| Rear Admiral Radford | Later | honored a request from O'Hare to take a fighter as command aircraft instea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lewis Pelly | ... and the Qatari counterattack, prompted the British political agent, Colonel | , to impose a settlement in 1868. His mission to Bahrain and Qatar and the ... |
| Vanessa Redgrave | ... peech and Drama. She applied and was accepted, where she was a classmate of | , graduating with a first class degree in drama and four acting prizes, on ... |
| William Roache | ... (Guiding Light) in the USA, the longest-serving members of a drama series ( | for Coronation Street in the UK, Ray Meagher for Home and Away in Australi ... |
| George McGovern | ... fianakis avoided mention of his party's presidential candidate, the liberal | , Helms employed the slogans "McGovernGalifianakis – one and the same", "V ... |
| United Daughters of the Confederacy | In 1925 he endowed the | (UDC) Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award in memory of his mother, to suppo ... |
| Hamo Thornycroft | ... esponsible for many of the best-known statues in London—her brother was Sir | . There was no German ancestry in Siegfried's family; his mother named him ... |
| Koxinga | ... by the Kingdom of Tungning government founded by Ming Dynasty loyalists of | in 1662. Zheng Jing, the son of Koxinga, renamed the village Wannian Zhou ... |
| Aleksander Kamiński | ... he Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, | , Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... me a Top 10 Hit. The group was asked to open for many rock tours, including | and The Doors |
| Muhammad Ali | ... d in Zaire as part of the buildup to The Rumble in the Jungle fight between | and George Foreman. Admirers of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir Peter Ustinov | ... s and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, | , Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet |
| John Betjeman | ... d into writing. In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the | poem "Indoor Games Near Newbury", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's ... |
| Ursel de Baieul | ... gent of the Cuman Turks as well as contingents of Franks and Normans, under | , into Armenia |
| Zheng Jing | ... f Tungning government founded by Ming Dynasty loyalists of Koxinga in 1662. | , the son of Koxinga, renamed the village Wannian Zhou in 1664. The name w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimo | and Christopher Columbus as saints. According to his supporters, Pope Greg ... |
| Sir Ian Holm | ... y various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, | , Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet |
| George H. Steuart | Kinzie's granddaughter, Maria Kinzie, married | , a captain in the US cavalry who went on to become a general in the Confe ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of | |
| Indiana Jones | Although some sources speculate that Andrews was the inspiration for | , neither George Lucas nor the other creators of the films have ever confi ... |
| Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
| Terry Pratchett | ... e End and is buried in Little Marlow. Modern-day writers from Bucks include | who was born in Beaconsfield, Tim Rice who is from Amersham and who is fro ... |
| Lenny Henry | ... with his contribution that he decided to make a regular fixture out of Bob. | made sporadic appearances throughout this series, but was not established ... |
| Alan Foster | ... orld War I, which claimed the lives of many Reading F.C. players, including | , who put a hat-trick past Milan |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... re not used. In an unprecedented gesture, one of the revolutionary leaders, | , allowed the King's head to be sewn back onto his body so the family coul ... |
| Admiral Isakov | ... skevich, where the Noragyugh neighborhood is located. The project will link | Avenue with Arshakunyats Avenue and will be fulfilled upon cooperation wit ... |
| 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 ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... authority had collapsed in the face of rebellion. Two former rebel leaders, | (d. 202 BCE) of Chu and Liu Bang (d. 195 BCE) of Han, engaged in a war to ... |
| Bill Wendell | ... Shaffer, Chris Elliott, Calvert DeForest as "Larry 'Bud' Melman," announcer | , writer Adam Resnick, scenic designer Kathleen Ankers, stage manager Biff ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Mason Township is located in Senate Dist ... |
| Alexander the Great | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias: Drawing inspiration from | , Veidt was once the superhero Ozymandias, but has since retired to devote ... |
| Tom Hamilton | ... her American ships, so Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford, O'Hare and Commander | , CV-6 Air Officer, were deeply involved in developing ad hoc counter-tact ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... n sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of | 's army and inspired Southern morale |
| Arthur Bliss | ... er the withdrawal of Sir Thomas Beecham. In 1949 the opera The Olympians by | , to a libretto by Priestley, was premiered |
| Wernher von Braun | ... cal, Tsiolkovsky influenced later rocket scientists throughout Europe, like | . Russian search teams at Peenemünde found a German translation of a book ... |
| Gerald Durrell | ... he Jersey Zoological Park) founded by the naturalist, zookeeper, and author | |
| Zofia Kossak-Szczucka | ... olish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, | , Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
| 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 |
| Eric Clapton | ... widow, Olivia, and son, Dhani, and arranged under the musical direction of | and Jeff Lynne. The profits from the event went to the Material World Char ... |
| E.C. Quist | ... mbly met on 20 February, with Nkrumah as Leader of Government Business, and | as President of the Assembly |
| 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 ... |
| Nathan Hale | ... issued by the United States Postal Service with Connecticut themes include | , Eugene O'Neill, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Noah Webster, Eli Whitney, the wha ... |
| Joseph Stalin | During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and | formed a ruling 'triumvirate' (or 'troika') in the Communist Party, playin ... |
| Rex Harrison | ... Wisdom appeared at a charity concert at the Cheltenham Town Hall, the actor | came backstage and urged him to become a professional entertainer |
| Neil Young | ... single remake of We Are the World. On October 24, 2010, Bridges appeared at | 's annual Bridge School Benefit concert and played a set with Neko Case |
| Guillermo Rodríguez | ... rthrew the government of Velasco Ibarra. The coup d'état was led by General | and executed by navy commander Jorge Queirolo G. The new president exiled ... |
| 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 |
| Leslie Howard | ... filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films (founded in 1920 by the actor | and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel). These were The Bump, starr ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, President | reopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ... |
| Nixon Administration | ... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and the | reversed all dishonorable discharges |
| Duke of Halland | ... went on a private visit to Wuppertal, Germany; at the same time, H.R.H. the | was on a private visit to Sainte-Maxime, France. The Government therefore ... |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... f the original 'Beachcomber' D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, no relation to the artist | ); they had two daughters and one son. In 1953, he divorced his second wif ... |
| The Hon. James Archibald Stuart | # | (19 September 1747 – 1 March 1818 |
| Robert E. Lee | ... ecame a doctor, and served as a surgeon on the staff of Confederate general | during the American Civil War. He was a pioneer in physical therapy. His m ... |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | ... (MP) representing the constituency of Blaby from 1974–92, and served as the | in the government of Margaret Thatcher from June 1983 to October 1989. He ... |
| Chris Tarrant | ... lms and cartoons that ATV would transmit on Saturday mornings. Presented by | and John Asher from just a desk in a continuity studio, the pair had to re ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Warkworth | #Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married | , later the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, on 2 July 1764 |
| Carl XVI Gustaf | Under H.M. | , the present King of Sweden since 1973, the plain triple-tailed flag has ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... unsel. After Nixon's resignation, the nomination was continued by President | , and Scalia was confirmed by the Senate on August 22, 1974 |
| Richard Myers | ... . In September 2005, he remarked upon Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | ' optimistic outlook on the war's progress: "Things have not gone as well ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... d copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later when | burned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC |
| Władysław Anders | In 1943 the Polish II Corps, commanded by | , arrived in Palestine from Iraq. The British insisted that no Jewish unit ... |
| Earl of Winchilsea | ... who was elected despite not being legally allowed to sit in Parliament. The | accused the Duke of, "an insidious design for the infringement of our libe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Colonel Mackenzie | ... lowed the same route from Santa Fe in 1650. Indian tribes, buffalo hunters, | and his cavalry, cowboys with their cattle herds ... these and many others ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. President | appointed him as the general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications ... |
| Jan Dobraczyński | ... er war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, | , Henryk Woliński, and others |
| John Hawkins | ... were galleons, with the modified English "race built" galleons developed by | proving decisive, while the capacious Spanish galleons, designed primarily ... |
| Jim Doyle | ... pson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat | , the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCa ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... s figures by anti-Franco Anarchists. After the civil war was won by General | , Escrivá was able to return to Madrid. Escriva himself recounted that it ... |
| Wilfred Owen | ... ar Requiem of Benjamin Britten juxtaposes the Latin text with the poetry of | , Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem includes a traditional Polish hymn ... |
| George Washington | ... outing their choice to the clerk, as supporters cheered or booed. Candidate | spent L39 for treats for his supporters. The candidates knew they had to " ... |
| Nuno Álvares Pereira | ... ops and generals took the side of John (see Hundred Years' War). John I and | , his loyal Constable and talented supporter, repelled the attack on the d ... |
| Sir John Madejski | ... tadium on the outskirts of Reading which is named after the club's chairman | |
| Charles Henry Davis | In 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and | , a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington ... |
| Drusus Germanicus | ... riot relays, the emperor Tiberius hastened in 24 hours to join his brother, | , who was dying of gangrene as a result of a fall from a horse |
| Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
| Omar Torrijos | ... oric American achievement", and warned that it would fall into the hands of | 's "communist friends". It had appeared as an issue in the 1976 presidenti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Durrell | ... t, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and | were among authors who made Jersey their home. Contemporary authors based ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... fantry regiment would include two companies of pikemen, a plan supported by | . Many pikes were produced but were never used in battle and the plan to i ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... s of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty the hegemon | appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named for its ... |
| Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... ich included Lord Fairfax, then Lord General of the Parliamentary Army, and | . The final conflicts between Parliamentary forces and Royalists were deci ... |
| 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 ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... ny more releases from T-Neck after getting an offer from Motown Records CEO | to sign with Motown. Sent to the label's Tamla division, the brothers reco ... |
| Glenda Jackson | ... ving an affair, who find themselves falling in love. It stars George Segal, | , Hildegarde Neil, Paul Sorvino and K Callan |
| Nigel Tranter | ... others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction. | wrote a historical novel titled The Wallace, published in 1975, which is s ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Weimer Township is located in Senate Dis ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bram Stoker | The Will o' the wisp makes an appearance in the first chapter of | 's Dracula, as the Count, masquerading as his own coach driver, takes Jona ... |
| Elizabeth II | Queen | approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ... |
| James Wilkinson | In 1786 | purchased the tract of land on the north side of the Kentucky River, which ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Christiania Township is located in Senat ... |
| Winfield Scott | ... ners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights | ;urged American reprisal, but none was carried out |
| George Anson | Admirals | . and Admiral Jonathon Band, current First Sea Lord are both notable in Po ... |
| Nick Fury | ... mics character Peacemaker, with elements of the Marvel Comics spy character | added. Moore and Gibbons saw The Comedian as "a kind of Gordon Liddy chara ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... known account is presented in the film Braveheart, directed by and starring | , written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland. The ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... y the railway system, which could have been used to transport artillery had | not used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the Spanish Civil War ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it. | resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the ... |
| George Washington | ... rtraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, | , and Abraham Lincoln. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simpl ... |
| Smoky Dawson | ... ) in the 1930s and other early stars like Buddy Williams, Shirley Thoms and | . In 1952, Dawson began a radio show, and went on to national stardom as a ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Wilder is located in Senate District 22, ... |
| Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter | ... dation of Military Governor of Tennessee Andrew Johnson, U.S. naval officer | was promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general and assigned by U.S. ... |
| David Lean | ... d Bolt's direction, which was clearly inspired by his frequent collaborator | . Praise also came for Laurence Olivier's cameo as the Duke of Wellington, ... |
| Oscar W. Greenberg | ... quarks with parallel spins. In 1965, Moo-Young Han with Yoichiro Nambu and | independently resolved the problem by proposing that quarks possess an add ... |
| Winfield Scott | ... Jackson, displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General | to take command. Scott gathered about 950 troops from eastern army posts j ... |
| Chen Sheng | ... f the immediate revolt attempts was the 209 BC Daze Village Uprising led by | and Wu Guang |
| Robert R. McCormick | A few years later, O'Hare was honored when Colonel | , publisher of the Chicago Tribune, suggested a name change of Chicago's O ... |
| Władysław Sikorski | ... of his officials were stationed at nearby Addington and Wingrave. Meanwhile | , military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived a ... |
| Wilfrid Laurier | ... , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths | ;dying while still in the post; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and ... |
| Captain Atom | ... insic Field Subtractor" in 1959. Doctor Manhattan was based upon Charlton's | , who in Moore's original proposal was surrounded by the shadow of nuclear ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Okabena is located in Senate District 22 ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... by American Country and Western music. The lyrics were composed by the poet | in 1895. Other popular songs from this tradition include The Wild Colonial ... |
| King Hussein | ... yrian position deteriorated, Jordan sent an expeditionary force into Syria. | , who had come under intense pressure to enter the war, told Israel of his ... |
| Meng Tian | ... eunuch Zhao Gao conspired to kill Fusu because Fusu's favorite general was | , whom they disliked and feared; Meng Tian's brother, a senior minister, h ... |
| José de Urrea | ... ch remained in effect until 1837. But in December of the same year, General | proclaimed in Arizpe the re-establishment of the Constitution of 1824, ini ... |
| Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother | . The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's work The Lord of the Rings, will o' the wisps are present in the Dead M ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Moseley | The experimental situation improved dramatically after research by | in 1913. Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab (and ... |
| Sir Alec Guinness | ... rse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague | likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk". Gielgud is one of the few e ... |
| 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: " ... |
| George McGovern | ... globe. In addition to numerous domestic programs, along with former Senator | (D-South Dakota), Dole created an international school lunch program throu ... |
| Charles X Gustav | After | , the son of John Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded ... |
| Lord Nelson | ... handful of British subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are | and Winston Churchill)—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in B ... |
| Heather Begg | ... own. Those of earlier times included Oscar Natzka, Richard Farrell and Dame | |
| Charlotte Rampling | ... over 100 million watching live. The crowds were so large that Jarre's wife, | , found it difficult to access the venue. Although it was not the first ti ... |
| Igor Gouzenko | Following the 1945 defection of Soviet cipher clerk, | and his revelations of espionage, the RCMP Security Service implemented me ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | In 1906, the Chinese Republican leader | proposed that Hainan should become a separate province although this did n ... |
| President Bush | ... servative Republicans are not committed to improving public education. When | 's 2003 budget proposal threatened to cut education grants, she responded, ... |
| James Herriot | ... he long-running All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990), an adaptation of | 's novels |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Sheen | Joe Orton was played by the actor Kenny Doughty in the BBC film , starring | as Kenneth Williams |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under President | to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he receiv ... |
| Tommy Cooper | ... adie, his time as a Bevin Boy, about Diana Dors, who had recently died, and | , who had died of a heart attack live on stage six weeks earlier while app ... |
| Clayton Bissell | In early December 1944, American General | wrote a paper which argued strongly in favour of the V-1 compared to conve ... |
| Ernest H. Shepard's | ... hristopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals. In the original color versions of | illustrations in the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Piglet has pale pink skin and ... |
| Robert Bolt | ... of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and directed by | and starred his wife, Sarah Miles, as Lady Caroline |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Earl Warren | Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice | , known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination. ... |
| Louis Livingston Seaman | ... nghuzi roam freely, since many of them used to be comrades, as described by | (Dr. Seaman): " They can not be caught, the plain truth being that the bes ... |
| Flavius Aëtius | ... een on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and its influential general | . Aëtius had spent a brief exile among the Huns in 433, and the troops Att ... |
| Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant | In his 1791 plan for the future city of Washington, D.C., | envisioned a garden-lined “grand avenue” approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) in ... |
| 2nd Duke of Argyll | ... of Bute, in 1723. He was brought up thereafter by his maternal uncles, the | and Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1st and only Earl of Ilay |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS | . Upon mobilization its tactical control was given to the High Command of ... |
| Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing King | to flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ... |
| Xenophon | In Greece, Hesiod, Aristotle and | promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as ... |
| Sir Arthur Harris | ... easier for the incendiary bombs to fall into buildings and ignite them. As | , commander of RAF Bomber Command, wrote after the war |
| William Conrad | ... years earlier in which none of the cartoon's characters, including narrator | , was able to pronounce "rubber baby buggy bumpers" unerringly. Foray was ... |
| Eamonn Andrews | ... a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on | ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967 |
| 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 ... |
| Chris Tarrant | Midway through this series, | decided to leave upon the series' conclusion. Also leaving him, on the fin ... |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ... f J M W Turner. In 1836, his son, Miles Edmund was appointed to assist him. | was one of his pupils |
| Lepidus | ... one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of 43 BC (Octavianus, Antony, and | ), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads at their own ... |
| James Reese Europe | ... Memphis recorded a cover version of "Livery Stable Blues." In February 1918 | 's "Hellfighters" infantry band took ragtime to Europe during World War I, ... |
| Richard Attenborough's | In 1969, Seymour appeared uncredited in her first film, | Oh! What a Lovely War. In 1970, Seymour appeared in her first major film r ... |
| Lord Hill | ... in-Chief of the British Army on 15 August 1842 following the resignation of | |
| 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 ... |
| Spock | ... affairs. Moore also wanted to avoid creating an emotionless character like | from Star Trek, so he sought for Dr. Manhattan to retain "human habits" an ... |
| Joachim Peiper | ... fgruppe Peiper, named after and under the command of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer | , was composed of armoured and motorized elements and was the spearhead of ... |
| Horace | ... rian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, | , and Virgil. They all praised the virtues of a life devoted to the tillin ... |
| Lester B. Pearson | ... Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector | ;, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and Kim Campb ... |
| John Kerry | ... dential slot, only this time as part of the Democratic ticket under nominee | . McCain said that Kerry had never formally offered him the position and t ... |
| Celine Dion | ... cluded Jessica Holmes, who returned for the 60 minute show as Yogi Gurt and | |
| Johnny Carson | ... vely, appearing three times on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, and also on | 's Tonight Show |
| Edward Heath | ... e existing A3T missile. This decision was made official late in 1973 by the | administration, who changed the name from Super Antelope to Chevaline. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... n singles with their band, which would later include then-unknown guitarist | . With Hendrix, the brothers cut the songs, "Testify" and "Move Over and L ... |
| Bob Hope | ... n downtown Stockton, is one of several movie palaces in the Central Valley. | often came to Stockton to visit close friend and billionaire tycoon Alex S ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... g Mr Lamb (a role first offered to Timothy Dalton), Laurence Olivier as the | , Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King George IV. Th ... |
| William S. Clark | Prior to Uchimura's arrival, | , a graduate of Amherst College, had spent the year assisting the Japanese ... |
| Alexander I | ... eteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar | . Finally, the two armies engaged in the Battle of Borodino on 7 September ... |
| Antony | ... mentions as one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of 43 BC (Octavianus, | , and Lepidus), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads ... |
| 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, ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married | 's daughter Julie in 1968 |
| Banjo Paterson | ... and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and | . Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and harmonica c ... |
| Trevor Nunn | ... and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in | 's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with ... |
| Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... te by an Act of Parliament of 1483 known as Titulus Regius, and their uncle | was crowned as Richard III. There are reports of the two princes being see ... |
| Michael Parkinson | Morecambe headed back to his hotel, and recounted in an interview with | in November 1972 that, as the pains spread to his chest, he became unable ... |
| Donald Rumsfeld | ... 003, after a trip to Iraq, he was publicly questioning Secretary of Defense | , saying that more U.S. troops were needed; the following year, McCain ann ... |
| 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 ... |
| Buxhowden | ... wo columns, Generals Kienmayer and Langeron, to flee as fast as they could. | , the commander of the Allied left and the man responsible for leading the ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... embers of The Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as musicians | , Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Jools Holland, Albert Lee, Sam Bro ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... , The Thomas Crown Affair, and Operation Dumbo Drop. He had a small part in | 's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot; hi ... |
| 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 ... |
| E. H. Shepard | ... s When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist | . A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and othe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fox Conner | From 1920 Eisenhower served with an unprecedented succession of generals – | , John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall. He first became ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eddie Fisher | ... e for millionaires Hollywood stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, | and Brigitte Bardot. Former Swing Musician Teddy Stauffer, so called "Mist ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | Several Star Trek tales are stories or events within stories, such as | 's novelization of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, John M. Ford's The Fi ... |
| Emory Upton | ... rfield Road with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery in support. He had Gen. | 's Division placed across the Range Line Road with Battery I, 4th US Artil ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... U.S. Supreme Court Justices have taught at Tulane, including Chief Justice | . Tulane has also hosted several prominent artists, most notably Mark Roth ... |
| Robert Graves | In The Greek Myths (1955), | views Oenopion as his perennial Year-King, at the stage where the king pre ... |
| Jerry Garcia | ... moved The Frantics from Seattle to San Francisco after a 1965 meeting with | , then playing with The Warlocks at a bar in . Garcia encouraged them to m ... |
| 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 ... |
| John J. Pershing | ... isenhower served with an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner, | , Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall. He first became executive officer ... |
| Birch Bayh | ... e proposal which had been sponsored as Senate Joint Resolution 1 by Senator | |
| Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum | ... to the leftist leanings of the ŻOB. However many Jews, among many others , | , Henryk Chmielewski, Alicja Gołod-Gołębiowska and Leon Kopelman (members ... |
| 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 Thach | ... the Grumman F3F and then graduated to the Brewster F2A Buffalo. Lieutenant | , then executive officer of VF-3, discovered O'Hare's exceptional flying a ... |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | ... uring a Confederate courier who carried dispatches from Confederate General | describing the strengths and dispositions of his scattered forces, Wilson ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... Tkuma into a single faction – the National Union. Following the election of | in February 2001, Ze'evi joined the coalition and was appointed Tourism Mi ... |
| Leonard Cohen | ... ayed the huge Isle of Wight Festival alongside Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, and | |
| Omar al-Bashir | ... onsumption and extends serious penalties to offenders pursuant to President | 's policy of enacting Shari`a as national law. Despite this, there exists ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander I | ... n and many soldiers of allies or subject areas). He aimed to compel Emperor | to remain in the Continental System and to remove the imminent threat of a ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... London. In August, McTell played the huge Isle of Wight Festival alongside | , Joan Baez, and Leonard Cohen |
| The Prince of Wales | ... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by | . Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ... |
| 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 ... |
| Des O'Connor | ... ase from hospital, two weeks after the heart attack, Morecambe learned that | had told his audience in Paignton to pray for Morecambe's recovery as he w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fan Wuji | ... o present a gift to King Zheng, a map of Dukang and the decapitated head of | |
| 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 ... |
| John T. Croxton | On March 30, 1865, Wilson detached Gen. | 's Brigade to destroy all Confederate property at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Aft ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles II | ... seventeenth century Guildhall, built shortly after the restoration of King | , is supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter ... |
| 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 ... |
| Blind Harry | ... d Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by | the minstrel. Harry wrote from oral tradition describing events 170 years ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of | , Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... aw," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis' loss to | . The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rex Harrison | ... semble of travelling salesmen, as are most of the numbers for British actor | in the 1964 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady. In musical theater, the ... |
| Alan Shepard | ... passenger, and the results from his test flight led directly to the mission | made on May 5, 1961 aboard Freedom 7 |
| 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 ... |
| Donald Cragen | Flat Rock is home to Dann Florek, who plays Captain | in the television series Law & Order and |
| Edward Grey | ... Persia to German trade and technology. The ministers Alexander Izvolsky and | agreed to resolve their long-standing conflicts in Asia in order to make a ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... dustrialization combines aspects of Infant Industry protection, promoted by | and Friedrich List, and which defined the trade policy of the United State ... |
| Dave Berg | ... spectively, of Marvel Comics. While working alongside future Mad cartoonist | , Jaffee created several humor features for Timely, including "Inferior Ma ... |
| William J. Brennan, Jr. | ... iews in order to attract five votes for a majority (unlike the late Justice | who would accept less than he wanted in order to gain a partial victory). ... |
| Charles III of Spain | ... s father considered other possibilities (such as marrying her to the future | ) before announcing the engagement of the couple. France demanded that Mar ... |
| Forge | ... dditions to the X-Men during this time were Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat, Dazzler, | , Longshot, Psylocke, Rogue, Rachel Summers/Phoenix, and Jubilee. In a con ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... acked. It was an act that was imitated by other bands and artists including | (who had just signed with the same label) in his break-out performance at ... |
| Ammianus Marcellinus | According to the historian | , a third of the Roman army succeeded in retreating, but the losses were u ... |
| Nansouty | ... two cuirassier divisions (one commanded by d'Hautpoul and the other one by | ) into the fray to finish off the Russian cavalry for good. The ensuing me ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... ed from the cruel sexual practices Marquis de Sade described in his novels. | 's Cat's Cradle was the container of the Bokononism family of nonce words |
| Jim Jeffords | ... remaining from the previous year's campaign. Later, when Republican Senator | became an Independent, throwing control of the Senate to the Democrats, Mc ... |
| Thomas Jefferson Rusk | ... ed by an act of the Texas legislature on April 11, 1846. It was named after | , signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. By 1850, Rusk reportedl ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ation. Among the holders of the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class was | , who held the rank of . Hitler can be seen wearing the award on his left ... |
| Marshal Bernadotte | ... rians at Wagram, on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle that | was stripped of his command after retreating contrary to Napoleon's orders ... |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ... mportance, the necessity to capture it with a Federal force increased. Gen. | first made an effort to reach it, but after advancing as far as Meridian, ... |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... e Lakota Sioux claimed the land calling it Paha Sapa. In 1874 Major General | led an expedition into the Black Hills during which gold was discovered in ... |
| King George V | ... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later | , with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch, | . The Sovereign is styled as Duke of Lancaster, regardless of gender, alth ... |
| Philip Pullman | ... Weeks Later. The docklands also appear in The Ruby in the Smoke, a novel by | |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Palin | ... nes, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then | came out as an over the top announcer who eventually states that he only e ... |
| Benjamin Grierson | ... idian, within of Selma, his forces retreated to the Mississippi River; Gen. | , with a cavalry force from Memphis, was intercepted and returned; Gen. Ro ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| E. H. Shepard | ... t to London Zoo during the war. "The pooh" comes from a swan called "Pooh". | illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, Growler (" ... |
| Kienmayer | ... t Sokolnitz and persuaded the commanders of the first two columns, Generals | and Langeron, to flee as fast as they could. Buxhowden, the commander of t ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... of stagecoaches and military roads prior to the Civil War. It is said that | and U.S. Grant camped with their troops at a grove of live oak trees on th ... |
| Richard III | ... idence is ambiguous, and has led people to various conflicting conclusions. | had eliminated the princes from the succession. However, his hold on the m ... |
| Ken Dodd | ... ducer, replaced Hills and Green with Eddie Braben, who had just parted from | . With Braben as chief writer, Morecambe and Wise became the most successf ... |
| John Kline | ... ington is located in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by | , a Republican, scoring 2.8% progressive on a range of issues and 88% cons ... |
| Alastair Sim | ... st-known play is An Inspector Calls (1945), later made into a film starring | released in 1954. His plays are more varied in tone than the novels, sever ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| G. A. Henty | ... ed a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in 1810. | wrote a novel in 1885 about this time period titled In Freedom's Cause. He ... |
| Carroll Shelby | ... of the giant poultry producer Pilgrim's Pride and the home of racing legend | . Pittsburg is also the birthplace of Cavenders Boot City |
| John Peel | ... was featured on radio programmes including Country Meets Folk in August and | 's Top Gear. The release of the album meant more live work so McTell's bro ... |
| 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 ... |
| Slim Dusty | ... and went on to national stardom as a singing cowboy of radio, TV and film. | (1927–2003) was known as the King of Australian Country Music, and helped ... |
| Elvis Presley | From 1956 Norman was fascinated with the music of | . According to Norman, his father banned him from listening to rock and ro ... |
| John Taylor of Caroline | ... icance of the writings of Jefferson and his followers in the South, such as | in the development of agricultural fundamentalism |
| Charles II | ... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders of | the remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ... |
| William II of the Netherlands | ... he Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of King | and in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia |
| Henry Dodge | ... as a private in an independent company that was taken into federal service. | , a Michigan territorial militia colonel who would prove to be one of the ... |
| Peiper | ... rican prisoners of war were murdered on 17 December 1944 by the Kampfgruppe | , part of the 1 SS Leibstandarte |
| 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 ... |
| Archduke Charles | ... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander, | , failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ... |
| John Kennedy Toole | ... or Medicine: Louis J. Ignarro and Andrew V. Schally. Other notables such as | , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces, Rudolph Matas, ... |
| Sam Davis | ... e major events of the war for the town involved the Confederate States hero | who after being charged with spying gave up his life instead of giving any ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Strait | | is a country music singer and actor. He was born there |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... n the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and | , records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many yea ... |
| King Hussein | ... en and levied illegal taxes—all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored. | considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security ... |
| Kenneth McIntyre | ... that the islands were charted by Portuguese navigators in the 16th century. | , for example, claimed that Houtman was in possession of Portuguese maps o ... |
| Grand Duke Constantine | ... Allies was confirmed by the decision to send in the Russian Imperial Guard | ;, Tsar Alexander's brother, commanded the Guard and counterattacked in Va ... |
| Peter Medawar | ... tually influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist | , and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles |
| Jakob Meckel | ... the trench warfare of World War I. A German military advisor sent to Japan, | , had a tremendous impact on the development of the Japanese military trai ... |
| Chris Tarrant | ... ning shows, including Tiswas. Representing Tiswas was Sally James, although | did a video link-up for a brief interview of the show. Out of the cult Sat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir Arthur Wellesley | ... sence the French situation in Spain deteriorated, and then became dire when | arrived to take charge of British-Portuguese forces |
| Robert Duvall | ... ga.k.a. False Witness with George Kennedy (1970) and The Outfit (1974) with | . She resumed making live and studio albums under the new management of Al ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... ve Clark Five, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Doors, The Who, Janis Joplin, | , Moby Grape, and San Jose bands Syndicate of Sound, and Count Five |
| General Vandamme's | ... k hard once more and bayoneted the Allies out of the heights. To the north, | division attacked an area called Staré Vinohrady ("Old Vineyards") and thr ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cliff Richard | ... or The Beachcombers, a London cover band notable for renditions of songs by | |
| William Rehnquist | ... of his intent to retire. Reagan first decided to nominate Associate Justice | to become Chief Justice. This choice meant that Reagan would also have to ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and | of South Carolina, all argued that although the present system had potenti ... |
| Pat Robertson | ... ade a speech in Virginia Beach that criticized Christian leaders, including | and Jerry Falwell, as divisive conservatives, declaring "... we embrace th ... |
| Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
| Ernst Gombrich | ... opper also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian | , biologist Peter Medawar, and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles |
| Ronnie Barker | ... by, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Albert Arkwright ( | ), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack for being able to sel ... |
| Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... op chorus on Jesse Stone's "Down in the Alley", recorded by The Clovers and | . Stone transcribed the riff as: "Changety changety changety changety chan ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, | who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and Ed ... |
| Cole Porter | The Kinsey report was mentioned in | 's contemporaneous song, "Too Darn Hot", for his musical Kiss Me Kate (194 ... |
| Lorne Greene | ... on Larson's original series which starred Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict and | . Bryan Singer was confirmed to direct the feature film though plans made ... |
| Lenny Henry | | appeared on the BBC's It Started With Swap Shop programme in 2006 in which ... |
| Joseph M. Street | ... ks bands were eager to go to war against the British Band. By June 6, agent | had assembled about 225 Natives at Prairie du Chien. This force included a ... |
| Archduke Charles' | After | Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ... |
| Józef Piłsudski | ... some political leaders of the Polish insurrection movement (in particular, | ) sent emissaries to Japan to collaborate on sabotage and intelligence gat ... |
| David Suchet | ... rt Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and | |
| Drouet's | ... e Russians had a numerical advantage here but fairly soon the tide swung as | Division, the 2nd of Bernadotte's I Corps, deployed on the flank of the ac ... |
| George Strait | ... its "Poteet Strawberry Festival" and being the birthplace of country singer | . Poteet Canyon, Steve Canyon's ward in the long-running comic strip by Mi ... |
| Sir Arthur Young | ... ) was also born in Portsmouth, Robert Styles, an FA Premier League Referee. | , policeman and police reformer was born in the area. Also famous people n ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marshal Brune | ... nder had to make peace with Napoleon at Tilsit (7 July 1807). By September, | completed the occupation of Swedish Pomerania, allowing the Swedish army, ... |
| Joseph B. Adkinson | ... pulation was 3,235 at the 2000 census. World War I Medal of Honor recipient | is buried there |
| Dave Brubeck | ... c conservatory and for being the home of the Brubeck Institute, named after | , a Pacific alumnus and jazz piano legend. The institute maintains an arch ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sting | ... rth Day's 40th anniversary. The final day's events featured performances by | , Mavis Staples, The Roots, John Legend, Jimmy Cliff and others. A day-lon ... |
| Hermann Balck's | ... SS Panzer Corps (3 SS Totenkopf and 5 SS Wiking) was ordered south to join | 6th Army (Army Group Balck), which was mustering for a relief effort, code ... |
| Cromwell's | ... sieged for many months, then stormed ('with roaring drummes') and sacked by | Scots allies, based in pro-Parliament Sunderland. The grateful King bestow ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leslie Howard | ... oduction's popularity was assisted when a rival staging featuring film star | opened shortly afterward and was critically denounced in comparison to Gie ... |
| Nicholas II of Russia | ... ded more fuel to the already simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an event | had hoped to avoid entirely by taking intransigent negotiating stances pri ... |
| Percy Cox | ... to include Qatar in an oil concession he was discussing with Ibn Saud. Sir | , the British representative, saw through the ploy and drew a line on the ... |
| Colin Dexter | ... libraries consulted by Christine Greenaway (one of Bodley's librarians) in | 's Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead. The denouement of Michael Inne ... |
| Yoda | ... t Stuart Freeborn in the creation and articulation of enigmatic Jedi Master | . Henson suggested to Star Wars creator George Lucas that he use Frank Oz ... |
| 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. ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... Foccart, who from 1960 was chief of staff for African matters for president | (1958–69) and then Georges Pompidou (1969–1974), is claimed to be the lead ... |
| Sir Bobby Robson | ... luding Kevin Keegan (who had also served the club as a player) and the late | , who both also managed the England team |
| 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 |
| Richard Burton | He was a close friend of actor | , whom he met at Oxford University |
| Van Morrison | People! performed about 200 concerts a year, appearing with | and Them, The Animals, The Dave Clark Five, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Callaghan | ... governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and | . The project was finally revealed by Margaret Thatcher's then defence min ... |
| Lannes | ... Guard and Bernadotte's I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under | guarded the northern sector of the battlefield, where the new communicatio ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... the nominal command of William S. Hamilton, a militia colonel and a son of | . Hamilton would prove to be an unfortunate choice to lead the force; hist ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, | 's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by Ma ... |
| Robert Morley | ... ried Sally Pearson, the daughter of Dame Gladys Cooper and sister-in-law of | . This marriage ended in 1986. Robert Hardy has three children |
| 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 ... |
| Jools Holland | ... r, as well as musicians Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, | , Albert Lee, Sam Brown, Gary Brooker, Joe Brown, Ray Cooper, Andy Fairwea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Des O'Connor | ... a television series that year. An estimated 28,385,000 viewers watched it. | was frequently the butt of their humour, often because of his allegedly aw ... |
| Douglas G. Hurley | ... ate Harold Rosen, who invented the geosynchronous communications satellite. | , NASA astronaut and pilot of mission STS-127, became the first alumnus to ... |
| Edward Heath | ... th Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, | , Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally ... |
| Yang Hucheng | ... il War. In the Xi'an incident (12 December 1936), Zhang and another general | kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek and imprisoned the head of the Kuomintang govern ... |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | ... Oak Leaves; 160 both the Oak Leaves and Swords (including Japanese Admiral | (posthumously)); 27 with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds; and one with the ... |
| Roland Beamont | ... ore, and the exhaust plume was visible from a long distance. Wing Commander | had the 20 mm cannon on his Tempest adjusted to converge at ahead. This wa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Heller | ... of a book becomes the neologism, for instance, Catch-22 (from the title of | 's novel). Alternatively, the author's name may become the neologism, alth ... |
| Carl von Clausewitz | ... Under Conner's tutelage, he studied military history and theory (including | 's On War), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military th ... |
| King Talal | ... in, among them Muammar Gaddafi, who mocked him and his schizophrenic father | . The attempt to establish a peace agreement between the two sides failed. ... |
| Joseph Bell | ... in, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on | , who in his use of "" prefigured Poirot's reliance on his "little grey ce ... |
| Joachim Murat | ... ari was wakened from its provincial somnolence by Napoleon's brother-in-law | . As Napoleonic King of Naples, Murat ordered the building in 1808 of a ne ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of | and during Augustus tenure, is as follows |
| Joseph McCarthy | ... mmittee of the Senate of the United States. A young Senator from Wisconsin, | (who was Irish-American but, represented a heavily German-American ethnic ... |
| Ronald Reagan | When | was elected President in November 1980, Scalia hoped for a major position ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... y. Resigning when his home state of Virginia seceded, he served first under | in the Shenandoah Valley, but then in increasingly important cavalry comma ... |
| Raymond Chandler | ... writing in The Red House Mystery (although this was severely criticised by | for the implausibility of its plot). But once Milne had, in his own words, ... |
| John Thach | ... tigate the contact. These two planes, under command of Lieutenant Commander | shot down a four-engined Kawanishi H6K4 Type 97 ("Mavis") flying boat abou ... |
| James Bryce | ... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, | , Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... l like to refilm a scene from The Letter to which Davis nodded. Jane Fonda, | , Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland were among the actors who paid trib ... |
| 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. ... |
| Barry Cryer | ... BBC (signing an exclusive contract with the corporation shortly thereafter) | ;and John Junkin were brought in to contribute to the early Thames shows ( ... |
| John Julius Norwich | ... ad a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with | ; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's deat ... |
| Robert Ingersoll | ... els and Spence, who named the community Ingersoll, in honor of the agnostic | . A post office was established in 1881, and by 1884 the town had an estim ... |
| General Langeron | ... lleurs, French skirmishers. Initial Allied assaults proved unsuccessful and | ordered the bombardment of the village. This deadly barrage forced the Fre ... |
| Henry Moseley | ... implies that it must be placed before the reactive alkali metal potassium. | later solved this problem by showing that the periodic table is actually a ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of | 's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character ... |
| George Marshall | ... uccession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and | . He first became executive officer to General Conner in the Panama Canal ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... te may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when | 's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came before the upper ch ... |
| Martin Jarvis | ... lay was adapted from Fleming's novel by Archie Scottney and was directed by | |
| Jerry Garcia | ... on Starship included David Crosby and Graham Nash and Grateful Dead members | , Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, as well as some of the remaining membe ... |
| Kenny Wheeler | ... ther like-minded musicians, such as saxophonist Evan Parker, trumpet player | and double bass player Dave Holland. These players often collaborated unde ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Dickinson | ... r consideration. The first author to be awarded a second Carnegie Medal was | in 1981 |
| Ian Fleming | Goldfinger is the seventh novel in | 's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 Mar ... |
| Stepan Makarov | ... r-hour crossing to link the two railheads. The Russian admiral and explorer | (1849–1904) designed Baikal and Angara but they were built in Newcastle-up ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bernadotte's | ... tled upon a secondary line of retreat through Brunn. The Imperial Guard and | I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under Lannes guarded the no ... |
| Philip Pullman | ... nning book of all time. The poll was launched on 20 April, and the winner - | 's Northern Lights - was announced on 21 June at the British Library |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | ... form its Importance and Practicability". He submitted a copy of this to the | , Thomas Spring-Rice, on 4 January 1837. This first edition was marked "pr ... |
| Bob Hope | ... th regular appearances on coast-to-coast broadcasts starring Jimmy Durante, | and |
| 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 ... |
| Malcolm Bradbury | ... campus novels, setting a precedent for later generations of writers such as | , David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... series postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service. Along with | he was one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusi ... |
| A. E. W. Mason | Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to | 's fictional detective—Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté—who, first ap ... |
| Marshal Ney | ... s. Wellington's pursuit was frustrated by a series of reverses inflicted by | in a much-lauded rear guard campaign |
| Bagration | ... . The Russian Imperial Guard was held in reserve while Russian troops under | guarded the Allied right. Furthermore, the Russian Tsar rudely stripped th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Van Morrison | ... wn features in the song Snow in San Anselmo by Irish born singer/songwriter | , about an unusual bout of winter weather that occurred when he was living ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... n was the first President to arrest and prosecute members of the Klan since | about 93 years earlier. He turned the themes of Christian redemption to pu ... |
| Graham Nash | This 'prototype' version of Jefferson Starship included David Crosby and | and Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, ... |
| Witold Pilecki | ... h resistance under Nazi rule organizations in Poland. One member of the AK, | , was the only person to volunteer for imprisonment in Auschwitz. The info ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Chamberlain | ... te Secretary to the Sovereign is always appointed to the Council, as is the | , the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Lord Speaker |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President | , Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ... |
| Wang Mang | ... t was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent | . This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (20 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | ... lso composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, | , Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhane ... |
| Jane Jacobs | ... ionals" as a full style of capital of its own. Some ethicists, most clearly | , see this as simple corruption. Nonetheless, corruption clearly has a cas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... he title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo Creed, | as Rocky's trainer Mickey, and Talia Shire as Rocky's wife, Adrian |
| 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 ... |
| Richard III of England | He was appointed Lord High Steward and walked in front of King | , carrying the crown at his coronation. However, John was the eldest (alth ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... thod described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of | 's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated ... |
| Anthony Wayne | ... In 1836 the name of the settlement was changed to Wayne in honor of General | . In 1869 Wayne was incorporated as a village. Its population and industri ... |
| 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 ... |
| E. Urner Goodman | ... 74 the Lodge hosted the W3B Conclave at Sky Tavern. In 1982 it received the | Award for the second time, a feat considered quite rare. In 1986 Tannu Lod ... |
| Rick Perry | ... slature. Williamson's old friend and former legislative colleague, Governor | , appointed him to the Texas Transportation Commission, of which he became ... |
| Jim Davidson | ... day morning show in London called Saturday Scene, produced by LWT. Comedian | was intended to be a regular presenter, but left after only a few editions ... |
| George Washington | ... Thomas Jefferson, and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. | , Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to ha ... |
| James Baker | ... m public remarks by President George H. W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State | that the economic sanctions would only be lifted when Saddam Hussein was r ... |
| Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst | Catherine's father | belonged to the ruling family of Anhalt, but held the rank of a Prussian g ... |
| Charles Bendire | ... tors would go to extreme lengths to obtain eggs of rare birds. For example, | was willing to have his teeth broken to remove a rare egg that became stuc ... |
| Joss Ackland | ... 02 and again in 2008 on BBC Radio 4. In it the older Flashman was played by | and the young Flashman was played by Rhys Meredith. This was followed by a ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... rmy detachment, was a decisive victory for the Parliamentarians and allowed | to conquer Wales. It is the last major battle to occur in Wales, with abou ... |
| Pyotr Grigorenko | ... family of Russian ethnicity. However, according to the Soviet Major General | Voroshilov himself was pointing out to his Ukrainian heritage and previous ... |
| Quintin Hogg | Announcing his support for right of return legislation in Britain, MP | stated that, "All the great nations of the earth have what the Jews call a ... |
| Robert Plant | ... 1967. Miller-Stevenson's "8:05" became a country rock standard (covered by | , , and others) |
| 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 ... |
| George Vancouver | American captain Robert Gray and British captain | , who explored the river in 1792, proved that it was possible to cross the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rudolf Hess | ... the Tower was once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was | , Adolf Hitler's deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the las ... |
| Hernán Cortés | ... iscovered by Europeans. The first states that two years after the Conquest, | sent explorers west to find gold. The explorers had subdued this area afte ... |
| Philip St. George Cooke | ... ghter of the commander of the 2nd U.S. Dragoon Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel | . Burke Davis described Flora as "an accomplished horsewoman, and though n ... |
| 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 ... |
| Crawley Films | ... eace and fighting crime. Filmed in black and white, in and around Ottawa by | , the series was co-produced with the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting ... |
| 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 ... |
| George W. Bush | After | (March 26, 2003) mentioned Warsaw's contribution prominently in a speech, ... |
| Alexander Haig | ... Red" China), and active defense of human rights. These nominations included | , Chester Crocker, John Louis, and Lawrence Eagleburger, all of whom were ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... nd it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, | , Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the q ... |
| Arleigh Burke | ... hat the United Kingdom might use Polaris. In 1957 Chief of Naval Operations | and First Sea Lord Louis Mountbatten began corresponding on the project. A ... |
| Oliver Stone | The film was written by | and Richard Boyle, and was directed by Stone. Stone's portrayal is sympath ... |
| Neil Peart | Many rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including | and Dave Grohl The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from thei ... |
| Sergeant Renfrew | Canadians also poke fun at the RCMP with | and his faithful dog Cuddles in various sketches produced by the Royal Can ... |
| Anthony Hopkins | ... r; it was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2003 and starring | , Nicole Kidman, and Gary Sinise |
| William IV | ... y coin between 1797 and 1970, occasional issues such as the fourpence under | between 1836 and 1837, and on the 50 pence coin between 1969 and 2008. See ... |
| George MacDonald Fraser | ... to take on the role of Harry Flashman in a film adaptation of the books by | |
| Lord Nelson | ... his fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October (the British commander, | , died in the battle). Napoleon would never again have the opportunity to ... |
| Gottlob Berger | In August 1940, | approached Himmler with a plan to recruit volunteers in the conquered terr ... |
| 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 ... |
| First Sea Lord | ... gdom might use Polaris. In 1957 Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke and | Louis Mountbatten began corresponding on the project. After the cancellati ... |
| Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor | |
| Rick Stein | ... coastline with few easily navigable harbours. The influence of restaurateur | can be seen in the port, and tourists travel from long distances to eat at ... |
| Turan-Shah | ... id dynasty founded and brought to peak by Ali al-Sulayhi between 1047-1063. | annexed Yemen to the Ayyubid Empire of Saladin in 1173. The Rasulid dynast ... |
| J. W. Dunne's | ... plays are more varied in tone than the novels, several being influenced by | theory of time, which plays a part in the plots of Dangerous Corner (1932) ... |
| Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton | In 1904–1905, | was the military attaché of the British Indian Army serving with the Japan ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by | 's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect |
| John Kennedy Toole | ... or other flowers. It also appeared in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by | on a sign composed by the main character |
| 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 ... |
| Ron Ben-Yishai | ... Marranos of Portugal" the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) sent reporter | to carry out interviews with families about their religious practice. Afte ... |
| John Marshall | ... d while a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress. Chief Justice | was also known to appreciate Madeira, as well as his cohorts on the U.S. S ... |
| Al Kilgore | ... York City in 1965 by Laurel and Hardy biographers John McCabe, Orson Bean, | , and John Municino, with the sanction of Stan Laurel. Since the group's i ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... ple narratives into one story are various novels written by American author | . Vonnegut includes the recurring character Kilgore Trout in many of his n ... |
| Saladin | ... ulayhi between 1047-1063. Turan-Shah annexed Yemen to the Ayyubid Empire of | in 1173. The Rasulid dynasty ruled Yemen, with Zabid as its capital, from ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... at the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started with President | in August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by President George H ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Rutter | ... ly to music, such as Pie Iesu in the settings of Dvořák, Fauré, Duruflé and | |
| 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 ... |
| Jay Van Andel | ... in the health, beauty, and home care markets. Amway was founded in 1959 by | and Richard DeVos. Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of compa ... |
| Ivan Paskevich | ... d Russian-Persian war, Yerevan was captured by Russian troops under general | on 1 October 1827. It was formally ceded by the Persians in 1828, followin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aaron Burr | ... epublican Party again nominated Jefferson for President, and also nominated | for Vice President. After the election, Jefferson and Burr both obtained a ... |
| Bob Dole | ... list of possible vice-presidential picks, this time for Republican nominee | . The following year, Time magazine named McCain as one of the "25 Most In ... |
| Joseph McCarthy | On the domestic front, he covertly opposed | but contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking the modern ex ... |
| David Shepherd | ... of the trust joining existing high profile personalities, Joanna Lumley and | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Withers | ... n Wandering Spirit, only having Lenny Kravitz as a vocalist on his cover of | ' "Use Me" and bassist Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers on three tracks |
| Robert Peary | On September 30, 1897 Lieutenant | brought six Inuit people from Greenland to the American Museum of Natural ... |
| Charles George Gordon | After time spent in Palestine in 1882–83, General | found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been ... |
| Sir Thomas Graham | ... d a column against the French centre, while other columns were commanded by | and Rowland Hill and looped around the French right and left (this battle ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mike Lantry | ... on May 28, 1981. Other Oxford High graduates to have played in the NFL are | (University of Michigan / Dallas Cowboys), Chris Gambol (University of Iow ... |
| Anthony Eden | ... our). It had previously been a Conservative safe seat, including as its MP, | a former British prime minister. At the 2005 general election, James Plask ... |
| Astronomer Royal | ... Moore, along with Dr. Chris Lintott, Jon Culshaw, Prof. Brian Cox, and the | Martin Rees who on leaving the panel told Brian May, who was joining it, " ... |
| Arthur Wellesley | After Light's demise, Lieutenant-Colonel | arrived in Penang to co-ordinate the defences of the island. In 1800, Lieu ... |
| Stephen Decatur, Jr. | ... ity located in Wise County, Texas, United States. This city was named after | The population was 5,201 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bu ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... lectoral victory on the 36th ballot, but only after Federalist Party leader | —who disfavored Burr's personal character more than Jefferson's policies—h ... |
| Heinz Guderian | ... 24 May. Becoming part of the XIX Panzer Corps under the command of General | , they took up a position 15 miles south west of Dunkirk along the line of ... |
| Richard DeVos | ... auty, and home care markets. Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and | . Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Altico ... |
| Rowland Hill | ... French centre, while other columns were commanded by Sir Thomas Graham and | and looped around the French right and left (this battle became the subjec ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jeffrey Simpson | ... cretion. At the end of the 20th century and into the 21st, analysts such as | , Donald Savoie, and John Gomery argued that both parliament and the Cabin ... |
| George H.W. Bush | ... modest lifestyle, Dennis Ross, former Middle East negotiator for Presidents | and Bill Clinton, stated that Arafat's "walking-around money" financed a v ... |
| Vitruvius | ... libraries in search of works by such classical authors as Plato, Cicero and | . The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Arist ... |
| Vahriz | ... ntrol in Yemen ended in 570 with the invasion of the elder Sassanid general | who, according to later legends, famously killed Masruq with his well-aime ... |
| John Stapp | ... He flew the observation/chase plane which monitored flight surgeon Colonel | 's rocket sled run of in 1955. Kittinger was impressed by Stapp's dedicati ... |
| Thomas Berger | ... uring this time, Robert Strachan and, in the 1969 general election, against | |
| John B. Anderson | ... d losing moderates' votes, particularly due to the independent candidacy of | , and the Reagan camp was split: eventually designating George H. W. Bush ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Plant | ... r, Cher, Chicago, Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Nina Hagen, | , Peter Criss, Scandal, Late Show regular Warren Zevon, jazz trumpeter Lew ... |
| Hugo Chávez | ... d theories strongly influenced the thinking of current Venezuelan president | |
| Clara Hughes | ... peed Skating, and was present to see her former teammates Cindy Klassen and | win their personal and national record achievements |
| George H. W. Bush | ... of John B. Anderson, and the Reagan camp was split: eventually designating | as his preferred candidate. At the convention, Helms toyed with the idea o ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... privilege. He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, | . He was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies, expanded ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ralph Lauren | ... e company. Cruz has appeared in print ads for Mango and had a contract with | in 2001. Cruz and her sister designed their second collection for Mango in ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | ... the first official place name of the Star Trek television series created by | (who was born in El Paso, Texas) |
| Deborah Kerr | ... m Jaffe, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, | , Grayson Hall, Susan Tyrrell, Albert Finney, Jack Nicholson and William H ... |
| James Cook | ... ototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expedition continues as Captain | claims the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic ... |
| John Paul Stevens | Scalia (joined by Justice | ) also dissented in the 2004 case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, involving Yaser Ha ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isaiah Stillman | ... them orders, but he did have two battalions of mounted militia under Major | that had not been federalized. In what would prove to be a controversial d ... |
| Rowland Hill | ... ellington withdrew his army and, joined with the smaller corps commanded by | , began to retreat to Portugal. Marshal Soult declined to attack |
| George Wallace | ... opular votes than Humphrey, equating to less than 1% of the national total. | received the remaining 46 electoral votes with only 13.5% of the popular v ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... t, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice | . Justice Black is buried to the right of the main cemetery entrance, and ... |
| Ernest O. Thompson | Texas Railroad Commissioner | , who also served as a mayor of Amarillo and became an expert on petroleum ... |
| Sir Michael Gambon | ... tors have emerged from the Dublin theatrical scene, including Noel Purcell, | , Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney and Gabriel Byr ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... members of the Council were elected by the Commons; the body was headed by | , the de facto military dictator of the nation. In 1653, however, Cromwell ... |
| Earl Marshal | John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, KG, | (b. between 1421 and 1430 – d. 22 August 1485) was an English nobleman, so ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Thomas | ... Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – | – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – ... |
| William Clark | ... irst Caucasian to see the Teton Range. Lewis and Clark expedition co-leader | produced a map based on the previous expedition and included the explorati ... |
| Vahriz | The Persian king Khosrau I, sent troops under the command of | , who helped Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan to drive the Ethiopian Aksumites out of Ye ... |
| Richard III of England | ... t Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King | with whom he died in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field |
| James Whale | ... humorous writer and critic. His novel Benighted (1927) was adapted into the | film The Old Dark House (1932); the novel has been published under the fil ... |
| Robert Runcie | ... with a Primate, is a humorous account of his journeys with his former boss, | |
| Richard Nixon | President | first considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ... |
| Jim Jeffords | ... re always represented in the cabinets of Republican presidents. In Vermont, | , a Republican Senator became an independent in 2001 due to growing disagr ... |
| Samuel Alito | ... lgamated Kingdom of England and France", participating judges were Justices | and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The outcome was originally to be determined by an ... |
| Michael Caine | ... on't even know the editor of my films most of the time," Huston said. Actor | also observed the same technique: "Most directors don't know what they wan ... |
| 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 ... |
| Murat's | ... s to contain the French at Vienna, and instructed the Allied Army to accept | ceasefire proposal so that the allied army could have more time to retreat ... |
| Thucydides | ... phanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus and | are two of the most influential historians in this period |
| Maio of Bari | ... n 1071, Bari was captured by Robert Guiscard, following a three-year siege. | (d. 1160), a Lombard merchant's son, was the third of the great admirals o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Graeme Bell | ... rrison and, sometimes, the famous pioneer of traditional jazz in Australia, | .A non-academic genre of jazz has also evolved with a harder "street edge" ... |
| Rod Stewart | ... n hiatus as Ron Isley focused on solo work, later having a top ten hit with | on his cover of the Isleys' Motown hit, "This Old Heart of Mine". Ron also ... |
| Horace | ... t is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. Varro, Cicero, and | , all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, conside ... |
| Clark Gable | ... This part of the town's history was chronicled in the movie Boom Town with | and Spencer Tracy. The Great Depression would have a negative impact on th ... |
| Horace | Orion is used by | , who tells of his death at the hands of Diana/Artemis, and by Ovid, in hi ... |
| Don Burrows | ... such as One Night Stand players Dugald Shaw and Blair Jordan, reeds player | and trumpeter James Morrison and, sometimes, the famous pioneer of traditi ... |
| Mort Walker | ... egun on September 4, 1950) is an American comic strip created by cartoonist | . Set in a fictional United States Army military post, it is among the old ... |
| Samuel Alito | ... ner v. United States, Scalia joined the majority opinion written by Justice | —all except one paragraph of the opinion, in which Justice Alito cited leg ... |
| Jervis | ... the Napoleonic Wars. Protected by naval supremacy (in the words of Admiral | to the House of Lords "I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... hur Joseph Goldberg, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, | , Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justi ... |
| Oliver North | ... to travel secretly between Cyprus and Lebanon and his appearance with Capt. | , however, meant that he was compromised when the Irangate scandal broke. ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | The most famous guitarist who admired Elmore James was | . Early in his career Jimi styled himself variously as 'Maurice James' and ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... rk Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine) are fictional characters in | 's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to Sauron's ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with | and Wilkie Collins. In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves ... |
| Maurice Hilleman | ... ve measure against mumps is a vaccination with a mumps vaccine, invented by | at Merck. The vaccine may be given separately or as part of the MMR immuni ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... stinguished Flying Cross, and he was awarded the Harmon Trophy by President | |
| Alexander I | ... to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units. Tsar | then appointed general Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov to the commander-in-c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Howard Zinn | ... New England ancestor). Another neighbor of Damon's was historian and author | , whose biographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio ... |
| Gerald Durrell | ... rell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoological Park, founded by | |
| 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 ... |
| John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | ... ristopher Tolkien was born in Leeds, England, the third and youngest son of | . He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then at the Oratory S ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... found to date is in 1787, in translator Gottfried Große’s interpretation of | ’s Natural History |
| Leopold Okulicki | ... Komorowski commanded from July 1943 until his capture in September 1944 and | , pseudonym Niedzwiadek ("Bear Cub") led the organisation in its final day ... |
| Ashfaq Parvez Kayani | ... akistan ever since. The three main branches are the Army (headed by General | ), the Navy and the Air Force, and they are supported by a number of param ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... vernment through the war that raised an army to fight the British and named | its commander, made treaties, declared independence, and instructed the co ... |
| Ernie Wise | ... by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with | formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership la ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander Suvorov | ... temkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Pyotr Rumyantsev and | , and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Rus ... |
| James Callaghan | ... ent over its cost and whether it was necessary. The outgoing Prime Minister | made his government's papers on Trident available to Margaret Thatcher's n ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... the action of the plot of the outer story. An example is "The Mad Trist" in | 's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means t ... |
| Peter Sellers | ... eneration of comedians and celebrities, including Dick Cavett, Jerry Lewis, | , Marcel Marceau and Dick Van Dyke. Laurel lived until 1965, surviving to ... |
| David Blanchflower | ... omics in 2003. The Economics Department, whose prominent professors include | , and Andrew Samwick, also holds the distinction as the top-ranked economi ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... Hank Mann as a prop man. Sennett also starred in a cameo role-as himself.) | directed a Keystone Kops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie |
| Pyotr Rumyantsev | ... Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as | and Alexander Suvorov, and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed a ... |
| Antony Flew | ... revelation, it appeals to people from both ends of the religious spectrum. | , for example, was a convert from atheism, and was a Roman Catholic priest ... |
| John Profumo | ... hree Privy Counsellors to resign in the twentieth century (the others being | , who resigned on 26 June 1963, and John Stonehouse, who resigned on 17 Au ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... of France, and the Black Sea coasts. Greeks founded more than 400 colonies. | 's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenist ... |
| Joseph E. Johnston | ... aign against Richmond, Virginia, and Stuart's cavalry brigade assisted Gen. | 's army as it withdrew up the Virginia Peninsula in the face of superior n ... |
| Kirill Razumovsky | ... o wished to be with her including Peter and Catherine and Counts Alexey and | . Finally on 25 December 1761, the Empress died. She was buried in the Pet ... |
| Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick | ... d when Henry VI was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of | (nicknamed "the Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time i ... |
| Clement Attlee | ... ustry (then state-owned since nationalisation by the post-war government of | ) over the closure of pits whose uneconomic operation accounted for the co ... |
| Zinovy Rozhestvensky | ... ir Far East Fleet by sending the Baltic Fleet, under the command of Admiral | . The squadron sailed half way around the world from the Baltic Sea to the ... |
| Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski | ... r "Arrowhead"), served as the AK's first commander until his arrest in 1943 | ;commanded from July 1943 until his capture in September 1944 and Leopold ... |
| Chiang Kai-shek | ... ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President | |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... cs could be studied in a laboratory as it were, the social milieu. In 1787, | wrote: "...The science of politics like most other sciences has received g ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jenny McLeod | ... d place, with people such as Larry Pruden, David Griffiths, David Farquhar, | , Jack Body, Gillian Whitehead, Dorothy Buchanan, Anthony Ritchie, Ivan Za ... |
| Lenny Henry | ... nt between 1974 and 1981, and later Sally James, it also featured the young | and occasionally Jim Davidson together with Bob Carolgees and his puppet, ... |
| Cimon/Kimon | In the first ten years of the league's existence, | forced Karystos in Euboea to join the league, conquered the island of Skyr ... |
| Sir Cloudesley Shovell | ... ted by this problem and by the 1707 grounding of four ships of Vice-Admiral | 's fleet off the Isles of Scilly, resulting in heavy loss of life. Establi ... |
| Baldassare Castiglione | ... rary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, | 's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well ... |
| Edward Spence | ... was a Dumfries-born recipient of the Victoria Cross. William Robertson and | are other Victoria Cross recipients. Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpo ... |
| Rod Stewart | ... that was later christened Jefferson Starship. Sears had worked on three of | 's early British recordings, and had to go back to England to play on Smil ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... his wife. When his wife then calls demanding to know why he is late for the | play, he tries to call Vicky, but is unable to reach her. Vicky sees Steve ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... n 1934, Grofé announced that he was working on an opera, to be based on the | story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| Ptolemy I Soter | ... al of the diadochic Ptolemaic Kingdom under Alexander's immediate successor | |
| Neil Young | ... on Polydor Records in Germany. Thereafter, Mosley and Craviotto joined with | to form The Ducks, which played in and around the Santa Cruz area during 1 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chris Tarrant | Most famously hosted by | between 1974 and 1981, and later Sally James, it also featured the young L ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Edward Parry | ... am Bay was named after the famed British Arctic explorer and navigator, Sir | , as were two other nearby features, Parry Inlet and Edward Point. The bay ... |
| Menno van Coehoorn | ... en op Zoom had fortifications built in the beginning of the 17th Century by | , with three forts surrounding the city and a canalized diversion of the S ... |
| Alexander Fleming | ... , others pursued similar lines of inquiry but it was not until in 1928 that | observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium. ... |
| Richard Attenborough | ... Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as | , Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, M ... |
| Vasili Blokhin | ... ber 1939 should be released but later signed the order for their execution. | of the NKVD personally shot 7000 of them in 28 nights using German Walther ... |
| Marcus Livius Salinator | ... ated long ago. Livius Salinator might be Gaius Livius Salinator, his father | , or his grandfather Marcus. If Jerome means that the liberation took plac ... |
| Peter Molyneux | Lionhead Studios is a British video game developer, formerly led by | . It was acquired by Microsoft Game Studios in April 2006. Lionhead starte ... |
| Sam Mendes | American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by | and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as office worker Lester Burnh ... |
| General Wesley Clark | ... he mistake on his May 31, 2011 show. Both times he was interviewing retired | |
| Meng Tian | ... s the construction of his own tomb. In 215 BC Qin Shi Huang ordered General | with 300,000 men to begin construction. Other sources suggested he ordered ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stanley Savige | ... e Gippsland Campus of Monash University. A commemorative bust of Lt Gen Sir | was erected in 2006. Born in Morwell, Savige founded Legacy Australia foll ... |
| Shania Twain | ... d pedal steel guitar styles. Some notable Canadian country artists include: | , Blue Rodeo, Marg Osburne, Hank Snow, Johnny Mooring, Don Messer, Doc Wal ... |
| Cliff Richard | ... of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, Princess Anne, | , Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wilgelm Vitgeft | ... miral Stepan Makarov during the siege of Port Arthur in April 1904, Admiral | was appointed command of the battle fleet and was ordered to sortie from P ... |
| Gaius Livius Salinator | ... en being honored, having been liberated long ago. Livius Salinator might be | , his father Marcus Livius Salinator, or his grandfather Marcus. If Jerome ... |
| Glenn Ford | ... the production after four months due to "chronic illness". She then joined | and Ann-Margret for the Frank Capra film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Tolkien (born 21 November 1924) is the third and youngest son of the author | (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posth ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander I | ... lexander (whom she greatly favored, and who subsequently became the emperor | in 1801). Her harshness towards Paul probably stemmed as much from politic ... |
| Robert Duvall | ... rtrayed in Tender Mercies is never specifically identified. Mercies starred | , who won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film |
| 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 ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... me authors identify the old settlement of Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by | , or with Flaviobriga, by Ptolemy. There are also ancient walls, discovere ... |
| 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 ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of | 's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/B ... |
| John By | ... later, as the terminus of the Rideau Canal built under the command of Col. | as part of fortifications and defences constructed after the War of 1812. ... |
| George Washington | ... is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and | |
| Varro | ... was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to Numa Pompilius. | states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), who had ... |
| 3rd Duke of Norfolk | ... dy seems to have been moved at the Reformation, possibly to the tomb of the | at Framlingham Church. The monumental brass of his first wife Katherine Mo ... |
| Joseph Bell | ... me considered the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was | who Arthur Conan Doyle has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based ... |
| Abiye Abebe | ... arried Dejazmatch Haile Selassie Gugsa. Princess Tsehai married Lt. General | |
| George W. Bush | On 30 May 2007, US President | nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed Paul ... |
| Angela Rippon | ... enabled them to have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including | , Princess Anne, Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Ar ... |
| Glenda Jackson | | plays Vicky Allesio, a divorced mother of two. George Segal plays Steve Bl ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... rs may have been more directly deist. These include James Madison, possibly | , Ethan Allen |
| 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. |
| John Allen Campbell | On December 10, 1869, territorial Gov. | extended the right to vote to women, making Wyoming the first U.S. state t ... |
| Howard Morris | Beetle was voiced by comic actor and director | with Allen Melvin as the voice of Sarge. Other King Features properties, s ... |
| King Richard III | ... , someone had left John Howard a note attached to his tent warning him that | , his "master," was going to be double-crossed (which he was) |
| Michael Caine | ... e Diary, Maurice, Pascali's Island, Without a Clue (as Dr. Watson alongside | 's Sherlock Holmes), Suspect Zero, Bugsy (nominated for Best Supporting Ac ... |
| John Rogers Cooke | ... ming war, Stuart wrote to his brother-in-law (future Confederate Brig. Gen. | ), "He will regret it but once, and that will be continuously." On June 26 ... |
| Henry Moore | ... es is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of | and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for Europ ... |
| Captain Ángel Rivero Méndez | ... r of Spain, name unknown, resulting in a Spanish victory. Around this time, | was assigned the command of the Spanish forces in the fortress of San Cris ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... contains at least one potential historical error: It apparently claims that | intended Alexandria to be the capital of his empire. Actually, he built it ... |
| Frank Capra | ... ue to "chronic illness". She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the | film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady f ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... years. His colleague Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The | of the Arctic Circle. |
| Chassé | ... battalions of Grenadiers, defeated Wellington's first line and marched on. | 's relatively fresh Dutch division was sent against them and Allied artill ... |
| Iain Duncan Smith | ... of national security. For example, Tony Blair met Leader of the Opposition | and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy on privy council terms ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, | politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... press as a short list vice-presidential running mate for Republican nominee | , and was named chairman of Veterans for Bush |
| Michael Heseltine | ... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, | , formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ... |
| Mr. T | ... lphia Museum of Art, Rocky is publicly challenged by James "Clubber" Lang ( | ), a ferocious new boxer rapidly climbing the ranks. Lang accuses Rocky of ... |
| David Cronenberg | ... ctors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, | , Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has ... |
| Xenophon | ... d to some universally read and admired history, the works of Thucydides and | . Slightly less known because they are more technical and legal are the or ... |
| Primo de Rivera | During the dictatorships of | and especially of Francisco Franco (1939–1975), all regional cultures were ... |
| Thomas Upington | ... Both the Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal had Irish prime ministers: Sir | , "The Afrikaner from Cork"; and Sir Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County ... |
| Paul Laxalt | ... litically easier for Carter, causing them to be replaced by the soft-spoken | |
| Robert M. Thompson | ... an enemy. She was the first Navy ship of that name; the second, , named for | , served during World War II and the Korean War |
| Bob Monkhouse | ... all bands, and so on, playing with many performers including Gracie Fields, | and Kathy Kirby, and on television programs such as Opportunity Knocks. Ba ... |
| Zieten | ... d his line and strengthened the torn centre. Lucky for him, Pirch I. 's and | 's corps were now at hand. Pirch I. moved to support Billow; together they ... |
| Alexander the Great | After | conquered the Near East in 334 BCE, the existing settlement was named Heli ... |
| Thucydides | ... he Athenians led to some universally read and admired history, the works of | and Xenophon. Slightly less known because they are more technical and lega ... |
| Elton John | ... John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, | , The Beatles and even former Prime Minister |
| Edmund P. Gaines | ... an officials determined to force the British Band out of the state. General | , commander of the Western Department of the United States Army, assembled ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | Even with the difficulties of the quota system | formed two new SS regiments, the SS Germania and SS Deutschland, which tog ... |
| Stepan Makarov | With the death of Admiral | during the siege of Port Arthur in April 1904, Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft was ... |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ... he long-running British legal programme Crown Court. In 1975, he starred as | in the BBCs historical drama The Love School. He found fame only years lat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock | ... ears, Amis shared a house with his first wife Hilary and her third husband, | . Martin wrote the memoir Experience about the life, charm, and decline of ... |
| Peiper | ... The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe | (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), a German combat unit, during the Bat ... |
| Kit Carson | ... xico in the Mexican–American War in 1846, U.S. military forces commanded by | forced more than eight thousand Navajo men, women and children from their ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ian McKellen | ... ly, Goldfinger was adapted for BBC Radio with Toby Stephens as Bond and Sir | as Goldfinger |
| The A-Team | ... Mr. T an icon, leading to him being one of the first elements outlined for | television series. The film also features professional wrestler Terry "Hul ... |
| Stompin' Tom Connors | ... kinsons, Wilf Carter, Michelle Wright, Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans, | , Terri Clark, Crystal Shawanda, Dean Brody, Shane Yellowbird Chad Brownle ... |
| Glenda Jackson | ... ess Anne, Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, | , Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Elton John, The Beatles and even former Prime ... |
| Harry Turtledove | Humble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in | 's alternate history novel |
| Benito Mussolini | ... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when | 's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name |
| John Psathas | In 2004, Wellington composer | achieved the largest audience for New Zealand-composed music when his fanf ... |
| Harold Macmillan | ... e 1960s, under the 1962 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between | and John F. Kennedy, the United States would supply Britain with Polaris m ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth Jane Howard | In 1963, Hilary discovered Amis's love affair with novelist | . Hilary and Amis separated in August; he went to live with Howard. He div ... |
| Mr. T | Rocky's opponent is James "Clubber" Lang, played by | . Lang is a younger and more aggressive boxer than Rocky. He is brash, arr ... |
| William J. Brennan, Jr. | ... of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and | See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a law sponsored by Ben Erdreich, ... |
| George Washington | ... rea that would lie between the Capitol building and an equestrian statue of | to be placed directly south of the White House (see L'Enfant Plan). The Na ... |
| Nidal Malik Hasan | ... enter of Fort Hood and killed thirteen people while wounding thirty others. | , a U.S. Army Major and psychiatrist, was alleged to be the gunman. He was ... |
| Wilhelm Groener | ... h the OHL (supreme army command), now led by Ludendorff's successor General | . The 'Ebert–Groener pact' stipulated that the government would not attemp ... |
| Lemuel P. Montgomery | ... ery, Texas was named after Montgomery County, Alabama which was named after | who was killed in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814). Montgomery became t ... |
| Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. | ... ut of court. Fleming had based the actual character on American gold tycoon | . Fleming also used a number of his own experiences within the book, and t ... |
| Geoffrey Palmer | Judi Dench has frequently appeared with her close friend | . They co-starred in the series As Time Goes By, where she played Jean Par ... |
| Timoleon | ... r fully recovered its former status, though it revived to some extent under | in the latter part of the 4th century |
| Richard Curtis | ... levision special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson and inspired screenwriter | , who attended the London service, to write the growing-orchestra wedding ... |
| George Washington | ... ss takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing | commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 2 ... |
| Charles Laughton | The first actor to portray Hercule Poirot was | . He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been ada ... |
| Eric Clapton | The Grateful Dead, John Primer (Blue Steel CD), Billy Gibbons and | are other notable artists to have recorded Elmore James covers. Clapton al ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... cTell was born on December 3, 1944 in Farnborough, Kent. He was named after | - Frank had worked as the composer's gardener before the war. A second son ... |
| Clark Gable | ... noted the "retrospective atmosphere of doom" which now hangs over the film. | , the star, died of a heart attack a few days before the filming was compl ... |
| 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. ... |
| Gareth Farr | ... fluences along with electronic instruments and techniques into a new sound, | , Phil Dadson and composer co-operative Plan9 among them. The latter provi ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... lick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and | . He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In televisio ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... sile submarines, later reduced to four by the incoming Labour government of | , with 16 missiles to be carried on each ship. The Polaris Sales Agreement ... |
| Prince Henry | Prussia (through the agency of | ), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jasper Carrott | ... n regular attendance. On the programme, Birmingham folk-singer and comedian | was to introduce the nation to the Dying Fly Dance and also to many local ... |
| Lord Uxbridge | ... in an infantry duel in which Picton fell. It was during this struggle that | launched two of his cavalry brigades on the enemy; the "Union brigade" cat ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General | |
| Tsar Alexander I | ... Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by | and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fi ... |
| Alan Bates | ... starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as Otto von Bismarck and | as Rudi von Sternberg |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Koestler | ... force is guiding the course of biological evolution was the science writer | (1967, 1978). Koestler provided examples of evolutionary development that ... |
| Paul Hausser | In 1936, Himmler selected former Lieutenant General | to be Inspector of the SS-VT with the rank of Brigadefuhrer, and he set ab ... |
| Peter Brook | ... 7 production of Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Royal National Theatre, and in | 's acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At about this time, ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... and its inhabitants received full Roman citizenship following the death of | in 44 BC |
| Lobau | ... additional brigade artillery deployed to its left in support. Napoleon sent | 's corps to intercept the rest of Bülow's IV Corps proceeding to Plancenoi ... |
| Albert, Prince Consort | ... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband | , Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ... |
| Grigory Potemkin | | had had involvement in the coup d'état of 1762. In 1772, Catherine's close ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ame Nuada probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which | suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning "acquire, have the use of ... |
| Wolverine | ... ishop, and Gambit — who became one of the most popular X-Men (rivaling even | in size of fanbase), but many of the later additions to the team came and ... |
| John Madejski | ... appointment of Mark McGhee as player-manager, shortly after the takeover by | , in June 1991 saw Reading move forward |
| King Hussein of Jordan | ... ardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs. | bought a fleet of cars that Mardas had customised, but the cars proved to ... |
| George Washington | ... . stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting Benjamin Franklin and | . A few other countries issued stamps in the late 1840s. Many others, such ... |
| Burgess Meredith | Rocky's trainer Mickey ( | ) initially wants no part of it and admits to the champion that Lang was r ... |
| Sir Frank Whittle | Coventry has been the home to several pioneers in science and engineering. | , the inventor of the jet engine, was from the city, as was the inventor J ... |
| James Edward Tait | ... ological breakdown. Dr Ian Gibson is another to leave his mark on politics. | was a Dumfries-born recipient of the Victoria Cross. William Robertson and ... |
| George Washington | ... l carved nobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers. | gave Connecticut the title of "The Provisions State" because of the materi ... |
| Wilgelm Vitgeft | ... breakout attempt by the Russian squadron, now under the command of Admiral | , failed. By the end of the month, Japanese artillery was firing shells in ... |
| Alva R. Fitch | The first Eagle Scout in Nebraska was | of Norfolk |
| Oliver Reed | ... It was directed by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, | as Otto von Bismarck and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg |
| Roy Castle | ... e McWhirters co-presented the BBC television programme Record Breakers with | from 1972 until Ross's death in 1975; Norris continued appearing on the sh ... |
| King Charles II | During the reign of | , Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... sts to have recorded Elmore James covers. Clapton also recorded a song with | called "Tribute to Elmore" that first appeared on the 1968 compilation alb ... |
| Anthony Barber | ... ibes an earlier period of rapid expansion under the tenure as chancellor of | in the Conservative government of Sir Edward Heath (1970 to 1974). Critics ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture | upon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... s restoration and the end of the stalemate between Parliament and the King. | and Sir Henry Vane the Younger both opposed this measure. This should have ... |
| Freiherr von Bülow | At about 16:30 the first Prussian corps arrived. Commanded by | , IV Corps arrived as the French cavalry attack was in full spate. Bülow s ... |
| Byron White | The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justice | wrote the decision for the majority. The Supreme Court held that for the p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lindsay Thompson | ... being John Cain (1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was | (1981–82), on 16 July 2008 |
| Tony Rundle | As of 24 January 2011, seven former premiers are alive, the oldest being | (1996–98, born 1939). The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ... |
| Zero Mostel | The cast included | as Tevye the milkman, Maria Karnilova as his wife Golde (each of whom won ... |
| Colin Campbell Mitchell | ... t Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, under the command of Lt-Col. | |
| Eric Clapton | ... a 40 year career he released 20 studio albums, working with artists such as | and David Gilmour. He has been described by The Times as "an electrifying ... |
| Zheng He | ... n the early Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was the staging area and supply depot of | 's naval expeditions. Further development was severely hampered by the sea ... |
| James Cook | ... Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant | on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bacchides | ... A little later the Jordan was the scene of the battle between Jonathan and | , in which the latter was defeated |
| John Le Mesurier | ... including Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, | , Irene Handl and Miles Malleson |
| Daniel Tyler | ... 1872, the Woodstock Iron Company, organized by Samuel Noble and Union Gen. | , rebuilt the furnace on a much larger scale, as well as started a planned ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bonifacius | ... 0,000. According to Procopius, the Vandals came to Africa at the request of | , the military ruler of the region. However, it has been suggested that th ... |
| Hank Greenberg | ... e league's best with "Black Mike" Mickey Cochrane behind the plate, slugger | at first, and consistent Charlie Gehringer, "The Mechanical Man", at secon ... |
| Theodor Eicke | ... d and the particularly fierce fighting of the Totenkopf", Obergruppenführer | was awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross on 20 May 1942 |
| Pat Robertson | ... o pay for Republican "infomercials" and televising of the GOP convention on | 's Family Channel, but backed off when Democrats criticized the donation a ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... ards the king was high enough to allow republican roundhead leaders such as | to abolish the monarchy completely and establish the republican Commonweal ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... d of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister | and without an agreement on the succeeding governance. Their enemies, the ... |
| Carl E. Stewart | ... ted States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge | writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a "variation of a ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Wyman was the first wife of | . They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public ... |
| Peter Sellers | I'm All Right Jack featured | and as a result, boosted his film career, winning him a BAFTA Best Actor A ... |
| John Burgoyne | ... of Bemis Heights in Saratoga. The reinforcements for which British General | was waiting were held up, and Burgoyne was forced to surrender at Saratoga ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... man and Arabic naturalists and physicians. Several ancient writers, such as | and Scribonius Largus, attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks d ... |
| Dudley Moore | ... 57. Days earlier he had been taken in and announced, "I feel a bit poorly." | attended Cook's memorial service in London in May 1995 and he and Martin L ... |
| Stan Lee | The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer | and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963) ... |
| Richard III | ... t, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as | , both Elizabeth and her mother Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to ... |
| Bernard Manning | ... the more successful comedians on the Working Men's Club circuit - including | , Bobby Thompson, Frank Carson and Stan Boardman - eventually made their w ... |
| John Laurie | ... r Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, | , actor (Private Fraser in Dad's Army), artist Robin Philipson, singer Joh ... |
| Robert Graves | ... it the patronage of Athena, for the olive tree brought wood, oil, and food. | was of the opinion that "Poseidon's attempts to take possession of certain ... |
| Tipu Sultan | ... the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War broke out in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore, | . Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture ... |
| Charles II | The principal advisor to | , the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... rning Rain", written by Gordon Lightfoot and popularized by artists such as | , Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul and Mary |
| 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 ... |
| Friedrich Maximilian Klinger | #Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to | , fathered by Catherine's lover, Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlo |
| Dave Barrett | The NDP first won election in 1972 under | , who served as Premier for three years. The NDP passed a great deal of le ... |
| James Forrestal | ... iversity president, Eisenhower was requested to advise Secretary of Defense | on unification of the armed services. Approximately six months after his i ... |
| 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 ... |
| George V | ... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or as | put it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ... |
| Jacques Chirac | In 1996, | , then French President, granted the former French members of the Internat ... |
| Winfield Scott | ... porated in about 1897, the name was changed to Winfield in honor of General | . This area was once the Chickasaw Indian domain. Although there were no k ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alan Ayckbourn | ... music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of two plays by | , and two different styles of musical in On connaît la chanson (Same Old S ... |
| David Suchet | | has starred as the eponymous detective in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Neil Young | ... t there would be no further financial support from Katz unless they did so. | , then of Buffalo Springfield, was in the room at the time, and kept his h ... |
| Charles II | ... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs from | to George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ... |
| 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, ... |
| Alexander Knox Helm | ... arrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat | , John Laurie, actor (Private Fraser in Dad's Army), artist Robin Philipso ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... alongside several other notable performers: Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite, | , Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale |
| Earl of Strafford | ... n of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of the | earlier that year; referring to John Pym, she asked who the roundheaded ma ... |
| Wolverine | In the aftermath of the Schism series, the fallout between | and Cyclops will lead to the revival and rebuilding of the original X-Mans ... |
| Byron White | ... ce Fred M. Vinson played poker with President Harry Truman and that Justice | went skiing with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Scalia stated that he ... |
| Eli Zeira | ... ella to protect any crossing operation from air attack. However, Aman Chief | was still confident that the probability of war was low |
| Horace | In the 1st century BCE, | wrote of fried sheets of dough called lagana. In the 2nd century CE, the G ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... ng scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the | , devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby ... |
| Lord Cochrane | ... ower and real naval officers of the period, among them Sir George Cockburn, | , Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others. The actions of the ... |
| Sir Mirza Ismail | ... arlier half of 20th century, the Nandi Hills waterworks was commissioned by | (Diwan of Mysore, 1926–41 CE) to provide a water supply to the city. Curre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles II | ... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns of | to George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ... |
| Harold Wilson | In 1964, the new British government under | announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ... |
| Peter Ustinov | | played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978) ... |
| Billy Connolly | ... me of the earliest successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as | , Mike Harding and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical a ... |
| Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King | . During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir George Cockburn | ... allels between Hornblower and real naval officers of the period, among them | , Lord Cochrane, Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others. The ... |
| J. R. Ackerley | ... though he maintained contact with a circle which included E. M. Forster and | . One of his closest friends was the young cricketer Dennis Silk. He forme ... |
| Alp Arslan | ... manus IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultan | of the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the Battle of Manzikert. The ba ... |
| Edwin V. Sumner | ... e regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col. | . He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1855 |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... icher asked for new elections. On 28 January, von Papen described Hitler to | as only a minority part of an alternative, von Papen-arranged government. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Miller | The 707 is mentioned in the songs "Boeing Boeing 707" by | ; "Jet Airliner" performed by the Steve Miller Band and written by Paul Pe ... |
| Frank Capra | ... She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright (1950), | on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rog ... |
| Lt. Colonel Robert G. Cole | ... sited the cemetery, on 8 May 2005. Margraten is the final resting place for | , who was awarded the Medal of Honor for action during the Normandy campai ... |
| Sir James Gordon | ... aval officers of the period, among them Sir George Cockburn, Lord Cochrane, | , Sir William Hoste and many others. The actions of the Royal Navy at the ... |
| Pete Postlethwaite | ... l in the mid 1970s, alongside several other notable performers: Bill Nighy, | , Jonathan Pryce, Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale |
| Hitler | ... k, states, "The work of the Eugenics Board was not far from the thinking of | . |
| Lord Fairfax | ... ican Commonwealth. The roundhead commander-in-chief of the first Civil War, | , remained a supporter of constitutional monarchy, as did many other round ... |
| King Richard III | For his support of | during the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of ... |
| Richard Matheson | Also in the 1960s, the film Omega Man (loosely based on the | novel I am Legend) showed a world scarred by biological warfare and only a ... |
| Paul Hausser | ... grenadier divisions. Thanks to the efforts of Himmler and Obergruppenführer | , the new commander of the SS Panzer Corps, the three SS Panzergrenadier d ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rod Serling | ... es Bemis for his antisocial behavior, and his greatest desire is thwarted." | 's conclusion alludes to the Scots language poem "To a Mouse" (for which O ... |
| Victoria Wood | ... ces their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from Lenny Bruce. | launched her stand-up career in the early 1980s, which saw observational c ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator | , who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by | took place in 1973 |
| 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 ... |
| Saladin | ... power in Arabic poetry, and was according to legend the personal emblem of | . The specific depiction of Golden Eagle legendarily considered to be Sala ... |
| Derek Jacobi | ... scriva. It is directed by Roland Joffe, and stars Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, | , Golshifteh Farahani, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, and Lily Cole |
| Elvis Presley | While in jail, White listened to | singing "It's Now or Never" on the radio, an experience he later credited ... |
| Herbert Cyril Thacker | Canadian military attaché | served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo–Japanese War (1904–0 ... |
| Howard Unruh | ... faced years of rising crime and blight. On September 6, 1949, mass murderer | went on a killing spree in his Camden neighborhood in which he killed thir ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... he previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore | retired |
| Gustav Lombard | ... rder by RFSS: All Jews must be shot. Drive the female Jews into the swamps. | , on receiving the order, advised his Battalion that "In future not one ma ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... ,” but the visuals show a Bollywood-style devi and a Taj Mahal-like castle. | 's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles leaves its Western setting when the climact ... |
| Edmund P. Gaines | ... anization as he was the oldest township resident. He named it after General | , an acquaintance of his noted for his service in the War of 1812, the Sem ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... pcorn Shrimp in 2001. He also wrote and acted the main role in a play about | titled Him, in 1995 |
| Peter Sallis | ... and regularly repeated on BBC 7), starring John Moffatt (Maurice Denham and | have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the B ... |
| Benjamin Lincoln | ... At the 2010 census the population was 6,266. It was named for Major General | , who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War |
| Liu Yu | The dynasty was founded by | 劉裕 (363–422), whose surname together with "Song" forms the most commonly u ... |
| Aristides | ... sea to symbolize the permanence of their alliance. The Athenian politician | would spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, ... |
| Edmund Rucker | ... a, United States. It was named for a Civil War officer, Confederate General | . The post is the primary flight training base for Army Aviation and is ho ... |
| Ronald Colman | Named after actor | , Walken was born Ronald Walken in Astoria, Queens. His mother, Rosalie (n ... |
| 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 |
| Stefan Rowecki | ... ible to the Government Delegate's at Home in the civilian chain of command. | (pseudonym Grot, or "Arrowhead"), served as the AK's first commander until ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... cond longest-lived president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by | and Ronald Reagan. He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, ... |
| Koxinga | ... Kangxi Emperor, a measure intended to counter the refuge Ming government of | in Taiwan. Incoming refugees, however, did not translate into a major labo ... |
| Charles II | ... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished. | restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ... |
| Kuldip Singh Brar | ... n, Operation Blue Star (June 1984), the Indian Army led by the Sikh General | forcibly entered the Harmandir Sahib (the Golden Temple) to overpower the ... |
| Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
| Cliff Richard | ... By 1973 over 200 "covers" had been recorded of Norman's songs, including by | , Jack Jones, Petula Clark, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pat Boone, The Imperials, an ... |
| John McColl | ... ince September 2011, the incumbent Lieutenant Governor has been General Sir | |
| Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
| Andrew Johnson | ... in the state and features call boxes built prior to the American Civil War. | , later president of the United States, was an apprentice tailor in Moores ... |
| Bob Dole | ... ught the position of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against | , Dick Lugar, Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens w ... |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... e. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic after his death. | appointed himself in 82 BC to an entirely new office, dictator rei publica ... |
| Petula Clark | ... ad been recorded of Norman's songs, including by Cliff Richard, Jack Jones, | , Sammy Davis, Jr., Pat Boone, The Imperials, and The Oak Ridge Boys |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... Brüning was appointed as successor of Chancellor Müller by Reichspräsident | on 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General Kurt von S ... |
| Leslie Nielsen | ... Hudsucker Proxy. Later the same year she played a supporting role opposite | and Fred Ward in the cop comedy film . Though both of these appearances we ... |
| T. E. Hulme | ... rigins of Imagism are to be found in two poems, Autumn and A City Sunset by | . These were published in January 1909 by the Poets' Club in London in a b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir James Anderson | ... ng them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, | , who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable ... |
| 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 "... ... |
| Alexander the Great | Ashkelon was soon rebuilt. Until the conquest of | , Ashkelon's inhabitants were influenced by the dominant Persian culture. ... |
| Ifor Bach | ... le stands on the footings of a much older medieval castle possibly built by | , a regional baron with links to Cardiff Castle also. The exterior has bec ... |
| Li Zongren | ... d supported Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as | , Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchu ... |
| Osbert Sitwell | ... of that Department at the end of the war. He refused a knighthood in 1918. | , in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward VII | ... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by | "in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ... |
| Alison Elliot | ... until 2004 that a woman was chosen to be Moderator of the General Assembly. | was also the first non-minister to be chosen since George Buchanan, four c ... |
| Muhammad bin Qasim | The Arab general | conquered Sindh and Multan in southern Punjab in 711CE. The Pakistan gover ... |
| Ronald Neame | ... ain (Jack Gold, 1984), The Dunera Boys (Ben Lewin, 1985) and Foreign Body ( | , 1986) |
| 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 ... |
| Victoria Wood | ... reatest Stars in the UK. She is also well known for her collaborations with | , such as appearing in and co-writing with her the award-winning sitcoms V ... |
| Lenny Henry | ... Reilly's performances receiving largely negative notices. Stand up comedian | was the latest big name to play Othello. He did so on a tour at the start ... |
| James Clinton | ... that may be sent to harass the inhabitants on the borders of said river…" . | and Christopher Tappan, both lifetime residents of the area, were sent to ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... erature, and entertained the children with vivid ghost-stories and tales of | |
| Duke of Gloucester | ... arl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the | became King in 1483, as Richard III, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice w ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... ng the Middle East destabilized. In a June 1973 meeting with U.S. President | , Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had proposed Israel pull back to its 1967 ... |
| Zhang Xueliang | | , known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of Zhang Zuolin, warlord of ... |
| Charles Leclerc | ... rn to a disaster, with the French commander and Bonaparte’s brother-in-law, | , dying of yellow fever and almost his entire force destroyed by the disea ... |
| Ian Carmichael | ... ilms. The Boultings used the same actors in a lot of their films, including | , Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Iren ... |
| Jon Corzine | In December 2006, Governor | speculated on moving port operations further south to allow the community ... |
| Clausewitz | ... on-trinitarian theory of warfare, which he juxtaposes to the famous work by | , On Wa |
| Oliver Stone | In the 2004 | film Alexander, Antigonus is played by Ian Beattie |
| Mr. T | ... l appear as a character in the video game Mr. T, where he will team up with | to fight Nazis |
| 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 ... |
| Tim McCoy | ... ding male stars, among them Ramón Novarro, William Haines, John Gilbert and | . Crawford appeared in The Unknown (1927), starring Lon Chaney, Sr. who pl ... |
| Richard Attenborough | ... ngs used the same actors in a lot of their films, including Ian Carmichael, | , Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Miles Mall ... |
| Abner Doubleday | ... ceived a letter that (erroneously) declared baseball to be the invention of | . The commission, though, was biased, as Spalding would appoint anyone to ... |
| James Galway | ... oyse (1912–2007). Among his many students were Trevor Wye, William Bennett, | , Carol Wincenc, and Jean-Claude Gérard |
| 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 ... |
| Napoleon I | ... the little island of Saint Helena and stayed in the same building to which | would later be exiled |
| Zachary Taylor | ... residency. (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were | , Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
| Michael Caine | ... rominence in 1983 for Educating Rita, performing in the title role opposite | . It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it won her BAFTA ... |
| King George VI | ... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by | as the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ... |
| Walter Matthau | ... many more. He was also close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, | , and Kevin Spacey. He made two films with Curtis, three films with Kovacs ... |
| Stanley Holloway | A film version of the tale was released in 1937 starring | as the vicar. In the film, the vicar (of Bray, County Wicklow in Ireland) ... |
| Sandy Alderson | ... Pillsbury, founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family, | (San Diego Padres), John Donahoe (eBay), Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (IBM), Cha ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... ipt to Karel Reisz's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by | , is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book. In addition to ... |
| Richard Attenborough | ... st marriage to Michael Attenborough, the son of British film actor/director | , lasted from 1971 to 1973. Her second marriage to Geoffrey Planer lasted ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, | , William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
| Gary Merrill | ... her costar, Anne Baxter, and a romantic relationship with her leading man, | , which led to marriage. The film's director Joseph L. Mankiewicz later re ... |
| Muhammad Ali | In 1972 | set his training camp in Deer Lake, and it still stands today complete wit ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pierre Charles L'Enfant | ... a for Washington, D.C., L'Enfant Plaza (named for French-American architect | ). Pei's associate Araldo A. Cossutta was the lead architect for the plaza ... |
| 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 Blood | ... iewed by the paying public. This was exploited two years later when Colonel | attempted to steal them. Blood and his accomplices bound and gagged the Je ... |
| Maurice Denham | ... m on BBC Radio 4 (and regularly repeated on BBC 7), starring John Moffatt ( | and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The ... |
| Ice-T | ... festival in Los Angeles and San Francisco with artists such as Soundgarden, | , Indigo Girls, Queen Latifah, Iggy Pop, The Charlatans, The Cramps and Pu ... |
| Lord Cardigan | ... in the fashionable 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons. The 11th, commanded by | , later involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade, had just returned fro ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Orlando Butler | ... tates. Formed in 1848 from part of Barry Township, it is named for war hero | |
| Polyperchon | When Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to | , excluding Cassander, his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to ... |
| George Washington | ... uccess of the Canadiens was underscored during the French and Indian War by | 's defeat at Great Meadows and Edward Braddock's embarrassment at the Mono ... |
| Virgil Earp | ... of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, November 8, 1887, at age 36. | was ambushed on the streets of Tombstone on the evening of December 28, 18 ... |
| Bill Kenwright | ... e trouble than it was worth. The assistant stage manager on the production, | , would become one of the UK's most successful producers |
| Sir Henry Clinton | ... y 2,100 Loyalists, Hessians, and British regulars led by Lieutenant General | attacked Forts Montgomery and Clinton from the landward side (which was on ... |
| Oveta Culp Hobby | ... . Humphrey with whom he developed his closest relationships, and one woman, | . Eisenhower's cabinet, consisting of several corporate executives and one ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... Another 9 million Germans from former eastern German provinces, over which | and eastern neighbour states extended military hegemony in 1945, were expe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ian McKellen | ... atford, cast black opera singer Willard White in the leading role, opposite | 's Iago |
| Richard DeVos | High-ranking Amway leaders such as | and Dexter Yager were owners and members of the board of Gospel Films, a p ... |
| Aaron Burr | ... da (1775) under Colonel Benedict Arnold. Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and | , his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel Seth Read ... |
| Sir James Anderson | ... asting connections were achieved by the ship SS Great Eastern, captained by | |
| John Pope's | ... tation the following day, managed to overrun Union army commander Maj. Gen. | headquarters, and not only captured Pope's full uniform, but also intercep ... |
| Pierce Brosnan | ... er actually used it. In 1995, this machine was purchased by the Bond actor, | |
| William Tryon | ... der-in-Chief, North America General William Howe, in New York City, ordered | to interrupt the flow of supplies from Connecticut that were reaching the ... |
| Joss Ackland | ... s Don Camillo, John Moffatt as the Bishop, Shaun Prendergast as Peppone and | as God, and rebroadcast in July 2010 on BBC Radio 7 |
| Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
| General William Howe | ... at the Emlen House, built by Quaker George Emlen in 1745. British commander | observed the American lines from the belltower of St. Thomas' Episcopal Ch ... |
| Trevor Nunn | ... n too much, commenting that Olivier was "blacker than black, almost blue" . | 's 1989 version filmed at Stratford, cast black opera singer Willard White ... |
| 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 ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... Boston, and who also served in the Invasion of Canada (1775) under Colonel | . Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, ... |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | ... ch as Robert Robb and Matthew Continetti have used a formulation devised by | to describe McCain as "conservative" but not "a conservative", meaning tha ... |
| George W. Bush | Rossum, writing in 2006, before | appointees Roberts and Alito had time to make an impact, said that Scalia ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... il late 1942 they were assigned to the Reich Main Security Office headed by | . The brigades were now used for rear area security and policing, and, mos ... |
| Archie Bunker | ... calia as a "homophobe". Maureen Dowd described Scalia in a 2003 column as " | in a high-backed chair" |
| Ronnie Barker | ... with comedians, first writing a monologue for Tommy Cooper, and later with | , who played Lord Slingsby-Craddock in the London production of Mr Whatnot ... |
| Cassander | ... Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to Polyperchon, excluding | , his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to recognize Polypercho ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... her at Lincoln's Inn. The same year he married Elizabeth French, a niece of | ; and he also became Tuesday lecturer at St Lawrence, Jewry (where he was ... |
| Edward Braddock | ... he French and Indian War by George Washington's defeat at Great Meadows and | 's embarrassment at the Monongahela River. The British response was to cre ... |
| Themistocles | ... uarter. Around the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker | , the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to t ... |
| Philip St. George Cooke | ... t in California was scouted by Stephen Kearny's troops and later by Captain | 's Mormon Battalion in 1846 who were the first to take a wagon the whole w ... |
| Jackie Robinson | ... speech caused the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) to seek | 's testimony on the subject. Robinson was reluctant to testify, in part be ... |
| Charles II of England | ... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of | . In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ... |
| John Betjeman | ... rt or the blurbs before returning them to the library. A volume of poems by | , for example, was returned to the library with a new dustjacket featuring ... |
| Stilicho | ... some scattered orthodox Vandals, among whom was the famous magister militum | , the chief minister of the Emperor Honorius |
| D.H. Hill | ... tening Turner's Gap, and required assistance from the infantry of Maj. Gen. | to defend the South Mountain passes in the Battle of South Mountain. His h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | The Lennox sisters were daughters of | , a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of Charles II of England. ... |
| David Cronenberg | ... This Time?" Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in | 's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone. That same year, Walken ... |
| Claiborne Pell | ... sation against the magician Harry Houdini. A similar event involved Senator | . Pell believed in psychic phenomena. When Randi demonstrated viewing a hi ... |
| Tommy Cooper | ... experimented by collaborating with comedians, first writing a monologue for | , and later with Ronnie Barker, who played Lord Slingsby-Craddock in the L ... |
| Bill Withers | ... features songs by Newman, Bobby Darin, The Who, Free, Eels, The Guess Who, | , Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and Bob Dylan, as we ... |
| 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 |
| Terence Rattigan | ... to stir controversy over his plays. Orton chose the name as an allusion to | 's "Aunt Edna", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer |
| Michael Caine | ... Actress – Motion Picture Musical/Comedy award-winning performance opposite | in Educating Rita (1983), a role she had created on the West End stage |
| Witold Pilecki | ... million people were arrested, over 20,000, including the hero of Auschwitz, | , were executed or murdered in communist prisons, and 6 million Polish cit ... |
| George Washington | ... ating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators. | was given of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French a ... |
| Edward VIII | ... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surrounding | and his relationship with Wallis Simpson |
| Frederick Brownell | ... ed to select the final design. An interim flag was designed by State Herald | for the 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, ... |
| Geoffrey Spicer-Simson | ... Allied forces to gain control of the lake themselves. Under the command of | the Royal Navy achieved the monumental task of bringing two armed motor bo ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... is, Lycia, a port on the Pamphylian Gulf. The city was visited in 333 BC by | , who envisioned himself as the new Achilles and carried the Iliad with hi ... |
| Neil Young | ... s two cover versions—The Beatles' "Because" performed by Elliott Smith, and | 's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" performed by Annie Lennox. Produced by th ... |
| Horace | ... ure grew steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Poets like Vergil, | , Ovid and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Au ... |
| John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury | ... age to Elizabeth Woodville. Lady Eleanor Butler (a young widow, daughter of | ) and Edward were alleged to have been precontracted; both parties were de ... |
| George W. Bush | ... onal friends with several prominent Republicans, including former President | |
| 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) ... |
| Victoria Wood | ... ecial, Julie Walters and Friends, which featured writing contributions from | and Alan Bennett. In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pa ... |
| Osbert Sitwell | ... ew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and | . His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxford he was introdu ... |
| Frankie Howerd | ... ic actors with whom they had worked, including Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, | and Kenneth Williams. In May 2009 the play was seen again in London's West ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... In 1656 he became tutor to the son of Edmund Prideaux, attorney-general to | . About 1661 he was ordained without subscription by Thomas Sydserf, a Sco ... |
| Jubal Early | ... ense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage. | referred to it as "the greatest horse stealing expedition" that only "anno ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Read | ... e, off of separate battlefields. Colonel Seth Read and his brother, Colonel | owned more than half of the land in this town at the time of the American ... |
| Stewart Farrar | ... ts within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. Janet and | describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic ... |
| Roger Moore | ... eriment. The character's attempts to kill Bond (played for the last time by | ) all failed, and he was finally eliminated at the end of the film when me ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II's | He is the only president serving during | reign to have never met her |
| 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 ... |
| Thucydides | ... ssion of rebellions, Athens exercised hegemony over the rest of the league. | describes how Athens's control over the League grew |
| Richard III | ... d intermittently during his reign and those of his son Edward V and brother | . Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Richard. Ultimately, the co ... |
| Jacques Villeneuve | ... n to keep Canada out of the war in Iraq, and that Québécois race car legend | had been paid $12 million to wear a Canadian flag on his uniform. Villeneu ... |
| Ice-T | ... e of gangsta rap, had Toddy Tee's influential Batteram mixtape in 1985, and | 's "Six in the Morning" in 1986 before N.W.A.'s first records, leading to ... |
| John F. Kennedy | After President | was assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ... |
| Arthur Wellesley | ... onnected passenger, Lady Barbara Wellesley, the fictional younger sister of | (later to become the Duke of Wellington) become dangerously attracted to e ... |
| Phil Collins | ... deluxe double-disc issue in 2007, containing the original album remastered. | played drums and sang backing vocals on Grace and Danger and subsequently ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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" |
| Adolf Hitler | The Queen called | "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aston Webb | ... h two wings (completed 1921). It was designed by Thomas Manley Dean and Sir | as the Royal College of Science. The First Dáil originally met in the Mans ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | In reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then-French President, | , who was sceptical of the rising supranational power of the Commission, a ... |
| Antipater | ... the war against Eumenes, who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of | , Antigonus, Ptolemy, Craterus, and the other generals. Eumenes was defeat ... |
| Thomas Gilbert | ... Isidore Duperrey "îles Gilbert", Gilbert Islands, after the British Captain | , who sighted the islands in 1788. The current name, Kiribati, is an adapt ... |
| Pvt. Eddie Slovik | ... Award nomination for Best Actor in a television drama for his portrayal of | in the television film The Execution of Private Slovik. Based on an incide ... |
| Franco | ... . Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a changing room visit from | 's director of state security. He "reminded" them that they were only play ... |
| 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 |
| Peter Cheeseman | ... t reportedly because was having trouble working with the artistic director, | . By now, his career as a writer was coming to fruition, and his acting ca ... |
| John Kerry | ... House of Representatives. The current U.S. senators from Massachusetts are | (D) and Scott P. Brown (R) |
| Eumenes | ... s and Antigonus found himself entrusted with the command of the war against | , who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of Antipater, Antigonus, ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terence Rattigan | ... loane lost money in its three-week run, but critical praise from playwright | , who invested £3,000 in it, ensured its survival. The play was transferre ... |
| Admiral of the Fleet | | Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbat ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... on, the sister of John Simpson of Ohio. John Simpson was the grandfather of | who became President of the United States. This family bond meant that man ... |
| Ephialtes | ... imon was ostracized and was succeeded in his influence by democrats such as | and Pericles. This signaled a complete change in Athenian foreign policy, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Sellers | ... , also inhabited by other comic actors with whom they had worked, including | , Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Williams. In May 2009 the play ... |
| Joseph McCarthy | ... d to late 20th century, ranging from the anti-communist crusades of Senator | in the 1950s to the radical antiwar protests at UW-Madison that culminated ... |
| Joseph Stalin | Meanwhile, | and his Soviet Union in the 1920s and early of 1930s stood by Japan’s inva ... |
| Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod | ... f members of the House of Lords, the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and the | |
| Craterus | ... here he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia (321 BC), and | |
| Thucydides | ... he works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and | , and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides |
| Lionel Jospin | ... e Dynamics and the missile division of Alenia Marconi Systems to form MBDA. | 's Plural Left government initiated the privatization of Aérospatiale |
| Cimon | An aftermath of the war was that | was ostracised, and the relations between Athens and Sparta turned hostile ... |
| 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 |
| Isaac Brock | ... rit of British professional commanders was illustrated by Major-General Sir | in Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry, a F ... |
| Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | ... es appear in Hughes's novel. Fraser uses them to make an ironic allusion to | , and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington' ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... s Dei. There have also been allegations that Escrivá expressed sympathy for | |
| Arthur Hill Gilbert | ... ncluded, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and | . The Canadian Group of Seven and Tom Thomson are examples of en plein air ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... isenhower administration also planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow | in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry out. |
| Vyvyan Holland | ... ut when Hesketh Pearson wrote Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946). In 1954 | published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties W ... |
| Arthur Askey | ... e through the twentieth century music hall circuit were Morecambe and Wise, | , Ken Dodd and Max Miller, who was considered to be the quintessential mus ... |
| André Masséna | In 1810, a newly-enlarged French army under Marshal | invaded Portugal. British opinion both at home and in the army was negativ ... |
| Scott Brown | ... d in 2008, is John Kerry. The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is | |
| 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 ... |
| Captain Atom | ... o editorial mandate, such as "Gregori Eilovotich Rasputin" in Firestorm and | (who refers to Constantine as "an impertinent bumbler in England") and "Am ... |
| Baron Carrington | ... o lived in Cliveden, Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Cliveden, | who lives in Bledlow, Benjamin Disraeli who lived at Hughenden Manor and w ... |
| Hafez al-Assad | ... ing even a limited defeat on the Israelis, the status quo could be altered. | , the leader of Syria, had a different view. He had little interest in neg ... |
| Phil Collins | ... n Vevey (there is a memorial statue of him along the promenade). Pop singer | lives in a home overlooking the lake. Rock band Queen owned and operated M ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... solo as Beverley Kutner and had worked with artists such as Nick Drake and | . Her second album with Martyn was The Road to Ruin, also released in 1970 ... |
| Han Solo | ... long with Nick Nolte, Walken was considered by George Lucas for the part of | in ; the part ultimately went to |
| John F. Kennedy | ... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by | to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... 13. Luo himself was a member of the Tongmenghui, an organization founded by | and was the precursor to the Kuomintang |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... ter the Babi Yar massacre was carried out and the conference was chaired by | . He was acting under the authority given to him by Reichsmarschall Göring ... |
| Gustav Schwarzenegger | ... tened Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger. His parents were the local police chief, | (1907–72), and Aurelia (née Jadrny; 1922–1998). His father served in World ... |
| Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) | ... rsian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire. In 330 BC, | invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gau ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Gambon | ... , Going Gently (1981), Ghosts (with Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and | , 1987), Make and Break (with Robert Hardy, 1987), Can You Hear Me Thinkin ... |
| Reagan | ... 1989, Dole was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President | . Then, on January 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded him the Presidentia ... |
| Gummo | ... awn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Chico's younger brother | is in a crypt across the hall from him |
| Mel Gibson | ... ch, New Hampshire. In the late summer and fall of 2008, various scenes from | 's film Edge of Darkness were shot on Church Street |
| Józef Franczak | ... s. Stanisław Marchewka "Ryba" was killed in 1957, and the last AK partisan, | "Lalek," was killed in 1963 – almost 2 decades after World War II ended. I ... |
| Israel Putnam | ... years later during a British raid on Greenwich on February 26, 1779 General | , who had stayed at Knapp's Tavern the previous night, rode away on his ho ... |
| Cole Porter | ... came when choreographer Michael Kidd cast her as the second female lead in | 's musical Can-Can (1953), starring French prima donna Lilo. Out-of-town r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cimon | ... heir control over Cyprus, and 200 ships were sent out to counter them under | , who returned from ostracism in 451 BC. He died during the blockade of Ci ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Peel | ... ed extensively on the radio in the UK, particularly by disc jockeys such as | (who championed alternative music on BBC Radio 1), Richard Skinner, and . ... |
| Wilfred Owen | At Craiglockhart, Sassoon met | , a fellow poet who would eventually exceed him in fame. It was thanks to ... |
| Geddy Lee | ... r colour. The error was not corrected on subsequent printings of the album. | admitted in the 2010 documentary film that he thought bandmates Alex Lifes ... |
| Terry Pratchett | ... prin died of a myocardial infarction at home in his bed on May 22, 2008,. A | novel and his reading glasses were found next to him. He was to have been ... |
| Drew Carey | The show's current on-air staff is led by host | , announcer George Gray and a cast of four models. Bob Barker hosted the s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yang Hucheng | ... rred to Shaanxi again for suppression in 1936, where he worked with General | , who used to be a general of Northwestern China Army and a favorite of Fe ... |
| Philip C. Wehle | ... ilitary District of Washington during those funerals was Army Major General | and the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role durin ... |
| Xenophon | ... be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC), | (c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Political Science") (384–32 ... |
| Hannibal | | was a faithful worshiper of Melqart: the Roman historian Livy records the ... |
| Yahya Khan | ... economic downfall and internal instability. Ayub Khan's successor, General | (President from 1969 to 1971), had to deal with a devastating cyclone whic ... |
| Imelda Staunton | ... ench, as Miss Matty Jenkins, co-starred with Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon, | and Francesca Annis, in the BBC One five-part series Cranford. The series ... |
| Richard Burton | ... he first known Westerners to find the lake were the Great British explorers | and John Speke, in 1858. They located it while searching for the source of ... |
| Zhang Qian | Even before Han's expansion into Central Asia, diplomat | 's travels from 139 to 125 BCE had established Chinese contacts with many ... |
| Victoria Wood | Walters first received notice as the occasional partner of comedienne | , whom she had briefly met in Manchester. The two first worked together in ... |
| Mike Hancock | ... House of Commons by, respectively, a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, | , and a Conservative MP, Penny Mordaunt |
| 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 ... |
| Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... assoon's life, and was made into a film starring James Wilby as Sassoon and | as W. H. R. Rivers, the psychiatrist responsible for Sassoon's treatment. ... |
| Pericles | In 454 BC, the Athenian general | moved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep ... |
| Ammianus Marcellinus | ... that the Delphic Pythia sent a lord of Croton to be cured of a chest wound. | (XXII.8) attributes the healing to waters (aquae) on the island |
| Tommy Cooper | ... fessional entertainment. Eric Sykes, Peter Sellers and the other Goons, and | all began their careers this way. The rise of the postwar comedians coinci ... |
| Geddy Lee | All songs written by Alex Lifeson, | and Neil Peart, except where noted |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alex Lifeson | All songs written by | , Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, except where noted |
| Chaim Herzog | According to | |
| Noël Coward | ... , making Alan Ayckbourn rich and earning him a congratulatory telegram from | . This was not quite the end of Ayckbourn's hit-and-miss record, because h ... |
| Thomas J. Jackson | ... w commanding the armed forces of Virginia, ordered him to report to Colonel | at Harper's Ferry. Jackson chose to ignore Stuart's infantry designation a ... |
| George MacDonald Fraser | Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by | (1925–2008), but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schoolda ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chester A. Arthur | ... ng newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from | to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all ... |
| Neil Peart | All songs written by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and | , except where noted |
| Timothy McVeigh | ... in American history. The Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, in which | and Terry Nichols detonated an explosive outside of the Alfred P. Murrah F ... |
| John Paul Stevens | ... f law students ... Students now put 'Federalist Society' on their resumes." | , who served throughout Scalia's tenure until his 2010 retirement; says of ... |
| Juliet Stevenson | In 1992 Bailey directed the BBC Drama "Who Dealt?" starring | , story by Ring Lardner. In 1995 he directed and wrote the South Bank Film ... |
| John Kerry | ... ently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator, (Democrat) | and junior senator Republican Scott Brown |
| Burgess Meredith | ... was one of the first episodes written for The Twilight Zone. It introduced | to the series; he went on to star in three more episodes, being introduced ... |
| Neil Peart | ... mitted in the 2010 documentary film that he thought bandmates Alex Lifeson, | and he were "pretty high" during the making of Caress of Steel |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Sellers | ... time concert parties and moved into professional entertainment. Eric Sykes, | and the other Goons, and Tommy Cooper all began their careers this way. Th ... |
| Robert Morley | ... h Poirot investigating the murders while evading the attempts by Hastings ( | ) and the police to get him out of England and back to Belgium |
| The A-Team | ... other releases of various other Universal series, such as Magnum, P.I. and | ). Quantum Leap: The Complete Third Season and Quantum Leap: The Complete ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was | 's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and w ... |
| Alex Lifeson | Geddy Lee admitted in the 2010 documentary film that he thought bandmates | , Neil Peart and he were "pretty high" during the making of Caress of Stee ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Durrell | ... tos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and of British naturalist/humorist | |
| David Wooster | ... tal Army supply depots in Danbury on April 22, 1777. American Major General | (1710–1777), who was born in Stratford |
| Bill Scott | ... ted television series, where she worked with her Rocky & Bullwinkle co-star | for the final time until his death in 1985 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hugh Laurie | In the movie Spice World, Hercule Poirot ( | ) is about to blame a weapons-packing Emma Bunton, but after she flashes h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jim Davidson | ... later Sally James, it also featured the young Lenny Henry and occasionally | together with Bob Carolgees and his puppet, Spit the Dog. John Gorman, for ... |
| Scott Ritter | ... affaji, and Iraqi-American businessman to produce a film by ex-UN inspector | discrediting the weapons searches |
| 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 ... |
| Sun Quan | ... t the end of the 2nd century AD, paving the way for the Three Kingdoms era. | , the founder of the Kingdom of Wu, spent nearly twenty years subduing the ... |
| 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, ... |
| Michael Palin | ... peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and | . The dedication displays photos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and ... |
| John Kerry | In the 2004 US presidential campaign, Howard Dean defined | as a "flip-flopper," which was widely reported and repeated by the media, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eric Sykes | ... wise) in wartime concert parties and moved into professional entertainment. | , Peter Sellers and the other Goons, and Tommy Cooper all began their care ... |
| Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria | ... conveyed. An attempt supported by a wide coalition of parties, to establish | , as a Staatskommisar with dictatorial powers in 1932 to counter the Nazis ... |
| Varro | ... ure in general; that is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. | , Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical L ... |
| Ken Dodd | ... twentieth century music hall circuit were Morecambe and Wise, Arthur Askey, | and Max Miller, who was considered to be the quintessential music-hall com ... |
| Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. | ... ly very different. The likely model for Goldfinger was American gold tycoon | , who Fleming had met in 1949. Englehard had established a company, the Pr ... |
| Richard Burton | ... t University College, Oxford, for six months. There he met his contemporary | , and together they joined the RAF in 1944. He completed his navigator tra ... |
| Jay Van Andel | Amway co-founder, | (in 1980), and later his son Steve Van Andel (in 2001) were elected by the ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... o planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which | was left to carry out. |
| Scott Brown | ... nate by senior Senator, (Democrat) John Kerry and junior senator Republican | |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas MacArthur | Jayu (Freedom) Park- The statue of General, | , as well as a memorial to the centennial anniversary of U.S. and Korea re ... |
| 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 ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... ation in the rubble of a ruined world" and tells of Henry Bemis , played by | , who loves books, yet is surrounded by those who would prevent him from r ... |
| George Formby | ... kiffle and American rock'n'roll. Acquiring an old ukulele and a copy of The | Method, he played his first chord. He later recalled, "I was thunderstruck ... |
| Frederick Brownell | ... nal design was adopted on 15 March 1994, derived from a design developed by | , who had also designed the Flag of Namibia. The proclamation of the new n ... |
| Michael Gambon | ... of his own. Using a stock company that included established performers like | , Polly Adams and Simon Cadell. The three plays became four, and were: Ton ... |
| Pompey | ... rful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Crassus, his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, | . The First Triumvirate ("three men"), had satisfied the interests of thes ... |
| Tom Selleck | ... McKellen. In 1984, Seymour appeared nude in the film Lassiter, co-starring | , but the film was a box office flop. In 1987, Seymour was the subject of ... |
| David Cuthbert Thomas | ... f the reasons for his violent anti-war feeling was the death of his friend, | (called "Dick Tiltwood" in the Sherston trilogy). He would spend years try ... |
| 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. ... |
| Eumenes II of Pergamon | ... mies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC the Roman armies and those of | besieged and sacked it |
| Shmuel Gonen | On October 7, David Elazar visited | , commander of the Israeli Southern front—who had only taken the position ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Scofield | ... as Othello, although the role continued to be played by such performers as | at the Royal National Theatre in 1980, Anthony Hopkins in the BBC Shakespe ... |
| General William Sherman's | ... r, the Confederacy commandeered the iron works for production of munitions. | Union Army soldiers destroyed the Tellico Iron Works. Sherman pardoned Eli ... |
| E. H. Shepard | ... publication of The Tao of Pooh. Both books feature the original drawing of | . The Te of Piglet details Piglet's exemplification of the Taoist concept ... |
| Donald Sutherland | ... s as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Livesey as the Shepherd, and | as the Leading Member of the Chorus. Sutherland's voice, however, was dubb ... |
| Charlton Heston's | ... al warfare and only a handful of humans and a cult of mutants remain alive. | character is a scientist who is being targeted by the mutants who wish to ... |
| Edward VIII | ... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of | . Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ... |
| Bob Newhart | Other notable comics from this era include Woody Allen, Shelley Berman and | . Some African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George Kirby, Bill Co ... |
| Charles II of England | ... e Edward Morgan was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration of | in 1660. Henry Morgan married his uncle's daughter Mary, a cousin. Morgan ... |
| Arrian | ... the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to | , but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... GMC). Central to this was a group of German scientists and engineers led by | that had originally been brought to America by Colonel Holger Toftoy under ... |
| George Vancouver | In 1793 | named Point Adolphus (today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) afte ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... nt—who had only taken the position three months before at the retirement of | —and met with Israeli commanders. The Israelis planned a cautious countera ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Stone | Additionally, Lemmon and Matthau had small parts in | 's 1991 film, JFK (the only film in which both appeared without sharing sc ... |
| General Grievous | ... ddition to a brief appearance as Orn Free Taa, Wood plays the voice-role of | , a role originated by voice-actors John DiMaggio and Richard McGonagle in ... |
| Charles XIV John | ... mself with the liberal opposition critical of the conservative rule of King | |
| 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 |
| Christopher Myngs | ... cousin. Morgan was reportedly the "Captain Morgan" who joined the fleet of | in 1663. He was part of the expedition of John Morris and Jackmann when th ... |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... United States Supreme Court on several occasions. However, in 1874, Colonel | led an expedition into the Hills and announced the discovery of gold on Fr ... |
| Lysimachos of Thrace | ... sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, Philip II of Macedon in 350 BC; later by | , the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC th ... |
| Captain Blood | ... ere never linked romantically. The eight films in which they co-starred are | (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Ho ... |
| Parmenion | ... He sent an advance force into Asia Minor under the command of his generals | and Attalus to "liberate" the Greeks living under Persian control. After t ... |
| Chen Tang | ... s rival claimant to the throne, Zhizhi Chanyu (r. 56–36 BCE), was killed by | and Gan Yanshou (甘延壽/甘延寿) at the Battle of Zhizhi, in modern Taraz, Kazakh ... |
| Hyder Ali | ... sore for 300,000 rupees. After the death of Krishnaraja Wodeyar II in 1759, | , Commander-in-Chief of the Mysore Army, proclaimed himself the de facto r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Narses | ... ), which brings the history to 552/553, when a Roman army led by the eunuch | finally destroyed the Ostrogothic kingdom. This eighth book covers campaig ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of | . The author claims to have consulted all the best authorities, the most i ... |
| W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee | ... ee, and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacing the wounded Brig. Gen. | ) between the Union army and Washington, moving north through Rockville to ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Gehry | ... a museum for contemporary art and design, housed in a building designed by | , has been open to the public since May 2005. Its exhibits change regularl ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President | . Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from considera ... |
| Anthony Hopkins | ... by such performers as Paul Scofield at the Royal National Theatre in 1980, | in the BBC Shakespeare television production on videotape. (1981), and Mic ... |
| Elaine Paige | ... of Cats, but was forced to pull out due to a torn Achilles tendon, leaving | to play the role. She has acted with the National Theatre in London where, ... |
| Marcos Pérez Jiménez | ... as the ninth country in the world to have television, introduced in 1952 by | . By 1963 a quarter of Venezuelan households had television; a figure risi ... |
| George W. Bush | President | made note of the anniversary in a written statement, part of which echoed ... |
| Saladin | In 1187 | took Ashkelon as part of his conquest of the Crusader States following the ... |
| Richard Aldington | ... da Doolittle (who had started signing her work H.D.) and her future husband | . These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially S ... |
| Frank Kelly Freas | ... Skeeve and Aahz, with the book Another Fine Myth. Originally illustrated by | , and later by Phil Foglio, the highly pun-driven books follow a "demon" m ... |
| Ronald Reagan | In 1988, Congress passed and President | signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U. ... |
| Richard Nixon | | (1913-1994) was the 37th President of the United States |
| Amos T. Akerman | ... el Webster. Cabinet members of American presidents include Attorney General | , Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... ublican county. It was one of only three counties in the state to be won by | in 1964. Along with Lincoln County it is the only county in Washington tha ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... risis and social unrest. Into this turbulent scenario emerged the figure of | . Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Cra ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, | , The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling ... |
| Simon Mann | ... would open the country's mineral wealth to the plotters. British aristocrat | , a former officer in the Special Air Service, led the plot, which also in ... |
| Myronides | ... them to return home via the Megarid. Two months later, the Athenians under | invaded Boeotia, and winning the Battle of Oenophyta gained control of the ... |
| Hamilcar | ... ld Hannibal he had been sent by supreme deity, Melqart, to guide the son of | to Italy. “Follow me,” said the ghostly visitor, “and see that that thou l ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walter Krueger | ... ifornia and Texas. In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General | , Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He ... |
| the Queen | ... her ministers in cabinet, is appointed by the governor general on behalf of | . However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maint ... |
| Virgil Earp | ... from the scene by Wesley Fuller. Even if Tom wasn't armed with a revolver, | testified Tom attempted to grab a rifle from the scabbard on the horse in ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... g defeated Democrats that year was McFarland, who lost to then-little-known | , Johnson's future presidential opponent |
| John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brow |
| JFK | ... adversary Papa Midnite, a Vodun shaman. He is accompanied by the spirit of | , who has to hold his brain in place from his infamous wound. He eventuall ... |
| Judson Kilpatrick | ... n the city of Baltimore. The head of Stuart's column encountered Brig. Gen. | 's cavalry as it passed through Hanover and scattered it on June 30; the B ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. President | formally dedicated the MSFC |
| Hume Cronyn | ... s Ruth in Marvin's Room (1996), co-starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, and | . In 1999, Verdon served as artistic consultant on a plotless Broadway mus ... |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... lternatives to this policy during the Great Depression is an open question. | became Reichspräsident in 1925 |
| Henry H. Arnold | At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. | , commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effec ... |
| Porfirio Díaz | During the regime of | from the 1800s to the 1900s, major economic changes occurred. These change ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Kitchener | ... ifference of opinion with the British military Commander-in-Chief in India, | , regarding the status of the military member of the council in India, led ... |
| Peter Molyneux | ... annual 'Game Gods' feature, alongside such notables as Roberta Williams and | |
| 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 ... |
| Eisenhower | ... eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. President | |
| Leonard T. Gerow | ... ge of Pacific Defenses under the Chief of War Plans Division (WPD), General | , and then succeeded Gerow as Chief of the War Plans Division. Then he was ... |
| Smith Hempstone | ... were no longer tolerated. Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador | , to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991 |
| Mel Gibson | ... at Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of | 's antisemitic comments. As an ice hockey fan, Leary hosted the National H ... |
| 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 ... |
| Belisarius | ... ining books cover the Gothic War (Latin De Bello Gothico), the campaigns by | and others to recapture Italy, then under the rule of the Ostrogoths. This ... |
| Moira Anderson | ... d by a large number of showbusiness personalities and, at Wisdom's request, | sang "Who Can I Turn To," which was specially arranged for the occasion by ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... via comes from the Latin for "sea mew", as used by ancient Roman naturalist | |
| Randy Weaver | ... ana Freemen standoff in 1996, the government's $3.1 million settlement with | and his surviving children four months after the bombing, and April 2000 s ... |
| Stompin' Tom Connors | ... uck, Lennie Gallant and Two Hours Traffic. The celebrated singer-songwriter | spent his formative years in Skinners Pond. A March 4/4 for bagpipes was c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Karl Bendetsen | ... tem from racial prejudice rather than evidence of actual malfeasance. Major | and Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, head of the Western Command, each q ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son, Neoptolemus. | , son of the Epirote princess Olympias, could therefore also claim this de ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... with whom tourist attractions have been established: for example the author | who included many local features and characters in his works |
| Eugène de Beauharnais | ... for this accession of dignity was the marriage of his daughter Augusta with | . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon |
| John Kerry | ... sachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by Senators | and Scott Brown |
| Narses | ... efensive, and in 548, Justinian relieved him in favor of the eunuch general | , of whom he was more trustful |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Neil Finn | ... eep lyrically and get to some root emotion down there.” Explains Collins, “ | [of Crowded House] once said, ‘A great producer is someone whom you admire ... |
| Field Marshal Montgomery | ... beret suppliers to the armed forces during World War II, including famously | |
| 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 ... |
| Emlyn Williams | ... Academy Award, and instead made The Corn Is Green (1945) based on a play by | . Davis played Miss Moffat, an English teacher who saves a young Welsh min ... |
| Arrian | ... ut Darius was still outflanked, defeated, and forced to flee. It is told by | that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces und ... |
| J.E.B. Stuart | ... Union cavalry under Judson Kilpatrick encountered Confederate cavalry under | and a sharp fight ensued in the town and in farm fields to the south, part ... |
| Timoleon | ... ed in 344 BC, when it was one of the first cities that declared in favor of | after his landing in Sicily. At a later period we find it mentioned as esp ... |
| Pat Robertson | ... . Bush in the Iowa caucus—Bush finished third, behind television evangelist | . However, Bush recovered in time to defeat Dole in the New Hampshire prim ... |
| Richard III of England | ... hers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King | ), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daugh ... |
| John C. Frémont | Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, | , reported after the gunfight, "Many of the very best law-abiding and peac ... |
| Pat Barker | The novel Regeneration, by | , is a fictionalised account of this period in Sassoon's life, and was mad ... |
| John L. DeWitt | ... evidence of actual malfeasance. Major Karl Bendetsen and Lieutenant General | , head of the Western Command, each questioned Japanese American loyalty. ... |
| Pevsner | ... uding most of the black-and-white buildings, is Victorian, a result of what | termed the "black-and-white revival" |
| George Washington | ... bout historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, | 's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebell ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... es, including three votes cast for the deceased Greeley. However, President | , the Republican incumbent, had already won an absolute majority of electo ... |
| John Dingell | ... Mason, Kicking Daisies and The Explorers Club will perform and Congressmen | and Edward Markey will speak |
| Mark Antony | ... the dictator's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague, | . Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and Marc ... |
| 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 |
| Lloyd Fredendall | ... ans by his subordinates. He also was initially indecisive in his removal of | . He became more adroit in such matters in later campaigns. In February 19 ... |
| 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 |
| Thomas Gilbert | ... usenstern, and French captain Louis Duperrey, after a British captain named | , who crossed the archipelago in 1788 when sailing from Australia to China |
| Belisarius | ... ld and certainly would not pass up the opportunity. In 535, he commissioned | to attack the Ostrogoths. Belisarius quickly captured Sicily and then cros ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... s a minister in French governments, 1945–1958. He was minister of supply in | 's government (1945) and minister of public works (1947–1950) in various g ... |
| Leo Marks | When | was appointed codes officer of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in L ... |
| James Whale | Rich, shadowy photography echoed | 's expressionistic Frankenstein films, emphasizing the family's ghoulishne ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard III of England | ... er sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and | |
| Phil Collins | ... award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards. The award was presented by his friend | . The BBC website says of Martyn, "his heartfelt performances have either ... |
| 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. ... |
| Blue Ensign | As was the case throughout the British Empire, the Red and | were the official flags for merchant and government vessels at sea, and th ... |
| Bernard Montgomery | In a visit made sometime before the attack, | had told the British army commander in Palestine, General Sir Evelyn Barke ... |
| Harold Challenor | ... th Williams in mind for Truscott. His other inspiration for the role was DS | |
| Perdiccas | ... exander's death in 323 BC, Antigonus also received Pamphylia and Lycia from | , regent of the empire, at the Partition of Babylon. He incurred the enmit ... |
| Red Ensign | File:South Africa Flag 1910-1912.svg|The | was South Africa's de facto national flag 1910-1928 |
| Gaius Suetonius Paulinus | ... victory at the Battle of Watling Street in 61 AD between the Roman governor | and the Briton leader Boudica |
| William Brydon | ... wers. During a series of attacks by Afghan warriors, all Europeans but one, | , were killed on the march back to India; a few Indian soldiers survived a ... |
| Moshe Dayan | ... been buried. In July 1950, the shrine was destroyed at the instructions of | |
| Nathanael Greene | ... Hobkirk Hill was fought between around 1,400 American troops led by General | and 950 British soldiers led by Lord Francis Rawdon on April 25, 1781. The ... |
| William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk | His paternal grandparents were | and Alice Chaucer. Suffolk was an important English soldier and commander ... |
| Chaim Herzog | ... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.) | placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... ances have either suggested or fully demonstrated an idiosyncratic genius." | was quoted as saying that Martyn was, "so far ahead of everything, it's al ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | | 's novel (1969) was a satirical novel that used some elements from his exp ... |
| Arthur Conolly | The term "The Great Game" is usually attributed to | (1807–1842), an intelligence officer of the British East India Company's S ... |
| John McCain | In the 2008 elections | received 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for gov ... |
| King George VI | ... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by | . The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ... |
| Frank Finlay | ... a case of stage fright that was so profound that when he was alone onstage, | (who was playing Iago) would have to stand offstage where Olivier could se ... |
| General George Crook | ... ing sick that tents had to be set up to quarantine them. Also in that year, | pursued the Sioux Indians from the Battle of Little Big Horn on an expedit ... |
| Virgil Earp | | was ambushed on the streets of Tombstone on the evening of December 28, 18 ... |
| Belisarius | ... onstantinople in 542. They also cover the early career of the Roman general | , Procopius' patron, in some detail. The next two books, the Vandal War (L ... |
| Linford Christie | The 100 m Olympic Gold and Silver medallist, | of Great Britain famously had frequent false starts that were marginally b ... |
| Lord Chamberlain | ... mportant English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, and later | of England. Alice Chaucer was a daughter of Thomas Chaucer, Speaker of the ... |
| William Marshal | ... Life of William Marshal, which dates to soon after 1219, when word reached | , one of the richest and most influential barons, that Richard was dead, h ... |
| Memnon of Rhodes | ... re. Following Alexander's victory at Issus, the Persian mercenary commander | ordered a counter-attack into Asia Minor in an attempt to sever Alexander' ... |
| Henry III of France | ... pt the Sabbath and feast-days as best they could, and prayed together. King | confirmed the privileges granted them by Henry II of France, and protected ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... ch was released December 24, 2004. Included is an audio-only interview with | as well as the clip of The Drew Carey Shows parody of the episode |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 famed newspaper publisher | , who had purchased The New York World and quickly transformed it into one ... |
| Mark Antony | ... colleague, Mark Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general | and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Caesar's best friend, established the Second ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Vancouver | | explored Puget Sound in 1792. Vancouver claimed it for Great Britain on 4 ... |
| Plutarco Elías Calles | ... regón’s and his allies’ (primarily Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Benjamín Hill and | ) resistance to Carranza. This movement soon came to dominate the politica ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... fall of the Qin Dynasty, however, civil war broke out between two warlords, | and Liu Bang; the Minyue king Wuzhu sent his troops to fight side-by-side ... |
| 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 ... |
| Archytas | ... s observances and scientific pursuits, while individuals, as in the case of | , acquired now and then great political influence. Concerning the fate of ... |
| Pliny | ... coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities; and | gives it the title of a Colonia. It is probable that it received a colony ... |
| Joachim Peiper | ... he Italian Fourth Army were regrouping in Piedmont, near the French border. | 's mechanised III Battalion, SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 2, was sent to di ... |
| Belisarius | ... etail. The next two books, the Vandal War (Latin De Bello Vandalico), cover | ' successful campaign against the Vandal kingdom in Roman Africa. The rema ... |
| Alexander the Great | In 334 BC, | began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Per ... |
| Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick | With the support of his cousin | ("The Kingmaker"), Edward defeated the Lancastrians in a succession of bat ... |
| Gore Vidal | ... or McVeigh typically described his deed as an act of war, as in the case of | 's essay The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh. Other journalists compared him to ... |
| Adam von Krusenstern | ... in island chain was named the Gilbert Islands in 1820 by a Russian admiral, | , and French captain Louis Duperrey, after a British captain named Thomas ... |
| John Pelham | ... ksburg, Stuart and his cavalry—most notably his horse artillery under Major | —protected Stonewall Jackson's flank at Hamilton's Crossing. General Lee c ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... to grosso has been used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, | , Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, He ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... ning the Silk Road between the East and the West came with the expansion of | 's empire into Central Asia. In August 329 BCE, at the mouth of the Fergan ... |
| Louis Duperrey | ... ands in 1820 by a Russian admiral, Adam von Krusenstern, and French captain | , after a British captain named Thomas Gilbert, who crossed the archipelag ... |
| Pedro Albizu Campos | ... the abolition of slavery and protest the incarceration of their leader, Dr. | , in a federal prison on charges of sedition |
| 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 ... |
| Frederick Brownell | ... t had been used since 1928. The new national flag, designed by State Herald | , was chosen to represent the new democracy |
| John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brown |
| Samuel de Champlain | ... rers and settlers frequently mentioned Passenger Pigeons in their writings. | in 1605 reported "countless numbers," Gabriel Sagard-Theodat wrote of "inf ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... f Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under | . During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figu ... |
| David Beckham | ... e city of Tirana his appearance at the training ground overshadowed that of | . He appeared on the pitch before the start of the Albania v England match ... |
| 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 ... |
| Huo Qubing | ... ault culminated in 119 BCE at the Battle of Mobei, where the Han commanders | (d. 117 BCE) and Wei Qing (d. 106 BCE) forced the Xiongnu court to flee no ... |
| George Shearing | ... s with such musicians as Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, | , Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She appeared in the documentary Jazz on ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stewart Farrar | ... Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In the 1970s, the Alexandrians Janet Farrar and | decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much of the Gardnerian ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... , Israel, India, and undemocratic anti-communist states such as Spain under | , South Africa under apartheid, Greece under the military junta (1967–74), ... |
| Chief Butler of England | ... as a daughter of Thomas Chaucer, Speaker of the Commons on three occasions, | for almost thirty years, and granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 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 ... |
| Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange | ... ant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to | from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1 ... |
| Michael Palin | ... yika featured in the documentary series Pole to Pole. The BBC documentarian | stayed on board the MV Liemba and traveled across the lake |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| George V | ... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 and | announced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ... |
| John Peel | ... lt was released, this being a collection of the single, radio sessions with | for Radio One and live performances - one of which was recorded by an audi ... |
| Andrew Johnson | ... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President | |
| Cal Tjader | ... ians as Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, George Shearing, | , and Thelonious Monk. She appeared in the documentary Jazz on a Summer's ... |
| Barry Humphries | ... his soul, but repeatedly tricks him. The film features cameo appearances by | as Envy and Raquel Welch as Lust. Moore composed the soundtrack music and ... |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | The Newberry Historic Court House was burned by | 's Troops during the Civil War |
| Robert Graves | ... oits. On 27 July 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; the citation read: | described Sassoon as engaging in suicidal feats of bravery. Sassoon was al ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the | 's brother Henry Wellesley and later - in one of the period's more celebra ... |
| Wei Qing | ... t the Battle of Mobei, where the Han commanders Huo Qubing (d. 117 BCE) and | (d. 106 BCE) forced the Xiongnu court to flee north of the Gobi Desert |
| Ian McKellen | ... be. In 1982, she appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and | . In 1984, Seymour appeared nude in the film Lassiter, co-starring Tom Sel ... |
| Charlotte Rampling | ... t in the shadow of the Karen Ann Quinlan case. The movie stars Paul Newman, | , Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, and Lindsay Crouse |
| Ariel Sharon | ... ed Operation Gazelle, was launched on October 15. IDF forces spearheaded by | 's division broke through the Tasa corridor and crossed the Suez Canal to ... |
| Oliver North | ... conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, George Wallace, Henry Ford, and | ; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, H. L. Mencken ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walter Matthau | Lemmon often appeared in films partnered with actor | . Among their pairings was 1968's The Odd Couple, as Felix Ungar (Lemmon) ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Henry Wellesley | ... e of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington's brother | and later - in one of the period's more celebrated scandals - married Well ... |
| Hafez al-Assad | ... rown out of the window of a three-story building and Syrian police loyal to | (Assad and Orabi were "close friends"), suspected Arafat was involved in t ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... . Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of | and Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in huma ... |
| Phil Collins | ... an unbearable sense of loss we must announce that John died this morning." | paid tribute, saying: "John's passing is terribly, terribly sad. I had wor ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... hysics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit, and the laser. | developed his theories of black holes and the boundary-condition of the un ... |
| Jack Warden | ... he Karen Ann Quinlan case. The movie stars Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, | , James Mason, Milo O'Shea, and Lindsay Crouse |
| 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 ... |
| William IV | ... eat, death, or resignation. The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was | , who dismissed Lord Melbourne in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 201 ... |
| Marc Caron | ... personnel and also in military justice. Retired Canadian Lieutenant General | also served for a time as Security Sector Reform advisor to the head of MO ... |
| Michael Parkinson | ... s to have been a disappointment. He was replaced after only two episodes by | , the start of Parkinson's career as a chat show host. Parkinson later ask ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ali Abdullah Saleh | ... ion of Yemen. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for President | to resign |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... the Charlottetown Festival, hosted at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. | , who was born in Clifton (now New London) in 1874, wrote some 20 novels a ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | A World War II French Resistance leader and a close ally of | , Pineau was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and survived Buchenwald conce ... |
| 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 ... |
| Attalus | ... vance force into Asia Minor under the command of his generals Parmenion and | to "liberate" the Greeks living under Persian control. After they took the ... |
| George Martin | ... lbum, Only Visiting This Planet, the first album in a projected trilogy, in | 's London AIR Studios. Only Visiting This Planet, which was "Initially coo ... |
| Patrick Stewart | ... Asda's Christmas 2007 TV advertising campaign. She also appeared alongside | in UK Nintendo DS Brain Training television advertisements, and in a Publi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward VII | Since the reign of | a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ... |
| Colin McKay Grierson | ... Allied Expeditionary Force two days after the raids, British Air Commodore | told journalists |
| George Vancouver | ... of the region known to Americans as the Oregon Country). Named for Captain | , the fort was located on the northern bank of the Columbia River in prese ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... ies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General | . He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over question ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Juan José Flores | ... uccession of rulers. The first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born | , who was ultimately deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Gore | ... facing on to the mate's mess were assigned to Lieutenants Zachary Hicks and | , ship's surgeon William Monkhouse, the gunner Stephen Forwood, ship's mas ... |
| Zhang Xueliang | ... the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Marshal | , a former warlord of Manchuria, then Japanese-occupied Manchukuo |
| Ian McKellen | ... focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both | in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices. " ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... n of Sharpsburg, where they engaged Confederate troops commanded by General | at the Battle of Antietam |
| 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 ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... ed by her monster boyfriend in what turns out to be a movie within a dream. | 's story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is about a rich bachelor who f ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... nto the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life". | read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Acco ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Graves | ... n written, one of which, Count Belisarius, was written by poet and novelist | in 1938 |
| Jefferson Davis | ... s and sent them by steamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenants | and Robert Anderson |
| 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 ... |
| John Maclear | ... outh, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval officers included Commander | . Under the scientific supervision of Thomson himself, she travelled nearl ... |
| Chiwetel Ejiofor | ... Warehouse in London on 4 December 2007, directed by Michael Grandage, with | as Othello, Ewan McGregor as Iago and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona. Despite t ... |
| Charlotte Rampling | ... nting by the artist Michel Granger that was given to him by his future wife | . The painting showed the Earth peeling to reveal a skull and Jarre obtain ... |
| Peter Sellers | ... ondescension"; one senior cleric discussing Luciani said "they have elected | ." Critics contrasted his sermons mentioning Pinocchio to the learned inte ... |
| Herbert Marshall | In 1938, Robeson appeared in a well-received two-month run of | 's Plant in the Sun,. The play deal with sit-down strikes and union organi ... |
| Al Gore | While serving in the Army, | was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, | in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example |
| Daniel Morgan | ... f the daughters of the original owners, Kate Moore, was a scout for General | during the Battle of Cowpens |
| Adam Johann von Krusenstern | ... Empire. After attending the St Petersburg school of cadets, he accompanied | on his voyage of 1803–1806. On promotion to lieutenant, Kotzebue was place ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frederick Sanger | The first protein to be sequenced was insulin, by | , in 1949. Sanger correctly determined the amino acid sequence of insulin, ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Nares | ... oratories for natural history and chemistry. The expedition, led by Captain | , sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval office ... |
| Guillermo Rodríguez Lara | ... cial government. It was made a province by presidential decree by President | on 18 February 1973. The province is divided into cantons, each covering c ... |
| Emperor Wu | ... stability eventually led to the dynasty's destruction. However, its founder | was considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northe ... |
| Alec Guinness | ... t in the Potteries have been made into films (for example The Card starring | ) and television mini-series (such as " " and " ") |
| James Wolfe | ... teenth century, is evident from the fact that General (then Lieut.-Colonel) | , writing from Paris in 1752, speaks of the people there using umbrellas f ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| A. A. Milne | Piglet is a fictional character from | 's Winnie-the-Pooh books. Piglet is Winnie-the-Pooh's closest friend among ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Dodge | ... the war, Congress created the Mounted Ranger Battalion under the command of | , which was expanded to the 1st Cavalry Regiment in 1833 |
| Drew Carey | ... from wearing fake eyeglasses designed to look similar to those worn by host | , though this restriction was later relaxed. Instead, contestants will oft ... |
| Ian Carmichael | ... d a fifth album, The Lost Star through Pebble Records, mixed by a returning | |
| George V | ... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King | , responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... i industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that Benito Mussolini and | attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 she disguised her ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... nd kingdoms ruled the region: the Persian Achaemenid Empire around 519 BCE, | 's empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya ... |
| James Cook | Captain | , in one of his voyages, sees some of the natives of the South Pacific Isl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph McMoneagle | ... t nuclear research facility by Pat Price's (Kress 1977/1999, Targ 1996) and | , a description of a new class of Soviet strategic submarine by a team of ... |
| James Cook | The name Anchor Point comes from a legend that when | discovered the area, he lost an anchor. Settlers came beginning in the ear ... |
| Noël Coward | ... ined a King's Scholarship, Gielgud trained briefly at RADA and understudied | in Coward's The Vortex at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead under the dire ... |
| Bernard Levin | ... nedick in John Barton's "British Raj" revival of Much Ado About Nothing. As | wrote in The Sunday Times: "...demonstrating once more that she is a comic ... |
| George V | ... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon. | , who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ... |
| Mary Whitehouse | Walters played | in the BBC Drama , an adaptation of the real-life story of Mrs. Whitehouse ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Cook | ... as reputed to be Commodore John Byron in 1765, the immediate predecessor of | 's more famous explorations of the Pacific between 1769-1779. With the gro ... |
| Clark Gable | ... n debut was in Algiers (1938). Her many films include Boom Town (1940) with | and Spencer Tracy, Comrade X with Gable, White Cargo (1942), and Tortilla ... |
| Richard Stokes | ... l countries at the time, but also reached the British House of Commons when | , a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), a long term opponent of area-b ... |
| William Lamport | ... robably the most famous Irishman ever to reside in Mexico is the Wexfordman | , better known to most Mexicans as Guillen de Lampart, precursor of the In ... |
| Vanessa Redgrave | ... hen Frears, it starred Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and | as Peggy Ramsay. Alan Bennett wrote the screenplay |
| Patrick Stewart | In 1997, | took the role of Othello with the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, ... |
| Rupert Brooke | ... this time his younger brother Hamo was killed in the Gallipoli Campaign. ( | , whom Siegfried had briefly met, died on the way there.) Hamo's death hit ... |
| Bob Hope | The fathers of modern American stand-up comedy, Jack Benny, | , George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all came from vaude ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... d from Dartmouth in 1924. Theodor Geisel, better known as children's author | , was a member of the class of 1925 |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | After | failed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
| Jack Benny | The fathers of modern American stand-up comedy, | , Bob Hope, George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all came ... |
| Stewart Farrar | ... r of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and Janet and | . In other Wiccan traditions and amongst a number of solitary practitioner ... |
| Daniel Inouye | ... of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and | |
| David Elazar | Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and General | met at 8:05 am the morning of Yom Kippur, six hours before the war began. ... |
| Joe Cocker | ... r, Serj Tankian, Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, | , John McLaughlin, Brazzaville, The Alan Parsons Project, Jethro Tull, Akv ... |
| Joe Fafard | ... site, at Albert Street near 23rd Avenue. Donald M. Kendrick, Bob Boyer and | , now with significant international reputations, have been other artists ... |
| Bacurius | ... imperial scholae of shield-archers under the command of the Iberian prince | attacked, but lacking support they were easily pushed back. Then the Roman ... |
| Donald Sinden | ... n's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with | as Beatrice and Benedick in John Barton's "British Raj" revival of Much Ad ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Graves | ... 1915, and in November was sent to the 1st Battalion in France. There he met | and they became close friends. United by their poetic vocation, they often ... |
| 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 ... |
| Glenn Miller | ... the most famous and first was (I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo" (1942) by the | band with Tex Beneke. This #1 popular song was written by Mack Gordon and ... |
| Nader Shah of Persia | ... Kandahar in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani, an Afghan military commander under | and chief of the Abdali tribe. After the death of Ahmad Shah in about 1773 ... |
| Columbo | ... for their ability or tendency to ad-lib, such as Peter Falk (of the series | ), who would ad-lib such mannerisms as absent-mindedness while in characte ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Eddie Albert | ... n career. It stars Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Carl Esmond, and | |
| Harry Hays | ... a rearguard action against Stuart's cavalry and the infantry of Brig. Gen. | 's division near Auburn on October 14. Stuart's cavalry boldly bluffed War ... |
| Arthur Lowe | ... m through his life (one can be seen in the 'Monty on the Bonty' sketch with | ) |
| Patricio Lynch | ... pied Lima during the War of the Pacific in 1881, they put in charge certain | , whose grandfather came from Ireland to Argentina and then moved to Chile ... |
| W. T. Tutte | ... recorded as being studied by R. L. Brooks, C. A. B. Smith, A. H. Stone and | at Cambridge University |
| Alexander | ... er made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, including two of | 's generals Nicanor and Philip. Another famous example come from the Thugg ... |
| Nathan Hale | ... ovember 19, 1778, at which the Reverend Enoch Hale, brother of American spy | , was chosen to be the town's first ministe |
| Harold E. Puthoff | In the early 1970s, | and Russell Targ joined the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at S ... |
| Moshe Dayan | Golda Meir, | , and General David Elazar met at 8:05 am the morning of Yom Kippur, six h ... |
| Christopher Monck | When Thomas Lynch died in 1684, his friend | was appointed to the governorship and arranged the dismissal of Morgan's s ... |
| Horace | ... British politics and Whig values. However, it was the figures of the poets | , Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus ... |
| Kara Hultgreen | ... several cases. However, fatal aircraft crashes have occurred; in 1994, Lt. | , the first female F-14 Tomcat pilot, was killed while attempting to land ... |
| John Maclear | ... most senior officer present throughout the entire expedition, was Commander | . Willemoes-Suhm died and was buried at sea on the voyage to Tahiti. Lord ... |
| George Montgomery | She was briefly engaged to German actor Fred Doederlein, and later to actor | in 1942 |
| Rogers Morton | ... ths later. By December 1973, at the invitation of Secretary of the Interior | , Norman had agreed to participate in a concert to promote the Johnny Hori ... |
| Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | ... on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty. The task was given to | , at the time a colonel in the Russian army, who travelled to China with F ... |
| Professor X | ... the Marvel Universe, the X-Men are widely regarded to have been named after | avier himself. Xavier however claims that the name "X-Men" was never chose ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... th extreme volume and distortion. In the avant rock domain examples include | 's use of feedback, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and Sonic Youth. Other ... |
| George Custer | ... valry Field was repulsed by Union cavalry under Brig. Gens. David Gregg and | |
| Spike Milligan | ... omedy sections were originally intended to be performed by a cast including | and Peter Ustinov, but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once th ... |
| Judson Kilpatrick | ... War, the Battle of Hanover was fought on June 30, 1863. Union cavalry under | encountered Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart and a sharp fight ensu ... |
| Walter Matthau | Spacey loosely based Lester's early "schlubby" deportment on | . During the film, Lester's physique improves from flabby to toned; Spacey ... |
| Gustav Graves | ... ast a radio adaptation of Goldfinger with Toby Stephens (who played villain | in Die Another Day) as Bond, Ian McKellen as Goldfinger and Stephens' Die ... |
| Richard of Gloucester | Although his son was quickly barred from the throne and replaced by | , Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of ... |
| Solomon Spalding | ... Porter, Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Caleb Sprague Henry, Arthur Whipple Jenks, | , and Joseph Tracy; and rabbis Marshall Meyer, Arnold Resnicoff, and David ... |
| David Gregg | ... ttack on East Cavalry Field was repulsed by Union cavalry under Brig. Gens. | and George Custer |
| Alexander the Great | ... t by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons. | traced his ancestry (through his mother) to Aeacus |
| Victoria Wood | ... f the public's 50 Greatest Stars, coming four places above frequent co-star | . Also in 2006, she starred in the film Driving Lessons alongside Rupert G ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... cal acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and | 's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming and ... |
| King Charles II | By 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with | , who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ... |
| Peter Ustinov | ... originally intended to be performed by a cast including Spike Milligan and | , but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once they realised he co ... |
| George V | ... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from | both as Prince of Wales and as king |
| Louis Isidore Duperrey | Kiribati was named in French by captains Krusenstern and | "îles Gilbert", Gilbert Islands, after the British Captain Thomas Gilbert, ... |
| Thucydides | ... stic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were Herodotus and especially | , and their subject matter was secular history. They avoided vocabulary un ... |
| Wade Hampton | ... sus. It is named for American Civil War general and South Carolina governor | |
| Richard III | Prior to his succession, on 22 June 1483, | declared that Edward V was illegitimate, and three days later the matter w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arnold Resnicoff | ... ipple Jenks, Solomon Spalding, and Joseph Tracy; and rabbis Marshall Meyer, | , and David E. Stern |
| John Felton | ... an Old Portsmouth pub by a veteran of Villiers' most recent military folly, | . The murder took place in the "Greyhound" public house (popularly known a ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... Unexpected spoof "Tales Of The Much As We Expected". This involved Cook as | , explaining his name had been Ronald before he dropped the "n". The cast ... |
| Stan Lee | In early 1963, with the success of Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy, Creator | devised the series title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... .. did not feel that the group attracted the wrong element". Vice President | said of The Beach Boys, "They're my friends and I like their music". When ... |
| Jorge Rafael Videla | ... ach church's entries for the poor churches in the Third World. The visit of | , president of the Argentine junta, to the Vatican caused considerable con ... |
| Bruce McCandless II | ... a laser harp. Jarre worked with several Houston-based astronauts including | , and former Jazz musician Ronald McNair, who was to have played the saxop ... |
| Jack Lemmon | ... postures to portray the stages. Before filming, Mendes and Spacey analyzed | 's performance in The Apartment (1960), because Mendes wanted Spacey to em ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas MacArthur | Johnson reported to General | in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group ba ... |
| Thomas Henry Tizard | ... sons of Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour). Also among the officers was | who had already carried out important hydrographic observations on previou ... |
| Charles Aznavour | ... night. The city has played host to many world-famous musical acts including | , Cher, Serj Tankian, Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep P ... |
| Elvis Presley | His two-volume biography of | , in 1994, followed by in 1999, placed the story of Presley's career into ... |
| Ian McKellen | ... oby Stephens (who played villain Gustav Graves in Die Another Day) as Bond, | as Goldfinger and Stephens' Die Another Day co-star Rosamund Pike as Pussy ... |
| Adolphus Frederick | ... named Point Adolphus (today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) after | , seventh son of King George III. In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a c ... |
| Edward VII | In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later | ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... ision film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by | from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... mi-presidential system, developed at the beginning of the Fifth Republic by | , are used in France, Finland, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka and several post ... |
| Shmuel Gonen | ... sed all of their crossing equipment along the canal. He then called General | , who replaced him as head of Southern Command, and expressed his certaint ... |
| 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. ... |
| Simon Schama | ... "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", but according to historian | this is incorrect: he accepts the account of the contemporary biographer E ... |
| Ormsby M. Mitchel | On the morning of April 11, 1862, Union troops led by General | seized Huntsville to sever the Confederacy's rail communications. The Unio ... |
| James Reese Europe | ... tern United States, a "hot" style of playing ragtime had developed, notably | 's symphonic Clef Club orchestra in New York which played a benefit concer ... |
| George W. Bush | On December 13, 2001, | gave Russia notice of the United States' withdrawal from the treaty, in ac ... |
| Michael Gambon | ... kins in the BBC Shakespeare television production on videotape. (1981), and | in a stage production at Scarborough directed by Alan Ayckbourn in 1990. G ... |
| Francis Younghusband | ... e Wakhan and provoked a diplomatic incident by ordering the British Captain | to leave Bozai Gumbaz in the Little Pamir. This incident, and the report o ... |
| Lawrence of Arabia | ... sly begun to support Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of the Hejaz by seconding | in 1915. The Saudi Ikhwan began conflict with Emir Feisal also in 1917 jus ... |
| Philip Pullman | ... rry Potter series), and later had a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of | 's novel The Ruby in the Smoke. In the summer of 2006, she published her f ... |
| Ty Cobb | In 1905, the team acquired | , a fearless player with a mean streak, who came to be regarded as one of ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... hy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch, | , has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertak ... |
| Benjamin Harrison | ... chool District. Harrison City is named after former United States President | |
| Robert Graves | ... il Murderer (1913), was a parody of John Masefield's The Everlasting Mercy. | , in describes it as a "parody of Masefield which, midway through, had for ... |
| Ariel Sharon | On the day before the war, General | was shown aerial photographs and other intelligence by Yehoshua Saguy, his ... |
| Tan Daoji | ... s reign, Emperor Wen was less than able. He wrongfully executed the general | , who had hiherito commanded the Song armies, and took charge himself. The ... |
| Walter Matthau | ... ery in Westwood, California where he is buried near his friend and co-star, | , who died almost exactly one year before Lemmon. In typical Jack Lemmon w ... |
| Frank W. Mayborn | ... on, with the last vote cast on Johnson's behalf by Temple, Texas, publisher | , who rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee. T ... |
| John Desmond | In 1953, | opened the first architectural firm in Hammond. He was chief architect of ... |
| Ian Carmichael | ... (drums), Matthew Drummond (guitar) and James Moody (bass). Their producer, | , often played keyboards on their records. The group split up in 1995, pla ... |
| George Washington | During the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War, | and the Continental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 de ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The title character in | 's The Raven famously sits upon "a Bust of Pallas" |
| Pelham Aldrich | ... well as Nares and Maclear, others that were part of the naval crew included | , Lord George Granville Campbell, and Andrew Francis Balfour (one of the s ... |
| Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais | ... Hope. The Port is named in honour of King Louis XV. The first Governor was | |
| Nguyen Van Hinh | ... ained in Ecoles des Cadres such as Da Lat, including Chief of Staff General | who was a French Union airforce veteran |
| General DeWitt | A report by | and Colonel Bendetsen depicting racist bias against Japanese Americans was ... |
| David Railton | ... th religion. In Britain, under the Imperial War Graves Commission, Reverend | had seen a grave marked by a rough cross while serving in the British Army ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ian Carmichael | ... developing a more electronic sound, possibly as a result of their producer, | , who was a member of dance band One Dove |
| Christy Mathewson | ... d Saturday in August every year is recognized as a holiday in Factoryville. | Day celebrates the baseball Hall-of-Famer who was born in Factoryville on ... |
| Frank Marchant | ... of them". Sassoon wanted to play for Kent County Cricket Club; Kent Captain | was a neighbour of Sassoon. Siegfried often turned out for Bluehouses at t ... |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... mony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid of | in 281 BC, but this effort failed as well. In the 3rd century BC Rome had ... |
| Sergio Oliva | ... Olympia. His first attempt was in 1969, when he lost to three-time champion | . However, Schwarzenegger came back in 1970 and won the competition, makin ... |
| Jubal Early | ... at Gettysburg by proponents of the postbellum Lost Cause movement, such as | . This was fueled in part by opinions of less partisan writers, such as St ... |
| George Shultz | A "purge" of the State Department by | in early 1985, replacing conservatives with moderates, was heavily opposed ... |
| Alan Ayckbourn | ... (1981), and Michael Gambon in a stage production at Scarborough directed by | in 1990. Gambon had been in Olivier's earlier production. In an interview ... |
| John Reith | First hopes for the Empire Service were low. The Director General, Sir | (later Lord Reith) said in the opening programme: "Don't expect too much i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lucius Junius Brutus | ... when the last of the seven kings of Rome, Tarquin the Proud, was deposed by | , and a system based on annually elected magistrates and various represent ... |
| 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 ... |
| von Thielmann | ... chy engaged and defeated the Prussian rearguard under the command of Lt-Gen | in the Battle of Wavre (18–19 June) it was 12 hours too late. In the end, ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | In the wake of the mid 17th century Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, | deported many Irish prisoners of war into slavery or indentured labour in ... |
| Jane Seymour | After Falcon Crest, Wyman only acted once more, playing | 's screen mother in a 1993 episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Following ... |
| Sir Elton John | ... nd Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon. His godfather is | |
| 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 ... |
| Mary Quant | ... the war, Kangol berets were the height of fashion. In the 1960s, designers | and Pierre Cardin worked with the company, whose products graced the heads ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hans Herzog | The first complete mobilization, under the command of | , was triggered by the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. In 1875, the army was ... |
| David Zayas | ... ean Winters, Scott William Winters, Kirk Acevedo, Erik King, Evan Seinfeld, | , Lauren Vélez, and Edie Falco |
| Sir Richard Attenborough | Mountbatten was portrayed by Peter Harlowe in | 's 1982 epic Gandhi |
| Jackie Robinson | ... century, no Major League Baseball team employed an African American player. | became the first African American to play for a Major League Baseball team ... |
| Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | ... during the Napoleonic Wars, Catalonia was occupied by the troops of General | . The official Spanish army had evaporated, but popular resistance against ... |
| John Everett Millais | ... founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and | , and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of arti ... |
| William Holman Hunt | ... nter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with | and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
| Xenophon | ... eir internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of | , Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch ... |
| 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 ... |
| Evelyn Waugh | ... is brief role as a casket salesman in the film adaptation of The Loved One, | 's satire of the funeral business and movie industry in Southern Californi ... |
| Horace | ... on-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, | , Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized ... |
| Robert Skimin | In the 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory, author | depicts Stuart surviving his wound from the battle of Yellow Tavern. After ... |
| Marshall S. Carter | ... ur of learning that the Liberty had been torpedoed the director of NSA, LTG | , sent a message to all intercept sites requesting a special search of all ... |
| 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 ... |
| M. Jeff Thompson | St. Joseph Mayor | , William H. Russell and Alexander Majors gave speeches before the mochila ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marina Warner | The jury included musician Neil Tennant, author | , curator Fumio Nanjo and British Council officer Ann Gallagher, chaired b ... |
| A. A. Milne | In 1926 | wrote Winnie-the-Pooh, chapter stories about an adorable bumbling teddy be ... |
| Tony Hillerman | ... Korry, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists | and Daniel Silva. Naked City photographer Weegee and 60 Minutes creator an ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... rship roster of the most respected names in 20th century science, including | and many nobel laureates such as Charles Hard Townes |
| William Mahone | ... onflict through an elaborate ruse orchestrated by civilian railroad builder | (soon to become a famous Confederate officer). The Union forces withdrew t ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... in their home country and some parts of Europe, and even reached the ear of | , who took time out from his tour to jam with the duo, along with George C ... |
| John Coffee Hays | ... the spot Santa Cruz de Maya. Captain Samuel Highsmith, under the command of | , crossed the county in 1848 in an ill-fated expedition to open a road fro ... |
| Frank De Winne | ... flight by Russian cosmonauts Yuri Lonchakov, Sergei Zalyotin and Belgium’s | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... f this was the fictitious author Kilgore Trout, who appears in the works of | . In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called ... |
| Balcha Safo | ... n 1928, the authority of Ras Tafari Makonnen was challenged when Dejazmatch | went to Addis Ababa with a sizeable armed force. When Tafari consolidated ... |
| Clement Attlee | ... nomic activity. In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister | , Francis Beckett states: "the government... wanted what would become know ... |
| Rick Hillier | ... March 2006, in response to a request by Chief of the Defence Staff, General | , its commitment to open a franchised location at the Canadian Forces oper ... |
| Pervez Musharraf | ... ge number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. President | studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Best Actor. Co-star Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husband | for him, albeit unsuccessfully |
| Hanns-Martin Schleyer | ... nsslin and her comrades from prison. One attempt involved the kidnapping of | on 5 September 1977, and a proposed prisoner exchange. When this failed to ... |
| Cole Porter | ... e nomination for Best Actress, for her performance in the 2004 biography of | , De-Lovely, opposite |
| 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 ... |
| Aureolus | ... e Battle of Naissus. Later that year Gallienus traveled to Italy and fought | , his former general and now usurper for the throne. Driving Aureolus back ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | In his 1962 book Profiles of the Future, | predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain ... |
| George Washington | ... elphia in 1793. During his flight, Blanchard carried a personal letter from | to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to la ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frankie Lymon | ... Thomas' southern funk, doo-wop groups like the Coasters for the humour and | & the Teenagers |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ... f two different decades. They also had the best-selling album of the 1960s, | . No tracks from "Sgt. Pepper" appear on this album |
| Commandant of the Marine Corps | The Chief of Naval Operations and the | have separate staffs, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and Head ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Burne-Jones | ... sts and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and | . His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precurs ... |
| Tom Wilkinson | ... spoon (Cecily), Frances O'Connor (Gwendolen), Anna Massey (Miss Prism), and | (Dr. Chasuble). Parker's adaptation includes the dunning solicitor Mr. Gri ... |
| Saladin | ... such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and | , Avicenna has been recognized by both East and West, as one of the great ... |
| Julian Bashir | ... n "Devil in the Dark" (1967), saying, "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer." Dr. | (Alexander Siddig) from , The Doctor from and and Dr. Phlox from all use v ... |
| Sergei Zalyotin | ... ogram, and was replaced on the flight by Russian cosmonauts Yuri Lonchakov, | and Belgium’s Frank De Winne |
| Douglas MacArthur | General | , the Army’s Chief of Staff, believed that the 1921 mobilization plan was ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... of Balls Bluff took place near Leesburg on October 21, 1861. Future jurist | was critically wounded in that battle along the Potomac River. During the ... |
| Wang Mang | ... acter long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98% after the usurping | banned all two-character names outright. Although his Xin Dynasty was shor ... |
| Nicholas Katzenbach | | (1964–1965), Ramsey Clark (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as ... |
| Anna Massey | ... (Lady Bracknell), Reese Witherspoon (Cecily), Frances O'Connor (Gwendolen), | (Miss Prism), and Tom Wilkinson (Dr. Chasuble). Parker's adaptation includ ... |
| Arthur Balfour | ... nstitute. A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Minister | in October 1902. On the site previously had been cheap crowded inner-city ... |
| Branch Rickey | ... a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It happened mainly due to General Manager | 's efforts. The deeply religious Rickey's motivation appears to have been ... |
| Heydar Aliyev | The National Council conferred presidential powers upon its new speaker, | , former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party (1969–81) and ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... to contest elections and oppose the programs of Secretary for the Treasury | . Jefferson needed to have a nationwide party to counteract the Federalist ... |
| Ron Dennis | ... mula One teams Williams, McLaren, Brabham and Toleman. Peter Warr of Lotus, | of McLaren, and Bernie Ecclestone of Brabham made offers for testing in 19 ... |
| William Morris | ... generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably | and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harry Turtledove | In the alternate-history novel How Few Remain by | , Stuart is the commanding Confederate general in charge of the occupation ... |
| Thucydides | ... al affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, | , Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing ... |
| Richard III of England | ... y ship coming to an English port had to bring four bowstaves for every tun. | increased this to ten for every tun. This stimulated a vast network of ext ... |
| Franz Kutschera | ... ation of Poland (notable individuals assassinated by AK include Igo Sym and | ) |
| Lew Welch | ... s another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets like | and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl (1 ... |
| Philip Sidney | ... ongs of Divers Noblemen and Gentlemen", appended to Newman's edition of Sir | 's Astrophel and Stella, which appeared in 1591. In 1595 "Poemata, a colle ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lysander | | was the Spartan who after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE esta ... |
| Mr. T | ... h as Saturday Night Live (on a 10th-season episode hosted by Hulk Hogan and | ), and the 1984 film Special People. In 1985, he appeared at the first Wre ... |
| Gundobad | ... sted in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew | |
| Matthew Lyon | Republican editors, | , a member of Congress, and private individuals were targets of prosecutio ... |
| 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 ... |
| Brian Lamb | ... ed Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPAN founder | , ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silv ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of | but he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls "Maketa". The re ... |
| J.E.B. Stuart | ... ver. During the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, Confederate Major General | and Union cavalry clashed in the battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Uppervi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Gilbert | Captain John Charles Marshall together with | came to the islands in 1788. The islands were named after the first in the ... |
| Lester B. Pearson | ... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, | , at the party's leadership convention in 1958 |
| Elvis Presley | The great success of young rock stars like | and film stars like James Dean in the 1950s, as well as the wider emergenc ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... eneficiary of the rebellion due to its sheltering of the rebel ringleaders. | broke from other New Yorkers, including major landowners with claims on Ve ... |
| Nikolaus Pevsner | ... sidered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but Prof. | proposed a later date of about 1275, noting their triplets of Early Englis ... |
| Ricimer | ... a puppet ruler, put on the throne by the Roman general of Germanic descent | , and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held b ... |
| Nigel Mansell | ... McLaren had a vacancy for the 1984 season. Warr actually wanted to replace | with Senna at Lotus, but the title sponsor, Imperial Tobacco, wanted a Bri ... |
| Commandant of the Marine Corps | ... f of Naval Operations (CNO), and for matters regarding the Marine Corps the | (CMC). The CNO and the Commandant act as the principal executive agents of ... |
| John Charles Marshall | Captain | together with Thomas Gilbert came to the islands in 1788. The islands were ... |
| William Brennan | ... part of the most liberal wing of the Court, together with Warren, Douglas, | , and Arthur Goldberg. They said the Court had a role beyond that of Congr ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Brabourne | ... ception would more likely reflect response to the uncle than to the nephew. | counselled that the intense scrutiny of the press would be more likely to ... |
| Wesley Merritt | ... rsaw the supplying of the expedition to the Philippines under Major General | |
| Tommy Armour | ... atest Game Ever Played), and Arthur Havers. From America came Walter Hagen, | , Jim Barnes and Al Watrous |
| Samuel Eliot Morison | ... worst vice presidents in American history in a 2008 Time Magazine article. | wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the ... |
| John Ford | "They're the kind of twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in | 's westerns, Jack Kerouac's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues an ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | ... lso used, especially in the Middle East and Balkans (the initial attempt on | 's life was with a grenade). With heavy weapons, the rocket-propelled gren ... |
| Xenophon | ... y, a town of very great antiquity (Herodotus iv: 122). Gergis, according to | , was a place of much strength. It had a temple sacred to Apollo Gergithiu ... |
| 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 |
| Elvis Presley | ... e hits by different artists that followed this album; for example, ELV1S by | or Number Ones by the Bee Gees). On its back cover, the album also include ... |
| 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 ... |
| Agesilaus II | | was one of the two kings of Sparta during Sparta’s hegemony. Plutarch late ... |
| Maurice Denham | ... l", Richard Pasco as "Jack Worthing", Jeremy Clyde as "Algernon Moncrieff", | as "Rev. Canon Chasuble", Sylvia Coleridge as "Miss Prism", Barbara Leigh- ... |
| King George V | ... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was | ) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Anka | ... ian — and to artists who deliberately cultivated a (safer) idol image, like | . Anka initially modelled himself on a particular generic type, the teen i ... |
| Hugh Lofting | In 1920 | wrote The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the first of ten Doctor Dolittle books |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... nfamous for its many historical inaccuracies, one of which was that Stuart, | , and Philip Sheridan were firm friends and all attended West Point togeth ... |
| Captain Kirk | ... pair of warring adversaries (giving the examples of "cowboys and Indians or | and Klingons"), the song does contain the line "On the air America/I model ... |
| 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 ... |
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins | ... of the Beatles and the Who and southern soul artists like Otis Redding and | . Parliament is a funk/R&B band whose influences are the funky side of Hen ... |
| James Monroe | | constructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ... |
| George Washington | ... d tyrants. It is its natural manure." In contrast to Jefferson's sentiments | , who had been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in ... |
| William T. Sutherlin | ... ys. Jefferson Davis and the temporary Capital moved to the palatial home of | on April 3, 1865. It was in the Sutherlin home that Davis' issued his fina ... |
| Lady Brabourne | Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother (who was also his godmother), | , about his interest. Her answer was supportive, but advised him that she ... |
| Matthew Lyon | | , born in Ireland, was a Democratic-Republican congressman from Vermont. H ... |
| Victor Silvester | ... generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and | . These professionals analysed, codified, published and taught a number of ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included | and C. S. Lewis) and Richard Tarnas |
| Duperrey | ... slands were named after the first in the Russian (Krusenstern) and French ( | ) maps (1820), later in the English maps. However, they were claimed under ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ulrich Wille | A major manoeuvre commanded in 1912 by | , a reputed Germanophile, convinced visiting European heads of state, in p ... |
| George Washington | ... anklin, was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused | of incompetence and financial irregularities, and "the blind, bald, crippl ... |
| Richard Pasco | ... ay; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as "Lady Bracknell", | as "Jack Worthing", Jeremy Clyde as "Algernon Moncrieff", Maurice Denham a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zhuge Liang | ... y popularized two-character surnames and a number of important figures like | and possessed them. As of 2009, in the United States, 70,000 family names ... |
| Prince Philip | ... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and | , it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ... |
| 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 ... |
| John S. Mosby | ... d in the battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. Confederate partisan | based his operations in Loudoun and adjoining Fauquier County (for a more ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... ongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, | as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Rog ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ernest Carl Castle | ... June 5, General Yitzhak Rabin (then IDF Chief of Staff) informed Commander | , the American Naval Attaché in Tel Aviv, that Israel would defend its coa ... |
| Branch Rickey | ... nership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the shares of his co-owners, | and the John L. Smith. Before long he was working to buy new land in Brook ... |
| Robert Altman | ... s second film appearance was as a deaf mute hit-man for the mob in director | 's The Long Goodbye (1973), which was followed by a much more significant ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Collins | ... e and the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, identifying in particular | as the founder of the movement |
| Hyder Ali | However, during 1750-60 | from Mysore attacked Thrissur and was forced to become tributary of Mysore ... |
| Alcibiades | ... gis’ son Leotychidas was rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Athenian | .) One of Agesilaus’ biggest supporters was the famous Spartan naval comma ... |
| Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. Edward V's uncle | was declared Lord Protector while the prince was too young to rule. The 12 ... |
| Omar al-Bashir | ... ritarian state where all effective political power is obtained by President | and the ruling National Congress Party (NCO) |
| Roy Chadwick | ... lane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber | , while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... taste for the macabre combined with realism that influenced such authors as | (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charl ... |
| Sallust | The author's chief sources are Cicero, Livy, | and Pompeius Trogus, especially the first two. Valerius's treatment of his ... |
| Patrick Moore | ... laner as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as the voice of Deep Thought, | as the voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Bu ... |
| Sanjeev Bhaskar | ... ogramme, broadcast in late 2003. The film, directed by Deep Sehgal, starred | as Arthur Dent, alongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as t ... |
| Walter Devereux | ... he 16th century in Ireland, where it was used by English commanders such as | and Richard Bingham. Its most infamous use was by Humphrey Gilbert during ... |
| Phil Collins | ... for services to the music industry". May is a friend of singer and musician | and was a special guest at the Genesis reunion concert at Twickenham Stadi ... |
| Jon Corzine | ... ion, Republican Chris Christie received 70% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 21% |
| Jules Dumont d'Urville | ... ng island. The term was first proposed to distinguish the region in 1831 by | |
| Joan Collins | ... Burgess Meredith (the Penguin), Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and | (the Siren) added to the show's mass appeal. A two-part episode featuring ... |
| Richard Bingham | ... reland, where it was used by English commanders such as Walter Devereux and | . Its most infamous use was by Humphrey Gilbert during the wars against th ... |
| Robert Cummings | ... ing his later years. Hitchcock was forced to use Universal contract players | and Priscilla Lane, both known for their work in comedies and light dramas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus, | , and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, ... |
| Zheng Zhilong | Koxinga was born to | , a Chinese merchant and pirate, and Tagawa Matsu, a Japanese woman, in 16 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henri Guisan | ... obilization of the army took place during World War II under the command of | (see also Switzerland during the World Wars). The Patrouille des Glaciers ... |
| 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 ... |
| Al Calavicci | ... s that he's not who everyone in the past seems to think he is. Rear Admiral | (Dean Stockwell), a senior naval officer, Naval Aviator and Sam's best fri ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tom Wilkinson | ... nshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), alongside Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, and | . The latter film received very positive reviews, with Entertainment Weekl ... |
| John Cunningham | ... rodrome, and lasted 31 minutes. The pilot was de Havilland chief test pilot | , a famous night-fighter pilot of the Second World War; the test crew also ... |
| Sejanus | ... ich can fairly be called fulsome is the violently rhetorical tirade against | |
| Alain Prost | ... Lauda for second on lap 19. He quickly began to cut the gap to race leader | , but before he could attack Prost the race was stopped on lap 31 for safe ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | ... invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to | , German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini ... |
| Jon Corzine | ... ion, Republican Chris Christie received 68% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 21% |
| 1st Earl Roberts | ... military commanders: past examples included the 1st Viscount Nelson and the | |
| Germanicus | ... also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of the imperial family, | |
| 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 ... |
| Prunella Scales | ... e", Sylvia Coleridge as "Miss Prism", Barbara Leigh-Hunt as "Gwendolen" and | as "Cecily". The production was released on CD as part of the "Classic Rad ... |
| Ricimer | ... minated the state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and | . Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... yrus. The extraction of starch is first described in the Natural History of | around AD 77-79. Romans used it also in cosmetic creams, to powder the hai ... |
| Koxinga | ... erwhelmed the Ming Dynasty. In 1661, a naval fleet led by the Ming loyalist | , arrived in Taiwan to oust the Dutch from Zeelandia and establish a pro-M ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lloyd Tilghman | ... tching him. Little did Wallace know at that time the officer was Brig. Gen. | , whom Wallace would replace as commander of Fort Henry in a few days. Dur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dean Rusk | ... er the Liberty attack ended. In a message sent from U.S. Secretary of State | to U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Rusk asked for " ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nur ad-Din Zangi | After the failure of the Second Crusade, | had control of Damascus and a unified Syria |
| Alan Turing | ... ombinator is the Turing fixed-point combinator (named after its discoverer, | ) |
| 1st Viscount Nelson | ... ent for such remainders for military commanders: past examples included the | and the 1st Earl Roberts |
| Richard Griffiths | ... ement of Peter Jones by William Franklyn as the Book, and Richard Vernon by | as Slartibartfast, since both had died. (Homage to Jones' iconic portrayal ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... h a psychedelic rock touch whose influences include the amplifier sounds of | and Led Zeppelin, James Brown's funk, blues, Sun Ra's experimentation, Fra ... |
| Thomas Saltus Lubbock | ... he population was 278,831. Its county seat is Lubbock. Lubbock is named for | , a Confederate colonel and Texas Ranger (some sources give his first name ... |
| Gordon Ramsay | In June 2006, | , his production company, and his producer accepted an out-of-Court settle ... |
| William Holman Hunt | Following the exhibition of | 's painting The Eve of St. Agnes, Rossetti sought out Hunt's friendship. T ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... ebruary 1862, while preparing for an advance against Fort Henry, Brig. Gen. | sent two wooden gunboats (timberclads) down the Tennessee River for one la ... |
| Michael Sheen | ... it featured Judi Dench as "Lady Bracknell", Sir Michael Hordern as "Lane", | as "Jack Worthing", Martin Clunes as "Algernon Moncrieff", John Moffatt as ... |
| Władysław Sikorski | ... Tokarzewski. Seven weeks later, November 17, 1939, on the orders of General | , this organization was succeeded by Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Arm ... |
| Rehnquist | ... regulation. It was thus seen as a (narrow) victory for federalism when the | Court reined in federal regulatory power in United States v. Lopez (1995) ... |
| Aetius | ... as Oost believed in his article. Regardless, the powerful Magister militum | had forced Valentinian to betroth Placidia to his own son Gaudentius, so O ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | ... eator of the title android, in The Questor Tapes, written for television by | and Gene L. Coon and directed by Richard A. Colla, who, almost four years ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... e other space advocates such as actor Tom Hanks and author and futurist Sir | . In a 2007 interview with GQ magazine, Bass stated that he "absolutely" s ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... g Pink and The Band also influenced their musical contemporaries, with both | and George Harrison citing the Band as a major influence on their musical ... |
| Sting | ... us groups. In this aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and | was cast as Pontius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played ... |
| T. E. Hulme | ... ey – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – | – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry Ki ... |
| Henry Lipson | ... , Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist | |
| John McCain | ... nal level, Fairfield leans toward the Republican Party. In 2008, Republican | received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat Barack Obama received ... |
| Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma | Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: | (born on 14 February 1924), sometime lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II ... |
| Memnon | The Greek mercenary general | suggested to the Persian Satraps the use of the scorched earth policy agai ... |
| Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski | ... asions of Poland were nearing completion, on September 27, 1939, by General | . Seven weeks later, November 17, 1939, on the orders of General Władysław ... |
| Roland Nef | ... é Blattmann. Lt-Gen Blattmann replaced Lieutenant-General (Korpskommandant) | who resigned on July 25, 2008 following allegations of sexual harassment |
| J. K. Rowling | ... for fans. A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of | , where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kenny Wheeler | ... musicians (such as John Surman, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Albert Mangelsdorff, | and Mike Westbrook) anxious to develop new approaches reflecting their nat ... |
| Blas María de la Garza Falcón | ... s it that he placed a large wooden cross. Six years later another Spaniard, | , found the cross while conducting an expedition in the area and named the ... |
| Fu Qian | ... esigned for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd century commentator | added that this collapsible umbrella of Wang Mang's carriage had bendable ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... er, as well as the people that helped him in baseball. Because his idol was | , Henderson decided to use the words "greatest of all time." These words h ... |
| John Everett Millais | ... philosophy of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which they founded along with | |
| Ice-T | ... ck to the mid-1980s style of Philadelphia's Schoolly D and the West Coast's | , the style broadened and came to apply to many different regions in the c ... |
| Miriam Margolyes | ... rtin Clunes as "Algernon Moncrieff", John Moffatt as "Rev. Canon Chasuble", | as "Miss Prism", Samantha Bond as "Gwendolen" and Amanda Root as "Cecily". ... |
| John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
| Louis Antoine de Bougainville | ... thought was a southern continent. Europeans did not return until 1768, when | rediscovered the islands. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New ... |
| Epaminondas | ... eace on the mainland by sending diplomats to meet with Agesilaus in Sparta. | , the Theban diplomat, angered Agesilaus by arguing for the freedom of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Surendranath Banerjee | ... ial levels. Dadabhai Naoroji formed the East India Association in 1867, and | founded the Indian National Association in 1876 |
| 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 ... |
| George Martin | ... d an international reputation as a tourist getaway, and the record producer | established an important recording studio there, Associated Independent Re ... |
| Wang Mang | ... oldest reference to a collapsible umbrella dates to the year 21 A.D., when | (r. 9–23) had one designed for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... s daughter, Lisa-Marie, was born on September 17, 2002. She was named after | 's daughter |
| Horace | The chicory plant is one of the earliest cited in recorded literature. | mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simpl ... |
| Stilicho | ... century, to the powerful magistri militum who dominated the state, such as | , Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoac ... |
| William Dugdale | ... were destroyed, but not before the building was surveyed by the antiquarian | , who published his results in 1656 |
| Manuel A. Odría | In 1953, during the government of | , Vargas Llosa enrolled in Lima's National University of San Marcos, the o ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... irline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited on the set by the actor | . She commented that she had a "nerve" playing a woman in her sixties, to ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Coffee Hays | ... e 2010 census, its official population had reached 157,107. It is named for | , a Texas Ranger and Mexican-American War officer. The seat of the county ... |
| Al Calavicci | ... er people to "put right what once went wrong". Dean Stockwell co-starred as | , Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking sidekick and best friend, who appeared a ... |
| Elliot Richardson | ... is Oval Office conversations. Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General | , to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Deputy ... |
| Omar al-Bashir | ... c of Sudan was restructured following a military coup on 30 June 1989, when | , then a colonel in the Sudanese Army, led a group of officers and ousted ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Plant | ... 's The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again in 2009. In 2010, Miller again joined | and Patty Griffin with Robert Plant's Band of Joy, touring both the US and ... |
| John Boyd | ... e Korean War and as a fighter tactics instructor in the early 1960s Colonel | with mathematician Thomas Christie developed the Energy-Maneuverability th ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... quaintances in rhyme goes back to the dozens, and was portrayed famously by | in his boxing matches. The winner of a battle is decided by the crowd and/ ... |
| 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 ... |
| William J. Bratton | ... ation of the broken windows theory in aggressive policing policies, such as | 's zero-tolerance policy, has been shown to criminalize the poor and homel ... |
| James Stewart | ... e cut, and began the next take with the camera in the same place. Featuring | in the leading role, Rope was the first of four films Stewart would make w ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | 's final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the spring 1865. Here the ... |
| Sir Lawrence Bragg | ... y. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of | , who won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25. Bragg was influential ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, | and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventu ... |
| Mac Mahon | ... iment of Zouaves, were part of the Second Brigade of the Second Division of | 's Corps. The Foreign Legion acquitted itself particularly well against th ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President | — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ... |
| William L. McGonagle | With the outbreak of war, Captain | of the Liberty immediately asked Vice Admiral William I. Martin at the U.S ... |
| Archidamus III | ... off after Sparta’s defeat at Leuctra. Following Agesilaus’ death in 360 BC, | became king and practiced a policy of non-conflict between Athens and the ... |
| Albert, Prince Consort | ... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and | . His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Gibson | Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, | , Larry Hovis, Arte Johnson and Jo Anne Worley were originally in the pilo ... |
| Alexander I | In 1812 Czar | was able to render Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia useless by util ... |
| Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Lepage | ... n the April 2011 production of Die Walküre. The staging of Das Rheingold by | involved 24 identical wedges able to rotate independently on a horizontal ... |
| Isaac Stevens | ... ly formed Washington Territorial Government and signed into law by Governor | |
| Drew Carey | ... , pop singer Don Everly, and a version of the “Too Fat Polka” with comedian | |
| Joe Calzaghe | ... Bruno heavyweight championship fight at the Arms Park in 1993, and many of | 's fights, between 2003 and 2007 |
| Vitruvius | ... icae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of Xenophon and | ; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken nicknamed hi ... |
| Alain Prost | ... ost prominent among them, World Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, | , Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebas ... |
| Louis MacNeice | ... – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – | – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William ... |
| Ian Fleming | ... persuading Cubby that Sean Connery was the right man. James Bond's creator, | , originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisione ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... s is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and a Commonwealth realm with | as head of state (represented by a Governor-General) |
| Antonia Fraser | ... itle character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette. Adapted from | 's book , the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola. The mov ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ing commander-in-chief, and suggested two days later, on the anniversary of | 's assassination, that Clinton "better not show up around here [Fort Bragg ... |
| George Washington | ... Robert Rutherford, a Revolutionary War financier and an intimate friend of | . In 1799, Rutherford sold his Forks of Buffalo holdings to James Brown of ... |
| Owain Glyndŵr | One famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 when | fought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas. He strategically placed ... |
| John Dingell | During debate in the House of Representatives, Rep. | (Democrat of Michigan) argued that the bill would result in banks becoming ... |
| Prince Louis of Battenberg | ... itles were dropped in 1917. He was the youngest child and the second son of | and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. His maternal grandpa ... |
| Robert Novak | ... 1994, Helms created a sensation when he told broadcasters Rowland Evans and | that Clinton was "not up" to the tasks of being commander-in-chief, and su ... |
| Rumer Godden | ... ade The River, his first color film. Based on the novel of the same name by | , the film is both a meditation on human beings' relationship with nature ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Karl Diebitsch | ... and uniforms. The all-black SS uniform was designed by SS-Oberführer Prof. | and graphic designer SS-Sturmhauptführer Walter Heck. These uniforms were ... |
| Dan Rowan | At the end of every show, | turned to his co-host and said, "Say good night, Dick", to which Martin re ... |
| Prince Albert | ... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband | as well as on herself |
| Marshal Mannerheim | On the eve of the Winter War, when | once again threatened to resign from his post as chairman of Finland's Def ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... companies to be sued in American courts if, in dealings with the regime of | , they acquired assets formerly owned by Americans |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... h Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring | and Laurence Olivier |
| Leo Berman | ... al Area. The county is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by | (R) of Tyler. Its U.S. representative is Louie Gohmert(R), and the Texas S ... |
| Luke Skywalker | ... ightsaber was designed to match the lightsaber that Obi-Wan Kenobi gives to | , in |
| 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, ... |
| George Marshall | ... McCarthyism. In particular, Eisenhower was criticized for failing to defend | from attacks by Joseph McCarthy, though he privately deplored McCarthy's t ... |
| Xenophon | ... Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of | and Vitruvius; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken ... |
| Rupert N. Richardson | ... ander H. Stephens, the vice president of the Confederate States of America. | , the Texas historian who later served as president of Hardin-Simmons Univ ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... eau novel, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, starring Paulette Goddard and | . The Woman on the Beach (1947) starring Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan was ... |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | ... e of the Sith, Vader's lightsaber was designed to match the lightsaber that | gives to Luke Skywalker, in |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tariq ibn Ziyad | ... inates from the Arabic Jebel Tariq (meaning "Tariq's mountain") named after | . The Arab name for the Strait is Bab el-Zakat, meaning "Gate of Charity." ... |
| Cole Porter | Also in 1990, Erasure contributed the song "Too Darn Hot" to the | tribute album "Red Hot + Blue" produced by the Red Hot Organization. Later ... |
| The Duke of Edinburgh | ... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and | , and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ... |
| The Queen | ... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of | and The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... District Attorney, and ran unopposed in 2005. Although Suffolk voters gave | a victory here in 1992, the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and cont ... |
| Tim McManus | ... rom The Wizard of Oz. In this experimental unit of the prison, unit manager | emphasizes rehabilitation and learning responsibility during incarceration ... |
| Job Shattuck | One early protest against the government was led by | of Groton, who in 1782 organized residents there to physically prevent tax ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... college campuses. Special guest villains such as Cesar Romero (the Joker), | (the Penguin), Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and Joan Collins (t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Todd | ... hcock used a number of prominent British actors, including Michael Wilding, | , and Alastair Sim. This was Hitchcock's first production for Warner Bros. ... |
| Walther Schroth | ... and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The commander was General der Infanterie | |
| James Earl Jones | ... ain Vader's . His voice as the "robotic" Vader, however, was dubbed over by | , who first made it famous in the original trilogy |
| Arthur William Hodge | ... ts in the treatment of slaves within the Territory (the exceptional case of | notwithstanding) compared to other Caribbean islands, and to the large num ... |
| Alan Ayckbourn | ... diptych of Smoking/No Smoking (1993): Resnais, having admired the plays of | for many years, chose to adapt what appeared the most intractable of them, ... |
| Gehry Partners LLP | On October 12, 2004, the LMDC announced that | and Snøhetta, a Norwegian architectural firm, would design the site's perf ... |
| 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 ... |
| Spencer Christian | ... New York, whose co-hosts in the last years of its run in that form included | , Andrea Kirby, Judy Licht, Dick Wolfsie, and longtime Eyewitness News rep ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saladin | ... Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from | (Salāh ad-Dīn). It was largely successful, but fell short of its ultimate ... |
| Leo Glynn | Under McManus and Warden | , all inmates in Em City struggle to fulfill their own needs. Some fight f ... |
| Emma Peel | New female partner Mrs. | (Diana Rigg) debuted in this series, in October 1965. The name of the char ... |
| George Washington | ... 1784, the name "Charlotte County" was changed to Washington County to honor | , the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United ... |
| Vanessa Redgrave | ... of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with | and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alastair Sim | ... r of prominent British actors, including Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, and | . This was Hitchcock's first production for Warner Bros., which had distri ... |
| James Stewart | ... Universal-International pictures released The Glenn Miller Story, starring | . In 1953, Glenn Miller was voted into the Down Beat magazine Jazz Hall of ... |
| Rick Noriega | ... the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, State Representative | of Houston, who failed to unseat Republican incumbent John Cornyn |
| Mel Brooks | ... , including Jacques Tati with his Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and | with Silent Movie (1976). Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's acclaimed d ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... nti-Nazi film set in France, This Land Is Mine, starring Maureen O'Hara and | . Two years later, he made The Southerner, a film about Texas sharecropper ... |
| Orlando B. Willcox | ... he Southern Pacific Railroad. It was renamed in honor of a visit by General | in 1889. In the early 20th century, Willcox had the distinction of being a ... |
| Green Beret commando course | ... Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During 1980 he also took the Royal Marines | |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... ust a matter of creating the scene and trusting that it was worth telling." | , who had seen her in Nuñez's film, cast Judd in Natural Born Killers, but ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... es was sound engineer Roger Mayer, who supplied guitar pedals to Jeff Beck, | and Jimi Hendrix. In 1997 the electronic dance music magazine Mixmag descr ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... s were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and | 's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emil Maurice | ... the Nazi Party at rallies, speeches, and other public events. Commanded by | , and known as the Stabswache (Staff Guard), the original group consisted ... |
| Henry Knox | ... state, property, and that he did not have permission from Secretary at War | to do so |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... gineer Roger Mayer, who supplied guitar pedals to Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and | . In 1997 the electronic dance music magazine Mixmag described the Worksho ... |
| Charles II | Fuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to | . In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ... |
| Anakin Skywalker | ... ial to solidify the story that Lucas was trying to tell: The tragic fall of | and the rise of Darth Vader. In the final two films of the prequel trilogy ... |
| Milford Zornes | ... st influential were Phil Dike, Millard Sheets, Rex Brandt, Dong Kingman and | . The California Water Color Society, founded in 1921 and later renamed th ... |
| Charles Sargeant Jagger | ... nd is guarded by stone sculptures of machine gunners carved by the sculptor | . The memorial is inscribed |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | | 's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1937-1949) shares elements with De ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... the decisive Battle of Gaugamela in 330 BC against the advancing armies of | . The Achaemenids were decisively defeated by Alexander and retreated from ... |
| Peter Francisco | ... inia. As of 2010, the population was 17,146. Its county seat is Buckingham. | , an soldier, grew up in the county |
| Arthur C. Clarke | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by | and Frederik Pohl, Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subra ... |
| Prince Louis of Battenberg | ... 959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, | , some forty years earlier. Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence S ... |
| Joseph Wheeler | During the disembarkation, Shafter sent forward his cavalry division under | to reconnoiter the road to Santiago de Cuba. In a complete disregard of or ... |
| Michael Denison | ... irst in 1952 by Anthony Asquith who adapted the screenplay and directed it. | (Algernon), Michael Redgrave (Jack), Dame Edith Evans (Lady Bracknell), Do ... |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of | (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ... |
| King Charles II | In 1670 | granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ... |
| Robert Plant | ... the "AMA Instrumentalist Of The Year" award, which was presented to him by | and Alison Krauss. Miller was joined by Plant on a performance of a new so ... |
| Pliny the Elder | According to The Natural History of Pliny, by | (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor Tiberius had the cucumber on his ... |
| Jacques Chirac | ... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President | |
| Elizabeth II | ... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of | ). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ... |
| Jack Warden | ... er the last three years. As a favor, his former partner and friend Mickey ( | ) throws him a medical malpractice case where it's all but assured that th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... went on to co-found the Vorticists with his friend, the painter and writer | |
| George C. Marshall | ... f under Robert E. Lee) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general | resided at Dodona Manor in Leesburg. Essayist and journalist Russell Baker ... |
| Bill Tilman | ... xpeditions in 1950, after the Chinese asserted control over Tibet. In 1950, | and a small party which included Charles Houston, Oscar Houston and Betsy ... |
| Brian Clemens | ... were auditioned before the show's casting director suggested that producers | and Albert Fennell check out a televised drama featuring the relatively un ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sam Neill | ... he film's theatrical release, Wenders worked with multiple copies and, with | , recording additional narration, completed a 280-minute version. The long ... |
| William Lee Davidson | ... blishment of the Presbyterian Davidson College, named for Brigadier General | , a local Revolutionary War hero in Mecklenburg County. The land for David ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd | ... was hastily conducted, in only 10 days, even though the court’s president, | , said that it would take 6 months to conduct properly. The inquiry's term ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... life; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with | in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg. However, his endorsem ... |
| William Morris | His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired | and Edward Burne-Jones. Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti perso ... |
| General Benjamin F. Butler | Although | bought 12 and Admiral David Dixon Porter bought one, it wasn't until 1866 ... |
| Admiral David Dixon Porter | Although General Benjamin F. Butler bought 12 and | bought one, it wasn't until 1866 that the US Government officially purchas ... |
| Jack Churchill | ... e of a stiffened non-bending centre section, rather than a continuous bend. | is the only soldier credited with a longbow kill during World War II |
| Michael Palin | ... the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke | included in the script, in which he describes the character removing his m ... |
| Horace | ... l studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as | , Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acqui ... |
| John Peel | A version of "Two Tribes" was originally recorded for a BBC | session in October 1982. The session version makes clear that the basic st ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Burne-Jones | ... s of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired William Morris and | . Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti personally, but both were m ... |
| Richard Matheson | ... lm works was the music to The Omega Man, based upon the book I Am Legend by | and starring Charlton Heston. The soundtrack was not released on CD until ... |
| Robert Altman | ... er would later distance himself from the film due to the fact that director | changed the script so much |
| Dan Rowan | ... episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians | and Dick Martin and was broadcast by NBC. It originally aired as a one-tim ... |
| Ivan Reitman | ... r It for You Wholesale". Kindergarten Cop (1990) reunited him with director | , who directed him in Twins |
| William Shepard | ... hire County) organized an attempt to shut it down. They were anticipated by | , the local militia commander, who began gathering government-supporting m ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | Twain's younger contemporary | gained notoriety as a cynic, pessimist and black humorist with his dark, b ... |
| General Sherman | In the American Civil War, Union forces used the policy widely. | utilized this policy during his March to the Sea. In another Civil War eve ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... ty (c. 1000 B.C.) in China to Jimmu Tenno of Japan (perhaps c. 600 B.C.) to | (c. 360 BC) have assumed titles that reflect a filial relationship with de ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ezekial Hopkins | ... ands were a target for American naval forces under the command of Commodore | . The capital of Nassau on the island of New Providence was occupied by US ... |
| Charlton Heston | ... Omega Man, based upon the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson and starring | . The soundtrack was not released on CD until 2002 in a limited run of 3,0 ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... had joined the FBI and in the 1960s had contracted to the CIA to eliminate | using Mafia bosses Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. In late 1971, the P ... |
| Richard Burton | Their next Broadway production was Camelot. The production starred | , Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet.The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Sho ... |
| Alexander Spotswood | ... counties. The county was named in Latin for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia | |
| Vladimir Putin | ... Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President | on 25 July 2006 |
| Ariel Sharon | ... uld visit Schneerson and corresponded extensively with him. Menachem Begin, | , Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu - who was pre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pliny the Elder | According to | (The Natural History, Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Ancient Greeks grew cucum ... |
| Romuald Traugutt | ... ted to the Kingdom and lasted from January 1863 to the spring of 1864, when | , the dedicated last supreme commander of the insurgence, was captured by ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... cellorsville, the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania Court House. | was shot and mortally wounded in Spotsylvania County during the Chancellor ... |
| Joe Cocker | ... sted only during the South American support tour (supporting The B-52's and | ) on only five dates |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anthea Bell | ... translation of the books into English has been done by Derek Hockridge and | |
| George Washington | ... he site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads. | was served breakfast at Dobson's tavern on June 2, 1791. Joseph Kerner bou ... |
| Adolf Hitler | In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and | labelled Anthroposophy "Jewish methods." The anthroposophical institutions ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... the Achaemenid Persian Empire until the fall of the Empire in c. 333 BCE to | . The period under Persian rule after the construction of the second Templ ... |
| John Fogerty | ... in Chalk which was released in March 2009. He also was part of the band for | 's The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again in 2009. In 2010, Miller again joine ... |
| William Wyler | ... el (1938), and during production Davis entered a relationship with director | . She later described him as the "love of my life", and said that making t ... |
| Mary Whitehouse | ... ere criticized for their violent content by the press, commentators such as | and various religious organizations |
| Anakin Skywalker | On May 12, 2000, Christensen announced that he would be starring as | in the next two prequels (2002) and (2005). Director George Lucas had turn ... |
| George W. Bush | In late 2005 President | visited Kernersville's Deere-Hitachi plant to give a speech about the Amer ... |
| Omar al-Bashir | In December 1999, a power struggle climaxed between president | and NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament Hassan ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | to cut Robert E. Lee's final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the sp ... |
| Henry Mancini | ... ee week engagement on January 24, 1946. Future television and film composer | was the band's pianist and one of the arrangers. This ghost band played to ... |
| Benjamin Lincoln | ... reation of a privately funded militia army. Former Continental Army General | solicited funds, and had by the end of January raised more than £6,000 fro ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leslie Phillips | ... Blofeld and Fred Trueman as themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, | as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole, Sir Patrick Moore as hims ... |
| Thomas Picton | ... the left failed to storm La Haye Sainte, which was most well defended, and | 's division met the remainder of D'Erlon's corps face to face, engaging th ... |
| Pete Wilson | ... California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor | . Yet, political analysts have identified Schwarzenegger as a liberal, as ... |
| Keith Park | ... ied resistance in France collapsed, he worked closely with Air Vice-Marshal | , the commander of 11 Fighter Group, in organising cover for the evacuatio ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... scribed in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of | , and Roman consul Julius Caesar (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of R ... |
| Richard 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 ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... ntinued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President | ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and th ... |
| Robert Cummings | ... lates the evidence to pin the death on his wife. Her lover, Mark Halliday ( | ), and Police Inspector Hubbard (John Williams), work urgently to save her ... |
| Elton John | ... According to author Darden Asbury Pyron, "Liberace was the first gay person | had ever seen on television; he became his hero. |
| Bram Stoker | ... a major influence on later vampire fiction, particularly Dracula (1897) by | . Many of today's standard vampire tropes originated in Varney: Varney has ... |
| Neil Young | ... d a stellar list of guests, including other Canadian acts Joni Mitchell and | . Two of the guests were fundamental to The Band's existence and growth: R ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Loughran | ... ls Symphony Orchestra in 1972, when Symphonies Nos. 10 and 21, conducted by | and Eric Pinkett respectively, were recorded at the De Montfort Hall, Leic ... |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... 983 horror film Something Wicked This Way Comes, starring Jason Robards and | , is based on the Bradbury novel of the same name |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... e English song-cycle in his version of Tennyson's Maud a little previously. | produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, ... |
| Tom Watson | ... 4 (i.e. 1.2 MIPS), causing considerable embarrassment for IBM. In May 1961, | announced a price cut of all 7030s under negotiation to $7.78 million and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Horace | ... and of Cajamai. He then wrote the Art of Love, a poem; and in 1709 imitated | in an Art of Cookery, which he published with some letters to Lister. The ... |
| June Whitfield | ... an, BBC Radio cricket legends Henry Blofeld and Fred Trueman as themselves, | as the Raffle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man o ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Brantley Aycock | ... North Carolina. The law was immediately criticized by university Chancellor | and university President William Friday, but was not reviewed by the North ... |
| 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 ... |
| DeForest Kelley | ... . McCoy is a character in the Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by | in the , McCoy also appears in the , seven Star Trek movies, the pilot epi ... |
| Noël Coward | ... ic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with | , Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion; Be My Gu ... |
| Roussel de Bailleul | ... e. They included intrigues for the throne, the horrific fate of Romanos and | attempting to carve himself an independent kingdom in Galatia with his Fra ... |
| Frank Murphy | ... pport of cold war legislation was the 1949 deaths of Supreme Court justices | and Wiley Rutledge, leaving Hugo Black and William O. Douglas as the only ... |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... en by David Mercer, and a distinguished cast that included John Gielgud and | . The story shows an ageing, maybe dying, novelist grappling with alternat ... |
| Patrick Hastings | ... Warner Bros. She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir | , who represented Warner Bros. Hastings urged the court to "come to the co ... |
| Bill Roy | ... ne truly enthusiastic and well-financed challenger – in 1974 by Congressman | . Much of Roy's popularity was in response to the fallout from Watergate. ... |
| Joanna Lumley | ... ole of Steed, with two new partners, Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey ( | ). It aired on ITV in the UK in 1976-1977, CTV in Canada, CBS in the Unite ... |
| 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 ... |
| Olivia Newton-John | ... uran, Pat Benatar, Mary J. Blige, Bea Arthur, Dionne Warwick, Cyndi Lauper, | , Beenie Man, Pete Burns, Bow Wow Wow, and the Backstreet Boys were notabl ... |
| Suchet | ... ptain, and in 1809 - 1810 found opportunities for winning distinction under | in the eastern theatre of the Peninsular War, in which he rose to the rank ... |
| Stan Lee | ... e same name. Schwarzenegger inspired the character and co-developed it with | , who would have produced the series. Schwarzenegger would have voiced the ... |
| Patrick Caulfield | ... rd Deacon is awarded. Other nominees included graphic-style painter/printer | , Helen Chadwick, Richard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèsa Oulton. The p ... |
| Fred Trueman | ... s the Smelly Photocopier Woman, BBC Radio cricket legends Henry Blofeld and | as themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hact ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pat Robertson | ... ly Graham (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, | , and Jerry Falwell, whose Liberty University dedicated its Jesse Helms Sc ... |
| King William III | ... ounty was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for | and Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of t ... |
| Balcha Safo | ... cant, and its administration was left to Menelik's loyal general, Dejazmach | . Balcha Safo's administration of Harar was ineffective, and so during the ... |
| Marcos Pérez Jiménez | ... , though not yet cohesive. Already under the government of Division General | , the American influence (cultural, political and military) became more pr ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... arrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), | , Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democ ... |
| Ty Cobb | ... major career milestone. He broke Babe Ruth's record of 2,062 career walks, | 's record of 2,246 career runs, and Zack Wheat's record of 2,328 career ga ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... rock and roll with teenage delinquency. American rock and roll acts such as | , Little Richard and Buddy Holly thereafter became major forces in the Bri ... |
| John Paul Jones | ... minal prison, and the debtors' prison. One of its most famous prisoners was | , hero of the American navy, who was born in nearby Kirkbean |
| 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 ... |
| Pat Robertson | ... ral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and | . Most developed their own media networks, news exposure, and political in ... |
| Zheng He | ... prominent in the trading ports of the Song Dynasty. Later, Muslims such as | , Lan Yu and Yeheidie'erding became influential in government circles, and ... |
| Robert Plant | Buddy Miller toured as part of the band on | and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand tour of the USA and Europe, and with Emmy ... |
| Michael Caine | ... Stars Look Down in 1939, In the 1960s classic films such as Alfie starring | , The Italian Job in 1969 with Noël Coward, Roman Polanski's first English ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isaías Medina Angarita | ... lf), were the General in Chief Eleazar López Contreras and Division General | |
| George W. Bush | ... ewers by television executives), the Iraq War and other foreign policies of | and Tony Blair, British cuisine, and organic farming. He supports Britain' ... |
| John Winslow | ... to the summit. The state park and the Winslow Trail are named after Captain | , the commander of the USS Kearsarge, which in June 1864 sank the CSS Alab ... |
| Nicolas Roeg | ... music had been used for films previously (most notably, parts of Hymnen in | 's Walkabout in 1971), this was the first time he had been asked to provid ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... ed with before) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, | , Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond |
| James Anderton | ... ester Police which was at that time run by devout Christian Chief Constable | , police raids on video hire shops increased. However the choice of titles ... |
| John Keel | ... ally and most frequently reported in the 1950s and 1960s, some researchers— | and others—have suggested similarities between Men in Black reports and ea ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir | |
| Anish Kapoor | | received the prize for an untitled piece in sandstone and pigment. Other n ... |
| Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | ... their allied Dutch-Belgians, all stationed alongside the Prussian forces of | |
| Henry Jackson | ... assachusetts, where the rebellion had a polarizing effect. Richards records | 's observation that opposition to ratification in Massachusetts was motiva ... |
| Frederick Marryat | #The Phantom Ship by | (1792–1848) |
| 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 ... |
| Józef Piłsudski | ... nrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski and | active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively. ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to | , a longtime political rival |
| Charlotte Rampling | ... rld. The film, which also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland and | premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Dunst won the Best Actress Awa ... |
| Van Morrison | ... (and in most cases had worked with before) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, | , Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamo ... |
| Alan Turing | ... l offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel). | considers |
| Lynton Wilson | ... eforth, Valter Sanches, Manfred Schneider, Stefan Schwaab, Bernhard Walter, | , Mark Wössner, Manfred Bischoff, Clemens Börsig and Uwe Werner. Dr Manfre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Cameron Township is located in Senate Di ... |
| George Butterworth | ... ondon String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917. Between 1909 and 1911 | produced settings in two collections or cycles, as Six Songs from A Shrops ... |
| Nikolaus Pevsner | ... safety reasons. Hillsborough is the only football ground to be mentioned in | 's Buildings of England due to this stand. At the time of opening the stan ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | The relevant text is a handwritten cover letter, by | to Martin Luther of the Foreign Office, dated February 26, 1942, forwardin ... |
| William J. Bratton | In 1990, | became head of the New York City Transit Police. Bratton described George ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... ones. In addition to emperors, successful courtiers and politicians such as | also occasionally received posthumous titles |
| Baybars | ... l history of Ashkelon was brought to an end in 1270, when the Mamluk sultan | ordered the citadel and harbour at the site to be destroyed. As a result o ... |
| Clark Clifford | The | Report consists of a review of "all available information on the subject" ... |
| Jacques Chirac | On 12 July 2006, President | held an official state ceremony marking the centenary of Dreyfus's officia ... |
| Brian Cox | ... tland. The current Rector of the University of Dundee is the Scottish actor | , CBE. The current Rector of the University of Glasgow is Charles Kennedy ... |
| 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, ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | #The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir | (1859–1930) |
| Frank Gehry | ... ich opened in 1977, was a prominent example. As the decade drew to a close, | broke out in new direction with his own house in Santa Monica, a highly co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saeed Jaffrey | ... themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, | as the Man on the Pole, Sir Patrick Moore as himself, and Christian Slater ... |
| Ronald Colman | ... fe, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl. The film stars | , Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Wilson Benge, Joan Bennett ... |
| Aëtius | ... agistri militum who dominated the state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, | , Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the late ... |
| Lord Gambier | ... mudians had preceded him into senior ranks, including Bahamian-born Admiral | , and Bermudian-born Royal Marines Brigadier Harvey, who, when promoted to ... |
| Spock | ... kerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirk's other confidant, science officer | , and occasionally is bigoted toward Spock's Vulcan heritage. McCoy often ... |
| Elton John | ... 986. This style was also used for the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, with | singing the opening ballad and then after the taped operatic section, Axl ... |
| Adolf Hitler | Starting in the 1930s, | and Joseph Stalin murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-n ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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. ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... , in the Surrey home of Ze and Dave Markee, who had been the bass player in | 's band, Norman received prayer for his long-term health problems from Pas ... |
| Gillian Ayres | ... rather than an exhibition of work in 1989. Other nominees included painter | , figurative painter Lucian Freud, Italian-born sculptor Giuseppe Penone, ... |
| James T. Kirk | ... Coy was posted as chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise under Captain | who calls him "Bones". McCoy and Kirk are good friends, even "brotherly". ... |
| 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 ... |
| Glyn Charles Anglim Gilbert | ... ians served in the British armed forces. Among the latter was Major-General | , Bermuda's highest ranking soldier. After the war, he was instrumental in ... |
| Edward Bingham | ... the Admiralty in recognition of the valorious conduct of Commander The Hon. | whilst on board HMS Nestor while fighting in the Battle of Jutland in July ... |
| Rachel Whiteread | | was the winner for House, a concrete cast of a house on the corner of Grov ... |
| Horace | ... ucilius. The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are | and Juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire. Other im ... |
| 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 |
| Martin Niemöller | Lutheran pastor and theologian | , founder of the Confessing Church resistance movement against the Nazis, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cliff Richard | ... 58 Britain produced its first "authentic" rock and roll song and star, when | reached number 2 in the charts with "Move It". At the same time, TV shows ... |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... in 2003 but not released until 2005. Kilmer next appeared in the big budget | production, Alexander, which received poor reviews. Also in 2004, Kilmer r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles II | ... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of | in 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ... |
| Jan Smuts | ... ns was repealed and all Indian political prisoners were released by General | |
| Benito Mussolini | Between 1924 and 1945, | 's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... om he grew up watching on I Love Lucy re-runs. He is a self-described "huge | fan", devoting an entire room in his Jackson, Mississippi, estate to Seuss ... |
| Alan Plater | ... as featured in three British comedy drama television series, all written by | : The Beiderbecke Affair (1984), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987), and The Bei ... |
| 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 ... |
| Prince Albert | ... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of | . Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ... |
| Tommy Steele | ... tish rock and rollers soon began to appear, including Wee Willie Harris and | . During this period American Rock and Roll remained dominant, however, in ... |
| Saladin | ... army because of their anger for the massacre at Acre. It was believed that | even told the Crusaders to shield themselves in the Citadel until he had r ... |
| Pliny | ... yrus the Great (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to | 's evidence, Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) had destroyed Kapisa in Capiscene ... |
| elder brother | ... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his | , and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ... |
| Robert M. Kimmitt | Deputy Secretary of the Treasury | served as Acting Secretary of the Treasury from June 30, 2006, to July 9, ... |
| 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 |
| Richard Montgomery | ... ryon County was changed to Montgomery County in order to honor the general, | , who had captured several places in Canada and died attempting to capture ... |
| Jim Lovell | ... the 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book by astronaut | (the story's protagonist) and Jeffrey Kluger. Howard went to great lengths ... |
| Raymond Chandler | ... s preceding films. He approached Dashiell Hammett to write the dialogue but | took over, then left over disagreements with the director. Two men casuall ... |
| Pericles | ... in Glory and the Lightning (1974), Aspasia, mistress of the Athenian leader | |
| Anthony Eden | ... o met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister | the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion. In 1 ... |
| Rachel Whiteread | ... r nominees included abstract painters Ian Davenport, Fiona Rae and sculptor | |
| 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 ... |
| George Marshall | ... to prevent troopers in training from seeing it, for fear of morale. General | came to the film's defense, stating that because of the film's gritty real ... |
| Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville | ... ionary plans to thwart the other's activities. The French Canadian explorer | had, in the aftermath of the last war, developed a "Project sur la Carolin ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... stian Edward; born 19 February 1960), is the second son, and third child of | and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was sec ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... t about $450/person. Catching a fatal disease was a distinct possibility as | in 1852 learned when his unit of about 600 soldiers and some of their depe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Swigert | Astronauts Lovell, | and Fred Haise are launched aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon land ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander | It had taken | only six months to conquer Persia (Iran), but it took him nearly three yea ... |
| Jérôme Bonaparte | ... hey survived into the 19th century. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811. The last Freigraf died in 1835 |
| John Philip Sousa | ... typically have extremely important parts in many marches (such as those by | ), and in brass band music of the British tradition |
| Dashiell Hammett | ... h, Hitchcock combined many elements from his preceding films. He approached | to write the dialogue but Raymond Chandler took over, then left over disag ... |
| Robert McNamara | ... tements from several senators and responses from then Secretary of Defense, | , about the Liberty attack. For the most part, the senators were dismayed ... |
| 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 ... |
| King William IV | ... t acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister. | 's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in ... |
| General Sumner | ... Confusion prevailed over landing priorities and the chain of command. When | refused to allow the Army's Gatling Gun Detachment - which had priority - ... |
| Abd er Rahman | The city was plundered by the troops of | in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes in the Battle of the River Garonn ... |
| Robbie Robertson | ... tribute album, Thinking about Little Willie John... and a Few Nice Things. | , former lead guitarist for The Band, referenced John in a song on his 198 ... |
| Aleksei Antonov | ... erence on 4 February, the Deputy Chief of the Soviet General Staff, General | , raised the issue of hampering the reinforcement of German troops from th ... |
| Robin Gibb | ... pose and Bert, Ernie, and Cookie Monster taking the place of the Bee Gees. | (of the Bee Gees) sings on two tracks for this album "Sesame Street Fever" ... |
| Harold Macmillan | ... diplomatic pressure to make them withdraw from Egypt. Controversy surrounds | , who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Min ... |
| Peter Arnett | ... ar biased. This approach was used in the Killian documents affair and after | 's interview with the Iraqi press. This approach is presumed to have been ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... s created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Enya has performed several songs relating to | 's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's "Lothlórien" (instrumental), an ... |
| Otto Kerner | ... Commission to study the problem of urban riots, headed by Illinois Governor | |
| George Washington | Robert Morris was the first person appointed Secretary of the Treasury by | , but Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasur ... |
| Sir Peter Scott | ... erland and Mongolia) have joined the IWC. This shift was first initiated by | , the then head of the World Wildlife Fund. Labelling the IWC a "butchers' ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Turnbull | Telford's young draughtsman and clerk 1830-1834 | in his diary states |
| Willie Mays | ... h not officially retired—had not been regularly worn by a Mets player since | ' retirement in 1973. Nonetheless, Henderson and the Mets were an uneasy f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Neil Sheehan | ... n Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, | , Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman an ... |
| Ronald Colman | ... ile. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( | ) and Best Art Direction |
| Glenn Ford | In Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film starring | and Sidney Poitier, Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symb ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... d many successful and influential stand-up comedians, including Dave Allen, | , Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlo ... |
| Walther Schwieger | ... ad previously served as torpedo officer on U-20 and had (on Kapitänleutnant | 's orders) launched the torpedo that sank Lusitania. During his brief comm ... |
| Rommel | ... d Men of War, the first single volume dual military biography of Patton and | |
| Xenophon | The Greek general | records in his Anabasis that the Armenians burned their crops and food sup ... |
| Charlton Heston | ... , at the age of 100. In April 2008, she attended the Los Angeles funeral of | . In 2008, she was a surprise guest at th |
| Fred Haise | Astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and | are launched aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En ... |
| Queen Anne of Great Britain | ... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with | |
| 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 ... |
| Ludwig Beck | General | of Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination at ... |
| Saladin | ... , citing Richard's alliance with King Guy. He too had been negotiating with | , as a defence against any attempt by Richard to wrest Tyre from him for G ... |
| M. Peter McPherson | Deputy Secretary of the Treasury | served as Acting Secretary of the Treasury from August 17, 1988, to Septem ... |
| Elton John | ... g top Motown acts as well as various other artists including, in the 1970s, | and & T.Rex and in the early 1980s "Yam Hologram". It is one of the very f ... |
| Patton | ... he published Men of War, the first single volume dual military biography of | and Rommel |
| Eric Clapton | | is a regular performer the Hall, having played host to his concerts almost ... |
| Jim Lovell | On 20 July 1969, veteran astronaut | (Tom Hanks) hosts a party for other astronauts and their families, who wat ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Turnbull | | states that Telford wrote and gave him a poem |
| General William Rufus Shafter | ... dock along the Santa Fe Railroad right-of-way. The community was named for | who commanded US Forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Property ... |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | ... ion for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role, but lost to co-star | . Latifah is one of three hip-hop artists to receive an Academy Award nomi ... |
| James Webb | ... of shame." Two prominent early supporters of the project, H. Ross Perot and | , withdrew their support once they saw the design. Said Webb, “I never in ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... t Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasury was | , who was appointed at Morris's suggestion. Morris had held a similar posi ... |
| Roger Daltrey | ... vent but have expanded over the years to a week or more of evenings events. | of The Who has been intimately involved with the planning of the events |
| Zachary Taylor | ... after John Taylor of Caroline, while a minority believe it was named after | |
| Peter Finch | ... g Academy Award. (The others were Jeanne Eagels, James Dean, Spencer Tracy, | , Sir Ralph Richardson, and Heath Ledger. |
| Gene Roddenberry | Star Trek creator | had worked with Kelley on previous television pilots, and Kelley was Rodde ... |
| Ian Carmichael | ... irkcudbright. In 1975, the book was made into a film shot in the town, with | playing the lead role of |
| 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 ... |
| Matt Busby | ... South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that | , manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to repo ... |
| James A. Garfield | ... at is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after U.S. President | |
| Dean Rusk | ... e are intelligence and military officials who dispute Israel's explanation. | , U.S. Secretary of State at the time of the incident, wrote: I was never ... |
| Arthur Robert Hinks | ... ustus Young. From 1903 to 1905, he worked at the Cambridge Observatory with | as a research assistant of the Carnegie Institution and came under the str ... |
| Priscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens | On 2 November 1933, Lord Norman married | , London councillor and granddaughter of the Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of A ... |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | ... Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – | – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... des in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination. | was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on beh ... |
| Dick Lugar | ... osition of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, | , Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretic ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... ical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the | (played by Stephen Fry) |
| Queen Anne | ... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of | ; and the Danish Minister protested |
| John Dankworth | The 1961 series featured a jazz-influenced theme by | . Library music was used sparsely as a soundtrack, sometimes with variatio ... |
| 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 ... |
| Simon Russell Beale | ... on directed by Howard Davies starring Geraldine McEwan as "Lady Bracknell", | as "Jack Worthing", Julian Wadham as "Algernon Moncrieff", Geoffrey Palmer ... |
| 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 |
| Alexander the Great | ... a card game. He gives him a pocket knife and a small statue of Bucephalus, | 's horse, from the loot and tells him the story of how Alexander became Bu ... |
| Miriam Karlin | ... o play Tevye in the 1971 film adaptation and the 1990 Broadway revival, and | as Golde. Alfie Bass, Lex Goudsmit and Barry Martin eventually took over a ... |
| Marshal Ney | ... with false intelligence. He divided his army into a left wing commanded by | , a right wing commanded by Marshal Grouchy, and a reserve, which he comma ... |
| Gundobad | ... or was abandoned by his partisans, captured in a church and put to death by | , Ricimer's nephew. This version implies that Olybrius was secretly suppor ... |
| Reginald Dyer | ... cre) in Amritsar, Punjab. The British military commander, Brigadier-General | , blocked the main entrance-cum-exit, and ordered his soldiers to fire int ... |
| Duke of Marlborough | ... same year he published Rufinus, a historical essay; and a political poem on | and his adherents |
| Van Morrison | ... nes such as Bob Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece," "4% Pantomime" (with | ), and "Life Is A Carnival," the last featuring a horn arrangement from Al ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... ted in Life Magazine in 1953. This was the only film of Hitchcock's to star | . Fonda plays a Stork Club musician mistaken for a liquor store thief who ... |
| Jerry Garcia | ... , Danko can be seen intoxicated participating in a drunken jam session with | , Bob Weir and Joplin while singing "Ain't No More Cane. |
| Paul H. Todd, Jr. | ... oo is also home to Kalsec, another flavorings company, which was founded by | , Albert Todd's grandson and U.S. Representative in the 89th Congress. Fou ... |
| Sir Nikolaus Pevsner | In 1962, | stated in his North-West Norfolk and Norwich volume of The Buildings of En ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Mackerras | ... et in Portsmouth Harbour. Using the operetta music of Sullivan (arranged by | ) and The Bumboat Woman's Story by Gilbert, John Cranko's 1951 ballet Pine ... |
| Ice-T | ... of his career condemning violence and writing on issues of race and class. | was one of the first rappers to call himself a "playa" and discuss guns on ... |
| Saladin | ... used as a prison for captured "Franks" during the Crusades, as a stable by | , as a fortress by Napoleon, and as a local school. In 1980 the mosque was ... |
| King Charles II | He visited the City as a courtier to | in 1671 and described it thus |
| Nicholas II | ... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to | , the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... d 10 percent, depending on the value of the item. Secretary of the Treasury | was anxious to establish the tariff as a regular source of government reve ... |
| Emmet Crawford | ... 2010 census. It was incorporated in 1886 and was named for the late Captain | who had previously been stationed at nearby Fort Robinson. Its nicknames i ... |
| Lord Ross of Hawkhead | ... of that direct line, passed the chiefship to the Hon. Charles Ross, son of | , Renfrewshire, although they were not connected by blood |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elton John | ... hit on the UK Singles Chart, a remake of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" with | , which went to number seven. It was around this time that RuPaul co-hoste ... |
| Phil Collins | ... st post-Abba solo album. This was also her first solo album in English. The | -produced album was called Something's Going On, and became a big success ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... ith memorable exchanges with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Muhammad Ali, and later with | . He was also Red Skelton's 1969 CBS summer replacement with his own varie ... |
| Hilary Mantel | ... shed satirical novel, An Island in the Moon. He is a principal character in | 's 1998 novel, The Giant, O'Brien |
| Hernán Cortés | ... vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs, and Spanish conquistador | is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1 ... |
| Saladin | Ayyubid Sultan | had conquered most of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, including the anc ... |
| Dr. Jeong Kim | In 2005, | , former President of Lucent's Optical Network Group, returned from academ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nigel Hawthorne | ... al is a caricature of the civil service predominantly characterised through | 's Sir Humphrey Appleby. The programme continues to have many legions of l ... |
| James Warren | ... sful in shutting courts down in those communities in September and October. | wrote to John Adams on October 22, "We are now in a state of Anarchy and C ... |
| Edward K. Valentine | Valentine is named for | , who as a congressman from Nebraska, was the chairman of the House Commit ... |
| Tolkien | ... Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre- | English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsan ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor | |
| Fidel Castro | ... as Llosa was initially a supporter of the Cuban revolutionary government of | . He studied Marxism in depth as a university student and was later persua ... |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... Random Dent. Also reprising their roles from the original radio series were | as Zarniwoop (here blended with a character from the final novel to become ... |
| Li Ling | In 99 BC, Sima Qian became embroiled in the Li Ling affair, where | and Li Guangli (李廣利), two military officers who led a campaign against the ... |
| 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 |
| Randy Bachman | ... r toured with Ringo Starr's Allstars from 1994 to 1995, which also featured | , John Entwistle, Felix Cavaliere, Billy Preston, and Starr's son, Zak Sta ... |
| Robert Altman | ... Actress Oscar in 1975 for Nashville). Henry Gibson later co-starred in the | film Nashville and was nominated for a Golden Globe. Ruth Buzzi became a r ... |
| Zero Mostel | ... cember 28, 1976, and ran for 176 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre. | starred as Tevye. Robbins directed and choreographed. A second Broadway re ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... ith Jack Paar in the 1960s, with memorable exchanges with Zsa Zsa Gabor and | , and later with Johnny Carson. He was also Red Skelton's 1969 CBS summer ... |
| Arthur Bliss | ... ated with the 'pastoral' tradition, such as Arnold Bax, Lennox Berkeley and | , were attracted to Housman's poetry. A 1976 catalogue listed 400 musical ... |
| Heinrich Müller | ... he became the overall supreme commander of the Reich Main Security Office. | became Gestapo Chief, Arthur Nebe, chief of the Criminal Police (Kripo), a ... |
| William Waller | ... hough the Royalists under Lord Hopton forced the Parliamentarians under Sir | to retreat from their hilltop position, they suffered so many casualties t ... |
| Mark Norman | ... were well known in banking. His brother Ronald Collet Norman and his nephew | became leading bankers. His great-nephew David Norman has also led a succe ... |
| Virgil Earp | Among those involved in the shooting, only | had any real experience in combat. Virgil served for three years during th ... |
| Carl Davis | ... ow's 1980 restoration of Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927), featuring a score by | . Brownlow's restoration was later distributed in America re-edited and sh ... |
| Leo Genn | ... tarring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, | and Kirk Douglas. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a ... |
| Cesare Borgia | ... short period of time. Two of these periods were in the feudal era. In 1503, | occupied the republic until his death several months later. On October 17, ... |
| Alain Prost | ... g six Grands Prix over the next three seasons. In 1988, he joined Frenchman | at McLaren-Honda. Between them, they won all but one of the 16 Grands Prix ... |
| Anthony Zinni | ... pt is probably the strongest aspect of their strategic partnership. General | , the former Commandant of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), once said, "E ... |
| Astronomer Royal | ... d by royal warrant "The King's Astronomical Observator" — the first British | , with an allowance of £100 a year. In June 1675, another royal warrant pr ... |
| Ricimer | ... d by Majorian, who ruled for four years, before being killed by his general | (461) |
| Howard Zinn | ... in the U.S. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist | , who was one of her professors at Spelman College. Continuing the activis ... |
| George Everest | ... one name over all others. So, he decided that Peak XV should be named after | , his predecessor as Surveyor General of India. He wrote |
| Leonard Nimoy | "Exquisite chemistry" among Kelley, William Shatner and | manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk an ... |
| Prince of Orange | ... the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, he received a dispatch from the | and was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's advance. He hastily ordered his ... |
| Louis Salzman | ... e south doorway of the nave is also from the end of the 12th century. Prof. | considered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but P ... |
| Santiago Mariño | ... own father had been Colonel of the Militia of Aragua), the general in chief | , Rafael Urdaneta, among many others. With the establishment of an indepen ... |
| Spock | ... f in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk and science officer | , respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as ... |
| Brian Clemens | ... run, particularly between the third and fourth series, but the influence of | was felt throughout. He wrote the second episode and became the series' mo ... |
| Arnold Clark | ... eyhound), Vauxhall & Chevrolet (Accrington Garages), the town was home to a | car dealer which closed down in 2010 |
| Chester W. Nimitz | ... he lead ship of the class is named for World War II Pacific fleet commander | , who was the Navy's last fleet admiral. With an overall length of and ful ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... m Abbey. His possession of the living was in jeopardy on the appointment of | 's "Tryers"; but he evaded their inquisitorial questions by his ready wit. ... |
| current Prince of Wales | ... y dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the | ). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star ... |
| Iftach Spector | ... ich arrived at the Liberty at about 2:00 p.m. The formation leader, Captain | , made two reconnaissance passes at 3,000 feet. He reported the vessel app ... |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | ... s allowed the U.S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral | while he was travelling by plane. The Polish Home Army conducted a regular ... |
| James T. Kirk | ... and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captain | and science officer Spock, respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhur ... |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | ... sident Micombero declared martial law on May 30 and asked Zairean President | for assistance. Congolese paratroopers were deployed to secure the airport ... |
| Orval Faubus | ... temming from the Brown decision. Eisenhower demanded that Arkansas governor | obey the court order. When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansa ... |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ... ng The Beatles' early albums, and sixth of all of The Beatles' albums, with | , Revolver, Rubber Soul, The Beatles (The White Album) and Abbey Road rank ... |
| 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 ... |
| Archie Bunker | ... ctress Betty Garrett in 1944. (Betty Garrett is perhaps best known today as | 's neighbor Irene Lorenzo on TV's All in the Family and as landlady Edna B ... |
| Doris Lessing | ... omen until puberty, and gender has no bearing on social roles. In contrast, | 's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) suggests that m ... |
| Earl Cameron | Bermuda has produced, or been home to, actors such as Oona O'Neill, | , Diana Dill, Lena Headey, Will Kempe, and most famously, Michael Douglas ... |
| Matthew Flinders | The strait was named after George Bass after he and | passed through it while circumnavigating Van Diemen's Land (now named Tasm ... |
| Herman Davis | ... ion was 3,055 at the 2000 census. It was the hometown of World War I sniper | . A park in the town honors his memory today |
| Cipriano Castro | ... portant at this stage are: Marshal Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, General in Chief | , Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual |
| Joanna Lumley | The series also featured guest appearances by such noted personalities as | as the Sydney Opera House Woman, Jackie Mason as the East River Creature, ... |
| Dave Brubeck | ... e Five" begins with a repeated, syncopated figure in 5/4 time which pianist | plays throughout the song. Vamps are also used in 1970s-era jazz-funk and ... |
| Alexander Montgomerie | ... e. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, Lyndsay, Alexander Scott and | |
| Napoleon | ... om of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor | was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied ... |
| Roald Dahl | In 1964 | wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of Charlie Bucket's adv ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
| John de Chastelain | ... ce for a prosecution. The decommissioning was confirmed by Canadian General | , chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, ... |
| Charles II of England | ... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by King | at the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ... |
| J. K. Rowling | In 1990 | wrote The Harry Potter Series, in which 3 characters embark on new adventu ... |
| Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports | ... ation of King's College London. On 20 January 1829 Wellington was appointed | |
| Lord Brabourne | ... Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law | and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight (of which ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally, | was visiting his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray ... |
| Ezequiel Zamora | ... Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General | and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual |
| Uhura | ... Kirk and science officer Spock, respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played | , referred to Kelley as her "sassy gentleman friend"; the friendship betwe ... |
| Shi Lang | ... and China and abandoning the island. It was only the campaigning of admiral | and other supporters that convinced the Emperor not to abandon Taiwan. Kox ... |
| Stanley Baldwin | ... itain, and perhaps the world, who did not agree with British Prime Minister | 's 1932 declaration that "The bomber will always get through". He conceive ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Oddie | ... on area, with a focus on the region's parakeets, in an episode presented by | |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player | , and a new group who had just come out with a hit record, "Dance to the M ... |
| Joanna Lumley | ... d become a patron of the trust joining existing high profile personalities, | and David Shepherd |
| Ralph Houk | ... ch of the next decade in the middle or lower ranks of the AL East. In 1974, | , who managed the dominant Yankee teams of the early 1960s, was named mana ... |
| Dusty Springfield | ... le track. Following this single was "Son of a Preacher Man", a cover of the | song, which was never included on an album |
| 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 ... |
| Ivor Gurney | ... h's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music | ;, another most important setter of Housman (Ludlow and Teme, a work for v ... |
| 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 ... |
| King Richard III | ... Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that | won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and ... |
| Juan Crisóstomo Falcón | ... political figures) of the Army's most important at this stage are: Marshal | , General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and ... |
| Roy Hudd | ... Lenska as Lintilla and her clones (and also as the Voice of the Bird), and | as Milliways compere Max Quordlepleen, as well as the original radio serie ... |
| Abba Eban | ... n. Apologies were soon sent by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Minister | , and chargé d'affaires Efraim Evron. Within 48 hours, Israel offered to c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Napoleon I | When French emperor | completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towa ... |
| Gerald R. Ford, Jr. | ... mains the only one of its kind in the country. On April 23, 1975, President | , spoke at Tulane University's Fogelman Arena at the invitation of Congres ... |
| Clement Attlee | British Prime Minister | commented in the House of Commons |
| Norman Bottomley | ... y Bufton, sent a memo to the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir | , suggesting that what appeared to be a coordinated air attack by the RAF ... |
| Stanley Matthews | ... 4 to show their admiration for the former Blackpool and England player, Sir | |
| Miriam Margolyes | ... y as the Sydney Opera House Woman, Jackie Mason as the East River Creature, | as the Smelly Photocopier Woman, BBC Radio cricket legends Henry Blofeld a ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again with | accepting the honorary patronage of the |
| George Shearing | ... ranged from Glenn Miller to Jelly Roll Morton to Tchaikovsky." Jazz pianist | 's quintet of the 1950s and 1960s was influenced by Miller: "with Shearing ... |
| Jérôme Bonaparte | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811 |
| Spock | McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to | . He is Kirk's "friend, personal bartender, confidant, counselor and pries ... |
| Evelyn Barker | ... rd Montgomery had told the British army commander in Palestine, General Sir | , to emphasise to the British servicemen that they were "facing a cruel, f ... |
| Louis Alexandre Berthier | ... choice on February 5, 1797, when, with the arrival of a letter from General | addressed to the Regents, it was required to arrest and consign the Bishop ... |
| Cornelia Parker | ... shortlist including sculptor Christine Borland, Angela Bulloch and sculptor | |
| Howard Hawks | ... comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), directed by | . In the film, a reworking of Ben Hecht's story The Front Page, Russell pl ... |
| 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 |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... nclude Herschel Bernardi (in the original Broadway run), Theodore Bikel and | . Mostel's understudy in the original production, Paul Lipson, went on to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bob McNamara | ... t difficult unless you want to 'kiss his behind' all the time. That is what | suggested to me...if I wanted to get along. |
| Oliver Stone | ... as a favor. The scene, known as the "Hun Brothers" scene, was described by | as the best scene in the script. It was, however, cut from the final film ... |
| Field Marshal Montgomery | ... d of 19 August 1942 (which certain elements of the Allied military, notably | , later claimed was ill-conceived from the start. However at a meeting in ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Strait | ... "Bad for Me", the title track to Blake Shelton's 2008 album Startin' Fires, | 's "Where Have I Been All My Life" off his 2009 album Twang, and Tim McGra ... |
| 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 ... |
| Prince George of Denmark | ... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended | , the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested |
| Alan Turing | ... king our tacit awareness. Contrary to the views of his colleague and friend | , whose work at The University of Manchester prepared the way for the firs ... |
| Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
| Wu Sangui | ... oncurrently the last Ming pretender had been captured and killed by General | , extinguishing any hope Koxinga may have had of re-establishing the Ming ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... instruments and the highly amplified stage sound of rock musicians such as | . All Music Guide states that "..until around 1967, the worlds of jazz and ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... ies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the | combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It ... |
| 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 ... |
| Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual | ... ón, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and | |
| Emmet Crawford | ... laim for a new townsite. The "tent city" that sprang up was named after Lt. | , who had been formerly stationed at Fort Robinson but was killed in Mexic ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... Collage No.1 (Blue Suede) (for tape) by sampling and manipulating a famous | recording |
| Nathan Twining | Seaton and Stevens worked with Gen. | , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had served in Alaska; and Jac ... |
| Hugh Orde | ... l Murphy and the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, | |
| Pervez Musharraf | Pakistani President | - then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ... |
| Julian Brazier | ... FC, in particular SS Experiment Camp. This coincided with an attempt by MPs | and to pass a law allowing MPs greater powers to tighten BBFC guidelines o ... |
| Gebhard von Blücher | ... f the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of | . It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's la ... |
| Shi Lang | In 1683, following a naval engagement with Admiral | , one of Koxinga's father's trusted friends, Koxinga's grandson Zheng Kesh ... |
| Carl Davis | ... rk Wilson and Jim Riggs. Orchestral conductors such as Gillian B. Anderson, | , Carl Daehler, and Robert Israel have written and compiled scores for num ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he had betrayed a royalist to | and accidentally killed his own son afterwards in a fit of anger, although ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... me to try to curb Stitch's aggressiveness by encouraging him to behave like | , whom she calls a "model citizen." Stitch's antics, although at times foi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Montgomery Scott | ... ed to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death; James Doohan as | says "He's dead already" instead. The line has entered popular culture as ... |
| Dick King-Smith | ... The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by | and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog. The main animal c ... |
| Lord Melchett | ... he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain | (Stephen Fry) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former ... |
| Juan Vicente Gómez | ... first half of the 20th century, is the political figure of General in Chief | , who originally based on the plans of General in Chief Cipriano Castro, b ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in | 's novel uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to e ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Church | The U.S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator | (the Church Committee) reported in 1975 that it had found "concrete eviden ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... s was filmed in McDonald County. Shadow Lake was the headquarters for stars | , Tyrone Power, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott |
| Robert Cummings | ... , producers made a movie based on the book. The cast included Ann Sheridan, | , Ronald Reagan and Betty Field. The suit worn by Ronald Reagan in the fil ... |
| Earl Warren | ... Supreme Court in history and has been influential on justices as diverse as | , William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia |
| 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 ... |
| Bob Paisley | ... les, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club. In 1977, | paid a British transfer record of £440,000 to bring Dalglish to Liverpool. ... |
| Leopold Wilhelm | ... assistance; a powerful Spanish army assembled in Artois under the archduke | , governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands. But peasants of the country ... |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... e, Irgun representatives purchased a ship, renamed Altalena (a pseudonym of | ), and weapons. The ship sailed on June 11 and arrived at the Israeli coas ... |
| George Bass | The strait was named after | after he and Matthew Flinders passed through it while circumnavigating Van ... |
| Busby Babes | ... n 1956, losing 4–3 on aggregate to the Manchester United team of the famous | . He made his debut for the first team at home in November 1958 against Co ... |
| Elizabeth May | Furtado publicly endorsed Green Party leader | in Saanich-Gulf Islands during the federal election in 2011. Furtado was f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cliff Richard | May's early heroes were | and The Shadows, who he says were "the most metallic thing(s) out at the t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Manuel Belgrano | On August of 1812, Argentine General | leaded the Jujuy Exodus, a massive forced displacement of people from the ... |
| Claudius Crozet | ... lly called "Wayland's Crossing", it was renamed in 1870 in honor of Colonel | , the French-born civil engineer who directed the construction of the Blue ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... eece played an important role in the art of the western world. In the East, | 's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Centra ... |
| Roger Daltrey | ... as Liszt, by Fiona Lewis in the 1975 Ken Russell film Lisztomania, opposite | as Liszt, and by Bernadette Peters in the 1991 James Lapine film Impromptu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... in a special ceremony held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, along with | , Keith Green, Kurt Kaiser, Doris Akers, The Rambos, Wendy Bagwell and the ... |
| John Marshall Harlan II | Black's most prominent ideological opponent on the Warren Court was | , who replaced Justice Jackson in 1955. They disagreed on several issues, ... |
| Terence Young | Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director | , polishing the actor while using his physical grace and presence for the ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... e named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and | 's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman ... |
| Virgil Earp | ... 's Cowboy friends (Frank Stilwell and Pete Spence) were arrested by Marshal | for the holdup. When Virgil later re-arrested Stilwell and Spence for the ... |
| Melchett | ... t characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example | and Lord Flashheart |
| d'Erlon | ... es up symmetrically about the Brussels road. On the right was I Corps under | with 16,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry, plus a cavalry reserve of 4,700. O ... |
| Tom Stoppard | ... th, the meaning of human existence and the place of God in human existence. | 's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist tragicomedy first s ... |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ch events spiralled out of control in the run up to and after independence. | , the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governme ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... th flower petals thrown in his path at Richmond. He had become as famous as | in the eyes of the Confederacy |
| 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 ... |
| David Niven | ... rincess who is rescued by, and falls in love with, original Rat Pack member | , and Sinatra had a non-speaking, non-singing role as a piano player in a ... |
| Peter Molyneux | ... in the area of AI, which adds considerably to their development schedules. | , who often refers to himself as either the lead designer or creative dire ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... cal community called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. Vice President | said, "While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed pa ... |
| Hans von Tschammer und Osten | ... organization of the Fourth Winter Olympics in Garmisch by Reichssportführer | |
| Eric Clapton | ... nds, songwriters, and performers, from the Grateful Dead and The Beatles to | , Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Costello, and Elton Jo ... |
| Benjamin Bonneville | ... of the Oregon Trail and wrote extensively about their explorations. Captain | on his expedition of 1832 to 1834 explored much of the Oregon trail and br ... |
| Zheng He | ... and economically fortified. In the early fifteenth century the Ming Admiral | had established one of his bases of operation in the port city, so the Chi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Martin Esslin | Critic | in his book Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwr ... |
| John Buford | ... on's brigade to pursue the Federals and in a sharp fight against Brig. Gen. | 's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed ... |
| James Earl Ray | ... Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 by | in Memphis, Tennessee |
| 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 ... |
| Virginia McKenna | ... pied France were dramatised in the film Carve Her Name with Pride, starring | and based on the 1956 book of the same name by R. J. Minney. Whilst in the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Audie Murphy | ... el of the same title. For the starring role, Huston chose World War II hero | to play the young Union soldier who deserts his company out of fear, but l ... |
| Friedrich von Bülow | ... an army corps, or 48,000 men, were engaged at Waterloo – two brigades under | , commander of IV Corps, attacked Lobau at 16:30, while Zieten's I Corps a ... |
| McKinley | ... ed the first phones in Burke and his stables housed the horses of President | and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Produce from his farm was transport ... |
| Peter Molyneux | Leading up to several Lionhead Studio game releases | 's enthusiasm for talking openly about the development and design process ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... een chosen as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Commander, US General | , during D-Day |
| Sid Watkins | ... Ratzenberger's fatal crash. Senna was met by FIA's Medical Chief Professor | , who recalled that Senna was tearful, despite meeting Ratzenberger only o ... |
| Beverly Robertson | ... y, protecting its flank with artillery batteries. Stuart ordered Brig. Gen. | 's brigade to pursue the Federals and in a sharp fight against Brig. Gen. ... |
| William, Prince of Orange | ... should the battle be lost. They were mostly composed of Dutch troops under | 's younger brother Prince Frederik of the Netherlands |
| Earl Warren | In 1953 Vinson died and was replaced by | . While all members of the Court were New Deal liberals, Black was part of ... |
| Peter Molyneux | ... and White 2 and Fable had features changed or lacking in the final product. | said the following on the issue |
| Bob McDonnell | ... and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris Christie and | were elected to the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... ovember 2006. On Queen For An Hour 1989 Interview on BBC Radio 1 May listed | , Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton as his guitar heroes. In a 1991 interview for ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ted Stevens | Slashdotters typically like to mock United States Senator | ' 2006 description of the Internet as a "series of tubes" or Microsoft CEO ... |
| Jock Stein | ... glish signed a provisional contract with Celtic in May 1967. Celtic manager | sent Sean Fallon to see Dalglish and his parents at their home; on hearing ... |
| Elton John | ... services which are not necessarily martial in nature. The British musician | , for example, is a Knight Bachelor, thus entitled to be called Sir Elton. ... |
| Oliver Reed | In 1974, Moon struck up a friendship with actor | , while working on the movie version of Tommy |
| George Washington | ... on. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who was a personal bodyguard to Gen. | at Valley Forge. He was also one of the pioneers at Fort Boonesborough in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | ... y Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, | , Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand ... |
| 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 ... |
| Christine Chapel | ... s an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Nurse | in the , Lwaxana Troi on , and for being the voice of most onboard compute ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | In the hunt for the Guerrilla General | American troops also poisoned water wells to try to force out the Filipino ... |
| John Jacob Rhodes | ... the part of the President and his former aides. The House Republican Leader | agreed with Scott, and Rhodes recommended that if Nixon's position continu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas T. Munford | ... ederals and in a sharp fight against Brig. Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. | 's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regi ... |
| William Wyler | ... n ill-fitting costume with a low neckline, she was rebuffed by the director | , who loudly commented to the assembled crew, "What do you think of these ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... eer among other animals, is located on property formerly owned by president | in the period between the Mexican War and the Civil War |
| Jim Hensley | ... Living in Phoenix, he went to work for Hensley & Co., his new father-in-law | 's large Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship. As Vice President of Public ... |
| Gene Roddenberry | ... nterfaces throughout the series. She was also the wife of Star Trek creator | |
| 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 ... |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | ... 1991 the Private Finance Initiative was launched, and by November 1994 the | had referred to it as ‘the funding mechanism of choice for most public sec ... |
| William III of Orange | ... ampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for | . The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths. It ... |
| Henry III | In 1585 Pasquier was appointed by | advocate-general at the Paris cours des comptes, an important body having ... |
| Thucydides | ... , Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, | , and Xenophon |
| Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig | ... cey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warren Clarke and Geoffrey Palmer, who played | in "Goodbyeee", the final, fatal episode of Blackadder Goes Forth |
| William Wyler | ... friends in the movie industry. Huston had, with friends including director | and screenwriter Philip Dunne, established the "Committee for the First Am ... |
| Cromwell | ... is only to be remembered because a body of 6,000 English infantry, sent by | in pursuance of his treaty of alliance with Mazarin, took part in it. The ... |
| Ian Fleming | Amis became associated with | 's James Bond novels, which he greatly admired, in the late 1960s, when he ... |
| 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 ... |
| King George V | Guisborough has a King George's Field in memory of | , and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ... |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... nnor, Bill Wallis, Ronald Lacey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warren Clarke and | , who played Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in "Goodbyeee", the final, fat ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... leaders at state events, such as the state funerals of John F. Kennedy and | , the summits of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the 1971 celebration of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Earl of Uxbridge | ... y of his staff officers on Wellington, including his second-in-command, the | . Uxbridge commanded the cavalry and had carte blanche from Wellington to ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... ind "Television", "Sparta" and "Southern Cross". Midnight Oil came from the | song, "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" |
| Tiësto | ... ence + the Machine. The album has attracted producers such as The Neptunes, | , Timbaland, Rick Nowels, Ryan Tedder and Rodney Jerkins. The first single ... |
| "Mad Anthony" Wayne | ... on November 2, 1779 from the western part of Dobbs County. It was named for | , a general in the American Revolutionary War. The act, establishing the C ... |
| Tom Stoppard | Housman is the main character in the 1997 | play The Invention of Love. Many titles for novels and films have been dra ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Johnny Carson | On June 20, 1965, Sinatra, Martin, and Davis, with | as the emcee (substituting for Bishop, who was out with a bad back), perfo ... |
| Ernst Udet | ... as a design weakness. Heinrich Koppenbrug, the director of Argus, met with | on 6 January 1941 to try to convince him that the development should be co ... |
| Richard Nixon | During the September 16, 1968 episode, | , running for president, appeared for a few seconds with a disbelieving vo ... |
| George Washington | ... built the first water-works in America to pump water for public use. While | and his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effe ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... e of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson. He, Watson and | were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for ... |
| George Martin | ... ardas often said that the Abbey Road studio was "no good", much to producer | 's annoyance: "The trouble was that Alex was always coming to the studios ... |
| 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 ... |
| Virgil Earp | ... 1879, when Tombstone was only a small town composed mostly of mining tents. | arrived in town as a Deputy U.S. Marshal for the territorial region center ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... sville was the Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lieut. Gen. | 's 1864 Overland Campaign. This was fought over the same ground as the Bat ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Bell Hood | ... ated outside of Killeen, Texas. The post is named after Confederate General | . It i |
| Montgomery C. Meigs | ... aph lines, and then famously sent a telegram to Union Quartermaster General | complaining of the poor quality of the mules he had captured |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... 3, the emperor was among other heads of state, including France's President | , who traveled to Washington D.C. and attended the funeral of assassinated ... |
| Ranald S. Mackenzie | A military expedition led by U.S. Army Colonel | was sent to the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma Territory Panhandle area in 1 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen G. Burbridge | In October 1864, Union raiders under Brigadier General | passed through Grundy on their way to destroy the saltworks near Saltville ... |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... Prize in the year of its publication. Regeneration was filmed in 1997 with | in the role of Rivers |
| Erhard Milch | ... s Fieseler was to be the chief contractor. On 19 June, Generalfeldmarschall | gave Fi 103 production high priority, and development was undertaken at th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Pulitzer | ... acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with | 's New York World which led to the creation of yellow journalism—sensation ... |
| Lt Colonel Picquart | In August 1896, the new chief of French military intelligence, | , reported to his superiors that he had found evidence to the effect that ... |
| Clement Attlee | ... egion and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to | appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the ... |
| J.E.B. Stuart | ... ed by Union troops. On December 28, 1862, Confederate cavalry under General | raided the station. Stuart seized supplies from the area, destroyed a near ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... n Hour 1989 Interview on BBC Radio 1 May listed Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and | as his guitar heroes. In a 1991 interview for Guitar World magazine, May r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... elia, based on wartime Nazi activities. Created on order of Reichsführer-SS | , a Nazi ethnic German organisation called Selbstschutz carried out execut ... |
| Jefferson Davis | When General Grant's forces broke through Richmond's defenses, | ordered the destruction of Richmond's militarily significant supplies; the ... |
| Varro | ... tius' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of | , 1st century BC) these ten sibyls were those in the following list. Of th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kit Carson | ... ive American tribes of the American West, under James Carleton's direction, | instituted a scorched earth policy, burning Navajo fields and homes, and s ... |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | ... ummit which was discussing Angola at that precise moment. Zairian President | called for a referendum on the future of the Cabinda. Lopes is reported to ... |
| Charles II | ... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross until | sold it to the king of France in 1662 |
| Oreste Baratieri | ... Major Giuseppe Galliano, and took the bulk of his troops to Adigrat, where | , the Italian commander, was concentrating the Italian Army |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... neral in the Union Army who commanded an 1876 expedition in connection with | ’s campaign against Native Americans, specifically in the west |
| Ty Cobb | ... eded him). His 100 steals set a new American League (AL) record, surpassing | 's 96 set in 1915. That winter, Henderson played in the Puerto Rican Profe ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kevin Keegan | Dalglish was signed to replace | , and Liverpool supporters were initially sceptical that he could perform ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robin Ibbs | ... hough cuts had been made, transformation had not happened. In February 1988 | , recruited from ICI in July 1983 to run the Efficiency Unit (now in No. 1 ... |
| Roger Norrington | ... use of vibrato in late Romantic music is still common, though challenged by | and others of the historically informed performance movement. Performances ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... s of Sun Records as the type of music he was seeking when he first recorded | |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Carter, then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity | ;was elected as his successor using a specifically Christian discourse |
| John Dankworth | ... chansonnier Jacques Brel, the musical partnership of Dame Cleo Laine & Sir | , and the harmonica |
| Virgil Earp | On December 28, 1881, | was maimed in an assassination attempt by the outlaw Cowboys, and on March ... |
| Pat Barker | ... life of W. H. R. Rivers and his encounter with Sassoon was fictionalised by | in the Regeneration Trilogy, a series of three books including Regeneratio ... |
| Queen Anne | ... example of the five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for | and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
| Duncan Hunter | Alpine is the residence of former United States Representative | . Major League Baseball Second baseman Marcus Giles lives there |
| Elton John | ... ic Clapton, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Costello, and | |
| Robert Graves | In the poem The Red Ribbon Dream, written by | not long after Rivers's death, he touches on the peace and security he fel ... |
| Jacob Brown | ... 2,285 in 2000. The county seat is Georgetown. It is named for Major General | , an officer in the War of 1812 who was wounded at the Battle of Lundy's L ... |
| Michael Heseltine | Meanwhile | had introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( ... |
| 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 ... |
| Howard Callaway | ... r in the deadlocked 1966 race between Democrat Lester Maddox and Republican | . Whereas Black voted with the majority under strict construction to uphol ... |
| Manuel A. Odría | ... the Cathedral is based on the tyrannical dictatorship of Peruvian President | . The protagonist, Santiago, rebels against the suffocating dictatorship b ... |
| John McCain | ... ry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican | in 2008 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Runcie | ... stant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, | , in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Leb ... |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... was portrayed by Geneviève Page in the 1960 film Song Without End, opposite | as Liszt, by Fiona Lewis in the 1975 Ken Russell film Lisztomania, opposit ... |
| Professor Xavier | ... ept of the X-Men is that under a cloud of increasing anti-mutant sentiment, | created a haven at his Westchester mansion to train young mutants to use t ... |
| Giuseppe Galliano | ... arrison of approximately 1,150 askaris and 200 Italians, commanded by Major | , and took the bulk of his troops to Adigrat, where Oreste Baratieri, the ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Reaganomics, a term popularized during the Presidential administrations of | . This theory holds that reduced income tax rates increase GDP growth and ... |
| Mr. Spock | ... en." Barrett often joked that Roddenberry, given the choice between keeping | (whom the network also hated) or the woman character, "kept the Vulcan and ... |
| Jimmy Page | It was Moon who recommended the name "Led Zeppelin" to | who intended to name his new band 'Mad Dog'. According to Oxford lexicogra ... |
| Bülow | ... istance, and in communication with him throughout. The Prussians rallied on | s IV Corps, which had not been engaged at Ligny and was in a strong positi ... |
| Joachim Murat | ... o a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat quarter (erected by | ), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-p ... |
| Ambrose, Earl of Warwick | ... n debt. In accordance with his will, the castle passed first to his brother | , and after the latter's death in 1590, to his illegitimate son, Sir Rober ... |
| Sid Watkins | ... two minutes of crashing, Senna was extracted from his race car by Professor | and his medical team. Initial treatment took place by the side of the car, ... |
| John McCain | ... ought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator | , Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Noël Coward | ... n) in 1926. The play was performed on the London stage in 1926 and featured | and |
| George Martin | ... iously. Therefore, at 10:00 am on Monday, 11 February 1963, The Beatles and | started recording what was essentially their live act in 1963, and finishe ... |
| 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. ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... meha Schools children's chorus. Also contains five songs by American singer | (the soundtrack, along with the film, features more Presley singles than a ... |
| General Lu Bode | ... Han Dynasty established a military garrison there following the arrival of | (路博德). In 46 BC the Han court decided that the conquest was too expensive ... |
| C. P. Snow | ... however, demands for change again grew. There was a concern (illustrated in | ’s Strangers and Brothers series of novels) that technical and scientific ... |
| Joanna Lumley | ... man and Diana Rigg later co-starred in Bond films. The New Avengers regular | had, prior to that series, appeared in the James Bond film On Her Majesty' ... |
| Richard Kleindienst | ... . On March 28 on Nixon's orders, aide John Ehrlichman told Attorney General | that nobody in the White House had prior knowledge of the burglary. On Apr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Montgomery C. Meigs | ... mmanders and Stuart sent a personal telegram to Union Quartermaster General | , "General Meigs will in the future please furnish better mules; those you ... |
| Charles II | ... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England, | . In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Danjou | ... at the foreign legion earned its legendary status. A company led by Captain | , numbering 62 soldiers and 3 officers, was escorting a convoy to the besi ... |
| Richard Curtis | The Black Adder was the first series of Blackadder and was written by | and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by John Lloyd. The series was originally ... |
| Chris Gayle | ... ng or kept up with it would include Ravindra Jadeja, Yuvraj Singh of India, | of West Indies. There were other players who were considered pure left arm ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... nactivated. Probably, the most famous trainee to come through Fort Hood was | , arriving on 28 March 1958. Other than receiving record amounts of mail ( ... |
| Vera Atkins | ... the incident record no German injuries or casualties. A recent biography of | , Sarah Helm, A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... re based upon the series circulated during the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s, with | at one point being considered a front-runner for the role of Steed. Ultima ... |
| Lord Hill | ... de batterie drew up in the centre. These opened fire at 11:50, according to | (commander of the Anglo-allied II Corps), while other sources put the time ... |
| Kit Carson | ... Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, | , Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Ma ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... og (1996) and Jubilation (1998); the latter included guest appearances from | and John Hiatt |
| Oliver | After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father | as Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers' coup in ... |
| James T. Kirk | In the year 2293, recently retired Captain | , Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Stars ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, | , Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Part ... |
| Glenn Barr | ... orthern Ireland. The strike was led by Vanguard Assemblyman and UDA member, | |
| Clement Attlee's | St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister | proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white domini ... |
| 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 ... |
| John S. McCain, Jr. | ... , at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, to naval officer | (1911–1981) and Roberta (Wright) McCain (b. 1912). At that time, the Panam ... |
| Horace | Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist, | (65 BCE – 8 BCE), playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Montgomery Scott | In the year 2293, recently retired Captain James T. Kirk, | , and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Starship USS Enterprise ... |
| John S. McCain, Sr. | ... Scots-Irish and English ancestors. His father and his paternal grandfather, | , both became four-star United States Navy admirals. His family, including ... |
| John Ehrlichman | On April 30, Nixon asked for the resignation of H. R. Haldeman and | , two of his most influential aides, both of whom were indicted, convicted ... |
| 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 ... |
| George J. Stannard | ... oshen Gore No. 1, the town was incorporated as Stannard in honor of General | , a Union Army hero of the Civil War. Stannard and his 2nd Vermont Brigade ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... lk music and rock. In this period, his key visual and musical influence was | |
| 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 ... |
| John Surtees | ... Hill, Olivier Gendebien, Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins, Giancarlo Baghetti, | , Lorenzo Bandini, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti, Clay R ... |
| Daniel Vettori | ... were other players who were considered pure left arm orthodox bowlers like | , Nicky Boje but picked up their game as batsman over time and got better ... |
| 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 ... |
| Virgil Earp | ... Clanton, Tom McLaury and his brother Frank McLaury, and the opposing lawmen | and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp, aided by Doc Holliday acting as a ... |
| Frederick Steele | ... was fought and won by the Confederates. Ulysses S. Grant sent Union General | to Brownsville to patrol the Mexican-American border after Civil War to ai ... |
| Robert E. Rodes | ... l, bypassing the next most senior infantry general in the corps, Brig. Gen. | , sent a message ordering Stuart to take command of the Second Corps. Alth ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... urned down Francis Crick from working at King's College.) Francis Crick and | of King's College were personal friends, which influenced subsequent scien ... |
| Margaret Elaine Dovey | ... ce. In 1942, while awaiting entry into the service, Whitlam met and married | , who had swum for Australia in the 1938 British Empire Games and was the ... |
| King George VI | ... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizing | as Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bijlandt | ... 000 men: the first line consisted of the Dutch 1st "Van Bijlandt" brigade ( | ) of the 2nd Dutch division. The second line consisted of British and Hano ... |
| Robert Runcie | ... the British Council of Churches. In 1980, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr | , appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for Anglican Communio ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... Republic (founded 1931) in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) brought General | to power. Even though public use of the Catalan language was banned some p ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, | and George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority ... |
| Elliot Richardson | On the same day, Nixon appointed a new Attorney General, | , and gave him authority to designate a special counsel for the Watergate ... |
| Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville | ... y Ocean Springs, under the authority of King Louis XIV, as Fort Maurepas by | . It was the first permanent French outpost in French Louisiana and was es ... |
| 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 ... |
| Orde Wingate | ... rican and South African colonial troops under the "Gideon Force" of Colonel | , coordinated the military effort to liberate Ethiopia. The emperor himsel ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... rance on The Tonight Show some years later, Liberace re-ran the anecdote to | , and finished it by saying, "I don't cry all the way to the bank any more ... |
| Roger Norrington | ... s specialising in historically informed performances, such as the conductor | , argue that it is unlikely that Brahms, Wagner, and their contemporaries ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | For his first directing assignment, Huston chose | 's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon, a film which had already failed ... |
| Alexandros Ypsilantis | ... egan on 6 March 1821 in the Danubian Principalities under the leadership of | , but it was soon put down by the Ottomans. The events in the north urged ... |
| Charles II | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and | ratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... n the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by (Tim McInnerny), with | playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince ... |
| John Kerry | ... hen 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for George W. Bush, 32.8% voted for | , and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third party candidate or wrote in ... |
| Caspar Weinberger | ... ates, were rejected. Helms also, unsuccessfully, opposed the nominations of | , Donald Regan, and Frank Carlucci. However, he did score a notable coup t ... |
| Hjalmar Siilasvuo | ... rthern part of the country. Finnish forces, under the leadership of general | , struck aggressively in August 1944 by making a landfall at Tornio. This ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the | screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | In A Study in Scarlet, a novel by | , the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... trammeled and "pure" nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as | and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult a ... |
| Queen Anne | ... oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of | . Opposite the altar, at first floor level, is the royal pew where the roy ... |
| Charlotte Rampling | A character named Hana Wilde (played by | ) had essentially acted as Steed's partner in series five's "The Superlati ... |
| Nicky Boje | ... ers who were considered pure left arm orthodox bowlers like Daniel Vettori, | but picked up their game as batsman over time and got better at it. Sanath ... |
| Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa | ... nst terrorism (especially against the Red Brigades), by Carabinieri general | (who was later killed by the Mafia) |
| 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 ... |
| George of Antioch | ... Norman Roger II of Sicily (1095–1154), employed a Greek Christian known as | , who previously had served as a naval commander for several North African ... |
| Tiësto | ... released in early July 2009. Nelly Furtado also made a guest appearance on | 's single "Who Wants to Be Alone" on his new album Kaleidoscope. Furtado s ... |
| Ward Boston | In 2002, Captain | , JAGC, U.S. Navy, senior counsel for the Court of Inquiry, claimed that t ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... House, the Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought and won by the Confederates. | sent Union General Frederick Steele to Brownsville to patrol the Mexican-A ... |
| Donald Regan | ... . Helms also, unsuccessfully, opposed the nominations of Caspar Weinberger, | , and Frank Carlucci. However, he did score a notable coup two years later ... |
| Patrick De Mare | ... p and developed by others such as S. H. Foulkes, Rickman, Bridger, Main and | . The entire group at Tavistock had in fact been taken into the army, and ... |
| Adolf Hitler | In 1945, | ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide s ... |
| Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg | ... wn in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named after Prince | . The population was 107 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH– ... |
| 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 |
| George Somers | ... In 1609, a flotilla of ships left England under the Company's Admiral, Sir | , and the new Governor of Jamestown, Sir Thomas Gates, to relieve the colo ... |
| Hugo Chávez | ... criticism from the United States, which opposes the government of President | . The U.S. accuses Venezuela of starting an arms race, which they claim wi ... |
| Jacques Duchesne | ... of the Keelung Campaign. The battalion played an important role in Colonel | 's offensive in March 1885 that captured the key Chinese positions of La T ... |
| Helmut Kämpfe | ... ops at an unexpected roadblock that had been set up to find Sturmbannführer | of the Das Reich Division, who had been captured by the local resistance |
| George W. Bush | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while John Kerry won 46% o ... |
| Joseph Hooker | Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. | interpreted Stuart's presence around Culpeper to be indicative of preparat ... |
| John Cale | ... heater of Eternal Music was a minimal music noise group in the mid-60s with | , Marian Zazeela, Henry Flynt, Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad, and others. The ... |
| Nicholas II of Russia | ... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, | , George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ... |
| Nixon | ... irm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the | and Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then ... |
| Joseph Warren | ... ren County was erected May 1, 1803, from Hamilton County, and named for Dr. | , a hero of the Revolution who sent Paul Revere on his ride and who died a ... |
| Joseph Stalin | When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, | ordered both soldiers and civilians to initiate a scorched earth policy to ... |
| Clint Eastwood | ... orest Theater, bohemian writer and actor Perry Newberry, and actor-director | , who was mayor for one term, from 1986 to 1988 |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... not sympathetic to the Army's concerns. In the chaos following the death of | in 1658, General George Monck allowed the members barred in 1648 to retake ... |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | ... ky Boje but picked up their game as batsman over time and got better at it. | is an interesting story as he was sent up the order to open the batting an ... |
| John Kerry | ... e 19th century. Twentieth century descendants include Massachusetts Senator | and educator Charles William Eliot. The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts a ... |
| Elizabeth Jane Howard | Kingsley Amis was married a second time, to the novelist | from 1965 to 1983, with whom he had no children |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... alf of the 20th century saw election or succession of Republican presidents | , Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... ecame an issue in the 1988 presidential campaign, when Republican candidate | accused Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis (a member of the ACLU) of bei ... |
| Alfred Pleasonton | ... ply lines. In reaction to this, he ordered his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. | , to take a combined arms force of 8,000 cavalrymen and 3,000 infantry on ... |
| Data | ... ryone, except Doctor Tolian Soran, has been killed by Romulans. The android | , who recently installed a chip that enables emotions, helps engineer Geor ... |
| Emperor Wu of Liu Song | When | subdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but ... |
| Nevil Shute | ... nate history novels. Prince Philip also appears as a fictional character in | 's novel In the Wet (1952) |
| Richard Aldington | | – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William ... |
| Ford | ... came a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and | administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then as an as ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hugh Halkett's | ... Foot, a British infantry regiment. Adam's brigade was further reinforced by | 3rd Hanoverian Brigade, and successfully repulsed further infantry and cav ... |
| Richard Attenborough | ... works of fiction and documentary essay concerned with Elizabeth I's reign. | depicted him in the film Elizabeth. He was a prominent supporting characte ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Benjamin Adekunle | ... rts of 3 Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian Army, led by then Colonel | , popularly called 'The Black Scorpion' and later Olusegun Obasanjo. Ojukw ... |
| Joseph Mauborgne | ... uring the 1920s, the one-time pad cipher was invented by Gilbert Vernam and | at the laboratories. Bell Labs' Claude Shannon later proved that it is unb ... |
| Clark Gable | ... such as Ciro's and Mocambo's, for Hollywood stars such as Rosalind Russell, | , Gloria Swanson, and Shirley Temple. He did not always play to packed roo ... |
| Sam Shepard | ... bout Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role opposite | in 1983's The Right Stuff. He has appeared in small roles in a number of o ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... he Nominated Assembly, set up after the expulsion of the Rump Parliament by | . The Assembly very quickly became known as Barebone's Parliament by criti ... |
| John Kendrew | ... with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz and | at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was und ... |
| Charles II | ... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death | gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ... |
| 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 |
| Fidel Castro | With | assuming control of Cuba in 1959, Cruz and her husband, Pedro Knight, refu ... |
| John Buford | ... o columns on June 9, 1863, the first crossing at Beverly's Ford (Brig. Gen. | 's division) catching Stuart by surprise, waking him and his staff to the ... |
| Robert Duvall | ... f. It starred Natasha Richardson as Offred, Faye Dunaway as Serena Joy, and | as The Commander (Fred) |
| Eric Clapton | ... om in London for a UNICEF charity concert. The supergroup also consisted of | , George Harrison, Nicky Hopkins, Yoko Ono, Billy Preston and Klaus Voorma ... |
| Tom Paris | ... Beltran), (Martha Hackett) and B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson), as well as | (Robert Duncan McNeill), a regular character that had been captured and im ... |
| Freddie Cox | ... ed Fourth Division. They remained in this division until 1964, when manager | led them to promotion, winning the first and so far only championship in t ... |
| Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov | So long as | remained in power, Elizabeth was treated with liberality and distinction b ... |
| 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. ... |
| John S. McCain, Jr. | In mid-1968, | was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and the Nor ... |
| Mike Thompson | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zebulon Pike | Reports from expeditions in 1806 by Lieutenant | and in 1819 by Major Stephen Long described the Great Plains as "unfit for ... |
| Cal Tjader | ... the most respected Afro-cuban jazz combo of the late 1950s was vibraphonist | 's band. Tjader had Mongo Santamaria, Armando Peraza, and Willie Bobo on h ... |
| Virginia McKenna | ... ssions to France. Tania Szabo attended the museum's opening in 2000, as did | , and members of SOE |
| Arjuna Ranatunga | ... y as he was sent up the order to open the batting and attack as a tactic by | who was the captain of Sri Lanka in the mid to late 90s. The gamble had se ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Harris | ... ed version of Churchill's memo by Bottomley, on 29 March, Air Chief Marshal | wrote to the Air Ministry |
| George Formby | ... make them the direct descendants of the films made a generation earlier by | . Never highly thought of by the critics, they were very popular with dome ... |
| Hugo Chávez | ... lished in 1921 under President Juan Vicente Gómez. In 2002, under president | , the name was changed to Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenou ... |
| Spock | Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as | and McCoy, were modified for Doohan and Koenig. In Scotty's case, it creat ... |
| James Callaghan | ... sh from the Industrial North East and Northern Irish. Former Prime Minister | 's father was a Protestant from Northern Ireland. Similarly, some of the l ... |
| Juan Vicente Gómez | ... ns. The original holiday was officially established in 1921 under President | . In 2002, under president Hugo Chávez, the name was changed to Día de la ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... minent, while the 19th-century tradition of sacred cantatas also continued. | composed both kinds: "festival" cantatas such as Toward the Unknown Region ... |
| Bryan Adams | ... nts to Be Alone" on his new album Kaleidoscope. Furtado sang in a duet with | at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. The ... |
| Harold Pinter | The 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale was based on a screenplay by | and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It starred Natasha Richardson as Offre ... |
| Oliver North | ... old different offices. For example, the Sliders find alternate Earths where | , Hillary Clinton, Jocelyn Elders, and even B-movie filmmaker Ed Wood were ... |
| B'Elanna Torres | ... regular Maquis characters, Chakotay (Robert Beltran), (Martha Hackett) and | (Roxann Dawson), as well as Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), a regular c ... |
| DeForest Kelley | Leonard Nimoy and | declined to appear. Their lines, as Spock and McCoy, were modified for Doo ... |
| George W. Bush | ... he 2004 presidential election, when 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for | , 32.8% voted for John Kerry, and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third ... |
| John F. 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marcus Caecilius Metellus | ... ns of the interior resisted the Roman colonization for more than a century, | subduing them only in 127 BC |
| John R. Chambliss | ... igades (those of Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and Col. | , the latter replacing the wounded Brig. Gen. W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee) between ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... shot for the film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by | , with Glen Rock having had 11 residents who were killed in the September ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... al community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of | 's novel Anne of Green Gables, following the adventures of Anne Shirley, a ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... anted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of | , and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the le ... |
| Steve Symms | ... had occurred since the purchase requirement was dropped. When Helms' ally, | of Idaho, proposed to reinstitute the purchase requirement, the motion was ... |
| Brian Johnston | ... ith Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, including Richie Benaud and | , and replacing references to the Vietnam War with references to the Engla ... |
| Lord Flashheart | ... though several reappear in one series or another, for example Melchett and | |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... bylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of | . The Persian Sibyl, by name Sambethe, was reported to be of the family of ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... around topsy-turvy under the Earth to be absurd. But by the 1st century AD, | was in a position to claim that everyone agrees on the spherical shape of ... |
| Aragorn | ... m Saruman's corpse instead of Wormtongue throwing it from the tower window. | also reveals himself to Sauron after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Pratchett | The Last Continent is the twenty-second Discworld novel by | . First published in 1998, it mocks the aspects of time traveling such as ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mike Thompson | ... by Democrat Wesley Chesbro. Federally, Arcata is represented by Congressman | and is located in California's 1st congressional district |
| Richie Benaud | ... ber one hit, 19, with Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, including | and Brian Johnston, and replacing references to the Vietnam War with refer ... |
| Queen Anne | ... om his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-law | who continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Qu ... |
| Mike Thompson | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
| Sir William Hamilton | ... an to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note | ;'s collection of Greek vases. During the few years after its foundation t ... |
| M. Jeff Thompson | On September 1, 1861, Confederate General | robbed the Union Bank of Charleston. Thompson, who handed the cashier a no ... |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | Guests have included | , Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Chri ... |
| HRH The Princess Royal | ... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympian | unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Duke of Marlborough | Named "New Marlborough" for the | until 1800, the town was a New Hampshire grant chartered on April 29, 1751 ... |
| Gummo | His health was noticeably worsening by the following year and when | died, aged 84, on April 21, 1977, in Palm Springs, California, the death o ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... in "Invasive Procedures", and later joined the cast of as the Vulcan Tuvok. | and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as Spock and McCoy, w ... |
| Lilian Rolfe | ... the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: Denise Bloch, Cecily Lefort, and | . Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen were killed in action or died in ... |
| Wilfrid Laurier | ... rter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir | . When Laurier led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, 14-year-o ... |
| Tuvok | ... lingon in "Invasive Procedures", and later joined the cast of as the Vulcan | |
| Reille | ... 00 cavalry, plus a cavalry reserve of 4,700. On the left was II Corps under | with 13,000 infantry, and 1,300 cavalry, and a cavalry reserve of 4,600. I ... |
| Jackie Stewart | ... gers Ken Tyrrell, Peter Collins, Ron Dennis, and Frank Williams, and driver | . The pallbearers included drivers Gerhard Berger, Michele Alboreto, Alain ... |
| L. Patrick Gray | ... med Felt planted the leaks to obtain the FBI director's job (the leaks hurt | , Nixon's friend who had recently been chosen for the director's position ... |
| Tuvok | Species 8472 is telepathic and in sends Kes and | telepathic messages |
| Pavel Chekov | ... he year 2293, recently retired Captain James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, and | attend the maiden voyage of the Starship USS Enterprise-B. During the voya ... |
| Ice-T | ... s, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, Jesse Jackson, | , Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, 50 ... |
| Alexander McKee | ... er Das Reich claimed that this had occurred. For example, British historian | in Dresden 1945 (1982) quotes eyewitnesses who state that strafing did occ ... |
| Jan Zumbach | ... tory included two B-25 Mitchells, one B-26 Invader (piloted by Polish pilot | , known also as John Brown), a converted DC-3 and one Dove. In 1968 the Sw ... |
| Cathleen Nesbitt | ... ern making a living from her phoney powers. William Devane, Karen Black and | co-starred. It was the only Hitchcock film scored by John Williams |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas L. Kane | Kanesville was named for | . The name Kanesville was adopted when an LDS Ward was first organized the ... |
| David Gower | ... trous 1984 home series against the West Indies in which the England captain | had averaged 19 |
| John Marshall | ... Missouri Valley College. Marshall was named after the statesman and jurist | (1755–1835) |
| John Marshall Harlan II | ... t prominent opponents of Black's theory were Justices Felix Frankfurter and | . Frankfurter and Harlan argued that the Fourteenth Amendment did not inco ... |
| Chakotay | ... a member of the Maquis, Voyager contained three regular Maquis characters, | (Robert Beltran), (Martha Hackett) and B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson), as ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President | , in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ... |
| Elias Ashmole | ... reated the order of the Hatchet (orden de la Hacha) in 1149. As reported by | in The Institution, Laws, and Ceremony of the Most Noble Order of the Gart ... |
| the first Justice Harlan's | ... "waving the bloody shirt of Brown", and indicated that he would have joined | solitary dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 case that Brown overruled |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Crawford | ... venue. Lloyd Webber, the original London cast including Sarah Brightman and | , and four previous actors of the titular character, among others, were in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Byron White | ... orker otherwise qualified for food stamps prior to going on strike. Justice | said that the government must maintain neutrality in labor dispute and not ... |
| Basil Dean | The novel was adapted into a play by Kennedy and | |
| Air Commodore Finlay Crerar | ... ver Corps to adequately deal with this new threat, but the ROC's Commandant | assured the committee that the ROC could again rise to the occasion and pr ... |
| Geordi La Forge | ... d Data, who recently installed a chip that enables emotions, helps engineer | search the station. The two discover a compound called trilithium in a hid ... |
| Mark Antony | ... gyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occurred when | , the other most influential member of the Triumvirate, abandoned his wife ... |
| Hernán Cortés | ... catán Peninsula of present day Mexico and northern Central America. The day | landed ashore at present day Veracruz, April 22, 1519, marks the beginning ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Earl Jones | ... d by Nelson Mandela and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, | , Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte have cited his lead film roles as bei ... |
| Francqui, Emile | ... ésar - Franco-Belgian comics - France–Habsburg rivalry - Franco-Dutch War - | - Free Belgian Forces - French Community Commission - French Community of ... |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | ... , reading such authors as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and his favorite author, | who wrote novels such as Tarzan of the Apes and The Warlord of Mars. He lo ... |
| Lester B. Pearson | ... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs | in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Porter Alexander | ... ulated at headquarters that Lee's greeting was "abrupt and frosty." Colonel | wrote, "Although Lee said only, 'Well, General, you are here at last,' his ... |
| Andrew Moray | ... aking place across Scotland, including those of several Scottish nobles and | in the north |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | ... me; established by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include | and Ian McEwan. The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre ... |
| John Romita, Sr. | ... ing among many of Marvel Comics's female characters on the cover painted by | |
| Karl Dönitz | ... any. The main body effectively ends when Speer, by this point having joined | 's government seated in Schleswig-Holstein, receives news of Hitler's deat ... |
| Rex Harrison | ... th the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by | and Julie Andrews, was a huge hit in New York and London. The partnership ... |
| John Kerry | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, whereas George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 20 ... |
| Aegidius | In 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General | , who was based in Soissons, he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to exten ... |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... ft rear of the Confederate battle lines, and Hampton fought with Brig. Gen. | at the Battle of Hunterstown before joining Stuart at Gettysburg |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Rupert Brooke | ... Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – | – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Possible influences may include | 's "The Masque of the Red Death". Its synopsis is similar to Chambers's im ... |
| Stan Lee | Marvel Feature #4 was reprinted in the book The Superhero Women edited by | . Red Sonja was featured arching among many of Marvel Comics's female char ... |
| Zoë Wanamaker | The 2007 revival at the Royal National Theatre starred | and Susannah Fielding |
| 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 ... |
| David Niven | ... Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), Nathaniel Benchley (historian), | , Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... arty. While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980, | had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976, Gerald ... |
| Edmund Blunden | ... Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – | – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thoma ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and idealistic Edwardian twit Lieutenant George ( | ). General Melchett (Stephen Fry) rallies his troops from a French château ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ron Paul | In 2010 Congressmen | questioned whether the Federal Reserve Bank had been used to funnel illega ... |
| Pietro Badoglio | On 5 May, Marshal | led Italian troops into Addis Ababa, and Mussolini declared Ethiopia an It ... |
| Captain Mercer | ... lington's order to seek shelter in the adjacent squares during the charges. | , who commanded 'G' Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, thought the Brunswick tr ... |
| Napoleon | ... s the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall of | in 1814. The Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty was restored on the throne of Tusca ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976, | had severely criticized Reagan's proposal to turn back a large part of the ... |
| General George C. Marshall | ... lery Corps was not satisfied with the Army's 37mm Gun M1, in September 1940 | asked the British for the loan of four Bofors 40 mm guns with Kerrison Pre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... sic which was played and recorded in the mid 1950s by white singers such as | , Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, who drew mainly on the country roots o ... |
| John Vanbrugh | ... ton Court. Under George I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of | . Under George II and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took plac ... |
| Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
| Ian McEwan | ... Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and | . The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art ... |
| Quebec lieutenant | Following the death of his | , Ernest Lapointe, in November 1941, King was well aware of the need for t ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | Chambers borrowed the names Carcosa, Hali, and Hastur from | : specifically, his short stories "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" and "Haïta th ... |
| William Holden | ... eceived a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Clift lost out to | (who won for Stalag 17). Holden himself was surprised by his win. Allegedl ... |
| 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. |
| George H. W. Bush | ... 006, graduation ceremonies included commencement speakers former Presidents | and Bill Clinton, who commended the students for their desire to return to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Captain Blackadder | ... in the trenches of the First World War. Another "big push" is planned, and | 's one goal is to avoid being killed, so he plots ways to get out of it, b ... |
| 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 | |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Magnolia is located in Senate District 2 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ernest Lapointe | Following the death of his Quebec lieutenant, | , in November 1941, King was well aware of the need for the government to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Umberto II | ... society. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king | , was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a referendum to ... |
| Pablo Vicente de Solá | ... io Bolcoff. Bolcoff lived with and traveled with Alta California's governor | , acting as an interpreter |
| Werner Israel | ... ck hole that is both rotating and electrically charged. Through the work of | , Brandon Carter, and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating ... |
| 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 ... |
| Franz von Weyrother | ... ders however was too strong, and the Allies adopted Austrian Chief of Staff | 's plan. This called for a main drive against the French right flank, whic ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... unty was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide nationwide against | — but only by three percentage points in Klamath County |
| Jimmy Page | ... s, but the next year he started to work with former-Led Zeppelin guitarist, | , which resulted in the album Coverdale and Page |
| 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 ... |
| John S. Mosby | One of the most forceful postbellum defenses of Stuart was by Col. | , who had served under him during the campaign and was fiercely loyal to t ... |
| Oliver Stone | After several delays, director | finally started production on the film The Doors, based on the band of the ... |
| John Barry | ... n May 2011, singing Goldfinger in tribute to the recently deceased composer | . On 20 June 2011, Bassey returned to perform Diamonds Are Forever and Gol ... |
| William Whipple | ... als; 5% of George Washington's forces consisted of African-American troops. | , a signer of the Declaration of Independence who had fought in the war, f ... |
| Rex Harrison | ... ), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, | , and Jimmy Van Heusen. In his autobiography The Moon's a Balloon, David N ... |
| Kellermann's | ... mperial Guard, some 4,800 sabres, were committed. When these were repulsed, | heavy cavalry corps and Guyot's heavy cavalry of the Guard were added to t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dai Rees | ... named in the team: Cotton, Jimmy Adams, Dick Burton, Sam King, Alf Padgham, | , Charles Whitcombe and Reg Whitcombe. Charles Whitcombe immediately withd ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Starkey | ... ibuted to the perception that he is "a cantankerous old sod". The historian | has described him as a kind of " H.R.H Victor Meldrew". For example, in Ma ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Arness | ... ture an audience even though it followed the hit western Gunsmoke, starring | |
| Kenny Washington | ... professional coast-to-coast sports enterprise. The Rams subsequently signed | , an African American, to the team, as a precondition to leasing the Los A ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... rds. His manager at Stiff, Jake Riviera, suggested a name change, combining | 's first name and Costello, his father's stage name |
| Milhaud's | Initially | reserve cavalry corps of cuirassiers and Lefebvre-Desnoëttes' light cavalr ... |
| Sam Newman | ... ckyard with Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with | . Stuart Littlemore, who at the time was hosting the media commentary show ... |
| Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa | ... Roman province of Epirus vetus in Greece. Octavian's fleet was commanded by | , while Antony's fleet was supported by the ships of Queen Cleopatra of Pt ... |
| Frank Gehry | ... l memorial in Washington, D.C.. In 2009, the commission chose the architect | to design the memorial |
| Lefebvre-Desnoëttes' | Initially Milhaud's reserve cavalry corps of cuirassiers and | light cavalry division of the Imperial Guard, some 4,800 sabres, were comm ... |
| George Washington | ... first settler, Ariel Bradley, was only nine years old when he was a spy for | during the American Revolution. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley ca ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... ecific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to the scene in the fourth | movie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) when Jones hides inside an inexplicab ... |
| Thomas L. Rosser | ... in part by opinions of less partisan writers, such as Stuart's subordinate, | , who stated after the war that Stuart did, "on this campaign, undoubtedly ... |
| William Wyler | ... arred his father, Walter Huston. In addition, House Divided was directed by | , who gave Huston his first real "inside view" of the filmmaking process d ... |
| 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. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... d writer throughout his youth who was greatly influenced by the writings of | . Bradbury was especially impressed with Poe's ability to draw readers int ... |
| Robert Preston | ... 9, the first episodes of the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms, starring | , was filmed near La Junta |
| Germanicus | ... Orion a horse. Fontenrose, Orion, p. 26–27, note 9, citing the scholion to | ' translation of Aratus, line 331 (p 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so l ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... e favored stimulus resulting in an expansion of the money supply. President | 's wage and price controls were abandoned. The federal oil reserves were c ... |
| Ifor Bach | ... diff, ranging from historical figures such as the 12th century Welsh leader | and to more recent figures such as Roald Dahl, Ken Follett, Griff Rhys Jon ... |
| Dave Brubeck | ... a twelve-inch as the Birth of the Cool. Cool jazz recordings by Chet Baker, | , Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quartet usually hav ... |
| Karl Jenkins | ... aturing silhouettes of people wearing diamonds, to the music of Palladio by | . A 2010 commercial for Verizon Wireless parodied the De Beers spots |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Simmons | It also starred veterans | as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and Roy Thinnes as Roger Collins, British ch ... |
| Hernán Cortés | ... eca War, Red Cloud's War, the Second Seminole War, and Pontiac's Rebellion. | eventually conquered Mexico and the Tlaxcala in 1519-1521, while the conqu ... |
| John Ford | ... s commissioned by the American Film Institute to direct a documentary about | for their tribute, Directed by John Ford (1971). The resulting film includ ... |
| Alan Shearer | ... tball for the first time since 1966. In 1992, Dalglish signed Southampton's | for a British record fee of £3.5 million. Despite a serious injury which r ... |
| Henry Ireton | ... on 7 December 1648, when, under the orders of Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law | , Colonel Pride physically barred and arrested 41 of the members of Parlia ... |
| A. J. Casson | ... e steward of a permanent collection of over 160 pieces, including pieces by | , Jack Reid, Robert Harris, and |
| 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 ... |
| Clark Gable | ... being sold and was heavily modified into a yacht, which was leased to actor | . He named the boat Tarbaby VI, and used her through the 1950s. The boat w ... |
| Joseph Pulitzer | ... and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with | , owner and publisher of the New York World, from whom he "stole" Richard ... |
| Chewbacca | ... archetype. The theme of the "Friendly Monster" is pervasive in pop-culture. | , Elmo, and Shrek are notable examples of friendly "monsters". The creatur ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... tly been moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1816, James Arnold, the son of | , fortified Bermuda's Royal Naval Dockyard against possible U.S. attacks. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... culminating in Pride's Purge on 7 December 1648, when, under the orders of | 's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically barred and arrested 4 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wilfrid Laurier | ... November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after | |
| 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 ... |
| George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... k (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and | |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... erican writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, | , Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. In his book The New Novel in ... |
| Ron Paul | Among the first Republicans elected was fiscally conservative | to the U.S. House of Representatives. He became known for opposition to th ... |
| Forrest J Ackerman | ... ublish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by | to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mark Antony | ... engagement fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of | and Cleopatra VII. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ioni ... |
| Victor Horsley | ... es, was further stimulated by work in 1891, when he was chosen to be one of | 's assistants at in the series of investigations which elucidated the exis ... |
| Sam Torrance | ... plaining about the behavior of the American galleries throughout the match. | branded it "disgusting," while European captain Mark James referred to it ... |
| Roland Beamont | ... t until the end of 1942, when its good qualities—seen from the start by S/L | of 609 Squadron—became apparent. It was extremely fast, tough and capable, ... |
| Porfirio Díaz | ... they had become much more secure. George Hearst was on friendly terms with | , the Mexican dictator, who helped him settle boundary disputes profitably ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... hnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford and | tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventually appointed on ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) mounts. Lieutenant | was the first commanding officer of PT-59 after its conversion. On Novembe ... |
| Robbie Coltrane | ... atures rotten boroughs (or "robber buttons"), Dr. Samuel Johnson (played by | ), William Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne), the French Revolution (featur ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Hills is located in Senate District 22, ... |
| Stephen D. Lee | ... turgis, after some doubts and trepidation, departed Memphis on June 1. Gen. | , alerted of Sturgis's movement, warned Forrest. Lee had also planned a re ... |
| Kermit Roosevelt | ... o "Kermit" when a post office was established in 1906. Kermit was named for | , son of President Theodore Roosevelt, and incorporated in 1909 |
| George H. W. Bush | ... au's brother John Patrick Schmitz is the former deputy counsel to President | |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of | ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ... |
| Stansfield Turner | Former CIA chief, Admiral | , claimed that De Beers restricted US access to industrial diamonds needed ... |
| Abraham Adan | ... ers. The Israelis planned a cautious counterattack for the following day by | 's 162nd Armored Division. The same day, the Israeli Air Force carried out ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Granville Bruce | ... ell for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to | , the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922 |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital. Jackson's Mill, a childhood home of | , is approximately four miles (6 km) north of Weston; it has been operated ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... achines and (what we today call) submarines, attributing their first use to | |
| Kuropatkin | ... m other Russian units the attack stalled, Gripenberg was ordered to halt by | and the battle was inconclusive. The Japanese knew that they needed to des ... |
| Sir Thomas Grenville | ... form tablets, which helped to make the Museum a focus for Assyrian studies. | (1755–1846), a Trustee of The British Museum from 1830, assembled a fine l ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... ilm included candid interviews with the likes of John Wayne, James Stewart, | , and was narrated by Orson Welles. Out of circulation for years due to li ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... to a visitor attraction, Brown's family plans to consult with the family of | for guidance about converting the estate into an attraction similar to |
| von Hindenburg | ... bowed in apparently respectful humility before President and Field Marshal | |
| 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 ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in their usual roles, this series starred | as the Prince Regent, and Helen Atkinson-Wood as Mrs. Miggins. The series ... |
| Julian P. Boyd | ... Archives is usually regarded as the Declaration of Independence, historian | argued that the Declaration, like Magna Carta, is not a single document. B ... |
| Norman Mailer | Factoid was coined by | in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer described a factoid as "fa ... |
| Rehavam Ze'evi | Israeli tourist minister | was assassinated on October 17, 2001, by Hamdi Quran and three other membe ... |
| Koxinga | In 1662, | (Zheng Cheng-gong), a loyalist of the Ming Dynasty, which had lost control ... |
| Uffa Fox | ... supervision. He was a keen yachtsman, striking up a friendship in 1949 with | in Cowes. He and the Queen regularly attended Cowes Week in HMY Britannia. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... e butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the prince is played by | as a complete fop and idiot). Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... r 1991, while serving as Minister without Portfolio, he called US President | an "anti-Semite." In 1997 he called US Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk ... |
| Pliny | ... When Horace criticized Augustus, he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, | reports that the 6th century BC poet Hipponax wrote satirae that were so c ... |
| George Meade | ... ed at Gettysburg, Coddington points out that the Union commander, Maj. Gen. | , was just as surprised, and the initial advantage lay with Lee. Eric J. W ... |
| Oliver North | In 1990 the ACLU defended Lieutenant Colonel | , whose conviction was tainted by coerced testimonya violation of his fift ... |
| Lucien Bouchard | ... out "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical | , the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, cluck ... |
| George Meade | The commander of the Army of the Potomac, Maj. Gen. | , and his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, quarreled about th ... |
| George Paget Thomson | ... ey. Bell researcher Clinton Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with | for the discovery of electron diffraction, which helped lay the foundation ... |
| Sam Torrance | ... o one walked in or crossed Olazábal's putting line – although Europe player | has said in TV interviews that a TV cameraman stood on Olazábal's line whi ... |
| Brian Clough | ... fferent clubs to top-flight league championships, after Herbert Chapman and | . Dalglish became Director of Football at Blackburn in June 1995. He left ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Feng Yuxiang | In 1930, when warlords | and Yan Xishan attempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang governm ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... . Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, | , George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included Willia ... |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | ... ivil War. It pitted a 4,787-man contingent led by Confederate Major General | against an 8,100-strong Union force led by Brigadier General Samuel D. Stu ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Coffee | ... , Mississippi. The population was 930 at the 2000 census. It is named after | (1772 – 1833), a planter and military leader |
| Hernán Cortés | ... Spanish conquest of Yucatán. The former is conquest of the campaign, led by | from 1519–21 and his Tlaxcala and other 'indigenous peoples' allied agains ... |
| François de Négrier | ... of its departure for Tonkin to take part in the Bắc Ninh Campaign, General | pronounced a famous mot: Vous, légionnaires, vous êtes soldats pour mourir ... |
| George H. W. Bush | During the 1988 presidential election: then-Vice President | noted that his opponent Michael Dukakis had described himself as a "card-c ... |
| 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 |
| 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 | ... 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union Gen. | had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Ten ... |
| Lepidus | ... lating. Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing | , in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldi ... |
| Roman Ungern von Sternberg | ... rederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general | and Enver Pasha of Turkey. His acquaintances treat him with great respect, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The Overland Campaign, Lt. Gen. | 's offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, began at the Battle of the ... |
| Lord Chamberlain | ... ring the series, he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious | Lord Melchett (Stephen Fry) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's de ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gordon Granger | ... the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas by Union General | at Galveston in an event commemorated as Juneteenth. Black communities suc ... |
| Ronald Reagan | The election of | as president in 1981 ushered in an eight year period of conservative leade ... |
| Malcolm Bradbury | ... is especially well-known for its creative writing programme; established by | and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Moray | On 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace and | won the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Although vastly outnumbered, the Scotti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... es of Israel – Gad, Reuven, and Menashe. Zeevi urged Israeli Prime Minister | to "lay waste to the Palestinian Authority" and assassinate PLO leader |
| 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 ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Aulë is a fictional character from | 's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in The Silmarillion, but appear ... |
| Nigel Mansell | ... with five wins, including a crucial victory in Spain where he and teammate | finished 1–2 for the Scuderia. Senna had gone out with a damaged radiator ... |
| 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 ... |
| Admiral Nelson | A lock of | 's hair was given to the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British Royal Navy ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... and Sergeant York. Huston writes that Sergeant York, which was directed by | , has "gone down as one of Howard's best pictures, and Gary Cooper had a t ... |
| Aragorn | ... nadvertently contacted Sauron, after which Gandalf turned the stone over to | |
| Samuel D. Sturgis | ... edford Forrest against an 8,100-strong Union force led by Brigadier General | . The battle ended in a rout of the Union forces and cemented Forrest's re ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gaius Sosius | ... ding out Octavian's ships which up until now were tightly arranged. He sent | down to the south to spread the remaining ships out to the south. This lef ... |
| John Paul Jones | ... ast of Flamborough Head in Britain in September 1779. In that final action, | defeated and captured the British ship HMS Serapis, which he sailed to Tex ... |
| Damon Hill | ... hip from Prost in the Williams-Renault. As the season progressed, Prost and | asserted the superiority of the Williams-Renault car, with Prost securing ... |
| Robbie Coltrane | ... ic actors from the famed "alternative" era for guest appearances, including | , Rik Mayall (who had appeared in the final episode of the first series as ... |
| King Hussein | ... other Arab states showed much more reluctance to fully commit to a new war. | of Jordan feared another major loss of territory as had occurred in the Si ... |
| Uhura | ... mmunications officer named M'Ress, an ailuroid officer who served alongside | . She would return years later in , cast as the outrageously self-assertiv ... |
| Bahta Hagos | In December 1894, | led a rebellion against the Italians in Akkele Guzay, claiming support of ... |
| Stand Watie | ... also known as the Hay Camp Action). Confederate troops led by Brig. General | and Brig. General Richard Gano captured 85 Union troops and killed even mo ... |
| 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 ... |
| G. Gordon Liddy | # | (R) Special Investigations Group, convicted of burglary |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Farragut | ... Metropolitan Area. The town is named in honor of American Civil War Admiral | , who was born just east of Farragut at Campbell's Station in 1801 |
| Sam Farr | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +17 and is represented by Democrat | |
| Alito | Rossum, writing in 2006, before George W. Bush appointees Roberts and | had time to make an impact, said that Scalia had failed to win converts am ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eddie Money | ... the band, and was replaced by Chris Frazier, who had previously worked with | , Edgar Winter and |
| Bram Stoker | ... playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, | . It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of Jame ... |
| Mark Inglis | Double-amputee climber | revealed in an interview with the press on 23 May 2006, that his climbing ... |
| Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
| Rommel | ... to find dispersal units. A back-handed compliment was paid by Field Marshal | to the workers at Radford Works when he used a captured Daimler Scout to e ... |
| William Shirley | ... rge-scale action was a major expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor | that successfully besieged the French fortress of Louisbourg in 1745. The ... |
| Muhammad bin Qasim | ... sian Achaemenid Empire. The Arabs ruled Sindh for more than 150 years after | conquered it in 712 AD, remaining there for three years to set up Arab rul ... |
| Takatsugu Jōjima | ... ed, Shōkaku was unable to conduct further aircraft operations. Her captain, | , requested permission from Takagi and Hara to withdraw from the battle, t ... |
| Albert Sidney Johnston | ... tually routed by the sudden appearance of the Confederate States Army under | , Grant sent orders for Wallace to move his division up to support the div ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Moray | Along with | , Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 129 ... |
| E. Howard Hunt | # | (R) ‘security consultant,’ convicted of burglary |
| Evelyn Waugh | ... Egypt, Turkey, Sweden, Belgium, and Japan were also present. British author | was also present, penning a contemporary report on the event, and American ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Luc Picard | ... ter in the series. Her character often vexed the captain of the Enterprise, | , who spurned her amorous advances. Barrett later appeared as Ambassador T ... |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ... s for Wallace to move his division up to support the division of Brig. Gen. | located at Shiloh Church |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... n 1649, the palace became the property of the Commonwealth presided over by | . Unlike some other former royal properties, the palace escaped relatively ... |
| John Ford | ... gdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as Orson Welles and | , whom he later wrote a book about based on the notes he had produced for ... |
| Alec Reeves | Pulse-code modulation was invented by British scientist | in 1937 and was used in telecommunications applications long before its fi ... |
| Christine Chapel | Her role in subsequent episodes of was altered to that of Nurse | , a frequently recurring character, known for her unrequited affection for ... |
| Greg Norman | ... e , a private golf course and housing development designed by golf champion | , his first project in the Greater Los Angeles area. With home prices expe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Quintus Dellius | Before the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals, | , had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans. ... |
| Frederick C. Sherman | ... arrier's survivors were rescued, including Fitch and the carrier's captain, | , at 19:15 the destroyer fired five torpedoes into the burning ship, which ... |
| John Kerry | ... on 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democrat | received 50.14% of the vote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 v ... |
| John Toshack | ... y, and former managers of the Wales national football team Terry Yorath and | . International rugby league players from Cardiff include Frank Whitcombe, ... |
| Cesare Borgia | ... became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included | , Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia. It is often suggested that Cesare a ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... known for his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever, Jim Morrison in | 's The Doors, he became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appeara ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ron Dennis | ... oenix, Arizona and tested Emerson Fittipaldi's Penske IndyCar. McLaren boss | meanwhile was trying to secure a supply of the dominant Renault V10 engine ... |
| Bestuzhev | ... ssia in order to weaken Austria's influence and ruin the Russian chancellor | , on whom Empress Elizabeth relied, and who acted as a known partisan of R ... |
| Jack Benny | ... umber, followed by a skit or story routine. A "feud" between Fred Allen and | , was used as comic material for nearly a decade |
| Adolf Hitler | He was an outspoken and early critic of | and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ... |
| Wellington | ... dominion in parts of Catalonia lasted until 1814, when the British General | signed the armistice by which the French left Barcelona and the other stro ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | Sterling wrote to his long-time literary mentor, | |
| 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 ... |
| Petula Clark | ... vish parties". A receptionist at the hotel told a guest Moon bought it from | |
| Richard Nixon | ... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President | was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ... |
| Oreste Baratieri | ... he Italians in Akkele Guzay, claiming support of Mengesha. Units of General | 's army under Major Pietro Toselli crushed the rebellion and killed Hagos. ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Ehrlichman | # | (R) Counsel to Nixon, convicted of perjury |
| William S. Knudsen | ... ge summer homes at the north end of Parke Lane (one remains today). General | , president of General Motors Corporation from 1937 to 1940, lived during ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... n the notes he had produced for the MoMA retrospective of the director, and | . Bogdanovich also brought attention to such forgotten pioneers of America ... |
| Sam Farr | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +17 and is represented by Democrat | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| The Black Douglas | ... for that magazine, portrays the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, | , and others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fi ... |
| George Washington | ... that was chosen was the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of | , Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the ... |
| Joseph Warren | ... stern corner of Nobles County, and was originally named Warren, in honor of | who fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The town was surveyed and platted i ... |
| Jomini | General Baron | , one of the leading military writers on the Napoleonic art of war had a n ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In the works of | , the Vanyar are the fairest and most noble of the High Elves. They are th ... |
| Captain George Vancouver | The bay was originally named "Port Townshend" by | (for his friend the Marquis of Townshend) in 1792. It was immediately reco ... |
| Fritz Sauckel | ... emberg defendants in positions similar to Speer's were hanged, most notably | , who actually worked under Speer's orders. His claim to have tried to kil ... |
| Oliver Reed | Rossetti was played by | in Ken Russell's film Dante's Inferno (1967). The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherho ... |
| John Coffee Hays | ... he San Antonio-California Trail was surveyed in 1848 under the direction of | . Hudspeth became known as a place travelers passed through, on their way ... |
| Brian Sewell | ... Tom Parker Bowles, ran the "Alternative Turner Prize" with judges including | , who said it was for "a wider and more generous choice of art and artist. ... |
| C. P. Snow | ... both theoretically and experimentally. The well-known historian of physics, | , says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could w ... |
| John Murtha | ... 's 12th congressional district and lost to the popular Democratic incumbent | in the 2006 election |
| General de Gaulle | ... ion, many officers and men were arrested or deserted to escape persecution. | considered disbanding it altogether. But after being downsized to 8,000 me ... |
| James Allason | ... ctical ideas were sidelined by an experienced planning staff led by Lt-Col. | , though some, such as a proposal to launch an amphibious assault near Ran ... |
| Roland Beamont | ... w role as a low-altitude interceptor. Through the support of pilots such as | the Typhoon also established itself in roles such as night-time intruder a ... |
| David Berkowitz | Yahoos were referenced in a letter sent by serial killer | to New York City police while committing the "Son of Sam" murders in 1976 |
| Wolverine | ... duced in issue #4). The X-Men universe also includes such notable heroes as | , Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gamb ... |
| William B. Ault | Attacking first, Lexingtons air group, led by Commander | , hit Shōhō with two bombs and five torpedoes, causing severe damage. At 1 ... |
| Braxton Bragg | ... d to command the defense of Cincinnati in the Department of the Ohio during | 's incursion into Kentucky |
| Freddie Cox | ... back to the Football League in 1950. Clark remained in the job until 1957. | took over in 1962 and led the club to the Football League Fourth Division ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Lismore is located in Senate District 22 ... |
| Vitruvius | # The directions for making pavements given by | . The pavement and the via munita were identical in construction, except a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aragorn | ... Men of the West, an island sea-people, founders of Gondor and ancestors of | from The Lord of the Rings; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate o ... |
| Idi Amin | ... mentaries include The Man Who Ate His Archbishop's Liver? (Channel 4) about | ; Alchemists of Sound, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; a biography of ... |
| Gaius Sosius | ... ius commanded the centre, with Cleopatra's squadron positioned behind them. | launched the initial attack from the left wing of the fleet, while Antony' ... |
| Rachel Whiteread | ... th the same short list as the official prize: the winner of both prizes was | . In 1999, Trevor Prideaux organised the ongoing Turnip Prize as "a crap a ... |
| Joe Abbott | ... post office, Dallas County Judge Thomas A. Nash asked visiting Congressman | to move the post office between the two towns. The move was completed in 1 ... |
| Clark Gable | ... ed in John Huston's The Misfits (1961), which was both Marilyn Monroe's and | 's last film. Monroe, who was also having emotional problems at the time, ... |
| Anakin Skywalker | ... creen Actors Guild Award. He gained international fame portraying the young | / Darth Vader in 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 ... |
| Robert Cummings | ... nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1954, he starred opposite Grace Kelly and | in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Davis (A.D.) Bruce | ... for the tank destroyer testing and training, which Texas had in abundance. | was assigned to organize a new Tank Destroyer Tactical and Firing Center, ... |
| 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, ... |
| Timothy McVeigh | ... ined international public attention following the Oklahoma City bombing, as | was alleged to have been influenced by The Turner Diaries (1978), the nove ... |
| Colin Chapman | ... executives already doubted the ability of Lotus to handle this new project. | probably had similar views as he asked a high price for his contribution a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joyce Kilmer | ... te developer. Kilmer's grandfather was a gold miner in New Mexico; the poet | is a distant cousin of Kilmer's. Kilmer is of German, Swedish, Irish, and ... |
| Marvel Girl | ... mutants can be heroes. Xavier recruited Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast, and | , calling them "X-Men" because they possess special powers due to their po ... |
| George Washington | ... th the county and the city were named for American Revolutionary War leader | , later to become the first President of the United States. It was the fir ... |
| Bernard Barker | # | guilty of burglary |
| Thucydides | ... ss 2009. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 17 February 2011 | , a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king ... |
| Lemuel Gulliver | ... bits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist | , who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyh ... |
| George Washington | ... r North Carolina Governor General Benjamin Smith, who was a special aide to | during the American Revolutionary War and was an early benefactor to the u ... |
| Bob McDonnell | ... mocrat Mark Warner, elected in 2008. The Governor of Virginia is Republican | , elected in 2009 |
| Kit Carson | ... te sympathizers in the area attempted to remove the flag. The Union officer | sought to discourage this activity by having guards surround the area and ... |
| Matome Ugaki | ... area in world history." Hara later told Yamamoto's chief of staff, Admiral | , he was so frustrated with the "poor luck" the Japanese experienced on 7 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... legorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past ( | , Augustus, Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
| William Rehnquist | ... of congressional power under the Commerce Clause, such as in the opinion of | in United States v. Lopez. Many Republicans on the more libertarian wing w ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... is also notable for being the birthplace of Julia Neale Jackson, mother of | , and Susan Catherine Koerner, mother of the Wright Brothers |
| Ian Holm | Speer was portrayed in the movie by Rutger Hauer, Goebbels by | , and Hitler by Derek Jacobi, a role for which he was nominated for an Emm ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... Die For (1995) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in | 's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts (1997), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... r along the River Hermus, where a town called Maeonia existed, according to | (Natural History book v:30) and Hierocles |
| Henry Martyn Robert | ... amentary authority for use by a deliberative assembly written by Brig. Gen. | |
| Titus Statilius Taurus | ... rruntius commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right. | commanded Octavian's armies, who observed the battle from shore to the nor ... |
| George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | In 1628 the unpopular favourite of Charles I | was stabbed to death in an Old Portsmouth pub by a veteran of Villiers' mo ... |
| Tony Jacklin | ... he United States and Great Britain all tied at 15.5 each, Jack Nicklaus led | by the score of 1 up as they played the 17th hole. Jacklin made a 35-foot ... |
| Dudley Moore | ... ocumentaries. Several were one-off programmes, including the BAFTA-winning, | - After the Laughter, for BBC1's Omnibus, which was the cause of a dispute ... |
| Constantine II of Greece | ... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King | (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ... |
| Derek Jacobi | ... portrayed in the movie by Rutger Hauer, Goebbels by Ian Holm, and Hitler by | , a role for which he was nominated for an Emmy. The miniseries did win 2 ... |
| Alfonso XIII | In the early 1900s Santander became the favoured summer residence of King | , who built the Palacio de la Magdalena as the residence of the royal fami ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Summit Lake Township is located in Senat ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Godfrey | ... his book Growing Up highlights his childhood in rural Virginia. Entertainer | lived near historic Waterford, Virginia. Loudoun County is also notable fo ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... nited States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice | , ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were ... |
| Sam Younger | ... is governed by a board, which is assisted by the Chief Executive (currently | ) and an executive team. Suzi Leather, DBE was appointed Chair of the Comm ... |
| Duncan D. Hunter | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +9 and is represented by Republican | |
| Roald Dahl | ... the 12th century Welsh leader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as | , Ken Follett, Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rudolf Hess | ... azi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, | , Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
| John Kerry | ... sidential election, Beaux Arts Village cast 63.08% of its vote for Democrat | |
| Arthur Harris | ... the interdiction of these troop movements should be given a high priority. | , AOC Bomber Command (nicknamed "Bomber" Harris in the British press, and ... |
| Kit Carson | ... . Frémont of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide | led three expeditions from 1842 to 1846 over parts of California and Orego ... |
| John Sedgwick | ... s in American history. His friend and West Point classmate, Union Maj. Gen. | said that Stuart was "the greatest cavalry officer ever foaled in America. ... |
| Andrew Johnson | On the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee | , U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ... |
| 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 ... |
| James B. Ricketts | ... stly hundred-days' men amalgamated from the VIII Corps) and the division of | from VI Corps was defeated by Confederate General Jubal A. Early, who had ... |
| Lucius Arruntius | ... he experienced admiral Agrippa, commanding from the left wing of the fleet, | commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right. Titus S ... |
| Jackie Robinson | ... Dodgers would face them in their next six World Series appearances. Led by | , the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era, and thre ... |
| Mark Antony | ... dertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. Julius Caesar and | commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodoxus, Theodotus an ... |
| Henry Martyn Robert | ... rative Assemblies, was published in February 1876 by then U.S. Army Colonel | (1837–1923) with the short title Robert's Rules of Order placed on its cov ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president | |
| George Washington | President of Congress John Hancock sent a broadside to General | , instructing him to have it proclaimed "at the Head of the Army in the wa ... |
| Archibald Sinclair | ... d Dresden. That evening Churchill asked the Secretary of State for Air, Sir | , what plans had been drawn up to carry out these proposals. He passed on ... |
| Oliver North | ... iega. After the Drug Enforcement Administration encountered opposition from | in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with ... |
| Robert Graves | ... Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – | – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea ... |
| Richard Nixon | On November 25, 1969, President | unilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ... |
| Lord Carrington | ... ancaster House Agreement a few months before the 1980 elections, chaired by | , institutionalizes majority rule and protection of minority rights. Since ... |
| Cleomenes III | ... on in 227 BC between the Achaean League under Aratus and the Spartans under | . Although the details are vague, both authors make it clear that the Acha ... |
| Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen | ... the retreat of the broken armies he commanded the rearguard of the army of | . Upon the capitulation of the main body after the Battle of Prenzlau on 2 ... |
| Henry Wirz | ... of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, as well as the court-martial of | , the commandant in charge of the South's Andersonville prison camp |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | ... ntered Austria, who met celebrating crowds, in order to install Nazi puppet | as Chancellor. With a Nazi administration already in place and the country ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | ... red the best equipment and the most talented writers of the time, including | , Mark Twain and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on t ... |
| Duncan D. Hunter | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +9 and is represented by Republican | |
| Gaius Sosius | ... ntony's demands. Gnaeus Ahenobarbus seems to have wished to keep quiet; but | on 1 January made an elaborate speech in favor of Antony, and would have p ... |
| Julian Thompson | ... y two years later. However, military historians such as former Royal Marine | have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as D ... |
| Colin Jackson | ... ity has been the birthplace of sports stars such as Tanni Grey-Thompson and | as well as many Premier League, Football League and international football ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | Like his intimate friend, | , General J.E.B. Stuart was a legendary figure and is considered one of th ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... nalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, | , Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
| Norman Fell | ... artin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and for a brief stint, | . Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, Juliet Prowse, and Shirley MacLaine wer ... |
| 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 ... |
| Howard T. Odum | To honor Bertalanffy, ecological systems engineer and scientist | named the storage symbol of his General Systems Language as the Bertalanff ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia. | , an imperial Roman polymath, states that the games at Lykaion were the fi ... |
| John Kerry | ... in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with | to introduce an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act demanding ... |
| George Martin | ... their own, the various Beatles supplied a total of "30 or so" tape loops to | , who selected 16 for use on the song. Each loop was about six seconds lon ... |
| Hermann Göring | ... scribe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, | , Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yakubu "Jack" Gowon | ... Christian from a small ethnic group (the Anga) in central Nigeria, General | , as the head of the Federal Military Government (FMG). The two coups deep ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Dundee is located in Senate District 22, ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... Famous Flames vocal group along with Brown, died of cancer at 73 years old. | has remarked, "He [James Brown] was almost a musical genre in his own righ ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Round Lake is located in Senate District ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... d States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President | |
| William Holden | When working on I Wanted Wings (1941), with Brian Donlevy and | , he went up with a pilot to test a plane for filming. While up in the air ... |
| Bob Monkhouse | ... ore becoming ABC Television. The station also received a joke nickname from | , namely All Bloody Commercials |
| 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 ... |
| David Ben Ba'ashat | ... ) was the commander of the Israeli Navy from 2000-2004. He was succeeded by | |
| James Cook | ... y, based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain | 's ship Endeavour in 1768 |
| John N. Mitchell | # | (R) Attorney General of the United States, convicted of perjury |
| Ross Perot, Jr. | ... a story about the battle to disband the town in the face of development by | |
| William Shirley | ... raiding on the northernmost communities of Massachusetts prompted Governor | to order the construction of a chain of frontier outposts stretching all t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wilfrid Scott-Giles | ... y William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms. The royal lion was, according to | , "said to have been granted by Edward III". By the 19th century the city ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... merican Civil War Brigadier General Robert H. Chilton (Chief of Staff under | ) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general George C. Marshall ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... d previously had limited mainstream success, but it was the white performer | who first appealed to mainstream audiences with a black style of music, be ... |
| John Hancock | The most famous signature on the engrossed copy is that of | , who, as President of Congress, presumably signed first. Hancock's large, ... |
| The Prince of Wales | ... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events. | and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs |
| Albrecht von Wallenstein | ... ion. In order to muster an imperial army to continue the war, he applied to | , one of the richest men in Bohemia: the latter accepted on condition that ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... ence since the January 24, 2005 episode that followed Jay Leno's tribute to | |
| William T. Sutherlin | ... seum of Fine Arts and History. This Italinate Mansion was the home of Major | a Confederate Quartermaster and was the location of the last "White House" ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... o the Supreme Court to fill the associate justice seat vacated when Justice | was elevated to Chief Justice. Whereas Rehnquist's confirmation was conten ... |
| John Ford | Anderson developed an acquaintance from 1950 with | , which led to what has come to be regarded as one of the standard books o ... |
| Franz von Weyrother | ... llied officers, including the Tsar's aides and the Austrian Chieff of Staff | , strongly supported the idea of attacking immediately and appeared to be ... |
| Richard Kleindienst | # | (R) Attorney General, found guilty of "refusing to answer questions" given ... |
| Sam Farr | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +17 and is represented by Democrat | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... his characters, for example the song "Namarie" in The Lord of the Rings by | , which Tolkien attributes to the character Galadriel |
| Blind Harry | ... pic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by | . Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Ja ... |
| Peter Mansbridge | ... 31, 2008, at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. It featured special guests Ron MacLean, | , and former Air Farce member Dave Broadfoot. The final episode was viewed ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Fulda is located in Senate District 22, ... |
| Karl Hanke | ... ity, and how she in turn had had an affair with one of Speer's old friends, | . Personally meeting with Göring on his estate, Speer wrote how the by-the ... |
| Capt. John Pope | ... a transcontinental railroad be built south of the peaks. Three years later, | was sent to scout out a railroad route, and in the succeeding year to sear ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... . MGM started Milland out in films such as Payment Deferred (1932) starring | |
| Randy Acord | Aviation historian | (1919-2008) was originally from Donley County |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... both on the Federal and State level. Nixon was succeeded by Vice President | as President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pa ... |
| Robert Gray | In 1792, Captain | discovered Grays Harbor and entered the Columbia River, the first non-indi ... |
| Dave Broadfoot | ... d special guests Ron MacLean, Peter Mansbridge, and former Air Farce member | . The final episode was viewed by over 1.5 million viewers |
| Ma Yuan | ... m rebelled against Han in 40 CE. Their rebellion was crushed by Han general | (d. 49 CE) in a campaign from 42–43 CE. Wang Mang renewed hostilities agai ... |
| Chassé | ... ington's first line of British, Brunswick and Nassau troops and marched on. | 's relatively fresh Dutch division was sent against them and Allied artill ... |
| Neil Peart | ... ble rock drummers have been influenced by Keith Moon, including Dave Grohl, | , Tommy Lee, Peter Criss, and Brad Wilk |
| Terence Young | ... Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. Later in 1957 Connery appeared in | 's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Joh ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... e, the current Prince of Wales). However, due to a misunderstanding between | (guest-star Warren Clarke) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... er complication occurred due to Saint-Exupéry's and others' view of General | , who was held in low regard. Early in the war de Gaulle became the leader ... |
| George W. Bush | ... e for ratification, as he thought it unfair to the United States. President | also publicly opposed ratification of the Kyoto Protocols on the grounds t ... |
| Alexander Haig | ... ime to Heal, Ford wrote about a meeting he had with Nixon's Chief of Staff, | . Haig was explaining what he and Nixon's staff thought were Nixon's only ... |
| Tim Walz | ... in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator | , a Democrat. At the state level, Battle Plain Township is located in Sena ... |
| George W. Bush | ... d of many prominent leaders in industry and government, including President | |
| Alcibiades | ... various instances been risked, such as in the attempts to kill the Athenian | during the Peloponnesian War. A number of additional examples from World W ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties Roger Penrose and | used global techniques to prove that singularities are generic |
| 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 ... |
| Aragorn | ... ver Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and | arrive to pick up the two hobbits |
| Robert H. Chilton | ... Hill near Aldie after his presidency. American Civil War Brigadier General | (Chief of Staff under Robert E. Lee) was a native of Loudoun County. World ... |
| Geraldine Peacock | ... the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the School Food Trust. | , CBE was Chief Charity Commissioner (as previous chairs of the Commission ... |
| Ryan Giggs | ... l League and international footballers, such as Craig Bellamy, Gareth Bale, | , Joe Ledley, and former managers of the Wales national football team Terr ... |
| Christopher Lee | ... elena Bonham Carter as Penelope Churchward, Colin Firth as Arthur Holmwood, | as Mycroft Holmes, Richard E. Grant as John Seward, and Harvey Keitel as |
| Hitler | ... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited | 's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ... |
| General Braddock | The city served as a major crossroads from colonial times. British | marched west through Frederick on the way to the fateful ambush near Fort ... |
| Christy Mathewson | ... to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, | , and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900–1919 i ... |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from | (a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ... |
| Alexander Haig | ... mes Schlesinger, CIA Director William Colby, and White House Chief of Staff | . The Watergate scandal had reached its apex, and Nixon was so agitated an ... |
| Heinz Barth | ... fen-SS member took place in 1983. Shortly before, former SS-Obersturmführer | had been tracked down in the German Democratic Republic GDR. Barth had par ... |
| Patrick Tonyn | ... when he returned to Britain due to illness. He was replaced as governor by | |
| Rex Harrison | ... in 1930 and 1948. The latter was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring | , Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell. The screenplay was by Philip Dunne |
| Ferguson | ... palachian frontiersmen against the loyalist forces of the British commander | at Kings Mountain, SC in the American Revolution, rather than waiting for ... |
| David Lean | ... ear contract. Prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella in | 's version of Great Expectations (1946) and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's ... |
| Rod Serling | ... Fantasy Island, and two episodes each of The Streets of San Francisco, and | 's Night Gallery |
| John Kerry | In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 6.6% margin over George W. Bush, with Kerry carryi ... |
| Amuro Ray | ... red at least one Gundam series and characters. Some series come and go, but | , often in his RX-93 "ν Gundam", is a regular character and has actually n ... |
| Robert Ingersoll | ... is autobiography, “In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of | 's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confir ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heinz Lammerding | By 1958, all of the German defendants had been released as well. General | of the Das Reich division, who had given the orders for the measures again ... |
| Commanding General | ... l valor was proposed by Iowa Senator James W. Grimes to Winfield Scott, the | of the United States Army. Scott did not approve the proposal, but the med ... |
| 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 |
| Alexander the Great | ... t family was named Psittacus alexandri, meaning "Alexander's parrot", after | whose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece. Linnaeus' trivial nam ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... February 1, 1956 and commanded by Major General John B. Medaris with Doctor | |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... ng Fredric March as centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, | as Nero, and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus ... |
| Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... ectors' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Presenting the awards was | ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman (writers of Round ... |
| 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 ... |
| Francisco Menendez (creole) | ... British. The leader of Fort Mose during the battle was the legendary Capt. | , who was born in Africa, twice escaped from slavery, and played an import ... |
| Roger Miller | ... co-star with Presley in the 1964 motion picture Viva Las Vegas, The Cadets, | , Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax R ... |
| Billy Cox | ... just handled the business side, as usual. Also, according to Gypsys bassist | , the all-black power trio was mainly a one-off to help Hendrix fulfill an ... |
| Richard Murdoch | ... . His first hit series, Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, written with his co-star | , arose out of his wartime service as an officer in the Royal Air Force. I ... |
| Branch Rickey | ... "minor" – a term that did not come into vogue until St. Louis Cardinals GM | pioneered the farm system in the 1930s. Nevertheless, these financially tr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Craig D. Button | ... d parallel southern no-fly zone. The flight and mysterious crash of Captain | took off from Davis–Monthan Air Force Base on 12 April 1997 |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | ... venth birthday, he "had gotten The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars" by | , books which "opened up a complete new world for me." In a time before co ... |
| Gaius Terentius Varro | ... ce derided the Cunctator, and at the elections of 216 BC elected as consuls | and Lucius Aemilius Paullus, both of whom advocated pursuing a much more a ... |
| Chen Qingzhi | ... uffered major revolts in their northern garrison towns, he sent his general | to support the pretender Yuan Hao. Despite the fact that Chen was only giv ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... o the age of heroes, extending from Manuchehr's reign until the conquest of | (Sekandar). The main feature of this period is the major role played by th ... |
| Comte de Grasse | ... h. But on August 14, 1781, a communication was received from French Admiral | in the West Indies, which caused Washington to change his strategy. De Gra ... |
| 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 |
| Elizabeth II | ... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch, | , succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ... |
| Wilhelm Bittrich | ... SS Panzer Corps (2 SS Das Reich and 3 SS Totenkopf), under the commanded of | , along with ad hoc forces made up of garrison and anti-aircraft units. Vi ... |
| Amyas Borton | ... tic alphabet for AA), archie (a World War I British term probably coined by | and believed to derive via the Royal Flying Corps from the music-hall come ... |
| Williams Carter Wickham | ... t Transcontinental Railroad. He was recruited by former Confederate General | to become a major investor and guiding light for a southern railroad. He h ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... -copy," and "We started out with too much cargo / So I'm glad we got rid of | , yo |
| Theodore Schwan | Holbrook served with General | 's Southern Expedition from January 3 to February 18, 1900, and was at the ... |
| Charles Napier | ... r 26, 1977, on NBC. The show starred Rod Taylor, Tony Becker, Darleen Carr, | , and Ken Swofford. Although it was canceled after six episodes, the remai ... |
| Joseph Holt | ... town was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of U.S. Postmaster General | . As of 1874, Holtsville consisted of 15 houses, a school, and a general s ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... he first Australian rock star, who rose to fame by imitating Americans like | and Little Richard. O'Keefe and other "first wave" bands were popular unti ... |
| Helmut Kämpfe | ... ust retaliation for partisan activity in nearby Tulle and the kidnapping of | |
| George Armstrong Custer | Custer County was formed in 1877. It was named after General | , who was killed at the |
| 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 ... |
| Hou Jing | ... n and Western Wei, Emperor Wu granted asylum to rebel Eastern Wei commander | , sending him on Northern Expeditions against Eastern Wei. After some init ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U.S. President | and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d' ... |
| John Cale | ... ure Viva Las Vegas, The Cadets, Roger Miller, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, | , Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, Suzi Quatro, Van Hal ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... The properties of lodestones and their affinity for iron were written of by | in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia |
| 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 Wyler | ... rl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran | . Streisand won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, shar ... |
| Jack Lemmon | ... edy Some Like it Hot also mentions Urbana. Near the beginning of this film, | 's character, an unemployed bass player, suggests to Tony Curtis, a saxoph ... |
| Barbara Dickson | In popular culture, the singer | ; Dan McCafferty and Peter Agnew from the Scottish rock band Nazareth; Ian ... |
| L. Sprague de Camp | ... historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominently in | 's historical novel The Arrows of Hercules (1965) as a patron of inventors ... |
| Herbert Marshall | The reporter's first assignment is Stephen Fisher ( | ), leader of the Universal Peace Party, at an event held by Fisher in hono ... |
| Prince William, Duke of Cumberland | ... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for | |
| General Cornwallis | ... nia along present-day Ashford Avenue and Broadway, en route to victory over | at the Siege of Yorktown and to victory in the Revolutionary War |
| 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 ... |
| James Oglethorpe | ... largest and most successful of these was organized by Governor and General | of Georgia who managed to break the Spanish-Seminole alliance when he gain ... |
| Earl Marshal | ... as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl. The Duke of Norfolk is, moreover, the | and hereditary Marshal of England. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is Arun ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emperor Wen of Sui | ... -lived, as the Northern Zhou was overthrown in 581 by Yang Jian, who became | . With greater military power and morale, along with convincing propaganda ... |
| Diana Wynyard | ... Frank Lawton, Colin Clive (one of Whale's most frequently used actors), and | . It also featured Mrs. Patrick Campbell in a rare sound film appearance |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Margaret Dovey | ... tralian athlete Decima Norman, who won five gold medals in track and field. | , the future wife of the former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam, f ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... movies: Ride Beyond Vengeance, Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding, and two of | 's movies, Clambake, and Speedway. He turned down the role as Marlo Thomas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Shilton | ... ing through the ranks at Leicester City was a young local goalkeeper called | , who was given his debut as a 17-year-old in 1966. It was clear that Shil ... |
| 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 ... |
| Colin Powell | ... 97. Llewellyn is the daughter of J. Bruce Llewellyn, and a family friend of | , who originally introduced the couple to each other |
| Helmut Kämpfe | ... es, a nearby village. The captured German was alleged to be Sturmbannführer | , commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion (another unit of ... |
| John Surtees | Curiously, Ferrari won the 1964 World championship with | by competing the last two races in North America with cars painted in the ... |
| King George V | ... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of | . In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Snagge | ... ies 3, original announcer Andrew Timothy was replaced (at the suggestion of | ) by Wallace Greenslade, who provided spoken narrative links as well as oc ... |
| Ty Cobb | ... d to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Detroit's | , the "Georgia Peach." Cobb was a mean-spirited man, fiercely competitive ... |
| 12th Duke | The | , who succeeded to the title in 2004, continues to live primarily on the f ... |
| Norman Mailer | ... Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in the festival. | 's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and Annie Dillard's novel The Maytrees are ... |
| V.H. Galbraith | ... ut a forgery. A prominent claim was made in 1964 by the respected historian | in his essay "Who Wrote Asser's Life of Alfred?" Galbraith argued that the ... |
| Yeoman of the Guard | ... ured the favour of the first Tudor Henry VII, to whom he seems to have been | . He was Sergeant-of-Arms to Henry VIII in 1526, Sheriff of Northamptonshi ... |
| Richard M. Nixon | ... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President | |
| Carl Foreman | ... us directors as well, such as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, Ronald Neame, | , Norman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language The Uninhibit ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... st Neck became incorporated as a municipality which was named Lloyd Harbor. | , Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Joel at one point lived on the Neck. Currently ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wilhelm Mohnke | On 23 April, Brigadeführer | was appointed by Hitler the Battle Commander for the centre government dis ... |
| Ronald Neame | ... ith other famous directors as well, such as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, | , Carl Foreman, Norman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language ... |
| Dudley Moore | ... and Rudyard Kipling. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with | ); the great industrialist and architect of the nearby Atmospheric railway ... |
| Roger Daltrey | ... r artists that joined Joel on stage for the show were former Shea performer | of The Who, Tony Bennett, Don Henley, John Mayer, John Mellencamp, Garth B ... |
| James Whale | ... ne More River (a film version of Galsworthy's Over the River) was filmed by | in 1934. The film starred Frank Lawton, Colin Clive (one of Whale's most f ... |
| John Stark | A remnant of a Green Mountain Boys flag, believed to belong to | , is owned by the Bennington Museum. It still exists as one of the few reg ... |
| 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 ... |
| Billy Cox | ... spoke with Mitchell's girlfriend only to learn that he had been replaced by | . Before it started, Hendrix "called this tour The Cry of Love, because th ... |
| President Reagan | ... rd Nixon announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, | added the position of drug czar to the President's Executive Office |
| Napoleon I | ... as a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against | at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Water ... |
| Xenophon | ... ever, afforded him unusual facilities for obtaining material. His model was | , whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains fr ... |
| John Burgoyne | ... initially supported the American Revolutionary War and sent troops to fight | 's British invasion from Quebec in battles at Hubbardton and Bennington in ... |
| Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke | ... s was recorded by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir | in his diary entries of the 1/2 July 1940 |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... s the grandson of the original settler named Bodden who was probably one of | 's soldiers at the taking of Jamaica in 1655 |
| Samuel H. Davis | ... than Landing Field, and is named in honor of World War I pilots Lieutenants | and Oscar Monthan, both Tucson natives. The commander of the 355th FW is C ... |
| Anthony Hopkins | In 1988 she starred in The Dawning with | and Hugh Grant, and in 1989 she again starred in a mini-series, this time ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bobby Moore | ... to the ground. It was only when he heard the applause and praise of captain | and then looked up and saw the ball trundling towards the advertising hoar ... |
| Admiral of the Fleet | ... wing year, he was appointed to the equivalent positions in Canada, and made | , Field Marshal, and Marshal of the Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Bentine | ... and acting in the high profile BBC show Hip-Hip-Hoo-Roy with Derek Roy, and | , who appeared in the first series, had just begun appearing in Charlie Ch ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... ugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, and deserters from | 's army in Jamaica |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Lemmon | ... oped with Erin Fleming, which consequently raised disputes over his estate. | presented Groucho with an honorary Academy Award in 1974, his final major ... |
| Edward, the Prince of Wales | ... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by | ; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ... |
| 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 |
| Terry Pratchett | ... Award nominated novel written in collaboration between the English authors | and Neil Gaiman |
| JK Galbraith | Power may be held through | summarises the types of power as being "Condign" (based on force), "Compen ... |
| William Morris | ... ip Webb designed Red House for the artist, reforming designer and socialist | on the western edge of the heath, in the hamlet of Upton — before Upton be ... |
| Shigeyoshi Inoue | ... to provide air cover for the invasion fleets, under the overall command of | . The U.S. learned of the Japanese plan through signals intelligence and s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anthony Blunt | The most famous 20th-century scholar of Poussin was the Englishman | , Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, who in 1979 was disgraced by revelations ... |
| Wang Sengbian | ... eir efforts to defeat Hou. In the end, Xiao Yi with the aid of his generals | and Chen Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself Emperor Yuan of Liang. His ... |
| Jackie Robinson | ... ague baseball, a time when it produced some of its greatest stars. In 1947, | signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier th ... |
| Clement Attlee | ... current stones were dedicated in September 1946 by the then Prime Minister | , replacing those destroyed during WW2 as an anti-invasion measure. The lo ... |
| von Fritsch | ... inister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, and the army commander, General | . Göring had acted as witness at Blomberg's wedding to Margarethe Gruhn, a ... |
| Pliny | ... re probably disposed groups of statuary. The pteron consisted (according to | ) of thirty-six columns of the Ionic order, enclosing a square cena. Betwe ... |
| Roger Moore | ... ough. In 1983 opening scenes for the 13th 007 film, Octopussy, starring Sir | , were filmed at Orton Mere. A music video for the song BreakThru by the b ... |
| Erwin Rommel | Protests followed from Generalfeldmarschall | ; General Gleiniger, German commander in Limoges; and the Vichy government ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Camden | ... ations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends John Stow and | . He also used his own observation, experience and wit, and wrote in a con ... |
| Yorck | His collected writings and letters (together with those of | and Gneisenau) appeared in 1932 |
| 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 ... |
| Camillus | ... sacked Rome. The Romans then took up arms and drove the Gauls back, led by | . The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, ... |
| David Petraeus | ... rbilt Transplant Center. In 1991, Frist operated on then–Lieutenant Colonel | after he had been shot in a training accident at Fort Campbell |
| W H Russell | File:Wh russell cartoon.png| Punch: war reporter, | , Crimean Wa |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | ... ce and interest in things rural, a refreshing and almost exotic individual. | later referred to Snyder as 'the Thoreau of the Beat Generation' |
| 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 ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... ld. Margaret Dovey, the future wife of the former Australian prime minister | , finished sixth in the 200 yards breaststroke |
| Pierce Brosnan | ... d Queen was also shot on the preserved Nene Valley Railway in 1989. In 1995 | filmed train crash sequences for the 17th James Bond film, GoldenEye, at t ... |
| Ronald Reagan | United States President | ordered that the plane be intercepted by F-14 Tomcats from the VF-74 "BeDe ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's fictional Middle-earth, the Dagor Bragollach (Sindarin for Battle of Su ... |
| Craterus | ... ypt, the Samians Lysander of Sparta, the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians | of Macedon |
| Douglas LePan | | , an official from the Canadian High Commission, wrote |
| 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 ... |
| Major-General Henry Y.D. Scott | The hall was designed by civil engineers Captain Francis Fowke and | of the Royal Engineers and built by Lucas Brothers. The designers were hea ... |
| John André | ... ut $1.3M in 2009 dollars). However, Arnold's plot failed when British Major | was captured as a spy by the Americans. Arnold received a decreased cash r ... |
| Robert Stopford | ... tch and French in Java, Indonesia. The war was swiftly conducted by Admiral | , General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, and Colonel Rollo Gillespie, who l ... |
| Charles | ... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince | , and Prince Philip |
| Jonathan Miller | ... nd fractured scenery to represent the twists of fate reflected in the plot. | , in a 1986 production for the 49th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, transferre ... |
| Maharbal | ... Romans had been able to escape, but were caught and forced to surrender by | 's Numidians. Furthermore, Scipio, aware of the fighting, sent his cavalry ... |
| Robinson Risner | ... chutist Joseph Kittinger spent 11 months in prison there. Brigadier General | was the senior ranking POW, responsible for maintaining chain of command a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elton John | ... , becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show. He befriended | when the British singer was staying in California in 1972, insisting on ca ... |
| David Starkey | ... and devotion have earned her many admirers among historians. These include | , feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carol ... |
| Earl Spencer | ... he day of the funeral, Philip, William, Harry, Charles and Diana's brother, | , walked through London behind her bier |
| Nathan Hale | ... hore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Named after | , a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War ... |
| 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 ... |
| Earl Marshal | ... Duke of Norfolk, the Dukes of Norfolk also hold the hereditary position of | , which has the duty of organizing state occasions such as the state openi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | After the war, General | decided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain ... |
| Mickey Spillane | In the late 1940s | and a friend of his from the Army bought a woodlot on Rock Cut Road and li ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... ions. According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993–97, | has used body doubles |
| Benedict Arnold | In perhaps the most infamous act of treason in American history, General | attempted to turn the site over to the British Army in 1780 for a bribe co ... |
| Timur Leng | ... he late Middle Ages, but their hold upon the area was transitional as later | and Uzbeks contested the land |
| Pompey | ... historian Appian. The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that | settled some of these pirates in in southern Italy |
| Sting | ... es, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, Yehudi Menuhin (and later | who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Michael, Piers Morg ... |
| 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 ... |
| Princess Leia Organa | ... ous themes associated with characters like Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and | (see for more details) |
| Newton N. Minow | ... eech was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman | to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 19 ... |
| William Camden | ... ow known to be false. A short passage making this claim was interpolated by | into his 1603 edition of Asser's Life. Doubts have also been raised period ... |
| George Washington | ... and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies. | , who had more than sufficient difficulties with the British, brushed off ... |
| Gneisenau | ... upposed to have said that if he was made a doctor they should at least make | an apothecary |
| Robert E. Lee | ... a and the South by figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and | . Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of America and the Sout ... |
| Michael Bentine | ... igan (who played only minor roles in the early shows), Sellers, Secombe and | as the nominal 'hero' of each episode, madcap inventor Dr Osric Pureheart. ... |
| Philip Mowbray | ... ottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which was commanded by Sir | . Unable to make any headway, Bruce agreed to a pact with Mowbray—if no re ... |
| August Belmont, Jr's | ... 1909, construction finally began for a working canal under the direction of | Boston, Cape Cod & New York Canal Company, using designs by engineer Willi ... |
| George Washington | ... ld was best known as the site of the Springfield Armory, a site selected by | and Henry Knox in 1777. Closed controversially during the Vietnam War, the ... |
| Harry | ... xtended royal family. In their grief, Diana's two sons, Princes William and | , wanted to attend church, and so their grandparents took them that mornin ... |
| August Neidhardt von Gneisenau | ... etreat towards Brussels. At a late-night council, Blücher's chief of staff, | , had been distrustful of Wellington's strategy, but Blücher persuaded him ... |
| James Cook | ... rom the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain | and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of p ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... s of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured by | at the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC |
| Jimmy Carter | ... . Present at the funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents | , Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former Pr ... |
| 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 ... |
| E. Urner Goodman | ... ers as best exemplifying the ideals of Scouting. The society was created by | , with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson, in 1915 as a means of reinforci ... |
| Anthony Eden | ... ion of the Home Guard (initially as the Local Defence Volunteers) following | 's broadcast appeal to the Nation on Tuesday 14 May 1940 also created furt ... |
| George 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 ... |
| Lysander | ... ngs. In this manner the Rhodians celebrated Ptolemy I of Egypt, the Samians | of Sparta, the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians Craterus of Macedon |
| George H. W. Bush | ... Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President | , who declined to attend), along with Vice President Biden, three former V ... |
| Luke Skywalker | ... saga, and the numerous themes associated with characters like Darth Vader, | , and Princess Leia Organa (see for more details) |
| Dave Brubeck | ... peal to a core group of listeners. Well-established jazz musicians, such as | , Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter and Jessica Williams conti ... |
| Eduard Dietl | ... en, one of the first battles between the German 3rd Mountain Division under | and the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after t ... |
| 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 ... |
| George V | ... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and | . American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ... |
| Char Aznable | ... example of this is how the personalities of longtime rivals, Amuro Ray and | , are influenced by their experiences in the Gundam saga |
| 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 ... |
| Earl Marshal | ... wbray duke in 1397, he conferred upon him the estates and titles (including | ) that had belonged to the earls. His elderly grandmother Margaret was sti ... |
| William McKinley | ... bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons; U.S. President | did this at the public reception where he was assassinated |
| Amuro Ray | ... odes. The best example of this is how the personalities of longtime rivals, | and Char Aznable, are influenced by their experiences in the Gundam saga |
| George Washington | ... was popularized and spread across America and the South by figures such as | , Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent t ... |
| Lew Welch | ... or a time roomed with the education author, Carl Proujan, Philip Whalen and | . At Reed, Snyder published his first poems in a student journal. He also ... |
| Marcel Bigeard | ... nel Pierre Langlais, Geneviève de Galard ("The Angel of Dien Bien Phu") and | , the Officer in Command of the 6th BPC. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. is also a ... |
| Caesar | ... re classics. Augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by | , and the month of August is named after him. Augustus' enlightened rule r ... |
| Publius Cornelius Scipio | ... ards the Carthaginians were intercepted by a newly raised Roman force under | , whom Hannibal had evaded earlier in the Rhone Valley, and who had not an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chief Butler of England | He is one of three claimants to the title | |
| 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 ... |
| Bobby Charlton | ... e Busby Babes whom Banks had faced as an adolescent. Banks failed to hold a | shot from distance which gave a chance to David Herd. After that things go ... |
| the Queen | ... ided to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister. Fearing that Whitlam would go to | and have him removed, Kerr did not give Whitlam any hint of what was comin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Larry Stephens | ... by Spike Milligan with the regular collaboration of other writers including | , Eric Sykes (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 4), Maurice Wilt ... |
| Wonder Woman | ... eries. Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with , George Pérez's relaunching of | in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Ste ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... Lasswitz in 1897 and Bernal, Oberth, Von Pirquet and Noordung in the 1920s. | contributed his ideas in a 1952 Colliers article. In the 1950s and 1960s, ... |
| Zhuge Liang | ... ted practical systems of governance and administration, such as Cao Cao and | in the Three Kingdoms Period, Wang Dao and Bao Jingyan of the Eastern Jin, ... |
| Eric Sykes | ... n with the regular collaboration of other writers including Larry Stephens, | (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 4), Maurice Wiltshire and Joh ... |
| Michael Longley | ... bring Heaney into contact with other Belfast poets such as Derek Mahon and | . In August 1965 he married Marie Devlin, a school teacher and native of A ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Eileen Barker | ... to be "implausible." In addition to Bromley, Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, | , Newton Maloney, Massimo Introvigne, John Hall, Lorne Dawson, Anson Shupe ... |
| Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. | ... Dien Bien Phu") and Marcel Bigeard, the Officer in Command of the 6th BPC. | is also an honorary member |
| 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 ... |
| Rod Stewart | ... as the Great American Songbook from the series of albums produced by rocker | ) has undergone something of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stew ... |
| E. Urner Goodman | In 1915, | , a newly hired field executive for the Philadelphia Council, was assigned ... |
| Princess Royal | ... e of this is the adjective "naff" to denote bad or shoddy, even used by the | (as a verb) in a clash with the press some years later. They were able to ... |
| John Parr | ... 1955 to 1974. He was president and patron of the Finchley Society. Private | , the first British soldier and the first soldier of the Commonwealth kill ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed | |
| Lord Great Chamberlain | ... being elected by the general body of hereditary peers (the other being the | ) |
| Harry Secombe | Milligan and | became friends while serving in the Royal Artillery during World War II. F ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | In 1792 Congress under | authorized construction of the Montauk Lighthouse. It was completed in 179 ... |
| Abba Eban | ... otte's body was returned to Sweden, where the state funeral was attended by | on behalf of Israel. Folke was survived by a widow and two sons, a 12 year ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Somers | ... in the name to Somerstown. In 1808, the name was changed to Somers to honor | , a naval captain from New Jersey, who died in combat during the First Bar ... |
| Erwin Rommel | ... sh. Hitler had to intervene with the sending of the Afrika Korps of General | , that was the mainstay in the North African campaign. Continuing indicati ... |
| David Smith | ... , Parliament had been dissolved by proclamation. Kerr's Official Secretary, | came to Parliament House to proclaim the dissolution from the front steps. ... |
| King George V | ... ucted, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by | and Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints ... |
| Richard Murdoch | ... de more BBC broadcasts, during the course of which he met Flight Lieutenant | . They quickly formed a friendship, and Horne arranged for Murdoch to be p ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... resident of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; and | , first United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Washington |
| Charles Leclerc | ... orce to restore French rule to the island, an army and ships led by General | . Louverture and Dessalines fought against the invading French forces, wit ... |
| 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' ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... n the past and of those more complex Cosmoses He will create in the future. | 's 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" treats non-scientific ... |
| Augustin de Beaulieu | ... (275 crew, 106 cannon) and called the "Fleet of Montmorency" under General | was sent from Honfleur, with the objective of fighting the Dutch in the Fa ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... en the series and the 1968 theatrical release Yours, Mine and Ours starring | and Lucille Ball. The original script for The Brady Bunch predated the scr ... |
| Willard | His brother, | , would also serve as a Major General. His nephew, Willard, Jr., would als ... |
| Robert Preston | ... ette Colbert, Marc Connelly, Glenda Farrell, Nancy Marchand, Barbara Myers, | and Charles Ruggles. It was directed by Tom Donovan. The film has come to ... |
| James Stockdale | Future U.S. Vice Presidential candidate | and decorated U.S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the H ... |
| Willard, Jr. | His brother, Willard, would also serve as a Major General. His nephew, | , would also serve as a Brigadier General |
| George V | In 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of King | and Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ... |
| Van Morrison | ... , Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and | . However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of ... |
| Bohdan Stashynsky | ... the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, KGB assassin | killed Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera with a s ... |
| Casimir Pulaski | ... Historic Site. The city is named in honor of Polish Revolutionary War hero | |
| 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 ... |
| Emperor Wu of Chen | ... g. After a short reign, Chen deposed Emperor Jing and took power himself as | in 557 AD |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... e ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In this election, | was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams be ... |
| Kenny Wheeler | ... eith Jarrett, Paul Bley, the Pat Metheny Group, Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, | , John Taylor, John Surman and Eberhard Weber, establishing a new chamber ... |
| John Farnham | ... ptain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Carson, Cheetah, Richard Clapton, Cold Chisel, | , Healing Force, Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls, Hawking Bros, Flake, ... |
| Dick Clement | ... an uncredited screenwriter on The Rock. LA-based British screenwriting team | and Ian La Frenais were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lin ... |
| James Lovelock | In 1984, | and Michael Allaby published The Greening of Mars. Lovelock's book was one ... |
| Francis Marion | ... astillo de San Marcos (British, Fort St. Marks) was renamed Fort Marion for | , the "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolution |
| Aragorn | ... he rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of | . As with most other landmarks in the film, the city is portrayed as relat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mr. Pattakos | ... nship was taken away, she said: "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek. | (one of the colonels) was born a fascist and he will die a fascist", a phr ... |
| Richard Montgomery | ... nty was changed to Montgomery County. This change was to honor the general, | , who had captured several places in Canada and died attempting to capture ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sting | ... na Simone, Maureen McGovern, John Fahey, The Residents, Kate Bush, Sublime, | , and Liquid Tension Experiment |
| Susan Travers | ... ccept women in its ranks, there has been one official female member, Briton | who joined Free French Forces during the Second World War and became a mem ... |
| Eileen Barker | Sociologists including | have criticized theories of conversion precisely because they function to ... |
| Ian La Frenais | ... eenwriter on The Rock. LA-based British screenwriting team Dick Clement and | were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lines, but ended up al ... |
| Peter Sellers | ... gan." Secombe's answer to that question was "What colour was it?" Spike met | after the war at the Hackney Empire, where Secombe was performing, and the ... |
| Roger Staubach | ... 35-yard line. Dallas then drove to the 8-yard line, but Cowboys quarterback | was sacked by Lyle Alzado for a 10-yard loss on third down, forcing them t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... d in the murder. The CIA has allegedly made several attempts to assassinate | , many of the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, K ... |
| Emperor Wen of Chen | ... s. After the sudden death of Emperor Wu, his nephew Chen Qian took power as | . After the fall of Liang, the general Wang Lin had established an indepen ... |
| Theodor Eicke | ... oviding the personnel for manning of the Concentration Camps. Their leader, | , who was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, inspector of th ... |
| Harold Macmillan | ... 1957, a second summit conference was held; this time British Prime Minister | arrived earlier than President Eisenhower, to make it clear that they were ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Haynes | ... Cs) are added to the atmosphere. Motivated by Lovelock's book, biophysicist | worked behind the scenes to promote terraforming, and contributed the word ... |
| Lord Flashheart | ... ve girl who poses as a man appears in both series 2 and 4. Rik Mayall plays | , a vulgar yet successful rival of Blackadder in two episodes of series 2 ... |
| Bob Hope | ... d as film performers), Groucho was scheduled to appear on a radio show with | . Annoyed that he was made to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes, Gro ... |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... hn Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor | , Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister Charle ... |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | ... d "Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART)" which was later adapted by Sir | as the image reconstruction mechanism in his famous invention, the first c ... |
| Samuel H. Davis | The base was named in honor of Lieutenants | and Oscar Monthan, two Tucsonans and World War I–era pilots who died in se ... |
| Wang Lin | ... ian took power as Emperor Wen of Chen. After the fall of Liang, the general | had established an independent kingdom based in modern day Hunan and Hubei ... |
| Josiah Harmar | In 1790, the United States sent an expedition under the command of General | to end the border war. Because the United States had mostly disbanded its ... |
| Terauchi Masatake | On October 9, 1916, | took over as prime minister from Ōkuma Shigenobu. On November 2, 1917, the ... |
| Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff | The new commander of the Bavarian army, | fought Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance w ... |
| Shahrbaraz | ... lah in the 6th century CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general | in 614 when Khosrau II's armies besieged and took Jerusalem |
| Adolf Hitler | ... the film's theme of war in Europe. Also, there is an unmistakable image of | in the windmill scene. Right after McCrea rescues his coat from the grindi ... |
| Ronald N. Bracewell | ... echanism in his famous invention, the first commercial CT scanner. In 1956, | used a method similar to Radon Transform to reconstruct a map of solar rad ... |
| Gnaeus Servilius Geminus | ... e new armies against Hannibal under the recently elected consuls of 217 BC, | and Gaius Flaminius. The latter had long distrusted his fellow senators an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin | In 1932 the Bannockburn Preservation Committee, under | and Kincardine, presented lands to the National Trust for Scotland. Furthe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gore Vidal | Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author | prior to marrying Paul Newman. However, there was no real engagement: Vida ... |
| 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 ... |
| Xenophon | ... but the point of invention remains in question. The best documented claim ( | ) attributes the invention to the Persian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), w ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... ost of The Tonight Show during the six-month interval between Jack Paar and | , introduced Carson as the new host. In 1965, a weekly show for British TV ... |
| Frank Finlay | ... ter Cook, John Grillo, Simon Jones, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Paddick, | , Miriam Margolyes, Kenneth Connor, Bill Wallis, Ronald Lacey, Roger Blake ... |
| George H. W. Bush | Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States | and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, Suzi Quatro, Van Halen, | , Neil Diamond, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Guns N' Roses |
| 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 ... |
| Anthony Wayne | General | commanded a third expedition in the Northwest; his U.S. troops were of sup ... |
| Miriam Margolyes | ... Grillo, Simon Jones, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Paddick, Frank Finlay, | , Kenneth Connor, Bill Wallis, Ronald Lacey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warr ... |
| Rod Stewart | ... sic charts with two duets in 2005. "I've Got a Crush on You", recorded with | for his album The Great American Songbook, reached number 19 on the Billbo ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | The FBI, under written directive from Attorney General | , began telephone tapping King in the fall of 1963. Concerned that allegat ... |
| Ken Wallis | Wing Commander | has held most of the autogyro world records during his autogyro flying car ... |
| Michelson's | ... rtz experimented with radio waves in his laboratory. These actions followed | 1881 experiment (precursor to the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment), which ... |
| Bobby Charlton | ... gentina side 1–0 in the last eight, with Geoff Hurst scoring with a header. | scored twice in the semi final against Portugal before a late penalty was ... |
| Faramir | ... ilbo's ring, and it also can be seen in the distance for a few seconds when | takes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath in ) Jackson's version interpret ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In the fictional world of | 's Middle-earth, Dorthonion ("Land of Pines"), later Taur-nu-Fuin, was a h ... |
| Celine Dion | ... hat. At a presentation in the Toronto Pearson International Airport hangar, | helped the newly-solvent airline debut its new image |
| Hugh Dalton | ... arpenden and the London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included | and Stephen Leacock. Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generos ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... ion. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (by | ), 1791, 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Charlton | ... ce in the semi final against Portugal before a late penalty was conceded by | handling the ball. Banks was finally beaten after 43 minutes when Eusébio ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carl III | The town of Levanger was founded by | , king of Sweden on 18 May 1836, on the site where the village of Levanger ... |
| Jackie Robinson | ... baseball, a bar that remained until 1947. It is a common misconception that | was the first African-American major-league ballplayer; he was actually on ... |
| Gustav Krukenberg | On 25 April, Brigadeführer | was appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C which included th ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... er the City of Tucson acquired land southeast of town for a runway in 1925, | , fresh from his nonstop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, flew his "Spirit ... |
| John J. Pershing | ... s assignments, it received a congratulatory letter for bravery from General | . He was promoted to top sergeant and, after the war ended, arrived back i ... |
| Georgios Hatzianestis | ... was arrested by the military government. The commander of the army, General | , and five senior politicians were executed. Prince Andrew's life was beli ... |
| Lennox Lewis | In May 2005, King was sued by | , who wanted $385 million from the promoter, claiming King used threats to ... |
| Richard Montgomery | ... York bordering the north bank of the Mohawk River. It was named in honor of | , an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Qu ... |
| Leslie Howard | ... ed it as an opportunity to show the range of her acting skills. Her costar, | , was initially dismissive of her, but as filming progressed his attitude ... |
| Joachim Ziegler | ... nce Sector C which included the Nordland Division, whose previous commander | was relieved of his command the same day. On 27 April, after a spirited bu ... |
| Ian McEwan | Examples of de Clerambault's syndrome (erotomania) in fiction include | 's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called End ... |
| Constantine I of Greece | ... s made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, the reigning King | , was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrest ... |
| Terry Pratchett | while | has said |
| Raymond Chandler | ... tists. (The private investigator, though not named in the story, is clearly | 's Philip Marlowe, and his ex-wife is the recurring character Linda Loring ... |
| George Washington | ... tant in the Revolutionary War due to its location near Ramapo Pass. General | and other important military leaders used John Suffern's home as headquart ... |
| Neil Young | ... of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, | , Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul ... |
| Benjamin Foulois | ... aining names of the field's customers, including Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, | , and Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his 1942 ... |
| Terry Pratchett | ... of his novel Good Omens "is in the works from Terry Jones." with a link to | 's webpage confirming the news |
| George Washington | ... land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after | , the first president of the United States |
| Jimmy Savile | ... n residents include Hamish MacInnes, inventor of the McInnes Stretcher, and | , TV personality and a former Chieftain of the Lochaber Highland Games |
| Helmuth Weidling | On 2 May hostilities officially ended by order of | , Kommandant of the Defense Area Berlin. News of the surrender led some of ... |
| Tom Lehrer | ... rom the 1965 song "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" by the satirist | |
| Thomas E. Trowbridge | | (1930-2009), a member of both houses of the Wyoming State Legislature (197 ... |
| John Cale | ... e first professional line-up of The Velvet Underground, including Lou Reed, | , Sterling Morrison and Maureen "Moe" Tucker. For this record Nico was inc ... |
| King George V | Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to | , where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of | 's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charlest ... |
| George W. Bush | ... Service-issued collectible envelope commemorating the 2004 inauguration of | |
| Prince Louis of Battenberg | Shortly after Philip's birth, his maternal grandfather, | , died in London. Louis was a naturalised British citizen and, after long ... |
| George Washington | ... an alliance with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. In 1797, he met cordially with | , who presented him with a ceremonial sword. On this trip he also met Comt ... |
| William Camden | ... ring as Moule in Harrison's Description of Britain of 1577. The antiquarian | uses the Latinized form Molis in the 1586 edition of Britannia and Michael ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... authors to explore the more human-centric topics of fate and free will. In | 's classic novel Slaughterhouse Five, the primary character is a war veter ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Vancouver | ... in 1790 as the Gran Montaña del Carmelo, "Great Mount Carmel". The explorer | renamed the mountain for 3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker of HMS Discovery, who ... |
| Bud Day | ... e Presidential candidate James Stockdale and decorated U.S. Air Force pilot | were held as prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 ... |
| Emperor Xuan of Chen | ... e country through his short reign, eventually deposed him and took power as | . At that time, the Northern Wei intended to conquer Northern Qi and thus ... |
| George Martin | ... No Place To Run in January, 1980. Produced by the former Beatles producer, | No Place To Run failed to match up to the success of its predecessors, tho ... |
| Spike Milligan | The show's chief creator and main writer was | . The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrase ... |
| Shigeyoshi Inoue | ... city available to conduct such an operation. At the same time, Vice Admiral | , commander of the IJN's 4th Fleet (also called the South Seas Force) whic ... |
| George Washington | ... the seventh year of the war, Continental Army troops, commanded by General | , were encamped in Dobbs Ferry and neighboring localities, alongside allie ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... s once bestowed in special circumstances, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt and | , but this practice was officially discontinued in 1953 |
| Midge Ure | ... aid of Steve New. He was joined on stage by original members Rusty Egan and | , as well as Mick Jones of The Clash and Gary Kemp from Spandau Ballet. Ne ... |
| Margaret Lockwood | ... ol of Dance, she was spotted by the director Val Guest, who cast her in the | vehicle Give Us the Moon. Small roles in several other films followed incl ... |
| Robert G. Ingersoll | | , political leader and orator, born in Dresden |
| 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 ... |
| Howard Morris | ... ove You)" written by Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, sung by | . The episode was a surrealistic Busby Berkeley-in-space affair which pref ... |
| Agesilaus | ... 15,000 Molossians, and Alcetas regained his throne. Sparta intervened under | , however, and with aid from Thessaly, Macedonia, and the Molossians thems ... |
| Richard St. Barbe Baker | ... cause, prior to World War II he supported the work of restoration-forester | to reforest Palestine, introducing St. Barbe Baker to religious leaders fr ... |
| Dr. Lemuel Gulliver | ... hard Sharpe, an officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars; and | , the title character of Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels who, in the ... |
| Jimmy Doolittle | ... eld's customers, including Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Foulois, and | . Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his 1942 Tokyo raid, was the f ... |
| Gustav Krukenberg | ... dammer Bridge area. What was left of the 11 SS Nordland under Brigadeführer | fought hard in that area but Soviet artillery and anti-tank guns dispatche ... |
| Marcus Furius Camillus | ... d was added in the following century, possibly by the soldier and statesman | . A long held tradition of speaking from the elevated speakers' Rostra—ori ... |
| Henry III of France | ... er was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ninth cousin, | (1574–1589), in application of Salic law. Louis XIII's paternal grandparen ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... ensive lineups of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including | , Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philip Mowbray | ... lish, things started to go wrong before the first blow had been struck. Sir | , the commander of Stirling Castle, who had observed Bruce's preparations ... |
| Jimmy Choo | ... nternational fashion houses, including those of London-based shoe designers | and Manolo Blahnik, and two Prada stores. The district also has banks that ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dennis Gabor | ... thought, starting with Haar's work in the early 20th century. Later work by | yielded Gabor atoms (1946), which are constructed similarly to wavelets, a ... |
| William III of England | ... r fish." This land was located in the eastern segment of an tract that King | granted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt of New York City in 1697. The part of V ... |
| Joseph Kittinger | ... half years as a POW there. Air Force colonel and record-setting parachutist | spent 11 months in prison there. Brigadier General Robinson Risner was the ... |
| Master of the Rolls | ... Herbert Cozens-Hardy, the Liberal MP for North Norfolk who became both the | and on 1 July 1914 |
| 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 ... |
| Mark W. Clark | ... m admitting to participating in germ warfare, United Nations commander Gen. | denounced said: "Whether these statements ever passed the lips of these un ... |
| Ken Wallis | ... 8M was designed to use surplus McCulloch engines used on flying unmanned s. | developed a miniature autogyro craft, the Wallis autogyro, in England in t ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... e Township High). Actor Harrison Ford known as playing the lead role in the | movies, went to Maine East, and has been credited as being the radio stati ... |
| Hugh Talbot Burgoyne | One of her commanding officers was Captain | , VC who was later appointed the commanding officer of |
| William Moultrie | ... he Cherokee War and remained loyal to the British Crown. Moultrie's brother | of whom Fort Moultrie in South Carolina is named was a general in the Cont ... |
| Drew Carey | In 1995, Stiles was asked by American comic | to be a regular on his comedy The Drew Carey Show. Stiles played Drew's sm ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... of King's College London, given to them by Gosling and Franklin's colleague | ), Watson and Crick together developed a model for a helical structure of ... |
| Harold Washington | ... vote with Byrne and allowing the relatively unknown legislator Congressman | to become Chicago's first black mayor |
| Bob Hoover | ... Airmail. They also gave tributes to retired test pilot and air show great, | and recently retired aerospace engineer, Burt Rutan during the week. It ma ... |
| Bill Oddie | Garden, along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and | , became a co-writer and performer in the comedy series The Goodies (1970– ... |
| Buzz Aldrin | ... his role in the movie Charly. On television, he portrayed retired astronaut | in the 1976 adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic Return to Earth, played ... |
| James Cook | ... by execution dock was run by Samuel Batts. His daughter, Elizabeth, married | in 1762 at Barking, after the Royal Navy captain had stayed at the Inn. Th ... |
| Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union | ... sov was made Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces. His rank was raised to | and he was awarded the Marshal's Star |
| 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 ... |
| Winfield Scott | ... medal for individual valor was proposed by Iowa Senator James W. Grimes to | , the Commanding General of the United States Army. Scott did not approve ... |
| Vernon Sturdee | ... s accepted by Brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General | , the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Di ... |
| Isaac Van Wart | ... unt of the capture of André by militiamen David Williams, John Paulding and | , was written in 1903 by the owner and publisher of the Tarrytown Argus, M ... |
| James Oglethorpe | ... ah in the Georgia Colony in British America at the request of the governor, | . Charles was appointed Secretary of Indian Affairs and while John remaine ... |
| Elton John | ... he MCA label. The first MCA Records release in the US was former Uni artist | 's Crocodile Rock in 1972. In 1973, the final Decca pop label release was ... |
| Kennedy | By targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas the | administration realized that political favors could be bought. This is als ... |
| Jon Burge | ... quarters on the South Side for interrogation under Chicago Police Detective | . Dr. John Raba, Medial Director of Cermak Health Services, the prison hos ... |
| Patrick Troughton | ... ered, but declined, the lead role in Doctor Who, following the departure of | from the part. He later told many people (including Doctor Who companion E ... |
| Jan Willem Janssens | ... cation at Meester Cornelis (now Jatinegara), and at the time, the governor, | (who, coincidentally, surrendered to the British at the Cape Colony), moun ... |
| Józef Piłsudski | ... f other contemporary socialists and communists, from Lenin (a communist) to | (a socialist), were more sympathetic to national self-determination) |
| Samuel A'Court Ashe | Furthermore, | was convinced that the colonists had relocated westward to the banks of th ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... many leading Nazis, including Hitler himself, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leader | and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Smith refused to include Naz ... |
| Douglas Bader | ... was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British World War II flier | was born in St. John's Wood |
| 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 ... |
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| Ranger of Windsor Great Park | ... ough her Wimbledon estate, which resulted in the loss of her £500 income as | . Sarah was also rude to King George II–making it clear that he was "too m ... |
| Prince William | ... from William Congreve and John Arbuthnot. In 1727 he wrote for six year old | , later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he na ... |
| James Monroe | ... tter in this category in competition between multiple candidates (incumbent | was the only candidate in 1820 and thus took every vote). The Republicans ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... Spanish Civil War between the socialist Republicans and nationalists led by | , Italy sent arms and over 60,000 troops to aid the nationalist faction. T ... |
| Franz Ferdinand | ... rife increased during the decades until 1914. The assassination of Archduke | , who was the presumed heir of Franz Joseph as Emperor, in Sarajevo by a S ... |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Admiral | , commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, was concurrently planning an operat ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... e Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the | |
| John Paulding | ... ircumstantial account of the capture of André by militiamen David Williams, | and Isaac Van Wart, was written in 1903 by the owner and publisher of the ... |
| E. Urner Goodman | ... score of official BSA OA publications. It was written in 1921 by OA founder | to the Russian hymn tune God Save the Tsar!, composed by Alexei Lvov in th ... |
| John McAllister Schofield | ... as Wahiawā Reservoir). Schofield Barracks is named after Lieutenant General | , Commanding General United States Army August 1888 to September 1895. He ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... ondon in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist | , bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, th ... |
| Stan Lee | ... in a two-hour pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the | and Jack Kirby Marvel comic book of the same name. Its success (coupled wi ... |
| Ian McKellen | ... tic Arts" presented by the US-based Shakespeare Guild. Past winners include | , Kenneth Branagh, Glen Joseph, Kevin Kline and Judi Denc |
| Josef Mengele | ... er to follow the Führerprinzip (the 'leader principle' or superior orders). | , disguised as a member of the regular German infantry, was captured and r ... |
| Nevil Shute | ... he movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel of the same name by | . It was directed by Irving Pichel |
| Julius Caesar | In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of | and became part of the Roman Empire |
| Bill Oddie | ... d performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke-Taylor ( | joined the series for the second season) |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Ribault | ... he French exploration of the area began in 1562, under the Huguenot captain | . Ribault explored the St. Johns River to the north of St. Augustine befor ... |
| Emperor Wen of Sui | ... ror Jing of Northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself | . He proceeded to invade the south to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just ... |
| Benjamin Harrison | ... ere U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and | have all attended services. Because of this, it is now called the "Church ... |
| Noël Coward | ... ch We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and | , and inspired by the sinking of Kelly, under Mountbatten's command. Cowar ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... a comeback. Working in the U.S. with Burnett, a band containing a number of | 's sidemen (including James Burton and Jerry Scheff), and minor input from ... |
| Syphax | ... stern Numidia diriged by Syphax. It is Massinissa who historically won over | and unified Numidia into one kingdom. The kingdom began as a sovereign sta ... |
| Jonathan Miller | ... detailed in his 2010 autobiography, "Life". The director, wit and physician | was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British World War II flier ... |
| 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 ... |
| Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union | ... of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR reinstate Kuznetsov to his former rank of | . Kuznetzov is now recognized as one of the most prominent men in the hist ... |
| Jack Lemmon | ... e cast of the NBC miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan (NBC, 1988) starring | and Kevin Spacey and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate (M ... |
| Christian J. Lambertsen | ... reating oxygen as if it were as narcotic as nitrogen, following research by | et al. in 1977 and 1978 |
| George Washington | ... arding acts of individual gallantry by American soldiers was established by | on August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed t ... |
| Billy Cox | ... yed together through other projects. The Experience 'reunited' in 1970 with | dubbed "The Cry of Love", until Hendrix's death in September 1970. Redding ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... gate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, | , the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President Gerald Ford, th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Clark Gable | Saratoga Springs has graced the silver screen since the days of | and Edward G. Robinson. The following is a list of movies filmed in and ar ... |
| Diana Prince | ... either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glasses as | |
| Gerald Ford | ... gia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President | , the Republican candidate. Ford was saddled with a slow economy and paid ... |
| David Lean | In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by | and Noël Coward, and inspired by the sinking of Kelly, under Mountbatten's ... |
| Frederick Ashton | Pavlova inspired the choreographer | when as a boy of 13 he saw her dance in in the Municipal Theater in Lima, ... |
| Mustafa Kemal | ... th of The First World War Greece fought against Turkish nationalists led by | , a war which resulted in a massive population exchange between the two co ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... own decision and as an assignment in games. These included Carol Channing, | , John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Steve Irwin and Christopher Lloyd's character ... |
| Quintus Labienus | After Julius Caesar was murdered in 44 BCE, | , a Roman republican general and ambassador to the Parthians, sided with B ... |
| Albert R. Behnke | In 1939, | and O. D. Yarborough demonstrated that gases other than nitrogen also coul ... |
| Olivia Newton-John | ... anwhile, a score of Australian expatriate solo performers like Helen Reddy, | and Peter Allen became major stars in the USA and internationally. Icehous ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... arallel to Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s in the United Kingdom and | 's in the United States |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Treebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from | 's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is ... |
| Michael Palin | ... former in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, | and Jonathan Lynn |
| Malcolm Williamson | On hearing of Mountbatten's death the then Master of the Queen's Music, | , was moved to write the Lament in Memory of Lord Mountbatten of Burma for ... |
| Cliff Richard | ... He played French entertainer and mime artist The Great Orlando in the 1963 | film Summer Holiday. He acted again with former Oliver! co-star Jack Wild ... |
| Queen Anne | ... seven inches in diameter, i.e. . It had been redefined during the reign of | , in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly , which is the result of the earlie ... |
| Wonder Woman | ... well known for wearing 1950s style horn-rimmed glasses as Clark Kent, while | wears either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glas ... |
| Ray Davies | ... , Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, | , Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, ... |
| Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... Jin in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself | , he remained diligently frugal. However, he did not care for education an ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... hurches in Oakland is St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents | , James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison have all attende ... |
| Sheila Forbes | The current Principal is | , CBE, a graduate of the college, who took up the post in 2007 |
| Barry Letts | ... on the role of the Doctor from Jon Pertwee. He was recommended to producer | by the BBC's Head of Serials, Bill Slater, who had directed Baker in Play ... |
| Jon Pertwee | In 1974, Baker took on the role of the Doctor from | . He was recommended to producer Barry Letts by the BBC's Head of Serials, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Collins | ... country and the last resting place, among a host of historical figures, of | , Eamon DeValera, Charles Stewart Parnell and also Arthur Griffith. This g ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... arrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South since | in 1848 |
| Pedro Menéndez de Avilés | ... ty, Florida, United States. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorer and admiral | , it is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city and por ... |
| Stephen Decatur | ... ounty of the state of Alabama, United States. It was named is for Commodore | of the United States Navy. Its county seat was Woodville |
| 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 ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... anne Silberstein was born on August 14, 1971, Rhonda's biological father is | . She is now married; her married name is Rhonda Ross Kendrick. Ross and S ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... included a two-part program on Nikita Khrushchev, the St. Lawrence Seaway, | in Cuba, and unemployment problems in distressed areas |
| King Constantine I | ... its territory and population. In the following years, the struggle between | and charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's fo ... |
| Herman Willem Daendels | ... ench conscripts with little proper leadership. The previous Dutch governor, | , had built a well-defended fortification at Meester Cornelis (now Jatineg ... |
| Bobby Rush | ... , 1999, Daley garnered 68.9 percent of the vote, defeating U.S. Congressman | to win a fourth term |
| Nevil Shute | ... former, who appeared on Britain's Got Talent in 2007 came from Portchester, | , also known as Nevil Shute Norway, novelist and aeronautical engineer and ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... ution, but word is brought that, although the Royalists have been defeated, | has pardoned all prisoners. The lovers are finally united for good |
| George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... l, living with his maternal grandmother at Kensington Palace and his uncle, | , at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire. In the next three years, his four si ... |
| Adolf Hitler | Mussolini and | first met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rod Stewart | ... Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and plays host to acts like Dave Matthews Band, | and the Eagles |
| Crown Prince | ... oops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's King Haakon, | , and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue the Elverum Aut ... |
| Robert E. Cox | ... ine ran a regular column called "Gleanings for ATMs" edited by Earle Brown, | & Roger Sinnott. The ready supply of surplus optical components after Worl ... |
| Jeff Cooper | ... he Scout Rifle is a class of general-purpose rifles defined and promoted by | in the early 1980s |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ken Wallis | ... Wick in Scotland, a total of breaking the old record held by Wing Commander | |
| Michael J. Fox | ... ar (1924). More recently, the 1987 movie The Secret of My Success (starring | ) was filmed in Lasdon Park and Muscoot Farm. Muscoot Farm was also used a ... |
| Richard Whitehead Young | ... right activist Susa Young Gates, NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve Young, and | , U.S. Army Brigadier General and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cour ... |
| Bill Oddie | ... den was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with | , Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn |
| Wilhelm Koppe | ... lice in the General Government. Krüger himself was ultimately replaced with | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Taylor Hackford | ... Strathairn, Judy Parfitt, John C. Reilly and Eric Bogosian and directed by | |
| Rollo Gillespie | ... Admiral Robert Stopford, General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, and Colonel | , who led a well-organized army against an army of mostly French conscript ... |
| Roger Moore | ... ur Eyes Only, where Kristatos (Julian Glover) attempted to eliminate Bond ( | ) and Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet) by tying them to his boat and dragg ... |
| Syphax | ... king Gala were allied with Carthage, while the western Masaesyli under king | were allied with Rome. However in 206 BC, the new king of the eastern Mass ... |
| William III | Henley suffered from both parties in the Civil War. | on his march to London in 1688 rested here, at the nearby recently rebuilt ... |
| Barry Humphries | ... ws filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Hopper, George Miller and | |
| Meriwether Lewis | ... zed in 1833 and named for explorer and governor of the Louisiana Territory, | |
| Thucydides | ... nals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate to put him on a level with | |
| 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 ... |
| Anakin | ... proof" domed buildings. It is home to a podracing track and was the home of | and Shmi Skywalker in . There was a large slave quarter within the rugged ... |
| Ernest King | ... Allied bases in Samoa and at Suva. Nimitz, after consultation with Admiral | , Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet, decided to contest the Ja ... |
| Sallust | ... us to show that sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of | and Tacitus could appreciate and enjoy. The style is lucid and almost clas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frederick Augustus Wetherall | ... ndonesia. The war was swiftly conducted by Admiral Robert Stopford, General | , and Colonel Rollo Gillespie, who led a well-organized army against an ar ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... ng for someone besides Adams (a carefully organized scheme originating with | ) less out of opposition to him than to prevent Adams from matching Washin ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... Lindbergh, the young, golden-haired son of the pioneering American aviator | and his wife Anne Morrow, who lived not far from Saint-Exupéry and who met ... |
| Buffalo Bill Cody | ... Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to have been awarded the medal, and | ), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by President Jimm ... |
| Aubrey Fitch | ... abu on 27 April en route to the Coral Sea. TF 11, commanded by Rear Admiral | and consisting of the carrier with two cruisers and five destroyers, was b ... |
| Luke Skywalker | ... t the end of the movie. Since it is the home planet of Anakin Skywalker and | , it easily became one of the most iconic planets in the Star Wars univers ... |
| Tom Lewis | ... he same political party as the former senator. The New South Wales premier, | felt that this convention only applied to vacancies caused by deaths or il ... |
| William McKinley | ... veral soldiers died during the quarantine, prompting a visit from President | |
| Jon Corzine | ... , Republican Chris Christie carried the county with 60%. Incumbent Democrat | received 31%, and Independent Chris Daggett received 8% |
| Pompey | ... Lucullus against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of | in the East (66-62 BC) |
| James Oglethorpe | ... hed in 1902 by the United States Army was later named Fort Oglethorpe after | , the founder of the Colony of Georgia. The base served largely as a caval ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... ntly Italian, it was settled by a large migration of Cuban refugees fleeing | 's regime, making Union City for many years the city with the largest Cuba ... |
| George W. Bush | ... Democrat John Kerry received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republican | received 16.7%. The borough is the most important source of funding for pr ... |
| Cesare Borgia | ... spered into the ears of some people that they were better off looking for a | than a Parsifal, they did not believe their ears." Safranski argues that t ... |
| William Lawrence Bragg | ... tempt to do so. They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both | and Wilkins. In order to construct their model of DNA, Watson and Crick ma ... |
| Anakin Skywalker | ... ugh it is mentioned at the end of the movie. Since it is the home planet of | and Luke Skywalker, it easily became one of the most iconic planets in the ... |
| 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 ... |
| J. B. S. Haldane | The geneticist | wondered why the dominant mutation that causes Huntington's disease remain ... |
| Bill Oddie | Garden and | co-wrote many episodes of the television comedy series Doctor in the House ... |
| Constantine II | King | 's dismissal of George Papandreou's centrist government in July 1965 promp ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cristóbal de Oñate | ... he fleet was about to set sail in 1541 when Alvarado received a letter from | , pleading for help against hostile Indians who were besieging him at Noch ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... or" elements in Washington Irving's essays and especially his travel books. | 's tales of the macabre and his balladic poetry were more influential in F ... |
| Lucullus | ... period, embracing the war against Sertorius (died 72 BC), the campaigns of | against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of Pompey i ... |
| John Kerry | ... , with 59.22% of the 1920 vote. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat | received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republican George W. Bush rece ... |
| Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | ... on the Killingworth wagonway, and named Blücher after the Prussian general | . It was constructed in the colliery workshop behind Stephenson's home, Di ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Eichmann | ... inian citizen and water company worker Ricardo Klement was discovered to be | in the 1950s, by former Jewish Dachau worker Lothar Hermann, whose daughte ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hanno the Elder | ... , Hannibal's father, in Sicily during the First Punic War and son-in-law of | who was one of Hannibal's lieutenants in Italy |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Bree is a fictional village in | 's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thoug ... |
| Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke | ... ed by William Kent; and the Doric Column of Victory in the park designed by | , and finished by Roger Morris. The latter rose to a height of , complete ... |
| General Charles Cornwallis | ... the American Revolution. Hillsborough served as a military base for British | in late February 1781. The United States Constitution drafted in 1787 was ... |
| El Supremo | ... ovel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a character | who claims to be a descendant of Alvarado by a (fictional) marriage to a d ... |
| John André | In 1780, in a famous Revolutionary War incident, Major | was arrested as a spy in Tarrytown. André, a British army officer, was tra ... |
| Oskar Dirlewanger | ... soldiers during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, and SS officer | was beaten and tortured to death at the end of the war. In addition at lea ... |
| Hugo Chávez | Venezuelan President | , Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... d later Persians in the mid 6th century BC. In 331 BC, Van was conquered by | and after his death became part of the Seleucid Empire. By the early 2nd c ... |
| Ken Berry | ... was intended as a pilot for a prospective spinoff series of the same name. | starred as Ken Kelly, a friend and neighbor of the Bradys', who with his w ... |
| Anthony Eden | ... torcycle, a fact celebrated at the 1953 motorcycle show with a visit by Sir | to the BSA stand. In 1953 the BSA Professional Cycling Team was managed by ... |
| George W. Bush | ... Jersey's more Republican counties. In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 15.8% margin over John Kerry, with Kerry carrying ... |
| George Washington | ... rolina State Legislature met here once in 1787 and again in 1987. President | is known to have slept in Tarboro during a visit on his 1791 Southern tour ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | A palantír (pl. palantíri) is a magical artifact from | 's fantasy legendarium. A palantír (sometimes translated as "Seeing Stone" ... |
| Hamilcar Barca | ... urces. Hasdrubal Gisco is the son of the Gesco who had served together with | , Hannibal's father, in Sicily during the First Punic War and son-in-law o ... |
| Erich Priebke | ... out of Buenos Aires. ODESSA allegedly helped Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, | , and many other war criminals find postwar refuge in Latin America |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... leased on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from | , though the offer was ultimately rejected |
| Horace | ... Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and Tibullus, and contemporary of | |
| William Bainbridge | ... ounty, Georgia, United States. The town was named after U.S. Navy Commodore | . As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 12,697. The city is ... |
| Tan Daoji | ... his generals, decreasing weakening the dynasty. Because of his jealousy of | , a noted leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison, he deprived himself ... |
| Barbara Cartland | ... 008 television film In Love with Barbara, a biopic of the romantic novelist | which was shown on BBC Four in the UK |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | Mos Eisley is a spaceport town. In , | described Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy. |
| Robert E. Lee | ... olina History) in an attempt to reach Weldon to cut off supplies to General | during the Civil War. The fort protected Weldon until the day after the Ge ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... m was a stylized thriller taking its cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and | 's The Night of the Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received a mixed critical rec ... |
| Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort | ... t, she decided to live at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, with her niece, | , the daughter of her brother, Lord Cambridge. Her personal belongings wer ... |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | ... Diana Dill, Lena Headey, Will Kempe, and most famously, Michael Douglas and | . Other film and television personalities who were born, or have lived, in ... |
| Hasdrubal Gisco | ... BC Hasdrubal left Iberia and fought Syphax, though he may be confused with | , however, it did bind Carthaginian resources. Hasdrubal Gisco is the son ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... ates. The Faith Fourth achieved national visibility in 1992, when President | not only made a speech praising small town virtues, but also participated ... |
| Gorshkov | ... fell on deaf ears, particularly on those of Kuznetsov's successor, Admiral | . Not until July 26, 1988 did the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerd von Rundstedt | In September 1939 Frank was assigned as Chief of Administration to | in the German military administration in occupied Poland. From 26 October ... |
| Josef Mengele | ... aly, operating out of Buenos Aires. ODESSA allegedly helped Adolf Eichmann, | , Erich Priebke, and many other war criminals find postwar refuge in Latin ... |
| Daniel Morgan | ... n from Cooper County. It is named in honor of the Revolutionary War General | . Some parts of Morgan County touch the Lake of the Ozarks |
| Adolf Eichmann | ... itzerland and Italy, operating out of Buenos Aires. ODESSA allegedly helped | , Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke, and many other war criminals find postwar ... |
| Syphax | ... ios were able to negotiate a new front in Africa by allying themselves with | , a powerful Numidian king in North Africa. In 213 BC he received Roman ad ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... he centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus discovered it while serving under | . From the 3rd century BC to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, B ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... al times by others), as well as numerous territories and trust possessions. | confidant Robert Abplanalp was a notary for many years, as were Fawn Hall, ... |
| Joseph Warren | ... y is the name of fourteen counties in the USA. They are named after General | , who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in th |
| Masinissa | ... allied with Rome. However in 206 BC, the new king of the eastern Massylii, | , allied himself with Rome, and Syphax of the Masaesyli switched his alleg ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Newnan | ... funct town of Bullsboro) in 1828 and was named for North Carolinian General | . Newnan quickly became a prosperous magnet for lawyers, doctors, other pr ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with | |
| Hannibal | ... expansion into Greece itself. Encouraged by the exiled Carthaginian general | , and making an alliance with the disgruntled Aetolian League, Antiochus l ... |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... wea. The name honors White Shield, an Arikara chief and a scout for General | |
| Amon Göth | ... nsatzgruppen, and the Security Services. One notable Austrian-SS member was | , immortalized in the film Schindler's List. The fictional character of Ha ... |
| Jim Lovell | ... il Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, | , and Bill Anders) |
| Duke of Wellington | ... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the | . The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ... |
| Richard Keynes | ... ) was a distinguished surgeon, scholar and bibliophile. His nephews include | (1919–2010) a physiologist; and Quentin Keynes (1921–2003), an adventurer ... |
| Werner Klemperer | His son, | , was an actor and became known for his portrayal of Colonel Klink on the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer | , published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first desc ... |
| Siegfried Sassoon | ... cked soldiers during World War I. Rivers's most famous patient was the poet | . He is also famous for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition ... |
| Celine Dion | ... mes, such as James Horner's "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic, written for | |
| Johann von Thielmann | ... Prussian III Corps rear guard under the command of Lieutenant-General Baron | at the Battle of Wavre. Moreover, Soult's letter ordering Grouchy to move ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... n the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Other Lives, playing the | |
| 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 ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... of Samuel Beckett's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator | and directed by American playwright David Mamet; Gielgud died mere weeks a ... |
| Leonard Boyle | ... been Mithraic," However, this theory has been contested by modern scholars: | wrote in 1987 that "too much ... has been made of the 'threat' of Mithrais ... |
| 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 |
| Robert S. Johnson | ... Col. Rosemary Hogan, Academy Award winning actress Joan Crawford, WWII ace | , three time NBA champion Stacey King, former NBA All-Star Michael Ray Ric ... |
| Jonathon Band | Admirals George Anson. and Admiral | , current First Sea Lord are both notable in Portsmouth |
| Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... printed with a variety of colored inks ranging from sepia, blue, and green. | was the first person to purchase Das Werk Gustav Klimts in 1908 |
| David Starkey | ... nd proto-feminist, Agnes Strickland. This assumption has been challenged by | in his book Six Wives in which he points out that such a situation would h ... |
| Lloyd Bentsen | Image:Lloyd Bentsen, bw photo as senator.jpg|Senator | of Texa |
| Elizabeth II | | | |
| Spencer Christian | ... street appeared on the "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers," and weatherman | later visited the town. After the hoopla died down, Flora lost their bid t ... |
| Archie Bunker | ... in regard to the main character in the American TV Show All in the Family, | |
| Hans Landa | ... Göth, immortalized in the film Schindler's List. The fictional character of | , seen in the film Inglorious Basterds was also depicted as a member of th ... |
| Sadamichi Kajioka | ... with one light cruiser and six destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral | . Abe's ships departed Rabaul for the trip to Port Moresby on 4 May and we ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wu Sangui | ... id 17th century, allowed through the northern passes by the Chinese general | once the Ming capital at Beijing had fallen into the hands of a rebel army ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... l family remained Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of | and Prince Philip, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to ... |
| Terry Sanford | Image:Terry Sanford.jpg|Former Governor | of North Carolin |
| 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 ... |
| John Bell Blish | The Blish Lock is a breech locking mechanism designed by | based upon his observation that under extreme pressures, certain dissimila ... |
| John J. Pershing | ... artermaster at Fort Riley, until July 1916. In 1916, he served with General | 's Mexican Expeditionary Forces, as commander of the bakeries. This was th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kiyohide Shima | ... invasion of Tulagi was the Tulagi Invasion Force, commanded by Rear Admiral | , consisting of two minelayers, two destroyers, six minesweepers, two subc ... |
| Schofield | ... ttles of Bentonville and Wyse Fork, Sherman's forces met with the armies of | , their troops taking over the city in March. During the following three w ... |
| Sir James Douglas | ... ly under the youthful Walter the Steward, but actually under the command of | |
| Fidel Castro | ... ial or religious divisions. Other examples of left-wing nationalism include | 's 26th of July Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the Am ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... the author himself. Subsequently, French General (later, French President) | , whom Saint-Exupéry and others held in low regard, publicly implied that ... |
| 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) |
| Aragorn | ... Shire. A day's ride east along the road lay The Forsaken Inn, according to | , although nothing more is known of it |
| Phil Esposito | ... re ineligible to play in a men's league. She also turned down an offer from | to play for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. Finland's Hockey Federati ... |
| Jerry Mateparae | | | |
| 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 | ) |
| George H. W. Bush | ... s to the irritation of Democrats. During the 101st Congress under President | , fully half of the successful proposals put forward by the Senate Democra ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | ... many which would eventually occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led by | and Arthur Seyss-Inquart and was technically under the command of the SS i ... |
| Aritomo Gotō | ... carrier , four heavy cruisers, and one destroyer, commanded by Rear Admiral | . A separate Cover Force (sometimes referred to as the Support Group), com ... |
| Lord Edward Somerset | ... The 1st Brigade, known as the Household Brigade, commanded by Major-General | , consisted of guards regiments: the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, the Royal Ho ... |
| Aharon Yariv | ... place on October 28, 1973 at "Kilometer 101" between Israeli Major General | and Egyptian Major General Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy. Ultimately, Kissinger to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | ... lly occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led by Ernst Kaltenbrunner and | and was technically under the command of the SS in Germany, but often acte ... |
| Pietro Loredan | ... i comun— before he was elected in 1423, thus defeating the other candidate, | . His task as doge was to lead Venice in a long and protracted series of w ... |
| Charles Chibitty | Other notable residents include: WWII Comanche Code Talker | , WWII Nurse and POW Col. Rosemary Hogan, Academy Award winning actress Jo ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... e beginning of his public career, Sallust operated as a decided partisan of | , to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the ... |
| Jesse Helms | ... amous racially motivated "Hands" negative ad used in North Carolina Senator | 's 1990 re-election campaign against Harvey Gantt accused Gantt of support ... |
| Jimmy Carter | The surprise winner of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination was | , a former state senator and governor of Georgia. When the primaries began ... |
| Saladin | The Kurdish Muslim | retook Hebron in 1187 – again with Jewish assistance according to one late ... |
| Pedro Menéndez de Avilés | ... ing to dissuade further French colonization. The Spanish quickly dispatched | to go to Florida and establish a base from which to attack the French |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gao Huan | ... ain authority. As conflict swelled in the north between successive leaders, | took control of the east and Luoyang (holding Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern ... |
| Gummo Marx | ... udeville singing group. Billed as "The Four Nightingales", Julius, Milton ( | ), Arthur (originally Adolph; Harpo Marx), and another boy singer, Lou Lev ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... Lindbergh, the young, golden-haired son of the pioneering American aviator | and his wife Anne Morrow. The couple also stayed in Quebec, Canada for fiv ... |
| George II of Greece | ... Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King | , to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explan ... |
| William Richardson Davie | ... to change their minds partly by the strenuous efforts of James Iredell and | and partly by the prospect of a Bill of Rights. The Constitution was later ... |
| 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 ... |
| Patton | ... attack, starting on 7 August, at Mortain, in the Falaise pocket, threatened | 's break-out from the beachhead. This was repulsed by 2nd TAF Typhoons, wh ... |
| Zebulon Pike | ... ssissippi, Micropolitan Statistical Area. Pike County is named for explorer | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mattias Nilsson | He voiced " | " in the video games and , the voice of Isair in the computer game Icewind ... |
| Augustus Pitt Rivers | ... was influenced greatly by the work of the archaeologist Lieutenant General | (1827–1900). The two constant themes in his attempts to improve archaeolog ... |
| General Pershing | ... ddition, the Medal of Honor was presented to the British Unknown Warrior by | on October 17, 1921. On November 11, 1921, the U.S. Unknown Soldier was re ... |
| Neil Armstrong | ... en-surviving Apollo astronauts, including the complete crews of Apollo 11 ( | , Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell ... |
| 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 ... |
| Diana Krall | ... ieved popularity with a mix of traditional jazz and pop/rock forms, such as | , Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling and Jamie Cullum |
| Frank Reynolds | ... e veteran reporter became the co-anchor of the ABC Evening News, first with | , then the following year with another CBS alumnus, Harry Reasoner. He beg ... |
| Jerry Mateparae | ... monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. , the Governor-General is Sir | . The Governor-General's powers are primarily symbolic and formal in natur ... |
| Francis Marion | ... bia. Marion County is named for American Revolutionary War guerrilla leader | |
| Thucydides | ... fragments survive). Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian | , and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Afric ... |
| Prince Albert | ... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that year | became the patron of the regatta |
| Buzz Aldrin | ... ollo astronauts, including the complete crews of Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, | , and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill An ... |
| James Fenimore Cooper | ... n Winkle (1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the Leatherstocking Tales of | , with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape des ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... y Television. Playing themselves, they were in Toronto during their tour of | 's No Man's Land. According to Dave Thomas, in his book, , their sketch wa ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Josef Mengele | ... risoner in Auschwitz, served as Chief Pathologist and personal assistant to | |
| Dedan Kimathi | ... kuyu from British oppression and colonisation. By 1952, under Field Marshal | , the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (Mau Mau) launched a full military confl ... |
| Kōsō Abe | The Japanese Port Moresby Invasion Force, commanded by Rear Admiral | , included 11 transport ships carrying about 5,000 soldiers from the IJA's ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | In April 1945, | asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Chur ... |
| Wellesley Tudor Pole | ... he news of `Abdu'l-Bahá's death reached Shoghi Effendi, which, according to | , the deliverer of the cable, left him "in a state of collapse." After spe ... |
| Rob Riggle | ... essed teenage sister, Stacy. Other notable comedians such as Jack McBrayer, | , Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, ... |
| Francis Austen | ... Famous Engineer of the Industrial Revolution, was born in Portsmouth., Sir | (brother of Jane Austen) briefly lived in the area, James Callaghan (Briti ... |
| 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 |
| James Clark Ross | ... ded financial support to the Enderby Brothers' expedition. In 1841, Captain | , who sighted the islands on his own expedition to Antarctica, gave it the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Borman | ... Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 ( | , Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) |
| Baibars | ... after the Mongol raids into Palestine, one of which touched Hebron, Sultan | 's Mamluk rule established peace. The minarets were built onto the structu ... |
| John Fearn | The British sea captain | , a whale hunter, became the first Westerner to visit this island in 1798, ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... ration and the National Film and Television Training School. Prime Minister | continued to support Australian film. The South Australian Film Corporatio ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Chipperfield | ... icially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. The museum, designed by the architect | , features information on the River Thames, the sport of rowing, and the t ... |
| Yuwen Tai | ... Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei as a puppet ruler) by 534, while his rival | took control of the west and the traditional Chinese capital of Chang'an b ... |
| Hitler | The term Übermensch was a favorite of | and the Nazi regime, which borrowed from Nietzsche's work and sought to ad ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... establishment of a republic known as the Commonwealth of England. In 1653, | , the most prominent military and political leader in the nation, seized p ... |
| John Foster | ... ategically significant Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Bridge. Union General | arrived with his troops on December 17, aiming to destroy this bridge in o ... |
| Keeper of the Privy Purse | ... le and replaced by Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset. Abigail was made | . This broke a promise Anne had made to distribute these court offices to ... |
| Bobby Clarke | ... erformance at the 1998 Olympics impressed Men's Team Canada General Manager | so much, that he invited her to participate in the Philadelphia Flyers roo ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... in MMORPGs. 2007 saw the release of The Lord of the Rings Online, based on | 's Middle-earth. Other licensed MMORPGs include The Matrix Online, based o ... |
| Emperor Wu of Southern Qi | ... eign and his heir, who was only 13 years younger than him, succeeded him as | . Emperor Wu made peace with the Northern Wei, content to protect his bord ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... 9 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under | , making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was firs ... |
| Roger Staubach | The main storyline surrounding Super Bowl XII was Cowboys quarterback | versus Broncos quarterback Craig Morton. Morton began his career playing f ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... ement and Victor Li. The Cerberus bid would have seen former Prime Minister | installed as chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... sts and of the Soviet Union; Craxi himself pushed in favour of US president | 's positioning of Pershing missiles in Italy |
| Tom Daschle | ... outh Dakota) of the opposition party (Democrat)'s minority leader, Democrat | , and actively campaigned against him. Daschle's Republican opponent, John ... |
| Marius | ... umidia from c. 112 BC to 105 BC. Its true value lies in the introduction of | and Sulla to the Roman political scene and the beginning of their rivalry. ... |
| Nipsey Russell | ... as part of a sketch on Late Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce Brothers, | , Abe Vigoda, James Lipton, Bob Saget and William Preston as the character ... |
| Glenda Jackson | ... a 6-part series on the life of Elizabeth I in 1971, called Elizabeth R with | in the title role |
| Peter Sellers | ... stley, Jonathan Pryce, Dizzee Rascal, Heath Robinson, John James Sainsbury, | , Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, Victoria Wood, ... |
| Jimmy Carter | Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governor | of Georgi |
| Thomas J. Ryan | ... yrd and Floyd Bennett received the medal for exploration of the North Pole. | received it for saving a woman from the burning Grand Hotel in Yokohama, J ... |
| Julius Caesar | | initially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... adio" from AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted: Ice Cube is first addressed by the name | (after the infamous traitor of the American Revolution) but then named out ... |
| Richard III | ... ared illegitimate. Richard was sent to the Tower of London by the new king, | , in mid-1483, thus ending his claim to both York and Norfolk |
| Alan Seeger | ... stic volunteers and the hardened mercenaries of the old Legion, as the poet | pointed out, making assimilation difficult. Nevertheless, the old and the ... |
| William Siborne | ... cavalry. (composition of brigades), pp. 422–424 (actions of brigades) Note: | was in possession of a number of eyewitness accounts from generals, such a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Heath | ... enson played at Marine Spa ballroom, and the place was regularly visited by | |
| Millard Kaufman | ... on, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. The film was adapted by Don McGuire and | from the short story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin. The original s ... |
| Owen Luder | ... and car park complex in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It was designed by | and Rodney Gordon and took its name from the site's shape which from the a ... |
| Alison Steadman | Garden wrote for and appeared with Barry Cryer and | in the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show The Long Hot Satsuma. In 2001 and ... |
| Wilhelm Höttl | ... dos was very widespread, and according to former SS Sturmbannführer (Major) | , not even the SS leadership knew how many Sonderkommandos were constantly ... |
| Dan Quayle | ... s chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory board chair | , himself the former vice president of the United States. Cerberus was rej ... |
| Takeo Takagi | ... sortied from Truk on 1 May. The strike force was commanded by Vice Admiral | (flag on cruiser ) with Rear Admiral Chūichi Hara, on Zuikaku, in tactical ... |
| Willie Mays | ... ion of third place on the all-time home run list, behind only Babe Ruth and | . As Mantle ran around the bases, McLain stood on the pitchers mound and a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alison Steadman | ... Rascal, Heath Robinson, John James Sainsbury, Peter Sellers, Mike Skinner, | , Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, Victoria Wood, Lord Young of Dartington, Toby ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ed the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senator | of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon |
| Fred Zinn | ... decorated for its efforts. Many young foreigners, including Americans like | , volunteered for the Foreign Legion when the war broke out in 1914. There ... |
| Barry Cryer | Garden wrote for and appeared with | and Alison Steadman in the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show The Long Hot ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cornelius Sisenna | ... storiae), a history of Rome from 78 to 67 BC, intended as a continuation of | 's work |
| Mark Antony | ... e so manifest that, when he defended Herod against the Sanhedrin and before | , the latter stripped Hyrcanus of his nominal political authority and his ... |
| John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of G ... |
| 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 ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister | 's more conservative coalition partners |
| Horace Capron | Capron was named after General | |
| Hannibal | The war is marked by | 's surprising overland journey and his costly crossing of the Alps, follow ... |
| Victor Emmanuel II | ... h 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under king | of the Savoy dynasty, which ruled over Piedmont. The architects of Italian ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chūichi Hara | ... commanded by Vice Admiral Takeo Takagi (flag on cruiser ) with Rear Admiral | , on Zuikaku, in tactical command of the carrier air forces. The Carrier S ... |
| Shen Youzhi | ... ther who became Emperor Shun of Liu Song. After defeating his rival general | , Xiao forced Emperor Shun to yield to throne and crowned himself as Emper ... |
| Alain Prost | ... trick Tambay, René Arnoux, Michele Alboreto, Gerhard Berger, Nigel Mansell, | , Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, Kimi R ... |
| Deborah Kerr | ... t Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons as the young Elizabeth and screen legend | as Parr in the popular film Young Bess |
| George Wallace | Image:George C Wallace (Alaba Governor).png|Governor | of Alabam |
| Al Gore | ... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including | and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phi ... |
| John Hancock | ... st rocket engine test facility. Hancock County is named for Founding Father | |
| Metallo | ... ed film . The members here are Cheetah, Vandal Savage, Star Sapphire, Bane, | , Mirror Master, and Ma'alefa'ak. Cheetah is the only original member in t ... |
| Sallust | ... id to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author | , which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian |
| Brian Mulroney | ... icians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and | in Canada, the Western welfare state was attacked from within. Monetarists ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Ross | The Ross Sea was discovered by | in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is Ross Island with the Mt. Erebus vo ... |
| Yongle Emperor | ... 4). A magistrate of Jining, Shandong sent a memorandum to the throne of the | protesting the current inefficient means of transporting 4,000,000 dan (42 ... |
| 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 |
| Don Knotts | In 1975, he co-starred with Tim Conway and | in the Disney movie The Apple Dumpling Gang, which was well received by th ... |
| Frank Gehry | ... ein, composed of buildings by architects such as Zaha Hadid (fire station), | (design museum), Alvaro Siza Vieira (factory building) and Tadao Ando (con ... |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... chael Holroyd describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in | ' The Self-Condemned. In Wyndham Lewis' novel The Apes of God, he is seen ... |
| Carl von Clausewitz | ... r the Prussian Major-General and leading expert on modern military strategy | defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of ... |
| Stirling Moss | ... Formula One Championship. With only one win that year against four wins of | , he benefited greatly from the gentlemanliness of Moss as shown at the Po ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anthony Wayne | ... . Clair's disaster and raised a new professional army, commanded by General | . On August 20, 1794, Blue Jacket's confederate army clashed with Wayne at ... |
| Ronald Reagan | President | launched his 1980 presidential campaign from the Neshoba County Fair, deli ... |
| 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, ... |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... stopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Cliff Parisi, Tim Pigott-Smith, J. B. Priestley, | , Dizzee Rascal, Heath Robinson, John James Sainsbury, Peter Sellers, Mike ... |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... e inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewis' The Self-Condemned. In | ' novel The Apes of God, he is seen in the character of Matthew Plunkett, ... |
| Margaret Tyzack | ... Atkins (in Bertie and Elizabeth), Miranda Richardson (in The Lost Prince), | (in Wallis & Edward), and Claire Bloom (in The King's Speech) |
| Nigel Mansell | ... dier Pironi, Patrick Tambay, René Arnoux, Michele Alboreto, Gerhard Berger, | , Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schum ... |
| king | ... to. Many leading revolutionaries wanted a republic, but eventually it was a | and his chief minister who had the power to unite the Italian states as a ... |
| William Morris | ... ious materials, was founded in Mitcham as a silk-printing business in 1781. | opened a factory on the River Wandle at Merton Abbey. Merton Abbey Mills w ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ty Cobb | ... these accusations into a promotion to manager. Even baseball stars such as | and Tris Speaker have been credibly alleged to have fixed game outcomes. W ... |
| Faramir | ... hope for Minas Tirith, driving him to suicide, and nearly to the murder of | |
| Rakesh Sharma | ... orn woman and the second Indian person to fly in space, following cosmonaut | who flew in 1984 in a spacecraft. On her first mission Chawla traveled ove ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... ic's most successful artists died within eight weeks of each other in 1977. | , the best-selling singer of all time, died on August 16, 1977. Presley's ... |
| Alan Turing | ... traced back as early as Descartes in the 17th century, and proceeding up to | in the 1940s and '50s. The cognitive approach was brought to prominence by ... |
| Frank Church | Image:FrankChurch.jpg|Senator | of Idah |
| Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | ... United Kingdom impaled with her family arms – the arms of her grandfather, | (the royal arms used by the House of Hanover), in the 1st and 4th quarters ... |
| Buzz Hargrove | ... ccepted after last-minute talks between CEO Robert Milton and CAW president | got the union concessions needed to let the bid go through |
| John McCain | ... ny of the rural counties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| Kuninori Marumo | ... rce (sometimes referred to as the Support Group), commanded by Rear Admiral | and consisting of two light cruisers, the seaplane tender , and three gunb ... |
| Josef Mengele | ... e gas chamber selections of the Holocaust. The most infamous member, Doctor | , served as Head Medical Officer of Auschwitz and was responsible for the ... |
| Peter Sellers | ... n in Portsmouth, Marcus Patric, actor on Hollyoaks, was born in Portsmouth, | , comedian, actor, and performer was born in Southsea, Nicola Duffett, act ... |
| Jean Simmons | ... Thomas Seymour's obsession with Elizabeth I saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, | as the young Elizabeth and screen legend Deborah Kerr as Parr in the popul ... |
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | ... city to the Democratic Republic of Armenia. Turkish revolutionaries, led by | rejected the terms of the treaty and instead waged the Turkish War of Inde ... |
| William Tryon | ... ritish secretary of state for the colonies and a relative of royal Governor | |
| Noël Coward | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, | and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always been a popular ... |
| Aragorn | In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins met Strider ( | ) at the largest and most popular inn in Bree, The Prancing Pony, owned by ... |
| Victor Emmanuel II | ... ore conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Cavour and | , who would later become the first king of a united Italy |
| Julian Hatcher | ... lowback than as an adhesion-locked breech action. Some authorities, such as | , felt the Blish Lock as employed in the submachine gun did not accomplish ... |
| Geoffrey Keynes | ... nd mother Florence Ada Keynes (1861–1958) by 12 years. Keynes's brother Sir | (1887–1982) was a distinguished surgeon, scholar and bibliophile. His neph ... |
| John Sturges | Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 thriller film directed by | that combines elements of Westerns and film noir. It tells the story of a ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... to live in Dulwich and Chelsea before and after her time in Downing Street. | , the comedian who was the chief creator and main writer of The Goon Show, ... |
| Celine Dion | ... hich the reorganised Air Canada was held. In October 2004, Canadian singer, | became the face of Air Canada, hoping to relaunch the airline, and draw in ... |
| Steven Isserlis | ... rformers. Musicians who have performered in the JdP in recent years include | , the Jerusalem Quartet, the Chilingirian Quartet and the Belcea Quartet |
| António Correia | In 1521, a Portuguese force led by commander | invaded Bahrain to take control of the wealth created by its pearl industr ... |
| Diana Krall | ... a Records released her newest studio album, Love is the Answer, produced by | . On October 2, 2009, Streisand made her British television performance de ... |
| Joseph McCarthy | ... ion was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator | of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional inv ... |
| Charles Laughton | ... cinemas in 1934, in Alexander Korda's film The Private Life of Henry VIII. | played the king, with actress Everley Gregg appearing as Catherine Parr. T ... |
| William Camden | In 1603 the antiquarian | published an edition of Asser's Life in which there appears a story of a c ... |
| Sargent Shriver | Image:Sargent Shriver 1962.jpg|Former Ambassador to France | of Marylan |
| Adolf Hitler | ... purpose of the SS, that of safeguarding the leadership of the Nazi Party ( | ) continued until the very end of the group's existence. Hitler had used b ... |
| Elizabeth II | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward and Queen | among many others, Penang has always been a popular tourist destination, b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Piet Joubert | ... blic. Kruger was re-elected president in 1888 and 1893, each time defeating | |
| James Earl Jones | ... had another brief cameo as himself in the 1997 movie The Devil's Advocate. | portrayed a flamboyant boxing promoter in the 1984 made-for-television mov ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pliny | ... Classical sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially | and Ptolemy) gives the following account |
| Rod Stewart | ... James Sainsbury, Peter Sellers, Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, | , Victoria Wood, Lord Young of Dartington, Toby Young, and Alex Zane |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Jung Chang and Jon Halliday claim that | allowed the Communists to escape on the Long March, allegedly because he w ... |
| Peter Ustinov | ... h, was later turned into a play, an opera by Benjamin Britten and a film by | |
| Tuskegee Airmen | ... of the distinguished service by African American military units such as the | , 366th Infantry Regiment, and others. During the baseball winter meetings ... |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ... ; Broyles 2004; Hewett 2007). The Beatles included his face on the cover of | (Guy and Llewelyn-Jones 2004, 111). This reflects his influence on the ban ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... h version of "On The Street Where You Live" is sung while Joe is on a date. | 's version of "Blue Moon" plays as Joe spend his final night before depart ... |
| Arthur Nebe | ... er of the Reich Main Security Office. Heinrich Müller became Gestapo Chief, | , chief of the Criminal Police (Kripo), and the two branches of SD were co ... |
| The Duke of Kent | ... ose friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni’. It was from | that the Duke took over in this position, which involves him representing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul A. Dever | ... favorite son candidates included Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr, Governor | of Massachusetts, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, and Senator J. Wil ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... f Ptolemaic Egypt and contemporary of Ashoka the Great, is also recorded by | as having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Mauryan court |
| Roger Staubach | ... was also the second Heisman Trophy winner to be named Super Bowl MVP after | in Super Bowl VI |
| Fritz von Below | ... south of the river. They were opposed by the German Second Army of General | . The axis of the advance was centred on the Roman road that ran from Albe ... |
| Leo Phokas | ... prompting the renewal of hostilities with Bulgaria. With her main supporter | crushingly defeated by the Bulgarians at the Battle of Acheloos in 917, Zo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... orces of the Kriminalpolizei, and the Gestapo, police and security offices. | is viewed as the mastermind behind the SS security forces and held the tit ... |
| Yuri Gagarin | After the flight of | in 1961, Sergey Korolyov, the chief Soviet rocket engineer, came up with t ... |
| Robert Sedgwick | Colonel | led one hundred New England volunteers and two hundred of Oliver Cromwell' ... |
| George W. Bush | The | administration consolidated many of these activities under the United Stat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... apra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon | 's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) |
| Ronald Reagan | ... e operations. It was abruptly halted during the administration of President | in the mid-late 1980s, part of the War on Drugs |
| Steve Nash | ... rst NBA championship only two years before. The Mavericks, run by a trio of | , Michael Finley, and Dirk Nowitzki, had just defeated the Utah Jazz despi ... |
| Barry Letts | ... dio 4's Last Word to pay tribute to the deceased former Doctor Who producer | . He described Letts, who originally cast him in the role, as “the big lin ... |
| Noël Coward | ... nts. Sometimes the songs represented original material, or on one occasion, | 's classic There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner, but just as often t ... |
| Andrew Jackson | Jackson Township, named after | , is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 ... |
| Andrew Waugh | ... her restricted work to the last three months of the year. In November 1847, | , the British made several observations from Sawajpore station located in ... |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | ... enberg. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions were taken over by | in January 1943, following a few short months of Heinrich Himmler personal ... |
| John Julius Norwich | ... simplest terms, the loss of the Eastern Roman Empire's Anatolian heartland. | says in his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire that the defeat was "its death ... |
| Andronikos Doukas | ... eror from entering the church and may have become involved in the revolt of | . He was deposed as patriarch on February 1, 907 and replaced by Euthymios ... |
| 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 ... |
| William IV | ... e British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ruled in Hanover was | : Salic law, which required succession by the male line, forbade the acces ... |
| Patrick Sinclair | The origin of the name has also been confused with that | , a British officer who purchased land on the St. Clair River at the outle ... |
| Pliny | Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, | , Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally ... |
| Richard Attenborough | ... inting artist John Walker. The prize was awarded by celebrity presenter Sir | |
| Gwyn Nicholls | ... eiled on 26 December 1949 in honour of the Welsh international rugby player | . The Cardiff Athletic Clubhouse is situated in the corner of the ground b ... |
| 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 ... |
| June Whitfield | ... lms. He also appeared in BBC1's popular domestic sitcom Terry and June with | . As a regular comedy performer, he went on to become one of Britain's top ... |
| Lord Chamberlain | ... es of Polly Peachum in the West Indies; its production was forbidden by the | , no doubt through the influence of Walpole. This act of "oppression" caus ... |
| Richard Nixon | The scandal eventually led to the resignation of | , the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignat ... |
| Ian Hamilton Finlay | ... g But My Own." Other nominees included Terry Atkinson, sculptor Tony Cragg, | , Milena Kalinovska and painting/printing artist John Walker. The prize wa ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... d High School and Enrico Fermi High School are the district's high schools. | Middle School is the town's middle school. There are nine elementary schoo ... |
| Charles II | ... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored | , who granted the most liberal political terms |
| Andrew Waugh | ... ial English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by | , the British . Waugh named the mountain after his predecessor in the post ... |
| Paul Ray Smith | ... d the Medal of Honor for actions in the Iraq War: Army Sergeant First Class | , Army Private First Class Ross A. McGinnis, Marine Corps Corporal Jason D ... |
| Char Aznable | ... Amuro Ray, to whom the young Japanese of that time could easily relate, and | , who was "simply [...] fascinating", made a major contribution to the ser ... |
| Scipio Africanus | ... al siege of the Celtiberian town Numantia, Hispania, by the Roman forces of | |
| Victoria Wood | ... ry, Peter Sellers, Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, | , Lord Young of Dartington, Toby Young, and Alex Zane |
| Walter Schellenberg | ... ches of SD were commanded by various SS officers such as Otto Ohlendorf and | . Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions were taken over by Erns ... |
| Jack Charlton | ... on the touchline resulted in fines for both Republic of Ireland's manager, | , and their striker John Aldridge. Fortunately for Ireland, Aldridge was a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Amuro Ray | John Oppliger observes that the characters of | , to whom the young Japanese of that time could easily relate, and Char Az ... |
| Otto Ohlendorf | ... ), and the two branches of SD were commanded by various SS officers such as | and Walter Schellenberg. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions ... |
| Hovenden Walker | ... of 15 ships of the line and transports carrying 5,000 troops led by Admiral | arrived at Boston in June, doubling the town's population and greatly stra ... |
| Jacques Chirac | ... Movement. Moreover, he benefited from the divisions in the Gaullist party. | and other Gaullist personalities published the "Call of the 43" where they ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... d United States Senator George Smathers and then former U.S. Vice President | , who had promised to leave politics. During his subsequent presidency fro ... |
| John McCain | In the 2008 presidential election, Republican candidate | received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat Barack Ob ... |
| Jon Corzine | ... n, Republican Chris Christie received 58.5% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 33% |
| Richard Nixon | ... attractive in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which had led to President | 's resignation. Ford, although personally unconnected with Watergate, was ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... d, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S. — only | and The Beatles had sold more albums. In 1980, she released her best-selli ... |
| Marc Mitscher | ... 26 February. There she served temporarily as the flagship for Vice Admiral | , the Commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force, called Task Force 58 at th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carl Foreman | ... n to say he would never regret having helped blacklist liberal screenwriter | from Hollywood. Ironically, Gary Cooper himself had conservative political ... |
| Elvis Presley | "Heartbreak Hotel" is a song recorded by American rock and roll musician | . It was released as a single on January 27, 1956, Presley's first on his ... |
| William R. Peers | ... p, and pressed for a full and impartial investigation by Lieutenant General | . Westmoreland also made efforts to investigate the Phong Nhi and Phong Nh ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nikolaus Pevsner | ... of the buildings are listed, including the Cheltenham Synagogue, judged by | to be one of the architecturally "best" non-Anglican ecclesiastical buildi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Buzz Aldrin | In 1976, he portrayed a retired | in an adaptation of Aldrin's autobiography Return to Earth. The next year, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wilfrid Laurier | ... on of a museum of Canadian history. The federal prime minister at the time, | , suggested, however, that a preservation of the plains themselves would b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Staubach | The game pitted the Cowboys' current quarterback, | , against their former quarterback, Craig Morton. Led by Staubach and the ... |
| Theodore Alyates | ... Turkish positions, with the left wing under Bryennios, the right wing under | , and the centre under the emperor. At that moment, when a Turkish soldier ... |
| Franz Pfeffer von Salomon | ... ities for the Nazis to agitate for change. The SA was reorganised, but with | as its head rather than Göring, and the Schutzstaffel (SS) was founded, in ... |
| William III | The following century, | 's massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles w ... |
| Michael Collins | ... including the complete crews of Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and | ) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) |
| Mario Puzo | ... Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, | , Alvin Sargent, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Ross A. McGinnis | ... raq War: Army Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith, Army Private First Class | , Marine Corps Corporal Jason Dunham and Navy SEAL, Master-at-Arms Second ... |
| Joe DiMaggio | ... .400 – the last time anyone has achieved that feat. During the same season | hit successfully in 56 consecutive games, an accomplishment both unprecede ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerry Schwartz | ... r adopted by Nelson Peltz (Triarc), Saul Steinberg (Reliance Insurance) and | (Onex Corporation). These investment vehicles would utilize a number of th ... |
| Ted Williams | ... ar which saw the premature death of Lou Gehrig, Boston's great left fielder | had a batting average over .400 – the last time anyone has achieved that f ... |
| Al Gore | In 2000, Bush received 21,887 votes (56.28%) to Democrat | 's 15,959 (41.04%) |
| Michael P. Murphy | ... awarded for action in Afghanistan. The recipients were Navy SEAL Lieutenant | , Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Jam ... |
| Joseph Tarchaneiotes | ... ach taking about men. It is unknown what happened to the army sent off with | —according to Islamic sources, Alp Arslan smashed this army; however Roman ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... ased on Richard Helms) in Washington: Behind Closed Doors, an adaptation of | 's roman a clef The Company, in turn based on the Watergate scandal |
| Barry Gibb | ... old more albums. In 1980, she released her best-selling effort to date, the | -produced Guilty. The album contained the hits "Woman in Love" (which spen ... |
| Prince George of Denmark | In 1702, he was at Epsom when | , husband of Queen Anne fell ill. According to tradition, Arbuthnot treate ... |
| 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 ... |
| Howard Hawks | In 1959, Wayne teamed up with director | to make Rio Bravo as a conservative response. Hawks explained, "I made Rio ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Bolt | ... 1950 and 1951. Others to win twice in this category include: George Seaton, | (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, ... |
| John Kerry | ... ublican president George W. Bush received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat | 's 18,355 (42.41%) |
| Elijah Churchill | # | , soldier in the American Revolutionary War and recipient of the medal lat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Murray Barr | A Barr body (named after discoverer | ) is the inactive X chromosome in a female somatic cell, rendered inactive ... |
| G. Gordon Liddy | In January 1972, | , general counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (C ... |
| Beauvoir De Lisle | ... argely ignorant of the progress of the battle. A mistaken report by General | of the 29th Division proved to be fatal. By misinterpreting a German flare ... |
| 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 ( | ) |
| Jack Brabham | The Brabham team was founded by | and Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building an ... |
| John McCain | ... nd 1996. Like most of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| Richard Helms | ... t year, he portrayed a fictional Director of Central Intelligence (based on | ) in Washington: Behind Closed Doors, an adaptation of John Ehrlichman's r ... |
| Joseph Tarchaneiotes | Romanos ordered his general | to take some of the Roman troops and Varangians and accompany the Pecheneg ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... ction campaign was one of many causes that led to his defeat in November by | |
| Romanos Lekapenos | ... ther failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral | , who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally ... |
| Germanicus | ... d not only Ptolemy but also the poet Aratus, the orator Cicero, and general | as colouring the star red, though acknowledging that none of the latter th ... |
| Thomas Churchyard | ... rted by the contemporary proliferation of texts that responded to it; e.g.: | 's. The poem's obscure record may have had something to do with Crowley's ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. His successor, | , then issued a pardon to Nixon |
| Frank Capra | ... . The book's issues are detectable from a slightly different perspective in | 's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon Dr ... |
| Sallust | ... l, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, | , Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
| Charles Leclerc | ... on of more than 20,000 men under the command of his brother-in-law, General | in 1802 to retake the island. Leclerc's mission was to oust Louverture and ... |
| Theodor Eicke | ... S formation known as the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), under the command of | . Known as the "Death's Head Units", the SS-TV was first organized as seve ... |
| Alastair Sim | ... musical film in 1970 but critical consensus deems the 1951 version starring | the very best adaptation on film (Kelly 28). Other media adaptations inclu ... |
| George Washington | During the American Revolutionary War, both Comte de Rochambeau & | 's troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle S ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Black Speech is a fictional language created by | |
| Napoleon | After | imposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on July 5, 1 ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Whitelocke | ... Plata, at the command of Home Riggs Popham and William Carr Beresford, and | . The invasions were repelled, but powerfully affected the Spanish authori ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... lorous act that warrants the award, exceptions have been made. For example, | , while a reserve member of the U.S. Army Air Corps, received his Medal of ... |
| Hernán Cortés | In 1519 Alvarado accompanied | in his expedition to Mexico, commanding one of the eleven vessels in the f ... |
| Richard Montgomery | ... e of Tryon County was changed to Montgomery County in honor of the general, | , who had captured several places in Canada and died attempting to capture ... |
| Tom Jones | ... dets, Roger Miller, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Merle Haggard, | , Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, Suzi Quatro, Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Dia ... |
| Home Riggs Popham | ... y forces tried to invade the area of the Rio de la Plata, at the command of | and William Carr Beresford, and John Whitelocke. The invasions were repell ... |
| Charles Aznavour | ... me Expo New York 2002 that the name was originally based on the French name | , a popular French-language singer. (Interestingly, the 2004 edition of th ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... e number two, three and four songs on Billboard's charts for that year were | , "Heartbreak Hotel"; Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line"; and Carl Perkins, "B ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jim Davidson | ... Kingdom Brunel; Prog-rock band Wishbone Ash, supermodel Lily Cole, comedian | , tennis player/TV presenter Sue Barker, and astrologer Russell Grant also ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... 7 along with many other non-combat awards, but it was restored by President | in 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above) |
| Ferdinand of Brunswick | ... of the Invasion of Hanover. It was recaptured by Anglo-German forces led by | the following year |
| Lothar Rendulic | ... forces utilized scorched earth tactics, and though initially German General | ordered only the public buildings in Rovaniemi to be destroyed, on 13 Octo ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from Michigan; and | , the leader of the GOP's conservative wing and the former two-term govern ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport. The Indio (renamed | ) hospital opened in a new location in 1983 on land donated by hospital co ... |
| Romanos I | ... e supporters of Euthymios followed, which did not end until the new Emperor | Lekapenos promulgated the Tomos of Union in 920. In the meantime Alexander ... |
| Robert Graves | ... in 1925, at the end of which year she went to England at the invitation of | and his wife Nancy Nicholson. She would remain in Europe for nearly 14 yea ... |
| Alexander Litvinenko | ... acob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, | , Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall |
| George W. Bush | ... ing, a record only matched decades later by Richard Nixon, and surpassed by | |
| Wilhelm Groener | ... r William II to abdicate. Despite similar advice by Paul von Hindenburg and | of the General Staff, the Emperor considered abdication only as Emperor, n ... |
| Tex Schramm | ... oughout his tenure, Landry worked closely with the Cowboys general manager, | . The two were together during Landry's entire tenure with the team. A thi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Van Morrison | ... have covered his songs, including Sammy Davis, Jr. Irish singer-songwriter | and American singer-songwriters like John Mellencamp an |
| Samuel Vetch | Francis Nicholson and | , with some financial and logistical support from the queen, organized an ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... ea forces of the republican government. A monument was constructed to honor | called the Llano Amarillo, which was inaugurated on the 13th of July 1940 ... |
| John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
| Richard Glücks | ... rtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA). Oswald Pohl commanded the WVHA, while | served as the Inspector of Concentration Camps |
| Gordon Cooper | ... Tereshkova was ten years younger than the youngest Mercury Seven astronaut, | |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... Maximilian urged Emperor William II to abdicate. Despite similar advice by | and Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff, the Emperor considered abdicatio ... |
| 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 ... |
| Martin Niemöller | #Redirect | |
| Napoleon | ... ork appeared ultimately in a published form. Thus, in 1808 he was placed by | upon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fritz von Lossberg | ... sacked the Chief of Staff of the Second Army and replaced him with Colonel | , his operations officer. Lossberg did not readily accept this promotion, ... |
| Oswald Pohl | ... placed under the command of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA). | commanded the WVHA, while Richard Glücks served as the Inspector of Concen ... |
| Luke Skywalker | ... ter ("Red Three"), Jek Porkins ("Red Six"), Wedge Antilles ("Red Two"), and | ("Red Five"). The squadron went on to appear in at the Battle of Hoth and ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between two serious candidates: | , the leader of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from ... |
| William IV's | In 1837, the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended as | heir in the United Kingdom was female (Queen Victoria). According to Salic ... |
| Rudolf Diels | ... mbers were arrested. Göring demanded that the detainees should be shot, but | , head of the Prussian political police, ignored the order. Researchers, i ... |
| King Charles II | ... ry of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to | , purchased the land from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This acquisit ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... hat he had a 66% disapproval rating, a record only matched decades later by | , and surpassed by George W. Bush |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... legislation, such as the Navigation Acts, were enacted by the government of | |
| Ernest Augustus | ... herited by males. As a consequence, Hanover passed to William IV's brother, | , and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... to legend waved the Stars and Stripes in defiance of Confederate commander | and his troops as they marched through downtown Frederick in 1862, stands ... |
| Gerald Ford | Image:Gerald Ford.jpg|President | of Michiga |
| 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 ... |
| Frank J. Fletcher | ... alian-American cruiser force, under the overall command of American Admiral | , to oppose the Japanese offensive |
| Franz Halder | At the Nuremberg Trials, General | testified that Göring admitted responsibility for starting the fire. He sa ... |
| Wedge Antilles | ... pilots, including Biggs Darklighter ("Red Three"), Jek Porkins ("Red Six"), | ("Red Two"), and Luke Skywalker ("Red Five"). The squadron went on to appe ... |
| Randy Shughart | ... usly. The first two were earned by Delta Force snipers Sergeant First Class | and Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, who defended downed Black Hawk helicopter ... |
| Delia Smith | ... er being promoted in the 2010–2011 season. Majority-owned by celebrity chef | and her husband Michael Wynn-Jones, their ground is at Carrow Road. They h ... |
| Francisco Franco | On July 1936, General | took command of the Spanish Army of Africa and rebelled against the Spanis ... |
| 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 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ng by U.S. presidents. It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents | and Bill Clinton |
| Charles Belgrave | ... od of major social reform between 1926 and 1957, under the de facto rule of | , the British advisor to Shaikh Hamad ibn Isa Al-Khalifa (1872-1942). The ... |
| Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | ... Henrietta married Governor Edward Rutledge, and Sarah was the first wife of | |
| Peter C. Lemon | ... . Since 1900, only four have been awarded to Canadians. In the Vietnam War, | was the only Canadian recipient of the Medal of Honor |
| Clement Attlee | ... ister in the world: Chris Watson. In 1945, the British Labour Party, led by | , was elected to office based upon a radical socialist programme. Social D ... |
| Glenda Jackson | ... MP for the Hampstead and Highgate constituency since 1992 has been Labour's | . It is now part of the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, formed at the ... |
| Arlen Specter | ... his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. | of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, was especially p ... |
| John Hancock | ... lsworth. It was incorporated on June 25, 1789. Hancock County was named for | , the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
| James Cook | ... . The island name was first written in English, in 1778 by British explorer | and his crew members. They wrote it as "Owhyhee" or "Owhyee". Explorers Mo ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... ire talent agencies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, | , Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with pe ... |
| Michael Durant | ... rdon, who defended downed Black Hawk helicopter pilot Chief Warrant Officer | and his crew during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. Both men lost their l ... |
| Mario Puzo | ... third pair of siblings to win in this category for No Country for Old Men. | is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted resulting in two sep ... |
| 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 |
| Greg Norman | ... perience at Koele" is located in the mountains of Lānai and was designed by | . Bill Gates was married on the 12th hole tee-box at The Challenge at Mane ... |
| Gary Gordon | ... Delta Force snipers Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart and Master Sergeant | , who defended downed Black Hawk helicopter pilot Chief Warrant Officer Mi ... |
| Michael Longley | ... ng archive from Irish writers including Yeats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, | and other members of the The Belfast Group |
| Grant | ... l War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and | , and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves, the Fou ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... ed for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President | , making Ingham one of Michigan's so-called Cabinet counties |
| Roussel de Bailleul | ... umber from the eastern provinces; 500 Frankish and Norman mercenaries under | ; some Turkic (Uz and Pecheneg) and Bulgarian mercenaries; infantry under ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | ... on was 28,712. Its county seat is Hazard. The county is named for Commodore | , a naval hero in the War of 1812 |
| Celine Dion | ... place in the park, including performances by Van Halen, Sir Paul McCartney, | , Rammstein, Sir Elton John and Metallica |
| John Paul Vann | ... aster than them. Westmoreland repeatedly rebuffed or suppressed attempts by | and Lew Walt to shift to a "pacification" strategy Westmoreland had little ... |
| Colin Chapman | ... e cars were deemed illegal before the following year's race, so Lotus chief | developed the car for use in Formula One and an updated 56B competed in ha ... |
| Sir John Hawkins | ... d the islands on their way back from their exploration of Brazilian waters. | visited the island three times, firstly in 1542 and then again in 1563 wit ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Underhill | ... nterest one way or the other regarding Canadian affairs. Canadian historian | , quoting Canadian playwright Merrill Denison summed it up: "Americans are ... |
| Charles II | After the Restoration, King | and his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ... |
| John F. Kennedy | Robertson was President | 's personal choice to play him in 1963's PT 109 as a young Lieutenant PT b ... |
| 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 |
| Edward Rydz-Śmigły | ... ken (one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal | ) |
| 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 ... |
| King Edward VII | ... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland of | his consort Alexandra of Denmark |
| Vo Nguyen Giap | ... criticized the battlefield prowess of his opponent North Vietnamese General | . "Of course, he [Giap] was a formidable adversary," Westmoreland told cor ... |
| Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart | ... h a match between Newport RFC and Cardiff RFC. The new ground was opened by | . This new development increased the ground capacity to 43,000 and much im ... |
| Steve Nash | ... with Dallas facing elimination, Phoenix beat Dallas in a thriller which saw | with a 39-point game, to go along with 12 assists. Phoenix then made it to ... |
| Lord Dundonald | ... ul) modifications to test a newly-developed rotary steam engine designed by | . At a cost of nearly £80, Rockets cylinders and driving rods were removed ... |
| Ronnie Barker | ... ly used word futtock, rarely encountered outside the radio show (apart from | 's TV series Futtock's End), had a spillover effect on words like fetlock, ... |
| Yoda | ... command during the "unexplained" absence of Skywalker while he trained with | at Dagobah. After the events of The Empire Strikes Back, Skywalker and Ant ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rommel | ... seek Axis help to raise an army to fight the British. Here, he raised with | 's Indian POWs what came to be known as the Free India Legion. Bose made h ... |
| King Edward VII | | granted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... known for its green tiled roof; Erell also designed a house in the city for | . Other buildings include the Nabemba Tower and the Congressional Palace. ... |
| Floyd Bennett | ... ing the ship's cook from drowning. Even after World War I, Richard Byrd and | received the medal for exploration of the North Pole. Thomas J. Ryan recei ... |
| Janet Frame | ... n 1973, which publishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like | and Sarah Dunant |
| Lysimachus | Following his and | ' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in ... |
| Carl Rogers Darnall | ... ed chlorine gas was developed in 1910 by U.S. Army Major (later Brig. Gen.) | (1867–1941), Professor of Chemistry at the Army Medical School. Shortly th ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... security matters. Dean would later testify he was ordered by top Nixon aide | to "" a briefcase full of surveillance equipment and other evidence found ... |
| John Betjeman | ... boys of the school. These include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate | there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and Joh ... |
| 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 ... |
| A. A. Milne | ... managed to find a post as a teacher at Henley House School where he taught | |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | ... of Alabama. It was established in 1819, and is named in honor of Commodore | of Rhode Island and the United States Navy. As of 2010 the population was ... |
| Wedge Antilles | ... place for urgent missions that would arise. Their core was Luke Skywalker, | , Zev Senesca, and Wes Janson |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| The Queen | Her Majesty | visited on |
| Benito Mussolini | Thenceforth, the National Fascist Party of | successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ... |
| Charles Martin | ... or Charles McNary, Washington Senator Clarence Dill, and Oregon Congressman | , among others |
| Marquess of Clydesdale | ... ouston Everest Flight of 1933, which saw a formation of aircraft led by the | fly over the summit in an effort to deploy the British Union Flag at the t ... |
| George Washington | ... zation of the U.S. federal government upon the 1787 Constitution, President | wrote a now venerated letter to the Sultan Sidi Mohamed strengthening the ... |
| Keith Joseph | ... ex. The councils involved were initially unable to decide upon a name, with | suggesting "Uxbridge" in October 1963, later revised to Hillingdon |
| William of Orange | ... s strategic position, Harwich was the target for the invasion of Britain by | on November 11, 1688. However, unfavourable winds forced his fleet to sail ... |
| Bernard Landry | ... and the amalgamation of Quebec's larger cities undertaken by his successor | . Other aspects of his legacy include the creation of a low-cost, universa ... |
| Robert Plant | The band has opened for various rock acts such as Heart, | , Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Dave Matthews Band, the Grateful De ... |
| Tolkien | ... Eddings did not realize it until several years later. Upon seeing a copy of | 's The Lord of the Rings, in a bookshop, he allegedly muttered, "Is this o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the | . The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The idea of a unified spacetime is stated by | in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka (1848) that "Space and duration ar ... |
| 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 ... |
| Luke Skywalker | ... ander Narra, the squadron leader, and the second was the Rogue Flight under | . As the Rogues became more autonomous, they became a group with no standi ... |
| Frank S. Besson, Jr. | ... om the Fort Eustis Military Railroad. It is officially dedicated to General | , who was the first four-star general to lead the transportation command, ... |
| William McGonagle | ... earned during and after World War II have been awarded posthumously. Capt. | is an exception to the enemy action rule, receiving his medal for his acti ... |
| 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 |
| Gerald Ford | In 1982, along with his friend | , he co-founded the annual AEI World Forum |
| 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 |
| Władysław Sikorski | ... ously diminished by the death of its most prominent leader — Prime Minister | — on July 4, 1943 |
| George Washington | According to local tradition, | spent the night in a local home, which still stands to this day. Supposedl ... |
| Steve Nash | During the 2004 off-season, former Dallas Mavericks point guard | signed a free-agent deal with the 29–53 Phoenix Suns to help out their off ... |
| Hank Greenberg | ... n hitting "sluggers": the Yankees' Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx in Philadelphia, | in Detroit and Chicago's Hack Wilson were the most storied. While the Amer ... |
| Gene Autry | ... ms made in Hollywood. Some of the popular singing cowboys from the era were | , the Sons of the Pioneers and Roy Rogers. Country music & western music w ... |
| Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... use the general Liu Yu seized the throne from Emperor Gong of Jin, becoming | (reigned 420–422 AD), starting the Southern and Northern Dynasties period |
| C. Farris Bryant | ... posed by State Representative Rupert Smith and approved by Florida Governor | |
| John Rutter | ... eman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and | , John Venn the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony ... |
| Hugo Chávez | ... Colombia) and the election of a sequence of left wing presidents began with | ' victory on the 1998 presidential election in Venezuela. As a matter of f ... |
| George Bush | ... later, via Maryland's Jerome Segal, the group sent a letter to US President | stating they "we don't mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, when President | provided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that th ... |
| Mr. T | ... d he wanted to achieve with his 2002 contract. During the anniversary show, | handed O'Brien a chain with a large gold "7" on it |
| 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 |
| Luke Skywalker | ... eady any time or place for urgent missions that would arise. Their core was | , Wedge Antilles, Zev Senesca, and Wes Janson |
| 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 ... |
| Warren Lewis | ... y on the money he earned from his writings. Others, including the historian | , attribute his retirement from the theater to qualms of conscience |
| Edgar Mitchell | ... location in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) starring David Bowie. | , Apollo 14 astronaut, identifies Artesia as his "hometown. |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Herbert Marshall | Another radio adaptation starring | was broadcast on December 30, 1948 on Hallmark Playhouse |
| Max Cleland | ... usands of American military personnel. The hearings were chaired by Senator | , former VA administrator and Vietnam War veteran |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... erman Chief of the General Staff, Erich Falkenhayn, was replaced by General | , with General Erich Ludendorff as his deputy, but in effect the operation ... |
| Ronald Reagan | In the United States president | attempted to move the United States back towards a hard anti-communist lin ... |
| Amar'e Stoudemire | Phoenix won Game One 127–102 with a 40-point game by | . Steve Nash was also given his NBA MVP award during that game, a game in ... |
| Dudley Moore | ... is supporting role as a sardonic butler in the 1981 comedy Arthur, starring | and Liza Minnelli, a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Providence (19 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Hart has called herself a fan of Peggy Noonan and | . Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
| Rudolf Hess | ... played hostess to meetings of leading Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, | , Alfred Rosenberg, and Ernst Röhm. Hitler later recalled his early associ ... |
| Ted Williams | The McLain trade was made over the strenuous objections of Senators manager | , who had little patience for McLain's high living. The feeling was mutual ... |
| Princess Elizabeth | ... Navy at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with | , the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI. During Wo ... |
| James Wolfe | ... n built on the site, and monuments commemorate the Battle of Sainte-Foy and | , the latter being an astronomic meridian marker raised in 1790 by the Sur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carol Ann Duffy | In September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureate | who gave a speech to pupils from the school and others from the whole of A ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | The fight for the Republican (GOP) nomination was between General | , who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; ... |
| Ernst Röhm | ... ng Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, and | . Hitler later recalled his early association with Göring |
| 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 ... |
| Charles III of Spain | ... is still colloquially named Ciutat ("city") in Catalan. In the 18th century | removed interdiction of commerce with Spanish colonies in America and the ... |
| Maggi Hambling | ... eashell is a reference to the sacred chank shell Turbinella pyrum of India. | designed a striking 13 ft (4 m) high sculpture of a scallop shell which st ... |
| Jacob Parrott | The first Army Medal of Honor was awarded to Private | during the American Civil War for his role in the Andrews Raid. The only f ... |
| Creighton Abrams | Westmoreland was replaced by General | in June 1968, the decision being announced shortly after the Tet Offensive ... |
| Ronald Reagan | (a) Mike Padden, a Republican faithless elector from Washington, gave | one electoral vote |
| Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland | ... e Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,and | . He is widely credited with reforming an institution notorious for its co ... |
| T. E. Lawrence | ... tral Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, D.G. Hogarth, Leonard Woolley and | excavated at Carchemish. In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... hews Band, the Grateful Dead, Aerosmith and ZZ Top, and performed live with | and Oasis, among others. The band has sold over 30 million albums, and is ... |
| Sting | ... oan Jett & The Blackhearts & R.E.M. in August 1983, (a concert that bassist | described as "like playing the top of Mount Everest"), The Rolling Stones ... |
| Brian Mulroney | Canada's | ran on a similar platform to Reagan, and also favored closer trade ties wi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Caine | ... ame, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and | . Despite substantial changes from the book, James was reportedly pleased ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leslie Phillips | ... tary Horne A' Plenty was broadcast on 14 February 1994. It was presented by | and included new interviews with Betty Marsden and Barry Took, period inte ... |
| 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), ... |
| Peter Greenaway | ... e to satisfy his life's ambition by immortalising his Prospero on screen in | 's extremely offbeat version of The Tempest, a film called Prospero's Book ... |
| Robert Altman | ... ter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in Tanner '88 (also 1988), | 's political satire for HBO. She reprised the role for the 2004 sequel Tan ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... ters of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft—as with | in the 19th century—has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding g ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir John Summerson | ... ce on palatial architecture, published in 1510. The architectural historian | asserts that the palace shows "the essence of Wolsey—the plain English chu ... |
| Amuro Ray | ... deration crew and civilians in the process. Out of desperation, citizen boy | accidentally finds the Federation's new arsenal—the RX-78 Gundam, and neut ... |
| John Leake | ... 02. In August of that year, an English fleet under the command of Commodore | descended on the outlying French communities but made no attempts on Plais ... |
| Howard Hawks | Test Pilot was written by | , Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and Waldemar Young. The scr ... |
| Perdiccas | ... t heir. The empire was put under the authority of a regent in the person of | in 323 BC, and the territories were divided between Alexander's generals, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Helms | ... rth, played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence | in the 1977 adaptation of John Ehrlichman's Watergate novel The Company, a ... |
| Bobby Clarke | ... their career with the Flyers were goaltender Bernie Parent in 1984, forward | in 1987, forward Bill Barber in 1990, and defenseman Mark Howe in 2011. Of ... |
| 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 ... |
| George V | ... Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King | of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological Garden (Jardin Zoologique) of ... |
| José María Morelos | ... 1810 by Miguel Hidalgo, starting the Mexican War of Independence. In 1813, | and the Congress of Anáhuac signed the Solemn Act of the Declaration of In ... |
| 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 ... |
| Khair ad Din | ... ishing its presidios in the Maghrib, the Muslim privateer brothers Aruj and | —the latter known to Europeans as Barbarossa, or Red Beard—were operating ... |
| Huan Xuan | ... otably won the Battle of Fei River in 383 AD. In 404 AD, he helped suppress | 's rebellion, leading to his dominance over the Eastern Jin court. In orde ... |
| Kylie Minogue | ... e Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, Nick Cave, Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva | to the popular local content of John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes or Paul Kelly. ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 adaptation of | 's Watergate novel The Company, and portrayed Henry Ford in the 1987 Ford: ... |
| Eric Sykes | ... d metal eyeglass frames called "John Lennon Glasses." British comedic actor | is known in the United Kingdom for wearing thick, square, horn-rimmed glas ... |
| Ty Cobb | ... In 1936 the Baseball Hall of Fame was instituted and five players elected: | , Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner. The Hall ... |
| George Vancouver | ... g people on every part of the island. So many were killed that when Captain | sailed past the island in 1792, he didn't bother to land because of Lānai' ... |
| General Tomoyuki Yamashita | ... red Baguio City and fought against the Japanese Imperial Army forces led by | which started the Battle for the Liberation of Baguio City during World Wa ... |
| Norman McCabe | ... al animators. Some, including Rod Scribner, Dick Lundy, Virgil Walter Ross, | and John Sparey, welcomed Bakshi and felt that Fritz the Cat would bring d ... |
| John Farnham | ... den, the Seekers, or pop diva Kylie Minogue to the popular local content of | , Jimmy Barnes or Paul Kelly. Indigenous Australian music and Australian j ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... d began to settle around the Mystic River. George Denison, a war veteran of | ’s army, was given his own strip of , just south of Gallup’s land in 1654. ... |
| Clark Gable | Test Pilot is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming and featuring | , Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore. The movie tells the stor ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... h blues and blues-rock scenes of the 1960s and '70s, including among others | in Britain and Johnny Winter in Texas |
| George W. Bush | Relations between Chrétien and | were strained throughout their overlapping times in office. Jean Chrétien ... |
| James Cook | ... bruary 25, 1779, when Captain Charles Clerke sighted the island from aboard | 's HMS Resolution. Clerke had taken command of the ship after Cook was kil ... |
| Syphax | ... astern Numidia with Massinissa and Masaesylis in Western Numidia diriged by | . It is Massinissa who historically won over Syphax and unified Numidia in ... |
| General Tomoyuki Yamashita | Baguio is the site of the formal surrender of | and Vice Admiral Okochi. It is where they gave up the entire Imperial Japa ... |
| David Wilkins | ... for his victory in February 2006, Harper rebuked U.S. ambassador to Canada | for criticizing the Conservatives' plans to assert Canada's sovereignty ov ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 30%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
| E. Howard Hunt | ... ddy was put in charge of the operation. He was assisted by former CIA Agent | and CRP Security Coordinator James McCord. John Mitchell resigned as Attor ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... er taking alternate measures against vision problems: United States Senator | and comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after b ... |
| Christy Mathewson | ... l of Fame was instituted and five players elected: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, | , Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner. The Hall formally opened in 1939 |
| Verity Lambert | ... es from 5 October 1965 until 28 November 1969. It was initially produced by | |
| John McCain | , Republican | received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
| Edward Hatch | ... that it was re-occupied and at that time it was renamed for Indian fighter | , who was then commander of the New Mexico Military District |
| Drew Carey | ... against vision problems: United States Senator Barry Goldwater and comedian | continued to wear non-prescription glasses after being fitted for contacts ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander Fleming | ... tibiotics. Penicillin, a drug produced by P. chrysogenum, was discovered by | in 1929, and found to inhibit the growth of Gram positive bacteria (see be ... |
| Don Cornelius | ... arriers and became very popular. In addition, Soul Train, the brainchild of | , premiered in 1971 as an alternative to American Bandstand, giving a foru ... |
| 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, ... |
| Martin Jarvis | ... ve been recorded by British actors, including Simon Callow, Jonathan Cecil, | , Frederick Davidson, and Alexander Spencer |
| Burgess Meredith | ... n the novella of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars | , Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele ... |
| Tariq ibn Ziyad | ... ims to invade the Iberian Peninsula. Under the leadership of Berber General | , the Muslims used Ceuta as a staging ground for an assault on Visigothic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Brabham | ... rer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver | and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four drivers' and two constructors ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Relations between Brian Mulroney and | were famously close. This relationship resulted in negotiations on a poten ... |
| John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 31%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
| George H. W. Bush | ... r policy goals of Mulroney, that would be finalized under the presidency of | |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and | . At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... e played Ippolit Vorobyaninov alongside Frank Langella (as Ostap Bender) in | ' version of The Twelve Chairs (1970). In 2003, he starred in the black co ... |
| George V | ... he London premiere of Der Schwanendreher when he heard news of the death of | . He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra in tribu ... |
| David Hemp | ... herefore Bermuda were knocked out of the World cup. Also very well known is | , who is a former captain of Glamorgan in English first class cricket. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| King William III | William Prince of Orange (afterwards | ) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, an ... |
| Georges Doriot | ... imarily the domain of wealthy individuals and families. ARDC was founded by | , the "father of venture capitalism" and founder of INSEAD, with capital r ... |
| Earle Birney | ... elling Place (1961) was published after Lowry's death. The scholar and poet | edited Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (1962). He also collaborated with L ... |
| Peter Blake | ... rize winner. He wore a flouncy skirt to collect the prize, announced by Sir | , who said, after being introduced by Sir Nicholas Serota, "Thank you very ... |
| Alp Arslan | ... dan Savaşı) was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks led by | on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turke ... |
| 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 ... |
| A. A. Milne | ... nfluenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced | , Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse |
| James Cook | ... rth-western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga and the Fijian islands. | explored the Pacific islands and the east coast of Australia in the 18th c ... |
| Bernard Barker | ... and arrested inside the DNC's office. The five men were Virgilio González, | , James W. McCord, Jr., Eugenio Martínez, and Frank Sturgis, who were char ... |
| 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 ... |
| John McCain | , Republican | received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
| Noël Coward | ... Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, | , and P. G. Wodehouse |
| Terry Pratchett | In the United Kingdom, a popular modern satirist is Sir | , author of the internationally best-selling Discworld book series. One of ... |
| G. A. Henty | ... readers, pursuing the vogue for sea stories represented by such writers as | , rediscovered Melville's novels, he experienced a modest revival of popul ... |
| Hubert Opperman | ... Never slow to avail of publicity BSA sponsored the great Australian cyclist | and re-branded the top of the range machine the "Opperman" model . A less ... |
| Han Solo | ... st the Empire, in an attempt to capture the bounty hunters who had abducted | |
| William Bligh | In 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty against | led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pi ... |
| John Lort Stokes | ... The English name of Mount Cook was given to the mountain in 1851 by Captain | to honour Captain James Cook who first surveyed and circumnavigated the is ... |
| Clark Gable | ... Neill's four hour experimental Strange Interlude (1932), which also starred | , was critically panned but managed to turn a profit at the box office |
| Oliver Reed | ... praised his time on the show as the highlight of his life, and was proud of | berating him as a publicity whore as they got drunk together in the Ivy. I ... |
| 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 ... |
| General Winfield Scott | ... s welcomed on his visit to the New York State Fair in 1849. Daniel Webster, | , Louis Kossuth, John Brown, Stephen A. Douglas, and other notables were g ... |
| John J. Pershing | ... onded to the Columbus raid by sending 10,000 troops under Brigadier General | to Mexico to pursue Villa. This was known as the Punitive Mexican Expediti ... |
| Mel Brooks | ... ngs, an observatory, and a private marina. Boris Becker, Oprah Winfrey, and | are among the celebrities with homes on the island |
| Marian McPartland | A CD recording of a collaboration with | on her show Piano Jazz was released in 2005. It featured Costello singing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emperor Wen of Sui | ... the military power amassed in the north by Yang Jian, who declared himself | and invaded the south to reunify China |
| George W. Bush | ... linton did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, | strongly carried Franklin County in 2000 and 2004 and like many of the rur ... |
| James Cook | ... given to the mountain in 1851 by Captain John Lort Stokes to honour Captain | who first surveyed and circumnavigated the islands of New Zealand in 1770. ... |
| Clark Gable | Reckless test pilot Jim Lane ( | ) is forced to land on a Kansas farm in his aircraft, the "Drake Bullet" ( ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... ved on the Trilateral Commission after being president, writing papers with | |
| Pliny | ... lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus the Younger. | tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the colour o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Quintus Fabius Maximus | ... lect a dictator itself. As this was unconstitutional, the person appointed, | , was given the title of prodictator (acting dictator) although he held th ... |
| Neil Armstrong | ... st famous recording that allegedly demonstrates this is the speech given by | at the time of the first manned lunar landing on 20 July 1969. If played b ... |
| Brian Aldiss | A contemporary of | and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox E ... |
| Brian Mulroney | Relations between | and Ronald Reagan were famously close. This relationship resulted in negot ... |
| Kobe Bryant | ... t with a core of new players led by Raja Bell (who clotheslined Lakers star | in a first-round series game), Boris Diaw and Tim Thomas to go along with ... |
| Cayetano Valdés | ... n in June 1792 during the Spanish expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and | . Their report read, in part |
| Winfield Scott | ... Wisconsin legislature in that same year. Scott County is named for General | , who was the presiding officer at the signing of the peace treaty ending ... |
| Peter Lacy | On 30 June 1734, a Russian army of 20,000 under | , after proclaiming August III the Saxon at Warsaw, proceeded to besiege S ... |
| Peter Finch | ... riter Barry Humphries collaborating with director Bruce Beresford. In 1976, | was awarded a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the ... |
| Lord Acton | ... ecursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, including Macaulay and | , have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the admiration for su ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Chamberlain | ... t US$450 million in 2010, but no official figure is available. In 1993, the | said estimates of £100 million were "grossly overstated". Jock Colville, w ... |
| Drew Carey | ... Michaels was brought in to develop the new show and comedians Jon Stewart, | , and Paul Provenza auditioned to host. Michaels suggested to O'Brien, an ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Captain Charles Clerke | Lānai was first seen by Europeans on February 25, 1779, when | sighted the island from aboard James Cook's HMS Resolution. Clerke had tak ... |
| Paul Mantz | ... progenitor of the wartime B-17 bomber series. Renowned movie "stunt" pilot | served as the second unit director in charge of the flying sequences |
| Alp Arslan | ... d another brother, Andronikos. When Romanos IV was defeated and captured by | of the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in August 1071, Michael VII ... |
| John McCain | ... ma in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while | received 44% |
| 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 ... |
| Colonel John Allen | ... are and Randolph counties and formed April 1, 1824. The county is named for | , an attorney and Kentucky state senator who was killed in the War of 1812 ... |
| General Wolfe | ... of the 18th century who worked in Britain, based his canvas of the death of | at Quebec on Poussin's example. As a result, the image is one in which eac ... |
| Ammianus Marcellinus | ... s, Sozomen, and Zosimus refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric. | and Philostorgius do not record such conflicts |
| 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 Warner | ... the election of former Governor Mark Warner to replace retiring Republican | . Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democrat Barack Obama ... |
| George Strait | ... festival held the weekend following the Coachella. Performers have included | , Kenny Chesney, the Eagles, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, and Kid Rock. Indio ... |
| John McCain | U.S. Senator | (R-Arizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Gov ... |
| Victor Lahorie | ... was a Catholic Royalist who is believed to have taken as her lover General | , who was executed in 1812 for plotting against Napoléon. Since Hugo's fat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nikephoros Melissenos | ... ros Basilakes in the Balkans (1079) and was charged with containing that of | in Anatolia (1080). The Byzantine Empire also faced foreign invasion, as t ... |
| Andronikos Doukas | ... hing", Alp Arslan is told to have said "Then we are also approaching them". | led the reserve forces in the rear—a foolish mistake, considering the loya ... |
| William Brantley Aycock | ... erved as president of the University of North Carolina system for 30 years. | served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fr ... |
| Steve Nash | ... 2000s, first led by a new "Big Three" of Dirk Nowitzki, Michael Finley and | . With a new owner in Mark Cuban and head coach Don Nelson leading the cre ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... osition. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of | , Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with the Cuban dictator and his a ... |
| John Philip Sousa | The composer | is closely associated with the most popular trend in American popular musi ... |
| Vladimir Putin | Tereshkova was invited to Prime Minister | 's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo for the celebration of her 70th birthday. Wh ... |
| Mangal Pandey | ... ow and pig fat was religiously offensive to both Hindu and Muslim soldiers. | , a 29 year old sepoy, was believed to be responsible for inspiring the In ... |
| William and Mary | ... rother George, who fled to France and became a wine merchant. However, when | came to the throne and the new Act of Settlement required all ministers to ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Nikephoros Bryennios | ... emperor his nickname Parapinakēs, "minus a quarter". In 1078 two generals, | and Nikephoros Botaneiates, simultaneously revolted in the Balkans and Ana ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | On May 20, 1927, at 7:52 a.m., | started his historic flight from nearby Roosevelt Field. Thirty-three hour ... |
| John Ford | John Wayne played screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead two decades later in the | film The Wings of Eagles |
| Mori Ōgai | ... ukiyo-e. Okakura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. | and Natsume Sōseki studied in the West and introduced a more modern view o ... |
| Joseph Warren | Warren County was formed in 1846. It was named for General | , a hero in the American Revolutionary War. The present was opened in 1939 |
| Abba Eban | ... d the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and Yigal Allon, while it was opposed by | and Pinhas Sapir. After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bl ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... s a Greek-Macedonian state that was created out of the eastern conquests of | . At the height of its power, it included central Anatolia, the Levant, Me ... |
| Peter Lacy | ... e siege began in October 1734. On 17 March 1735, Marshal Münnich superseded | , and on 20 May 1735 the long-expected French fleet appeared and disembark ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dietrich Küchemann | ... ritish design was for a thin-winged delta shape (which owed much to work by | , then at the ) for a transatlantic-ranged aircraft for about 100 people, ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... of Czechoslovakia, especially after the reprisals for the assassination of | , most of the Czech resistance groups demanded that the "German problem" b ... |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | ... ting vote from the United States. The American representative, Navy Captain | , justified voting against the measure on the grounds that "the inventiven ... |
| Clark Gable | ... 1936 Robert E. Sherwood play. It was the last of Shearer's three films with | , after A Free Soul (1931) and Strange Interlude (1932). The Women (1939) ... |
| John McCain | ... 04 and like many of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| 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 ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... er Smokey Robinson, to help the group land an audition for Motown executive | , who had already proven himself a capable songwriter. Robinson liked the ... |
| Barry Humphries | ... s His Own (1974). The Barry McKenzie films saw performing-artist and writer | collaborating with director Bruce Beresford. In 1976, Peter Finch was awar ... |
| Cliff Richard | ... ar if he were singing about something other than Jesus." British pop singer | , who recorded three of Norman's songs on his 1977 Small Corners album, in ... |
| Nigel Ward | ... telligence, Prince Andrew remained with Invincible until 1983. In Commander | 's book, Sea Harrier Over the Falklands, Prince Andrew was described as "a ... |
| 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 |
| William C. Lee | ... ommands the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. General | is often referred to as the "Father of the U.S. Airborne. |
| Petula Clark | ... From Hong Kong, "This is My Song", reaching number one in the UK as sung by | . Chaplin also compiled a film The Chaplin Revue from three First National ... |
| 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 |
| Simon Russell Beale | ... birthday. The cast included Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and | |
| Charles Durning | A film, The Golden Boys, starring Bruce Dern, David Carradine, | , Mariel Hemingway, and Rip Torn, also included Edwards as Reverend Perley ... |
| Nikephoros Bryennios | ... catching Arslan before he was ready. Some of the other generals, including | , suggested they wait there and fortify their position. Eventually it was ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rolf Harris | ... ltic folk ballads. Country and folk artists such as Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, | , The Bushwackers, John Williamson, and John Schumann of the band Redgum h ... |
| Mago | ... a fight. Furthermore, a hidden detachment led by Hannibal's younger brother | attacked them from the rear. All in all, the Romans suffered heavy losses ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen | In 1631, army officer | (1604–1679), who was a cousin of stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Or ... |
| Derek Jacobi | ... celebrate his 90th birthday. The cast included Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, | , and Simon Russell Beale |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Unlike his father | , Chiang Ching-kuo built himself a folk reputation that remains generally ... |
| G. M. Trevelyan | According to the historian | , they were two of the best magistrates in eighteenth-century London, and ... |
| Chester Nimitz | Admiral | , the new commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, and his staff discuss ... |
| Slim Dusty | ... uenced by Celtic folk ballads. Country and folk artists such as Tex Morton, | , Rolf Harris, The Bushwackers, John Williamson, and John Schumann of the ... |
| 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 |
| Norman Wisdom | ... o have lived in Epsom at some time include writer Isabella Beeton, comedian | , author and charity-founder David Charles Manners, snooker player Jimmy W ... |
| Alexey Leonov | ... r importance in Russian space history is only surpassed by Yuri Gagarin and | . Since her retirement from politics, she appears infrequently at space-re ... |
| Charles II | ... so referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared. Charles's son, | , who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up th ... |
| Julius Caesar | at:44 text: | murdered. (44 BCE |
| Jimmy Page | ... The final four shows included two in London (the second of which featured a | -led encore) followed by two that saw them return to Amsterdam's poptemple ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kenneth Wolstenholme | ... David Charles Manners, snooker player Jimmy White and football commentator | . Magnum Photographer Martin Parr was born in Epsom. Jimmy Page of Led Zep ... |
| Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk | ... ine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women were nieces of | , who played a major role in the machinations behind their relationships, ... |
| Ollanta Humala | ... n-off to the 2011 presidential election in which he supported the left-wing | rather than his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori |
| Burgess Meredith | ... ant field workers in California during the Great Depression—George Milton ( | ), an intelligent and quick-witted man, and Lennie Small (Lon Chaney, Jr.) ... |
| Carl Foreman | ... forced to face a gang of killers by himself. The screenplay was written by | |
| Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
| Julius Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
| Joseph McCarthy | In return, the Democrats criticized Senator | and other GOP conservatives as "fearmongers" who were recklessly trampling ... |
| Jock Colville | ... Lord Chamberlain said estimates of £100 million were "grossly overstated". | , who was her former private secretary and a director of her bank, Coutts, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yuri Gagarin | ... o, and to some her importance in Russian space history is only surpassed by | and Alexey Leonov. Since her retirement from politics, she appears infrequ ... |
| Hugh Shelton | ... General Maxwell R. Thurman, a former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. | , now retired, was a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a fo ... |
| Antipater | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~ | aid Julius Caesar at Alexandri |
| 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 ... |
| Xiao Daocheng | ... peror Houfei of Liu Song. The political situation was volatile. The general | slowly gained power and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... d by 1981's World War I drama Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring | . These films, now considered classics of Australian cinema explored conte ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... or Kenneth Wolstenholme. Magnum Photographer Martin Parr was born in Epsom. | of Led Zeppelin fame is also a famous son of Epsom and his father owned th ... |
| Bush | ... it favors fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that the Clinton and | administrations publicly recognized through Presidential Task Force Report ... |
| Diana Krall | ... ame. He announced his engagement in May to Canadian jazz singer and pianist | , whom he had seen in concert and then met backstage at the Sydney Opera H ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1976 |
| Tibor Rubin | ... Bush presented the Medal of Honor to Jewish veteran and Holocaust survivor | , whom many believed to have been overlooked because of his religion |
| Carl Foreman | ... with the second Red Scare and the Korean War. Writer, producer, and partner | was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) while ... |
| Mark Antony | ... h of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played | . Most notably, in Carry On Cowboy, he adopted an American accent for his ... |
| Walt Grealis | Record label owner Stan Klees met with RPM founder | to plan a formal awards ceremony for the music industry. Instead of merely ... |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir | in Hayes, United Kingdom, at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-ray ... |
| Craig Armstrong | ... em could dance. The other collaborators on Protection were Marius de Vries, | , a virtuoso Scottish classical pianist and Tricky. Tricky's solo career w ... |
| Lewis Cass | Cass County is named in honor of | , a Michigan senator and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the pres ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... ures, were considered sons of gods such as Zeus, from around 360 BC onwards | may have implied he was a demigod by using the title "Son of Ammon–Zeus". ... |
| Henry Knox | In 1776 | passed through Hillsdale while transporting cannons from Albany, New York ... |
| Sue Johnston | ... e Myles, Mackenzie Crook, Stephane Cornicard, Anton Lesser, Alun Armstrong, | , Emma Pierson and Amanda Redman. The series aired between October and Dec ... |
| Raymond Chandler | ... about such topics for shock value. Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as | , Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, J ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Livingston | ... ncle of Robert Livingston the Younger, grandfather of Philip Livingston and | |
| Robert Ressler | ... as being involved in several of the murders. In the 1980s, he also informed | that "two or three" employees had assisted him in several murders. Ressler ... |
| Pierre Juneau | The Juno Awards are named in honor of | , the first President of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunicati ... |
| Kenneth Horne | ... ributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing — and starred | , with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. The ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... s via satellite when it showed the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing-match between | and Joe Frazier |
| Yamamoto Gonnohyōe | On February 12, 1913 | succeeded Katsura as prime minister. In April 1914, Ōkuma Shigenobu replac ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pedro de Alvarado | ... of power. Governors hung and removed. In this situation, the settlers asked | to end the anarchy. With the arrival of Alvarado in 1536, chaos decreased, ... |
| Pierre Juneau | ... w name for these awards. The name "Juneau" was submitted, which represented | , the first head of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission. Juneau was i ... |
| Michael Aspel | ... tween its inception in 1955 and his death in 1987, when he was succeeded by | (who had also succeeded Andrews as host of Crackerjack 22 years earlier). ... |
| Stanley Biber | ... ional reputation for performing sex reassignment surgery. In the 1960s, Dr. | , a veteran surgeon returning from Korea, decided to move to Trinidad beca ... |
| Brian Cox | ... ed on the island in Washington, many years prior with her husband Richard ( | ). Rachel discovers that, after bringing home an adopted daughter, tragedy ... |
| Ma Zhancang | ... e Chinese Muslim 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) led by General | at the Battle of Kashgar and Battle of Yarkand. All the Afghan volunteers ... |
| Benjamin Harrison Eaton | ... tates. The population was 2,690 at the 2000 census. The town is named after | , a pioneer of irrigation who played a leading role in transforming the ar ... |
| Maurice Denham | ... ch as before, written by and starring Horne and Murdoch, with Sam Costa and | . By now, Horne had been demobilised from the RAF and returned to civilian ... |
| Neil Young | ... hite, Michael Nesmith (Monkees and First National Band), the Grateful Dead, | , Commander Cody, The Allman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Poco, Buf ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kurt Daluege | ... po, uniformed police, were placed under the command of SS Obergruppenführer | . Further, the Gestapo and the Kripo or Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruno Loerzer | ... a result of the damp of trench warfare. While he was recovering, his friend | convinced him to transfer to the Luftstreitkräfte ("air combat force") of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cortés | In 1528, soon after the Spanish conquest, | sent a troupe of ōllamanime (ballplayers) to Spain to perform for Charles ... |
| Julian Huxley | ... , E.M.Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Sir | , Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir C ... |
| Katsura Tarō | ... lic outrage over the military manipulation of the cabinet and the recall of | for a third term led to still more demands for an end to genrō politics. D ... |
| James Lawrence | ... wrence County was formed in 1818 from Orange County. It was named for Capt. | , who uttered the famous words "Don't give up the ship" after being mortal ... |
| Peter Ackroyd | Little Dorrit formed the backdrop to | 's debut novel, The Great Fire of London (1982) |
| Dudley Moore | ... m, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and | , whose stage show Beyond the Fringe was a hit not only in Britain, but al ... |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | ... and of the transverse axial scanning method – this last due to the work of | and South African-born Allan McLeod Cormack – gradually supplanted it as t ... |
| Jimmy Carter | #Redirect | |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Evans | ... ng pairs to attempt to reach the summit. The first pair (Tom Bourdillon and | ) came within 100 m (300 feet) of the summit on 26 May 1953, but turned ba ... |
| Breaker Morant | 1980's | starring Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown dramatised the controversial trial ... |
| James Wolfe Ripley | ... pparently never acted on, as it was probably presented to Brigadier General | , Chief of Ordnance, who was described as being congenitally immune to new ... |
| Ammianus Marcellinus | ... d Zosimus (New History 4, 34, 3-5) affirm this, but a more reliable source, | (Res gestae 27, 5, 10) tells us an entirely different story. According to ... |
| 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 ... |
| William | ... Garter; the same month he proceeded with Buckingham on a mission, first to | at The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Utrecht, endeavouring to force up ... |
| Sousa | ... ctually used in the film, along with the second segment of "King Cotton", a | march, which was not on the albu |
| Jonathan Miller | ... s with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, | , and Dudley Moore, whose stage show Beyond the Fringe was a hit not only ... |
| Zebulon Pike | ... An early reference to the river as the Smoky Hill was by American explorer | during his 1806 expedition to visit the Pawnee. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... premiere was hosted by Truman's daughter Margaret and attended by President | . The play then went on to a six-city tour, during which it was videotaped ... |
| James Carne | ... mprisonment. British radio operator Robert W. Ford and British army Colonel | also claimed that the Chinese subjected them to brainwashing techniques du ... |
| Harry Turtledove | ... fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in | 's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium |
| Earl of Strafford | ... h legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the | and Charles I. However, Parliament and James came to blows when the issue ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... the character Sentinel Prime's features were mostly based on Connery. When | was to voice the role, however, the effects were altered to incorporate Ni ... |
| Michael Longley | ... was born. A second son, Christopher, was born in 1968. That same year, with | , Heaney took part in a reading tour called Room to Rhyme, which led to mu ... |
| Yamagata Aritomo | ... the army minister resigned, bringing down the Rikken Seiyūkai cabinet. Both | and Saionji refused to resume office, and the genrō were unable to find a ... |
| Kevin Keegan | ... of the most famous names in football have also managed the club, including | (who had also served the club as a player) and the late Sir Bobby Robson, ... |
| Joseph Stalin | After the death of | on March 5, 1953, Phil Horowitz commented on how the many titles which the ... |
| Victor Gollancz | ... édoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A.S.Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, | , Dr I.Grunfeld, E.M.Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev. Trevor ... |
| Zebulon Pike | ... me a state. It was formed from Gibson and Perry counties, and was named for | , famous for his Pike Expedition of 1806 - 1807, exploring the southwest p ... |
| Prince Henry | ... ries from all over the world. Among those in attendance were George V's son | , Marshal Franchet d'Esperey of France, and the Prince of Udine representi ... |
| John Hunt | In 1953, a ninth British expedition, led by | , returned to Nepal. Hunt selected two climbing pairs to attempt to reach ... |
| Hernán Cortés | ... urisdiction over the former Governorship of the Indies. He initially backed | 's famous expedition to Mexico, but pulled back his support before the exp ... |
| Elizabeth | ... Queen and Earl Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters, | and Margaret, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and ... |
| Pedro de Alvarado | During the period leading up to the conquest of Honduras by | , many indigenous people along the north coast of Honduras were captured a ... |
| 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 |
| Charles Bronson | ... errence Malick film Badlands as well as the 1974 film Mr. Majestyk starring | were both filmed in and around La Junta |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Hausser | ... n the SS-Verfügungstruppe: two Standarten (regiments) under retired general | armed and trained to Army standards, and held ready at the personal dispos ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... sm of Henry Corbin, Thelema, and even in fiction such as The Theologians by | in Labyrinths. According to Irenaeus, a certain sect known as the "Cainite ... |
| Titus Manlius Torquatus | ... e aware of their intentions and had reinforced the unpopular garrison under | to 20,000 infantry and 1,200 cavalry. These engaged and defeated the Carth ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Xenophon | ... early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by | , the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great |
| 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 ... |
| Travis Bickle | ... ith Jodie Foster's Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro's character, | , makes an assassination attempt on a senator) |
| Prince Harry of Wales | ... ate are: The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, | and The Duke of York |
| Nicolas Roeg | On March 13, 1993, TNT aired a new version of the story directed by | , starring Tim Roth as Marlow and John Malkovich as Kurtz |
| 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 ... |
| John Crace | ... .S. warship force under MacArthur's command, led by Australian Rear Admiral | , made up of the cruisers , , and , along with three destroyers. Once comp ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Berry Gordy | In 1969, Motown Records impresario | , tipped off about a mad musical scientist engaged in mysterious works, vi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alan Shearer | ... ecord in 1996 by paying £15million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker | , one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. A host of other high p ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andronikos Doukas | Accompanying Romanos was | , the co-regent and a direct rival. The army consisted of about profession ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... red Serpent. Similarly, Thom Duncan published an independent novel where an | -type character escapes from a curelom, described as a mammoth. In another ... |
| William Morris | ... Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of | . He was also among the founders of The Science School Journal, a school m ... |
| John Mitchell | ... ligence plan to CRP's Acting Chairman Jeb Stuart Magruder, Attorney General | , and Presidential Counsel John Dean, that involved extensive illegal acti ... |
| Yorck | ... within the Duchy of Warsaw. During Napoleon's invasion of Russia, following | 's Convention of Tauroggen of 1812, von Stein's Treaty of Kalisz was signe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pericles | The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was | ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oli ... |
| Gareth Edwards | Barbarians: Tries: | , Fergus Slattery, John Bevan, J P R Williams; Conversions: Phil Bennett ( ... |
| 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 ... |
| Franz Joseph I | ... elm II, and with the emperors of Austria-Hungary, in particular with Kaiser | |
| Stanley Holloway | ... Alfie Bass he made up the bullion robbery gang headed by Alec Guinness and | . In the same year he also appeared in Lady Godiva Rides Again and The Gal ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nelson A. Miles | ... sued for any cause other than distinguished service. The commission, led by | , identified 911 awards for causes other than distinguished service. This ... |
| Franz Pfeffer von Salomon | ... eitung answered to the office of the Supreme SA Leader (Oberste SA-Führer), | , clearly establishing the SS as a subordinate unit of the Sturmabteilung |
| Hasdrubal | ... aged war against the Carthaginian ally Gala. According to Appian, in 213 BC | left Iberia and fought Syphax, though he may be confused with Hasdrubal Gi ... |
| Jesse L. Reno | ... n the poem of the same name by John Greenleaf Whittier. Union Major General | 's IX Corps followed Jackson's men through the city a few days later on th ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... klin. Crick and Watson felt that they had benefited from collaborating with | . They offered him a co-authorship on the article that first described the ... |
| Charles Aznavour | In 1999, Costello contributed a version of "She", released in 1974 by | and Herbert Kretzmer, for the soundtrack of the film Notting Hill, with Tr ... |
| Ali ibn Abi Talib | ... four Caliphs: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and | are commonly known by Sunnis, mainly, as the Khulafā’ur-Rāshideen ("rightl ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Martin | Compiled by producer | and the (then) three surviving members of the band, 1 includes the 27 Beat ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jackie Robinson | ... him to tolerate the inevitable abuse. Rickey's sights eventually settled on | , a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs. Although likely not the best ... |
| Eamonn Andrews | ... c. (Failed). There were parodies of popular British TV entertainers such as | ("Seamus Android", played by Pertwee), Simon Dee, Wilfred Pickles (both pl ... |
| John Peel | ... g of Four and Bob Last and Tim Inman. It was a Number 1 indie chart hit and | radio show favourite. This led to two Peel radio sessions, which, with the ... |
| Hajime Sugiyama | ... . Those orders were transmitted either by prince Kotohito Kan'in or general | |
| Ben Travers | ... appearances in Flint, The Tea Ladies and Bergerac. Onstage, she appeared in | 's comedy Plunder, as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and S ... |
| 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, ... |
| Saladin | He was planning to star in an $80 million movie about | and the Crusades that would be filmed in Jordan before the producer Mousta ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... akie as "Benzino Napaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator | |
| Joseph Heller | ... thousand syllogisms" in the persuasion of the public to accept a criticism. | 's most famous work, Catch-22, satirizes bureaucracy and the military, and ... |
| Rudolf Diels | ... cal police under the control of Hermann Göring and commanded by his protege | . Early Gestapo activities came into direct conflict with the SS and it wa ... |
| Hasdrubal | ... accept pitched battle before his troops had been united with the army under | , the brother of Hannibal, despite being outnumbered 2 to 1. The result wa ... |
| Benito Mussolini | The Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator | , and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco "harmonizing" and getting along qu ... |
| Terry Pratchett | ... as being spherical, with Narnian king Caspian X being amazed by this fact). | 's Discworld novels (1983 onwards) are set on a flat, disc-shaped world th ... |
| Jimmy Page | In October 1999, the band was joined by Led Zeppelin guitarist | for two pairs of shows in New York and Los Angeles, yielding a live releas ... |
| Bridget Riley | Julian Opie, | |
| Ronald Reagan | ... e explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for President | |
| Herbert Marshall | ... fictionalized World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features Laraine Day, | , George Sanders, Albert Bassermann and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund ... |
| George H. W. Bush | In 1990, President | awarded Atanasoff the United States National Medal of Technology, the high ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... liary cavalry unit. The thermal springs of Wiesbaden are first mentioned in | 's Naturalis Historia. They were famous for their recreation pools for Rom ... |
| Jackie Stewart | ... ident. Ickx finished second in the drivers' championship, with 37 points to | 's 63. Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three f ... |
| Ephialtes | Solon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (508/7 BC), and | (462 BC) all contributed to the development of Athenian democracy. Histori ... |
| Alec Guinness | ... l Mob (1951): with Alfie Bass he made up the bullion robbery gang headed by | and Stanley Holloway. In the same year he also appeared in Lady Godiva Rid ... |
| Alastair Sim | ... eath Do Us Part, Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite | in William Trevor's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances i ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... eved mainstream success with Ross as lead singer. In 1967, Motown president | renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, and replaced Ballard with Cin ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... cts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Spanish dictator | "harmonizing" and getting along quite well. When this cartoon was publishe ... |
| Elizabeth II | On 17 May 2011, | became the first British monarch to visit the Áras on the occasion of her ... |
| Alan Caillou | ... Lord) Ferguson McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge. The voice of English actor | is dubbed for MacMurray's as Lord Douglas. The plot centers around Lord Do ... |
| Tipu Sultan | ... har, and Orissa, following the Battle of Buxar in 1765. After the defeat of | , most of South India came either under the Company's direct rule, or unde ... |
| George Washington | ... some of which date back to the 17th century. During the Revolutionary War, | passed through Farmington on several occasions and referred to the town as ... |
| Slim Dusty | ... the 1930s by such recording artists as Tex Morton, and later popularized by | , best remembered for his 1957 song "A Pub With No Beer". Dusty married si ... |
| James Livingston | ... rea. A tract at the hamlet of Tyre was granted to Revolutionary War Colonel | The first outside settler, Ezekiel Crane, arrived about 1794. Other early ... |
| Charles II of England | The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was | 's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ... |
| James Thomson (B.V.) | ... dron. The image in turn inspired a passage in The City of Dreadful Night by | , and, a few years later, a sonnet by |
| William Tryon | ... County now includes 37 counties of New York State. The county was named for | , colonial governor of New York |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... evsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina Braschi, and | . The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-century French artists Hon ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hiero | ... raecia cities led by Syracuse. A few years later, in 474, Syracuse's tyrant | defeated the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae. Etruria's influence over th ... |
| Joseph Hooker | ... n arrived to inform General George Meade that he would be replacing General | after the latter's disaster at Chancellorsville in May. The Army of the Po ... |
| Creighton Abrams | ... ld." He was a member of a distinguished West Point class that also included | and Benjamin O. Davis Jr.. Westmoreland graduated as first captain - the h ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | ... on-fiction also became a popular topic. Irreverence and satire, typified in | 's Breakfast of Champions, were common literary elements. The horror genre ... |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla | Florence was established by | in 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ... |
| 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 ... |
| Petula Clark | ... several different languages in the late 1960s (most notably the version by | and discovery of an unreleased version in the 1990s recorded in 1967 by Ju ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Olivia Newton-John | ... with more than 7 million record sales. Australian country artists including | and Keith Urban have achieved considerable success in the USA. In recent y ... |
| 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 ... |
| Benjamin Bonneville | Bonneville County was established in 1911, named after | (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and expl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marquis de Lafayette | ... War hero Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, better known as the | |
| Samuel Fuller | ... yle, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, | , and early Jean-Luc Godard. (Indeed the film was completed with much enco ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Hamadryad is referenced as a whole in | 's poem, "Sonnet To Science. |
| Sir Cyril Newall | ... d troops during the Battle of France. He, along with his immediate superior | , then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from Winston Chu ... |
| Bruce Cockburn | A Humanitarian Award was inaugurated in 2006. | was the first artist to be given this honour |
| Vernon Baker | ... medal to seven African American World War II veterans. With the passing of | , all of these recipients have now died |
| William E. Fairbairn | During the World War II era | and Eric A. Sykes were recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) ... |
| Tyson Chandler | ... had Nowitzki, Kidd and Jason Terry plus other pieces such as Shawn Marion, | , J.J. Barea and Caron Butler. They returned to the NBA Finals after winni ... |
| George Washington | ... rmington en route to Westchester County to offer crucial support to General | 's army |
| John Forbes | ... of Denmark also lived at the Palace until the Union of the Crowns in 1603. | , a general in the French and Indian War who liberated Fort Duquesne and e ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kurt Daluege | ... any headquartered around Munich. The "Northern-SS" was under the command of | who had close ties to Hermann Göring and enjoyed his position in Berlin wh ... |
| 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 |
| John McCain | ... n's voters supported Democrat Barack Obama with 8,177 votes over Republican | with 6,839 votes |
| Abdul Rahim Wardak | ... military, acting through the Ministry of Defense that is headed by General | . The National Military Command Center in Kabul serves as the headquarters ... |
| 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 ... |
| Horace Wilson | ... lmuth Wohltat at the Four Year Plan organization, British civil servant Sir | , newspaper proprietor Lord Kemsley, and would be peace-makers like Swedis ... |
| Robert Plant | Led Zeppelin's lead singer | stated that the song "changed his life". He recalled hearing it for the fi ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... s somewhat overshadowed, having occurred just three days after the death of | . In an interview, he jokingly suggested his epitaph read: "Excuse me, I c ... |
| Michael J. Fox | The film Doc Hollywood starring | (based on the book What, Dead Again? by Neil B. Shulman, M.D.), was filmed ... |
| Branch Rickey | ... anager who would be eventually successful in breaking the color barrier was | of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rickey himself had experienced the issue of segre ... |
| Alex Tremulis | Ford styling consultant | (designer of the 1948 Tucker Sedan) mocked the 1958 Oldsmobile by drawing ... |
| William Camden | Pedigrees, elaborated by Cecil himself with the help of | the antiquary, associated him with the Welsh Cecils or Sitsylts of Allt-Yr ... |
| Konstantin Rokossovsky | ... blic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as Bolesław Bierut and | |
| Brian Cox | ... sted by Sir Patrick Moore, along with Dr. Chris Lintott, Jon Culshaw, Prof. | , and the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees who on leaving the panel told Brian ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... in many fables. Later, in western literature, popularized by American poet | 's work "The Raven", the Common Raven becomes a symbol of the main charact ... |
| Eric A. Sykes | During the World War II era William E. Fairbairn and | were recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to teach their ma ... |
| Wilfred Pickles | ... rs such as Eamonn Andrews ("Seamus Android", played by Pertwee), Simon Dee, | (both played by Williams), and "Daphne Whitethigh", presumably based on jo ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... e Tonight Show in 1962 and 1963. Topics covered in her interviews with host | included the empire-waisted dresses that she bought wholesale, to her "cra ... |
| Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov | ... Petersburg, persistently urged his claims. The matter was arranged between | and Count Andrei Osterman; and on 18 May 1727 Peter II, according to the t ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Meade | ... 1863, a messenger from President Abraham Lincoln arrived to inform General | that he would be replacing General Joseph Hooker after the latter's disast ... |
| 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 ... |
| Varro | ... wise have been lost, including Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and | . But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to ... |
| Princess Anne | ... rence House. Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 and | in 1950 |
| Seleucus's | It is generally thought that Chandragupta married | daughter, or a Macedonian princess, a gift from Seleucus to formalize an a ... |
| David Williamson | ... screenplay along with its original author Christopher Koch, and playwright | . Williamson rose to prominence in the early 1970s, and has gone on to wri ... |
| Johnny Carson | Upon | 's retirement from The Tonight Show in 1992, executives at NBC announced t ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rex Applegate | ... nd Canadian special forces. The book Kill or Get Killed, written by Colonel | , was based on the defendu taught by Sykes and Fairbairn. Both Fairbairn's ... |
| Walter Mondale | ... ded not to run. Kennedy campaigned hard for Democratic presidential nominee | and defended vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro from criticism ov ... |
| Takeo Kurita | ... n the Battle off Cape Engaño, the Japanese Central Force under Vice Admiral | had transited San Bernardino Strait and emerged off the coast of Samar, wh ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zachary Taylor | Taylor County was created in 1856. It was named for | , twelfth President of the United States of America, who served from 1849 ... |
| Emlyn Williams | ... of Being Earnest, The Tempest, and Hamlet, one production of which featured | as Claudius, Celia Johnson as Ophelia, and Martita Hunt as Gertrude (the p ... |
| Alan Shearer | ... include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, Nelson Mandela, Bobby Robson, | and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppings funfair, said to be the la ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... alympic Games (LOCOG). This presentation included performances by guitarist | , and recording artist Leona Lewis. Footballer David Beckham was also feat ... |
| Antigonus Monophthalmus | Following his and Lysimachus' victory over | at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, Seleucus took control over east ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... se would also serve as the County Circuit Court. The county was named after | , the first secretary of the treasury |
| George H. W. Bush | ... chael Dukakis, from the start of the campaign. In the fall, Dukakis fell to | , but Kennedy won re-election to the Senate over Republican Joseph D. Malo ... |
| Edward Heath | ... o Dandy in 1986 - was when, in 1974, Else took a leaf out of Prime Minister | 's book and went on a "three day week", forcing Alf to fend for and feed h ... |
| Bruce Forsyth | ... films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona. | described him as "a natural at being natural. |
| Wernher von Braun | ... the United States Navy. The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) under Dr. | had suggested using a modified Redstone rocket (see: Juno I) while the Air ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... he Gaullists and left the majority coalition. The CNIP reproached President | with his euro-scepticism. But Giscard refused to resign and founded the In ... |
| Richard Nixon | In 1972, United States President | announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, Preside ... |
| Henri Guisan | ... orld War II, Germany considered invading, but never attacked. Under General | , the Swiss army prepared for mass mobilization of militia forces against ... |
| 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 ... |
| Timur | ... he territory to his son, Chagatai and the area became the Chagatai Khanate. | took over the area in 1369 and the area became the Timurid Empire |
| Alexander the Great | When | entered Caria in 334 BC, Ada, who was in possession of the fortress of Ali ... |
| James Oglethorpe | ... s founded on December 19, 1795, and is named for Georgia's founder, General | |
| Reinhard Heydrich | Heinrich Himmler, together with his right-hand man, | , consolidated the power of the organization. In 1931, Himmler gave Heydri ... |
| Jefferson Davis | ... . It was named for the only President of the Confederate States of America, | . The 2007 Census Estimate showed a population of 13,291. The county seat ... |
| 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 |
| David Beckham | ... ances by guitarist Jimmy Page, and recording artist Leona Lewis. Footballer | was also featured during London's presentation |
| Alexander | | conquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, ... |
| Alec Guinness | ... el Lamač. The fourth, in 1988, is Little Dorrit, a UK feature film starring | and Derek Jacobi amongst a large cast of over 300 British actors directed ... |
| Alan Alda | ... logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit). | often vamped in a Groucho-esque manner on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee ... |
| Jared C. Monti | ... ents were Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, Army Sergeant First Class | , Army Staff Sergeant Robert James Miller, Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore G ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Dunsany | Furthermore, Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of | with their pantheon of mighty gods existing in dreamlike outer realms, mov ... |
| Percy Scott | ... re deemed somewhat ineffective, so a Royal Navy gunnery expert, Admiral Sir | , was appointed to make improvements, particularly an integrated AA defenc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Horace | ... quently are Virgil, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, | , Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
| Hugh Trenchard | ... o. 16 Squadron. After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General | , the commander of the RFC, over the need to rest pilots exhausted by non- ... |
| Marshal Turenne | ... that time a sovereign principality. Their most illustrious representative, | , was born at Sedan on 11 September 1611. With help from the Holy Roman Em ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bobby Robson | ... norary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, Nelson Mandela, | , Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppings funfair, sa ... |
| Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres | ... ting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait. Its first Lieutenant-Governor was | (1784–1787) and his successor was William Macarmick (1787). From 1799 to 1 ... |
| George Washington | ... after the Declaration of Independence was signed. The town was named after | , who, in his capacity as Commander of the Continental Army during the Ame ... |
| Noël Coward | ... lted, extraordinarily polite dialogues, in scenes that were parodies of Sir | 's style, most particularly that of Dame Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard i ... |
| Derek Jacobi | ... th, in 1988, is Little Dorrit, a UK feature film starring Alec Guinness and | amongst a large cast of over 300 British actors directed by |
| Hernán Cortés | ... tecs were very upset and started to fight and put a siege to the Spaniards. | ordered Moctezuma to ask his people to stop fighting. Moctezuma told him t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Crawford | ... c, having created successful Las Vegas venues for Phantom of the Opera star | and pop star David Cassidy. Grady also played drums in the 60s po group Ye ... |
| John Glenn | ... he 2003 Columbia disaster. Discovery also carried Project Mercury astronaut | , who was 77 at the time, back into space during STS-95 on October 29, 199 ... |
| Anthony T. Kahoʻohanohano | ... in the Korean War, Private First Class Henry Svehla and Private First Class | . Prior to that, the medal was presented to Air Force Chief Master Sergean ... |
| Judith Chalmers | ... d's dirtiest dirty old man (who wanted, above all else, to get his hands on | ). He was also the self-styled king (later dictator) of Peasemoldia, a sma ... |
| Jack Lemmon | In 1957, Robertson married actress Cynthia Stone, the former wife of actor | . They had a daughter, Stephanie, before divorcing in 1959; by this marria ... |
| Sima Yi | ... hey were initially in a relatively stable formation. After a 249 AD coup by | , the Sima family essentially controlled Cao Wei and soon conquered Shu Ha ... |
| John McCain | ... ). In 2008 Valley County was much more competitive than in recent years, as | defeated Barack Obama by only 7% (52-45%) |
| Greg Norman | ... Ballston. Virginia has many professional caliber golf courses including the | course at Lansdowne Resort and Kingsmill Resort, home of the Michelob ULTR ... |
| Peter Gansevoort | ... ille's family was Hudson Valley Dutch. His maternal grandfather was General | , a hero of the Battle of Saratoga; in his gold-laced uniform, the general ... |
| Bill Tilman | British mountaineers George Mallory and | survived the battle, along with the British writers J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Staubach | ... lers were led by Terry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll, and the Cowboys were led by | and Tom Landry |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | After the defeat of | , Kalisz became a provincial capital of Congress Poland and then the capit ... |
| Valuk | ... in southern Carinthia in the early 7th century. Historical sources mention | as the duke of Slavs (Wallux dux Winedorum) |
| Robert Graves | ... Tilman survived the battle, along with the British writers J.R.R. Tolkien, | , David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister Harold Macmill ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Aspel | ... version of the event omitted the incident, bridging the gap with announcer | saying, "Mr Horne was taken ill at this point and has since died. |
| Tom Landry | ... rry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll, and the Cowboys were led by Roger Staubach and | |
| Cursed soldiers | ... nd imprisoned by the Soviet authorities for belonging to the Home Army (see | ), or persecuted because of having fought on the western front |
| General Grievous | ... Kill Bill 1. In the science-fiction/fantasy Star Wars films, MagnaGuard is | 's bodyguard, duties performed on special occasions by the Jedi Knights. I ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... g which both Union and Confederate troops marched through the city. General | led his light infantry division through Frederick on his way to the battle ... |
| John Cale | Much of the album's sound was conceived by | , who stressed the experimental qualities of the band. Cale, who was influ ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... tee" included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by | . Von Braun's Group was referred to as the "Working Group on Vehicular Pro ... |
| Terence Cuneo | Other famous paintings of the station include the huge 1967 work by | |
| 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 ... |
| Astronomer Royal | ... (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first | . He catalogued over 3000 stars |
| Belisarius | ... CE, and taken to their capital, Carthage. The Byzantine army under General | might have removed it in 533 and brought it to Constantinople. According t ... |
| Harold Macmillan | ... n, Robert Graves, David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister | was wounded in the hip, leaving him with a lifelong shuffle to his walk. H ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir William Hamilton | ... no difficulty in giving his Sovereignty to England; and I have lately, with | , got a Note that Malta should never be given to any Power without the con ... |
| James Cook | ... d Discovery, primarily HMS Discovery, one of the ships commanded by Captain | during his third and final major voyage from 1776 to 1779 |
| Henry Morton Stanley | ... ons to Africans. One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was | of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" fame, as he was a principal explorer of "T ... |
| Sylvester Stadler | ... nzer Grenadier Regiment ("Der Führer"). Its staff included Standartenführer | as regimental commander, Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann as commander of th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Karl Wolff | ... lackshirts. According to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS, | , it was also based on the model from the Society of Jesus of absolute obe ... |
| Peter Townsend | ... sister-in-law, Princess Margaret, considered marrying a divorced older man, | . The press accused Philip of being hostile to the match. "I haven't done ... |
| Poe' | ... d not refer to these categories himself, he did once write, "There are my ' | pieces and my 'Dunsany pieces' – but alas – where are any Lovecraft pieces ... |
| Henry H. Bingham | Bingham County was created January 13, 1885, and named after | , a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of William Bunn, Idaho's Terr ... |
| Major John André | ... 758 – February 18, 1818), who was famous for the capture of the British spy | in 1780 during the American Revolution. André was on a mission carrying se ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... C (of grief, according to Cicero; Tusculan Disputations 3.31). According to | the craftsmen continued to work on the tomb after the death of their patro ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... is James Bond days. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wanted "the father of | " (although Connery is only 12 years older than Ford) to be Connery since ... |
| Curtis LeMay | ... ld on disused air force bases, organized with the help of Air Force General | , a renowned enthusiast of sports car racing. LeMay loaned out facilities ... |
| Tom Harmon | ... 1969. DeLorean then married Kelly Harmon, daughter of Heisman Trophy winner | and actress Elyse Knox and also sister of actor Mark Harmon, on 31 May 196 ... |
| Albert Goldsmid | ... was a convert to Judaism, and his paternal grandmother's father was Colonel | , a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade and th ... |
| Arthur Hiller | ... itch Leigh, and Joe Darion. which was made into a film in 1972, directed by | , and a song by Brazilian tropicalia-pioneers Os Mutantes |
| General Vaubois | ... ish navy intercepted a French relief force of Lampedusa Island. Eventually, | , the commander of the French forces, surrendered to the British forces, r ... |
| W. S. Gilbert | ... amples of Victorian satire, however, are to be found in the Savoy Operas of | and Sir Arthur Sullivan. In fact, in The Yeomen of the Guard, a jester is ... |
| Sam Neill | ... d Bangkok Hilton (1989), and in 1989, Kidman starred in Dead Calm alongside | and Billy Zane. The thriller garnered strong reviews and Hollywood roles f ... |
| Jacques Cousteau | ... ng, shipwreck and underwater archaeology books, beginning with the works of | |
| Paul D. Harkins | ... ry Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), assuming direct control from General | . As the head of the MACV he was known for highly publicized, positive ass ... |
| Leon Rom | ... g the people Conrad may have encountered on his journey was a trader called | , who was later named chief of the Stanley Falls Station. In 1895, a Briti ... |
| Gareth Edwards | ... as the venue for what is considered to be "the greatest try ever scored" by | for the Barbarians against the New Zealand All Blacks in what is also call ... |
| Sir Thomas Seymour | ... eens. It was here that she became acquainted with her future fourth husband | . The atmosphere of the court was much different from the rural and paroch ... |
| Alan Turing | ... hers. Most influential among these was the definition of Turing machines by | in 1936, which turned out to be a very robust and flexible notion of compu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... sador for the ScreenSingapore 2011 film festival, joining American director | |
| Belisarius | ... h a rebellion. As a result, the armies of the Byzantine Empire commanded by | were able to land unopposed from Carthage. Gelimer quickly assembled an ar ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... f 50 tanks by the Israeli 143rd Armoured Division, which was led by General | , who had been reinstated as a division commander at the outset of the war ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Phil Lamason | While at Buchenwald, Yeo-Thomas met Squadron leader | , the officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen being held there. At great ri ... |
| William Morris | ... a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is | ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down (bureau ... |
| Bob Hope | ... ny to award the Special Juvenile Award. Playfully dubbed the "Oscarette" by | in 1945, the statuette itself was a miniaturized Oscar, depicting an Art D ... |
| Theodoros Kolokotronis | ... as in open revolt against the Ottomans and by October 1821 the Greeks under | had captured Tripolitsa. The Peloponnesian revolt was quickly followed by ... |
| King Edward VII | ... ctoria died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as | . For most of the rest of that year, George and May were styled TRH The Du ... |
| Jean Lapierre | ... hartrand, and François Gérin, along with two Liberals, Gilles Rocheleau and | . The first Bloquiste candidate to be elected was Gilles Duceppe, then a u ... |
| El Supremo | ... rigate HMS Lydia round the Horn to the Pacific, where he supports a madman, | , in his rebellion against the Spanish. He captures the Natividad, a much ... |
| Henry Rawlinson | ... arose between Sir Douglas Haig and his senior local commander, General Sir | , General Officer Commanding the British Fourth Army. Haig ordered that th ... |
| Martin Esslin | ... er of the Theatre of the Absurd. This is a label originally given to him by | in his book of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary ... |
| King Alfonso XIII | ... tour was almost immediately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding of | to Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, at which the bride and groom narrowly a ... |
| Nathanael Greene | ... y and Craighead counties. The county was named after Revolutionary War hero | . The original county seat was in Benjamin Crowley's home. By 1836, when A ... |
| Benjamin Bonneville | It was explored and mapped by | in the 1830s, and first settled by Euro-Americans in the 1860s. The smalle ... |
| Patrick Macnee | ... ially focused on Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry) and his assistant John Steed ( | ). Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bernard Lewis | The phrase itself was first used by | in an article in the September 1990 issue of The Atlantic Monthly titled " ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... rnment. The rigidity of interpretive possibilities reached its height under | |
| Archidamus | ... d an audacious night-time march on Sparta itself. However, the Spartan king | was alerted to this move by an informant, probably a Cretan runner, and Ep ... |
| Epaminondas | ... At the battle of Leuctra (371 BC) he contributed greatly to the success of | 's new tactics by the rapidity with which he made the Sacred Band close wi ... |
| Wonder Woman | ... feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character | . Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (who live ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jimmy Hill | ... st famous former managers are Jesse Carver, George Raynor, Harry Storer and | . Others include Noel Cantwell, Dave Sexton, John Sillett, Bobby Gould, Ph ... |
| Christopher Tolkien | ... ed them in 1998 to New Line Cinema. The heirs of Tolkien, including his son | , filed suit against New Line Cinema in February 2008 seeking payment of p ... |
| Robert F. Lopez | ... Kunitomo, a Japanese citizen, graduated from the academy. And then in 1879, | was the first Hispanic-American to graduate from the academy |
| Cilla Black | ... d rising new Liverpool band The Beatles. Along with fellow NEMS stablemates | , Billy J. Kramer and the Fourmost, and contemporary Mancunian band The Ho ... |
| Jonathan W. Greenert | The current Chief of Naval Operations is Admiral | |
| John Betjeman | Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by | to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made pop ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | ... s the sequel to the film The Thin Man. The movie presents Powell and Loy as | 's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dy ... |
| J. D. Frazer | Drawn and authored by | , a.k.a. "Illiad", it has been running since November 17, 1997. Frazer is ... |
| Hilary Mantel | ... ical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris. The novelist | portrays More as a religious and masochistic fanatic in her 2009 novel Wol ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Burton | ... supporting her as Jason (1947), The Lady's Not for Burning (1949) that won | his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov (1965). But many believed that ... |
| Robbie Robertson | ... me designer Sandy Powell, production designer Dante Ferretti, and composers | , Howard Shore and Elmer Bernstein. Schoonmaker, Richardson, Powell, and F ... |
| Calvin Plimpton | # | , 1960—197 |
| Jimmy Carter | ... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President | 's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ... |
| Otto Skorzeny | ... r crimes. He was also a surprise defence witness in the war crimes trial of | , particularly on the charge of Skorzeny's improper use of American unifor ... |
| George Washington | ... ildings are located; and Washington Street, which was named after President | . The street-numbering system centers not on the Circle, but rather one bl ... |
| Thomas Keneally | ... ected by Fred Schepisi was an award winning historical drama from a book by | about the tragic story of an Aboriginal Bushranger |
| Li Zongren | ... id promote conditions calling for Chiang's death. However, warlords such as | and Yan Xishan who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die. They ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... l is 1 mile or long and has a diameter of with a roadbed . It was opened by | on 19 October 1967, but commenced operational use only in 1968, on complet ... |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury | ... The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, Commander | , advocate of the creation of the United States Naval Academy, after whom ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... wenty-seven years after his death, a recalcitrant Thebes was obliterated by | . Thus Epaminondas—who had been praised in his time as an idealist and lib ... |
| Robbie Robertson | ... t the group at the Yonge Street club called the Le Coq d'Or Tavern – though | recollects it was the Friar's Tavern, just down the street. Her advice to ... |
| Marcos Pérez Jiménez | Television in Venezuela began in 1952 when the dictator | launched the state channel Televisora Nacional, making Venezuela the ninth ... |
| Emma Peel | ... were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), | (Diana Rigg), and later Tara King (Linda Thorson). Later episodes increasi ... |
| Tom Jones | ... late 1960s and 1970s (although he wrote "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" for | in 1967), and he began to play on the American cabaret circuit. A notable ... |
| John Oxley | ... ge comes the word "budgerigar", inhabited the area before European contact. | passed through the Peel Valley in 1818 and described it as "it would be im ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | The film's story was written by | , based on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel or sho ... |
| James Baker | ... rn personalities visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State | and Pope John Paul II. The former visit came amidst an historical setting ... |
| John Meares | ... named after the natural feature Cape Meares, which in turn was named after | , a British explorer. According to Oregon Geographic Names, Cape Meares br ... |
| Audie Murphy | ... ation of the 1961 NBC western television series, Whispering Smith, starring | and Guy Mitchell |
| Eric Clapton | ... s influence on the young British blues rockers in the 1960s, recording with | and The Yardbirds and appearing on live British television. Stevie Wonder ... |
| Jimmy Fitzmorris | ... opponent in the Democratic primary runoff was Louisiana Lieutenant Governor | , who was supported by most of the municipal political establishment. Runn ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... hairman Herb Siegel, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., and The Tonight Show host | |
| Gordie Howe | ... re Trudeau and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like | , entertainers like Boris Karloff and Ed Sullivan, and writers like Upton ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Morris | ... , prosperous once more, left him indifferent. (Böll seemed to be a pupil of | – he made known that he would have preferred Cologne cathedral unfinished, ... |
| Mundo | ... sed the Nika riots of January, 532, which Belisarius and his fellow general | repressed with a massacre in the Hippodrome. In 533, he accompanied Belisa ... |
| Michael Gambon | ... 07 Munich Kammerspiele staging at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford. | also took the role in 1980 and 1991; their performances critically acclaim ... |
| Alec Guinness | Other films include Cromwell with | , west side of the house, The Avengers with Sean Connery overlooking the m ... |
| David T. Caldwell | Former Second Judicial District Court Judge | (1925–1993), based in Jonesboro, was born in Saline and graduated from Sal ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Attenborough | ... take on World War I, which was released in a cinematic version directed by | in 1969 |
| 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 ... |
| John Churchill | | died at Windsor in 1722, and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Their ... |
| Winfield Scott | ... on had previously voiced concerns regarding his treatment. By order of Gen. | , 30 San Patricios were to be executed at Chapultepec in full view of the ... |
| Olivia Newton-John | ... rted with pop music singers like Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, John Denver, | , Anne Murray, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas, The Bellamy Brothers, and Linda ... |
| Sir Douglas Haig | By 19 December 1915, General | had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British ... |
| Burgess Meredith | ... and the play was a success, running 300 performances. A 1940 revival, with | and Ingrid Bergman was seen by both Hammerstein and Rodgers. Glazer, in in ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... tion of particles, regardless of whether or not free will exists. Physicist | describes such ideas in his 2010 book The Grand Design. According to Hawki ... |
| James Iredell Waddell | ... seizing the US Revenue Cutter Caleb Cushing in Portland, Maine. Lieutenant | , CSN, a former instructor at the US Naval Academy commanded the CSS Shena ... |
| Leslie Groves | ... ker Remington Rand on February 15, 1950. Eckert and Mauchly now reported to | , the retired army general who had managed the Manhattan Project. Remingto ... |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... nd's lush landscape has a strong bearing on its economy and culture. Author | drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setti ... |
| Justice John Paul Stevens | ... Justice Harry Blackmun and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor joined in full, and | joined in part. Justice Blackmun wrote an opinion concurring in the judgme ... |
| Hafez al-Assad | ... ever, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President | (who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid), the Palestinian fighter ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... r four years of Union campaigns in April 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to | , and the Confederacy effectively collapsed |
| Peter Ackroyd | Other biographers, such as | , have offered a more sympathetic picture of More as both a sophisticated ... |
| Dou Xian | ... a, the garrison at Hami was withdrawn. At the Battle of Ikh Bayan in 89 CE, | (d. 92 CE) defeated the Northern Xiongnu chanyu who then retreated into th ... |
| George McGovern | ... nomination. He also declined consideration for the vice-presidential spot. | remained the symbolic standard-bearer for Robert's delegates instead |
| Frederick F. Russell | ... nactivated whole-cell typhoid vaccine that was introduced in 1896. In 1909, | , a U.S. Army physician, developed an American typhoid vaccine and two yea ... |
| Sir John French | By 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced General | as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Haig favou ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... overnment. Richmond fell after four years of Union campaigns in April 1865, | surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, and the Confederacy effectively collapsed |
| George Washington | ... r shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, | , and Thomas Jefferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice c ... |
| John Farnham | The first annual ARIA Music Awards were held in 1987. | and Crowded House were the most successful artists at the event |
| Isaac Rosenberg | ... oets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, | and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literature, producing a sl ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Harwar Parker | ... e, left Federal service in 1861 for the Confederate States Navy. Lieutenant | ,CSN, class of 1848, and instructor at USNA, joined the Virginia State Nav ... |
| Thomas H. Patterson | ... became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral | and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success) |
| Rudolf Hess | ... ehind Reich President (former Admiral) Karl Dönitz and former Deputy Führer | . Göring and the others were interviewed in prison by Captain Gustave Gilb ... |
| Justice Byron White | ... Anthony Kennedy, Justice David Souter, and Justice Clarence Thomas joined. | wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Harry Blackmun ... |
| Donald Sinden | Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir | , an actor who met two of the play's original cast (Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendo ... |
| David Lean | ... n, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, | , Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and François Truffaut |
| 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 ... |
| Lieutenant Peter Puget | ... med it for Great Britain on 4 June 1792, naming it for one of his officers, | |
| Prince Waldeck | ... uxembourg, commanding Louis XIV’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated | ’s Allied force of approximately 38,000 men comprising mainly Dutch, Germa ... |
| Gustave Gilbert | ... er Rudolf Hess. Göring and the others were interviewed in prison by Captain | , a German-speaking American intelligence officer and psychologist. Gilber ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mel Brooks' | The term lent itself to several "in" jokes: in | s film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot poi ... |
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| Carl von Clausewitz | ... ance in the defence of Riga against the French army, where he meets General | of the Prussian Army |
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| Eugène de Beauharnais | ... or the revolutions to come. Among these monarchs were the viceroy of Italy, | , who tried to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of ... |
| Richard Nixon | NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after | proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better ... |
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| James VII | Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass for | for a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ... |
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | ... s are derived from Islamic civilization, but Turkey's elite, beginning with | , who took power as first President of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, imp ... |
| Eileen Barker | According to | 's book An Introduction to New Religious Movements, there is no evidence o ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Joachim Murat | ... ed to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of Italy, and | , who called for Italian patriots' help for the unification of Italy under ... |
| Frank Capra | Scorsese has earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, | , Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, ... |
| Trevor Nunn | The 1986 film Lady Jane by | , starring Helena Bonham Carter, has scenes filmed at Haddon Hall |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Pichegru | He participated in the Flanders Campaign against | in 1794. Leading a flanking column from the north, he fought at the Battle ... |
| Colin Chapman | ... h new rules restricted the air intake dramatically. In 1971 Lotus principal | introduced the Lotus 56B F1 car, powered by a Pratt & Whitney STN 6/76 ga ... |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | ... or previously granted to only two other heads of state: Peter the Great and | . Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philosophers, musicians and ... |
| Lucien Bouchard | ... om the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founder | was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government ... |
| Gordon Strachan | ... Cantwell, Dave Sexton, John Sillett, Bobby Gould, Phil Neal, Ron Atkinson, | , Peter Reid, Gary McAllister, Micky Adams, Iain Dowie and Chris Coleman |
| Marshal Boufflers | ... 4 battalions and 94 squadrons; if necessary he could call upon support from | ’ forces on the Moselle |
| Daniel Patterson | ... focus on his interests in the United States (one of John's sons, Commodore | , became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admir ... |
| Clive Brook | ... rected by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, | , Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Furthman, based ... |
| King William | Once again | entrusted Allied forces in the region to Prince Waldeck (William was himse ... |
| Tony Benn | ... French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minister for Technology, | , announced that he would change the spelling back to Concorde. This creat ... |
| Sherman | But such efforts faced setbacks: Union raids and in particular | 's scorched-earth campaigning destroyed much economic infrastructure |
| Brian Mulroney | ... as a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of | . The BQ seeks to create the conditions necessary for the political secess ... |
| Bernard Cribbins | ... Skiffle Group, the pianist Mrs Mills, Jim Dale, Keith Kelly, Peter Sellers, | , the Temperance Seven, Laurie London and Shane Fenton would sporadically ... |
| 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, ... |
| James Callaghan | ... e of great importance. The censure motion by which the Labour Government of | was ejected had its origin in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), pu ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... h not always accredited as the first practitioner of psychological warfare, | undoubtedly showed himself to be effective in swaying the mindsets of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dominique Vandamme | ... th, he fought at the Battle of Tourcoing on 17-18 May. A French force under | slowed his progress until Joseph Souham defeated the Anglo-Austrian army o ... |
| Hugo Chávez | ... Perhaps the best known television show internationally is however President | ' weekly talkshow Aló Presidente, which began in 1999 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ... ed near Pineville. The first session began on January 2, 1860, with General | of Ohio as LSU president |
| Nelson A. Miles | ... U.S. Army after the Treaty of Paris of 1898 was signed. On July 25, General | landed at Guánica (in southwestern Puerto Rico) with 3,300 soldiers in wha ... |
| George Washington | ... rule that followed. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, when | returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city |
| Alexander the Great | ... rsians, and went under Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by | . Due to the influx of Greek speakers and the sparsity of the remaining Ly ... |
| Joseph Souham | ... 7-18 May. A French force under Dominique Vandamme slowed his progress until | defeated the Anglo-Austrian army on the southern part of the battlefield. ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
| George Washington | ... st of the Mississippi River. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of | , and Thomas Jefferson planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The ... |
| Siegfried Sassoon | Leading war poets included: | , Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jone ... |
| James P. Fleming | ... tem were deployed to help counter the 1972 Easter Invasion. USAF Lieutenant | piloted a UH-1F on a 26 November 1968 mission that earned him the |
| Bardas Skleros | ... rator of the East under Emperor Basil II who in 978 defended Nicaea against | , and one of his two wives, whose names are unknown, and who on his deathb ... |
| George V | On 6 May 1910, Edward VII died. The Prince of Wales ascended the throne as | , and Mary became queen consort. When her husband asked her to drop one of ... |
| Yoda | ... alculator (with reverse Polish notation, which meant that Erwin talked like | for weeks afterward), a Lego Mindstorms construction, a Tamagotchi, a Segw ... |
| Shabeg Singh | ... ters were pro-Khalistan. In 1984, the followers of Bhindranwale, led by and | , had placed ammunitions and militants in the temple. Unsuccessful negotia ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... "Runes") are the letters of a semi-artificial script which was invented by | for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works. The initia ... |
| Avraham Adan | ... of the canal. The 162nd and 252nd Armored Divisions, commanded by Generals | and Kalman Magen respectively, would then cross through the breach to the ... |
| John Tidmarsh | ... irst broadcast in July 1966 and was presented for more than thirty years by | , who was awarded an OBE for his services to broadcasting |
| George Rogers Clark | ... pain due to residence in St. Louis. He is credited with great assistance to | both in financing Clark's exploration and American Revolutionary War effor ... |
| Hirohito | ... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regent | on 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident) |
| Bob Hope | ... enile Award Honoree Judy Garland. Hosting the Annual ceremony that year was | who endearingly dubbed the Juvenile Award the "Oscarette" upon presenting ... |
| Wilfred Owen | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, | , John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar m ... |
| Alexander I of Russia | ... a diplomat as much as an officer. He foils an assassination attempt on Tsar | and is influential in the monarch's decision to resist the French invasion ... |
| Kuldip Singh Brar | ... riety of army units along with paramilitary forces, led by the Sikh General | , surrounded the temple complex on 3 June 1984. The army kept asking the m ... |
| Shawn Mullins | ... osa County is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. | ' 2010 album Light You Up included a song titled "Catoosa County", a semi- ... |
| Sir John Norris | Later that year, he joined | in the Battle of Zutphen. During the siege, he was shot in the thigh and d ... |
| Franklin Buchanan | ... h the founding and establishment of USNA. The first Superintendent, Admiral | , joined the Confederate States Navy as its first and primary admiral. Cap ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers | , Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin |
| 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 ... |
| Privy Wardrobe | ... ctivity at the Tower of London. However, it was during this period that the | was founded. The institution was based at the Tower and responsible for or ... |
| Paul Kagame | ... African Renaissance were President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and President | of Rwanda |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President | from 1979–1981 |
| John Paulding | The County is named after | (October 16, 1758 – February 18, 1818), who was famous for the capture of ... |
| John Peel | ... ). Apart from news, there were music programmes, such as those presented by | , classical music programmes presented by Edward Greenfield, religious pro ... |
| Miguel López de Legazpi | ... June 24, 1571 by three conquistadors: Martín de Goiti, Juan de Salcedo and | . In 1867, the Spanish Government of the Philippines established the munic ... |
| Sir Thomas Seymour | ... ter the death of Parr's second husband, Catherine began a relationship with | , the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the King took a liking t ... |
| Henry Rawlinson | ... eral Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and | , the commander of Fourth Army, have been criticised for incurring very se ... |
| Malcolm Arnold | ... r works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, | , Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin |
| 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 ... |
| Van Morrison | ... & roll. He broke open the door for everyone else. Suddenly, Eric Burdon and | weren't so weird — even Bob Dylan. |
| Alexander the Great | ... ecuted Artayctes, returning the treasure. The tomb was mentioned again when | arrived at Elaeus on his campaign against the Persian Empire. He offered a ... |
| Ban Chao | ... armies. However, Tanshihuai's confederation disintegrated after his death. | (d. 102 CE) enlisted the aid of the Kushan Empire, occupying the area of m ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Scofield | ... et (1964), Anthony Quayle as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (1950), and | as the title role in Richard II (1952). But Gielgud didn't always have the ... |
| George W. Bush | On March 23, 2007, President | signed legislation naming the United States Department of Education headqu ... |
| 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 ... |
| General Kléber | ... any — took up position at the Casa de Campo. In the evening, its commander, | , launched an assault on the Nationalist positions. This lasted for the wh ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator | , Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times |
| Cilla Black | ... 1,600 cover versions had been made, by an eclectic mix of artists including | , Marianne Faithfull, Tose Proeski, The Mamas and the Papas and Barry McGu ... |
| Brian Lumley | ... ng, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, | , Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of thei ... |
| Karl Dönitz | ... g Nazi official tried at Nuremberg, behind Reich President (former Admiral) | and former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. Göring and the others were interview ... |
| Joe Louis | ... ving to Detroit, he began to frequent the Brewster Recreation Center, where | and Eddie Futch trained. Steward began an amateur boxing career there. He ... |
| Tōgō Heihachirō | ... e War, Yamamoto showed strong leadership and was responsible for appointing | as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. He gave voice to Tōgō's repor ... |
| Saitō Makoto | ... administrations of Tanaka Giichi (1927–1929), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1931–1932), | (1932–1934) and Okada Keisuke (1934–1936). Despite his considerable succes ... |
| John Sillett | ... or, Harry Storer and Jimmy Hill. Others include Noel Cantwell, Dave Sexton, | , Bobby Gould, Phil Neal, Ron Atkinson, Gordon Strachan, Peter Reid, Gary ... |
| Gerald Ford | President | 's mother Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford and maternal grandfather Levi Addison ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... the American Revolution. André was on a mission carrying secret papers from | when he was captured |
| 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 ... |
| Rupert Brooke | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, | , Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literatu ... |
| Brian Trubshaw | ... built Concorde flew from Filton to RAF Fairford on 9 April 1969, piloted by | . Both prototypes were presented to the public for the first time on 7–8 J ... |
| Bryn Terfel | ... olitan Opera began a new Ring Cycle in 2010, conducted by James Levine with | as Wotan. Deborah Voigt was Brünnhilde in the April 2011 production of Die ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... n dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator | , and other leaders of his times |
| Adolf Hitler | ... his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator | , Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and ot ... |
| Leslie Howard | ... ll-known of the Pimpernel movies is the 1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel starring | , considered the definitive adaptation |
| 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, ... |
| Arrian | ... § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57 | ;, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, I ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gavin de Beer | ... biology ('evo-devo') played little part in the synthesis, but an account of | 's work by Stephen J. Gould suggests he may be an exception |
| Pericles | ... ded Isocrates. (Other students are named in later traditions; the Suda adds | , Polus, and Alcidamas, Diogenes Laërtius mentions Antisthenes, and accord ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aragorn | ... the voice actors was the well-regarded John Hurt, who performed the role of | . The project's high profile brought heavy trade journal coverage, and fan ... |
| Margaret Court | Tennis players | and Dianne Fromholtz, singer Malcolm McEachern, actors Richard Roxburgh an ... |
| Richard Nixon | Tanaka's foreign policy mirrored that of | , and his most notable achievement was the normalization of Japan's relati ... |
| Edward VII | ... ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future | and George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | ... y of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was created in 1807 by | , following his defeat of Prussia. The Duchy's military forces, led by Józ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Artemio Ricarte | ... ed force of General Emilio Aguinaldo revolutionary government, with General | as its first Captain General, replaced the Katipunan military - List of Fi ... |
| Carl Schurz | Together with | , the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ... |
| Terry Pratchett | In a collaboration with author | (best known for his series of Discworld novels), Gaiman's first novel Good ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen | . The honour had been first proposed in 1931. Knighthood was suggested aga ... |
| Chen Cheng | ... came to Xian again, accompanied by many senior Kuomintang leaders including | to monitor the suppression campaign. In the interim between these two visi ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... tion", or a black box called "E.P. Collection '84 - '90". In 1991, director | offered Astbury the role of Jim Morrison in Stone's film The Doors. He dec ... |
| Pelopidas | ... s's early life would occur. Epaminondas saved the life of his fellow Theban | ; Pelopidas, after receiving seven wounds in front, sank down upon a great ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen Long | ... ts from expeditions in 1806 by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike and in 1819 by Major | described the Great Plains as "unfit for human habitation" and as "The Gre ... |
| Leonard Wood | ... cked for several ballots between Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and General | , few delegates seriously considered Hoover as a compromise choice. Althou ... |
| Herbert Read | ... Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir | , Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist 'Vicky', Professor C. H. W ... |
| Allenby's | ... that a breakthrough was imminent. On 29 September he had outlined plans for | Third Army to rejoin the battle in the north around Gommecourt and for the ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Martin | ... tles tried a variety of instruments, including drums and an organ, and that | later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play his Epiphone Texan steel-s ... |
| Anthony Quayle | ... es that he was famous for playing, notably Richard Burton as Hamlet (1964), | as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (1950), and Paul Scofield as the tit ... |
| Xenophon | ... 's mind or taking him away from the career path his father had set for him. | has Socrates forecast that the boy will grow up vicious if he studies a pu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chester W. Nimitz | ... 973, the library facility complex was completed and named for Fleet Admiral | class of 1905 |
| Yang Hucheng | ... on of the communist forces, raising opposition from both Zhang Xueliang and | . On 4 December 1936, Chiang came to Xian again, accompanied by many senio ... |
| Saigō Tsugumichi | Working under his patron, Navy Minister | from 1893, Yamamoto became the real leader of the navy; initiating numerou ... |
| Stirling Moss | ... technical problems. His rivals included Alberto Ascari, Giuseppe Farina and | |
| Robert Altman | ... mpus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He is tied with | and Alfred Hitchcock for the most Academy Award nominations for best direc ... |
| Basil Apokapes | ... r of humiliating setbacks throughout his career. In 1064, he, together with | , doux of Paradounavon, defended the Balkan frontiers against the invading ... |
| Richard Burton | ... in many of the Shakespearean roles that he was famous for playing, notably | as Hamlet (1964), Anthony Quayle as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (19 ... |
| Neil Armstrong | ... that it was a "great movie in all regards". Fellow test pilot and astronaut | (who was not portrayed in the film) said the movie "was very good filmmaki ... |
| Shania Twain | ... lliams, Jr. (and, to an even greater extent, Hank Williams III); Gary Allan | ;; Brooks & Dunn; Faith Hill; Garth Brooks; Dwight Yoakam; Steve Earle; Do ... |
| Zheng He | ... was referred to as Bīnláng Yù in the navigational drawings used by Admiral | of Ming-dynasty China in his expeditions to the South Seas. Fifteenth-cent ... |
| Isaac Hull | ... resley O'Bannon and his mercenary force over 500 miles. Supported at sea by | , Captain of the USS Argus, in an effective "combined operation", Eaton le ... |
| Karl Dönitz | ... and testament, Hitler stripped Göring of his party membership and appointed | as president of the Reich and leader of the armed forces. Hitler and his l ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Yamamoto Gonnohyōe | ... 1913, Takahashi was appointed as the Minister of Finance by Prime Minister | and then joined the Rikken Seiyūkai political party . He was appointed to ... |
| Lord Dawson of Penn | George V died on 20 January 1936, after his physician, | , gave him an injection of morphine and cocaine which may have hastened hi ... |
| George Martin | ... also had the chance to perform Beatles songs at the Hollywood Bowl with Sir | . He frequently conducts songwriting workshops in California, where he now ... |
| Wonder Woman | Editor Sheldon Mayer replaced the name "Suprema" with " | ", and the character made her debut in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). ... |
| Robert Bolt | The 20th-century agnostic playwright | portrayed Thomas More as the tragic hero of his 1960 play A Man for All Se ... |
| Stalin | ... as later developed into "Liberation Theologies" from suffering people under | ism in Eastern Europe and military dictatorships in South America and Sout ... |
| Yuan Shikai | ... nder of the cruiser , undertook a confidential mission to meet Qing General | in Seoul, Korea (1890). Afterwards, he assumed command of the |
| 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 Leech | ... pensive, hand-coloured etchings and four black and white wood engravings by | accompanied the text |
| George V | ... Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and | ) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founde ... |
| Barbara Frum | ... ath threat over the change of appearance. The books also include journalist | 's remarks about how influential Robins was for 1950s-era female equality ... |
| Chuck Reed | In May 2011 San Jose Mayor | sent a letter to Bud Selig asking the commissioner for a timetable of when ... |
| Arvid Lindman | ... radually to be enacted for all Swedish males by Conservative Prime Minister | , later a rival of Hansson. Influenced generally by Karl Kautsky's reformi ... |
| Henry Knox | ... town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The town was named for General | , the first United States Secretary of War. The population was 747 at the ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... owy River starring Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton dramatised the classic | poem of that name and became one of the all time box-office successes of A ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... changed to Concord by Harold Macmillan in response to a perceived slight by | . In 1967, at the French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minis ... |
| Tim Fischer | ... resentative is Sussan Ley of the Liberal Party. The previous Federal MP was | , who was leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Austra ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... to junior members—an aide rushed in to tell him that his brother, President | , had been shot; his brother Robert soon told him that the President was d ... |
| Kabayama Sukenori | ... e from Elswick to Japan (1885–86). Afterwards, he accompanied Navy Minister | on a trip to the United States and Europe (1887–88) |
| Paul Scofield | ... d Zinnemann, adapted for the screen by the playwright himself, and starring | in an Oscar-winning performance. The film won the Academy Award for Best P ... |
| Baron Frederick William Rudolph Gerald Augustus von Steuben | ... County, Maine, United States. Upon incorporation in 1795 it was named after | , the Inspector General of the U.S. Army during the Revolutionary War. The ... |
| Robbie Robertson | ... 978 documentary The Last Waltz. The Band reformed in 1983 without guitarist | , who had found success with a solo career and as a Hollywood music produc ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... tan. He retained that title until his death on 6 February 1952, after which | became Queen of Pakistan. Pakistan became an Islamic and Parliamentary rep ... |
| Liu Yu | Liu Song founder | was originally a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that no ... |
| Zebulon Pike | ... as secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1806, | led the Pike expedition westward from St Louis, Missouri, of which part of ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... lkloric tradition, and was only later published in print in volumes such as | 's Old Bush Songs, in the 1890s. The distinctive themes and origins of Aus ... |
| George Washington | ... colonies, called the Virginia Regiment, was led by then-Lieutenant colonel | |
| Harold Macmillan | ... oncorde, with the French spelling, but was officially changed to Concord by | in response to a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. In 1967, at the Fr ... |
| Hafez al-Assad | ... other PLO leaders. Although originally aligned with Fatah, Syrian President | feared a loss of influence in Lebanon and switched sides. He sent his army ... |
| Sir John Barbirolli | ... s premiere performance of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements in 1946. | was offered the position of Music Director after his contract with the New ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... ted. This has resulted in various leaders speaking to midshipmen, including | , football coach Dick Vermeil, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia |
| Fred Willard | ... John Michael Higgins, Harry Shearer, Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Begley, Jr. and | . Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecard ... |
| de Gaulle's | ... he escaped back to England, where he initially worked as an interpreter for | Free French forces. However, he was quickly prised away from de Gaulle by ... |
| Henry Jackson | ... own in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The town was named after General | of the Revolutionary War. The population was 506 at the 2000 census |
| Xenophon | Plato's Apology, and likewise that of | , lists Anytus as one of the primary prosecutors in the trial of Socrates. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Wittgenstein | ... of Polotsk by the right wing of the Russian Army, under command of General | . This prevented the French march on the Russian capital, Saint Petersburg ... |
| John Hurt | ... he film a more realistic look. Among the voice actors was the well-regarded | , who performed the role of Aragorn. The project's high profile brought he ... |
| Wonder Woman | ... ebowitz of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed | with Elizabeth (whom Marston believed to be a model of that era's unconven ... |
| Maxwell R. Thurman | The first four star officer at NCSU, General | , a former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. Hugh Shelton, now retired ... |
| George Washington | ... oad). It was from this building that General Nathanael Greene, commander of | 's left wing during the Battle of Trenton, made his headquarters during th ... |
| Tom Mix | ... ce Beery, Thomas Meighan, Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, | , Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, Harold Lloyd, Lester Cuneo, Eugene Pallette, F ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... y 1980, it reached number 27. The cover of the album, based on the cover of | 's self-titled 1956 debut LP, became one of the best known in the history ... |
| Ricimer | ... of the imperial guard, and on the prestige gained through their victories, | and the comes domesticorum Majorian rebelled against Avitus; the Emperor w ... |
| Nicolas Oudinot | ... August. However, in the same days, a part of the French Army led by Marshal | was stopped in the Battle of Polotsk by the right wing of the Russian Army ... |
| 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 |
| Roger Staubach | ... U.S. Naval Academy a National Historic Landmark on 21 August 1961. In 1963, | , class of 1965, was awarded the Heisman Trophy |
| 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, ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... had been occupied in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, the Achaemenid Empire, and | 's Hellenic Macedonian empire (c. 330 BCE), although Jewish religious prac ... |
| Varro | ... ation between Aeneas and Dido. Servius in his commentary (4.682; 5.4) cites | (1st century BC ) for a version in which Dido's sister Anna killed herself ... |
| Charlton Heston | ... ce. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture for that year. In 1988, | starred and directed in a made-for-television film that followed Bolt's or ... |
| Peter Ustinov | ... herry Orchard (1954), The Potting Shed (1958), Five Finger Exercise (1959), | 's comedy Half Way Up a Tree (1967), and Private Lives (1972). Gielgud won ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jacques Parizeau | ... ods, a plan intended to lay out the way to sovereignty created by PQ leader | . Parizeau became Premier of Quebec in the Quebec election of 1994 (the se ... |
| Lord Stanley of Preston | In 1888, the new Governor General of Canada, | , whose sons and daughter had become hockey enthusiasts, attended the Mont ... |
| Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette | ... nch-speaking Acadian named Jean Mouton. In 1884, it was renamed for General | , a French military hero who fought with and significantly aided the Ameri ... |
| Michael Grant | ... from being Carthaginian tradition though still not necessarily historical. | in Roman Myths (1973) claims |
| Alcibiades | ... ibiades, preserve stories of Anytus' tumultuous relationship with the young | , also a lover of Socrates. Alcibiades seems to have treated Anytus with g ... |
| Jill Paton Walsh | ... and which remained as fragments and notes at her death. It was completed by | and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from John Milton's Paradis ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to | , who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC |
| Nathanael Greene | ... Road) and Route 263 (Old York Road). It was from this building that General | , commander of George Washington's left wing during the Battle of Trenton, ... |
| 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 ... |
| J. B. S. Haldane | ... igures in the modern synthesis include R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, | , Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverik ... |
| Robert Mason | ... main helicopter used by the U.S. Cavalry in the Battle of Ia Drang. Author | recounts his career as a UH-1 "Slick" pilot in his memoir, Chickenhawk |
| Alan Cairns | ... ntended to be a source for national values and national unity. As Professor | noted, "The initial federal government premise was on developing a pan-Can ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stirling Moss | ... to race with Mercedes—driving the W196 Monoposto—in in a team that included | . At the end of the second successful season (which was overshadowed by th ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... n was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which | 's three-volume novel would be condensed into a single film. Bakshi arrang ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Lamport | ... rdo O'Higgins, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Juan O'Donojú, Morgan O'Connell, & | |
| Joe Bellino | ... rps Memorial Stadium, funded by donations, was dedicated 26 September 1959. | (class of 1961) was awarded the Heisman Trophy on 22 June 1960. In 1961 th ... |
| Dusty Springfield | ... in pop music history. Costello also appeared in documentaries about singers | , Brian Wilson, Wanda Jackson, Ron Sexsmith and Memphis, Tennessee-based S ... |
| Eileen Collins | ... Jarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart implanted into human beings | ;, first female commander of a Space Shuttle; musician Lou Reed; and Princ ... |
| The Prince of Wales | ... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh, | , The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York |
| Col. Jacob Weiss | ... Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The town was founded in 1792 by | . This particular area was located between Lehighton, Parryville and Longr ... |
| Lord Cambridge | ... her niece, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, the daughter of her brother, | . Her personal belongings were transported from London in seventy pieces o ... |
| the Duke of Marlborough | In July 1708, | , with his ally Prince Eugene of Savoy, won a great victory at the Battle ... |
| Harold Walker | ... n to attack immediately but the division's British commander, Major General | , refused to send his men in without adequate preparation. The attack was ... |
| Stephen Decatur | In 1820, Bainbridge served as second for | in the duel that cost Decatur his life. Many historians believe that Bainb ... |
| Algernon Blackwood | He also cited | as an influence, quoting The Centaur in the head paragraph of The Call of ... |
| The Duke of York | ... urgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and | |
| Gordon Sinclair | ... dian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a movie actress) and columnist | . Columnist Allan Fotheringham joined the panel after Sinclair's death. A ... |
| George Washington | ... torial legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States, | , in 1849. The original boundaries included the entire northwest corner of ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Howe | ... hey were preparing for a September 16, 1777, encounter with British General | . The Continental Army also camped near White Horse Inn on Swedesford Road ... |
| George Washington | ... connection for travelers during the Colonial era. Famous Americans, such as | , James Madison and others have passed through Rock Hall numerous times tr ... |
| General Foch | ... pval Ridge but Haig would not agree to this and Joffre then referred him to | to settle the matter. Foch remembers that Haig was "upset with his losses. ... |
| Sir John Franklin | In 1825, | wrote that "The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" wh ... |
| Petula Clark | ... film A Countess from Hong Kong, hit number 1 on the UK charts when sung by | in the 1960s. In 1973, Chaplin won the Oscar for Best Film Score for his f ... |
| Juan O'Donojú | ... ticles 1st Venezuelan Rifles, Bernardo O'Higgins, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, | , Morgan O'Connell, & William Lamport |
| Patrick Edward Connor | ... that the territory maintained its allegiance during the American Civil War. | , who was the leader of the garrison stationed at Fort Douglas, was openly ... |
| Samuel Masham | ... s to her flattery and charm. She was present at Abigail’s secret wedding to | , groom of the bedchamber to Prince George, in 1707, without Sarah’s knowl ... |
| Stephen Hawking | In 1991, John Preskill and Kip Thorne bet against | that the hypothesis was false. Hawking conceded the bet in 1997, due to th ... |
| Prince Francis | ... y's Cambridge Emeralds from Lady Kilmorey, the mistress of her late brother | . See also , Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. In 1924, the famous ... |
| Bob Rae | Former premier of Ontario | has stated that the Charter "functions as a symbol for all Canadians" in p ... |
| Frank McKenna | ... efugee claimants, and defence, and he appointed seasoned Liberal politician | as Canada's ambassador to Washington |
| Nathaniel P. Banks | The Union forces led by General | who occupied Opelousas found what the historian John D. Winters describes ... |
| Berry Gordy | ... Motown Records. The group garnered the audition and impressed Motown's CEO, | (who arrived at the audition during the group's performance), but declined ... |
| William Jackson Palmer | ... d Rio Grande Railway (D&RG) was incorporated on October 27, 1870 by General | and a board of four directors. It was originally announced that the new ga ... |
| Enomoto Takeaki | ... shimi and other locations; he was also aboard one of the ships that pursued | and the remnants of the Tokugawa fleet to Hokkaidō in 1869 |
| Jean Lapierre | ... an independent, since the Bloc had not been registered as a federal party. | renounced separatism and rejoined the Liberals during the leadership of Pa ... |
| Patrick Stewart | ... from 1930 to 1959. The casting of the role comes with a political subtext. | played the role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1997 staging of the pla ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isaac Hull | ... ed to command the 44-gun frigate USS Constitution, in succession to Captain | . The Constitution was a very fine ship of 1,533 tons, which had already c ... |
| William Wyler | ... n the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by | , with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, M ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... obile Bay on 5 August 1864. On 12 April 1865, 3 days after the surrender of | at Appomattox Courthouse, the city of Mobile surrendered to the Union army ... |
| 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 ... |
| Giovanni Luppis | The first European prototypes of a self-propelled torpedo were created by | , an Austrian naval officer from Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia), a port cit ... |
| James Madison Tuttle | ... however, the soldiers became lawless. On May 6, 1863, rowdies from General | 's division burned most of the mansions which fronted Lake St. Joseph, inc ... |
| Bernardo O'Higgins | c. See articles 1st Venezuelan Rifles, | , Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Juan O'Donojú, Morgan O'Connell, & William Lam ... |
| Doris Lessing | ... ton, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, | , Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis ... |
| Pelopidas | ... lly compared to some of his near contemporaries (e.g. Philip II of Macedon, | ). One principal reason for this is the loss of Plutarch's biography of hi ... |
| Pericles | ... fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader | . The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Ag ... |
| Horace | ... d and became heavily influenced by the achievements of Greek culture, hence | 's famous statement: Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Greece, although ... |
| Robert Graves | Karl Kerenyi (and | ) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from Hesychius' listing o ... |
| Kylie Minogue | ... s still an important pop label with artists such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, and | among others. It is also EMI's oldest active label: its contemporary HMV, ... |
| Gus Grissom | ... s as part of "dramatic license", criticism focused on one: the portrayal of | panicking when his Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft sank following splashdown. Mo ... |
| Thucydides | ... had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world. Ancient historian | also contracted the disease, but he survived to write about the plague. Hi ... |
| Jon Riley | In honor of | , on 12 September the town of Clifden flies the Mexican flag |
| Terauchi Masatake | ... 28 August 1915. He served in this post in the cabinets of Ōkuma Shigenobu, | , Hara Takashi, and Takahashi Korekiyo. Under Hara and Takahashi, Katō was ... |
| Xenophon | ... his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. | , who idolized Sparta and its king, Agesilaus, avoids mentioning Epaminond ... |
| Colin Dexter | ... aying that he "used to drive the Aga Khan". The author of the Morse novels, | , is a fan of cryptic crosswords, and Morse is named after champion setter ... |
| Ruth Rendell | ... and met with mixed reviews from a variety of high-profile critics. Novelist | , writing in the Sunday Times, declared it "...impossible to tell where Do ... |
| William Brown | Widely considered a national hero, | is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina. Creator of the Argentine Na ... |
| Jerry Garcia | ... ould be. He has contributed to two Grateful Dead tribute albums and covered | /Robert Hunter tunes such as "Ship of Fools", "Friend of the Devil", "It M ... |
| 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 |
| Gore Vidal | ... a comment which the network censors decided to cut from the broadcast tape. | once quipped to Claire Bloom, Roth's second wife: "You have already had Po ... |
| Henry Moore | ... ery Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, | , John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tipp ... |
| Tariq ibn Ziyad | In 711, | , under the orders of the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I, led a large army from ... |
| King Alfonso XIII of Spain | ... , he was released through the secret intervention of Mistinguett's admirer, | , the only king of a neutral country who was related to both the British a ... |
| Mikhail Kutuzov | ... ity of Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly and a veteran, Prince | , was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar Alexander I. Finally, the tw ... |
| Stepan Makarov | ... ched from a torpedo boat tender) in an actual battle was by Russian admiral | on January 16, 1878, who used self-propelled Whitehead's torpedoes against ... |
| Pervez Musharraf | ... in the cities of Peshawar, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. General | faced already fierce opposition from his mostly Muslim population for his ... |
| Sir Thomas Seymour | ... d many years abroad on command of King Henry himself, Catherine's old love, | returned to court. Catherine, who still harbored feelings for Seymour, was ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Niven | ... a Musical or Comedy for Il diavolo (1963). Sordi acted alongside Britain’s | in the World War II comedy The Best of Enemies and in 1965 he was in anoth ... |
| Thucydides | ... ed by the historian Xenophon, who evidently saw his work as continuation of | 's History of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon, who idolized Sparta and its ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Margaret Court | Albury is the birthplace of women's tennis grand slam winner | , 2003, 2007 and 2010 WNBA MVP winner Lauren Jackson, NRL Player Adrian Pu ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Julian Huxley | ... etics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology and paleontology. | invented the term, when he produced his book, (1942). Other major figures ... |
| the Duke of Edinburgh | ... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that | (the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances |
| Robert Altman | ... aracters), in depicting the chaotic Douglas household, a full decade before | was credited with innovating such aural realism in feature films such as M ... |
| George Washington | When the American Revolutionary War began, | was selected to head the colonial army. During the war, the capital was mo ... |
| Edward VII | ... s. The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King | , who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscri ... |
| Queen Anne | ... eached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself. | died on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace; the Protestant Whig Privy Coun ... |
| Gordon Scholes | ... ly suffered a series of defeats in the House, which instructed the Speaker, | , to advise Kerr to reinstate Whitlam |
| 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 ... |
| Xenophon | ... iod of Greek history from 411–362 BC is primarily attested by the historian | , who evidently saw his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of th ... |
| Russell Willson | In April 1941 superintendent Rear Admiral | refused to allow the school's lacrosse team to play a visiting team from H ... |
| Alfredo Stroessner | ... th century: Germans, the majority are Mennonites with long-reigned dictator | himself of German ancestry, Japanese with Okinawans, Koreans, ethnic Chine ... |
| Marquis de Lafayette | ... he could save France alone, he refused to act with the Comte de Mirabeau or | . He caused the king's acceptance of the suspensive veto, by which he sacr ... |
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | On 3 March 1924, the Turkish Grand National Assembly, on the initiative of | , dissolved the institution of the Caliphate, transferring its powers to t ... |
| Hunt Downer | ... blican businessman Gordon Dove of Houma. Dove's seat was previously held by | , a former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives |
| Alejandro O'Reilly | Don | , Spanish governor of Louisiana, issued a land ordinance to allow settlers ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sam Neill | ... 80s. Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career (1979) featured Judy Davis and | in early lead roles. 1982's We of the Never Never followed up on the theme ... |
| Harold Macmillan | ... ared in late 1961 to represent the recent victory of British prime minister | 's Conservative Party in parliamentary elections. The American actress, wh ... |
| Agesilaus II | ... s of Epaminondas's life can be found in Plutarch's "Lives" of Pelopidas and | , who were contemporaries. There is also a surviving (and possibly abridge ... |
| Gian Giacomo Trivulzio | ... , in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499: after | had ousted its duke Ludovico Sforza, Cesare accompanied the king in his en ... |
| Anthony Hopkins | ... lude Ralph Richardson (1937), John Gielgud (1961), Laurence Olivier (1964), | (1981) and Orson Welles. Ground-breaking black American actor Paul Robeson ... |
| 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, ... |
| Carol Ann Duffy | ... ntly announced first female, first Scot and first openly bisexual laureate, | . His series on Victorian social reformers, Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Goo ... |
| George Washington | ... ted by straw. Many farmers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents | and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summ ... |
| Elizabeth II | On August 4, 2005, the government announced that Martin had advised Queen | to appoint Michaëlle Jean as governor general. The reception to the appoin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tōgō Heihachirō | During the Russo-Japanese War, Katō served as chief of staff to Admiral | on the battleship , assisting in Japan's victory at the Battle of Tsushima ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | # | (1967 |
| Al Gore | ... Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with | . Abdurrahim El-Keib is the interim prime minister of Libya |
| 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 ... |
| George McClellan | ... rain robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with | and Abraham Lincoln |
| Robert Duvall | THX 1138 ( | ) works in a factory producing androids that function as police officers. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Prince Albert | ... oria", which also featured the tenor Ian Partridge singing songs written by | |
| Oliver Cromwell | Sir Owen's descendants include Charles I of England and | ; King Juan Carlos of Spain and Elizabeth II, the current Queen regnant of ... |
| Richard Burton | ... ap were William Charles Macready and Samuel Phelps at Drury Lane (1837) and | and John Neville at the Old Vic Theatre (1955). When Edwin Booth's tour of ... |
| Horace | ... directly to the Crown, and backed his application with a dedication of his | to the lord treasurer (Harley) |
| Robert Graves | ... ephone, for whom Leuce seems to be a doublet, as a goddess of regeneration. | used the myth of Leuce in developing his poetic theories of mythology. Gra ... |
| Michael J. Fox | ... n taken must choose a new name. Notable examples include Michael Keaton and | , whose birth names "Michael Douglas" and "Michael Fox", respectively, wer ... |
| Joe Cocker | ... ieved the number one position on the British singles charts three times: by | in 1968, Wet Wet Wet in 1988 and by Sam & Mark in 2004 |
| 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 ... |
| John Thaw | ... vision adaptation of the same name, in which the character was portrayed by | . Morse is a senior CID (Criminal Investigation Department) officer with t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Markos Moulitsas | The Hill published an op-ed piece by | of the liberal blog Daily Kos titled "Dems: Ignore 'Concern Trolls. The co ... |
| Emile Francqui | ... the leader of the Belgian Comite National de Secours et Alimentation (CN), | , to feed the entire nation for the duration of the war. The CRB obtained ... |
| Frederick Maurice | ... battle. In compiling his biography of General Rawlinson, Major-General Sir | was supplied by the Reichsarchiv with a figure of 164,055 for the German k ... |
| Clark Gable | ... e her flapper girl persona of the silent era. In 1931, she starred opposite | in Possessed. They began an affair during the production, resulting in an ... |
| Jacques Parizeau | ... uebec for sovereignty, according to the Three Periods strategy of PQ leader | . In this election, the Bloc Québécois won 54 out of 75 ridings in Quebec, ... |
| Grace Hopper | ... e Mark I were computing pioneers Richard Milton Bloch, Robert Campbell, and | |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Bourassa | ... me Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, | , and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The biggest influence was | . Lovecraft had many similarities with Poe; they both lost their fathers a ... |
| Karl Mack von Leiberich | ... trians began the war by invading Bavaria with an army of about 70,000 under | , and the French army marched out from Boulogne in late July 1805 to confr ... |
| Vladimir Putin | ... ontrast, publicly welcomed Lukashenko's re-election. Then Russian President | phoned Lukashenko and offered a message of congratulations and cooperation ... |
| Pliny | ... (rather than topazios) wasn't really known about before the classical era. | says that Topazos is a legendary island in the Red Sea and the mineral "to ... |
| Themistocles | ... eavily outnumbered, the Greek Allies were persuaded by the Athenian general | to bring the Persian fleet to battle again, in the hope that a victory wou ... |
| George S. Patton | ... Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the 3rd US Army commanded by General | |
| Henry Williamson | ... three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, Edgell Rickword and | |
| Shania Twain | ... the contestants on the final show was then emerging country music superstar | |
| George Washington | ... of the numerous trees and undergrowth. During the American Revolution, Gen. | and many of his troops camped at Malin Hall here. They were preparing for ... |
| E. Martin Browne | ... shop of Chichester, had been instrumental in connecting Eliot with producer | for the production of The Rock, and later asked Eliot to write another pla ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... ed into a raven and serves as her magical familiar — this is a reference to | 's poem "The Raven". Poe replaces Ratface from the comics. A similar refer ... |
| President Soeharto | His state visit to Indonesia as invited by | to discuss Indo-Japanese trade relations was protested by a number of loca ... |
| Cilla Black | ... am Faith. In 1962 Martin signed rising new Liverpool band The Beatles. With | , Billy J. Kramer, the Fourmost, and contemporary Mancunian band The Holli ... |
| Joe Cocker | | 's version was a radical re-arrangement of the original, in a slower, 6/8 ... |
| Edgell Rickword | ... omment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, | and Henry Williamson |
| Oliver Ingham | ... a man called Inga" or "home of the Inguiones" (an ancient Germanic tribe). | lived here and his son-in-law Miles Stapleton of Bedale, Yorkshire, inheri ... |
| Alan Shepard | ... rthplace of Louise Brewer Shepard, the wife of the first American in space, | . The population was 7,565 at the 2010 census |
| Donald K. Ross | | , World War II Medal of Honor recipient was born in Beverly |
| 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 ... |
| Colin Dexter | ... nal character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author | , as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same na ... |
| Terry Wogan | ... rision of the song, including the usual sardonic words from BBC commentator | ("a nicely understated performance there") |
| Moshe Gidron | ... isoner. Two Israeli soldiers were also killed, including the son of General | . Meanwhile, Magen's division moved west and then south, covering Adan's f ... |
| Hugo Black | ... Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice | , and Justice William O. Douglas |
| 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 ... |
| Prince William of Orange | ... spread. In 1688, a group of politicians known as the Immortal Seven invited | , husband of James's Protestant daughter Mary, to invade England and remov ... |
| Queen Anne | ... ttlefield victories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from | . Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone amon ... |
| James Edmonds | ... while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses. British historian Sir | stated, "It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final vic ... |
| James II | The early reign of | was relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sargent Shriver | ... nod, again without success. McGovern instead chose Kennedy's brother-in-law | |
| Bruce Welch | ... or David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, | , Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Pet ... |
| F. G. Donnan | ... College, London, under Professors Sir William Ramsay, W. C. McC. Lewis, and | , taking his B.Sc. degree in 1913. He was particularly interested in worki ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... further foreign relations with the United States, during a 1988 summit with | |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... annel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played | in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with R ... |
| Robert Duvall | ... filmed for later use in a tongue-in-cheek promotional featurette entitled . | had his head shaved while watching a baseball game, while his co-star, Mag ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... roduction (featuring drums by Procol Harum's B.J. Wilson, guitar lines from | , and organ by Tommy Eyre). Cocker performed the song at Woodstock in 1969 ... |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ... g as the men marched southward headed indirectly to Vicksburg. When General | 's XV Corps joined Grant's forces, however, the soldiers became lawless. O ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... depicted barefoot, and the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet and | conquered half of the ancient world with barefoot armies |
| Rodolfo Graziani | The Italian General | 's 11th Italian army continued to advance, supported on the right by the 9 ... |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... Burt Lancaster. Her final film was I Could Go On Singing (1963), costarring | |
| Michael H. Miller | ... o the Chief of Naval Operations. The current Superintendent is Vice Admiral | |
| Wang Mang | ... held the title of regent. Following the death of Ai, Wang Zhengjun's nephew | (45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for Emperor Ping (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). Wh ... |
| Chiang Kai-shek | The son of President | and his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Zhejia ... |
| 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 ... |
| Duke of Wellington | ... n. Sparrows became a nuisance; Queen Victoria mentioned this problem to the | , who offered the famous solution, "Sparrowhawks, Ma'am" |
| Grace Hopper | ... s in high demand during the war and the funds ($50,000 or more according to | ) could have been used to build additional computer equipment |
| George V | ... wfoundland Regiment was given the name "The Royal Newfoundland Regiment" by | on 28 November 1917. Because of the slaughter, the first day of the Battle ... |
| Peter Ustinov | ... ins of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and | but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon a ... |
| John Eager Howard | To honor | , an officer in the American Revolutionary War and later the fifth Governo ... |
| Edmund Blunden | ... also included comment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: | , Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson |
| Bernard Landry | ... uchard retired from politics in 2001, and was replaced as Quebec premier by | . He stated that his relative failure to revive the sovereignist flame was ... |
| Wilfred Owen | ... ner. The inscription on the stone was written by friend and fellow War poet | . It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the ... |
| Diana Krall | Costello became engaged to singer | in May 2003, and married her at the home of Elton John on 6 December that ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ft of an address to the nation that was to have been delivered by President | on July 5, 1979 |
| Albert I | ... m, such as hosting foreign dignitaries. Among these was the King of Belgium | , the first European monarch to visit the United States. Edward, Prince of ... |
| Elton John | ... e engaged to singer Diana Krall in May 2003, and married her at the home of | on 6 December that year. Krall gave birth to twin sons, Dexter Henry Lorca ... |
| Bronislav Kaminski | ... e SS RONA (1st Russian) were dropped after the execution of their commander | ; instead the Waffen Grenadier Brigade of SS (Italian no. 1) became the 29 ... |
| Desmond Tutu | ... statues of South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, | , F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled wi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | On June 3, 1929, Crawford married | at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in New York City, although neithe ... |
| Hugh Laurie | ... ed as being a very capable pianist and singer, making use of actor/musician | 's musical talents. He often plays and sings show tunes and popular songs ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... in his undescribed cause. (Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by | . |
| 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 ... |
| Huo Guang | ... d court politics in Emperor Wu's reign and during the subsequent regency of | (d. 68 BCE). The Modernists argued for an aggressive and expansionary fore ... |
| George Vancouver | In 1792 | gave the name "Puget's Sound" to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, i ... |
| William Morris | ... rspersed with songs—may be following the model of The Icelandic Journals by | , an important literary influence on Tolkien |
| Deborah Kerr | ... wners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads | , Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Austra ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Erskine | ... nd four Portuguese (Arentschildt (2), Da Cunha, Rozierres) 6-gun batteries. | (5th Division), Alexander Campbell (6th Division) and 300 Portuguese caval ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... ngo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare), David Storey (Home), and | (No Man's Land), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph R ... |
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | ... e a visit to Cairo and several visits to Ankara where (at the invitation of | ) he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education and the early ef ... |
| Alp Arslan | ... aud, took possession of Merv and Herat. Toghrul was succeeded by his nephew | (the Great Lion), who was buried at Merv. It was about this time that Merv ... |
| Willie Mays | ... g his 660th career home run on April 12, 2004, tying him with his godfather | for third place on the all-time career home run list. He hit his 661st hom ... |
| Suharto | ... se as guerrillas. In September 1974, Whitlam met with Indonesian President, | , in Indonesia and indicated that he would support Indonesia if it annexed ... |
| Christopher Cradock | ... Monmouth class cruisers) which had previously been sent to Rear-Admiral Sir | 's North America and West Indies command to help protect British interests ... |
| Creighton Abrams | It entered U.S. Army service in 1967. Under the urging of General | , the US Commander of Military Forces in Vietnam at the time, the M551 was ... |
| Leonard Cohen | On 26 February 2012, Costello paid tribute to music legends Chuck Berry and | who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting exc ... |
| James H. Ledlie | ... s draw lots. The division chosen by chance was that commanded by Brig. Gen. | , who failed to brief the men on what was expected of them and was reporte ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... e Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as | in the British film A Question of Attribution |
| Francisco Franco | During the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and especially of | (1939–1975), all regional cultures were suppressed. All of the languages s ... |
| James Edmonds | ... s, and who put German losses at 530,000. The British official historian Sir | had unofficially advised Churchill but queried his figures, claiming that ... |
| Peter Puget | ... name "Puget's Sound" to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, in honor of | , a lieutenant accompanying him on the Vancouver Expedition. The name late ... |
| Captain James Cook | ... er (Quakers have a tradition of "virtue names") and his father was a fan of | . Morse's father was, by trade, a taxi driver and Morse likes to explain t ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... he 2010 census, the city population was 268. The city was named in honor of | , first Secretary of the Treasury |
| Frank Gehry | ... on on solid financial footing." She is widely credited (along with Salonen, | , and Yasuhisa Toyota) for the orchestra's very successful move to Walt Di ... |
| Aegidius | From 457 to 486, under | and his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soisso ... |
| Nicholas II of Russia | ... d Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the daughter of the murdered Tsar | . However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, M ... |
| Alexander I of Russia | ... Austro-Russian army under the command of Mikhail Kutuzov, with the Emperor | personally present. On 2 December, Napoleon crushed the joint Austro-Russi ... |
| Lando Calrissian | ... ies, although he is attributed as the A-wing pilot that acts as a decoy for | during the attack run on the second Death Star. Celchu, however, plays a m ... |
| Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria | ... ience and effectiveness of the German army. The German Army Group Commander | stated: "What remained of the old first-class peace-trained German infantr ... |
| 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). ... |
| Syagrius | From 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son | , Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell t ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... ewellton is the Winter Quarters Plantation restoration, where Union General | and his men spent the winter of 1862-1863, prior to launching the assault ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... s. This process has produced such varied stars as Benny Goodman, Eminem and | , as well as popular styles like blue-eyed soul and rockabilly |
| David Tomlinson | ... live-action movie Wombling Free was released in 1977, starring The Wombles, | , Frances de la Tour and introducing Bonnie Langford. A soundtrack album w ... |
| King Edward VII | ... ormed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of | , began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles ... |
| Baden-Powell | ... form is a specific characteristic of the Scouting movement, in the words of | at the 1937 World Jamboree, "it covers the differences of country and race ... |
| Charlotte Rampling | ... s born in 1975 (or 1976) and became a fashion model. He met his second wife | at a dinner party in St Tropez in 1976. Both were in failing marriages, bu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Francis Light | ... f the Malay Sultanate of Kedah, began when the island was leased to Captain | , an English trader-adventurer working for the Madras-based firm, Jourdain ... |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | ... II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of | and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France, Franz Joseph I (Franci ... |
| David Scott | ... . Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. While there, astronauts Jim Lovell and | , commander of Apollo 15, did actual training exercises with the actors in ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... corps at Knoxville contributed to Gen. Braxton Bragg's defeat by Maj. Gen. | at Chattanooga. Troops under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman marched to Burns ... |
| Eliot Asinof | The book Eight Men Out by | and the movie based on the book does record that Cicotte, despite being gr ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), | (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). ... |
| Jacques Chirac | French Presidents from Georges Pompidou to | have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible Citroën SM présid ... |
| Napoleon's | ... me in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by | . It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes ... |
| Alexander the Great | | , on his march from Pelusium to Memphis, halted at this city (Arrian, iii. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alcibiades | ... dialogues, some of them being vehement attacks on his contemporaries, as on | in the second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fred Hilmer | According to The Guardian newspaper, former Fairfax chief executive | wrote in his memoirs that "he struggled to cope with a left-leaning editor ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Koestler | ... f extrasensory perception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as | , Brian Inglis and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
| Jean Grey | ... period included the resurrections of Colossus and Psylocke, a new death for | , who later returned temporarily in the miniseries, as well as Emma Frost ... |
| Edward, Prince of Wales | ... of Belgium Albert I, the first European monarch to visit the United States. | , the future monarch of the United Kingdom, spent two days with Marshall a ... |
| Alan Shepard | ... onauts, including John Glenn (Ed Harris) of the United States Marine Corps, | (Scott Glenn) of the United States Navy, Cooper, Grissom, and three others ... |
| Kylie Minogue | ... on, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger; the "pop princess" | , Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the Joh ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... is"–the latter being Scheff's tribute to his father, who had performed with | ). In 2005, they released a compilation entitled Love Songs |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | Although | had been named Foreign Minister in February 1938, Göring continued to invo ... |
| Michael G. Vickers | ... ing". Their increasingly successful Afghanistan strategy, formed largely by | , was based on a broad mix of weapons, tactics, and logistics, not a 'silv ... |
| James Earl Jones | ... on video in 1981 with Ron Moody as Iago. The 1982 Broadway staging starred | as Othello and Christopher Plummer as Iago, who became the only actor to r ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... " appears in the Eastern versions of the Alexander romance, which describes | and his servant crossing the Land of Darkness to find the restorative spri ... |
| Ricimer | ... , as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals Majorian and | ) and the Vandals of Gaiseric |
| Ronald Reagan | In 1988, U.S. President | signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which had been sponsored by Repres ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... West Virginia, which chose to remain loyal to the Union. Virginian general | took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eric Robert Rudolph | ... wounded 111 others, and caused the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack. | was charged with and confessed to this bombing as well as several others. ... |
| Mark Antony | ... ian Empire. This short independence was rapidly crushed by the Romans under | and Octavian. The installation of Herod the Great (an Idumean) as king in ... |
| Thucydides | ... ns, despite following in his footsteps, criticised Herodotus, starting with | . Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left ... |
| Sir Patrick Moore | ... fle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole, | as himself, and Christian Slater as Wonko the Sane. Finally, Adams himself ... |
| Colin Chapman | ... owned by Caterham Cars who bought the rights to the car from Lotus founder | in 1973. Replica kit cars enable enthusiasts to possess a vehicle of a typ ... |
| 'Peerless' Jim Driscoll | Cardiff has a long association with boxing, from | —born in Cardiff in 1880—to more recent, high profile fights staged in the ... |
| Mikhail Kutuzov | ... is supply lines, he faced a larger Austro-Russian army under the command of | , with the Emperor Alexander I of Russia personally present. On 2 December ... |
| David Wilkins | ... stening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejected the US Ambassador | ' rebuke and stated that he was standing up for Canada's interests over so ... |
| André Masséna | ... Wellington checked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal | to relieve the besieged city of Almeida |
| Quintus Fabius Pictor | ... , whose work was acknowledged as a reliable source by the patrician senator | . Fabius wrote his own history of Rome around the time of Rome's war with ... |
| Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly | ... fter a siege of two months, the armies of the Catholic League, commanded by | , captured Heidelberg. He gave the famous Bibliotheca Palatina from the Ch ... |
| Buzz Hargrove | ... er the latter was called a separatist by Canadian Auto Workers union leader | . In another tactic similar to the 2004 campaign, Hargrove urged all progr ... |
| David Tomlinson | ... e original theatrical trailer, and archive interviews with Bonnie Langford, | and writer/director Lionel Jeffries |
| Tom Harmon | ... y folk musicians, "one man bands" and singer/songwriters such as Bob Dylan, | , Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singers Jimmy Reed ... |
| John Schlesinger | ... de his final Shakespearean appearance on stage in 1977 in the title role of | 's production of Julius Caesar at the Royal National Theatre. He also made ... |
| André Masséna | ... ated (another army under Archduke Charles manoeuvred inconclusively against | 's French army in Italy), Napoleon occupied Vienna. Far from his supply li ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... ephus, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21 | ;, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also ... |
| Ty Cobb | ... ive, Cicotte played baseball in Georgia in 1905, where he was a teammate of | . Both players were purchased by the Tigers, and Cicotte made his big-leag ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Gladden Fields (Sindarin Loeg Ningloron) is a location in | 's Middle-earth. In his works, the Gladden Fields are located where the Gl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Angela Lansbury | ... er of the Seventeenth Doll (1959), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and | ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South ... |
| Zheng He | ... ared in the "The Nautical Charts of Zheng He" written on the expeditions of | (Cheng Ho) in Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Yongle Emperor. In 15 c ... |
| Richard Briers | ... eer break came with the early 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines starring opposite | . In addition to Fawlty Towers, she has had roles in BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, ... |
| Neil Young | ... ians, "one man bands" and singer/songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Tom Harmon, | , Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singers Jimmy Reed and John Ha ... |
| Neil Young | ... as well as covers of songs by Memphis Minnie, Sleepy John Estes, Bob Dylan, | , and others |
| Quebec lieutenant | ... ador to France. In 1988, Bouchard returned to Canada to serve as Mulroney's | , and was elected as a Progressive Conservative from a Saguenay-area ridin ... |
| Stephen Decatur | Lieutenant | commanding the USS Intrepid executed a night raid into Tripoli harbor on F ... |
| Alcibiades | ... rstand that he attracted the attention of the most admired men, Critias and | who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were already old. Agathon ... |
| Luke Skywalker | ... iefly appeared in . Biggs was in the Battle of Yavin scene, where he joined | and Luke's other wingman, Wedge Antilles, in their attack run on the first ... |
| Thucydides | ... tention of the most admired men, Critias and Alcibiades who were young, and | and Pericles who were already old. Agathon too, the tragic poet, whom Come ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... of the internment. The movement's first success was in 1976, when President | proclaimed that the internment was "wrong," and a "national mistake" which ... |
| Clint Eastwood | ... of Osceola. The ill will of these actions was to be the basis for the 1976 | film The Outlaw Josey Wales |
| 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 ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... tion) of the leader of the cymeks who gave himself the pseudonym Agamemnon. | 's short story, "The Purloined Letter", makes reference to Atreus and Thye ... |
| Antoine Brenier's | Two nights after Masséna's withdrawal, | 1,400-man French garrison of Almeida slipped through the British lines dur ... |
| Elton John | ... , if you get rid of the horn section, we'll sign ya...' That's like tellin' | to get rid of the piano." The show, however, was not without its difficult ... |
| Brian May | ... n Europe. Following one such performance at the Royal Albert Hall Jarre met | , who proposed he create a concert in Tenerife for the International Year ... |
| Bradley Center | ... lwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association play home games at the | . The Bucks won the NBA Championship in 1971 |
| Alan Shepard | ... of the "Grads in Space" exhibit on 23 September 1998. The late Rear Admiral | , class of 1945, had flown Freedom 7 into space on 5 May 1961. His histori ... |
| James Earl Jones | ... select sections of their membership drives. In 1993, the choir joined actor | in a performance of the Star-Spangled Banner at the 1993 Major League Base ... |
| 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 ... |
| Basil Fawlty | ... worth) CBE (born 22 June 1932) is an English actress, known for her role as | 's wife Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated ... |
| King William III | In 1702, | died, and Anne became Queen. Anne immediately offered John Churchill a duk ... |
| Wedge Antilles | ... le of Yavin scene, where he joined Luke Skywalker and Luke's other wingman, | , in their attack run on the first Death Star. Biggs was killed when Darth ... |
| Milwaukee Admirals | The state also has minor league teams in hockey ( | ) and baseball (the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, based in Appleton and the B ... |
| Frank Knox | ... e of J. Lister Hill, the senior Senator from Alabama. Secretary of the Navy | , spoke at the launching ceremony: "As Alabama slides down the ways today, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Colin Chapman | It was designed by Lotus founder | and has been considered the embodiment of the Lotus philosophy of performa ... |
| Camillus | ... iance with Rome for over 300 years. It eventually fell to the Roman general | 's army in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Prince George, Prince of Wales | ... s that took place on them. Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son, | , dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then pr ... |
| Tom Jones | ... In 1999, she recorded a cover of the song Never Tear Us Apart by INXS with | which appeared on his album Reload |
| George McGovern | ... him in first place in the Democratic nomination race with 28 percent. Once | was near clinching the Democratic nomination in June 1972, various anti-Mc ... |
| Andrés Pico | ... pproved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor | on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, L ... |
| 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) ... |
| Ricimer | ... te a further embassy by Marcian, with the destruction of Capua. Avitus sent | to defend Sicily, and the Romans defeated the Vandals twice, once in a lan ... |
| William Quantrill | ... n during the Civil War, many of its men enlisted to defeat the Confederacy. | passed through the Eudora area in 1863 on his way to Lawrence, Kansas to c ... |
| Cleaver Bunton | ... s caused by deaths or ill-health, and arranged for the legislature to elect | , former mayor of Albury and an independent. By March 1975, many Liberal p ... |
| Enoch Powell | ... Dalyell refers to the "so-called West Lothian question, as it was dubbed by | , not by me, in 1977", denying this |
| Miguel López de Legazpi | ... gellan expedition, King Philip II of Spain sent Ruy López de Villalobos and | in 1543 and 1565 and claimed the islands for Spain. The Visayas region and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elias Cornelius Boudinot | ... 63 the tribal governments sent representatives to the Confederate Congress: | representing the Cherokee and Samuel Benton Callahan representing the Semi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruce Welch | ... or a holiday in Albufeira, Algarve, and he borrowed an acoustic guitar from | , in whose house they were staying, and completed the work on "Yesterday". ... |
| Hirohito | ... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whether | was to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ... |
| Alexios Strategopoulos | On 25 July 1261, Michael VIII's general | captured Constantinople from its last Latin Emperor, Baldwin II. Michael V ... |
| Robert Bourassa | ... udeau's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier | |
| Braxton Bragg | ... de the city. Tying down Longstreet's corps at Knoxville contributed to Gen. | 's defeat by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga. Troops under Maj. ... |
| George Martin | ... cquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which later became EMI. | joined in 1950 as assistant label manager, taking over as manager in 1955. ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... th the "Yes" side during the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty. In 1984 | , Bouchard's close friend from his law school days at Université Laval, be ... |
| Charles III of Spain | In the 18th century King | commissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint The Triumph of Trajan on the cei ... |
| Presley O'Bannon | ... ng with Derna. He managed to trek with a small detachment of Marines led by | and his mercenary force over 500 miles. Supported at sea by Isaac Hull, Ca ... |
| John David Stokes Newell, Sr. | ... . Joseph, and Waterproof. Newellton was founded by the planter and attorney | , who named it for his father Edward D. Newell, a North Carolina native. A ... |
| John McCain | ... is by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while 35% of the votes went to | |
| John Mills | ... 1957; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959), starring Ernest Borgnine, | and Angela Lansbury; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mou ... |
| Lorne Greene | ... n dictator Idi Amin had seven of them. The Shah of Iran drove an SM. Actors | and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Leoni ... |
| 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- ... |
| Michelle J. Howard | In 2006, | , class of 1982, became the first female graduate of the Naval Academy to ... |
| William III | ... tion; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, | and Mary II. When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Byrd | ... board the USS Alabama to observe the operation was the retired Rear Admiral | , the famed polar explorer |
| Duke of Norfolk | ... ng Catherine and her step-children penniless. The King himself wrote to the | pressing him to make sure Latimer would 'condemn that villain Aske and sub ... |
| 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 W. Frazer | ... Knoxville unopposed, he sent troops back to the Cumberland Gap. Brig. Gen. | , the Confederate commander, refused to surrender in the face of two Union ... |
| Frank O. Gehry | ... rch, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower (designed by the American architect | ), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, ... |
| John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of g ... |
| Viscount Wellington | ... ttle of Fuentes de Oñoro ( 3–6 May 1811), the British-Portuguese Army under | checked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal André Mass ... |
| William Hewlett | Galway, Ireland. | was convicted of regicide after the Restoration. In 1661, two people ident ... |
| Charles II | ... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's son | was declared king |
| Werner von Blomberg | ... ch Affair, which led to the resignations of the War Minister, Field Marshal | , and the army commander, General von Fritsch. Göring had acted as witness ... |
| Jefferson Davis | The new Confederate President | , a former "Cooperationist" who had insisted on delaying secession until a ... |
| Trevor N. Dupuy | ... and keep up its defensive positions, to the surprise of many. According to | , the Israelis, Soviets and Americans overestimated the vulnerability of t ... |
| Neil Armstrong | ... r astronauts and their families, who watch on television as their colleague | takes his first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Lovell, wh ... |
| Noël Coward | ... f the human story of the film. Powell's work on this film was influenced by | 's film (1942) |
| Ralph Lauren | Cruz has modeled for companies such as Mango, | and L'Oréal. Penélope and her younger sister Mónica Cruz have designed ite ... |
| Brian Cox | ... Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky ( | ) have formed |
| George Martin | In 1950, Preuss hired 24-year-old | as his assistant. When Preuss retired in 1955 Martin succeeded him as labe ... |
| Charles II | ... ewels of the United Kingdom. From the early 14th century until the reign of | , a procession would be led from the Tower to Westminster Abbey on the cor ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... the other characters. In addition to having his name be a reference to the | poem "The Raven", Poe often ends his stanzas with the word "nevermore" |
| Joe, Jr. | ... ert, the controversial Chappaquiddick incident, and four airplane crashes ( | , Kathleen, Ted and John, Jr.; all but Ted's were fatal) |
| 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). ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... a Theremin, in fact the sound is made by an instrument called the Tannerin. | of Led Zeppelin used a variation of the theremin (minus the loop) during p ... |
| Aetius | He then started a military career: he served under the magister militum | in his campaign against the Juthungi and the Norics (430–431) and also aga ... |
| 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 ... |
| L. Iunius Brutus | ... ween the Romans and the Carthaginians, which he dated to the consulships of | and L. Tarquinius Collatinus (509 BC) |
| Miguel Cancel | ... former bandmates Rene Farrait, Johnny Lozada, Ray Reyes, Charlie Masso and | to make a comeback tour under the name of El Reencuentro. They toured the ... |
| Geoffrey Keynes | ... and was followed by two more children – Margaret Neville Keynes in 1885 and | in 1887 |
| 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 ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... tember 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary | , Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nicholas Soames | ... held by the Conservative Party. The incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) is | , the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, and a forme ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aylmer Hunter-Weston | ... ore dangerous. A report from a senior British officer in the field, General | of the VIII Corps, added to the myth that the wire could be cut by bombard ... |
| James Longstreet | ... was defeated at the Battle of Chickamauga, Burnside was pursued by Lt. Gen. | , against whose troops he had battled at Marye's Heights. Burnside skillfu ... |
| Datis | Darius thus put together an amphibious task force under | and Artaphernes in 490 BCE, which attacked Naxos, before receiving the sub ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for | in both of his presidential elections |
| C. Northcote Parkinson | | , more famous for his invention of Parkinson's Law, has written a 'biograp ... |
| Maynard James Keenan | ... f-titled album in 1995, with a guest appearance from former Tool band-mate, | |
| 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 ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... 's water as a vital regional resource was the cause of the war confirmed by | who has said, People generally regard June 5, 1967, as the day the Six Day ... |
| Sting | ... iod, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, | and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC/DC from 1980 to the present, actors C ... |
| James Taylor Jr. | Bellevue was named for the plantation of Gen. | , Quartermaster General of the western US Army in the War of 1812. The Cit ... |
| Ernest Swinton | British Major | saw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ... |
| Sir Robert Baden-Powell | ... ich are used by most national Scout organizations. The symbol was chosen by | as it had been the arm-badge of those soldiers qualified as "Scouts" (reco ... |
| John Hunt Morgan | ... at he was a civilian). Burnside also dealt with Confederate raiders such as | |
| Harold Macmillan | ... e of his life" in Dan Macmillan, older brother of the future Prime Minister | . Despite his middle-class background, Keynes mixed easily with upper-clas ... |
| Ian Holm | ... Voice Acting in an Animated Feature" at the 2007 Annie Awards, but lost to | from Ratatouille. Kavner's emotional performance in the movie got positive ... |
| William III | ... ight of succession was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between | , and James II, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popula ... |
| Guy Consolmagno | And on 5 March 2009, Jesuit Brother | , another astronomer working at the Vatican Observatory, told the BBC, in ... |
| Yang Hucheng | ... a CPC conspiracy (as opposed to a spontaneous act motivated by patriotism). | probably lost the most in the incident, as he was removed from his positio ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... Egyptian losses were higher, especially in the sector controlled by General | , who ordered his troops to respond with massive firepower to any Egyptian ... |
| Edward Dowden | ... lassical schools, set him with scholars such as R.Y. Tyrell, Arthur Palmer, | and his tutor, J.P. Mahaffy who inspired his interest in Greek literature. ... |
| Vitruvius | ... benefit of the Roman people. The Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (‘ | ’) was also writing in the age of Augustus, a fact not lost on Lord Burlin ... |
| Ty Cobb | ... 1986 Pete Rose retired from playing for the Cincinnati Reds, having broken | 's record by accumulating 4,256 hits during his career. He continued as Re ... |
| Marshal Catinat | ... lied forces in the region after the death of Charles of Lorraine. Meanwhile | led the French forces in Dauphiné against the Duke of Savoy, whilst Marsha ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis and | before graduating in 1956. In the same year she married John Burrow, a sch ... |
| 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 ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... ided at the Drexelbrook, as Dick Clark's neighbor, prior to teaming up with | on "Do You Trust Your Wife?", then "The Tonight Show". Well-known children ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | Kung was an early supporter of | , and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of Chiang ... |
| Feng Yi | ... wu made Luoyang his capital in 25 CE, and by 27 CE his officers Deng Yu and | had forced the Red Eyebrows to surrender and executed their leaders for tr ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... informal control of Revolutionary Armed Forces chief General Raúl Castro ( | 's brother), and large numbers of army officers were moved into the Minist ... |
| Ken Mattingly | ... e and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell, | (Gary Sinise), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) begin training for their new m ... |
| Richard Montgomery | ... y County was also separated from Frederick County and was named for General | . Washington County as created included land later to become Allegany Coun ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... on Russell Beale as "Jack Worthing", Julian Wadham as "Algernon Moncrieff", | as "Rev. Canon Chasuble", Celia Imrie as "Miss Prism", Victoria Hamilton a ... |
| Ed McMahon | ... prior to being selected to host American Bandstand. Television personality | also resided at the Drexelbrook, as Dick Clark's neighbor, prior to teamin ... |
| Yuan Shikai | ... advisors, and Yan was soon recognized as the military governor of Shanxi by | , and effectively controlled Shanxi until 1949, when the Communists took c ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... rd by Woolson, and the aircraft was a Stinson SM1B, X7654. Later that year, | flew the same aircraft. In 1929, it was flown nonstop from Detroit to Lang ... |
| Hunter S. Thompson | ... kshi attempted several projects that fell through, including adaptations of | 's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric ... |
| James Cook | ... English word "taboo" derives from this later meaning and dates from Captain | 's visit to Tonga in 1777 |
| Ronald Colman | ... ened One Night, and he intended to make Lost Horizon his next project. When | , his first and only choice for the role of Robert Conway, proved to be un ... |
| Margaret Whitlam | ... Jim McClelland and Joe Riordan. Kerr's wife Alison was a fellow student of | during university days. Whitlam seems to have believed that, because of Ke ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... s received their $20,000 redress payments, was signed into law by President | , who also issued another formal apology from the U.S. government |
| 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 |
| Deke Slayton | ... IP tour of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, Lovell is informed by his boss | that he and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gainas | ... ch the good Osiris and the evil Typhon, who represent Aurelian and the Goth | (ministers under Arcadius), strive for mastery, and the question of the di ... |
| John Rodgers | ... fluences toward peace, negotiated in June 1805 by Tobias Lear and Commodore | with the Pasha of Tripoli |
| Earl of Bothwell | ... ssination in 1567, Mary contracted an even more unpopular marriage with the | , who was widely suspected of Darnley's murder. The nobility rebelled agai ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as a footnote to the spate of barbarian films that followed in the wake of | 's appearance as Conan. |
| Deng Yu | ... tored. Guangwu made Luoyang his capital in 25 CE, and by 27 CE his officers | and Feng Yi had forced the Red Eyebrows to surrender and executed their le ... |
| Peter Sellers | ... on, the Vipers Skiffle Group, the pianist Mrs Mills, Jim Dale, Keith Kelly, | , Bernard Cribbins, the Temperance Seven, Laurie London and Shane Fenton w ... |
| George Washington | ... States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President) | . Its county seat is |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arnaldo Ochoa | ... of Interior, convicting Army Major General and Hero of The Republic of Cuba | , Ministry of Interior Colonel Antonio de la Guardia (Tony la Guardia), an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tom Stoppard | The events of the play Arcadia, by | , take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire |
| Fred Haise | ... o 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell, Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise), and | (Bill Paxton) begin training for their new mission. Days before launch, it ... |
| J. K. Rowling | ... ainstream literature, alongside Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991) and | 's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) |
| Neil Peart | ... these songs feel like a faster tempo than anything we’ve ever done before." | of the Canadian rock band Rush plays drums on three songs on the album, "S ... |
| Joseph Stalin | The leadership of | led to a change in his view of the Soviet Union even though his initial im ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kylie Minogue | ... Not Ashamed, Step Up to the Microphone, Devotion, and more. Then soap star | began her music career in the late 1980s and released The Loco-Motion whic ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... 1, initiated several forms of government support for film and the arts. The | government continued to support Australian film and state governments also ... |
| Edgeworth David | ... Darwin in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor | of the University of Sydney lead the expeditions in 1896 & 1897. Photograp ... |
| John F. Kennedy | Following the 1960 election of U.S. President | , he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy ... |
| Chewbacca | ... Jedi Order series of novels, and kept an eye on Han Solo after the death of | . He was known as a skilled pilot and an expert shot, and personality-wise ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... tic idyll of brave horsemen and beautiful scenery depicted in the poetry of | " |
| Chen Mu | ... a garrison at Hami. After the new Protector General of the Western Regions | (d. 75 CE) was killed by allies of the Xiongnu in Karasahr and Kucha, the ... |
| Vanessa Redgrave | ... o it in 1959 at Stratford on Avon with co-stars Mary Ure, Sam Wanamaker and | . The critics had mixed reactions to the "flashy" 1959 production which in ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... munist ideology, particularly Trotskyism; though following the Great Purge, | privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounce Trotskyism. Ch ... |
| Mario Lemieux | ... rdiopulmonary resuscitation pioneer Peter Safar. Pittsburgh Penguins legend | used to reside in Mt. Lebanon as well, though he now resides in Sewickley, ... |
| Dudley Moore | ... rical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and | |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... e to operate the Mexico City-Tuxpan-Tampico-Brownsville, Texas, USA, route. | piloted the first flight on this route |
| 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 ... |
| Jacques Cousteau | ... r to do the film. The actor says that he based his character on Elia Kazan, | , Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant |
| Alan Shearer | ... and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick and | . John Dunn, inventor of keyed Northumbrian smallpipes, the most character ... |
| Vitruvius | ... udged, not as the Pythagoreans held, by mathematical ratio, but by the ear. | in his De architectura paraphrases the writings of Aristoxenus on music. H ... |
| Jack Swigert | ... es, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly's backup, | (Kevin Bacon), as a safety precaution. Lovell resists breaking up his team ... |
| William Houston | ... brigades. Brent Spencer commanded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd, | the 7th and Robert Craufurd the Light Division. Stapleton Cotton commanded ... |
| Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau | It was only thanks to the tremendous resistance of the rearguard under | that Styrum could save his army and reach Nordlingen |
| Jonathan Miller | ... own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with | , Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore |
| Prince George, Duke of York | Albert Victor's brother, | , now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ... |
| Prince Albert | ... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, | |
| Sir John Cowdery Kendrew | ... in structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by Max Perutz and | , respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-resolution structures of protein ... |
| Moses I. Finley | ... ld out of ten was an actual beneficiary) – therefore, the idea, advanced by | , that the whole scheme was at most a form of random charity, a mere imper ... |
| Harold Macmillan | ... the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, | . This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been ... |
| Antigonus | ... st themselves over the succession. Lycia fell into the hands of the general | by 304 BC. In 301 BC Antigonus was killed by an alliance of the other succ ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cuthbert Collingwood | ... ishop of Westminster (1976–1999) was born in the city in 1923. Vice Admiral | , 1st Baron Collingwood (1748–1810) born in Newcastle upon Tyne; admiral o ... |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ... ng written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album | in 1967. The song was written for and sung by The Beatles' drummer Ringo S ... |
| Richard Nixon | Following Republican | 's victory in November, Kennedy was widely assumed to be the front-runner ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bram Stoker | ... Florence Balcombe, a childhood sweetheart. She, however, became engaged to | and they married in 1878. Wilde was disappointed but stoic: he wrote to he ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joachim Murat | ... the Kingdom of Naples and granted it to his brother and then (from 1808) to | , along with marrying his sisters Elisa and Paolina off to the princes of ... |
| Anthony Quayle | ... riter team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring John Gregson, | and Peter Finch. In the United States the film was retitled Pursuit of the ... |
| Alexander B. Yano | ... largely unprotected. In 2008, The Irrawaddy reported a statement by General | , then Chief of Staff of the AFP, that the Philippine military cannot full ... |
| Ronald Reagan | On June 12, 1987, U.S. President | spoke to the West Berlin populace at the Brandenburg Gate, demanding the r ... |
| Mickey Spillane | ... for high praise in her book The Romantic Manifesto. The famous pulp writer | called Brown "my favorite writer of all time". Science fiction and fantasy ... |
| Joseph Hooker | ... ncoln chose the latter option on January 26 and replaced him with Maj. Gen. | , one of the officers who had conspired against Burnside |
| Horace | ... for the Tauchnitz series (1860–1869). New editions of Orelli's Tacitus and | were also due to him. It is worth noting that, with Sauppe, he translated ... |
| John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham | ... der intense French pressure. It ended in disaster after the Army commander, | , failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled Ant ... |
| George V | ... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of | and Queen Mary |
| Peter Finch | ... el Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle and | . In the United States the film was retitled Pursuit of the Graf Spee |
| John F. Kennedy | In 1963, U.S. President | visited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each referred to the America ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Drouet | ... Jean Andoche Junot's VIII Corps, only Jean Solignac's division was present. | 's IX Corps included the divisions of Nicholas Conroux and Claparede. Loui ... |
| Peter Finch | ... g from different directions, but Graf Spee, under Captain Hans Langsdorff ( | ), inflicts much damage on her foes. Exeter is particularly hard hit |
| Simon Rattle | ... ure was musically satisfactory, other conductors including Kurt Sanderling, | , and Esa-Pekka Salonen, fared better at the box office. Previn clashed fr ... |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | ... s – the convertibility of bank notes into gold – but with Keynes's help the | (then Lloyd George) was persuaded that this would be a bad idea, as it wou ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... rned that Ernst Röhm, the chief of the SA, was planning a coup. Himmler and | plotted with Göring to use the Gestapo and SS to crush the SA. Members of ... |
| 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 ... |
| William III | ... f Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from | 's Act of Indemnity |
| Alexander III (the Great) | ... al dynasts the freedom to rule. Persia held Lycia until it was conquered by | of Macedon during 334–333 BC |
| Belisarius | ... was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the general | in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian ... |
| Princess Anne | Sarah became close to the young | in about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older. In ... |
| Captain Jack Sparrow | ... in search of the Fountain of Youth. This was alluded to at the end of where | had taken the map from Captain Hector Barbossa. The Fountain from On Stran ... |
| Muhammad Ali | In 1971, | attempted to purchase a home in Virginia Manor, but racial discrimination ... |
| Claparede | ... n-Baptiste Drouet's IX Corps included the divisions of Nicholas Conroux and | . Louis-Pierre Montbrun headed the cavalry reserve. The two divisions of J ... |
| Dieter Dengler | ... 005 filming of Rescue Dawn, a dramatized biographical film of US Navy pilot | and his capture during the Vietnam War, the flight deck of Chakri Naruebet ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pietro Badoglio | ... and requested combat and Italian advancement to cease. The Italian General | sharply rejected the proposal, and threatened to stop all negotiations and ... |
| Donald Pleasence | ... . The film is written by Lucas and Walter Murch. It stars Robert Duvall and | and depicts a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through ... |
| Chips Rafferty | ... uring the 1960s. 1966's comedy They're a Weird Mob, starring Walter Chiari, | and Clare Dunne was a rare hit of the period which also documented somethi ... |
| Gainas | ... two parts, also known as The Egyptian Tale, about the war against the Goth | and the conflict between the two brothers Aurelianus and Caesariu |
| Simón Bolívar | In 1815, | , the South American political leader who was instrumental in Latin Americ ... |
| Charles II | ... into contact with James, Duke of York (the future James II, brother of King | ) in 1663, during negotiations for the recovery of an estate in Kent (Agne ... |
| Chevalier de Levis | ... plan even precisely locating an Abraham Street. Later, the journals of the | and the Marquis de Montcalm referred to the Heights of Abraham, as did the ... |
| Robert E. Lee | McClellan was removed after failing to pursue General | 's retreat from Antietam, and Burnside was assigned to command the Army of ... |
| Jack Gwillim | ... anding the Ajax, Captain Bell (John Gregson) the Exeter and Captain Parry ( | ) the Achilles. The British use their superior numbers to "split her fire" ... |
| Ernst Röhm | Hitler was deeply concerned that | , the chief of the SA, was planning a coup. Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich ... |
| W. S. Gilbert | ... d, an American critic, claims that Wilde drew inspiration for his plot from | 's Engaged. Meticulous revisions continued throughout the Autumn—such that ... |
| Marquis de Montcalm | ... ng an Abraham Street. Later, the journals of the Chevalier de Levis and the | referred to the Heights of Abraham, as did the diaries of British soldiers ... |
| Dou Gu | ... Xiongnu in 63 CE and used as a base to invade Han's Hexi Corridor in Gansu. | (d. 88 CE) defeated the Northern Xiongnu at the Battle of Yiwulu in 73 CE, ... |
| Duke of Norfolk | ... liam Parr and uncle, William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton fought with the | and the Duke of Suffolk against the rebellion. It is to most likely to Cat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Houston Mass Murders | ... stated he had been inspired to construct the device from reading about 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 ... |
| Jean Drapeau | ... ested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, | |
| Captain Hector Barbossa | ... alluded to at the end of where Captain Jack Sparrow had taken the map from | . The Fountain from On Stranger Tides requires two people to drink from si ... |
| Christopher Greenup | ... nsus. It is the county seat of Greenup County. Greenup is named in honor of | |
| Anthony Hopkins | ... ternational Film Festival, where Ball attended a private dinner in honor of | , meeting several voters who were in attendance |
| Muhammad Ali | | lit the Olympic torch during the opening ceremonies of the games and recei ... |
| Louis Loison | Masséna's army was organized into four corps and a cavalry reserve. | 's VI Corps had three divisions, led by Jean Marchand, Julien Mermet and C ... |
| Robert Duvall | ... directorial debut. The film is written by Lucas and Walter Murch. It stars | and Donald Pleasence and depicts a dystopian future in which the populace ... |
| James Chesnut, Jr. | ... South Carolina legislature to call for a Secession Convention. U.S. Senator | resigned, and U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond followed |
| Limburg Styrum | ... -Bavarian victory under Marshal Villars against the Austrians under General | |
| Ricimer | ... mans abandoned their policy of war against the Vandals. The Western general | reached a treaty with the Vandals, and in 476 Genseric was able to conclud ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Marchand | ... and a cavalry reserve. Louis Loison's VI Corps had three divisions, led by | , Julien Mermet and Claude Ferey. In Jean Andoche Junot's VIII Corps, only ... |
| Simon Callow | ... e Jeeves stories and novels have been recorded by British actors, including | , Jonathan Cecil, Martin Jarvis, Frederick Davidson, and Alexander Spencer |
| Themistocles | ... 2 BCE the decision was taken, under the guidance of the Athenian politician | , to build a massive fleet of triremes that would be necessary for the Gre ... |
| John Sturges | ... cent Seven (1960), a film specifically adapted from Seven Samurai. Director | took Seven Samurai and adapted it to the Old West, with the Samurai replac ... |
| John Bryan Ward-Perkins | ... ng was turning over the soil a meter deep, destroying all surface evidence. | , then Director of the British School at Rome, set into motion the South E ... |
| Frank Capra | Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by | . The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same t ... |
| Felix Steiner | ... r Division of the SS (1st Estonian), under the command of Obergruppenführer | . Also in Army Group North was the VI SS Corps, which consisted of the 15t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Russell T Davies | In 1999, | 's Queer as Folk, a popular TV series shown on Channel 4 (UK) debuted and ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rudolf Diels | ... y, but Göring on 30 November 1933 established a Prussian police force, with | at its head. The force was called the Geheime Staatspoliei, or Gestapo. Gö ... |
| Elton John | ... ch as The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, The Carpenters, | , Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, John Denver, The Eagles, America ... |
| 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 ... |
| Baibars | ... Byzantines. He also signed a treaty in 1263 with the Egyptian Mamluk sultan | , and the Mongol Khan of Kipchak |
| 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 ... |
| Anthony Quayle | The British are led by Commodore Harwood ( | ), with Captain Woodhouse (Ian Hunter) commanding the Ajax, Captain Bell ( ... |
| Villars | ... chstädt in Bavaria, and resulted in a French-Bavarian victory under Marshal | against the Austrians under General Limburg Styrum |
| Gongsun Kang | ... y inheritance. His brothers Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi were killed in 207 CE by | (d. 221 CE), who sent their heads to Cao Cao |
| John Meares | ... de Hezeta. Following Heceta's reports, British maritime fur trader Captain | searched for the river in 1788 but concluded that it did not exist. He nam ... |
| George Henry Thomas | ... ted States 6th Army. Several famous U.S. generals, such as William Sherman, | , and John Pershing made their homes here |
| Royal Air Force Ensign | ... s or war ensigns, flown as the national flag at air bases; for example, see | ) and civil air ensigns |
| Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive | ... igin of the city's name is unknown, it is believed to have been named after | |
| Denis Healey | ... us. Sir Michael founded the institute together with the British Labour M.P. | and journalist Alastair Buchan |
| Elton John | ... record of his early songs with such figures as Rory Gallagher, Ringo Starr, | and Brian May called Putting on the Style. A follow-up album featuring Alb ... |
| Elessar | On May 1, 3019 King | 's coronation took place on the plain outside Minas Tirith, he then entere ... |
| Fitz John Porter | ... egrams extremely critical of Pope's abilities as a commander from Maj. Gen. | that he received at this time and forwarded on to his superiors in concurr ... |
| Mike Hoare | ... th the help of groups of white mercenaries under their own command, such as | , were making headway against the Simba rebellion. Fearing defeat, the reb ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Graves | ... nd never drop below the horizon, hence explaining why they are circumpolar. | interprets the use of the term nurse in Classical myths as identifying dei ... |
| Faramir | ... sed the herb athelas to treat victims of the Black Breath, including Frodo, | , Éowyn, and Merry |
| Yuan Shikai | ... uangxu's consort became the Empress Dowager Longyu. In another coup de'tat, | overthrew the last Qing emperor, and forced empress Dowager Longyu to sign ... |
| Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... out the alliance between Hastings and the Woodvilles which was formed while | , was Protector, before he took the throne as King Richard III. She was ac ... |
| David Niven | Preminger cast | over the objection of studio executives, who felt the actor's career was i ... |
| Doctor Watson | In the Doyle stories, narrated by Holmes' assistant | , Watson never meets Moriarty (only getting distant glimpses of him in "Th ... |
| Hasdrubal Gisco | ... ad been very bitter arguments between him and the oligarchy. His co-general | was forced to commit suicide by a violent mob after he spoke in support of ... |
| Nipsey Russell | ... girl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, | and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 release, the film adaptation of The Wi ... |
| Horace | ... rative realism admired by Greco-Roman connoisseurs, succinctly expressed in | 's words ut pictura poesis, "as is painting so is poetry." Apelles seemed ... |
| Brian May | ... arly songs with such figures as Rory Gallagher, Ringo Starr, Elton John and | called Putting on the Style. A follow-up album featuring Albert Lee saw Do ... |
| 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 ... |
| Orville J. Nave | Galion was the birthplace of | in 1841. Nave was a chaplain in the United States Army and the editor of N ... |
| 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 ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up by | in his book Great Contemporaries (1937) |
| 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 ... |
| Keeper of the Privy Purse | ... ry of £2000 from the Privy Purse. This proved Anne's duplicity to Sarah: as | , Sarah had been unaware of any such payment |
| Hannibal | ... he Carthaginian formation to disintegrate and collapse. After their defeat, | convinced the Carthaginians to accept peace. Notably, he broke the rules o ... |
| George W. Bush | ... Wing. Cindy Sheehan had been demanding a second meeting with the President, | |
| Jonathan Letterman | ... to the Letterman Army Medical Center (LAMC), which was named, in 1911, for | , the medical director of the Army of the Potomac (Civil War). LAMC featur ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... g, who has had such notable sitters as HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and | |
| Muhammad Ali | ... on. King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including | , George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César ... |
| Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg | ... -Division divisions assigned to it. The corps was to form a part of General | 's Panzer Group West, the Western theatre's armoured reserve. The Corps wa ... |
| Sun Quan | ... divided into three spheres of influence, with Cao Cao dominating the north, | (182–252 CE) dominating the south, and Liu Bei (161–223 CE) dominating the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Scott Crossfield | ... Force Base, still attracts the best test pilots. Yeager and friendly rival | (Scott Wilson) repeatedly break the other's speed records. The "prime" pil ... |
| Alain Blanchard | ... rmandy once again to the Plantagenet domains. But Rouen did not go quietly: | hung English prisoners from the walls, for which he was summarily executed ... |
| Dan Blocker | ... od in an episode of the TV show Daniel Boone. He played Hoss Cartwright's ( | ) Swedish uncle "Gunnar Borgstrom" on Bonanza in the episode "The Last Vik ... |
| Saladin | ... 1177, at the head of the army of the kingdom, he helped King Baldwin defeat | at the Battle of Montgisard; Saladin narrowly escaped. In 1181 the temptat ... |
| Frank Capra | ... al and ecological awareness, government propaganda, and leftist viewpoints. | 's Why We Fight (1942–1944) series was a newsreel series in the United Sta ... |
| Adam Worth | ... w of the gallery Thomas Agnew and Sons, who had a famous painting stolen by | , but was unable to prove the fact |
| Avigdor Ben-Gal | ... ays of fighting, the Israeli 7th Armored Brigade in the north (commanded by | ) managed to hold the rocky hill line defending the northern flank of thei ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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. ... |
| George W. Bush | In 2006, the | administration expanded abstinence programs from teens to adults, by intro ... |
| Clint Eastwood | ... Editing and Best Cinematography. Scorsese lost again, this time to director | for Million Dollar Baby (which also won Best Picture) |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Dutoit | ... ly, others have included Kurt Sanderling, Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein, | , Christoph Eschenbach, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos |
| Adna Chaffee | ... he population was 1,519 at the 2000 census. It is the birthplace of General | , and of Russell Allen, as of 2006 the oldest living American Olympic cycl ... |
| Alexander I | ... e Diet of Porvoo in 1809 was a landmark in the History of Finland. The Tsar | confirmed the new Finnish constitution (which was essentially the Swedish ... |
| Aragorn | ... ess, nightmares, and eventual death: an effect known as "the Black Breath". | used the herb athelas to treat victims of the Black Breath, including Frod ... |
| Liu Bei | ... o Cao dominating the north, Sun Quan (182–252 CE) dominating the south, and | (161–223 CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By Decembe ... |
| Jesse L. Reno | ... refusing to give up his higher authority, Burnside treated first Maj. Gen. | (killed at South Mountain) and then Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox as the corps c ... |
| Harpagus | ... further west, to be carried out by his successors. He assigned the task to | , a Median general, who proceeded to subdue the various states of Anatolia ... |
| Kenneth Hegan | ... eedway rider Tom Farndon; Davis Cup tennis player Tony Mottram; footballers | , Reg Matthews, Bobby Gould, Graham Alexander and Gary McSheffrey; cricket ... |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... nd wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, a sister of | . Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by Plutarch to have ... |
| William Holden | ... n romantic comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring | , David Niven, and Maggie McNamara. Written by F. Hugh Herbert based on hi ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... lity of advanced civilizations in ancient Turkmenistan including finds at . | conquered the territory in the 4th century BC on his way to South Asia. In ... |
| Harry Andrews | ... ston) is warned by Count Witte (Laurence Olivier) and Grand Duke Nicholas ( | ) that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They also tell him th ... |
| Charles II | ... e of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London by | in 1683. The King's Bench adjudged the charter and franchises of the city ... |
| Prince George of Denmark | ... her out when Anne suffered bereavement. After the death of Anne's husband, | in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at Kensington Palace to find Anne with th ... |
| Freda Lingstrom | ... at the bottom of an English suburban garden. The characters were devised by | and Maria Bird. Three later stories were written by Hilda Brabban. The pup ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds in preference to | , with whom he shared, as author of The Epic (1914), a professional intere ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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) ... |
| Frank Gehry | ... cated in what was an old dock and wood warehouse. The building, designed by | and inaugurated in October 1997, is considered among architecture experts ... |
| David Niven | ... y film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring William Holden, | , and Maggie McNamara. Written by F. Hugh Herbert based on his 1951 play o ... |
| John Marshall | ... ns v. Virginia, , was a United States Supreme Court decision most noted for | and the Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decis ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ernie Wise | ... 5) runners-up (and Brit Award 2010 British Breakthrough Act) JLS. Comedian, | , lived on Thorpe Avenue for many years, next door to Canadian baritone an ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nominee | acknowledged Hoover's absence in his acceptance speech |
| Joseph E. Johnston | In March 1865, Confederate General | wintered just outside of Hillsborough at the Dickson home, which now serve ... |
| Céline Dion | ... ster, with words by Linda Thompson was performed in the opening ceremony by | accompanied by David Foster on the piano, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra a ... |
| 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 ... |
| William McKinley | Upon the inauguration of | as president of the United States on March 4, 1897, the Republic of Hawaii ... |
| Jourdan | ... by 1794 was a brigadier attached to the army of the Sambre et Meuse. After | 's victory at Fleurus (26 June 1794) he became a general of division. At t ... |
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins | ... hich they emerged. They also were influenced to a degree by the Ramones and | , who was an influence for their style of theatrical horror-blues |
| Richard III | ... England, founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of | at Bosworth Field in 1485. While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended a ... |
| Vanessa Redgrave | In 2006, she appeared alongside Academy Award winners | and Maximilian Schell in the mini-series The Shell Seekers |
| Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nicolas Roeg | ... also had an intermittent acting career, most notably in Donald Cammell and | 's Performance (1968) and as Australian bushranger Ned Kelly (1970). He co ... |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | ... ish the Village in 1813 news reached of the monumental victory of Commodore | in the Battle of Lake Erie, and so the residents decided to name the villa ... |
| Rahul Dravid | ... ers have come from Bangalore, including former Indian cricket team captains | and Anil Kumble. Some of the other players who have represented India incl ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... hile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), | (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Sindarin: ), originally named Minas Anor, is a fictional city and castle in | 's Middle-earth writings. It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondo ... |
| Robert Lauder of The Bass | ... erecta" at that time. On the 5 January 1542 we find John Lauder, son of Sir | , Knt., as "the Cardinal's Secretary" representing Cardinal David Beaton a ... |
| George W. Bush | Branstad was appointed by President | to chair the President's Commission for Excellence in Special Education. T ... |
| Leopold I of Belgium | ... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned by | in 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ... |
| Robert McNamara | He often privately cursed the Vietnam War, and in a conversation with | , Johnson assailed "the bunch of commies" running The New York Times for t ... |
| Blücher | ... 15, he commanded the allied army which, together with a Prussian army under | , defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellesley's battle record i ... |
| Anil Kumble | ... m Bangalore, including former Indian cricket team captains Rahul Dravid and | . Some of the other players who have represented India include Javagal Sri ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Capra | ... stage play by Ken Ludwig, the lead character, George, hoping to be cast by | as the Scarlet Pimpernel. In The Desert Song, the heroic "Red Shadow" has ... |
| Avigdor Kahalani | ... turning their attention back to the oncoming forces. Israeli tank commander | lined up his tanks and began a barrage of gunfire into the valley beyond t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Patricia Routledge | ... ulie) and Janie Dee (Carrie) all won Olivier Awards for their performances. | played Nettie. Enoch and Carrie were cast as an interracial couple whose e ... |
| Lazare Carnot | ... ctionary cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of | 's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor |
| Alexander the Great | ... dence was put to an end. Three years later, heartened by a false rumor that | had been assassinated, the Thebans revolted; Alexander squashed the revolt ... |
| Irvin McDowell | ... officer of the Presidio when the 1906 Earthquake hit San Francisco; General | who commanded the Union Army in the early days of the American Civil War a ... |
| Piet de Jong | ... ed relatively stable and entered yet again the cabinet under Prime Minister | |
| Jefferson Davis | ... vote in both houses of Congress. The only person to serve as president was | , due to the Confederacy being defeated before the completion of his term |
| Lucius Licinius Lucullus | ... when a temple was dedicated to her in the Velabrum in the Campus Martius by | , using booty from his 151–150 BC campaign in Spain. The temple was destro ... |
| Gaius Fulvius Plautianus | ... and her brother and other members of the family of his former father-in-law | . Plautianus had already been executed for alleged treachery against emper ... |
| 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 ... |
| Moses Cleaveland | ... ty with the Iroqois tribe in 1796 by the Connecticut Land Company. In 1797, | named the area east of the Cuyahoga River Euclid, after the Greek Mathemet ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stanley Baldwin | ... Prime Minister in May 1923, Curzon was passed over for the job in favour of | , despite having written Bonar Law a lengthy letter earlier in the year co ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... 935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by | . Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) ... |
| Mickey Spillane | ... 's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's , | 's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes. ... |
| Robert Bourassa | ... ral to invoke the War Measures Act at the request of the Premier of Quebec, | , and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau. The provisions took effect at 4 ... |
| Nikolaus Pevsner | According to | , Lincoln College preserves "more of the character of a 15th century colle ... |
| Van Morrison | Donegan experienced another late renaissance when in 2000 he appeared on | 's album The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast 1998, a critically acclaim ... |
| Slim Dusty | ... era singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland; country music stars | (Australia's biggest selling domestic artist) and John Williamson; solo ar ... |
| J.P. Mahaffy | ... h scholars such as R.Y. Tyrell, Arthur Palmer, Edward Dowden and his tutor, | who inspired his interest in Greek literature. As a student Wilde worked w ... |
| Archduke Ferdinand | World War I begins with the assassination of | . Germany declares war on Russia immediately after Nicholas has ordered th ... |
| Mistress of the Robes | In January 1711, Sarah was stripped of the offices of | and Groom of the Stole and replaced by Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somer ... |
| Adam Worth | ... lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was referring to | , one of the real life models of Moriarty. The character of Moriarty as Ho ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... he Hermit, and ZoSo, the latter of which is derived from the symbol used by | for the album sleeve. ZoSo has subsequently been used as moniker for Jimmy ... |
| Laurie York Erskine | ... s who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were James Oliver Curwood, | , James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of Sam Steele) and Will ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... y other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings Philip II and | are included), although modern historians have questioned his larger strat ... |
| Owain Glyndŵr | ... ith) had been (together with his two brothers Rhys and Gwilym) stalwarts of | 's uprising of 1400. When that uprising ebbed away Maredudd lost most of h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... July 1956, the third stanza of the lyrics was changed to remove mentions of | . This is the version presented here |
| Günther Prien | On 14 October 1939, under the command of | , U-47 penetrated Scapa Flow and sank the World War I–era battleship ancho ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, | , Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lo ... |
| Peter Ustinov | ... uarded by Satwant and Beant. She was to be interviewed by the British actor | , who was filming a documentary for Irish television. According to informa ... |
| Olivia Newton-John | ... selling domestic artist) and John Williamson; solo artists John Farnham and | , folk-rocker Paul Kelly; Dance group The Avalanches; jazz guitarist Tommy ... |
| David Hunter | ... iecemeal, and took over division command temporarily for wounded Brig. Gen. | . After his 90-day regiment was mustered out of service on August 2, he wa ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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: ... |
| 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 ... |
| Erwin Rommel's | ... ground for Eisenhower's combat command skills; during the initial phase of | move into the Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower created some confusion in the ran ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | In his short story, "The Secret Miracle", | describes how the protagonist, Jaromir Hladik, had translated the Sefer Ye ... |
| 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 ... |
| Van Morrison | ... Richard Davis, upright bass player on "The Angel", also played the bass on | 's Astral Weeks |
| Ludwig von Reuter | ... of Versailles. On 21 June 1919, after nine months of waiting, Rear Admiral | , the German officer in command at Scapa Flow, made the decision to scuttl ... |
| Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie | ... th duc de Broglie upon the death without heir in 1960 of his older brother, | , also a physicist. He did not marry. When he died in Louveciennes, he was ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aloysius Schmitt | Father | (1909–1941), the first chaplain to die in World War II, on board the USS O ... |
| George Crook | ... such as Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and | were stationed at the fort at various times. Finally, on June 14, 1860, th ... |
| Jonathan Pryce | Strachey was portrayed by | in the 1995 film Carrington. At the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, Carrington ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, | , Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, U ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Shmuel Gonen | ... d disengagement, which would allow soldiers to be redeployed to the Sinai ( | 's defeat at Hizayon in the Sinai had taken place two days earlier). Other ... |
| Trudy Cooper | Another fact that had been altered in the film was the statement by | , who commented that she "wondered how they would've felt if every time th ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... cked up momentum in the 1960s with six flms, including Fun in Acapulco with | in 1963 and Lord Jim with Peter O'Toole in 1965. His final film, The Chall ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... deral gun regulations came as a response to the murders of John F. Kennedy, | , and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Georges Doriot | ... e a profit in the market. The only serious expression of interest came from | and his American Research and Development Corporation (AR&D). Worried that ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... r. He became well known as a villain when he killed the character played by | in Love Me Tender. He has the distinction of being the first actor to port ... |
| James Herriot | ... he soap was Christopher Timothy, well known due to his long-running role as | in the series All Creatures Great and Small from 1978 to 1990. In Doctors, ... |
| George B. McClellan | ... orked for, and became friendly with, one of his future commanding officers, | |
| Nick Fury | ... nough for Gail Richards (his mother) to say her goodbyes. Skull explains to | that all he wanted to do with the Cosmic Cube was to turn back time and pr ... |
| Antipater | ... metrius was married five times; his first wife was Phila daughter of Regent | by whom he had two children: Stratonice of Syria and Antigonus II Gonatas. ... |
| Nicolas Luckner | ... rote Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin and dedicated the song to Marshal | , a Bavarian in French service from Cham. The melody soon became the rally ... |
| 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 |
| Nina Bawden | ... Wireless Theatre Company. She appeared in a production of Carrie's War, the | novel, at the in 2009 |
| 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 ... |
| Lysimachus | ... admit him into their city. But he soon afterwards ravaged the territory of | and effected a reconciliation with Seleucus, to whom he gave his daughter ... |
| Julian Huxley | ... s Symbionticism and the origin of species; and there was a brief mention by | in 1930; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking. Symbiosis as ... |
| Andy Hayman | ... dition of the words "Briefing Rooms". In 2009, former senior police officer | , who sat on the committee after the 7 July 2005 London bombings and at ot ... |
| Bruce Marshall | Scottish writer | used Bass Rock as the miraculous destination of the "Garden of Eden", a da ... |
| George Martin | ... from that day's work on the song; asked why a longer version wasn't issued, | explained: "I think it gets boring. |
| Erich Koch | Gauleiter | protracted the evacuation of the German civilian population until the East ... |
| Aristides | ... under which at least two ostracised leaders—Pericles' father Xanthippus and | 'the Just'—are known to have returned. Similarly, Cimon, ostracised in 461 ... |
| Charles Wilkes | The United States Exploring Expedition under | visited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841. During this expedition, o ... |
| Pliny the Elder | Much of what we know of Apelles is derived from | (Natural History, XXXV). His skill at drawing the human face is the point ... |
| Lysimachus | ... he other successors of Alexander, and Lycia became a part of the kingdom of | , who ruled until he was killed in battle in 281 BC. By 240 BC Lycia was p ... |
| Hernán Cortés | ... settlement of certain Caribbean islands such as Cuba, Spanish conquistadors | and Pizarro were carried by the Spanish navy to the mainland, where they c ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... eplaced in September 1985 by bassist/singer/songwriter Jason Scheff, son of | 's bassist Jerry Scheff, who joined the band for the final Foster-produced ... |
| Prince Michael of Kent | ... named Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express was launched on 26 April 2007 by | |
| Yishiha | ... d at present) as Kuye . There is some evidence that the Ming eunuch admiral | reached Sakhalin in 1413 during one of his expeditions to the lower Amur, ... |
| Angela Lansbury | ... world as the "close of yet another chapter of the Golden Age of Hollywood". | summed up the feeling of those of the Hollywood community who attended her ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Brennan | ... ream Christian thinking than Cardinal Pell". Jesuit human rights lawyer Fr. | responded in an essay by saying that that while some Greens might be anti- ... |
| Ednyfed Fychan | ... s married to Ednyfed Fychan, Seneschal of the Kingdom of Gwynedd (d. 1246). | and Gwenllian ferch Rhys were the parents of Goronwy, Lord of Tref-gastell ... |
| 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 ... |
| George B. McClellan | Following Maj. Gen. | 's failure in the Peninsula Campaign, Burnside was offered command of the ... |
| Nicholas II of Russia | ... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar | , and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra |
| Cimon | ... Xanthippus and Aristides 'the Just'—are known to have returned. Similarly, | , ostracised in 461 BC, was recalled during an emergency |
| Peter Finch | ... ne and Ten Canoes. Australian trained actors of renown include Errol Flynn, | , Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Cate ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saladin | In 1187 | invaded the kingdom, defeating the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jimi Hendrix | ... ajor event in music in the early 70s, were the deaths of popular rock stars | , Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all at the age of 27. Funk, an offshoot of ... |
| John Kerry | ... cratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and later campaigned for nominee | |
| Roy Marlin Voris | ... rcept and destroy enemy bombers attacking Allied landing forces was then-LT | , who after the war founded and commanded the Navy's flight demonstration ... |
| Braxton Bragg | ... s into Union territory had been launched in August and September 1862. Both | 's invasion of Kentucky and Lee's invasion of Maryland were decisively rep ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... lian trained actors of renown include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, | , Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Heath Led ... |
| John Box | It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ( | , Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon) and Best Costum ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bobby Robson | Cruyff was briefly replaced by | , who took charge of the club for a single season in 1996–97. The club sig ... |
| Brice Disque | ... home of the Army's Spruce Production Division under the command of Colonel | . In the interwar years, the 5th Infantry Brigade was based there and from ... |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | ... igh Steward for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1525 he became | , a position that entailed administrative and judicial control of much of ... |
| J. D. Salinger | During this period, Bakshi reread | 's The Catcher in the Rye, which he had first read in high school, and saw ... |
| Jimmy Page | ... uct additional recordings. Here they used the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. | later recalled: "We needed the sort of facilities where we could have a cu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Shania Twain | ... h as Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Deana Carter, LeAnn Rimes, | , and Mary Chapin Carpenter all released platinum selling albums in the 90 ... |
| 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) |
| Harry Turtledove | ... al characters in the alternate history novel The Man with the Iron Heart by | |
| Heraclius | ... under Khosrau II, invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperor | marched triumphantly into Jerusalem and restored the True Cross to the reb ... |
| Scott Ritter | ... ation of UN mandates to justify more severe action. It should be noted that | , chief UN weapons inspector at the time, says that the inspectors were no ... |
| Richard Aldington | ... anced himself from its vision of despair. On November 15, 1922, he wrote to | , saying, "As for The Waste Land, that is a thing of the past so far as I ... |
| Ian Carmichael | ... Must Advertise was adapted for television in 1973 as a mini-series starring | as Lord Peter Wimsey, Mark Eden as Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Bridget ... |
| Pericles | ... 79 BC, an amnesty was declared under which at least two ostracised leaders— | ' father Xanthippus and Aristides 'the Just'—are known to have returned. S ... |
| Ednyfed Fychan | Rhys had a daughter, Gwenllian ferch (daughter of) Rhys, who was married to | , Seneschal of the Kingdom of Gwynedd (d. 1246) |
| 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 ... |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... either Immanuel Neumann or Yehoshua Supersky (of the General Zionists) and | or Eliyahu Ben Horin (of Hatzohar). The committee was in charge of the Irg ... |
| John Glenn | ... he best of them all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, | , Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton |
| 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 ... |
| Timur | ... (1282), during which Abulfeda describes it as a very strong place. In 1400 | pillaged it |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... the story is sometimes explained internally, as in The Lord of the Rings by | , which depicts the Red Book of Westmarch (a story-internal version of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Martin | ... t now, it seems strangely similar to The Goon Show." Lennon also noted that | had made records with both Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers |
| Sarah McLachlan | ... cipating artists include Kevin Aviance, Janis Ian, k.d. lang, Cyndi Lauper, | , and Rufus Wainwright |
| Josiah Tattnall | ... S. naval forces were unable to break the Union blockade including Commodore | ’s ironclads from Savannah, in 1862 with the CSS Atlanta. Secretary of the ... |
| Gus Grissom | ... hem all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, | , Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton |
| Oliver Stone | ... or Razzie Award. After that film's success, Harrelson played Mickey Knox in | 's Natural Born Killers and Dr. Michael Raynolds in the Michael Cimino fil ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... ero-worship", lavishing largely uncritical praise on strong leaders such as | , Frederick the Great and Napoleon. Romantic nationalism had a largely neg ... |
| Tom Jones | ... e Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, | , Elton John, The Beatles and even former Prime Minister |
| Scott Carpenter | ... ered by many test pilots to be the best of them all. The Mercury Seven were | , Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and ... |
| Jools Holland | #*Sam Brown: lead vocal / | : piano / Jim Capaldi: drum |
| James Henderson Blount | Cleveland appointed | of Macon, Georgia, as Commissioner Paramount and Minister to Hawaii. His c ... |
| Napoleon I | ... July 1795, making it France's first anthem. It later lost this status under | , and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and Napoleon III, only b ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... ven the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. In particular, | never held the title as her aunt, , was in possession of the title |
| Jack Webb | Dragnet was created and produced by | , who starred as the terse Sergeant Joe Friday. Webb had starred in a few ... |
| John Ging | In an open letter to Gaza Strip UNRWA chief | published August 20, 2009, the movement's Popular Committees for Refugees ... |
| Wu Sangui | ... he city fell. The Manchu Qing Dynasty then allied with Ming Dynasty general | and overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty, and subsequently seized contr ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... rnment's lower house is selected by sortition. In Songs of Distant Earth by | , the futuristic society on Thalassa is ruled by demarchy |
| 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 ... |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | During the crucial period of July–August 1960, | built up "his" national army by channeling foreign aid to units loyal to h ... |
| Gordon Cooper | ... pilots to be the best of them all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, | , John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton |
| Randolph Quirk | Furthermore, | and Gabriele Stein thought about a Nuclear English, which, however, has ne ... |
| William the third | ... all Dutch monarchs have been buried in the same church. His great-grandson | , King of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, was bur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Bessières | ... mpress Dragoons was also present at the battle under the command of Marshal | . The reinforcements that Bessières brought were almost symbolic, despite ... |
| Andy Goldsworthy | In October 2008 artist | constructed a new sculpture "Spire" in the Presidio. It is tall and locate ... |
| Winfield Scott | ... ln his brief military service. Other notable American participants included | , Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis. The war gave impetus to the US poli ... |
| Penelope Keith | ... series alongside guests including John Wells, Willie Rushton, Kenny Lynch, | and Nerys Hughes. Mays Records released The Best of - Tickle on the Tum in ... |
| Charles III of Spain | ... ssion, the bells have rung faithfully every evening, a promise made to King | when he sent the original bells to the Mission in 1777. He asked that the ... |
| Virginia McKenna | ... ican production companies, including A Town Like Alice (1956) which starred | and Peter Finch; The Shiralee (1957) also starring Peter Finch with Austra ... |
| Camillus | ... iance with Rome for over 300 years. It eventually fell to the Roman general | 's army in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the ... |
| George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | ... liament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by | , leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind w ... |
| Gebhard von Blücher | ... the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, was awarded only twice, to Field Marshal | in 1813 and to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg in 1918. A third award wa ... |
| Alexander Vraciu | ... Avenue, near North Island NAS. At the end of March 1943, O'Hare made Ensign | , a young Naval Reservist just out of flight school, his wingman. On July ... |
| Ernest Shackleton | ... pedition was released. It documented the failed Antarctic expedition led by | in 1914 |
| Kenny Wheeler | ... d, at various times, influential players such as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, | , Roger Smith, and John Butcher. As with the Association for the Advanceme ... |
| Princess Anne | ... o have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, | , Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda ... |
| Hasdrubal Gisco | ... er Roman ally. For this bargain Syphax was to marry Sophonisba, daughter of | . Massinissa, who had thus lost his fiancee, went over to the Romans with ... |
| Chuck Yeager | The story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with pilots like | . While never selected as an astronaut, Yeager was considered by many test ... |
| James Earl Ray | Two months after King's death, escaped convict | was captured at London Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United K ... |
| Robert Lauder of The Bass | ... 97 King James IV visited the Bass and stayed in the castle with a later Sir | (d.bef Feb 1508). The boatmen who conveyed the King from Dunbar were paid ... |
| George Strait | ... ippin, Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson and the newly formed duo of Brooks & Dunn | ;, whose career began in the 1980s, also continued to have widespread succ ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... ic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon (382-336 BC), father of the conqueror | , were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other ... |
| William Donald Schaefer | ... with its sixteen teaching laboratories and five research laboratories. The | Building is a . addition to the Engineering School and was completed in Ap ... |
| Saladin | ... Zengi; but after 1145 it remained attached to Damascus and was captured by | in 1175. The Crusaders raided its valley more than once but never took the ... |
| Frank Hurley | Also during this period | 's documentary film, South (1919), about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expe ... |
| Robert Plant | Singer | 's symbol of a feather within a circle was his own design, being based on ... |
| David Crystal | There are also some who reject both linguistic imperialism and | 's theory of the neutrality of English. They argue that the phenomenon of ... |
| 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 ... |
| V. S. Pritchett | ... se. The opera was also adapted into a 1983 short story form by the novelist | for publication by the Metropolitan Opera Association |
| Jean Reynier | ... ede. Louis-Pierre Montbrun headed the cavalry reserve. The two divisions of | 's II Corps hovered off to the northeast threatening Almeida |
| Kenny Lynch | ... ured in three series alongside guests including John Wells, Willie Rushton, | , Penelope Keith and Nerys Hughes. Mays Records released The Best of - Tic ... |
| Jancis Robinson | | notes that Chianti is sometimes called the "Bordeaux of Italy". The flexib ... |
| Jack Webb | Actor and producer | 's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved ... |
| Edward Hardwicke | Jeremy Brett and | played Holmes and Watson in the Sherlock Holmes TV series made by Granada ... |
| Don Lusher | ... f the electronic pop duo Erasure; Barrie Forgie, leader of the BBC Big Band | ;, trombonist and former professor of the Royal College of Music and the R ... |
| King Alfonso XIII of Spain | ... ousin of Alexandra, was also a carrier of the haemophilia gene. She married | and two of her sons were haemophiliacs. As an incurable and life-threateni ... |
| Sting | ... emporary fiction, as an example of different kinds of narrative techniques. | named his 2009 album If On a Winter's Night... after the book |
| Robert Craufurd | ... manded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd, William Houston the 7th and | the Light Division. Stapleton Cotton commanded John Slade's and Frederick ... |
| Thomas Cochrane | ... talemate during the siege of Sevastopol. The proposal was backed by Admiral | of the Royal Navy. It was considered by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmersto ... |
| Duke of Cambridge | ... donations. Sidney Herbert served as honorary secretary of the fund, and the | was chairman. Nightingale was considered a pioneer in the concept of medic ... |
| Billy Connolly | ... ater adopted as the theme for a television travelogue presented by comedian | , a long-standing friend of McTell's. Mays Records' first album release wa ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... Western Canadian discontent with the Progressive Conservative government of | . Led by its founder Preston Manning, the Reform Party rapidly gained mome ... |
| King James II & VII | ... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of | , and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ... |
| Hugo Chávez | ... us". In response to a question about Belarus's domestic policies, President | of Venezuela said "We see here a model social state like the one we are be ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under | in the 1930s |
| Teresa Stratas | ... the same year at the Opera Garnier and was conducted by Pierre Boulez, with | singing the lead role; the production (by Patrice Chéreau) was a sensation ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by | . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being no ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... f Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. | , to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia ... |
| Hiram Bingham | In 1911, explorer | used the city as a base for the expedition in which he rediscovered the ru ... |
| Dudley Moore | Both Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers appeared on Peter Cook and | 's TV show, Not Only... But Also |
| Cesare Borgia | ... f the Renaissance Popes. He fathered seven children, including Lucrezia and | , by at least two mistresses. Fourteen years after his death, the corrupti ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... the series makes many references to the policy of the Labour governments of | and James Callaghan, with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dea ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... the Indian Wars were happening in the west and famous military men such as | , Philip Henry Sheridan, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and George Crook were stat ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... reu as well as Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, who invitated keynote speaker | to Wahnfried house. There he met writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son-i ... |
| Erich Topp | German World War II veteran and sub commander | was one of the game's technical advisers |
| Larry Flynt | ... red in the Milos Forman film The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which he played | , publisher of Hustler magazine. The film was a success and Harrelson's pe ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... 25 seconds into the flight there was an "[U]nscheduled yaw-lift maneuver": | wrote several years later that Mariner 1 was "wrecked by the most expensiv ... |
| Claude Taylor | ... effective 1 April 2009. Rovinescu became the first Canadian President since | in 1992. Rovinescu was Air Canada's chief restructuring officer during its ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Reese Europe | During World War I, bandleader | played a jazz version of "La Marseillaise", which can be heard on Part 2 o ... |
| George Everest | In 1855 he married Mary Everest (niece of | ), who later wrote several educational works on her husband's principles |
| Charles II | ... fused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration of | in 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two ... |
| Range Safety Officer | ... s corrections that sent the rocket off course. It was then destroyed by the | |
| Stephen Hawking | ... . A scientific theory can be thought of as a model of reality. According to | in A Brief History of Time, "a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Picton | ... igade and three cavalry brigades. Brent Spencer commanded the 1st Division, | the 3rd, William Houston the 7th and Robert Craufurd the Light Division. S ... |
| Dabinderjit Singh | The Vancouver Sun reported in February 2008 that | was campaigning to have both the Babbar Khalsa and International Sikh Yout ... |
| Mikhail Lazarev | ... Coventry and the owner of the Rebecca's cargo. In 1820 the Russian explorer | visited Nukufetau as commander of the Mirny. Following 1819 whalers were r ... |
| Leonidas Polk | ... merican War (including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis), but some such as | (who had attended West Point but did not graduate) had little or no experi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander I | ... ime of the Restoration period. He worked furiously to prevent Russia's Tsar | (who aided the liberal forces in Germany, Italy and France) from gaining i ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of | |
| Deke Slayton | ... r, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and | |
| Napoleon I | ... in the name of brotherhood the Vendôme Column, celebrating the victories of | , and considered by the Commune to be a monument to Bonapartism and chauvi ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Author | was a Merton Professor of English Language and Literatur |
| 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 ... |
| Jarosław Dąbrowski | ... ees and exiles in Paris: one of them, the Polish ex-officer and nationalist | , was to be the Commune's best general. The Council was fully committed to ... |
| Wally Schirra | ... Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, | , Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton |
| 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 ... |
| Ronnie Barker | ... II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with | in the (original) one-off Meat, which aired as One Man's Meat as part of a ... |
| Hugh O'Flaherty | Monsignor | was an Irish priest who saved thousands of people, British and American se ... |
| Thucydides | ... t of the Ionic dialect group. "Old Attic" is a term used for the dialect of | (460-400 BC) and the dramatists of Athens' remarkable 5th century; "" is u ... |
| Alan Shepard | ... ere Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, | , and Deke Slayton |
| Zheng He | ... y and a flourishing of the arts and culture. It was during this period that | led explorations throughout the world, possibly reaching America. During t ... |
| Norwich Duff | In 1819, | made the following observations about Mannheim |
| Hasdrubal Gisco | ... ly decline it. By this stratagem he convinced the Punic commanders Mago and | that they could expect the Romans to hold the centre of their line. On the ... |
| George Washington | ... eat significance: 1876 was the nation's centennial year and February 22 was | 's birthday |
| Lenny Henry | ... ection was called in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring | , Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfie ... |
| James Callaghan | ... any references to the policy of the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and | , with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dead, as if it had bee ... |
| William III | ... On being offered the dukedom of Gelderland by the States of that province, | let the offer lapse as liable to raise too much opposition in the other pr ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... oup at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and U.S. President | and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Union is repres ... |
| Mel Gibson | Graham Hess ( | ) is a former Episcopalian priest. His wife Colleen (Patricia Kalember), w ... |
| Anne Jules de Noailles | ... 653, under Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds in 1684, and twice in 1694 under | . In May 1809, it was besieged by 35,000 French Napoleonic troops under Ve ... |
| Frank Carson | The second compilation continued in the same vein as the first. | being soaked unexpectedly is a running gag, and there is a full rendition ... |
| James Cook | ... r the French. On 11 June 1770, the HM Bark Endeavour, captained by explorer | , ran on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage. Lightenin ... |
| Gawhar al-Siqilli | The city of Cairo was founded in 969 CE by | as the royal city of the Fatimid Caliphate, with a defensive wall. In 1092 ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... nt (the violent suppression of the Hungarian uprising and the revelation of | 's crimes) while confirming his "confidence in the democratic perspectives ... |
| Alec Guinness | ... rmanent company that included himself, Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Redgrave and | . Although not always acknowledged for this achievement, Gielgud set a pre ... |
| Lord Chamberlain | ... Edward VI. When she became Queen, her uncle Lord Parr of Horton became her | |
| Chips Rafferty | ... stralian farming family, the Rudds, and the perennial father-and-son duo, . | and Peter Finch were prominent international stars of the period. Rafferty ... |
| Larry Flynt | Perhaps less prominent but certainly notable, | , publisher of Hustler, also lived in the city at one point, before moving ... |
| Louis Lepic | ... tch it. Oudinot had encountered the Guard cavalry deputy commander, General | , who sharply refused to commit his men, saying that he only recognised th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wang Yangming | ... Dynasty in 1368 and founded the Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty thinkers such as | would further critique and expand Neo-Confucianism with ideas of individua ... |
| Deborah Grey | ... the Reform Party's fortunes rose. It first entered Parliament in 1989 when | won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding. The party achieved major suc ... |
| Frank Gehry | ... , a move was made to the new Walt Disney Concert Hall next door designed by | . Its current "winter season" runs from October through late May or early ... |
| Robert McNamara | ... Presidential Library oral history archives, Johnson's Secretary of Defense | stated that a carrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, sent on a training ... |
| Hamilcar Barca | ... it was time to sue for peace. Others pleaded for the recall of the sons of | , Hannibal and Mago, who were still fighting the Romans in Bruttium and Ci ... |
| Rupert Brooke | ... for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included | and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Pro ... |
| Maurice of Nassau | ... generals, including two of the acknowledged "first captains of their age", | and the Marshal de Turenne |
| Sam Shepard | ... nds $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero Chuck Yeager ( | ) receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback ride with his w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Lemmon | ... left after a dispute over billing. The role of Sundance was then offered to | , whose production company, JML, had produced the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke ... |
| Braxton Bragg | ... t. Burnside served two years on the western frontier, serving under Captain | in the 3rd U.S. Artillery, a light artillery unit that had been converted ... |
| Frank Borman | After | became president of Eastern in 1975, he moved Eastern's headquarters from ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... he Forward reported that sometime before March 2003, Israeli Prime Minister | told Bush that Israel "would not push one way or the other" for or against ... |
| Hannibal | The Barcids, the family to which | belonged, claimed descent from a younger brother of Dido according to Sili ... |
| Charles Oudinot | Time was at the essence and Masséna at once sent one of his aides-de-camp, | , the son of Marshal Duke of Reggio, with orders to bring forward the Guar ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... atic. He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising | 's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid |
| Michael Palin | #Comic Interlude including four members of Monty Python: | , Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, C ... |
| Chuck Yeager | ... ther pilot demands $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero | (Sam Shepard) receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback rid ... |
| Robbie Coltrane | ... 7, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, | , Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and another tour by the ... |
| Trevor McDonald | ... y Henry as Trevor McDoughnut (including one where the target of the spoof - | - takes over as a surprise) and the 'viewer's letters' clip where Sally Ja ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gnaeus Manlius Vulso | ... Having become a thorn in the side of Rome, they attracted the attention of | , commander of the Roman armies successfully fighting the Galatian War of ... |
| Clement Attlee | ... spite his popularity as a war hero Churchill suffered a landslide defeat to | whose government's economic policy continued to be influenced by Keynes's ... |
| Bernard Manning | ... on of comic legends' appearances, such as Spike Milligan, Michael Palin and | . Content-wise, it is very similar to the previous two compilations, with ... |
| Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville | ... in North America as a French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, | and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when Ki ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... y became the Alliance caucus (with a few exceptions). Former Prime Minister | called the party "Reform in pantyhose", and some opponents referred to the ... |
| Stephanie Cole | ... tt (Kathy Staff), with a critical word for everyone; and Mrs Featherstone ( | ), nicknamed "The Black Widow", a sour-faced miser who admires Arkwright f ... |
| Wyndham Lewis | ... ing on foreign accounts. On a trip to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist | , he met the writer James Joyce. Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce ... |
| Audie Murphy | ... Brand was the baddest guy I’ve ever met in the business. Second baddest was | ". Actress Coleen Gray described him as "the steely-eyed, evil person of a ... |
| Elton John | ... cent years have included Ray Charles (May 2002), Paul McCartney (May 2003), | (September 2005), and (July 2006) |
| Dwight David II "David" | ... Barbara Jean Thompson on June 10, 1947. John and Barbara had four children: | , Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is ... |
| 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 |
| Peter Finch | Chips Rafferty and | were prominent international stars of the period. Rafferty's onscreen imag ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... ionist Movement made up a popular backing for the underground organization. | , founder of Revisionist Zionism, was the commander of the organization un ... |
| Bob Dole | ... enate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee | of Kansas |
| Michael Palin | ... r made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as Spike Milligan, | and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to the previous two ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... d the inlay cover made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as | , Michael Palin and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to t ... |
| Sam Shepard | ... epard, Ed Harris as Glenn, Fred Ward as Grissom, Dennis Quaid as Cooper and | as Yeager |
| Timothy West | ... farce What The Butler Saw (1987) Played Mrs Prentice, cast->(inc Husband) | with Dinsdale Landen and Tessa Peake-Jones. Stiff Upper Lips (1997) and Ho ... |
| Mel Gibson | ... becomes convinced that the phenomena are a result of extraterrestrial life. | , Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin star in principal roles ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Robert Baden-Powell | ... tradition on their own. Scouts do not necessarily encounter this tradition. | , the founder of Scouting and the Chief Scout of the World, would gather s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... ncreased and Israeli counter strikes intensified. Following the election of | in February, the peace process took a steep downfall. Palestinian election ... |
| L. Ron Hubbard | ... ious legal tactics to stop distribution of unpublished documents written by | . The Church of Scientology is often accused of through the filing of SLAP ... |
| John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower | ... ree; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Their second son, | , was born on August 3, 1922 while they were in Panama; John served in the ... |
| Chips Rafferty | ... 944's World War II classic The Rats of Tobruk which starred Peter Finch and | and 1955's Jedda, which was notable for being the first Australian film to ... |
| Adam Worth | In addition to the master criminal | , there has been much speculation among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes en ... |
| David Jason | ... sell anything to any buyer, no matter how unwilling. His nephew Granville ( | ), is his put-upon errand boy, whose attempts at a love-life or even just ... |
| King George V | ... ily. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra, | refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed ... |
| Chris Tarrant | ... ld Tiswas mates' alike joined in the fun. In an interview publicising this, | put out an appeal to the public to submit any surviving video footage of t ... |
| Alan Alda | ... Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cate Blanchett), and | for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Despite having a leading tally, the f ... |
| Gordon Ramsay | ... ast live on UK's ITV television. After being brought on as a substitute for | , Harrelson took the final penalty in the penalty shootout, following a 2– ... |
| Hyder Ali | ... were utilized as battleships by the Sultanate of Mysore during the rule of | |
| Peter Greenaway | ... n of this practice is in dispute; one source describes a similar act in the | movie The Belly of an Architect |
| Roger Wicker | ... resigned from the Senate and became a Washington-based lobbyist. Republican | won the 2008 special election to replace him |
| Noel Gayler | ... t Vunakanau airdrome and Ittō Hikō Heisō Bin Mori was later shot down by LT | ("White F-1", VF-3) when trying to escape 40 miles from Lexington |
| Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | ... orces, commanded by King Charles I, battled the Roundhead army commanded by | . The battle resulted in a decisive Royalist defeat |
| Alexander the Great | Europeans first came in contact with elephants in 327 BC, when | descended into India from the Hindu Kush, but Alexander was quick to adopt ... |
| Marcus Aemilius Scaurus | While this civil war was going on the Roman general | went to Syria to take possession, in the name of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, o ... |
| Wilhelm Bittrich | ... ion was dropped in Oosterbeek, to the west of Arnhem. Realizing the threat, | , commander of II SS Panzer Corps, ordered Hohenstaufen and Frundsberg to ... |
| Frank Kelly Freas | ... October, November, December 1956, with covers and interior illustrations by | ) and published in hardcover in 1957. It is a fast-paced hard science fict ... |
| Stanley Baldwin | ... king. After receiving advice from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, | , as well as the Dominion governments, that he could not remain king and m ... |
| Leslie Howard | ... ect of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by | , with Howard in the starring role of R.J. Mitchell. The film recounts the ... |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ing on a scale sufficient to eliminate unemployment. According to economist | (then a US government official charged with controlling inflation), in the ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... cember 20, 2002, after significant controversy following comments regarding | 's presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader. In Dec ... |
| Peter Finch | ... lms, including 1944's World War II classic The Rats of Tobruk which starred | and Chips Rafferty and 1955's Jedda, which was notable for being the first ... |
| George Strait | ... who typified this sound included Travis Tritt, Ricky Skaggs, Kathy Mattea, | and The Judds |
| Chris Lambertsen | A total of 3,319 graduates were commissioned during World War II. Dr. | held the first closed-circuit oxygen SCUBA course in the United States for ... |
| Hedd Wyn | The Welsh poet | used Fleur de Lys as his pen name when he won his chair at the National Ei ... |
| Noel Edmonds | ... BC's It Started With Swap Shop programme in 2006 in which he was talking to | about Tiswas being their rival during the whole era of Swap Shop |
| Joseph Smith | Mitchell was succeeded as Chief Designer at Supermarine by | , who was responsible for the further development of the Spitfire. Neverth ... |
| Ney | ... o Berlin and was victorious in battle against Oudinot in August and against | in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz; but after the Ba ... |
| Rod Serling | The all-black principal cast was a novelty for television in 1960. Said | at the time (quoted in The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree) |
| John Betjeman | ... in London, where he taught French and Latin—his students included the young | . Later he taught at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, a state schoo ... |
| Edmund Needham Morrill | ... unded by T. J. Elliot, who named it in honor of his friend, Kansas governor | |
| 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 ... |
| Oudinot | ... ully defended the approaches to Berlin and was victorious in battle against | in August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and D ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir Charles Middleton | ... ifteen years, he accepted the living of Teston, Kent in 1781, and there met | , Lady Middleton, Thomas Clarkson, Hannah More and others, a group that la ... |
| Charles Bronson | ... n the opening roll call pages of each issue of Alpha Flight he appeared in. | and Lee Marvin starred in the 1981 movie Death Hunt that fictionalized the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ranger of Windsor Great Park | ... uld be held by a woman), Groom of the Stole, Keeper of the Privy Purse, and | . The Duke accepted the Order of the Garter, as well as the office of Capt ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... as well as highlighting a statement Lukashenko had made seemingly praising | . Lukashenko referred to the media attack as 'dirty propaganda' |
| William Wyler | ... from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. It was directed by | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... because I'd read it." One work that made a particular impression on him was | 's The Lord of the Rings from his school library, although it only had the ... |
| Syphax | ... d his Numidian allies. The main native supporter of the Carthaginians, king | of the Massaesylians (western Numidians), was defeated and taken prisoner. ... |
| Frederick C. Sherman | ... essive feat of marksmanship. In the opinion of Admiral Brown and of Captain | , commanding the Lexington, Lieutenant O'Hare's actions may have saved the ... |
| L. Sprague de Camp | Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in | 's historical novel, The Bronze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itse ... |
| Hafez al-Assad | ... infrastructure and perhaps attacking Damascus" Ultimately, Syrian President | decided to cancel the offensive. On October 23, the day the offensive was ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien's | ... play somewhat similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and a storyline reminiscent of | The Lord of the Rings. Later, two other games were released in this series ... |
| Michael von Melas | ... d-morning they were in control of the field of battle, and their commander, | sent this news south towards Rome. However, fresh French troops arrived in ... |
| John Barbirolli | Other conductors with whom the orchestra has had close ties include Sir | , Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Albert Coates, Fritz Reiner, and Erich ... |
| Hasdrubal Gisco | ... anding in Africa, Scipio twice routed the regular Carthaginian forces under | and his Numidian allies. The main native supporter of the Carthaginians, k ... |
| Marcus Furius Camillus | ... , allegedly built by Servius Tullius, destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt by | in 396 B.C., and she was also associated with the sea harbors and ports, w ... |
| Edward Thomas | ... tershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. | also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Professor of English at the Univers ... |
| Adam Johann von Krusenstern | The Russian explorer | visited Sakhalin in 1805, but regarded it as a peninsula |
| Erich Koch | ... rmia Krajowa and OUN. The Germans encouraged both sides against each other. | once said: "We have to do everything possible so that a Pole, while meetin ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... uthoritarian, anti-communist, and régimes such as Vichy France, Spain under | , and Portugal under Antonio Salazar. Communist ideologues often label all ... |
| Jon Riley | The Saint Patrick's Battalion , formed and led by | , was a unit of 175 to several hundred immigrants (accounts vary) and expa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heston Blumenthal | ... o be achieved with the more readily available "dry ice" and authors such as | have published recipes to produce ice cream and sorbet using a simple blen ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... the satrapys of Margiana, Chorasmia and Parthia. Later conquerors included | , the Parni, Ephthalites, Huns, Göktürks, Sarmatians, and Sassanid Iranian ... |
| Ronnie Barker | Years later, Milligan collaborated with | on The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, in which the credits r ... |
| Saladin | No one controls the main entrance. In 1192, | assigned responsibility for it to the Muslim Nuseibeh family. The Joudeh A ... |
| Pagondas | ... the enemy's attack". The tactic of the deep phalanx had been anticipated by | , another Theban general, who used a 25 man deep formation at the . Diodor ... |
| Guillaume Marie Anne Brune | ... but Avignon was never restored to the Holy See. In 1815 Bonapartist Marshal | was assassinated in the town by adherents of the royalist party during the ... |
| General Lake | ... uccessful attack at the fortress at Gawilghur, combined with the victory of | at Delhi forced the Maratha to a peace settlement (not concluded until a y ... |
| Andrew Jackson | The town was named in 1825 for future president | , the commander of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and ... |
| Emanuel Rackman | ... such as Joseph Soloveitchik, Norman Lamm, Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, | , Eliezer Berkovits and others have written on this issue; many of their w ... |
| Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville | ... the French colony of Louisiana. It was founded by French Canadian brothers | and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, to establish control over ... |
| Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley | Six months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband, | . The marriage proved to be short-lived as she died in September 1548, pro ... |
| Frankie Howerd | Sykes and Milligan, along with Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, | and Stanley ("Scruffy") Dale, co-founded the writers cooperative Associate ... |
| Francis Younghusband | ... 1903. At the end of that year, he sent a British expedition to Tibet under | , ostensibly to forestall a Russian advance. After bloody conflicts with T ... |
| King George V | ... e attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, Beatrix Potter, | and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit that he gave his gu ... |
| Lucius Papirius Cursor | ... ea have been discovered; on the hill, there was the tomb of Quirinus, which | transformed into a temple for his triumph after the third Samnite war. Som ... |
| James Cook | John Ledyard led a team to attempt an ascent on the third voyage of Captain | in January 1779. They struggled to go directly up from Kealakekua Bay, but ... |
| Henry Mancini | ... triangle also provides the trademark percussion during the opening bars of | 's famous theme for The Pink Panther |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... ites. Writing in the 3rd century BCE, Kleitarchos, one of the historians of | , described that the infants rolled into the flaming pit. Diodorus Siculus ... |
| Algernon Blackwood | ... s wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, | , and Arthur Machen |
| George Rogers Clark | ... te followed the Kaskaskia/Big Muddy divide, which went through Walnut Hill. | marched through Walnut Hill in February, 1779 in his march from Fort Kaska ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... ning act Living Colour for a six-night run in October 1989 and Elton John & | in August 1992 |
| Kit Carson | ... were discouraged by the cost, effort and danger of the trip. Western scout | reputedly said, "The cowards never started and the weak died on the way." ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... throw of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under | , produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia |
| Bacchides | ... I Soter, the nephew whose throne he had usurped. Demetrius sent the general | to Israel with a large army, in order to install Alcimus with the office o ... |
| 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 |
| Benjamin Grierson | ... eenactment celebration is named for Jacksonville resident U.S. Army General | |
| Archibald Menzies | | led a party from the Vancouver Expedition in the first successful ascent t ... |
| Nicanor | A Seleucid army under General | was defeated by Judah (ib. 7:26–50) at the Battle of Adasa, with Nicanor h ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... eign policy towards Latin America remained largely static until election of | to the presidency in 1977 |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... nofsky film The Fountain search for the Tree of Life to cure a brain tumor. | refers to the Fountain of Life in a short story in the book , in which the ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | ... estranged son. It stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, and | and released by First National Pictures in December 1928. (First National ... |
| Harry Hess | ... s the continents with it) as it expands from a central axis was proposed by | from Princeton University in the 1960s. The theory is well-accepted now, a ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... ction and a nostalgia for a more rural society. The Vichy regime in France, | 's regime, the Salazar regime in Portugal, and Maurras's Action Française ... |
| Henry Moseley | ... wn elements neodymium (60) and samarium (62); this was confirmed in 1914 by | who, having measured the atomic numbers of all the elements then known, fo ... |
| Larry McDonald | ... spy plane. All 269 passengers and crew died, including a U.S. Congressman, | |
| Francis, Duke of Teck | ... emberg, she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom. Her parents were | , who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a ... |
| Seymour Skinner | ... voice-over work as the narrator for the Eyewitness series and as the "real" | in the controversial episode of The Simpsons titled "The Principal and the ... |
| Masinissa | ... feated a combined army under the command of Mago Barca, Hasdrubal Gisgo and | , thus bringing to an end the Carthaginian hold in Iberia |
| George Washington | ... e served in the U.S. Congress between 1833 and 1843. The town was named for | 's plantation, Mount Vernon, which was named for Edward Vernon, a British ... |
| Alain Prost | ... r of all time." Several highly successful later drivers, such as Jim Clark, | , Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, have been compared with Fangio. How ... |
| Bob Hope | ... s. A few famous entertainers have performed at the Canfield Fair, including | , Dolly Parton, Rascal Flatts, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, "Weird Al" Yan ... |
| Ammianus Marcellinus | ... thi are all attested no earlier than 388. The Greuthungi are first named by | , writing no earlier than 392 and perhaps later than 395, and basing his a ... |
| Richard Burton | ... epic film that tells the story of a Roman tribune named Marcellus Gallio ( | ) who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus Christ. There was a sequel kn ... |
| Eric Clapton | ... ock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of | . Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... gun policy was based on what was then called Revisionist Zionism founded by | . According to Howard Sachar, "The policy of the new organization was base ... |
| Timur | In 1526, Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant of | and Genghis Khan from the Fergana Valley (in modern day Uzbekistan), invad ... |
| Buenaventura Durruti | ... ombardment, with bayonet and grenade fights, room by room. Anarchist leader | was shot there on 19 November 1936, and died the next day. The battle in t ... |
| Lester B. Pearson | Prime Minister | in 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national an ... |
| Ernest Lemon | ... supported by vice presidents each with responsibility for a specific area. | , who had briefly held the office of Chief Mechanical Engineer pending the ... |
| Eugène de Beauharnais | ... axony and Bavaria. In addition, to the south, Murat's Kingdom of Naples and | 's Kingdom of Italy had a total of 100,000 armed men. In Spain, another 15 ... |
| Randy Weaver | ... 's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) standoff with | at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege—a 1993 51-day standoff between the ... |
| John Vanbrugh | ... ughter the second Duchess of Marlborough; the architect of Blenheim Palace, | ; prime minister Robert Walpole; King George II; and his wife, Queen Carol ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elton John | ... ones with opening act Living Colour for a six-night run in October 1989 and | & Eric Clapton in August 1992 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... heek comment from Milton Friedman, a comment later echoed by U.S. President | , that "We are all Keynesians now". The article described the exceptionall ... |
| Owain Glyndŵr | In 1404 | burned Cardiff and took Cardiff Castle. As the town was still very small, ... |
| Vitruvius | ... making it the most popular site at Delphi for tourists to take photographs. | (vii, introduction) notes Theodorus the Phocian as the architect of the Ro ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from | , in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ter Stapleton (Donna Hanover), a Christian activist and sister of President | , seeks out Flynt and urges him to give his life to Jesus. Flynt seems mov ... |
| Celine Dion | ... won the award that night for best song with "My Heart Will Go On" (sung by | ) from the film Titanic. Smith did not voice disappointment about not winn ... |
| Jon Riley | ... evidence of the number of Irish Catholics in the Battalion, the letters of | , and the field entries of senior officers. Another hypothesis is that the ... |
| Edward Vernon | ... named for George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon, which was named for | , a British naval hero |
| Dimitrios Ioannidis | ... ent shockwaves through the regime, and a counter-coup established Brigadier | as dictator. On 20 July 1974, as Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus, the ... |
| John Hardin | ... at later became Ottawa, Putnam County Ohio. A similar mission under Colonel | also ended in Hardin and his servant Freeman being murdered in |
| Lavr Kornilov | Another problem for the government centered around General | , who had been Commander-in-Chief since 18 July. In response to a Bolshevi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Balfour | | 's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir ... |
| 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 ... |
| Seymour Skinner | ... d because of the belief that only the Simpson family should have such hair. | , Milhouse Van Houten, Sherri and Terri, Moe Szyslak, Mr. Burns, Barney Gu ... |
| Pyrrhus | ... r V, the son of Cassander. In 291 BC he married Lanassa, the former wife of | . But his new position as ruler of Macedonia was continually threatened by ... |
| Charles Wilkes | The United States Exploring Expedition led by Lieutenant | was tasked with a vast survey of the Pacific Ocean starting in 1838. In Se ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ishmael Beah | Previous University lecturers included | , author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, Economi ... |
| Dr. Seuss | As a result of the film, Bakshi received an offer to adapt | 's The Butter Battle Book for TNT. Ted Geisel had never been satisfied wit ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Introduction, Hayek contrasts Western Anglo values with Nazi Germany under | , stating that "the conflict between the National-Socialist "Right" and th ... |
| Al Gore | ... luded Ishmael Beah, author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, | , Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | ... made among his high-born clients, Ogilby was eventually taken to Ireland by | , on his appointment as lord deputy there, and became tutor to his childre ... |
| Olivia Newton-John | ... ulling a crew member onstage, making her do jumping jacks along with him to | 's "Physical". The second comedy piece was a remote titled "The Shame of t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Daltrey | ... y Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green (musician) of Fleetwood Mac, | of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono ... |
| 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 |
| Frank Whittle | In 1930, having found no interest from the RAF for his idea, | patented the design for a centrifugal gas turbine for jet propulsion. The ... |
| Howard Zinn | Damon narrated the audiobook version of historian | 's A People's History of the United States, published in 2003. Zinn had be ... |
| Howard Colvin | ... lf, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and his pupil John Webb. According to | , "Burlington's mission was to reinstate in Augustan England the canons of ... |
| Agesilaus II | ... the city, but turned back without engaging the Thebans. Another army under | was then dispatched to attack the Thebans. However, the Thebans refused to ... |
| Kamel Rabat Bouralha | On 3 October 2004, The Observer revealed that 46-year-old | attended the mosque. Bouralha, with UK citizens Osman Larussi and Yacine B ... |
| William B. Caldwell | ... the war. According to Holmes, the orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. | , a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops. Gen. David Pet ... |
| James II | ... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards to | to uphold it |
| Francisco Franco | ... the Republic. It staved off the prospect of a rapid defeat at the hands of | 's forces. The role of the International Brigades in this victory was gene ... |
| Seleucus | He also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi | ;, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and his father. The host ... |
| Henry Atkinson | Commanded by General | , the U.S. troops tried to track down the British Band. Militia under Colo ... |
| Alfonso XIII | ... yal Command Performance at Buckingham Palace in honor of the King of Spain, | . and he was befriended by MPs from the House of Commons Consequently, fee ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Quayle | ... tee's Health Care Coalition, and was deputy director of the Tennessee Bush- | '92 campaign |
| Nader Shah | ... Empire lost the Battle of Karnal, following which the victorious forces of | , the Turkic ruler of Afsharid dynasty, invaded and looted Delhi, carrying ... |
| Pasha Glubb | ... es from Bethlehem to Hebron had been cut off from their lines of supply and | sent 350 Arab Legionnaires and an armoured car unit to Hebron to reinforce ... |
| 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 ... |
| Buddy Ebsen | ... f Coast Guardsmen, including the celebrated artist Jacob Lawrence and actor | . It was also a popular place for R&R for soldiers from nearby Camp Blandi ... |
| L. Ron Hubbard | Theodore Sturgeon vividly recalled being in the same room with | , when Hubbard became testy with someone there and retorted, "Y'know, we'r ... |
| Donald Rumsfeld | ... he Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. | tried to downplay the French and German governmental criticism, most promi ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... ident realized his position was actually closer to the Republican candidate | . Personal correspondences between the President and some in the Republica ... |
| Yacine Benalia | ... Bouralha attended the mosque. Bouralha, with UK citizens Osman Larussi and | , was loyal to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. Basayev has boasted of trai ... |
| Vladimir Putin | ... the song live as a mash-up with Linkin Park and Jay-Z's Numb/Encore. It is | 's favourite Beatles song |
| Samantha Carter | ... a'uld Apophis attacks Earth. He is given command of SG-1, which consists of | , Teal'c and Jackson. Eventually O'Neill gets the Repository of the Ancien ... |
| Gaius Claudius Nero | The Battle of Grumentum was an inconclusive fight in 207 BC between | and Hannibal. In the aftermath of the battle Nero was able to trick Hannib ... |
| Timothy West | The family (and Dr. Botkin ( | ) and Nagorny) are forced to leave the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cilla Black | ... gle for Mike Shannon and the Strangers), "Step Inside Love" (1968, given to | ), "Goodbye" (1969, given to Mary Hopkin), "Come and Get it" (1969, given ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. | ... his sister Rosemary Kennedy's failed lobotomy and the deaths of his brother | in World War II and sister Kathleen Agnes Kennedy in an airplane crash. An ... |
| Robert Graves | According to the personal mythology of | , Persephone is not only the younger self of Demeter, she is in turn also ... |
| 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. ... |
| John Mayall | ... d Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, | , Peter Green (musician) of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steve ... |
| John Cale | ... l James Wolf and Lawrence Chandler. It has also been notably influential on | 's contribution to The Velvet Underground's sound; Cale has been quoted as ... |
| Donald Wildmon | On June 6, 1988, | , head of the American Family Association (AFA), alleged that "The Littles ... |
| Andy Rooney | ... o a popular place for R&R for soldiers from nearby Camp Blanding, including | and Sloan Wilson who went on to write the classic 1950s novel The Man in t ... |
| Barry Strayer | ... ents. Subsequently, Attorney General Pierre Trudeau appointed law professor | to research a potential bill of rights. While writing his report, Strayer ... |
| Berry Gordy | #"Money (That's What I Want)" (Janie Bradford, | ) – 4:3 |
| 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. ... |
| 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 ... |
| George W. Bush | ... f former President George H.W. Bush and the grandfather of former President | . He served from 1953–1963 |
| 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 ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... gation cases with boxers that were focused on fraud. In 1982 he was sued by | for underpaying him $1.1 million for a fight with Larry Holmes. King calle ... |
| 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 ... |
| King Abdullah I of Jordan | ... agreement Shaykh Muhamad 'Ali al-Ja'bari, Mayor of Hebron and supporter of | attended the Jericho Conference presided over a meeting hoping to pass a r ... |
| Lavr Kornilov | ... Petrograd immediately after the failed military coup of monarchist General | , an attempt to topple the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky by ... |
| Nigel Hawthorne | ... ts include the highly acclaimed poet Philip Larkin, actors Billie Whitelaw, | , Brendan Price and Clive Owen, and the author Lee Child |
| 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 ... |
| General Harris | ... force be sent to capture Seringapatam and defeat Tipu. Under the command of | , some 24,000 troops were dispatched to Madras (to join an equal force bei ... |
| David Essex | ... Head Shop, Billy Dean, En Vogue, Muslim Magomayev and Boyz II Men. In 1976, | did a cover version of the song for the ephemeral musical documentary All ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Stone | He followed this with (1991), the | -directed JFK (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), and Clint Eastwood's A Perfect ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ioannis Metaxas | ... rchy via a referendum in 1935. A coup d'état followed in 1936 and installed | as the head of a fascist regime known as the 4th of August Regime. Althoug ... |
| Blind Harry | ... an early date a castle on the island. Sir Robert de Lawedre is mentioned by | in The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir Willi ... |
| Allan King | ... rect Cinema" (or more accurately ""), pioneered by, among others, Canadians | , and Pierre Perrault, and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederi ... |
| Royal Air Force Ensign | ... re adopted. Such ensigns may be divided into air force ensigns (such as the | ) and civil air ensigns. Air ensigns are often light blue in colour |
| Henry Moseley | ... ermediate properties between them. This prediction was supported in 1914 by | who, having discovered that atomic number was an experimentally measurable ... |
| Phoebidas | In 382 BC, however, the Spartan commander | committed an act that would ultimately turn Thebes against Sparta for good ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... clude Carl Jung (who supported Gnosticism), Eric Voegelin (who opposed it), | (who included it in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... ied the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter, | . Briefly, there were three queens in the country: Mary; her daughter-in-l ... |
| Richard Pipes | Scholars such as Lawrence Aronsen, | , Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jes ... |
| José Enrique Varela | ... de Campo. There the Nationalist troops were Moroccans, commanded by General | . They were excellent fighters in the open, but were ill-trained for urban ... |
| Nicholas II | ... va (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of | , the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born a granddaughter of Queen Vi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Plant | ... ian) of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, | of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard "Magic ... |
| Gorgidas | ... the leaders of the pro-Spartan government, and supported by Epaminondas and | , who led a group of young men, and a force of Athenian hoplites, they sur ... |
| Alexander | He also roused the jealousy of | 's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... 1488. The lower part of the rood screen survived the destruction visited by | and the Puritans, although some of the painted panels were disfigured |
| Albert Pike | ... number of 19th century thinkers such as William Blake, Arthur Schopenhauer, | and Madame Blavatsky studied Gnostic thought extensively and were influenc ... |
| Lorne Greene | ... or for fan apathy was the nearly complete recasting of the original series: | reprised his role as Adama (working unpaid), Herb Jefferson, Jr., played " ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... him a $20,000 per week deal to sit out a year and guest-host a few times on | 's Tonight Show |
| Giuliano Zaccardelli | On December 6, 2006, RCMP Commissioner | resigned one day after informing the House of Commons Standing Committee o ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... ,000 for facing Earnie Shavers, was underpaid $2 million for his fight with | , that King cut his purse by $700,000 for his fight with Tex Cobb and was ... |
| Franco | Spain sent many political activists into exile during | 's military regime from 1936 to his death in 1975 |
| Gerald Ford | ... n resigned under the pressure of the Watergate scandal and was succeeded by | . With the war growing incredibly unpopular at home, combined with a sever ... |
| Alan Mowbray | ... directors: Ralph Morgan (its first president), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, | (who personally funded the organization when it was first founded), Leon A ... |
| Stephen Long | ... well as from the rest of the Colorado Front Range. It is named after Major | , who explored the area in the 1820s. Longs Peak is one of the most promin ... |
| Georgios Kondylis | ... a referendum in 1924 and the Second Hellenic Republic was declared. Premier | took power in 1935 and effectively abolished the republic by bringing back ... |
| Larry Flynt | ... gpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, magazine publisher | in The People vs. Larry Flynt, country singer Dusty in A Prairie Home Comp ... |
| William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke | ... wning as King Henry III of England, she left him in the care of his regent, | and returned to France to assume control of her inheritance of Angoulême |
| Larry Flynt | ... nicality, thereby beginning his long clash with the legal system. (The real | plays the presiding judge in a cameo appearance.) Ruth Carter Stapleton (D ... |
| Lord Kitchener | ... s Act 1986. In addition, the wreck of the , which hit a mine while carrying | north to Murmansk on 5 June 1916 and sank off the west coast of the mainla ... |
| Braxton Bragg | ... art of the city. Among their targets were companies led by such officers as | , many of whose soldiers would end up in their own ranks later in the war. ... |
| Yuan Shao | ... ef He Jin (d. 189 CE), half-brother to Empress He (d. 189 CE), plotted with | (d. 202 ) to overthrow the eunuchs by having several generals march to the ... |
| 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 ... |
| George W. Bush | ... tion because its policies are much better than those of former US president | : "As long as there's a new language, we welcome it, but we want to see no ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... eacher" urban legend supposes the town is named after, as well as President | (President from 1829–1837) after whom the town's officials say it is actua ... |
| Chris Shays | ... epublicans including former Governor John G. Rowland and former Congressman | , however they have favored Democrats in recent US presidential election y ... |
| Chares of Mytilene | ... s), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of Cassandreia, | , Ptolemy I of Egypt, Duris of Samos) |
| Richard Nixon | President | dispatched more bombers in Operation Linebacker to provide air support for ... |
| Alexander Posey | ... The militia was divided into three brigades commanded by Brigadier Generals | , Milton Alexander, and James D. Henry. Since many men were assigned to lo ... |
| Frank Lautenberg | ... enger rail initiatives, notably his 2006 bipartisan introduction, with Sen. | of New Jersey, of legislation to provide 80 percent federal matching grant ... |
| Ardabur | ... n 471 an imperial conspiracy caused the death of Aspar and of his elder son | : it is possible that Patricius died on this occasion, although some sourc ... |
| Marcus Claudius Marcellus | ... three times, by assault or siege, to take this city, which was defended by | in the battle of Nola (216 BC), Battle of Nola (215 BC) and battle of Nola ... |
| King William III and Queen Mary II | Colleges created by royal charter from | of England |
| Seth Warner | ... ued. They were led by Ethan Allen, his brother Ira Allen, and their cousins | and Remember Baker. They were based at the Catamount Tavern in Bennington. ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... was half Persian, his mother Apama being one of the eastern princesses whom | had given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the deat ... |
| Helena Cain | ... the Pegasus in the latter half of Season 2, while "flashback" scenes depict | 's command in the period between the Cylon attack (shown in the 2003 mini- ... |
| 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 ... |
| Meriwether Lewis | ... ecting the Columbia with the Missouri. However, when the American explorers | and William Clark charted the vast, unmapped lands of the American West in ... |
| Erwin Rommel | ... he landings were a diversion and of keeping reserves away from the beaches. | was the primary target of the psychological aspects of this operation. Con ... |
| Onesicritus | ... urce, Plutarch. He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so | , Cleitarchus), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of ... |
| He Jin | General-in-Chief | (d. 189 CE), half-brother to Empress He (d. 189 CE), plotted with Yuan Sha ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lü Buwei | ... irst emperor was not the actual son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin. By the time | introduced the dancing girl Zhao Ji (趙姬, or the Concubine from Zhao) to th ... |
| Muhammad Ali | King entered the boxing world after convincing | to box in a charity exhibition for a local hospital in Cleveland with the ... |
| Francis, Duke of Teck | ... was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London. Her father was Prince | , the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countes ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Francis Webster | ... e Academy Award for Best Song for the title tune but lost to Sammy Fain and | for "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane |
| Juan de Amezquita | ... od the assault and was not taken. The Dutch were counterattacked by Captain | and 50 members of the civilian militia on land and by the cannons of the S ... |
| Onesicritus | ... Plutarch also makes mention of when Alexander's secondary naval commander, | , was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimach ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... dern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science". | says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chris Shays | ... controlled all five federal congressional seats. The remaining Republican, | , lost his seat to Democrat Jim Himes in the Congressional Election in 200 ... |
| John Loftus | ... ng, "any doctor would tell you that these are the symptoms of a poisoning". | reported on ABC radio that Arafat had died of AIDS. According to Loftus, t ... |
| Larry Flynt | ... y Miloš Forman about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor | , and his subsequent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, C ... |
| Charlton Heston | He worked on a 1946 U.S. Army Signal Corps film with | , and next settled in Greenwich Village and enrolled at the American Theat ... |
| Mario Lanza | ... y such diverse artists as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr., | and Chad and Jeremy. The D-flat major theme that dominates the music for t ... |
| Timothy West | Prunella is married to | , and has two sons; the elder is actor and director Samuel West. She also ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... ary 20, 1986, it is called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following President | 's 1992 proclamation, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of Janua ... |
| T.W. Higginson | ... of a bid for notoriety rather than a devotion to beauty and the aesthetic. | , a cleric and abolitionist, wrote in "Unmanly Manhood" of his general con ... |
| 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 ... |
| Themistocles | ... ey appear to have been written by fourteen individuals and bear the name of | , ostracised before 471 BC and were evidently meant for distribution to vo ... |
| Cassander | ... ed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city from the power of | and Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under De ... |
| Larry Flynt | The film opens with a 10-year-old | (Cody Block) in 1953, as selling moonshine in an Appalachian region of Ken ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lü Buwei | ... throne by his 13-year-old son. At the time, Zhao Zheng was still young, so | acted as the regent prime minister of the State of Qin, which was still wa ... |
| Roy Romanow | ... Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minister | . Pressure from provincial governments (which in Canada have jurisdiction ... |
| Peter Ustinov | At one point later in the series, | was a guest on the one-shot "upside down" episode, during which the televi ... |
| John Pope's | ... f military experience—he detached part of his corps in support of Maj. Gen. | Army of Virginia in the Northern Virginia Campaign. Telegrams extremely cr ... |
| Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | ... ldings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk | , at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the "Egyptian Hall" ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | | , in his 1940 work, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, describes a fictional worl ... |
| Ethan Allen | ... olled the area where New Hampshire grants had been issued. They were led by | , his brother Ira Allen, and their cousins Seth Warner and Remember Baker. ... |
| Park Benjamin, Jr. | ... he lawyer, writer, editor, encyclopedist and Naval Academy graduate (1867), | It was adopted by the Navy Department in 1898 due to the efforts of anothe ... |
| John H. Chafee | ... in Hartford, Connecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.) The | Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor retraces the history of ... |
| Donald Rumsfeld | ... e W. Bush administration, and has been critical of former Defense Secretary | as well |
| Lü Bu | Dong was killed by his adopted son | (d. 198 CE) in a plot hatched by Wang Yun (d. 192 CE). Emperor Xian fled f ... |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... ly twice, to Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher in 1813 and to Field Marshal | in 1918. A third award was planned for the most successful German general ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... under any circumstances, fundamentally harmless." According to Norman, even | at his most scandalous had not exerted a "power so wholly and disturbingly ... |
| Rudolf Hess | ... of my Browning"). Nor was Göring the only Nazi official to use this phrase: | used it as well, and it was a popular cliché in Germany, often in the form ... |
| Zhang Liao | ... Ford, was fought at what is currently Xiaoyao Ford (逍遥津) in Hefei. General | of the Kingdom of Wei commanding 800 picked cavalry defeated the 200,000-m ... |
| Richard Burton | ... ud played the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in productions of the play, first to | 's Melancholy Dane on the Broadway stage which Gielgud directed in 1964, t ... |
| William Robert Broughton | In October 1792, Vancouver sent Lieutenant | , his second-in-command, up the river. Broughton got as far as the Sandy R ... |
| Roy McMurtry | ... d by the federal Attorney General Jean Chrétien, Ontario's justice minister | and Saskatchewan's justice minister Roy Romanow. Pressure from provincial ... |
| Sting | ... r systems were selling for upwards of $200,000, to famous musicians such as | , Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, and to major studios the world over. ... |
| Bob Newhart | ... he couldn't book any of the old-school showbiz guests such as Don Rickles, | and the like who were fixtures on Johnny's show. Letterman was also specif ... |
| Lord Moyne | On November 6, 1944, | , British Deputy Resident Minister of State in Cairo was assassinated by L ... |
| Queen Anne | ... all is chiefly attributed to her selfish and self-serving relationship with | , she was a vibrant and intelligent woman, who loyally promoted Anne's int ... |
| Malcolm Williamson | ... European atonality and the avante-garde. Composers like Don Banks, Don Kay, | and Colin Brumby epitomise this period. Others who adhered to more traditi ... |
| Dong Zhuo | General | (d. 192 CE) found the young emperor and his brother wandering in the count ... |
| John Snagge | ... ngton There were also occasional guest stars including senior BBC announcer | , and actors Valentine Dyall, Dick Emery, Kenneth Connor, Dennis Price and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Lapierre | ... is home province, even though the majority of Canadians opposed the accord. | and his supporters, who were in favour of Martin, wore black armbands at t ... |
| John Peel | Johnson is also referred to in the | session version of the Hole song, "Olympia" (also credited as "Rock Star" ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... eek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris of the Amazons brought 300 women to | , hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he. Acco ... |
| Richard Strachey | ... mon, London, the fifth son and the eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir | , an officer in the colonial British armed forces, and his second wife, th ... |
| Hanns Johst | ... unclear; it did not originate with him. The line comes from Nazi playwright | 's play Schlageter, "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browni ... |
| Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke | ... ers during the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon. It was first awarded to | on 21 April 1813 |
| Wallace Greenslade | ... announcer Andrew Timothy was replaced (at the suggestion of John Snagge) by | , who provided spoken narrative links as well as occasionally performing s ... |
| Richard Pasco | The RSC staged revivals in 1972 at the Aldwych Theatre, with | as Becket, and at The Swan in 1993 transferring to The Pit in 1994 with Mi ... |
| James Colnett | In 1793, | described the flora and fauna of Galápagos, and suggested the islands coul ... |
| Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | ... rincess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and younger daughter of | , and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel. She was baptised in the Chapel Roy ... |
| Anthony Zinni | ... entral Intelligence Agency. Clancy has also associated himself with General | , a critic of the George W. Bush administration, and has been critical of ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger of Lauria | ... ars were at the service of King commanded by King Peter or Roger of Lauria. | had much more control over his captains than the enemies did. His crews we ... |
| William T. Sampson | ... d States Navy ships, among them the , , , , and , commanded by Rear Admiral | arrived at San Juan Bay. The USS Yale captured a Spanish freighter, the Ri ... |
| 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 ... |
| Napoleon I | ... ril 1785 – 2 September 1870) was a French general and . He was the lover of | 's stepdaughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, by whom he had ... |
| Henry Knox | ... t of Starke County. The city was founded in 1851 and is named after General | . Knox was the home of two-time Indiana Governor Henry F. Schricker |
| 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 |
| General Mannerheim | ... art in the fighting at the front of the Finnish Civil War. When the regent, | , later heard about this, he invited Gallen-Kallela to design the flags, o ... |
| Yuan Shu | ... 189 CE. Yuan Shao then besieged Luoyang's Northern Palace while his brother | (d. 199 CE) besieged the Southern Palace. On September 25 both palaces wer ... |
| Robert Carlyle | ... ff series' Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe. Stargate Universe actor | has hinted that Anderson might become a recurring face on Stargate Univers ... |
| Douglas Haig | ... attle has been a source of controversy: senior officers such as General Sir | , the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, th ... |
| John VI Kantakouzenos | On 2 February the Byzantine Empire's civil war between | and the regency ended with John VI entering Constantinople. On 8 February, ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... financial hardship and instability in the country. The United States under | supported Pakistan, and mooted a UN resolution warning India against going ... |
| Aragorn | ... y barricade was erected in place of the Great Gate. After the war on May 1, | received the Crown of Gondor in front of the gate and then entered the Cit ... |
| Saladin | ... and was also the site of the kingdom's scriptorium. The church was lost to | , along with the rest of the city, in 1187, although the treaty establishe ... |
| Robert Helpmann | ... bert Donat played Becket at the Old Vic in 1953 in a production directed by | |
| Alexander I of Russia | ... of collective security against revolution and Bonapartism inspired by Tsar | . This instance of reaction was surpassed by a movement that developed in ... |
| Terry Pratchett | ... from that he wrote the opening of what would become his collaboration with | on the comic novel Good Omens, about the impending apocalypse |
| Erich Koch | ... ed by 16 July 1938 following a decree issued by gauleiter and Oberpräsident | and initiated by Adolf Hitler. Many who would not co-operate with the rule ... |
| Richard Hawkins | The first English captain to visit the Galápagos Islands was | , in 1593. Until the early 19th century, the archipelago was often used as ... |
| 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 " ... |
| Zachary Taylor | In frustration U.S. Commander | , referring to the Saint Patrick's Battalion, ordered a squadron of the 1s ... |
| Otto Skorzeny | ... Corps (2 SS Das Reich and the 9 SS Hohenstaufen). Another unit involved was | 's SS Panzer Brigade 150 |
| C. Aubrey Smith | ... oel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, | , Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Dean Rusk | ... ed Kingdom (represented by Lord Home) and the United States (represented by | ), named the "Original Parties", at Moscow on August 5, 1963 and opened fo ... |
| Gordon MacRae | A film version of the musical was made in 1956, starring | and Shirley Jones. It follows the musical's story fairly closely, although ... |
| Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. | ... . Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and | , killed in action in World War II; and the father of Congressman Patrick ... |
| 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 ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel | , marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important mi ... |
| Richard Burton | ... return plane journey had a chance encounter with actor and fellow passenger | , who had purchased all the seats around him for solitude. Burton agreed t ... |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... d'état carried out by ARVN officers and encouraged by US officials such as | In the confusion that followed, General Duong Van Minh took control, but h ... |
| Lesley Garrett | ... of previews, starring Jeremiah James (Billy), Alexandra Silber (Julie) and | (Nettie). The production received warm to mixed reviews. It closed in June ... |
| 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 ... |
| Simon Rattle | ... ilips and Telarc Records. Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, and Sir | also made several recordings with the orchestra in the 1980s, adding to th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Clark Gable | ... io executives by singing a special arrangement of "You Made Me Love You" to | at a birthday party held by the studio for the actor; her rendition was so ... |
| Armistead Long | At 5 p.m., however, Gen. | 's ammunition train in the rear was attacked by advance elements of Forres ... |
| 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 |
| Cimon | ... Similar but more controversial claims have been made about the ostracism of | in |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Butterworth | ... nneth Williams' fiendish Citizen Camembert and his sidekick Citizen Bidet ( | ). In The Court Jester, the baby heir to the throne has a birthmark known ... |
| Benito Mussolini | ... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to | , this system politicizes everything spiritual and human |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Argentine writer | wrote his short story There Are More Things in memory of Lovecraft. Contem ... |
| 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 ... |
| Johnny Carson | ... th screenplay), Davis appeared on several talk shows and was interviewed by | , Joan Rivers, Larry King and David Letterman, discussing her career but r ... |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | ... . This directly contradicted the advice given to Hitler by Foreign Minister | (a man whom Göring loathed at the best of times) that Chamberlain would no ... |
| Frank Armstrong | ... Missouri Regiment, Crossland's Kentucky Brigade, Roddey's Alabama Brigade, | 's Mississippi Brigade, General Daniel W. Adams' state reserves, and the c ... |
| Richard Nixon | Starting in 1969 President | started the process of "Vietnamization", pulling out American forces and r ... |
| Charles II | ... recognition for help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s, | gave George Carteret, bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the A ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... "53 nations" to fight against the Spanish Nationalist forces led by General | and assisted by German and Italian forces |
| Timothy McVeigh | Within 90 minutes of the explosion, | was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hanger for driving without a ... |
| Heraclius | ... rectly replaced. He pressed Emperor Constans II to withdraw the Ecthesis of | . While his efforts made little impression on Constantinople, it increased ... |
| David Starkey | ... in, and Italian and began learning Spanish when she was Queen. According to | , Catherine was most likely better educated overall than Anne Boleyn. As a ... |
| E. Martin Browne | ... ichester, was instrumental in getting Eliot to work as writer with producer | in producing the pageant play The Rock (1934.) Bell then asked Eliot to wr ... |
| Terry Pratchett | In the 2008 TV miniseries adaptation of | 's The Colour of Magic, the characters of Rincewind and Twoflower parody t ... |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | The Town is named for Commodore | , the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie |
| Jon Riley | ... eir ruddy, sun-burnt complexions and red hair color. They were commanded by | , an Irish artilleryman and veteran Non-commissioned officer of the Britis ... |
| Michael Palin | ... radio and played with the very nature of the medium." This is reiterated by | and John Cleese in their contributions to Ventham's (2002) book. Cleese re ... |
| Katsura Tarō | ... y indemnity as well. The frustration caused the Hibiya riots, and collapsed | 's cabinet on January 7, 1906. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 was fough ... |
| Gilad Shalit | On June 25, two Israeli soldiers were killed and another, | , abducted following an incursion by Hamas. In response, the Israeli milit ... |
| Don Herbert | ... out various civic problems with righteous indignation. The second guest was | , TV's "Mr. Wizard", and the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fes ... |
| Michel Ney | ... same day, the left wing of the Armée du Nord, under the command of Marshal | , succeeded in stopping any of Wellington's forces going to aid Blücher's ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... ng the 1970s about 163,000 people immigrated to Israel from the USSR. Later | , in his capacity as Minister of Housing & Construction and member of the ... |
| Richard Blumenthal | Connecticut's United States Senators are | (Democrat) and Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut for Lieberman, Independent ... |
| Nicias | ... erbolos is pictured urging the people to expel one of his rivals, but they, | and Alcibiades, laying aside their own hostility for a moment, use their c ... |
| Albert I of Belgium | ... landers - Advisory Committee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium - | - Albert II of Belgium - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan ... |
| German Emperor Frederick III | ... The tsar then sent emissaries to Princess Margaret of Prussia, daughter of | and sister of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Nicholas flatly declared that he ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gary Lineker | After the 1986 FIFA World Cup, English top scorer | was signed along with goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta, but the team could no ... |
| George Rogers Clark | The city fell on July 4, 1778 to | and his force of 200 men including Captain Leonard Helm during one of the ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... for the "complete solution of the Jewish Question", as he issued a memo to | to organize the practical details. Göring, who issued this memo in place o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Buzz Aldrin's | ... TV. In a typically surreal SCTV sketch, the play is presented by NASA and " | Mercury III Players," with space-suited astronauts as the actors, and proc ... |
| Ed McMahon | ... te Night followed The Tonight Show, Letterman couldn't have a sidekick like | , and Paul Shaffer's band couldn't include a horn section like Doc Severin ... |
| Midge Ure | ... Kids, a New Wave power pop band, with himself as bass guitarist and singer, | (guitarist, singer and keyboard player), Steve New (guitarist and singer) ... |
| John Antill | ... continued to build, composers looked to their surroundings for inspiration. | in his ballet Corroboree, Peter Sculthorpe and others began to incorporate ... |
| Ion Mihai Pacepa | ... racted AIDS as a result of homosexual affairs with his bodyguards, based on | 's book Red Horizons in which Pacepa reported that he had a conversation w ... |
| Charles II of England | ... stocrats. Eventually the bones were gathered up and placed in an urn, which | ordered interred in Westminster Abbey in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Ch ... |
| Ze'ev Almog | ... 00 ton capacity, sank after hitting mines in the Gulf. According to Admiral | , the Israeli Navy escorted tankers from the Gulf to Eilat throughout the ... |
| Gilad Shalit | ... entative peace deal; Hamas also hinted that it would discuss the release of | . Israeli sources state that Hamas also committed itself to enforce the ce ... |
| King George V | ... ed in the town – and it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 | and Queen Mary visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched a ... |
| Charles Lindbergh | ... l as a monoplane model—the Lockheed Sirius, the first of which was flown by | . The name was also adopted by Mitsubishi Motors for the Mitsubishi Sirius ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Brower | ... ew that it had much greater scenic value than Echo Park. Sierra Club leader | fought the dam both during the construction and for many years afterwards ... |
| Yuan Xi | ... with his brothers over the family inheritance. His brothers Yuan Shang and | were killed in 207 CE by Gongsun Kang (d. 221 CE), who sent their heads to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lü Buwei | ... ng Zhuangxiang of Qin. King Zhuangxiang of Qin saw a concubine belonging to | , and she bore the first emperor. At birth, he was given the personal name ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Mason was the flugelhorn soloist for the world premiere of | 's Symphony No. 9 on 2 April 1958. The novelty of the flugelhorn (often se ... |
| Dean Rusk | ... neral in which Texas Congressman J. J. Pickle and former Secretary of State | eulogized him at the Capitol. The final services took place on January 25. ... |
| George Vancouver | ... an exploration of, and ownership claim to, the region. Royal Navy commander | sailed past the mouth in April 1792 and observed a change in the water's c ... |
| Charles II of England | ... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by King | through the Connecticut Charter of 1662 |
| Edward Heath | ... 1974 general election when Harold Wilson was appointed Prime Minister after | resigned the post following his failure to form a coalition. Although Wils ... |
| William Camden | The antiquarian | (1551–1623) suggested that the name Cardiff may derive from "Caer-Didi" (" ... |
| Laurens Reael | ... mber 12, 1616. Here they were enthusiastically welcomed by Governor-General | , admiral Steven Verhagen, and the governor of Ambon, Jasper Jansz |
| Horace | ... tance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of | , line 263 |
| Nick Fury | ... ences his fights with Captain America during World War 2, but is stopped by | , Captain America, and Falcon |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... the "Tree" in the following centuries were John Bradshaw, Henry Ireton and | , who were already dead but were disinterred and hanged at Tyburn in Janua ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sir Albert Hime | ... Irish prime ministers: Sir Thomas Upington, "The Afrikaner from Cork"; and | , from Kilcoole in County Wicklow. Irish Cape Governors included Lord Maca ... |
| Joachim Murat | Meanwhile in Italy, | , whom the Allies had allowed to remain King of Naples after Napoleon's in ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Crusading against the corruption of | 's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's ca ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... ung parliaments. The first followed the February 1974 general election when | was appointed Prime Minister after Edward Heath resigned the post followin ... |
| Henry Ireton | ... ls suspended from the "Tree" in the following centuries were John Bradshaw, | and Oliver Cromwell, who were already dead but were disinterred and hanged ... |
| Erhard Milch | ... intervened to shield individual Jews from harm, (including his own deputy, | ), sometimes in exchange for a bribe, sometimes in response to a request f ... |
| Yuan Tan | ... the Battle of Guandu in 200 CE. After Yuan died, Cao killed Yuan Shao's son | (173–205 CE), who had fought with his brothers over the family inheritance ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Rushworth Jellicoe | ... main base of the British Grand Fleet, even though it was also unfortified. | , admiral of the Grand Fleet, was constantly nervous about potential subma ... |
| Sam Shepard | In the 2011 movie Blackthorn, | plays an elderly Butch Cassidy who has survived the Sundance Kid and elude ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... Martin Celebrity Roasts, most notably at the roasts for Sammy Davis Jr. and | . In 1975, he released a comedy album that was taped live at Mr. Kelly's i ... |
| Brian Aldiss | Most of Wyndham's novels have a contemporary 1950s English setting. | , another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some ... |
| Colonel Andrew Rollo | ... 758). In the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign (1758) General Jeffery Amherst ordered | to capture the island. Many Acadians died in the expulsion enroute to Fran ... |
| Elvis Presley | ... y Hathaway, Michael Bolton, Bob Dylan, Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro, | , Ray Charles (1967), Marvin Gaye, Daffy Duck, Jan & Dean, The Sylvers, We ... |
| George W. Bush | ... by the Supreme Court of the United States and looks at the track record of | as Governor of Texas |
| Charles Sargeant Jagger | ... opposite Rothsay Gardens. The memorial was designed in 1921 by the sculptor | and depicts a Knight vanquishing a dragon. The inscription read |
| Henry Atkinson | ... nominees. General Gaines was ill, and so his subordinate, Brigadier General | , received the assignment. Atkinson was a middle-aged officer who had ably ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Edgar O'Ballance | ... third parties affected by the Arab oil embargo. This claim was disputed by | , who claimed that no oil went to Israel during the blockade, and the Eila ... |
| Lü Buwei | A rich merchant in the State of Han, named | , met Master Yiren (公子異人). Lü Buwei's manipulation helped Yiren become Kin ... |
| Pete Waterman | Record producer | is also from the city and is president of Coventry Bears |
| Vo Nguyen Giap | In 1972, General | launched the "Easter Offensive", an all-out attack against South Vietnam f ... |
| George Rogers Clark | ... here the Potawatomi lived as part of the British Empire. Twenty years later | overran the British, claiming the land for the new and independent country ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yuan Shikai | ... ional president of the republic. However, the presidency was later given to | , a former Qing general, who had ensured the defection of the entire Beiya ... |
| Patrick Stewart | ... ile. Expanded to the nth degree. Taken to infinity. Overlaid on the back of | 's head. |
| Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery | ... en travelling on the Continent, through his freemasonry, through his cousin | , through Bishop Atterbury, through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of Yo ... |
| Bob Hope | ... ure as the Biblical strongman. However, following her comedic turn opposite | in My Favorite Spy (1951), her career went into decline. She appeared only ... |
| Antonia Fraser | ... Baron Burgh in 1529, at the age of seventeen. However since the release of | The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six ... |
| Bernard Miles | ... e, and actors Valentine Dyall, Dick Emery, Kenneth Connor, Dennis Price and | . The traditional plots involved Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty getting Nedd ... |
| Sam Steele | ... nadian west, and members wore a Stetson type hat on patrol and around camp. | is often credited with introducing the Stetson-type hat, and when he left ... |