Lorenzo de Zavala | ... the northeastern curve of the Houston Ship Channel. Channelview was home to | , one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Texas. During World War I ... |
Clint Eastwood | Bari is mentioned in the 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County starring | and Meryl Streep. In the film Francesca tells Robert that she comes from a ... |
Hitler | ... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited | 's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ... |
Greg Craig | ... president when he was gloomiest and getting him to add past Kennedy staffer | to his defense team, which helped improve the president's fortunes. In the ... |
Netanyahu | ... mon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the | government of 1996–1999 and supported it from the outside |
Bobby Baker | Johnson was touched by a Senate scandal in August 1963 when | , the Senate Majority Secretary and a protege of Johnson's, came under inv ... |
George Papandreou | ... ral Democratic Alliance (DS) and the moderate leftist Democratic Left (DA). | , president of PASOK, won 4 October 2009, won with a majority in the Parli ... |
Marquess of Dalhousie | ... tion of Oudh were political factors triggering dissent amongst Indians. The | 's policy of annexation, the doctrine of lapse (or escheat) applied by the ... |
George McGovern | ... fianakis avoided mention of his party's presidential candidate, the liberal | , Helms employed the slogans "McGovernGalifianakis – one and the same", "V ... |
Peter Stuyvesant | ... ranch of the Lenni-Lenape in 1658 by New Netherland colony Director-General | , and became part of Pavonia, New Netherland. The boundaries of the purcha ... |
Comte de Rochambeau | ... hboring localities, alongside allied French forces under the command of the | |
Mark Killilea | ... e "gang of five," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, | and Albert Reynolds |
Patrick Tonyn | ... when he returned to Britain due to illness. He was replaced as governor by | |
Erich Mende | ... weapons testing and cases of dysmelia in children. Based on this, FDP whip | requested an official statement from the federal government. For statistic ... |
Adam W. Snyder | ... g to the west. In the First Battle of Kellogg's Grove, militia commanded by | pursued a British Band raiding party of about thirty warriors. Three Illin ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | The department was established on September 9, 1965, when | signed the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act into law. It st ... |
Alejo Bay | ... scent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, Edmundo O'Gorman, Anthony Quinn, | (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conductor Felix Carrasco, Guiller ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... hind Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for | at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs M ... |
John Kerry | In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 6.6% margin over George W. Bush, with Kerry carryi ... |
Member of Parliament | ... eer Joseph Locke. The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the | for Liverpool, who was struck and killed by Rocket. Stephenson in person e ... |
George W. Bush | ... a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing that | is a war criminal. A spokeswoman for the university said that the test que ... |
Lisa P. Jackson | ... General; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and | , United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator under ... |
Radosław Sikorski | Poland's foreign minister, | , delivered a speech on 28 November 2011 in Berlin, in which he emphatical ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... legislation intending to fulfill the Contract with America was coming from | 's House of Representatives. Many Democrats in the Senate and the country ... |
John III Sobieski | ... of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King | |
Winston Churchill | ... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He met | on several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ... |
Herbert C. Hoover | The 1928 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate | made his only southern campaign stop at Elizabethton and delivered his nat ... |
María Meléndez Altieri | ... mayor. Its first mayor was Don Pedro Sánchez de Matos. The 2008 election of | , brought Ponce the first woman to be elected to the mayoral office in the ... |
Clemente Mastella | ... opularity, was anyway sacked by the end of support from centrist MPs led by | |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... Presidential election, John Kerry carried the county by a 6.6% margin over | , with Kerry carrying the state by 6.7% over Bush |
Stanley Jackson | ... uropean club in Chittagong in 1932, while Bina Das attempted to assassinate | , the Governor of Bengal inside the convocation hall of Calcutta Universit ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. Senator Hatch and First Lady | also played major roles in SCHIP passing |
Peter Ryan | ... cost was described in some local media as excessive. National Party leader | said that the Labor government should win "gold (medal) for burning money" ... |
Johnson administration | ... egan to be released from this and other North Vietnamese prisons during the | , their testimonies revealed widespread and systematic abuse of prisoners ... |
Woodrow Wilson | In 1916, Baruch left Wall Street to advise president | on national defense and terms of peace. He served on the Advisory Commissi ... |
Karl Liebknecht | ... claimed, away, at the Berliner Stadtschloss. The proclamation was issued by | , co-leader (with Rosa Luxemburg) of the communist Spartakusbund (Spartaci ... |
Oscar Goodman | ... rmer presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines), | (Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada), Harry Arista Mackey (Mayor of Philadelphia), ... |
Bettino Craxi | Italian Prime Minister | claimed Italian territorial rights over the NATO base. Italian Air Force p ... |
James W. Stephenson | ... ve warriors died in the fighting. Two days later, on June 18, militia under | encountered what was probably the same war party near Yellow Creek. The Ba ... |
Member of the Legislative Assembly | ... ly, individuals with other specific qualifications, such as being a current | , commissioned officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or make act as ... |
Jay Hammond | ... n, established by Alaska in 1976, primarily by the efforts of then Governor | . Shortly after the oil from Alaska’s North Slope began flowing to market ... |
Dwight Eisenhower | ... ioned endlessly for an exemption which had finally been approved by General | . However Saint-Exupéry had been suffering pain and immobility due to his ... |
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 ... |
Lex Luthor | ... c (who murders Alexi Luthor of Earth-Two for trying to take leadership) and | to conquer the Earths, while the Anti-Monitor causes chaos on the Earths b ... |
Keith Ellison | ... n Minnesota's 5th congressional district, represented by Minneapolis lawyer | , a Democrat |
Joseph Schumpeter | | was an economist of the same age as Keynes and one of his main rivals. He ... |
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 ... |
Franz Josef Jung | ... rch 2008, President Horst Köhler approved a proposal by Minister of Defense | to institute a new award for bravery. The Ehrenkreuz der Bundeswehr für Ta ... |
Franco Zeffirelli | ... and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in October 1960, directed and designed by | . During this period, she toured the United States and Canada, and appeare ... |
Janusz Palikot | ... The new element was the successful debut of the left-of-center movement of | , a maverick politician, which resulted in decreased electoral appeal of t ... |
Ma Ying-jeou | In the 2008 presidential election, KMT candidate | defeated DPP candidate Hsieh with 58.48% of the vote. The party also retai ... |
William Gibbs McAdoo | ... lin D. Roosevelt at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies | and John Nance Garner, can also be seen as part of his vendetta against Sm ... |
Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
Delis Castillo | ... 17, 2004, after suffering three successive brain strokes. After vice-mayor | finished his term, was elected mayor in 2005 |
Silvio Berlusconi | In 2001 the centre-right formed the government and | was able to regain power and keep it for a complete five-year mandate, bec ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... litical organization, the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, which influenced | to sponsor a citywide bill to outlaw employment discrimination for gays an ... |
Raul Roco | ... hairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U.S. Ambassador to Sweden), | (former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippin ... |
Trent Lott | ... for 2001–2002, 50% more than the previous year. Shortly afterwards, Senator | made comments at a Strom Thurmond birthday celebration in which he said th ... |
Władysław Bartoszewski | ... Home Army was awarded Polish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: | , Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Wol ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... "S" on the duchy's coat of arms represented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund. | , and Pope Clement VII objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided ... |
Colin Powell | ... d on the island until Morocco, after mediation by the United States, led by | , agreed to return to the status quo ante which existed prior to the Moroc ... |
Seán Doherty | ... p, known as the "gang of five," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, | , Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds |
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II | ... role model for Maria Shriver, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., | , and other family members. The Boston Globe wrote of the changed role: "I ... |
Nick Galifianakis | ... d the ailing Senator B. Everett Jordan, who lost his primary to Congressman | , who represented the "new politics" of the young, the African-Americans, ... |
Tom McEllistrim | ... arise. This group, known as the "gang of five," consisted of Jackie Fahey, | , Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds |
Gordon Campbell | ... , but failed to meet the required "supermajority" threshold of 60%. Premier | announced due to the large support shown for electoral reform a second ref ... |
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 ... |
Wesley Clark | ... w Dole had a heated exchange with Democratic presidential primary candidate | in which Dole correctly predicted that Clark would lose the New Hampshire ... |
Alan García | ... 1990, he reached the position of Secretary General after the resignation of | . He was also Prime Minister from 1985 until 1987, when serious disputes w ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Privately, however, the CIA and President | were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret sp ... |
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 ... |
Alan García | ... resident of Peruvian Chamber of Deputies during the government of President | |
Erik Paulsen | ... is located in Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, and is represented by | (R).. Brooklyn Park is represented by Senate District (SD) 36, and 40, Hou ... |
Gordon Brown | The government of | has announced several new reforms for care in England. One is to take the ... |
Bobby Jindal | ... ean Americans, Chinese Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. The election of | as Governor of Louisiana has been hailed as pathbreaking. He is the first ... |
Dick Cheney | Former US Vice President | opposed the signing ratification of a treaty banning the use chemical weap ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Roper and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir | 's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples |
Woodrow Wilson | ... rsity as undergraduate students, graduate students or were faculty members. | , who received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was Hopkins' first affi ... |
Zach Taylor | ... inch (76 mm) rifled gun and was purchased for $155 on June 25, 1892, by the | Post No. 42 of the Grand Army of the Republic |
Rosa Luxemburg | ... adtschloss. The proclamation was issued by Karl Liebknecht, co-leader (with | ) of the communist Spartakusbund (Spartacist League), a group of a few hun ... |
Pol Pot | ... Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by | , Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea w ... |
Doug Magnus | ... Mason Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Theodor Heuss | ... aced by a simpler Greek cross. On 1 October 1956, the President of Germany, | , gave directions to use the Iron Cross as the official emblem of West Ger ... |
Ernst Röhm | ... wo million members at the end of 1933. Led by one of Hitler's old comrades, | , the SA represented a threat to Hitler's relationship with the German Arm ... |
Lord Hastings' | Despite | less-than-stellar opinion of Raffles before (which had necessitated his tr ... |
Member of Parliament | ... March 1932), is a British Conservative politician and journalist. He was a | (MP) representing the constituency of Blaby from 1974–92, and served as th ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | Radio Central was one of the many original operating and touring sites of | 's radio shack, which now is displayed at Rocky Point's Frank J. Carasiti ... |
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 ... |
Nancy Calhoun | and in the 96th State Assembly District is represented by | (R) |
George W. Bush | ... er, many Democrats in Congress did not want to work with incoming President | . Kennedy, however, saw Bush as genuinely interested in a major overhaul o ... |
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' ... |
Joseph Stalin | During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and | formed a ruling 'triumvirate' (or 'troika') in the Communist Party, playin ... |
Nikolai Podgorny | ... "Who could have imagined the Americans would be so easily frightened," said | . "It is not reasonable to become engaged in a war with the United States ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated | . However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 |
William Henry Harrison | ... oint du Sable near the mouth of the Chicago River. That same year, Governor | of the Indiana Territory appointed Kinzie as a justice of the peace |
Jimmy Carter | ... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, President | reopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ... |
George Macartney | #Lady Jane Stuart (c. 1748 – 28 February 1828), who married | , later the 1st Earl Macartney, on 1 February 1768 |
Nixon Administration | ... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and the | reversed all dishonorable discharges |
Kathleen Vinehout | ... or the 31st district Wisconsin State Senate seat in 2010, against incumbent | . The 31st District includes all of Trempealeau, Buffalo, Jackson and Pepi ... |
Louis XVIII | ... e island of Elba, and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of | . They signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau (11 April 1814) and initiated th ... |
Henry Wilson | ... eps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established. Senator | of Massachusetts was to name Agassiz to the Board of Regents of the Smiths ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... eighing just 1.4 kg (3 lb), Vanguard 1 was described by then-Soviet Premier | as, "The grapefruit satellite. |
Tom McEllistrim | ... era, Dr Bill Loughnane, a noted hardline Republican backbencher, along with | , a member of Haughey's gang of five, at a parliamentary party meeting. Ly ... |
Aleksandr Kolchak | ... n Civil War. These forces supported the White Russian government of Admiral | , based in Omsk, and White Russian soldiers fighting the Bolsheviks on the ... |
Du Shi | ... in China until about the 5th century. The Nanyang Commandery Administrator | (d. 38 CE) created a waterwheel-powered reciprocator that worked the bello ... |
Gianfranco Fini | ... of the Democratic Party. In 2010, Berlusconi's party saw the splintering of | 's new faction, which formed a parliamentary group and voted against him i ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... oika') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of | . The triumvirate carefully managed the intra-party debate and delegate se ... |
Jack E. Robinson III | ... is re-election to the Senate in 2000, as Republican lawyer and entrepreneur | was sufficiently damaged by his past personal record that Republican state ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... ic control tower, the 1961 opening of a new terminal building (dedicated by | ), runway lengthening, and the late 1990s charting of two FAA instrument a ... |
Horst Köhler | ... the Ministry of Defence to decide on the matter. On 6 March 2008, President | approved a proposal by Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung to institute a ... |
Chen Chu | ... ry close results in the southern city of Kaohsiung. Huang Chun-ying lost to | by a margin of 0.14 percent, 378,303 votes to 379,417 votes, making Chen C ... |
Carla Howell | ... he general election vote, with Robinson splitting the rest with Libertarian | . During the long, disputed post-presidential election battle in Florida i ... |
Winston Churchill | ... base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Minister | was initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting ... |
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 ... |
Władysław Anders | In 1943 the Polish II Corps, commanded by | , arrived in Palestine from Iraq. The British insisted that no Jewish unit ... |
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 ... |
Máximo Meana | ... reorganizes once more, this time in a more definitive fashion, in 1883 when | was mayor of Ponce. This time the Ponce Fire Corps was made up of 400 fire ... |
Joseph L. Bristow | ... ted consideration for either Annapolis or West Point with his U.S. Senator, | . Though Eisenhower was among the winners of the entrance exam competition ... |
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani | ... y over Qatar in 1913, and in 1916 the new ruler, Jassim bin Mohammed's son, | , signed a treaty with Britain bringing the peninsula into the trucial sys ... |
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | ... ty successfully withstood a siege by Spanish forces under the leadership of | . It was a turning point in the Eighty Years War and gave rise to the expr ... |
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 ... |
Pietro Badoglio | ... ts colonial empire. Hesitance remained from the King and military commander | who warned Mussolini that Italy had too few tanks, armoured vehicles, and ... |
Augustus Asplet Le Gros | ... r Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and | . Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were among authors who made Jersey ... |
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 ... |
Al Gore | ... ential election battle in Florida in 2000, Kennedy supported Vice President | 's legal actions. After the bitter contest was over, many Democrats in Con ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... stein-Friesian Association of America. Susan Cleveland, sister of President | married into the Yeomans family |
MP | ... neé Cozens-Hardy. Silvester Horne was a Congregationalist minister, Liberal | for Ipswich, and powerful orator. His maternal grandfather was Herbert Coz ... |
Richard Nixon | ... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. President | appointed him as the general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications ... |
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 ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | He was born in Brussels as the son of | , and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King John III ... |
Colin Powell | ... 97. Llewellyn is the daughter of J. Bruce Llewellyn, and a family friend of | , who originally introduced the couple to each other |
Leon Trotsky | ... mless crimes. Following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and | , Russia became the 1st nation to legalize homosexuality. The new Bolshevi ... |
Jan Dobraczyński | ... er war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, | , Henryk Woliński, and others |
Walter Veltroni | ... f his previous Forza Italia party and of Fini's Alleanza Nazionale) against | of the Democratic Party. In 2010, Berlusconi's party saw the splintering o ... |
Malcolm Fraser | ... olved by Kerr's dismissal of Whitlam and commissioning of Opposition leader | as caretaker Prime Minister. Labor lost the subsequent 1975 election in a ... |
Jim Doyle | ... pson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat | , the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCa ... |
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 ... |
Chen Chu | ... hen Chu by a margin of 0.14 percent, 378,303 votes to 379,417 votes, making | the first female mayor of a special municipality in the Republic of China. ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... ze such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister | , assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
Antonio Gramsci | In the Marxist tradition, the Italian writer | elaborated the role of cultural hegemony in ideology as a means of bolster ... |
Pontius Pilate | ... aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and Sting was cast as | . (In the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by Willem Daf ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dante | ... ther in The Hollow Men." This is a striking claim for a poem as indebted to | as anything else in Eliot’s early work, to say little of the modern Englis ... |
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 ... |
Governor of Puerto Rico | ... uccess at the voting booth regarding his candidacy for the colonial post of | in 1976, 1980, 1988, 2000 and 2004 - losing every time to either the Popul ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... ack on the UK alone, as had been threatened in late 1950s by Soviet Premier | and Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin it was unrealistic to expect that the ... |
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 ... |
Richard M. Nixon | ... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President | |
Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
Mary Beth Cahill | ... y for fellow Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. and lent his chief of staff, | , to the Kerry campaign. Kennedy's appeal was effective among blue collar ... |
Marion Barry | ... m Sasser has been transplanting Tennesseans' wallets to Washington, home of | ." During the campaign he also criticized Sasser for trying to become Sena ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... lo, co-founder of Yahoo!, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President | ; from entertainment Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Mi ... |
John Salmon 'Rip' Ford | ... h of explosives. In 1864, the town was reoccupied by the Confederates under | . On May 15, 1865, a month after the surrender had been signed at Appomatt ... |
Prince Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz | ... odds on policy, and their quarrels were usually mediated by the chancellor, | (1711–94), who served nearly 40 years as the principal minister to Maria T ... |
Zhang Heng | ... Using a water clock, waterwheel and a series of gears, the Court Astronomer | (78–139 CE) was able to mechanically rotate his metal-ringed armillary sph ... |
Arthur Calwell | ... 960 he was elected deputy leader of the ALP and in 1967, after party leader | retired, he assumed the leadership and became Leader of the Opposition. Af ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... he visit would prove of benefit to Jews, Hearst visited Berlin to interview | . Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press. "Because ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... when British attacks had become more effective than earlier in the battle. | , then a Gefreiter of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, fought in the Bat ... |
Gaspar de Portolá | After the 1769 expedition of | out of Mexico City, then capitol of New Spain, Friar Junípero Serra named ... |
Henri Christophe | ... was the capital of the republic, under the leadership of Alexandre Pétion. | renamed the city Port-aux-Crimes after the assassination of Jacques I at P ... |
Nikolai Bulganin | ... atened in late 1950s by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister | it was unrealistic to expect that the US would retaliate against the Sovie ... |
Royal S. Copeland | ... , thus becoming the first physician in the Senate since June 17, 1938, when | died |
Walter A. Post | ... n. (Virginia has had an independent city political subdivision since 1871). | served as the city's first mayor |
Nursultan Nazarbayev | ... akhstan and is a regular goose hunting companion of the country's President | . He is a supporter of Norwich City Football Club |
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 |
Johan Vilhelm Snellman | ... tragic tale from Kalevala. He also met the famous journalist and statesman | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both Winston Churchill and | , and having played both roles on more than one occasion. He played Church ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Davenport) is concerned about the "crisis" in Europe, the growing power of | and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents i ... |
9th Duke | ... lived in the castle after marrying the Lord Charles Cavendish, a son of the | and, after his death in 1944, continued to use the castle until shortly be ... |
Josep Sunyol | ... n the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising. On 6 August, | , the club president and representative of a pro-independence political pa ... |
Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
Nick Xenophon | ... rical basis, and was reaffirmed by the 1974 Royal Commission into Gambling: | was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Leg ... |
Menachem Begin | ... th the army were released and allowed to stay in Palestine. One of them was | , whose arrival in Palestine created new-found expectations within the Irg ... |
John Horne | ... t was rumoured that the couple were having an affair, and indeed soon after | (an associate of the Prince of Wales) published a scandalous pamphlet allu ... |
Terry Sanford | ... ch-counter demonstrations in Greensboro, compelled him to run. Lake lost to | , who ran as a racial moderate willing to implement the federal policy of ... |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... ped found the All India Home Rule League in 1916-18 with G. S. Khaparde and | and Annie Besant. After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radica ... |
President Reagan | ... rd Nixon announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, | added the position of drug czar to the President's Executive Office |
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 ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... he hometown of former First Lady & current United States Secretary of State | . When she visited Park Ridge on the occasion of her 50th birthday in 1997 ... |
Andrew Faulds | ... ny Richardson's 1959 production at Stratford-upon-Avon, he befriended actor | whose family he was staying with in the nearby village of Shottery while p ... |
Steven Chu | ... transition. In 1985, laser cooling was used to slow and manipulate atoms by | and team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by Robert Four ... |
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 ... |
Doug Magnus | ... tiania Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
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 ... |
Álvaro Obregón | ... he Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is also famous in Mexican history. | (possibly O'Brian) was president of Mexico during 1920-24 and Obregón city ... |
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 ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... er Louis XIII. In 1632, Isaac de Razilly became involved, at the request of | , in the colonization of Acadia, by taking possession of the Habitation at ... |
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 ... |
Dave Hodgson | ... by Frank Branston, until his death in 2009. The current Mayor of Bedford is | from the Liberal Democrat Party |
Vicente Fox | ... 920-24 and Obregón city and airport are named in his honour. More recently, | served as President from 2000 to 2006. Mexico also has a large number of p ... |
Benjamin Franklin | In 1758, | and John Hadley, professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, conducted ... |
Marc Ravalomanana | The government of former President | was aggressively seeking foreign investment and had planned to tackle many ... |
President Bush | On September 26, 2006, | urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that U.S. armed forces ... |
Chris Dodd | ... Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend | was also running. After the initial caucuses and primaries had been split ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senator | and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ... |
Governor of Wisconsin | ... markable Man. His older brother, Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was formerly | and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Adolf Hitler | ... served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it. | resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the ... |
Barack Obama | ... cratic nomination battle between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator | intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also running. After the initial ... |
Franco Zeffirelli | ... Royal Opera House in 1964, with Tito Gobbi as Scarpia. This production, by | , remained in continuous use at Covent Garden for more than 40 years until ... |
Anote Tong | ... e in March 2003 by a no-confidence vote and replaced by a Council of State. | of the opposition party Boutokaan Te Koaua was elected to succeed Tito in ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... Palestinian national anthems, and a Chopin funeral march. French President | stood alone beside Arafat's coffin for about ten minutes in a last show of ... |
Member of Parliament | ... he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent | for Yorkshire (1784–1812). In 1785, he underwent a conversion experience a ... |
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 ... |
Patrick J. Ballantine | ... to 45% to re-elect Democratic Governor Mike Easley against local Republican | |
Lord Byron | ... Frari, Venice. Foscari's life was the subject of a play The Two Foscari by | (1821) and an episode in Samuel Rogers' long poem Italy. The Byron play se ... |
Kintzing Prichett | ... d in 1837, and the legislature first met there in 1838. On October 9, 1839, | registered the plat of Madison at the registrar's office of the then-terri ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
John McCain | ... Security, and Refugees, and in 2005, Kennedy teamed with Republican Senator | on the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. The "McCain-Kennedy bil ... |
Doug Magnus | ... Weimer Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... he Soviet military presence. But the government was dealt a major blow when | , a leading general, switched allegiances to the Mujahideen in 1992 and to ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... and his family members, after the assassination of the then Prime Minister | , in 1984. Former Prime Ministers also get the protection of SPG for a per ... |
Conor Cruise O'Brien | According to | , the Butchers brought a new, frightening level of paramilitary violence t ... |
Giuseppe Verdi | ... y served as the basis for the libretto written by Francesco Maria Piave for | 's opera I due Foscari, which premiered on 3 November 1844 in Rome. Mary M ... |
Salvador Allende | ... overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely | |
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 ... |
Ezra Taft Benson | ... urch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including two Church presidents: | '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Ch ... |
Anote Tong | ... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president | said that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ... |
Himmler | ... pronounced it likely that Speer himself came close to being assassinated by | after he unwittingly put himself in the care of an SS doctor |
Sol Star | ... and frequent visitors included Al Swearengen, E. B. Farnum, Charlie Utter, | , Martha Bullock, A. W. Merrick, Samuel Fields, Calamity Jane, Dr. Valenti ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
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 ... |
Howard Baker | In 1990, Frist met with former Senate Majority Leader | about the possibilities of public office. Baker advised him to pursue the ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... roved the killing: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future Prime Minister of Israel | ), Nathan Friedmann (also called Natan Yellin-Mor) and Yisrael Eldad (also ... |
Anote Tong | ... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president | said that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ... |
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 ... |
Chen Shubao | ... er and morale, along with convincing propaganda that the Chen Dynasty ruler | was a decadent ruler who had lost the Mandate of Heaven, the Sui Dynasty w ... |
Gordon Brown | ... ll enough to appear. On March 4, 2009, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | announced that Kennedy had been granted an honorary knighthood by Queen El ... |
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 ... |
Huan Tan | The waterwheel appeared in Chinese records during the Han. As mentioned by | in about 20 CE, they were used to turn gears that lifted iron trip hammers ... |
Winston Churchill's | ... rt television miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story. She also appeared as | lover Pamela Plowden in Young Winston, produced by her father-in-law Richa ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
Doug Magnus | ... e level, Wilder is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
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 ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic called the war illegal. French President | commented on the statement of the ten Eastern European countries saying: " ... |
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 ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
MPs | ... form a company, gain investment and submit a Bill to Parliament. Since many | were heavy investors in such schemes, it was rare for a Bill to not pass d ... |
MP | The | for the Hampstead and Highgate constituency since 1992 has been Labour's G ... |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... s founded by one of the best military engineers of the time, Polish General | . It was manned by a small garrison of Continental soldiers through the en ... |
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 ... |
Patrice Lumumba | ... at where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with | and likely Salvador Allende |
Coluccio Salutati | ... , Tuscany circa 1370. Bruni was the pupil of political, and cultural leader | , whom he succeeded as chancellor of Florence. Bruni's years in office—141 ... |
William Goebel | On February 3, 1900 Governor-elect | was assassinated in Frankfort while walking to the capitol to be inaugurat ... |
Sun Yat-sen | In 1906, the Chinese Republican leader | proposed that Hainan should become a separate province although this did n ... |
Doug Magnus | ... level, Okabena is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
Matthew Lyon | ... to capture the city of Montreal. Some members of this unit were Congressman | and Lieutenant Benjamin Tucker. Benjamin Tucker joined the British Militar ... |
Tiberius Gracchus | ... he "Lex Sempronia Agraria" or "agrarian laws" of Rome in 133 BC, imposed by | , that seized the lands of the rich and distributed them to the poor. This ... |
President Bush | ... servative Republicans are not committed to improving public education. When | 's 2003 budget proposal threatened to cut education grants, she responded, ... |
Gilberto Concepción de Gracia | ... sland of Vieques, Puerto Rico (see Navy-Vieques protests). He stayed in the | encampment — baptized in honor of the PIP founder — for 362 consecutive da ... |
Isaac de Razilly | ... Louis XIII considered a colonial venture in Morocco, and sent a fleet under | in 1619. Razilly was able to reconnoiter the coast as far as Mogador. In 1 ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... tured their own takes on space suit design. Science fiction authors such as | contributed to the development of fictional space suit concepts |
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, ... |
Benazir Bhutto | ... as with U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister | , or as part of coups d'état where security is either overwhelmed or compl ... |
Sir Ralph Abercromby | ... nglish attacked again in 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, led by | (who had just conquered Trinidad). His army laid siege to the city but was ... |
Casimir Pulaski | ... d in three of the town's street names: Pulaski after Revolutionary War hero | as well as Warsaw and Cracow. Lyons is the subject of a recently published ... |
Margraviate of Brandenburg | ... ossession of the territory. In 1569 the Hohenzollern prince-electors of the | became co-regents with Albert's son, the feeble-minded Albert Frederick |
Gough Whitlam | ... ld. Margaret Dovey, the future wife of the former Australian prime minister | , finished sixth in the 200 yards breaststroke |
M.P. | ... acaulay, father of the historian Thomas Macaulay, as well as William Smith, | , the Dissenter and Unitarian. They were very prominent in campaigns for t ... |
Ronald Reagan | United States President | ordered that the plane be intercepted by F-14 Tomcats from the VF-74 "BeDe ... |
Benjamin Wade | ... t lie". Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, including Salmon P. Chase and | , defended the Declaration and what they saw as its antislavery principles |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... campaign was managed by Thomas F. Ellis, who would later be instrumental in | 's 1976 campaign and also become the chair of the National Congressional C ... |
Vasco da Gama | ... uguese were the first Europeans to explore the region of current-day Kenya, | having visited Mombasa in 1498. Gama's voyage was successful in reaching I ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and | from the government. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies in the Bolshevik ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from | |
Mitt Romney | ... that Kennedy "changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans". | , former Massachusetts Governor and Kennedy's opponent in the 1994 senate ... |
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 | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch remained a prominent government adviser during this time, and supported | 's domestic and foreign policy initiatives after his election |
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 ... |
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina | On July 13, 1859, the First Cortina War started. | would become one of the most important historical figures of the area, and ... |
Tom Anzelc | ... Representative for Minnesota State House of Representatives District 3A is | , who is from Balsam |
Governor | ... orial recall campaign, Sanchez was one of the first Democrats to break from | Gray Davis and state that a Democrat should run to succeed Davis in case t ... |
Earl Warren | Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice | , known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination. ... |
Antonis Tritsis | ... ndidate for Mayor of Athens but despite her popularity, she was defeated by | in a municipality which traditionally provided New Democracy with strong s ... |
Indira Gandhi | In 1975, the Indian Government under the Prime Minister Mrs. | , proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby suspending the fundamental r ... |
Lord Byron | ... a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of | and wife of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and di ... |
Chris Bryant | ... this role was challenged in the House of Commons by Shadow Justice Minister | in February 2011, at the time of the 2011 Libyan civil war, on the grounds ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS | . Upon mobilization its tactical control was given to the High Command of ... |
Vladimir Milyutin | ... ndon the negotiating process. In response, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, | , and Victor Nogin resigned from the Central Committee on November 4, 1917 ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... a memorial to the cruelty of the Nazi occupation. In 1999, French President | dedicated a memorial museum, the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, near the ... |
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 ... |
Greg Nickels | November 28, 2006, SIFF and Seattle mayor | announced that SIFF will soon have a home and a year-round screening facil ... |
Dong Zhongshu | ... nd court politics, synthesized with the cosmology of later scholars such as | . This policy endured until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 CE. Scien ... |
Chris Dodd | ... ttee's expansive plan resulted in a poor public reception. Kennedy's friend | had taken over his role on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Commi ... |
Jim Gibbons | ... contraception and was described as "an Irish solution to an Irish problem". | , who was a devout Catholic and had a deep hatred of Haughey failed to tur ... |
Samwise Gamgee | ... s are present in the Dead Marshes outside of Mordor. When Frodo Baggins and | make their way through the bogs the spindly creature Gollum tells them "no ... |
Henri Christophe | ... the Musée National is a museum featuring historical artifacts such as King | 's actual suicide pistol and a rusty anchor that museum operators claim wa ... |
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 ... |
Seabury Ford | ... p from Cuyahoga County were presented to the Ohio House of Representatives. | presented petitions against its creation. Lake County was established in M ... |
Ross Perot | ... and some sponsors considered withdrawing their support. Billionaire tycoon | made a donation of US$10 million, on the condition that it be named in hon ... |
B. Everett Jordan | ... in a three-candidate field. Meanwhile, Democrats retired the ailing Senator | , who lost his primary to Congressman Nick Galifianakis, who represented t ... |
Pompey | ... historian Appian. The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that | settled some of these pirates in in southern Italy |
Mike Easley | ... %. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to re-elect Democratic Governor | against local Republican Patrick J. Ballantine |
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 ... |
Mitt Romney | ... n instrumental in the prior 2004 alteration of this law to prevent Governor | from appointing a Republican senator should John Kerry's presidential camp ... |
Deval Patrick | ... fore his death, Kennedy had written to Democratic Governor of Massachusetts | and the Massachusetts legislature to change state law to allow an appointe ... |
John G. Schmitz | ... born Mary Katherine Schmitz in Tustin, California, to university professor | and chemist Mary Schmitz. She was known as Mary Kay to her family and call ... |
Friedrich Ebert | ... ber Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin, to the fury of | and James Mitchell, the leaders of the MSPD, who thought that the question ... |
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 ... |
Governor of Massachusetts | ... ennedy's death. Shortly before his death, Kennedy had written to Democratic | Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts legislature to change state law to all ... |
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 ... |
Dmitri Shostakovich | ... iod of Nazi activity in Europe. A notable exception is the Russian composer | whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions ... |
Pat Garofalo | ... or Dave Thompson, and in the Minnesota House by District 36B Representative | |
William Butler Ogden | ... ’s son, John H. Kinzie, ran to become the first mayor of Chicago, losing to | |
Charles V | In 1520 | united the twenty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jean Yves Jason | The current mayor of Port-au-Prince is | , who headed the city at the time of the 2010 earthquake. The city's separ ... |
Gramsci | ... these he added a third 'critical' dimension which built upon insights from | and Althusser |
George W. Bush | ... ear equal measure. In the 2004 presidential elections, the county supported | over John Kerry by 56% to 44%. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to ... |
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 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ts place the responsibility for the decision with the Ural Regional Soviet. | , in his diary, makes it quite clear that the assassination took place on ... |
George W. Bush | ... e were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and | (also representing his father, former President George H. W. Bush, who dec ... |
Daniel Webster | Like | , James Wilson, and Joseph Story before him, Lincoln argued that the Decla ... |
Richard Nixon | ... Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married | 's daughter Julie in 1968 |
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 ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... ch notables as former President Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor | |
Pervez Musharraf | ... ction teams from the military's elite Special Service Group unit. President | , as civilian head of state, was due to have this withdrawn after retiring ... |
Governor General of Canada | In 1888, the new | , Lord Stanley of Preston, whose sons and daughter had become hockey enthu ... |
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 |
Benedetto Croce | ... he popularity of the story was bolstered by the powerful philosopher-critic | who greatly admired the tale |
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 ... |
Gerd Dvergsdal | ... majority party of the municipal council who is elected to lead the council. | of the Centre Party (Senterpartiet) was elected mayor for the 2007-2011 te ... |
Bruce Babbitt | Also in 1994, United States Secretary of the Interior | first proposed the removal of several Pacific Northwest dams because of th ... |
Lev Kamenev | ... t the Provisional Government. On October 10, 1917 (Julian calendar), he and | were the only two Central Committee members to vote against an armed revol ... |
Harry S. Truman | In 1946 President | appointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations ... |
Jayaprakash Narayan | ... der suspended animation and prominent opposition leaders including Gandhian | , were arrested and thousands of people were detained without any charges ... |
William McKinley | ... bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons; U.S. President | did this at the public reception where he was assassinated |
Santiago Vidaurri | On February 19, 1856, | annexed Coahuila to his state, Nuevo León, but it regained its separate st ... |
James Tully | ... its had been buoyed up by the actions of the Minister for Local Government, | . In what became known as the Tullymander (a pun on the word gerrymander) ... |
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 ... |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... lf-rule. The Government swiftly arrested him for sedition. He asked a young | to represent him. But a special jury convicted him and the Parsi judge D. ... |
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 ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... Hearst shared Smith's opposition to Prohibition he swung his papers behind | in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for Franklin D. Roosev ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, | , and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation technique ... |
Hamani Diori | ... -Nguesso, of the Republic of the Congo, Idriss Déby, president of Chad, and | former president of Niger |
Governor of New York | ... General George Clinton, who became the first (and longest-serving) elected | , and then fourth Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jeffers ... |
Frederick Hicks | ... Many dignitaries were present to witness this history-making event such as | , Congressman Townsend Scudder, Colonel William Youngs and Supervisors Wil ... |
Muhammad | ... al-Qadr is the night in which the Qur'an was first revealed to the Prophet | . Also, it is believed to have occurred on an odd-numbered night during th ... |
Member of Parliament | ... camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a | in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in ... |
James Eastland | ... vote of 11 to 6. The six members who opposed the plan, Democratic Senators | of Mississippi, John Little McClellan of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North C ... |
Douglas MacArthur | ... ith an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, | and George Marshall. He first became executive officer to General Conner i ... |
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 ... |
Stephanus Van Cortlandt | ... the eastern segment of an tract that King William III of England granted to | of New York City in 1697. The part of Van Cortlandt Manor that ultimately ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Cold War. Participants at the conference included Churchill, U.S. President | and French Premier Joseph Laniel. In 1957, a second summit conference was ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... police suspicion that they were English spies, they visited Paris, meeting | , General Lafayette, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and joined the French ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... f the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and | . Austria supported the former, France the latter; thus, a war broke out. ... |
John of Lancaster | ... Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, at Greenwich in the 1430s, as well by his son, | at Fulbrook. The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and par ... |
Toussaint Louverture | ... essalines met the rising military commander Toussaint Bréda (later known as | ), a mature man also born into slavery, who was fighting with Spanish forc ... |
Mayor of Chicago | ... Daley (born April 24, 1942), sometimes known as "Richie" Daley, is a former | , Illinois. Daley was elected mayor in 1989 and reelected in 1991, 1995, 1 ... |
Lord Elgin | ... s during the Rebellions of 1837-1838 in Lower-Canada. The Governor General, | , had serious misgivings about the bill but nonetheless assented to it des ... |
Keith Ellison | ... ict, represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Minneapolis lawyer | , a Democrat. The city is split between two state legislative districts: 4 ... |
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh | Image:1stLordClifford.jpg| | (1630-1673) |
Michael Dukakis | ... en, the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate | , and also a Senator from Texas, took advantage of "Lyndon's law," and was ... |
members of parliament | ... political life, is the first sign of the rise of this class who, either as | or justices of the peace, later became the mainstay of English government. ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... st Dole early, painting him as a mere clone of unpopular then-House Speaker | , warning America that Dole would work in concert with the Republican Cong ... |
Jelle Zijlstra | ... ernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister | , and Queen |
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 ... |
Franz Ritter von Epp | ... in 1917, during World War I. After the war he served in the Freikorps under | 's command, and then joined the German Worker's Party (which soon evolved ... |
Thomas Ford | ... came to Illinois with his mother, Mrs. Ford, and his younger half brother, | , (afterwards Gov. Ford), in 1804. Much of the land on which the town is n ... |
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | ... f Mauritius, all having their headquarters there. The busiest street is Sir | Street, formerly known as Rue Desforges. It leads directly to the Municipa ... |
Lord Byron | ... y carefully analyzed the whole" of the latter text. D'Israeli also mentions | 's (1788–1824) praise for Piers Plowman |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... ong them Jo Byrns, Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably President | . Although the Great Depression destroyed many Americans' disposable incom ... |
Langeron | ... d persuaded the commanders of the first two columns, Generals Kienmayer and | , to flee as fast as they could. Buxhowden, the commander of the Allied le ... |
Prévinaire, Eugène | ... s-Capital Region - Politics of Belgium - Politics of Flanders - Poperinge - | - Princes Park, Retie - Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy - Progressive Par ... |
Nino Bixio | ... in several localities, and at Bronte, on August 4, 1860, Garibaldi's friend | bloodily repressed one of these revolts with two battalions of Redshirts |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... nt, and for attempting to undermine the influence of both his mother and of | . After waging an unsuccessful war in Languedoc, he took refuge in Flander ... |
Lloyd Bentsen | ... do under federal law, as soon as it convened on January 3, 1961." (In 1988, | , the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... was the longest serving Chicago mayor, surpassing the tenure of his father, | . Prior to serving as mayor, Daley served in the Illinois Senate and then ... |
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 ... |
Birch Bayh | ... e proposal which had been sponsored as Senate Joint Resolution 1 by Senator | |
Muhammad | ... ssed in some verses of Qur'an, but is explicitly declared in the sayings of | |
Mark Foley | ... opriate IM use became front page news in October 2006 when U.S. Congressman | resigned his seat after admitting sending offensive instant messages of a ... |
Member of Parliament | ... evious seats Dunfermline East and Dunfermline West were abolished, elects a | (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by th ... |
Charles the Bold | ... oyed an extremely refined court culture in his lands; she was the mother of | |
William Freeborn | ... nsus. The city of Freeborn, like its namesake county, was named in honor of | |
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 C. Frémont | ... en and not a separate river as others believed under the Buenaventura myth. | 's 1843 Great Basin expedition proved that no river traversed the Great Ba ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed | |
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Members of the Legislative Assembly | ... trinal differences in what was called the "Connell Affair". Three other CCF | (MLAs) in what had been a 7 member caucus quit and joined Connell in formi ... |
Willie Rennie | ... Thomas Docherty of the Labour Party. Previously, the seat had been held by | for the Liberal Democrats since the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election ... |
Charles the Bold | ... ing with the astonishing battlefield victories of the Swiss cantons against | of Burgundy in the Burgundian Wars, in which the Swiss participated in 147 ... |
Muhammad | ... al known as Iftar. The meal starts with the eating of three dates — just as | used to do. Then it's time for the Maghrib prayer, which is the fourth of ... |
Shah of Iran | ... traits of Jagger in 1975. One of these was owned by Farah Diba, wife of the | . It hung on a wall inside the royal palace in Teheran. In 1967, Cecil Bea ... |
Lloyd Doggett | ... in southwest Texas. This later affected Austin's districting, as U.S. Rep. | 's district (U.S. Congressional District 25) was found to be insufficientl ... |
Erastus Otis Haven | ... n had inferior minds and could not master mathematics and the classics. Dr. | , Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of ... |
Mohandas Gandhi | ... e and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as | in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Ac ... |
Abdoulaye Wade | ... cently Mourides have become more involved in the highest level of politics. | who is the current president of Senegal is also a devout Mouride. The day ... |
Meriwether Lewis | In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson issued the following instructions to | : "The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such pri ... |
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 ... |
Brian Lenihan | ... y and Colley. Three other cabinet ministers had also contemplated running - | , Kevin Boland and Donogh O'Malley |
Father of the House | ... the oath of allegiance before all other members except the Speaker and the | (the most senior member of the House). Often, whenever a Privy Counsellor ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... V specials as the Timex All-Star Jazz Show and The Swingin' Years hosted by | . She recorded infrequently after the expiration of her Verve contract in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... died law (he passed the final state examination in 1926) and rose to become | 's personal legal adviser. In this capacity, Frank was privy to personal d ... |
Philip Sheridan | During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. | 's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounde ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | The exact intended identity of these animals is not known. | , who translated the Book of Mormon, is not known to have elaborated on th ... |
Rutherford B. Hayes | ... Tilden of New York, the Democratic candidate, defeated Republican candidate | of Ohio in the popular vote. Tilden garnered 184 electoral votes to Hayes' ... |
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 ... |
Lala Lajpat Rai | ... was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Bengal and | in Punjab. They were referred to as the Lal-Bal-Pal triumvirate. In 1907, ... |
John C. Brown | ... t made the Nashville newspapers' front pages when former Tennessee Governor | died of a hemorrhage at one of the hotels. The papers emphasized that due ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... racy lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the Nazi Party and | in 1933. The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and M ... |
Samuel McRoberts | ... and here he raised his family. McRoberts fathered ten children, the eldest, | , was the first native-born Illinoisan to serve in the United States Senat ... |
Lenin's | ... support one another. Althusser elaborates on these concepts by reference to | analysis of the Russian Revolution of 1917 |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... economics and macroeconomics, was coined by the Austrian-American economist | in 1908 as a way of referring to the views of Weber. According to Weber's ... |
Duke of Somerset | ... e was not seen as a cause of inflation (and therefore enclosures) until the | was Protector of Edward VI. Until then enclosures were seen as the cause o ... |
John Little McClellan | ... rs who opposed the plan, Democratic Senators James Eastland of Mississippi, | of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North Carolina along with Republican Senators ... |
German East Africa | ... ernors of British East Africa (as the Protectorate was generally known) and | agreed a truce in an attempt to keep the young colonies out of direct host ... |
George S. Patton | ... ew expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration with | and other senior tank leaders; their leading-edge ideas of speed-oriented ... |
Ebenezer Johnson | ... Tellico River Mansion on his plantation in Tellico Plains. With his brother | , the former mayor of Buffalo, New York, he purchased the Tellico Iron and ... |
Charles Evans Hughes | ... so creating the Independence Party. He was defeated for the governorship by | |
Minister-President of the Brussels Capital-Region | ... - Military of Belgium - Minimum legal ages in Belgium - Ministerial Order - | - Moerbeke - Mol - Monarchy of Belgium - Moules-frites - Moorslede - Morts ... |
Bill Clinton | The incumbent, | , had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... scherzo) of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from the 1952 studio recording with | conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra |
Philip Phillips | ... 850s. By 1853, there were fifty Jewish families living in Mobile, including | , an attorney who was elected to the Alabama State Legislature and then to ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt's | ... consciousness fostered at Grinnell during these years became evident during | presidency, when Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, ... |
Roman Hruska | ... of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North Carolina along with Republican Senators | of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, al ... |
Yigal Allon | ... y Israeli forces as a sequel to Operation Yoav on November 4, 1948. General | ordered the expulsion of the remaining Arabs but the local commanders did ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... ndchildren. King is politically active and made media appearances promoting | during the 2004 U.S. presidential election, which included attendance at t ... |
Casimir Pulaski | ... Historic Site. The city is named in honor of Polish Revolutionary War hero | |
Pirson, André-Eugène | ... Peeters directive - Pfaff Jean-Marie - Picard language - Picqué, Charles - | - Pittem - Poirot, Hercule - Polder Model - Political parties in Belgium - ... |
Joe Lieberman | ... ed Bush and the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. He and then-Democratic Senator | wrote the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission, while he and Democ ... |
DeWitt Clinton | ... c-Republican President James Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican, | , nephew of Madison's late Vice President. The Federalist opposition threw ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future president | as the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ... |
Robert M. La Follette | ... l Democrats bolted the party and backed the third-party campaign of Senator | of Wisconsin, who ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party |
Keir Hardie | ... this time, Connolly became involved with the Independent Labour Party which | had formed in 1893 |
William Weld | ... nvestigation, and had Kennedy losing a hypothetical Senate race to Governor | by 25 points |
Barack Obama | ... ntion, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, President | nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH ... |
Joe Biden | ... e committee member, Democratic Delaware Senator (and future Vice President) | , later stated that he regretted not having opposed Scalia "because he was ... |
Sam Ervin | ... nators James Eastland of Mississippi, John Little McClellan of Arkansas and | of North Carolina along with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ation. Among the holders of the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class was | , who held the rank of . Hitler can be seen wearing the award on his left ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... to school in 1925, where he received daily meals in a program organized by | . In school, Zapf was mainly interested in technical subjects. One of his ... |
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 ... |
Francis Marion | ... astillo de San Marcos (British, Fort St. Marks) was renamed Fort Marion for | , the "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolution |
Robert M. La Follette | Senator | , who had left the Republican Party and formed his own political party, th ... |
Yu Shyi-kun | ... ulted into President Chen resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier | resigned, and Frank Hsieh assumed premiership on 25 January 2005 |
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 ... |
Ernst Röhm | ... nt of the Dachau concentration camp, inspector of the camps and murderer of | , later became the commander of the 3 SS Totenkopf Division. With the inva ... |
Samuel J. Tilden | ... ational elections in American history, the 1876 U.S. presidential election. | of New York, the Democratic candidate, defeated Republican candidate Ruthe ... |
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 |
John Jay | ... understood ownership of their farms. Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to | tha |
Philip Sheridan | Fort Sill was established in 1869 by Major General | who was leading a campaign in Indian Territory to stop raids into Texas by ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President | let it be known that he was displeased by the switch. In the summer of 195 ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... ntion from at least one professional propagandist: Nazi Propaganda Minister | , who called Foreign Correspondent: A masterpiece of propaganda, a first-c ... |
Abu Ali Mustafa | ... ted that it was in revenge for the assassination of their secretary-general | , killed by Israel in August that year. Israel alleges that Ahmed Saadat o ... |
Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff | ... tween his Duchy of Holstein and Denmark over the province of Schleswig (see | ) |
Andrew Jackson | ... uent incursions into Spanish territory to recapture escaped slaves. General | 's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Semi ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... Shatt al-Arab. By the late 1960s, the build-up of Iranian power under Shah | , who had gone on a gargantuan military spending spree, led Iran to take a ... |
James K. Polk | ... for George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States of America under | |
Frank Hsieh | ... resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier Yu Shyi-kun resigned, and | assumed premiership on 25 January 2005 |
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 ... |
Frank B. Kellogg | ... ri Fromageot, José Gustavo Guerrero, Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, | , Negulesco, Michel Rostworowski, Walther Schücking and Wang Ch'ung-hui |
Sir John Rogerson | ... ng 24 houses. The development of the village was given a fresh impetus when | built his country residence, "The Glen" or "Glasnevin House" outside the v ... |
William McKinley | ... region. Years of controversy and legal maneuvering ensued before President | issued a proclamation on July 4, 1901, that gave the federal government co ... |
Moshe Dayan | ... rea surrounded by barbed wire, which became commonly known as the "ghetto". | and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion were in favor of expulsion, while Mapa ... |
Rick Perry | ... The Department of Commerce was one of three departments that Texas governor | advocated eliminating during his 2012 presidential campaign, along with th ... |
Kurt Eisner | ... xile of Kaiser Wilhelm, and the establishment of Bavaria as a free state by | . In addition, the Spanish Flu Pandemic took hold of Europe in 1918 and 19 ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... mington. Johnson decided to seek the Vice Presidency and with House Speaker | 's help pressured Kennedy to give him a spot |
Peter Stuyvesant | ... andt's sister-in-law married the great-grandson of New York Colony Governor | . They were grandparents to New York Governor Hamilton Fish. Another daugh ... |
Friedrich Ebert | ... t modernising its form, including a reduction of the heads from two to one. | initially declared the official German coat of arms to be a design by Emil ... |
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 ... |
Frank Porter Graham | ... or for Willis Smith in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal | . Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith (a con ... |
Charles the Bold | ... brésis to the states of Burgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of | in 1477. Louis XI immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Ca ... |
John B. Kendrick | ... home to three former governors, James Stephen Hogg, Thomas M. Campbell, and | (Governor of Wyoming) |
Nathaniel Macon | ... should not be added to the country. Proslavery Congressmen, led by Senator | of North Carolina, argued that since the Declaration was not a part of the ... |
Adolf Berman | ... was also a member of the elite Kedyw unit, "Kolegium A", Ludwik Widerszal, | or Calel Perechodnik, were part of the AK, while others, such as Szmul Zyg ... |
John Molteno | ... locally-elected Parliament. This changed in 1872 when the local politician | - with the backing of Governor Henry Barkly - instituted responsible gover ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... 927, Sraffa's yet undiscussed theory of value, but also his friendship with | (a risky and compromising endeavor in the context of the Italian fascist r ... |
Charles V | ... e was eagerly solicited by the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor | ) and by those of Francis I, King of France, and he appears to have receiv ... |
Stuart Symington | ... his running-mate and did not want to ask him. Kennedy's reported choice was | . Johnson decided to seek the Vice Presidency and with House Speaker Sam R ... |
Hamilton Fish | ... lony Governor Peter Stuyvesant. They were grandparents to New York Governor | . Another daughter of Gilbert Livingston named Margaret Livingston married ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... ns and paper, with which Gramsci would write his Prison Notebooks), brought | to prudently invite Sraffa to the University of Cambridge, where he was in ... |
Obama | ... e governor of Alabama did not request military assistance nor did President | authorize their deployment. Subsequent investigation found that the Posse ... |
John Dudley | ... s one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact. The stables built by | in the 1550s also survive and lie along the east side of the base court. T ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... the film's theme of war in Europe. Also, there is an unmistakable image of | in the windmill scene. Right after McCrea rescues his coat from the grindi ... |
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 ... |
David Cobb | ... . Michael Badnarik, mentioned above as the Libertarian Party candidate, and | of the Green Party both have lived in Austin. During the run up to the ele ... |
Richard Nixon | ... outcomes of real-world events such as the Vietnam War and the presidency of | . In keeping with the realism of the series, although the costumed crimefi ... |
Muhammad | ... om the "Lauhe Mahfooz" (on 7th heaven) to 1st heaven to the Islamic prophet | , the month of Ramadan was in existence before Isla |
Pol Pot | ... following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( | after 1976) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its app ... |
Ion Iliescu | ... affected Romania or Bulgaria's chances for EU accession. Romanian President | called Chirac's remarks irrational, saying "such reproaches are totally un ... |
Mikhail Muravyov | ... books were not commonly available. In 1864, following the January Uprising, | , the Russian Governor General of Lithuania, banned the language in educat ... |
Peter Stuyvesant | ... et Livingston married Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805) also a great-grandson of | . Their son Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769–1833) married Catherine Livi ... |
Howard Metzenbaum | ... behind him, found time for a humorous exchange with Democratic Ohio Senator | , whom Scalia had defeated in a tennis match in, as the nominee put it, "a ... |
Bertie Ahern | ... civil servant and was the partner of then Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) | |
Arthur St. Clair | ... Blue Jacket defeated another American expedition, this time led by General | . It was the worst defeat the Americans would ever suffer at the hands of ... |
Chen Chu | ... 006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate | , the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeat ... |
Pol Pot | ... ng's Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after | and the Khmer Rouge |
Jack Kemp | ... on in income tax rates and made former Congressman and supply side advocate | his running mate. Dole also found himself criticized from both the left an ... |
Willis Smith | In 1950, Helms played a critical role as campaign publicity director for | in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal Frank Porter Graha ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... icance of the writings of Jefferson and his followers in the South, such as | in the development of agricultural fundamentalism |
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 ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... a Theresa's fiancé surrender his ancestral Duchy of Lorraine to accommodate | , the deposed King of Poland. Maria Theresa's father compelled Francis to ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... hieve complete intuitive understanding), from Stranger in a Strange Land by | ; "McJob", from by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by Wil ... |
Concino Concini | ... ower, in 1617, by exiling his mother and executing her followers, including | , the most influential Italian at the French court |
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 ... |
Charles V | ... to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother | , and later Emperor Ferdinand I |
Matija Majar | ... rganized by Slovene students that studied in Graz and Vienna. Together with | and Lovro Toman, he was among the authors who elaborated the political dem ... |
John Buchan | ... itics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and | . Goldfinger was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the D ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
Bolesław Limanowski | ... 39) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (1835–1917), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and | (1835–1935) in Poland |
Archduke Charles | ... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander, | , failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ... |
Bill Clinton | ... e White House since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President | |
Choe Bu | In 1488, the shipwrecked Korean scholar | travelled the length of the Grand Canal on his way from Zhejiang to Beijin ... |
Duke of Somerset | William Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the | (a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour), who was Lord Protector during ... |
Pietro Badoglio | ... m and arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, that appointed General | as new Prime Minister. Badoglio stripped away the final elements of Fascis ... |
George W. Bush | ... cent meeting was on 23 June 2008, between Premier Ewart Brown and President | . Prior to this, the leaders of Bermuda and the United States had not met ... |
Brigham Young | ... tates but generally avoided the Colorado River basin until the 1850s. Under | 's grand vision for a "vast empire in the desert" (the State of Deseret) M ... |
Richard J. | Richard M. Daley is the fourth of seven children and eldest son of | and Eleanor Daley, the late Mayor and First Lady of Chicago. Originally fr ... |
William A. Blakley | ... percent) to Republican John Tower's 927,653 (41.1 percent). Fellow Democrat | was appointed to replace Johnson as Senator, but Blakley lost a special el ... |
Maximilian von Montgelas | ... d to a difficult inheritance. Though both he and his all-powerful minister, | sympathized more with France rather than with Austrian, the state of the B ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... n the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and | , records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many yea ... |
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 ... |
Pyotr Stolypin | Eastern European theorists include | (1862–1911) and Alexander Chayanov (1888–1939) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (18 ... |
Lord Mayor of London | ... cing the law and maintaining order. The creation in 1191 of the position of | removed many of the Constable's civic powers, and at times led to friction ... |
Michael O'Dwyer | On 13 March 1940, Udham Singh shot | , generally held responsible for the Amritsar Massacre, in London. However ... |
Omar Bongo | ... nch control in Africa. Those most often mentioned are the recently deceased | , former president of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of C ... |
George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach | ... Despite his Protestant creed, Albert was greatly aided by his elder brother | , who had already earlier established Protestant religion in his territori ... |
Georg von Hohenzollern | ... ximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian, his cousin | , margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach |
John Tower | ... nson was re-elected Senator with 1,306,605 votes (58 percent) to Republican | 's 927,653 (41.1 percent). Fellow Democrat William A. Blakley was appointe ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... e helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, aiding | 's quest for the White House and helping many local and regional candidate ... |
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 ... |
Ieng Sary | ... a new political party the Democratic National Union Movement was formed by | , who was granted amnesty for all of his roles as the deputy leader of the ... |
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 ... |
Edgar Tekere | ... nd internationally condemned as being rigged, with the second-placed party, | 's Zimbabwe Unity Movement, winning only 20% of the vote. Presidential ele ... |
Pei Xiu | ... reference for maps was not thoroughly described until the published work of | (224–271 CE), there is evidence that in the early 2nd century CE, cartogra ... |
George W. Bush | ... e descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and | , the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First L ... |
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 ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | Louis XIII, taciturn and suspicious, leaned heavily on his Prime Minister | , to govern the Kingdom. They are remembered for the establishment of the ... |
Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
Tom DeLay | ... a perennial "winner". Other Bum Steer "Hall of Famers" include Ross Perot, | , and Jessica Simpson. It releases biennial lists with explanations of the ... |
Mário Lemos Pires | ... did not recognise the annexation. The last governor of Portuguese Timor was | from 1974-75. Following the end of Indonesian occupation in 1999, and a Un ... |
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 ... |
Robert Mugabe | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
Bernardo de Galvez | ... ed the war as an ally of France in 1779. They took the opportunity to order | , Governor of Louisiana, on an expedition east to retake Florida and captu ... |
Tanaka Giichi | ... genrō and the House of Peers, and brought into his cabinet as army minister | , who had a greater appreciation of favorable civil-military relations tha ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ess, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and | on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
John Howard | ... he closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Then Prime Minister | had triggered controversy that year with his refusal to embrace symbolic r ... |
Vasco da Gama | | pioneered the European Spice trade in 1498 when he reached Calicut after s ... |
Member of Parliament | ... at the age of twenty-one and while still a student, Wilberforce was elected | (MP) for Kingston upon Hull, spending over £8,000 to ensure he received th ... |
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 ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... nomy first in Perugia, and later in Cagliari, Sardinia. In Turin he had met | (the most important leader of Italian Communist Party). They became close ... |
Joseph Le Bon | The city suffered from the Revolution: | , sent by the Comité de salut public, arrived in Cambrai in 1794. He was t ... |
Archduke Charles' | After | Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ... |
Nyerere | ... d Nkrumah therefore rejects the idea of an "African socialism" in the sense | , one of the "ideology of continuity" (Hountondji left) was arrested from |
Hara Takashi | ... I, giving rise to the nickname for the period, "Taishō Democracy." In 1918, | , a protege of Saionji and a major influence in the prewar Seiyūkai cabine ... |
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 ... |
Charles V | ... e Spanish governors began importing enslaved Africans as laborers. In 1517, | authorized the draft of slaves. The Taíno people became virtually, but not ... |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | On the orders of allied leaders | , Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and t ... |
Muhammad | ... acob is also important as his life drew numerous parallels with the life of | . Jacob suffered great loss repeatedly, as did Muhammad in the Year of Sor ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music. In 1945, | and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... 16 December 1986 Jeltoksan riot took place in response to General Secretary | 's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Kunayev |
Józef Piłsudski | ... some political leaders of the Polish insurrection movement (in particular, | ) sent emissaries to Japan to collaborate on sabotage and intelligence gat ... |
Filippo Turati | ... due to their shared ideological views. He also was already in contact with | , perhaps the most important leader of Italian Socialist Party, whom he al ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... is success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents | and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
Bill Clinton | ... y Show with Jon Stewart. Dole was, for a short time, a commentator opposite | on CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's Brooke Shields ... |
Ross Perot | ... r death) was a perennial "winner". Other Bum Steer "Hall of Famers" include | , Tom DeLay, and Jessica Simpson. It releases biennial lists with explanat ... |
Szmul Zygielbojm | ... olf Berman or Calel Perechodnik, were part of the AK, while others, such as | , held top leadership positions in the National Council of the Polish gove ... |
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr. | ... ast press conference" after his disastrous losing campaign against Democrat | , for governor of California. In that exchange, the former vice president ... |
Joshua Nkomo | ... undi wars in Matabeleland in the 1980s. This led to the political merger of | 's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) with the ruling Zimbabwe African ... |
Aleksander Kwaśniewski | ... 995, Poland held its second post-war free presidential election. SLD leader | defeated Wałęsa by a narrow margin—51.7% to 48.3% |
John de Menteith | Wallace evaded capture by the English until 5 August 1305 when | , a Scottish knight loyal to Edward, turned Wallace over to English soldie ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... omination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker | wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an admini ... |
Bill Clinton | ... mbitions left, Kennedy formed a good relationship with Democratic President | upon the latter taking office in 1993, despite his having initially backed ... |
Lovro Toman | ... ne students that studied in Graz and Vienna. Together with Matija Majar and | , he was among the authors who elaborated the political demand for a Unite ... |
Zachary Macaulay | ... ed around the Common. They included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton and | , father of the historian Thomas Macaulay, as well as William Smith, M.P., ... |
Joseph Brugère | ... de Paris; and other members of European royalty. Also present were General | , representing President Sadi Carnot; the presidents of the Senate and the ... |
Hermann Göring | Reichsmarschall | never held the Diamonds. He, being one of the first soldiers presented wit ... |
Barack Obama | ... candidates. Austin also hosted one of the last presidential debates between | and Hillary Clinton during their heated race for the Democratic nomination ... |
Ewart Brown | ... ave been rare. The most recent meeting was on 23 June 2008, between Premier | and President George W. Bush. Prior to this, the leaders of Bermuda and th ... |
Nursultan Nazarbayev | In 1997 the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan | approved the Decree to transfer the capital from Almaty to Astana |
Barack Obama | ... d Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) was signed into law by President | on March 23, 2010. Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation ... |
Ehud Barak | ... nments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) and 1999–2001 ( | ), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996–1999 ... |
George W. Bush | ... same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both Bill Clinton and | asserted that free trade would gradually open China to democratic reform. ... |
Arthur Mutambara | | | |Movement for Democratic Change – Mutambar |
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 ... |
Son Sen | ... party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, | , and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the state as con ... |
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 ... |
Louis William | ... French, who pillaged it in 1643 and left it in ashes in 1689. The margrave | , popularly known as Türkenlouis, moved to Rastatt in 1705 |
Ross Perot | ... ral College landslide, capturing 49.2% of the vote against Dole's 40.7% and | 's 8.4% who drew equally from both candidates |
Osachi Hamaguchi | ... nt that was heightened with the assault upon Rikken Minseitō prime minister | in 1930. Though Hamaguchi survived the attack and tried to continue in off ... |
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 ... |
Thomas E. Trowbridge | | (1930-2009), a member of both houses of the Wyoming State Legislature (197 ... |
Luigi Einaudi | ... on inflation in Italy during and after World War I. Notably, his tutor was | , one of the most important Italian economists and later a president of th ... |
Henry Wise Wood | The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, | , president of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) during that movement's ... |
Al Gore | ... Bush. The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after | lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President a ... |
Vance | ... r and statesman of early North Carolina, under whom North Carolina Governor | clerked as an attorney. Woodfin, North Carolina is the only municipality b ... |
Putin | ... ably as a result of social, economic, and lifestyle changes. However, after | become a president in 2000 there was significant growth in spending for pu ... |
Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
Paul Tsongas | ... 93, despite his having initially backed former fellow Massachusetts Senator | in the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries. Kennedy floor managed succe ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ieng Sary | ... the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, | , Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the sta ... |
Joseph Mundassery | ... Books set its first shop in Thrissur by former education Minister Professor | , it become the abode of writer’s like O V Vijayan, Kovilan, VKN, Uroob, E ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of | 's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charlest ... |
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 ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... aq has undercut the influence of this doctrine within the Republican Party. | , mayor of New York at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and ... |
George W. Bush | ... Service-issued collectible envelope commemorating the 2004 inauguration of | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ed. Honorary membership was once bestowed in special circumstances, as with | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, but this practice was officially discontinued in ... |
Brian Doherty | ... 2nd), Sandi Jackson (7th), Sharon Denise Dixon (24th) and Rey Colón (35th), | (41st), and Bernard Stone (50th). Presiding over the meeting, Daley harshl ... |
Elisha Johnson | During the 1840s | , a former mayor of Rochester, New York, built the Tellico River Mansion o ... |
John McCain | ... anoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee | , who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there. Air Force c ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of | . In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the Sherloc ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joice Mujuru | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | In 1543 Cambrai was conquered by | , and annexed to his already vast possessions. He had the medieval monaste ... |
Bolesław Limanowski | In Poland | thought deeply about Agrarianism and worked out an eclectic program that f ... |
Joe Lieberman | ... enate despite Dukakis' loss to George H. W. Bush. The same went for Senator | of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Jose ... |
John McCain | ... followed in regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as | , Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrog ... |
Tom Cole | ... l level, Lawton lies in Oklahoma 4th Congressional district, represented by | . In the State Senate, the county is represented by District 31 (Don Barri ... |
Anita Alvarez | ... s for the benefit of those with Down Syndrome. Cook county state's attorney | lives in River Forest. Several great inventors resided in River Forest inc ... |
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 ... |
Henry Clay | ... . As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,864. Its name is in honor of | , American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and ... |
Muhammad | ... which the first verses of the Qur'an were revealed to the Islamic prophet, | |
MPs | Coventry is represented in Parliament by three | all of whom are Labour. These are |
Wouter Bos | Notable supporters of Feyenoord include Craig Bellamy, Gerard Cox, | , Jan Marijnissen, Robert Eenhoorn, Arjan Erkel, Dennis van der Geest, DJ ... |
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 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of | and during Augustus tenure, is as follows |
Ronald Reagan | When | was elected President in November 1980, Scalia hoped for a major position ... |
Robert Todd | ... bon County), Henry Lee (Mason County), Thomas Kennedy (Madison County), and | (Fayette County). A number of communities competed for this honor, but Fra ... |
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 ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... d in formation of the Clinton health care plan, which was run by First Lady | and others. It failed badly and damaged the prospects for such legislation ... |
Wu Shu-chen | ... d the political parties voted according to political lines. The first lady, | was prosecuted for corruption, namely illegally using state funds for pers ... |
Nelson Rockefeller | In 1931, Leger visited New York City and decorated | 's apartment. In 1935, the in New York City presented an exhibition of his ... |
Governor of Puerto Rico | ... PIP). A former three-time Senator, Berríos is a recurring PIP candidate for | for three decades, although not consecutively for each elective term |
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 ... |
Spyridon Merkouris | ... of Greece, and Eirini Lappa, originated from a prominent family of Athens. | , her paternal grandfather, was one of the most successful Mayors of Athen ... |
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 ... |
Pedrarias | Salcedo, seeking to enrich himself, had serious clashes with | , the Governor of Castilla del Oro, who for his part, wanted to Honduras a ... |
Madan Lal Khurana | ... rty. In the 1990s, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of | came into power; however in 1998, Congress regained power under Sheila Dik ... |
Governor | A | is appointed by The Queen of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Briti ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... ly before his death he issued a statement accusing then-President of Russia | of involvement in his assassination. President Putin denies he had any par ... |
Anicius Probus | ... r. He was educated in Rome, studying literature, law, and rhetoric. Praetor | first gave him a place in the council and then in about 372 made him consu ... |
George W. Bush | ... went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to | . In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President and was re-elected U.S. ... |
Khieu Samphan | ... bodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and | . Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the state as controlled by the gove ... |
Mitt Romney | ... ed his first serious challenger, the young, telegenic, and very well-funded | . Romney ran as a successful entrepreneur and Washington outsider with a s ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... that became Soviet-controlled following the partition of eastern Europe by | and Joseph Stalin in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 were resettled to ... |
General William Lenoir | ... y was named for Revolutionary War figure and early North Carolina statesman | , who settled north of present day Lenoir. His restored home, Fort Defianc ... |
General Langeron | ... lleurs, French skirmishers. Initial Allied assaults proved unsuccessful and | ordered the bombardment of the village. This deadly barrage forced the Fre ... |
Paul Kruger | ... cum with a pamphlet in which they set out to prove that the world was flat. | , President of the Transvaal Republic, advanced the same view: "You don't ... |
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 ... |
Menachem Begin | ... s of intelligence. Ze'evi resigned from this position in 1977, when Likud's | became prime minister. In 1988, Ze'evi established the Moledet (Homeland) ... |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki | On August 19, President Jaruzelski asked journalist/Solidarity activist | to form a government; on September 12, the Sejm (national legislature) vot ... |
William Daley | ... r the Daley campaign as a fundraiser, David Axelrod as campaign strategist, | as chief strategist, and as a campaign aide |
Chen Shui-bian | ... ree recall motions votes in the Legislative Yuan aimed at ousting President | . All of them had failed since the Pan-Blue Coalition lacked the two third ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... e Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President | , who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a ... |
Jan Marijnissen | ... able supporters of Feyenoord include Craig Bellamy, Gerard Cox, Wouter Bos, | , Robert Eenhoorn, Arjan Erkel, Dennis van der Geest, DJ Paul Elstak, , Vi ... |
Lincoln Chafee | ... s have recently held the governorships in several New England States, while | , a former moderate Republican senator is currently the independent govern ... |
Violeta Chamorro | ... from the court in September 1992 (under the later, post-FSLN, government of | ), following a repeal of the law requiring the country to seek compensatio ... |
Harold Washington | ... vote with Byrne and allowing the relatively unknown legislator Congressman | to become Chicago's first black mayor |
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 ... |
Ezra Taft Benson | ... include former Secretary of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, | '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor General under Pres ... |
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 ... |
Ivo Opstelten | In 2008, the VVD chose a new party chairman, | , the outgoing mayor of Rotterdam. Mark Rutte announced at the celebration ... |
James Cleverly | ... y London Assembly constituency and is represented on the London Assembly by | (Conservative) |
Zachary Taylor | ... May 1846. The first battle of the war occurred on 8 May 1846, when General | received word of the siege of the fort. They rushed to help, but were inte ... |
Lorenzo Snow | ... was 245 at the 2010 census. The town received its name from Mormon apostle | . He named it Portage after his birth place of Portage County, Ohio |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... at on his way to Philadelphia to meet Washington, Little Turtle met General | , who presented him with a matching pair of pistols along with instruction ... |
Thurgood Marshall | In 1967, Johnson nominated civil rights attorney | to be the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
Mehdi Ben Barka | ... nited States. The Tricontinental Conference, chaired by Moroccan politician | was one such organisation. Roughly designated as part of the Third World m ... |
Werner Hoyer | ... orts of both goods and services). The head of the European Investment Bank, | , said on 4 March 2012 that Greece would receive loans for a total of €2 b ... |
Lord Mayor of London | ... fe, Margaret Bowett, and widow, firstly of Nicholas Wyfold (1420–1456), the | and, secondly, of Sir John Norreys (1400–1466), Keeper of the Wardrobe. Th ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... self, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leader Heinrich Himmler and Propaganda Minister | . When Smith refused to include Nazi propaganda in his reports, the Gestap ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... was first explored in 1513 by Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, | , who claimed the region for the Spanish crown. Prior to the founding of S ... |
Muhammad | ... , it is, in fact from the bequest of [the sahaba (companion) of the prophet | Tamim-al Dari and others.... The Amir of Khurasan...has assigned to this c ... |
Frederick H. Schultz | During 2007-2008, Frist was the | Professor of International Economic Policy in Woodrow Wilson School at Pri ... |
Eliot Engel | ... The village is represented in the United States House of Representatives by | . In state government, it is represented by Senator David Carlucci and Ass ... |
Yousaf Raza Gillani | ... PP) won the largest number of seats in the 2008 elections, and party member | was sworn in as Prime Minister. Musharraf resigned from the presidency on ... |
Jim Anderton | ... Party retained power in the 27 July 2002 election, forming a coalition with | 's new party, the Progressive Coalition, and reaching an agreement for sup ... |
Andrew Jackson | The situation was complicated by the American spoils system. After | assumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... hn in the National Portrait Gallery was for many years thought to represent | . The painting has recently been re-identified as Catherine Parr, with who ... |
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 ... |
Former Governor | Image:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg| | Ronald Reagan of Californi |
Mike Enzi | ... elegation. Today, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, | and John Barrasso, and its one member of the House of Representatives, Con ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... f other contemporary socialists and communists, from Lenin (a communist) to | (a socialist), were more sympathetic to national self-determination) |
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 ... |
Michael Blumenthal | ... bid engineered by Burroughs' CEO and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, | , Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys. T ... |
James W. Grimes | ... in the Civil War, a medal for individual valor was proposed by Iowa Senator | to Winfield Scott, the Commanding General of the United States Army. Scott ... |
Asif Ali Zardari | ... cy on 18 August 2008 when threatened with impeachment, and was succeeded by | , the current President. By its own estimates, Pakistan's involvement in t ... |
Theodosius II | ... thers' accession, the Hun tribes were bargaining with Eastern Roman Emperor | 's envoys for the return of several s (possibly Hunnic nobles who disagree ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... een seven executions within the castle on Tower Green; as was the case with | , this was reserved for prisoners for whom public execution was considered ... |
Leif Frode Onarheim | ... to Growth; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland | ;, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President | . Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presid ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... look into gold-backed currency. After the presidential election, Helms and | sponsored a Senate amendment to a Department of Justice appropriations bil ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... many leading Nazis, including Hitler himself, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leader | and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Smith refused to include Naz ... |
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 ... |
General Eisenhower | ... the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946, under | . His unit shot footage documenting D-Day—including the only Allied Europe ... |
Mahatma Gandhi | ... national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (birthdate of | ) are meant to be dry days nationally. The state of Andhra Pradesh had imp ... |
Joseph Angell Young | ... lude three LDS Church apostles: Brigham Young, Jr., John Willard Young, and | . Another descendant, Leah D. Widtsoe, was wife of apostle John A. Widtsoe ... |
Jane Byrne | ... ed an embarrassing third in the three-way primary including incumbent Mayor | , a former protege of Daley's father. Many of his father's old allies blam ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... parable to those they might expect outside; one such example was that while | was held in the Tower his rooms were altered to accommodate his family, in ... |
Vasco da Gama | ... on of the São Gabriel and its sister ship, the São Rafael that were used by | to circumnavigate the Cape of Good Hope and continue the route to India. D ... |
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 ... |
Cho Ramaswamy | According to | , the editor of Tughlaq magazine, the RSS-sponsored Sewa Bharati did yeoma ... |
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 ... |
Jan Smuts | ... interpretation alone. Another scientist who held a similar view to this was | who took a holistic approach to science and offered a compromise between m ... |
Ferruccio Parri | ... i-fascist leader Ivanoe Bonomi. In June 1945 Bonomi was in turn replaced by | , who in turn gave way to Alcide de Gasperi on 4 December 1945. Finally, D ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | American President | offered to mediate, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his effort. Sergius ... |
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 |
José Manuel Barroso | ... r a candidate from its own ranks. In the end, the EPP candidate was chosen: | . On the same basis, the EPP endorsed again Barroso for a second term duri ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | With the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, | began the process of "de-Stalinisation". For many Marxists—including the P ... |
Timothy C. Evans | ... in the primary. In the April 4, 1989 general election Daley faced Aldermen | , candidate of the newly created Harold Washington Party, and Republican c ... |
Tom Daschle | ... '08, an initiative of the ONE campaign, with Former Senate Majority Leader | (D-SD). According to , "ONE Vote '08 is an unprecedented, non-partisan cam ... |
Dante Alighieri | Chronicle of Fredegar mentions Carantania as Sclauvinia, | (1265–1321) mentions Carantania as Chiarentana. The same name was also use ... |
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 ... |
John Porter East | ... ans unexpectedly won a majority, their first in twenty-six years, including | , a social conservative and a Helms protégé soon dubbed "Helms on Wheels", ... |
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 ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... n extreme, crisis situations. Near the end of her time as governor general, | stated: "My constitutional role has lain in what are called 'reserve power ... |
Reed Smoot | ... e and U.S. House of Representatives, such as former Dean of the U.S. Senate | (class of 1876). Cabinet members of American presidents include former Sec ... |
Rahm Emanuel | ... ial election for the remaining two years of the term could be held in 1989. | worked for the Daley campaign as a fundraiser, David Axelrod as campaign s ... |
Norm Coleman | ... nate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as fellow Republican Senators | , John Sununu and Gordon Smith also called for Stevens to resign. McConnel ... |
Stephen A. Douglas | ... in 1849. Daniel Webster, General Winfield Scott, Louis Kossuth, John Brown, | , and other notables were greeted there |
Benito Juárez | ... ken reeds." The "de Juárez" was added to the official name in 1885 to honor | , the former president of Mexico. The seal for the city shows broken reeds ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... ere U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and | have all attended services. Because of this, it is now called the "Church ... |
Patricia Gerard | ... chieved two milestones furthering its motto of "City of Progress." Democrat | became the City's first female mayor. She narrowly defeated incumbent mayo ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... 1809, Little Turtle suffered a break with other Miami leaders when Governor | came to Fort Wayne to renegotiate treaty terms. Little Turtle admitted Pot ... |
Ieng Thirith | ... ol Pot and Ieng Sary married Khieu Ponnary and Khieu Thirith (also known as | ), purportedly relatives of Khieu Samphan. These two well-educated women a ... |
Chicago City Council | ... Mayor Washington died in office of a heart attack. On December 2, 1987 the | appointed Alderman Eugene Sawyer as mayor until a special election for the ... |
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 ... |
Phil Bredesen | ... ossible candidate for Governor of Tennessee in 2010 when incumbent Governor | was barred from running again due to term limits. Tennessee Republican Par ... |
Ivanoe Bonomi | ... 44 he was replaced as Prime Minister by the 70-year-old anti-fascist leader | . In June 1945 Bonomi was in turn replaced by Ferruccio Parri, who in turn ... |
Eugene Sawyer | ... art attack. On December 2, 1987 the Chicago City Council appointed Alderman | as mayor until a special election for the remaining two years of the term ... |
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 ... |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... onal Capital Region Command is in Metro Manila and was created by President | to defend the metropolis from insurgents and terrorist groups. Philippine ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President | , Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ... |
Muhammad | Islam came to Yemen around 630, during the Islamic prophet | 's lifetime. At that time the Persian governor Badhan was ruling. Thereaft ... |
Birch E. Bayh II | ... aides, were killed. Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by fellow Senator | and spent months in a hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a pun ... |
Evo Morales | ... esident Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President | , and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa refer to their political programm ... |
Robert E. Jackson | ... me the City's first female mayor. She narrowly defeated incumbent mayor Dr. | , Ph.D. in a bitterly contested race. (Dr. Jackson had been the longest se ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stefan Stambolov | ... minated during the early years of Ferdinand's reign by liberal party leader | , whose foreign policy saw a marked cooling in relations with Russia, form ... |
Cynthia Lummis | ... Barrasso, and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman | . All three are Republicans. The state has not voted for a Democrat for pr ... |
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 ... |
Churchill | ... ght through 1940 and again in 1941, drew peak audiences of 16 million; only | was more popular with listeners. But his talks were cancelled. It was thou ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Madeira was a favorite of | , and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1938, Wyman co-starred with | in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They ... |
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 ... |
Harold Ford, Jr. | ... r Republican nominee Bob Corker, who won by a small margin over Congressman | in the general election |
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 ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... came unpopular with the onset of the Great Depression. He advised President | to "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real e ... |
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 ... |
Walther Rathenau | ... rom the League of Nations. Thus, Germany seized the chance to make an ally. | , the Jewish Foreign Minister who signed the treaty, was assassinated two ... |
P. C. Chacko | ... house of the Parliament of India, once every five years. The current MP is | . The Lok Sabha seat has been held by the Indian National Congress for six ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... s Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, | , and Benjamin Harrison have all attended services. Because of this, it is ... |
Nicholas Bye | ... rst directly elected mayor in the South West region. Conservative candidate | became the first mayor elected under this system in October 2005, under an ... |
Charles H. Percy | ... t Helms in charge of the Foreign Relations Committee instead of the liberal | , he instead became chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Fore ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | The plot was loosely adapted into the 1990 film Total Recall, starring | . In the film, the hero, renamed Quaid, actually travels to Mars, but the ... |
Rick Perry | ... slature. Williamson's old friend and former legislative colleague, Governor | , appointed him to the Texas Transportation Commission, of which he became ... |
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 |
R. Eugene Pincham | ... a second term, his first full, four-year term, with 70.7% of the vote over | |
Jacob Zuma | ... he pen name Zapiro) came under fire for depicting then-president of the ANC | in the act of undressing in preparation for the implied rape of 'Lady Just ... |
Georgina Beyer | ... and for all but two of those years a minority government has ruled. In 1995 | became the world's first openly transsexual mayor, and in 1999 she became ... |
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 ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... ranklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and | (1753–1824) in the early national period. In the mid-19th century importan ... |
Yury Luzhkov | ... ch controversy, following attempts by Valentina Zhilenkova and Moscow mayor | , to have them flown to Moscow for interment in the Novodevichy Cemetery. ... |
Richard Nixon | ... States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President | in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown fo ... |
Samuel Argall | ... recruited and equipped those men at his own expense. Leaving his deputy Sir | (circa 1580 – circa 1626) in charge, Lord De La Warr returned to England a ... |
Chen Shubao | ... th to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just died and his son incompetent son | (Houzhu of Chen) took power. He was licentious and wasteful, resulting in ... |
Bogd Khan | ... ence from the Chinese Republic in 1912, the Mongolian government around the | stressed that both Mongolia and China had been administered by the Manchus ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... ffluent Teton and college county Albany. In the 2004 presidential election, | won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice Presiden ... |
Governor of the Cayman Islands | ... e to discharge his duties or is absent from the Cayman Islands. The current | is His Excellency Duncan Taylor, CBE, and the current Deputy Governor is F ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... ord that was named after a newspaper published by the Russian revolutionary | |
Hugo Stinnes | The strike prevented some goods from being produced, but one industrialist, | , was able to create a vast empire out of bankrupt companies. Because the ... |
Warren G. Harding | Upon the death of President | in 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, John Cal ... |
Winston Churchill | ... y the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving | and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leade ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | After | (March 26, 2003) mentioned Warsaw's contribution prominently in a speech, ... |
Emanuel Celler | ... ommittee met in July 1957. The chairman of the subcommittee, Representative | of New York, argued that the NFL draft was illegal and should be abolished ... |
Catiline | ... ro delivered his famous speech denouncing the companions of the conspirator | at the Forum (in the Temple of Concord, whose spacious hall was sometimes ... |
Charles Martel | ... Europe in 711. So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord | , which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, ... |
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 ... |
Bob Corker | ... n primary for his Senate seat. He campaigned heavily for Republican nominee | , who won by a small margin over Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. in the gener ... |
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 ... |
Edward Vrdolyak | ... date of the newly created Harold Washington Party, and Republican candidate | , a former Democrat who had antagonized Washington on the city council whi ... |
Member of Parliament | ... nssexual mayor, and in 1999 she became the world's first openly transsexual | |
Wangari Maathai | ... ding the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmentalist | |
William Clark | ... ith the Missouri. However, when the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and | charted the vast, unmapped lands of the American West in their overland ex ... |
Sergei Witte | ... s-Siberian Railway began in 1891 and was put into execution and overseen by | , who was then Finance Minister |
Mitt Romney | ... '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. | , former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential Candid ... |
Rosa Luxemburg | At the end of the 19th century, Marxists and other socialists (such as | ) produced political analysis that were critical of the nationalist moveme ... |
Brigham Young | The town of Kanosh dates back to April 28, 1867 when | , with the approval of Chief Kanosh, advised the pioneers to move from Pet ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... nd the News with Howard K. Smith. Broadcasts included a two-part program on | , the St. Lawrence Seaway, Fidel Castro in Cuba, and unemployment problems ... |
John Archdale | ... r of the United Kingdom, who has an official residence at Chequers. Finally | colonial governor of North Carolina and , although more notably American, ... |
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, ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... arrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South since | in 1848 |
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 ... |
Jiang Zemin | President | and Premier Zhu Rongji, both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in ... |
William Kieft | ... ector of the Dutch West India Company, and the predecessor of then-Director | , Minuit knew the status of the lands on either side of the Delaware River ... |
Jean-Luc Dehaene | ... greement over Claude Cheysson, Santer was a compromise after Britain vetoes | and Prodi was backed by a coalition of thirteen states against the Franco- ... |
Lawrence Summers | ... sicist Lisa Randall, appointed to a task force at Harvard by then-president | after his controversial discussion of why women may be underrepresented in ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, | and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. ... |
C. Scott Vanderhoef | ... wrence. The village is represented in county government by County Executive | and Legislators Alden Wolfe and Joseph Meyers |
Governor of Massachusetts | ... States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. Mitt Romney, former | and 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate, class of 1971 |
Arthur St. Clair | ... county seat is Osceola. The county was organized in 1841 and named for Gen. | , governor of the Northwest Territory. St. Clair was also the 9th Presiden ... |
Woodrow Wilson | In 1918, U.S. President | addressed the issue as Point 8 in his Fourteen Points speech |
John McCain | ... or his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, Barack Obama and | , were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said that Stevens ne ... |
Susan Collins | ... rently the independent governor of Rhode Island. Senators Olympia Snowe and | , both of Maine, and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts are notable mode ... |
James J. Davis | ... hrough the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. Along with James Wilson and | , he is one of only three Cabinet members to serve under three consecutive ... |
Herman Willem Daendels | ... ench conscripts with little proper leadership. The previous Dutch governor, | , had built a well-defended fortification at Meester Cornelis (now Jatineg ... |
Engelbert Dollfuss | ... erman plans to annex Austria after the assassination of Austrian Chancellor | , and promised the Austrians military support if Germany were to interfere ... |
Aneurin Bevan | ... . In this period, with the encouragement of his friend the Welsh politician | , Robeson recorded a number of radio concerts for supporters in Wales |
Jon Kyl | In September 2006, working with Arizona Senator | , Frist was a major Senate supporter of H.R. 4411 — the Unlawful Internet ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving Winston Churchill and | . Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leaders of the Jewish undergro ... |
Gao Jiong | ... eat the Chen dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui took the suggestion of his general | and waited until the South were harvesting their crops to entirely burn th ... |
Adolf Hitler | Mussolini and | first met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisi ... |
John Barrasso | ... ay, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, Mike Enzi and | , and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Cynthi ... |
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 ... |
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani | In February 1972, the Heir Apparent, Sheikh | , deposed his cousin, Ahmed bin Ali Al Thani, and assumed power. Key membe ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... concrete in 1938, but demolished in 1969 to make way for the current pool. | and Thomas Edison both traveled through Sylva, Edison in 1911 and FDR in 1 ... |
Hou Yuon | ... onomics and politics during his time in Paris. In talent he was rivalled by | , born in 1930, who was described as being "of truly astounding physical a ... |
Zhu Rongji | President Jiang Zemin and Premier | , both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in the 1990s. Under Jiang ... |
Jeremiah Denton | ... nd that the worst that especially resistant prisoners such as Stockdale and | encountered was being confined to small cells. Tran Trong Duyet, a jailer ... |
Rafael del Riego | ... of the typical dance "The dance of majordomos" from Benasque was enjoyed by | when he was in Benasque so he ordered to copy it and as a result the "himn ... |
George W. Bush | ... ated to serve". The leader for the Republican nomination was Texas Governor | , who had the political and financial support of most of the party establi ... |
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria | ... authority in Bavaria; but three alone left issue, and of these the eldest, | , also margrave of Brandenburg and count of Tyrol, died in 1361; followed ... |
Benjamin Franklin | In American history important spokesmen included | , Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and John ... |
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 ... |
Ellen Jaffee | ... e government, it is represented by Senator David Carlucci and Assemblywomen | and Annie Rabbitt. Suffern falls within the borders of the town of Ramapo, ... |
Colonel Benjamin Cleveland | ... amed after General Benjamin Cleveland, a War of 1812 figure and grandson of | , a Revolutionary War figure. It is also home to a large manufacturing loc ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Otway Burns | ... from land conveyed by John "Yellow Jacket" Bailey, and named after Captain | , a naval hero of the War of 1812. In 1909 a statue of Captain Burns was g ... |
Inky Mark | ... ebellious MPs rejoined the Alliance party. Two MPs did not rejoin, however: | chose to remain outside of caucus, and eventually joined the Tories, and t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... d Alexandra after Olivier recommended him for the part. He also appeared in | 's version of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a young ... |
Concino Concini | Beginning in 1615, Marie came to rely increasingly on | , who assumed the role of her favourite. Concini was widely unpopular beca ... |
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 ... |
Governor | ... rry S. Truman decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated | Adlai Stevenson II of Illinois; Stevenson had gained a reputation in Illin ... |
Federico Peña | ... tion. The first Hispanic to serve as Energy Secretary was Clinton's second, | . Steven Chu became the first Asian American to hold the position on Janua ... |
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 ... |
Pol Pot | ... l from 1968 until 1975, and established the regime of Democratic Kampuchea. | , who rose to the leadership of the communist movement in the 1960s, was b ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... nd God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater are sprinkled with these plot descriptions. | 's later books (The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls a ... |
Aaron Burr | ... epublican Party again nominated Jefferson for President, and also nominated | for Vice President. After the election, Jefferson and Burr both obtained a ... |
Fitzhugh Lee | ... h the Lee family, seeing them socially on frequent occasions. Lee's nephew, | , also arrived at the academy in 1852. In Stuart's final year, in addition ... |
Lord Curzon | Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by | to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged a boycott, regarded a ... |
Ian Smith | ... nda immediately after Idi Amin's departure, but not Zimbabwe Rhodesia after | 's. Helms hosted Muzorewa when he visited Washington and met with Carter i ... |
Joseph McCarthy | On the domestic front, he covertly opposed | but contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking the modern ex ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tou Samouth | During the mid-1950s, KPRP factions, the "urban committee" (headed by | ), and the "rural committee" (headed by Sieu Heng), emerged. In very gener ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... census. The city is the county seat of Heard County. The town is named for | |
Marcus Garvey | ... inity, and tutored students in philosophy. Nkrumah encountered the ideas of | and in 1943 met and began a lengthy correspondence with Trinidadian Marxis ... |
Winston Churchill | ... h parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, | and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Sha ... |
Joe Higgins | In Ireland, in the 2009 European election, | of the Socialist Party took one of three seats in the capital Dublin Europ ... |
Paul Kruger | ... e of 20, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship to South Africa to rescue | , the embattled President of the Transvaal |
Dudley Mays Hughes | The city was named for Senator | |
Lady Jane Grey | ... elder half-sister Mary to succeed, and therefore drew up a will designating | as his heiress. Jane's reign however lasted only nine days; with tremendou ... |
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 ... |
Meriwether Lewis | ... zed in 1833 and named for explorer and governor of the Louisiana Territory, | |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
Brian P. Stack | ... to what had historically been a town unfriendly to them, according to Mayor | . Through approval of varied construction projects to address the needs of ... |
Lady Jane Grey | In early 1548, Catherine invited Lady Elizabeth and her cousin, | to stay in the couple's household at Sudeley. The Dowager Queen promised t ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... n Micheler writes:In a speech at Berlin's Deutschlandhalle on May 30, 1937, | stated in front of 25,000 people that the "criminal aberrations of the Cat ... |
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" ... |
Race Mathews | ... mentation in the form of local cooperatives has recently been documented by | in his 1999 book Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society |
Dmitri Shostakovich | ... re's glory", where he also quoted the opening phrase of "Rule, Britannia!". | quoted "La Marseillaise" at some length during the fifth reel of the film ... |
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 ... |
Steven Chu | ... Hispanic to serve as Energy Secretary was Clinton's second, Federico Peña. | became the first Asian American to hold the position on January 20, 2009, ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ercion by the paramilitary Blackshirts under the regime of Italian dictator | . Dissidents and regime opponents were forced to ingest the oil in large a ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... e first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was Joseph Bell who | has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observa ... |
Omali Yeshitela | ... because he considered it an insult to a uniquely African-American culture. | urged Africans to remember the history of violent European colonization an ... |
Robert Butkin | ... niversity) and Rodney K. Smith (President of Southern Virginia University), | (Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law), William Schnader (drafte ... |
Federico Brito Figueroa | Proponents of such theories include | a Venezuelan historian who has written widely on the socioeconomic underpi ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rate strong public support for public ownership of dams. In 1933, President | signed a bill that enabled the construction of the Bonneville and Grand Co ... |
Thomas Dudley | ... as well. Anthony à Wood mentions both Malvern and Langland as author names. | , father of Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612–72), brought a copy of Crowley's ... |
Waldeck Rochet | ... d him notoriety within the PCF and he was attacked by its secretary-general | . As a philosopher, he was treading another path, which would later lead h ... |
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. ... |
Pieter Jelles Troelstra | ... e war, spurred by the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Socialist leader | wanted to abolish the existing government and the monarchy. Instead of a v ... |
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 ... |
Shane Gibson | ... as granted permanent resident status in the Bahamas by Immigration Minister | . On February 11, 2007, newspaper photographs were published showing Smith ... |
William McKinley | ... veral soldiers died during the quarantine, prompting a visit from President | |
Funsho Williams | The first phase of the Lagos BRT runs 12 miles through Ikorodu Road and | Avenue up to CMS. After weeks of test runs, operations started on March 17 ... |
Ieng Sary | ... term that later came to signify the party and the state headed by Pol Pot, | , Khieu Samphan, and their associates |
Governor of New York | ... ies—some serious, as police passively looked on. Under public pressure, the | Thomas Dewey called a grand jury which promptly concluded the riots were a ... |
Jon Corzine | ... , Republican Chris Christie carried the county with 60%. Incumbent Democrat | received 31%, and Independent Chris Daggett received 8% |
Adolf Hitler | ... ayments to the victorious allies, and the controversial "War Guilt Clause". | later blamed the republic and its democracy for the oppressive terms of th ... |
Benedetto Croce | ... d art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another. | and R.G. Collingwood advanced the idealist view that art expresses emotion ... |
Thomas Menino | ... illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor | and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg |
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) |
Clarence Dill | ... ributed to the efforts of Oregon Senator Charles McNary, Washington Senator | , and Oregon Congressman Charles Martin, among others |
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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester | ... This collection continued to grow steadily, but when, between 1435 and 1437 | (brother of Henry V of England), donated a great collection of manuscripts ... |
George W. Bush | ... Democrat John Kerry received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republican | received 16.7%. The borough is the most important source of funding for pr ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve was established by | in a presidential proclamation of 20 August 1902. Another presidential pro ... |
James Larkin | ... ipation 60 years earlier. On his return to Ireland he was right hand man to | in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. He stood twice for the W ... |
Barack Obama | President | established a new position in the White House, the Assistant to the Presid ... |
Edmund Burke | ... thought influenced the political (and aesthetic) thinking of Immanuel Kant, | and others and led to a critical review of modernist politics. On the cons ... |
William M. Daley | Mayor Daley is brother to | , former White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of ... |
Khieu Samphan | ... later came to signify the party and the state headed by Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, | , and their associates |
Richard Nixon | ... privilege. He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, | . He was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies, expanded ... |
Chris Christie | In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican | carried the county with 60%. Incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine received 31%, ... |
Charlie Dent | ... rt of Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, represented by Republican | , elected in 2004 |
Gert Bastian | ... dead in Bonn while sleeping by her partner, ex-general and Green politician | (born 1923), who then killed himself. She was 44, he was 69. Her body was ... |
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 ... |
President McKinley | ... l equipment and is still a going concern. In 1900 Spalding was appointed by | as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games. In 1905, af ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... River. Black Hawk rejected the messages advising him to turn back. Colonel | , a regular army officer who served under Atkinson, later stated that Atki ... |
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 |
Savary | The luring plan did not stop at that. On November 25, general | was sent to the Allied headquarters at Olmutz in order to secretly examine ... |
Brandenburg | ... he Crown of Poland. It was inherited by the Hohenzollern prince-electors of | in 1618; this personal union is referred to as Brandenburg-Prussia. Freder ... |
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 Hancock | ... to revolution in which Madeira played a key role was the British seizure of | ’s sloop the Liberty on May 9, 1768. Hancock's boat was seized after he ha ... |
John McCain | ... rrying the state by 6.7% over Bush. In the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by an 8.1% margin over , with Obama carrying the state ... |
Michael Bloomberg | ... alition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York City Mayor | |
Nicholas Bye | ... rst directly elected mayor in the South West region, Conservative candidate | becoming the first mayor elected under this system in October 2005, under ... |
Shah of Iran | ... f a dozen royal families for Mardas, and had close contact with the deposed | , who had moved to Mexico. The Shah was one of the first customers for the ... |
Dominic Olejniczak | ... laced at Bell's funeral ceremony was one presented by members of the NFLPA. | , president of the Packers, and the 11 owners of the NFL were honorary pal ... |
Barack Obama | ... hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under the administration of | . He is also the first and only Nobel Prize winner to be a Cabinet secreta ... |
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 ... |
Thurgood Marshall | ... hers are Harry Andrew Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, | , Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Ju ... |
Friedrich Ebert | ... s of this treaty. The Republic's first Reichspräsident ("Reich President"), | of the SPD, signed the new German constitution into law on 11 August 1919 |
Jules Mazarin | ... s the real ruler of France. Richelieu was so successful that his successor, | , was also a cardinal. Guillaume Dubois and André-Hercule de Fleury comple ... |
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 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... American War. The most prominent of the returning quarantined soldiers were | and his Rough Riders. Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompti ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... umbents publicly outshine the actual head of state; former governor general | alluded to what she saw as "an unspoken rivalry" that had developed betwee ... |
Nelson Rockefeller | ... s to the 1970s under such leaders as Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, | , and Richard Nixon, they usually dominated the presidential wing of the p ... |
Sabino Arana | ... 900. Social movements also occurred, specially the Basque nationalism under | |
Jason Crowell | ... t of Missouri's 27th District and is currently represented by State Senator | (R-Cape Girardeau). Crowell defeated (D-Jackson) by almost a two-to-one ma ... |
Daniel Webster | ... on Henry Clay was welcomed on his visit to the New York State Fair in 1849. | , General Winfield Scott, Louis Kossuth, John Brown, Stephen A. Douglas, a ... |
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 ... |
Nearchus | ... was referred to by the Greeks as "Tylos", the centre of pearl trading, when | discovered it while serving under Alexander the Great. From the 3rd centur ... |
Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse | In 1229, she was responsible for the Treaty of Paris, in which | , submitted to Louis. By it his daughter and heir Joan was forced to marry ... |
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 ... |
California Governor | ... tor Henry M. Jackson of Washington, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and | Jerry Brown, as the favorites for the nomination. However, in the wake of ... |
Ernest O. Thompson | Texas Railroad Commissioner | , who also served as a mayor of Amarillo and became an expert on petroleum ... |
Pauline Green | ... cess, against the spirit of consultation that the new EU treaty brought in. | MEP, leader of the Socialist group, stated that her group thought "Parliam ... |
Richard M. Johnson | ... med 13 December 1834 from Lafayette County and was named for Vice President | |
Oscar Zeta Acosta | ... nt writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, | , John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto ... |
Duke of York and Albany | ... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English | , the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ... |
Garry Kasparov | ... . Former World Champions Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, and | analyzed the match for their own benefit and concluded that Euwe deserved ... |
Kim Dae-jung | In response to the summit between Kim Jong-il and | in 2000, North and South Korea agreed in August 2000 to reconnect the sect ... |
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 ... |
John P. Daley | ... and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton | ;, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners who also serve ... |
Fred Harris | Image:FredRoyHarris.jpg|Former Senator | of Oklahom |
Russ Feingold | ... nature issue. Starting in 1994, he worked with Democratic Wisconsin Senator | on campaign finance reform; their McCain-Feingold bill attempted to put li ... |
Richard Nixon | President | first considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ... |
George W. Bush | ... Jersey's more Republican counties. In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 15.8% margin over John Kerry, with Kerry carrying ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Harry Thuku | ... st African political protest movement, the Young Kikuyu Association, led by | . After the Young Kikuyu Association was banned by the government, it was ... |
Governor | Image:Jerry Brown in 1978 crop.jpg| | Jerry Brown of Californi |
Richard Nixon | File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President | doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the W ... |
Emanuel Celler | Representative | , Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, respo ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... leased on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from | , though the offer was ultimately rejected |
Pervez Musharraf | ... s in the Kargil district led to the Kargil War of 1999, after which General | took over through a bloodless coup d'état and assumed vast executive power ... |
Melina Mercouri | Notable Greek actors include Marika Kotopouli, | , Ellie Lambeti, Academy Award winner Katina Paxinou, Dimitris Horn, Manos ... |
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 ... |
Arnaud Montebourg | ... e Paris region. Many famous French people like Edith Piaf, Isabelle Adjani, | , Alain Bashung, and many others have Maghrebi ancestry |
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 ... |
Jelleke Veenendaal | ... ship run-off Mark Rutte was elected as the leader, beating Rita Verdonk and | |
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart | ... rm in the United States House of Representatives. Archibald was a cousin of | . Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, Jeb's mother, who was known as a stric ... |
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 ... |
Lord Castlereagh | ... toration, but he was eventually brought around by British Foreign Secretary | to the last position. Napoleon abdicated on April 3, 1814, and Louis XVIII ... |
John J. Murphy | ... ctor Douglas R. Cabana, Gene F. Feyl, Ann F. Grossi, Thomas J. Mastrangelo, | and Hank Lyon |
Sir William Harpur | ... four private schools run by the Harpur Trust charity, endowed by Bedfordian | in the sixteenth century. These are |
P. T. Barnum | ... ld Stage Line in 1858. Established in 1853, the Martin Hotel was visited by | and Jesse James. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 197 ... |
Gerry St. Germain | ... asurer (finance minister) of Alberta. One Progressive Conservative senator, | , joined the new party in October 2000, becoming the Alliance's only membe ... |
Olivier Besancenot | ... tionary Communist League (LCR) candidate in the 2007 presidential election, | , received 1,498,581 votes, 4.08%, double that of the Communist candidate. ... |
Cherie Blair | ... appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, taking over from | , and installed in 2008 |
Jayaprakash Narayan | Noted Gandhian leader and the leader of Sarvoday movement, | , who earlier was a vocal opponent of RSS had the following to say about i ... |
Rita Verdonk | ... uent party leadership run-off Mark Rutte was elected as the leader, beating | and Jelleke Veenendaal |
Ernest Bevin | On February 14, 1947, | announced that the Jews and Arabs would not be able to agree on any Britis ... |
Son Ngoc Minh | Its leader was | , and a third of its leadership consisted of members of the ICP. According ... |
Governor General | ... n June 30, 2011, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011 by | David Johnston |
Mark Begich | Nonetheless, during a debate with his opponent | days after his conviction, Stevens continued to claim innocence. "I have n ... |
Gordon Brown | ... nal one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating Tony Blair, | and various other government figures. In the 1990s he became a semi-regula ... |
Robert D. Ray | ... r and child were sent to a lab for study instead. Pearson protested to Gov. | , finally gaining an audience with him after sitting outside his office in ... |
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 ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... umerism on society has often been fiercely criticized by intellectuals like | and film directors like Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola, that ... |
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 ... |
James K. Polk | ... legislature acted to create the county, they named it for another grandson, | , who was the Speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress at the time, and l ... |
Ahmed bin Muhammed | ... arah became moot in 1878, however, when Jassim bin Mohammed and his brother | destroyed the town as punishment for the piracy of the Naim, a tribe that ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... on County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of | , general in the United States Army and President of the United States of ... |
Ralph Nader | ... the Warren and Burger Courts, which shaped the law in the 1960s and 1970s. | has stated that Scalia's claim to an originalist philosophy is inconsisten ... |
Jim DeMint | On November 13, Senator | of South Carolina announced he would move to have Stevens expelled from th ... |
Sverdlov | ... next visit to Moscow took place after the fall of Ekaterinburg. Talking to | I asked in passing, "Oh yes, and where is the tsar?" "It's all over," he a ... |
John P. Daley | ... atic committeeman, a party post, until succeeded in the post by his brother | in 1980. With John P. Daley holding the post from 1980 to the present, a D ... |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... dison still won the Presidency by a comfortable margin. Madison, along with | , are the only US Presidents to win re-election with a lower percentage of ... |
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 ... |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | ... " producing only the "lowest common denominator"; while Green-EFA co-leader | asked Barroso after his first speech "If you are the best candidate, why w ... |
Mark Rutte | ... parliamentary leader ad interim. In the subsequent party leadership run-off | was elected as the leader, beating Rita Verdonk and Jelleke Veenendaal |
Harry Thuku | ... yu Association" (renamed the "East African Association") started in 1921 by | (1895–1970), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocate ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... stinguished Flying Cross, and he was awarded the Harmon Trophy by President | |
Richard Nixon | ... al times by others), as well as numerous territories and trust possessions. | confidant Robert Abplanalp was a notary for many years, as were Fawn Hall, ... |
Galba | ... C). The Forum was witness to the assassination of a Roman Emperor in 69 AD: | had set out from the palace to meet rebels, but was so feeble that he had ... |
mayor | With Arsenio Lacson becoming the first elected | in 1952 (all mayors were appointed prior to this), the City of Manila unde ... |
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 ... |
Concino Concini | ... her and support the rebels. Louis staged a palace coup d'état. As a result, | was assassinated (24 April 1617), his widow, Leonora Dori Galigaï, was tri ... |
Earl Warren | ... liver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice | ,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Justice ... |
Richard Nixon | ... rred during the 91st Congress. The presidential election of 1968 ended with | receiving 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had onl ... |
George W. Joseph | ... ong the Columbia. But the overwhelming victories of gubernatorial candidate | in the 1930 Oregon Republican Party primary, and later his law partner Jul ... |
Douglas MacArthur | ... s regarded Port Moresby as a key base for a planned counteroffensive, under | , against Japanese forces in the southwest Pacific area. Nimitz's staff al ... |
Bill Clinton | ... Luxembourg; Hormel eventually received a recess appointment from President | , bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination of ... |
Archibald Stuart | ... of Guilford Court House during the American Revolutionary War. His father, | , was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, attorney, and politician who rep ... |
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 ... |
Hannibal | ... expansion into Greece itself. Encouraged by the exiled Carthaginian general | , and making an alliance with the disgruntled Aetolian League, Antiochus l ... |
Armando Guebuza | ... bility and maintaining a local staff. After contacting Mozambican president | to verify that the Mozambican government had no objections, the couple dec ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... inst his staging a violent event, and he negotiated an agreement with Mayor | to cancel a march in order to avoid the violence that he feared would resu ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... l of multiple causality in political situations (an idea closely related to | 's concept of ) |
William Henry Harrison | ... buy as much Native American land as possible. In 1804, territorial governor | negotiated a treaty in St. Louis in which a group of Sauk and Meskwaki lea ... |
Mark Begich | ... display of memorabilia of his wartime service in China-Burma-India. Senator | stated, "Over his four decades of public service in the U.S. Senate, Senat ... |
Newt Gingrich | On January 26, 2012, Dole issued a letter critical of | , focusing on Dole's and Gingrich's time working together on Capitol Hill. ... |
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 ... |
Jia Yi | The famous Han poet and statesman | concluded his essay The Faults of Qin (過秦論) with what was to become the st ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir | also had residences here in this era. It was at this time that Mitcham bec ... |
Woodes Rogers | ... , the British sought to regain control of the islands and appointed Captain | as Royal governor. He successfully clamped down on the pirates, reformed t ... |
Alexander Pechtold | ... s about the project and the prince's position in relation to it. Politician | questioned the morality of building such a resort in a poor country like M ... |
Jacques Delors | The Presidential system had started to develop since | and has since been cemented, a strong President with competent mandarins i ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from | , he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ... |
Menachem Begin | ... tions into the IDF started. On June 1, an agreement had been signed Between | and Yisrael Galili for the absorption of the Irgun into the IDF. One of th ... |
H. H. Kung | ... ie Soong, father of the Shanghai-born Soong sisters: Soong Ai-ling, wife of | (once China's richest man); Soong Ching-ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soo ... |
Josiah Bartlet | ... 006), his role as The Illusive Man in the Mass Effect trilogy and President | in the television series The West Wing |
Fannie Lou Hamer | ... made the bus trip to Atlantic City, they voted it down. As MFDP Vice Chair | said, "We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than w ... |
Kenneth Kaunda | ... ns were already socialists. Other African socialists include Jomo Kenyatta, | , and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism and called for a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Birch Bayh | Image:Birch bayh.jpg|Senator | of Indian |
Benjamin Franklin | | attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia and was greatly impressed with ... |
Lord Castlereagh's | He was appointed ambassador to France, then took | place as first plenipotentiary to the Congress of Vienna, where he strongl ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... rought more attention to Corneille. He was selected to write verses for the | ’s visit to Rouen. The Cardinal took notice of Corneille and selected him ... |
Benito Juárez | ... certain national holidays, such as Natalicio de Benito Juárez (birthdate of | ) and Día de la Revolución, which are meant to be dry nationally. The same ... |
Lloyd Bentsen | Image:Lloyd Bentsen, bw photo as senator.jpg|Senator | of Texa |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... Yalta resting, working with a documentary film crew and spending time with | . Robeson also visited Young Pioneer camp Artek before returning to the UK |
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky | ... the Amur River, and consequently, to the Pacific Ocean. Siberia's governor, | , was anxious to advance the colonisation of the Russian Far East, but his ... |
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 ... |
Harry S. Truman | Unpopular incumbent President | decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adl ... |
Paul G. Kirk | ... idential campaign succeed.) The law was amended, and on September 24, 2009, | , former Democratic National Committee chairman, and former aide to Kenned ... |
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 ... |
Terry Sanford | Image:Terry Sanford.jpg|Former Governor | of North Carolin |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President | |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Elmer Thomas | ... mas Gore, US Representatives: Scott Ferris, L. M. Gensman, Toby Morris, and | . Other politicians include Democratic State Senator Randy Bass and former ... |
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 ... |
Randy Bass | ... orris, and Elmer Thomas. Other politicians include Democratic State Senator | and former US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Julian Niemczyk |
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 ... |
Philip the Good | ... chiermonnikoog in writing dates from October 1440, in a document written by | |
President pro tempore of the Senate | ... The sitting Vice President is expected to preside, but in several cases the | has chaired the proceedings instead. The Vice President and the Speaker of ... |
John Key | | | |National Part |
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) |
Vlerick, André | ... commissie - Vlaamse Volksbeweging - Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (VLD) - | - Vleteren - VLOTT - Voeren - Vorselaar - Vorst (Forest) - Vosselaa |
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 ... |
Lisa Murkowski | ... spectrum spoke highly of the man many Alaskans knew as "Uncle Ted." Senator | said of Stevens: "His entire life was dedicated to public service—from his ... |
Horace Mann | ... State University, an institution founded by the renowned education reformer | . It was the first institution in the country to admit people regardless o ... |
John McCain | ... or bills with him". In May 2008, soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee | said, "[Kennedy] is a legendary lawmaker and I have the highest respect fo ... |
Zebulon Baird Vance | ... n. Captain Oscar R. Rand recruited willing men of all ages to join Governor | 's 26th Infantry Regiment in the Confederate States Army. On a single day ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... d Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (he was passed later in 2009 by | ) |
Barack Obama | ... John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the 2009 inauguration ceremony for | , along with Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... d generous partner." Republican Governor of California and Kennedy relative | described "Uncle Teddy" as "a liberal icon, a warrior for the less fortuna ... |
Joseph Gallieni | ... ars until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under | . During that time, insurrections against the Malagasy Christians of the i ... |
Gordon Brown | ... that he had managed to get through to Margaret Beckett whilst impersonating | , with her revealing "embarrassing indiscretions" |
Governor of California | ... ed together, he has been a skillful, fair and generous partner." Republican | and Kennedy relative Arnold Schwarzenegger described "Uncle Teddy" as "a l ... |
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 ... |
Tom Daschle | In 2007, Dole joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, | , and George Mitchell to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit ... |
Aldo Moro | ... movements. The assassination of the leader of the Christian Democracy (DC), | , led to the end of a "historic compromise" between the DC and the Communi ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... y as a reliable "bogeyman" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par with | and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Th ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... al of the diadochic Ptolemaic Kingdom under Alexander's immediate successor | |
Andrei Zhdanov | ... ber 1941 he commanded Leningrad Front. Working alongside military commander | as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerab ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... ary Rodham Clinton and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning | . The famous racially motivated "Hands" negative ad used in North Carolina ... |
Michael Howard | On 3 May 2005, Bremner dressed up as | and walked along the campaign trail in the marginal seat of Wellingborough ... |
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 ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
Soong Ching-ling | ... Soong sisters: Soong Ai-ling, wife of H. H. Kung (once China's richest man) | ;, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President C ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... oquent orator. The Republican Party countered with popular war hero General | and won in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control ... |
Donna Shalala | That same year, President George W. Bush appointed Dole and | co-chairs of a commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medi ... |
Lon Nol | ... uation created by the removal of Sihanouk as head of state in 1970. Premier | , with the support of the National Assembly, deposed Sihanouk. Sihanouk, i ... |
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 ... |
Miguel Alemán Valdés | ... ommercial wharf and warehouses has been built. In the early 1950s President | upgraded the port’s infrastructure, installing electrical lines, drainage ... |
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 ... |
August Bebel | ... socialist ideology for being insufficiently concerned about womens' rights. | , an early activist of the German Social Democratic Party, published his w ... |
Jimmy Carter | The surprise winner of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination was | , a former state senator and governor of Georgia. When the primaries began ... |
Marcus Garvey | ... Makonnen), which emerged in Jamaica during the 1930s under the influence of | 's "Pan Africanism" movement. He is viewed as the messiah who will lead th ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... cted deputies while the Duma declared a Provisional Government on 13 March. | was a key player in the new regime. The Duma informed the tsar that day th ... |
Harvey Gantt | ... d in North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms's 1990 re-election campaign against | accused Gantt of supporting "Ted Kennedy's racial quota law". University o ... |
Winston Churchill | ... nrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister | and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The m ... |
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 ... |
Manuel Víctor Domenech | ... itectural style later dubbed Ponce Creole. Architects like Francisco Valls, | , Eduardo Salich, Blas Silva Boucher, Agustín Camilo González, Alfredo Wie ... |
Bill Clinton | ... million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President | ’s climate change initiative |
John F. Kennedy | ... 558. Russell Cave was declared a National Monument in May 1961 by President | . The Monument consists of of land donated by the National Geographic Soci ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... r Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, | , William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-app ... |
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 ... |
Louis XVIII of France | ... , lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King | lived in exile at from 1809 to 1814 |
Howard Baker | In 2007, Dole joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders | , Tom Daschle, and George Mitchell to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, ... |
Benjamin Gitlow | ... e a matter of speculation, but years after abandoning Communism, his friend | asserted that the treatment Reed received from Zinoviev filled Reed with b ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Gore | Politicians from Comanche County include: US Senator | , US Representatives: Scott Ferris, L. M. Gensman, Toby Morris, and Elmer ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of | , he stayed on the job. ... It is doubtful any individual has ever given m ... |
Hannibal | ... ist of 289, after comparing his actions to Scipio Africanus' victories over | during the Second Punic War, suggested that Maximian has never heard of th ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... tigate mesmerism; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by | , included Bailly and Lavoisier. The commissioners learned about Mesmeric ... |
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 ... |
Paul Wolfowitz | ... Bush nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed | as President of the World Bank Group. The Executive Directors unanimously ... |
Daniel Webster | ... 0,253. Its county seat is Walthall. Webster County is named after statesman | |
Giovanni Spadolini | ... e 1980s, for the first time, two governments were managed by a republican ( | 1981-82) and a socialist (Bettino Craxi 1983-87) rather than by a Christia ... |
Henry M. Jackson | ... tical pundits regarded a number of better-known candidates, such as Senator | of Washington, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and California Governor ... |
Choe Bu | ... n the Grand Canal and away from the main delta. Even the shipwrecked Korean | (1454–1504)—while traveling for five months throughout China in 1488—ackno ... |
General Wesley Clark | ... he mistake on his May 31, 2011 show. Both times he was interviewing retired | |
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 ... |
Gerrit Smith | ... center for the abolitionist movement, due in large part to the influence of | and a group allied with him, mostly associated with the Unitarian Church a ... |
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba | ... as a member of the converso family of Pacheco, together with his brother D. | ("El Gran Capitán"), and a troop of soldiers, hastened to protect the New ... |
Member of Parliament | ... d in the 1970 general election for the Eton and Slough seat before becoming | for Blaby in Leicestershire in February 1974, a position he held until ret ... |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... s cause was the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) insurgency. In 1984, President | announced that 46% of the Ethiopian Gross National Product would be alloca ... |
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 ... |
Abel Muzorewa | ... support for the Internal Settlement government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, under | , and campaigned along with Samuel Hayakawa for the immediate lifting of s ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... er Winston Churchill and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of | . The main point of the proposal was that Germany would only surrender to ... |
Marcus Garvey | ... Pan-Africanism. He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals like | , W. E. B. Du Bois, and George Padmore, and his relationships with them. N ... |
Garry Kasparov | ... ned the title under the auspices of FIDE, while Vladimir Kramnik had beaten | to take the Einstein title. It called for one match between Ponomariov and ... |
Lev Kamenev | ... othes were in tatters. While in Moscow, he took her to meet Lenin, Trotsky, | , and other leading Bolsheviks and also to visit Moscow's ballet and art g ... |
Aneurin Bevan | ... e visited the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale as the guest of the local MP | , revisited his ties to the black community in Cardiff's Butetown and gave ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... 56. Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the death of | , and 64 when elected President in 1948 |
Nellie Tayloe Ross | ... . Also, in 1924, Wyoming became the first state to elect a female governor, | , who took office in January 1925. (In fact, Wyoming and Texas both electe ... |
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 ... |
Bettino Craxi | ... were managed by a republican (Giovanni Spadolini 1981-82) and a socialist ( | 1983-87) rather than by a Christian-democrat |
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 ... |
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin | ... f France appointed two commissions to investigate mesmerism; one was led by | , the other, led by Benjamin Franklin, included Bailly and Lavoisier. The ... |
Gouverneur Morris | ... philosophy include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, | , and Hugh Williamson. Their political speeches show distinct deistic infl ... |
Francis Marion | ... bia. Marion County is named for American Revolutionary War guerrilla leader | |
Keynesian | ... trade policy of the United States and Britain during the 19th Century, with | stimulus policies |
Zog of Albania | ... while Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King | lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile a ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of | (the 26th US President) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... lotic elite. The KAU remained dominated by the Kikuyu ethnic group. In 1947 | , the former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... hly enough to be recorded for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony conducted by | (in Carnegie Hall in 1945, with the composer present). The earlier Mississ ... |
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 ... |
Enrico Berlinguer | ... he end of the Lead years, the PCI gradually increased their votes thanks to | . The Socialist party (PSI), led by Bettino Craxi, became more and more cr ... |
Arthur Grimble | Sir | wrote about his time working in the British colonial service in Kiribati ( ... |
Richard M. Johnson | ... , "[I]f a majority of the number of Senators shall vote for either the said | or Francis Granger, he shall be declared by the presiding officer of the S ... |
Ibrahim Pasha | ... oman Sultan negotiated with Mehmet Ali of Egypt, who agreed to send his son | to Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial ga ... |
William Wentworth | ... , play a role in Whitlam's downfall) a "bumptious bastard", and stated that | exhibited a "hereditary streak of insanity". After he stated that future P ... |
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 ... |
Bettino Craxi | ... their votes thanks to Enrico Berlinguer. The Socialist party (PSI), led by | , became more and more critical of the communists and of the Soviet Union; ... |
Amitabh Bachchan | ... d cinema of India, this was epitomized by the movies of Bollywood superhero | . Another Asian touchstone beginning in the early 1970s was Hong Kong mart ... |
Verlooy, Jan-Baptist | ... aeren - Verhofstadt, Dirk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - | - Vesalius, Andreas - Veurne - Vieille Montagne - Vink, Karel - Visa requi ... |
Jerry Brown | ... of Washington, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and California Governor | , as the favorites for the nomination. However, in the wake of the Waterga ... |
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 ... |
Melina Mercouri | ... some gained international acclaim: Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, | , Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, El ... |
George W. Bush | On 30 May 2007, US President | nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed Paul ... |
Aurelius Victor | ... as an appealing candidate for imperial office. The fourth-century historian | described Maximian as "a colleague trustworthy in friendship, if somewhat ... |
Carlos Reutemann | ... udovico Scarfiotti, Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti, Clay Regazzoni, Niki Lauda, | , Jody Scheckter, Gilles Villeneuve, Didier Pironi, Patrick Tambay, René A ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... lov followed this by smashing a platter of roast suckling pig on the table. | said it was the only time he ever witnessed such an outburst. Voroshilov s ... |
Estes Kefauver | File:SenatorKefauver(D-TN).jpg|Senator | of Tennesse |
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 ... |
Nicéphore Soglo | ... onent at the presidential poll, and the ultimate victor, was Prime Minister | . Supporters of Soglo also secured a majority in the National Assembly |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ... rganized on January 2, 1833 from part of Ray County, Missouri and named for | , a signer of the |
David Holmes | ... Mississippi. As of 2010, the population was 19,198. It is named in honor of | , the first governor of Mississippi. Its county seat is Lexington. Holmes ... |
Son Sen | ... Chea and Keo Meas, were removed from the Central Committee and replaced by | and Vorn Vet. From then on, Pol Pot and loyal comrades from his Paris stud ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... senator in history with a career spanning over 38 years. His colleague Sen. | (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The Strom Thurmond of the Arctic Circle. |
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 ... |
Su Shi | The poet | (1036–1101) popularized Hainan's isolation and exoticism when he was exile ... |
Heinrich Himmler | In April 1945, | asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Chur ... |
Moshe Dayan | ... ters, a Bell 205 and a CH-53, were also lost. According to Defense Minister | , nearly half of these were shot down during the first three days of the w ... |
John Allen Campbell | On December 10, 1869, territorial Gov. | extended the right to vote to women, making Wyoming the first U.S. state t ... |
Benjamin Gitlow | ... member of the radical pantheon. Others, such as his old friend and comrade | , made the claim that Reed had begun to shun the bureaucracy and violence ... |
John Key | ... e 2008 election ending nine years of Labour led Government. National leader | formed a minority government, negotiating agreements with the ACT party, t ... |
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 ... |
Richard Russell, Jr. | File:Richard Brevard Russell.jpg|Senator | of Georgi |
Strom Thurmond | ... years. His colleague Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The | of the Arctic Circle. |
George W. Bush | ... nt. In the, 2004 Presidential Election, Jackson County voted for Republican | over Democrat John Kerry. It was the first time Jackson County voters chos ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... ration and the National Film and Television Training School. Prime Minister | continued to support Australian film. The South Australian Film Corporatio ... |
Neil Kinnock | ... -market-based communal European economy. In the UK, the Labour Party leader | made a passionate and public attack against the party's Militant Tendency ... |
Muhammad | ... n, Islamic jurists have turned to the collections of the hadith (sayings of | ) and akhbar (accounts of his life). These, on the other hand, are perfect ... |
Bennie Thompson | ... part of Mississippi's 2nd congressional district, which is held by Democrat | |
Hitler | The term Übermensch was a favorite of | and the Nazi regime, which borrowed from Nietzsche's work and sought to ad ... |
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 ... |
Gavin Newsom | ... ay couples, but stopped short of saying he would follow San Francisco Mayor | by having the City of Chicago issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples ... |
P. T. Barnum | The first modern American pageant was staged by | in 1854, but his beauty contest was closed down by public protest. He prev ... |
Iuliu Maniu | ... ania, Moldavia and Wallachia merged to become the National Peasants' Party. | (1873–1953) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, ... |
Jan Nagel | ... ghter of former Leefbaar Nederland political party president and politician | |
Richard Nixon | ... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, | politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... 9 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under | , making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was firs ... |
Jerry Brown | Image:Jerry Brown in 1978 crop.jpg|Governor | of Californi |
Tom Daschle | ... outh Dakota) of the opposition party (Democrat)'s minority leader, Democrat | , and actively campaigned against him. Daschle's Republican opponent, John ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... sts and of the Soviet Union; Craxi himself pushed in favour of US president | 's positioning of Pershing missiles in Italy |
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 ... |
Michael Heseltine | ... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, | , formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... abermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, | , Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. According to Austrian ec ... |
Jimmy Carter | Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governor | of Georgi |
Julius Caesar | | initially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ... |
Demosthenes | ... own because they are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, | , Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher Ar ... |
Maile Shimabukuro | ... the House of Representatives, Waianae is currently represented by Jo Jordan | ;currently represents Waianae in the Senate |
Barack Obama | ... win a majority in the county was Barry Goldwater in 1964. In 2008, Democrat | won 81% of the county's vote |
Barack Obama | ... 008. On October 28, Colbert turned his attention back to Canton, Ohio after | made a campaign stop there, forcing Colbert to find it "crappy" |
Charles Sumner | ... sed, on the notion that British involvement had lengthened the war. Senator | , the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, originally wante ... |
J. B. Danquah | ... held. The constitution was ratified and Nkrumah was elected president over | , the UP candidate, 1,016,076 to 124,623 |
Hendrik Colijn | ... h; under the successive governments of a staunch monarchist prime minister, | (ARP), Wilhelmina was deeply involved in most questions of state |
Herbert Hoover | ... ntury Republican attorney and black civil rights activist who served in the | administration, was born in Holmes County in 1877 |
John Thune | ... aschle, and actively campaigned against him. Daschle's Republican opponent, | , defeated Daschle. In Daschle's farewell address, Frist arrived late. Aft ... |
Primo de Rivera | During the dictatorships of | and especially of Francisco Franco (1939–1975), all regional cultures were ... |
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 ... |
Silvio Berlusconi | The 1994 elections also swept media magnate | (leader of "Pole of Freedoms" coalition) into office as Prime Minister. Be ... |
Henry Vane the Younger | ... d of the stalemate between Parliament and the King. Oliver Cromwell and Sir | both opposed this measure. This should have ended the Civil War and restor ... |
Patrick Hillery | The President of Ireland, | , and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial service for Mountbatt ... |
Paul Laxalt | ... litically easier for Carter, causing them to be replaced by the soft-spoken | |
John McCain | The trending Republican has continued since 2004. In 2008 | won the county with 67.7% of the vote. In 2010 Republican gubernatorial ca ... |
Kay Hagan | ... ted States Congress by U.S. Senator Richard Burr (Republican), U.S. Senator | (Democrat) and U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield (Democrat) |
Gunnar Myrdal | ... ortation; Melvin L. Greenhut's (1956) Plant Location in Theory and Practice | ;'s (1957) Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions; Albert O. Hirschman ... |
Dan Quayle | ... s chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory board chair | , himself the former vice president of the United States. Cerberus was rej ... |
Aleksandar Stamboliyski | ... onservative forces crushed BZNS in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader, | (1879–1923). BZNS was made into a Communist puppet group until 1989, when ... |
Arthur St. Clair | ... acket and Miami Chief Little Turtle, defeated an American expedition led by | , governor of the Northwest Territory. The engagement, known as the Battle ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... crowd. It is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and | 's Infamy Speech, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American ... |
Reg Keys | Bremner supported | in the 2005 election when he stood against Tony Blair as an anti-war candi ... |
Richard Burr | The town is also served in the United States Congress by U.S. Senator | (Republican), U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (Democrat) and U.S. Representative G. ... |
Vasco da Gama | ... aceae), was used instead. In the late 15th century, the Portuguese explorer | discovered a sea route to India. This led to the establishment of direct t ... |
Richard Nixon | In 1959, following the Kitchen Debate between United States Vice President | and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, includ ... |
Winston Churchill | ... es, increased anti-aircraft batteries were installed at crucial points, and | ordered the construction of a series of causeways to block the eastern app ... |
Leszek Miller | ... The alleged constitutional and international law trespasses took place when | , presently member of parliament and leader of the Democratic Left Allianc ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protege of John B. Connally and | , and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story f ... |
Lev Kamenev | ... l 1934. Frunze's position was compatible with the Troika (Grigory Zinoviev, | , Stalin), but Stalin preferred to have a close ally in charge (as opposed ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | After | denounced Stalinism at the 1956 Party Congress, Robeson became silent on S ... |
Rod Blagojevich | Daley and Illinois Governor | held a joint press conference on January 17, 2006 calling for a state-wide ... |
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 ... |
Max Weber | ... ns and nationalism include: Henry Maine, Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, | , and Talcott Parsons |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... after the 18th century. In 1860, the inhabitants enthusiastically supported | in his conquest of southern Italy (in the course of the Unification of Ita ... |
Steve Chabot | ... dment included the Republicans for Environmental Protection. Representative | , an Ohio Republican who sponsored the amendment, said "I am not opposed t ... |
Alex Castellanos | ... pensive nation-wide (John Tower's in Texas), thanks to Richard Viguerie and | 's pioneering direct mail strategies. However, it was estimated that at le ... |
Cheng Yi | ... iew art, share their own, and trade precious artworks. Philosophers such as | and Chu Hsi reinvigorated Confucianism with new commentary, infused Buddhi ... |
Van Hoegaerden, Victor | ... , Leon - van Rysselberghe, Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - | - Van Rompuy, Herman - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdi ... |
Barack Obama | ... ties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored John McCain over | , although not as strongly as most of the other rural counties throughout ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... 62 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between Harold Macmillan and | , the United States would supply Britain with Polaris missiles, launch tub ... |
Van Rompuy, Herman | ... , Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - Van Hoegaerden, Victor - | - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - Emile Verhaere ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... ank later claimed that the extermination of Jews was entirely controlled by | and the SS and that he, Frank, was unaware of the extermination camps in t ... |
John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of G ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister | 's more conservative coalition partners |
Heinrich Himmler | Even with the difficulties of the quota system | formed two new SS regiments, the SS Germania and SS Deutschland, which tog ... |
Hannibal | The war is marked by | 's surprising overland journey and his costly crossing of the Alps, follow ... |
Muhammad | Sunan al-Tirmidhi again reports | as having prescribed the death penalty for both the active and the passive ... |
George Frederick | ... ned as Albert Frederick became increasingly feeble-minded, leading Margrave | of Brandenburg-Ansbach to become Regent of Prussia in 1577 |
Barack Obama | ... ounties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
John McCain | ... e many rural counties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored | over Barack Obama, although not as strongly as most of the other rural cou ... |
Gordon Campbell | ... e effectively portrayed the BC Liberals' new leader, former Vancouver mayor | , as a pawn of big business and a dangerous right-wing extremist. Clark wa ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... xism. In 1980, with the rise of conservative neoliberal politicians such as | in the U.S., Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, t ... |
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 ... |
Coolidge | ... st tenure of a Secretary of the Treasury. His service continued through the | and Hoover administrations. Along with James Wilson and James J. Davis, he ... |
Al Gore | ... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including | and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phi ... |
George Wallace | Image:George C Wallace (Alaba Governor).png|Governor | of Alabam |
Bruno Amoussou | ... president) 27.1%, Adrien Houngbédji (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and | (Minister of State) 8.6%. The second round balloting, originally scheduled ... |
Grigory Zinoviev | ... post he held until 1934. Frunze's position was compatible with the Troika ( | , Lev Kamenev, Stalin), but Stalin preferred to have a close ally in charg ... |
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 ... |
John Hancock | ... st rocket engine test facility. Hancock County is named for Founding Father | |
Jefferson Hunt | ... s Christ of Latter-day Saints, taught school. It is also the location where | , a Mormon colonist died. Hunt is buried just behind the hill off the high ... |
Ben Erdreich | ... J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a law sponsored by | , , designating the new courthouse building for the U.S. District Court fo ... |
directly elected mayor | ... e largest settlement in Borough of Bedford. The borough council is led by a | who holds the title 'Mayor of Bedford', an office which was first held by ... |
Edmund Burke | ... t the end of the program by recalling the admonition commonly attributed to | -- "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothin ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ey claimed to recognize women's equality in employment. However, Hitler and | declared themselves as opposed to feminism, and after the rise of Nazism i ... |
Phil Gramm | ... Gore and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's | as late as 1995. He said publicly in 2008 that he has no ambition to run f ... |
Philippe Madrelle | The President of the General Council is | of the Socialist Party |
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 ... |
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 |
José de Alencar | ... ional identity, using the ideal of the heroic Indian. Some examples include | , who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and Gonçalves Dias, renowned by the ... |
King O'Malley | ... rst Australian jurisdiction in which prohibition laws were enacted. In 1910 | , the then Minister of Home Affairs, shepherded the laws through parliamen ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when | 's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name |
David Lloyd George | ... llor of the Exchequer was longer than that of any of his predecessors since | , who served from 1908–15. This was subsequently passed by Labour's Gordon ... |
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 ... |
Philip Edmond Wodehouse | ... was followed by protests on the part of the British high commissioner, Sir | , as well as on the part of the consul-general for Portugal in South Afric ... |
Alan Walters | ... Lawson and Thatcher and was exacerbated by the re-employment by Thatcher of | as personal economic adviser. Lawson's conduct of policy had become a stru ... |
Tom Daschle | ... supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including Al Gore and | , but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phil Gramm as late ... |
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 ... |
Cato the Younger | ... rned by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. After | was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide (46 BC) in Utica, and Numidia ... |
Ronald Reagan | President | launched his 1980 presidential campaign from the Neshoba County Fair, deli ... |
John Tower | ... raised $7.5m, over twice as much as the second most-expensive nation-wide ( | 's in Texas), thanks to Richard Viguerie and Alex Castellanos's pioneering ... |
Adrien Houngbédji | ... athieu Kérékou (incumbent) 45.4%, Nicephore Soglo (former president) 27.1%, | (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and Bruno Amoussou (Minister of State) ... |
Heinrich Himmler | In the spring of 1945, Bernadotte was in Germany when he met | , who was briefly appointed commander of an entire German army following t ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... res states that although feminists were among those who opposed the rise of | , feminism has a complicated relationship with the Nazi movement as well, ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... c claims Weber makes in his historical analysis. For example, the economist | argued that capitalism did not begin with the Industrial Revolution but in ... |
Jere Wood | Population | , a Republican, has served as mayor of Roswell since 1997 |
Juan Manuel de Rosas | ... 840s. His writings were influenced by his hatred for the Argentine dictator | , and filled with themes of blood and terror, using the metaphor of a slau ... |
Lamberto Dini | ... government was succeeded by a technical government headed by Prime Minister | , which left office in early 1996 |
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 ... |
Willem Jan Knoop | ... sh informants, prompted a semi-official rebuttal by Dutch historian captain | in his "Beschouwingen over Siborne's Geschiedenis van den oorlog van 1815 ... |
Margot Wallström | ... ans from different parties host the ceremony, in 2009 European Commissioner | co-hosted the ceremony |
Rodney J. Woods | Also, the City elected its first Commissioner of African-American descent, | , in a landslide against a former commissioner |
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 ... |
Mikhail Frunze | ... ittee in 1921 and remained a member until 1961. In 1925, after the death of | , Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affair ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... soil. Several groups developed competing proposals, and in 1933, President | authorized the Columbia Basin Project. The Grand Coulee Dam was the projec ... |
Thomas H. Watts | ... h her family being part of the aristocracy of the Old South, descendants of | , the Governor of Alabama and Attorney General of the Confederate States o ... |
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 ... |
Kathleen Sebelius | ... on to insult Canton, Kansas, that night (drawing the ire of Kansas governor | ) followed by Canton, South Dakota, on August 5, 2008, and Canton, Texas, ... |
George W. Bush | At the presidential level, Texas County is Republican-leaning. | carried Texas County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004. Bill Clinton ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... nited States Congress as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of | . His first speech in that body was in advocacy of its right and duty to e ... |
Barack Obama | In the final days before the 2008 election, Costner campaigned for | , visiting various places in Colorado—a state in which he has a home. In h ... |
Theunis, Georges | ... rtition plan for Belgium - Tambuyzer, Erik - Temse - Tessenderlo - Thalys - | - Tielt - Tienen - Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the ... |
George W. Bush | ... Madison County have seldom been lockstep in their voting tendencies. While | carried Madison County both times in 2000 and 2004, Bill Clinton also carr ... |
Jim Bunning | ... , Callison's teammate, future Hall of Fame member and United States Senator | , pitched a perfect game against the Mets |
J. B. Priestley | ... ul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Cliff Parisi, Tim Pigott-Smith, | , Jonathan Pryce, Dizzee Rascal, Heath Robinson, John James Sainsbury, Pet ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Joseph Lyons | ... President of the Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial. Australian Prime Minister | described the section of keel as "intimately associated with the discovery ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... few left of them, so the once massive tributes are growing thin. President | was the first American president who visited the cemetery, on 8 May 2005. ... |
Vasco da Gama | ... rtuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century followed | 's voyages of exploration in which the Portuguese battled the Ottomans up ... |
Brian P. Stack | The current mayor of Union City is | , who became mayor in 2000 after a recall election forced the resignation ... |
Arianna Huffington | ... n the "Robots Versus Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with | , and Will Shortz. Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jocke ... |
Henry M. Jackson | Image:HenryJackson.jpg|Senator | of Washingto |
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 |
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 ... |
Daniel Webster | ... essive days in their defense. In 1850, he was engaged in a controversy with | in regard to the extension of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law. Mann was ... |
Frank Church | Image:FrankChurch.jpg|Senator | of Idah |
György Lukács | ... uenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, | and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by ... |
Rodney Berman | ... and three councillors sit as Independents. The Leader of the Council, Cllr | , is from the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru hav ... |
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | ... first true pan-European political party with a common campaign, put forward | . However the fractious nature of the other political parties led to no ot ... |
Kay Hagan | ... se Helms. However, she lost her seat in 2008, a heavily Democratic year, to | |
John McCain | ... ny of the rural counties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... at heroes of Chinese history". Ma compared him with the contemporary leader | and saw many parallels in the careers and policies of the two men, both of ... |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... ein their casket lies in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Only | and the Viscount Bennett were given private funerals, Bennett also being t ... |
Kay Bailey Hutchison | ... ral level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and | ; Waxahachie is part of Texas' US Congressional 6th District, which is cur ... |
Leander Starr Jameson | ... anned to support an uitlander coup d'état against the Transvaal government. | carried out this plan, without publicly-acknowledged British authorisation ... |
Romano Prodi | ... tions led to the victory of a centre-left coalition under the leadership of | . Prodi's first government became the third-longest to stay in power befor ... |
William Tryon | ... ritish secretary of state for the colonies and a relative of royal Governor | |
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 ... |
Julius Nyerere | ... cialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent. | was inspired by Fabian socialist ideals. He was a firm believer in rural A ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General | |
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 ... |
Frank Graham | ... issue up for discussion again at the 1954 bi-annual convention. ACLU member | , president of the University of North Carolina, attacked the anti-communi ... |
Brigham Young, Jr. | Descendants of Young include three LDS Church apostles: | , John Willard Young, and Joseph Angell Young. Another descendant, Leah D. ... |
Chuck Purgason | ... t of Missouri's 33rd District and is currently represented by State Senator | (R-Caulfield). In 2008, Purgason defeated Eric Reeve (D) 67.31-32.69 perce ... |
Petra Kelly | ... ncluding Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, | and Memorial |
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 ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... ebate between United States Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier | , the designers of the kitchen, including Raymond Loewy, announce plans to ... |
Barack Obama | On 4 May 2009, United States President | declared his intentions to curb the use of financial centres by multinatio ... |
Alun Michael | ... mocrat) in Cardiff Central, Jonathan Evans (Conservative) in Cardiff North, | (Labour) in Cardiff South and Penarth and Kevin Brennan (Labour) in Cardif ... |
Karl Liebknecht | ... fights culminated in the beating and shooting deaths of Rosa Luxemburg and | after their arrests on 15 January. With the affirmation of Ebert, those re ... |
Mohammad Hatta | ... ers were important figures in Indonesia's independence movements, such as : | (the first vice-president) and Sutan Sjahrir (the first prime minister) |
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 |
Joe Biden | ... Baptist Temple was attended by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President | , former Governor Sarah Palin, current Governor Sean Parnell and three oth ... |
Zbigniew Siemiątkowski | ... d's Prosecutor General's office initiated investigative proceedings against | , the former Polish intelligence chief. Siemiątkowski is charged with faci ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... hdrawn in 1629, by Louis XIII, following the Siege of La Rochelle, in which | blockaded the city for fourteen months |
Uhuru Kenyatta | ... ng in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted | , the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor. A rainbow coalitio ... |
Grigory Potemkin | | had had involvement in the coup d'état of 1762. In 1772, Catherine's close ... |
Patrick Henry | ... ing the peace" by preaching without licenses from the Anglican Church. Both | and the young attorney James Madison defended Baptist preachers prior to t ... |
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 ... |
Schuschnigg | ... Austria during the late 1930s, which was fiercely resisted by the Austrian | dictatorship. When the conflict was escalating in early 1938, Chancellor S ... |
Elizabeth Dole | Dole has been married to Former Senator | , née Hanford, of North Carolina since 1975. Mrs. Dole ran unsuccessfully ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | The last shah of Persia, | , officially adopted the title شاهنشاه shâhanshâh (literally King of Kings ... |
Giuliano Amato | ... g centre-left government, including most of the same parties, was headed by | (social-democratic), who previously served as Prime Minister in 1992-93, f ... |
Jo Ann Emerson | In the U.S. House of Representatives, Texas County is represented by | (R-Cape Girardeau) who represents all of Southeast Missouri as part of Mis ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... ion was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator | of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional inv ... |
Patrick Leahy | ... out written parental consent. In 1979, Helms supported, along with Democrat | , a federal Taxpayer Bill of Rights |
Nikola Pašić | In Serbia | (1845–1926) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903; t ... |
Klein | ... right to food and a right to shelter. Unlike the reforms of the Harris and | governments, the BC Benefits package of cutbacks and restrictions in socia ... |
Sargent Shriver | Image:Sargent Shriver 1962.jpg|Former Ambassador to France | of Marylan |
Rosa Luxemburg | ... iers. Bloody street fights culminated in the beating and shooting deaths of | and Karl Liebknecht after their arrests on 15 January. With the affirmatio ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... purpose of the SS, that of safeguarding the leadership of the Nazi Party ( | ) continued until the very end of the group's existence. Hitler had used b ... |
Winifred Carney | ... in 1912 and was a member of its National Executive. Around this time he met | in Belfast, who became his secretary and would later accompany him during ... |
Grigory Zinoviev | ... ous of the bullying tactics displayed during the congress by Karl Radek and | , who ordered Reed to attend the Congress of the Peoples of the East to be ... |
Mitt Romney | ... letter was issued immediately before the Florida primary. Dole has endorsed | for the Republican nomination |
Minister over the Masses | ... members known as the Three Councillors of State. These were the Chancellor/ | , Imperial Counselor/Excellency of Works, and Grand Commandant/Grand Marsh ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture | upon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona |
Hitler | ... forbidden the unification of Austria and Germany, but native Austrian-born | was vastly striving to annex Austria during the late 1930s, which was fier ... |
Green Arrow | The 2001 | story "Quiver" (written by Kevin Smith) and the final Supergirl story arc, ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council (led by | ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 ... |
Massimo D'Alema | ... government was formed by Democrats of the Left leader and former communist | , but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in region ... |
Julie Morgan | ... embly Cardiff is represented by Jenny Rathbone (Labour) in Cardiff Central, | (Labour) in Cardiff North, Vaughan Gething (Labour) in Cardiff South and P ... |
Elliot Morley | ... Sovereign may however remove an individual from the Council. On 8 June 2011 | was expelled following his conviction on charges of false accounting in co ... |
Aulus Gabinius | In 57–55 BCE, | , proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Sam ... |
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 ... |
Jo Ann Emerson | In the U.S. House of Representatives, Madison County is represented by | (R-Cape Girardeau) who represents all of Southeast Missouri as part of Mis ... |
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 ( ... |
Alfred Hugenberg | ... es, representing a minority in the Reichstag: The Nazis and the DNVP led by | (196 + 52 seats). Eyeing the Catholic Centre Party's 70 (+ 20 BVP) seats, ... |
Rouher | ... sumed the portfolio of the interior. But the growing influence of his rival | provoked his resignation in 1863, when he received the title of duke |
Mikołaj Rej | ... ng most important Protestants of the Commonwealth, there are such names, as | , Marcin Czechowic, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Symon Budny |
Winston Churchill | ... der the direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Prime Minister | tasked the Royal Navy with helping locate and retrieve the wreckage so tha ... |
Van Rompuy | Since the creation of the European Council presidency, President | and Commission President Barroso have begun to compete with each other as ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | Jung Chang and Jon Halliday claim that | allowed the Communists to escape on the Long March, allegedly because he w ... |
Lindsay Thompson | ... being John Cain (1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was | (1981–82), on 16 July 2008 |
Tip O'Neill | ... ends of Ireland organization with Senator Daniel Moynihan and House Speaker | to support initiatives for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland |
Barack Obama | ... t headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as Bill Clinton and | ), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, un ... |
Pridi Banomyong | ... to reflect its tradition associated with the French education system where | , Thammasat's founding father was educated |
Barack Obama | ... 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain and Democrat | tied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This gives Andover a Cook PVI of ... |
Stavros Dimas | ... irs and its head, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The current minister is | of the New Democracy party. According to the official website, the main ai ... |
Governor of Victoria | ... rnment in the Australian state of Victoria. The Premier is appointed by the | , and is the leader of the political party able to secure a majority in th ... |
Jane Byrne | Daley, David Orr, and | are currently the only living former Mayors of Chicago |
John Lyng | He was appointed Minister of Trade in the short-lived but notable | cabinet from August to September 1963, following the Kings Bay Affair that ... |
Donna Shalala | ... sion to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with | , a former member of the Clinton cabinet. Dole is married to former U.S. c ... |
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 ... |
Paul A. Dever | ... favorite son candidates included Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr, Governor | of Massachusetts, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, and Senator J. Wil ... |
Bernardo O'Higgins | ... San Martín (United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile, and Peru), and | (Chile) led their independence struggle. Although Bolivar attempted to kee ... |
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 ... |
Rahm Emanuel | ... morning, May 11, 2011. His term ended May 16, 2011. Daley was succeeded by | |
Jan P. Syse | ... atform. In spite of friendly rivalry with Erling Norvik, Rolf Presthus, and | , these and other party members led a political shift in Norway away from ... |
Peter Minuit | ... o a number of Dutchmen and Germans in Swedish service, settled in the area. | was to become the first governor of the newly established colony of New Sw ... |
Paul Kruger | ... upported the Boers against British expansionism and was a strong admirer of | |
John McCain | ... John Kerry, who received 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican | and Democrat Barack Obama tied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This g ... |
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 ... |
Jonathan Evans | ... diff is represented by Jenny Willott (Liberal Democrat) in Cardiff Central, | (Conservative) in Cardiff North, Alun Michael (Labour) in Cardiff South an ... |
Robert S. Kerr | Other minor or favorite son candidates included Oklahoma Senator | , Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minn ... |
Godert van der Capellen | ... anate of Johore and hence, Rhio, and the diplomatic exchanges between Baron | and Calcutta continued throughout this time. The legitimacy of the British ... |
Samuel de Champlain | ... first known Europeans in the area were the French who arrived in 1615 when | launched an attack against the Onondagas with the aid of the Huron and Alg ... |
William Joyce | ... ho fought on the opposite side, with the Republican International Brigades. | became an English-language propagandist for the Third Reich, known colloqu ... |
George W. Bush | The | administration consolidated many of these activities under the United Stat ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... arty. In 2012, he went on record on Fox News as supporting the candidacy of | for the Republican Presidential Nomination. In the same interview, he also ... |
Ronald Reagan | Wyman was the first wife of | . They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public ... |
Governor of Indiana | The Statehouse houses the Indiana General Assembly, the | , state courts, and other state officials |
Peter Garrett | ... bitterness between Labor and the Greens. Labor direct-mailed a letter from | to voters in its threatened inner-Melbourne seats claiming that the Greens ... |
Muhyiddin Yassin | ... ls need to be concluded. International Trade and Industry Minister, Tan Sri | has expressed the hope that talks will be concluded by the end of 2008 |
Ronald Reagan | ... e operations. It was abruptly halted during the administration of President | in the mid-late 1980s, part of the War on Drugs |
Abul Kalam Azad | ... 47, the nationalist leaders of British India—including Jawaharlal Nehru and | representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, and Mast ... |
Raúl Mondesí | ... ers and Giants, baseball players such as Pedro Martínez, Jose Offerman, and | have spent time in Great Falls with the team. Since 1988, the team has won ... |
Jim Bacon | ... (1969–72), on 27 August 2004. The most recently-serving premier to die was | (1998–2004), on 20 June 2004 |
Trent Lott | ... 1994 gift of $2.5 million to the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader | and House Speaker Newt Gingrich slipped a last-minute provision into a hot ... |
Andrew Jackson | Jackson Township, named after | , is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 ... |
Jane Byrne | ... to "keep and bear arms" from local governments, and all but declared Mayor | 's 1982 handgun ban unconstitutional. "We'll publicly propose a new ordina ... |
Muhammad | ... m de guerre of Abu Ammar. Both names are related to Ammar ibn Yasir, one of | 's early companions. Although he dropped most of his inherited names, he r ... |
Anwar El Sadat | ... fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. | , President of Egypt, was instrumental in the event and consequently becam ... |
James Macpherson | In 1761 | announced the discovery of an epic written by Ossian (Oisín) in the Scotti ... |
Solomon Mikhoels | ... he war, where he met two emissaries from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, | and Itzik Feffer—who doubled as an informant for the NKVD |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... r days as the assassination of JFK and the transition of power to President | took center stage |
Barack Obama | ... uerto Rico's head of state is the President of the United States, currently | . The governor and legislators are elected by popular vote every four year ... |
Juan Negrín | ... ists. At the time, roughly 600 remained. At the end of 1938, Prime Minister | had promised Spanish citizenship to the Brigadists, a promise which he cou ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ers to deploy mustard gas to Italy. This included Italian intelligence that | had threatened to use gas against Italy if the state changed sides, and pr ... |
Lord Mayor of Sheffield | ... s on 2 September 1899 against Chesterfield. The match was kicked off by the | William Clegg, himself a former Wednesday player. It was a Chesterfield pl ... |
Lindsay Tanner | ... y a threat to Labor. In 2002, Labor front bencher and prominent Left member | wrote "The emergence of the Greens... is already hurting the ALP's ability ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... re-enactments, and speeches from a host of dignitaries, including President | , the first Southerner elected to the White House since the War. (Note: He ... |
Arthur Griffith | On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of | , Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as ... |
Arthur St. Clair | ... American Revolutionary War General and Governor of the Northwest Territory | , but the name was in use with the current spelling long before St. Clair ... |
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | ... ok, that it was published as "propaganda" for reformist interests backed by | or other high-placed aristocrats, and that Crowley added interpretive glos ... |
John East | With | and John Stennis, Helms led the senatorial opposition to establishing Mart ... |
Assad | ... spleasure at Hamas's failure to hold public rallies in support of President | " in the face of the Syrian uprising, and funding from the Muslim Brotherh ... |
Richard Nixon | The scandal eventually led to the resignation of | , the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignat ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... d High School and Enrico Fermi High School are the district's high schools. | Middle School is the town's middle school. There are nine elementary schoo ... |
Gedaliah | | , with a Chaldean guard stationed at Mizpah, was made governor to rule ove ... |
Kevin Boland | ... or Justice, Micheál Ó Móráin, retired the day before and a fourth minister, | and his Parliamentary Secretary, resigned in sympathy with Haughey and Bla ... |
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 ... |
Per Borten | He was appointed to the same ministerial post in the government of | in 1965-1970. He stepped down from this post to become first the Parliamen ... |
Governor Jay Nixon | In Missouri's gubernatorial election of 2008, Democratic Governor | solidly defeated Republican U.S. Representative Kenny Hulshof with 58.40 p ... |
Scipio Africanus | ... al siege of the Celtiberian town Numantia, Hispania, by the Roman forces of | |
Einar Gerhardsen | ... the uninterrupted chain of Labor governments after World War II, headed by | and Oscar Torp |
Newt Gingrich | ... the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader Trent Lott and House Speaker | slipped a last-minute provision into a hotly contested compromise tax bill ... |
Green Arrow | ... s Matthew Cable). Morpheus also appears briefly during Kevin Smith's run on | in a flashback showing him in Alexander Burgess' basement, still imprisone ... |
Oscar Torp | ... ain of Labor governments after World War II, headed by Einar Gerhardsen and | |
John Cain | As of December 2010, five former premiers are alive, the oldest being | (1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was Lindsay Thompso ... |
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 ... |
James Forrestal | ... iversity president, Eisenhower was requested to advise Secretary of Defense | on unification of the armed services. Approximately six months after his i ... |
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 |
Eamonn Duggan | ... atified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, | and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipotentiary for the peace conference ... |
Lyndon Johnson | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1964 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwick Papers was born in Portsmouth, | Author of the Sherlock Holmes Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and hi ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Chirac | In 1996, | , then French President, granted the former French members of the Internat ... |
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 ... |
Erich Ludendorff | ... : the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving | and Adolf Hitler took place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Repub ... |
Lara Giddings | ... ernor of Tasmania to act as their principal adviser. The current Premier is | of the , who was sworn in on 24 January 2011 |
Paul Kruger | ... with the Orange Free State. Peaceful overtures having failed, Pretorius and | placed themselves at the head of a commando which crossed the Vaal with th ... |
Buck McKeon | ... rt of California's 25th congressional district, which is held by Republican | . In the state legislature, Inyo is part of the 34th Assembly district, wh ... |
Franz von Papen | Hindenburg then appointed | as new Reichskanzler. Von Papen lifted the ban on the NSDAP's SA paramilit ... |
Sir Thomas Morgan (1st Baronet 1604-79 | ... e ‘Tredegar Morgans’ and had two brothers, Thomas and Edward. Major-General | ) served in the Commonwealth forces during English civil war from 1642-9, ... |
Micheál Ó Móráin | ... initial procrastination on Lynch's part, his innocent Minister for Justice, | , retired the day before and a fourth minister, Kevin Boland and his Parli ... |
Richard Nixon | ... d United States Senator George Smathers and then former U.S. Vice President | , who had promised to leave politics. During his subsequent presidency fro ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... Movement. Moreover, he benefited from the divisions in the Gaullist party. | and other Gaullist personalities published the "Call of the 43" where they ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ohn McCain received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat | 's 20,701 (47.26%), even as Obama carried the state by a double-digit marg ... |
Feng Yuxiang | ... Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, | and Yan Xishan. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchuria and even ex ... |
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 ... |
John McCain | In the 2008 presidential election, Republican candidate | received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat Barack Ob ... |
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 ... |
François Mitterrand | ... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by | , the former Socialist President |
Governor General | ... orism and domestic security; providing protection services for the Monarch, | , Prime Minister, their families and residences, and other ministers of th ... |
Jayalalitha | ... in 1996. But the coalition ruptured in May 1999 when the leader of AIADMK, | , withdrew her support, and fresh elections were again held |
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 ... |
Brian Friel | ... at the time on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Anne Friel, playwright | 's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, Donna Leon and Robert Harri ... |
Jon Corzine | ... n, Republican Chris Christie received 58.5% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 33% |
Habibullah Khan | ... -Afghan War of 1919 was precipitated by the assassination of the then ruler | . His son and successor Amanullah declared full independence and attacked ... |
Richard Lugar | ... cities to two, Phoenix and Indianapolis. Under the administrations of mayor | and then William Hudnut, Indianapolis was making an ambitious effort to re ... |
Peter Minuit | ... nland. A Dutchman, Samuel Blommaert, assisted the fitting-out and appointed | to lead the expedition. The members of the expedition, aboard the ships Fo ... |
Joseph Larmor | ... approach was suggested by Hendrik Lorentz along with George FitzGerald and | . Both Larmor (1897) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the Lorentz transfor ... |
John Winthrop the Younger | ... territory. By the 1640s, he began to grant land to the Pequot War veterans. | , the son of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was among those ... |
Richard Nixon | ... attractive in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which had led to President | 's resignation. Ford, although personally unconnected with Watergate, was ... |
Erich von Falkenhayn | ... of surprise; they did not expect such a big attack by the British. General | , agitated by the additional losses in one sector of the Somme front, sack ... |
Isaac de Razilly | Precipitated by the arrival of the new French governor of Acadia, | , on 18 September 1632, Captain Andrew Forrester, commander of the then Sc ... |
Assembly Members (AMs) | ... lature, Parliament or Senate) was opened on 1 March 2006, by The Queen. The | , the Assembly Commission and Ministerial support staff are based in Cardi ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham with | as one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, An ... |
Olaudah Equiano | ... of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was published in London, England, written by | , a former slave, featuring 79 Igbo words. The narrative also illustrated ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ich derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies | , Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in ... |
George W. Bush | ... ver, like many rural counties, it does have a slight Republican lean. While | carried Ripley County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004, Bill Clinton ... |
Chris Christie | ... ma, who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 58.5% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received a ... |
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George Smathers | ... ey Biscayne millionaire Bebe Rebozo, Miami native and United States Senator | and then former U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, who had promised to lea ... |
Luis Fortuño | ... ial branches. The executive branch is headed by the Governor, currently Mr. | , who is also the head of government. The legislative branch consists of a ... |
Lord Byron | Mary and Percy Shelley and | holidayed by the lake and wrote ghost stories, one of which became the bas ... |
Samuel de Champlain | ... ring a reconnaissance of the Bay of Fundy undertaken by French cartographer | . The day upon which Champlain sighted the mighty river was St. John The B ... |
David Lloyd George | During the Second Dáil the Irish Republic and the British Government of | agreed to hold peace negotiations. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Ai ... |
Kurt von Schleicher | ... revious election. Franz von Papen stepped down and was succeeded by General | as Reichskanzler on 3 December. Schleicher, a political army officer, had ... |
Louis XVIII | ... 2, when Hugo was only twenty years old, and earned him a royal pension from | . Though the poems were admired for their spontaneous fervor and fluency, ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... o who was being held hostage by Joseph Stalin back. This is contradicted by | himself, who wrote in his diary, "It is not worth is to sacrifice the inte ... |
Isko Moreno | ... s, although a mayor can be elected again after an interruption of one term. | is the city's incumbent vice-mayor. The vice-mayor heads the legislative a ... |
Jo Ann Emerson | In the U.S. House of Representatives, Ripley County is represented by | (R-Cape Girardeau) who represents all of Southeast Missouri as part of Mis ... |
Adam Bandt | ... o the Greens over Labor in the past, as in the Division of Melbourne, where | was elected at the 2010 Australian Federal Election with Liberal Preferenc ... |
Chen Shui-bian | ... e end of his term in 2000. That year Democratic Progressive Party candidate | won the national election with 39% of the vote in a three-way race. Chen's ... |
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 ... |
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Richard Russell, Jr. | ... idates. However, most of the other candidates had a major weakness. Senator | of Georgia had much Southern support, but his support of racial segregatio ... |
Will Rogers | The Will Rogers Scout Reservation, named for | , one of Oklahoma's favorite sons, is the premier camping facility of the ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Lex Luthor | ... esentations of the Flash (Barry Allen), Earth-2 Superman, the Anti-Monitor, | , and Brainiac. The third and final wave included action figure representa ... |
Kurt von Schleicher | ... vative policy along Hindenburg's lines. He appointed as Reichswehr Minister | , and all the members of the new cabinet were of the same political opinio ... |
Lito Atienza | ... rent mayor for the 2010–2013 term is Alfredo Lim, who defeated former mayor | in the 2010 election. The city mayor is restricted to three consecutive te ... |
Thomas Menino | ... 06 and co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor | |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... " consisting of Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan. | , the founder of Pakistan, espoused the two-nation theory and led the Musl ... |
Abdalá Bucaram | ... D) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against | (brother in law of Jaime Roldos and founder of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Pa ... |
Toussaint Louverture | ... he Jacobins, endorsed abolition and extended it to all the French colonies. | , a former slave and leader in the slave revolt—a man who rose in importan ... |
Michael Bloomberg | ... ition, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City Mayor | and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino |
Rolf Presthus | ... tent ideological platform. In spite of friendly rivalry with Erling Norvik, | , and Jan P. Syse, these and other party members led a political shift in ... |
Ludovic Kennedy | ... k returned to the BBC as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling for an appearance with | in A Life in Pieces. The 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life bas ... |
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 |
James Soong | Supporters of rival candidates Lien Chan and | accused Lee of setting up the split in the KMT that had enabled Chen to wi ... |
Sue Myrick | ... e 1994 political campaign of Republican congresswoman and Amway distributor | (N.C.). According to two reports by Mother Jones magazine, a liberal news ... |
Al Gore | In 2000, Bush received 21,887 votes (56.28%) to Democrat | 's 15,959 (41.04%) |
Getúlio Vargas | The ideology of | 's Estado Novo contaminated the scene of the samba. With Aquarela do Brasi ... |
Zachary Macaulay | ... Trade began meeting again, strengthened with prominent new members such as | , Henry Brougham and James Stephen. In June 1804, Wilberforce's bill to ab ... |
Gregor Strasser | ... onist left wings in the various parties, including that of the Nazis led by | . This did not prove successful either |
León Febres Cordero | ... ely succeeded by Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado who was followed in 1984 by | from the Social Christian Party. Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic ... |
Douglas MacArthur | ... ng as it did just after the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and General | , former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Brown Harris officiated. All thr ... |
Erling Norvik | ... sues and consistent ideological platform. In spite of friendly rivalry with | , Rolf Presthus, and Jan P. Syse, these and other party members led a poli ... |
Jacques Chaban-Delmas | ... sidency. His two main challengers were François Mitterrand for the left and | , a former Gaullist prime minister. Supported by his FNRI party, he obtain ... |
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, | |
H. D. Deve Gowda | File:Deve Gowda.jpg| | , 1996-199 |
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 ... |
Elmer E. Rasmuson | ... ican nomination for U.S. Senate, but lost in the primary to Anchorage Mayor | . Rasmuson lost the general election to Democrat Mike Gravel. In December ... |
John Kerry | ... ublican president George W. Bush received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat | 's 18,355 (42.41%) |
General Benjamin Smith | ... ballroom. It was originally named Smith Hall after North Carolina Governor | , who was a special aide to George Washington during the American Revoluti ... |
François Tombalbaye | ... ny. Chad was granted independence on August 11, 1960 with the PPT's leader, | , as its first president |
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 ... |
Robert Taft | ... esidential election to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator | . The effort was a long struggle; Eisenhower had to be convinced that 1) t ... |
Bob Bartlett | ... avel. In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat | , Governor Wally Hickel appointed Stevens to the U.S. Senate. Since Gravel ... |
Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr. | Johnson's grandfather | was raised as a Baptist. Subsequently, in his early adulthood, he became a ... |
Charles V | ... ci. Bandinelli, a supporter of the Medici, was also exiled. In 1530 Emperor | retook Florence after a long siege. Pope Clement VII subsequently installe ... |
Barack Obama | ... t of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
George W. Bush | ... ong live for the 2004 Republican National Convention, saying that President | , whom he said is a fan and a family friend, had asked him to write a song ... |
G. Gordon Liddy | In January 1972, | , general counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (C ... |
George W. Bush | In 2004, Republican president | received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat John Kerry's 18,355 (42.41%) |
George W. Bush | ... htly toward Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 56% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
Al Gore | ... with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth ( | ) |
John McCain | ... nd 1996. Like most of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
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 ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... in Melbourne submitted in January 2012 a proposal to name the island after | . The Board of Geographic Names usually takes at least eight months to dec ... |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | File:Ab vajpayee2.jpg| | , 1998-200 |
Hitler | ... k, states, "The work of the Eugenics Board was not far from the thinking of | . |
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 ... |
Simeon of Bulgaria | ... f heirs and princes in several Christian royal houses, such as the cases of | or James Ogilvy |
Daniel Van Pelt | ... by Republican county committee members to fill the remainder of the term of | in the General Assembly representing the 9th legislative district. Van Pel ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ction campaign was one of many causes that led to his defeat in November by | |
Clare Short MP | ... few other government ministers resigned to the backbenches over the issue. | threatened to resign from the cabinet, but then remained for two months be ... |
Lim Chong Eu | ... 970s to the late 1990s the state under the administration of Chief Minister | built up one of the largest electronics manufacturing bases in Asia, the F ... |
Charles the Bold | ... t. Arnhem entered the Hanseatic League in 1443. In 1473, it was captured by | of Burgundy. In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, took it from th ... |
Mike Gravel | ... age Mayor Elmer E. Rasmuson. Rasmuson lost the general election to Democrat | . In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat Bo ... |
Kurt Eisner | ... upheavals of November 1918. Provisional National Council Minister-President | declared Bavaria to be a free state on 7 November 1918. Eisner was assassi ... |
Nelson Rockefeller | ... ert Dole of Kansas as his running mate in place of incumbent Vice President | . The 1976 Republican Convention was the last political convention to open ... |
Hinrich Lohse | ... gust, after a meeting between Heinrich Himmler, Erich von Bach-Zelewski and | , the brigades received the following order |
Johan Nygaardsvold | ... e on the national political scene, with Gerhardsen as the Mayor of Oslo and | as Prime Minister of a minority cabinet. During World War II, Gerhardsen t ... |
Paul Pate | ... is system. The last mayor of Cedar Rapids under this form of government was | |
Julius Caesar | ... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator | , who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ... |
Henry Vane | ... the more conservative Thomas Dudley and the more liberal Roger Williams and | . Although Winthrop was a respected political figure, his attitude toward ... |
Nick McKim | ... he 2006 election. After gaining 5 seats in the 2010 election, in April 2010 | became the first Green Minister in Australia |
Estes Kefauver | Truman's main opponent was populist Tennessee Senator | , who had chaired a nationally televised investigation of organized crime ... |
Raymond Barre | ... alry appeared with his prime minister Jacques Chirac, who resigned in 1976. | , called the "best economist in France", succeeded him. He led a policy of ... |
Emil Lockwood | ... f Port Huron's Fort Gratiot. See, List of Michigan county name etymologies. | , a noted Michigan legislator, represented Gratiot County in the from 1963 ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by | took place in 1973 |
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 |
George W. Bush | ... tiations suspended in July 2000, and in June 2003, Mubarak hosted President | for another summit on Middle East peace process. Another summit was conven ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... e Juan Guzmán Tapia (the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator | ), Armin von Bogdandy (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparativ ... |
Edward Martyn | ... so-called Constitution of 1782 was still in effect. Its first president was | |
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 ... |
Daud Khan | After the exile of King Zahir Shah in 1973, President | forged stronger ties with the Soviets by signing two highly controversial ... |
Mark Begich | ... He won the Republican primary in August and was defeated by Anchorage Mayor | in the general election |
Saparmurat Niyazov | The last living person to be officially proclaimed president for life was | of Turkmenistan |
Philip the Good | ... ken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, | , Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes. By the latter half of the fi ... |
Sam Houston | ... blish the street grid that is still current. In those years, the Texas hero | , for whom the street is sometimes incorrectly said to have been named, wa ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... ents to the imperial constitution that replaced the authoritarian system of | with a parliamentary system |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the | from 1834 to 1837. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusett ... |
Mary Robinson | ... rom the airport to Áras an Uachtaráin for champagne with the then President | |
Neil Blaney | ... erdict in one case), that the hardline republican Minister for Agriculture, | , and the Minister for Finance, Charles Haughey, were involved in an attem ... |
Thorbjørn Jagland | ... and Cabinet, respectively. Following the resignation of Brundtland in 1996, | was elected leader of the Labour Party and became Prime Minister, while St ... |
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 ... |
MPs | ... he third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal (Importation Act 1846) on 15 May, | voted 327 votes to 229 (a majority of 98) to repeal the Corn Laws. On 25 J ... |
Bernard Stone | ... Sharon Denise Dixon (24th) and Rey Colón (35th), Brian Doherty (41st), and | (50th). Presiding over the meeting, Daley harshly chastized the dissenting ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... he previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore | retired |
Mayor | The council has a | , who is elected at the council annual general meeting by councillors. The ... |
Member of Parliament | ... and was also a base for that ship. The famous diarist Samuel Pepys was the | for Harwich. Christopher Newport, captain of the expedition that founded J ... |
Muhammad | ... (Arabic for "full moon"), after the Battle of Badr, in which Muslims under | defeated the Quraish tribe of Mecca |
Charles Alfred Pillsbury | Dartmouth alumni serving as CEOs or company presidents include | , founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family, Sandy Al ... |
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 ... |
Lieutenant Governor of Jersey | ... ght of Jersey". The Queen's representative and adviser in the island is the | . He is a point of contact between Jersey ministers and the United Kingdom ... |
Hiram Bingham | As early as 1821, at least one of the missionaries, | , was using macrons (and breves) in making handwritten transcriptions of H ... |
Advani | ... onal Congress. He did however groom future political leaders like Vajpayee, | and others. However, the vast majority of the party workers including Upad ... |
Wojciech Jaruzelski | ... jailed when martial law came into effect on December 13, 1981 under General | . After a one year prison term the high-ranking members of the union were ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ing his term, but served as the groundwork for various policies laid out in | 's New Deal. After 1933 he became a leading conservative spokesman in oppo ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... kova to pilot Vostok 6 at their meeting on May 21 and this was confirmed by | himself. At the time of her selection, Tereshkova was ten years younger th ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... . They miscalculated however, and his son quickly pledged his allegiance to | , turning his forces over to Kuomintang control and supported Chiang in hi ... |
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 |
Brigham Young | ... Carson City via Salt Lake City. The first telegram on that line was sent by | , then governor of Utah which affirmed that the Territory had not seceded. ... |
Menachem Begin | ... hat followed, the right-wing Likud party won a majority in the Knesset, and | , the party's founder and leader, was appointed Prime Minister. This marke ... |
John Ensign | ... en of Nebraska, Dick Chrysler of Michigan, Richard Rombo of California, and | of Nevada. Their informal caucus meets several times a year with Amway big ... |
Saigō Takamori | ... o convinced Ōkubo that the tobaku movement was doomed. In 1866, he met with | and Chōshū Domain's Kido Takayoshi to form the secret Satcho Alliance to o ... |
Governor of New Jersey | In 1996, | Christine Todd Whitman frisked Sherron Rolax, a then 16-year old African-A ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from Michigan; and | , the leader of the GOP's conservative wing and the former two-term govern ... |
Governor | ... Cain (R-Arizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former | Mitt Romney (R-Massachusetts) came in a close second place with 30.51 perc ... |
Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
George W. Bush | ... ing, a record only matched decades later by Richard Nixon, and surpassed by | |
Marozia | ... . [who] exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man" and her daughter | , the mother of Pope John XI (931–935) and reputed to be the mistress of S ... |
Sharon Denise Dixon | ... ing in opposition were Aldermen Robert Fioretti (2nd), Sandi Jackson (7th), | (24th) and Rey Colón (35th), Brian Doherty (41st), and Bernard Stone (50th ... |
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 ... |
Jean-Jacques Dessalines | ... ndence after the French transported Louverture to France. The native leader | – long an ally and general of Toussaint Louverture, brilliant strategist a ... |
Heinrich Brüning | The finance expert | was appointed as successor of Chancellor Müller by Reichspräsident Paul vo ... |
Mariano José de Larra | ... e Espronceda. After him there were other poets like Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, | and the dramatist José Zorrilla, author of Don Juan Tenorio. Before them m ... |
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 ... |
Jean-Bédel Bokassa | ... ally profited. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was at first a friend of its ruler, | ; he supplied Bokassa's regime with much financial and military backing. H ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Samuel Vetch | Francis Nicholson and | , with some financial and logistical support from the queen, organized an ... |
John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Mullah Omar | ... gious force, reportedly in opposition to the tyranny of the local governor. | started his movement with fewer than 50 armed madrassah students in his ho ... |
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 ... |
Richard Glücks | ... rtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA). Oswald Pohl commanded the WVHA, while | served as the Inspector of Concentration Camps |
Edward Rutledge | ... randson of South Carolina Governor William Bull. Henrietta married Governor | , and Sarah was the first wife of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney |
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 ... |
Patrick Hillery | ... e Armageddon. As the violence continued, the Minister for External Affairs, | , met with the British Foreign Secretary and also went to the United Natio ... |
Pete Domenici | ... hen-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, Jim McClure and | . As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favorite to succeed Ba ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... . This method was first introduced and made popular by New York City Mayor, | , in the early 1990s |
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 ... |
Edward Vincent | ... lls Estates is located in the 25th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 54th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bonnie Lowent ... |
Hitler | ... ended classes at the University of Berlin from 1931 to 1933. In 1933, after | took over Germany and began instituting anti-Semitic policies, Mendel and ... |
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 ... |
P. T. Barnum | ... to a Paris zoo, transferred to the London Zoo in 1865, and sold in 1882 to | , for the circus |
Roberto Arango | ... Rico Senatorial district I, which is represented by two Senators. In 2008, | and Kimmey Raschke were elected as District Senators. However, Arango resi ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, | , Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry o ... |
Göring | ... Heydrich. He was acting under the authority given to him by Reichsmarschall | in a letter dated July 31, 1941. Göring instructed Heydrich to devise "... ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... quarter of the 19th century, in the Spanish American wars of independence. | (Greater Colombia, Peru, Bolivia), José de San Martín (United Provinces of ... |
Kido Takayoshi | ... ovement was doomed. In 1866, he met with Saigō Takamori and Chōshū Domain's | to form the secret Satcho Alliance to overthrow the Tokugawa |
Ellen Wilkinson | ... tates, and university education became available via a school grant system. | , Minister for Education, introduced taxpayer-funded milk in schools, sayi ... |
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 ... |
Bonnie Lowenthal | ... Edward Vincent, and in the 54th Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Rolling Hills Estates is located in California's 46th congres ... |
Garret Hobart | ... soldiers had camped during the war, was built in 1788 and was once owned by | , later Vice President of the United States. The stone with the engraved d ... |
Claude Pepper | ... , Maryland and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by Senator | . The NCBI houses genome sequencing data in GenBank and an index of biomed ... |
Mustapa Mohamed | ... condensates per year. In 2004, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, | , revealed that Malaysia's oil reserves stood at while natural gas reserve ... |
Sandi Jackson | ... ransit Authority. Voting in opposition were Aldermen Robert Fioretti (2nd), | (7th), Sharon Denise Dixon (24th) and Rey Colón (35th), Brian Doherty (41s ... |
Kerry Nettle | ... ion Minister Eric Abetz criticised Australian Greens Senators Bob Brown and | for spending most of their time on non-environmental issues |
Benjamin Franklin | The American scientist | , who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia, invented bifocals. Serious ... |
Kurt von Schleicher | ... Hindenburg on 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General | on behalf of the military. The new government was expected to lead a polit ... |
Richard Nixon | ... hat he had a 66% disapproval rating, a record only matched decades later by | , and surpassed by George W. Bush |
Manmohan Singh | ... nistration of the affairs of the executive. The incumbent prime minister is | , in office since 22 May 2004 |
Edward Morgan | His uncle | was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration of Charles II of ... |
Don Young | Due to Stevens's long tenure and that of the state's sole congressman, | , Alaska was considered to have clout in national politics well beyond its ... |
Chen Shui-bian | During the 2004 Presidential campaign, President | publicly campaigned with Lee Teng-hui and developed a campaign platform, i ... |
Luigi Sturzo | ... ions as well. This led to a surgence of the Partito Populare Italiano under | . Anti-Catholic politicians were gradually replaced by persons who were ne ... |
Helmut Kohl | ... nded, including United States President Bill Clinton, Chancellor of Germany | and President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. The ceremony was emcee ... |
Thomas Rivera Schatz | ... .6% of the electorate.) However, the new government led by Luis Fortuño and | (from the New Progressive Party) discarded the alternative of unicameralis ... |
Bill Clinton | ... has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and | |
Ronald Reagan | ... ent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, and | , whom Wasserman became very close with personally. In later decades, Wass ... |
Álvaro Obregón | President | was awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Me ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ed president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by Gerald Ford and | . He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, who had died in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Georg Ludwig von Maurer | ... the proposal to naturalize Lola, who was an Irishwoman; and the Protestant | took his place. The new ministry granted the certificate of naturalisation ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ng the Middle East destabilized. In a June 1973 meeting with U.S. President | , Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had proposed Israel pull back to its 1967 ... |
Harry Thuku | ... yu Association" (renamed the "East African Association") started in 1921 by | (1895–1970), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocate ... |
Milton Milan | Mayor | was jailed for his connections to organized crime. On June 15, 2001, he wa ... |
Zhang Xueliang | | , known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of Zhang Zuolin, warlord of ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... ne. In 2004 it was one of only two counties in Maine to vote for Republican | over Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Demo ... |
José de San Martín | ... ican wars of independence. Simón Bolívar (Greater Colombia, Peru, Bolivia), | (United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile, and Peru), and Bernardo O ... |
Ronald Reagan | Image:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg|Former Governor | of Californi |
Jon Corzine | In December 2006, Governor | speculated on moving port operations further south to allow the community ... |
Muhammad | ... d pubic hair is a hygienic practice which was taught by the Islamic prophet | and which was enumerated as having been part of practices conforming to ma ... |
Muqrin | ## | (born 15 September 1945 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ng by U.S. presidents. It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents | and Bill Clinton |
Sam Rayburn | ... was a close friend of one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman | . In 1930, Johnson campaigned for Texas State Senator Welly Hopkins in his ... |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... ed. In a June 1973 meeting with U.S. President Richard Nixon, Soviet leader | had proposed Israel pull back to its 1967 border. Brezhnev said that if Is ... |
Kim Howells | ... roversy has also come from other directions, including a Culture Minister ( | ) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour (Madonna) swearing, a prize judg ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... term. On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera, | and François Duvalier died in office. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal Presid ... |
James Larkin | Connolly's fellow labor leader | said of him that |
Herbert Hoover | ... ected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and | . |
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 ... |
Deval Patrick | Starting with Governor | 's tax initiative program, Melrose has become a popular place to shoot fil ... |
Arlen Specter | ... his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. | of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, was especially p ... |
Dana Redd | , | is the Mayor of Camden. She is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... Union. The county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father | |
Hubert Humphrey | ... chose Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, a liberal and political protégé of | , as his running mate |
John Hancock | ... lsworth. It was incorporated on June 25, 1789. Hancock County was named for | , the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
Luis Fortuño | ... er turnout was 22.6% of the electorate.) However, the new government led by | and Thomas Rivera Schatz (from the New Progressive Party) discarded the al ... |
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. | ... reed with that paper's editorial criticisms of Wisconsin Republican Senator | for his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I. Through Capital Newspap ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, including United States President | , Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánch ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... the US public for his time frame, and was struggling to convince President | to approve widening the war into Cambodia and Laos in order to interdict t ... |
DiAnne C. Gove | ... Beach Township Commission are Mayor Joseph H. Mancini, Ralph H. Bayard and | |
Ralph Nader | He made a donation to | 's 2008 presidential campaign. On January 30, 2009, Kilmer was chosen to b ... |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... pt Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's policy of nonviolence and civil resistance, | 's constitutional struggle for the rights of minorities in India, and seve ... |
Eoin O'Duffy | ... and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance). | led a brigade of 700 Irish volunteers to fight for Franco during the Spani ... |
Howard | The | government in Australia was a strong and largely uncritical supporter of U ... |
Rolf Gerhardsen | ... two sons Truls and Rune Gerhardsen and a daughter Torgunn. His brother was | and with him Einar Gerhardsen also had a lifelong working relationship |
Jacob Zuma | ... ith the country having one of the highest rates of violent crime, president | states that South Africa needs to handle crime differently than other coun ... |
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 ... |
James Stirling | Perth streets were often sandy bogs which caused Governor | in 1837 to report to the Secretary of State for Colonies |
Zachary Taylor | ... residency. (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were | , Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
Aneurin Bevan | ... insurance and state pensions were introduced by the 1945 Labour government. | , who had introduced the Labour Party's National Health Service in 1948, c ... |
Saigō Takamori | ... e was the eldest of five children. He studied at the same local school with | , who was three years older. In 1846, he was given the position of aide to ... |
Prince Faisal | His last words to his two sons, the future king Saud and the next in line | , who were already battling each other, were: 'You are brothers, unite! |
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 ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, | in Philippines, for example |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... his era, de Haviland was also notable as a staunch liberal, campaigning for | and Harry Truman. In 1946, determined to protect liberalism from infiltrat ... |
Barack Obama | ... r Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat | narrowly defeated John McCain, 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republi ... |
Arne Treholt | ... not acting sooner to stop the activities of politician and career diplomat | , who was arrested in 1984 and convicted of treason and espionage in favor ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... spapermen and lobbyists. Johnson's friends soon included aides to President | , as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President John Nance Garner. He be ... |
Olympia Snowe | Senators | (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amend ... |
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 |
Christine Todd Whitman | In 1996, Governor of New Jersey | frisked Sherron Rolax, a then 16-year old African-American youth, an event ... |
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 ... |
P. T. Barnum | Jumbo was sold in 1881 to | , owner of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, known as "The Greatest Show on Eart ... |
George W. Bush | ... t Chen, leading to a public rebuke of Chen from the United States President | in December 2003. It is believed that this rebuke in part was intended to ... |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... ned and approved the conditions established by . On July 25, 1952, Governor | proclaimed that the Constitution of Puerto Rico was in effect |
Andrew Jackson | ... ed for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President | , making Ingham one of Michigan's so-called Cabinet counties |
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 ... |
Lynne Featherstone | ... he Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, formed at the 2010 general election. | is the Liberal Democrat MP for the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency, wh ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... ad reached 3,000 "Jews and Partisans". On 1 August, after a meeting between | , Erich von Bach-Zelewski and Hinrich Lohse, the brigades received the fol ... |
W. Averell Harriman | Image:William Averell Harriman.jpg|Former Secretary of Commerce | of New Yor |
Soong May-ling | ... sed of hoarding supplies. H.H. Kung's wife was Soong Ai-ling, the sister of | who was Ching-kuo's stepmother. H.H. Kung's son David was arrested, the Ku ... |
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 ... |
Kevin Brennan | ... e) in Cardiff North, Alun Michael (Labour) in Cardiff South and Penarth and | (Labour) in Cardiff West |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... and the introduction of censorship laws. One victim was the author and poet | , who, freshly appointed university professor in Bonn, was banned from tea ... |
Byron Dorgan | Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and | (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amendment that would have ins ... |
Wilhelm Frick | ... , Minister of the Interior for Prussia, and Reich Commissioner of Aviation. | was named Reich Interior Minister. Frick and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... other Hollywood figures, including her own star-recruit to the reform camp, | . Ironically, given her role in galvanizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet ... |
Thomas Rivera Schatz | ... body, elected by a majority of both chambers. The current heads are Senator | and Representative Jennifer Gonzalez, respectively |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... g a hard-line stance in support of the Vietnam War. He contrasted President | 's decisive stance in Vietnam with the international failure to take preem ... |
Lionel Murphy | In February 1973, the Attorney General, Senator | , led a police raid on the Melbourne office of the Australian Security Int ... |
Debbie Wasserman Schultz | ... gressional districts. Wilton Manors citizens are represented in Congress by | and Allen West |
Gro Harlem Brundtland | ... abour Party, and Progress party joined forces. A minority government led by | took over through the rest of the parliamentary period |
Robert A. Heinlein | Varley is often compared to | . In addition to a similarly descriptive writing style, similarities inclu ... |
Jean Rey | ... rojects of the day, such as the European Monetary Union. In 1970, President | secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President Roy ... |
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 ... |
Dennis Kucinich | ... elections, Hagelin and the Natural Law Party endorsed Democratic candidate | |
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 ... |
Moisés Naím | ... o Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, | , Tomas Eloy Martine |
Stevens T. Mason | ... ts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by Governor | after the Indian Chief named "Oronoko". However, apart from this story, th ... |
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 ... |
Nawaz Sharif | ... elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was followed by | , and over the next decade the two leaders fought for power, alternating i ... |
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 ... |
Pol Pot | ... line, anti-Vietnamese, but also anti-monarchist, members of the CPK, led by | |
Joseph Stalin | ... Another 9 million Germans from former eastern German provinces, over which | and eastern neighbour states extended military hegemony in 1945, were expe ... |
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 ... |
T. Dan Smith | ... rt of Grainger Town as a prelude to the modernist rebuilding initiatives of | , the leader of Newcastle City Council. A corruption scandal was uncovered ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... , a member of the SS, lampooned Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels | ;, however, stepped in to reprimand Willrich and defended Benn on the grou ... |
Najib Tun Razak | On September 2010, in an interview with CNBC, Dato' Seri | , which is the Prime Minister of Malaysia and also the Finance Minister sa ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | As a skilled technocrat, Lee soon caught the eye of President | as a strong candidate to serve as Vice President. Chiang sought to move mo ... |
John F. Kennedy | Robertson was President | 's personal choice to play him in 1963's PT 109 as a young Lieutenant PT b ... |
Deval Patrick | ... HB 1598. Massachusetts joined the compact on August 4, 2010, when Governor | signed that state's bill into law. Additionally, the District of Columbia, ... |
Cordell Hull | Democratic President Roosevelt and especially his Secretary of State | were critical of the Neutrality Acts, fearing that they would restrict the ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ied Europe. The Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, | of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, had agreed in general ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ang Kai-shek, whom he taught to paint lotuses; and as personal physician to | in Taiwan and perhaps earlier |
Aaron Burr | ... da (1775) under Colonel Benedict Arnold. Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and | , his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel Seth Read ... |
John McCain | ... 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated | , 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republican Presidential Caucuses, th ... |
Romano Prodi | ... os and being able to force the resignation of Commissioners. When President | took office with the new powers of the Treaty of Amsterdam, he was dubbed ... |
Francisco Zayas Seijo | ... lis Castillo Rivera de Santiago finished his term. Cordero was succeeded by | . In the 2008 general elections María "Mayita" Meléndez was elected mayor ... |
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 ... |
Mitt Romney | ... on Paul, but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow. | ultimately won the state by a narrow margin |
Tommy Thompson | ... most notably becoming a leader in welfare reform under Republican Governor | during the 1990s. The state's economy also underwent further transformatio ... |
Jacques Delors | However the Commission began to recover under President | ' Commission. He is seen as the most successful President, being credited ... |
Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
Louis Giscard d'Estaing | ... yes" side won. He did not run for a new parliamentary term in 2002. His son | was elected in his constituency |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and Benazir Bhutto, daughter of | , was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was foll ... |
George W. Bush | ... e 2004 Presidential Election, In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 58.7% of the vote in Jackson Township (12,451 cast), ahead of Dem ... |
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 ... |
Hammurabi | ... d Testament, vol II (1888), pp 299ff) this king was usually associated with | , who ruled in Babylon from 1792 BC until his death in 1750 BC. However, a ... |
Dante | ... or's achievements is sometimes difficult to sort out from other intentions. | was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing ... |
Lysimachus | Following his and | ' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in ... |
Porfirio Díaz | ... mber 20, 1910 when Francisco I. Madero planned an uprising against dictator | 's 31-year-long iron rule. Article 74 of the Mexican labor law (Ley Federa ... |
James Heflin | ... War. (Note: He imposed racial segregation in federal agencies and offices.) | of Alabama was given the honor of the main address. Heflin was a noted ora ... |
Sun Li-jen | ... . Chiang orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General | in August 1955, allegedly for plotting a coup d'état with the American CIA ... |
George W. Bush | Rossum, writing in 2006, before | appointees Roberts and Alito had time to make an impact, said that Scalia ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... d nothing to enforce their claims, and never settled the Territory. In 1508 | settled Puerto Rico, and reports in Spanish journals suggested that the se ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... egan work on chemical disarmament in 1980. On April 4, 1984, U.S. President | called for an international ban on chemical weapons. U.S. President George ... |
Michael Collins | ... this idea was never really embraced by later separatist leaders, especially | , and never came to anything, although Kevin O'Higgins toyed with the idea ... |
William O'Connell Bradley | ... t News, Virginia, sponsored by Miss Christine Bradley, daughter of Governor | of Kentucky, and commissioned on 15 May 1900, Captain Colby M. Chester in ... |
Raymond Barre | ... wo right-wing candidates, his two former Prime Ministers Jacques Chirac and | . This attitude was interpreted as indicating that he wanted to regain the ... |
Phil Angelides | ... ubernatorial election, to serve a full term as governor, defeating Democrat | , who was California State Treasurer at the time. Schwarzenegger was sworn ... |
Édouard-Raymond Fabre | George-Étienne Cartier married Hortense Fabre, daughter of | , former Mayor of Montreal |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rocities and ethnic cleansings in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Allied leaders, | of the United States, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and Joseph S ... |
Vicente Fox | ... n the country would eventually lead to the end of the one party system when | was elected president in 2000. PAN has since dominated most of the north o ... |
Francisco de Miranda | ... the Spanish colonies in South America (to assist the Latin American patriot | ) his force was instead ordered to sail for Portugal, to take part in the ... |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... s who were inspired by the Self-Determination of Nations (民族自決) proposed by | after World War I, and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka ( ... |
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 ... |
Adam Bandt | ... sentatives seat at a general election, the seat of Melbourne with candidate | , who is a crossbencher in the first hung parliament since the 1940 federa ... |
Seth Read | ... Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel | and his brother, Colonel Joseph Read owned more than half of the land in t ... |
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 ... |
Bessus | After killing Darius, | took the regal name Artaxerxes V and began calling himself the King of Asi ... |
James II | After the Restoration, King Charles II and his successor | visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ... |
Józef Beck | ... in Europe. The government (foreign policy conduct was the responsibility of | ) undertook opportunistic hostile actions against Lithuania and Czechoslov ... |
Benazir Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and | , daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime M ... |
Benito Mussolini | Thenceforth, the National Fascist Party of | successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ... |
Peter Shumlin | ... cember 7, 2010. Vermont joined the compact on April 22, 2011, when Governor | signed that state's bill into law. On August 8, 2011 California joined whe ... |
Charles Martin | ... or Charles McNary, Washington Senator Clarence Dill, and Oregon Congressman | , among others |
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 ... |
Édouard Balladur | ... st of the UDF politicians supported the candidacy of the RPR Prime minister | at the 1995 presidential election, but Giscard supported his old rival Jac ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... g in the north of the country forced the resignation and exile of President | . A provisional government took control with security provided by the Unit ... |
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 ... |
Claiborne Pell | ... sation against the magician Harry Houdini. A similar event involved Senator | . Pell believed in psychic phenomena. When Randi demonstrated viewing a hi ... |
François Tombalbaye | In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of | . Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminated in the er ... |
Keith Joseph | ... ex. The councils involved were initially unable to decide upon a name, with | suggesting "Uxbridge" in October 1963, later revised to Hillingdon |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, | , Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
Chiang Ching-kuo | | died in January 1988 and Lee succeeded him as President. The "Palace Facti ... |
Charles V | ... ance. The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by | at the (1525) |
Jesus Estanislao | ... embers who are identified with left-wing politics, including Ruth Kelly and | |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... ers, for a turnout of 72.3%.. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 55.2% of the vote (14,069 cast), ahead of Democrat John Kerry, wh ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... pproaches in solving new problems, the leaders of the late 1980s, headed by | , were seeking to mould a program of economic reform to galvanise the econ ... |
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 ... |
German East Africa | ... zen (named after Count Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen, the former governor of | ), the Germans had complete control of the lake in the early stages of the ... |
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas | ... 1988 were forecast to be very competitive and they were. Leftist candidate | , son of Lázaro Cárdenas one of the most beloved Mexican presidents, creat ... |
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | He is a descendant of the scholar and politician | and a second cousin to former Chairperson of Rajya Sabha Dr Najma Heptulla |
Louis Riel | ... Cartier was acclaimed the victor in the Manitoba riding of Provencher after | and Henry James Clarke resigned as candidates there. It is notable that Ca ... |
Max Weber | In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, | first suggested that cultural values could affect economic success, arguin ... |
Benito Juárez | This day commemorates President | 's birthday on March 21, 1806. Juárez is popularly regarded as an exemplar ... |
Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Montague Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... onal friends with several prominent Republicans, including former President | |
Lee Huan | ... headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister | , was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui and sought to block his accession ... |
Antonio José de Sucre | The icons of the Ecuadorian military forces are the Marshall | and Gral. Eloy Alfaro. The Military Academy "Gral. Eloy Alfaro" (c. 1838) ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... n chemical weapons. U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet Union leader | signed a bilateral treaty on June 1, 1990, to end chemical weapon producti ... |
Green Arrow | ... ther comic book titles, such as Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, | , Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and Shade, the Changing Man. He was ... |
Robert Napier | ... dros II for its safe return to Empress Zewditu. The crown had been taken by | during the |
Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
Yu Kuo-hwa | ... a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier | , and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui ... |
Robert Taft | ... became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; Senator | of Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing; and Governor ... |
Sterling Price | ... supporters of the Union during the U.S. Civil War. The Confederate General | led his troops in ransacking the area during the war |
Ali Salman | ... ral of the leading Shia clerics who were organising the petition, including | |
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | He is the father of | , member of the cantonal government of Graubünden (Grisons), who was herse ... |
Henry Edward Fox | ... ons, including the great Whig politician, Charles James Fox and the general | . Their home, Holland House, Kensington, was a social and political gather ... |
Ehud Barak | ... f the Second Intifada led to a sharp swing to the right in Israeli politics | ;was defeated by in 2001 |
Roy Jenkins | ... Rey secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President | became the first Commission President to attend a G7 summit on behalf of t ... |
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 ... |
Thad Cochran | ... f anger that is a loss of control. He is a very controlled person." Senator | , who has known McCain for decades and has battled him over earmarks, expr ... |
C. Farris Bryant | ... posed by State Representative Rupert Smith and approved by Florida Governor | |
Trent Lott | ... tate fairs and performed at several social and political events for Senator | |
Simón Bolívar | ... anish vicerroyalty. Once the Gran Colombia was dissolved after the death of | in 1830, Ecuador inherited the same border disputes and had the need of cr ... |
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 ... |
Getúlio Vargas | ... quarela do Brasil, by Ary Barroso, followed by Carmen Miranda (supported by | government and the US Good Neighbor policy), which led samba to the United ... |
John Rafferty, Jr. | ... by Rep. Mike Vereb) and the 44th State Senate District (represented by Sen. | ) |
George Bush | ... later, via Maryland's Jerome Segal, the group sent a letter to US President | stating they "we don't mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders ... |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | With Pakistan's defeat in the war, Yahya Khan was replaced by | as Chief Martial Law Administrator. Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 197 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, when President | provided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that th ... |
Bernard Baruch | ... oosevelt, a "cash and carry" provision that had been devised by his advisor | was added: the President could permit the sale of materials and supplies t ... |
Rafael Hernández Colón | ... eral important political figures of the island, including Luis A. Ferré and | , both former governors of Puerto Rico, as well as the childhood town of g ... |
John F. Kennedy | After President | was assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ... |
Eumenes | ... lon. He incurred the enmity of Perdiccas, the regent, by refusing to assist | to obtain possession of the provinces allotted to him, Paphlagonia and Cap ... |
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 |
Hau Pei-tsun | ... Faction" of the KMT, a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General | , Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrust ... |
Mahmoud al-Zahar | According to Hamas leader | , when Arafat realized that the Summit negotiations would not result in th ... |
Bill Waller | District Attorney and future Governor | prosecuted De La Beckwith. Juries composed solely of white men twice that ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... licly between the two right-wing candidates, his two former Prime Ministers | and Raymond Barre. This attitude was interpreted as indicating that he wan ... |
Lázaro Cárdenas | ... ry competitive and they were. Leftist candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, son of | one of the most beloved Mexican presidents, created a successful campaign ... |
Governor General of Canada | ... a, by her daughter Princess Louise, wife of the Marquess of Lorne, then the | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... of customary international law. At the conference, United States President | and Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared the Good Neighbor Policy, whi ... |
Margraviate of Brandenburg | ... Master, secularized the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in 1525. The | inherited the duchy in 1618, and its Hohenzollern ruler proclaimed the Kin ... |
Kenneth McClintock | ... r's great-granddaughter Margaret Hoover and Senate of Puerto Rico President | unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Hoover at Puerto Rico's Territorial ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader | termed it "the final solution of the Jewish question" |
Jacques Delors | ... il refused to renew his term, despite being the most 'dynamic' leader until | |
Luis A. Ferré | ... birthplace of several important political figures of the island, including | and Rafael Hernández Colón, both former governors of Puerto Rico, as well ... |
Adolf Hitler | The Queen called | "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ... |
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 ... |
Delis Castillo Rivera de Santiago | ... of January 17, 2004, after suffering three consecutive strokes. Vice-mayor | finished his term. Cordero was succeeded by Francisco Zayas Seijo. In the ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | The original inventors of radio, such as Nikola Tesla and | , expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless communication tasks where ... |
Winston Churchill | ... g the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like | , Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over Radio Oranj ... |
Christine Gregoire | ... da Lingle. On April 28, 2009, the State of Washington joined, when Governor | signed HB 1598. Massachusetts joined the compact on August 4, 2010, when G ... |
Richard Nixon | ... at the Chinese had manipulated him. This attack backfired when US President | announced that he would visit China the following year. His National Secur ... |
Francisco I. Madero | ... commemorates the Mexican Revolution which started on November 20, 1910 when | planned an uprising against dictator Porfirio Díaz's 31-year-long iron rul ... |
Barack Obama | ... ith the others being Samuel Tilden, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and | |
A. S. Mike Monroney | ... osition were Kefauver, Russell, Barkley, Senator John Sparkman, and Senator | . After narrowing it down to Senator Sparkman and Senator Monroney, Presid ... |
Max Cleland | ... usands of American military personnel. The hearings were chaired by Senator | , former VA administrator and Vietnam War veteran |
Sandy Adams | ... ty lies within Florida's 24th congressional district, which seat is held by | , and within Florida's 15th congressional district, which seat is held by ... |
Jim Gerlach | ... he borough is part of the Sixth Congressional District (represented by Rep. | ), the 150th State House District (represented by Rep. Mike Vereb) and the ... |
Alfred Rosenberg | ... s to meetings of leading Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, Rudolf Hess, | , and Ernst Röhm. Hitler later recalled his early association with Göring |
Ronald Reagan | In the United States president | attempted to move the United States back towards a hard anti-communist lin ... |
Ronald Reagan | Hart has called herself a fan of Peggy Noonan and | . Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
Franklin | ... he last living member of the Coolidge administration. He also outlived both | and Eleanor Roosevelt who died in 1945 and 1962, respectively. By the time ... |
Joe Lieberman | ... , although such incidents have become less frequent over the years. Senator | has made this observation: "It is not the kind of anger that is a loss of ... |
G. Gordon Liddy | ... rector Jeb Magruder and finance director Maurice Stans to give the money to | |
Jennifer Granholm | In May 2005, Dick DeVos ran against incumbent Governor | in Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial election. DeVos was defeated by Granholm, ... |
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria | ... she repudiated with the help of the Tyrolean aristocracy in order to marry | , a member of the powerful Wittelsbach dynasty. This weakened the position ... |
Gustav Stresemann | | was Reichskanzler for 100 days in 1923, and served as foreign minister fro ... |
Lazare Carnot | ... the Directory. France also lacked funds, and no longer had the services of | , the war minister who had guided it to successive victories following ext ... |
Jean Pelletier | ... es to her allegations led to the firings a few days later of Via Rail chair | and president Marc LeFrançois |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... t the Axis powers. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and President | were determined not to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. They met ... |
John Kerry | ... House of Representatives. The current U.S. senators from Massachusetts are | (D) and Scott P. Brown (R) |
Rafael Cordero Santiago | Ponce's mayor for 15 years (since 1989), | , died in office on the morning of January 17, 2004, after suffering three ... |
Eumenes | ... s and Antigonus found himself entrusted with the command of the war against | , who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of Antipater, Antigonus, ... |
Erich Ludendorff | ... Erich Falkenhayn, was replaced by General Paul von Hindenburg, with General | as his deputy, but in effect the operational commander. The immediate effe ... |
Richard Franklin | ... ker would return to the role for a series of five audio dramas, co-starring | as Captain Mike Yates, which would begin release in September. The five au ... |
Dirk Jan de Geer | ... o back them and had few employees to assist them. The Dutch prime minister, | , believed the Allies would not win and intended to open negotiations with ... |
Dom Francisco de Almeida | ... ast Africa officially began after 1505, when flagships under the command of | conquered Kilwa, an island located in what is now southern Tanzania |
Ernst Röhm | ... ng Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, and | . Hitler later recalled his early association with Göring |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | The fight for the Republican (GOP) nomination was between General | , who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; ... |
Stephen W. Kearny | ... d as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. During the Mexican-American War in 1846, | delivered an address at the Plaza of Las Vegas claiming New Mexico for the ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... e same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married | , the then crown prince (later shah) of Iran. However, since the 1979 Isla ... |
John A. Logan | ... ral John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, New York, and General | , who helped bring attention to the event nationwide, was likely a factor ... |
Francisco Morazán | ... aders and brought the collapse of the Federation from 1838 to 1839. General | , a Honduran national hero, led unsuccessful efforts to maintain the feder ... |
James Soong | ... to the KMT chairmanship and sideline him as a figurehead. With the help of | —himself a member of the Palace Faction—who quieted the hardliners with th ... |
Linda Lingle | ... Hawaii joined on May 1, when the legislature overrode a veto from Governor | . On April 28, 2009, the State of Washington joined, when Governor Christi ... |
James II | ... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with | , and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ... |
Mike Haridopolos | ... two state senatorial districts, 24 and 25. They are held by Thad Altman and | |
Ronald Reagan | (a) Mike Padden, a Republican faithless elector from Washington, gave | one electoral vote |
Heinrich Himmler | ... m “Final Solution” to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people.” | was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitl ... |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ... luence of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers. It was formed in 1838 and named for | , the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. The populatio ... |
LeAnna Washington | ... p. Brendan F. Boyle) and the 4th State Senate District (represented by Sen. | ) |
Aneurin Bevan | In 1951, British Health Minister | expressed the view that, "It is probably true that Western Europe would ha ... |
Joseph Stalin | Meanwhile, | and his Soviet Union in the 1920s and early of 1930s stood by Japan’s inva ... |
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 ... |
Pol Pot | ... ver 30,000 French colons left Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime as the | government confiscated their farms and land properties. However, after the ... |
Robin Harper | ... er of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) elected by proportional representation, | , the UK's first Green Parliamentarian. On 1 May 2003 the Scottish Greens ... |
Charles V | ... elders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor | . As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of ... |
John Ingram | ... aced no primary opponent, the Democrats nominated Commissioner of Insurance | , who came from behind in the first round of the primary to win in the run ... |
Francisco Morazán | Gen. | , Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835–1839, whose figure embodies the ide ... |
Kofi Annan | ... and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of Goldman Sachs; and | , former Secretary-General of the United Nations |
Lionel Jospin | ... e Dynamics and the missile division of Alenia Marconi Systems to form MBDA. | 's Plural Left government initiated the privatization of Aérospatiale |
Christine Milne | ... r not to include fuel in the tax. Committee member and Greens deputy leader | said that this was happening because |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki | ... of August a Solidarity-led coalition government was formed and in December | was elected Prime Minister. Since 1989 Solidarity has become a more tradit ... |
Bill Posey | ... ms, and within Florida's 15th congressional district, which seat is held by | |
Michael Collins | ... ions in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, attending with | |
Al Gore | ... The trophy was handed to captain Dunga from the hands of the vice-president | . The Brazilian national team dedicated the title to the deceased Brazilia ... |
John Kerry | Dunst supported Democratic candidate | in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported De ... |
Patrick J. | ... ary 27, 1960 – September 16, 2011), Ted, Jr. (born September 26, 1961), and | (born July 14, 1967). By the mid-1960s, their marriage was troubled due to ... |
Jean-Georges Garneau | The Mayor of Quebec City, | , in 1908 appointed a landmark commission under the chairmanship of Chief ... |
Georges Clemenceau | ... rman Protestants rejected any “Papal Peace” as insulting. French politician | regarded the Vatican initiative as anti-French. Benedict made many unsucce ... |
Kevin Boland | ... hree other cabinet ministers had also contemplated running - Brian Lenihan, | and Donogh O'Malley |
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 | |
Benito Mussolini | ... od, attempting to gain supporters in a bid for political power. Inspired by | 's March on Rome, the Nazis attempted to seize power in Munich on 8–9 Nove ... |
Jimmy Carter | However, in December 1978, U.S. President, | announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the ... |
George W. Bush | ... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... s Dei. There have also been allegations that Escrivá expressed sympathy for | |
Woodrow Wilson | ... d in the creation of a National Park Service. On August 25, 1916, President | signed a bill that mandated the agency "to conserve the scenery and the na ... |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... al power, namely, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Sikhs. During this period | stated that a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh c ... |
Edward Gierek | In 1975, after | 's reform of the administrative division of Poland, Kalisz again became th ... |
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), ... |
Jacques Delors | ... ommunity Council, Ruud Lubbers, and with the European Commission president, | , pledging closer Japanese – European Community consultations on foreign r ... |
Donogh O'Malley | ... t ministers had also contemplated running - Brian Lenihan, Kevin Boland and | |
Franklin Roosevelt | ... lics to supporting repeal led by liberal politicians such as La Guardia and | . She, and they, emphasized that repeal would generate enormous sums of mu ... |
George Mitchell | ... joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, and | to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit think tank that works ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Scott Brown | ... d in 2008, is John Kerry. The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is | |
Harold Brown | ... awrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by Edward Teller and | . The Navy accepted delivery of the first 16 warheads in July 1960. On May ... |
Bill Clinton | ... East by reducing "people's tension". In a letter to presidential candidate | , Hagelin accepted Clinton's offer to debate "any serious candidate" and i ... |
Jacob Arvey | ... round of efforts to nominate him, despite his protests. After meeting with | , the "boss" of the Illinois delegation, Stevenson finally agreed to enter ... |
Allyson Schwartz | ... rough is part of the Thirteenth Congressional District (represented by Rep. | ), the 170th State House District (represented by Rep. Brendan F. Boyle) a ... |
Éric Ciotti | The President of the General Council is | of the Union for a Popular Movement. The UMP's majority on the general cou ... |
Erich Ludendorff | ... f the party in July 1921. On 8 November 1923, the Kampfbund, in a pact with | , took over a meeting by Bavarian prime minister Gustav von Kahr at a beer ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by | to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election |
Mahatma Gandhi | ... 's missionary work had taken him abroad where he had met and conferred with | . When he was a student at Boston University, King often visited Thurman, ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... 13. Luo himself was a member of the Tongmenghui, an organization founded by | and was the precursor to the Kuomintang |
Michael Collins | ... ed as being due to heart failure. He died at the age of 50, ten days before | ' assassination in County Cork. He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery four d ... |
Bill Clinton | ... na Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by | |
Herbert Hoover | On March 3, 1933, President | signed the Reorganization Act of 1933. The act would allow the President t ... |
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 ... |
Lien Chan | ... received Ph.D.s in the United States. Prominent among the appointments were | as foreign minister, and Shirley Kuo as finance minister |
Milton Milan | ... Three Camden mayors have been jailed for corruption, the most recent being | in 2000. Since 2005 the school system and police department have been oper ... |
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 ... |
Verdi | ... adily used in an ordinary funeral service; the requiems of Gossec, Berlioz, | , and Dvořák are essentially dramatic concert oratorios. A counter-reactio ... |
Reagan | ... 1989, Dole was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President | . Then, on January 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded him the Presidentia ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... nation ... of rival claims." Great Britain reacted favourably but President | rejected the plan. Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary were favorable but Germany ... |
Barack Obama | ... e 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported Democrat | in the 2008 presidential election. Dunst revealed that she supported Obama ... |
Suharto | ... b speech while visiting Washington, and a statement to Indonesian President | that Australia was a "West European nation", also damaged the government |
John McCain | ... John Kerry, who received 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican | received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
John Pardoe | ... been ex-members of Mebyon Kernow, including Peter Bessell (Liberal Party), | (Liberal Party), David Mudd (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal Part ... |
Baba Gurdit Singh | ... consisting of the representatives of other units. The idea was supported by | |
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 ... |
Mullah Omar | ... ystematic and they all lead back to the [Taliban] Ministry of Defense or to | himself. |
Lee Teng-hui | ... l Wang Sheng, to Paraguay as an ambassador (November 1983), and hand-picked | as vice-president of the Republic of China (formally elected May 1984), fi ... |
Walter Hallstein | ... and the Commission of Euratom in 1967. The Commission's first president was | (see Hallstein Commission) who started consolidating European law and bega ... |
La Guardia | ... crats and Catholics to supporting repeal led by liberal politicians such as | and Franklin Roosevelt. She, and they, emphasized that repeal would genera ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | La rabbia, 1963. Co-director with | |
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt | A Palestinian Arab revolt broke out in April 1834 when | announced he would recruit troops from the local Muslim population. An est ... |
President pro tempore of the Senate | ... uns from the Vice President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, | , and then through the Cabinet secretaries in a sequence specified by Cong ... |
Tissaphernes | In 396 BC, during the Persian Wars, the satrap | was lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus the Youn ... |
John Sparkman | ... main candidates for this position were Kefauver, Russell, Barkley, Senator | , and Senator A. S. Mike Monroney. After narrowing it down to Senator Spar ... |
George Colley | ... from the very beginning, however, other candidates such as Charles Haughey, | and Neil Blaney threw their hats into the ring immediately. None of the ca ... |
Governor-General | ... ed in the New Year's Honours of 1974. Sir Paul Hasluck was due to retire as | in July 1974, and the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, needed to find a suit ... |
He Yingqin | ... along the Great Wall in 1933. Then in 1935, under the accord signed between | , the commander of Kuomintang armies in Northern China, and Yoshijiro Umez ... |
Hans von Seeckt | ... onservative reactionaries who were sympathetic to right wing organizations. | , the head of the Reichswehr, declared that the army was not loyal to the ... |
Daniel d'Auger de Subercase | ... ch communities but made no attempts on Plaisance. During the winter of 1705 | , the French governor at Plaisance, retaliated, leading a combined French ... |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... inister. Two former prime ministers Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir | served in the 1890s while members of the Senate; both, in their roles as G ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elisha M. Pease | # | , politician and two-term Governor of Texas (elected in 1853 and 1855). Re ... |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... tates government. It wasn't until later that summer when the new President, | , made use of this power. Deputy Director Horace M. Albright had suggested ... |
Ben Smith | ... t asked Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo to name Kennedy family friend | as interim Senator for John's unexpired term, which he did in December 196 ... |
Barack Obama | ... n, Republican John McCain received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 40%. This gives Hampton Township a Cook PVI of R+14 |
John Bolitho | ... one in Restormel (the party leader Dick Cole) and, until his death in 2005, | in North Cornwall. One of the MK councillors in Kerrier, Loveday Jenkin, j ... |
Governor of Illinois | ... ion, but Stevenson refused, stating that he wanted to run for reelection as | . Yet Stevenson never completely took himself out of the race, and as the ... |
John Winthrop | In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor | and Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River i ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ve Party candidate Henry A. Wallace, who had served as Vice-President under | . Wallace was running on an anti-lynching, pro-civil rights platform and h ... |
Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen | With the aid of the Graf von Götzen (named after Count | , the former governor of German East Africa), the Germans had complete con ... |
George W. Bush | ... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
George W. Bush | Relations between Chrétien and | were strained throughout their overlapping times in office. Jean Chrétien ... |
Neil Blaney | ... nning, however, other candidates such as Charles Haughey, George Colley and | threw their hats into the ring immediately. None of the candidates that we ... |
Alberto Fujimori | ... orted radical right-wing governments, such as those of Augusto Pinochet and | of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimori's ministries and pr ... |
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 ... |
Palpatine | ... returned to his command as Rogue Leader to battle against Thrawn, Krennel, | 's clones and lead the team to other battles |
Pat Buchanan | ... and by the Perot wing of the Reform Party, which disputed the nomination of | . Hagelin's running mate in the 2000 election was Nat Goldhaber |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | The administration of President | subjected Mellon to intense investigation of his personal income tax retur ... |
André-Hercule de Fleury | ... hat his successor, Jules Mazarin, was also a cardinal. Guillaume Dubois and | complete the list of the "four great" cardinals to have ruled |
Barack Obama | ... to obtain a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, until | won about 53% of the vote 32 years later. Carter is one of five Democrats ... |
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 ... |
Álvaro Uribe | The government of Colombian President | has resisted criticism of aerial spraying of coca and poppy and has seen m ... |
Adam Bandt | ... Senate in June. Christine Milne was elected as the new leader by the party. | was elected deputy leader |
Member of Parliament | ... comprises the three elected Ward Councillors for the area together with the | for the Birmingham Selly Oak constituency, Lynne Jones of which most of th ... |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 30%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
Leon Panetta | ... r intern starting in July 1995 in the office of White House Chief of Staff, | . She moved to a paid position in the White House Office of Legislative Af ... |
Hannibal | | was a faithful worshiper of Melqart: the Roman historian Livy records the ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Delors | ... of primus inter pares but had an increasing impact on the Community. Under | it became increasingly presidential in style and now is the dominant force ... |
Mike Hancock | ... House of Commons by, respectively, a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, | , and a Conservative MP, Penny Mordaunt |
Stanisław Wojciechowski | ... staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting President | and overpowering the troops loyal to him. Piłsudski was supported by sever ... |
Alfredo Lim | The current mayor for the 2010–2013 term is | , who defeated former mayor Lito Atienza in the 2010 election. The city ma ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... the organisation supported radical right-wing governments, such as those of | and Alberto Fujimori of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimor ... |
John McCain | , Republican | received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
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 ... |
Eliot Spitzer | ... Willis, fell under regulatory investigation under New York Attorney General | and other state attorneys general. At issue was the practice of insurance ... |
John of Austria | ... nd others, under the command of King Philip II's illegitimate half brother, | ) that defeated the Ottoman fleet on October 7 in the Gulf of Lepanto near ... |
John M. Deutch | ... y of the American homeland" appears in the 1998 report by Ashton B. Carter, | , and |
Guillermo Padrés Elías | ... ora would not have its first PAN governor until 2009, which the election of | |
Richard Russell | ... gton. In 1952, Helms worked on the presidential campaign of Georgia Senator | . After Russell dropped out of the presidential race, Helms returned to wo ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
Viceroy Linlithgow | When World war II started, | had unilaterally declared India a belligerent on the side of the Britain, ... |
Hannibal | ... t Ba‘l "Lord" as a name-element in Carthaginian names such as Hasdrubal and | almost certainly does not refer to Melqart but either to Ba`al Hammon, chi ... |
Silvio Rodríguez | ... Latin American artists that influenced them such as Roy Brown, Leon Gieco, | , and Haciendo Punto en Otro Son |
Kris Hanna | ... for State or Federal parliament for the Greens. South Australian Labor MP, | , defected to the Australian Greens in 2003 (before leaving the Greens in ... |
Patrick Harvie | ... e devolved Scottish Parliament, Alison Johnstone, representing Lothian, and | , for Glasgow |
Richard Nixon | ... the 1968 New Hampshire primary, he ended his bid for reelection. Republican | was elected to succeed him. Historians argue that his presidency marked th ... |
Chaim Herzog | According to | |
Jacques Chirac | ... eater European union. In 1978, he was for this reason the obvious target of | 's Call of Cochin, denouncing the "party of the foreigners" |
Ray Mabus | In October 2009, Navy Secretary | , a former Mississippi governor, announced that , a , would be named in th ... |
Luigi Facta | ... re intending to restore law and order. The Fascists demanded Prime Minister | 's resignation and that Mussolini be named to the post. Although the Itali ... |
J. William Fulbright | ... . Dever of Massachusetts, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, and Senator | of Arkansas |
George W. Bush | ... s President, Saddam Hussein. The United States, under the administration of | , argued that Saddam Hussein was a threat to global peace, a vicious tyran ... |
Bill Clinton | ... pelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President | seized upon opponent Bob Dole's promise to take America back to a simpler ... |
David Durenberger | ... e first since Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ) in 1981 (although Senator | (R-MN) pled guilty to a felony more recently, in 1995). Stevens faced a ma ... |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 31%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
Ronald Reagan | Relations between Brian Mulroney and | were famously close. This relationship resulted in negotiations on a poten ... |
Barack Obama | ... d the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2008, the county voted to establish a | Day, a legal holiday, every second Monday of November |
Streynsham Master | ... ond governor of a settlement at Madras (now Chennai), India, in 1687, after | . He was instrumental in the development of the Government General Hospita ... |
Lawrence O'Brien | ... , on May 17, Liddy's team placed wiretaps on the telephones of DNC Chairman | and Executive Director of Democratic States' Chairman R. Spencer Oliver, J ... |
Anna Span | ... tion in the scene "Top Milf") on advice of legal counsel when the director, | , pushed for a hearing with the Video Appeals Committee. The BBFC maintain ... |
Albert Dekker | ... and mother (Anne Revere). Green meets with magazine publisher John Minify ( | ), who asks Green, a gentile, to write an article on antisemitism ("some p ... |
Verres | ... reat veneration in the city, till it was again carried off by the rapacious | . Tyndaris was also one of seventeen cities which had been selected by the ... |
John Kerry | ... ently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator, (Democrat) | and junior senator Republican Scott Brown |
Brian Boru | ... on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king | 's army and for the Viking-led army opposing him. Irish and Viking literat ... |
MPs | ... Central to his strategy was parliamentary abstention: the belief that Irish | should refuse to attend the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminste ... |
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski | ... mic transformation and national industrial development plan led by Minister | , the main architect of the Gdynia seaport project, was in progress at the ... |
Bill Clinton | ... year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President | into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at ... |
Nat Goldhaber | ... nomination of Pat Buchanan. Hagelin's running mate in the 2000 election was | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... with demands that could not be met. In 1952, with the support of President | , he began Mission 66, a ten-year effort to upgrade and expand park facili ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... z Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and | . In the years 2010 and 2011, the Times Higher Education ranked the Univer ... |
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 ... |
Zheng Xiaoxu | ... act as the head of state for Manchuria. One of his faithful companions was | , a Qing reformist and loyalist |
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 ... |
Michaëlle Jean | ... 's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on 6 February 2006 by Governor General | , following the general election that took place that year. As with all ot ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... d Mary, the remaining children of Henry VIII, from the throne, in favour of | .) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: "Seeing ... |
Thomas Dudley | In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop and Lt. Governor | were granted land along the Concord River in the wilderness which was call ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was Rudolf Hess, | 's deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the last state prison ... |
James Grant | ... lmost all of the population of 3,100 Spaniards departed from St. Augustine. | was appointed the first governor of East Florida, and served from 1764 unt ... |
José Manuel Barroso | ... s responsible to Parliament which can censure him. The current President is | , who took office in October 2004. He is a member of the European People's ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role during | 's funeral |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... ief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. An even more prominent example is that of | , whose power was so great that he was for many years the real ruler of Fr ... |
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 ... |
Duke of Montemar | ... Kébir and Oran in 1708. The Spanish returned in 1732 when the armada of the | was victorious in the Battle of Aïn-el-Turk and took again Oran and Mers E ... |
Governor General of Canada | ... assland. When Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, and her husband, the then | , passed through the still unnamed territorial capital in 1882, she named ... |
Salah Khalaf | ... Israel. McKay, p.58; Schiff and Rothstein claim Fatah was founded in 1959. | and Khalil al-Wazir state Fatah’s first formal meeting was in October 1959 ... |
Mitt Romney | ... Republican Party presidential primaries, McCain endorsed former 2008 rival | and campaigned for him, but compared the contest to a Greek tragedy due to ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... ticularly the conservative media. Similarly, George H.W. Bush characterized | as weak on crime (the Willie Horton ad) and hopelessly liberal ("a card-ca ... |
Ronan Lee | ... pendent in the 2006 South Australian election. In 2008, Queensland Labor MP | defected to the Greens, becoming the first ever Greens MP in the unicamera ... |
Harrison A. Williams | ... ator to be convicted by a jury in U.S. history, and the first since Senator | (D-NJ) in 1981 (although Senator David Durenberger (R-MN) pled guilty to a ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... is diary entry of December 13, 1941, the day after Hitler’s private speech, | wrote |
Roelf Meyer | In February 1994, Cyril Ramaphosa and | , chief negotiators of the African National Congress and the National Part ... |
John Moultrie | The Lieutenant Governor of East Florida under Governor Grant was | who was born in South Carolina, he had served under Grant as a major in th ... |
Gandhi | ... vil disobedience movement in India launched on 9 August 1942 in response to | 's call for immediate independence of India and against sending Indians to ... |
John McCain | , Republican | received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
Independent | | | |6 April 200 |
Adolf Hitler | ... oviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving Erich Ludendorff and | took place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Republic, though, Bava ... |
Nellie Tayloe Ross | ... l but eight years between 1975 and 2011. Uniquely, Wyoming elected Democrat | as the first woman in U.S. history to serve as state governor. She served ... |
Independent | | | |28 May 201 |
Carl Levin | ... that resolved the U.S. debt ceiling crisis. In November, McCain and Senator | were leaders in efforts to codify in the National Defense Authorization Ac ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... ates Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and | , he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubri ... |
Bertie Ahern | ... onses==In an address before the Irish parliament on May 11, 1999, Taoiseach | announced a comprehensive program to respond to the scandal of abuse in th ... |
George Clinton | ... y rising 100 feet (30 m) above the river. The fort was commanded by General | , who was the newly appointed governor of the state. Fort Montgomery and i ... |
George W. Bush | In 2007, President | appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at ... |
Lysimachus | ... r of the city, Seleucus fled to Ptolemy and entered into a league with him, | and Cassander (315 BC) against Antigonus. In 314 BC Antigonus invaded Phoe ... |
Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Fredon Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
James II | ... ow Revolution House, was the site of a meeting between conspirators against | in 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, ... |
Howard Dean | In the 2004 US presidential campaign, | defined John Kerry as a "flip-flopper," which was widely reported and repe ... |
David Mudd | ... rnow, including Peter Bessell (Liberal Party), John Pardoe (Liberal Party), | (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal Party) and currently Andrew Geor ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... s of thousands had already been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms. | 's speech at the Posen Conference of October 6, 1943, for the first time, ... |
Donogh O'Malley | ... be undermined as Minister for Finance was when the Minister for Education, | , announced that the government would provide free secondary school educat ... |
William Bligh | In 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty against | led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pi ... |
Blaine Luetkemeyer | ... rt of Missouri's 9th Congressional District and is currently represented by | (R-Columbia) |
David Penhaligon | ... ll (Liberal Party), John Pardoe (Liberal Party), David Mudd (Conservative), | (Liberal Party) and currently Andrew George (Liberal Democrats |
John Kerry | In the 2004 US presidential campaign, Howard Dean defined | as a "flip-flopper," which was widely reported and repeated by the media, ... |
Woodrow Wilson | United States President | responded to the Columbus raid by sending 10,000 troops under Brigadier Ge ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ing us by not admitting it." The famous author and believer in spiritualism | had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician Harry Hou ... |
Lon Nol | ... alindromic names are: Hannah, Maham, Ada, Anna, Bob, Eve, Otto, and Renner. | (1913–1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. Nisio Isin is a Japanese novel ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... ma Senator Robert S. Kerr, Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts, Senator | of Minnesota, and Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas |
Master Tara Singh | ... Azad representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, and | representing the Sikhs—agreed to the proposed terms of transfer of power a ... |
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 ... |
Scott Brown | ... nate by senior Senator, (Democrat) John Kerry and junior senator Republican | |
Vyacheslav Molotov | Sovetsk is the birthplace of | |
John F. Kennedy | ... o planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which | was left to carry out. |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Beer Hall Putsch, also called the Munich Putsch, staged by the NSDAP under | in Munich. In 1920, the German Workers' Party had become the National Soci ... |
Giacomo Matteotti | ... n the 1924 election, thus obtaining control of Parliament. Socialist deputy | was assassinated after calling for a nullification of the vote because of ... |
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 ... |
Richard M. Johnson | ... governed by Cedar County officials. It was named for the US Vice President | |
Douglas MacArthur | Jayu (Freedom) Park- The statue of General, | , as well as a memorial to the centennial anniversary of U.S. and Korea re ... |
Gwilym Lloyd George | ... city of Wales on 20 December 1955, by a written reply by the Home Secretary | . Caernarfon had also vied for this title. Cardiff therefore celebrated tw ... |
Ujjal Dosanjh | ... ch of his term in office, Harcourt and his newly-appointed Attorney-General | succeeded in regaining substantial public support by taking a hard line ag ... |
Steve Stanton | ... ine news when it was announced at a press conference that the City Manager, | was a transsexual and that he was to transition to living as a woman. Afte ... |
William Sayle | ... Irish, one which involved cutting the throats of all the English. Governor | prepared for the uprising with three edicts: the first was that a nightly ... |
Hugh MacDiarmid | ... been translated in English as Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by | and E. Harley Schubert in 1956. A new English translation was published in ... |
George W. Bush | ... linton did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, | strongly carried Franklin County in 2000 and 2004 and like many of the rur ... |
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski | ... f the Commonwealth, there are such names, as Mikołaj Rej, Marcin Czechowic, | and Symon Budny |
Barack Obama | ... ipartisan calls for his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, | and John McCain, were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said ... |
Patrick Hillery | ... atened to tear Fianna Fáil apart. Lynch, and another favourite of Lemass's, | , ruled themselves out of the leadership election from the very beginning, ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... ved on the Trilateral Commission after being president, writing papers with | |
Al Smith | ... mistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat | |
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 ... |
Zheng Xiaoxu | ... at Manchurian Empire, sometimes termed Manchutikuo (Pinyin: Mǎnzhōu Dìguó). | served as Manchukuo's first prime minister until 1935, when Zhang Jinghui ... |
Michael Collins | ... ident of Dáil Éireann (1919–21), President of the Republic (1921–1922), and | , Minister for Finance, head of the IRB and the Irish Republican Army's Di ... |
Andries Hendrik Potgieter | ... beyond the Limpopo (to current day Zimbabwe), never to return to Tranvaal. | , after the flight of the Ndebele, issued a proclamation in which he decla ... |
François Mitterrand | ... sign competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president | . Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engi ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... on County was formed on January 21, 1839. It was named for the US President | |
Alberto Fujimori | ... FREDEMO) coalition, advocating neoliberal reforms, but lost the election to | . He has subsequently supported moderate conservative candidates until the ... |
Member of Parliament | ... eer Joseph Locke. The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the | for Liverpool, who was struck and killed by Rocket at Parkside |
Richard Mentor Johnson | It is named for | , the ninth vice president of the United States |
Dick Cheney | Vice President | , former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, Frank Keating, G ... |
Pompey | ... rful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Crassus, his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, | . The First Triumvirate ("three men"), had satisfied the interests of thes ... |
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 ... |
Charles of Héristal | ... e major cities of Tongeren, Maastricht, and Liège. Pippin was the father of | , victor of the decisive Battle of Tours that stopped the Arab-Muslim adva ... |
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 ... |
Mitt Romney | ... rizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Governor | (R-Massachusetts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while fo ... |
Nelson Rockefeller | ... ident on a ticket headed by President Gerald Ford. Incumbent Vice President | had withdrawn from consideration the previous fall, and Dole was chosen. D ... |
Andries Hendrik Potgieter | ... e. On 16 October 1836, a Boer laager (or fortified circle of wagons) led by | , was attacked by an Ndebele force of about 5,000, who looted all of Potgi ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... esbefehl No. 47, that originated with Hitler's Reich Minister of Propaganda | |
Edward Gierek | ... ted deep dissatisfaction with living and working conditions in the country. | replaced Gomułka as First Secretary |
George W. Bush | ... y, especially in state and federal elections. In 2004, Republican President | won the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Demo ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ing for Northcutt Ely, Stevens volunteered for the presidential campaign of | , writing position papers for the campaign on western water law and lands. ... |
Thomas Dudley | ... in the religiously conservative colony, clashing with the more conservative | and the more liberal Roger Williams and Henry Vane. Although Winthrop was ... |
Barack Obama | ... an John Warner. Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democrat | in 2008, after being won by Republican candidates in the previous ten pres ... |
William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg | ... cle appeared in The Times, written by its traditionally conservative editor | , but the Rolling Stones continued to face legal battles for the next deca ... |
John Sparkman | ... this closed with only 18 vehicles built. With the encouragement of Senator | . the U.S. Army Air Force considered it for a major testing facility, but ... |
Margraviate of Brandenburg | ... esław I Chrobry's conquest of Lusatia. After his death the town fell to the | and then Bohemia. The date of the town's foundation is unknown. However, G ... |
Clint Eastwood | ... ayed South Africa national rugby union team captain François Pienaar in the | -directed film Invictus, which is based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playi ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | ... of Mormonism. In 1833, early in the Latter Day Saint movement, its founder | taught that just as Jesus was coeternal with God the Father, "Man was also ... |
Sir Walter Raleigh | ... er became the Virginia Colony. The enterprise was financed and organized by | and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cou ... |
Marat | ... dies of his sons, sacrificed to his own principles, and the famous death of | |
Nayef Hawatmeh | ... y formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and | 's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Pales ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1 ... |
Cathal Brugha | ... officers and informers, but the list was reduced to 35 on the insistence of | , the Irish Minister for Defence, on the grounds that there was insufficie ... |
Kitty Pryde | ... mita, Jr., and Marc Silvestri. Additions to the X-Men during this time were | /Shadowcat, Dazzler, Forge, Longshot, Psylocke, Rogue, Rachel Summers/Phoe ... |
John McCain | ... ma in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while | received 44% |
Levi Eshkol | ... fter heavy lobbying by Levinger, the settlement gained the tacit support of | and Yigal Allon, while it was opposed by Abba Eban and Pinhas Sapir. After ... |
Rutherford B. Hayes | ... was encouraged. Opposition in Congress to Chinese immigration led President | to authorize James Burrill Angell to renegotiate the treaty in 1880. The t ... |
Rafael Caldera | ... on AD slates. A similar deal had been struck by COPEI in 1968 on behalf of | , promising Miguel Angel Capriles a Senate seat and the right to designate ... |
Jo Byrns | ... ess and industry, famous musicians and singers, and politicians, among them | , Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably President Woodrow Wilson. ... |
Frank Keating | ... sident Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, | , Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dig ... |
Barack Obama | ... tchell County was the whitest county in the country, at 99.27%, to vote for | in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while J ... |
Richard Nixon | A notable event of the 1952 campaign concerned a scandal that emerged when | , Eisenhower's running mate, was accused by several newspapers of receivin ... |
John Jay | ... tates. The population was 2,506 at the 2010 census. The town is named after | , governor of New York when the town was formed |
Jaime Lusinchi | ... ats to publishers in exchange for favourable coverage. In 1983, a deal with | 's presidential campaign resulted in four representatives of the Bloque De ... |
John Warner | ... the election of former Governor Mark Warner to replace retiring Republican | . Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democrat Barack Obama ... |
John McCain | U.S. Senator | (R-Arizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Gov ... |
Alan Dayton | ... s Peter Corroon, a Democrat. Former county mayors include Nancy Workman and | (Workman's deputy mayor; Sworn in as acting mayor in September 2004 when N ... |
Brad Henry | Vice President Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor | , Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and othe ... |
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 ... |
John McCain | ... won nine of these eleven states (for 222 electoral votes), with Republican | taking a combined 49 electoral votes from Texas and Georgia |
Menachem Begin | ... ith David Raziel, who proved to be the most prominent Irgun commander until | . Jabotinsky simultaneously instructed the Irgun to end its policy of rest ... |
Vladimir Putin | Tereshkova was invited to Prime Minister | 's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo for the celebration of her 70th birthday. Wh ... |
Seán MacEntee | ... change was the retirement of such political heavyweights as James Ryan and | , with Lynch taking over from the former as Minister for Finance. This app ... |
Nancy Workman | ... ent county mayor is Peter Corroon, a Democrat. Former county mayors include | and Alan Dayton (Workman's deputy mayor; Sworn in as acting mayor in Septe ... |
George W. Bush | ... ps of Streisand's heated exchange with a supporter of former U.S. president | were sampled in the 2009 Lucian Piane dance song "Bale Out", making it sou ... |
Governor of New York | Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th | , graduated cum laude from Dartmouth with a degree in economics in 1930. O ... |
Brigham Young | ... the United States House of Representatives, was former general counsel for | and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Utah Territory, ... |
King James II | ... now Lakeville Road. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, as | and his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland |
Louis XVIII | ... circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, | , the brother of Louis XVI, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled ... |
Ji Bingxuan | # | 吉炳轩 (2008-incumbent |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... Empire and the British Empire. As a result of the Pakistan Movement led by | and India's struggle for independence, Pakistan was created in 1947 as an ... |
Nikephoros Basilakes | ... the support of Alexios Komnenos, who successfully defeated the rebellion of | in the Balkans (1079) and was charged with containing that of Nikephoros M ... |
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 ... |
Qian Yunlu | # | 钱运录 (2005–2008 |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
Jacques Delors | ... eded for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner and President | . It was established on 1 June 1998 |
Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +18 and is represented by Democrat | |
Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
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. ... |
Seleucus | ... seized the treasures at Susa and entered Babylon. The governor of the city, | fled to Ptolemy and entered into a league with him, Lysimachus and Cassand ... |
Nicholas F. Brady | ... ebruary 1990 after being advised by United States Secretary of the Treasury | , the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the New York Stock Ex ... |
King James VII | ... ith his father. These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting for | in 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to ... |
Peter Corroon | ... unique in that it has a partisan county mayor. The current county mayor is | , a Democrat. Former county mayors include Nancy Workman and Alan Dayton ( ... |
Daniel Webster | ... and United States House of Representatives, such as Massachusetts statesman | . Cabinet members of American presidents include Attorney General Amos T. ... |
Wim Duisenberg | The first President of the Bank was | , the former president of the Dutch central bank and the European Monetary ... |
Pierre Werner | ... was the final institution needed for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of | and President Jacques Delors. It was established on 1 June 1998 |
George W. Bush | President | made note of the anniversary in a written statement, part of which echoed ... |
John McCain | ... 04 and like many of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
Brigham Young | ... humanity were still considered to be co-eternal with God, and not created, | introduced the idea that the "spirit", which he distinguished from the "mi ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1988, Congress passed and President | signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U. ... |
Yigal Allon | ... ing by Levinger, the settlement gained the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and | , while it was opposed by Abba Eban and Pinhas Sapir. After more than a ye ... |
Richard Nixon | | (1913-1994) was the 37th President of the United States |
Leon Trotsky | ... of most soviets at the second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, while he and | simultaneously led the October Revolution. As a matter of political pragma ... |
Silvio Berlusconi | Costanzo had worked for the main TV channel of the Italian premier, | , Canale 5, of which he was also the artistic director |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | Then-U.S. Senator | (D-New York) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then- ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... is one of the Democratic-leaning counties in Central Florida. It voted for | 59% to 40% in 2008. However, the county also voted for Republicans Richard ... |
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 ... |
Stanisław Kania | ... olish state and party leadership. In September 1980, Gierek was replaced by | as First Secretary |
Montaigne | ... lue, as giving us an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages, led | to exclaim that he wished that instead of one Laërtius there had been a do ... |
Li Zhanshu | # | 栗战书 (December 2007-incumbent |
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 ... |
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 |
Chiang Ching-kuo | Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded by his son | . When the younger Chiang came to power he began to liberalize the system. ... |
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 ... |
Bligh | ... d Aitutaki around AD 900. The first known European contact was with Captain | and the crew of the HMS Bounty when they discovered Aitutaki on April 11, ... |
Scott Brown | ... in the United States Senate by senior Senator John Kerry and junior Senator | |
Maryland Governor | ... olds, the Preakness, during its first-ever spring race meet in 1873. Former | Oden Bowie named the then mile and one-half (2.41 km) race in honor of the ... |
Charles Kennedy | ... sh actor Brian Cox, CBE. The current Rector of the University of Glasgow is | MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and a former President of the G ... |
Muhammad | ... ort Caliphate of his son Hasan. This schism occurred following the death of | |
Cardinal Richelieu | He spent most of his working life in Rome, except for a short period when | ordered him back to France to serve as First Painter to the King |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | ... that were savage, biting satires of politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and | , the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the War on Drugs |
J. D. Hayworth | ... , a primary challenge from radio talk show host and former U.S. Congressman | materialized in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Arizona and drew support ... |
Barack Obama | ... independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration of U.S. President | announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and p ... |
Bill Bolling | ... of Delegates, and a majority of the Senate based on the Lieutenant Governor | as the tie-breaker |
John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brow |
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 |
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 ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... their electoral campaign on Chiang's successor, President and KMT Chairman | because of Lee's support of Taiwan for Taiwanese. Chiang Ching-kuo, howeve ... |
Alphonse de Lamartine | ... tic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, | and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolific output in various for ... |
Peter Garrett | ... formed six tracks including the Oils' song "When the Generals Talk", whilst | gave a speech introducing a reformed Crowded House |
Vladimir Lenin | In April of that year, | arrived in Russia from Switzerland, calling for "All power to the soviets. ... |
Lyndon Johnson | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1964, although Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 an ... |
Richard Nixon | Following Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senator | of California as Eisenhower's running mate; it was felt that Nixon's crede ... |
Tian Fengshan | # | 田凤山(1994–2000 |
Lee Teng-hui | ... Martial law was lifted one year later by Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang selected | , a Taiwanese born technocrat to be his Vice President. The move followed ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. President | formally dedicated the MSFC |
Members of Parliament | ... der of a party whose members form a majority, or a very large plurality, of | (MPs). Legally, this may be any citizen of Canada of voting age (18 years ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen | In 1631, army officer | (1604–1679), who was a cousin of stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Or ... |
Porfirio Díaz | During the regime of | from the 1800s to the 1900s, major economic changes occurred. These change ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | Unlike his father | , Chiang Ching-kuo built himself a folk reputation that remains generally ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted | a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida. In 1584, Raleigh sen ... |
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, ... |
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 |
Thomas Jefferson | When President | commissioned the building of the National Road from Baltimore to St. Louis ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... idate in last 48 years. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. The Republican candidate has won by more than 13% in every Presid ... |
Jean-Claude Trichet | ... gium) just before the ECB came into existence, the French government wanted | , former head of the French central bank, to be the ECB's first president |
George W. Bush | ... at least one 'rapid reaction' battalion. When Kabila visited U.S. President | in Washington D.C., he also asked the U.S. Government to train a battalion ... |
MP | In March 1946, British Labour Party | Richard Crossman gave the following description of activity at the hotel: ... |
Eisenhower | ... eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. President | |
Charles de la Tour | The strategic location at the mouth of the St. John River was fortified by | in 1631. The fort was named Fort Sainte Marie (AKA Fort La Tour) and was l ... |
Keiko Fujimori | ... he supported the left-wing Ollanta Humala rather than his right-wing rival | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... help pass measures favored by the Democrats. Johnson, Rayburn and President | worked smoothly together in passing Eisenhower's domestic and foreign agen ... |
Paul Spiegel | ... e Jewish population has swelled in Dresden, as it has elsewhere in Germany. | , the then head of , called the new synagogue a concrete expression of the ... |
Julius Caesar | at:44 text: | murdered. (44 BCE |
Cardinal Mazarin | A centre of cloth production, begun under the patronage of | , supported the town until the late nineteenth century |
Clint Eastwood | ... was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite | in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. In 1976, he starred as the pro ... |
Shirley Williams | ... n which the stranger replied "I'm so sorry. For a moment I thought you were | " |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... h the now-famous activities launched by inventors Alexander Graham Bell and | |
Kathleen Sebelius | ... xpense resulting in another uproar from local residents and Kansas governor | . On August 5, 2008, Colbert apologized to citizens of Canton, Kansas, the ... |
President William McKinley | ... chair was carried out at Auburn Prison. In 1901, Leon Czolgosz, assassin of | , was executed at Auburn Prison. A riot occurred when the Prisoners rebell ... |
John Kerry | ... sachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by Senators | and Scott Brown |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... apparent leader of the Italian unification movement was Italian nationalist | . He was popular amongst southern Italians. Garibaldi led the Italian repu ... |
Barack Obama | On October 25, 2010, the 44th President of the United States, | , visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small Business Admi ... |
Kevin Powell | ... Hall of Fame for his pioneering work in reality television. His housemate, | , became a successful author, poet, journalist, and 2006 candidate for Uni ... |
Mark Warner | ... The party took both U.S. Senate seats with the election of former Governor | to replace retiring Republican John Warner. Virginia, which has 13 elector ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas J. Walsh | ... day of Francis McDonnell’s disappearance, Richmond County District Attorney | announced his intention to seek an indictment against Fish for the boy’s m ... |
Ronald Reagan | Dole ran for the 1980 Republican Presidential nomination, eventually won by | . Despite Dole's fame from the '76 campaign, he was viewed as a lower tier ... |
Ollanta Humala | ... n-off to the 2011 presidential election in which he supported the left-wing | rather than his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori |
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 ... |
Émile Littré | ... ed the election of agnostic intellectuals. Dupanloup resigned in 1875 after | , an agnostic, was elected to the Academy |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... conclusion". It was introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom by | to overcome the obstruction of the Irish nationalist party and was made pe ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... erkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County. In the | , the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin distric ... |
Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
Dennis P. Collins | # | 1974–199 |
DeWitt Clinton | ... sus, the population was 75,382. It is named after early American politician | . The county seat is St. Johns |
John H. Sununu | ... children. After prolonged negotiations during 1989 with Bush chief of staff | and Attorney General Richard Thornburgh to secure Bush's approval, he dire ... |
Nguyễn Hai Than | ... r the Vietnamese Revolution, abbreviated as Việt Cách) which was founded by | and Hồ Ngoc Lam, and which later joined the Vietnamese National Coalition ... |
Julius Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
Richard Nixon | After US President | made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ... |
William F. Knowland | ... wever, Stevens was favored by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, by Senator | of California, and by the Republican National Committee, (Alaska itself ha ... |
François Darlan | ... Tunisia, and intending to facilitate that objective, he gave his support to | as High Commissioner in North Africa, despite Darlan's fascist leanings. T ... |
Joseph McCarthy | In return, the Democrats criticized Senator | and other GOP conservatives as "fearmongers" who were recklessly trampling ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
Håkon Rege | ... n power in some local administrations. The first mayors from the party were | in Sola (1988–1989), Bjørn Bråthen in Råde (1990–1991) and Peter N. Myhre ... |
Chen Shui-bian | Under President | , pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo and his father gradually disappeared from p ... |
Mikhail Chernyayev | ... uffer state. The Russians, led by Konstantin Kaufman, Mikhail Skobelev, and | , continued to advance steadily southward through Central Asia towards Afg ... |
Muhammad | According to Sunni beliefs, | gave no specific directions as to the choosing of his successor when he di ... |
Jim Webb | ... 2006, both parties have seen success. In the 2006 Senate election, Democrat | won on a populist platform over the Republican incumbent following a very ... |
John C. Frémont | Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, | , reported after the gunfight, "Many of the very best law-abiding and peac ... |
Ahmad Shukeiri | ... declared by Nasser to be the "leader of the Palestinians." In December 1967 | resigned his post as PLO Chairman. Yahya Hammuda took his place and invite ... |
Scott Brown | ... urrently represented in the United States Senate by Senators John Kerry and | |
Ben Nelson | ... rict Method in Nebraska, but those bills were vetoed by Democratic Governor | |
Ntare V | ... nd intellectuals. In 1966, King Mwambutsa IV was deposed by his son, Prince | , who himself was deposed by his prime minister Capt. Michel Micombero in ... |
John Olver | ... of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by | of Amherst since June 1991. Massachusetts is currently represented in the ... |
Francis G. Fitzpatrick | # | 1962–197 |
Nick McKim | ... ach, the Greens backed a Labor minority government. Tasmanian Greens Leader | was appointed to the new Labor-Green cabinet, making him the first Green M ... |
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 ... |
Phil Gramm | ... omination against underdog candidates such as the more conservative Senator | of Texas and more moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. However ... |
Joe Donnelly | ... part of Indiana's 2nd congressional district and in 2008 was represented by | in the United States Congress |
George W. Peck | ... h. The first known printed use of donut was in Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa by | , published in 1900, in which a character is quoted as saying, "Pa said he ... |
Jim Nielsen | ... ict. The 3rd district is represented by Dan Logue (R-Chico), and the 2nd by | (R-Richvale) in the California State Assembly. All of Butte County falls w ... |
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 ... |
Bush | ... it favors fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that the Clinton and | administrations publicly recognized through Presidential Task Force Report ... |
Silvio Rodríguez | ... , they played their hits as well as covers from Rubén Blades, Danny Rivera, | , and Puerto Rican Salsa superstars El Gran Combo. At that time, the band ... |
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 ... |
Arago | ... tronomical observations of the known planet Uranus. Encouraged by physicist | , Director of the Paris Observatory, Le Verrier was intensely engaged for ... |
John Dingell | ... Mason, Kicking Daisies and The Explorers Club will perform and Congressmen | and Edward Markey will speak |
Jimmy Carter | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1976 |
Blanton Winship | ... ard of the typical U.S. state and which answered to U.S.-appointed governor | , opened fire upon unarmed and defenseless cadets and bystanders |
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 |
Chen Li-an | ... torate so that electorates would vote for other pro-unification candidates, | and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President Clinton t ... |
Bob Hawke | ... ged. The agreement originally made between the community and Prime Minister | that the climb to the top by tourists would be stopped was broken. The Abo ... |
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 |
Dan Lungren | ... art of California's 3rd congressional district, which is held by Republican | . In the State Assembly, Amador is part of the 10th district, which is hel ... |
Larissa Waters | ... y 2011) are Lee Rhiannon in New South Wales, Richard Di Natale in Victoria, | in Queensland, Rachel Siewert in Western Australia, Penny Wright in South ... |
Stjepan Radić | In 1928, when | was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before king Alexander ... |
Lewis Cass | Cass County is named in honor of | , a Michigan senator and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the pres ... |
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 ... |
Adolfo de la Huerta | ... 920 to the early 1930s, four Sonorans came to occupy the Mexican presidency | , Obregón, Calles and Rodríguez |
Dan Lungren | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +7 and is represented by Republican | . Locally Rancho Calaveras is represented by Calaveras County Supervisor D ... |
Reagan's | ... Dole, a former Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as | Transportation Secretary (which at that time included the Coast Guard), H. ... |
Brian Harradine | ... within the party when the Executive refused to seat new Tasmanian delegate | , a Whitlam supporter who was considered a right-wing extremist. Whitlam r ... |
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 ... |
Al D'Amato | ... rigorous and highly disciplined school that has produced such graduates as | , U.S. Senator |
Étienne Cabet | ... communists. This latter branch of socialism produced the communist work of | in France and Wilhelm Weitling in Germany |
Tip O'Neill | ... only ballot at the Democratic convention, which nominated John F. Kennedy. | , then a representative from Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts, recall ... |
John Edwards | ... eit exurban county. Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator | (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
members | ... 1558, for which Mary had directed the return of "discreet and good Catholic | " |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... by Kakadu National Park to encourage biodiversity. In 1937, U.S. President | initiated a nationwide fire prevention campaign, highlighting the role of ... |
George W. Bush | ... egimental Combat Team, among them Senator Daniel Inouye. In 2005, President | presented the Medal of Honor to Jewish veteran and Holocaust survivor Tibo ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... trum: from the newly unified left of François Mitterrand, and from a rising | , who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wing opposition line. All this, as w ... |
Lin Yang-kang | ... electorates would vote for other pro-unification candidates, Chen Li-an and | . The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President Clinton to invoke the Taiw ... |
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus | ... victory at the Battle of Watling Street in 61 AD between the Roman governor | and the Briton leader Boudica |
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 ... |
Moshe Dayan | ... been buried. In July 1950, the shrine was destroyed at the instructions of | |
Bill Clinton | ... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and | have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Pat Buchanan | ... s and more moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. However populist | upset Dole in the early New Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second ... |
Chaim Herzog | ... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.) | placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ... |
Mayor of the Palace | ... established the Carolingian dynasty. Pippin, lord of Héristal, the powerful | of Austrasia and of Neustria under Merovingian king Theuderic III, probabl ... |
Rob McKenna | ... llan Martin received 67.25% of the vote for state treasurer; and Republican | received 76.28% in his re-election run for Attorney general. All county po ... |
Jenny Kwan | ... ropped to only two — MacPhail and neighbouring Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA | . They were also the only surviving members of the previous Cabinet; even ... |
Léopold Sédar Senghor | ... ch Academy, taking the seat that his friend and former President of Senegal | had held. As a former President, he is a member of the Constitutional Coun ... |
George Habash | ... was indispensable. Many primarily Palestinian political parties, including | 's Arab Nationalist Movement, Hajj Amin al-Husseini's Arab Higher Committe ... |
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 ... |
Wally Herger | ... ty are represented in California's 2nd congressional district by Republican | , while the rest of the county is represented in California's 4th congress ... |
Peter DeFazio | On July 18, 2007, Rep. | (D-OR), a member of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, request ... |
John McCain | In the 2008 elections | received 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for gov ... |
Jim Cairns | ... m was elected leader of the party, defeating leading left-wing candidate Dr | |
Bill Brock | ... a senator, he did not hire a full time campaign manager, former TN Senator | , until the fall of 1987, well after Bush's team had been in place. Despit ... |
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 ... |
Matthew T. Cronin | # | 1912–191 |
Charles V | ... t, Cortés sent a troupe of ōllamanime (ballplayers) to Spain to perform for | where they were drawn by the German Christoph Weiditz. Besides the fascina ... |
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 ... |
Roman Zambrowski | ... t which must be removed without mercy." Another prominent Polish communist, | , said that AK had to be "exterminated. |
John J. Cain | # | 1910–191 |
Steve Kagen | ... 6%. Republicans had a stronghold in the Fox Valley, but elected a Democrat, | , of Appleton, for the 8th Congressional District in 2006. However, Kagen ... |
Bob Hawke | On 11 December 1983, Prime Minister | promised to hand back the land title to the traditional owners and agreed ... |
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 ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... se American members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, among them Senator | . In 2005, President George W. Bush presented the Medal of Honor to Jewish ... |
George S. Patton | ... He also had to skillfully manage to retain the services of the often unruly | , by severely reprimanding him, when Patton earlier had slapped a subordin ... |
Everett Dirksen | ... was one of the most bitter and emotional in American history. When Senator | of Illinois, a Taft supporter, pointed at Dewey on the convention floor an ... |
Dino Rossi | ... ived 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for governor | received 69.83% of the county's vote. They also gave Republican representa ... |
Robert Livingston the Younger | ... f nine children, including Philip, Robert and Gilbert. He was also uncle of | , grandfather of Philip Livingston and William Livingston |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... imed that this immunity was granted after intervention by then US President | . The Department of State "recognize[d] and allow[ed] the immunity of Pope ... |
William C. Farr | # | 1891–189 |
Marie François Sadi Carnot | ... September 187316 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of | , President of the French Third Republic |
Stuart Symington | ... failure of the "Stop Kennedy" coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, | , and Hubert Humphrey, Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at th ... |
Jeff Denham | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
Antonio Gramsci | ... Sraffa is known also for his close friendship with Italian Marxist thinker | and for being instrumental in securing Gramsci's Prison Notebooks from the ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then-U.S. Senator | (D-Illinois) received 40.28 percent of the vote from Franklin County Democ ... |
governor general | ... me minister, along with the other ministers in cabinet, is appointed by the | on behalf of the Queen. However, by the conventions of responsible governm ... |
Carloman, son of Charles Martel | ... ed its re-establishment in 718 by Abbot Petronax, when among the monks were | ; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and Pau ... |
Alyson Huber | ... te Assembly, Amador is part of the 10th district, which is held by Democrat | . In the State Senate, Amador is part of the 1st district, which is held b ... |
Melina Mercouri | The film stars | and Jules Dassin, and it gently submerges the viewer into Greek culture, i ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... e Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Chief Minister of Victor Emmanuel, and | , a general and national hero. In 1866 Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bi ... |
Che Guevara | In 1965 Argentinian revolutionary | used the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training camp for guerrill ... |
Egbert Seymour | # | 1895–190 |
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 ... |
Colin Powell | ... Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General | was the speaker for Damascus High School's Class of 2000 commencement cere ... |
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 ... |
Michael Howard | During the 2005 general election, Conservative leader | visited the town. However, Sanders retained the seat with 40.8% of the vot ... |
Jon Corzine | ... Chris Christie received 66.8% of the vote (11,564 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 26.7% (4,620 votes), with 17,315 ballots cast among ... |
Vito Volterra | ... icular case of composition products considered by the Italian mathematician | in 1913 |
MP | Richard Crossman, a British Labour Party | , whose experience on the Anglo-American Committee had made him sympatheti ... |
Salah Jadid | ... d guilty of the murder. Nonetheless, both were pardoned by Syrian President | . The incident, however, brought Assad and Arafat to unpleasant terms, whi ... |
John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brown |
Russ Feingold | ... islature. Republican Ron Johnson defeated Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator | , and Republicans took two previously Democratic-held House seats, creatin ... |
Juan Ponce de León | The Ais and the Jaega were the dominant tribes in the area when | arrived at the shores near Melbourne Beach in 1513. There were about 10,00 ... |
Samuel de Champlain | ... rers and settlers frequently mentioned Passenger Pigeons in their writings. | in 1605 reported "countless numbers," Gabriel Sagard-Theodat wrote of "inf ... |
Nathaniel Pitcher | ... States. The population was 803 at the 2010 census. The town is named after | , a Lt. Governor of New York |
Gustav von Schmoller | ... st" German historical school of economics, represented by academics such as | and his student Werner Sombart. But, even though Weber's research interest ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he belligerent victory of the Icamiaba “women” over the Spanish invaders to | , who, recalling the of Greek mythology, baptized the river Amazonas, the ... |
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 ... |
Felipe González | ... to gain broaden the scope of Catalan autonomy during the last government of | (1993–1996) and the first of José María Aznar (1996–2000) |
Stephen K. Lane | # | 1879–188 |
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 ... |
Wade Hampton | ... reach Ewell's flank by taking his three best brigades (those of Brig. Gen. | , Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacin ... |
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. ... |
Harold Stassen | ... ower won the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Oregon primaries. | won his home state of Minnesota, and Warren won his home state of Californ ... |
Sir John Lubbock | ... ithos, "stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age." The term was invented by | in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system |
David W. Oliver | # | 1883–188 |
Governor of South Dakota | ... at the 2010 census. The city is named after Charles N. Herreid, who was the | when the town was founded in 1901 |
Scott Brown | ... in the United States Senate by senior Senator John Kerry and junior Senator | |
Bessus | ... Alexander then decided to pursue Darius, but Darius was killed by a satrap | before Alexander reached him |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... itz family broke with the American Communist Party after the publication of | 's Secret Speech in 1956. According to Horowitz, "The publication of the K ... |
Graham Booth | ... oved back and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), whose candidate | improved on his deposit-losing 2001 performance with a 4.7% increase in hi ... |
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 ... |
Norma Torres | ... Negrete McLeod, and in the 61st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Ontario is located in California's 43rd congressional distric ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... terest afterward, feeling that since the country had accomplished President | 's goal of landing on the moon by the end of the 1960s, there was no need ... |
Abelardo L. Rodríguez | ... a Prieta which was signed to formalize Obregón’s and his allies’ (primarily | , Benjamín Hill and Plutarco Elías Calles) resistance to Carranza. This mo ... |
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 |
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius | The first president of the South African Republic was | , elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, ... |
José María Aznar | ... during the last government of Felipe González (1993–1996) and the first of | (1996–2000) |
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 ... |
Henry Meigs, Jr. | # | 1869–187 |
Joseph Stalin | After the death of | on March 5, 1953, Phil Horowitz commented on how the many titles which the ... |
John III Sobieski | ... s. Following the successful defense of Vienna in 1683 led by King of Poland | , a series of campaigns resulted in the return of all of Hungary to Austri ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ay that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against | and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry ... |
Wang Xizhi | ... during his lifetime, the written calligraphy of the "Sage of Calligraphy", | (307–365 AD), was prized by many and considered a true form of personal ex ... |
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 ... |
Tony Tan | ... ear before or after the Chinese given name. Thus, the Singaporean President | might see his name written as "Tony Tan Keng Yam" or "Tan Keng Yam Tony". ... |
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 |
Louis Lucien Bonaparte | ... ed a particular interest about the Basque Language after meeting the Prince | in London. He started his academic work on Basque in 1852 |
Cara Russell | Then current mayor | wrote a column for the Chaffee County Times entitled "How big a payoff do ... |
Barack Obama | ... es, and John Kerry won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, | carried the state by 381,000 votes and with 56%. Republicans had a strongh ... |
Gloria Negrete McLeod | ... ure Ontario is located in the 32nd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 61st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Norma Torres. ... |
Michel de Montaigne | ... had gone in search of gold. Snowed in for the winter, he read the Essays by | . Montaigne's book impressed Hoffer deeply, and he often made reference to ... |
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 ... |
Nicholas Bye | ... r 2005, the winning candidate was a former Liberal Parliamentary Candidate, | , who won the election as a Conservative |
Venustiano Carranza | ... n began in earnest, and Díaz was quickly deposed. The governor of Coahuila, | , sought refuge in Sonora, and became one of the principal political leade ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... McCain - a difference of 296 votes. It was the first time since 1964, when | was the Democratic candidate, that Salt Lake County had voted for a Democr ... |
Horace Mann | ... ponents such as Rebecca Smith Pollard, some American educators, prominently | , argued that phonics should not be taught at all. This led to the commonl ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... s northern Berkshire County, as well as portions of Franklin County. In the | , the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin distric ... |
Joe Baca | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +13 and is represented by Democrat | |
Todd Andrews | ... t, only about a third had been killed. IRA man and future Irish politician, | recalled later, "the fact is that the majority of the IRA raids were abort ... |
Philip Schuyler | ... was formed in 1825 out of Pike and Fulton Counties. It is named in honor of | , member of the Continental Congress and Senator from New York |
Chen Shui-bian | ... arked the end of the Kuomintang's status as the ruling party. DPP candidate | won a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent James ... |
Chris Christie | ... ers, for a turnout of 73.3%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 66.8% of the vote (11,564 cast), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine, w ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... er, when John Hinckley, Jr. made an assassination attempt on then-President | . He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi ... |
Carl I. Hagen | In early 1974, Kristofer Almås, Deputy Member of Parliament | , along with some others, broke away and formed the short-lived Reform Par ... |
Robert J. Dolan | | (D) is the mayor. Melrose is represented in the Massachusetts House of Rep ... |
governor general | ... the United Kingdom, which stipulates that the monarch's representative, the | , must select as prime minister the person most likely to command the conf ... |
Rochambeau | ... as "the village of pretty houses." In addition, French troops under General | encamped in Farmington en route to Westchester County to offer crucial sup ... |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | ... ooning military leaders for political purposes. A pamphlet directed against | is a typical example. During the 19th century, irreverence towards authori ... |
Prince Eugene of Savoy | ... strian defeat. The territorial advances made in the last Turkish War, under | , in Bosnia, Serbia and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia), were obliterated. Popu ... |
François Mitterrand | ... opposition from both sides of the spectrum: from the newly unified left of | , and from a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wi ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... gnised experts, including Benjamin Barber (formerly an adviser to President | ), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (United Nations adviser on environmental issues) ... |
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 ... |
Charles Evers | ... n "Don't Buy Gas Where You Can't Use the Restroom." Along with his brother, | , Medgar also attended the RCNL's annual conferences in Mound Bayou betwee ... |
John C. Frémont | ... -day Saints in the Utah Territory, and a close friend of Arizona's governor | . Virgil and Morgan remained bedridden throughout the trial and did not te ... |
Wilhelm Frick | ... all German police (nominally in that role subordinate to Interior Minister | ) on June 17, 1936. He thereby assumed control of all of the German states ... |
General Patton | ... d food, medicine, and weaponry. On December 26, troops under the command of | broke the deadlock. The official end of the Battle of Bastogne only occurr ... |
Barack Obama | In September 2010, President | informed Congress that the State of Emergency in effect since September 14 ... |
Lamar Alexander | ... Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second and former Tennessee governor | finishing third. Publisher Steve Forbes also ran and broadcast a stream of ... |
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 ... |
Brigham Young | ... ry North America, when by the decree of the President of the United States, | , the Mormon hierarch and head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ... |
Dmitri Shostakovich | ... om the French influence, Gershwin was intrigued by the works of Alban Berg, | , Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, and Arnold Schoenberg. He also asked Sc ... |
Álvaro Obregón | ... orfirian elite. After Díaz was deposed, Carranza competed for power against | and others. The Yaquis joined with Álvaro Obregón’s forces after 1913 |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator | . Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ... |
Louis Blanc | ... al critics, including Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, | , Charles Hall and Saint-Simon, were the first modern socialists who criti ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... . Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of | and Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in huma ... |
Charles the Bold | Image:Charles the Bold 1460.jpg|Portrait of | , 146 |
Allen Upward | ... Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, | and John Cournos |
Muhammad | ... engers, that Bahá'ís name Manifestations of God, and include Jesus, Buddha, | and Baha'u'llah among others. Shoghi Effendi notes that since all Manifest ... |
Barack Obama | ... the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat | won Salt Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over ... |
Ma Fuxiang | ... northern provinces of Ningxia and Suiyuan in China, Chinese Muslim General | both prohibited and engaged in the opium trade. It was hoped that Ma Fuxia ... |
Sir Oswald Mosley | ... ife peer in her own right; Cynthia, who became the first wife of politician | ; and Alexandra Naldera ("Baba"), who married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, th ... |
A-bian | ... lic figures who are well known by their nicknames, including the politician | and the singer A-mei |
John Olver | ... of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by | of Amherst since June 1991. Massachusetts is currently represented in the ... |
James Soong | ... i-bian won a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent | (formerly of the Kuomintang) and Kuomintang candidate Lien Chan. Chen garn ... |
Johnson | ... ek re-election in 2002. His Senate seat was won by Elizabeth Dole, a former | , Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as Reagan's Transportat ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ion focused on Aurora for seven weeks during the fall of 1955, as President | recovered from a heart attack at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. In 1943 t ... |
Ali Abdullah Saleh | ... ion of Yemen. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for President | to resign |
Salvatore Quasimodo | ... ous sanctuary and is also famous for the poem "Vento a Tindari", written by | |
Max Weber | ... as contemporary to the formation of the state, later defined by sociologist | as achieving a "monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force" and whic ... |
John Gorton | ... nister for three weeks until the Liberals could elect a new leader. Senator | won the vote and became Prime Minister. The leadership campaign was conduc ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... s after legal release and distribution rights were granted to video and TV. | directed a heavily modernized Italian film version of the play in 1967. Th ... |
John McCain | ... Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over Republican | - a difference of 296 votes. It was the first time since 1964, when Lyndon ... |
Lien Chan | ... dependent James Soong (formerly of the Kuomintang) and Kuomintang candidate | . Chen garnered 39% of the vote. After the election, Soong formed the Peop ... |
Joseph Doria | ... in a Special Election in November 2008 to fill out the term of former Mayor | , who was appointed by then-Governor Jon Corzine to head the New Jersey De ... |
Governor of Colorado | ... n systems engineered by Eaton and others to this day. Eaton later served as | from 1885 to 1887 |
Angela Merkel | ... ly." Until recently, Greek Euro zone exit was rejected by German Chancellor | . The German government's current position is, to keep Greece within the e ... |
William Shirley | ... al town and government, but the British colonial Governor of Massachusetts, | , denied their request since he wanted to keep the number of towns to a mi ... |
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 ... |
Anders Lange | Founded by | in 1973 largely as an anti-tax movement, the party highly values individua ... |
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 ... |
Anote Tong | ... jing suspended ties on 29 November after failed attempts to lobby President | to change his mind. With relations first established with the PRC in 1980, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Irineu Evangelista de Sousa | ... authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave the Viscount of Mauá ( | ) the task of putting it into effect. He organized the "Companhia de Naveg ... |
Russ Feingold | ... ames Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include Senators Herb Kohl and | , and Congressman David Obey |
Ronald Reagan | ... n presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, | , Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other famous visitor ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ry furnishings were rented from private collectors, including the estate of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rik Daems | ... the demise of the airline. The Belgian politicians got a part of the blame | ;, who, at the time, was Minister of Public Enterprises & Participations, ... |
Vladimír Clementis | ... d denigrated Slovak "bourgeois nationalists", most notably Gustáv Husák and | , in the 1950s, the Slovak branch worked to promote Slovak identity. This ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ond World War in textbooks illustrated with Low's cartoons. German dictator | had a personal hatred of the cartoonist. It is, therefore, not surprising ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... he consorted with Nazi industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that | and Adolf Hitler attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... dollars. On 12 April 1980, he held a meeting with the Indian prime minister | before declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anan ... |
Winston Churchill | ... respect of front-line commanders. He interacted adeptly with allies such as | , Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle. He had s ... |
Richard Leakey | ... Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by | . The oldest Acheulean tools ever discovered anywhere in the world are fro ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | From the 1930s onward a civil war was underway in mainland China between | 's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong. When ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... cique who led the region, was among those that greeted Spanish conquistador | when he came to the island in 1508. Archeological findings have identified ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | found Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particular ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | The government of | increasingly distanced itself from the Afghan communists and the Soviet Un ... |
Pasqua laws | ... France, immigration policies were considerably tightened, starting with the | passed in 1986 and 1993. New immigrants were allowed only through the fami ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... t as a go-between in arms control negotiations with reformist Soviet leader | . The discussions were productive, and Kennedy also helped gain the releas ... |
Zhang Xueliang | ... the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Marshal | , a former warlord of Manchuria, then Japanese-occupied Manchukuo |
John Maynard Keynes | ... r among merchants because it was what is now called "rent seeking". However | argued that encouraging production was just as important as consumption,an ... |
Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri | ... gainst four southern leaders--Ali Salim al-Baidh, Haydar Abu Bakr Al-Attas, | , and Salih Munassar Al-Siyali -- for misappropriation of official funds. ... |
John Gadbury | ... luding William Litchford, whose library included the work of the astrologer | which included astronomical tables by Jeremiah Horrocks, who had died in 1 ... |
von Stein's | ... on's invasion of Russia, following Yorck's Convention of Tauroggen of 1812, | Treaty of Kalisz was signed between Russia and Prussia in 1813, confirming ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... ospital in Battle Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians | and Philip Hart). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in ... |
Arthur Grimble | ... part of the colony in 1919 and the Phoenix Islands were added in 1937. Sir | was a cadet administrative officer based at Tarawa (1913-1919) and became ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... role of "Adenoid Hynkel", Dictator of Tomainia, modelled on German dictator | , who was only four days his junior and sported a similar moustache. The f ... |
Chris Dodd | ... want to commit to anything long-term. He often caroused with fellow Senator | ; twice in 1985 they were in drunken incidents in Washington restaurants, ... |
Homer E. Capehart | From 1959 to 1963 Vance Hartke and | were the U.S. Senators for Indiana, both from Pike County |
Bernardo O'Higgins | ... overnments there. In the 1820s, some of them helped liberate the continent. | was the first Supreme director of Chile. When Chilean troops occupied Lima ... |
Herb Kohl | ... ngressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include Senators | and Russ Feingold, and Congressman David Obey |
Barack Obama | ... Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and | all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have ... |
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 ... |
Aneurin Bevan | ... y J. B. Priestley on "Britain and the Nuclear Bombs", which was critical of | for changing his mind about nuclear weapons and ceasing to advocate unilat ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ľudovít Štúr | ... the 150th birthdays of 19th century leaders of the Slovak National Revival | and Jozef Miloslav Hurban, the centennial of the Matica slovenská in 1963, ... |
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 ... |
Jagjit Singh Chauhan | In 1971, Khalistan proponent | , traveled to the United States. He placed an advertisement in The New Yor ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... tary caste. This impressive and often emotional spectacle — orchestrated by | — aimed to link Hitler's government with Germany's imperial past and port ... |
Vance Hartke | From 1959 to 1963 | and Homer E. Capehart were the U.S. Senators for Indiana, both from Pike C ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ust before the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 12 December 1936, Generalissimo | , the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Mars ... |
Pol Pot | ... ambodia were displaced after being expelled by the Khmer Rouge regime under | . A small, predominantly Muslim ethnic group, the Cham people long residin ... |
Indiana Senate | Boone County is part of Indiana's 4th congressional district, | districts 21 and 23, and Indiana House of Representatives districts 28, 38 ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s and sent them by steamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenants | and Robert Anderson |
Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet | ... esses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769) through his great-grandfather | , and by whom Giscard d'Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, | ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972 |
Josip Frank | ... ty of Rights, a right-wing Croatian political party inspired by the work of | , a fervent nationalist. The party had reportedly not managed to win more ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador | . Ponce is often referred to as La Perla del Sur (The Pearl of the South), ... |
J. B. Priestley | On 2 November 1957, the New Statesman magazine published an article by | on "Britain and the Nuclear Bombs", which was critical of Aneurin Bevan fo ... |
Mitt Romney | ... Hampshire primary on January 8, defeating former Governor of Massachusetts | in a close contest, to once again become one of the front-runners in the r ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... t the Battle of Pichincha, near Quito. Following the battle, Ecuador joined | 's Republic of Gran Colombia – joining with modern day Colombia and Venezu ... |
George Clinton | ... rr, who later became the third Vice President of the United States; General | , who became the first (and longest-serving) elected Governor of New York, ... |
John Hanson | ... The complex at Chapel Point has scenic views overlooking the Potomac River. | , President of the U.S. Continental Congress, was born nearby |
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 |
Lester Bird | ... Pacific Whale Sanctuary in Samoa that Japan had linked whale votes to aid. | , prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, had said |
Cleisthenes | Solon (594 BC), | (508/7 BC), and Ephialtes (462 BC) all contributed to the development of A ... |
Jozef Miloslav Hurban | ... ays of 19th century leaders of the Slovak National Revival Ľudovít Štúr and | , the centennial of the Matica slovenská in 1963, and the twentieth annive ... |
Stanisław Mikołajczyk | ... trolled by the communists. Some democratic and pro-Western elements, led by | , the former Prime Minister in Exile, participated in the Provisional Nati ... |
Salvador Allende | ... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate | for the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ... |
Olaudah Equiano | ... ks and pamphlets. These included books by former slaves Ottobah Cugoano and | , who had published influential works on slavery and the slave trade in 17 ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... akie as "Benzino Napaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator | |
Member of Parliament | ... ty, Henry Grattan. Succeeding, he was later nominated and duly elected as a | for Trim in the Irish House of Commons. Because of the limited suffrage at ... |
Tommy Thompson | ... gure in the early 1950s. Recent leading Republicans include former Governor | and Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include S ... |
Benito Mussolini | The Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator | , and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco "harmonizing" and getting along qu ... |
Al Gore | While serving in the Army, | was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ... |
Indiana Senate | Lawrence County is part of Indiana's 4th congressional district | ;district 44; and Indiana House of Representatives districts 62 and 65 |
Adolf Hitler | ... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, | in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example |
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 ... |
Saigō Takamori | However, he was unable to win over former colleague | regarding the future direction of Japan. Saigo became convinced that Japan ... |
Ngo Dinh Nhu | ... to aid the ARVN in combating the insurgents. A major campaign, developed by | and later resurrected under another name was the "Strategic Hamlet Program ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... e explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for President | |
Elisha M. Pease | ... Texas is a namesake of Enfield, Connecticut, largely named by the family of | former governor of Texas who was born in Enfield, and whose great-great gr ... |
Michael Collins | On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, | , Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipoten ... |
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 ... |
Jan Petersen | ... d criticism by fellow Conservative party member and former foreign minister | |
Douglas McKay | ... n the Department of the Interior, was promoted by Secretary of the Interior | to the Secretary's office. Bennett successfully lobbied McKay to replace h ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... ttempt to soothe public ire, Pei took a suggestion from then-mayor of Paris | and placed a full-sized cable model of the pyramid in the courtyard. Durin ... |
Andragoras | The Seleucid satrap of Parthia, named | , first claimed independence, in a parallel to the secession of his Bactri ... |
José Joaquín de Olmedo | ... deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as Vicente Rocafuerte | ;; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásub ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Giglio | ... f the eastern tier of towns, which are in the 149th district represented by | . The entire county is within the bounds of New York's 27th congressional ... |
Richard Nixon | ... was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, | and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leon ... |
George W. Bush | ... r's abstention did not change who won that year's presidential election, as | received a majority (271) of the electoral votes |
Omar Bongo | ... n the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the expense of the President of Gabon, | . Stoltenberg's first tenure as Prime Minister (2000–2001) was controversi ... |
Mir Chakar Rind | ... century onward, the area was ruled by the Rind (tribe) which was headed by | . In the late 18th century, the Khan of Kalat is said to have granted sanc ... |
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 ... |
Henry Dodge | ... the war, Congress created the Mounted Ranger Battalion under the command of | , which was expanded to the 1st Cavalry Regiment in 1833 |
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 ... |
Lord Mayor of Dublin | ... the orders of King John of England. Following the appointment of the first | in 1229, the city expanded and had a population of 8,000 by the end of the ... |
Peter Stuyvesant | ... tage and an armed squadron of ships under the direction of Director-General | seized New Sweden. The Dutch moved an army to the Delaware River in the su ... |
Thomas Menino | ... illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor | and New York City Mayor . Members of the City Council are Council Presiden ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... i industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that Benito Mussolini and | attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 she disguised her ... |
Herb Kohl | In the United State Senate Wisconsin is represented by Ron Johnson and | . Wisconsin is divided into eight congressional districts |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ut for Bluehouses at the Nevill Ground, where he sometimes played alongside | . He also played cricket for his house at Marlborough College, once taking ... |
Sidney Blumenthal | ... co-hosted a "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, D.C., described by | in The Washington Post as his "coming out" as a social conservative. Accor ... |
Alejandro Lerroux | ... part of the last openly embracing "propaganda of the deed" as advocated by | . Along with Asturias, Catalonia in general and Barcelona in particular wa ... |
Ivo Pilar | ... for high treason and charged with spying for a foreign power together with | , another Croatian historian. Šufflay was sentenced to three years and six ... |
Senator Orrin Hatch | ... federate flag, Helms ran into Moseley Braun in an elevator. Helms turned to | and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to ... |
Karl von Abel | ... n building and works of art. In 1837 the Ultramontanes came into power with | (1788–1859) as prime minister. The Jesuits now gained the upper hand; one ... |
Governor | ... gislative, and the judicial branches. The executive branch is headed by the | , currently Mr. Luis Fortuño, who is also the head of government. The legi ... |
Kevin O'Higgins | ... t leaders, especially Michael Collins, and never came to anything, although | toyed with the idea as a means of ending partition, shortly before his ass ... |
Nancy Johnson | ... an and local Democratic House candidate Chris Murphy who defeated incumbent | . In the 2008 Presidential election, the town's voters supported Democrat ... |
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 |
Joe Lieberman | ... port to Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell, independent U.S. Senate candidate | and local Democratic House candidate Chris Murphy who defeated incumbent N ... |
Turid Birkeland | ... ory. On 14 March 1995, twelve days later, Stoltenberg and former AUF leader | admitted that 'advancing' money to pay for membership fees was a common an ... |
Tom McClintock | ... nty is represented in California's 4th congressional district by Republican | |
James II | ... on and take Anglican communion. When Charles II's openly Catholic successor | attempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for gener ... |
Teina Bishop | ... were provided by New Zealand along with an initial $200,000. Cook Island MP | said "New Zealand aid should have been sent to the devastated area much so ... |
James Forrestal | ... ssioned officer in the Naval Reserve, then asked Undersecretary of the Navy | for a combat assignment. Instead he was sent to inspect the shipyard facil ... |
Horace Mann | ... school system. He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as | and John Dewey and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in ... |
Barack Obama | ... r the nomination, McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while | and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic no ... |
Geraldine Ferraro | ... presidential nominee Walter Mondale and defended vice presidential nominee | from criticism over being a pro-choice Catholic, but Reagan was re-elected ... |
Marozia | ... d been ruled by the so-called "pornocracy" of Roman noblewomen Theodora and | |
Jozef Tiso | ... nderground resistance against the wartime pro-German Slovak state headed by | . In August 1944, Dubček fought in the Slovak National Uprising and was wo ... |
William Seward | ... newspaper, the Jeffersonian, which reached 15,000 circulation. Whig leader | found him "rather unmindful of social usages, yet singularly clear, origin ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. These provisions were later used by | to subvert the rest of the constitution and institute rule by decree, allo ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | Florence was established by | in 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ... |
John Chads | ... destroyed. Almost all of the white population fled to St. Thomas. President | showed considerable personal courage, but little judgement or tact. On 2 A ... |
Barack Obama | ... on. In the 2008 Presidential election, the town's voters supported Democrat | with 8,177 votes over Republican John McCain with 6,839 votes |
Friedrich Ebert | ... t that for the first time included representatives of the Social Democrats, | and Philipp Scheidemann. To improve Germany's standing with the Allies, he ... |
Meiji oligarchy | ... in an attempt to bring about a reconciliation with the other members of the | |
Ronald Reagan | ... ndidates polled more than 90 percent of the county's vote on two occasions, | in 1984 and George W. Bush in 2004. came close to this level in 2008, draw ... |
Hans von Seeckt | ... sued a recapture of their preeminent position in chemical warfare. In 1923, | pointed the way, by suggesting that German poison gas research move in the ... |
Anders Lange | ... on 8 April 1973, attended by around 1,345 persons. The address was held by | , after whom the party was named Anders Lange's Party for a Strong Reducti ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... 1980, when U.S. President Jimmy Carter was running for re-election against | , the misery index (the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rat ... |
Maxine McKew | ... e 11th count, and three-fourths of her preferences went to Labor challenger | . This margin was enough to make McKew only the second person to unseat a ... |
Hermann Göring | ... oup was originally the Prussian state political police under the control of | and commanded by his protege Rudolf Diels. Early Gestapo activities came i ... |
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 |
George W. Bush | ... ed as a commentator and asked several people (including then-Texas governor | ) what they thought of "Prime Minister Jean Poutine" and his endorsement o ... |
Ilham Aliyev | President | 's ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party got a majority of 73 out of 125 seats. The ... |
Louis Rwagasore | ... on for National Progress (UPRONA), a multi-ethnic party led by Tutsi Prince | and the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) supported by Belgium. In 1961, Pr ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
Hamilton Fish | ... 1795–1875). His mother was born in Ireland. He said he had been named after | , a distant relative. His father was 43 years older than his mother and 75 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ajority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton and | won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
Daniel O'Connell | ... alist T. Ryle Dwyer has called him "the most popular Irish politician since | . |
Alberic II of Spoleto | During his pontificate he was subject to | , Prince of the Romans, and did not effectively rule the Papal States. His ... |
Bolesław Bierut | ... d. The People's Republic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as | and Konstantin Rokossovsky |
Ivan Betskoy | ... gan as Catherine's personal collection. At the instigation of her factotum, | , she wrote a manual for the education of young children, drawing from the ... |
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 |
provincial lieutenant governors | ... enators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the | , and approximately 3,100 other positions. Further, the prime minister pla ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and | |
Choudhary Rahmat Ali | ... and of (the) Pure" in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by | , a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Ne ... |
Rob Wittman | Newport News is located in the , served by U.S. Representative | and in the , served by U.S. Representative Robert C. Scott |
Upton Sinclair | ... nced as un-American or unpatriotic. In one typical instance in 1923, author | was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an Industrial W ... |
Reed Smoot | ... David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and | 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Julie B. Beck '73 and '2 ... |
Agénor Bardoux | ... ie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education | , also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat Fr ... |
Catharine Young | ... ed by Brian Higgins) and the New York State Senate 57th district (served by | ). Prior to 2003, the county was part of New York's 31st congressional dis ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | President | performed the song on saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall ... |
Friedrich Ebert | ... e political alignments in Germany at that time and which may have prevented | , the new social-democratic President of Germany, from appointing Weber as ... |
Johan Risingh | ... Casimir was captured by soldiers from the New Sweden colony led by governor | . Fort Casimir was renamed Fort Trinity (in Swedish, Trefaldigheten) |
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 ... |
Philip Hart | ... Center in honor of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, | and Daniel Inouye |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thorbjørn Jagland | ... m Brundtland's cabinet between 1993–1996. In 1996 when Brundtland resigned, | stepped in for her and became the new Norwegian Prime Minister. In Jagland ... |
Pontius Pilate | In the Jews cry out to | "Crucify him" based on the charge that Jesus "made himself the Son of God. ... |
Muhammad's | ... of the Arabic word which means "successor" or "representative". Following | death in 632, the early leaders of the Muslim nation were called "Khalifat ... |
José María Aznar | ... f complaint from Spain). After protests from the Spanish government, led by | , the soldiers were replaced by Moroccan navy cadets who then installed a ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... e Curtiss-Wright Corporation. His character is also an oblique reference to | , in that his ambitions lie not only in Hollywood, but also the Presidency ... |
Indiana Senate | ... t and is represented in Congress by Democrat Baron Hill. It is also part of | districts 47 and 48, and Indiana House of Representatives districts 63, 73 ... |
John McCain | ... n's voters supported Democrat Barack Obama with 8,177 votes over Republican | with 6,839 votes |
Manuel Antonio Flores | ... be the colonial power and despite the capitulation were signed, the Viceroy | did not comply, and instead ran to the main leaders José Antonio Galán |
Carl I. Hagen | ... licy and tougher integration and law and order measures. Long-time chairman | was from 1978 to 2006 the leader and centre of the party, and in many ways ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... tates. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin is a satire on | . Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, Dorothy Parker and ... |
Gustáv Husák | ... t predecessors had denigrated Slovak "bourgeois nationalists", most notably | and Vladimír Clementis, in the 1950s, the Slovak branch worked to promote ... |
Anne d'Ornano | The President of the General Council is the centrist | . She is the wife of Michel d'Ornano, the former dominant figure of the ri ... |
Francesc Cambó | ... identity can be seen in Valentí Almirall. In 1901 Enric Prat de la Riba and | formed the Regionalist League, which led to the electoral coalition Solida ... |
Fred Andrew Seaton | ... igned in order to run for the U.S. Senate from his home state of Oregon and | had been appointed to replace him. Seaton, a newspaper publisher from Nebr ... |
Baron Hill | ... ana's 9th congressional district and is represented in Congress by Democrat | . It is also part of Indiana Senate districts 47 and 48, and Indiana House ... |
Lawson Swearingen | ... and state government watchdog C.B. Forgotston relocated to Hammond in 2006. | , a former Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate and a former pr ... |
Hubert Lazzarini | ... iz Championship in 1948 and 1949, and finishing runner-up in 1950. In 1951, | , the Labor member for the Federal electorate of Werriwa, announced that h ... |
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 ... |
Brian Higgins | ... y is within the bounds of New York's 27th congressional district (served by | ) and the New York State Senate 57th district (served by Catharine Young). ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... e machinations of Vice President John Nance Garner and Speaker of the House | . Johnson was immediately appointed to the Naval Affairs Committee. He wor ... |
A-bian | ... rely used in formal or semi-formal settings, although a famous exception is | |
Harvey Milk | ... seeing the 2008 biographical drama film Milk, in which Sean Penn portrayed | , the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California |
Manuel Zelaya | On February 22, 2008 Honduras President | called on the United States to legalize drugs, in order, he said, to preve ... |
Ali Abdullah Saleh | In November 1989, the leaders of the YAR ( | ) and the PDRY (Ali Salim al-Baidh) agreed on a draft unity constitution o ... |
Dallin H. Oaks | ... Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, | '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Juli ... |
Anote Tong | In September 2008, President | attended the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By ... |
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 ... |
Enric Prat de la Riba | ... e modern Catalan national identity can be seen in Valentí Almirall. In 1901 | and Francesc Cambó formed the Regionalist League, which led to the elector ... |
Vasco da Gama | The Portuguese explorer | reached Mombasa in 1498. The goal of Portuguese presence was not settlemen ... |
Kerry Nettle | ... et increase of one Senator to a total of five. Senators Bob Brown (Tas) and | (NSW) were up for re-election, Brown was re-elected, but Nettle was unsucc ... |
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 ... |
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs | ... d theology, Dartmouth alumni include priests and ministers Ebenezer Porter, | , Caleb Sprague Henry, Arthur Whipple Jenks, Solomon Spalding, and Joseph ... |
Richard Nixon | ... orge V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, | , Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other ... |
Charles V | ... 16th century, the Rebellion of the Brotherhoods (a peasant uprising against | 's administration) and the frequent attack of Turkish and Berber pirates c ... |
Siv Jensen | ... logy and policies of the party. The current leader of the Progress Party is | , who was the party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2009 parliamenta ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while Barack Obama and | fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ... |
Seleucus's | It is generally thought that Chandragupta married | daughter, or a Macedonian princess, a gift from Seleucus to formalize an a ... |
Lala Shevket | ... of the electorate and the second place in election. Third, with 3.6%, came | , leader of the National Unity Movement, the first woman to run in preside ... |
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 ... |
Charles V | ... nd was known as het Sticht. The Bishops ceded the Oversticht to the Emperor | in 1528, who styled himself Lord of Overijssel, thereby giving the provinc ... |
Hermann Göring | ... e "Northern-SS" was under the command of Kurt Daluege who had close ties to | and enjoyed his position in Berlin where most of the Nazi government offic ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... to the right-wing libertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction ( | , Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples ... |
Member of Parliament | ... so reached the British House of Commons when Richard Stokes, a Labour Party | (MP), a long term opponent of area-bombing, quoted information from the Ge ... |
Michel d'Ornano | ... nt of the General Council is the centrist Anne d'Ornano. She is the wife of | , the former dominant figure of the right and centre in the department. Th ... |
Per Borten | ... bour, it formed the basis for an opposition victory under the leadership of | at the 1965 elections. Gerhardsen retired from national politics in 1969 b ... |
Jo Benkow | ... tinian areas". One of the critics, his long-time friend and party colleague | , commented that "On this topic, Willoch must be the most partisan public ... |
Oscar Temaru | ... ribe themselves. Te Ao Maohi - the Maohi world - as an expression coined by | gives an example of this |
Executive Mayor | ... lors are elected by a system of party-list proportional representation. The | and Executive Deputy Mayor are chosen by the city council |
Aklilu Habte Wold | ... up, Haile Selassie left much of domestic governance to his Prime Minister, | , and concentrated more on foreign affairs |
Moshe Dayan | Golda Meir, | , and General David Elazar met at 8:05 am the morning of Yom Kippur, six h ... |
Walter Mondale | ... ded not to run. Kennedy campaigned hard for Democratic presidential nominee | and defended vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro from criticism ov ... |
Tadija Smičiklas | ... reek. Later in life he learned modern Greek, Albanian, Hebrew and Sanskrit. | considered Šufflay his most gifted student and took him as his assistant w ... |
Kenneth Kaunda | ... pound at a rate of 2 kwacha = 1 pound (10 shillings = 1 kwacha). During the | regime the value of the currency was fixed at a rate of approximately 1.2 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ceived the National Medal of Technology (with Steve Jobs) from US President | . In December 1989, he received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree f ... |
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 ... |
Larissa Waters | Other Greens Senate candidates were | (Qld), Richard Di Natale (Vic), Scott Ludlam (WA), Sarah Hanson-Young (SA) ... |
Zachary Taylor | Taylor County was created in 1856. It was named for | , twelfth President of the United States of America, who served from 1849 ... |
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 ... |
J. B. Priestley | ... t James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, | and Joseph Rotblat |
Antigonus Monophthalmus | Following his and Lysimachus' victory over | at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, Seleucus took control over east ... |
Johan Jørgen Holst | ... ior minister. The late Marianne Heiberg, married to former Foreign Minister | , was his aunt on his mother's side. Stoltenberg is married to the diploma ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | ... ril 1975, and was succeeded to the presidency by Yen Chia-kan while his son | succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang (opting to take the title "C ... |
Beant Singh | On 31 August 1995, Chief minister | was killed by a suicide bomber. The pro-Khalistan group Babbar Khalsa clai ... |
Salah Khalaf | ... is work in civil engineering. There he encountered two Palestinian friends: | ("Abu Iyad") and Khalil al-Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), both official members of t ... |
Kenneth Kaunda | ... ckel 5, 10 and 20 ngwee were introduced. These coins all depicted president | on the obverse and flora and fauna on the reverse. A twelve sided 50 ngwee ... |
Gerald of Wales | ... earned", or educated at a university. His contemporary, the medieval writer | said of Walter that the Exchequer was his school |
Georges Clemenceau | ... rman Protestants rejected any “Papal Peace” as insulting. French politician | regarded the Vatican initiative as anti-French |
Antoine Pinay | ... ive grouping. After the proclamation of the Fifth Republic, the CNIP leader | became Minister of Economy and Finance and chose him as Secretary of State ... |
Mayor of New York City | ... mination by pundits as 2007 began, McCain was in second place behind former | Rudy Giuliani in as the year progressed |
Scott Ludlam | ... reens Senate candidates were Larissa Waters (Qld), Richard Di Natale (Vic), | (WA), Sarah Hanson-Young (SA) and Kerrie Tucker (ACT). Ludlam and Hanson-Y ... |
Joe Kennedy | ... ureen Dowd likened the Kennedy family role in US politics, from grandfather | to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, to the H ... |
Thomas Spalding | The County is named for former United States representative and senator | |
Nikolai Bukharin | ... alin struck an alliance with Communist Party theoretician and Pravda editor | and Soviet prime minister Alexei Rykov. Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with L ... |
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud | The term socialism is attributed to Pierre Leroux, and to | ; and in Britain to Robert Owen in 1827, father of the cooperative movemen ... |
Richard Nixon | In 1972, United States President | announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, Preside ... |
Lloyd George | ... , India, at the time) and had lost “his old pompous ways”. Curzon served in | 's small War Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords from December 1916. I ... |
Charles Calvert | ... ulation was 146,551. Its county seat is La Plata. This county was named for | (1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore |
Adolf Hitler | ... hree women left Germany in the 1930s and went to England, after the rise of | . Charles Susskind interviewed Mathilde Hertz in the 1960s and he later pu ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ntly screened it in the White House, as did many other American presidents. | cited High Noon as his favorite film and screened it a record 17 times at ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... te: nine votes for Republican Benjamin Harrison and five votes for Democrat | . Once the Republican party regained control of the state legislature, the ... |
Herb Wesson | ... vernor, Schwarzenegger engaged in a light-hearted exchange with Assemblyman | over their heights. At one point Wesson made an unsuccessful attempt to, i ... |
Chris Murphy | ... nt U.S. Senate candidate Joe Lieberman and local Democratic House candidate | who defeated incumbent Nancy Johnson. In the 2008 Presidential election, t ... |
François Mitterrand | When | was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for ... |
Getúlio Vargas | ... arge tracts of land. The original architect of this expansion was President | , with the demand for rubber from the Allied forces in World War II provid ... |
Oden Bowie | ... s, during its first-ever spring race meet in 1873. Former Maryland Governor | named the then mile and one-half (2.41 km) race in honor of the colt Preak ... |
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 ... |
Indiana Senate | ... ion of the county is in Indiana's 6th congressional district. It is part of | districts 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19; and Indiana House of Representatives dist ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... 2007 began, McCain was in second place behind former Mayor of New York City | in as the year progressed |
Luigi Sturzo | ... improved as well, as the Pope now permitted Catholic politicians led by Don | to participate in national Italian politics |
Joseph Devlin | ... of London for funerals at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. When | , an Irish Parliamentary Party MP, tried to bring up the Croke Park killin ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... 90 percent of the county's vote on two occasions, Ronald Reagan in 1984 and | in 2004. came close to this level in 2008, drawing 85 percent of the vote |
Grigory Sokolnikov | ... ov. Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with Lenin's widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and | , the Soviet Commissar of Finance and non-voting Politburo member. The str ... |
Brian Friel | ... ish. Following the success of the Field Day Theatre Company's production of | 's Translations, Heaney joined the company's expanded Board of Directors i ... |
Wade Hampton | ... sus. It is named for American Civil War general and South Carolina governor | |
Benjamin Harrison | ... n). The plan worked, and Michigan split its vote: nine votes for Republican | and five votes for Democrat Grover Cleveland. Once the Republican party re ... |
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 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... made about aerial bombardment of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with | , then-Secretary of State at the British War Office, arguing in favor of i ... |
Marlin Stutzman | ... ounty is part of Indiana's 3rd congressional district and is represented by | in the United States Congress; a portion of the county is in Indiana's 6th ... |
Toussaint Louverture | ... ame more politically conscious of his roles. In 1936, he played the role of | in the play, of the same name, by C.L.R. James at the Westminster Theatre ... |
Mussolini | ... gure could be found for Danes. However, Munk's attitude towards Hitler (and | ) turned to outspoken disgust, as he witnessed Hitler's persecution of the ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... , Kennedy supported the eventual Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Governor | , from the start of the campaign. In the fall, Dukakis fell to George H. W ... |
Barack Obama | ... ut you have to go within the system to find what you want." Leary supported | in the 2008 presidential election |
James K. Polk | ... 1851, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, the county is named after | , the eleventh President of the United States |
Bill Bourke | ... d tumble debate in the House of Representatives, Whitlam called fellow MHRs | "this grizzling Quisling", Garfield Barwick (who would, as High Court Chie ... |
Carlos Reutemann | ... team ran three different models, were pole position for Argentinian driver | at his home race at Buenos Aires and a victory in the non-championship Int ... |
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 ... |
Vasco da Gama | ... ers first reached Indian shores with the arrival of the Portuguese explorer | in 1498 at the port of Calicut, in search of the lucrative spice trade. Ju ... |
George W. Bush | ... ress taking positions in support of the U.S. Republican Party and President | on topics such as the validity of the 2000 Presidential Election results i ... |
Pasqua laws | ... f the 1990s, France has been attempting to curb immigration, first with the | , followed by both right-wing and socialist-issued laws. This trend is als ... |
Frank Carlson | ... ublican nomination for the United States Senate to succeed retiring Senator | , subsequently being elected. Dole was re-elected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and ... |
Seleucus | ... new subdivision of the empire with the Partition of Triparadisus in 320 BC. | , who had been "Commander-in-Chief of the camp" under Perdiccas since 323 ... |
Ludwig Kaas | ... mocrats were physically removed. After meeting with Centre leader Monsignor | and other Centre Trade Union leaders daily and denying them a substantial ... |
Philipp von Cobenzl | ... s entirely excluded. This led to the dismissal of Francis's chief minister, | , and his replacement with Franz Maria Thugut |
Douglas MacArthur | Johnson reported to General | in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group ba ... |
Kerrie Tucker | ... d), Richard Di Natale (Vic), Scott Ludlam (WA), Sarah Hanson-Young (SA) and | (ACT). Ludlam and Hanson-Young were elected and took up office on 26 Augus ... |
Thorvald Stoltenberg | Stoltenberg grew up in a political family. His father, | , is one of the most prominent politicians in Norway and a former Foreign ... |
Benjamin Gitlow | The most important ACLU case of the 1920s was Gitlow v. New York, in which | was arrested for violating a state law against inciting anarchy and violen ... |
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 ... |
François Mitterrand | ... e announced his candidacy for the presidency. His two main challengers were | for the left and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former Gaullist prime minister. ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... tually gained the respect of people with conservative/anti-communist views. | , a conservative and fervent anti-Communist, said he appreciated the film ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of World War II. By 1940 Göring was at the peak of his power and influence. | had promoted him to the rank of Reichsmarschall, making Göring senior to a ... |
Ernest Gruening | ... cial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: | and William Egan as U.S. Senators and as U.S. representative |
C. A. Wurtz | ... y. He then studied in Bonn, Germany with Friedrich Kekulé and in Paris with | . He received his doctorate under Eduard Mulder at the University of Utrec ... |
Liv Signe Navarsete | ... ntre Party leader and Minister of Local Government and Regional Development | , Stoltenberg's second term has attracted controversy and criticism from b ... |
Arthur Calwell | ... eaders exited the scene. Most Labor leaders, including Evatt, Deputy Leader | , Eddie Ward, and Reg Pollard, were in their sixties, twenty years older t ... |
Thomas E. Dewey | ... ers and many believed he was foregoing his only opportunity to be president | ;was considered the other probable winner, would presumably serve two term ... |
Wade Hampton | ... major general rank, while at the same time promoting Stuart's subordinates | and Fitzhugh Lee to major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke. ... |
John McCain | ... ). In 2008 Valley County was much more competitive than in recent years, as | defeated Barack Obama by only 7% (52-45%) |
George W. Bush | On December 13, 2001, | gave Russia notice of the United States' withdrawal from the treaty, in ac ... |
Orrin Hatch | ... dy continued his close working relationship with ranking Republican Senator | , and they were close allies on many health-related measures |
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 ... |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... s and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of | . King has become a national icon in the history of modern American libera ... |
James Larkin | ... ition during the 1913 – 1914 Dublin Lockout, when he saw the syndicalism of | as aimed at crippling Irish industry for Great Britain's benefit) |
Rawlins Lowndes | ... South Carolina lawyer and Congressman whose father, South Carolina Governor | , had been a Revolutionary War leader |
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 ... |
Lim Guan Eng | The Chief Minister of Penang is | from the Democratic Action Party (DAP). Following the 12th general electio ... |
Allen West | ... Manors citizens are represented in Congress by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and | |
Meriwether Lewis | George Mathews (1739–1812) - Revolutionary hero and twice Governor | (1774–1809) was a teenage resident and later the leader of the Lewis and C ... |
Muhammad | ... f socialism. Muslim socialists believe that the teachings of the Qur'an and | are compatible with principles of equality and public ownership drawing in ... |
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 ... |
German East Africa | ... ka originally consisted of the British share of the former German colony of | which the British took under a League of Nations Mandate in 1922, later tr ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... chool District. Harrison City is named after former United States President | |
Ali Nasir Muhammad | ... president Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile. His successor, | , took a less interventionist stance toward both North Yemen and neighbour ... |
György Lukács | ... g Jellinek, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, Marc Bloch, Robert Michels and | . Weber also remained active in Verein and the Evangelical Social Congress ... |
Barack Obama | ... nty was much more competitive than in recent years, as John McCain defeated | by only 7% (52-45%) |
Eddie Ward | ... e scene. Most Labor leaders, including Evatt, Deputy Leader Arthur Calwell, | , and Reg Pollard, were in their sixties, twenty years older than Whitlam. ... |
Abdul Fattah Ismail | In 1980, PDRY president | resigned and went into exile. His successor, Ali Nasir Muhammad, took a le ... |
Nikola Tomašić | ... Rauch appointed him a university professor in Zagreb in 1908. However, when | , his distant cousin and enemy, became ban in 1910, Šufflay had to leave t ... |
Denise Moreno Ducheny | ... ature Indio is located in the 40th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 80th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Manuel Perez. ... |
Members of Parliament | | (Sejm) elected from Opole constituenc |
Yuri Andropov | The project was a blow to | 's so-called "peace offensive". Andropov said that "It is time they [Washi ... |
Nawab of Bengal | ... India Company's Bengal army under Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daula, the | , the Company established itself as a major player in Indian affairs, and ... |
Ottobah Cugoano | ... English-language books and pamphlets. These included books by former slaves | and Olaudah Equiano, who had published influential works on slavery and th ... |
Wilson Lumpkin | ... s a teenage resident and later the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | (1783–1870) - Governo |
Måns Nilsson Kling | ... governor of New Sweden were carried out by Lieutenant (promoted to Captain) | , until a new governor was chosen and brought from Sweden two years later |
Dan Burton | ... which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+20 and has been represented by | for over 25 years |
Peggy Duff | ... . Collins was chosen as its Chairman, Bertrand Russell as its President and | as its organising secretary. The other members of its executive committee ... |
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 ... |
Muhammad | ... inspiration from the early madina welfare state established by the Prophet | . Muslim Socialists are more conservative than their western contemporarie ... |
David Levy Yulee | In 1851, | established a sugar plantation on the Homosassa River, close to the curren ... |
Francesco Crispi | In 1887, Depretis cabinet minister and former Garibaldi republican | became Prime Minister. Crispi's major concerns before during his reign was ... |
Members of Parliament | ... ir frequently expressed support for the United States in this matter, while | (MPs) were divided. Blair experienced a significant rebellion from many La ... |
Christine Milne | In November 2008, Senator | was elected Deputy Leader. The ballot was also contested by Senator Rachel ... |
Reg Pollard | ... bor leaders, including Evatt, Deputy Leader Arthur Calwell, Eddie Ward, and | , were in their sixties, twenty years older than Whitlam. In 1960, after l ... |
Prince Wilhelm of Baden | Born in Baden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of | , third son of Leopold, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilian ... |
Johan Björnsson Printz | Under | , governor from 1643 to 1653, the company expanded along the river from Fo ... |
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 ... |
Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais | ... Hope. The Port is named in honour of King Louis XV. The first Governor was | |
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 ... |
Pete McCloskey | ... nized as such. The legal challenges were led by former U.S. Congress member | , who represented one of the real-estate brokers whose original blockbusti ... |
Texas military hero | The county is named not after the familiar | but rather after Georgia governor John Houstoun (who used that spelling du ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo hand-picked | as vice-president of the Republic of China, first-in-the-line of successio ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... out the decisions of voters in other time zones. In 1980, NBC News declared | to be the winner of the presidential race on the basis of the exit polls s ... |
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 ... |
Robert Menzies | ... red. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return to power. The Prime Minister, | , adroitly used the defection of a Soviet official to his advantage, and h ... |
Governor of Massachusetts | ... id off when he won the New Hampshire primary on January 8, defeating former | Mitt Romney in a close contest, to once again become one of the front-runn ... |
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 ... |
Henry Vane | ... assistant, while the influx of migrants brought first John Haynes and then | to the governorship. These two men, along with Anne Hutchinson and pastors ... |
Roosevelt | ... declared "the first international airport of the Americas" by US president | |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... DPA, حزب دیموکراتیک خلق افغانستان) orchestrated a bloody coup assassinating | , his family and bodyguards and consequently assuming power. The PDPA soon ... |
Nelson Rockefeller | ... the Rockefeller drug laws after New York Governor and later Vice President | . Similar laws were introduced across the United States |
governor general | ... hen, in fact, that post is held by the Canadian monarch, represented by the | . The prime minister is, instead, the head of government, and is responsib ... |
German East Africa | ... f the old Greek empire. It was not until 1899 that Burundi became a part of | . Unlike the Rwandan monarchy, which decided to accept the German advances ... |
Rachel Siewert | ... e Milne was elected Deputy Leader. The ballot was also contested by Senator | |
Viviane Reding | ... ating these actions to pursue its political agenda. EU Justice Commissioner | stated that the European Commission should take legal action against Franc ... |
Guo Jinlong | The Ceremony included the handover of the Games from Beijing to London. | , the Mayor of Beijing handed over the Olympic flag to the Mayor of London ... |
Diego Columbus | ... e then was active in leading the conquest of Cuba in 1511 under orders from | , recently restored as Viceroy of the Indies. He founded a number of new S ... |
Henry Clay | ... apitol to Annapolis Junction in Maryland. That day the Whig Party nominated | at its national convention in Baltimore. News of the nomination was hand-c ... |
Gordon Brown | The Rt. Hon. | , the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was Rector of the Unive ... |
Makino Nobuaki | ... f Japan, is a great-great-grandson of Ōkubo Toshimichi. Ōkubo's second son, | , served as Foreign Minister |
William H. Crawford | | (1772–1834) - U.S. Minister to France, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secreta ... |
Alfred Hugenberg | ... es, representing a minority in the Reichstag: The Nazis and the DNVP led by | (196 + 52 seats). According to the Nuremberg Trials, this cabinet meeting' ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... schar (1st Croatian), the first non-Germanic division, was formed, to fight | 's Yugoslav Partisans. This was followed by the 14th Waffen Grenadier Divi ... |
Rahm Emanuel | ... the Wall Street Journal, after commenting on Barack Obama's appointment of | : "It does not look too promising, he has chosen a chief of staff who is J ... |
Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial | ... ent by philanthropist Charles Wakefield in his capacity as President of the | . Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons described the section of keel as ... |
Adele Carles | ... n May 2009, the Greens won their second ever single-member electorate, with | winning the Fremantle by-election for the Western Australian Legislative A ... |
Edgar Faure | ... ded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister | (1955–1956) |
Salva Kiir Mayardit | | | |SPL |
Joe Lieberman | ... ozen other state newspapers, as well as from Independent Democratic Senator | . McCain decided not to campaign significantly in the January 3, 2008, Iow ... |
Heinrich Brüning | ... the Communists, even threatening their lives on 3 March. Former Chancellor | proclaimed that his Centre Party would resist any constitutional change an ... |
Bill Clinton | ... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of | , remarking, "There is no crisis in health care. |
Joe Biden | ... abor and Public Welfare Committee. By now Kennedy had become what colleague | termed "the best strategist in the Senate," who always knew when best to m ... |
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 ... |
Willem Kieft | Director | objected to the landing of the Swedes, but Minuit ignored him, since he kn ... |
Lord Frederick Cavendish | ... eland (the British Cabinet minister with responsibility for Irish affairs), | , and his Undersecretary (chief civil servant), Thomas Henry Burke, were s ... |
Indiana Senate | Hamilton County is part of Indiana's 5th congressional district | ;districts 20, 21, 28, 29 and 30; and Indiana House of Representatives dis ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... ringing the giant lake's plight to national attention. Speaker of the House | made a public appearance and speech at the shore of the lake on Bono's beh ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... imply was no popular vote for President in those states. Even in 1824, when | lost in spite of having pluralities of both the popular and electoral vote ... |
Ronald Reagan | The treaty was undisturbed until | announced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on March 23, 1983. On the ... |
Rafał Leszczyński | Born in Lviv in 1677, he was the son of | , voivode of Poznań Voivodeship, and Anna Katarzyna Jabłonowska. He marrie ... |
Ken Cuccinelli | ... and being served on the University of Virginia by Virginia Attorney General | , seeking a broad range of documents from Michael E. Mann, who was formerl ... |
John Wilkes | The journalist | published a newspaper called The North Briton, in which both Bute and the ... |
Kenneth Kaunda | Until 1991, all Zambian banknotes featured a portrait of President | on the obverse. Since 1992, all notes have instead featured a fish eagle o ... |
Pontius Pilate | ... Herodian Temple, Quirinius' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as | , Herod the Great, Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the b ... |
Lluís Companys | Under its two presidents, Francesc Macià (1931–1933) and | (1934–1939), the republican Generalitat carried out a considerable task, d ... |
Elio Vittorini | ... he passed four exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by | , Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works ... |
Charles V | :For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor | , see: William de Croÿ |
Terrance B. Lettsome | ... to Beef Island by a new bridge. The Beef Island airport (now renamed after | ) was built shortly thereafter. The Territory considered holding a plebisc ... |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... and emergence of Indian leadership at both national and provincial levels. | formed the East India Association in 1867, and Surendranath Banerjee found ... |
Steve Fielding | ... e than four to one first-preference votes, Victorian Family First candidate | was elected on preferences over the Australian Greens' David Risstrom, an ... |
Tor Mikkel Wara | While many of the libertarians, including Pål Atle Skjervengen and | , had left the party before the 1993 election or had been rejected by vote ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Dudley | ... g the Norridgewock tribe against the New Englanders. Massachusetts Governor | put a price on his head. In the winter of 1705, 275 British soldiers under ... |
Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi | ... be left for future generations." On January 25, 2004, senior Hamas official | offered a 10-year truce, or hudna, in return for the establishment of a Pa ... |
Dan Duffy | In the Illinois Senate, McHenry County is served by Pamela Althoff (R) and | (R) and in the Illinois House of Representatives by Mike Tryon (R), Jack F ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
Jerry McNerney | ... fornia's 11th and 18th congressional districts, which are held by Democrats | and Dennis Cardoza respectively. In the State Assembly San Joaquin is part ... |
Artur Rasizade | | | |New Azerbaijan Party (YAP |
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty | ... se afterwards was known “Gandhi Mandiram” in Chembukkavu. In the mean time, | , the controversial Diwan of Cochin Kingdom from 1935 to 1941, was develop ... |
Fidel V. Ramos | ... Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. General | took a stand against Marcos, ushering in the bloodless People Power Revolu ... |
Gilles Rocheleau | ... t Tremblay, Gilbert Chartrand, and François Gérin, along with two Liberals, | and Jean Lapierre. The first Bloquiste candidate to be elected was Gilles ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | On December 12, 2003, he was appointed by then Governor General | as the twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada. When sworn in as Prime Minis ... |
Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
Tim Johnson | ... n County and across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation helped narrowly elect | to office. The county has the distinction of having the highest percentage ... |
Richard Nixon | ... bert Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President | 's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's r ... |
Two-Face | ... om Batman's own rogues gallery (such as the Joker, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, | , the Scarecrow, Bane, Killer Croc, and Harley Quinn) have been imprisoned ... |
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 ... |
Alan Shatter TD | ... for Children, Barry Andrews. The spokesperson for family law and children, | , robustly defended its proposals as the only means of reducing public exp ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... icted for defrauding the Post Office, they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for | , the newly elected President of the United States |
Benito Mussolini | ... ainly because of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of | in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism. T ... |
Joseph L. Bristow | ... roduced to the American lexicon. During a Senate debate in 1917, as Senator | cataloged a long list of what he felt the country needed, Marshall leaned ... |
William H. Emory | ... 1851 Army officer and geographer Lt. Nathaniel Michler, working under Major | , mapped this portion of the boundary between Mexico and the United States ... |
Alfred Marie-Jeanne | ... ular vote to serve six-year terms. The President of the Regional Council is | |
Michael Collins | ... of the secretive Irish Republican Brotherhood and IRA Chief of Intelligence | had operated a clandestine "Squad" of IRA members in Dublin (a.k.a. "The T ... |
Cathleen Galgiani | ... the 10th, 15th, 17th, 26th Assembly districts. The 17th is held by Democrat | while the 10th, 15th, and 26th are held by Democrats Alyson Huber and Joan ... |
Michael Collins | ... ts on the morning of 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, under | and Richard Mulcahy to wipe out the British intelligence organisation in t ... |
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 ... |
Galeazzo Ciano | ... h a golden clasp, smoking an unusually large pipe. Italian Foreign Minister | once noted Göring wearing a fur coat that looked like what "a high grade p ... |
Gilbert Hedden | ... newspaper printed a feature story about the strange history of the island. | , operator of a steel fabricating concern, saw the article and was fascina ... |
George S. Patton | On December 9, 1945, US Army General | had a car accident in the adjacent city of Mannheim, and died in the Heide ... |
Independent | ... 1999, by a bipartisan vote of 343-86 (Republicans 205–16; Democrats 138–69 | ;0–1), two months after the Senate had already passed its version of the b ... |
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. | ... would undermine support for the civil rights movement. U.S. Representative | , who was a member of the SCLC's board, forced Rustin's resignation from t ... |
Dixie B. Graves | ... s voted against Black. Alabama Governor Bibb Graves appointed his own wife, | , to fill Black's vacated seat |
William Mahone | ... onflict through an elaborate ruse orchestrated by civilian railroad builder | (soon to become a famous Confederate officer). The Union forces withdrew t ... |
Artur Rasizade | ... art problems. In August 2003, İlham Aliyev was appointed as premier, though | , who had been prime minister since 1996, continued to fulfill the duties ... |
Eugenio Montale | ... exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, | , Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, We ... |
Robert Bork | On October 20, 1973 Solicitor General | was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President Richard ... |
Pål Atle Skjervengen | While many of the libertarians, including | and Tor Mikkel Wara, had left the party before the 1993 election or had be ... |
Dennis Cardoza | ... 8th congressional districts, which are held by Democrats Jerry McNerney and | respectively. In the State Assembly San Joaquin is part of the 10th, 15th, ... |
Joseph Goebbels | In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister | told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that British political cartoon ... |
Muhammad Salih | ... ntested election. Karimov drew 86% of the vote against opposition candidate | (also spelled "Salih" or "Salikh" ), whose showing experts praised in view ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Best Actor. Co-star Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husband | for him, albeit unsuccessfully |
Pervez Musharraf | ... ge number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. President | studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
Pontius Pilate | ... inity is compared to the New Testament scene of Jesus being interrogated by | |
Frank L. Greene | ... 1915 an inquiry was initiated by U.S. congressmen William Henry Coleman and | . This resulted in the U.S. Army's admitting its denial of the matter. The ... |
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 ... |
Vasco da Gama | ... fore it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1486. | recorded a sighting of the Cape of Good Hope in 1497. In the late 16th cen ... |
Maximilian von Montgelas | ... xiled to Ansbach after Zweibrücken had been taken by the French. In Ansbach | wrote an elaborate concept for the future political organisation of Bavari ... |
Felisa Rincón de Gautier | On January 2, 1947, the people of San Juan elected | (also known as Doña Fela) (1897–1994) as their mayor. Thus, she became the ... |
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 ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... Pashtun officers. The generals rebelled and the situation was taken over by | , who held general rank as head of the Jowzjani militia, also based in Maz ... |
Gerald of Wales | ... erson at 165 m (180 yards) "part of the time" and could always hit an army. | commented on the power of the Welsh longbow in the 12th century |
Cesare Pavese | ... t year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale, | , Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg ... |
Shavkat Mirziyoyev | | | |
Harcharan Singh Longowal | ... rty decided to join hands with him. In August 1982, under the leadership of | , the Akali Dal launched the Dharam Yudh Morcha ("Group for the Battle for ... |
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 ... |
Islam Karimov | ... d replaces provincial governors. Under terms of a December 1995 referendum, | 's first term was extended. Another national referendum was held January 2 ... |
George W. Bush | ... e Atlantic Ocean surrounding the island, but this was ended after President | ordered the closure of the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station and the Vieques I ... |
William Richardson Davie | ... Corkle Place is the Davie Poplar tree under which the university's founder, | , supposedly selected the location for the university. The legend of the D ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... rnment. The rigidity of interpretive possibilities reached its height under | |
Heinrich Himmler | ... known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection). Later under the leadership of | between 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the "Schutz-Staffel" and grew fr ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... die Howe, entertainers like Boris Karloff and Ed Sullivan, and writers like | . From 1957 to 1979, the show featured many non-Canadians whose trips to T ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat | won 54% of the county's vote |
Douglas MacArthur | General | , the Army’s Chief of Staff, believed that the 1921 mobilization plan was ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Dudley | In May 1707, Massachusetts Governor | organized an expedition to take Port Royal. Led by John March, 1,600 men f ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in August, Mayor of Chicago | and some other party factions feared that Hubert Humphrey could not unite ... |
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 ... |
William Jervois | ... ther exploits or give him much in the way of financial reward. Governor Sir | claimed on 11 October 1881, 'I am informed that he gambles and that his ha ... |
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg | ... of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415. However, after the 1440 death of | , the Franconian cadet branch of the family was not politically united wit ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... was George Washington Baines, maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President | . Within Saline is the Magnolia Baptist Church. Several miles east of Sali ... |
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 ... |
Feroze Gandhi | ... se she had no real education. During her stay in the UK, she frequently met | , whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the . The marriage ... |
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 ... |
Margraviate of Brandenburg | ... lerns made Ansbach the seat of their dynasty until their acquisition of the | in 1415. However, after the 1440 death of Frederick I, Elector of Brandenb ... |
Heydar Aliyev | The National Council conferred presidential powers upon its new speaker, | , former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party (1969–81) and ... |
Alexander Wilson | ... office only because of the support of two independent MPs, Arthur Coles and | . The UAP–Country Party coalition and the Labor parties won 36 seats each. ... |
Fredrick Augustus Pickering | ... n of 1853. This period also saw the first coloured British Virgin Islander, | , appointed as President in 1884 |
Duke of Marlborough | King George also had a personal friendship with the Marlboroughs; the | had fought with him in the War of the Spanish Succession, and John and Sar ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... cess of presidential succession had been known since the death of President | in 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendm ... |
Juan Ponce Enrile | On 1986, a faction of AFP headed by then Defense Minister | and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. General Fidel V. Ramos took a stand agains ... |
Al Gore | ... n effect on the content of the media. For example, according to Fair, ‘When | proposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Adv ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President | 's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ... |
Thomas Taggart | ... support, at the state convention he was a dark horse candidate. Party boss | did not support him because of Marshall's support of prohibition. Taggart ... |
King James II | ... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of | . During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ... |
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 ... |
Colorado Senate | ... n Voting Index of R+5 and is represented by Republican Scott Tipton. In the | it is in District 5 and is represented by Gail Schwartz. In the Colorado H ... |
Indiana Senate | ... presentatives by a small margin, though Republicans retained control of the | |
Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of | , was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused Geor ... |
Salah Jadid | ... at and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad (who had previously ousted President | ), the Palestinian fighters crossed the border into Lebanon to join PLO fo ... |
Elizabeth Dole | ... disease, Helms did not seek re-election in 2002. His Senate seat was won by | , a former Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as Re ... |
Gilles Duceppe | ... hurt Martin's popularity, especially in Quebec, where Bloc Québécois leader | even accused Martin of planning to widen the St. Lawrence seaway to benefi ... |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... area and in exile, were soon working on national insurrection preparations. | was chosen as its leader; the popular general came from abroad and on Marc ... |
Ahmed Yassin | In January 2004, Hamas leader Sheikh | said that the group would end armed resistance against Israel in exchange ... |
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 ... |
Muhammad | ... onfederation, and Muslims from all over western China who chose it to honor | . Nonetheless, however tenuous these bonds sometimes are, it remains a min ... |
John W. Martin | ... County and southern portion coming from Palm Beach County. It was named for | , Governor of Florida from 1925 to 1929 |
Frank Orren Lowden | ... nd popular Commerce Secretary as "Wonder Boy". His only real challenger was | . Hoover received much favorable press coverage in the months leading up t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Matthew Lyon | Republican editors, | , a member of Congress, and private individuals were targets of prosecutio ... |
Bill Clinton | ... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President | . Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of | , which began in the following year. Morison and a number of other histori ... |
Lynn Swann | ... ship Game against the Oakland Raiders, his fourth-quarter touchdown pass to | proved to be the winning score in a 24-13 victory. In the Steelers’ 16-6 S ... |
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 ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... came from all walks of life, including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and | , crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers ... |
Eugenio Scalfari | ... ajority's beliefs”. During this time, he met a brilliant student from Rome, | , who went on to found the weekly magazine L'Espresso and La Repubblica, a ... |
Thomas Jefferson | The presidents selected by the party were | (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ... |
Jesse Ventura | ... ul film, Schwarzenegger led a cast which included future Minnesota Governor | (Ventura also appeared in The Running Man and Batman & Robin with Schwarze ... |
Owen Sheehy-Skeffington | Notable supporters of the Irish CND included Peadar O'Donnell, | and Hubert Butler |
Didier Burkhalter | ... Schlumpf (Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland), Ueli Maurer (SPP), | (FDP), Simonetta Sommaruga (SDP), Johann Schneider-Ammann (FDP) and Alain ... |
Raymond Poincaré | ... he distributed as gifts to President Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister | of France, to King George V of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological G ... |
Jimmy Fitzmorris | ... opponent in the Democratic primary runoff was Louisiana Lieutenant Governor | , who was supported by most of the municipal political establishment. Runn ... |
William Henry Coleman | ... urage other deserters. In 1915 an inquiry was initiated by U.S. congressmen | and Frank L. Greene. This resulted in the U.S. Army's admitting its denial ... |
George W. Bush | ... ction for at least the past 50 years. Recent elections in 2004 and 2000 saw | capture 59.72% and 58.5% of the county vote, respectively. However in the ... |
Al Gore | ... rt of the working group of the IPCC which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with | for their dissemination of the effects of climate change |
Gail Schwartz | ... tt Tipton. In the Colorado Senate it is in District 5 and is represented by | . In the Colorado House of Representatives it is in District 62 and is rep ... |
George W. Bush | ... mber 11 attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor George Pataki, and President | vowed to rebuild the World Trade Center site. On the day of the attacks, G ... |
Peadar O'Donnell | Notable supporters of the Irish CND included | , Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Hubert Butler |
Charles Curtis | ... rity coalesced to give him the nomination on the first ballot, with Senator | named as his running mate |
Wesley Merritt | ... rsaw the supplying of the expedition to the Philippines under Major General | |
Mark Pryor | Following the storm, U.S. Senator | had criticized the 's response to the recovery and cleanup efforts |
Lord Byron | On 15 October 1816, the Romantic poet | visited the Ambrosian Library of Milan. He was delighted by the letters be ... |
Eugene Eason | ... 071 at the 2000 census. Clarks is the largest community in Caldwell Parish. | , a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Webster Parish, ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... istered voters participating. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 49.9% of the vote in South Hackensack (499 cast), ahead of Democr ... |
Lois Wolk | ... n Joaquin is part of the 5th and 14th districts, which are held by Democrat | and Republican Tom Berryhill respectively. County government was recently ... |
Hermann Göring | ... heard the news of the catastrophe, before launching into a bitter attack on | , the commander of the Luftwaffe: "If I had the power I would drag this co ... |
Sam Houston | Torrey Trading Houses opened as a part of the | peace policy to develop friendly relationships with native tribes. They bo ... |
Michael Organ | ... ty in the Senate meant that the Greens' influence on legislation decreased. | was defeated by Labor in Cunningham |
George Pataki | Soon after the September 11 attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor | , and President George W. Bush vowed to rebuild the World Trade Center sit ... |
Alyson Huber | ... crat Cathleen Galgiani while the 10th, 15th, and 26th are held by Democrats | and Joan Buchanan, and Republican Bill Berryhill, respectively. In the Sta ... |
Philip Sheridan | ... al inaccuracies, one of which was that Stuart, George Armstrong Custer, and | were firm friends and all attended West Point together in 1854 |
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 A. Garfield | During the American Civil War, Union troops under future president | occupied the town from December 1861 until the end of the war, despite sev ... |
Alfred Rosenberg | ... rom Jewish collections, libraries, and museums throughout Europe. Headed by | , the task force set up a collection centre and headquarters in Paris. Som ... |
John Churchill | | died at Windsor in 1722, and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Their ... |
Barack Obama | ... nty vote, respectively. However in the 2008 Presidential Election, Democrat | captured McHenry County with 52% of the vote |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... s Rousseau (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and | (1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); the German landscape artist Pr ... |
Ueli Maurer | ... P), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland), | (SPP), Didier Burkhalter (FDP), Simonetta Sommaruga (SDP), Johann Schneide ... |
John McDonnell | ... ity to start again". It was signed by only two other MPs (Jeremy Corbyn and | ) |
Secretary of War William L. Marcy | ... in July 1849 his report recommended sink wells along the route. July 1848, | wanted a military post established on the north side of the Rio Grande. Ma ... |
Jan Jesenius | ... st important rectors of Czech Universities were reformer Jan Hus, physician | and representative of Enlightenment Josef Vratislav Monse. The first femal ... |
John Lubbock | In his highly influential Pre-historic Times, | described burnt bones indicating the practice of child sacrifice in pagan ... |
Sadi Carnot | ... n royalty. Also present were General Joseph Brugère, representing President | ; the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies as well as thei ... |
Edi Rama | In 2000, former Tirana mayor | undertook a radical campaign to demolish illegal buildings around the city ... |
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 ... |
Gandhi | ... leration and respect. Veneration for all other religions was articulated by | |
Józef Wybicki | ... onal anthem - Dąbrowski's Mazurka - was written in praise of his actions by | in 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ... |
Peter Stuyvesant | In 1647, | was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony. New Amster ... |
James Monroe | | constructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ... |
Zhang Heng | ... liptical ring by 84 CE. With the famous statesman, astronomer, and inventor | (张衡, 78-139 CE), the sphere was totally complete in 125 CE, with horizon a ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... Many Austrians and Germans regarded this as hypocrisy since U.S. president | had proclaimed in his famous "Fourteen Points" the "right of self-determin ... |
Peter N. Myhre | ... were Håkon Rege in Sola (1988–1989), Bjørn Bråthen in Råde (1990–1991) and | in Oslo (1990–1991) |
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 ... |
Munib Masri | ... cated near the town of Jerash, near the border with Syria. With the help of | , a pro-Palestinian Jordanian cabinet member, and Fahd al-Khomeimi, the Sa ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... lway, which also links Florence with Rome. The station is located at Piazza | , in the frazione of Santa Maria degli Angeli, about southwest of the city ... |
Brigham Young | ... arrived in the Salt Lake Valley after traveling through Emigration Canyon. | , their leader, declared "This is the place" after seeing the valley, whic ... |
Alexandre Millerand | ... even included a pride of lions, which he distributed as gifts to President | and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King George V of the Uni ... |
Ange Mancini | ... f Martinique is located in Fort-de-France, and the Prefect of Martinique is | |
Erik Jonsson | ... indirectly to another commission for Pei's firm. In 1964 the acting mayor, | , began working to change the community's image. Dallas was known and disl ... |
Matthew Lyon | | , born in Ireland, was a Democratic-Republican congressman from Vermont. H ... |
Gurdial Singh Dhillon | ... writing. In the 1980 election, Bhindranwale supported Congress-I candidates | and Raghunandan Lal Bhatia. Bhindranwale was originally not very influenti ... |
Thomas Jefferson | | , who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ... |
Rudy Giuliani | Soon after the September 11 attacks, Mayor | , Governor George Pataki, and President George W. Bush vowed to rebuild th ... |
Charles V | ... as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor | . Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrol ... |
Haj Amin al-Husayni | ... oined by Syrian and Iraqi reinforcements. The Arab Higher Committee, led by | , which directed the riots, also declared a general strike on labor and tr ... |
Arthur C. Mellette | ... ation was 2,048. Its county seat is White River. The county was named after | (June 25, 1842 – May 25, 1896) who was the last Governor of the Dakota Ter ... |
Richard Russell | ... or his highly successful "courtships" of older senators, especially Senator | , Democrat from Georgia, and the leader of the Conservative coalition and ... |
Joan Buchanan | ... giani while the 10th, 15th, and 26th are held by Democrats Alyson Huber and | , and Republican Bill Berryhill, respectively. In the State Senate San Joa ... |
Robert M. Marionneaux | Louisiana State Senator | resides on a cattle farm in Grosse Tete but practices law in Baton Rouge |
Pamela Althoff | In the Illinois Senate, McHenry County is served by | (R) and Dan Duffy (R) and in the Illinois House of Representatives by Mike ... |
Jon Corzine | ... eceived 43.6% of the vote in South Hackensack (333 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 43.1% (329 votes), with 763 ballots cast among the t ... |
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 ... |
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | ... l Assembly for a four-year term. Present members are: Doris Leuthard (CDP), | (Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland), Ueli Maurer (SPP), Didier ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... ion of Martial Law on 1972 - Martial Law in the Philippines, then President | used the AFP to arrest, torture or kill his political opponents and theref ... |
Ali Mahdi Muhammad | ... malia, Mohamed Siad Barre, to flee in 1991 to Kenya. One faction proclaimed | president, another Mohamed Farrah Aidid. A contingent of United States Mar ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... several turns. Initially, some of the leadership, especially Robert Ley and | , wanted to use it as a pretext for abandonment of the Geneva Conventions ... |
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 ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... been imagined by the opposite side of the political spectrum. For example, | 's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress portrays an individualistic and libertaria ... |
Shawar | With Shirkuh's troops camped outside of Cairo, Egypt's sultan, | called on King Amalric I of Jerusalem for assistance. In response, Amalric ... |
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 ... |
Janet Museveni | ... nths in the Senate. Helms spoke with special appreciation of the efforts of | , first lady of Uganda, for her efforts to stop the spread of AIDS through ... |
Jan van Riebeeck | ... cco, copper and iron with the Khoikhoi in exchange for fresh meat. In 1652, | and other employees of the Dutch East India Company (, VOC) were sent to t ... |
Motilal Nehru | ... ather was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather, | , was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, ... |
Chris Christie | In the 2009 race for Governor, Republican | received 43.6% of the vote in South Hackensack (333 cast), ahead of Democr ... |
Menachem Begin | ... f the explosion, so that adequate time was available to evacuate the hotel. | , for example, writes that the telephone message was delivered 25–27 minut ... |
Harley True Burton | ... t spent his later years in Donley County. It was also the home of historian | , author of A History of the JA Ranch, which Goodnight formerly co-owned. ... |
P.G.T. Beauregard | ... the ancestress of many notable people, including American Civil War general | . She is a collateral relative of most of the royal families of modern Eur ... |
Chadli Bendjedid | ... was released from house arrest in 1980 by Boumédienne's successor, Colonel | . Boumédienne immediately dissolved the National Assembly and suspended th ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | In 2007, U.S. President | marked the first time that such a high ranking American official visited A ... |
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 ... |
Governor of New South Wales | ... l. In so doing, Kerr was aware of the precedent set by Sir Philip Game, the | , who had dismissed Jack Lang's government in 1932. Game had warned Lang i ... |
Modibo Keïta | President | , whose Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally (US/RDA) party had dominat ... |
Kay Hagan | ... eld the seat for a single term, losing her 2008 re-election bid to Democrat | |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ere also buoyed by the Sponsorship Scandal. Martin advised Governor General | to call an election for June 28, 2004 |
Ban Gu | ... huanti history of dynasties, was codified in the second dynastic history by | ’s (班固) History of Han (漢書), but historians regard Sima’s work as their mo ... |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... ich the AFP played a key role. The revolution installed then Vice-President | into the presidency |
Andrew George | ... rnish electorate. A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP | and representatives of the Convention (Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Col ... |
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 ... |
Subramanian Swamy | ... been preparing for an attack on their shrine for over a year. According to | , then a member of the Indian Parliament, the central government had alleg ... |
Eugenio Montale | ... re, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including | , Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. ... |
Sammy Wilson | ... consulted but the scenario set out is a perfectly plausible one". The DUP's | stated that the plan "shows that some loyalist paramilitaries are looking ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... oying a stronger and more effective legislative staff. He took on President | and almost succeeded in amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to explicit ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... uture US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) | ;(1706–1790); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muska ... |
Leonard W. Hall | ... ld solve political problems with professional skill. There were exceptions, | , for example, who as chairman of the Republican National Committee, tried ... |
Dean of the House | ... Speaker-elect. By tradition, the Speaker-elect is sworn into office by the | and the Speaker then administers the Oath of Office to the Members-elect e ... |
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland | ... ir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. His mother was the eldest daughter of | , and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sist ... |
Michael Collins | ... e and the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, identifying in particular | as the founder of the movement |
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 ... |
Richard Burr | In 2004, he spoke out for the election of Republican U.S. Representative | , who, like Elizabeth Dole two years earlier, defeated Democrat Erskine Bo ... |
John T. Mills | ... As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,936. Mills County is named for | , a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. The seat of the county is Goldthwa ... |
Italo Calvino | ... other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, | , Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third pag ... |
Michael Organ | ... 2002 the Greens won a House of Representatives seat for the first time when | won the Cunningham by-election |
René Préval | ... o remove Aristide from Haiti. Boniface Alexandre assumed interim authority. | was elected President in February 2006, following elections marked by unce ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, and | were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady Dolley ... |
Chris Christie | ... ma, who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 68% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received aro ... |
Michael Mukasey | ... nominee. Keisler served as acting attorney general until the nomination of | on November 9, 2007 |
Francis Marion | ... unty seat of Marion County, Kansas, United States. It was named in honor of | , a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary War, known as the "Swa ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... talian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, | , Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entir ... |
Túpac Amaru II | ... the continent, even more than Lima. But because of the great revolution of | in 1780, the white population migrated to Arequipa, considered safer from ... |
Ye Jianying | ... resolution to send a delegation consisting of senior leaders such as Zhou, | and Qin Bangxian to Xian at the request of Zhang and Yang |
Byron Dorgan | ... ly 1 meter in length was displayed on the floor of the US Senate by Senator | as a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract ... |
Gabrielle Giffords | The attempted assassination of Representative | , and the murders of chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, ... |
Dalton McGuinty | An unpopular provincial budget by Liberal Premier | , who broke a pledge not to raise taxes, hurt the federal party's numbers ... |
John Houstoun | ... ot after the familiar Texas military hero but rather after Georgia governor | (who used that spelling during his lifetime) |
John Cornyn | ... entative Rick Noriega of Houston, who failed to unseat Republican incumbent | |
Eugene V. Debs | ... e also in the Socialist Party platform under its leader, Terre Haute native | . Republicans believed Marshall's constitution was an attempt to win over ... |
Chadli Bendjedid | ... to choose a successor. To break a deadlock between two candidates, Colonel | , a moderate who had collaborated with Boumédienne in deposing Ahmed Ben B ... |
Jon Corzine | ... ion, Republican Chris Christie received 70% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 21% |
Richard Nixon | NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after | proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Bill Clinton | ... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President | |
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 ... |
Ahmed Ben Bella | ... dli Bendjedid, a moderate who had collaborated with Boumédienne in deposing | , was sworn in on February 9, 1979. He was re-elected in 1984 and 1988. Af ... |
George the Pious | Margrave | introduced the Protestant Reformation to Ansbach in 1528, leading to the s ... |
Alan Cranston | ... aign to win the United States Senate seat held by Democratic incumbent Sen. | , as he received less than two percent of the vote in the Republican Party ... |
Jagdish Tytler | ... ers had planned a pogrom against the Sikhs. Senior Congress leaders such as | , H. K. L. Bhagat and Sajjan Kumar have been accused by Sikhs of inciting ... |
James VII | Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass for | for a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ... |
Shirkuh | ... n the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt. In 1163, Nur ad-Din's most trusted general, | set out on a military expedition to the Nile. Accompanying the general was ... |
Sirimavo Bandaranaike | ... 980–84). Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after | of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female ... |
Vidar Kleppe | ... untarily left the party, starting in early 2001. They most notably included | (the alleged "leader"), Dag Danielsen, Fridtjof Frank Gundersen, as well a ... |
Joseph Lyons | ... of the 1930s, through Australia's recovery from the Great Depression under | and into the early stages of the World War II under Robert Menzies |
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 ... |
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | ... dest daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and the sister of | . His younger sister, Mary Sidney, married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pemb ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... him Gabriel, but in publications he put the name Dante first (in honour of | ). He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, the critic William Micha ... |
Ross Perot | ... anywhere in the world, although several initiatives are currently forming. | was a prominent advocate of EDD when he advocated "electronic town halls" ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... last Republican presidential candidate to win a majority in the county was | , a Californian, in 1984 |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... pared the United States for World War II and promoted the career of General | , known for his organizational skills |
Ueli Maurer | ... y. The current President and Vice President are Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf and | , respectively |
Ralph Nader | ... rebel" corporate businessman with his trendy dress style and casual banter. | 's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, published in 1965, criticized a number of De ... |
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 ... |
Lord Hertford | ... low appointed councillors Thomas Cranmer (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and | , Catherine obtained effective control and was able to rule as she saw fit ... |
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 ... |
Malcolm Fraser | ... onnor and Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Cairns. The Liberal Opposition Leader, | , decided to use the Senate to block the government's budget bills, thus f ... |
Tissaphernes | ... via the Hellespont. He first descended upon the Phrygians and their leader | who had broken a “solemn league” with the Greeks and had earned the “downr ... |
Governor Temple | ... me Templeville derives from the Temple family, whose most famous member was | of Delaware |
John McCain | ... the 226 counties in Texas to cast the majority of its votes for Republican | . McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat Barack Obama won 3 ... |
H. K. L. Bhagat | ... a pogrom against the Sikhs. Senior Congress leaders such as Jagdish Tytler, | and Sajjan Kumar have been accused by Sikhs of inciting the mobs against t ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... n landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau; the Italian statesman | (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nicholas I (1796–1855) and Alexander I (1777–18 ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... raphic recuperation and some measure of economic recuperation. The reign of | as Charles I of Spain was a harmonious period, during which Catalonia gene ... |
John McCain | ... t known resident is U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate | . McCain's home in the community, referred to in the media as his "Sedona ... |
Pol Pot | ... Tensions peaked when Vietnam invaded Cambodia, an ally of China, to depose | , resulting in a Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979. In 1978-79, some 450 ... |
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 ... |
Kerry Nettle | ... rown was re-elected as a Senator for Tasmania, and a second Greens Senator, | , was elected in New South Wales. The Greens opposed the government's poli ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ia as his "Sedona Cabin," is where he and his running-mate, Alaska governor | , prepared for their debates |
Sam Rayburn | ... the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker | in the House, both of Texas. Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947– ... |
Øystein Hedstrøm | ... issues, and postulated that they were behind a conspiracy to eventually get | elected as party chairman. The seven were eventually suspended, excluded f ... |
Barack Obama | ... publican John McCain. McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat | won 30% of the vote and 23,726 votes. Other candidates won 648 votes and 1 ... |
Alberto Gonzales | ... the future acting attorney general, to take office upon the resignation of | , effective September 17, 2007 |
Francis Nicholson | In September 1710, 3,600 British and colonial forces led by | finally captured Port Royal after a siege of one week. This ended official ... |
Jan van Riebeeck | ... station for Dutch ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India, and the Far East. | 's arrival on 6 April 1652 established the first permanent European settle ... |
Sajjan Kumar | ... Sikhs. Senior Congress leaders such as Jagdish Tytler, H. K. L. Bhagat and | have been accused by Sikhs of inciting the mobs against them |
Lloyd George | ... es into gold – but with Keynes's help the Chancellor of the Exchequer (then | ) was persuaded that this would be a bad idea, as it would hurt the future ... |
Paul Soglin | ... as hung like heavy fog across the Isthmus." In the fracas, student activist | , then a city alderman, was arrested twice and taken to jail. Soglin was l ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... him von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to | , the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranki ... |
John Bruton | ... President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh | , Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey, and various political persons from ... |
Jon Corzine | ... ion, Republican Chris Christie received 68% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 21% |
Dick Cole | ... ew George and representatives of the Convention (Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, | , David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo) presented the declaration to 10 Downin ... |
Robert Menzies | ... sion under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under | |
Elbridge Gerry | ... ample of the confederation government's weaknesses, while opponents such as | thought that a federal response to the rebellion would have been even wors ... |
Samuel Ryder | ... tch, held on the East Course at Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey, was | , a seed merchant who traded from St Albans, Hertfordshire. Having watched ... |
Manuel Noriega | ... d success until 1991, when the United States invaded Panama to oust General | . At the time Panama was one of the largest providers of offshore financia ... |
Bertie Ahern | ... ral which was attended by the President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach | , former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey, and va ... |
Noreen Evans | ... emocrat Wes Chesbro, and the 2nd Senate district, which is held by Democrat | |
Alexander Kielland | ... ire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and | . Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, ... |
Luigi Albertini | ... by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction of | , it became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its impor ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... es in the 1954 election. He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader | in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas. Joe Mar ... |
Mike Thompson | ... part of California's 1st congressional district, which is held by Democrat | . In the state legislature, Humboldt is part of the 1st Assembly district, ... |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika | ... ld in April 1999. Although seven candidates qualified for election, all but | , who appeared to have the support of the military as well as the FLN, wit ... |
Winston Churchill | ... I, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides. | claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues a ... |
Fernando Wood | ... he immigrant Irish, culminating in the election of the first Tammany mayor, | , in 1854. Tammany Hall dominated local politics for decades. Central Park ... |
John Sununu | ... Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as fellow Republican Senators Norm Coleman, | and Gordon Smith also called for Stevens to resign. McConnell said there w ... |
William McKinley | ... tary actions in Puerto Rico were suspended August 13, 1898, after President | and French Ambassador Jules Cambon, acting on behalf of the Spanish govern ... |
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 ... |
Yngvar Nielsen | ... among historians and archeologists for many years. The Norwegian historian | , commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1889 to determine this quest ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... ter publication, Vesalius was invited as Imperial physician to the court of | . He informed the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, w ... |
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | ... r terms that run concurrently. The current President and Vice President are | and Ueli Maurer, respectively |
Joseph Lyons | Founding leader | began his political career as an Australian Labor Party politician and ser ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... ess, but in the late 1820s, that system broke down. The party split between | and the incumbent President John Quincy Adams. What began as Jackson's ide ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to | and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Seraf ... |
Thomas Hutchinson | ... ples of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to African Americans. | , the former royal governor of Massachusetts, also published a rebuttal. T ... |
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa | ... nal monarchy where the government is appointed by the King of Bahrain, King | . The head of the government since 1971 is Prime Minister Prince Khalifa b ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... 32); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740–1817); Prime Ministers | (1809–1898) and Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745); Queen Caroline of Brandenb ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... ilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place | on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tilty ... |
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 ... |
Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup | ... for women’s education and its separation from the church. He opposed famous | (1802–1878), Roman Catholic bishop of Orléans, who wanted to keep control ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... l candidate since Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. In 1912, Democrat candidate | had carried the county with a 3.06% majority over its Republican opponent ... |
Akmyrat Rejepow | ... 's extensive cult of personality. According to official Turkmen news media, | , the head of the presidential security service was removed from office by ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... d used non-recognition as a political tool or symbolic statement. President | had refused to recognise the Mexican Revolutionary governments in 1913 and ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
Menachem Begin | ... aganah General Headquarters, sent a letter to the then leader of the Irgun, | , which instructed him to "carry out the operation at the "chick", code fo ... |
James A. Bradley | ... t. Developed in 1871 as a residential resort by New York brush manufacturer | , the city was named for Francis Asbury, the first American bishop of the ... |
Michael Collins | ... many RIC Police Intelligence officers during the Irish War of Independence. | set up a special unit – the Squad – for this purpose, which had the effect ... |
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 ... |
Dee Margetts | ... ntine was succeeded by Christabel Chamarette in 1992, and she was joined by | in 1993. But Chamarette was defeated in 1996. Margetts opposed the industr ... |
Zulfi Ali Bhutto | ... from Pakistan. Great ire was raised in Pakistan, Pakistan's Prime minister | described this test as "Indian hegemony" to intimidate Pakistan. Gandhi di ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... initiated by the previous Congress Government under P. V. Narasimha Rao and | , pushed through major privatizations of big government corporations, the ... |
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 ... |
John McCain | ... he national and state levels. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Cleisthenes | ... as the founder's grandson Cleisthenes, the uncle of the Athenian legislator | . Besides reforming the city's constitution to the advantage of the Ionian ... |
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 ... |
Ahmed Ben Bella | ... ember 1963, a constitution was adopted by referendum, and later that month, | was formally elected the first president. The war of national liberation a ... |
Philip the Good | ... inal manuscript. This copy remained in the royal library and then passed to | , Duke of Burgundy, before reaching Brussels, where it was lost. It was re ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ng the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement in 1931, under the auspices of | 's Wickersham Commission. In 1934, the ACLU lobbied for the passage of the ... |
William B. Saxbe | ... and fired Cox. He remained acting attorney general until the appointment of | on December 17, 1973 |
John McCain | ... nal level, Fairfield leans toward the Republican Party. In 2008, Republican | received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat Barack Obama received ... |
James Scullin | ... d to the Australian Federal Parliament in 1929 and served in Prime Minister | 's Labor Cabinet. Lyons became acting Treasurer in 1930 and helped negotia ... |
oligarchy | ... ion to the Tokugawa Shogunate in the mid 19th century. Because of this, the | that came into power after the "Meiji Restoration" of 1868 had a strong re ... |
Eugene McCarthy | ... hnson for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election. Once | 's strong showing in the New Hampshire primary led to Robert's presidentia ... |
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp | ... the uneasy majority enforced Hansson's resignation, leaving League chairman | to form a three-month "Holiday Cabinet" until the elections in September, ... |
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 ... |
Steve Israel | ... rict, which includes Huntington, Brentwood and Bay Shore, is represented by | . A Democrat, Israel won the seat vacated by Rick Lazio in 2000 when he ma ... |
John Jay | In early 1787 | wrote that the rural disturbances and the inability of the central governm ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
P. V. Narasimha Rao | ... continuing the policies initiated by the previous Congress Government under | and Manmohan Singh, pushed through major privatizations of big government ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... hinese or the Japanese, and the secretary was further hampered by President | ’s clear indication that he would not support economic sanctions as a mean ... |
Gary McMichael | ... finally dissolved itself in 2001 following very limited electoral success. | , son of John McMichael, was the last leader of the UDP, which supported t ... |
Barack Obama | ... Republican John McCain received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat | received 1137 (about 28%) |
Paul Kagame | ... African Renaissance were President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and President | of Rwanda |
Hassan al-Turabi | ... nstitutionalizing Sharia law in the northern part of the country along with | , al-Bashir issued purges and executions in the upper ranks of the army, t ... |
Barack Obama | Although | got only 38.45% of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is ... |
Truman | ... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the | administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption. |
Zachary Taylor | ... egimental adjutant and the rank of first lieutenant, serving in the army of | , although he personally did not participate in combat. After hostilities, ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President | from 1979–1981 |
Winston Churchill | ... ish subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are Lord Nelson and | )—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in Britain. The funeral t ... |
Oriana Fallaci | ... tellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, | and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entirely dedicated to ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since | in 1936 (who himself had also lost the county) |
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 ... |
Sadiq al-Mahdi | ... e Army, led a group of officers and ousted the government of Prime Minister | . Under al-Bashir's leadership, the new military government suspended poli ... |
Meg Whitman | ... ed $6.7 million in funding from the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. | was hired as eBay President and CEO in March 1998. At the time, the compan ... |
Ronald Collet Norman | ... England Governor. The Norman family were well known in banking. His brother | and his nephew Mark Norman became leading bankers. His great-nephew David ... |
Tanaka Giichi | ... kahashi continued to serve as Finance Minister under the administrations of | (1927–1929), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1931–1932), Saitō Makoto (1932–1934) and Oka ... |
Chris Christie | ... ma, who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 70% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received aro ... |
Anastasio Somoza Debayle | ... lebrated the left-wing rebels who had recently overthrown Nicaraguan despot | , and the album was filled with songs driven by other political issues ext ... |
Lee S. Dreyfus | ... ity." This latter phrase was coined by former Wisconsin Republican governor | , while campaigning in 1978, as recounted by campaign aide Bill Kraus |
Ted Theodore | ... dvocated orthodox fiscal management. When Labor reinstated the more radical | as Treasurer in 1931, Lyons and Fenton resigned from Cabinet |
Pancho Villa | ... opolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of | 's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional Army when it ... |
William McHenry | ... ed in 1836 out of Cook and LaSalle Counties. The county was named for Major | , an Indian fighter who died in Vandalia in 1835 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | The | administration proposed the New Deal to combat the depression. ACLU leader ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... tary engagement in Afghanistan "a bleeding wound", Soviet General Secretary | began a withdrawal of Soviet troops from the nation. On February 15, 1989, ... |
George W. Bush | On March 23, 2007, President | signed legislation naming the United States Department of Education headqu ... |
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 ... |
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil | ... lized, and the Massachusetts town of Haverhill was raided instead. In 1709, | , governor of New France, reported that two-thirds of the fields north of ... |
René Préval | ... is 5-year term based on the date of his inauguration. In the 1995 election, | was elected as president for a five-year term, winning 88% of the popular ... |
Levi Ankeny | ... that although the origin of this name is disputed, he puts great weight in | who supplied this information as he was "thoroughly familiar with the earl ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... odless People Power Revolution that removed Marcos from power and installed | as the new president of the Philippines |
Dick Cole | ... elected councillors in Cornwall Council and 25 town and parish councillors. | is the current leader |
Governor General | ... lection. On September 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then- | Adrienne Clarkson, stating |
Douglas MacArthur | ... n of Remington Rand was renamed the Univac division of Sperry Rand. General | was chosen to head the company. In the 1960s, UNIVAC was one of the eight ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator | , Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times |
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 ... |
Mike Dow | Beginning in the late 1980s, the new mayor, | , and the city council began an effort termed the "String of Pearls Initia ... |
Terje Søviknes | ... ions resulted in the party's first mayor as a direct result of an election, | in Os. 20 municipalities also elected a deputy mayor from the Progress Par ... |
John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Inukai Tsuyoshi | ... as Finance Minister under the administrations of Tanaka Giichi (1927–1929), | (1931–1932), Saitō Makoto (1932–1934) and Okada Keisuke (1934–1936). Despi ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... anddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President | , and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, t ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... rds nationalism; and perhaps the most famous of proto-nationalist works was | 's I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Some read this novel as a thinly veil ... |
Kim Howells | ... g in "Britain's biggest porn star", Ben Dover, to comment. Culture Minister | made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit". Prince ... |
Nixon Administration | ... 1), he voted to allow newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers despite the | 's contention that publication would have security implications. In his co ... |
Ahmed Ben Bella | ... me of those regionalists, tensions increased between Houari Boumédienne and | . In 1965 the military toppled Ahmed Ben Bella, and Houari Boumedienne bec ... |
Bill Hayden | ... of continuing bitter attacks on him both inside and outside the Parliament. | , the new leader of the Labor Party, now in opposition, was one of the cri ... |
Saitō Makoto | ... administrations of Tanaka Giichi (1927–1929), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1931–1932), | (1932–1934) and Okada Keisuke (1934–1936). Despite his considerable succes ... |
Henry Clay | ... ng of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by John Quincy Adams and | , formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it evolved into th ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... ted the royalist forces and joined the White Army, others were committed to | 's Provisional Government, to the Bolsheviks, and even to smaller forces l ... |
Henry Fok | ... publicly linked Zhang with Erik Fok, grandson of Hong Kong business tycoon | . Zhang was involved with, and lengthily engaged to, Israeli venture capit ... |
Christabel Chamarette | ... parate organisation from the Australian Greens. Vallentine was succeeded by | in 1992, and she was joined by Dee Margetts in 1993. But Chamarette was de ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... in fanatical support through the use of microphone technology was Germany's | . By first creating a speaking environment, designed by Joseph Goebbels, h ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Dante Alighieri | As early as the 14th century when | depicted him in Limbo alongside the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... n dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator | , and other leaders of his times |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... us Islamist leaders, including senior Hamas founder Mahmoud Zahar, met with | as part of "regular consultations" between Israeli officials and Palestini ... |
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 ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... n it was founded in 1919, and had turned to conducting at the suggestion of | . He had conducted the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl on a number of occasi ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... rmany's Adolf Hitler. By first creating a speaking environment, designed by | , he was able to exaggerate his presence to make him seem messianic. Hitle ... |
Qu Yuan | ... Xun (魯迅) regarded Shiji as "the unique work of all historians, the songs of | without rhyme |
King Mohamed VI | Policies associated with foreign relations are determined by the king, | , and his advisors, despite the fact that Morocco has a constitutional mon ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator | , Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and ot ... |
Jens Stoltenberg | ... . The election result allowed them to unseat the Labour Party government of | and replace it with a three-party coalition led by Christian Democrat Kjel ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of | , William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce ... |
Clemenceau | ... three principal players at Versailles were Britain's Lloyd George, France's | and America's President Wilson |
Donna Shalala | ... Cambridge historian Sir Moses I. Finley; Arthur Rock, a cofounder of Intel | ;, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; Joe Biden, ... |
Frank J. Anderson | ... st 5 times the 2005 national average. In 2007, city leaders such as Sheriff | and former Mayor Bart Peterson held rallies in neighborhoods in effort to ... |
Martin Bormann | ... he intended to commit suicide. Göring was deeply concerned that his rival, | , would sieze power upon Hitler's death and would have him killed as a tra ... |
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 ... |
Petra Kelly | During her 1984 visit to Australia, West German Greens parliamentarian | urged that the various Greens groups in Australia develop a national ident ... |
Isaac Stevens | ... Indian attacks on white explorers and settlers dropped significantly after | negotiated the Treaty of Hellgate in 1855, and white settlement in the are ... |
Oskari Tokoi | ... of its prominent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of | , Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
Józef Poniatowski | ... parte, following his defeat of Prussia. The Duchy's military forces, led by | , participated in numerous campaigns, including the Polish–Austrian War of ... |
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 ... |
Cheryl Kernot | ... : John Hewson in The Soufflé Rises (series 1); Pat Cash in The Desert Angel | ;in We Ain't Got Dames (series 1); Bert Newton; Amanda Keller and Anne Ful ... |
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 ... |
President Wilson | ... t Versailles were Britain's Lloyd George, France's Clemenceau and America's | |
Woodrow Wilson | ... yphal account, because he threw "a beer bottle into the window of Professor | ," future president of the United States). He spent several years at sea, ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ster Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China | issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire ... |
Richard Nixon | Tanaka's foreign policy mirrored that of | , and his most notable achievement was the normalization of Japan's relati ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... ere Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, who also supported the overthrow of the | Government. When the fall of the Winter Palace was announced, the Congress ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
René Préval | ... ational Assembly soon deteriorated, partly over his selection of his friend | as Prime Minister. In September, Aristide was overthrown in the 1991 Haiti ... |
Saigō Takamori | ... tation from the Satsuma province, with leaders such as Ōkubo Toshimichi and | taking up key government positions |
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 ... |
Messali Hadj | In April 1945 the French had arrested the Algerian nationalist leader | . On May 1 the followers of his Parti du Peuple Algérien (PPA) participate ... |
Winston Churchill | ... 945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister | , and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issu ... |
Norm Sanders | ... struction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania saw environmentalist and activist | elected to the Tasmanian Parliament as an Australian Democrat. Brown, then ... |
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 |
Siv Jensen | ... ertarian minority in Oslo, including Henning Holstad, Svenn Kristiansen and | , now improved their hold in the party |
Carl Schurz | Together with | , the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ... |
Dick Cole | ... ouncil. Andrew Long for Callington, Stuart Cullimore for Camborne south and | was elected to represent St Enoder. In 2010 an independent councillor, Nei ... |
Christopher John | ... red to 881 ballots (32 percent) for his chief Democratic rival, Congressman | of Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish. There was no general election to de ... |
Chen Cheng | ... came to Xian again, accompanied by many senior Kuomintang leaders including | to monitor the suppression campaign. In the interim between these two visi ... |
Shailesh Vara | ... y and neighbouring Huntingdonshire. The serving member is the Conservative, | MP , who succeeded the (then) Rt Hon Dr. Sir Brian Mawhinney, former Secre ... |
Frank J. Anderson | ... The IMPD was formerly under the leadership of the Sheriff of Marion County, | . The Sheriff remains in charge of the County Jail and security for the Ci ... |
Lloyd George | The three principal players at Versailles were Britain's | , France's Clemenceau and America's President Wilson |
Pierre P. Garven | # | 1915–191 |
George W. Bush | ... tanding that masculinity and femininity are gender roles and not sex roles. | , the 43rd president of the United States, once said, “The best defense ag ... |
Rob Wittman | ... ylvania residents are represented by either Eric Cantor (R-7th District) or | (R-1st District) in the House of Representatives. The current U.S. Senator ... |
Eduard Bernstein | ... which must become conscious of the historical objectives set it by society. | revised this theory to suggest that society is inevitably moving toward so ... |
Mac Mahon | ... iment of Zouaves, were part of the Second Brigade of the Second Division of | 's Corps. The Foreign Legion acquitted itself particularly well against th ... |
Santeri Alkio | ... urther guaranteed by the fact that some of the party's key figures, such as | and Kyösti Kallio, declined to stand |
José Díaz | ... alter" Świerczewski. On 17 October 1936, an open letter by Joseph Stalin to | was published in Mundo Obrero, arguing that victory for the Spanish second ... |
Kjell Magne Bondevik | ... nberg and replace it with a three-party coalition led by Christian Democrat | . However, the coalition continued to decline to govern together with the ... |
Emilio Aguinaldo | ... ry Army was founded on March 22, 1897 in Cavite. The armed force of General | revolutionary government, with General Artemio Ricarte as its first Captai ... |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, | and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
Teddy Kollek | ... hday, but the Haganah learned about the plan and warned the British through | of the Jewish Agency. Army sappers then dug them up. On another occasion, ... |
Cals | ... ell and without elections it was replaced by the KVP-ARP-PvdA cabinet under | , which itself also fell the next year. In the following 1967 elections th ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President | — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... ull-scale war. A publication by the George Washington University describes: | and his Junbish-i Milli militia backed by Uzbekistan joined an alliance wi ... |
Charles of Burgundy | ... which would be created in 1478 or 1479. In the autumn same year he visited | , acting as intermediary between him and emperor Maximilian I. He stayed i ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... apolis, gave the orders which led to the occupation of California, and sent | into the contested land between Texas and Mexico. He also continued his pl ... |
Pierre P. Garven | # | 1906–191 |
Hara Takashi | ... kai political party . He was appointed to the same office by Prime Minister | in 1918. In 1920, Takahashi's title was elevated to viscount (shishaku). A ... |
Ferhat Abbas | In March 1943, Muslim leader | presented the French administration with the Manifesto of the Algerian Peo ... |
Rudolf Stüssi | In 1442, Frederick allied himself with | , burgomaster of Zürich, against the Old Swiss Confederacy in the Old Züri ... |
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 ... |
Bob Brown | ... failed to gain political representation. One of the party’s candidates was | , then a doctor in Launceston |
Barack Obama | ... y won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate | won by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47% |
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 ... |
John McCain | ... party's electors since 1912. Although Texas as a whole voted for Republican | in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama won 33,435 votes ... |
Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
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 ... |
Tim Bishop | ... second, and part of the third. The former two seats are held by Democrats. | , a Democrat, represents the once heavily Republican first district, which ... |
André Boisclair | ... ay 2007 that he would run in the Parti Québécois leadership race to replace | , who resigned on 8 May 2007, after the poor performance in the March 2007 ... |
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 ... |
Fan S. Noli | ... (Step of Tujan). In 1924, Tirana was at the center of a coup d'état led by | . Since 1925, when they were banned in Turkey, the Bektashis, an order of ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... egislation which was finally enacted during the administration of President | that created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Norris was later an important ... |
Richard Mulcahy | ... 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, under Michael Collins and | to wipe out the British intelligence organisation in the city |
Svenn Kristiansen | ... The more moderate libertarian minority in Oslo, including Henning Holstad, | and Siv Jensen, now improved their hold in the party |
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 ... |
Joseph V. Doria, Jr. | # | 1998–200 |
Samuel Dexter | ... r, which incorporated the same year, was named after the opposing candidate | . It was during Gov. Brooks' administration that Maine ceased to be a terr ... |
James K. Polk | ... Place is named after North Carolina native and university alumnus President | , and McCorkle Place is named in honor of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, the or ... |
James Buchanan | ... idge. The county was originally named Buchanan County, after U.S. President | , but was renamed in 1861 for Alexander H. Stephens, the vice president of ... |
Alexander Mair | ... in, also of the Liberal Party. The member for Albury between 1932 and 1946, | , was the Premier of New South Wales from 1939 to 1941 |
Soong May-ling | ... intang decided to set up an acting commission for resolution. Chiang’s wife | (Madame Chiang Kai-shek, ) was excluded from this commission although she ... |
Mark Warner | ... sentatives. The current U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are | (D) and Jim Webb (D) |
George W. Bush | ... between its north and south. While the north (Oak Harbor) is conservative - | received almost 65 percent of the 2004 vote and carried all precincts - al ... |
Governor of Massachusetts | The town was named after John Brooks, the Federalist candidate for | in 1815-1816, when the town incorporated. The town of Dexter, which incorp ... |
Isaac Stevens | ... ly formed Washington Territorial Government and signed into law by Governor | |
Matthew Cradock | ... rns among the company's principals; in the company's July meeting, Governor | proposed that the company reorganize itself and transport its charter and ... |
Fiorello La Guardia | The period between the World Wars saw the election of reformist mayor | and the fall of Tammany Hall after 80 years of political dominance. As the ... |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... ir own country, albeit as part of the Empire. This trend was personified by | , who went as far as contesting, successfully, an election to the British ... |
Venkaiah Naidu | ... nstitution provides for a three-year term for the President. Recently, both | and LK Advani resigned ahead of schedule due to factionalism and controver ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... ting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and | , he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organizatio ... |
Phil Gramm | ... espective versions of the legislation were introduced in the U.S. Senate by | (Republican of Texas) and in the U.S. House of Representatives by Jim Leac ... |
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 |
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly | ... hree months. This constant retreat led to the unpopularity of Field Marshal | and a veteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief ... |
Barack Obama | ... oted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | won 33,435 votes (71 percent) of the ballots in Webb County. McCain was a ... |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR | , composer John Williams, author Graham Greene, and former Mauritian QC an ... |
Joe Biden | ... Donna Shalala, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | ;, Vice President of the United States; 7-time NBA All Star, pro basketbal ... |
Shinzō Abe | ... hairman of the Education Rebuilding Council, which was set up by Japan's PM | after he came to power in 2006 |
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 ... |
Chang Hsiao-tz'u | ... ai. Out of his affair with Chang Ya-juo, Chiang also had twin sons in 1941: | and Chang Hsiao-yen. (Note the identical generation name of Hsiao between ... |
Ngo Dinh Diem | In 1963, the South Vietnamese President | , a Catholic, and the younger brother of Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc banned t ... |
Ahmed Yousef | ... ize support and it should be amended... It projects anger, not vision.” Dr. | an adviser to has questioned the use of the charter by Israel and its supp ... |
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 ... |
John Dingell | During debate in the House of Representatives, Rep. | (Democrat of Michigan) argued that the bill would result in banks becoming ... |
Nitin Gadkari | ... ersies. Rajnath Singh held this post from 2006 to 2009, he was succeeded by | . Beyond this, there are several Vice-Presidents, General-Secretaries, Tre ... |
Stalin | ... as later developed into "Liberation Theologies" from suffering people under | ism in Eastern Europe and military dictatorships in South America and Sout ... |
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 ... |
John J. Burzichelli | The Mayor of the Borough of Paulsboro is | , who is also the Chair of Economic & Neighborhood Development and represe ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... t of Florestano de Fausto and Armando Brasini, well known architects of the | period in Italy. Brasini laid the basis for the modern-day arrangement of ... |
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 ... |
Ōkubo Toshimichi | ... had a strong representation from the Satsuma province, with leaders such as | and Saigō Takamori taking up key government positions |
Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. | ... by Jim Leach (R-Iowa). The third lawmaker associated with the bill was Rep. | (R-Virginia), Chairman of the House Commerce Committee from 1995 to 2001 |
Alexander H. Stephens | ... an County, after U.S. President James Buchanan, but was renamed in 1861 for | , the vice president of the Confederate States of America |
Charles V | Though | fought the Reformation, it is no coincidence either that the reign of his ... |
John Malcolm | ... a the parasol is repeatedly found in the carved work of Persepolis, and Sir | has an article on the subject in his 1815 "History of Persia." In some scu ... |
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 ... |
Hsiao-yung | Chiang and his wife had two more sons, Hsiao-wu, born in Chungking, and | , born in Shanghai. Out of his affair with Chang Ya-juo, Chiang also had t ... |
Charles the Bold | ... nfederation's power and wealth increased significantly, with victories over | of Burgundy during the 1470s and the success of Swiss mercenaries |
Chuck Reed | In May 2011 San Jose Mayor | sent a letter to Bud Selig asking the commissioner for a timetable of when ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... of bombardment by Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami, the Junbish-i Milli forces of | and the Hezb-e Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari in early 1994. Atrocities were c ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... n 1754, it would be set off and incorporated as a town by colonial Governor | , although thereafter spelled Somersworth due to a clerical error. Since t ... |
K. Karunakaran | ... l University in 1971, a university for all agricultural related activities. | , the Bhishmacharya of Kerala politics started his career in Thrissur as a ... |
Jan Simonsen | ... (the alleged "leader"), Dag Danielsen, Fridtjof Frank Gundersen, as well as | (who distinctively did not get excluded until soon after the election). On ... |
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, ... |
Ismail Haniyeh | ... rs [from] June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital." On 1 December 2010, | again repeated that, "We accept a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... Oslo Accords of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Minister | and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat had provided ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... Kruger, 1941) and The Dismissal of Bismarck (1942). Minister of Propaganda | named him "Artist of the State" in 1941 |
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 ... |
Gedaliah | ... tion) was banished and the administrative centre shifted to a new location. | was appointed governor of the Yehud province, supported by a Chaldean guar ... |
Carlos Reutemann | ... each driving identical Mercedes 190E 2.3–16. Senna won from Niki Lauda and | . After the race Senna was quoted as saying, "Now I know I can do it. |
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 ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | Other theorists, such as | , Thorstein Veblen and some of the utopian socialists, believed that socia ... |
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 ... |
President Svinhufvud | ... nd Progressive) and social democratic coalition which wanted to ensure that | would not be re-elected. Kallio took a role of a parliamentarian president ... |
Juan de Garay | ... s abandoned. A second (and permanent) settlement was established in 1580 by | , who arrived by sailing down the Paraná River from Asunción (now the capi ... |
Brigham Young | ... ted in the northeast corner of 200 East and 200 North. On October 16, 1875, | , then President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, perso ... |
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 ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... years, Rossetti worked on English translations of Italian poetry including | 's La Vita Nuova (published as The Early Italian Poets in 1861). These and ... |
Dave Bing | ... ime NBA All Star, pro basketball Hall of Famer and current Mayor of Detroit | , Owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures; successful former stockbroker and ad ... |
Governor | ... lacks and Irish, one which involved cutting the throats of all the English. | William Sayle prepared for the uprising with three edicts: the first was t ... |
George W. Bush | ... e Jeremy Deller won the prize with his film Memory Bucket, documenting both | 's hometown Crawford, Texas – and the siege in nearby Waco. The prize mone ... |
Pauline Hanson | ... en but not always as interviewees. The most memorable appearance is that of | in The Shadow We Cast (series 3), in which she turns her famous "please ex ... |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... pular in New York during the 1930s. As a New Dealer, he supported President | , a Democrat, and in turn Roosevelt heavily funded the city and cut off pa ... |
Henry Morgenthau | ... United States (including Harry Dexter White, Secretary of the Treasury and | ), but opposed by John Maynard Keynes, head of the British delegation. The ... |
Oscar K. Allen | Winnfield was the home of three Louisiana governors: Huey "Kingfish" Long, | and Earl K. Long. Huey became Governor, U.S. Senator, and challenged Frank ... |
Adam Bandt | ... sentatives seat at a general election, the seat of Melbourne with candidate | . A crossbencher in the first hung parliament since the 1940 federal elect ... |
Barack Obama | ... ived 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Democrat | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e, has been associated with the Democratic Party since the 1932 campaign of | . Since the 1950s, however, music has declined in importance in politics, ... |
Thomas Gates | ... plored and began settling the areas adjacent to Hampton Roads. In 1610, Sir | "took possession" of a nearby Native American village, which became known ... |
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake | ... he's 48.43%. Mahinda Rajapaksa took oath as President on November 19, 2005. | was appointed the 22nd Prime Minister on November 21, 2005, to fill the po ... |
Erwin Huber | ... nt, incumbent Minister-President Günther Beckstein and Chairman of the CSU, | , announced their resignations. Horst Seehofer was quickly proposed as the ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... ted. This has resulted in various leaders speaking to midshipmen, including | , football coach Dick Vermeil, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia |
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) |
Indira Gandhi | ... emonstrations in 1955 and 26000 in 1960-61. Finally, in September 1966, the | -led Union Government accepted the demand, and Punjab was trifurcated as p ... |
Stephen Conroy | ... 15 December 2008. According to a spokesman for the Communications Minister, | , "The expert panel has determined that Telstra’s submission to the nation ... |
Bessus | ... ee to Bactria but was assassinated by a subordinate lord, the Bactrian-born | , who proclaimed himself the new ruler of Persia as Artaxerxes. Bessus was ... |
Zhang Xueliang | ... w plan of suppression of the communist forces, raising opposition from both | and Yang Hucheng. On 4 December 1936, Chiang came to Xian again, accompani ... |
Muhammad | It has been recorded that | has said |
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 ... |
Isabel Martínez de Perón | ... onarch women heads of state and heads of government in this period included | as the first woman President in Argentina and the first woman non-monarch ... |
Dag Danielsen | ... early 2001. They most notably included Vidar Kleppe (the alleged "leader"), | , Fridtjof Frank Gundersen, as well as Jan Simonsen (who distinctively did ... |
John Endecott | ... acquiring the land grant in 1628, it sent a small group of settlers led by | to prepare the way for further migration. John Winthrop was apparently not ... |
Kamal Jumblatt | ... ommunist and Nasserist Lebanese National Movement (LNM). The LNM was led by | , who had a friendly relationship with Arafat and other PLO leaders. Altho ... |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... y, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rabindranath Tagore, and | , as well as women such as the Scots–Irish Sister Nivedita, spread the pas ... |
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 ... |
John Bell | ... pported by plurality the Constitutional Union Party candidate, U.S. Senator | of Tennessee, who pledged merely to support the Constitution of the United ... |
Kevin Eltife | ... ts U.S. representative is Louie Gohmert(R), and the Texas Senate by Senator | (R) |
Andrew George | ... the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as was | , the Liberal Democrat MP; he still remains sympathetic to many Cornish is ... |
Dan Burton | ... elli Act with new legislation. Its companion sponsored through the House by | of Indiana, it would strengthen the embargo against Cuba: further codifyin ... |
George W. Bush | ... f that group's votes. In Webb County, Kerry received 23,654 (57 percent) to | 's 17,753 (42 percent). Nearly 57,000 registered voters in Webb County did ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ca/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a clear reference to then US President | , who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the ... |
Ronald Reagan | The president of SAG – future United States President | – also known to the FBI as Confidential Informant "T-10", testified before ... |
James Wilkinson | ... of Spanish West Florida until 1813, when it was seized by the U.S. General | during the War of 1812 |
James Fenton | ... With Scullin temporarily absent in London, Lyons and acting Prime Minister | clashed with the Labor Cabinet and Caucus over economic policy, and grappl ... |
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp | ... , which he ended by forming a coalition government with his main adversary, | . During World War II, in which Sweden maintained a policy of neutrality, ... |
William Russell, Lord Russell | ... ished of it, and in 1682 his Sermons. Along with Burnet, Tillotson attended | on the scaffold in 1683. In 1684, he wrote a Discourse against Transubstan ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... mies of the Visconti in Pisa soon removed the last judge, Nino, a friend of | , in 1288 |
Quintus Petillius Cerialis | The arrival of | with a strong force awed the Gauls and mutinous troops into submission; Ci ... |
Thomas Mifflin | ... Pittsburgh. The population was 20,313 at the 2010 census. It is named after | , 1st Governor of Pennsylvania, signer of the United States Constitution, ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... l scholar Lawrence Douglas, physicist Arthur Zajonc, Pulitzer Prize-winning | biographer William Taubman, African art specialist Rowland Abiodun, Natura ... |
Abdul Ali Mazari | ... the Junbish-i Milli forces of Abdul Rashid Dostum and the Hezb-e Wahdat of | in early 1994. Atrocities were committed by individuals of different armed ... |
James Bowdoin | ... ions made at high values with lower-valued paper. The merchants, among them | , were opposed, because they were generally lenders who stood to lose by s ... |
John Howard | ... when he opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq, despite Prime Minister | 's warning that Latham risked endangering an alliance with the United Stat ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | In December 1990, the former priest | was elected President in the Haitian general election, winning more than t ... |
Manuel Noriega | ... tion, he becomes a fugitive. Meanwhile, his bank account — heretofore under | 's protection in Panama — is seized. One night, he and Mirtha get into a f ... |
Hiram Johnson | ... rnia state primary election, where he came close to beating popular Senator | . But having lost in his home state, Hoover was not considered a serious c ... |
Martin Parmer | ... 10,269. The seat of the county is Farwell. The county is named in honor of | , a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and early judge. Parme ... |
Lord Stanley of Preston | In 1888, the new Governor General of Canada, | , whose sons and daughter had become hockey enthusiasts, attended the Mont ... |
Lisa Murkowski | ... ived 335 votes (43.7%) compared with 211 votes each (27.5%) for Republicans | and Joe Miller. Statewide, McAdams came in third with only 23% of the vote |
Dmitry Medvedev | In November 2008, Russian president | announced government support for the construction of the Sakhalin Tunnel, ... |
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 ... |
Fridtjof Frank Gundersen | ... y most notably included Vidar Kleppe (the alleged "leader"), Dag Danielsen, | , as well as Jan Simonsen (who distinctively did not get excluded until so ... |
Al Gore | ... the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and continued the trend by giving | an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate Joh ... |
Mark Latham | In 2003, | became the leader of the ALP. Although Latham was more conservative than W ... |
Julius Caesar | ... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to | , who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC |
Craig Benson | ... ents signed the petition. The property tax issue itself quieted as Governor | announced in 2003 the property taxes would be cut almost by half by 2008 |
Bansi Lal | ... to Punjab and had been influenced politically by the Haryana chief minister | , who was also a Union Cabinet minister at the time. A section of Sikhs pe ... |
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 ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... made it almost to the half-way point before the project was abandoned under | . In 2000, the Russian government revived the idea, adding a suggestion th ... |
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 ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge | ... hevik-controlled areas of Russia in 1921, despite the opposition of Senator | and other Republicans. When asked if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, H ... |
Steven Purcell | ... defected to the Labour Party in late 2007 after praising the Leadership of | . While Alex Dingwall and Colin Deens have both defected from the SNP, bec ... |
Joey Durel | ... mayor as it had previously. The current city-parish president is Republican | . On Saturday, October 22, 2011, Lafayette parish had its election day, an ... |
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 ... |
Betty Kennedy | ... bly stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian Pierre Berton, | (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a mov ... |
Sieciech | ... pact on Poland's political life. It's believed that she was the mistress of | , the Count Palatine and true governor of the country. Judith actively aid ... |
George Clinton | ... ork, the candidates for governor were John Jay, a Federalist, and incumbent | , who was allied with Jefferson and the Republicans. Four states' electors ... |
Michel Claudet | ... it absorbed the powers of the City of Houma. The parish is led by President | , elected in 2007 |
Arturo Toscanini | ... Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young | . The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were s ... |
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 ... |
Edward Hay Drummond Hay | By 1848, | , the President of the British Virgin Islands, reported that: "there are n ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed | for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPA ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s the maquis were receiving, to the extent that he begged five minutes with | , the British Prime Minister. Churchill, reluctant at first, but fascinate ... |
Ismail Haniyeh | ... ight of return" to all Palestinian refugees. In November 2008, Hamas leader | re-stated that Hamas was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the ... |
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 ... |
John Edwards | ... , military, science, academia, business, arts, and athletics, among others. | , former U.S. Senator and two time presidential candidate, James B. Hunt J ... |
William Cohen | ... peacekeeping efforts on the continent. In 1998, the U.S. Defence Secretary, | , said that Morocco and the U.S. have "mutual concerns over transnational ... |
Robert F. Wagner | Senator | proposed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, which empowered workers ... |
German Gref | ... modern Russia include Viktor Kress, governor of Tomsk Oblast since 1991 and | Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia since 2000. Out of the 597,212 G ... |
David William Thomas | In the 1920s, | edited a weekly newspaper in Hammond prior to moving to Minden, the seat o ... |
Heulette Fontenot | ... n Parish has been represented in the Louisiana State Senate by Republicans, | (2000–2008) and Dale M. Erdey (since 2008) |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... Commission was created to administer the emerging metropolis when President | issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ... |
Duff Green | ... issouri during the Bleeding Kansas incidents. In October several men led by | demanded that Daniel Marshall provide medical assistance to the pro-slaver ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... e declaration, Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, with | of Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independe ... |
George Mason | ... ention declared Virginia's independence from the British Empire and adopted | 's Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was then included in a new consti ... |
Manuel L. Quezon | In 1941 with the onset of World War II, President | created the City of Greater Manila as an emergency measure, merging the ci ... |
Chuck Cadman | ... ommons in favour of the government. This, and the support of independent MP | , caused a tie during a May 2005 confidence vote, meaning that Peter Milli ... |
Lito Atienza | ... an for the presidency during the 1998 presidential election, his vice mayor | was elected as city mayor. Atienza was known for renovating most of the ci ... |
Dan K. Moore | ... of campus, christened "Dan Moore's Wall" by The Daily Tar Heel for Governor | . A group of UNC students, led by Student Body President Paul Dickson, fil ... |
Dick Cole | ... on Kerrier District Council, along with one in Restormel (the party leader | ) and, until his death in 2005, John Bolitho in North Cornwall. One of the ... |
David Lammy | ... oated them to parody the work. The prize was presented by Culture Minister, | . Before introducing him, Sir Nicholas Serota, in an "unusual, possibly un ... |
Johann Rudolf Wettstein | ... to take influence, by way of mercenary commanders such as Jörg Jenatsch or | . The Drei Bünde of Grisons, at that point not yet a member of the Confede ... |
Siv Jensen | ... epped down to become Vice President of the Norwegian parliament Stortinget. | was chosen as his successor, with the hope that she could increase the par ... |
the Duke of Marlborough | In July 1708, | , with his ally Prince Eugene of Savoy, won a great victory at the Battle ... |
Ibrahim Nasir | In 1957, however, the new prime minister, | , called for a review of the agreement in the interest of shortening the l ... |
Jean-Claude Duvalier | "Papa Doc" was succeeded by his son (born 3 July 1951) | – known also as "Bébé Doc" – who led the country from 1971 until his ouste ... |
Edward Livingston | Livingston is an eponym honoring | , a prominent American and Louisianan jurist and statesman who assisted in ... |
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 ... |
Scott McAdams | ... can Sean Parnell's 321 votes (42.0%). In the 2010 Senate election, Democrat | received 335 votes (43.7%) compared with 211 votes each (27.5%) for Republ ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... oligarchies, in part through miscegenation with the local elites. In 1532, | imposed a vice-king to Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, in order to prevent Cor ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... ien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, | continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977 (and taking office again ... |
Takahashi Korekiyo | ... st in the cabinets of Ōkuma Shigenobu, Terauchi Masatake, Hara Takashi, and | . Under Hara and Takahashi, Katō was Japan's chief commissioner plenipoten ... |
Katsu Kaishū | ... n (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University, and went abroad with a son of | to study in London. Arriving in England in 1866, he found employment as a ... |
President Johnson | ... ski notes: “It was significant that, in contrast to his secretary of state, | fully accepted the Israeli version of the tragic incident.” He notes that ... |
John McCain | ... received. The Republicans fared better still in the 2008 election, in which | received 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Dem ... |
John Dickinson | ... Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independence. | made one last effort to delay the decision, arguing that Congress should n ... |
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 ... |
Richard Henry Lee | ... opposition to taxation without representation was led by Patrick Henry and | , among others. Virginians began to coordinate their actions with other co ... |
James Bowdoin | ... 1752 by the Kennebec Company to William Bowdoin of Boston, older brother of | . Originally called West Bowdoinham Plantation, it was settled some years ... |
Sir John Franklin | In 1825, | wrote that "The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" wh ... |
Dany Chamoun | ... Phalangists loyal to Bachir Gemayel and the Tigers Militia—which was led by | , a son of former President Camille Chamoun |
Juan O'Donojú | ... ticles 1st Venezuelan Rifles, Bernardo O'Higgins, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, | , Morgan O'Connell, & William Lamport |
Joseph Mundassery | ... m Chembukavu.Government Engineering College, Thrissur, is another gift from | , the controversial former education minister who introduced Kerala Educat ... |
Corazon Aquino | In 1986, after a major government reorganization, President | issued Executive Order No. 392 and changed the structure of the Metropolit ... |
Yona Yahav | ... unicipalities. In Haifa, where former Green candidate (presently of Kadima) | was re-elected to a second mayoral term, the Greens hold four seats, while ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President | |
Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
General Sheridan | ... wing Jr., was Sherman's brother in law.) Under Sherman's overall direction, | followed this policy in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and subsequently ... |
Giuseppe Mazzini | Two prominent radical figures in the unification movement were | and Giuseppe Garibaldi. The more conservative constitutional monarchic fig ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... igh-profile figures paid visits to the city such as former Soviet President | , former Premier of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Enlai and lately ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... eerson and corresponded extensively with him. Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, | , Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu - who was present at his fun ... |
Samuel Chase | ... , all appointed by Washington. Many of them, particularly Associate Justice | , were openly hostile to the Federalists' opponents. Individual Supreme Co ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... eferred Hoover as his successor. "There could not be a finer one," asserted | , then a rising star from New York. Hoover briefly considered becoming a D ... |
Robert Dinwiddie | ... y was formed May 1, 1752 from Prince George County. The county is named for | , Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1751-58. The county raised several mili ... |
Nathaniel P. Banks | The Union forces led by General | who occupied Opelousas found what the historian John D. Winters describes ... |
Indiana Governor | ... of the United States Military Academy and served as lieutenant governor and | . When Wallace's father was elected as lieutenant governor of Indiana, he ... |
Bob Hawke | ... took various academic positions, and when Labor was restored to power under | in 1983, Whitlam was appointed Ambassador to UNESCO, based in Paris. He se ... |
Makonnen Endelkachew | ... aymanot of Gojjam Province, Ras Mulugeta Yeggazu of Illubabor Province, Ras | , and Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase. The primary goal of the trip to Eur ... |
Fridtjof Nansen | ... seen have many similarities to those of Greenland Inuit groups described by | , although a large distance separates Siberia and Greenland. There may be ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ... |
John McCain | ... ck Obama 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for | .. In the 2010 gubernatorial election, Democrat Ethan Berkowitz received 4 ... |
James M. Cox | ... of the Hoosier delegation. Ultimately he endorsed the Democratic nominees, | as president and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as vice president, but they wer ... |
Menachem Begin | ... resented by President Anwar Sadat, and Israel represented by Prime Minister | . The Oslo Accords of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Mi ... |
Hara Takashi | ... served in this post in the cabinets of Ōkuma Shigenobu, Terauchi Masatake, | , and Takahashi Korekiyo. Under Hara and Takahashi, Katō was Japan's chief ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... provide entertainment at political functions. The presidential campaign of | was the first to greatly benefit from music, after which it became standar ... |
Louise B. Johnson | ... thereabouts, and the monument was forgotten. In 1975, State Representative | obtained passage of a law to refurbish the monument. Resoration efforts we ... |
Robert Morris | ... n and voted for independence. In the Pennsylvania delegation, Dickinson and | abstained, allowing the delegation to vote three-to-two in favor of indepe ... |
Boss Hogg | ... boys and their cousin Daisy in an automobile race around the world against | , Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and Rosco's dog Flash in a duel for the prize ... |
Peter Milliken | ... Chuck Cadman, caused a tie during a May 2005 confidence vote, meaning that | , Speaker of the House needed to cast the deciding vote. He voted with the ... |
George W. Bush | ... n parishes in Louisiana and the entire United States. In the 2004 election, | received 33,976 votes, or 77% of the county's total, more than three times ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... life; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with | in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg. However, his endorsem ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Following the failure of the coup against the government of | in Moscow in August 1991, Uzbekistan's Supreme Soviet declared the indepen ... |
Pierre Giffard | ... on's behavior was savagely criticised by Le Vélo and its Dreyfusard editor, | . De Dion responded by starting L'Auto. He was supported by other wealthy ... |
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 |
Viktor Kress | ... ad learned the language). Prominent ethnic Germans in modern Russia include | , governor of Tomsk Oblast since 1991 and German Gref Minister of Economic ... |
C. Achutha Menon | ... ontroversial former education minister who introduced Kerala Education Act. | , the former Chief Minister of Kerala gifted Kerala Agricultural Universit ... |
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 ... |
Bill Hayden | ... early 1977, Whitlam faced a leadership challenge from his final Treasurer, | , and won by a two-vote margin. Fraser called an election for 10 December, ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young | . Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repe ... |
General Benjamin F. Butler | Although | bought 12 and Admiral David Dixon Porter bought one, it wasn't until 1866 ... |
Bachir Gemayel | ... ry components of the Christian front were the Maronite Phalangists loyal to | and the Tigers Militia—which was led by Dany Chamoun, a son of former Pres ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... nship with the historian Macaulay and the poet Hallam. With the election of | his post was not renewed; on his return to the United states in 1849 he wi ... |
Richard L. Thornburgh | | (1977) and Eric Holder (2001) served as acting attorney general in their c ... |
Bob Winter | ... erform associated tasks as a general civil leader. The current incumbent is | |
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 ... |
Colin Jordan | ... ntry; trade union organiser Tom Mann and National Socialist Movement leader | also came from the city |
first Earl of Lytton | ... amed "Giles Lytton" after an early sixteenth-century Gyles Strachey and the | , who had been a friend of Richard Strachey's when he was Viceroy of India ... |
Benjamin Netanyahu | ... him. Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, | - who was present at his funeral - also paid visits and sought advice, alo ... |
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 |
Patrick Henry | ... ouse of Burgesses, opposition to taxation without representation was led by | and Richard Henry Lee, among others. Virginians began to coordinate their ... |
Jagjit Singh Chauhan | ... empowered Sikh-majority state within India, some other Sikh leaders such as | pursued the idea of a sovereign Khalistan. Chauhan moved to the United Kin ... |
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 ... |
Bernardo O'Higgins | c. See articles 1st Venezuelan Rifles, | , Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Juan O'Donojú, Morgan O'Connell, & William Lam ... |
John McCain | ... ama received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican | , who received 48.7% of the vote (487 ballots), with 83.4% of registered v ... |
Ethan Berkowitz | ... otes (43.0%) for John McCain.. In the 2010 gubernatorial election, Democrat | received 419 votes (54.8%) to Republican Sean Parnell's 321 votes (42.0%). ... |
Stephen Conroy | ... ate Telstra into two separate entities; a retail and wholesale arm. Senator | , Minister for Broadband and Communications, has stated to Telstra that th ... |
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 ... |
Manuel L. Quezon | During the Philippine Commonwealth era, President | , the first president of the Commonwealth, renamed the Philippine Army to ... |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... il 1985, when then Governor Rafael Hernández Colón decided to name it after | , Puerto Rico's first democratically elected governor |
Lidia Gueiler Tejada | ... he People's Republic of China continuing their leadership from the sixties, | becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Mar ... |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | ... José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and co-sponsored by the Turkish Prime Minister | . The initiative is intended to galvanize collective action across diverse ... |
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 ... |
Svend Robinson | ... t these have been controversial and of minor legal consequence. In 1999, MP | brought forward a failed proposal before the Canadian House of Commons tha ... |
Stephen Conroy | ... dren Trinity Bates and Elliott Fletcher. Australian communications minister | decried the attacks, committed mainly by 4chan users, as evidence of the n ... |
Kyösti Kallio | ... e sabotaged the prospects of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival | , so that Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Relander's former Prime Minister, was ele ... |
Janez Bleiweis | ... r Kmetijske in rokodelske novice, edited by the conservative Slovene leader | |
Douglas MacArthur | ... he Philippine Army to the Armed Forces of the Philippines and asked General | to be its first commanding officer after the Philippines gained independen ... |
James VII and II | ... Abdication Act 1936. The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was | , who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution |
Governor of Massachusetts | ... ed, high-profile battle to block the nomination of William Weld, Republican | , as Ambassador to Mexico: refusing to hold a committee meeting to schedul ... |
William Crawford | ... the party in Congress boycotted the caucus; only a small rump group backed | . The Crawford faction included most "Old Republicans", who remained commi ... |
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 ... |
Members of Parliament | ... Westminster system, is a motion, expressed as a single sentence, tabled by | for debate "on an early day" (namely, an unspecified date in the future). ... |
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 ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... the Fountain of Youth became attached to the biography of the conquistador | . As attested by his royal charter, Ponce de León was charged with discove ... |
Jasper Ridley | ... ave criticised him for Anti-Protestantism and, "intolerance." The historian | , author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on ... |
Ismail Haniyeh | ... Christians living under the sovereignty of an Islamic state." In late 2006, | , the political leader of Hamas, said that if a Palestinian state was form ... |
Sir Thomas Morgan | ... Park, a swampy meadow behind the Cardiff Arms Hotel. The hotel was built by | , during the reign of Charles I. Cardiff Arms Park was named after this ho ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President | . Over the following days, they would reached the present sites of Kelso a ... |
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty | ... city had been a breeding ground of famous politicians and bureaucrats like | , P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai ... |
Manuel Noriega | ... d success until 1991, when the United States invaded Panama to oust General | . At the time Panama was one of the largest providers of offshore financia ... |
Menachem Begin | ... tch ancestry, would visit Schneerson and corresponded extensively with him. | , Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu ... |
Thomas Gates | ... ompany's Admiral, Sir George Somers, and the new Governor of Jamestown, Sir | , to relieve the colony of Jamestown, settled two years before. Somers had ... |
Soong Ching-ling | ... ice again in 1980), Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel and acting Chairman | of the People's Republic of China continuing their leadership from the six ... |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ts of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival Kyösti Kallio, so that | , Relander's former Prime Minister, was elected. In Relander's opinion, Ka ... |
Barack Obama | ... th Star Borough. In the 2008 presidential election, the Ester precinct gave | 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for John Mc ... |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | ... y of the United Nations in 2005 by the President of the Spanish Government, | and co-sponsored by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The i ... |
Pervez Musharraf | ... in the cities of Peshawar, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. General | faced already fierce opposition from his mostly Muslim population for his ... |
Malcolm Fraser | In October 1975, the Opposition, led by | , determined to block supply by deferring consideration of appropriation b ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... er Chiang Ching-kuo. The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, | , which culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. ... |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | After the United States entered the war in April 1917, President | appointed Hoover to head the U.S. Food Administration. Hoover believed "fo ... |
Moshe Dayan | ... he Israelis managed to occupy one-third of Missouri Ridge. Defense Minister | countermanded orders from Sharon's superiors to continue the attack. Howev ... |
Calonne | ... ge of pamphlets and memoirs attacking his successor as minister of finance, | . Yet in 1788 the country had been struck by both economic and financial c ... |
Barbara Boxer | ... the more conservative Bruce Herschensohn, and the election to the Democrat | . Bono and Herschensohn became close friends after the campaign. Bono was ... |
Abdul Ali Mazari | ... an Rights Watch, Iran was assisting the Shia Hazara Hezb-i Wahdat forces of | , as Iran was attempting to maximize Wahdat's military power and influence ... |
John Garang | ... would get various portfolios and as a result of the death of vice president | . The National Congress Party kept control of the key energy, defense, int ... |
Risto Ryti | ... Continuation War. On August 27 he suffered a serious stroke. Prime Minister | took over his duties. Kallio's heart became weak while he knowingly took r ... |
Rex Connor | ... ng the Senate, at least up until 1 July 1976. On 14 October, Labor minister | , mastermind of the loans scheme, was forced to resign when Khemlani relea ... |
Duke of Somerset | ... ne began having altercations with the Lord Protector, the King's uncle, the | and a rivalry developed between Catherine and his wife, her former lady-in ... |
Barack Obama | In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President | |
Lala Lajpat Rai | ... rule. Tilak was backed by rising public leaders like Bipin Chandra Pal and | , who held the same point of view. Under them, India's three great states ... |
He Yingqin | ... the Kuomintang armies for the rescue of Chiang. Historians used to say that | strongly supported solving this incident by force, for which He contacted ... |
Chen Shui-bian | ... culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. In 2000, | was elected the president, becoming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. ... |
Kenneth McClintock | In late 2004, incoming Senate President | 's decision to recognize Santiago's status as Minority Leader provoked the ... |
Alexander Spotswood | ... counties. The county was named in Latin for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia | |
C. Achutha Menon | ... famous politicians and bureaucrats like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, | , K. Karunakaran, Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai etc. after the independence ... |
Rafael Hernández Colón | ... s known as Isla Verde International Airport, until 1985, when then Governor | decided to name it after Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico's first democratica ... |
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 Putin | ... Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President | on 25 July 2006 |
Ernest the Iron | Born in Innsbruck, he was the son of Duke | of the Leopoldinian line of the Habsburg family, the ruler of Inner Austri ... |
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 ... |
Foster Furcolo | ... ther overruled them. Thus, the President-elect asked Massachusetts Governor | to name Kennedy family friend Ben Smith as interim Senator for John's unex ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... inent radical figures in the unification movement were Giuseppe Mazzini and | . The more conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Ca ... |
Stoneman's | ... nsive line to protect Richmond. The Danville supply train ran until General | Union cavalry troops tore up the tracks. This event was immortalised in th ... |
Kyösti Kallio | ... by the fact that some of the party's key figures, such as Santeri Alkio and | , declined to stand |
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 ... |
Qinghai | ... e per km 2 . The Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet autonomous regions and | and Gansu provinces comprise 55 percent of the country's land area but in ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... Wahdat's military power and influence. Saudi Arabia supported the Wahhabite | and his faction. Massoud tried to avoid war between the Saudi-backed Ittih ... |
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 ... |
Charles Carroll | ... along this route by Richard Caton, under the authority of his father-in-law | , a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Travelers along "the turnpi ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Valley Days under the title Trails West; the series' original host had been | . He also turned in an appearance as a hand surgeon in the Night Gallery e ... |
Samuel Adams | ... ommanded the legislature to "vindicate the insulted dignity of government." | claimed that foreigners ("British emissaries") were instigating treason am ... |
Gordon Scholes | ... ly suffered a series of defeats in the House, which instructed the Speaker, | , to advise Kerr to reinstate Whitlam |
William Hughes | ... ing his employment at the Bulletin, Low became famous for a 1916 cartoon of | , then the Prime Minister of Australia, entitled The Imperial Conference. ... |
Alejandro O'Reilly | ... in the vicinity. More cattlemen would follow after 1770, when Spanish Gov. | (English: Alexander O'Reilly) decreed that "a grant of 42 arpents in front ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
Benning Wentworth | ... Charmingfare was incorporated in 1763 and named Candia by Colonial Governor | , possibly after the old name under Venetian domination of the principal c ... |
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 ... |
Ehud Barak | ... place between United States President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister | , and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Ultimately, it was an ... |
Adolf Hitler | In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and | labelled Anthroposophy "Jewish methods." The anthroposophical institutions ... |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... neously the gubernatorial mansion La Fortaleza, where Puerto Rican governor | resided, and the United States Federal Court House which is located close ... |
George Washington Donaghey | ... n County, Arkansas, through the private efforts of former Arkansas Governor | (1856–1937), who was born in Union Parish and grew up in the border area b ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... the protection of the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, | and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, ... |
John of Lancaster | ... ital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, | bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keepin ... |
K. Karunakaran | ... s and bureaucrats like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, | , Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai etc. after the independence. These individu ... |
Risto Ryti | ... f the electoral college, defeating the National Progressive Party candidate | by 172 votes to 109. He was elected largely due to the fact that he attrac ... |
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 ... |
Michaëlle Jean | ... government announced that Martin had advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint | as governor general. The reception to the appointment was mixed: some, inc ... |
Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
Alejandro O'Reilly | Don | , Spanish governor of Louisiana, issued a land ordinance to allow settlers ... |
Alexis Argüello | ... vember 1979, Chacon received a shot at the WBC title, versus world champion | . Arguello defeated him by a devastating knock out after Chacon suffered a ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Dudley | ... the new colonists were welcomed by John Endecott. Winthrop and his deputy, | , found the Salem area inadequate for creating a settlement suitable for a ... |
Ma Ying-jeou | ... oming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. The 2008 election of President | marked the second peaceful transfer of power, this time back to the KMT |
Gilles Duceppe | ... ocheleau and Jean Lapierre. The first Bloquiste candidate to be elected was | , then a union organizer, in a by-election for the Montreal riding of Laur ... |
George W. Bush | In late 2005 President | visited Kernersville's Deere-Hitachi plant to give a speech about the Amer ... |
Islam Karimov | ... ratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU), but the party leadership, under President | , remained in place. Independence brought a series of institutional change ... |
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 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... out before the resolution was passed. As they exited, they were taunted by | who told them "You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; yo ... |
British Chancellor of the Exchequer | ... U.S. subprime mortgage market – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In October, the | referred to Keynes as he announced plans for substantial fiscal stimulus t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jonas Savimbi | ... w by the United Nations. The initial focus of the UN's investigation was on | 's UNITA movement in Angola, which was found to have bartered uncut diamon ... |
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 ... |
William Weld | ... elms engage in a protracted, high-profile battle to block the nomination of | , Republican Governor of Massachusetts, as Ambassador to Mexico: refusing ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | signed into law an act of Congress on 25 May 1933 providing for the Bachel ... |
Earl of Marlborough | ... ed to restore the collection from a dilapidated condition. He persuaded the | to ask for additional rooms in the palace for the books. This was granted, ... |
Hassan al-Turabi | ... -Bashir and NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament | . Al-Turabi was stripped of his posts in the ruling party and the governme ... |
Joseph Mundassery | ... s like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, | , Vinod Rai etc. after the independence. These individuals have changed th ... |
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg | ... ckname of Reissu-Lasse ('Travelling Larry'). He was continually compared to | and his performance as president |
Grover Cleveland | The village was named after President | |
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 ... |
Dante | ... s interests included classical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, | , Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giaco ... |
John Abbott | | (1821–1893) was Prime Minister of Canada, 1891–1892 |
Benjamin Harrison | ... s in search of a defence lawyer and employed future United States President | , then a prominent lawyer in the area. Harrison had the suit dropped by sh ... |
Dwight Eisenhower | ... the well-being of the town despite the refusal of the townspeople to help. | loved the film and frequently screened it in the White House, as did many ... |
Al Gore | ... Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with | . Abdurrahim El-Keib is the interim prime minister of Libya |
Richard Nixon | ... hoose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican | against Democrat John F. Kennedy. He told friends, "I will do almost anyth ... |
Elias Dayton | ... 8, British soldiers near the Crosswicks Creek shot the horse out from under | , a captain with the New Jersey militia. A cannon ball from the period rem ... |
John Glenn | When the film came out, former (and future) astronaut and Senator | (Ohio) was running for the Democratic nomination for President of the Unit ... |
John C. Calhoun | ... 98, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by Henry Clay and | |
Rafael Trujillo | ... isputed land from the latter. After the US left in 1934, Dominican dictator | – in an event known as the Parsley Massacre – ordered his Army to kill Hai ... |
George McClellan | ... rain robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with | and Abraham Lincoln |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | ... ohn Paul II, who was an honorary member, and former prime minister of Spain | . FC Barcelona has the second highest average attendance of European footb ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... dress. . Donga.com. Retrieved March 8, 2007. In 2001, then President | announced a plan for building up a Strategic Mobile Fleet. . Kim Dae-ju ... |
Wilhelm von Humboldt | ... he world of letters, science and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, | , Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lo ... |
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 ... |
Albert Field | ... rsen finally convinced the legislature to elect a low-level union official, | , who had contacted his office and expressed a willingness to serve. In in ... |
Lusius Quietus | ... his Eastern armies over to the high ranking legate and governor of Judaea, | , who in early 116 had been in charge of the Roman division who had recove ... |
Diana DeGette | ... .S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and United States Representative | |
Robert M. La Follette, Jr. | ... lican Senators William Edgar Borah, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Gerald P. Nye and | , but support of non-interventionism was not limited to the Republican par ... |
Hjalmar Schacht | Kung also met Dr. | while in Germany. Scherr told him that "German-Chinese friendship stemmed ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ng and two other Chinese KMT officials visited Germany and were received by | in June 13. Hitler told Kung that "I understand that people in China think ... |
William Egan | ... – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: Ernest Gruening and | as U.S. Senators and as U.S. representative |
Thomas McKean | ... was 5,631 at the 2010 census. It was the birthplace of U.S. Founding Father | |
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 ... |
Charles V | ... ng of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the emperor | obtained the help of the duke during the war of the league of Schmalkalden ... |
Ken Salazar | ... Cheney, and their two daughters, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior | , and United States Representative Diana DeGette |
Pete Wilson | ... California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor | . Yet, political analysts have identified Schwarzenegger as a liberal, as ... |
Arthur H. Vandenberg | ... nd strong Neutrality Acts were the Republican Senators William Edgar Borah, | , Gerald P. Nye and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., but support of non-interve ... |
Dave Cieslewicz | ... iber Internet to Madison and failed. In a public forum in March 2010, Mayor | (chez-LEV-itch) criticized Topeka, Kansas, which had changed its name to , ... |
George Wythe | Wythe County was formed from Montgomery County in 1790. It was named after | , the first Virginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. During th ... |
Archie Cameron | ... re-enter Coalition with the UAP. The replacement of Earl Page as leader by | allowed Menzies to reach accommodation. A new Coalition ministry was forme ... |
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 ... |
Jiang Qing | ... alist in Shanghai in charge of the Liberation Daily (Jiefang Ribao). He met | in Shanghai and helped to launch the Cultural Revolution |
Walter Lini | ... ginally was called the New Hebrides National Party. One of the founders was | , an Anglican Priest, who later became Prime Minister. Renamed the Vanua'a ... |
Richard Nixon | The 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former | speech writer Ben Stein, in the role of a high school teacher, leads a cla ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... th a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president, | , and the fear of the soldiers. From 1902 till 1930, she and Matilda ran S ... |
Sterling Price | ... ine in the Battle of Dry Wood Creek. The battle was a pro-South victory for | and his Missouri State Guard. Price did not hold the fort and instead cont ... |
Barack Obama | ... Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat | won Klickitat County over Republican by only 21 votes or percentage wise 4 ... |
Alexander Korzhakov | According to Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky, top KGB officers | and Alexander Komelkov may have plotted Listyev's murder at the hands of S ... |
Cardinal Albornoz | ... assive presence meant to intimidate the people of the town: it was built by | (1367) and added to by Popes Pius II and Paul III. The smaller of the two ... |
Émile Borel | ... countable intersection, and relative complement. Borel sets are named after | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... f only included one small paragraph about the Liberty in his autobiography, | , Vantage Point, p.300–301 We learned that the ship had been attacked in e ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens about | during a 1958 episode; this is one of the episodes that does not survive |
Ted Kennedy | ... randfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and | , to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John Kennedy Jr.'s ... |
Henry Clay | ... rinciples of 1798, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by | and John C. Calhoun |
Vladimir Putin | ... ontrast, publicly welcomed Lukashenko's re-election. Then Russian President | phoned Lukashenko and offered a message of congratulations and cooperation ... |
George W. Bush | ... % of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and | all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Obama won Klickitat Coun ... |
Harley M. Kilgore | ... sus on what to do. Two primary proposals emerged, one from New Deal Senator | and another from Vannevar Bush |
Zheng Xiaoxu | ... ame acquainted with influential figures including Wu Changshi, Cai Yuanpei, | , Xu Beihong, and Zhang Daqian |
Benning Wentworth | Worcester argues that, at the time of the charter, Governor | was indebted to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle for his appoin ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Cyril Newall, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from | to weaken the home defence by sending precious squadrons to France. When t ... |
Al Gore | ... sage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) then-Vice President | mentioned the Smoot-Hawley tariff as a response to NAFTA objections voiced ... |
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 ... |
Siv Jensen | ... 2000s, the party has also been influenced by Thatcherism, particularly with | becoming party leader |
Noreen Evans | ... re Clearlake is located in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wesley Chesbro ... |
Charles Bass | ... e of this occurred in 2006 when Tad Furtado, a staffer for then-Congressman | (R-NH), was caught posing as a "concerned" supporter of Bass's opponent, D ... |
Governor of Maryland | ... er Howard, an officer in the American Revolutionary War and later the fifth | ,, the area was designated the Howard District when Anne Arundel County wa ... |
George S. Patton | ... Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the 3rd US Army commanded by General | |
Benjamín Carrión | ... novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum; the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade; the essayist | ; the poets Medardo Angel Silva, Jorge Carrera Andrade; the novelist Enriq ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... xter White, Secretary of the Treasury and Henry Morgenthau), but opposed by | , head of the British delegation. The disagreement led to Chase Bank repre ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... Both were released from prison in December 1997, pardoned by then-president | |
Richard Bellingham | ... nglish law. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was formally adopted during | 's governorship in 1641. Some of the laws enacted in Massachusetts were ci ... |
President Soeharto | His state visit to Indonesia as invited by | to discuss Indo-Japanese trade relations was protested by a number of loca ... |
Barthold Georg Niebuhr | ... ich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, | , Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen v ... |
Pachacuti | According to Inca legend, the city was built by Sapa Inca | , the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city-state in ... |
Dean Florez | ... ore Station is located in the 16th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 30th Assembly District, represented by Republican Danny Gilmo ... |
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 ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... satellite alarms the United States government. Politicians such as Senator | and military leaders demand that NASA help America defeat the Russians in ... |
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 |
Patrick Hillery | ... h its nearest neighbour, the United Kingdom and Denmark, on 1 January 1973. | became Ireland's first European Commissioner. In appointing Hillery Europe ... |
Bertie Milliner | ... e seat was vacant, following the death on 30 June of Queensland ALP Senator | . The state Labor party nominated Mal Colston, resulting in a deadlock. Th ... |
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo | ... jada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, | becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret ... |
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 ... |
Helena Charles | ... ts and politicians from a number of political parties. Its first leader was | . Its first election win came in 1953, with its members running as indepen ... |
John Campbell | ... County was established in 1757 from Fairfax County. The county is named for | , Fourth Earl of Loudoun and Governor of Virginia from 1756–59. Western se ... |
William the Silent | ... ited all his lands. This "William I of Orange" - in English better known as | - became the founder of the House of Orange-Nassau |
Jimmy Stevens | ... nd for coconut production, protests began in both Santo and Malekula led by | and his kastom movement called "Nagriamel" |
William H. Seward | Even before Fort Sumter, U.S. Secretary of State | issued formal instructions to the American minister to Great Britain: Make ... |
Sergei Gaidukevich | Elections were held on 9 September 2001 with Vladimir Goncharik and | as his opponents. During the campaign, Lukashenko promised to raise the st ... |
François Mitterrand | In 1985, President | commissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be ... |
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 ... |
Governor General of Canada | ... the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canada's history, done by | Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having ... |
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 |
Connie Conway | ... n Jean Fuller, and in the 34th Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Independence is located in California's 25th congressional di ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... o the site of a World War I German awards ceremony in August 1918, in which | was presented the Iron Cross (First Class) on recommendation from his supe ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... arrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), | , Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democ ... |
Vivian Barbot | ... une 2, 2011, Plamondon became the Bloc's interim parliamentary leader while | , who became interim party president following Duceppe's resignation, cont ... |
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 ... |
Robert Menzies | | defeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 Apr ... |
James II | The early reign of | was relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ... |
Yang Yichen | # | 杨易辰 (1977–1983 |
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 ... |
Mal Colston | ... of Queensland ALP Senator Bertie Milliner. The state Labor party nominated | , resulting in a deadlock. The unicameral Queensland legislature twice vot ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ." In 1988 Michael Dukakis narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. | (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the ... |
Sargent Shriver | ... nod, again without success. McGovern instead chose Kennedy's brother-in-law | |
Jean Fuller | ... ependence is located in the 18th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 34th Assembly District, represented by Republican Connie Conw ... |
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 ... |
William H. Avery | In 1968, Dole defeated Kansas Governor | for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate to succeed reti ... |
Yang Yichen | # | 杨易辰(December 1977-1979 |
Josiah Bartlet | ... daughter Renée had a supporting role in The West Wing, as one of President | 's (Sheen) secretaries |
Ronald Reagan | ... further foreign relations with the United States, during a 1988 summit with | |
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 ... |
Sun Yat-sen | # | biography film Road to Dawn (China, 2007) featuring Winston Chao and Angel ... |
George W. Bush | ... ewers by television executives), the Iraq War and other foreign policies of | and Tony Blair, British cuisine, and organic farming. He supports Britain' ... |
Thomas Sakakihara | ... munity leaders and prominent politicians, including territorial legislators | and Sanji Abe |
Polk | ... cognition for his support at the previous Democratic convention, he entered | 's cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, serving until 1846, when for a month ... |
Samuel Ryder | ... Ryder Cup is also the name of the trophy, after the person who donated it, | . The Ryder Cup, and its counterpart the Presidents Cup, are unique in the ... |
Basdeo Panday | ... ary in a dispute over the leadership style of then Leader of the Opposition | . Boldon resigned on 11 April 2007 after 14 months as a senator, also citi ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... al to Peel were known as the Peelites and included the Earl of Aberdeen and | . During 1859 the Peelites merged with the Whigs and the Radicals to form ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... ssing methods and background checks on all those arrested. Republican Mayor | hired Bill Bratton as his police commissioner who adopted the strategy mor ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... bills in the case of Joe Clark and Pierre Trudeau or supply in the case of | |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir | |
Domitien Ndayizeye | ... ational human rights groups claimed that the current government was framing | by torturing him into false confessions of a coup plot. Along with these a ... |
Thomas Docherty | ... irst past the post system. The seat was won at the 2010 general election by | of the Labour Party. Previously, the seat had been held by Willie Rennie f ... |
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 ... |
Daniel Webster | ... ially roads. Many former members of the defunct Federalist Party, including | , joined the party. After Clay's defeat by Jackson in the 1832 presidentia ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... nrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski and | active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively. ... |
William McKinley | After the two terms of Democrat Grover Cleveland, the election of | in 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence of Republican dominance and is some ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... minent in the 16th century, when it became attached to the Spanish explorer | , first Governor of Puerto Rico. According to an apocryphal story that fea ... |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet | |
Andrew Jackson | ... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to | , a longtime political rival |
Lloyd George | ... te being asked to do so on three separate occasions in 1920. From 1926 when | became leader of the Liberals, Keynes took a major role in defining the pa ... |
Kentucky Governor | In preparation for the christening of the Kentucky, the Navy asked | William O. Bradley to select a member of his family to perform the ceremon ... |
Kansas Governor | In 1968, Dole defeated | William H. Avery for the Republican nomination for the United States Senat ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | The son of President | and his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Zhejia ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... till not accomplished when Roosevelt died. In April 1945, the new president | and the British suspended the dissolution and the decision to liquidate th ... |
Manuel Noriega | ... ver having a military. Panama, after suffering from the combined effects of | 's dictatorship and the US invasion of Panama in 1990, subsequently abolis ... |
governorship of Massachusetts | ... n and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In 1844, he was the Democratic candidate for the | , but he was defeated. In 1845, in recognition for his support at the prev ... |
John G. Downey | ... was the first foreign-born governor of California since Irish-born Governor | in 1862 |
Khalid Abdul Samad | ... akyat, the parliamentary constituency of Shah Alam (P108) is represented by | of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) |
Roman Dmowski | ... waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with | and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist fac ... |
Governor-General of Australia | ... ir John Robert Kerr, (24 September 1914 – 24 March 1991) was the eighteenth | . He dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, ... |
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 |
Domitien Ndayizeye | Former President | and his political supporters were arrested in 2006 and accused of plotting ... |
Grover Cleveland | After the two terms of Democrat | , the election of William McKinley in 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence ... |
Doug Magnus | ... ameron Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Benjamin Constant | ... sias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, | and Alessandro Manzoni |
John Curtin | ... all party unity government to break the impasse, but the Labor Party under | refused to join. Curtin agreed instead to take a seat on a newly created A ... |
Sanji Abe | ... minent politicians, including territorial legislators Thomas Sakakihara and | |
Members of Parliament (MPs) | ... encies at Holyrood, but not Westminster). In 2005 the number of Westminster | was cut to 59, with new constituencies being formed, while the existing nu ... |
George W. Bush | ... in an internal e-mail message that reporters should not "artificially hold | and John Kerry 'equally' accountable" to the public interest, and that com ... |
John Eager Howard | To honor | , an officer in the American Revolutionary War and later the fifth Governo ... |
Rafael Hernández Colón | ... ildings. The Ponce en Marcha project was conceived in 1985 by then governor | during his second term in La Fortaleza and Ponce mayor Jose Dapena Thompso ... |
Benning Wentworth | Incorporated by Governor | in 1764 and settled in 1768, the town takes its name from Italy's Piemonte ... |
Dick Cole | ... prospective parliamentary candidates for Westminster. The candidates are:- | (St Austell and Newquay), Conan Jenkin (Truro and Falmouth), Loveday Jenki ... |
Nelson Rockefeller's | ... sident and some in the Republican Party suggested Johnson tacitly supported | campaign. He reportedly said that if Rockefeller became the Republican nom ... |
Henry Clay | ... 24 elections. When the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, | backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longt ... |
Governor of Puerto Rico | ... , when it became attached to the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, first | . According to an apocryphal story that features a combination of New Worl ... |
Anwar Ibrahim | ... s in a few short weeks. After the controversial sacking of finance minister | , a National Economic Action Council was formed to deal with the monetary ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... ones. In addition to emperors, successful courtiers and politicians such as | also occasionally received posthumous titles |
William O. Bradley | ... ation for the christening of the Kentucky, the Navy asked Kentucky Governor | to select a member of his family to perform the ceremony. Bradley chose hi ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ft of an address to the nation that was to have been delivered by President | on July 5, 1979 |
Josep Sunyol | ... ales). However, during the Spanish Civil War, members of both clubs such as | and Rafael Sánchez Guerra suffered at the hands of Franco supporters |
Jacques Chirac | On 12 July 2006, President | held an official state ceremony marking the centenary of Dreyfus's officia ... |
Duke of Marlborough | ... sive lines and the Marshal's orders from Versailles not to risk battle, the | concentrated instead on taking the fortresses of Tournai and Ypres. Tourna ... |
Muhammad | ... the Islamic faith. However, the crescent was not a symbol used for Islam by | or any other early Muslim rulers, as the Islamic religion is, in fact, aga ... |
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 ... |
Jello Biafra | ... rt." On the final track of his Become the Media spoken word album, activist | discusses a conversation he had with cast member Irene McGee, who was slap ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and | |
Richard Nixon | ... in his undescribed cause. (Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by | . |
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, ... |
Michael D. Higgins | Sheen maintains links with Galway and "heartily" supported | in the Irish presidential election, 2011, having become a "dear friend" of ... |
Philip Sheridan | ... light tank developed by the United States and named after Civil War General | . It was designed to be landed by parachute and to swim across rivers. It ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | #The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir | (1859–1930) |
Muhammad | Islam in China dates to a mission in 651, only 18 years after | 's death. Muslims initially came to China for trade, becoming prominent in ... |
Henry Lee | ... been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in a letter to | , "You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tu ... |
Joseph Stalin | Starting in the 1930s, Adolf Hitler and | murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-nationalistic tende ... |
Tom McClintock | ... Davis. Schwarzenegger defeated Democrat Cruz Bustamante, fellow Republican | , and others. His nearest rival, Bustamante, received 31% of the vote. In ... |
Chiang Wei-kuo | ... ejiang, with the courtesy name of Jiànfēng (建豐). He had an adopted brother, | . "Ching" literally means "longitude" while "kuo" means "nation"; in his b ... |
Michael O'Kennedy | ... of Lynch for this move. In the same year the Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, | , published a Fianna Fáil policy document calling for a withdrawal of Brit ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ember 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then-Governor General | , stating |
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 ... |
F. W. de Klerk | ... uth Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, | and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such ... |
Gul Agha Sherzai | ... ilitias nor the government in Kabul, but was ruled by local leaders such as | and their militias. In 1994, the Taliban (a movement originating from Jami ... |
Klaus Wowereit | ... mocracy to ensure that such injustice may never happen again," Berlin Mayor | said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel—who grew up behind the wall in Germa ... |
Andrew George | ... , David Mudd (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal Party) and currently | (Liberal Democrats |
Maggie Brooks | The county's executive branch is headed by the County Executive, | . The executive's office is located on the first floor of the County Offic ... |
Cruz Bustamante | ... f the vote to choose a successor to Davis. Schwarzenegger defeated Democrat | , fellow Republican Tom McClintock, and others. His nearest rival, Bustama ... |
Suharto | ... se as guerrillas. In September 1974, Whitlam met with Indonesian President, | , in Indonesia and indicated that he would support Indonesia if it annexed ... |
Arthur Coles | ... y, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, | and Alexander Wilson. The UAP–Country Party coalition and the Labor partie ... |
Erna Solberg | ... part of. In 2010, the Conservative Party went even further when its leader | stated that the Progress Party was now such a big party that it "must" be ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... in their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of | , a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong ... |
Adolf Hitler | Starting in the 1930s, | and Joseph Stalin murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-n ... |
Mike Duffy | One month later, on October 4, | , now a Conservative senator (appointed by Harper), said "It is possible t ... |
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 ... |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | In 1906, | joined the Indian National Congress, which was the largest Indian politica ... |
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 ... |
Ibrahim Nasir | The Second Republic was proclaimed in November 1968 under the presidency of | , who had increasingly dominated the political scene. Under the new consti ... |
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. ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... al times; Jose Joaquin de Olmedo (born in Guayaquil), famous for his ode to | titled Victoria de Junin; Juan Montalvo, a prominent essayist and novelist ... |
Alfred Byrne | ... hat there was a standard formation for English longbow armies was argued by | in his influential work on the battles of the Hundred Years War, The Crecy ... |
Tom O'Higgins | ... Ireland in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the National Coalition's | |
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau | ... provincial election. Cartier was elected as a Conservative supporter of the | government. As a result, Cartier was both a member of the Parliament of Ca ... |
Gabriel Hanotaux | ... tes accepted the proposal with only one voice against, the French delegate, | . Hanotaux did not like how the French language was losing its position as ... |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... April 1974, Kennedy travelled to the Soviet Union, where he met with leader | and advocated a full nuclear test ban as well as relaxed emigration, gave ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Angela Merkel | ... ay never happen again," Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said. German Chancellor | —who grew up behind the wall in Germany's communist eastern part—also atte ... |
Marino Keulen | ... he vote. However, Thiéry has not yet been nominated by the Flemish minister | , who has obstructed Thiéry's nomination because Thiery sent convocations ... |
Juan Antonio Samaranch | At the closing ceremony, IOC President | said in his closing speech, "Well done, Atlanta" and simply called the Gam ... |
J. William Fulbright | ... ining more information about the attack, as expressed by Committee Chairman | : "We asked for [the attack investigation report] about 2 weeks ago and ha ... |
Patrick J. Kennedy | ... rom 1947, when John F. Kennedy was first elected to Congress, to 2011, when | departed Congress, there was a 64-year run of a Kennedy family member hold ... |
Barack Obama | ... outnumbers that of the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, | defeated John McCain in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. ... |
J. Lister Hill | ... hed on 16 February 1942, and sponsored by Henrietta McCormick Hill, wife of | , the senior Senator from Alabama. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, spoke ... |
Ben Chifley | ... election against the incumbent Labor government led by Curtin's successor, | , and the Coalition stayed in office for a record 23 years |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... mmission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under President | . The first step was a gradual, systematic turnover of government function ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... er, the Washington Democratic caucus awarded two-thirds of its delegates to | and one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray switch ... |
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 ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... rion counties in Virginia. Most historians think the county was named after | , while a minority believe it was named after Zachary Taylor |
Mayor | ... processing methods and background checks on all those arrested. Republican | Rudy Giuliani hired Bill Bratton as his police commissioner who adopted th ... |
Meriwether Lewis | ... ritory of the Blackfeet until the United States claimed the region in 1803. | was the first white person to visit the site, which he did on June 13, 180 ... |
Abdul Ali Mazari | ... f Kabul from water, food and energy supplies. The Iran-controlled Wahdat of | [as well as the Ittihad of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf supported by Saudi Arabia] t ... |
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 ... |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician and leader, was the son of President | and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China (ROC). ... |
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 ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... Juan, and contains the tomb of the Spanish explorer and settlement founder | . Old San Juan, also known as the "old city", is the main cultural tourist ... |
André Carson | ... s within the 7th Congressional District of Indiana, represented by Democrat | . He is the grandson of the district's previous representative, Julia Cars ... |
Paolo Barelli | ... January 2007, he received from the Italian Swimming Federation's president | , swim and water polo coach diplomas |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... d to influence from his own party and business leaders and signed the bill. | spoke against the act while campaigning for president during 1932 |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... (1941), she fictionalized Genghis Khan; in The Arm and the Darkness (1943), | ; in A Pillar of Iron (1965), the Roman senator and orator Cicero; and in ... |
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 ... |
John Sobieski | ... is responsibilities and with Poland's quarreling factions. After his death, | was elected King of the and crowned as John III |
Jim McGreevey | ... the first Canadian Member of Parliament to come out. Governor of New Jersey | announced his decision to resign, publicly came out as "a gay American" an ... |
Dino Rossi | Murray was challenged by Republican nominee | . Leading up to the election, Murray was endorsed by several prominent Was ... |
Buck McKeon | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +7 and is represented by Republican | |
Jan Smuts | ... ns was repealed and all Indian political prisoners were released by General | |
Adolf Hitler | ... World War), the entire remaining Baltic German community was repatriated by | to areas Nazi Germany had invaded in western Poland (especially in the War ... |
Norman Mineta | ... the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which had been sponsored by Representative | and Senator Alan K. Simpson – the two had met while Mineta was interned at ... |
Benito Mussolini | Between 1924 and 1945, | 's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ... |
Luciano Violante | ... er 16, 1992, Buscetta testified before the Antimafia Commission presided by | about the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and Giulio Andreotti. H ... |
José Antonio Carrillo | ... ifornios gave up fighting. The treaty was drafted in English and Spanish by | , approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Gove ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... baden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of | . Beck was designated by his fellow conspirators to be future Head of Stat ... |
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 ... |
Connie Conway | ... re, Inyo is part of the 34th Assembly district, which is held by Republican | , and the 18th Senate district, which is held by Republican Jean Fuller |
Jacques Chirac | French Presidents from Georges Pompidou to | have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible Citroën SM présid ... |
Oskar Lafontaine | ... e "laut.de" Rammstein, with this song, positioned themselves on the side of | , co-chairmen of The Left Party and former chairman of the Social Democrat ... |
Vito Volterra | ... xplained in terms of the theory of dislocations which had been developed by | in 1905. The insight was critical in developing the field of solid mechani ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... ho served as the 28th Vice President of the United States (1913–1921) under | . A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member ... |
Margraviate of Brandenburg | ... urchased Tortola on 21 June 1695 for 3,500 guilders. Shepheard was from the | , and the prospect of Tortola coming under Brandenburger control did not s ... |
Julia Carson | ... André Carson. He is the grandson of the district's previous representative, | who held the seat from 1997 until her death on December 15, 2007. The youn ... |
Nathaniel Higginson | ... stablished comprising a Mayor, 12 Aldermen, 60-100 Burgesses and sergeants. | , who was then the second member of the Council of Fort St George took off ... |
Alan K. Simpson | ... 1988, which had been sponsored by Representative Norman Mineta and Senator | – the two had met while Mineta was interned at a camp in Wyoming – which p ... |
Anspach, Eugène | ... em - Anderlecht - Animo (organization) - Anneessens, Frans - Another Left - | - Antéchrista - Antoine - Antwerpen-Centraal railway station - Antwerp (ci ... |
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | The final say-so came down to | , the Pakistani dictator, through whom the CIA had to pass all of its fund ... |
John McCain | ... Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama defeated | in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. This was despite Obam ... |
Matthias Erzberger | ... ides, e.g. the murder of Republican politicians such as Kurt Eisner (1919), | (1921), or Walther Rathenau (1922) by right-wing groups such as Organisati ... |
David Lowry Swain | During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor | persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students fr ... |
Lachlan Macquarie | ... of North Ryde, and it was decided that the future university be named after | , an important early governor of the colony of New South Wales |
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 ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... Emperor Otto III and lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet | . The 15th century philologist Lorenzo Valla proved the document was indee ... |
Steven W. Taylor | ... es, but deadlocked on the issue of sentencing him to death. Presiding Judge | then determined the sentence of 161 consecutive life terms without the pos ... |
Shirley Chisholm | Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Betty Ford, | , Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, Elizabeth Holtzman, amongst many ... |
Dan Burton | ... ern portions of the city are in the 5th District, represented by Republican | . A portion of western Indianapolis is in the 4th District, represented by ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... rd, he remained committed to democratic reforms. He also met with President | for a series of talks between the Philippines and South Korea for economic ... |
Rudy Giuliani | In 2000, at the Inner Circle press dinner, mayor | spoofed John Travolta by dancing to "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps. Giulia ... |
Jean Fuller | ... an Connie Conway, and the 18th Senate district, which is held by Republican | |
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 ... |
German East Africa | ... a unified country prior to 1871), and lost its overseas colonies, including | and German South-West Africa, after World War I. Similarly to those in Lat ... |
Barney Frank | In 1987, | U.S. House Representative for publicly came out as gay, thus becoming the ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | In 1914, their son, | (1888–1969) married Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995), the daughter of Boston (M ... |
Giuseppe Verdi | ... four years' study in Paris, she had her operatic début 1864 as Violetta in | 's opera La Traviata at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris. After this success she ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... rol. Together they helped force an end to the occupation in 1934. President | sent a commission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under ... |
Bill Clinton | ... a diplomatic row with the United States administration after accusing, with | , the US of not listening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejecte ... |
Giulio Andreotti | ... had no knowledge of the links that various politicians like Salvo Lima and | had with the Mafia, but in the 1990s he admitted that he knew of such ties ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... in the America. The town would be incorporated in 1764 by Colonial Governor | . In 1794, a bridge was completed across Little Bay from Fox Point in Newi ... |
Governor | ... y in Bermuda is vested in the monarch and is exercised on her behalf by the | . The governor is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the British Gove ... |
John Hancock | ... ts passed on this demand to their customers, although the popular governor, | , did not impose hard currency demands on poorer borrowers and refused to ... |
Vladimír Mečiar | ... iod due to the crony capitalism and other fiscal policies of Prime Minister | 's government. While economic growth and other fundamentals improved stead ... |
Kurt Eisner | ... wing political homicides, e.g. the murder of Republican politicians such as | (1919), Matthias Erzberger (1921), or Walther Rathenau (1922) by right-win ... |
Svend Robinson | ... becoming the first elected official in the United States to do so. In 1988, | was the first Canadian Member of Parliament to come out. Governor of New J ... |
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 ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... , with service to New York JFK, where passengers were welcomed by the mayor | |
Indira Gandhi | ... nationally known controversial figures to match the likes of Timothy Leary, | , Golda Meir and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' attention in the ... |
Seleucus I | ... empire, Chandragupta Maurya, confronted a Macedonian invasion force led by | in 305 BC and following a brief conflict, an agreement was reached as Sele ... |
Benjamin Netanyahu | ... the bombing. The conference was attended by past and future Prime Minister | and former members of Irgun. A plaque commemorating the bombing was unveil ... |
John F. Fitzgerald | ... d Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995), the daughter of Boston (Massachusetts) Mayor | . Joseph served as the first chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange ... |
Nathaniel Higginson | ... ears of his Presidency. He was eventually removed in 1692 and replaced with | as the President of Madras |
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 ... |
Bourke B. Hickenlooper | ... part, the senators were dismayed about the attack, as expressed by Senator | : "From what I have read I can't tolerate for 1 minute that this [attack] ... |
Elizabeth Hanford Dole | ... inet. Dole is married to former U.S. cabinet member and former U.S. Senator | of North Carolina. Bob Dole is currently a member of the advisory council ... |
José Figueres Ferrer | ... a great impact on history. H.G. Wells' book, Outline of History was read by | in 1920 while at MIT, the Costa Rican revolutionary and 3 time president, ... |
Syama Prasad Mookerjee | The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded by Dr | in 1951 to espouse the nationalist cause. The party opposed the appeasemen ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1988, U.S. President | signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which had been sponsored by Repres ... |
Jérôme Bonaparte | ... hey survived into the 19th century. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811. The last Freigraf died in 1835 |
Lee Teng-hui | ... d allowed native Taiwanese into positions of power, including his successor | |
Dmitry Rogozin | ... s had not satisfied his foreign critics. Some Russian nationalists, such as | and the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, have stated that they would ... |
George W. Bush | ... ng for economic policies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents | and Barack Obama of the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the ... |
Roy Ashburn | ... Wilkerson is located in the 18th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 18th Assembly District, represented by Republican Bill Maze. ... |
Rod Chandler | ... tic nomination. In the general election she faced Republican Representative | , whom she defeated 54 percent to 46 percent despite being outspent by a w ... |
Roosevelt | Democratic President | and especially his Secretary of State Cordell Hull were critical of the Ne ... |
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 ... |
Jiang Qing | ... n he was arrested in October 1976. He was sentenced to death, together with | , in 1981, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment |
Paddy Donegan | ... 976 after being called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minister for Defence, | . Liam Cosgrave refused to sack his Minister and the government's populari ... |
William Tryon | ... County now includes 37 counties of New York State. The county was named for | , colonial governor of New York |
Winston Churchill | ... lew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with | 's British War Cabinet. En route he inspected Singapore's defences – findi ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... rust. On 30 March 2011, she sang at a gala celebrating the 80th birthday of | . She also performed at the Classical Brit Awards in May 2011, singing Gol ... |
Governor of New Jersey | ... 88, Svend Robinson was the first Canadian Member of Parliament to come out. | Jim McGreevey announced his decision to resign, publicly came out as "a ga ... |
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 | |
Tom Coburn | On May 26, 2011, Senator | released a 73-page critical report, "", receiving immediate attention from ... |
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 ... |
James H. Duff | ... treets designed to follow the natural contours of the land. Future Governor | helped found Virginia Manor in 1929 |
Lou Correa | ... re Santa Ana is located in the 34th Senate District represented by Democrat | , and in the 69th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jose Solorio. ... |
Habte Giyorgis | ... ing to the movement that deposed Iyasu were conservatives such as Fitawrari | , Menelik II's longtime Minister of War. The movement to depose Iyasu pref ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... icies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents George W. Bush and | of the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, P ... |
Siv Jensen | ... the expulsion of certain members around 2001, and further under the lead of | from 2006, when the party has tried to move and position itself more towar ... |
Bart Peterson | ... e. In 2007, city leaders such as Sheriff Frank J. Anderson and former Mayor | held rallies in neighborhoods in effort to stop the violence in the city. ... |
George Romney | ... cent, from 25 percent four months before. He ran about even with Republican | in trial matchups that spring. Asked to explain why he was unpopular, John ... |
Malcolm Fraser | ... ition, and that Whitlam was dominating him in the House of Representatives. | challenged Snedden for the leadership, and defeated him on 21 March |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of the next three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of Republican | . African Americans moved into the Democratic Party during Roosevelt's tim ... |
Buck McKeon | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +7 and is represented by Republican | |
Ecdicius Avitus | ... least two sons and a daughter: Agricola (440 – after 507, a vir inlustris), | (later patricius and magister militum under Emperor Julius Nepos), and, cl ... |
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 ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... Presidential elections Klickitat is something of a "swing county." In 1988 | narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972 ... |
Manuel Zelaya | On 27 November 2005 the PLH candidate | beat the PNH candidate and current Head of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, ... |
James Whetter | ... inster parliamentary seats as well as local government ones. On 28 May 1975 | left MK to form the Cornish Nationalist Party which was campaigning for fu ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... ent. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, Kim Young-sam and | (both of whom later became presidents), were unable to overcome their diff ... |
Ismail Qemali | ... n 1908. On 28 November 1912, the national flag was raised in agreement with | . During the Balkan Wars, the town was temporarily occupied by the Serbian ... |
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 ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... Arabia] targeted civilians of the 'opposite side' in systematic atrocities. | allowed crimes as a perceived payment for his troops. For civilians there ... |
Boris Yeltsin | ... ith. Listyev's wake was visited by thousands of people, and even the ailing | was forced to make a statement |
The Shah of Iran | ... I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had seven of them. | drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the ... |
Juan Bautista de Anza expedition | ... y, camped at Castle Butte in what is now California City in 1776 during the | of Arizona and California |
Adlai Stevenson III | ... eclassified documents show that in early 1976, at a meeting with US Senator | , Arafat suggested a "few kilometers" of Israeli withdrawal from parts of ... |
Peter Kavanagh | ... P above the Greens, which resulted in their preferences indirectly electing | from DLP in |
Ralph Lawrence Carr | During World War II, Colorado governor | was the only elected official to publicly apologize for the internment of ... |
Brock Adams | ... a series of articles by The Seattle Times alleging that incumbent Democrat | had sexually assaulted a number of women. When Adams dropped out of the el ... |
Traian Băsescu | ... ame in present-day Romania – among others, that of the country's president, | |
Paul Douglas | ... s in the U.S. asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by | , Irving Fisher, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Sea ... |
Henry Gardner | ... ttled primarily by emigrants from Massachusetts, it may have been named for | , then governor of Massachusetts. Four years after its establishment, it b ... |
Jackie Fahey | ... rship election arise. This group, known as the "gang of five," consisted of | , Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds |
John Sarbanes | ... d Maryland's 7th congressional district, which are represented by Democrats | and Elijah Cummings respectively |
Ignacy Daszyński | ... ember the final upsurge of the push for independence was taking place, with | heading a short-lived Polish government in Lublin from November 6. Germany ... |
Prince Eugene of Savoy | ... h considerable British and Prussian contingents, was led by Marlborough and | , while the French and a contingent of Bavarians were commanded by Villars ... |
Helena Charles | ... founded as a pressure group on 6 January 1951 at a meeting held in Redruth. | was elected the organisation's first chair. At the first meeting, MK adopt ... |
Gordon Brown | ... idents George W. Bush and Barack Obama of the United States, Prime Minister | of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia, and other g ... |
Bart Peterson | In the 1999 municipal election, Democrat | defeated Indiana Secretary of State Sue Anne Gilroy by 52% to 41%. Four ye ... |
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 ... |
Loretta Sanchez | ... in California's 47th Congressional District and is represented by Democrat | |
Doc Hastings | ... a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+13 and has been represented by Republican | since 1995. In state government the county is part of the fifteenth distri ... |
Mikuláš Dzurinda | Two governments of the "liberal-conservative" Prime Minister | (1998–2006) pursued policies of macroeconomic stabilization and market-ori ... |
Tam Dalyell | The West Lothian question is often said to have been raised by | , then member of Parliament for the former West Lothian constituency, in h ... |
Clint Eastwood | ... of Osceola. The ill will of these actions was to be the basis for the 1976 | film The Outlaw Josey Wales |
Michaëlle Jean | The next day, Martin officially informed Governor General | of his intention to resign as prime minister. Jean asked Harper to form a ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... e was the only surviving ex-president since he left office until the end of | 's term on 16 May 2007, with the exception of a brief period between Franç ... |
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 ... |
John C. Frémont | ... d Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel | and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga ... |
Buck McKeon | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +7 and is represented by Republican | |
Herbert Hoover | Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and | were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respectively. The Teapot ... |
Governor of Indiana | ... and organizing party rallies that later helped him win election as the 27th | . In office, he proposed a controversial and progressive state constitutio ... |
Mohammad Mosaddegh | ... ntral Intelligence Agency to help the Iranian army overthrow Prime Minister | . This resulted in an increased strategic control over Iranian oil by U.S. ... |
Nora Gúnera de Melgar | ... were restored in 1981, with a 10% margin over his main opponent PNH nominee | (the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar). Flores inaugurated Inter ... |
Hordeonius Flaccus | ... e result of these accessions to the forces of Civilis was a rising in Gaul. | was murdered by his troops (70), and the whole of the Roman forces were in ... |
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 ... |
Giulio Andreotti | ... by Luciano Violante about the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and | . He indicated Salvo Lima as the contact of the Mafia in Italian politics. ... |
George W. Bush | ... rove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execution to proceed. After President | approved the execution (McVeigh was a federal inmate and federal law dicta ... |
Cleisthenes | ... sed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy. In 508 BC, | instituted the world's first democratic system of government in Athens |
Anténor Firmin | ... 1892, the German government supported suppression of the reform movement of | . In January 1914, British, German and US forces entered Haiti, ostensibly ... |
Bill Bradley | ... Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and | of New Jersey in the Senate |
Fridtjof Nansen | ... es and was condemned vigorously by a large number of countries. Undeterred, | worked with both Greece and Turkey to gain their acceptance of the propose ... |
Member of Parliament | ... dus by a number of means, including blowing up Air India flights." Canadian | Ujjal Dosanjh, a moderate Sikh, stated that he and others who spoke out ag ... |
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 ... |
Kevin Rudd | ... d States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister | of Australia, and other global leaders |
George Romney | ... njured, and the inner city a burned out shell. In Detroit in 1967, Governor | sent in 7400 national guard troops to quell fire bombings, looting, and at ... |
Disanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratne | | | |Freedom Part |
Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Younger | Around 1787 he became friends with | (1775–1843), the son of a pastor, and nephew of Theodor Gottlieb von Hippe ... |
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 ... |
John Glenn | ... ng physical and mental tests select the Mercury Seven astronauts, including | (Ed Harris) of the United States Marine Corps, Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) ... |
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 ... |
William Baillieu | ... ter, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group) with | and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailing ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... nd many other modern artists) and removed his 82 works from German museums. | announced in 1937, "For all we care, those prehistoric Stone Age culture b ... |
Enoch Powell | ... Dalyell refers to the "so-called West Lothian question, as it was dubbed by | , not by me, in 1977", denying this |
Hipólito Mejía | ... e, there are signs this would have changed with the government of President | . Growing immigration from and political instability in Haiti have forced ... |
Herbert Hoover | When campaigning for president during 1928, one of | 's promises to help beleaguered farmers had been to increase tariffs of ag ... |
Sir Philip Game | ... on as Governor-General. In so doing, Kerr was aware of the precedent set by | , the Governor of New South Wales, who had dismissed Jack Lang's governmen ... |
Gil de Albornoz | ... people in 1189, was rebuilt in 1367 on orders of the papal legate, cardinal | |
Michael Heseltine | ... irect steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defence | setting up Defence Secretariat 19 "to explain to the public the facts abou ... |
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 ... |
George Colley | ... here was an open mutiny by many backbenchers when the Minister for Finance, | , attempted to impose a 2% levy on farmers. Colley was forced into a humil ... |
Deendayal Upadhyaya | ... and building it up as a nation-wide movement fell on the young shoulders of | . For 15 years, he remained the outfit's general secretary and built it up ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | easily won in Indianapolis by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... the Republic of Upper Volta, it was renamed on 4 August 1984, by President | , to mean "the land of upright people" in Mòoré and Dioula, the major nati ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... at is at Pasco, which is also the county's largest city. It was named after | |
Blaise Diagne | A new international airport which carries the name of | is under construction at Diass |
Walther Rathenau | ... lican politicians such as Kurt Eisner (1919), Matthias Erzberger (1921), or | (1922) by right-wing groups such as Organisation Consul. In 1926, the 27th ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... after John Taylor of Caroline, while a minority believe 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 ... |
Dollfuß | ... ed Nazism to be but a passing phenomenon not worse than the dictatorship of | and Schuschniggs's authoritarian one-party system, which had ruled Austria ... |
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 ... |
Ujjal Dosanjh | ... ans, including blowing up Air India flights." Canadian Member of Parliament | , a moderate Sikh, stated that he and others who spoke out against Sikh ex ... |
Patrice Trovoada | ... asily won a second five-year term in office, defeating two other candidates | (son of former President Miguel Trovoada) and independent Nilo Guimarães. ... |
Aurelius Victor | The epitomes of | (De Caesaribus), Eutropius (Breviarium), Festus (Breviarium), and the anon ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Warren G. Harding, | and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ... |
Rafael Trujillo | ... ence and the abuse of power on the individual. Based on the dictatorship of | , who governed the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... r, food and energy supplies. The Iran-controlled Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari | targeted civilians of the 'opposite side' in systematic atrocities. Abdul ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... ate for the Southern Department (1748–1751), and a close friend of Governor | , whose first wife, Diana Spencer, was cousin to the Duke of Marlborough. ... |
Frank Porter Graham | Despite initial skepticism from university President | , on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State Co ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... early as 1719, but township was not granted until 1742 by Colonial Governor | , following separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts. In 1831, North ... |
Pachacuti | ... d to the quarter of the empire in which he had territory. After the rule of | , when an Inca died, his title went to one son and his property was given ... |
Philibert of Châlon | ... ené inherited in 1530 the Principality of Orange from his mother's brother, | . As the first Nassau to be the Prince of Orange, René could have used "Or ... |
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 ... |
John McCain | ... is by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while 35% of the votes went to | |
James A. Garfield | ... at is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after U.S. President | |
Bill Clinton | ... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US President | visiting the cit |
William H. Crawford | ... secretary between the resignation of Alexander J. Dallas and appointment of | |
James II of England | ... 77, William married his cousin Mary Stuart, the daughter of the future king | . In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in- ... |
Jo Benkow | ... nfarction. An interview given by King Harald V, and hints in a biography by | , who was the president of the parliament in that time, mention the possib ... |
Jim McClure | ... epublican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, | and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favor ... |
the Earl Grey | ... ociation was placed before the Royal Society of Canada and Governor General | initiated his plan to preserve the battlefields, having visited the site a ... |
Willy Brandt | ... monstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor | , who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour ... |
Suzanne Caron | ... mber 6, involved a three-way race for mayor between incumbent borough mayor | , former mayor Vera Danyluk, and Brigitte Mack-Arsenault, president of a m ... |
Charles McGrath | ... ons, Fenton and three other right-wing Labor MPs--Moses Gabb, Allan Guy and | --resigned from the ALP in protest of the Scullin government's economic po ... |
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 ... |
Gastañaga | ... troops were replaced with men from fortress garrisons. Spanish troops under | joined the main Allied army, as did the Count of Tilly with troops from Li ... |
Dick Lugar | ... osition of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, | , Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretic ... |
Mitch Landrieu | ... s the father of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and of current New Orleans Mayor | |
Kitty Pryde | ... al and rebuilding of the original X-Mansion by Wolverine, with support from | , Iceman, and Beast. Enrollment in The Jean Grey School for Higher Learnin ... |
John B. Floyd | ... a call for 100,000 states' militia to defend the newborn nation. Previously | , U.S. Secretary of War under President James Buchanan, had moved arms sou ... |
John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of g ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... hting developed between moderates in the CSP and the radicals, led by Capt. | , who was appointed prime minister in January 1983. The internal political ... |
Bobby Jindal | ... 2007, however, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Representative | , polled a plurality of 40 percent in Tensas Parish. The parish gave a plu ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... refront during the agitation against the emergency (1975–77) imposed by the | regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across Ind ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... f Independence emerged. Among them were Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda, | (Bolívar's own father had been Colonel of the Militia of Aragua), the gene ... |
Jefferson Davis | The new Confederate President | , a former "Cooperationist" who had insisted on delaying secession until a ... |
John McMichael | ... d into the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party in 1981 under the leadership of | , a prominent UDA member killed by the IRA in 1987, amid suspicion that he ... |
George W. Bush | ... nition of its support for the War on Terrorism, in June 2004 U.S. President | designated Morocco as a major non-NATO ally |
Frederick Davidson | ... d by British actors, including Simon Callow, Jonathan Cecil, Martin Jarvis, | , and Alexander Spencer |
Governor General | ... ric Landmarks Association was placed before the Royal Society of Canada and | the Earl Grey initiated his plan to preserve the battlefields, having visi ... |
Mary Landrieu | He is the father of U.S. Senator | and of current New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu |
Jim Cairns | ... also rose significantly. Unease within the ALP led to Barnard's defeat when | challenged him for his deputy leadership. Whitlam gave little help to his ... |
Reed Smoot | ... goal emerged to protect American jobs and farmers from foreign competition. | championed another tariff increase within the USA in 1929, which became th ... |
Thomas Dart | On October 12, 2011, Cook County Sheriff | announced that investigators, having obtained full DNA profiles from each ... |
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 ... |
Duke of Marlborough | ... same year he published Rufinus, a historical essay; and a political poem on | and his adherents |
Émile Borel | ... loped in successive stages during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by | , Henri Lebesgue, Johann Radon and Maurice Fréchet, among others. The main ... |
Winston Churchill | ... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir | , and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ... |
Barack Obama | ... 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT. President | stated during his 2008 election campaign that "As president, I will reach ... |
James II | ... she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father, | , was deposed during the Glorious Revolution; and she promoted her interes ... |
Göring | Hitler, | and Dr. Schacht bestowed upon Kung an honorary degree, and attempted to op ... |
James Henry Hammond | ... sion Convention. U.S. Senator James Chesnut, Jr. resigned, and U.S. Senator | followed |
Carlos Roberto Reina | In 1993, PLH candidate | was elected with 56% of the vote against PNH contender Oswaldo Ramos. He w ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... of the partisan-controlled Supreme Headquarters and the capture of Marshal | . The offensive took place in April and May, 1944. The Waffen-SS units inv ... |
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 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... o allocate resources within the production process. Bolshevik revolutionary | argued that, following a socialist revolution, money could not be arbitrar ... |
Fidel V. Ramos | ... eer military officer who reached the five-star general/admiral is President | (USMA 1950) (president from 1992–1998) who rose from second lieutenant up ... |
Victor Schoelcher | ... ) – an indemnity for profits lost from the slave trade. French abolitionist | wrote, "Imposing an indemnity on the victorious slaves was equivalent to m ... |
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 ... |
Luis Bedoya Reyes | ... ime, ex-president Fernando Belaúnde Terry (of the Popular Action party) and | (of the Partido Popular Cristiano), to form the tripartite center-right co ... |
Jim Soorley | ... nd Minister for Transport, Steve Bredhauer, and the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, | |
Saye Zerbo | ... ountry's traditionally powerful trade unions, and on 25 November 1980, Col. | overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup. Colonel Zerbo establishe ... |
Steve Bredhauer | It was opened on 2 October 1998 by the Queensland Minister for Transport, | , and the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Jim Soorley |
Jimmy Carter | ... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for | in both of his presidential elections |
Moses Gabb | ... nment. Soon afterward, Lyons, Fenton and three other right-wing Labor MPs-- | , Allan Guy and Charles McGrath--resigned from the ALP in protest of the S ... |
Lyndon Johnson | ... recently, the last Democrat to win a majority in the county before 2008 was | in 1964, although Bill Clinton won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1 ... |
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden | Heidelberg fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1803. | , refounded the University, named "Ruperto-Carola" after its two founders. ... |
Barack Obama | ... .In 2008 racist and threatening graffiti directed at (then) President-elect | prompted an investigation from the United States Secret Service. Students ... |
Francisco de Miranda | ... n the Venezuelan War of Independence emerged. Among them were Generalissimo | , Simón Bolívar (Bolívar's own father had been Colonel of the Militia of A ... |
Joe Riordan | ... with several ministers in Whitlam's government, such as Jim McClelland and | . Kerr's wife Alison was a fellow student of Margaret Whitlam during unive ... |
Najib Tun Razak | On April 21, 2009, the prime minister | has announce liberalisation of 27 services sub-sector by abolishing the 30 ... |
Lajos Kossuth | ... dited the journal of the opposition, Ellenor, at Leipzig, and in March 1848 | made him editor of his paper, Kossuth Hirlapja. In 1850 he fell ill with a ... |
Patrick J. Kennedy | The family patriarch was | (1858–1929), a first-generation American who married Mary Augusta Hickey ( ... |
Bertil Ohlin | ... oportions theory was developed by two Swedish economists, Eli Heckscher and | . This theory is therefore called the Heckscher-Ohlin theory (H-O theory). ... |
Cornelis de Graeff | ... ble at peace, at the great distress of the regents. When Andries Bicker and | , the great regents of the city of Amsterdam refused some mayors he appoin ... |
Allan Guy | ... afterward, Lyons, Fenton and three other right-wing Labor MPs--Moses Gabb, | and Charles McGrath--resigned from the ALP in protest of the Scullin gover ... |
Joseph Lazarow | Atlantic City, New Jersey Mayor | was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for a July 1977 publi ... |
Member of Parliament | ... all) of the district, and is held by the Conservative Party. The incumbent | (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | President | , who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965–1967 and 1971–19 ... |
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 ... |
Alan García | ... tion for an Asian American in the U.S. On June 14, 2011, Peruvian president | apologized for his country's internment of Japanese immigrants during Worl ... |
Bevil Grenville | ... ly, and many panicked. 1,400 of them fled, some as far as Oxford. Under Sir | , Hopton's Cornish pikemen stormed Waller's breastworks, while Royalist mu ... |
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo | ... unions and was overthrown two years later, on 7 November 1982, by Maj. Dr. | and the Council of Popular Salvation (CSP). The CSP continued to ban polit ... |
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. ... |
Barack Obama | ... t in orientation. In the 2008 presidential contest, the successful Democrat | of Illinois, won Tensas Parish, 1,646 (54.1 percent) to 1,367 (45.0) for t ... |
Reed Smoot | ... moot-Hawley Tariff or Hawley-Smoot Tariff, was an act, sponsored by Senator | and Representative Willis C. Hawley, and signed into law on June 17, 1930, ... |
Dmitri Shostakovich | The Russian | was one of the first composers to include parts for the theremin in orches ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland. | , meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various a ... |
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 ... |
Túpac Amaru II | Similarly, the Plaza de Armas was the scene of the death of | , considered the indigenous leader of the resistance |
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 ... |
Stanley Bruce | ... Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down | 's Nationalist government in 1929), merged to form the UAP. Lyons was chos ... |
Sir Mark Wilks Collet, 1st Baronet | ... son of Frederick Henry Norman and Lina Susan Penelope Collet, a daughter of | , himself a Bank of England Governor. The Norman family were well known in ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... that U.S. President John F. Kennedy's success in facing down Soviet premier | turned the British public away from CND |
Orrin Hatch | ... letics, such as gold-medal wrestler Kurt Angle; politics, such as Utah Sen. | ; business, such as self-made billionaire Mark Cuban; and science, such as ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor | |
Menachem Begin | ... k on the center of government at the King David Hotel as soon as possible." | himself reportedly was very saddened and upset. He was angry that the hote ... |
John Randolph | ... ith the antislavery movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as | and John C. Calhoun found it necessary to argue that the Declaration's ass ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... zed power in a coup d'état in 1987, betraying his long-time friend and ally | , who was killed in the coup |
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose | ... ort time only to become a covenanter again and was present at the defeat of | in 1650. During the Civil War at the Battle of Carbisdale the Clan Ross an ... |
Harvey Milk | ... ge step forward in the 1970s with the election of political figures such as | to public office and the advocating of anti-gay discrimination legislation ... |
Sun Yat-sen | Kung was an early supporter of | , and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of Chiang ... |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... the Polish national hero and hero of the American Revolutionary War General | , because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Krakow |
Liu Mingchuan | ... of coastal defenses and on 12 October 1885 Taiwan was made a province, with | serving as the first governor. He divided Taiwan into eleven counties and ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ounder John Hume. In scores of anti-war speeches, Kennedy opposed President | 's policy of Vietnamization, calling it "a policy of violence [that] means ... |
Berlusconi | ... trial and financial groups in Italy. The newspaper has however not endorsed | 's government on several issues, such as the war in Iraq |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... ncing violence and officially recognizing Israel. In return, Prime Minister | , on behalf of Israel, officially recognized the PLO |
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 ... |
Samuel Hill | ... lickitat County was created out of Walla Walla County on December 20, 1859. | was an early promoter of the area, promoting better roads and building loc ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
W. H. McFadden | In 1921, American oil executive | commissioned Dunton to paint a full-length portrait of big-game hunter Ben ... |
W. M. Hughes | ... parents as Peter and Louisa. His funeral was attended by the Prime Minister | and the Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang (who was the husband of Lawso ... |
Ota Šik | ... used further disquiet. In October 1967, a number of reformers, most notably | and Alexander Dubček, took action: they challenged First Secretary Antonín ... |
Donald Tusk | ... lish government and president Lech Kaczyński. Current Polish prime minister | restricted his comments to a recommendation that Germany pursue a neutral ... |
Stephen A. Douglas | ... Vice President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. Regular Democratic nominee | of Illinois ran poorly in Louisiana, and the Republican candidate, Abraham ... |
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 ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... n from his captivity on Saint Helena, captures a slave ship, and encounters | 's army. He retires to Kent and eventually becomes Admiral of the Fleet |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... major leaders including the Islamic State's President Burhanuddin Rabbani, | , and others were living in exile. The Taliban repeatedly offered Massoud ... |
Gaston Tong Sang | ... (with 27 of 44 votes cast in Tahiti assembly). He replaced former President | , who lost a no-confidence vote in the 31 August parliament |
Elector of Bavaria | ... (although the Dauphin held honorific command). De Lorge was opposed by the | , who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death ... |
Ye Jianying | ... mber, but his status was kept secret so only a few people, such as Zhou and | , knew. With eyewitnesses in their advanced years and fewer of them, Zhang ... |
Dante | ... edieval than in the modern side of the movement, working on translations of | and other Medieval Italian poets, and adopting the stylistic characteristi ... |
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 ... |
General William Lenoir | ... eturned from Christmas holidays in January 1940. The building was named for | , first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the university in 1790. The n ... |
Ernst von Pfuel | ... r Napoleon's defeat in 1814 and the Prussian occupation of Paris by General | , the Quadriga was restored to Berlin and Victoria's wreath of oak leaves ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... hed success, and was rewarded by a series of academic appointments. In 1552 | , appointed him professor of scriptural interpretation in the university. ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as a footnote to the spate of barbarian films that followed in the wake of | 's appearance as Conan. |
Jim Cairns | ... the sacking of two senior ministers, Rex Connor and Deputy Prime Minister, | . The Liberal Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser, decided to use the Senate ... |
Barack Obama | ... taking some steps to allow limited economic exchanges with Cuba, President | recently reaffirmed the policy, stating that without improved human rights ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... n Yat-sen, and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of | . Kung began his career in the government of the Republic of China as the ... |
Billy Hughes | ... ts (who had formed the All for Australia League), and former Prime Minister | ' Australian Party (a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled f ... |
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 ... |
Colin Hannah | ... joyed beer and prawns, Bjelke-Petersen advised the Queensland Governor, Sir | , to issue writs for only the usual five vacancies, since Gair's seat was ... |
Bob Carr | Actions taken by government ministers, including Premier of New South Wales | , who publicly identified the perpetrators' background, led to controversy ... |
King James' | ... region to Prince Waldeck (William was himself busy in Ireland forestalling | attempt to regain his throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commande ... |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... ng. Novotný faced a mutiny in the Central Committee, so he secretly invited | , the Soviet leader, to make a whirlwind visit to Prague in December 1967 ... |
Fernández | The United States supports the | administration's efforts to improve Dominican competitiveness, to attract ... |
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 ... |
John C. Breckinridge | ... cast its electoral votes for the Southern Democratic choice, Vice President | of Kentucky. Regular Democratic nominee Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois ran ... |
Rex Connor | ... the "Loans Affair"), which resulted in the sacking of two senior ministers, | and Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Cairns. The Liberal Opposition Leader, Malc ... |
Joseph Stalin | The leadership of | led to a change in his view of the Soviet Union even though his initial im ... |
Sanford B. Dole | ... is section shall not be recognized by the Department. [signed] June 8, 1896 | , President of the Republic of Hawai |
James II | ... n was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between William III, and | , it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popular defender of ... |
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 |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author | in his 1942 story Waldo |
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 ... |
Member of Parliament | ... y School and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1572 he was elected to Parliament as | for Shrewsbury and in the same year travelled to France as part of the emb ... |
Jo Ann Emerson | ... strict and is currently represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by | (R-Cape Girardeau) |
John F. Kennedy | Following the 1960 election of U.S. President | , he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy ... |
Orval Faubus | ... temming from the Brown decision. Eisenhower demanded that Arkansas governor | obey the court order. When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansa ... |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ft considered himself a "New Deal Democrat", and was an ardent supporter of | . His political views can be considered as "moderately socialist. |
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 ... |
Jack Louis Breaux, Sr. | ... city in Louisiana to elect a Republican as mayor in 20th-century Louisiana. | , served as a part-time mayor from 1966–1978, and a full-time mayor under ... |
Phil Angelides | Schwarzenegger ran for re-election against Democrat | , the California State Treasurer, in the 2006 elections, held on November ... |
William Pulteney | In 1787, through his wealthy patron | , he became Surveyor of Public Works in Shropshire. Civil engineering was ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... munist ideology, particularly Trotskyism; though following the Great Purge, | privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounce Trotskyism. Ch ... |
Stephen A. Douglas | ... Lincoln’s election, most notably by William L. Yancey touring the north as | toured the South calling for Union if Lincoln were elected. But to Secessi ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | In Washington, President | had received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Liberty had been ... |
William Clark | ... on across this continent, for the purposes of commerce." Although Lewis and | found a path to the Pacific Ocean, it was not until 1859 that a direct and ... |
Benito Juárez | ... the constitutions of Geneva, Portugal and Colombia. He had also pleaded for | to spare the recently captured emperor Maximilian I of Mexico but to no av ... |
MPs | The Election resulted in a hung parliament. Six crossbench | held the balance of power. The Greens signed a formal agreement with the A ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... ing a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, | publicly denounced Hindemith as an "atonal noisemaker. |
Bob Hawke | ... but after 1980 became increasingly critical and was a leading supporter of | 's reforming government after 1983. But from the 1970s the political influ ... |
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 ... |
William Houston | ... brigades. Brent Spencer commanded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd, | the 7th and Robert Craufurd the Light Division. Stapleton Cotton commanded ... |
Melchior Ndadaye | ... t, non-ethnic government, and a parliament. Burundi's first Hutu president, | , of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) Party, wa ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
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 ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... or of Germany, Angela Merkel, walked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s | and Poland's Lech Wałęsa as part of the 20-year celebration of tearing dow ... |
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 ... |
Peter Minuit | ... ccording to the document by Pieter Janszoon Schagen our people (ons Volck)— | is not mentioned explicitly there—acquired Manhattan in 1626 from Native A ... |
Georges Clemenceau | ... orted Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as Anatole France, Henri Poincaré and | , and those who condemned him (the anti-Dreyfusards), such as Hubert-Josep ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... dren lived in Washington, D.C., where she struck up a close friendship with | . She died in 1954, before her husband ascended the throne |
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 ... |
Ezequiel Zamora | ... Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General | and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual |
Daniel Guérin | ... hism was strong enough as to call the attention of the CNT–FAI in Spain. So | in Anarchism: From Theory to Practice reports how "Spanish anarcho-syndica ... |
Henry Sacheverell | In 1710 he became a supporter of the High Church party, on the side of | ; and was supposed to have had some part in setting up The Examiner. He wa ... |
Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour | ... etween competing administrators. After English colonists began trading with | in 1642, his opponent, Charles de Menou d'Aulnay, warned Boston traders aw ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... demanding the razing of the Berlin Wall. Addressing CPSU General Secretary | , Reagan said |
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | ... river, which moved east and reached Höchstädt on 19 September. Villars and | moved their army of 17,000 to intercept this force, ordering another Frenc ... |
Síle de Valera | ... th the new British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. These discussions led | , a backbench TD, to directly challenge the leadership in a speech at the ... |
James II | ... st. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, Duke of York (the future | , brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiations for the recover ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Brown also had the honor of being one of three dedicatees of | 's Stranger in a Strange Land |
Richard Nixon | Following Republican | 's victory in November, Kennedy was widely assumed to be the front-runner ... |
Bill Clinton | On July 12, 1994, U.S. President | spoke at the Gate about peace in post–Cold War Europe |
Zachary Taylor | ... ing back to the 1830s. Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonel | who later became the 12th President of the United States. Taylor's troops ... |
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 ... |
Philip Game | ... instead of into Government bank accounts. The New South Wales Governor, Sir | , intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the s ... |
Angela Merkel | On November 9, 2009, Chancellor of Germany, | , walked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev and Pola ... |
Oliver Hill | ... Edward County. This case, filed by Richmond natives Spottswood Robinson and | , was decided in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education, which rejected the ... |
James II | ... d with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read | 's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specia ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... " Outstanding propagandists included editor William Duane and party leaders | , Thomas Cooper and Jefferson himself |
Cyprien Ntaryamira | ... The Rwandan Genocide in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye’s successor | , further aggravated the conflict in Burundi by sparking additional massac ... |
Barack Obama | ... n 2003 and was given official status by the United States Congress in 2007. | became the first president to personally attend Diwali at the White House ... |
Russell B. Long | ... ercent of the vote in a race for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat | . Tensas Parish also voted for Republican presidential nominee Barry M. Go ... |
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 ... |
Nicolae Iorga | ... i people came to Wallachia and Moldavia as free men or as slaves. Historian | associated the Roma people's arrival with the 1241 Mongol invasion of Euro ... |
Ronald Reagan | On June 12, 1987, U.S. President | spoke to the West Berlin populace at the Brandenburg Gate, demanding the r ... |
Wincenty Witos | ... eking his leadership and intent on preventing the three-time prime minister | of the peasant Polish People's Party from forming another coalition, stage ... |
Tommy Kirkham | ... p for some time, support Shoukri and break away under former UPRG spokesman | . Other senior members met with Taoiseach for talks on 13 July in the same ... |
Pierre Buyoya | ... operated under a power-sharing political system until July 1996, when Tutsi | seized power in a military coup. Under international pressure, the warring ... |
Charles de Menou d'Aulnay | ... gan trading with Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour in 1642, his opponent, | , warned Boston traders away from la Tour's territories. In June 1643 la T ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... sion by the fascist regime of its opponents within the region was ruthless. | , one of the founders of Italian Communist Party, was arrested and died in ... |
George W. Bush | ... ar himself. Nehemiah Clark, of the cast, expressed disapproval of President | and the Iraq War, coming into conflict with Rachel Moyal, who served in Ir ... |
John J. Beckley | Just as important was effective party organization of the sort that | pioneered. In 1796, he managed the Jefferson campaign in Pennsylvania, bla ... |
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 ... |
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham | ... der intense French pressure. It ended in disaster after the Army commander, | , failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled Ant ... |
Oscar Temaru | On September 14, 2007, | , 63, was elected president of French Polynesia for the 3rd time in 3 year ... |
Hannah McKinney | ... he current mayor, Bobby J. Hopewell, was elected November 13, 2007, beating | , who automatically became vice mayor |
William the Silent | ... n again in Western Europe. The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland (1296), | of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and Henry ... |
Garry Kasparov | ... te fields. At Belfort WC 1988, he scored 8/15 for a joint 4th–7th place, as | won. At Reykjavík WC 1988, he scored 7/17 for a joint 15th–16th place, wit ... |
John F. Kennedy | In 1963, U.S. President | visited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it ... |
Juan Bautista de Anza | ... ry expeditions that crossed the Colorado River at the Yuma Crossing include | (1774), the Mormon Battalion (1848) and the California Column (1862) |
Alberto Fujimori | ... he vote, Vargas Llosa was defeated by a then-unknown agricultural engineer, | , in the subsequent run-off. Vargas Llosa included an account of his run f ... |
Governor of Virginia | ... n was 96,319. It was organized in 1809 and named for William H. Cabell, the | from 1805 to 1808. Its county seat is Huntington |
Matthew Ridgway | ... el to Vietnam to study and "assess" the French forces there. Chief of Staff | dissuaded the President from intervening by presenting a comprehensive est ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each referred to the America ... |
Berx, Cathy | ... n's volleyball Division of Honour - BELNET - Beringen - Berlaar - Berlare - | - Beurre d'Ardenne - Beveren - BIPIB - Bilzen - Biographie Nationale de Be ... |
Jim McGinty | In October 1996, | resigned as Leader of the Opposition and named Gallop his successor, a rol ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Harry F. Byrd | ... olicy of "massive resistance" led by the influential segregationist Senator | and his Byrd Organization, the Commonwealth prohibited desegregated local ... |
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 ... |
Nathan Dane | Dane County was formed in 1836 as a territorial county. It was named after | , a Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation who helped ... |
Gabriel Narutowicz | ... governments changed frequently, corruption was commonplace. The open-minded | was constitutionally elected president by the National Assembly in 1922, b ... |
Andries Bicker | ... his function valuable at peace, at the great distress of the regents. When | and Cornelis de Graeff, the great regents of the city of Amsterdam refused ... |
Jibril Rajoub | ... ers and foreign Palestinian volunteers. Arafat assigned Mohammed Dahlan and | to head the organization. Amnesty International accused Arafat and the PNA ... |
Bill Clinton | ... artwork of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe". In 1993, when then-president | wanted to appoint 'out' lesbian Roberta Achtenberg to assistant secretary ... |
John Tyler | ... n was 9,208. The County is named after John Tyler, Sr., father of President | . Its county seat is |
Richard Court | ... eld in December. He was heavily defeated by the Liberal Party government of | , taking only 35.8 percent of the primary vote--its lowest total since 190 ... |
Richard von Weizsäcker | ... n the 1980s, decrying the existence of two German states, West Berlin mayor | said: "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is clos ... |
Roberta Achtenberg | ... . In 1993, when then-president Bill Clinton wanted to appoint 'out' lesbian | to assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, ... |
Philip Doddridge | ... 5 from parts of Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie, and Lewis Counties, and named for | (1773–1832), a distinguished of Western Virginia, who spent the greater pa ... |
František Kriegel | ... ere forced to accede to Soviet demands, signing the Moscow protocols. (Only | refused to sign. |
Algernon Sidney | The Rye House conspirator, | , was Sir Philip's great-nephew |
Bertie Ahern | ... nsatlantic stopovers by the US Army. Under domestic pressure, the Taoiseach | repeatedly glossed over the particulars of the situation, while emphasisin ... |
George Colley | ... e untenable, with supporters of Haughey caucusing opinion within the party. | , the man who Lynch saw as his successor, went to him and encouraged him t ... |
Jérôme Bonaparte | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811 |
Herminio A. Astorga | ... ng recognition in their own rights. The Manila Day, was first proclaimed by | (then Vice Mayor of Manila) on 24 June 1962. Since then, it has been annua ... |
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden | On 5 September, the main force of the Imperial Army under | had taken the free city of Augsburg, threatening Bavaria from the west. Lo ... |
Maurice Yaméogo | ... ugust 1960, it attained full independence from France. The first president, | , was the leader of the Voltaic Democratic Union (UDV). The 1960 constitut ... |
Pietro Badoglio | ... and requested combat and Italian advancement to cease. The Italian General | sharply rejected the proposal, and threatened to stop all negotiations and ... |
Mohammed Dahlan | ... omposed of PLA soldiers and foreign Palestinian volunteers. Arafat assigned | and Jibril Rajoub to head the organization. Amnesty International accused ... |
Lynden Pindling | In 1967, Sir | of the Progressive Liberal Party became the first black premier of the col ... |
Marcus Garvey | ... e fact that biracial roommate Malik Cooper wore a T-shirt with the image of | , who was against miscegenation, despite the fact that Cooper was of mixed ... |
Michael Bloomberg | ... ition, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City mayor | and Boston mayor Thomas Menino |
Eleazar López Contreras | ... relevant (apart from the general Gómez himself), were the General in Chief | and Division General Isaías Medina Angarita |
Winthrop Rockefeller | ... tates. The population was 192 at the 2010 census. The city was also home of | 's election campaigns |
Enid Lyons | ... hes". Lyons was assisted in his campaigning by his politically active wife, | . She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husban ... |
Simón Bolívar | In 1815, | , the South American political leader who was instrumental in Latin Americ ... |
Helmut Kohl | ... 1989. On 22 December 1989, the Brandenburg Gate crossing was reopened when | , the West German chancellor, walked through to be greeted by Hans Modrow, ... |
Ernst Röhm | Hitler was deeply concerned that | , the chief of the SA, was planning a coup. Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... s reason, National Park Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. | , Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each ... |
Reg Withers | ... overnment legislation; the Coalition senators, led by Senate Liberal leader | , sought to block government legislation only when the obstruction would a ... |
Władysław Grabski | ... nomic calamities, but there were also signs of progress and stabilization ( | 's economically competent government lasted for almost two years). The ach ... |
Hans Modrow | ... en Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, walked through to be greeted by | , the East German prime minister. Demolition of the rest of the Wall aroun ... |
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 | |
Thomas Menino | ... 06 and co-chaired by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor | |
Rufus King | ... President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalist | in the general election |
Sangoulé Lamizana | ... nded the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lt. Col. | at the head of a government of senior army officers. The army remained in ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... alk over literary subjects, and to read and mutually criticize their works. | offered the society his protection, and in this way (1635) the Académie fr ... |
Thomas E. Trowbridge | ... County was represented in the Wyoming House of Representatives by Democrat | (1930-2009) of Saratoga, a Nebraska native. From 1982-1986, Trowbridge was ... |
Henry Bolte | ... to White Australia and the death penalty. The Liberal Premier of Victoria, | , called The Age "that pinko rag," a view conservatives have maintained ev ... |
Juan Domingo Perón | ... rk in fact existed, and in Argentina was largely run by Argentine President | , a Nazi sympathiser who had been impressed by Mussolini's reign in Italy ... |
Charles Martel | ... into the hands of the Saracens and was destroyed in 737 by the Franks under | for having sided with the Arabs against him. Boso having been proclaimed B ... |
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 ... |
Benigno Aquino III | ... of the program. , U.S. observers were uncertain whether Arroyo's successor, | , chosen in Philippine Presidential elections on May 10, 2010, will contin ... |
John Howard | ... onsensus on the adoption of the text. Under the direction of Prime Minister | and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Australia then sent the text to the ... |
Richard Nixon | ... and mines and anti-armor weapons, but were especially heavy after President | ordered US forces into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other caval ... |
Carol Berman | ... g rejecting efforts by the Port Authority and a grass-roots campaign led by | to continue the ban. In spite of complaints about noise, the noise report ... |
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 ... |
Jean Drapeau | ... ested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, | |
Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | In | 's 1948 novel Space Cadet, aerobraking is used to save fuel while slowing ... |
Christopher Greenup | ... nsus. It is the county seat of Greenup County. Greenup is named in honor of | |
James Chesnut, Jr. | ... South Carolina legislature to call for a Secession Convention. U.S. Senator | resigned, and U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond followed |
Adolphe Colrat | | | |Non-Partisa |
Adolf Hitler | ... h stylized "Armanen" sig runes) was a major paramilitary organization under | and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Hi ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | Other well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President | David Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ... |
Wilson | ... e and her son, putting together Insurgent Mexico and interviewing President | on the subject. The resulting report, much watered down at White House ins ... |
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 ... |
Ronald N. Young | ... e. Member Christopher B. Shank (R), serves the 2nd district in Maryland and | (D), serves in the 3rd district. The county also is represented in Marylan ... |
Malcolm Fraser | ... in 1975 The Age returned to a more moderate liberal position. It supported | 's Liberal government in its early years, but after 1980 became increasing ... |
Christopher Greenup | ... d February 4, 1818, as Greenupsburg, named after Kentucky's third governor, | . The name was shortened to Greenup in March 1872 to avoid confusion with ... |
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 ... |
Warren Dusenberry | ... igham Young University's origin can be traced back to 1862 when a man named | started a Provo school in a prominent adobe building called Cluff Hall, wh ... |
Síle de Valera | ... ury to many in Fianna Fáil. When Lynch returned he was confronted openly by | , Dr Bill Loughnane, a noted hardline Republican backbencher, along with T ... |
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 ... |
Schwarzenegger | ... tions. Bodrov responded: The Americans make movies about the Russians where | as a policeman tears off gumbah's leg and drugs are hailing from it and be ... |
Daniel O'Connell | ... e". This was in fact a quote made about him by Irish Nationalist politician | |
Mayor of Montreal | ... u, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the | , Jean Drapeau |
Sam Houston | ... in a Southern Convention. Under the influence of men such as Texas Governor | , delay had the effect of sustaining the Union. "Unionists", especially in ... |
Pervez Musharraf | Pakistani President | - then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... was named Reich Interior Minister. Frick and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) | hoped to create a unified police force for all of Germany, but Göring on 3 ... |
Levi Eshkol | ... speed of Israel's notification. Apologies were soon sent by Prime Minister | , Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and chargé d'affaires Efraim Evron. Within 4 ... |
Dong Zhongshu | ... ld writings. He was a student of the famous Confucians Kong Anguo (孔安國) and | . At the age of twenty, with the support of his father, Sima Qian started ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... fter high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, | , and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with som ... |
Frank Keating | At 9:45 am CST, Governor | declared a state of emergency and ordered all non-essential workers in the ... |
Džemal Bijedić | ... e ASIO might have files relating to threats against Yugoslav Prime Minister | , who was about to visit Australia, and feared the ASIO might conceal or d ... |
Russell B. Long | In January 1969, Kennedy defeated Louisiana Senator | by a 31–26 margin to become Senate Majority Whip, the youngest person to a ... |
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza | In 1976, Colonel | took power in a bloodless coup. Although Bagaza led a Tutsi-dominated mili ... |
James, Duke of York | ... timate children, and was due to be succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother, | . A parliamentary effort to exclude James from the line of succession aros ... |
Gough Whitlam | Perkin's editorship coincided with | 's reforms of the Australian Labor Party, and The Age became a key support ... |
Oscar Temaru | | | |Tavini Huiraatir |
Mazyar Keshvari | ... ve in the party, most notably Iranian-Norwegian Deputy Member of Parliament | and Indian-Norwegian youth politician Himanshu Gulati |
Joe Serna, Jr. | Upon the sudden death in November 1999 of Mayor | , Land Park city councilman Jimmie Yee became the acting mayor. Several ca ... |
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 ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under | 's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during ... |
John Churchill | ... the two grew older. In late 1675, when she was still only fifteen, she and | , began courting after having danced together at parties and balls. Church ... |
William H. Cabell | ... of 2010, the population was 96,319. It was organized in 1809 and named for | , the Governor of Virginia from 1805 to 1808. Its county seat is Huntingto ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... pts to submit it to the Papal States failed; and its wish to be left out of | 's Italian unification in the mid-nineteenth century was granted, since it ... |
Woodes Rogers | ... as were made a British crown colony in 1718 under the royal governorship of | , who, after a difficult struggle, succeeded in suppressing piracy. In 172 ... |
Billy Snedden | From the start of the Whitlam government, the Opposition, led by | (who replaced McMahon as Liberal leader in December 1972) sought to use co ... |
Gavin Newsom | ... zenegger at the 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast, San Francisco mayor | said that, "[H]e's becoming a Democrat [... H]e's running back, not even t ... |
William Henry Gist | Secessionists were active politically. Governor | of South Carolina corresponded secretly with other Deep South governors, a ... |
Eric Ripper | Treasurer | took over from Gallop as Acting Premier, pending a leadership vote at the ... |
Villars | ... chstädt in Bavaria, and resulted in a French-Bavarian victory under Marshal | against the Austrians under General Limburg Styrum |
Pierre Buyoya | In 1987, Major | overthrew Col. Bagaza in a military coup d'état. He dissolved opposition p ... |
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 |
George W. Bush | ... have its citizens pass a resolution endorsing the impeachment of President | , and in 2011 it was one of thirteen Vermont towns isolated by flooding ca ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ributions toward world education, morality, and acts of charity". President | spoke these words at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony |
Arturo Toscanini | ... conductors closely associated with Puccini. In the 1946 RCA Victor release, | , who conducted the world premiere of the opera, conducts the NBC Symphony ... |
Josiah Bartlet | ... esident of the United States," referring to his role as fictional president | on The West Wing. Cindy Sheehan had been demanding a second meeting with t ... |
Frank Church | The U.S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator | (the Church Committee) reported in 1975 that it had found "concrete eviden ... |
Earl Warren | ... Supreme Court in history and has been influential on justices as diverse as | , William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia |
Francis Wyatt | ... ed Newcestown near Bandon in County Cork. Newce sailed to Virginia with Sir | in October 1621 and was granted of land. He died two days later. His broth ... |
Inejiro Asanuma | In 1960, | , Chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party, was assassinated in a stabbing ... |
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive | ... igin of the city's name is unknown, it is believed to have been named after | |
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 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ommittee report titled German Strategy and Capacity to Resist, prepared for | 's eyes only, predicted that Germany might collapse as early as mid-April ... |
Roger Sherman | ... lvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and | of Connecticut, to draft a declaration. Because the committee left no minu ... |
Itō Hirobumi | The Japanese statesman | started to negotiate with the Russians. He believed that Japan was too wea ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Commission. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President | in 1953. Both found numerous inefficiencies and ways to reduce waste. The ... |
Leopold Wilhelm | ... assistance; a powerful Spanish army assembled in Artois under the archduke | , governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands. But peasants of the country ... |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | ... e South America. Based on this Treaty and on the claims by Spanish explorer | to all lands touching the Pacific Ocean, and with help from their powerful ... |
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 ... |
President pro tempore | ... hen he died, Kennedy was the second most senior member of the Senate, after | Robert Byrd of West Virginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... ted debate in Congress, Massachusetts Representative (and former President) | successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest. Though Congre ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... he was greeting the President of the United States as he did when President | thanked him for donating money to school drop-out prevention programs |
Mary Robinson | ... led the Anti-Amendment Campaign, which included future President of Ireland | . The Pro Life Amendment Campaign subsequently became the Pro Life Campaig ... |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... In 1967 the remnants of Königsberg Castle were demolished on the orders of | to make way for a new "House of the Soviets" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolphe Thiers | ... istricts. One of the chief "cannon parks" was on the heights of Montmartre. | was elected "Executive Power" of the new government to postpone the issue ... |
Louie Gohmert | ... 's 1st congressional district, which is currently represented by Republican | |
Brian Higgins | ... e likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, | , and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed also hosted a free-format show on WAER durin ... |
Al Gore | ... minee George W. Bush were colored red, and states won by Democratic nominee | were colored blue. Although the assignment of colors to political parties ... |
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 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up by | in his book Great Contemporaries (1937) |
Richard Nixon | ... ven though Lott ran as a Republican. Lott won handily, in large part due to | 's landslide victory in that year's presidential election. Nixon won the 5 ... |
Robert Hurt | ... is part of Virginia's 5th congressional district, represented by Republican | , elected in 2010 by defeating incumbent Tom Perriello |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... n 1880 at the recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George Balfour. | wrote an article about skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is a ... |
Hannibal | ... he Carthaginian formation to disintegrate and collapse. After their defeat, | convinced the Carthaginians to accept peace. Notably, he broke the rules o ... |
Governor General | ... Canada," of which parliament approved. In 1967, the Prime Minister advised | Georges Vanier to appoint the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and Ho ... |
Hannibal | ... in Empúries, with the objective of cutting off the sources of provisions of | 's Carthaginian army during the Second Punic War. After the Carthaginian d ... |
George W. Bush | ... Wing. Cindy Sheehan had been demanding a second meeting with the President, | |
Francesco Crispi | ... bers of troops in the field much longer. However, the Italian government of | was unable to accept being stymied by non-Europeans. The prime minister sp ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author | . It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Eart ... |
Nazi Boni | ... rkinabè writers in the post-independence Burkina Faso of the 1960s, such as | and Roger Nikiema. The 1960s saw a growth in the number of playwrights bei ... |
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 ... |
Muhammad | ... ion for all those righteous Christians who were there before the arrival of | |
Robert Dutton | ... d Terrace is located in the 31st Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 63rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Bill Emmers ... |
Thomas McKean | ... , abstained. Delaware cast no vote because the delegation was split between | (who voted yes) and George Read (who voted no). The remaining nine delegat ... |
Louis XVIII | ... ater lost this status under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by | and Napoleon III, only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution ... |
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 ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... vity. His fourth wife was Lanassa and fifth wife was Ptolemais, daughter of | and Eurydice of Egypt, by whom he had a son called Demetrius the Fair. He ... |
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 ... |
John Maynard Keynes | In 1921 the economist | published a book on probability theory, A Treatise of Probability. Keynes ... |
Juan Bautista de Anza | The Presidio was originally a Spanish Fort sited by | on March 28, 1776, built by a party led by José Joaquín Moraga later that ... |
Kay Bailey Hutchison | ... ral level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and | ; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional district, which is curr ... |
George Higinbotham | ... l power in Victoria. It supported liberal politicians such as Graham Berry, | and George Turner, and other leading liberals such as Alfred Deakin and Ch ... |
Colin Powell | ... to a straining of relations between the two nations. However, Schröder met | and a rapprochement was established after the Iraqi regime was overturned. ... |
Clint Eastwood | ... Editing and Best Cinematography. Scorsese lost again, this time to director | for Million Dollar Baby (which also won Best Picture) |
George W. Bush | In 2006, the | administration expanded abstinence programs from teens to adults, by intro ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... hout much difficulty, and even ran unopposed in 1978. In 1980, he served as | 's Mississippi state chairman. He served as (the second-ranking Republican ... |
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 ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... ves—sponsored by Congressman Charles Schumer and cosponsored by John Lewis, | , and Jerry Lewis, as well as 220 other Congressmen—to posthumously bestow ... |
Winston Churchill | ... he gold standard and in 1925 they were able to convince the then Chancellor | to re-establish it, which had a depressing effect on British industry. Key ... |
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 ... |
Bill Emmerson | ... Robert Dutton, and in the 63rd Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Grand Terrace is located in California's 41st congressional d ... |
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 ... |
Muhammad | The Hadith (a collection of sayings attributed to | and his companions) includes statements taken as supporting the death pena ... |
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 ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... lement, so the first charter was forfeited and a new one issued by Governor | on September 21, 1761, then again on April 17, 1764 as New Marlborough. Th ... |
Edward D. Newell | ... ter and attorney John David Stokes Newell, Sr., who named it for his father | , a North Carolina native. All three communities are linked by Highway 65, ... |
Alfred Deakin | ... y, George Higinbotham and George Turner, and other leading liberals such as | and Charles Pearson furthered their careers as The Age journalists. Syme w ... |
Muhammad | The khutbah originates from the practice of the Islamic prophet, | , who used to deliver words of exhortation, instruction, or command at gat ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... a movie based on the book. The cast included Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, | and Betty Field. The suit worn by Ronald Reagan in the film is on display ... |
Yang Xiong | ... texts were created and studied by scholars. Philosophical works written by | (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and W ... |
Winston Churchill | ... temperatures and pressures. Two months later Cunard received a letter from | , then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside a ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... erforming benefit concerts for various civil rights organizations including | 's PUSH and The Black Panther Party's Breakfast program throughout the ear ... |
Benjamin Netanyahu | In mid-1996, | was elected Prime Minister of Israel by a margin of just one percent. Pale ... |
Rosa Díez | ... ogies appear in the book Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, | , Álvaro Pombo, Albert Boadella and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán. He continue ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... after the birth in Flanders of Joanna and Philip's second child (the future | ), the succession to the Castilian and Aragonese crowns was thrown into tu ... |
Georgy Malenkov | ... state) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and | as Premier of the Soviet Union. Voroshilov, Malenkov, and Khrushchev broug ... |
Ahmed Yassin | ... ifada in 2000, the IAF used the AH-64 to kill senior Hamas figures, such as | and Adnan al-Ghoul, with guided missiles. On 24 May 2001, a privately-owne ... |
President pro tempore | ... 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history. He was | in the 108th and 109th Congresses from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007 ... |
Lex Luthor | ... tomic Skull, Bizarro, Cheetah, Evil Star, Giganta, Heat Wave, Killer Frost, | , Sinestro, Star Sapphire, Toyman and Volcana. They team up with the Leagu ... |
Roy Blunt | United States Senator | was born in Niangua |
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. ... |
Barack Obama | ... e was invited to perform at the White House concert series before President | . When Mick held out a mic to him, Obama sang twice the line "Come on, bab ... |
Gary Hart | ... n and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators William Cohen and | attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, and several year ... |
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 ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... nts conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla, Jagadish Chandra Bose and | during the 1890s leading to the invention of radio |
Benning Wentworth | ... rants, Windsor was chartered as a town on July 6, 1761 by Colonial Governor | . It was first settled in August 1764 by Captain Steele Smith and his fami ... |
P. D. James | ... s 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for | ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh s ... |
Don Diego de Vargas | ... en held since 1712 to celebrate the Spanish retaking of the city in 1692 by | from the Pueblo tribes who had occupied the city since the Pueblo Revolt o ... |
Zebulon Baird Vance | In the 1890 Census, Vance County was more than 63 percent African American. | was a Governor of North Carolina (1862–1865, 1877–1879) and United States ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
Zhang Heng | ... omers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian Joseph Needham quotes | (78-139 AD) as saying |
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 ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... tatistical Area. The county seat is Jackson. It is named for U.S. President | . It is considered to be one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", named for m ... |
Augustus Hill Garland | ... ted in 1887. The new location was named Garland after U.S. Attorney General | . Soon after, the towns of Embree and Duck Creek were combined, and the th ... |
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 |
Frank Lautenberg | ... program. The Responsible Education About Life Act was introduced by Senator | (D-NJ) and Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... ll but once, the exception being 1964 when Warren County voted for Democrat | over Barry M. Goldwater. Before the Republican party was formed, Warren Co ... |
Dan Lungren | ... Cook PVIs of R +7 and D +14 respectively and are represented by Republican | and Democrat Doris Matsui respectively |
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 ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, | , Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, Will ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... to him by his forefathers. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by | (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian ... |
Compton Mackenzie | ... took possession of Villa San Michele. This was described by Scottish author | in his diaries |
Barry Goldwater | ... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nominee | acknowledged Hoover's absence in his acceptance speech |
Chris Christie | ... k Obama of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans | and Bob McDonnell were elected to the governorships of New Jersey and Virg ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... een chosen as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Commander, US General | , during D-Day |
Albert Lutuli | ... g's work was cited by and served as an inspiration for South African leader | , another black Nobel Peace prize winner who fought for racial justice in ... |
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 ... |
Hugh Scott | ... from people's minds with a wave of the hand." The Senate Republican Leader | said the transcripts revealed a "deplorable, disgusting, shabby, and immor ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... metimes spelled Shmidt), was a former Nazi general officer and confidant of | . He has been closely affiliated with HYDRA and is an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D ... |
Doris Matsui | ... +14 respectively and is represented by Republican Dan Lungren and Democrat | respectively |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... of the Soviet Union granted Voroshilov's request for retirement and elected | chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council (the head of state). The ... |
Governor-General | ... ion and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by | Sir John Kerr at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. ... |
Fran Pavley | ... rd City in Los Angeles County. Elected to the first City Council were Mayor | , Mayor Pro Tem Carol Sahm, Councilmembers Ernest Dynda, John Hood and Vic ... |
Barbara Lee | ... e Act was introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representatives | (D-CA) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) to support age-appropriate . This prog ... |
William McKinley | Upon the inauguration of | as president of the United States on March 4, 1897, the Republic of Hawaii ... |
Earl Warren | In 1953 Vinson died and was replaced by | . While all members of the Court were New Deal liberals, Black was part of ... |
Julian Bond | ... laws. The ACLU's southern office also defended African-American congressman | in Bond v. Floyd, when the Georgia congress refused to formally induct Bon ... |
Muhammad | ... those who denied the truth even after clarification in its ultimate form by | (he uses term Itmam al-hujjah), hence, he considers this command for a par ... |
Lieutenant Governor of Jersey | ... e are also five non-voting members appointed by the Crown: the Bailiff, the | , the Dean of Jersey, the Attorney General and Solicitor General |
Patrick Henry | | gave his famous "Liberty or Death" speech at the courthouse two days befor ... |
Fife Symington III | ... powerful figures such as banker Charles Keating, Jr., real estate developer | and newspaper publisher Darrow "Duke" Tully. In 1982, McCain ran as a Repu ... |
Bob McDonnell | ... and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris Christie and | were elected to the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia |
Churchill | ... if it reduced casualties elsewhere by greater amounts. It was thought that | would reverse this decision later (he was then away at a conference); but ... |
Louis Riel | ... lp, and other kinds of support. Emerging as a Métis leader was the educated | , who denounced the government in a speech delivered in late August 1869 f ... |
Motilal Nehru | ... esistance among people. The conference appointed a drafting committee under | to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian Na ... |
Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
Samiha Khalil | ... overwhelming 88.2% majority (the only other candidate was charity organizer | ). However, because Hamas, the DFLP and other popular opposition movements ... |
Edzo Toxopeus | ... 1963, Oud left politics, and was succeeded by the minister of Home Affairs | . With the lead of Toxopeus VVD lost three seats in the 1963 elections, bu ... |
Dennis Hollingsworth | ... re Alpine is located in the 36th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 77th Assembly District, represented by Republican Joel Anders ... |
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 ... |
Henry Hyde | ... eings, thereby taking it out of the hands of the federal courts, along with | and Romano Mazzoli. More successfully, Helms passed an amendment banning f ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... natively been seen as a labour theory of property. Other writers (including | ) have traced back the concept even further to Ibn Khaldun, who in his Muq ... |
Frank Kameny | In the 1960s, | came to the forefront of the struggle. Having been fired from his job as a ... |
Ted Stevens | Slashdotters typically like to mock United States Senator | ' 2006 description of the Internet as a "series of tubes" or Microsoft CEO ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... eat of a battle in 1718 between Spain and Austria, and of another fought by | against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies during his Expedition of the Thousand |
Chen Yi | ... cluding the Republic of China's KMT regime which sent the Japanese-educated | to attend the affair. He expressed his admiration about the efficiency of ... |
Alyson Huber | ... rg respectively, and in the 10th Assembly District, represented by Democrat | |
Joseph Stalin | ... hile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), | (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed |
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings | ... lemen, including Edward's stepson, Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and | , his close friend and advisor |
Darrell Steinberg | ... t and 6th Senate Districts, represented by Republican Dave Cox and Democrat | respectively, and in the 4th and 5th Assembly Districts, represented by Re ... |
William Clark | ... of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. York, an African American slave owned by | and who had participated in the Expedition, was the first black American t ... |
Liaquat Ali Khan | ... here was a dramatic new increase in the number of political assassinations. | , the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a ... |
Dan Lungren | ... e Cook PVIs of R +7 and D +14 respectively and is represented by Republican | and Democrat Doris Matsui respectively |
George W. Bush | Branstad was appointed by President | to chair the President's Commission for Excellence in Special Education. T ... |
Modibo Keïta | ... lected as the OAU's first official chairperson, a rotating seat. Along with | of Mali, the Ethiopian leader would later help successfully negotiate the ... |
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 ... |
Cindy Sheehan | ... magazine The Nation. On August 28, 2005, he visited anti-Iraq War activist | at Camp Casey. He prayed with her and spoke to her supporters. He began hi ... |
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 ... |
Robert A. Starr | ... County. It is represented in the Vermont Senate by Vincent Illuzzi (R) and | (D) |
Pierre Mulele | ... mba" (Swahili for "Lion") rebelled against the government. They were led by | , Gaston Soumialot and Christophe Gbenye who were former members of Gizeng ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Chittenden | By area the largest town in the state, Chittenden was named after | , one of the Green Mountain Boys and governor of both the independent Verm ... |
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 ... |
Emilio Aguinaldo | In the hunt for the Guerrilla General | American troops also poisoned water wells to try to force out the Filipino ... |
Dave Cox | ... s is located in the 1st and 6th Senate Districts, represented by Republican | and Democrat Darrell Steinberg respectively, and in the 4th and 5th Assemb ... |
William Bligh | ... island with a European settlement at the time, Timor was the destination of | and seamen loyal to him following the infamous mutiny on the Bounty in 178 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... istic slab of stone.” James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under President | , initially refused to issue a building permit for the memorial due to the ... |
Verdi's | ... Gramophone Company's house conductor since 1904; he had made recordings of | Ernani and Rigoletto before tackling Tosca with a young and largely unknow ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lazare Carnot | But not all the credit for the innovations of this period go to Napoleon. | played a large part in the reorganization of the French army from 1793 to ... |
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings | ... r the title of “The Rose of London”. She attracted many suitors, among them | , friend and confidant of Edward IV. It is likely Hastings fell in love wi ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... nowledge among men". After the nephew died without issue in 1835, President | informed Congress of the bequest. Richard Rush was appointed as agent of t ... |
Lazare Carnot | ... ctionary cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of | 's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor |
Juan Negrín | ... ctively helping General Franco to win the war. The Republican government of | , announced the decision in the League of Nations on 21 September 1938. Th ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, | of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New ... |
Justin Smith Morrill | ... e, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 13.9% of those age 65 or over. | , US Representative and Senator, known as the chief sponsor and author of ... |
B. S. Moonje | ... e decided to go to Kolkata to study medicine. He was sent to Kolkata by Dr. | in 1910 to pursue his medical studies. There he lived with Shyam Sundar Ch ... |
Darrell Steinberg | ... and 6th Senate Districts, represented by Republican Ted Gaines and Democrat | respectively, and in the 10th Assembly District, represented by Democrat A ... |
Peter King | ... iddle-class coastal areas of southwestern Suffolk County, is represented by | , a Republican |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... atcher, Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, | and NATO representatives |
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 ... |
Patrick Kennedy | ... h both she and President Obama wore blue "Tedstrong" bracelets. Congressman | – whose decision a month earlier not to seek re-election meant that in Jan ... |
Liam Kavanagh | ... the Communist Party of Ireland, Bernadette McAliskey and local Wicklow TDs | (Labour), Ciarán Murphy (Fianna Fáil) and Godfrey Timmins (Fine Gael). At ... |
Piet de Jong | ... ed relatively stable and entered yet again the cabinet under Prime Minister | |
Vincent Illuzzi | ... klin County and Lamoille County. It is represented in the Vermont Senate by | (R) and Robert A. Starr (D) |
Carlos Martínez Gorriarán | ... written with Fernando Savater, Rosa Díez, Álvaro Pombo, Albert Boadella and | . He continues to write, both journalism and fiction, and to travel extens ... |
Harry Kim | ... artisan basis. In 2008, William "Billy" Kenoi was elected Mayor, succeeding | who had served a two-term limit. Legislative authority is vested in a nine ... |
Tun Abdul Razak Hussein | ... ather of Modernisation", the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, Allahyarham | . Shah Alam was once known as Sungai Renggam and was noted for its rubber ... |
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 |
Armstrong Williams | ... e, in 1998, Lott caused some controversy in Congress when as a guest on the | television show, he equated homosexuality to alcoholism, kleptomania and s ... |
Morris Hillquit | ... his book, and he was released upon his own recognizance after his attorney, | , promised to make him available at the Federal Building the next day. His ... |
Frank Lausche | ... ns being in 1924 when it supported Vic Donahey, 1932 (George White), 1952 ( | ), and 1958 (Michael V. DiSalle). However, excepting DiSalle, each of thes ... |
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 ... |
Jean Drapeau | ... quest of the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, | . The provisions took effect at 4:00 a.m., and soon, hundreds of suspected ... |
Willie Jones | ... ormed in 1779 from the southwestern part of Craven County. It was named for | , a Revolutionary leader and president of the North Carolina Council of Sa ... |
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 ... |
Nelson A. Rockefeller | ... asses of students and has over 60,000 living alumni in a variety of fields. | , 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York, ... |
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 | |
Tom Coburn | ... s and one Democrat. Oklahoma's U.S. senators are Republicans Jim Inhofe and | , and its U.S. Representatives are John Sullivan (R-OK-1), Dan Boren (D-OK ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... 935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by | . Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) ... |
Peter Pilz | In 2005, | , from the Austrian Green Party, demanded that parliament revoke Schwarzen ... |
Eric Williams | ... f Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect in abolition was downplayed by historian | , who argued that abolition was motivated not by humanitarianism but by ec ... |
Tom McClintock | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +11 and is represented by Republican | |
Garry Kasparov | In 2003 Deep Junior played a six-game match against | that resulted in a 3-3 tie. It won a 2006 match with Teimour Radjabov |
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 ... |
Roberto D'Aubuisson | ... oran Nationalist Republican Alliance and its leader and death squad founder | . Helms said, "If I had found even one credible link between D'Aubuisson a ... |
Jay Dardenne | ... sas Parish. The parish gave a plurality of 48 percent to Secretary of State | . Both Jindal and Dardenne were easy statewide winners in the nonpartisan ... |
Governor of Virginia | Patrick Henry, the first | after statehood, was an early advocate of the waterway. In 1794 he retired ... |
Robert William Wilcox | Hawaiian revolutionary | led several rebellions in pursuit of the restoration of the Hawaiian Kingd ... |
Jim Inhofe | ... four Republicans and one Democrat. Oklahoma's U.S. senators are Republicans | and Tom Coburn, and its U.S. Representatives are John Sullivan (R-OK-1), D ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, | , and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catal ... |
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin | After her affair with her lover and adviser | ended in 1776, he allegedly selected a candidate-lover for her who had the ... |
George Mason | ... ne 1776: his own draft of the preamble of the Constitution of Virginia, and | 's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Ideas and phrases from bot ... |
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 ... |
Alexandre Herculano | ... ire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus Aurelius", and | called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion holds as the foremost of hi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pendleton Murrah | In 1863 governor | of Texas determined that state troops were required for defense against Pl ... |
Governor General | ... chosen as Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Chrétien, and appointed by | Ray Hnatyshyn. At the time, Canada had one of the highest annual deficits ... |
John Doolittle | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +11 and is represented by Republican | |
Joseph Stalin | ... July 1956, the third stanza of the lyrics was changed to remove mentions of | . This is the version presented here |
President Roosevelt | In December 1943, | decided that Eisenhower—not Marshall—would be Supreme Allied Commander in ... |
Henry W. Grout | ... ished in 1932, the district started with an endowment set up in the will of | . The district is a nonprofit educational entity that is active in engagin ... |
Patrick Henry | ... good and safe navigation" of the Roanoke River between Brookneal and Salem. | , the first Governor of Virginia after statehood, was an early advocate of ... |
Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka | ... Vietnam and China, his government was overthrown in a military coup led by | and the National Liberation Council. Several commentators, such as John St ... |
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 ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ollapsed owing to poverty, violence and social unrest. The Fascists, led by | , took over and set up an authoritarian dictatorship. Italy joined the Axi ... |
Richard Nixon | During the September 16, 1968 episode, | , running for president, appeared for a few seconds with a disbelieving vo ... |
Choe Bu | ... –864), the Persian historian Rashid al-Din (1247–1318), the Korean official | (1454–1504) and the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) |
Michael Noonan | ... chell in the leadership election, which was triggered by the resignation of | following the 2002 general election. The position of deputy leader has bee ... |
Hitler | ... which would amount to an end or severe curtailment of Poland's sovereignty | ;abrogated the Polish-German pact. Before the war broke out, Poland entere ... |
Clock King | ... egion are Lex Luthor, Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, | , and Amazo |
Raymond Poincaré | ... reparations; he described the French Prime Minister (and former President) | as a "horrid little man" |
John Edwards | In 2004, the Democratic ticket of John F. Kerry and | carried Tensas Parish, 1,460 to 1,453 for President George W. Bush and Ric ... |
Benito Mussolini | In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of | as part of the Axis Powers' war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small ... |
Gaspar de Portolà | The Spanish did not attempt to colonize the area until 1770, when | , along with Franciscan Fathers, Junípero Serra and Juan Crespí visited th ... |
John McCain | ... nt in all but one election since 1952. In 2004 and 2008, George W. Bush and | swept every county in the state, both receiving over 65 percent of the sta ... |
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: ... |
Lewis Morris | Morris County was named after Colonel | , governor of New Jersey in 1738/9, the year the county was named |
Dave Cox | ... ure Paxton is located in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 3rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Rick Keene. ... |
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 ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands (as Philip IV) from his mother, | , and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Jo ... |
Arthur MacArthur, Jr. | ... st and famous military men such as Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, | , and George Crook were stationed at the fort at various times. Finally, o ... |
George W. Bush | ... American election, Rick Mercer approached Republican presidential candidate | on a campaign stop in Michigan, asking for comment on the news that Bush h ... |
Mikhail Frunze | ... year old orphan boy who they named Petya. They also adopted the children of | , following his death in 1925. During Stalin's rule they lived in the at t ... |
Dave Cox | ... cent Mills is located in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 3rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Dan Logue. F ... |
George W. Bush | ... ublican for President in all but one election since 1952. In 2004 and 2008, | and John McCain swept every county in the state, both receiving over 65 pe ... |
John Doolittle | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +11 and is represented by Republican | |
Gay Mitchell | ... mentary party on 5 June 2002. Kenny defeated Richard Bruton, Phil Hogan and | in the leadership election, which was triggered by the resignation of Mich ... |
Arkebe Oqubay | | was a Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He held office from early 2003 to Ma ... |
Al Gore | ... 000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President | 's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to Jan ... |
Members of Parliament | ... risis of 1944). His support prevented more than a handful of Quebec Liberal | (MPs) from leaving the party, and was therefore crucial to keeping the gov ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... use of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to | , the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, ... |
Burgundian Netherlands | ... Emperor, Philip inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the | (as Philip IV) from his mother, Mary of Burgundy, and briefly succeeded to ... |
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 |
Phil Angelides | ... , Arnold Schwarzenegger won over 72% of the vote, while Democratic opponent | won nearly 25% of the vote |
Pontius Pilate | ... ve that Jesus was condemned to death by the Sanhedrin and the Roman prefect | , physically crucified and resurrected. Muslims believe that Jesus was con ... |
Joseph F. Smith | ... counts of two visions, one from Joseph Smith and the other from his nephew, | in 1918. The revelations were earlier accepted as scripture when added to ... |
Alejandro Toledo | ... t in the Peruvian general election, 2011 by saying he was going to vote for | (Peruvian former president 2001-2006). After cast his vote, he said his co ... |
Steve Levy | ... ections have turned the county more toward the Democrats. In 2003, Democrat | was elected county executive, ending longtime Republican control. In 2001, ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | McCain's politics at this point were mainly in line with President | , including support for Reaganomics, and he was active on Indian Affairs b ... |
Alf Landon | ... pe of his being selected. He publicly endorsed the nominee, Kansas Governor | . But Hoover might as well have been the nominee, since the Democrats virt ... |
Jeff Denham | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
Bill Richardson | ... e, Assistant Secretary of State Rick Indefurth and American U.N. Ambassador | flew to northern Afghanistan and tried to convince the leadership of the U ... |
Victor-François, 8th duc de Broglie | ... When he died in Louveciennes, he was succeeded as duke by a distant cousin, | |
Phil Hogan | ... t of the parliamentary party on 5 June 2002. Kenny defeated Richard Bruton, | and Gay Mitchell in the leadership election, which was triggered by the re ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... verwhelming in the empire triggered France, led by Louis XIII of France and | , to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father Henry IV of Fra ... |
George W. Bush | ... te gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when | took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Re ... |
George W. Bush | ... Kerry and John Edwards carried Tensas Parish, 1,460 to 1,453 for President | and Richard B. Cheney. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore, won Tensas Parish by 250 ... |
Theodosius II | ... inscription records the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under | and Valentinian III (reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by ... |
Lex Luthor | ... aseball against the Justice League International. Members of the Legion are | , Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, Clock King, and Am ... |
William Clark | ... d. The Crow Indians frequented this area from about the year 1700. In 1806, | traveled through the region on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He inscribe ... |
Lord Byron | ... et, among other notables, the sculptors John Gibson and Antonio Canova, and | 's friend, the adventurer Edward John Trelawny. Severn made a sketch of Tr ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... f the vote, compared to 56% statewide. In the 2006 state governor election, | won over 72% of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides won nea ... |
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 ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... deral gun regulations came as a response to the murders of John F. Kennedy, | , and Martin Luther King Jr. |
Curt Weldon | Late in 2005, Army Lt. Col. Kevin Shaffer and Congressman | alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger had ke ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... elia, based on wartime Nazi activities. Created on order of Reichsführer-SS | , a Nazi ethnic German organisation called Selbstschutz carried out execut ... |
George B. McClellan | ... orked for, and became friendly with, one of his future commanding officers, | |
Alfred Deakin | ... eral Protectionists joined Labour. With a majority of seats, the CLP led by | ousted Labour from office, with Fisher failing to persuade the Governor-Ge ... |
Members of Parliament | Some Canadian | saw the movement to entrench a charter as contrary to the British model of ... |
Antoine Gizenga | ... regime (totalling about 10,000), and the Kisanagani dissident ANC loyal to | (numbering about 8,000) |
Jefferson Davis | When General Grant's forces broke through Richmond's defenses, | ordered the destruction of Richmond's militarily significant supplies; the ... |
Dave Cox | ... Greenhorn is located in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 3rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Rick Keene. ... |
Robert M. La Follette | ... ry was also notable for the emergence of progressive politics championed by | . Between 1901 and 1914, Progressive Republicans in Wisconsin created 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. |
George W. Bush | ... because of lead singer Natalie Maines's comments disparaging then-President | while overseas |
Margraviate of Brandenburg | ... ged to gain control over a significant territory, being overshadowed by the | , which was originally seated in the same city. Chapter and cathedral, sur ... |
John Bidwell | ... e events as the most seminal in Chico history. They included the arrival of | in 1850, the arrival of the California and Oregon Railroad in 1870, the es ... |
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 ... |
King James II | Princess Louisa Maria (1692–1712), the last daughter of | (d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the Glorious Revolution, was gi ... |
Zakir Hussain | Dr | the former President of India once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on Nov ... |
Barack Obama | Also circulating is the Chesterfield Observer, a county-wide newspaper. | stopped at John Tyler Community College in Chester on August 21, 2008, whe ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... uivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. Cavaliere | ), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Georg Ritte ... |
John F. Kennedy | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as | , Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference ... |
Charles Martel | ... 17, had achieved complete independence from the feeble Frankish kings. When | became the virtual ruler of the Frankish realm he brought the Bavarians in ... |
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 ... |
Asrat Woldeyes | ... ory failure" following complications from a prostate operation. His doctor, | , denied that complications had occurred and rejected the government versi ... |
Lornna Soto | ... ct VIII, which is represented by two Senators. In 2008, Héctor Martínez and | were elected as District Senators. In 2011, Martínez had to resign, and wa ... |
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 ... |
Caesar Rodney | ... nce. The tie in the Delaware delegation was broken by the timely arrival of | , who voted for independence. The New York delegation abstained once again ... |
Jim Rhodes | ... s in prison. King was later pardoned for the crime in 1983 by Ohio Governor | , with letters from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, A ... |
Abe Fortas | ... on to uphold the state constitutional provision, his colleagues Douglas and | dissented. According to Douglas, Georgia tradition would guarantee a Maddo ... |
Alexander Ramsey | ... sey County was created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named for | , a U.S. Senator from Minnesota at the time. County government was not for ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Carter, then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity | ;was elected as his successor using a specifically Christian discourse |
Felix Grundy | ... town, founded in 1858 upon the formation of Buchanan County, was named for | (1777–1840), United States Attorney General (1838–1839) and United States ... |
Lee Batchelor | ... inistry. The fourth Labour member in the ministry after Watson, Hughes, and | , Fisher was promoted to deputy leader of the party in 1905 |
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 |
Muhammad | ... tion from God (Arabic الله Allah), who believe it to have been revealed to | , who is believed by Muslims to be the final prophet of Islam |
G. K. Butterfield | ... olina's 1st Congressional District and is currently represented by Democrat | |
Rudy Giuliani | ... tial election was highly sought; despite being good friends with candidates | and Senator John McCain, Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 a ... |
Duncan Hunter | Alpine is the residence of former United States Representative | . Major League Baseball Second baseman Marcus Giles lives there |
Michael Heseltine | Meanwhile | had introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( ... |
Graham Berry | ... rmous political power in Victoria. It supported liberal politicians such as | , George Higinbotham and George Turner, and other leading liberals such as ... |
Berhanu Nega | ... rk of Africa. Mayor Oqubay lost the mayorship of Addis Ababa in May 2005 to | , but after boycotting the parliament Berhanu Nega's C.U.D. or Kinijit par ... |
Bob McDonnell | ... ) assists in state gubernatorial races; it is currently chaired by Governor | of Virginia |
Joseph Stalin | During the 1930s and 1940s | 's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, s ... |
Dante Alighieri | The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of | and refers to a number of literary works, including Hamlet and those of th ... |
Al Gore | ... 1,453 for President George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. In 2000, Democrat | , won Tensas Parish by 250 votes. The Democratic electors polled 1,580 vot ... |
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 ... |
Muhammad | ... al interpretation of Islamic teaching through the Quran, hadith (sayings of | ), and sharia (law) towards the creation of a more equal and just society. ... |
Colonel Gaddafi | ... afti), John Coleman, and Coleman's wife. On 10 Nov 1984, he negotiated with | for the release of the four remaining British hostages held in the Libyan ... |
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 ... |
Edward Rutledge | ... e next step was for the resolution to be voted upon by the Congress itself. | of South Carolina, who was opposed to Lee's resolution but desirous of una ... |
George B. McClellan | Following Maj. Gen. | 's failure in the Peninsula Campaign, Burnside was offered command of the ... |
Angelica Balabanoff | ... s of the revolution deserved their fate. However, he suggested that she see | , a critic of the current situation, indicating he wanted Goldman to hear ... |
John McCain | ... ry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican | in 2008 |
William Spence | ... esigned in 1907, Fisher succeeded him as Labour leader, although Hughes and | also stood for the position. Fisher was considered to have a better unders ... |
Robert Mardian | ... Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, | and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigatio ... |
John Tyler Morgan | ... to represent the U.S. and intervene in Hawaii without Senate confirmation. | , an expansionist pro-annexation Senator from Alabama, chaired the commiss ... |
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 ... |
Vincent Illuzzi | ... ns-1 district of the Vermont House of Representatives. It is represented by | (R-Derby) and Robert Starr (D-North Troy) in the Essex-Orleans district of ... |
Kay Hagan | ... dsboro is represented in the Senate by Republican Richard Burr and Democrat | |
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 ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... skill at drawing the human face is the point of a story connecting him with | . This onetime general of Alexander disliked Apelles while they both were ... |
David Vitter | ... on, Tensas Parish gave a plurality to the Republican candidate, Congressman | of St. Tammany Parish. Vitter polled 1,145 votes (41 percent) compared to ... |
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 ... |
Gordon Liddy | ... character Nick Fury added. Moore and Gibbons saw The Comedian as "a kind of | character, only a much bigger, tougher guy". Richard Reynolds described Th ... |
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | ... event catapulted the then newly formed Khudai Khidmatgar movement (founder | , the Frontier Gandhi) onto the National scene. While Gandhi was in jail, ... |
Hubert Ingraham | ... nt governor-general is Sir Arthur Foulkes and the current Prime Minister is | |
Dante Alighieri | ... own accord – some of the most famous in Italy being Giacomo da Lentini and | |
Dmitri Shostakovich | ... occasional works were seldom among their composers' best. Examples include | 's Poem of the Motherland, op. 47 (1947) and The Sun Shines over Our Mothe ... |
Stephen Miller | ... St. Cloud area when the Civil War broke out. Lowry died soon after in 1865. | served a two-year term as Minnesota governor beginning in 1864, the only c ... |
Pol Pot | ... political killings, gives a figure of 2 million. Former Khmer Rouge leader | gave a figure of 800,000, and his deputy, Khieu Samphan, said 1 million ha ... |
Prince Eugene of Savoy | In July 1708, the Duke of Marlborough, with his ally | , won a great victory at the Battle of Oudenarde. On the way to the thanks ... |
Lee Kuan Yew | On May 18, 2010, Bilbao was awarded by the government of Singapore with the | World City Prize, at the World Cities Summit 2010. It is considered the Pr ... |
Richard Burr | Goldsboro is represented in the Senate by Republican | and Democrat Kay Hagan |
Dong Zhongshu | ... i (551–479 BCE), Han Confucianism in Emperor Wu's reign was the creation of | (179–104 BCE). Dong was a scholar and minor official who aggregated the et ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... an Military, one was used by Vijitha Rohana to attack Indian Prime Minister | in 1987 |
Chet Culver | ... epublican nomination to run again for governor. He faced incumbent Governor | , a Democrat and four third party candidates on November 2, 2010. He won t ... |
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 ... |
draconian | ... rs and to cease normal processing. This policy, occasionally referred to as | , stands in notable contrast to the behavior of programs that process HTML ... |
Muhammad | ... ospels as corrupted. The bond extends even further with the Islamic Prophet | instructing Muslims to defend the Christian faith from aggressors in certa ... |
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 ... |
Howard Dean | ... ong with Rob Reiner, Sheen campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate | , and later campaigned for nominee John Kerry |
Ehud Barak | Arafat continued negotiations with Netanyahu's successor, | , at the Camp David Summit in July 2000. Due partly to his own politics (B ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... is job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a decade later, | was assassinated |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... ssian government with "demagogic agitation" in conjunction with the patriot | |
Ronald Reagan | ... Reaganomics, a term popularized during the Presidential administrations of | . This theory holds that reduced income tax rates increase GDP growth and ... |
Sanford B. Dole | Article 23 of the constitution personally named | as the first president and gave him a term of office stretching through 19 ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... t his homosexuality with his Bloomsbury friends (he had a relationship with | , who also was part of the Bloomsbury group), it was not widely publicised ... |
Albert Kalonji | ... s ANC itself, numbering about 12,000, the South Kasai Constabulary loyal to | (3,000 or less), the State of Katanga gendarmerie which were part of Moise ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... 35,000 men, with 80 battle tanks and 200 field artillery — was deployed, as | wanted the victory to be credited to Italy. On 9 March 1937, the Italians ... |
Gn. Pompeius | The last two treatises are supplemented by letters to | and Ammaeus (two) |
Aurelius Victor | According to | in his Epitome de Caesaribus, the agnomen "Caracalla" refers to a Gallic c ... |
Arthur Foulkes | ... is supporters in the House of Assembly. The current governor-general is Sir | and the current Prime Minister is Hubert Ingraham |
Juan Ponce de León | ... . The navy also carried explorers to the North American mainland, including | and Alvarez de Pineda who discovered Florida (1519) and Texas (1521) respe ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... Robert Heinlein Omnibus is an anthology of science fiction short stories by | published i |
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 ... |
Ahmed Yassin | ... 2 March 2004, an Israeli AH-64 used a Hellfire missile to kill Hamas leader | , also killing both his bodyguards and nine bystanders. IAF Apaches played ... |
President pro tempore of the Senate | ... edy family. ... I will miss him." Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the | , issued a statement on Kennedy's death in which he said "My heart and sou ... |
John McCain | ... ought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator | , Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani ... |
Malcolm Norris | ... rights. Five men, sometimes dubbed "The Famous Five", (James Patrick Brady, | , Peter Tomkins Jr., Joe Dion, Felix Callihoo) were instrumental in having ... |
Don Juan of Austria | Dunkirk was besieged promptly and in great force, and when | and Condé appeared with the relieving army from Fumes, Turenne advanced bo ... |
Hermann Göring | ... us of the occupied nation. Hoover toured what was to become West Germany in | 's old train coach and produced a number of reports critical of U.S. occup ... |
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 ... |
Jörg Haider | ... under the leadership of the new SPÖ party chairman Werner Faymann. In 2008 | died in a car accident and was succeeded as BZÖ party chairman by Herbert ... |
Hitler | ... th anniversary of the failed Munich Putsch the regiment swore allegiance to | . The oath given: Pledging loyalty to him alone and Obedience unto death. ... |
Khieu Samphan | ... Former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot gave a figure of 800,000, and his deputy, | , said 1 million had been killed |
Ali Fallahian | ... implicated senior members of the government and issued arrest warrants for | , the head of the Iranian Intelligence. Evidence indicates that Fallahian’ ... |
Richard Nixon | ... y saw election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, | , Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Re ... |
John Malcolm | ... nce in the Persian Gulf, a policy originally proposed by British politician | . Indeed the British government was engaged in making agreements with loca ... |
Balasahab Deoras | ... illusioned with the armed movement. In his memoirs, the third chief of RSS, | narrates an incident when Hedgewar saved him and others from following the ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... o the assassin's widow. The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and | , an Afghan Wahhabi Islamist, have also been mentioned as possible organiz ... |
Louis B. Hanna | The county was created by proclamation of Governor | on September 3, 1914 and named after the Native Americans who live on the ... |
John McCain | ... ived 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Republican | , who received 44.5% of the vote (2,788 ballots cast), with 81.3% of regis ... |
Sophie Mirabella | ... epresentative for the Division of Indi is Liberal Party of Australia member | |
Winston Churchill | ... e and the exclusive Bangalore Club, which counts among its previous members | and the Maharaja of Mysore. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC is based ... |
José Figueroa | ... Corte Madera del Presidio granted to John Reed in 1834 by Mexican Governor | . Reed quickly took to the lumber industry, logging the area's immense sup ... |
George Wallace | ... ride in defending individuals with unpopular or bigoted viewpoints, such as | , George Lincoln Rockwell, and KKK members. The ACLU has defended American ... |
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 ... |
Raj Narain | ... e other party leaders of the Janata Party were Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, | and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Janata government's Home Minister, Choudhary ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | As early as on September 9, 1944, Soviet leader | and Polish communist Edward Osobka-Morawski of the Polish Committee of Nat ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... attempting to overthrow Mazarin and reverse the policies of his predecessor | who had taken power for the crown from great territorial nobles, some of w ... |
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 ... |
Mayor of London | ... veiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and the | had given speeches |
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 ... |
Leon Trotsky | Jack was close to the inner circle of the new government. He met | and was introduced to Lenin during a break of the Constituent Assembly on ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... itary service. Other notable American participants included Winfield Scott, | , and Jefferson Davis. The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian rem ... |
Rafael Trujillo | ... lides da Cunha in 1902. The Feast of the Goat, based on the dictatorship of | , takes place in the Dominican Republic; in preparation for this novel, Va ... |
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 ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... ntil the mid-1980s when political forces unleashed by reforms undertaken by | resulted in the loosening of central control and its ultimate dissolution. ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. When | took office, he augmented the direct support to an anti-Sandinista group, ... |
George S. Patton | ... las MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officers Dwight D. Eisenhower and | to stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting a communist revoluti ... |
George Lincoln Rockwell | ... g individuals with unpopular or bigoted viewpoints, such as George Wallace, | , and KKK members. The ACLU has defended American Nazis many times, and th ... |
Huan Tan | ... ed by scholars. Philosophical works written by Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE), | (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and Wang Fu (78–163 CE) question ... |
Glenn Barr | ... orthern Ireland. The strike was led by Vanguard Assemblyman and UDA member, | |
Sir John Lubbock | ... ion relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and banker | introduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the tab ... |
Mike Faulk | ... s County portion by the 4th district. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and State Senator | currently serve in these positions. All of these elected officials are mem ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... received 51.5% of the vote here (3,333 ballots cast), outpolling Republican | , who received 47.8% of the vote (3,092 ballots), with 6,475 of the 7,931 ... |
Kevin Rudd | In 2008 Labor Prime Minister | launched a biography titled Andrew Fisher, written by David Day. In turn, ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ry 2010, China promised $4.2 million for the quake-hit island. US President | pledged $1.15 billion in assistance. nations promised more than 400 millio ... |
Moshe Dayan | ... ite this, at 7 AM, that is, four hours later, Israel’s minister of defense, | , “gave the order to go into action against Syria.” He further writes that ... |
Enzo Biagi | ... n he appeared in documentaries. In an interview with the Italian journalist | , Buscetta cheerfully bragged that he lost his virginity at the age of eig ... |
Gérard | ... hen too far away to reach Waterloo. Grouchy was advised by his subordinate, | , to "march to the sound of the guns", but stuck to his orders and engaged ... |
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 ... |
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland | ... enclosure was a result of inflation, he was only ignored. It was not until | was Protector that his finance minister William Cecil took action on debas ... |
Frank Carlucci | ... ccessfully, opposed the nominations of Caspar Weinberger, Donald Regan, and | . However, he did score a notable coup two years later, when he led a smal ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... pace Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by | |
Ronald Reagan | ... of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, | , George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House ... |
MP | On May 17, 2005, | Belinda Stronach crossed the floor from the Conservative Party and joined ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, | , Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference to Winthrop's ... |
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 ... |
Elijah Boardman | Boardman Township was founded by | in the late 1780s. It is the only Boardman Township statewide. Though the ... |
Barack Obama | ... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat | over Republican John McCain in 2008 |
George Lauder of The Bass | ... 508). The boatmen who conveyed the King from Dunbar were paid 14 shillings. | entertained King James VI of Scotland when he visited The Bass in 1581 and ... |
Loussac | ... the Ann Stevens Building in her honor. There is also a reading room at the | Library in Anchorage which is named for her |
Cardinal Mazarin | ... means sling, which Parisian mobs used to smash the windows of supporters of | |
Anastasio Somoza García | ... t the National Guard in charge of internal security and elections. In 1934, | , the head of the National Guard, ordered his forces to capture and murder ... |
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 ... |
Efraín Ríos Montt | | utilized this method in the Guatemalan highlands in 1982-3, resulting in t ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... ntered United Front (Northern Alliance) territory under the auspices of the | and had his assistance in bypassing "normal security procedures. |
Michael Dukakis | ... criticism, modern politicians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, | , and Sarah Palin, have all made reference to Winthrop's writings in their ... |
Dave Kleis | The mayor of St. Cloud is | , who won reelection in 2008 after his only opponent, Ryan Fagan, abandone ... |
George W. Bush | ... presidential nomination in 2000 but lost a heated primary season contest to | . He secured the nomination in 2008 after coming back from early reversals ... |
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu | ... cile, on 26 May the Eastern region voted to secede from Nigeria. On 30 May, | , the Eastern Region's military governor, announced the Republic of Biafra ... |
Barack Obama | ... 08 after coming back from early reversals, but lost to Democratic candidate | in the general election. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservativ ... |
Kevin White | ... wn is often given credit for preventing rioting with the performance. Mayor | strongly restrained the Boston Police from cracking down on minor violence ... |
Indira Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers | and her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, ... |
Tony Knowles | ... en, Walter, and Ted; and two daughters: Susan and Beth. Democratic Governor | appointed Ben to the Alaska Senate in 2001, where he served as the preside ... |
Eugene McCarthy | ... ed to run against a sitting president of the Democratic party. Only Senator | of Minnesota challenged Johnson as an anti-war candidate in the New Hampsh ... |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | ... t introduced to the church body in a general conference on August 17, 1835. | and Frederick G. Williams, two of the Presiding Elders on the committee, w ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ... |
Grace Napolitano | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +20 and is represented by Democrat | |
Zhang Liang | ... BC, the state of Qin had defeated the state of Han. A Han aristocrat named | swore revenge on the Qin emperor. He sold all his valuables and in 218 BC, ... |
Sam Ervin | ... to approve and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with | named chairman the next day. The hearings held by the Senate Committee, in ... |
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 ... |
Richard Henry Lee | ... 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and | , calling on colonies without a "government sufficient to the of their aff ... |
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 ... |
Sam Jones | The current mayor, | , was elected in September 2005 and is the first African American mayor of ... |
Bill Richardson | Sheen initially endorsed New Mexico Governor | in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, and helped raise funds for his cam ... |
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 ... |
Ma Jun | ... inting chariot device was first invented by the Chinese mechanical engineer | (c. 200-265 AD). It was a wheeled vehicle that incorporated an early use o ... |
Levi P. Morton | ... United States history, a record which was previously held by Vice President | . He is interred in Uvalde Cemetery |
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 ... |
Percy Sutton | ... ewel of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. A co-founder of Inner City was | , a former Manhattan borough president and long one of the city's most pow ... |
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 ... |
James H. Kyle | To celebrate its distinction as the birthplace of | , Cedarville commemorates Labor Day with , an annual festival including a ... |
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 ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | In A Study in Scarlet, a novel by | , the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... ham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, | , Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and James Cooley Fletcher |
Yury Luzhkov | Russia's officials are similarly adverse to Pride Parades. Mayor of Moscow | has repeatedly banned marches, calling them "satanic". Pride participants ... |
King James II & VII | ... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of | , and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ansmitted long-distance 128-line television images of Secretary of Commerce | from Washington to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was f ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under | in the 1930s |
Calderoli | ... also due to the new proportional electoral law introduced by Berlusconi and | in 2005. In the first year of his government, Prodi had followed a cautiou ... |
Hiram Bingham | In 1911, explorer | used the city as a base for the expedition in which he rediscovered the ru ... |
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 ... |
Italo Calvino | If on a winter's night a traveler is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer | . The narrative is about a reader trying to read a book called If on a win ... |
Paulo Maluf | ... ulo-Guarulhos International Airport, where it was met by São Paulo's mayor, | , and state governor, Luís Antônio Fleury. The coffin was carried by soldi ... |
Frits Bolkestein | ... t out of government. Voorhoeve was replaced by the charismatic intellectual | |
Martin Bormann | ... l, Court Of Honor, features the Fehme being revived by a German officer and | (a featured character in other semi-historical novels with post-war 'Nazi ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... s partner of Sir John Gladstones (sic), father of four times Prime Minister | . Gladstone junior was named after Ewart, his godfather |
Adolf Hitler | ... reu as well as Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, who invitated keynote speaker | to Wahnfried house. There he met writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son-i ... |
James Buchanan | In January, President | had attempted to resupply the garrison with the Star of the West, but Conf ... |
Dennis Cardoza | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +3 and is represented by Democrat | |
Billy Hughes | ... n for three sitting days. Three days later Labor Caucus unanimously elected | leader of the Federal Parliamentary Party. A Wide Bay by-election was held ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... 30 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later President) | |
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière | ... n 20 October 1792 a letter was read before the National Convention in which | , interior minister, proposed that the furnishings of the palace and those ... |
John B. Floyd | ... the Burnside carbine. The Secretary of War under President James Buchanan, | , contracted with the Burnside Arms Company to equip a large portion of th ... |
Donald Regan | ... . Helms also, unsuccessfully, opposed the nominations of Caspar Weinberger, | , and Frank Carlucci. However, he did score a notable coup two years later ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... he arranged for the escape of numerous refugees from the military junta of | ; this brought him into conflict with the regime, and he was eventually fo ... |
Otto Gessler | ... thered (equivalent to 15% of the inhabitants), although Minister of Defence | had forbidden the participation of Reichswehr units. Among the guests were ... |
Adolf Hitler | In 1945, | ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide s ... |
Allen West | ... including Mayor Susan Whelchel, is nonpartisan. As of July 2011, incumbent | , who represents the city in the United States Congress, is a Republican |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... cations for people from the conurbations to purchase weekend holiday homes. | first conceived the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidayi ... |
Philip Effiong | ... segun Obasanjo. Ojukwu fled to the Ivory Coast, leaving his chief of staff, | , to act as the "officer administering the government". Effiong called for ... |
Robert Taft | ... ve Democrats, mostly from the South, joined with Republicans led by Senator | to create the conservative coalition, which dominated domestic issues in C ... |
Barack Obama | In July 2008 | , then the Democratic presidential candidate, said: "If somebody was sendi ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while John Kerry won 46% o ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... (and Humphrey), labor unions, and local party bosses (led by Chicago Mayor | ). The second group consisted of students and intellectuals who were vocif ... |
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 ... |
Houston Stewart Chamberlain | ... itated keynote speaker Adolf Hitler to Wahnfried house. There he met writer | , son-in-law of Richard Wagner and anti-semitic race theorist. Also on tha ... |
Nixon | ... irm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the | and Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then ... |
John Bidwell | The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by | , a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1843. D ... |
Gerhard Dörfler | ... as BZÖ party chairman by Herbert Scheibner and as governor of Carinthia by | |
John Key | ... are sometimes controversial with the greater New Zealand public. Currently, | , who took control of the National Party from Don Brash, is Prime Minister ... |
Tommy Herron | ... of violence began in 1972. In May of that year, the UDA's pressured leader | decided that responsibility for acts of violence committed by the UDA woul ... |
Fran Pavley | ... Hills is located in the 23rd State Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 41st State Assembly District, represented by Democrat Julia B ... |
Henry Dodge | ... the U.S. troops tried to track down the British Band. Militia under Colonel | caught up with the British Band on July 21 and defeated them at the Battle ... |
Ban Gu | ... d Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son | (32–92 CE), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries ... |
Joseph Stalin | When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, | ordered both soldiers and civilians to initiate a scorched earth policy to ... |
George I of Greece | ... them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, | , Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, t ... |
Clint Eastwood | ... orest Theater, bohemian writer and actor Perry Newberry, and actor-director | , who was mayor for one term, from 1986 to 1988 |
Grover Cleveland | ... supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the White House. | , an anti-imperialist, assumed the presidency and right away worked to sto ... |
Tom Cole | ... es are John Sullivan (R-OK-1), Dan Boren (D-OK-2), Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3), | (R-OK-4), and James Lankford (R-OK-5) |
Wim Kok | ... and the social-liberal Democrats 66. The so-called "purple cabinet" led by | was the first Dutch government without any confessional parties. Like many ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... ssimilated in cosmopolitan areas. India presently has a Sikh Prime Minister | |
John Kerry | ... e 19th century. Twentieth century descendants include Massachusetts Senator | and educator Charles William Eliot. The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts a ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... he Medal around his neck. After receiving the Medal of Honor from President | , then-LT O'Hare was described as "modest, inarticulate, humorous, terribl ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... , 2007 when it was removed by the SEC (SEC Release No. 34-55970). President | condemned short sellers and even J. Edgar Hoover said he would investigate ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... alf of the 20th century saw election or succession of Republican presidents | , Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George ... |
Cathleen Galgiani | ... nthony Cannella, and in the 17th Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, South Dos Palos is located in California's 18th congressional ... |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | ... er Day Saint revelations. This committee of Presiding Elders, consisting of | , Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams, began to revie ... |
Ban Biao | ... of imperial China's Standard Histories, such as the Book of Han written by | (3–54 CE), his son Ban Gu (32–92 CE), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 CE ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... t General Lavr Kornilov, an attempt to topple the Provisional Government of | by force of arms. Jack and Louise found the Russian economy was in shamble ... |
Sam Houston | Initially, the new capital thrived. But Lamar's political enemy, | , used two Mexican army incursions to San Antonio as an excuse to move the ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... e Provisional Government was dealt a huge blow when United States President | , who was supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the Wh ... |
Moshe Dayan | ... not a casus belli justifying an attack on Jordan. Israeli Defense Minister | declined to offer any such assurance, but said that Israel had no intentio ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County. | made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... of the campaign, Sheen stated in a BBC Two interview that he was supporting | |
Julia Brownley | ... an Pavley, and in the 41st State Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Hidden Hills is located in California's 30th congressional di ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir | . The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the flagship, the Sea Venture ... |
Ramsay MacDonald | ... mining theme in honour of Fisher's occupation before entering public life. | , Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, unveiled a memorial to Fisher in ... |
Ernest Manning | ... ht to expand its base in the east. Manning, son of longtime Alberta Premier | , gained support partly from the same political constituency as his father ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ecame the first naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor. With President | looking on, O'Hare's wife Rita placed the Medal around his neck. After rec ... |
Louis XVIII | ... s of their lives they had lived under the ancien régime. Nevertheless, King | was worried that he would still suffer an intractable parliament. He was d ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... n, when Republican candidate George H. W. Bush accused Democratic candidate | (a member of the ACLU) of being a "card carrying member of the ACLU" |
George W. Bush | ... s. However, it is a very mixed area overall, narrowly voting for Republican | over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barac ... |
Bill Tilley | Wodonga is in the Victorian Electoral district of Benambra. | of the Liberal Party was elected member for the electoral district of Bena ... |
Grace Napolitano | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +20 and is represented by Democrat | |
Governor of Hong Kong | As of 1 July 1997, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong officially replaced the | as the head of the government for Hong Kong from the transfer of sovereign ... |
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 ... |
Janez Janša | ... l in Slovenia, since the Slovenian Government including then-Prime Minister | was allegedly involved |
Joseph Stalin | ... nt (the violent suppression of the Hungarian uprising and the revelation of | 's crimes) while confirming his "confidence in the democratic perspectives ... |
Wesley Chesbro | ... rat Noreen Evans, and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Clearlake Oaks is located in California's 1st congressional d ... |
Vicente Fox | ... ree Trade Agreement, creating the world's largest free trade area. In 2000, | became the first non-PRI candidate to win the Mexican presidency in over 7 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. President | was perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ... |
Godfrey Timmins | ... d local Wicklow TDs Liam Kavanagh (Labour), Ciarán Murphy (Fianna Fáil) and | (Fine Gael). At his funeral, Senator Nora Connolly O'Brien, daughter of th ... |
Mussolini | ... ri developed into the most important port city of the region. The legacy of | can be seen in the imposing architecture along the seafront |
John McLoughlin | ... d with their lucrative fur trade, their Chief Factor at Fort Vancouver, Dr. | , gave substantial help including employment until they could get establis ... |
Roy Ashburn | ... e Olancha is located in the 18th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 18th Assembly District, represented by Republican Bill Maze. ... |
Hans Dijkstal | ... Commissioner. He was replaced by the more technocratic and socially liberal | |
Benigno Aquino, Jr. | In the Philippines, the assassination of | triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of Presiden ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ason, years later libertarians argued that Hoover's economics were statist. | blasted the Republican incumbent for spending and taxing too much, increas ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... n Ramallah, following an attack in the Israeli city of Hadera; US President | supported Sharon's action, claiming that Arafat was "an obstacle to the pe ... |
Noreen Evans | ... earlake Oaks is located in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wesley Chesbro ... |
Lorrin A. Thurston | ... lic of Hawaii was led by men of European ancestry, like Sanford B. Dole and | , who were native-born subjects of the Hawaiian kingdom and speakers of th ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... way of a royal charter which King George III of England issued to Governor | of New Hampshire |
Chet Culver | ... r, he maintained a 70% favorability rating from Iowans compared to Governor | 's rating of 50%. He may have been helped by an anti-incumbent mood |
Governor General | In the Throne Speech delivered by | Michaëlle Jean on March 3, 2010, a plan to have parliament review the "ori ... |
Governor General | ... Canada, Canada's head of state, instead having them run in the name of the | , who is the Queen's representative. Australia and New Zealand have since ... |
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 ... |
Billy Hughes | ... stralia’s war effort. Fisher visited New Zealand during this time which saw | as acting Prime Minister for two months. Fisher and Labor continued to imp ... |
Ban Zhao | ... written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son Ban Gu (32–92 CE), and his daughter | (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen ... |
Sir Robert Menzies | ... on in Canberra to form the Liberal Party of Australia, delegates, including | , met for a second conference in Albury at Mate's Department Store between ... |
Fitzhugh Lee | ... aking his three best brigades (those of Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, Brig. Gen. | , and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacing the wounded Brig. Gen. ... |
Shabana Mahmood | ... liver Munn (2005–6), Alasdair Henderson (2004–5) and Mairi Brewis (2003–4). | , the MP for Birmingham Ladywood, served as JCR president in 2000-1. JCR m ... |
Mike Thompson | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | ... his earlier book contained 65 early revelations to church leaders including | and Oliver Cowdery. Before many copies of the book could be printed, howev ... |
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | ... urer under Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, died. His vacant post was offered to | , who declined it and proposed Burghley, stating that the latter was the m ... |
Krist Novoselic | ... um In Utero (1993) was an intentionally abrasive album that Nirvana bassist | described as a "wild aggressive sound, a true alternative record." Neverth ... |
Governor General | ... g jurists to be appointed as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by the | |
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 ... |
Lord Byron | ... related that his ancestor of the same name had sat in the same garden with | , discussing publication of Byron's works |
Hannibal | The Barcids, the family to which | belonged, claimed descent from a younger brother of Dido according to Sili ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... atic. He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising | 's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid |
George W. Bush | ... of Osama bin Laden might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of | might enlarge his ears to the size of an elephant's; a caricature of Jay L ... |
Ciarán Murphy | ... Ireland, Bernadette McAliskey and local Wicklow TDs Liam Kavanagh (Labour), | (Fianna Fáil) and Godfrey Timmins (Fine Gael). At his funeral, Senator Nor ... |
Barack Obama | ... aska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator | of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ed by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and | (Brian Cox) have formed |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of President | . Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political oppositio ... |
Luciano Violante | ... s, instead of a genuine preoccupation of the common citizen's civil rights. | , a politician and former president of the Italian Antimafia Commission, c ... |
John McCain | ... idential election, 60.2 percent of Union County voters voted for Republican | , while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3.22 percent of ... |
Sam Juhl | In November 2005, the citizens of Roland elected | the mayor of the city; Juhl was 18 years old and a high school student at ... |
Andreas Papandreou | Meanwhile, | founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in response to Karamanl ... |
Khieu Samphan | Although Pol Pot relinquished the Khmer Rouge leadership to | in 1985, he continued to be the driving force of Khmer Rouge insurgency, g ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... very well and launched Clancy's successful career as a novelist. President | helped to fuel the success of The Hunt for Red October when he announced t ... |
Jorge Vargas | ... ts of Manila, Quezon City, San Juan del Monte, Caloocan, etc. and appointed | as mayor. Existing mayors of the included cities and municipalities served ... |
Clint Eastwood | ... the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Seven film-makers including Wim Wenders, | , Mike Figgis, and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90 minute film (Sco ... |
Brigham Young | ... dge of the Jordan River drainage system and paralleling the mountain range. | named Sandy City in 1873 for its thirsty soil |
de Haussy, François-Philippe | ... ion - Deerlijk - De Gordel - Degrelle, Léon - De Haan - Dehaene, Jean-Luc - | - Deinze - Delahaye, Gilbert - de Merode, Alexandre - Demographics of Belg ... |
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 | |
Benning Wentworth | ... way of a royal charter which King George III of England issued to Governor | of New Hampshire. The town was named after the Earl of Strafford |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... lics played an important role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Under | , glasnost and perestroika were intended to revive the Soviet Union. Howev ... |
John B. Callahan | ... a mayor and a seven-person city council. The current mayor of Bethlehem is | , who was elected to his second term in November 2005. His election marks ... |
George White | ... of Ohio, the exceptions being in 1924 when it supported Vic Donahey, 1932 ( | ), 1952 (Frank Lausche), and 1958 (Michael V. DiSalle). However, excepting ... |
Joe Biden | ... esident. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator | of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell were el ... |
Governor General | The next day, Martin officially informed | Michaëlle Jean of his intention to resign as prime minister. Jean asked Ha ... |
Edwin Waller | ... e where the southern leg of the Chisholm Trail leads to the Colorado River. | was picked by Lamar to survey the village and draft a plan laying out the ... |
Billy Hull | ... East Belfast, the Hammer and Roden Street The first meeting was chaired by | , with Alan Moon as its vice-chair, but Moon was quickly replaced by Jim A ... |
Palmiro Togliatti | ... politics and never joined another party. Ostracized by the ICP party leader | and his supporters on publication of Becalmed in the Antilles (La gran bon ... |
Wesley Chesbro | ... rat Noreen Evans, and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Clearlake is located in California's 1st congressional distri ... |
John McLoughlin | ... lumbia River became the northern boundary of the county in 1844. Soon after | staked a land claim in Oregon City and built a house that in 2003 became a ... |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | ... s on numerous topics, most of which were dictated by the movement's founder | , supplemented by materials periodically added by each denomination |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... Egypt. Convinced that that attack was real, President of the United States | launched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo from a U.S. aircraft ... |
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 ... |
Rexford Tugwell | Even so, New Dealer | later remarked that although no one would say so at the time, "practically ... |
Jim Costa | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +5 and is represented by Democrat | |
Barack Obama | ... rs voted for Republican John McCain, while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat | and 3.22 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wro ... |
Winston Churchill | ... as Adam Smith represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war | attempted to check the rise of Keynesian policy-making in the United Kingd ... |
Antonia C. Novello | ... w York State, issued a protocol for the performance of metzitzah b'peh. Dr. | , Commissioner of Health for New York State, together with a board of rabb ... |
George W. Bush | ... he 2004 presidential election, when 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for | , 32.8% voted for John Kerry, and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third ... |
Bob Dole | ... enate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee | of Kansas |
Mike Thompson | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | . The Konocti School District has one of the few Green Candidates elected ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Todor Zhivkov | The leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, | suggested in the early 1960s, that the country should become a Soviet soci ... |
Hermann Göring | ... ful individual, makes him appear more human and draws sympathy towards him. | propagated s and jokes against himself, with the aim of humanizing his ima ... |
Sylvester Ugoh | ... ernor and four directors; the first governor, who signes on bank notes, was | . A second decree, ‘Decree No.4 of 1967’, modified the Banking Act of the ... |
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. | In 1991, under Governor | , an Independent, the system was changed to one in which the taxes on empl ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... tional Airport) upon returning home from exile. His death thrust his widow, | , into the limelight and, ultimately, the presidency following the peacefu ... |
George Pearce | Fisher passed this report on to Hughes and to Defence Minister | , ultimately leading to the evacuation of the Australian troops in Decembe ... |
Hun Sen | ... overnment which included the former Vietnamese-backed Communists (headed by | ) as well as the Khmer Rouge's former non-Communist and monarchist allies ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... s is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of | , although its subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by ... |
Jim Costa | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +5 and is represented by Democrat | |
Adolf Hitler | ... e Nazi Party gained power in Germany. Schmidt wound up serving the rooms of | himself. By chance, Schmidt was present by bringing refreshments when the ... |
Hannibal | ... sue for peace. Others pleaded for the recall of the sons of Hamilcar Barca, | and Mago, who were still fighting the Romans in Bruttium and Cisalpine Gau ... |
Peter DeFazio | ... from Massachusetts; Bill Richardson, Democratic Governor of New Mexico; and | , Democratic United States Representative from Oregon. Graduates who have ... |
Bush | ... de Range. She eventually succeeded, with the bill being signed by President | on May 8, 2008. Murray has also supported legislation to increase the size ... |
Barack Obama | ... size in the 2008 and 2012 elections. 2008 Republican presidential candidate | visited the town twice during his campaign and again while President Augus ... |
John Tsang | ... posals and moving the appropriation bills. The current FS is the Honourable | |
Governor-General | ... , at the 1932 Speech Day ceremony, Gough Whitlam was awarded a prize by the | , Sir Isaac Isaacs |
Douglas MacArthur | ... ile many officers were injured. Hoover sent U.S. Army forces led by General | and helped by lower ranking officers Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Pa ... |
Scott Stringer | ... w York state government, and corporations. Manhattan's Borough President is | , elected as a Democrat in 2005 |
Steve Symms | ... had occurred since the purchase requirement was dropped. When Helms' ally, | of Idaho, proposed to reinstitute the purchase requirement, the motion was ... |
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 ... |
Philip the Good | ... y of Flanders (today in Belgium) and was named after his great-grandfather, | . In 1482, upon the death of his mother Mary of Burgundy, he succeeded to ... |
Jayaprakash Narayan | ... after the State of Emergency was lifted. The leader of the Janata Party was | . The other party leaders of the Janata Party were Morarji Desai, Charan S ... |
Tommy Herron | ... use of guns, and unarmed combat. Its most prominent early spokesperson was | , however Andy Tyrie would emerge as leader soon after. Its original motto ... |
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 ... |
Bill Richardson | ... Minister; Scott Brown, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts | ;, Democratic Governor of New Mexico; and Peter DeFazio, Democratic United ... |
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 ... |
Gloria Romero | ... Jose Hills is located in the 24th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 58th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Charles M. Ca ... |
John Wentworth | ... o find resources and secure a charter. The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, | , provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13 ... |
George W. Bush | ... isenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and | . The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingric ... |
governor general | ... ced that Martin had advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint Michaëlle Jean as | . The reception to the appointment was mixed: some, including Harper, appl ... |
Mike Thompson | ... by Democrat Wesley Chesbro. Federally, Arcata is represented by Congressman | and is located in California's 1st congressional district |
John, Lord Hervey | ... r been established and received much speculation. The memoirist and gossip, | , for example, described the newly built Villa as 'Too small to live in, a ... |
Burgemeester | ... van burgemeester en wethouders, abbreviated to B&W), made up of the mayor ( | ) and the aldermen. The executive implements national legislation on matte ... |
Cardinal Mazarin | ... e Naudé his librarian, and on his death Naudé accepted a similar offer from | . For the next ten years he devoted himself to bringing together from all ... |
Ta Mok | ... . By 1999, most members had surrendered or been captured. In December 1999, | and the remaining leaders surrendered, and the Khmer Rouge effectively cea ... |
Mike Thompson | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
Dario Fo | ... but is not really firing at the target. Nobel laureate satirical playwright | pointed out the difference between satire and teasing (sfottò). Teasing is ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Roger Wicker | ... resigned from the Senate and became a Washington-based lobbyist. Republican | won the 2008 special election to replace him |
Nandini Satpathy | ... veteran Gandhi supporters like Jagjivan Ram and her most loyal Bahuguna and | , the three were compelled to part ways and form a new political entity CF ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ity to Barry Goldwater. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years John McCain rec ... |
William Cohen | ... good terms. McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators | and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, an ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... sed of still regularly engaging in such operations. In 1986, U.S. President | (who survived an assassination attempt himself) ordered the Operation El D ... |
Jagjivan Ram | ... split during the election campaign of 1977: veteran Gandhi supporters like | and her most loyal Bahuguna and Nandini Satpathy, the three were compelled ... |
Linda Smith | In 1998 she won reelection against Representative | , 58 percent to 42 percent |
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 ... |
Scott Brown | ... r, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Minister | ;, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts; Bill Richardson, D ... |
André Marty | ... , the Nationalists advanced, taking the hydro electric station at El Campo. | accused the commander of the Marseillaise Battalion, Gaston Delasalle, of ... |
Ted Strickland | ... the home of many prominent citizens, including the former governor of Ohio, | , U.S. Senator George Voinovich, Bob Greene--the former Chicago Tribune co ... |
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 ... |
Sanjay Gandhi | ... gress party was crushed soundly in the elections which followed. Indira and | both lost their seats, and Congress was cut down to 153 seats (compared wi ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip | campaigning on the Contract with America, was elected to majorities to bot ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... s great-grandfather, Philip the Good. In 1482, upon the death of his mother | , he succeeded to her Burgundian possessions under the guardianship of his ... |
Steve Gottwalt | ... s partly in Minnesota House of Representatives district 15A, represented by | (R), and partly in 15B, represented by King Banaian (R). State Senate Dist ... |
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá | ... are linked to drug-trafficking and illegal weapons. In mid-July 2005, Gov. | announced a series of measures aimed at lowering Ponce's high murder rate. ... |
Giuseppe Verdi | ... rseillaise" in his 1839–40 setting of a French translation of Heine's poem. | quotes from "La Marseillaise" in his patriotic anthem Hymn of the Nations, ... |
Thomas McKean | ... the colonial assembly, and on June 18 a new Conference of Committees under | authorized Pennsylvania's delegates to declare independence. On June 15, t ... |
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 ... |
Muammar al-Gaddafi | During the 2011 Libyan civil war, forces loyal to | planted a large number of landmines within the petroleum port of Brega to ... |
Edmund Needham Morrill | ... unded by T. J. Elliot, who named it in honor of his friend, Kansas governor | |
Gloria Romero | ... ado Heights is located in the 24th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 57th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Edward Hernán ... |
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 ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister | in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada |
Di Rupo, Elio | ... smuide - Dilsen-Stokkem - Dioxine affair - Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival - | - Di Rupo I Government - Draining law - Duchy of Brabant - Duchy of Limbur ... |
Zbigniew Brzezinski | The political scientists Carl Friedrich and | were primarily responsible for expanding the usage of the term in universi ... |
Siim Kallas | ... a, in order to exert a downward pressure on real estate prices, ccording to | , EU commissioner for administrative affairs |
Paddy Wilson | ... g the assassination of Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician | in 1973. The UDA was involved in the successful Ulster Workers Council Str ... |
John McCain | ... l election, Barack Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and | and Sarah Palin 46% |
John McCain | ... lin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years | received 55.2% of the county's vote in the 2008 U.S. presidential election ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... al statements. He has been accused of making a remark in 1995 which praised | : "The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... ost three weeks (during which they also interviewed Burhanuddin Rabbani and | ) for an interview opportunity, on September 8, 2001, an aide to Massoud r ... |
Joseph Mundassery | ... zhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, P. Bhaskaran, | |
Shashi Tharoor | ... overnment sector include Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece | ;, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Ministe ... |
Noreen Evans | ... e Middletown is located in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wesley Chesbro ... |
Jozias van Aartsen | ... number of seats in the municipal elections, prompting parliamentary leader | to step down. Willibrord van Beek was subsequently appointed parliamentary ... |
Thad Cochran | ... was also an Ole Miss cheerleader, on the same team with future U.S. Senator | . He married Patricia Thompson on December 27, 1964. The couple has two ch ... |
Pyotr Stolypin | ... d/protector, the Russian Naval Sailor Nagorny (John Hallam). Prime Minister | (Eric Porter), who succeeded Witte, has commissioned the Imperial Duma and ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... orces led by General Douglas MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officers | and George S. Patton to stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | At the desire of | he began a controversy with the Benedictines, denying Jean Gerson's author ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... after Prohibition had ended and Garner had left the House by future Speaker | . |
Neil Kinnock | ... ublished an election pamphlet, Move On Up, with a foreword by Labour leader | |
Adolf Hitler | ... as well as highlighting a statement Lukashenko had made seemingly praising | . Lukashenko referred to the media attack as 'dirty propaganda' |
Alf Landon | ... the replies of only 5,000 respondents, that Franklin Roosevelt would defeat | in the U.S. Presidential election. This was in direct contradiction to the ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah P ... |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | In 2005, Khaled Mashaal called | 's December 14, 2005 statements on the Holocaust that Europeans had "creat ... |
Mayor of New York City | ... ome of New York City Hall, the seat of New York City government housing the | and the New York City Council. The mayor's staff and thirteen municipal ag ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President | , in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ... |
Joe Biden | In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and | won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah Palin 46% |
Noreen Evans | ... ature Arcata is located in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wesley Chesbro ... |
Eli Dayan | "Deputy Foreign Minister, | offered compensation to the victims families in 1995, but explained that I ... |
Kostas Karamanlis | Tufts alumni in the government sector include | , former Prime Minister of Greece; Shashi Tharoor, former United Nations U ... |
Kerensky | ... , until they were moved to Tobolsk in Siberia in August 1917, a step by the | government designed to remove them from the capital and possible harm. Fro ... |
William Franklin | ... een governing the province since January 1776, resolved that Royal Governor | was "an enemy to the liberties of this country" and had him arrested. On J ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by | , originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Octo ... |
Joseph Cook | ... t voting 'No'. At the 1913 election, the Commonwealth Liberal Party, led by | , defeated the Labor Party by one seat |
Jean O'Leary | ... as founded in 1988, by Dr. Robert Eichberg, his partner William Gamble, and | to celebrate the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay R ... |
Ruairi Quinn | ... in May, and was introduced in 1994. Recently, senior politicians (including | ) have been considering the addition of one or two extra public holidays t ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... y, some media outlets alleged that millions were stolen by former president | . However the accuracy of the information is questionable and may have bee ... |
John McCain | In the Presidential election of 2008, the party's nominees were Senator | , of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice Presi ... |
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 ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by | and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The ... |
Jia Yi | Han scholars such as | (201–169 BCE) portrayed the previous Qin Dynasty as a brutal regime. Howev ... |
Harry Reid | On August 9, 2011, Senate Majority Leader | appointed Murray to co-chair the United States Congress Joint Select Commi ... |
Miguel A. Pulido | ... int had been an appointee of the Council. The current mayor of Santa Ana is | , the first mayor of Latino descent in the city's history and in fact, the ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... ing" and "Il Canto degli Italiani". In his 1944 film, the Italian conductor | also incorporated "The Internationale" for the Soviet Union and "The Star- ... |
Hoover | ... xecutive assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur during the | administration, and by 1950 headed a prominent law firm specializing in na ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ck Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and | 46% |
Wesley Chesbro | ... rat Noreen Evans, and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Middletown is located in California's 1st congressional distr ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... so included in the school district, including Blooming Grove, birthplace of | |
Member of Parliament | Hertfordshire. She was the daughter of Richard Jennings (or Jenyns), a | , and Frances Thornhurst. Her uncle (Martin Lister) was a prominent natura ... |
Leo Varadkar | ... cised in combination with a more short term policy proposal from FG TD, Dr. | . This document, termed "Hope for a Lost Generation", promises to bring 30 ... |
George W. Bush | ... les for the move to The Tonight Show. Will Ferrell made a surprise visit as | , which quickly devolved into Ferrell tearing off his business suit to rev ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... e named delegates to the White House Conference on Aging, Martin by Senator | and Lyon by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi |
Lex Luthor | The Legion of Doom is a group of supervillains led by | that appeared in Challenge of the Super Friends, an ABC animated series th ... |
Robert F. Stockton | ... " and "Mudville". Captain Weber decided on "Stockton" in honor of Commodore | . Stockton was the first community in California to have a name not of Spa ... |
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 ... |
Bob Huff | California State Senate: 29th District | (Republican |
Jacques Chirac | ... buildings in over 20 countries around the world. In 1985, at the behest of | , the mayor of Paris at that time, Tange proposed a master plan for a plaz ... |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | ... of alcohol for three decades from 1947, but restrictions were introduced by | just weeks before he was removed as prime minister in 1977. Since then, on ... |
Gary Hart | ... aid he too would have ordered the invasion. Indeed Mondale attacked Senator | , his chief opponent for the Democratic nomination, as isolationist and we ... |
Ekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova | ... towski, Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess | , the sister of her husband's mistress, who introduced her to several powe ... |
Alfredo Lim | In 1992, | became the mayor, and was known for his anti-crime crusades. When Lim ran ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... and covered the Presidential nominating conventions. Reed himself endorsed | , believing that he would make good on his promise to keep America out of ... |
Member of Parliament | Martin served as the | for the riding of LaSalle—Émard in Montreal from his election in the 1988 ... |
Edmund Fanning | ... omas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success). | , also a Loyalist exiled by the Revolution, took over as the second govern ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... Chinese civil war, the ROC government under the KMT withdrew to Taiwan and | declared martial law. Japan formally renounced all territorial rights to T ... |
Benjamín Hill | ... ed to formalize Obregón’s and his allies’ (primarily Abelardo L. Rodríguez, | and Plutarco Elías Calles) resistance to Carranza. This movement soon came ... |
Nancy Pelosi | ... ence on Aging, Martin by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Lyon by Congresswoman | |
Charles W. Fairbanks | ... war. Marysville native Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, wife of U.S. Vice President | , would serve as the President of the Daughters of the American Revolution ... |
Andrew Moray | ... aking place across Scotland, including those of several Scottish nobles and | in the north |
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 ... |
John Kerry | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, whereas George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 20 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e labor unions and the New Deal's deficit spending. He broke with President | in early 1937 over the issue of enlarging the Supreme Court, and helped de ... |
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 ... |
Eyskens, Gaston | ... - Eupen-Malmedy - European Movement Belgium - Eurostar - Evere - Evergem - | |
Andrew Jackson | The town was named in 1825 for future president | , the commander of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and ... |
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 |
Maurice Bishop | ... t coup d'état had overthrown the established government and shot its leader | . This was the first actual rollback that destroyed a Communist regime and ... |
Gloria J. Romero | California State Senate: 24th District | (Democrat |
Howard Berman | ... ed lobbyist Michael S. Berman, brother of California Democratic Congressman | ,for "redistricting consulting" on her behalf. She paid Berman $20,000 for ... |
Juan Bosch | ... ctly supported the overthrow of left-wing, democratically elected president | of the Dominican Republic and João Goulart of Brazil, maintaining US suppo ... |
James Duane Doty | Madison was created in 1836, when former federal judge | purchased over a thousand acres (4 km²) of swamp and forest land on the is ... |
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 ... |
Hua Guofeng | ... volution, Deng Xiaoping quickly wrested power from Mao's anointed successor | . Although he never became the head of the party or state himself, Deng wa ... |
Paul Keating | ... guished Australian diplomat, former senior advisor to former Prime Minister | , and founder of the Lowy Institute |
Lydia (satrapy) | ... balus, appointed by Cyrus the Great, was the first satrap (governor). (See: | ) |
Daniel Webster | ... 1817, though the College continued teaching classes in rented rooms nearby. | , an alumnus of the class of 1801, presented the College's case to the Sup ... |
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 ... |
Helle Thorning-Schmidt | It is the birthplace of politician | and actress Brigitte Nielsen |
Robert La Follette | ... the first half of the 20th century, Wisconsin's politics were dominated by | and his sons, originally of the Republican Party, but later of the revived ... |
Fernand Grenier | ... n 24 March 1944 to grant eligibility to women but following an amendment by | , they were given full citizenship, including the right to vote. Grenier's ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... ted with other men who would greatly influence him like G. Lowes Dickinson, | , Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, Bertrand Ru ... |
Mussolini | ... itic ethnic origin, and African civilization. As an innocuous example: when | 's regime named the streets of new quarters in Rome with the characters of ... |
Brigham Young | ... tes, and the martyrdom of their prophet Joseph Smith in 1844, Mormon leader | was chosen by the leaders of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) church to lead th ... |
Jimmy Walker | ... , a Democrat. In 1929, he lost the election for mayor to incumbent Democrat | by a landslide |
Arturo Toscanini | ... icordi arranged a Roman premiere for the opera, even though this meant that | could not conduct it as Puccini had hoped—Toscanini was fully engaged at L ... |
Arsenio Lacson | With | becoming the first elected mayor in 1952 (all mayors were appointed prior ... |
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 ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 2006 state governor election, | got just over 62% of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides go ... |
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 ... |
Rafael Rivera Esbrí | ... by a group of firefighters amongst whom was Pedro Sabater and the civilian | , who would later become mayor of the city. The fire started at the U.S. M ... |
João Bernardo Vieira | In Guinea Bissau, President | was assassinated in the early hours of March 2, 2009, in the capital, Biss ... |
Ron Paul | In 2010 Congressmen | questioned whether the Federal Reserve Bank had been used to funnel illega ... |
Jason Chaffetz | ... d South Jordan follows Utah's trend with only Republican elected officials. | , a Republican, represents South Jordan as part of Utah's 3rd congressiona ... |
Pietro Badoglio | On 5 May, Marshal | led Italian troops into Addis Ababa, and Mussolini declared Ethiopia an It ... |
Ma Ying-jeou | ... entitled a "Celebration Drill" and not a traditional military parade. Since | became president, one parade has been held on the centenary celebrations o ... |
Race Mathews | ... d by widespread property ownership and, according to co-operative economist | , maintains that such a system is key to bringing about a just social orde ... |
James J. Lanzetta | In 1932, he was defeated for re-election to the House by | , the Democratic candidate. 1932 was not a good year for Republican candid ... |
Phil Angelides | ... old Schwarzenegger got just over 62% of the vote, while Democratic opponent | got over 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, however, Barack Obama won ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... Gary Miller (1975). In 1975 the club endorsed George Moscone for mayor over | . The club changed its name to the Alice B. Toklas Gay and Lesbian Democra ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... throw of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under | , produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia |
Andrew Jackson | ... st because of a policy of Indian removal developed by the administration of | . Then, in 1831, Jacob Stem, the founder of Green Springs, bought the land ... |
Gus Hall | Cherry is the birthplace of | , an important politician of the Communist Party of the United States |
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 ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... lle, wrote the "Log Cabin Song." It would inspire the Log Cabin Campaign of | , who would go onto win the Presidential election that year |
William Lyon Mackenzie | ... led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led by | , Lord Durham was appointed governor general of British North America and ... |
Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
Mayor of Manila | ... of the 1970s until the 1986 Edsa revolution, making him the longest serving | . Mayors Lacson, Villegas, and Bagatsing are oftentimes collectively consi ... |
Joe Shell | ... son, Clayton James, and Barbara Straker James have close ties to La Conner. | (born in La Conner in 1918) is a former member and floor leader of the Cal ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... nomy under his control. (Some aspects of it had fallen under the control of | 's secret police, and remained so until the collapse of government. |
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville | ... It was founded by French Canadian brothers Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and | , to establish control over France's Louisiana claims. Bienville was made ... |
Robert Taft | ... he Republican party to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator | . Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the Truman administration's ... |
George Moscone | ... r presidents were Jo Daly and Gary Miller (1975). In 1975 the club endorsed | for mayor over Dianne Feinstein. The club changed its name to the Alice B. ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... of Oregon. As of 2010, its population was 203,206. The county is named for | , the seventh president of the United States. There are 11 incorporated ci ... |
Franklin Roosevelt | President | moved the INS from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in ... |
Manuel Micheltorena | ... uerto Mexican Land Grant to Mariano and Pedro Hernandez in 1844 by Governor | . The grant extended east of the present day Highway 33 to the San Joaquin ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Chen Shui-bian | ... i City) killing both pilots. The parade was not held again until 1975. When | became President, the parade was not held until 2007 and then it was entit ... |
John McCain | ... hen he won 48.6 percent of the vote compared to 50.9 percent for Republican | . In 2010, political experts have now dubbed Fort Bend County a battlegrou ... |
Doug Magnus | ... level, Magnolia is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
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 ... |
Pablo Vicente de Solá | ... io Bolcoff. Bolcoff lived with and traveled with Alta California's governor | , acting as an interpreter |
Edward Carson | ... ss. A team of private detectives had directed Queensberry's lawyers, led by | QC, to the world of the Victorian underground. Wilde's association with bl ... |
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 ... |
Alfred Cumming | ... ganized an efficient mail service. In 1858 he stepped down to his successor | |
Mark Hatfield | ... 23,756,000 deer hides), to initiating politicians into their club including | and Thomas E. Dewey during his 1948 presidential campaign. Russian newspap ... |
Eamon Gilmore | ... o have praised the proposals stating that they have considerable potential. | 's Labour Party has launched policies which are seen to be broadly consist ... |
Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... unty was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide nationwide against | — but only by three percentage points in Klamath County |
Raj Narain | ... void on grounds of electoral malpractice. In an election petition filed by | (who later on defeated her in 1977 parliamentary election from Rae Bareily ... |
George W. Bush | In the 2004 presidential election John Kerry won 52% of the vote, whereas | won 46% of the vote. In the 2006 state governor election, Arnold Schwarzen ... |
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 ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... enalty at the front. The formation of the second coalition government, with | as chairman, was completed on 24 July |
Governor Isaac I. Stevens | Believed to be named after | , Lake Stevens was first settled in 1886 on a homestead along the east sho ... |
Greg Walden | ... ane, and in the Oregon State Senate by Republican Doug Whitsett. Federally, | , a Republican, is Klamath County's representative in the United States Ho ... |
Jean-Claude Duvalier | ... sed the US of forcing him out – an accusation the US rejected as 'absurd'". | suddenly returned to Haiti in late January 2011, claiming his doing so was ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... Nations. The slum is a stronghold of supporters of former Haitian President | , who, according to the BBC, "accused the US of forcing him out – an accus ... |
Luis de Quixano y Font | ... Firefighters Corps was reorganized under the administration of Ponce mayor | , and Tomás Cladellas was named fire chief. In 1879 the Ponce Fire Corps r ... |
Members of Parliament | The county is divided into ten constituencies for the election of | (MPs) to the House of Commons. As of May 2010, five constituencies are rep ... |
Zadok Casey | Mt. Vernon was founded in 1817 by | , who was elected to the State Senate in 1822 and was elected Lieutenant G ... |
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 ... |
Euthydemus | ... Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign of | (230–200 BCE) who extended his control beyond Alexandria Eschate to Sogdia ... |
Larry McDonald | ... spy plane. All 269 passengers and crew died, including a U.S. Congressman, | |
Goffin, Albert | ... ardsbergen - Gesell, Silvio - Gevaert, Lieven - Ghent - Gingelom - Gistel - | - Gordel (De) - Governor of Brussels-Capital - Gravensteengroep - Groen! - ... |
Pierre Charles | ... ires, Argentina; São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Santiago, Chile. | , the late Prime Minister of the Caribbean island nation of also condemned ... |
Barack Obama | ... 964, when Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat | came very close in heavy voting, when he won 48.6 percent of the vote comp ... |
John III Sobieski | ... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. | , fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... nt bicentennial, however, controversy erupted when neither French president | nor prime minister Dominique de Villepin attended any functions commemorat ... |
John McCain | ... election, however, Barack Obama won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while | only won 29% of the vote. Overall, Agoura Hills is perhaps the most libera ... |
Joseph V. McKee | ... asy win against hapless incumbent Mayor John P. O'Brien. At the last minute | entered the race as the nominee of the new "Recovery party." McKee was a f ... |
Richard Pombo | ... Ilitch-owned Gateway Casinos Resorts, LLC, and support from California Rep. | (R) who sponsored a new bill in Congress, H.R. 512, to speed up federal re ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | ... tic reforms were mandated during the final year of authoritarian rule under | . The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, Lee Teng-hui, whi ... |
Isaac Johannes Lamotius | Statistical analysis of the hunting records of | give a new estimated extinction date of 1693, with a 95% confidence interv ... |
Jeffery, Lord Amherst | ... he institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after | , a veteran from the Seven Years' War and later commanding general of the ... |
George W. Bush | ... Tom Daschle of South Dakota as trustworthy. He also reveals that President | , then–Secretary of State Colin Powell, and other GOP leaders played a maj ... |
Gerrit P. Judd | ... he expedition. King Kamehameha III assigned American medical missionary Dr. | to the expedition as translator |
Chen Cheng | ... n October 10, 1949 was the first public military parade held in Taiwan with | serving as the Grand Review Officer. The 1964 National Day parade was stru ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... árd prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President | of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. B ... |
Dallin H. Oaks | ... , with ten stakes and over 100 wards being added during his administration. | replaced Wilkinson as President in 1971. Oaks continued the expansion of h ... |
Giudicati | ... ), the saracen's attempt of invasion of the island was stopped by Sardinian | with the support of the Fleets of Maritime Republics of Pisa and Genoa. Po ... |
Ben Nighthorse Campbell | ... ian tribe. It was named for their nineteenth-century leader, Chief Ignacio. | , a retired U.S. Senator, lives in the town area |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... o was out of concern for the present situation in Haiti. On the other hand, | was initially denied access to Haiti by Haitian immigration authorities, d ... |
Jordi Pujol | ... th Spanish. New elections under this statute gave the Catalan presidency to | , a position he would hold until 2003. During this time he also led Conver ... |
Paul Kruger | ... no right to part with this territory. During the year a Boer commando under | and an army under Cetshwayo were posted to defend the newly acquired Utrec ... |
Abdullah Abdullah | ... s Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2006. He is now a member of | 's (another United Front group) |
Mikhail Katkov | ... 77 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor | over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpop ... |
Michel de Montaigne | ... relationship between their followers turned quickly to conflict. Frenchman | told a story of a Lutheran pastor who declared over dinner that he would r ... |
John P. O'Brien | ... ed the nominations and expected an easy win against hapless incumbent Mayor | . At the last minute Joseph V. McKee entered the race as the nominee of th ... |
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 ... |
Colin Powell | ... thy. He also reveals that President George W. Bush, then–Secretary of State | , and other GOP leaders played a major role in ending his career as Senate ... |
Doug Whitsett | ... Bill Garrard and Mike McLane, and in the Oregon State Senate by Republican | . Federally, Greg Walden, a Republican, is Klamath County's representative ... |
Major-General Baird | ... opened in the main walls of the fortress of Seringapatam. An attack led by | secured the fortress. Wellesley secured the rear of the advance, posting g ... |
Bomhoff | ... he plug" on the VVD-CDA-LPF-cabinet, after infighting between LPF ministers | and Heinsbroek |
Bob Dornan | ... oderate Democrat in the 46th District against six-term Republican incumbent | . The bitterly fought race saw Sanchez charge that Dornan was out of touch ... |
George Allen | ... ected to the U.S. Senate from Virginia. His election opponent, then senator | , raised the 1979 article as a campaign issue, depicting Webb as being opp ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... nt Phil Angelides got over 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, however, | won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while John McCain only won 29% of the ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... has carried Fort Bend County in the presidential election since 1964, when | of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama came very clo ... |
Liang Ji | ... either killed or exiled, and her eunuch allies were slaughtered. The regent | (d. 159 CE), brother of Empress Liang Na (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-l ... |
Phil Hogan | ... argely centred on the make up of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament. FG's | TD, has published the party's answer to the political and constitutional r ... |
Richard Nixon | ... heek comment from Milton Friedman, a comment later echoed by U.S. President | , that "We are all Keynesians now". The article described the exceptionall ... |
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 | ... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from | , in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution |
George W. Bush | ... 4, Democrat John Kerry received over 70 percent of the vote, and Republican | received just over a quarter |
Julius Caesar | ... n Aurelian's time. (It had already been damaged by fire during the visit of | to Alexandria. |
Ahmad Zia Massoud | ... t deal of prestige in the politics of Afghanistan. One of his six brothers, | , was the Vice President of Afghanistan from 2004 until 2009 under the fir ... |
Richard Nixon | ... e favored stimulus resulting in an expansion of the money supply. President | 's wage and price controls were abandoned. The federal oil reserves were c ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... es from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President | and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 13. (6 Democratic Senators ... |
P. T. Barnum | ... llege Hall, the first building on campus, was completed the following year. | was one of the earliest benefactors of Tufts College, and the Barnum Museu ... |
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, ... |
Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson | ... nate's blocking of his legislation, recommended to the new Governor-General | that both houses of the parliament be dissolved and elections called. This ... |
Dennis Cardoza | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +3 and is represented by Democrat | |
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. ... |
Edward J. Flynn | ... was a formidable opponent because he was sponsored by Bronx Democratic boss | and apparently was favored by President Franklin Roosevelt. LaGuardia made ... |
Timarchus | ... m the Babylonians, whom he delivered from the tyranny of the Median satrap, | . Timarchus, who had distinguished himself by defending Media against the ... |
Jörg Haider | ... ber 1986, in a confrontation between the German-national and liberal wings, | became leader of the FPÖ. Chancellor Vranitzky rescinded the coalition pac ... |
Emil Kraepelin | ... imself for his new duties by spending the summer working in Heidelberg with | on measuring the effects of fatigue |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... on one day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 tons (73 tonnes) of bombs. | , the Supreme Allied Commander, said of the Typhoons; "The chief credit in ... |
Helmut Kohl | ... ch 7, 1933, Berlin – July 5, 2001) was the wife of former German Chancellor | . She met him for the first time at a prom in Ludwigshafen, Germany, when ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... disapproved of interventionist foreign policy actions. Republicans opposed | 's intervention in World War I and his subsequent attempt to create the Le ... |
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 ... |
John Howard | ... ever, a striking exception occurred in 2001 when the former Prime Minister, | , publicly relied upon an ONA assessment to support his claims about asylu ... |
Ramsey | ... yer, writer, active abolitionist, and personal friend of Minnesota Governor | . He was on the state's Republican electoral ticket with Abraham Lincoln i ... |
Mike Lowry | ... census. St. John is the birthplace of the twentieth governor of Washington, | |
Oregon State Senate | ... epresentatives by two Republicans, Bill Garrard and Mike McLane, and in the | by Republican Doug Whitsett. Federally, Greg Walden, a Republican, is Klam ... |
Senator Aden Ridgeway | ... Beds are Burning" was shown on video and introduced by Australian Democrats | as an indigenous spokesperson on Reconciliation. "Power and the Passion" w ... |
Governor General | ... g jurists to be appointed as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by the | |
Phil Gramm | ... . Senate campaign; the Senate seat was won by the Republican primary winner | |
Zebulon Baird Vance | ... officially recognized as Zebulon, North Carolina. The town was named after | , the Governor of North Carolina during the American Civil War. The first ... |
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 ... |
Konstantinos Karamanlis | Former prime minister | was invited back from Paris where he had lived in self-exile since 1963, m ... |
John Connally | ... h that anything he said was more likely to help McGovern. Johnson's protege | had served as President Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury and then stepped ... |
Tom Daschle | ... ity leader of the Senate today." He also described former Democratic Leader | of South Dakota as trustworthy. He also reveals that President George W. B ... |
Larry O'Brien | ... these theories suggests that the target of the break-in was the offices of | , the Chairman of the DNC. In 1968, O'Brien was appointed by Vice Presiden ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rmers. The RFC had minimal impact at the time, but was adopted by President | and greatly expanded as part of his New Deal |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... . In the 1980 Mr. Olympia he placed fourth (in a tie with Boyer Coe) behind | , Chris Dickerson and Frank Zane. He retired from competitive bodybuilding ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Introduction, Hayek contrasts Western Anglo values with Nazi Germany under | , stating that "the conflict between the National-Socialist "Right" and th ... |
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 ... |
Tom DeLay | ... her key Republican elected was future Congressman and House Majority Leader | , who was elected to the county's only seat in the Texas House of Represen ... |
Al Gore | ... luded Ishmael Beah, author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, | , Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Paul Harvey) refers to the economic policies promoted by the U.S. President | during the 1980s, also known as supply-side economics, or pejoratively as ... |
John McLoughlin | ... olumbia District, which encompassed everything west of the Rocky Mountains. | , a physician, was appointed Chief Factor of the Columbia District. The HB ... |
John Reynolds | ... ested that the state militia provide a mounted battalion. Illinois governor | had already alerted the militia; about 1,500 volunteers turned out. Meanwh ... |
Richard Nixon | ... iety. In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao and Zhou Enlai met | in Beijing to establish relations with the United States. In the same year ... |
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 |
Iñaki Azkuna | ... ernors and a Plenum, which consists of 29 councillors. The present mayor is | , of the Basque Nationalist Party which was elected in 1999 and re-elected ... |
Thorvald Stoltenberg | ... ally opened on January 11, 1993, initiated by Norway under foreign minister | . It includes the administrative regions Nordland, Troms, Finnmark in Norw ... |
Barack Obama | ... ublican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of | and Joe Biden. In Canfield City, McCain/Palin received 2,470 votes (52.16% ... |
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 ... |
Dou Wu | ... University on a dubious charge of treason. In 167 CE, the Grand Commandant | (d. 168 CE) convinced his son-in-law, Emperor Huan, to release them. Howev ... |
Salvador de Vives | ... ial mayoral seal that was adopted in 1844 under the administration of mayor | |
Robert Mugabe | ZANU-PF | , elected Prime Minister in 1980, revised the constitution in 1987 to make ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... d a total population of 790, up from 772 at the 2000 census. U.S. President | was born there and lived there for two brief periods of his childhood |
Max Weber | Some historians such as David Landes and | credit the different belief systems in China and Europe with dictating whe ... |
Gavin Newsom | ... sued a marriage license by the City and County of San Francisco after mayor | ordered that marriage licenses be given to same-sex couples who requested ... |
Jeff Denham | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
Wolfgang Schüssel | ... hind the FPÖ in the elections. Even though ÖVP chairman and Vice Chancellor | had announced that his party would go into opposition in that case, he ent ... |
Joseph Larmor | Many physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald, | , Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind these equations s ... |
Natalia Ginzburg | ... he interviewed one of his literary idols, Ernest Hemingway, travelling with | to his home in Stresa |
Peter Garrett | ... Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie. While vocalist | was studying at Australian National University in Canberra, he answered an ... |
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 ... |
Ehud Olmert | In 1975, | , later Prime Minister of Israel, accused Ze'evi of protecting organized c ... |
Fitzhugh Lee | ... nk, while at the same time promoting Stuart's subordinates Wade Hampton and | to major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke. Jeffry D. Wert w ... |
Goebbels | ... e program for the work's première on June 24, 1935 in Dresden. As a result, | refused to attend as planned, and the opera was banned after three perform ... |
James II | ... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards to | to uphold it |
Jesse Ventura | ... ooks, coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late F. Scott Fitzgerald | ;, former Independent Governor of Minnesota and Pro Wrestler and several o ... |
Seleucus | He also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi | ;, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and his father. The host ... |
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 ... |
Porfirio Díaz | ... they had become much more secure. George Hearst was on friendly terms with | , the Mexican dictator, who helped him settle boundary disputes profitably ... |
Shamil Basayev | ... UK citizens Osman Larussi and Yacine Benalia, was loyal to Chechen warlord | . Basayev has boasted of training the men who took control of the school i ... |
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 ... |
Jeff Merkley | ... 9,185). For the Senatorial race that year, it was much closer with Democrat | winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republican Gordon H. Smith won 46.5% ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ation (though without serfdom) in their enthusiasm for the corporate state. | said that "fascism is reaction" and that "fascism, which did not fear to c ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of the only things that could hurt the Spectre, which had been obtained by | , giving him control over superheroes that entered Nazi-occupied areas |
Doug Magnus | ... te level, Hills is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Richard Nixon | ... Senator. Weicker was known as a liberal Republican. He broke with President | during Watergate and successfully ran for governor in 1990 as an independe ... |
Barack Obama | ... gton County generally leans Democratic but can be closely divided. In 2008, | won with 59.8% of the popular vote (141,544 total votes) to Republican Joh ... |
Joe Biden | ... John McCain and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and | . In Canfield City, McCain/Palin received 2,470 votes (52.16%) with Obama/ ... |
Greg Stillson | ... Staff A.J. McInnerney in The American President; sinister future president | in The Dead Zone; the President in the two-part TV movie, Medusa's Child; ... |
Alex Castellanos | ... the ad utilized subliminal racist themes. The advertisement was produced by | , whom Helms would employ until his company was dropped in April 1996 afte ... |
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 ... |
Abu Ali Mustafa | ... at the assassination was in retaliation for the August 27, 2001, killing of | , the Secretary General of the PFLP, by the Israeli Air Force under its po ... |
Count Dohna-Schlobitten | ... s course at Halle, Schleiermacher became the private tutor to the family of | , developing in a cultivated and aristocratic household his deep love of f ... |
Alois Mock | ... new elections, entered into a coalition with the ÖVP, which was then led by | . Jörg Haider's populism and criticism of the Proporz system allowed him t ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ident realized his position was actually closer to the Republican candidate | . Personal correspondences between the President and some in the Republica ... |
Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +18 and is represented by Democrat | |
Vladimir Putin | ... the song live as a mash-up with Linkin Park and Jay-Z's Numb/Encore. It is | 's favourite Beatles song |
Henry Vane the Younger | ... 1649. This view was confirmed by a court ruling during the treason trial of | . A ruling that Henry Vane himself had concurred with in opposition to Oli ... |
Wally Herger | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +13 and is represented by Republican | |
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 ... |
Reagan | ... After the book received unexpectedly good reviews and praise from President | , the book became a bestseller. Clancy's later books were published by Pen ... |
Heinsbroek | ... the VVD-CDA-LPF-cabinet, after infighting between LPF ministers Bomhoff and | |
Joe Baca | ... action committee, along with 5 other members, because the caucus chairman, | , authorized political contributions to members of his family who were run ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Black was an ardent supporter of President | and the New Deal. In particular, he was an outspoken advocate of the Judic ... |
George W. Bush | ... the 1990s expansion that began with George H.W. Bush in 1991 and ended with | in 2001. This economic expansion continued through the Clinton administrat ... |
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 ... |
Robert William Keate | ... recht strip; in 1869 the services of the lieutenant-governor of Natal, then | , were accepted by both parties as arbitrator, but the attempt then made t ... |
Giuseppe Di Vittorio | ... : André Marty was commander; Luigi Longo (Gallo) was Inspector-General; and | (Nicoletti) was chief political commissar |
Prescott Bush | ... ore Weicker, the last Republican to represent Connecticut in the Senate was | , the father of former President George H.W. Bush and the grandfather of f ... |
John F. Kennedy | Sheen has played U.S. President | (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General Rob ... |
Robert FitzRoy | The voyage of the Beagle brought the survey ship HMS Beagle, under captain | , to the Galápagos on 15 September 1835 to survey approaches to harbours. ... |
Luigi Longo | ... It was run by a troika of Comintern heavyweights: André Marty was commander | ;(Gallo) was Inspector-General; and Giuseppe Di Vittorio (Nicoletti) was c ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. President | called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on t ... |
John McCain | ... both Canfield City and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of | and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... fton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers | , Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Will ... |
Pancho Villa | ... ted: The Sundance Woman, starring Katharine Ross as Etta Place working with | . In addition a TV movie called The Legend of Butch & Sundance premiered i ... |
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 |
Hilda Solis | According to Loretta Sanchez, Linda Sanchez, and | , Baca also called Loretta Sanchez "a whore" while speaking to other lawma ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... f former President George H.W. Bush and the grandfather of former President | . He served from 1953–1963 |
Sergei Witte | Delegates who signed the peace agreement were | and Roman Rosen for Russia, and Komura Jutarō and Takahira Kogorō for Japa ... |
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 ... |
Juan Bautista de Anza | ... scovered in the neighboring foothills of the present-day city of Claremont. | friend of the land owner of Rancho Cucamonga [located at Township 1 South ... |
Alf Landon | ... date from 1936 to present. It was the only county in the state to be won by | . In the last five elections the Republican Presidential candidate has def ... |
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 ... |
MPs | ... alace in honor of the King of Spain, Alfonso XIII. and he was befriended by | from the House of Commons Consequently, feeling comfortable in London, the ... |
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 ... |
Rehavam Ze'evi | Israeli tourist minister | was assassinated on October 17, 2001, by Hamdi Quran and three other membe ... |
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 ... |
Murli Manohar Joshi | ... ue’s demolition in Ayodhya. Former Education Minister in NDA Government Mr. | have also been found culpable in the demolition in the Liberhan Commission ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ey & Creme-directed video depicted a wrestling match between then-President | and then-Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko for the benefit of group membe ... |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | ... t of present day Colombia, near the Gulf of Urabá, Spanish explorers led by | explored and conquered the area near the Atrato River. The conquest was of ... |
Jim Nielsen | ... n Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Gerber-Las Flores is located in California's 2nd congressiona ... |
Ingemund Bengtsson | ... axime, France. The Government therefore ordered the Speaker of the Riksdag, | , to serve as Regent ad interim for two days |
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 ... |
Jörg Haider | ... llor – in early 2000 under considerable national and international protest. | resigned as FPÖ chairman, but retained his post as governor of Carinthia a ... |
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 ... |
Galeazzo Ciano | ... out, they had earlier been issued whistles by Mussolini's son-in-law, Count | . Haile Selassie waited calmly for the hall to be cleared, and responded " ... |
Noreen Evans | ... ocated in the 2nd California State Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wes Chesbro. F ... |
John Curtin | ... f Japanese intentions. General MacArthur provided Australian Prime Minister | with his assessment of the battle, stating that "all the elements that hav ... |
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 ... |
Richard Blumenthal | ... ocrat Jim Himes in the Congressional Election in 2008. Joseph Lieberman and | are Connecticut's U.S. senators. The junior Blumenthal is a Democrat while ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch as releasing recent income tax forms, became expected. Presidents since | had recorded many of their conversations, but after Watergate, this practi ... |
Wally Herger | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +13 and is represented by Republican | |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... e la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities received from | eventually secured their complete triumph and Pierre Corneille, who had no ... |
Simon Coveney | Fine Gael's | launched what the party termed a radical re-organisation of the Irish Semi ... |
Zhang Rang | ... y affairs of state were entrusted to the eunuchs Zhao Zhong (d. 189 CE) and | (d. 189 CE) while Emperor Ling spent much of his time roleplaying with con ... |
Dante | ... the Bible in French, Italian and German grammars, some Ancient Greek texts, | 's Divine Comedy, En Route, Joris-Karl Huysmans's new French novel about C ... |
Chris Buttars | ... s 3rd congressional district of the United States House of Representatives. | , a Republican, represents South Jordan as part of the 10th Utah Senate Di ... |
Cathleen Galgiani | ... nthony Cannella, and in the 17th Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Newman is located in California's 18th congressional district ... |
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 ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... layed a key role in the birth of the ROC since the nation’s founding father | , a medical doctor by training, received financial support mainly from the ... |
Rick Santorum | ... %) for John Kerry. In 2008 John McCain received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, | and both had significant victories in Tioga County despite their defeats s ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... ial election: then-Vice President George H. W. Bush noted that his opponent | had described himself as a "card-carrying member of the ACLU" and used tha ... |
Feng Yuxiang | In 1930, when warlords | and Yan Xishan attempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang governm ... |
Jeff Denham | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
Joseph B. Kershaw | ... alry. His defense at Laurel Hill, also directing the infantry of Brig. Gen. | , skillfully delayed the advance of the Federal army for nearly 5 critical ... |
Hermann Göring | ... oduction improved greatly. Prior to his appointment, the economy was run by | . However, Göring had fallen out of favor. After a power struggle, Speer m ... |
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 ... |
Kálmán Tisza | ... f his county, he entered parliament in 1875. He at once attached himself to | and remained faithful to his chief even after the Bosnian occupation had a ... |
John Gordner | ... d in the State House by a conservative Democrat in the 109th district until | changed parties to Republican in 2001. He was elected to the State Senate ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | In Israel, Prime Minister | was assassinated on November 4, 1995. Yigal Amir confessed and was convict ... |
Richard Nixon | ... (based on the "Hibakusha" mix) included an introductory cut-up monologue by | taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign ("No.. firm diplom ... |
Johann Joseph von Görres | ... ermany. There was a famous circle of poets, such as Joseph von Eichendorff, | , Arnim, and Clemens Brentano. A relic of Romanticism is the Philosophers' ... |
Clint Eastwood | ... ith (1991), the Oliver Stone-directed JFK (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), and | 's A Perfect World (1993), all of which provided box office or critical ac ... |
Joe Schiavoni | ... re Canfield is located in the 33rd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 59th State Representative District, represented by Democrat R ... |
Lynn Swann | ... US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against | |
Gorbachev | ... y role in the Armenian national democratic movement that emerged during the | era of the 1980s. The reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika opened questions ... |
Leo Varadkar | ... il have strongly advocated liberal economic policies. Lucinda Creighton and | in particular have been seen as strong advocates of a neoliberal approach ... |
Ahmadu Bello | ... 's Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the Northern premier, Sir | were killed |
Jim Nielsen | ... n Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Mineral is located in California's 2nd congressional district ... |
Barack Obama | ... 2010, the 22 year old ban was lifted after having been signed by President | on October 30, 2009 |
Leland Yee | ... Hillsborough is located in the 8th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 19th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill. F ... |
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa | ... p during which 30 political leaders including Nigeria's Prime Minister, Sir | and the Northern premier, Sir Ahmadu Bello were killed |
Boris Yeltsin | ... issue. (The aides claimed vindication later in 1992 when Russian President | said that the Soviet Union had kept some U.S. prisoners in the early 1950s ... |
George W. Bush | ... 4 presidential election, in which 69.5% of Wheeler Country voters voted for | , while 27.8% voted for John Kerry, and 2.7% of voters either voted for a ... |
Ed Rendell | ... its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and | received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
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 ... |
Oscar Underwood | ... the United States Senate from Alabama, following the retirement of Senator | . Since the Democratic Party dominated Alabama politics at the time, he ea ... |
John McCain | ... column in 2008, with Barack Obama receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for | . In 2011 the GOP won a majority on the county commissioners board |
Lucinda Creighton | ... or the party in the Dáil have strongly advocated liberal economic policies. | and Leo Varadkar in particular have been seen as strong advocates of a neo ... |
Clint Eastwood | ... 2006, featuring newer, pristine film clips, and additional interviews with | , Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and ot ... |
John McCain | ... sh received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 | received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, Rick Santorum and both had significan ... |
Barack Obama | ... 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, with | receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for John McCain. In 2011 the GOP won ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... s played by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja, which also starred | as High Lord Kalidor (originally intended to be Conan). The film was direc ... |
Dennis Cardoza | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +3 and is represented by Democrat | |
Harvey Gantt | ... ly publicized and rancorous campaign against the former mayor of Charlotte, | , in his "bid to become the nation's only black Senator" and "the first bl ... |
James Eastland | Doddsville was the hometown of longtime United States Senator | |
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 ... |
Abdullah Abdullah | ... vastly outnumber those of any other Afghan including those of Karzai." Dr. | , one of the closest friends of Massoud, was Karzai's strongest rival in t ... |
Obafemi Awolowo | ... onfederation of regions. The Northerners were at odds with the Aburi Accord | ;, the leader of the Western Region warned that if the Eastern Region sece ... |
Dick Gephardt | ... nate many deductions, and reduce rates. In 1983, Democrats Bill Bradley and | had offered a proposal to clean up/broaden the tax base; in 1984 Reagan ha ... |
Julia Brownley | ... rat Fran Pavley, and in the 41st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Agoura Hills is located in California's 30th congressional di ... |
Kalyan Singh | ... rime minister, and LK Advani, the party's then (2009) leader in parliament. | , who was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh during the mosque’s demoliti ... |
Lepidus | ... lating. Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing | , in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldi ... |
Grace Napolitano | U.S. Congress: 38th District | (Democrat |
Adolf Hitler | ... a building project, which attracted attention from senior leaders. Because | saw himself as both an architect and artist, he warmed to Speer and gradua ... |
Lewis F. Linn | ... ty is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is named in honor of | , a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American occupation of th ... |
Gordon H. Smith | ... with Democrat Jeff Merkley winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republican | won 46.5% of the vote (106,114) |
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire | ... Paris, for Auguste Blanqui, but flatly refused and his personal secretary, | , declared: "The hostages! The hostages! too bad for them (tant pis pour e ... |
Jörg Haider | ... uling parties and corresponding gains for Heinz-Christian Strache's FPÖ and | 's BZÖ (the Green Party was relegated to the 5th position). Nevertheless, ... |
Theophilus Shepstone | ... ion between Cetshwayo and the Transvaal over border disputes continued. Sir | , whom Cetshwayo regarded as his friend, had supported him in the border d ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... Henry Donald, he overcame his opium addiction and declared his support for | . He was given the nickname of 千古功臣 (Hero of history) by PRC historians no ... |
Rick Santorum | ... . received 51% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator | and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
Lord Fulton | ... inistrators at under-secretary level and above had been privately educated. | ’s committee reported in 1968. He found that administrators were not profe ... |
Alessandra Mussolini | ... lition government belonging to the right-wing Alleanza Nazionale, including | , demanded that Indymedia be shut down. A senior party member and governme ... |
Independent Democrat | ... The junior Blumenthal is a Democrat while the senior Lieberman serves as an | caucusing with Senate Democrats after his victory on the Connecticut for L ... |
Ronald Reagan | The election of | as president in 1981 ushered in an eight year period of conservative leade ... |
Hajj Amin al-Husseini | ... ian political parties, including George Habash's Arab Nationalist Movement, | 's Arab Higher Committee, the Islamic Liberation Front and several Syrian- ... |
Charles V of Spain | ... a personal hunting park. The castle was later mostly rebuilt in the age of | |
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; ... |
Dianne Feinstein | U.S. Senate: California | (Democrat |
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 ... |
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. | Lieberman's predecessor, | , was the last Connecticut Republican to serve as Senator. Weicker was kno ... |
Unita Blackwell | ... t is the county seat of Issaquena County. One of its more famous natives is | , Mississippi's first black female mayor, who was elected in 1977. She bec ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. In 2004, | received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 J ... |
Andrew Moray | On 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace and | won the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Although vastly outnumbered, the Scotti ... |
Fran Pavley | ... goura Hills is located in the 23rd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 41st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Julia Brownle ... |
George W. Bush | ... 7.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that | carried it by in 2004. Each of the three row-office statewide winners carr ... |
Daniel Webster | ... d in the early 20th century from relative obscurity. Dartmouth alumni, from | to the many donors in the 19th and 20th centuries, have been famously invo ... |
Barack Obama | ... ty voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 34.61% voted for Democrat | and 4.06% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a ... |
Barbara Boxer | U.S. Senate: California | (Democrat |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ll's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of the Cabell Society. | was greatly inspired by Cabell's boldness, and originally described his fa ... |
Edmond Picard | Having gained his law degree, he became a trainee (1881–1884) with | , a renowned criminal lawyer, who also played a pivotal role on the Brusse ... |
Dennis Cardoza | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +3 and is represented by Democrat | |
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 ... |
Paul Joseph James Martin | Martin was born in Windsor, Ontario. His father, | , a Franco-Ontarian of Irish and French descent, served thirty-three years ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son | (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ... |
Olof Palme | Olsson called up the Prime Minister | and said he would kill the hostages, backing up his threat by grabbing one ... |
Yahya Muhammad | ... er Yemen was formally recognized. Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imam | strengthened his control over northern Yemen creating the Mutawakkilite Ki ... |
Greg Aghazarian | ... hony Cannella, and in the 26th Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Riverdale Park is located in California's 18th congressional ... |
Friedrich Ebert | ... on and some Roman archeological artifacts from the region. In the honour of | one established the President Friedrich Ebert Memorial which remembers the ... |
Jackie Speier | ... ict, which has a Cook PVI of D +22 and is currently represented by Democrat | . However, of the town's 6,849 registered voters, 42% are registered as Re ... |
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 ... |
John McCain | ... presidential election, 61.33% of Wheeler County voters voted for Republican | , while 34.61% voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 4.06% of voters either ... |
Schleicher | ... n in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, | and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidentia ... |
Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +18 and is represented by Democrat | |
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 ... |
Michael Lowry | ... has investigated the granting of a mobile phone license to Esat Telecom by | when he was Fine Gael Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications in ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President | signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. Observed for the f ... |
Philip the Fair | ... Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countries for the family. His son | married the heiress of Castile and Aragon, and thus acquired Spain and its ... |
Juan Bautista de Anza | ... aided by Comanches who lived on the plains of what is now eastern Colorado. | , governor of the Province of New Mexico, led a successful punitive expedi ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... eacher" urban legend supposes the town is named after, as well as President | (President from 1829–1837) after whom the town's officials say it is actua ... |
George W. Bush | ... tion because its policies are much better than those of former US president | : "As long as there's a new language, we welcome it, but we want to see no ... |
Richard Nixon | President | dispatched more bombers in Operation Linebacker to provide air support for ... |
Charles V | Although | resisted the Protestant Reformation, he ruled the Dutch territories wisely ... |
Frank Lautenberg | ... enger rail initiatives, notably his 2006 bipartisan introduction, with Sen. | of New Jersey, of legislation to provide 80 percent federal matching grant ... |
Dan Lungren | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +7 and is represented by Republican | |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | Cayce's clients included a number of famous people such as | , Thomas Edison, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin |
Gérard Longuet | ... matter to be dealt with soon. This was soon refuted by Édouard Balladur and | , members of the Committee for the reform of local authorities, known as t ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean President | , who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands conflict. Helms was st ... |
Charles V | ... Council. After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, | , accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was knighted and m ... |
G. Gordon Liddy | # | (R) Special Investigations Group, convicted of burglary |
Jamar, Alexandre | Jabbeke - | - Jansen, Georges - Janson, Paul-Emile - Jemmape (department) - Jenever - ... |
Greg Smith | ... located in Oregon State House District 57 which is currently represented by | . It is also located in Oregon State Senate District 29, represented by Da ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... al Protection Agency in 1970. More recently, California Republican Governor | , with the support of 16 other states, sued the Federal Government and the ... |
John McCain | ... and Republicans, the county trends Republican in statewide elections. While | received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-close ... |
Charles Bent | ... lion, known as the Taos Revolt, in which the newly appointed U.S. Governor, | , was killed. New Mexico was a territory of the United States beginning 18 ... |
Narasimha Rao | ... United Kingdom, Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and | of India. Iran condemned the bombing as an attack on innocent people, but ... |
Thomas McKean | ... the Declaration had been signed by Congress on July 4. But in 1796, signer | disputed that the Declaration had been signed on July 4, pointing out that ... |
María "Mayita" Meléndez | ... rdero was succeeded by Francisco Zayas Seijo. In the 2008 general elections | was elected mayor of the city of Ponce |
Chris Watson | ... e Trade Party declined to take office, resulting in Labour taking power and | becoming Labour's first Prime Minister for a four month period in 1904. Fi ... |
Janson, Paul-Emile | Jabbeke - Jamar, Alexandre - Jansen, Georges - | - Jemmape (department) - Jenever - Jette - La Jeune Belgique - Jeune Europ |
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 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister | , to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Particip ... |
Jansen, Georges | Jabbeke - Jamar, Alexandre - | - Janson, Paul-Emile - Jemmape (department) - Jenever - Jette - La Jeune B ... |
Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
Oregon State Senate District 29 | ... rict 57 which is currently represented by Greg Smith. It is also located in | , represented by David Nelson. Both Smith and Nelson are registered Republ ... |
Frédéric Lefebvre | ... r some years; in particular, the option of removing the departmental level. | , spokesman for the UMP, said in December 2008 that the fusion of the depa ... |
William Shirley | ... rge-scale action was a major expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor | that successfully besieged the French fortress of Louisbourg in 1745. The ... |
Barack Obama | ... ifference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican John McCain won 51% to Democrat | 's 46% and each of the three state row office winners carried Washington C ... |
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 ... |
Al Gore | ... in 2008. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties. | received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for George W. Bush in 2000, but ... |
Barack Obama | ... tewide elections. While John McCain received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for | , this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that George W. Bush carr ... |
Winston Churchill | ... night of 26/27 August 1944 and three nights later on the 29/30 August 1944. | (The Second World War, Book XII) had erroneously believed it to be "a mode ... |
Édouard Balladur | ... th the regions was a matter to be dealt with soon. This was soon refuted by | and Gérard Longuet, members of the Committee for the reform of local autho ... |
Andrew Moray | Along with | , Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 129 ... |
James Farley | ... ference with a single guest and a panel of questioners. Its first guest was | , who served as Postmaster General, Democratic National Committee Chairman ... |
John G. Rowland | ... ve in many elections favored moderate Republicans including former Governor | and former Congressman Chris Shays, however they have favored Democrats in ... |
George W. Bush | ... ompetitive counties. Al Gore received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for | in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for John Kerr ... |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... iarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by | . Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon ... |
Philander C. Knox | ... rding to the 1911 record of events by the U.S. State Department, under Sec. | , the Declaration was transposed on paper, adopted by the Continental Cong ... |
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 ... |
David Nelson | ... mith. It is also located in Oregon State Senate District 29, represented by | . Both Smith and Nelson are registered Republicans |
Jim Nielsen | ... n Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Greenview is located in California's 2nd congressional distri ... |
Joe Simitian | ... ure, Soquel is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 27th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning. ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, | , H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... first was Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was | in 1964. In 2004, George W. Bush received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 vote ... |
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 ... |
Brüning | ... instability than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors | , Papen, Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed ... |
Joe Simitian | ... Lake Hills is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Rich Gordon. ... |
Bill Frist | ... mber 20, 2002, effective at the start of the next session, January 3, 2003. | of Tennessee was later elected to the leadership position. In the book Fre ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by President | in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the Court ... |
Jan Jesenius | ... Battle of White Mountain in 1620, 27 Bohemian estates leaders together with | , rector of the Charles University of Prague were executed on the Prague's ... |
Quintus Dellius | Before the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals, | , had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans. ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... for instance, a Yugoslavian, Josip Broz, who would became famous as Marshal | , was in Paris to provide assistance, money and passports for volunteers f ... |
MP | ... gational philanthropist Dr Andrew Reed) who rose to prominence as the first | for Hackney and Chairman of the first School Board for London before being ... |
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 ... |
Lysimachus | ... e also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and | united to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the Ipsus ... |
William the Silent | ... assassinated with a firearm were the Regent Moray of Scotland in 1570, and | , the Prince of Orange of the Netherlands in 1584. Gunpowder and other exp ... |
Cola di Rienzo | On 20 May | , a Roman commoner, declared himself Emperor of Rome in front of a huge cr ... |
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 ... |
Wally Herger | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +13 and is represented by Republican | |
Lysimachus | ... nesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King | of Thrace who was on the original expedition, the king smiled at him and s ... |
Philip Sheridan | ... f the Potomac, Maj. Gen. George Meade, and his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. | , quarreled about the Union cavalry's performance in the first two engagem ... |
Ray Hnatyshyn | ... er of Finance by Prime Minister Chrétien, and appointed by Governor General | . At the time, Canada had one of the highest annual deficits of the G7 cou ... |
Juscelino Kubitschek | ... lace to receive the trophy from the hands of the President of the Republic, | |
Diego de Vargas | ... Pueblo continued armed resistance to the Spanish until 1696, when Governor | defeated the Indians at Taos Canyon |
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | ... t seemed that South Vietnam was about to be lost. In desperation, President | fired the incompetent General Hoang Xuan Lam and replaced him with General ... |
John Connally | ... s), a few yards from the house in which he was born. Eulogies were given by | and the Rev. Billy Graham, the minister who officiated the burial rites. T ... |
Adolf Hitler | He was an outspoken and early critic of | and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ... |
John Edwards | ... arlie Rose, where he debated Senator and future Vice-Presidential candidate | |
Rich Gordon | ... at Joe Simitian, and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Emerald Lake Hills is located in California's 12th congressio ... |
Sarah Peake | ... e towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape. The seat is held by Democrat | , a former Provincetown selectman. The town is represented in the Massachu ... |
Gordon Brown | ... en as the single planned location, the development was cancelled soon after | became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. As a result there are no lawf ... |
John McCain | ... ote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican | won 51% to Democrat Barack Obama's 46% and each of the three state row off ... |
Elio Vittorini | ... the Arts Faculty. A year later, he was initiated into the literary world by | , who published his short story "Andato al comando" (1945; "Gone to Headqu ... |
Papen | ... ity than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, | , Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed throug ... |
Grace Napolitano | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +20 and is represented by Democrat | |
Richard Nixon | ... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President | was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... This has made Loudoun more competitive. Nevertheless, after giving Senator | nearly 54% of its presidential vote in 2008, the county shifted back to th ... |
Ivan Yates | ... tion, Michael Noonan received £3,000 in 1992 towards his election campaign, | received £5,000, Michael Lowry received £5,000 and Sean Barrett received £ ... |
Jim Himes | ... ecent US presidential election years, with Shays being defeated by Democrat | in the 2008 election |
Ronald Reagan | ... ) to Hunt's 1,070,488 (47.8%). Helms might not have won had it not been for | 's popularity in the state; Reagan carried North Carolina by 24 points tha ... |
Anderson Dawson | ... was Secretary for Railways and Public Works in the seven-day government of | , the first parliamentary socialist government in the world |
J. B. Priestley | ... uch as W. H. Auden, composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as | . Among the best known films of the movement are Night Mail and Coal Face |
Michael Grade | ... high cost of the first series, the then controller of programming of BBC1, | was reluctant to sign off a second series without major improvements and c ... |
Franklin Roosevelt | ... or a Jewish state. However, it was not until January 1944 that US President | established the War Refugee Board, which achieved some success in saving E ... |
Muhammad | ... rts, explained in detail why Jesus was wrong to create Christianity and why | was wrong to create Islam; he laments the pains Jews have suffered in pers ... |
Michael Lowry | ... d £3,000 in 1992 towards his election campaign, Ivan Yates received £5,000, | received £5,000 and Sean Barrett received £1,000 in the earlier 1987 elect ... |
Robert Reich | ... ntion to mitigate the financial crisis include George Akerlof, Brad Delong, | |
Antonio López de Santa Anna | They then marched northward after joining a larger force commanded by | sent from Mexico City, the "liberating army of the North". At the Battle o ... |
Jackie Speier | ... gressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +22, represented by Democrat | |
Governor of New York | ... es, and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, for | in 1906, and for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1910. Nonetheless, thr ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... the Log Cabin which reached 90,000 subscribers nationwide, and helped elect | president on the Whig ticket. In 1841 he merged his papers into the New Yo ... |
John Murtha | ... 's 12th congressional district and lost to the popular Democratic incumbent | in the 2006 election |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... er, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president | . JHU's library was previously housed in Gilman Hall, and other smaller de ... |
Bob Casey Jr. | ... ee row-office statewide winners carried Columbia in 2008. In 2006, Democrat | received 51% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator ... |
Paul Eggers | ... of former Indiana 9th District U.S. Representative Baron Hill, Texas lawyer | , singer John Mellencamp, Miss America 2009 Katie Stam, retired profession ... |
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 ... |
Lamar Alexander | ... hip position in the Senate, when he was named Minority Whip after defeating | of Tennessee 24-23 |
Mahmud Tarzi | ... reforms could not match his achievement of complete, lasting independence. | , Amanullah's father-in-law and Foreign Minister, encouraged the monarch's ... |
Mick Mulvaney | ... arolina's . As of the 2010 House elections, it is represented by Republican | , who comes from neighboring Lancaster County. The district was one of the ... |
Al Gore | ... trended Republican at the national level in recent years. In 2000, Democrat | won 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democr ... |
John H. Chafee | ... in Hartford, Connecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.) The | Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor retraces the history of ... |
Jacob Stumm | ... t his seat in 1896 after a campaign in which he was charged by his opponent | with being a dangerous revolutionary and an anti-Catholic, accusations tha ... |
André Marty | ... rters and its main depot. It was run by a troika of Comintern heavyweights: | was commander; Luigi Longo (Gallo) was Inspector-General; and Giuseppe Di ... |
Joe Simitian | ... Ben Lomond is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 27th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning. ... |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Gandhi invited the Pakistani President | to Shimla for a week-long summit. The two national leaders eventually sign ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... opia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s. | 's Fascist regime was keen to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffer ... |
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 ... |
José Napoleón Duarte | ... lvadoran election March and May 1984, in favor of the incumbent centre-left | instead of D'Aubuisson, claiming that Pickering had "used the cloak of dip ... |
Bob Huff | ... ino Hills is located in the 29th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 60th Assembly District, represented by Republican Curt Hagman ... |
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 ... |
Riley Bartholomew | ... city with business and commerce not far away. One of the first settlers was | , a former General in the Ohio Militia who became a Richfield Justice of t ... |
William C. Feazel | ... er her death in 1999, Lallage Feazel Wall, daughter of interim U.S. Senator | and widow of State Representative Shady R. Wall of West Monroe left $18 mi ... |
Vivienne Poy | ... implied "that women can't feel true patriotism or love for Canada." Senator | similarly criticized the English lyrics of the anthem as being sexist and ... |
Cleisthenes | ... in Aristotle's Athenian Constitution 22.3, attributes the establishment to | , a pivotal reformer in the creation of the democracy. In that case ostrac ... |
Norberto Bobbio | ... his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, | , and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He then left Einaudi ... |
Joe Simitian | ... re Stanford is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Rich Gordon. ... |
Tony Abbott | ... ogy for high-bet/high-intensity poker machines, against opposition from the | Coalition and Clubs Australia |
Lord Moyne | On November 6, 1944, | , British Deputy Resident Minister of State in Cairo was assassinated by L ... |
Bill Richardson | ... ve, the control of the grid is balkanized, and even former energy secretary | refers to it as a third world grid. There have been efforts in the EU and ... |
George W. Bush | ... recent years. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won 53% of the vote and Republican | won 44%. In 2004, Democrat John Kerry received 50.14% of the vote and Bush ... |
Joe Simitian | ... h Fair Oaks is located in the 11th Senate district, represented by Democrat | , and in the 21st Assembly district, represented by Democrat Rich Gordon. ... |
Jim Webb | The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2006, who announced his intention to retire and not to run in ... |
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, ... |
Julius Nyerere | Under the leadership of | , the Tanzanian government guaranteed equal representation for all Tanzani ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ported the protection of the environment. For example, Republican President | was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creat ... |
Doug Magnus | ... level, Lismore is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... r to the 2008 election, it had not voted for a Democrat for President since | in 1964. In recent years, however, the county has experienced rapid growth ... |
George W. Bush | ... ncy has also associated himself with General Anthony Zinni, a critic of the | administration, and has been critical of former Defense Secretary Donald R ... |
Anwar Sadat | ... ent Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by | . In 1971, Sadat, in response to an initiative by UN intermediary Gunnar J ... |
Natalia Ginzburg | ... i. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, | , Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He ... |
Alan Blinder | ... e resulting body of work largely composing New Keynesian economics. In 1992 | was writing about a "Keynesian Restoration" as work based on Keynes's idea ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... nly the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and | were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistaken for an actual sta ... |
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 ... |
Mahmud Tarzi | ... occurred in Turkey under Kemal Atatürk. Socially, Amanullah enjoyed many of | 's thoughts at the time, such as giving women more rights and allowing fre ... |
Samuel de Champlain | ... ponsored by France; the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real in Newfoundland; and | (1567–1635) who explored Canada. In 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed th ... |
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 ... |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | In 1513, | crossed the Isthmus of Panama, to find gold but instead led the first Euro ... |
governors of Puerto Rico | ... the island, including Luis A. Ferré and Rafael Hernández Colón, both former | , as well as the childhood town of governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella |
Vincent Massey | In 1952, he advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint | as the first Canadian-born Governor-General. Each of the aforementioned ac ... |
John Ashcroft | ... a crime in Al-Kidd v Ashcroft, a civil suit against former Attorney General | . In January 2010, the American military released the names of 645 detaine ... |
Joseph Chamberlain | ... t rally celebrating the British Empire, the occasion being the centenary of | 's birth. In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during World War ... |
Mark Warner | ... ate seat. The state's junior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2008. The Governor of Virginia is Republican Bob McDonnell, e ... |
Rich Gordon | ... at Joe Simitian, and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Stanford is located in California's 14th congressional distri ... |
Peter Sutherland | ... tics and Dr. Fitzgerald also said he believed his then Fine Gael colleague, | , who was chairman of AIB at the time, was unaware of the situation |
Gary Miller | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
Rich Gordon | ... at Joe Simitian, and in the 21st Assembly district, represented by Democrat | . Federally, North Fair Oaks is located in California's 14th congressional ... |
Lord Mayor | ... cted every five years from Local Election Areas. It is presided over by the | , who is elected for a yearly term and resides in Mansion House. Council m ... |
Henry Barkly | ... 1872 when the local politician John Molteno - with the backing of Governor | - instituted responsible government, making the Ministers directly respons ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... a decree issued by gauleiter and Oberpräsident Erich Koch and initiated by | . Many who would not co-operate with the rulers of Nazi Germany were sent ... |
Patricia de Lille | ... , the national ruling party, received 73 seats. As a result of this victory | , the DA mayoral candidate, was inaugurated as Executive Mayor on 1 June |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... rically Republican-leaning wealthy town of Wilton voted in the majority for | in the 2008 Presidential Election. Norwalk and Stamford, two larger, afflu ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... tion, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President | |
Jacob D. Cox | ... irst Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno (killed at South Mountain) and then Brig. Gen. | as the corps commander, funneling orders to the corps through them. This c ... |
Bob McDonnell | ... mocrat Mark Warner, elected in 2008. The Governor of Virginia is Republican | , elected in 2009 |
William McKinley | ... h of the 20th century, Niles was known to most Ohioans as the birthplace of | , the 25th President of the United States. McKinley was born in Niles on J ... |
Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +21 and is represented by Democrat | |
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 ... |
Harold Ford, Jr. | ... eared at a "Women for Ford" event for Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate | She has also campaigned extensively locally and nationally for a variety o ... |
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 |
Michaëlle Jean | In the Throne Speech delivered by Governor General | on March 3, 2010, a plan to have parliament review the "original gender-ne ... |
Isaac Shelby | The Overmountain Men serving under Col. | (who years earlier worked as a surveyor for the Transylvania Company) and ... |
Joseph Blake | ... orida, understood the threat posed by the French arrival on the coast. Both | , Carolina's governor until his death in 1700, and James Moore, who succee ... |
Muhammad | ... a furnace, he is said to have simply sat down and had tea with the Prophet | . In a den of hungry lions, it is said the lions slept beside him |
Bibb Graves | ... ck, ten Republicans and six Democrats voted against Black. Alabama Governor | appointed his own wife, Dixie B. Graves, to fill Black's vacated seat |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | ... oundland; and Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) who explored Canada. In 1513, | crossed the Isthmus of Panama and led the first European expedition to see ... |
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 ... |
Theodosius II | ... of kingmaker with his subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying | 's sister Pulcheria |
Karl Liebknecht | ... n. The pair went to Berlin in early December. While there, Jack interviewed | , who was one of the few socialists in Germany to vote against war credits ... |
Juan Manuel de Rosas | ... d free navigation of that waterway. Since the 1830s, Argentine dictator Don | had supported rebellions within Uruguay and Brazil. It was only in 1850 th ... |
Slobodan Milošević | ... ommanders and politicians, notably Serbia and Yugoslavia's former president | , were put on trial by the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal ... |
Marcus Lurius | ... from the left wing of the fleet, Lucius Arruntius commanding the centre and | commanding from the right. Titus Statilius Taurus commanded Octavian's arm ... |
Richard Nixon | ... financial hardship and instability in the country. The United States under | supported Pakistan, and mooted a UN resolution warning India against going ... |
Vincent Sheheen | ... ict 27 and represented by Democrat, and former 2010 candidate for governor, | |
Cesare Pavese | ... y Giulio Einaudi. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with | , Natalia Ginzburg, Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectual ... |
Patrick Henry | ... commission which Captain Moore received was from the Governor of Virginia, | . He was directed to establish a military post and command the Illinois mi ... |
Richard Bruton | ... n a secret ballot of the parliamentary party on 5 June 2002. Kenny defeated | , Phil Hogan and Gay Mitchell in the leadership election, which was trigge ... |
John McCain | ... l candidate Sarah Palin, whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case | were to not make it through his first term. Damon referred to Palin as a " ... |
Henry F. Schricker | ... ed after General Henry Knox. Knox was the home of two-time Indiana Governor | |
Zachary Taylor | In frustration U.S. Commander | , referring to the Saint Patrick's Battalion, ordered a squadron of the 1s ... |
Mayor of New York City | ... a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives, and ran unsuccessfully for | in 1905 and 1909, for Governor of New York in 1906, and for Lieutenant Gov ... |
Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +18 and is represented by Democrat | . The city is mostly Democratic, with 58% registered Democrats and 19% reg ... |
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 ... |
Martin Bormann | ... , including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, | and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
Al Gore | ... e National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall. Former Vice President | presented, and artists such as Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... II's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the Church to talk with | to express opposition to the war on Iraq. The Catholic Church said that it ... |
Patrick J. Kennedy | ... nnedy, Jr., killed in action in World War II; and the father of Congressman | |
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 |
Luigi Longo | ... r, the Italian and French Communist Parties had decided to set up a column. | , ex-leader of the Italian Communist Youth, was charged to make the necess ... |
Dennis Hollingsworth | ... e La Mesa is located in the 36th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 77th Assembly District, represented by Republican Joel Anders ... |
Art Madrid | ... Mayor is elected directly by the citizens of La Mesa. The current mayor is | |
Benito Mussolini | ... of the year, the Germans had succeeded in occupying Liguria and setting up | 's puppet Republic of Salò in northern Italy. Now twenty years old, Calvin ... |
Duncan D. Hunter | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +9 and is represented by Republican | |
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 ... |
King O'Malley | 'Labour' was renamed to 'Labor' during 1912 at the instigation of | |
Gerhard von Scharnhorst | ... away to the northwest, after having secured 34 cannon in co-operation with | . At the Battle of Lübeck his force was defeated by two French corps on 6 ... |
Doris Matsui | ... +14 respectively and are represented by Republican Dan Lungren and Democrat | respectively |
Barack Obama | ... ion of any county in the US (85%) and in 2008 with 88.69% of votes cast for | . It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county; i.e., taxes on alcohol illeg ... |
Paul Kruger | ... dispute from the side of the Transvaal. Persistent Boer representations and | 's diplomatic manoeuvrings added to the pressure. There were incidents inv ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... over their respective territories. In the late 1920s, the Kuomintang, under | , was able to reunify the country under its own control with a series of d ... |
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich | ... was the sister-in-law of Alix's uncle, the Prince of Wales, and whose uncle | was married to Alix's sister Elisabeth. They were also second cousins as t ... |
Abe Fortas | Black later clashed with fellow Justice | during the 1960s. In 1968, a Warren clerk called their feud "one of the mo ... |
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 ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... "He understands the rules. He's a strong negotiator." Former House Speaker | (R) said he's "the smartest legislative politician I've ever met. |
Seleucus I Nicator | ... Myus. In the spring of 310, he was soundly defeated when he tried to expel | from Babylon; his father was defeated in the autumn. As a result of this B ... |
Doug Magnus | ... t Lake Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Rubén Berríos | ... als from the mainland United States and abroad, including political leaders | , Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Riv ... |
Marietta FitzGerald | ... iage to Black that he embarked on an affair with married New York socialite | . While her lawyer husband was helping the war effort, the pair were once ... |
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 ... |
Nick Brown | ... Transport on 3 October 2008. His old post of Labour Chief Whip was given to | |
Alexandre Millerand | ... ublican Defence at the turn of the century (alongside independent socialist | ) |
Walter Schütz | ... eadquarter of the SA that used the house to imprison and torture opponents. | , a communist Member of the Reichstag was murdered here |
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 ... |
Charles the Bold | ... s were astonishingly successful. In the Siege of Neuss (1474–75), he forced | of Burgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick' ... |
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 ... |
Verdi's | ... ertoire of prominent opera houses. Franco Zeffirelli's 1986 film version of | opera starring Plácido Domingo as Othello won the BAFTA for foreign langua ... |
Nancy Wyman | ... governor heads the executive branch. Dan Malloy is the current Governor and | is the Lieutenant Governor, both are Democrats. Malloy, the former mayor o ... |
Bob Hawke | ... erving a collective total of four years and ten months, Fisher is second to | as Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister |
Charles the Bold | ... Barrois mouvant) as a fief by King Philip IV of France. The Burgundian duke | in 1475 campaigned for the Duchy of Lorraine, but finally was defeated and ... |
Ngo Dinh Diem | In 1963 | was killed in a coup d'état carried out by ARVN officers and encouraged by ... |
George Lincoln Rockwell | ... the racial integrity of the white race. In 1966, he became an associate of | , founder of the American Nazi Party. During this time he was the editor o ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, | himself |
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 ... |
Theophilus Shepstone | By 1877, Sir | , the British Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, annexed the Transvaal ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... r became Holy Roman Emperor, because he predeceased his father, but his son | eventually united the Habsburg, Burgundian, Castilian, and Aragonese inher ... |
Tom Cole | U.S. Representative | , currently the only Native American serving in Congress, lives in Moore w ... |
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 ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... s (1474–75), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter | as wife to Frederick's son Maximilian. With the inheritance of Burgundy, t ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president | |
John C. Frémont | ... his explorations in the west was published by Washington Irving in 1838.). | of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide Kit Cars ... |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | Carroll County is named in honor of | , Maryland. He was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Inde ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to | , this system politicizes everything spiritual and human |
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 ... |
John E. Sununu | Senator | (R) of New Hampshire said, after Lott's election as Senate Minority Whip, ... |
Richard Nixon | Starting in 1969 President | started the process of "Vietnamization", pulling out American forces and r ... |
Konrad Adenauer | ... drich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, Karl Barth and Sam ... |
K. Kamaraj | Then Congress Party President | was instrumental in making Indira Gandhi the Prime Minister after the sudd ... |
Karl Renner | In April 1945 | , an Austrian elder statesman, declared Austria separate from Germany and ... |
Maurice Thorez | ... posed in the Soviet Union in September 1936—apparently at the suggestion of | —by Willi Münzenberg, chief of Comintern propaganda for Western Europe. As ... |
Bobby Jindal | ... Baton Rouge, also use the fleur-de-lis. On 9 July 2008, Louisiana governor | signed a bill into law making the fleur-de-lis an official symbol of the s ... |
Theodosius II | ... hed in 439 or soon thereafter, and certainly during the lifetime of Emperor | , i.e., before 450. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of ... |
Richard Nixon | On November 25, 1969, President | unilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ... |
Ben Chifley | ... reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s under John Curtin and | . Serving a collective total of four years and ten months, Fisher is secon ... |
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. ... |
Gloria Negrete McLeod | ... ture Rialto is located in the 32nd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 62nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wilmer Carter ... |
Duncan D. Hunter | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +9 and is represented by Republican | |
Independent Democrat | ... d Blumenthal (Democrat) and Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut for Lieberman, | ) who is part of the Democratic Caucus. Connecticut currently has five rep ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... nalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, | , Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
Jeff Merkley | ... pulation was 3,439 at the 2010 census. It is the birthplace of U.S. Senator | |
John McLoughlin | Sir George Simpson was instrumental in establishing the fort, and Dr. | was its first Chief Factor (manager); a position he held for nearly 22 yea ... |
Archduke Leopold William | ... he king"), which identified the tomb. Some 300 golden bees were also found. | , governor of the Southern Netherlands (today's Belgium), had the find pub ... |
Doug Magnus | ... e level, Dundee is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Ze'ev Boim | ... y limits the possibility of the entrance of terrorists into Israel, but, as | asserts, allows Israel "to maintain the state's democratic nature, but als ... |
Joe Simitian | ... Opal Cliffs is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 27th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning. ... |
Robert Dinwiddie | ... resources for their preservation. The historic hotel was named for Governor | , who was the administrative head of the Colony of Virginia during the tim ... |
John Kerry | ... in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with | to introduce an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act demanding ... |
Doug Magnus | ... vel, Round Lake is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
Gordon Brown | ... ewitt jointly called for a secret ballot on the future of the leadership of | . The following day, he said that it appeared to have failed and was "over ... |
Hermann Göring | ... scribe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, | , Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitl ... |
James Gillett | ... e height of the Sinophobic tension was (then) future Governor of California | , himself a recent resident of the city. The anti-Chinese ordinance was no ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ndmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed the British Prime Minister | , who himself later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declar ... |
Al Sharpton | ... abroad, including political leaders Rubén Berríos, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., | and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Rivera and Ricky Martin, actor Edward Jam ... |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... Across from the Parliament is the Shengo Hall, built by the Derg regime of | as its new parliament hall. The Shengo Hall was the world's largest pre-fa ... |
John Curtin | ... was a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s under | and Ben Chifley. Serving a collective total of four years and ten months, ... |
Governor of California | ... the city jail during the height of the Sinophobic tension was (then) future | James Gillett, himself a recent resident of the city. The anti-Chinese ord ... |
Juan Ponce de León | In 1508, | founded the original settlement Caparra (named after the province Caceres, ... |
Ralph Klein | ... ssue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by Alberta Premier | and some Conservatives and Liberal backbenchers. However, Paul Martin's Li ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... er was able to describe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including | , Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of co ... |
Richard Blumenthal | Connecticut's United States Senators are | (Democrat) and Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut for Lieberman, Independent ... |
Angela Merkel | ... debate over how to fund the spending. Some leaders and institutions such as | and the European Central Ban |
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 ... |
Bob Huff | ... h Senate Districts, represented by Democrat Gloria J. Romero and Republican | respectively, and in the 58th and 60th Assembly Districts, represented by ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... d States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President | |
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 ... |
Antigonus I Monophthalmus | ... – 283 BC), called Poliorcetes (Greek: Πολιορκητής - "The Besieger"), son of | and Stratonice, was a king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to the Ant ... |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | In Finland, | of the Centre Party won the elections after she had accused her rival Paav ... |
Billy Hughes | ... ent lasted beyond the divisions that would later occur with World War I and | ' conscription push |
Roger Sherman | ... pivotal role in the federal constitutional convention of 1787, during which | and Oliver Ellsworth helped to orchestrate what became known as the Connec ... |
Van Tran | ... trying to take away 'our' seat", referring to her Vietnamese-born opponent, | . Sanchez also described Tran as "anti-immigrant" |
Marquis of Townshend | ... ally named "Port Townshend" by Captain George Vancouver (for his friend the | ) in 1792. It was immediately recognized as a good, safe harbor although s ... |
William Shirley | ... raiding on the northernmost communities of Massachusetts prompted Governor | to order the construction of a chain of frontier outposts stretching all t ... |
Timarchus | ... may be attributed to Heracleides, a surviving brother of the defeated rebel | , who championed the cause of Alexander Balas, a boy who claimed to be a n ... |
Gloria J. Romero | ... s is located in the 24th and 29th Senate Districts, represented by Democrat | and Republican Bob Huff respectively, and in the 58th and 60th Assembly Di ... |
Wally Herger | ... 's 2nd congressional district (which has a PVI of R +13) are represented by | (R, Rio Oso) in the United States House of Representatives |
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 ... |
Joe Baca | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
Giovanni Amendola | ... talitarianism" a "total" political power by state was formulated in 1923 by | who described Italian Fascism as a system fundamentally different from con ... |
Doug Magnus | ... Plain Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
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 ... |
Alexander Cartwright | ... City, and was strictly amateur until it disbanded. The club members, led by | , formulated the "Knickerbocker Rules", which in large part dealt with org ... |
John Hancock | The most famous signature on the engrossed copy is that of | , who, as President of Congress, presumably signed first. Hancock's large, ... |
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 ... |
Don Miguel Rosich | ... air, the Ponce Fair. Following trends set in Europe and elsewhere, in 1877, | conceptualized an exposition fair for Ponce. This was approved in 1880, an ... |
Aulus Didius Gallus | ... om "Caer-Didi" ("the Fort of Didius"), a name supposedly given in honour of | , governor of a nearby province at the time when the Roman fort was establ ... |
Luis A. Ferré | ... home to the Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP), founded in 1959 by fellow ponceño | . The museum was operated by Ferré until his death at the age of 99, and i ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... arah Peake, a former Provincetown selectman. The town is represented in the | as a part of the Cape and Islands District, which includes all of Cape Cod ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... al authority decayed in the coures of the Thirty Years' War, Chief Minister | urged the occupation of the duchy in 1641. France again had to vacate it a ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... e Republic of China was established, heralding the end of the Qing Dynasty. | of the Kuomintang (the KMT or Nationalist Party) was proclaimed provisiona ... |
Adam's | ... ces say four) just south of La Haye Sainte, for a last stand. A charge from | Brigade and the Hanoverian Landwehr Osnabrück Battalion, plus Vivian's and ... |
Habibullah Khan | ... ost rebellion of 1923-24. Religious leaders, who had gained influence under | , were unhappy with Amānullāh's extensive religious reforms |
Doug Magnus | ... te level, Fulda is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Richard Lugar | ... urned, and became the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, | became its chair, after Helms and the moderate Lugar cut a deal to keep li ... |
Alfred Deakin | ... leted a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist | , the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation. The Fisher gov ... |
Lionel Murphy | ... unt Stromlo Observatory in acknowledgement of Australian High Court Justice | 's interest in science and because of SNR N86's perceived resemblance to h ... |
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 ... |
George Forquer | ... n which the original town of Waterloo was laid out was purchased in 1818 by | later an Illinois State Senator, 5th Secretary of State of Illinois (1825– ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... ch Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, | , Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, K ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... er-propaganda to the psychological warfare of Nazi Germany (orchestrated by | ). Today, the National Film Board of Canada boasts a vast collection of on ... |
Van Tran | Sanchez was challenged by Republican nominee | and Independent candidate Ceci Iglesias. According to Roll Call, Sanchez c ... |
Barack Obama | ... Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President | as a state gift |
Bill Richardson | ... rdon promised and not delivered by Wallace, to then-Governor of New Mexico, | . On December 31, 2010, on the eve of leaving office, Richardson turned do ... |
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 ... |
Charilaos Trikoupis | ... ught with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift from Britain. In 1877 | , who is credited with significant improvement of the country's infrastruc ... |
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 ... |
Hugenberg | ... and landowners declared themselves in favour of his opponents — Hitler and | . By late 1931, conservatism as a movement was dead, and the time was comi ... |
Martin Bormann | ... ity. In Hitler's reticence, Speer claimed that Hitler's personal secretary, | , took advantage of the vacuum and controlled all information going to Hit ... |
Simón Bolívar | In 1816, Vieques was briefly visited by | while fleeing defeat in Venezuela |
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 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... s up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, | and Mao Zedong tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as r ... |
Kofi Annan | ... States Secretary of State Colin Powell and United Nations Secretary-General | as top world leaders |
Karl Peters | ... wing the Swahili name components, became a part of German East Africa after | had persuaded local chiefs to sign treaties (a common story that Queen Vic ... |
Pedro de Ampudia | ... an forces he was initially given the Officers rank of Lieutenant by General | |
Luisa Fernanda Rudi | ... overnment, for a four-year term. The current president (since July 2011) is | |
Cruz Bustamante | ... timately adopted Sanchez’s position, paving the way for Lieutenant Governor | to enter the race |
Max Weber | ... e existence of this class is often linked to the Protestant work ethic (see | ) and the particular status of the Baptists and the dissenting Protestant ... |
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 ... |
Alexander Lukashenko | President | said Belarus unanimously denounced US aggression in Iraq |
Dan Malloy | The governor heads the executive branch. | is the current Governor and Nancy Wyman is the Lieutenant Governor, both a ... |
Rich Gordon | ... at Joe Simitian, and in the 21st Assembly district, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Atherton is located in California's 14th congressional distri ... |
Marquess of Lorne | ... een Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter Princess Louise, wife of the | , then the Governor General of Canada |
John Hancock | ... was transposed on paper, adopted by the Continental Congress, and signed by | , President of the Congress, on July 4, 1776. On August 2, 1776 a parchmen ... |
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 ... |
José Darío Argüello | ... e the Rancho de las Pulgas ("Flea Ranch"). This land was granted in 1795 to | , one of the last governors of Spanish California. The land was later pass ... |
Mary Banotti | ... the office of President. The most recent Fine Gael presidential candidate, | , finished second in the 1997 presidential election, with 29.3% of the vot ... |
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 ... |
Kristina Keneally | Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, | |
Grace Napolitano | ... ts, which have Cook PVIs of D +20 and R +10 and are represented by Democrat | and Republican Gary Miller respectively |
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 ... |
Joe Simitian | ... re Atherton is located in the 11th Senate district, represented by Democrat | , and in the 21st Assembly district, represented by Democrat Rich Gordon. ... |
George W. Bush | ... by the Supreme Court of the United States and looks at the track record of | as Governor of Texas |
Alva Adams | ... chison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and likely named for a railroad attorney, | , who had become governor of Colorado |
Dianne Feinstein | ... he recommended that the Democratic candidate be California’s Senior Senator | , Sanchez stated that if no other serious Democratic contender stepped for ... |
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | ... , not love, Sarah enjoyed an unusually close relationship with her husband, | , whom she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's ... |
Colin Powell | ... nd financial body listed Martin along with United States Secretary of State | and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as top world leaders |
Edmund Burke | ... and liberal tendencies within the Church. His basic philosophy was based on | , who championed the need for old roots and an orderly development of soci ... |
MP | ... lower house of the Parliament of India, once every five years. The current | is P. C. Chacko. The Lok Sabha seat has been held by the Indian National C ... |
Mark Rutte | ... reedom (PVV) to obtain a majority. Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands | is the VVD since May 31, 2006 |
George W. Bush | ... e for ratification, as he thought it unfair to the United States. President | also publicly opposed ratification of the Kyoto Protocols on the grounds t ... |
Ioannis Kapodistrias | In 1827 | , from Corfu, was chosen as the first governor of the new Republic. Howeve ... |
Charles the Bold | # 1477 Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy | # 1494 Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo ... |
Hans Blix | ... act that "substantial progress" had been made since chief weapons inspector | and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed El Baradei ... |
George W. Bush | ... d of many prominent leaders in industry and government, including President | |
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 ... |
John Breaux | On January 7, 2008 it was announced that Lott and former Senator | of Louisiana, a Democrat, opened their lobbying firm about a block from th ... |
Mary of Burgundy | # 1477 | (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bol |
Igor Ivanov | Russian Foreign Minister | joined France and Germany and said the council could not ignore the fact t ... |
Marcus Ulpius Traianus | Trajan was the son of Marcia and | , a prominent senator and general from the gens Ulpia. Trajan himself was ... |
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 ... |
Richard Sharples | ... below, and Politics of Bermuda). On 10 March 1973, then-Governor of Bermuda | was assassinated by local Black Power militants during a period of civil u ... |
Gary Miller | ... 0 and R +10 and are represented by Democrat Grace Napolitano and Republican | respectively |
Tan D. Nguyen | In 2006, she defeated | (R) with 62% of the vote |
Governor Peter Hansborough Bell | ... ian water supplies. Texas Commissioner Robert Simpson Neighbors was sent by | in 1850 to organize El Paso |
Siad Barre | After the ousting of the | regime and the ensuing civil war, various militias fought for control of t ... |
German East Africa | ... -Ndscharo in German following the Swahili name components, became a part of | after Karl Peters had persuaded local chiefs to sign treaties (a common st ... |