| Foxy Brown | ... ssy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Da Brat, Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, M.I.A., | , and Lisa Lopes from TLC. As these all are hearing rap artists, there is ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... , and imperfect but clear English on the other") to United States President | , proposing an "alliance" between the two democratic nations and offering ... |
| Dick Clark | ... and Japan. People! continued to tour extensively, appearing three times on | 's American Bandstand, and also on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show |
| Josiah Wedgwood | ... n of a British horticultural society was suggested by John Wedgwood (son of | ) in 1800. His aims were fairly modest: he wanted to hold regular meetings ... |
| Mohammad Najibullah | ... n 1989, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime, then headed by | , proved unexpectedly capable of holding its own against the mujahideen. B ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fran Drescher | ... Raton is almost idiomatically used for indicating retirement. For example, | 's character in The Nanny is always pushing her parents to move to Boca, a ... |
| 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 ... |
| WIA | ... e regiment took a total of 1803 casualties, of which 158 were KIA, 557 were | (490 of whom recovered to some extent), and 1088 MIA |
| Greta Garbo | ... by Frances Marion was released in 1930 directed by Clarence Brown, starring | , Charles Bickford, George F. Marion and Marie Dressler. This pre-Code fil ... |
| Luke, the companion of Paul | ... was written by John the apostle, and that the Gospel of Luke was written by | |
| Jan-Carl Raspe | ... s later, in a night that became known as "Death Night", Ensslin, Baader and | were found dead in the high security block of Stammheim Prison. Like Meinh ... |
| Edward V of England | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to | and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the onl ... |
| Johnny Adair | ... the time of the Good Friday Agreement. He supported the leadership against | and has been associated with the magazine 'Warrior', which makes the case ... |
| Peter Stuyvesant | ... ranch of the Lenni-Lenape in 1658 by New Netherland colony Director-General | , and became part of Pavonia, New Netherland. The boundaries of the purcha ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
| Bahá'u'lláh | Through the influence of Bahiyyih Khanum, the eldest daughter of | , everyone in the household initially rallied around Shoghi Effendi after ... |
| Ronnie Hawkins | ... Band gradually came together as a part of Toronto-based, rockabilly singer | 's backing group, the Hawks: Helm, an original Hawk who journeyed with Haw ... |
| Fulke Greville | ... erary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets | , Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictiti ... |
| Mehmet Ali Ağca | ... uards. After the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II by | , the guards were given enhanced training in unarmed combat and firearm us ... |
| Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to Edward V of England and | . The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabet ... |
| John Kerry | In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 6.6% margin over George W. Bush, with Kerry carryi ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... originally an olive green with matching company logotype all in lower case. | insisted on promoting the color capability of the Apple II by putting rain ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... guards, and palace guards. After the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt on | by Mehmet Ali Ağca, the guards were given enhanced training in unarmed com ... |
| John Fisher | ... opponents to the Henrician Reformation, such as St. Thomas More and Bishop | , who were executed for their opposition. There was also a growing party o ... |
| M. Jeff Thompson | St. Joseph Mayor | , William H. Russell and Alexander Majors gave speeches before the mochila ... |
| Galeazzo Ciano | ... h a golden clasp, smoking an unusually large pipe. Italian Foreign Minister | once noted Göring wearing a fur coat that looked like what "a high grade p ... |
| Albert Speer | During his post-war interrogation, | , Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich, indicated ... |
| George Orwell | ... rld War I, with the creation of modest dwellings of the garden suburb type. | , who adopted this pseudonym while living here, lived and worked in 1932-3 ... |
| John Denver | ... music. It started with pop music singers like Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, | , Olivia Newton-John, Anne Murray, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas, The Bellamy ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Orwell | ... monstrated in the documentary “The Corporation”. In the early 20th-century, | originally wrote a preface for his book “”, which focused on the British s ... |
| Ethan Allen | ... he omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that the being cannot lift it?" | 's Reason addresses the topics of original sin, theodicy and several other ... |
| Thomas More | After his return he settled in London—where he became friends with | —as a private teacher of grammar, and is believed to have been the first w ... |
| Harry L. Straus | With the death of EMCC's chairman and chief financial backer | in a plane crash on October 25, 1949, EMCC was sold to typewriter maker Re ... |
| St Edward the Martyr | ... he solemn translation of the relics of King Eadward II, soon to be known as | , from their grave at Wareham to a shrine at Shaftesbury Abbey. In 984, in ... |
| Marcel Cerdan | ... the world title on June 16, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, defeating Frenchman | . LaMotta won the first round (also knocking Cerdan down), Cerdan the seco ... |
| William Tyndale | ... his war against Protestantism. Brian Moynahan, in his book God's Messenger: | , Thomas More and the Writing of the English Bible, takes a similarly crit ... |
| Charles Bickford | ... rion was released in 1930 directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, | , George F. Marion and Marie Dressler. This pre-Code film used the marketi ... |
| Phil Lamason | While at Buchenwald, Yeo-Thomas met Squadron leader | , the officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen being held there. At great ri ... |
| Tom Green | ... wie Mandell, Rich Little, Norm Macdonald, Harland Williams, Shaun Majumder, | , Jeremy Hotz, Angelo Tsarouchas, Dave Foley, Jon Dore, Jay Sankey and Bre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Karl Liebknecht | ... claimed, away, at the Berliner Stadtschloss. The proclamation was issued by | , co-leader (with Rosa Luxemburg) of the communist Spartakusbund (Spartaci ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter | ... E.R. Dodds draws a comparison with Jesus's prophecy at the Last Supper that | would deny him three times. Jesus knows that Peter will do this, but reade ... |
| Thomas More | ... Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (1494), Erasmus' Moriae Encomium (1509) and | 's Utopia (1516) |
| 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 ... |
| Sir Ian Holm | ... y various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, | , Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Best Actor. Co-star Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husband | for him, albeit unsuccessfully |
| Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit is a serial novel by | published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the ... |
| Denzil Holles | ... nt reached Parliament ahead of him, and the wanted men – Pym, John Hampden, | , William Strode and Sir Arthur Haselrig – slipped away shortly before Cha ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... h literature in the half century 1575 – 1625. For example the 1603 death of | falls in the middle of Shakespeare's career as dramatist: he is both an El ... |
| John Wayne | ... y, Johnson, Gibson, Graves, and Tiny Tim all returning for the festivities. | was also on hand for his first cameo appearance since 1968 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of | |
| Abraham Lincoln | On August 27, 1856, | spoke at a rally in Bronson Park, promoting the presidential candidacy of ... |
| Mikhail Bakhtin | The twentieth-century Russian literary theorist | characterised Hoffmann's works as Menippea, essentially satirical and self ... |
| Mike Todd | ... m, German Waldheim (now merged into Forest Home), Jewish Waldheim (producer | is buried in Beth Aaron there), Woodlawn (including Showmen's Rest), and C ... |
| Saint Peter | The Cathedral Church of | , Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high ... |
| Al Haynes | ... d the hydraulic flight controls inoperable. The flight crew, led by Captain | and assisted by a senior pilot flying as a passenger (Dennis E. "Denny" Fi ... |
| Howard Hughes | In 1950 Rank sold Simmons's contract to | , who then owned the RKO studio in Hollywood. That year she was voted the ... |
| Cole Porter | ... e nomination for Best Actress, for her performance in the 2004 biography of | , De-Lovely, opposite |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... hard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, | , Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli ... |
| George Harrison | ... eld at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 29 November 2002 as a memorial to | on the first anniversary of his death. The event was organized by Harrison ... |
| Ed Cole | ... hevrolet was having financial and organizational troubles, and GM president | needed a first-class manager in that position to sort things out — company ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... ry, but the word was considered vulgar. (Note the exclamation by Estella in | 's novel Great Expectations: "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!") Howe ... |
| Władysław Bartoszewski | ... Home Army was awarded Polish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: | , Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Wol ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... rnment. The rigidity of interpretive possibilities reached its height under | |
| Cathy Smith | In 1963, Levon Helm met the groupie | , with whom he and other members of the Band would have a long association |
| Bertrand Russell | The philosopher | used the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ... |
| Al Capone | ... to pursue gangsters for tax evasion, he enabled the prosecution of mobster | . He appointed a commission that set aside 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km²) of ... |
| Night of the Long Knives | The Leibstandarte demonstrated their loyalty in June 1934 during the | , the purge of the Sturmabteilung (SA). The SA had over two million member ... |
| Dowager Lady Brabourne | ... xwell, a 15-year-old youth from County Fermanagh who was a crew member. The | , his elder daughter's 83-year-old mother-in-law, was seriously injured in ... |
| Ed Cole | ... assigned to Chevrolet by corporate management, specifically by GM president | , just weeks before DeLorean's 1969 arrival as Chevrolet division's genera ... |
| Nicholas Katzenbach | | (1964–1965), Ramsey Clark (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as ... |
| Tippi Hedren | ... consciousness and unconscious. Naomi Watts, who modeled Betty on Doris Day, | , and Kim Novak, observed that Betty is a thrill-seeker, someone "who find ... |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... its best to avoid any application of the law of the State". In April 2010, | and Richard Dawkins wanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humani ... |
| William Wallace | Bruce's army, like | 's before him, was chiefly composed of infantry armed with long spears. It ... |
| Sam Taylor-Wood | ... nstallation artist Tacita Dean, sculptor Cathy de Monchaux and video artist | . Ofili became the first painter to win the Turner Prize since Howard Hodg ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... said that his religion was the "most important thing" in his life. In 1998, | made him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KSG), the highest ... |
| Sir Robert Walpole | ... in personal union. Power shifted towards George's ministers, especially to | , who is often considered the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... pple has paid high attention to its quality of packaging, partly because of | ' personal preferences and opinions on packaging and final product appeara ... |
| 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 |
| Ulrike Meinhof | ... d when the appeal was denied. Baader was arrested on 3 April 1970. Ensslin, | , who was at that time a well-known leftist polemicist, and two other wome ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zofia Kossak-Szczucka | ... olish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, | , Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
| Rosa Luxemburg | ... adtschloss. The proclamation was issued by Karl Liebknecht, co-leader (with | ) of the communist Spartakusbund (Spartacist League), a group of a few hun ... |
| Buddy Holly | ... aley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, | & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis |
| Pol Pot | ... Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by | , Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea w ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... aid it was very gripping and scary despite some minor unanswered questions. | gave the film "Thumbs Down" and felt it was boring and "borderline ridicul ... |
| 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 ... |
| `Abdu'l-Bahá | ... elopments among family members. Ruhi Afnan, Shoghi Effendi's cousin through | 's daughter Tuba |
| Billy Whelan | ... Columba's Convent School, Scoil Chaitríona and St Mary's Secondary School. | , one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the M ... |
| Joseph Stalin | During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and | formed a ruling 'triumvirate' (or 'troika') in the Communist Party, playin ... |
| Bahá'u'lláh | ... om sunrise to sunset during the Bahá'í month of `Ala' (March 2 – March 20). | established the guidelines in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. It is the complete abstai ... |
| Daniel Balavoine | ... th two different male vocalists in different languages, including Frenchman | on the track "Belle" and on the English version "Time" with B. A. Robertso ... |
| Earl of Leicester | ... (said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign), and the | 's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575 |
| Hjalmar Schacht | ... ritish Treasury. He was a close friend of the German Central Bank president | and the godfather to one of Schacht's grandchildren. Both were members of ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and | . The former visit came amidst an historical setting after the fall of com ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... ok of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as | , Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albe ... |
| Shirley Temple | The 7th Annual Academy Awards recognized | with the Academy's first Juvenile Award to honor "her outstanding contribu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Overbury | He was implicated in the murder of Sir | , but was eventually exonerated, as it was found that he had unwittingly d ... |
| Cindy Lou Hensley | In April 1979, McCain met | , a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, whose father had founded a large beer d ... |
| 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 ... |
| Merle Haggard | ... s Vegas, The Cadets, Roger Miller, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, | , Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, Suzi Quatro, Van Halen, Jimi Hendri ... |
| Hamdi Quran | He was assassinated by | of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This was one ... |
| Chiura Obata | ... o study Asian culture and languages. He studied ink and wash painting under | and Tang Dynasty poetry under Ch'en Shih-hsiang. Snyder continued to spend ... |
| Al Capone | ... ohibition in the US, which led to huge bootlegging profits for the likes of | , is often cited. One may also point to the success of the decriminalizati ... |
| another brother | ... d brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and | were executed for treason. Edward's two sons were imprisoned and disappear ... |
| Audie Murphy | ... ation of the 1961 NBC western television series, Whispering Smith, starring | and Guy Mitchell |
| Elizabeth I | ... travelled to France as part of the embassy to negotiate a marriage between | and the Duc D'Alençon. He spent the next several years in mainland Europe, ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ich was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of | ) and "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the bl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Herbert Marshall | The reporter's first assignment is Stephen Fisher ( | ), leader of the Universal Peace Party, at an event held by Fisher in hono ... |
| Dick Clark | ... g by Capitol, including the creation of a promotional film that appeared on | 's American Bandstand, "I Love You" became a hit single, selling more than ... |
| Night of the Long Knives | The | between 30 June and 2 July 1934 saw the killing of approximately 82 SA men ... |
| Saint Andrew | The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and | , whose statues look down from the three high gables of the West Front, wa ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 1974–92, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of | from June 1983 to October 1989. He was made a life peer in 1992 |
| 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 ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... re chanting in Skanderbeg Square Baker's famous saying of "Freedom works!". | became the first leading religious figure to visit Tirana after Mother Ter ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... eron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003). Film critic | called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". ... |
| Alfred Dreyfus | ... ant part in the Dreyfus Affair. He signed Emile Zola's manifesto supporting | , a Jewish army officer who had been falsely convicted of espionage. Franc ... |
| David II of Scotland | A number of British monarchs were born in Dunfermline Palace. These include | (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | The philosopher | is often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of des ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... the cult of the Martyr King; however, no other eyewitness source, including | , records this. Henry's account was written during the Restoration, some 1 ... |
| Bahá'u'lláh | ... ament of `Abdu'l-Bahá states that Guardians should be lineal descendants of | , that each Guardian must select his successor during his lifetime, and th ... |
| Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale | ... ed "Khalistan House", he remained in contact with the Sikh religious leader | . Chauhan also maintained contacts among various groups in Canada, the USA ... |
| Henry VI | ... st force. The Tower was damaged by artillery fire but only surrendered when | was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of Richard Nevill ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward V | ... ent is one of the most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. | 's uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester was declared Lord Protector while the ... |
| Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale | ... y 1980s saw the increasing involvement of the radical Sikh religious leader | in the Punjab politics. Indira Gandhi's Congress(I) party supported Bhindr ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Churchill | | died at Windsor in 1722, and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Their ... |
| Peter Falk | ... s mortgaged his house and borrowed from family and friends, one of whom was | , who liked the screenplay so much he invested $500,000 in the project. Th ... |
| Girolamo Savonarola | ... the courtly poet Girolamo Benivieni, and probably the young Dominican monk | . For the rest of his life he remained very close friends with all three, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... n County is Arkansas's 65th county, formed on March 28, 1871, and named for | , the sixteenth President of the United States. It is an alcohol prohibiti ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | In the Marxist tradition, the Italian writer | elaborated the role of cultural hegemony in ideology as a means of bolster ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Stuyvesant | In 1647, | was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony. New Amster ... |
| Jan Hus | Among the most important rectors of Czech Universities were reformer | , physician Jan Jesenius and representative of Enlightenment Josef Vratisl ... |
| Marie Fredriksson | ... 9 Tour, with a band that included Helena Josefsson on backing vocals, while | joined him on stage twice, in Amsterdam and Stockholm. This was eight year ... |
| Lee Boyd Malvo | ... purportedly under mind control, including Patty Hearst, Steven Fishman and | , have not been successful |
| Charles Dickens | ... ced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), | (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), ... |
| Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
| Karl Radek | ... munist revolt in Germany in the fall of 1923, but he managed to shift it to | , the Comintern's representative in Germany in 1923 |
| 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 ... |
| Al Capone | ... , and other portions such as Austin were annexed into the city of Chicago . | built his criminal empire in Chicago before moving to Cicero to escape the ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... ion of Martial Law on 1972 - Martial Law in the Philippines, then President | used the AFP to arrest, torture or kill his political opponents and theref ... |
| Johnny Adair | ... lly coined in 1997 when members of the LVF carried out attacks on behalf of | 's "UFF 2nd Battalion, 'C' Company (Shankill Road)" and vice-versa. The re ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by | in September 2006 |
| 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 ... |
| Menachem Begin | ... f the explosion, so that adequate time was available to evacuate the hotel. | , for example, writes that the telephone message was delivered 25–27 minut ... |
| Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
| Eric V of Denmark | ... nt Danish throne, as king Christian I. He was a cognatic descendant of King | through his second daughter Richeza. The throne was first offered by the S ... |
| 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 ... |
| Menachem Begin | ... th the army were released and allowed to stay in Palestine. One of them was | , whose arrival in Palestine created new-found expectations within the Irg ... |
| September 11th Victim Compensation Fund | ... ormer chief of staff Kenneth Feinberg as Special Master of the government's | . Kennedy maintained an ongoing bond with the Massachusetts 9/11 families ... |
| `Abdu'l-Bahá | ... in the household initially rallied around Shoghi Effendi after the death of | . For several years his brother Husayn and several cousins served him as s ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... ian Pontigny Abbey in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, | and Stephen Langton |
| Alexander II | ... Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to | |
| Roger Ebert | ... s and currently holds a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Film critic | named The Right Stuff best film of the year, and wrote, "it joins a short ... |
| Baldwin of Flanders | ... married to Maria Komnene, empress in the 1170s and 80s. Instead they placed | on the throne. Boniface went on to found the Kingdom of Thessalonica, a va ... |
| 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 |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... s daughters from his first two marriages, who later became Queen Mary I and | . She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son Edward, Prince o ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... r only color film made during the height of her career. To play the elderly | , Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited o ... |
| Merle Haggard | ... ore recent Bakersfield sound. The latter was largely limited to Buck Owens, | , and a few other bands. In the process, country and western music as a ge ... |
| Arthur Whitten Brown | ... Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir John Cockcroft, aeroplane pioneer Sir | , and designer of the Lancaster bomber Roy Chadwick, while famous academic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Greta Garbo | ... se, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and | in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... om novels, religion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially | , T. S. Eliot, and (and other Russian novelists) |
| 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 ... |
| Charlie Watts | ... xperience for all of them. The line-up did not at that time include drummer | and bassist Bill Wyman. By 1963, they were finding their stride as well as ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Act of Incorporation, signed by President | on March 3, 1863, created the National Academy of Sciences and named 50 ch ... |
| Otis Redding | ... he concept albums of the Beatles and the Who and southern soul artists like | and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Parliament is a funk/R&B band whose influences ... |
| Thomas Cranmer | ... II's commissioners in the Dissolution of the monasteries. It was awarded to | in 1542, but reverted back to the crown when Cranmer was executed in 1556. ... |
| Ammar al-Baluchi | ... hhi returned to Germany in March 2000, and began to learn to fly airplanes. | , one of the most important 9/11 financial organizers, bought a Boeing 747 ... |
| Roy Chadwick | ... lane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber | , while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... protected by a bubble of clear bulletproof glass, such as the Popemobile of | – built following an attempt at his life. Politicians often resent this ne ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... predecessor Rocky II, and became the fourth highest grossing film of 1982. | and Gene Siskel attributed the film's success to the positive reaction fro ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and | was serializing Oliver Twist. The majority of the book takes place sevente ... |
| Al Capone | ... era, the city's fortunes at first declined, and it soon became a haven for | and other mobsters. Shortly thereafter, it became the beautiful, natural, ... |
| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | In July 2010, after the visit of Brazilian president, | , the sale of a Barroso-class corvette to be constructed in Brazil was ann ... |
| Winfield Scott | ... ners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights | ;urged American reprisal, but none was carried out |
| John II of France | ... mongst Edward's successes were the battles of Crécy and Poitiers where King | was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King David II of Scotland at Ne ... |
| Gerard Sagredo | ... y to evangelize his kingdom. Saint Astricus served as his adviser and Saint | as the tutor for his son Emeric (also rendered as Imre) |
| Mohamedou Ould Slahi | ... ya to fight against the Russians, but were convinced by Khalid al-Masri and | at the last minute to change their plans. They instead traveled to Afghani ... |
| Carl von Clausewitz | ... ance in the defence of Riga against the French army, where he meets General | of the Prussian Army |
| Steve Jobs | ... er engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with | and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak created the Apple I computer and co-created the ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... G (13 September 1521 – 4 August 1598) was an English , the chief advisor of | for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) ... |
| Charles Dickens | | makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mu ... |
| Polycarp's | ... and 142 according to others), Irenaeus is thought to have been a Greek from | hometown of Smyrna in Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey. Unlike many of his co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Derry Castle | ... s radical friends were an influence. This was followed by 'The Wreck of the | ' and then 'Golden Gully.' Prefixed to the former poem was an editorial 'n ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | ... antic before the U-boat blockade began, and joined his father-in-law, Rabbi | , in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Seeking to contribut ... |
| Albert Speer | ... his part of the trial, Göring claimed that he was not antisemitic; however, | reported that in the prison yard at Nuremberg, after someone made a remark ... |
| Edward II | ... and Aylsham webb or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of | and III |
| Roland Barthes | ... c tradition of literary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, | , Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| Harold Shipman | ... de Kathy Staff (aka Nora Batty from the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine) and | , the UK's most prolific serial killer |
| JonBenét Ramsey | ... e lived there off and on in the '90s. John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of | , lived in the area in the early 2000s. Former Major League Baseball pitch ... |
| Sharon Stone | ... he 1989 movie Beyond the Stars starring Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, and | . Parts of Tom and Huck (1995) were filmed in Cathedral Caverns, located n ... |
| Henry VI | ... s royal motto was modus et ordo, or "method and order"). The latter days of | 's government had been marked by a general breakdown in law and order, as ... |
| Justice Sandra Day O'Connor | ... ote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Harry Blackmun and | joined in full, and Justice John Paul Stevens joined in part. Justice Blac ... |
| Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | ... dest daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and the sister of | . His younger sister, Mary Sidney, married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pemb ... |
| George Jung | ... and Lost It All for the screenplay. It is based on the real life stories of | , Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, and the Medellín Cartel. The film's title ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... e leader of the best known Savoy house band during the mid-1930s. A teenage | , fresh from a talent show win at the Apollo Theater in 1934, became its v ... |
| Charles Dickens | The number of visitors increased, including Queen Victoria and | . Work was undertaken during the 19th century to protect the stonework fro ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... last Republican presidential candidate to win a majority in the county was | , a Californian, in 1984 |
| Gloria Stuart | ... Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Stanley, | , Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, Warren William, and Robert Young |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as Albert Camus and | . In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; however, when he def ... |
| 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 ... |
| were captured | ... volvement. The helicopter came down intact, and both the pilot and co-pilot | . The AH-64D was destroyed via air strike the following day |
| Gerry Adams | ... ough the move caused some controversy in the UK due to his connections with | of the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin. Later in March, a bill ... |
| John McCain | ... t known resident is U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate | . McCain's home in the community, referred to in the media as his "Sedona ... |
| Pol Pot | ... Tensions peaked when Vietnam invaded Cambodia, an ally of China, to depose | , resulting in a Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979. In 1978-79, some 450 ... |
| Lucien Bouchard | ... om the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founder | was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government ... |
| Harold Lloyd | ... . Bushman, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Tom Mix, Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, | , Lester Cuneo, Eugene Pallette, Florence Oberle, Virginia Valli, Edward A ... |
| Kirk Douglas | ... got the part of Dr. David Banner's alter ego. Schwarzenegger appeared with | and Ann-Margret in the 1979 comedy The Villain. In 1980 he starred in a bi ... |
| Beanie Sigel | ... Tang members and affiliates, as well as Slick Rick, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes, | and more. On September 28, 2009 Raekwon was named the #10 Hottest MC in th ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saint Andrew | ... Portus Victoriae Iuliobrigensium. Its present name is possibly derived from | (Sanct Ander) or Saint Emeterio (Santemter, Santenter, Santander), a marty ... |
| Jaco Pastorius | ... t Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers | and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the up ... |
| Jacques Chirac | ... Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic called the war illegal. French President | commented on the statement of the ten Eastern European countries saying: " ... |
| Carlos Lehder | ... enplay. It is based on the real life stories of George Jung, Pablo Escobar, | , and the Medellín Cartel. The film's title comes from a slang term for co ... |
| David II of Scotland | ... here King John II of France was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King | at Neville's Cross. During this period, the Tower of London held many nobl ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... served as American Consul in Sweden during the administration of President | , to be State Immigration Commissioner. On March 23, 1870 the Legislature ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... d "cinema at its finest". In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, | , who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Phil Hartman | ... e of Saturday Night Live, Kirk (guest host William Shatner) directs McCoy ( | ) to help a man who's choking. McCoy snaps, "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, no ... |
| Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi | ... Ould Abdel Aziz led the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état that toppled President | . Following the latter coup, Abdel Aziz became President of the High Counc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph LaMotta | ... Jake LaMotta, Jr., died of liver cancer. In September 1998, his younger son | died in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia, Can ... |
| 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 |
| Walter Stewart | ... 15th century James I consigned several of his political enemies, including | to The Bass. In this period, many members of Clan MacKay ended up here, in ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by | |
| Bob Marley | ... Paul Blackman, Earl Sixteen, Roman Stewart, Lacksley Castell, The Heptones, | , Ricky Grant, Delroy Wilson, Junior Delgado, Horace Andy and Freddy McKay ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward II's | During | reign (1307–1327) there was relatively little activity at the Tower of Lon ... |
| 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 ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... rs' worthless recognitions of the Pragmatic Sanction that made his daughter | his heir. The most notable instance of this was in the War of the Polish S ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... ies were overrun by the Austrians and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of | . Therefore the emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... ion team of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the creative force behind | 's and Tammi Terrell's hit duets and Diana Ross & the Supremes' "Some Thin ... |
| Alan Turing | ... ombinator is the Turing fixed-point combinator (named after its discoverer, | ) |
| Moussa Traoré | ... up a 14-member Military Committee for National Liberation (CMLN), with Lt. | as president. The military leaders attempted to pursue economic reforms, b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | United States President | ordered that the plane be intercepted by F-14 Tomcats from the VF-74 "BeDe ... |
| Roger Ebert | | referred to the city in his review of as a "spectacular achievement", and ... |
| 1st Viscount Nelson | ... ent for such remainders for military commanders: past examples included the | and the 1st Earl Roberts |
| Bertrand Russell | | named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Harrison | ... nd also influenced their musical contemporaries, with both Eric Clapton and | citing the Band as a major influence on their musical direction in the lat ... |
| James Brown | ... part of the culture was initiated by Kool DJ Herc in 1972 using breaks from | , The Incredible Bongo Band and English rock group Babe Ruth in his block ... |
| Date Masamune | ... when Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Japanese samurai and ambassador, sent to Rome by | , landed at Saint-Tropez for a few days. In 1636, Guillaume Courtet, a Fre ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... ersions had been made, by an eclectic mix of artists including Cilla Black, | , Tose Proeski, The Mamas and the Papas and Barry McGuire, The Seekers, Jo ... |
| `Abdu'l-Bahá | ... ' or, in Arabic 'naqid al-mithaq' [pl. Naqidu 'l-mithaq], was first used by | to describe the partisans of his brother Mírzá Muhammad `Alí, who challeng ... |
| Alan Blumlein | ... 1936 until closedown of the Crystal Palace 405-line transmissions in 1985). | carried out his research into binaural sound and stereo gramophone recordi ... |
| Akmyrat Rejepow | ... 's extensive cult of personality. According to official Turkmen news media, | , the head of the presidential security service was removed from office by ... |
| Nancy Reagan | ... of man you could like even if he was your adversary" and former First Lady | said she was "terribly saddened." She went on: "Given our political differ ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
| Menachem Begin | ... aganah General Headquarters, sent a letter to the then leader of the Irgun, | , which instructed him to "carry out the operation at the "chick", code fo ... |
| John Paul II | ... r 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, became Pope | , head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Catholics rejoiced at the elev ... |
| Shirley Temple | ... "the perfect butler" for his performances as Jeeves, as a butler in several | films, and the role of Constable Jones in Mary Poppins. (He was perhaps be ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vladimir Milyutin | ... ndon the negotiating process. In response, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, | , and Victor Nogin resigned from the Central Committee on November 4, 1917 ... |
| John Balliol | ... eace in Scotland between the competing claims of Margaret, Robert Bruce and | |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Pepys | At the start of the Restoration era, on 11 October 1660, | saw the play at the Cockpit Theatre. Nicholas Burt played the lead, with C ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vito Genovese | ... ank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino and | all of whom he led, Charles Lucky Luciano is considered by many to have be ... |
| Cuilén, King of Scotland | ... III, (before 971–997) was king of Scots from 995 to 997. He was the son of | (Cuilén mac Iduilb) |
| Maria Theresa | ... an Succession, nominally a struggle over the legitimacy of the accession of | to the Austrian throne, began in 1740, but at first did not involve either ... |
| Ryan O'Neal | What's Up, Doc? (1972) and The Main Event (1979), both co-starring | , and For Pete's Sake (1974) with Michael Sarrazin. One of her most famous ... |
| Zhu De | ... e CPC, there were two opinions as well. Most of the leaders such as Mao and | proposed the execution of Chiang for his suppressions, which had damaged t ... |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | ... nnedy's assassination. The commission conducted hearings and concluded that | acted alone in the assassination. Not everyone agreed with the Warren Comm ... |
| John McCain | ... nal level, Fairfield leans toward the Republican Party. In 2008, Republican | received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat Barack Obama received ... |
| James Brown | ... one released all manner of domestic and foreign licensed product, including | , but had little success in comparison to EMI siblings HMV and Columbia |
| José Ramos-Horta | ... born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Along with | , he received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for work "towards a just and peac ... |
| Saleh Ould Hanenna | ... eported by the CIA in 2001 include the National Police, Presidential Guard. | , a former army major, led the attempted 2003 Mauritanian coup d'état in J ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... terature have often been less systematic (or, in some special cases such as | 's S/Z, they have been so specifically and exhaustively systematic as to r ... |
| Pope John Paul II | | , following his personalist philosophy, considered that a danger of utilit ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... the disaffected. In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of | (1558) and its form has more than once been altered since. Up to the time ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | After the war, General | decided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain ... |
| Nelson Mandela | EDMs tabled on serious topics have included one demanding the release of | when he was incarcerated in apartheid South Africa, and one calling for a ... |
| Kenneth Williams | ... ayed by the actor Kenny Doughty in the BBC film , starring Michael Sheen as | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | ... World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer | , who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprison ... |
| Hassan al-Turabi | ... nstitutionalizing Sharia law in the northern part of the country along with | , al-Bashir issued purges and executions in the upper ranks of the army, t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Weston Smith | ... ick, Samuel Fields, Calamity Jane, Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy, the Reverend | , and Wild Bill Hickok |
| Joe Ferguson | ... ccessor as Woodlawn's starting quarterback was another future NFL standout, | , whose Bradshaw's Steelers would defeat in a 1974 divisional playoff game |
| Bertharius | In 883 Saracens sacked and then burned it down, and Abbot | was killed during the attack. Among the great historians who worked at the ... |
| 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 ... |
| St Andrew | ... reham to a shrine at Shaftesbury Abbey. In 984, in obedience to a vision of | , he persuaded King Æthelred to appoint Ælfheah as Bishop of Winchester in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward II of England | ... . It was now two years since an English army had come to Scotland, and King | had recently been on the verge of war with his barons after the murder of ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... elling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion." | of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called ... |
| U.S. President Abraham Lincoln | ... Carter was promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general and assigned by | to engage cavalry based in Kentucky against Confederate held railroad line ... |
| The Meiwes Case | ... nts. These songs include Rammstein (Ramstein airshow disaster), Mein Teil ( | ), Wiener Blut (Fritzl case), and Donaukinder (2000 Baia Mare cyanide spil ... |
| Michael Chowdry | ... s founded in April 1992 by the late Pakistani American aerospace enthusiast | , to specialise in the long-term contract outsourcing of its Boeing 747 ai ... |
| Waylon Jennings | ... country is traditionally associated with Hank Williams, Jr, Willie Nelson, | , David Allan Coe, Whitey Morgan & The 78's, John Prine, Billy Joe Shaver, ... |
| Mikhail Bakhtin | ... rs in the semiotic tradition of literary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, | , Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| James Brown | ... , and then uses this vamp as the basis of the entire song (Funky Drummer by | , for example). Jazz, blues, and rock are almost always based on chord pro ... |
| John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ter II. Incidentally, the papacy of Gregory XVII closely overlapped that of | . He died, aged only 58, a mere 11 days prior to the death of his "rival" ... |
| Fulke Greville | An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, | |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Declaration's relationship to slavery was taken up in 1854 by | , a little-known former Congressman who idolized the Founding Fathers. Lin ... |
| St. Peter | ... en as Anencletus), also called Pope Cletus, was the third Roman Pope (after | and St. Linus) |
| Mary Stuart | ... opular comedy of De Nygifte (The Newly Married) and his romantic tragedy of | in Scotland. In 1870 he published Poems and Songs and the epic cycle Arnlj ... |
| Leon Klinghoffer | ... to dock at Tartus, the hijackers killed disabled Jewish-American passenger | and then threw his body overboard. The ship headed back towards Port Said, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gramsci | ... these he added a third 'critical' dimension which built upon insights from | and Althusser |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... Dragonetti was a prominent musical figure and an acquaintance of Haydn and | . His playing was known all the way from his homeland Italy to the Tsardom ... |
| George Jung | Blow is a 2001 biopic about the American cocaine smuggler | , directed by Ted Demme. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce P ... |
| Long John Silver | ... hink of it so far?" to which Eric replied, "Rubbish". He also had a love of | impressions, which never left him through his life (one can be seen in the ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President | , and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adv ... |
| Luke Skywalker | ... saga, and the numerous themes associated with characters like Darth Vader, | , and Princess Leia Organa (see for more details) |
| 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 ... |
| Eileen Brennan | ... ley were originally in the pilot special from 1967. Gary Owens (announcer), | , Roddy Maude-Roxby, and Goldie Hawn came on in the show. Most of the cast ... |
| Mohammad Najibullah | ... Afghanistan as well as to remove the Soviet-backed government of President | |
| John Prine | ... Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Coe, Whitey Morgan & The 78's, | , Billy Joe Shaver, Gary Stewart, Townes Van Zandt Eric Church and with a ... |
| Francis of Lorraine | ... ign of the Bavarian Elector as Emperor Charles VII, Maria Theresa's husband | , Grand Duke of Tuscany, was elected Emperor, restoring control of that po ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... n dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator | , and other leaders of his times |
| Wild Bill Hickok | ... mity Jane, Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy, the Reverend Henry Weston Smith, and | |
| T.I. | ... re, E-40), Houston (Chamillionaire, Paul Wall), Atlanta (Ludacris, Lil Jon, | ), and Kentucky (Nappy Roots). The Nation of Gods and Earths, aka The Five ... |
| Grooverider | ... tions playing drum and bass shows are The Drum and Bass Show with Fabio and | on BBC Radio 1, simulcast in the US and Canada on Sirius XM, and DJ Hype o ... |
| Henry VI | ... ated the Lancastrians in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian | and Queen Margaret of Anjou were campaigning in the north of England, Warw ... |
| Henry Lawson | ... haped by British and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like | and Banjo Paterson. Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fidd ... |
| Lev Kamenev | ... t the Provisional Government. On October 10, 1917 (Julian calendar), he and | were the only two Central Committee members to vote against an armed revol ... |
| Thomas Cromwell | ... he Tower was assessed as needing considerable work on its defences. In 1532 | spent £3,593 on repairs and imported nearly 3000 tons of Caen stone for th ... |
| Zhang Wentian | ... , which had damaged the CPC immensely. Some of them, such as Zhou Enlai and | , did realize it could bring more damage to the anti-Japan movement if Chi ... |
| George Harrison | ... Bartók. Tritone relations are also important in the music of George Crumb. | uses tritones on the downbeats of the opening phrases of the Beatles songs ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... "Tyburn Tree" was Dr John Story, a Roman Catholic who refused to recognise | . Among the more notable individuals suspended from the "Tree" in the foll ... |
| Hamani Diori | ... -Nguesso, of the Republic of the Congo, Idriss Déby, president of Chad, and | former president of Niger |
| Leslie Howard | ... ll-known of the Pimpernel movies is the 1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel starring | , considered the definitive adaptation |
| Saint Luke | ... st-known works include Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about | ), and The Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer as a Man, ... |
| William Tyndale | Coverdale is honoured together with | with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as | and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... r with Carl Schurz, the American Turners were supportive of the election of | as president of the United States. They provided the bodyguard at his inau ... |
| Edmund the Martyr | ... e region again came under attack, this time from Danes who killed the king, | . In the centuries before the Norman Conquest the wetlands of the east of ... |
| Frida Kahlo | ... fresco painting in the 20th century. Orozco, Siqueiros, Rivera and his wife | contributed more to the history of Mexican fine arts and to the reputation ... |
| Henry VI | ... it is an honorary title and a royal style. The Dukedom became extinct after | , as the original charter restricted it to 'heirs male'. Despite this, app ... |
| 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 ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
| Charlie Watts | ... tician Sir Gaetan Duval (1930–1996), football player Johan Cruijff, drummer | , Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, Mike ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... lson obtained evidence that Davis was engaged in a sexual relationship with | and subsequently filed for divorce citing Davis's "cruel and inhuman manne ... |
| Aaliyah | ... . A remake of Sparkle was in development in the early 2000s with R&B singer | as the lead, but the project was shelved when Aaliyah died in 2001. A rema ... |
| Marie Fredriksson | ... lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with | (being the chief songwriter in both bands). With Fredriksson's illness in ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Al Capone | ... ed a major role in alcohol smuggling during Prohibition. Chicago crime boss | brought shipments of alcohol from Canada, down Lake Michigan, to the shore ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a joined the so-called "cafeteria group", together with Frank P. Ramsey and | , a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's theory of probability an ... |
| George Orwell | ... only one work of that author. This includes such words as "Orwellian" (from | , referring to his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four) and "Ballardesque" or "Ball ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... sh spies, they visited Paris, meeting Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, | and Louis XVI, and joined the French court at Fontainebleau |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Birch Bayh | ... e proposal which had been sponsored as Senate Joint Resolution 1 by Senator | |
| Koitalel Arap Samoei | ... ailway the British had to confront strong local opposition, especially from | , a diviner and Nandi leader who prophesied that a black snake would tear ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and | also owned property in the same town. It is said that King Henry VIII made ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Greenwood | ... a strict form of Puritanism. Subsequently he came into close relations with | , the Separatist leader, whose views he adopted. Though resident in London ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... on of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young | was a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cre ... |
| José Clemente Orozco | | , Fernando Leal, David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera the famous Mexican artis ... |
| Rudi Dutschke | ... of the Situationist International group Subversiven Aktion, which included | as a member. Maschke is now a leading conservative antidemocratic intellec ... |
| Paul Azinger | ... of a Ryder Cup featured the foursome (alternate-shot) format. U.S. captain | , hoping to give his team an early advantage in Kentucky, announced the ch ... |
| Eva Braun | ... he Reich and leader of the armed forces. Hitler and his long-time mistress, | , committed suicide on 30 April 1945. Göring was released from his impriso ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... Freeport in 1858. There the four-year-old Marshall met Stephen Douglas and | and sat on the lap of whichever candidate was not speaking. He later refer ... |
| Emmanuel Constant | ... de embargo. A campaign of terror against Aristide supporters was started by | . In 1993, Constant, who had been on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency' ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... an, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of | who died two years later |
| Marquis de Sade | ... r of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices | described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of ... |
| Heinrich Boere | ... aller-scale atrocities such as the Houtman affair or murders perpetrated by | . The most infamous incidents include the following |
| Henry VI | ... hey did not secure their independence nor become "abbeys" till the reign of | . The Cluniac revival, with all its brilliancy, was but short-lived. The c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mohandas Gandhi | ... e and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as | in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Ac ... |
| Enrico Caruso | ... ntroduced her to theater and the operatic voices of Amelita Galli-Curci and | . In her youth she formally studied classical music with an Italian piano ... |
| Bob Mosley | ... t (and son of actress Loretta Young) Peter Lewis (of The Cornells), bassist | (of The Misfits, based in San Diego) and Spence, now on guitar instead of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marie Fredriksson | ... single tracks "Även En Blomma", "Alla Mina Bästa År" (a duet with Roxette's | ) and "Ögonen" was released in Germany in 1998, entitled Frida - The Mixes ... |
| Al Capone | ... y closely, focusing on his summer in Hollywood and featuring appearances by | and Clara Bow. The critic and musician sums up Beiderbecke's musical legac ... |
| Charles Dickens | Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in | 's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge i ... |
| Sima Qian | ... consists of more than one character, it too should be written as a unit: " | ", not "Si Ma Qian" or "Si Maqian". However, as the Chinese language makes ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 77 based on 22 reviews. | of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: "A powerfu ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... dy of Superman. Bell also claims to be the first cartoonist to have spotted | 's mad left eye, as well as the fact that Tony Blair shares this unusual f ... |
| Ross McWhirter | Christopher Chataway recommended student twins Norris and | , who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. The brothers were ... |
| Meir Feinstein | ... s. One operation was the attack on the train station in Jerusalem, in which | was arrested and later committed suicide awaiting execution. According to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Osceola | ... he fort served as a prison for Seminole captives including the famed leader | , the black Seminole, John Cavallo (John Horse) as well as Coacoochee (Wil ... |
| Osceola | In 1835, the U.S. Army arrived to enforce the treaty. Seminole leader | led the vastly outnumbered resistance during the Second Seminole War. Draw ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'" | offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stalin | ... as later developed into "Liberation Theologies" from suffering people under | ism in Eastern Europe and military dictatorships in South America and Sout ... |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Scalia enjoys a warm relationship with fellow Justice | , a liberal, with the two attending the opera together, and even appearing ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Penn | ... here are some vague assertions that Arthur Penn, brother of the more famous | , also formed part of the Quaker community of the British Virgin Islands f ... |
| Saint Christopher | ... making was discovered by Urnamman of Lagash. The story of Saint Clement and | relates that while fleeing from persecution, the men packed their sandals ... |
| Robert Jenkins | ... n which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain | and told him to take it to his king, George II) broke out in 1739 between ... |
| James Stockdale | Future U.S. Vice Presidential candidate | and decorated U.S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the H ... |
| Lech Kaczyński | ... r of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS candidate | |
| Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk | ... own to the right) was granted as an Augmentation of Honour by Henry VIII to | to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Flodden Field. It is a modific ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... subscribe to the theory that Betty is Diane's projection of a happier life. | and Jonathan Ross seem to accept this interpretation, but both hesitate to ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... red a Soviet mural of Lenin and images of Reagan and then-UK Prime Minister | . The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, dispassionately repor ... |
| Oscar Fraley | ... ngton Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author | , military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... ucted. Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT (started by | in the late 1980s and merged with Apple Computer in 1997), the Trillium so ... |
| 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 ... |
| Empress Alexandra of Russia | ... ists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of | 's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Pr ... |
| 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 ... |
| José Ramos-Horta | ... f peace and reconciliation were internationally recognised when, along with | , he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1996. Bishop Belo capit ... |
| 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 |
| Boy George | ... falo Girls." Later the Hilltoppers' home was visited by the Sex Pistols and | |
| Stefan Kaczmarz | ... an infinite set of its projections. In 1937, a Polish mathematician, named | , developed a method to find an approximate solution to a large system of ... |
| Laurent Nkunda | ... ic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda and between the government FARDC and | 's troops, with all groups greatly exacerbating the issues of internal ref ... |
| John Wayne | Clift's first movie role was opposite | in the 1948 film Red River which was shot in 1946 and released in 1948. Cl ... |
| George Harrison | ... each number one in the UK single chart. "More than a Woman" was replaced by | 's "My Sweet Lord" which is the only time in the UK singles chart history ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... convictions, greatly influenced her stepdaughter Lady Elizabeth (the future | ) |
| Shirley Temple | ... ot name the title or composer. In the 1938 film Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, | sings a version of the song with lyrics. Trumpeter Al Hirt's 1955 renditio ... |
| David Prowse | ... have a different actor don one of the original sets of Vader armor worn by | . Lucas agreed, and a suit was engineered to fit Christensen's frame, even ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stanford White | In 1882 construction began on seven shingle-style "cottages" designed by | became the centerpiece of Benson's plans. The most prominent of the six Mo ... |
| John Lennon | ... ublished in 2005; the book records similar sayings between Groucho Marx and | |
| Bhai Mani Singh | ... h event associated with Diwali is the martyrdom of the elderly Sikh scholar | in 1737 |
| Nobusuke Kishi | When | became prime minister in 1957, Tanaka was given his first cabinet post, Mi ... |
| Thomas Cromwell | ... nry the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Between 1535 and 1540, under | , the policy known as the Dissolution of the Monasteries was put into effe ... |
| Marie Fredriksson | Gessle and | had been friends for a few years before they came together as Roxette in 1 ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... uent incursions into Spanish territory to recapture escaped slaves. General | 's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Semi ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... lliam Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen | for most of her reign. The country house, with a park laid out by Lancelot ... |
| Gnassingbé Eyadéma | ... sident of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of Côte d'Ivoire, | , former president of Togo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, of the Republic of the C ... |
| Eileen Brennan | ... Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Tim Curry, | , Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madel ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... oing stress he endured began to show their effects on Bishop Belo's health. | accepted his resignation as Apostolic Administrator of Dili on November 26 ... |
| de Gaulle's | ... he escaped back to England, where he initially worked as an interpreter for | Free French forces. However, he was quickly prised away from de Gaulle by ... |
| Rex Allen | Willcox is also known as the birthplace of | , known as "The Arizona Cowboy", who wrote and recorded many songs, starre ... |
| Peter Stuyvesant | ... andt's sister-in-law married the great-grandson of New York Colony Governor | . They were grandparents to New York Governor Hamilton Fish. Another daugh ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... h as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and | . Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simple and earnest, rather ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | During her reign | made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh a ... |
| Dick Clark | ... and home basement dance parties became the rage, and American teens watched | 's American Bandstand to keep up on the latest dance and fashion styles. F ... |
| 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 ... |
| Swami Dayananda Saraswati | Since the 19th and 20th centuries, some reformers like | , founder of the Arya Samaj and Sri Aurobindo have attempted to re-interpr ... |
| Al Capone | ... dward moved to Chicago. Butch's father was a lawyer who worked closely with | before turning against him and helping convict Capone of tax evasion |
| George Harrison | ... gy 2 compilation. On take 1, McCartney can be heard giving chord changes to | before starting, but George does not appear to actually play. Take 2 had t ... |
| Bob Mosley | The band name, judicially determined to have been chosen by | and Spence, came from the punch line of the joke "What's big and purple an ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... ca/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a clear reference to then US President | , who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the ... |
| Ronald Reagan | The president of SAG – future United States President | – also known to the FBI as Confidential Informant "T-10", testified before ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... 927, Sraffa's yet undiscussed theory of value, but also his friendship with | (a risky and compromising endeavor in the context of the Italian fascist r ... |
| `Abdu'l-Bahá | ... his style of dress, Shoghi Effendi was a stark contrast to his grandfather | . He distanced himself from the local clergy and notability, and travelled ... |
| Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author | first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of ... |
| William Russell, Lord Russell | ... ished of it, and in 1682 his Sermons. Along with Burnet, Tillotson attended | on the scaffold in 1683. In 1684, he wrote a Discourse against Transubstan ... |
| Andreas Baader | In July or August 1967 Gudrun met | and they soon began a love affair. Baader had come to Berlin in 1963, to e ... |
| Al Capone | ... e of the present Deerfield Island, formerly called Capone Island (named for | who owned it during the 1930s), which did not become an island until the R ... |
| Terauchi Masatake | On October 9, 1916, | took over as prime minister from Ōkuma Shigenobu. On November 2, 1917, the ... |
| Seasick Steve | American blues musician | , who is achieving fame in the United Kingdom, currently resides in Notodd ... |
| John Cecil Masterman | ... he Germans had ready access to through the neutral nations. In addition, as | , chairman of the Twenty Committee, commented, "If, for example, St Paul's ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ar, and the country became an enormous market for Hohner's goods. President | carried a harmonica in his pocket, and harmonicas provided solace to soldi ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Mary of Guise, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter | (then also Queen of France) |
| Pol Pot | ... following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( | after 1976) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its app ... |
| Wild Bill Hickok | ... ogy, as if reality could no longer contain their stories: Johnny Appleseed. | . Davy Crockett. Rickey Henderson. They exist on the sometimes narrow marg ... |
| Peter Stuyvesant | ... et Livingston married Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805) also a great-grandson of | . Their son Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769–1833) married Catherine Livi ... |
| Pol Pot | ... ng's Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after | and the Khmer Rouge |
| Isle of Portland | ... larity to Portland stone, a type of building stone that was quarried on the | in Dorset, England |
| territories in eastern Poland | ... population was expelled and replaced with Poles who had been expelled from | ceded to the Soviet Union |
| Nelson Mandela | ... pon this honour through meetings with Bill Clinton of the United States and | of South Africa. In 1995, he also won the John Humphrey Freedom Award from ... |
| Bruce Johnston | ... bring his two sons into his empire, his character mostly based on criminal | . In Biloxi Blues (1988), Walken played an eccentric drill sergeant, known ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican Party abolished slavery under | , defeated the Slave Power, and gave blacks the vote during Reconstruction ... |
| Josiah Wedgwood | ... ans, pins, wire, and other goods. Housing was provided for workers on site. | and Matthew Boulton (whose Soho Manufactory was completed in 1766) were ot ... |
| Eadburh | ... d: he recounts meeting Alfred's mother-in-law, Eadburh (who is not the same | who died as a begger in Pavia), on many occasions; and says that he has of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth I | In 1952, a romanticised version of Thomas Seymour's obsession with | saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons as the young Elizabeth and sc ... |
| Adalbert of Prague | ... religion. According to his legends, Vajk was baptized a Christian by Saint | . He was given the baptismal name Stephen (István) in honour of the origin ... |
| Rick Romley | ... about the Church's own investigations into charges. In the BBC documentary, | , a district attorney who initiated an investigation of the Catholic Dioce ... |
| Bryant Gumbel | ... , and Len Dawson (who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen). | and Mike Adamle of NFL '80 anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame cov ... |
| Boris Pahor | ... necessary for Slovenia to use the entire poem as its anthem. Slovene writer | suggested that using a combination of verses of the seventh and the second ... |
| Anne Boleyn | Howard was the great-grandfather of | and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ... |
| Beethoven | ... terest in Harold, Paganini often referred to Berlioz as the resurrection of | and, towards the end of his life, he gave large sums to the composer |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he was not an existentialist and often criticized existentialist figurehead | . Although Ionesco knew Beckett and honored his work, the French group of ... |
| Terry Kath | from:1967 till:1978 color:ren text: | —guitar, bass, vocal |
| Margaret Thatcher | Finchley was from 1959 to 1992 the Parliamentary constituency of | , British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Finchley is now covered by the ... |
| Johnny Hallyday | ... icial appearance of "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" (invited by French singer | ) was at the Novelty in Évreux (France) on October 13, 1966 |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... ." The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court of | to develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish s ... |
| Alexander Chayanov | Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911) and | (1888–1939) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (1835–1917), and Karl Oldenberg in Ger ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ōkuma Shigenobu | On October 9, 1916, Terauchi Masatake took over as prime minister from | . On November 2, 1917, the Lansing-Ishii Agreement noted the recognition o ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of | (which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collection ... |
| Sheryl Crow | Offered the song by Dylan, | later recorded an up-tempo cover of "Mississippi" for her The Globe Sessio ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... Commission was created to administer the emerging metropolis when President | issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ... |
| 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 ... |
| Latimer | ... before Mary's death in 1558 after hearing the words of Cranmer, Ridley, and | , three Protestant martyrs burned at the stake in Oxford |
| apostles | ... of Rome, whom that Church sees as successor of Saint Peter, the head of the | |
| Saint Stephen | ... e baptismal name Stephen (István) in honour of the original early Christian | . The baptised name was possibly chosen on purpose, as it means not only " ... |
| 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 ... |
| Shirley Temple | ... the day while Covan worked with such stars as Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and | . Brooks was married briefly during this period to a Harlem Globetrotter n ... |
| Rue McClanahan | ... goner for Dorothy's (Beatrice Arthur) affection in a dream, where Blanche ( | ) dreams her husband is still alive. In the dream, Sonny uses his power as ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common", wrote | . One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met ... |
| the Duke of Marlborough | In July 1708, | , with his ally Prince Eugene of Savoy, won a great victory at the Battle ... |
| John Tower | ... nson was re-elected Senator with 1,306,605 votes (58 percent) to Republican | 's 927,653 (41.1 percent). Fellow Democrat William A. Blakley was appointe ... |
| Daddy Yankee | ... londie), funk (Fatback Band), contemporary R&B (Mary J. Blige), reggaeton ( | ), or even Japanese dance music (Soul'd Out). UK garage music has begun to ... |
| Thomas Seymour | In 1952, a romanticised version of | 's obsession with Elizabeth I saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ieng Sary | ... a new political party the Democratic National Union Movement was formed by | , who was granted amnesty for all of his roles as the deputy leader of the ... |
| Pierre Brossolette | ... Both within France and back in England, Yeo-Thomas forged links with Major | and Andre Dewavrin (who went under the codename Colonel Passy), and betwee ... |
| Alexander Esenin-Volpin | ... mathematicians accept the reality of countably infinite sets (however, see | for a counter-example) |
| Udham Singh | On 13 March 1940, | shot Michael O'Dwyer, generally held responsible for the Amritsar Massacre ... |
| Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | On December 8, 1863, President | issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or ... |
| Dominique Dunne | ... which consists of Steven (Craig T. Nelson); Diane (JoBeth Williams); Dana ( | ); Robbie (Oliver Robins); and Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), who live in ... |
| Ascalon | ... t to marry Richard's sister Joan to Al-Adil) failed, and Richard marched to | . Richard's forces were halted nearly 12 times by the forces of Saladin co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Osceola | Osceola County was created in 1887. It was named for the Indian leader | , whose name means "Black Drink Cry[Asi Yaholo]. |
| Bryant Gumbel | ... on 60 Minutes, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Today Show with | , The Dick Cavett Show, Over Easy with Hugh Downs, The Tomorrow Show with ... |
| Jacques Chirac | ... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President | |
| Cole Porter | The Kinsey report was mentioned in | 's contemporaneous song, "Too Darn Hot", for his musical Kiss Me Kate (194 ... |
| Lucky Luciano | ... ), as a prostitute in a contemporary gangster drama inspired by the case of | . For her performance in the film she was awarded the Volpi Cup at the 193 ... |
| Elisabeth of Valois | ... n went back to the marriage of Philip II of Spain with the French Princess, | . The marriage was only briefly happy, and the King's duties often kept th ... |
| Roger Ebert | Film critic and Urbana native | is a graduate of Urbana High School. During his senior year he was co-edit ... |
| Ulrike Meinhof | ... partner Bernward Vesper and other members of the Red Army Faction (such as | and Horst Mahler) Ensslin had excellent exam scores and received a scholar ... |
| David Coulthard | ... n McNish, as it was to David Leslie (racing driver). Another racing driver, | was born in Dumfries and raised in nearby Twynholm. Scotland rugby union i ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... nomy first in Perugia, and later in Cagliari, Sardinia. In Turin he had met | (the most important leader of Italian Communist Party). They became close ... |
| Bárbara Mori | ... ent, mostly are Lebanese/Syrian Arab, and Chinese or Japanese ancestry (see | ) |
| 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 ... |
| Menachem Begin | ... resented by President Anwar Sadat, and Israel represented by Prime Minister | . The Oslo Accords of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Mi ... |
| George Harrison | # "Something" ( | ) – 3:0 |
| Richard II | When | was crowned in 1377, he led a procession from the Tower to Westminster Abb ... |
| Cranmer | ... to Protestant belief before Mary's death in 1558 after hearing the words of | , Ridley, and Latimer, three Protestant martyrs burned at the stake in Oxf ... |
| Catherine Howard | Howard was the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and | , the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of King Henry VIII. T ... |
| Dirk Benedict | ... ilm was to base it on Larson's original series which starred Richard Hatch, | and Lorne Greene. Bryan Singer was confirmed to direct the feature film th ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Laud | Archbishop | described Charles as "A mild and gracious prince who knew not how to be, o ... |
| Justin Martyr | ... ith those with whom they are not in full communion. The famed apologist St. | (c. 150) wrote: "No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who ... |
| Alfred Dreyfus | ... rnson was, from the beginning of the Dreyfus Affair, a staunch supporter of | , and, according to a contemporary, wrote "article after article in the pa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... ised her role as Catherine Parr in Part 1 of a 6-part series on the life of | in 1971, called Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson in the title role |
| 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 |
| Hippolytus of Rome | ... al part of which was the coupling its characters in pairs, male and female. | (Ref. vi. 20, p. 176) connects the system of Valentinus with that of Simon ... |
| David Leslie (racing driver) | ... he hometown of twice 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, Allan McNish, as it was to | . Another racing driver, David Coulthard was born in Dumfries and raised i ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... e sanctifying value of work, and its fidelity to Catholic beliefs. In 2002, | canonized Escrivá, and called him "the saint of ordinary life. |
| Elizabeth I | ... he reign of Mary 1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of | , though this point is one of considerable debate among historians. Yet it ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hermann Göring | Reichsmarschall | never held the Diamonds. He, being one of the first soldiers presented wit ... |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... to squeeze past stacks of them in order to walk up the stairs. According to | (as quoted in Patricia Bosworth's biography of Clift), "Monty could've bee ... |
| Kirk Douglas | ... es of the various people who populate a police detective squad. It features | , Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, Lee Grant, among others ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saint Christopher | ... ormation wall-paintings and a large mural (dating from the 14th century) of | with the infant Child are on the North wall. A brass to Veare Jenyns (1644 ... |
| Josiah Wedgwood | ... n of Staffordshire to the Trent and to the Mersey. The first sod was cut by | in 1766 and Brindley carried it away in a barrow. From Runcorn, the canal ... |
| Stepan Bandera | ... sassin Bohdan Stashynsky killed Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and | with a spray gun that fired a jet of poison gas from a crushed cyanide amp ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... s sang a medley of songs after being presented the awards by Merry Clayton, | , and Darlene Love. In 2002, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall ... |
| Edward II of England | ... ition since Edward and Eric could arrange Margaret's marriage to the future | , or some other if they chose, without reference to the Guardians. Accordi ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Lassally | ... Letterman as his rightful successor, according to CBS senior vice president | , a onetime producer for both men. On April 25, 1993, Lorne Michaels chose ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... Lloyds, as well as nineteenth-century philanthropists and reformers such as | and Elizabeth Fry |
| Mike Tyson | ... g after King deducted a $300,000 'finders fee' from his fight purse against | ; Holmes settled for $150,000 and also signed a legal agreement pledging n ... |
| Eastern Poland | ... tories of East Galicia (seen by Ukrainians as Western Ukraine, and Poles as | ), had to be weakened before the Polish state could rise again. The collab ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... she hears a soft voice speaking to her in greeting; it is a lone passerby, | . He tells her that he is the last man on that road. Frightened, Lavinia b ... |
| Helmuth Weidling | On 2 May hostilities officially ended by order of | , Kommandant of the Defense Area Berlin. News of the surrender led some of ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Wesley Powell | ... tales strengthened their credibility. In 1869, one-armed Civil War veteran | led an expedition from Green River Station in Wyoming, aiming to run the t ... |
| Pope Benedict | ====2008====In April, during a visit to the United States, | admitted that he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sex abuse scandal that ... |
| Greta Garbo | ... the main directors of their female stars–he directed both Joan Crawford and | six times. Garbo called Brown her favorite director |
| Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
| Lemony Snicket | ... Boris Max, is woven into the plot of The Penultimate Peril, a 2005 book by | . "Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famo ... |
| William Wallace | ... mprisoned in Newcastle in 1174, and Edward I brought the Stone of Scone and | south through the town. Newcastle was successfully defended against the Sc ... |
| Ieng Sary | ... the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, | , Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the sta ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... ists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault and structuralists such as | challenged the possibilities of individual agency and the coherence of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tom Clarke | ... er to talk Connolly out of any such rash action, the IRB leaders, including | and Patrick Pearse, met with Connolly to see if an agreement could be reac ... |
| Menachem Begin | ... tch ancestry, would visit Schneerson and corresponded extensively with him. | , Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... umbrellas are sometimes called "gamps" after the character Mrs. Gamp in the | novel . Mrs. Gamp's character was well known for carrying an umbrella |
| Nico | ... eed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen "Moe" Tucker. For this record | was included, who would occasionally sing lead with the band at the instig ... |
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| Nuon Chea | ... a, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, | , Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea was the name ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Garang | ... would get various portfolios and as a result of the death of vice president | . The National Congress Party kept control of the key energy, defense, int ... |
| Leopold Joseph | ... raine, including the capital Nancy, were again occupied by France, but Duke | continued to reign at the Château de Lunéville |
| 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 ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... a became the first saint from a Central European country to be canonized by | before the "Velvet Revolution" later that year. After the dissolution of C ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time." | offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. In 2000, | was elected the president, becoming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. ... |
| Ōkuma Shigenobu | ... o full admiral on 28 August 1915. He served in this post in the cabinets of | , Terauchi Masatake, Hara Takashi, and Takahashi Korekiyo. Under Hara and ... |
| Kenneth Williams | ... e Wisp appeared as a short cartoon series on BBC TV in the 1980s, voiced by | |
| Bernard B. Fall | ... t adds that the number of these recruits has been subsequently exaggerated. | , who was a supporter of the French government, writing in the context of ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... ini. His 1939 composition "He Had It Coming" was a hit for Louis Jordan and | under the new title "Stone Cold Dead in the Market." The song stayed on th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a direct realist view of this relation. For a time, under the influence of | , he adopted a pluralist view of philosophy itself and came to view most p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... cellorsville, the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania Court House. | was shot and mortally wounded in Spotsylvania County during the Chancellor ... |
| 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 ... |
| Magneto's | ... period of general turmoil and a number of attacks by superhumans, including | Acolytes who were unwilling to forgive the former Genoshan government for ... |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... sm in his books. He sold millions of copies in the Soviet Union alone. When | was expelled from the Soviet Union, he first took refuge in Heinrich Böll' ... |
| Melissa Etheridge | ... ard, responding to critics by saying, "Bass is the biggest music star since | to come out, and maybe some people think HRC should just ignore these mome ... |
| Paris Hilton | ... y may through sheer exposure become involved in causes or controversies (as | did in the US presidential election, 2008) it's clearly not correct to lab ... |
| Archduchess Maria Theresa | ... ion. The Lorraine duke Francis Stephen, betrothed to the Emperor's daughter | , was compensated with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, where the last Medici r ... |
| Dick Clark | Notable SU alumni in the performing arts include | , Taye Diggs, Peter Falk, Frank Langella, Aaron Sorkin, and Vanessa L. Wil ... |
| Antoine Bangui | ... st internationally renowned writers are Joseph Brahim Seïd, Baba Moustapha, | and Koulsy Lamko. In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, Ahmat Taboye, publi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | When | was elected President in November 1980, Scalia hoped for a major position ... |
| Carole Lombard | ... t only with the two actors together, but on their own. In 1940, he directed | in Vigil in the Night, and the film has an alternate ending for European a ... |
| Charles Dickens | Other tourist attractions include the birthplace of | , the Blue Reef Aquarium (formerly the Sea Life Centre), Cumberland House ... |
| Hjalmar Schacht | ... Governor of The Bank of England, Montagu Norman, and his German counterpart | , later Adolf Hitler's finance minister. The Bank was originally intended ... |
| Sharon Stone | ... wn-and-out Hollywood screenwriter using the services of an authentic muse ( | ) for inspiration |
| Michael Davitt | ... ish camp of an Irish-American Ambulance Corps bolstered MacBride's Brigade. | who had resigned as an M.P due to the Boer War visited MacBride's Brigade. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Falk | Notable SU alumni in the performing arts include Dick Clark, Taye Diggs, | , Frank Langella, Aaron Sorkin, and Vanessa L. Williams |
| Daniel Boone | ... l as other peoples. Among the people who came to hunt the animal trails was | , who reportedly carved his name and the year, 1775, into a beech tree in ... |
| James Brown | One of the main influences on Hip Hop artists was | . James Brown is credited for inventing funk music in the middle '60s. The ... |
| Magneto | The United Nations ceded the island nation to the powerful mutant | , after he demanded an entire mutants-only nation. Magneto and his Acolyte ... |
| Liliuokalani | ... irst order of business for the Provisional Government after the deposing of | was to form an interim government while Lorrin A. Thurston was in Washingt ... |
| Sam Giancana | ... 960s had contracted to the CIA to eliminate Fidel Castro using Mafia bosses | and Santo Trafficante. In late 1971, the President’s brother, Donald Nixon ... |
| Murder of Joe Van Holsbeeck | ... Municipalities with language facilities - Mythology of the Low Countries - | |
| 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 ... |
| Wild Bill Hickok | The town attained notoriety for the murder of | , and Mount Moriah Cemetery remains the final resting place of Hickok and ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by | 's then defence minister Francis Pym. The reasons for revelation were both ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... nton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman | . Ultimately, it was an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a "final status ... |
| `Abdu'l-Bahá | ... di translated into English many of the writings of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and | , including the Hidden Words in 1929, the Kitáb-i-Íqán in 1931, Gleanings ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... 1963's Getz/Gilberto, numerous recordings by famous jazz performers such as | (Ella Abraça Jobim) and Frank Sinatra (Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Ca ... |
| Francis Stephen | ... y Russia and Austria in the War of the Polish Succession. The Lorraine duke | , betrothed to the Emperor's daughter Archduchess Maria Theresa, was compe ... |
| Duchess of Somerset | ... y developed between Catherine and his wife, her former lady-in-waiting, the | , which became particularly acute over the matter of Catherine's jewels. C ... |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s In 2009, | stated that Streisand was one of several actresses (alongside Meryl Streep ... |
| Laurent Nkunda | ... viously Numbi negotiated the agreement to carry out the mixage process with | |
| 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, ... |
| Khieu Samphan | ... bodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and | . Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the state as controlled by the gove ... |
| Hassan al-Turabi | ... -Bashir and NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament | . Al-Turabi was stripped of his posts in the ruling party and the governme ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... e and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town. | spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, p ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... ventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by | ' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their inco ... |
| John Lennon | ... ay around as was often believed. The riff was provided to "Fame" co-writers | and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who had briefly been a member of Bro ... |
| Mike Tyson | | sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out o ... |
| Menachem Begin | ... s of intelligence. Ze'evi resigned from this position in 1977, when Likud's | became prime minister. In 1988, Ze'evi established the Moledet (Homeland) ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bahá'u'lláh | ... me, Shoghi Effendi translated into English many of the writings of the Báb, | and `Abdu'l-Bahá, including the Hidden Words in 1929, the Kitáb-i-Íqán in ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... ree recall motions votes in the Legislative Yuan aimed at ousting President | . All of them had failed since the Pan-Blue Coalition lacked the two third ... |
| Klaus Kinski | ... 6 biographical portrait The Magic Bow, Roxy Roth in A Song to Remember, and | in Kinski Paganini (1989) |
| Kim Dae-jung | ... dress. . Donga.com. Retrieved March 8, 2007. In 2001, then President | announced a plan for building up a Strategic Mobile Fleet. . Kim Dae-ju ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... tube while in blossom, the Cucumber will grow to a most surprising length.’ | wrote in his diary on September 22, 1663: “this day Sir W. Batten tells me ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Orwell | In his classic essay on the topic | distinguishes nationalism from patriotism, which he defines as devotion to ... |
| Michael Jeffery | ... ebruary 1970, it seemed as if the original Experience was reformed. Manager | even set up an interview with Rolling Stone magazine to announce the retur ... |
| Gervase Elwes | ... he cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano (dedicated to | ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the Lon ... |
| Louis-Auguste Blanqui | ... d to technological change was becoming more common by the late 1830s, as in | description in 1837 of la révolution industrielle. Friedrich Engels in The ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... 935. This one, Murder in the Cathedral, concerning the death of the martyr, | , was more under Eliot's control. After this, he worked on commercial play ... |
| John Lennon | James is mentioned in The Beatles' song "For You Blue": while | plays the slide guitar (James' trademark), George Harrison says, "Elmore J ... |
| Hjalmar Schacht | Kung also met Dr. | while in Germany. Scherr told him that "German-Chinese friendship stemmed ... |
| Nikolai Berdyaev | Two Ukrainian/Russian thinkers, Lev Shestov and | , became well known as existentialist thinkers during their post-Revolutio ... |
| Lucky Luciano | ... e 19th century following waves of Sicilian and Southern Italian emigration. | established La Cosa Nostra in Manhattan, forming alliances with other crim ... |
| Billy Graham | Helms was close to fellow North Carolinian | (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, Pat Robe ... |
| Peter Sutcliffe | ... fter being sued for libel by Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, | , Hislop told reporters waiting outside the High Court: "If that's justice ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Wythe | Wythe County was formed from Montgomery County in 1790. It was named after | , the first Virginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. During th ... |
| Akiva ben Joseph | ... city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, | , quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, a ... |
| Catherine Howard | ... belonging to Catherine Parr and the cameo beads appear to have belonged to | , from whom they would have passed to her successor as queen |
| Lincoln | ... ng the first torpedo boats, which carried spar torpedoes. In 1861 President | instituted a naval blockade of Southern ports, which crippled the South's ... |
| Henry VI of England | After defeat at the Battle of Towton, | crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of Q ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... . The Science Museum is next to Pisuerga river. The only surviving house of | is also located in Valladolid. Although unfinished, Cathedral of Valladoli ... |
| Otis Redding | Pure soul was popularized by | and the other artists of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee. By the late 1 ... |
| Jiang Qing | ... alist in Shanghai in charge of the Liberation Daily (Jiefang Ribao). He met | in Shanghai and helped to launch the Cultural Revolution |
| 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 ... |
| Justin Martyr | Origen, and | said, “Let some suppose, from what has been said by us, that we say that w ... |
| Ronnie Hawkins | ... ung. Two of the guests were fundamental to The Band's existence and growth: | and Bob Dylan. Other guests they admired (and in most cases had worked wit ... |
| Bob Marley | ... ar in the U.S. and in Europe, mostly because of reggae superstar and legend | . The late '70s also saw the beginning of hip-hop music with the songs "Ra ... |
| George Harrison | ... For You Blue": while John Lennon plays the slide guitar (James' trademark), | says, "Elmore James got nothin' on this, baby." Other artists influenced b ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... or Rotten Tomatoes records an average response of 91%, based on 22 reviews. | , a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie three stars out o ... |
| 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 ... |
| 50 Cent | ... er was the first notable MC to deliver "sing-raps." Popular rappers such as | and Ja Rule add a slight melody to their otherwise purely percussive raps ... |
| William Penn | ... er". In 1715, founder Sir Mathias Vincent and others failed to pay taxes to | , who took them to court. In the end, in southern West Vincent Township we ... |
| Edward Teller | ... s now called the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by | and Harold Brown. The Navy accepted delivery of the first 16 warheads in J ... |
| Dickens | ... elding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, | , Flaubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century work ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Laud | ... imself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as Richard Montagu and | , whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Many of Charles's subje ... |
| Ted Kennedy | ... randfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and | , to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John Kennedy Jr.'s ... |
| Douglas Bader | ... was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British World War II flier | was born in St. John's Wood |
| Roger Ebert | Reviews were generally favorable. Film critic | gave the film 3 stars (out of 4) stating "Much depends on exactly what Emm ... |
| Mahatma Gandhi | ... national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (birthdate of | ) are meant to be dry days nationally. The state of Andhra Pradesh had imp ... |
| Cornelius Cardew | ... equired musicians to improvise. Perhaps the most notable example of this is | 's Treatise: a graphic score with no conventional notation whatsoever, whi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saint Alban | ... last great Viking raid of that age. It is suggested that he stole relics of | from Ely, which he deposited in St. Alban's Priory which he had founded in ... |
| Nate Dogg | ... ie, another Midwestern group. Another rapper that harmonized his rhymes was | , a rapper part of the group 213. Rakim experimented not only with followi ... |
| Walter Raleigh | ... parable to those they might expect outside; one such example was that while | was held in the Tower his rooms were altered to accommodate his family, in ... |
| Kim Dae-jung | ... Both were released from prison in December 1997, pardoned by then-president | |
| Justin Martyr | ... choosing good by free choice, they are not accountable for their actions.” | said, “I have proven in what has been said that those who were foreknown t ... |
| Eddie Van Halen | ... rk, a mini-album entitled Star Fleet Project, on which he collaborated with | . May contributed to former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett's album , play ... |
| Al Capone | ... igration grew in the early 20th century many joined ethnic gangs, including | , who got his start in crime with the Five Points Gang. The Mafia (also kn ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... n recent cinematic history". It received acclaim from many critics, such as | of the Chicago Sun-Times, who had given negative or mixed reviews to most ... |
| Mohamed Nasheed | ... r. Waheed opposed the arrest order and supported the opposition that forced | to resign. A day later, Nasheed stated that he was forced to resign at gun ... |
| Ferruccio Parri | ... i-fascist leader Ivanoe Bonomi. In June 1945 Bonomi was in turn replaced by | , who in turn gave way to Alcide de Gasperi on 4 December 1945. Finally, D ... |
| Thomas Bilney | ... burned at the stake for heresy during More's chancellorship: Thomas Hitton, | , Richard Bayfield, John Tewkesbery, Thomas Dusgate, and James Bainham. Mo ... |
| Saint Peter | ... Will the Smith. Will is a wicked blacksmith who is given a second chance by | at the gates to Heaven, but leads such a bad life that he ends up being do ... |
| Jaclyn Smith | ... to Seacole's efforts. In 1985 a TV biopic "Florence Nightingale", starring | as Florence, was produced |
| Hjalmar Schacht | ... de with these countries, which was negotiated by then Minister of Economics | , was based on the exchange of German manufactured produce directly for th ... |
| Ginette Neveu | ... nd 37 passengers on board, including Cerdan and the famous French violinist | , while approaching the intermediate stop airport at Santa Maria. Days lat ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... to which the United States should strive. This view was notably promoted by | , who considered the Declaration to be the foundation of his political phi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... xteenth century sense, marrano was used by rival "Old Christians" to insult | , supposedly of Muslim or Jewish descent, to disparage him as a "New Chris ... |
| Jimmy Stevens | ... nd for coconut production, protests began in both Santo and Malekula led by | and his kastom movement called "Nagriamel" |
| John Lennon | ... ased Home at Last. Included on this album is "God Part III", which draws on | 's "God" and the U2 riposte ("God II"); "Come Away", written about his 197 ... |
| Francis Stephen | ... of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. Léopold Clément's younger brother, | , was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa's father considered other possi ... |
| Daniel Ortega | Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President | , Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa r ... |
| Ieng Thirith | ... ol Pot and Ieng Sary married Khieu Ponnary and Khieu Thirith (also known as | ), purportedly relatives of Khieu Samphan. These two well-educated women a ... |
| Edmund Campion | ... was given Scota in marriage as a reward for his services. Writing in 1571, | named the pharaoh Amenophis; Keating named him Cincris |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and | becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Bot ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Lennon | ... biting his Kinetic Light Sculptures at the Indica Gallery. Mardas impressed | with the Nothing Box; a small plastic box with randomly blinking lights, a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bob Marley | ... d". Despite their burgeoning punk sound, the early Bad Brains, after seeing | in concert, also delved deep into reggae music and the Rastafari movement. ... |
| Andreas Baader | ... known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang). After becoming involved with co-founder | , Ensslin was influential in the politicization of Baader's voluntaristic ... |
| Richard Bayfield | ... take for heresy during More's chancellorship: Thomas Hitton, Thomas Bilney, | , John Tewkesbery, Thomas Dusgate, and James Bainham. More's influential r ... |
| Mohamed Nasheed | | won the 2008 Presidential election, resulting in Gayoom having to step dow ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | On February 18, 1861, | , on the way to his inauguration, bowed from a coach platform. and on Apri ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... 4, 2010, a report by the New York Times cited the Fr. Murphy case to accuse | of a cover-up while he was head of the CDF in 1996.However Father Thomas B ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Becket | File:Canterbury Cathedral 012 window showing leading and support.JPG| | window from Canterbury showing the pot metal and painted glass, lead H-sec ... |
| Glenn Miller | ... ommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, | and Artie Shaw |
| Ronald Reagan | ... further foreign relations with the United States, during a 1988 summit with | |
| John Kerry | ... ail message that reporters should not "artificially hold George W. Bush and | 'equally' accountable" to the public interest, and that complaints from Bu ... |
| Robert Walpole | ... wing the death of her eldest daughter in 1733. Sarah lived to see her enemy | fall in 1742, and in the same year attempted to improve her reputation by ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifist | criticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ... |
| Thomas Sakakihara | ... munity leaders and prominent politicians, including territorial legislators | and Sanji Abe |
| 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 ... |
| Mary Pinchot Meyer | Noland had an affair in the 1960s with artist and socialite | |
| Ronald Reagan | In 1938, Wyman co-starred with | in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They ... |
| Daniel Boone | Frontiersman | reported having shot and killed "a ten-foot, hairy giant he called a Yahoo ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... om of branding a criminal with the sign (fleurdeliser). During the reign of | , known as the Elizabethan era, it was a standard name for an iris, a usag ... |
| David II | ... nly one year later, Robert died and was succeeded by his five-year-old son, | . On the pretext of restoring John Balliol's rightful heir, Edward Balliol ... |
| Shoko Asahara | ... Aum Shinrikyo cult considered using Ebola as a terror weapon. Their leader, | , led about 40 members to Zaire under the guise of offering medical aid to ... |
| Walther Rathenau | ... rom the League of Nations. Thus, Germany seized the chance to make an ally. | , the Jewish Foreign Minister who signed the treaty, was assassinated two ... |
| Osceola | ... ent after a city of the same name in Iowa, which had been named after Chief | of the Seminole people. After three years of settlement and disputes over ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to | , a longtime political rival |
| Saint Blaise | ... e, Dias continued east and entered what he named Aguada de São Brás (Bay of | )—later renamed Mossel Bay—on 3 February 1488. Dias's expedition reached i ... |
| Richard II | ... Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), rebelled against King | and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King Henry IV and ... |
| John Wayne | ... nd as an assignment in games. These included Carol Channing, Elvis Presley, | , Jimmy Stewart, Steve Irwin and Christopher Lloyd's character in Taxi, Ji ... |
| Jacob Zuma | ... he pen name Zapiro) came under fire for depicting then-president of the ANC | in the act of undressing in preparation for the implied rape of 'Lady Just ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pyotr Grigorenko | ... family of Russian ethnicity. However, according to the Soviet Major General | Voroshilov himself was pointing out to his Ukrainian heritage and previous ... |
| John Fisher | ... nd furthermore publicly refused to uphold Henry's annulment from Catherine. | , Bishop of Rochester, refused the oath along with More. The oath reads |
| Alan Bennett | ... new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee (Tiny Alice), | (Forty Years On), Charles Wood (Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gi ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... bling dens and brothels, and was known as a dangerous place to go. In 1842, | visited the area and was appalled at the horrendous living conditions he h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Buddy Holly | ... ency. American rock and roll acts such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard and | thereafter became major forces in the British charts |
| Alan Turing | ... l offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel). | considers |
| 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 ... |
| Sanji Abe | ... minent politicians, including territorial legislators Thomas Sakakihara and | |
| Steve Jobs | Before long, OpenDoc was scrapped, with | noting that they "put a bullet through [OpenDoc's] head", and most of the ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ew York Times said Spacey was at his "wittiest and most agile" to date, and | of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Canute IV of Denmark | ... King Canute, who was murdered in the church of St. Alban's Priory in 1086. | , the son of King Sven Estridsen, was born about 1040 and ruled Denmark fr ... |
| Anwar Ibrahim | ... s in a few short weeks. After the controversial sacking of finance minister | , a National Economic Action Council was formed to deal with the monetary ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... he had seen. The area was so notorious that it even caught the attention of | , who visited the area before his Cooper Union Address in 1860. The predom ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of | |
| Jacques Chirac | On 12 July 2006, President | held an official state ceremony marking the centenary of Dreyfus's officia ... |
| Duke of Marlborough | ... sive lines and the Marshal's orders from Versailles not to risk battle, the | concentrated instead on taking the fortresses of Tournai and Ypres. Tourna ... |
| Roman Polanski | ... as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with Noël Coward, | 's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion; Be My Guest in 1965, fea ... |
| Anne Boleyn | In 1533, More refused to attend the coronation of | as the Queen of England. Technically, this was not an act of treason, as M ... |
| Jack Roush | ... ss. The Erickson Air-Crane and Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey also returned. Also, | crashed his Hawker Beechcraft Premier 390 during a landing attempt. Art Na ... |
| Thomas Paine | ... enjamin Franklin, believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as | were agnostic about the immortality of the soul |
| Rosa Luxemburg | At the end of the 19th century, Marxists and other socialists (such as | ) produced political analysis that were critical of the nationalist moveme ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
| Aurelio Rodríguez | ... ub acquired pitcher Joe Coleman, shortstop Eddie Brinkman and third baseman | , all of whom would play critical roles in 1972 when the Tigers captured t ... |
| Joseph Stalin | Starting in the 1930s, Adolf Hitler and | murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-nationalistic tende ... |
| Jean Donovan | ... ds, focusing on their assassination of four American churchwomen, including | . Stone's portrayal of the Catholic Church as a force for justice reflects ... |
| Olivier Messiaen | ... s the pit orchestra in a production of the opera Saint François d'Assise by | ; it was the first time an American orchestra was given that opportunity. ... |
| Beethoven | ... nto decline during the 19th century, though the 32 Variations in C minor by | suggest its continuing influence. However, the form saw a very substantial ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as | in Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of ... |
| Sharon Stone | ... bert De Niro and Joe Pesci, Pesci once again being an unbridled psychopath. | was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance |
| Blaise Pascal | ... to the latter movement of Jansenism and the Port-Royal theologians such as | |
| Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna | ... th the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards | , whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life |
| 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 ... |
| Hibari Misora | ... d enjoys little favour with contemporary youth. Famous enka singers include | , Saburo Kitajima, Ikuzo Yoshi and Kiyoshi Hikawa |
| 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 ... |
| George Harrison | ... build the inventions. He was involved in the hasty departure of Lennon and | from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, and Lennon's divorce of ... |
| Kirk Douglas | ... " In 1950, Michael Curtiz directed the film Young Man with a Horn, starring | , Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day. In this version, in which Hoagy Carmichael ... |
| William Penn | ... ers arrived in 1773-1774, having purchased the land from the descendants of | ; other pioneers soon bought land from the state government |
| Engelbert Dollfuss | ... erman plans to annex Austria after the assassination of Austrian Chancellor | , and promised the Austrians military support if Germany were to interfere ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... arliamentary Act of Succession. More accepted Parliament's right to declare | the legitimate Queen of England, but he steadfastly refused to take the oa ... |
| Rod Stewart | ... Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and plays host to acts like Dave Matthews Band, | and the Eagles |
| William Laud | ... s. In 1633 and 1634, following the appointment of the strongly anti-Puritan | as Archbishop of Canterbury, the colony saw a large influx of immigrants |
| Edward Teller's | ... along with Stanislaw Ulam, calculated that the amount of tritium needed for | model of a thermonuclear weapon would be prohibitive, and a fusion reactio ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... PCF's leading theoretician Roger Garaudy and the pre-eminent existentialist | —this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of Marx's thought, and the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Francisco Garcés | ... ty now exists was largely uninhabited prior to the last half century. Padre | , a Franciscan missionary, camped at Castle Butte in what is now Californi ... |
| prisoners of war | ... for the being the camp where the biggest escape attempt was made by German | in Great Britain during the Second World War. Due to problems including tr ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ncil's decree on ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio of 21 November 1964, and | 's encyclical, Ut Unum Sint of 25 May 1995 |
| Elizabeth I | ... nt college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter in 1592 under | and was closed to Roman Catholics until Catholic Emancipation. The Catholi ... |
| Magneto | ... he "Acts of Vengeance" conspiracy, but was attacked by the mutant terrorist | , a Holocaust survivor who wanted to punish him for his involvement in Hit ... |
| Óscar Romero | ... lects events of the time, exemplified in the political sermon of Archbishop | , which is based almost word-for-word on the speech Romero made before he ... |
| Beethoven's | ... ts, which became more common in the romantic era. The scherzo and trio from | Fifth Symphony are famous orchestral excerpts, as is the recitative at the ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful | , the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pol Pot | ... l from 1968 until 1975, and established the regime of Democratic Kampuchea. | , who rose to the leadership of the communist movement in the 1960s, was b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Moshe Barazani | ... hanged, while singing Hatikvah. On April 21 Meir Feinstein and Lehi member | blew themselves up, using an improvised explosive device (IED), hours befo ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... om the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and | 's call for volunteers. On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate State ... |
| Martin Niemöller | Lutheran pastor and theologian | , founder of the Confessing Church resistance movement against the Nazis, ... |
| Artyom Borovik | ... how watched weekly by as many as 100 million people. The other anchors were | , Evgeny Dodolev, Alexander Lyubimov, Alexander Politkovsky and Dmitry Zah ... |
| Gloria Steinem | ... brought the women's rights movement into the national political spotlight. | , Betty Friedan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, ... |
| James Brown | ... d the father of Keith John, a long time backing vocalist for Stevie Wonder. | , who early in his career had opened shows for John, recorded a tribute al ... |
| 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 ... |
| Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse | ... em, Philip moved to Gordonstoun. In 1937, his sister Cecilie, her husband ( | ), her two young sons and her mother-in-law were killed in an air crash at ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... l of Silvia as "enchanting." Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic | wrote "[The film] stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most parti ... |
| Klaus Kinski | ... as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński, Kinski is the daughter of the German actor | from his marriage to actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki, thus making her half sis ... |
| Karol Wojtyła | ... reasingly internationalist College of Cardinals, were figures like Cardinal | . Over the days following the conclave, cardinals effectively declared tha ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... scape, shortly before running into the First of the Fallen, in the guise of | . There then follows a small break where he meets the spirit of a dead fri ... |
| Stalin | ... r Pitkin" after the character from his films. In 1995, he visited the post- | ist country where, to his surprise, he was greeted by many appreciative fa ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... hich an exact date is known, however, occurred on 7 January 1605, at Court. | saw a Henry V in 1664—but it was written by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrer ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... list nature and repeated descending motif, alludes to the first movement of | 's Symphony no. 9 in D minor |
| Charles Dickens | ... in in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by | . He created the role in the original West End production, and reprised it ... |
| Jacques Chirac | French Presidents from Georges Pompidou to | have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible Citroën SM présid ... |
| Oskar Lafontaine | ... e "laut.de" Rammstein, with this song, positioned themselves on the side of | , co-chairmen of The Left Party and former chairman of the Social Democrat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... to fit into society and unhappy with the identities he creates for himself. | , in his book on existentialism Existentialism is a Humanism, quoted Dosto ... |
| Henry Clay Frick | ... d. Mellon was a member of the Duquesne Club. Along with his closest friends | and Philander Knox, also South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club members, Mell ... |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and | |
| Robert Walpole | ... nce of Wales, for which she would pay a massive dowry of £100,000. However, | , the First Lord of the Treasury (effectively the same as today's Prime Mi ... |
| Betty Ford | Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, | , Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, Elizabeth Holt ... |
| 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 ... |
| Simon Wiesenthal | According to | , toward the end of World War II, a group of former SS officers went to Ar ... |
| President Lincoln | In April 1864, at Bancroft's request, | wrote out what would become the fourth of five known manuscripts of the Ge ... |
| Matthias Erzberger | ... ides, e.g. the murder of Republican politicians such as Kurt Eisner (1919), | (1921), or Walther Rathenau (1922) by right-wing groups such as Organisati ... |
| Jesse James | ... rs from 1860 to 1861. It is one block away from the home of infamous outlaw | , where he was shot and killed by Robert Ford |
| 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 ... |
| Levon Helm | ... drums, baritone saxophone, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals), and | (drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals). All five members were notable musicians ... |
| John Prine | ... ured cover versions of Case's songs performed by various artists, including | , Susan Cowsill, and others |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Teller | Dr. | at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Califor ... |
| The Notorious B.I.G. | ... op artists such as KRS One, Public Enemy, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, Nas, | , and dead prez are known for their sociopolitical subject matter. Their W ... |
| Yazid Sufaat | ... h Mohammed possibly attended the summit. In Malaysia, the group stayed with | , a local member of Jemaah Islamiyah, who provided accommodations at reque ... |
| Scottsboro Boys | ... ege of New York. There he became involved in efforts to defend and free the | , nine young black men in Alabama who were accused of raping two white wom ... |
| Deng Xiaoping | ... tburo. In January 1975 he became second deputy Premier, ranking first after | was purged again in 1976. His attempt to promote himself higher in the par ... |
| Ieng Sary | ... term that later came to signify the party and the state headed by Pol Pot, | , Khieu Samphan, and their associates |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... styles. The social and political ferment of the 1960s inspired artists like | and Curtis Mayfield to release albums with hard-hitting social commentary, ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... erty, and over the next few years ABC approached, or was approached, by GE, | , Litton Industries, GTE and ITT. ABC and ITT agreed to a merger in late 1 ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
| Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia | ... oup of Russian expatriates, led by Yul Brynner, into passing herself off as | , the daughter of the murdered Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. However, the ul ... |
| Armin Meiwes | ... oversy in Germany when it was released. It takes a darkly comic view of the | cannibalism case, showing a cross-dressed Schneider holding the other five ... |
| David Hicks | ... 07 The Age took a prominent role to publicly advocate on behalf of the Free | campaign (where Hicks was a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay) |
| Daniel Boone | ... h had a reservation established in the area in 1846. Hays was a grandson of | . In 1858, the town was officially incorporated by the legislature. Hays a ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... dship of the hundred of Nassaburgh, which was coextensive with the Soke, to | , who gave it to Lord Burghley, and from that time until the 19th century ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... e the expansion of slavery it chose its name to echo the Jefferson's party. | and other members sought to combine Jefferson's ideals of liberty and equa ... |
| Syama Prasad Mookerjee | The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded by Dr | in 1951 to espouse the nationalist cause. The party opposed the appeasemen ... |
| Brigitte Bardot | ... ster designed their second collection for Mango in 2007. It was inspired by | and summers in St Tropez |
| Ronald Reagan | In 1988, U.S. President | signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which had been sponsored by Repres ... |
| Eric IV | During the civil war between | and his brother, Abel, Odense and the cathedral were burned down in 1247. ... |
| Meir Feinstein | ... ni, and Mordechai El'kachi were hanged, while singing Hatikvah. On April 21 | and Lehi member Moshe Barazani blew themselves up, using an improvised exp ... |
| Khieu Samphan | ... later came to signify the party and the state headed by Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, | , and their associates |
| 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 ... |
| Jiang Qing | ... n he was arrested in October 1976. He was sentenced to death, together with | , in 1981, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment |
| 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. ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Grigori Rasputin | ... control over the country. Her notorious friendship with the Russian mystic, | , was also an important factor in her life |
| Marvin Gaye | ... a songwriter for Motown writing hits for Michael Jackson, The Miracles and | while Chico became a professional dancer and choreographer joining his eld ... |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... roductions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and | 's 1986 musical |
| Carly Fiorina | ... became president of the post-merger Hewlett-Packard, under Chairman and CEO | , to ease the integration of the two companies. However, Capellas was repo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sabino Arana | ... 900. Social movements also occurred, specially the Basque nationalism under | |
| Kurt Schuschnigg | ... ia, his native country. He met on 12 February 1938 with Austrian chancellor | , threatening invasion if peaceful unification was not forthcoming. The Na ... |
| Lucien Carr | ... ower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, | , Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thom ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Paine | ... ear in the colonies that the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, | 's pamphlet Common Sense was published. Paine, who had only recently arriv ... |
| George Harrison | ... 9 November 2002 to pay tribute to Clapton's life-long friend, former Beatle | |
| Tara Singh Hayer | On 18 November 1998, the Canada-based Sikh journalist | was gunned down by the suspected Khalistani militants. The publisher of th ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ence unlike anything that other animated features are doing at the moment". | called Bakshi's effort a "mixed blessing" and "an entirely respectable, oc ... |
| Michael Servetus | Both | and Emanuel Swedenborg have been interpreted as being proponents of Modali ... |
| Diana Dill | ... a has produced, or been home to, actors such as Oona O'Neill, Earl Cameron, | , Lena Headey, Will Kempe, and most famously, Michael Douglas and Catherin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... 573, it was made a head port for collection of customs duties, and in 1581, | granted Cardiff its first royal charter. Pembrokeshire historian George Ow ... |
| Kim Dae-jung | In response to the summit between Kim Jong-il and | in 2000, North and South Korea agreed in August 2000 to reconnect the sect ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... 's philosophy using historicism and updated Hegelian historiographic ideas. | was accused of brandishing a poker at Popper during a meeting of the Cambr ... |
| Kim Dae-jung | ... ent. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, Kim Young-sam and | (both of whom later became presidents), were unable to overcome their diff ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Knight | Farner began his career in music by playing in | and The Pack (1965–1966), The Bossmen (1966), The Pack (aka The Fabulous P ... |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... of England and France", participating judges were Justices Samuel Alito and | . The outcome was originally to be determined by an audience vote, however ... |
| Jesse James | ... 1858. Established in 1853, the Martin Hotel was visited by P. T. Barnum and | . Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the Martin H ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... of Roman Catholic ceremonies in the 20th and 21st centuries. For instance, | leads the Stations of the Cross called the Scriptural Way of the Cross (wh ... |
| Ruth Westheimer | ... Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. | appeared in episodes as themselves |
| Vito Genovese | During his exile, Luciano missed a major power shift in America. | , who was at one time Luciano's Underboss, had decided that he wanted to t ... |
| Richard II | ... . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England from | , ascending the throne as Henry IV, at which point the Dukedom merged in t ... |
| Gloria Stuart | ... (1937), and In This Our Life (1942). She remained a close friend of actress | until Stuart's death in 2010, at the age of 100. In April 2008, she attend ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vincent Gigante | ... o Frank Costello. After a botched 1957 assassination attempt on Costello by | , Costello stepped down as Don and let Genovese take over. But Genovese wa ... |
| Justin Martyr | ... r early 2nd century), Ignatius of Antioch (who died between 98 and 117) and | (writing between 147 and 167). Today, "the Eucharist" is the name still us ... |
| Laura Ziskin | ... itute friend on the bus to Disneyland. These traits, considered by producer | to be detrimental to the otherwise sympathetic portrayal of her, were remo ... |
| Greta Garbo | ... e of 1960s trendy arts documentaries – satirised in a parodic TV segment on | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Otto Selz | ... that Popper took some of his ideas from his tutor, the German psychologist | . Selz himself never published his ideas, partly because of the rise of Na ... |
| Anne Boleyn | Among those held and executed at the Tower was | . Although the Yeoman Warders were once the Royal Bodyguard, by the 16th a ... |
| Saint Christopher | ... the royal warehouses, and sailing-master of the man-of-war, São Cristóvão ( | ). King John II of Portugal appointed him, on 10 October 1487, to head an ... |
| Henry VI | ... own of Henley. The existing Corpus Christi fair was granted by a charter of | |
| Klaus Kinski | ... anger is a mural of German born actress Nastassja Kinski, daughter of actor | . This was created in 1982 by Sanger native artist Jose Maro Alvarado who ... |
| Ryan O'Neal | ... k after working together on Risky Business. She later married, secondly, to | 's son, Patrick O'Neal from 1995 to 2002, which union produced two daughte ... |
| Ronnie Hawkins | ... he members of the Band first came together as they joined rockabilly singer | 's backing group, The Hawks, one by one between 1958 and 1963. Upon leavin ... |
| Wilhelm Reich | ... rstanding of modern neurobiology. Henry Bauer compared Sheldrake's ideas to | 's generally discredited claims of orgone energies. In his Skeptic's Dicti ... |
| Edward Teller | ... onfused with the U.S. Army Jupiter Intermediate-range ballistic missile. At | 's prompting, the Navy's "Jupiter" missile plans were abandoned in favor o ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... for years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid, | made his first public speech in decades on 11 February 1990 from the balco ... |
| Pim Fortuyn | ... o because the final was held several days, after Rotterdam's political hero | was murdered. Lots of fans were still full of emotion, before and after th ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saint Francis | ... . Shortly afterwards he painted three frescoes with scenes from the life of | above the left door of the Santa Trinita church. For the Santa Maria Maggi ... |
| Justin Martyr | ... that humans have the power of free will and the choice over good and evil. | said that 'every created being is so constituted as to be capable of vice ... |
| Walther Rathenau | ... lican politicians such as Kurt Eisner (1919), Matthias Erzberger (1921), or | (1922) by right-wing groups such as Organisation Consul. In 1926, the 27th ... |
| 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 |
| Roger Ebert | ... reviews from mainstream critics, the film scored a 59, based on 36 reviews. | wrote: "M. Night Shyamalan's 'Signs' is the work of a born filmmaker, able ... |
| Dollfuß | ... ed Nazism to be but a passing phenomenon not worse than the dictatorship of | and Schuschniggs's authoritarian one-party system, which had ruled Austria ... |
| Johnny Adair | ... e Troubles, its armed campaign gained prominence in the early 1990s through | 's ruthless leadership of the Lower Shankill 2nd Battalion, C. Company, wh ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ormation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope. In 2000, | declared More the "heavenly patron of statesmen and politicians". In 1980, ... |
| Bob Marley | Rita Marley, | 's wife, converted to the Rastafari faith after seeing Haile Selassie on h ... |
| Agnes de Mille | ... Oklahoma! a success, including director Rouben Mamoulian and choreographer | . Miles White was the costume designer while Jo Mielziner (who had not wor ... |
| Victor Klemperer | ... ayal of Colonel Klink on the US television show Hogan's Heroes. The diarist | was a cousin; so were Georg Klemperer and Felix Klemperer, who were famous ... |
| James A. McClure | ... churches, and its counterpart was defeated in the House. Senators Helms and | blocked Ted Kennedy's comprehensive criminal code that did not relax feder ... |
| Kim Young-sam | ... tion of the president. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, | and Kim Dae-jung (both of whom later became presidents), were unable to ov ... |
| 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 ... |
| Liu Shaoqi | ... ao Zedong's full supporters as he was starting a struggle with rival leader | |
| Charles III of Spain | In the 18th century King | commissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint The Triumph of Trajan on the cei ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... of the Kammerorchester Basel, which is recording the complete symphonies of | for the Sony label led by its music director Giovanni Antonini. The baroqu ... |
| Schuschniggs's | ... be but a passing phenomenon not worse than the dictatorship of Dollfuß and | authoritarian one-party system, which had ruled Austria. During World War ... |
| John McCain | ... is by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while 35% of the votes went to | |
| 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 ... |
| Bernard Madoff | ... a reported "Montauk Monster" washed up on the shore and was not identified. | owned a beach house in Montauk |
| Jim McClure | ... epublican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, | and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favor ... |
| Roger Ebert's | ... one of many used as the backdrop for the opening credits of Gene Siskel and | "At the Movies." The uptown area is currently under development. There are ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... l of multiple causality in political situations (an idea closely related to | 's concept of ) |
| Samuel Pepys | ... octor of Divinity at Cambridge. He resumed his lectures at the Savoy, where | heard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his se ... |
| Mary Read | ... ach, known as "Blackbeard", along with women pirates such as Anne Bonny and | |
| 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 ... |
| Brigitte Bardot | ... s Hollywood stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Fisher and | . Former Swing Musician Teddy Stauffer, so called "Mister Acapulco", was a ... |
| Bilal Skaf | ... tacks committed by a group of up to fourteen Lebanese Australian men led by | against European Australian women and teenage girls, as young as 14, in Sy ... |
| Carlos Cruz | ... ay as a world champion, as he lost his world lightweight title to Dominican | on a 15 round decision in the Dominican Republic. Ortiz kept on fighting, ... |
| Johnny Mooring | ... country artists include: Shania Twain, Blue Rodeo, Marg Osburne, Hank Snow, | , Don Messer, Doc Walker, Emerson Drive, Paul Brandt, The Wilkinsons, Wilf ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... five charted pop release. Later that same year, Ross and fellow Motown star | released a duet album, Diana & Marvin. The duo scored an international hit ... |
| Dick Clark | Television personality | resided here from 1954 to 1956 at the Drexelbrook Apartment complex before ... |
| Louis XV | ... g scale projects, with the team Gabriel father and son, architects for King | , under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first Nicolas-Franç ... |
| Justice O'Connor | ... urt will take in future decisions remains unclear. (See Gonzales v. Oregon) | , dissenting in Gonzalez , began her opinion by citing United States v. Lo ... |
| Justin Martyr | ... se, was expressed in the second century writings of Polycarp, Ignatius, and | . But the doctrine in a more full-fledged form was not formulated until th ... |
| Hippolytus of Rome | ... n the third century. This had come to him via the teachings of Noetus and . | knew Sabellius personally and mentioned him in the Philosophumena. He knew ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... in 1998. His final (silent) acting performance was in a film adaptation of | 's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator Harold Pinter an ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Orwell | ... nd with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named Nineteen Eighty-Four after | 's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ord ... |
| Samuel Beckett | Like | , Ionesco began his theatre career late: he did not write his first play u ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from | , he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ... |
| Menachem Begin | ... tions into the IDF started. On June 1, an agreement had been signed Between | and Yisrael Galili for the absorption of the Irgun into the IDF. One of th ... |
| Nizar Trabelsi | ... d conspired with Richard Reid and a Tunisian man who is in jail in Belgium, | , in a plot to blow up two airliners bound for the United States more-or-l ... |
| Marcel Marceau | ... medians and celebrities, including Dick Cavett, Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers, | and Dick Van Dyke. Laurel lived until 1965, surviving to see the duo's wor ... |
| Anne Francis | Pete's sister, Liz ( | ), rents Macreedy a Jeep. Macreedy drives to nearby Adobe Flats, where Kom ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... validity of the Pragmatic Sanction which secured the Habsburg succession to | , allied himself with France, conquered Upper Austria, was crowned king of ... |
| Kenneth Kaunda | ... ns were already socialists. Other African socialists include Jomo Kenyatta, | , and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism and called for a ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan and | |
| Birch Bayh | Image:Birch bayh.jpg|Senator | of Indian |
| Duke of Marlborough | ... same year he published Rufinus, a historical essay; and a political poem on | and his adherents |
| Apostles | ... he council affirmed and defined what it believed to be the teachings of the | regarding who Christ is: that Christ is the one true God in deity with the ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... ists, including bossa nova originator Antonio Carlos Jobim & late Apple CEO | , Diana Ross received a Grammy Special Merit Lifetime Achievement Award on ... |
| 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). ... |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... r Eliot's death, the book was adapted as the basis of the musical, Cats, by | , first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the ... |
| Waylon Jennings | ... t of outlaw country, alongside singer-songwriters such as Willie Nelson and | . Outlaw country was rock-oriented and lyrically focused on the criminal a ... |
| Göring | Hitler, | and Dr. Schacht bestowed upon Kung an honorary degree, and attempted to op ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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. |
| John Lennon | ... to find the world's favourite song. In 2000 it came second to "Imagine" by | in a Channel 4 television poll of The 100 Best Number 1s. It has been in t ... |
| Jerry Lewis | ... of the new generation of comedians and celebrities, including Dick Cavett, | , Peter Sellers, Marcel Marceau and Dick Van Dyke. Laurel lived until 1965 ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ore metaphysics. Herbert Marcuse criticized Being and Nothingness (1943) by | for projecting anxiety and meaninglessness onto the nature of existence it ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | In his first Inaugural Address, | tried to contain the expansion of the Confederacy. To quiet the rising cal ... |
| Saye Zerbo | ... ountry's traditionally powerful trade unions, and on 25 November 1980, Col. | overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup. Colonel Zerbo establishe ... |
| Foxe's Book of Martyrs | ... in the opposite direction, was the boyhood home of John Foxe, the author of | |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... the author himself. Subsequently, French General (later, French President) | , whom Saint-Exupéry and others held in low regard, publicly implied that ... |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... iszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, | , George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known v ... |
| Zacarias Moussaoui | The captured Al-Qaeda terrorist conspirator, | , stated at his sentencing hearing in 2006 that Reid was a co-conspirator ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... s The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and | ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other ... |
| Khalid Sheikh Mohammed | ... fiq bin Attash (Khallad) and Abu Bara al Yemeni, to Karachi, Pakistan where | , the plot's coordinator, instructed him on western culture, travel, as we ... |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... pulco became the fashionable place for millionaires Hollywood stars such as | , Frank Sinatra, Eddie Fisher and Brigitte Bardot. Former Swing Musician T ... |
| Roger Ebert | According to | , on his review of Fat City, "His fascination with underdogs and losers. T ... |
| Edward II | ... without an heir in 1307, so their titles and estates reverted to the crown. | then created his brother Thomas of Brotherton earl in 1312. It passed to T ... |
| Nicholas II | ... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to | , the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie |
| 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 ... |
| Iakovos Kambanelis | ... : Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, | , Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, Ellie Lambeti, Irene Papas etc. More t ... |
| Polycarp | ... vine three", in some sense, was expressed in the second century writings of | , Ignatius, and Justin Martyr. But the doctrine in a more full-fledged for ... |
| Daniel Inouye | ... d Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (he was passed later in 2009 by | ) |
| 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 ... |
| King Edward II | In the 14th century Napton was granted a market charter by | and throughout the Middle Ages it was one of the largest settlements in Wa ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... nister James Callaghan made his government's papers on Trident available to | 's new incoming Conservative Party government, which took the decision to ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | President | , who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965–1967 and 1971–19 ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... resent house. This palace was the childhood home and favourite residence of | . Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, Henry VII's minister John Cardinal M ... |
| Peter Dillon | ... ds the New Hebrides, a name that lasted until independence. In 1825, trader | 's discovery of sandalwood on the island of Erromango began a rush that en ... |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... 94, McCain voted to confirm President Clinton's nominees Stephen Breyer and | whom he considered to be qualified for the U.S. Supreme Court. He would la ... |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | # Suite from " | " - Velton Ray Bunch (14:55 |
| Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister, | , 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ... |
| Blumlein | ... components were produced with minimal inherent distortion and phase shift. | 's Ultra-Linear transformer design was used in conjunction with Williamson ... |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ration of Ireland in a lengthy document. More seriously, he quarrelled with | , probably because of Sidney's opposition to the French marriage, which de ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
| George Orwell | ... lves destroying gentler, more-human places such as gardens. In 1984, author | described the Ministry of Truth as an "enormous, pyramidal structure of wh ... |
| John Cranko | ... n (arranged by Charles Mackerras) and The Bumboat Woman's Story by Gilbert, | 's 1951 ballet Pineapple Poll is set at the quayside in Portsmouth |
| William Tyndale | In 1531, | published An Answer unto Sir Thomas More’s Dialogue in response to More’s ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Hunt Morgan | ... at he was a civilian). Burnside also dealt with Confederate raiders such as | |
| 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 ... |
| Edward II of England | In 1325, the land was confiscated by Charles IV when | , in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispu ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... Douglas of Illinois ran poorly in Louisiana, and the Republican candidate, | , was not listed on the state ballot |
| Cary Grant | The lead role of Steve was originally offered to | , with a promise by Frank to rewrite the script to play up the age differe ... |
| Lech Kaczyński | ... d in Poland. It was strongly opposed by the Polish government and president | . Current Polish prime minister Donald Tusk restricted his comments to a r ... |
| Menachem Begin | ... k on the center of government at the King David Hotel as soon as possible." | himself reportedly was very saddened and upset. He was angry that the hote ... |
| Clement Vallandigham | ... sed it to arrest former Ohio congressman and candidate for governor of Ohio | , a prominent leader in the copperhead peace movement, and try him in a mi ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... ; one of their early compositions, "As Tears Go By", was a song written for | , a young singer being promoted by Loog Oldham at the time. For the Rollin ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... rsonification of Britain, in imagery that was developed during the reign of | . With the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish ... |
| Fred Korematsu | On January 30, 2011, California first observed an annual " | Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution", the first such commemoration ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... e continues to have many legions of loyal fans, including ex-Prime Minister | . The Thick Of It is a similar BBC television series that has been called ... |
| Aurelio Rodríguez | ... ts that year with the Tigers finishing next to last in the AL East in 1976. | won the Gold Glove Award for 1976 at third base, snapping a 16-season stre ... |
| Foxe's Book of Martyrs | ... nd included in many editions of Chaucer and mentioned as a familiar text in | . Such associations gave it far more exposure—and positive exposure—than P ... |
| Sima Qian | The Chinese historian | , writing a century after the First Emperor's death, wrote that it took 70 ... |
| Peter Criss | ... ethod Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, LL Cool J, Rick Fox, Dana Ivey and | have made appearances on the show |
| Greta Garbo | Ayres played opposite | in 1929's The Kiss, but it was his leading role in 1930's All Quiet on the ... |
| Stalin's | ... strialization regimes include the Dirigisme of France in the De Gaulle era, | advocacy of Socialism In One Country and the economic policies of Taiwan a ... |
| King Richard II | When | created Thomas Mowbray duke in 1397, he conferred upon him the estates and ... |
| Ota Šik | ... used further disquiet. In October 1967, a number of reformers, most notably | and Alexander Dubček, took action: they challenged First Secretary Antonín ... |
| Lev Kamenev | ... othes were in tatters. While in Moscow, he took her to meet Lenin, Trotsky, | , and other leading Bolsheviks and also to visit Moscow's ballet and art g ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... incidental music for various plays, with the more famous examples including | 's Egmont music, Franz Schubert's Rosamunde music, Felix Mendelssohn's Mid ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... oss-border co-operation were discussed with the new British Prime Minister, | . These discussions led Síle de Valera, a backbench TD, to directly challe ... |
| Sean O'Keefe | ... vens, along with seven other passengers including former NASA administrator | , were in a plane crash about 17 miles north of Dillingham, Alaska, while ... |
| Walther Funk | ... ent, in spite of growing deficits. Schacht resigned on 8 December 1937, and | took over the position, as well as control of the Reichsbank. In this way ... |
| Eadburh | ... anslation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. For example, he tells a story about | , the daughter of Offa. Eadburh married Beorhtric, king of the West Saxons ... |
| 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 ... |
| Deng Xiaoping | ... socialist market economy or "socialism with Chinese characteristics". Under | , the leadership of China embarked upon a programme of market-based reform ... |
| Justin Martyr | The Christian apologist | wrote: Wherefore also the evil demons in mimicry have handed down that the ... |
| Kirk Douglas | ... mphrey Bogart, and in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) with Lana Turner and | . Brooks became the first African-American woman to host her own televisio ... |
| Antonín Novotný | ... Ota Šik and Alexander Dubček, took action: they challenged First Secretary | at a Central Committee meeting. Novotný faced a mutiny in the Central Comm ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... lotic elite. The KAU remained dominated by the Kikuyu ethnic group. In 1947 | , the former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... es. The office also settles labour issues which arise. It was instituted by | on 1 January 1989 by an apostolic letter in the form of a |
| Roger Ebert | ... hed, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released | , a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the best mob movie ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... in England and Wales since the Reformation lived in Finchley. The novelist | wrote Martin Chuzzlewit whilst staying at Cobley Farm near Bow Lane, North ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... nce been extended to refer to any drunken revelry. In A Tale of Two Cities, | uses the words: "the law was certainly not behind any other learned profes ... |
| George Harrison | ... the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, | , Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by drummer Jim Keltne ... |
| Miklós Nyiszli | ... ration camp inmates to work in certain jobs. This included doctors, such as | who, while a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, served as Chief Pathologist and ... |
| Andrew Lloyd-Webber | ... h middle classes. The only failure during this period was 1975 musical with | , Jeeves, and even this did little to dent Ayckbourn's popularity. Althoug ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ife (e.g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named | ), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the "real world" and used to expl ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such as | before she became queen, were held within its walls. This use has led to t ... |
| William Prynne | ... nother ploughman text and thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, | , possibly John Milton, and John Dryden.) Given the diffusion of different ... |
| Catherine Howard | ... hat the drama's second part focused more on the stories of Jane Seymour and | |
| Justin Martyr | ... "the mind of god", theou noesis. The Christian apologist of the 2nd century | takes issue with those pagans who erect at springs images of Kore, whom he ... |
| Lord Darnley | ... endancy was established. Mary caused alarm by marrying her Catholic cousin, | , in 1565. After Lord Darnley's assassination in 1567, Mary contracted an ... |
| Saajid Badat | ... ing to Reid were found in the bomb materials. Later on, a British-born man, | from Gloucester, England, admitted that he had conspired with Richard Reid ... |
| Edwin of Northumbria | ... imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms. The fifth of these was | , who was killed at the battle of Hatfield Chase by a combined force inclu ... |
| Al Capone | ... Four men bundled him into a car and took him to the Hawthorne Inn, owned by | . Waller was ordered inside the building, and found a party in full swing. ... |
| Daniel Inouye | ... senator in history with a career spanning over 38 years. His colleague Sen. | (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The Strom Thurmond of the Arctic Circle. |
| Arlen Specter | ... late. After the 2004 elections, Frist played a role in the controversy over | 's post-election remarks. Frist demanded a public statement from Specter i ... |
| Hjalmar Schacht | ... ed the economics ministry in his policy-making decisions, to the chagrin of | , the minister in charge. Huge expenditures were made on rearmament, in sp ... |
| Beethoven | ... performers (such as violinist Paganini, and pianist, organist, and composer | ) were acclaimed for their skills at improvisation. The cadenza portion of ... |
| Joseph Stalin | The leadership of | led to a change in his view of the Soviet Union even though his initial im ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ep South cotton states passed secession ordinances by February 1861 (before | took office as president), while secession efforts failed in the other eig ... |
| Kirk Douglas | ... ind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn and | . It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Mi ... |
| William Laud | ... this was Merton's annoyance with the interference of their Visitor (patron) | , the Archbishop of Canterbury. Due to this, the college was moved to Lond ... |
| 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 ... |
| Merle Haggard | ... nd rock, such as the breakbeat, in their music. In the '60s performers like | popularized the sound. In the early 1970s, Haggard was also part of outlaw ... |
| Thomas Seymour | ... ears old, Elizabeth was under suspicion of having illegally agreed to marry | , the House and her servants were seized by Edward VI's agent Robert Tyrwh ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | On the election of | 's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ... |
| Grand Duchess Anastasia | ... was called upon to authoritatively rebut impostors' claims to be the living | , who had been his first cousin. Until his own assassination in 1979, Moun ... |
| Ethan Allen | ... e directly deist. These include James Madison, possibly Alexander Hamilton, | |
| Sima Qian | ... opened and there is evidence suggesting that it remains relatively intact. | 's description of the tomb includes replicas of palaces and scenic towers, ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... en, gave a wooden performance as Bruce Wayne. Other critics though, such as | , had kind words for Kilmer. Batman creator Bob Kane said in a Cinescape i ... |
| Roald Amundsen | ... east Roosevelt Island. The southern part is covered by the Ross Ice Shelf. | started his South Pole expedition in 1911 from the Bay of Whales, which wa ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | | showed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ... |
| Otis Redding | ... terey Pop Festival. So instead of putting us on Saturday night right before | , they wound up putting us on at sunset on Friday when there was nobody in ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... ur-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, | and Dudley Moore |
| Charles Dickens | ... ened in 1853 after Beacon Hill headland was dynamited to make space for it. | was said to have made readings there. In the 1900s a ballroom and a new se ... |
| Iuliu Maniu | ... ania, Moldavia and Wallachia merged to become the National Peasants' Party. | (1873–1953) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Ernest Henley | | is known to most people by virtue of this single poem |
| John Lennon | ... s" (originally titled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by | and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hea ... |
| Coluche | ... n centers around social and political satire, play on words, or imitations. | is considered an icon for his successful career as a comedian, political s ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... of sympathy, including those from Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, | of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Narasimha Rao of India. Iran ... |
| John Lennon | ... chedelic rock, mod and similar genres; this was called Group Sounds (G.S.). | of The Beatles later became one of most popular Western musicians in Japan ... |
| Mario Lemieux | ... rdiopulmonary resuscitation pioneer Peter Safar. Pittsburgh Penguins legend | used to reside in Mt. Lebanon as well, though he now resides in Sewickley, ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... munist ideology, particularly Trotskyism; though following the Great Purge, | privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounce Trotskyism. Ch ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... sts and of the Soviet Union; Craxi himself pushed in favour of US president | 's positioning of Pershing missiles in Italy |
| Joan of Arc | ... e origin is not clear, but probably refers to a few knights who accompanied | , known as La Pucelle. Another theory is that Pucela comes from the fact t ... |
| `Abdu'l-Bahá | ... d of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. After the death of | in 1921, the leadership of the Bahá'í community entered a new phase, evolv ... |
| Eddie Van Halen | ... Angeles music scene with a sound based around the skills of lead guitarist | . He popularised a guitar‐playing technique of two‐handed hammer‐ons and p ... |
| William Penn | ... le colonies. Later in the century, the new Pennsylvania colony was given to | in settlement of a debt the king owed his father. Its government was set u ... |
| Mordechai Vanunu | ... d organisations, including Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, | , Petra Kelly and Memorial |
| Kurt Cobain | ... ominence declined due to a number of events, notably the death of Nirvana's | in 1994 and Pearl Jam's lawsuit against concert venue promoter Ticketmaste ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... rge Birthday present, which provoked tremendous approval. He also read from | 's 40 Years On, in which he had appeared in earlier years |
| 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 ... |
| Václav Havel | ... VPN) and the Civic Forum. On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared with | on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, He was greeted with uproarious ... |
| William Ernest Henley | "Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet | (1849–1903) |
| Al Capone | ... often debate as to who was the greater between Luciano and his contemporary | . The much publicized exploits of Al Capone with the Chicago Outfit made h ... |
| Aleksandar Stamboliyski | ... onservative forces crushed BZNS in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader, | (1879–1923). BZNS was made into a Communist puppet group until 1989, when ... |
| Alexander II | The decline of the Russian German community started with the reforms of | . In 1871, he repealed the open-door immigration policy of his ancestors, ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... ts typically associated with it contributed to this generic classification. | owned a copy of Piers Plowman. A Crowley edition owned in 1613 by an educa ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ins unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted Pope John Paul I (1978) and | (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Paul VI. Pope Gregory XVII is g ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | In the other case, Sam interrupts the JFK assassination, preventing | from killing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. This history change, however, fro ... |
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| Queen Elizabeth | ... in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against | , but he was acquitted of those charges. He succeeded his father as Baron ... |
| John McCain | ... ny of the rural counties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | ... . Reproductive Health Services, but was not successful in doing so. Justice | authored the decision of the Court, allowing the abortion regulations at i ... |
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| 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 ... |
| Shigeru Mizuki | ... wide variety of situations and locations. These phenomena are described in | 's 1985 book Graphic World of Japanese Phantoms (妖怪伝 in Japanese) |
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| Roger Ebert | ... ), the many jousting scenes and the thin plot. However, notable film critic | gave the film 3 stars out of a possible 4 and commented that "Some will sa ... |
| Deng Xiaoping | ... l Chinese families, most notably the future Chinese Communist party leader, | . Soon Ching-kuo was an enthusiastic student of Communist ideology, partic ... |
| Roy Buchanan | On the 1974 record Second Album, | included an instrumental song he wrote titled "Tribute to Elmore James," w ... |
| Karl Liebknecht | ... fights culminated in the beating and shooting deaths of Rosa Luxemburg and | after their arrests on 15 January. With the affirmation of Ebert, those re ... |
| Carly Simon | ... lling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, The Carpenters, Elton John, | , Carole King, James Taylor, John Denver, The Eagles, America, Chicago, Th ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... s "I Have a Dream" speech electrified the crowd. It is regarded, along with | 's Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, as one of ... |
| Bahá'u'lláh | ... one to the next, but a prerequisite that appointees be male descendants of | left no suitable living candidates, and Shoghi Effendi died without making ... |
| Gracie Fields | ... released in America. Twickenham took on more quality work such as the 1933 | vehicle This Week of Grace. This ultimately led Hagen to stop making quick ... |
| Alger Hiss | ... th included in the broadcast an interview with Nixon's longstanding nemesis | , a convicted Cold War perjurer. Howard K. Smith: News and Comment aired i ... |
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| Kenneth Williams | Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for | , for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the ... |
| Karl Radek | ... e was contemptuous of the bullying tactics displayed during the congress by | and Grigory Zinoviev, who ordered Reed to attend the Congress of the Peopl ... |
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| Abraham Lincoln | ... foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding | on his way to his inauguration. His agents often worked undercover as Conf ... |
| Alva R. Fitch | The first Eagle Scout in Nebraska was | of Norfolk |
| Roger Ebert | ... tating: "Blow isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told." | gave the film 2½ out of 4 stars, but questioned the value about making Jun ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven. Film critic | speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( ... |
| Bishop Fisher | ... efulness and necessity of Revelation (London, 1709—1710) and the preface to | 's Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1708)—both ... |
| Rosa Luxemburg | ... iers. Bloody street fights culminated in the beating and shooting deaths of | and Karl Liebknecht after their arrests on 15 January. With the affirmatio ... |
| Huey P. Newton | ... aver's influence on the direction of the Party was rivaled only by founders | and Bobby Seale. Cleaver and Newton eventually fell out with each other, r ... |
| Grigory Zinoviev | ... ous of the bullying tactics displayed during the congress by Karl Radek and | , who ordered Reed to attend the Congress of the Peoples of the East to be ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from | , to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. From around 1 ... |
| 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 ... |
| King Edward V | For his support of King Richard III during the deposition of | in 1483, he was created The Duke of Norfolk, third creation, on 28 June 14 ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... hail from Portsmouth or who have lived in the city include: famous authors | – famous for such works as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edwin of Northumbria | ... of Deira (632–633 or 633–634) in northern England. He was a cousin of king | , being the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the fat ... |
| Rod Stewart | ... James Sainsbury, Peter Sellers, Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, | , Victoria Wood, Lord Young of Dartington, Toby Young, and Alex Zane |
| Frank Church | The U.S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator | (the Church Committee) reported in 1975 that it had found "concrete eviden ... |
| Keith Green | ... remony held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, along with Elvis Presley, | , Kurt Kaiser, Doris Akers, The Rambos, Wendy Bagwell and the Sunliters, a ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... titution which would greatly influence other contemporary figures including | . Port-Royal was run by followers of Jansenism, a theology condemned as he ... |
| Willem Drees | ... 1952 the VVD took part in the broad cabinets led by the PvdA Prime Minister | . The party was a junior partner with only eight seats to the Catholic Peo ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... ommittee report titled German Strategy and Capacity to Resist, prepared for | 's eyes only, predicted that Germany might collapse as early as mid-April ... |
| Pope John Paul II | With the changes in the canonization process introduced by | in 1983, a College of Relators was added to prepare the cases of those dec ... |
| Mohammed Sagar | ... centre in exchange for Australian aid. By November 2005, only two refugees, | and Muhammad Faisal, remained on Nauru from those first sent there in 2001 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... r characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to | 's Waiting For Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almos ... |
| Barry White | ... eme" by Love Unlimited Orchestra, a track which was written and produced by | . In order to release the "Dream of Me" track as an OMD single, however, M ... |
| Cary Grant | ... oom in 1945, with Variety proclaiming, "Liberace looks like a cross between | and Robert Alda. He has an effective manner, attractive hands which he spo ... |
| Philip | They also cite Christ's response to | 's query on who the Father was in |
| Jack London | ... own, little or no interest, and whatever they could pay on a monthly basis. | describes the artists' colony in his novel, The Valley of the Moon. Among ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mike Tyson | ... he Jungle" and the "Thrilla in Manila". He also had a long association with | . King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including ... |
| William Penn | ... as early as 1763-1769), Derr had purchased several tracts of land from the | family and other neighboring land owners; the largest of which was known a ... |
| Jaime Roldós Aguilera | Elections were held on April 29, 1979, under a new constitution. | was elected president, garnering over one million votes, the most in Ecuad ... |
| Dickens | ... here he had been publicized and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since | , he returned to England where Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed ... |
| John Prine | ... praised the album, saying "This boy has a lot more of the Dylan spirit than | . His songs are filled with the absurdist energy and heart on sleeve prete ... |
| Oswald of Bernicia | ... paganism that it was decided to add that year to the reign of the Christian | , who defeated Cadwallon and came to rule both Bernicia and Deira, so as t ... |
| Jorge Semprún | ... onnected with the cinema, such as Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet and | |
| Yuri Gagarin | After the flight of | in 1961, Sergey Korolyov, the chief Soviet rocket engineer, came up with t ... |
| Otis Redding | ... certification and eventually sold over three million copies. Their cover of | 's "Hard to Handle" and their acoustic ballad "She Talks to Angels" both a ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... g mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and | . However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time student and was al ... |
| Orville J. Nave | Galion was the birthplace of | in 1841. Nave was a chaplain in the United States Army and the editor of N ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up by | in his book Great Contemporaries (1937) |
| Ronald Reagan | Wyman was the first wife of | . They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public ... |
| Rodney King | ... Watts Riots, the videotaped 1991 beating by Los Angeles Police officers of | , and the riot following their acquittal have been suggested by some peopl ... |
| Al Capone | Of the hundreds of roles he played, he is probably most well known as | in the TV show The Untouchables and again in the movie The George Raft Sto ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... e operations. It was abruptly halted during the administration of President | in the mid-late 1980s, part of the War on Drugs |
| Jaco Pastorius | In 1979, Williams, guitarist John McLaughlin and bassist | united for a one-time performance at the Havana Jazz Festival. This trio c ... |
| Andrew Jackson | Jackson Township, named after | , is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 ... |
| Solomon Mikhoels | ... he war, where he met two emissaries from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, | and Itzik Feffer—who doubled as an informant for the NKVD |
| William Penn | Upper Dublin dates back to 1684, when Edward Tanner was granted land by | in the Province of Pennsylvania and named it "Upper and Lower Dublin." Low ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sartre | ... k, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and | . A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud and studied with ... |
| John Lennon | ... g task of presenting the show in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of | (who had himself appeared on the show in 1975). This particular episode co ... |
| Richard Belzer | ... some 600 stations from 1973 to 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included | , John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis and his younger brother Bill. H ... |
| Henri Maspero | | described six periods of the Vietnamese language |
| Ed Thomas | ... Parkersburg High School and mortally shot the high school's football coach, | , who died later at Covenant Hospital in nearby Waterloo |
| Jan Hus | Martin Luther's spiritual predecessors included John Wycliffe and | , who likewise had attempted to reform the Roman Catholic Church. The Prot ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... e for Thomas Kiddell and as a justice of the peace. His father, Sir Thomas, | 's chamberlain, also secured a joint patent in survivorship with his son f ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... hout much difficulty, and even ran unopposed in 1978. In 1980, he served as | 's Mississippi state chairman. He served as (the second-ranking Republican ... |
| Liliuokalani | ... him. When his wife, Queen Kapiolani, and his sister, Princess (later Queen) | , took a trip across North America and on to the British Islands, in 1887, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and historian was born in Portsmouth, | author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, Rudyard Kip ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isaac Hayes | His influences include southern soul artists like | , Clarence Carter, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin plus Motown artists The Su ... |
| Einar Gerhardsen | ... the uninterrupted chain of Labor governments after World War II, headed by | and Oscar Torp |
| Itzik Feffer | ... two emissaries from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels and | —who doubled as an informant for the NKVD |
| Otis Redding | ... Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, | , the Supremes, the Commodores, Jerry Lee Lewis and even Michael Jackson, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Louis XV | ... pulation was not forced out but rather their religion was declared illegal. | ordered all blacks to be deported from France, but was unsuccessful |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... th flower petals thrown in his path at Richmond. He had become as famous as | in the eyes of the Confederacy |
| Joan of Arc | ... r in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, John of Lancaster bought | from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keeping her in jail since ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... asting peace." The failure to come to an agreement was widely attributed to | , as he walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jacques Chirac | In 1996, | , then French President, granted the former French members of the Internat ... |
| Mike Tyson | ... nent names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, | , Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, Andrew Golota, Félix Trinidad, Ro ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... saoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab King of Barbary to | in 1600, was one inspiration for Othello. He stayed with his retinue in Lo ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... mer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as | in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Ju ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (including | and Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Kath | ... razaider's apartment. The five musicians consisted of Parazaider, guitarist | , drummer Danny Seraphine, trombonist James Pankow, trumpet player Lee Lou ... |
| John Denver | ... od Mac, The Carpenters, Elton John, Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, | , The Eagles, America, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and Wi ... |
| John McCain | In the 2008 presidential election, Republican candidate | received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat Barack Ob ... |
| Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale | ... he Golden Temple) to overpower the armed militants and the religious leader | . The handling of the operation, damage to the Akal Takht (which is one of ... |
| Werner Mölders | ... -Sachs-Haus downtown and the town hall in Buer are in nearly original form. | the legendary Luftwaffe Fighter pilot Oberst was born here |
| Alan Bennett | ... on of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of | 's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Cr ... |
| James Earl Ray | ... Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 by | in Memphis, Tennessee |
| Jane Haining | ... ges in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary | , international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor (Private ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nabil Amr | ... shortly after the summit. Arafat was also accused of scuttling the talks by | , a former minister in the |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... iammetta (1878), one of Rossetti's last paintings, now in the collection of | (model: Marie Spartali Stillman |
| Louis Auguste Blanqui | The veteran leader of the 'Blanquist' group of revolutionary socialists, | , was hoped by his followers to be a potential leader of the revolution, b ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: Lech Wałęsa, | , Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikh ... |
| John Wayne | ... in The Lost Weekend (1945), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt | in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Mu ... |
| John Lennon | The Hollywood Vampires was also attended by the likes of | , Ringo Starr, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all of whom Moon maintained ... |
| Kurt von Schleicher | ... revious election. Franz von Papen stepped down and was succeeded by General | as Reichskanzler on 3 December. Schleicher, a political army officer, had ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... xisting Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by President | on May 26, 1864. At this time Deer Lodge County (today Deer Lodge, Granite ... |
| Oswald | ... ar he went to Cadwallon to sue for peace and was killed. Eanfrith's brother | then raised an army and finally defeated Cadwallon at the Battle of Heaven ... |
| Olivier Messiaen | Prime numbers have influenced many artists and writers. The French composer | used prime numbers to create ametrical music through "natural phenomena". ... |
| Doris Matsui | ... +14 respectively and is represented by Republican Dan Lungren and Democrat | respectively |
| apostle | ... yone. He did this, he says, even though he could have used his status as an | to impose upon them |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... e end of his term in 2000. That year Democratic Progressive Party candidate | won the national election with 39% of the vote in a three-way race. Chen's ... |
| Alfred Dreyfus | ... y 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain | , a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent. Sentenced t ... |
| Will Rogers | The Will Rogers Scout Reservation, named for | , one of Oklahoma's favorite sons, is the premier camping facility of the ... |
| John Wayne | Actor | disliked the film because he felt it was an allegory for blacklisting, whi ... |
| Kurt von Schleicher | ... vative policy along Hindenburg's lines. He appointed as Reichswehr Minister | , and all the members of the new cabinet were of the same political opinio ... |
| Travis Barker | ... d in 2005, leading Hoppus to form the band +44 with fellow Blink-182 member | . Blink-182 then announced their reformation in 2009. However, Hoppus stat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Billy Graham | ... n the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Landry was a friend of the Reverend | , speaking at many of his crusades. In fact, one of the suit coats Landry ... |
| Ted Stevens | Slashdotters typically like to mock United States Senator | ' 2006 description of the Internet as a "series of tubes" or Microsoft CEO ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... hile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), | (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed |
| Folke Bernadotte | ... ring around 400 fighters. Following the assassination of UN Envoy for Peace | by the LEHI in September 1948, this separate unit collapsed and integrated ... |
| Gregor Strasser | ... onist left wings in the various parties, including that of the Nazis led by | . This did not prove successful either |
| Hugh Latimer | ... lerk or registrar of the court of requests which the Protector, possibly at | 's instigation, illegally set up in Somerset House to hear poor men's comp ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... ner of the Mayflower, and was also a base for that ship. The famous diarist | was the Member of Parliament for Harwich. Christopher Newport, captain of ... |
| Rick James | In 1988, Shanté and | had a hit with "Loosey's Rap. |
| Frank Bough | ... And Round The Horne was broadcast on 18 September 1976. It was presented by | and included interviews with Kenneth Williams and Barry Took |
| Muhammad Faisal | ... for Australian aid. By November 2005, only two refugees, Mohammed Sagar and | , remained on Nauru from those first sent there in 2001, with Sagar finall ... |
| Greta Garbo | Another Tony came when Verdon memorably played a role associated with | , Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, the hard-luck girl fleeing from her past ... |
| Thomas, Earl of Surrey | ... ugh maternal) grandson of the 1st Duke of the 1st creation. His eldest son, | carried the sword of state |
| 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 ... |
| Rich Fields | ... m until shortly before his death in October 2003. Los Angeles meteorologist | took over as the announcer in April 2004, and stayed on until the end of s ... |
| Enrico Caruso | ... d one of the first commercial recording studios in the United States, where | , among others, recorded. General Electric reacquired RCA in 1986 |
| Henry VI | ... land on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King | , before moving to Wallingford Castle early in his reign and taking Tudor ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... ly because he wanted his son Chiang Ching-kuo who was being held hostage by | back. This is contradicted by Chiang Kai-shek himself, who wrote in his di ... |
| John Kerry | ... ublican president George W. Bush received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat | 's 18,355 (42.41%) |
| Andrés Escobar | ... at the Pontiac Silverdome. The second was the murder of Colombian defender | - shot dead on his return to Colombia, after his own goal had contributed ... |
| Saajid Badat | ... hore, Pakistan as a follower of Mubarak Ali Gilani. During this time he met | |
| 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 ... |
| prisoner | ... stification for war, but unanimously found him guilty on the killing of the | s after applying “the evolving standards of the maturing society”. Previou ... |
| Fulvia Plautilla | ... ank space next to Caracalla's. Among those killed were Caracalla's ex-wife, | , and her brother and other members of the family of his former father-in- ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... ns. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Aire, or literally First Minister) | was the highest official in the Republic at this time but was notionally o ... |
| 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 Cranmer | ... rine of transubstantiation. It was especially influential in England, where | claimed to have been finally convinced against transubstantion by Ratramnu ... |
| Barbara Olson | ... hijackers set the flight's autopilot heading for Washington, D.C. Passenger | called her husband, United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson, and re ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... musical style built around funk or syncopated rock & roll breaks, Al Green, | , Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Billie Holiday, Aretha Frankl ... |
| Pete Postlethwaite | ... l in the mid 1970s, alongside several other notable performers: Bill Nighy, | , Jonathan Pryce, Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale |
| Vito Genovese | ... ily members to high-level positions in the Luciano crime family. The feared | became his Underboss, while Frank Costello was his consigliere. Michael "T ... |
| John McCain | ... nd 1996. Like most of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... tational son from the scene. Louis attended a lunch with Haile Selassie and | . The conversation turned to fossils and Haile wanted to know why none had ... |
| Grigori Rasputin | Baker also appeared in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra as | . He was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for his performance, one fo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... built around funk or syncopated rock & roll breaks, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, | , Gladys Knight & the Pips, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... ction campaign was one of many causes that led to his defeat in November by | |
| Marvin Gaye | ... harles, Aretha Franklin plus Motown artists The Supremes, The Four Tops and | . Along with Isaac Hayes, White is considered by Allmusic.com as the first ... |
| Bob Marley | ... r Tosh, Sly & Robbie, Bill Laswell, Lee Perry, Mad Professor, Roots Radics, | and Buju Banton heavily influencing the music. This influence has lessened ... |
| Greta Garbo | ... e to fight hard to stay ahead of the pack. Seeing that sensational newcomer | was one of a kind, she went to Thalberg and "demanded recognition as one o ... |
| The Big Bopper | ... roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, | and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by | took place in 1973 |
| Jennifer Saunders | ... her friend Patsy, and is played by Edmondson's Comic Strip fellow and wife | ). Edmondson played an unrelated character also called Eddie Monsoon in th ... |
| Arthur Middleton | ... il his resignation in 1776, citing ill health. He was succeeded by his son, | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | | wrote No Exit in 1944, an existentialist play originally published in Fren ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jan Hus | ... nd new perspectives came from John Wycliffe at Oxford University, then from | at the University of Prague. The Roman Catholic Church officially conclude ... |
| Al Capone | ... he area. The hotel became a center of activity in the area. Guests, such as | , Connie Mack, Babe Ruth, and singer Kate Smith were able to utilize the h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Felix Leiter | ... t will be found and sent to Pinkertons, where his friend and ex-counterpart | now works |
| Barnabas | ... Paul, mentioned in several of the Pauline epistles. Titus was with Paul and | at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his ... |
| Robert William Wilcox | Hawaiian revolutionary | led several rebellions in pursuit of the restoration of the Hawaiian Kingd ... |
| Bertrand Russell's | ... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against | |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... leaders at state events, such as the state funerals of John F. Kennedy and | , the summits of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the 1971 celebration of the ... |
| Folke Bernadotte | ... rnment, in September 1948, acting in response to the assassination of Count | , outlawed the Irgun and Lehi groups, declaring them terrorist organizatio ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Veeck | ... tain Landis, baseball's powerful commissioner and a staunch segregationist. | claimed that Landis blocked his purchase of the Philadelphia Phillies beca ... |
| Mary Edwards Walker | ... r his role in the Andrews Raid. The only female Medal of Honor recipient is | , a Civil War surgeon. Her medal was rescinded in 1917 along with many oth ... |
| 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 ... |
| Patricia Neal | ... ley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, Matt Hoverman, author Victoria Moran, | , Holmes Osborne and |
| Al Capone | ... r clubs and speakeasies run by legendary notorious Chicago mobsters such as | and others |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... You", "What Goes On", "Eleanor Rigby", "Etcetera" (a 1968 song intended for | ), and "The Long and Winding Road" |
| 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 |
| Sarah Bernhardt | ... early 1880s Sardou began a collaboration with the immensely popular actress | , whom he provided with a series of historical melodramas. He reached his ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... July 1956, the third stanza of the lyrics was changed to remove mentions of | . This is the version presented here |
| 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 ... |
| Anne Boleyn | The ghost of | , beheaded in 1536 for treason against Henry VIII, allegedly haunts the ch ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack Ruby | ... ion of Wayne's World. He also landed a small but important role as assassin | in 1991's JFK. He was also seen in the 2002 movie, Snow Dogs. His most rec ... |
| Buddy Holly | ... e of rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1959, the death of | , The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elv ... |
| 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 ... |
| Al Capone | ... he Buffalo crime family, Los Angeles crime family and the Chicago Outfit of | ; later, the Detroit crime family, Kansas City crime family were added. Al ... |
| David Dacko | ... rench troops helped drive Bokassa out of power and restore former president | . This action was also controversial, particularly since Dacko was Bokassa ... |
| Menachem Begin | ... hat followed, the right-wing Likud party won a majority in the Knesset, and | , the party's founder and leader, was appointed Prime Minister. This marke ... |
| Nicolae Ceauşescu | ... ut they have not proclaimed themselves as President for Life. For instance, | of Romania, who ruled until his execution (see Romanian revolution) |
| Tippi Hedren | ... infestation of birds in California, was Hitchcock's 49th film. He signed up | as his latest blonde heroine opposite Rod Taylor. The scenes of the birds ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
| Alexander Litvinenko | ... acob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, | , Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall |
| John Bell Hood | ... ated outside of Killeen, Texas. The post is named after Confederate General | . It i |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... but that it was part of some elaborate and dangerous intrigue instigated by | . |
| Saint James | ... ty walls only existed between 1261 and 1266) behind the patron of the city, | , as Winterberg is located on one of the Ways of St. James |
| Nikolaas Tinbergen | ... l prize winners: poet T. S. Eliot, physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist | and chemist Frederick Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library foun ... |
| Kehar Singh | ... en away by other guards into a closed room where Beant Singh was shot dead. | was later arrested for conspiracy in the attack. Both Satwant and Kehar we ... |
| 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 ... |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ionysus and the figure of the Christ in Christian theology can be traced to | , whose identification of Dionysus with Christ is most explicit in Brod un ... |
| Jan Hus | ... the Brethren), Moravian Brethren (Bohemian Brethren) date their origins to | in the early 15th century. As it was led by a Bohemian noble majority, and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
| Amel-Marduk | ... reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor | (Evil Merodach) as 562/561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's cap ... |
| Zahir Shah | ... 924. The military of Afghanistan was reconstructed and improved during King | 's reign, which reached a strength of 70,000 in 1933. Following the Second ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... rkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of | and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdit ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by | |
| John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | ... oming Minister of Finance, Stoltenberg was Minister for trade and energy in | 's cabinet between 1993–1996. In 1996 when Brundtland resigned, Thorbjørn ... |
| Beethoven | ... then or since" (Maconie 1989, 177–78). Maconie also compares Stockhausen to | : "If a genius is someone whose ideas survive all attempts at explanation, ... |
| Guy Fawkes | ... Eliot’s early work, to say little of the modern English mythology—the "Old | " of the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of Joseph Conr ... |
| Edward Rutledge | ... randson of South Carolina Governor William Bull. Henrietta married Governor | , and Sarah was the first wife of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney |
| 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 ... |
| Moise Tshombe | ... alonji (3,000 or less), the State of Katanga gendarmerie which were part of | 's regime (totalling about 10,000), and the Kisanagani dissident ANC loyal ... |
| Daniel Boone | Before the Sycamore Shoals treaty, Henderson had hired | , an experienced hunter who had explored Kentucky, to travel to the Cherok ... |
| 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 ... |
| Turing | ... and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, | , Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major contribution ... |
| Martin Niemöller | #Redirect | |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... ed in that they are "doing God's work" by ridding the world of LGBT people. | , the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has stoked this sentiment as wel ... |
| 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 "... ... |
| Drew G. Faust | ... oston-area colleges and universities including Harvard University President | and UMass President Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures including Boston Ce ... |
| Dick Clark | ... hem into recording it. In August 1964, while The Supremes toured as part of | 's Caravan of Stars, "Where Did Our Love Go" reached number one on the US ... |
| 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 ... |
| Louis XV of France | ... Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King | , who despite French support had lost out to a candidate backed by Russia ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... . Ben Watson, in his article Noise as Permanent Revolution, points out that | 's Grosse Fuge (1825) "sounded like noise" to his audience at the time. In ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kurt von Schleicher | ... Hindenburg on 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General | on behalf of the military. The new government was expected to lead a polit ... |
| Kirk Douglas | Stephanos informs Jeff that Whit Sterling ( | ) wants to see him. Jeff reluctantly agrees. That night Jeff picks up Ann, ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... of France's internal history. His demonstration that letters attributed to | were not genuine roused much interest in France. It was of the greatest im ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... ues, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Billie Holiday, | , Sam Cooke, Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, Madon ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | During the 2004 Presidential campaign, President | publicly campaigned with Lee Teng-hui and developed a campaign platform, i ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... xtraordinary females in movies." In a 2000 review for All About Eve, (1950) | noted, "Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style, so even her exc ... |
| James Randi | According to | , controlled tests by several other researchers, eliminating several sourc ... |
| Jennifer Saunders | ... , where many alternative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and | , Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began thei ... |
| Álvaro Obregón | President | was awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Me ... |
| John Lennon | In a 1972 interview on the Dick Cavett Show, | stated that James Connolly was an inspiration for his song, Woman Is the N ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kirk Douglas | ... r directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and | . The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey ... |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | ... any considered cold or even sarcastic. His debates with long-time adversary | became legendary in Norway and were by several accounts based on personal ... |
| August von Kotzebue | Only one year after the inception of the Rhein University the dramatist | was murdered by Karl Ludwig Sand, a student at the University of Jena. The ... |
| Otis Redding | ... , who have been heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones, Faces, Buddy Guy, | , and Humble Pie, made a demo that led to their signing with |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
| Saint Pantaleon | ... ly "planted the lion" flag. Another explanation is that the name comes from | (in Italian Pantaleone), a saint venerated in Venice. Pantalone's characte ... |
| William Penn | | presented the tract of land around present day Upper Moreland Township to ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... hen, in 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of | 's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. They have said Bottom was oft ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Image:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg|Former Governor | of Californi |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Carter, then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity | ;was elected as his successor using a specifically Christian discourse |
| Clausewitz | ... on-trinitarian theory of warfare, which he juxtaposes to the famous work by | , On Wa |
| Samuel Beckett | ... made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later | (who became a courier for the French Resistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a briga ... |
| Natalie du Toit | South African swimmer | , whose left leg was amputated following a motor scooter accident, qualifi ... |
| Armin T. Wegner | ... Genocide committed against the Armenians by the Turks. Among them there are | , Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bry ... |
| Herman Tarnower | ... in the made-for-TV film Mrs. Harris, in which he played famed cardiologist | , who was murdered by his jilted lover, Jean Harris. Later that year, King ... |
| Charlie Grant | ... e early 1920s, New York Giants' manager John McGraw slipped a black player, | , into his lineup (reportedly by passing him off to the front office as an ... |
| Peter Kropotkin | ... elated to the work and ideas of Murray Bookchin and influenced by anarchist | . Social ecologists assert that the present ecological crisis has its root ... |
| Thomas More | ... Marches and clerk controller to Arthur, Prince of Wales, at Ludlow Castle. | , writing when she was still alive, but old, declared that even then an at ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Von Foerster was influenced by the Vienna Circle and | . He worked in the field of cybernetics and is known as the inventor of se ... |
| Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | ... Henrietta married Governor Edward Rutledge, and Sarah was the first wife of | |
| George Orwell | ... contemporary account of the Spanish Civil War which also takes this view is | 's book Homage to Catalonia |
| 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 ... |
| Nikolai Berdyaev | ... n postmodern Christianity and on theologians and religious thinkers such as | , Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
| Kurt Cobain | ... band's early music (Andy Gill even produced the Chili Peppers debut album). | stated that Nirvana started as "a Gang of Four and Scratch Acid ripoff". A ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, four years after the succession of | to the throne. Leicester's lands in Warwickshire were worth between £500–£ ... |
| Joseph Stalin | During the 1930s and 1940s | 's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, s ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ed rapidly during the 1990s. The city has a redeveloped airport named after | , Karol Wojtyła Airport, with connections to several European cities |
| Arlen Specter | ... his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. | of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, was especially p ... |
| Kresy | ... Curzon line. Many of the 2.1 million Poles expelled from the Soviet-annexed | , so-called 'repatriants', were resettled to former German territories, th ... |
| Edward Rutledge | ... e next step was for the resolution to be voted upon by the Congress itself. | of South Carolina, who was opposed to Lee's resolution but desirous of una ... |
| John McCain | ... ry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican | in 2008 |
| Nicholas II of Russia | ... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar | , and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra |
| Ritchie Valens | ... r which he was working as A&R manager for Bob Keane, the man who discovered | |
| Greta Garbo | ... ve with "fallen women", by using a story of naivete from his past. It stars | , Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent, Florence Lake, and Henry Arme ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... xistentialist themes are displayed in the Theatre of the Absurd, notably in | 's Waiting for Godot, in which two men divert themselves while they wait e ... |
| John Demjanjuk | ... ssional cyclist Joseph M. Papp,unjustly convicted World War II war criminal | , former professional football player Jack Squirek, Jaas well as fashion d ... |
| Jacob Zuma | ... ith the country having one of the highest rates of violent crime, president | states that South Africa needs to handle crime differently than other coun ... |
| John Kerry | ... cratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and later campaigned for nominee | |
| John Lennon | ... , the same sort of bass has a tea chest as a resonator. Before the Beatles, | and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as di ... |
| eastern Poland | ... lled and replaced by Poles, many of them expellees themselves from areas of | annexed by the |
| Dhirendra Brahmachari | Indira's yoga guru, | , helped her in making certain decisions and also executed certain top lev ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... from "Oggie" to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the soccer player. When | came to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant ("Maggie Maggie ... |
| Ewan McGregor | ... ember 2007, directed by Michael Grandage, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello, | as Iago and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona. Despite tickets selling as high as ... |
| Pol Pot | ... political killings, gives a figure of 2 million. Former Khmer Rouge leader | gave a figure of 800,000, and his deputy, Khieu Samphan, said 1 million ha ... |
| Bobby Robson | Cruyff was briefly replaced by | , who took charge of the club for a single season in 1996–97. The club sig ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, | in Philippines, for example |
| 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 ... |
| Arne Treholt | ... not acting sooner to stop the activities of politician and career diplomat | , who was arrested in 1984 and convicted of treason and espionage in favor ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | | came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ... |
| Robert Walpole | ... Jack Sheppard. At the same time, Jonathan Wild was understood to represent | , whose government had been tolerant of Wild's thievery and the South Sea ... |
| Rajiv Gandhi | ... an Military, one was used by Vijitha Rohana to attack Indian Prime Minister | in 1987 |
| Rajiv Gandhi | ... a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son | to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a dec ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... heretics. She died in 1558, and was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister | . England returned to Protestantism, and continued its growth into a major ... |
| Anicius Maximus | ... last mentioned around 435. Animal hunts continued until at least 523, when | celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King Theodor ... |
| John Barrymore | ... ists brought together Chaplin, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, | , Dolores del Río, Gloria Swanson and D.W. Griffith to speak on the radio ... |
| Ben Jonson | ... the Greek roots (; "again") and (; "way, direction") by the English writer | in the 17th century. The Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is, (; "c ... |
| Sant Feliu | The Collegiate Church of | is noteworthy from an architectural point of view. Its style is fourteenth ... |
| Rajiv Gandhi | ... is job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a decade later, | was assassinated |
| Kurt Cobain | ... tes and 9 singles on K, with a rotating cast of collaborators that included | , Rich Jensen, David Nichols, and Donna Dresch. All of their recordings ar ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Reaganomics, a term popularized during the Presidential administrations of | . This theory holds that reduced income tax rates increase GDP growth and ... |
| John Lennon | ... ed with a cover of "Twist and Shout", which had to be recorded last because | had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal w ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ome of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, | and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), remained particula ... |
| Nell Carter | ... East 73rd Street cabaret on February 8, 1978. The cast included Irene Cara, | , André DeShields, Armelia McQueen, and Ken Page and was staged by Maltby. ... |
| 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 |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... on May 1, 2006. The justices unanimously decided in favor of Smith; Justice | wrote the majority opinion. The decision did not give Smith a portion of h ... |
| Yevhen Konovalets | ... nion, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader | , Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Tro ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Walpole | ... es were also embraced throughout much of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with | being another major proponent. In Britain, government control over the dom ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... other Hollywood figures, including her own star-recruit to the reform camp, | . Ironically, given her role in galvanizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet ... |
| John McCain | ... ought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator | , Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani ... |
| Debbie Wasserman Schultz | ... gressional districts. Wilton Manors citizens are represented in Congress by | and Allen West |
| 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 ... |
| George Orwell | ... gh the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical. | wrote an essay called A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray |
| Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair | ... onald remains the only brigadier who did not have a commonly used nickname. | —West Belfast (1990–2002 |
| 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 ... |
| Tim Westwood | ... ved part of his life in Staines. Baron Cohen has stated that BBC Radio 1 DJ | was an influence on the development of the Ali G character – Westwood host ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ion and had bitterly opposed the king's divorce, his subsequent marriage to | and its religious ramifications. In 1536, within two weeks of the riot in ... |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | ... abour Party, and Progress party joined forces. A minority government led by | took over through the rest of the parliamentary period |
| Ibrahim Hamed | In May 2006 Israel arrested a top Hamas official, | , who Israeli security officials alleged was responsible for dozens of sui ... |
| Alessandro Stradella | ... d in the late seventeenth century, although the name was not used at first. | seems to have written the first music in which two groups of different siz ... |
| Kray twins | ... il Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the | (see photo) |
| Daihachi Oguchi | Modern ensemble taiko is said to have been invented by | in 1951. A jazz drummer, Oguchi incorporated his musical background into l ... |
| Eric McDavid | In January 2006, | , a green anarchist, was convicted of conspiring to use fire or explosives ... |
| George Orwell | ... itical pessimism has sometimes found expression in dystopian novels such as | 's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Political pessimism about one's country often cor ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... ins". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government of | was in power, and fewer political observations were made against governmen ... |
| Minoru Yasui | ... which overturned the convictions of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi and | on all charges related to their refusal to submit to exclusion and internm ... |
| Khieu Samphan | ... Former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot gave a figure of 800,000, and his deputy, | , said 1 million had been killed |
| Beethoven | ... llgemeine musikalische Zeitung, a newspaper in Leipzig, and his articles on | were especially well received, and highly regarded by the composer himself ... |
| Pol Pot | ... line, anti-Vietnamese, but also anti-monarchist, members of the CPK, led by | |
| Joseph Stalin | ... Another 9 million Germans from former eastern German provinces, over which | and eastern neighbour states extended military hegemony in 1945, were expe ... |
| Kirk Douglas | ... ive B-movies during the early 1940s, Out of the Past was given an A-budget. | plays a supporting part as Mitchum's antagonist in this film. The next tim ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... roir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met | , Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later ... |
| Alexei Nikolaevich | ... e more years passed before the Empress gave birth to the long-awaited heir: | was born in Peterhof on 12 August 1904. To his parents' dismay, Alexei was ... |
| Guru Arjan Dev | ... in the fort of Agra. As punishment Khusrau Mirza was blinded, and the Sikh | |
| 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 ... |
| Swami Dayananda Saraswati | ... ulary or Sahityik Hindi (Literary Hindi) was popularized by the writings of | , Bhartendu Harishchandra and others. The rising numbers of newspapers and ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... choice of a new flag was part of the negotiation process set in motion when | was released from prison in 1990. When a nationwide public competition was ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruce Yarnell | ... pera Company brought Carousel back to City Center for 22 performances, with | as Billy and Constance Towers as Julie |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope John Paul II | In Solicitudo Rei Socialis, a major document of Catholic Social Teaching, | identifies the concept of solidarity with the poor and marginalized as a c ... |
| Wilhelm Küchelbecker | ... hev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and | |
| Alma Reville | ... novel was first adapted as a 1928 silent film in 1928 by Adrian Brunel and | and directed by Brunel and Basil Dean. This version starred Ivor Novello, ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... had some limitations. It did, however, bring him into fruitful contact with | . He wanted to train in Psychoanalysis and in 1938 he began a training ana ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| John Lennon | ... made a considerable impact on the humour of The Beatles, and especially on | . On 30 September 1973, Lennon reviewed the book The Goon Show Scripts for ... |
| Gaetano Badalamenti | ... onviction of hundreds of mobsters in Italy and the United States, including | |
| Jerzy Popiełuszko | In addition, the priest | , who regularly gave sermons to the striking workers, was eventually kille ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... antium Cura) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. The Council, established by | on June 28, 1988, is dedicated to the spiritual welfare of migrant and peo ... |
| Selena | Other Chicano/Mexican American singers include | , who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but w ... |
| Henry VI | ... e. Although he was victorious, his sudden death in 1422 left his infant son | on the throne, and gave the French an opportunity to overthrow English rul ... |
| Gordon Hirabayashi | ... he coram nobis retrials which overturned the convictions of Fred Korematsu, | and Minoru Yasui on all charges related to their refusal to submit to excl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Olivier Messiaen | ... schule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, and later studied with | in Paris, and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. One of t ... |
| Edward V of England | ... and the Marches, a body that had originally been set up to help the future | in his duties as Prince of Wales. The prince was accompanied to Ludlow by ... |
| 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. ... |
| Spade Cooley | ... which started out as dance hall music, would become known as Western swing. | and Tex Williams also had very popular bands and appeared in films. At its ... |
| Justin Martyr | ... ing in Christendom that apologists Tertullian, Athenagoras, Minucius Felix, | and Lactantius also maintained that exposing a baby to death was a wicked ... |
| Lance Armstrong | ... at the Pont de Pedra. Later, other well-known professional cyclists such as | came to live in the city |
| 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 ... |
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| Georges Perec | ... ure potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met Roland Barthes, | , and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production. Th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tippi Hedren | ... roll, is put in handcuffs. In Marnie (1964), the title character (played by | ) is a thief. In To Catch a Thief (1955), Francie (Grace Kelly) offers to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... rth to a baby boy in 1716. Unfortunately, he died soon after. A year later, | , his elder surviving child, was born. At her baptismal ceremony, contempo ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, | , Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference to Winthrop's ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... a Jacobean brick-built manor house, and was formerly the home of the young | , later to become Henry VIII's second wife |
| Hans Jæger | Munch also received his father's ire for his relationship with | , the local nihilist who lived by the code "a passion to destroy is also a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Grace Moore | ... ilm The King Steps Out (1936), directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring | and Franchot Tone. She attended Hamilton High School in Los Angeles and st ... |
| William Strachey | ... (William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is thought to have been inspired by | 's account of this shipwreck.) The island was claimed for the English Crow ... |
| Art Linkletter | ... ly win its timeslot, leading to the demise of NBC's original Match Game and | 's long-running House Party on CBS, both in 1969. Even the launch of Somer ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... t he could strike hard when necessary; and his action over the execution of | , proved that he was willing to take on responsibilities from which the Qu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Man in the Iron Mask | ... The fortified tower and Chapel of St Anne house the Musée de la Castre. The | was imprisoned on the Île Sainte-Marguerite |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Boone | The community was named for R.H. Boone, a relative of | , the early American pioneer |
| Daniel Boone | ... ted States started moving West. Among them were the family and followers of | , an explorer who settled the area starting in 1799. For the next two deca ... |
| Nell Carter | ... d Ain't Misbehavin' was produced in 1978. (The show and a star of the show, | , won Tony Awards.) The show opened at the Longacre Theatre and ran for ov ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sima Qian | ... er. The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan (d. 110 BCE) and his son | (145–86 BCE) established the standard model for all of imperial China's St ... |
| John Lennon | ... many skiffle groups that followed was The Quarrymen formed in March 1957 by | . Donegan's "Gamblin' Man" / "Puttin' On the Style" single was number one ... |
| Fred Korematsu | ... eports, led to the coram nobis retrials which overturned the convictions of | , Gordon Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui on all charges related to their refu ... |
| Boy George | ... ard and Judy Show in 2003 with his counterpart Paul Masterson and singer/DJ | promoting their album, on which Boy George made a cameo singing contributi ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ander loose in the hilly terrain. There is also a full-size reproduction of | 's log cabin and a totem pole in the park |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... ressed. A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as | and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government. While ... |
| Viktor Frankl | ... fluenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. A later figure was | , who briefly met Freud and studied with Jung as a young man. His logother ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... to gain statehood for Nevada before the next presidential election so that | would have enough votes to win. They rushed to send the entire state const ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... documents have led some to question the Church's commitment to ecumenism . | personally endorsed Dominus Iesus, and ratified and confirmed it "with sur ... |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, | , Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, an ... |
| Al Capp | Cartoonists often use satire as well as straight humour. | 's satirical comic strip Li'l Abner was censored in September 1947. The co ... |
| James Earl Ray | Two months after King's death, escaped convict | was captured at London Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United K ... |
| Saint Matthew | ... quest of Cuenca in 1177. The city surrendered on 21 September, the feast of | , ever afterwards celebrated by the citizens of the town |
| Cary Grant | The role of Phillip Green was first offered to | , but he turned it down. Peck decided to accept the role, although his age ... |
| Della Reese | ... y songwriter Bobby Worth for the 1959 pop song "Don't You Know?", a hit for | . The opera was also adapted into a 1983 short story form by the novelist ... |
| Cary Grant | ... so has unconfirmed references to That Touch of Mink, starring Doris Day and | |
| Roman Polanski | ... xy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it." Director | urged Kinski to study acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States and c ... |
| Glenn Miller | ... med up with a 15-piece 'big band', who performed a jazz repertoire covering | , Duke Ellington and Count Basie; her vocal idols being Ella Fitzgerald an ... |
| Nancy Reagan | ... raise from some Democrats and many Republicans, including former First Lady | |
| Robert Stack | ... visits doctors who can find nothing wrong with him. Finally, Dr. Ellison ( | ) diagnoses an incurable disease called a "brain cloud" which has no sympt ... |
| Deng Xiaoping | ... ited China on a goodwill mission in late December 1977, meeting with leader | and eventually gaining permission for a number of Mainland Chinese nationa ... |
| Sima Qian | ... e diplomat Su Qin in 330 BC when discussing state boundaries. The historian | (145–90 BC) dated it much earlier than the 4th century BC, attributing it ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... r airlines to form Air West in 1968, which was renamed Hughes Airwest after | purchased it in 1970 |
| William Penn | ... ship was one of the original manors reserved for his family in the 1680s by | , the founder of Pennsylvania |
| Al Capone | ... ption of The Big Boy, the strip's first villain, a fictionalized version of | , and a few others, Tracy's cases tended to involve independent operators ... |
| Roger Ebert | In a 2004 review of the film, critic | wrote "Out of the Past is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Black Hawk War is now often remembered as the conflict that gave young | his brief military service. Other notable American participants included W ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... e 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, and for | 's 10 May inauguration. Although the flag had mixed reception, the interim ... |
| Anne Frank | ... usten, written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. | wrote a novel and many very short stories in addition to her diary (which ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Randi | In 2005, | offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US$1 million prize to d ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edwin | ... unknown. That he gained Deira through conquest is suggested by the exile of | , son of the former king Ælla, and Hereric, Edwin's nephew, who were both ... |
| Andrei Sakharov | ... s the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and | were under strong pressure from the government. While satire of everyday l ... |
| Peter Criss | ... go, Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Nina Hagen, Robert Plant, | , Scandal, Late Show regular Warren Zevon, jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff, jazz ... |
| Kenneth Williams | ... they had worked, including Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd and | . In May 2009 the play was seen again in London's West End at the Leiceste ... |
| Augusto César Sandino | In 1927, under | , a major peasant uprising was launched against both the US occupation and ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... for record album sleeve art for performers including The Rolling Stones and | . One of Bailey's most famous works depicts the Rolling Stones. It feature ... |
| Ansel Adams | ... and other luminaries to be inspired by Taos and each other. Among them were | , Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, author D. H. Lawrence and his wife, ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Paul II | ... he limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and | continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular churches, out of ove ... |
| Soviet prisoners of war | ... one to the Soviet Union (Operation Keelhaul). This immediately affected the | liberated by the Allies, but was also extended to all Eastern European ref ... |
| Kevin Aviance | ... title as that year's theme: Being Out Rocks. Participating artists include | , Janis Ian, k.d. lang, Cyndi Lauper, Sarah McLachlan, and Rufus Wainwrigh ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rich Fields | ... mpanied by a series of announcers that included Johnny Olson, Rod Roddy and | , as well as a cast of long-running models known collectively as "Barker's ... |
| George Orwell | ... father into the Indian Imperial Police, where he was posted to Burma (like | a generation later). Two years later, having contracted malaria, he resign ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
| Benedict XVI | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now | ), who was prefect of the CDF at the time when the Instructions were issue ... |
| Travis Barker | ... drinking problem became far too prevalent. Hoppus and DeLonge asked drummer | of Blink-182's support band The Aquabats to fill in for Raynor for the rem ... |
| John Wesley Powell | ... up of settlers from Panguitch investigated the area, meeting members of the | expedition. Powell's group recommended any new community be named Escalant ... |
| Władysław Sikorski | ... ously diminished by the death of its most prominent leader — Prime Minister | — on July 4, 1943 |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... hat the troubled grandee came to disapprove of his own conduct." His friend | said: "The booze got to him in the end, and robbed him of his wit and char ... |
| 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 ... |
| Raoul Wallenberg | | , a Swedish diplomat, was directly inspired by the film Pimpernel Smith to ... |
| Girolamo Savonarola | ... ther held in place by hand or by exerting pressure on the nose (pince-nez). | suggested that eyepieces could be held in place by a ribbon passed over th ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played Queen Elizabeth II in | 's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with Ronnie Barker in ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... ncluding providing hand claps and singing backup for Motown artists such as | and The Temptations. During these years, all three members took turns sing ... |
| Ryan O'Neal | ... he popular hit comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), starring Barbra Streisand and | , a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His G ... |
| Ross Parker | ... f the population. In 2001, shortly after the September 11 attacks, teenager | was murdered by a gang of Muslims of Pakistani origin in a racially motiva ... |
| 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 ... |
| Enrico Caruso | ... ting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Cynthia Haymon and as Mimì and Rodolfo. | , who was closely associated with the role of Rodolfo, never recorded a fu ... |
| Ethan Allen | ... States. The population was 448 at the 2010 census. The town is named after | |
| Maximilian Kolbe | ... site of the martyrdom (according to the Catholic Church) of saints such as | |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ly is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established by | on May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta and substitut ... |
| John Lennon | On 15 December 1969, Moon joined | 's Plastic Ono Band for a live performance at the Lyceum Ballroom in Londo ... |
| Luke Skywalker | ... eady any time or place for urgent missions that would arise. Their core was | , Wedge Antilles, Zev Senesca, and Wes Janson |
| Aurelio Rodríguez | ... to the Washington Senators for Joe Coleman, Eddie Brinkman, Jim Hannan and | . Kuhn actually had to clear the trade because McLain was still under susp ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | Following President | 's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemor ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bob Barker | ... is led by host Drew Carey, announcer George Gray and a cast of four models. | hosted the series from the time of its 1972 debut until 2007, when Carey t ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... tion (PLO) to the West Bank and Gaza and in the event of a victory promised | that he would be given control of them. Hussein still saw the West Bank as ... |
| Enzo Tortora | ... in reductions in jail time. A famous case regarded the popular TV anchorman | , who was falsely accused of cocaine trafficking and Camorra membership by ... |
| Henry VI | ... round the White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include | , Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January ... |
| Nelson Mandela | This name was also given to | prior to his arrest and long incarceration for his anti-apartheid activiti ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... overing Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie; her vocal idols being | and Peggy Lee. In 1963, she formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four |
| Winston Churchill | ... g the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like | , Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over Radio Oranj ... |
| Christine Gregoire | ... da Lingle. On April 28, 2009, the State of Washington joined, when Governor | signed HB 1598. Massachusetts joined the compact on August 4, 2010, when G ... |
| 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 |
| Randy Quaid | ... ino film The Sunchaser. In 1996, he starred in the comedy Kingpin alongside | and Vanessa Angel |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... is or her experiences. Individuals are thus defined by their choices alone. | 's principle that existence precedes essence, as he explains in "Existenti ... |
| Ronald Reagan | In the United States president | attempted to move the United States back towards a hard anti-communist lin ... |
| Night of the Long Knives | ... unck replaced Benn as head of the Academy's poetry section. Appalled by the | , Benn abandoned his support for the Nazi movement. He lived with perfectl ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Brown | ... rces, including the indigenous mbira, as well as foreign influences such as | -type funk riffs. However, the foreign influences are interpreted through ... |
| Saint Peter | ... deed, the chapel has remained much unchanged since the wooden figurines (of | , Saint Paul, Moses and Aaron) were placed on the front pews and the carve ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Hart has called herself a fan of Peggy Noonan and | . Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
| Ritchie Valens | ... 950s and early 1960s. By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and | in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of L ... |
| Joseph Stalin | When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, | ordered both soldiers and civilians to initiate a scorched earth policy to ... |
| Rudolf Hess | ... played hostess to meetings of leading Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, | , Alfred Rosenberg, and Ernst Röhm. Hitler later recalled his early associ ... |
| Thomas More | Sir | , in his 1516 work Utopia suggests that the practice of enclosure is respo ... |
| Eliot Ness | ... les featured cooperation between the Treasury Department task force, led by | , and the Mounties against liquor smuggling across the American-Canadian b ... |
| Jack London | ... ed four times as a film). As another sign of influence, the American author | cited her novel Signa, which he read at age eight, as one of the eight rea ... |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ic boys whose fathers had died before they reached maturity. These included | , Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,and Roger Manners, 5th Earl o ... |
| Edith Stein | ... bjected to what they perceived as a desire to "Christianize" the Holocaust. | 's (a German nun who converted from Judaism in 1922 and was killed in Ausc ... |
| Tom Burnett | ... e park, the City Council voted to change the name to Memorial Park to honor | , a San Ramon resident, and other victims from Flight 93 killed in the Sep ... |
| Edward V | ... evertheless, continued intermittently during his reign and those of his son | and brother Richard III. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Rich ... |
| John Kerry | ... e 19th century. Twentieth century descendants include Massachusetts Senator | and educator Charles William Eliot. The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts a ... |
| Margaret Pole | ... ying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, | , and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry on guard outside ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... hite's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with | , in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth. ... |
| John Kerry | ... House of Representatives. The current U.S. senators from Massachusetts are | (D) and Scott P. Brown (R) |
| Merle Haggard | ... he likes of Hank Williams ("Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do?)"), | ("Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down") and Gram Parsons ("How Much I Lied"). T ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... given on the occasion of his visit to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, | suggested a reading of the events of the Holocaust as motivated by a hatre ... |
| Byron De La Beckwith | On June 21, 1963, | , a fertilizer salesman and member of the White Citizens' Council (and lat ... |
| Ernst Röhm | ... ng Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, and | . Hitler later recalled his early association with Göring |
| Cybill Shepherd | ... 971 BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. Bogdanovich cast the 21-year-old model | in a major role in the film and fell in love with her, an affair that even ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rajiv Gandhi | ... the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, which took place between the late Prime Minister | and Harchand Singh Longowal, the then President of the Akali Dal, who was ... |
| Ronald Reagan | (a) Mike Padden, a Republican faithless elector from Washington, gave | one electoral vote |
| 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 ... |
| Marybeth Tinning | ... hat made news were those of Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson, Genene Jones, | , Melissa Drexler, Dena Schlosser and Waneta Hoyt |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Stalin | Meanwhile, | and his Soviet Union in the 1920s and early of 1930s stood by Japan’s inva ... |
| Pol Pot | ... ver 30,000 French colons left Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime as the | government confiscated their farms and land properties. However, after the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dilma Rousseff | ... esidential election in Venezuela. As a matter of fact, The Nation described | 's victory in the 2010 Brazilian election as a defeat for the |
| Boy George | In the 1980s, | said about the music style of his band Culture Club, "We play rock 'n' rol ... |
| John Kerry | Dunst supported Democratic candidate | in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported De ... |
| Oswald | ... king not just of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons Eanfrith, | , and Oswiu fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle has been ... |
| 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 |
| Janez Janša | ... l in Slovenia, since the Slovenian Government including then-Prime Minister | was allegedly involved |
| Joseph Stalin | ... nt (the violent suppression of the Hungarian uprising and the revelation of | 's crimes) while confirming his "confidence in the democratic perspectives ... |
| 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' ... |
| George Orwell | ... om a Teac 4 track tape-recorder christened "Winston" (after the antihero of | 's novel Nineteen Eighty-four). Their debut performance was in October 197 ... |
| Michelle Leslie | In August 2005, Australian model | was arrested with two Ecstasy pills. She pleaded guilty to possession and ... |
| Claudio Abbado | ... isons with interpretations of the piece by Rattle's immediate predecessors, | and Herbert von Karajan. He has also worked with the Toronto Children's Ch ... |
| Larry Flynt | Perhaps less prominent but certainly notable, | , publisher of Hustler, also lived in the city at one point, before moving ... |
| Harold Lloyd | ... rly photographed wearing eyeglasses, and in the 1910s when popular comedian | began wearing a pair of as "The Glass Character" in his films |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... al power, namely, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Sikhs. During this period | stated that a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh c ... |
| St. Francis | It was the birthplace of | , who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. ... |
| Buddy Holly | ... and often act as a key component in individuals' personal image. Musicians | and John Lennon became synonymous with the styles of eye-glasses they wore ... |
| Mohammed Mansour Jabarah | ... . Reid's membership in Al Qaeda was corroborated later in 2003 by informant | during an interrogation at an American military base. Jabarah said Reid wa ... |
| Kirk Douglas | ... ng at the 21st police precinct in New York City. Outside, Det. Jim McLeod ( | ) is sharing a romantic moment with his wife Mary (Eleanor Parker), and th ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... vision for a "Medal of Honor", was signed into law (12Stat329) by President | on December 21, 1861. The medal was "to be bestowed upon such petty office ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... a occupant was dismissed or fell out of favor with the rulers of the state. | 's favourite Dacha was in Gagra, Abkhazia. The construction of new dachas ... |
| John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McC ... |
| Roman Polanski | In 1976, Kinski began a romantic relationship with | , when she was 15 years old and he was 43 |
| John Wesley Powell | The first recorded ascent was in 1868 by the surveying party of | . The East Face of the mountain is quite steep, and is surmounted by a gig ... |
| Rod Coronado | | is an eco-anarchist and is an unofficial spokesperson for the Animal Liber ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... s a lavish, large-scale biopic of eccentric aviation pioneer and film mogul | and would reunite Scorsese with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The film received ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... ion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of | , Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As ... |
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| Pope Benedict XVI | ... or the Doctrine of the Faith by its prefect, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now | ), to Bishops of the entire Catholic Church * Pontifical secret;Church pre ... |
| Mahatma Gandhi | ... 's missionary work had taken him abroad where he had met and conferred with | . When he was a student at Boston University, King often visited Thurman, ... |
| John Lennon | ... s a key component in individuals' personal image. Musicians Buddy Holly and | became synonymous with the styles of eye-glasses they wore to the point th ... |
| Ricky Nelson | ... Chicago, Illinois, and named Rickey Nelson Henley, named after singer-actor | , to John L. and Bobbie Henley on Christmas Day, 1958, in Chicago, in the ... |
| Joseph Smith, Jr. | ... his earlier book contained 65 early revelations to church leaders including | and Oliver Cowdery. Before many copies of the book could be printed, howev ... |
| Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | ... urer under Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, died. His vacant post was offered to | , who declined it and proposed Burghley, stating that the latter was the m ... |
| Phil Hartman | ... arks, having a giant sea sponge instead. A captive James Bond, portrayed by | , offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lai ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... with Gelsenberg-Benzin-AG to form the new corporation VEBA-Oel AG. In 1987, | celebrated Mass before 85,000 people at Gelsenkirchen's Parkstadion. The P ... |
| Jeff Young | ... ortly after that appearance, Mustaine fired both Chuck Behler and guitarist | and canceled their scheduled 1988 Australian tour. "On the road, things es ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... Europe in the 1940s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers | , Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other schol ... |
| Reagan | ... 1989, Dole was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President | . Then, on January 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded him the Presidentia ... |
| Steve Jobs | Some of the more famous pranksters were Steve Wozniak and | , founders of Apple Computer. On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City ... |
| Sir Robert Walpole | ... era, a Ballad opera produced on the January 29, 1728 by John Rich, in which | was caricatured. This famous piece, which was said to have made "Rich gay ... |
| Victor Amadeus | ... ty of The Hague, Charles swapped Sardinia, which went to the Duke of Savoy, | , for Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, which was more diff ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... unicationibus Socialibus) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on June 28, 1988, it is responsible for using the various forms of the med ... |
| Untouchables | ... and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and | co-author Oscar Fraley, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation ph ... |
| Beethoven | ... entury musical opinion directly through his music criticism. His reviews of | 's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1808) and other important works set ... |
| Ted, Jr. | ... had three children together: Kara (February 27, 1960 – September 16, 2011), | (born September 26, 1961), and Patrick J. (born July 14, 1967). By the mid ... |
| George Harrison | ... or a UNICEF charity concert. The supergroup also consisted of Eric Clapton, | , Nicky Hopkins, Yoko Ono, Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann. The band play ... |
| Najibullah | ... d Saudi Arabia while trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces. After President | 's resignation in 1992 and the end of Soviet support, the military dissolv ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of President | . Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political oppositio ... |
| Edward II | ... However, gains in Scotland were reversed during the reign of his successor, | , who also faced conflict with the nobility. Edward II was, in 1311, force ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... uired to do much of the housework. She enjoyed reading, especially books by | in her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, whic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Khieu Samphan | Although Pol Pot relinquished the Khmer Rouge leadership to | in 1985, he continued to be the driving force of Khmer Rouge insurgency, g ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | Hopkins was a prominent abolitionist who supported | during the American Civil War. After his death, reports said his convictio ... |
| Marcel Marceau | ... hich featured an all African-American cast), a BBC mime production starring | , and Benjamin Britten's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwil ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Takei | Brand co-starred with | in "The Encounter", an episode of the original Twilight Zone series. Ironi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Cranmer | ... her regency council, and to the sympathies of fellow appointed councillors | (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and Lord Hertford, Catherine obtained effec ... |
| Randy Rhoads | ... on a solo career with Blizzard of Ozz (1980), featuring American guitarist | . Some bands, such as Queen, moved away from their hard rock roots and mor ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... y the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel in the mid-1940s. It was adopted by | who, on October 29, 1945, discussed his own existentialist position in a l ... |
| Albert Speer | In 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered his minister of armaments | to carry out a nationwide scorched earth policy, in what became known as t ... |
| Laurent Nkunda | ... is the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), against which | 's troops were fighting, but other smaller groups such as the anti-Ugandan ... |
| 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. ... |
| Dudu Topaz | ... ehu Ze!" (which had guest appearances by Shmuel Vilozni and Debby & Nolly), | 's entertainment show (In which Naor Zion was discovered) as well as Yair ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Billy Hull | ... East Belfast, the Hammer and Roden Street The first meeting was chaired by | , with Alan Moon as its vice-chair, but Moon was quickly replaced by Jim A ... |
| John Lilburne | ... with placating large numbers of women who were demonstrating in support of | |
| Thomas Paine | ... ties did lead to the imprisonment of Thomas Williams, the London printer of | 's The Age of Reason. Wilberforce's attempts to legislate against adultery ... |
| George Harrison | ... as held at Royal Albert Hall on November 29, 2002, the first anniversary of | 's passing |
| Palmiro Togliatti | ... politics and never joined another party. Ostracized by the ICP party leader | and his supporters on publication of Becalmed in the Antilles (La gran bon ... |
| 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 |
| Roger Ebert | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from Gene Siskel and | on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News Toronto claims it ... |
| James Ellison | ... t group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, including founder | and Richard Snell. The group had plotted to park "a van or trailer in fron ... |
| Alberto Fujimori | ... orted radical right-wing governments, such as those of Augusto Pinochet and | of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimori's ministries and pr ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as | , Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the ... |
| James Brown | ... Bonnie Bramlett in a Columbus, Ohio Holiday Inn bar, the singer referred to | as a "jive-ass nigger", then upped the ante by pronouncing Ray Charles a " ... |
| Polycarp | ... is certain that, while still very young, Irenaeus had seen and heard Bishop | (d. 155) at Smyrna. Irenaeus sets out a forthright account of Mary's role ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cary Grant | ... onships with their mothers. In North by Northwest (1959), Roger Thornhill ( | 's character) is an innocent man ridiculed by his mother for insisting tha ... |
| Pim Fortuyn | ... larized Dutch general election of 2002, dominated by the rise and murder of | , the VVD lost fourteen seats, leaving only twenty-four. The VVD nonethele ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... claps and background vocals for the songs of other Motown artists including | and Mary Wells. In January 1961, Gordy finally relented and agreed to sign ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese. On December 13, 2002 | accepted Law's resignation as Archbishop and reassigned him to an administ ... |
| John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 30%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
| Kevin Cosgrove | ... t, 175 employees of Aon were killed in the attacks, including Eisenberg and | , a vice president of the company that made a call to 911 when the tower c ... |
| Hans Schemm | ... o symbolise the centre of power in the town. Bayreuth's first Gauleiter was | , who was also the head (Reichswalter) of the National Socialist Teachers ... |
| Saint Januarius | ... o, it means "Little Gennaro", like Ratface in Italian comics. San Gennaro ( | in English) is the patron of Naples |
| Roger Ebert | ... ibuted to it, but there's no disbelieving the grim evidence on the screen." | gave it (3.5 out of four stars) and called it "new and fresh and not shy o ... |
| Henry Clay Frick | In 1909, | , a steel magnate, bought the present-day so that his daughter Helen could ... |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | ... ntained he was a scapegoat similar to the way that John F. Kennedy assassin | is seen by conspiracy theorists. One of the claims used to support this as ... |
| Shirley Temple | ... Hollywood stars such as Rosalind Russell, Clark Gable, Gloria Swanson, and | . He did not always play to packed rooms, and early on he learned to perfo ... |
| Zahir Shah | ... g Amanullah Khan's rule in the early 20th century, and upgraded during King | 's forty year rule. From 1978 to 1992, the Soviet-backed Afghan army fough ... |
| Charles Harding Smith | ... and left the organisation by its formal launch in September. By this point, | had become the group's leader, with former soldier Davy Fogel as his secon ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ritchie Valens | ... devotion to the original rhythm and blues roots of Rock and roll including | , Sunny and the Sunglows, and ? and the Mysterians. Groups inspired by thi ... |
| William Laud | ... the impeachment and subsequent execution of the king's advisers, Archbishop | and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford |
| John McCain | , Republican | received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
| John P. O'Neill | ... ed against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier. | was a counter-terrorism expert and the Assistant Director of the FBI until ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and | had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there ... |
| Terry Nichols | ... . The Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, in which Timothy McVeigh and | detonated an explosive outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, k ... |
| Kurt Cobain | ... d alternative acts such as Shonen Knife (who were championed in the West by | ), Pizzicato Five and The Pillows (who gained international attention in 1 ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... a sterling cast, and a wonderful one from newcomer Keisha Castle- Hughes." | gave the film four out of four stars and said, "The genius of the movie is ... |
| Ansel Adams | ... - National Archives 79-AA-M01.jpg|Long's Peak from Road as photographed by | in 1941 |
| Peter Falk | A subplot follows | , who has arrived in Berlin to make a film about Berlin's Nazi past. As th ... |
| Willie Horton | ... larly, George H.W. Bush characterized Michael Dukakis as weak on crime (the | ad) and hopelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996 ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... aly"; however, as King of Ireland, on the advice of the Irish government of | , he addressed his letters of credence to the "King of Italy and Emperor o ... |
| John Lennon | ... was trying to get all of their music on to the cartridge. Suzuki also cited | as an influential figure to all the composers while the soundtrack was bei ... |
| Harold Lloyd | ... ned out to be extremely well preserved. Included were films by Pearl White, | , Douglas Fairbanks, and Lon Chaney. These films are now housed at the Lib ... |
| 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" |
| John Lilburne | ... tes. It was during this period of time that Hugo Black became a disciple of | and his claim of ‘freeborn rights’. In an appendix to his dissenting opini ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... project was begun by Dhuey and Berkeley without the knowledge of Apple head | (who opposed features like expansion slots). Initially referred to as "Lit ... |
| Dutroux, Marc | ... 1867) - Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting - Duffel - Dupuis, Jacques - | - Dyle (department) - Jacqueline Dyri |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... looked abroad for literary inspiration. Two French figures, existentialist | and novelist Gustave Flaubert, influenced both his technique and style. Sa ... |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ministration under King James I. His daughter Anne became the first wife of | in 1571; she served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth before her marr ... |
| John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 31%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
| Ronald Reagan | Relations between Brian Mulroney and | were famously close. This relationship resulted in negotiations on a poten ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... efore Anthelm himself died on 26 June 1178. He was named in honour of Saint | |
| William Strachey | ... othed that came from roonock" were living in an Iroquois site on the Neuse. | , a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in his The historie of travai ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ta Mok | ... . By 1999, most members had surrendered or been captured. In December 1999, | and the remaining leaders surrendered, and the Khmer Rouge effectively cea ... |
| John Kerry | ... ently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator, (Democrat) | and junior senator Republican Scott Brown |
| Dario Fo | ... but is not really firing at the target. Nobel laureate satirical playwright | pointed out the difference between satire and teasing (sfottò). Teasing is ... |
| Saint Peter | ... il of Raphael and the chisel of Algardi", reporting that the Pope, aided by | and Saint Paul, convinced Attila to turn away from the city. According to ... |
| M. Jeff Thompson | On September 1, 1861, Confederate General | robbed the Union Bank of Charleston. Thompson, who handed the cashier a no ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Boone | In 1759, a young James Robertson accompanied explorer | on his third expedition to lands beyond the Alleghany Mountains. The party ... |
| Christopher Cox | ... ost in late December 2008, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman | said that the decision to impose a three-week ban on short selling of fina ... |
| John Wayne | ... s and would often mention it in the show if any contestant came from Texas. | appeared to have had a similar preoccupation, as he mentioned the town in ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His paternal grandmother was | . Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a cere ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble | ... o cited him as a major influence. James was also covered by blues-rock band | many times in concert. The most famous of these covers is one that came by ... |
| 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 ... |
| Klaus Kinski | ... ver, a delay and the illness of main actor Jason Robards (later replaced by | ) in the film's notoriously difficult production resulted in his being una ... |
| Denise Bloch | Three other women members of the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: | , Cecily Lefort, and Lilian Rolfe. Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen ... |
| Sanjay Gandhi | ... gress party was crushed soundly in the elections which followed. Indira and | both lost their seats, and Congress was cut down to 153 seats (compared wi ... |
| Ritchie Valens | ... f Chicano pop music surfaced through innovative musicians Johnny Rodriguez, | and Linda Ronstadt. Joan Baez, who was also of Mexican-American descent, i ... |
| John McCain | , Republican | received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
| P. G. Wodehouse | ... r is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author | . An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones ... |
| Richard II | ... ses. In 1377 Edward III died, leaving the Crown to his 10-year-old grandson | . Like many of his predecessors, Richard II conflicted with the nobles by ... |
| Raelene Boyle | ... r drug use after the 1972 Olympics, so that she could safely have children. | , who had finished second to Stecher in both the 100 and 200 metres at the ... |
| Cecily Lefort | ... r women members of the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: Denise Bloch, | , and Lilian Rolfe. Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen were killed in ... |
| Ashkelon | Jonathan and Simon were now entitled to make conquests | ;submitted voluntarily while Gaza was forcibly taken. Jonathan vanquished ... |
| Saint James | ... Inside this enclosure, there was a small hermitage dedicated to the Apostle | (the current St. James' Cathedral), to where pilgrims visited on their way ... |
| 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 ... |
| Linda Tripp | ... ending too much time around Clinton. Lewinsky confided in a co-worker named | about her relationship with the President. Beginning in September 1997, Tr ... |
| Vito Genovese | ... nzano factions. In addition to Luciano, this group included Frank Costello, | , Albert Anastasia, Joe Adonis, Joe Bonanno, Carlo Gambino, Joe Profaci, T ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ng and provocative story led by an excellent performance by Edward Norton." | gave the film three out of four stars, regarding it as "always interesting ... |
| Anne Askew | ... me between Henry's death and the publication of the book. Her sympathy with | , the Protestant martyr who fiercely opposed the Catholic belief of transu ... |
| William Tyndale | ... ponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of Martin Luther and | |
| Beethoven | ... historically informed performance movement. Performances of composers from | to Arnold Schoenberg with limited vibrato are now not uncommon. Norrington ... |
| P. G. Wodehouse | ... s Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrés Escobar | ... h Francisco Maturana receiving death threats over squad selection. Defender | was a tragic figure of this tournament, as in the group stage match agains ... |
| Elizabeth Taylor | In 1999, Larry Fortensky one of actress | 's husbands, was arrested for drug possession near Indio. In the following ... |
| William of Norwich | In 1144, the Jews of Norwich were accused of ritual murder after a boy ( | ) was found dead with stab wounds. This was the first incidence of blood l ... |
| Margaret of Anjou | The unpopularity of Henry's counsellors and his belligerent consort, | , as well as his own ineffectual leadership, led to the weakening of the H ... |
| 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 ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... other rich men of the time, among them Harold McCormick, Samuel Insull and | , into Kane). Hearst used all his resources and influence in an unsuccessf ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... obel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk and | . Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such as HIV/AIDS, tuber ... |
| Giacomo Matteotti | ... n the 1924 election, thus obtaining control of Parliament. Socialist deputy | was assassinated after calling for a nullification of the vote because of ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... pisode." Time also criticized the film's score as absurd and anachronistic. | did not like it. "The movie starts promisingly... a scene where Butch puts ... |
| Nabil Amr | ... he move was criticized by a member of his own negotiating team and cabinet, | |
| 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 ... |
| Levon Helm | ... ight become known, Yeager confides in friend and fellow pilot Jack Ridley ( | ). Ridley cuts off part of a broomstick and tells Yeager to use it as a le ... |
| Pope Leo V | ... n the Deacon of Naples, Flodoard, and others make no mention of this story. | (903) and Antipope Christopher both died in 904, allegedly strangled in pr ... |
| Thomas the Apostle | ... rissur district. The works of scholars and Eastern Christian writings claim | to have set foot in Muziris near here 2,000 years ago. (AD 51-52) The coun ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... rs was set up by the Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum of 11 February 1985, by | who reformed the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Assistance to Heal ... |
| Louis XV | During the reign of | , Versailles underwent transformation, but not on the scale that had been ... |
| Edward V of England | ... orge's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, | |
| Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov | ... had the physical beauty and mental faculties to hold her interest (such as | ). Some of these men loved her in return, and she always showed generosity ... |
| Laura Ingraham | ... ional figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, | , Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well as many local co ... |
| Hippolytus | ... ne, the followers of Marcellina use the term gnostikos of themselves. Later | uses "learned" (gnostikos) of Cerinthus and the Ebionites, and applied "le ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... uch as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London. The philosopher | took an interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some ... |
| Alberto Fujimori | ... FREDEMO) coalition, advocating neoliberal reforms, but lost the election to | . He has subsequently supported moderate conservative candidates until the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lady Elizabeth | ... assing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both Lady Mary and | to the line of succession to the throne |
| Saint Peter | ... lly to the see of the Bishop of Rome, whom that Church sees as successor of | , the head of the apostles |
| George Orwell | ... y those in enemy and occupied territories who often had to listen secretly. | broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II |
| 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 ... |
| Alma Reville | ... g reputation. On 2 December 1926, Hitchcock married his assistant director, | , at the Brompton Oratory in South Kensington. Their only child, daughter ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... er appearance. "Judy went to school at Metro with Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, | , real beauties," said Charles Walters, who directed her in a number of fi ... |
| Sarah Bernhardt | ... to him as "le great event" of the season. Rehearsals of the play, including | , began but the play was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, since ... |
| Kate Jackson | ... Lara Parker) is to marry Morgan Collins (Keith Prentice). Daphne Harridge ( | ) suspects that Catherine is still in love with Bramwell Collins (Jonathan ... |
| military commissions | ... m Ahmed Hamdan, supposed driver to Osama bin Laden, who was challenging the | at Guantanamo Bay. A group of retired military officers that supported Ham ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ,000,000 copies in his day, and was even read by a young and impressionable | . The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under t ... |
| Jon Garth Murray | ... t denied a motion for an injunction that atheists Madalyn Murray O'Hair and | had filed to prevent the event from occurring |
| 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 ... |
| Nell Carter | | | |
| 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 ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... ic in the film is performed by various artists, such as Louis Armstrong and | , Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, and Harry Connick, Jr. |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Justin Martyr | ... " who created the world. Irenaeus uses the Logos theology he inherited from | . Irenaeus was a student of Polycarp, who was said to have been tutored by ... |
| John Kerry | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, whereas George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 20 ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | In 1989, U.S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister | dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London. The s ... |
| George Harrison | In May 1968, The Beatles met at Kinfauns, the Esher home of | , to review and record demos of songs under consideration for their next a ... |
| Levon Helm | ... fferent running order. These albums resulted from five days of recording at | s Studio in Woodstock, and presents a combination of new material and a fe ... |
| Cary Grant | ... as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, | as the Mock Turtle (Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time), Gar ... |
| Thomas More | ... ard III who is said to have confessed to the murder of the princes in 1502. | , a Tudor loyalist (and later Chancellor under Henry VIII), composed his H ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... hit as did the chart-topping ballad, "Missing You", which was a tribute to | , who had died earlier that year. Her 1985 album, Eaten Alive, found major ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... declined to return to duty; instead, encouraged by pacifist friends such as | and Lady Ottoline Morrell, he sent a letter to his commanding officer, tit ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ambivalent reviews, but many film critics complimented Dunst's performance. | commented that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was one of th ... |
| John McCain | ... ma in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while | received 44% |
| Cornelius Cardew | ... include works by Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, | , Theatre of Eternal Music, Rhys Chatham, Ryoji Ikeda, Survival Research L ... |
| Charles Bickford | ... or John Steinbeck. It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., | , Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr. It was remade in 1992 |
| Andrew Jackson | The town was named in 1825 for future president | , the commander of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and ... |
| Charles Manson | Scorsese was subsequently offered the role of | in the movie Helter Skelter and a part in Sam Fuller's war movie The Big R ... |
| Polycarp | ... e Logos theology he inherited from Justin Martyr. Irenaeus was a student of | , who was said to have been tutored by John the Apostle. (John had used Lo ... |
| Calypso Rose | ... nt, Calypso Revue, where which he nurtured the talent of many calypsonians. | , David Rudder, Black Stalin and Denyse Plummer are among the many artists ... |
| Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk | ... nd eventually marriages to Henry VIII. Also they were the granddaughters of | . He was the father of Anne's mother Lady Elizabeth Howard, later Elizabet ... |
| 50 Cent | ... ce-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, | , Stevie Wonder, and Don King, among others. All of the public and private ... |
| John McCain | U.S. Senator | (R-Arizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Gov ... |
| Deng Xiaoping | ... Gang of Four, who were blamed for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, | quickly wrested power from Mao's anointed successor Hua Guofeng. Although ... |
| James, son of Alphaeus | ... hn the Apostle. He is also called James the Greater to distinguish him from | , who is also known as James the Lesser |
| Pope John Paul II | During his tour of America in October 1979, | was also among those hosted by Shea Stadium. On the morning of the Pontiff ... |
| Nell Carter | | | |
| Carole Lombard | ... put on their make-up and go on stage. I had no use for that kind of actor. | , tweaking Hitchcock and drumming up a little publicity, brought some cows ... |
| 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 ... |
| Margaret of Anjou | ... re defeated and forced to flee to France. There, they made an alliance with | , and Warwick agreed to restore Henry VI in return for French support in a ... |
| Laurent Nkunda | ... Kabila attempted to use it to gain more control over the dissident general | . A hastily-negotiated verbal agreement in Rwanda saw three government FAC ... |
| John McCain | ... won nine of these eleven states (for 222 electoral votes), with Republican | taking a combined 49 electoral votes from Texas and Georgia |
| Menachem Begin | ... ith David Raziel, who proved to be the most prominent Irgun commander until | . Jabotinsky simultaneously instructed the Irgun to end its policy of rest ... |
| Seán MacEntee | ... change was the retirement of such political heavyweights as James Ryan and | , with Lynch taking over from the former as Minister for Finance. This app ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... torio, not excluding the possibility of a brilliant climax in a fugue as in | 's Glorreiche Augenblick, Carl Maria von Weber's Jubel-Kantate, and Felix ... |
| Keith Green | ... y in the sub-genre of Christian rock. He is often cited as influencing both | and Randy Stonehill in their conversions to Christianity. Both eventually ... |
| St. Stephen's | ... lat. It is surrounded by plains and forests, and its magnificent cathedral, | , is the religious centre for Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. There A ... |
| Thomas Cromwell | ... gue of Comfort against Tribulation. While More was imprisoned in the Tower, | made several visits, urging More to take the oath, which More continued to ... |
| Pope John Paul II | Eight hundred years after the Fourth Crusade, | twice expressed sorrow for the events of the Fourth Crusade. In 2001, he w ... |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | ... offering, which is then used to help people in need. The late LDS President | asked: “What would happen if the principles of fast day and the fast offer ... |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber's | ... er 2011, the Hall was used to broadcast the 25th anniversary performance of | Phantom of the Opera to cinemas across the UK - it was also the first time ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... throw of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under | , produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia |
| Andrew Jackson | ... st because of a policy of Indian removal developed by the administration of | . Then, in 1831, Jacob Stem, the founder of Green Springs, bought the land ... |
| Saint Helier | The island's patron saint is | |
| Carly Simon | ... ta Pallenberg, Marsha Hunt, Pamela Des Barres, Uschi Obermaier, Bebe Buell, | , Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, Carla Bruni, Sop ... |
| Waylon Jennings | (Live action co-stars | (narrator/"balladeer"), Ben Jones (Cooter Davenport), Sonny Shroyer (Deput ... |
| John Mitchel | Mitchell County was founded in 1851. It was named after | , an Irish patriot. The county's courthouse was completed in 1858, and it ... |
| Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
| Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
| Dave Davies | ... ues-rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group. | of The Kinks, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend of The ... |
| Peter Lundin | ... r in Rødovre, and willed a collection of his own works to the municipality. | killed and dismembered his partner and her two sons while they were living ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Harrison | ... d Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, | , Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, a ... |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan | ... c scene, with local artists such as Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, and | and iconic music venues such as the Armadillo World Headquarters. The long ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... ortsmouth's first real church was built in 1181, when a chapel dedicated to | was erected by Augustinian monks; it was run by the monks of Southwick Pri ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | Schneerson and | are related through Tzemach Tzedek, the third Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch |
| John Mitchel | ... unty is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is named in honor of | . The population was 10,776 in the 2010 census, a decline from 10,874 in t ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... i City) killing both pilots. The parade was not held again until 1975. When | became President, the parade was not held until 2007 and then it was entit ... |
| John McCain | ... hen he won 48.6 percent of the vote compared to 50.9 percent for Republican | . In 2010, political experts have now dubbed Fort Bend County a battlegrou ... |
| Randy Rhoads | ... .thoroughly thrilled with Chris... it reminds me a lot like when Ozzy found | " |
| John Wayne | ... ead, who authored the original, has had (a) practical aviation background." | played screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead two decades later in the John Ford f ... |
| John McCain | ... 04 and like many of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
| Ginger Lynn | ... ontemporaries, he helped to usher in the new starlets of the decade such as | , Amber Lynn, Sheri St. Claire and Kimberly Carson as upcoming directors f ... |
| Ronald Reagan | In 1988, Congress passed and President | signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U. ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... too"" came from not only Ireland but from the continent, led by playwrights | , Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Alan Simpson was later released. The pre ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... n Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as | . Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Ac ... |
| 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 ... |
| Larry McDonald | ... spy plane. All 269 passengers and crew died, including a U.S. Congressman, | |
| Samuel Pepys | ... d by the halfpenny later the same year. The figure of Britannia was said by | to have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Rich ... |
| Jacques Chirac | ... nt bicentennial, however, controversy erupted when neither French president | nor prime minister Dominique de Villepin attended any functions commemorat ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... e national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, separately, by | , to serve as Hughes' public-policy lobbyist in Washington. O'Brien was el ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Harrison | ... ad taken over from another posthumous release when the song was replaced by | 's "My Sweet Lord", and the first time that a woman had a posthumous numbe ... |
| Methodius of Olympus | ... beheaded with six other Christians in Rome for his beliefs. Hippolytus and | also mention or quote him. Eusebius of Caesarea deals with him at some len ... |
| Bo Yang | ... nder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese writer | 's book Zhongguo Diwang Huanghou Qinwang Gongzhu Shixi Lu (中國帝王皇后親王公主世系錄) ... |
| Girolamo Savonarola | During this period, the Dominican monk | had become prior of the San Marco monastery in 1490. He was famed for his ... |
| Buddy Holly | ... in what became his trademark oversize glasses, bearing some resemblance to | . Stiff's records were initially distributed only in the UK, which meant t ... |
| John Lennon | ... s signature song, "Piano Man". includes the harmonica throughout the piece. | played harmonica on early Beatles' hits as "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me ... |
| John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brow |
| Cary Grant | ... my) is located next door to the bar. Its young director, Captain Cummings ( | ), is in reality an undercover Federal agent working to infiltrate and exp ... |
| Alessandro Nannini | ... se of his car, and rejoined the race. He took the lead from the Benetton of | and went on to finish first, only to be disqualified by the FIA (at the in ... |
| Joan of Arc | ... faithful to him and he made lengthy stays at his court in Chinon. In 1429, | came here to acknowledge him |
| Anne Boleyn | ... possession of the Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were | and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women wer ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... esuits, explored the Chesapeake Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen | granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florid ... |
| Katee Sackhoff | ... Laura Roslin. Starbuck and Boomer were now female characters, portrayed by | and Grace Park respectively. Other cast members included Jamie Bamber (Cap ... |
| Mary Bradbury | ... n Shakespeare scholar Douglas Spaulding. He is also directly descended from | , who was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang as a witch in Salem, Mass ... |
| Jesse James | In 1876, train robber | spent a night in Riverton while en route to a bank heist in Minnesota. Al ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... ed in both French and English. Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen, | ; the actress's two children, Katherine and Sean, appeared as the queen's ... |
| Cary Grant | ... y (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, | , Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen. In his autobiography The Moon's a Ba ... |
| Merle Haggard | ... for its tributes to country music legends like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, | , and Waylon, Willie and the Boys. Other genres of music performed include ... |
| 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 ... |
| Al Capone | ... ames spent a night in Riverton while en route to a bank heist in Minnesota. | , also, reportedly, used Riverton as one of his hideouts |
| Sartre | ... himself agree that it was ethical; the religious suspends the ethical), and | 's final words in are "All these questions, which refer us to a pure and n ... |
| prisoners of war | ... acchides. Jonathan offered the rival general a peace treaty and exchange of | . Bacchides readily consented and even took an oath of nevermore making wa ... |
| John H. Wood, Jr. | ... r, who was a contract killer, was arrested for the killing of Federal Judge | by rifle fire in 1979 in San Antonio. His father was convicted and eventua ... |
| Eliot Ness | ... e star status for Costner arrived in 1987, when he starred as federal agent | in The Untouchables and in the leading role of the thriller No Way Out. He ... |
| Jaco Pastorius | With | and John McLaughli |
| Boy George | ... o were part of the 1980s New Romantic movement. The original band comprised | (lead vocals), Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards) a ... |
| Louis XV | ... he bogus Lopukhina Conspiracy and other attempts of Frederick the Great and | to get rid of Bestuzhev (making the Russian court the centre of a tangle o ... |
| Hamdi Quran | ... e'evi's assassination. Thousands took part in his funeral. The four gunmen, | , Basel al-Asmar, Majdi Rahima Rimawi, and Ahad Olma, fled to the Palestin ... |
| Stepan Bandera | Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) of | , a Ukrainian nationalist force and the political arm of the Organization ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... al backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister | and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer. Somewhere between $3 mil ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... i, and Ahad Olma, fled to the Palestinian National Authority. Israel placed | under siege in the Ramallah compound to force the handing over of the susp ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, and | . The main goals of his non-fiction works are to acknowledge the influence ... |
| Tyndale's | ... ation. More vigorously suppressed the travelling country ministers who used | English translation of the New Testament. This English language translatio ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nell Carter | | | |
| Forty Martyrs of Sebaste | ... eek Orthodox chapels of St. James the Just, St. John the Baptist and of the | , south of the rotunda and on the west side of the front courtyard origina ... |
| Marwan Barghouti | ... ory, would normally have been quite wary of dealing with or supporting him. | (a leader of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades) emerged as a possible replacement d ... |
| Ansel Adams | Weston had traveled extensively with legendary photographer | , who moved to Carmel in 1962, several years after receiving his 3rd Guggg ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | ... sted that he write scholarly annotations to the responsa of Tzemach Tzedek. | also sought his annotations to various hasidic discourses. It was during t ... |
| George Harrison | ... is recording with another noise recording in 1969 entitled . Beatles member | also released a noise/musique concrète recording in 1969, titled Electroni ... |
| John Kerry | ... sachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by Senators | and Scott Brown |
| Robert Walpole | ... arlborough; the architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister | ; King George II; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited fr ... |
| George Orwell | ... did Catalonia recover its autonomy and reconstitute the Generalitat (1979). | served with the POUM in Catalonia from December 1936 until June 1937. His ... |
| Jean Simmons | It also starred veterans | as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and Roy Thinnes as Roger Collins, British ch ... |
| Ahmad Sa'adat | ... ttlement: six PFLP militants—including the organization's secretary-general | —wanted by Israel, who had been holed up with Arafat in his compound, woul ... |
| Mark Thatcher | ... bers of the South African Army 32 Battalion. Financial backers included Sir | , son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the ... |
| Roger Ebert | Some critics and Hitchcock scholars, including Donald Spoto and | , agree that Vertigo represents the director's most personal and revealing ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| Olivier Messiaen | ... met Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts, who had just completed studies with | (analysis) and Darius Milhaud (composition) in Paris, and Stockhausen reso ... |
| Jack London | ... er. He also knows and meets various real-life historical figures, including | , Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick R ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... influences on the African Independence movements and his work was cited by | and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, ... |
| Byron De La Beckwith | Evers was assassinated by | , a member of the White Citizens' Council. As a veteran, Evers was buried ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... rs, Lynch became speech writer and research assistant for the party leader, | |
| Cuauhtémoc | ... "president"), resigned upon Cuitláhuac's death. As soon as Cuitláhuac died, | was made the next tlatoani |
| Saint Joan of Arc | ... ce du Vieux Marché (the site of Joan Of Arc's pyre) is the modern church of | . This is a large, modern structure which dominates the square. The form o ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | ... Schneerson was assigned specific communal tasks by his father-in-law, Rabbi | , who also requested that he write scholarly annotations to the responsa o ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... half its original length. Repairs to the church were carried out following | 's visit in 1573 (date and initials may be seen on exterior stonework) |
| 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 ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
| Chen Shui-bian | Under President | , pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo and his father gradually disappeared from p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Book of Martyrs | ... hrist" was instrumental in publicising accusations of torture in his famous | , claiming that More had often personally used violence or torture while i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Catherine Howard | ... he Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were Anne Boleyn and | , second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women were nieces of Thomas H ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... g the burgesses of Chesterfield the same privileges as those of Nottingham. | granted a charter of incorporation in 1594, creating a corporation consist ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Teller | ... ico, home of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic weapons. | and Ernest O. Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, ... |
| Karol Wojtyła | Cardinal | was elected John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 Octob ... |
| Gloria Steinem | ... olithic feminist orthodoxy", noting in response that she has disagreed with | about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion |
| Kenneth Williams | Codron had manoeuvred Orton into meeting his colleague | in August 1964. Orton reworked Loot with Williams in mind for Truscott. Hi ... |
| Cary Grant | ... Pre-Code 1933 Paramount Pictures comedy romance film starring Mae West and | . Others in the cast include Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., ... |
| Ōkuma Shigenobu | ... 1913 Yamamoto Gonnohyōe succeeded Katsura as prime minister. In April 1914, | replaced Yamamoto |
| Alan Bennett | ... rs and Friends, which featured writing contributions from Victoria Wood and | . In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pantomime – Jack a ... |
| Giovanni Borgia | ... exander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, | , and Gioffre Borgia. It is often suggested that Cesare and Lucrezia may h ... |
| 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 |
| George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence | ... and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, | and Richard III of England |
| Joan of Arc | King Charles VII ennobled | 's family on 29 December 1429 with an inheritable symbolic denomination. T ... |
| Lev Landau | ... His arguments were opposed by many of his contemporaries like Eddington and | , who argued that some yet unknown mechanism would stop the collapse. They ... |
| 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 |
| Jerry Lewis | ... ishing debut before the Hollywood film world of the team of Dean Martin and | |
| August von Kotzebue | Also in 1819, | was assassinated in Mannheim |
| Pepys | ... Temple, ed. by TP Courtenay; C North's Examen, 26; Dalrymple's Mem. (1790) | ;'s Diary (17 Feb. 1663); Cal. of Clarendon St. Pap. iii. 295; Carte's Lif ... |
| Harold Lloyd | ... the 1960s, Chaplin's films have been compared to those of Buster Keaton and | (the other two great silent film comedians of the time), especially among ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Whale | Rich, shadowy photography echoed | 's expressionistic Frankenstein films, emphasizing the family's ghoulishne ... |
| Gloria Steinem | Like | and Camille Paglia, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in ac ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Brown | ... recent commonly used break is the Tramen, which combines the Amen break, a | funk breakbeat ("Tighten Up" or "Samurai" break) and an Alex Reece drum an ... |
| Louis XV | Simultaneously, Elizabeth caused to be conveyed to | a confidential letter in which she proposed the signature of a new treaty ... |
| Seleucus | He also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi | ;, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and his father. The host ... |
| Sheryl Crow | Notable people who performed on The Roseanne Show were Enrique Iglesias, | , Janice Robinson, Lulu, Joan Jett and Tori Amos |
| 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. ... |
| Anthony Spilotro | ... risoned for drug trafficking (cocaine), embezzlement, and racketeering with | and later John Gotti Jr.. Attorney Lawrence R. Greene represented McLain b ... |
| Jezebel | ... ripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as | , The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Ser ... |
| George Orwell | ... en of necessity, effort which can instead be expended on artistic creation. | summarised, "In effect, the world will be populated by artists, each striv ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... e to harass political enemies, and a $100,000 contribution from billionaire | . Aided by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, the historian Stanley Kutl ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of | (any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out) |
| Joan of Arc | ... n. When made bishop of Orléans in 1849, he pronounced a fervid panegyric on | , which attracted attention in England as well as France. Joan of Arc woul ... |
| Mogens Glistrup | ... a large extent inspired by the Danish Progress Party, which was founded by | . Glistrup also spoke at the event, which gathered around 4,000 attendees |
| Prince Claus | ... of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and | , and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... Redemptor the Pontiff called acts of reparation a duty for Roman Catholics: | referred to the concept as |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Cranmer | The chief minister of Henry VIII, the Archbishop of Canterbury | suggested removal of the Roman Catholic papacy's imperium in imperio (Lati ... |
| Leo Baeck | ... educators of the time: Chanoch Albeck, Ismar Elbogen, Julius Guttmann, and | . Heschel later taught Talmud there. He joined a Yiddish poetry group, Jun ... |
| Peter | ... nastery church built by Augustine in Canterbury, and dedicated it to saints | and Paul; it was later re-consecrated as St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. ... |
| Kurt Vonnegut | | 's novel (1969) was a satirical novel that used some elements from his exp ... |
| Vito Genovese | By 1921, Luciano had met many Mafia leaders, including | and Frank Costello, his longtime friend, business partner, and eventually ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... leyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife, | , was better and more established at Court. Though not of the aristocracy ... |
| Beethoven | ... mantic movement generally. In 1810 E.T.A. Hoffmann called Mozart, Haydn and | the three "Romantic Composers", and Ludwig Spohr used the term "good Roman ... |
| Paul Wellstone | ... he city briefly entered the national news in October 2002 when U.S. Senator | , along with seven others, died in a plane crash, two miles away from the ... |
| John McCain | In the 2008 elections | received 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for gov ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carole Lombard | ... origin of the name "Garland". One is that it was originated by Jessel after | 's character Lily Garland in the film Twentieth Century which was then pla ... |
| Maria Theresa | ===Forced assimilation===In the Habsburg Monarchy under | (1740–1780), a series of decrees tried to force the Romanies to permanentl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mike Tyson | ... ublic, however, he has responded to mob allegations by calling them racist. | , the former undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, says of his for ... |
| David Weiss Halivni | Rabbi | is himself a Holocaust survivor from Hungary. He says that the effort to a ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... tter's death in 1937. Norman Malcolm famously credits Sraffa with providing | with the conceptual break that founded the Philosophical Investigations, b ... |
| Luigi Longo | ... It was run by a troika of Comintern heavyweights: André Marty was commander | ;(Gallo) was Inspector-General; and Giuseppe Di Vittorio (Nicoletti) was c ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ilkes Booth made his escape through Charles County after shooting President | . He was on his way to Virginia |
| Hamdi Quran | ... li tourist minister Rehavam Ze'evi was assassinated on October 17, 2001, by | and three other members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palesti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... and early 19th century, particularly Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, | and Franz Schubert. Though Mozart and Schubert did not study with Haydn, M ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... am of the Crop" designation) and a 76 metascore on Metacritic. The film led | to call Reiner "one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy", and sai ... |
| Everett Francis Briggs | ... r in Marion County, located .12 miles west of county route 27/2, the Father | Bridge", in honor of Briggs' dedication to the forgotten victims of the 19 ... |
| Claudio Abbado | ... stav Mahler's Symphony No. 6. In 1999, Rattle was appointed as successor to | as the orchestra's principal conductor. The appointment, decided on in a 2 ... |
| Buddy Holly | ... k and roll. Later rockabilly acts, particularly performing songwriters like | , would be a major influence on British Invasion acts and particularly on ... |
| 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. ... |
| Jesse James | ... of the Old West as: dentist Doc Holliday and his girlfriend Big Nose Kate, | , Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Mysterious Dave Mather, Hoodoo Brown, and Han ... |
| Antonio Gramsci | ... Sraffa is known also for his close friendship with Italian Marxist thinker | and for being instrumental in securing Gramsci's Prison Notebooks from the ... |
| Victor Klemperer | The German diarist | , includes a first-hand account of the firestorm in his published works |
| John Wayne | ... ord (1971). The resulting film included candid interviews with the likes of | , James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and was narrated by Orson Welles. Out of cir ... |
| Joseph Stalin | ... gion, in areas such as the North Caucasus, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. In 1941 | ordered all inhabitants with a German father to be deported, mostly to Sib ... |
| Albert Speer | Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by | , the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Hitler's ma ... |
| Rehavam Ze'evi | Israeli tourist minister | was assassinated on October 17, 2001, by Hamdi Quran and three other membe ... |
| Everett Francis Briggs | Father | oversaw the memorial project and died just a few days after its completion ... |
| Elie Wiesel | | is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... Supreme Court was in session, the important lawyers in Illinois, including | , gathered in Mt. Vernon to argue their cases. The lawyers gathered at the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and | in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Rob ... |
| Rodney King | ... incidents go unnoticed by the family until Derek has an argument (involving | ) with his mother's new boyfriend Murray (Elliott Gould), who is Jewish. L ... |
| Pedro Albizu Campos | ... the abolition of slavery and protest the incarceration of their leader, Dr. | , in a federal prison on charges of sedition |
| Husayn ibn Ali | According to Shiite tradition, the head of | , grandson of Mohammad, was buried in Ashkelon. In the late 11th century i ... |
| Philippe Pétain | ... ravail, famille, patrie"("work, family, homeland"), and its leader, Marshal | , declared that "la terre, elle ne ment pas" ("the earth, it does not lie" ... |
| Margaret of Anjou | ... ns in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian Henry VI and Queen | were campaigning in the north of England, Warwick gained control of the ca ... |
| Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
| Galeazzo Ciano | ... out, they had earlier been issued whistles by Mussolini's son-in-law, Count | . Haile Selassie waited calmly for the hall to be cleared, and responded " ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... agger has also been romantically linked to other women: Chrissie Shrimpton, | , Anita Pallenberg, Marsha Hunt, Pamela Des Barres, Uschi Obermaier, Bebe ... |
| Cary Grant | ... ilm about Cole Porter, in which she played herself auditioning for Porter ( | ) |
| Maher Arar | ... on Public Safety and National Security that his earlier testimony about the | case was inaccurate. The RCMP had improperly given information to the US t ... |
| Lucien Bouchard | ... out "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical | , the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, cluck ... |
| John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brown |
| Blaise Pascal | ... were laid in the 17th century with the development of probability theory by | and Pierre de Fermat. Probability theory arose from the study of games of ... |
| Yigal Amir | ... Israel, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995. | confessed and was convicted of the crime |
| 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 ... |
| John Lennon | ... ly Damage Your Health. She portrays Diana, a fan of The Beatles band member | ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him. Years later, after multiple failed ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, | and John F. Kennedy. The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eve ... |
| Joseph Smith | While in jail awaiting trial for alleged treason charges, | , president of the church, was killed by an armed mob in 1844. Several cla ... |
| John Lennon | ... s by Glyn Johns of the Get Back album (which would later become Let It Be). | may have been the unintentional source for one of the Get Back bootlegs; L ... |
| Mohammad Najibullah | ... Cold War". After the collapse of the communist Soviet-backed government of | in 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of Bu ... |
| Emil Fackenheim | | is known for his understanding that people must look carefully at the Holo ... |
| Kenneth Williams | ... and, for the first two series, Barry Took; Horne's supporting players were | , Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Ron Moody (soon succeeded by Bill Pertwe ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... ationally well known fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, | , Hippocrates, and Jesus. Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ahmad Sa'adat | In December 2008, an Israeli military court sentenced | , leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), ... |
| Lawrence Horn | #"Last Call" (Frank Bryant, Autry DeWalt II, | ) – 2:2 |
| Ranulf Flambard | ... n for the king. At the latest, it was probably finished by 1100 when Bishop | was imprisoned there. Flambard was loathed by the English for exacting har ... |
| Apostles | ... uthority of the presbyters as rulers of the church, on the grounds that the | had appointed such. It was read in church, along with other epistles, some ... |
| 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 ... |
| August von Kotzebue | The second son of | , he was born in Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), then part of the Russian Em ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Carne | ... mprisonment. British radio operator Robert W. Ford and British army Colonel | also claimed that the Chinese subjected them to brainwashing techniques du ... |
| Fritz Todt | ... itler planned but would never build. Then, after the Minister of Armaments, | , died in a plane crash, Hitler unexpectedly tapped Speer for the position |
| Titus Flavius Clemens | ... e in the mid-19th century it was customary to identify him as a freedman of | , who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor Domitian, this identificatio ... |
| George Orwell | ... opened on February 6, 1984. The first book checked out of Davis Library was | 's 1984. The R.B. House Undergraduate Library is located between the Pit a ... |
| Arthur Bremer | ... ter Paul Schrader, whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin | and Pickpocket, a film by the French director Robert Bresson. Writer/direc ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... after the end of the American Civil War and the assassination of President | , its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Re ... |
| Rosemary Kennedy | ... Between the ages of eight and sixteen he suffered the trauma of his sister | 's failed lobotomy and the deaths of his brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in ... |
| George Harrison | ... Lennon–McCartney, but created primarily by John Lennon with assistance from | and Yoko Ono. Lennon said he was trying to paint a picture of a revolution ... |
| John Kerry | ... ate. Al Gore carried the presidential vote in 2000 by only 5,700 votes, and | won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, Barack Obama carr ... |
| Joseph Stalin | After the death of | on March 5, 1953, Phil Horowitz commented on how the many titles which the ... |
| Bob Barker | ... rent longest-running game show, The Price is Right, began its run hosted by | in 1972 |
| Hamdi Quran | In December 2007, | confessed in an Israeli court to assassinating Ze'evi together with Basel ... |
| Robert Bresson | ... uld-be assassin Arthur Bremer and Pickpocket, a film by the French director | . Writer/director Schrader often returns to Bresson's work in films such a ... |
| Daniel Boone | Boone County was formed April 1, 1830, and named for frontiersman | . The county commissioners met near the center of the county on May 1, 183 ... |
| Ralph Rainger | ... ssful Broadway play Diamond Lil by Mae West. Original music was composed by | , John Leipold and Stephan Pasternacki. Charles Lang was responsible for t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alan Bennett | ... the early 1960s with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, | , Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, whose stage show Beyond the Fringe wa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jan Hus | At his trial in 1415, | argued that the Church does not necessarily need a Pope, because, during t ... |
| King Henry VI | ... oners in 1876. The Bridge Fair, as it is now known, granted to the abbey by | , survives. Prayers for the opening of the fair were once said at the morn ... |
| Aaron Webster | Cases like Bright's are not isolated. In 2001, | was beaten to death by a group of youths armed with baseball bats and a po ... |
| Dirk Benedict | ... Colonel" Boomer in about half of the episodes (with little screentime), and | as Starbuck for one episode (the abrupt final episode, though his characte ... |
| 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 ... |
| Enrico Caruso | ... er had originated multiple Verdi roles, became the first Scarpia. The young | had hoped to create Cavaradossi, but was passed over in favour of the more ... |
| William Penn | The status continued unofficially until the area was included in | 's charter for Pennsylvania, on August 24, 1682. During this later period ... |
| Abner | ... of Goliath in his own tent and takes the head to Jerusalem, and Saul sends | to bring the boy to him. The king asks whose son he is, and David answers, ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... arked the end of the Kuomintang's status as the ruling party. DPP candidate | won a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent James ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ethan Allen | ... e New Hampshire Grants (which later became the state of Vermont). Headed by | and members of his extended family, they were instrumental in resisting Ne ... |
| Tim Westwood | ... his show was moved to between 19:00 and 21:00 on Saturday nights, ahead of | . The show was widely advertised as, "The UK's Saturday Warmup", or "The W ... |
| John Lennon | ... se of sound collage, credited to Lennon–McCartney, but created primarily by | with assistance from George Harrison and Yoko Ono. Lennon said he was tryi ... |
| Maria Theresa of Austria | ... d the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of | , led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian ... |
| Peter | ... t James has been resurrected and that in 1829 he—along with the resurrected | and the translated John—visited Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and restor ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... aynard Keynes, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, | , and G. E. Moore. Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that the summum ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Griffiths Wainewright | ... he Nineteenth Century, and Pen, Pencil and Poison, a satirical biography of | , in the Fortnightly Review, edited by Wilde's friend Frank Harris. Two of ... |
| Ronald Reagan | The election of | as president in 1981 ushered in an eight year period of conservative leade ... |
| George Takei | ... a, United States. More than 250 people attended including Nichelle Nichols, | , Walter Koenig, her on-screen daughter Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil W ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... y at the Beverly Hills home of his Raintree County co-star and close friend | and her second husband, Michael Wilding. Alerted by friend Kevin McCarthy, ... |
| Álvaro Obregón | ... orfirian elite. After Díaz was deposed, Carranza competed for power against | and others. The Yaquis joined with Álvaro Obregón’s forces after 1913 |
| John Kerry | ... George W. Bush received 55.2% of the vote (14,069 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 43.0% (10,951 votes), with 25,480 ballots cast among ... |
| Saint Adalbert of Prague | ... of his royal court. While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met | , the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired ... |
| Joan of Arc | ... arts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries. It was here that | was executed in 1431. People from Rouen are called Rouennais |
| Pope John Paul II's | ... on Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by | motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former foll ... |
| Pope John Paul II | On Sunday, October 9, 1979, | celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ... |
| Saint Luke the Evangelist | ... Egyptian Coptic. There were also Alexandrian Jews such as Theophilus, whom | addresses in the introductory chapter of his gospel. When the church was f ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... s commander-in-chief by the PLO Executive Committee in June 1969. Then when | took on that role in September 1970, al-Yehiyeh became chief-of-staff of a ... |
| A-bian | ... lic figures who are well known by their nicknames, including the politician | and the singer A-mei |
| Selena | ... nd Far Between". Byrne worked with the "Queen of Tex-Mex", Tejano superstar | , writing, producing and singing a song ("God's Child (Baila Conmigo)"), i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rajiv Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son | (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | In 1923 Rabbi Schneerson visited | for the first time. It was presumably at that time that he met Schneersohn ... |
| Beethoven | ... oire that would later bring him greatest acclaim, particularly the works of | , Brahms and Mahler, though he gave the Los Angeles premieres of some of f ... |
| Dickens | ... ous young readers' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of | and Shakespeare. By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Francis Stephen | The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of | , duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany ... |
| John Wayne | ... me newsreels. The first real movie I saw, that I distinctly remember, was a | movie. |
| Cornelius Cardew | ... European free improvisation by the UK group AMM, which included at the time | , Eddie Prévost, Lou Gare, Keith Rowe and Lawrence Sheaff |
| Jaan Anvelt | On , Bolshevik leader | led his leftist revolutionaries in an uprising in Tallinn, the capital of ... |
| Admiral Nelson | A lock of | 's hair was given to the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British Royal Navy ... |
| Roger Ebert | Despite positive reviews from some critics, including | , Joe Versus the Volcano was a box office flop. It has since attracted a c ... |
| Madalyn Murray O'Hair | ... ce after an appellate court denied a motion for an injunction that atheists | and Jon Garth Murray had filed to prevent the event from occurring |
| Karol Wojtyla | ... his papal name. This legacy was so remarkable that his successor, Cardinal | , chose the same name |
| Saint Adalbert | ... ed in Magdeburg, seat of Adalbert of Magdeburg, the teacher and namesake of | . While still a youth he was made a canon of Magdeburg cathedral. The fift ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kenneth Williams | ... ries after Feldman returned to performing — and starred Kenneth Horne, with | , Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. The show's announcer was D ... |
| Zanardi | ... t driver. Avanti, Tony Kart, Trulli, Birel, CRG, Gillard, Intrepid, Kosmic, | or FA Kart are a few well known examples of the many European manufacturer ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth I | On March 25, 1584, Queen | granted Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North Americ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Becket | Until | ’s fame overshadowed Dunstan's, he was the favourite saint of the English ... |
| Laura Ingraham | ... iter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host | , commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. Norman Maclean, ... |
| Maximilian Kolbe | ... yr in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on August 14, alongside | |
| Elmar Huseynov | ... ts Watch, several Azerbaijani journalists, including Eynulla Fatullayev and | , have been persecuted or been killed for their criticism of the governmen ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and | |
| Peter Falk | ... Some actors are also known for their ability or tendency to ad-lib, such as | (of the series Columbo), who would ad-lib such mannerisms as absent-minded ... |
| Eliot Ness | ... Robert "Butch" Haynes in A Perfect World, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard and | in The Untouchables. Costner also founded the band Modern West, and has pe ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... ies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General | . He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over question ... |
| Saint Sebastian | ... three years in penniless exile. He took the name "Sebastian Melmoth", after | , and the titular character of Melmoth the Wanderer; a gothic novel by Cha ... |
| 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 ... |
| Huey P. Newton | ... 70s, Horowitz developed a close friendship with Black Panther Party founder | . In Horowitz's subsequent writings, Newton is depicted as equal parts gan ... |
| John Wayne | ... ers, Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures (Kramer's brand new boss at the time), | of the MPA, and Hedda Hopper of the Los Angeles Times. Cast and crew membe ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carly Simon | Jagger was allegedly a contender for the anonymous subject of | 's 1973 hit song "You're So Vain", in which he sings backing vocals. Altho ... |
| Michael Milken | ... eover of TWA in 1985. Many of the corporate raiders were onetime clients of | , whose investment banking firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert helped raise blind ... |
| Ryan O'Neal | ... . Ross was also offered a role in an early adaptation of The Bodyguard with | . However, plans of this adaptation fell through. Years later, Whitney Hou ... |
| Nico | ... about Edie Sedgwick at Warhol's request. "I'll Be Your Mirror", inspired by | , is a tender and affectionate song; in stark contrast to a song like "Her ... |
| Cornelius Cardew | ... m the leftist camp who wanted music "in the service of the class struggle". | and Konrad Boehmer denounced their former teacher as a "servant of capital ... |
| The Notorious B.I.G. | ... h as Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Eminem, Kangol Kid of UTFO, and | . The release of more consciously stylish products in the 1990s such as th ... |
| Louis XV of France | ... François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King | by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769) through h ... |
| Sam Giancana | ... Sinatra because of the entertainer's association with Mafia figures such as | , the stay was cancelled. Kennedy instead chose to stay at rival Bing Cros ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steve Fossett | More recently, in 2001, | passed over just south of Aitutaki in the balloon Solo Spirit during his r ... |
| Night of the Long Knives | Following the | , the SS again underwent a massive reorganization. The SS-Gruppen were ren ... |
| Janson, Paul-Emile | Jabbeke - Jamar, Alexandre - Jansen, Georges - | - Jemmape (department) - Jenever - Jette - La Jeune Belgique - Jeune Europ |
| 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 ... |
| Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg | ... functions. Two examples of this were civilian test pilots Hanna Reitsch and | , who were awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class and 2nd Class respectively for ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... s with Anton Reicha, the teacher of Liszt and Hector Berlioz, and friend of | . It was with the greatest regret that she abandoned her strong vocation f ... |
| Mark Inglis | Double-amputee climber | revealed in an interview with the press on 23 May 2006, that his climbing ... |
| Mary Edwards Walker | ... who served as Abraham Lincoln's funeral guard, six civilians (including Dr. | , the only woman to have been awarded the medal, and Buffalo Bill Cody), a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan | ... entures, Agent Orange, Hank Marvin, Lively Ones. Dick Dale with the help of | (Grammy Nominated), by thrash metal band Anthrax, Bad Manners, and also by ... |
| Da Brat | ... rs, including Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, | , Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, M.I.A., Foxy Brown, and Lisa Lopes from T ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jack London | ... sh the town's literary base. He was associated with Mary Austin, as well as | , who also spent considerable time in the Carmel and Monterey area. In San ... |
| Moustapha Akkad | ... Saladin and the Crusades that would be filmed in Jordan before the producer | was killed in the 2005 Amman bombings. When Connery received the American ... |
| Frances Farmer | ... speech. The 1982 biopic Frances includes a disturbing scene showing actress | undergoing transorbital lobotomy. The claim that a lobotomy was performed ... |
| John Wayne | In 1970, Crawford was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award by | at the Golden Globes, which was telecast from the Coconut Grove at The Amb ... |
| Brandon Hein | ... he early 1980s. The 1996 Jimmy Farris murder case (popularized by defendant | ) spurred many city leaders to action in promoting the arts among teenager ... |
| Pol Pot | ... ambodia were displaced after being expelled by the Khmer Rouge regime under | . A small, predominantly Muslim ethnic group, the Cham people long residin ... |
| Shirley Temple | ... Roy had wanted her from the start, studio chief Mayer tried first to borrow | from 20th Century Fox. Her services were denied and Garland was cast |
| Alberta Williams King | ... anta, Georgia, the middle child of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and | . King Jr. had an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger broth ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... smond Tutu and also visited Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned black leader | . Upon returning, Kennedy became a leader in the push for economic sanctio ... |
| Thomas Paine | ... rst kind of mainstream popular music. These included "The Liberty Tree", by | . Cheaply printed as broadsheets, early patriotic songs spread across the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sima Qian | According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by | during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first e ... |
| William Coleman | ... ch on the coveted transatlantic routes. The US Secretary of Transportation, | , gave permission for Concorde service to Washington Dulles International ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jim Reeves | ... r of trademark "licks". Leading artists in this genre included Patsy Cline, | , Skeeter Davis, The Browns, and Eddy Arnold. The "slip note" piano style ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... e of about a million at his home city of Lyon, in celebration of a visit by | . Watching from Lyon Cathedral, the Pope began the concert with a good-nig ... |
| Roman Polanski's | ... ed for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role. He acted in | Chinatown (1974) as the film's central corrupt businessman, in 1974, and a ... |
| Alexander II | ... uke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, a niece of | , Czar of Russia |
| Marc Isambard Brunel | ... o produce concrete. Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer | several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel |
| Daniel Morgan | ... f the daughters of the original owners, Kate Moore, was a scout for General | during the Battle of Cowpens |
| Patsy Cline | ... sized in favor of trademark "licks". Leading artists in this genre included | , Jim Reeves, Skeeter Davis, The Browns, and Eddy Arnold. The "slip note" ... |
| Viktor Ullmann | ... nn, Hanns Eisler, Rudolf Kolisch, Paul A. Pisk, Karl Rankl, Josef Rufer and | . Though Berg and Webern both followed Schoenberg into total chromaticism ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | ... ersohn. In January 1951, a year after the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi | , he assumed the leadership of the Lubavitch movement |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... and enrolled at the American Theater Wing, working off Broadway, including | 's The Victors. He also attended the Geller Drama School in Los Angeles on ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... inier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia | ;; Prince Charles, and Prince Philip |
| 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 ... |
| Anne Francis | ... rst Lady to marry and return with him to Scotland. He finds Terri Dowling ( | ), a waitress at the Blue Berry Bowling Alley. While initially reluctant t ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... of the most Republican counties in Pennsylvania. This has a long history as | reportedly received 78.57% of the county's vote in the 1860 Presidential e ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Harrison | ... d-a-half-hour documentary about the life and music of former Beatles member | , which premiered in the United States on HBO over two parts on October 5 ... |
| Fred Thompson | ... Pundits credited the third-place finisher, Tennessee's former U.S. Senator | , with drawing votes from Huckabee in South Carolina, thereby giving a nar ... |
| Edward de Vere | ... ich supports the idea that the works of William Shakespeare were written by | . His part largely revolves around his being father-in-law to de Vere, and ... |
| Louis XV | ... was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the young French King | , but the Bourbons declined the offer as Elizabeth`s mother`s origin was d ... |
| Joseph Paul Franklin | This book was dedicated to serial killer | , a longtime member of various racist groups who, like Hunters protagonist ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Stuyvesant | ... tage and an armed squadron of ships under the direction of Director-General | seized New Sweden. The Dutch moved an army to the Delaware River in the su ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... press Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, | and Christopher Marlowe |
| Marc Isambard Brunel | ... leading to its importance in the development of the Industrial Revolution. | , the father of famed Portsmouth engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, establi ... |
| Thomas More | Corto's favourite reading is Utopia by | , but he never finished it. He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevens ... |
| Benedict XVI | ... ls prior to his election. After being elected Pope, Ratzinger took the name | . Benedict is the eighth German Pope, and is the second non-Italian Pope s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... rish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | , Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill at the bottom of a ... |
| Larry Flynt | The film opens with a 10-year-old | (Cody Block) in 1953, as selling moonshine in an Appalachian region of Ken ... |
| William Laud | ... ng actions of both king and council, particularly in the form of Archbishop | |
| Mathias Rust | On May 28, 1987, a West German pilot named | landed a light aircraft on St Basil's descent next to Red Square |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... centered around the attempt by Baldwin to build a church dedicated to Saint | , just outside of the town of Canterbury. The plan was to staff the church ... |
| Barry White | ... dices and stereotypes. Bakshi cast Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas, | and Charles Gordone in live-action and voice roles, cutting in and out of ... |
| Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ve-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher | that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago fro ... |
| 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 |
| Alan Bennett | ... as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay. | wrote the screenplay |
| Paul Azinger | ... er of cheating at The Belfry in 1989, the feud between Seve Ballesteros and | escalated at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort in 1991. Azinger said, "I can t ... |
| Deng Xiaoping | ... an Province is the largest Special Economic Zone laid out by Chinese leader | in the late 1980s |
| Yvonne De Carlo | ... me life of a family of monsters. It stars Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and | as his wife, Lily Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional mon ... |
| Prince Claus of the Netherlands | ... Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and | , and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... trative rule in Ireland. Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen | established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ... |
| 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. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Geraldine Ferraro | ... presidential nominee Walter Mondale and defended vice presidential nominee | from criticism over being a pro-choice Catholic, but Reagan was re-elected ... |
| James Randi | ... of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, | , and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the Scientific Eva ... |
| Marianne Faithfull | ... The Girl on a Motorcycle, the University being the ultimate destination of | 's character. Heidelberg is the home of a professional Quidditch team oper ... |
| Kate Jackson | ... n, Curtis and Sam Hall wrote it. Actors included David Selby, Grayson Hall, | , and Lara Parker, among others |
| 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 ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... 1982, with the release of the mainstream American hits "Sexual Healing" by | and "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa. Other early users of the TR-808 inc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Antonín Novotný | ... e Slovak branch unseated Karol Bacílek and Pavol David, hard-line allies of | , First Secretary of the KSČ and president of Czechoslovakia. In their pla ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Deng Xiaoping | ... wing Mao's death in 1976 and the consequent end of the Cultural Revolution, | and the new Chinese leadership began to reform the economy and move toward ... |
| Anakin Skywalker | ... creen Actors Guild Award. He gained international fame portraying the young | / Darth Vader in and |
| Mamie Cadden | ... llegal and subject to punishment. One of Ireland's best-known abortionists, | , was famously sentenced to death by hanging in 1957 when one of her patie ... |
| Carole Lombard | ... cident during the filming of his 1941 production of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, where | brought some heifers onto the set with name tags of Lombard, Robert Montgo ... |
| Lance Armstrong | ... f several cycling groups and the seven-time Tour de France champion cyclist | , as well as environmentally and economically minded bicycle commuters. Co ... |
| Daniel Inouye | ... of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and | |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... standing difficulty involving the Church, which culminated in the murder of | , the Archbishop of Canterbury. The problem for the King was that the Chur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nicolas Fouquet | After the disgrace of | in 1661, Louis confiscated Fouquet’s state and employed the talents of Le ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | The district of Altötting was established in 1837. The current | was born here 1927 in the village of Marktl |
| 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 ... |
| John McCain | ... n's voters supported Democrat Barack Obama with 8,177 votes over Republican | with 6,839 votes |
| Gustáv Husák | ... t predecessors had denigrated Slovak "bourgeois nationalists", most notably | and Vladimír Clementis, in the 1950s, the Slovak branch worked to promote ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... d the middle of the 18th century. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and | all used it, though sparingly, usually in imitation of Janissary bands. Th ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ====2003==== | stated that "there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for th ... |
| Disarmed Enemy Forces | ... g Trials. He reclassified German prisoners of war (POWs) in U.S. custody as | (DEFs). Eisenhower followed the orders laid down by the Joint Chiefs of St ... |
| Cary Grant | ... of opening a servicemen's club in Hollywood, Davis—with the aid of Warner, | and Jule Styne—transformed an old nightclub into the Hollywood Canteen, wh ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... rature contains many references to him, for example in A Christmas Carol by | , and in this folk rhyme |
| Gustav von Kahr | ... pact with Erich Ludendorff, took over a meeting by Bavarian prime minister | at a beer hall in Munich |
| A-bian | ... rely used in formal or semi-formal settings, although a famous exception is | |
| Greta Garbo | ... 20s. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and | . Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and finan ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... abeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his two children: | , born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and Maria Anna, born 1718, Gover ... |
| Magneto | The first issue also introduced the team's archenemy, | , who would continue to battle the X-Men for decades throughout the comic' ... |
| Saint Pothinus | ... sacre took place in Lyons. Returning to Gaul, Irenaeus succeeded the martyr | and became the second Bishop of Lyon |
| Keith Green | ... re songs by Jesus Music veterans Dave Mattson, Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, | , Steve 'N' Stonebrooke, and , was sent to those who contributed $100 or m ... |
| Andrei Sakharov | ... n the amount of matter and antimatter in the universe; it thus forms one of | 's three conditions for baryogenesis |
| Karl Liebknecht | ... n. The pair went to Berlin in early December. While there, Jack interviewed | , who was one of the few socialists in Germany to vote against war credits ... |
| 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 ... |
| Floris V, Count of Holland | ... is from 1276 when Dirk van Santhorst received the "Soetrewold" fiefdom from | |
| Bertrand Russell | ... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). | , in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ... |
| Zacarias Moussaoui | Al Qaeda operatives including "shoebomber" Richard Reid and | attended the Mosque. In 2002, The Guardian reported that weapons training ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... of having had two queens buried beneath its paving, Katherine of Aragon and | . The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her ... |
| Paris Hilton | ... mber 2003, she officially joined the show, adding celebrity figures such as | and Liza Minnelli, and Canadian politicians such as Belinda Stronach, to t ... |
| Seleucus's | It is generally thought that Chandragupta married | daughter, or a Macedonian princess, a gift from Seleucus to formalize an a ... |
| Marian Persecutions | ... were repealed; and the Revival of the Heresy Acts were passed in 1554. The | began soon afterwards. In January 1555, the first of nearly 300 Protestant ... |
| Jaco Pastorius | ... la, John McLaughlin and Frank Zappa, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and bassists | and Stanley Clarke. Jazz fusion was also popular in Japan where the band C ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jerry Lewis | ... cter who was goofy and optimistic in a style similar to that made famous by | |
| 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 ... |
| John Lennon | ... t and actor of English, Japanese and Irish Descent. He is the only child of | and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon. His godfather ... |
| 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 " ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... around Frederick. It was the site of a Civil War speech given by President | , which he gave at what was then a train depot at the current intersection ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... her vocal style, although she also expressed admiration for Mildred Bailey, | , and Billie Holiday |
| Daniel Boone | American frontiersman | , who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a h ... |
| Kenneth Kaunda | ... pound at a rate of 2 kwacha = 1 pound (10 shillings = 1 kwacha). During the | regime the value of the currency was fixed at a rate of approximately 1.2 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... ceived the National Medal of Technology (with Steve Jobs) from US President | . In December 1989, he received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree f ... |
| Tolpuddle martyrs | ... ested, found guilty, and transported to Australia. They became known as the | |
| Charles Dickens | ... Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as Albert Camus, | , and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a r ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... ll children regardless of their ability to pay, and was keenly supported by | |
| Luigi Longo | ... r, the Italian and French Communist Parties had decided to set up a column. | , ex-leader of the Italian Communist Youth, was charged to make the necess ... |
| Robert Barnes | ... orwich in 1514 and entered the convent of Austin friars at Cambridge, where | was prior in 1523 and probably influenced him in favour of Reform. When Ba ... |
| Abdul Rahman | In 2006 | , an Afghan convert from Islam to Christianity, attracted worldwide attent ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... an, Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles (1967), | , Daffy Duck, Jan & Dean, The Sylvers, Wet Wet Wet, P. P. Arnold, Plácido ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... ign 1969–1997. The IRA also attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister | by bombing the Conservative Party Conference in a Brighton hotel. Loyalist ... |
| 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 | |
| Victor Klemperer | ... were ordered to report for deportation on 16 February. But as one of them, | , recorded in his diaries: "...on the evening of this 13 February the cata ... |
| Jesse Jane | Pornographic actress | graduated high school in Moore. She was also a varsity cheerleader |
| Brandon Hein | In 1996, the murder of Jimmy Farris (the infamous | case) shook the city and awakened it to a rising drug problem and petty th ... |
| Enrico Caruso | ... , who sang the role regularly in a long-standing partnership with the tenor | . Maria Jeritza, over many years at the Met and in Vienna, brought her own ... |
| Doris Matsui | ... +14 respectively and are represented by Republican Dan Lungren and Democrat | respectively |
| Babrak Karmal | This expansion prompted | to demand that the Red Army resume their offensives, in order to crush the ... |
| Kenneth Kaunda | ... ckel 5, 10 and 20 ngwee were introduced. These coins all depicted president | on the obverse and flora and fauna on the reverse. A twelve sided 50 ngwee ... |
| 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 ... |
| Giovanni Borgia | ... -term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. He was the brother of Lucrezia Borgia | ;(Juan), Duke of Gandia; and Gioffre Borgia (Jofré in Catalan), Prince of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rubén Berríos | ... als from the mainland United States and abroad, including political leaders | , Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Riv ... |
| Nikolai Bukharin | ... alin struck an alliance with Communist Party theoretician and Pravda editor | and Soviet prime minister Alexei Rykov. Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with L ... |
| Mike Tyson | ... two decades, King continued to be among boxing's most successful promoters. | , Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, Aaron Pryor, Bernard Hopkins, Ric ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Walpole | ... his positions within the government and went into active opposition against | , Britain's first Prime Minister who was regarded as corrupting British po ... |
| Jezebel | ... ten erratic behavior related to those problems earned her the nickname "The | of Jazz" |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ng to David Starkey, Catherine was most likely better educated overall than | . As a child, Catherine could not tolerate sewing and often ironically sai ... |
| Catherine Howard | ... ce's chapel, the King was informed of his fifth wife's adultery. The Queen, | , was then confined to her room for a few days before being sent to the to ... |
| Pope John Paul II | The Holy See took a firm stance against the U.S. plan to invade Iraq. | 's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the Church to talk with ... |
| Martha Ray | ... an was hanged there following his 7 April murder of courtesan and socialite | , his former lover, and the mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich ... |
| Cary Grant | ... , California, for the English coastline sequence. This film was to be actor | 's first time working with Hitchcock, and it was one of the few times that ... |
| Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler's introduction in | 's continually introduces a new story about a page into the previous one, ... |
| Merle Haggard | ... " artists emerged during this period and dominated the genre: Loretta Lynn, | , Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, and Sonny James among them |
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| Olivier Messiaen | ... ften departs radically from musical tradition and his work is influenced by | , Edgard Varèse, and Anton Webern, as well as by film (Stockhausen 1996b) ... |
| Willi Münzenberg | ... t Union in September 1936—apparently at the suggestion of Maurice Thorez—by | , chief of Comintern propaganda for Western Europe. As a security measure, ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ly the highest quality DVD that's ever been made". Chicago Sun-Times critic | describes the Blu-ray release as "the finest video disc I have ever viewed ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... onal and reserved for old friends; he was unflinchingly loyal to women like | , Libby Holman, Nancy Walker and Ann Lincoln |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Voyde Harrelson | Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas, the son of Diane Lou (née Oswald) and | , who divorced in 1964; he has two brothers, Jordan and Brett. Harrelson's ... |
| Grigory Sokolnikov | ... ov. Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with Lenin's widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and | , the Soviet Commissar of Finance and non-voting Politburo member. The str ... |
| Polycarp | ... is lengthy review of historical evidence by quoting Irenaeus, a disciple of | . Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John. Irenaeus mentions that the ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... y), and this work sometimes led Wells to be touted as a worthy successor to | . Wells also wrote abundantly about the "New Woman" and the Suffragettes ( ... |
| Isle of Portland | ... ding to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a group of men from Norway sailed to the | in Dorset. There, they were mistaken for merchants by a royal official. Th ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... iffith's concept of an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy and the new members, under | , who wanted to achieve a republic. Matters almost led to a split at the p ... |
| Louis XV | ... he had the satisfaction of seeing his daughter Maria become the consort of | and queen of France. From 1725 to 1733, Stanisław lived at Chateau Chambor ... |
| Saint Peter | ... n about Clement's life. According to Tertullian, Clement was consecrated by | , and he is known to have been a leading member of the church in Rome in t ... |
| Ashfaqulla Khan | ... Northern Railway lines. The robbery plan was executed by Ram Prasad Bismil, | , Rajendra Lahiri, Chandrasekhar Azad, Sachindra Bakshi, Keshab Chakravart ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall (1996), "Josiah Bounderby" in | ' Hard Times (1998) and a part in the 2001 BBC Radio 4 version of The Thir ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... y killed him. (Watsuki makes a comparison to President of the United States | with Ōkubo in his notes. |
| John Lennon | ... in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, | wrote, "the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been w ... |
| Timothy McVeigh | Within 90 minutes of the explosion, | was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hanger for driving without a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... of privilege. Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, | , Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppin ... |
| John Lennon | In a 1975 interview, | recalled his friend Don Beatty introducing him to Presley's music. Lennon ... |
| Charles Dickens | The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on | ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" ma ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mother Angelica | Similarly, in Raymond Arroyo's autobiography of | , she recounts a similar event seeing an apparition of the child Jesus in ... |
| George Orwell | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as Aldous Huxley and | to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the dangers of the sw ... |
| Seleucus I | ... ives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the death of his father | , Antiochus married his stepmother, Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poli ... |
| Lucky Luciano | ... s first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss | on whatever charges could be found. LaGuardia then went after the gangster ... |
| Robert Walpole | ... f his work being savagely critical of the contemporary government under Sir | |
| Stonewall Jackson | Like his intimate friend, | , General J.E.B. Stuart was a legendary figure and is considered one of th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Boone | ... med in 1837 out of Winnebago County. It was named for Kentucky frontiersman | |
| 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 ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and | ' La Gitanilla.The Romani were also heavily romanticized in the Soviet Uni ... |
| John Kerry | ... in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with | to introduce an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act demanding ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... tually gained the respect of people with conservative/anti-communist views. | , a conservative and fervent anti-Communist, said he appreciated the film ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gilad Shalit | On June 25, two Israeli soldiers were killed and another, | , abducted following an incursion by Hamas. In response, the Israeli milit ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ndon Bridge created dangerous rapids. This gatehouse is also known today as | 's gate, after Henry's second wife. Work was still underway on Anne Boleyn ... |
| Magneto | Early X-Men issues introduced the team's archenemy | and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants featuring Mastermind, Quicksilver, Sca ... |
| Kenneth Williams | ... escue preposterously effete aristocrat Charles Hawtrey from the clutches of | ' fiendish Citizen Camembert and his sidekick Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterw ... |
| Al Sharpton | ... abroad, including political leaders Rubén Berríos, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., | and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Rivera and Ricky Martin, actor Edward Jam ... |
| Charles Gayle | ... ajor scenes are based in New York and Chicago. In New York, players include | , William Parker, Matana Roberts, Chad Taylor, John Zorn, Assif Tsahar, To ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
| Mother Angelica | ... n which the child, she later discovers him to be the Divino Nino of Bogota. | is also a known devotee of the Infant Jesus of Prague statue |
| Jack London | ... most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain and | . A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish stories of municip ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... d States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President | |
| Julie Harris | ... that was only for musicians and actors, including regulars Jerry Houser and | , which after six months, was named "The Vineyard", and later, with anothe ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Marsh | ... ied Jackson loyalists, argues historian John Hall. Men like Thomas Forsyth, | , and Thomas McKenney were replaced by less qualified men such as Felix St ... |
| Josiah Wedgwood | ... otto "Am I not a Man and a Brother?" designed by the renowned pottery-maker | . The committee also sought to influence slave-trading nations such as Fra ... |
| John McCain | ... ). In 2008 Valley County was much more competitive than in recent years, as | defeated Barack Obama by only 7% (52-45%) |
| Anneli Jäätteenmäki | In Finland, | of the Centre Party won the elections after she had accused her rival Paav ... |
| Frank Abagnale | ... Frank Abagnale, Sr. in Catch Me If You Can. It is inspired by the story of | , Jr., a con artist who passed himself off as several identities and forge ... |
| Francis of Assisi | ... dham from Sonora, but from Arizona and California as well. The feast day of | is also important. Many of these people are known as skilled carpenters, m ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... s and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of | . King has become a national icon in the history of modern American libera ... |
| Peter Criss | ... been influenced by Keith Moon, including Dave Grohl, Neil Peart, Tommy Lee, | , and Brad Wilk |
| George Orwell | ... p the anti-enclosure feeling, and has been repeated in many variants since: | wrote in 194 |
| Bertrand Russell | ... h the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as its Chairman, | as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary. The other mem ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mathias Rust | ... erschmitt Bf 110, Flak cannon, Stuka and a V-1 flying bomb. The Cessna that | flew to Moscow during the cold war has also been added to the exhibition |
| Eva Braun | ... nd time to do anything important. On his personal life, Speer remarked that | had told him, in the middle of 1943, that Hitler was too busy, too immerse ... |
| Steve Jobs | The next month, in October 1988, | visited Lotus to show them the new NeXT computer. When he saw Back Bay he ... |
| Giovanni Amendola | ... talitarianism" a "total" political power by state was formulated in 1923 by | who described Italian Fascism as a system fundamentally different from con ... |
| Nancy Reagan | ... embers of his audience booed. Watt apologized to The Beach Boys, First Lady | apologized for Watt, and in 1984 The Beach Boys gave an Independence Day c ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Lennon | ... Revolver. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by | . The track included looped tape effects. For the track Paul McCartney sup ... |
| Beethoven's | Storms were also portrayed in several works of music. Examples are | Pastoral Symphony (the fourth movement), Presto of the violin concerto RV ... |
| Charles Dickens | ... character Little Dorrit (Amy) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper (née Mitton): | sometimes visited her and her family; they lived in The Cedars, a house on ... |
| 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 ... |
| Publius Clodius Pulcher | ... marked on this explicitly, e.g. Cicero's taunt that the populist politician | had changed his name from Claudius to ingratiate himself with the masses. ... |
| John Tawell | ... n Railway over the from Paddington station to West Drayton on 9 April 1839. | was apprehended following the use of a needle telegraph message from Sloug ... |
| Abner ben Ner | ... from the Canaanite to the Islamic periods. Abraham's Well and the tombs of | (the commander of Saul and David's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located ... |
| Hyrum Smith | ... eph Tracy; and rabbis Marshall Meyer, Arnold Resnicoff, and David E. Stern. | , brother of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith also attended the college in his ... |
| Ricky Nelson | ... film about the phenomenon, The Idol, made a teen idol out of Sands himself. | , a performer of rockabilly music, also became a teen idol through his par ... |
| Ceauşescu | 1984. A covert mission using undead agents to unseat the | regime in Romania |
| Samuel Beckett | ... es, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | . Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan ... |
| Terry Nichols | ... unlawfully carrying a weapon. Forensic evidence quickly linked McVeigh and | to the attack; Nichols was arrested, and within days both were charged. Mi ... |
| Alexander II | ... re assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, and | |
| 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 ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... n (1982), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), the ill-fated queen | in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, and the American t ... |
| Charles Dickens | Novelists such as | often used passages of satiric writing in their treatment of social issues ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daikokuya Kōdayū | ... e south for supplies and food. In 1783 storms drove a Japanese sea captain, | , ashore in the Aleutian Islands, at that time Russian territory. Russian ... |
| Polycarp | ... ormative in the early development of Christian theology. He was a hearer of | , who in turn was a disciple of John the Evangelist |
| Thomas Becket | ... a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop | in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavi ... |
| Jan Hus | During the ecumenical Council of Constance in 1415, | , the rector of Charles University and a prominent reformer and religious ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ussed by a number of twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including | and Noam Chomsky |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... Attorney General (1829–1832) and most famously an early political enemy of | . The projectors of the town were Forquer and Daniel P. Cook. The latter w ... |
| Marvin Gaye | ... d song "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", which had previously hit for | in 1964. Not far behind, "(I'm a) Road Runner", by the same songwriters, r ... |
| Pope John Paul II | Of the 232 cardinals that | elevated, four were named in pectore. The identities of three of these wer ... |
| Kurt Cobain | Friends of | such as Ian Dickson of Earth, Mark Arm of Mudhoney, Bruce Pavitt and Slim ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... Stephen) (1885). The best known representations of St. Stephen in music are | 's King Stephen Overture, and the 1983 rock opera István, a király (Stephe ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... ally was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Later, following the murder of Saint | in 1170, Becket's name was added to the dedication. A modern icon panel by ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Among its notable alumni and faculty are | , Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ... |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ... the intentions of religious music, of European composers like J.S. Bach and | , as well as of musicians in the tradition represented by John Coltrane. I ... |
| Joan of Arc | ... only sporadically in films after 1950, one of her last roles being that of | in Irwin Allen's critically panned epic The Story of Mankind (1957) |
| Pat Garrett | ... allace's actions. Descendants of Wallace and Billy the Kid's killer Sheriff | were among those who opposed the pardon |
| Louis XV | ... ravelling around the Cape of Good Hope. The Port is named in honour of King | . The first Governor was Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais |
| Josip Broz Tito | ... schar (1st Croatian), the first non-Germanic division, was formed, to fight | 's Yugoslav Partisans. This was followed by the 14th Waffen Grenadier Divi ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Story | The first victim of the "Tyburn Tree" was Dr | , a Roman Catholic who refused to recognise Elizabeth I. Among the more no ... |
| Hardy Krüger | ... scene and then its German equivalent in quick succession. Johanna Matz and | , the stars of the German adaptation, briefly appear in the English langua ... |
| Mordechai Vanunu | ... d John Cleese and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as | at Glasgow. In many cases, particularly with high-profile rectors, attenda ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Frederick Cavendish | ... eland (the British Cabinet minister with responsibility for Irish affairs), | , and his Undersecretary (chief civil servant), Thomas Henry Burke, were s ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... h rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under | . The events of Bloody Sunday have survived in public memory. The Gaelic A ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... imply was no popular vote for President in those states. Even in 1824, when | lost in spite of having pluralities of both the popular and electoral vote ... |
| deaths | ... or their ally, Russia. They also had little sympathy for the Germans. Total | from 1914 to 1918, military and civilian, within the 1919–1939 borders, we ... |
| Ronald Reagan | The treaty was undisturbed until | announced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on March 23, 1983. On the ... |
| Barry White | ... eleased under the group name "The League Unlimited Orchestra" (a tribute to | 's Love Unlimited Orchestra), reaching #3 on the UK album chart |
| Sima Qian | ... n Shi Huang" (秦始皇), appear in the Records of the Grand Historian written by | . The longer name "Qin Shi Huangdi" (秦始皇帝) appears first in chapter 5, tho ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... had a solid empirical basis for our modern concepts of atoms and molecules. | states that they just hit on a lucky hypothesis, only recently confirmed b ... |
| Kenneth Kaunda | Until 1991, all Zambian banknotes featured a portrait of President | on the obverse. Since 1992, all notes have instead featured a fish eagle o ... |
| Bill Tilghman | ... Halloween night, 1924, Cromwell Town Marshal and legendary Old West lawman | was shot outside of a cafe called "Ma Murphy's", by a corrupt prohibition ... |
| Lluís Companys | Under its two presidents, Francesc Macià (1931–1933) and | (1934–1939), the republican Generalitat carried out a considerable task, d ... |
| Josyf Slipyj | ... wear Eastern-style cassocks entirely of scarlet. (There is a photograph of | , Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and Cardinal, wearing ... |
| St. Adalbert | ... tival of Polish Song. The city is also known for its 10th century Church of | and the 14th century Church of the Holy Cross. There is a zoo, the Ogród Z ... |