defeate ...
Adolf HitlerStarting in the 1930s,and Joseph Stalin murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-n ...
President's... ment of Homeland Security. The Secretary of the Treasury is a member of theCabinet, and since the Clinton Administration, has been a member of the U. ...
President of the United States... S. medal, for his actions. The Medal of Honor is generally presented by thein the White House, but this time it was awarded at the Washington Navy Ya ...
Ibrahim NasirThe Second Republic was proclaimed in November 1968 under the presidency of, who had increasingly dominated the political scene. Under the new consti ...
Philip II of Spain... lii suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, and dedicated it to, son of the Emperor
Simón Bolívar... al times; Jose Joaquin de Olmedo (born in Guayaquil), famous for his ode totitled Victoria de Junin; Juan Montalvo, a prominent essayist and novelist ...
Louis XIII... , elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses - the odes to Marie de' Medici and to, are the best-remembered of his works
King Edward... de according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King. It was held againstuntil its surrender in mid-September 1461 after the Battle of Towton. Re-c ...
Louis XIV... effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when the army ofentered the city
President of Ireland... comeback by securing the election of its candidate, Erskine H. Childers, asin 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the National Coalition's Tom O'H ...
Empress Jitō... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and. Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ...
Henry IV... ng Richard II and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against Kingand after defeating the earl in the Battle of Shrewsbury, the king chased ...
J. William Fulbright... ining more information about the attack, as expressed by Committee Chairman: "We asked for [the attack investigation report] about 2 weeks ago and ha ...
Barack Obama... er, the Washington Democratic caucus awarded two-thirds of its delegates toand one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray switch ...
Genghis KhanIn The Earth Is the Lord's (1941), she fictionalized; in The Arm and the Darkness (1943), Cardinal Richelieu; in A Pillar of I ...
Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark... f Hesse and were given the less exalted Battenberg title. His siblings were(mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and ...
Charles II... he was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of invitingto Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. ...
Bette DavisDe Havilland was good friends withwith whom she starred in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Private L ...
Daniel Patrick MoynihanIntroduced by Senator, Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ...
Warren G. Harding... o the League of Nations, high tariffs, and promotion of business interests., Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 19 ...
Chandragupta Maurya... ssassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra. His student, the founder of the Maurya Empire, later made use of assassinations again ...
OrestesThe story is an update of the Greek myth ofto the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War. Agamemnon i ...
Emperor SujinJien records that Suinin was the third son of, and that he ruled from the palace of Tamaki-no-miya at Makimuku in what ...
Queen Elizabeth... ull 552 but when launched, on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of, who was then Queen Consort and in 1952 became the Queen Mother. With a d ...
Emperor Ling... rban Rebellion and the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion. Following the death of(r. 168–189 CE), the palace eunuchs suffered wholesale massacre by militar ...
Constantine... known in the Republic, ceased to have meaning in everyday life. The Emperorreintroduced the term as the empire's senior honorific title, not tied to ...
Timothy Geithner... Secretary of the Treasury from January 20, 2009, until the confirmation of, which occurred January 26, 2009
Franklin D. Roosevelt... d to influence from his own party and business leaders and signed the bill.spoke against the act while campaigning for president during 1932
Augustus... s the ancient Etruscan town of Tibur (modern Tivoli). The mythic meeting ofwith the Sibyl, of whom he inquired whether he should be worshiped as a go ...
James I of ScotlandThe title reverted to the crown in 1424. Kingrestored the title to Margaret, whose son was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the I ...
Maximilian IWhatever lustre the international position won bymight add to the ducal house, on Bavaria itself its effect during the next ...
Richard, Earl of Cornwall... diminished territories of Outremer throughout most of the 13th century andreconstructed and refortified the citadel during 1240–41, as part of the C ...
Charles II... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration ofin 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ...
Adolf Hitler... baden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of. Beck was designated by his fellow conspirators to be future Head of Stat ...
Charles Sherrington... of the brain as a dynamic entity. Reflecting the new understanding, in 1942visualized the workings of the brain waking from sleep
Prince Albert... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of. Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ...
Lordship of the Isles... styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was to develop latterly into the
Lord FitzwilliamIn 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee. He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the ...
elder brother... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his, and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ...
President of Ireland... eventually nominated (without election) as Ó Dálaigh's successor and sixth
President LincolnIn April 1864, at Bancroft's request,wrote out what would become the fourth of five known manuscripts of the Ge ...
William Howard Taft... party ticket of the Progressive Party and challenged his previous successor. The party controlled the presidency throughout the 1920s, running on a p ...
Hugh Capet... the count Borrell II made official in 987 when he failed to swear fealty to, the first Capetian monarch. In those years of the formation of the Catal ...
Empress Jitō... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and. Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ...
Cyrus the Great... arpessus near the small town of Gergitha, during the lifetimes of Solon and. Marpessus, according to Heraclides of Pontus, was formerly within the bo ...
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor... of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter ofand his third wife, Eleonore Magdalena of the Palatinate-Neuburg, thus str ...
Alan Hodgkin... igation of the electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by, Andrew Huxley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and ...
Empress Jitō... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and. Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ...
Theodore Roosevelt... re cemented as the party of business, though mitigated by the succession ofwho embraced trust busting. He later ran on a third party ticket of the Pr ...
Queen Elizabeth II... stian Edward; born 19 February 1960), is the second son, and third child ofand Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was sec ...
Ulysses S. Grant... t about $450/person. Catching a fatal disease was a distinct possibility asin 1852 learned when his unit of about 600 soldiers and some of their depe ...
Lord of the Isles... ty in England, restored it to the heiress of line, the mother of Alexander,
King Cole... ria Anglorum that Constantine's mother Helena was a Briton, the daughter ofof Colchester. Geoffrey of Monmouth expanded this story in his highly fict ...
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor... standard from the walls of Acre. He was later transferred to the custody of, and it took a ransom of one hundred fifty thousand marks to obtain his r ...
Emperor Xian... ds and divide the empire. When Cao Pi, King of Wei, usurped the throne from, the Han Dynasty ceased to exist
Maximilian I... the family for nearly 200 years. In 1597 he abdicated in favour of his son, and retired into a monastery, where he died in 1626
Abraham Lincoln... e the expansion of slavery it chose its name to echo the Jefferson's party.and other members sought to combine Jefferson's ideals of liberty and equa ...
Emperor Ingyō's... a grandson of Ohi no Kimi, a great-grandson of Ohohoto no Kimi (brother toconsort), a great-great-grandson of Wakanuke Futamata no Kimi, and a great ...
AlexanderIt had takenonly six months to conquer Persia (Iran), but it took him nearly three yea ...
Jérôme Bonaparte... hey survived into the 19th century. They were finally abolished by order of, king of Westphalia, in 1811. The last Freigraf died in 1835
The Queen... ntended to be complete for the ship to enter service in the spring of 1940.herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938 and the ship ...
RooseveltDemocratic Presidentand especially his Secretary of State Cordell Hull were critical of the Ne ...
Robert McNamara... tements from several senators and responses from then Secretary of Defense,, about the Liberty attack. For the most part, the senators were dismayed ...
Queen Louise of Sweden... s Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh),, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
Alfred the GreatDuring the great Viking invasion of England opposed byand various other Saxon and Welsh rulers, the Viking chieftain Hastein in ...
Rutherford's... i had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discoveringatomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If ...
Emperor AnkanWhendied, he had no offspring; and succession passed to his youngest brother w ...
Emperor KeitaiAccording to the Kojiki Ankan was the elder son of, who is considered to have ruled the country during the early-6th century ...
King William IV... t acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister.'s opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in ...
Lord of the Isles... was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the Isles. The earldom of Ross remained with theuntil that lordship was forfeited to the crown in 1476
Gopal Krishna Gokhale... had brought with them were required to alleviate many of India's problems., a veteran Congressman and Indian leader, became Gandhi's mentor. Gandhi' ...
Maria Anna of Austria... r 1708 he married his maternal first cousin Archduchess & Princess Imperial, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of Leopold I ...
Isaac Newton... o flow". As fluxion, this term was introduced into differential calculus by
Empress Jitō... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and. Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ...
Irving Fisher... asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by Paul Douglas,, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Seager, Frank Taus ...
George WashingtonRobert Morris was the first person appointed Secretary of the Treasury by, but Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasur ...
Habte Giyorgis... ing to the movement that deposed Iyasu were conservatives such as Fitawrari, Menelik II's longtime Minister of War. The movement to depose Iyasu pref ...
Diocletian... AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperorissued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini ...
Maria Anna of AustriaJohn married Archduchess, daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, his first cousin, in 1708. Fr ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... of the next three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of Republican. African Americans moved into the Democratic Party during Roosevelt's tim ...
Theodosius II... nt Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by Pulcheria, sister of, for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choice was a sign of the bond ...
President... a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser toAndrew Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cou ...
Emperor YūryakuNinken married to's daughter Kasuga no Ōiratsume no Himemiko, a second cousin of him. Their ...
The Shah of Iran... I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had seven of them.drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the ...
King Henry VIII... on period. Later, Buckinghamshire became an important political arena, withintervening in local politics in the 16th century and just a century later ...
Valerian... ult was that the Empire could not endure the blow of the capture of Emperorin 260. The eastern provinces found their protectors in the rulers of the ...
Emperor Seinei... s younger brother, Prince Woke, Oyoke was raised to greater prominence whendied without an heir. The two young princes were said to be grandsons of E ...
Alexander III... Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland Scotland to, through the Treaty of Perth
Philip II of Spain... and the organization of the two books were quite varied. He dedicated it to, son of the Emperor
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Manuel I Komnenos... nt. However, Myriocephalum's implications were initially limited, thanks to' holding on to power. The same could not be said of Romanos, whose enemie ...
Pulcheria... nearby church of Saint Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by, sister of Theodosius II, for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choic ...
Timothy GeithnerThe current Secretary of the Treasury is. The Secretary of the Treasury earns $191,300 per year
Emperor Kammu... early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of(737–806), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty. The name Suinin-tennō ...
President... ould make her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General underAbraham Lincoln, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a jou ...
Queen Anne of Great Britain... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with
Herbert HooverWarren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge andwere resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respectively. The Teapot ...
Henry VIII... the Dissolution of the Monasteries, all monastic manors were seized by King. They were sold off or given away to the nobility and landed gentry. Gran ...
Agamemnon... h of Orestes to the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War.is now General Ezra Mannon, Clytemnestra is his second wife Christine, Ore ...
Peter I... antilist policies were imported by Philip V with some success. Russia under(Peter the Great) attempted to pursue mercantilism, but had little success ...
Magnus the Law-mender... attack that year. Haakon died overwintering in Orkney, and by 1266, his sonceded the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland S ...
James Conant... d, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, to, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. The conversation wa ...
James Monroe... York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after, fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the ...
Morcant Bulc... have been called Bryneich. John Morris surmised that the line of a certainreferred to these monarchs, chiefly because he identified this man as the ...
Grace KellyAfter I Confess (1953) with Montgomery Clift, three popular films starringfollowed. Dial M for Murder (1954) was adapted from the stage play by Fred ...
Maximilian II EmanuelHis good work, however, was largely undone by his son(1679–1726), whose far-reaching ambition set him warring against the Ottom ...
Harald I of Denmark... of the Scandinavian Blåtand/Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century kingand parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingd ...
Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine... ife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. His maternal grandparents were, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Vi ...
Emperor BuretsuNinken was succeeded by his son, who would accede as
Peter IV of Aragon... gon in a new state, this union later being confirmed in the 14th century by("Peter the Ceremonious"). Ramon Berenguer IV used "Aragon" as his primary ...
Adolf Hitler... nd many other modern artists) and removed his 82 works from German museums.announced in 1937, "For all we care, those prehistoric Stone Age culture b ...
Herbert HooverWhen campaigning for president during 1928, one of's promises to help beleaguered farmers had been to increase tariffs of ag ...
Augustus... orous writing with little or no real mocking intent. When Horace criticized, he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th cen ...
Joseph Bonaparte... nk the French lines, Wellington caught up with and smashed the army of Kingin the Battle of Vitoria, for which he was promoted to field marshal on 21 ...
Nebuchadnezzar... en this vast seaport, the last of the Philistine cities to hold out againstfinally fell in 604 BC, burnt and destroyed and its people taken into exil ...
Helgi HundingsbaneIn stanza 38 of the poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, the herodies and goes to Valhalla. In stanza 38, Helgi's glory there is described
Ferdinand Maria... ts effect during the next two centuries was more dubious. Maximilian's son,(1651–1679), who was a minor when he succeeded, did much indeed to repair ...
Zachary Taylor... after John Taylor of Caroline, while a minority believe it was named after
Harry S. Truman... rs old, and had accumulated an impressive set of legal victories. Presidentsent a congratulatory telegram to the ACLU on the occasion of their 25th a ...
Philip V... coherent economic policy, but French mercantilist policies were imported bywith some success. Russia under Peter I (Peter the Great) attempted to pur ...
Flavius Constantius... his rank: he studied law. Before 421 he was sent to the powerful patricius(shortly Emperor in 421), to ask for a tax reduction for his own country. ...
Calvin CoolidgeWarren G. Harding,and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ...
Willis C. Hawley... ot was a Republican from Utah and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee., a Republican from Oregon, was chairman of the House Ways and Means Commi ...
Rafael Trujillo... ence and the abuse of power on the individual. Based on the dictatorship of, who governed the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in ...
Frank Porter GrahamDespite initial skepticism from university President, on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State Co ...
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Blaise Compaoré... rriving at its current form, a semi-presidential republic. The president is
James A. Garfield... at is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after U.S. President
Bill Clinton... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US Presidentvisiting the cit
Samuel Pepys... octor of Divinity at Cambridge. He resumed his lectures at the Savoy, whereheard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his se ...
Leo I the Thracian... ned by J.B. Bury. In 472 Olybrius was sent to Italy by the Eastern Emperor,, ostensibly to mediate between Ricimer and the Western Emperor, Anthemius ...
Mary McAleese... by Sinn Féin and DUP politicians. The President of the Republic of Ireland,, described the decommissioning as "a very positive milestone on the journ ...
Queen of Sheba... and Queen Makeda, Empress of Axum, known in the Abrahamic tradition as the. Haile Selassie is a defining figure in both Ethiopian and African histor ...
Louis XV... g scale projects, with the team Gabriel father and son, architects for King, under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first Nicolas-Franç ...
Mircea I of Wallachia... idely used in the Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. Princeused it against the Ottomans in 1395 and prince Stephen III of Moldavia sc ...
Pope Pius XIIshowed high regard for Benedict, who had consecrated him a Bishop on 13 Ma ...
Humphry DavySince the discovery of potassium by, it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal i ...
Queen Anne... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of; and the Danish Minister protested
Indira Gandhi... refront during the agitation against the emergency (1975–77) imposed by theregime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across Ind ...
Princess Elizabeth... e wrote and arranged three masques, "The Lords' Masque" for the marriage of, an entertainment for the amusement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and ...
Simón Bolívar... f Independence emerged. Among them were Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda,(Bolívar's own father had been Colonel of the Militia of Aragua), the gene ...
Isaac Newton... he advised proceeding by this method (building a case from the ground up)., a noted Baconian, used such principles in the Philosophy section of his ...
Maria Theresa... validity of the Pragmatic Sanction which secured the Habsburg succession to, allied himself with France, conquered Upper Austria, was crowned king of ...
Cyrus the Great... ka is mentioned by Greek historian Herodotus as one of the early satraps of, who successfully united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empi ...
Fernando Belaúnde Terry... of Peru's two principal conservative politicians at the time, ex-president(of the Popular Action party) and Luis Bedoya Reyes (of the Partido Popula ...
Alexander the Great... a card game. He gives him a pocket knife and a small statue of Bucephalus,'s horse, from the loot and tells him the story of how Alexander became Bu ...
George W. Bush... nition of its support for the War on Terrorism, in June 2004 U.S. Presidentdesignated Morocco as a major non-NATO ally
Pope Pius XII... mission for Latin America is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established byon 19 April 1958, it is charged with providing assistance to and examining ...
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MaximilianWhen he was twelve, his kinsman the emperorplaced him among his pages. He remained for seventeen years in the service ...
Gundobad... or was abandoned by his partisans, captured in a church and put to death by, Ricimer's nephew. This version implies that Olybrius was secretly suppor ...
John Adams... e president. He was a consistent and strong opponent of the policies of theadministration. Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitut ...
Ottokar I... ould return to the title of duke. The title of king became hereditary under(1198). His grandson Ottokar II (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-li ...
Numa Pompilius... Romans originally considered winter a monthless period. They were added byabout 713 BC. February remained the last month of the calendar year until ...
Queen Anne... r the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, an entertainment for the amusement ofat Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset t ...
Francis I... e Palace of Fontainebleau. This was accomplished by the great builder-king,(1494–1547), who, in the largest of his many construction projects, recons ...
Blaise Compaoré... arrest and subsequent efforts to bring about his release, directed by Capt.. This release effort resulted in yet another military coup d'état on 4 Au ...
Robert the Bruce... supported Robert the Bruce of Scotland. The Clan Ross fought alongside Kingwhen Earl Fearchar's grandson William led the clan against the English at ...
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Prince Henry... 613, issued a volume of "Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of", set to music by John Cooper (also known as Coperario). The same year he ...
Leopold I, Holy Roman EmperorJohn married Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, daughter of, his first cousin, in 1708. From that marriage were born six children, th ...
Charles Pelham Villiers... rs 1830–41 decided not to repeal the Corn Laws. However the Liberal Whig MPproposed motions for repeal in the House of Commons annually from 1837 to ...
Tullus Hostilius... f Alba Longa. The noble Alban families which settled at Rome in the time ofthen formed the nucleus of the gentes minores; these included the Tulii, S ...
Joseph Bonaparte... aturely ended when he died of tuberculosis in 1830. Also worthy of note was, the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose contributions on French t ...
Shun... t monuments, including the renowned graves of the ancient sage kings Yu and. Places he visited include Shandong, Yunnan, Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Ji ...
John F. Kennedy... and Sargent Shriver became my heroes." Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of, and mother-in-law to Schwarzenegger; Sargent Shriver is husband to Eunic ...
Jaromír of Bohemia... The jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire was definitively reasserted whenwas granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor King Henry II of the ...
Sakthan Thampuran... ter Rama Varma Kunhjipilla Thampuran or Rama Varma IX or popularly known asascended the throne of Kingdom of Cochin (1769 to 1805). He changed the ca ...
Francis IFrom the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, every monarch, fromto Louis XV, made important renovations at the Palace of Fontainebleau, in ...
Josiah... erusalem in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC during the time of kingand the fall of the Kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians. The book is writt ...
Charles AlbertUntaught by Maximilian II Emmanuel's experience, his son,(1726–1745), devoted all his energies to increasing the European prestige ...
Nolan Ryan... nd a homer), while stealing three more bases. On August 22, 1989, he became's 5,000th strikeout victim, but Henderson took an odd delight in the occu ...
Conrad of Montferrat... in 1189. He attempted to take command of the Christian forces at Tyre, butheld power there after his successful defence of the city from Muslim atta ...
John Adams... one (Kentucky) for Jefferson for Vice President in opposition to incumbentas well as casting their votes for President Washington. (Before 1804 elec ...
Charlemagne... d the Pyrenean portion of Catalonia extending their power as far as Girona.'s son Louis took Barcelona from the Moorish emir in 801, ultimately formi ...
Edward VI... olitical and historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of, Mary I, and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronat ...
Félix Faure... 'Aurore on 13 January 1898. The letter was addressed to President of France, and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of ...
King Charles IIHe visited the City as a courtier toin 1671 and described it thus
Nicholas II... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to, the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie
Charles VI... sing the European prestige and power of his house. The death of the emperorproved his opportunity: he disputed the validity of the Pragmatic Sanction ...
Rudolph I of Habsburg... rritory south of the Rhine under their control, aiding their rise to power., who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1273, effectively revoked the status of ...
Leo I the Thracian... supporter, but once again his hopes were shattered, as the Eastern Emperorchose the noble Procopius Anthemius. His association with Gaiseric did not ...
King Edward IIIn the 14th century Napton was granted a market charter byand throughout the Middle Ages it was one of the largest settlements in Wa ...
King Henry II... en Jaromír of Bohemia was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperorof the Holy Roman Empire, with the promise that he hold it as a vassal onc ...
Willis C. Hawley... moot Tariff, was an act, sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative, and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 2 ...
Kingdom of Cochin... ama Varma IX or popularly known as Sakthan Thampuran ascended the throne of(1769 to 1805). He changed the capital of Cochin Royal Family to Thrissur ...
Mary I... d historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of Edward VI,, and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronations
Shimon Peres... King Hassan II took the daring step of inviting then-Israeli Prime Ministerfor talks, becoming only the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader. ...
Clovis IAfter the Franks underdefeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac in 496, the Franks eventual ...
Isaac Newton... ed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley andin 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version of Flamsteed's cat ...
Odin... ain") is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god. Chosen by Odin, half of those that die in combat travel to Valhalla upon ...
Adolf Hitler... ign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland., meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various a ...
Charles Theodore... arian line of the Wittelsbachs became extinct, and the succession passed to, the elector palatine. After a separation of four and a half centuries, t ...
Libius Severus... ed, because Ricimer, who had become the Magister militum of the West, choseas new Emperor (461–465). However, Placidia was now free, and re-joined he ...
Cadwallon ap Cadfan... Hatfield Chase on 12 October 633, in which Edwin was defeated and killed byof Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria again was divided into Bernici ...
Peter Bazalgette... Nigel Kennedy, Ben Elton and Jo Brand. His other pet hates include Endemol,and Big Brother, and the general direction of Channel 4 since the 1990s
King Harald... It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway.was consecrated at Nidaros Cathedral on June 23, 1991
Lech Kaczyński... d in Poland. It was strongly opposed by the Polish government and president. Current Polish prime minister Donald Tusk restricted his comments to a r ...
Minos... , Orion was likely the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Euryale, daughter of, King of Crete. Orion could walk on the waves because of his father; he w ...
Adolf Hitler... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor
Edvard Beneš... membership in the European Union, since the authorisation decrees issued byhad not been formally renounced
Fidel Castro... as Llosa was initially a supporter of the Cuban revolutionary government of. He studied Marxism in depth as a university student and was later persua ...
Henry II of Englanddied on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son Richard I (Lionheart) a ...
Burhanuddin Rabbani... nst the Taliban. Most major leaders including the Islamic State's President, Abdul Rashid Dostum, and others were living in exile. The Taliban repeat ...
Isaac Newton... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (ashad been) by the work of Horrocks
Blaise Compaoré... elections. The amendment also would have prevented the incumbent president,, from being reelected
Tiberius... er a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured the Emperor. The linking of this with the bearing of the cross in the Passion, and th ...
William the ConquerorIn the Harrying of the North,'s brutal conquest and subjugation of the North of England, William's men ...
Rafael Urdaneta... en Colonel of the Militia of Aragua), the general in chief Santiago Mariño,, among many others. With the establishment of an independent captaincy ge ...
Solomon... beginning of 2 Chronicles (chapters 1–9) is a history of the reign of King, son of David
Alfred Marshall... as found support in notable classical and neoclassical economists including, John Stuart Mill and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of se ...
President... e than 11,000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held byTheodore Roosevelt, who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a Whit ...
Rudolph II... ries of the Christian world during that period. In 1609, Holy Roman Emperorwho made Prague again the capital of the Empire at the time, himself a Rom ...
James I... Buchan and Ross, at that battle, the Earldom of Ross reverted to the crown.on his return from his long captivity in England, restored it to the heire ...
William II of Sicily... consisted of 650 knights, 1,300 horses, and 1,300 squires to the Holy Land.had died the previous year, and was replaced by Tancred, who placed Joan o ...
Saul... (chapters 1–10) mostly contains genealogical lists, including the House ofand Saul's rejection by God, which sets the stage for the rise of David
Emperor NinkenEmpress: Tashiraka no Himemiko (手白香皇女), daughter ofMenokohime (目子媛), daughter of Owari no Muraji Kusaka (尾張連草香
Gaston Tong Sang... (with 27 of 44 votes cast in Tahiti assembly). He replaced former President, who lost a no-confidence vote in the 31 August parliament
Richard Crossman... . No remorse was expressed for the largest group of victims, the Arab dead., a British Labour Party MP, whose experience on the Anglo-American Commit ...
Ferdinand... g Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archdukeof Austria became King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent sta ...
Antonín Novotný... Ota Šik and Alexander Dubček, took action: they challenged First Secretaryat a Central Committee meeting. Novotný faced a mutiny in the Central Comm ...
Bill Clinton... l basis by the regulators that had regulated those activities prior to GLB., as well as economists Brad DeLong and Tyler Cowen have all argued that t ...
Pope John Paul II... es. The office also settles labour issues which arise. It was instituted byon 1 January 1989 by an apostolic letter in the form of a
Louis VIIThis hamlet was endowed with a royal hunting lodge and a chapel byin the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, Louis IX, also call ...
Charles IV... he Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I of Bohemia in 1310. His son,became King of Bohemia in 1346. He founded Charles University in Prague, c ...
Charles the Bald... the title of count). At the end of the 9th century, the Carolingian monarchdesignated Wilfred the Hairy — a noble descendant of a family from Conflen ...
Chaim Weizmann... n the Anglo-American Committee had made him sympathetic to Zionism, visitedshortly after the attack. Weizmann's ambivalence towards Zionist violence ...
Queen Margaret... nd crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support ofat Linlithgow. The town also successfully withstood a siege in 1547 from t ...
Emperor of Japan... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of thein pre-Meiji eras
Ottokar II... e. The title of king became hereditary under Ottokar I (1198). His grandson(king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-lived empire which contained moder ...
James IV... thumberland, in northern England, between an invading Scots army under Kingand an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. It ended i ...
Bob CarrActions taken by government ministers, including Premier of New South Wales, who publicly identified the perpetrators' background, led to controversy ...
Emperor KōkōNyōgo: Princess Chūshi/Tadako (忠子女王), daughter of Imperial Prince Tokiyasu(later
Prince of Orange... the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, he received a dispatch from theand was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's advance. He hastily ordered his ...
Louis IX... chapel by Louis VII in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later,, also called Saint Louis, who held Fontainebleau in high esteem and refer ...
Ecgberht... hers Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivar the Boneless, who installed an Englishman,, as a puppet king. By 870 the "Great Summer Army" arrived in England, led ...
Isaac Newton... from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.was a noted Baconian—his famous quote hypotheses non fingo (I don't frame ...
U.S. President... . The county seat is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named afterJames A. Garfield
Napoleon IIIWhen Louis Napoleon () seized complete power in 1851, establishing an anti-parliamentary consti ...
Oenopion... to the island of Chios where he got drunk and attacked Merope, daughter of, the ruler there. In vengeance, Oenopion blinded Orion and drove him away ...
Odin... event is described primarily in the Poetic Edda. In the poem Vafþrúðnismál,poses the question to Vafþrúðnir as to who of mankind will survive the Fim ...
Sigismund of Luxembourg... s passed despite the fact that Hus was granted formal protection by Emperorprior to the journey. Hus was invited to attend the council to defend hims ...
Emperor of Ethiopia... st 1975), born Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 andfrom 1930 to 1974. He was the heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to ...
Philip the Fair... as "his wilderness", had a country house and a hospital constructed there.was born there in 1268 and died there in 1314. In all, thirty-four soverei ...
Emperor MontokuNyōgo: Minamoto no Seishi (源済子), daughter ofNyōgo: Minamoto no Sadako (源貞子) (?–873
current Prince of Wales... y dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star ...
Huneric... ybrius for the purple; the reason for this decision was that Gaiseric's sonand Olybrius had married the two daughters of Valentinian III (Petronius' ...
Berengaria of Navarre... l out over the issue of Richard's marriage, as Richard had decided to marry, breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister Alys. P ...
Robert I of Scotland... connotation is still ethnic. This is how it is used, for instance, by Kingand Domhnall Ua Néill during the Scottish Wars of Independence, when Irela ...
President of the Republic of China... politician of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan). He was theand Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He presided over m ...
Pope Benedict XVIshowed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ...
Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh... ower. The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son(who calls himself "The Black Adder") in his various attempts to increase ...
Emperor... ed Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command ofNapoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Angl ...
Avitus... as a fast succession of Emperors. After Petronius, the Gallic-Roman senatorwas proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two ...
Wenceslaus... his wife Drahomíra, a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons,and Boleslaus, both of whom succeeded him as Bohemian dukes. Střezislava, ...
John Adams... emselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.put forth a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration ...
Irving Fisher... n mainstream neo-classical economics, NPV was formalized and popularized by, in his 1907 The Rate of Interest and became included in textbooks from t ...
Theodoric II... the Gallic-Roman senator Avitus was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth kingand ruled for two years, then was deposed by Majorian, who ruled for four ...
Boleslaus... íra, a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, Wenceslaus and, both of whom succeeded him as Bohemian dukes. Střezislava, the wife of t ...
TitusJews led into captivity after the destruction of Jerusalem byand Vespasian, and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew name into its l ...
Lyndon B. JohnsonIn Washington, Presidenthad received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Liberty had been ...
Cipriano Castro... portant at this stage are: Marshal Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, General in Chief, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual
Augustus... to Bohemia, where their king Maroboduus established a powerful kingdom thatperceived as a threat to Rome. Before he could act, however, the war in Il ...
Béla III of Hungary... f 2,000 men from the Hungarian prince Géza, the younger brother of the kingalso went with Barbarossa to the Holy Land
Narai... as one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the East. The court of King(1656–88) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose am ...
Emperor Kammu... rincess Hanshi (班子女王) (833–900), daughter of Imperial Prince Nakano (son of
Benito Juárez... the constitutions of Geneva, Portugal and Colombia. He had also pleaded forto spare the recently captured emperor Maximilian I of Mexico but to no av ...
David... ng it the final book of the Jewish bible). Chronicles largely parallels theic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings. In the Roman ...
William the Lion, King of Scotland... as described as "very strong". It was besieged in 1172 and again in 1174 byand William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick. E ...
Napoleon... om of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperorwas defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied ...
Melchior Ndadaye... t, non-ethnic government, and a parliament. Burundi's first Hutu president,, of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) Party, wa ...
Frederick II... t of endless intrigues with the Austrian cabinet and the immediate cause of's League of Princes (Fürstenbund) of 1785, was to exchange Bavaria for th ...
Václav Havel... VPN) and the Civic Forum. On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared withon a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, He was greeted with uproarious ...
Emperor Maximilian... e, the functions of the Fehmic courts were superseded. By the action of theand of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more rest ...
Salvador Allende... o manage the allocation of economic inputs. The socialist-run government ofin Chile experimented with Project Cybersyn, a real-time information bridg ...
Louis XIV... rom great territorial nobles, some of whom were leaders of the Fronde. Whenbecame king in 1643, he was only a child, and though Richelieu had died th ...
Thomas Jefferson... hen congress voted on independence. Adams persuaded the committee to selectto compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit t ...
Joseph Banks... inking the Pacific and southern Indian Ocean. Governor Hunter thus wrote toin August 1797 that it seemed certain a strait existed
Franklin D. Roosevelt... dren lived in Washington, D.C., where she struck up a close friendship with. She died in 1954, before her husband ascended the throne
Charles II of England... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by Kingat the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ...
Wendell Corey... nwriter John Michael Hayes based on his own wife, and his policeman buddy () to his theory, and eventually succeeds. As with Lifeboat and Rope, the p ...
Emperor AnkanAmong his sons,, Emperor Senka and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne
Majorian... the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two years, then was deposed by, who ruled for four years, before being killed by his general Ricimer (46 ...
Louis XIV of France... East. The court of King Narai (1656–88) had strong links with that of King, whose ambassadors compared the city in size and wealth to Paris
Emperor MontokuSeiwa was the fourth son of. His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Akirakeiko (明子), also called ...
Emperor KimmeiAmong his sons, Emperor Ankan, Emperor Senka andascended to the throne
Conrad of Montferrat... in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King Qin Shi Huang (227 BC). In 1192,, the de facto King of Jerusalem, was assassinated by hashshashin
Maximilian I of Mexico... e had also pleaded for Benito Juárez to spare the recently captured emperorbut to no avail. His complete archives (published by Pauvert) show also th ...
Marcus Aurelius... f the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son. The ...
Penda of Mercia... n which Edwin was defeated and killed by Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd and, Northumbria again was divided into Bernicia and Deira. Bernicia was then ...
Kingdom of Cochin... ains and left for Mecca to embrace Islam. This place was later ruled by the(Perumpadapu Swaroopam). During the time of the Chera ruler, Kodungallur w ...
Charles I... they had moved to a position in the inner ward. Political tensions betweenand Parliament in the second quarter of the 17th century led to an attempt ...
Stanley Baldwin... itain, and perhaps the world, who did not agree with British Prime Minister's 1932 declaration that "The bomber will always get through". He conceive ...
Emperor SenkaAmong his sons, Emperor Ankan,and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne
Joseph GutnickSoon after Rabbi Schneerson's death, philanthropistof Melbourne, Australia established the Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch Center on Fr ...
R.A. Fisher... was appointed assistant statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station by. In 1933 he became head of statistics when Fisher went to University Coll ...
John F. Kennedy... ernatives. After the election of November 1960, Eisenhower in briefing withpointed out the communist threat in Southeast Asia as requiring prioritiza ...
Antoninus Pius... r Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of, his successor and adoptive son. The Emperor meditates on his past, descr ...
Dowager Empress... reform in reviving monasticism; a negative example would be the role of thein the subjugation of China to European interests). Within nationalist mov ...
Cyprien Ntaryamira... The Rwandan Genocide in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye’s successor, further aggravated the conflict in Burundi by sparking additional massac ...
Vespasianand, and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew nam
Malcolm IV of ScotlandClan Ross is a Highland Scottish clan first named as such by Kingin 1160. The first of the chiefs was Fearchar, Earl of Ross from the O'Beo ...
John... ord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert Fitzwalter against Kingin 1212. In response, John ordered the demolition of Alnwick Castle and Ba ...
Saul... ic periods. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander ofand David's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city
Alfred of Wessex... thern England, where Jorvic had become the centre of the Viking kingdom butmanaged to keep them out of his country. Alfred and his successors continu ...
Pierre Buyoya... operated under a power-sharing political system until July 1996, when Tutsiseized power in a military coup. Under international pressure, the warring ...
George W. Bush... ar himself. Nehemiah Clark, of the cast, expressed disapproval of Presidentand the Iraq War, coming into conflict with Rachel Moyal, who served in Ir ...
Pope John Paul IIThe visit ofto Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ...
Conrad of Montferrat... reduced by fever. Young Frederick had to ask the assistance of his kinsmanto lead him safely to Acre, by way of Tyre, where his father's bones were ...
Emperor Wu of Han... of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to. His definitive work laid the foundation for later Chinese historiography
David... s. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander of Saul and's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city
King Richard III... Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends thatwon the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and ...
Charles II, Duke of Zweibrücken... dren to the status of princes of the Empire. The protests of the next heir,(Deux-Ponts), supported by the king of Prussia, led to the War of Bavarian ...
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón... political figures) of the Army's most important at this stage are: Marshal, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and ...
Oscar TemaruOn September 14, 2007,, 63, was elected president of French Polynesia for the 3rd time in 3 year ...
Alexander II of ScotlandFerquhard Ross helped King(1214–1249) crush a rebellion in Moray and Ross-shire. When King Alexander ...
Alberto Fujimori... he vote, Vargas Llosa was defeated by a then-unknown agricultural engineer,, in the subsequent run-off. Vargas Llosa included an account of his run f ...
Abba Eban... n. Apologies were soon sent by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Minister, and chargé d'affaires Efraim Evron. Within 48 hours, Israel offered to c ...
Napoleon IWhen French emperorcompleted his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towa ...
Pope Pius XI... was founded by the Roman Catholic Church in 1936 under its current name byand is placed under the protection of the reigning Pope). Its aim is to pr ...
Gerald R. Ford, Jr.... mains the only one of its kind in the country. On April 23, 1975, President, spoke at Tulane University's Fogelman Arena at the invitation of Congres ...
Theodore Roosevelt... 000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by President, who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a White House reception ...
Clement AttleeBritish Prime Ministercommented in the House of Commons
Gabriel Narutowicz... governments changed frequently, corruption was commonplace. The open-mindedwas constitutionally elected president by the National Assembly in 1922, b ...
Roman Emperor... ted the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, theHadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of ...
Bill Clinton... artwork of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe". In 1993, when then-presidentwanted to appoint 'out' lesbian Roberta Achtenberg to assistant secretary ...
Augustus... d others) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC. By the time of Emperor, present-day Italy was included in the Roman Italy (Italia) as a province ...
John Tyler... n was 9,208. The County is named after John Tyler, Sr., father of President. Its county seat is
Henry II of England... ristians across Europe. The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land.and Philip II of France ended their war with each other, and both imposed ...
Munju of Baekje... 곤지, 昆支). If so, then this legendary figure would also be the descended from
Francisco Franco... extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again withaccepting the honorary patronage of the
Prince Edmund... der character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumblingof the first series. To make the show more cost-effective, it was also sho ...
Jérôme Bonaparte... during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were finally abolished by order of, king of Westphalia, in 1811
Walter O'Malley... ying at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan. After the 1957 season, Dodgers ownerdecided to move the team to Los Angeles for financial reasons, among other ...
Philip II of France... The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. Henry II of England andended their war with each other, and both imposed a "Saladin tithe" on the ...
Eleazar López Contreras... relevant (apart from the general Gómez himself), were the General in Chiefand Division General Isaías Medina Angarita
Henry I... rt de Beaumont, Count of Meulan held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107made de Beaumont Earl of Leicester and de Beaumont's manor at Napton becam ...
Ranjit Singh... hem, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief,, as his governor in the Punjab. This "one-eyed" warrior would later becom ...
Charlemagne... first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of, whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime between 828 and 830
Hadrian... nd death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antonin ...
Charles Theodore... ved with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals, and laid siege to Ingolstadt., who had done nothing to prevent wars or to resist the invasion, fled to ...
Emperor Yōzei... ototsune was influential in the process by Kōkō became emperor. At the timewas deposed, Prince Tokiaytsu was already Governor of Hitachi and Chief Mi ...
Babur... ntres of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. The autobiography of Mughal emperor, Tuzk Babari was also written in Turkish
Emperor Ankan... hes of the Yamato, pitting the supporters of sons who would become known asand Emperor Senka against those who were backers of the son who would beco ...
Maximilian IV... gain occupied the country, in preparation for renewing the war with France.Joseph (of Zweibrücken) the new elector succeeded to a difficult inheritan ...
Bob McNamara... t difficult unless you want to 'kiss his behind' all the time. That is whatsuggested to me...if I wanted to get along.
Emperor Wu of Han... logers. His father, Sima Tan, served as the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of(Emperor "Han Wudi"). His main responsibilities were managing the imperial ...
Juan Domingo Perón... rk in fact existed, and in Argentina was largely run by Argentine President, a Nazi sympathiser who had been impressed by Mussolini's reign in Italy ...
Prince George of Denmark... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended, the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested
Adolf HitlerIn 1923, Winifred met, who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ...
Frank LloydRussell approached directorfor help changing her image; but, instead of helping her, Lloyd cast her a ...
Wu Sangui... oncurrently the last Ming pretender had been captured and killed by General, extinguishing any hope Koxinga may have had of re-establishing the Ming ...
SpartaThe polis ofwas the greatest military land power of classical Greek antiquity. During ...
Adolf Hitler... h stylized "Armanen" sig runes) was a major paramilitary organization underand the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Hi ...
Barack ObamaOther well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to PresidentDavid Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ...
Harry S. Truman... tter dated July 25, 1946, Prime Minister Attlee wrote to American President: "I am sure you will agree that the inhuman crime committed in Jerusalem ...
Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual... ón, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and
Isaac Newton... fied data, he kept the incomplete records under seal at Greenwich. In 1712,, then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data ...
John Adams... from a lack of leadership after the death of Hamilton and the retirement of, quickly declined; it revived briefly in opposition to the War of 1812, b ...
Bill Clinton... (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom United States Presidentadmitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the ...
Emperor Zeno... meaning "table" or "board", was a game mentioned in an epigram of Byzantine(AD 476–481). It was similar to modern backgammon in that the object of th ...
Menelik I... c traditions, which hold that all monarchs must trace their lineage back to, who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the ...
Euric... alled themselves in Tarraconensis (410) and when in 475 the Visigothic kingformed the kingdom of Tolosa (modern Toulouse, France), he incorporated th ...
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Prince of Wales... as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by theand his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen ...
Emperor Senka... pitting the supporters of sons who would become known as Emperor Ankan andagainst those who were backers of the son who would become known as Empero ...
Emperor of Japan... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of thein pre-Meiji eras
Pervez MusharrafPakistani President- then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ...
Princess of Wales... e journey by the Prince of Wales and his two sons during the funeral of the, and was seen on television screens across the world as they got off the ...
Victoria of the United KingdomHe convinced the government of Queento spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terrorist activities a ...
Cheraman Perumal... of Kerala with their capital at Vanchi. Kodungallur was also the capital of, the last Chera ruler in the 7th century A.D. The legend is that he abdic ...
Przemysł II... ical reasons—became more common again in Western Europe. The reigns of Kingof Poland (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the Fr ...
Queen of Sheba... I, who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the
Jawaharlal Nehru... on of Indians from within the Congress Party, including C. Rajagopalachari,, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- who would later on c ...
Jean-Baptiste BagazaIn 1976, Coloneltook power in a bloodless coup. Although Bagaza led a Tutsi-dominated mili ...
Louis IX... during the 11th Century and became a favorite pastime of gamblers. In 1254,issued a decree prohibiting his court officials and subjects from playing. ...
Eric Bloodaxe... d in stanzas of an anonymous 10th century poem commemorating the death of aknown as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna. Valhalla has inspired variou ...
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Mary, Queen of Scots... about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from, to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. From around 1 ...
Petronius Maximus... soldiers who had served under Aetius, probably instigated by the Patricius, who succeeded to obtain the throne. Petronius, who was a high-ranking im ...
Emperor Kimmei... r Senka against those who were backers of the son who would become known as
Juan Vicente Gómez... first half of the 20th century, is the political figure of General in Chief, who originally based on the plans of General in Chief Cipriano Castro, b ...
Holy Roman EmperorThe elderlyFrederick I Barbarossa responded to the call immediately. He took up the C ...
Pierre BuyoyaIn 1987, Majoroverthrew Col. Bagaza in a military coup d'état. He dissolved opposition p ...
George W. Bush... have its citizens pass a resolution endorsing the impeachment of President, and in 2011 it was one of thirteen Vermont towns isolated by flooding ca ...
Bill Clinton... ributions toward world education, morality, and acts of charity". Presidentspoke these words at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony
Edwin of Northumbria... of Deira (632–633 or 633–634) in northern England. He was a cousin of king, being the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the fat ...
Nicole FontaineIn April 2001, the president of the European Parliament(who called Massoud the "pole of liberty in Afghanistan") invited Massoud ...
Sennacherib... syrian vassalage, (despite a disastrous rebellion against the Assyrian king), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE Assyria suddenly collapsed, ...
King Christian XHe was the son ofof Denmark and Queen Alexandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fou ...
David I... in the service of Walter fitz Alan, who had been appointed Steward by King
Sancho III of Navarre... ain (1056), and his heirs carried on the tradition. He was a younger son ofand Mayor of Castile, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of ...
Æthelric of Deira... e was a cousin of king Edwin of Northumbria, being the son of Edwin's uncle. Osric was also the father of Oswine
Pope John Paul IIWith the changes in the canonization process introduced byin 1983, a College of Relators was added to prepare the cases of those dec ...
Princess Märtha of SwedenOn 21 March 1929 in Oslo, he married his first cousinwith whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. ...
Sancho VII... lians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under Peter II, Navarrese under, and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Narbonne all flocked to the ef ...
JogailaBeginning with the Lithuanian Grand Duke(Władysław II Jagiełło), the Jagiellon dynasty (1386–1572) formed the Poli ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine... 5th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchesswith the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who bec ...
Cyrus... gly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus, Alexander the Great, andalluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, 1999). For ...
AlexandrineHe was the son of King Christian X of Denmark and Queen, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the House ...
Cadwallon ap CadfanAfter Edwin was killed in battle againstof Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfr ...
Alexander IIIWhen Wallace was growing up, Kingruled Scotland. His reign had seen a period of peace and economic stabilit ...
Lucius Tarquinius PriscusIn the early 6th century BC, during the reign of Rome's fifth king, the Sabines attacked Rome. Tarquinius had been preparing to construct a ...
John Quincy Adams... ted debate in Congress, Massachusetts Representative (and former President)successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest. Though Congre ...
Charles VIII... war with the League of the Public Weal. The matter became more urgent after's invasion of Italy (known as the First Peninsular War)
Lyndon B. Johnson... he was greeting the President of the United States as he did when Presidentthanked him for donating money to school drop-out prevention programs
Mary Robinson... led the Anti-Amendment Campaign, which included future President of Ireland. The Pro Life Amendment Campaign subsequently became the Pro Life Campaig ...
Pope Paul VIOn 8 May 1969,issued the Apostolic Constitution Sacra Rituum Congregatio, dividing it in ...
Licinius# The status of the lapsed in the persecution underThe council was formally opened May 20, in the central structure of the im ...
Oswald of Bernicia... paganism that it was decided to add that year to the reign of the Christian, who defeated Cadwallon and came to rule both Bernicia and Deira, so as t ...
Olusegun Obasanjo... 9 May 2000, the Lagos Guardian newspaper reported that the now ex-presidentcommuted to retirement the dismissal of all military persons who fought fo ...
Al Gore... minee George W. Bush were colored red, and states won by Democratic nomineewere colored blue. Although the assignment of colors to political parties ...
Alexander the Great... eece played an important role in the art of the western world. In the East,'s conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Centra ...
Peter II... gainst the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under, Navarrese under Sancho VII, and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Na ...
Alfred the Great... dorus Siculus. Ninus continued to be mentioned by European historians (e.g.), even up until knowledge of cuneiform enabled a more precise reconstruct ...
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen... ilt by Roger II of Sicily around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by. The castle now serves as a gallery for a variety of temporary exhibition ...
Mayor of Castile... carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, ...
Eleanor... cultural achievement. His marriage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with(Leonora), daughter of Henry II of England and , brought him under the inf ...
Bernard Kouchner... ivilians being murdered and starved by the blockading forces. French doctoralso witnessed these events, particularly the huge number of starving chil ...
PresidentTheis the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ex officio. The military aut ...
Mirabeau B. Lamar... mission to seek a site for a new capital to be named for Stephen F. Austin., second president of the newly formed Republic of Texas, advised the comm ...
Crown Prince Frederick... was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the eldest son ofand Princess Louise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise) ...
David... up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul,and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the n ...
García Sánchez III of Navarre... e, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother,. While Ferdinand inaugurated the rule of the Navarrese Jiménez dynasty ov ...
Alexios III Angelos... e delivered this ultimatum to the Lombard envoy who was sent by the Emperor, who was the pretender's uncle and had seized the throne from the pretend ...
Penda of MerciaAfter Edwin was killed in battle against Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd and, Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfrith taking power in the sub-ki ...
King Christian IX... lace in Kongens Lyngby on Zealand during the reign of his great-grandfather. His father was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the ...
Ronald Reagan... a movie based on the book. The cast included Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings,and Betty Field. The suit worn by Ronald Reagan in the film is on display ...
Stanisław PoniatowskiIn 1764 Catherine placed, her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ...
Saul... break-up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by, David and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. Aft ...
Emperor Charles V... after the birth in Flanders of Joanna and Philip's second child (the future), the succession to the Castilian and Aragonese crowns was thrown into tu ...
Gerald Ford... cal community called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. Vice Presidentsaid, "While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed pa ...
Edward, the Black Prince... ar withdraws at the last minute after learning his true identity is that of(who assumed another identity hoping he will get a rare chance to compete ...
Taytu Betul... rt. By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ...
Queen Margaret... e Lancastrians and the Yorkists. With the mental collapse of King Henry VI,used the Duchy of Lancaster lands in the Midlands, including Kenilworth, a ...
Prince Christian of Denmark... during the reign of his great-grandfather King Christian IX. His father was(later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and Pri ...
Haakon VII of Norway... , Prince of Denmark. He was given the name Olav when his father became Kingin 1905
Holy Roman Emperor... lizabeth would make him a Prince and Field Marshal on becoming Empress. Thewould also make Razumovsky a Count of the Holy Roman Empire
Sir Hans Sloane... al museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the physician and naturalist(1660–1753). During the course of his lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable ...
Edward III of England... ly associated with the status of knighthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346),sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and ...
John Adams... . On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting ofof Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of V ...
Charles, duke of Lorraine... le de Montpensier, while the archduke took more fortresses in Flanders, and, with an army of plundering mercenaries, marched through Champagne to joi ...
Rehoboam... of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the northern tribes refused to accept, the son of Solomon, as their king. At first, only the tribe of Judah rem ...
Lech Wałęsa... 1946 address built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders:, Margaret Thatcher, Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, Geo ...
Ludwig I of Bavaria... mples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze forbetween 1830–1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens V ...
Thomas Jefferson... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the-designed Courthouse building
King George II... ot wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to, for the nation, for the princely sum of £20,000
Edward, the Black Prince... ghthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), Edward III of England sent his son,, to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, ...
Frederick III... ties of the Franc (Flanders), nor Imperial support from Maximilian's fatherproving decisive. Both sides came to terms in the Peace of Senlis in 1493, ...
Wilhelm II... elves at the front of the movement, and on 7 November, demanded that Kaiserabdicate. When he refused, Prince Max of Baden simply announced that he ha ...
Jawaharlal Nehru... increasing grounds within the Congress leadership. Under the presidency ofat its historic Lahore session in December 1929, the Indian National Congr ...
McKinley... ed the first phones in Burke and his stables housed the horses of Presidentand Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Produce from his farm was transport ...
Henry VII... as a military balance to the nearby castle of Warwick. With the victory ofat Bosworth, Kenilworth again received royal attention; Henry visited freq ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... ll but once, the exception being 1964 when Warren County voted for Democratover Barry M. Goldwater. Before the Republican party was formed, Warren Co ...
Tiberius... dici, or veterinarians. Using these stations in chariot relays, the emperorhastened in 24 hours to join his brother, Drusus Germanicus, who was dying ...
Solomon... United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, David and, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the northern tri ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... een chosen as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Commander, US General, during D-Day
Alexandra of Denmark... e was the last surviving grandchild of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and
William, Prince of Orange... should the battle be lost. They were mostly composed of Dutch troops under's younger brother Prince Frederik of the Netherlands
Humayun... ammad' during Friday khutbas. Sher Khan, an adversary of the Mughal emperor, was content if Bengal was given to him in return of the emperor retainin ...
Motilal Nehru... esistance among people. The conference appointed a drafting committee underto draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian Na ...
Augustus... der the empire, one public and one private. The Cursus publicus, founded by, carried the mail of officials by relay throughout the Roman road system. ...
AlfredMuch of what is known about Asser comes from his biography of, in particular a short section in which Asser recounts how Alfred recruit ...
Jehoash of Judah... ise had prophetic powers. And thinking a child of seven – the age of Joas () in the Second Book of Kings – too young to have the part given him in At ...
James Madison... the area was organized to form Madison County. The name was chosen to honor, who had been the two-term President of the United States up until two ye ...
Tullus HostiliusIn the 7th century BC, during the reign of Rome's third king, the Sabines and the Romans again warred. The pretexts for the war were, ...
Casimir IV Jagiellon... tle of Žalgiris) (1410) and in 1466 the milestone Peace of Thorn under King; the treaty created the future Duchy of Prussia. In the south, Poland con ...
BaburThe sovereign's name was also declared in khutbas during the Mughal rule;was styled 'Zahir-ud-Din Bábar Muhammad' during Friday khutbas. Sher Khan ...
John Major... lack of responsiveness in the quality of public services. The government ofsought to tackle this with a Citizen's Charter programme. This sought to e ...
George Washington... on. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who was a personal bodyguard to Gen.at Valley Forge. He was also one of the pioneers at Fort Boonesborough in ...
Thomas Jefferson... nsisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania,of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connec ...
Emperor Henry III... ed, in Juan de Mariana, who wrote that in 1055, at a synod in Florence, theurged Victor II to prohibit under severe penalties the use of the imperial ...
Emilio AguinaldoIn the hunt for the Guerrilla GeneralAmerican troops also poisoned water wells to try to force out the Filipino ...
Ronald Reagan... istic slab of stone.” James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under President, initially refused to issue a building permit for the memorial due to the ...
Numa Pompilius... n customs, as well as Etruscan, despite the fact that they were espoused by, second king of Rome and a Sabine
Arthur Goldberg... eral wing of the Court, together with Warren, Douglas, William Brennan, and. They said the Court had a role beyond that of Congress. Yet while he oft ...
Solomon... te tribes. After the northern tribes refused to accept Rehoboam, the son of, as their king. At first, only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the h ...
Andrew Jackson... nowledge among men". After the nephew died without issue in 1835, Presidentinformed Congress of the bequest. Richard Rush was appointed as agent of t ...
Haakon VII of Norway... nderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of Kingand Queen Maud of Norway. At birth Olav was given the names Alexander Edwa ...
Thomas Jefferson... arty" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by's Republican party. The idea for the name came from an editorial by the p ...
Ulysses S. Grant... eer among other animals, is located on property formerly owned by presidentin the period between the Mexican War and the Civil War
Infanta Joanna... rived from a council of Burgundian notables. On 20 October 1496, he married, daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, ...
Count Roger IAgrigento was captured by the Normans underin 1087, who established a Latin bishopric there. The population declined ...
Charles II of SpainIn 1701, following the death in late 1700 of King, war broke out over who should succeed him to the Spanish throne. Althoug ...
Isaiah BerlinAccording to, Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to bu ...
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor... the first member of the house of Habsburg to be King of Castile. The son of, Philip inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Burgu ...
Hezekiah... s that they failed to enforce worship of Yahweh alone. Of the "good" kings,(727–698 BCE) is noted for his efforts at stamping out idolatry (in this c ...
William III of Orange... ampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for. The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths. It ...
Thomas R. Pickering... squads' ... I'd repudiate him instantly." Helms opposed the appointment ofas Ambassador to El Salvador. alleged that the CIA had interfered in the S ...
Henry IIIIn 1585 Pasquier was appointed byadvocate-general at the Paris cours des comptes, an important body having ...
Louis XIII of France... ld at that point become overwhelming in the empire triggered France, led byand Cardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's ...
Richard Holbrooke... In late 2009 Raphel was (again) appointed to the Af-Pak region as deputy to, the US. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, by the Obama ...
Mahinthrathirat... der in 1564. The royal family was taken to Pegu, with the king's eldest soninstalled as the vassal king. In 1568, Mahinthrathirat revolted when his f ...
Henry II... 16 against King John, it was Blanche's English ancestry as granddaughter tothat led to Louis being offered the throne of England as Louis I. However, ...
Andrés Manuel López Obrador... Robles Berlanga became the first woman mayor of Mexico City. In 2000, PRD'sbecame the second democratically elected mayor of Mexico City. López Obrad ...
Leopold II... the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of Joseph II and, who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise for the Czech ...
King George VGuisborough has a King George's Field in memory of, and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ...
Charles de Gaulle... leaders at state events, such as the state funerals of John F. Kennedy and, the summits of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the 1971 celebration of the ...
Harald V... died in the evening of a myocardial infarction. An interview given by King, and hints in a biography by Jo Benkow, who was the president of the parl ...
Queen Margrethe IIHe was succeeded by his eldest daughter,. Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ...
Grigori Alexandrovich PotemkinAfter her affair with her lover and adviserended in 1776, he allegedly selected a candidate-lover for her who had the ...
Theodore Roosevelt... and his stables housed the horses of President McKinley and Vice President. Produce from his farm was transported to Georgetown where it became part ...
Charles IThe sole reasonassembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since th ...
Maha Chakkraphat... but failed. The second Burmese invasion led by King Bayinnaung forced Kingto surrender in 1564. The royal family was taken to Pegu, with the king's ...
Theodore Roosevelt... This made a perfect place to build an irrigation system. In 1902 Presidentsigned the Reclamation Act, and in 1906 the Sun River Irrigation Project w ...
Gyges... hese in the Greek tradition are associated with Sardis, the capital city of, constructed in the 7th century BC
Charles I... the higher proportion of Calvinists and other Reformed churches, as well as's refusal to take up the case of some Guernsey seamen who had been captur ...
George Washington... built the first water-works in America to pump water for public use. Whileand his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effe ...
Queen Alexandra... Wales's Yorkshire Regiment), the British regiment named for his grandmother
Richard NixonDuring the September 16, 1968 episode,, running for president, appeared for a few seconds with a disbelieving vo ...
Urraca... of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and John of England, Blanche's sisterwas betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother Eleanor of Aquitai ...
Henry V of England... fe of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). It tells the story of King, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt ...
Peter III... rts during the reign of Catherine. Under her leadership, she completed whathad started; the church’s lands were appropriated, and the budget of both ...
Joseph II... ace German as the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism ofand Leopold II, who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise ...
Ulysses S. Grant... sville was the Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lieut. Gen.'s 1864 Overland Campaign. This was fought over the same ground as the Bat ...
Henry IV of France... ardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's fatherhad once been a Huguenot leader.) In 1635 Ferdinand signed his last import ...
Charles de Gaulle... 3, the emperor was among other heads of state, including France's President, who traveled to Washington D.C. and attended the funeral of assassinated ...
Jawaharlal NehruMountbatten was fond of Congress leaderand his liberal outlook for the country. He felt differently about the Mus ...
Edward VI... o prominence under Henry VIII and became the leading political figure under. Dudley was a patron of John Shute, an early exponent of classical archit ...
Mary of Burgundy... of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands (as Philip IV) from his mother,, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Jo ...
Isaac II Angelos... ilip's brother-in-law and the son of the recently deposed Byzantine emperor. Alexios had recently fled to Philip in 1201 but it is unknown whether or ...
Queen VictoriaIn 1796, the Great Hall was restored and in 1838, during the reign of, the restoration was completed and the palace opened to the public. The h ...
Bayinnaung... ith an invasion in 1548 but failed. The second Burmese invasion led by Kingforced King Maha Chakkraphat to surrender in 1564. The royal family was ta ...
George W. Bush... ublican for President in all but one election since 1952. In 2004 and 2008,and John McCain swept every county in the state, both receiving over 65 pe ...
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin... uise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was, a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ...
AchillesBoth Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of
Alejandro Toledo... t in the Peruvian general election, 2011 by saying he was going to vote for(Peruvian former president 2001-2006). After cast his vote, he said his co ...
Ronald ReaganMcCain's politics at this point were mainly in line with President, including support for Reaganomics, and he was active on Indian Affairs b ...
Henry VIII... ntly and had a tennis court constructed at the castle for his use. His son,, decided that Kenilworth should be maintained as a royal castle. He aband ...
Bill Richardson... e, Assistant Secretary of State Rick Indefurth and American U.N. Ambassadorflew to northern Afghanistan and tried to convince the leadership of the U ...
Henry... 1216, the barons changed their allegiance to John's son, the nine-year-old
Alyattes... by Mysia, Caria, Phrygia and coastal Ionia. Later on, the military power ofand Croesus expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, whi ...
Uzziah... Kirjath-jearim to Mount Zion (1 Chr. 13; 15:2–24; 16:4–43; comp. 2 Sam. 6),'s tzaraas (commonly translated as "leprosy") and its cause (2 Chr. 26:16– ...
Pope Benedict XVI... ed in that they are "doing God's work" by ridding the world of LGBT people., the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has stoked this sentiment as wel ...
Clement Attlee... egion and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led toappointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the ...
Philip of Swabia... while, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his cousin. The reasons for his visit are a matter of debate; he may have realized t ...
John Major... as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sirwas knighted). The husbands of Dames have no honorific, so Dame Norma's hu ...
Ferdinand II of León... houses of Lara and Castro both claimed the regency, as did the boy's uncle,. In 1159 the young Alfonso was put briefly in the custody of García Garcé ...
King Charles I... te. This unfortunate quarrel became the fruitful source of infinite evil toand to his government. Two parties were formed in the cabinet, and through ...
Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song... thematics. When he was only a youth his talent earned him much repute. Whenheard of him, he was sent to an Academy, the Hualin Xuesheng (華林學省), and l ...
Marie-Louise... apartments were, however, arranged and decorated for the use of the empress. The emperor chose to reside at the Grand Trianon. The château continued ...
Sir Hans Sloane... ed in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu Hous ...
Thomas Jefferson... 1817), and who had handled the Louisiana Purchase as Secretary of State for. At the time that Madison County was organized, the land south of Saline ...
Oswine... ng the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the father of
Charles II... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross untilsold it to the king of France in 1662
Josiah... E), revived idolatry, drawing down on the kingdom the anger of Yahweh. King(640–609 BCE) returned to the worship of Yahweh alone, but his efforts wer ...
Sancho III of CastileAlfonso was born toand Blanche, daughter of García Ramírez of Navarre, in Soria on 11 Novembe ...
Zakir HussainDrthe former President of India once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on Nov ...
Barack ObamaAlso circulating is the Chesterfield Observer, a county-wide newspaper.stopped at John Tyler Community College in Chester on August 21, 2008, whe ...
John F. KennedyDespite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference ...
Louis VIII... arch 1188 – 26 November 1252), was a Queen consort of France as the wife of. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX
Charles Martel... 17, had achieved complete independence from the feeble Frankish kings. Whenbecame the virtual ruler of the Frankish realm he brought the Bavarians in ...
Andrew Huxley... electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by Alan Hodgkin,, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of Be ...
Leopold I... the Mutual Pact of Succession he had signed during the reign of his father,. Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ...
Gregory Peck... r his father, Walter Huston. However, his father died in 1950, and he choseto play the starring role of Captain Ahab. The movie was filmed over a thr ...
Ferdinand IIAfter Emperorbegan oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohem ...
Ragnhild... ncess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters,and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, Crown Princess Märtha and the R ...
Ronald Reagan... Carter, then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity;was elected as his successor using a specifically Christian discourse
Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark... holas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) and hi ...
Cyrus the GreatThe last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE; this sets an earliest ...
George I... five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls
Solomonic dynasty... ts acknowledgment of his imperial legitimacy, and announcing the end of the
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Michael HeseltineMeanwhilehad introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( ...
Henry IV... d at Tours, working steadily at his great book, but he returned to Paris in's train in March 1594. He continued until 1604 at his work in the chambre ...
Naresuan... ated Burmese invasions (1584–1593), capped by an elephant duel between Kingand Burmese heir-apparent Mingyi Swa in 1593 in which Naresuan famously sl ...
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Ahmed Sékou Touré... ican unity. He lived in exile in Conakry, Guinea, as the guest of President, who made him honorary co-president of the country. He read, wrote, corre ...
Elizabeth I... son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, four years after the succession ofto the throne. Leicester's lands in Warwickshire were worth between £500–£ ...
Harald... arried his first cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son,, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, C ...
Cyrus the Great... s of Judah to the time of the Babylonian exile, concluding with the call byfor the exiles to return to their land
Princess Louise of Sweden... mark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and(later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was Alexandrine o ...
Pope John Paul II... ed rapidly during the 1990s. The city has a redeveloped airport named after, Karol Wojtyła Airport, with connections to several European cities
Manuel A. Odría... the Cathedral is based on the tyrannical dictatorship of Peruvian President. The protagonist, Santiago, rebels against the suffocating dictatorship b ...
Queen Mary... egan the process of modernising Kenilworth. Before his execution in 1553 byfor attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the ...
Stanisław PoniatowskiSir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offereda place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ...
Henry I... fonso died at Gutierre-Muñoz and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son,, named after his maternal grandfather
Prince Carl of Denmark... in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom toand Princess Maud of Wales, (daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kin ...
Endelkachew Makonnen... television to agree to the army's demands for still greater pay, and namedas his new Prime Minister. However, despite Endalkatchew's many concession ...
Henry... to Italy in 1605, and during 1611–12 arranged to sell Kenilworth Castle to, the Prince of Wales. Henry died before completing the full purchase, whi ...
Ferdinand... g year, leaving a pregnant Joanna behind in Madrid, where she gave birth to, later Holy Roman Emperor. Philip's life with Joanna was rendered extreme ...
Qazan... aravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek andbuilt palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan's summer pasture. In 1364, ...
Philip AugustusIn consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet betweenand John of England, Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son ...
Jimmy Carter... d-1970s had led to the growth of the religious right through televangelism., then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity; Rona ...
Alexios III Angelos... of the Pope if they would sail to Byzantium and topple the reigning emperor, brother of Isaac II. It was a tempting offer for an enterprise that was ...
Eanfrith... Cadfan of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, withtaking power in the sub-kingdom of Bernicia and Osric taking power in Deir ...
García Ramírez of NavarreAlfonso was born to Sancho III of Castile and Blanche, daughter of, in Soria on 11 November 1155. He was named after his grandfather Alfonso ...
Constantine the GreatThe reign ofsaw the division of the Empire into its Eastern and Western halves, as wel ...
Maha Thammarachathirat... The ensuing third invasion captured Ayutthaya in 1569, and Bayinnaung madevassal king
Gregory Peck... ick, which was faithfully based on the novel by Herman Melville and starredas Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and Orson Welles as Father M ...
Eleanor of England... ncia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, and. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Pharaoh... ngholds, along with fortified cities. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reignShishaq of Egypt, brought a huge army and took many cities. When they laid ...
Ronald Reagan... Reaganomics, a term popularized during the Presidential administrations of. This theory holds that reduced income tax rates increase GDP growth and ...
Rehoboam... petual war between them. Israel and Judah were in a state of war throughout's seventeen year reign. Rehoboam built elaborate defenses and strongholds ...
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf... 1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter of(later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, Princess Margar ...
George Drew... o victory in the election against the Progressive Conservative Party led by. The Liberals won 190 seats—the most in Canadian history at the time, and ...
Newton... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music.extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ...
Alfonso VIIIShe was born in Palencia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry ...
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President of Ireland... hoice lobby group called the Anti-Amendment Campaign, which included futureMary Robinson. The Pro Life Amendment Campaign subsequently became the Pro ...
Elizabeth Stuart... ian throne, and was known as the Winter King. Frederick's wife, the popularand subsequently Elizabeth of Bohemia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen ...
Frederick V... g Bohemian Revolt led to outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in 1618. Electorof the Electorate of the Palatinate, a Protestant, was elected by the Bohe ...
Sparta... other account mentioned in Dionysius's work, a group of Lacedaemonians fledsince they regarded the laws of Lycurgus as too severe. In Italy, they fou ...
Louis IX... wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son,
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Hein Verbruggen... about this, suggested that high IOC officials (probably including the Dutchand IOC Director of the Olympic Games, Gilbert Felli, and most likely with ...
Idi Amin... gether with his wife, Frances, and their four children, Waite witnessed thecoup in Uganda, he and his wife narrowly escaping death on several occasio ...
Hitler... th anniversary of the failed Munich Putsch the regiment swore allegiance to. The oath given: Pledging loyalty to him alone and Obedience unto death. ...
Malcolm III of Scotland... ted him decisively. Deserted by his men, he fled to his sworn brother, King. Tostig spent the summer of 1066 in Scotland
Caroline of Brunswick... uccessful mediation attempts between King George IV, and his estranged wife, who had sought her rights as queen. Nevertheless, Wilberforce still hope ...
Richard Nixon... y saw election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower,, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Re ...
Rhys Gryg... Britons and its southern part soon became Anglicised. In 1215 a local lord,of Deheubarth claimed control of the peninsula, but in 1220 he ceded contr ...
Charles II... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England,. In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ...
Chakravartin... peared. The king was considered chakkraphat, the Sanskrit-Pali term for thewho through his adherence to the law made all the world revolve around him ...
Henrietta Maria... brother, Charles. When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife,; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave ...
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Sigismund I the Old... e. The European Renaissance currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kingsand Sigismund II Augustus) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lit ...
President... he Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court byRonald Reagan in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual ancho ...
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Rafael Trujillo... lides da Cunha in 1902. The Feast of the Goat, based on the dictatorship of, takes place in the Dominican Republic; in preparation for this novel, Va ...
Perseus... he bore him a son named Oenopion, but he committed suicide or was killed by. In some variants, he had her crown put into the heavens as the constella ...
Olav IV... was the first heir to the Norwegian throne to be brought up in Norway since, and his parents made sure he was given as Norwegian an upbringing as pos ...
Gerald Ford... or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon,, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Part ...
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George W. Bush... received 51.5% of the vote here (3,333 ballots cast), outpolling Republican, who received 47.8% of the vote (3,092 ballots), with 6,475 of the 7,931 ...
Clement Attlee'sSt-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Ministerproposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white domini ...
Emperor Shao... ately two thousand eunuchs were killed. Zhang Rang had previously fled with(r. 189 CE) and his brother Liu Xie—the future Emperor Xian of Han (r. 189 ...
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President... nized in 1830 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later) Martin Van Buren
Ingrid of SwedenInstead, he married Princess(1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter ...
Jeroboam... efforts to bring Israel under his control. He waged a major battle againstof Israel and was victorious with a heavy loss of life on the Israel side; ...
Octavian... the Roman Republic. It was a naval engagement fought between the forces ofand the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. The battle took ...
Ronald Reagan... of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford,, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House ...
Duke of Cumberland... uding the Queen's Staircase, (1733) and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the. Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include ...
Maria Theresa... rth to a baby boy in 1716. Unfortunately, he died soon after. A year later,, his elder surviving child, was born. At her baptismal ceremony, contempo ...
Ronald ReaganDespite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as John F. Kennedy,, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference to Winthrop's ...
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Henry VIII of EnglandThe future Kingmet Philip the Handsome on a visit Philip made to Henry's father's court i ...
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Barack Obama... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democratover Republican John McCain in 2008
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Diocletian... ragmentation of the decade in which he reigned. 20 years later the reign ofwould fully restore stability and end the Crisis of the third century. The ...
Louis IX#(Poissy, 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270, Tunis), King of France as success ...
Efraín Ríos Monttutilized this method in the Guatemalan highlands in 1982-3, resulting in t ...
King George VI... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizingas Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ...
George W. Bush... presidential nomination in 2000 but lost a heated primary season contest to. He secured the nomination in 2008 after coming back from early reversals ...
Prince of Wales... rth. Thereafter Gower remained beyond the reach of Llewelyn's successors as; but its population suffered at the hands of Rhys ap Maredudd during his ...
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu... cile, on 26 May the Eastern region voted to secede from Nigeria. On 30 May,, the Eastern Region's military governor, announced the Republic of Biafra ...
U.S. PresidentSince inception, 17s, 37 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1 NFL MVP, 1 Heisman Trophy winner, and ...
Empress HeGeneral-in-Chief He Jin (d. 189 CE), half-brother to(d. 189 CE), plotted with Yuan Shao (d. 202 ) to overthrow the eunuchs by ...
Barack Obama... 08 after coming back from early reversals, but lost to Democratic candidatein the general election. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservativ ...
Francisco Franco... Republic (founded 1931) in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) brought Generalto power. Even though public use of the Catalan language was banned some p ...
Indira GandhiIn India, Prime Ministersand her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, ...
George H. W. Bush... presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan,and George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority ...
Charles the Fat... ter his death in 880 it formed part of the extensive territories of Emperor. This incompetent ruler left its defence to Arnulf, an illegitimate son o ...
Maria Anna... ed upset at the child's sex. The next year saw the arrival of another girl,
Charles I's... ment was regarded as having been automatically dissolved from the moment ofexecution on 30 January 1649. This view was confirmed by a court ruling du ...
TheseusWhenabandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, Dionysus found and married her. She b ...
Barack ObamaIn the 2008 presidential election, Democratreceived 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ...
Grace Kelly... (played by Tippi Hedren) is a thief. In To Catch a Thief (1955), Francie () offers to help a man she believes is a burglar. In Rear Window, Lisa (Gr ...
Theodore Roosevelt... he murderers. Without a chance to defend themselves in a hearing, Presidentdishonorably discharged the entire 167 member regiment due to their accuse ...
Sigismund II Augustus... nce currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings Sigismund I the Old and) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lithuania's territorial expa ...
Princess Margaret of Connaught... nce Gustaf Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife,. They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and ...
Pope Paul VI... elopment is part of the Curia of the Catholic Church. It was established byon 15 July 1971 and is based in the Palazzo San Callisto, in Piazza San Ca ...
Charles II... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, andratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ...
Roger II of SicilyThe Norman(1095–1154), employed a Greek Christian known as George of Antioch, who pr ...
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Percy Sutton... ewel of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. A co-founder of Inner City was, a former Manhattan borough president and long one of the city's most pow ...
Aaron Klug... cluded James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer,, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, th ...
Queen Anne... oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of. Opposite the altar, at first floor level, is the royal pew where the roy ...
Herbert Hoover... ansmitted long-distance 128-line television images of Secretary of Commercefrom Washington to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was f ...
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia... a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and
Olusegun Obasanjo... Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, popularly called 'The Black Scorpion' and later. Ojukwu fled to the Ivory Coast, leaving his chief of staff, Philip Effio ...
Hans Sloane... The first written record in English of the use of the word 'avocado' was byin a 1696 index of Jamaican plants. The plant was introduced to Indonesia ...
Valens... ed by two Arian Emperors in the Eastern Empire: his son, Constantius II and. Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues, and unsu ...
William Ewart Gladstone... s partner of Sir John Gladstones (sic), father of four times Prime Minister. Gladstone junior was named after Ewart, his godfather
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James I... after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular location for bothand Charles and accordingly was well maintained. The most famous royal vis ...
Ulysses S. Grant... House, the Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought and won by the Confederates.sent Union General Frederick Steele to Brownsville to patrol the Mexican-A ...
Julian the Apostate... times re-establish paganism into the seat of the Emperor (see Arbogast and). Arians and Meletians soon regained nearly all of the rights they had lo ...
Martin Van Buren... 30 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later President)
Bette DavisIn 1942, he directed two more hits, In This Our Life (1942), starring, and Across the Pacific, another thriller starring Humphrey Bogart
John Adams... blockade of American ports and declared American ships to be enemy vessels., a strong supporter of independence, believed that Parliament had effecti ...
Adolf HitlerIn 1945,ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide s ...
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Pope John Paul II... ly is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established byon May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta and substitut ...
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Joanna of Castile... undy, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen, who was also heiress-presumptive to the Crown of Aragon. He was the firs ...
Bud Selig... ged again. Despite large fan support for overturning the call, commissionerlet the call stand, but said he would look into expanding instant replay f ...
Philip Effiong... segun Obasanjo. Ojukwu fled to the Ivory Coast, leaving his chief of staff,, to act as the "officer administering the government". Effiong called for ...
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman EmperorHe died in 1637, leaving to his sonan empire still entangled in a war and whose fortunes seemed to be increas ...
Christian IX of Denmark... 1899. The young prince had 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather, Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grand ...
Henry VI... round the White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January ...
Agron... f the Lydians. Later chronographers also ignored Herodotus's statement thatwas the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and Ninus in thei ...
George W. BushIn the 2004 presidential electionwon 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while John Kerry won 46% o ...
Ferdinand II of AragonThe marriage of Isabella I of Castile and(1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the kingdom of Granada, the last ...
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Nicholas II of Russia... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark,, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ...
Nixon... irm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in theand Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then ...
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Douglas Fairbanks... ed a visit to Niagara Falls (because "all honeymooners went there"), and to, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a wide ...
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Emperor Wen of Wei... had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known posthumously as. This formally ended the Han Dynasty and initiated an age of conflict bet ...
Mary, Queen of Scots... hite's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with, in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth. ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... alf of the 20th century saw election or succession of Republican presidents, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George ...
George H. W. Bush... ecame an issue in the 1988 presidential campaign, when Republican candidateaccused Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis (a member of the ACLU) of bei ...
Charles William Eliot... h century descendants include Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and educator. The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts and Winthrop, Maine are named in hi ...
Hsinbyushin... xemplified their possession of white elephants in their formal titles (e.g., lit. 'Lord of the White Elephant' and the third monarch of the )
Baasha of IsraelIn his 36th year, Asa was confronted by, who built a fortress at Ramah on the border, less than ten miles from Je ...
António de Oliveira Salazar... 4 military coup in Lisbon abolished the authoritarian regime established bythat had been prevailing in Portugal for decades. The new government decid ...
Emperor Wu of Liu SongWhensubdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but ...
Sam HoustonInitially, the new capital thrived. But Lamar's political enemy,, used two Mexican army incursions to San Antonio as an excuse to move the ...
Catherine I of RussiaElizabeth, the second-oldest surviving daughter of Peter I of Russia and, was born at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, on 18 December 1709 (O.S.). Her p ...
Ford... came a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon andadministrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then as an as ...
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Desiderius... his position as an ally of the Avars and as son-in-law of the Lombard kingformed so serious a menace to the Frankish kingdom that Charlemagne determ ...
Sir Humphry Davy... that would burn without causing an explosion. At the same time, Cornishman, the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem. Despite his lack ...
Ho Chi Minhreading his Declaration of Independence. Ho Chi Minh is from Nghe An Provi ...
Oscar II of Sweden... dfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece,, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Prince of Wales ( ...
Constantius II... himself was succeeded by two Arian Emperors in the Eastern Empire: his son,and Valens. Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues ...
George W. Bush... s. However, it is a very mixed area overall, narrowly voting for Republicanover Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barac ...
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Eric Bloodaxe... f Fagrskinna, a prose narrative states that, after the death of her husband, Gunnhild Mother of Kings had a poem composed about him. The composition ...
Louis XIV... t of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, whenmoved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capit ...
John Kendrew... with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz andat the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was und ...
Charles II... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her deathgave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ...
Vicente Fox... ree Trade Agreement, creating the world's largest free trade area. In 2000,became the first non-PRI candidate to win the Mexican presidency in over 7 ...
Thomas Jefferson... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. Presidentwas perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ...
Fidel CastroWithassuming control of Cuba in 1959, Cruz and her husband, Pedro Knight, refu ...
Belus... us's statement that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus,, and Ninus in their list of kings of Lydia. Strabo (5.2.2) makes Atys, fa ...
Charles VII of France... ritory. The Château Trompette (Trumpet Castle) and the Fort du Hâ, built by, were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city ...
Arthurian... mary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according tolegend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake. Another lege ...
Brian Cowen... When the issue was (successfully) submitted to a referendum a second time,, the Taoiseach of Ireland, stated that he had obtained "legal guarantees" ...
Earl of Cambridge... of Henry's fleet for France, and include a real-life incident in which theand two others plotted to assassinate Henry at Southampton. Henry's clever ...
Harold Godwinson... September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King, the last crowned English King of England
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Pope Benedict XVI... or the Doctrine of the Faith by its prefect, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now), to Bishops of the entire Catholic Church * Pontifical secret;Church pre ...
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Belgarion... asy series; The Malloreon is the sequel. The books follow the adventures of, Polgara, Belgarath, and their companions
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Pope John Paul II... with Gelsenberg-Benzin-AG to form the new corporation VEBA-Oel AG. In 1987,celebrated Mass before 85,000 people at Gelsenkirchen's Parkstadion. The P ...
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Matilda of Flanders... t Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V of Flanders, and aunt of, who married William the Conqueror. The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six ...
Louis XIII... ailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invitedon several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles. Pleased wi ...
Victor Amadeus... ty of The Hague, Charles swapped Sardinia, which went to the Duke of Savoy,, for Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, which was more diff ...
Pope John Paul II... unicationibus Socialibus) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established byon June 28, 1988, it is responsible for using the various forms of the med ...
George W. Bush... of Osama bin Laden might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature ofmight enlarge his ears to the size of an elephant's; a caricature of Jay L ...
Isabella I of CastileThe marriage ofand Ferdinand II of Aragon (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the ki ...
Barack Obama... aska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President. They were defeated by Senatorof Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris ...
Ferdinand Marcos... triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of President. Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political oppositio ...
Luciano Violante... s, instead of a genuine preoccupation of the common citizen's civil rights., a politician and former president of the Italian Antimafia Commission, c ...
Edward, the Black Prince... Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/
Cyrus the Great... uch as the release of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity by Zoroastrianin 537 BC, and the Biblical account of the Magi visiting the infant Jesus. ...
Taytu BetulThe site of Addis Ababa was chosen by Empressand the city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor Menelik II. The n ...
Harry S. Truman... was consulted by active Democratic politicians and was especially close to
Nicolas SarkozyThe head of state is Presidentof France as represented by Préfet (Prefect) Albert Dupuy (since 10 Januar ...
Walter A. ShewhartIn 1924, Bell Labs physicist Dr.proposed the control chart as a method to determine when a process was in ...
Isabella I of Castile... e married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen, in Lier, Belgium
Henry II of England... iage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with Eleanor (Leonora), daughter ofand , brought him under the influence of the greatest governing intellect ...
Charles XII of Sweden... Anna was betrothed to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, nephew of the late King, Peter's old adversary. Her father had tried to also find a brilliant mat ...
Hugo Chávez... lished in 1921 under President Juan Vicente Gómez. In 2002, under president, the name was changed to Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenou ...
Juan Vicente Gómez... ns. The original holiday was officially established in 1921 under President. In 2002, under president Hugo Chávez, the name was changed to Día de la ...
Ferdinand II of Aragon... n notables. On 20 October 1496, he married Infanta Joanna, daughter of Kingand Queen Isabella I of Castile, in Lier, Belgium
Lyndon B. Johnson... Egypt. Convinced that that attack was real, President of the United Stateslaunched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo from a U.S. aircraft ...
Walter Scott... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young. Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ...
Barack Obama... rs voted for Republican John McCain, while 38.63 percent voted for Democratand 3.22 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wro ...
George W. Bush... he 2004 presidential election, when 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for, 32.8% voted for John Kerry, and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third ...
John F. KennedyOn the morning of Garner's 95th birthday on November 22, 1963, Presidentcalled to wish the former Vice President a happy birthday, just hours befo ...
duke of Parma... oseph, duc de Vendôme, commander of the French forces in Italy, to whom thehad sent him. That a low-ranking priest was used as envoy was due to the d ...
Alexander IIILydia remained a satrapy after Persia's conquest by the Macedonian kingof Macedon. When Alexander's empire fell apart after his death, Lydia went ...
William Howard Taft... er a fire burned much of the town, the name was changed to Taft in honor of
President of the United States... even B-movie filmmaker Ed Wood were at one time in their respective worlds,. In the pilot episode, the former cast of The People's Court guest starre ...
Corazon Aquino... tional Airport) upon returning home from exile. His death thrust his widow,, into the limelight and, ultimately, the presidency following the peacefu ...
Queen Christina... y was sold by the parlement of Paris during the troubles of the Fronde, andinvited Naudé to Stockholm. He was not happy in Sweden, and on Mazarin's a ...
James I of England... nglish colonies in Virginia, a more determined effort was initiated by King(James VI of Scotland), who granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Compan ...
Don Carlos... gression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised Philip V of Spain's son,, as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Charles ha ...
Cyrus II... f the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Croesus was defeated in battle byof Persia in 546 BC, with the Lydian kingdom losing its autonomy and becom ...
William Laud... the impeachment and subsequent execution of the king's advisers, Archbishopand Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
Cyrus... of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, Augustus,, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985
Bush... de Range. She eventually succeeded, with the bill being signed by Presidenton May 8, 2008. Murray has also supported legislation to increase the size ...
William the Conqueror... land. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built byin 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by ...
Harold Wilson... anted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the le ...
Oscar I of Sweden... s Margaret of Connaught. They were related in several ways. In descent fromand Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In desce ...
Elihu Thomson... ring the final decades of the 19th century, with the first patents going toin 1885, who produced further advances over the next 15 years. Thermite we ...
Alexander the Great... bylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of. The Persian Sibyl, by name Sambethe, was reported to be of the family of ...
Philip the Good... y of Flanders (today in Belgium) and was named after his great-grandfather,. In 1482, upon the death of his mother Mary of Burgundy, he succeeded to ...
JehoshaphatAsa's successor,, changed the policy towards Israel and instead pursued alliances and co-o ...
Aragorn... m Saruman's corpse instead of Wormtongue throwing it from the tower window.also reveals himself to Sauron after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in ...
George W. Bush... isenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingric ...
Judith... ex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Sprakaleg. In 1051, he married, the daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V o ...
Pentheus... y, Dionysus returns to his birthplace, Thebes, which is ruled by his cousin. Dionysus wants to exact revenge on Pentheus and the women of Thebes (his ...
Henry II of England... ntagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King. The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of S ...
King Albert II of the Belgians... He was knighted in 1992, and in 2002 elevated to the noble rank of Count by
Queen Anne... om his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-lawwho continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Qu ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ity to Barry Goldwater. The last Democratic candidate to win the county wasin 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years John McCain rec ...
Edward, the Black Prince... St. André was built. It was also the capital of an independent state under(1362–1372), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon (1453) it was a ...
HRH The Princess Royal... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympianunveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ...
Paul I of Russia... opold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In descent from, Frederick was a fourth cousin of Ingrid's mother
Ronald Reagan... sed of still regularly engaging in such operations. In 1986, U.S. President(who survived an assassination attempt himself) ordered the Operation El D ...
Burhanuddin Rabbani... unisian. Waiting for almost three weeks (during which they also interviewedand Abdul Rasul Sayyaf) for an interview opportunity, on September 8, 2001 ...
Henry II of England... so VIII, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter ofand Eleanor of Aquitaine
Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden... t. They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and, they were double third cousins. In descent from Paul I of Russia, Freder ...
Harry S. Truman... ped rocket him to stardom. In 1950, he performed for music-loving Presidentin the East room of the White House. Despite his success in the supper-clu ...
Mary of Burgundy... s great-grandfather, Philip the Good. In 1482, upon the death of his mother, he succeeded to her Burgundian possessions under the guardianship of his ...
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury... Salisbury, descended from his younger son Robert. One of the latter branch,(1830–1903), served three times as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria and ...
Louis the Child... own election as German king in the following year. In 899 Bavaria passed to, during whose reign continuous Hungarian ravages occurred. Resistance to ...
Harald III HardradaHe made contact with Kingof Norway and persuaded him to invade England. One of the sagas claims tha ...
Philip V... n furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain,. Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appoi ...
Augustus... e. The name Austin is considered to be derived from Augustine, a variant of. The location was seen as a convenient crossroads for trade routes betwee ...
Henry the FowlerIn 920 Conrad's successor as German king,of the Ottonian dynasty, recognized Arnulf as duke, confirming his right t ...
William WhewellEnglish philosopher and historian of sciencecoined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ...
Emperor Wu... state decisions and shaping government policy. However, the Han court undergave Confucianism exclusive patronage. He abolished all academic chairs or ...
George IIQueen Anne's successor was George I; he and his sonwere the last monarchs to reside at Hampton Court. Under George I six room ...
Dr. Alan Ashton... Young University (BYU) graduate student, and BYU computer science professorjoined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Da ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine... , and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and
Ahab... ued alliances and co-operation with the northern kingdom. The alliance withwas based on marriage. This alliance led to disaster for the kingdom with ...
Barack ObamaIn the 2008 presidential election,and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah P ...
King George III... e, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts ...
John F. Kennedy... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ...
Ahaziah of Israel... dom with the Battle of Ramoth-Gilead. He then entered into an alliance withfor the purpose of carrying on maritime commerce with Ophir. But the fleet ...
Haakon I of NorwayIn chapter 32 of Hákonar saga Góða,is given a pagan burial, which is described as sending him on his way to V ...
Constantine the Great... ructures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of, during which the Empire was divided into its Eastern and Western halves, ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine... che's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother, upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's pers ...
David... abylonian Exile. Many of the psalms in the book of Psalms are attributed to; King Solomon is believed to have written Song of Songs in his youth, Pro ...
John of EnglandIn consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and, Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their gran ...
Pope John Paul II... rs was set up by the Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum of 11 February 1985, bywho reformed the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Assistance to Heal ...
Louis XVDuring the reign of, Versailles underwent transformation, but not on the scale that had been ...
George II... ge I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Underand his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the archit ...
Alfonso II... s King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of Bermudo I, he succeeded
George W. Bush... les for the move to The Tonight Show. Will Ferrell made a surprise visit as, which quickly devolved into Ferrell tearing off his business suit to rev ...
Lester B. Pearson... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairsin the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ...
Jacques Chirac... buildings in over 20 countries around the world. In 1985, at the behest of, the mayor of Paris at that time, Tange proposed a master plan for a plaz ...
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto... of alcohol for three decades from 1947, but restrictions were introduced byjust weeks before he was removed as prime minister in 1977. Since then, on ...
Abraham Lincoln... ,000,000 copies in his day, and was even read by a young and impressionable. The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under t ...
Ivan VI... fter the death of Empress Anna, the regency of Anna Leopoldovna with infantwas marked by high taxes and economic problems. Such a course of events co ...
Paul Volcker... ree year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under, initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing ...
Chiang Kai-shek... Chinese civil war, the ROC government under the KMT withdrew to Taiwan anddeclared martial law. Japan formally renounced all territorial rights to T ...
Vaballathus... on bread. In the beginning, Aurelian had been recognized as Emperor, while, the son of Zenobia, hold the title of rex and imperator ("king" and "sup ...
Karl Dönitz... any. The main body effectively ends when Speer, by this point having joined's government seated in Schleswig-Holstein, receives news of Hitler's deat ...
Naresuan... s vassal king at Ayutthaya. Thai independence was restored by his son, King(1590–1605), who turned on the Burmese and by 1600 had driven them from th ...
Imru Haile Selassie... h fleeing before an invading force. Haile Selassie appointed his cousin Rasas Prince Regent in his absence, departing with his family for Djibouti on ...
AegidiusIn 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General, who was based in Soissons, he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to exten ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... e labor unions and the New Deal's deficit spending. He broke with Presidentin early 1937 over the issue of enlarging the Supreme Court, and helped de ...
Cyrus the Great... of the Achaemenid Empire, with Sardis as its capital. Tabalus, appointed by, was the first satrap (governor). (See: Lydia (satrapy))
Pentheus... troduction on account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g.or Lycurgus)
MerovechHe succeeded his fatheras king, traditionally in 457 or 458 (?). With his Frankish warband he was ...
GodwinTostig was the third son of(d. 1053), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Spraka ...
Walter Scott... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ...
Bermudo I... miro I (c. 790 – 850) was King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of, he succeeded Alfonso II
Jimmy Carter... l oil reserves were created to ease any future short term shocks. Presidentstarted phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Depa ...
Frederick II... tricities and policies, including a great admiration for the Prussian king,, alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated. Besides, Peter ...
George H. W. Bush... arty. While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980,had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976, Gerald ...
Frederick II, Elector of Saxony... he Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of. His elder half-brother was the Elector Johann Cicero of Brandenburg. Fri ...
Ludwig IIMaximilian was succeeded on 10 March 1864 by his son, a youth of eighteen. The government was at first carried on by Schrenk a ...
Bill Clinton... nies included commencement speakers former Presidents George H. W. Bush and, who commended the students for their desire to return to Tulane and serv ...
Edward I of England... ieve Wallace must have had some earlier military experience; campaigns like's wars in Wales provided a good opportunity for a younger son of a landho ...
João Bernardo VieiraIn Guinea Bissau, Presidentwas assassinated in the early hours of March 2, 2009, in the capital, Biss ...
Nicholas I... seat of the newly-formed Armenian Oblast between 1828-1840. By the time of's visit in 1837, Yerevan had become an uyezd. In 1840, the Armenian Oblas ...
Caesarion... ed for a five-year term in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive, the son of Julius Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major th ...
Anschutz Entertainment Group... arena which opened in late 2008. It is owned by Ontario, but is operated by. It is an 11,000-seat multi-purpose arena, and is home to the Ontario Rei ...
Jehoram of Israel... ugh it was successful, the trade was not prosecuted. He subsequently joinedin a war against the Moabites, who were under tribute to Israel. This war ...
Pope John Paul IIEight hundred years after the Fourth Crusade,twice expressed sorrow for the events of the Fourth Crusade. In 2001, he w ...
Ma Ying-jeou... entitled a "Celebration Drill" and not a traditional military parade. Sincebecame president, one parade has been held on the centenary celebrations o ...
Tiberius... resort. Cicero compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably bothand Domitian resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained importa ...
Minos... ould be blinded. One source tells the same story but converts Oenopion intoof Crete. It adds that an oracle told Orion that his sight could be restor ...
Napoleon... s the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall ofin 1814. The Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty was restored on the throne of Tusca ...
Gerald Ford... W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976,had severely criticized Reagan's proposal to turn back a large part of the ...
Henry VIII of England... nd tariffs on goods traded amongst them. Internal tariffs were abolished by, they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain
Kurt Waldheim... alition with the FPÖ under the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986,was elected president amid considerable national and international protest ...
Andrew Jackson... st because of a policy of Indian removal developed by the administration of. Then, in 1831, Jacob Stem, the founder of Green Springs, bought the land ...
President Millard Fillmore... territory's first governor and superintendent of American Indian affairs by. During his time as governor, Young directed the establishment of settlem ...
Edward the Confessor... the foundation of Westminster Abbey and the old Palace of Westminster underhad marked it as a centre of governance, and with a prosperous port it was ...
George H. W. Bush... 006, graduation ceremonies included commencement speakers former Presidentsand Bill Clinton, who commended the students for their desire to return to ...
Mike Ilitch... in franchise history. Following the 1992 season, the franchise was sold to, the President and CEO of Little Caesars Pizza who also owns the Detroit ...
Andrew Jackson... of Oregon. As of 2010, its population was 203,206. The county is named for, the seventh president of the United States. There are 11 incorporated ci ...
Jimmy Carter... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against
Chen Shui-bian... i City) killing both pilots. The parade was not held again until 1975. Whenbecame President, the parade was not held until 2007 and then it was entit ...
Umberto II... society. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king, was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a referendum to ...
Tiberius... y mentioned) denounced the magistratus and mancipes of the Italian roads to. He pursued them and their families with fines and imprisonment for 18 ye ...
Midas... ied him to their king (alternatively, he passed out in Midas' rose garden).recognized him, and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days ...
Mike Ilitch... ral recognition for some tribes. Pombo got money for his 2006 campaign at a-backed fundraiser. Disclosure documents on file with the Secretary of the ...
Emperor Zhang's(r. 75–88 CE) reign came to be viewed by later Eastern Han scholars as the ...
Benazir BhuttoIn Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leaderwas assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ...
Zhang Zuolin... of Manchuria and much of North China after the assassination of his father,, by the Japanese on 4 June 1928. As an instigator of the Xi'an incident h ...
George W. BushIn the 2004 presidential election John Kerry won 52% of the vote, whereaswon 46% of the vote. In the 2006 state governor election, Arnold Schwarzen ...
Odoacer... raiders under the command of a certain Adovacrius (perhaps, but not surely) reached Angers but Childeric arrived the next day and a battle ensued. C ...
William Feller... uld return one day so that he could learn all of the math necessary to read's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, An Introduction to Pr ...
Euthydemus... Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign of(230–200 BCE) who extended his control beyond Alexandria Eschate to Sogdia ...
Emperor of Ethiopia... Ethiopia an Italian province. Victor Emanuel III was proclaimed as the new. However, on the previous day, the Ethiopian exiles had left Djibouti abo ...
Kanishka... untains to the Ganges river valley in India. Early in the 2nd century under, the most powerful of the Kushan rulers, the empire reached its greatest ...
Empress Dowager Dou... he aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE), Emperor He (r. 88–105 CE) had(d. 97 CE) put under house arrest and her clan stripped of power. This was ...
Barack Obama... 964, when Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democratcame very close in heavy voting, when he won 48.6 percent of the vote comp ...
Ernest RutherfordRadiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented byas a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the cent ...
John III Sobieski... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency., fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ...
Athamas... rge of Hermes. One version of the story is that Hermes took the boy to Kingand his wife Ino, Dionysus' aunt. Hermes bade the couple raise the boy as ...
Ramathibodi II... e sent a diplomatic mission headed by Duarte Fernandes to the court of Kingof Ayutthaya. Having established amicable relations between the kingdom of ...
Jacques Chirac... nt bicentennial, however, controversy erupted when neither French presidentnor prime minister Dominique de Villepin attended any functions commemorat ...
Chiang Ching-kuo... tic reforms were mandated during the final year of authoritarian rule under. The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, Lee Teng-hui, whi ...
FëanorWhen the Elves came to Valinor, the Noldor became the students of Aulë.was his greatest pupil, and from him learned to make gems through craftsma ...
emperor Henry VI... hout the Middle Ages; the Reichsapfel was used in 1191 at the coronation of. However the word 'orbis' means 'circle' and there is no record of a glob ...
Ahab... Judah formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of. Despite this alliance with the stronger northern kingdom, Jehoram's rule ...
Holy Roman Emperor... an chief of the Slavic Obodrites began his open resistance when Lothar III,invaded Slavic lands. In August 1160 Niklot was killed and German coloniza ...
Chen Cheng... n October 10, 1949 was the first public military parade held in Taiwan withserving as the Grand Review Officer. The 1964 National Day parade was stru ...
Harold Godwinson... orwegian king Harald III (Haraldr Harðráði), who was defeated by Saxon Kingin 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge; in Ireland, the capture of Dubli ...
Nadir ShahThe five prominent Musahiban brothers included, the eldest, who had been Amānullāh's minister of war. They were permitte ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... árd prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning Presidentof the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. B ...
Richard Hamming... (and who subsequently shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956). In 1947,invented Hamming codes for error detection and correction. For patent reas ...
Holy Roman Emperor... rea, resulting in his being the first King of Bohemia to also be elected as. Under his rule the Bohemian crown controlled such diverse lands as Morav ...
Jordi Pujol... th Spanish. New elections under this statute gave the Catalan presidency to, a position he would hold until 2003. During this time he also led Conver ...
Xerxes the Great... o provinces as far out as India and the Kingdom of Kush during the reign of(485–465 BCE)
Emperor He... imperial consort clans. With the aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE),(r. 88–105 CE) had Empress Dowager Dou (d. 97 CE) put under house arrest a ...
Domitian... ro compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both Tiberius andresided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained important artistic w ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... has carried Fort Bend County in the presidential election since 1964, whenof Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama came very clo ...
Barack Obama... nt Phil Angelides got over 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, however,won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while John McCain only won 29% of the ...
Margaret, Maid of NorwayThe heir to the throne was Alexander's granddaughter,. As she was still a child and in Norway, the Scottish lords set up a gove ...
Athaliah... at's successor, Jehoram of Judah formed an alliance with Israel by marrying, the daughter of Ahab. Despite this alliance with the stronger northern k ...
George Washington... first settler, Ariel Bradley, was only nine years old when he was a spy forduring the American Revolution. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley ca ...
Louis XV... he bogus Lopukhina Conspiracy and other attempts of Frederick the Great andto get rid of Bestuzhev (making the Russian court the centre of a tangle o ...
George W. Bush... 4, Democrat John Kerry received over 70 percent of the vote, and Republicanreceived just over a quarter
Yasser Arafat... i, and Ahad Olma, fled to the Palestinian National Authority. Israel placedunder siege in the Ramallah compound to force the handing over of the susp ...
Dave DombrowskiIn late 2001,, former general manager of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins ...
Germanicus... Orion a horse. Fontenrose, Orion, p. 26–27, note 9, citing the scholion to' translation of Aratus, line 331 (p 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so l ...
Richard Nixon... e favored stimulus resulting in an expansion of the money supply. President's wage and price controls were abandoned. The federal oil reserves were c ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... es from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by Presidentand confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 13. (6 Democratic Senators ...
Empress Dowager Yan... exiled them and forced many to commit suicide. After An's death, his wife,(d. 126 CE) placed the child Marquess of Beixiang on the throne in an atte ...
Frederick the Great... tain and Russia. Elizabeth sided against Prussia over a personal dislike of. She wanted him reduced within proper limits, so that he might no longer ...
House of LuxembourgTheaccepted the invitation to the Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I ...
Finarfin... Arda. On the Flight of the Noldor, the Noldor who returned to Valinor undernamed themselves the Aulendur, Followers of Aulë
Amānullāh Khānreigned in Afghanistan from 1919, achieving full independence from the Bri ...
Marcus Aurelius... ing of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, show ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... on one day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 tons (73 tonnes) of bombs., the Supreme Allied Commander, said of the Typhoons; "The chief credit in ...
Woodrow Wilson... disapproved of interventionist foreign policy actions. Republicans opposed's intervention in World War I and his subsequent attempt to create the Le ...
Frederick II... s, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Swabian Castle built for, which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat ...
Jehoram of JudahJehoshaphat's successor,formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab. ...
Atahualpa... s Andean Indian auxiliaries native allies ambushed and captured the Emperorof the Inca Empire. It was the first step in a long campaign that took dec ...
David... s covenant can be fulfilled with the re-establishment of the throne of King
Hadrian... quatuorviri among them. The latter were certainly still in existence under(117-138 AD). Augustus abolished the duoviri, no doubt because the time ha ...
Nelson Mandela... influences on the African Independence movements and his work was cited byand other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, ...
Emperor AnWhen Empress Dowager Deng died,(r. 106–125 CE) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs Li Run (李閏 ...
Bill Clinton... d the Congressional don't ask, don't tell law, signed into law by Presidentin 1993, and in force until 2011, which forbade homosexuals serving in the ...
Henry VIII... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545
NaraiForeigners were cordially welcomed at the court of(1657–1688), a ruler with a cosmopolitan outlook who was nonetheless wary ...
Edward, the Black Prince of Wales... winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures asand Geoffrey Chaucer
Ordoño I... er being the name of the queen of a later Ramiro). Given the age of his son, this must have been a second marriage
BellerophonParnassus was also the home of Pegasus, the winged horse of
President... um of the Twelve Apostles was to lead the church with Young as the Quorum's. Young was ordained President of the Church in December 1847, more than t ...
King Farouk I... ity after a coup was carried out by the Free Officers Movement overthrowing. By that time, Arafat had graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil eng ...
Ronald Reagan... Paul Harvey) refers to the economic policies promoted by the U.S. Presidentduring the 1980s, also known as supply-side economics, or pejoratively as ...
AugustusThe governing structure was changed by. In the course of his reconstitution of the urban administration he creat ...
Mesha... his war was successful, with the Moabites being subdued. However, on seeing's act of offering his own son in a human sacrifice on the walls of Kir-ha ...
Theodore Roosevelt... stablished in 1906. Kermit was named for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President, and incorporated in 1909
AchillesIn the paradox ofand the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles al ...
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven... k (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and
Constantine... o Christianity, Lactantius (245–325) became the tutor to the son of emperorand a trenchant critic of all pagan philosophy. In Book III of The Divine ...
Charles VIII... Medici in 1492, he was succeeded by his son Piero II. When the French kinginvaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army. But when he rea ...
Robert MugabeZANU-PF, elected Prime Minister in 1980, revised the constitution in 1987 to make ...
Cleopatra VII... t between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the c ...
Bermudo III... h of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry Sancha, sister of, King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, Sancho III of Navarre nomi ...
Frederick William III of Prussia... of 26, Bessel was appointed director of the Königsberg Observatory by King. There he published tables of atmospheric refraction based on Bradley's o ...
Joseph I... Habsburg sovereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother,, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia ...
Manwë... nyar. He dwells with them on the slopes of Taniquetil, beneath the halls of
Trajan... ptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian,, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The ...
Frederick V... the Belgian general Johann Tserclaes, count of Tilly, smashed the rebels of, who had been elected as rival King in 1618. After Frederick's flight to ...
Louis XVSimultaneously, Elizabeth caused to be conveyed toa confidential letter in which she proposed the signature of a new treaty ...
Lynn Thorndike... ubleday and Broadway Books. In strongly worded terms, historians of scienceand George Sarton have dismissed these claims as unsupported
Jezebel... ripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Ser ...
Ahaziah of Judah... king's house, and carried off all of his family except for his youngest son
Sancha... entering the church of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry, sister of Bermudo III, King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, San ...
Porfirio Díaz... they had become much more secure. George Hearst was on friendly terms with, the Mexican dictator, who helped him settle boundary disputes profitably ...
Jimmy Carter... hnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford andtried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventually appointed on ...
Ivan VI... posed assassination. Other potential rival claimants to the throne existed:(1740–1764), in closed confinement at Schlüsselburg, in Lake Ladoga, from ...
John F. Kennedy... ts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) mounts. Lieutenantwas the first commanding officer of PT-59 after its conversion. On Novembe ...
Phetracha... bles and Buddhist clergy. When word spread that Narai was dying, a general,, killed the designated heir, a Christian, and had Phaulkon put to death a ...
Croesus... ia, Phrygia and coastal Ionia. Later on, the military power of Alyattes andexpanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, which controlle ...
Consort Deng Mengnü... 159 CE), brother of Empress Liang Na (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of(later empress) (d. 165 CE) killed after Deng Mengnü resisted Liang Ji's a ...
Bill Clinton... ssante and Antonio Banderas in the film The Mambo Kings. In 1994, Presidentawarded Cruz the National Medal of Arts. In 2001, she recorded a new album ...
Stephen D. Lee... turgis, after some doubts and trepidation, departed Memphis on June 1. Gen., alerted of Sturgis's movement, warned Forrest. Lee had also planned a re ...
Luitpold... s crisis, had been declared insane, and, on 10 June 1886, his uncle, Prince, became regent. Three days later, on 13 June, Ludwig II was found dead in ...
Empress Matilda... gh the king had persuaded his most powerful barons to swear support for the, just a few days after Henry's death Stephen of Blois arrived from France ...
Pelasgus... s, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and was the home ofand his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practic ...
Pope John Paul II... Redemptor the Pontiff called acts of reparation a duty for Roman Catholics:referred to the concept as
Alfonso XII... pos in Sagunto led to a restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in the person of. A period of political stability, of repression of the workers movement, ...
W. Edwards Deming... e the world and the United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart,, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead ...
George H. W. Bush... au's brother John Patrick Schmitz is the former deputy counsel to President
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ...
Commodus... d in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of, who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor
Domitian... the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus,, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emér ...
Stansfield TurnerFormer CIA chief, Admiral, claimed that De Beers restricted US access to industrial diamonds needed ...
Walter A. Shewhart... rance Department gave the world and the United States such statisticians as, W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. J ...
Basil I... tinople but deposed by a Council of Constantinople called in 869 by Emperorthe Macedonian and Pope Adrian II. Called in 879, this Greek Fourth Counci ...
Maria Theresa===Forced assimilation===In the Habsburg Monarchy under(1740–1780), a series of decrees tried to force the Romanies to permanentl ...
Finarfin... cond wife of Finwë (the king of the Noldor) and the mother of Fingolfin and, the latter of whom founded the only house of Noldorin Elves to sport gol ...
Franklin D. RooseveltBlack was an ardent supporter of Presidentand the New Deal. In particular, he was an outspoken advocate of the Judic ...
Matthias... support of the Spanish Habsburgs in the succession of his childless cousin, in exchange for concessions in Alsace and Italy. In 1617, he was elected ...
Shapur I... inor, preparing another campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings(272) and Hormizd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a ...
George W. Bush... the 1990s expansion that began with George H.W. Bush in 1991 and ended within 2001. This economic expansion continued through the Clinton administrat ...
Theodoric the Great#Audofleda (467 – 511). Queen of the Ostrogoths. Wife of#Lanthilde (468 – ¿¿??)
García SánchezFerdinand was barely in his teens when, Count of Castile, was assassinated by a party of exiled Castilian noblem ...
Peter of Holstein-Gottorp... find a legitimate heir to secure the Romanov dynasty. She chose her nephew,. Elizabeth was only too aware that the deposed Ivan VI, whom she had impr ...
Quintillus... support of some senators, probably those who had supported the election of, and thus had something to fear from Aurelian
TaksinOne general, Phraya, former governor of Taak, began the reunification effort. He gathered for ...
Charles Granville Bruce... ell for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to, the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922
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Alexander the Great... achines and (what we today call) submarines, attributing their first use to
Yan XishanIn 1930, when warlords Feng Yuxiang andattempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government, Zhang Xuel ...
Pierre de Coubertin... was awarded for a sport that did not lend itself very well for tournaments:presented a prize for alpinisme to Charles Granville Bruce, the leader of ...
Benjamin Harrison... celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. Presidentcalled upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on t ...
Maria Anna of BavariaHe was born at Graz, the son of Charles II, Archduke of Austria, and. He was educated by the Jesuits and later frequented the University of In ...
Ladislaus the Posthumous... thus resorted to more subtle means. He held his second cousin once removed, the ruler of the Archduchy of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, (born in 144 ...
Mahlon Pitney... etition. In International News Service v. Associated Press of 1918, Justicewrote for the majority in ruling that INS was infringing on AP's "lead-tim ...
president of the churchWhile in jail awaiting trial for alleged treason charges, Joseph Smith,, was killed by an armed mob in 1844. Several claimants to the role of chu ...
von Hindenburg... bowed in apparently respectful humility before President and Field Marshal
Alaungpaya... a starting around 1715. But a greater threat came from Burma, where the newdynasty had subdued the Shan states
Julian P. Boyd... Archives is usually regarded as the Declaration of Independence, historianargued that the Declaration, like Magna Carta, is not a single document. B ...
Dominique de Villepin... rsy erupted when neither French president Jacques Chirac nor prime ministerattended any functions commemorating the battle. On the other hand, some r ...
Ronald Reagan... ey & Creme-directed video depicted a wrestling match between then-Presidentand then-Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko for the benefit of group membe ...
Septimius Severus... storers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Trajan, andwere commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The Itinerary of Antoninus, ...
Pope Pius XIAs expressed byin his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, in the Roman Catholic traditi ...
Holy Roman Emperor Henry II... e pagan peoples of Eastern Europe. Owing to a regional conflict between theand Duke Boleslaus I of Poland he delayed the plans for the monastery, and ...
George H. W. Bush... r 1991, while serving as Minister without Portfolio, he called US Presidentan "anti-Semite." In 1997 he called US Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk ...
Agamemnon... re many plays in which no such limitation existed. For instance, Æschylus'scompresses into about fifteen minutes a journey (from Troy to Argos) which ...
Lucien Bouchard... out "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical, the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, cluck ...
Isabella II... solutist "Carlist" partisans of Infante Carlos and the liberal partisans ofled to the First Carlist War, which lasted until 1840 and was especially v ...
Saddam HusseinOn August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by, invaded Kuwait. President Bush formed an international coalition and sec ...
James Boyle Uniacke... uary 1848. Following a vote of want of confidence in the preceding Council,, who had moved the resolution, became Attorney General and leader of the ...
Lydus... tories i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their king,(Λυδός), son of Atys, in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... uch as releasing recent income tax forms, became expected. Presidents sincehad recorded many of their conversations, but after Watergate, this practi ...
Yasser Arafat... similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook,and John F. Kennedy. The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eve ...
Emperor LingUnder(r. 168–189 CE) the eunuchs had the partisan prohibitions renewed and expa ...
Sun Yat-sen... layed a key role in the birth of the ROC since the nation’s founding father, a medical doctor by training, received financial support mainly from the ...
Infante Carlos... conflict over the succession between the absolutist "Carlist" partisans ofand the liberal partisans of Isabella II led to the First Carlist War, whi ...
Tommy Douglas... Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal hea ...
Catherine I... her husband as Empress Regnant. She followed the precedent established when(born in the lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeed ...
Paul I... 's mother. The marriage took place on 21 August 1745 with a son, the future, finally born on 20 September 1754
Richard Nixon... (based on the "Hibakusha" mix) included an introductory cut-up monologue bytaken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign ("No.. firm diplom ...
JosiahWhenbecame king of Judah in c. 641/640 BC, the international situation was in ...
Achilles... refutation of some of them. Three of the strongest and most famous—that ofand the tortoise, the Dichotomy argument, and that of an arrow in flight—a ...
Ramiro... rded. Most, and the most reliable, charters name Sancho's sons in the order, García, Gonzalo, then Ferdinand. Three documents from the Cathedral of P ...
Joseph Howe... y the colony of Nova Scotia in January–February 1848 through the efforts of. The plaque in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly erected by the Historic ...
Caligula... imprisonment for 18 years (21-39 AD), and was rewarded with a consulship by, who was himself in the habit of condemning well-born citizens to work on ...
Bahram I... zd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler (), set the possibility to attack the Sassanid Empire
Barack Obama... 2010, the 22 year old ban was lifted after having been signed by Presidenton October 30, 2009
George H. W. BushDuring the 1988 presidential election: then-Vice Presidentnoted that his opponent Michael Dukakis had described himself as a "card-c ...
Esarhaddon... C), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennacherib and his successors,and after 669 BC. Manasseh is listed as being required to provide material ...
Boris Yeltsin... issue. (The aides claimed vindication later in 1992 when Russian Presidentsaid that the Soviet Union had kept some U.S. prisoners in the early 1950s ...
George W. Bush... 4 presidential election, in which 69.5% of Wheeler Country voters voted for, while 27.8% voted for John Kerry, and 2.7% of voters either voted for a ...
Ludwig II... rown prince, against Germany's common enemy. It was on the proposal of Kingthat the imperial crown was offered to King Wilhelm I of Prussia
Empress Dowager Dou... 81 CE), and Wang Fu (王甫). When the plot was uncovered, the eunuchs arrested(d. 172 CE) and Chen Fan. General Zhang Huan (張奐) favored the eunuchs. He ...
Otto IIIInhoped to open a monastery between the Elbe and the Oder (somewhere in the ...
Hormizd I... ther campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings Shapur I (272) and(273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler (Bahr ...
Giamatti... his possible inclusion in the Hall of Fame. In a meeting with Commissioner, Rose, having failed in a legal action to prevent it, accepted his punish ...
Barack Obama... 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, withreceiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for John McCain. In 2011 the GOP won ...
Titus... tly in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian,, Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capaci ...
Adolf Hitler... a building project, which attracted attention from senior leaders. Becausesaw himself as both an architect and artist, he warmed to Speer and gradua ...
Sigismund I of Poland... Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King. They had seventeen children
Ulysses S. GrantThe Overland Campaign, Lt. Gen.'s offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, began at the Battle of the ...
Sancha... ation of the realm of León–Castilla under Fernando el Magno and [his queen](1037–1065) is a history that remains to be researched and written.
Ulpia SeverinaThere is substantial evidence that Aurelian's wife, who had been declared Augusta in 274, may have ruled the Empire by her o ...
Henry V... aces where bone prevented the arrow being pushed through. Prince Hal, later, was wounded in the face by an arrow at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403). ...
Jimmy Carter... a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under Presidentfollowing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan then ordered a massiv ...
EadbaldÆthelberht died in 616, during Laurence's tenure; his sonabandoned Christianity in favour of Anglo-Saxon paganism, forcing many of ...
Chiang Kai-shek... Henry Donald, he overcame his opium addiction and declared his support for. He was given the nickname of 千古功臣 (Hero of history) by PRC historians no ...
Feast of Saint Louis... t a church in the central village of La Plaza Medio and dedicated it on the, June 21, 1851. The village was renamed San Luis de la Culebra in honor o ...
Aragorn... egacy comes in the form of her progeny (from Lúthien to Elrond to Arwen and, who share somewhat of her temperament — especially the healing, though t ...
Peter the Great... lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeeded her husbandin 1725
Ronald ReaganThe election ofas president in 1981 ushered in an eight year period of conservative leade ...
Sennacherib... made a stand against Assyria by refusing to pay tribute. (; ) In response,of Assyria attacked the fortified cities of Judah. Hezekiah paid three hun ...
Charles V of Spain... a personal hunting park. The castle was later mostly rebuilt in the age of
Hamid KarzaiIn 2001, the Afghan Interim Government under presidentofficially awarded Massoud the title of "Hero of the Afghan Nation". One a ...
President NasserEncouraged by the rhetoric ofof Egypt against British colonial rule in the Middle East, pressure for th ...
George W. Bush... run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. In 2004,received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 J ...
Vespasian... cur frequently in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus,, Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this ...
George W. Bush... 7.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points thatcarried it by in 2004. Each of the three row-office statewide winners carr ...
Pope John Paul II's... on Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established bymotu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former foll ...
President... r Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was theof The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 ...
Barack Obama... ty voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 34.61% voted for Democratand 4.06% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a ...
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen... was conquered by the Arabs, who built here the first nucleus of the castle.further fortified the town and created here a personal hunting park. The c ...
IsildurUsing the stone, Aragorn declared himself as the heir ofto Sauron, seeking to distract him from Frodo. Sauron was led to believe t ...
John F. Kennedy... ons from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and. The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eventually released as ...
Rajiv GandhiIn India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son(neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ...
Francis StephenThe extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of, duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany ...
Claudius... f condemning well-born citizens to work on the roads. It is noticeable thatbrought Corbulo to justice, and repaid the money which had been extorted f ...
Desta Damtew... aile Selassie suffered several personal tragedies. His two sons-in-law, Rasand Dejazmach Beyene Merid, were both executed by the Italians. The empero ...
Aragorn... nadvertently contacted Sauron, after which Gandalf turned the stone over to
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Theodore Roosevelt... n the county has voted for the non-Republican only two times. The first was's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. ...
GensericHilderic was the grandson of king, founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son H ...
Bette Davis... ar sentence. The case was made into the 1937 movie 'Marked Woman', starring
Philip the ArabIn 248, Emperorhad celebrated the millennium of the city of Rome with great and expensive ...
King Hussein... other Arab states showed much more reluctance to fully commit to a new war.of Jordan feared another major loss of territory as had occurred in the Si ...
Saddam Hussein... ndon bombings, and several articles about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design,'s capture, and Fahrenheit 9/11
Henry IIIDuring the reign ofthe Assize of Arms of 1252 required that all "citizens, burgesses, free te ...
Augusto Pinochet... language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean President, who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands conflict. Helms was st ...
Asopus... is included the oracular hero Acraephen, who, she sings, gave a response toregarding Asopus' daughters who were abducted by the gods. Corinna sang of ...
Wang Zhengjun(71 BCE–13 CE) was first empress, then empress dowager, and finally grand ...
Elizabeth... management in which Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress), and Frederick II of Prussia took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to ...
Joey Smallwood... n 1949, following two referenda within the province, St-Laurent and Premiernegotiated the entry of Newfoundland into Confederation
Huneric... ric, founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son, and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinia ...
Yuan... owager, and finally grand empress dowager during the reigns of the Emperors(r. 49–33 BCE), Cheng (r. 33–7 BCE), and Ai (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. Du ...
Hitler... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and(from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ...
Charlemagne... claim to the Roman legacy for several centuries, after Pope Leo III crowned, king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor" on December 25, 800, an act w ...
Barack Obama... ifference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican John McCain won 51% to Democrat's 46% and each of the three state row office winners carried Washington C ...
Xerxes the great... mbyses, they went to Sindh in command of Darius I, and also took in army ofat the battle of Thermopylae, where they were equipped the same as Pactyan ...
Al Gore... in 2008. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties.received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for George W. Bush in 2000, but ...
Valentinian III... son Huneric, and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperorand Licinia Eudoxia. Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Ca ...
Barack Obama... tewide elections. While John McCain received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for, this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that George W. Bush carr ...
Caesarion... bite of a snake (an asp) conveyed to her in a basket of figs. Octavian hadkilled later that year, finally securing his legacy as Julius Caesar's onl ...
Charlemagne... start of the Viking Age, with the sack of Lindisfarne, also coincided with's Saxon Wars, or Christian wars with pagans in Saxony. Historians Rudolf ...
George W. Bush... ompetitive counties. Al Gore received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% forin 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for John Kerr ...
Sparta... f Zeus on Mt. Lykaion during the Second Messenian War, a revolt against thens. The inscription supposedly commemorated the execution of Aristocrates ...
Cadmus... mpian pantheon. His mother was a mortal woman, Semele, the daughter of kingof Thebes, and his father was Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus' wife, Hera ...
Nicholas I... lost its independence when Russia's army crushed the Polish Uprising under. Revival and reinterpretation of ancient myths, customs and traditions by ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... first was Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second wasin 1964. In 2004, George W. Bush received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 vote ...
PelasgusLycaon, son of, the mythical founder of the Greek race, is said to have instituted the w ...
Stanisław August Poniatowski... d political system. The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of, a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, b ...
Ronald Reagan... Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by Presidentin 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the Court ...
Pope Paul VI... full university in 1955. The title of Pontifical University was granted byin 1972. The university has three campuses in the city
Jigme Dorji WangchuckIn 1966, to increase the efficiency of government administration,made Thimphu the year-round capital. In May 1968, the comprehensive Rules ...
Licinia Eudoxia... s mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III and. Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Catholics, but Hilder ...
US president... Republican politicians for years; the last time a Democratic candidate forcarried Klamath County was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide ...
Adolf HitlerHe was an outspoken and early critic ofand the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ...
John Ramsey... ndful of well-known public address announcers; the most famous of which was, who served as the PA voice of the Dodgers from 1958 until his retirement ...
Abraham Lincoln... of the most Republican counties in Pennsylvania. This has a long history asreportedly received 78.57% of the county's vote in the 1860 Presidential e ...
Ai... ng the reigns of the Emperors Yuan (r. 49–33 BCE), Cheng (r. 33–7 BCE), and(r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. During this time, a succession of her male rel ...
Richard Nixon... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican Presidentwas responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ...
Barack Obama... This has made Loudoun more competitive. Nevertheless, after giving Senatornearly 54% of its presidential vote in 2008, the county shifted back to th ...
Louis XV... was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the young French King, but the Bourbons declined the offer as Elizabeth`s mother`s origin was d ...
Álvaro Arzú... municipal government (Municipalidad de Guatemala) headed by long time Mayor, has implemented a plan to control its growth based on transects along it ...
Ferdinand VIIThe reign of(reigned 1808–33) saw several Catalan uprisings and after his death the co ...
Charles II, Archduke of AustriaHe was born at Graz, the son of, and Maria Anna of Bavaria. He was educated by the Jesuits and later freq ...
Ronald Reagan... ) to Hunt's 1,070,488 (47.8%). Helms might not have won had it not been for's popularity in the state; Reagan carried North Carolina by 24 points tha ...
Elizabeth... tria's influence and ruin the Russian chancellor Bestuzhev, on whom Empressrelied, and who acted as a known partisan of Russo-Austrian co-operation. ...
Lynn Thorndike... 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. An early critic of this claim was, starting with a letter in the 1915 edition of the journal Science , and ...
George Washington... that was chosen was the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the ...
Benedict XVI... ls prior to his election. After being elected Pope, Ratzinger took the name. Benedict is the eighth German Pope, and is the second non-Italian Pope s ...
William I... alighting, proceeded to examine the field". In 1820, the Netherlands' Kingordered the construction of a monument on the spot where it was believed h ...
Henry VIII... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545. It is an important source for ...
Catherine II of Russia... onnected to a major magnate faction, but hand-picked and imposed by Empress, who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower. The King according ...
Abba Jifar II... om of Jimma was formally absorbed into Ethiopia following the death of Kingof Jimma
General de Gaulle... ion, many officers and men were arrested or deserted to escape persecution.considered disbanding it altogether. But after being downsized to 8,000 me ...
Æthelberht of Kent... bout points of dispute. Laurence faced a crisis following the death of King, when the king's successor abandoned Christianity; he eventually reconver ...
Theodoric the Great... w, Amalafrida, imprisoned; he escaped war with her brother, the Gothic king, only by the latter's death in 526
Charles II... areas. However, at the end of the century, after the death of the childless(1700), the crown of Spain went to Philip V of the House of Bourbon. The G ...
Jayapala... jua overlord, Jayapala, of the Panduvanshi dynasty. The last Shahi emperors, Anandapala and Tirlochanpala fought invading Muslim Turks from Central A ...
Pope Paul VI... n Law (promulgated 1917). Further steps toward reorganization were begun byin the 1960s. Among the goals of this curial reform were the modernization ...
James I of England... mia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen of Hearts, was the daughter of King. However, after Frederick's defeat in the Battle of White Mountain in 162 ...
Holy Roman Emperor... II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637), a member of the House of Habsburg, was(1619–1637), King of Bohemia (1617–1619, 1620–1637), and King of Hungary ( ...
Grace Kelly... for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1954, he starred oppositeand Robert Cummings in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder
Pope Paul VI... which is always conferred posthumously and was finally bestowed upon her byin 1970 along with Saint Catherine of Siena making them the first women to ...
Josef II... ties (1767), and prohibited marriage between Romanies (1773). Her successorprohibited the wearing of traditional Romani clothing and the use of the R ...
Leopold I... ccession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father,. Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ...
Augustus... te a history of the world up to his own time (the beginning of the reign of). He starts with the gods and the heroes. At the end of this part of the ...
Al Gore... trended Republican at the national level in recent years. In 2000, Democratwon 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democr ...
Augustus... e actions of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great,, Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985
Emperor Ping... i, Wang Zhengjun's nephew Wang Mang (45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for(r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). When Ping died in 6 CE, the Empress Dowager appointed W ...
Liu Ying... CE, the Empress Dowager appointed Wang Mang to act as emperor for the child(d. 25 CE). Wang promised to relinquish his control to Liu Ying once he ca ...
Prince of Wales... y Act of Parliament". This meant the Duke took precedence over his son, the, except, officially, in the British parliament. In fact, however, he atte ...
Thomas Jefferson... Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin,and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistake ...
Philip V... er the death of the childless Charles II (1700), the crown of Spain went toof the House of Bourbon. The Grand Alliance of England, the United Provinc ...
José Napoleón Duarte... lvadoran election March and May 1984, in favor of the incumbent centre-leftinstead of D'Aubuisson, claiming that Pickering had "used the cloak of dip ...
Aragorn... Men of the West, an island sea-people, founders of Gondor and ancestors offrom The Lord of the Rings; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate o ...
Idi Amin... mentaries include The Man Who Ate His Archbishop's Liver? (Channel 4) about; Alchemists of Sound, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; a biography of ...
Jigme Singye Wangchuck... til his death in July 1972 and was succeeded by his seventeen-year-old son,. The close ties of the Wangchuck and Dorji families were reemphasized in ...
Nazgûl... ains that came to be known as the Ephel Dúath. When Minas Ithil fell to thein , the Ithil-Stone came into Sauron's hands, and leading up to the War o ...
Victor Emmanuel III... was far better armed than the Fascist militias, the liberal system and Kingwere facing a deeper political crisis. The King was forced to choose which ...
King Charles III... children sent to orphanages. Similar prohibitions took place in 1783 under, who prohibited the nomadic lifestyle, the use of the Calo language, Roma ...
George W. Bush... recent years. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won 53% of the vote and Republicanwon 44%. In 2004, Democrat John Kerry received 50.14% of the vote and Bush ...
Commodus... liver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts (1997), the cruel Roman emperorin Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) (for which he was nominated for the Aca ...
Andrew Davis (A.D.) Bruce... for the tank destroyer testing and training, which Texas had in abundance.was assigned to organize a new Tank Destroyer Tactical and Firing Center, ...
Theodore Roosevelt... ported the protection of the environment. For example, Republican Presidentwas a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creat ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... r to the 2008 election, it had not voted for a Democrat for President sincein 1964. In recent years, however, the county has experienced rapid growth ...
Anwar Sadat... ent Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by. In 1971, Sadat, in response to an initiative by UN intermediary Gunnar J ...
Andrew Jackson... nly the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson andwere found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistaken for an actual sta ...
Sir Humphry DavyThe metal itself was first produced byin England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ...
Charles Augustus... e family well: she herself had intended to marry Princess Johanna's brother(Karl August von Holstein), who had died of smallpox in 1727 before the we ...
Pharaoh... time being without foreign intervention. However, in the spring of 609 BC,Necho II personally led a sizable army up to the Euphrates to aid the Assy ...
Carl L. Becker... ved", is usually cited as one of the primary influences. In 1922, historianwrote that "Most Americans had absorbed Locke's works as a kind of politic ...
Joseph Chamberlain... t rally celebrating the British Empire, the occasion being the centenary of's birth. In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during World War ...
Rupprecht... I of Bavaria. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince, commanded the Bavarian army and became one of the leading German command ...
Constans... , often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors Constantius anddeclared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 C ...
Sir Humphry Davy... en recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 bythrough the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide
George Washington... th the county and the city were named for American Revolutionary War leader, later to become the first President of the United States. It was the fir ...
George Washington... r North Carolina Governor General Benjamin Smith, who was a special aide toduring the American Revolutionary War and was an early benefactor to the u ...
Maria Theresa... abeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his two children:, born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and Maria Anna, born 1718, Gover ...
Lord Adrian... ch consensus, prompting the intervention of then University Vice-Chancellor. Lord Adrian first offered the professorship to a compromise candidate, , ...
Gelimer... ven years on the throne, Hilderic fell victim to a revolt led by his cousin, an Arian, who led the people in a religious rebellion. Gelimer then beca ...
MagnetoThe first issue also introduced the team's archenemy,, who would continue to battle the X-Men for decades throughout the comic' ...
Valentinian II... ame-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors, Theodosius I and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and thos ...
Alexander the Great... legorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past (, Augustus, Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985
Slobodan Milošević... ommanders and politicians, notably Serbia and Yugoslavia's former president, were put on trial by the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal ...
Floris V, Count of Holland... is from 1276 when Dirk van Santhorst received the "Soetrewold" fiefdom from
King Henry VIII... nians. As the English Reformation progressed, their friaries were closed by. The refectory of the Dominican friary was eventually converted into a th ...
Maria Anna... is two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and, born 1718, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands
Constantine II of Greece... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King(then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ...
Clovis... 440 – 481/82) was a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and the father of
William IIn 933 the islands, formerly under the control of, then Duchy of Brittany were annexed by the Duchy of Normandy. The island ...
Archduke Charles... rlands) and Austria gave military support to a rival claimant to the crown,. Catalonia initially accepted Philip V following prolonged negotiations b ...
Demetrius of Montferrat... rians, and his head was sent to Kaloyan. He was succeeded by his infant son, who ruled until he reached adulthood, but was eventually defeated by The ...
Alfonso XIIIIn the early 1900s Santander became the favoured summer residence of King, who built the Palacio de la Magdalena as the residence of the royal fami ...
Andrew Johnson... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governorused his influence in the United States Department of War for Carter to or ...
Peter II... liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent half-nephew. The Dolgorukovs, an ancient boyar family, deeply resented Menshikov. Wit ...
Theodosius I... to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II,and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guil ...
Gamal Abdel NasserIn 1956, Presidentof Egypt initiated "state feminism", which outlawed discrimination based o ...
Hadrian... hat the decrease of importance of the Oracle after the era of Roman Emperorwas due in part to the fact that there had not been an earthquake in the a ...
Philip II... om of the former Aragonese confederation, eclipsing Barcelona. The reign ofmarked the beginning of a gradual process of deterioration of Catalan econ ...
Jane Seymour... heir, the future Edward VI, was born at the palace and the child's mother,, died there two weeks later. Four years afterwards, whilst attending Mass ...
Andrew JohnsonOn the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee, U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ...
Barack Obama... ion of any county in the US (85%) and in 2008 with 88.69% of votes cast for. It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county; i.e., taxes on alcohol illeg ...
Arvedui... and taken to Fornost. It remained there until Fornost too was overrun, whentook it to Forochel. It was lost in when the ship on which he was travelli ...
Marie Feodorovna... e was built by Catherine the Great’s son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife,, were avid francophiles, who, on a visit to France and Versailles in the ...
Charles the Bold... s were astonishingly successful. In the Siege of Neuss (1474–75), he forcedof Burgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick' ...
Philip IV... of the kingdoms, and were jealously guarded by the Catalan oligarchy. Afteracceded to the throne in 1621, the Count-Duke of Olivares attempted to sus ...
Catherine Howard... ce's chapel, the King was informed of his fifth wife's adultery. The Queen,, was then confined to her room for a few days before being sent to the to ...
Philippe, Duke of Anjou... The ensuing War of the Spanish Succession, which pitted France's candidate,, Louis XIV of France's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for al ...
Adolf Hitler... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course,himself
Emperor Charles V... r became Holy Roman Emperor, because he predeceased his father, but his soneventually united the Habsburg, Burgundian, Castilian, and Aragonese inher ...
King Basin... Franks, whose women he was taking; of his eight-year stay in Thuringia withand his wife Basina; of his return when a faithful servant advised him tha ...
Mary of Burgundy... s (1474–75), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughteras wife to Frederick's son Maximilian. With the inheritance of Burgundy, t ...
Arvedui... to Fornost, they took the palantír with them. This Stone was also lost whenwas shipwrecked
Richard Nixon... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president
Jawaharlal Nehru... expedite the progress of the building project at its permanent location andlaid the foundation stone of the Institute at Powai on March 10, 1959
George WashingtonPresident of Congress John Hancock sent a broadside to General, instructing him to have it proclaimed "at the Head of the Army in the wa ...
Karl RennerIn April 1945, an Austrian elder statesman, declared Austria separate from Germany and ...
Empress AnnaWith the death of her father and the later accession of the, no royal court or noble house in Europe could allow a son to pay court t ...
Arcadius... hortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I anddeclared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guilty of it were ...
President of the Republic of China... Chinese culture, like the lion dance and drum teams. Later in the day, theaddresses the country and fireworks displays are held throughout the major ...
Theodosius II... hed in 439 or soon thereafter, and certainly during the lifetime of Emperor, i.e., before 450. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of ...
Richard NixonOn November 25, 1969, Presidentunilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ...
Emperor JingEmperor Gengshi of Han (r. 23–25 CE), a descendant of(r. 157–141 BCE), attempted to restore the Han Dynasty and occupied Chang' ...
Claudius... and formed the north border of the Roman Empire. Since the rule of Emperor(41–54 CE), divisions of the Roman army were stationed here. Consequently, ...
OmphaleIn Greek myth, Lydia was also the first home of the double-axe, the labrys., daughter of the river Iardanos, was a ruler of Lydia, whom Heracles was ...
ClovisHe died in 481 and was buried in Tournai. His sonsucceeded him as king of the Franks
Kublai Khan... ictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns of Edward I and. Costain's narration includes technology such as the compass, the telesco ...
Anna... ria (having previously been relieved of his tongue) by order of the Empress, she turned to a coachman and even a waiter. Eventually she consoled hers ...
Emperor Guangwu... monarch Liu Penzi. Emperor Gengshi's brother Liu Xiu, known posthumously as(r. 25–57 CE), after distinguishing himself at the Battle of Kunyang in 23 ...
Catherine the Great’sPavlovsk Palace was built byson Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, Marie Feodorovna, were avid francop ...
Leopold I... eslaus Balthasar Johannes Antonius Ignatius), the second son of the Emperorand of his third wife, Princess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on ...
Justinian I... e who were guilty of it were condemned to be publicly burned alive. Emperor(527–565 CE) made homosexuals a scapegoat for problems such as "famines, e ...
Anne Boleyn... ndon Bridge created dangerous rapids. This gatehouse is also known today as's gate, after Henry's second wife. Work was still underway on Anne Boleyn ...
MagnetoEarly X-Men issues introduced the team's archenemyand his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants featuring Mastermind, Quicksilver, Sca ...
William the Conqueror... t the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the invading Duke of Normandy,, spent the rest of the year securing his holdings, by fortifying key posi ...
Licinius... he Edict of Milan, issued in February of AD 313 by Emperors Constantine and
Mengistu Haile Mariam... Across from the Parliament is the Shengo Hall, built by the Derg regime ofas its new parliament hall. The Shengo Hall was the world's largest pre-fa ...
Ralph Klein... ssue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by Alberta Premierand some Conservatives and Liberal backbenchers. However, Paul Martin's Li ...
Pau ClarisThe president of the Generalitat,, declared a Catalan Republic under the protection of Louis XIII of France ...
Ronald Reagan... d States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President
John F. KennedyPeter Lawford was a brother-in-law of President(dubbed "Brother-in-Lawford" by Sinatra), and the group played a role in c ...
President of Ireland... e Gael was responsible for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first, Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the off ...
Louis XIV... atin. The treasure went first to the Habsburgs in Vienna, then as a gift to, who was not impressed with the treasure and stored it in the royal libra ...
Edmund CrouchbackHenry granted Kenilworth to his brother,, in 1267. Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th cen ...
Kunigunde of AustriaThe marriage of his daughterto Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, was another result of intrigues and decepti ...
Robert E. Lee... merican Civil War Brigadier General Robert H. Chilton (Chief of Staff under) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general George C. Marshall ...
The Prince of Wales... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events.and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs
Walter Scott... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sirand Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart
Ashur-uballit II... ght and where Josiah was killed. Necho then joined forces with the Assyrianand together they crossed the Euphrates and lay siege to Harran. The combi ...
Henry IV of England... bowstaves to England was in 1294. In 1350 there was a serious shortage, andordered his royal bowyer to enter private land and cut yew and other woods ...
Habibullah Khan... ost rebellion of 1923-24. Religious leaders, who had gained influence under, were unhappy with Amānullāh's extensive religious reforms
Douglas Hyde... for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland,, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of Preside ...
Clinton... Chen Li-an and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. Presidentto invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battl ...
Barack Obama... Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to Presidentas a state gift
Bill Richardson... rdon promised and not delivered by Wallace, to then-Governor of New Mexico,. On December 31, 2010, on the eve of leaving office, Richardson turned do ...
Harry S. Truman... wever, after Chief Justice Harlan Stone died in 1946, rumors that Presidentwould appoint Jackson as Stone's successor led several newspapers to inves ...
Alfonso... and the successful defense against a French crusade; his son and successor("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son James II, who f ...
Jigme Singye WangchuckOn December 15, 2006, the fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty, abdicated all of his powers as King to his son, Prince Jigme Khesar Namg ...
Mary McAleese... 9.3% of the vote. In 2004, Fine Gael supported the re-election of President
Sun King... restoration and maintenance at Versailles undoubtedly surpass those of the
AugustusThe Romans had a preference for standardization whenever they could, so, after becoming permanent commissioner of roads in 20 BC, set up the mili ...
Kwame NkrumahThe term "neocolonialism" was first coined by, the first post-independence president of Ghana, and has been discussed b ...
Sparta... ttoman Empire, European travelers and scholars began to systematically tourand the Peloponnnese. Ernst Curtius, Charles Beulé, and Guillaume Blouet p ...
Inayatullah Khan... rth. In January 1929, Amanullah abdicated the throne to his oldest brother,, who ruled for only three days before escaping into exile in British-Indi ...
Gerald Ford... both on the Federal and State level. Nixon was succeeded by Vice Presidentas President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pa ...
James II... uccessor Alfonso ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son, who first acceded to the throne of Sicily and then succeeded his older b ...
Bill Clinton... ty came to also support environmentalism. For example, Democratic Presidentdid not send the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification, as he ...
Kristina KeneallyKeneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales,
Pope Benedict XVIAmong its notable alumni and faculty are, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ...
Holy Roman Emperor... emian diet, in 1618, King of Hungary by the Hungarian estates, and in 1619,
Philip II of Spain... mpton Court that Queen Mary I (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with Kingto spend her honeymoon, after their wedding at Winchester. The marriage wa ...
Edward I of England... 05, Wallace was captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over to King, who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes aga ...
Alfonso VFerdinand's successor,("the Magnanimous"), promoted a new stage of expansion, this time over the ...
Charles de Gaulle... er complication occurred due to Saint-Exupéry's and others' view of General, who was held in low regard. Early in the war de Gaulle became the leader ...
George W. Bush... e for ratification, as he thought it unfair to the United States. Presidentalso publicly opposed ratification of the Kyoto Protocols on the grounds t ...
Psamtik I... that the Assyrians and Egyptians were weakened by the death of the pharaohonly a year earlier (610 BC). Presumably in an attempt to help the Babylon ...
Charles the Bold# 1477 Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy# 1494 Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo ...
Kaleb... eginning of the 6th century and began to massacre the Christians. Outraged,, the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Empe ...
George W. Bush... d of many prominent leaders in industry and government, including President
Mary of Burgundy# 1477(1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bol
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck... me Singye Wangchuck, abdicated all of his powers as King to his son, Prince, with a specific intention to prepare the young King for the country's tr ...
Aragorn... ver Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, andarrive to pick up the two hobbits
Humphry Davy... , but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated byin 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the sixth most ...
Menen Asfaw... d that in the interest of preserving the Imperial house, the emperor's wifeand the rest of the imperial family should immediately depart for Djibouti ...
Saddam... ts pedestal. The pro-Chávez website Aporrea wrote: "Just like the statue ofin Baghdad, that of Columbus the tyrant also fell this October 12, 2004 in ...
Charles I of England... and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King(played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly ...
Achilles... . In an almost identical line (X.391) that suggests a formulaic expression,tells the Myrmidons to sing the paean after the death of Hector
President... "an examination ... of rival claims." Great Britain reacted favourably butWoodrow Wilson rejected the plan. Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary were favora ...
James I... ly. This was when, on the death of Robert III in 1406, his heir, who became, was a prisoner in England. James was eventually released and crowned in ...
Malcolm, son of Kenneth II... ed mac Duib), who became Kenneth III on Constantine's death, or perhaps for(Máel Coluim mac Cináeda)
Hitler... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ...
Jawaharlal Nehru... cting the newly formed Republic of India, from a planned coup to topple theAdministration in Delh
Llywelyn the Great... ng and soon the archbishop was sent to Wales to negotiate peace with Prince
William the Conqueror... father Eustace II appeared at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 as an ally of, and is listed as a possible killer of Harold II; he is also believed to ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from(a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ...
Talcott Parsons... pretations of his writings were produced by such sociological luminaries asand C. Wright Mills. Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a fun ...
George Papandreou... ral Democratic Alliance (DS) and the moderate leftist Democratic Left (DA)., president of PASOK, won 4 October 2009, won with a majority in the Parli ...
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor... arried Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter ofand his wife Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her materna ...
Henry VIII... whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Arms toin 1526, Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1532, and a Justice of the Peace f ...
Charles I... ent in an act of posthumous revenge for their part in the beheading of King
George W. Bush... a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing thatis a war criminal. A spokeswoman for the university said that the test que ...
Robert III... able to be crowned more or less immediately. This was when, on the death ofin 1406, his heir, who became James I, was a prisoner in England. James wa ...
Pope John Paul II... guards, and palace guards. After the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt onby Mehmet Ali Ağca, the guards were given enhanced training in unarmed com ...
Lady Diana Spencer... dest son, Charles, counselling him to make up his mind to either propose to, or break off their courtship. Charles felt pressured by his father to ma ...
King Henry II... de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, the castle was seized by the crown in 1102., who added on to the castle, in 1155 confirmed William d'Aubigny as Earl ...
John III Sobieski... of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King
George W. Bush... Presidential election, John Kerry carried the county by a 6.6% margin over, with Kerry carrying the state by 6.7% over Bush
President of Ireland... Uachtaráin , formerly the Viceregal Lodge, is the official residence of the. It is located in the Phoenix Park on the northside of Dublin
Hillary Rodham Clinton... in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. Senator Hatch and First Ladyalso played major roles in SCHIP passing
Alexander the Great... t family was named Psittacus alexandri, meaning "Alexander's parrot", afterwhose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece. Linnaeus' trivial nam ...
Johnson administration... egan to be released from this and other North Vietnamese prisons during the, their testimonies revealed widespread and systematic abuse of prisoners ...
Nero... centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, Charles Laughton as, and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus falls i ...
Henri I... 06. The country was then divided between a kingdom in the north directed by; and a republic in the south directed by Alexandre Pétion, an homme de co ...
Danaus... their wedding night, as her 49 sisters did. (See the myth at the entry for.) The author of the Bibliotheca, in his list of names for the Danaids, do ...
Art Rooney... d among his friends and companions the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, Tim Mara,, and George Preston Marshall, among others. Marshall met Bell in Atlantic ...
Stephen of England... V (c. 1129 – 17 August 1153), count of Boulogne, was the eldest son of Kingand Countess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English thr ...
Dwight Eisenhower... ioned endlessly for an exemption which had finally been approved by General. However Saint-Exupéry had been suffering pain and immobility due to his ...
Earl Mountbatten of Burma... ectors' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Presenting the awards was; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman (writers of Round ...
Lex Luthor... c (who murders Alexi Luthor of Earth-Two for trying to take leadership) andto conquer the Earths, while the Anti-Monitor causes chaos on the Earths b ...
DanausIn Greek mythology, Amymone (the "blameless" one) was a daughter of. As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identica ...
Yuan Hao... n garrison towns, he sent his general Chen Qingzhi to support the pretender. Despite the fact that Chen was only given 7,000 troops, Chen still manag ...
Branch Rickey... "minor" – a term that did not come into vogue until St. Louis Cardinals GMpioneered the farm system in the 1930s. Nevertheless, these financially tr ...
Emperor Gong of Western Wei... AD). Afterwards, Yuwen Tai's son Yuwen Jue seized the throne of power from, establishing the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557–580 AD). The Northern Zhou D ...
Stever CommitteeIn early 1958, NACA's "" included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by W ...
Diana, Princess of Wales... ted with the Royal Family (for instance, immediately following the death of). However, recent polls show that around 70–80% of the British public sup ...
Haakon V... peared claiming to be her, known as the False Margaret; she was executed by, King Eric's brother and successor, in 1301
Joseph IIOn Maria Theresa's death in 1780, she was succeeded by her son, already Holy Roman Emperor since Francis I's death in 1765. A reformer h ...
Baldwin of Bourcq... he travelled all the way to Apulia before learning that a distant relative,, had been crowned in the meantime. Eustace returned to Boulogne and died ...
Jawaharlal Nehru... e rule in Goa and its integration into India. When Prime Minister of India,refused to obtain it by armed intervention, RSS leader Jagannath Rao Joshi ...
Crown Prince... Loerzer had been regularized. They were assigned as a team to FFA 25 in the's Fifth Army – "though it seems that they had to steal a plane in order t ...
Alan García... 1990, he reached the position of Secretary General after the resignation of. He was also Prime Minister from 1985 until 1987, when serious disputes w ...
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John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg... ncess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her maternal grandfather was. In 1725 Charles Albert visited Versailles for the wedding of Louis XV an ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Privately, however, the CIA and Presidentwere aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret sp ...
Alan García... resident of Peruvian Chamber of Deputies during the government of President
Alexander the Great... o the age of heroes, extending from Manuchehr's reign until the conquest of(Sekandar). The main feature of this period is the major role played by th ...
Baldwin of Boulogne... 1096 with his brothers Godfrey of Bouillon (duke of Lower Lotharingia) and. He soon returned to Europe to administer his domains. He married Mary of ...
Alfred the Great... yfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked byto leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was rec ...
Philip... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince
Pope John Paul II... said that his religion was the "most important thing" in his life. In 1998,made him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KSG), the highest ...
Henry of Anjou... ssibility of a peaceful settlement between Stephen and his rival, the young. According to William of Newburgh, King Stephen was "grieved beyond measu ...
Catherine the Great... ntral Europe, faced with the alliance of Frederick the Great of Prussia andof Russia. The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 caused a serious crisis in e ...
Yazdegerd III... h Keyumars, the first man, and ended with his fiftieth scion and successor,, six thousand years of history of Iran. The task of Ferdowsi was to preve ...
Woodrow Wilson... rsity as undergraduate students, graduate students or were faculty members., who received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was Hopkins' first affi ...
Elizabeth II... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch,, succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ...
Nimrod... ified in the Recognitions (part of Clementine literature) with the biblical, who, the author says, taught the Persians to worship fire. In many moder ...
Joseph Locke... ed men were starting to make their marks, such as his son Robert, his pupiland finally Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His conservative views on the capabil ...
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia... icholas was identified from DNA obtained from among others his late brother. Grand Duke George had died of tuberculosis in the late 1890s and was bur ...
Frederick TaylorThe modern history of workflows can be traced toand H. Gantt. Rudolf Laban and Warren Lamb contributed to this in England. ...
Anne of Denmark... 00. James VI and I, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife,, the daughter of Frederick II of Denmark also lived at the Palace until t ...
Kim Il-sungIn April 1982,announced a new economic policy giving priority to increased agricultural ...
George W. Bush... er, many Democrats in Congress did not want to work with incoming President. Kennedy, however, saw Bush as genuinely interested in a major overhaul o ...
Matilda of Boulogne... cotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter,
Hou Jing... n and Western Wei, Emperor Wu granted asylum to rebel Eastern Wei commander, sending him on Northern Expeditions against Eastern Wei. After some init ...
John F. Kennedy... because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U.S. Presidentand former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d' ...
Casimir IV... tiated with Lithuania in the hope of placing itself under the protection of, King of Poland and Grand Prince of Lithuania, a would-be alliance regard ...
Joseph Locke... tar" driven by his brother Robert and "Rocket" driven by assistant engineer. The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ...
John F. Kennedy... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated. However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005
King Harold... shire and Monmouthshire, and traced his descent from an Owen of the time ofand a Sitsyllt of the reign of William Rufus. Sitsylt is the original Wels ...
Achilles... s married the Ocean goddess Thetis. Peleus later gave the horses to his sonwho took them to draw his chariot during the Trojan War
Marie Amalie, Archduchess of AustriaHe and his wifewere parents of seven children
Baldwin I of JerusalemWhen his youngest brother kingdied in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne. Eustace was at f ...
Rawhi FattouhUpon Arafat's death, PLC Speakersucceeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General Ma ...
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for
Daniel Nathans... Herbert Spencer Gasser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,and Hamilton O. Smith won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ...
Agustin de IturbideHonduras later joined the Mexican Empire of, a fact which lasted until the formation of the Federal Republic of Centr ...
Maximilian IIn 1505, Holy Roman Emperorestablished a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und ...
Daniel of Galicia... mogitia). Vykintas died in 1251 or 1252, and Tautvilas was forced to rejoin
Leopold II... roved a boon for Austria, as he was succeeded by his more sensible brother,, previously the reforming Grand Duke of Tuscany. Leopold knew when to cut ...
James I of Scotland... e David II of Scotland (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324;(reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and Charles I of England, King of England, S ...
Mahmoud Abbas... ouh succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-Generalwas selected Chairman of the PLO, and Farouk Kaddoumi became head of Fatah ...
David II of ScotlandA number of British monarchs were born in Dunfermline Palace. These include(reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland ...
Vasili... rty three years, dying on 27 October 1505 and he left his empire to his son
Charles I of England... ert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland (reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. James VI ...
John F. Kennedy... since he was one of the key figures who acceded to the wishes of Presidentin changing the focus of the march. Kennedy initially opposed the march ou ...
Emperor Wen of Sui... -lived, as the Northern Zhou was overthrown in 581 by Yang Jian, who became. With greater military power and morale, along with convincing propaganda ...
Al Gore... ential election battle in Florida in 2000, Kennedy supported Vice President's legal actions. After the bitter contest was over, many Democrats in Con ...
Nero... Barrett incarnated Marcus Superbus, an old Roman patrician of the years of, who falls in love with a young woman and converts to Christianity for he ...
PeleusPoseidon gave the two horses to Kingof Phtia, as a wedding gift, when Peleus married the Ocean goddess Thetis. ...
Grover Cleveland... stein-Friesian Association of America. Susan Cleveland, sister of Presidentmarried into the Yeomans family
Earl Mountbatten of Burma... le all over the country. On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinatedin County Sligo. On the same day the IRA killed 18 British soldiers at War ...
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of BavariaHe was born in Brussels as the son of, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King John III ...
Henry VII... e best inn in Stamford. David somehow secured the favour of the first Tudor, to whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Ar ...
Empress Matilda... ouis in an abortive raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the title of the, and was now defended by her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou
King George V... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of. In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ...
Indira Gandhi... ze such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister, assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984
Augustus... nd his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first emperor,, (r. 27 BC–AD 19), had shared power with his colleagues and more formal o ...
Malcolm III of Scotland... pe to administer his domains. He married Mary of Scotland, daughter of King, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, Matil ...
Alexander III of Scotland... e was the daughter of King Eric II of Norway and Margaret, daughter of King. Margaret was born in Tønsberg, on 9 April 1283, while her mother did not ...
Khosrau IDuring the reign of the later Sassanid king(531–579), a gift from an Indian king (possibly a Maukhari Dynasty king of ...
FinarfinDorthonion was originally ruled by Angrod and Aegnor, two of the sons of, under the suzerainty of their older brother Finrod. The north-eastern ar ...
Marcus Aurelius... with his colleagues and more formal offices of co-emperor had existed from(r. 161–180) on
Richard M. Nixon... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President
Harry S. Truman... ly nine days before the U.S. presidential elections, causing U.S. Presidentgreat embarrassment. Truman reacted by making a strongly pro-Zionist decla ...
Isaiah Berlin... itically, rather than any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, includingand Piero Sraffa. Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewi ...
Carus... sily removed from power. In contrast, just a few years earlier, the emperorand his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first empero ...
Adolf Hitler... when British attacks had become more effective than earlier in the battle., then a Gefreiter of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, fought in the Bat ...
Holy Roman Emperor... mber of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 andfrom 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745. Charles was notably the only ...
Louis VII of France... ers dated no later than August 1131. In 1137, he did homage for Normandy to, whose sister, Constance, he subsequently married in 1140 (as a widow she ...
Eric II of NorwayShe was the daughter of Kingand Margaret, daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland. Margaret was bor ...
Saparmurat NiyazovIn January 2006,ordered to stop paying pensions to ⅓ (more than 100,000) of elderly people ...
Ardashir I... and 7th centuries AD (Common Era). This ancient Persian text refers to Shah, who ruled from 224–241, as a master of the game
Pope Benedict XVI... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles byin September 2006
Henry VIII... ard Family were Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of. Both women were nieces of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, who played ...
Nursultan Nazarbayev... akhstan and is a regular goose hunting companion of the country's President. He is a supporter of Norwich City Football Club
Adolf Hitler... Davenport) is concerned about the "crisis" in Europe, the growing power ofand Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents i ...
Xiao Dong... ering. Despite Emperor Wu's assurances, Hou decided to rebel in the name of, the grandson of the former crown prince Xiao Tong who died in 531 AD and ...
Oswaldo López... a bloody coup. These officers exiled PLH members and governed under Generaluntil 1970
President of the Church... restrictions remained in place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded bySpencer W. Kimball
President Reagan... rd Nixon announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later,added the position of drug czar to the President's Executive Office
Napoleon I... as a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army againstat the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Water ...
Melvin A. Eggers... ention of the NCAA. The day after the bombing, the university's chancellor,, said on nationwide television that he should have canceled the event. Af ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton... he hometown of former First Lady & current United States Secretary of State. When she visited Park Ridge on the occasion of her 50th birthday in 1997 ...
Erskine H. Childers... Fianna Fáil's electoral comeback by securing the election of its candidate,, as President of Ireland in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the Na ...
Alfonso IX of León... i had established himself in the city of Cordoba. Sensing the vacuity, bothand Sancho II of Portugal opportunistically ordered their own raids into A ...
George Tupou VIn July 2008, three days before his coronation, Kingannounced that he would relinquish most of his power and be guided by his ...
Ferdinand III of Castile... aeza. He set up a rebel camp and forged an alliance with the hitherto quiet. Sensing his greater priority was Marrakesh, where recusant Almohad sheik ...
Bill Clinton... tone of the Clinton campaign and what he saw as racially tinged remarks by. Kennedy gave an endorsement to Obama on January 28, 2008, despite appeal ...
Louis IV... emperor at Frankfurt. Charles VII was the second Wittelsbach Emperor afterand the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of Rupert of G ...
President... staing (; born 2 February 1926) is a French centre-right politician who wasof the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. , he is a member of the Const ...
Pope John Paul II... protected by a bubble of clear bulletproof glass, such as the Popemobile of– built following an attempt at his life. Politicians often resent this ne ...
Thomas Jefferson... federal military reservation established by President of the United Statesin 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the campus of the U.S ...
Marc RavalomananaThe government of former Presidentwas aggressively seeking foreign investment and had planned to tackle many ...
President BushOn September 26, 2006,urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that U.S. armed forces ...
Emperor Charles VII... a to the Prussians. In 1745, following the reign of the Bavarian Elector as, Maria Theresa's husband Francis of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senatorand Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ...
Queen Elizabeth I... G (13 September 1521 – 4 August 1598) was an English , the chief advisor offor most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) ...
Barack Obama... cratic nomination battle between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senatorintensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also running. After the initial ...
President of India... tion of SPG for a period of 5 years, after stepping down from the post. Theis also protected by SPG while the President's Bodyguards, which is a mech ...
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany... left with the prisoners. Alexandra kept only two bracelets which her uncle,, had given her as a child and which she could not take off. He did not kn ...
Cephalus... mage:Cephalus and Aurora - Poussin - 1627-30 National Gallery, London.jpg |and Aurora - Nicolas Poussin - 1627 - National Gallery, London
TalausHe was a son ofand Lysimache. Pausanias calls his mother Lysianassa, and Hyginus calls he ...
Jacques Chirac... Palestinian national anthems, and a Chopin funeral march. French Presidentstood alone beside Arafat's coffin for about ten minutes in a last show of ...
Henry IV... a Parisian) and to Henry III of Navarre who later became king of France as
Mithridates I of Parthia... g Syria and northern Mesopotamia; the nomadic Parthians, brilliantly led byhad overrun uppland Media (home of the famed Nisean horse herd); and Roman ...
Edward, the Prince of Wales... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ...
President of the United StatesWest Point is a federal military reservation established byThomas Jefferson in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the ...
Indira Gandhi... and his family members, after the assassination of the then Prime Minister, in 1984. Former Prime Ministers also get the protection of SPG for a per ...
Salvador Allende... overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely
Juan Alberto Melgar... air force superiority over its neighbors. During the governments of General(1975–78) and General Policarpo Paz (1978–82), Honduras built most of its ...
Odin... Munin, two Common Ravens who whispered news into the ears of the Norse god. In several civilizations of ancient Italy, particularly Etruscan and Rom ...
Lynceus... meless, was eventually reconciled with her father, and given in marriage to, with whom she founded a race of kings that led to Danae, the mother of P ...
Tigranes the GreatMithridates' ambitious son-in-law,, king of Armenia, however, saw opportunity for expansion in the constant ...
Gerry Adams... ough the move caused some controversy in the UK due to his connections withof the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin. Later in March, a bill ...
AchaemenesHis character seems to have been chosen by Virgil treating the Persian nameas Greek and extracting a meaning "he who waits with affliction"
Oswaldo López... NH, Ramón Ernesto Cruz, took power briefly in 1970 until, in December 1972,staged another coup. This time round, he adopted more progressive policies ...
Dermot MacMurrough... x Ireland and bring the Irish church into line with Rome. Around 1170, Kingof Leinster was deposed by his arch-enemy King Rory O'Connor of Connacht. ...
Chen Shubao... er and morale, along with convincing propaganda that the Chen Dynasty rulerwas a decadent ruler who had lost the Mandate of Heaven, the Sui Dynasty w ...
Justinian... tiquity, Awjila was nominally within the Roman Empire, evidenced by emperor's decree that forbade the worship of Amun
Clement Attlee... current stones were dedicated in September 1946 by the then Prime Minister, replacing those destroyed during WW2 as an anti-invasion measure. The lo ...
Ramón Ernesto CruzA civilian president for the PNH,, took power briefly in 1970 until, in December 1972, Oswaldo López staged ...
Sancho II of Portugal... lf in the city of Cordoba. Sensing the vacuity, both Alfonso IX of León andopportunistically ordered their own raids into Andalusian territory that s ...
Sarpedon... of Eetion. Pedasos was mortal, but he could keep up with the divine horses., prince of Lycia and ally of Troy, killed Pedasos when his spear missed P ...
Don Carlos... whose settlement saw Austria cede Naples and Sicily to the Spanish Infantein exchange for the tiny Duchy of Parma and Spain and France's adherence t ...
Mahmoud Abbas... prevent a blood feud. The lawyer called on Palestinian Authority presidentto reopen the investigation into Arafat's death.
Sarah, Duchess of York... ayment. The Duke's entourage denied he knew of the situation. In July 2011,stated that her multi-million pound debts had been cleared due to the inte ...
Maria Theresa... rs' worthless recognitions of the Pragmatic Sanction that made his daughterhis heir. The most notable instance of this was in the War of the Polish S ...
Maria Theresa... ies were overrun by the Austrians and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of. Therefore the emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in ...
OdinThe Norse godin his many forms, astride his eight-legged steed Sleipnir, came to be ass ...
Benazir Bhutto... as with U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister, or as part of coups d'état where security is either overwhelmed or compl ...
Henry II of EnglandIn the 12th century the only English pope, Adrian IV, authorised Kingto take possession of Ireland as a feudal territory nominally under papal ...
Vonones II of Parthia... Tiridates I of Armenia, during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of, and his coronation by Nero in 66 AD confirmed the end of a war between P ...
Joseph Locke... e, rather than the West Coast Main Line taking the direct route favoured byover Shap between Lancaster and Carlisle, Stephenson was in favour of a lo ...
James I’sambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, who pr ...
Ronald ReaganUnited States Presidentordered that the plane be intercepted by F-14 Tomcats from the VF-74 "BeDe ...
Nero... ring the state visit to Rome of Tiridates I of Armenia, during the reign of. (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthia, and his coronation by N ...
Henry IIHis 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the futureto gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony. Th ...
Thomas Jefferson... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from
Mitt Romney... that Kennedy "changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans"., former Massachusetts Governor and Kennedy's opponent in the 1994 senate ...
Edward BruceAround Lent of 1314,, brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which ...
President... ere constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointed Ramón Villeda as, and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term. The PLH rule ...
Organa... uly 27, 1999, a digitally restored print of the film was released in DVD bythrough Geneon (Pioneer), and packaged with the documentary The Hollywood ...
John II Komnenos... y set afoot by his mother-in-law Irene Doukaina and his wife Anna to depose, the son of Alexios, and raise himself to the throne. His wife attributed ...
Constantine... divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself. When Licinius andbegan to make common cause with one another, Maximinus entered into a secr ...
Polynices... aughter of Pronax, or to Demonassa. His daughters Argea and Deipyle marriedand Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale, Aegialeus, a ...
Indira GandhiIn 1975, the Indian Government under the Prime Minister Mrs., proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby suspending the fundamental r ...
Charles... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince, and Prince Philip
Kenneth IIConstantine became king upon the death of(Cináed mac Maíl Coluim), supposedly killed by Finnguala, daughter of Cunc ...
Ramón Villeda... it back). There were constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointedas President, and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term. ...
Emperor Yuan of Liang... f his generals Wang Sengbian and Chen Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself. His brother Xiao Ji based in Sichuan was still a major threat. Emperor Y ...
John Balliol... eace in Scotland between the competing claims of Margaret, Robert Bruce and
Sparta... came a sea of Syracuse. In the Peloponnesian War, he joined the side of thens and assisted them with mercenaries
Jacques Chirac... a memorial to the cruelty of the Nazi occupation. In 1999, French Presidentdedicated a memorial museum, the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, near the ...
Tiridates I of Armenia... tells how the name of Mithras was spoken during the state visit to Rome of, during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthi ...
Cuilén, King of Scotland... III, (before 971–997) was king of Scots from 995 to 997. He was the son of(Cuilén mac Iduilb)
Baudouin... ave been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, Prince Rainier III; Kingof the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Pri ...
Douglas Fairbanks... and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford,and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919
the Queen... the Privy Council at Whitehall on 18 March 1588, as a result of petition to. On these occasions he maintained the principle of separatism, denouncing ...
Henry III of England... ecclesiastical office. In the name of his fellow bishops he admonished Kingat Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, Kin ...
Charles de GaulleAfter the war, Generaldecided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain ...
Fidel Castro... ions. According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993–97,has used body doubles
Daniel of Galicia... augas, along with the Samogitians of western Lithuania, the Livonian Order,(Tautvilas and Edivydas' brother-in-law), and Vasilko of Volhynia. The pri ...
Timur Leng... he late Middle Ages, but their hold upon the area was transitional as laterand Uzbeks contested the land
Walter WangerProducerbought the rights to journalist Vincent Sheean's memoir Personal History i ...
Sparta... manner the Rhodians celebrated Ptolemy I of Egypt, the Samians Lysander of, the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians Craterus of Macedon
Ferdinand IIIIn 1799, Kingcreated Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the ti ...
Basil II... hen led his armies against Bulgaria, in alliance with the Byzantine Emperor, and collected several relics during his campaign
Edward II of England... . It was now two years since an English army had come to Scotland, and Kinghad recently been on the verge of war with his barons after the murder of ...
Diomedes of Thrace... not to be confused with the horse mentioned above, was one of the horses of, who fed these animals on human flesh. The capture of these horses was th ...
Mitt Romney... n instrumental in the prior 2004 alteration of this law to prevent Governorfrom appointing a Republican senator should John Kerry's presidential camp ...
Prince Rainier III... the Áras an Uachtaráin have been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband,; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope J ...
Villeda... nservative military officers preempted constitutional elections and deposedin a bloody coup. These officers exiled PLH members and governed under Gen ...
Charles VI... d claimed the German territories of the Habsburg dynasty after the death ofin 1740. With the treaty of Nymphenburg concluded in July 1741, Charles Al ...
Theodore Roosevelt... build boats to transition goods from the rails to the seas. With President's declaration to create a Great White Fleet, the company entered the wars ...
Galerius... 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of the emperornear their family lands around Felix Romuliana; a rural area then in the D ...
Tarquin the Proud... ic was established around 509 BC, when the last of the seven kings of Rome,, was deposed by Lucius Junius Brutus, and a system based on annually elec ...
Marie AmalieOn 5 October 1722, Charles married, Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of Joseph I, Holy Ro ...
George Washington... and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies., who had more than sufficient difficulties with the British, brushed off ...
Charles VIn 1520united the twenty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the t ...
Robert E. Lee... a and the South by figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of America and the Sout ...
Princess Grace of Monaco... of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have beenand her husband, Prince Rainier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King J ...
George Washington... ld was best known as the site of the Springfield Armory, a site selected byand Henry Knox in 1777. Closed controversially during the Vietnam War, the ...
Isaac I Komnenos... ials for a History", ) of the period from 1057 to 1081, from the victory ofover Michael VI to the dethronement of Nikephoros III Botaneiates by Alexi ...
Harry... xtended royal family. In their grief, Diana's two sons, Princes William and, wanted to attend church, and so their grandparents took them that mornin ...
Edward I... of Chelsea (Chelsey), Kensington (Kensing town) and Charing. In the time of, the manor of Knightsbridge appertained to the abbey of Westminster. It w ...
Alexander the Great... s of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured byat the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC
Jimmy Carter... . Present at the funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former Pr ...
Catherine of Aragon... later found it expedient and profitable to break with the Papacy. His wife,, bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary. As England had ...
Roman Emperor... – July or August 313), also known as Maximinus Daia or Maximinus Daza, wasfrom 308 to 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of ...
George W. Bush... ear equal measure. In the 2004 presidential elections, the county supportedover John Kerry by 56% to 44%. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to ...
Saddam HusseinAll United Nations attempts to intervene as mediators were rebuffed. Under, Baathist Iraq claimed the entire waterway up to the Iranian shore as its ...
Thomas Jefferson... d spread across America and the South by figures such as George Washington,, and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of A ...
George W. Bush... e were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and(also representing his father, former President George H. W. Bush, who dec ...
George H. W. Bush... Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President, who declined to attend), along with Vice President Biden, three former V ...
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Bill Clinton... he funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter,and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President George ...
George V... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ...
Amphiaraus... her Eurynome. He was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iphis and, the husband of Adrastus's sister Eriphyle. He was married either to Amph ...
Pervez Musharraf... ction teams from the military's elite Special Service Group unit. President, as civilian head of state, was due to have this withdrawn after retiring ...
Mohammad Najibullah... Afghanistan as well as to remove the Soviet-backed government of President
Francis of Lorraine... ign of the Bavarian Elector as Emperor Charles VII, Maria Theresa's husband, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was elected Emperor, restoring control of that po ...
Spencer W. Kimball... place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by President of the Church
Simon de MontfortIn 1248,was appointed Governor in the unsettled Duchy of Gascony. Bitter complaint ...
president... state senator and U.S. Congressman and, after changing parties, he ran foras an American Independent Party candidate in the
Queen VictoriaVarious visiting British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notablyand George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. K ...
Xiao Ji... en Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself Emperor Yuan of Liang. His brotherbased in Sichuan was still a major threat. Emperor Yuan asked for assistan ...
William McKinley... bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons; U.S. Presidentdid this at the public reception where he was assassinated
Elizabeth I... "Tyburn Tree" was Dr John Story, a Roman Catholic who refused to recognise. Among the more notable individuals suspended from the "Tree" in the foll ...
Thomas Jefferson... n was under French control as Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase bybrought the area under United States control. In 1830, Congress passed the ...
George Washington... was popularized and spread across America and the South by figures such as, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent t ...
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Organa... This Special Edition with the Hollywood Ten film is still available throughat organa.com. In 2004, a budget edition DVD was released by Alpha Video. ...
LycurgusWhen Kingof Thrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned all the fo ...
Simon bar Kokhba... leader, and burnt down by Vespasian's officer Cerealis. After the defeat ofin 135 CE, innumerable Jewish captives were sold into slavery at Hebron's ...
Ferdinand II... tion was therefore to support the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor, the Habsburg
Henry III... eigneurs of the nobility and the contending factions in the great communes.yielded to the outcry and instituted a formal inquiry into Simon's adminis ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... Cold War. Participants at the conference included Churchill, U.S. Presidentand French Premier Joseph Laniel. In 1957, a second summit conference was ...
Otto III, Holy Roman EmperorAccording to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of, sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic ...
GaleriusIn 305, his maternal unclebecame the eastern Augustus and adopted Maximinus, raising him to the rank ...
Frederick II of Prussia... ught Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance withduring the Second Silesian War finally forced the Austrian army to leave B ...
Gaston, Duke of OrléansOn two occasions the King's younger brother,had to leave France for conspiring against the King's government, and for ...
Queen Mary... built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by King George V andin 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints and Drawings an ...
Numa PompiliusRome's second king,(r. 715-673 BC), is said to have begun the cult of Vesta, building its hou ...
the Queen... ided to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister. Fearing that Whitlam would go toand have him removed, Kerr did not give Whitlam any hint of what was comin ...
president... s election, George Washington was elected for the first of his two terms as, and John Adams became the first vice-president
Edward... ascony, pursuing a policy of conciliation; he arranged the marriage between, his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X. Alfo ...
LiciniusIn 308, after the elevation ofto Augustus, Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum ("so ...
Thomas Jefferson... rnor of New York, and then fourth Vice President of the United States underand James Madison; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary o ...
Offa... Crane or Yeading Brook). The first land grant including Yeading was made byin 790 to Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury: "in the place called on lin ...
AmphiarausAfterwards, however, Adrastus became reconciled to, gave him his sister Eriphyle in marriage, and returned to his kingdom of ...
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Marie Antoinette... sh spies, they visited Paris, meeting Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette,and Louis XVI, and joined the French court at Fontainebleau
President... featured an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-RepublicanJames Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton, nephe ...
Justinian I... t. Eventually it became part of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine emperorerected a Christian church over the Cave of Machpelah in the 6th century C ...
Princess Royal... e of this is the adjective "naff" to denote bad or shoddy, even used by the(as a verb) in a clash with the press some years later. They were able to ...
Henrietta Maria... spy) to appear before Parliament. Arturo discovers that she is Enrichetta (), widow of the executed King Charles I. Elvira appears singing a joyful p ...
Genghis Khan... al system in the world was established by Ugedei Khan, who was successor ofof Mongolian empire in thirteen century, which territory included China. D ...
Robert TorrensIn 1817, David Ricardo, James Mill andshowed that free trade would benefit the industrially weak as well as the ...
Chulalongkorn... at and any attempts at colonialization. By 1887 during the next reign, Kinga permanent military command in the Kalahom Department was established. Ho ...
Alfonso X... ge between Edward, his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of. Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assisted the Plantagenets ag ...
Olusegun Obasanjo30 October 2006: Presidentsigned a contract with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to ...
Thomas JeffersonIn 1803, Presidentissued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ...
Raymond Pearl... the earliest aging theories was the Rate of Living Hypothesis described byin 1928(based on earlier work by Max Rubner), which states that fast basal ...
John F. Kennedy... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed
Henry IVIn order to continue the exploration efforts of his predecessor, Louis XIII considered a colonial venture in Morocco, and sent a fleet un ...
Tullus Hostilius... use and temple as well as the Regia as the city's first royal palace. Later(r. 673-642 BC) enclosed the Comitium around the old Etruscan temple where ...
John Major... principal editorial cartoonist. One of Bell's most famous caricatures is ofas a dire superhero wearing his Y-fronts on the outside of his clothes, in ...
Maxentius... e another, Maximinus entered into a secret alliance with the usurper Caesar, who controlled Italy. He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313, h ...
Archelaus... in The Bacchae. Since Euripides wrote this play while in the court of Kingof Macedon, some scholars believe that the cult of Dionysus was malicious ...
James Madison... then fourth Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury un ...
Erastus Otis Haven... n had inferior minds and could not master mathematics and the classics. Dr., Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of ...
George WashingtonIn 1792 Congress underauthorized construction of the Montauk Lighthouse. It was completed in 179 ...
Aegialeus... ied Polynices and Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale,, and Cyanippus
Abba Eban... otte's body was returned to Sweden, where the state funeral was attended byon behalf of Israel. Folke was survived by a widow and two sons, a 12 year ...
Vespasian... ebron was conquered by Simon Bar Giora, a Sicarii leader, and burnt down by's officer Cerealis. After the defeat of Simon bar Kokhba in 135 CE, innum ...
Adolf Hitler... died law (he passed the final state examination in 1926) and rose to become's personal legal adviser. In this capacity, Frank was privy to personal d ...
King George V... ucted, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened byand Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints ...
Henry VIII... ce. Be that as it may, there has been an inn on the site since the reign of, and it is certainly one of the most famous public houses in London. It i ...
Rutherford B. Hayes... Tilden of New York, the Democratic candidate, defeated Republican candidateof Ohio in the popular vote. Tilden garnered 184 electoral votes to Hayes' ...
Kublai Khan... teen century, which territory included China. During the Yuan Dynasty under, China was integrated first into the much larger Örtöö system of the Mong ...
Xiao Yuanming... efeats to the forces of Northern Qi, Wang Sengbian allowed their pretender,to establish himself as Emperor Min of Liang. However, Chen Baxian was dis ...
Amphiaraus... uring a feud between the most powerful houses in Argos, Talaus was slain by, and Adrastus being expelled from his dominions fled to Polybus, then kin ...
Charles IVIn 1325, the land was confiscated bywhen Edward II of England, in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to ...
Irene Doukaina... ios, he refused to enter into the conspiracy set afoot by his mother-in-lawand his wife Anna to depose John II Komnenos, the son of Alexios, and rais ...
Pope Paul VI... to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated byon October 28, 1965. (The full text in English is available from the .
Alexandre Pétion... ers under Leclerc were accompanied by mulatto troops led by gens de couleurand André Rigaud from Saint-Domingue. Pétion and Rigaud, both wealthy with ...
James StockdaleFuture U.S. Vice Presidential candidateand decorated U.S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the H ...
Lech Kaczyński... r of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS candidate
Sophia of Hanover... lement restricts the succession to the legitimate Protestant descendants of(1630–1714), a granddaughter of James I
Franklin D. Roosevelt's... consciousness fostered at Grinnell during these years became evident duringpresidency, when Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, ...
Ferdinand III of Castile... tacks, launched almost yearly by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León,and James I of Aragon. The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the ...
George VIn 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of Kingand Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ...
Sparta... back to the 5th century BC, during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and. Spartan forces besieging an Athenian city placed a lighted mixture of wo ...
James Madison... an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican Presidentand a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton, nephew of Madison's ...
Octavius... 's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague, Mark Antony.(Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius ...
Spartawas a prominent city-state in ancient Greece
George W. Bush... ndchildren. King is politically active and made media appearances promotingduring the 2004 U.S. presidential election, which included attendance at t ...
Philip III of SpainOn 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married Anne of Austria, daughter of. This marriage followed a tradition of cementing military and political a ...
Lycurgus... n account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g. Pentheus or)
Alfonso II of Aragon... ueen of Aragon, and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son,who inherited all their respective territories creating the Crown of Arago ...
Jayavarman VII... King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of Angkorean emperor, and in the present period. He is currently at work on a new historical n ...
Empress Alexandra of Russia... ists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Pr ...
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg... and the elevation of several members of the gentry to peers of the Empire.was declared full age ahead of time in 1744. Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prin ...
Emperor Wu of Chen... g. After a short reign, Chen deposed Emperor Jing and took power himself asin 557 AD
Andrew Jackson... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future presidentas the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ...
Emperor Yizong of Tang... tten by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang (daughter of) playing the "leaf game" in 868 with members of the Wei clan (the family ...
George Washington... e ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In this election,was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams be ...
Mary... house underwent a large extension for the visit of King George V and Queen. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the office of Lord Li ...
John Adams... rge Washington was elected for the first of his two terms as president, andbecame the first vice-president
his wife... ity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispute. Edward sentand then his heir, to whom he had transferred the title, to sort out the m ...
Eurytion... when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherdout in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos.
James I of Aragon... by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and. The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the Christian reconquista ...
Khosrau II... CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general Shahrbaraz in 614 when's armies besieged and took Jerusalem
Aragorn... he rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of. As with most other landmarks in the film, the city is portrayed as relat ...
Dwight D. EisenhowerInitially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and Presidentlet it be known that he was displeased by the switch. In the summer of 195 ...
Philip II of Spain... and Spain with Royal marriages. The tradition went back to the marriage ofwith the French Princess, Elisabeth of Valois. The marriage was only brief ...
Henry VIII... the Succession", barred both Elizabeth and Mary, the remaining children of, from the throne, in favour of Lady Jane Grey.) Cecil resisted for a whil ...
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi... Shatt al-Arab. By the late 1960s, the build-up of Iranian power under Shah, who had gone on a gargantuan military spending spree, led Iran to take a ...
James K. Polk... for George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States of America under
Alexios I Komnenos... against the feeble Michael VII, but had been defeated by the future Emperorand was blinded. The son, who was distinguished for his learning, personal ...
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony... Diet of Worms) because he was unexpectedly backed by German princes such aswho strongly objected to the Catholic Church meddling in their affairs and ...
Emperor Wen of Liu Song... aoism was highly influential during the Southern Dynasty, to the point thatestablished a Neo-Daoist Academy and promoted it, along with Confucianism, ...
King Arthur... fairies; its leaders also varied, but they included Gwydion, Gwynn ap Nudd,, Nuada, King Herla, Woden, the Devil and Herne the Hunter. Many legends a ...
William McKinley... region. Years of controversy and legal maneuvering ensued before Presidentissued a proclamation on July 4, 1901, that gave the federal government co ...
Fidel Castro... d in the murder. The CIA has allegedly made several attempts to assassinate, many of the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, K ...
Emperor Wen of Chen... s. After the sudden death of Emperor Wu, his nephew Chen Qian took power as. After the fall of Liang, the general Wang Lin had established an indepen ...
Antiochus VII SidetesDemetrius Nicator's brother,, took the throne after his brother's capture. He faced the titanic chore ...
Alfred Marshall... turns to scale and perfect competition, underlining some doubtful points of's theory of the firm. This was amended for British readers and published ...
Queen Elizabeth IDuring her reignmade at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh a ...
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV... titution. A copy of the commission's report was presented to the late king,, shortly before his death in September 2006 and is currently under study ...
Mary I... hat he had only signed the devise as a witness, but in his apology to Queen, he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse; he preferred to lay st ...
King... e in Iraq and Qatif in opposition to the Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain.Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa declared a three-month state of emergency on 15 M ...
Alexandre PétionDisaffected members of Dessalines' administration, includingand Henri Christophe, began a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. Dessali ...
George Tupou V... s death in September 2006 and is currently under study by the present king,, and members of parliament
John Maynard Keynes... ns and paper, with which Gramsci would write his Prison Notebooks), broughtto prudently invite Sraffa to the University of Cambridge, where he was in ...
Obama... e governor of Alabama did not request military assistance nor did Presidentauthorize their deployment. Subsequent investigation found that the Posse ...
Shahrbaraz... lah in the 6th century CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid generalin 614 when Khosrau II's armies besieged and took Jerusalem
Adolf Hitler... the film's theme of war in Europe. Also, there is an unmistakable image ofin the windmill scene. Right after McCrea rescues his coat from the grindi ...
Mary of Guise... ible by a revolution against French hegemony under the regime of the regent, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter Mary, Queen ...
Mary, Queen of Scots... Mary of Guise, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter(then also Queen of France)
Henri Christophe... ected members of Dessalines' administration, including Alexandre Pétion and, began a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. Dessalines was assassinated ...
Anne of AustriaOn 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married, daughter of Philip III of Spain. This marriage followed a tradition of c ...
Vaišvilkas... kavysk, and the Principality of Polotsk. In about 1239 he appointed his sonto govern these areas, then known as Black Ruthenia. In 1248, he sent his ...
Shimon Peres... dish deputy prime minister, Israeli Foreign Minister and Labor Party memberissued a "condemnation of terror, thanks for the rescue of the Jews and re ...
John F. Kennedy... f the world. Macmillan returned in 1961 for the third summit with President, who was familiar with Bermuda, having made numerous personal visits. The ...
PresidentThe United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbentCalvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate
Klement Gottwald... . The Party won the most votes in free elections but not a simple majority., the communist leader, became Prime Minister of a coalition government. I ...
Henry VIII of England... d was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The abbey was dissolved by Kingin 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel. At this time, only 12 monks were livi ...
John F. Kennedy... or Distinguished Federal Civilian Service at a 1962 ceremony with President. In September 2010, the FDA honored Kelsey with the first Kelsey award. T ...
Thomas Jefferson... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced, who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ...
Edward VI... Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young. Cecil accompanied Somerset on his Pinkie campaign of 1547 (part of the " ...
George H. W. BushNotable descendants include Presidents of the United Statesand George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor ...
Polynices... the Seven against Thebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes,, Tydeus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of ...
Bill Clinton... e White House since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President
Pepin II of Aquitaine... enay-en-Puisaye on 25 June 841, when, in spite of his and his allied nephew's personal gallantry, Lothair was defeated and fled to Aachen. With fresh ...
George W. Bush... cent meeting was on 23 June 2008, between Premier Ewart Brown and President. Prior to this, the leaders of Bermuda and the United States had not met ...
Qin Shi Huang... from rice in the 1st century CE. This date could be revised if the tomb ofis excavated and the account in the Records of the Grand Historian concern ...
President... e House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce underBill Clinton; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Co ...
President of Russia... on in Russia. Shortly before his death he issued a statement accusing then-Vladimir Putin of involvement in his assassination. President Putin denies ...
Cyrus the Great... st documented claim (Xenophon) attributes the invention to the Persian King(550 BC), while other writers credit his successor Darius I of Persia (521 ...
Edward I of England... ather Eric who raised the question again. Eric sent official ambassadors to, then in Gascony, in May 1289, with papers referring to Margaret as "Quee ...
Aegeus... is a back-formation from "Aegean", the sea that was named for an eponymousin early levels of Greek mythology. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) me ...
Rupert of Germany... ter Louis IV and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of
Fëanorian... Anfauglith, the Gasping Dust. Both Fingolfin, High-king of the Noldor, andNoldor led by Maedhros had maintained camps of cavalry on Ard-galen as a f ...
King Arthur... he ages been modified to accommodate other gods and folk heroes, among themand, more recently, in a Dartmoor folk legend, Sir Francis Drake. At Cadbu ...
Nicomedes I... s the king of Bithynia from 149 to c. 127 BC. He was fourth in descent from. Nicomedes II was the son and successor of Prusias II and Apame IV. His p ...
Sancho II of Portugal... le to stem the rising flood of Christian attacks, launched almost yearly by, Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and James I of Aragon. The ...
Cincinnatus LeconteDessalines was a great-grandfather of, who served as President of Haiti from 1911 to 1912
George W. Bush... e descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First L ...
Cædwalla of Wessex... of Northumbria was converted in the mid 620s. However, later kings, such as, who ruled in the 680s, are recorded as pagan at their accession
Catherine Parr... , Edward VI, and was made king's chaplain and almoner to the queen dowager,. In 1551, he became Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the s ...
Darius I of Persia... ian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor(521 BC). Other sources claim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal sy ...
George Washington... ion. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (by), 1791, 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fr ...
Alfonso IX of León... lood of Christian attacks, launched almost yearly by Sancho II of Portugal,, Ferdinand III of Castile and James I of Aragon. The next twenty years sa ...
Walter Scott... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ...
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Francis II... ch, he died in March 1792. The French declared war on his inexperienced sona month later
Elisabeth of Valois... n went back to the marriage of Philip II of Spain with the French Princess,. The marriage was only briefly happy, and the King's duties often kept th ...
Carl IIIThe town of Levanger was founded by, king of Sweden on 18 May 1836, on the site where the village of Levanger ...
Louis the Pious... texts to write his Life. The style is similar to that of two biographies of: Vita Hludovici Imperatoris, written c. 840 by an unknown author usually ...
Polynices... es. During the time he reigned there it happened that Tydeus of Calydon andof Thebes, both fugitives from their native countries, met at Argos near t ...
Charles V... e Spanish governors began importing enslaved Africans as laborers. In 1517,authorized the draft of slaves. The Taíno people became virtually, but not ...
Nicomedes III... assisted them against Eumenes III of Pergamon. He was succeeded by his son
Marie Louise... 1835, Paganini returned to Parma, this time under the employ of Archduchessof Austria, Napoleon's second wife. He was in charge of reorganizing her c ...
Emperor Fei of Chen... of Emperor Wen, his son, the weak-willed Chen Bozong, took power and became. His uncle, Chen Xu, after essentially controlling the country through hi ...
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Aleksander Kwaśniewski... 995, Poland held its second post-war free presidential election. SLD leaderdefeated Wałęsa by a narrow margin—51.7% to 48.3%
Henry IV of FranceBorn at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of(1553–1610) and Marie de' Medici (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a ...
Bill Clinton... mbitions left, Kennedy formed a good relationship with Democratic Presidentupon the latter taking office in 1993, despite his having initially backed ...
Cynegils of Wessex... ghout his life. Records survive of the baptism of other kings at this time—was baptized in about 640, for example, and Edwin of Northumbria was conve ...
Queen Mary I... , Oxford and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. During the reign of, Christ Church became a centre of Catholic support, and Harrison converte ...
Constantine I of Greece... s made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, the reigning King, was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrest ...
Barack Obama... candidates. Austin also hosted one of the last presidential debates betweenand Hillary Clinton during their heated race for the Democratic nomination ...
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte... dent of France at 48, the third youngest president in French history, afterand Jean Casimir-Perier. He promised "change in continuity". He made clear ...
George Washington... tant in the Revolutionary War due to its location near Ramapo Pass. Generaland other important military leaders used John Suffern's home as headquart ...
Nursultan NazarbayevIn 1997 the President of the Republic of Kazakhstanapproved the Decree to transfer the capital from Almaty to Astana
Barack Obama... d Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) was signed into law by Presidenton March 23, 2010. Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation ...
Edward II of England... ition since Edward and Eric could arrange Margaret's marriage to the future, or some other if they chose, without reference to the Guardians. Accordi ...
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor... his father Charles Albert aspired to an even higher rank. As son-in-law of, Charles Albert rejected the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and claimed the G ...
Marie de' Medici... leau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of Henry IV of France (1553–1610) and(1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a Fils de France, and as the eldes ...
George Washington... land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after, the first president of the United States
PresidentialAmador is a strongly Republican county inand congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ...
Luigi Einaudi... on inflation in Italy during and after World War I. Notably, his tutor was, one of the most important Italian economists and later a president of th ...
Pope Benedict====2008====In April, during a visit to the United States,admitted that he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sex abuse scandal that ...
King George VTolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to, where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ...
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor... or after 995. By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the future. Giselle arrived at her husband's court accompanied by German knights
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Diana, Princess of Wales... g the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are Winston Churchill and
Commodus... ied in the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh. Accounts of the cruelty of the emperordescribes his amusing himself by enacting Mithriac initiation ordeals in h ...
Adolf Hitler... Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charlest ...
George W. Bush... Service-issued collectible envelope commemorating the 2004 inauguration of
George Washington... an alliance with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. In 1797, he met cordially with, who presented him with a ceremonial sword. On this trip he also met Comt ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ed. Honorary membership was once bestowed in special circumstances, as withand Dwight D. Eisenhower, but this practice was officially discontinued in ...
CreonAfter the battle,, king of Thebes, ordered that none of the fallen enemies were to be given ...
Andrew Dickson White... bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell andto locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca. White pressed th ...
Theodore Roosevelt... ty. The County Seat found its home in Mineola on July 13, 1900, as Governorlaid the cornerstone of the Nassau County Court House. A celebration was h ...
Pope John Paul II... a became the first saint from a Central European country to be canonized bybefore the "Velvet Revolution" later that year. After the dissolution of C ...
Emperor Xuan of Chen... e country through his short reign, eventually deposed him and took power as. At that time, the Northern Wei intended to conquer Northern Qi and thus ...
MitterrandGiscard was defeated in the 1981 presidential election by. At the time, Chirac ran against Giscard in the first round of runoff vot ...
Princess Alice of Battenberg... ly son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and. Philip's four elder sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophi ...
Elisa Baciocchi... nnexed by Napoleonic France, and the region was ceded to Napoleon's sister,. Paganini became a violinist for the Baciocchi court, while giving privat ...
Khosrau II... of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of(590–628). The xvatāynamāk contained historical information on the later S ...
Hamid KarzaiZahir Shah attended the 7 December 2004 swearing in ofas President of Afghanistan. In his final years, he was frail and required ...
George Washington... the seventh year of the war, Continental Army troops, commanded by General, were encamped in Dobbs Ferry and neighboring localities, alongside allie ...
Magneto's... period of general turmoil and a number of attacks by superhumans, includingAcolytes who were unwilling to forgive the former Genoshan government for ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... s once bestowed in special circumstances, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt and, but this practice was officially discontinued in 1953
Ardashir I... s originally written during the late Sassanid era, and gave accounts of howcame to power which, because of its historical proximity, is thought to be ...
Aeëtes... fter her) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where Kingtook him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope ...
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Wojciech Jaruzelski... embly, with the support of a number of Solidarity deputies, elected Generalto that office. However, two attempts by the communists to form government ...
Amphiaraus... hebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes, Polynices, Tydeus,, Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of Tydeus and Polynices ...
William Howard TaftOn June 22, 1919, former Presidentvisited Paxton while on his way to Champaign. After disembarking from a lo ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton... d in formation of the Clinton health care plan, which was run by First Ladyand others. It failed badly and damaged the prospects for such legislation ...
Henry III of France... er was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ninth cousin,(1574–1589), in application of Salic law. Louis XIII's paternal grandparen ...
MagnetoThe United Nations ceded the island nation to the powerful mutant, after he demanded an entire mutants-only nation. Magneto and his Acolyte ...
Pharaoh... d courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, wheres used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the ...
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany... ndôme and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre; his maternal grandparents wereand Johanna, archduchess of Austria, and Eleonora de' Medici, his maternal ...
Thomas Jefferson... his trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents John Adams and. He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce American agriculture to ...
Mongkut... i Armed Forces came into existence as permanent force at the behest of King, who needed a European trained military force in order to thwart any west ...
Tariq AliRecent and current inhabitants of Highgate include, Julian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, ...
Achilles... humans whom they had bitten. Homer, in the Iliad, describes the approach oftoward Troy in these words
Emperor Muzong of Liao... inese dominoes are also available as playing cards. It is not clear whetherreally played with domino cards as early as 969, though. Legend dates the ...
TheodoricOdoacer's rule came to an end when the Ostrogoths, under the leadership of, conquered Italy. This led to the Gothic War against the armies of Byzant ...
Vladimir Putin... ly before his death he issued a statement accusing then-President of Russiaof involvement in his assassination. President Putin denies he had any par ...
William III of England... r fish." This land was located in the eastern segment of an tract that Kinggranted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt of New York City in 1697. The part of V ...
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Mitt Romney... ed his first serious challenger, the young, telegenic, and very well-funded. Romney ran as a successful entrepreneur and Washington outsider with a s ...
Samuel Pepys... e and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town.spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, p ...
Adolf Hitler... that became Soviet-controlled following the partition of eastern Europe byand Joseph Stalin in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 were resettled to ...
Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou... ng Jian defeated his rival General Weichi Jiong, he usurped the throne fromand established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself Emperor Wen of Sui. He p ...
King Charles I... o discovers that she is Enrichetta (Henrietta Maria), widow of the executed. Elvira appears singing a joyful polonaise ("Son vergin vezzosa"), but dr ...
Paul Kruger... cum with a pamphlet in which they set out to prove that the world was flat., President of the Transvaal Republic, advanced the same view: "You don't ...
John Adams... ial sword. On this trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidentsand Thomas Jefferson. He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce Ame ...
Barack Obama... e Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President, who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a ...
Violeta Chamorro... from the court in September 1992 (under the later, post-FSLN, government of), following a repeal of the law requiring the country to seek compensatio ...
Shimon Peres... led in action and more were wounded. In July 1974, Israeli Defense Ministerinformed the Knesset that high-ranking Soviet officers had been killed on ...
George Bancroft... Public Education in Prussia." Calvin E. Stowe, Henry Barnard, Horace Mann,and Joseph Cogswell all had a vigorous interest in German education. In 18 ...
Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg... e sole legal religion of France. In response to the Edict of Fontainebleau,declared the , giving free passage to Huguenot refugees, and tax-free stat ...
Albert, Duke of Prussia... en und etliche umbliegende lender (Map of Prussia and Neighboring Lands) to, who had been trying to compute the exact time of sunrise. Rheticus made ...
Emperor An of Jin... ause he believed in a prophecy saying there would be one more emperor after, he deposed Emperor An, and soon afterwards Emperor An's replacement, Emp ...
Hammer DeRoburt... tional convention, it became independent in 1968, led by founding president. In 1967, the people of Nauru purchased the assets of the British Phospha ...
President... e county was officially organized on December 14, 1818, and was named afterJames Madison
Septimius Severus... the writings of the ancients. The former is last mentioned in the reign of(circa 200 AD)
John A. Widtsoe... seph Angell Young. Another descendant, Leah D. Widtsoe, was wife of apostleand herself a leading expert in home economics. Other descendants include ...
Catherine Howard... belonging to Catherine Parr and the cameo beads appear to have belonged to, from whom they would have passed to her successor as queen
Lady Jane Grey... hn in the National Portrait Gallery was for many years thought to represent. The painting has recently been re-identified as Catherine Parr, with who ...
Vytautas the Great... assing references from Grand Duke Gediminas and was not mentioned at all by. His known family relations end with his children; no historic records no ...
KennedyBy targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas theadministration realized that political favors could be bought. This is als ...
Allectus... ximian's subordinate, Constantius, campaigned against Carausius' successor,, while Maximian held the Rhine frontier. The rebel leader was ousted in 2 ...
Franz Joseph... dinand I were forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew. Separatist tendencies (especially in Lombardy and Hungary) were suppress ...
Christian IV of DenmarkEidsvoll Verk was opened to smelt iron ore by Kingin 1624, relying on the excellent water power from the Andelva river. In 1 ...
AllectusCarausius was assassinated and replaced by his treasurer,. Constantius marched up the coast to the Rhine and Scheldt estuaries wher ...
Joseph Angell Young... lude three LDS Church apostles: Brigham Young, Jr., John Willard Young, and. Another descendant, Leah D. Widtsoe, was wife of apostle John A. Widtsoe ...
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Prince William... from William Congreve and John Arbuthnot. In 1727 he wrote for six year old, later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he na ...
James Monroe... tter in this category in competition between multiple candidates (incumbentwas the only candidate in 1820 and thus took every vote). The Republicans ...
Francisco Franco... Spanish Civil War between the socialist Republicans and nationalists led by, Italy sent arms and over 60,000 troops to aid the nationalist faction. T ...
Franz Ferdinand... rife increased during the decades until 1914. The assassination of Archduke, who was the presumed heir of Franz Joseph as Emperor, in Sarajevo by a S ...
Marie de' Medici... age of eight-and-a-half, upon the assassination of his father. His mother,, acted as Regent until Louis XIII came of age at thirteen. Marie maintain ...
Charles the First... its buildings were commandeered by the Royalists and used to house many of's court when Oxford was used as the Royalists' capital. This included the ...
José Santos Zelaya... r President Taft. In 1909, he ordered the overthrow of Nicaraguan President. During August and September 1912, a contingent of 2300 US Marines landed ...
Emperor Wen of Sui... ror Jing of Northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself. He proceeded to invade the south to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just ...
Benjamin Harrison... ere U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, andhave all attended services. Because of this, it is now called the "Church ...
William Henry Harrison... 1809, Little Turtle suffered a break with other Miami leaders when Governorcame to Fort Wayne to renegotiate treaty terms. Little Turtle admitted Pot ...
Grand Prince of the Hungarians... 38, Esztergom or Székesfehérvár, Kingdom of Hungary), born as Vajk, was the(997–1000) and the first (1000–1038)
Daniel OrtegaVenezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa r ...
Ivanoe Bonomi... 44 he was replaced as Prime Minister by the 70-year-old anti-fascist leader. In June 1945 Bonomi was in turn replaced by Ferruccio Parri, who in turn ...
John F. Kennedy... television career that spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a youngin the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for ...
Titus... ys suggested that he based his narrative of the destruction of Jerusalem byon the account given by Tacitus in his Histories, a portion of which has b ...
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo... onal Capital Region Command is in Metro Manila and was created by Presidentto defend the metropolis from insurgents and terrorist groups. Philippine ...
Æthelbald of Mercia... t surviving documented allusion to Yeading dates from 757 AD, in which yearmade a land grant which mentioned Geddinges (Yeading) and Fiscesburne (Cra ...
Abraham LincolnOn February 18, 1861,, on the way to his inauguration, bowed from a coach platform. and on Apri ...
Saddam Hussein... i nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad, to prevent the regime offrom using the reactor for the creation of nuclear weapons
Rafael Correa... ent Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian presidentrefer to their political programmes as socialist. Chávez has adopted the t ...
Evo Morales... esident Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President, and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa refer to their political programm ...
Lulach... y Duncan's son Malcolm. The following year, after killing Macbeth's stepson, Malcolm ascended the throne as Malcolm III
CarausiusThe man he appointed to police the Channel shores,, rebelled in 286, causing the secession of Britain and northwestern Gaul. ...
George Washington... arding acts of individual gallantry by American soldiers was established byon August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed t ...
Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy... thune, duc de Sully, who was unpopular in the country. She mainly relied on, Noël Brûlart de Sillery, and Pierre Jeannin. Marie pursued a moderate po ...
Jimmy Carter... gate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia,, the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President Gerald Ford, th ...
Herbert Hoover... came unpopular with the onset of the Great Depression. He advised Presidentto "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real e ...
Emperor Ming of Han... an and was first mentioned in 65 CE. Liu Ying (d. 71 CE), a half-brother to(r. 57–75 CE), was one of its earliest Chinese adherents, although Chinese ...
Grover Cleveland... s Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield,, and Benjamin Harrison have all attended services. Because of this, it is ...
Jane Seymour... . Coincidentally, this was also the illness that killed Henry's third wife,. It was not uncommon, due to the lack of hygiene around childbirth. Never ...
DiocletianIn 297, as Emperorreformed the administrative structures of the Roman Empire, Aquitania was ...
King Haakon... Norwegian troops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's, Crown Prince, and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue t ...
Gerald Ford... gia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President, the Republican candidate. Ford was saddled with a slow economy and paid ...
Jacob Zuma... he pen name Zapiro) came under fire for depicting then-president of the ANCin the act of undressing in preparation for the implied rape of 'Lady Just ...
Mustafa Kemal... th of The First World War Greece fought against Turkish nationalists led by, a war which resulted in a massive population exchange between the two co ...
Elmer Ambrose SperryThe company was founded in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company byto manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly his own inventions – the mari ...
Richard Nixon... States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of Presidentin the wake of the Watergate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown fo ...
Chen Shubao... th to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just died and his son incompetent son(Houzhu of Chen) took power. He was licentious and wasteful, resulting in ...
Warren G. HardingUpon the death of Presidentin 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, John Cal ...
US PresidentMartha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from Roswell and Bulloch Ha ...
Pope John XXIII... on in a manner and to a degree appropriate to their present divided state.", who convoked the Council that brought this change of emphasis about, sai ...
Queen Anne... seven inches in diameter, i.e. . It had been redefined during the reign of, in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly , which is the result of the earlie ...
Calvin CoolidgeUpon the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923,was sworn in as President by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., a Verm ...
Kenneth MacAlpin... eir name to Scotland), of the Irish petty kingdom of Dál Riata in the west.is traditionally viewed as the first king of a united Scotland (known as S ...
Abraham Lincoln... he had seen. The area was so notorious that it even caught the attention of, who visited the area before his Cooper Union Address in 1860. The predom ...
Princess Margaret of Prussia... e up her faith to become Russian Orthodox. The tsar then sent emissaries to, daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of German Emperor Wi ...
Emperor Wu of Liu Song... Jin in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself, he remained diligently frugal. However, he did not care for education an ...
Ulysses S. Grant... hurches in Oakland is St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison have all attende ...
MaxentiusIn late 306, Maximian took the title of Augustus again and aided his son' rebellion in Italy. In April 307, he attempted to depose his son, but fa ...
Zachary Taylor... arrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South sincein 1848
Raúl Castro... urney to Union City to interview citizens when news items involving Cuba orarise. Moreover, Union City still boasts the largest Hispanic population p ...
Lawrence Summers... sicist Lisa Randall, appointed to a task force at Harvard by then-presidentafter his controversial discussion of why women may be underrepresented in ...
Woodrow WilsonIn 1918, U.S. Presidentaddressed the issue as Point 8 in his Fourteen Points speech
Sarolt... n of Esztergom. His father was Grand Prince Géza of Hungary; his mother was, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania a Hungarian nobleman who had been bapt ...
Fidel Castro... included a two-part program on Nikita Khrushchev, the St. Lawrence Seaway,in Cuba, and unemployment problems in distressed areas
King Constantine I... its territory and population. In the following years, the struggle betweenand charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's fo ...
President of the United States... n presented to the recipient or, for posthumous awards, to next of kin. Thepresents the medal in person, on behalf of the Congress, representing and ...
Offa of Mercia... down in Wulfhere's reign, but other suggested origins include the reign of, or Edwin or Oswiu of Northumbria
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven... l, living with his maternal grandmother at Kensington Palace and his uncle,, at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire. In the next three years, his four si ...
Adolf HitlerMussolini andfirst met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisi ...
Crown Prince... oops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's King Haakon,, and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue the Elverum Aut ...
Ashurbanipal... d Nineveh. Of particular interest to curators was the eventual discovery of's great library of cuneiform tablets, which helped to make the Museum a f ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... concrete in 1938, but demolished in 1969 to make way for the current pool.and Thomas Edison both traveled through Sylva, Edison in 1911 and FDR in 1 ...
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)... nly at Princess Alix, safe in the knowledge that Alexander III and his wife, both vigorously anti-German, had no intention of permitting a match with ...
Pope John Paul II... ncil's decree on ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio of 21 November 1964, and's encyclical, Ut Unum Sint of 25 May 1995
Schoeneus... lment of the oracle, settled there and married a third wife, Themisto (son:). The spot was afterwards called the Athamanian plain. When Athamas retur ...
Géza of HungaryHe was born as Vajk in the town of Esztergom. His father was Grand Prince; his mother was Sarolt, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania a Hungarian nob ...
Emperor Gong of Jin... f Jin, he deposed Emperor An, and soon afterwards Emperor An's replacement,in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself Emp ...
William II... ds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbells acting on the orders of King. The village is not actually in Glencoe but occupies an area known as Car ...
Warren G. HardingAndrew Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by new Presidentin 1921. He served for ten years and eleven months; the third-longest tenu ...
Genghis Khan... eparing food was banned and forbidden by the Mongol Emperors, starting withwho banned Muslims and Jews from slaughtering their animals their own way, ...
Carus... arinus (; died 285), was Roman Emperor 282 to 285. The elder son of emperor, he was appointed Caesar and co-emperor of the western portion of the emp ...
Roman EmperorCarinus (; died 285), was282 to 285. The elder son of emperor Carus, he was appointed Caesar and co ...
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse... em, Philip moved to Gordonstoun. In 1937, his sister Cecilie, her husband (), her two young sons and her mother-in-law were killed in an air crash at ...
William IIIHenley suffered from both parties in the Civil War.on his march to London in 1688 rested here, at the nearby recently rebuilt ...
Lady Jane Grey... elder half-sister Mary to succeed, and therefore drew up a will designatingas his heiress. Jane's reign however lasted only nine days; with tremendou ...
Isaac Newton... sits that pressure is due not to static repulsion between molecules, as was's conjecture, but due to collisions between molecules moving at different ...
Henry VIII... y took on powerful positions in government. An example of this was found in's England where his chief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. An even more prom ...
Lady Jane GreyIn early 1548, Catherine invited Lady Elizabeth and her cousin,to stay in the couple's household at Sudeley. The Dowager Queen promised t ...
Emperor Yang of Sui... ty. In 588 AD, Emperor Wen of Sui sent his son Yang Guang (who would become) to finally vanquish the Chen dynasty. Chen Shubao relied on the natural ...
Andrew I... ed for the crown. Nine years of instability followed until Stephen's cousinwas crowned King of Hungary in 1047 to re-establish the Árpád dynasty. Hun ...
Carter administration... es had long been opposed to the socialist FSLN and after the revolution themoved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. W ...
PresidentUnpopular incumbentHarry S. Truman decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nomina ...
Philip V of Macedon... situation now looked propitious for another western campaign. Antiochus andthen made a pact to divide the Ptolemaic possessions outside of Egypt, and ...
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom... e the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Tsarevich and Tsarevna, HRH, the Duchess of Cambridge, and HRH Princess Anna of Prussia. Her family n ...
President... United States, the United States Secret Service safeguards the lives of the, his family, and other executive officials, including former presidents a ...
Christian V of Denmark... ll preserved today. It was renamed Christiansfjell Fortress in 1685 by Kingduring his visit to Hammersberg Skanse on June 14. Although the fortress w ...
Henry VIII... t and New Street. To the west it included Bell Street and the Market Place., having granted the use of the titles "mayor" and "burgess", the town was ...
Calvin Coolidge... United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President, the Republican candidate
U.S. President... working group began work on chemical disarmament in 1980. On April 4, 1984,Ronald Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons. U.S. Pr ...
Henry VIII... me the Herbert family became the most powerful family in the area. In 1538,closed the Dominican and Franciscan friaries in Cardiff, the remains of wh ...
Tom Lewis... he same political party as the former senator. The New South Wales premier,felt that this convention only applied to vacancies caused by deaths or il ...
Titus... tely fell to the sustained might of Rome. Roman legions under Vespasian andbesieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and burned Herod's Temple (in the ...
Dimitris Christofias... arliament in the general election on 27 September 2009. Communist candidatewon a crucial presidential runoff in Cyprus, defeating his conservative ri ...
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern WeiWidespread social and cultural transformation in northern China came with(reigned 471–499 AD), whose father was a Xianbei, but whose mother was Chi ...
William McKinley... veral soldiers died during the quarantine, prompting a visit from President
Vespasian... ut they ultimately fell to the sustained might of Rome. Roman legions underand Titus besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and burned Herod's Temp ...
Manwë... Power’, singular 'Vala'), of which there are fourteen principal characters:, Ulmo, Aulë, Oromë, Mandos, Lórien, Tulkas, Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Estë, ...
Earl Granville... nd was first owned, surveyed, and mapped by William Churton (a surveyor for). Originally to be named Orange, it was named Corbin Town (for Francis Co ...
Fidel Castro... ntly Italian, it was settled by a large migration of Cuban refugees fleeing's regime, making Union City for many years the city with the largest Cuba ...
George W. Bush... Democrat John Kerry received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republicanreceived 16.7%. The borough is the most important source of funding for pr ...
Diocletian... two sons, and is one of the most visible landmarks there today. The Emperor(r. 284-305) was the last of the great builders of Rome's city infrastruct ...
Diocletian... areer have been filtered through the propaganda of his successful opponent,
Henry II... was a busy port in the Middle Ages, and was declared a Staple port in 1327.travelled through Cardiff on his journey to Ireland and had a premonition ...
John R. Bolton... onfirmation fight over Bush's pick for US ambassador to the United Nations,. Twice Frist failed to garner the 60 votes to break cloture, getting fewe ...
Gaius CaesarThe heir of Augustus,, was killed there in 4 AD
Galerius... At the Council of Carnuntum in November 308, Diocletian and his successor,, forced Maximian to renounce his imperial claim again. In early 310, Maxi ...
Edwin Montagu... ing the war and in response to renewed nationalist demands. In August 1917,, the secretary of state for India, made the historic announcement in Parl ...
Conrad II... t Hungary, but Stephen's troops forced them to retreat. Stephen and Emperorconcluded peace negotiations in 1031, and the territories between the Leit ...
Constantine IIKing's dismissal of George Papandreou's centrist government in July 1965 promp ...
AugustusThe heir of, Gaius Caesar, was killed there in 4 AD
Emperor Shao of Liu SongAfter the death of Emperor Wu, his sonruled briefly before being judged incompetent and killed by government off ...
Dominic Olejniczak... laced at Bell's funeral ceremony was one presented by members of the NFLPA., president of the Packers, and the 11 owners of the NFL were honorary pal ...
King Oscar IIThe history of these arms is quite curious. When on 18 July 1891visited the city, a menu had to be printed. It was printed with a coat of ...
Theodore Roosevelt... American War. The most prominent of the returning quarantined soldiers wereand his Rough Riders. Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompti ...
Septimius Severus... It was dedicated in 203 AD to commemorate the Parthian victories of Emperorand his two sons, and is one of the most visible landmarks there today. Th ...
Aurelian... ntier. Maximian joined the army, serving with Diocletian under the emperors(r. 270–275) and Probus (r. 276–282). He probably participated in the Meso ...
Frederick the Great... for promotion to Major. Blücher sent in a rude letter of resignation, whichgranted in 1773: Der Rittmeister von Blücher kann sich zum Teufel scheren ...
Newton... niana, and the introduced Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera suffruticosa.used "indigo" to describe one of the two new primary colors he added to th ...
Prince George, Duke of Kent... to soldiers she spotted on the roads. In 1942, her youngest surviving son,, was killed in an air crash while on active service. Queen Mary finally r ...
Numerian... death of Carus, the army in the East demanded to be led back to Europe, and, the younger son of Carus, was forced to comply. During a halt at Chalced ...
Fulgencio Batista... uly Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the American-backedin 1959, Ireland's Sinn Féin, Wales's Plaid Cymru, Scotland's SNP, the Awa ...
Agrippa IThe later Herodian rulersand Agrippa II both had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristob ...
Elizabeth I... 573, it was made a head port for collection of customs duties, and in 1581,granted Cardiff its first royal charter. Pembrokeshire historian George Ow ...
Andrew Dickson White... s of the Middle Ages were highly influential (19th century view typified by); current historians (late 20th century view typified by historian and re ...
Kim Dae-jungIn response to the summit between Kim Jong-il andin 2000, North and South Korea agreed in August 2000 to reconnect the sect ...
Hugo ChávezVenezuelan President, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and ...
Alexander the Great... d later Persians in the mid 6th century BC. In 331 BC, Van was conquered byand after his death became part of the Seleucid Empire. By the early 2nd c ...
Vespasian... Claudius annexed Lycia to the Roman Empire as a province and by the time of, it was united with Pamphylia as a Roman province
Elizabeth of York... I, Henry Tudor neutralised the remaining Yorkist forces, partly by marrying, a Yorkist heir. Through skill and ability, Henry re-established absolute ...
ClaudiusIn 43 AD, the emperorannexed Lycia to the Roman Empire as a province and by the time of Vespasi ...
Henry IV of FranceThe Edict of Nantes, issued on 13 April 1598, by, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) su ...
George W. Bush... Jersey's more Republican counties. In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election,carried the county by a 15.8% margin over John Kerry, with Kerry carrying ...
George Washington... rolina State Legislature met here once in 1787 and again in 1987. Presidentis known to have slept in Tarboro during a visit on his 1791 Southern tour ...
Edward I... ck to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and establi ...
Pope Benedict XVI... of Roman Catholic ceremonies in the 20th and 21st centuries. For instance,leads the Stations of the Cross called the Scriptural Way of the Cross (wh ...
Bill Clinton... ief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners ...
Warren G. Harding... ity of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 41.20%–39.55%.was the most recent Republican presidential candidate to win a majority of ...
Louis XVI... igning of the Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance, by102 years later, on 7 November 1787. This edict was enacted by parlement t ...
Pope Paul VI... ed by a vote of 2,137 to 11 of the bishops assembled and was promulgated byon November 21, 1964. The title in Latin means "Restoration of Unity" and ...
Warren G. HardingCoolidge was vice-president underand became president in 1923 when Harding died in office. Coolidge was giv ...
Henry III... dation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor toand later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic ...
Neville Chamberlain... . Smith became active in student politics, mostly protesting Prime Minister's seemingly soft attitude toward Nazism. While at Oxford, he was the firs ...
Jonathan Edwards... on his own, reaching out to people who normally did not attend church. Like, he developed a style of preaching that elicited emotional responses from ...
Robert E. Lee... olina History) in an attempt to reach Weldon to cut off supplies to Generalduring the Civil War. The fort protected Weldon until the day after the Ge ...
Shapur I... r Satiran), probably the Parthian governor of Bahrain. He appointed his sonas governor of Bahrain. Shapur constructed a new city there and named it B ...
Pallava... he earliest surviving manuscript in Malay is the Tanjong Tanah Law in post-characters. This 14th century pre-Islamic legal text produced in the Adity ...
Henry VI... own of Henley. The existing Corpus Christi fair was granted by a charter of
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Frederick the GreatDuring the lifetime of, Blücher was unable to return to the army, but after the king's death in ...
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort... t, she decided to live at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, with her niece,, the daughter of her brother, Lord Cambridge. Her personal belongings wer ...
Ferdinand I... in the Revolutions of 1848. Metternich and the mentally handicapped Emperorwere forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew Franz J ...
Robert Stephenson... ned by the architect John Dobson, and was constructed in collaboration with. The first services were operated by the North Eastern Railway company. T ...
Ferdinand II of Aragon... ost other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage of Isabella I of Castile andat the end of the 15th century, and this union was progressively consolida ...
George H. W. Bush... ates. The Faith Fourth achieved national visibility in 1992, when Presidentnot only made a speech praising small town virtues, but also participated ...
Fëanor... by the Elves of Valinor in the Uttermost West, by the Noldor and maybe evenhimself. Many palantíri were made, but the number is not known. Some had p ...
OthoHe was immediately met by a troop of his rival's cavalry near the Lacus Curtius in the Forum, where he was killed. Durin ...
Calvin Coolidge... Republican has won the presidential election in Manhattan since 1924, whenwon a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 4 ...
Eleanor of AquitaineHis 1152 marriage toallowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions ...
James K. Polk... legislature acted to create the county, they named it for another grandson,, who was the Speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress at the time, and l ...
Andrew Jackson... on County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of, general in the United States Army and President of the United States of ...
Trajan... movable trees and buildings. Such events were occasionally on a huge scale;is said to have celebrated his victories in Dacia in 107 with contests in ...
Diocletian... forced to comply. During a halt at Chalcedon, Numerian was found dead, and, commander of the body-guards, claimed that Numerian had been assassinate ...
Frederick II of Prussia... devastated several times during the Thirty Years' War and conquered by Kingin 1742. In 1871 it was connected by rail to Liegnitz and Glogau. During W ...
President of IndiaDr Zakir Hussain the formeronce told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on November 20, 1949 "The allegation ...
Woodrow Wilson... dison still won the Presidency by a comfortable margin. Madison, along with, are the only US Presidents to win re-election with a lower percentage of ...
Isaac Newton... e enjoyed collecting books: for example, he collected and protected many of's papers. It is in part on the basis of these papers that Keynes wrote of ...
John... rded that King Henry II "had bought land for the making of buildings". Kinggranted the manor of Benson and the town and manor of Henley to Robert Har ...
Alexander the Great... he centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus discovered it while serving under. From the 3rd century BC to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, B ...
Richard Nixon... al times by others), as well as numerous territories and trust possessions.confidant Robert Abplanalp was a notary for many years, as were Fawn Hall, ...
Galba... C). The Forum was witness to the assassination of a Roman Emperor in 69 AD:had set out from the palace to meet rebels, but was so feeble that he had ...
King Henry II... first record of medieval settlement dates to 1179, when it is recorded that"had bought land for the making of buildings". King John granted the manor ...
Emperor Wen of Liu Song... nt and killed by government officials led by Xu Xianzhi, replacing him with, another son of Emperor Wu. Those government officials were soon killed b ...
Agrippa IIThe later Herodian rulers Agrippa I andboth had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristobulus IV, son of ...
Bill Clinton... Luxembourg; Hormel eventually received a recess appointment from President, bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination of ...
Isabella I of Castile... c union with Castile and most other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage ofand Ferdinand II of Aragon at the end of the 15th century, and this union ...
Eleanor of Castile... iliation; he arranged the marriage between Edward, his 14 year old son, and, daughter of Alfonso X. Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assis ...
Ranavalona III... f the island, missionaries and foreigners were particularly terrible. Queenwas deposed on January 1897 and was exiled to Algiers in Algeria, where sh ...
Emperor Qianfei of Liu Song... or Xiaowu died naturally in 464 AD and was succeeded by his son, who became. Emperor Qianfei proved to be similar to his father, engaging in both kin ...
Theodosius II... an Empire. It is attested from the time of the Christian late-Roman emperor(423) throughout the Middle Ages; the Reichsapfel was used in 1191 at the ...
Henry II... rnal politics Stephen I allied himself with his brother-in-law, the Emperoragainst Prince Boleslaw I of Poland, who had extended his rule over the te ...
President... straight from the airport to Áras an Uachtaráin for champagne with the thenMary Robinson
Ferdinand II of AragonThe dynastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, whenwed Isabella I of Castile, led to the formal creation of Spain as a single ...
Emperor Ming of Liu Song... he "Prince of Pigs" for his obesity, eventually assassinated him and became. Emperor Ming began his reign by killing all the descendants of Emperor X ...
Ivan IV of Russia... likii Kniaz of Muscovy appeared as the Grand Duke for "all of Russia" untilin 1547 was crowned as tsar
Kenneth Kaunda... ns were already socialists. Other African socialists include Jomo Kenyatta,, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism and called for a ...
Matt Millen... Ted Hendricks, Pro Bowler Rod Martin (3 Interceptions) and standout rookie
Thomas Jefferson... t Britain resolved that lingering issue and the British departed the forts.saw the nearby British imperial presence as a threat to republicanism in t ...
Oscar II of Sweden... ke of Gotland) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila. His grandfather was King
Jimmy Carter... ailed from Roswell and Bulloch Hall was her home. Emily Dolvin, the aunt of(the 39th U.S. President), lived in Roswell the majority of her life and w ...
George I of Great Britain... (the great grandson of James I through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King
Edward IAll past and present dukes have been descended from; see Dukes of Norfolk family tree
Isabella I of Castile... nastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, when Ferdinand II of Aragon wed, led to the formal creation of Spain as a single entity in 1516. See List ...
Manwë2. The Valar and their characteristics are described thus:– (‘Blessed One’) Brother of Melkor. Between the two, Melkor is ‘mightier’ ...
PresidentialHolmes is a heavily Democratic county inand Congressional elections. The last Republican to win a majority in the ...
Franz Joseph I of Austria... printed with a variety of colored inks ranging from sepia, blue, and green.was the first person to purchase Das Werk Gustav Klimts in 1908
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Carinus... that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against(r. 283–285) but there is no direct evidence for this
Harry S. TrumanUnpopular incumbent Presidentdecided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adl ...
Wu Sangui... id 17th century, allowed through the northern passes by the Chinese generalonce the Ming capital at Beijing had fallen into the hands of a rebel army ...
Elizabeth II... l family remained Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage ofand Prince Philip, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to ...
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President Taft... e first armed intervention by the United States in Nicaragua occurred under. In 1909, he ordered the overthrow of Nicaraguan President José Santos Ze ...
Ranavalona III... Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. After a few skirmishes, the Queenpromptly surrendered. The Foreign Legion lost 226 men, of whom only a tent ...
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Louis IX of FranceIn December 1259,ceded to Henry land north and east of Gascony. In return, Henry renounced ...
James Buchanan... truction of federal officials in Utah (most notably judges), U.S. Presidentdecided to install a non-Mormon governor. Buchanan accepted the reports of ...
Fidel Castro... ial or religious divisions. Other examples of left-wing nationalism include's 26th of July Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the Am ...
Charles de Gaulle... the author himself. Subsequently, French General (later, French President), whom Saint-Exupéry and others held in low regard, publicly implied that ...
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Alexander NevskyRegional conflicts with the Order escalated.of Novgorod, Tautvilas, and Tautvilas's son Constantine agreed to form a c ...
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Carus... obus (r. 276–282). He probably participated in the Mesopotamian campaign ofin 283 and attended Diocletian's election as emperor on November 20, 284 a ...
Edward II... without an heir in 1307, so their titles and estates reverted to the crown.then created his brother Thomas of Brotherton earl in 1312. It passed to T ...
James Madison... as officially organized on December 14, 1818, and was named after President
Henry IV of France... avour of intervening on behalf of the Protestant powers (and Louis's fatherwas once a Huguenot leader). On the other hand, Louis XIII had had a stric ...
James Francis Edward Stuart... Protestants. The Tories were suspected of supporting the Catholic Pretender. George I rewarded the Whigs by forming a Whig government; at his welcome ...
John Wesley... clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergymanand Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley (the Younger), and father of musician ...
George H. W. Bush... s to the irritation of Democrats. During the 101st Congress under President, fully half of the successful proposals put forward by the Senate Democra ...
Maxentius... Augusti to the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. Presumably Maximian's sonand Constantius' son Constantine – children raised in Nicomedia together – ...
Stephen Báthory of Poland... ew Castles were often visited by the Commonwealth monarchs including famouswho made a royal residence here. In 1793 the last Sejm in the history of t ...
Philip IV of FranceIn May 1286, King Edward I paid homage before the new king,, for the lands in Gascony. However, in May 1295, Philip 'confiscated' the ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton... y as a reliable "bogeyman" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par withand similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Th ...
Jomo Kenyatta... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include, Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... oquent orator. The Republican Party countered with popular war hero Generaland won in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control ...
President... torical events happened in reverse of how they occurred in real life (e.g.,John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named Abraham Lincoln), a ...
Jimmy CarterThe surprise winner of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination was, a former state senator and governor of Georgia. When the primaries began ...
Holy Roman Emperor... bringing, and his natural inclination was therefore to support the Catholic, the Habsburg Ferdinand II
Bill ClintonOne of former President's great-grandfathers is buried here
NewtonFollowing the classical dynamics ofand Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of exte ...
Jim FlahertyFederal finance ministerappointed retired judge James Farley, who had presided over Air Canada's 2 ...
All-father... who is often demon-like and dangerous, without any clear connection to theof Norse mythology, instead being drawn from a earlier "Black God of the H ...
Albert, Duke of Schleswig-HolsteinThe Augustenborg male line died out in 1931, upon the death of, a grandson of queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Their female-line de ...
Edward II of EnglandIn 1325, the land was confiscated by Charles IV when, in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispu ...
Bill Clinton... million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President’s climate change initiative
John F. Kennedy... 558. Russell Cave was declared a National Monument in May 1961 by President. The Monument consists of of land donated by the National Geographic Soci ...
Bert Evatt... overnment's defeat in 1949, and since 1951 had been under the leadership of, whom Whitlam greatly admired. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return t ...
Adolf Hitler... War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of, he stayed on the job. ... It is doubtful any individual has ever given m ...
Victoria of the United Kingdom... , upon the death of Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, a grandson of queen. Their female-line descendant today holds the throne of Sweden
Bocchus I... uretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurtha. With the help ofof Mauretania, Sulla captured Jugurtha and brought the war to a conclusive ...
Harry S. Truman... o convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Presidentwithout the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The main point of the proposal was ...
Henry II... ria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor(who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ...
John III of SwedenIn 1582 Kingadded Grand Prince of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish king ...
Alfonso VIII of Castile... of "al-Mansur," "The Victorious," was earned by the defeat he inflicted onin the Battle of Alarcos (1195)
George II of Greece... Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King, to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explan ...
Giovanni Spadolini... e 1980s, for the first time, two governments were managed by a republican (1981-82) and a socialist (Bettino Craxi 1983-87) rather than by a Christia ...
Emperor Shun of Liu Song... er and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his brother who became. After defeating his rival general Shen Youzhi, Xiao forced Emperor Shun ...
John WesleyIn the 18th century Lincoln became the cradle of Methodism when, a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother Charl ...
Nero... ther late 67 or early 68, he rebelled against the tax policy of the Emperor. According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex "was powerful in body and ...
Maurice Wilkes... arts of the matrix to implement different instructions. The design inspiredto develop the concept of microprogramming
Mengistu Haile Mariam... s cause was the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) insurgency. In 1984, Presidentannounced that 46% of the Ethiopian Gross National Product would be alloca ...
James BuchananEisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to become President sincein 1856. Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the de ...
King George IV... es, although he became embroiled in unsuccessful mediation attempts between, and his estranged wife Caroline of Brunswick, who had sought her rights ...
Penda of Mercia... est Mercian king about whom definite historical information has survived is, Wulfhere's father
Adolf Hitler... er Winston Churchill and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of. The main point of the proposal was that Germany would only surrender to ...
Queen VictoriaIn 1876,took the additional title of Empress of India
Simon KuznetsGDP was first developed byfor a US Congress report in 1934, who immediately said not to use it as a ...
King Richard IIWhencreated Thomas Mowbray duke in 1397, he conferred upon him the estates and ...
Antoninus... d those who devised heresies, and they continued until the age of the elder.
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Louis XIV of France... the war. John Bull (England) is suing Louis Baboon (i.e. Louis Bourbon, or) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (Charles II of Spain). Bull's la ...
Alexander III... nnockburn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of
King Edward IV of England... s arranged between Anne and Richard, Duke of York, the four-year-old son of. She remained Richard's child bride until she died at the age of 8
Franklin D. Roosevelt... 56. Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the death of, and 64 when elected President in 1948
president... the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986, Kurt Waldheim was electedamid considerable national and international protest because of his possib ...
Conrad II... varia). In 1027, Stephen had Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, the envoy sent byto the Byzantine Empire, arrested at the frontier. In 1030, the emperor le ...
PresidentIn Pakistan, theand Prime Minister receive close protection teams from the military's elit ...
Charles IDuring the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), under, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord ...
President of the United States... s Guild (SAG), then election as Governor of California in 1966, and finallyin 1980
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Prince Albert... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that yearbecame the patron of the regatta
Theodore RooseveltMartha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of(the 26th US President) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from ...
Jomo Kenyatta... lotic elite. The KAU remained dominated by the Kikuyu ethnic group. In 1947, the former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became ...
Prince George, Duke of Kent... scuous with both sexes. One report suggests he would procure guardsmen with. Private Eye magazine, which termed Mountbatten 'a raging queen' brought ...
Kwame Nkrumah... alists. Other African socialists include Jomo Kenyatta, Kenneth Kaunda, and. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism and called for a democratic African ...
Jane Seymour... ly small, given that the drama's second part focused more on the stories ofand Catherine Howard
Augustus... the Principate to become the first truly professional firefighting service.called for the creation of a trained fire guard, paid and equipped by the ...
Charles II of Spain... Bourbon, or Louis XIV of France) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (). Bull's lawyer is the one who really enjoys the suit, and he is Humphrey ...
PresidentIn Turkey, theis closely protected by two organizations: the Karşı Saldırı Timi'nde (KST ...
Abraham Lincoln... ife (e.g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the "real world" and used to expl ...
King George III... ually important goals. At the suggestion of Wilberforce and Bishop Porteus,was requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury to issue in 1787 the Proclam ...
Catherine Howard... hat the drama's second part focused more on the stories of Jane Seymour and
Jimmy Carter... 978 in the famous Camp David Accords after negotiations hosted by president. In accordance with the treaty, Israeli forces withdrew gradually from Si ...
Emperor Houfei of Liu Song... y regained in the other Southern Dynasties. Emperor Ming's young son became. The political situation was volatile. The general Xiao Daocheng slowly g ...
Charles Carroll of Carrollton... rganized on January 2, 1833 from part of Ray County, Missouri and named for, a signer of the
Frederick, Prince of Wales... derable that Sarah hoped to marry her granddaughter, Lady Diana Spencer, to, for which she would pay a massive dowry of £100,000. However, Robert Wal ...
Conrad II... Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor,claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the ...
Edwin of Northumbria... imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms. The fifth of these was, who was killed at the battle of Hatfield Chase by a combined force inclu ...
Robert Bruce... her a powerful army. According to the historian and poet John Barbour, Kingrebuked the folly of his brother, even though Dundee had probably fallen t ...
Emperor... s. In either late 67 or early 68, he rebelled against the tax policy of theNero. According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex "was powerful in body ...
Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei... successive leaders, Gao Huan took control of the east and Luoyang (holdingas a puppet ruler) by 534, while his rival Yuwen Tai took control of the w ...
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John F. Kennedy... of a prominent game show, an excerpt from the Count from Sesame Street, or's remark that walking is a good form of exercise
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John WesleyIn terms of theology, Whitefield, unlike, was a supporter of Calvinism. The two differed on eternal election, fina ...
George W. Bush... nt. In the, 2004 Presidential Election, Jackson County voted for Republicanover Democrat John Kerry. It was the first time Jackson County voters chos ...
King Arthur... ention because of its role in influencing the legends and myths surrounding. It is the earliest source that presents Arthur as an historical figure, ...
Gallienus... at Pons Sarravi (Sarrebourg) in Gallia Belgica, in a series that runs from(253-68) to Theodosius I (379-395). These were scattered over the floor wh ...
Mindaugas... he most of Black Ruthenia, was controlled by princes of Lithuanian origin (and others) to form the Baltic-Slavic state - Grand Duchy of Lithuania on ...
King Haakon VII... f Norwegians. In 1940, when Norway was under attack from the German forces,received the power from the parliament to govern the country, in its best ...
HitlerThe term Übermensch was a favorite ofand the Nazi regime, which borrowed from Nietzsche's work and sought to ad ...
Hadrian... as a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor(AD 117-138)
Bahadur Shah... native Indian ones, and only allowed British soldiers to handle artillery.was exiled to Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), where he died in 1862
Emperor Wu of Southern Qi... eign and his heir, who was only 13 years younger than him, succeeded him as. Emperor Wu made peace with the Northern Wei, content to protect his bord ...
Andrew Jackson... 9 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under, making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was firs ...
Harold B. LeeOxford has several historical links. It is the location, a future president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, t ...
Olaf... a (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway) by Snorri Sturluson. In 1021, Kinglaid hold of all the best men, both at Lesja and Dovre, and forced them ei ...
Grand PrinceHe was born as Vajk in the town of Esztergom. His father wasGéza of Hungary; his mother was Sarolt, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania ...
Ronald Reagan... sts and of the Soviet Union; Craxi himself pushed in favour of US president's positioning of Pershing missiles in Italy
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Henry II of England... a grand jury can be traced back to the Assize of Clarendon, an 1166 act of. In fact, Henry's chief effect on the development of the English monarchy ...
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Richard III... ared illegitimate. Richard was sent to the Tower of London by the new king,, in mid-1483, thus ending his claim to both York and Norfolk
Barack Obama... win a majority in the county was Barry Goldwater in 1964. In 2008, Democratwon 81% of the county's vote
Barack Obama... 008. On October 28, Colbert turned his attention back to Canton, Ohio aftermade a campaign stop there, forcing Colbert to find it "crappy"
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Henry VIIIWhenbroke from Rome an era of religious repression began. During the Dissoluti ...
Herbert Hoover... ntury Republican attorney and black civil rights activist who served in theadministration, was born in Holmes County in 1877
Patrick HilleryThe President of Ireland,, and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial service for Mountbatt ...
Theodosius I... ebourg) in Gallia Belgica, in a series that runs from Gallienus (253-68) to(379-395). These were scattered over the floor when the Mithraeum was dest ...
Edward Heath... enson played at Marine Spa ballroom, and the place was regularly visited by
Xiao ZhaoyeThe short reigns of Emperor Wu's grandsons,and Xiao Zhaowen (his first son predeceased him), were dominated by Xiao L ...
William the Conqueror... iminal justice more effective, Henry employed the method of inquest used byin the Domesday Book. In each shire a body of important men was sworn (jur ...
Henry II... cal rulers continued fighting amongst themselves the Norman King of Englandwas invited to intervene. He arrived in 1171, took control of much land, a ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... crowd. It is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and's Infamy Speech, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American ...
EutropiaMaximian had two children with his Syrian wife,: Maxentius and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources ...
Samuel Pepys... ts typically associated with it contributed to this generic classification.owned a copy of Piers Plowman. A Crowley edition owned in 1613 by an educa ...
Licinius... tantine was again demoted to Caesar, with Maximinus the Caesar in the east., a loyal military companion to Galerius, was appointed Augustus of the We ...
Richard NixonIn 1959, following the Kitchen Debate between United States Vice Presidentand Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, includ ...
VortigernThe Historia contains a story of the king, who allowed the Saxons to settle in the island of Britain in return for ...
John F. Kennedy... ed the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senatorof Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon
President of IrelandThe, Patrick Hillery, and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial serv ...
Ecgfrith of Northumbria... rd of Northumbria as his father had been. In 674, he challenged Oswiu's son, but was defeated. He died, probably of disease, in 675. Wulfhere was suc ...
Barack Obama... ties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored John McCain over, although not as strongly as most of the other rural counties throughout ...
Barack Obama... ounties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored John McCain overin 2008
Gerry AdamsSinn Féin vice-presidentsaid of Mountbatten's death
Victor Emmanuel II... h 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under kingof the Savoy dynasty, which ruled over Piedmont. The architects of Italian ...
Antiochus II TheosAntiochus I (reigned 281–261 BC) and his son and successor(reigned 261–246 BC) were faced with challenges in the west, including rep ...
Ronald Reagan... xism. In 1980, with the rise of conservative neoliberal politicians such asin the U.S., Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, t ...
Theodoric the Great... or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or ...
Al Gore... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, includingand Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phi ...
King Christian IV... 909 and are based on the oldest seal of the city, dating from 1643. In 1643(of Denmark and Norway) granted the young city the right to use a seal wit ...
John II Sigismund Zápolya... ism became official in 1583, following the faith of the only Unitarian King1541-1571) were declared as accepted (recepta) religions, while Orthodox C ...
Juba II... Numidia became briefly the province of Africa Nova until Augustus restored(son of Juba I) after the Battle of Actium
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Yongle Emperor... 4). A magistrate of Jining, Shandong sent a memorandum to the throne of theprotesting the current inefficient means of transporting 4,000,000 dan (42 ...
Hoover... a Secretary of the Treasury. His service continued through the Coolidge andadministrations. Along with James Wilson and James J. Davis, he is one of ...
Queen Victoria... ment for British rule. In a royal proclamation made to the people of India,promised equal opportunity of public service under British law, and also p ...
Ronald ReaganPresidentlaunched his 1980 presidential campaign from the Neshoba County Fair, deli ...
Talcott Parsons... ism include: Henry Maine, Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and
King Christian IVThe city was named after its founderin 1641. The last element sand refers to the sandy headland the city was b ...
Adolf Hitler... res states that although feminists were among those who opposed the rise of, feminism has a complicated relationship with the Nazi movement as well, ...
Xiao Baojuan... ry to find silver fish (银鱼). He died in 498 AD and was succeeded by his son, whose killed high officials and governors at his whim, sparking many rev ...
Antoninus Pius... es in the Empire seems to have happened quite quickly, late in the reign ofand under Marcus Aurelius. By this time all the key elements of the myster ...
Baldwin I of Jerusalem... cceeded the following year in wresting Hebron back from the crusaders under, who personally led the counter-charge to beat the Muslim forces off
king... to. Many leading revolutionaries wanted a republic, but eventually it was aand his chief minister who had the power to unite the Italian states as a ...
Henry VIII... f the arms (shown to the right) was granted as an Augmentation of Honour byto Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk to commemorate his victory at the Ba ...
Bill Clinton... George W. Bush carried Texas County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004.was the last Democratic presidential nominee to carry Texas County in 1992 ...
King of KingsShah or shahanshah ("") was the title of Persian emperors or kings. It includes rulers of the f ...
George W. BushAt the presidential level, Texas County is Republican-leaning.carried Texas County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004. Bill Clinton ...
John Quincy Adams... nited States Congress as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of. His first speech in that body was in advocacy of its right and duty to e ...
Barack ObamaIn the final days before the 2008 election, Costner campaigned for, visiting various places in Colorado—a state in which he has a home. In h ...
President... head, the Secretary of the Interior, is a Cabinet officer nominated by theand confirmed by the Senate. Most of the direct management of the NPS is d ...
George W. Bush... Madison County have seldom been lockstep in their voting tendencies. Whilecarried Madison County both times in 2000 and 2004, Bill Clinton also carr ...
Hamid Karzai... of the Taliban government and its replacement by the current government of, there has been significant progress toward revitalization of the nationa ...
Simon Kuznets... ch as social and environmental concerns. Examples of externalities include:in his very first report to the US Congress in 1934 said: ...the welfare o ...
Christian IX of Denmark... ousins through Queen Victoria, and second cousins once removed through King. Elizabeth fell in love with Philip and they began to exchange letters. E ...
FaustaMaximian had two children with his Syrian wife, Eutropia: Maxentius and. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources for their birthdates. ...
Baldwin II of JerusalemIn the year 1113 during the reign of, according to Ali of Herat (writing in 1173), a certain part over the cav ...
Akbar... cluding those of the Mughal Empire. For instance, the third Mughal emperor,the Great (1542–1605), was formally known as "Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam"
Emperor He of Southern Qi... ao Yan to revolt under the banner of Xiao Baojun's brother who was declared. Xiao Baojun was killed by one of his general during the siege of his cap ...
Theodore Roosevelt... to the Chatahoochee River. It operated for 40 years, and in 1905, Presidentmade a campaign whistle stop in Dunwoody along the way to Roswell, Georgia
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge... United Kingdom impaled with her family arms – the arms of her grandfather,(the royal arms used by the House of Hanover), in the 1st and 4th quarters ...
Theodore Roosevelt... he goals of the progressive movement -- whose most prominent figurehead was(Class of 1880) and most eloquent spokesman was Herbert Croly (Class of 18 ...
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany... exandra had lost a brother, Friedrich, to the disease, as well as an uncle,. Her sister Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was also a carrier of th ...
Mary Tudor... pass from their possession. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to, sister of King Edward VI
the Master... interview regarding the series' revival, Baker suggested that he be cast as. In a 2006 interview with the Sun newspaper, he claims that he has not wa ...
Romano Prodi... tions led to the victory of a centre-left coalition under the leadership of. Prodi's first government became the third-longest to stay in power befor ...
Marcus Aurelius... have happened quite quickly, late in the reign of Antoninus Pius and under. By this time all the key elements of the mysteries were in place
Julius Nyerere... cialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent.was inspired by Fabian socialist ideals. He was a firm believer in rural A ...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk... city to the Democratic Republic of Armenia. Turkish revolutionaries, led byrejected the terms of the treaty and instead waged the Turkish War of Inde ...
Bill Clinton... s. While George W. Bush carried Madison County both times in 2000 and 2004,also carried the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like many rural count ...
Brigham Young, Jr.Descendants of Young include three LDS Church apostles:, John Willard Young, and Joseph Angell Young. Another descendant, Leah D. ...
King John... sents information for an indictment. The grand jury was later recognized byin Magna Carta in on demand of the nobility
AragornIn The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins met Strider () at the largest and most popular inn in Bree, The Prancing Pony, owned by ...
Victor Emmanuel II... ore conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Cavour and, who would later become the first king of a united Italy
James Francis Edward Stuart... St. John, the first Viscount Bolingbroke from declaring for the Pretender,. The Marlboroughs returned home on the afternoon of Anne's death. The Act ...
Xiao ZhaowenThe short reigns of Emperor Wu's grandsons, Xiao Zhaoye and(his first son predeceased him), were dominated by Xiao Luan, Emperor's Wu ...
Barack ObamaOn 4 May 2009, United States Presidentdeclared his intentions to curb the use of financial centres by multinatio ...
MaxentiusMaximian had two children with his Syrian wife, Eutropia:and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources for their b ...
Betty Friedan... ritain, the women's movement was allied with the Labour party. In the U.S.,emerged from a radical background to take leadership. Radical Women is the ...
Nauplius... ite of great antiquity near the shores of the Argolid. To Poseidon she bore, "the navigator," who gave his name to the port city of Argos
Abraham Lincoln... s "I Have a Dream" speech electrified the crowd. It is regarded, along with's Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, as one of ...
King Edward VI... ssion. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to Mary Tudor, sister of
Demetrius I of Bactria... verrun by the invasion of northern nomads. One of the Greco-Bactrian kings,, invaded India around 180 BC to form the Greco-Indian kingdom, lasting un ...
Septimius Severus... midia was divided between Mauretania and the province of Africa Nova. Under(193 AD), Numidia was separated from Africa Vetus, and governed by an impe ...
Maria Luisa of Savoy... use her influence in carrying out his plans. Upon the death of the Queen (), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 b ...
Henry I's... ountess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English throne ondeath in 1135, he became to the English throne
Sophia of Hanover... udwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of James I through his mother), King George I of Great Britain
Mohammad Reza PahlaviThe last shah of Persia,, officially adopted the title شاهنشاه shâhanshâh (literally King of Kings ...
Hippothoon... pe, his granddaughter through Cercyon, and from the union she gave birth to. Alope left the infant in the open to die of exposure, but a passing mare ...
Otto... wing his assassination in 1831, the Great Powers installed a monarchy under, of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach. In 1843 an uprising forced the kin ...
George I... ar later replaced by Prince Wilhelm (William) of Denmark, who took the nameand brought with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift from Britain. ...
Adolf Hitler... purpose of the SS, that of safeguarding the leadership of the Nazi Party () continued until the very end of the group's existence. Hitler had used b ...
Elizabeth IIVisited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward and Queenamong many others, Penang has always been a popular tourist destination, b ...
Hitler... forbidden the unification of Austria and Germany, but native Austrian-bornwas vastly striving to annex Austria during the late 1930s, which was fier ...
Piet Joubert... blic. Kruger was re-elected president in 1888 and 1893, each time defeating
Commodus... ks are now lost. According to the 4th century Historia Augusta, the emperorparticipated in its mysteries but it never became one of the state cults
Harold II... as an ally of William the Conqueror, and is listed as a possible killer of; he is also believed to have given William his own horse after the duke's ...
Diocletian... rned by an imperial procurator. Under the new organization of the empire by, Numidia was divided in two provinces: the north became Numidia Cirtensis ...
Emperor Ming of Southern Qi... Emperor's Wu's first cousin. He killed them in turn and crowned himself as. Using the government secretaries (典签官), he slaughtered all the descendan ...
Holy Roman Emperor... of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents. The Habsburgs had long been interested in mercantilist policies, but the vast and dece ...
Nazgûl... Dark Tower" (Barad-dûr), snaga, meaning "slave", and ghâsh "fire". The nameis a combination of "nazg" meaning "ring" and "gûl" meaning "wraith(s)", t ...
Henry II... n, became king of Navarre by his marriage with Catherine of Foix. Their son, king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer of France in 1550 b ...
Pope Paul VI... ust as cardinal bishops are given one of the suburban dioceses around Rome.abolished all administrative rights cardinals had with regard to their tit ...
Chiang Kai-shekJung Chang and Jon Halliday claim thatallowed the Communists to escape on the Long March, allegedly because he w ...
Barack Obama... t headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as Bill Clinton and), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, un ...
Christian IV of Denmark... ears' War (1618–1648), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland,being notable proponents. The Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors had long been i ...
King Henry II... court, but was almost certainly at least known about at the royal court ofof England. Virtually nothing is known of her life; both her given name an ...
Barack Obama... 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain and Democrattied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This gives Andover a Cook PVI of ...
Gregory PeckPhilip Schuyler Green () is a widowed journalist who has just moved to New York City with his son ...
Darius I of Persia... also made voyages using Maka to communicate with India. After Cyrus' deathsucceeded his throne. According to Greek historian Herodotus, Darius wante ...
The Duke of Kent... ose friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni’. It was fromthat the Duke took over in this position, which involves him representing ...
Philip... ek city-states were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of's and Alexander the Great's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might gene ...
Bill Clinton... er Liberal Cabinet headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such asand Barack Obama), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanis ...
Louis XVI... trumps the Duke's claim by alleging that he is the Lost Dauphin, the son ofand rightful King of France. He continually mispronounces the duke's title ...
Tewodros II... ue of Nations in 1923 by promising to eradicate slavery; each emperor sincehad issued proclamations to halt slavery, but without effect: the internat ...
John I of Portugal... attle of Ceuta, the city was captured by the Portuguese during the reign of. The King of Spain, Phillip II, seized the Portuguese throne in 1580 and ...
Eystein Halfdansson... raves") and as taking King Halfdan Hvitbeinn from life. In chapter 46, Kingdies by being knocked overboard by a sail yard. A section from Ynglingatal ...
Catherine of Foix... . John of Albret, son of Alain, became king of Navarre by his marriage with. Their son Henry II, king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer ...
Paul Kruger... upported the Boers against British expansionism and was a strong admirer of
Christina of Sweden... entral Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), with, Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable propone ...
Maximilian I... ing, and also successor of Philip, count palatine of the Rhine. The emperor, interested as archduke of Austria and count of Tirol, interfered in the ...
Samuel Pepys... g mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time student and was al ...
Numa Pompilius... in the ordainment of Roman religion attributed to Romulus' royal successor,. There is however no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before t ...
George W. BushTheadministration consolidated many of these activities under the United Stat ...
Thoas... future wife of Acastus (otherwise known as Astydameia); Myrina, who married; and an unnamed daughter, who became the mother of Asterius by Teutamus
Pope John XXIII... an sees (who had been relieved of direct responsibilities for those sees bythree years earlier). Not holding a suburbicarian see, they cannot elect t ...
Halfdan Hvitbeinn... el as "howes'-warder" (meaning "guardian of the graves") and as taking Kingfrom life. In chapter 46, King Eystein Halfdansson dies by being knocked o ...
Daumantas... e midst of these events Mindaugas' wife Morta died, and he took her sister,' wife, as his own. In retaliation, Daumantas and Treniota assassinated Mi ...
CharlemagneThe Islands were defended by the emperorin 799 from a Saracen pirate incursion
Charlemagne... who wanted to maintain Bavarian independence, was defeated and displaced byin 789. An eastern march (military borderland), the Avar March, was establ ...
Ronald Reagan... e operations. It was abruptly halted during the administration of Presidentin the mid-late 1980s, part of the War on Drugs
David... idetes attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, John Hyrcanus opened King's sepulchre and removed three thousand talents which he paid as tribute t ...
AgamemnonThe word Atreides refers to one of the sons of Atreus—and Menelaus. The plural form Atreidae or Atreidai refers to both sons col ...
Andrew JacksonJackson Township, named after, is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 ...
John of Albret... o the liberal grants which it had obtained from successive kings of France., son of Alain, became king of Navarre by his marriage with Catherine of F ...
King Henry VIII... e River Thames. It was originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, a favourite of, circa 1514; in 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the palace was passed t ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... r days as the assassination of JFK and the transition of power to Presidenttook center stage
Barack Obama... uerto Rico's head of state is the President of the United States, currently. The governor and legislators are elected by popular vote every four year ...
Lech WałęsaIn 2004 former Solidarity leaderwrote
Jean Casimir-Perier... rd youngest president in French history, after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and. He promised "change in continuity". He made clear his desire to introduc ...
Adolf Hitler... ers to deploy mustard gas to Italy. This included Italian intelligence thathad threatened to use gas against Italy if the state changed sides, and pr ...
William IV... e British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ruled in Hanover was: Salic law, which required succession by the male line, forbade the acces ...
President of the United States... House of Representatives lower chamber. Puerto Rico's head of state is the, currently Barack Obama. The governor and legislators are elected by popu ...
Assad... spleasure at Hamas's failure to hold public rallies in support of President" in the face of the Syrian uprising, and funding from the Muslim Brotherh ...
Richard NixonThe scandal eventually led to the resignation of, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignat ...
John F. Kennedy... d High School and Enrico Fermi High School are the district's high schools.Middle School is the town's middle school. There are nine elementary schoo ...
Charles II... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored, who granted the most liberal political terms
Liliuokalani... him. When his wife, Queen Kapiolani, and his sister, Princess (later Queen), took a trip across North America and on to the British Islands, in 1887, ...
Francisco Bertrand... d be selected by the United States mediator, Thomas Dawson. Dawson selected, who promised to hold early, free elections, and Dávila resigned
Douglas Fairbanks... co-founded the United Artists film distribution company with Mary Pickford,and D. W. Griffith, all of whom were seeking to escape the growing power c ...
Isaac Newton... olars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe,, and Samuel Pepys. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time ...
Walter O'Malley... ew York City official Robert Moses tried to interest Brooklyn Dodgers ownerin this site as the location for a new Dodger stadium, but O'Malley refuse ...
Nero... tes back to the 1st century AD, when Seneca the Younger, a tutor of Emperorof Rome, wrote: "Letters, however small and indistinct, are seen enlarged ...
Louis XV... pulation was not forced out but rather their religion was declared illegal.ordered all blacks to be deported from France, but was unsuccessful
Queen Kapiolani... p around the world, he brought his native language with him. When his wife,, and his sister, Princess (later Queen) Liliuokalani, took a trip across ...
Ecgfrith... Deira had its own sub-kings at times during the reigns of Oswiu and his son
Pope Paul VIIn 1965decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the ...
Peter II... uese João Francisco António de Bragança, in Lisbon and succeeded his fatherin December 1706, and was proclaimed on January 1, 1707
Charles VIII... (d. 1522), wished to marry Anne of Brittany, and to that end fought against; but his hopes being defeated by the betrothal of Anne to Maximilian of A ...
George I Louis... of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). The first of these was, who acceded to the British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ...
Lyndon Johnson... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county wasin 1964
Sigismund III Vasa... ations into Polish). The period of tolerance ended during the reign of King, who was under strong influence of Piotr Skarga and other Jesuits. After ...
Antiochus VII Sidetes... his Seleucid suzerains. Within a year of the death of Simon, Seleucid Kingattacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, John Hyrcanus opened King David ...
Oswiu... kingdom, although Deira had its own sub-kings at times during the reigns ofand his son Ecgfrith
OttonianAs allies of the Carolingian kings and the empire of theirsuccessors, the Obotrites fought from 808 to 1200 against the kings of Den ...
David Kalākaua... mar of Hawaiian ("Über die Hawaiische Sprache") in 1837. When Hawaiian Kingtook a trip around the world, he brought his native language with him. Whe ...
Cyrus the Great... ern half of Oman as well as Balochistan and the Sindh province of Pakistan.united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empire
Paul Kruger... with the Orange Free State. Peaceful overtures having failed, Pretorius andplaced themselves at the head of a commando which crossed the Vaal with th ...
President of FranceIn 1974, he was electedat 48, the third youngest president in French history, after Louis Napoleo ...
Jacques Chirac... Movement. Moreover, he benefited from the divisions in the Gaullist party.and other Gaullist personalities published the "Call of the 43" where they ...
Richard Nixon... d United States Senator George Smathers and then former U.S. Vice President, who had promised to leave politics. During his subsequent presidency fro ...
Barack Obama... ohn McCain received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat's 20,701 (47.26%), even as Obama carried the state by a double-digit marg ...
Bill Clinton... eorge W. Bush carried Ripley County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004,won the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like most of the rural countie ...
Duchess of York... reer, as well as relentless, often critical, media attention focused on the, led to fractures in the marriage. On 19 March 1992 the couple announced ...
Trygve Haavelmo... s at the University of Oslo, where he was taught by the Nobel Prize winnersand Ragnar Frisch. He graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1953. Since ...
Catherine de' Medici... n a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with's entourage
Ragnar Frisch... of Oslo, where he was taught by the Nobel Prize winners Trygve Haavelmo and. He graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1953. Since 1951, Willoch wa ...
Richard Nixon... attractive in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which had led to President's resignation. Ford, although personally unconnected with Watergate, was ...
George IV... he final three joint rulers (1760–1837), there was only one short visit, byin 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroy Adolphus represented the monarch in Han ...
Isaac Newton... e same time was put on the board trying to publish the Historia coelestius.and Edmund Halley wanted it published immediately, to support their work o ...
Lady Jane Grey... on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham withas one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, An ...
Constantine VII... Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the future, Nicholas forbade the emperor from entering the church and may have becom ...
King of Lithuania... ing antagonist of the Lithuanians. During the summer of 1253 he was crowned, ruling between 300,000 and 400,000 subjects
Theodora... have varied from c. 277 to c. 287, and most date Fausta's birth to c. 298., the wife of Constantius Chlorus, is often called Maximian's stepdaughter ...
Eurystheus... refuge in Mycenae, where they ascended to the throne in the absence of King, who was fighting the Heracleidae. Eurystheus had meant for their steward ...
George W. Bush... ver, like many rural counties, it does have a slight Republican lean. Whilecarried Ripley County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004, Bill Clinton ...
Antiochus IX Cyzicenus... 6 BCE, a civil war between Seleucid half-brothers Antiochus VIII Grypus andbroke out, resulting in a further breakup of the already significantly red ...
Zoe Karbonopsina... , he fell out with Leo VI over the latter's fourth marriage to his mistress. Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the fut ...
Louis XVIII... 2, when Hugo was only twenty years old, and earned him a royal pension from. Though the poems were admired for their spontaneous fervor and fluency, ...
Chiang Kai-shek... o who was being held hostage by Joseph Stalin back. This is contradicted byhimself, who wrote in his diary, "It is not worth is to sacrifice the inte ...
PresidentialInyo is a strongly Republican county inand congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ...
Abraham Lincoln... xisting Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by Presidenton May 26, 1864. At this time Deer Lodge County (today Deer Lodge, Granite ...
Oswald... ar he went to Cadwallon to sue for peace and was killed. Eanfrith's brotherthen raised an army and finally defeated Cadwallon at the Battle of Heaven ...
grandfather... leagh all titles previously held by both his maternal great-grandfather and. Prince Andrew had known Miss Ferguson since childhood, and they had met ...
President... treet in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for the futureand First Lady. Today it is known as The Roosevelt House of Public Policy ...
President... honored with his own memorial in the National Mall area and the first non-to be commemorated in such a way. The King Memorial will be administered b ...
Marie I of Boulogne... bury and half-sister to Henry II, King of England; Marie, Abbess of Reading;; Marie, Abbess of Barking; and Marie de Meulan, wife of Hugh Talbot
John VI of Portugal... one another. In the Portuguese colony, the heir apparent Pedro, son of King, proclaimed the country's independence in 1822 and became Brazil's first ...
Leo VI the Wise... isfavor after Photios' dismissal in 886 and retired to a monastery. Emperorretrieved him from the monastery and made him mystikos, a dignity designat ...
Pope Pius XI... oly See. Relations with the Holy See were defined during the pontificate of(1922–1939
Bindusara... an ambassador, Megasthenes, to Chandragupta, and later Deimakos to his son, at the Mauryan court at Pataliputra (modern Patna in Bihar state). Megas ...
Royal Standard of Scotland... ngham Palace, Windsor Castle and Sandringham House, whereas in Scotland theis flown at Holyrood Palace and Balmoral Castle
Barack Obama... ection, Republican John McCain received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat, who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ...
Lex Luthor... esentations of the Flash (Barry Allen), Earth-2 Superman, the Anti-Monitor,, and Brainiac. The third and final wave included action figure representa ...
William IIIThe following century,'s massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles w ...
Nazgûl... existing in two forms, the ancient "pure" forms used by Sauron himself, the, and the Olog-hai, and the more "debased" form used by the soldiery of th ...
Eanfrith... ain was divided into Bernicia and Deira. Bernicia was then briefly ruled by, son of Aethelfrith, but after about a year he went to Cadwallon to sue f ...
Pope Pius XII... 931 Hitler sent Göring on a mission to the Vatican, where he met the future
Getúlio VargasThe ideology of's Estado Novo contaminated the scene of the samba. With Aquarela do Brasi ...
Al GoreIn 2000, Bush received 21,887 votes (56.28%) to Democrat's 15,959 (41.04%)
Sarah, Duchess of York... stern end that hold annual polo and special events. The Prince of Wales andwere seen in the polo clubs
Samuel Pepys... ner of the Mayflower, and was also a base for that ship. The famous diaristwas the Member of Parliament for Harwich. Christopher Newport, captain of ...
Gregory PeckGentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist (played by) who goes undercover as a Jew to conduct research for an exposé on antise ...
Henry II, King of England... s twelfth century poet are: Marie, Abbess of Shaftesbury and half-sister to; Marie, Abbess of Reading; Marie I of Boulogne; Marie, Abbess of Barking; ...
Manuel I of Portugal... tugal, forks began being used with Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, king's mother. That happened around 1450. Still forks were not commonly used i ...
Prince George of DenmarkIn 1702, he was at Epsom when, husband of Queen Anne fell ill. According to tradition, Arbuthnot treate ...
Phraates II of Parthia... s and in 129 BCE Antiochus VII Sidetes was killed in Media by the forces of, permanently ending Seleucid rule east of the Euphrates. In 116 BCE, a ci ...
Warren G. Harding... nship) and it was named after the incumbent President of the United States,
Nick Nickson... for the Lakers, Kings, indoor soccer and indoor tennis events at the Forum., a radio broadcaster for the Los Angeles Kings, replaced John Ramsey as t ...
Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena... his children. However, Pachelbel spent only one year in Eisenach. In 1678,, Johann Georg's brother, died and during the period of mourning court mus ...
Ibn Hud... until 1147, when the Almohads who conquered the land and ruled, apart from's rebellion of 1232, until the Tunisian Hafsids established their control ...
Henry William Wilberforce... 1801), Robert Isaac Wilberforce (b. 1802), Samuel Wilberforce (b. 1805) and(b. 1807). Wilberforce was an indulgent and adoring father who revelled in ...
Jimmy CarterThe act jump-started the peace process. United States Presidentinvited both Sadat and Begin to a summit at Camp David to negotiate a fina ...
James Day... jor comprehensive university were due to the efforts of two men, Chancellorand John Archbold. James Roscoe Day was serving the Calvary Church in New ...
Charles V... ci. Bandinelli, a supporter of the Medici, was also exiled. In 1530 Emperorretook Florence after a long siege. Pope Clement VII subsequently installe ...
Władysław II the Exile... m the 11th-12th centuries it was also a castellany. After the death of Duke, Silesia was divided in 1163 between two Piast lines- the Wrocławska line ...
Barack Obama... t of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored John McCain overin 2008
Agamemnon... was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father ofand Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atrei ...
President of the United States... nship (present day Long Hill Township) and it was named after the incumbent, Warren G. Harding
George W. BushIn 2004, Republican presidentreceived 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat John Kerry's 18,355 (42.41%)
George W. Bush... htly toward Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republicanreceived 56% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ...
Al Gore... with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth ()
George Seaton... ecutive years, 1950 and 1951. Others to win twice in this category include:, Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppol ...
Alexander... jepan Radić was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before kingwould establish his dictatorship, Šufflay wrote Hrvatska u svijetlu svjets ...
Jomo Kenyatta... tational son from the scene. Louis attended a lunch with Haile Selassie and. The conversation turned to fossils and Haile wanted to know why none had ...
Pope Paul VI... limit of 70, and this continued under his successors. At the start of 1971,set an age limit of eighty years for electors, who were to number no more ...
Antiochus VII Sidetes... een disintegrating in the face of the Seleucid–Parthian wars and in 129 BCEwas killed in Media by the forces of Phraates II of Parthia, permanently e ...
Adolphus... e was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroyrepresented the monarch in Hanover
Jane Seymour... spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset (a brother of the late queen,), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephe ...
King of Lithuania... 1200 – fall 1263) was the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the only. Little is known of his origins, early life, or rise to power; he is ment ...
Ronald Reagan... ction campaign was one of many causes that led to his defeat in November by
Romanos Lekapenos... ther failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral, who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally ...
Stephen Báthory... ians of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings ...
Germanicus... d not only Ptolemy but also the poet Aratus, the orator Cicero, and generalas colouring the star red, though acknowledging that none of the latter th ...
Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of ViseuIn Portugal, forks began being used with, king Manuel I of Portugal's mother. That happened around 1450. Still for ...
Gerald Ford... the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. His successor,, then issued a pardon to Nixon
Frank Capra... . The book's issues are detectable from a slightly different perspective in's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon Dr ...
Moctezuma II... nd returned in a few months, bearing reports of the wealth and splendour of's empire
George WashingtonDuring the American Revolutionary War, both Comte de Rochambeau &'s troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle S ...
King James... r in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon: "having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with ...
James I of Aragon... December 31, 1229, after three months of siege, the city was reconquered byand was renamed Palma de Mallorca. In addition to being kept as capital of ...
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough... tional and familial reasons. Anne was advised (and many said controlled) by, who was a champion of Whig causes. In 1706, the Duchess of Marlborough f ...
NapoleonAfterimposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on July 5, 1 ...
Theodore Roosevelt... 6 December, Kentucky passed in review before President of the United Statesas a unit in the Second Squadron. After calling at Trinidad and Rio de Jan ...
Augusto Pinochet... e Juan Guzmán Tapia (the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator), Armin von Bogdandy (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparativ ...
Agamemnon... boy. Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus had two sons,and Menelaus
Philip the Good... ken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others,, Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes. By the latter half of the fi ...
Edwin... was defeated and killed by Rædwald of East Anglia (who had given refuge to, son of Ælle, king of Deira) around the year 616. Edwin then became king. ...
Sam Houston... blish the street grid that is still current. In those years, the Texas hero, for whom the street is sometimes incorrectly said to have been named, wa ...
Mary Robinson... rom the airport to Áras an Uachtaráin for champagne with the then President
Simeon I of Bulgaria... f the regency for the young emperor, and as such had to face the advance ofon Constantinople. Nicholas negotiated a peaceful settlement, crowned Sime ...
George III... d Hanover. The Convention also meant the disbanding of the army of Hanover.did not recognize the Convention of the Elbe. As a result of this, a great ...
Aepytus#A daughter of Poseidon and Pitane who was raised byof Arcadia and became the mother of Iamus by Apollo. When Aepytus discover ...
Ralph Wilson... s by coach Wade Phillips, who later said he had been ordered by Bills ownerto do so. The Bills lost 22–16 to the eventual AFC Champion Tennessee Tita ...
ÆthelfrithIda’s grandson,(Æðelfriþ), united Deira with his own kingdom by force around the year 604 ...
Wojciech Jaruzelski... jailed when martial law came into effect on December 13, 1981 under General. After a one year prison term the high-ranking members of the union were ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ing his term, but served as the groundwork for various policies laid out in's New Deal. After 1933 he became a leading conservative spokesman in oppo ...
Alexandra of Denmark... cil to campaign against the visit to Ireland of King Edward VII his consort
Sigismund III... ry, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kingsand Władysław IV. The Commonwealth fought wars with Russia, Sweden and the ...
PresidentAfter the exile of King Zahir Shah in 1973,Daud Khan forged stronger ties with the Soviets by signing two highly cont ...
Jimmy Carter... 7 along with many other non-combat awards, but it was restored by Presidentin 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above)
G. Stanley Hall... July 1892 at Clark University by a group of 26 men. Its first president was. There are currently 56 divisions in the APA, and it is affiliated with 6 ...
Aegisthus... e a son by his daughter, Pelopia, who would then kill Atreus. However, whenwas first born, he was abandoned by his mother who was ashamed of her ince ...
Ronald Reagan... of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from Michigan; and, the leader of the GOP's conservative wing and the former two-term govern ...
John F. Kennedy... ensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport. The Indio (renamed) hospital opened in a new location in 1983 on land donated by hospital co ...
Romanos I... e supporters of Euthymios followed, which did not end until the new EmperorLekapenos promulgated the Tomos of Union in 920. In the meantime Alexander ...
Flavius ConstantiusIn early 288, Maximian appointed his praetorian prefect, husband of Maximian's daughter Theodora, to lead a campaign against Cara ...
King... oirs of Saint-Simon: "King James having his Queen on his right hand and theon his left, and each with their cadenas." In Perrault's contemporaneous f ...
George W. Bush... ing, a record only matched decades later by Richard Nixon, and surpassed by
Queen Victoria... m and Hanover ended as William IV's heir in the United Kingdom was female (). According to Salic Law Hanover could only be inherited by males. As a c ...
Jean-Jacques Dessalines... ndence after the French transported Louverture to France. The native leader– long an ally and general of Toussaint Louverture, brilliant strategist a ...
Sarah FergusonPrince Andrew marriedat Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him D ...
Tex Schramm... oughout his tenure, Landry worked closely with the Cowboys general manager,. The two were together during Landry's entire tenure with the team. A thi ...
Zahir Shah... 924. The military of Afghanistan was reconstructed and improved during King's reign, which reached a strength of 70,000 in 1933. Following the Second ...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa... ally profited. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was at first a friend of its ruler,; he supplied Bokassa's regime with much financial and military backing. H ...
Francisco Franco... ea forces of the republican government. A monument was constructed to honorcalled the Llano Amarillo, which was inaugurated on the 13th of July 1940 ...
Dr H.V. Evatt... al, being called to the New South Wales bar in 1938. At Fort Street, he metwho later became a judge of the High Court of Australia, and became a prot ...
Leo VI the Wise... e of contents of another five books, continuing the history to the death ofin 911, also exists, but whether the books were ever actually written is d ...
Emperor Gong of Jin... nal invasion, though, but because the general Liu Yu seized the throne from, becoming Emperor Wu of Liu Song (reigned 420–422 AD), starting the South ...
Vitellius... AD it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Othos and
Patrick Hillery... e Armageddon. As the violence continued, the Minister for External Affairs,, met with the British Foreign Secretary and also went to the United Natio ...
Harry S. Truman... ion to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal. In 1947 Presidentbrought him back to help make the federal bureaucracy more efficient throu ...
Hitler... ended classes at the University of Berlin from 1931 to 1933. In 1933, aftertook over Germany and began instituting anti-Semitic policies, Mendel and ...
Paul von Hindenburg... Maximilian urged Emperor William II to abdicate. Despite similar advice byand Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff, the Emperor considered abdicatio ...
Napoleon... ork appeared ultimately in a published form. Thus, in 1808 he was placed byupon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presi ...
President of Bolivia... United States President Bill Clinton, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl andGonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. The ceremony was emceed by Oprah Winfrey. In ad ...
Simón Bolívar... quarter of the 19th century, in the Spanish American wars of independence.(Greater Colombia, Peru, Bolivia), José de San Martín (United Provinces of ...
Władysław IV... dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings Sigismund III and. The Commonwealth fought wars with Russia, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire ...
Chagatai... s Khan and the Mongols in 1220. Genghis Khan gave the territory to his son,and the area became the Chagatai Khanate. Timur took over the area in 1369 ...
Garret Hobart... soldiers had camped during the war, was built in 1788 and was once owned by, later Vice President of the United States. The stone with the engraved d ...
Gerald Ford... Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between two serious candidates:, the leader of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from ...
William IV'sIn 1837, the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended asheir in the United Kingdom was female (Queen Victoria). According to Salic ...
Tom Donahoe... 366 yards and three touchdowns. Following the 2000 season, Bills Presidentand head coach Gregg Williams decided to keep Johnson as the starter and c ...
King Charles II... ry of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to, purchased the land from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This acquisit ...
James II of Majorca... joint capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, together with Perpignan. His son,, championed the construction of statues and monuments in the city: Bellve ...
Charles VI... t part in the affairs of France, where his sister Isabella had married King. About 1417 he became involved in a violent quarrel with his cousin, Henr ...
Richard Nixon... hat he had a 66% disapproval rating, a record only matched decades later by, and surpassed by George W. Bush
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada... nt Bill Clinton, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia. The ceremony was emceed by Oprah Winfrey. In addition, Daryl Hall, Jon S ...
Marie Antoinette... of France's internal history. His demonstration that letters attributed towere not genuine roused much interest in France. It was of the greatest im ...
Ernest Augustus... herited by males. As a consequence, Hanover passed to William IV's brother,, and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during ...
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Bill Clinton... has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Ronald Reagan... ent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, and, whom Wasserman became very close with personally. In later decades, Wass ...
William BeveridgeIn the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer, who had identified five "Giant Evils" afflicting the working class of th ...
Chandragupta Maurya... ids. Seleucus invaded India (modern Punjab Pakistan) in 305 BC, confronting(Sandrokottos), founder of the Maurya empire. It is said that Chandragupta ...
Strymon#A daughter ofand Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epida ...
Francisco FrancoOn July 1936, Generaltook command of the Spanish Army of Africa and rebelled against the Spanis ...
George W. Bush... ne. In 2004 it was one of only two counties in Maine to vote for Republicanover Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Demo ...
Hussein Shah of Johor... of territories extending from Lingga and Johor to Mount Muar". This man was, who, although having had no previous contact with the British, had certa ...
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Conan the Barbarian... ents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard (series)
Antigonus II Gonatas... onsisting of nearly all of the Asian portions of the Empire, but faced within Macedonia and Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Egypt, he proved unable to pic ...
Bette Davis... encies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda,, and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with personally. In ...
Acastus... d Amythaon. He also had several daughters, namely Hippolyte, future wife of(otherwise known as Astydameia); Myrina, who married Thoas; and an unnamed ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... ng by U.S. presidents. It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidentsand Bill Clinton
Clement Attlee... ister in the world: Chris Watson. In 1945, the British Labour Party, led by, was elected to office based upon a radical socialist programme. Social D ...
Pope John XXIII... on rare occasions, generally due to a building falling into disrepair. Whenabolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes ...
Henry IV of Castile... rder of Santiago, Lord of Castellanos, a Maestresala official instructor ofand General of the Frontier of Portugal. Pedro de Alvarado's mother was Di ...
Bill Clinton... ier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, including United States President, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánch ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... the US public for his time frame, and was struggling to convince Presidentto approve widening the war into Cambodia and Laos in order to interdict t ...
Douglas Fairbanks... alow of Mary Pickford at United Artists brought together Chaplin, Pickford,, Norma Talmadge, John Barrymore, Dolores del Río, Gloria Swanson and D.W. ...
Robert Stephenson... he Tyne Bridge of 1928 which was built by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough, and's High Level Bridge of 1849, the first road/rail bridge in the world
Afonso VI of Portugal... n was recognized by the Treaty of Lisbon by which, on January 1, 1668, Kingformally ceded Ceuta to Carlos II of Spain. However, the originally Portug ...
Queen VictoriaIn 1859 Cunard was created a baronet by
Helena Lekapene... upplanted in 919 by the admiral Romanos Lekapenos, who married his daughterto Constantine VII and finally advanced to the imperial throne in 920. The ...
Philip II... petitions for the young”. Arrow firing machines in action are reported from's siege of Perinth (Thrace) in 340 BC. At the same time, Greek fortificat ...
Barack Obama... r Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democratnarrowly defeated John McCain, 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republi ...
King Charles I... ther groups whose adherents believed the English Reformation was in danger.had ascended the throne in 1624, and he had married a Roman Catholic. Char ...
President of the United States... nderway from Hampton Roads on 16 December, Kentucky passed in review beforeTheodore Roosevelt as a unit in the Second Squadron. After calling at Trin ...
Menelik II... mpress Taytu Betul and the city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor. The name of the city (ኣዲስ ኣበባ) was taken from parts of the city called h ...
Cyrus the GreatMaka was an important early eastern satrapy of, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Makra corresponds to modern day Bahrai ...
Grant... l War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and, and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves, the Fou ...
Andrew Jackson... ed for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President, making Ingham one of Michigan's so-called Cabinet counties
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Matthias Corvinus of HungaryFrom, gun-founders, gold- and silversmiths and (Italian) master builders were ...
George II... amed after the George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, as suggested by King, who approved the royal patent on March 26, 1759. Montague was incorporat ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... g a hard-line stance in support of the Vietnam War. He contrasted President's decisive stance in Vietnam with the international failure to take preem ...
Zhou Enlai... treasure of the State and listed as a protected property by Chinese Premier. Anshan city government commissioned the carving which took a team of 120 ...
Hermeric... ere considered foederati and founded the Suebi Kingdom of Gallaecia. There,swore fealty to the Emperor in 410. Bracara Augusta, the modern city of Br ...
Frederick II... city, of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1242, during the war of Emperoragainst the Pope, the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried III, ordered the city ...
Lech Wałęsa... owerful supporter of the union and was greatly responsible for its success., who himself publicly displayed Catholic piety, confirmed the Pope's infl ...
Pelias#A daughter of, given by Jason in marriage to Canes, son of Cephalus and a king of Phoci ...
Charles IIAfter the Restoration, Kingand his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ...
John F. KennedyRobertson was President's personal choice to play him in 1963's PT 109 as a young Lieutenant PT b ...
Achilles... in some versions of the story on the pretense that she was to be married to). Iphigenia accepted her father's choice and was honored to be a part of ...
Chiang Kai-shek... ang Kai-shek, whom he taught to paint lotuses; and as personal physician toin Taiwan and perhaps earlier
Chandragupta Maurya... as far as India, where after two years of war he reached an agreement with, in which he exchanged his eastern territories for a considerable force o ...
Pope John Paul IIIn Solicitudo Rei Socialis, a major document of Catholic Social Teaching,identifies the concept of solidarity with the poor and marginalized as a c ...
King Edward VII... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland ofhis consort Alexandra of Denmark
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Mitt Romney... on Paul, but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow.ultimately won the state by a narrow margin
Bolesław III... with the ecclesiastical authority, and was expelled from the country. Afterdivided the country among his sons, internal fragmentation eroded the init ...
Sir Garfield Barwick... period his political views became more conservative. He became a friend of, the Liberal Attorney-General who became Chief Justice of the High Court ...
George W. Bush... e 2004 Presidential Election, In the 2004 presidential election, Republicanreceived 58.7% of the vote in Jackson Township (12,451 cast), ahead of Dem ...
King Edward VIIgranted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ...
Cephalus#A daughter of Pelias, given by Jason in marriage to Canes, son ofand a king of Phocis
Charles de Gaulle... known for its green tiled roof; Erell also designed a house in the city for. Other buildings include the Nabemba Tower and the Congressional Palace. ...
LysimachusFollowing his and' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in ...
Ronald Reagan... egan work on chemical disarmament in 1980. On April 4, 1984, U.S. Presidentcalled for an international ban on chemical weapons. U.S. President George ...
Francis II of the Two SiciliesWhen the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 (see) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the isla ...
One of the regional Piast dukes... eroded the initial Piast monarchy structure in the 12th and 13th centuries.invited the Teutonic Knights to help him fight the Baltic Prussian pagans, ...
Thomas Jefferson... riendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by John Adams andin 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its ratification by Congre ...
Miguel de la MadridMexican presidents, in the early 80s and Carlos Salinas de Gortari in the late 80s, started ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... rocities and ethnic cleansings in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Allied leaders,of the United States, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and Joseph S ...
Charles IA strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, England'spersecuted religious dissenters. Waves of repression led to the migration ...
Mary, Queen of Scots... t he could strike hard when necessary; and his action over the execution of, proved that he was willing to take on responsibilities from which the Qu ...
Jimmy Carter... sion was "firm, final, and unconditional." The eventual Democratic nominee,, built little by way of a relationship with Kennedy during his primary ca ...
Paul Volcker... former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair; Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehea ...
Newton’s... forces that Herbart attempted to explain by means of mathematical formulas.influence can be seen in Herbart’s beliefs about how forces mechanically i ...
James IIAfter the Restoration, King Charles II and his successorvisited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ...
Charlemagne... came part of the semifeudal Frankish Empire (which was ruled by the emperorfrom 771 to 814), due to the pressing danger posed by Avar tribes from the ...
Maximilian I... e Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor
John Adams... st non-broken friendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed byand Thomas Jefferson in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its r ...
Maria Leopoldina... he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Donaand thus a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza. His fa ...
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Alfred the Great... Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People attributed towhere the Jutes (iutarum, iutis) once are rendered as gēata (genitive) and ...
Criasus... era, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epidaurus and
Jean-Bertrand Aristide... g in the north of the country forced the resignation and exile of President. A provisional government took control with security provided by the Unit ...
Carlos Salinas de GortariMexican presidents Miguel de la Madrid, in the early 80s andin the late 80s, started implementing liberal economic strategies that wer ...
Queen Elizabeth... and pets. A Lakeland resident who mourned the passing of the swans wrote to. The royal family allowed the capture of two of the royal swans, and the ...
Frederick II of Prussia... 40, date at which the prince-bishop Georges-Louis de Berghes bought it from. By that time, the town was mainly known for its able craftsmen: ceramist ...
George Washington... zation of the U.S. federal government upon the 1787 Constitution, Presidentwrote a now venerated letter to the Sultan Sidi Mohamed strengthening the ...
William of Orange... s strategic position, Harwich was the target for the invasion of Britain byon November 11, 1688. However, unfavourable winds forced his fleet to sail ...
Bernard Landry... and the amalgamation of Quebec's larger cities undertaken by his successor. Other aspects of his legacy include the creation of a low-cost, universa ...
Charles V... ance. The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished byat the (1525)
U.S. President... ble to operate independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration ofBarack Obama announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan ...
George W. Bush... ers, for a turnout of 72.3%.. In the 2004 presidential election, Republicanreceived 55.2% of the vote (14,069 cast), ahead of Democrat John Kerry, wh ...
Philip III of Spain... e Spanish ambassador to England, who had secured a copy and passed it on to), drawn circa 1607 by the Jamestown settler Francis Nelson, also gives cr ...
Emperor ShōmuIn 744, Naniwa once again became the capital by order of. Naniwa ceased to be the capital in 745, when the Imperial Court moved ba ...
President of Poland... led coalition government was formed and in December 1990 Wałęsa was elected. Since then it has become a more traditional, liberal trade union
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas... 1988 were forecast to be very competitive and they were. Leftist candidate, son of Lázaro Cárdenas one of the most beloved Mexican presidents, creat ...
David I... augurated by Queen Margaret and carried through by her sons Alexander I and. Gradually the whole position passed into the hands of Thurgot and his su ...
Maulana Abul Kalam AzadHe is a descendant of the scholar and politicianand a second cousin to former Chairperson of Rajya Sabha Dr Najma Heptulla
Ferdinand II... onarchs, the recently enthroned Isabella I Queen of Castile and her husbandKing of Aragon. Although Columbus had presented his navigational plan to t ...
John Paul II... he limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI andcontinued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular churches, out of ove ...
TaranThose five novels detail the adventures of a young man named, who dreams of being a sword-bearing hero but has only the title Assistan ...
CharlesPhilip has four children with Elizabeth:, Anne, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, des ...
Barack Obama, Republican John McCain received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat, who received 33%. This gives Montague Township a Cook PVI of R+19
Premier... who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and itsis Wen Jiabao, who is also a senior member of the CPC Politburo Standing C ...
Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund... ismund was christened as the namesake of his mother's maternal grandfather,, who had died in 1437
Alfred the Great... the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw. He is mainly known for his conflict with
Gerald FordIn 1982, along with his friend, he co-founded the annual AEI World Forum
Yen Chia-kan... his son, and when he died in April 1975, the presidency was turned over toand Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang (he opt ...
Roman Emperor... uries, after Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the "" on December 25, 800, an act which eventually led to the formation of the ...
William of Orange... alace's antiquated state was addressed. England had two new joint monarchs,and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen Mary II. Within months of th ...
Zhou Enlai... In 1971, Whitlam flew to Beijing and met with Chinese officials, including. McMahon attacked Whitlam for the visit and claimed that the Chinese had ...
William HugginsIn 1868, Sirius became the first star to have its velocity measured. Sirexamined the spectrum of this star and observed a noticeable red shift. He ...
George WashingtonAccording to local tradition,spent the night in a local home, which still stands to this day. Supposedl ...
Vasily IIIIntermittently at war withof Muscovy, starting in 1507 (before his army was fully under his command) ...
Sthenelus... ughter of Iphis or Phylax and wife of Capaneus, with whom she gave birth to. Her husband was killed by a lightning bolt at the siege of Thebes and sh ...
Mary II... t monarchs, William of Orange and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen. Within months of their accession they embarked on a massive rebuilding p ...
Emperor Wu of Liu Song... use the general Liu Yu seized the throne from Emperor Gong of Jin, becoming(reigned 420–422 AD), starting the Southern and Northern Dynasties period
Getúlio Vargas... quarela do Brasil, by Ary Barroso, followed by Carmen Miranda (supported bygovernment and the US Good Neighbor policy), which led samba to the United ...
Philip V... duced to revolt against Roman political control, while the Macedonian king,pledged his support to Hannibal – thus initiating the First Macedonian War ...
Hugo Chávez... Colombia) and the election of a sequence of left wing presidents began with' victory on the 1998 presidential election in Venezuela. As a matter of f ...
George Bush... later, via Maryland's Jerome Segal, the group sent a letter to US Presidentstating they "we don't mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, when Presidentprovided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that th ...
Isaac I Komnenos... tine IX and again under Constantine X—a brief two year rule of reform underonly delaying the decay of the Byzantine military. It was under Constantin ...
Lech Wałęsa... organization NSZZ Solidarity. It officially registered on 10 November 1980.and others formed a broad anti-Soviet social movement ranging from people ...
Daumantas... and was assassinated in 1263 by his nephew Treniota and another rival, Duke. His three immediate successors were assassinated as well. The disorder w ...
Jacques Chirac... licly between the two right-wing candidates, his two former Prime Ministersand Raymond Barre. This attitude was interpreted as indicating that he wan ...
Lázaro Cárdenas... ry competitive and they were. Leftist candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, son ofone of the most beloved Mexican presidents, created a successful campaign ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... of customary international law. At the conference, United States Presidentand Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared the Good Neighbor Policy, whi ...
Princess of Wales... as Boots the Chemists, which was opened in November 1981 by the Prince and. It has entrances located opposite Chesterfield Market and escalators lea ...
George Alfred Barnard... n the subject while reviewing a work written in 1755 by Thomas Simpson, butthinks he learned mathematics and probability from a book by de Moivre. Hi ...
John F. KennedyIn the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled ...
Barack Obama... ith the others being Samuel Tilden, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and
Richard Nixon... at the Chinese had manipulated him. This attack backfired when US Presidentannounced that he would visit China the following year. His National Secur ...
Paul von Hindenburg... erman Chief of the General Staff, Erich Falkenhayn, was replaced by General, with General Erich Ludendorff as his deputy, but in effect the operation ...
Lech Wałęsa... activities. In September 1981 Solidarity's first national congress electedas a president and adopted a republican program, the "Self-governing Repub ...
Dionisio de Herrera... federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras,, a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitu ...
Ronald ReaganIn the United States presidentattempted to move the United States back towards a hard anti-communist lin ...
Tewodros II... the United Kingdom presented Ras Tafari with the imperial crown of Emperorfor its safe return to Empress Zewditu. The crown had been taken by Robert ...
Sir Jeremy GreenstockBritish diplomat and former British ambassador to the UNstated in early 2009 that the Hamas charter was "drawn up by a Hamas-linke ...
Ronald ReaganHart has called herself a fan of Peggy Noonan and. Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut
King Charles I... setts Bay Company in 1628, he became involved in 1629 when the anti-Puritanbegan a crackdown on Nonconformist religious thought. In October 1629 he w ...
Greco-BactrianIn the Indo-Greek andkingdoms, Greco-Buddhism was spreading and Greek missionaries would play a ...
Brian Cowen... on of the in 2005.In response to the Ferns Report, Ireland's Prime Ministerstated that he was "ashamed by the extent, length, and cruelty" of child a ...
Isaac Newton... lished anonymously in 1736), in which he defended the logical foundation of's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... t the Axis powers. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and Presidentwere determined not to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. They met ...
Princess Elizabeth... Navy at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with, the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI. During Wo ...
Saddam Hussein... rab Emirates. The sense of regional uncertainty was further heightened when's Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the 1991 Persian Gulf War
PresidentialHumboldt is a Democratic county inand congressional elections. The last Republican presidential candidate to ...
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe fight for the Republican (GOP) nomination was between General, who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; ...
Paul VI... abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popesand John Paul II continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular chu ...
Sir Christopher Wren... taining only Henry VIII's Great Hall. The country's most eminent architect,, was called upon to draw the plans, while the master of works was to be W ...
Mieszko I of Poland... es, the Dziadoszanie and the Trzebowianie, whose lands were subdued by Kingabout 990. It is unclear which of the two tribes, if either, founded the t ...
Charles III of Spain... is still colloquially named Ciutat ("city") in Catalan. In the 18th centuryremoved interdiction of commerce with Spanish colonies in America and the ...
Stephen StiglerIn his later years he took a deep interest in probability.feels that he became interested in the subject while reviewing a work writ ...
Francisco Morazán... aders and brought the collapse of the Federation from 1838 to 1839. General, a Honduran national hero, led unsuccessful efforts to maintain the feder ...
George FinchThe British returned for a 1922 expedition.("The other George") climbed using oxygen for the first time. He ascended ...
Alexios I Komnenos... of had been lost to the empire. It took a decade of internal strife before(1081 to 1118) restored stability to the empire. Historian Thomas Asbridge ...
Ronald Reagan(a) Mike Padden, a Republican faithless elector from Washington, gaveone electoral vote
President... state body) has been described as a "rubber stamp" body. China's incumbentis Hu Jintao, who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of ...
Charles Carroll of Carrollton... luence of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers. It was formed in 1838 and named for, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. The populatio ...
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor... ts marketplace are again mentioned in an 887 document. By the 13th century,and Count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332, John the B ...
Francisco MorazánGen., Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835–1839, whose figure embodies the ide ...
Al Gore... The trophy was handed to captain Dunga from the hands of the vice-president. The Brazilian national team dedicated the title to the deceased Brazilia ...
Newton... e major centers for the performance and reporting of experimental work, andwas himself an influential experimenter, particularly in the field of opti ...
EdwardPhilip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Anne, Andrew and. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and El ...
Jimmy CarterHowever, in December 1978, U.S. President,announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the ...
Anthony Greenwood... nding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor,, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations ...
George W. Bush... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republicanreceived 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ...
Pedro IThrough his father, Emperor, he was a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portug ...
Diocletian... om 286 to 305. He shared the latter title with his co-emperor and superior,, whose political brain complemented Maximian's military brawn. Maximian e ...
Woodrow Wilson... d in the creation of a National Park Service. On August 25, 1916, Presidentsigned a bill that mandated the agency "to conserve the scenery and the na ...
President... States and Saudi Arabia while trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces. AfterNajibullah's resignation in 1992 and the end of Soviet support, the milita ...
Abraham Lincoln... vision for a "Medal of Honor", was signed into law (12Stat329) by Presidenton December 21, 1861. The medal was "to be bestowed upon such petty office ...
Louis XIIIconferred on him the title of First Painter in Ordinary. In two years at P ...
Marcus Aurelius... the Goths. According to the historian Eutropius, the forces of the Emperorbattled against the Marcomannic confederation for three years at the fortr ...
Freeway Face-Off... ay Series" also inspired the official name of the regions' NHL rivalry: the
Anthony Hope... kshire in 1932. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Grahame's cousin, also a successful author, wrote his epitaph, which reads
John A. Macdonald... Freeway (Hwy 401) is named after Cartier and fellow Father of Confederation, as are Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International Airport and the Macdonal ...
Mahatma Gandhi... 's missionary work had taken him abroad where he had met and conferred with. When he was a student at Boston University, King often visited Thurman, ...
Bill Clinton... na Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by
Orestes... , in book IV of the Aeneid, references the House of Atreus and specificallyin describing the death of
Herbert HooverOn March 3, 1933, Presidentsigned the Reorganization Act of 1933. The act would allow the President t ...
Romanos IV Diogenes... ). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperorplayed an important role in undermining Byzantine authority in Anatolia an ...
Woodrow Wilson... nation ... of rival claims." Great Britain reacted favourably but Presidentrejected the plan. Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary were favorable but Germany ...
Barack Obama... e 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported Democratin the 2008 presidential election. Dunst revealed that she supported Obama ...
David I... -Norman monastic architecture. The Abbey built between 1128 and 1150, underwas a reconstruction of the Benedictine chapel dedicated to the Holy Trini ...
Suharto... b speech while visiting Washington, and a statement to Indonesian Presidentthat Australia was a "West European nation", also damaged the government
John Pardoe... been ex-members of Mebyon Kernow, including Peter Bessell (Liberal Party),(Liberal Party), David Mudd (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal Part ...
George V... Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to Kingof the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological Garden (Jardin Zoologique) of ...
Charles Clarke... y Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister
Cyrus the Younger... ap Tissaphernes was lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of. Pliny tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the ...
Lee Teng-hui... l Wang Sheng, to Paraguay as an ambassador (November 1983), and hand-pickedas vice-president of the Republic of China (formally elected May 1984), fi ...
LouisFor some years after Louis' death in 1294 his sons Rudolph I and, afterwards the emperor Louis IV, ruled their duchy in common; but as the ...
Najibullah... d Saudi Arabia while trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces. After President's resignation in 1992 and the end of Soviet support, the military dissolv ...
Policarpo Bonilla... stry in Honduras was growing rapidly and the peaceful trasfer of power fromto General Terencio Sierra would mark the first time in decades that such ...
Charles I... e on the North wall. A brass to Veare Jenyns (1644) relates to the Court of, while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with Sarah, Duch ...
Maria of TverIvan's son with, Ivan the Young, died in 1490, leaving from his marriage with Helen of Mo ...
Pope John XXIII... ix cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons; however,began to exceed the overall limit of 70, and this continued under his succ ...
Huan Xuan... otably won the Battle of Fei River in 383 AD. In 404 AD, he helped suppress's rebellion, leading to his dominance over the Eastern Jin court. In orde ...
Bill Clinton... rétien was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he andwere known to be golfing partners. Their governments had many small trade ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... tates government. It wasn't until later that summer when the new President,, made use of this power. Deputy Director Horace M. Albright had suggested ...
Ottokar II of Bohemia... in the 13th century, Austria came briefly under the rule of the Czech King. Contesting the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg as emperor, Ottokar was ...
AnnePhilip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles,, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendan ...
Tu'i Kanokupolu... was founded in the 10th century AD and expanded between 1200 and 1500. Theis the title held by Tongan monarchs since 1600. George Tupou II of Tonga ...
Barack Obama... n, Republican John McCain received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat, who received 40%. This gives Hampton Township a Cook PVI of R+14
Terencio Sierra... rapidly and the peaceful trasfer of power from Policarpo Bonilla to Generalwould mark the first time in decades that such a constitutional transition ...
George W. Bush... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republicanreceived 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ...
Lech Wałęsa... t emerged on August 31, 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of. It was the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw ...
George W. BushRelations between Chrétien andwere strained throughout their overlapping times in office. Jean Chrétien ...
King Kamehameha III... waiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii.established the first Hawaiian-language constitution in 1839 and 1840
Palpatine... returned to his command as Rogue Leader to battle against Thrawn, Krennel,'s clones and lead the team to other battles
Franklin D. RooseveltThe administration of Presidentsubjected Mellon to intense investigation of his personal income tax retur ...
Barack Obama... to obtain a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, untilwon about 53% of the vote 32 years later. Carter is one of five Democrats ...
Álvaro UribeThe government of Colombian Presidenthas resisted criticism of aerial spraying of coca and poppy and has seen m ...
Pope John Paul II... sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese. On December 13, 2002accepted Law's resignation as Archbishop and reassigned him to an administ ...
George Tupou II of Tonga... 1500. The Tu'i Kanokupolu is the title held by Tongan monarchs since 1600.became the first king of Tonga in 1893
Ladislaus IV of Hungary... defeated and killed by Rudolf, who took Austria with the assistance of King
Zahir Shah... g Amanullah Khan's rule in the early 20th century, and upgraded during King's forty year rule. From 1978 to 1992, the Soviet-backed Afghan army fough ...
Yen Chia-kan... the Republic of China by the National Assembly after the term of Presidenton May 20, 1978. He was reelected to another term in 1984. At that time, t ...
Stanisław Wojciechowski... staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting Presidentand overpowering the troops loyal to him. Piłsudski was supported by sever ...
Seru Epenisa CakobauFrom the 1850stried to unite the Fijian Islands, and became the first Tui Viti, or king ...
Saddam Hussein... licence, or in some cases cloned, on several continents. Former Iraqi ruleroften carried a Browning Hi-Power. Former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi car ...
Bill Clinton... ber 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-Presidentthat, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts ...
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough... of Charles I, while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with. Judge John Heath, after whom Judge Heath Lane was named, is also buried ...
John of Austria... nd others, under the command of King Philip II's illegitimate half brother,) that defeated the Ottoman fleet on October 7 in the Gulf of Lepanto near ...
President of the United StatesHerbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st(1929–33). Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author ...
Edward VI... any historic events. In 1537, the King's much desired male heir, the future, was born at the palace and the child's mother, Jane Seymour, died there ...
Alexios Komnenos... urks ransomed him back to his wife, and it was not before the young generalpursued him that he was captured. These events all interacted to create a ...
Manuel Bonilla... p down after a new president was elected in 1902 and would be overthrown byin 1903. After toppling Sierra, Bonilla, a conservative, imprisoned ex-pre ...
George W. Bush... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republicanreceived 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ...
Charlemagne... n in northern Germany (see Polabian Slavs). For decades they were allies ofin his wars against Germanic Saxons and Slavic Veleti. In 798 the Obodrite ...
Jacques Chirac... eater European union. In 1978, he was for this reason the obvious target of's Call of Cochin, denouncing the "party of the foreigners"
Princess George of Greece... led in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud in a house lent to them by his aunt,
J. William Fulbright... . Dever of Massachusetts, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, and Senatorof Arkansas
Prince Charles... Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit".wrote to him: "It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dr ...
Ronald ReaganRelations between Brian Mulroney andwere famously close. This relationship resulted in negotiations on a poten ...
George H. W. Bush... r policy goals of Mulroney, that would be finalized under the presidency of
Barack Obama... d the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2008, the county voted to establish aDay, a legal holiday, every second Monday of November
Mithridates I of Parthia... Much of the eastern part of the empire was conquered by the Parthians underin the mid-2nd century BC, yet the Seleucid kings continued to rule a rump ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and. At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ...
Louis the German... ermanic (primarily Bavarian) ascendancy. In 843 it passed into the hands of(804-876). In 887 Arnulf of Carinthia (850-899), a bastard grandson of Lou ...
Bill Clinton... year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former Presidentinto the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at ...
President... tourage he even included a pride of lions, which he distributed as gifts toAlexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... with demands that could not be met. In 1952, with the support of President, he began Mission 66, a ten-year effort to upgrade and expand park facili ...
Douglas Fairbanks... extremely well preserved. Included were films by Pearl White, Harold Lloyd,, and Lon Chaney. These films are now housed at the Library of Congress. T ...
Fernando Henrique Cardoso... authors it is more humane and efficient. The signers of this document are:, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Varg ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine... that Marie de France was known at the court of King Henry II and his wife,. A contemporary of Marie, the English poet Denis Piramus, mentions in his ...
George V... he London premiere of Der Schwanendreher when he heard news of the death of. He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra in tribu ...
Maria of Tver... the family circumstances of Ivan III. After the death of his first consort,(1467), at the suggestion of Pope Paul II (1469), who hoped thereby to bin ...
Lady Jane Grey... d Mary, the remaining children of Henry VIII, from the throne, in favour of.) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: "Seeing ...
King William IIIWilliam Prince of Orange (afterwards) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, an ...
President... has been a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, whenDwight D. Eisenhower provided (via executive order) various measures desig ...
Alp Arslan... dan Savaşı) was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks led byon August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turke ...
Emperor Wu of Liang... pass power of rule onto their heirs to continue their dynasty successfully.(502–549 AD), however, was the most notable ruler of his age, being a patr ...
John of Bohemia... ts city rights about 1295. In 1329 Duke John of Ścinawa paid homage to King, who upon the death of John's brother Duke Przemko II of Głogów in 1331 i ...
Kamehameha I... nai to their own devices. Life on Lānai remained relatively calm until Kingor Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao took control, slaughtering people on every part ...
Titus... after the event about the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman general(see Dating of the Gospel of Mark)
Emperor KōtokuIn 645,built his palace, the Naniwa Nagara-Toyosaki Palace in Osaka, making this ...
Arnulf of Carinthia... ancy. In 843 it passed into the hands of Louis the German (804-876). In 887(850-899), a bastard grandson of Louis the German, assumed his title of Ki ...
Calvin Coolidge... ates Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubri ...
Ernesto Zedillo... and efficient. The signers of this document are: Fernando Henrique Cardoso,, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Moisés ...
Henry II of England... welfth century; they are dedicated to a "noble king", usually assumed to be, or possibly his eldest son, Henry the Young King. Another of her works, ...
Barack Obama, Republican John McCain received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat, who received 33%. This gives Fredon Township a Cook PVI of R+19
James II... ow Revolution House, was the site of a meeting between conspirators againstin 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, ...
Queen Mary I... rd VI, and then by both his daughters in turn. It was to Hampton Court that(Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King Philip II of Spain to spend ...
Earls of Danby... n conspirators against James II in 1688. Among those meeting there were theand Devonshire, commemorated by the ducal crowns around the supporters' ne ...
Robert Stephenson... ology. It was based on experience gained from earlier designs by George and, including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher (1814); Locomotion No 1 (1 ...
James I... -twice-removed, the Scottish King, James VI, who became known in England asof the House of Stuart
Queen Olga of Greece... Sophie. He was baptised into the Greek Orthodox Church. His godparents wereand the Mayor of Corfu
Charles IV... El Kébir. Both cities were held until 1792, when they were sold by the kingto the Bey of Algiers
David Penhaligon... ll (Liberal Party), John Pardoe (Liberal Party), David Mudd (Conservative),(Liberal Party) and currently Andrew George (Liberal Democrats
José Santos ZelayaNicaragua's powerful Presidentsaw this friendship pact as an alliance to counter Nicaragua and began to ...
Woodrow WilsonUnited States Presidentresponded to the Columbus raid by sending 10,000 troops under Brigadier Ge ...
Sparta... wed the treaty with the Roman Republic and exchanged friendly messages withand other places. However, one should note that the documents referring to ...
Tigranes the Great... ntinued to rule a rump state from Syria until the invasion by Armenian kingand their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey
Catherine of Aragon... e mainly owed his immunity. He had, moreover, had no part in the divorce ofor in the humiliation of Mary during Henry's reign, and he made no scruple ...
Dyggvi... turluson, Hel is referred to, though never by name. In chapter 17, the kingdies of sickness. A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the b ...
Basil II... ed: Prince Mikhail Andreevich of Vereia, who had been awarded a Appanage by. In 1478 he was pressured into giving Belozersk to Ivan who got all of Mi ...
Henry the Young King... ng", usually assumed to be Henry II of England, or possibly his eldest son,. Another of her works, the Fables, is dedicated to a "Count William", who ...
William Howard Taft... ent of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high milit ...
Bill Clinton... counties, its voters often favor Republican and conservative issues. Whiledid manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, Georg ...
Pope Paul VI... claration on Christian Education. It was promulgated on October 28, 1965 by, following approval by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,290 to 35
Roman EmperorMaximian (; c. 250 – c. July 310) wasfrom 286 to 305. He was Caesar from 285 to 286, then Augustus from 286 to ...
Charles IKing James was succeeded in 1625 by his son, the ill-fated. For this king, Hampton Court was to become both his palace and his priso ...
King John II of Portugal... later India. In 1485, Christopher Columbus unsuccessfully tried to persuade(João II) to sponsor an expedition to Asia, meant to be reached by sailing ...
Emperor Wen of Sui... the military power amassed in the north by Yang Jian, who declared himselfand invaded the south to reunify China
George W. Bush... linton did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996,strongly carried Franklin County in 2000 and 2004 and like many of the rur ...
Patrick Hillery... atened to tear Fianna Fáil apart. Lynch, and another favourite of Lemass's,, ruled themselves out of the leadership election from the very beginning, ...
Theodore Roosevelt... passive. The stigma began to fall away in the early 1900s when the popularwas regularly photographed wearing eyeglasses, and in the 1910s when popul ...
François Mitterrand... sign competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president. Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engi ...
Frederick II... g part in German affairs during the early years of the reign of the emperor, and died (assassinated) at Kelheim in September 1231. His son Otto II, c ...
Thomas Jefferson... on County was formed on January 21, 1839. It was named for the US President
Alberto Fujimori... FREDEMO) coalition, advocating neoliberal reforms, but lost the election to. He has subsequently supported moderate conservative candidates until the ...
Władysław JagiełłoIn 1392, the city received an important trade privilege from king, and with the coming of the peace between Poland and Lithuania developed ...
Valens... anaric gained the advantage, and Fritigern asked for Roman aid. The Emperorand the Thracian field army intervened, Valens and Fritigern defeated Atha ...
Charles of Héristal... e major cities of Tongeren, Maastricht, and Liège. Pippin was the father of, victor of the decisive Battle of Tours that stopped the Arab-Muslim adva ...
Mitt Romney... rizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Governor(R-Massachusetts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while fo ...
Saddam... as an “anti-American radical” who “routinely repeats the propaganda of theregime” and, along with all of the 99 other professors in his book, , Horo ...
Leo the Armenian... in the air, Michael preempted events by abdicating in favor of the generaland becoming a monk (under the name Athanasios). His sons were castrated a ...
Pygmalion... s to steer her onto the path of morality. It constitutes a variation of thestory
George W. Bush... y, especially in state and federal elections. In 2004, Republican Presidentwon the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Demo ...
Barack Obama... an John Warner. Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democratin 2008, after being won by Republican candidates in the previous ten pres ...
President of IrelandIn 1959 de Valera was electedand Seán Lemass became the new Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader. Lynch was ...
James Burrill Angell... gress to Chinese immigration led President Rutherford B. Hayes to authorizeto renegotiate the treaty in 1880. The treaty was amended to suspend, but ...
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck... than wait until the promulgation of the new constitution in 2008. His son,, became King upon his abdication
John Mauchly... ght by various parties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued toand J. Presper Eckert, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Ra ...
Alp Arslan... d another brother, Andronikos. When Romanos IV was defeated and captured byof the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in August 1071, Michael VII ...
Cyrus the Great... work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king
Rutherford B. Hayes... was encouraged. Opposition in Congress to Chinese immigration led Presidentto authorize James Burrill Angell to renegotiate the treaty in 1880. The t ...
Konstantios Doukas... throne late in 1059, together with or shortly before his newly born brother. When Constantine X died in 1067, Michael VII was 17 years old and should ...
Richard NixonA notable event of the 1952 campaign concerned a scandal that emerged when, Eisenhower's running mate, was accused by several newspapers of receivin ...
Eudokia MakrembolitissaMichael VII was the eldest son of Constantine X Doukas and, and was born c. 1050, in Constantinople. He had been associated with his ...
Barack Obama... tchell County was the whitest county in the country, at 99.27%, to vote forin the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while J ...
Albert, Duke of PrussiaThe Polish wars against the Teutonic Knights ended in 1525, when, their marshal (and Sigismund's nephew), converted to Lutheranism, secula ...
Joseph Locke... ar driven by his brother Robert Sr. and Rocket driven by assistant engineer. The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ...
King Henry I... nes, created 1st Baron de Louis Dessalines on 8 April 1811, aide-de-camp to, Privy Councilor, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War between 1811 a ...
John F. Kennedy... on and received an unexpected boost after the assassination of US President. As a result, the Coalition easily defeated Labor. Whitlam had hoped Calw ...
ElizabethIn 1613, his sistermarried Frederick V, Elector Palatine and moved to Heidelberg. In 1617 the ...
Fidel Castro... osition. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of, Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with the Cuban dictator and his a ...
Vladimir PutinTereshkova was invited to Prime Minister's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo for the celebration of her 70th birthday. Wh ...
William and Mary... rother George, who fled to France and became a wine merchant. However, whencame to the throne and the new Act of Settlement required all ministers to ...
Xiao Fangzhi... hen Baxian and Wang Sengbian set up the last surviving son of Emperor Yuan,, as Liang ruler, but he was not given the imperial title. After some defe ...
George W. Bush... ps of Streisand's heated exchange with a supporter of former U.S. presidentwere sampled in the 2009 Lucian Piane dance song "Bale Out", making it sou ...
Bona Sforza... humanism and the revival of classical antiquity. He and his third consort,, daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan, were both patrons of Renaissa ...
Justinian IIIn 710,demanded in an iussio that Constantine appear before the emperor in Consta ...
King James II... now Lakeville Road. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, asand his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland
Domitian... rian as the son of divus Trajan. By the end of the 1st century, the emperorwas being called "dominus et deus" i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman ...
Emperor Frederick IThe struggle for its possession continued until 1156, when, in his desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Ba ...
Mary Tudor... crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII and
Grace Kelly... f Hadleyville, New Mexico Territory, has just married pacifist Quaker Amy () and turned in his badge. He intends to become a storekeeper elsewhere. S ...
Hamid Karzai... al unity. The title of the 'Father of the Nation' dissolved with his death., a prominent figure from the Popalzai clan, became the president of Afgha ...
Abba Eban... d the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and Yigal Allon, while it was opposed byand Pinhas Sapir. After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bl ...
Bolesław I Chrobry... the region of Upper Lusatia, it became part of the Kingdom of Poland during's conquest of Lusatia. After his death the town fell to the Margraviate o ...
Holy Roman EmperorIn 1505,Maximilian I established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz v ...
Alexander the Great... s a Greek-Macedonian state that was created out of the eastern conquests of. At the height of its power, it included central Anatolia, the Levant, Me ...
Holy Roman Emperor... ia Theresa's death in 1780, she was succeeded by her son Joseph II, alreadysince Francis I's death in 1765. A reformer herself, Maria Theresa always ...
Barack Obama... of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored John McCain overin 2008
Henry VIII... loyalty to the crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon,and Mary Tudor
William I... liam V, Prince of Orange was handed over to the Dutch state by his son king. This collection formed the basis of the Royal Cabinet of Paintings of ar ...
President... legraph Company v. Oregon, 223 U.S. 118 in 1912 (Zimmerman, December 1999).Theodore Roosevelt, in his "Charter of Democracy" speech to the 1912 Ohio ...
Jerry Jones... s dismissed as head coach, shortly after H.R. "Bum" Bright sold the team to. Bright had suffered major losses in his banking, real estate and oil bus ...
Trajan... to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus and Hadrian as the son of divus. By the end of the 1st century, the emperor Domitian was being called "do ...
King James VII... ith his father. These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting forin 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to ...
Thomas Mayr-Harting... on, and the current Ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations,. People who have lived in Epsom at some time include writer Isabella Beet ...
Conrad III... obtained the Duchy of Saxony in 1137. Alarmed at this prince's power, Kingrefused to allow two duchies to remain in the same hands, and declared Hen ...
Sukarno... 961 election, events began to turn against Labor. When Indonesian Presidentannounced that he intended to take over West New Guinea as the colonial Du ...
Edward VI... ven some who had the power to relax restrictions on the press at the end of's reign. The first edition may have had little or only partial commercial ...
Alfred Thayer Mahan... ting vote from the United States. The American representative, Navy Captain, justified voting against the measure on the grounds that "the inventiven ...
Fritigern... vehemently opposed, fearing that Christianity would destroy Gothic culture., his rival, was an Arian and had the favor of Valens, who shared his reli ...
Aegialeus... y on the advice of Tiresias. The only Argive hero that fell in this war was, the son of Adrastus. After having built a temple of Nemesis in the neigh ...
Jonathan Edwards... undaries of Massachusetts, the town seceded and became part of Connecticut.preached his famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" in Enfi ...
Hillary Rodham ClintonThen-U.S. Senator(D-New York) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then- ...
Barack Obama... is one of the Democratic-leaning counties in Central Florida. It voted for59% to 40% in 2008. However, the county also voted for Republicans Richard ...
Henry III... ter whose death in 1026 it passed successively to Henry, afterwards Emperor, and then to another member of the family of Luxembourg, ruling as Duke H ...
Hadrian... emperor from 14-37 AD) came to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus andas the son of divus Trajan. By the end of the 1st century, the emperor Dom ...
King JohnThe town received its market charter in the year 1204 fromand around 250 stalls can still be found in the town centre every Monday, ...
Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng... In the context of weak democratic institutions at independence, Tutsi Kingestablished a constitutional monarchy comprising equal numbers of Hutus an ...
Richard Nixon... that were savage, biting satires of politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the War on Drugs
Gofraid ua Ímair... ber of the Norse-Gael Uí Ímair dynasty, was King of Dublin from 934 to 941., his father, held both Dublin and York until Athelstan of England expelle ...
Barack Obama... independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration of U.S. Presidentannounced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and p ...
Lord John RussellThroughout the early years of the war, British foreign secretary, Emperor Napoleon III of France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime M ...
Lee Teng-hui... their electoral campaign on Chiang's successor, President and KMT Chairmanbecause of Lee's support of Taiwan for Taiwanese. Chiang Ching-kuo, howeve ...
Anne Boleyn... possession of the Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family wereand Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women wer ...
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck... ould be guided by India in its foreign policy. Succeeded in 1952 by his son, Bhutan began to slowly emerge from its isolation and began a program of ...
Valens... ed history in 369, when he engaged in battle with the Eastern Roman Emperorand ultimately negotiated a favorable peace for his people. During his rei ...
Lyndon Johnson... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county wasin 1964, although Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 an ...
Richard NixonFollowing Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senatorof California as Eisenhower's running mate; it was felt that Nixon's crede ...
Davies Gilbert... Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822), William B. Sandys's Selection of ...
Tiberius... to the "position of emperor" rather than the person of the emperor. Later,(emperor from 14-37 AD) came to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus a ...
Chiang Kai-shekUnlike his father, Chiang Ching-kuo built himself a folk reputation that remains generally ...
Charles VII of France... that the town took on a new lease of life, as the heir apparent, the future, had sought refuge in 1418 in the province. The town remained faithful to ...
Napoleon III... e majority of his life. However, he decided to live in exile as a result of's Coup d'état at the end of 1851
Lech Wałęsa... st 31, workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, led by an electrician named, signed a 21-point agreement with the government that ended their strike. ...
Thomas JeffersonWhen Presidentcommissioned the building of the National Road from Baltimore to St. Louis ...
Xiao Yan... ed after Xiao Baojun killed his prime minister Xiao Yi, leading his brotherto revolt under the banner of Xiao Baojun's brother who was declared Emper ...
Charles... led royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to James on's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasant and agr ...
Charles II... so referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared. Charles's son,, who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up th ...
Maria of Alania... an was undermined by the Caesar John Doukas, and Nikephoros instead married. They married in contravention of church canons, as Maria was still at th ...
PresidentialButte is a Republican-leaning county inand congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ...
Amphiaraus... d fallen in the war against Thebes to make a new attack upon that city, andnow declared that the gods approved of the undertaking, and promised succe ...
Henry VIII... other parts were added and a stable form finally appeared in 1540. In 1542authorised it as the sole Latin grammar textbook to be used in education a ...
Augustus... ius" (divus Iulius). His adopted son, Octavian (better known by the title "" given to him 15 years later, in 27 BC) thus became known as "divi Iuli f ...
Constantine IV... there in 680/681. He also delivered a combative letter from Pope Leo II toin 682. He met and developed a rapport with Prince Justinian, the heir app ...
King Louis XIV... ater, Racine accepted a position as a royal historiographer in the court of, alongside his friend Boileau. He kept this position in spite of the mino ...
Henry IV... Henry VII. In 1061, Empress Agnes, mother of and regent for the German king, entrusted the duchy to Otto of Nordheim
Jigme Singye WangchuckIn 1972,ascended the throne at age 20. He emphasized modern education, decentraliz ...
President William McKinley... chair was carried out at Auburn Prison. In 1901, Leon Czolgosz, assassin of, was executed at Auburn Prison. A riot occurred when the Prisoners rebell ...
Theodosius... y fleeing to Caucaland in the Carpathians, Athanaric was warmly received byin Constantinople in 381, where he signed a treaty of friendship with the ...
James... d the exiled royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary toon Charles's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasa ...
Eudokia Makrembolitissa... is position, on the death of his second wife Nikephoros III sought to marry, the mother of Michael VII and the widow of Constantine X and Romanos IV. ...
William Ewart Gladstone... conclusion". It was introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom byto overcome the obstruction of the Irish nationalist party and was made pe ...
King James I... and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under. His daughter Anne became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of ...
Éamon de Valera... rs, Lynch became speech writer and research assistant for the party leader,
Francis I of France... rgs and Russia, in 1524 Sigismund signed a Franco-Polish alliance with King. The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by Ch ...
Shaka... , the region was invaded by Mzilikazi, originally a lieutenant of Zulu Kingwho was pushed from his own territories to the west by the Zulu armies. Af ...
Bahadur Shah II... afire, and marched into the Red Fort, where they asked the Mughal emperor,, to become their leader and reclaim his throne. The emperor was reluctant ...
Odin... dda book Gylfaginning, Hel is described as having been appointed by the godas ruler of a realm of the same name, located in Niflheim. In the same sou ...
Charles VIII of France... nso. The most doubtful passage in his diplomatic career is when he welcomedupon the entry of that king into Naples in 1495, thus showing that he was ...
Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao... devices. Life on Lānai remained relatively calm until King Kamehameha I ortook control, slaughtering people on every part of the island. So many wer ...
Wojciech Jaruzelski... g Poland's border in December 1980. In February 1981, Defense Minister Gen.assumed the position of Prime Minister, and in October 1981, was named Fir ...
Severus... Galerius refused to recognize him, but failed to unseat him. Galerius sentagainst Maxentius, but during the campaign, Severus' armies, previously un ...
Chen Shui-bianUnder President, pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo and his father gradually disappeared from p ...
Causantín mac ÁedaAmlaíb married the daughter of. He also allied himself with Owen I of Strathclyde. In 937, Amlaíb led hi ...
Grace Kelly... erican Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and. The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a ...
Ntare V... nd intellectuals. In 1966, King Mwambutsa IV was deposed by his son, Prince, who himself was deposed by his prime minister Capt. Michel Micombero in ...
Xiao Daocheng... peror Houfei of Liu Song. The political situation was volatile. The generalslowly gained power and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his ...
Domitian... vely, associated with Emperor Augustus. Later, it was also used to refer to. There are textual and contextual arguments for and against the translati ...
Catherine Howard... he Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were Anne Boleyn and, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women were nieces of Thomas H ...
Theseus... Polynices and was put to death, but Adrastus escaped to Athens to petition, the city's king, to attack Thebes and force the return of the bodies of ...
Elizabeth I... g the burgesses of Chesterfield the same privileges as those of Nottingham.granted a charter of incorporation in 1594, creating a corporation consist ...
Elizabeth I of EnglandCharles was a weak and sickly infant. Whendied in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as Jame ...
John the Blind... man Emperor and Count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332,, his son, granted the city its charter and had it encircled by defensive ...
Kublai Khan... system named Örtöö within the Mongol Empire. During the Yuan Dynasty under, this system also covered the territory of China. Postal stations were us ...
Bush... it favors fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that the Clinton andadministrations publicly recognized through Presidential Task Force Report ...
Mzilikazi... long distance direct and indirect trade. In 1817, the region was invaded by, originally a lieutenant of Zulu King Shaka who was pushed from his own t ...
Princess Elizabeth... of Northumberland had employed Cecil in the administration of the lands of. Before Mary died he was a member of the "old flock of Hatfield", and fro ...
Jimmy Carter... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county wasin 1976
Casimir III... centre of Poland back then. Because of its strategic location, in 1343 kingsigned there a peace treaty with the Teutonic Order. As a royal town, the ...
Ferdinand II... shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of Isabella I and, Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus reached land in t ...
Charles II... Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Dukemarried Frederick William III of Hohenzollern and in 1797 became queen con ...
Pepys... Temple, ed. by TP Courtenay; C North's Examen, 26; Dalrymple's Mem. (1790);'s Diary (17 Feb. 1663); Cal. of Clarendon St. Pap. iii. 295; Carte's Lif ...
Otto II... , succeeded him, but in 974 he became involved in a conspiracy against King. The rising occurred because the king had granted the duchy of Swabia to ...
Ferdinand I... King Louis II of Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács, Silesia was inherited by, placing Opole under the sovereignty of the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria. ...
Augustus... "son of a god" was specially, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor. Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian. There are textual and cont ...
Alexander the Great... ures, were considered sons of gods such as Zeus, from around 360 BC onwardsmay have implied he was a demigod by using the title "Son of Ammon–Zeus". ...
Harry S. Truman... lay and film are a one-man show about former President of the United States. Give 'em Hell, Harry! stars James Whitmore and was directed by Steve Bin ...
President of Harvard... in honor of him and of his descendant John Winthrop, who briefly served as
Władysław Łokietek... Voivodeship, one of the provincial capitals Voivodeships of Poland, by king. A notable centre of trade, Kalisz was also located more or less in the c ...
Isabella I... rope to find a shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing ofand Ferdinand II, Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus r ...
King James I... to return without even making it to Roanoke Island. Having been arrested byfor treason, Raleigh was unable to send any further missions
George W. Bush... egimental Combat Team, among them Senator Daniel Inouye. In 2005, Presidentpresented the Medal of Honor to Jewish veteran and Holocaust survivor Tibo ...
Mohammed Nadir Shah... on 8 November 1933 at the age of 19, after the assassination of his father. Following his ascension to the throne he was given the regnal title "He ...
Jacques Chirac... trum: from the newly unified left of François Mitterrand, and from a rising, who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wing opposition line. All this, as w ...
Albert of Brandenburg-AnsbachThe peninsula became part of the Duchy of Prussia when, the 37th Grand Master, secularized the Monastic State of the Teutonic Kn ...
Theodosius... thraism came to an end with the anti-pagan decrees of the Christian emperorduring the last decade of the 4th century
Henrietta MariaOn 11 May 1625 Charles was married by proxy toin front of the doors of the Notre Dame de Paris, before his first Parliam ...
Roman Emperor... imperial coronation); they saw their rule as a continuation of that of thes and used the title derived from the title Caesar to reflect their suppos ...
Pierre JuneauThe Juno Awards are named in honor of, the first President of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunicati ...
Thomas Henry Huxley... ton, now part of Imperial College London) in London, studying biology under. As an alumnus, he later helped to set up the Royal College of Science As ...
Léopold Sédar Senghor... ch Academy, taking the seat that his friend and former President of Senegalhad held. As a former President, he is a member of the Constitutional Coun ...
Przemysł II of PolandIn 1282 the city laws were confirmed byand in 1314 it was made the capital of the Kalisz Voivodeship, one of the ...
Pierre Juneau... w name for these awards. The name "Juneau" was submitted, which represented, the first head of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission. Juneau was i ...
Charles V... t, Cortés sent a troupe of ōllamanime (ballplayers) to Spain to perform forwhere they were drawn by the German Christoph Weiditz. Besides the fascina ...
Henry... e reflects the Tudor period with emblems of the crucifixion and the arms ofand Aragon (the lands passed to Henry VIII as a consequence of the )
United States President... 7 June at Chicago's Soldier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, includingBill Clinton, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia G ...
Genghis Khaninstalled an empire-wide messenger and postal station system named Örtöö w ...
King George III... of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, by marryingbecame queen consort of Great Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklen ...
Frederick II of Prussia... ed of little worth to Maria Theresa. The peace was initially broken by King, who invaded Silesia. Soon other powers began to exploit Austria's weakne ...
Hulagu Khan... dad and the execution of Abassid caliph al-Musta'sim by Mongol forces under. A surviving member of the Abbasid House was installed as Caliph at Cairo ...
consul and patrician... xposition of Latin grammar. The dedication to Julian probably indicates the, not the author of a well-known epitome of Justinian's Novellae, who live ...
Charles Lyell... ol of geological thought lost ground to uniformitarianism, as championed byand others, which claimed that the geological features of the earth were b ...
President of the United States... wright Samuel Gallu. Both the play and film are a one-man show about formerHarry S. Truman. Give 'em Hell, Harry! stars James Whitmore and was direct ...
Jigme Wangchuck... dvice in its external relations. When Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926, his sonbecame the next ruler, and when India gained independence in 1947, the new ...
Mwezi IV Gisabo... n monarchy, which decided to accept the German advances, the Burundian kingopposed all European influence, refusing to wear European clothing and res ...
Pope John Paul IIn the work known as Illustrissimi, a collection of letters written bywhen he was Patriarch of Venice, Dupanloup is one of the "recipients" of t ...
Presidents of the United StatesNotable descendants includeGeorge H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, F ...
Bill ClintonA similar study of Asian Americans in 1998 resulted in Presidentpresenting 21 new Medals of Honor in 2000, including 20 to Japanese Americ ...
Ugyen Wangchuck... war eroded the power of the shabdrung for the next 200 years when in 1885,was able to consolidate power and cultivated closer ties with the British ...
George W. Bush... imed that this immunity was granted after intervention by then US President. The Department of State "recognize[d] and allow[ed] the immunity of Pope ...
Newton... n Uranus's observed orbit and the one predicted from the laws of gravity of. At the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were m ...
Mieszko I... nd a nation. The historically recorded Polish state begins with the rule ofin the second half of the 10th century. Mieszko chose to be baptized in th ...
Holy Roman Emperor... s formed part of the Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with theMaximilian I
CharlemagneIn 812 Michael I reopened negotiations with the Franks, and recognizedas basileus (emperor) without saying anything else. In exchange for that r ...
Charles... ogne became part of the lands of the Spanish Crown when the Burgundian heirbecame King of Spain in 1516
Barack Obama... ) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then-U.S. Senator(D-Illinois) received 40.28 percent of the vote from Franklin County Democ ...
Henry II... res to reform the monasteries. His son and successor, chosen German king asin 1002, gave Bavaria to his brother-in-law Henry of Luxembourg, after who ...
Theuderic III... ful Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and of Neustria under Merovingian king, probably chose this location as his main residence because of its proxim ...
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Constantius II... osed a work entitled De errore profanarum religionum, which he dedicated toand Constans, the sons of Constantine, and which is still extant. He holds ...
William Buckland... sh geologists and fossil collectors such as Mary Anning, William Conybeare,, and Gideon Mantell, who found and described the first ichthyosaurs, ples ...
Casimir I... land. This was followed by a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under. Casimir's son Bolesław II the Bold became fatally involved in a conflict ...
Alfonso... ingular gifts of the young scholar, and made him tutor to his sons, notably, who would reign for a single year but whose energies in the decade 1485- ...
Alexander Severus... t he flourished in the first half of the third century, during the reign of(222–235) and his successors
Emperor of JapanJimmu Tenno, the first(perhaps c. 600 BC) was also called the Son of Heaven, (Ten for Heaven and ...
Cyrus the Great... provinces, originates from the conception of the first Persian Empire under, beginning at around 530 BCE. However, Provincial organization originated ...
King James IEnglish (and Scottish) monarchgranted a patent to the Earl of Carlisle for Tortola, as well as "Angilla, ...
Emperor... rians and others) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC. By the time ofAugustus, present-day Italy was included in the Roman Italy (Italia) as a ...
Zeno... iginating with Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople and published by Emperorwith the view of allaying the strife between the Miaphysite Christians and ...
Odin... 00 AD. On the inscription, the god Heimdallr is mentioned alongside the godand Þjálfi, a name of one of the god Thor's servants. Regarding the inscri ...
Harold Stassen... ower won the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Oregon primaries.won his home state of Minnesota, and Warren won his home state of Californ ...
Sir John Lubbock... ithos, "stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age." The term was invented byin 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system
William... Garter; the same month he proceeded with Buckingham on a mission, first toat The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Utrecht, endeavouring to force up ...
Louis XIII... aris while en route to Spain. It was a good match since she was a sister of(their father, Henry IV, had died during her childhood). Parliament reluct ...
Gerald Ford... premiere was hosted by Truman's daughter Margaret and attended by President. The play then went on to a six-city tour, during which it was videotaped ...
Constans... d De errore profanarum religionum, which he dedicated to Constantius II and, the sons of Constantine, and which is still extant. He holds up to scorn ...
Nuh... Nameh" came into the possession of King Yaqub Lais and then the Samani kingordered the poet Daqiqi to complete it but Daqiqi was killed by his slave ...
Alphonso the Magnanimous... delli, through whose influence he gained admission to the royal chancery of. Alphonso discerned the singular gifts of the young scholar, and made him ...
Vaišvilkas... earlier wife; her existence is presumed because two children – a son namedand an unnamed daughter married to Svarn in 1255 – were already leading in ...
Flavius Honorius... nd of the 1st century BC. Rome's population started dropping in 402 AD when, Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423, moved the government to Ravenna a ...
Marthinus Wessel PretoriusThe first president of the South African Republic was, elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, ...
Charlemagne... luding dogsled, balloon, rocket, mule, pneumatic tubes, and even submarine.extended to the whole territory of his empire the system used by Franks in ...
Constantine I... a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign ofand his successors
John III Sobieski... s. Following the successful defense of Vienna in 1683 led by King of Poland, a series of campaigns resulted in the return of all of Hungary to Austri ...
Casimir IV JagiellonThe son of Kingand Elisabeth of Austria, Sigismund followed his brothers John I of Poland ...
Queen ElizabethIn 1939, King George VI andtoured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and ...
Bolesław Krzywousty... in 9th century as a provincial capital castellany and a minor fort. In 1106captured the town and made it a part of his feudal domain. Between 1253 an ...
Prince Henry... ries from all over the world. Among those in attendance were George V's son, Marshal Franchet d'Esperey of France, and the Prince of Udine representi ...
Emperor of China... d reflected the Zhou belief that as Son of Heaven (and as its delegate) thewas responsible for the well being of the whole world by the Mandate of He ...
Staurakios... propriate candidate for the throne than his severely injured brother-in-law. When Michael's wife Prokopia failed to persuade her brother to name Mich ...
Louis XIV... ed in the treaty, and for making terms with France. He refused a bribe from, but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10,000 crowns; in 1670 he was t ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... McCain - a difference of 296 votes. It was the first time since 1964, whenwas the Democratic candidate, that Salt Lake County had voted for a Democr ...
Louis XIII of France... l to Francois de Malherbe's in verse. In 1631 he published a eulogy of Kingentitled Le Prince; in 1652 the Socrate chrétien, and Aristippe ou de la C ...
Elizabeth... Queen and Earl Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters,and Margaret, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and ...
Frederick William III of Hohenzollern... r niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles II marriedand in 1797 became queen consort of Prussia
Ronald Reagan... er, when John Hinckley, Jr. made an assassination attempt on then-President. He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi ...
Otto III, Holy Roman EmperorIn 995 defeated by
Theodosius I... tinople. According to Jordanes, he negotiated a peace with the new emperor,, that made some Thervings foederati, or official allies of Rome allowed t ...
Maria Theresa of Austria... d the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of, led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian ...
Adolph of Nassau... and became part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. The deposed dukein 1890 became the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (see House of Nassau)
Prince Rupert of the Rhine... ooning military leaders for political purposes. A pamphlet directed againstis a typical example. During the 19th century, irreverence towards authori ...
François Mitterrand... opposition from both sides of the spectrum: from the newly unified left of, and from a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wi ...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.... vote totals. Eisenhower's managers, led by Dewey and Massachusetts Senator, accused Taft of "stealing" delegate votes in Southern states such as Tex ...
Bill Clinton... gnised experts, including Benjamin Barber (formerly an adviser to President), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (United Nations adviser on environmental issues) ...
Barack ObamaIn September 2010, Presidentinformed Congress that the State of Emergency in effect since September 14 ...
Holy Roman Emperor... reliz was first mentioned in a document from the King of Germany, and later, Henry IV in 1071. This document granted Görlitz to the Diocese of Meisse ...
Mohammed Daoud Khan... urgery as well as therapy for lumbago, his cousin and former Prime Ministerstaged a coup d'état and established a republican government. As a former ...
Prince Harry of Wales... ate are: The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge,and The Duke of York
Philip'sFollowing his erstwhile allydefeat by Rome in 197 BC, Antiochus saw the opportunity for expansion into ...
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Louis the Bavarian... d thereby, Wiesbaden, received the right of coinage from Holy Roman Emperor
Barack Obama... the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democratwon Salt Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over ...
Yasser Arafat... s commander-in-chief by the PLO Executive Committee in June 1969. Then whentook on that role in September 1970, al-Yehiyeh became chief-of-staff of a ...
Jacques Rogge... e invitation from China to the world to share in its culture. IOC presidentwas very happy with the emblem, saying, "Your new emblem immediately conve ...
A-bian... lic figures who are well known by their nicknames, including the politicianand the singer A-mei
Henry VIII... ms of the crucifixion and the arms of Henry and Aragon (the lands passed toas a consequence of the )
Conrad I... rians in 911, uniting Bavaria and Carinthia under his rule. The German kingunsuccessfully attacked Arnulf when the latter refused to acknowledge his ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... ion focused on Aurora for seven weeks during the fall of 1955, as Presidentrecovered from a heart attack at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. In 1943 t ...
Artaxerxes IIIThe last great rebellions were put down by
Charlemagne... the nickname Martellus (“hammer”). Charles, in turn, was the grandfather of, also supposedly born in Héristal, where he lived for at least fifteen ye ...
Henry IV... in. It was a good match since she was a sister of Louis XIII (their father,, had died during her childhood). Parliament reluctantly agreed to the mar ...
Prokopia... patrician Theophylact Rhangabe, the admiral of the Aegean fleet. He married, the daughter of the future Emperor Nikephoros I, and received the high c ...
Elizabeth IOn March 25, 1584, Queengranted Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North Americ ...
Arsaces... his Bactrian neighbour. Soon after however, a Parthian tribal chief calledinvaded the Parthian territory around 238 BC to form the Arsacid Dynasty — ...
Franz Joseph I... elm II, and with the emperors of Austria-Hungary, in particular with Kaiser
Ronald Reagan... n presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon,, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other famous visitor ...
ConallThe Senchus says that Comgall had one son,, and that Conall had seven sons, although six are named, Loingsech, Necht ...
Cináed... the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub andwere later kings. American musician Johnny Cash is a descendant
Adolf Hitler... ond World War in textbooks illustrated with Low's cartoons. German dictatorhad a personal hatred of the cartoonist. It is, therefore, not surprising ...
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Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz... ng King George III became queen consort of Great Britain. In 1793 her niece, daughter of Duke Charles II married Frederick William III of Hohenzoller ...
Khan Ahmed... Tatar yoke. In 1476 Ivan refused to pay the customary tribute to the grand. All through the autumn the Russian and Tatar hosts confronted each other ...
Louis XIV of FranceIn 1604, Kingsent a large number of people to settle in Guyana, which would bring the F ...
Margaret... Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters, Elizabeth and, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and second cousi ...
Louis XV of France... François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of Kingby one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769) through h ...
Hamid Karzai... espread areas and in greater yield. In April 2004, Afghan interim presidentdeclared a jihad on drugs (after opium output reached a near-record 3,600 ...
Hans Sloane... since its foundation in 1753 after receiving 160 Egyptian objects from Sir. After the defeat of the forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile ...
John Maynard Keynes... r among merchants because it was what is now called "rent seeking". Howeverargued that encouraging production was just as important as consumption,an ...
Ragnvald KnaphövdeOne of these Swedish kings was, who in 1125 was riding with his retinue in order to be accepted as king ...
YoshihitoOn July 30, 1912, the Meiji Emperor died and Crown Princebecame the new emperor of Japan and succeeded to the throne, beginning the ...
Meiji EmperorOn July 30, 1912, thedied and Crown Prince Yoshihito became the new emperor of Japan and succee ...
Adolf Hitler... role of "Adenoid Hynkel", Dictator of Tomainia, modelled on German dictator, who was only four days his junior and sported a similar moustache. The f ...
Joseph Locke... railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistantwho went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom ...
Barack Obama... Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton andall of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have ...
Sarah, Duchess of YorkIn May 2010,was filmed by a News of the World reporter claiming that the Duke of York ...
Bill Clinton... sted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan,and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras a ...
King Juan Carlos IOn 4 February 2011, Vargas Llosa was raised into the Spanish nobility bywith the hereditary title of Marqués de Vargas Llosa (English: Marquis of ...
Magnus Maximus... n and the accession, at Trier (Trèves, in Germany) at least, of the usurper(383), Ithacius fled to Trier, and in consequence of his representations a ...
Bridei... Cenél Comgaill married the Pictish princess Der-Ilei, and the Pictish kingsand Nechtan mac Der Ilei were the result of this marriage
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz... Empire. Nevertheless, its princesses achieved prominent marriages: In 1761, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, by marrying King George III became ...
Nelson Mandela... smond Tutu and also visited Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned black leader. Upon returning, Kennedy became a leader in the push for economic sanctio ...
Policarpo Paz... During the governments of General Juan Alberto Melgar (1975–78) and General(1978–82), Honduras built most of its physical infrastructure and electric ...
Constantine IX... , the Empire began to decline under the reign of the militarily incompetentand again under Constantine X—a brief two year rule of reform under Isaac ...
Alexander II... uke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, a niece of, Czar of Russia
Peter Estenberg... n carried off to Saxony by August. During this time the King of Sweden sentto King Stanislaw to act as an ambassador and correspondence secretary. Th ...
Arnulf... ries of Emperor Charles the Fat. This incompetent ruler left its defence to, an illegitimate son of Carloman. Due mainly to the support of the Bavari ...
Pierre de Coubertin... be able to hold well-organized games, they received some support. However,, the founder of the International Olympic Committee opposed this. Coubert ...
Ronald Reagan... e explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for President
Leopold... aden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of Prince Wilhelm of Baden, third son of, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, ...
Theodora... n prefect in Gaul. Constantius left Helena to marry Maximian's stepdaughterin 288 or 289
Asfaw Wossen... Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle ...
George H. W. BushIn 1990, Presidentawarded Atanasoff the United States National Medal of Technology, the high ...
Pope John Paul II... inier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia;; Prince Charles, and Prince Philip
Charlemagne... t of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d'Estaing was a multiple descendant of
Jan Petersen... d criticism by fellow Conservative party member and former foreign minister
Michel Micombero... is son, Prince Ntare V, who himself was deposed by his prime minister Capt.in the same year. He abolished the monarchy and declared a republic. A de ...
Paul Samuelson... cantilism have sometimes led critics to call them neo-mercantilism. Indeed,, writing within a Keynesian framework, defended mercantilism, writing: "W ...
William Julius WilsonRustin's analysis was supported by the later research by. Wilson documented an increase in inequality within the Black community, ...
Roberto Suazo... ber 1981. A new constitution was approved in 1982 and the PLH government ofassumed power
Jean Hersholt... films received Special or Honorary Awards. Academy leader and board memberargued that "an international award, if properly and carefully administere ...
Omar Bongo... n the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the expense of the President of Gabon,. Stoltenberg's first tenure as Prime Minister (2000–2001) was controversi ...
Alexander I... uslim regional powers. The first attempt at forging an alliance was made by, king of a small Georgian kingdom of Kakheti, who dispatched two embassie ...
Sarah, Duchess of York... graph saying "I will not be marrying Andrew now or in the future." In 2007,purchased Dolphin House, a mansion directly beside the Royal Lodge. In 200 ...
Philippikos BardanesThe new emperorwas an adherent of Monothelitism, rejected the arrangements of the Third C ...
Francisco Franco... cts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Spanish dictator"harmonizing" and getting along quite well. When this cartoon was publishe ...
Elizabeth IIOn 17 May 2011,became the first British monarch to visit the Áras on the occasion of her ...
Ivan V... by Anna Ivanovna, daughter of Peter the Great's half-brother and co-ruler,
Georgios I... hing behind their flags. The official opening of the games was done by King
Tipu Sultan... har, and Orissa, following the Battle of Buxar in 1765. After the defeat of, most of South India came either under the Company's direct rule, or unde ...
Justinian... dicates the consul and patrician, not the author of a well-known epitome of's Novellae, who lived somewhat later than Priscian. The grammar is divide ...
George Washington... some of which date back to the 17th century. During the Revolutionary War,passed through Farmington on several occasions and referred to the town as ...
Flavius Constantius... bia, on 27 February of an uncertain year, probably near 272. His father was, a native of Moesia (later Dacia Ripensis). Constantius was a tolerant an ...
Mieszko the Old... s initial privileges and in 1426 a new town hall was built. The Polish kingwas buried in Kalisz
Charles II of EnglandThe Royal Declaration of Indulgence was's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ...
Napoleon III... de Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and bore a resemblance to his cousin,, emperor of the French
Henry II, King of England... lished in the early 7th century. It was still an ecclesiastical centre whenstayed here in 1171, and except for a brief period after 1185 when his son ...
Douglas HydeThe first President,lived in the residential quarters on the first floor of the main building. ...
Bill Clinton... mocrat to win a majority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, althoughand Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively
Louis XIV... Lully's revolution in Baroque music, and most importantly, the ascension ofto the throne of France
James II... on and take Anglican communion. When Charles II's openly Catholic successorattempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for gener ...
Oxylus... . The Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus lists eight Hamadryads, the daughters ofand Hamadryas
Jozef Tiso... nderground resistance against the wartime pro-German Slovak state headed by. In August 1944, Dubček fought in the Slovak National Uprising and was wo ...
Adolf Hitler... Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. These provisions were later used byto subvert the rest of the constitution and institute rule by decree, allo ...
Gratian... f Ávila, and the orthodox party found it necessary to appeal to the emperorus, who issued an edict threatening the sectarian leaders with banishment. ...
Queen Victoria1888. Dracula has married the widowed, and rules as Prince Consort. A virtual checklist of fictional vampires h ...
Friedrich Ebert... t that for the first time included representatives of the Social Democrats,and Philipp Scheidemann. To improve Germany's standing with the Allies, he ...
Barack Obama... on. In the 2008 Presidential election, the town's voters supported Democratwith 8,177 votes over Republican John McCain with 6,839 votes
Ronald Reagan... ndidates polled more than 90 percent of the county's vote on two occasions,in 1984 and George W. Bush in 2004. came close to this level in 2008, draw ...
Antonín Novotný... e Slovak branch unseated Karol Bacílek and Pavol David, hard-line allies of, First Secretary of the KSČ and president of Czechoslovakia. In their pla ...
Eric Bloodaxe... ing, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred.took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Amlaíb Cuaran ...
President of Afghanistan... l Army Air Corps). Being a landlocked country, Afghanistan has no navy. Theis the commander-in-chief of the military, acting through the Ministry of ...
George W. Bush... ed as a commentator and asked several people (including then-Texas governor) what they thought of "Prime Minister Jean Poutine" and his endorsement o ...
Barack Obama... ajority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton andwon pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively
Bolesław Bierut... d. The People's Republic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such asand Konstantin Rokossovsky
duc de Chartres... become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of theto Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the ...
Eudoxia Lopukhina... f Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his first consort, and Princess Charlotte
George Washington... rmington en route to Westchester County to offer crucial support to General's army
Mary Robinson... had been built on for the visit of King George V in 1911. However, in 1990moved back to the older main building. Her successor, Mary McAleese lived ...
Bill ClintonPresidentperformed the song on saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall ...
James VI and I... of England, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600., the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, Anne of Denmark, ...
Friedrich Ebert... e political alignments in Germany at that time and which may have prevented, the new social-democratic President of Germany, from appointing Weber as ...
Maximilian II of Bavaria... dation of Ranke, Sybel accepted the post of professor at Munich, where King, a generous patron of learning, hoped to establish a school of history. H ...
Jimmy Carter... l Cody), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by Presidentin 1977. Cody and four other civilian scouts who rendered distinguished se ...
Sparta... him. Morpheus is his chief minister and prevents noises from waking him. In, the image of Hypnos was always put near that of death
Grand Duke Frederick II... , spent the rest of his life in retirement. In 1928, following the death of, he became head of the House of Baden. He died at Salem the following yea ...
Pope Benedict XVIThe district of Altötting was established in 1837. The currentwas born here 1927 in the village of Marktl
Prince Charles... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born:in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950
Gustáv Husák... t predecessors had denigrated Slovak "bourgeois nationalists", most notablyand Vladimír Clementis, in the 1950s, the Slovak branch worked to promote ...
Adolf Hitler... tates. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin is a satire on. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, Dorothy Parker and ...
Frederick IIKingof Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Siles ...
Pope John Paul II====2003====stated that "there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for th ...
Mary McAleese... in 1990 Mary Robinson moved back to the older main building. Her successor,lived in the 1911 wing
Branch Rickey... anager who would be eventually successful in breaking the color barrier wasof the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rickey himself had experienced the issue of segre ...
A-bian... rely used in formal or semi-formal settings, although a famous exception is
Manuel ZelayaOn February 22, 2008 Honduras Presidentcalled on the United States to legalize drugs, in order, he said, to preve ...
ProkopiaBy his wife, Michael I had at least five children
Bill Clinton... ecipients be upgraded to the Medal of Honor. On January 13, 1997, Presidentpresented the medal to seven African American World War II veterans. With ...
Justinian II... o wear and then only on 'a great public festival of the Lord'". The Emperor's son and co-emperor Tiberios (along with Patriarch Kyros, senators, nobl ...
John F. Kennedy... n Victoria and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish ...
Richard Nixon... orge V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy,, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other ...
Charles V... 16th century, the Rebellion of the Brotherhoods (a peasant uprising against's administration) and the frequent attack of Turkish and Berber pirates c ...
José Azcona... NH candidate, Rafael Leonardo Callejas, who received 42% of the total vote., the candidate receiving the most votes (27%) among the PLH, assumed the ...
Princess Anne... rence House. Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 andin 1950
Charles XII of SwedenThe following year, Stanisław was selected byafter a successful Swedish invasion of Poland, to supersede Augustus II, w ...
Abraham Lincoln... around Frederick. It was the site of a Civil War speech given by President, which he gave at what was then a train depot at the current intersection ...
James Madison... emont County. The newly established county was named for American president. BYU Idaho, formerly Ricks College (named after early local LDS settler T ...
Oscar Temaru... ribe themselves. Te Ao Maohi - the Maohi world - as an expression coined bygives an example of this
Saul... the years that the Ark of the Covenant was moved in the times of Samuel and. There is no further mention of the menorah in Solomon's temple, except i ...
Ronald Reagan... ceived the National Medal of Technology (with Steve Jobs) from US President. In December 1989, he received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree f ...
Sparta... wound around it on which is written a message. The ancient Greeks, and thens in particular, are said to have used this cipher to communicate during ...
Garfield Barwick... ntatives, Whitlam called fellow MHRs Bill Bourke "this grizzling Quisling",(who would, as High Court Chief Justice, play a role in Whitlam's downfall ...
Zachary TaylorTaylor County was created in 1856. It was named for, twelfth President of the United States of America, who served from 1849 ...
James I of Aragon... sed by the Moors (who called it Medina Mayurqa), and finally established by
Boris Johnson... g, the Mayor of Beijing handed over the Olympic flag to the Mayor of London, followed by a performance organized by the London Organising Committee o ...
Charlemagne... e returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. Florence was conquered byin 774 and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as capital. The ...
George H. W. Bush... chael Dukakis, from the start of the campaign. In the fall, Dukakis fell to, but Kennedy won re-election to the Senate over Republican Joseph D. Malo ...
Charles IX of FranceOn May 1, 1561, Kingreceived a lily of the valley as a lucky charm. He decided to offer a lily ...
Emperor Min of Jin... ht Princes from 291 to 306 AD. During the reigns of Emperor Huai of Jin and, the country was put into grave danger with the uprising of the northern ...
Edward Heath... o Dandy in 1986 - was when, in 1974, Else took a leaf out of Prime Minister's book and went on a "three day week", forcing Alf to fend for and feed h ...
John II of Castile... Berlin, was given in 1445 to the Charterhouse of Miraflores near Burgos by; it was described in the deed of gift as the work of great and famous Fla ...
James I... n Burghley House and Theobalds (which his son, Robert, was to exchange withfor Hatfield House). As the Marquess of Winchester (Burghley's predecessor ...
Vespasian... states that it was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph ofand Titus. The menorah probably remained in the Temple of Peace in Rome un ...
Ted Turner... International Television News (UPITN). Senior UPITN executives later helpedcreate CNN, with its first two presidents, Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinha ...
Charles de Gaulle... he Gaullists and left the majority coalition. The CNIP reproached Presidentwith his euro-scepticism. But Giscard refused to resign and founded the In ...
Richard NixonIn 1972, United States Presidentannounced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, Preside ...
Darius III of Persia... son-in-law, a Persian named Orontobates, received the satrapy of Caria from
Adolf Hitler... hree women left Germany in the 1930s and went to England, after the rise of. Charles Susskind interviewed Mathilde Hertz in the 1960s and he later pu ...
Bill Clinton... ntly screened it in the White House, as did many other American presidents.cited High Noon as his favorite film and screened it a record 17 times at ...
Songtsän GampoBuddhism was first introduced to Bhutan in the 7th century AD. Tibetan king(reigned 627–49), a convert to Buddhism, ordered the construction of two B ...
Charles IV... his elder brother Duke Wenceslaus I of Legnica a 1359 judgement by Emperoralloted Lubin along with Krzeczyn Wielki, Krzeczyn Mały, Osiek and Pieszkó ...
Timur... he territory to his son, Chagatai and the area became the Chagatai Khanate.took over the area in 1369 and the area became the Timurid Empire
Aaron Klug... k addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with Sydney Brenner,, and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's work, they spe ...
Causantín mac Áeda... 00–954) was king of Scots (before 943 – 954), becoming king when his cousinabdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín
Alexander the GreatWhenentered Caria in 334 BC, Ada, who was in possession of the fortress of Ali ...
Titus... t was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph of Vespasian and. The menorah probably remained in the Temple of Peace in Rome until the c ...
George W. Bush... 90 percent of the county's vote on two occasions, Ronald Reagan in 1984 andin 2004. came close to this level in 2008, drawing 85 percent of the vote
Éamon de Valera... iffith's concept of an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy and the new members, under, who wanted to achieve a republic. Matters almost led to a split at the p ...
Genghis Khan... various times by Turkic forces, such as the Göktürks until the conquest byand the Mongols in 1220. Genghis Khan gave the territory to his son, Chaga ...
Constantine... depose his son, but failed and fled to the court of Constantius' successor,(who was both Maximian's step-grandson and also his son-in-law), in Trier. ...
Louis XV... he had the satisfaction of seeing his daughter Maria become the consort ofand queen of France. From 1725 to 1733, Stanisław lived at Chateau Chambor ...
Alexanderconquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, ...
Moctezuma II... láhuac was the eleventh son of the ruler Axayacatl and a younger brother of, the previous ruler of Tenochtitlan. His mother's father, also called Cui ...
Maria MiloslavskayaFyodor was born in Moscow, the eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexis and. In 1676, at the age of fifteen, he succeeded his father on the throne. H ...
Juan Carlos I of Spain... s each year. The Marivent Palace was offered by the city to the then Prince. The royals have since spent their summer holidays in Palma
Abraham Lincoln... y killed him. (Watsuki makes a comparison to President of the United Stateswith Ōkubo in his notes.
Asfa Wossen... taged an unsuccessful coup, briefly proclaiming Haile Selassie's eldest sonas emperor. The coup d'état was crushed by the regular army and police for ...
princess... e Thirty Years' War, coupled with the fact that he married a Roman Catholic, generated deep mistrust concerning the king's dogma. Charles further all ...
Yang di-Pertua NegeriThe head of the state executive is the(Governor) appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia). The ...
Nelson Mandela... of privilege. Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway,, Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppin ...
Domnall mac Causantín... his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of
Georges PompidouDuring the 1969 presidential campaign, he supported the winning candidateand returned to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. On the French politic ...
James K. Polk... 1851, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, the county is named after, the eleventh President of the United States
Edmund of WessexIn 945, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devas ...
Douglas Hyde... of President of Ireland was created in 1937. In 1938, the first President,lived there temporarily while plans were made to build a new presidential ...
Yitzchak Ben Tzvi... world a better place, " and to eliminate suffering. In 1954, in a letter to, Israel's second President, the Rebbe wrote: "From the time that I was a ...
Halfdan... istr's-brother's-daughter"). In chapter 47, the deceased Eystein's son Kingdies of an illness, and the excerpt provided in the chapter describes his ...
President of the United States... gia General Assembly, the county is named after James K. Polk, the eleventh
George Washington... after the Declaration of Independence was signed. The town was named after, who, in his capacity as Commander of the Continental Army during the Ame ...
Diocletian... , the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre. The Emperoris said to have made Florentia the seat of a bishopric around the beginnin ...
Frederick Winslow Taylor... nt, had been pioneered by other engineers (most of whom are not famous, butis one of the well-known ones), whose work would later be synthesized into ...
Ronald Reagan... tually gained the respect of people with conservative/anti-communist views., a conservative and fervent anti-Communist, said he appreciated the film ...
François Mitterrand... e announced his candidacy for the presidency. His two main challengers werefor the left and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former Gaullist prime minister. ...
Adolf Hitler... of World War II. By 1940 Göring was at the peak of his power and influence.had promoted him to the rank of Reichsmarschall, making Göring senior to a ...
Yang di-Pertuan Agong... he state executive is the Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) appointed by the(King of Malaysia). The present Governor is Tun Dato' Seri Haji Abdul Rahm ...
Emperor Huai of Jin... after the War of the Eight Princes from 291 to 306 AD. During the reigns ofand Emperor Min of Jin, the country was put into grave danger with the upr ...
Alaric I... he Temple of Peace in Rome until the city was sacked by the Visigoths underin 410 CE
Jogaila... s the only King of Lithuania; while most of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes fromonward also reigned as Kings of Poland, the titles remained separate. Now ...
President of the United States... ary of War, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, nearly successful candidate forGeorge Mathews (1739–1812) - Revolutionary hero and twice Governo
Queen Mary... th would typically have taken Philip's last name on marriage; however, when, Elizabeth's paternal grandmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed ...
John Witherspoon... l, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.", one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, said "Pure democr ...
King Ferdinand IV... this period. Napoleon's troops succeeded in entering Naples itself, forcingto flee the city with his family. For the Maltese this meant that only Bri ...
Casimir IV... at they would turn to Lithuania again, he marched against them. Deserted byand surrounded on every side by the Moscow armies, that occupied the major ...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi... s and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of. King has become a national icon in the history of modern American libera ...
Napoleon BonaparteAfter the defeat of, Kalisz became a provincial capital of Congress Poland and then the capit ...
Barack Obama... nty was much more competitive than in recent years, as John McCain defeatedby only 7% (52-45%)
James III of Scotland... arete of Denmark (1456–1486), 13 years old married to the 17 years old King# Frederick (1471–1533), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later ...
James I... le' is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the accession ofin 1406
Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba... er neighbours and competing with Rwanda. Its greatest growth occurred under, who ruled the nation from about 1796 to 1850 and saw the kingdom double ...
Catherine IDuring the reign of, Peter was quite ignored; but just before her death it became clear to th ...
Henry VIII... ters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry (a parody of) and Carry On Dick (a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin), in both ...
Prince Wilhelm of BadenBorn in Baden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of, third son of Leopold, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilian ...
OdinVarious Germanic peoples highly revered the raven. The major deitywas so associated with ravens throughout history that he gained the kennin ...
John F. Kennedy... in 1963, and it and the Delaware Turnpike were both dedicated by President. The highway extended from the northern Baltimore city limits to the Dela ...
Texas military heroThe county is named not after the familiarbut rather after Georgia governor John Houstoun (who used that spelling du ...
Ceauşescu1984. A covert mission using undead agents to unseat theregime in Romania
President of the United States... crates his corpse and claim they killed him. (Watsuki makes a comparison toAbraham Lincoln with Ōkubo in his notes.
Charles VI... d three-quarters of the nobility were on his side, while his uncle, Emperor, through the imperial ambassador at Saint Petersburg, persistently urged ...
Manuel I of Portugal... d accompanied his father on his expeditions to North America. In 1500, Kingsent Gaspar to discover lands and search for a Northwest Passage to Asia
James Madison... the form of a constitutional republic over a direct democracy. For example,, in Federalist No. 10 advocates a constitutional republic over direct dem ...
Bona SforzaIn 1517, Sigismund married, with whom he had
Betty Friedan... opted by critics of some types or aspects of feminism; second-wave feministis a notable example. Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite se ...
Princess MargaretIn the early 1950s, his sister-in-law,, considered marrying a divorced older man, Peter Townsend. The press accu ...
President of Russia... with Russia in the Barents Sea since 1978 was settled when Stoltenberg andDimitry Medvedev signed an agreement on 27 April 2010 in Oslo. The agreeme ...
Henry IV... ioned in a document from the King of Germany, and later Holy Roman Emperor,in 1071. This document granted Görlitz to the Diocese of Meissen, then und ...
Domitian... stus (as adopted son of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to(as son of Vespasian). Augustus used the title "Divi filius", not "Dei fil ...
Severus... It was not to be: Constantius and Galerius were promoted to Augusti, whileand Maximin were appointed their Caesars respectively. Constantine and Max ...
Domangart Réti... omangairt was king of Dál Riata in the early 6th century. He was the son ofand grandson of Fergus Mór. The Annals of Ulster report his death in 538, ...
Pope John Paul IIOf the 232 cardinals thatelevated, four were named in pectore. The identities of three of these wer ...
Emperor Frederick III... , Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire (a rank bestowed byon the Leszczyński family)
Juan Alberto Melgar... main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar (the widow of former leader). Flores inaugurated International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs of reform ...
Walter Wanger... oir Personal History (1935), the rights to which were purchased by producerfor $10,000
Fergus Mór... in the early 6th century. He was the son of Domangart Réti and grandson of. The Annals of Ulster report his death in 538, 542 and 545, the Annals of ...
Constantius... vasion fleet was destroyed by storms in 289 or 290. Maximian's subordinate,, campaigned against Carausius' successor, Allectus, while Maximian held t ...
Michael Foot... ive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies,, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat
Vespasian... of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of). Augustus used the title "Divi filius", not "Dei filius", and respected ...
W. T. Cosgrave... r their aims; it had several local councillors (mostly in Dublin, including) and contained a dissident wing grouped from 1910 around the monthly peri ...
Arthur Hiller... itch Leigh, and Joe Darion. which was made into a film in 1972, directed by, and a song by Brazilian tropicalia-pioneers Os Mutantes
Mohammed Nadir Shah... who was born on October 15, 1914, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was the son of, a senior member of the Barakzai royal family and commander in chief of t ...
Chrysaor... of Tartarus and Gaia, while according to Hesiod, either Ceto and Phorcys orand the naiad Callirhoe were her parents. Another account says her parents ...
Sophia, Electress of Hanover... e succession and made William's nearest Protestant relations, the family of, next in line to the throne after his sister-in-law Anne. Soon after the ...
Charles V:For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor, see: William de Croÿ
Sir Thomas Seymour... eens. It was here that she became acquainted with her future fourth husband. The atmosphere of the court was much different from the rural and paroch ...
King Clovis I... ed the first adoption of the fleur-de-lis to the conversion of the Frankishin 493. The story takes various forms, many of which relate to Clovis' con ...
Numitor... er is sometimes said to be the sole founder. Their maternal grandfather was, rightful king of Alba Longa, a faithful descendant of the Trojan prince ...
President of the United States... , they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for Grover Cleveland, the newly elected
Queen VictoriaOn 22 January 1901,died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as King ...
Theseus... zes and labyrinths, due to her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and. Her father put her in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made ...
Nehru... ile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and 31 December 1953. Prime Ministerof India voiced the heightened international concern in 1954, when he prop ...
Fidel V. Ramos... Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. Generaltook a stand against Marcos, ushering in the bloodless People Power Revolu ...
AmphiarausPausanias (author of Periegesis of Greece) wrote this ofin Oropos, Attica, in the 2nd century A.D.
Thomas Jefferson... n envelope of anti-government materials that included a bumper sticker withslogan, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the ...
John WesleyThe Methodist Church, founded by, upholds Article VII in the Articles of Religion in the Book of Disciplin ...
Grover Cleveland... icted for defrauding the Post Office, they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for, the newly elected President of the United States
Eurystheus... o is blessed") is a daughter of Heracles. Even after Heracles's death, Kingpursues his lifelong vendetta against the hero by hunting down his childre ...
Henry... in October 1216, many began to support the claim of his eldest son, Prince. War continued between the factions supporting Louis and Henry, with Fitz ...
Pygmalion mythPretty Woman bears striking resemblances tos: particularly George Bernard Shaw's play of the same name, which also fo ...
Robert III... ll of Saint Baldred. A century on Wyntown's Cronykil relates: "In 1406 King, apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards James I) from the Du ...
Nero... the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor, a great multitude of native Egyptians (as opposed to or Jews) embraced t ...
Alexander I of Scotland... oir, Bishop of Dunkeld. Later tradition placed it back in the reign of King(1107–24), who probably had some involvement in the island. He was apparen ...
George IIn 1714, Queen Anne was succeeded by her second cousin, and Sophia's son,, Elector of Hanover, who consolidated his position by defeating Jacobite ...
Michael Farris... Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer. The novelist Hilary Mantel portrays More as a religious and masochistic ...
Claudius Caesar... atement "For Herod the king of the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of, came together and condemned Him to be crucified." This would place the c ...
Herod the king of the Jews... aeus reinforced his view that Jesus was at least 45 with the statement "Forand Pontius Pilate, the governor of Claudius Caesar, came together and con ...
South African President... l, scientific, economic, etc. renewal. This concept has been popularized byThabo Mbeki during his term of office. This was first articulated in the 1 ...
George IIIn 1737,began paying some London and Middlesex watchmen with tax moneys, beginning ...
Theseus... thens, depending on the version of the myth); however, she would later helpin overcoming the Minotaur and saving the would-be sacrificial victims. In ...
King Edward VII... ctoria died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as. For most of the rest of that year, George and May were styled TRH The Du ...
Elizabeth I... h literature in the half century 1575 – 1625. For example the 1603 death offalls in the middle of Shakespeare's career as dramatist: he is both an El ...
Lady Mary... rine of Aragon, Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with. By 16 February 1543, Catherine had established herself with Mary and was ...
Queen CarolineHis Paradise Lost (1732), suggested by, has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the po ...
King Alfonso XIII... tour was almost immediately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding ofto Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, at which the bride and groom narrowly a ...
Catherine de' MediciWhen Italian duchessmarried the duc d’Orléans in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to ...
Alfonso the ChasteIn 1177,went to the siege of Al- Madinat kunka (Cuenca) with a group armed and ide ...
George Washington Baines... tist congregations, including Old Saline Baptist, whose original pastor was, maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Within S ...
IsabellaAs one of their first acts after the war of succession, Ferdinand andestablished the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brotherhood (Santa ...
Salomea of Berg... lklingen. If this parentage is correct, Judith was the great-grandmother of, second wife of (her later stepson)
Manco Cápac... and his nephews in their latest treasure hunt - locating a hidden temple of, who was the legendary founder of the Inca dynasty. The temple is hidden ...
Thabo Mbeki... etc. renewal. This concept has been popularized by South African Presidentduring his term of office. This was first articulated in the 1990s; it con ...
George W. Bush... e Atlantic Ocean surrounding the island, but this was ended after Presidentordered the closure of the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station and the Vieques I ...
FerdinandAs one of their first acts after the war of succession,and Isabella established the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brothe ...
Árpád... settlement was established in 1896 by Hungarians, under the name Árpádhon (, the leader of the Hungarian tribes and -hon as home(land))
Barack Obama... won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democratwon 54% of the county's vote
Philip II... nds above every other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kingsand Alexander the Great are included), although modern historians have que ...
King Philip II Augustus... y names. King John lost all his territories in mainland Normandy in 1204 to, but retained possession of Jersey and the other Channel Islands. The isl ...
Ernesto ZedilloIn 1997, Presidentcommemorated the 150th anniversary of the execution of the San Patricios a ...
Charles I of England... efs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets. One hundred years later,was, it was reported, so impressed by the "frozen snow" that he offered hi ...
King Henry... elf with Mary and was now part of her household. It was in the household ofand Catherine of Aragon's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught ...
George II... e United Kingdom, although the title was not then in use. The next monarch,, witnessed the final end of the Jacobite threat in 1746, when the Catholi ...
Frederick William II of Prussia... ly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by Kingas a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... was George Washington Baines, maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President. Within Saline is the Magnolia Baptist Church. Several miles east of Sali ...
Queen Maud... in, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of King Haakon VII and(George's sister)
James MadisonMadison County was created in 1827. It was named for, fourth President of the United States of America, who served from 1809 t ...
Demophon... gs and her father's old friend Iolaus to Athens, where they are received by, the king
Julian... nt, most other sources report his death as occurring in its middle. Emperor, writing in the mid-350s, observes that the Sassanians escaped punishment ...
Henry IIIIn the 13th century, Kings(1216–1272) and Edward I (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially crea ...
Alexander of Pherae... e to a petition of the Thessalians, Pelopidas was sent with an army against. After driving Alexander out, he passed into Macedon and arbitrated betwe ...
Jimmy Carter... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ...
Livia... y in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the Romans.had an estate there, according to Suetonius. The city under Roman control, ...
King Haakon VII... r returning to Britain, May and George went to Norway for the coronation ofand Queen Maud (George's sister)
President... – January 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician and leader, was the son ofChiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic ...
George Washington... ildings are located; and Washington Street, which was named after President. The street-numbering system centers not on the Circle, but rather one bl ...
Bill Clinton... n a majority in the county before 2008 was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, althoughwon pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat ...
Thomas Jefferson... e refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" (from). He also carried an envelope of anti-government materials that included ...
Li Zongren... id promote conditions calling for Chiang's death. However, warlords such asand Yan Xishan who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die. They ...
Theseus... of "heavenly" Dia, fathered either by Ixion or by Zeus. His best friend was. In Iliad I, Nestor numbers Pirithous and Theseus "of heroic fame" among ...
Queen Elizabeth II... l is 1 mile or long and has a diameter of with a roadbed . It was opened byon 19 October 1967, but commenced operational use only in 1968, on complet ...
Philander ChaseBexley Hall is an Episcopal seminary founded in 1823 by, the Bishop of Ohio. Most of the East Coast Episcopal leadership did not ...
Albert... George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward,, Mary, Henry, George, and John
Alexander the Great... wenty-seven years after his death, a recalcitrant Thebes was obliterated by. Thus Epaminondas—who had been praised in his time as an idealist and lib ...
Pope John Paul II... visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and. The former visit came amidst an historical setting after the fall of com ...
Henry I of France... n 9 April 1054, Judith was betrothed to Philip, eldest son and heir of King. However, the engagement was broken in September 1058, when her brother E ...
Marcos Pérez JiménezTelevision in Venezuela began in 1952 when the dictatorlaunched the state channel Televisora Nacional, making Venezuela the ninth ...
Kublai Khan... g to do with ice cream. It has also been claimed that, in the Yuan Dynasty,enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until Marco Polo visited Chin ...
James II's Catholic son... rotestant officials, James fled the realm and William and Mary (rather than) were declared joint Sovereigns of England, Scotland and Ireland
Sparta... loponnesian League. Henceforth, its policy was usually determined either byor Corinth
Indira Gandhi... came from all walks of life, including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers ...
Hilderic(523–530) was the Vandal king most tolerant towards the Catholic Church. H ...
AcastusLaodamia was the wife of Protesilaus and daughter ofand Astydameia. After Protesilaus was killed in the Trojan War he was allo ...
James Baker... rn personalities visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of Stateand Pope John Paul II. The former visit came amidst an historical setting ...
Theseus... ven or nine years to the Minotaur. One year, the sacrificial party included, the son of King Aegeus, who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur. A ...
Edward IIn the 13th century, Kings Henry III (1216–1272) and(1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially creating it as it stands toda ...
Arthur Pigou... ly funded only by two Dons at the university – his father and the economist. In 1909 Keynes published his first professional economics article in the ...
Elizabeth I... travelled to France as part of the embassy to negotiate a marriage betweenand the Duc D'Alençon. He spent the next several years in mainland Europe, ...
Abraham Lincoln... ich was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of) and "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the bl ...
Gelimer... amily led a revolt, raising the banner of national Arianism, and his cousin(530–533) became king. Hilderic, Hoamer and their relatives were thrown in ...
King George III... he independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against, and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of ...
Aegeus... Minotaur. One year, the sacrificial party included Theseus, the son of King, who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur. Ariadne fell in love at f ...
Edmund I of England... siege by Anglo-Saxons, raiders who did not care about the treaty that Kingand King Malcolm I of Scotland signed in 945. Sir Eider did not supply arr ...
James IVIn 1497 Kingvisited the Bass and stayed in the castle with a later Sir Robert Lauder o ...
Ratchis... y Abbot Petronax, when among the monks were Carloman, son of Charles Martel;, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and Paul the De ...
George W. Bush... ction for at least the past 50 years. Recent elections in 2004 and 2000 sawcapture 59.72% and 58.5% of the county vote, respectively. However in the ...
AegisthusIn Greek mythology, Aletes was the son ofand Clytemnestra, the king and queen of Mycenae. He had two sisters: Erigo ...
Henry... iked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary,, George, and John
Pope John Paul II... re chanting in Skanderbeg Square Baker's famous saying of "Freedom works!".became the first leading religious figure to visit Tirana after Mother Ter ...
Vince Cable... n Time on 18 September 2008, he praised Liberal Democrat treasury spokesmanfor his analysis of the ongoing economic and financial crisis, and apparen ...
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Manuel II Palaiologos... od. Scholarios later defended Aristotle and convinced the Byzantine emperorthat Plethon's support for Plato amounted to heresy. Manuel had Plethon co ...
Tiberius... pium Augustum Veiens. Veii is famous for its statuary including a statue of(now in the Vatican), and the Apollo of Veii (now in the National Etruscan ...
Andrew Johnson... tension of the Civil War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln,and Grant, and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves ...
James A. GarfieldDuring the American Civil War, Union troops under future presidentoccupied the town from December 1861 until the end of the war, despite sev ...
Barack Obama... nty vote, respectively. However in the 2008 Presidential Election, Democratcaptured McHenry County with 52% of the vote
Thomas Jefferson... s Rousseau (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and(1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); the German landscape artist Pr ...
Beatrix I, Abbess of Quedlinburg... a (who also died in infancy). In addition, Judith had an older half-sister,and Gandersheim, born from her father's first marriage with Gunhilda of De ...
Jawaharlal Nehru... , into the politically influential Nehru Family. Indira Gandhi's father wasand her mother was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a prom ...
John LubbockIn his highly influential Pre-historic Times,described burnt bones indicating the practice of child sacrifice in pagan ...
Abraham Lincoln... n County is Arkansas's 65th county, formed on March 28, 1871, and named for, the sixteenth President of the United States. It is an alcohol prohibiti ...
Sadi Carnot... n royalty. Also present were General Joseph Brugère, representing President; the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies as well as thei ...
Malcolm I of Scotland... rs who did not care about the treaty that King Edmund I of England and Kingsigned in 945. Sir Eider did not supply arrows for his men (because they w ...
Sparta... C who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out ofn subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek politics. In the process ...
Sparta... tury BC, when Dorian supremacy was re-established, perhaps by the agency ofunder the ephor Chilon, and the city was enrolled in the Peloponnesian Lea ...
Yan Xishan... itions calling for Chiang's death. However, warlords such as Li Zongren andwho used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die. They knew that if t ...
Constantine II... the Holy Apostles there. He was succeeded by his three sons born of Fausta,, Constantius II and Constans. A number of relatives were killed by follow ...
John... imple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and
George... relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry,, and John
James I... n 1406 King Robert III, apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards) from the Duke of Albany, placed the youthful prince in the safe-custody ...
Hafez al-Assad... ever, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President(who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid), the Palestinian fighter ...
Ulysses S. Grant... r four years of Union campaigns in April 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to, and the Confederacy effectively collapsed
Jawaharlal Nehru... ther, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father,, was a pivotal figure in the independence movement of India
Ferdinand Marcos... ion of Martial Law on 1972 - Martial Law in the Philippines, then Presidentused the AFP to arrest, torture or kill his political opponents and theref ...
Emperor Julian... ated succession. He also had two daughters, Constantina and Helena, wife of
Ronald FisherAlong with Leonard Tippett and, he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory. The Gumbel ...
Justinian IByzantine Emperordeclared war, with the stated intention of restoring Hilderic to the Vanda ...
King George III... e usual French spelling, is explained by his having been named in honour of
Boudica... eni revolted against the Roman invasion in 47 AD, and again in 60 AD led by. The crushing of the second rebellion opened the county to the Romans. Du ...
Fëanor... e later largely replaced by the Tengwar (which were enhanced and brought by), they were adopted by Dwarves to write down their Khuzdul language (Ange ...
Motilal Nehru... ather was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather,, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, ...
Eric V of Denmark... nt Danish throne, as king Christian I. He was a cognatic descendant of Kingthrough his second daughter Richeza. The throne was first offered by the S ...
Robert E. Lee... overnment. Richmond fell after four years of Union campaigns in April 1865,surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, and the Confederacy effectively collapsed
President of the United States... nty, formed on March 28, 1871, and named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth. It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county
Ernest Rutherford... aper, with some unknown radiation that could not be turned off like X-rays.continued these experiments and discovered two different kinds of radiatio ...
Chadli Bendjedid... was released from house arrest in 1980 by Boumédienne's successor, Colonel. Boumédienne immediately dissolved the National Assembly and suspended th ...
George Washington... r shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin,, and Thomas Jefferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice c ...
George W. BushIn 2007, U.S. Presidentmarked the first time that such a high ranking American official visited A ...
Blot-Sweyn... Swedish king Inge the Elder fled to Västergötland when deposed in favour of, a king more favourable towards Norse paganism, in the 1080s. Inge would ...
Boniface Alexandre... hes upon boarding the aircraft that was used to remove Aristide from Haiti.assumed interim authority. René Préval was elected President in February 2 ...
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo... ich the AFP played a key role. The revolution installed then Vice-Presidentinto the presidency
Queen Elizabeth I... s daughters from his first two marriages, who later became Queen Mary I and. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son Edward, Prince o ...
Huayna Capac... 1576 on the foundations of the Amarucancha or the palace of the Inca ruler, is considered one of the best examples of colonial baroque style in the ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... oying a stronger and more effective legislative staff. He took on Presidentand almost succeeded in amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to explicit ...
Simon de Montfort... were becoming dangerously unruly. In 1258, the discontented barons, led by, forced the King to agree to reforms including holding regular parliament ...
Louis XIV... he Nine Years' War. In a bold envelopment the Duc de Luxembourg, commanding’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated Prince Waldeck’s Allied force ...
Philip II... Thebes, he brought home hostages, including the king's brother, afterwards. Philip learned there many tactics of the southern Greeks, both in politi ...
Henry VIIIThe political separation of the Church of England from Rome under, beginning in 1529 and completed in 1536, brought England alongside this ...
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland... ir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. His mother was the eldest daughter of, and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sist ...
Edward, Prince of Wales... Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son, later King Edward VI. When she became Queen, her uncle Lord Parr of Hort ...
George, Duke of Brunswick-LüneburgIn 1636, ruler of the Brunswick-Lüneburg principality of Calenberg, moved his res ...
Zeno... an episode of the struggle for power between Aspar and the Isaurian general, Aspar persuaded the emperor to appoint his second son, Julius Patricius, ...
René Préval... o remove Aristide from Haiti. Boniface Alexandre assumed interim authority.was elected President in February 2006, following elections marked by unce ...
Thomas Jefferson... other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, andwere known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady Dolley ...
King George II... of her £500 income as Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Sarah was also rude to–making it clear that he was "too much of a German"–which further alienate ...
William IV... reign, the power of the monarchy declined and by the time of his successor,, the monarch was no longer able to effectively interfere with parliamenta ...
Dalton McGuintyAn unpopular provincial budget by Liberal Premier, who broke a pledge not to raise taxes, hurt the federal party's numbers ...
Chadli Bendjedid... to choose a successor. To break a deadlock between two candidates, Colonel, a moderate who had collaborated with Boumédienne in deposing Ahmed Ben B ...
Jean Charest... government in May 1990 in response to the report of a commission headed bythat suggested changes to the Meech Lake Accord. Bouchard felt the recomme ...
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor... Matilda (later wife of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Duke of Swabia and Antiking),and Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria (who also died in infancy). In addition, Ju ...
Eugène de Beauharnais... or the revolutions to come. Among these monarchs were the viceroy of Italy,, who tried to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of ...
Richard NixonNOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, afterproposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better ...
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow... former deputy prime minister rumored to be the illegitimate son of Niyazov,, became acting president, although under the constitution the Chairman of ...
Ahmed Ben Bella... dli Bendjedid, a moderate who had collaborated with Boumédienne in deposing, was sworn in on February 9, 1979. He was re-elected in 1984 and 1988. Af ...
James VIICharles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass forfor a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk... s are derived from Islamic civilization, but Turkey's elite, beginning with, who took power as first President of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, imp ...
Edward II... and Aylsham webb or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces ofand III
Ronald Reagan... last Republican presidential candidate to win a majority in the county was, a Californian, in 1984
Dwight D. Eisenhower... pared the United States for World War II and promoted the career of General, known for his organizational skills
Cyrus the GreatTo ensure that the new conquered peoples did not revolt,showed respect to their customs and allowed them to continue to practice t ...
Otto IIn 953 the German kinghad appointed his brother Bruno the Great Duke of Lotharingia
Joachim Murat... ed to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of Italy, and, who called for Italian patriots' help for the unification of Italy under ...
Calvin Coolidge... date in Presidential elections. The last Republican to carry the county wasin 1924. In the last five Presidential elections the Democratic candidate ...
Stenkil... the Swedish House of Munsö became extinct with the death of Emund the Old., a Geat, was elected king of Sweden, and the Geats would be influential i ...
Queen Caroline... the royal family continued, and Sarah was occasionally invited to court by, who attempted to cultivate her friendship
Frank CapraScorsese has earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman,, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, ...
Aistulf... of Charles Martel; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King; and Paul the Deacon, the historian of the Lombards
Henry III, Holy Roman EmperorShe was the daughter ofby his second wife Agnes, daughter of William V, Duke of Aquitaine and Cou ...
Gurbanguly BerdimuhamedowIn an election on February 11, 2007,was elected president with 89% of the vote and 95% turnout, although the e ...
Napoleon Bonaparte... or previously granted to only two other heads of state: Peter the Great and. Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philosophers, musicians and ...
Lucien Bouchard... om the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founderwas a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government ...
Henry Sidgwick... lves lead to certain outcomes. One classic philosopher to take this view is, in his main work
President of the United States... he Native American village of Chiconcte. In 1810 it was renamed in honor ofJames Madison
Jawaharlal NehruGandhi was the only child of, the first prime minister of independent India. She adhered to the quasi- ...
Thoas... er of Oenopion, the personification of wine, Staphylus (related to grapes),, Peparethus, Phanus, Eurymedon, Enyeus, Ceramus, Maron, Euanthes, Latramy ...
Prince Henry... or - described as the King's "familiar councillor" - and tutor to the young
James Madison... hiconcte. In 1810 it was renamed in honor of President of the United States
King WilliamOnce againentrusted Allied forces in the region to Prince Waldeck (William was himse ...
Tony Benn... French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minister for Technology,, announced that he would change the spelling back to Concorde. This creat ...
Abraham Lincoln... served as American Consul in Sweden during the administration of President, to be State Immigration Commissioner. On March 23, 1870 the Legislature ...
James IDuring the 15th centuryconsigned several of his political enemies, including Walter Stewart to Th ...
Abdelaziz Bouteflika... ld in April 1999. Although seven candidates qualified for election, all but, who appeared to have the support of the military as well as the FLN, wit ...
Alexander the Great... h not always accredited as the first practitioner of psychological warfare,undoubtedly showed himself to be effective in swaying the mindsets of the ...
William McKinley... tary actions in Puerto Rico were suspended August 13, 1898, after Presidentand French Ambassador Jules Cambon, acting on behalf of the Spanish govern ...
James Madison... e respected history of ice cream states that, as the wife of U.S. President, she served ice cream at her husband's Inaugural Ball in 1813
Tullus Hostilius... efeated by Rome in the 7th century BC during the reign of Rome's third king
Pope John XXIII... tion of the Congregation for Rites on the application to local calendars of's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum of 25 July 1960 decreed that "the fe ...
Hugo Chávez... Perhaps the best known television show internationally is however President' weekly talkshow Aló Presidente, which began in 1999
Edward II'sDuringreign (1307–1327) there was relatively little activity at the Tower of Lon ...
Alfonso X of Castile... clopaedia Britannica on Astronomy during the 1960s, in a discussion of King's interest in astronomy during the 13th century. (Alfonso is credited wit ...
President... y Council, the Homeland Security Council, the Secretary of Defense, and the. The Chief of Naval Operations is typically the highest ranking officer o ...
emperor... sulship in 434 after campaigning in Africa. However, Aspar could not becomebecause of his Arian religion. Instead, he played the role of kingmaker wi ...
William Ewart Gladstone... 32); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740–1817); Prime Ministers(1809–1898) and Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745); Queen Caroline of Brandenb ...
Peter III of Aragon... of Anjou in Palermo, and the invasion of the Sicily by the Catalans of King. Michael VIII was forced to drain the treasury to pay the enormous bribe ...
Agamemnon... ginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus. The penultimate king of the list,, compels the submission of Sicyon to Mycenae; after him comes the Dorian ...
Genghis Khan, leader of the Mongols in the 13th century AD, united his people to event ...
Charles Seymour... marriage after the death of her husband, including one from her old enemy,, the sixth Duke of Somerset. Ultimately, she decided against remarriage, ...
Justinian... ius are the primary source of information for the rule of the Roman emperor. Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought ...
George Washington... rule that followed. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, whenreturned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
Frederick V, Elector Palatine... the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and
Alexander the Great... rsians, and went under Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by. Due to the influx of Greek speakers and the sparsity of the remaining Ly ...
Bolesław... ey wanted an eventual alliance with the only legitimate son of Władysław I,, born from his first marriage with the Bohemian princess
Frederick#(1471–1533), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later also King o ...
Minos... ] "most" and αδνος [adnos] "holy"), in Greek mythology, was the daughter ofking of Crete, and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan. ...
Woodrow Wilson... l candidate since Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. In 1912, Democrat candidatehad carried the county with a 3.06% majority over its Republican opponent ...
Servius TulliusIn the 6th century BC Rome's sixth kingwarred against Veii (after the expiry of an earlier truce) and the Etrusca ...
Gustav VasaSmåland, is a province of Sweden and at the funeral ofin 1560 the province was granted its arms. Today there are also county arm ...
Marcian... for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, over Theodosius II,and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed
Woodrow Wilson... d used non-recognition as a political tool or symbolic statement. Presidenthad refused to recognise the Mexican Revolutionary governments in 1913 and ...
Johan III... tured a red crossbow with roses on a golden shield but at the coronation ofin 1569 a new coat of arms was granted. A lion was wielding the crossbow a ...
Lady Mary... . It was in the household of King Henry and Catherine of Aragon's daughter,, that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the King. After the death of ...
George Washington... st of the Mississippi River. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of, and Thomas Jefferson planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The ...
Yoweri Museveni... " that would accomplish the goals of the African Renaissance were Presidentof Uganda and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda
Commodus... the prow of a boat;" Gisela Richter noted coins of Elaeus from the time ofthat show on their reverses Protesilaus on the prow of a ship, in helmet, ...
Charlemagne... o have arranged the transfer of the hall's columns from a decayed palace offrom Ingelheim to Heidelberg
George VOn 6 May 1910, Edward VII died. The Prince of Wales ascended the throne as, and Mary became queen consort. When her husband asked her to drop one of ...
Theodore Roosevelt... mpany v. Oregon, 223 U.S. 118 in 1912 (Zimmerman, December 1999). President, in his "Charter of Democracy" speech to the 1912 Ohio constitutional con ...
Shapur... s for a campaign against Persia. In a letter written to the king of Persia,, Constantine had asserted his patronage over Persia's Christian subjects ...
Alexis of Russia... town rights. In the 17th century, during the Russo–Swedish War initiated by, the Russians captured Daugavpils, renamed the town Borisoglebsk and cont ...
Queen Victoria... called Mary, preferring not to take the name of her husband's grandmother,. Queen Mary was crowned with the King on 22 June 1911 at Westminster Abbe ...
Samuel PepysAt the start of the Restoration era, on 11 October 1660,saw the play at the Cockpit Theatre. Nicholas Burt played the lead, with C ...
Thomas Jefferson... iver. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of George Washington, andplanted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The Lewis and Clark Expedi ...
Ahmed Ben Bella... ember 1963, a constitution was adopted by referendum, and later that month,was formally elected the first president. The war of national liberation a ...
Hirohito... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regenton 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident)
Alcmaeon... is to Hestia and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the children of Amphilochus. But, because of his treatment of Eriphyle, is honored neither in the temple o ...
Emund the Old... e 11th century, the Swedish House of Munsö became extinct with the death of. Stenkil, a Geat, was elected king of Sweden, and the Geats would be infl ...
James I... anor. The ownership of the Lancaster manor changed hands many times, beforeassigned it to his son, the future Charles I
George III... ic Stuarts were completely defeated. During the long reign of his grandson,, Britain's American colonies were lost, the former colonies having formed ...
José Ramos-Horta... born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Along with, he received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for work "towards a just and peac ...
William I of Scotland... of the richest in Scotland, but that changed in 1189. He was asked by Kingto offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King Richard I of ...
Alexander I of Russia... a diplomat as much as an officer. He foils an assassination attempt on Tsarand is influential in the monarch's decision to resist the French invasion ...
Pope John Paul II, following his personalist philosophy, considered that a danger of utilit ...
John III Doukas Vatatzes... chael VIII Palaiologos married Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, a grandniece of, Emperor of Nicaea. Orphaned in childhood, she was raised by her great-un ...
Joseph EstradaOn 2000, then Presidentordered the AFP to launch an "all-out war" against the Moro Islamic Libera ...
Franklin Buchanan... h the founding and establishment of USNA. The first Superintendent, Admiral, joined the Confederate States Navy as its first and primary admiral. Cap ...
Herbert Hoover... hinese or the Japanese, and the secretary was further hampered by President’s clear indication that he would not support economic sanctions as a mean ...
Nelson MandelaEDMs tabled on serious topics have included one demanding the release ofwhen he was incarcerated in apartheid South Africa, and one calling for a ...
Charles I... changed hands many times, before James I assigned it to his son, the future
OdinWhenwas exiled, Ollerus was chosen to take his place. Ollerus ruled under the ...
Paul Kagame... African Renaissance were President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Presidentof Rwanda
Barack ObamaAlthoughgot only 38.45% of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is ...
Jimmy Carter... ited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. Presidentfrom 1979–1981
Franklin D. Roosevelt... Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county sincein 1936 (who himself had also lost the county)
George IV... orphyria, an illness rendering him incapable of ruling. His son, the future, ruled in his stead as Prince Regent. During the Regency and his own reig ...
Sir Thomas Seymour... ter the death of Parr's second husband, Catherine began a relationship with, the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the King took a liking t ...
Olof Skötkonung... tland, and about Olaf the Holy's battles with the Geats during his war with
Richard I of England... I of Scotland to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King's terms for a treaty that been signed between them. The treaty said that ...
Roman Emperor... oman fort and bridge across the River Tyne and given the family name of theHadrian who founded it in the 2nd century AD. The population of Pons Aeliu ...
Alexander the Great... ecuted Artayctes, returning the treasure. The tomb was mentioned again whenarrived at Elaeus on his campaign against the Persian Empire. He offered a ...
Zhou Enlai... is suppressions, which had damaged the CPC immensely. Some of them, such asand Zhang Wentian, did realize it could bring more damage to the anti-Japa ...
George W. BushOn March 23, 2007, Presidentsigned legislation naming the United States Department of Education headqu ...
René Préval... is 5-year term based on the date of his inauguration. In the 1995 election,was elected as president for a five-year term, winning 88% of the popular ...
Queen Isabella... became the first woman imprisoned in the Tower of London after she refusedadmittance to Leeds Castle and ordered her archers to fire upon Isabella, ...
Corazon Aquino... odless People Power Revolution that removed Marcos from power and installedas the new president of the Philippines
Queen Alexandra... ning of Mary's period as consort brought her into conflict with the Dowager. Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn; sh ...
Hadrian... bridge across the River Tyne and given the family name of the Roman Emperorwho founded it in the 2nd century AD. The population of Pons Aelius at thi ...
King George III... d the king for repeal of the acts. These measures were unsuccessful becauseand the ministry of Prime Minister Lord North were determined not to retre ...
John#(1455–1513), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Duke of Schleswig and Hol ...
Karl Dönitz... g Nazi official tried at Nuremberg, behind Reich President (former Admiral)and former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. Göring and the others were interview ...
Queen Mary I... ing Henry with his daughters from his first two marriages, who later becameand Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's ...
BelusIn Greek mythology, Lybie (, Lubiē; often written Lybië) was the mother ofby Poseidon and a personification and queen of the country of Libya. Some ...
Ahmed Ben Bella... me of those regionalists, tensions increased between Houari Boumédienne and. In 1965 the military toppled Ahmed Ben Bella, and Houari Boumedienne bec ...
Gerald FordPresident's mother Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford and maternal grandfather Levi Addison ...
Adolf Hitler... in fanatical support through the use of microphone technology was Germany's. By first creating a speaking environment, designed by Joseph Goebbels, h ...
Lothair II... r Lotharingia was an independent Carolingian kingdom under the rule of King(855–869). Its territory had originally been a part of Middle Francia, cre ...
SpartaUpon the seizure of the Theban citadel by thens (383 or 382) he fled to Athens, and took the lead in a conspiracy to li ...
Claudius... d had not been since its defeat by the Carians. In 43 AD the Roman emperor,, dissolved the league. Lycia was incorporated into the Roman Empire with ...
Theodosius II... Roman Emperors for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, over, Marcian and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed
Philip II of Spain... rtuguese in 1641 while Spain began to colonize the Philippines (named after) from 1560s. Acting through the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch estab ...
Henry VIIIIn 1519granted a market on Saturdays and an annual fair to be held on March 12, w ...
Prince of Wales... of Bute (1713–92) his architect William Burges (1827–1881) and the presentand Princess Margaret
Adolf Hitler... his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and ot ...
Theodore Roosevelt... ations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce ...
Henry IV... ttacked unsuccessfully by the Protestants in 1568, and was taken in 1591 by, who was crowned there three years afterwards
Donna Shalala... Cambridge historian Sir Moses I. Finley; Arthur Rock, a cofounder of Intel;, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; Joe Biden, ...
Wallis Simpson... d a public scandal by announcing his desire to marry the divorced American,, even though the Church of England opposed the remarriage of divorcées. A ...
St. HelenaScholars debate whether Constantine adopted his mother's Christianity in his youth, or whether he adopted it gradually over the ...
Emperor Jing... s well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan, Emperor Ming, and), also set their capital at Jiangling, and Xiao Zhuang, who is considered ...
William IIThe Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 1097 Kingordered a wall to be built around the Tower of London; it was probably bui ...
Theodoric II... n 455 Avitus had sent an ambassador, comes Fronto, to the Suebi and then toto ask them formally to recognise Roman rule. When the Suebi invaded the R ...
Henry III... death in 1216. She had five children by the king including his heir, later. In 1220, Isabella married Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, by who ...
President Wilson... t Versailles were Britain's Lloyd George, France's Clemenceau and America's
Abraham Lincoln... r with Carl Schurz, the American Turners were supportive of the election ofas president of the United States. They provided the bodyguard at his inau ...
Chiang Kai-shek... ster Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of Chinaissued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire ...
Aragorn... the voice actors was the well-regarded John Hurt, who performed the role of. The project's high profile brought heavy trade journal coverage, and fan ...
Richard NixonTanaka's foreign policy mirrored that of, and his most notable achievement was the normalization of Japan's relati ...
King Charles VII... ntil 1801, when George III abandoned his formal claim to the French throne.ennobled Joan of Arc's family on 29 December 1429 with an inheritable symb ...
Edmund the Martyr... e region again came under attack, this time from Danes who killed the king,. In the centuries before the Norman Conquest the wetlands of the east of ...
Philip IV... the mayor was assassinated and noble residences in the city were pillaged.reimposed order and suppressed the city's charter and the lucrative monopo ...
Prince Justinian... m Pope Leo II to Constantine IV in 682. He met and developed a rapport with, the heir apparent to the Byzantine throne, on both occasions
Grace Kelly... televise her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, byfor The Country Girl (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly c ...
Edward VII... ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the futureand George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had ...
René Préval... ational Assembly soon deteriorated, partly over his selection of his friendas Prime Minister. In September, Aristide was overthrown in the 1991 Haiti ...
Vima Kadphises... an, to subdue Kashgar and its ally Sogdiana. When a request by Kushan ruler(r. c. 90–c. 100 CE) for a marriage alliance with the Han was rejected in ...
Conrad Nagel... my Award for Best Actress. Also starring in the film are Robert Montgomery,, and Florence Eldridge
Maurice of Saxony... y. In 1552 a number of insurgent Protestant Imperial princes around Electorby the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to King Henry II of F ...
Maximilian I... visited Charles of Burgundy, acting as intermediary between him and emperor. He stayed in Burgundy for several months, moving to the Netherlands in t ...
Napoleon Bonaparte... y of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was created in 1807 by, following his defeat of Prussia. The Duchy's military forces, led by Józ ...
John... 1188 – 31 May 1246) was queen consort of England as the second wife of Kingfrom 1200 until John's death in 1216. She had five children by the king in ...
Christian III... The next year, following his victory in the Count's War, he became king asand continued the reformation of the state church with assistance of Johan ...
Warren G. Harding... e. Although he had personal misgivings about the capability of the nominee,, Hoover publicly endorsed him and made two speeches for Harding
Melampus... hology, Bias was a brother of Melampus who received one third of Argos (seefor more information). Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, Tal ...
Elizabeth II... at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen. The honour had been first proposed in 1931. Knighthood was suggested aga ...
Chen Cheng... came to Xian again, accompanied by many senior Kuomintang leaders includingto monitor the suppression campaign. In the interim between these two visi ...
Emperor Ming... r Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan,, and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, and Xiao Zhuang, ...
Frederick IUnder the reign of(1523–33), Denmark remained officially Roman Catholic. But though Frederic ...
George W. Bush... tanding that masculinity and femininity are gender roles and not sex roles., the 43rd president of the United States, once said, “The best defense ag ...
Bette Davis... rly sub-proletarian of Lo scopone scientifico teased by the old millionaireinto endless card games where he hopes to find release from his poverty to ...
Holy Roman Emperor... igismund to Basel. After over a year of negotiations, Sigismund was crownedon 31 May 1433 by Pope Eugenius IV, with Oswald probably in attendance
Emilio Aguinaldo... ry Army was founded on March 22, 1897 in Cavite. The armed force of Generalrevolutionary government, with General Artemio Ricarte as its first Captai ...
Pauline Marois... e next day that he was withdrawing from the race, and that he would supportwho had also announced her intention to run
Charles of Burgundy... which would be created in 1478 or 1479. In the autumn same year he visited, acting as intermediary between him and emperor Maximilian I. He stayed i ...
Zachary Taylor... apolis, gave the orders which led to the occupation of California, and sentinto the contested land between Texas and Mexico. He also continued his pl ...
Chun Doo-hwanRoh befriendedwhile in high school in Daegu. In his younger life, Roh was a keen rugby u ...
Ferhat AbbasIn March 1943, Muslim leaderpresented the French administration with the Manifesto of the Algerian Peo ...
Louis XIV... t was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by Francis I. After the time ofthe title of duke of Chartres was hereditary in the family of Orléans
Harry S. Truman... rrender of Japan in World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States President, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nat ...
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot... rmer Tonton Macoute leader Roger Lafontant seized the provisional Presidentand declared himself President. After large numbers of Aristide supporters ...
Prince of Wales... spite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly theknow the Pimpernel's true identity. Like many others, Marguerite is entran ...
Haakon I of Norway... hout the assistance of the Swedish king Erik Emundsson. He also wrote about's expedition into Götaland and Harold I of Denmark's battle against Jarl ...
President TrumanIn July 1946, as Chairman of the Council on African Affairs, he telegraphedon the lynching of four African Americans in Georgia, demanding that the f ...
Charles V... n Alsace, east of Lorraine. In 1670, the French invaded again, forcing Duketo flee to a Viennese exile, where he formed strong ties to the Imperial H ...
MelampusIn Greek mythology, Bias was a brother ofwho received one third of Argos (see Melampus for more information). Bias ...
Frederick III... Ribe 5 March 1460 (Treaty of Ribe). In 1474 Lauenburg's liege lord Emperorelevated Christian I as Count of Holstein to Duke of Holstein, thus becomi ...
Abraham Lincoln... Freeport in 1858. There the four-year-old Marshall met Stephen Douglas andand sat on the lap of whichever candidate was not speaking. He later refer ...
Alexander Mair... in, also of the Liberal Party. The member for Albury between 1932 and 1946,, was the Premier of New South Wales from 1939 to 1941
Pope John Paul II... an, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that ofwho died two years later
Karl Dönitz... and testament, Hitler stripped Göring of his party membership and appointedas president of the Reich and leader of the armed forces. Hitler and his l ...
King John... June 1202, by which time she was already queen of England. Her marriage totook place on 24 August 1200, at Bordeaux, a year after he annulled his fi ...
Charles Spencer... or political disagreement occurred when Sarah insisted that her son-in-law,, the third Earl of Sunderland, be admitted into the Privy Council. Sarah ...
Maximilian I... it is no coincidence either that the reign of his nationalistic predecessorsaw the beginning of the movement. While the centralized states of western ...
Woodrow Wilson... ting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and, he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organizatio ...
Idi Amin... relationships with a variety of world leaders, including Saddam Hussein and. Arafat was Amin's best man at his wedding in Uganda in 1975
Al-Walid IIn 711, Tariq ibn Ziyad, under the orders of the Umayyad Caliph, led a large army from the north coast of Morocco on April 29 711. The ar ...
William Howard Taft... ess and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt,, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful ...
Edward III... rative, than poundage and tonnage before it. Under statutes of Edward I and, collection of ship money had been authorised only during wars, and only ...
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany... the collection of the Uffizi. For Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, brother ofand a scholar and patron of the arts, he began as bookkeeper in 1664 and d ...
Saddam Hussein... Arafat established relationships with a variety of world leaders, includingand Idi Amin. Arafat was Amin's best man at his wedding in Uganda in 1975
Premier of QuebecThe day after the referendum, Parizeau stepped down as PQ leader and. Bouchard left federal politics and succeeded Parizeau in both posts on 2 ...
Henry IThe death in 1135 ofleft England with a disputed succession; although the king had persuaded h ...
Rory O'Connor... 170, King Dermot MacMurrough of Leinster was deposed by his arch-enemy Kingof Connacht. Dermot escaped to England and asked Henry for help. Henry let ...
Mohammad Khatami... al attention. The concept, which was introduced by former Iranian president, was the basis for United Nations' resolution to name the year 2001 as th ...
Yuan Shikai... nder of the cruiser , undertook a confidential mission to meet Qing Generalin Seoul, Korea (1890). Afterwards, he assumed command of the
Edward I... ular, and lucrative, than poundage and tonnage before it. Under statutes ofand Edward III, collection of ship money had been authorised only during w ...
Prince Edward... till alive. Catherine retired from court after the crowning of her step-sonon 31 January 1547, to her home at Old Manor in Chelsea
George V... Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founde ...
René Lévesque... Québécois and the Action démocratique du Québec on 12 June 1995. It revived's notion that the referendum should be followed by the negotiating of an ...
Decebalus... aru, Piatra Roşie, Băniţa and Căpâlna - that formed the defensive system ofwere designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, as well as the se ...
Charles VThoughfought the Reformation, it is no coincidence either that the reign of his ...
Amartya SenIn another article explicitly referring to Huntington,(1999) writes that "diversity is a feature of most cultures in the world. ...
Justinian II... ntificate was his 710/711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised withon the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council. Constantine was the last p ...
Eudokia MakrembolitissaIn 1067, he had been considered as a possible husband for the empress, widowed wife of Constantine X, but she eventually set her heart on Roman ...
Melampus... veral daughters. According to Pausanias, Amythaon is the father of Bias and. Their mother was Idomene, daughter o
King Henry VII... 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of
Philip II Augustus of France... nsept, choir, and the lowest section of the lantern tower. On 24 June 1204,entered Rouen and annexed Normandy to the French Kingdom. The fall of Roue ...
U.S. presidents... at Yeshiva University, High Noon is the film most requested for viewing by. It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhowe ...
Theodore Roosevelt... een a registered Republican before the war, though in 1912 he had supported's "Bull Moose" Progressive Party. Now he declared himself a Republican an ...
Bette Davis... y Jane? (1962). Despite the actresses' earlier tensions, Crawford suggestedfor the role of Jane. The two stars maintained publicly that there was no ...
Bill Clinton... cember 1996. Bishop Belo capitalised upon this honour through meetings withof the United States and Nelson Mandela of South Africa. In 1995, he also ...
Baal-Eser/Balazeros... in 841 BC, with 𐤓𐤅𐤑𐤏𐤋𐤏𐤁 Ba‘al-‘azor (Phoenician form of the name) or(Greek form of the name), Dido’s grandfather. This lends credibility to th ...
Manuel I... e modern flag of Portugal and has been a national symbol since the reign of
Charles de Gaulle... changed to Concord by Harold Macmillan in response to a perceived slight by. In 1967, at the French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minis ...
John F. Kennedy... to junior members—an aide rushed in to tell him that his brother, President, had been shot; his brother Robert soon told him that the President was d ...
Mary... e of flux. Following a brief Roman Catholic restoration during the reign of1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of Elizabeth I, th ...
Bud Selig... an Jose as the team's "best option", but Major League Baseball Commissionersaid he would wait on a report on whether the team could move to the area ...
Manuel II... zation, the zenith of Greek influence, In his 1415 and 1418 pamphlets urgedand his son Theodore to turn the peninsula into a cultural island with a n ...
Prosper Avril... the fore the increasing prominence of former Tontons Macoutes, and Generalled a military regime until March 1990. Throughout the late 1980s and into ...
José Ramos-Horta... f peace and reconciliation were internationally recognised when, along with, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1996. Bishop Belo capit ...
Stephen of Blois... swear support for the Empress Matilda, just a few days after Henry's deatharrived from France to lay claim to the throne. The importance of the city ...
Theodoric the Great... the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings fromto Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric. This interpr ...
Queen Elizabeth I... convictions, greatly influenced her stepdaughter Lady Elizabeth (the future)
Ceawlin... obyrig or Old Sarum, near Salisbury, in 552, and that in 556 he and his sonwon a battle against the Britons at Beranburh, now identified as Barbury C ...
Majorian... prestige gained through their victories, Ricimer and the comes domesticorumrebelled against Avitus; the Emperor was obliged to leave Rome in early au ...
Queen Elizabeth II... tan. He retained that title until his death on 6 February 1952, after whichbecame Queen of Pakistan. Pakistan became an Islamic and Parliamentary rep ...
Liu YuLiu Song founderwas originally a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that no ...
Pygmalion... ’s translation, with a longer discussion of the Nora stone, is found in thearticle.) If Cross’s interpretation is correct, this presents inscriptiona ...
Pope Paul VI... to take command of the ruins on May 18. The Abbey was rebuilt after the war;reconsecrated it in 1964
PharaohDuring the Amarna Period,Akhenaten introduced monotheistic worship of Aton, the deified solar disc, ...
Barack Obama... ived 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Democrat
Joseph II... l ("national Singspiel"), a pet project (1778–1783) of the Austrian emperor. The Emperor had set up the company to perform works in the German langua ...
George Washington... colonies, called the Virginia Regiment, was led by then-Lieutenant colonel
Chairman... ident Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, andof the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issued the document ...
Hafez al-Assad... other PLO leaders. Although originally aligned with Fatah, Syrian Presidentfeared a loss of influence in Lebanon and switched sides. He sent his army ...
Pope John Paul II... oing stress he endured began to show their effects on Bishop Belo's health.accepted his resignation as Apostolic Administrator of Dili on November 26 ...
de Gaulle's... he escaped back to England, where he initially worked as an interpreter forFree French forces. However, he was quickly prised away from de Gaulle by ...
Indira Gandhi... emonstrations in 1955 and 26000 in 1960-61. Finally, in September 1966, the-led Union Government accepted the demand, and Punjab was trifurcated as p ...
Xiao Zhuang... , Emperor Ming, and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, and, who is considered by some historians to be a Liang Dynasty emperor, had ...
Pelias... Proetus's kingdom. Bias and Iphianassa had a daughter Anaxibia who married, to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. According to Pausanias, ...
Francis I... 1286 sold it to the crown. It was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by. After the time of Louis XIV the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary ...
President of the Philippines... s represented by Malacañan Palace, the official office and residence of the, and the buildings of the Supreme Court of the Philippines respectively. ...
Bill Clinton... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US Presidentby virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was al ...
claim to the French throne... to quarter the French arms until 1801, when George III abandoned his formal
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy... amed with Fascist names. A failed assassination attempt was carried towardsby a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941, ...
Pope Paul VI... nisext Council. Constantine was the last pope to visit Constantinople untildid again in 1967
Isabel Martínez de Perón... onarch women heads of state and heads of government in this period includedas the first woman President in Argentina and the first woman non-monarch ...
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Pope Pius XII... cial statehood ceremony in 1959 and being asked for a private audience with
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Richard I of England... er own library. A deep affection existed between Marie and her half-brother, and his celebrated poem J'a nuns hons pris, lamenting his captivity in A ...
Ronald ReaganThe president of SAG – future United States President– also known to the FBI as Confidential Informant "T-10", testified before ...
Mary... e, Catherine of Aragon, bore him only a single child that survived infancy,. As England had recently gone through a lengthy dynastic conflict (see Wa ...
Christopher of Denmark, Sweden and NorwayKingdied in January 1448. His death resulted in the break-up of the union of t ...
King Frederick VI... he recently established University of Berlin. It was originally named afterof Denmark and Norway and received its current name in 1939. After the dis ...
Kaiser... nded in 1918 with the defeat of Germany and the abdication and exile of the
George WestinghouseAlthoughhad bought Gaulard and Gibbs' patents in 1885, the Edison Electric Light C ...
Emperor Yuan of Liang... as briefly at Jiangling during the reign of Emperor He of Southern Qi), and, as well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan, Emperor Ming, ...
Premier of Quebec... e way to sovereignty created by PQ leader Jacques Parizeau. Parizeau becamein the Quebec election of 1994 (the second of the Three Periods)
Alexander the Great... had been occupied in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, the Achaemenid Empire, and's Hellenic Macedonian empire (c. 330 BCE), although Jewish religious prac ...
George III... ter of Great Britain) continued to quarter the French arms until 1801, whenabandoned his formal claim to the French throne
Cerdic... from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There he is stated to have been the son of, and also (in the regnal list in the preface) to have been the son of Cer ...
Jean-Bertrand AristideIn December 1990, the former priestwas elected President in the Haitian general election, winning more than t ...
Charles KnutssonMeanwhile, Sweden had on 20 June 1448 electedas king. Norway was now faced with the choice between a union with Sweden ...
Abraham Lincoln... ar, and the country became an enormous market for Hohner's goods. Presidentcarried a harmonica in his pocket, and harmonicas provided solace to soldi ...
Jacques Parizeau... ods, a plan intended to lay out the way to sovereignty created by PQ leader. Parizeau became Premier of Quebec in the Quebec election of 1994 (the se ...
Emperor He of Southern Qi... though the Southern Qi capital was briefly at Jiangling during the reign of), and Emperor Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors ...
Talaus... mpus for more information). Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child,, with her. When Pero died he remarried Iphianassa, daughter of Proetus, a ...
Henry VIII... he separation of the Church of England (or Anglican Church) from Rome under, beginning in 1529 and completed in 1537, brought England alongside this ...
President... for the Surrender of Japan in World War II. On July 26, 1945, United StatesHarry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chai ...
Dmitry MedvedevIn November 2008, Russian presidentannounced government support for the construction of the Sakhalin Tunnel, ...
Mao Zedong... nt stage was Japan instead of Chiang. But this received cold shoulders fromand his associates, who ruled CPC and greatly disagreed with Chiang's poli ...
Nelson Mandela... pon this honour through meetings with Bill Clinton of the United States andof South Africa. In 1995, he also won the John Humphrey Freedom Award from ...
Beatrix of the Netherlands... the parents of three daughters: Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane. Whenpasses away, or abdicates the throne, the Crown Prince will take the thron ...
Alaric II... supported by Jordanes. He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I toas the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostro ...
Queen Isabel II... 843 to 1852, who founded Isabel Segunda, the "town of Vieques", named afterof Spain). Vieques was formally annexed to Puerto Rico in 1854
CharlemagneWhendestroyed the walls of Pamplona after a failed attempt to conquest the Mus ...
Isabella#(1214–1241), the wife of Emperor Frederick II, by whom she had issue
Elizabeth IIn 1952, a romanticised version of Thomas Seymour's obsession withsaw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons as the young Elizabeth and sc ...
Sarpedon# Antíphatês, son of. Who accompanied Aeneas to Italy where he was killed by Turnus
Benjamin Baker... ced, and the project was subsequently taken over by Sir John Fowler and Sir. who designed a structure that was built by Glasgow based company Sir Wil ...
Robert Lucas... m Hayek's Austrian School. So successful were these criticisms that by 1980was saying economists would often take offence if described as Keynesians
Emperor Frederick II# Isabella (1214–1241), the wife of, by whom she had issue
Friedrich Wilhelm IIThe Brandenburg Gate was commissioned byto represent peace. The Gate was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the C ...
Thomas Jefferson... f Rights, which was then included in a new constitution. Another Virginian,, drew upon Mason's work in drafting the national Declaration of Independe ...
Leslie Manigat... ns followed, boycotted by opposition candidates, and the elected President,, was overthrown some months later in the June 1988 Haitian coup d'état wh ...
Chaim Herzog... ge was repaired, but only a trickle of Israeli forces crossed. According to, the Egyptians continued attacking the bridgehead until the cease-fire, u ...
David... do boats were virtually invisible. The Davids were named after the story ofand Goliath. The CSS Midge and CSS St. Patrick were David-class torpedo bo ...
Augustus... n protectorate. The process was completed in 27 B.C. when the Roman Emperorannexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province o ...
Marie Antoinette... sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of(which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collection ...
Ferdinand Marcos... Commission was created to administer the emerging metropolis when Presidentissued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ...
Manuel L. QuezonIn 1941 with the onset of World War II, Presidentcreated the City of Greater Manila as an emergency measure, merging the ci ...
The Prince of Wales... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh,, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York
William H. SewellFrederick H. Buttel (1948–2005) was an American sociologist. He was theProfessor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Prince George... nt at Abigail’s secret wedding to Samuel Masham, groom of the bedchamber to, in 1707, without Sarah’s knowledge
Mehmed II... the Ottoman Empire grew in size and strength, Ottoman rulers beginning withbegan to claim caliphal authority. Their claim was strengthened when the O ...
Henry II... bey and ordered her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed besideand Eleanor of Aquitaine. Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, ...
John III of Navarre... with France (reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d'Albret, sister of), in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499: aft ...
PerseusShe remained faithful to Dionysus, but was later killed byat Argos. In other myths Ariadne hanged herself from a tree, like Erigone ...
Jean-Claude Duvalier"Papa Doc" was succeeded by his son (born 3 July 1951)– known also as "Bébé Doc" – who led the country from 1971 until his ouste ...
Emperor Joseph II... 1787, Clerfayt, as a Walloon by birth, came under great pressure to abandon. But he resisted all overtures, and in the following year went to fight i ...
Thomas SeymourIn 1952, a romanticised version of's obsession with Elizabeth I saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons ...
Camille Chamoun... the Tigers Militia—which was led by Dany Chamoun, a son of former President
Henri Namphy... sts against "Baby Doc" led him to seek exile in France. Army leader Generalheaded a new National Governing Council
James Madison... elers during the Colonial era. Famous Americans, such as George Washington,and others have passed through Rock Hall numerous times traversing between ...
Frederick WilliamIn the time of(1688), shortly after the Thirty Years' war and a century before the gate ...
The Duke of York... urgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and
second president... the second president and eighth prime minister of the Czech Republic or theof the Slovak Republic having German surnames. After 1948 skilled Sudeten ...
Indira Gandhi... ien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African Republic,continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977 (and taking office again ...
Philip IV... he Palatinate, Charles declared war on Spain, which under the Catholic Kinghad sent forces to help occupy the Palatinate
George Washington... torial legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States,, in 1849. The original boundaries included the entire northwest corner of ...
Melampus# Antíphatês, son ofand Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes. He married Zeuxippe, the daug ...
George Washington... connection for travelers during the Colonial era. Famous Americans, such as, James Madison and others have passed through Rock Hall numerous times tr ...
Corazon AquinoIn 1986, after a major government reorganization, Presidentissued Executive Order No. 392 and changed the structure of the Metropolit ...
Friedrich Barbarossa... ecords dating to as early as 854. The city was declared an Imperial City byin 1181
Ivan the Terrible... Poland. In 1577, Dünaburg castle was captured and destroyed by Russian tsar. That same year, a new castle was built 20 km downriver. In 1582 Daugavpi ...
Catherine of Bulgaria... on November 22, 1059, against the wishes of his brother and of his empress. Like Isaac, his wife and daughter entered a monastery
Bob RaeFormer premier of Ontariohas stated that the Charter "functions as a symbol for all Canadians" in p ...
Prince Francis... y's Cambridge Emeralds from Lady Kilmorey, the mistress of her late brother. See also , Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. In 1924, the famous ...
OenopionWith Dionysus, she was the mother of, the personification of wine, Staphylus (related to grapes), Thoas, Pepar ...
Frank McKenna... efugee claimants, and defence, and he appointed seasoned Liberal politicianas Canada's ambassador to Washington
Ferdinand II... , had lost his hereditary lands in the Palatinate to the Holy Roman Emperor. Having agreed to help his brother-in-law regain the Palatinate, Charles ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... eferred Hoover as his successor. "There could not be a finer one," asserted, then a rising star from New York. Hoover briefly considered becoming a D ...
Megapenthes# Antíphatês, son of Melampus and Iphianeira, the daughter of. He married Zeuxippe, the daughter of Hippocoon. Their children were Oecl ...
Petronius Maximus... sianus, one of his collaborators in his embassy to the Visigoths ordered by, as the new magister militum; then he probably went to Gaul (Hydatius say ...
Agamemnon... lled by Orestes, who was their half-brother and the son of Clytemnestra and(this was in revenge for Clytemnestra killing Agamemnon, which she did in ...
King Louis IXIn the reign of(St. Louis) the three petals of the flower were said to represent faith, w ...
Dowager Empress Marie of Russia... . She paid above-market estimates when purchasing jewels from the estate ofand paid almost three times the estimate when buying the family's Cambridg ...
Frederick V... ally confined to Bohemia, was spiralling into a wider European war. In 1620was defeated at the Battle of White Mountain and by 1622, despite the aid ...
George W. Bush... n parishes in Louisiana and the entire United States. In the 2004 election,received 33,976 votes, or 77% of the county's total, more than three times ...
Philip II of Macedon... cient sources, especially compared to some of his near contemporaries (e.g., Pelopidas). One principal reason for this is the loss of Plutarch's biog ...
Napoleon IIIHowever, in 1865,allowed them to apply for full French citizenship, a measure that few took ...
Judith of Bohemia... me to Sophia, perhaps to distinguish herself from Władysław I's first wife,. She bore her husband four daughters: Sophia (by marriage Princess of Vla ...
Bachir Gemayel... ry components of the Christian front were the Maronite Phalangists loyal toand the Tigers Militia—which was led by Dany Chamoun, a son of former Pres ...
Zachary Taylor... nship with the historian Macaulay and the poet Hallam. With the election ofhis post was not renewed; on his return to the United states in 1849 he wi ...
Napoleon III... rbances in Italy from 1820 until after unification. The Carbonari condemnedto death for failing to unite Italy, and the group almost succeeded in ass ...
Robert E. Lee... obile Bay on 5 August 1864. On 12 April 1865, 3 days after the surrender ofat Appomattox Courthouse, the city of Mobile surrendered to the Union army ...
Robert Curthose... mans, Monkchester was all but destroyed. Because of its strategic position,, son of William the Conqueror, erected a wooden there in the year 1080 an ...
Elizabeth I... ised her role as Catherine Parr in Part 1 of a 6-part series on the life ofin 1971, called Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson in the title role
Elizabeth I... he reign of Mary 1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of, though this point is one of considerable debate among historians. Yet it ...
Sparta... eaux riches. While a general in the Peloponnesian War, he lost Pylos to thens and was charged with treason. According to the Constitution of the Athe ...
Charles VII... pported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy. The king of Francerecaptured the town in 1449, 18 years after the death of Joan of Arc and a ...
the King... alth. The defensive war fought by the forces of the Commonwealth ended when, convinced of the futility of resistance, capitulated by joining the Targ ...
Richard... after the King's father, Henry II. He was quickly followed by another son,, and three daughters, Joan, Isabel, and Eleanor. All five children surviv ...
second president... rman ancestry were counted as "Czechs" and allowed to stay, for example theand eighth prime minister of the Czech Republic or the second president of ...
Manuel L. QuezonDuring the Philippine Commonwealth era, President, the first president of the Commonwealth, renamed the Philippine Army to ...
emperors... hly diverse, drawing on several millennia of culinary history. The dynasticof ancient China were known to host banquets with over 100 dishes served a ...
Lidia Gueiler Tejada... he People's Republic of China continuing their leadership from the sixties,becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Mar ...
Sténio Vincent... anism"), targeting the mostly black inhabitants of his neighboring country.was succeeded as President in 1941 by Élie Lescot. In 1949, Lescot tried t ...
Élie LescotSténio Vincent was succeeded as President in 1941 by. In 1949, Lescot tried to change the constitution to allow for his own re ...
Abraham Lincoln... she hears a soft voice speaking to her in greeting; it is a lone passerby,. He tells her that he is the last man on that road. Frightened, Lavinia b ...
James I... nts and proclaiming Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson ofthrough his mother Sophia of Hanover), King George I of Great Britain
president... and air force. These three branches are constitutionally subordinate to thethrough the Minister of Defense. By offering early retirement incentives, ...
James VII and II... Abdication Act 1936. The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was, who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution
Louis VI... rue lilies, it was associated with the Virgin Mary, and in the 12th centuryand Louis VII started to use the emblem, on sceptres for example, so conne ...
John of England... and, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and
Sigismund III Vasa... h century, a number of Italian musicians were guests at the royal courts ofand Władysław IV. These included Luca Marenzio, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, ...
Ivan Vladislav of BulgariaHe married Catherine (as nun, Xene) of Bulgaria, a daughter of. They had at least two children
Hu Jintao... ina by announcing the strategic partnership initiative during PRC President's state visit to Canada in September 2005
King Alfonso XIII of Spain... , he was released through the secret intervention of Mistinguett's admirer,, the only king of a neutral country who was related to both the British a ...
Bayan I... Protector mentions a Daurentius (577-579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan. The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he howe ...
Henry II... a gave birth to a son and heir who was named Henry after the King's father,. He was quickly followed by another son, Richard, and three daughters, Jo ...
Richard I of England... am IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony,, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and J ...
Soong Ching-ling... ice again in 1980), Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel and acting Chairmanof the People's Republic of China continuing their leadership from the six ...
William Huggins... the English chemist William Allen Miller and English amateur astronomer Sirused the wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic ...
Pervez Musharraf... in the cities of Peshawar, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. Generalfaced already fierce opposition from his mostly Muslim population for his ...
Sparta... ncluding their leader Pericles. The balance of power shifted from Athens to, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in ...
Sir Thomas Seymour... d many years abroad on command of King Henry himself, Catherine's old love,returned to court. Catherine, who still harbored feelings for Seymour, was ...
Woodrow WilsonAfter the United States entered the war in April 1917, Presidentappointed Hoover to head the U.S. Food Administration. Hoover believed "fo ...
President of the United States... and Senator John Glenn (Ohio) was running for the Democratic nomination for. It was felt that the movie might help his chances, but in fact, his cand ...
Philip the Fair... in were ruled by the kings of Sicily of the house of Anjou. The French King, who had inherited from his father all the rights of Alphonse de Poitiers ...
Richard the Lionheart... castle probably retained its form as established by 1100 until the reign of(1189–1199). The castle was extended under William Longchamp, Richard's Lo ...
Leopold Joseph... raine, including the capital Nancy, were again occupied by France, but Dukecontinued to reign at the Château de Lunéville
John Mauchly... ration, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and, and the associated line of computers which continues to this day in one ...
Zhou Enlai... sident Nikita Khrushchev, former Premier of the People's Republic of China,and lately former Minister for Foreign Matters of the German Democratic Re ...
Barack ObamaIn 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President
He Yingqin... the Kuomintang armies for the rescue of Chiang. Historians used to say thatstrongly supported solving this incident by force, for which He contacted ...
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany... rs, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England,, Leonora of England, Joan of England and John of England
Władysław I HermanIn 1089, Judith married with, Duke of Poland. This union considerably benefitted German-Polish relatio ...
Alexios Komnenos... owned by Patriarch Kosmas I of Constantinople. With the help of his general, he defeated Bryennios and other rivals, but failed to clear the invading ...
Isaac Newton... he tells us, was drawn from certain speculations as to nervous action whichhad published in his Principia. His psychological theory was suggested by ...
Ludwig II of BavariaBy 1869, Wagner was living at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne, sponsored by King. He returned to Siegfried, and, remarkably, was able to pick up where he ...
Amulius... hea Silvia (also known as Ilia). Before their conception, Numitor's brotherdeposed his brother, killed his sons and forced Rhea to become a Vestal Vi ...
Pope John XXIII... aint Marcellinus, and on 13 July the feast day of Saint Anacletus. In 1960,, while keeping the 26 April feast, which mentions the saint under the nam ...
François Duvalier... ike. After a period of disorder, an election held in September 1957 saw Dr.elected President
Penthilus... troops, kills Aletes, and takes the throne. Orestes is said to have a son,, with his half-sister Erigone, though stories differ as to whether this w ...
King ArthurCamelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-c ...
the Duke of Edinburgh... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that(the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances
George WashingtonWhen the American Revolutionary War began,was selected to head the colonial army. During the war, the capital was mo ...
Edward VII... s. The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King, who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscri ...
Conrad IIIn 1033, wheninherited the Kingdom of Arelat, Avignon passed to the Holy Roman Empire. ...
Archduchess Maria Theresa... ion. The Lorraine duke Francis Stephen, betrothed to the Emperor's daughter, was compensated with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, where the last Medici r ...
Queen Anne... eached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself.died on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace; the Protestant Whig Privy Coun ...
Charles Carroll... along this route by Richard Caton, under the authority of his father-in-law, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Travelers along "the turnpi ...
Henry the Young King... he was also an older maternal half-sister to William IX, Count of Poitiers,, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of B ...
Robert Lucas... tes economy recover from the late-2000s recession. Some economists, such as, questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Rob ...
Gizur... Angantyr desperately tried to marshal the defenses, it was the Geatish kingwho answered his call. In fact, no explanation is needed, because there is ...
Emperor Huan of Han... (r. 161–180 CE) is recorded in the Hou Hanshu to have reached the court of(r. 146–168 CE) in 166 CE, yet Rafe de Crespigny asserts that this was mos ...
Prince Louis... rons. John was deposed in 1216 and the barons offered the English throne to, the eldest son of the French king. However, after John's death in Octobe ...
François DuvalierFormer minister of health and labor, known as "Papa Doc" and initially popular among the blacks, was the Pres ...
Alfredo Stroessner... th century: Germans, the majority are Mennonites with long-reigned dictatorhimself of German ancestry, Japanese with Okinawans, Koreans, ethnic Chine ...
Emperor Xuan... ), and Emperor Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors (, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, an ...
Theodosius I... e last vestiges of Paganism were crushed with great severity by the emperorRome was seized by Alaric in 410. This led to murmuring that the gods of P ...
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkOn 3 March 1924, the Turkish Grand National Assembly, on the initiative of, dissolved the institution of the Caliphate, transferring its powers to t ...
John of Lancaster... ital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford,bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keepin ...
Sophie of WürttembergWilliam III had a rather unhappy marriage with, and his heirs died young. This raised the possibility of the extinction ...
Agrippa I... n procurator side by side with the rule of the Herodian kings (specifically41–44 and 50–100)
Philip's... saintliness. Louis VII ordered the use of fleur-de-lis clothing in his soncoronation in 1179, while the first visual evidence of clearly heraldic us ...
Thomas Jefferson... mers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents George Washington and, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer. Frederic Tudor o ...
Saddam Hussein... nvolved in ALP attempts to raise $500,000 during the election from the pre-government of Iraq. No money had actually been paid, and no charges were f ...
Sparta... Dioscuri (Helen's twin brothers Castor and Pollux) had taken Helen back to; they had taken captive Aethra and Physadeia, the sister of Pirithous, wh ...
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Jimmy Carter... ril 2008 meeting between Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and former US President, an understanding was reached in which Hamas agreed it would respect the ...
Prince John... rtook its expansion while preparing for war with Richard's younger brother,, who in Richard's absence arrived in England to try to seize power. As Lo ...
Philip II of France... paternal half-sister to Marguerite of France, Alys, Countess of the Vexin,and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal half-sister to William ...
Constantine II... in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and, and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars
Francis Stephen... y Russia and Austria in the War of the Polish Succession. The Lorraine duke, betrothed to the Emperor's daughter Archduchess Maria Theresa, was compe ...
Garfield Barwick... . He conferred (against Whitlam's advice) with High Court Chief Justice Sir, who agreed that he had the power to dismiss Whitlam
Franklin D. RooseveltPresidentsigned into law an act of Congress on 25 May 1933 providing for the Bachel ...
George Washington... ted by straw. Many farmers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidentsand Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summ ...
Boso... he Franks under Charles Martel for having sided with the Arabs against him.having been proclaimed Burgundian King of Provence, or of Arelat (after it ...
Anne Boleyn... line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of
Elizabeth IIOn August 4, 2005, the government announced that Martin had advised Queento appoint Michaëlle Jean as governor general. The reception to the appoin ...
Blanche... , who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowageropenly snubbed her. This so infuriated Isabella, who had a deep-seated hat ...
Bill Clinton... ide in Fayette County, GA. Their two children are now in college. Presidentappointed Lee Haney Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitnes ...
Benjamin Harrison... s in search of a defence lawyer and employed future United States President, then a prominent lawyer in the area. Harrison had the suit dropped by sh ...
Paul Magloire... ow for his own reelection, but in 1950 this triggered another coup. Generalled the country until December 1956, when he was forced to resign by a gen ...
William IX, Count of Poitiers... f France and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal half-sister to, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, ...
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom... ous of which is Ptolemaic Egypt. Other states founded by Greeks include theand the Greco-Indian Kingdom in India. Although the political unity of Ale ...
Catherine de' Medici... rst, a simple velvet-covered hoop and plate of iron, was supposedly worn by. The other—said to have been worn by Anna of Austria—is a hinged pair of ...
Dwight Eisenhower... the well-being of the town despite the refusal of the townspeople to help.loved the film and frequently screened it in the White House, as did many ...
Wang Jingwei... n strongly supported solving this incident by force, for which He contactedasking him back to China to take charge of Kuomintang. Two armies were mar ...
Al Gore... Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with. Abdurrahim El-Keib is the interim prime minister of Libya
Louis VII... t was associated with the Virgin Mary, and in the 12th century Louis VI andstarted to use the emblem, on sceptres for example, so connecting their ru ...
Marcus Aurelius... Daqin (Rome) in 97 CE with Gan Ying as emissary. A Roman embassy of Emperor(r. 161–180 CE) is recorded in the Hou Hanshu to have reached the court of ...
Atahualpa... after the death of Huayna Capac in 1527. It was captured by the generals ofin April 1532 in the Battle of Quipaipan. Nineteen months later, Spanish e ...
Prince Albert... oria", which also featured the tenor Ian Partridge singing songs written by
Rafael Trujillo... isputed land from the latter. After the US left in 1934, Dominican dictator– in an event known as the Parsley Massacre – ordered his Army to kill Hai ...
James MadisonVirginians were instrumental in writing the United States Constitution.drafted the Virginia Plan in 1787 and the Bill of Rights in 1789. Virginia ...
Robin Cook... oll invited to a reception at the Palace of Westminster hosted by Labour MP. The collective took its name from a 1919 poster by Russian constructivis ...
Monroe... l became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected sinceand Tompkins in 1820
Numitor... ather lived, and refused to live in the city as his subjects. They restoredas king, paid due honours to their mother Rhea and left to found their own ...
James I... ied in 1406, regents had to rule the country; the monarch, Robert III's son, had been taken captive by the English. Having paid a large ransom, James ...
Achilles... roy, and attacked their camp in the Iliad. Though when the Myrmidons led byturn the tide of battle and Hector is killed, foreshadowing Troy's imminen ...
Adolf Hitler... ng and two other Chinese KMT officials visited Germany and were received byin June 13. Hitler told Kung that "I understand that people in China think ...
Charles I of EnglandSir Owen's descendants includeand Oliver Cromwell; King Juan Carlos of Spain and Elizabeth II, the curre ...
Huayna Capac... l to the sphere of Huáscar in the division of the empire after the death ofin 1527. It was captured by the generals of Atahualpa in April 1532 in the ...
Constantine VII... l record of Romanians in the Istria region, however, dates back to 940 whenrecorded the Romance-language speakers in this area in De Administrando Im ...
Lincoln... ng the first torpedo boats, which carried spar torpedoes. In 1861 Presidentinstituted a naval blockade of Southern ports, which crippled the South's ...
Amulius... e twins grew up as shepherds. They came into conflict with the shepherds of, leading to battles in which Remus was captured and taken to Amulius, und ...
Jacques Parizeau... uebec for sovereignty, according to the Three Periods strategy of PQ leader. In this election, the Bloc Québécois won 54 out of 75 ridings in Quebec, ...
John A. Macdonald... 854 Cartier was appointed to cabinet. From 1857 to 1862 he served alongsideas co-premier of the united province. Cartier was a loyal friend of Macdon ...
Henry II... ained pastors to lead congregations in France. Despite heavy persecution by, the Reformed Church of France, largely Calvinist in direction, made stea ...
Louis the Pious... em was composed by a renowned vernacular poet at the command of the emperor; the text then adds that this poet had known nothing of vernacular compos ...
Robert Bourassa... me Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec,, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau
Michael II Komnenos Doukas... II defeated the alliance of William II Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea, andof Epirus at the Battle of Pelagonia. In 1263, the emperor sent men (which ...
President Harry S. Truman... ngressional charter for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, whichsigned on October 26, 1949. Finley served as the National Trust's first ch ...
Qin Shi HuangThe first unified Chinese state was established byof the Qin state in 221 BC. Qin Shi Huang proclaimed himself the "First Em ...
Adolf Hitler... about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens aboutduring a 1958 episode; this is one of the episodes that does not survive
Hadrian... been theorized that Quietus was executed on the orders of the new emperor,, for fear of Quietus' popular standing with the army and his close connec ...
William Laud... imself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as Richard Montagu and, whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Many of Charles's subje ...
Baldwin III... riarch in Antioch. When Manuel came to Antioch later that year to meet with, King of Jerusalem, Raynald was forced to lead Manuel's horse into the ci ...
Franco... esistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a brigade of 700 Irish volunteers to fight forduring the Spanish Civil War, and Frank Ryan led the Connolly column who f ...
Premier of Quebec... he direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau
Vladimir Putin... ontrast, publicly welcomed Lukashenko's re-election. Then Russian Presidentphoned Lukashenko and offered a message of congratulations and cooperation ...
Francis IThough he was not personally interested in religious reform,(1515–47) initially maintained an attitude of tolerance, arising from his ...
Brude... ven lived on St Serf's Inch, which had been given them by a Pictish prince,, about 700. In 1093 they surrendered their island to the bishop of St And ...
Augustus... ell into neglect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired by(Sueton. Aug. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population
Petronius MaximusIn the late spring of 455, Avitus was recalled to service by emperorand was elevated to the rank of magister militum, probably praesentalis; M ...
Empress... strong Commonwealth. The nobility's Targowica Confederation appealed to thefor help and in May 1792 the Russian army entered the territory of the Com ...
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson... la and Henry Nottidge Moseley described the mathematics of univalve shells.'s On Growth and Form gives extensive treatment to these spirals. He descr ...
John Maynard Keynes... xter White, Secretary of the Treasury and Henry Morgenthau), but opposed by, head of the British delegation. The disagreement led to Chase Bank repre ...
Louis VII of France... ce, Countess of Champagne (1145 – March 11, 1198) was the elder daughter ofand his first wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine
George Washington... of the numerous trees and undergrowth. During the American Revolution, Gen.and many of his troops camped at Malin Hall here. They were preparing for ...
Agnes of Châtillon... 's choice of a husband of such low birth. With Constance he had a daughter,, in 1154 (who later married the Hungarian Prince Béla, who was living at ...
Kim Dae-jung... Both were released from prison in December 1997, pardoned by then-president
Sir William Cubitt... ived a knighthood in recognition of his work. The project was engineered by
President SoehartoHis state visit to Indonesia as invited byto discuss Indo-Japanese trade relations was protested by a number of loca ...
PachacutiAccording to Inca legend, the city was built by Sapa Inca, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city-state in ...
Zhou Enlai... moved to Chongqing, Kung was running his own secret service. The Communist, while serving as the CCP ambassador to Chongqing, was notably successful ...
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of NorthumberlandThe Percy family were powerful lords in northern England.(1341–1408), rebelled against King Richard II and helped dethrone him. The ...
Peada... when Saxwulf founded a monastery on land granted to him for that purpose byof Mercia, who was briefly ruler in the Middle Angles. The abbey church wa ...
Attila... led Avitacum, near Clermont. Here he lived until 451, when the Huns, led by, invaded the Western Roman Empire; Avitus used his own influence over The ...
Lyndon B. Johnson... satellite alarms the United States government. Politicians such as Senatorand military leaders demand that NASA help America defeat the Russians in ...
Jean Charest... ngs and keep Quebec in Confederation. However, after a commission headed byrecommended some changes to the Accord, Bouchard left the Progressive Cons ...
Midwest Division... Mavericks made the playoffs six of seven times from 1983 to 90, winning thein 1986–87 and reaching the Western Conference Finals in 1988. However, th ...
Louis XIV... defensive lines in the west. Villars moved after him, under new orders fromto prevent the fall of Mons at all costs – effectively an order for the ag ...
Diana, Princess of Wales... t the piece of fiction was based on a real-life liaison between Giscard and. He later stressed that the story was entirely made up and no such affair ...
Theodoric II... m, probably praesentalis; Maximus sent Avitus in an embassy to the court of, who had succeeded to his father, at Toulouse: this embassy probably conf ...
Béla... ughter, Agnes of Châtillon, in 1154 (who later married the Hungarian Prince, who was living at the court of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus in Co ...
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine... -Jean-Baptiste Society and became active in politics as campaign manager of. In 1848, Cartier gave up his law practice and ran for office as a Reform ...
Prince William of Orange... spread. In 1688, a group of politicians known as the Immortal Seven invited, husband of James's Protestant daughter Mary, to invade England and remov ...
Adolf Hitler... o the site of a World War I German awards ceremony in August 1918, in whichwas presented the Iron Cross (First Class) on recommendation from his supe ...
Queen Anne... ttlefield victories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from. Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone amon ...
Joan Laporta... arp rise being attributed to the influence of Ronaldinho and then-president's media strategy that focused on Spanish and English online media
Robert III... II of the House of Stuart. The reigns of both Robert II and his successor,, were marked by a general decline in royal power. When Robert III died in ...
HuáscarThe city fell to the sphere ofin the division of the empire after the death of Huayna Capac in 1527. It ...
James IIThe early reign ofwas relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ...
Clovis I... e too strong, and motivated his subsequent alliance with the Frankish king,, to counter and ultimately overthrow the Ostrogoths
Eleanor of Aquitaine... 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France and his first wife,
Arthur Goldberg... was delivered by Justice Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice, Justice Hugo Black, and Justice William O. Douglas
AchillesIn Book 6 of the Iliad, Andromache relates thatkilled Eëtion and his seven sons in a raid on Thebe, but in Book 17, Podes ...
Josiah Bartlet... daughter Renée had a supporting role in The West Wing, as one of President's (Sheen) secretaries
Ronald Reagan... further foreign relations with the United States, during a 1988 summit with
Henry II... se which could be removed in the event of an attack. It was probably during's reign (1154–1189) that a forebuilding was added to the south side of th ...
Queen Elizabeth II... annel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She playedin Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with R ...
Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of SwedenIn 1804 the parish of Volgsjö was renamed Vilhelmina in honour of Queen
Leopoldina... mproved. Later Teresa Cristina gave birth to more children: Isabel, in 1846;, in 1847; and lastly, Pedro, in 1848. However, both boys died when very ...
Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland... d III through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother). Although this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker th ...
Mary... en invited Prince William of Orange, husband of James's Protestant daughter, to invade England and remove James from power, though the plan became pu ...
Alexander the Great... depicted barefoot, and the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet andconquered half of the ancient world with barefoot armies
Justinian I... a man with legal training. In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor's reign, he became the adsessor (legal adviser) for , Justinian's chief m ...
David II... nly one year later, Robert died and was succeeded by his five-year-old son,. On the pretext of restoring John Balliol's rightful heir, Edward Balliol ...
Hadrian... ife Pompeia Plotina who hired someone to impersonate him after he had died.'s first act as emperor was to abandon the distant and indefensible Mesopo ...
Henry II... e Wars of Religion. The civil wars were helped along by the sudden death ofin 1559, which began a prolonged period of weakness for the French crown. ...
Isaac NewtonIt was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz andstarting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \ ...
Chun Doo-hwan... successor, Kim Young-sam, led an anti-corruption campaign that saw Roh andon trial for bribery. Ironically, Kim had merged his party with Roh's in a ...
Sapa Inca... h during the Siege of Cuzco of 1536 by Manco Inca Yupanqui, a leader of the. Although the siege lasted ten months, it was ultimately unsuccessful. Ma ...
Wang Mang... held the title of regent. Following the death of Ai, Wang Zhengjun's nephew(45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for Emperor Ping (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). Wh ...
Chiang Kai-shekThe son of Presidentand his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Zhejia ...
Harry S. Truman... till not accomplished when Roosevelt died. In April 1945, the new presidentand the British suspended the dissolution and the decision to liquidate th ...
John Fisher... nd furthermore publicly refused to uphold Henry's annulment from Catherine., Bishop of Rochester, refused the oath along with More. The oath reads
Douglas Fairbanks... rk City, although neither apparently was Catholic. Fairbanks was the son ofand the stepson of Mary Pickford, who were considered Hollywood royalty. F ...
Robert IIDavid II died childless in 1371 and was succeeded by his nephewof the House of Stuart. The reigns of both Robert II and his successor, Ro ...
Alexander I... al reform was inaugurated by Queen Margaret and carried through by her sonsand David I. Gradually the whole position passed into the hands of Thurgot ...
Louis IV... policies of his predecessor. He chose to make peace with Holy Roman Emperor, and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who were then ...
Xerxes... 0–428). It was said that Democritus' father was so wealthy that he receivedon his march through Abdera. Democritus spent the inheritance which his fa ...
George V... wfoundland Regiment was given the name "The Royal Newfoundland Regiment" byon 28 November 1917. Because of the slaughter, the first day of the Battle ...
Bernard Landry... uchard retired from politics in 2001, and was replaced as Quebec premier by. He stated that his relative failure to revive the sovereignist flame was ...
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Macareus... of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were Ochimus, Cercaphus,or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Auges and Thr ...
Canute IV of Denmark... King Canute, who was murdered in the church of St. Alban's Priory in 1086., the son of King Sven Estridsen, was born about 1040 and ruled Denmark fr ...
Jimmy Carter... ft of an address to the nation that was to have been delivered by Presidenton July 5, 1979
Pharaoh... e of the town at least as far back as the Naqada II period. Under the firsts, Mendes quickly became a strong seat of provincial government and remain ...
Albert I... m, such as hosting foreign dignitaries. Among these was the King of Belgium, the first European monarch to visit the United States. Edward, Prince of ...
Josep Sunyol... ales). However, during the Spanish Civil War, members of both clubs such asand Rafael Sánchez Guerra suffered at the hands of Franco supporters
Alfred the Great... pired by the latter city's history. It had been the capital of Wessex under, and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 1 ...
Richard Nixon... in his undescribed cause. (Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by.
Anne BoleynIn 1533, More refused to attend the coronation ofas the Queen of England. Technically, this was not an act of treason, as M ...
Hadrian... olis, he suddenly died from edema on 9 August. Some say that he had adoptedas his successor, but others that it was his wife Pompeia Plotina who hire ...
Louis Borno... 915, Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave was elected president. He was succeeded byin the 1922 elections. Borno worked closely with the Americans. Aware that ...
Huo Guang... d court politics in Emperor Wu's reign and during the subsequent regency of(d. 68 BCE). The Modernists argued for an aggressive and expansionary fore ...
George II of Great Britain... can Forbes of Culloden, was Lord President of the Court of Session for King's government in London. Duncan Forbes and Alexander Ross the Pitcalnie ch ...
Theseus... retan beast that was encountered by Hercules, the Marathonian Bull slain by(and that fathered the Minotaur). Roman mythology adopted the tale of the ...
Achilles... Palladium, brought the bones of Pelops to Troy, and persuaded Neoptolemus (' son by the Scyrian princess Deidamia) and Philoctetes (who possessed Her ...
F. W. de Klerk... uth Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu,and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such ...
Queen Victoria... ace, which was also the boundary between Surrey and Kent. Within two years,again performed an opening ceremony. The new site hosted concerts, exhibit ...
Henry IV... en 30,000 and 100,000 Huguenots across France. The wars only concluded when, himself a former Huguenot, issued the Edict of Nantes, promising officia ...
Margaret... tful heir. Edward chose Alexander's three-year-old Norwegian granddaughter,. On her way to Scotland in 1290, however, Margaret died at sea, and Edwar ...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk... e a visit to Cairo and several visits to Ankara where (at the invitation of) he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education and the early ef ...
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.... rld's population increased over sixfold. In the words of Nobel Prize winner, "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of or ...
Diana, Princess of Wales... hester, and a major hospital, the Countess of Chester Hospital, named afterand Countess of Chester
Alp Arslan... aud, took possession of Merv and Herat. Toghrul was succeeded by his nephew(the Great Lion), who was buried at Merv. It was about this time that Merv ...
Máel Coluim III... ladinit, as Kirkcaldy was then known. Crínán of Dunkeld, the grandfather of, was a lay abbot, and tradition says that even the clerical members were ...
Michael Field... own over the issue of employment in the forestry industry, and the premier,, called an early state election which the Liberals won. Later, Labor and ...
Aurangzeb Alamgir... rd "Urdu" was used by Sirajuddin Ali Khan Arzoo in 1741. The Mughal Emperor(1658–1707) spoke Urdu (or Hindustani) fluently as did his descendents whi ...
Suharto... se as guerrillas. In September 1974, Whitlam met with Indonesian President,, in Indonesia and indicated that he would support Indonesia if it annexed ...
Henry VIII... uted to 19th century historian Agnes Strickland's book on the wives of King. Research of documents (including Maud Parr's Will) conducted by Susan Ja ...
Xerxes... d with the Chaldean magi. A certain "Ostanes", one of the magi accompanyingwas also said to have taught him
Christian II... e laid to rest after her death in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King, with his wife Isabella of Austria, was also interred in the royal family ...
Anne Boleyn... arliamentary Act of Succession. More accepted Parliament's right to declarethe legitimate Queen of England, but he steadfastly refused to take the oa ...
Pompeia Plotina... at he had adopted Hadrian as his successor, but others that it was his wifewho hired someone to impersonate him after he had died
Christian Wulff... 's communist eastern part—also attended the commemoration. German Presidentadded, "It has been shown once again: Freedom is invincible at the end. No ...
Mary I of England... o make them look taller or larger than life, such as Catherine de Medici or. By 1580, men also wore them, and a person with authority or wealth was o ...
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau... provincial election. Cartier was elected as a Conservative supporter of thegovernment. As a result, Cartier was both a member of the Parliament of Ca ...
Aurelian... r. Constantius was an officer in the Roman army in 272, part of the Emperor's imperial bodyguard. Constantius advanced through the ranks, earning the ...
Manco Inca YupanquiThe city was retaken from the Spanish during the Siege of Cuzco of 1536 by, a leader of the Sapa Inca. Although the siege lasted ten months, it was ...
Queen Elizabeth II... e Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role asin the British film A Question of Attribution
Xerxes... ed at his tomb was plundered by the satrap Artayctes, under permission from. The Greeks later captured and executed Artayctes, returning the treasure ...
Francisco FrancoDuring the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and especially of(1939–1975), all regional cultures were suppressed. All of the languages s ...
the Duke of Somerset... ms also emerged. In 1689, Anne's supporters (including the Marlboroughs and) demanded that she be granted a parliamentary annuity of £50 000, a sum t ...
Napoleon III... arly years of the war, British foreign secretary Lord John Russell, Emperorof France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston ...
Magneto... he "Acts of Vengeance" conspiracy, but was attacked by the mutant terrorist, a Holocaust survivor who wanted to punish him for his involvement in Hit ...
Bill Clinton... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US Presidentby virtue of being Opposition Leader, Manning was also granted a meeting w ...
Elizabeth Woodville... y Act of Parliament, subsequently repealed, of the marriage of Edward IV tocaused the English people to rally behind the last reasonably legitimate B ...
Nero... s going to the Lateran Church between the Colossean Theatre (so called from's Colossus) and St. Clement's her travail came upon her, and she died upo ...
Juan Antonio SamaranchAt the closing ceremony, IOC Presidentsaid in his closing speech, "Well done, Atlanta" and simply called the Gam ...
Barack Obama... outnumbers that of the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election,defeated John McCain in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. ...
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Nicholas II of Russia... d Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the daughter of the murdered Tsar. However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, M ...
Alexander I of Russia... Austro-Russian army under the command of Mikhail Kutuzov, with the Emperorpersonally present. On 2 December, Napoleon crushed the joint Austro-Russi ...
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria... ience and effectiveness of the German army. The German Army Group Commanderstated: "What remained of the old first-class peace-trained German infantr ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... mmission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under President. The first step was a gradual, systematic turnover of government function ...
Abraham Lincoln... om the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and's call for volunteers. On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate State ...
Franz II...  I. His mother was the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, daughter of, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of N ...
Charles Seymour... eaving the court as well, and Sarah and she went to stay with their friends, the sixth Duke of Somerset, and Elizabeth, the Duchess of Somerset at Sy ...
Chiang Kai-shek... 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician and leader, was the son of Presidentand held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China (ROC). ...
Roberto Micheletti... ing elections, and by presidential line of succession the head of Congress,, was appointed president. However, due to the stance taken by the United ...
Friedrich V, Duke of Austria... til Sigismund came of age. The Landstände of Tyrol choose Sigismund’s uncle. The contracts of the guardianship were put in Oswald's care. Oswald used ...
SyagriusFrom 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell t ...
Ulysses S. Grant... ewellton is the Winter Quarters Plantation restoration, where Union Generaland his men spent the winter of 1862-1863, prior to launching the assault ...
Georges PompidouFrench Presidents fromto Jacques Chirac have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible ...
King Edward VII... ormed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of, began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles ...
Justinian I... yzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under(527-565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocat ...
John Sobieski... is responsibilities and with Poland's quarreling factions. After his death,was elected King of the and crowned as John III
Philip IIHarsh persecution of Protestants by the Spanish government ofcontributed to a desire for independence in the provinces, which led to th ...
Karol Wojtyła... reasingly internationalist College of Cardinals, were figures like Cardinal. Over the days following the conclave, cardinals effectively declared tha ...
Erichthonius of Athens... culate fell on the earth, impregnating Gaia, who subsequently gave birth to; then the surrogate mother gave the child to Athena to foster, guarded by ...
President of Russia... egal Immigration, have stated that they would like to see Lukashenko becomein 2008. Lukashenko spoke and said he will not run for the Russian preside ...
Amulius... cendant Numitor, who inherits the kingship of Alba Longa. Numitor’s brotherinherits its treasury, including the gold brought by Aeneas from Troy. Amu ...
Adolf Hitler... World War), the entire remaining Baltic German community was repatriated byto areas Nazi Germany had invaded in western Poland (especially in the War ...
Emperor of Abyssinia... y deposed the Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and claimed his title,, for the King of Italy (Victor Emmanuel III), not all states recognized t ...
Nero... rowly escaped execution. During the disturbances that followed the death of, he took up arms under pretence of siding with Vespasian and induced the ...
Mary... h in the same year left the Crown in the hands of his six-day-old daughter,. Once again, a regency was established
Napoleon Bonaparte...  II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew ofand first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France, Franz Joseph I (Franci ...
Luciano Violante... er 16, 1992, Buscetta testified before the Antimafia Commission presided byabout the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and Giulio Andreotti. H ...
Neville Chamberlain... make an official visit to discuss Germany's intentions for Czechoslovakia.was in favour of a meeting, and there was talk of a pact being signed betw ...
Jacques ChiracFrench Presidents from Georges Pompidou tohave enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible Citroën SM présid ...
Philip II of SpainAfter the Magellan expedition, Kingsent Ruy López de Villalobos and Miguel López de Legazpi in 1543 and 1565 ...
Edward... and Scandinavia has been discussed recently by Timothy Bolton. Emma's sons,and Ælfred by Æthelred and Harthacnut by Cnut, were also claimants to the ...
John William Draper... he long exposure meant the photograph came out as an indistinct fuzzy spot., an American physician, chemist and scientific experimenter, managed to m ...
Maximilian I... summoned to Munich where, in 1638, he became court chaplain to the elector. He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and af ...
Woodrow Wilson... ho served as the 28th Vice President of the United States (1913–1921) under. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member ...
Napoleon's... me in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes ...
Clovis I... he capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell to the Frankish kingin the Battle of Soissons
Alexander the Great, on his march from Pelusium to Memphis, halted at this city (Arrian, iii. ...
SibyllaThat year he allied withand Guy of Lusignan against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed t ...
Muhammad Zia-ul-HaqThe final say-so came down to, the Pakistani dictator, through whom the CIA had to pass all of its fund ...
Philippe Sudré DartiguenaveIn 1915,was elected president. He was succeeded by Louis Borno in the 1922 electio ...
Marcian... both the civil institutions, the Roman senate and the Eastern Roman Emperor, as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals Majorian an ...
Diocletian... ' De Mortibus Persecutorum, a political Christian pamphlet on the reigns ofand the Tetrarchy, provides valuable but tendentious detail on Constantine ...
Premier of the Republic of China... ernment of the Republic of China (ROC). He succeeded his father to serve asbetween 1972 and 1978, and was the President of the Republic of China from ...
Betty FriedanGloria Steinem,, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, El ...
IsildurIn the year , at the Gladden Fields,and his three eldest sons (Ciryon, Aratan and Elendur) were ambushed by Or ...
President of the Republic of China... erve as Premier of the Republic of China between 1972 and 1978, and was thefrom 1978 until his death in 1988. Under his tenure, the government of the ...
Corazon Aquino... rd, he remained committed to democratic reforms. He also met with Presidentfor a series of talks between the Philippines and South Korea for economic ...
Calvin Coolidge... lakes at the base of the mountains. After congressional approval, Presidentsigned the executive order establishing the Grand Teton National Park on F ...
Olaf I... sure sign that Canute was worthy of veneration. His brother and successor,, was given the nickname Hunger because he was unable to do anything about ...
Edward, Prince of Wales... of Belgium Albert I, the first European monarch to visit the United States., the future monarch of the United Kingdom, spent two days with Marshall a ...
Herbert Hoover... rol. Together they helped force an end to the occupation in 1934. Presidentsent a commission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under ...
Bill Clinton... a diplomatic row with the United States administration after accusing, with, the US of not listening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejecte ...
John William Friso, Prince of Orange... ench left wing back into the forest behind them. The Dutch under command of, on the Allied left wing, attacked the French right flank half an hour la ...
presidentIn the United States, theis indirectly elected by the Electoral College made up of electors chosen ...
Vespasian... t followed the death of Nero, he took up arms under pretence of siding withand induced the inhabitants of his native country to rebel. The Batavians, ...
Justinian I... Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by, a panegyric on Justinian's public works throughout the empire, and a boo ...
Jean Charest... Quebec election which was won by the federalist Quebec Liberal Party led by. However, things changed during the winter of 2003. The federalist Chares ...
Liu Penzi... rebels who deposed, assassinated, and replaced him with the puppet monarch. Emperor Gengshi's brother Liu Xiu, known posthumously as Emperor Guangwu ...
Majorian... peror Marcian, as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generalsand Ricimer) and the Vandals of Gaiseric
Sparta... invasion followed in 480 BC. Despite a heroic resistance at Thermopylae byns and other Greeks, Persian forces sacked Athens. Following successive Gr ...
Indira Gandhi... nationally known controversial figures to match the likes of Timothy Leary,, Golda Meir and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' attention in the ...
Premier of Quebec... Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1996, and the 27thfrom January 29, 1996 to March 8, 2001. He became a central figure for the ...
CharlemagneIn the 8th century, ecclesiastical uses of "Europa" for the imperium ofprovide the source for the modern geographical term. The first use of the ...
Alexander the Great... " appears in the Eastern versions of the Alexander romance, which describesand his servant crossing the Land of Darkness to find the restorative spri ...
Queen Elizabeth I... dship of the hundred of Nassaburgh, which was coextensive with the Soke, to, who gave it to Lord Burghley, and from that time until the 19th century ...
José Figueres Ferrer... a great impact on history. H.G. Wells' book, Outline of History was read byin 1920 while at MIT, the Costa Rican revolutionary and 3 time president, ...
Ronald ReaganIn 1988, U.S. Presidentsigned the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which had been sponsored by Repres ...
Lee Teng-hui... d allowed native Taiwanese into positions of power, including his successor
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia... 9 April, between the French and the Piedmontese, and within only two weekswas forced to sign an armistice. On May 15 the French general then entered ...
George W. Bush... ng for economic policies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidentsand Barack Obama of the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the ...
Eric IVDuring the civil war betweenand his brother, Abel, Odense and the cathedral were burned down in 1247. ...
Clovis I... during the rule of the Merovingian kings (A.D. 447-751). After the death ofin 511, Soissons was made the capital of one of the four kingdoms into whi ...
Valentinian III... 441, however it only progressed as far as Sicily. The Western Empire undersecured peace with the Vandals in 442. Under the treaty the Vandals gained ...
Sir Henry Bartle Frere... African kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. In 1874,was sent to South Africa as High Commissioner for the British Empire to br ...
Robert E. Lee... West Virginia, which chose to remain loyal to the Union. Virginian generaltook command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions i ...
David I... ne was inaugurated around 1072, but was not recorded in the town's records., King of Scotland (reign 1124–53) would later grant this church dedicated ...
Sparta... divination and prophecy. In the visits to various places in Greece – Delos,, Phlius, Crete, etc. which are ascribed to him, he usually appears either ...
James V... r noblemen, and hundreds of soldiers were killed. As his son and successor,, was an infant, the government was again taken over by regents. James V l ...
Henry VIII... d his queen. It was rebuilt by Edward I at a cost of over £300 and again byin 1519; the current building dates from this period, although the chapel ...
presidentIn Mexico, theis directly elected for a six-year term by popular vote. The candidate who ...
Harold I... was the first wife of King Cnut of England and Denmark, and mother of Kingof England (1035–40). She served as regent of Norway from 1030 to 1035
Joanna, Countess of Provence... d from that time till 1377 was the papal seat. In 1348 the city was sold by, to Clement VI for 80,000 florins
Valentinian III... reiterated this initiative, recalling the treaty subscribed by Gaiseric andin 442 and entrusting the defence of the Empire to the Roman army and its ...
Barack Obama... icies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents George W. Bush andof the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, P ...
James III... ccident at the age of thirty, and a council of regents again assumed power.was defeated in a battle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leadin ...
Paul Samuelson... unlikely to produce cotton cloth if the cotton had to be grown in England."coined a term Sraffa bonus to name the gains from trade of inputs
Sir Garfield Barwick... November, Kerr consulted the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia,. Kerr asked Barwick to advise him on whether he had the constitutional po ...
Edward III... aim to France was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King fromto George III, regardless of the amount of French territory actually contr ...
Andronikos II Palaiologos... the city on 15 August and had himself crowned together with his infant son. When Michael VIII entered the city, its population was people, but he su ...
Manuel ZelayaOn 27 November 2005 the PLH candidatebeat the PNH candidate and current Head of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, ...
Emperor Yingzong... l documentation for this.) Some distorted accounts claim that in the age of, Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) of China, a poem named "詠冰酪" (Ode to the ic ...
Alaric IIA time of confusion followed the death of, the son-in-law of Theodoric, at the Battle of Vouillé. The Ostrogothic k ...
Theodosius II... , the Western Roman Empire was too preoccupied with war with Gaul to react., emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, dispatched an expedition to deal wi ...
Kim Dae-jung... ent. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, Kim Young-sam and(both of whom later became presidents), were unable to overcome their diff ...
Theodosius II... esiastic disputes of Constantine's later reign. Written during the reign of(408–50), a century after Constantine's reign, these ecclesiastic historia ...
Wilhelm Miklas... of the plebiscite, Göring telephoned Schuschnigg and Austrian head of stateto demand Schuschnigg's resignation, threatening invasion by German troops ...
René of Châlon... continue the use of the name Châlon-Orange. History knows him therefore as. After the death of René in 1544 his cousin William of Nassau-Dillenburg ...
Boris Yeltsin... ith. Listyev's wake was visited by thousands of people, and even the ailingwas forced to make a statement
Simon de MontfortFollowing the Battle of Lewes a year earlier, wherehad gained control of parliament, the Battle of Evesham in August 1265 was ...
Traian Băsescu... ame in present-day Romania – among others, that of the country's president,
George III... was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King from Edward III to, regardless of the amount of French territory actually controlled.) The a ...
Padishah Emperor... tories against Beast Rabban threaten to disrupt the trade of the spice. TheShaddam Corrino IV decides to intervene himself and arrives on Arrakis alo ...
Sapa IncaAccording to Inca legend, the city was built byPachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city ...
Holy Roman Emperor... not carry out the policies of his predecessor. He chose to make peace withLouis IV, and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who w ...
Gerald Ford... of the internment. The movement's first success was in 1976, when Presidentproclaimed that the internment was "wrong," and a "national mistake" which ...
Jacques Chirac... e was the only surviving ex-president since he left office until the end of's term on 16 May 2007, with the exception of a brief period between Franç ...
James IV... tle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leading to another boy-king:
Trajan... ng the First Dacian War and rebuilt only to be finally destroyed by fire by's army during the in 106 CE. The Romans then built a military camp (castr ...
King William IIIIn 1702,died, and Anne became Queen. Anne immediately offered John Churchill a duk ...
KangxiHeilongjiang as an administrative entity was created in 1683, during theera of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the northwestern part of the Jilin pr ...
Maria... ed at Aleppo for the next seventeen years. As the stepfather of the Empress, he was ransomed by Manuel for the extraordinary sum of 120,000 gold dina ...
George W. Bush... rove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execution to proceed. After Presidentapproved the execution (McVeigh was a federal inmate and federal law dicta ...
King Charles IWhen civil war broke out, Peterborough was divided between supporters of(known as Cavaliers) and supporters of the Long Parliament (known as Round ...
Mao Zedong... ation") magazine entitled “Destroy the Ideas of Bourgeois Legal Ownership.”ordered the reproduction of the article in Renmin Ribao ("People’s Daily") ...
John XXIII... lus that he took it as a thankful honour to his two immediate predecessors:, who had named him a bishop, and Paul VI, who had named him Patriarch of ...
Idi Amin... Emperor and Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictatorhad seven of them. The Shah of Iran drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and L ...
Prince George, Prince of Wales... s that took place on them. Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son,, dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then pr ...
Mao Zedong... an accompanying “Editor’s Note” giving mild approval. He was seen as one of's full supporters as he was starting a struggle with rival leader Liu Sha ...
Nelson Mandela... for years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid,made his first public speech in decades on 11 February 1990 from the balco ...
Baldwin IVRaynald served as's envoy to Manuel and, because his wife Constance had died in 1163, was r ...
David I... of the church evolved into an Abbey in 1128, under the reign of their son,. Dunfermline Abbey would play a major role in the general romanisation of ...
Hipólito Mejía... e, there are signs this would have changed with the government of President. Growing immigration from and political instability in Haiti have forced ...
James II... cution of several of his enemies. He was assassinated by a group of nobles.continued his father's policies by subduing influential noblemen but he wa ...
Michael Heseltine... irect steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defencesetting up Defence Secretariat 19 "to explain to the public the facts abou ...
Barack ObamaIn the 2008 presidential election,easily won in Indianapolis by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while ...
Paul VI... his two immediate predecessors: John XXIII, who had named him a bishop, and, who had named him Patriarch of Venice and a cardinal. He was also the fi ...
Hirohito... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whetherwas to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ...
Numitor... s destruction by the Achaeans. Their maternal grandfather is his descendant, who inherits the kingship of Alba Longa. Numitor’s brother Amulius inher ...
Robert Bourassa... udeau's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier
Ujjal Dosanjh... ans, including blowing up Air India flights." Canadian Member of Parliament, a moderate Sikh, stated that he and others who spoke out against Sikh ex ...
Pope John Paul II... ormation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope. In 2000,declared More the "heavenly patron of statesmen and politicians". In 1980, ...
Emperor Gengshi of Han... nsurgent mob forced their way into the Weiyang Palace and killed Wang Mang.(r. 23–25 CE), a descendant of Emperor Jing (r. 157–141 BCE), attempted to ...
Antoninus Pius... in the south of Scotland were invested with the same rights by an edict of. The Romanized natives received freedom (the burrows, cairns, and remains ...
Amalaric... of Vouillé. The Ostrogothic king stepped in as the guardian of his grandson, and preserved for him all his Iberian and a fragment of his Gaul dominio ...
Genghis KhanUnder their commander,, the Mongols conquered Khwarezm and burned the city of Merv to the ground ...
Kim Young-sam... tion of the president. In the election, the two leading opposition figures,and Kim Dae-jung (both of whom later became presidents), were unable to ov ...
Ricardo Maduro... H won 55. The PLH candidate Rafael Pineda was defeated by the PNH candidate, who took office in January 2002. Maduro administration emphasized on sto ...
Saddam Hussein... , during the Persian Gulf War, speculation on the survival of the regime ofin Iraq. Similar political stability concerns have from time to time drive ...
Liu Shaoqi... ao Zedong's full supporters as he was starting a struggle with rival leader
Charles III of SpainIn the 18th century Kingcommissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint The Triumph of Trajan on the cei ...
Isaac Newton... f I have seen further it is [only] by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Pachacuti... d to the quarter of the empire in which he had territory. After the rule of, when an Inca died, his title went to one son and his property was given ...
Martin Van BurenHis entry into politics came in 1837 with his appointment byas Collector of Customs of the Port of Boston. In this position, two of Ba ...
Saddam Hussein... 1990–91, when the Intifada's intensity began to wear down, Arafat supported's invasion of Kuwait and opposed the US-led coalition attack on Iraq. He ...
James II of England... 77, William married his cousin Mary Stuart, the daughter of the future king. In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in- ...
MaxentiusThe foremost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperorsand Licinius during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Fr ...
Karl Maeser... when Brigham Young's choice for principal arrived—a German immigrant named. The school did not become a university, however, until the end of Benjam ...
Willy Brandt... monstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor, who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour ...
James Buchanan... orn nation. Previously John B. Floyd, U.S. Secretary of War under President, had moved arms south out of northern U.S. armories. To economize War Dep ...
King George IIIAlthough her mother was a grandchild of, May was only a minor member of the British Royal Family. Her father, the ...
Queen Mary... ard and Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughterlived there between 1533 and 1536, when she was sent to wait on the then P ...
William III... tion; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors,and Mary II. When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, t ...
NumitorWhen Romulus' grandfatherdies, the people of Alba Longa offer him the crown as rightful heir. Romul ...
Inca Roca... tourists. On the street Hatun Rumiyoq ("Of the Old Rock") was the palace of, which was converted to the Archbishop's residence
Teucer... om the former was slain in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus, and the latter by
Raúl Castro... nt of hundreds of enterprises in key economic sectors. The military is also's base. In numerous speeches, Raúl Castro has emphasized the military's r ...
King Louis... , wanted to order Luxembourg to immediately besiege Namur or Charleroi, but, concerned about the dauphin’s forces on the Rhine, ordered Luxembourg to ...
Kitty Pryde... al and rebuilding of the original X-Mansion by Wolverine, with support from, Iceman, and Beast. Enrollment in The Jean Grey School for Higher Learnin ...
Malcolm Canmore... ll, which it is assumed to be referring to the rocky outcrop as the site of's tower in Pittencrieff Glen (now Pittencrieff Park). The rest of the nam ...
Licinius... first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, Constantine and co-Emperorissued the Edict of Milan in 313, which proclaimed religious tolerance of ...
Theodoric the GreatThe greatest of all Ostrogothic rulers, the future(whose name means "leader of the people") of Ostrogothic Kingdom, was born ...
John Major... er Sir Winston Churchill, and a former junior minister in the Government of(1990–97). In the 2005 general election, Nicholas Soames held the seat wit ...
Charles II... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's sonwas declared king
Art Rooney... n unintentional estrangement from the Steelers. When team founder and ownerdied in 1988, Bradshaw did not attend his funeral. A year later, during hi ...
King Charles II... y constituted in 1303, by Boniface VIII in a Papal Bull. Boniface VIII, andof Naples should be considered one of the first great protectors and benef ...
EdwardHenry VIII's childrenand Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter Qu ...
Roman Emperor... ry 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, wasfrom 306 to 337. Well known for being the first Roman emperor to convert t ...
President... corner of 200 East and 200 North. On October 16, 1875, Brigham Young, thenof The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, personally purchased t ...
Carlos Roberto FloresPLH'stook office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras' fifth democratically elected ...
the Prince of Wales... ey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were Queen Victoria,(later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and Princess Augusta, the ...
Abraham Lincoln... the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan and
Achilles... re names of the tribe (also called "Myrmidones") settled in Pyhthia, led by
Dauphin... ed was that the royal household was still in mourning over the death of the(the king's oldest son) two weeks earlier; ordinarily, political matters c ...
Charles II... ewels of the United Kingdom. From the early 14th century until the reign of, a procession would be led from the Tower to Westminster Abbey on the cor ...
David I... dedicated to the Holy Trinity which evolved into an Abbey under their son,in 1128. The graveyard of this abbey would become the burial place for man ...
USS George Washington... re for U.S. merchant ships in the Mediterranean. Upon arrival in the 24-gun, he allowed the harbor pilot to guide him directly under the guns of the ...
Barack Obama... 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT. Presidentstated during his 2008 election campaign that "As president, I will reach ...
James II... she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father,, was deposed during the Glorious Revolution; and she promoted her interes ...
Queen Victoria... les Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and ...
Josip Broz Tito... of the partisan-controlled Supreme Headquarters and the capture of Marshal. The offensive took place in April and May, 1944. The Waffen-SS units inv ...
Carlos Roberto ReinaIn 1993, PLH candidatewas elected with 56% of the vote against PNH contender Oswaldo Ramos. He w ...
Henry VIII... wings in a square surrounding a central courtyard. The palace was seized bywith other church properties
Sparta... Pentapolis after 410, was born of wealthy parents, who claimed descent fromn kings, at Balagrae (Bayda now) near between 370 and 375
Fidel V. Ramos... eer military officer who reached the five-star general/admiral is President(USMA 1950) (president from 1992–1998) who rose from second lieutenant up ...
Yan Xishan... nxi. During the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, Kung mobilized forces in support of, helping Yan to overthrow the authority of the Qing government in Shanxi. ...
Abraham LincolnIn his first Inaugural Address,tried to contain the expansion of the Confederacy. To quiet the rising cal ...
Mary II... omoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, William III and. When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, the Duke of ...
Charles II... vention Parliament which restored Charles I's eldest son to the monarchy as. Following the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was exhumed and posthumously ...
Temenus#Medon (Μήδων), a son of Ceisus and grandson of. He was a king of Argos but his powers were limited to the minimum in fav ...
Jimmy Carter... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting forin both of his presidential elections
President of the Philippines... 1972), issued an order conferring the five star general/admiral rank to the, making himself as its first rank holder. Since then, the rank of five-st ...
John XXIII... able to have a great deal of influence in all university affairs. In 1413,granted the university extensive special privileges, such as university ju ...
Augustus III... farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon Wettin dynasty, Augustus II and, brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The Great Northern War, ...
Henry VII... vourite residence of Queen Elizabeth I. Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely,'s minister John Cardinal Morton, it comprised four wings in a square surr ...
Lyndon Johnson... recently, the last Democrat to win a majority in the county before 2008 wasin 1964, although Bill Clinton won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1 ...
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of BadenHeidelberg fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1803., refounded the University, named "Ruperto-Carola" after its two founders. ...
Elector of BrandenburgPrince Waldeck had hoped to delay the campaign to enable theto move on the Moselle and tie down Boufflers, but Luxembourg’s early mano ...
Queen Margherita... Puccini opera was a national event. Many Roman dignitaries attended, as did, though she arrived late, after the first act. The Prime Minister of Ital ...
Placidia... Rome, along with the Empress Licinia Eudoxia and her daughters Eudocia and
Barack Obama... .In 2008 racist and threatening graffiti directed at (then) President-electprompted an investigation from the United States Secret Service. Students ...
Licinius... remost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors Maxentius andduring civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Franks, Alamann ...
Benjamin Cluff, Jr's... l Maeser. The school did not become a university, however, until the end ofterm at the helm of the institution. At that time, the school was also sti ...
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Cornelis de Graeff... ble at peace, at the great distress of the regents. When Andries Bicker and, the great regents of the city of Amsterdam refused some mayors he appoin ...
King ArthurTwelve of's battles were recorded by Nennius in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of T ...
Ferdinand MarcosPresident, who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965–1967 and 1971–19 ...
Duke of Savoy... ne. Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the, whilst Marshal Noailles commanded forces deployed on the border of Catal ...
Alan García... tion for an Asian American in the U.S. On June 14, 2011, Peruvian presidentapologized for his country's internment of Japanese immigrants during Worl ...
Queen Elizabeth I... resent house. This palace was the childhood home and favourite residence of. Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, Henry VII's minister John Cardinal M ...
Charles I... reat Britain" in 1604—they remained separate kingdoms. James I's successor,, experienced frequent conflicts with the English Parliament related to th ...
Edward I... ases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, Henry III, andin the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late ...
Charlemagne... III (750 – 12 June 816) was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. Protected byfrom his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's posit ...
PresidentialSan Joaquin is a Republican-leaning county inand Congressional elections. Until recently, the last Democrat to win a ma ...
Barack Obama... t in orientation. In the 2008 presidential contest, the successful Democratof Illinois, won Tensas Parish, 1,646 (54.1 percent) to 1,367 (45.0) for t ...
Licinia Eudoxia... ween the two factions broke down, and in 455 with a letter from the Empress, begging Genseric's son to rescue her, the Vandals took Rome, along with ...
King James I... uilt in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister toand has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. It is a prime exampl ...
Queen Victoria... ess of Salisbury was three times Prime Minister during the closing years of's reign. The city of Salisbury (now Harare) in the colony of Rhodesia (no ...
Acastus... the war in his place. The gods had pity on his widow, Laodamia, daughter of, and brought him up from Hades to see her. She was at first overjoyed, th ...
Trajan... 9 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperoror Hadrian, but this is improbable
Theodoric II... s had a good relationship with the Visigoths, in particular with their king, who was a friend of his and who acclaimed Avitus Emperor, but the possib ...
Thomas Jefferson... passed by the U.S. Congress 1806–1808, during the second term of President. Britain and France were engaged in a major war; the U.S. wanted to remai ...
John NegroponteBetween 1979 and 1985, under's appointment as U.S. diplomat from 1981 to 1985, U.S. military and econo ...
William III... ight of succession was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between, and James II, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popula ...
James I... facto capital of Scotland for much of the period until the assassination ofin 1437. Following her marriage to King Malcolm III, Queen Margaret encour ...
Abraham Lincoln... Douglas of Illinois ran poorly in Louisiana, and the Republican candidate,, was not listed on the state ballot
Irving Fisher... in The Time Machine and Wells's eugenic beliefs. For example, the economistsaid in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: "The Nordic r ...
Wallis Simpson... ated the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Mrs.. She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as Geo ...
Shimon Peres... owing year, Arafat and Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with. The Palestinian reaction was mixed. The Rejectionist Front of the PLO al ...
Napoleon III... an claiming to be Napoleon to travel to France. That person turns out to be, the nephew of Hornblower's great nemesis and the future President (and l ...
Arcadius... l praetorian prefect Aurelianus. Synesius composed and addressed to Emperora speech entitled De regno, full of topical advice as to the studies of a ...
U.S. Presidents... e houses, insulated by straw. Many farmers and plantation owners, includingGeorge Washington and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter f ...
Henry VIII... s succeeded by the Scottish monarch James VI, who was the great-grandson of's older sister and hence Elizabeth's first cousin twice removed. James VI ...
Roman Emperor... from 108 or 109 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under theTrajan or Hadrian, but this is improbable
Isabella of Austria... th in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King Christian II, with his wife, was also interred in the royal family chapel. In 1807 the former Francis ...
Sun Yat-senKung was an early supporter of, and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of Chiang ...
Charles of Lorraine... who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death of. Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the ...
Fidel Castro... informal control of Revolutionary Armed Forces chief General Raúl Castro ('s brother), and large numbers of army officers were moved into the Minist ...
Valentinian III... rucial part in the blunders of Rome. Petronius Maximus, the usurper, killedin an effort to control the Empire. Diplomacy between the two factions bro ...
Sparta... r to avoid going to Troy with Agamemnon and Menelaus to bring Helen back to– pretended to have gone mad and began sowing the fields with salt. Palame ...
Richard Nixon... ounder John Hume. In scores of anti-war speeches, Kennedy opposed President's policy of Vietnamization, calling it "a policy of violence [that] means ...
Christopher WrenThe study of spirals in nature have a long history,observed that many shells form a logarithmic spiral. Jan Swammerdam observ ...
John F. Kennedy... 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U.S. President's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the Brit ...
Raúl Castro... oved under the informal control of Revolutionary Armed Forces chief General(Fidel Castro's brother), and large numbers of army officers were moved in ...
Augustus II... th most peasant farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon Wettin dynasty,and Augustus III, brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The Gre ...
Mary I... atholic heir, and consequent persecution of the Protestant Church (as under), or foreign intervention by the Habsburgs or French, meant that the righ ...
Frederick I of Prussia... n Prince John William Friso of Nassau-Dietz of the Frisian Nassaus and King, who both claimed the title Prince of Orange. Both descended from Frederi ...
Yuan Shikai... advisors, and Yan was soon recognized as the military governor of Shanxi by, and effectively controlled Shanxi until 1949, when the Communists took c ...
Agamemnon... reason. In Greek mythology, Odysseus – in order to avoid going to Troy withand Menelaus to bring Helen back to Sparta – pretended to have gone mad an ...
Petronius Maximus... out, however, politics again played a crucial part in the blunders of Rome., the usurper, killed Valentinian III in an effort to control the Empire. ...
William the ConquerorWhen, in 1069, Malcolm Canmore andheld a conference respecting the claims of Edgar Atheling to the English C ...
Simón Bolívar... n from his captivity on Saint Helena, captures a slave ship, and encounters's army. He retires to Kent and eventually becomes Admiral of the Fleet
George H. W. Bush... s received their $20,000 redress payments, was signed into law by President, who also issued another formal apology from the U.S. government
John II Casimir VasaFollowing the abdication of Kingand the end of The Deluge, the Polish nobility elected Michael to the Poli ...
Elector of Bavaria... (although the Dauphin held honorific command). De Lorge was opposed by the, who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death ...
President of the Philippines... Philippine Constitution placed the AFP under the control of a civilian, the, who acts as its Commander-in-Chief. All of its branches are part of the ...
Valentinian IIIIn an effort to bring the Vandals into the fold of the Empire,offered his daughter's hand in marriage to Genseric's son. Before this tre ...
Christina of Saxony... ng Hans of Denmark (d. 1513) was buried in the cathedral in 1513. His wife,, who lived the latter part of her life in a nunnery in Odense, commission ...
Louis XIV of France... e one of the most powerful sovereigns in Europe, and the only one to defeat. Many members of the House of Orange were devoted admirers of the King-St ...
James IElizabeth's successordid not like the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) c ...
Earl of Bothwell... ssination in 1567, Mary contracted an even more unpopular marriage with the, who was widely suspected of Darnley's murder. The nobility rebelled agai ...
John A. Macdonald... ice, began negotiations with the United States. In 1873, Prime Minister Sir, anxious to thwart American expansionism and facing the distraction of th ...
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor... hed success, and was rewarded by a series of academic appointments. In 1552, appointed him professor of scriptural interpretation in the university. ...
Theodemir... lied with the former vassal and rival, the Gepids and the Ostrogoths led bybroke the Hunnic power of Attila's sons in the Battle of Nedao in 454
George Washington... States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President). Its county seat is
Barack Obama... taking some steps to allow limited economic exchanges with Cuba, Presidentrecently reaffirmed the policy, stating that without improved human rights ...
Alfred Marshall... Cambridge after receiving a scholarship for this also to study mathematics.begged Keynes to become an economist
Chiang Kai-shek... n Yat-sen, and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of. Kung began his career in the government of the Republic of China as the ...
Vicente Mejía Colindres... H, united again following the death of Policarpo Bonilla in 1926, nominated. To the surprise of most observers, both the campaign and the election we ...
William the Conqueror... the castle built in 1080, by Robert II, Duke of Normandy, the eldest son of. The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade and it later bec ...
stakes... y, President Wilkinson reorganized the LDS church units on campus, with tenand over 100 wards being added during his administration
Elizabeth I... and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such asbefore she became queen, were held within its walls. This use has led to t ...
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor... żanka) a Habsburg, born 1653 at Regensburg died 1697 at Vienna, daughter of, by his third wife Eleonora Gonzaga
King James'... region to Prince Waldeck (William was himself busy in Ireland forestallingattempt to regain his throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commande ...
King George IIIThe Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, byfollowing Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America ...
Lord Darnley... endancy was established. Mary caused alarm by marrying her Catholic cousin,, in 1565. After Lord Darnley's assassination in 1567, Mary contracted an ...
Queen Mary... . After her two months of imprisonment in the Tower of London by her sister, Elizabeth returned to Hatfield. The Queen Elizabeth Oak on the grounds o ...
Emperor Frederick II... d after the Third Crusade allowed for Christian pilgrims to visit the site.regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he h ...
Mao Zedong... s. By then, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists underhad signed a ceasefire to create the Second United Front and fight the Jap ...
Peter the Great... of Sciences, an honor previously granted to only two other heads of state:and Napoleon Bonaparte. Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philos ...
FernándezThe United States supports theadministration's efforts to improve Dominican competitiveness, to attract ...
Abraham Lincoln... ep South cotton states passed secession ordinances by February 1861 (beforetook office as president), while secession efforts failed in the other eig ...
Sanford B. Dole... is section shall not be recognized by the Department. [signed] June 8, 1896, President of the Republic of Hawai
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James II... n was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between William III, and, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popular defender of ...
Wang JingweiKung was an early supporter of Sun Yat-sen, and worked withbefore serving in the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Kung began his career ...
Hadrian... r 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Trajan or, but this is improbable
Zhou Enlai... d not publicly reveal any more details about the incident and died in 2001.publicly expressed regrets about the incident, while Zhang privately told ...
Thomas Seymour... ears old, Elizabeth was under suspicion of having illegally agreed to marry, the House and her servants were seized by Edward VI's agent Robert Tyrwh ...
Achilles... e Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office,' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' chariot as well as his own due ...
Íñigo Arista... of Roncevaux Pass through an ambush of a coaliated vascon and Muslim force.of Pamplona was stepbrother of Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi, by mother
John F. KennedyFollowing the 1960 election of U.S. President, he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy ...
Miguel Paz Barahona... f an uprising led by General Gregorio Ferrera of the PNH. The PNH nominated(1925–29), a civilian, for president. The PLH, after some debate, refused ...
Mark of Cornwall... n the Palamedes and other works, the castle is eventually destroyed by Kingafter the loss of Arthur at the Battle of Camlann. However maddening to la ...
Jean Pierre BoyerBeginning in 1821, President, also an homme de couleur and successor to Pétion, managed to reunify the ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ft considered himself a "New Deal Democrat", and was an ardent supporter of. His political views can be considered as "moderately socialist.
Robert Mugabe... rding to some reports, currently over half the revenue of the government ofin Zimbabwe is in seigniorage. Zimbabwe has experienced hyperinflation (se ...
Lech Wałęsa... alked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland'sas part of the 20-year celebration of tearing down the Berlin Wall
Oileus#Medon, half-brother of Ajax the Lesser and son of, king of Locris, by Rhene or Alcimache. He resided in Phylace, to where h ...
Queen Caroline... John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole; King George II; and his wife,. The money she inherited from the Marlborough trust left her as one of th ...
Cercaphus... seven sons of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were Ochimus,, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Au ...
Kamehameha III... ventually finished translating the Bible. Missionaries also influenced Kingto establish the first Hawaiian-language constitutions in 1839 and 1840
Douglas FairbanksWhenwas on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his ne ...
Yasser Arafat... of sympathy, including those from Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom,of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Narasimha Rao of India. Iran ...
Agamemnon... winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle,'s staff of office, Achilles' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' ch ...
Edward... urite of George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children:, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and John
ThrasamundAccording to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia: "While(496–523), owing to his religious fanaticism, was hostile to Catholics, he ...
John III of Navarre... Castle of La Mota, Medina del Campo, from which he escaped and joined King. He was killed in 1507 while fighting for the Navarrese king in the city ...
President of the United States... and the 24 members of the National Science Board (NSB) are appointed by the, and confirmed by the United States Senate. The director and deputy direc ...
William of Orange... nown as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughter Mary and her husbandto depose the king. William obliged, arriving in England on 5 November 168 ...
King George II... architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole;; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited from the Marlboro ...
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany... note that the earliest incarnation of Chianti was as a white wine. In 1716issued an edict legislating that the three villages of the Lega del Chiant ...
Edward I... y, there is the outer ward which encompasses the castle and was built under. Although there were several phases of expansion after William the Conque ...
Rhys ap GruffyddThe monastery, which was founded byin or about 1185, is in the care of Cadw. In common with Strata Florida Ab ...
Eardwulf of NorthumbriaLeo helped restore Kingand settled various matters of dispute between the Archbishops of York and ...
Augustus... re the descendants of the "melting pot" of the Roman legionnaires (moved byto eastern Istria to colonize the borders of Italy) and the Aromanian shep ...
Vince Gair... to shore up support in that body. Queensland Senator and former DLP leadersignalled his willingness to leave the Senate for a diplomatic post. With ...
Julius Nepos... stris), Ecdicius Avitus (later patricius and magister militum under Emperor), and, clarissima femina (who married the praetorian prefect of Gaul Tona ...
Ochimus... were the seven sons of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were, Cercaphus, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Non ...
Nero... gdom over which the two great empires had shared hegemony since the time ofsome fifty years earlier. Some modern historians also attribute Trajan's d ...
AugustusUnder the reign of, when the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, 14 wards w ...
Vicente Tosta... nt was worked out that provided for an interim presidency headed by General, who agreed to appoint a cabinet representing all political factions and ...
Prince George, Duke of YorkAlbert Victor's brother,, now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ...
Richard IIThe idea of trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (Edward II,and Henry VI) had been overthrown and murdered by their successors, but ha ...
Prince Albert... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband,
Charles Clarke... em with no Commons representative in East Anglia; the former Home Secretarybeing a high level casualty in the 2010 election
John II Casimir... because of large scale internal conflicts (e.g. Lubomirski's Rokosz againstand rebellious confederations), corrupted legislative processes and manipu ...
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew... in structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by Max Perutz and, respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-resolution structures of protein ...
Queen Mary... l of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of George V and
Tiburcio Carías Andino... uras (Partido Nacional de Honduras—PNH), which ran as its candidate General, the governor of the department of Cortés. However, the liberal PLH was u ...
Huneric... member of the royal house was to succeed. Thus he was succeeded by his son(477–484), who at first tolerated Catholics, owing to his fear of Constant ...
James M. McPherson... the election of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 elections. Civil War historianwrote
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria... river, which moved east and reached Höchstädt on 19 September. Villars andmoved their army of 17,000 to intercept this force, ordering another Frenc ...
Henry VIIIOn 22 November 1539 the abbey was surrendered to's commissioners in the Dissolution of the monasteries. It was awarded to ...
James II... st. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, Duke of York (the future, brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiations for the recover ...
the Prince of Wales... ved, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of. The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to Queen Victoria's fo ...
Earl of Plymouth... osts became unsustainable, and in 1911 bankruptcy was declared. In 1913 thepurchased it, to save it from developers. A public subscription quickly re ...
Tommy Douglas... number of prominent leaders, including René Lévesque, Robert Stanfield, and, who believed the actions to be excessive and the precedent to suspend ci ...
Theodoric I... ative of his, Theodorus, was hostage at the court of the King of Visigoths,: in 425/426 Avitus went and met him, thus meeting the King, who let Avitu ...
Richard NixonFollowing Republican's victory in November, Kennedy was widely assumed to be the front-runner ...
Bill ClintonOn July 12, 1994, U.S. Presidentspoke at the Gate about peace in post–Cold War Europe
Zachary Taylor... ing back to the 1830s. Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonelwho later became the 12th President of the United States. Taylor's troops ...
Queen Victoria... f the Prince of Wales. The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to's fondness for her, as well as to her strong character and sense of duty. ...
Richard the Lionheart... t to the north, east, and west is the inner ward, built during the reign of(1189–1199). Finally, there is the outer ward which encompasses the castle ...
Alexander I of Macedon... nd thereby block Xerxes's advance. However, once there, they were warned bythat the vale could be bypassed through the pass by the modern village of ...
James II... d with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specia ...
Alfred Marshall... so in 1909, Keynes accepted a lectureship in economics funded personally by. Keynes's earnings rose further as he began to take on pupils for private ...
Gunthamund... onstantinople, but after 482 began to persecute Manichaeans and Catholics."(484–496), his cousin and successor, sought internal peace with the Cathol ...
John G. Kemeny... from Dartmouth BASIC — the original BASIC — invented by college professorsand Thomas E. Kurtz
Rupert of Germany... . In 1401-1402 Oswald participated in the failed Italian expedition of King. In 1407 he and his brother finally agreed on how to split the inheritanc ...
Odoacer... n 488, by commission from the Byzantine emperor Zeno, to recover Italy from. By 493 Ravenna was taken, where Theodoric would set up his capital. It w ...
Nero... mixture of milk and rice was used in China around 200 BC. The Roman Emperor(37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit topp ...
Mary... roup of Protestants known as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughterand her husband William of Orange to depose the king. William obliged, arr ...
Barack Obama... n 2003 and was given official status by the United States Congress in 2007.became the first president to personally attend Diwali at the White House ...
Rafael Sánchez Guerra... uring the Spanish Civil War, members of both clubs such as Josep Sunyol andsuffered at the hands of Franco supporters
Amphictyon... Hellenes , the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, brother ofand father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus. His name is also another name for ...
Triopas... lectryone. They were Ochimus, Cercaphus, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages,, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Auges and Thrinax). They were expert astrologe ...
Joachim Murat... the Kingdom of Naples and granted it to his brother and then (from 1808) to, along with marrying his sisters Elisa and Paolina off to the princes of ...
Robert Stanfield... and subsequently by a number of prominent leaders, including René Lévesque,, and Tommy Douglas, who believed the actions to be excessive and the prec ...
David I of Scotland... eivers. The castle was first mentioned in 1136 when it was captured by King. at this point it was described as "very strong". It was besieged in 1172 ...
Edward IIThe idea of trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (, Richard II and Henry VI) had been overthrown and murdered by their succe ...
Ronald ReaganOn June 12, 1987, U.S. Presidentspoke to the West Berlin populace at the Brandenburg Gate, demanding the r ...
Drew Gilpin Faust... evolved primarily around the maintenance or expansion of slavery. Historianobserved that "leaders of the secession movement across the South cited sl ...
Premier of the Republic of China... e central executive committee of the Kuomintang (KMT) in 1931. He served asfrom 1 January 1938 – 20 November 1939. Kung then served as the Vice-Premi ...
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham... der intense French pressure. It ended in disaster after the Army commander,, failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled Ant ...
George V... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation ofand Queen Mary
Saddam Hussein... United States intelligence agencies issued a report that announced aides ofmanaged to acquire Belarusian passports while in Syria. The same report me ...
John F. KennedyIn 1963, U.S. Presidentvisited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. Franklin D. Roosevelt,and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each referred to the America ...
Alexandre Pétion... encountered in his fight for South American independence, Haitian presidentprovided Bolívar with soldiers, weapons and financial assistance, which we ...
Henry VIII... established during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the auspices of
William III... f Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from's Act of Indemnity
Richard II... mes under Edward I and was expanded to its current size during the reign of(1377–1399)
Pauline Marois... simply the provincial wing of the Bloc. Gilles Duceppe has recently helpedcampaign in the 2008 Quebec provincial election, she did not win and the L ...
Crown Princess of Sweden... of Cambridge), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, thehelped pass letters from May to her aunt, who lived in enemy territory in ...
Malcolm III... ance. The town was first recorded in the 11th century, with the marriage of, King of Scotland and Saint Margaret at the church in Dunfermline. As his ...
Joh Bjelke-Petersen... t close the Rhodesian Information Centre in Sydney. The Queensland premier,refused to consider any adjustment in Queensland's border with Papua New G ...
Alexander III (the Great)... al dynasts the freedom to rule. Persia held Lycia until it was conquered byof Macedon during 334–333 BC
Richard Court... eld in December. He was heavily defeated by the Liberal Party government of, taking only 35.8 percent of the primary vote--its lowest total since 190 ...
Richard von Weizsäcker... n the 1980s, decrying the existence of two German states, West Berlin mayorsaid: "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is clos ...
Rafael López Gutiérrez... Honduras. The local military commander and governor of Tegucigalpa, General, took the lead in organizing PLH opposition to Bertrand. López Gutiérrez ...
Princess AnneSarah became close to the youngin about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older. In ...
Roman Emperor... that a frozen mixture of milk and rice was used in China around 200 BC. TheNero (37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit ...
Ted Turner... ta Braves became a power contender with greater revenues generated by WTBS,'s Atlanta-based Super-Station, that broadcast "America's Team" to cable h ...
René Lévesque... ed at the time and subsequently by a number of prominent leaders, including, Robert Stanfield, and Tommy Douglas, who believed the actions to be exce ...
Louis the Stammerer... relat (after its capital Arles), by the Synod of Mantaille, at the death of(879), Avignon ceased to belong to the Frankish kings
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-BadenOn 5 September, the main force of the Imperial Army underhad taken the free city of Augsburg, threatening Bavaria from the west. Lo ...
Codrus#Medon, the son of, was the first archon of Athens. He was lame, which was why his brother N ...
Neville Wran... 64 he was one of a group of lawyers (which also included future NSW Premier) who lent their expertise to the defence of the publishers of the satiric ...
Theodemir... hose name means "leader of the people") of Ostrogothic Kingdom, was born toin or about 454, soon after the Battle of Nedao. His childhood was spent a ...
XerxesHerodotus mentions that the leader of the Lycian fleet underin the Second Persian War of 480 BC was Kuberniskos Sika, previously inter ...
Chief Secretary of South Australia... am Gosse sighted the landmark and named it Ayers Rock in honour of the then, Sir Henry Ayers. Since then, both names have been used
Charles II... into contact with James, Duke of York (the future James II, brother of King) in 1663, during negotiations for the recovery of an estate in Kent (Agne ...
Simón BolívarIn 1815,, the South American political leader who was instrumental in Latin Americ ...
Robert E. LeeMcClellan was removed after failing to pursue General's retreat from Antietam, and Burnside was assigned to command the Army of ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... s reason, National Park Service officials have attempted to avoid the term., Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each ...
Nolan Ryan... tire in 1976 with 755. There was great pitching too: between 1973 and 1975,threw 4 "no-hit" games. He would add a record-breaking fifth in 1981 and t ...
U.S. PresidentFollowing the 1960 election ofJohn F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Ed ...
Sir Henry Ayers... med it Ayers Rock in honour of the then Chief Secretary of South Australia,. Since then, both names have been used
Arthur Witty... blue and red design of the Barcelona shirt. The son of the first president,, claimed it was the idea of his father as the colours were the same as th ...
Theodoric II... tus enter his own court. Here, around 439, Avitus met the son of Theodoric,, who later became King. Avitus inspired the young Theodoric to study Lati ...
Henry VI... trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (Edward II, Richard II and) had been overthrown and murdered by their successors, but had never been ...
Henry Bolte... to White Australia and the death penalty. The Liberal Premier of Victoria,, called The Age "that pinko rag," a view conservatives have maintained ev ...
Michael Farris... ure while interrogating heretics. Later authors, such as Brian Moynahan and, cite Foxe when repeating these allegations. More himself denied these al ...
Charles Martel... into the hands of the Saracens and was destroyed in 737 by the Franks underfor having sided with the Arabs against him. Boso having been proclaimed B ...
Richard Nixon... and mines and anti-armor weapons, but were especially heavy after Presidentordered US forces into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other caval ...
Benigno Aquino III... of the program. , U.S. observers were uncertain whether Arroyo's successor,, chosen in Philippine Presidential elections on May 10, 2010, will contin ...
Hilderic... m the primary religion in North Africa. Generally most Vandal kings, except, persecuted Trinitarian Christians to a greater or lesser extent, banning ...
Irene of Athens... ditionally been seen as the defender of Rome, but the Eastern Roman Empresswas too weak to oppose Charlemagne. Charlemagne was to intervene in church ...
Otto III... the Pope's temporal power, though it was denounced as a forgery by Emperorand lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet Dante Alighieri. ...
Patrick Dean... that when Wodehouse was recommended for a Companion of Honour in 1967, Sir, British ambassador in Washington, argued that it "would also give curren ...
Bill Clinton... homa City area to be released from their duties for their safety. Presidentlearned about the bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Tur ...
Wilson... e and her son, putting together Insurgent Mexico and interviewing Presidenton the subject. The resulting report, much watered down at White House ins ...
John III of Navarre... are married Charlotte of Albret (1480 – 11 March 1514). She was a sister of. They were parents to a daughter, Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, ...
Strophius#Medon, the son of Pylades and Electra and brother of
Henry III... asons. The precursor of the Liberties was laid out in the 13th century whenordered that a strip of land adjacent to the castle be kept clear. Despite ...
Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland... balls. Churchill, who had previously been a lover of Charles II’s mistress,, had little to offer financially, as his estates were deeply in debt. Sar ...
Maria Feodorovna... sia. However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress,(Helen Hayes), of her authenticity
Warren Dusenberry... igham Young University's origin can be traced back to 1862 when a man namedstarted a Provo school in a prominent adobe building called Cluff Hall, wh ...
Newton... h included) orbited the Sun, but the optics (and the specific mathematics –'s Law of Gravitation for example) necessary to provide data that would co ...
Frank CapraLost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same t ...
Sam Houston... in a Southern Convention. Under the influence of men such as Texas Governor, delay had the effect of sustaining the Union. "Unionists", especially in ...
Abraham Lincoln... eluctantly obeyed this order, the third such in his brief career. Presidentpressured Burnside to take aggressive action and on November 14 approved h ...
Charles VIII of France... o had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, untildrove Sforza out of Italy. After Cesare, Leonardo was unsuccessful in find ...
Alexandre Pétion... m in the north directed by Henri I; and a republic in the south directed by, an homme de couleur. Henri I is best known for constructing the Citadell ...
Džemal Bijedić... e ASIO might have files relating to threats against Yugoslav Prime Minister, who was about to visit Australia, and feared the ASIO might conceal or d ...
Abraham Lincoln... foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guardingon his way to his inauguration. His agents often worked undercover as Conf ...
Justinian I... m Palestine. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor, he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars o ...
James, Duke of York... timate children, and was due to be succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother,. A parliamentary effort to exclude James from the line of succession aros ...
Bishop Fisher... efulness and necessity of Revelation (London, 1709—1710) and the preface to's Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1708)—both ...
Alan Carpenter... lop as Acting Premier, pending a leadership vote at the State Labor Caucus.was elected unoppose
Pylades#Medon, the son ofand Electra and brother of Strophius
Billy SneddenFrom the start of the Whitlam government, the Opposition, led by(who replaced McMahon as Liberal leader in December 1972) sought to use co ...
Marguerite de Navarre... River"; and he named Upper New York Bay the Bay of Santa Margarita - after- the elder sister of the king
President... ege consists of the electors appointed by each state who formally elect theand Vice President of the United States. Since 1964, there have been 538 e ...
Henry IV... cousin, Lord Rhys. At the age of seven he was sent to the English court ofas page to the King's Steward. He went on to fight for the English at Agin ...
Josiah Bartlet... esident of the United States," referring to his role as fictional presidenton The West Wing. Cindy Sheehan had been demanding a second meeting with t ...
King William I... f the powers gathered at the Congress of Vienna, William proclaimed himself. He was also made grand duke of Luxembourg, and the title 'Prince of Oran ...
Princess Augusta of Cambridge... was also close to her aunt, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (née), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the Crown Prin ...
OttonianAfter many changes in ownership between theand Salian noble families, it was the Counts of Sayn, Diez and Wied who fi ...
Empress Dowager Longyu... nephew Puyi, who became the Xuantong Emperor. Guangxu's consort became the. In another coup de'tat, Yuan Shikai overthrew the last Qing emperor, and ...
ElessarOn May 1, 3019 King's coronation took place on the plain outside Minas Tirith, he then entere ...
Louis the Stammerer... 6 – 12 December 884), King of Western Francia, was the youngest son of Kingand Ansgarde of Burgundy, and became king, jointly with his brother Louis ...
Æscwine... t evidently lost some degree of control over the south as a result; in 675,, one of the kings of the West Saxons, fought him at Biedanheafde. It is n ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... Commission. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by Presidentin 1953. Both found numerous inefficiencies and ways to reduce waste. The ...
Tommy Douglas... d been put in place during peacetime in Canada. A few critics (most notablyand some members of the New Democratic Party ) believed that Trudeau was b ...
Harry S. Truman... and early 50s after the second world war, the man where "The Buck Stopped"was president of the United States, and the baby boomer generation was evo ...
Yuan Shikai... uangxu's consort became the Empress Dowager Longyu. In another coup de'tat,overthrew the last Qing emperor, and forced empress Dowager Longyu to sign ...
Charlemagne... The Visigoths ruled in Girona until it was conquered by the Moors. Finally,reconquered it in 785 and made it one of the fourteen original countships ...
Holy Roman Emperor... rand duchy" was the Medici sovereignty of Tuscany under overlordship of thes. They received the title in 1569. Tuscany remained a grand duchy until 1 ...
Bill Clinton... etanyahu opposed the idea of Palestinian statehood. In 1998, U.S. Presidentpersuaded the two leaders to meet. The resulting Wye River Memorandum deta ...
Richard, Duke of Gloucester... out the alliance between Hastings and the Woodvilles which was formed while, was Protector, before he took the throne as King Richard III. She was ac ...
Pinklao... on during the reign of King Mongkut, Rama IV. It was his brother, Vice-king, who, after watching demonstration of Western dining etiquette by America ...
Servius Tullius... she had a temple on the north side of the Forum Boarium, allegedly built by, destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt by Marcus Furius Camillus in 396 B.C. ...
Louis III of France... ammerer and Ansgarde of Burgundy, and became king, jointly with his brother, on his father's death in 879
Adolphe Thiers... istricts. One of the chief "cannon parks" was on the heights of Montmartre.was elected "Executive Power" of the new government to postpone the issue ...
Richard Nixon... ven though Lott ran as a Republican. Lott won handily, in large part due to's landslide victory in that year's presidential election. Nixon won the 5 ...
Decebalus... Second Dacian War), the Dacian capital, Sarmizegetusa Regia, was destroyed.fled but, rather than being captured by the Roman cavalry, committed suici ...
German Emperor Wilhelm II... Margaret of Prussia, daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of. Nicholas flatly declared that he would rather become a monk than marry t ...
William II... ded to abdicate in 1840. Royal power was curbed during the reign of his sonin a constitution ordered by the King to prevent the Revolution of 1848 fr ...
George II... ow in England. Set in , the house was completed in 1729 during the reign ofand designed by Lord Burlington. William Kent (1685–1748), who took a lead ...
George W. Bush... Wing. Cindy Sheehan had been demanding a second meeting with the President,
Charlemagne... that had not been accomplished since the days of the Roman Empire (althoughhad nearly done so around 800 CE). However, France's constant warfare with ...
Charles Lyell... es from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past", andmemorably rephrased in the 1830s as "the present is the key to the past". ...
President of the United States... tates Navy prescribes manning the rail as a possible honor to render to theand for the heads of state of foreign nations. A similar but less formal c ...
Holy Roman Emperor... ost Honourable Privy Council. After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the, Charles V, accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was kni ...
Domitian... edman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor, this identification, which no ancient sources suggest, then lost support ...
Sun Quan... divided into three spheres of influence, with Cao Cao dominating the north,(182–252 CE) dominating the south, and Liu Bei (161–223 CE) dominating the ...
Louis VIII of France... ring Albi). After the citizens refused to open the gates of Avignon to Kingand the papal Legate, a three month siege ensued starting on 10 June 1226, ...
Harthacnut... lish king. She had returned to England (at least) by 1036, while Emma's sonwas away in Denmark, at war with the Norwegian king Magnus I, and the Swed ...
Louis XVIII... ater lost this status under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright byand Napoleon III, only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution ...
William IIIWilliam II died in 1849. He was succeeded by his son, King, a rather conservative, even a reactionary man. William III was sharply o ...
Frank Capra... al and ecological awareness, government propaganda, and leftist viewpoints.'s Why We Fight (1942–1944) series was a newsreel series in the United Sta ...
John Maynard KeynesIn 1921 the economistpublished a book on probability theory, A Treatise of Probability. Keynes ...
George W. BushIn 2006, theadministration expanded abstinence programs from teens to adults, by intro ...
Anne Boleyn... e for Thomas Kiddell and as a justice of the peace. His father, Sir Thomas,'s chamberlain, also secured a joint patent in survivorship with his son f ...
Ronald Reagan... hout much difficulty, and even ran unopposed in 1978. In 1980, he served as's Mississippi state chairman. He served as (the second-ranking Republican ...
Isaac Newton... ly credited with being the first to develop the theory of atomism, althoughpreferred to credit the obscure Moschus the Phoenician (whom he believed t ...
Mahmoud Abbas... ant groups, in attempt to derail the stalled peace talks between Israel and, President of the Palestinian Authority. According to the Israeli Coordin ...
Septimius Severus... ble of the site's ruins. It is enriched with refined reliefs and sculpture.(193-211) added a pentagonal temple of Venus, who as Aphrodite had enjoyed ...
Zeno... s together that he set out in 488, by commission from the Byzantine emperor, to recover Italy from Odoacer. By 493 Ravenna was taken, where Theodoric ...
Henry VII... bourgeois respectability. Lynom lost his position as King's Solicitor whendefeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485, but he was ...
Juliana... complete extinction until 1909, when Wilhemina gave birth to her daughter,. The Dutch royal house remained quite small until the latter 1930s and th ...
Cyrus the Great... ersians, who incorporated them and their lands into the new Persian Empire., founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, resolved to complete the conquest of ...
Alexander I... e Diet of Porvoo in 1809 was a landmark in the History of Finland. The Tsarconfirmed the new Finnish constitution (which was essentially the Swedish ...
Holy Roman Emperor... English volunteers, had lost his hereditary lands in the Palatinate to theFerdinand II. Having agreed to help his brother-in-law regain the Palatina ...
Isaac Newton... y was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as, and Gottfried Leibniz. Newton was even accused of introducing occult age ...
VespasianConstruction of the Colosseum began under the rule of the Emperorin around 70–72 AD. The site chosen was a flat area on the floor of a low ...
Puyi... empty, he was succeeded by Cixi's handpicked heir, his two year old nephew, who became the Xuantong Emperor. Guangxu's consort became the Empress Do ...
Napoleon IIIThe war with Prussia, initiated byin July 1870, turned out disastrously for France, and by September Paris i ...
Henry II... er. In 1157, the abbey was given the manor of Glossop in Derbyshire by King. The hilltop Monks' Road and the Abbot's Chair in Glossop is a reminder o ...
Constantine IX Monomachos... ing was finally completed with the financing of the huge expense by Emperorand Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople in 1048. As a concession, the m ...
Trajan... er ascribed to him) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Emperor's reign, or 101 AD
Hadrian... demolished by Caesar in 44 BC. This temple no longer existed by the time of, and its site probably lies under the church of Santi Martina e Luca
Julia Domna... Gaul (now Lyon, France), the son of the later Emperor Septimius Severus and. At the age of seven, his name was changed to Marcus Aurelius Septimius B ...
Lex Luthor... tomic Skull, Bizarro, Cheetah, Evil Star, Giganta, Heat Wave, Killer Frost,, Sinestro, Star Sapphire, Toyman and Volcana. They team up with the Leagu ...
Queen Elizabeth I... saoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab King of Barbary toin 1600, was one inspiration for Othello. He stayed with his retinue in Lo ...
Barack Obama... e was invited to perform at the White House concert series before President. When Mick held out a mic to him, Obama sang twice the line "Come on, bab ...
Liu Bei... o Cao dominating the north, Sun Quan (182–252 CE) dominating the south, and(161–223 CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By Decembe ...
Aragorn... ess, nightmares, and eventual death: an effect known as "the Black Breath".used the herb athelas to treat victims of the Black Breath, including Frod ...
Ragnar Frisch... n Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared withfor having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of econom ...
Premier of Western Australia... September 1951) is an Australian academic and former politician. He was thefrom 2001 to 2006. He currently resides in Sydney
Æthelric... th-century Anglo-Saxon genealogies (of doubtful historicity) was the son ofand grandson of Ida
Queen Anne... nge extinct, and leaving Scotland, England and Ireland to his sister-in-law
Rupert of Germany... Scandinavian king, Eric of Pomerania. Count Palatine John was a son of King. In 1445, Christopher married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 – 25 November ...
Pyrrhus of Epirus... nd wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, a sister of. Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by Plutarch to have ...
Tullus Hostilius... man champion at the time of Romulus. This would make her the grandmother of, the fourth king of Rome
Charles II... e of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London byin 1683. The King's Bench adjudged the charter and franchises of the city ...
Alexander the Great... lity of advanced civilizations in ancient Turkmenistan including finds at .conquered the territory in the 4th century BC on his way to South Asia. In ...
Marcus Aurelius... s Antoninus to create a connection to the family of the philosopher emperor. He was later given the , which referred to the Gallic hooded tunic he ha ...
Joan Gaspart... whiskey were thrown at him from the crowd. President Núñez was replaced byin 2000, and the three years he was in charge, saw the club decline and ma ...
Charles the Fat... on 12 December 884 and was succeeded in the rule by his cousin, the Emperor
Prince George of Denmark... her out when Anne suffered bereavement. After the death of Anne's husband,in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at Kensington Palace to find Anne with th ...
Robert Stanfield... set by this incident was dangerous. Federal Progressive Conservative leaderinitially supported Trudeau's actions, but later regretted doing so. The s ...
Crown Prince Naruhito... e kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years whenof Japan studied there (1983–85)
Gustav I of Sweden... his deceased sister's, the House of Vasa. His great-nephew the future Kinghad been born a few years before Sten's death. At the time, however, none ...
Cecil O. Samuelson... bordinate to the Church Board of Education. The President of BYU, currently, reports to the Board, through the Commissioner of Education
Alfred Marshall... financial consultant. In 1924 Keynes wrote an obituary for his former tutorwhich Schumpeter called "the most brilliant life of a man of science I hav ...
Princess Irulan... mperor Paul remains in a political marriage with Shaddam's eldest daughter,, and has yet to beget another child with his true love Chani. His rule is ...
Edward IV of England... abeth "Jane" Shore (c.1445 – c.1527) was one of the many mistresses of King, the first of the three whom he described respectively as "the merriest, ...
Baldwin II... Alexios Strategopoulos captured Constantinople from its last Latin Emperor,. Michael VIII entered the city on 15 August and had himself crowned toget ...
Andrew Jackson... tatistical Area. The county seat is Jackson. It is named for U.S. President. It is considered to be one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", named for m ...
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich... iblings and a very small number of the otherwise close-knit Romanov family:(husband of Nicholas's sister Xenia), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovic ...
Domitian... a decade with the unfavourable (and to some, shameful) peace negotiated by's ministers
Cao Pi... CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By December his son(187–226 CE) had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known po ...
Premier of Victoria... nment, and opposition to White Australia and the death penalty. The Liberal, Henry Bolte, called The Age "that pinko rag," a view conservatives have ...
Felipe, Prince of Asturias... na to his first-born son, Alfonso. The title is currently carried by Prince, the first since the 16th century to do so
Guangxu Emperor... e to become a modern Meiji-style constitutional monarchy was drafted by thein 1898, but was opposed and stopped by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who plac ...
Albert Lutuli... g's work was cited by and served as an inspiration for South African leader, another black Nobel Peace prize winner who fought for racial justice in ...
Adolf Hitler... metimes spelled Shmidt), was a former Nazi general officer and confidant of. He has been closely affiliated with HYDRA and is an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D ...
Edward I of EnglandQuo warranto had its origins in an attempt by Kingto investigate and recover royal lands, rights, and franchises in England, ...
Presidential... needed. Terminal 4 is currently named after former Arizona Senator and 1964candidate . After Goldwater's death in 1998, the mayor of Phoenix proposed ...
King Henry II... ly member of the family to Ireland was during 1171, as a Standard Bearer to. The surnames "Wesley" was adopted from a childless wealthy cousin, Garre ...
Thomas Henry Huxley... in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel, and by comparative anatomists such asand E. Ray Lankester. Enthusiasm waned: it was often difficult to find evi ...
King Louis XIV of France... heir in William III's will. The principality was captured by the forces ofunder François Adhémar de Monteil, Count of Grignan, in the Franco-Dutch W ...
William McKinleyUpon the inauguration ofas president of the United States on March 4, 1897, the Republic of Hawaii ...
President of Ireland... fficial name, Ireland, and its letters of credence are now addressed to the
Numa PompiliusFons was the son of Juturna and Janus., second king of Rome, was supposed to have been buried near the altar of ...
Empress Dowager Cixi... drafted by the Guangxu Emperor in 1898, but was opposed and stopped by the, who placed Emperor Guangxu under house arrest in a coup d'état. Further ...
Joan Laporta... t era, the club bounced back with the combination of a new young president,, and a young new manager, former Dutch player Frank Rijkaard. On the fiel ...
Richard III... England, founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those ofat Bosworth Field in 1485. While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended a ...
Jimmy Carter... . To date, he has the longest retirement of any President. Former Presidentwill surpass the length of Hoover's retirement on September 7, 2012. At th ...
Bill Clinton... had a major role in the Senate trial following the impeachment of President. After the House narrowly voted to impeach Clinton, Lott proceeded with t ...
Peleus... fused with another sea goddess who became the sea-nymph Thetis, the wife ofand mother of Achilles during Classical times. Some myths imply a second g ...
Nero... ited. It was devastated by the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, following whichseized much of the area to add to his personal domain. He built the grandi ...
Xenia... nov family: Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (husband of Nicholas's sister), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (the most artistic of the Imperia ...
Ohthere... wulf as Hrefnesholt, the Geatish hillfort which became the prison of Onela,and their mother until their rescue by Ongenþeow
Ambrosius... out a father on the site to lift the curse. Vortigern finds such a youth in, who rebukes the wise men and reveals that the cause of the disturbance i ...
Iasion... r of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, Demeter luredaway from the other revelers. They proceeded to have intercourse in a plou ...
Elizabeth... 's Men during the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princessand Frederick V, Elector Palatine
Eric of Pomerania... r married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 – 25 November 1495), in Copenhagen.was deposed as king of Denmark and Sweden in 1439. As Eric's nephew, Chris ...
DecebalusDuring the following winter, Kinglaunched a counter-attack across the Danube further downstream, but this w ...
Gustav III of Sweden... named after Sten Sture. In 1792 it was a prison, where the murderer of Kingwas jailed before hi
J. J. Thomson... s own as a compressed electron (detected in 1897 by British experimentalist) would prove unstable. Meanwhile, other experimenters began to detect une ...
Antigonus II Gonatas... er of Regent Antipater by whom he had two children: Stratonice of Syria and. His second wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, ...
Septimius Severus... drian's Wall in the summer and autumn. Constantius's campaign, like that ofbefore it, probably advanced far into the north without achieving great su ...
Philip the Arab... th her consort Adonis ("Lord", the Aramaic translation of "Baal."). Emperor(244–249) was the last to add a monument at Heliopolis: the hexagonal fore ...
Achilles... a goddess who became the sea-nymph Thetis, the wife of Peleus and mother ofduring Classical times. Some myths imply a second generation relationship ...
George W. BushBranstad was appointed by Presidentto chair the President's Commission for Excellence in Special Education. T ...
Leopold I of Belgium... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned byin 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ...
Theodore Roosevelt... strong negative impact on the salmon population, and in 1908 U.S. Presidentobserved that the salmon runs were but a fraction of what they had been 25 ...
Robert McNamaraHe often privately cursed the Vietnam War, and in a conversation with, Johnson assailed "the bunch of commies" running The New York Times for t ...
Henry VI... land on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King, before moving to Wallingford Castle early in his reign and taking Tudor ...
Charles XIII... he Swedish throne because the Swedish royal family was dying out with King. Baron Carl Otto Mörner (22 May 1781 – 17 August 1868), who was a Swedish ...
presidents... ished its community and re-formed its government, producing several notablecoming from the Visayas region
Frithuwold... en a charter shows Wulfhere confirming a grant made to Bishop Eorcenwald by, a sub-king in Surrey, which may have extended north into modern Buckingh ...
Louis VIII... his son, also named Raymond. In 1223, Philippe II died and was succeeded by. In 1224, Amaury de Montfort abandoned Carcassonne. The son of Raymond-Ro ...
Henry III of Castile... lian expedition led by Juan de Bethencourt conquered the Canary Islands for
Oswiu... t of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons Eanfrith, Oswald, andfled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle has been seen as caus ...
ArthurChapter 56 discusses twelve battles fought and won by, here called dux bellorum (war leader) rather than king
Charlemagne... part of Frisia, Groningen became a part of the Frankish Empire around 785.assigned the Christianization of this new possession to Ludger. In the 11t ...
Fulvia Plautilla... ank space next to Caracalla's. Among those killed were Caracalla's ex-wife,, and her brother and other members of the family of his former father-in- ...
Trajan... t was banished from Rome to the Chersonesus during the reign of the Emperorand was set to work in a stone quarry. Finding on his arrival that the pri ...
Charles the Fat... the northern parts of Boso's realm. They united their forces with those ofand unsuccessfully besieged Vienne from August to November. Only in the su ...
Frank Capra... stage play by Ken Ludwig, the lead character, George, hoping to be cast byas the Scarlet Pimpernel. In The Desert Song, the heroic "Red Shadow" has ...
Peter III of Aragon... e 11th century. The ancient countship later became a duchy (1351) when Kinggave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, King Ferdinan ...
Alexander the Great... dence was put to an end. Three years later, heartened by a false rumor thathad been assassinated, the Thebans revolted; Alexander squashed the revolt ...
Thomas S. Monson... is organized under a Board of Trustees, with the President of the Church (as of 2012) as chairman. This board consists of the same people as the Chu ...
Claudius... C campaign in Spain. The temple was destroyed by a fire during the reign ofand was never rebuilt
John Adams... 2. At the time of his death he was the second longest-lived president after; both were since surpassed by Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. He had outli ...
Queen Victoria... stop on the East Coast Main Line and Cross Country Route. Opened in 1850 by, it was the first covered railway station in the world and was much copie ...
Edward, Earl of March... , Owen led the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross against. They were defeated. Owen was subsequently executed, beheaded at Hereford ...
LatinusIn Roman mythology, Marica was a nymph, the mother of. Latinus was fathered by Faunus, who was also occasionally referred to as ...
Alberta Premier... Canada and sought to expand its base in the east. Manning, son of longtimeErnest Manning, gained support partly from the same political constituency ...
Solomon... occurred 143 years and eight months after Hiram of Tyre sent assistance tofor the building of the Temple. Using the 825 date, this Tyrian record wou ...
William III... illiam died of smallpox on November 6, 1650, leaving only a posthumous son,(*November 14, 1650). Since there was no Prince of Orange upon the death o ...
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich... e). Alexandra disliked in particular the family of Nicholas's senior uncle,, and his wife Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who, during the war, openly ...
Trajan... turn. Nero (54–68 CE) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter;(98-117) added the forecourt to the Temple of Jupiter, with porticos of p ...
dynasty of Shaka... er a single king and made internal divisions and civil wars inevitable. Thewas deposed, and the Zulu country portioned among eleven Zulu chiefs, incl ...
Oswiu of Northumbria... father, Penda, was killed in 655 at the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against. Penda's son Peada became king under Oswiu's overlordship but was murdere ...
Henry V of England... p with, and probable secret marriage to, Catherine of Valois, widow of King
Charlemagne... the Frankish court. Thus it would seem to be a case of a building work from's time ("Charlemagne" is "Karl der Große" – "Charles the Great" (740s–814 ...
John F. Kennedy... e word "Camelot" is sometimes used to refer admiringly to the presidency of, as his term was said to have potential and promise for the future, and m ...
Bill Clinton... the inspectors were not kicked out by Saddam Hussein, but were withdrawn by
Stanley Baldwin... Prime Minister in May 1923, Curzon was passed over for the job in favour of, despite having written Bonar Law a lengthy letter earlier in the year co ...
Adolf Hitler... 935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by. Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) ...
Marcus Aurelius... ctor Hugo told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of", and Alexandre Herculano called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion ...
Robert Bourassa... ral to invoke the War Measures Act at the request of the Premier of Quebec,, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau. The provisions took effect at 4 ...
emperor... from 246 BC to 221 BC during the Warring States Period. He became the firstof a unified China in 221 BC. He ruled until his death in 210 BC at the ag ...
Christian I... ied suddenly at Helsingborg in 1448. On 28 October 1449, Dorothea remarried. King Christopher was buried in Roskilde Cathedral. In 1654 his Wittelsba ...
Archduke FerdinandWorld War I begins with the assassination of. Germany declares war on Russia immediately after Nicholas has ordered th ...
Cadmus... eogony of Hesiod she is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage ofand Harmonia, Demeter lured Iasion away from the other revelers. They proc ...
Ferdinand VII of Spain... for a short time as a party nickname in the civil wars during the reign of
Alexander the Great... y other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings Philip II andare included), although modern historians have questioned his larger strat ...
Owain Glyndŵr... ith) had been (together with his two brothers Rhys and Gwilym) stalwarts of's uprising of 1400. When that uprising ebbed away Maredudd lost most of h ...
Richard the Lionheart... alls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings, Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layo ...
Theodore II Doukas Laskaris... employment of the emperors of Nicaea. A few days after the death of Emperorin 1258, Michael Palaiologos instigated a coup against the influential bur ...
President RooseveltIn December 1943,decided that Eisenhower—not Marshall—would be Supreme Allied Commander in ...
Xanana Gusmão... independent as Timor-Leste in 2002 under the presidency of Falintil leader. Although political strife continued as the new nation coped with poverty ...
Titus... in 79. The top level was finished and the building inaugurated by his son,, in 80. Dio Cassius recounts that over 9,000 wild animals were killed dur ...
Edward III... ng of the king's eldest daughter; and by a statute of the 25th year of King, sleeping with the king's eldest daughter before her marriage constitutes ...
Hitler... which would amount to an end or severe curtailment of Poland's sovereignty;abrogated the Polish-German pact. Before the war broke out, Poland entere ...
Clock King... egion are Lex Luthor, Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos,, and Amazo
Raymond Poincaré... reparations; he described the French Prime Minister (and former President)as a "horrid little man"
NeroOther emperors enriched the sanctuary of Heliopolitan Jupiter each in turn.(54–68 CE) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter; Trajan (9 ...
Nicholas I... Muskau; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882); Russian Tsars(1796–1855) and Alexander I (1777–1825); the king of Persia; Queen Victori ...
John F. Kennedy... of the Pacific "Wall of the Missing" in Honolulu. In March 1963, Presidentdid a wreath-laying ceremony at O'Hare Airport to honor Butch O'Hare. The ...
Princess Louisa Maria... ollowing is a complete list of women officially styled as "Princess Royal":(1692–1712), the last daughter of King James II (d. 1701), born after he l ...
Maximinus Thrax... epended on the support of the military to rule, like his eventual successor
George W. Bush... American election, Rick Mercer approached Republican presidential candidateon a campaign stop in Michigan, asking for comment on the news that Bush h ...
Domitian... odelled further under Vespasian's younger son, the newly designated Emperor, who constructed the hypogeum, a series of underground tunnels used to ho ...
Hong Xiuquan... llion, a civil war which lasted from 1851 to 1862. The rebellion was led by, who was partly influenced by an idiosyncratic interpretation of Christia ...
Henry III... were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart,, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout establis ...
Áedán mac Gabráin... antly inland from the coast, and penetrated further into British territory., the Irish king of Dál Riata (to the northwest of Bernicia), was alarmed ...
Mary Stuart... predecessors from the Eighty Years War. In 1677, William married his cousin, the daughter of the future king James II of England. In 1688, William em ...
King David... ownfall, since that title was only to be held by descendants of the line of. The Hasmonean bureaucracy was filled with men with Greek names, and the ...
Al Gore... 000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to Jan ...
Stanisław Leszczyński... use of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, ...
Joseph F. Smith... counts of two visions, one from Joseph Smith and the other from his nephew,in 1918. The revelations were earlier accepted as scripture when added to ...
King George I... James II & VII, and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of, were eligible for this honour but did not receive it. At the time she be ...
Eorcenberht of Kent... nce in Surrey, Essex, and Kent. He married Eormenhild, the daughter of King
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor... he "false emperor" Dietrich Holzschuh, called Tile Kolup, who claimed to be(who actually had already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When th ...
Eric of Pomerania... merania-Stolp, and Catherine of Pomerania, sister of the Scandinavian king,. Count Palatine John was a son of King Rupert of Germany. In 1445, Christ ...
Hadrian... le statue from about 200 BCE that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor(the Castel Sant'Angelo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Ma ...
William R. BrodyIn his 2001 undergraduate commencement address, university presidentsaid about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was foun ...
Bill Clinton... of those guilty of "Plastic Paddyism" (or, in his words, "Dermot-itis") are, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan. Scottish-Australian songwriter Eri ...
George W. Bush... te gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, whentook office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Re ...
George W. Bush... Kerry and John Edwards carried Tensas Parish, 1,460 to 1,453 for Presidentand Richard B. Cheney. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore, won Tensas Parish by 250 ...
Theodosius II... inscription records the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum underand Valentinian III (reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by ...
Caesar Augustus... Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of. His literary style was Atticistic — imitating Classical Attic Greek in i ...
Lex Luthor... aseball against the Justice League International. Members of the Legion are, Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, Clock King, and Am ...
Alexander I... an Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nicholas I (1796–1855) and(1777–1825); the king of Persia; Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and Prince Alb ...
Drew G. Faust... oston-area colleges and universities including Harvard University Presidentand UMass President Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures including Boston Ce ...
John IV Doukas Laskaris... rat George Mouzalon, becoming joint guardian for the eight-year old Emperortogether with the patriarch Arsenios. Michael was invested with the titles ...
Sir Walter ScottThe legend was actually formalised byand was later instigated in a town festival called "The Cleikum Ceremonies ...
Catherine of Valois... dynasty – including his relationship with, and probable secret marriage to,, widow of King Henry V of England
Andrei... the Empress. Quite accurately, she considered their sons Kyrill, Boris andto be irredeemably immoral and in 1913 refused Boris's proposal for the ha ...
Louis XV of France... Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King, who despite French support had lost out to a candidate backed by Russia ...
William of Orange... lowing the Battle of the Boyne, Finglas was used as a camp for four days byen route to Dublin city. He is believed to have camped near the Labour Exc ...
Charles Lyell... evolutionary play is performed. Darwin studied evolution in the context of's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some c ...
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor... exerting a dominating influence on the surrounding Ommelanden. Around 1500,gave Groningen and Friesland to Albert, Duke of Saxony, who could however ...
John F. Kennedy... e expansion of federal gun regulations came as a response to the murders of, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
George W. Bush... because of lead singer Natalie Maines's comments disparaging then-Presidentwhile overseas
King Fuchai of WuIn the late Spring and Autumn Period (722–481 BC),, ruler of the State of Wu (present-day Suzhou), ventured north to conquer ...
Ivan III of RussiaIn 1493, the Danish and Norwegian king, Hans, formed an alliance withagainst Sten Sture. From 1495 to 1497, Sten successfully repelled a Russia ...
King James IIPrincess Louisa Maria (1692–1712), the last daughter of(d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the Glorious Revolution, was gi ...
Lysimachus... admit him into their city. But he soon afterwards ravaged the territory ofand effected a reconciliation with Seleucus, to whom he gave his daughter ...
President of the United States... rican particle physicist, three-time candidate of the Natural Law Party for(1992, 1996, and 2000), and the director of the Transcendental Meditation ...
German Empress Frederick... was unnecessary to attempt to secure the approval of the people. Her aunt,, wrote to Queen Victoria that "Alix is very Imperious and will always ins ...
Witch-king of Angmar... sible form. During the assault on Minas Tirith, the leader of The Nine, the, cast back his hood to reveal a crown, but the head that wore it was invi ...
Philip II... and he did not persecute his Protestant subjects on a large scale. His soninherited his antipathy for the Protestants but not his moderation. Under ...
Ecgfrith... poet. However, the next datable event in the Historia ecclesiastica is King’s raid on Ireland in 684 (Book IV, Chapter 26). Taken together, this evid ...
John of Denmark... ion to his distant kinsman Sten Sture the Elder, going as far as supporting. Unwillingly he then switched sides and supported Sten Sture in overthrow ...
Daniel Coit Gilman... ry 22, 1876 and named for its benefactor, the philanthropist Johns Hopkins.was inaugurated as first president on February 22, 1876
Antoninus Pius... mple of Jupiter, with porticos of pink granite brought from Aswan in Egypt.(138-161) built the Temple of Bacchus, the best preserved of the sanctuary ...
Oswiu of Northumbria... how he converted from Anglo-Saxon paganism. His accession marked the end of's overlordship of southern England, and Wulfhere extended his influence o ...
Baal-Eser II... as the father of Dido in the Aeneid may be a reference to her grandfather,/Balazeros
Louis XIII of France... recusants, he promised to do exactly that in a secret marriage treaty with. Moreover, the price of marriage with the French princess was a promise o ...
Theseus... t's historical novel The King Must Die, set in the time of the mythological, who lived - if he existed at all - a thousand years or more before Alexa ...
Justinian... a whose remnants are found along Murat Toptani Street, was built by Emperorin 520 AD and restored by Ahmed Pasha Toptani in the 18th century. The are ...
Bette Davis... es, James MacArthur, June Allyson, Liz Smith, and Rex Reed witnessed abuse.supported Christina's version, saying that Christina could not have made i ...
Malcolm IV of Scotland... tury, when it was recorded as "Inverlethane". It is said that a son of King(who was staying at Traquair House on a hunting trip), drowned accidentall ...
Lysimachus... he other successors of Alexander, and Lycia became a part of the kingdom of, who ruled until he was killed in battle in 281 BC. By 240 BC Lycia was p ...
Henry III... osopher David Hume, in his history of England, recounts how in the reign of(r.1216 - 1272) the English Navy destroyed an invading French fleet, by bl ...
Graham Berry... rmous political power in Victoria. It supported liberal politicians such as, George Higinbotham and George Turner, and other leading liberals such as ...
Prince Michael of Kent... named Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express was launched on 26 April 2007 by
Joshua LederbergThe role of symbiosis in cell evolution was revived partly by, and finally brought to light by Lynn Margulis in a series of papers and ...
emperor... tas as a divine personification was part of the religious propaganda of the, under the name Aequitas Augusti, which also appeared on coins. She is de ...
Al Gore... 1,453 for President George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. In 2000, Democrat, won Tensas Parish by 250 votes. The Democratic electors polled 1,580 vot ...
Kim Il-sung... mary and secondary schools is greater than the 1,800 taught in South Korea.had earlier called for a gradual elimination of the use of hanja, but by t ...
James E. TalmageIn 1930, a small volume edited by Apostletitled Latter-day Revelations was published, which was a highly edited sel ...
Valentinian III... s the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under Theodosius II and(reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by a major earthquake ...
Baal-Eser II... e. However, the publication of the Shalmaneser text mentioning tribute fromof Tyre in 841 BC caused a re-examination of this question, since the best ...
Nicholas II of Russia... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra
President... n the Oklahoma City area to be released from their duties for their safety.Bill Clinton learned about the bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was mee ...
King Arthur... nds heavy scrutiny for being the earliest source of any substance regarding, naming the twelve battles he fought (cf. Annales Cambriae which assigns ...
Harry S. Truman... evious experience with Germany at the end of World War I, in 1946 Presidentselected the former president to tour Germany to ascertain the food status ...
Alexander of Pherae... into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas and Ismenias, who had been imprisoned bywhile serving as ambassadors. The Theban force not only failed to overcome ...
Dafydd ap Llywelyn... s under the patronage of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, and his songave St Winefride's Well to the abbey. The monks harnessed the power of th ...
President of the United States... nd of South Carolina, a long time conservative leader. Thurmond had run forin 1948 on the Dixiecrat (or States' Rights) ticket. Lott said: "When Stro ...
Ptolemy Keraunos... ely. Antiochus was soon compelled to make peace with his father's murderer,, apparently abandoning Macedonia and Thrace. In Anatolia he was unable to ...
Augustus... a few Roman remains, which were constructed during the reign of the emperor. There was a military camp at Dorlar and some Roman roadwork. The most im ...
Guy of LusignanThat year he allied with Sibylla andagainst Count Raymond, and his influence contributed to the recognition of ...
Bud Adamsestablished the Titans/Oilers Hall of Fame after the 40th season of the fr ...
Rajiv Gandhi... an Military, one was used by Vijitha Rohana to attack Indian Prime Ministerin 1987
Paul I... uld not be the heir presumptive due to the Pauline Laws implemented by tsar: only a male could succeed to the Russian throne, although there had been ...
Theodoric the Great... of the Black Sea in the 3rd century AD and, in the late 5th century, under, established a Kingdom in Italy
Rajiv Gandhi... a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder sonto quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a dec ...
Llywelyn the Great... lesworth in 1328. In the 13th century, the abbey was under the patronage of, Prince of Gwynedd, and his son Dafydd ap Llywelyn gave St Winefride's We ...
Constantine Porphyrogenitus... rly complete, and the remaining books exist in fragments in the excerpts ofand an epitome discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first t ...
Rajiv Gandhi... is job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a decade later,was assassinated
Saul... han all the great men of the English, insomuch that he might be compared to, once king of the Israelites, excepting only this, that he was ignorant o ...
Sverker II of Sweden... According to genealogical research, Sten Sture's father descended from King(both through family of Vinga and through family of Aspenäs)
Sanford B. DoleArticle 23 of the constitution personally namedas the first president and gave him a term of office stretching through 19 ...
John Maynard Keynes... t his homosexuality with his Bloomsbury friends (he had a relationship with, who also was part of the Bloomsbury group), it was not widely publicised ...
Rabbel II SoterAt about the same time, one of Rome's client kings, died. This event might have prompted the ann ...
Theodoric the Great... Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by Kingfor their high cost
Heraclius... under Khosrau II, invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperormarched triumphantly into Jerusalem and restored the True Cross to the reb ...
Tatiana... . Olga was well-loved by her young parents. Three more girls followed Olga:on 10 June 1897, Maria on 26 June 1899 and Anastasia on 18 June 1901. Thre ...
Ferdinand II of Aragon... m Almogavars became less numerous. In 1502, violating the 1492 peace treatyforced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert to Catholicism or be e ...
MacrinusCaracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect,, who (according to Herodian) was most probably responsible for having the ...
Prince of Wales... ing back in Britain and on the King's sixtieth birthday, George was created. The family moved their London residence from St James's Palace to Marlbo ...
Maxentius... d, until the very last moment, that Diocletian would choose Constantine and(Maximian's son) as his successors. It was not to be: Constantius and Gale ...
Anne Boleyn... ion and had bitterly opposed the king's divorce, his subsequent marriage toand its religious ramifications. In 1536, within two weeks of the riot in ...
Rhys ap GruffyddOwen was a descendant of(1132–1197) via the lineages that follow
Khosrau IIThis building was damaged by fire in 614 when the Persians, under, invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperor Heraclius marc ...
Robert Stephenson... accident. The bridge had been designed and built by famed-railway engineerfor the Chester and Holyhead Railway. A Royal Commission inquiry found tha ...
Richard of Cornwall... y period of Ottoman rule. Richard the Lionheart retook the city soon after., brought from England to settle the dangerous feuding between Templars an ...
Queen Henrietta MariaThe title Princess Royal came into existence when(1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charle ...
Danny Williams... s over the agreement would be harsh, with Newfoundland and Labrador Premier, at one point ordering all Canadian flags removed from provincial governm ...
Li Ban:For the Chinese prince, see(李班). For the country whose French name is Liban, see Lebanon
Charles VIII... the Sture family and Birgitta Stensdotter Bielke, half-sister of the future. He was married to Ingeborg Tott, niece by marriage of Magdalen of Sweden ...
Alfred the Great... unclear, since Truso was at the time little more than a trading center, and, the West Saxon ruler, already kept in close contact with the continental ...
Pepin II... rlordship over his brothers' kingdoms and supported the claim of his nephewas king of Aquitaine, a large province in western France. After his brothe ...
Carausius... one. He ruled until he was betrayed by his Pictish allies and overthrown by, who, according to Geoffrey, was a Briton, rather than the historically m ...
Sigehere... helm of the East Saxons also died in 664; he was succeeded by his two sons,and Sæbbi, and Bede describes their accession as "rulers ... under Wulfher ...
Napoleon III... tatus under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and, only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution of 1830. During ...
Constantine I... s also maintained that exposing a baby to death was a wicked act. In 318 ADconsidered infanticide a crime, and in 374 AD Valentinian I mandated to re ...
King Charles XIII... he received the homage of the Riksdag of the Estates, and he was adopted byunder the name of "Charles John" (Karl Johan). Many honours were bestowed ...
Timur... (1282), during which Abulfeda describes it as a very strong place. In 1400pillaged it
Louis II... English eventually evolved into the modern Lorraine. Lothair's eldest son,inherited Italy and his father's claim to the Imperial title
Prince of Wales... est man in England" and, according to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, thesaid that he would go anywhere to hear Wilberforce sing. Wilberforce used ...
Alexei Nikolaevich... e more years passed before the Empress gave birth to the long-awaited heir:was born in Peterhof on 12 August 1904. To his parents' dismay, Alexei was ...
Vartan Gregorian... Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson, Carnegie Corporation president, and Jim Rettig, president of the American Library Association
Hilaire Belloc's... removing obstacles to the growth of capitalism. (This point is also made inThe Servile State.
Cearl... s clear that he spent time in Mercia, because he married a daughter of king. Ultimately, he took refuge in East Anglia, where his presence precipitat ...
Charles VIIISture came to power after the death ofand consolidated his position through the victory of Brunkeberg. For a qua ...
Henry IV, King of France... yal came into existence when Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of, and wife of King Charles I (1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the el ...
King George VI... he "King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia," others to the "King of Italy.", as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, add ...
Clovis... e command of Clodio the Long-Haired took the town. In the early 6th centuryundertook to unify the Frankish kingdoms by getting rid of his relatives. ...
Richard the Lionheart... quarter still existed in the town during the early period of Ottoman rule.retook the city soon after. Richard of Cornwall, brought from England to s ...
Allectus... office of Caesar, and dispatched to Gaul to fight the rebels Carausius and. In spite of meritocratic overtones, the Tetrarchy retained vestiges of h ...
Wilhelm II... II, while the next two have a "W" for the respective kaisers, Wilhelm I and. The final version shows a swastika
Zachary Taylor... itary service. Other notable American participants included Winfield Scott,, and Jefferson Davis. The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian rem ...
Ronald Reagan... ved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. Whentook office, he augmented the direct support to an anti-Sandinista group, ...
Clive Jenkins... tionalised" and "When Wales get home rule, do you think they'll nationalise". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government of M ...
Pope Paul VI... o was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised with the other 39 byin 1970
Bill Friday... lor of UCLA from 1997 to 2006 after a 23 year tenure at Harvard University.served as president of the University of North Carolina system for 30 year ...
Sir John Lubbock... ion relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and bankerintroduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the tab ...
Victor Emmanuel III... iopia) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the King of Italy (), not all states recognized this claim (see diplomatic recognition), and ...
Charles August... tive to the Swedish throne had become acute since the previous crown princehad died of a stroke on 28 May 1810, just a few months after he had arrive ...
Barack Obama... ry 2010, China promised $4.2 million for the quake-hit island. US Presidentpledged $1.15 billion in assistance. nations promised more than 400 millio ...
Harry S. Truman... ment of greatest ignominy, when it predicted that Thomas Dewey would defeatin the 1948 election, by five to 15 percentage points. Gallup believed the ...
Prithviraj ChauhanAs per Bhavishya Purana(Sanskrit-भविष्य पुराणम्),, the King of Indraprastha built a new fort for convenience of all four ca ...
Mary Tudor... y, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The ...
Henrietta Maria of France... t Parliament sanction the marriage between the Prince of Wales and Princess, whom Charles had met in Paris while en route to Spain. It was a good mat ...
Victoria of Baden... . In particular, he served as the personal physician of the Crown princess,, and he continued in these duties while she was Queen consort, up until t ...
Napoleon I... July 1795, making it France's first anthem. It later lost this status under, and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and Napoleon III, only b ...
Queen Elizabeth II... ven the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. In particular,never held the title as her aunt, , was in possession of the title
Sargon of Akkad... powerful role held by a princess, most notably Enheduanna, daughter of King, and was the primary cult role associated with the cult of Nanna/Sin
Lothair II... the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's kingdom. However on the death of, who had no heir, king Charles the Bald tried to gain control of his king ...
Haakon IV of Norway... texts such as the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. According to the latter, Kinganchored his fleet, including the flagship Kroussden that could carry near ...
Alfred the Great... ertook a seven-days boat journey from Hedeby to Truso at the behest of king. One possible reason for this expedition was because Alfred needed aid in ...
Wu Sangui... he city fell. The Manchu Qing Dynasty then allied with Ming Dynasty generaland overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty, and subsequently seized contr ...
Ira Remsen... sleeve and Charles D. Morris; the economist Richard T. Ely; and the chemist, who became the second president of the university in 1901
Christian I... g in 1471, he triumphed against Swedish and Danish forces in the support of. This victory elevated Sture to the position of a national savior. The sc ...
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg... diately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII to, at which the bride and groom narrowly avoided assassination. Only a week ...
William the third... all Dutch monarchs have been buried in the same church. His great-grandson, King of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, was bur ...
Math fab MathonwyAccording to the Fourth Branch, Arianrhod's unclewould die if he did not keep his feet in the lap of a virgin when he was n ...
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland... enclosure was a result of inflation, he was only ignored. It was not untilwas Protector that his finance minister William Cecil took action on debas ...
Yu the Great... ated it much earlier than the 4th century BC, attributing it to the work of; modern scholars now consider it to belong to the 6th century BC
Louis the Pious... dun-sur-Meuse, August 843) was a treaty between the three surviving sons of, the son and successor of Charlemagne, which divided the Carolingian Empi ...
Carausius... romoted to the office of Caesar, and dispatched to Gaul to fight the rebelsand Allectus. In spite of meritocratic overtones, the Tetrarchy retained v ...
Baldwin III of Jerusalem... nald in secret in 1153, without consulting her first cousin and liege lord,. Neither King Baldwin nor Aimery of Limoges, the Latin Patriarch of Antio ...
Anne Boleyn... a Jacobean brick-built manor house, and was formerly the home of the young, later to become Henry VIII's second wife
Rajaraja Chola II... which abounds in rare sculpture and architectural workmanship, was built by(1146–73)
Domitian... ns, known as the Clementine literature, where he is identified with Emperor's cousin Titus Favius Clemens. Clementine Literature portrays Clement as ...
Centwine... ere defeated and the kingdom reunited, probably by Cædwalla but possibly by. A decade after Wulfhere's death, the West Saxons under Cædwalla began an ...
President... n Statistical Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003).Warren G. Harding was a native of Marion. The current administration is le ...
Charles III of Spain... ssion, the bells have rung faithfully every evening, a promise made to Kingwhen he sent the original bells to the Mission in 1777. He asked that the ...
Robinson... d letters of credence to the President of Ireland by name (e.g., "President," "President McAleese," etc.). This compromise was agreed to by the gover ...
Padishah Emperor... e caught in a plot to destroy them, orchestrated by the Baron Harkonnen andShaddam Corrino IV himself, who is threatened by Leto's rising power and i ...
Valéry Giscard d'EstaingIn 1975, French Presidentinvited the heads of government from West Germany, Italy, Japan, the Unite ...
Princess Anne... o have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon,, Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda ...
Abraham Lincoln... ander loose in the hilly terrain. There is also a full-size reproduction of's log cabin and a totem pole in the park
Charles XIII... ernor of Rome when he was unexpectedly elected the heir-presumptive to Kingof Sweden, who was childless and old
Anastasio Somoza García... t the National Guard in charge of internal security and elections. In 1934,, the head of the National Guard, ordered his forces to capture and murder ...
EaldwulfIn 664, Æthelwald of East Anglia died, and was succeeded by, who reigned for fifty years. Almost nothing is known of Mercian relation ...
Alexios III Angelos... kas Komnenos Palaiologos by Theodora Angelina, the granddaughter of Emperorand Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina. Even with our imperfect knowledge of B ...
Fedlimid RechtmarConn Cétchathach ("of the Hundred Battles", pron. ), son of, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High ...
Magnus I... e Emma's son Harthacnut was away in Denmark, at war with the Norwegian king, and the Swedes under their king Anund Jacob. Emma's other sons, Ælfred a ...
Alexander the Great... ic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon (382-336 BC), father of the conqueror, were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other ...
UrienIn the Welsh Triads, Modron becomes impregnated byand gives birth to Owain and Morvydd
Abraham LincolnThe Black Hawk War is now often remembered as the conflict that gave younghis brief military service. Other notable American participants included W ...
Constance of Antioch... joining the Second Crusade in 1147. In the east, he entered the service of, whose first husband had died in 1149. She married Raynald in secret in 1 ...
Æthelwealh... river Meon, on the mainland north of the Isle of Wight, to his godson Kingof the South Saxons. It seems likely that the ruling dynasty on the island ...
Edwin... unknown. That he gained Deira through conquest is suggested by the exile of, son of the former king Ælla, and Hereric, Edwin's nephew, who were both ...
Otto I... he count, who ruled the city and county, and the bishop, ceased when in 948granted the bishop with temporal powers over the city. In 1007 emperor Hen ...
Valentinian I... act. In 318 AD Constantine I considered infanticide a crime, and in 374 ADmandated to rear all children (exposing babies, especially girls, was stil ...
Queen Louise's... shed the military decoration of the Iron Cross, backdated to March 10, latebirthday. The Iron Cross was awarded to soldiers during the Wars of Libera ...
Iestyn ap Gwrgant... went. (Meurig was the son of Ithel, grandson of Rhydd and great-grandson of. Iestyn had been the last King of Gwent (reigned 1081–1091) before its co ...
Catherine of AragonUsing her late mother's relationship with Henry's first queen, Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with Lady Mary. B ...
Bill RichardsonSheen initially endorsed New Mexico Governorin the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, and helped raise funds for his cam ...
Agamemnon... e is the mythological Greek House of Atreus. In Homer's Iliad, the brothersand Menelaus are dubbed "the Atreides," or, sons of Atreus
McAleese... to the President of Ireland by name (e.g., "President Robinson," "President," etc.). This compromise was agreed to by the governments of both states. ...
King Alfonso XIII of Spain... ousin of Alexandra, was also a carrier of the haemophilia gene. She marriedand two of her sons were haemophiliacs. As an incurable and life-threateni ...
Spanish Match... Infanta, Maria Anna of Spain, since Prince Henry's death, began to see theas a possible means of achieving peace in Europe
Duke of Cambridge... donations. Sidney Herbert served as honorary secretary of the fund, and thewas chairman. Nightingale was considered a pioneer in the concept of medic ...
Catherine of ValoisOwen entered the service of Queenas keeper of the Queen's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the ...
William III... bourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1890 when, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, died without leavi ...
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II... was mentioned in an inventory of specimens in the Prague collection of theto whom Savery was contracted at the time (1607–1611). Savery's several la ...
Humphry Davy... nded to believe was a unified and organic Nature. The English scientist Sir, a prominent Romantic thinker, said that understanding nature required “a ...
President of the European Commission... up became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Union is represented by theand the leader of the country that holds the Presidency of the Council of ...
Philip II of Macedon... inance of the Athenian Empire and the later adoption of Attic Greek by king(382-336 BC), father of the conqueror Alexander the Great, were the two ke ...
Roger II of Sicily... had been ordained and instituted by Anacletus or any of his adherents. Kingwas excommunicated for maintaining what was thought to be a schismatic att ...
King James II & VII... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of, and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ...
Hugo Chávez... us". In response to a question about Belarus's domestic policies, Presidentof Venezuela said "We see here a model social state like the one we are be ...
Galerius... 's first appointee for the office of Caesar was Constantius; his second was, a native of Felix Romuliana. According to Lactantius, Galerius was a bru ...
Chongzhen Emperor... g, a minor Ming official turned leader of the peasant revolt. The last Mingcommitted suicide when the city fell. The Manchu Qing Dynasty then allied ...
Harold Wilson... the series makes many references to the policy of the Labour governments ofand James Callaghan, with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dea ...
Catherine of Aragon... nd was now part of her household. It was in the household of King Henry and's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the Ki ...
King Arthur... ho was stolen away from her when he was three days old and later rescued by
Ulysses S. Grant... the Indian Wars were happening in the west and famous military men such as, Philip Henry Sheridan, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and George Crook were stat ...
Adolf Hitler... reu as well as Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, who invitated keynote speakerto Wahnfried house. There he met writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son-i ...
James BuchananIn January, Presidenthad attempted to resupply the garrison with the Star of the West, but Conf ...
Alfred the Great... the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex emerged as the dominant English kingdom.secured Wessex, achieved dominance over western Mercia, and assumed the ti ...
Sandro RosellAfter Laporta's departure from the club in June 2010,was soon elected as the new president. The elections were held on June 13, ...
Mary II of England and ScotlandPrincess Mary (later Queen) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of King James II & VII, and Princess Sophia ...
Jeane Kirkpatrick... Court did not have jurisdiction, with U.S. ambassador to the United Nationsdismissing the Court as a "semi-legal, semi-juridical, semi-political body ...
Augusto Pinochet... he arranged for the escape of numerous refugees from the military junta of; this brought him into conflict with the regime, and he was eventually fo ...
Charles II... fused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration ofin 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two ...
Li Zicheng... o Beijing. In 1644 Beijing was sacked by a coalition of rebel forces led by, a minor Ming official turned leader of the peasant revolt. The last Ming ...
Barack ObamaIn July 2008, then the Democratic presidential candidate, said: "If somebody was sendi ...
William I... dent kingdom and Luxembourg was handed over to the King of the Netherlands,. Luxembourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1 ...
Nelson MandelaThis name was also given toprior to his arrest and long incarceration for his anti-apartheid activiti ...
King Henry... hardt's novel, Stirb du Narr! ("Die you fool!"), about More's struggle with, portrays More as an idealist bound to fail in the power struggle with a ...
Ludwig Scotty... country for alternating periods. Dowiyogo died in office in March 2003 andwas elected as the President. Scotty was re-elected to serve a full term i ...
Felix Yusupov... two decadent young princes, Grand Duke Dmitri (Richard Warwick) and Prince(Martin Potter), invite Rasputin to an opium party and kill him in Decembe ...
Genghis Khan... hen were further altered by Turkic invaders and rulers such as the Seljuks.and Mongol invasions devastated the region during the late Middle Ages, bu ...
Charlemagne... n in retrospect to symbolize all the Christian Frankish kings, most notably
Edward IIIIn 1339, in the early stages of the war, the English kinglaid siege to the city but eventually had to withdraw. By the 14th century ...
Augustus... e Senate with the wish felicior Augusto, melior Traiano ("[be] luckier thanand better than Trajan"). Among medieval Christian theologians, Trajan was ...
Alexander I... ime of the Restoration period. He worked furiously to prevent Russia's Tsar(who aided the liberal forces in Germany, Italy and France) from gaining i ...
Grover Cleveland... supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the White House., an anti-imperialist, assumed the presidency and right away worked to sto ...
Alexander the Great... 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of
Daniel Coit GilmanThe University's viability depended on its first president,, recruited from the presidency of the University of California. Gilman la ...
Henry VIII... The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one onand another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More ...
Saddam Hussein... e of the Iraqi Supergun (Project Babylon) scandal. It had been owned by thegovernment, via front companies, and closed amidst much controversy and ba ...
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles... bly Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, andand also posthumously published, Balzac). At one time his works were publi ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... he Medal around his neck. After receiving the Medal of Honor from President, then-LT O'Hare was described as "modest, inarticulate, humorous, terribl ...
Napoleon I... in the name of brotherhood the Vendôme Column, celebrating the victories of, and considered by the Commune to be a monument to Bonapartism and chauvi ...
Caswallawn... nection for Arianrhod. Her father is named as Beli Mawr, and her brother is(the historical Cassivellaunus). She has two sons by Lliaws son of Nwyfre, ...
Herbert Hoover... , 2007 when it was removed by the SEC (SEC Release No. 34-55970). Presidentcondemned short sellers and even J. Edgar Hoover said he would investigate ...
Pope Benedict XVI... given on the occasion of his visit to the extermination camp of Auschwitz,suggested a reading of the events of the Holocaust as motivated by a hatre ...
HussaÆthelfrith, son of Æthelric and grandson of Ida, apparently succeededas king of the Bernicians around the year 592 or 593; Æthelfrith's accessi ...
Constantine IEmperorordered in about 325/326 that the temple be demolished and the soil - whic ...
René Harris... 2003, a series of no-confidence votes and elections resulted in two people,and Bernard Dowiyogo, leading the country for alternating periods. Dowiyog ...
Pacorus... ound Syria to rally to his cause. The Parthians split their army, and underconquered the Levant from the Phoenician coast through the Land of Israel: ...
Rajiv Gandhi... the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, which took place between the late Prime Ministerand Harchand Singh Longowal, the then President of the Akali Dal, who was ...
Benjamin Harrison... e Provisional Government was dealt a huge blow when United States President, who was supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the Wh ...
James Buchanan... bears his name, the Burnside carbine. The Secretary of War under President, John B. Floyd, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company to equip a larg ...
Hadrian... ere laid to rest under Trajan's Column. He was succeeded by his adopted son
Sigehere... 663), were present. The endowment was signed by Wulfhere and Oswiu, and byand Sæbbi, the Kings of Essex
Bernard Dowiyogo... f no-confidence votes and elections resulted in two people, René Harris and, leading the country for alternating periods. Dowiyogo died in office in ...
Barack Obama... of the campaign, Sheen stated in a BBC Two interview that he was supporting
King Charles I... rietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of(1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of ...
Jane Seymour... began a relationship with Sir Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen, but the King took a liking to her and she saw it as her duty to accept H ...
Ramsay MacDonald... mining theme in honour of Fisher's occupation before entering public life., Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, unveiled a memorial to Fisher in ...
George Washington... eat significance: 1876 was the nation's centennial year and February 22 was's birthday
Ernest Manning... ht to expand its base in the east. Manning, son of longtime Alberta Premier, gained support partly from the same political constituency as his father ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ecame the first naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor. With Presidentlooking on, O'Hare's wife Rita placed the Medal around his neck. After rec ...
Louis XVIII... s of their lives they had lived under the ancien régime. Nevertheless, Kingwas worried that he would still suffer an intractable parliament. He was d ...
Prince Felix Yusupov... d to his murder in December 1916. Amongst the conspirators was the nobleman, married to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna's daughter, Princess Irina o ...
William III... On being offered the dukedom of Gelderland by the States of that province,let the offer lapse as liable to raise too much opposition in the other pr ...
Gerald Ford... oup at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and U.S. Presidentand the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Union is repres ...
Oswald... king not just of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons Eanfrith,, and Oswiu fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle has been ...
Leopold II of Belgium... ganized Congolese troops, known as the (FP), were created in 1888 when King, who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secre ...
Catherine of Aragon... cession Act, because the act disparaged papal power and Henry’s marriage to. In 1535, he was tried for treason, convicted on perjured testimony and b ...
Paul Samuelson... ate 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably John Hicks, Franco Modigliani, and) attempted to interpret and formalise Keynes's writings in terms of forma ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ason, years later libertarians argued that Hoover's economics were statist.blasted the Republican incumbent for spending and taxing too much, increas ...
Office of the PresidentThe city, as the official capital, still hosts the. Aside from these, important institutions such as the Supreme Court (Kata ...
Rurik... stly from the Primary Chronicle. According to the document, Igor was son of, the first king of Kievan Rus'
Bud SeligCommissionerimposed a very strict anti-drug policy upon its minor league players, who ...
George W. Bush... n Ramallah, following an attack in the Israeli city of Hadera; US Presidentsupported Sharon's action, claiming that Arafat was "an obstacle to the pe ...
Ivaylo... e armies suffered several major defeats at the hands of the peasant Emperor. He managed to temporarily impose his son-in-law Ivan Asen III on the Bul ...
Wihtred... is marriage to Eormenhild he was the uncle of Egbert's two sons, Eadric and. It has been speculated that Wulfhere acted as the effective ruler of Ken ...
Wilhelm II... ple, who accused her of collaboration with the Germans. The German Emperor,, was also Alexandra's first cousin. Ironically, one of the few things tha ...
DomitianAlong the Rhine River, he took part in the Emperor's wars while under Domitian's successor, Nerva, who was unpopular with th ...
Robert McNamara... Presidential Library oral history archives, Johnson's Secretary of Defensestated that a carrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, sent on a training ...
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon... all hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the Duchess of York,(the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen Elizabeth. Naseby Hall wa ...
Hadrian... does not say as much, the temple of Aphrodite was probably built as part of's reconstruction of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina in 135, following the d ...
Charlemagne... hem as luxury pets, beginning with Harun ar-Rashid's gift of an elephant to
Mabel Wisse Smit... ch Parliament. For example, this happened with Prince Friso when he married. This is written down explicitly in the part of the constitution of the N ...
Eanfrith... in became king not just of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons, Oswald, and Oswiu fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle h ...
Inca... the empire in which he had territory. After the rule of Pachacuti, when andied, his title went to one son and his property was given to a corporatio ...
the KingIn April 1772, a paper signed "near Dorchester," was addressed to(the newspapers taking notice of His Majesty's desire to see the price of ...
Abraham LincolnHopkins was a prominent abolitionist who supportedduring the American Civil War. After his death, reports said his convictio ...
Ronald Reagan... very well and launched Clancy's successful career as a novelist. Presidenthelped to fuel the success of The Hunt for Red October when he announced t ...
CereticThe Deiran exile Hereric was poisoned while at the court of, king of Elmet; Æthelfrith may have been responsible for this killing. Ed ...
Eadric... s through his marriage to Eormenhild he was the uncle of Egbert's two sons,and Wihtred. It has been speculated that Wulfhere acted as the effective r ...
Clement Attlee... spite his popularity as a war hero Churchill suffered a landslide defeat towhose government's economic policy continued to be influenced by Keynes's ...
King George II... pointed star of the Order of the Garter which Lord Burlington received fromin 1730. This star also represents the Sun at the longest day of the year, ...
Kalākaua... and he appointed Thurston—who had served as Minister of Interior under King—to lead a lobbying effort in Washington, DC to secure Hawaiʻi's annexatio ...
Hadrian... of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but thathad deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his o ...
Prince of WalesCharles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry,, whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate. In 1605, Charle ...
Ivan Asen III... the peasant Emperor Ivaylo. He managed to temporarily impose his son-in-lawon the Bulgarian throne but after the Byzantine defeat at Devina he had to ...
Theseus... Italy. There the deity appears in a depiction of the story of These (Greek) visiting the underworld. These and his friend Peirithous (only his head ...
Hadrian... summer of 97. According to the Augustan History, it was the future Emperorwho brought word to Trajan of his adoption. When Nerva died on 27 January ...
Borough PresidentThe office ofwas created in the consolidation of 1898 to balance centralization with lo ...
Henry V of England... een's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the death of her husbandon 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King Hen ...
Theodosius I... e, making an effort to curb the Venus cult, built a basilica in Heliopolis.erected another, with a western apse, occupying the main court of the Jupi ...
Kublai KhanIn 1271, the Mongol leader and fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empireestablished the Yuan Dynasty, with the last remnant of the Song Dynasty fa ...
Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar... religion. The western system of education was introduced during the rule of, when two schools were established in Bangalore. Subsequently, Wesleyan M ...
John Maynard Keynes... s is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of, although its subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by ...
Hlothhere... death in 673 is not clearly recorded. It appears that a year passed before, Egbert's brother, became king. Wulfhere may have had an interest in the ...
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich... ra in charge as Regent in the capital Saint Petersburg. Her brother-in-law,recorded, "When the Emperor went to war of course his wife governed instea ...
President... following year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel formerBill Clinton into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduce ...
Adolf Hitler... e Nazi Party gained power in Germany. Schmidt wound up serving the rooms ofhimself. By chance, Schmidt was present by bringing refreshments when the ...
Nerva... took part in the Emperor Domitian's wars while under Domitian's successor,, who was unpopular with the army and needed to do something to gain their ...
Charles of Provence... 855, Upper and Lower Burgundy (Arles and Provence) passed to his third son, and the remaining territory north of the Alps to his second son Lothair ...
Jawaharlal Nehru"Unlike her father, who preferred to deal with strong chief ministers in control of their le ...
Henry Sidgwick... y" as our highest concern. Such an inclusion would pave the way for ethics.longed for the fusion of ethics and rationality and, while Parfit admits t ...
Barack Obama... size in the 2008 and 2012 elections. 2008 Republican presidential candidatevisited the town twice during his campaign and again while President Augus ...
Harthacnut... recently by Timothy Bolton. Emma's sons, Edward and Ælfred by Æthelred andby Cnut, were also claimants to the throne of her husband. Exactly how the ...
Scott Stringer... w York state government, and corporations. Manhattan's Borough President is, elected as a Democrat in 2005
Henry VIII of England... tatesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor toand was from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He is commemorated by the Church ...
Lugh... son of Bec-Felmas was a poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and in particular of. He was killed by Óengus in front of Midir, according to a poem by Fland ...
Roman Emperor... red, as was each staircase. The northern main entrance was reserved for theand his aides, whilst the other three axial entrances were most likely use ...
Éamon de Valera... aly"; however, as King of Ireland, on the advice of the Irish government of, he addressed his letters of credence to the "King of Italy and Emperor o ...
Henry VII of EnglandHenry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, Owen Tudor's Welsh grandson, became King, founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of Richar ...
Louis XIII... La Rochelle and Montauban. The brevets were entirely withdrawn in 1629, by, following the Siege of La Rochelle, in which Cardinal Richelieu blockade ...
Bill Richardson... Minister; Scott Brown, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts;, Democratic Governor of New Mexico; and Peter DeFazio, Democratic United ...
Borough President... City Council, the New York state government, and corporations. Manhattan'sis Scott Stringer, elected as a Democrat in 2005
Augustus... e for the story is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of. The event does not occur in Homer's Iliad, which ends before the fall of ...
King George V... ily. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra,refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed ...
Olga of Kiev... ten again, thus tearing the prince’s body apart.") and avenged by his wife,. The Primary Chronicle blames his death on his own excessive greed, indic ...
Crown Prince Willem-Alexander... he population. The first-born son of Beatrix and her husband, Prince Claus,, was born on April 27, 1967 - the first male heir to the Dutch throne in ...
Hyder Ali... were utilized as battleships by the Sultanate of Mysore during the rule of
Marie de Médecis... r a period of eight years, and were renewed by Henry in 1606 and in 1611 by, who confirmed the Edict within a week of the assassination of Henry, sti ...
Francis I of FranceIn 1536 kinginvaded the papal territory, in order to overthrow Emperor Charles V, who ...
Lothair IWhen Louis the Pious died in 840, his eldest son,, claimed overlordship over his brothers' kingdoms and supported the claim ...
Jozias van Aartsen... lm returning to the ministry of Finance. He was replaced as party leader by, former foreign minister. On September 2, 2004, VVD MP Geert Wilders left ...
Alexander the GreatEuropeans first came in contact with elephants in 327 BC, whendescended into India from the Hindu Kush, but Alexander was quick to adopt ...
Stanley Baldwin... king. After receiving advice from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,, as well as the Dominion governments, that he could not remain king and m ...
Jagjivan Ram... split during the election campaign of 1977: veteran Gandhi supporters likeand her most loyal Bahuguna and Nandini Satpathy, the three were compelled ...
Sigismund... cle (by Ulrich von Richental). Oswald entered as diplomat in the service of, King of the Holy Roman Empire and of Hungary. His first diplomatic voyag ...
Mary, Queen of Scots... Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His paternal grandmother was. Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a cere ...
Egbert... ulfhere married Eorcenberht's daughter Eormenhild. In 664 Eorcenberht's sonsucceeded to the Kentish throne. The situation in Kent at Egbert's death i ...
Louis XIVThe later revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685 by, the grandson of Henry IV, drove an exodus of Protestants, and increased ...
Harold Harefoot... mark. There she became pregnant again and in 1015 or 1016 she gave birth to
John Nobili... iests of the Jesuit Order took over the Mission Santa Clara de Asís. Father, S.J., was put in charge of the Mission. He began a college on the Missio ...
Queen Mary... tour of Canada by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later King George V and)
Charlemagne... tween the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of, which divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms. It ended the t ...
Beatrix... al marriage policy quarrel occurred starting in 1966, when the future Queendecided to marry Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat. The marriage of a m ...
Charles Edward Stuart... pher Layer (born 1683), who was a militant Jacobite and supporter of Prince, the 'Young Pretender'. He was tried for high treason and hanged at Tybur ...
King of Italy... f Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the(Victor Emmanuel III), not all states recognized this claim (see diplomati ...
MaximianIn July 285, Diocletian declared, another colleague from Illyricum, his co-emperor. Each emperor would hav ...
Prince Friso... ithout the consent of the Dutch Parliament. For example, this happened withwhen he married Mabel Wisse Smit. This is written down explicitly in the p ...
Sanford B. Dole... military. The Republic of Hawaii was led by men of European ancestry, likeand Lorrin A. Thurston, who were native-born subjects of the Hawaiian king ...
Xenia Alexandrovna... le harm. From Tobolsk, Alexandra managed to send a letter to sister-in-law,, in the Crimea
Witch-king... of the city was broken by a combination of the battering ram Grond and the's sorcery. However, the Witch-king was halted at the entrance by Gandalf
Midas Touch... volcano to turn it into a powerful magical amulet, capable of granting the
Adolf Hitler... al statements. He has been accused of making a remark in 1995 which praised: "The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was ...
Anne of DenmarkThe second son of James VI of Scotland and, Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His pa ...
Jozias van Aartsen... number of seats in the municipal elections, prompting parliamentary leaderto step down. Willibrord van Beek was subsequently appointed parliamentary ...
Eorcenberhtwas the king of Kent at Wulfhere's accession, and the two families became ...
Charles the Bald... in western France. After his brother Louis the German and his half-brotherdefeated his forces at the Battle of Fontenay (841) and sealed their allia ...
Tiberius... edication of the rebuilt temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium by emperoris the day of the Portunalia, August 17
Dwight D. Eisenhower... orces led by General Douglas MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officersand George S. Patton to stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting ...
Charles the BaldWhenvisited Corbie in 843, he apparently met Ratramnus and requested an explan ...
Adolf Hitler... as well as highlighting a statement Lukashenko had made seemingly praising. Lukashenko referred to the media attack as 'dirty propaganda'
Queen Victoria... s Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role asin Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such fi ...
Mahmoud AhmadinejadIn 2005, Khaled Mashaal called's December 14, 2005 statements on the Holocaust that Europeans had "creat ...
Margaret of AnjouThe unpopularity of Henry's counsellors and his belligerent consort,, as well as his own ineffectual leadership, led to the weakening of the H ...
Charles the Bald... itionally, he appears to have had a reasonably close relationship with King
Diocletian... vanced through the ranks, earning the governorship of Dalmatia from Emperor, another of Aurelian's companions from Illyricum, in 284 or 285. Constant ...
Domitian... m in legneis, was added at the very top of the building during the reign of. This comprised a gallery for the common poor, slaves and women. It would ...
Louis XIVIn October 1685,, the grandson of Henry IV, renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism ...
Nelson Mandela... obel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk and. Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such as HIV/AIDS, tuber ...
JulianaAfter a long struggle with neurological illiness, Queendied on March 20, 2004, and her husband, Prince Bernhard, died on December ...
Philip II... ned the Dorian thoroughness with the Ionic grace. Attracted to the court of, he painted him and the young Alexander with such success that he became ...
Hafez al-Assad... infrastructure and perhaps attacking Damascus" Ultimately, Syrian Presidentdecided to cancel the offensive. On October 23, the day the offensive was ...
Constantine the GreatIn 323 AD,recognised the Christian religion, and in 356 Constantius II ordered the c ...
Thorin Oakenshield... errands dimly hinted at, only to appear again at key moments in the story., the proud, pompous head of the company of dwarves and heir to the destro ...
Jean-Bertrand Aristide... y, some media outlets alleged that millions were stolen by former president. However the accuracy of the information is questionable and may have bee ...
Mattan I... and is synchronized properly with history then this Belus should stand for, father of the historical Pygmalion
Louis the German... as king of Aquitaine, a large province in western France. After his brotherand his half-brother Charles the Bald defeated his forces at the Battle of ...
Saparmurat Niyazov... alitarian Leninist one during the Soviet era. Independence came in 1991, as, a former local communist party boss, declared himself absolute ruler for ...
Warren G. Harding... so included in the school district, including Blooming Grove, birthplace of
Louis IX of FranceSome people claim that Isabella formed a conspiracy against Kingin 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, Blanche of Castile fo ...
Kang the Conqueror... im a truly cosmic threat. He was further aided by Korvac, who was posing as. He was sent to Galactus' ship to steal more power (in particular the pow ...
Francisco Franco... uthoritarian, anti-communist, and régimes such as Vichy France, Spain under, and Portugal under Antonio Salazar. Communist ideologues often label all ...
Lex LuthorThe Legion of Doom is a group of supervillains led bythat appeared in Challenge of the Super Friends, an ABC animated series th ...
Thomas Jefferson... continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher (see, for example,'s famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the ...
Oswine... in: Oswald's son Oswiu succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, and Osric's sonto Deira, the southern of the two kingdoms
Woodrow Wilson... and covered the Presidential nominating conventions. Reed himself endorsed, believing that he would make good on his promise to keep America out of ...
Perseus... escendants remained in possession of the Macedonian throne till the time of, when Macedon was conquered by the Romans in 168 BC
Roman EmperorTrajan (; ; 18 September 53 – 9 August 117), wasfrom 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of His ...
Kamehameha I... the interior plateau to Mauna Loa, but had to turn back. He consulted Kingand was astonished to learn he could take canoes to the south and follow t ...
Alexander the Great... the satrapys of Margiana, Chorasmia and Parthia. Later conquerors included, the Parni, Ephthalites, Huns, Göktürks, Sarmatians, and Sassanid Iranian ...
M. Carey Thomas... as the one led by daughters of trustees of the university; Mary E. Garrett,, Mamie Gwinn, Elizabeth King, and Julia Rogers. They donated and raised t ...
Mahmoud Abbas... it was largely ignored. In 2003, Arafat ceded his post as Prime Minister toamid pressures by the US
Blanche of Castile... ing Louis IX of France in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother,for whom she had a deep-seated hatred. In 1244, after the plot had failed, ...
Norman Lamm... ocaust was God's fault. Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Joseph Soloveitchik,, Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, Emanuel Rackman, Eliezer Berkovits and ...
Andrew JacksonThe town was named in 1825 for future president, the commander of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and ...
Isildur... Tower of the Sun", Minas Tirith was built in by Anárion, younger brother ofand second son of Elendil, High King of Arnor. Ostoher rebuilt the city in ...
King George III... t. John's in Newfoundland. The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of, Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent (1767–1820), who subsequently l ...
Elendil... irith was built in by Anárion, younger brother of Isildur and second son of, High King of Arnor. Ostoher rebuilt the city in as a summer residence, a ...
Juan Bosch... ctly supported the overthrow of left-wing, democratically elected presidentof the Dominican Republic and João Goulart of Brazil, maintaining US suppo ...
Jean MayerThe university experienced tremendous growth during the presidency of(1976–1992). Mayer was, by all accounts, some combination of "charming, wi ...
Empress Deng Sui... d then concealing her identity from him. After Emperor He's death, his wife(d. 121 CE) managed state affairs as the regent empress dowager during a t ...
Coenred... iage and there is no record of any children in the earliest sources, though, who was king of Mercia from 704 to 709, is recorded in John of Worcester ...
Salvador Allende... ion's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of thegovernment in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced b ...
Pope John Paul IIDuring his tour of America in October 1979,was also among those hosted by Shea Stadium. On the morning of the Pontiff ...
François Duvalier... slave revolution, but a long history of oppression by dictators – includingand his son – has markedly affected the nation. France and the United Stat ...
Amélie of LeuchtenbergTwo and a half years after the death of Leopoldina, the Emperor married. Prince Pedro spent little time with his stepmother; nevertheless, they h ...
Hua Guofeng... volution, Deng Xiaoping quickly wrested power from Mao's anointed successor. Although he never became the head of the party or state himself, Deng wa ...
Louis VII of France... y ceded it to their son, Henry, which cession was formally ratified by Kingthe following year
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of SudeleySix months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband,. The marriage proved to be short-lived as she died in September 1548, pro ...
King Henry VIII... into lawlessness, though the Vicar of Wymondham was appointed by the Abbot.'s Dissolution of the Monasteries brought about the closure of Wymondham A ...
Ira Remsen... he medical school. Other graduate schools were opened to women by presidentonly in 1907. Christine Ladd-Franklin was the first woman to earn a PhD at ...
King George V... e attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, Beatrix Potter,and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit that he gave his gu ...
John Maynard Keynes... ted with other men who would greatly influence him like G. Lowes Dickinson,, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, Bertrand Ru ...
King George III... ch included the profits of the Crown Estate (the royal property portfolio).agreed to surrender the hereditary revenues of the Crown in return for the ...
Osroes I... es was killed and re-taking Seleucia, he formally deposed the Parthian kingand put his own puppet ruler Parthamaspates on the throne. That done, he r ...
emperorDespite the establishment of the shogunate, thein Kyoto was still the legitimate ruler of Japan. Regardless of the politi ...
Jason of Pherae... ted Athens to join them in doing so. However, their Thessalian allies underdissuaded them from shattering what remained of the Spartan army. Xenophon ...
Henry I... he monastery was founded in 1107 by William d'Aubigny, Chief Butler to King. William was a prominent Norfolk landowner, with estates in Wymondham and ...
Alexander the Great... ites. Writing in the 3rd century BCE, Kleitarchos, one of the historians of, described that the infants rolled into the flaming pit. Diodorus Siculus ...
Fulgencio Batista... e island in Santiago Bay, Cuba. Following the 1933 Cuban Revolution, led by, which overthrew President Gerardo Machado, Alberto Arnaz was jailed and ...
Sparta... g the coolie slave trade, or the century-long exile of the Messenians undern rule
Sher Shah Suri... r more than three centuries, with a sixteen-year hiatus during the reign of, from 1540 to 1556. During 1553–1556, the Hindu king, Hemu Vikramaditya a ...
João Goulart... , democratically elected president Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic andof Brazil, maintaining US support for anti-communist, authoritarian Latin ...
Joseph Bonaparte... nie Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, and sister of's wife Julie Clary - Désirée had previously been engaged to Napoleon. Ber ...
William III... irst King of the Netherlands since the death of his great-great grandfatherin 1890
Rex E. Lee... alem, now called the BYU Jerusalem Center. In 1989, Holland was replaced by. Lee was responsible for the Benson Science Building and the Museum of Ar ...
Philippe II... penalties on him, and he soon reconciled with the Church. The French king,, decided to act against those nobles who permitted Catharism and undermin ...
Isaac Newton... adition established by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician. Where Descartes held that all motions should be explained with respect t ...
Hugh X of Lusignan... by the king including his heir, later Henry III. In 1220, Isabella married, Count of La Marche, by whom she had another nine children
Mesha... He was significant enough that his name is mentioned on a stele erected by, king of Moab, who records his victory over a son of Omri—but omits the s ...
Augusto Pinochet... throw of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia
William Jewett Tucker... ds of instruction and was relatively poorly funded. Under the presidency of(1893–1909), Dartmouth underwent a major revitalization of facilities, fac ...
Alaric... crushed with great severity by the emperor Theodosius I Rome was seized byin 410. This led to murmuring that the gods of Paganism had taken greater ...
William Henry Harrison... lle, wrote the "Log Cabin Song." It would inspire the Log Cabin Campaign of, who would go onto win the Presidential election that year
Queen Victoria... adquarters in Halifax. (Prince Edward later became the father of the future.
Franklin RooseveltPresidentmoved the INS from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in ...
Jimmy Carter... eign policy towards Latin America remained largely static until election ofto the presidency in 1977
Ecgfrith... nown but which may have been Stirling, in Scotland. Penda took Oswiu's son,, as hostage, and Oswiu paid tribute, in the form of treasure, to secure P ...
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor... f King Henry I of England by his first wife Edith of Scotland, and widow of. The marriage was meant to seal a peace between England/Normandy and Anjo ...
Gerardo Machado... 1933 Cuban Revolution, led by Fulgencio Batista, which overthrew President, Alberto Arnaz was jailed and all of his property was confiscated. He was ...
Antiochus VII Sidetes... rried his sister Laodice V, by whom he had three sons Demetrius II Nicator,and Antigonus
Queen Victoria... t play Early Morning, in which she is depicted having a lesbian affair with
U.S. presidency... complicated by the American spoils system. After Andrew Jackson assumed thein March 1829, many competent Indian agents were replaced by unqualified J ...
Francisco Franco... ction and a nostalgia for a more rural society. The Vichy regime in France,'s regime, the Salazar regime in Portugal, and Maurras's Action Française ...
Louis IILothair's kingdom was divided between his three sons—the eldest,, received Italy and the title of emperor; the second, Lothair II, receive ...
Jean-Claude Duvalier... sed the US of forcing him out – an accusation the US rejected as 'absurd'".suddenly returned to Haiti in late January 2011, claiming his doing so was ...
Jean-Bertrand Aristide... Nations. The slum is a stronghold of supporters of former Haitian President, who, according to the BBC, "accused the US of forcing him out – an accus ...
Alexander V... he same year he established himself on the throne of Macedonia by murdering, the son of Cassander. In 291 BC he married Lanassa, the former wife of P ...
Isaac Newton... wever, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir. In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life i ...
Francis, Duke of Teck... emberg, she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom. Her parents were, who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a ...
Emperor Shun of Han... g (d. 132 CE) masterminded a successful overthrow of her regime to enthrone(r. 125–144 CE). Yan was placed under house arrest, her relatives were eit ...
Kamehameha III... volcanoes while waiting for better weather to continue the expedition. Kingassigned American medical missionary Dr. Gerrit P. Judd to the expedition ...
Lothair II... —the eldest, Louis II, received Italy and the title of emperor; the second,, received Lotharingia; the youngest, Charles, received Provence
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower... 6. It is preserved at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin., the second Nimitz-class supercarrier, was named in his honor
Domitius Alexander... ed tax rates and depressed trade; riots broke out in Rome and Carthage; andwas able to briefly usurp his authority in Africa. By 312, he was a man ba ...
George Washington... e served in the U.S. Congress between 1833 and 1843. The town was named for's plantation, Mount Vernon, which was named for Edward Vernon, a British ...
Josep Lluís NúñezBeginning within 1978, the president of FC Barcelona has been elected by the club member ...
John Wesley... iritual observance. Members of holiness movements, such as those started byand George Whitefield, often practice such regular fasts as part of their ...
George W. Bush... Tom Daschle of South Dakota as trustworthy. He also reveals that President, then–Secretary of State Colin Powell, and other GOP leaders played a maj ...
Oswald... humbria briefly fell apart into its two constituent kingdoms. Within a yearkilled Cadwallon and reunited the kingdoms, and subsequently re-establishe ...
Charles the Bald... thaire's kingdom. However on the death of Lothair II, who had no heir, kingtried to gain control of his kingdom by having himself sacred at Metz. Cam ...
TimurIn 1526, Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant ofand Genghis Khan from the Fergana Valley (in modern day Uzbekistan), invad ...
Dallin H. Oaks... , with ten stakes and over 100 wards being added during his administration.replaced Wilkinson as President in 1971. Oaks continued the expansion of h ...
Charles... tle of emperor; the second, Lothair II, received Lotharingia; the youngest,, received Provence
Witch-king of Angmar... e named or identified individually in Tolkien's works. Their leader was the, and his second in command was named Khamûl, the "black Easterling" or th ...
Lester B. PearsonPrime Ministerin 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national an ...
President... His final dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision underCharles de Gaulle to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During thi ...
Nazgûl... ower of the Moon (Moontower), on the borders of Mordor, was captured by theand renamed Minas Morgul, Tower of Black Sorcery (Dead City, accursed towe ...
Prince IgorThe cathedral square in Putivlis about to set out on a campaign against the Polovtsy and their Khans who ...
Jean-Bertrand Aristide... o was out of concern for the present situation in Haiti. On the other hand,was initially denied access to Haiti by Haitian immigration authorities, d ...
Paul Kruger... no right to part with this territory. During the year a Boer commando underand an army under Cetshwayo were posted to defend the newly acquired Utrec ...
Eugène de Beauharnais... axony and Bavaria. In addition, to the south, Murat's Kingdom of Naples and's Kingdom of Italy had a total of 100,000 armed men. In Spain, another 15 ...
Empress Matilda... 129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Cu ...
William Walker... ability immediately after the war made it susceptible to buccaneers such as, Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon and Henry Alexander Crabb who attacked Sonora ...
Hosea Ballou II... ing been one of the biggest influences in the establishment of the College,became the first president in 1853, and College Hall, the first building o ...
Warren G. Harding... cal Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003). Presidentwas a native of Marion. The current administration is led by Mayor Scott S ...
Henry I of England... rench name for the planta genista, or broom shrub) he wore in his hat. King, having heard good reports on Geoffrey's talents and prowess, sent his ro ...
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge... . Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and, a member of the British Royal Family. To her family, she was informally ...
Richard Nixon... heek comment from Milton Friedman, a comment later echoed by U.S. President, that "We are all Keynesians now". The article described the exceptionall ...
Owain GlyndŵrIn 1404burned Cardiff and took Cardiff Castle. As the town was still very small, ...
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed... g in the unrest. Her Cabinet and government then recommended that Presidentdeclare a state of emergency, because of the disorder and lawlessness foll ...
Jimmy Carter... ter Stapleton (Donna Hanover), a Christian activist and sister of President, seeks out Flynt and urges him to give his life to Jesus. Flynt seems mov ...
President... r-future New York City. In the novel, all government offices, including the, Congress, and the Supreme Court, are filled by average citizens chosen u ...
Maria Leopoldina of Austria... King Dom João VI and nephew of Dom Miguel I. His mother was the Archduchess, daughter of Franz II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, P ...
Oswiu... ated Oswald. On Oswald's death, Northumbria was divided again: Oswald's sonsucceeded to the throne of Bernicia, and Osric's son Oswine to Deira, the ...
Conrad II... tz (in 1035 as the royal Salian estate of Silewize in a document by Emperor) and St. Johannis (possibly 1149 as Altentrebgast). Even the district of ...
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Jack Ryan... res of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst
Arthur Balfour's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir ...
Zhou Enlai... in Chinese society. In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao andmet Richard Nixon in Beijing to establish relations with the United States ...
Charles IVAs early as 1361 Emperorhad conferred on Burgrave Frederick V the right to mint coins for the town ...
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Pyrrhus... r V, the son of Cassander. In 291 BC he married Lanassa, the former wife of. But his new position as ruler of Macedonia was continually threatened by ...
Marquess of Beixiang... fter An's death, his wife, Empress Dowager Yan (d. 126 CE) placed the childon the throne in an attempt to retain power within her family. However, pa ...
Peter II of Courtenay... mer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by Alice of Courtenay, who was sister of, Latin Emperor of Constantinople and granddaughter of King Louis VI of Fr ...
Maximilian I... exico, Sonora was invaded by French troops as part of the effort to installas a monarch in Mexico. The port of Guaymas was attacked by forces under A ...
Holy Roman Emperor... the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, daughter of Franz II, the last. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte and first c ...
Konstantinos KaramanlisFormer prime ministerwas invited back from Paris where he had lived in self-exile since 1963, m ...
Louis VI of France... II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople and granddaughter of King
Joseph Bonaparte... e, at Vitoria, the combined Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish armies won against, finally breaking French power in Spain. The French had to retreat out of ...
Queen Elizabeth I... half its original length. Repairs to the church were carried out following's visit in 1573 (date and initials may be seen on exterior stonework)
Franklin D. Roosevelt... rmers. The RFC had minimal impact at the time, but was adopted by Presidentand greatly expanded as part of his New Deal
Osric's... divided again: Oswald's son Oswiu succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, andson Oswine to Deira, the southern of the two kingdoms
Adolf Hitler... Introduction, Hayek contrasts Western Anglo values with Nazi Germany under, stating that "the conflict between the National-Socialist "Right" and th ...
Louis... valleys of the Rhine and the Rhone. He soon ceded Italy to his eldest son,, and remained in his new kingdom, engaging in alternate quarrels and reco ...
Pope Pius XI... pecially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum Novarum andin Quadragesimo Anno
Richard I... ns on a red background are still part of the arms of Normandy. Henry's son,, added a third lion to distinguish the arms of England
James Madison... reen Bay in the northeast. Being named for the much-admired founding father, who had just died, and having streets named for each of the 39 signers o ...
Al Gore... luded Ishmael Beah, author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States,, Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, ...
Queen Mary... ular with white audiences, and it even gained a royal audience, principally. Subsequently, Robeson was summoned for a Royal Command Performance at Bu ...
Richard Nixon... iety. In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao and Zhou Enlai metin Beijing to establish relations with the United States. In the same year ...
Jeffrey R. Holland... ration, a new library was also added, doubling the library space on campus.followed as President in 1980, encouraging a combination of educational ex ...
AntigonusHis sonoffered all his possessions, and even his own person, in order to procure ...
CharlemagneWhen the treaty of Verdun (843) split's empire into three parts the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's king ...
Igor Svyatoslavich... epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian princeagainst the invading Polovtsian tribes in 1185. The opera was left unfinis ...
Pedro Anaya... atrick Dalton of the San Patricios tore the white flag down, prompting Gen.to order his men to fight on, with their bare hands if necessary. American ...
EumolpusIn Greek mythology, King Tegyrios of Thrace welcomed the exiledand married his daughter to Eumolpus' son Ismarus. Eumolpus then planned t ...
Barack Obama... ublican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket ofand Joe Biden. In Canfield City, McCain/Palin received 2,470 votes (52.16% ...
Sparta... untered the Macedonian threat with a Greek alliance of the Aetolians, Elis,, Messenia and Attalus I of Pergamon, as well as two Roman clients, the Il ...
Howard S. McDonald... rediting organizations at the time. He was eventually replaced by President, who received his doctorate from the University of California. When he fi ...
Queen Beatrix... one of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child ofand Prince Claus, and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the dea ...
Lord Camden... f secretary of war in the new Irish government but the new lord-lieutenant,, was only able to offer him the post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. ...
Ronald Reagan... d a total population of 790, up from 772 at the 2000 census. U.S. Presidentwas born there and lived there for two brief periods of his childhood
Eleazar WheelockDartmouth was founded by, a Puritan minister from Columbia, Connecticut, who had previously sought ...
king... r the marriage Geoffrey's father left for Jerusalem (where he was to become), leaving Geoffrey behind as count of Anjou. John of Marmoutier describes ...
Magnus Maximus... 4th century, as the last Roman legions left the province of Britannia with
Theodore Roosevelt... on was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, within 1901
ShakaAs ruler, Cetshwayo set about reviving the military methods of his uncleas far as possible, forming new age-set regiments and even succeeded in eq ...
James II... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards toto uphold it
Francisco Franco... the Republic. It staved off the prospect of a rapid defeat at the hands of's forces. The role of the International Brigades in this victory was gene ...
Louis XI... rgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of Charles the Bold in 1477.immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Cambrai, but left th ...
Mr Justice WillsThe final trial was presided over by. On 25 May 1895 Wilde and Alfred Taylor were convicted of gross indecency ...
ÆthelricÆthelfrith, son ofand grandson of Ida, apparently succeeded Hussa as king of the Bernicians ...
Meurig ap Tewdrig... the absence of Roman rule, Wales was divided into small kingdoms; early on,emerged as the local king in Glywysing (which later became Glamorgan). The ...
Alfonso XIII... yal Command Performance at Buckingham Palace in honor of the King of Spain,. and he was befriended by MPs from the House of Commons Consequently, fee ...
Queen Elizabeth I... being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of(any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out)
Charles X of France... e French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution againstin 1830. In a very strange turn of events after the end of the Second Fren ...
Christopher WrenOgilby died in London in 1676 and was buried at St. Brides, one of Sir's new churches
Christian X... stival at the park. The first Rebild Festival took place in 1912, when Kingspoke to a crowd of 10,000. The day has been celebrated every year since t ...
Prince Claus... of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and, and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father ...
Louis XIVIn 1677,, in an effort to "safeguard the tranquility of his borders for ever" ("as ...
Louis the German... several occasions, Lothair led his full-brothers Pippin I of Aquitaine andin revolt against their father to protest against attempts to make their h ...
Adolf Hitler... of the only things that could hurt the Spectre, which had been obtained by, giving him control over superheroes that entered Nazi-occupied areas
Alfonso II... postela placed the discovery of the relics of the saint in the time of king(791-842) and of bishop Theodemir of Iria. These traditions were the basis ...
Richard Nixon... Senator. Weicker was known as a liberal Republican. He broke with Presidentduring Watergate and successfully ran for governor in 1990 as an independe ...
Barack Obama... gton County generally leans Democratic but can be closely divided. In 2008,won with 59.8% of the popular vote (141,544 total votes) to Republican Joh ...
Greg Stillson... Staff A.J. McInnerney in The American President; sinister future presidentin The Dead Zone; the President in the two-part TV movie, Medusa's Child; ...
President of the European Commission... country that holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Thehas attended all meetings since it was first invited by the United Kingdom ...
Warren G. HardingMarion is best known as the hometown and burial location of Presidentand First Lady Florence Harding. It is also the birthplace and childhood h ...
Stephen of Blois... itance. The border districts submitted to her, but England chose her cousinfor its king, and Normandy soon followed suit. The following year, Geoffre ...
Richard Nixon... ident realized his position was actually closer to the Republican candidate. Personal correspondences between the President and some in the Republica ...
Anne Boleyn... leyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife,, was better and more established at Court. Though not of the aristocracy ...
Vladimir Putin... the song live as a mash-up with Linkin Park and Jay-Z's Numb/Encore. It is's favourite Beatles song
Celeus... he form of an old woman called Doso, she received a hospitable welcome from, the King of Eleusis in Attica. He asked her to nurse Demophon and Tripto ...
Reagan... After the book received unexpectedly good reviews and praise from President, the book became a bestseller. Clancy's later books were published by Pen ...
Louis the PiousLothair was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperorand his wife Ermengarde of Hesbaye, daughter of Ingerman the duke of Hesba ...
IdaÆthelfrith, son of Æthelric and grandson of, apparently succeeded Hussa as king of the Bernicians around the year 592 ...
Henry Curtmantle... ss Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son,, who succeeded to the English throne and founded the Plantagenet dynasty ...
Louis the Pious... f Verdun, when the Carolingian empire was divided between the three sons of. Middle Francia was allotted to Emperor Lothair I, therefore called Lotha ...
Elizabeth of York... f the rival claimants to the throne. He married the princes' eldest sister,, to reinforce his hold on the throne, but her right to inherit depended o ...
Pygmalion... nal information about Dido’s activities after leaving Tyre are found in thearticle, along with a summary of later scholars who have accepted Peñuela’ ...
John F. KennedySheen has played U.S. President(in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General Rob ...
Frederick the Great... ve Frederick and Margravine Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, the favourite sister of. During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint- ...
Charles V of France... shield "sown" (semé) with a scattering of small golden fleurs-de-lis), butchanged the design from an all-over scattering to a group of three in abou ...
Ermengarde of Hesbaye... was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious and his wife, daughter of Ingerman the duke of Hesbaye. On several occasions, Lothair ...
President of the United States... 1. At the invitation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair andBill Clinton, Russia formally joined the group in 1997, resulting in the G ...
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz... colony. The British changed the name of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after, King George III's queen
King Arthur... d Cynric were depicted as Saxon invaders, and were killed, respectively, byand Lancelot at the Battle of Badon Hill (Mons Badonicus). Cynric was port ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine... "Messalina", although they were pleased with her beauty. Her mother-in-law,readily accepted her as John's wife
Edward III of EnglandIn 1328, Kinginherited a claim to the crown of France, and in about 1340 he quartered F ...
George W. Bush... f former President George H.W. Bush and the grandfather of former President. He served from 1953–1963
Ernest L. Wilkinson... den, Utah and rebuilt it to house some of the students. The next President,, also oversaw a period of intense growth, as the school adopted an accele ...
John F. Kennedy... somewhat in 2000 with Thirteen Days, in which he portrayed a top adviser to. The western Open Range, which he directed and starred in, received criti ...
LyncusLater, Triptolemus taught, King of the Scythians the arts of agriculture but he refused to teach it ...
Lothair I... n the three sons of Louis the Pious. Middle Francia was allotted to Emperor, therefore called Lotharii Regnum. Upon his death in 855, it was further ...
King Abdullah I of Jordan... agreement Shaykh Muhamad 'Ali al-Ja'bari, Mayor of Hebron and supporter ofattended the Jericho Conference presided over a meeting hoping to pass a r ...
Empress Liang Na... eunuch allies were slaughtered. The regent Liang Ji (d. 159 CE), brother of(d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of Consort Deng Mengnü (later empress) ...
Belus... metimes being called Belus II by later commentators to distinguish him fromson of Poseidon and Libya in earlier Greek mythology. If the story of Elis ...
Abraham Lincoln... Supreme Court was in session, the important lawyers in Illinois, including, gathered in Mt. Vernon to argue their cases. The lawyers gathered at the ...
Catherine of Aragon... enry VIII. Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen. Catherine was presumably named after Queen Catherine, who was also her g ...
Edward I... unty to the east of the River Derwent from the reign of Henry II to that of
Pope Pius XII... ls by the age of eleven. At age seven, he received his First Communion fromin the Vatican. He spent sixth and seventh grades in the Fessenden School, ...
Mary Robinson... an Irish author, historian, solicitor and cartoonist. He is the husband of, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former ...
Bill Clinton... inister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and President of the United States, Russia formally joined the group in 1997, resulting in the Group of Eigh ...
Demetrius of Bactria... tended by Ashoka the Great until 185 BCE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom founded by(180-165 BCE) included Gandhara and Punjab and reached its greatest extent ...
President of Haiti... t of Haiti is a semi-presidential republic, a multiparty system wherein theis head of state elected directly by popular elections. The Prime Minister ...
Louis the Pious... started anew. The revolt in Pamplona crossed the Pyrenees north and in 816deposed the Basque Duke Seguin of Bordeaux. Failure to suppress the rebell ...
Attila... ian, German and Gothic in origin. As far as historicity can be ascertained,, Jörmunrekkr and Brynhildr actually existed, taking Brynhildr to be partl ...
Andrew Johnson... took an erratic course, mostly favoring the Radicals and opposing presidentin 1865–66. In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $100,000 bond f ...
Charlemagne... air's early life, which was probably passed at the court of his grandfather. Shortly after the accession of his father, Lothair was sent to govern Ba ...
Akbar... kbar at Agra and Delhi. However, the Mughals reestablished their rule after's army defeated Hemu during the Second Battle of Panipat. Shah Jahan buil ...
Henry II... covered the whole county to the east of the River Derwent from the reign ofto that of Edward I
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster... ied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of Edward III, throughand Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Buckingham may have hoped ...
Princess Alexia... i in 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003),(born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007). He will become the first Kin ...
Pope Paul VI... tially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. In 1966,in his apostolic constitution Paenitemini, changed the strictly regulated ...
Anne Hyde... rah’s sister, Frances, was appointed maid of honour to the Duchess of York,
Henry V of EnglandKingis credited with having invented what some consider the first true passpor ...
President... tober sold very well and launched Clancy's successful career as a novelist.Ronald Reagan helped to fuel the success of The Hunt for Red October when ...
Alfonso II of Asturias... outed their enemies and killed Velasco, along with García López, kinsman of, Sancho "warrior/knight of Pamplona", and pagan warrior "Ṣaltān". This de ...
Princess Ariane... ers Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and(born 2007). He will become the first King of the Netherlands since the de ...
Frederik VI... eived status as a merchant town under the name of Frederikshavn, after King
Shalmaneser III... pand westward from Mesopotamia: the Battle of Qarqar (853 BC), which pittedof Assyria against a coalition of local kings, including Ahab, was the fir ...
Bernard of Italy... ' younger sons Pippin of Aquitaine and Louis the German, as well his nephew. Lothair would also inherit their lands if they were to die childless. Lo ...
Augustus... is possible that this temple was erected over the ruins of another temple., too, ordered the building of a temple, dedicated to Mars. On a slope of ...
Mary of Modena... , and in 1673 Sarah entered court as maid of honour to James’s second wife,
Elizabeth II... ied the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter,. Briefly, there were three queens in the country: Mary; her daughter-in-l ...
Sir James Hall... took a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast with the geologistof Dunglass. They found the sequence in the cliff below St. Helens, then j ...
President of Ireland... on, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former. He was educated at , where he took a degree in Law
Servius Tullius... part of the city of Rome, along with the Viminal Hill, during the reign of, Rome' sixth king, in the 6th century BC
Menander... 165 BCE) included Gandhara and Punjab and reached its greatest extent under(165-150 BCE), prospering the Greco-Buddhist culture in the region
Hugh X of LusignanIn the spring of 1220, she married, "le Brun", Seigneur de Luisignan, Count of La Marche, the son of Hugh IX ...
Lee Myung-bak... both the former Prime Minister of Japan, Fukuda Yasuo, and Korean Presidentemphasized the importance of "open[ing] a new era in Japan – South Korea r ...
Nicholas II... va (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of, the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born a granddaughter of Queen Vi ...
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester... descendant of Edward III, through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and, Buckingham may have hoped to accede to the throne himself in due course. ...
Shah Jahan... rule after Akbar's army defeated Hemu during the Second Battle of Panipat.built the seventh city of Delhi that bears his name (Shahjahanabad), and i ...
Sesostris... ntiquities, stated in a footnote that he believed Josephus mistook Seth for, king of Egypt, the erector of the referenced pillar in Siriad (being a c ...
Louis the Child... mont. After the East Frankish Carolingians became extinct with the death ofin 911, Lotharingia once again attached itself to West Francia, but was co ...
AlexanderHe also roused the jealousy of's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and ...
Ashoka... ts celebrate Diwali through the chanting of mantras and remembering Emperorwho is said to have converted to Buddhism on this day, and therefore Buddh ...
Charles the Bald... against their father to protest against attempts to make their half-brothera co-heir to the Frankish domains. Upon the father's death, Charles and Lo ...
Gratian... rtress was built to protect Britannia from raiders. Coins from the reign ofindicate that Cardiff was inhabited until at least the 4th century; the fo ...
Theodosius IThe temple survived until 390 AD, when the Christian emperorsilenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and w ...
Isaac Newton... llection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and ...
Mao Zedong... ributed information and contraceptives to people's commune members. By 1973was personally identified with the family planning movement, signifying a ...
Gordon H. Smith... with Democrat Jeff Merkley winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republicanwon 46.5% of the vote (106,114)
Mao Zedong... y to only Taiwan, Hainan, and their surrounding islands. On 1 October 1949,proclaimed the People's Republic of China, which was commonly known in the ...
George H. Brimhall... that is to this day embedded on a mountain near campus.) The Board electedas the new President of BYU. He had not received a high school education u ...
Eanfrith... Pictland, in northern Britain. His nephew the Pictish king Talorgan, son of, had died in 657
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti... interested in international water management issues and sports. He marriedin 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), ...
President of France... resents the Government of France in each department and is appointed by the. The prefect is assisted by one or more sub-prefects (sous-préfet) based ...
Domitian... of Hispania Baetica, Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in 89 Trajan su ...
Alaric I... othi is also supported by Jordanes. He identified the Visigothic kings fromto Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric ...
Roh Moo-hyun... and South Korea have had many disputes. The former president of South Korearejected a conference with the Prime Minister of Japan following his visit ...
Pope Pius XII... nence prescribes that meat be taken only once during the course of the day.had initially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. ...
Gerald Ford... n resigned under the pressure of the Watergate scandal and was succeeded by. With the war growing incredibly unpopular at home, combined with a sever ...
FrancoSpain sent many political activists into exile during's military regime from 1936 to his death in 1975
Charlemagne... rectly to the breakup of the Frankish Empire assembled by their grandfather, and laid the foundation for the development of modern France and Germany
James I of Scotland... nent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and Royal Standard since
Princess Catharina-Amalia... s. He married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in 2002. They have three daughters(born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007). ...
Eleazar WheelockDartmouth College was established in 1769 by Congregational minister. After a long period of financial and political struggles, Dartmouth emer ...
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster... the service of the royal family, in the household of Catherine's ancestor,. Their marriage alliance with the Ros (or Roos) family enhanced their sta ...
Hayam Wuruk... e epic eulogy poem Nagarakretagama which inscribed its conquest by Maharaja. Saludong or Selurong which is a historical name for the city of Manila i ...
Friedrich Ebert... on and some Roman archeological artifacts from the region. In the honour ofone established the President Friedrich Ebert Memorial which remembers the ...
Franklin S. Harriswas appointed President of the University in 1921. He was the first Presid ...
Thomas Jefferson... ch of the Ohio. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82,stated: "The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle ...
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Jimmy Carter... t Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President. It has been enshrined in the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest s ...
Mao Zedong... iedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky andtried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as regards the "dic ...
Ronald ReaganAt the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, Presidentsigned a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. Observed for the f ...
Philip the Fair... Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countries for the family. His sonmarried the heiress of Castile and Aragon, and thus acquired Spain and its ...
George W. Bush... tion because its policies are much better than those of former US president: "As long as there's a new language, we welcome it, but we want to see no ...
Andrew Jackson... eacher" urban legend supposes the town is named after, as well as President(President from 1829–1837) after whom the town's officials say it is actua ...
PhilipSoon after her birth on 9 April 1054, Judith was betrothed to, eldest son and heir of King Henry I of France. However, the engagement w ...
Richard NixonPresidentdispatched more bombers in Operation Linebacker to provide air support for ...
Charles VAlthoughresisted the Protestant Reformation, he ruled the Dutch territories wisely ...
Woodrow WilsonCayce's clients included a number of famous people such as, Thomas Edison, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin
Charles V... Council. After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor,, accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was knighted and m ...
Ahaziah... litary campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included Ahab,and Joram
Princess of Wales... f which were transliterated into German. Her godparents were the Prince and, the Russian Tsarevich and Tsarevna, HRH Princess Beatrice of the United ...
Charles of Ghent... rik III of Nassau-Breda was appointed stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland byin the beginning of the 16th century. Hendrik was succeeded by his son Ren ...
King William III and Queen Mary IIColleges created by royal charter fromof England
Narasimha Rao... United Kingdom, Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization, andof India. Iran condemned the bombing as an attack on innocent people, but ...
John V Palaiologos... , an agreement was concluded with the empress Anna of Savoy, whereby he andwould rule jointly. The agreement was finalized in May when John V married ...
Napoleon II... lted in failure. He was present at Waterloo, and afterwards sought to placeon the throne
Elizabeth Woodville... er of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort,. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as Richard III, both El ...
King George IIColleges created byof Great Britain
Petronila, Queen of AragonThe dynastic union between, and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, Alfonso II o ...
Marcus AureliusDuring the persecution of, the Roman Emperor from 161-180, Irenaeus was a priest of the Church of L ...
Francis, Duke of Teck... was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London. Her father was Prince, the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countes ...
René of Châlon-Orange... hent in the beginning of the 16th century. Hendrik was succeeded by his sonin 1538, who was, as his full name stated, the Prince of Orange. When René ...
AlexanderHe is the first male heir apparent to the Dutch throne since Prince, son of King William III, who died in 1884. Prince Willem-Alexander has i ...
Pope John XXIII... as given the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter bythat calls on all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. P ...
ZimriOmri was "commander of the army" of king Elah whenmurdered Elah and made himself king. Instead, the troops at Gibbethon chos ...
João Goulart... ayers were visited in Rio de Janeiro by the Vice President of the Republic,(a former juvenile player for the team), and went to the Catete Palace to ...
Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine... t of the German Empire. She was the sixth child among the seven children of, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen V ...
Josip Broz Tito... for instance, a Yugoslavian, Josip Broz, who would became famous as Marshal, was in Paris to provide assistance, money and passports for volunteers f ...
Witch-king of Angmar... eached during the War of the Ring. Sauron's forces under the command of thebesieged the City on March 13. Before dawn on March 15, the battering ram ...
Æthelwealh... y. He conquered the Isle of Wight and the Meon valley and gave them to Kingof the South Saxons. He also had influence in Surrey, Essex, and Kent. He ...
Louis IV of France... he Fowler in 925. Stuck in the conflict with his rival Hugh the Great, Kingin 942 renounced all claims to Lotharingia
Lysimachus... e also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander andunited to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the Ipsus ...
John F. Kennedy... d one of the wealthiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included, Robert F. Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newb ...
Béla I... aw, Solomon could recover the Hungarian throne after the death of his unclein 1063 and soon after married with Judith in (Stuhlweißenburg) Székesfehé ...
Lysimachus... nesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to Kingof Thrace who was on the original expedition, the king smiled at him and s ...
Abibaal... ility to the account in Josephus/Menander that names the kings of Tyre fromand Hiram I down to the time of Pygmalion and Dido
Juscelino Kubitschek... lace to receive the trophy from the hands of the President of the Republic,
Gabe Paul... s from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and, among others, being written in support of King
ElahOmri was "commander of the army" of kingwhen Zimri murdered Elah and made himself king. Instead, the troops at Gib ...
Andrew I, King of Hungary... ember 1058, when her brother Emperor Henry IV concluded a peace treaty with; as a part of the alliance, she was engaged to the Hungarian King's son a ...
Alexander II of Scotland... ed the girl's mother. Princess Joan was provided with another husband, King, whom she wed in 1221
Theodosius I... ld not improve matters. The Oracle continued until it was closed by emperorin AD 395. The site was abandoned for almost 100 years, until Christians s ...
Henry the Fowler... again attached itself to West Francia, but was conquered by the German kingin 925. Stuck in the conflict with his rival Hugh the Great, King Louis IV ...
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers... related to Henry by her ancestress Joan Wydville (or Woodville), sister of, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of ...
Marcus Cocceius NervaIn September 96, Domitian was succeeded by, an old and childless senator who proved to be unpopular with the army. A ...
Anderson Dawson... was Secretary for Railways and Public Works in the seven-day government of, the first parliamentary socialist government in the world
George H. W. Bush... ary 20, 1986, it is called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following President's 1992 proclamation, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of Janua ...
Shalmaneser III... holars have identified Baa‘li-maanzer, the king of Tyre who gave tribute toin 841 BC, with 𐤓𐤅𐤑𐤏𐤋𐤏𐤁 Ba‘al-‘azor (Phoenician form of the name) o ...
Franklin Roosevelt... or a Jewish state. However, it was not until January 1944 that US Presidentestablished the War Refugee Board, which achieved some success in saving E ...
Johann Georg I... Kapellmeister Daniel Eberlin (also a native of Nuremberg), in the employ of, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. He met members of the Bach family in Eisenach (wh ...
Solomon... part of the alliance, she was engaged to the Hungarian King's son and heir,. When King Andrew I died in 1060, his widow and sons took refuge in the G ...
Theodoric the GreatAspar was the teacher of, who later became king of the Ostrogoths. Aspar had another son, Ermanari ...
Ferdinand... pire when, in 1520, Emperor Charles V left them to the rule of his brother,
Antonio López de Santa AnnaThey then marched northward after joining a larger force commanded bysent from Mexico City, the "liberating army of the North". At the Battle o ...
Felipe V... Spanish Army in the battle of Saragossa in 1710. As a result of the battlewas forced to abandon Madrid and retreated to Valladolid
Hadrian... s of the Flavian dynasty contributed significantly towards its restoration.offered complete autonomy. Also Plutarch was a significant factor by his p ...
Cassander... ed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city from the power ofand Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under De ...
William Laud... ng actions of both king and council, particularly in the form of Archbishop
William Henry Harrison... the Log Cabin which reached 90,000 subscribers nationwide, and helped electpresident on the Whig ticket. In 1841 he merged his papers into the New Yo ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... er, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president. JHU's library was previously housed in Gilman Hall, and other smaller de ...
AgamemnonIn the original novels, House Atreides claims descent from, a son of Atreus, in Greek mythology. The descendants of Atreus are calle ...
Roy Romanow... Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minister. Pressure from provincial governments (which in Canada have jurisdiction ...
István I... Visegrád until 15 August 1083, when on the occasion of the canonization of, the first King of Hungary, Solomon was released
Valentinian III... ern usurper, Joannes of Ravenna, and to install Galla Placidia and her son,, in his place. He also helped to negotiate a peace treaty with Geiseric a ...
Philip IV of France... of political humiliation, such as the apprehension of Pope Boniface VIII by, the "Babylonian Captivity." the Great Schism, and the failure of concili ...
her father's... Alice herself soon fell ill with diphtheria, and died on the anniversary ofdeath, 14 December 1878, when Alix was only six years-old. Alix, Victoria, ...
Ragnar Frisch... a lively debate with well several known participants including J.M. Keynes,and Milton Friedman. The debate is sometime referred to as the Tinbergen d ...
Frederick V... ol and Further Austria. The territories were only reunified by Ernest's son(Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor), when the Albertinian line (1457) an ...
Henry III of England... of repentance for her many misdeeds. On a visit to Fontevraud, her son Kingwas shocked to find her buried outside the Abbey and ordered her immediate ...
Prince Claus of the Netherlands... Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and, and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince ...
Rollo... verran Rouen until some of them finally settled and founded a colony led by(Hrolfr), who was nominated count of Rouen by the king of the Franks in 91 ...
Peter III of AragonOn March 30, 1282,waged war on Charles of Anjou after the Sicilian Vespers for the possessio ...
Paul von Hindenburg... ly twice, to Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher in 1813 and to Field Marshalin 1918. A third award was planned for the most successful German general ...
Zulfikar Ali BhuttoGandhi invited the Pakistani Presidentto Shimla for a week-long summit. The two national leaders eventually sign ...
Pope John XXIII... period between the first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff fromto Pope Paul VI, who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the ...
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel... third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and. She was baptised in the Chapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 186 ...
Queen Anne... all is chiefly attributed to her selfish and self-serving relationship with, she was a vibrant and intelligent woman, who loyally promoted Anne's int ...
Pope Paul VI... first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from Pope John XXIII to, who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the Islamologist L ...
Julius NyerereUnder the leadership of, the Tanzanian government guaranteed equal representation for all Tanzani ...
Beatrix of the Netherlands... Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is the first child of Queenand Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Jul ...
Galla Placidia... on in 424 to defeat the western usurper, Joannes of Ravenna, and to installand her son, Valentinian III, in his place. He also helped to negotiate a ...
Milton S. Eisenhower... erving Johns Hopkins academic programs worldwide. The library was named for, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president ...
President of the United States... s was known to most Ohioans as the birthplace of William McKinley, the 25th. McKinley was born in Niles on January 29, 1843. He attended school at Ni ...
George W. Bush... ncy has also associated himself with General Anthony Zinni, a critic of theadministration, and has been critical of former Defense Secretary Donald R ...
Walter Scott... macy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sircalled him, of great local fame—James Veitch of Inchbonny—a man who was pa ...
László I... t for the Hungarian throne; in 1077 he accepted the rule of his cousin King, who gave him in exchange extensive landholdings after his formal abdicat ...
Diocletian... sis after Lugdunum (Lyon) itself. Under the reorganization of the empire by, Rouen became the chief city of the divided province of Gallia Lugdunensi ...
Alexander the Great... eek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris of the Amazons brought 300 women to, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he. Acco ...
Ramiro I... arre). After King Sancho's death, the kingdom was divided between his sons.was initially named king of Aragon in 1035; later, after his brother Gonza ...
Emperor Xian of Han... ously fled with Emperor Shao (r. 189 CE) and his brother Liu Xie—the future(r. 189–220 CE). While being pursued by the Yuan brothers, Zhang committed ...
Emperor Frederick III... ar from the Hereditary Lands. In 1477, the Archduke Maximilian, only son of, married the heiress of Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countrie ...
Sir Leslie Stephen... wide variety of positions on a wide variety of religious issues. Following's English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, most commentators agree that ...
Richard Strachey... mon, London, the fifth son and the eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir, an officer in the colonial British armed forces, and his second wife, th ...
President of the United States... cident, and the incident significantly damaged his chances of ever becoming. His one attempt, in the 1980 presidential election, resulted in a Democr ...
Licinius... n was forced to abdicate again and Constantine was again demoted to Caesar., one of Galerius' old military companions, was appointed Augustus of the ...
Emperor Yang GuangBetween 604 to 609,(or Sui Yangdi) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ...
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge... his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde. Her mother was, the third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambrid ...
Anthemius... rong candidate to the purple, the magister militum and Marcian's son-in-law, the choice was quite different. Aspar, who in this occasion was probably ...
Constantine I... cus Aurelius and removal of statues and other riches (in effect looting) bycaused it to decay. The short reign of Julian could not improve matters. T ...
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge... rincess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and younger daughter of, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel. She was baptised in the Chapel Roy ...
Adolf Hitler... a decree issued by gauleiter and Oberpräsident Erich Koch and initiated by. Many who would not co-operate with the rulers of Nazi Germany were sent ...
The Scorpion King... continuity of the album". An alternate version of "Streamline" was used insoundtrack, which was released in early 2002, and as a B-side on some copi ...
Barack Obama... rically Republican-leaning wealthy town of Wilton voted in the majority forin the 2008 Presidential Election. Norwalk and Stamford, two larger, afflu ...
Jimmy Carter... tion, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President
William McKinley... h of the 20th century, Niles was known to most Ohioans as the birthplace of, the 25th President of the United States. McKinley was born in Niles on J ...
Sparta... ed Athens for 36 years up to 527 BC. After his son Hippias was deposed withn help in 510 BC, the family sought refuge with the Persians, and nearly t ...
Anna of Savoy... Constantinople. On 8 February, an agreement was concluded with the empress, whereby he and John V Palaiologos would rule jointly. The agreement was ...
René of Anjou... held by Brabant. After the duchy of the Moselle came into the possession ofthe name "Duchy of Lorraine" was adopted again, only retrospectively calle ...
Tsarevna... godparents were the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Tsarevich and, HRH Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the Duchess of Cambridge, a ...
George Bancroft... nstitution was founded as the Naval School in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy. The campus was established at Annapolis on the grounds of the former U.S ...
Napoleon I... ril 1785 – 2 September 1870) was a French general and . He was the lover of's stepdaughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, by whom he had ...
Constantius II... 323 AD, Constantine the Great recognised the Christian religion, and in 356ordered the closing of pagan temples throughout the empire. Karnak was by ...
King Sancho... uchy of Castile united under the Kingdom of Pamplona (later Navarre). After's death, the kingdom was divided between his sons. Ramiro I was initially ...
Anne Neville... Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to Alice's niece, queen consort Lady. The profession would span five generations down to Catherine's sister, A ...
John F. Kennedy... d Myrna Loy. Upon her death there was found in her apartment photographs of, whom she voted for in the 1960 presidential election
Marcian... an religion. Instead, he played the role of kingmaker with his subordinate,, who became emperor by marrying Theodosius II's sister Pulcheria
Geta... ptimius Severus, for a short time he ruled jointly with his younger brotheruntil he had him murdered in 211. Caracalla is remembered as one of the mo ...
Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde... , the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countess. Her mother was Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and ...
Theodoric the Great... pse of the Hun empire after the Battle of Nedao (453), the Ostrogoths underfirst moved to Moesia (c. 475–488) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom ...
Theodosius II... of kingmaker with his subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying's sister Pulcheria
President of the United States... hplace and childhood home of Norman Mattoon Thomas, four-time candidate forunder the Socialist Party of America ticket and co-founder of the American ...
General Mannerheim... art in the fighting at the front of the Finnish Civil War. When the regent,, later heard about this, he invited Gallen-Kallela to design the flags, o ...
Yuan Shu... 189 CE. Yuan Shao then besieged Luoyang's Northern Palace while his brother(d. 199 CE) besieged the Southern Palace. On September 25 both palaces wer ...
Louis IX of France... Isabella and Hugh were summoned to the French court to swear fealty to King's brother, Alphonse, who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their moth ...
Mary, Queen of Scots... of having had two queens buried beneath its paving, Katherine of Aragon and. The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her ...
Marcus AureliusHowever, barbarian raids during the reign ofand removal of statues and other riches (in effect looting) by Constantine ...
Pope John XXIII... awarded the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter bycalling for all people to strive for peace
John VI KantakouzenosOn 2 February the Byzantine Empire's civil war betweenand the regency ended with John VI entering Constantinople. On 8 February, ...
Richard Nixon... financial hardship and instability in the country. The United States undersupported Pakistan, and mooted a UN resolution warning India against going ...
Aragorn... y barricade was erected in place of the Great Gate. After the war on May 1,received the Crown of Gondor in front of the gate and then entered the Cit ...
Alexander I of Russia... of collective security against revolution and Bonapartism inspired by Tsar. This instance of reaction was surpassed by a movement that developed in ...
Archduke Maximilian... began also to accumulate lands far from the Hereditary Lands. In 1477, the, only son of Emperor Frederick III, married the heiress of Burgundy, thus ...
Pulcheria... subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying Theodosius II's sister
Zachary TaylorIn frustration U.S. Commander, referring to the Saint Patrick's Battalion, ordered a squadron of the 1s ...
William R. Brody... n will be named the Brody Learning Commons in honor of University Presidentand will function as a "…collaborative learning space." It is scheduled to ...
Allan Nevins... s life, using it as a platform for advocacy of all his causes. As historianexplains
Henry V of England... forgotten after centuries of nonuse. During the late medieval period, King(lived 1387-1422) ordered the use of the English of his day in proceedings ...
Al Gore... e National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall. Former Vice Presidentpresented, and artists such as Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed
Kingdom of Etruria... , the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was converted to a puppet successor state, the
George W. Bush... II's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the Church to talk withto express opposition to the war on Iraq. The Catholic Church said that it ...
Sanchia of Provence... s (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly Isabel Marshal, secondly, and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had issue
Icel... on Chronicle and the Anglian collection the early kings were descended from; the dynasty is therefore known as the Iclingas. The earliest Mercian kin ...
Louis IX... 26. He died in November of that year, but the struggle continued under Kingand the area was reconquered by 1229; the leading nobles made peace, culmi ...
Jimmy Carter... . Six years later, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to King by. King and his wife were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004
Alexander II of Scotland# Joan (22 July 1210 – 1238), the wife of King. Her marriage was childless
Titus... arted in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81–96). T ...
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus... he oracle was also known to the early Romans. Rome's seventh and last king,, after witnessing a snake near his palace, sent a delegation including tw ...
Odoacer... (c. 475–488) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom of the German warrior. Theodoric became King of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in 493 and died in 526. ...
Vespasian... ast of the Roman Forum, its construction started in 72 AD under the emperorand was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being m ...
Cecil O. Samuelson... Bateman led the student body in a prayer for peace. Bateman was followed byin 2003, who is the current president
Paul Kruger... dispute from the side of the Transvaal. Persistent Boer representations and's diplomatic manoeuvrings added to the pressure. There were incidents inv ...
Chiang Kai-shek... over their respective territories. In the late 1920s, the Kuomintang, under, was able to reunify the country under its own control with a series of d ...
Ascanius... k of Troy (traditionally 1184 BC), and settled in Latium. Alba was built by, the son of Aeneas and Lavinia, and founder of the Alban royal line. The ...
Joash... he other defining term for "Israel" is "Samaria", beginning in the reign of). The Assyrian Black Obelisk in the British Museum credits Jehu as being ...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.... d'état carried out by ARVN officers and encouraged by US officials such asIn the confusion that followed, General Duong Van Minh took control, but h ...
King of the Romans# Richard, Earl of Cornwall and(5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly Isabel Marshal, secondly ...
Pandion II... as Lycia, which was tenented by the Solymi. Subsequently Lycus, the son ofof Athens, driven into exile by his brother, King Aegeus, settled among th ...
Harry S. Truman... e a ceasefire was signed in Vietnam and just a month after former presidentdied. (Truman's funeral on December 28, 1972 had been one of Johnson's las ...
Louis VIIIThe situation turned again following the intervention of the French king,, in 1226. He died in November of that year, but the struggle continued un ...
USS Harry S. Truman... e Fox NFL Sunday crew, doing their pregame show aboard the aircraft carrier, while Fox covered the game live. Bradshaw expressed regret that he could ...
de la Madrid... PAN won important municipal victories in the state in 1983, which Presidentrefused to officially recognize but was forced to let stand. PAN's growing ...
Alexandre Millerand... ublican Defence at the turn of the century (alongside independent socialist)
Isabel Marshal... all and King of the Romans (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly, secondly Sanchia of Provence, and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had is ...
Anne Boleyn... ng to David Starkey, Catherine was most likely better educated overall than. As a child, Catherine could not tolerate sewing and often ironically sai ...
Pope John Paul IIThe Holy See took a firm stance against the U.S. plan to invade Iraq.'s special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the Church to talk with ...
Æthelred... f disease, in 675. Wulfhere was succeeded as King of Mercia by his brother,. Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid describes Wulfhere as "a man of proud ...
Edward I of England... Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom he had issue, including his heir, King
Ferdinand II... ted Emperor to succeed his cousin Mathias, the ultra-pious and intransigent, as he became known, embarked on an energetic attempt to re-Catholicize n ...
Charles the Bold... Barrois mouvant) as a fief by King Philip IV of France. The Burgundian dukein 1475 campaigned for the Duchy of Lorraine, but finally was defeated and ...
Pharaoh... ty, and this focus also changed from time to time. When Amenhotep IV became(circa 1353 BC), the supreme deity was considered to be Amun-Ra (itself th ...
Augustus... r Claudius later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather
King George III... r Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the fourth son ofand the father of Queen Victoria
George Bancroft... s, Maryland, United States. Established in 1845 under Secretary of the Navy, it is the second-oldest of the United States' five service academies, an ...
Máxima Zorreguieta CerrutiOn 2 February 2002, he married(born 17 May 1971) at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Máxima is an Arg ...
James Madison... tes of America in 1810, with the annexation of West Florida under President. It then left that union in 1861 when Alabama joined the Confederate Stat ...
Charles Carroll of CarrolltonCarroll County is named in honor of, Maryland. He was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Inde ...
John F. Kennedy... surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of Presidentand Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P ...
Æthelred... g of Mercia. His children included two future kings of Mercia: Wulfhere and
Roman Emperor... passing through Syria on their way to Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty. His accounts were quoted by Porphyry (On Abstinence 4:17) and Stobaeus ( ...
Richard NixonStarting in 1969 Presidentstarted the process of "Vietnamization", pulling out American forces and r ...
Claudius... s Tied Behind Him Following the Triumphal Chariot of Alexander) the Emperorlater had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather Augustus
Henri Theil... e Econometric Institute at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam together with, who also was his successor in Rotterdam. The Tinbergen Institute was nam ...
Alexander III... only securely became part of Scotland during Alexander II's reign in 1234:visited Dumfries in 1264 to plan an expedition against the Isle of Man, pr ...
Mary... ame Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the succession of Queen. He went to Denmark (where his brother-in-law was chaplain to the king), ...
Andrei GromykoIt was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union (represented by), the United Kingdom (represented by Lord Home) and the United States (re ...
Charles II... recognition for help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s,gave George Carteret, bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the A ...
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor... to I granted the bishop with temporal powers over the city. In 1007 emperor, extended the bishop's temporal power to the territory surrounding Cambra ...
Francisco Franco... "53 nations" to fight against the Spanish Nationalist forces led by Generaland assisted by German and Italian forces
Sancho RamírezAlready in 1095 troops named Almogavars served KingI of Aragon. These forces took part in the conquest of a Muslim city, whic ...
John... at Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, King. A week after his consecration he again appeared before the king with the ...
Heraclius... rectly replaced. He pressed Emperor Constans II to withdraw the Ecthesis of. While his efforts made little impression on Constantinople, it increased ...
Theodore Roosevelt... ain the causes of the war, the military conflict on land and sea, President's back channel diplomacy, and the peace negotiations hosted by the United ...
Eleanor of Provence# King Henry III of England (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married, by whom he had issue, including his heir, King Edward I of England
NeroWhencame to Greece in AD 66, he took away over 500 of the best statues from De ...
Witch-king of Angmar... g steeds figure prominently in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, where the, the Lord of the Nazgûl, rides one against King Théoden of Rohan. Tolkien ...
Tibni... y seven days. Although Zimri was eliminated, "half of the people" supportedin opposition to Omri. It took Omri four years to subdue Tibni and at last ...
Cadwallon... ho was killed at the battle of Hatfield Chase by a combined force including, a British king of Gwynedd, and Penda. At the time of this victory, Penda ...
Mahmoud Abbas... 007 Saudi-sponsored negotiations in Mecca produced agreement on a signed byon behalf of Fatah and Khaled Mashal on behalf of Hamas. The new governmen ...
William the Lion... bey and its grounds are now within the Dumfries urban conurbation boundary.granted the charter to raise Dumfries to the rank of a Royal Burgh in 1186 ...
Neville Chamberlain... o communicate with London. The FA's work showed that British Prime Ministerwas determined to go to war if Germany invaded Poland in 1939. This direct ...
Henry VIII... ices, and attacked the abuses and excesses of the Catholic Church. In 1521,responded to Luther’s criticisms with a work known as the Assertio, writte ...
MinosAccording to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and. When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native land, Minos ...
Louis XIV... ough the French secured control of Spain and its colonies for a grandson of, the Austrians also ended up making significant gains in Western Europe, ...
William the Conqueror... ates in Wymondham and nearby New Buckenham whose grandfather had fought forat the Battle of Hastings. The d'Albini (or d'Aubigny) family originated f ...
Philip IV of France... o receive the western part of his lands (Barrois mouvant) as a fief by King. The Burgundian duke Charles the Bold in 1475 campaigned for the Duchy of ...
Henry III of England# King(1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom ...
Elagabalus... gious missions of holy men from India passing through Syria on their way toor another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor. His accounts were quoted by Porp ...
Princess Christina... -Nassau, he has participated in the New York City Marathon, where his aunt,, and several cousins live. In the Netherlands, he was a participant in th ...
SarpedonAccording to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons,and Minos. When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native lan ...
Ahab... ful military campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included, Ahaziah and Joram
Duong Van Minh... ials such as Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. In the confusion that followed, Generaltook control, but he was only the first in a succession of ARVN generals t ...
Alexios I Komnenos... rom the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor in response to the appeal of Emperor. Historians agree that the fate of Jerusalem and thereby the Church of th ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine... ed her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside Henry II and. Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, having few prospects in ...
Albert I of Belgium... landers - Advisory Committee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium -- Albert II of Belgium - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan ...
Prince Charles... celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid.of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelou ...
German Emperor Frederick III... The tsar then sent emissaries to Princess Margaret of Prussia, daughter ofand sister of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Nicholas flatly declared that he ...
Ermengarde... Pious, Lothair also received the Kingdom of Italy. In 821, Lothair married(d. 851), daughter of Hugh the Count of Tours. In 822, he assumed the gove ...
Nero... was named after the Colossus of Rhodes). This statue was later remodeled by's successors into the likeness of Helios (Sol) or Apollo, the sun god, by ...
Rudolf II... verted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, Maximilian II,, and Mathias largely tolerated
Qianlong... nspection tours to southern China. In the Qing Dynasty, emperors Kangxi andmade twelve trips to the south, on all occasions but one reaching Hangzhou
Merrill J. Bateman... alled the Rex Lee Run. Lee was replaced shortly before his death in 1996 by. Bateman was responsible for the building of 36 new buildings for the Uni ...
Charles II of England... stocrats. Eventually the bones were gathered up and placed in an urn, whichordered interred in Westminster Abbey in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Ch ...
Mpande kaSenzangakhona... tlers led by Pretorius at the Battle of Blood River. Dingane's half brotherthen defected with some 17,000 followers and allied with the Boers against ...
Henry V of EnglandDuring the Hundred Years' War, on 19 January 1419, Rouen surrendered to, who annexed Normandy once again to the Plantagenet domains. But Rouen di ...
Brian TobinSeveral other potential leadership contenders, such asand Allan Rock, declined to enter the contest. John Manley's attacks on Ma ...
King Henry VII... Richard III in the Wars of the Roses. More's work, however, little mentions, the first Tudor king, perhaps for having persecuted his father, Sir John ...
Maxentius... e as emperor, Constantine's portrait was brought to Rome, as was customary.mocked the portrait's subject as the son of a harlot, and lamented his own ...
Titus... s destruction and hardship, such as the massive loss of life in Judea underand Hadrian. They would also refer to the dire warnings in Leviticus and D ...
King George V... ed in the town – and it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915and Queen Mary visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched a ...
Maximilian II... ves largely converted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors,, Rudolf II, and Mathias largely tolerated
Sarpedon... , the Lycian contingent was said to have been led by two esteemed warriors:(son of Zeus and Laodamia) and Glaucus (son of Hippolochus)
ErysichthonIn another tale, Demeter punishedof Thessaly by inflicting him with insatiable hunger after he cut down a t ...
Sun Yat-sen... e Republic of China was established, heralding the end of the Qing Dynasty.of the Kuomintang (the KMT or Nationalist Party) was proclaimed provisiona ...
John Wesley... he early 13th century, but little remains from that period. John Bunyan andboth preached in the church. In 1865–1868 the tower and spire were complet ...
Charles II of England... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by Kingthrough the Connecticut Charter of 1662
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes#(1 June 1134 Rouen- 26 July 1158 Nantes) died unmarried and was buried in ...
Burebista... arded as "the one true god" by most Dacians and many Thracians. During King's reign the year of Zalmoxis' death was marked as the first day of the Da ...
Edward Heath... 1974 general election when Harold Wilson was appointed Prime Minister afterresigned the post following his failure to form a coalition. Although Wils ...
Placidia... icated in 649. In response, Paul destroyed the Roman altar in the palace ofand exiled or imprisoned the papal nuncios. But he also sought to end the ...
Jean Hersholt... ld, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey,, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners ...
Kangxi... s to lead inspection tours to southern China. In the Qing Dynasty, emperorsand Qianlong made twelve trips to the south, on all occasions but one reac ...
Henry II of England#(1133–1189
Lewis A. CoserThe American sociologist(following the German philosopher and sociologist Max Scheler) defines an ...
Simón BolívarIn 1816, Vieques was briefly visited bywhile fleeing defeat in Venezuela
Arthur Freed... ich she would forever be identified, "Over the Rainbow". Although producersand Mervyn LeRoy had wanted her from the start, studio chief Mayer tried f ...
Hadrian... ion and hardship, such as the massive loss of life in Judea under Titus and. They would also refer to the dire warnings in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, ...
BellerophonLycia appears elsewhere in Greek myth, such as in the story of, who eventually succeeded to the throne of the Lycian king Iobates (or Am ...
Oscar Browning... d at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. At Eton he was a favorite of, an over-intimate relationship that led to his tutor's dismissal. While a ...
Luisa Fernanda Rudi... overnment, for a four-year term. The current president (since July 2011) is
Alexander LukashenkoPresidentsaid Belarus unanimously denounced US aggression in Iraq
Ulysses S. GrantCrusading against the corruption of's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's ca ...
Dingane kaSenzangakhona... assinated by one of his iNdunas and two of his half-brothers, one of which,, succeeded him as king. By the 1830s migrating Boers came into conflict w ...
Joachim MuratMeanwhile in Italy,, whom the Allies had allowed to remain King of Naples after Napoleon's in ...
Marquess of Lorne... een Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter Princess Louise, wife of the, then the Governor General of Canada
Harold Wilson... ung parliaments. The first followed the February 1974 general election whenwas appointed Prime Minister after Edward Heath resigned the post followin ...
Abraham Lincoln... Attorney General (1829–1832) and most famously an early political enemy of. The projectors of the town were Forquer and Daniel P. Cook. The latter w ...
Artaxerxes I... Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving Kingof Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and ...
Princess Louise... It was named in 1882 after Queen Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter, wife of the Marquess of Lorne, then the Governor General of Canada
David... contrast to the Muslim position Christians do not credit all the Psalms to(Daud), indeed a common view is that only half of the psalms were created ...
Septimius Severus... ril 188 – 8 April 217) was Roman emperor from 198 to 217. The eldest son of, for a short time he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until he ...
Peada... t the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against Oswiu of Northumbria. Penda's sonbecame king under Oswiu's overlordship but was murdered a year later. Wulf ...
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton... ffluent young English women. Nightingale was courted by politician and poet, but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her a ...
Albert II of Belgium... mittee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium - Albert I of Belgium -- Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan Beter - Alveringem - An ...
George W. Bush... by the Supreme Court of the United States and looks at the track record ofas Governor of Texas
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria... Society of Jesus began to make its influence felt, and the Jesuit-educated, who ruled over Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola before becoming Holy Roma ...
BosoHowever, Dukehad renounced his allegiance to both brothers and had been elected King of ...
Sir Hugh BeaverOn 4 May 1951,, then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, went on a shooting ...
Henry II of France... rice of Saxony by the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to Kingin turn for his support
Aegeus... us, the son of Pandion II of Athens, driven into exile by his brother, King, settled among the Termilae. They named it Lycia after him. Herodotus end ...
Ioannis KapodistriasIn 1827, from Corfu, was chosen as the first governor of the new Republic. Howeve ...
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester... who would marry firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke; and secondly, by whom she had issue
King George II... of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British. However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander fo ...
Tsar Alexander III... ll come true." Alix reciprocated his feelings. At first, Nicholas's father,, refused the prospect of marriage
PendaWulfhere's father,, was killed in 655 at the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against Oswiu of No ...
Shaka, the first Zulu king, had, through war and conquest, built the small Zulu ...
Yuan Shikai... ional president of the republic. However, the presidency was later given to, a former Qing general, who had ensured the defection of the entire Beiya ...
Domitian... ompleted in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during's reign (81–96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespa ...
Marcus Stephen... c Games, where team members have been somewhat successful in weightlifting.has been a medallist, and he was elected to Parliament in 2003, and was el ...
Pygmalion of Tyre... k form of Carthage. Timaeus made Carchedon's wife Elissa the sister of King. Archaeological evidence of settlement on the site of Carthage before the ...
Mahmoud Abbas... es voting in favor and three against. Government ministers were sworn in by, the chairman on the Palestinian Authority, in at a ceremony held simulta ...
King Henry VIIIAs secretary and personal adviser to, More became increasingly influential in the government, welcoming foreig ...
Fausta... ul to confer with Constantine in late 307. He offered to marry his daughterto Constantine, and elevate him to Augustan rank. In return, Constantine w ...
Queen Mary... nd it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 King George V andvisited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched an advertising c ...

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Edward Leigh... trength. The CPS was founded in 1981. Its main activists were Julian Lewis,and Francis Holihan
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Marie Antoinette... gicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in Sofia Coppola's(2006) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (20 ...
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Count Dracula... ate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop's conquest of Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are comm ...
Henry IX... Bavaria; two of his sons followed him in succession: Welf II from 1101 andfrom 1120. Both exercised considerable influence among the German princes
Anne... lle. The profession would span five generations down to Catherine's sister,, who would serve all six of King Henry VIII's
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Count of BoulogneEustace III succeeded asin 1087
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Henry Cotton... y April, the British P.G.A. chose a selection committee of six and selectedas captain. In August, eight players were named in the team: Cotton, Jimmy ...
Queen Elizabeth II of Canada... of principles that embody those rights. The Charter was signed into law byon April 17, 1982 (along with the rest of the Act)
Charles II... XIV, king of France. In 1685, after the death of Charles Louis' son Elector, Louis XIV laid claim to his sister-in-law's inheritance. The Germans rej ...
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Ray LaHood'sOn January 21, 2012, the U.S. Secretary of Transportationson, Sam, was detained by the Egyptian government and not allowed to leave ...
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WelfIn 1070, King Henry IV deposed duke Otto, granting the duchy to Count, a member of an influential Bavarian family with roots in northern Italy
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Queen Elizabeth II... a number of significant modifications have been made. The head of state is, who is represented by the Governor-General and the head of government is ...
Apis... identifies the Tyrian Heracles with Belus on the Euphrates, Ammon in Libya,by the Nile, Arabian Cronus, Assyrian Zeus, Serapis, Zeus of Egypt, Cronus ...
John... hat John the Baptist baptised unto repentance in the Jordan (-; Mark; Luke ;). This is recounted as having taken place at Bethabara
Renée... milio. Estevez also starred in the movie alongside his father. His daughterhad a supporting role in The West Wing, as one of President Josiah Bartlet ...
Christina... by his birth mother. Crawford's relationships with her two older children,and Christopher, were acrimonious. Crawford disinherited the two and, afte ...
Andronikos Doukas... hing", Alp Arslan is told to have said "Then we are also approaching them".led the reserve forces in the rear—a foolish mistake, considering the loya ...
The Prince... Machiavelli, whose ideas on how rulers should govern the land, detailed in, spread across European courts and enjoyed enduring popularity for centur ...
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Iago... army; his wife, Desdemona; his lieutenant, Cassio; and his trusted ensign,. Because of its varied and current themes of racism, love, jealousy, and ...
William CochranIn 1951, together withand Vladimir Vand, Crick assisted in the development of a mathematical the ...
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Henry Rawlinson... arose between Sir Douglas Haig and his senior local commander, General Sir, General Officer Commanding the British Fourth Army. Haig ordered that th ...
Franz Ferdinand... early 2000s, several alternative rock bands emerged, including The Strokes,, Interpol, and The Rapture that drew primary inspiration from post-punk a ...
Duke of York... was a prominent naturalist. Richard Jennings came into contact with James,(the future James II, brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiat ...
John Russell... hard tried to dissuade him for his own good. This is evinced by a letter tofrom Richard, where the King asked the chancellor to try and prevent the m ...
Andronikos Doukas... eror from entering the church and may have become involved in the revolt of. He was deposed as patriarch on February 1, 907 and replaced by Euthymios ...
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Holy Roman Emperors... lly the Western Roman emperor, Charlemagne and his successors, the Catholic
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Arthur GriffithOn 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as ...
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Grace... re either were married; Baba became his mistress; and Curzon's second wife,, had a long affair with him
Belgium–Kosovo relations... Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 - Belgium–Malaysia relations -- Belgium–Luxembourg Economic Union - Belgium–Mexico relations - Belgium–N ...
Hugh... Kingdom of Italy. In 821, Lothair married Ermengarde (d. 851), daughter ofthe Count of Tours. In 822, he assumed the government of Italy, and at Eas ...
Louis X... after a violent quarrel, to grant a share in the government to his brother, an arrangement which lasted until the death of Louis in 1545
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo... jada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980,becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret ...
Narses... ), which brings the history to 552/553, when a Roman army led by the eunuchfinally destroyed the Ostrogothic kingdom. This eighth book covers campaig ...
George Stephenson... the Derby to Leeds railway (North Midland Line), which was begun in 1837 by. During its construction, a sizeable seam of coal was discovered during t ...
Marie Antoinette... l in Romeo and Juliet (1936) (her first film of the 30's to lose money) and(1938) (a budget of almost $2,500,000 was too great for the studio to expe ...
Robert StuartAmerican Fur Company partnerled a small group of men back east to report to Astor. The group planned t ...
Baldred... had been retained by The Church because it contained the holy cell of Saint. A century on Wyntown's Cronykil relates: "In 1406 King Robert III, appre ...
Jefferson's... he population was 4,270 at the 2000 census. Elmwood was part of neighboringcensus area from 1960 to 1990. The ZIP code serving Elmwood is 70123
Orestes... ater's rule in Italy after his overthrow of the rebellious magister militumand his pretender son Romulus Augustulus in 476. In the East Theodosius II ...
Duke of Somerset... f her husband, including one from her old enemy, Charles Seymour, the sixth. Ultimately, she decided against remarriage, preferring to keep her indep ...
CarolaIn 1973 Renoir was preparing a production of his stage playwith Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer when he fell ill and was unable to direct ...
Mary... ctrinal policies about purgatory, particular judgment, Catholic devotion to, "The Mother of God", the intercession of and devotion to the saints, mos ...
Countess of Pembroke... ther, William, later 1st Marquess of Northampton, and a sister, Anne, later. Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Master of the Wards, and Com ...
Bob Welch... rs have approached the 30-game milestone (Steve Carlton won 27 games in andalso with 27 victories in . With Major League Baseball moving from the fou ...
Zhuang... pulation); the Li (Hlai) (14.7% of the population); the Miao (0.7%) and the(0.6%). The Li are the largest indigenous group on the island in terms of ...
NicanorA Seleucid army under Generalwas defeated by Judah (ib. 7:26–50) at the Battle of Adasa, with Nicanor h ...
Black CaesarIn 1973, Brown provided the score for the blaxploitation film. In 1974, he toured Africa and performed in Zaire as part of the buildup ...
Albert IV... later became sole ruler in spite of the claims of his two younger brothers., called the Wise, added the district of Abensberg to his possessions, and ...
Duchess of York... e, and in 1664 Sarah’s sister, Frances, was appointed maid of honour to the, Anne Hyde
William... ical classes on his own. It has recently been alleged that Hunter's brother, and his brother's former tutor William Smellie, were responsible for the ...
AdeleOn 22 September 2011filmed her DVD Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Edgar... lously recovered, though he had to repeat his freshman year. He and brotherboth wanted to attend college, though they lacked the funds. They made a p ...
Stephen II... by the aristocracy, an act which caused a conflict between Meinhard's uncle, who forged an alliance with the powerful Lord of Milan Bernabò Visconti ...
William IV... maintenance of peace. He died in March 1508, and was succeeded by his son,, whose mother, Kunigunde, was a daughter of the emperor Frederick III
Empress Consort... ttorp, succeeded to the throne as Peter III of Russia, and Catherine becameof Russia. The imperial couple moved into the new Winter Palace in Saint P ...
Renan... uvres choisies (1861, 4 vols.); Histoire de Jésus (1872), a counterblast to's Vie de Jésus
John Newton... n whether he should remain in public life. Wilberforce sought guidance from, a leading Evangelical Anglican clergyman of the day and Rector of St Mar ...
Earl of Derby... ental Europeans arose from discussion in 1977 between Jack Nicklaus and the, who was serving as the President of the Professional Golfers' Associatio ...
Queen's... Meighen into civilian life were: Robert Borden, who served as Chancellor ofand McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector; Leste ...
Cosimo de' Medici... or all residents though, among whom there were great disparities in wealth.was the first Medici family member to essentially control the city from be ...
ByronAlbert Goodwill Spalding (, Illinois September 2, 1850 – September 9, 1915 in Point Loma, San Diego, ...
Mary of Scotland... Boulogne. He soon returned to Europe to administer his domains. He married, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland ...
Constantina... contenders to an already complicated succession. He also had two daughters,and Helena, wife of Emperor Julian
Renée... ree sons and a daughter, all of whom are actors: Emilio, Ramón, Carlos, and. All but one decided to keep their own names when they began acting - Car ...
William... ent in 1542 he and Catherine spent time in London that winter. Her brother,and sister, Anne had been present at court. Anne entered court service in ...
John Winslow... to the summit. The state park and the Winslow Trail are named after Captain, the commander of the USS Kearsarge, which in June 1864 sank the CSS Alab ...
Duke of Normandy... s the Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine by inheritance from 1129 and thenby conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter an ...
Zechariah... a decision to fully obey God's commands to care for the poor and opressed., chapter 7:5–10, also repeats this message. The opening chapter of the Bo ...
Hamilcar... ld Hannibal he had been sent by supreme deity, Melqart, to guide the son ofto Italy. “Follow me,” said the ghostly visitor, “and see that that thou l ...
Magha... mes appear in the 19th canto of the 8th-century epic poem Śiśupāla-vadha by. It yields the same text if read forward, backward, down, up, or diagonal ...
John IV... Bohemia in 1440. He died in 1460, leaving five sons, the two elder of whom,and Sigismund, reigned in common until the death of John in 1463. The thir ...
Bertha... Laurence is probably the Laurence referred to in the letter from Gregory to, queen of Kent. In that letter, Gregory praises Bertha for her part in th ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... ass steam locomotive No. 4496 (renumbered 60008) Golden Shuttle was renamedin 1946. It is preserved at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wis ...
James Mason... E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan to pay their respects. On June 27,gave a eulogy at the funeral, an Episcopal service led by the Rev. Peter A ...
Lord CranborneThe line "History teaches; never trust a Cecil!" was quoted with regard to, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed fr ...
Duke of Braganza... he became Prince of Brazil as the king's heir-apparent, as well as the 11th
Elizabeth I... s followed by a second series, Blackadder II (1986) set during the reign of, a third series Blackadder the Third (1987) set during the late 18th and ...
his wife... cism and demonstrate against Kerr. He found the personal attacks on him and(whom Whitlam and others accused of having been a sinister influence) deep ...
Martin Freeman... a. (A full list of release dates is available at the IMDb.) The movie starsas Arthur, Mos Def as Ford, Sam Rockwell as President of the Galaxy Zaphod ...
Napoléon... event in this context was Kevin Brownlow's 1980 restoration of Abel Gance's(1927), featuring a score by Carl Davis. Brownlow's restoration was later ...
Head of State... pearances. The band also made a cameo appearance in the 2003 American movieand appeared on The Skyshow, a television show featuring Tom Joyner
James Hepburn... ish language and American culture in a private school run by the missionary(the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University, and went abroad with a son of ...
High Commissioner... e Royal Navy, the British Army, and the Royal Air Force), accredits Britishs and ambassadors, and receives diplomats from foreign states
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Obama administration... eform efforts. Over the course of his Senate career and continuing into the, Kennedy continued his efforts to enact universal health care, which he c ...
MarkHe was a native of Rome and was chosen as successor ofafter the Roman seat had been vacant for four months. He is chiefly known ...
Lucrezia... ntroversial of the Renaissance Popes. He fathered seven children, includingand Cesare Borgia, by at least two mistresses. Fourteen years after his de ...
EdwardianThe Gorleston Pavilion (Gorleston) is an originalbuilding with a seating capacity of 300, situated on the Norfolk coast. Th ...
Liu Ying... irst entered China during the Eastern Han and was first mentioned in 65 CE.(d. 71 CE), a half-brother to Emperor Ming of Han (r. 57–75 CE), was one o ...
Queen of EnglandIn 1533, More refused to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn as the. Technically, this was not an act of treason, as More had written to Henr ...
Owen... new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1 ...
Harry JohnsonThe economistwrote that the optimism imparted by Keynes's early life is key to understa ...
Richard II... seasons at the Old Vic Theatre from 1929 to 1931 where his performances asand Hamlet were particularly acclaimed, the latter being the first Old Vic ...
Macedon... ce. Both Athens and Sparta were later overshadowed by Thebes and eventually, with the latter uniting the Greek world in the League of Corinth (also k ...
KhojaThe vast majority of hisIsmaili followers in India welcomed him warmly, but some dissident members ...
Bo... ilroads, as the gauge Sierra Leone Government Railway from Freetown throughto Kenema and Daru with a branch to Makeni closed in 1974. The country doe ...
Albert III... gth, died in 1438. In 1440 the whole of Bavaria-Munich came to Ernest's son, who had become estranged from his father owing to his union with the unf ...
Cairo... this critique of makku- neocolonialism. Their Tunis conference of 1960 andconference of 1961 specified their opposition to what they labeled neocolo ...
Prince of Orange... s, towns and provinces. He was also a soveriegn ruler in his own right (seearticle). This gave him a great deal of prestige, even in a republic. He w ...
MargaretA controversial reform was inaugurated by Queenand carried through by her sons Alexander I and David I. Gradually the who ...
Frederick Henry... he left bank of the Schelde river) occurred. It was led by Prince of Orange, during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) with Spain. An earlier siege by ...
Richard IV... , made in 1983, was called The Black Adder (set in the fictional reign of ''). This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II (1986) set during ...
Kenneth Johnson... Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading's script for the pilot episode he was persuaded to change his mind (and a ...
Anne... atherine spent time in London that winter. Her brother, William and sister,had been present at court. Anne entered court service in 1531 as maid-in-w ...
George Stephenson... r adhesion locomotives, was introduced in 1820. This was quickly adopted byand others
Queen of the Southrepresent Dumfries and the surrounding area in the Scottish Football Leagu ...
Gregory Orlov... —Peter III died at Ropsha, at the hands of Alexei Orlov (younger brother to, then a court favorite and a participant in the coup). Historians find no ...
Brigham YoungThe town of Kanosh dates back to April 28, 1867 when, with the approval of Chief Kanosh, advised the pioneers to move from Pet ...
Boris Godunov... stration, beginning with the arrangement of the polonaise from Mussorgsky'sthat he made for concert use in 1889
Queen of the SouthThe Doonhamers is also the nickname ofwho represent Dumfries and the surrounding area in the Scottish Football L ...
Robert Horton... tructure on 1 April 1994 and was floated on the Stock Exchange in May 1996.was first chairman, leading the organisation through the early years of it ...
John Oswald... peech sounds the same when it is played backward was discovered by composerin 1974 while he was working on audio tape versions of the cut-up techniqu ...
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Richard II... ctions (and in the 1991 film Prospero's Books), as well as in other roles -in three productions, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing which he first pl ...
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna... th the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life
Earl of Chatham... ial bequests to rising Whig ministers such as William Pitt, later the first, and Philip Stanhope, the fourth Earl of Chesterfield. Although she left ...
Ramsey... yer, writer, active abolitionist, and personal friend of Minnesota Governor. He was on the state's Republican electoral ticket with Abraham Lincoln i ...
Tenzing... without it and consequently used it in his ill-fated attempt in 1924. Whenand Hillary made the first successful summit in 1953, they used bottled ox ...
William of Poitiers... brate his victory and found a castle; in the words of William's biographer,, "certain fortifications were completed in the city against the restlessn ...
Sparta... ank and Phantom Planet, as well as earning a spot on the Sno-Core Tour with, Glassjaw and Hot Water Music
Albert... ermann's elder siblings were Karl, Olga, and Paula; his younger brother was. At the time Göring was born, his father was serving as consul general in ...
George Stevens, Jr.To producer, Huston symbolized "intellect, charm and physical grace" within the film ...
Henry V... tastical Don Quixote and the carousing Sir John Falstaff. In just one play,, Shakespeare provides a whole range of military characters, from cool-hea ...
Wade WellesHis best friendand his professor/mentor Maximillian Arturo join him on his second test. H ...
Charles Hart... ys saw the play at the Cockpit Theatre. Nicholas Burt played the lead, withas Cassio; Walter Clun won fame for his Iago. Soon after, on 8 December 16 ...
Robert Hughes... olars see romanticism as essentially continuous with the present, some likesee in it the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Nov ...
Henry VII... III, and then to another member of the family of Luxembourg, ruling as Duke. In 1061, Empress Agnes, mother of and regent for the German king Henry I ...
Francis Xavier... ly See. His pontificate was marked by the canonizations of Teresa of Avila,, Ignatius Loyola, Philip Neri and Isidore the Farmer. He also beatified A ...
Elizabeth... e Fall 2001 issue of the Boston University alumni magazine, it was his wife's idea to create a female superhero: "William Moulton Marston, a psycholo ...
National Medal of Science... nd Lasker Award laureates, MacArthur Fellowship and Pulitzer Prize winners,and National Book Award recipients, and Academy, Tony, Grammy Award and Em ...
Philip II... chus XIII. Even so, civil wars could not be prevented, as another Seleucid,, contested rule with Antiochus. After the Roman conquest of Pontus, the R ...
Prince of OrangeThewas also not just another noble among equals in the Netherlands. First, he ...
Stuart... the role of chief minister and arranging a smooth transfer of power to theadministration under King James I. His daughter Anne became the first wife ...
Edith... took precautions to prevent him from assuming the presidency. Wilson's wifestrongly disliked Marshall because of what she called his "uncouthed" disp ...
Henrietta... indsor in 1722, and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Their daughter,, became duchess in her own right. Sarah became one of the trustees of the ...
Happy Jack... hers of Invention. On the back of The Who's second LP released in the US, "", their primary composer and guitarist Pete Townshend, is said to have "a ...
Brandon... Malone. The town population was 577 at the 2010 census. It was named after, Vermont by early settlers
Alois... h man named Leopold Frankenberger before she gave birth to Hitler's father,, out of wedlock. Frank claimed that he had obtained from a relative of Hi ...
Sahle Selassie... Sahle Selassie, who was an aunt of Emperor Menelik II and daughter of Negusof Shewa. As such, Haile Selassie claimed direct descent from Makeda, the ...
John Fahey... nd, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, Nina Simone, Maureen McGovern,, The Residents, Kate Bush, Sublime, Sting, and Liquid Tension Experiment
John Horne... t was rumoured that the couple were having an affair, and indeed soon after(an associate of the Prince of Wales) published a scandalous pamphlet allu ...
Gandhi... 982, his best-known role to date. The audience agreed with the critics, andwas a box-office success. Kingsley won the Academy Award for Best Actor fo ...
Sheba... thrived for almost 14 centuries. Some have argued that this kingdom was thedescribed in the Old Testament
Tyre... She is generally said to be the daughter of Agenor, the Phoenician King of; the Syracusan poet Moschus makes her mother Queen Telephassa ("far-shini ...
The King of Comedy... the 1980s, when the pair made Raging Bull, which was highly successful, and. In the 1990s, De Niro starred in Goodfellas, one of the pair's most prai ...
Xiao Gang... r Wu was starved to death and after the short puppet reigns of crown princeand Xiao Dong, Hou seized power in his own hands and established the Han d ...
Enrique IglesiasNotable people who performed on The Roseanne Show were, Sheryl Crow, Janice Robinson, Lulu, Joan Jett and Tori Amos
Genghis KhanIn 1526, Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant of Timur andfrom the Fergana Valley (in modern day Uzbekistan), invaded India and defe ...
David and Goliath... ter beating the University of California, Berkeley for its fifth victory, aevent
John Savage... e right wing military. It stars James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy,, Elpidia Carrillo, Tony Plana, Cynthia Gibb, Juan Fernandez and José Carl ...
JulianAround 710, as Muslim armies approached the city, its Byzantine governor,(described as King of the Ghomara) changed his allegiance, and exhorted th ...
Anak... brew conquest, it is under Canaanite control and ruled by the three sons of, descendants of the Nephilim (Joshua 10:5,6). The Book of Genesis mention ...
Louis IX... comprised almost entirely family feuds. He died in July 1450, and his son,(called the Rich) succeeded. About this time Bavaria began to recover some ...
Prince of Orange... t Languet, who served as de Saxe under Emperor Charles V and then under the, who claimed in 1565 that Vesalius was performing an autopsy on an aristo ...
King Philip... son was ransomed upon Redemption Rock, now within the town of Princeton, by
George Edwards... ch statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge,, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson, and Mary N. To ...
Somocistas... after the revolution the Carter administration moved quickly to support thewith financial and material aid. When Ronald Reagan took office, he augmen ...
Athalie... ucing such 'examples of neoclassical perfection' as Phèdre, Andromaque, and, although he did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, , ...
Christina... s. The child was temporarily called Joan until Crawford changed her name to. She married actor Phillip Terry on July 21, 1942 after a six-month court ...
Joabsubdued all their allies in a great war, he sentwith
Leer... (from the southeast and clockwise) the districts of Wesermarsch, Ammerland,and Wittmund, and by the North Sea. The City of Wilhelmshaven is enclosed ...
Padmavati... orned with a crown presented by Akasa Raja at the time of His marriage with. With these words Lord turned into stone form
FestusThe epitomes of Aurelius Victor (De Caesaribus), Eutropius (Breviarium),(Breviarium), and the anonymous author of the Epitome de Caesaribus offer ...
Ananda... for rebirth as a "normal" man or woman. According to one scriptural story,—Buddha's cousin and disciple—was a pandaka in one of his many previous li ...
Madame Royale... d to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of France was styled "". The style is granted by Royal Warrant
Perdiccas... exander's death in 323 BC, Antigonus also received Pamphylia and Lycia from, regent of the empire, at the Partition of Babylon. He incurred the enmit ...
John Jay... r a length of 4 days, a Petition of Congress to King George III, drafted bywas approved, and sent to Great Britain during his term. Randolph was re-e ...
Vandal... atin De Bello Vandalico), cover Belisarius' successful campaign against thekingdom in Roman Africa. The remaining books cover the Gothic War (Latin D ...
RoncalliPrivate schools run by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis are Bishop Chatard,, Cardinal Ritter, and Scecina. Other private schools include Brebeuf, Par ...
QingIn 1858 and 1860 thegovernment were forced to give up all land beyond the Amur and Ussuri Rive ...
Leontia... cond son, Julius Patricius, as caesar and give him in marriage his daughter. However, as for the clergy and people of Constantinople an Arian was not ...
Leucippus... ons for natural phenomena, proclaimed that every event had a natural cause.(first half of 5th century BCE), developed the theory of atomism – the ide ...
Lady Macbeth... he Nottingham Playhouse from January 1963 (including a West African tour asfor the British Council), and with the Oxford Playhouse Company from April ...
Marie Antoinette... 983, she was largely remembered at best for her "noble" roles in The Women,, and Romeo and Juliet. Shearer's legacy began to be re-evaluated in the 1 ...
Lysias... he faced there 1,207 warships, of which 207 were "fast ships". Diodorus andindependently claim there were 1,200 ships in the Persian fleet assembled ...
William Livingston... ncle of Robert Livingston the Younger, grandfather of Philip Livingston and
Brigham Young... Carson City via Salt Lake City. The first telegram on that line was sent by, then governor of Utah which affirmed that the Territory had not seceded. ...
Charles Pratt... "in trust" to nine Trustees: John and William Rockefeller, Oliver H. Payne,, Henry Flagler, John D. Archbold, William G. Warden, Jabez Bostwick, and ...
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Duchess of York... bsequently became king. Before her husband's accession she was successively, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales. As his queen consort from 191 ...
Belgian Official Journal... elgian National Geographic Institute - Belgian National Internet eXchange -- Belgian passport - Belgian Post Group - Belgian provincial and municipal ...
John Cockcroft... in Manchester. Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaste ...
Boris Godunov... e Five were not immune. While working on his first revision of Mussorgsky's, in 1895 he would tell his amanuensis, Vasily Yastrebtsev, "It's incredib ...
George Washington... Missile Crisis) and the initial operational availability of the first SSBN, which demonstrated the possibility to launch effectively SLBMs, solution ...
Polyxena... es' death is that he fell deeply in love with one of the Trojan princesses,. Achilles asks Priam for Polyxena's hand in marriage. Priam is willing be ...
Cao Jie... d. 168 CE) attempted a coup d'état against the eunuchs Hou Lan (d. 172 CE),(d. 181 CE), and Wang Fu (王甫). When the plot was uncovered, the eunuchs ar ...
Stephen... ine, and held the other half as his feudal domaine. Louis (d. 1489), son of, founded the line of the counts palatine of Zweibrücken (Pfalz-Zweibrücke ...
William Forsythe... eal. While in custody under the supervison of Special Agent Ernest Paxton () manages to escape to see his estranged daughter Jade (Claire Forlani), w ...
Sigismund... This changed with the death of Count Friedrich on 24 June 1439. As the heirwas only twelve years old at the time, a guardian had to be found until Si ...
Lord Hertford... low appointed councillors Thomas Cranmer (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and, Catherine obtained effective control and was able to rule as she saw fit ...
Empress Regnant... h not descended from any previous Russian emperor, succeeded her husband as. She followed the precedent established when Catherine I (born in the low ...
The Prince... undiced eye on "la verita effetuale delle cose"the actual truth of thingsin, composed, humanist style, chiefly of parallel ancient and modern example ...
George PapandreouKing Constantine II's dismissal of's centrist government in July 1965 prompted a prolonged period of politic ...
Emeric... retire to a life of holy contemplation and hand the kingdom over to his son, but Emeric was wounded in a hunting accident and died in 1031. In Stephe ...
Duke of Somerset... nes" – she became more enthusiastic about its construction and wrote to theabout the new waterworks: "I believe it will be beautiful. The Canal and B ...
Maria Komnene... mpire because of his brother, Renier of Montferrat, who had been married to, empress in the 1170s and 80s. Instead they placed Baldwin of Flanders on ...
Charles Theodore... ndreas Nicolaus Vetter, and two of Pachelbel's sons, Wilhelm Hieronymus and. The latter became one of the first European composers to take up residen ...
John Savage... her projects included the scoring of the soundtrack for The Mouse, starring
Patricia... le, at the Brompton Oratory in South Kensington. Their only child, daughter, was born on 7 July 1928. Alma was to become Hitchcock's closest collabor ...
John Wilkinson... ring village named Salina, the name Syracuse was chosen by village planner,, after Syracuse, Sicily. In 1825, the village of Syracuse was officially ...
Kumar... 'Queen' referred to in the title is Kumar, Singapore's favourite humourist., a drag queen who has performed in Singapore for more than 17 years, is S ...
Umar... tribesmen, precipitated a civil war. It was at that point that Kanem's son,, became king, thus ending one of the longest dynastic reigns in regional ...
ShermanBut such efforts faced setbacks: Union raids and in particular's scorched-earth campaigning destroyed much economic infrastructure
Qing... by Han literati, to lie beyond the seas. Taiwan was officially regarded byEmperor Kangxi as "a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization" and did ...
Padmavati... y to the god Venkateshwara (a form of the god Vishnu) for his marriage with. In remembrance of this, the devotees going to Tirupati donate money, gol ...
Grover... which spoofed the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack album cover, with muppetwearing the white three-piece disco suit in the famous Travolta pose and B ...
Bush administrationThe, along with several of the candidates that sought the Republican Presiden ...
the Crown... , were connected to the rest of the empire only through their allegiance to
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First Lady... two days with Marshall and received a personal tour of Washington from him.Edith Wilson performed most routine duties of government by reviewing all ...
Robert Stuart... time, his reports of the Yellowstone area were considered to be fictional.and a party of five men returning from Astoria discovered South Pass in 18 ...
Sardanapalus... is described by some authorities as the last king of Nineveh, successor of
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Anaxagoras... ounder of the atomism, was the greatest influence upon him. He also praises. Diogenes Laertius says that he was friends with Hippocrates. He may have ...
Narasimha... Elaios, Astaphanos and Horaios. Similarly to the Mithraic Kronos and Vedic, a form of Vishnu, Ialdabaoth had a head of a lion
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sovereign... ion being United States officials' insistence upon preserving a vast web of, judicial, prosecutorial, and executive branch that often deprives its ci ...
George Stevens, Jr.notes that while many directors rely on post-production editing to shape t ...
Craterus... ypt, the Samians Lysander of Sparta, the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphiansof Macedon
Philip... inst some of his enemies, including two of Alexander's generals Nicanor and. Another famous example come from the Thuggee, a religious cult and an or ...
Earl of Somerset... ement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of theto the infamous . If, moreover, as appears quite likely, his Two Bookes of ...
Zhou Dynasty... umbrella is perhaps a concept that is yet centuries older than Qin's tomb.bronze castings of complex bronze socketed hinges with locking slides and ...
Frederick of Swabia... rned to Germany, in anticipation of the upcoming Imperial election. His sonled the remaining 5,000 men to Antioch. There, the emperor's body was boil ...
Earl of Lonsdale... y Stuart (c. 1741 – 5 April 1824), who married James Lowther, later the 1st, on 7 September 1761
LuitpoldDuring the reign of Louis the Child,, Count of Scheyern, who possessed large Bavarian domains, ruled the Mark ...
DeucalionIn Greek mythology, Aquarius is sometimes associated with, the figure who built a ship with his wife Pyrrha to survive an imminent ...
Richard II... ing a season of plays at the Queen's Theatre, presenting the aforementioned, The School for Scandal, Three Sisters, and The Merchant of Venice with a ...
Actaeon... silent link in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), connecting the lustful/Sweeney to the blind Teiresias and, through Sirius, to the Dog "that's fr ...
Hadad... pped in Roman guise: thundering Jove, the god of storms, stood in for Baal-, Venus for ‘Ashtart and Bacchus for Anatolian Dionysus
Duke of Northumberland#Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married Lord Warkworth, later the 2nd, on 2 July 1764
George Romney... cent, from 25 percent four months before. He ran about even with Republicanin trial matchups that spring. Asked to explain why he was unpopular, John ...
Robert PalmerIn June 1992, Ken Olsen was replaced byas the company's president. Digital's board of directors also granted Palm ...
Ammon... a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children ofinto my hand, then it shall be that whosoever cometh forth out of the door ...
Eudocia... ingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son Huneric, and his mother was, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III and Licinia Eudoxia. M ...
Louis VII... and with his brother, John of Bavaria-Munich. On his death in 1413 his son, called the Bearded, succeeded. Before his accession, this restless and q ...
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William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray... alfa County was formed in 1907 from Woods County. The county is named after, the president of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and ninth govern ...
MauritsWilliam was succeeded by his second son, a Protestant who proved an excellent military commander. His abilities a ...
posthumous... , and was declared dead a year later, his widow Rita received her husband'sdecorations, a Purple Heart and the Navy Cross on November 26, 1944
Tariq AnwarAmerican Beauty was edited by Christopher Greenbury and; Greenbury began in the position, but had to leave halfway through post-p ...
Earl Spencer... he day of the funeral, Philip, William, Harry, Charles and Diana's brother,, walked through London behind her bier
Leucippus... ers in his writings, and his wealth enabled him to purchase their writings., the founder of the atomism, was the greatest influence upon him. He also ...
MemnonThe Greek mercenary generalsuggested to the Persian Satraps the use of the scorched earth policy agai ...
Queen Elizabeth... ministers because of his fear that Whitlam would advise the head of state,, to terminate Kerr's commission as Governor-General. In so doing, Kerr wa ...
Henry VIII... opposite Henry Ainley as the Moor, Buckingham (1954) and Cranmer (1977) in, and Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet for the first time when he was eigh ...
John JayIn early 1787wrote that the rural disturbances and the inability of the central governm ...
Western Roman Emperor... ury BC. Rome's population started dropping in 402 AD when Flavius Honorius,from 395 to 423, moved the government to Ravenna and Rome's population dec ...
John II... part of the duchy amongst Stephen's three sons, Stephen III, Frederick and, who founded respectively the lines of Ingolstadt, Landshut and Munich
consort... ent of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. Hiswas Empress Euphemia
Antonio... himself to a single life. Three of his sons went into the church, and one,, was a Jesuit missionary later beatified
Olav Tryggvason... Prince Olav was a naval cadet serving on the minelayer/cadet training ship
Eisenhower administration... Palestinians which began with 1951 Syrian border clashes. Mediation by thefailed because Arab states would not agree to diverting 33% of water to Is ...
Woolf... riting "a major text of English feminism, a link between Wollstonecraft and.
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Gandalf... and nearly slain but the cavalry charge of Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth andsaved him and the counter-attack allowed the rest of Gondor's soldiers to ...
King of Poland... erritorial conquests and was officially crowned in 1025, becoming the first. This was followed by a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under Ca ...
Alexander... died in June 1281, leaving the King of Scots with only one legitimate son,. Consequently, the treaty included a provision for the children of Margar ...
Lord Stanley... d decided to recall Parliament during January 1846 to repeal the Corn Laws.resigned from the Cabinet in protest. The next day Peel resigned as Prime ...
Bush Administration... e of the intense partisan politics in Washington, D.C. over these wars, thesubjected potential Medal of Honor recipients to intense background checks ...
George Romney... njured, and the inner city a burned out shell. In Detroit in 1967, Governorsent in 7400 national guard troops to quell fire bombings, looting, and at ...
Cynthia... father's Barony of Ravensdale and was created a life peer in her own right;, who became the first wife of politician Sir Oswald Mosley; and Alexandr ...
Leucippus... to Aristotle. According to Aristotle, pre-Socratic philosophers, including(c. 440 BC) and Democritus (c. 460–370 BC) believed in a flat Earth
TiberinusThe river deitymakes the basket catch in the roots of a fig tree that grows in the Velabr ...
Cesare... rally accepted version is that Lucrezia was informed of this by her brother, and she warned her husband, who fled Rome
William Wallace... he Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace as a compatriot of, and Alexander Nisbet recorded his tombstone in 1718, in the floor of the ...
Conan the Barbarian... y "The Shadow of the Vulture". She first appeared in the Marvel Comics book#23 (February 1973)
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Muriel Smith... Both were acted by April Olrich as "Dolores", with singing voice dubbed by
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Fulbright... dditionally, many students have won Truman, Goldwater, Mitchell, Churchill,, Marshall, Udall, and Mellon scholarships
Stephen III... ich sub-divided the greater part of the duchy amongst Stephen's three sons,, Frederick and John II, who founded respectively the lines of Ingolstadt, ...
Edgar... O dolci mani" was borrowed from music Puccini had cut from his early opera,and demanded changes. Puccini defended his music as expressive of what Cav ...
Folsom... rst settled by prehistoric American Indians including the Clovis 11500 BCE,10600 BCE and Plainview 10000 BCE cultures. Western explorers came to the ...
Richard II... in which he both directed and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet (1935),(1937, 1953), King Lear (1950, 1955), Much Ado About Nothing (1952, 1955, ...
Qing... ces in support of Yan Xishan, helping Yan to overthrow the authority of thegovernment in Shanxi. After 1911, Kung became one of Yan's most trusted ad ...
Constantine Doukas... d of Apulia declared war under the pretext of defending the rights of young, who had been engaged to Robert's daughter Helena. As Alexios was entrust ...
Sadi Carnot... rating principle of the refrigeration cycle was described mathematically byin 1824 as a heat engine
Zhang Lihua... ptured the Chen capital of Jiankang. Chen Shubao and his favorite concubineattempted to hide in a well, but eventually were captured by Sui forces, t ...
Eudocia... elevated his own son Palladius to the rank of Caesar, and had him marry to, elder daughter of Valentinian's
Septimius... Maximus. The authority of the Emperor was challenged by several usurpers —, Urbanus, Domitianus, and the rebellion of Felicissimus — who tried to ex ...
Casper... serve Ranchester: KTVQ (CBS) and KULR (NBC) from Billings, KSWY (NBC) from, and PBS station K15HK-D is a local repeater for KCWC-TV in Lander
William Longsword... rshall. However, it has also been suggested that Count William may refer to. Longsword was a recognized illegitimate son of Henry II. If Marie was ac ...
David... e in 1730 to Alice Rowley, who died the next year giving birth to their son(1731–1813). His second marriage was in 1735 to Elizabeth (1713–78), the d ...
Don Juan of AustriaDunkirk was besieged promptly and in great force, and whenand Condé appeared with the relieving army from Fumes, Turenne advanced bo ...
Princess of Wales... d's accession she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and. As his queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through the Fi ...
Andronikos DoukasAccompanying Romanos was, the co-regent and a direct rival. The army consisted of about profession ...
George Washington... members include East Carolina (1964–76), East Tennessee State (1978–2005),(1936–70), Marshall (1976–97), Richmond (1936–76), William & Mary (1936–77 ...
Leo I... ian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from hi ...
Attalus... vance force into Asia Minor under the command of his generals Parmenion andto "liberate" the Greeks living under Persian control. After they took the ...
Tom Jackson... xt play, Dallas gave the ball right back to Denver after Broncos linebackerrecovered tight end Billy Joe Dupree's fumble. 5 plays later, defensive ba ...
Julian... (in effect looting) by Constantine I caused it to decay. The short reign ofcould not improve matters. The Oracle continued until it was closed by emp ...
René... l in prose, included some fiction, such as his influential novella of exile(1802), which anticipated Byron in its alienated hero, but mostly contempo ...
Woodrow Wilson's support... had been campaigned for in the West by Dmowski and Ignacy Paderewski. With, Polish independence was officially endorsed in June 1918 by the Entente ...
Grand Duchess Maria... assassination in 1979, Mountbatten kept a photograph of Anastasia's sister,, beside his bed in memory of his youthful romantic attachment to her
Robert Stuart... ars (1812–1840) the fur trade was active. Fur traders included Manuel Lisa,, William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Th ...
Edwardian... n Japanese verse forms can be placed in a context of the late Victorian andrevival of interest in Chinoiserie and Japonism as witnessed in the 1890s ...
ClovisArcheological digs in nearby East Wenatchee have uncoveredstone and bone tools dating back more than 11,000 years, indicating that p ...
John F. Kennedy... recedence over other leaders at state events, such as the state funerals ofand Charles de Gaulle, the summits of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the 19 ...
Frederick... divided army, Stuart's men skirmished at various points on the approach toand Stuart was not able to keep his brigades concentrated enough to resist ...
Wangchuck... y his seventeen-year-old son, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. The close ties of theand Dorji families were reemphasized in the person of the new king, whose ...
Abijah... ute and Judah became a vassal state of Egypt. Rehoboam's son and successor,continued his father's efforts to bring Israel under his control. He waged ...
Paul Gray... that March, UFO decided to disband. The band played a UK farewell tour with(ex Eddie and the Hot Rods and The Damned bassist). However, there was a h ...
Hasdrubal... aged war against the Carthaginian ally Gala. According to Appian, in 213 BCleft Iberia and fought Syphax, though he may be confused with Hasdrubal Gi ...
Polyxena... ture him. Yet Achilles, struck by the beauty of both Troilus and his sister, and overcome with lust, directed his sexual attentions on the youth – wh ...
Frederick TaylorBritish historianwrote of the attacks: "The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic q ...
MarciaTrajan was the son ofand Marcus Ulpius Traianus, a prominent senator and general from the gens ...
Richard II... to stay in America after his Broadway performance as Hamlet in 1936 to playin New York, but director Guthrie McClintic was so certain that the produc ...
Amaziah... or, close by the desert of Zin. It is called "the rock" (Judges 1:36). Whentook it he called it Joktheel (also spelled Jokteel (JPS) and Jectehel (DR ...
Pope Leo III... the Eastern Empire's claim to the Roman legacy for several centuries, aftercrowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor" on Decembe ...
John... y career went from strength to strength. Joined by his younger half-brother, he helped found what some have called London's first police force, the B ...
Alexander Nevsky... ; rev. 1933), and in 1939 premiered a cantata drawn from the film music for. Among the most famous of all cantatas is Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, wri ...
Albert IThe two remaining brothers, Stephen II and, ruled over Bavaria-Landshut and Bavaria-Straubing respectively, and when ...
House of DavidThecontinued to be respected and recognised as leaders of the Babylonian Jewi ...
Margaret... her in the areas of music and literature. More had four children with Jane:, Elizabeth, Cicely, and John. When Jane died in 1511, More remarried almo ...
Maria... her young parents. Three more girls followed Olga: Tatiana on 10 June 1897,on 26 June 1899 and Anastasia on 18 June 1901. Three more years passed bef ...
King of EnglandEdward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) wasfrom 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until ...
Alfonso of Aragon... itical ambitions. Lucrezia was married to Giovanni Sforza (Lord of Pesaro),(Duke of Bisceglie), and Alfonso I d'Este (Duke of Ferrara). Tradition has ...
Leo IV... date from the 11th to the 9th century, indicating that Joan reigned betweenand Benedict III in the 850s. According to the Chronicon
Jesus Christ... o believe that the town will have an important role in the Second Coming of
Alfred... many prominent scholars and public figures. The young Weber and his brother, who also became a sociologist and economist, thrived in this intellectua ...
Emperor of Austria... s, seeing the writing on the wall for the old Empire, took the new title ofas Francis I, in addition to his title of Holy Roman Emperor. Soon, Napole ...
Lorenzo... eded by his son Piero, who was, soon after, succeeded by Cosimo's grandson,in 1469. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Mi ...
Agenor... was transformed into a heifer. She is generally said to be the daughter of, the Phoenician King of Tyre; the Syracusan poet Moschus makes her mother ...
Queen consort... princess, Victoria of Baden, and he continued in these duties while she was, up until the time of her death in 1930, although this does not mean that ...
Harrison's... er does not appear until the sixteenth century, first occurring as Moule inDescription of Britain of 1577. The antiquarian William Camden uses the La ...
Clovis... ay Oklahoma was first settled by prehistoric American Indians including the11500 BCE, Folsom 10600 BCE and Plainview 10000 BCE cultures. Western expl ...
1993 Clinton opportunities... t great chance for universal health care, following the lost 1971 Nixon and, and as his last big legislative battle. Kennedy made another surprise ap ...
Aurelianus... Constantinople he obtained the patronage of the powerful praetorian prefect. Synesius composed and addressed to Emperor Arcadius a speech entitled De ...
Isabelle... lso insisted on lessons in Christian morals for all of them. Both Louis and, her only surviving daughter, were Canonized
Prince of OrangeWilliam(afterwards King William III) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during ...
Simon de MontfortWhen operations resumed in 1211 the actions of Arnaud-Amaury andhad alienated several important lords, including Raymond de Toulouse, who ...
King Herod... (whether good or bad). In his play En Idealist, for example, the "hero" iswhose fight to maintain power is the motive behind all of his acts until h ...
Enrique of Malacca... onesian kingdoms since the tribal groups of Cebu were able to converse withusing the Malay language when the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan a ...
Howard... as formed in 1854 from parts of four other towns: Dansville, Hornellsville,, and Wayland
Duke of Devonshire... n was in Kensington, from 1818–1822. In 1821 the society leased part of the's estate at Chiswick to set up an experimental garden; in 1823 it employe ...
shah of PersiaThe last, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, officially adopted the title شاهنشاه shâhanshâh ( ...
William... h earl, was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, and his successordied without male issue. The earldom of Ross and the chiefship of Clan Ros ...
Richard... ). Cromwell ruled until his death in 1658, when he was succeeded by his son. The new Lord Protector had little interest in governing; he soon resigne ...
Hasdrubal... accept pitched battle before his troops had been united with the army under, the brother of Hannibal, despite being outnumbered 2 to 1. The result wa ...
Gunnhild... gland moved towards Harold. By August a report had reached Emma's daughter,, at the German court that her "unhappy and unjust step-mother" (i.e. Ælfg ...
Wesleyan... d, the separation was necessitated by rumors that Seymour had abandoned theposition that entire sanctification was a second work of grace after conve ...
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Paramore... cause longevity is the key to these types of pacts. Several artists such as, Maino, and even Madonna have signed such types of deals
ÆlfwineAccording to "Quendi and Eldar: Essekenta Eldarinwa" written by, Quendya was the usual Vanyarin name given to the Quenya language, since ...
Gandalf... riven fragments to the ground." The Witch-king rode through the Gate whereawaited him, but then the Rohirrim arrived and the Witch-king went to figh ...
Barnes... ntre is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in thearea of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, by Barn Elms. The site ...
Emeric... cus served as his adviser and Saint Gerard Sagredo as the tutor for his son(also rendered as Imre)
John Rennie... acilitate the movement of chalk from quarry to market. In 1810 the engineerproposed a canal linking the River Medway to Portsmouth which was to have ...
Zebulun... esis were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar,, daughter Dinah, Joseph, and Benjamin
Augustus... ivilization, that lasted for four centuries. In that year, he took the name. That event is usually taken by historians as the beginning of Roman Empi ...
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Franz Ferdinand... t-punk influences. Among these were The Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs,, The Epoxies, She Wants Revenge, Bloc Party, Foals, Kaiser Chiefs, and Th ...
Beatrice... l, whose non-Christian beliefs damned him to Hell. Later on he is joined by, who guides him through Heaven
President of... Рыгоравіч Лукашэнка, , ; born 30 or 31 August 1954) has been serving as theBelarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko ...
Li YeLikewise, the 13th century scholar, arguing that the movements of the round heaven would be hindered by a sq ...
Augustus... ubdivisions of East and West. Each would be subordinate to their respective(senior emperor) but would act with supreme authority in his assigned land ...
Beatrice d'Este... s, and, in the rear area of the mastio, the Ladies' Loggia made for Duchess
Henry... stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons,and Thomas, after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular loca ...
Greutungs... by the Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels) led by Fritigern. The battle ...
BaldwinDuring its first decades of its existence,continued to be the leader of the ACLU. His charisma and energy attracted ...
Burger KingBy 2006had announced that it planned to move its headquarters to a proposed offic ...
Kham... ull reduplication involves a reduplication of the entire word. For example,derives reciprocal forms from reflexive forms by total reduplication
Father Fritz... among the indigenous peoples of the vast rain forest, such as the Urarina., apostle of the Omaguas, established some forty mission villages. Charles ...
Tomé Pires... Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade anddiplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of ...
Lord Hunt... officers. This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary, who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that "there is absol ...
Tuluva... of these philosophers were written during the coming centuries. The Saluva,and Aravidu dynasties of Vijayanagar empire were followers of Vaishnavism ...
Thomas... p on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons, Henry and, after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular location for b ...
Hugh the Great... e German king Henry the Fowler in 925. Stuck in the conflict with his rival, King Louis IV of France in 942 renounced all claims to Lotharingia
Albert... River, linking Chelmer and Indooroopilly. It is immediately adjacent to theand Walter Taylor Bridges
Caesar... ity) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war betweenand Pompey. After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed su ...
Leo I... that contained the first four Pope Leos. In the 18th century, the relics ofwere separated from the other Leos, and he was given his own chapel
Emeric... Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the Duchy of Bavaria for his sonwho was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor Henry II (who himself ...
Jesus Christ... tells him about humankind's potential redemption from original sin through(whom Michael calls "King Messiah")
Christian Augustus, Prince of Eutin... beth had been betrothed to Prince Karl Augustus of Holstein-Gottorp, son of. Politically, it was a useful and respectable alliance. A few days after ...
Duke of Northumberland... me name in the English county of Northumberland. It is the residence of the, built following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a numb ...
Alexander Cockburn... on Post as his "coming out" as a social conservative. According to attendee, Horowitz related how his Stalinist parents had not permitted him or his ...
Anaxagoras... nes Laërtius ix.41, Democritus said that he was a "young man (neos)" during' old age (circa 440–428). It was said that Democritus' father was so weal ...
Polyxena... and Paris who ambushed and killed Achilles while luring him to their sister. After the death of Paris, Deiphobus was given Helen as a bride for his d ...
James Dickson... tendent of Kew Gardens), Sir Joseph Banks (President of the Royal Society),(a nurseryman), William Forsyth (Superintendent of the gardens of St. Jame ...
Byker... d Arms are both situated in the Ouseburn Valley between the city centre and
Gilbert... d him by granting him the title margrave. Reginar was succeeded by his son,, who used the title dux Lotharingiae: "duke of Lotharingia". When the Wes ...
Matilda... in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre river. A century later,, daughter of Theudebert, duke of Saxony, grew up in the abbey of Herford; ...
The King of Comedy... said he thinks De Niro's best work under his direction was Rupert Pupkin in. Most recently, Scorsese has found a new muse with young actor Leonardo D ...
William Demarest... ntil a suitable replacement could be found at midseason. He was replaced by, who had played his hard-nosed brother Charley part way through the 1964– ...
Badius, JodocusBaarle-Hertog -- Balen - Banking in Belgium - Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission ( ...
Joseph Hooker... n arrived to inform General George Meade that he would be replacing Generalafter the latter's disaster at Chancellorsville in May. The Army of the Po ...
PresidentThe largely ceremonialof the Confederation and the Vice-President of Federal Council are elected ...
TantalusFor the Greeks,was a primordial ruler of mythic Lydia, and Niobe his proud daughter; her ...
David A. Smith... earch on what became the Etoys system. More recently he started, along with, David P. Reed, Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, Julian Lombardi, and Mark McCa ...
Bekaert... ulieu International Group - Beaumont - Beer in Belgium - Beernem - Beerse -- Bekaert, Léon - BEL20 - Belgacom Fund - Belgacom TV - Belgae - Belga (ne ...
Earl of Cambridge... death. Before becoming king he was 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 5thand 9th Earl of Ulster. He was also the 65th Knight of the
Sadi Carnot... amic theorems from the principles developed by others, such as Clausius and
Archelaus... ry BC. Anaxagoras (c. 450 BC) agreed that the Earth was flat, and his pupilbelieved that the flat Earth was depressed in the middle like a saucer, to ...
Gilbert... nkish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king Otto I brought the reigning duketo heel and incorporated Lotharingia into his realm as one of the "younger ...
Thomas Frank... ollar, yet conservative political outlook of the backlash mold described by. It is the headquarters of Lon Mabon, whose Oregon Citizens Alliance has ...
Roger Mortimer... rest of Richard's reign. Talks with the Welsh began after the English lordsand William de Briouze expanded into Welsh territory in 1195, causing a co ...
John Jay... understood ownership of their farms. Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter totha
Thomas Gates... plored and began settling the areas adjacent to Hampton Roads. In 1610, Sir"took possession" of a nearby Native American village, which became known ...
Simon de Montfort... ere opposed to attacking Zara, and some, including a force led by the elder, refused to participate altogether and returned home. While the Papal leg ...
Alfred... thods. He makes Ælfgifu an accomplice in the murder of Emma's youngest son,, by suggesting that she was responsible for sending a forged letter to No ...
Charles... nd he also worked at a sawmill. Evers was the third of five children, afterand Elizabeth. His sister Ruth was the youngest. The family also included ...
Nikolayev... -day southern Ukraine, where the Russians founded the new cities of Odessa,, Yekaterinoslav (literally: "the Glory of Catherine"; the future Dneprope ...
Creoda... o (in the regnal list in the preface) to have been the son of Cerdic's son,. During his reign it is said that he captured Searobyrig or Old Sarum, ne ...
Theodore II... rch of Constantinople and Plethon's enemy). He was made chief magistrate by
Salii... Republic, only minor priesthoods with little political importance like the, the Flamines and the Rex Sacrorum were exclusively filled by patricians
Bacurius... imperial scholae of shield-archers under the command of the Iberian princeattacked, but lacking support they were easily pushed back. Then the Roman ...
Mariaofand Elizabeth the "beautiful Misses Gunning", Italian straw bonnets associ ...
Ming... g the classical short stories of the middle and late medieval period (Tang-) as well as the vernacular novel of the late imperial period
grandfatherMcCain followed his father and, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from th ...
Meleager... the fire with it. Another source claims his wife was Polydora, daughter of
Attila... Golden Fleece, 1660), Sertorius (1662), Othon (1664), Agésilas (1666), and(1667)
Elector of Hanover... nder their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the). At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Electorate was enlarged to becom ...
Athalie... er persuade her husband to spare the Jews? The plots of Bajazet, Phèdre andare scarcely more complex than the rest
Proteus... diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and i ...
Fauré... of the liturgical prescription, most frequently the Gradual and the Tract.omits the Dies iræ, while the very same text had often been set by French ...
Speaker of the Parliament... leader of the Agrarian League, and served as Prime Minister four times andsix times
Shirley Jackson... or an Emmy Award.) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of's story Come Along with Me, for which husband Newman provided the voice o ...
Franz Ferdinand... s, Interpol and Kings of Leon from the US. From the UK were The Libertines,, Bloc Party, Editors, The Fratellis, Placebo, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs a ...
Lee Perry... corded with Chin and various others, including Leonard Chin, his uncle, and. He scored another smash hit with "My Desire" (John Holt)
Laurens... d as a town in 1852, and was named after Henry Clinton Young, a lawyer from, who helped lay out the first streets
Henry V... d by the title. Laurence Olivier sets the opening scene of his 1944 film ofin the tiring room of the old Globe Theatre as the actors prepare for thei ...
Anaxibia... received one third of Proetus's kingdom. Bias and Iphianassa had a daughterwho married Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. Accord ...
Shirley JacksonSome notable writers whose works were used in the collection include(Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), R ...
Elizabethof Maria andthe "beautiful Misses Gunning", Italian straw bonnets associated with Livo ...
President Ronald Reagan... n the Mall, attracting large crowds. However, in April 1983, James G. Watt,'s Secretary of the Interior, banned Independence Day concerts on the Mall ...
Arthur... nited States. Rita Ross, Diana's younger sister, became a teacher. Brothersand Wilbert "Chico" Ross followed their sister into the recording industry ...
Mani... Turks since April 1825—fell in April 1826. Although Ibrahim was defeated in, he had succeeded in suppressing most of the revolt in the Peloponnese an ...
George Stevens, Jr.Stevens is the father of television and film writer-producer-director(who was named the first CEO and director of the American Film Institute), ...
Craterus... here he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia (321 BC), and
Edwardian... ty centre, dates from this period. The local architect of the Victorian andperiods who has continued to command most critical respect was George Skip ...
Frederick Taylor... and hamper movement of reinforcements from other fronts". British historianmentions a further memo sent to the Chiefs of Staff Committee by Sir Dougl ...
Charles... of the 'Holy Club' at Oxford University with the Wesley brothers, John and. An illness, as well as Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the Soul of Ma ...
Charles Eliot... Ellen Derby Peabody (1836–1869) in Boston. They had four sons, one of whom,(November 1, 1859-March 25, 1897) was an important landscape architect, re ...
Arthur Griffith... n. He also joined the Celtic Literary Society through which he came to knowwho was to remain a friend and influence throughout his life. Beginning in ...
Bolkiah... cient Japan and Song Dynasty China. The city was invaded by Brunei's Sultanand was already Islamized by the 15th century when the Spanish first arriv ...
Bellerophon... ll such a move. He finally surrendered to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMSon 15 July. There was a campaign against French fortresses that still held ...
Constantine Doukas... nia, daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia. By her he had at least one son,, co-emperor from c. 1075 to 1078 and from 1081 to 1087/8. He died c. 1095
Duke of Somerset... nd Sarah and she went to stay with their friends Charles Seymour, the sixth, and Elizabeth, the Duchess of Somerset at Syon House. Anne continued to ...
Demetrios... esoteric beliefs. It came into the possession of Princess Theodora, wife of, despot of Morea. Theodora sent the manuscript to Scholarius, now Gennadi ...
Margaret... ashington, DC. Its April 17, 1975, premiere was hosted by Truman's daughterand attended by President Gerald Ford. The play then went on to a six-city ...
Athalie... tic second wife of King Louis XIV, with the moral fables, Esther (1689) and(1691), both of which were based on Old Testament stories and intended for ...
Bob Gale... out in 1985, featuring DeLorean's namesake car, DeLorean wrote a letter to, one of the movie's producers and writers, thanking him for immortalizing ...
Alfonso of Aragon... Frederick II of Swabia is surrounded by walls with round towers built underin which a Gothic portal dating from the fourteenth century. Near the cast ...
George HenryMany of them moved to the town from Glasgow, including E A Hornel,, and Jessie M King, and their presence led to Kirkcudbright becoming know ...
Ned Hanlon... y-fueled growth was still several years in the future. Hall of Fame managerplayed all eight seasons in center field but there was high turnover other ...
Henry Cabot Lodge... hevik-controlled areas of Russia in 1921, despite the opposition of Senatorand other Republicans. When asked if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, H ...
George Stephenson... ferences in opinion on who should be given the credit for designing Rocket.had designed several locomotives before but none as advanced as Rocket. At ...
Rudolph IFor some years after Louis' death in 1294 his sonsand Louis, afterwards the emperor Louis IV, ruled their duchy in common; b ...
OwainIn the Welsh Triads, Modron becomes impregnated by Urien and gives birth toand Morvydd
Sardar... Sikhs and Muslims followed. Prime Minister Nehru and Deputy Prime MinisterVallabhbhai Patel invited Mountbatten to continue as Governor General of I ...
John F. Kennedy... olitan Wayne County, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth,, Orlando, and Phoenix Sky Harbor) some runway identifiers are shifted by ...
Benito Juárez... ir headquarters are in the Mexicana de Aviación Tower in Colonia del Valle,, Mexico City
King of the Two Sicilies... nloading the treasure and refitting, his ship, HMS Atropos, is given to thefor diplomatic reasons, much to his disappointment. On his return to Engla ...
Conrad... finished it. He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevenson, Melville and
Boris Godunov... generally performed, Rimsky-Korsakov's other revisions, like his version of, have been replaced by Mussorgsky's original
Brigham Young... tates but generally avoided the Colorado River basin until the 1850s. Under's grand vision for a "vast empire in the desert" (the State of Deseret) M ...
Marius... umidia from c. 112 BC to 105 BC. Its true value lies in the introduction ofand Sulla to the Roman political scene and the beginning of their rivalry. ...
PretoriusIn 1839, the Boer Voortrekkers, under, formed the Boer Republic of Natalia, south of the Tugela, and west of th ...
Louis I the FairFrom 1348 Lubin Castle served as the residence of the Piast dukeand his descendants. In the quarrel with his elder brother Duke Wenceslaus ...
John FaheyIn's "Screaming and Hollerin' the Blues" there is an interview conducted wit ...
Thomas J. Ryan... yrd and Floyd Bennett received the medal for exploration of the North Pole.received it for saving a woman from the burning Grand Hotel in Yokohama, J ...
Gustav Adolph... ranch of the House of Mecklenburg had become extinct with the death of Dukein 1695, whereupon his heritage was claimed by his cousin Duke Frederick W ...
Æthelwold... ointed to the Bishopric of London, and Oswald to that of Worcester. In 963,, the Abbot of Abingdon, was appointed to the See of Winchester. With thei ...
Bertha... entury, King Æthelberht of Kent married a Christian Frankish princess named, possibly before becoming king, and certainly a number of years before th ...
Benjamin Harrison... e declaration, Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, withof Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independe ...
Duke LeopoldRichard was arrested and imprisoned in December 1192 by, who suspected him of murdering his cousin Conrad of Montferrat, and had ...
Dickens' father... the dual personality of the tale's protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge. In 1824,was imprisoned in the Marshalsea and twelve-year-old Charles was forced to ...
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Duke of York... on at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Killyleagh all titles previously held by bo ...
Perdiccas... t heir. The empire was put under the authority of a regent in the person ofin 323 BC, and the territories were divided between Alexander's generals, ...
Charles Calvert... ulation was 146,551. Its county seat is La Plata. This county was named for(1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore
Henry BriggsCommon logarithms are sometimes also called Briggsian logarithms after, a 17th-century British mathematician
Wolfgang Paul... ms were closed in 2007. In 1983 the new science library was opened. In 1989was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Three years later Reinhard Selten ...
Lord Simon... D were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood,, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations that had pr ...
First Presidency... n as the President. Together with his two counselors, they are known as the. This pattern is repeated throughout the church in quorums and in other b ...
USS George WashingtonThewas the first fleet ballistic missile submarine (SSBN in U.S. naval termin ...
Actaeon... the violent lover of the Divine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are, Leucippus (son of Oenomaus), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover ...
Judith of Bavaria... rown sons. A fourth son, Charles the Bald, was born to Louis's second wife,, in 823. When Louis tried in 833 to re-divide the empire for the benefit ...
Dan... , supposing himself to be in the land of plenty, felt he had wandered “fromto Beersheba”
Earl of Sunderland... ccurred when Sarah insisted that her son-in-law, Charles Spencer, the third, be admitted into the Privy Council. Sarah allied herself more strongly w ...
Boris Godunov... sky in the staging of their historical operas, The Maid of Pskov (1873) and(1874). This period also marks the creation of two new characters, the des ...
Leopold... ace, finishing three major numbers in just two days. A letter to his fatherindicates he was very excited about the prospect of having his opera perfo ...
Vladimir... hemia. She bore her husband four daughters: Sophia (by marriage Princess of-Volynia), Agnes (later Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim), Adelaide ( ...
Duke of York... es personally adored and attempted to emulate. In 1605, Charles was created, which is customary in the case of the sovereign's second son. However, w ...
Saint Stephen... ome of most of the country's Mainline Protestants. The Pro-Cathedral of the, the center of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Philippines of the Episco ...
Prince's... his album were "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'", "Hot Potato", and a cover of"Private Joy." Jackson and Amir Bayyan co-wrote "Reggae Nights" for Heart ...
Duke of Cumberland... ich was camping in a field not one hundred yards distant. A rumour that thewas approaching, made Bonnie Prince Charlie decide to leave with his army, ...
John Wilkinson... committee consisting of the trustees of the village, with Thomas T. Davis,and David S. Colvin, was appointed early in 1840 "to report amendments to ...
Bishop Orleton... from Kenilworth until the next year. A deputation of leading barons led bywas then sent to Kenilworth to first persuade Edward to resign and, when t ...
Richard IIThe play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2. The original audiences would thus ...
Queen Margaret... he Benedictine chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity, founded by his mother,. Despite much of the monastic buildings being destroyed by the troops of ...
Catherine Dolgorukova... city on 25 February 1728. He was betrothed to his mentor's niece, Princess, and the wedding was actually fixed for 30 January 1730; but on that very ...
George Frederick... ned as Albert Frederick became increasingly feeble-minded, leading Margraveof Brandenburg-Ansbach to become Regent of Prussia in 1577
Amadeus I... s only that "the wife of Amadeus [was] from Burgundy", which might refer to. If his wife were Genevan, it would explain how the house of Savoy came t ...
Priscus... use of the Miholjanec legend and because Jordanes embellished the report ofwith a fairytale by describing that Attila had possessed the "Holy War Swo ...
Simon de Montfort... Vaux-de-Cernay. "In their shifts and breeches" according to another source.now was appointed leader of the Crusader army, and was granted control of ...
Yuchi... there, some recently arrived as refugees after the Yamasee War, such as the, Yamasee and others. In a process of ethnogenesis, they formed a new cult ...
Henry VIIIIn October 2003, in a two-part British television series on, Catherine was played by Clare Holman. The part was relatively small, giv ...
King Arthur... breakthrough as Donna Anna, and 2003), La clemenza di Tito (2003 and 2006),(2004). In 2012, Harnoncourt is scheduled to conduct a new Magic Flute, st ...
David... he Galleria dell' Accademia houses a Michelangelo collection, including the. It has a collection of Russian icons and works by various artists and pa ...
John II... Bavaria then passed to Henry XVILA. Dying in 1539, Henry left an only son,, who died childless in the following year, when the Wittelsbach emperor L ...
Mary Magdalene... ssages of the film which depicted Christ marrying and raising a family within a Satan-induced hallucination while on the cross
José de Alencar... ional identity, using the ideal of the heroic Indian. Some examples include, who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and Gonçalves Dias, renowned by the ...
Mani... wood festival near Chichester in August 2010. In April 2011 he stood in forplaying bass for Primal Scream at the Japan Tsunami appeal concert at Brix ...
Sher Khan... rule; Babur was styled 'Zahir-ud-Din Bábar Muhammad' during Friday khutbas., an adversary of the Mughal emperor Humayun, was content if Bengal was gi ...
VajkHe was born asin the town of Esztergom. His father was Grand Prince Géza of Hungary; his ...
Turkmenbashi... in India. The line starts from the city of Kzyzl Su (Krasnovodsk) (nowadays) (on the Caspian Sea), travels southeast along the Karakum Desert, throug ...
Alfonso of Aragon... his was denied, a child was born in that year before Lucrezia's marriage to. He was named Giovanni but known to historians as the Roman Infante
Delbert D. Thiessen... beings" is "greater prolongation of childhood and retardation of maturity."claimed that "neoteny becomes more apparent as early primates evolved into ...
Eudocia... Vandals took Rome, along with the Empress Licinia Eudoxia and her daughtersand Placidia
Bertha... , with his mother and brother Peter, then Count of Savoy, hosted his sister, and his brother-in-law, Bertha's husband, the Emperor Henry IV. Amadeus ...
Perseus... hat are also touched by the paths of the planets. The MUL.APIN lists Orion,, Auriga, and Andromeda. Furthermore, there are a number of constellations ...
William... the Ros (or Roos) family enhanced their standing. Catherine's grandfather,, was part of King Edward IV's court. William held the office of comptroll ...
Roger Mortimer... 1326, however, Edward was deposed by an alliance of Isabella and her lover,. Edward was eventually captured by Isabella's forces and the custody of t ...
Adolphus Frederick... Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He had however to cope with the demands of his uncle, husband of Mary of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, the daughter of predeceased Duke ...
Thomas... taurant we were sitting in, to reveal the implant in his chest. I felt like, in the 20th chapter of John"
USS George WashingtonThe Polaris program started development in 1956. The, the first US missile submarine, successfully launched the first Polaris ...
Harry Truman... th You. Their 1975 release, Chicago VIII, featured the political allegory "" and the nostalgic Pankow-composed "Old Days". Both hits reached the Top ...
Nicias... erbolos is pictured urging the people to expel one of his rivals, but they,and Alcibiades, laying aside their own hostility for a moment, use their c ...
George Abbott... ay in the 1950s and 1960s. That reputation solidified during her next show,'s Damn Yankees (1955), based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the P ...
BaldredThe island was a retreat for early Christian hermits; Stis said to have lived there in 600 A.D
John F. Kennedy... rs, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and, died at the hands of assassins. There have been at least 20 known attemp ...
Renée... on-screen son, who dies while hiking the Camino de Santiago. His daughter,, also has a part in the film. Driven by sadness, Martin’s character, an A ...
The Prince... er of capitalism and of the nation-state. Drawing on Niccolò Machiavelli in, and trying to understand why there had been no Communist revolution in W ...
Berx, Cathy... n's volleyball Division of Honour - BELNET - Beringen - Berlaar - Berlare -- Beurre d'Ardenne - Beveren - BIPIB - Bilzen - Biographie Nationale de Be ...
Sima Yi... hey were initially in a relatively stable formation. After a 249 AD coup by, the Sima family essentially controlled Cao Wei and soon conquered Shu Ha ...
Laertes... han Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia,by Liev Schreiber, Uncle Claudius by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by Bill ...
Folsom... sville and Sacramento via a connection to the Sacramento Valley Railroad in. Grading from Folsom to Marysville commenced in 1858 and was completed to ...
Henry Briggs... the decadic logarithm, named after its base, and Briggsian logarithm, after, an English mathematician who pioneered its use. It is indicated by log 1 ...
Princess of Wales... ederick, Bute became close to his widow, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the Dowager. It was rumoured that the couple were having an affair, and indeed soon a ...
Palladius... Empress Licinia Eudoxia, widow of Valentinian. He also elevated his own sonto the rank of Caesar, and had him marry to Eudocia, elder daughter of Val ...
Conchobar... rl and aging suitor. This theme is seen in the tale of Naoise, Deirdre, and
Gaius Julius Caesar... rived from the personal name of a branch of the gens (clan) Julia, to which, the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged. Although the Britis ...
mother... daughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but's delight, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver p ...
Frederick of Swabia... e were further outbreaks of dysentery and fever, which claimed the lives of, Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem, and Theobald V of Blois. When the sail ...
Field Marshal... own as "the Emperor of the Night" and Elizabeth would make him a Prince andon becoming Empress. The Holy Roman Emperor would also make Razumovsky a C ...
JagiellonLouis was the son of Ladislaus IIand his third wife, Anne de Foix
Alphonse... d to the French court to swear fealty to King Louis IX of France's brother,, who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowage ...
Fulbright... some have called programmatic electronic music. In 1970 he won Guggenheim,and American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowships. When he was twenty-eight ...
John Adams... aron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith,, Thomas Adès, and Esa-Pekka Salonen
Van Williams... roderick, saying that "Chris is doing just fine". Former Nevermore bandmatecommented that Megadeth is "getting one hell of a good player, more import ...
William Haines... ted the name Crawford, saying it sounded like "crawfish". Her friend, actor, quipped, "They might have called you 'Cranberry' and served you every Th ...
Samandar... ity located in the North Caucasus region, between the cities of Derbent and, probably on the lower Sulak River. It flourished from the seventh to the ...
Herod... tion recounts that, at the time of the massacre of the Innocents, when Kingordered the slaughter of all males under the age of two in an attempt to p ...
PadishahMohammed Zahir Shah (15 October 1915 – 23 July 2007) was the last King () of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades, from 1933 until he was ousted ...
Hosea BallouAccording to, then Pierre Batiffol (1911) and George T. Knight (1914) Amalric was a be ...
Emperor of China... my from the Qing Empire to the revolution. In 1915, Yuan proclaimed himselfbut was forced to abdicate and reestablish the republic when he realized i ...
consort... ly son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his firstEudoxia Lopukhina, and Princess Charlotte
Otto II... Frederick II, and died (assassinated) at Kelheim in September 1231. His son, called the Illustrious, the next duke, found that his loyalty to the Hoh ...
Queen consortHe was succeeded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia wasof Astyages, King of Media
First Presidency... "spirit birth" was described in its modern doctrinal form in 1909, when theof The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following st ...
Alexander Cockburn... admitted that prisoners of war were murdered in the 1967 War. According to, Israeli reporter Gabriel Bron, a former IDF soldier allegedly witnessed ...
James GarfieldIn the United States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln,, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins. T ...
Bolingbroke... d. Kenilworth became the primary castle of the Lancaster estates, replacing, and acted as both a social and a financial centre for Thomas. Thomas bui ...
The Prince... ich the Romagna was pacified, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of, and the assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senig ...
Alexander VolkovOn October 2, 1991 he launched with Russian cosmonautas flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut Franz Viehböck in ...
Reagan administrationTheprovided Stingers to UNITA anti-communist rebels in Angola the late 1980s. ...
David King... cast to reach a plateau of more than 9 billion during the 21st century. Sir, former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, told a parliamenta ...
ShunThe Qing Dynasty, which replaced theand Ming dynasties in China, was founded by Manchus from Manchuria (modern ...
Duke of Somerset... ne began having altercations with the Lord Protector, the King's uncle, theand a rivalry developed between Catherine and his wife, her former lady-in ...
Hyrum Smith... eph Tracy; and rabbis Marshall Meyer, Arnold Resnicoff, and David E. Stern., brother of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith also attended the college in his ...
William McKinley... States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield,, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins. There have been at ...
Speaker of the House... aused a tie during a May 2005 confidence vote, meaning that Peter Milliken,needed to cast the deciding vote. He voted with the government, following ...
Conrad Weiser... e from attacks. Subsequently, in 1783, he worked with Samuel Weiser (son of, the famous Native Americans liaison who died in 1760, and with whose fam ...
Robert Sloan... the reintroduction of the uptick rule. Books like Don't Blame the Shorts byand Fubarnomics by Robert E. Wright suggest Cramer exaggerated the costs o ...
LidaIn 1958, Hensley and his new wife,, moved to Modesto, California. There, he founded the first Universal Life ...
Bishop of Durham... cies, by a wide array of scholars and historians. According to the Anglican, the Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright, the novel is a "great thriller" but "lousy his ...
Khusrau Mirza... reign at the age of 36. Jahangir soon after had to fend off his son, Prince, when he attempted to claim the throne based on Akbar's will to become hi ...
Al-Adil... there. He offered to begin negotiations with Saladin, who sent his brother,to meet with Richard. Negotiations (which had included an attempt to marry ...
Louis IIThe first of these divisions occurred in 1255.and Henry XIII, the sons of Duke Otto II, who for two years after their fa ...
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Geppetto... n Italian), an animated marionette, and his poor father, a woodcarver named. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many ...
Prince Igor... usy during this time by editing Mussorgsky's works and completing Borodin's(Mussorgsky died in 1881, Borodin in 1887)
Presidents of the United States of America... CD and vinyl in 1998. It is essentially a solo effort by Chris Ballew (ex-), recorded in Ballew's basement. The album was published as being a work ...
Queen Anne... dified Spanish Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival to Greek Revival and, from Victorian Gothic to Georgian Colonial. West Genesee Street, part of ...
Duchess of York... 0th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen El ...
Solicitor General of the United States... the American Law Institute and Dean of Penn Law), Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. (), E. Grey Lewis (General Counsel of the U.S. Navy), Bernard Wolfman (Fess ...
The Maestro... t" Miller, whose character was based on Brown, during his in ring skit with. Brown was featured in Tony Scott's 2001 short film, , alongside Clive Ow ...
Benjamin... book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, durin ...
Queen of the South... side of the river. Palmerston Park, home to the town's senior football team, is on Terregles Street, also on the Maxwelltown side of the river
Alfonso of AragonFollowing her divorce from Sforza, Lucrezia was married to the Neapolitan, the half-brother of Sancha of Aragon who was the wife of Lucrezia's brot ...
Bolkiah... cient Japan and Song Dynasty China. The city was invaded by Brunei's Sultanand was already Islamized by the 15th century when the Spanish first arriv ...
Bar KokhbaJohn Zorn's Masada Chamber Ensemble recorded an album called, showing a photograph of the Letter of Bar Kokhba to Yeshua, son of Galgo ...
Plutarco Elías Calles... he state, and are mostly found in Caborca, Puerto Peñasco, Sáric, Altar andin the north of the state. However, most people of this ethnicity now live ...
The CandidateSmith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself;(1972),, The President's Plane Is Missing (1973, a made-for-television pr ...
Jane SeymourAfter Falcon Crest, Wyman only acted once more, playing's screen mother in a 1993 episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Following ...
Glaucus... been led by two esteemed warriors: Sarpedon (son of Zeus and Laodamia) and(son of Hippolochus)
John Ball, a priest involved as a leader in the Great Rising of 1381 (also known as ...
Queen Elizabeth IBlackadder II is set in England during the reign of(1558–1603), played by Miranda Richardson. The principal character is Edmu ...
Aaron Burr... sts who took advantage of Suffern's hospitality included Lieutenant Colonel, who later became the third Vice President of the United States; General ...
Kerensky... , until they were moved to Tobolsk in Siberia in August 1917, a step by thegovernment designed to remove them from the capital and possible harm. Fro ...
Cosimo de' Medici... d attempt to reconcile the East-West schism. Here Pletho met and influencedto found a new Platonic Academy, which, under Marsilio Ficino, would proce ...
Mary... nceived. After Elisabeth completed her fifth month of pregnancy, her cousinwas visited by the angel , overshadowed by the Holy Ghost and – though sti ...
Lysias... hey are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, Demosthenes,, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher Aristotle ...
President of the Republic... lic were figures like Éamon de Valera, President of Dáil Éireann (1919–21),(1921–1922), and Michael Collins, Minister for Finance, head of the IRB an ...
Roger de Mortimer... ntury, including a huge event in 1279, presided over by the royal favourite, in which a hundred knights competed for three days in the tiltyard in an ...
Enrique Iglesias... rt in South Africa hosted by MTV, BET, and Nike; fellow performers included, Kanye West, Kelly Rowland, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson. Furtado also h ...
Salomon... ègne, by which he agreed to yield the Cotentin Peninsula to the Breton king, on the condition that Salomon would take an oath of fidelity and fight a ...
Stephen II... ateran Palace. In the eighth century, most likely during the pontificate of(752–7), a document called the Donation of Constantine first appeared, in ...
Bo... ctors with similar characters, Coy and Vance Duke, after the actors playingand Luke walked out over a dispute about royalties. Thus, the first season ...
Duke of York... he Fitzgeralds, Lords of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the, later King George V, with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the ...
Marcus Ulpius TraianusTrajan was the son of Marcia and, a prominent senator and general from the gens Ulpia. Trajan himself was ...
David... was Joseph Martin-Dauch from Castelnaudary. He can be seen on the right of's sketch, seated with his arms crossed and his head bowed
Arthur... n, Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring, Guinevere, Lancelot and Galahad. Even in the 21st century, books and fil ...
Boris Godunov... of ideas and plans. Mussorgsky composed and orchestrated the Polish act ofand the folk scene 'Near Kromy.' I orchestrated and finished my Maid of Ps ...
George William... War broke out, and John Sigismund himself died the following year. His son,, was successfully invested with the duchy in 1623 by the king of Poland, ...
Emperor of the Romans... haire, Italian: Lotario, Dutch: Lotharius) (795 – 29 September 855) was the(817–55), co-ruling with his father until 840, and the King of Bavaria (81 ...
Apion... eeks. Some anti-Judean allegations ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer, and myths accredited to Manetho are also addressed
Richardson's... firm of A.W. Rush at a cost of $111,000. The building's tower was based ondesign for the spire of Trinity Church in Boston. The building was dedicat ...
Samandar... red much of the town's population; survivors fled to other towns, including. The victorious Arab army stole much booty and the soldiers received larg ...
Isabella d'EsteCesare Borgia had wanted to take over Mantua whilewas ruling
Tom Jackson... ckers, including Randy Gradishar (3 interceptions, 4 fumble recoveries) and(4 interceptions, 93 return yards, 1 touchdown). Defensive End Lyle Alzado ...
François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvoi... topped receiving the pension given to him as a writer. Colbert's successor,, who was jealous of Colbert, quickly removed Perrault from his other appo ...
Grigory Orlov, the grandson of a rebel in the Streltsy Uprising (1698) against Peter th ...
Arthur Griffith... another commando. Meanwhile, back home Irish pro-Boer fever, whipped up byand Maud Gonne in what was the most popular and most violent of the Europe ...

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Jacob Kettler of Courland... ndinavia after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), with Christina of Sweden,, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents. The Habsburg Holy Roma ...
Kingdom of Cochin... which seats the Vadakkumnathan temple. Thrissur was once the capital of the. It is located towards north-west of the state capital Thiruvananthapuram
Hezekiah's... ded by a high wall of stones on all sides (except for an arched entrance totunnel – which was only rediscovered in the 19th century)
Creon... tes (1991). Heaney's 2004 play The Burial at Thebes makes parallels betweenwith the foreign policies of the Bush administration
Kaiser Wilhelm... summit on the crater ridge of Kibo, he named it "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze" ("peak"). That name was used until 1918, when after World War I the German c ...
Earl of Euston... granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once removed); the; the Lord Elphinstone (his 1st cousin once removed); and Mrs Harold Phill ...
Home... th a special act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lordsand Hailsham were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation p ...
RomansLegend says that theabducted Sabine women to populate the newly built Rome. The resultant war ...
John BoltonThe party, through former U.N. Ambassador, has advocated reforms in the United Nations to halt corruption such as t ...
Louis VIII of France... unt of Foix and Aragonese crown forces decided the military intervention offrom 1226 with the support of Pope Honorius III
Richard IIIIn 1983 Cook played the role ofin the first episode of Blackadder, "The Foretelling", which parodies Laur ...
Prince Albert... arre performed a large scale concert in Monaco to celebrate the marriage ofand his bride Charlene. During the last [quarter] of 2011 he concluded his ...
Charles... other Judith won his consent to her plan for securing a kingdom for her son, a scheme which was carried out in 829, when the young prince was given A ...
Solomonic dynasty... s, including Amharic and Tigrinya. With the expansion of Ethiopia under the, Amharic, previously a minor local language, spread throughout much of th ...
Thomas Hughes... e a common device for this, beginning with Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) byand F.W. Farrar's Eric, or, Little by Little, although the framework had b ...
Louis VI, the Fat... there in 1268 and died there in 1314. In all, thirty-four sovereigns, from, (1081–1137) to Napoleon III (1808–1873), spent time at Fontainebleau
Teucri... Rome. Gergis, a city of Dardania in the Troad, a settlement of the ancient, and, consequently, a town of very great antiquity (Herodotus iv: 122). G ...
Jehoaichin... that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem, thus putting an end to the reign of. Zedekiah's installation as king by Nebuchadnezzar can therefore be firml ...
HooverNamed after Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State in theAdministration (1929–1933), the policy followed Japan's unilateral seizure ...
Lincoln... as an extension of the Civil War. It lasted through the administrations of, Andrew Johnson and Grant, and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendme ...
Herod... town, but were rebuked by Jesus. The Acts of the Apostles 12:1 records thathad James executed by sword. He is the only apostle whose martyrdom is rec ...
Francesco II... the ceremony at La Madeleine. Aside from Pedro II's family, these included:(Francis II), former king of the Two Sicilies; Isabel II (Isabella II), fo ...
Frederick V, Elector PalatineIn 1613, his sister Elizabeth marriedand moved to Heidelberg. In 1617 the Catholic Ferdinand II was elected kin ...
Aragorn... om supposedly safe territory, unaware that the ships were actually carrying's forces coming to relieve the city. Denethor was holding the stone when ...
Caroline... eted in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Under George II and his Queen,, further refurbishment took place, with the architect William Kent employ ...
Halfdan... ollowing year the Great Heathen Army led by the Brothers Ivar the Boneless,and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking Guthrum, arrived in East A ...
Prince of Orange... e construction of a monument on the spot where it was believed his son, the, had been wounded. The Lion's Hillock, a giant mound, was constructed her ...
Eleonore Magdalena of the Palatinate-Neuburg... (1683–1754), daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and his third wife,, thus strengthening the alliance with Austria
Alexander the Great... was half Persian, his mother Apama being one of the eastern princesses whomhad given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the deat ...
President Nasheed... ent of the Maldives on 7 February 2012, in connection to the resignation ofamidst weeks of protests and demonstrations led by local police dissidents ...
John Fisher... opponents to the Henrician Reformation, such as St. Thomas More and Bishop, who were executed for their opposition. There was also a growing party o ...
Henry, Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, later King Henry II of England... ix, was awarded to their father, King Louis. Their mother, Eleanor, married, and so left France. In 1160, when her father, King Louis, married Adele ...
Kenneth, son of Dub... ed mac Maíl Coluim ("Kenneth son of Malcolm"), probably in error for either(Cináed mac Duib), who became Kenneth III on Constantine's death, or perha ...
Elizabeth of York... of Suffolk, was a son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife
Anushehrawan... to one account of the sources : A Persian named Dehqan in the court of KingDadgar had composed a voluminous book in prose form, known as "Khoday Name ...
King of Strathclyde... wards at Chester. Six kings in Britain, including the King of Scots and the, pledged their faith that they would be the king's liege-men on sea and l ...
Albert of Brandenburg PrussiaFollowing the death of Hohenzollern, Duke of Prussia (1525–1568), Joachim II, the prince-elector Kurfürst of ...
Maharaja of Mysore... The British returned administrative control of the Bangalore "pētē" to the, choosing only to retain the Cantonment under their jurisdiction. The 'Re ...
Duke of Harar... Division in Addis Ababa, while most of his family was detained at the late's residence in the north of the capital. The last months of the emperor's ...
monarchy... of the protestors' begins to expand their aims to a call for the end of the, who has ruled Bahrain since the late 18th century. On 18 February, gover ...
Suazo... rajudicial killings by government-backed units, most notably Battalion 316., relying on U.S. support, created ambitious social and economic developme ...
Helena... at is to say, a church of wondrous beauty. Constantine directed his mother,, to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ...
Albert, the Prince Consort... cess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and
William, Duke of Normandy's... ars with the Danes, which resulted in a Danish monarchy for one generation.conquest of England in 1066 was crucial in terms of both political and soc ...
Isabel II... these included: Francesco II (Francis II), former king of the Two Sicilies;(Isabella II), former queen of Spain; Philippe, comte de Paris; and other ...
AnnaDuring the reign of her cousin(1730–1740), Elizabeth was gathering support in the background; but after ...
Frederick of Augustenburg... sistently opposed Prussia, and headed the lesser states in their support ofagainst the policy of the two great German powers. Finally, in the war of ...
Duke of Holstein-Gottorp... only two daughters, Anna and Elizabeth survived. Anna was betrothed to the, nephew of the late King Charles XII of Sweden, Peter's old adversary. He ...
LawrenceFrom 1990 to 1993, during theLabor Government, Gallop held portfolios including Education, Parliamentar ...
General Eisenhower... the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946, under. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day—including the only Allied Europe ...
Skanderbeg... Catholic priest and scholar, in the biography of the Albanian national hero, Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarum principis (The story o ...
Harald... nd rune merging the Younger Futhark runes  (Hagall) (ᚼ) and  (Bjarkan) (ᛒ),'s initials
HedwigSigismund's eldest daughter(1513–1573) married Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg
Lord WinchesterIn 1572,, who had been Lord High Treasurer under Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, died. ...
King... decree by the prime minister. The Supreme Judicial Council, chaired by the, appoints the members of the Constitutional Court
Adolphe... y, by a distant male cousin, Duke Adolf of Nassau who became HRH Grand Duke—an arrangement necessitated by Salic law being applicable to Luxembourg b ...
Franco... he stones was inscribed with the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman andsupporter Santiago Bernabéu. In preparation for the 1992 Summer Games two ...
First Presidency... the President of the Quorum of the Twelve, in 1847 Young reorganized a newand was declared president of the church on December 27, 1847. Repeated co ...
Trumans maiden deployment was in November 2000. The carrier's air wing flew 869 ...
Arthur... a similar story in another work. The speaker relates how he journeyed withand three boatloads of men into Annwfn, but only seven returned. Annwfn is ...
Seventy... ave more clarification about the roles of priesthood offices—especially the—and required Priesthood leaders to live plural marriage in order to quali ...
Faisal bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud... ouncil was later expanded to 20 members, and was chaired by the king’s son,
Truman... te had been going on since 1943, and had nearly come to fruition during theadministration in 1950 when a statehood bill passed in the U.S. House of R ...
Conan... from 1990 to 1993. He was nominated by George H. W. Bush, who dubbed him "the Republican". He later served as Chairman for the California Governor's ...
Tsar... moves further away from the customs of his faith—and with the edict of thethat evicts the Jews from their village
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom... tered Dayuan (Fergana), Kangju (Sogdiana), and Daxia (Bactria, formerly the); he also gathered information on Shendu (Indus River valley of North Ind ...
King... ording to of the 2002 Constitution, "legislative authority is vested in theand the National Assembly
Cheng... rand empress dowager during the reigns of the Emperors Yuan (r. 49–33 BCE),(r. 33–7 BCE), and Ai (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. During this time, a succ ...
Eisenhower... his service in World War II. In the 1950s, he held senior positions in theInterior Department. He played key roles in legislation that shaped Alaska ...
Wilhelmina... year later, Queen Emma gave birth to their daughter and the royal heiress,
Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia... n 1526, following the Battle of Mohács, in which Ferdinand's brother-in-law, was killed, Ferdinand expanded his territories, bringing Bohemia and tha ...
Truman... rmulating policies regarding the atomic bomb and relations with the Sovietswas guided by the U.S. State Department and ignored Eisenhower and the Pen ...
AsaOmri became king of Israel in the 31st year of, king of Judah and reigned for 12 years, 6 years of which were in Tirzah. ...
ben-Ali... ng largely equivalent to those that formed the backdrop to the overthrow ofin Tunisia and Mubarak in Egypt earlier in the year. "The remarkable sprea ...
Richard II... ular success Richard of Bordeaux (1933) (a romantic version of the story of), The Importance of Being Earnest which he first performed at the Lyric H ...
Elizabeth... the final scene of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen, with Fontanne asand Lunt as the Earl of Essex, but otherwise has nothing to do with that p ...
Afonso... Cristina started off badly. With maturity, patience, and their first child,, their relationship improved. Later Teresa Cristina gave birth to more ch ...
Herzog... eli service. Between 341 and 514 Arab aircraft were shot down. According to, 334 of these aircraft were shot down by the in air-to-air combat for the ...
Prince of Langya (Sima Rui)... a similar fate in the year 316 AD. However, a scion of the royal house, the, fled south of the Huai River to salvage what was left in order to sustai ...
tsar... prohibition in the early 20th century had failed due to opposition from the. After a development similar to the one in the United States during its p ...
William III... r (Stadhouder, Dutch) and later also King of England, Scotland and Ireland,from the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. In 1703 Spanish and French allied f ...
"King of the Kings"... thirteen years of age, in 34 BC, giving him the vague but alarming title of(Donations of Alexandria). Being a son of Julius Caesar, such an entitleme ...
Demetrius of Macedon... acedonian rhetorician Polyaenus describes a battle between the Spartans andin 294 BC. Mt. Lykaion extended between the camps of both sides, causing s ...
succession... ons.Tengku Long was claimed to be a pretender to the throne, and, since thelaws in the Malay sultanates were not clear cut, the treaties signed betwe ...
Ferdinand II... Frederick V, Elector Palatine and moved to Heidelberg. In 1617 the Catholicwas elected king of Bohemia. The following year, the people of Bohemia reb ...
Tarja Halonen... ns visiting from Finland commented that he resembled their female president. Conan mentioned the resemblance on his show, even showing pictures of Ha ...
Antiochus II Theos... e was executed for rebellion), Laodice, Apama II, Stratonice of Macedon and, who succeeded his father as king
Michael HowardOn 3 May 2005, Bremner dressed up asand walked along the campaign trail in the marginal seat of Wellingborough ...
Royalist... eds, West Yorkshire, northern England. His grandfather had suffered for thecause following the English Civil War, leaving the family in reduced circu ...
Shadowcat... o includes such notable heroes as Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler,, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gambit and Emma Frost. Besides the Brotherhood ...
AsaAbijah's son and successor,, maintained peace for the first 35 years of his reign, during which time ...
Pedro... ame independent of one another. In the Portuguese colony, the heir apparent, son of King John VI of Portugal, proclaimed the country's independence i ...
Viracocha Inca... the Iglesia del Triunfo, built in 1539 on the foundations of the Palace of. Today, this church is an auxiliary chapel of the Cathedral
Sharif Hussein... Al-Khuzai and his tribe had dominated eastern Jordan before the arrival of. Ibn Saud supported Prince Rashed Al-Khuzai and his followers in rebellio ...
Polk... cognition for his support at the previous Democratic convention, he entered's cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, serving until 1846, when for a month ...
Antiochus I... ds of the syncretic Graeco-Armenian-Iranian royal cult at Nemrut founded byof Commagene in the mid 1st century BC. Michael Speidel associates Mithras ...
Isabel... r relationship improved. Later Teresa Cristina gave birth to more children:, in 1846; Leopoldina, in 1847; and lastly, Pedro, in 1848. However, both ...
Minos... r his death, Aeacus became (along with the Cretan brothers Rhadamanthus and) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especially for ...
Charles Kennedy... sh actor Brian Cox, CBE. The current Rector of the University of Glasgow isMP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and a former President of the G ...
WarwickCecil ingratiated himself with, and after less than three months he was out of the Tower. On 5 September ...
William Henry Harrison... expedition to the west coast. A disputed 1804 treaty between Quashquame and(future ninth President of the U.S.) that surrendered much of the future s ...
Louis IX... irteen children, six had died, and Louis, the heir — afterwards the sainted— was but twelve years old. She had him crowned within a month of his fath ...
President George Maxwell RichardsThe Commander in Chief of the Defence Force is the country's President,. The current Chief of Defence Staff is Brigadier General Kenrick Maharaj
Sterling... y," the famous "Cambridge Apostles" to which Tennyson, Hallam, Maurice, andhad once belonged. The Cambridge period was also one in which Strachey was ...
Numa... icly, when appropriate lunar conditions were observed. After the reforms of, they occurred on fixed days
Elector of Saxony... de in late 1791 jointly with the Prussian King Frederick William II and the, in which it was declared that the other princes of Europe took an intere ...
Wilhelmina... ng a male heir, so that in the Netherlands he was succeeded by his daughterand, in the Luxembourgish Grand Duchy, by a distant male cousin, Duke Adol ...
Prince... shops such as Boots the Chemists, which was opened in November 1981 by theand Princess of Wales. It has entrances located opposite Chesterfield Mark ...
King Frederick of Prussia... mpress Elizabeth, who eventually banned her from the country for spying for. The empress knew the family well: she herself had intended to marry Prin ...
PresidentialHe was acandidate in 1968 on the ticket of the Peace and Freedom Party. Cleaver wa ...
Princess Sophia Dorothea... land and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of King James II & VII, and(1687–1757), only daughter of King George I, were eligible for this honour ...
Ida... nealogies (of doubtful historicity) was the son of Æthelric and grandson of
William Thomson... considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin,, Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid governor)
ShahMany Iranians fled the 1979 Iranian Revolution following the fall of the
Faisal##(April 1906 – 25 March 1975); reigned 1964–197
King'sand three at the hotel itself. The intention was to fire them on thebirthday, but the Haganah learned about the plan and warned the British th ...
Vittorio Emmanuele II... more formal street plan with newer houses. The Piazza (first renamed Piazza, then Piazza della Repubblica, the present name) was significantly widene ...
Carter... e agencies, and then as an assistant attorney general. He spent most of theyears teaching at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the fi ...
Bernardine Eugénie Désirée ClaryAt Sceaux on 16 August 1798 he married, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, and sister of Joseph Bonapart ...
James VI of ScotlandThe second son ofand Anne of Denmark, Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 No ...
Murat... were too great. Caffarelli's men halted the Russian assaults and permittedto send two cuirassier divisions (one commanded by d'Hautpoul and the othe ...
Achilles... d many, as well as wounding the hero Achean Meriones. As Hector was fleeing, Athena took the shape of Deiphobus and goaded Hector to make a stand and ...
W.A.CIn the 1975 election Social Credit, under's son Bill Bennett, won a snap election called by Barrett. The Barrett go ...
Arcas... of the Olympians, Hera, was not pleased with the placement of Callisto andin the sky, as the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, so she asked ...
De Gaulle era... bstitution Industrialization regimes include the Dirigisme of France in the, Stalin's advocacy of Socialism In One Country and the economic policies ...
John Adams... 1694–1778) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778); the future US Presidents(1735–1826) and Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790 ...
RhadamanthusAfter his death, Aeacus became (along with the Cretan brothersand Minos) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especi ...
Lombardi... nd student life." In addition, the National Science Foundation and the 2009Report also ranked Drexel among the top 50 private comprehensive research ...
William Thomson... athematical tripos training in mathematical analysis; the Glasgow physicistand his circle of associates established a new mathematical physics relati ...
Andronikos... senior co-emperor alongside Michael VII, Konstantios, and another brother,. When Romanos IV was defeated and captured by Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Tu ...
Augusta... tantial evidence that Aurelian's wife Ulpia Severina, who had been declaredin 274, may have ruled the Empire by her own power for some time after his ...
Bill Richardson... ve, the control of the grid is balkanized, and even former energy secretaryrefers to it as a third world grid. There have been efforts in the EU and ...
Demetrius... west towards Phrygia in order to humble Antigonus, who escaped with his sonto Greece, where he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia ...
king of Persia... 882); Russian Tsars Nicholas I (1796–1855) and Alexander I (1777–1825); the; Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg (1819–61); S ...
General Napoleon Bonaparte... st Coalition, despite the civil war occurring in France. The war ended whenforced the Austrians to accept his terms in the Treaty of Campo Formio. On ...
Caesar... all gave their votes for it. And when the senate was separated, Antony and[Augustus] went out, with Herod between them; while the consul and the res ...
maternal great-grandfather... l of Inverness, and Baron Killyleagh all titles previously held by both hisand grandfather. Prince Andrew had known Miss Ferguson since childhood, an ...
Publius Septimius Antoninus Geta... . Caracalla was present and was then proclaimed co-emperor with his brother. Caracalla continued the campaign in Caledonia the following season, but ...
King of Bavaria... mperor of the Romans (817–55), co-ruling with his father until 840, and the(815–17), Italy (818–55) and Middle Francia (840–55). The territory of Lot ...
ArtConn had two sons, Connla and. Connla fell in love with a fairy woman from Mag Mell, and went with her ...
Frederick "The Great" of PrussiaFrederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, and
Henry... landowners, including churches and bishoprics. King Henry even sent his sonto live in Becket's household, it being the custom then for noble children ...
James Wright... in Dartmouth governance has been the subject of ongoing conflict. Presidentannounced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard Univ ...
Vasily... y 1491, but later Ivan reverted his decision in favor of Sophia's elder sonwho was ultimately crowned co-regent with his father (14 April 1502). The ...
father... the few male members of his dynasty to die of natural causes. Both Edward'sand brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather ...
his heir... itaine, failed to pay homage after a dispute. Edward sent his wife and then, to whom he had transferred the title, to sort out the matter, which led ...
Nimrod... that Stephen is referring to the "old kings" which could only be Attila and. It might also mean that the constitution of the kingdom itself was not e ...
Khalid##(II) (1913 – 13 June 1982); reigned 1975–198
VictoriaUntil's reign in Britain, Vikings were portrayed as violent and bloodthirsty. T ...
Gandhi... leration and respect. Veneration for all other religions was articulated by
Franklin... he last living member of the Coolidge administration. He also outlived bothand Eleanor Roosevelt who died in 1945 and 1962, respectively. By the time ...
brother... e members of his dynasty to die of natural causes. Both Edward's father andwere killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and another ...
Son of Heaven... ward the king, while explaining that his partner "has never set eyes on the", which is why he is trembling. Jing Ke had to present both gifts by hims ...
Prince William of Orange's... kely that she was protecting herself and her husband. If James had defeatedarmy, he could have imprisoned and even executed Lord and Lady Churchill f ...
John... as a part of the 'Holy Club' at Oxford University with the Wesley brothers,and Charles. An illness, as well as Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the ...
1 President... des Scholars and 24 Marshall Scholars. Additional notable graduates includeof the United States, 2 Nobel Prize recipients (including the first Americ ...
Pedro... e birth to more children: Isabel, in 1846; Leopoldina, in 1847; and lastly,, in 1848. However, both boys died when very young, which devastated the E ...
Math... rces of Annwn, lead again by Arawn. It is revealed that Amaethon, nephew to, king of Gwynedd, stole a bitch, a lapwing and a roebuck from the Otherwo ...
KeynesEconomists (since) have preferred to split the general consumption term into two parts; pri ...
Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême... own's influence in Poitou, Blanche managed to keep the English Queen motherand her second husband Hugh X of Lusignan from supporting the English side ...
William Laud... s. In 1633 and 1634, following the appointment of the strongly anti-Puritanas Archbishop of Canterbury, the colony saw a large influx of immigrants
The Lord Lieutenant, the 5th Earl Spencer... small insurgent group called the Invincibles was responsible for the deed., heard the victims' screams from a window in the ground floor drawing roo ...
Elizabeth... hern fortress. Incorporated first by Henry II, a new charter was granted byin 1589. A high stone wall was built around the town in the 13th century, ...
Ernest RutherfordIn 1911,gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's m ...
her husband... s permanent mourning and lengthy period of seclusion following the death ofin 1861
Elisa... ther and then (from 1808) to Joachim Murat, along with marrying his sistersand Paolina off to the princes of Massa-Carrara and Guastalla. In 1808, he ...
Edmund... 939, Olaf again invaded York the same year, forcing Athelstan's successor,, into a treaty which ceded to Amlaíb Northumbria and part of Mercia. Uniq ...
Theodosius... m, which lists Roman army units in the late 4th to early 5th century, after. Many units listed in the Balkans were formed after Adrianople; others we ...
Newton... ntities are used in the Leibniz approach to the infinitesimal calculus. Theapproach uses instead 'fluxions' such as \dot V(t) = \left.\frac{dV}{dt}\r ...
FloreySince the first pioneering efforts ofand Chain in 1939, the importance of antibiotics, including antibacterials ...
grandfather... ward's father and brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while hisand another brother were executed for treason. Edward's two sons were impr ...
Russian Tsarevich... ated into German. Her godparents were the Prince and Princess of Wales, theand Tsarevna, HRH Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the Duchess of ...
Sancho García IV... a and reduced Navarre to a vassal state under his late brother's young son,. Although Navarre at that time included the traditionally Castilian lands ...
Fahd##(II) (1920 – 1 August 2005); reigned 1982–200
天子... lect their filial relationship with deities. The title "Son of Heaven" i.e.(from 天 meaning sky/heaven/god and 子 meaning child) was first used in the ...
Julian... Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus,, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles ...
Napoleonic... now so deadly that combat was often decided by shooting alone. Through theera the spontoon, a kind of shortened pike with side-wings, was retained a ...
Bush... e end of their service life. The new carriers will have a similar design to(using an almost identical hull shape) but will also have further technolo ...
Jerome... ions from some of his senior generals. Later on, being told by his brother,, of some gossip overheard by a waiter between British officers at lunch a ...
Ireland... ed in such presidents vary considerably. Some presidencies, such as that of, are largely ceremonial, whereas other systems vest the President with su ...
Ford... ummarized by the classic October 30, 1975 New York Daily News headline as "to City: Drop Dead". The fate was avoided through a federal loan and debt ...
PaulPavlovsk Palace was built by Catherine the Great’s son. The czarevitch and his wife, Marie Feodorovna, were avid francophiles, w ...
William V... 1600, Ferdinand married Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574-1616), daughter of Dukeof Bavaria. They had seven children
Princess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg... s Ignatius), the second son of the Emperor Leopold I and of his third wife,, was born on 1 October 1685. His tutor was Anton Florian, Prince of Liech ...
ReinaTheadministration successfully increased civilian control over the armed forc ...
of Gandhi... olonial Africa (draws no exploitation of man by man) and himself a discipleunderstands, sees the late Nkrumah necessity of a violent break with the n ...
the heir to the British throne... t India Company, and renamed the island Prince of Wales Island in honour ofbut the name never caught on. In Malaysian history, the occasion marked th ...
Aragon... the Tudor period with emblems of the crucifixion and the arms of Henry and(the lands passed to Henry VIII as a consequence of the )
MontezumaThe town, which is named for, the Emperor of the Aztecs, consists largely of historical buildings and ...
Loyd Ancile JonesBased on earlier research work by(1884–1954) of Kodak and inspired by the systems of Weston film speed rati ...
Daud KhanAfter the exile of King Zahir Shah in 1973, Presidentforged stronger ties with the Soviets by signing two highly controversial ...
Constantia... re their alliance by the marriage of Licinius and Constantine's half-sister. During this meeting, the emperors agreed on the so-called Edict of Milan
Caligula... a Roman citizen (and thus, the tribe a Roman vassal) by either Augustus or
William I, King of EnglandIn 1081, began work on the castle keep within the walls of the old Roman fort. Ca ...
Asa... was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem. He was succeeded by his son,
George Brown... a loyal friend of Macdonald, with whom he created the Great Coalition within 1864. The purpose of the Great Coalition was to end the political insta ...
William Crookes... the elements it was not until the late 1800s that the element was isolated.observed the phosphorescent spectra of the rare elements and observed spec ...
Eleanor#(1215–1275), who would marry firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ...
Franco... rd, General Motors, and Studebaker used this loophole to sell such items toon credit. By 1939, Franco owed these and other companies more than $100,0 ...
Edwin... reign, but other suggested origins include the reign of Offa of Mercia, oror Oswiu of Northumbria
García el Malo... of Aragon, ejecting a Frankish vassal, count Aznar I Galíndez, in favor of(the Bad), who would become Íñigo's son-in-law. In 824, the Frankish count ...
Reina... nsferring the national police from military to civilian authority. In 1996,named his own defense minister, breaking the precedent of accepting the no ...
Lang Labor... ic policy, and grappled with the differing proposals of the Premier's Plan,, the Commonwealth Bank and British adviser Otto Niemeyer. While Health Mi ...
Charles... the eldest, Louis II, went Italy, with the imperial title. To the youngest,, still a minor, went Provence. To the second eldest and namesake of his f ...
Grand Duke Paul... ntative plans were made to perform it at the September visit of the Russian(son of Catherine the Great and heir to the Russian throne). However, it w ...
John FisherMore was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised, with, on 19 May 1935 by Pope Pius XI, and his feast day was established as 9 J ...
Clinton... stated that it favors fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that theand Bush administrations publicly recognized through Presidential Task For ...
Ulysses S. Grant... corps at Knoxville contributed to Gen. Braxton Bragg's defeat by Maj. Gen.at Chattanooga. Troops under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman marched to Burns ...
Ida... n the early 6th century. The first Anglian king in the historical record is, who is said to have obtained the throne and the kingdom about 547. His s ...
King... step-children; a trait which she would again show after her marriage to the. Her teenage stepson, John, proved to be difficult. There is some indicat ...
Abdullah##(born August 1922); current king, since 200
KnudWhen he had no sons, it was expected that his younger brotherwould inherit the throne, in accordance with Denmark's succession law (Roy ...
members... onsolidation in the 14th century laid the base for, after the reigns of twoof the Angevin dynasty, the new powerful Kingdom of Poland that was to fol ...
"Baby Doc" Duvalier... nment has been notorious for its corruption. It is estimated that President, his wife , and three other people took $504 million from the Haitian pub ...
title characterDunst's next film role was thein the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette. Adapted from Antonia Frase ...
Antiochus V... ved that Syria should be ruled by a boy rather than a man. Two years later,was greatly weakened because Rome sent an emissary to sink his ships and h ...
Saul... t of the battle between David and Goliath is given in 1 Samuel, chapter 17.and the Israelites are facing the Philistines at the Valley of Elah. Twice ...
HeathInto's Downing Street came the Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS), and they we ...
Grand Duke Nicholas, heir to the throne of RussiaAlix had already met and fallen in love with, whose mother was the sister-in-law of Alix's uncle, the Prince of Wales, ...
Mary... a succession crisis. He was wary of allowing his Catholic elder half-sisterto succeed, and therefore drew up a will designating Lady Jane Grey as his ...
Buchan-ish... ott thought that overall "Fleming is again at his best when most sportinglyas in the motoring pursuit across Europe"; he summarised the book by sayin ...
Suazo... y 1986. With strong endorsement and support from the Honduran military, theAdministration ushered in the first peaceful transfer of power between civ ...
ConstantineIn 308, after the elevation of Licinius to Augustus, Maximinus andwere declared filii Augustorum ("sons of the Augusti"), but Maximinus prob ...
presidency... the mayor, and was known for his anti-crime crusades. When Lim ran for theduring the 1998 presidential election, his vice mayor Lito Atienza was ele ...
López... is time round, he adopted more progressive policies, including land reform.'s successors continued armed forces modernization programs, building army ...
Thomas Hill... o prepare the way for extensive and thorough reforms. Shortly afterward Dr.resigned the presidency, and after a considerable interregnum Mr. Eliot su ...
Supreme director... ome of them helped liberate the continent. Bernardo O'Higgins was the firstof Chile. When Chilean troops occupied Lima during the War of the Pacific ...
tsarevich Alexei... r himself and later, on seeking medical advice, for himself and his son the. Alexandra was now in a perilous position as the wife of the deposed tsar ...
"emperor"... im at the Battle of Gaixia, in modern-day Anhui. Liu Bang assumed the title(huangdi) at the urging of his followers and is known posthumously as Empe ...
Laud... an answer to Lysimachus Nicanor by John Corbet in the form of an attack onand his system, in reply to a publication which charged the Covenanters wi ...
fatherA man arrives from Corinth with the message that Oedipus'shas died. Oedipus, to the surprise of the messenger, is made ecstatic by t ...
Newtonian... t series of lectures ("A Confutation of Atheism"), he endeavours to presentphysics in a popular form, and to frame them (especially in opposition to ...
Edward I ("Edward Longshanks")The next monarch,, was far more successful in maintaining royal power, and was responsible ...
his fatherLouis was only eight years old when he succeeded. His mother, Marie de Medici, acted as regent during Louis' minority. Mis ...
Boris... criticized the Empress. Quite accurately, she considered their sons Kyrill,and Andrei to be irredeemably immoral and in 1913 refused Boris's proposal ...
Charles Kennedy... reaten Labour - J. M. W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, in which a chirpyas tug-boat towed a grotesque and dilapidated to be broken up
Franz Joseph I... w of Napoleon Bonaparte and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France,(Francis Joseph I) of Austria-Hungary and Don Maximiliano I (Maximilian I) ...
Coolidge... st tenure of a Secretary of the Treasury. His service continued through theand Hoover administrations. Along with James Wilson and James J. Davis, he ...
John Major... for appointing 20 special advisers (compared to eight under his predecessor) and for the fact that the total salary cost of special advisers across a ...
Antiochus V... and was welcomed back on the Syrian throne in 161 BC. He immediately killedand Lysias
Ernst... December 1878, when Alix was only six years-old. Alix, Victoria, Irene, andsurvived the epidemic, but their youngest sister, Princess Marie, did not
Tarquins... ntes minores consisted of the families admitted to the patriciate under theand in the early years of the Republic. In any case, the distinction canno ...
Robert... paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own ...
AndrewPhilip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Anne,and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Phi ...
George... , who were not well known for their height (though Edward's younger brotherwas also tall and fair, and said to bear a marked resemblance to him). Que ...
Duke of Suffolk... liam Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton fought with the Duke of Norfolk and theagainst the rebellion. It is to most likely to Catherine's credit that Lor ...
Henry IV... itish Actor), George, Duke of Clarence to Olivier's Richard III (1955), andto Orson Welles' Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight (1966). A brief glimpse of ...
John... justiciar was in February 1194, when he presided over a feudal judgement of, Richard's younger brother. After Richard's release from captivity, John, ...
Kelvin... constitutive properties. The classical rule, recognized by Clausius and by, is that the pressure exerted by the calorimetric material is fully and r ...
Tsar... revolutionary government, was refused asylum, possibly in part because the's wife was German-born. News of the Tsar's abdication provided a boost to ...
Keynes... use a fall in interest rates, stimulating investment, hence always I=S. Butargued that neither saving nor investment were very responsive to interest ...
Ashoka... t in the Vedic period (1700 B.C.), Pali, Old Persian and Apabhramsha in theperiod (273 B.C. – 232 B.C.) and Hindvi, Lahori and Multani in the Muslim ...
BrakIn the 17th century a chief known as the Petitor Little King ruled over a region known variously as Biffeche or Gangueul ...
Lord Home... t Union (represented by Andrei Gromyko), the United Kingdom (represented by) and the United States (represented by Dean Rusk), named the "Original Pa ...
Harvard University President... esidents and chancellors of Boston-area colleges and universities includingDrew G. Faust and UMass President Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures inclu ...
Thomas Hughes... Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work by(1822–1896)
Rogier, Charles... m - Riemst - Rijkevorsel - Rivers of Belgium - Roeselare - Rogge, Jacques -- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Me ...
Robert StevensonIn 1959, Connery landed a leading role in's Walt Disney Productions film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) ...
AbelDuring the civil war between Eric IV and his brother,, Odense and the cathedral were burned down in 1247. The present church wa ...
Otakar II Přemysl of Bohemia... iod of several decades during which the status of the country was disputed.effectively controlled the duchies of Austria, Styria and Carinthia. His r ...
CatherineHe married(as nun, Xene) of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. They ...
Robert Harris... ht Brian Friel's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, Donna Leon andwhile in hospital, and was visited at the time by Bill Clinton
Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom)... Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, theand his uncle Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
García... st, and the most reliable, charters name Sancho's sons in the order Ramiro,, Gonzalo, then Ferdinand. Three documents from the Cathedral of Pamplona ...
Michael HowardDuring the 2005 general election, Conservative leadervisited the town. However, Sanders retained the seat with 40.8% of the vot ...
Marqués de Samaranch... ent of the IOC on 16 July 2001 at the 112th IOC Session in Moscow as the to, who had previously led the IOC since 1980
Charles Evans... ng pairs to attempt to reach the summit. The first pair (Tom Bourdillon and) came within 100 m (300 feet) of the summit on 26 May 1953, but turned ba ...
OrestesGoaded by his sister Electra,swore revenge. He knew it was his duty to avenge his father's death, but s ...
Eyadéma... lections and the government's continued unwillingness to transition from an-led autocracy to democracy have deterred these donors from providing Togo ...
Maximus... etrayed by Severus are wholly those of St. Martin. The bishop had withstood, who ruled for some years a large part of the western portion of the empi ...
Svoboda... ng political and social organizations not under Communist control. "Dubcek!!" became the popular refrain of student demonstrations during this period ...
Maximiliano I...  II of France, Franz Joseph I (Francis Joseph I) of Austria-Hungary and Don(Maximilian I) of Mexico
Hilaire Belloc... ew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley –– John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Ruper ...
King BehanzinIn 1892,was threatening the French protectorate of Porto-Novo and France decided t ...
Harris... included a right to food and a right to shelter. Unlike the reforms of theand Klein governments, the BC Benefits package of cutbacks and restriction ...
MarcosDuring thedictatorship, the region of the Manila Metropolitan area was enacted as an ...
Prince AlbertThe 2009 film The Young Victoria includes an episode in whichis told that I puritani is the favorite opera of Queen Victoria (which ind ...
Zulfi Ali Bhutto... from Pakistan. Great ire was raised in Pakistan, Pakistan's Prime ministerdescribed this test as "Indian hegemony" to intimidate Pakistan. Gandhi di ...
Salazar... e rural society. The Vichy regime in France, Francisco Franco's regime, theregime in Portugal, and Maurras's Action Française political movements are ...
Gregory, King of Scots... sit by Picts, Saxons, Scots and Danes culminating in a decisive victory forat what is now Lochmaben over the native Britons in 890
Dauphin... he marriage of Maria Theresa's daughter Archduchess Maria Antonietta to the), but also facing a dangerous situation in Central Europe, faced with the ...
Carranza... an intervention, which came shortly after he left. Jack adored Villa, whileleft him cold. Jack's Mexican reports were later republished in book form ...
present Queen... The last such meetings were held on 6 February and 8 February 1952. As thewas abroad when the last Demise of the Crown took place, the Accession Cou ...
Margaret... interest in the upbringing of her granddaughters, Princesses Elizabeth and, and took them on various excursions in London, to art galleries and muse ...
Alexander the Great... oaning that he was too old to go on any further and repeat the conquests ofA province of Assyria was also proclaimed, apparently covering the territo ...
Royal Standard... der) has been a prominent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms andsince James I of Scotland
Marcian... restarted after the winter truce in March 456, despite a further embassy by, with the destruction of Capua. Avitus sent Ricimer to defend Sicily, and ...
Jehoiachin/Jeconiah... istent with the fall of the city in 587 but not in 586, as explained in thearticle, thus vindicating Albright's date. Nevertheless, scholars who assu ...
Orestes... left Andromache and their sons in Helenus's care. Neoptolemus was killed by, Agamemmon's son, in dispute over Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and ...
Robert... ol overseeing the building of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. His sonhad recently returned from a stint working in South America and resumed as ...
Jack... s Crassus (played by Laurence Olivier). According to Hearst Over Hollywood,and stayed at the house for part of their honeymoon. They watched their fi ...
Charles Kennedy... der of the Opposition Iain Duncan Smith and Leader of the Liberal Democratson privy council terms to discuss the evidence for Iraq's weapons of mass ...
Yusuf Asar YatharAround 517/8, a Jewish king called(also known as Dhu Nuwas) usurped the kingship of Himyar from Ma'adkarib Y ...
Singaporean President... r Western names to appear before or after the Chinese given name. Thus, theTony Tan might see his name written as "Tony Tan Keng Yam" or "Tan Keng Ya ...
King... ccording to of the 2002 Constitution, "executive authority is vested in thetogether with the Council of Ministers and Ministers". The Council of Mini ...
Aragorn... ve battle; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne (Bard/); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condit ...
King... ine II of Russia, who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower. Theaccordingly spent his reign torn between his desire to implement reforms n ...
King Louis XVIII... order from the field. Pursuing coalition forces entered France and restoredto the French throne. Napoleon abdicated, surrendered to the British, and ...
Arame... the Armenian Highland, including the territory of modern-day Yerevan. Kingwas the founder of the state which was one of the most developed states of ...
Emperor... 45 the Penang Shimbun published the statement of capitulation issued by the. The official British party reached Penang on 1 September, and after a me ...
AdolfWalram's son and successorwould later became King of Germany from 1292 until 1298. In 1329, under Ad ...
Roman Kingdom... ir own city, but Romulus killed Remus in a quarrel over the location of the, though some sources state the quarrel was about who was going to rule or ...
OswaldIt was also around 604 that Æthelfrith's sonwas born. Oswald's mother was Acha, daughter of Ælla, and thus Edwin's sis ...
1st Duke of York... and the second creation had been invalidated by the illegitimisation of the(one of the Princes in the Tower, who was also 1st Duke of Norfolk) on 25 ...
Olga... to the tsar, Alexandra gave birth to the couple's first child: a girl named, who was born on 15 November 1895. Olga could not be the heir presumptive ...
Gandhi... vil disobedience movement in India launched on 9 August 1942 in response to's call for immediate independence of India and against sending Indians to ...
John HuntIn 1953, a ninth British expedition, led by, returned to Nepal. Hunt selected two climbing pairs to attempt to reach ...
king SaudHis last words to his two sons, the futureand the next in line Prince Faisal, who were already battling each other, ...
Bush... inistration, comparing the war to the Vietnam war. Moreover, he said that "deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on ...
Louis... en elected King of Provence. In the summer of 880 the brothers Carloman andmarched against him, took Mâcon and the northern parts of Boso's realm. Th ...
Napoleon... . While France had been very powerful in Europe at the time of Louis XIV or, the demographic decline the country experienced after 1800 resulted in i ...
Robert Stephenson... of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer,, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor ...
Adelaide... born to Emperor Henry III and Empress Agnes. Her older five siblings were:(later Abbess of Quedlinburg), Gisela (who died in infancy before her birt ...
MaoThe Paris Commune has been regarded with awe by many Leftist leaders.would refer to it often. Lenin, along with Marx, judged the Commune a livi ...
Louis... tion of Catalonia extending their power as far as Girona. Charlemagne's sontook Barcelona from the Moorish emir in 801, ultimately forming a frontier ...
Josiah "Jed" Bartlet... n the two-part TV movie, Medusa's Child; and fictional Democratic presidentin the acclaimed television drama, The West Wing
Italy... 55), co-ruling with his father until 840, and the King of Bavaria (815–17),(818–55) and Middle Francia (840–55). The territory of Lothringen (Lorrain ...
descendant... tein, a grandson of queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Their female-linetoday holds the throne of Sweden
Elizabeth... with Henry's three children and was personally involved in the education ofand Edward, both of whom became English monarchs. She was influential in H ...
III... bb or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of Edward II and
Orontid Dynasty... amed after the Armenian king, Yervand IV (the Last), the last leader of the, and founder of the city of Yervandashat. However, it is likely that the ...
Peter II the Catholic... and the family Trencavel that, as allies and vassals of the king of Aragon, invoked direct involvement in the conflict at the Aragonese monarch, who ...
Lycomedes... , Thetis (or, in some versions, Peleus) hides the young man at the court of, king of Skyros. There, Achilles is disguised as a girl and lives among L ...
Charles Taylor... ighbouring Ivory Coast. Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to, told Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that it was eng ...
Marquess of Winchester... h his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for Hatfield House). As the(Burghley's predecessor as Lord High Treasurer) had said of himself, Burgh ...
Amadeo... Joan Prim and his assassination, the federalist revolt of 1869, the rise ofto the monarchy, the proclamation of the First Spanish Republic, the outbr ...
the civil rights leader... ther corner of the plaza was designated "Andrew Young Crossing" in honor of, who received his first beating in the movement in St. Augustine in 1964. ...
President of the United States... ates Marine Corps's HMX-1 unit, are used as the official helicopters of the; in this capacity, the call sign 'Marine One' is used by the helicopter c ...
Prince... ryday I Write the Book", aided by a music video featuring lookalikes of theand Princess of Wales undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The s ...
TancredWilliam II of Sicily had died the previous year, and was replaced by, who placed Joan of England—William's wife and Richard's sister—in prison ...
Albert of Saxony... ory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus), which was elaborated on byin the 14th century and accepted in some form by most naturalists by the 1 ...
Queen... inister because he did not believe he could implement his policy and so thesent for Russell to form a government. Russell offered Cobden the post of ...
Lincoln... Jefferson," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of.
the Dutch crown-princeSean Connery has a villa in Karindi, Greece. His neigbor iswith whom he shares a helicopter platform
Klein... right to food and a right to shelter. Unlike the reforms of the Harris andgovernments, the BC Benefits package of cutbacks and restrictions in socia ...
King... 1481 till Edward's death in 1483. William was held in high favour with theand was one of only two courtiers to become Knight of the Garter in the se ...
Zbigniew... onvinced her husband to postpone the return of Władysław I's first-born son, who seems to be a strong candidate to the succession despite his illegit ...
KnudFrederick's only sibling,, was born one year after Frederick
Johnson... ek re-election in 2002. His Senate seat was won by Elizabeth Dole, a former, Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as Reagan's Transportat ...
Seven Kings... rule or give his name to the city. Rome was then governed by the legendaryfor the following 150 years
Reagans... to place faith in such icons was to give up personal responsibility to "the, Thatchers, and other 'Watchmen' of the world who supposed to 'rescue' us ...
Yahya Muhammad... er Yemen was formally recognized. Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imamstrengthened his control over northern Yemen creating the Mutawakkilite Ki ...
Hoover... xecutive assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur during theadministration, and by 1950 headed a prominent law firm specializing in na ...
Dub... ollowing the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Máel Coluim's sonsand Cináed were later kings. American musician Johnny Cash is a descendant
Pallava... tone inscription in the Old Malay language was found in Sumatra, written invariant of Grantha script and dates back to 7th century – known as Kedukan ...
Eisenhower... UPI) had 950 client newspapers. Fearing possible anti-trust issues with theAdministration Justice Department, Scripps and Hearst rushed the merger th ...