Jawaharlal Nehru | ... cting the newly formed Republic of India, from a planned coup to topple the | Administration in Delh |
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 ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... such as "I Love Louie", where Desi lived with Louis Armstrong. He also read | 's poem "Jabberwocky" in a heavy Cuban accent (he pronounced it "Habberwoc ... |
George McGovern | ... fianakis avoided mention of his party's presidential candidate, the liberal | , Helms employed the slogans "McGovernGalifianakis – one and the same", "V ... |
consular corps | ... he host of the UN, the borough is home to the world's largest international | , comprising 105 consulates, consulates general and honorary consulates. I ... |
Joseph Story | Like Daniel Webster, James Wilson, and | before him, Lincoln argued that the Declaration of Independence was a foun ... |
John Kerry | In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 6.6% margin over George W. Bush, with Kerry carryi ... |
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, ... |
Milton | ... acred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of Stesichorus onwards. As | says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed for the ... |
Lord Dunmore | ... ed the Spanish to surrender on April 17, 1783, without a single shot fired. | governed the colony from 1787 to 1796 and oversaw the construction of Fort ... |
Joshua | ... ereafter, Hebron is said to have been wrested from the Canaanites by either | , Judah or Caleb. The town itself, with some contiguous pasture land, is t ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... g nonsense words; a famous such example is "The gostak distims the doshes". | 's Jabberwocky is also famous for using this technique, although in this c ... |
Julius Caesar | ... of his successor Augustus. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of | in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of Augustus ... |
Johann Mattheson | ... 733 notes, "mi against fa", which the ancients called "Satan in music", and | in 1739 writes that the "older singers with solmization called this pleasa ... |
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 ... |
Francisco Franco | ... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimo | and Christopher Columbus as saints. According to his supporters, Pope Greg ... |
Jesse Helms | ... ows. In a letter dated April 8, 1997, then Halliburton-CEO Cheney told Sen. | , the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that it would be ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of | |
Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
Lord Coleridge | ... city (Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant (1886) 17 QBD 54 (per | CJ)). Attachment to the person of the reigning Sovereign is not sufficient ... |
Ben Barnes | ... itizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later Lieutenant Governor | , a protege of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1955 Pulitz ... |
Howard Goodall | | 's theme tune has the same melody throughout all the series, but is played ... |
Kim Campbell | ... r B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and | , who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell wor ... |
Chaucer's | ... nded him for the part. He also appeared in Pier Paolo Pasolini's version of | The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a younger husband of the |
Honorius | ... was the famous magister militum Stilicho, the chief minister of the Emperor | |
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 ... |
Philippe de Carteret II | ... of Sir Hugh Poulet, Governor of Jersey (died 1573). They had two children, | (1584–1643) and Elias (1585–1640), who was the father of Sir George Carter ... |
Cyrus Vance | ... attan's Borough President is Scott Stringer, elected as a Democrat in 2005. | , a Democrat, has been the District Attorney of New York County since 2010 ... |
Sarah T. Hughes | ... as assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. He was sworn in by Federal Judge | , a family friend, making him the first President sworn in by a woman. He ... |
Gaius Terentius Varro | ... ce derided the Cunctator, and at the elections of 216 BC elected as consuls | and Lucius Aemilius Paullus, both of whom advocated pursuing a much more a ... |
Sarah Palin | ... episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart parodied former Alaska Governor | 's reality television series, Sarah Palin's Alaska, in the form of a trail ... |
Edmond Stanley | The first Superior Court Judge in Malaya originated from Penang when Sir | assumed office as the First Recorder (later, Judge) of the Supreme Court i ... |
Caracalla | ... atterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by Septimius Severus and | , who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. The city was th ... |
Chief Justice | ... the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and | John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, "a man may, at the same t ... |
Dick Cheney | Former US Vice President | opposed the signing ratification of a treaty banning the use chemical weap ... |
John Nance Garner | ... 932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs McAdoo and | , can also be seen as part of his vendetta against Smith, who was an oppon ... |
Lewis Carroll's | ... commonly. "Brunch" is an example of a portmanteau word (breakfast + lunch). | "snark" (snake + shark) is also a portmanteau. Neologisms also can be crea ... |
Justin I | ... the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Emperor | invaded and annexed Yemen. About fifty years later, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan ask ... |
Joseph Holt | ... town was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of U.S. Postmaster General | . As of 1874, Holtsville consisted of 15 houses, a school, and a general s ... |
Jim Sasser | ... o serve for more than two terms. He accused his opponent, incumbent Senator | , of "sending Tennessee money to Washington, DC", and said, "While I've be ... |
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. | ... . Senator from Pennsylvania), Charles Robert Miller (Governor of Delaware), | (former Chairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U.S. Ambassador t ... |
Joseph Stalin | During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and | formed a ruling 'triumvirate' (or 'troika') in the Communist Party, playin ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U.S. President | and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d' ... |
Augustus | ... ius Caesar in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of | in 8 BC |
John F. Kennedy | ... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated | . However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 |
Thomas Roe | But relations between the did turn tense in the year 1617 when Sir | the Elizabethan diplomat warned the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the yo ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, President | reopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ... |
Robert Pipon Marett | ... n in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, | , and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were ... |
Sol Linowitz | ... position. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter reopened negotiations, appointing | as co-negotiator without Senate confirmation, and Helms and Strom Thurmond ... |
Constantine | ... he popes and the church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors | and Theodosius, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western ... |
Judges | The Bible affords many examples of vows. Thus in | 11. Jephthah 'vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed del ... |
General Cornwallis | ... nia along present-day Ashford Avenue and Broadway, en route to victory over | at the Siege of Yorktown and to victory in the Revolutionary War |
Marcus Valerius Volusus | ... in 505 BC. The Romans were victorious, and a triumph awarded to the consuls | and Publius Postumius Tubertus |
Gerald Ford | ... unsel. After Nixon's resignation, the nomination was continued by President | , and Scalia was confirmed by the Senate on August 22, 1974 |
Hugo Haase | ... sisting of three MSPD and three USPD members. Led by Ebert for the MSPD and | for the USPD it sought to act as a provisional cabinet of ministers. But t ... |
Theodosius | ... church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors Constantine and | , later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ouh succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General | was selected Chairman of the PLO, and Farouk Kaddoumi became head of Fatah ... |
Richard M. Daley | ... commuter airline service to the public, peaking in the late 1980s as Mayor | took office. During the 1960s to 1980s, typical destinations were Springfi ... |
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 ... |
Publius Postumius Tubertus | ... ictorious, and a triumph awarded to the consuls Marcus Valerius Volusus and | |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... since he was one of the key figures who acceded to the wishes of President | in changing the focus of the march. Kennedy initially opposed the march ou ... |
Julius Caesar | ... activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, | built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ely rebuilt on Roman patterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by | and Caracalla, who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. Th ... |
Sheikh Taissir Tamimi | ... in East Jerusalem following the establishment of a Palestinian state. After | discovered that Arafat was buried improperly and in a coffin—which is not ... |
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 ... |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... le all over the country. On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinated | in County Sligo. On the same day the IRA killed 18 British soldiers at War ... |
Coolidge | ... hite House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first President | in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 1931 — choos ... |
Jim Doyle | ... pson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat | , the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCa ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Kerry | ... tial primaries, Kennedy campaigned heavily for fellow Massachusetts Senator | . and lent his chief of staff, Mary Beth Cahill, to the Kerry campaign. Ke ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... with his colleagues and more formal offices of co-emperor had existed from | (r. 161–180) on |
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 ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... st Stage of Imperialism (1965). The work is self-defined as an extension of | 's Imperialism, the Last Stage of Capitalism (1916), in which Lenin argues ... |
Scott McCallum | ... at Jim Doyle, the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor | , former Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office in 2001 after Gove ... |
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 |
Harry S. Truman | ... ly nine days before the U.S. presidential elections, causing U.S. President | great embarrassment. Truman reacted by making a strongly pro-Zionist decla ... |
Titus | ... pression of the Jewish revolt, Josephus would have witnessed the marches of | 's triumphant legions leading their Jewish captives, and carrying treasure ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The American | was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ... |
Ted Poe | ... Military Veterans Post Office" in a ceremony hosted by U.S. Congressperson | |
Carus | ... sily removed from power. In contrast, just a few years earlier, the emperor | and his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first empero ... |
Silvano Maria Tomasi | In a statement read out by Archbishop | in September 2009, the Holy See stated "We know now that in the last 50 ye ... |
Saparmurat Niyazov | In January 2006, | ordered to stop paying pensions to ⅓ (more than 100,000) of elderly people ... |
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 ... |
Pope Gregory VII | ... g miracles were said to have occurred at his tomb. Stephen was canonized by | as Saint Stephen of Hungary in 1083, along with his son, Saint Emeric and ... |
Tommy Thompson | ... ormer Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office in 2001 after Governor | left to become U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Tommy Thompson | ... and was the subject of the documentary A Remarkable Man. His older brother, | , a Republican, was formerly Governor of Wisconsin and United States Secre ... |
Sir Hermann Bondi | ... Charlton area of Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The report of | into the North Sea flood of 1953 affecting parts of the Thames Estuary and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Bartlow Martin | ... teland" was suggested to Minow by his friend, reporter and freelance writer | . Martin had recently watched twenty consecutive hours of television as re ... |
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 ... |
Alton B. Parker | ... cated. The conservative wing of the party was ascendant and nominated Judge | instead. An opponent of the British Empire, Hearst opposed American involv ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... O'Brien accused his show of being the sole cause of presidential candidate | 's status in the polls, due to his use of the Walker Texas Ranger Lever wh ... |
James Wilkinson | In 1786 | purchased the tract of land on the north side of the Kentucky River, which ... |
Dave Hodgson | ... by Frank Branston, until his death in 2009. The current Mayor of Bedford is | from the Liberal Democrat Party |
Thomas Jefferson | ... federal military reservation established by President of the United States | in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the campus of the U.S ... |
Benjamin Franklin | In 1758, | and John Hadley, professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, conducted ... |
Bill Dovey | ... as the daughter of barrister and future New South Wales Supreme Court judge | |
Francisco Franco | ... y the railway system, which could have been used to transport artillery had | not used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the Spanish Civil War ... |
Gaius Flaminius | ... under the recently elected consuls of 217 BC, Gnaeus Servilius Geminus and | . The latter had long distrusted his fellow senators and feared they would ... |
Ralph Bunche | After Bernadotte's death, his assistant American mediator | was appointed to replace him. Bunche eventually negotiated a ceasefire, si ... |
John C. Calhoun | ... y movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as John Randolph and | found it necessary to argue that the Declaration's assertion that "all men ... |
Frank Branston | ... r who holds the title 'Mayor of Bedford', an office which was first held by | , until his death in 2009. The current Mayor of Bedford is Dave Hodgson fr ... |
Conor Cruise O'Brien | According to | , the Butchers brought a new, frightening level of paramilitary violence t ... |
Salvador Allende | ... overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely | |
Constantine | In 308, after the elevation of Licinius to Augustus, Maximinus and | were declared filii Augustorum ("sons of the Augusti"), but Maximinus prob ... |
John Rutledge | ... f his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice | also declared in Talbot v. Janson, "a man may, at the same time, enjoy the ... |
Salvador Allende | ... ent which led to a revolution in the popular music of his country under the | government. Shortly after the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, he was ar ... |
JK Galbraith | Power may be held through | summarises the types of power as being "Condign" (based on force), "Compen ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... roved the killing: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future Prime Minister of Israel | ), Nathan Friedmann (also called Natan Yellin-Mor) and Yisrael Eldad (also ... |
Howard Baker | In 1990, Frist met with former Senate Majority Leader | about the possibilities of public office. Baker advised him to pursue the ... |
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 ... |
Worf | ... ngon motifs, and he has brought back on numerous occasions as the theme for | , most prominent Klingon. Michael Giacchino employed character themes in t ... |
British Resident | Meanwhile, Major William Farquhar, the | of Malacca, had been attempting to negotiate commercial treaties with the ... |
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, ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... ot to do so would amount to a tax increase. Working with Democratic Senator | , McCain was a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, which ... |
Justinian | ... tiquity, Awjila was nominally within the Roman Empire, evidenced by emperor | 's decree that forbade the worship of Amun |
John Pettit | ... uring the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1853, for example, Senator | of Indiana argued that "all men are created equal", rather than a "self-ev ... |
George McGovern | ... globe. In addition to numerous domestic programs, along with former Senator | (D-South Dakota), Dole created an international school lunch program throu ... |
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 ... |
Salmon P. Chase | ... , was a "self-evident lie". Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, including | and Benjamin Wade, defended the Declaration and what they saw as its antis ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... prevent a blood feud. The lawyer called on Palestinian Authority president | to reopen the investigation into Arafat's death. |
Washington Irving | ... Hollow, New York is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including | , whose story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent Old Dut ... |
Camillus | ... sacked Rome. The Romans then took up arms and drove the Gauls back, led by | . The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, ... |
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, ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... ld. Margaret Dovey, the future wife of the former Australian prime minister | , finished sixth in the 200 yards breaststroke |
Peter des Roches | ... with excommunication if he refused to dismiss his councillors, particularly | , Bishop of Winchester. Henry yielded, and the favourites were dismissed, ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under President | to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he receiv ... |
Jean Kennedy Smith | ... eath of his sister Eunice. He was survived by his wife Victoria, his sister | , his three children, two stepchildren and four grandchildren. In a statem ... |
Lucy Diakovska | ... Angels are an all-female pop trio from Germany, consisting of band members | , Sandy Mölling, and Jessica Wahls. Critically acclaimed, the band has won ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from | |
Pompey | ... instability in Syria under the Seleucids. Once Mithridates was defeated by | in 63 BC, Pompey set about the task of remaking the Hellenistic East, by c ... |
Isaac Isaacs | ... ay ceremony, Gough Whitlam was awarded a prize by the Governor-General, Sir | |
Julius Caesar | ... r shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. It was while | was pontifex maximus that the calendar was overhauled, with the result bei ... |
Robert Byrd | ... eagan] and I have been to the Kennedy family. ... I will miss him." Senator | of West Virginia, the President pro tempore of the Senate, issued a statem ... |
Earl Warren | Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice | , known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination. ... |
Constantine | ... divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself. When Licinius and | began to make common cause with one another, Maximinus entered into a secr ... |
Shirley Temple | ... "the perfect butler" for his performances as Jeeves, as a butler in several | films, and the role of Constable Jones in Mary Poppins. (He was perhaps be ... |
Hasekura Tsunenaga | France-Japan relations started under Louis XIII in 1615 when | , a Japanese samurai and ambassador, sent to Rome by Date Masamune, landed ... |
Flavius Aëtius | ... een on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and its influential general | . Aëtius had spent a brief exile among the Huns in 433, and the troops Att ... |
Joe Clark | ... l sector; Lester B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University | ;and Kim Campbell, who became university professors, Clark also consultant ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... ts candidate in the race for U.S. Senate in 2000, which was won by Democrat | . Howell received 11.9% of the vote (a total of 308,860 votes). Howell had ... |
Al Smith | ... backed by Tammany Hall leaders for the U.S. Senate nomination in New York. | vetoed this, earning the lasting enmity of Hearst. Although Hearst shared ... |
Lucullus | Seleucid rule was not entirely over, however. Following the Roman general | ' defeat of both Mithridates and Tigranes in 69 BC, a rump Seleucid kingdo ... |
Lepidus | ... one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of 43 BC (Octavianus, Antony, and | ), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads at their own ... |
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin | ... re removed from Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens by | , and are now part of the British Museum collection in London. In anticipa ... |
Lieutenant Governor | ... most distinguished citizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later | Ben Barnes, a protege of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1 ... |
Marcia Hines | ... NXS, Noiseworks, Skyhooks, AC/DC, Renée Geyer, Spectrum, Chain, Daddy Cool, | , Zoot, The Masters Apprentices, Dragon, Air Supply, The Radiators, The An ... |
Charles de Gaulle | After the war, General | decided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... e in the place of man . A variation that also falls within this metaphor is | ’ "", which sees Jesus receiving a punishment as a public example of the l ... |
Spock | ... affairs. Moore also wanted to avoid creating an emotionless character like | from Star Trek, so he sought for Dr. Manhattan to retain "human habits" an ... |
Pompey | ... historian Appian. The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that | settled some of these pirates in in southern Italy |
Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Traianus (or, less frequently, year 851 Ab urbe condita). The denomina ... |
Mike Easley | ... %. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to re-elect Democratic Governor | against local Republican Patrick J. Ballantine |
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 ... |
John Kerry | ... dential slot, only this time as part of the Democratic ticket under nominee | . McCain said that Kerry had never formally offered him the position and t ... |
John Fendall | ... he Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, but not before he was officially replaced by | on account of the poor financial performance of the colony during his admi ... |
Princess Leia Organa | ... ous themes associated with characters like Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and | (see for more details) |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... full term of his presidency. The late President's brother, Attorney General | , with whom Johnson had a notoriously difficult relationship, remained in ... |
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 ... |
Newton N. Minow | ... eech was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman | to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 19 ... |
Galerius | ... 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of the emperor | near their family lands around Felix Romuliana; a rural area then in the D ... |
Richard M. Daley | In 1994, Mayor | announced plans to close the airport and build a park in its place on Nort ... |
Bronisław Komorowski | ... the second final round of the Polish presidential election on July 4, 2010, | , Acting President, Marshal of the Sejm and a Civic Platform politician, d ... |
Salomon Morel | ... e the collapse of the communist system in Poland the former camp commanders | {d.2007} and (d.2006) have been charged by Polish authorities for war crim ... |
William S. Clark | Prior to Uchimura's arrival, | , a graduate of Amherst College, had spent the year assisting the Japanese ... |
Antony | ... mentions as one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of 43 BC (Octavianus, | , and Lepidus), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads ... |
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 ... |
John Milton | ... have delivered if Charles had entered a plea, while Parliament commissioned | to write a rejoinder, the Eikonoklastes ("The Iconoclast"), but the respon ... |
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 ... |
Anthony Eden | ... ion of the Home Guard (initially as the Local Defence Volunteers) following | 's broadcast appeal to the Nation on Tuesday 14 May 1940 also created furt ... |
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 ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... wed the explosion of a nuclear bomb. The message conveyed was that electing | president held the danger of nuclear war. Although it only aired one time, ... |
Bill Clinton | ... he funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, | and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President George ... |
John Kerry | ... n the 2004 presidential elections, the county supported George W. Bush over | by 56% to 44%. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to re-elect Democr ... |
Jean Kennedy Smith | ... er diagnosis was made public the previous year.) Upon his death, his sister | is the only surviving child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy |
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 ... |
Burghley | ... y on the morning of 6 April. There is some evidence that the Lord Treasurer | endeavoured to save their lives, and was frustrated by Whitgift and other ... |
Bruce Babbitt | Also in 1994, United States Secretary of the Interior | first proposed the removal of several Pacific Northwest dams because of th ... |
Harry S. Truman | In 1946 President | appointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations ... |
Milton's | Dryads are mentioned in | Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in Thackeray's work The Virginians. Keats ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... o owned their own land and voted for their local and provincial government. | , in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... at the edge of the (known) world. Similar coin types were also issued under | |
Thomas Jefferson | ... n was under French control as Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by | brought the area under United States control. In 1830, Congress passed the ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, | , and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation technique ... |
Dame Sian Elias | ... urt, and is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The incumbent is | . All other superior court judges are appointed by the Governor-General on ... |
Lieutenant Governor | The colony of New Brunswick soon followed on May 1848 when | Edmund Walker Head brought in a more balanced representation of Members of ... |
Donald Rumsfeld | ... 003, after a trip to Iraq, he was publicly questioning Secretary of Defense | , saying that more U.S. troops were needed; the following year, McCain ann ... |
Cardinal Pole | ... ent to Mass, confessed, and in no particular official capacity went to meet | on his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him to Calai ... |
Clarence Thomas | ... ious Supreme Court nomination in United States history has been the one for | . When the Thomas hearings began in September 1991, Kennedy pressed Thomas ... |
José Gustavo Guerrero | ... hi, Altamira, Anzilotti, Bustamante, Jonkheer van Eysinga, Henri Fromageot, | , Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, Frank B. Kellogg, Negulesco, Mich ... |
Caesar | ... re classics. Augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by | , and the month of August is named after him. Augustus' enlightened rule r ... |
Publius Cornelius Scipio | ... ards the Carthaginians were intercepted by a newly raised Roman force under | , whom Hannibal had evaded earlier in the Rhone Valley, and who had not an ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... police suspicion that they were English spies, they visited Paris, meeting | , General Lafayette, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and joined the French ... |
Pope Paul IV | Two years later | issued orders to have all the conversos thrown into the prisons of the Inq ... |
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor | According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of | , sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic ... |
Galerius | In 305, his maternal uncle | became the eastern Augustus and adopted Maximinus, raising him to the rank ... |
Stephen Breyer | In a 2009 public "conversation" with Justice | , Breyer questioned Scalia regarding this approach, indicating that those ... |
Aristotle Onassis | ... s of convenience. The most notable shipping magnate of the 20th century was | , others being Yiannis Latsis, George Livanos, and Stavros Niarchos. A fam ... |
Chief Justice | ... ppointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Attorney-General, the | , and the Solicitor-General. Some New Zealand Judges may sit on more than ... |
Gaius Gracchus | ... to connect their names with a great public service like that of the roads. | , when Tribune of the People (123-122 BC), paved or gravelled many of the ... |
Lewis Cass | ... lman's defeat, American leaders like President Jackson and Secretary of War | would not consider a diplomatic solution; they wanted a resounding victory ... |
Robert Burns | "Scots Wha Hae" is the title of a patriotic poem by | . The chorus of Scotland's unofficial national anthem refers to Scotland's ... |
Liu Zhengrong | ... nese government) activity on the web in mainland China. The deputy chief is | (刘正荣) |
John Sedwick | In March 2011, Judge | from the Anchorage federal district court, in his ruling, reinstated the R ... |
Licinius | In 308, after the elevation of | to Augustus, Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum ("so ... |
Wonder Woman | ... eries. Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with , George Pérez's relaunching of | in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Ste ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... rnor of New York, and then fourth Vice President of the United States under | and James Madison; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary o ... |
Prévinaire, Eugène | ... s-Capital Region - Politics of Belgium - Politics of Flanders - Poperinge - | - Princes Park, Retie - Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy - Progressive Par ... |
Ion Antonescu | ... rman Hungarian government, as well as the pro-German Romanian Government of | allowed Germany to enlist the German population in Nazi sponsored organiza ... |
Nitobe Inazō | ... pacifism made a lasting impression upon Uchimura. He and his Sapporo friend | were influential in the establishment of the Friends School in Tokyo as a ... |
Pope Pius II | In 1459 | endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterda ... |
John Kerry | ... stitutionally guaranteed rights. In the 2004 presidential election, Senator | won a substantial majority of the votes in Travis County. Of Austin's six ... |
William Rehnquist | ... U.S. Supreme Court Justices have taught at Tulane, including Chief Justice | . Tulane has also hosted several prominent artists, most notably Mark Roth ... |
Justinian I | ... t. Eventually it became part of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine emperor | erected a Christian church over the Cave of Machpelah in the 6th century C ... |
Knut Henning Thygesen | ... ghest vote for the Red Electoral Alliance in Norway at 13.7 per cent. Also, | was elected as the only mayor from the Red Party through a direct mayor el ... |
Sidney Poitier | Along with Paul Newman, | and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company ... |
Pope Nicholas IV | ... d's mind is clear from the fact that a papal dispensation was received from | ten days after the treaty was signed. Thought to show bad faith on Edward' ... |
Francisco José Urrutia | ... 30, with 14 candidates receiving a majority on the first ballot and a 15th, | , receiving a majority on the second. The full court was Urrutia, Mineichi ... |
Charlemagne | The Kingdom of the Franks under | was particularly hard-hit by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine wi ... |
Illinois first governor | ... of Waterloo's present location. Judge Shadrach Bond, uncle and namesake of | , was also a part of the Moore party of settlers, however, he settled on t ... |
Olusegun Obasanjo | 30 October 2006: President | signed a contract with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to ... |
Thomas Jefferson | In 1803, President | issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed | |
Zhou Enlai | ... olicy is reportedly based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence of | —non-interference in other states' affairs, non-aggression, peaceful coexi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Donald Tusk | ... of PO with 24%. In the presidential election in October the early favorite, | , leader of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS c ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... n actors whose films were allowed in the country during the dictatorship of | . In Hoxha's view, proletarian Norman's ultimately victorious struggles ag ... |
Abba Eban | ... otte's body was returned to Sweden, where the state funeral was attended by | on 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 ... |
Plutarch | The Greek biographer | (46 - 127 AD) says that "secret mysteries... of Mithras" were practiced by ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ng his opponent's term. Dole was defeated, as pundits had long expected, by | in the 1996 election. Clinton won in a 379-159 Electoral College landslide ... |
Stafford Cripps | ... the sub-continent, the British government sent a delegation to India under | , in what came to be known as the Cripps' Mission. The purpose of the miss ... |
Ron Paul | ... y combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and | strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which they v ... |
Lord Durham | ... neau in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led by William Lyon Mackenzie, | was appointed governor general of British North America and had the task o ... |
Kaganovich | ... ecution lists, fourth among the Soviet leadership after Molotov, Stalin and | |
Lord Minto | ... f the Malay language as well as his wit and ability, gained him favour with | , Governor-General of India, and he was sent to Malacca. Then, in 1811, af ... |
John T. Croxton | On March 30, 1865, Wilson detached Gen. | 's Brigade to destroy all Confederate property at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Aft ... |
Lenin's | ... support one another. Althusser elaborates on these concepts by reference to | analysis of the Russian Revolution of 1917 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Scalia enjoys a warm relationship with fellow Justice | , a liberal, with the two attending the opera together, and even appearing ... |
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 ... |
Robert Jenkins | ... n which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain | and told him to take it to his king, George II) broke out in 1739 between ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated by | on October 28, 1965. (The full text in English is available from the . |
Charles Evans Hughes | ... so creating the Independence Party. He was defeated for the governorship by | |
Bill Clinton | The incumbent, | , had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ... |
Sir Joseph Arnould | ... eginning. The case, commonly referred to as the Aga Khan Case, was heard by | . The hearing lasted several weeks, and included testimony from Hasan Ali ... |
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 ... |
Pirson, André-Eugène | ... Peeters directive - Pfaff Jean-Marie - Picard language - Picqué, Charles - | - Pittem - Poirot, Hercule - Polder Model - Political parties in Belgium - ... |
Edward Grey | ... Persia to German trade and technology. The ministers Alexander Izvolsky and | agreed to resolve their long-standing conflicts in Asia in order to make a ... |
William J. Brennan, Jr. | ... iews in order to attract five votes for a majority (unlike the late Justice | who would accept less than he wanted in order to gain a partial victory). ... |
DeWitt Clinton | ... c-Republican President James Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican, | , nephew of Madison's late Vice President. The Federalist opposition threw ... |
John Adams | ... rge Washington was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and | became the first vice-president |
Jim Jeffords | ... remaining from the previous year's campaign. Later, when Republican Senator | became an Independent, throwing control of the Senate to the Democrats, Mc ... |
Thomas Jefferson Rusk | ... ed by an act of the Texas legislature on April 11, 1846. It was named after | , signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. By 1850, Rusk reportedl ... |
Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Saturninus (or, less frequently, year 794 Ab urbe condita). The denomi ... |
Hyltén-Cavallius | The Swedish scholar | recorded in his ethnographic work Wärend och Wirdarne a belief of a female ... |
Shirley Temple | ... ot name the title or composer. In the 1938 film Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, | sings a version of the song with lyrics. Trumpeter Al Hirt's 1955 renditio ... |
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 ... |
Constantius II | About the same time, he wrote to Emperor | a remonstrance against the persecutions by which the Arians had sought to ... |
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | ... Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and | , Caesar's best friend, established the Second Triumvirate. Lepidus was fo ... |
John Jay | ... understood ownership of their farms. Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to | tha |
George M. Dallas | ... and Gastonia. The population was 3,402 at the 2000 census. It was named for | , Vice President of the United States of America under James K. Polk |
Pierre Van Cortlandt | ... ectady Mayor Wilhelm Beekman). Their daughter married New York Lt. Governor | . One of the Van Cortlandts' daughters married Albany Mayor Philip Schuyle ... |
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 ... |
Jack So | ... utive officer in July 2003 but remained as chairman and executive director. | , who left his chairman position at Hong Kong subway operator MTR Corporat ... |
Frank Hsieh | ... resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier Yu Shyi-kun resigned, and | assumed 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 |
Hiram Fong | ... of North Carolina along with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, | of Hawaii and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, all argued that although t ... |
Jan Długosz | Polish chronicler | mentions usage of poisonous gas by the Mongol army in 1241 in the Battle o ... |
Rick Perry | ... The Department of Commerce was one of three departments that Texas governor | advocated eliminating during his 2012 presidential campaign, along with th ... |
Dewdney | Lieutenant-Governor | had acquired land adjacent to the route of the future CPR line at Pile-of- ... |
Stalin-era | ... xist tradition—reflected a move away from the intellectual isolation of the | . Furthermore, his thought was symptomatic both of Marxism's growing acade ... |
Sidney Poitier | ... eson, was held at Carnegie Hall, as a benefit for the Paul Robeson Archive. | proclaimed, "When Paul Robeson died, it marked the passing of a magnificen ... |
Sir William Cecil | ... the north of Peterborough, near Stamford, was built and mostly designed by | , later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth ... |
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 ... |
Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff | The new commander of the Bavarian army, | fought Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance w ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... many's defeat in World War II in 1945, war-torn East Prussia was divided at | 's insistence between the Soviet Union (the Kaliningrad Oblast in the Russ ... |
Julius Caesar | ... me for the group was subsequently dropped. That island was first invaded by | in 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to ... |
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 ... |
Gnaeus Servilius Geminus | ... e new armies against Hannibal under the recently elected consuls of 217 BC, | and Gaius Flaminius. The latter had long distrusted his fellow senators an ... |
Shimon Peres | ... dish deputy prime minister, Israeli Foreign Minister and Labor Party member | issued a "condemnation of terror, thanks for the rescue of the Jews and re ... |
Arthur Griffith | ... n. He also joined the Celtic Literary Society through which he came to know | who was to remain a friend and influence throughout his life. Beginning in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Yorozu Oda | ... nzilotti of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, Ruy Barbosa of Brazil, | of Japan, Charles Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y S ... |
Gaius Maenius | ... ("custom of the fathers/ancestors") in ancient Rome. When Censor in 318 BC, | provided buildings in the Forum neighborhood with balconies, which were ca ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
George H. W. Bush | Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States | and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor ... |
Valentinian I | ... igh in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Summoned to appear before Emperor | at Milan and there maintain his charges, Hilary was mortified to hear the ... |
Plutarch | ... ces to the condition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, | and Galen . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred to in 1623 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... e White House since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President | |
Gaius Popillius Laenas | ... ude the war, he was informed that Roman commissioners, led by the Proconsul | , were near and requesting a meeting with the Seleucid king. Antiochus agr ... |
Ralph Bunche | ... t way," adding that "We hope this ceremony will help in healing the wound." | , Bernadotte's American deputy, succeeded him as U.N. mediator. Bunche was ... |
Edwin Meese | ... e a nominee to fill Rehnquist's seat as associate justice. Attorney General | , who advised Reagan on the choice, only seriously considered Bork and Sca ... |
Sarah T. Hughes | ... thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend | to a federal judgeship; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | In 1974 he became Prime Minister | 's consultant on combating terrorism. The following year he became the pri ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | The FBI, under written directive from Attorney General | , began telephone tapping King in the fall of 1963. Concerned that allegat ... |
Augustus | ... all days after the Ides, and had some odd effects. For example, the emperor | was born in 63 BC on the 23rd day of September. In the pre-Julian calendar ... |
Eleanor Roosevelt | ... . W. Bush and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady | , First Lady of New York Anna Morton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael ... |
Bobby Kennedy | ... on with the murders of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator | , and backed into the shadows, largely to make way for the feminist revolu ... |
William Rehnquist | ... of his intent to retire. Reagan first decided to nominate Associate Justice | to become Chief Justice. This choice meant that Reagan would also have to ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and | of South Carolina, all argued that although the present system had potenti ... |
Ruy Barbosa | ... ea of Spain, Dionisio Anzilotti of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, | of Brazil, Yorozu Oda of Japan, Charles Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sán ... |
Robert Mugabe | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
Xi Jinping | ... ealand's second-largest trading partner, behind Australia. On 17 June 2010, | , China's vice-president, travelled to , New Zealand for a three-day visit ... |
Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
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 by | to medical professionals on the matter of preservation of life |
A. David Mazzone | ... and Caroline. They became engaged in March 1992, and were married by Judge | on July 3, 1992, in a civil ceremony at Kennedy's home in McLean, Virginia ... |
William Longchamp | ... e reign of Richard the Lionheart (1189–1199). The castle was extended under | , Richard's Lord Chancellor and the man in charge of England while he was ... |
Charles Kennedy | ... reaten Labour - J. M. W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, in which a chirpy | as tug-boat towed a grotesque and dilapidated to be broken up |
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 state | and was later adopted by English speakers. It was used to refer to a succe ... |
Robert Bork | ... tration officials put Scalia on a short list with fellow D.C. Circuit Judge | , to be considered if a justice left the Court. In 1986, Chief Justice War ... |
Yuri Andropov | ... s because of Egypt and Syria," said Premier Alexei Kosygin, while KGB chief | added that "We shall not unleash the Third World War." The letter from the ... |
Zhou Enlai | On 6 April 1936, Zhang Xueliang met with | to plan the end of the Chinese Civil War. In the Xi'an incident (12 Decemb ... |
Sidney Poitier | ... ho's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, | and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. T ... |
Bill Clinton | ... y Show with Jon Stewart. Dole was, for a short time, a commentator opposite | on CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's Brooke Shields ... |
Marshal Brune | ... nder had to make peace with Napoleon at Tilsit (7 July 1807). By September, | completed the occupation of Swedish Pomerania, allowing the Swedish army, ... |
Haim Bar-Lev | ... yeret Kharuv, an anti-terror battalion, at the time when IDF Chief of Staff | had begun to focus IDF manpower and budget on armoured tank units, resulti ... |
Bill Clinton | ... mbitions left, Kennedy formed a good relationship with Democratic President | upon the latter taking office in 1993, despite his having initially backed ... |
Henry Salt | ... large sculptures to be acquired by the Museum. Thereafter, the UK appointed | as consul in Egypt who amassed a huge collection of antiquities. Most of t ... |
Yoda | ... t Stuart Freeborn in the creation and articulation of enigmatic Jedi Master | . Henson suggested to Star Wars creator George Lucas that he use Frank Oz ... |
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 ... |
Arthur Griffith | ... gures, of Michael Collins, Eamon DeValera, Charles Stewart Parnell and also | . This graveyard led to Glasnevin being known as "the dead centre of Dubli ... |
Sheila Dikshit | ... Lal Khurana came into power; however in 1998, Congress regained power under | , the incumbent Chief Minister. The Congress retained power in the Legisla ... |
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 ... |
Henry Morgenthau | ... Armenians by the Turks. Among them there are Armin T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, | , Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, Giacomo Gor ... |
Ezra Cornell | ... ed in a search to bring a university to the city, having failed to convince | and Andrew Dickson White to locate Cornell University there rather than in ... |
Madeleine Albright | ... residential appointees. However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State | |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ritish colonies in North America in 1765, where it was first grown for hay. | wrote a letter in 1770 mentioning sending soybeans home from England. Soyb ... |
William Cecil | ... Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland was Protector that his finance minister | took action on debasement to try to stop enclosure |
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 ... |
Commodus | ... ied in the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh. Accounts of the cruelty of the emperor | describes his amusing himself by enacting Mithriac initiation ordeals in h ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... ade. He disagreed strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by | and Shimon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourabl ... |
Bill Clinton | ... exports in at the same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both | and 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 ... |
Edward Hall Alderson | ... entary scrutiny of the original bill, especially under cross-examination by | . The Bill was rejected. A revised bill with a new alignment was submitted ... |
Sidney Poitier | ... young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( | ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii. The plot c ... |
Andrew Dickson White | ... bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell and | to 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 Governor | laid the cornerstone of the Nassau County Court House. A celebration was h ... |
Rick Perry | ... er by renaming the Texas CAP wing's TX-352 Squadron for him. Texas Governor | cited Kittinger's work, as did the Texas state senate with a special resol ... |
William of Rubruck | ... e had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as | , Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau. ... |
John Milton | Harris Fletcher (1892–1979), academic, author, and leading authority on | was born in Superior Townshi |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... the Madrid Conference of 1991, Ze'evi withdrew from the Likud government of | , remaining in the opposition for a decade. He disagreed strongly with the ... |
Augustus | ... description of the road system, after the death of Julius Caesar and during | tenure, is as follows |
John Bassett Moore | ... e Council and Assembly on the first ballot taken. The second ballot elected | of the United States, and the sixth Didrik Nyholm of Denmark and Max Huber ... |
Arthur Griffith | ... venue in the Northern Hemisphere with no retail outlets. It was named after | who was the founder and third leader of Sinn Féin and also served as Presi ... |
Stephen Breyer | ... , Kennedy's strong recommendation of his former Judiciary Committee staffer | played a role in Clinton appointing Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court |
Wouter Bos | Notable supporters of Feyenoord include Craig Bellamy, Gerard Cox, | , Jan Marijnissen, Robert Eenhoorn, Arjan Erkel, Dennis van der Geest, DJ ... |
Julius Caesar | ... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of | and during Augustus tenure, is as follows |
Joseph McCarthy | ... mmittee of the Senate of the United States. A young Senator from Wisconsin, | (who was Irish-American but, represented a heavily German-American ethnic ... |
Wojciech Jaruzelski | ... embly, with the support of a number of Solidarity deputies, elected General | to that office. However, two attempts by the communists to form government ... |
William Howard Taft | On June 22, 1919, former President | visited Paxton while on his way to Champaign. After disembarking from a lo ... |
Marcus Furius Camillus | ... d was added in the following century, possibly by the soldier and statesman | . A long held tradition of speaking from the elevated speakers' Rostra—ori ... |
Sydney Kentridge | ... igh Court of Justice found the Privy Council's decision to be unlawful. Sir | , QC described the treatment of the Chagossians as "outrageous, unlawful a ... |
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 ... |
Gaius Gracchus | ... he people in the Forum, an act symbolically repeated two centuries later by | |
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 ... |
William Hewer | ... lapham, living with his friend, protégé at the Admiralty and former servant | , until his death in 1703 |
Theodoric | Odoacer'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 ... |
James Bryce | ... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, | , Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ... |
John Milton | ... acted to the town by their friend Thomas Love Peacock who also lived there. | lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there and ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s In 2009, | stated that Streisand was one of several actresses (alongside Meryl Streep ... |
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | ... stian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, | , and Andrew of Longjumeau. Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Gio ... |
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 ... |
Master of the Rolls | ... Herbert Cozens-Hardy, the Liberal MP for North Norfolk who became both the | and on 1 July 1914 |
Godfrey Chidyausiku | ... he highest court of order and the final court of appeal. The Chief Justice, | , is the senior judge. Others who sit on the bench of the Supreme Court of ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... ventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by | ' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their inco ... |
James Byrnes | ... needed and who would produce it. Baruch's ideas were largely adopted, with | appointed to carry them out. During the war Baruch remained a trusted advi ... |
John Adams | ... ial sword. On this trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents | and Thomas Jefferson. He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce Ame ... |
Che Guevara | ... . Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa, written in 1968 as a requiem for | , is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but re ... |
Aurelian | ... enerable day of the sun, referencing the esoteric eastern sun-worship which | had helped introduce, and his coinage still carried the symbols of the sun ... |
George Marshall | ... uccession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and | . He first became executive officer to General Conner in the Panama Canal ... |
William Moultrie | ... he Cherokee War and remained loyal to the British Crown. Moultrie's brother | of whom Fort Moultrie in South Carolina is named was a general in the Cont ... |
Arthur Griffith | ... another commando. Meanwhile, back home Irish pro-Boer fever, whipped up by | and Maud Gonne in what was the most popular and most violent of the Europe ... |
Book of Judges | ... eing both the witness and recipient of the promise. For an example, see the | . Also, see the Bodhisattva vows |
Septimius Severus | ... s Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt), was made a colonia by | in 193, having been part of the territory of Berytus on the Phoenician coa ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | ... irca 1309–1367), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani (c. 1275–1348), and | (1313–1375), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of C ... |
Bill Dyke | ... ith authorities, particularly during the administration of Republican mayor | , a one-time personality on WISC-TV who was later to run for U.S. vice pre ... |
Ivo Opstelten | In 2008, the VVD chose a new party chairman, | , the outgoing mayor of Rotterdam. Mark Rutte announced at the celebration ... |
Shimon Peres | ... led in action and more were wounded. In July 1974, Israeli Defense Minister | informed the Knesset that high-ranking Soviet officers had been killed on ... |
Ottobuono | ... chets had to be sent for from London. Papal intervention through the legate | finally resulted in the compromise of the Dictum of Kenilworth, under whic ... |
Boethius | ... iis of Martianus Capella, although the term "quadrivium" was not used until | early in the sixth century. As Proclus wrote |
Thurgood Marshall | In 1967, Johnson nominated civil rights attorney | to be the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
Judge Dredd | ... ok over the title in 1991, again from 2000 AD, where he had been working on | . He proceeded to write the longest run for any writer on the title. His t ... |
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 ... |
Lovrenc Košir | In 1835 the Austro-Hungarian subject | , who was of Slovenian nationality, suggested the use of "artificially aff ... |
Septimius Severus | ... the writings of the ancients. The former is last mentioned in the reign of | (circa 200 AD) |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... . The Science Museum is next to Pisuerga river. The only surviving house of | is also located in Valladolid. Although unfinished, Cathedral of Valladoli ... |
Kennedy | By targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas the | administration realized that political favors could be bought. This is als ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... for Internal Affairs along with Vasili Averin. He was well known for aiding | in the Military Council (led by Leon Trotsky), having become closely assoc ... |
Harry Reid | ... e unless Stevens resigned first. Late on November 1, Senate Majority Leader | confirmed that he would schedule a vote on Stevens's expulsion, saying tha ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pêro da Covilhã | ... , it is likely that they received valuable information from a secret agent, | , who had been sent overland to India and returned with reports useful to ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... look into gold-backed currency. After the presidential election, Helms and | sponsored a Senate amendment to a Department of Justice appropriations bil ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... series postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service. Along with | he was one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusi ... |
Olympia Snowe | ... can senator is currently the independent governor of Rhode Island. Senators | and Susan Collins, both of Maine, and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts ... |
Garland T. Byrd | ... as born in Reynolds on July 29, 1890. Former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia | was also a Reynolds native and is interred there at Hillcrest Cemetery |
James Monroe | ... tter in this category in competition between multiple candidates (incumbent | was the only candidate in 1820 and thus took every vote). The Republicans ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope Gregory VII | ... region, and is generally regarded as the founder of the Kingdom of Hungary. | canonized Stephen I, together with his son, Saint Emeric of Hungary and Bi ... |
Robert Eden | ... its name from Lady Caroline Eden, wife of Maryland's last colonial governor | . At the time of its creation, seven commissioners were appointed: Charles ... |
Geert Wilders | ... would encompass the social-liberals Democrats 66, the Party for Freedom of | and Rita Verdonk's Proud of the Netherlands movement, although he found li ... |
Ian McKellen | ... tic Arts" presented by the US-based Shakespeare Guild. Past winners include | , Kenneth Branagh, Glen Joseph, Kevin Kline and Judi Denc |
Ruy Barbosa | ... t, along with three deputies, since Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, | and Chung-Hai Wang were unable to attend, the latter being at the Washingt ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | American President | offered to mediate, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his effort. Sergius ... |
Ronan Keating | ... The Dubliners, The Thrills, Horslips, Jedward, The Boomtown Rats, Boyzone, | , Thin Lizzy, Paddy Casey, Sinéad O'Connor, The Script and My Bloody Valen ... |
Rita Verdonk | ... he social-liberals Democrats 66, the Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders and | 's Proud of the Netherlands movement, although he found little resonance f ... |
Julius Caesar | In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of | and became part of the Roman Empire |
Hjalmar Schacht | ... de with these countries, which was negotiated by then Minister of Economics | , was based on the exchange of German manufactured produce directly for th ... |
Julius Caesar | Over time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and to | 's rearrangements before his assassination in 44 BC. That year two supreme ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... xteenth century sense, marrano was used by rival "Old Christians" to insult | , supposedly of Muslim or Jewish descent, to disparage him as a "New Chris ... |
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 ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... Albania, where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by | to be shown. Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clo ... |
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 ... |
Titus | ... ys suggested that he based his narrative of the destruction of Jerusalem by | on the account given by Tacitus in his Histories, a portion of which has b ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... television career that spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young | in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for ... |
Howard Baker | ... otégé soon dubbed "Helms on Wheels", winning the other North Carolina seat. | was set to become Majority Leader, but conservatives, angered by Baker's s ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... il 7 a national day of mourning for the civil rights leader. Vice-President | attended King's funeral on behalf of the President, as there were fears th ... |
Yuri Averbakh | ... the Interzonal, and a draw would have ensured a share of fourth place with | , with qualification possible via a playoff |
Scott Brown | ... sland. Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine, and Senator | of Massachusetts are notable moderate Republicans from New England. From 1 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Madeira 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 ... |
Claude Cheysson | ... on building. Delors was chosen following a Franco-British disagreement over | , Santer was a compromise after Britain vetoes Jean-Luc Dehaene and Prodi ... |
John Milton | ... avelli in turn influenced Francis Bacon , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , | , David Hume , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
Sarah Palin | ... with the people" and needed to step down—a call echoed by his running mate, | , governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... gate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, | , the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President Gerald Ford, th ... |
John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. | ... . Harding in 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, | , a Vermont notary public. However, as there was some controversy as to wh ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... il the later inclusions of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, | , and William J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a l ... |
Rick Perry | ... slature. Williamson's old friend and former legislative colleague, Governor | , appointed him to the Texas Transportation Commission, of which he became ... |
Noël Brûlart de Sillery | ... e country. She mainly relied on Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy, | , and Pierre Jeannin. Marie pursued a moderate policy, confirming the Edic ... |
Diana Prince | ... either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glasses as | |
Diocletian | In 297, as Emperor | reformed the administrative structures of the Roman Empire, Aquitania was ... |
Gerald Ford | ... gia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President | , the Republican candidate. Ford was saddled with a slow economy and paid ... |
James Baker | ... m public remarks by President George H. W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State | that 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, Emperor | likewise professed the Nicene creed; but there were many adherents of Aria ... |
R. Eugene Pincham | ... a second term, his first full, four-year term, with 70.7% of the vote over | |
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 |
Bob Dole | ... s a potential presidential candidate for the Republican party in 2008, like | , a previous holder of the Senate Majority Leader position. On November 28 ... |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... ation of the sport of baseball led the team owners to appoint Federal judge | to be the first Commissioner of Baseball. His first act as commissioner wa ... |
José Ángel Gutiérrez | ... movement known as La Raza Unida Party founded by three Chicanos, including | over a conflict about the ethnicity of cheerleaders at Crystal City High S ... |
Warren G. Harding | Upon the death of President | in 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, John Cal ... |
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 ... |
Mitch McConnell | ... mate, Sarah Palin, governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader | , as well as fellow Republican Senators Norm Coleman, John Sununu and Gord ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... e are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life. Some, such as | , believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as Thomas Paine w ... |
vice-consulate | ... the Scalabrini Fathers order. From 1954 to 2008 Bedford had its own Italian | |
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 ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Upon the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923, | was sworn in as President by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., a Verm ... |
Wonder Woman | ... well known for wearing 1950s style horn-rimmed glasses as Clark Kent, while | wears either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glas ... |
Gouverneur Morris | ... each state "in such manner as its Legislature may direct." Committee member | explained the reasons for the change; among others, there were fears of "i ... |
Maxentius | In 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 ... |
Wangari Maathai | ... ding the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmentalist | |
Trajan | ... when the sanctuary of the Heliopolitan Jupiter-Baal was a pilgrimage site. | 's biographer records that the emperor consulted the oracle there. Trajan ... |
state Attorney General | ... ced a Democratic Party primary challenge from Edward J. McCormack, Jr., the | . Kennedy's slogan was "He can do more for Massachusetts", the same one Jo ... |
Thurgood Marshall | ... s one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusions of | , Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and William J. Brennan, ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... dmirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy and | in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political science at the School of ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, | and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. ... |
Larry Seidlin | ... the most important person in Anna’s life," Stern told Florida Circuit Judge | during his testimony in the legal battle after the model’s death. "At Dani ... |
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 ... |
Bobby Rush | ... , 1999, Daley garnered 68.9 percent of the vote, defeating U.S. Congressman | to win a fourth term |
Joseph Story | ... ssociate Justices to do so until the later inclusions of Thurgood Marshall, | , Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and William J. Brennan, Jr. See, and ... |
John Adams | ... Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and | are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. On one occasio ... |
Joseph E. Brown | R&B group Audio lives in Canton. Canton was the hometown of | . In 1844, Brown served as headmaster at the academy in Canton, which bega ... |
Washington Irving | Tarrytown was described in 1820 by the writer | in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Irving began his story, "In the bosom of ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... , Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, | , Kimi Räikkönen, Felipe Massa, and Fernando Alonso |
Benjamin Franklin | In American history important spokesmen included | , Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and John ... |
Mark Thompson | ... amme in December 2009, James conducted an interview of BBC Director-General | , in which she seemed critical of some of his decisions. Regular Today pre ... |
John Marshall | ... d while a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress. Chief Justice | was also known to appreciate Madeira, as well as his cohorts on the U.S. S ... |
Cato the Elder | ... have ridiculed his fondness for old words and phrases (in which he imitated | ) as an affectation, but this very affectation and his rhetorical exaggera ... |
Pierre Jeannin | ... on Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy, Noël Brûlart de Sillery, and | . Marie pursued a moderate policy, confirming the Edict of Nantes. She was ... |
Chester Crocker | ... active defense of human rights. These nominations included Alexander Haig, | , John Louis, and Lawrence Eagleburger, all of whom were confirmed regardl ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... , Kentucky, Kansas City, and dozens of other cities. Presidential candidate | was on his way to Indianapolis for a campaign rally when he was informed o ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... at the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started with President | in August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by President George H ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | An admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for | and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political scie ... |
Warren G. Harding | Andrew Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by new President | in 1921. He served for ten years and eleven months; the third-longest tenu ... |
Yuri Averbakh | ... Leningrad, Spassky shared 1st–3rd places on 11½/19, with Mark Taimanov and | , but Taimanov won the subsequent playoff to become champion. Spassky then ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... e, but colonial officials opposed the program anyway. The next year Senator | helped fund the program, which trained some 70% of the top leaders of the ... |
Hans Wiegel | ... ction polls showed losses for the VVD; the former VVD deputy Prime Minister | blamed a poor VVD campaign for this, caused by the heavily contested VVD l ... |
Julius Caesar | ... , and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like | , Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the repub ... |
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 ... |
Aaron Burr | ... epublican Party again nominated Jefferson for President, and also nominated | for Vice President. After the election, Jefferson and Burr both obtained a ... |
Bob Dole | ... list of possible vice-presidential picks, this time for Republican nominee | . The following year, Time magazine named McCain as one of the "25 Most In ... |
Joseph McCarthy | On the domestic front, he covertly opposed | but contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking the modern ex ... |
Julius Meier | ... seph in the 1930 Oregon Republican Party primary, and later his law partner | , were understood to demonstrate strong public support for public ownershi ... |
Cardinal Wolsey | ... mple of this was found in Henry VIII's England where his chief minister was | . An even more prominent example is that of Cardinal Richelieu, whose powe ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... census. The city is the county seat of Heard County. The town is named for | |
Thomas Bodley | ... on). It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when | (a former fellow of Merton College) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the Un ... |
Talleyrand | ... onfident of his victory. In a letter written to Minister of Foreign Affairs | , Napoleon requested Talleyrand not tell anyone about the upcoming battle ... |
Pope Clement X | ... hat he regarded as an act of desecration. The ensuing controversy persuaded | to close the Colosseum's external arcades and declare it a sanctuary, thou ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
Stalin | ... r Pitkin" after the character from his films. In 1995, he visited the post- | ist country where, to his surprise, he was greeted by many appreciative fa ... |
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 ... |
Potter Stewart | ... ew Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, Thurgood Marshall, | , William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice William Ho ... |
Anthony Eden | ... our). It had previously been a Conservative safe seat, including as its MP, | a former British prime minister. At the 2005 general election, James Plask ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... of Americans. Johnson gave the first two Medicare cards to former President | and his wife Bess after signing the medicare bill at the |
George Voinovich | ... es the second time and even losing the support of one moderate Republican ( | of Ohio). On June 21, 2005, Frist said the situation had been "exhausted" ... |
Carter administration | ... es had long been opposed to the socialist FSLN and after the revolution the | moved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. W ... |
William Shee | Sir | , the first Roman Catholic judge to sit in England and Wales since the Ref ... |
George H.W. Bush | ... modest lifestyle, Dennis Ross, former Middle East negotiator for Presidents | and Bill Clinton, stated that Arafat's "walking-around money" financed a v ... |
Fawn Hall | ... chard Nixon confidant Robert Abplanalp was a notary for many years, as were | , teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe, and former major league basebal ... |
William O. Douglas | ... liam J. Brennan, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, | , Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Jus ... |
Cassiodorus | ... , one of the Livia gens. The praenomen Lucius is given by Aulus Gellius and | |
Calvin Coolidge | ... United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President | , the Republican candidate |
Wouter Bos | ... etween current Christian-Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and | of the Labour Party. However, the VVD's campaign started relatively late. ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... in France than at home, but the romantic American novel developed fully in | 's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry ... |
Pope Gregory VII | In consequence of his support of | in his quarrel with Henry, Welf lost but subsequently regained Bavaria; tw ... |
Gratian | ... atiaria and Secundianus of Singidunum, confident of numbers, prevailed upon | to call a general council from all parts of the empire. This request appea ... |
John Gomery | ... ury and into the 21st, analysts such as Jeffrey Simpson, Donald Savoie, and | argued that both parliament and the Cabinet had become eclipsed by prime m ... |
Titus | ... tely fell to the sustained might of Rome. Roman legions under Vespasian and | besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and burned Herod's Temple (in the ... |
Thomas Berger | ... uring this time, Robert Strachan and, in the 1969 general election, against | |
John B. Anderson | ... d losing moderates' votes, particularly due to the independent candidacy of | , and the Reagan camp was split: eventually designating George H. W. Bush ... |
Vespasian | ... ut they ultimately fell to the sustained might of Rome. Roman legions under | and Titus besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and burned Herod's Temp ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
Pompey | ... Lucullus against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of | in the East (66-62 BC) |
Washington Irving | ... loration believed that Earth was flat entered the popular imagination after | 's publication of A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbu ... |
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 ... |
Fritz Grobba | ... the Kingdom of Iraq was found to be connected to the German Ambassador, Dr. | , Ibn Saud provided Grobba with refuge. It was reported that he had been " ... |
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 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve was established by | in a presidential proclamation of 20 August 1902. Another presidential pro ... |
Diocletian | ... areer have been filtered through the propaganda of his successful opponent, | |
George H. W. Bush | ... of John B. Anderson, and the Reagan camp was split: eventually designating | as his preferred candidate. At the convention, Helms toyed with the idea o ... |
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 ... |
Vincent Massey | ... d military affairs in the 1920s. Its first ambassador to the United States, | , was named in 1927. Canada became an active member of the British Commonw ... |
Gaius Caesar | The heir of Augustus, | , was killed there in 4 AD |
Vladimir Lenin | ... d in 1924, as a member of a naval unit, he attended the funeral ceremony of | . That same year he joined the Bolshevik Party |
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 ... |
DeWitt Clinton | ... s of dissident Democratic-Republicans in the New York legislature nominated | , the nephew of the late Vice President, who had served as Senator and now ... |
John Adams | ... ters in the elections of 1796 and 1800. In 1796, Federalist Party candidate | won the presidential election; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Re ... |
Augustus | The heir of | , Gaius Caesar, was killed there in 4 AD |
Michael Bloomberg | ... alition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York City Mayor | |
Wong Yan Lung | The current Secretary for Justice is the Honourable | SC |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... roductions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and | 's 1986 musical |
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 ... |
Thurgood Marshall | ... hers are Harry Andrew Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, | , Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Ju ... |
Lucullus | ... period, embracing the war against Sertorius (died 72 BC), the campaigns of | against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of Pompey i ... |
John Kerry | ... , with 59.22% of the 1920 vote. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat | received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republican George W. Bush rece ... |
John Paul Stevens | Scalia (joined by Justice | ) also dissented in the 2004 case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, involving Yaser Ha ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... American War. The most prominent of the returning quarantined soldiers were | and his Rough Riders. Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompti ... |
Septimius Severus | ... It was dedicated in 203 AD to commemorate the Parthian victories of Emperor | and 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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ctober 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President | signed the Department of Energy Organization Act. Originally the post focu ... |
Jan Peter Balkenende | ... tion away from the duel between current Christian-Democratic Prime Minister | and Wouter Bos of the Labour Party. However, the VVD's campaign started re ... |
John Kerry | ... idential election, George W. Bush carried the county by a 15.8% margin over | , with Kerry carrying the state by 6.7% over Bush. In the 2008 U.S. Presid ... |
Clarence Thomas | ... of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, including Robert Bork and | |
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 ... |
George Wallace | ... opular votes than Humphrey, equating to less than 1% of the national total. | received the remaining 46 electoral votes with only 13.5% of the popular v ... |
William Rehnquist | ... t, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice | . Justice Black is buried to the right of the main cemetery entrance, and ... |
General Charles Cornwallis | ... the American Revolution. Hillsborough served as a military base for British | in late February 1781. The United States Constitution drafted in 1787 was ... |
Burr Caswell | In 1845, | moved to the area near the mouth of the Pere Marquette River as a location ... |
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 ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured as a character in | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With the popularity of the book, the ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Anthony Eden | ... torcycle, a fact celebrated at the 1953 motorcycle show with a visit by Sir | to the BSA stand. In 1953 the BSA Professional Cycling Team was managed by ... |
Fred Harris | Image:FredRoyHarris.jpg|Former Senator | of Oklahom |
John W. Davis | ... y a split within the Democratic Party. The regular Democratic candidate was | , a little-known former congressman and diplomat from West Virginia. Since ... |
Chief Justice of New Zealand | The | (the head of the New Zealand Judiciary) presides over the Supreme Court, a ... |
Emmet G. Sullivan | ... e" in connection with case No. 08-231 early on April 1, 2009. Federal judge | soon signed the order, and since it occurred prior to sentencing it had th ... |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... of England and France", participating judges were Justices Samuel Alito and | . The outcome was originally to be determined by an audience vote, however ... |
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 ... |
Eleanor Roosevelt | ... ths later, NBC canceled Robeson's scheduled appearance on former First Lady | 's television program. A spokesman for NBC declared that, depending on sou ... |
Plutarch | ... ociety, 1947.*Parke, Herbert William, History of the Delphic Oracle, 1939.* | "Lives"*Rohde, Erwin, Psyche, 1925.* Seyffert, Oskar, , London: W. Glaishe ... |
Jim Jeffords | ... re always represented in the cabinets of Republican presidents. In Vermont, | , a Republican Senator became an independent in 2001 due to growing disagr ... |
Samuel Alito | ... lgamated Kingdom of England and France", participating judges were Justices | and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The outcome was originally to be determined by an ... |
Robert Burns | ... Wheel, Cyndi Lauper, Carl Perkins, Yoko Ono, Blues Traveler, Cher, Chicago, | , George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Nina Hagen, Robert Plant, Peter Criss, S ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ed by a vote of 2,137 to 11 of the bishops assembled and was promulgated by | on November 21, 1964. The title in Latin means "Restoration of Unity" and ... |
John W. Davis | ... n Calvin Coolidge won a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat | , 41.20%–39.55%. Warren G. Harding was the most recent Republican presiden ... |
Jared Ingersoll | ... the election of 1800. The caucus then picked former United States Attorney | of Pennsylvania as his running mate |
Wolfgang Kapp | ... ace on 13 March 1920: 5000 Freikorps soldiers occupied Berlin and installed | (a right-wing journalist) as chancellor. The national government fled to S ... |
Warren G. Harding | Coolidge was vice-president under | and became president in 1923 when Harding died in office. Coolidge was giv ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Wolfgang Petritsch | ... nd as a result had constitutional amendments imposed by High Representative | . However, the constitution of Republika Srpska refers to it as the "Langu ... |
Richard Paez | ... on, bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination of | to the 9th Federal Court of Appeals, a four-year filibuster that was defea ... |
Cherie Blair | ... appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, taking over from | , and installed in 2008 |
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 ... |
David Bernard Gaiman | His father, | , worked in the same chain of stores; his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldm ... |
Rita Verdonk | ... uent party leadership run-off Mark Rutte was elected as the leader, beating | and Jelleke Veenendaal |
Samuel Alito | ... ner v. United States, Scalia joined the majority opinion written by Justice | —all except one paragraph of the opinion, in which Justice Alito cited leg ... |
Pim Fortuyn | ... o because the final was held several days, after Rotterdam's political hero | was murdered. Lots of fans were still full of emotion, before and after th ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... ates. The Faith Fourth achieved national visibility in 1992, when President | not only made a speech praising small town virtues, but also participated ... |
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 ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... Republican has won the presidential election in Manhattan since 1924, when | won a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 4 ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... hur Joseph Goldberg, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, | , Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justi ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king | , was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ... |
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 ... |
Boethius | ... re four roads meet"), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to | or Cassiodorus in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadriviu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... election of 1968 ended with Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes to | 's 191. Yet, Nixon had only received 511,944 more popular votes than Humph ... |
Mark Rutte | ... parliamentary leader ad interim. In the subsequent party leadership run-off | was elected as the leader, beating Rita Verdonk and Jelleke Veenendaal |
Thomas E. Dewey | ... epresented in all states. From the 1940s to the 1970s under such leaders as | , Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon, they usuall ... |
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 ... |
James A. McClure | ... churches, and its counterpart was defeated in the House. Senators Helms and | blocked Ted Kennedy's comprehensive criminal code that did not relax feder ... |
Cassiodorus | ... s meet"), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to Boethius or | in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the ... |
Earl Warren | ... liver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice | ,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Justice ... |
Bill Clinton | ... Luxembourg; Hormel eventually received a recess appointment from President | , bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination of ... |
Franklin K. Lane | ... government to improve the situation. In response, Secretary of the Interior | challenged him to lobby for creating a new agency, the National Park Servi ... |
Joseph Stalin's | ... Michael Schwerner in the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi. He starred as | projectionist in Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's 1991 film The Inne ... |
Pope John XXIII | In 1960, | commented that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, ... |
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 ... |
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 |
George Sharswood | ... Delaware Supreme Court), Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Jr., Horace Stern and | (Chief Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court), and Deborah Tobias Por ... |
Vinicius de Moraes | ... and Garoto, this sub-genre was inaugurated by João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, and | . It then had a generation of disciples and followers including Carlos Lyr ... |
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 ... |
John Bassett Moore | ... rles Andre Weiss elected Vice-President. Weiss died the following year, and | resigned; Max Huber was elected Vice-President on 12 September 1928 to suc ... |
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 ... |
Graham Dorey | ... he Guernsey Flag Investigation Committee chaired by the then Deputy Bailiff | and first flew in the island on 15 February 1985. The gold cross represent ... |
Stephen Breyer | In 1993 and 1994, McCain voted to confirm President Clinton's nominees | and Ruth Bader Ginsburg whom he considered to be qualified for the U.S. Su ... |
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 ... |
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus | ... nvasion force was underway to northern Iberia. Its commanders, the brothers | and Publius Cornelius Scipio, knew that Hannibal had crossed the Ebro, but ... |
John Profumo | ... hree Privy Counsellors to resign in the twentieth century (the others being | , who resigned on 26 June 1963, and John Stonehouse, who resigned on 17 Au ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | | attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia and was greatly impressed with ... |
Jesse Jackson | When King and his allies returned to the south, they left | , a seminary student who had previously joined the movement in the South, ... |
Valentinian II | In 385 Ambrose, backed by Milan's populace, refused | 's imperial request to hand over the Portian basilica for the use of Arian ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... ovember 25 of that year that the last Polish king and Lithuanian grand duke | abdicated. In the Russian Empire, the city continued to serve its role as ... |
Carinus | ... that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against | (r. 283–285) but there is no direct evidence for this |
Harry S. Truman | Unpopular incumbent President | decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adl ... |
Julius Caesar | ... prolifically on military campaigning. Among the best-known Roman works are | 's commentaries on the Gallic Wars and the Roman Civil war - written about ... |
William Tryon | ... s for their own gain and sometimes charged twice for the same tax. Governor | 's conspicuous consumption in the construction of a new governor's mansion ... |
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 ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... on to assassinate him had been taken by Natan Yellin-Mor, Yisrael Eldad and | , who was later to become Prime Minister of Israel |
Jan Peter Balkenende | ... here were a number of parliamentary debates on the issue and Prime Minister | was called to answer questions. He explained that the project was a privat ... |
Walter Cunliffe | ... n in a letter on display in the Bank museum, is that he had quarrelled with | , one of the bank's directors, who would later become Governor of the Bank ... |
Abe Fortas | ... 8 minority Republican filibuster of Lyndon Johnson's chief justice nominee, | . Also, in 1998 Frist participated in the Republican filibuster to stall t ... |
Nancy Pelosi | ... e reform legislation. But Democrats rallied and passed the measure; Speaker | , who was instrumental in doing so, credited Kennedy's life work in her fi ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ons, Gwenwynwyn and Gwanar, who both accompany Caswallawn in his pursuit of | , who has been chased from Britain. This triad is the only source connecti ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ican government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), | postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) ... |
Scott Brown | ... ndidate in the special election. In that election, Republican State Senator | won the seat in a stunning upset, ending Democratic control of it going ba ... |
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin | ... Charles Towneley collection, much of it Roman Sculpture, in 1805. In 1806, | , ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803 removed the large col ... |
Nikolai Krogius | ... of Korchnoi and Borislav Ivkov. He was fourth at Sochi 1964 with 9.5/15, as | won |
James Buchanan | ... truction of federal officials in Utah (most notably judges), U.S. President | decided to install a non-Mormon governor. Buchanan accepted the reports of ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... the author himself. Subsequently, French General (later, French President) | , whom Saint-Exupéry and others held in low regard, publicly implied that ... |
Robert Bork | ... onfirm nominees of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, including | and Clarence Thomas |
Strom Thurmond | ... irginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behind Byrd and | of South Carolina (he was passed later in 2009 by Daniel Inouye) |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... iszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, | , George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known v ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... s The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and | ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other ... |
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: ... |
Carus | ... obus (r. 276–282). He probably participated in the Mesopotamian campaign of | in 283 and attended Diocletian's election as emperor on November 20, 284 a ... |
Robert Byrd | ... as the second most senior member of the Senate, after President pro tempore | of West Virginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behin ... |
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. When | usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy ... |
Baldassare Castiglione | ... rary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, | 's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well ... |
Julian Niemczyk | ... ocratic State Senator Randy Bass and former US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia | |
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 ... |
Fernão Pires de Andrade | ... oasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the | and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders ... |
Maxentius | ... Augusti to the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. Presumably Maximian's son | and Constantius' son Constantine – children raised in Nicomedia together – ... |
Jeffrey Sachs | | demanded that the entire African debt (approximately $200 billion) be forg ... |
Marcus Licinius Crassus | ... mpany. San Simeon was also used in the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of | (played by Laurence Olivier). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, Jack and ... |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner | ... many which would eventually occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led by | and Arthur Seyss-Inquart and was technically under the command of the SS i ... |
John Milton | ... ey's (or Rogers') edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, | , and John Bunyan, but no records, citations, borrowed lines, or clear all ... |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... 94, McCain voted to confirm President Clinton's nominees Stephen Breyer and | whom he considered to be qualified for the U.S. Supreme Court. He would la ... |
Tomé Pires | ... Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and | diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of ... |
President Clinton | ... Employment, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from then | for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide. In April 2002, K ... |
Lucius Verginius Rufus | ... dex was defeated and killed by the commander of the Germania Superior army, | , in a battle near Vesontio (modern Besançon) |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
Pietro Loredan | ... i comun— before he was elected in 1423, thus defeating the other candidate, | . His task as doge was to lead Venice in a long and protracted series of w ... |
Julius Caesar | ... e beginning of his public career, Sallust operated as a decided partisan of | , to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the ... |
Jesse Helms | ... amous racially motivated "Hands" negative ad used in North Carolina Senator | 's 1990 re-election campaign against Harvey Gantt accused Gantt of support ... |
Jimmy Carter | The surprise winner of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination was | , a former state senator and governor of Georgia. When the primaries began ... |
Thomas Mellon | ... llon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on March 24, 1855. His father was | , a banker and judge who was a Scots-Irish immigrant from County Tyrone, N ... |
Bill Clinton | One of former President | 's great-grandfathers is buried here |
Scipio Africanus | ... ed action to thought. The panegyrist of 289, after comparing his actions to | ' victories over Hannibal during the Second Punic War, suggested that Maxi ... |
Bill Clinton | ... million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President | ’s climate change initiative |
Norodom Sihanouk | ... e returned to the WPK's liberated areas. Despite friendly relations between | and the Chinese, the latter kept Pol Pot's visit a secret from Sihanouk. I ... |
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 ... |
Valentinian II | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, | and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p. ... |
James Harry Covington | ... vernment and media. Among them are Owen Roberts (US Supreme Court Justice), | (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia), Daniel J ... |
Howard Baker | In 2007, Dole joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders | , Tom Daschle, and George Mitchell to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, ... |
Julius Caesar | ... of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of | . Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to hi ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... tigate mesmerism; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by | , included Bailly and Lavoisier. The commissioners learned about Mesmeric ... |
Marcus Livius Salinator | ... ated long ago. Livius Salinator might be Gaius Livius Salinator, his father | , or his grandfather Marcus. If Jerome means that the liberation took plac ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... o convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President | without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The main point of the proposal was ... |
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 succeed | as President of the World Bank Group. The Executive Directors unanimously ... |
Constantine P. Cavafy | ... lamas, Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian | and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis are among the most ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and | |
Kevin Rudd | ... inally ill children helped by that organisation. Prime Minister of the time | stated that The Chaser team "should hang their heads in shame". He went on ... |
Paul Verlaine | ... so illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (1937) and Chansons pour elle by | (1939) |
James Buchanan | Eisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to become President since | in 1856. Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the de ... |
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus | ... ia to a pitched battle, so it continued on its way to northern Iberia under | , a move which proved decisive for the outcome of the war. Their other com ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... closing credits for the special were airing, word came in that U.S. Senator | of New York had just been shot. ABC simply showed a wide shot of the chaot ... |
Eugenius | In 392, after the death of Valentinian II and the acclamation of | , Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the pardon of those who had supporte ... |
Piers Morgan | ... later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Michael, | , Kate Moss, Chris Moyles, Paul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, C ... |
George Wallace | ... -known candidates, such as Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington, Governor | of Alabama, and California Governor Jerry Brown, as the favorites for the ... |
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 ... |
Stalin's | ... strialization regimes include the Dirigisme of France in the De Gaulle era, | advocacy of Socialism In One Country and the economic policies of Taiwan a ... |
Gratian | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors | , Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. Ma ... |
Gaius Livius Salinator | ... en being honored, having been liberated long ago. Livius Salinator might be | , his father Marcus Livius Salinator, or his grandfather Marcus. If Jerome ... |
Annie Lennox | ... n Ross. Before his death, Brown was scheduled to perform a duet with singer | on the song "Vengeance" for her new album Venus, scheduled for release in ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... nces abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include | 's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, a ... |
Publius Cornelius Scipio | ... ve which proved decisive for the outcome of the war. Their other commander, | , returned to Rome, realizing the danger of an invasion of Italy where the ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ant figures in American politics who participated in the Enlightenment were | and Thomas Jefferson |
John Kerry | ... ttee on POW/MIA Affairs, chaired by Democrat and fellow Vietnam War veteran | , McCain investigated the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, to determine the fate ... |
Ronald Lauder | ... rtrait, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, was purchased for the Neue Galerie New York by | for a reported US $135 million, surpassing Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe ... |
Gouverneur Morris | ... philosophy include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, | , and Hugh Williamson. Their political speeches show distinct deistic infl ... |
Cassius Dio | ... lled against the tax policy of the Emperor Nero. According to the historian | , Vindex "was powerful in body and of shrewd intelligence, was skilled in ... |
Theodosius I | ... nius, and specifically a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors | and Justinian I) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came unde ... |
Phocas | ... Rostra and dedicated or rededicated in honour of the Eastern Roman Emperor | . This proved to be the last monumental addition made to the Forum. By the ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of | (the 26th US President) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from ... |
John Milton | In Book IX of | 's Paradise Lost, Satan is compared to a "will-o-the-wisp" in tempting of ... |
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 ... |
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus | ... ral legions were dispatched to North Africa under the command of the Consul | . The war dragged out into a long and seemingly endless campaign as the Ro ... |
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 ... |
John Diefenbaker | ... ing re-appointed as premier (Mackenzie King twice); Alexander Mackenzie and | , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their death ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... population of about 50,000. In 1958, The Diocese of Acapulco was created by | . It would become an archdiocese in 1983 |
Innocent XIII | ... Alberoni boldly appeared at the conclave, and took part in the election of | , after which he was for a short time imprisoned by the new pontiff on the ... |
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 ... |
Publius Cornelius Scipio | ... ern Iberia. Its commanders, the brothers Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and | , knew that Hannibal had crossed the Ebro, but were surprised by the Carth ... |
Andrew Lloyd-Webber | ... h middle classes. The only failure during this period was 1975 musical with | , Jeeves, and even this did little to dent Ayckbourn's popularity. Althoug ... |
Esther Hobart Morris | ... ramie, in 1870); and the first female justice of the peace in the country ( | , South Pass City, in 1870). Also, in 1924, Wyoming became the first state ... |
Gaius Marius | ... decisively. Frustrated at the apparent lack of action, Metellus' lieutenant | returned to Rome to seek election as Consul. Marius was elected, and then ... |
Tapping Reeve | ... uring 1821–1823 at Litchfield Law School (the law school conducted by Judge | in Litchfield, Connecticut), and in 1823, was admitted to the bar in Norfo ... |
Valentinian II | In 392, after the death of | and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the p ... |
Clarence Thomas | ... se of Dickerson v. United States, but was in a minority of two with Justice | . Calling the Miranda decision a "milestone of judicial overreaching", Sca ... |
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 ... |
Horace Stern | ... f Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court), Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Jr., | and George Sharswood (Chief Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court), a ... |
Eleanor Roosevelt | ... the mother of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th US President) and grandmother of | , hailed from Roswell and Bulloch Hall was her home. Emily Dolvin, the aun ... |
Arlen Specter | ... late. After the 2004 elections, Frist played a role in the controversy over | 's post-election remarks. Frist demanded a public statement from Specter i ... |
Mineichirō Adachi | ... elections in September 1930, the Court was reorganised. On 16 January 1931 | was appointed President, and Gustavo Guerro Vice-President. The United Sta ... |
James Iredell | ... hey were persuaded to change their minds partly by the strenuous efforts of | and William Richardson Davie and partly by the prospect of a Bill of Right ... |
Giorgos Seferis | ... os and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates | and Odysseas Elytis are among the most important poets of the 20th century ... |
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 |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... d then returned to Numidia to take control of the war. He sent his Quaestor | to neighbouring Mauretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurth ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... years. His colleague Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The | of the Arctic Circle. |
John Milton | ... thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly | , and John Dryden.) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... ration and the National Film and Television Training School. Prime Minister | continued to support Australian film. The South Australian Film Corporatio ... |
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 ... |
Chief Justice | ... rk, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives Margaret Wilson and | Dame Sian Elias |
William H. Seward | ... ing of all of Canada to the United States. When American Secretary of State | negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867, he intended it as the first step i ... |
James Hunter III | ... raduated from Penn Law, e.g., Arlin Adams, Max Rosenn, Dolores Sloviter and | (judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Phyllis Kravit ... |
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 ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... press as a short list vice-presidential running mate for Republican nominee | , and was named chairman of Veterans for Bush |
Leonard Woolf | Virginia Woolf's husband | said that in her experimental novel, The Waves, "there is something of Lyt ... |
Keo Meas | ... d Tou Samouth as the party's general secretary. Tou's allies, Nuon Chea and | , were removed from the Central Committee and replaced by Son Sen and Vorn ... |
John C. Calhoun | Calhoun County was established on October 19, 1829 and named after | , who was at the time Vice President under Andrew Jackson, making it one o ... |
Jimmy Carter | Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governor | of Georgi |
Julius Caesar | | initially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ... |
Frederick Douglass | ... or women. The suffrage movement was supported by William Lloyd Garrison and | |
Van der Rest, Leon | ... amme, Jean Claude - Van den Bergh, Frans - Vandenbroucke, Frank (cyclist) - | - van Rysselberghe, Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - Van H ... |
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 ... |
Paul Laxalt | ... litically easier for Carter, causing them to be replaced by the soft-spoken | |
Dan Quayle | ... s chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory board chair | , himself the former vice president of the United States. Cerberus was rej ... |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ed the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senator | of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon |
Richard W. Thompson | ... on-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy named in honor of Secretary of the Navy | (1809–1900), never saw action against an enemy. She was the first Navy shi ... |
Rod Blagojevich | Daley and Illinois Governor | held a joint press conference on January 17, 2006 calling for a state-wide ... |
John Kerry | ... Election, Jackson County voted for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat | . It was the first time Jackson County voters chose a Republican president ... |
Benjamin Franklin | The colonies were independent of each other before 1774 as efforts led by | to form a colonial union through the Albany Congress of 1765 had not made ... |
Mark Antony | ... e so manifest that, when he defended Herod against the Sanhedrin and before | , the latter stripped Hyrcanus of his nominal political authority and his ... |
Niels Christian Ditleff | Upon the initiative of the Norwegian diplomat | in the final months of the war, Bernadotte acted as the negotiator for a r ... |
Van Hoegaerden, Victor | ... , Leon - van Rysselberghe, Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - | - Van Rompuy, Herman - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdi ... |
Wangari Maathai | ... has been awarded to a diverse group of people and organisations, including | , Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, Petra Kelly and Memori ... |
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 ... |
Noël Brûlart de Sillery | Louis ultimately dismissed | and Pierre Brulart, vicomte de Puisieux in 1624 because of his displeasure ... |
James Harry Covington | The School has also produced law firm founders, including | (co-founder of Covington & Burling), George Wharton Pepper (Senator from P ... |
Pompey | ... ued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and | . After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide (46 ... |
Daniel Moynihan | ... that year, Kennedy created the Friends of Ireland organization with Senator | and House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconci ... |
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 ... |
George Wallace | Image:George C Wallace (Alaba Governor).png|Governor | of Alabam |
John Cornyn | At the Federal level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans | and Kay Bailey Hutchison; Waxahachie is part of Texas' US Congressional 6t ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... hed patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as | ) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House |
Ian McKellen | ... ly, Goldfinger was adapted for BBC Radio with Toby Stephens as Bond and Sir | as Goldfinger |
Barry Goldwater | ... essional elections. The last Republican to win a majority in the county was | in 1964. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama won 81% of the county's vote |
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 ... |
van Eyck, Jan | ... denbroucke, Frank (cyclist) - Van der Rest, Leon - van Rysselberghe, Théo - | - Van Genechten Packaging - Van Hoegaerden, Victor - Van Rompuy, Herman - ... |
Enda Kenny | Dublin is shortlisted to be World Design Capital 2014. Taoiseach | was quoted to say that Dublin “would be an ideal candidate to host the Wor ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... A's talent agency—which represented most of the industry's biggest names—by | 's Department of Justice, as owning both the movie studio and a talent age ... |
Bill Clinton | ... e Roadless Initiative passed on 5 January 2001, during the last days of the | Administration, and the initiative prevented the construction of new roads ... |
John Kerry | ... ent of Protestants voted for Bush, along with 52% of Catholics (even though | was Catholic). Since 1980, large majorities of evangelicals have voted Rep ... |
Mike Curb | In 1969 Norman returned to Capitol Records, now headed by | , to honor his original 1966 contract with the understanding that he would ... |
William J. Brennan, Jr. | ... of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and | See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a law sponsored by Ben Erdreich, ... |
Theodosius I | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and | carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p.100 quote: See al ... |
Dolores Ibárruri | ... organization in the U.S. and is still active. During the Spanish Civil War, | (La Pasionaria) led the Communist Party of Spain. Although she supported e ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... es in the Empire seems to have happened quite quickly, late in the reign of | and under Marcus Aurelius. By this time all the key elements of the myster ... |
Stephen Breyer | ... it invalidated a Nebraska statute outlawing partial-birth abortion. Justice | wrote for the Court that the law was unconstitutional as it did not allow ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... the first official U.S. stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting | and George Washington. A few other countries issued stamps in the late 184 ... |
Sandra Day O'Connor | ... alled into the White House to express his discontent over the nomination of | to the Supreme Court; the opposition hinged over the issue of O'Connor's p ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Theunis, Georges | ... rtition plan for Belgium - Tambuyzer, Erik - Temse - Tessenderlo - Thalys - | - Tielt - Tienen - Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the ... |
Johannes Dantiscus | The canon of Warmia Georg Donner and the bishop of Warmia | were both patrons of Rheticus. Rheticus was also commissioned to make a st ... |
Crispus | ... le of Mardia in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons | and Constantine II, and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars |
Geert Wilders | ... with the Christian Democratic Appeal supported by the Party for Freedom of | to obtain a majority. Rutte was sworn in as Prime Minister on October 21, ... |
Schuschnigg | ... ny, leading to the assassination of Dollfuss on 25 July 1934. His successor | maintained the ban on pro-Hitlerite activities in Austria, but was forced ... |
Cecil Rhodes | In 1895, Cape Premier | planned to support an uitlander coup d'état against the Transvaal governme ... |
Sean Parnell | ... ing Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor Sarah Palin, current Governor | and three other former governors, 11 senators, 9 former senators, and 2 co ... |
Albert Speer | He and | were allegedly the only defendants to show remorse for their war crimes. " ... |
Charles Kennedy | ... der of the Opposition Iain Duncan Smith and Leader of the Liberal Democrats | on privy council terms to discuss the evidence for Iraq's weapons of mass ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... to the Chatahoochee River. It operated for 40 years, and in 1905, President | made a campaign whistle stop in Dunwoody along the way to Roswell, Georgia |
Boethius | ... h century, believed that Asser also assisted Alfred with his translation of | |
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 Henry | Prussia (through the agency of | ), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ... |
Sandra Day O'Connor | ... . Reproductive Health Services, but was not successful in doing so. Justice | authored the decision of the Court, allowing the abortion regulations at i ... |
Washington Irving | ... the United States, romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with | 's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) and Rip Van Winkle (1819), followed ... |
Constantine P. Cavafy | ... s Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, | , and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Pri ... |
Lord Amherst | ... ar would be eventful with the suicide of Castlereagh and the appointment of | as the Governor-General of India, replacing Hastings. As Raffles grew rest ... |
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 |
Francis Knollys | ... La Warr, of Wherwell Abbey in Hampshire, and his wife, Anne daughter of Sir | and Catherine Carey |
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 ... |
William Tryon | ... ritish secretary of state for the colonies and a relative of royal Governor | |
Sarah Palin | ... d by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor | , current Governor Sean Parnell and three other former governors, 11 senat ... |
Robert Byrd | Image:Sen robert byrd.jpg|Senator | of West Virgini |
Jesse Helms | ... ted to the United States Senate in 2002, to succeed the retiring Republican | . However, she lost her seat in 2008, a heavily Democratic year, to Kay Ha ... |
Max Rosenn | ... urt of Appeals Judges have also graduated from Penn Law, e.g., Arlin Adams, | , Dolores Sloviter and James Hunter III (judges on the U.S. Court of Appea ... |
Appius Claudius Pulcher | ... hom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the censor | removed him from the Senate on the grounds of gross immorality (probably r ... |
Maxentius | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, Eutropia: | and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources for their b ... |
Julius Caesar | ... and its inhabitants received full Roman citizenship following the death of | in 44 BC |
Otto von Bismarck | ... by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as | and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg |
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 ... |
Rod Blagojevich | ... plan to move under cover of darkness included the city's 50 aldermen, Gov. | , Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Homeland Security offi ... |
Dolores Sloviter | ... ls Judges have also graduated from Penn Law, e.g., Arlin Adams, Max Rosenn, | and James Hunter III (judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Ci ... |
chevron | ... or of the field and the 13 white stars, arranged in the form of a three bar | , consisting of two chevrons of five stars and one chevron of three stars, ... |
Lieutenant Governor | ... ger than the executive, as it selects judges and justices. The Governor and | are elected every four years in separate elections. Incumbent governors ca ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... ion was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator | of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional inv ... |
Sargent Shriver | Image:Sargent Shriver 1962.jpg|Former Ambassador to France | of Marylan |
Licinius | In the year 320, | reneged on the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan in 313 and ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture | upon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona |
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 emperor | participated in its mysteries but it never became one of the state cults |
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 ... |
Aulus Gabinius | In 57–55 BCE, | , proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Sam ... |
Justin I | ... rding to Procopius, was further encouraged by his ally and fellow Christian | of Byzantium, who requested Aksum's help to cut off silk supplies as part ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... he previous year. Shortly afterwards, Senator Trent Lott made comments at a | birthday celebration in which he said that if Thurmond's presidential bid ... |
Almeida Garrett | ... uguese poetry develops its character from the work of its Romantic epitome, | , a very prolific writer who helped shape the genre with the masterpiece ( ... |
Byron White | The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justice | wrote the decision for the majority. The Supreme Court held that for the p ... |
Eutropius | ... eir 285 uprising being their first appearance. The fourth-century historian | described them as rural people under the leadership of Amandus and Aelianu ... |
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 ... |
Zheng He | ... n the early Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was the staging area and supply depot of | 's naval expeditions. Further development was severely hampered by the sea ... |
Justinian I | ... for the founding of the Justinian Dynasty that included his eminent nephew | and for the enactment of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old ... |
Pope Formosus | ... ible for the "Cadaver Synod" that had condemned and mutilated the corpse of | , and placed a laudatory remark on Stephen VI's tombstone. He then reporte ... |
Arthur Nebe | ... er of the Reich Main Security Office. Heinrich Müller became Gestapo Chief, | , chief of the Criminal Police (Kripo), and the two branches of SD were co ... |
Marcia Hines | Parallel with Geyer's success, American born vocalist | emerged as one of Australia's most successful solo singers. She first came ... |
Theodosius I | ... ed at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of | (379-395) |
Bill Clinton | ... er Liberal Cabinet headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as | and Barack Obama), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanis ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... biographies of major southern figures, such as Varina Davis' of her husband | . Later, women began adding more of their own experiences to the "public d ... |
Cato the Elder | ... ng Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of | in 184 BC. It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter met ... |
Amr Moussa | ... f the League is traditionally an Egyptian. Former Egyptian Foreign Minister | is the present Secretary General of the Arab League. Egyptian Deputy Prime ... |
Dick Cheney | ... r the District of Columbia (2005), a case concerning whether Vice President | could keep secret the membership of an advisory task force on energy polic ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... orces of the Kriminalpolizei, and the Gestapo, police and security offices. | is viewed as the mastermind behind the SS security forces and held the tit ... |
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 ... |
Peter Haden-Guest | Guest was born in New York City, the son of | , a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-G ... |
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 ... |
Carl E. Stewart | ... ted States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge | writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a "variation of a ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... an sees (who had been relieved of direct responsibilities for those sees by | three years earlier). Not holding a suburbicarian see, they cannot elect t ... |
Charlemagne | The Islands were defended by the emperor | in 799 from a Saracen pirate incursion |
Charlemagne | ... who wanted to maintain Bavarian independence, was defeated and displaced by | in 789. An eastern march (military borderland), the Avar March, was establ ... |
Roger Ludlow | ... h the English. They took full blame for Stone’s death, and offered Governor | payment for his death. The Massachusetts Bay colonists refused to accept t ... |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner | ... enberg. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions were taken over by | in January 1943, following a few short months of Heinrich Himmler personal ... |
Alan Sugar | ... riod through the purchase of the remaining 14.7% holding of former chairman | 's . and those belonging to who held a 9.9 per cent stake through Hodram I ... |
Lech Wałęsa | In 2004 former Solidarity leader | wrote |
Arthur Griffith | On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of | , Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as ... |
Shlomo Ben-Ami | ... tle the Palestinian terror organizations. The Israeli response as stated by | , then Israel's Minister of Foreign Relations who participated in the talk ... |
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 ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... xote, but it is most unlikely that Cervantes had ever heard of Shakespeare. | raised the possibility that Cervantes and Shakespeare were the same person ... |
Arlen Specter | ... by running a small creamery. Among his father's customers was the father of | who ran a junkyard in the town and used Dole's scales to weigh junk. Spect ... |
Scipio Africanus | ... al siege of the Celtiberian town Numantia, Hispania, by the Roman forces of | |
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 ... |
Robert Brack | ... be tried starting October 3, 2011 before United States District Court Judge | in Las Cruces, New Mexico |
Alben W. Barkley | ... nd was inexperienced in politics. Truman next turned to his Vice President, | , but at 74 he was rejected as being too old by labor union leaders |
Stalin | ... erence (late 1943), Poland's geographic location was fundamentally altered. | 's proposal that Poland should be moved very far to the west was readily a ... |
Pope Paul VI | In 1965 | decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... in India. In June 1947, the nationalist leaders of British India—including | and Abul Kalam Azad representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Mus ... |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... and for the crops. The French-enacted Code Noir ("Black Code"), prepared by | and ratified by Louis XIV, had established rules on slave treatment and pe ... |
Robert Barton | ... 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, | , Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipotentiary for the p ... |
Thomas E. Dewey | Luciano's reign was relatively short-lived. Special prosecutor | , a future Republican presidential candidate (later Luciano himself affirm ... |
Wilhelm von Humboldt | The university constitution was adopted in 1827. In the spirit of | the constitution emphasized the autonomy of the university and the unity o ... |
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 ... |
Franz von Papen | Hindenburg then appointed | as new Reichskanzler. Von Papen lifted the ban on the NSDAP's SA paramilit ... |
W. Averell Harriman | ... Northern delegates to reject him as a racist. Truman favored U.S. diplomat | of New York, but he had never held an elective office and was inexperience ... |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... Medwick had to be removed from the game for his own safety by Commissioner | after being pelted with fruit and garbage from angry fans in the large tem ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... in a span of 12 months, coming as it did just after the deaths of President | and General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Bro ... |
Fred M. Vinson | ... lize with other government officials, recalling that the late Chief Justice | played poker with President Harry Truman and that Justice Byron White went ... |
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 ... |
Alcide De Gasperi | ... facsimile wartime letters from resistance leader and former Prime Minister | requesting the Allies to bomb the outskirts of Rome in order to demoralize ... |
Justin II | ... ssimus and had Praejecta (b. ca 520), married to the senator Areobindus and | (b. ca 520) |
Lewis Carroll | ... ing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of | " |
Rauch | Ignoring the proposal of the university senate, ban | appointed him a university professor in Zagreb in 1908. However, when Niko ... |
Paulus Hector Mair | | in his martial arts compendium (1540s) details techniques of fighting with ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death of | and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite fa ... |
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 ... |
Washington Irving | ... to an 1808 short story describing a spread of "fire-cakes and dough-nuts." | 's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is more com ... |
Byron White | ... ce Fred M. Vinson played poker with President Harry Truman and that Justice | went skiing with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Scalia stated that he ... |
Lance Barnard | ... Sir Paul Hasluck swear him in as Prime Minister and Labor's deputy leader, | , as Deputy Prime Minister. The two men held 27 portfolios during the two ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... oly See. Relations with the Holy See were defined during the pontificate of | (1922–1939 |
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 ... |
Jo Moore | ... s reference to this practice occurred when British Government press officer | used the phrase "It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to b ... |
Michael Bloomberg | ... ition, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City Mayor | and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino |
Charles Haughey | ... blican Minister for Agriculture, Neil Blaney, and the Minister for Finance, | , were involved in an attempt to use £100,000 in aid money to import arms ... |
Yukio Mishima | ... to the West End from 13 March – 23 May 2009, playing Madame de Merteuil in | 's Madame De Sade, directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar seas ... |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali | ... resent Secretary General of the Arab League. Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister | served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996 |
Pope Pius XII | ... 931 Hitler sent Göring on a mission to the Vatican, where he met the future | |
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Ohio Attorney General | ... ttracted attention from antitrust authorities leading to a lawsuit filed by | David K. Watson |
Samuel Pepys | ... ner of the Mayflower, and was also a base for that ship. The famous diarist | was the Member of Parliament for Harwich. Christopher Newport, captain of ... |
Pope Gregory VII | ... he tomb of Saint Peter in Rome to defend the Church around 1070–73. In 1074 | was trying to persuade William I, Count of Burgundy, to remember this vow ... |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 56% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McC ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... nship) and it was named after the incumbent President of the United States, | |
Joseph Stalin | ... ly because he wanted his son Chiang Ching-kuo who was being held hostage by | back. This is contradicted by Chiang Kai-shek himself, who wrote in his di ... |
John Kerry | ... ublican president George W. Bush received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat | 's 18,355 (42.41%) |
John Milton | ... radise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet | . It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over t ... |
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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | The act jump-started the peace process. United States President | invited both Sadat and Begin to a summit at Camp David to negotiate a fina ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elizabeth Evatt | ... ommonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and appointed a woman, | to the commission. Whitlam and Barnard eliminated sales tax on contracepti ... |
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Joseph Stalin | ... m Conference of the World War II allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and | in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai is one of India's most fam ... |
Pietro Gasparri | ... try to look for Vatican ties. On 11 April 1919, Cardinal Secretary of State | informed the Estonian authorities that the Vatican would agree to have dip ... |
Gerald Ford | ... the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. His successor, | , then issued a pardon to Nixon |
Juan Guzmán Tapia | ... g International Professors Program. Past and present Bok professors include | (the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet), ... |
William Henry Moody | ... rns out as an all-ears U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt (Attorney General | : "They say a billionaire from Scotland has seized a military installation ... |
Julius Caesar | ... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator | , who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ... |
Jon Secada | ... Lozada. The ceremony was emceed by Oprah Winfrey. In addition, Daryl Hall, | and Diana Ross gave musical performances. Ross was also supposed to kick a ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... 6 December, Kentucky passed in review before President of the United States | as a unit in the Second Squadron. After calling at Trinidad and Rio de Jan ... |
Bill Clinton | ... osted the Sharm El-Sheikh "Summit of the Peacemakers" attended by President | and other world leaders |
St. Laurence O'Toole | The Book of Glendalough was written there about 1131. | , born in 1128, became Abbot of Glendalough and was well known for his san ... |
Mitch McConnell | ... red from CIA custody. He stated that his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. | of Kentucky and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary C ... |
Saparmurat Niyazov | The last living person to be officially proclaimed president for life was | of Turkmenistan |
Pope Formosus | ... the disbursements, and thus of patronage. Sergius III and his party opposed | (891–896), who ordained him bishop of Caere (Cerveteri) in order to remove ... |
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 ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... ents to the imperial constitution that replaced the authoritarian system of | with a parliamentary system |
Augustus | ... to the revival of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from | to Trajan, which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Afri ... |
Mary Robinson | ... rom the airport to Áras an Uachtaráin for champagne with the then President | |
Jacques Diouf | ... future survival." The head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), | , has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form ... |
James Buchanan | ... th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since | in 1856. Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... he previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore | retired |
William of Mandeville | ... ks, the Fables, is dedicated to a "Count William", who may have been either | or William Marshall. However, it has also been suggested that Count Willia ... |
Benjamin Lincoln | ... At the 2010 census the population was 6,266. It was named for Major General | , who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War |
John Jay | ... r a length of 4 days, a Petition of Congress to King George III, drafted by | was approved, and sent to Great Britain during his term. Randolph was re-e ... |
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 ... |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... re introduced. The height of French mercantilism is closely associated with | , finance minister for 22 years in the 17th century, to the extent that Fr ... |
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 ... |
Scipio Africanus | ... rom Augustus to Trajan, which was originally introduced among the Romans by | . This new Roman imperial fashion lasted until the reign of Phocas |
Gerald Ford | ... cond longest-lived president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by | and Ronald Reagan. He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... 7 along with many other non-combat awards, but it was restored by President | in 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above) |
Howard Baker | After | retired in 1984, Stevens sought the position of Republican (and then-Major ... |
Sean Duffy | ... nd Judd Winick have since married, as have their roommate Rachel Campos and | of the Boston cast. In the season, Trishelle Cannatella and Steven Hill co ... |
Giacomo Gorrini | ... ry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, | , Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el Husseini". This place of remembran ... |
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 ... |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... interested in his services. But those efforts (and others) were opposed by | , baseball's powerful commissioner and a staunch segregationist. Bill Veec ... |
Flavius Constantius | In early 288, Maximian appointed his praetorian prefect | , husband of Maximian's daughter Theodora, to lead a campaign against Cara ... |
Eleanor Roosevelt | ... lessen the effects of a debilitating stroke. She followed up with a turn as | for HBO's Warm Springs (2005), which chronicled Franklin Delano Roosevelt' ... |
Chief Justice of the United States | ... he current Sovereign Prince of Monaco, a former prime minister of Greece, a | , three Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, a U.S. Poet Laureat ... |
Philippe de Commines | ... racted; both parties were dead by this time, but a clergyman (named only by | as Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells), claimed to have carried ... |
Plutarch | ... st of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying (according to | ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new memb ... |
Book of Judges | ... r, son of Anath is the name of one or possibly two individuals named in the | . The name occurs twice; at the first mention Shamgar is identified as a B ... |
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 ... |
Bob Dole | ... ught the position of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against | , Dick Lugar, Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens w ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... e. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic after his death. | appointed himself in 82 BC to an entirely new office, dictator rei publica ... |
Yuri Andropov | ... . A 1983 memorandum from KGB Chairman Viktor Chebrikov to General Secretary | noted this stance and asserted that Kennedy, through former Senator John T ... |
Samuel Vetch | Francis Nicholson and | , with some financial and logistical support from the queen, organized an ... |
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 ... |
Francisco Franco | ... ea forces of the republican government. A monument was constructed to honor | called the Llano Amarillo, which was inaugurated on the 13th of July 1940 ... |
Gro Harlem Brundtland | ... oming Minister of Finance, Stoltenberg was Minister for trade and energy in | 's cabinet between 1993–1996. In 1996 when Brundtland resigned, Thorbjørn ... |
Dr H.V. Evatt | ... al, being called to the New South Wales bar in 1938. At Fort Street, he met | who later became a judge of the High Court of Australia, and became a prot ... |
Annie Lennox | ... Elliott Smith, and Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" performed by | . Produced by the film's music supervisor Chris Douridas, an abridged soun ... |
Vitellius | ... AD it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Othos and | |
Vajpayee | ... ndian National Congress. He did however groom future political leaders like | , Advani and others. However, the vast majority of the party workers inclu ... |
Eutropius | The epitomes of Aurelius Victor (De Caesaribus), | (Breviarium), Festus (Breviarium), and the anonymous author of the Epitome ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ion to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal. In 1947 President | brought him back to help make the federal bureaucracy more efficient throu ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... und Eisenhower's relented decision to confront the controversial methods of | on his home turf in a Wisconsin appearance. Just two weeks prior to the el ... |
Jan van Eyck | ... reign princes. By the latter half of the fifteenth-century, he had eclipsed | in popularity. However his fame lasted only until the 17th century, and la ... |
Cordell Hull | ... rence, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State | declared the Good Neighbor Policy, which opposed U.S. armed intervention i ... |
John Louis | ... f human rights. These nominations included Alexander Haig, Chester Crocker, | , and Lawrence Eagleburger, all of whom were confirmed regardless, whilst ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | The American scientist | , who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia, invented bifocals. Serious ... |
Alan Sugar | Secondly, Amstrad founder | wanted the machine to resemble a “real computer, similar to what someone w ... |
Aurelian | ... , Constantine had reoccupied most of the long-lost province of Dacia, which | had been forced to abandon in 271. At the time of his death, he was planni ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... o was the nation's first "equal" treaty with any country; which overshadows | 's pre-Edo period initiatives which sought to establish official relations ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... nistration of the affairs of the executive. The incumbent prime minister is | , in office since 22 May 2004 |
Frank H. Easterbrook | Stephanos Bibas writes in a 2003 analysis for Cornell Law Review that Judge | and a majority of scholars "praise these pleas as efficient, constitutiona ... |
Gerald Ford | Image:Gerald Ford.jpg|President | of Michiga |
Bill Clinton | ... has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and | |
Sir Moti Tikaram | ... ns. She is the younger sister of actor Ramon Tikaram and the great-niece of | , who was the first Lord Chief Justice of an independent Fiji and the worl ... |
William Beveridge | In the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer | , who had identified five "Giant Evils" afflicting the working class of th ... |
Desmond O'Malley | ... romise not to "stand idly by"). A minority of ministers - two, according to | - would have favoured such a course, but the Irish Army was completely unp ... |
William Howard Taft | ... ho did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, | and Herbert Hoover. |
Gro Harlem Brundtland | ... any considered cold or even sarcastic. His debates with long-time adversary | became legendary in Norway and were by several accounts based on personal ... |
Francisco Franco | On July 1936, General | took command of the Spanish Army of Africa and rebelled against the Spanis ... |
Giuseppe Caprio | ... des, he was not the naive idealist his critics made him out to be. Cardinal | , the substitute Papal Secretary of State, said that John Paul quickly acc ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... bloody and indecisive Korean War was dragging into its third year, Senator | 's anti-Communist crusade was stirring public fears of an encroaching “Red ... |
Howie Mandel | ... i and Ariella. Perlman is a distant cousin to Canadian comic/TV personality | |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ustody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President | |
Thomas More | ... Marches and clerk controller to Arthur, Prince of Wales, at Ludlow Castle. | , writing when she was still alive, but old, declared that even then an at ... |
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas | ... rds asked a panel of judges, presided over by Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, | , a series of hypothetical questions about the defence of insanity. The pr ... |
Ángel Sanz Briz | ... refugees during the Second World War, including the Hungarian Jews saved by | and Giorgio Perlasca. This decree was again put to use to receive some Jew ... |
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | ... Henrietta married Governor Edward Rutledge, and Sarah was the first wife of | |
Richard Posner | ... by liberals, and applauded by conservatives. However, Seventh Circuit judge | , disagreed with Scalia's opinion, stating that the Second Amendment "crea ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... on rare occasions, generally due to a building falling into disrepair. When | abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... ession of the 1930s. The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier | , and made major inroads in British Columbia |
Valentinian III | Emperor | sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Triget ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... as turned down both times by Meir. A new government was seated in June, and | , who had spent most of the war as an advisor to Elazar in an unofficial c ... |
Robert Burns | Dumfries was the hometown of | from 1791 until his death in 1796. The poet is now buried in St. Michael’s ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... chose Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, a liberal and political protégé of | , as his running mate |
Benjamin Franklin | ... Union. The county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father | |
Arlen Specter | ... his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. | of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, was especially p ... |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | ... lective preparatory schools for girls in the country. Famous alumni include | , Lilly Pulitzer and members of the Bush, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller fami ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, including United States President | , Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánch ... |
Judges | ... them is famous as the place where many Ephraimites were slain by Jephthah ( | ). It seems that these are the same fords mentioned as being near Beth-bar ... |
Julian the Apostate | ... him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 361, however, his nephew | wrote the satire Symposium, or the Saturnalia, which denigrated Constantin ... |
Shimon Agranat | ... s. Anger against the Israeli government (and Dayan in particular) was high. | , President of the Israeli Supreme Court, was asked to lead an inquiry, th ... |
Jan van Eyck | ... riel in Annunciation scenes - for example the Annunciation in Washington by | |
Benjamin Franklin | ... Guericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, | conducted extensive research in electricity, selling his possessions to fu ... |
Gennadius Avienus | Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers | and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Minc ... |
Phocas | ... Scipio Africanus. This new Roman imperial fashion lasted until the reign of | |
Mick Jagger | ... s of 1960s celebrities and socialites including Terence Stamp, The Beatles, | , Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and ... |
Rune Gerhardsen | ... Hansen (1872–1949). He was married to Werna and they had two sons Truls and | and a daughter Torgunn. His brother was Rolf Gerhardsen and with him Einar ... |
Eleanor Roosevelt | ... g member of the Coolidge administration. He also outlived both Franklin and | who died in 1945 and 1962, respectively. By the time of his death, he had ... |
Olympia Snowe | Senators | (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amend ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | In the 14th century, Petrarch and | led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's death in 1321. Petrarch w ... |
Walter Mondale | ... ily won the nomination on the first ballot; he then chose Minnesota Senator | , a liberal and political protégé of Hubert Humphrey, as his running mate |
Alben W. Barkley | Image:AlbenBarkley.jpg|Vice President | of Kentuck |
Thomas Jefferson | In 1803 President | obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ... |
Julius Caesar | ... 49 BC. She organized an army on the site but did not need to use it due to | 's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of Hero ... |
Mike Sullivan | ... as a member of the Wyoming State Senate. He was later appointed by Governor | to the Wyoming State Board of Equalization. Trowbridge's father, Elton Tro ... |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... on May 1, 2006. The justices unanimously decided in favor of Smith; Justice | wrote the majority opinion. The decision did not give Smith a portion of h ... |
Armin von Bogdandy | ... (the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet), | (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Inter ... |
John Nance Garner | ... dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President | . He became a surrogate son to Sam Rayburn |
W. Averell Harriman | Image:William Averell Harriman.jpg|Former Secretary of Commerce | of New Yor |
Juliusz Słowacki | ... t and in works of great Polish poets such as Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz), | and Zygmunt Krasiński, as well as the writers (Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trylog ... |
John Kerry | ... y two counties in Maine to vote for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat | . Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama narrow ... |
Charlemagne | ... carried the name. Monumental Constantinian forms were used at the court of | to suggest that he was Constantine's successor and equal. Constantine acqu ... |
Robert Hamilton | ... onated land to the Episcopal Church of Newton, New Jersey. State legislator | , an Episcopalian, appreciated Hampton's act, and gave the township its na ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... ted to the US House of Representatives. Mann was a brother-in-law to author | |
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 ... |
Judges | ... t was near Mount Hor, close by the desert of Zin. It is called "the rock" ( | 1:36). When Amaziah took it he called it Joktheel (also spelled Jokteel (J ... |
Gro Harlem Brundtland | ... abour Party, and Progress party joined forces. A minority government led by | took over through the rest of the parliamentary period |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lemuel Shaw | ... Shaw, daughter of chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | , on August 4, 1847; the couple honeymooned in Canada. They had four child ... |
Septimius Severus | The Roman Emperor | was a native of Lepcis Magna in North Africa, an originally Phoenician cit ... |
Ron Paul | ... s, the majority of Washington County voters cast their votes for Republican | , but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow. Mitt ... |
Bill Kenwright | ... e trouble than it was worth. The assistant stage manager on the production, | , would become one of the UK's most successful producers |
Robert Reich | ... rofessor Rob Reich (not to be confused with former U.S. Secretary of Labor, | ) wrote in The Civic Perils of Homeschooling (2002) that homeschooling can ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... Another 9 million Germans from former eastern German provinces, over which | and eastern neighbour states extended military hegemony in 1945, were expe ... |
Ian McKellen | ... atford, cast black opera singer Willard White in the leading role, opposite | 's Iago |
Andrew Turnbull | ... ritish period was the establishment in 1768 of the colony of New Smyrna, by | a friend of Grants. Turnbull recruited indentured servants from the Medite ... |
Cordell Hull | Democratic President Roosevelt and especially his Secretary of State | were critical of the Neutrality Acts, fearing that they would restrict the ... |
John F. Kennedy | Robertson was President | 's personal choice to play him in 1963's PT 109 as a young Lieutenant PT b ... |
Aaron Burr | ... da (1775) under Colonel Benedict Arnold. Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and | , his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel Seth Read ... |
John Sirica | ... pping laws. The five burglars who broke into the office were tried by Judge | and convicted on January 30, 1973 |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... i government. In 1994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with | and Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas an ... |
Michele Bachmann | United States Representative | (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd for ... |
John Milton | ... has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the poet | had employed both an amanuensis and an editor, who were responsible for cl ... |
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 ... |
Severus | ... not entirely to Maximian's liking: perhaps because of Galerius' influence, | and Maximinus were appointed Caesar, thus excluding Maxentius. Both the ne ... |
Tommy Thompson | ... most notably becoming a leader in welfare reform under Republican Governor | during the 1990s. The state's economy also underwent further transformatio ... |
William Tryon | ... der-in-Chief, North America General William Howe, in New York City, ordered | to interrupt the flow of supplies from Connecticut that were reaching the ... |
Robert Hanbury Brown | ... the second to be discovered. The diameter of Sirius A was first measured by | and Richard Q. Twiss in 1959 at Jodrell Bank using their stellar intensity ... |
Plutarch | ... he height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and | documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histor ... |
Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
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 ... |
Yoda | ... command during the "unexplained" absence of Skywalker while he trained with | at Dagobah. After the events of The Empire Strikes Back, Skywalker and Ant ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and | of the USSR, had agreed in general before the end of the war that Poland's ... |
Bob Brown | ... ote, but the party did not win any lower house seats. Federal Greens leader | said of the result that it was positive but that: "The Liberals' preferenc ... |
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. ... |
Francis Walsingham | ... he creation of a highly capable intelligence service under the direction of | made him the most important minister for the majority of Elizabeth's reign |
Decius | ... Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up by Roman Emperor | in a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 479, the ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... il late 1942 they were assigned to the Reich Main Security Office headed by | . The brigades were now used for rear area security and policing, and, mos ... |
Charlemagne | ... ). A popular, but ultimately unconfirmed, attempt tries to relate Attila to | |
Youssef Zulficar Pasha | ... relations between Egypt and Iran were upgraded to ambassadorial level, and | was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran. In the same year, Pri ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... riendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by John Adams and | in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its ratification by Congre ... |
Robert Bork | ... Greek philosophy, leaving it doomed to fall into moral and political decay. | 's Slouching Toward Gommorah and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American ... |
John Foster Dulles | ... ntments. He accepted their recommendations without exception; they included | and George M. Humphrey with whom he developed his closest relationships, a ... |
Aristotle Onassis | ... bled, primarily through the investment undertaken by the shipping magnates, | and Stavros Niarchos. The basis of the modern Greek maritime industry was ... |
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 ... |
Charles Curtis | ... the big screen in Whispers Like Thunder, with Kingsley playing the role of | , the first part-Native American to become vice-president of the United St ... |
John Kerry | ... ived 58.7% of the vote in Jackson Township (12,451 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 39.9% (8,458 votes), with 21,202 ballots cast among ... |
Charlemagne | ... came part of the semifeudal Frankish Empire (which was ruled by the emperor | from 771 to 814), due to the pressing danger posed by Avar tribes from the ... |
John Adams | ... st non-broken friendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by | and Thomas Jefferson in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its r ... |
Józef Beck | ... in Europe. The government (foreign policy conduct was the responsibility of | ) undertook opportunistic hostile actions against Lithuania and Czechoslov ... |
Stilicho | ... some scattered orthodox Vandals, among whom was the famous magister militum | , the chief minister of the Emperor Honorius |
Gray Davis | ... d on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor | . Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder ... |
Barney Frank | ... ves, many liberals dislike his views. In March 2009, openly gay Congressman | described Scalia as a "homophobe". Maureen Dowd described Scalia in a 2003 ... |
John Boyle | ... le. In 2010, its population was 28,432. It was formed in 1842 and named for | (1774–1835), a U.S. Representative, chief justice of the Kentucky Court of ... |
state attorneys general | ... atory investigation under New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other | . At issue was the practice of insurance companies' payments to brokers (k ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker | ;, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of ... |
Caesar | ... ity) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between | and Pompey. After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed su ... |
Thomas E. Dewey | The moderate Eastern Republicans were led by New York Governor | , the party's presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948. The moderates tended ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... re winning a by-election a few weeks later. Similarly, John Turner replaced | as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prim ... |
Deborah | ... el had originally been allocated to Benjamin, by the time of the prophetess | , Bethel is described as being in the land of the Ephraim. Some twenty yea ... |
David Saranga | ... blogging press conference via Twitter about its war with Hamas, with Consul | answering live questions from a worldwide public in common text-messaging ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... ecruited. The Ukrainians and the Tatars had both suffered persecution under | and their motive was a hatred of communism rather than sympathy for Nation ... |
John Boyle | ... 15, 1842 from sections of Lincoln County and Mercer County. It is named for | , Congressman, Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and U.S. Di ... |
Egidio Vagnozzi | ... ressure continued on Murray, with Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. Archbishop | attempting to silence him. Cardinal Spellman, along with his Jesuit superi ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... and managing his farm. While living at Arrowhead, he befriended the author, | , who lived in nearby Lenox. Melville was tremendously inspired and encour ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... s which regulate conduct in war and during peacetime. An early exponent was | , whose Rights of War and Peace (1625) had a major impact of the humanitar ... |
Gerald Ford | In 1982, along with his friend | , he co-founded the annual AEI World Forum |
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 ... |
Mark Holden | ... , Jim Keays, Tamam Shud, Ted Mulry Gang, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Ol' 55, | , Lyndon Hart, Stevie Wright, John Paul Young, Helen Reddy, Redgum, Hot Ci ... |
Richard Herriard | ... luded Simon of Pattishall, Ralph Foliot, Richard Barre, William de Warenne, | , and Osbert Fitz Hervey, had mostly already served as justices prior to W ... |
Bobby DeLaughter | ... reach a verdict, De La Beckwith was brought to trial based on new evidence. | took on the job as the prosecutor. During the trial, the body of Evers was ... |
Julius Caesar | ... initiated the Julian calendar of that name, 46 BC was allotted 445 days by | . Before then, the Romans added whole intercalary months in an unsystemati ... |
Asclepiodotus | ... s killed on the North Downs in battle with Constantius' praetorian prefect, | . Constantius himself had landed near Dubris (Dover) and marched on Londin ... |
Martin O'Malley | ... of Columbia have joined the compact. The first was Maryland, when Governor | signed the bill into law on April 10, 2007. New Jersey joined on January 1 ... |
Roman Consuls | ... n the public treasury, the Aerarium. They were given this power because the | , who had held this power before, arbitrarily suppressed and altered the d ... |
John F. Kennedy | After President | was assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... by various antiquarians (such as John Bale) and poets to John Wycliffe and | , amongst others. Some sixteenth and seventeenth-century persons regarded ... |
Cassiodorus | ... e silken tent where Attila lay in state, singing in his dirge, according to | and Jordanes: "Who can rate this as death, when none believes it calls for ... |
Earl Warren | ... t of Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing; and Governor | of California, who appealed to Western delegates and independent voters |
Lech Wałęsa | ... organization NSZZ Solidarity. It officially registered on 10 November 1980. | and others formed a broad anti-Soviet social movement ranging from people ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... rhyme is always masculine. Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by | in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales |
John F. Kennedy | In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President | 's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... activities. In September 1981 Solidarity's first national congress elected | as a president and adopted a republican program, the "Self-governing Repub ... |
Charles de Gaulle | In reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then-French President, | , who was sceptical of the rising supranational power of the Commission, a ... |
Sir Jeremy Greenstock | British diplomat and former British ambassador to the UN | stated in early 2009 that the Hamas charter was "drawn up by a Hamas-linke ... |
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 ... |
Gustav Stresemann | | was Reichskanzler for 100 days in 1923, and served as foreign minister fro ... |
Fyodor Tyutchev | ... . Other Russian poets include Mikhail Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), | (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and Wi ... |
Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha | In 1846 the Ottoman Governor-in-chief of Jerusalem (serasker), | , waged a campaign to subdue rebellious sheiks in the Hebron area, and whi ... |
Warren Hastings | Bintan was also under consideration. Despite the fact that | overlooked the island before settling upon Penang in 1786, the Riau Archip ... |
Rafael Cordero Santiago | Ponce's mayor for 15 years (since 1989), | , died in office on the morning of January 17, 2004, after suffering three ... |
John Kerry | ... House of Representatives. The current U.S. senators from Massachusetts are | (D) and Scott P. Brown (R) |
Neal Katyal | In May 2011, U.S. Solicitor General | , after a year of investigation, found Charles Fahy intentionally withheld ... |
Paul VI | ... abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes | and John Paul II continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular chu ... |
Pope Innocent X | ... ely ended the Pope's pan-European political power. Fully aware of the loss, | declared the treaty "null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, re ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... aintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Giacomo Cavedone (1577–1660), | (1573–1640), Rembrandt van Ryn (1606–69), Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), Pier ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... d to late 20th century, ranging from the anti-communist crusades of Senator | in the 1950s to the radical antiwar protests at UW-Madison that culminated ... |
Joseph Stalin | Meanwhile, | and his Soviet Union in the 1920s and early of 1930s stood by Japan’s inva ... |
Mike Padden | (a) | , a Republican faithless elector from Washington, gave Ronald Reagan one e ... |
Kofi Annan | ... and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of Goldman Sachs; and | , former Secretary-General of the United Nations |
Christine Milne | ... r not to include fuel in the tax. Committee member and Greens deputy leader | said that this was happening because |
Bill Posey | ... ms, and within Florida's 15th congressional district, which seat is held by | |
John Kerry | Dunst supported Democratic candidate | in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported De ... |
Walter M. Gibson | By the 1870s, | had acquired most of the land on the island for ranching. Prior to this he ... |
John Kerry | ... enior (Class II) member of the United States Senate, re-elected in 2008, is | . The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is Scott Brown |
Pompey | ... n king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general | |
John Sparrow David Thompson | ... succeeded prime ministers who died in office (John A. Macdonald in 1891 and | in 1894), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an ... |
Jimmy Carter | However, in December 1978, U.S. President, | announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | ... nard, married Laura Charlotte Haliburton, daughter of author and politician | . The couple had three sons and one daughter |
Emmet G. Sullivan | US District Court Judge in Washington DC | , on October 2, 2008, denied the mistrial petition of Stevens's chief coun ... |
Julius Caesar | ... hillfort". At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by | (B. G. ii. 12). Caesar (B.C. 57), after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... hat he would visit China the following year. His National Security Advisor, | , had actually been in Beijing (unknown to Whitlam) at the same time as th ... |
Scott Brown | ... d in 2008, is John Kerry. The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is | |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McC ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... a occupant was dismissed or fell out of favor with the rulers of the state. | 's favourite Dacha was in Gagra, Abkhazia. The construction of new dachas ... |
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 ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... the Goths. According to the historian Eutropius, the forces of the Emperor | battled against the Marcomannic confederation for three years at the fortr ... |
Geri Halliwell | ... was a #2 hit in the UK for The Weather Girls in 1984 and a UK #1 remake for | in 2001. Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band perform the Chuck Ber ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by | to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election |
Bill Clinton | ... na Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by | |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... ter the Babi Yar massacre was carried out and the conference was chaired by | . He was acting under the authority given to him by Reichsmarschall Göring ... |
Ruud Lubbers | ... t with the Dutch prime minister and head of the European Community Council, | , and with the European Commission president, Jacques Delors, pledging clo ... |
Earl Warren | ... ut included a small number of German and Italian enemy aliens. By February, | , the Attorney General of California, had begun his efforts to persuade th ... |
Robert Burns | ... his army, with only £1,000 and 255 pairs of shoes having been handed over. | moved to Dumfriesshire in 1788 and Dumfries itself in 1791, living there u ... |
William L. Dayton | ... sery. In 1866, the name was changed from Cross Roads to Dayton, in honor of | , an attorney for the Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad. Dayton ... |
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 ... |
Augustus | ... ereales, whose special duty was the care of the cereal (corn) supply. Under | the office lost much of its importance, its judicial functions and the car ... |
Henry A. Wallace | ... reeminent in the presidential campaign to elect Progressive Party candidate | , who had served as Vice-President under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wallace wa ... |
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. ... |
Burn's | ... festivities now is to study old traditions, and hold a Scotch party, using | poem Hallowe'en as a guide; or to go a-souling as the English used. In sho ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... members of the Danbury Baptist Association wrote a letter to then president | expressing their concern that as Baptists they may not be able to express ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... Harry Truman and that Justice Byron White went skiing with Attorney General | . Scalia stated that he was never alone with Cheney during the trip, the t ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... e Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, Nick Cave, Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva | to the popular local content of John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes or Paul Kelly. ... |
Bill Clinton | ... rétien was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he and | were known to be golfing partners. Their governments had many small trade ... |
Pope Urban VIII | ... uly 1623, and was buried in the Church of Sant'Ignazio. He was succeeded by | |
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 Sharswood | ... began offering a full-time program in law in 1850, under the leadership of | , an innovator in legal education. Under Sharswood's leadership, Penn Law ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... te ghost stories, one of which became the basis for the novel Frankenstein. | rented a little "chalet" at the French bank, near Geneva. Actor Charlie Ch ... |
Simon of Pattishall | ... re professional group of royal justices. Although the group, which included | , Ralph Foliot, Richard Barre, William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and O ... |
Bob Dole | ... member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President Bill Clinton seized upon opponent | 's promise to take America back to a simpler time, promising in contrast t ... |
François Langelier | ... ission under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court | . Amongst its recommendations for permanently recording the celebrations f ... |
David Wilkins | ... for his victory in February 2006, Harper rebuked U.S. ambassador to Canada | for criticizing the Conservatives' plans to assert Canada's sovereignty ov ... |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 30%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
Pietro Gasparri | ... hese allegations were rejected by the Vatican’s Cardinal Secretary of State | , who wrote on 4 March 1916 that the Holy See is completely impartial and ... |
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 ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... er taking alternate measures against vision problems: United States Senator | and comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after b ... |
Zhang Qian | Even before Han's expansion into Central Asia, diplomat | 's travels from 139 to 125 BCE had established Chinese contacts with many ... |
John of Viktring | The ceremony was first described by the chronicler | on the occasion of the coronation of Meinhard II of Tyrol in 1286. It is a ... |
Judge William Young | ... l eight counts on October 4, 2002. On January 31, 2003, he was sentenced by | to life in prison with no possibility of parole with three life sentences ... |
Ralph Foliot | ... of royal justices. Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, | , Richard Barre, William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Her ... |
Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
Eliot Spitzer | ... Willis, fell under regulatory investigation under New York Attorney General | and other state attorneys general. At issue was the practice of insurance ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ber 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President | that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... d often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, | , and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. W ... |
Charles Hanbury Williams | Sir | , the British ambassador to Russia, offered Stanisław Poniatowski a place ... |
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 ... |
Charlemagne | ... n in northern Germany (see Polabian Slavs). For decades they were allies of | in his wars against Germanic Saxons and Slavic Veleti. In 798 the Obodrite ... |
Chaim Herzog | According to | |
Michael Schumacher | ... Mercury stands on the northern shore of the lake. Current Formula 1 driver | lives with his family in a home overlooking the lake |
Emma Bunton | ... ice World, Hercule Poirot (Hugh Laurie) is about to blame a weapons-packing | , but after she flashes him an innocent smile, Poirot instead accuses an i ... |
Ray Mabus | In October 2009, Navy Secretary | , a former Mississippi governor, announced that , a , would be named in th ... |
Bill Clinton | ... pelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President | seized 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, from | to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all ... |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 31%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
George H. W. Bush | ... r policy goals of Mulroney, that would be finalized under the presidency of | |
John Paul Stevens | ... f law students ... Students now put 'Federalist Society' on their resumes." | , who served throughout Scalia's tenure until his 2010 retirement; says of ... |
Charles Haughey | ... dership election from the very beginning, however, other candidates such as | , George Colley and Neil Blaney threw their hats into the ring immediately ... |
John Kerry | ... ently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator, (Democrat) | and junior senator Republican Scott Brown |
Bill Clinton | ... year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President | into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... April 26 to mid-June. By 1916, the June 3 birthday of Confederate President | was observed as a state holiday in 10 southern states. Across the South, a ... |
Dick Cheney | ... won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice President | is a Wyoming resident and represented the state in Congress from 1979 to 1 ... |
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 ... |
George Gavan Duffy | ... tment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and | as envoys plenipotentiary for the peace conference in England. Of the five ... |
Valens | ... this time, the Hasdingi had already been Christianized. During the Emperor | 's reign (364–78) the Vandals accepted, much like the Goths earlier, Arian ... |
Susumu Shibata | ... a fundamental role in the bilateral relations between the two governments". | is the ambassador of Japan to Angola |
Titus | ... after the event about the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman general | (see Dating of the Gospel of Mark) |
Scott Ritter | ... affaji, and Iraqi-American businessman to produce a film by ex-UN inspector | discrediting the weapons searches |
Calvin Coolidge | ... ates Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and | , he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubri ... |
Augustus | ... view that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was "the most foolish war since Emperor | in 9 sent his legions into Germany and lost them", a reference to the Batt ... |
Samson | ... en of the mightiest, were removed by a touch of the fingers of this British | . |
Howard Dean | In the 2004 US presidential campaign, | defined John Kerry as a "flip-flopper," which was widely reported and repe ... |
Edgar Dewdney | Regina was established in 1882 when it became clear that | , the lieutenant-governor of the North-West Territories, eschewed the prev ... |
Herbert Funk Goodrich | ... by Lewis himself. The ALI was later chaired by another of Penn Law's Deans, | . Two years before Goodrich was named Dean, the law school graduated with ... |
Hubert Opperman | ... Never slow to avail of publicity BSA sponsored the great Australian cyclist | and re-branded the top of the range machine the "Opperman" model . A less ... |
Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of | . The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. ... |
Hugh Bardulf | ... r did appoint the two escheators, or guardians of the amounts due, who were | in the north of England and William of Sainte-Mère-Eglise in the south. Hi ... |
Jamil Mahuad | ... ate a default on external loans later that year. In January 2000, President | announced a policy to adopt the U.S. dollar as the official currency of Ec ... |
John Kerry | In the 2004 US presidential campaign, Howard Dean defined | as a "flip-flopper," which was widely reported and repeated by the media, ... |
Gunnar Jarring | ... nwar Sadat. In 1971, Sadat, in response to an initiative by UN intermediary | , declared that if Israel committed itself to "withdrawal of its armed for ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... ma Senator Robert S. Kerr, Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts, Senator | of Minnesota, and Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas |
Henry Kissinger | ... uter. On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as | (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... o planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which | was left to carry out. |
Vyacheslav Molotov | Sovetsk is the birthplace of | |
Scott Brown | ... nate by senior Senator, (Democrat) John Kerry and junior senator Republican | |
Plutarch | ... asury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia. However, | indicates that many of Pericles' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as u ... |
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. While | did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, Georg ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... eir numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to | . Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Al Smith | ... mistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat | |
Henry Kissinger | ... ved on the Trilateral Commission after being president, writing papers with | |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... passive. The stigma began to fall away in the early 1900s when the popular | was regularly photographed wearing eyeglasses, and in the 1910s when popul ... |
French Foreign Ministry | ... hiopia to gain access to the sea. In Paris, Tafari was to find out from the | (Quai d'Orsay) that this goal would not be realized. However, failing this ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | President | of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. In 1971, ... |
Quintus Fabius Maximus | ... lect a dictator itself. As this was unconstitutional, the person appointed, | , was given the title of prodictator (acting dictator) although he held th ... |
Constans | ... dria, at a synod held in Antioch in 341, they resolved to send delegates to | , Emperor of the West, and also to Julius, setting forth the grounds on wh ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... on County was formed on January 21, 1839. It was named for the US President | |
Valens | ... anaric gained the advantage, and Fritigern asked for Roman aid. The Emperor | and the Thracian field army intervened, Valens and Fritigern defeated Atha ... |
Dick Cheney | Vice President | , former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, Frank Keating, G ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by | and others). It is also designated Uranus IX |
Pompey | ... rful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Crassus, his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, | . The First Triumvirate ("three men"), had satisfied the interests of thes ... |
Pope John XXIII | On 15 December 1958, Luciani was appointed Bishop of Vittorio Veneto by | . He received his episcopal consecration on the following 27 December from ... |
Sir Robert Cecil | ... f Burghley on his death, was later created Earl of Exeter. His younger son, | (later created Baron Cecil, Viscount Cranborne and finally Earl of Salisbu ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ter the final episode of his season aired), he was lauded by then-President | . Zamora’s friend and roommate during the show, Judd Winick, went on to be ... |
John Kerry | ... . In 2004, Republican President George W. Bush won the county over Democrat | 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat Barack Obama won Salt Lake County b ... |
Gratian | ... t after suffering many hardships. Valens (of the Eastern Empire) then asked | , the western emperor, for reinforcements to fight the Goths. Gratian sent ... |
James Burrill Angell | ... gress to Chinese immigration led President Rutherford B. Hayes to authorize | to renegotiate the treaty in 1880. The treaty was amended to suspend, but ... |
Jan van Eyck | ... c. 1435–40. The setting is derived from the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin by | Image:The Magdalen Reading Rogier.jpg|The Magdalen Reading, one of three s ... |
Wells Spicer | Wyatt and Holliday were arrested and brought before Justice of the Peace | . Morgan and Virgil were still recovering at home. All four were required ... |
Nerva | ... time. The work arose, he says, from a conversation he had with the emperor | at Frontinus's house at Formiae. He promises a work on Naval Tactics also; ... |
Sonia Sotomayor | ... ative effect. McCain also voted against Obama's Supreme Court nomination of | – saying that while undeniably qualified, "I do not believe that she share ... |
Richomeres | ... eneral Frigeridus with reinforcements, as well as the leader of his guards, | . For the next two years preceding the battle of Adrianople there were a s ... |
Arrian | ... the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to | , but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, ... |
Kevin Dunion | ... ted in February 2011. The current Rector of the University of St Andrews is | OBE the first and current Scottish Information Commissioner |
George Wallace | ... iot Act. The ACLU has supported conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, | , Henry Ford, and Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such ... |
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 ... |
Walter Mondale | ... , and Dole was chosen. Dole stated during the Vice Presidential debate with | , "I figured it up the other day: If we added up the killed and wounded in ... |
Plutarch | ... orem occurred five centuries after his death, in the writings of Cicero and | |
Justinian II | In 710, | demanded in an iussio that Constantine appear before the emperor in Consta ... |
Domitian | ... rian as the son of divus Trajan. By the end of the 1st century, the emperor | was being called "dominus et deus" i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman ... |
Valens | ... man Empire. Hoping that they would become farmers and soldiers, the emperor | allowed them to establish themselves in the Empire as allies (foederati). ... |
Ermolao Barbaro | ... mmentators (see Averroes, Avicenna) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to | in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of Plato and Ar ... |
Junius Rusticus | ... d Eusebius (HE IV 16.7-8). Justin was tried together with six companions by | who was urban prefect from 163-167, and was beheaded, probably in 165. The ... |
Abba Eban | ... d the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and Yigal Allon, while it was opposed by | and Pinhas Sapir. After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bl ... |
George McGovern | ... e Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Dole joined liberal Senator | to lower eligibility requirements for federal food stamps, a liberal goal ... |
John Broome | ... As of the 2010 census, the population was 200,600. It was named in honor of | , who was lieutenant governor in 1806 when Broome County was established. ... |
T. K. Whitaker | ... etail. It was in this department where Lynch worked closely with Lemass and | in generating economic growth and implementing the Programme for Economic ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | ... ed near Athens, once Aegina was under Athenian's power. The Greek historian | (46 AD–120 AD) also refers to an instance during the Parthenon's construct ... |
Washington Irving | ... the poor and their children during the boom decades of the 1830s and 1840s, | 's essays on Christmas published in his Sketch Book (1820) describing the ... |
Gerald Ford | ... Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President | . Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from considera ... |
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 ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... of Czechoslovakia, especially after the reprisals for the assassination of | , most of the Czech resistance groups demanded that the "German problem" b ... |
Jean-Louis Tauran | ... ereignty in international affairs" (quotations from the treaty). Archbishop | , the Holy See's former Secretary for Relations with States, said that the ... |
Chief Justice of Pakistan | ... and 300,000 in Pakistan. In December 2009, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the | , ordered that the National Database and Registration Authority issue nati ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... ublican county. It was one of only three counties in the state to be won by | in 1964. Along with Lincoln County it is the only county in Washington tha ... |
Julius Caesar | ... risis and social unrest. Into this turbulent scenario emerged the figure of | . Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Cra ... |
Geoffrey Fitz Peter | ... his relations with other officers, Walter worked closely with the justiciar | , on the collection of taxation, and both men went to Wales in 1203 on a d ... |
John Kerry | ... Barney Frank. The state's senior (Class II) Senator, re-elected in 2008, is | . The other Senator is Scott Brown, elected in 2010. Westport is patrolled ... |
Ngô Đình Diệm | ... d Prime Minister of North Vietnam, which would be run as a socialist state. | , who was previously appointed Prime Minister of South Vietnam by Emperor ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... d by the halfpenny later the same year. The figure of Britannia was said by | to have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Rich ... |
Lewis Cass | ... ine from 14,684 in 2000. Its county seat is Atlantic. It was named to honor | , who was the 1848 Democratic nominee for President |
President of the Supreme Court | ... ed Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the most senior judge is called the | . The Lord President of the Court of Session is head of the judiciary in S ... |
Barney Frank | ... part of Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, which is represented by | . The state's senior (Class II) Senator, re-elected in 2008, is John Kerry ... |
Bill Bolling | ... of Delegates, and a majority of the Senate based on the Lieutenant Governor | as the tie-breaker |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... a the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of World History by | |
Charlemagne | ... s, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, | and his successors, the Catholic Holy Roman Emperors |
Malcolm MacDonald | ... in Palestine. On 23 February 1939 the Secretary of State for the Colonies, | revealed the British intention to cancel the mandate and establish a state ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... g defeated Democrats that year was McFarland, who lost to then-little-known | , Johnson's future presidential opponent |
John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brow |
JFK | ... adversary Papa Midnite, a Vodun shaman. He is accompanied by the spirit of | , who has to hold his brain in place from his infamous wound. He eventuall ... |
Vladimir Lenin | In April of that year, | arrived in Russia from Switzerland, calling for "All power to the soviets. ... |
Judson Kilpatrick | ... n the city of Baltimore. The head of Stuart's column encountered Brig. Gen. | 's cavalry as it passed through Hanover and scattered it on June 30; the B ... |
Valens | ... ed history in 369, when he engaged in battle with the Eastern Roman Emperor | and ultimately negotiated a favorable peace for his people. During his rei ... |
Jesse Helms | ... the late 1980s Kennedy and Hatch staged a prolonged battle against Senator | to provide funding to combat the AIDS epidemic and provide treatment for l ... |
Antoninus Pius | # The First Apology addressed to | , his sons, and the Roman Senat |
Robert Reich | ... mos T. Akerman, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor | , former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretar ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ted by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on | 's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. I ... |
Robert DeLaughter | ... pi Goldberg played Myrlie Evers. Evers was portrayed by James Pickens, Jr.. | wrote a first-person narrative article titled "Mississippi Justice" publis ... |
John Jay | ... closed the port of New Orleans to American commerce in 1784, Congress sent | to Madrid to achieve terms to open the Mississippi to Americans. Instead, ... |
pall | ... iption using flag terminology), the South African flag is described as "per | fesswise gules, sable and azure, a fesswise pall vert fimbriated argent, O ... |
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 Jefferson | When President | commissioned the building of the National Road from Baltimore to St. Louis ... |
Ron Paul | ... ent of the vote in Franklin County. Libertarian-leaning U.S. Representative | (R-Texas) finished a distant fourth with 4.07 percent in Franklin County |
Caracalla | ... b of Achilles at Achilleion while passing Troy. In AD 216 the Roman Emperor | , while on his way to war against Parthia, emulated Alexander by holding g ... |
Trajan | ... is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for | , and the date 106 AD has been assigned to it. It is a handbook of Greek, ... |
Smith Hempstone | ... were no longer tolerated. Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador | , to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991 |
William Macarmick | ... nor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1784–1787) and his successor was | (1787). From 1799 to 1807 the military commandant was John Despard , broth ... |
Belisarius | ... ining books cover the Gothic War (Latin De Bello Gothico), the campaigns by | and others to recapture Italy, then under the rule of the Ostrogoths. This ... |
Julius Caesar | at:44 text: | murdered. (44 BCE |
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 ... |
John Adams | ... hington. Its name is in honor of the second President of the United States, | . As of 2010, the population is 18,728. The county seat is at Ritzville, a ... |
John Kerry | ... sachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by Senators | and Scott Brown |
Theodosius | ... y fleeing to Caucaland in the Carpathians, Athanaric was warmly received by | in Constantinople in 381, where he signed a treaty of friendship with the ... |
Marcus Licinius Crassus | ... gure of Julius Caesar. Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: | , his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, Pompey. The First Triumvirate ("three m ... |
Mark Thatcher | ... bers of the South African Army 32 Battalion. Financial backers included Sir | , son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the ... |
Lee Rhiannon | ... s elected in 2010 (with new Senators taking their place from July 2011) are | in New South Wales, Richard Di Natale in Victoria, Larissa Waters in Queen ... |
Abe Fortas | ... held Johnson. Stevenson went to court, but—with timely help from his friend | —Johnson prevailed. Johnson was elected senator in November and went to Wa ... |
Harold Holt | ... 1966, and was succeeded as Prime Minister by the new Liberal Party leader, | . After years of politics being dominated by the elderly Menzies and Calwe ... |
Dannii Minogue | In May 2010, after | , who is a judge on the British version of The X Factor, declined to judge ... |
Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
DeWitt Clinton | ... sus, the population was 75,382. It is named after early American politician | . The county seat is St. Johns |
Julius Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
Joseph McCarthy | In return, the Democrats criticized Senator | and other GOP conservatives as "fearmongers" who were recklessly trampling ... |
Arrian | ... ut Darius was still outflanked, defeated, and forced to flee. It is told by | that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces und ... |
Jock Colville | ... Lord Chamberlain said estimates of £100 million were "grossly overstated". | , who was her former private secretary and a director of her bank, Coutts, ... |
Benjamin Franklin's | ... y. This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by | one-fluid theory later in the century |
Ernest McFarland | ... 51, Johnson was chosen as Senate Majority Whip under a new Majority Leader, | of Arizona, and served from 1951 to 1953 |
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 ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... etts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while former Governor | (R-Arkansas) finished third with 27.70 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
Aurelian | ... ttacked the Romans in the lower Danube area. In about 271 the Roman Emperor | was obliged to protect the middle course of the Danube against them. They ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
Severus | ... Galerius refused to recognize him, but failed to unseat him. Galerius sent | against Maxentius, but during the campaign, Severus' armies, previously un ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... s doctoral studies; the situation was resolved by a special dispensation of | himself, on 27 March 1941. His thesis (The origin of the human soul accord ... |
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 ... |
Ingrid Schulerud | ... , was his aunt on his mother's side. Stoltenberg is married to the diplomat | and has two children, Axel Stoltenberg and Catharina Stoltenberg. He was r ... |
Władysław Gomułka | ... social aims, the regime led by the Polish Communist Party's First Secretary | began to liberalize internal life in Poland. Several years of relative sta ... |
Che Guevara | ... cis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 | biopic Che. He lent his voice to the English version of the animated film ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... ennedy" coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, and | , Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at the Democratic conventi ... |
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 ... |
Titus | ... mpanions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flavius Vespasian and his son | , both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to surrender, but they ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1976 |
Mark Antony | ... the dictator's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague, | . Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and Marc ... |
Happy Chandler | ... dent of the PCL, took on baseball commissioners Kenesaw Mountain Landis and | at first to get better equity from the major leagues, then to form a third ... |
Diem | ... n from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. In 1955, by the order of Prime Minister | , the VNA crushed the armed forces of the Binh Xuyen |
Mark Antony | ... h of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played | . Most notably, in Carry On Cowboy, he adopted an American accent for his ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... he swore his son into office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents | and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Belisarius | ... ld and certainly would not pass up the opportunity. In 535, he commissioned | to attack the Ostrogoths. Belisarius quickly captured Sicily and then cros ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... s a minister in French governments, 1945–1958. He was minister of supply in | 's government (1945) and minister of public works (1947–1950) in various g ... |
Arlen Specter | ... the more conservative Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and more moderate Senator | of Pennsylvania. However populist Pat Buchanan upset Dole in the early New ... |
Lewis Cass | Cass County is named in honor of | , a Michigan senator and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the pres ... |
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 ... |
Cardinal d'Estouteville | ... 000 ducats, and a magnificent diamond worth 7,000 ducats, which was sent to | to cover monies he had advanced to the pontiff. The coin was not immediate ... |
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 ... |
Sarah Palin | Alaska Governor | was revealed as McCain's surprise choice for running mate on August 29, 20 ... |
Cerrone | ... in poor promotion. Jackson went on to record two duets; "Oops, Oh No!" with | , and "Yes, I'm Ready" with artist Jed. In 1987 Jackson was featured as a ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | In the late-fourteenth century, at broadly the same time that | included The Franklin's Tale, itself a Breton lai, in his Canterbury Tales ... |
Aristide Rinaldini | ... mfortable. Italian papers announced that on 15 April 1907, the papal nuncio | in Madrid would be replaced by Della Chiesa, who had worked there before. ... |
Earl R. Larson | ... n the later action Honeywell v. Sperry Rand. In that case's decision, Judge | found that "Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automat ... |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... nce Pants Rowland, the President of the PCL, took on baseball commissioners | and Happy Chandler at first to get better equity from the major leagues, t ... |
Theodosius | ... thraism came to an end with the anti-pagan decrees of the Christian emperor | during the last decade of the 4th century |
Władysław Gomułka | ... could gain complete control over Poland. Future General Secretary of PZPR, | , is quoted as saying: "Soldiers of AK are a hostile element which must be ... |
Bill Clinton | ... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and | have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Pierre Juneau | The Juno Awards are named in honor of | , the first President of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunicati ... |
Roger Ludlow | ... of the county, however, were Puritans and Congregationalists from England. | (1590–1664), one of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut, helped to p ... |
Chaim Herzog | ... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.) | placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ... |
Lord Justice Alan Ward | In a 1995 British court case, the Rt. Hon. | decided that the group, including some of its top leadership, had engaged ... |
Rachel Siewert | ... w South Wales, Richard Di Natale in Victoria, Larissa Waters in Queensland, | in Western Australia, Penny Wright in South Australia and Christine Milne ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Roman Zambrowski | ... t which must be removed without mercy." Another prominent Polish communist, | , said that AK had to be "exterminated. |
Otto von Bismarck | ... ppe Garibaldi, a general and national hero. In 1866 Prussian Prime Minister | offered Victor Emmanuel II an alliance with the Kingdom of Prussia in the ... |
Belisarius | ... onstantinople in 542. They also cover the early career of the Roman general | , Procopius' patron, in some detail. The next two books, the Vandal War (L ... |
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 ... |
Janet Reno | ... ers. McVeigh had indeed contemplated the assassinations of Attorney General | , Lon Horiuchi, and others in preference to attacking a building, and afte ... |
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 ... |
Silvano Maria Tomasi | ... oming more common than reinstatement.In a statement, read out by Archbishop | at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 22 Se ... |
Nicholas of Cusa | ... tant threat. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, many philosophers, such as | and Francisco Suarez, propounded similar theories. The church was the fina ... |
Salmon P. Chase | ... h alumni have served as justices on the Supreme Court of the United States: | and Levi Woodbury. Eugene Norman Veasey (class of 1954) served as the Chie ... |
Sir William Temple's | ... was appointed a commissioner of the treasury in March 1679, was included in | new modeled council the same year, and was a member of the inner cabinet w ... |
Mark Antony | ... colleague, Mark Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general | and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Caesar's best friend, established the Second ... |
Tony Hawks | In his book and TV series One Hit Wonderland, | united with Wisdom and, along with Sir Tim Rice, released a single, "Big I ... |
Bill Clinton | A similar study of Asian Americans in 1998 resulted in President | presenting 21 new Medals of Honor in 2000, including 20 to Japanese Americ ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... ontests held after IA, NH, MN, and SD. Despite a key endorsement by Senator | , one of many Republican senators who supported their leader, Dole was def ... |
Belisarius | ... etail. The next two books, the Vandal War (Latin De Bello Vandalico), cover | ' successful campaign against the Vandal kingdom in Roman Africa. The rema ... |
Vespasian | ... e with forty of his companions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flavius | and his son Titus, both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to su ... |
Levi Woodbury | ... as justices on the Supreme Court of the United States: Salmon P. Chase and | . Eugene Norman Veasey (class of 1954) served as the Chief Justice of Dela ... |
Charlemagne | In 812 Michael I reopened negotiations with the Franks, and recognized | as basileus (emperor) without saying anything else. In exchange for that r ... |
Pope Pius II | He was elected to succeed | by the accessus in the first ballot of the papal conclave of 1464 with a m ... |
Stephen Breyer | | , a U.S. Supreme Court Justice since 1994, divides the history of administ ... |
Augustus | ... ivine Augustus") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor | ' stewardship. It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which enco ... |
Jim Doyle | ... t Congressman, Mark Green, of Green Bay, ran against the incumbent Governor | . Green lost by 8% statewide, making Doyle the first Democratic Governor t ... |
Che Guevara | In 1965 Argentinian revolutionary | used the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training camp for guerrill ... |
Jimmy Carter | #Redirect | |
Bill Clinton | ... confidence in action", to which incumbent president and Democratic nominee | responded, "We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build ... |
Constantius II | ... osed a work entitled De errore profanarum religionum, which he dedicated to | and Constans, the sons of Constantine, and which is still extant. He holds ... |
Pius XII | ... his sermons mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of | or Paul VI. Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact t ... |
Gregory the Great's | According to | biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was ... |
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 Severus | ... t he flourished in the first half of the third century, during the reign of | (222–235) and his successors |
John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brown |
Nathaniel Pitcher | ... States. The population was 803 at the 2010 census. The town is named after | , a Lt. Governor of New York |
John Kerry | ... y William Keating. The state's senior member of the United States Senate is | , who became the senior Senator following the death of Senator Ted Kennedy ... |
Zeno | ... iginating with Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople and published by Emperor | with the view of allaying the strife between the Miaphysite Christians and ... |
William Bunn | ... named after Henry H. Bingham, a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of | , Idaho's Territorial Governor. As a young officer in the Civil War, Bingh ... |
Cassiodorus | ... n up, in his name and in the names of his successors, by his Roman minister | . The Goths seem to have been thick on the ground in northern Italy; in th ... |
Sarah Hanson-Young | ... Christine Milne in Tasmania. Incumbents Scott Ludlum in Western Australia, | in South Australia and Bob Brown in Tasmania were not due for re-election. ... |
Francisco Franco | ... , Israel, India, and undemocratic anti-communist states such as Spain under | , South Africa under apartheid, Greece under the military junta (1967–74), ... |
Alan Ward | ... COG publications and the testimony of numerous witnesses, Lord Justice Sir | said the following about Flirty Fishing |
Ted Kennedy | ... is John Kerry, who became the senior Senator following the death of Senator | on August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is Scott Brown, who won the special ... |
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 ... |
Denise van Outen | ... Beanstalk, alongside actors Neil Morrissey, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton, | and Julian Clary. The show was first broadcast 25 December 1998 on ITV1 an ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... n a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined the words monomyth and quark. | has been called "the king of neologistic poems" because of his poem, "Jabb ... |
Joe the Plumber | ... McCain compared Obama's proposed policies to socialism and often invoked " | " as a symbol of American small business dreams that would be thwarted by ... |
Scott Brown | ... the death of Senator Ted Kennedy on August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is | , who won the special election in 2010 following Ted Kennedy's death |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ef Butler of England for almost thirty years, and granddaughter of the poet | |
John Kerry | ... ate. Al Gore carried the presidential vote in 2000 by only 5,700 votes, and | won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, Barack Obama carr ... |
Joseph Stalin | After the death of | on March 5, 1953, Phil Horowitz commented on how the many titles which the ... |
Constantine I | ... a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of | and his successors |
Robert W. Ford | ... effectively organize and resist their imprisonment. British radio operator | and British army Colonel James Carne also claimed that the Chinese subject ... |
Christine Milne | ... d, Rachel Siewert in Western Australia, Penny Wright in South Australia and | in Tasmania. Incumbents Scott Ludlum in Western Australia, Sarah Hanson-Yo ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President | |
Andries Pretorius | ... nus Wessel Pretorius, elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader | , who commanded the Boers to victory at the Battle of Blood River |
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry | ... ijras, who number between 80,000 and 300,000 in Pakistan. In December 2009, | , the Chief Justice of Pakistan, ordered that the National Database and Re ... |
Bob Brown | ... cott Ludlum in Western Australia, Sarah Hanson-Young in South Australia and | in Tasmania were not due for re-election. The Greens also won their first ... |
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 ... |
Jean Giraudoux | ... ssigny in France's Haute-Marne department. His father-in-law was the writer | , who was married to Pineau's mother. Later, Christian Pineau would say th ... |
Pope Martin I | ... had formerly been occupied by Pope Vigilius in 547, the representatives of | , and Pope Agatho (while attending the Third Council of Constantinople). E ... |
legateship | Walter held a | from Pope Celestine III from 1195 to 1198, which enabled him to act with t ... |
Ian McKellen | ... be. In 1982, she appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and | . In 1984, Seymour appeared nude in the film Lassiter, co-starring Tom Sel ... |
Pius XI | ... as the first pope in decades not to have had either a diplomatic role (like | and John XXIII) or role (like Pius XII and Paul VI) in the Church |
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor | In 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 ... |
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 ... |
Titus Manlius Torquatus | ... e aware of their intentions and had reinforced the unpopular garrison under | to 20,000 infantry and 1,200 cavalry. These engaged and defeated the Carth ... |
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) ... |
John Kerry | ... 3 the hospital was the birthplace of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate | . Decommissioned in 1999, the facility is part of the Anschutz Medical Cam ... |
Chaucer | working pilgrims could assemble quite a collection, as mentioned by | in his 'Canterbury Tales' |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... urgery as well as therapy for lumbago, his cousin and former Prime Minister | staged a coup d'état and established a republican government. As a former ... |
Ivan Mazepa | ... an tsar. Stanisław did what he could to assist his patron. Thus, he induced | , the Cossack hetman, to desert Peter the Great at the most critical perio ... |
John Kerry | ... George W. Bush received 55.2% of the vote (14,069 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 43.0% (10,951 votes), with 25,480 ballots cast among ... |
Jephthah | The Bible affords many examples of vows. Thus in Judges 11. | 'vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the chil ... |
Henry Wellesley | ... e of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington's brother | and later - in one of the period's more celebrated scandals - married Well ... |
Rafael Merry del Val | ... ith the election of his opponent Pope Pius X, and was succeeded by Cardinal | , Della Chiesa was retained in his post |
Pope Gregory I | ... as born into a Roman senatorial family and was a great-great-grandfather of | . He was a widower with two children when he was elected to succeed Pope S ... |
Julius Caesar | ... – began about 449 BC and lasted the approximately 400 years to the death of | in 44 BC. Many historians mark the end of the Republic on the passage of a ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of Adolf Hitler and | , he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in human psychology. He ... |
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 ... |
Charles de Gaulle | A 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 Emperor | always strove to restore as much of the Western Roman Empire as he could a ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political philosophy of | and Samuel Pufendorf, and continued the study of law at Frankfurt an der O ... |
Lee Rhiannon | In 2005, the Greens' | lobbied the Vatican to reject Australian Cardinal George Pell as a candida ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... s death came just a little less than a week after Michael Kennedy, a son of | , died in a similar skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. After Bono's death ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ormed to oppose the Diem administration. The United States, under President | sent advisors and a great deal of financial support to aid the ARVN in com ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... efore the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August, 1963, Senator | railed against Rustin as a "Communist, draft-dodger, and homosexual," and ... |
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 Nehru | Robeson was one of four hosts who gave speeches to welcome | to Kingsway Hall to support his efforts in the Indian independence movemen ... |
Philip Hart | ... Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians Daniel Inouye and | ). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in his right hand ... |
Sandra Lee-Vercoe | At the London IWC meeting in 2001 | , the New Zealand delegate to the commission, accused Japan of buying vote ... |
William Longchamp | ... e Lucy to the see of Winchester, Richard FitzNeal to the see of London, and | to the see of Ely. The elevation of so many new bishops was probably meant ... |
Bill Clinton | ... udents were given the results of student and national polls indicating that | was in the lead. Others were not exposed to the results of the polls. Seve ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | The government of | increasingly distanced itself from the Afghan communists and the Soviet Un ... |
Bill Keating | ... tts's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by Democrat | . Massachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by se ... |
Charles Aznavour | In 1999, Costello contributed a version of "She", released in 1974 by | and Herbert Kretzmer, for the soundtrack of the film Notting Hill, with Tr ... |
Ii Naosuke | ... o the imperial palace, only a few minutes walk from the Sakurada gate where | had been assassinated 18 years earlier |
Ian McKellen | ... focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both | in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices. " ... |
chevron | ... conodonts in the phylum Chordata on the basis of their fins with fin rays, | -shaped muscles and notochord |
Julius Caesar | ... village in Armorica, a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC. | has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Empire. The little Armorica ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... heart of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, depicting Hitler and Soviet dictator | bowing politely before each other after their joint invasion of Poland, bu ... |
Ngo Dinh Diem | ... r 26, 1955, the military was reorganized by the administration of President | who then established the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). The air f ... |
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 ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s and sent them by steamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenants | and Robert Anderson |
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 ... |
Mariano Rampolla | ... which cardinals and high members of the Roman Curia were invited. Cardinal | took note of him and furthered his entry in the diplomatic service of the ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... lestinians working there and other Gulf States, such as Qatar (where he met | in 1961). These businessmen and oil workers contributed generously to the ... |
Charles N. Herreid | ... States. The population was 438 at the 2010 census. The city is named after | , who was the Governor of South Dakota when the town was founded in 1901 |
Salvador Allende | ... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate | for the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ... |
Tommy Thompson | ... gure in the early 1950s. Recent leading Republicans include former Governor | and Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include S ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... influence that became especially evident after the coup d'état that brought | to power in 1973: the coup was orchestrated by the Parcham faction of the ... |
Edwin M. Stanton | During the Civil War, Secretary of War | promised a Medal of Honor to every man in the 27th Maine Volunteer Infantr ... |
Kenneth Keating | ... nship. After Meir made her decision, at 10:15 am she met with US ambassador | in order to inform the United States that Israel did not intend to preempt ... |
Paul Cellucci | ... However the agreement did not alter either country's basic legal position. | , the American ambassador to Canada, in 2005 suggested to Washington that ... |
George H. W. Bush | In 1990, President | awarded Atanasoff the United States National Medal of Technology, the high ... |
Charlemagne | ... t of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d'Estaing was a multiple descendant of | |
Fred Thompson | ... Pundits credited the third-place finisher, Tennessee's former U.S. Senator | , with drawing votes from Huckabee in South Carolina, thereby giving a nar ... |
George Carteret | ... he Duke of York sold the area that is today New Jersey to John Berkeley and | for a proprietary colony, separate from the projected New York. The actual ... |
Philippikos Bardanes | The new emperor | was an adherent of Monothelitism, rejected the arrangements of the Third C ... |
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 ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... he bones of one British grenadier" was an echo of a famous sentence used by | : "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian ... |
Pope Gregory I | ... St Augustine of Hippo), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by | on a mission to the English. He was accepted by King Æthelbert, on his con ... |
Francisco Franco | ... cts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Spanish dictator | "harmonizing" and getting along quite well. When this cartoon was publishe ... |
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 ... |
Chaucer's | ... critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with | Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Age ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William Tryon | ... County now includes 37 counties of New York State. The county was named for | , colonial governor of New York |
Bill Clinton | ... mocrat to win a majority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although | and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
Geraldine Ferraro | ... presidential nominee Walter Mondale and defended vice presidential nominee | from criticism over being a pro-choice Catholic, but Reagan was re-elected ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | Florence was established by | in 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ... |
William Seward | ... newspaper, the Jeffersonian, which reached 15,000 circulation. Whig leader | found him "rather unmindful of social usages, yet singularly clear, origin ... |
Gratian | ... f Ávila, and the orthodox party found it necessary to appeal to the emperor | us, who issued an edict threatening the sectarian leaders with banishment. ... |
Herman De Croo | ... is 56.46 km² which gives a population density of 243 per km². The mayor is | |
Julian the Apostate | ... the poor had to cope with ever-degrading bronze pieces. Later emperors like | tried to present themselves as advocates of the humiles by insisting on tr ... |
Andries W. J. Pretorius | ... and his comrades were occupied by other Boers. These were joined in 1848 by | , who became commandant of the Potchefstroom settlers |
Ilham Aliyev | President | 's ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party got a majority of 73 out of 125 seats. The ... |
Rhadamanthus | After his death, Aeacus became (along with the Cretan brothers | and Minos) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especi ... |
Bolesław Bierut | ... d. The People's Republic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as | and Konstantin Rokossovsky |
Daniel O'Connell | ... alist T. Ryle Dwyer has called him "the most popular Irish politician since | . |
Happy Chandler | ... ation, and his death in 1944 (and subsequent replacement as Commissioner by | ) removed a major obstacle for black players in the major leagues |
Bill Clinton | President | performed the song on saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall ... |
Mary Robinson | ... had been built on for the visit of King George V in 1911. However, in 1990 | moved back to the older main building. Her successor, Mary McAleese lived ... |
Philip Hart | ... Center in honor of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, | and Daniel Inouye |
Jimmy Carter | ... l Cody), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by President | in 1977. Cody and four other civilian scouts who rendered distinguished se ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... mber 1980, the highest in history. By the time of 1980, when U.S. President | was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the s ... |
Bob Brown | ... l election, with a net increase of one Senator to a total of five. Senators | (Tas) and Kerry Nettle (NSW) were up for re-election, Brown was re-elected ... |
Pablo Neruda | ... influenced by artists like Violeta Parra, Atahualpa Yupanqui, and the poet | . Jara began his foray into folklore in the mid-1950s when he began singin ... |
Jude Kelly | ... t had wanted to play the title role since the age of 14, so he and director | inverted the play so Othello became a comment on a white man entering a bl ... |
John Lyng | ... 's Party and a centre-right minority coalition government was formed, under | . Although this new government lasted only three weeks, until the Socialis ... |
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 ... |
Konstantin Rokossovsky | ... blic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as Bolesław Bierut and | |
Justinian I | ... ity of Rome. Their kingdom collapsed in the Vandalic War of 533–4, in which | managed to reconquer the Africa province for the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ecipients be upgraded to the Medal of Honor. On January 13, 1997, President | presented the medal to seven African American World War II veterans. With ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Augustus | The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, | prepared a rationarium (account) which listed public revenues, the amounts ... |
Patricio Lynch | ... pied Lima during the War of the Pacific in 1881, they put in charge certain | , whose grandfather came from Ireland to Argentina and then moved to Chile ... |
Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lord Camden | ... the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in honor of | , the champion of colonial rights |
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major | ... urce of manpower for the Carthaginian army, a second Roman expedition under | took New Carthage by assault and ended Carthaginian rule over Iberia in th ... |
Reginald Pole | ... ed only in the order of cardinal deacons. For example, in the 16th century, | was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest. In 1917 it wa ... |
John Nance Garner | ... politics in Texas (Operation Texas) and the machinations of Vice President | and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Johnson was immediately appointed to ... |
François Georges-Picot | ... doux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat | , and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by ... |
Cassius Dio | The Roman historians Suetonius and | record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium (account) which list ... |
Walter Mondale | ... ded not to run. Kennedy campaigned hard for Democratic presidential nominee | and defended vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro from criticism ov ... |
Quirinius | ... ewish High Priests of the time, Pharisees and Essenes, the Herodian Temple, | ' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the ... |
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 ... |
Elagabalus' | Urban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of the Roman Emperor | assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus. It is beli ... |
Reina | The | administration successfully increased civilian control over the armed forc ... |
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 ... |
Decian | Following the | persecution of 250–251, there was disagreement about how to treat those wh ... |
William Paterson | ... t had employed Tories. Haswell was found guilty of seditious libel by judge | , and sentenced to a two month imprisonment and a $200 fine |
Charlemagne | ... e returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. Florence was conquered by | in 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 ... |
JC Chasez | ... de 2: "Let's Eat Cake". Music from former MMC members Justin Timberlake and | of 'N Sync also was originally used during several opening title sequences ... |
Edwin Corr | ... ly attempted to block the appointment of Rosanne Ridgway, Richard Burt, and | as ambassadors, arguing that Shultz was appointing diplomats that were not ... |
Vespasian | ... states that it was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph of | and Titus. The menorah probably remained in the Temple of Peace in Rome un ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... he Gaullists and left the majority coalition. The CNIP reproached President | with his euro-scepticism. But Giscard refused to resign and founded the In ... |
Judson Kilpatrick | ... War, the Battle of Hanover was fought on June 30, 1863. Union cavalry under | encountered Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart and a sharp fight ensu ... |
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 ... |
LeRoy Pope | ... land around the Big Spring in 1805. The area was subsequently purchased by | , who named the area Twickenham after the home village of his distant kins ... |
Howard Baker | ... irman of the Finance Committee in 1981, serving until 1985. From 1985, when | of Tennessee retired, until his resignation from the Senate, Dole was the ... |
Sarah Hanson-Young | ... ates were Larissa Waters (Qld), Richard Di Natale (Vic), Scott Ludlam (WA), | (SA) and Kerrie Tucker (ACT). Ludlam and Hanson-Young were elected and too ... |
Rosanne Ridgway | ... es, led by Helms. They unsuccessfully attempted to block the appointment of | , Richard Burt, and Edwin Corr as ambassadors, arguing that Shultz was app ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | Heinrich Himmler, together with his right-hand man, | , consolidated the power of the organization. In 1931, Himmler gave Heydri ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... . It was named for the only President of the Confederate States of America, | . The 2007 Census Estimate showed a population of 13,291. The county seat ... |
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 ... |
Domhnall Ua Buachalla | ... -General of the Irish Free State until 1932, when the new Governor-General, | , was installed in a specially hired private mansion in the southside of D ... |
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 ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... .. did not feel that the group attracted the wrong element". Vice President | said 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 leaders | and Lycurgus which once graced the exedra whose political message was one ... |
Plutarch | ... device appeared. A description of how it operated is not known from before | (50-120 AD) |
Pietro Gasparri | ... aw of the Roman Catholic Church, the creation of which he had prepared with | and Eugenio Pacelli during the pontificate of Pius X. The new Code of Cano ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... writers than those experiencing it at first hand. The first major figure is | , a minor aristocrat who had remained a royalist throughout the Revolution ... |
Valens | ... of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor | and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alan ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and | ' La Gitanilla.The Romani were also heavily romanticized in the Soviet Uni ... |
Thorvald Stoltenberg | Stoltenberg grew up in a political family. His father, | , is one of the most prominent politicians in Norway and a former Foreign ... |
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres | ... ting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait. Its first Lieutenant-Governor was | (1784–1787) and his successor was William Macarmick (1787). From 1799 to 1 ... |
Diocletian | ... , the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre. The Emperor | is said to have made Florentia the seat of a bishopric around the beginnin ... |
Aleksander Zawadzki | ... scated and were placed under restrictive jurisdiction. The Silesian voivode | in part expropriated the property of the German Silesians already on 26 Ja ... |
Charles Aznavour | ... night. The city has played host to many world-famous musical acts including | , Cher, Serj Tankian, Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep P ... |
Ian McKellen | ... oby Stephens (who played villain Gustav Graves in Die Another Day) as Bond, | as Goldfinger and Stephens' Die Another Day co-star Rosamund Pike as Pussy ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... he ACLU were divided on the best tactics to use to promote civil liberties. | felt that legislation was the best long-term solution, because the Supreme ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cassiodorus | ... the capital of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. According to | , he taught Latin at Constantinople |
Vyacheslav Molotov | ... United Opposition. In May 1926, Stalin, weighing his options in a letter to | , directed his supporters to concentrate their attacks on Zinoviev since t ... |
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, and | his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... ike many young writers of his generation, Hugo was profoundly influenced by | , the famous figure in the literary movement of Romanticism and France's p ... |
John Milton | ... to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet | in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates |
Heinrich Ernst Göring | ... January 1893 at the Marienbad sanatorium in Rosenheim, Bavaria. His father, | (31 October 1839–7 December 1913), a former cavalry officer, had been the ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 15 December 1969, he was appointed Patriarch of Venice by | and took possession of the archdiocese on 3 February 1970. Pope Paul creat ... |
Yuri Andropov | The project was a blow to | 's so-called "peace offensive". Andropov said that "It is time they [Washi ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... Iowa Territory. Some settlers started drifting into Iowa in 1833. President | on July 4, 1838, signed the U.S. Congress laws establishing the Territory ... |
Ambassador to El Salvador | ... ate him instantly." Helms opposed the appointment of Thomas R. Pickering as | . alleged that the CIA had interfered in the Salvadoran election March and ... |
Christine Milne | In November 2008, Senator | was elected Deputy Leader. The ballot was also contested by Senator Rachel ... |
Belisarius | ... CE, and taken to their capital, Carthage. The Byzantine army under General | might have removed it in 533 and brought it to Constantinople. According t ... |
William Keating | ... assachusetts's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by | . The state's senior member of the United States Senate is John Kerry, who ... |
John Adams | According to US President | , Ponet's work contained "all the essential principles of liberty, which w ... |
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 ... |
Charles Evans Hughes | ... milton County has been won by every Republican presidential candidate since | in 1916. In 1912, Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson had carried the county ... |
Robert Bork | ... gest battles in the Senate came with Reagan's July 1987 nomination of Judge | to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy saw a possible Bork appointment as lead ... |
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 ... |
Golda Meir | ... tember 25, Hussein secretly flew to Tel Aviv to warn Israeli Prime Minister | of an impending Syrian attack. "Are they going to war without the Egyptian ... |
Julius Caesar | ... y, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor Augustus (as adopted son of | ). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of Vespasian). Aug ... |
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 ... |
Ranulf de Glanvill | Walter owed his early advancement to his uncle | , who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer. Walter served King Henry ... |
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 ... |
Franz von Papen | ... e from the memoirs of Ernst Junger ("Storm of Steel") and future Chancellor | indicates severe German casualties during the attritional fighting of the ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... DPA, حزب دیموکراتیک خلق افغانستان) orchestrated a bloody coup assassinating | , his family and bodyguards and consequently assuming power. The PDPA soon ... |
Severus | ... It was not to be: Constantius and Galerius were promoted to Augusti, while | and Maximin were appointed their Caesars respectively. Constantine and Max ... |
Rachel Siewert | ... e Milne was elected Deputy Leader. The ballot was also contested by Senator | |
Makino Nobuaki | ... f Japan, is a great-great-grandson of Ōkubo Toshimichi. Ōkubo's second son, | , served as Foreign Minister |
Constantius | ... vasion fleet was destroyed by storms in 289 or 290. Maximian's subordinate, | , campaigned against Carausius' successor, Allectus, while Maximian held t ... |
William H. Crawford | | (1772–1834) - U.S. Minister to France, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secreta ... |
Lucius Junius Brutus | ... when the last of the seven kings of Rome, Tarquin the Proud, was deposed by | , and a system based on annually elected magistrates and various represent ... |
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 ... |
Lord Lothian | ... rt, son of Frederick and Nettie, served as personal assistant to Ambassador | and supervisor of American Relief to Great Britain through the British emb ... |
Bill Clinton | ... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of | , remarking, "There is no crisis in health care. |
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 ... |
Pompey | ... dentified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as Caesar (100–44 BC) and | (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a sta ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Egyptian president | , a leader of the Free Officers Movement, agreed to allow the United Natio ... |
Ali Osman Taha | | | |National Congres |
Robert Ley | ... the raid took several turns. Initially, some of the leadership, especially | and Joseph Goebbels, wanted to use it as a pretext for abandonment of the ... |
King Clovis I | ... ed the first adoption of the fleur-de-lis to the conversion of the Frankish | in 493. The story takes various forms, many of which relate to Clovis' con ... |
Archibald Cox | ... cre", U.S. President Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor | , following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixo ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
Valentinian III | Olybrius married Placidia, younger daughter of Western Emperor | and of his wife Licinia Eudoxia, thus creating a bond between a member of ... |
Nehru | ... ile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and 31 December 1953. Prime Minister | of India voiced the heightened international concern in 1954, when he prop ... |
Plutarch | ... ere is no evidence as to the stringing of the Greek lyre in the heroic age. | says that Olympus and Terpander used but three strings to accompany their ... |
Belisarius | ... h a rebellion. As a result, the armies of the Byzantine Empire commanded by | were able to land unopposed from Carthage. Gelimer quickly assembled an ar ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... n envelope of anti-government materials that included a bumper sticker with | slogan, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the ... |
Albert Speer | During his post-war interrogation, | , Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich, indicated ... |
Shen Kuo | ... uncing special times of the day. There was also the scientist and statesman | (1031–1095). Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo ... |
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin | ... eated in 1851, and was officially named after Erasmus D. Campbell, a former | . Today, the Town of Campbell is confined to part of a large island border ... |
William Cecil | ... knighted in 1583. An early arrangement to marry Anne Cecil, daughter of Sir | and eventual wife of de Vere, had fallen through in 1571. In 1583, he marr ... |
Thomas More | After his return he settled in London—where he became friends with | —as a private teacher of grammar, and is believed to have been the first w ... |
Robert Bork | On October 20, 1973 Solicitor General | was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President Richard ... |
Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
Publius Valerius Publicola | ... the forces of Veii returned home. Livy writes that later in 509 BC, consul | returned to fight the Veientes. It is unclear whether this was continuing ... |
Thomas More | ... Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (1494), Erasmus' Moriae Encomium (1509) and | 's Utopia (1516) |
Erasmus D. Campbell | The town was originally created in 1851, and was officially named after | , a former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. Today, the Town of Campbell i ... |
Desmond O'Malley | ... city. He continued to speak on political issues, particularly in favour of | at the time of his expulsion from Fianna Fáil. Lynch also declined to acce ... |
Hugo Black | ... an era lasting for a dozen years, during which Roosevelt appointees (led by | , William O. Douglas, and Frank Murphy) established a body of civil libert ... |
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 ... |
Su Song | ... l hour, the device was also a striking clock. The famous clock tower of the | built by 1094 during the Song Dynasty would employ Yi Xing's escapement wi ... |
Sheila Fraser | ... n and the Liberals were adversely affected by a report from Auditor General | on February 9, 2004, indicating that sponsorship contracts designed to inc ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... rnment. The rigidity of interpretive possibilities reached its height under | |
Eleanor Roosevelt | ... replaced by the more staid Jesse Dunn Hall, which was dedicated in 1937 by | |
Mahlon Dickerson | ... nd the township had some of the richest sources of iron ore in the country. | , who was New Jersey's 12th Governor, and his family owned the Dickerson M ... |
Olaus Magnus | ... of Johannes Schefferus, Acta Lapponica (1673), but was also used earlier by | in his Description of the Northern peoples (1555). There is another sugges ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... io series of six episodes (called "Fits" after the names of the sections of | 's nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... of Balls Bluff took place near Leesburg on October 21, 1861. Future jurist | was critically wounded in that battle along the Potomac River. During the ... |
Bhajan Lal | ... tion of protests in Delhi during the Asian Games. The Congress leaders like | ordered selective frisking of Sikh visitors to Delhi, which was seen as hu ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... and the spurious “socialist” Mensheviks in the Petrograd Soviet. Guided by | 's leadership and his firm grasp of scientific Marxist theory, the Party l ... |
Wonder Woman | ... feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character | . Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (who live ... |
U.S. Minister | ... 81, during a time of violence and political corruption. He was appointed as | to the Ottoman Empire from 1881 to 1885 |
Pope Gregory VII | ... on, where he was joined by the young monk Hildebrand, who afterwards became | ; arriving in pilgrim garb at Rome in the following February, he was recei ... |
Ramsey Clark | Nicholas Katzenbach (1964–1965), | (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as acting attorney general i ... |
Islam Karimov | | | |
Thomas Jefferson | ... osition to them resulted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by | and James Madison, which were foundational to the states rights theory tha ... |
Roy Bean | ... son in the county, was also started in 1882, but is now a ghost town. Judge | is said to have operated a saloon at Sanderson. The oil and gas industry b ... |
Charles W. Cole | # | , 1946—196 |
Charles Haughey | ... convinced that he had enough support to defeat the other likely candidate, | , and that Lynch should resign early to catch his opponents on the hop. Ly ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President | 's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ... |
Bill Clinton | ... n a majority in the county before 2008 was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although | won 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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of | , was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused Geor ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... ipation to a possible return to F1 with Ferrari, Formula One world champion | did some preparation driving a kart in Lonato, Italy. Schumacher also race ... |
Ryutaro Hashimoto | ... ita was sidelined by the Recruit scandal, the Tanaka faction rallied behind | , who led the Tanaka faction (now called the Hashimoto faction) until scan ... |
Rachel Siewert | ... them two additional Senate seats, taken by Christine Milne in Tasmania and | in Western Australia, taking the total to four. However, the success of th ... |
Hjalmar Schacht | ... ritish Treasury. He was a close friend of the German Central Bank president | and the godfather to one of Schacht's grandchildren. Both were members of ... |
Mohamed Farrah Aidid | ... 1991 to Kenya. One faction proclaimed Ali Mahdi Muhammad president, another | . A contingent of United States Marines landed near Mogadishu on December ... |
Shirley Temple | The 7th Annual Academy Awards recognized | with the Academy's first Juvenile Award to honor "her outstanding contribu ... |
Christine Milne | ... centage points to 7.2%. This won them two additional Senate seats, taken by | in Tasmania and Rachel Siewert in Western Australia, taking the total to f ... |
Bill Clinton | ... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President | . Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ... |
Scott Tipton | ... ch has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+5 and is represented by Republican | . In the Colorado Senate it is in District 5 and is represented by Gail Sc ... |
John Kerry | ... eceived 49.9% of the vote in South Hackensack (499 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 48.5% (485 votes), with 999 ballots cast among the t ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, | , at the party's leadership convention in 1958 |
Thomas Jefferson | The presidents selected by the party were | (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ... |
James Baker | ... rn personalities visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State | and Pope John Paul II. The former visit came amidst an historical setting ... |
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 ... |
William O. Douglas | ... ng for a dozen years, during which Roosevelt appointees (led by Hugo Black, | , and Frank Murphy) established a body of civil liberties law. In 1938, Ju ... |
Ricimer | ... a puppet ruler, put on the throne by the Roman general of Germanic descent | , and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held b ... |
William Brennan | ... part of the most liberal wing of the Court, together with Warren, Douglas, | , and Arthur Goldberg. They said the Court had a role beyond that of Congr ... |
Jimmy Fitzmorris | ... opponent in the Democratic primary runoff was Louisiana Lieutenant Governor | , who was supported by most of the municipal political establishment. Runn ... |
Lazar Kaganovich | ... t recognized building, Saint Basil's Cathedral, as well. The legend is that | , Stalin's associate and director of the Moscow reconstruction plan, prepa ... |
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 ... |
Charles Curtis | ... rity coalesced to give him the nomination on the first ballot, with Senator | named as his running mate |
Cassius Dio | ... he Romans eventually captured it and killed all the defenders. According to | , 580,000 Jews were killed, 50 fortified towns and 985 villages razed. Yet ... |
Plutarch | ... ries of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and | , none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several centuries after ... |
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 ... |
David T. Caldwell | Former Second Judicial District Court Judge | (1925–1993), based in Jonesboro, was born in Saline and graduated from Sal ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley and some other party factions feared that | could not unite the party, and so encouraged Ted Kennedy to make himself a ... |
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 ... |
Truman | ... tten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by the | Administration, although it can be said that the committee's investigation ... |
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 ... |
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Jawaharlal Nehru | ... , into the politically influential Nehru Family. Indira Gandhi's father was | and her mother was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a prom ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... lavius Anicius Probus (suggested by Settipani) or, according to some clues, | |
Julius Caesar | ... m Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were defeated at Lawrenceburg by | 's armies and then sent back. The alpine region became integrated into the ... |
Harlan F. Stone | ... d Frank Murphy) established a body of civil liberties law. In 1938, Justice | wrote the famous "footnote four" in United States v. Carolene Products Co. ... |
James Monroe | | constructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ... |
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 ... |
Martin McGuinness | ... tish government's decision to ban a documentary featuring an interview with | of Sinn Féin. The External Services were renamed under the BBC World Servi ... |
John Gomery | ... stigate what has come to be known as the Sponsorship Scandal, and nominated | to head it |
Justice John Paul Stevens | ... Justice Harry Blackmun and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor joined in full, and | joined in part. Justice Blackmun wrote an opinion concurring in the judgme ... |
Thomas Jefferson | | , who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ... |
Gurdial Singh Dhillon | ... writing. In the 1980 election, Bhindranwale supported Congress-I candidates | and Raghunandan Lal Bhatia. Bhindranwale was originally not very influenti ... |
Walter Bower | Among the Abbots of Inchcolm was the 15th-century chronicler | |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... ther, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, | , was a pivotal figure in the independence movement of India |
Edmund Hillary | ... inal assault on the summit with its second climbing pair, the New Zealander | and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali sherpa climber from Darjeeling, India. They r ... |
Rod Blagojevich | ... he Capitol Steps, poking fun at Illinois politics, especially then-Governor | . The Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps performs the "Bottle Dance ... |
Emperor Julian | ... ated succession. He also had two daughters, Constantina and Helena, wife of | |
William H. Seward | ... izenship. Lincoln accepted the offer, writing (with his Secretary of State, | ) in reply that San Marino proved that "government founded on republican p ... |
George McGovern | ... nomination. He also declined consideration for the vice-presidential spot. | remained the symbolic standard-bearer for Robert's delegates instead |
Jefferson Davis | ... apital of the Confederate States of America within the space of a few days. | and the temporary Capital moved to the palatial home of William T. Sutherl ... |
Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius | ... which gathers the consensus of the historians, he was related to the Consul | , whose wife and cousin, Anicia Juliana, had the same name Olybrius gave t ... |
Theodosius II | ... ilitum Orestes and his pretender son Romulus Augustulus in 476. In the East | also barred the eunuchs from holding it, although this restriction had bee ... |
Frank Murphy | ... ring which Roosevelt appointees (led by Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and | ) established a body of civil liberties law. In 1938, Justice Harlan F. St ... |
Fred M. Vinson | The city was home to | , 13th Chief Justice of the United States |
Justinian I | Byzantine Emperor | declared war, with the stated intention of restoring Hilderic to the Vanda ... |
U Thant | ... in September 1975. The UNU creation was set in motion by Secretary-General | in 1969. Over the years, several Institutes of UNU were created to help wi ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... e only major city in which rioting did not occur. Many credit the speech by | , who was in town campaigning for President that night, for helping to cal ... |
Alexander W. Terrell | ... population was 984. Its county seat is Sanderson. The county was named for | , a Texas state senator. It is the setting for Cormac McCarthy's novel No ... |
Wells Spicer | ... watchmaker from New York, one of three men implicated in the robbery. Judge | issued an arrest warrant for Holliday. The Earps found witnesses who could ... |
Justice Byron White | ... Anthony Kennedy, Justice David Souter, and Justice Clarence Thomas joined. | wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Harry Blackmun ... |
Zhang Qian | ... 14 BCE by the Han dynasty, largely through the missions and explorations of | , but earlier trade routes across the continents already existed. In the l ... |
John Nance Garner | Red River County is the birthplace of | , 32nd Vice President of the United States. B.P. Newman (1927–2008), a Tex ... |
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 ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... ssian Germans, along with all other farms and businesses, when Stalin ended | 's New Economic Policy in 1929 and began the forced collectivization of ag ... |
consulate | ... rius' career: in 464 the Eastern court chose him for the high honour of the | |
Omar al-Bashir | ... ritarian state where all effective political power is obtained by President | and the ruling National Congress Party (NCO) |
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, ... |
Loukas Notaras | Anna Notaras, daughter of the last Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire | , after the fall of Constantinople and her emigration to Italy, made a sea ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, and | were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady Dolley ... |
Michael Mukasey | ... nominee. Keisler served as acting attorney general until the nomination of | on November 9, 2007 |
Jules Cambon | ... ded August 13, 1898, after President William McKinley and French Ambassador | , acting on behalf of the Spanish government, signed an armistice. Spain c ... |
Gabrielle Giffords | The attempted assassination of Representative | , and the murders of chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, ... |
John Cornyn | ... entative Rick Noriega of Houston, who failed to unseat Republican incumbent | |
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 ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | According to Israeli sources, at the start of the war on June 5, General | (then IDF Chief of Staff) informed Commander Ernest Carl Castle, the Ameri ... |
Serafino Mazzolini | ... Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to | , a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dema ... |
Oliver Ellsworth | ... met in Philadelphia was dominated by strong-government advocates. Delegate | of Connecticut argued that because the people could not be trusted (as exe ... |
Joe Clark | ... e government, though they were now in a minority situation, the first since | 's tenure in 1979-80 |
Bill Clinton | ... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President | |
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 ... |
Learned Hand | ... by Morris Ernst, appealed her conviction and won a reversal, in which judge | ruled that the pamphlet's main purpose was to "promote understanding" |
Albert Speer | ... his part of the trial, Göring claimed that he was not antisemitic; however, | reported that in the prison yard at Nuremberg, after someone made a remark ... |
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor | ... ote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Harry Blackmun and | joined in full, and Justice John Paul Stevens joined in part. Justice Blac ... |
Eleftherios Venizelos | ... han 14 million travellers annually and its name honours the Greek statesman | . The airport has become increasingly popular as a gateway to Asia and the ... |
Augustus | ... imen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to Caesar's murderers and to | hardly pass beyond the conventional style of the writer's day. The only pa ... |
Till Brönner | ... their first two albums, re-arranged by Grammy Award-nominated jazz musician | . Critically acclaimed by critics, the album reached number nine of the Ge ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... purchase Lockheed L-1011 aircraft (the Lockheed bribery scandals). Although | tried to stop the details from making their way to the Japanese government ... |
Dolley Madison | ... fferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady | is also closely associated with the early history of ice cream in the Unit ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... date in Presidential elections. The last Republican to carry the county was | in 1924. In the last five Presidential elections the Democratic candidate ... |
Yashwant Sinha | ... term of five years. Vajpayee and his economic team, led by Finance Minister | , continuing the policies initiated by the previous Congress Government un ... |
President Jimmy Carter | ... process. There was a hopeful precedent in the 1978 Camp David Accords where | was able to broker a peace agreement between Egypt, represented by Preside ... |
Justice Anthony Kennedy | ... livered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice William Rehnquist, | , Justice David Souter, and Justice Clarence Thomas joined. Justice Byron ... |
Mao Zedong | ... n principles of guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of | and Che Guevara. His forces were considered the most effective of all the ... |
Walworth Barbour | ... In a message sent from U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk to U.S. Ambassador | , in Tel Aviv, Israel, Rusk asked for "urgent confirmation" of Israel's cl ... |
Lucien Bouchard | ... om the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founder | was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government ... |
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 ... |
Sejanus | ... ich can fairly be called fulsome is the violently rhetorical tirade against | |
Sarah Palin | ... ia as his "Sedona Cabin," is where he and his running-mate, Alaska governor | , prepared for their debates |
Ottobuon | ... wing him to regain control of the country and the Tower of London. Cardinal | came to England to excommunicate those who were still rebellious; the act ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... Drivers' Championships — a record which stood for 46 years until bested by | — with four different teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Masera ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Gandhi was the only child of | , the first prime minister of independent India. She adhered to the quasi- ... |
Robert Ellicott | ... to dismiss Whitlam during October. On 16 October, the Liberal frontbencher, | (a former Commonwealth Solicitor-General) published with Fraser's approval ... |
Plutarch | ... , Romulus, the Fidenates and the Veientes were defeated in a war with Rome. | , Life of Romulus, says of them: The first (to oppose Romulus) were the Ve ... |
John Bruton | ... President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh | , Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey, and various political persons from ... |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | ... invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to | , German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini ... |
Justice David Souter | ... e court, in which Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Anthony Kennedy, | , and Justice Clarence Thomas joined. Justice Byron White wrote an opinion ... |
Sumner Welles | ... er 18, 1931. The doctrine was also invoked by U.S. Under-Secretary of State | in a declaration of July 23, 1940 that announced non-recognition of the So ... |
Ricimer | ... minated the state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and | . Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after ... |
Associate Justice | ... ely of Federalists, all appointed by Washington. Many of them, particularly | Samuel Chase, were openly hostile to the Federalists' opponents. Individua ... |
consul | Aspar attained the | ship in 434 after campaigning in Africa. However, Aspar could not become e ... |
Pope Pius II | The city came again under papal jurisdiction under the rule of | (1458–1464) |
Julian | In the year AD 363, the Emperor | 's invasion of Persia was turned back by a scorched earth policy |
Bob Dole | ... who also happened to be the wife of long-time colleague and former Senator | of Kansas. Dole held the seat for a single term, losing her 2008 re-electi ... |
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 ... |
Pierre Trudeau | Guests came from all walks of life, including politicians like | and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Ho ... |
Justice Clarence Thomas | ... stice William Rehnquist, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice David Souter, and | joined. Justice Byron White wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, w ... |
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 ... |
Montgomery Blair | ... e her birth and subsequent adoption. This would make her a granddaughter of | , Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddau ... |
Arthur Goldberg | ... nd British were supporting Israel in the conflict, United States Ambassador | announced that the U.S. forces were hundreds of miles from the conflict. A ... |
Minos | ... ] "most" and αδνος [adnos] "holy"), in Greek mythology, was the daughter of | king of Crete, and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan. ... |
Elefthérios Venizélos | ... ral Athens ( by road, due to intervening hills). The airport is named after | , the prominent Cretan political figure and Prime Minister of Greece, who ... |
Janet Reno | ... orted the Brady bill and was in office in the beginnings of the Waco siege. | , President Clinton's nominee for attorney general, was confirmed on March ... |
Commodus | ... the prow of a boat;" Gisela Richter noted coins of Elaeus from the time of | that show on their reverses Protesilaus on the prow of a ship, in helmet, ... |
Rick Lazio | ... is represented by Steve Israel. A Democrat, Israel won the seat vacated by | in 2000 when he made his unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. The third d ... |
Charlemagne | ... o have arranged the transfer of the hall's columns from a decayed palace of | from Ingelheim to Heidelberg |
Charles Haughey | ... e, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and | , and various political persons from all parties. The coffin was then flow ... |
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 ... |
Rehnquist | ... regulation. It was thus seen as a (narrow) victory for federalism when the | Court reined in federal regulatory power in United States v. Lopez (1995) ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... initiated by the previous Congress Government under P. V. Narasimha Rao and | , pushed through major privatizations of big government corporations, the ... |
Yoda | ... alculator (with reverse Polish notation, which meant that Erwin talked like | for weeks afterward), a Lego Mindstorms construction, a Tamagotchi, a Segw ... |
Aetius | ... as Oost believed in his article. Regardless, the powerful Magister militum | had forced Valentinian to betroth Placidia to his own son Gaudentius, so O ... |
Justice Antonin Scalia | | delivered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice William Rehnqui ... |
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | ... onathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and | . This club included several of the notable satirists of early 18th centur ... |
Samuel Pepys | At 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, and | planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The Lewis and Clark Expedi ... |
Joannes | ... ucial role in his father's expedition in 424 to defeat the western usurper, | of Ravenna, and to install Galla Placidia and her son, Valentinian III, in ... |
William B. Saxbe | ... and fired Cox. He remained acting attorney general until the appointment of | on December 17, 1973 |
John Quincy Adams | ... y") lead to the founding of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by | and Henry Clay, formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it e ... |
Che Guevara | ... guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of Mao Zedong and | . His forces were considered the most effective of all the various Afghan ... |
John Jay | In early 1787 | wrote that the rural disturbances and the inability of the central governm ... |
Joseph Estrada | On 2000, then President | ordered the AFP to launch an "all-out war" against the Moro Islamic Libera ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... t Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG). He had asked | for this appointment shortly after becoming Governor-General in 1974, but ... |
Tiberius | ... thor of a collection of historical anecdotes. He worked during the reign of | (14 AD to 37 AD) |
Truman | ... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the | administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption. |
Jimmy Carter | ... ited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President | from 1979–1981 |
John Jay | ... and the republican interest." In New York, the candidates for governor were | , a Federalist, and incumbent George Clinton, who was allied with Jefferso ... |
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 ... |
Zhou Enlai | ... is suppressions, which had damaged the CPC immensely. Some of them, such as | and Zhang Wentian, did realize it could bring more damage to the anti-Japa ... |
Ban Chao | ... armies. However, Tanshihuai's confederation disintegrated after his death. | (d. 102 CE) enlisted the aid of the Kushan Empire, occupying the area of m ... |
Daniel O'Connell | Jack Lynch has been described as "the most popular Irish politician since | ." This praise did not come from Lynch's allies or even his own party, but ... |
Walter Patterson | The first British governor of St. John's Island, | , was appointed in 1769. Assuming office in 1770, he had a controversial c ... |
Evan Bayh | ... ican candidate some the state's highest percentage results. Even US senator | , in spite of his landslide victories in 1998 and 2004, had failed to carr ... |
Constantine the Great | The First Council of Nicea was convened by | upon the recommendations of a synod led by Hosius of Córdoba in the Easter ... |
Gerald Ford | President | 's mother Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford and maternal grandfather Levi Addison ... |
Edward Thornton | ... was imminent. Before leaving Uruguaiana, he received the British ambassador | , who publicly apologized on behalf of Queen Victoria and the British Gove ... |
Condoleezza Rice | ... dictatorship in the heart of Europe" by the former U.S. Secretary of State | . He and other Belarusian officials are also subject of the s imposed by t ... |
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 |
Desmond O'Malley | ... he biggest crowds in the city's history. Lynch's friend and political ally, | , delivered the graveside oration, paying tribute to Lynch's sense of dece ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... n dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator | , and other leaders of his times |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... us Islamist leaders, including senior Hamas founder Mahmoud Zahar, met with | as part of "regular consultations" between Israeli officials and Palestini ... |
Stilicho | ... century, to the powerful magistri militum who dominated the state, such as | , Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoac ... |
Lester Maddox | ... on WISC-TV who was later to run for U.S. vice president with segregationist | . Dyke was viewed by students as a direct antagonist in efforts to protest ... |
Caesar | ... a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to | 's murderers and to Augustus hardly pass beyond the conventional style of ... |
Elliot Richardson | ... is Oval Office conversations. Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General | , to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Deputy ... |
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 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of | , William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce ... |
John Adams | ... of foreign debt payments. Even comparatively conservative commentators like | observed that these levies were "heavier than the People could bear. |
Arrian | ... § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57 | ;, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, I ... |
Michał Kleofas Ogiński | ... h art music. Polonaises for piano were and remain popular, such as those by | , Karol Kurpiński, Juliusz Zarębski, Henryk Wieniawski, Mieczysław Karłowi ... |
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, ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... before the confirmed ascent (and of course, safe descent) of Everest by Sir | and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 |
Kevin Rudd | ... l Government apology to the Aboriginal Stolen Generations by Prime Minister | . On 21 January 2009, Whitlam achieved a greater age than any other Prime ... |
Levi Woodbury | ... is Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President Andrew Jackson, and | , an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, the relationship bet ... |
Lord North | ... ere unsuccessful because King George III and the ministry of Prime Minister | were determined not to retreat on the question of parliamentary supremacy. ... |
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 |
Plutarch | ... Professor Barry Powell has suggested she was Minoan Crete's Snake Goddess. | , in his vita of Theseus, which treats him as a historical individual, rep ... |
John Kerry | ... Gore an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate | won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate ... |
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 |
Richard Saltonstall | ... andidates proposed to replace Cradock, and won the election. The other two, | and John Humphrey, had many other interests, and their dedication to the c ... |
Carl Schurz | Together with | , the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ... |
Lord Godolphin | ... in her over to her own preferred political party. In 1704, Anne confided to | that she did not think that she and Sarah could ever be true friends again |
Katō Takaaki | ... in the Lower House of the Diet of Japan in the 1924 General Election. When | became the prime minister and set up a coalition cabinet 1924, Takahashi a ... |
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 ... |
Allenby's | ... that a breakthrough was imminent. On 29 September he had outlined plans for | Third Army to rejoin the battle in the north around Gommecourt and for the ... |
Robert Burns | ... novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The lyrics of | in Scotland and Thomas Moore, from Ireland but based in London or elsewher ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... ne drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent among them, World Champions | , Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Butto ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President | — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ... |
Liam Cosgrave | ... ch's allies or even his own party, but from the former leader of Fine Gael, | . As a sportsman Lynch earned a reputation for decency and fair play, char ... |
Pauline Marois | ... e next day that he was withdrawing from the race, and that he would support | who had also announced her intention to run |
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 President | and declared himself President. After large numbers of Aristide supporters ... |
Hermann Bondi | ... es surfaces of simultaneity by considering light pulses, in accordance with | 's idea of the k-calculus. A second approach calculates a straightforward ... |
President Truman | In July 1946, as Chairman of the Council on African Affairs, he telegraphed | on the lynching of four African Americans in Georgia, demanding that the f ... |
Che Guevara | ... classes for the purpose of suppressing the oppressed classes, withers away. | sought socialism based on the rural peasantry rather than the urban workin ... |
Lord Cunliffe | ... lace was taken by the Heavenly Twins – the judge Lord Sumner and the banker | whose nickname derived from the "astronomically" high war compensation the ... |
Jim Leach | ... hil Gramm (Republican of Texas) and in the U.S. House of Representatives by | (R-Iowa). The third lawmaker associated with the bill was Rep. Thomas J. B ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ones are included, they are noted via tone marks. In pinyin, 毛泽东 is written | |
Chang Hsiao-yen | ... with Chang Ya-juo, Chiang also had twin sons in 1941: Chang Hsiao-tz'u and | . (Note the identical generation name of Hsiao between all sons, legitimat ... |
Zheng He | ... was referred to as Bīnláng Yù in the navigational drawings used by Admiral | of Ming-dynasty China in his expeditions to the South Seas. Fifteenth-cent ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | ... erial era. Roman historians dated the city's foundation from 758 to 728 BC. | says Romulus was fifty-three at his death; his reckoning gives the twins' ... |
Constantine I | ... ed in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperor | in AD 325. This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain co ... |
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 |
Mick Jagger | ... oject's high profile brought heavy trade journal coverage, and fans such as | visited the studio for the chance to play a role. Animator Carl Bell loved ... |
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 ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... ntings at the Louvre. Among her favorite painters were Nicholas Poussin and | , but she also copied the paintings of Paulus Potter, Porbus, Louis Léopol ... |
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 ... |
Ngo Dinh Diem | In 1963, the South Vietnamese President | , a Catholic, and the younger brother of Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc banned t ... |
Frank Forde | ... ny other Prime Minister of Australia, surpassing the previous record holder | . On the 60th anniversary of his marriage to Margaret Whitlam, Gough Whitl ... |
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 ... |
Wonder Woman | Editor Sheldon Mayer replaced the name "Suprema" with " | ", and the character made her debut in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... n. In this position, two of Bancroft's appointees were Orestes Brownson and | . In 1844, he was the Democratic candidate for the governorship of Massach ... |
Adam Czartoryski | ... f Napoleon, a new European order was established at the Congress of Vienna. | became the leading advocate for the Polish national cause. The Congress im ... |
Plutarch | ... orus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7 | ;, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6; Josephus, ... |
Stalin | ... as later developed into "Liberation Theologies" from suffering people under | ism in Eastern Europe and military dictatorships in South America and Sout ... |
Antonin Scalia | ... ing Henry Kissinger, football coach Dick Vermeil, and Supreme Court Justice | |
John Kerry | ... te and carried all precincts - all southern and central precincts voted for | . This is probably accounted for by the presence of Naval Air Station Whid ... |
John C. Calhoun | ... vided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since | in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice presi ... |
Justinian II | ... ntificate was his 710/711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised with | on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council. Constantine was the last p ... |
Plutarch | ... us; Paeon's works are lost, but his narrative is among the sources cited by | in his vita of Theseus (20.3-.5). According to the myth that was current a ... |
John Kerry | ... cured a combined 1 percent of the ballots. Obama fared better than Democrat | had done in 2004. Latinos in Texas gave Obama 63 percent of their ballots, ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... Oslo Accords of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Minister | and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat had provided ... |
George Marshall | ... McCarthyism. In particular, Eisenhower was criticized for failing to defend | from attacks by Joseph McCarthy, though he privately deplored McCarthy's t ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... cember 1996. Bishop Belo capitalised upon this honour through meetings with | of the United States and Nelson Mandela of South Africa. In 1995, he also ... |
Diarmuid Martin | ... enouncement of every abusive priest to the police. The Archbishop of Dublin | described the cooperation with the Congregation for the Clergy as "disastr ... |
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 ... |
Tim Fischer | ... resentative is Sussan Ley of the Liberal Party. The previous Federal MP was | , who was leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Austra ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | Numerous ancient sources, including | 's Life of Alcibiades, preserve stories of Anytus' tumultuous relationship ... |
Rick Lazio | ... olk County had long been a Republican bastion in New York. U.S. Congressman | , who opposed Hillary Clinton in the 2000 Senate race, was from Suffolk Co ... |
Enda Kenny | ... rning in a coalition with the Labour Party, with the Fine Gael party leader | serving as . Enda Kenny has led the party since 2002 |
Theodoric the Great | ... the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from | to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric. This interpr ... |
Minni Minnawi | ... Peace Agreement, the office of senior Presidential advisor was allocated to | , a Zaghawa of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA), and this thus became th ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... nhower was criticized for failing to defend George Marshall from attacks by | , though he privately deplored McCarthy's tactics and claims. Such omissio ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... to take command of the ruins on May 18. The Abbey was rebuilt after the war | ;reconsecrated it in 1964 |
Henry Kissinger | ... ted. This has resulted in various leaders speaking to midshipmen, including | , football coach Dick Vermeil, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia |
George H. W. Bush | ... District Attorney, and ran unopposed in 2005. Although Suffolk voters gave | a victory here in 1992, the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and cont ... |
Louie Gohmert | ... e of Representatives by Leo Berman (R) of Tyler. Its U.S. representative is | (R), and the Texas Senate by Senator Kevin Eltife (R) |
de Gaulle's | ... he escaped back to England, where he initially worked as an interpreter for | Free French forces. However, he was quickly prised away from de Gaulle by ... |
Chairman of the NATO Military Committee | ... British Armed Forces to date. During this period Mountbatten also served as | for a year |
Bill Clinton | ... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President | by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was al ... |
Jimmy Carter | On September 9, 1979 Norman performed for US president | and about 1,000 guests at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on ... |
Wonder Woman | ... ebowitz of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed | with Elizabeth (whom Marston believed to be a model of that era's unconven ... |
Charlemagne | The town was founded in 789 by | in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre river. A century later, ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... nisext Council. Constantine was the last pope to visit Constantinople until | did again in 1967 |
John Milton | ... ed by Jill Paton Walsh and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from | 's Paradise Lost and refers to two categories of angel in the Christian an ... |
Milton | ... wo mulberry trees, of which the older was planted in 1608, the same year as | 's birth. Both trees have toppled sideways, the younger tree in the Great ... |
Godolphin | ... ful intimacy with the two most powerful men in the country, Marlborough and | . Godolphin, though a great friend of Sarah's, had even considered refusin ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... cial statehood ceremony in 1959 and being asked for a private audience with | |
Bill Clinton | ... voters gave George H. W. Bush a victory here in 1992, the county voted for | in 1996 and continued the trend by giving Al Gore an 11-percent victory in ... |
Ricimer | ... of the imperial guard, and on the prestige gained through their victories, | and the comes domesticorum Majorian rebelled against Avitus; the Emperor w ... |
John Milton | When | wrote his Latin grammar Accedence Commenc't Grammar (1669), over 60 percen ... |
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 ... |
Vinod Rai | ... his regime Thrissur-Guruvayur Section and Poonkunnam Over Bridge was built. | , the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, is another person who turn ... |
James Wilkinson | ... of Spanish West Florida until 1813, when it was seized by the U.S. General | during the War of 1812 |
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 ... |
Plutarch | ... ies initially appeared to back their ships away as if in fear. According to | , this was to gain better position, and also in order to gain time until t ... |
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. | ... omplete control over all its revenue streams. When the news came out, Mayor | and Moses made a feeble effort to save the Dodgers, offering to build a ba ... |
Mao Zedong | ... nt stage was Japan instead of Chiang. But this received cold shoulders from | and his associates, who ruled CPC and greatly disagreed with Chiang's poli ... |
Juliusz Słowacki | ... literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, | , Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the occupied and repres ... |
Julius Caesar | ... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to | , who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC |
Charlemagne | When | destroyed the walls of Pamplona after a failed attempt to conquest the Mus ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941, | founded the Communist Party of Albania. The town soon became the center of ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... horough-bred Frenchman". It has been said that the Alien Acts were aimed at | , the Jeffersonian from Geneva; and the Sedition Act aimed at Benjamin Fra ... |
Ellen DeGeneres | ... ennifer Meyer at courtside for Laker home games. As a baby gift, comedienne | gave Maguire a special basketball motif stroller with Lexan dome to protec ... |
Scipio Africanus | ... tarch in his Parallel Lives, in which he is paired with the Roman statesman | ; however, both these "Lives" are now lost. Plutarch was writing over 400 ... |
Rick Romley | ... about the Church's own investigations into charges. In the BBC documentary, | , a district attorney who initiated an investigation of the Catholic Dioce ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... ats, military officials, and media producers. In the elections that brought | to power, Schneerson publicly lobbied his followers and the Orthodox membe ... |
Bob Dole | ... ntt's 1,173,875 (45.9 percent). Helms supported his former Senate colleague | for president, while Gantt endorsed Bill Clinton. Although Helms is genera ... |
Sean Parnell | ... election, Democrat Ethan Berkowitz received 419 votes (54.8%) to Republican | 's 321 votes (42.0%). In the 2010 Senate election, Democrat Scott McAdams ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cox | ... s. Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, to fire | . Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Deputy Attorney Gen ... |
Robert F. Wagner | Senator | proposed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, which empowered workers ... |
Augustus | ... n protectorate. The process was completed in 27 B.C. when the Roman Emperor | annexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province o ... |
Boccaccio | ... ubtless intended that they should be to Spanish nearly what the novellas of | were to Italians. Some are mere anecdotes, some are romances in miniature, ... |
Shigeru Yoshida | ... cratic Liberal Party, and Tanaka instantly won favor with the DLP's leader, | . Yoshida appointed Tanaka as a Vice Minister of Justice, the youngest in ... |
Shirley Temple | ... the day while Covan worked with such stars as Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and | . Brooks was married briefly during this period to a Harlem Globetrotter n ... |
Edward Livingston | Livingston is an eponym honoring | , a prominent American and Louisianan jurist and statesman who assisted in ... |
Edward M. Korry | ... nterviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat | , C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists Ton ... |
Augustus | ... to being "a son of god", "a son of a god" or "son of Heaven". Roman Emperor | referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as ... |
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 ... |
Kijūrō Shidehara | ... Party (Minshuto). In the Diet, he became friends with former prime minister | and joined Shidehara's Doshi Club. Then in 1948, the Doshi Club defected t ... |
Herbert Lehman | ... borated closely with Robert Moses, with support from the governor, Democrat | , to upgrade the decaying infrastructure. The city was favored by the New ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... den it; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired | 's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would ... |
Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
Katy Perry | ... imed that daring, spunky and over-the-top fashions of today's stars such as | and Lady Gaga channel 1980s New Wave fashion |
George C. Marshall | ... f under Robert E. Lee) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general | resided at Dodona Manor in Leesburg. Essayist and journalist Russell Baker ... |
Samuel Chase | ... , all appointed by Washington. Many of them, particularly Associate Justice | , were openly hostile to the Federalists' opponents. Individual Supreme Co ... |
Frank McKenna | ... efugee claimants, and defence, and he appointed seasoned Liberal politician | as Canada's ambassador to Washington |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... eerson and corresponded extensively with him. Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, | , Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu - who was present at his fun ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | ... was one of approximately 50 ancient figures given an extensive biography by | in his Parallel Lives, in which he is paired with the Roman statesman Scip ... |
Ban Ki-moon | ... alestinians' national rights." In 2009, in a letter to UN Secretary General | , Haniyeh repeated his group's support for a two-state settlement based on ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... life; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with | in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg. However, his endorsem ... |
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia | ... , 1752 from Prince George County. The county is named for Robert Dinwiddie, | , 1751-58. The county raised several militia units that would fight in the ... |
William Crawford | ... s Monroe narrowly won the party's nomination for President in Congress over | in 1816 and defeated Federalist Rufus King in the general election |
Tiberius | ... tory of Pliny, by Pliny the Elder (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor | had 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. Although | was the first Emperor who had demanded to be officially hailed as dominus ... |
Antonio de Mendoza | ... ites. In 1532, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor imposed a vice-king to Mexico, | , in order to prevent Cortes' independantist drives, who definitively retu ... |
Sarah Palin | ... had finished. In another, he suggested that USA vice-presidential candidate | was rare among politicians in being good-looking; the laughter from the au ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... evelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of | and Calvin Coolidge. On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge i ... |
John Kerry | ... e county's total, more than three times the 9,895 votes (22%) his opponent, | , received. The Republicans fared better still in the 2008 election, in wh ... |
Imelda Marcos | ... dinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife | as governor of Metro Manila |
Jefferson Davis | ... Keckly, a free black dressmaker who worked for two presidents' wives: Mrs. | and later Mary Todd Lincoln. Thomas Day was also a native; he was well kno ... |
Basilios Bessarion | ... graphy, and compiled digests of many classical writers. His pupils included | and George Scholarius (later to become Patriarch of Constantinople and Ple ... |
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 ... |
second president | ... rman ancestry were counted as "Czechs" and allowed to stay, for example the | and eighth prime minister of the Czech Republic or the second president of ... |
Robert L. Moran | ... esident of the New York City Board of Aldermen. His Democratic opponent was | , an Alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to that office in 1918 when ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... s still an important pop label with artists such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, and | among others. It is also EMI's oldest active label: its contemporary HMV, ... |
Constantius | ... singly repressed, often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors | and Constans declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in t ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... nshevik leaders. On 20 December 1917 the Cheka was created by the decree of | . These were the beginnings of the Bolshevik's consolidation of power over ... |
Mahendr Dosieah | ... Mauritius is Olga Ivanova. The current Ambassador of Mauritius to Russia is | , who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President Vladimir Puti ... |
Aleksander Wielopolski | ... rate with the Russian authorities, countered with partial reform proposals. | , the conservative leader of the Kingdom's government, in order to cripple ... |
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 ... |
Cassiodorus | ... mpire. The term "Visigoth", however, was an invention of the sixth century. | , a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term "Visigo ... |
Gan Ying | ... Japan, and initiated an unsuccessful mission to Daqin (Rome) in 97 CE with | as emissary. A Roman embassy of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (r. 161–180 CE) is ... |
doge | ... adt, together in alliance with the Venetian soldiers and sailors led by the | Enrico Dandolo. The crusade was to be ready to sail on June 24, 1202 and m ... |
Vinson | ... ice, he was acting Chief Justice on two occasions: from Stone's death until | took office on June 24, 1946; and from Vinson's death on September 8, 1953 ... |
Alfred Biliotti | Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to | many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fo ... |
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 ... |
John Adams | ... s down in those communities in September and October. James Warren wrote to | on October 22, "We are now in a state of Anarchy and Confusion bordering o ... |
David Lowry Swain | ... able leaders of the university include the 26th Governor of North Carolina, | (president 1835–1868); and Edwin Anderson Alderman (1896–1900), who was al ... |
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 ... |
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia | ... ing and Queen, and King William counties. The county was named in Latin for | Alexander Spotswood |
Saint Boniface | ... 845 until 1849 by Philipp Hoffmann in Gothic Revival style and dedicated to | |
Lewis Carroll | In 1865 | (1832–1898) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in England. The tal ... |
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 ... |
Lew Wallace | ... ng liberties" with the young boys in their boarding house. She hired lawyer | , the author of , and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $20,000 ... |
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | ... some respect. Lenin's Mausoleum, for example, contains the embalmed body of | , the founder of the Soviet Union. Nearby to the south is the elaborate br ... |
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 ... |
William O. Douglas | ... States, which involved an alleged threat against President Lyndon Johnson, | noted, "The Alien and Sedition Laws constituted one of our sorriest chapte ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... Republic, Oskar Fischer. In 1985, Tirana served as the ceremonial venue of | 's funeral. A few years later, Mother Teresa became the first religious fi ... |
Plutarch | ... ch in turn revolved around the Sun. Though the arguments he used were lost, | stated that Seleucus was the first to prove the heliocentric system throug ... |
Juho Kusti Paasikivi | ... Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and | |
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 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... n Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, | as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by Do ... |
Samuel Adams | ... ommanded the legislature to "vindicate the insulted dignity of government." | claimed that foreigners ("British emissaries") were instigating treason am ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
Hjalmar Schacht | ... Governor of The Bank of England, Montagu Norman, and his German counterpart | , later Adolf Hitler's finance minister. The Bank was originally intended ... |
Frederick Douglass | Highland Beach was founded in the summer of 1893 by Charles Douglass ( | ' son) and his wife Laura after they had been turned away from a restauran ... |
Theodosius I | ... e last vestiges of Paganism were crushed with great severity by the emperor | Rome was seized by Alaric in 410. This led to murmuring that the gods of P ... |
Diocletian | Under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor | in 296 AD, Lydia was revived as the name of a separate Roman province, muc ... |
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 ... |
Jefferson | The 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 by | and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament |
Cervantes | ... ical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, | , Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giacomo Leopardi. Between 1972–1973 ... |
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 ... |
Simon Cowell | ... llent! He's the real deal, the absolute antithesis to all that the likes of | stand for. And for that we should all be grateful. This tour will be a cel ... |
Islam Karimov | ... ratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU), but the party leadership, under President | , remained in place. Independence brought a series of institutional change ... |
Den Uyl | ... of government by the social-democratic/Christian-democratic cabinet led by | . Although the ties between the VVD and other organizations within the neu ... |
Omar al-Bashir | In December 1999, a power struggle climaxed between president | and NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament Hassan ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... actor," was among the first American colonialists to write literary satire. | and others followed, using satire to shape an emerging nation's culture th ... |
Constantine II | ... in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and | , and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars |
Golda Meir | ... ister of India until 1977 (and taking office again in 1980), Prime Minister | of Israel and acting Chairman Soong Ching-ling of the People's Republic of ... |
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 ... |
Garfield Barwick | ... . He conferred (against Whitlam's advice) with High Court Chief Justice Sir | , who agreed that he had the power to dismiss Whitlam |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... ife of Saint Bruno by Eustache Le Sueur and the Life of Marie de Médicis by | were placed on display. The museum, which included the sculptures in the g ... |
William Weld | ... elms engage in a protracted, high-profile battle to block the nomination of | , Republican Governor of Massachusetts, as Ambassador to Mexico: refusing ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... nd they wanted Hello Kitty to be different. Shimizu got the name Kitty from | 's Through the Looking-Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice pla ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ide in Fayette County, GA. Their two children are now in college. President | appointed Lee Haney Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitnes ... |
Benjamin Lincoln | ... reation of a privately funded militia army. Former Continental Army General | solicited funds, and had by the end of January raised more than £6,000 fro ... |
Vinod Rai | ... kham Chetty, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, Joseph Mundassery, | etc. after the independence. These individuals have changed the trajectory ... |
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 ... |
George McClellan | ... rain robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with | and Abraham Lincoln |
John C. Calhoun | ... 98, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by Henry Clay and | |
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 ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... vernor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister | , having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the ... |
Wilhelm von Humboldt | ... he world of letters, science and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, | , Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lo ... |
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 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul | (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this w ... |
Boleyn's father | ... nry VIII made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because | owned property there and was a regular visitor himself. Other medieval res ... |
Hjalmar Schacht | Kung also met Dr. | while in Germany. Scherr told him that "German-Chinese friendship stemmed ... |
Roger Ludlow | ... , an opponent of popular election, won the 1634 election for governor, with | as deputy. Winthrop, as he had after previous elections, graciously invite ... |
Emile Francqui | ... the leader of the Belgian Comite National de Secours et Alimentation (CN), | , to feed the entire nation for the duration of the war. The CRB obtained ... |
Roland Michener | ... he War Measures Act in Canada's history, done by Governor General of Canada | at the direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested b ... |
William O. Douglas | ... reme Court justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge, leaving Hugo Black and | as the only remaining civil libertarians on the Court |
William O. Douglas | ... urring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice Hugo Black, and Justice | |
Liam Cosgrave | ... t was defeated by the National Coalition of Fine Gael and the Labour Party. | was elected Taoiseach and Lynch found himself on the opposition benches fo ... |
Dick Cheney | ... ers. Its graduates include Lynne Cheney, wife of former U.S. Vice President | , and their two daughters, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken S ... |
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 ... |
Milton | ... 'Whoever would assert an equality of genius and elegance between Ogilby and | , or Bunyan and Addison, would be thought to defend no less an extravaganc ... |
Robert Bourassa | ... me Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, | , and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau |
Hugo Black | ... 9 deaths of Supreme Court justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge, leaving | and William O. Douglas as the only remaining civil libertarians on the Cou ... |
President Harry S. Truman | ... ngressional charter for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which | signed on October 26, 1949. Finley served as the National Trust's first ch ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Her tale is also mentioned in | 's Tanglewood Tales. Though his story titled "Dragon's teeth" is largely a ... |
Judges | ... gypt in the Torah, and the migration to the Promised Land and the period of | are not considered historical in scholarship. Regarding the New Testament, ... |
Pietro Gasparri | ... lle Ratti became Pope Pius XI, shaping Vatican policies towards Poland with | and Eugenio Pacelli for the following 36 years (1922–1958) |
Tom Watson | ... 4 (i.e. 1.2 MIPS), causing considerable embarrassment for IBM. In May 1961, | announced a price cut of all 7030s under negotiation to $7.78 million and ... |
Washington Irving | ... ted as meeting with the accused and having sexual intercourse with them. In | 's story "The Devil and Tom Walker" set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks ... |
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 |
Pope Paul VI | ... or the Roman Curia to function". (Pastor Bonus, 172). It was established by | on 15 August 1967. Its current President is Archbishop Domenico Calcagno s ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | On September 27, 1786, Mason wrote to | that he had returned to Philadelphia with his wife, seven sons, and one da ... |
Pius II | ... of the town: it was built by Cardinal Albornoz (1367) and added to by Popes | and Paul III. The smaller of the two was built much earlier, in the Roman ... |
Johann Mattheson | ... mberg musical tradition, who had been at one time a pupil of Johann Staden. | , whose Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte (Hamburg, 1740) is one of the most imp ... |
Plutarch | ... ur progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age. | , the Greek historian and biographer of the 1st century, dealt with the bl ... |
Tom C. Clark | ... ced on December 14, 1964, the opinion of the court was delivered by Justice | , with concurring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice Hugo Black, ... |
Petronius Maximus | In the late spring of 455, Avitus was recalled to service by emperor | and was elevated to the rank of magister militum, probably praesentalis; M ... |
Frank Murphy | ... pport of cold war legislation was the 1949 deaths of Supreme Court justices | and Wiley Rutledge, leaving Hugo Black and William O. Douglas as the only ... |
Barthold Georg Niebuhr | ... ich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, | , Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen v ... |
García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca | In 1564, after a failed attempt in 1563, the Spaniards under command of | took the place from a garrison of 150 Ottoman soldiers, that were all kill ... |
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 ... |
Lester Maddox | ... ton. This case was combined with the case of the future Governor of Georgia | concerning his Pickrick restaurant and his case to refuse to serve blacks |
Book of Judges | ... the murder of Moabite King Eglon, by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the | . Philip II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Ro ... |
Harold Holt | ... eing former Prime Minister Billy Hughes and the young future Prime Minister | . Menzies tried and failed to have the issue of national insurance examine ... |
John Pickering | ... minal Law", "Equity", "Evidence", "Jury", "Law", "Natural Law", and "Usury" | ;, who wrote "Agrarian Law", "Americanism", "Indian Languages", and part o ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... in the American Southeast. In 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, | ordered the CPUSA to abandon civil rights work and focus supporting U.S. e ... |
William H. Seward | Even before Fort Sumter, U.S. Secretary of State | issued formal instructions to the American minister to Great Britain: Make ... |
Christian Charles Josias Bunsen | ... rmacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, | , Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin ... |
Roh Moo-hyun | ... rch 12, 2007. As a part of "Defense Reform 2020," which was proposed by the | Administration, the ROK Navy is required to reform the organizations under ... |
Pope Martin IV | ... t the Latin West, particularly his neighbors in Italy (Charles I of Sicily, | , and the Venetians) would unite against him and attempt the restoration o ... |
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. President | launched this process in December 1945 with negotiations for the creation ... |
Hugo Black | ... Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice | , and Justice William O. Douglas |
Jorge Carrera Andrade | ... orary Ecuadorian writers include the novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum; the poet | ; the essayist Benjamín Carrión; the poets Medardo Angel Silva, Jorge Carr ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... an outbreak of cancers, birth defects, and other health problems. President | eventually declared the Love Canal area a state of emergency, and all resi ... |
Kung Te-cheng | ... Kung, a 75th-generation descendant of Confucius, greeted his relative, Duke | , who was also a descendant of Confucius, after Kung Te-cheng had fled to ... |
Clovis I | ... e too strong, and motivated his subsequent alliance with the Frankish king, | , to counter and ultimately overthrow the Ostrogoths |
Jefferson Davis | ... s v. White ruled Texas' declaration of secession was legally null and void. | , former President of the Confederacy, and Alexander Stephens, its former ... |
John Paul Jones | ... minal prison, and the debtors' prison. One of its most famous prisoners was | , hero of the American navy, who was born in nearby Kirkbean |
Sargent Shriver | ... nod, again without success. McGovern instead chose Kennedy's brother-in-law | |
Zheng He | ... prominent in the trading ports of the Song Dynasty. Later, Muslims such as | , Lan Yu and Yeheidie'erding became influential in government circles, and ... |
Arthur Goldberg | ... was delivered by Justice Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice | , Justice Hugo Black, and Justice William O. Douglas |
Harry Reid | ... any that produces The Rush Limbaugh Show and Glenn Beck Program) by Senator | and forty other Democratic senators, complaining about comments made by co ... |
John Kerry | ... ail message that reporters should not "artificially hold George W. Bush and | 'equally' accountable" to the public interest, and that complaints from Bu ... |
Maria Mourani | ... liament in this election were incumbents Louis Plamondon, André Bellavance, | and rookie MP Jean-François Fortin. When the 41st Canadian Parliament conv ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... , St. Augustine's Commentary on Genesis, and a 1542 edition of the works of | . Religious books from the time of the early printing press include the Bo ... |
Lorenzo Antonetti | ... s Archbishop Domenico Calcagno since 7 July 2011. Cardinals Attilio Nicora, | and are former Presidents |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... till not accomplished when Roosevelt died. In April 1945, the new president | and the British suspended the dissolution and the decision to liquidate th ... |
John G. Downey | ... was the first foreign-born governor of California since Irish-born Governor | in 1862 |
Cheryl Cole | ... t Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, | , entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, ... |
Samuel Adams | ... e arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as | , James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the ... |
Roman Dmowski | ... waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with | and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist fac ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, Henry Clay backed | to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longtime political rival |
Kuldip Nayar | In 1999, | , writing for Rediff.com, stated in his article "It is fundamentalism agai ... |
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 ... |
Louis-Amable Jetté | ... ember 1867. At the next federal election on August 1872, he was defeated by | while seeking a second term in Montreal East in the face of the Pacific Sc ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
James Weldon Johnson | ... as well as white writers exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, | , Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
Reinhard Heydrich | The relevant text is a handwritten cover letter, by | to Martin Luther of the Foreign Office, dated February 26, 1942, forwardin ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ft of an address to the nation that was to have been delivered by President | on July 5, 1979 |
Pope Clement X | Leo III was canonized as a saint in 1673 by | . His feast day was formerly 12 June |
John Slidell | ... them low marks for their poor diplomacy. James M. Mason went to London and | traveled to Paris. They were unofficially interviewed, but neither secured ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... m as a "front" for communism. Critics included the American Legion, senator | , the HUAC, and the FBI. Several ACLU leaders were sympathetic to the FBI, ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... ally easier and is the more frequently used route. It was the route used by | and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 and the first recognized of fifteen routes to t ... |
Shidehara Kijurō | ... nipotentiary to the Washington Naval Conference, and worked with Ambassador | in the negotiations that led to the Five-Power Treaty |
Imru Haile Selassie | Ras Makonnen arranged for Tafari as well as his first cousin, Ras | to receive instruction in Harar from Abba Samuel Wolde Kahin, an Ethiopian ... |
Joseph Stalin | Starting in the 1930s, Adolf Hitler and | murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-nationalistic tende ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... hteenth Governor-General of Australia. He dismissed the Labor government of | on 11 November 1975, marking the climax of the most significant constituti ... |
Cruz Bustamante | ... f the vote to choose a successor to Davis. Schwarzenegger defeated Democrat | , fellow Republican Tom McClintock, and others. His nearest rival, Bustama ... |
Aëtius | ... agistri militum who dominated the state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, | , Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the late ... |
Joe Clark | ... h the failure of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of | and Pierre Trudeau or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
Martin Van Buren | ... in their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of | , a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong ... |
Spock | ... kerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirk's other confidant, science officer | , and occasionally is bigoted toward Spock's Vulcan heritage. McCoy often ... |
Charles Haughey | In 1975 Lynch allowed | to return to his Front Bench as Spokesperson on Health. There was much med ... |
ambassador to France | Thomas Jefferson, who was serving as | at the time, refused to be alarmed by Shays' Rebellion. In a letter to a f ... |
Barthold Georg Niebuhr | ... University of Bonn include the poet August Wilhelm Schlegel, the historian | , the theologians Karl Barth and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet Ernst Morit ... |
Christian Wulff | ... 's communist eastern part—also attended the commemoration. German President | added, "It has been shown once again: Freedom is invincible at the end. No ... |
Gray Davis | On October 7, 2003, the recall election resulted in Governor | being removed from office with 55.4% of the Yes vote in favor of a recall. ... |
Tom O'Higgins | ... Ireland in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the National Coalition's | |
doges of Venice | ... or some papal crowns and coats of arms, Farnese Dukes of Parma, and by some | |
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 ... |
Plutarch | ... lly to learn information concerning the secret or mystic cults of the gods. | asserted in his book On Isis and Osiris that during his visit to Egypt, Py ... |
Francisco Franco | During the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and especially of | (1939–1975), all regional cultures were suppressed. All of the languages s ... |
Ellen DeGeneres | In 1997 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, actress | came out as a lesbian. Her real-life coming out was echoed in the sitcom E ... |
Bill Clinton | ... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President | by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Manning was also granted a meeting w ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of Joe Clark and | or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
Stalin | ... ing, Saint Basil's Cathedral, as well. The legend is that Lazar Kaganovich, | 's associate and director of the Moscow reconstruction plan, prepared a sp ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by | in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the ... |
Richard Paul Matsch | ... nce, and collecting nearly one billion pieces of information. Federal judge | ordered the venue for the trial be moved from Oklahoma City to Denver, Col ... |
Juan Antonio Samaranch | At the closing ceremony, IOC President | said in his closing speech, "Well done, Atlanta" and simply called the Gam ... |
Paolo Borsellino | Only after the murders on Antimafia judges Giovanni Falcone and | , in 1992, did Buscetta decide to talk about the links between the Mafia a ... |
Augustus | ... rs) was made a Roman citizen (and thus, the tribe a Roman vassal) by either | or Caligula |
John Milton | ... found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups. | 's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ve, and that by protons positive, a custom that originated with the work of | . The amount of charge is usually given the symbol Q and expressed in coul ... |
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus | ... Scotland for help. They organised a mainly Scots relief force which, under | and de Brézé, set out on 22 November. Warwick's army, commanded by the exp ... |
Morgan Lewis Martin | ... ne of several he would establish in the area. Father Van den Broek also met | , who was in charge of the local canal project. Father Van den Broek purch ... |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
Golda Meir | ... n controversial figures to match the likes of Timothy Leary, Indira Gandhi, | and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' attention in the 1960s and mo ... |
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 ... |
Pope Gregory I | ... er embellishment of his legend: it was commonly said in medieval times that | , through divine intercession, resurrected Trajan from the dead and baptiz ... |
Justinian I | ... yzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under | (527-565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocat ... |
Constantine | ... known in the Republic, ceased to have meaning in everyday life. The Emperor | reintroduced the term as the empire's senior honorific title, not tied to ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... , North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President | to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the f ... |
Augustus | ... s the ancient Etruscan town of Tibur (modern Tivoli). The mythic meeting of | with the Sibyl, of whom he inquired whether he should be worshiped as a go ... |
Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
legate | ... of their kingdom. In 1476, Louis XI, upset that Charles of Bourbon was made | , sent troops to occupy the city, until his demands that Giuliano della Ro ... |
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 ... |
Javed Jaffrey | ... pular stand -up comedians who became very famous for his acts and routines. | , Raju Srivastava, Dipoo Srivastava, siraj khan, Sunil Pal, Kapil Sharma, ... |
Hubert Languet | ... and is dismissed by modern biographers. It appears the story was spread by | , who served as de Saxe under Emperor Charles V and then under the Prince ... |
Clovis I | ... he capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell to the Frankish king | in the Battle of Soissons |
Anspach, Eugène | ... em - Anderlecht - Animo (organization) - Anneessens, Frans - Another Left - | - Antéchrista - Antoine - Antwerpen-Centraal railway station - Antwerp (ci ... |
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 ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... reen is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both William Shakespeare and | appear as characters, as do several characters from within A Midsummer Nig ... |
David Lowry Swain | During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor | persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students fr ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... aken by the events of Quebec's October Crisis, especially by Prime Minister | 's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier Rob ... |
Diocletian | ... ' De Mortibus Persecutorum, a political Christian pamphlet on the reigns of | and the Tetrarchy, provides valuable but tendentious detail on Constantine ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... parade in Surrey, saying it was a glorification of terrorism. In 2008, Dr. | , Prime Minister of India, expressed his concern that there might be a res ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... lakes at the base of the mountains. After congressional approval, President | signed the executive order establishing the Grand Teton National Park on F ... |
Barney Frank | In 1987, | U.S. House Representative for publicly came out as gay, thus becoming the ... |
Eleanor Roosevelt | ... resident Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced a national Bill of Rights day. | was the keynote speaker at the 1939 ACLU convention. In spite of this newf ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | In 1914, their son, | (1888–1969) married Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995), the daughter of Boston (M ... |
Liam Cosgrave | ... called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minister for Defence, Paddy Donegan. | refused to sack his Minister and the government's popularity took a downtu ... |
Bill Clinton | ... a diplomatic row with the United States administration after accusing, with | , the US of not listening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejecte ... |
Anthony Eden | ... o met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister | the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion. In 1 ... |
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 ... |
Vespasian | ... t followed the death of Nero, he took up arms under pretence of siding with | and induced the inhabitants of his native country to rebel. The Batavians, ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... on, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger; the "pop princess" | , Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the Joh ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... re cemented as the party of business, though mitigated by the succession of | who embraced trust busting. He later ran on a third party ticket of the Pr ... |
George Marshall | ... to prevent troopers in training from seeing it, for fear of morale. General | came to the film's defense, stating that because of the film's gritty real ... |
Giovanni Falcone | Only after the murders on Antimafia judges | and Paolo Borsellino, in 1992, did Buscetta decide to talk about the links ... |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | Although | had been named Foreign Minister in February 1938, Göring continued to invo ... |
Charlemagne | In the 8th century, ecclesiastical uses of "Europa" for the imperium of | provide the source for the modern geographical term. The first use of the ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... wide margin. On August 2, 2006, the New York Times said, "In 1994, Senator | of South Carolina was said to have engaged in excessive touching of his th ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | ... erences to the female Pope abound in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. | wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). The Chronicon of Adam of U ... |
Ricimer | ... , as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals Majorian and | ) and the Vandals of Gaiseric |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert | Mercantilist policies have included: | 's work in seventeenth century France exemplified classical mercantilism. ... |
Clovis I | ... during the rule of the Merovingian kings (A.D. 447-751). After the death of | in 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 under | secured peace with the Vandals in 442. Under the treaty the Vandals gained ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William Tryon | ... County now includes 37 counties of New York State. The county was named for | , colonial governor of New York |
Elizabeth Holtzman | ... edan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, | , amongst many others, led the movement for women's equality |
Mark Antony | ... ian Empire. This short independence was rapidly crushed by the Romans under | and Octavian. The installation of Herod the Great (an Idumean) as king in ... |
Song Ci | ... ations. Through their own experiments and interest in arthropods and death, | , Francesco Redi, Bergeret d’Arbois, Jean Pierre Mégnin and the German doc ... |
George Mouzalon | ... 8, Michael Palaiologos instigated a coup against the influential bureaucrat | , becoming joint guardian for the eight-year old Emperor John IV Doukas La ... |
Robin Gibb | ... pose and Bert, Ernie, and Cookie Monster taking the place of the Bee Gees. | (of the Bee Gees) sings on two tracks for this album "Sesame Street Fever" ... |
David Wilkins | ... stening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejected the US Ambassador | ' rebuke and stated that he was standing up for Canada's interests over so ... |
Valentinian III | ... reiterated this initiative, recalling the treaty subscribed by Gaiseric and | in 442 and entrusting the defence of the Empire to the Roman army and its ... |
Kurt Schuschnigg | ... ia, his native country. He met on 12 February 1938 with Austrian chancellor | , threatening invasion if peaceful unification was not forthcoming. The Na ... |
Otto Kerner | ... Commission to study the problem of urban riots, headed by Illinois Governor | |
Gabrielle Giffords | ... merican politician and member of the United States House of Representatives | . His family was of Eastern European Jewish descent. He studied at Tulane ... |
Richard Paul Matsch | ... one month for the defense to review the documents. On June 6, federal judge | ruled the documents would not prove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execu ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... of Berlin and Dresden. A British interpreter later claimed that Antonov and | asked for the bombing of Dresden, but there is no mention of these request ... |
Diocletian | ... AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor | issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini ... |
Sidney Poitier | In Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film starring Glenn Ford and | , Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symbol of cultural con ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Annie Lennox | ... of nearly seventy-three minutes. The music also features solos by vocalist | and Tim Morrison on the trumpet. The score was a critical success and garn ... |
Sir Anthony Mason | ... hat he did. He also advised him that at least one other High Court justice, | , concurred in this view |
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 ... |
Zheng He | ... ared in the "The Nautical Charts of Zheng He" written on the expeditions of | (Cheng Ho) in Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Yongle Emperor. In 15 c ... |
Traian Băsescu | ... ame in present-day Romania – among others, that of the country's president, | |
Valerian | ... ult was that the Empire could not endure the blow of the capture of Emperor | in 260. The eastern provinces found their protectors in the rulers of the ... |
Pope Gregory I | During his reign, Sabinian was seen as a counterfoil to his predecessor | . Whereas Gregory distributed grain to the Roman populace as invasion loom ... |
Thomas Eagleton | ... e presidential running mate, but was turned down. When McGovern's choice of | stepped down soon after the convention, McGovern again tried to get Kenned ... |
Plutarch | ... icarnassus's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and | 's early 2nd century Life of Romulus. These accounts provide the broad lit ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... various means by which they gain agency. The novel's title was inspired by | 's , which is a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The P ... |
James Weldon Johnson | ... ncement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and | were frequent guests in the Rustin home. With these influences in his earl ... |
Gerald Ford | ... of the internment. The movement's first success was in 1976, when President | proclaimed that the internment was "wrong," and a "national mistake" which ... |
Saint Boniface | In 744 the Synod of Soissons met at the instigation of Pippin III, and | , the Pope's missionary to pagan Germany, secured the condemnation of the ... |
Joseph Story | ... Review. Notable contributors to this edition include: Supreme Court Justice | , who provided some twenty articles on legal topics including "Common Law" ... |
John Chiang | ... d two of his children married in the United States. Only two remain living: | is a prominent KMT politician, while Chiang Hsiao-chang, her children and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... for Versailles became more of a matter for public record, especially after | assumed the post of finance minister. Expenditures on Versailles have been ... |
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 ... |
Bill Bradley | ... Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and | of New Jersey in the Senate |
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 ... |
Kevin Rudd | ... d States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister | of Australia, and other global leaders |
Idi Amin | ... Emperor and Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator | had seven of them. The Shah of Iran drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and L ... |
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz | ... pported by authors such as Anthony Cascardi and Canavaggio. Others, such as | (or Francisco Olmos Garcia, who considers it a "tired issue" and only supp ... |
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 ... |
George McGovern | ... him in first place in the Democratic nomination race with 28 percent. Once | was near clinching the Democratic nomination in June 1972, various anti-Mc ... |
Andrés Pico | ... pproved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor | on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, L ... |
Ricimer | ... te a further embassy by Marcian, with the destruction of Capua. Avitus sent | to defend Sicily, and the Romans defeated the Vandals twice, once in a lan ... |
Enoch Powell | ... Dalyell refers to the "so-called West Lothian question, as it was dubbed by | , not by me, in 1977", denying this |
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 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ristobulus II, Simon's great-grandsons, became pawns in a proxy war between | and Pompey the Great. The deaths of Pompey (48 BCE), Caesar (44 BCE), and ... |
Karl Rove | ... finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to | and Bill O'Reilly. And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... at is at Pasco, which is also the county's largest city. It was named after | |
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend | ... for Republican Bob Ehrlich in the 2002 gubernatorial election over Democrat | . The last time that Howard County voted for a Republican candidate for Pr ... |
Robert Bourassa | ... udeau's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier | |
Harry S. Truman | ... rs old, and had accumulated an impressive set of legal victories. President | sent a congratulatory telegram to the ACLU on the occasion of their 25th a ... |
Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland | However in the 19th century | replaced much of Adam's architecture. Instead he paid Anthony Salvin £250, ... |
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 ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Warren G. Harding, | and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ... |
resident officer | ... ssador to Manchukuo. He functioned in a manner similar to that of a British | in British overseas protectorates, with the power to veto decisions by the ... |
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. ... |
Schuschniggs's | ... be but a passing phenomenon not worse than the dictatorship of Dollfuß and | authoritarian one-party system, which had ruled Austria. During World War ... |
Martin Van Buren | His entry into politics came in 1837 with his appointment by | as Collector of Customs of the Port of Boston. In this position, two of Ba ... |
William H. Crawford | ... secretary between the resignation of Alexander J. Dallas and appointment of | |
Bill Clinton | ... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US President | visiting the cit |
Jim McClure | ... epublican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, | and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favor ... |
Maxentius | The foremost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors | and Licinius during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Fr ... |
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 ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... octor of Divinity at Cambridge. He resumed his lectures at the Savoy, where | heard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his se ... |
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 ... |
Justice O'Connor | ... urt will take in future decisions remains unclear. (See Gonzales v. Oregon) | , dissenting in Gonzalez , began her opinion by citing United States v. Lo ... |
Pope Pius XII | | showed high regard for Benedict, who had consecrated him a Bishop on 13 Ma ... |
John Bolton | The party, through former U.N. Ambassador | , has advocated reforms in the United Nations to halt corruption such as t ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... des in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination. | was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on beh ... |
Mitch Landrieu | ... s the father of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and of current New Orleans Mayor | |
Tom C. Clark | Former Supreme Court Justice | , who represented the US Department of Justice in the "relocation," writes ... |
Licinius | ... first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, Constantine and co-Emperor | issued the Edict of Milan in 313, which proclaimed religious tolerance of ... |
Theodoric the Great | The greatest of all Ostrogothic rulers, the future | (whose name means "leader of the people") of Ostrogothic Kingdom, was born ... |
Pope Martin IV | ... e the diplomatic intent of the union worked out in the West, but in the end | , an ally of Charles of Anjou, excommunicated Michael VIII. In 1275, Micha ... |
Jefferson Davis | The new Confederate President | , a former "Cooperationist" who had insisted on delaying secession until a ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... mission for Latin America is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on 19 April 1958, it is charged with providing assistance to and examining ... |
Carlos Roberto Flores | PLH's | took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras' fifth democratically elected ... |
John Adams | ... e president. He was a consistent and strong opponent of the policies of the | administration. Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitut ... |
Bismarck's | ... ts who founded St. Ignatius College were exiles from Germany, forced out by | Kulturkampf. They brought with them the traditional structure of the Jesui ... |
Clarence Thomas | ... early 1990s which addressed sexual harassment (inspired by the Anita Hill– | Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of 1991). The results of the movement ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... r Eliot's death, the book was adapted as the basis of the musical, Cats, by | , first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the ... |
Simcha Dinitz | ... ilitary supplies to reach the army. In a phone call with Israeli ambassador | , Kissinger told the ambassador that the destruction of the Egyptian Third ... |
Aurelianus | ... Constantinople he obtained the patronage of the powerful praetorian prefect | . Synesius composed and addressed to Emperor Arcadius a speech entitled De ... |
Aetius | He then started a military career: he served under the magister militum | in his campaign against the Juthungi and the Norics (430–431) and also aga ... |
Carlos Roberto Reina | In 1993, PLH candidate | was elected with 56% of the vote against PNH contender Oswaldo Ramos. He w ... |
L. Iunius Brutus | ... ween the Romans and the Carthaginians, which he dated to the consulships of | and L. Tarquinius Collatinus (509 BC) |
Robert Byrd | ... hip when he lost the support of several members and was defeated by Senator | of West Virginia, 31–24. Kennedy would later tell Byrd that the defeat was ... |
Stalin | ... eater. Additionally, the northern portion of the main boulevard was renamed | Boulevard and his statue erected in the city square. As private car owners ... |
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 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ay. In 1912, Robeson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in | , Othello, sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseb ... |
James Longstreet | ... was defeated at the Battle of Chickamauga, Burnside was pursued by Lt. Gen. | , against whose troops he had battled at Marye's Heights. Burnside skillfu ... |
Pliny the Younger | ... e same acclaim as before. It was during this time that he corresponded with | on the subject of how to deal with the Christians of Pontus, telling Pliny ... |
John Adams | ... one (Kentucky) for Jefferson for Vice President in opposition to incumbent | as 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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for | in both of his presidential elections |
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 ... |
United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James | ... he first chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as the | in the years leading up to World War II |
Carlos Fuentes | ... 15, the Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses and the second part of Don Quixote. | noted that, "Cervantes leaves open the pages of a book where the reader kn ... |
Pope Gregory I | He had been sent by | as Apostolic nuncio, to Constantinople, but he apparently was not entirely ... |
Licinius | ... remost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors Maxentius and | during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Franks, Alamann ... |
Pope Pius II | ... do Pandolfo Malatesta, duke of Rimini, who was later defeated. As a result, | gave San Marino some castles and the towns of Fiorentino, Montegiardino an ... |
Leo I the Thracian | ... supporter, but once again his hopes were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor | chose the noble Procopius Anthemius. His association with Gaiseric did not ... |
Aaron Burr | ... rst bid for the presidency with Jefferson as its presidential candidate and | as its vice presidential candidate. Jefferson came in second in the electo ... |
Shimon Peres | ... King Hassan II took the daring step of inviting then-Israeli Prime Minister | for talks, becoming only the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader. ... |
Charlemagne | ... III (750 – 12 June 816) was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. Protected by | from his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's posit ... |
Clovis I | After the Franks under | defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac in 496, the Franks eventual ... |
Aurelianus | ... t the war against the Goth Gainas and the conflict between the two brothers | and Caesariu |
Robert Burns | ... the supernatural associated with the night, "Bogies" (ghosts), influencing | ' Halloween 1785. Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn hu ... |
Daniel O'Connell | ... e United Kingdom. The change was forced by the landslide by-election win of | , an Irish Catholic proponent of emancipation, who was elected despite not ... |
Trajan | ... 9 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor | or Hadrian, but this is improbable |
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 ... |
Edward K. Valentine | Valentine is named for | , who as a congressman from Nebraska, was the chairman of the House Commit ... |
Horace Mann | Sir | , but according to Wolf (1902) this must be a mistake, for, apart from th |
John Negroponte | Between 1979 and 1985, under | 's appointment as U.S. diplomat from 1981 to 1985, U.S. military and econo ... |
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 ... |
Arcadius | ... l praetorian prefect Aurelianus. Synesius composed and addressed to Emperor | a speech entitled De regno, full of topical advice as to the studies of a ... |
Valentinian III | ... rucial part in the blunders of Rome. Petronius Maximus, the usurper, killed | in an effort to control the Empire. Diplomacy between the two factions bro ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... ncing violence and officially recognizing Israel. In return, Prime Minister | , on behalf of Israel, officially recognized the PLO |
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 ... |
Roger Gregory | ... hen Helms's own judicial choices were threatened with blocking did attorney | of Richmond, Virginia get confirmed. Helms also tried to block the nominat ... |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ... ity in 1977 and formed the government with Morarji Desai as Prime Minister. | who had become the leader of the Jana Sangh after Upadhyaya's death in 196 ... |
Thurgood Marshall | ... ry responsibility for Supreme Court cases (often led by lead NAACP attorney | ), with the ACLU focusing on police misconduct, and supporting the NAACP w ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Thomas W. Ross | ... ected by the North Carolina General Assembly for four-year terms. President | heads the system |
Donald Tusk | ... lish government and president Lech Kaczyński. Current Polish prime minister | restricted his comments to a recommendation that Germany pursue a neutral ... |
Mark Wallace | ... ns of dollars in revenue and spending using SWIFT, but not from using IVTS. | , president of UANI, praised the Senate Banking Committee |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ... ly refers to the family descending from the marriage of the Irish-Americans | and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald that was prominent in American politics and ... |
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 |
Sidney Godolphin | ... hrone after William's death in 1702, the Duke of Marlborough, together with | , the first Earl of Godolphin, rose to head the government, partly as a re ... |
Robert Cecil | ... the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) chief minister | , First Earl of Salisbury, in exchange for Theobalds which was the Cecils' ... |
Valentinian III | In 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 ... |
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 ... |
Peter Martyr | ... ters were widespread subjects in the Caribbean. The Italian-born chronicler | told of them in a letter to the pope in 1513, though he didn't believe the ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ... into a museum in 1929. The American Room was opened by the U.S. Ambassador, | , in 1938. The cells in which the pilgrims are said to have been held at t ... |
Ricimer | ... d by Majorian, who ruled for four years, before being killed by his general | (461) |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | ... interrupts the JFK assassination, preventing Lee Harvey Oswald from killing | . This history change, however, from a timeline where both President Kenne ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s. Delegates from those seven formed the C.S.A. in February 1861, selecting | as the provisional president. Unionist talk of reunion failed and Davis be ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... lection of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, | and Edward M. Kennedy, soon all held prominent positions in the federal go ... |
Morarji Desai | ... anata Party won with a huge majority in 1977 and formed the government with | as Prime Minister. Atal Bihari Vajpayee who had become the leader of the J ... |
Bobby Sands | In Northern Ireland in 1981, a prisoner, | , was part of the 1981 Irish hunger strike, protesting for better rights i ... |
Mao Zedong | ... s. By then, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under | had signed a ceasefire to create the Second United Front and fight the Jap ... |
Hjalmar Schacht | ... ed the economics ministry in his policy-making decisions, to the chagrin of | , the minister in charge. Huge expenditures were made on rearmament, in sp ... |
Joseph Stalin | The leadership of | led to a change in his view of the Soviet Union even though his initial im ... |
Spock | ... f in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk and science officer | , respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as ... |
Sanford B. Dole | ... is section shall not be recognized by the Department. [signed] June 8, 1896 | , President of the Republic of Hawai |
Carol Moseley Braun | ... chmond, Virginia get confirmed. Helms also tried to block the nomination of | , the first African-American female senator, as ambassador to New Zealand |
Kylie Minogue | ... Not Ashamed, Step Up to the Microphone, Devotion, and more. Then soap star | began her music career in the late 1980s and released The Loco-Motion whic ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... 1, initiated several forms of government support for film and the arts. The | government continued to support Australian film and state governments also ... |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | Following the 1960 election of U.S. President | , he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... inst him two-thirds of the time, leaving almost half as fairly independent. | recalled only two caucuses on legislative policy between 1795 and 1801, on ... |
Robert Mugabe | ... rding to some reports, currently over half the revenue of the government of | in Zimbabwe is in seigniorage. Zimbabwe has experienced hyperinflation (se ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... alked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's | as part of the 20-year celebration of tearing down the Berlin Wall |
Avitus | ... as a fast succession of Emperors. After Petronius, the Gallic-Roman senator | was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two ... |
Aaron Burr | ... 1800 election, but an equal number of electors cast votes for Jefferson and | . The tie sent the election to the House, and Federalists there blocked an ... |
Ngo Dinh Diem | ... untry to sovereign status. Collins' instructions were to support the leader | in subverting communism, by helping him to build an army and wage a milita ... |
Cato the Elder | ... sea cabbage and wild cabbage, it was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans | ;praised this vegetable for its medicinal properties, declaring that "It i ... |
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 ... |
Pat Meehan | United States Representative | of the Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania is a resident of Dre ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... munist ideology, particularly Trotskyism; though following the Great Purge, | privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounce Trotskyism. Ch ... |
Octavio Paz | A month after losing the election, at the invitation of | , Vargas Llosa attended a conference in Mexico entitled, "The 20th Century ... |
Titus | Jews led into captivity after the destruction of Jerusalem by | and Vespasian, and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew name into its l ... |
Augustus | ... to Bohemia, where their king Maroboduus established a powerful kingdom that | perceived as a threat to Rome. Before he could act, however, the war in Il ... |
Josiah Wood | ... t Allison College was organised. The first two students, Howard Sprague and | , graduated in May 1863. Mount Allison was the first university in the Bri ... |
Augustus | ... re the descendants of the "melting pot" of the Roman legionnaires (moved by | to 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 leader | signalled his willingness to leave the Senate for a diplomatic post. With ... |
Salvador Allende | ... o manage the allocation of economic inputs. The socialist-run government of | in Chile experimented with Project Cybersyn, a real-time information bridg ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... hen congress voted on independence. Adams persuaded the committee to select | to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit t ... |
Governor Steve Beshear | ... oup". In 2010, Judd signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's petition to urge | to protect Kentucky's homeless animals through tough enforcement of the st ... |
John de Chastelain | ... ce for a prosecution. The decommissioning was confirmed by Canadian General | , chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, ... |
Augustus | Under the reign of | , when the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, 14 wards w ... |
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 ... |
Earl of Plymouth | ... osts became unsustainable, and in 1911 bankruptcy was declared. In 1913 the | purchased 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 ... |
Associate Justice | ... ted Alabama in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1937, and served as an | of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971. Black was nom ... |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... ilism in the 17th century. This French mercantilism was best articulated by | (in office, 1665–1683), though policy liberalised greatly under Napoleon |
Bill Clinton | On July 12, 1994, U.S. President | spoke at the Gate about peace in post–Cold War Europe |
John F. Kennedy | ... ernatives. After the election of November 1960, Eisenhower in briefing with | pointed out the communist threat in Southeast Asia as requiring prioritiza ... |
Pietro Gasparri | ... litus, and, for the codification of Canon Law, which under della Chiesa and | , he as Eugenio Pacelli had the opportunity to participate in |
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 ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... " Outstanding propagandists included editor William Duane and party leaders | , Thomas Cooper and Jefferson himself |
Vespasian | and | , and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew nam |
McGovern | ... (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon's defeat of Senator | in 1972). Johnson's popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a ... |
Aristotle Onassis | ... negotiated the October 1968 marital contract between Jacqueline Kennedy and | |
Felix Ennodius | ... ative Parthenius (485–548), a Patron in 542 and perhaps a great-grandson of | |
Sir Edmund Hillary | ... rst accomplished in 1913 by Freda du Faur and guides Peter and Alex Graham. | made his first ascent in January 1948. In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, H ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... stigation. France offered a special rescue unit, and Israeli prime minister | offered to send agents with anti-terrorist expertise to help in the invest ... |
Pope Urban IV | ... had hired earlier, and began a rapprochement with Venice. With the help of | Michael VIII concluded peace with his former enemies. By the terms of the ... |
John F. Kennedy | In 1963, U.S. President | visited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it ... |
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 ... |
Stanley Reed | ... represented on the Court. The three final candidates were Solicitor General | , Sherman Minton, and Hugo Black. Roosevelt said Reed "had no fire," and M ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... was founded by the Roman Catholic Church in 1936 under its current name by | and 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 ... |
Condoleezza Rice | ... ng at the State Department at the personal invitation of Secretary of State | , to wide acclaim. Most recently, the Morgan State University Choir perfor ... |
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 ... |
Edward M. Kennedy | ... ent John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and | , soon all held prominent positions in the federal government, and receive ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... rned that Ernst Röhm, the chief of the SA, was planning a coup. Himmler and | plotted with Göring to use the Gestapo and SS to crush the SA. Members of ... |
Pauline Marois | ... simply the provincial wing of the Bloc. Gilles Duceppe has recently helped | campaign in the 2008 Quebec provincial election, she did not win and the L ... |
Bill Clinton | ... artwork of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe". In 1993, when then-president | wanted 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 ... |
Belisarius | ... was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the general | in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian ... |
Francisco Franco | ... extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again with | accepting the honorary patronage of the |
Robert Cecil | ... ld, Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by | , First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been ... |
Alexander Downer | ... ext. Under the direction of Prime Minister John Howard and Foreign Minister | , Australia then sent the text to the United Nations General Assembly in N ... |
Spock | McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to | . He is Kirk's "friend, personal bartender, confidant, counselor and pries ... |
Eutropius | ... n by movements of larger tribes, like the Goths. According to the historian | , the forces of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius battled against the Marcomanni ... |
Michael Bloomberg | ... ition, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City mayor | and Boston mayor Thomas Menino |
Charlemagne | ... first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of | , whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime between 828 and 830 |
Hugh Gaitskell | ... g with the highest level of public support for its policy of unilateralism. | , the Labour Party leader, received the vote with a promise to "fight, fig ... |
Sargent Shriver | ... people. I was exposed to the idea of being a public servant and Eunice and | became my heroes." Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of John F. Kennedy, a ... |
Kim Beazley | He is also a long-time friend of former federal Labor Leader | |
Bob McNamara | ... t difficult unless you want to 'kiss his behind' all the time. That is what | suggested to me...if I wanted to get along. |
Rufus King | ... President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalist | in the general election |
George M. Dallas | ... , who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father of | , the vice president of James Polk. The local government describes the bor ... |
Lord Dorchester | ... s, and pockets of local resistance continued. Some rebel leaders approached | , the British governor of Quebec for assistance, who was reported to promi ... |
Joshua | ... Numbers ) and the "nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh" that, led by | , settled to the west (, passim) |
Sir Ernest Gowers | ... tably of all, Fowler's Modern English Usage and The Complete Plain Words by | . Detailed guidance on many aspects of writing British English for publica ... |
Chief Justice of the United States | ... ard meets at least four times a year and includes as ex officio members the | and the Vice President of the United States. The nominal head of the Insti ... |
Otto III | ... the Pope's temporal power, though it was denounced as a forgery by Emperor | and lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet Dante Alighieri. ... |
Louis Henkin | Prominent critics in the human rights community, such as Prof. | (non-self-execution declaration incompatible with the Supremacy Clause) an ... |
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 ... |
Avraham Harman | ... ttacked the ship. Though "strong dismay" was conveyed to Israeli ambassador | , so too was the speed of Israel's notification. Apologies were soon sent ... |
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Bill Clinton | ... homa City area to be released from their duties for their safety. President | learned about the bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Tur ... |
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 ... |
Ricimer | ... mans abandoned their policy of war against the Vandals. The Western general | reached a treaty with the Vandals, and in 476 Genseric was able to conclud ... |
Jo Moore | ... ansport, was forced to resign because of the actions of his special adviser | , who instructed a departmental civil servant, Martin Sixsmith, that Septe ... |
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 President | admitted 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 ... |
Lal Krishna Advani | ... uism, where a temple should be reconstructed. The party under its president | galvanised the nation with various rath yatras and succeeded in awakening ... |
C. Rajagopalachari | ... ence of new generation of Indians from within the Congress Party, including | , Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- wh ... |
Daniel O'Connell | ... e". This was in fact a quote made about him by Irish Nationalist politician | |
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 ... |
Francis Walsingham | ... allen through in 1571. In 1583, he married Frances, teenage daughter of Sir | . In the same year, he made a visit to Oxford University with Giordano Bru ... |
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 ... |
Gough Whitlam | Perkin's editorship coincided with | 's reforms of the Australian Labor Party, and The Age became a key support ... |
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 ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... was due to retire as Governor-General in July 1974, and the Prime Minister, | , needed to find a suitable replacement. His first choice, Ken Myer, decli ... |
Cassiodorus | Gregory Nazianzen (Oratio 4.108) and | (Variae 1.2) relate how Tyrian Heracles and the nymph Tyrus were walking a ... |
Eleanor Roosevelt | In 1943, | dedicated a town house at 47-49 East 65th Street in Manhattan to the colle ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | Two major satirists of Europe in the Renaissance were | and François Rabelais. Other examples of Renaissance satire include Till E ... |
John Tyler, Sr. | ... t Virginia. As of 2010, the population was 9,208. The County is named after | , father of President John Tyler. Its county seat is |
Bill Clinton | ... ributions toward world education, morality, and acts of charity". President | spoke these words at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony |
Earl Warren | ... Supreme Court in history and has been influential on justices as diverse as | , William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia |
Willem Drees | ... 1952 the VVD took part in the broad cabinets led by the PvdA Prime Minister | . The party was a junior partner with only eight seats to the Catholic Peo ... |
Chaucer's | ... s within stories, and even within some of these, more stories are narrated. | The Canterbury Tales is also a frame story |
Itō Hirobumi | The Japanese statesman | started to negotiate with the Russians. He believed that Japan was too wea ... |
Antonin Scalia | ... n influential on justices as diverse as Earl Warren, William Rehnquist, and | |
Tommy Douglas | ... d been put in place during peacetime in Canada. A few critics (most notably | and 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 ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... ted debate in Congress, Massachusetts Representative (and former President) | successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest. Though Congre ... |
Mary Robinson | ... led the Anti-Amendment Campaign, which included future President of Ireland | . The Pro Life Amendment Campaign subsequently became the Pro Life Campaig ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... etanyahu opposed the idea of Palestinian statehood. In 1998, U.S. President | persuaded the two leaders to meet. The resulting Wye River Memorandum deta ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 8 May 1969, | issued the Apostolic Constitution Sacra Rituum Congregatio, dividing it in ... |
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus | ... ation brought a second, distinct stage in the ancient history of Catalonia. | arrived in Empúries, with the objective of cutting off the sources of prov ... |
George Carteret | ... help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s, Charles II gave | , bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the American colonies in ... |
Olusegun Obasanjo | ... 9 May 2000, the Lagos Guardian newspaper reported that the now ex-president | commuted to retirement the dismissal of all military persons who fought fo ... |
Louie Gohmert | ... 's 1st congressional district, which is currently represented by Republican | |
Charlemagne | ... that had not been accomplished since the days of the Roman Empire (although | had nearly done so around 800 CE). However, France's constant warfare with ... |
John Marshall Harlan II | Black's most prominent ideological opponent on the Warren Court was | , who replaced Justice Jackson in 1955. They disagreed on several issues, ... |
Domitian | ... edman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor | , this identification, which no ancient sources suggest, then lost support ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... the appointment of John H. Reagan to the position of Postmaster General, by | in 1861, making him the first Postmaster General of the Confederate Post O ... |
Timothy M. Carney | In Karl D. Jackson’s book on the Khmer Rouge, | provided five reasons why Pol Pot won the war. These were support from Sih ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ed the power of putting things in brackets." Another childhood favorite was | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which he called "a favourite forever. ... |
Bernard Kouchner | ... ivilians being murdered and starved by the blockading forces. French doctor | also witnessed these events, particularly the huge number of starving chil ... |
Thomas Wolsey | | , Archbishop of York, Chief Minister and favourite of Henry VIII, took ove ... |
Lester Maddox | ... slature to choose the governor in the deadlocked 1966 race between Democrat | and Republican Howard Callaway. Whereas Black voted with the majority unde ... |
John Cornyn | At the Federal level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans | and Kay Bailey Hutchison; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional ... |
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 ... |
Michael Chertoff | ... na, Senator Joseph Lieberman claimed that emergency workers under DHS chief | "ran around like Keystone Kops, uncertain about what they were supposed to ... |
Ian Watmore | ... r Sir Gus' retirement, Sir Jeremy Heywood replaced him as Cabinet Secretary | ;as Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary; and lastly, Sir as Head of the Hom ... |
Montagu family | ... sion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the | for £20,000. The Trustees rejected Buckingham House, on the site now occup ... |
Cato the Elder | ... which it had been roused by the presence of Hannibal. Others, most notably | , feared that if Carthage was not completely destroyed it would soon regai ... |
Thomas Wolsey | ... ing a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, accompanying | to Calais and Bruges, More was knighted and made under-treasurer of the Ex ... |
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa | ... the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 and served as the 41st | from 1979 to 1983, when he was elected Governor of Iowa |
Benjamin Franklin | ... amount of labor which has been expended in the improvement of commodities". | in his 1729 essay entitled "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity ... |
chevrons | ... e foreign legion remains the only branch of the French Army that still uses | to indicate seniority. Each gold chevron, which are only used by ordinary ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... ilius Lepidus on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by | but demolished by Caesar in 44 BC. This temple no longer existed by the ti ... |
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 ... |
Ii Naosuke | ... Yoshiyasu was given the status of tairō as well. Among the most famous was | , who was assassinated in 1860 outside the Sakuradamon Gate of Edo Castle ... |
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 ... |
John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ch events spiralled out of control in the run up to and after independence. | , the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governme ... |
Vespasian | Construction of the Colosseum began under the rule of the Emperor | in around 70–72 AD. The site chosen was a flat area on the floor of a low ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | In 1764 Catherine placed | , her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ... |
Lewis Carroll | Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by | ), also known as Todd's syndrome, is a disorienting neurological condition ... |
Gus O'Donnell | ... single holder. The last person to hold all three positions together was Sir | , Cabinet Secretary, Head of the Home Civil Service and Cabinet Office Per ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... erforming benefit concerts for various civil rights organizations including | 's PUSH and The Black Panther Party's Breakfast program throughout the ear ... |
Gerald Ford | ... cal community called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. Vice President | said, "While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed pa ... |
Trajan | ... er ascribed to him) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Emperor | 's reign, or 101 AD |
Peter Rodman | ... ad to an abyss of violence that Sihanouk had worked for ten years to avoid. | , however disagreed with this view |
Wayne Dowdy | ... d not run for another term. He defeated Democratic 4th District Congressman | by almost eight points. He never faced another contest nearly that close. ... |
Burnham Martin | ... in North Tunbridge. At the 1867 fair, Vermont's former Lieutenant Governor | referred to the fair as a "little World's Fair". Lewis Dickerman adopted t ... |
Zheng He | ... and economically fortified. In the early fifteenth century the Ming Admiral | had established one of his bases of operation in the port city, so the Chi ... |
John Adams | ... . On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of | of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of V ... |
Kofi Annan | ... treaty bodies. In his September 2002 report the former UN Secretary General | on 'Strengthening the United Nations; an agenda for further change' sugges ... |
James E. Akins | ... 2003. The committee, which included former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia | , held Israel to be culpable and suggested several theories for Israel's p ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
Redfield Proctor | ... and Pittsford. Proctor was named for and almost completely owned by Senator | . The closing of the marble quarries in the town in the 1980s and 1990s co ... |
Julius Caesar | Pliny claims that this very painting had been part of the collection of | , but was destroyed when Caesar's mansion on the Palatine Hill burned down ... |
Domitian | ... a decade with the unfavourable (and to some, shameful) peace negotiated by | 's ministers |
Douglas Wilder | ... after goals such as the repeal of Jim Crow laws had been achieved. In 1989, | became the first African American elected as governor in the United States |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... increasing grounds within the Congress leadership. Under the presidency of | at its historic Lahore session in December 1929, the Indian National Congr ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... iammetta (1878), one of Rossetti's last paintings, now in the collection of | (model: Marie Spartali Stillman |
John Marshall | ... ns v. Virginia, , was a United States Supreme Court decision most noted for | and the Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decis ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... to him by his forefathers. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by | (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian ... |
Bob Dole | ... k control of the Senate in 1995, succeeding as Majority Leader in 1996 when | resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign. As majorit ... |
High Commissioner | ... e Royal Navy, the British Army, and the Royal Air Force), accredits British | s and ambassadors, and receives diplomats from foreign states |
Tiberius | ... dici, or veterinarians. Using these stations in chariot relays, the emperor | hastened in 24 hours to join his brother, Drusus Germanicus, who was dying ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nominee | acknowledged Hoover's absence in his acceptance speech |
Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal | ... was an educated and well-travelled man, whose tutor had been the statesman | . He founded the Christian-Ernestinum Grammar School and, in 1683, partici ... |
Plutarch | ... of the Maenads or Thyades in the Korykion cave on Mount Parnassos, although | informs us that his friend Clea was both a Priestess to Apollo and to the ... |
Earl Warren | In 1953 Vinson died and was replaced by | . While all members of the Court were New Deal liberals, Black was part of ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as | 's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had ... |
Plutarch | ... Pyrrhus of Epirus. Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by | to have spent his life in Egypt, probably in an honourable captivity. His ... |
Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
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. ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... . To date, he has the longest retirement of any President. Former President | will 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 ... |
Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
Folke Bernadotte | ... ring around 400 fighters. Following the assassination of UN Envoy for Peace | by the LEHI in September 1948, this separate unit collapsed and integrated ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... hile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), | (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed |
Harold Campbell | ... of Sir Geoffrey Syme (1908–42), and his chosen editors Gottlieb Schuler and | , The Age failed to modernise, and gradually lost market share to The Argu ... |
Roman Rosen | On October 3, the Russian Minister to Japan, | , presented to the Japanese government the Russian counterproposal as the ... |
Septimius Severus | ... drian's Wall in the summer and autumn. Constantius's campaign, like that of | before 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 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... strong negative impact on the salmon population, and in 1908 U.S. President | observed that the salmon runs were but a fraction of what they had been 25 ... |
Robert McNamara | He often privately cursed the Vietnam War, and in a conversation with | , Johnson assailed "the bunch of commies" running The New York Times for t ... |
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 ... |
Senator Joe McCarthy | ... ." Walt Kelly's Pogo was likewise censored in 1952 over his overt satire of | , caricatured in his comic strip as "Simple J. Malarky". Garry Trudeau, wh ... |
Paola Concia | ... article shocked Italian feminists and provoked criticism from Opposition MP | . A study from also presented a similar point of view to that of L'Osserva ... |
Elisha DeWolf | ... as Mud Creek and Horton, the town was renamed Wolfville in honour of judge | in 1830. The town was an important shipbuilding location in the mid 19th c ... |
Karol Świerczewski | ... e was also asserted by commanders of the late and post-war Polish military. | , commander of the 2nd Polish army, briefed his soldiers to "exact on the ... |
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 ... |
Trajan | ... t was banished from Rome to the Chersonesus during the reign of the Emperor | and was set to work in a stone quarry. Finding on his arrival that the pri ... |
David Beaton | ... uder of The Bass, Knt., as "the Cardinal's Secretary" representing Cardinal | at a reconsecration of the restored and ancient St. Baldred's chapel on Th ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | ... e founder and first King of Rome. She is described as such in both Livy and | ; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, | of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New ... |
Washington Irving | ... the Columbia. The account of his explorations in the west was published by | in 1838.). John C. Frémont of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engin ... |
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 ... |
Piet de Jong | ... ed relatively stable and entered yet again the cabinet under Prime Minister | |
Jefferson Davis | ... vote in both houses of Congress. The only person to serve as president was | , due to the Confederacy being defeated before the completion of his term |
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 ... |
Lucius Licinius Lucullus | ... when a temple was dedicated to her in the Velabrum in the Campus Martius by | , using booty from his 151–150 BC campaign in Spain. The temple was destro ... |
Earle I. Mack | ... le Mack School of Law was renamed on May 1, 2008 in honor of Drexel alumnus | . Serving only graduate students, the law school offers Juris Doctor degre ... |
Gaius Fulvius Plautianus | ... and her brother and other members of the family of his former father-in-law | . Plautianus had already been executed for alleged treachery against emper ... |
Ban Ki-moon | ... arious sizes up to chlorine tanker trucks. United Nations Secretary-General | condemned the attacks as, "clearly intended to cause panic and instability ... |
Théodore Robitaille | ... nada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée wrote the m ... |
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 ... |
John Cleves Symmes | ... ates. The population was 2,790 at the 2000 census. The village is named for | who lived here, laid out the original town site, and sold lots |
Thomas R. Pickering | ... squads' ... I'd repudiate him instantly." Helms opposed the appointment of | as Ambassador to El Salvador. alleged that the CIA had interfered in the S ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Lewis Carroll | ... ild and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, | , James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Gui ... |
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 ... |
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | ... " is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by | Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa ... |
Lloyd Osbourne | ... 90, Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son | sailed on the Janet Nicoll, a trading steamer owned by Henderson and Macfa ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... ies were taken up by the Jewish , but fiercely denounced by Vladimir Lenin. | devoted a whole chapter to criticising Cultural National Autonomy in Marxi ... |
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 ... |
Folke Bernadotte | ... rnment, in September 1948, acting in response to the assassination of Count | , outlawed the Irgun and Lehi groups, declaring them terrorist organizatio ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | Though Christianity was allowed to grow until the 1610s, | soon began to see it as a growing threat to the stability of the Shogunate ... |
Robin Raphel | In 1997, U.S. State Department's | told Massoud to surrender to the Taliban. She obtained a clear answer with ... |
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 ... |
Francis Scott Key | ... ed for the failed British assault on Baltimore, which was the influence for | 's writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Many slaves escaped to the Briti ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... cultural minorities were taken up by the Jewish , but fiercely denounced by | . Joseph Stalin devoted a whole chapter to criticising Cultural National A ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... This made a perfect place to build an irrigation system. In 1902 President | signed the Reclamation Act, and in 1906 the Sun River Irrigation Project w ... |
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | ... ple in Rome was planned by Julius Caesar and was erected after his death by | on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by Lucius Corne ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... r assaulted. An invitation was extended to Nixon's opponent, Vice-President | , but he declined. According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, "Hum ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... July 1956, the third stanza of the lyrics was changed to remove mentions of | . This is the version presented here |
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 ... |
Robert Bork | ... the Justice Department willing to fire Cox ended with the Solicitor General | . Though Bork believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he consi ... |
Pope Urban VIII | ... elo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later | ). Gian Lorenzo Bernini restored and refinished the statue |
Hans Wiegel | ... 0. This cabinet fell after a few months. Meanwhile the charismatic young MP | had attracted considerable attention. He became the new leader of the VVD: ... |
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 ... |
Hasekura Tsunenaga | ... pate actively in foreign trade. In 1615, an embassy and trade mission under | was sent across the Pacific to Nueva Espana (New Spain) on the Japanese-bu ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Mountbatten was fond of Congress leader | and his liberal outlook for the country. He felt differently about the Mus ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... of the Pacific "Wall of the Missing" in Honolulu. In March 1963, President | did a wreath-laying ceremony at O'Hare Airport to honor Butch O'Hare. The ... |
Maximinus Thrax | ... epended on the support of the military to rule, like his eventual successor | |
Domitian | ... odelled further under Vespasian's younger son, the newly designated Emperor | , who constructed the hypogeum, a series of underground tunnels used to ho ... |
Jan van Eyck | ... icular Vasari, credited northern European painters of the 15th century, and | in particular, with the "invention" of painting with oil media on wood pan ... |
Michele Bachmann | ... used as the Waterloo Woman's Club. The front lawn of the house was used for | 's Presidential candidacy announcement on June 27, 2011 |
Plutarch | ... e of his occasional absence to ravage the defenceless part of his kingdom ( | , Pyrrhus, 7 if.); at length, the combined forces of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy and ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... hat help themselves", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in | 's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758). In the 20th century, "Carnegie's re ... |
Book of Judges | The Biblical | revolves around a succession of leaders who were known as "Judges" (Hebrew ... |
Judges of the International Criminal Court | ... may be addressed by the titles they received in their countries of origin. | are referred to as "judge. |
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 ... |
Theodosius II | ... inscription records the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under | and Valentinian III (reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by ... |
Plutarch's | From | 'Lives' |
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 ... |
Lenin | ... h, as seen in contemporary documents (for example, in the first editions of | 's complete works). In Russian, however, "переворот" has a similar meaning ... |
Cardinal Wolsey | ... It is possible that the current design replaced an earlier maze planted for | . It was originally planted with hornbeam; it has been repaired latterly u ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... deral gun regulations came as a response to the murders of John F. Kennedy, | , and Martin Luther King Jr. |
Saint Boniface | ... essed indeed a heathen reaction, but the arrival in Bavaria in about 734 of | checked apostasy. Boniface organised the Bavarian church and founded or re ... |
George B. McClellan | ... orked for, and became friendly with, one of his future commanding officers, | |
Jefferson Davis | When General Grant's forces broke through Richmond's defenses, | ordered the destruction of Richmond's militarily significant supplies; the ... |
John Kerry | ... ection George W. Bush won 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while | won 46% of the vote, compared to 56% statewide. In the 2006 state governor ... |
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. |
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 ... |
Thomas Wolsey | ... cuments, and serving as a liaison between the King and his Lord Chancellor: | , the Cardinal Archbishop of York |
Plutarch | ... e minds of many with the Alexander with the spear of the sculptor Lysippus. | was among the unimpressed, deciding that it had failed accurately to repro ... |
Cassius Dio | The Roman Historian | contended that the sole motivation for the edict was a desire to increase ... |
John F. Kennedy | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as | , Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference ... |
Decimus Junius Brutus | ... s of memory loss as the legendary Lethe River. In 138 BC, the Roman general | sought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the ... |
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 ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... mous examples of using gibberish in literature is the poem "Jabberwocky" by | |
Dick Cheney | ... y 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President | 's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again. Later i ... |
Abe Fortas | ... on to uphold the state constitutional provision, his colleagues Douglas and | dissented. According to Douglas, Georgia tradition would guarantee a Maddo ... |
Justinian | ... a whose remnants are found along Murat Toptani Street, was built by Emperor | in 520 AD and restored by Ahmed Pasha Toptani in the 18th century. The are ... |
Karl August von Hardenberg | ... 1 its territories became part of a Prussian province. The Prussian Minister | took over its administration at the beginning of 1792 |
G. K. Butterfield | ... olina's 1st Congressional District and is currently represented by Democrat | |
Kyoto Shoshidai | The shogunate appointed a liaison, the | (Shogun's Representative in Kyoto), to deal with the emperor, court and no ... |
Joseph Stalin | During the 1930s and 1940s | 's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, s ... |
Yishiha | ... d at present) as Kuye . There is some evidence that the Ming eunuch admiral | reached Sakhalin in 1413 during one of his expeditions to the lower Amur, ... |
Kevan Gosper | ... ublish their work freely in China". However, by 30 July 2008, IOC spokesman | had to retract this optimistic statement, announcing that the internet wou ... |
High Commissioner | ... n South Africa. In 1874, Sir Henry Bartle Frere was sent to South Africa as | for the British Empire to bring the plans into being. Among the obstacles ... |
Jim Jeffords | ... Later in 2001, he became Senate Minority Leader again after Vermont senator | became an independent and caucused with the Democrats, allowing them to re ... |
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 ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... rdoned for the crime in 1983 by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from | , Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among o ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offered | a place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ... |
George B. McClellan | Following Maj. Gen. | 's failure in the Peninsula Campaign, Burnside was offered command of the ... |
Endelkachew Makonnen | ... television to agree to the army's demands for still greater pay, and named | as his new Prime Minister. However, despite Endalkatchew's many concession ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... evious experience with Germany at the end of World War I, in 1946 President | selected the former president to tour Germany to ascertain the food status ... |
John Kerry | ... cratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and later campaigned for nominee | |
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 ... |
Hubert Ingraham | ... nt governor-general is Sir Arthur Foulkes and the current Prime Minister is | |
Felix Frankfurter | ... until just before the outbreak of war. In late 1933 Keynes was persuaded by | to address President Roosevelt directly, which he did by letters and face ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... utation suffered in the late 19th and early 20th century, when critics like | and H. L. Mencken pointed out the negative aspects of Puritan rule, leadin ... |
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 ... |
Constantine the Great | The reign of | saw the division of the Empire into its Eastern and Western halves, as wel ... |
Pliny the Younger | ... cle. Even in Roman times, hundreds of votive statues remained, described by | and seen by Pausanias |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... an Military, one was used by Vijitha Rohana to attack Indian Prime Minister | in 1987 |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son | to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a dec ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... of the Black Sea in the 3rd century AD and, in the late 5th century, under | , established a Kingdom in Italy |
Anicius Maximus | ... last mentioned around 435. Animal hunts continued until at least 523, when | celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King Theodor ... |
Howard Dean | ... ong with Rob Reiner, Sheen campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate | , and later campaigned for nominee John Kerry |
Strom Thurmond | Trent Lott spoke on December 5, 2002 at the 100th birthday party of Sen. | of South Carolina, a long time conservative leader. Thurmond had run for P ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... is job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a decade later, | was assassinated |
Sanford B. Dole | Article 23 of the constitution personally named | as the first president and gave him a term of office stretching through 19 ... |
Mr. Spock | ... en." Barrett often joked that Roddenberry, given the choice between keeping | (whom the network also hated) or the woman character, "kept the Vulcan and ... |
Plutarch | Additionally, according to | 's essay on the meaning of the "E at Delphi"--the only literary source for ... |
Gn. Pompeius | The last two treatises are supplemented by letters to | and Ammaeus (two) |
Theodoric the Great | ... Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King | for their high cost |
Fernando Filoni | The current Prefect of the Congregation is Cardinal | . The current Secretary is Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai from Hong Kong |
Heraclius | ... under Khosrau II, invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperor | marched triumphantly into Jerusalem and restored the True Cross to the reb ... |
Robert Stanley Weir | ... . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906. | wrote in 1908 another English version, one that is not a literal translati ... |
Scott Ritter | ... ation of UN mandates to justify more severe action. It should be noted that | , chief UN weapons inspector at the time, says that the inspectors were no ... |
Macrinus | Caracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect, | , who (according to Herodian) was most probably responsible for having the ... |
George Voinovich | ... o Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, | , Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among others, being written in support of Kin ... |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier | ... setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir | . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906 |
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 ... |
Idi Amin | ... gether with his wife, Frances, and their four children, Waite witnessed the | coup in Uganda, he and his wife narrowly escaping death on several occasio ... |
M. Aemilius Lepidus | ... the Capitoline Hill end of the Forum by order of the consuls for that year, | and Q. Lutatius Catulus. In 63 BC, Cicero delivered his famous speech deno ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... the way to his first tournament in Rouen, William and his friends come upon | (Paul Bettany), trudging down a road with no clothes or money. William per ... |
Constantine I | ... s also maintained that exposing a baby to death was a wicked act. In 318 AD | considered infanticide a crime, and in 374 AD Valentinian I mandated to re ... |
Carl Bildt | The term was coined by Swedish Prime Minister | in a debate against the opposition leader Ingvar Carlsson 1994 |
Ron Ramsey | ... orial District and the Hawkins County portion by the 4th district. Lt. Gov. | and State Senator Mike Faulk currently serve in these positions. All of th ... |
Associate Justice | ... egory Scalia (; born March 11, 1936) is an American jurist who serves as an | of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice ... |
Thomas Wolsey | ... sing, Henry VIII imposed a series of taxes devised by his finance minister, | . Soon the people began to resent Wolsey's taxes and a new source of finan ... |
Howard Baker | ... ersal, his position drew the support of future Minority and Majority Leader | of Tennessee and twelve Senate Democrats. Helms' position was upheld in 19 ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... Leslie, set in colonial Massachusetts. He also makes a brief appearance in | 's The Scarlet Letter in the chapter entitled "The Minister's Vigil. |
Ed Nijpels | ... Parliament to become Queen's Commissioner in Friesland and was succeeded by | . In the Dutch general election of 1982 Nijpels' VVD won ten seats, bringi ... |
John Kerry | ... d area overall, narrowly voting for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat | in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican J ... |
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 ... |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... -conspirators were subsequently made permanently ineligible for baseball by | , Major League Baseball's new commissioner, recently hired to restore the ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... o was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised with the other 39 by | in 1970 |
Theodosius I | ... y BCE. The last recorded response was given during AD 393, when the emperor | ordered pagan temples to cease operation |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... t, an amazingly strong showing for such a challenger. Four days later, Sen. | of New York entered the race. Internal polling by Johnson's campaign in Wi ... |
Kevin Rudd | In 2008 Labor Prime Minister | launched a biography titled Andrew Fisher, written by David Day. In turn, ... |
Q. Lutatius Catulus | ... of the Forum by order of the consuls for that year, M. Aemilius Lepidus and | . In 63 BC, Cicero delivered his famous speech denouncing the companions o ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ment of greatest ignominy, when it predicted that Thomas Dewey would defeat | in the 1948 election, by five to 15 percentage points. Gallup believed the ... |
John Ging | In an open letter to Gaza Strip UNRWA chief | published August 20, 2009, the movement's Popular Committees for Refugees ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... notable American participants included Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and | . The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian removal, in which Native ... |
Octavian | ... the Roman Republic. It was a naval engagement fought between the forces of | and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. The battle took ... |
John L. Stevens | ... ount concluded in his report that the overthrow had utilized the aid of the | , United States Minister to Hawaii who ordered the landing of troops from ... |
Ruud Lubbers | ... its total up to 36. It entered again cabinet with the CDA under CDA-leader | . The cabinet began a program of radical reform of the welfare state, whic ... |
Katy Perry | ... ope Music Awards on 6 November, Queen received the Global Icon Award, which | presented to Brian May. Queen closed the awards ceremony, with Adam Lamber ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... s referred to as the Cheshire Cat principle, after the fading to a smile of | 's Cheshire Cat. It is expected that a first-principles solution of the eq ... |
Domitian | ... ns, known as the Clementine literature, where he is identified with Emperor | 's cousin Titus Favius Clemens. Clementine Literature portrays Clement as ... |
Marcus Claudius Tacitus | ... that there was an interregnum between Aurelian's death and the election of | as his successor. Additionally, some of Ulpia's coins appear to have been ... |
Otto III | ... ny-Anhalt). He is rumored to have been a relative of the Holy Roman Emperor | . At the age of six he was sent to be educated in Magdeburg, seat of Adalb ... |
Robert T. Grey | ... ater, when he led a small group of conservatives to block the nomination of | for nine months, and thus causing the firing of Eugene Rostow |
Diocletian | ... ragmentation of the decade in which he reigned. 20 years later the reign of | would fully restore stability and end the Crisis of the third century. The ... |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ... eaders of the Janata Party were Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Raj Narain and | . The Janata government's Home Minister, Choudhary Charan Singh, ordered t ... |
Joe Clark | ... th the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The federal PC Party under | rebuffed the initiative to "unite the right". In December 2003, the Canadi ... |
Silvia Cartwright | ... 006: the Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II of New Zealand, Governor-General Dame | , Prime Minister Helen Clark, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Represen ... |
Francisco Franco | ... Republic (founded 1931) in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) brought General | to power. Even though public use of the Catalan language was banned some p ... |
Pope Leo XII | ... f during a performance so he could further display his virtuosity. In 1827, | honoured Paganini with the Order of the Golden Spur |
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 ... |
Elliot Richardson | On the same day, Nixon appointed a new Attorney General, | , and gave him authority to designate a special counsel for the Watergate ... |
Sarah Palin | ... iticians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and | , have all made reference to Winthrop's writings in their speeches. Ronald ... |
Valentinian I | ... act. In 318 AD Constantine I considered infanticide a crime, and in 374 AD | mandated to rear all children (exposing babies, especially girls, was stil ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... he murderers. Without a chance to defend themselves in a hearing, President | dishonorably discharged the entire 167 member regiment due to their accuse ... |
Thomas Jefferson Rusk | ... n of the newspaper (in Spanish) is preserved and shown at the local Museum. | was one of the most prominent early Nacogdoches Anglo settlers. A veteran ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... elopment is part of the Curia of the Catholic Church. It was established by | on 15 July 1971 and is based in the Palazzo San Callisto, in Piazza San Ca ... |
Archibald Cox | ... of the regular Justice Department hierarchy. In May 1973, Richardson named | to the position |
John Kerry | ... hen 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for George W. Bush, 32.8% voted for | , and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third party candidate or wrote in ... |
Caspar Weinberger | ... ates, were rejected. Helms also, unsuccessfully, opposed the nominations of | , Donald Regan, and Frank Carlucci. However, he did score a notable coup t ... |
Judge Lindsey | ... the Immaculate Conception which was completed in 1911. Margaret worked with | to help destitute children and establish the United States' first juvenile ... |
Condoleezza Rice | ... ct Israelis to do the same thing." On December 28, 2008, Secretary of State | said in a statement: "the United States strongly condemns the repeated roc ... |
Levi P. Morton | ... United States history, a record which was previously held by Vice President | . He is interred in Uvalde Cemetery |
James B. Hunt Jr. | John Edwards, former U.S. Senator and two time presidential candidate, | , 4-term Governor of North Carolina and Robert Gibbs, Former White House P ... |
James H. Kyle | To celebrate its distinction as the birthplace of | , Cedarville commemorates Labor Day with , an annual festival including a ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... in which the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik) headed by | toppled the Kerensky government in what they believed to be the first blow ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Giovanni Falcone | In Italy he helped the judges | and Paolo Borsellino to achieve significant successes in the fight against ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and | , based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology. Ro ... |
James Buchanan | In January, President | had attempted to resupply the garrison with the Star of the West, but Conf ... |
Raoul Wallenberg | | , a Swedish diplomat, was directly inspired by the film Pimpernel Smith to ... |
Thomas Bodley | ... d chemist Frederick Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library founder | , the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Si ... |
Tokugawa Iemitsu | # | , r. 1623–165 |
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 ... |
Jeane Kirkpatrick | ... Court did not have jurisdiction, with U.S. ambassador to the United Nations | dismissing the Court as a "semi-legal, semi-juridical, semi-political body ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... 30 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later President) | |
Joris Voorhoeve | ... blamed on Nijpels, who stood down as leader of the VVD. He was succeeded by | . In 1989 the CDA-VVD cabinet fell over a minor point. In the subsequent e ... |
John Adams | ... blockade of American ports and declared American ships to be enemy vessels. | , a strong supporter of independence, believed that Parliament had effecti ... |
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 ... |
Giovanni Falcone | ... that he was utterly disillusioned with the Mafia. Buscetta asked to talk to | and began his life as an informant |
Ohio Attorney General | After further investigation of New Rome's history of misconduct, the | , on the recommendation of the Ohio State Auditor, concluded that it shoul ... |
Tony Garza | ... ged them were upset residents from the area. The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, | , however, claimed the men may have been local police. Reporters Without B ... |
Fred Thompson | ... 6, 1973, in front of a live, televised audience, the Chief Minority Counsel | asked Butterfield if he was "aware of the installation of any listening de ... |
Charlemagne | ... n in retrospect to symbolize all the Christian Frankish kings, most notably | |
Tokugawa Hidetada | # | , r. 1605–162 |
Joseph Stalin | When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, | ordered both soldiers and civilians to initiate a scorched earth policy to ... |
Augustus | ... e Senate with the wish felicior Augusto, melior Traiano ("[be] luckier than | and better than Trajan"). Among medieval Christian theologians, Trajan was ... |
Thomas More | Sir | , in his 1516 work Utopia suggests that the practice of enclosure is respo ... |
Eliot Ness | ... les featured cooperation between the Treasury Department task force, led by | , and the Mounties against liquor smuggling across the American-Canadian b ... |
Giovanni Falcone | ... i is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important pentito. He was helpful to judge | in describing the Sicilian Mafia Commission or Cupola, the leadership of t ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | # | , ruled 1603–160 |
Manmohan Singh | ... ssimilated in cosmopolitan areas. India presently has a Sikh Prime Minister | |
Daniel Coit Gilman | The University's viability depended on its first president, | , recruited from the presidency of the University of California. Gilman la ... |
John Kerry | ... e 19th century. Twentieth century descendants include Massachusetts Senator | and educator Charles William Eliot. The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts a ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... ecame an issue in the 1988 presidential campaign, when Republican candidate | accused Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis (a member of the ACLU) of bei ... |
Juliusz Słowacki | Mindaugas is the primary subject of the 1829 drama Mindowe, by | , one of the Three Bards. He has been portrayed in several 20th-century li ... |
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | ... otable alumni with involvement in politics. Combining science and politics, | is the elected chief of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an orga ... |
Lucius Licinius Murena | ... rding to Strabo, the league comprised some 23 known city-states as members. | (elder), Roman consul, added three more in 81 BC: Balbura, Bubon and Oenoa ... |
Constantine I | Emperor | ordered in about 325/326 that the temple be demolished and the soil - whic ... |
Jephthah | There is one debated example of child killing in Old Testament, | ’s Vow. Biblical scholars disagree as to whether Jephthah's daughter was a ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, which took place between the late Prime Minister | and Harchand Singh Longowal, the then President of the Akali Dal, who was ... |
Curt Anderson | ... mbers of the team now coach lacrosse in local high schools. Tony Fulton and | were elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. Dr. Miles Harrison and Co ... |
Lawrence Eagleburger | ... These nominations included Alexander Haig, Chester Crocker, John Louis, and | , all of whom were confirmed regardless, whilst all of Helms's candidates, ... |
Vogel schemes | ... fore British settlement the area was covered in dense forest and swamp. The | of the 1870s provided the necessary impetus to lead to the construction of ... |
Paolo Borsellino | In Italy he helped the judges Giovanni Falcone and | to achieve significant successes in the fight against organized crime (the ... |
Charlemagne | ... n to the war in Aquitaine. Moreover, during the early years of the reign of | , Tassilo gave decisions in ecclesiastical and civil causes in his own nam ... |
Ford | ... came a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and | administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then as an as ... |
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 ... |
Zheng He | ... y and a flourishing of the arts and culture. It was during this period that | led explorations throughout the world, possibly reaching America. During t ... |
Chief Justice of Ireland | ... e, "My Lord", but this has been discouraged since 2006. In law reports, the | has the postnominal "CJ", the President of the High Court the postnominal ... |
Plutarch | ... es, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, | , Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Harald Edelstam | | (1913–1989) was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II, he earned the nic ... |
Peter of Capua | ... together and returned home. While the Papal legate to the Crusade, Cardinal | endorsed the move as necessary to prevent the crusade's complete failure, ... |
Sian Elias | ... New Zealand House of Representatives Margaret Wilson and Chief Justice Dame | |
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 ... |
Gerald Ford | ... oup at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and U.S. President | and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Union is repres ... |
Nicolaes Witsen | ... ord was then introduced to the English-speaking world by the Dutch traveler | in his 1692 book Noord en Oost Tataryen, which detailed his travels among ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... nt (the violent suppression of the Hungarian uprising and the revelation of | 's crimes) while confirming his "confidence in the democratic perspectives ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. President | was perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ... |
Hans Dijkstal | ... Commissioner. He was replaced by the more technocratic and socially liberal | |
Arthur de Gobineau | ... Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, | , Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castel ... |
Massoud Khalili | ... ammed Asim Suhail, a United Front official, while Mohammad Fahim Dashty and | were injured. One of the suicide attackers, Bouraoui, was also killed by t ... |
federal judge | The nine-story building, built in 1977, was named for a | and housed fourteen federal agencies including the DEA, ATF, Social Securi ... |
Pretorius | In 1839, the Boer Voortrekkers, under | , formed the Boer Republic of Natalia, south of the Tugela, and west of th ... |
Domitian | Along 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 Defense | stated that a carrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, sent on a training ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ees were Senator John McCain, of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor | for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ships with such historical figures as Edward, the Black Prince of Wales and | |
Henry A. Wallace | ... on the first ballot. Garner got only 61 votes out of 1,093. Roosevelt chose | to be the Vice Presidential running mate, instead of Garner |
Jim Hunt | ... al gasoline tax by 5-cents per gallon: mirroring his opposition to Governor | 's 3-cent increase in the North Carolina gasoline tax, but alienating the ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... atic. He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising | 's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid |
Charlemagne | ... hem as luxury pets, beginning with Harun ar-Rashid's gift of an elephant to | |
Felix Frankfurter | ... process clause. His chief rival on the issue (and on many other issues) was | , who advocated a substantive view of due process based on "natural law" - ... |
Chief Justice | ... t Judge Robert Bork, to be considered if a justice left the Court. In 1986, | Warren Burger informed the White House of his intent to retire. Reagan fir ... |
Samuel Chase | ... s's preamble, instructing its delegates to remain against independence, but | went to Maryland and, thanks to local resolutions in favor of independence ... |
John Slidell | ... the Continent, and French Emperor Napoleon III assured Confederate diplomat | that he would make “direct proposition” to England for joint recognition. ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... was consulted by active Democratic politicians and was especially close to | |
Albert Speer | In 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered his minister of armaments | to carry out a nationwide scorched earth policy, in what became known as t ... |
Gnaeus Manlius Vulso | ... Having become a thorn in the side of Rome, they attracted the attention of | , commander of the Roman armies successfully fighting the Galatian War of ... |
Mick Jagger | ... caricature of Jay Leno may pronounce his head and chin; and a caricature of | might enlarge his lips. Exaggeration of memorable features helps people to ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... ve been a dominant religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic. | writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the le ... |
Spock | Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as | and McCoy, were modified for Doohan and Koenig. In Scotty's case, it creat ... |
Ōoka Tadasuke | ... outside the eight Kantō provinces. The appointments normally went to daimyo | ;was an exception, though he later became a daimyo |
DeWitt Clinton | ... y County, Missouri, United States. The city was named for New York Governor | . The population was 9,311 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of He ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as | , and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/Edward, the Black Prince |
Pim Fortuyn | ... larized Dutch general election of 2002, dominated by the rise and murder of | , the VVD lost fourteen seats, leaving only twenty-four. The VVD nonethele ... |
John F. Kennedy | On the morning of Garner's 95th birthday on November 22, 1963, President | called to wish the former Vice President a happy birthday, just hours befo ... |
Bob Dole | ... enate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee | of Kansas |
Todor Zhivkov | The leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, | suggested in the early 1960s, that the country should become a Soviet soci ... |
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 ... |
William Howard Taft | ... er a fire burned much of the town, the name was changed to Taft in honor of | |
Shirley Temple | ... Hollywood stars such as Rosalind Russell, Clark Gable, Gloria Swanson, and | . He did not always play to packed rooms, and early on he learned to perfo ... |
Marcus Caecilius Metellus | ... ns of the interior resisted the Roman colonization for more than a century, | subduing them only in 127 BC |
John Nance Garner | ... everything in Washington as rapidly as possible." Roosevelt's running mate, | , accused the Republican of "leading the country down the path of socialis ... |
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 ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | "Unlike her father | , who preferred to deal with strong chief ministers in control of their le ... |
John Tsang | ... posals and moving the appropriation bills. The current FS is the Honourable | |
Enrico Dandolo | ... together in alliance with the Venetian soldiers and sailors led by the doge | . The crusade was to be ready to sail on June 24, 1202 and make directly f ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... elections. In 1964, it was one of two Oregon counties to give a majority to | . The last Democratic candidate to win the county was Franklin D. Roosevel ... |
L. Ron Hubbard | ... ious legal tactics to stop distribution of unpublished documents written by | . The Church of Scientology is often accused of through the filing of SLAP ... |
Joe Clark | The federal Progressive Conservatives under | refused to participate in these talks, but there was strong support from m ... |
Michele Bachmann | ... ort. St. Cloud is in Minnesota's 6th congressional district, represented by | (R). St. Cloud is partly in Minnesota House of Representatives district 15 ... |
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower | ... ree; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Their second son, | , was born on August 3, 1922 while they were in Panama; John served in the ... |
Bob Dole | ... ement for food stamps. With that position he ran afoul of fellow Republican | , who claimed that the purchase requirement had contributed to fraud and a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Voinovich | ... tizens, including the former governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, U.S. Senator | , Bob Greene--the former Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Yo ... |
Sir William Hamilton | ... an to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note | ;'s collection of Greek vases. During the few years after its foundation t ... |
Christopher Cox | ... ost in late December 2008, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman | said that the decision to impose a three-week ban on short selling of fina ... |
John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ing on a scale sufficient to eliminate unemployment. According to economist | (then a US government official charged with controlling inflation), in the ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... e Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, | , Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Krav ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... cember 20, 2002, after significant controversy following comments regarding | 's presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader. In Dec ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ped rocket him to stardom. In 1950, he performed for music-loving President | in the East room of the White House. Despite his success in the supper-clu ... |
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 ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... of the Court. The most prominent opponents of Black's theory were Justices | and John Marshall Harlan II. Frankfurter and Harlan argued that the Fourte ... |
Gerrit Zalm | ... stal stood down, and was replaced by the popular former minister of finance | . After a few months Zalm "pulled the plug" on the VVD-CDA-LPF-cabinet, af ... |
Maximian | In July 285, Diocletian declared | , another colleague from Illyricum, his co-emperor. Each emperor would hav ... |
Sanford B. Dole | ... military. The Republic of Hawaii was led by men of European ancestry, like | and Lorrin A. Thurston, who were native-born subjects of the Hawaiian king ... |
Zbigniew Brzezinski | The political scientists Carl Friedrich and | were primarily responsible for expanding the usage of the term in universi ... |
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 ... |
William Henry Ashley | ... the fur trade was active. Fur traders included Manuel Lisa, Robert Stuart, | , Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit ... |
Alexei Kosygin | ... d it as an offensive move. In a hotline message from Moscow, Soviet Premier | said, "If you want war you're going to get war. |
Shashi Tharoor | ... overnment sector include Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece | ;, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Ministe ... |
Jozias van Aartsen | ... number of seats in the municipal elections, prompting parliamentary leader | to step down. Willibrord van Beek was subsequently appointed parliamentary ... |
Tiberius | ... edication of the rebuilt temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium by emperor | is the day of the Portunalia, August 17 |
John Marshall | ... Missouri Valley College. Marshall was named after the statesman and jurist | (1755–1835) |
Morarji Desai | ... y was Jayaprakash Narayan. The other party leaders of the Janata Party were | , Charan Singh, Raj Narain and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Janata government ... |
John Marshall Harlan II | ... t prominent opponents of Black's theory were Justices Felix Frankfurter and | . Frankfurter and Harlan argued that the Fourteenth Amendment did not inco ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President | , in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ... |
Henry Salt | ... tta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts and purchases from | , British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ram ... |
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 ... |
Diocletian | ... vanced through the ranks, earning the governorship of Dalmatia from Emperor | , another of Aurelian's companions from Illyricum, in 284 or 285. Constant ... |
Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale | ... is buried at North Berwick, where a United Free Church was named after him. | held the Bass for James VII for a brief period after the Scottish parliame ... |
Kostas Karamanlis | Tufts alumni in the government sector include | , former Prime Minister of Greece; Shashi Tharoor, former United Nations U ... |
the first Justice Harlan's | ... "waving the bloody shirt of Brown", and indicated that he would have joined | solitary dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 case that Brown overruled |
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, ... |
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ... eration of Expellees staunchly defending the higher figure. The writings of | and Rudolph Rummel continue to remain influential in the English speaking ... |
Spottswood Robinson | ... School Board of Prince Edward County. This case, filed by Richmond natives | and Oliver Hill, was decided in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education, whi ... |
Joseph Cook | ... t voting 'No'. At the 1913 election, the Commonwealth Liberal Party, led by | , defeated the Labor Party by one seat |
Henry Bulwer | In February 1878 a commission was appointed by | , the lieutenant-governor of Natal since 1875, to report on the boundary q ... |
Constantine the Great | In 323 AD, | recognised the Christian religion, and in 356 Constantius II ordered the c ... |
Abe Fortas | ... s (while at school). The term enclave originated with Supreme Court justice | 's use of the phrase "schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism" in t ... |
Byron White | ... orker otherwise qualified for food stamps prior to going on strike. Justice | said that the government must maintain neutrality in labor dispute and not ... |
Harry Reid | On August 9, 2011, Senate Majority Leader | appointed Murray to co-chair the United States Congress Joint Select Commi ... |
Marcus Furius Camillus | ... , allegedly built by Servius Tullius, destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt by | in 396 B.C., and she was also associated with the sea harbors and ports, w ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ck Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and | 46% |
Geert Wilders | ... y Jozias van Aartsen, former foreign minister. On September 2, 2004, VVD MP | left the party after a dispute with parliamentary leader Van Aartsen. He h ... |
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 | |
Mark Antony | ... gyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occurred when | , the other most influential member of the Triumvirate, abandoned his wife ... |
Francisco Franco | ... uthoritarian, anti-communist, and régimes such as Vichy France, Spain under | , and Portugal under Antonio Salazar. Communist ideologues often label all ... |
Francqui, Emile | ... ésar - Franco-Belgian comics - France–Habsburg rivalry - Franco-Dutch War - | - Free Belgian Forces - French Community Commission - French Community of ... |
Michele Bachmann | In September 2011, after Republican presidential candidate | repeated an anecdote shared with her that the HPV vaccine causes "mental r ... |
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 ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs | in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ... |
John Milton | ... e hath been affirmed by Inhabitants thereabout reporting triall made of it. | (c. 1562–1647) described the river a |
Nancy Pelosi | ... ence on Aging, Martin by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Lyon by Congresswoman | |
Barney Frank | ... and other scandals. This led to House Financial Services Committee Chairman | to ask the agency to investigate the charges which they did. In April 2012 ... |
Imru Haile Selassie | ... h fleeing before an invading force. Haile Selassie appointed his cousin Ras | as Prince Regent in his absence, departing with his family for Djibouti on ... |
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune | ... but Avignon was never restored to the Holy See. In 1815 Bonapartist Marshal | was assassinated in the town by adherents of the royalist party during the ... |
John Kerry | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, whereas George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 20 ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... it was largely ignored. In 2003, Arafat ceded his post as Prime Minister to | amid pressures by the US |
Julius Caesar | ... m in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of | and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ... |
Thomas More | ... ard III who is said to have confessed to the murder of the princes in 1502. | , a Tudor loyalist (and later Chancellor under Henry VIII), composed his H ... |
Deborah Pryce | ... ty Foundation. In attendance were hundreds of citizens, U.S. Representative | , and many other political and civic leaders. In 2008, the opened a new $8 ... |
Kamil Pasha | ... pointed Ottoman pasha ("governor") of the sanjak ("district") of Jerusalem, | , attempted to subdue the rebellion in the Hebron region. Kamil and his ar ... |
father | ... cluded the new Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Audley, as well as Anne Boleyn's | , brother, and uncle. He was charged with high treason for denying the val ... |
Pope Gregory I | ... pitone, a leader of the Barbaricinos (people of Barbagia). According to the | 's letters, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area (t ... |
Whitelaw Reid | ... emstone hoax. Meanwhile, as Greeley had been pursuing his political career, | , owner of the New York Herald, had gained control of the Tribune |
Commandant Goudraud | ... bes. On the 29th of September, 1898, Samori Ture was captured by the French | and exiled to Gabon, marking the end of the Wassoulou Empire |
Salvador Allende | ... ion's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the | government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced b ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... l oil reserves were created to ease any future short term shocks. President | started phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Depa ... |
Lucius Papirius Cursor | ... ea have been discovered; on the hill, there was the tomb of Quirinus, which | transformed into a temple for his triumph after the third Samnite war. Som ... |
Milton | ... n the depiction of Pandæmonium with its "Belched fire and rolling smoke" in | 's Paradise Lost. Of all the characters, Smaug's speech is the most modern ... |
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 ... |
Thomas E. Dewey | ... des), to initiating politicians into their club including Mark Hatfield and | during his 1948 presidential campaign. Russian newspapers used images of t ... |
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 ... |
Ron Paul | In 2010 Congressmen | questioned whether the Federal Reserve Bank had been used to funnel illega ... |
Charles-François Delacroix | In 1793, | deputy to the Convention and father of the painter Eugène Delacroix propos ... |
Tiberius | ... resort. Cicero compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both | and Domitian resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained importa ... |
Minos | ... ould be blinded. One source tells the same story but converts Oenopion into | of Crete. It adds that an oracle told Orion that his sight could be restor ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's | ... er 2011, the Hall was used to broadcast the 25th anniversary performance of | Phantom of the Opera to cinemas across the UK - it was also the first time ... |
Kurt Waldheim | ... alition with the FPÖ under the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986, | was elected president amid considerable national and international protest ... |
General George C. Marshall | ... lery Corps was not satisfied with the Army's 37mm Gun M1, in September 1940 | asked the British for the loan of four Bofors 40 mm guns with Kerrison Pre ... |
Tomé Pires | ... ucts from the inland jungle such as sapan(Bridge) woods, deerskin and rice. | , a Portuguese voyager, mentioned in the sixteenth century that Ayutthaya, ... |
Bruno Kreisky | ... ined a majority in parliament. However, it lost it in 1970, when SPÖ leader | formed a minority government tolerated by the FPÖ. In the elections of 197 ... |
John E. Jones III | ... ents in a lawsuit against the school district. After a lengthy trial, Judge | ruled in favor of the parents in the decision, finding that intelligent de ... |
Chief Justice | ... Sri Lanka, judges of all courts are addressed as "Your Honour", however the | is addressed as "Your Lordship". Judges of the Supreme Court and the Appea ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... 006, graduation ceremonies included commencement speakers former Presidents | and Bill Clinton, who commended the students for their desire to return to ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against | |
Jimmy Carter | ... eign policy towards Latin America remained largely static until election of | to the presidency in 1977 |
Czesław Miłosz | ... Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, | and Edward Abbey |
Henry Kissinger | ... professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, Secretary of State | predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a ... |
Sidney Poitier | ... a and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, | and Harry Belafonte have cited his lead film roles as being the first to d ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... ere located. On 7 July a government decree ordering the arrest and trial of | was published. He was forced to go underground, just as he had been under ... |
Al Smith | ... rding in 1920; he had to be silent in the 1928 campaign although he favored | , a Democrat. In 1929, he lost the election for mayor to incumbent Democra ... |
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 ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... unty was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide nationwide against | — but only by three percentage points in Klamath County |
Manley Ottmer Hudson | ... fters intended a purely advisory capacity for the Court, not a binding one. | (who sat as a judge) said that an advisory opinion "was what it purported ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... its political opponents in the United States, including Senators Helms and | , with the assistance of the CIA and National Security Council. Helms prop ... |
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 ... |
E. H. Carr | ... stern World (published as a book in 1946), the pro-Soviet British historian | claimed that "The trend away from individualism and towards totalitarianis ... |
Bill Keating | ... assachusetts's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by | . Following the death of Ted Kennedy, the state's senior (Class I) member ... |
Julius Caesar | ... Among those who performed this duty in connection with particular roads was | , who became curator (67 BC) of the Via Appia, and spent his own money lib ... |
Larry McDonald | ... spy plane. All 269 passengers and crew died, including a U.S. Congressman, | |
Zadok Casey | Mt. Vernon was founded in 1817 by | , who was elected to the State Senate in 1822 and was elected Lieutenant G ... |
Goffin, Albert | ... ardsbergen - Gesell, Silvio - Gevaert, Lieven - Ghent - Gingelom - Gistel - | - Gordel (De) - Governor of Brussels-Capital - Gravensteengroep - Groen! - ... |
Lester B. Pearson | Prime Minister | in 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national an ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... he subject among prominent mountaineers are strictly negative. For example, | , who went on record saying that he hasn't liked "the commercialization of ... |
Resident Commissioner | ... ber 1892. The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a | from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT ... |
William O. Douglas | ... first of nine Roosevelt nominees to the Court, and outlasted all except for | . Black is widely regarded as one of the most influential in the 20th cent ... |
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa | ... Roman province of Epirus vetus in Greece. Octavian's fleet was commanded by | , while Antony's fleet was supported by the ships of Queen Cleopatra of Pt ... |
Jagmohanlal Sinha | ... ans to appeal to the Supreme Court. The verdict was delivered by Mr Justice | at Allahabad High Court. It came almost four years after the case was brou ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... cal Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003). President | was a native of Marion. The current administration is led by Mayor Scott S ... |
Domitian | ... ro compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both Tiberius and | resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained important artistic w ... |
Eliot Ness | ... e star status for Costner arrived in 1987, when he starred as federal agent | in The Untouchables and in the leading role of the thriller No Way Out. He ... |
John H. Wood, Jr. | ... r, who was a contract killer, was arrested for the killing of Federal Judge | by rifle fire in 1979 in San Antonio. His father was convicted and eventua ... |
Lieutenant Governor | ... , the executive branch includes five other elected constitutional officers: | , Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, and State Superintenden ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... successful later drivers, such as Jim Clark, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and | , have been compared with Fangio. However, it is acknowledged that such co ... |
Caesar | ... later speculatively 'identified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as | (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roma ... |
Ercole Consalvi | On 30 May 1814, the French annexation was recognized by the Pope. | made an ineffectual protest at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 but Avignon ... |
Leonard Woolf | ... e were three with whom Strachey soon became closely associated: Clive Bell, | and Saxon Sydney-Turner. With another undergraduate, A. J. Robertson, the ... |
Duarte Fernandes | ... aving conquered Malacca, the Portuguese sent a diplomatic mission headed by | to the court of King Ramathibodi II of Ayutthaya. Having established amica ... |
Julius Caesar | ... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from | , in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution |
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 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... n Aurelian's time. (It had already been damaged by fire during the visit of | to Alexandria. |
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth | ... chool and enable use of the Charity School's unspent trust funds. Named for | — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... , the Chairman of the DNC. In 1968, O'Brien was appointed by Vice President | to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... nada in 1982, the result of the efforts of the Government of Prime Minister | |
N. T. Rama Rao | ... e of Andhra Pradesh had imposed Prohibition under the Chief Ministership of | but this was thereafter lifted. Dry days are also observed on voting days. ... |
Bobby DeLaughter | ... ry 14, 2009, The New York Times noted in relation to an indictment of Judge | for taking bribes from Scruggs that federal prosecutors have said that Lot ... |
Georges Vanier | ... h parliament approved. In 1967, the Prime Minister advised Governor General | to appoint the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons ... |
Zhou Enlai | ... in Chinese society. In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao and | met Richard Nixon in Beijing to establish relations with the United States ... |
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 ... |
Edmund Muskie | ... nly the Democrats don't go too far left," he had insisted. Johnson had felt | would be more likely to defeat Nixon; however, he declined an invitation t ... |
Philippe de Commines | The Croyland Chronicle, Dominic Mancini, and | all state that the rumour of the princes' death was current in England by ... |
Gregory I | ... The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope | to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carr ... |
August Kestner | ... -Museum is located in the House of 5.000 windows. The museum is named after | and exhibits 6,000 years of applied art in four areas: Ancient cultures, a ... |
Bill Clinton | ... d the Congressional don't ask, don't tell law, signed into law by President | in 1993, and in force until 2011, which forbade homosexuals serving in the ... |
Charles Price | In 1989, U.S. Ambassador | and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dedicated a bronze statue of ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... pecially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum Novarum and | in Quadragesimo Anno |
John Kerry | ... dominated by the Democratic Party in national elections. In 2004, Democrat | received over 70 percent of the vote, and Republican George W. Bush receiv ... |
Augustus | The governing structure was changed by | . In the course of his reconstitution of the urban administration he creat ... |
Charlemagne | When the treaty of Verdun (843) split | 's empire into three parts the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's king ... |
Ashoke Kumar Sen | ... f India's best legal minds and also one of her colleagues in government, Mr | to defend her in court. It has been written that Mrs Gandhi was told she w ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... troops were arrested, imprisoned – or even executed. Unknown to the Poles, | 's aim to ensure that an independent Poland would never reemerge in the po ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... stablished in 1906. Kermit was named for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President | , and incorporated in 1909 |
Maurice Strong | ... old executive assistant to Power Corporation Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | , was appointed to the CSL board of directors. In 1971 CSL minority shareh ... |
Thorvald Stoltenberg | ... ally opened on January 11, 1993, initiated by Norway under foreign minister | . It includes the administrative regions Nordland, Troms, Finnmark in Norw ... |
Constantine | ... o Christianity, Lactantius (245–325) became the tutor to the son of emperor | and a trenchant critic of all pagan philosophy. In Book III of The Divine ... |
Charles Curtis | ... American to have dined at the White House, with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. | , the nation's first Native American Vice President, was from the Kaw trib ... |
Ron Paul | Among the first Republicans elected was fiscally conservative | to the U.S. House of Representatives. He became known for opposition to th ... |
Robert Mugabe | ZANU-PF | , elected Prime Minister in 1980, revised the constitution in 1987 to make ... |
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, with | in 1901 |
Sarah Palin | ... ty and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of John McCain and | over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In Canfield City ... |
Willis Van Devanter | ... his first opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court Justice when conservative | retired. Roosevelt wanted the replacement to be a "thumping, evangelical N ... |
Raja Ramanna | The program became fully mature in 1974, when dr. | reported to Gandhi that India has ability to test the first nuclear weapon ... |
Mark Antony | ... engagement fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of | and Cleopatra VII. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ioni ... |
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 ... |
Trajan | ... ptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, | , and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The ... |
Roman Rosen | Delegates who signed the peace agreement were Sergei Witte and | for Russia, and Komura Jutarō and Takahira Kogorō for Japan. Fyodor Marten ... |
Mr Justice Wills | The final trial was presided over by | . On 25 May 1895 Wilde and Alfred Taylor were convicted of gross indecency ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... hnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford and | tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventually appointed on ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) mounts. Lieutenant | was the first commanding officer of PT-59 after its conversion. On Novembe ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | ... 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so late that it uses caballus for "horse". | cites a lost Latin writer for the story that Orion and Candiope were son a ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | ... emeteries were merely the cremated remains of children that died naturally. | (ca. 46–120 AD) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius, Diodorus ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ssante and Antonio Banderas in the film The Mambo Kings. In 1994, President | awarded Cruz the National Medal of Arts. In 2001, she recorded a new album ... |
Quayle | ... tee's Health Care Coalition, and was deputy director of the Tennessee Bush- | '92 campaign |
Warren Hastings | ... College. He spent from 1903 to 1905 writing his four hundred page thesis on | , which was not very well received among the scholars of his time |
George H. W. Bush | ... au's brother John Patrick Schmitz is the former deputy counsel to President | |
Warren G. Harding | Marion is best known as the hometown and burial location of President | and First Lady Florence Harding. It is also the birthplace and childhood h ... |
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 ... |
L. Ron Hubbard | Theodore Sturgeon vividly recalled being in the same room with | , when Hubbard became testy with someone there and retorted, "Y'know, we'r ... |
Donald Rumsfeld | ... he Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. | tried to downplay the French and German governmental criticism, most promi ... |
Octavio Paz | ... s considered a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as | , Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fue ... |
Walter Tarnopolsky | ... eport, Strayer consulted with a number of notable legal scholars, including | . Strayer's report advocated a number of ideas that were later incorporate ... |
Gaius Claudius Nero | The Battle of Grumentum was an inconclusive fight in 207 BC between | and Hannibal. In the aftermath of the battle Nero was able to trick Hannib ... |
Paul Wellstone | ... he city briefly entered the national news in October 2002 when U.S. Senator | , along with seven others, died in a plane crash, two miles away from the ... |
Gasparo Contarini | ... lace of Venice or Cyprus. For knowledge of this Shakespeare would have used | 's The Commonwealth and Government of Venice, in Lewis Lewkenor's 1599 tra ... |
Edward Bates | ... circulation nationwide approached 300,000. In 1860 he supported the ex-Whig | of Missouri for the Republican nomination for president, an action that we ... |
Theodoric the Great | #Audofleda (467 – 511). Queen of the Ostrogoths. Wife of | #Lanthilde (468 – ¿¿??) |
Carlos Fuentes | ... Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and | . In his book The New Novel in Latin America (La Nueva Novela), Fuentes of ... |
Eleftherios Venizelos | ... ars, the struggle between King Constantine I and charismatic Prime Minister | over the country's foreign policy on the eve of World War I dominated the ... |
John F. Kennedy | Sheen has played U.S. President | (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General Rob ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... mainstream media throughout the world covered the match. Secretary of State | spoke with Fischer urging him to play the match, and chess was at its apex ... |
John J. Parker | ... anted the races assimilated into white culture. Hoover attempted to appoint | to the Supreme Court in 1930 to replace Edward Sanford. The claimed that P ... |
Clovis I | # | (466 – 511) |
Barry Strayer | ... ents. Subsequently, Attorney General Pierre Trudeau appointed law professor | to research a potential bill of rights. While writing his report, Strayer ... |
Sheikh Taissir Tamimi | ... Arafat's condition had worsened, and that he had fallen into a deeper coma. | , the head of the Islamic court of the Palestinian territories—who held a ... |
Martin Indyk | ... rge H. W. Bush an "anti-Semite." In 1997 he called US Ambassador to Israel, | a "Jewboy" and challenged him to a fistfight |
Rafael Cordero Santiago | ... in the city's history. Ponce's best known mayor of recent years is perhaps | , who held office since 1989 until his sudden death on the morning of Janu ... |
Mahlon Pitney | ... etition. In International News Service v. Associated Press of 1918, Justice | wrote for the majority in ruling that INS was infringing on AP's "lead-tim ... |
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 ... |
Ed Rendell | ... e Vice-President of Comcast and former Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor | , Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, Peter ... |
Konstantin Chernenko | ... wrestling match between then-President Ronald Reagan and then-Soviet leader | for the benefit of group members and an eagerly belligerent assembly of re ... |
Joshua Stow | The earliest settler of Cuyahoga Falls included | and William Wetmore. In 1815 a saw-mill was operating near Gaylord's Grove ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... gion, in areas such as the North Caucasus, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. In 1941 | ordered all inhabitants with a German father to be deported, mostly to Sib ... |
Albert Speer | Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by | , the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Hitler's ma ... |
Dominique de Villepin | ... rsy erupted when neither French president Jacques Chirac nor prime minister | attended any functions commemorating the battle. On the other hand, some r ... |
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth | ... ished a trust to help Wheelock. The head of the trust was a Methodist named | |
Septimius Severus | ... storers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and | were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The Itinerary of Antoninus, ... |
Pope Pius XI | As expressed by | in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, in the Roman Catholic traditi ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... r 1991, while serving as Minister without Portfolio, he called US President | an "anti-Semite." In 1997 he called US Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk ... |
Carol Moseley Braun | In a widely publicized incident on July 22, 1993, | , the first black woman in the Senate and the only black Senator at the ti ... |
Gellius Publicola | ... observed the battle from shore to the north of the straits. Mark Antony and | commanded the right wing of the Antonian fleet, while Marcus Octavius and ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... nedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General | in the television special The Missiles of October; White House Chief of St ... |
Paul Verlaine | ... terature (1899). This introduced him to Jules Laforgue, Arthur Rimbaud, and | . Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have heard of Tristan Corb ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... ls by the age of eleven. At age seven, he received his First Communion from | in the Vatican. He spent sixth and seventh grades in the Fessenden School, ... |
Lucien Bouchard | ... out "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical | , the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, cluck ... |
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 ... |
John Kerry | ... % of Wheeler Country voters voted for George W. Bush, while 27.8% voted for | , and 2.7% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... took an erratic course, mostly favoring the Radicals and opposing president | in 1865–66. In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $100,000 bond f ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for | ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal hea ... |
Gnaeus Ahenobarbus | ... suls of that year had determined to conceal the extent of Antony's demands. | seems to have wished to keep quiet; but Gaius Sosius on 1 January made an ... |
Henry Jarvis Raymond | The company was founded by | and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... tially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. In 1966, | in his apostolic constitution Paenitemini, changed the strictly regulated ... |
Svend Auken | ... . Aars is renowned for its collection of artwork by Per Kirkeby, politician | , and successful business man |
Yitzhak Rabin | In Israel, Prime Minister | was assassinated on November 4, 1995. Yigal Amir confessed and was convict ... |
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 ... |
George H. W. Bush | During the 1988 presidential election: then-Vice President | noted that his opponent Michael Dukakis had described himself as a "card-c ... |
Ed Rendell | ... its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and | received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
Pierre Trudeau | ... r have to approve constitutional amendments. Subsequently, Attorney General | appointed law professor Barry Strayer to research a potential bill of righ ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... gned a $100,000 bond for the release of former president of the Confederacy | . The move was controversial, and many Northerners thought Greeley a trait ... |
Otto III | In | hoped to open a monastery between the Elbe and the Oder (somewhere in the ... |
John Kerry | ... n 2004, George W. Bush received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for | . In 2008 John McCain received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, Rick Santorum a ... |
Joe Clark | ... and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, clucking, pompous | , and the power-hungry Paul Martin (all Ferguson). Many of the real politi ... |
Lepidus | ... lating. Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing | , in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldi ... |
Takahira Kogorō | ... reement were Sergei Witte and Roman Rosen for Russia, and Komura Jutarō and | for Japan. Fyodor Martens and other diplomats from both nations stayed in ... |
Gratian | ... rtress was built to protect Britannia from raiders. Coins from the reign of | indicate that Cardiff was inhabited until at least the 4th century; the fo ... |
Titus | ... tly in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, | , Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capaci ... |
Theodosius I | The temple survived until 390 AD, when the Christian emperor | silenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and w ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ributed information and contraceptives to people's commune members. By 1973 | was personally identified with the family planning movement, signifying a ... |
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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under President | following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan then ordered a massiv ... |
Komura Jutarō | ... igned the peace agreement were Sergei Witte and Roman Rosen for Russia, and | and Takahira Kogorō for Japan. Fyodor Martens and other diplomats from bot ... |
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 ... |
Bill Bradley | ... e tax base, eliminate many deductions, and reduce rates. In 1983, Democrats | and Dick Gephardt had offered a proposal to clean up/broaden the tax base; ... |
John Kerry | ... ge W. Bush in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for | in 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, w ... |
President Nasser | Encouraged by the rhetoric of | of Egypt against British colonial rule in the Middle East, pressure for th ... |
Roh Moo-hyun | ... and South Korea have had many disputes. The former president of South Korea | rejected a conference with the Prime Minister of Japan following his visit ... |
Vespasian | ... cur frequently in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, | , Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this ... |
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. ... |
Franco | Spain sent many political activists into exile during | 's military regime from 1936 to his death in 1975 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son | (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ... |
Paul Joseph James Martin | Martin was born in Windsor, Ontario. His father, | , a Franco-Ontarian of Irish and French descent, served thirty-three years ... |
Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer | ... iderable discussion and exchanges of views between Sir Bartle Frere and Sir | , it was decided to arrange a meeting with representatives of the Zulu kin ... |
Lenin | The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced | and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic ob ... |
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 ... |
Gaius Sosius | ... ding out Octavian's ships which up until now were tightly arranged. He sent | down to the south to spread the remaining ships out to the south. This lef ... |
John Paul Jones | ... ast of Flamborough Head in Britain in September 1779. In that final action, | defeated and captured the British ship HMS Serapis, which he sailed to Tex ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Gregory W. Slayton | ... nal Airport. The current U.S. Consul General is Grace Shelton, who replaced | as the U.S. Chief of Mission in Bermuda in August 2009. Given that the Uni ... |
Mao Zedong | ... iedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and | tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as regards the "dic ... |
Eliot Ness | ... Robert "Butch" Haynes in A Perfect World, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard and | in The Untouchables. Costner also founded the band Modern West, and has pe ... |
Drew Edmondson | ... unclear about the source of the bacteria, leading Oklahoma Attorney General | to accuse the state health department of having "botched" the investigatio ... |
Philip the Arab | In 248, Emperor | had celebrated the millennium of the city of Rome with great and expensive ... |
Ardabur | ... n 471 an imperial conspiracy caused the death of Aspar and of his elder son | : it is possible that Patricius died on this occasion, although some sourc ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... His acquaintances treat him with great respect, as when a telephone call to | frees him from arrest when he is threatened with execution on the border o ... |
Jamar, Alexandre | Jabbeke - | - Jansen, Georges - Janson, Paul-Emile - Jemmape (department) - Jenever - ... |
Marcus Claudius Marcellus | ... three times, by assault or siege, to take this city, which was defended by | in the battle of Nola (216 BC), Battle of Nola (215 BC) and battle of Nola ... |
Alito | Rossum, writing in 2006, before George W. Bush appointees Roberts and | had time to make an impact, said that Scalia had failed to win converts am ... |
Bailiff | ... Appeal and, ultimately, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The | is head of the judiciary; the Bailiff and the Deputy Bailiff are appointed ... |
Morarji Desai | ... in two factions, the socialists led by Gandhi, and the conservatives led by | . Rammanohar Lohia called her Gungi Gudiya which means 'Dumb Doll'. The in ... |
Bolingbroke | Still others such as Anthony Collins, | , Thomas Chubb, and Peter Annet were materialists and either denied or dou ... |
Mark Filip | Deputy Attorney General | was asked to assume the position of acting attorney general by then Presid ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... thiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included John F. Kennedy, | , and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newborn's godfather, a ... |
George Hearst | Hearst was born in San Francisco to millionaire mining engineer | and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. George Hearst's paternal grandfather, John Hea ... |
Bailiff | The | is President (presiding officer) of the States Assembly, head of the judic ... |
Jansen, Georges | Jabbeke - Jamar, Alexandre - | - Janson, Paul-Emile - Jemmape (department) - Jenever - Jette - La Jeune B ... |
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 ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... gle, he confirmed his membership of the Italian Communist Party. On reading | 's State and Revolution, he plunged into post-war political life, associat ... |
Valentinian III | ... son Huneric, and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor | and Licinia Eudoxia. Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Ca ... |
Cherie Blair | ... appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, taking over from | , and installed in 2008. May worked extensively with stage actress and sin ... |
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 ... |
Marcus Aurelius | During the persecution of | , the Roman Emperor from 161-180, Irenaeus was a priest of the Church of L ... |
Philip Stanhope | ... g Whig ministers such as William Pitt, later the first Earl of Chatham, and | , the fourth Earl of Chesterfield. Although she left little to the poor an ... |
Cecil Rhodes | ... nes was formed in 1888 by the merger of the companies of Barney Barnato and | , by which time the company was the sole owner of all diamond mining opera ... |
Shirley Temple | ... Roy had wanted her from the start, studio chief Mayer tried first to borrow | from 20th Century Fox. Her services were denied and Garland was cast |
Jean-Luc Picard | ... ter in the series. Her character often vexed the captain of the Enterprise, | , who spurned her amorous advances. Barrett later appeared as Ambassador T ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... as given the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by | that calls on all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. P ... |
Sir Harold MacMichael | ... body's first plan was to kidnap the British High Commissioner of Palestine, | and deport him to Cyprus. However, the Haganah leaked the planned operatio ... |
Plutarch | ... genuine exiles, were able to access their income in Attica from abroad. In | , following as he does the anti-democratic line common in elite sources, t ... |
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 ... |
Cecil Rhodes | | , the founder of De Beers, got his start by renting water pumps to miners ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ... Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of nine children of Rose Fitzgerald and | , who were members of prominent Irish-American families in Boston and who ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... full university in 1955. The title of Pontifical University was granted by | in 1972. The university has three campuses in the city |
John Kerry | ... on 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democrat | received 50.14% of the vote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 v ... |
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 ... |
Ignacy Paderewski | ... e independence of Poland had been campaigned for in the West by Dmowski and | . With Woodrow Wilson's support, Polish independence was officially endors ... |
Ernst vom Rath | ... oland, he drove to the German embassy and killed the German diplomat Eduard | |
Jim Hunt | ... lso speculation that Helms would run for the Governorship, being vacated by | . However, the President stood for re-election, and Helms ran once more fo ... |
Jan van Eyck | Image:Van Eyck - Arnolfini Portrait.jpg|The Arnolfini Portrait, | , 143 |
Pope Gregory VII | ... of Cavaillon) accompanied the legate to Rome and were consecrated there by | |
Papen | ... ity than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, | , Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed throug ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... struction of a helipad) to accommodate the President. When Attorney General | advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the entertaine ... |
Theodosius I | ... ld not improve matters. The Oracle continued until it was closed by emperor | in AD 395. The site was abandoned for almost 100 years, until Christians s ... |
Joaquin Miller | Sterling's visitors included poet | , writer Charles W. Stoddard and photographer Arnold Genthe, known for his ... |
Marcus Cocceius Nerva | In September 96, Domitian was succeeded by | , an old and childless senator who proved to be unpopular with the army. A ... |
Sean M. Berkowitz | ... utstanding record of extracurricular activities. Notable recipients include | , David Filo and Eric R. Palmer |
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 ... |
Frank Minis Johnson, Jr. | ... larger-scale march from Selma to Montgomery, the site of the state capital. | , the Federal District Court Judge for the area, decided in favor of the d ... |
Bailiff | ... ections. There are also five non-voting members appointed by the Crown: the | , the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, the Dean of Jersey, the Attorney Gene ... |
Lord Prestongrange | ... the Appin Murder. David makes a statement to a lawyer, and goes on to meet | - the Lord Advocate - to press the case for James' innocence. However his ... |
Robert Reich | ... ntion to mitigate the financial crisis include George Akerlof, Brad Delong, | |
Theodoric the Great | Aspar was the teacher of | , who later became king of the Ostrogoths. Aspar had another son, Ermanari ... |
Thomas More | Corto's favourite reading is Utopia by | , but he never finished it. He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevens ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... s the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, | , Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... w, Amalafrida, imprisoned; he escaped war with her brother, the Gothic king | , only by the latter's death in 526 |
High Commissioner | In 1877, Sir Bartle Frere was made | for Southern Africa by Lord Carnarvon. Carnarvon appointed Frere to the po ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... n Law (promulgated 1917). Further steps toward reorganization were begun by | in the 1960s. Among the goals of this curial reform were the modernization ... |
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 ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... which is always conferred posthumously and was finally bestowed upon her by | in 1970 along with Saint Catherine of Siena making them the first women to ... |
Plutarch | ... nificantly towards its restoration. Hadrian offered complete autonomy. Also | was a significant factor by his presence as a chief priest |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chase T. Rogers | ... y take several months to arrive at a judgment. The current Chief Justice is | |
Augustus | ... e actions of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, | , Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
Donald Rumsfeld | ... e W. Bush administration, and has been critical of former Defense Secretary | as well |
Antonius Saturninus | ... is, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against a revolt on the Rhine led by | |
Charles Haughey | ... lations at the Moriarty Tribunal on the 16th February, 1999, in relation to | and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirme ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... period between the first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from | to Pope Paul VI, who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | Polybius and | , a Greek author writing under the Roman empire, cite a battle at Mt. Lyka ... |
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 ... |
Henry DeWolf Smyth | ... iked among people of all strata, from other Nobel Laureates to technicians. | , who was Chairman of the Princeton Physics department, had once invited F ... |
Gaius Sosius | ... ius commanded the centre, with Cleopatra's squadron positioned behind them. | launched the initial attack from the left wing of the fleet, while Antony' ... |
Jim Garrison | ... Costner's roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves, | in JFK, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Robin Hood in , Crash Davis in Bu ... |
Lieutenant Governor of New York | ... f New York City in 1905 and 1909, for Governor of New York in 1906, and for | in 1910. Nonetheless, through his newspapers and magazines, he exercised e ... |
Lucy Diakovska | After listening to a few old recordings, | approached her former bandmates in mid-2006 to arrange a first meeting wit ... |
Roy McMurtry | ... d by the federal Attorney General Jean Chrétien, Ontario's justice minister | and Saskatchewan's justice minister Roy Romanow. Pressure from provincial ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | Image:Peter_Paul_Rubens_068.jpg|The Raising of the Cross, | , 1610–1 |
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 ... |
Commodus | ... liver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts (1997), the cruel Roman emperor | in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) (for which he was nominated for the Aca ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ported the protection of the environment. For example, Republican President | was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creat ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... isclosed details of CIA financial support for Duarte, earning a rebuke from | , but Helms replied that his information came from sources in El Salvador, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sarah Palin | ... Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, in which Judd condemned Alaska governor | for supporting aerial wolf hunting. In response, Palin stated the reason t ... |
Sherman Minton | ... the Court. The three final candidates were Solicitor General Stanley Reed, | , and Hugo Black. Roosevelt said Reed "had no fire," and Minton did not wa ... |
Vincent Massey | In 1952, he advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint | as the first Canadian-born Governor-General. Each of the aforementioned ac ... |
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 ... |
Constans | ... , often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors Constantius and | declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 C ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... a period. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central authority fell to | who completed this process and received the title of shogun in because tra ... |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier | The original French lyrics of "O Canada" were written by Sir | , to music composed by Calixa Lavallée, as a French Canadian patriotic son ... |
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) by | caused it to decay. The short reign of Julian could not improve matters. T ... |
Plutarch | ... graphers dispute the claim, including the highly regarded secondary source, | . He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so Onesicritus, ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... itch" and "clever fox" in his private communication with Secretary of State | (now released by the State Department). Indira signed the , resulting in p ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... hampionship, behind the Williams duo of Mansell and Patrese, and Benetton's | |
Pierre Trudeau | ... dered by many to be Turner's ideological successor, as Jean Chrétien was to | |
Jimmy Carter | ... tion, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President | |
Nasser al-Qudwa | ... ext of kin. It was determined that Arafat's nephew and PNA envoy to the UN, | , was a close enough relative, thus working around Suha Arafat's silence o ... |
William R. King | ... he city was planned and named by future Vice President of the United States | . The name, meaning "high seat" or "throne", came from the Ossianic poem T ... |
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 ... |
Constantius II | ... 323 AD, Constantine the Great recognised the Christian religion, and in 356 | ordered the closing of pagan temples throughout the empire. Karnak was by ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Geta | ... ptimius Severus, for a short time he ruled jointly with his younger brother | until he had him murdered in 211. Caracalla is remembered as one of the mo ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... pse of the Hun empire after the Battle of Nedao (453), the Ostrogoths under | first moved to Moesia (c. 475–488) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom ... |
William Rehnquist | ... of congressional power under the Commerce Clause, such as in the opinion of | in United States v. Lopez. Many Republicans on the more libertarian wing w ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ress in which Damon commented on the Republican Vice Presidential candidate | , whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case John McCain were to n ... |
Enda Kenny | Mayo TD | was elected leader of Fine Gael in a secret ballot of the parliamentary pa ... |
Theodosius II | ... of kingmaker with his subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying | 's sister Pulcheria |
Mick Jagger | ... d harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, | and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the Ne ... |
William of Rubruck | ... ibly obtained with the intermediation of other Franciscans, like his friend | , who had visited the Mongols. The most telling passage reads: "We have an ... |
Onassis | ... ubled, primarily through the investment undertaken by the shipping magnates | and Niarchos. The basis of the modern Greek maritime industry was formed a ... |
Titus Statilius Taurus | ... rruntius commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right. | commanded Octavian's armies, who observed the battle from shore to the nor ... |
Marcus Aurelius | However, barbarian raids during the reign of | and 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 by | calling for all people to strive for peace |
Plutarch | ... d by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of Appian, and | 's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius |
Henry F. Schricker | ... ed after General Henry Knox. Knox was the home of two-time Indiana Governor | |
Andrew Johnson | ... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governor | used his influence in the United States Department of War for Carter to or ... |
Julius Caesar | ... om time to time undertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. | and Mark Antony commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodox ... |
William Rehnquist | ... nited States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice | , ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were ... |
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 ... |
John Diefenbaker | ... e factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by | , in the 1957 election. Because the Liberals were still mostly classically ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | In 1956, President | of Egypt initiated "state feminism", which outlawed discrimination based o ... |
Sam Younger | ... is governed by a board, which is assisted by the Chief Executive (currently | ) and an executive team. Suzi Leather, DBE was appointed Chair of the Comm ... |
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 |
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 ... |
William J. S. Elliott | ... the first woman to hold the top position in the force. She was replaced by | on July 6, 2007, (Elliott was sworn in on July 16—the first civilian to le ... |
Vespasian | ... ast of the Roman Forum, its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor | and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being m ... |
John Kerry | ... s Lake precinct plus a very small portion of the Vincent precinct. Democrat | received narrow margins in both precincts, and it is probable that Kerry w ... |
John Kerry | ... sidential election, Beaux Arts Village cast 63.08% of its vote for Democrat | |
Andrew Johnson | On the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee | , U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ... |
Abe Fortas | Black later clashed with fellow Justice | during the 1960s. In 1968, a Warren clerk called their feud "one of the mo ... |
Pio Laghi | ... t the U.S. plan to invade Iraq. Pope John Paul II's special envoy, Cardinal | , was sent by the Church to talk with George W. Bush to express opposition ... |
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich | ... f courtesan and socialite Martha Ray, his former lover, and the mistress of | . The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... d'état carried out by ARVN officers and encouraged by US officials such as | In the confusion that followed, General Duong Van Minh took control, but h ... |
Lesley Garrett | ... of previews, starring Jeremiah James (Billy), Alexandra Silber (Julie) and | (Nettie). The production received warm to mixed reviews. It closed in June ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... e a ceasefire was signed in Vietnam and just a month after former president | died. (Truman's funeral on December 28, 1972 had been one of Johnson's las ... |
Pope Urban II | Many historians maintain that the main concern of | , when calling for the First Crusade, was the threat to Constantinople fro ... |
Lucius Arruntius | ... he experienced admiral Agrippa, commanding from the left wing of the fleet, | commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right. Titus S ... |
Scipio Africanus | ... for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic on | , but this work was unappreciated in his time and remains little read toda ... |
Scott Brown | ... hn Kerry (re-elected in 2008); the junior (Class II) senate seat is held by | , the victor in the special Senate election on January 19, 2010 |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator | , both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in act ... |
Zhou Xiaochuan | In a March 2009 speech entitled Reform the International Monetary System, | , the governor of the People's Bank of China came out in favour of Keynes' ... |
Suzi Leather | ... isted by the Chief Executive (currently Sam Younger) and an executive team. | , DBE was appointed Chair of the Commission's board on 1 August 2006, afte ... |
Mark Antony | ... dertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. Julius Caesar and | commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodoxus, Theodotus an ... |
Ngo Dinh Diem | In 1963 | was killed in a coup d'état carried out by ARVN officers and encouraged by ... |
Augustus | ... r Claudius later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather | |
Wolsey | After | fell, More succeeded to the office of Chancellor in 1529. He dispatched ca ... |
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 ... |
Abel Maldonado | ... ver Beach is located in the 15th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Sam Blakesl ... |
John Kerry | ... Kennedy, the state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate is | (re-elected in 2008); the junior (Class II) senate seat is held by Scott B ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President | and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... expedite the progress of the building project at its permanent location and | laid the foundation stone of the Institute at Powai on March 10, 1959 |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | ... . This directly contradicted the advice given to Hitler by Foreign Minister | (a man whom Göring loathed at the best of times) that Chamberlain would no ... |
Konrad Adenauer | ... drich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, Karl Barth and Sam ... |
Andrei Gromyko | It was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union (represented by | ), the United Kingdom (represented by Lord Home) and the United States (re ... |
Plutarch | ... inspiration. However, most commonly, these refer to an observation made by | , who presided as high priest at Delphi for several years, who stated that ... |
Arcadius | ... hortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I and | declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guilty of it were ... |
Francisco Franco | ... "53 nations" to fight against the Spanish Nationalist forces led by General | and assisted by German and Italian forces |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ... inent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the last surviving son of | ; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. ... |
Fred M. Vinson | ... they would resign if Jackson were appointed Chief. Truman ultimately chose | for the position |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... te, also known as the and the , was a feudal regime of Japan established by | and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as t ... |
Gaius Sosius | ... ntony's demands. Gnaeus Ahenobarbus seems to have wished to keep quiet; but | on 1 January made an elaborate speech in favor of Antony, and would have p ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... 007 Saudi-sponsored negotiations in Mecca produced agreement on a signed by | on behalf of Fatah and Khaled Mashal on behalf of Hamas. The new governmen ... |
Clovis | He died in 481 and was buried in Tournai. His son | succeeded him as king of the Franks |
Neville Chamberlain | ... o communicate with London. The FA's work showed that British Prime Minister | was determined to go to war if Germany invaded Poland in 1939. This direct ... |
Brandy Norwood | ... the film and a well earned third Golden Globe nomination. In 1999, she and | co-starred in the film, Double Platinum, which was released prior to the r ... |
Abel Maldonado | ... e Cayucos is located in the 15th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Sam Blakesl ... |
Minos | According to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and | . When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native land, Minos ... |
John Kerry | ... in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with | to introduce an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act demanding ... |
Pope Pius II | ... Catholics and Utraquists. It would only last for a short period of time, as | declared the Basel Compacts to be invalid in 1462 |
Elagabalus | ... gious missions of holy men from India passing through Syria on their way to | or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor. His accounts were quoted by Porp ... |
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 ... |
Allan Rock | Several other potential leadership contenders, such as Brian Tobin and | , declined to enter the contest. John Manley's attacks on Martin's refusal ... |
Licinius | ... he Edict of Milan, issued in February of AD 313 by Emperors Constantine and | |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... Herein arose the clerical philosophers—Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, | —whose answer was restoring the House of Bourbon and reinstalling the Roma ... |
Imelda Marcos | ... began work on Here Lies Love, a disco opera or song cycle about the life of | , the controversial former First Lady of the Philippines. Some music from ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... colonel Karol "Walter" Świerczewski. On 17 October 1936, an open letter by | to José Díaz was published in Mundo Obrero, arguing that victory for the S ... |
Kevin Rudd | In March 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia, | , gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President Ba ... |
John F. Kennedy | Peter Lawford was a brother-in-law of President | (dubbed "Brother-in-Lawford" by Sinatra), and the group played a role in c ... |
Oliver Ellsworth | ... e federal constitutional convention of 1787, during which Roger Sherman and | helped to orchestrate what became known as the Connecticut Compromise, or ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... for the "complete solution of the Jewish Question", as he issued a memo to | to organize the practical details. Göring, who issued this memo in place o ... |
Ausonius | ... dding unusual restrictions to the standard hexameter. The rhopalic verse of | is a good example; besides following the standard hexameter pattern, each ... |
Robert H. Jackson | ... e mid-1940s, Justice Black became involved in a bitter dispute with Justice | as a result of Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. Local 6167, United Mine Workers ... |
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 ... |
Lord Macartney | ... Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County Wicklow. Irish Cape Governors included | , Lord Caledon and Sir John Francis Cradock. Irish settlers were brought i ... |
Cassius Dio | ... an Empire for the purpose of increasing tax revenue, according to historian | . He is also one of the emperors who commissioned a large public bath-hous ... |
Pieter Oud | ... e Comité-Oud, a group of liberal members of the Labour Party (PvdA), led by | . The liberals within the PvdA were primarily members of the pre-war socia ... |
Titus | ... s destruction and hardship, such as the massive loss of life in Judea under | and Hadrian. They would also refer to the dire warnings in Leviticus and D ... |
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès | ... ngland and to Montesquieu in 18th century France, the latter especially via | pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? |
Clinton | ... Chen Li-an and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President | to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battl ... |
William Rehnquist | ... o the Supreme Court to fill the associate justice seat vacated when Justice | was elevated to Chief Justice. Whereas Rehnquist's confirmation was conten ... |
Laurens Reael | ... mber 12, 1616. Here they were enthusiastically welcomed by Governor-General | , admiral Steven Verhagen, and the governor of Ambon, Jasper Jansz |
John Motley Morehead III | The Morehead–Patterson bell tower was commissioned by | , the benefactor of the prestigious Morehead Scholarship. The hedge and su ... |
Thomas E. Dewey | ... es went down, the ban was lifted. In 1936, LaGuardia had special prosecutor | , a future Republican presidential candidate, single out Lucky Luciano for ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... wever, after Chief Justice Harlan Stone died in 1946, rumors that President | would appoint Jackson as Stone's successor led several newspapers to inves ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... trict, and is currently represented by Bill Keating. Following the death of | , the state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate is John ... |
Kofi Annan | ... States Secretary of State Colin Powell and United Nations Secretary-General | as top world leaders |
Cruz Bustamante | ... timately adopted Sanchez’s position, paving the way for Lieutenant Governor | to enter the race |
Benjamin Franklin | Contrary to popular legend, there is no evidence that | ever supported the Wild Turkey, rather than the Bald Eagle, as a symbol of ... |
Richard Burt | ... They unsuccessfully attempted to block the appointment of Rosanne Ridgway, | , and Edwin Corr as ambassadors, arguing that Shultz was appointing diplom ... |
Augustus | The Romans had a preference for standardization whenever they could, so | , after becoming permanent commissioner of roads in 20 BC, set up the mili ... |
Shen Kuo | ... zi (c. 470–390 BCE) proposed a concept similar to inertia, while in optics, | (1031–1095 CE) independently developed a camera obscura. The study of magn ... |
Gerald Ford | ... both on the Federal and State level. Nixon was succeeded by Vice President | as President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pa ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... ecedents were thus upheld. In 1939 Black was joined on the Supreme Court by | and William O. Douglas. Douglas voted alongside Black in several cases, es ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ty came to also support environmentalism. For example, Democratic President | did not send the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification, as he ... |
Cecil Rhodes | The company was founded by | , who was financed by Alfred Beit and N M Rothschild & Sons. In 1927, Erne ... |
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 ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... m the grass roots up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later | , Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in ... |
Pope Martin I | ... o condemn the Ecthesis, but died before he could convene it. His successor, | , did so instead. Theodore was buried in St. Peter's Basilica |
Mark Rutte | ... reedom (PVV) to obtain a majority. Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands | is the VVD since May 31, 2006 |
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 ... |
Hans Blix | ... act that "substantial progress" had been made since chief weapons inspector | and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed El Baradei ... |
Birger Dahlerus | ... ey, and would be peace-makers like Swedish businessmen Axel Wenner-Gren and | , who served as couriers between Göring and various British officials. All ... |
Gray Davis | ... all campaign, Sanchez was one of the first Democrats to break from Governor | and state that a Democrat should run to succeed Davis in case the recall m ... |
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 ... |
Igor Ivanov | Russian Foreign Minister | joined France and Germany and said the council could not ignore the fact t ... |
Abel Maldonado | ... re Amesti is located in the 15th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 28th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Anna M. Cabal ... |
Matthew Thornton | ... ot present when the original Declaration was adopted on July 4. One signer, | , from New Hampshire, who agreed to the Declaration and having joined 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 ... |
William O. Douglas | ... eld. In 1939 Black was joined on the Supreme Court by Felix Frankfurter and | . Douglas voted alongside Black in several cases, especially those involvi ... |
Siad Barre | After the ousting of the | regime and the ensuing civil war, various militias fought for control of t ... |