Jawaharlal Nehru | ... cting the newly formed Republic of India, from a planned coup to topple the | Administration in Delh |
Hilarion Alfeyev | Bishop | commented that the inter-Christian community is "bursting at the seams." H ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... vate companies and chairperson of interest groups; while Pierre Trudeau and | returned to legal practice. Former prime ministers also commonly penned au ... |
Netanyahu | ... mon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the | government of 1996–1999 and supported it from the outside |
George Papandreou | ... ral Democratic Alliance (DS) and the moderate leftist Democratic Left (DA). | , president of PASOK, won 4 October 2009, won with a majority in the Parli ... |
U.S. Secretary of Transportation | On January 21, 2012, the | Ray LaHood's son, Sam, was detained by the Egyptian government and not all ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Radosław Sikorski | Poland's foreign minister, | , delivered a speech on 28 November 2011 in Berlin, in which he emphatical ... |
Winston Churchill | ... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He met | on several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ... |
Sir Peter Ustinov | ... s and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, | , Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet |
Bettino Craxi | Italian Prime Minister | claimed Italian territorial rights over the NATO base. Italian Air Force p ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Winchester | ... on if he refused to dismiss his councillors, particularly Peter des Roches, | . Henry yielded, and the favourites were dismissed, Hubert de Burgh (whom ... |
Franz Josef Jung | ... rch 2008, President Horst Köhler approved a proposal by Minister of Defense | to institute a new award for bravery. The Ehrenkreuz der Bundeswehr für Ta ... |
Gene Robinson | ... ious blow to ecumenism. The decision by the U.S. Episcopal Church to ordain | , an openly gay, non-celibate priest who advocates same-sex blessings, as ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of | |
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne | During the pontificate of John Paul II, two members of Opus Dei, | and Julián Herranz Casado, were made cardinals |
Saint Peter | The Cathedral Church of | , Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high ... |
Silvio Berlusconi | In 2001 the centre-right formed the government and | was able to regain power and keep it for a complete five-year mandate, bec ... |
Władysław Bartoszewski | ... Home Army was awarded Polish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: | , Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Wol ... |
Kim Campbell | ... r B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and | , who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell wor ... |
Julián Herranz Casado | ... ate of John Paul II, two members of Opus Dei, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne and | , were made cardinals |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... especially the Matter of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on | 's Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written ... |
Archbishop of Vienna | In 1995 Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër resigned from his post as | , Austria over allegations of sexual abuse, although he remained a Cardina ... |
Christian Gottlob Wilke | In 1838, two theologians, | and Christian Hermann Weisse, independently extended Lachmann's reasoning ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... e rule in Goa and its integration into India. When Prime Minister of India, | refused to obtain it by armed intervention, RSS leader Jagannath Rao Joshi ... |
Pope Clement VII | ... presented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and | objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided as the Krakauer Kuhhand ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... ny things that God cannot do, but that nonetheless he counts as Omnipotent. | advanced a version of the omnipotence paradox by asking whether God could ... |
Joseph Milner | ... ing Hull Grammar School, at the time headed by a young, dynamic headmaster, | , who was to become a lifelong friend. Wilberforce profited from the suppo ... |
Gordon Brown | The government of | has announced several new reforms for care in England. One is to take the ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Big Bill Broonzy | "He had a different style of playing a guitar" | remarked drily. "You just make the chords and change when you feel like ch ... |
Prime Minister | In 1974 he became | Yitzhak Rabin's consultant on combating terrorism. The following year he b ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Peterborough | ... uilt in its present form between 1118 and 1238. It has been the seat of the | since the Diocese was created in 1541. Peterborough Cathedral is one of th ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... all number of barons to pay homage to Eustace as their future king; but the | , Theobald of Bec, and the other bishops declined to perform the coronatio ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | Radio Central was one of the many original operating and touring sites of | 's radio shack, which now is displayed at Rocky Point's Frank J. Carasiti ... |
Richard of Chichester | ... edicated to him, St Edmund's Chapel, was consecrated in Dover by his friend | (making it the only chapel dedicated to one English saint by another) |
Joseph Stalin | During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and | formed a ruling 'triumvirate' (or 'troika') in the Communist Party, playin ... |
Prime Minister | ... litical power thus lies in the hands of the Prime Minister. The position of | , Greece's head of government, belongs to the current leader of the politi ... |
John of Montecorvino | ... jumeau. Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, | , Niccolò de' Conti, or Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who pass ... |
Dominique Mamberti | ... l Tarcisio Bertone, is the See's equivalent of a prime minister. Archbishop | , Secretary of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... oika') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of | . The triumvirate carefully managed the intra-party debate and delegate se ... |
Gianfranco Fini | ... of the Democratic Party. In 2010, Berlusconi's party saw the splintering of | 's new faction, which formed a parliamentary group and voted against him i ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... into the castle without meeting resistance and looted the Jewel House. The | , Simon Sudbury, took refuge in St John's Chapel, hoping the mob would res ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Carnegie | Dunfermline's most famous son is the entrepreneur and philanthropist, | who was born in the town in 1835. Among the gifts he gave to his home town ... |
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 ... |
Tarcisio Bertone | ... retary of State, directs and coordinates the Curia. The incumbent, Cardinal | , is the See's equivalent of a prime minister. Archbishop Dominique Mamber ... |
Brynjólfur Sveinsson | ... is known of its whereabouts until 1643 when it came into the possession of | , then Bishop of Skálholt. At that time versions of the Prose Edda were we ... |
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 |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ouh succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General | was selected Chairman of the PLO, and Farouk Kaddoumi became head of Fatah ... |
Archbishop of Armagh | #The Most Rev. and Hon. William Stuart, | (March 1755 – 6 May 1822 |
Pope Paul VI | ... op Thuc had the power to ordain he did not have the authority to do so from | , which is a requirement for licit episcopal holy orders in Roman Catholic ... |
William Joseph Hafey | ... later the Lasallian Christian Brothers, from 1888 to 1942. In 1942, Bishop | invited the Society of Jesus to take charge of the university. Today, the ... |
The Most Rev. and Hon. William Stuart | # | , Archbishop of Armagh (March 1755 – 6 May 1822 |
Pietro Badoglio | ... ts colonial empire. Hesitance remained from the King and military commander | who warned Mussolini that Italy had too few tanks, armoured vehicles, and ... |
Prime Minister | ... one speech that opened Parliament in October, 2004, in which former Liberal | Paul Martin included electoral reform in his plan for the next Parliament. ... |
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, ... |
Duns Scotus | ... ncept of "inscape" which was derived, in part, from the medieval theologian | . The exact detail of "inscape" is uncertain and probably known to Hopkins ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... mless crimes. Following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and | , Russia became the 1st nation to legalize homosexuality. The new Bolshevi ... |
Malcolm Fraser | ... olved by Kerr's dismissal of Whitlam and commissioning of Opposition leader | as caretaker Prime Minister. Labor lost the subsequent 1975 election in a ... |
Stephen Langton | ... in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, Thomas Becket and | |
Indira Gandhi | ... ze such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister | , assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
Irenaeus | ... church writers appear to indicate that Matthew's gospel was written first. | , in Against Heresies 3.1.1, says "Matthew also published a gospel in writ ... |
John Prescott | ... ection in May 1997, the new transport secretary (and deputy prime minister) | took a much harder line. When Swift's five-year term of office expired on ... |
Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
Prime Minister | ... hite saltire on red to be included in the canton. Proposed by the Norwegian | and unionist Peder Anker, the white saltire on a red background was suppos ... |
Bishop Hoadley | ... mesley and Tanfield in Durham. He married in 1715. It was the year in which | preached the famous sermon on 'The Kingdom of Christ', which gave rise to ... |
Irenaeus | ... nd among some of the early Christian groups called "gnostic" ("learned") by | and other early Christian heresiologists. The term also has reference to p ... |
see of Canterbury | ... is mother, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, that Walter should be chosen for the | , as well as to the monks of the cathedral chapter, and soon after Walter' ... |
Álvaro del Portillo | In 1975, Escriva died and was succeeded by | . In 1982, Opus Dei was made into a personal prelature. This means that Op ... |
Silvano Maria Tomasi | In a statement read out by Archbishop | in September 2009, the Holy See stated "We know now that in the last 50 ye ... |
Brooke Westcott | ... ternal resurrection and judgment of all will likewise take place"). Scholar | notes that this reference to the author of the single prophetic book of th ... |
Nikolai Bulganin | ... atened in late 1950s by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister | it was unrealistic to expect that the US would retaliate against the Sovie ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... m His sub-Vicar, with the automatic right of succession to the papacy after | . On August 6, 1978, Pope Paul died and Domínguez claimed the papacy, proc ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by | in September 2006 |
Pope Gregory VII | ... g miracles were said to have occurred at his tomb. Stephen was canonized by | as Saint Stephen of Hungary in 1083, along with his son, Saint Emeric and ... |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels | ... Rogge, Jacques - Rogier, Charles - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai - | - Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège - Roman/Red - Ronse - Rotselaar - Royal ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Two days after the march, on March 9, 1965, | led a "symbolic" march to the bridge. He and other civil rights leaders at ... |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai | ... vorsel - Rivers of Belgium - Roeselare - Rogge, Jacques - Rogier, Charles - | - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels - Roman Catholic Diocese ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Becket | ... ian Pontigny Abbey in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, | and Stephen Langton |
Louis St. Laurent | ... deaths; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post; and Charles Tupper, | , and John Turner, each before they returned to private business. Meighen ... |
Mustafa Tlass | ... n a December 1973 address to the National Assembly, Syrian Defense Minister | stated that he had awarded one soldier the Medal of the Republic for killi ... |
Kwame Nkrumah | ... lonialism, waged by the former colonial powers and other developed nations. | , who in 1957 became leader of newly independent Ghana, was one of the mos ... |
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 ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... O'Brien accused his show of being the sole cause of presidential candidate | 's status in the polls, due to his use of the Walker Texas Ranger Lever wh ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... er Louis XIII. In 1632, Isaac de Razilly became involved, at the request of | , in the colonization of Acadia, by taking possession of the Habitation at ... |
Robert Borden | ... e after failing to win a riding. Following Meighen into civilian life were: | , who served as Chancellor of Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as ... |
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) |
David Ben-Gurion | ... marked by more cooperation between the Irgun and the Jewish Agency, however | 's uncompromising demand that Irgun accept the Agency's command foiled any ... |
Samuel Bache | Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of | , a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, Birming ... |
see of York | ... ing diplomatic and judicial efforts. After an unsuccessful candidacy to the | , Walter was elected Bishop of Salisbury shortly after the accession of He ... |
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 ... |
bishop of Milan | ... n in English as Saint Ambrose (c. between 337 and 340 – 4 April 397), was a | who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th c ... |
Bishop of London | ... family related by marriage to Nicholas Bacon, and probably to John Aylmer, | . He matriculated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in November 1566, and graduate ... |
Irenaeus | ... he atonement is the recapitulation view, first comprehensively expressed by | . In it, Christ succeeds where Adam failed, undoing the wrong that Adam di ... |
William of Auvergne | ... science (as we call it today), including Grosseteste (who preceded Bacon), | , Henry of Ghent, Albert Magnus, Thomas Acquinas, John Duns Scotus, and Wi ... |
Pope Innocent IV | ... ol over some lands in western Lithuania, in return for an acknowledgment by | as king. The Pope welcomed a Christian Lithuania as a bulwark against Mong ... |
Feleti Sevele | ... cabinet portfolios. He was replaced by the elected Minister of Labour, Dr. | |
Indira Gandhi | ... and his family members, after the assassination of the then Prime Minister | , in 1984. Former Prime Ministers also get the protection of SPG for a per ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister | Louis XIII, taciturn and suspicious, leaned heavily on his | Cardinal Richelieu, to govern the Kingdom. They are remembered for the est ... |
Salvador Allende | ... overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely | |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths | ;dying while still in the post; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and ... |
John Whitgift | ... 9 November 1586 he was detained by the gaoler and brought before Archbishop | . He insisted on the illegality of this arrest, refused either to take the ... |
Himmler | ... pronounced it likely that Speer himself came close to being assassinated by | after he unwittingly put himself in the care of an SS doctor |
Salvador Allende | ... ent which led to a revolution in the popular music of his country under the | government. Shortly after the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, he was ar ... |
William O'Hara | ... northeast region of the state. The school was founded in 1888 by Most Rev. | , the first Bishop of Scranton, as St. Thomas College. It was elevated to ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... roved the killing: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future Prime Minister of Israel | ), Nathan Friedmann (also called Natan Yellin-Mor) and Yisrael Eldad (also ... |
Prime Minister of Israel | ... reme Jewish group had approved the killing: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future | Yitzhak Shamir), Nathan Friedmann (also called Natan Yellin-Mor) and Yisra ... |
Gordon Brown | ... ll enough to appear. On March 4, 2009, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | announced that Kennedy had been granted an honorary knighthood by Queen El ... |
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 ... |
Clement Attlee | ... current stones were dedicated in September 1946 by the then Prime Minister | , replacing those destroyed during WW2 as an anti-invasion measure. The lo ... |
Saint Andrew | ... Portus Victoriae Iuliobrigensium. Its present name is possibly derived from | (Sanct Ander) or Saint Emeterio (Santemter, Santenter, Santander), a marty ... |
von Fritsch | ... inister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, and the army commander, General | . Göring had acted as witness at Blomberg's wedding to Margarethe Gruhn, a ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic called the war illegal. French President | commented on the statement of the ten Eastern European countries saying: " ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... s until they were sure Kennedy was well enough to appear. On March 4, 2009, | Gordon Brown announced that Kennedy had been granted an honorary knighthoo ... |
Charles Tupper | ... ment until their deaths; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post; and | , Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private ... |
Thomas S. Monson | ... atter-day Saints, including two Church presidents:Ezra Taft Benson '26, and | '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... f the Craft, the first Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan | sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in ... |
Tony Blair | ... elebrities. In 2005 Simmons signed a petition to the British Prime Minister | asking him not to upgrade cannabis from a class C drug to a class B. Being ... |
Patrice Lumumba | ... at where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with | and likely Salvador Allende |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Canterbury, and as Saint Edmund of Abingdon) (1175–1240) was a 13th century | in England. Today he is primarily remembered for his connection to St Edmu ... |
E. W. Bullinger | Knowledge of the Babylonian zodiac is also reflected in the Hebrew Bible. | interpreted the creatures appearing in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation ... |
Adam Smith | ... eaning of such terms. There is a linguistic division of labor, analogous to | 's economic division of labor, according to which such terms have their re ... |
John Bunyan | In 1660 | was imprisoned for 12 years in Bedford Gaol. It was here that he wrote The ... |
French Ministry of Culture | On 7 April 2004, Patrick Granjean, head of the | , Captain Frederic Solano of the French Air Force, plus investigators from ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... prevent a blood feud. The lawyer called on Palestinian Authority president | to reopen the investigation into Arafat's death. |
Álvaro del Portillo | ... e the second Prelate of Opus Dei in 1994. The first Prelate of Opus Dei was | , who held the position from 1982 until his death in 1994.Opus Dei's highe ... |
Theobald of Bec | ... y homage to Eustace as their future king; but the Archbishop of Canterbury, | , and the other bishops declined to perform the coronation ceremony on the ... |
Hans Tausen | ... of protecting Lutheran preachers and reformers, of whom the most famous was | . During his reign, Lutheranism made significant inroads among the Danish ... |
Benazir Bhutto | ... as with U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister | , or as part of coups d'état where security is either overwhelmed or compl ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... ld. Margaret Dovey, the future wife of the former Australian prime minister | , finished sixth in the 200 yards breaststroke |
Peter des Roches | ... with excommunication if he refused to dismiss his councillors, particularly | , Bishop of Winchester. Henry yielded, and the favourites were dismissed, ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under President | to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he receiv ... |
Apuleius | ... stored through the intervention of a benevolent female spirit is taken from | ' The Golden Ass, while his being swallowed by a giant fish may owe someth ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and | from the government. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies in the Bolshevik ... |
J. I. Packer | ... cal understandings of the atonement need not conflict'. Reformed theologian | , for example, although he maintains that 'penal substitution is the mains ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... like a coherent sentence does not mean the sentence really makes any sense. | asserts that the paradox arises from a misunderstanding of omnipotence. He ... |
Irenaeus | ... o determine exactly to what extent this is true and how far the teaching of | on redemption is derived from him |
Indira Gandhi | In 1975, the Indian Government under the Prime Minister Mrs. | , proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby suspending the fundamental r ... |
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 ... |
Minister for Trade and Customs | ... n 1904. Fisher established and demonstrated his ministerial capabilities as | in the Watson Ministry. The fourth Labour member in the ministry after Wat ... |
Alister McGrath | ... are we required to isolate only those that might be regarded as diseased?" | , a Christian theologian, has also commented critically on Dawkins' analys ... |
Alexander Hislop | ... with Ninus (and also with Zoroaster, as in Homilies) formed a major part of | 's thesis in the 19th century tract The Two Babylons |
Heinrich Himmler | ... SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS | . Upon mobilization its tactical control was given to the High Command of ... |
Ponet | ... l royalism by the actions of Queen Mary… The political thinking of men like | , Knox, Goodman and Hales. |
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 ... |
Tiridates I of Armenia | ... tells how the name of Mithras was spoken during the state visit to Rome of | , during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthi ... |
Prime Minister | ... yle (1731-1754) married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, a future | of Great Britain & Ireland. Their son, the 5th Duke (1748-1811) carried ou ... |
Jarosław Kaczyński | ... ng President, Marshal of the Sejm and a Civic Platform politician, defeated | by 53% to 47% |
John Robinson | ... the 20th century, theologians like Karl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, | , Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt, challenged traditional theological pos ... |
Charles de Gaulle | After the war, General | decided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain ... |
Daniel Parker | Palestine, Texas was named after the city by | |
the bishop of Milan, Auxentius | ... p conflict in the diocese of Milan between the Catholics and Arians. In 374 | , an Arian, died, and the Arians challenged the succession. Ambrose went t ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector | ;, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and Kim Campb ... |
Earl Grey | ... on the Bank of England. This left King William IV no choice but to restore | to the premiership. Eventually the bill passed the House of Lords after th ... |
Martin Luther | At Wittenberg in 1522 and at Nuremberg in 1524, | encouraged him to convert the order's territory into a secular principalit ... |
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 ... |
Pius X | Following the death of | , the resulting conclave opened at the end of August 1914. The war would c ... |
Mitt Romney | ... n instrumental in the prior 2004 alteration of this law to prevent Governor | from appointing a Republican senator should John Kerry's presidential camp ... |
Nicasius | ... determined by the hagiographic vitae written to commemorate their bishops: | was slaughtered before the altar of his church in Rheims; Servatus is alle ... |
Pope Gregory IX | In 1233 came the news of his appointment, by | , to the Archbishopric of Canterbury. The chapter had already made three s ... |
Edward Heath | ... e existing A3T missile. This decision was made official late in 1973 by the | administration, who changed the name from Super Antelope to Chevaline. The ... |
Francisco Suarez | ... the end of the Middle Ages, many philosophers, such as Nicholas of Cusa and | , propounded similar theories. The church was the final guarantor that Chr ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... in a schoolyard in 1939, in which the narrator led viewers to believe that | got his start in childhood as a peacemaker between two fighting classmates ... |
Edvard Beneš | ... England. Many of these settled in Bucks as it is close to London. President | of Czechoslovakia lived at Aston Abbotts with his family while some of his ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... g Mr Lamb (a role first offered to Timothy Dalton), Laurence Olivier as the | , Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King George IV. Th ... |
Prime Minister of Great Britain | ... styled Lord Mount Stuart before 1723, was a Scottish nobleman who served as | (1762–1763) under George III, and was arguably the last important favourit ... |
D. Todd Christofferson | ... Taft Benson '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, | '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54 ... |
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" ... |
Bronisław Komorowski | ... the second final round of the Polish presidential election on July 4, 2010, | , Acting President, Marshal of the Sejm and a Civic Platform politician, d ... |
Stephen Fry | ... her Blackadder series, to which the simple reply "No, no chance" was given: | has expressed the view that, since the series went out on such a good "hig ... |
David A. Bednar | ... S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, | '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876 ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ed to marry his fiancée until he cries "The earth is flat as a pancake". In | 's The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat, the protagonists spread the ... |
Saddam Hussein | All United Nations attempts to intervene as mediators were rebuffed. Under | , Baathist Iraq claimed the entire waterway up to the Iranian shore as its ... |
Lupus | ... saved Tongeren with his prayers, as Saint Genevieve is to have saved Paris. | , bishop of Troyes, is also credited with saving his city by meeting Attil ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ts place the responsibility for the decision with the Ural Regional Soviet. | , in his diary, makes it quite clear that the assassination took place on ... |
Anthony Eden | ... ion of the Home Guard (initially as the Local Defence Volunteers) following | 's broadcast appeal to the Nation on Tuesday 14 May 1940 also created furt ... |
Anton Rop | ... ition, Slovenia's government rejected this statement and its Prime Minister | reiterated that Slovenia has conditioned the decision to go to war upon a ... |
George Reid | ... known as the "three elevens". When the Deakin government resigned in 1904, | of the Free Trade Party declined to take office, resulting in Labour takin ... |
Irenaeus | Chronologically, the second explanation, first clearly enunciated by | , is the "ransom" or "Christus Victor" theory. "Christus victor" and "rans ... |
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 ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, | , and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation technique ... |
Leo I | ... ian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome | , who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from hi ... |
Hamani Diori | ... -Nguesso, of the Republic of the Congo, Idriss Déby, president of Chad, and | former president of Niger |
Bishop of Salisbury | ... ated to the episcopy as Bishop of Llandaff and in 1782 was translated to be | and again in 1791 to be Bishop of Durham |
William Tyndale | Coverdale is honoured together with | with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) ... |
Cardinal Pole | ... ent to Mass, confessed, and in no particular official capacity went to meet | on his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him to Calai ... |
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Pope Paul IV | Two years later | issued orders to have all the conversos thrown into the prisons of the Inq ... |
David Ben-Gurion | ... which became commonly known as the "ghetto". Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister | were in favor of expulsion, while Mapam and the Israeli labor union Histad ... |
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Lords Spiritual | ... reform of 1999, diocesan bishops of the Church of England (who are not yet | ), retired bishops who formerly sat in the House of Lords, the Dean of Wes ... |
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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 ... |
John Knox | ... s, and politically in the triumph of English influence over that of France. | is regarded as the leader of the Scottish reformatio |
Pope Pius II | In 1459 | endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterda ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... nt, and for attempting to undermine the influence of both his mother and of | . After waging an unsuccessful war in Languedoc, he took refuge in Flander ... |
Prime Minister | ... In December 1967 Lynch travelled to Stormont for his first meeting with the | Terence O'Neill, in the hope of forming even more links. On 8 January 1968 ... |
Joseph Laniel | ... included Churchill, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and French Premier | . In 1957, a second summit conference was held; this time British Prime Mi ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... to learning that he is said to have been summoned by his uncle Athelm, the | , to enter his service. He was later appointed to the court of King Athels ... |
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Pope Nicholas IV | ... d's mind is clear from the fact that a papal dispensation was received from | ten days after the treaty was signed. Thought to show bad faith on Edward' ... |
Orderic Vitalis | ... it is said, in effect, that this went on for nine weeks, ending at Easter. | (1075–c. 1142), an English monk at St Evroul-en-Ouche, in Normandy, report ... |
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Henry King | ... E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – | – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Lon ... |
E. W. Bullinger | ... Christian and believe the Earth to be a globe. Well-known members included | of the Trinitarian Bible Society, Edward Haughton, senior moderator in nat ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... Tkuma into a single faction – the National Union. Following the election of | in February 2001, Ze'evi joined the coalition and was appointed Tourism Mi ... |
John Major | ... principal editorial cartoonist. One of Bell's most famous caricatures is of | as a dire superhero wearing his Y-fronts on the outside of his clothes, in ... |
Erastus Otis Haven | ... n had inferior minds and could not master mathematics and the classics. Dr. | , Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of ... |
Blair government | ... ally opposed these changes, although after the party became New Labour, the | retained elements of competition and even extended it, allowing private he ... |
John Stuart Mill | ... s in any particular country's self-interest to open its borders to imports. | proved that a country with monopoly pricing power on the international mar ... |
Donald Tusk | ... of PO with 24%. In the presidential election in October the early favorite, | , leader of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS c ... |
Brian Lenihan | ... y and Colley. Three other cabinet ministers had also contemplated running - | , Kevin Boland and Donogh O'Malley |
Enver Hoxha | ... n actors whose films were allowed in the country during the dictatorship of | . In Hoxha's view, proletarian Norman's ultimately victorious struggles ag ... |
Pope Julius II | ... iations, including the League of Cambrai, an alliance engineered in 1508 by | against the Republic of Venice. The alliance collapsed in 1510 when the Po ... |
Athelm | ... his devotion to learning that he is said to have been summoned by his uncle | , the Archbishop of Canterbury, to enter his service. He was later appoint ... |
Plutarch | The Greek biographer | (46 - 127 AD) says that "secret mysteries... of Mithras" were practiced by ... |
Stafford Cripps | ... the sub-continent, the British government sent a delegation to India under | , in what came to be known as the Cripps' Mission. The purpose of the miss ... |
Rowan Williams | ... f the Christian right, he is still a favorite of many Christian viewers. Dr | , the Archbishop of Canterbury, is a confessed Simpsons fan, and likes Fla ... |
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 ... |
Anselm of Canterbury | ... because God is not taken to be in any sense omnipotent. On the other hand, | seems to think that almightiness is one of the things that makes God count ... |
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | ... was officially named the county seat. Although Chatham County is named for | , Pittsboro is named for his son, William Pitt the Younger |
Pope Gregory IX | ... from the region, largely thanks to the famous inquisitor Bernard Gui. Under | the Inquisition was given great power to suppress the heresy. Contrary to ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... t, he is still a favorite of many Christian viewers. Dr Rowan Williams, the | , is a confessed Simpsons fan, and likes Flanders. Ned's "unbearable pious ... |
Harold Wilson | ... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of | , Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ... |
William Pitt the Younger | ... amed for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Pittsboro is named for his son, | |
Cao Cao | ... that advocated practical systems of governance and administration, such as | and Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms Period, Wang Dao and Bao Jingyan of ... |
Wyatt Tee Walker | ... frican Americans. Many of its tactics of "Project C" were developed by Rev. | , Executive Director of SCLC from 1960–64. Based on actions in Birmingham, ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated by | on October 28, 1965. (The full text in English is available from the . |
Thomas Aquinas | ... tent description of a state of affairs. This position was once advocated by | . This definition of omnipotence solves some of the paradoxes associated w ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... bot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an | , later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England a ... |
Thomas Campbell | ... m Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – | – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest ... |
Yigal Allon | ... y Israeli forces as a sequel to Operation Yoav on November 4, 1948. General | ordered the expulsion of the remaining Arabs but the local commanders did ... |
Martin Luther | ... dreas Karlstadt. However, he developed his own principles and fell out with | over the eucharistic controversy (1524). He had his own views on the sacra ... |
John Stuart Mill | ... quentialist theories of utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and | , and deontological ethics as epitomized by the work of Immanuel Kant. The ... |
Sali Berisha | ... greeted by many appreciative fans, including the then President of Albania, | . During this trip, Wisdom was filmed by Newsnight as he visited a childre ... |
Wang Ch'ung-hui | ... ns, Frank B. Kellogg, Negulesco, Michel Rostworowski, Walther Schücking and | |
Jimmy Swaggart | ... porary acts, as the form was opposed by prominent religious leaders such as | and others on the Christian right. While in 1981 total gospel music indust ... |
Lal Bahadur Shastri | ... st from the same date (9) saw its inception in August 1942 which was led by | and the common man resulting the failure of the Cripps' mission to reach a ... |
David Ben-Gurion | ... en elected to the first Knesset. Years later, Cohen's role was uncovered by | 's biographer Michael Bar Zohar, while Cohen was working as Ben-Gurion's p ... |
Bishop of Worcester | Dunstan (909 – 19 May 988) was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a | , a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as ... |
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 ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... of the toleration edict of Galerius (see Edict of Toleration by Galerius). | , for example, writes that Maximinus conceived an "insane passion" for a C ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... ntion from at least one professional propagandist: Nazi Propaganda Minister | , who called Foreign Correspondent: A masterpiece of propaganda, a first-c ... |
Martin Luther King | ... ss who's coming to dinner now?" with the sarcastic one-liner: "The Reverend | ?" After King's assassination on April 4, 1968, this line was removed from ... |
Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright | ... of scholars and historians. According to the Anglican Bishop of Durham, the | , the novel is a "great thriller" but "lousy history". For example, the ma ... |
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony | ... Diet of Worms) because he was unexpectedly backed by German princes such as | who strongly objected to the Catholic Church meddling in their affairs and ... |
Bishop of London | ... 9 – 19 May 988) was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a | , and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work re ... |
Jan Długosz | Polish chronicler | mentions usage of poisonous gas by the Mongol army in 1241 in the Battle o ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... 1957, a second summit conference was held; this time British Prime Minister | arrived earlier than President Eisenhower, to make it clear that they were ... |
Saint Clement | ... the secret of feltmaking was discovered by Urnamman of Lagash. The story of | and Saint Christopher relates that while fleeing from persecution, the men ... |
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 ... |
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV | ... titution. A copy of the commission's report was presented to the late king, | , shortly before his death in September 2006 and is currently under study ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... t least to the 12th century, addressed by Averroës (1126–1198) and later by | . Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (before 532) has a predecessor version o ... |
Delphic Oracle | ... stions the King and Queen, they deny it, but, still suspicious, he asks the | who his parents really are. The Oracle seems to ignore this question, tell ... |
John Molteno | ... locally-elected Parliament. This changed in 1872 when the local politician | - with the backing of Governor Henry Barkly - instituted responsible gover ... |
Charles Henry Brent | ... t World War further developments were the "Faith and Order" movement led by | , and the "Life and Work" movement led by Nathan Soderblom. In the 1930s, ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... re younger ones of the same gender. However, on Friday 28 October 2011, the | , David Cameron, announced at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ... |
Robert Lindsey | ... he best-known theory that does this. Some Jewish/Christian scholars such as | , David Flusser, Shmuel Safrai, and David Bivin have proposed that there w ... |
Alastair Sim | ... st-known play is An Inspector Calls (1945), later made into a film starring | released in 1954. His plays are more varied in tone than the novels, sever ... |
Terauchi Masatake | On October 9, 1916, | took over as prime minister from Ōkuma Shigenobu. On November 2, 1917, the ... |
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 ... |
Bertie Ahern | ... civil servant and was the partner of then Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) | |
Shimon Peres | ... dish deputy prime minister, Israeli Foreign Minister and Labor Party member | issued a "condemnation of terror, thanks for the rescue of the Jews and re ... |
Arthur Griffith | ... n. He also joined the Celtic Literary Society through which he came to know | who was to remain a friend and influence throughout his life. Beginning in ... |
Bishop of Llandaff | ... at St George's Chapel, Windsor. In 1769 he was elevated to the episcopy as | and in 1782 was translated to be Bishop of Salisbury and again in 1791 to ... |
Félix Houphouët-Boigny | ... mentioned are the recently deceased Omar Bongo, former president of Gabon, | , former president of Côte d'Ivoire, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, former president ... |
Klement Gottwald | ... . The Party won the most votes in free elections but not a simple majority. | , the communist leader, became Prime Minister of a coalition government. I ... |
Bishopric of Mainz | ... ut it does form part of an official title of two sees: as well as Rome, the | (the former Archbishopric of Mainz), which was also of electoral and prima ... |
Matija Majar | ... rganized by Slovene students that studied in Graz and Vienna. Together with | and Lovro Toman, he was among the authors who elaborated the political dem ... |
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 ... |
Irenaeus | ... ntury, the belief of many, including the Church Fathers Papias (c. 60-130), | (c. 130-200), Origen (c. 185-254), Eusebius (c. 260-340) Jerome (c. 340-42 ... |
Plutarch | ... ces to the condition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, | and Galen . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred to in 1623 ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | ... sy. Sino-Japanese relations warmed considerably after Shinzo Abe became the | in September 2006, and a joint historical study conducted by China and Jap ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... e new government was supported by the Queen Mother, Eadgifu of Kent, by the | , Oda, and by the East Anglian nobles, at whose head was the powerful eald ... |
Pietro Badoglio | ... m and arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, that appointed General | as new Prime Minister. Badoglio stripped away the final elements of Fascis ... |
Fulton J. Sheen | ... Martin, who gave him his first big break, and the televangelist archbishop, | . In a 2003 Inside the Actors Studio interview, Sheen explained, "Whenever ... |
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 ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | In 1974 he became Prime Minister | 's consultant on combating terrorism. The following year he became the pri ... |
Jerry Falwell | ... rginia Beach that criticized Christian leaders, including Pat Robertson and | , as divisive conservatives, declaring "... we embrace the fine members of ... |
Bishop of Llandaff | Shute Barrington (26 May 1734 – 25 March 1826) was an English churchman, | in Wales, as well as Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham in England |
Pyotr Stolypin | Eastern European theorists include | (1862–1911) and Alexander Chayanov (1888–1939) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (18 ... |
Omar Bongo | ... nch control in Africa. Those most often mentioned are the recently deceased | , former president of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of C ... |
Sir Arthur Wellesley | ... sence the French situation in Spain deteriorated, and then became dire when | arrived to take charge of British-Portuguese forces |
Pope Damasus I | ... s based on the Septuagint, and thus included books not in the Hebrew Bible. | assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in A ... |
Epiphanius | Early 3rd century–4th century Christian writers such as Hippolytus and | write about a Scythianus, who visited India around 50 AD from where he bro ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... hinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse and | . Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with Dudley Moore); the ... |
John Major | ... ct and misleading information given at the time Railtrack was created, when | was Conservative . An increased offer of up to 262p per share was enough t ... |
Pat Robertson | ... ade a speech in Virginia Beach that criticized Christian leaders, including | and Jerry Falwell, as divisive conservatives, declaring "... we embrace th ... |
Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | Louis XIII, taciturn and suspicious, leaned heavily on his Prime Minister | , to govern the Kingdom. They are remembered for the establishment of the ... |
John Parsons | ... the Visitor of Balliol College, Oxford and in 1806 backed the then Master, | , in opening the Fellowships to competition |
Martin Luther | One passage in scripture supporting the idea of divine right of kings was . | , when urging the secular authorities to crush the Peasant Rebellion of 15 ... |
Martin Luther | ... gh, is that Protestant Reformation was—largely involuntarily—kickstarted by | in 1517, that is the year after the Reinheitsgebot edict (for one year onl ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... treet is the Category B listed handloom weavers' cottage, the birthplace of | which dates from the early 18th century. An adjacent memorial hall was add ... |
Christoph von Utenheim | In 1503 the new bishop | refused to give Basel a new constitution whereupon, to show its power, the ... |
Tanaka Giichi | ... genrō and the House of Peers, and brought into his cabinet as army minister | , who had a greater appreciation of favorable civil-military relations tha ... |
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Pope Innocent III | ... is doctrines were condemned by the university, and, on a personal appeal to | , the sentence was ratified, Amalric being ordered to return to Paris and ... |
John Howard | ... he closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Then Prime Minister | had triggered controversy that year with his refusal to embrace symbolic r ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ry was the first in the world to be funded via donations by philanthropist, | . A total of 2,811 free public libraries were eventually built altogether. ... |
William Longchamp | ... e reign of Richard the Lionheart (1189–1199). The castle was extended under | , Richard's Lord Chancellor and the man in charge of England while he was ... |
Charles Kennedy | ... reaten Labour - J. M. W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, in which a chirpy | as tug-boat towed a grotesque and dilapidated to be broken up |
Nyerere | ... d Nkrumah therefore rejects the idea of an "African socialism" in the sense | , one of the "ideology of continuity" (Hountondji left) was arrested from |
Hara Takashi | ... I, giving rise to the nickname for the period, "Taishō Democracy." In 1918, | , a protege of Saionji and a major influence in the prewar Seiyūkai cabine ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... some political leaders of the Polish insurrection movement (in particular, | ) sent emissaries to Japan to collaborate on sabotage and intelligence gat ... |
Thomas Lockey | ... s Bodley's Librarian; their levels of diligence have varied over the years. | (1660–1665) was regarded as not fit for the post, John Hudson (1701–1719) ... |
Charles Kingsley | ... (who set many of her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), | , Edmund Gosse and Rudyard Kipling. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous c ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... h were opened on 28 June 1929. The gates which were named after the wife of | lead up a to a bronze statue of Andrew Carnegie which was unveiled in 1914 ... |
Thegan of Trier | ... n author usually called "the Astronomer", and Vita Hludowici Imperatoris by | . It is possible that Asser may have known these works. He also knew Bede' ... |
David Joris | ... rnt at the stake in 1559 after it was discovered that he was the Anabaptist | |
Anselm | ... ther or not God can "deny himself" ala 2 Tim 2:13. In the 11th century, St. | argues that there are many things that God cannot do, but that nonetheless ... |
Georges Pompidou | ... taff for African matters for president Charles de Gaulle (1958–69) and then | (1969–1974), is claimed to be the leading exponent of Françafrique. The te ... |
William Laud | Archbishop | described Charles as "A mild and gracious prince who knew not how to be, o ... |
Bishop of Durham | ... churchman, Bishop of Llandaff in Wales, as well as Bishop of Salisbury and | in England |
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. |
Bishop of Salisbury | ... rch 1826) was an English churchman, Bishop of Llandaff in Wales, as well as | and Bishop of Durham in England |
Hermann Göring | Reichsmarschall | never held the Diamonds. He, being one of the first soldiers presented wit ... |
François Fénelon | The first archbishop appointed by the king of France was | . He came to be known as the "swan of Cambrai" ("le cygne de Cambrai"), in ... |
John Calvin | ... f Christianae religionis institutio (Institutes of the Christian Religion – | 's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine) was published at Basel in March ... |
Ehud Barak | ... nments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) and 1999–2001 ( | ), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996–1999 ... |
Leo the Great | ... ian as a heretic and Manichaean rested upon Augustine, Turibius of Astorga, | and Orosius (who quotes a fragment of a letter of Priscillian's), although ... |
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 ... |
Pierre Batiffol | According to Hosea Ballou, then | (1911) and George T. Knight (1914) Amalric was a believer that all people ... |
Arthur Griffith | ... gures, of Michael Collins, Eamon DeValera, Charles Stewart Parnell and also | . This graveyard led to Glasnevin being known as "the dead centre of Dubli ... |
Sheila Dikshit | ... Lal Khurana came into power; however in 1998, Congress regained power under | , the incumbent Chief Minister. The Congress retained power in the Legisla ... |
Venantius Fortunatus | A vita of Hilary was written by | c. 550 but is not considered reliable. More trustworthy are the notices in ... |
Shimon Peres | ... strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and | ) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the Netanya ... |
Wang Ch'ung-hui | ... idrik Nyholm of Denmark and Max Huber of Switzerland. As the deputy judges, | of China, Demetre Negulesco of Romania and Michaelo Yovanovich of Yugoslav ... |
Gerald Fitzgerald | ... "One early opponent of the treatment of sexually abusive priests was Father | , the founder of The Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete. Althou ... |
Ho Chi Minh | ... litical lyrics "I'm goin' to Paris to stop this war" and "I had a chat with | " both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace ... |
Osachi Hamaguchi | ... nt that was heightened with the assault upon Rikken Minseitō prime minister | in 1930. Though Hamaguchi survived the attack and tried to continue in off ... |
Minister for Finance | ... as James Ryan and Seán MacEntee, with Lynch taking over from the former as | . This appointment was particularly significant because Lemass was coming ... |
George Whitefield | ... hornton, a philanthropist and a supporter of the leading Methodist preacher | |
Prime Minister | ... as survived by her husband, Jules Dassin. She received a state funeral with | 's honors at the First Cemetery of Athens four days later. Thousands atten ... |
J. M. Barrie | ... sness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol | ) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detectiv ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ere named after the wife of Andrew Carnegie lead up a to a bronze statue of | which was unveiled in 1914 to a crowd of 20,000 |
Putin | ... ably as a result of social, economic, and lifestyle changes. However, after | become a president in 2000 there was significant growth in spending for pu ... |
James Callaghan | ... governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and | . The project was finally revealed by Margaret Thatcher's then defence min ... |
Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
Robert Crowley | ... mplaints of rack-rent appearing in popular literature, such as the works of | . There were popular efforts to remove old enclosures, and much legislatio ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... ade. He disagreed strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by | and Shimon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourabl ... |
Harold Wilson | ... Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, | 's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by Ma ... |
Pope Pius IX | ... ches", and his works continued to be highly influential in later centuries. | formally recognized him as Universae Ecclesiae Doctor in 1851 |
Pope Paschal I | ... nment of Italy, and at Easter, 5 April 823, he was crowned emperor again by | , this time at Rome |
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 ... |
Thomas Carlyle | ... ida Dutton Scudder compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of | , John Ruskin, and the Fabians |
Bishop of London | Historically, Highgate adjoined the | 's hunting estate. The Bishop kept a toll-house where one of the main nort ... |
Wilfrid | Wulfhere's relationship with Bishop | is recorded in Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid. During the years 667–9, ... |
Edward Heath | ... th Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, | , Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... the Madrid Conference of 1991, Ze'evi withdrew from the Likud government of | , remaining in the opposition for a decade. He disagreed strongly with the ... |
Christopher John Cocksworth | ... nnetts, who retired from the post on 31 January 2008. The Reverend Canon Dr | BA, PhD, PGCE was nominated Bishop of Coventry on 3 March 2008 and HM The ... |
Tony Blair | ... plan to invade Iraq albeit originally seeking a UN Mandate. Prime Minister | frequently expressed support for the United States in this matter, while M ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... rk which forms the western boundary of the town centre is a park, gifted by | in 1903. The park known locally as the Glen was created from the estate of ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 's role in the Church of England is titular; the most senior clergyman, the | , is the spiritual leader of the Church and of the worldwide Anglican Comm ... |
Arthur Griffith | ... venue in the Northern Hemisphere with no retail outlets. It was named after | who was the founder and third leader of Sinn Féin and also served as Presi ... |
Anselm | The third metaphor, used by the 11th century theologian | , is called the "satisfaction" theory. In this picture mankind owes a debt ... |
Wouter Bos | Notable supporters of Feyenoord include Craig Bellamy, Gerard Cox, | , Jan Marijnissen, Robert Eenhoorn, Arjan Erkel, Dennis van der Geest, DJ ... |
Bishop of Exeter | ... aplain and almoner to the queen dowager, Catherine Parr. In 1551, he became | , but was deposed in 1553 after the succession of Queen Mary. He went to D ... |
Félix Houphouët-Boigny | ... ormer African colonies. It was first used by president of the Côte d'Ivoire | , who appears to have used it in a positive sense, to refer to good relati ... |
Wojciech Jaruzelski | ... embly, with the support of a number of Solidarity deputies, elected General | to that office. However, two attempts by the communists to form government ... |
Andrew Carnegie | The | birthplace museum dedicated to his life and work is on the southern gatewa ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... ay filibuster, to stop the Senate from approving a federal holiday to honor | Helms was credited even by his most vociferous opponents with providing ex ... |
Tony Slattery | ... ntroversy than O.T.T., and also introduced new talent such as Phil Cool and | . It lasted only six episodes. Chris Tarrant and Bob Carolgees were the on ... |
Pope Damasus I | The commentary itself was written during the papacy of | , that is, between 366 and 384, and is considered an important document of ... |
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 ... |
Madan Lal Khurana | ... rty. In the 1990s, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of | came into power; however in 1998, Congress regained power under Sheila Dik ... |
Edward Everett Hale | ... ace colonization was The Brick Moon, a work of fiction published in 1869 by | , about an inhabited artificial satellite |
Manetho | ... ons ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer Apion, and myths accredited to | are also addressed |
Vladimir Putin | ... ly before his death he issued a statement accusing then-President of Russia | of involvement in his assassination. President Putin denies he had any par ... |
Adam Smith | In 1776, | published the paper An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ... |
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | ... stian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, | , and Andrew of Longjumeau. Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Gio ... |
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire | ... d heiress of the 4th Earl of Cork, Lady Charlotte Boyle (1731-1754) married | , a future Prime Minister of Great Britain & Ireland. Their son, the 5th D ... |
Mitt Romney | ... ed his first serious challenger, the young, telegenic, and very well-funded | . Romney ran as a successful entrepreneur and Washington outsider with a s ... |
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) ... |
Pope Clement IV | ... through his acquaintance with Cardinal Guy le Gros de Foulques, who became | in 1265. The new Pope issued a mandate ordering Bacon to write to him conc ... |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki | On August 19, President Jaruzelski asked journalist/Solidarity activist | to form a government; on September 12, the Sejm (national legislature) vot ... |
Arthur Griffith | ... another commando. Meanwhile, back home Irish pro-Boer fever, whipped up by | and Maud Gonne in what was the most popular and most violent of the Europe ... |
Brian Mulroney | ... te may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when | 's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came before the upper ch ... |
Duns Scotus | ... ed him from wholly devoting himself to his religion. However, after reading | in 1872, he saw that the two did not necessarily conflict. He continued to ... |
Adam Smith | In the 18th century, | declared that China had been one of the most prosperous nations in the wor ... |
Shimon Peres | ... led in action and more were wounded. In July 1974, Israeli Defense Minister | informed the Knesset that high-ranking Soviet officers had been killed on ... |
Ottobuono | ... chets had to be sent for from London. Papal intervention through the legate | finally resulted in the compromise of the Dictum of Kenilworth, under whic ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | The Church of England's three senior bishops—the | , the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London are made Privy Counsello ... |
Simplician | ... ediately and forcefully stopped Arianism in Milan. He studied theology with | , a presbyter of Rome. Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was t ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... self, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leader Heinrich Himmler and Propaganda Minister | . When Smith refused to include Nazi propaganda in his reports, the Gestap ... |
Spaak, Paul-Henri | ... ) - Sonian Forest - Southeast Limburgish dialect - South Tower (Brussels) - | - Speaker of the Flemish Parliament - Special law - Spiere-Helkijn - Spiri ... |
Yousaf Raza Gillani | ... PP) won the largest number of seats in the 2008 elections, and party member | was sworn in as Prime Minister. Musharraf resigned from the presidency on ... |
Adam Smith | ... survive outside of the system containing all of the specialized components. | described economic specialization in his classic work, The Wealth of Natio ... |
Martin Luther | ... was as a disgusted response to Tetzel's activities selling indulgences that | wrote his famous 95 Theses, which he sent to Albert on 31 October 1517 and ... |
Francis Xavier | Probably the most spectacular landmark of Hrodna is the Cathedral of St. | , the former (until 1773) Jesuit church on Batory Square (now: Soviet Squa ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... he first land grant including Yeading was made by Offa in 790 to Æthelhard, | : "in the place called on linga Haese [Hayes] and Geddinges [Yeading] arou ... |
Tiedemann Giese | ... out their problems in navigation. Rheticus also visited Copernicus' friend, | , who was Bishop of Culm (now Chełmno) |
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 ... |
Peadar Ua Laoghaire | ... s by Henry Glassie. The first modern novel in the Irish language, Séadna by | , is a version of the tale |
Józef Piłsudski | ... f other contemporary socialists and communists, from Lenin (a communist) to | (a socialist), were more sympathetic to national self-determination) |
Stephen Harper | ... stered with Elections Canada, and on March 20, 2004, former Alliance leader | was elected as leader of the party. The new party was dubbed "the Alliance ... |
Leif Frode Onarheim | ... to Growth; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland | ;, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading ... |
Heinrich Bullinger | ... went to Zürich to continue his education under his godfather, the reformer, | . After having completed his studies at Basel and Strasbourg, he returned ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... many leading Nazis, including Hitler himself, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leader | and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Smith refused to include Naz ... |
Archbishop of York | ... Church of England's three senior bishops—the Archbishop of Canterbury, the | and the Bishop of London are made Privy Counsellors on their appointment. ... |
Tim Brooke-Taylor | Garden, along with | and Bill Oddie, became a co-writer and performer in the comedy series The ... |
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Duane Pederson | ... sing to as many as 4,000 people at the Jesus People Festivals organized by | . At the "Rock of Ages Folk Festival" held on February 26, 1970 in Northri ... |
Helen Clark | ... in office, the National Party lost the November 1999 election. Labour under | out-polled National by 39% to 30% and formed a coalition, minority governm ... |
Pope Gregory VII | ... region, and is generally regarded as the founder of the Kingdom of Hungary. | canonized Stephen I, together with his son, Saint Emeric of Hungary and Bi ... |
Æthelhard | ... g Brook). The first land grant including Yeading was made by Offa in 790 to | , Archbishop of Canterbury: "in the place called on linga Haese [Hayes] an ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... e Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the | |
Bishop of London | ... senior bishops—the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York and the | are made Privy Counsellors on their appointment. Senior members of the Roy ... |
Juan de Mariana | ... the sixteenth century this account re-appeared, extended and elaborated, in | , who wrote that in 1055, at a synod in Florence, the Emperor Henry III ur ... |
Bernard Francis Law | ... s live in retreat houses that are carefully monitored and sometimes locked. | , Cardinal and Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, United States resigned ... |
Maitham Al Bahrani | ... rs of Bahrain were highly esteemed, such as the 13th century mystic, Sheikh | (died in 1299). (The mosque of Sheikh Maitham and his tomb can be visited ... |
Aristoclea | ==See also==*Delphi Archaeological Museum* | – Delphic priestess of the 6th century BC, said to have been tutor to Pyth ... |
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 ... |
Jan Smuts | ... interpretation alone. Another scientist who held a similar view to this was | who took a holistic approach to science and offered a compromise between m ... |
Howell Harris | ... e Gwynne, a wealthy Welsh magistrate who had been converted to Methodism by | . They moved into a house in Bristol in September 1749. Sarah accompanied ... |
Rita Verdonk | ... he social-liberals Democrats 66, the Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders and | 's Proud of the Netherlands movement, although he found little resonance f ... |
José Manuel Barroso | ... r a candidate from its own ranks. In the end, the EPP candidate was chosen: | . On the same basis, the EPP endorsed again Barroso for a second term duri ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles | ... Wesley, a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother | and the rest of Wesley's 'Holy Club', whom the rest of the university took ... |
Saint Cyril | ... in 1896 and decorated in the Gothic style. The Greek Orthodox Community of | , Patriarch of Jerusalem was established in 1991 under the Orthodox |
Enver Hoxha | ... Albania, where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by | to be shown. Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clo ... |
Ivanoe Bonomi | ... 44 he was replaced as Prime Minister by the 70-year-old anti-fascist leader | . In June 1945 Bonomi was in turn replaced by Ferruccio Parri, who in turn ... |
Prime Minister | ... reduction in federal transfer payments by the federal Liberal government of | Jean Chrétien and concommitant repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan bill o ... |
Tim Brooke-Taylor | ... he was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with | (Bill Oddie joined the series for the second season) |
Peter MacKay | ... adian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party (under its new leader | ) announced that they would merge to form a new party, called the Conserva ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... i nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad, to prevent the regime of | from using the reactor for the creation of nuclear weapons |
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 ... |
Stefan Stambolov | ... minated during the early years of Ferdinand's reign by liberal party leader | , whose foreign policy saw a marked cooling in relations with Russia, form ... |
Kim B. Clark | BYU alumni in academia include former Dean of the Harvard Business School | and Michael K. Young '73, current President of the University of Washingto ... |
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 ... |
Adam Smith | ... ecognized as an intangible quality of persons in economics back to at least | . He distinguished it (as "enterprise") from labour which can be coerced a ... |
Jimmy Swaggart | While Norman was denounced by television evangelists like Bob Larson | ;, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and Jerry Falwell; and oth ... |
Georgy Zhukov | ... evitability of war with Nazi Germany. On the same day Semyon Timoshenko and | issued a directive prohibiting Soviet commanders from responding to "Germa ... |
Jerry Falwell | ... ob Larson; Jimmy Swaggart, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and | ; and others within the conservative religious establishment, who consider ... |
Jørgen Randers | ... The current president is professor Tom Colbjørnsen. Past presidents include | , co-author of the Club of Rome Report Limits to Growth; Peter Lorange, fo ... |
Mustafa Kemal | ... th of The First World War Greece fought against Turkish nationalists led by | , a war which resulted in a massive population exchange between the two co ... |
Irenaeus | ... use of death to himself. For God made man free, and with power of himself.” | said, “But man, being endowed with reason, and in this respect similar to ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 4th Infantry Division was able to capture | in December 2003. The 1st Cavalry Division will follow on the heels of the ... |
Bishop of Worcester | ... e existed in Oxford was founded in the fourteenth century by Thomas Cobham, | . This small collection of chained books was situated above the north side ... |
Quintin Hogg | Announcing his support for right of return legislation in Britain, MP | stated that, "All the great nations of the earth have what the Jews call a ... |
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 ... |
Ernest Solvay | ... he village was given the name Solvay, New York to commemorate its inventor, | . In 1861, he developed the ammonia-soda process for the manufacture of so ... |
Dean Jonathan Swift | They couple were friends of | and, through him, of Alexander Pope. Pope encouraged the Delaneys to devel ... |
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 ... |
Irenaeus | ... imself his own cause that sometimes he becomes wheat, and sometimes chaff.” | said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good dee ... |
Semyon Timoshenko | ... as convinced of the inevitability of war with Nazi Germany. On the same day | and Georgy Zhukov issued a directive prohibiting Soviet commanders from re ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... on in a manner and to a degree appropriate to their present divided state." | , who convoked the Council that brought this change of emphasis about, sai ... |
John Henry Newman | ... ed to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, | . Newman received him into the Church on 21 October 1866. On 5 May 1868 Ho ... |
Bishop of Lincoln | ... rivalry with neighbour Brasenose College (which was also founded by a later | ). The two colleges share a tradition revived annually on Ascension Day. T ... |
Sergei Witte | ... s-Siberian Railway began in 1891 and was put into execution and overseen by | , who was then Finance Minister |
Mitt Romney | ... '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. | , former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential Candid ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
Jean-Luc Dehaene | ... greement over Claude Cheysson, Santer was a compromise after Britain vetoes | and Prodi was backed by a coalition of thirteen states against the Franco- ... |
Engelbert Dollfuss | ... erman plans to annex Austria after the assassination of Austrian Chancellor | , and promised the Austrians military support if Germany were to interfere ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | An admirer of | , she campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S ... |
Basil of Caesarea | ... died the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and | , with whom he was also exchanging letters. He applied this knowledge as p ... |
Hilary of Poitiers | ... e became a bishop, and added to it in later years, incorporating remarks of | on Romans. The best presentation of the case for Ambrose is by P. A. Balle ... |
Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton | In 1904–1905, | was the military attaché of the British Indian Army serving with the Japan ... |
Pope Gregory XII | ... cted of sorcery, for example John XXI (1276–77) and Benedict XII (1334–42). | (1406–15) was questioned about magical practices in 1409 at the Council of ... |
Pope Leo XIII | ... not only to secularism, but also to both capitalism and socialism. In 1891 | promulgated Rerum Novarum, in which he addressed the "misery and wretchedn ... |
Athanasius | ... erred to as the "Hammer of the Arians" (Latin: Malleus Arianorum) and the " | of the West." His name comes from the Latin word for happy or cheerful. Hi ... |
Jack Lynch | The President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery, and the Taoiseach, | , attended a memorial service for Mountbatten in St. Patrick's Cathedral i ... |
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 |
Thomas Cobham | ... ry known to have existed in Oxford was founded in the fourteenth century by | , Bishop of Worcester. This small collection of chained books was situated ... |
Guy Verhofstadt | ... by a coalition of thirteen states against the Franco-German preference for | |
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 ... |
Hans Wiegel | ... ction polls showed losses for the VVD; the former VVD deputy Prime Minister | blamed a poor VVD campaign for this, caused by the heavily contested VVD l ... |
John Calvin | ... thousand French Protestants fled the country during this time, most notably | , who settled in Geneva |
Lord Curzon | Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by | to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged a boycott, regarded a ... |
Bishop of London | In 1599, the Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and the | George Abbot, whose offices had the function of licensing books for public ... |
Ian Smith | ... nda immediately after Idi Amin's departure, but not Zimbabwe Rhodesia after | 's. Helms hosted Muzorewa when he visited Washington and met with Carter i ... |
Cardinal Wolsey | ... mple of this was found in Henry VIII's England where his chief minister was | . An even more prominent example is that of Cardinal Richelieu, whose powe ... |
Home Secretary | ... laimed capital city of Wales on 20 December 1955, by a written reply by the | Gwilym Lloyd George. Caernarfon had also vied for this title. Cardiff ther ... |
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 ... |
Talleyrand | ... onfident of his victory. In a letter written to Minister of Foreign Affairs | , Napoleon requested Talleyrand not tell anyone about the upcoming battle ... |
Sir Thomas Graham | ... d a column against the French centre, while other columns were commanded by | and Rowland Hill and looped around the French right and left (this battle ... |
Stalin | ... r Pitkin" after the character from his films. In 1995, he visited the post- | ist country where, to his surprise, he was greeted by many appreciative fa ... |
Stephen Harper | ... e split forced Day to call a new leadership convention, and, in April 2002, | defeated Day at the subsequent Canadian Alliance leadership election |
Pope Pius IX | ... ranco-Prussian War of 1870 inflicted further losses. Then from the curia of | came a decree condemning the use of Mass stipends for the purchase of book ... |
Anthony Eden | ... our). It had previously been a Conservative safe seat, including as its MP, | a former British prime minister. At the 2005 general election, James Plask ... |
Antonio Vivaldi | ... 006 of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). Other notable violinists included | (1678–1741) and Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770), who, in their compositions, ... |
Arthur Wellesley | After Light's demise, Lieutenant-Colonel | arrived in Penang to co-ordinate the defences of the island. In 1800, Lieu ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... he former public library on Broadway was donated by Scottish philanthropist | in 1906; Carnegie was made first freeman of the city on the day of the ope ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... n Micheler writes:In a speech at Berlin's Deutschlandhalle on May 30, 1937, | stated in front of 25,000 people that the "criminal aberrations of the Cat ... |
Tony Blair | ... rds. Occasional one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating | , Gordon Brown and various other government figures. In the 1990s he becam ... |
Bishop of Coventry | The | since April 1998 has been the Rt Revd. Colin James Bennetts, who retired f ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ercion by the paramilitary Blackshirts under the regime of Italian dictator | . Dissidents and regime opponents were forced to ingest the oil in large a ... |
NFC East | With Staubach and his team's "Doomsday Defense", the Cowboys won the | with a 12-2 regular season record |
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 ... |
Lawrence Jenco | ... on, and he assisted in successful negotiations which secured the release of | and David Jacobsen. His use of an American helicopter to travel secretly b ... |
John Whitgift | In 1599, the Archbishop of Canterbury | and the Bishop of London George Abbot, whose offices had the function of l ... |
Woody Allen | Her upcoming roles include | 's To Rome with Love, and she is set to reunite with Italian director Serg ... |
Pope Sylvester I | ... regory V as Pope in 999. Gerbert took the name of Sylvester II, alluding to | (314–335), the advisor to Emperor Constantine I (324–337). Soon after he w ... |
Pope Pius V | ... 17th centuries that the Colosseum came to be regarded as a Christian site. | (1566–1572) is said to have recommended that pilgrims gather sand from the ... |
Auxentius | ... cese, but in 364, extending his efforts once more beyond Gaul, he impeached | , bishop of Milan, and a man high in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Su ... |
Wouter Bos | ... etween current Christian-Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and | of the Labour Party. However, the VVD's campaign started relatively late. ... |
Pope Gregory VII | In consequence of his support of | in his quarrel with Henry, Welf lost but subsequently regained Bavaria; tw ... |
David | ... ble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero | , a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as on ... |
titular bishopric of Ostia | ... College of Cardinals in addition to such a titular church also receives the | , the primary suburbicarian see. Cardinals governing a particular Church r ... |
Gregory of Tours | ... populania in the Early Middle Ages, founding its claims on the testimony of | , on the etymological link between the words "Basque" and "Gascon" – both ... |
Jędrzej Kitowicz | ... d pączki . Pączki have been known in Poland at least since the Middle Ages. | has described that during the reign of the August III under influence of F ... |
Sinéad O'Connor | ... d Del Naja steered "LP4" on their own. Enlisting the vocals of a flu-ridden | and perennial favourite Horace Andy, 100th Window was mastered in August 2 ... |
George Papandreou | King Constantine II's dismissal of | 's centrist government in July 1965 prompted a prolonged period of politic ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | In 1599, the | John Whitgift and the Bishop of London George Abbot, whose offices had the ... |
Johannes Schöner | ... Nuremberg to visit the professor of mathematics at the Eigidien Oberschule | . In Nuremberg he also made the acquaintance of other mathematicians such ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... spered into the ears of some people that they were better off looking for a | than a Parsifal, they did not believe their ears." Safranski argues that t ... |
Edmund Burke | ... thought influenced the political (and aesthetic) thinking of Immanuel Kant, | and others and led to a critical review of modernist politics. On the cons ... |
Jermain Wesley Loguen | ... y other religious congregations. Prior to the Civil War, due to the work of | and others in defiance of federal law, Syracuse was known as the "great ce ... |
Russell H. Dilday | ... of 1979 was a major internal disagreement that captured national attention. | , president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1978 to ... |
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti | ... rch member), Jean Waddell (who was secretary to the Iranian Anglican bishop | ), John Coleman, and Coleman's wife. On 10 Nov 1984, he negotiated with Co ... |
Ignatius of Antioch | ... trine of the Second Coming of Christ first touched on by Paul of Tarsus and | (c. 35–107 AD), then given more consideration by the Christian apologist, ... |
Jules Mazarin | ... s the real ruler of France. Richelieu was so successful that his successor, | , was also a cardinal. Guillaume Dubois and André-Hercule de Fleury comple ... |
Jan Peter Balkenende | ... tion away from the duel between current Christian-Democratic Prime Minister | and Wouter Bos of the Labour Party. However, the VVD's campaign started re ... |
Saint Patrick | ... w lost) biography about this saint, a unique collection of traditions about | , as well as a section describing events in the North of England in the si ... |
Julian of Eclanum | ... uthern Italy and Sicily, where they were openly preached until the death of | in 455, and in Britain until the coming of |
Robert Runcie | ... with a Primate, is a humorous account of his journeys with his former boss, | |
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 ... |
Germanus of Auxerre | There are also chapters relating events about Saint | that claim to be excerpts from a (now lost) biography about this saint, a ... |
Plutarch | ... ociety, 1947.*Parke, Herbert William, History of the Delphic Oracle, 1939.* | "Lives"*Rohde, Erwin, Psyche, 1925.* Seyffert, Oskar, , London: W. Glaishe ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In literature, "The Maltese Cat" is the title of a short story by | . The story is about a polo match set in British colonial , told from the ... |
Bishop of Winchester | ... ion by Catholic and anti-Protestant officials such as Stephen Gardiner (the | ) and Lord Wriothesley (the Lord Chancellor), who tried to turn the king a ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... leased on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from | , though the offer was ultimately rejected |
Pope Paul VI | ... ed by a vote of 2,137 to 11 of the bishops assembled and was promulgated by | on November 21, 1964. The title in Latin means "Restoration of Unity" and ... |
Thomas Bradwardine | In De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum, | denounced Pelagians in the 14th century and Gabriel Biel did the same in t ... |
Bruno the Great | In 959 the Lotharingian duke | divided the duchy between Lotharingia superior (Upper Lorraine) and Lothar ... |
Rodney K. Smith | ... a system), John Frederick Zeller III (President of Bucknell University) and | (President of Southern Virginia University), Robert Butkin (Dean of the Un ... |
Neville Chamberlain | ... . Smith became active in student politics, mostly protesting Prime Minister | 's seemingly soft attitude toward Nazism. While at Oxford, he was the firs ... |
French Ministry of Defense | After Arafat's death, the | said that Arafat's medical file would be transmitted to only his next of k ... |
Jonathan Edwards | ... on his own, reaching out to people who normally did not attend church. Like | , he developed a style of preaching that elicited emotional responses from ... |
James Bradley | ... n of the axis of the Earth was discovered in 1728 by the British astronomer | , but this nutation was not explained in detail until 20 years later |
Rita Verdonk | ... uent party leadership run-off Mark Rutte was elected as the leader, beating | and Jelleke Veenendaal |
Ernest Bevin | On February 14, 1947, | announced that the Jews and Arabs would not be able to agree on any Britis ... |
Augustus of Saxony | ... 733–1738), which started as a dispute over the throne of the Poland between | , the previous King's elder son, and Stanisław Leszczyński. Austria suppor ... |
Athanasius of Alexandria | ... has been noted that the Greek term "homoousian" or "con-substantial", which | favoured, was actually a term reported to be put forth by Sabellius, and w ... |
Gordon Brown | ... nal one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating Tony Blair, | and various other government figures. In the 1990s he became a semi-regula ... |
bishop of Milan | ... n 364, extending his efforts once more beyond Gaul, he impeached Auxentius, | , and a man high in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Summoned to appear ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... ersuade and/or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with | ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, s ... |
Álvaro del Portillo | ... mbers were 50:50 for and against Franco, according to John Allen. Similarly | , the former Prelate of Opus Dei, said that any statements that Escrivá su ... |
Sinéad O'Connor | ... edward, The Boomtown Rats, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, Thin Lizzy, Paddy Casey, | , The Script and My Bloody Valentine. The two best known cinemas in the ci ... |
Stephen Gardiner | ... ere viewed with suspicion by Catholic and anti-Protestant officials such as | (the Bishop of Winchester) and Lord Wriothesley (the Lord Chancellor), who ... |
Roger Vangheluwe | ... of such claims had been raised since April 2010, when the Bishop of Bruges, | , admitted to molesting a boy and resigned. The Vatican protested against ... |
archbishopric of Seville | ... to remain linked to the king of Spain. Since then it was a suffragan of the | . The Diocese of Tanger was suppressed and incorporated to that of Ceuta i ... |
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf | ... cution of the Austrian emperor, and some found refuge on the lands of Count | . These followers became known as Schwenkfelders. A group arrived in Phila ... |
Gary Crittenden | ... ly, alumni of BYU who have served as business leaders include Citigroup CFO | '76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO Sheri L. Dew, and ... |
Athanasius | While he thus closely followed the two great Alexandrians, Origen and | , in exegesis and Christology respectively, his work shows many traces of ... |
Stephen Langton | ... barons assembled there before they met King John at Runnymede in 1215, and | held a consecration there shortly after the issue of Magna Carta. Sir Thom ... |
Georges Darboy | Shortly afterwards Mgr | , archbishop of Paris, forbade the continuance of the business, and even s ... |
Romano Bonaventura | ... 26), and helped by Theobald IV of Champagne and the papal legate to France, | , she organized an army. Its sudden appearance brought the nobles momentar ... |
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 ... |
Martin of Tours | ... nown for his chronicle of sacred history, as well as his biography of Saint | |
Matthew Parker | ... sold. Leland died in 1552 and it is known to have been in the possession of | from some time after that until his own death in 1575. Although Parker beq ... |
Pope John XXIII | In 1960, | commented that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the | . The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ed that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, in 1964, | praised the organization in a handwritten letter to Escrivá, saying |
Walter de Merton | ... y of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when | , chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes fo ... |
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 ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( | 's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Kn ... |
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 ... |
James Callaghan | ... ent over its cost and whether it was necessary. The outgoing Prime Minister | made his government's papers on Trident available to Margaret Thatcher's n ... |
Adam Smith | ... r natural price of a commodity. The labour theory of value, as presented by | , however, did not require the quantification of all past labour, nor did ... |
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 ... |
Stephen Fry | ... the first three Macintosh in the UK — the other being bought by his friend | ). In So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, Arthur Dent purchases a compute ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... n the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Other Lives, playing the | |
Minister for Finance | ... each general election until his retirement in 1981. He previously served as | (1965–1966), Minister for Industry and Commerce (1959–1965), Minister for ... |
Clement Attlee | ... ustry (then state-owned since nationalisation by the post-war government of | ) over the closure of pits whose uneconomic operation accounted for the co ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... rought more attention to Corneille. He was selected to write verses for the | ’s visit to Rouen. The Cardinal took notice of Corneille and selected him ... |
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski | ... r "Arrowhead"), served as the AK's first commander until his arrest in 1943 | ;commanded from July 1943 until his capture in September 1944 and Leopold ... |
Eusebius of Nicomedia | ... he belief several years later for political reasons; under the influence of | and others |
Johnny Hunt | Dr. | , who was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2008, wa ... |
Epiphanius | ... on incorrect interpretations of scripture, or simply duplicitous in nature. | provides an example when he writes of the "Archontics": "Some of them ruin ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... isters, especially to Sir Robert Walpole, who is often considered the first | , although the title was not then in use. The next monarch, George II, wit ... |
William Pitt | ... greement led to the creation of the Third Coalition. British Prime Minister | spent 1804 and 1805 in a flurry of diplomatic activity geared towards form ... |
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool | ... s. William Robertson and Edward Spence are other Victoria Cross recipients. | , UK Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, was quartered in Dumfries in 1796 d ... |
John Cleese | ... corporate video company Video Arts, famous for its training films starring | |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... on to assassinate him had been taken by Natan Yellin-Mor, Yisrael Eldad and | , who was later to become Prime Minister of Israel |
Jan Peter Balkenende | ... here were a number of parliamentary debates on the issue and Prime Minister | was called to answer questions. He explained that the project was a privat ... |
Archdiocese of Esztergom | ... ioceses of Veszprém, Győr, Kalocsa, Vác, and Bihar. He also established the | . Thus he set up an ecclesiastical organisation independent of the German ... |
David Cameron | ... as an ethnic Indian population of over 1.6 million. In 2010, Prime Minister | described Indian – British relations as the "New Special Relationship" |
Nick Clegg | ... ister holding office as Lord President of the Council, currently the Rt Hon | MP (Deputy Prime Minister), usually presides. Under Britain's modern conve ... |
Prime Minister of Israel | ... Natan Yellin-Mor, Yisrael Eldad and Yitzhak Shamir, who was later to become | |
Charles de Gaulle | ... the author himself. Subsequently, French General (later, French President) | , whom Saint-Exupéry and others held in low regard, publicly implied that ... |
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Richard Fleming | The College was founded on 13 October 1427 by | , then Bishop of Lincoln, to combat the Lollard teachings of John Wyclif. ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... itical) should perform a function which can be performed by a smaller unit. | , in Quadragesimo Anno, provided the classical statement of the principle: ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... y Gómez (May 23, 1946 – March 22, 2005) was a self-proclaimed successor of | , and was recognised as Pope Gregory XVII by supporters of the Palmarian C ... |
John Wesley | ... clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman | and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley (the Younger), and father of musician ... |
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 ... |
Secretary of Defense | Former | James Schlesinger was the first Secretary of Energy, who was a Republican ... |
William Pitt | ... ust 1833, Wilberforce was buried in the north transept, close to his friend | . The funeral was attended by many Members of Parliament, as well as by me ... |
Gordon Brown | ... that he had managed to get through to Margaret Beckett whilst impersonating | , with her revealing "embarrassing indiscretions" |
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 ... |
Parliamentary Secretary | ... ister for Education (1957–1959), Minister for the Gaeltacht (1957) and as a | . He was the third leader of Fianna Fáil from 1966 until 1979, succeeding ... |
Aldo Moro | ... movements. The assassination of the leader of the Christian Democracy (DC), | , led to the end of a "historic compromise" between the DC and the Communi ... |
Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister, | , 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ... |
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | ... th parliamentary power. In 1834, William dismissed the Whig Prime Minister, | , and appointed a Tory, Sir Robert Peel. In the ensuing elections, however ... |
Bishop of Lincoln | The College was founded on 13 October 1427 by Richard Fleming, then | , to combat the Lollard teachings of John Wyclif. He intended it to be "a ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
Robert Borden | ... nada, a custom that continued until the First World War, around the time of | 's premiership. While contemporary sources will still speak of early prime ... |
Arthur Seyss-Inquart | ... lly occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led by Ernst Kaltenbrunner and | and was technically under the command of the SS in Germany, but often acte ... |
Pope John Paul I | ... denied Opus Dei's petition to become a personal prelature, Moncada stated. | , a few years before his election, wrote that Escrivá was more radical tha ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... cted deputies while the Duma declared a Provisional Government on 13 March. | was a key player in the new regime. The Duma informed the tsar that day th ... |
John Donne | During her reign Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. | and Sir Walter Raleigh also had residences here in this era. It was at thi ... |
Basil of Caesarea | At least one early Christian writer, | (329–379), believed the matter to be theologically irrelevant |
John Stuart Mill | Victimless crimes are in the harm principle of | , "victimless" from a position that considers the individual as the sole s ... |
Marcellus of Ancyra | ... as Bishop of Alexandria, was deposed by the First Synod of Tyre in 335 and | followed him in 336. Arius himself returned to Constantinople to be readmi ... |
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 ... |
Pope Alexander II | ... ed, had such a cross on his flag in the Battle of Hastings, given to him by | . A red ensign with the cross in the fly is used as civil ensign |
Lords Spiritual | In the case of a demise of the crown, the Privy Council—together with the | , the Lords Temporal, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Aldermen o ... |
Jim Flaherty | Federal finance minister | appointed retired judge James Farley, who had presided over Air Canada's 2 ... |
James Callaghan | ... th., Sir Francis Austen (brother of Jane Austen) briefly lived in the area, | (British prime minister 1976–1979) was born in Portsmouth, John Pounds the ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... r Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, | , William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-app ... |
Pope Urban V | The return of | from Avignon in 1367 led to an increased interest in ancient monuments, pa ... |
Alexander Fleming | ... , others pursued similar lines of inquiry but it was not until in 1928 that | observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium. ... |
Carlo Fea | ... gain and built the Alessandrine neighborhood over it. But the excavation by | , who began clearing the debris from the Arch of Septimius Severus in 1803 ... |
Giovanni Spadolini | ... e 1980s, for the first time, two governments were managed by a republican ( | 1981-82) and a socialist (Bettino Craxi 1983-87) rather than by a Christia ... |
John Wesley | In the 18th century Lincoln became the cradle of Methodism when | , a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother Charl ... |
Prime Minister | ... , an organization under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The protection of the | and some other important persons is entrusted with the Special Protection ... |
Kevin Rudd | ... inally ill children helped by that organisation. Prime Minister of the time | stated that The Chaser team "should hang their heads in shame". He went on ... |
Luther | ... o the invention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, | , John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, S ... |
Abel Muzorewa | ... support for the Internal Settlement government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, under | , and campaigned along with Samuel Hayakawa for the immediate lifting of s ... |
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 ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... annoyance with the interference of their Visitor (patron) William Laud, the | . Due to this, the college was moved to London at the start of the Civil W ... |
Woody Allen | Along with directors | and Francis Ford Coppola, in 1989 Scorsese provided one of three segments ... |
Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein | ... rederick, however, was now at the last gasp. On 6 January 1762, he wrote to | , "We ought now to think of preserving for my nephew, by way of negotiatio ... |
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 ... |
Gilbert White | ... iased empirical research for modern estimates of biodiversity. In 1768 Rev. | succinctly observed of his Selborne, Hampshire "all nature is so full, tha ... |
Semyon Timoshenko | ... initial failures in Finland. He was later replaced as Defence Commissar by | . Voroshilov was then made Deputy Premier responsible for cultural matters |
Bettino Craxi | ... were managed by a republican (Giovanni Spadolini 1981-82) and a socialist ( | 1983-87) rather than by a Christian-democrat |
Pope John XXII | ... postasy rests largely on two near-contemporary sources: a 1324 assertion by | that Mindaugas had returned to error, and the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle ... |
Prime Minister | In Pakistan, the President and | receive close protection teams from the military's elite Special Service G ... |
Zog of Albania | ... while Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King | lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile a ... |
John Chrysostom | In his Homilies Concerning the Statutes St. | (344–408) explicitly espoused the idea, based on his reading of Scripture, ... |
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 ... |
Eusebius of Nicomedia | ... the Church during the remainder of the fourth century. Almost immediately, | , an Arian bishop and cousin to Constantine I, used his influence at court ... |
John Diefenbaker | ... ing re-appointed as premier (Mackenzie King twice); Alexander Mackenzie and | , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their death ... |
Walter de Merton | Merton College was founded in 1264 by | , Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Rochester. It has a claim to be the oldest ... |
Kwame Nkrumah | ... alists. Other African socialists include Jomo Kenyatta, Kenneth Kaunda, and | . Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism and called for a democratic African ... |
Thomas Rotherham | ... f the college's validity and the munificence of a second Bishop of Lincoln, | . Richard Fleming died in 1431, and the first rector, William Chamberleyn, ... |
Patriarch Nikon | ... and 1504, and the New Jerusalem Monastery in Moscow Oblast, constructed by | between 1656 to 1666 |
John Stuart Mill | ... es of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights. Ernest Renan and | are often thought to be early liberal nationalists. Liberal nationalists o ... |
Eustathius of Antioch | ... to sway Constantine's favor from the orthodox Nicene bishops to the Arians. | was deposed and exiled in 330. Athanasius, who had succeeded Alexander as ... |
Bettino Craxi | ... their votes thanks to Enrico Berlinguer. The Socialist party (PSI), led by | , became more and more critical of the communists and of the Soviet Union; ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | Fragments attributed by the Christian | to the semi-legendary Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, which Eusebius t ... |
Nicéphore Soglo | ... onent at the presidential poll, and the ultimate victor, was Prime Minister | . Supporters of Soglo also secured a majority in the National Assembly |
Benedict XIII | ... sed for the papal chair, and secured ten votes at the conclave that elected | |
Heinrich Himmler | In April 1945, | asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Chur ... |
Otto-Braun-House | ... bomb attack on the headquarters of the Social Democrats in Königsberg, the | . The Communist politician Gustav Sauf was killed, the executive editor of ... |
Alexander Mackenzie | ... re Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier (Mackenzie King twice) | ;and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliam ... |
John Key | ... e 2008 election ending nine years of Labour led Government. National leader | formed a minority government, negotiating agreements with the ACT party, t ... |
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 ... |
Pope Clement IV | ... ity of bias in this account, since Mindaugas had been at war with Volhynia. | , on the other hand, wrote in 1268 of "Mindaugas of happy memory" (clare m ... |
Margaret Thatcher | On the election of | 's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ... |
Verhofstadt, Guy | ... ent - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - Emile Verhaeren - Verhofstadt, Dirk - | - Verhofstadt III Government - Verlooy, Jan-Baptist - Vesalius, Andreas - ... |
John Chrysostom | ... part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of | with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a cr ... |
John Wesley | In terms of theology, Whitefield, unlike | , was a supporter of Calvinism. The two differed on eternal election, fina ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... ration and the National Film and Television Training School. Prime Minister | continued to support Australian film. The South Australian Film Corporatio ... |
Cornelius Jansen | ... er writers, such as Martin Luther (1483-1546), John Calvin (1509-1564), and | (1585-1638) reacted in different ways against Pelagianism, and evaluations ... |
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, ... |
Martin Luther | ... nvader. They found this in the teaching of the Protestant reformers such as | . The spread of Protestantism in the country was aided by its large ethnic ... |
Brian Mulroney | ... ement and Victor Li. The Cerberus bid would have seen former Prime Minister | installed as chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory ... |
John Calvin | Later writers, such as Martin Luther (1483-1546), | (1509-1564), and Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) reacted in different ways ag ... |
Samuel Peters | ... e, such as: "Connecticotian" – Cotton Mather in 1702. "Connecticutensian" – | in 1781. "Nutmegger" is sometimes used, as is "Yankee" (the official state ... |
Élie Benoist | The source followed by most modern historians is the Huguenot refugee | 's Histoire de l'édit de Nantes, 3 vols. (Delft, 1693–95). E.G. Léonard de ... |
Michael Heseltine | ... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, | , formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ... |
Bérenger Saunière | ... had deposited a treasure in Rennes-le-Château that was later discovered by | during the late 19th century. This was later utilised by Pierre Plantard i ... |
Æthelwold | ... ointed to the Bishopric of London, and Oswald to that of Worcester. In 963, | , the Abbot of Abingdon, was appointed to the See of Winchester. With thei ... |
Hendrik Colijn | ... h; under the successive governments of a staunch monarchist prime minister, | (ARP), Wilhelmina was deeply involved in most questions of state |
Tony Blair | Bremner supported Reg Keys in the 2005 election when he stood against | as an anti-war candidate |
Tony Blair | ... e 1990s, released from the Left's pressure, the British Labour Party, under | , posited policies based upon the free market economy to deliver public se ... |
Primo de Rivera | During the dictatorships of | and especially of Francisco Franco (1939–1975), all regional cultures were ... |
Martin Luther | Later writers, such as | (1483-1546), John Calvin (1509-1564), and Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) rea ... |
Pope Innocent IV | ... a of its enormous dimensions from the fact recorded, that when, in AD 1245, | , accompanied by twelve cardinals, a patriarch, three archbishops, the two ... |
Silvio Berlusconi | The 1994 elections also swept media magnate | (leader of "Pole of Freedoms" coalition) into office as Prime Minister. Be ... |
Patrick Hillery | The President of Ireland, | , and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial service for Mountbatt ... |
Thomas Upington | ... Both the Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal had Irish prime ministers: Sir | , "The Afrikaner from Cork"; and Sir Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County ... |
Comiskey Park | ... olo Grounds in Manhattan, Boston's Fenway Park along with Wrigley Field and | in Chicago. Likewise from the Eastern League to the small developing leagu ... |
Bishop Porteus | ... lave trade as equally important goals. At the suggestion of Wilberforce and | , King George III was requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury to issue i ... |
Edward Heath | ... enson played at Marine Spa ballroom, and the place was regularly visited by | |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... species for s, so bluebell woods are likely to date back to at least 1600. | , one of the romantic poets, was very keen on the plant as revealed by the ... |
Stephen Harper | ... ng, PETA began a petition in memory of Smith to the Canadian Prime Minister | to end the annual tradition. In another ad the following year, Smith posed ... |
Cotton Mather | ... us other terms coined in print, but not in use, such as: "Connecticotian" – | in 1702. "Connecticutensian" – Samuel Peters in 1781. "Nutmegger" is somet ... |
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 ... |
Harper government | ... to low- and medium-income families, similar to that recently enacted by the | . While unpopular with the province's anti-poverty movement and the then-m ... |
Laurent Cassegrain | ... reflecting telescope developed around 1672 and attributed to French priest | . The first Cassegrain antenna was invented and built in Japan in 1963 by ... |
Howell Harris | ... d when the Wesley brothers departed for Georgia. He adopted the practice of | of preaching in the open-air at Hanham Mount, near Kingswood, Bristol. In ... |
Saint Martin | At this time Severus came under the powerful influence of | , bishop of Tours, by whom he was led to devote his wealth to the Christia ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Bradwardine | How to react to Pelagius has remained a question in Christian theology. | (c. 1290-1349) wrote De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum a ... |
Leszek Miller | ... The alleged constitutional and international law trespasses took place when | , presently member of parliament and leader of the Democratic Left Allianc ... |
Lev Kamenev | ... l 1934. Frunze's position was compatible with the Troika (Grigory Zinoviev, | , Stalin), but Stalin preferred to have a close ally in charge (as opposed ... |
Tony Blair | ... pecial circumstances, such as in matters of national security. For example, | met Leader of the Opposition Iain Duncan Smith and Leader of the Liberal D ... |
Simplician | ... er (April 4, 397) Ambrose also died. He was succeeded as bishop of Milan by | . Ambrose's body may still be viewed in the church of S. Ambrogio in Milan ... |
Pope John Paul I | ... of the Catholic Church remains unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted | (1978) and Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Pa ... |
José María Arizmendiarrieta | ... in the region of Spain and France, was founded by a Catholic priest, Father | , who seems to have been influenced by the same Catholic social and econom ... |
Bob Larson | While Norman was denounced by television evangelists like | ; Jimmy Swaggart, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and Jerry F ... |
Van Rompuy, Herman | ... , Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - Van Hoegaerden, Victor - | - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - Emile Verhaere ... |
John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of G ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... ank later claimed that the extermination of Jews was entirely controlled by | and the SS and that he, Frank, was unaware of the extermination camps in t ... |
Heinrich Himmler | Even with the difficulties of the quota system | formed two new SS regiments, the SS Germania and SS Deutschland, which tog ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister | 's more conservative coalition partners |
Willibrord | ... ar / by thorns) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord Herelaef to bishop | in 721, Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets stretc ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... cended from the Penn family of Penn and so is buried nearby and the current | , who has an official residence at Chequers. Finally John Archdale colonia ... |
Mill | ... as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by | and Sidgwick. Since then, the term has become common in English-language e ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... her Hitchens author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, | , poet and author of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnig ... |
Edmund Burke | ... t the end of the program by recalling the admonition commonly attributed to | -- "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothin ... |
Brian Mulroney | ... icians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and | in Canada, the Western welfare state was attacked from within. Monetarists ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ey claimed to recognize women's equality in employment. However, Hitler and | declared themselves as opposed to feminism, and after the rise of Nazism i ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... as solicitors or barristers but satisfy the Master of the Faculties of the | that they possess an adequate understanding of the law. Both the latter tw ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when | 's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name |
Komla Agbeli Gbedemah | ... a landslide taking 34 out of 38 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. | is credited with organizing Nkrumah's entire campaign while he (Nkrumah) w ... |
David Lloyd George | ... llor of the Exchequer was longer than that of any of his predecessors since | , who served from 1908–15. This was subsequently passed by Labour's Gordon ... |
Simon Sudbury | ... eeting resistance and looted the Jewel House. The Archbishop of Canterbury, | , took refuge in St John's Chapel, hoping the mob would respect the sanctu ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... e 1960s, under the 1962 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between | and John F. Kennedy, the United States would supply Britain with Polaris m ... |
George Whitefield | ... joined in 1729 soon becoming its leader and moulding it to his own notions. | also joined this group. After graduating with a Masters' in classical lang ... |
Ulfilas | ... ext preserved is the 4th century Gothic translation of the New Testament by | . Early testimonies of West Germanic are in Old Frankish (5th century), Ol ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... e of conservative neoliberal politicians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., | in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, the Western welfare state was at ... |
Heinrich Himmler | In the spring of 1945, Bernadotte was in Germany when he met | , who was briefly appointed commander of an entire German army following t ... |
Lamberto Dini | ... government was succeeded by a technical government headed by Prime Minister | , which left office in early 1996 |
John Bunyan | ... edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, John Milton, and | , but no records, citations, borrowed lines, or clear allusions to Piers P ... |
Alexander Mackenzie | ... e prefix Sir before their name; of the first eight premiers of Canada, only | refused the honour of a knighthood from Queen Victoria. Following the 1919 ... |
Margot Wallström | ... ans from different parties host the ceremony, in 2009 European Commissioner | co-hosted the ceremony |
Lindsay Urwin | Other examples of his bold interviewing style include getting | , the Bishop of Horsham, to admit that God created the Universe, and then ... |
Mikhail Frunze | ... ittee in 1921 and remained a member until 1961. In 1925, after the death of | , Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affair ... |
Basil of Caesarea | ... matters of exegesis he is, like Hilary, an Alexandrian. In dogma he follows | and other Greek authors, but nevertheless gives a distinctly Western cast ... |
Bishop of Ely | ... ocese of Ely, with pastoral care for these parishes delegated to him by the | . The city falls wholly within the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia ( ... |
John Carmel Heenan | ... nce to the biblical quote of Jesus as a "sign that is spoken against." Said | , Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster: "One of the proofs of God's favour i ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... ans of production, rather than the large units typical of modern economies. | further stated, again in Quadragesimo Anno, "every social activity ought o ... |
Wilfrid | ... eded as King of Mercia by his brother, Æthelred. Stephen of Ripon's Life of | describes Wulfhere as "a man of proud mind, and insatiable will" |
Pope Alexander IV | ... d the Holy See were reinforced. In 1255, Mindaugas received permission from | to crown his son as King of Lithuania. A noble court, an administrative sy ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with Eratosthenes' method. | (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught theologian of the Middle ... |
Theunis, Georges | ... rtition plan for Belgium - Tambuyzer, Erik - Temse - Tessenderlo - Thalys - | - Tielt - Tienen - Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the ... |
Johannes Dantiscus | The canon of Warmia Georg Donner and the bishop of Warmia | were both patrons of Rheticus. Rheticus was also commissioned to make a st ... |
Schuschnigg | ... ny, leading to the assassination of Dollfuss on 25 July 1934. His successor | maintained the ban on pro-Hitlerite activities in Austria, but was forced ... |
Joseph Lyons | ... President of the Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial. Australian Prime Minister | described the section of keel as "intimately associated with the discovery ... |
Cecil Rhodes | In 1895, Cape Premier | planned to support an uitlander coup d'état against the Transvaal governme ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | The tower story is repeated and embellished by | in his Historia Regum Britanniae, though he attributes it to Merlin, sayin ... |
Frank Muir | A script for a Flashman film adaptation was written by | in 1969, to star John Alderton, and is mentioned in his autobiography A Ke ... |
Albert Speer | He and | were allegedly the only defendants to show remorse for their war crimes. " ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by Jeffrey Archer in which | tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly on July 4 |
John Knox | ... eat religious upheaval in Scotland. Due to the efforts of reformers such as | , a Protestant ascendancy was established. Mary caused alarm by marrying h ... |
Charles Kennedy | ... der of the Opposition Iain Duncan Smith and Leader of the Liberal Democrats | on privy council terms to discuss the evidence for Iraq's weapons of mass ... |
Harold Wilson | ... sile submarines, later reduced to four by the incoming Labour government of | , with 16 missiles to be carried on each ship. The Polaris Sales Agreement ... |
György Lukács | ... uenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, | and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by ... |
Photius | ... th independent additions, to elucidate the portions of Scripture concerned. | (cod. 206), while blaming the diffuseness of these commentaries, praises t ... |
Charles Grey | ... s by a large margin. Sensing a breakthrough that had been long anticipated, | moved for a second reading in the Commons on 23 February 1807. As tributes ... |
the Master | ... interview regarding the series' revival, Baker suggested that he be cast as | . In a 2006 interview with the Sun newspaper, he claims that he has not wa ... |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... ein their casket lies in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Only | and the Viscount Bennett were given private funerals, Bennett also being t ... |
Leander Starr Jameson | ... anned to support an uitlander coup d'état against the Transvaal government. | carried out this plan, without publicly-acknowledged British authorisation ... |
Romano Prodi | ... tions led to the victory of a centre-left coalition under the leadership of | . Prodi's first government became the third-longest to stay in power befor ... |
Pope Clement VII | ... . His desire for an annulment of his marriage was known as the . Ultimately | refused the petition; consequently it became necessary for the King to ass ... |
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | ... om Great Hampden and is revered in Aylesbury to this day and Prime Minister | who lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note are William Penn who believed h ... |
Julius Nyerere | ... cialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent. | was inspired by Fabian socialist ideals. He was a firm believer in rural A ... |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | ... city to the Democratic Republic of Armenia. Turkish revolutionaries, led by | rejected the terms of the treaty and instead waged the Turkish War of Inde ... |
Lord Grenville | ... Wilberforce and Charles Fox led the campaign in the House of Commons, while | advocated the cause in the House of Lords |
Gaspard Monge | ... umented public demonstration of artificial refrigeration by William Cullen, | liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in 1784. Michael F ... |
Philip Schaff | According to Protestant theologian | , "The Nicene fathers passed this canon not as introducing anything new, b ... |
Alun Michael | ... mocrat) in Cardiff Central, Jonathan Evans (Conservative) in Cardiff North, | (Labour) in Cardiff South and Penarth and Kevin Brennan (Labour) in Cardif ... |
Mohammad Hatta | ... ers were important figures in Indonesia's independence movements, such as : | (the first vice-president) and Sutan Sjahrir (the first prime minister) |
Rudyard Kipling | Visited by Somerset Maugham, | , Noël Coward and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as | and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... hdrawn in 1629, by Louis XIII, following the Siege of La Rochelle, in which | blockaded the city for fourteen months |
Bishop of Horsham | ... examples of his bold interviewing style include getting Lindsay Urwin, the | , to admit that God created the Universe, and then asked him, "And since t ... |
Schuschnigg | ... Austria during the late 1930s, which was fiercely resisted by the Austrian | dictatorship. When the conflict was escalating in early 1938, Chancellor S ... |
Archbishop of Westminster | ... Jesus as a "sign that is spoken against." Said John Carmel Heenan, Cardinal | : "One of the proofs of God's favour is to be a sign of contradiction. Alm ... |
Sutan Sjahrir | ... pendence movements, such as : Mohammad Hatta (the first vice-president) and | (the first prime minister) |
Robert Borden | ... norific titles to Canadians; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir | , who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the Hou ... |
Giuliano Amato | ... g centre-left government, including most of the same parties, was headed by | (social-democratic), who previously served as Prime Minister in 1992-93, f ... |
Nikola Pašić | In Serbia | (1845–1926) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903; t ... |
Bishop of Peterborough | ... ich covers the remainder of Cambridgeshire and western Norfolk. The current | has been appointed Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely, with pastoral c ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Court of Faculties. The Court of Faculties is attached to the office of the | |
Mitt Romney | ... letter was issued immediately before the Florida primary. Dole has endorsed | for the Republican nomination |
Germanus of Auxerre | ... s own right, and also includes other characters such as Vortimer and Bishop | |
Andrew Carnegie | ... s a literary award established in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist | and given annually to an outstanding book for children and young adults. I ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council (led by | ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 ... |
Massimo D'Alema | ... government was formed by Democrats of the Left leader and former communist | , but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in region ... |
Alfred Hugenberg | ... es, representing a minority in the Reichstag: The Nazis and the DNVP led by | (196 + 52 seats). Eyeing the Catholic Centre Party's 70 (+ 20 BVP) seats, ... |
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 ... |
John Chrysostom | In this same period, Saint | explained the significance of angels' wings: "They manifest a nature's sub ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ust as cardinal bishops are given one of the suburban dioceses around Rome. | abolished all administrative rights cardinals had with regard to their tit ... |
Van Rompuy | Since the creation of the European Council presidency, President | and Commission President Barroso have begun to compete with each other as ... |
Bishop of Winchester | ... ry, and on 3 June 1162 was consecrated as archbishop by Henry of Blois, the | and the other suffragan bishops of Canterbury |
Peter Ustinov | ... h, was later turned into a play, an opera by Benjamin Britten and a film by | |
Tony Blair | ... en described as a "spin doctor" is Alastair Campbell, who was involved with | 's public relations between 1994 and 2003, and also played a controversial ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... useums and Galleries Act 1992. Prior to the 1963 Act, it was chaired by the | , the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons. The board w ... |
St Irenaeus | Eusebius implies that other works were in circulation; from | he knows of the apology "Against Marcion," and from Justin's "Apology" of ... |
Pridi Banomyong | ... to reflect its tradition associated with the French education system where | , Thammasat's founding father was educated |
Pope Formosus | ... ible for the "Cadaver Synod" that had condemned and mutilated the corpse of | , and placed a laudatory remark on Stephen VI's tombstone. He then reporte ... |
Adolf Bertram | ... because he curtailed agitating clergy. On 20 November, when German Cardinal | announced a papal ban on all political activities of clergymen, calls for ... |
Henry of Blois | ... une 1162 at Canterbury, and on 3 June 1162 was consecrated as archbishop by | , the Bishop of Winchester and the other suffragan bishops of Canterbury |
John Lyng | He was appointed Minister of Trade in the short-lived but notable | cabinet from August to September 1963, following the Kings Bay Affair that ... |
Jan P. Syse | ... atform. In spite of friendly rivalry with Erling Norvik, Rolf Presthus, and | , these and other party members led a political shift in Norway away from ... |
Prime Minister | ... er 1987) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party of Norway. He was | for three periods, 1945–1951, 1955–1963 and 1963–1965. With 17 years in of ... |
Pope Benedict IV | ... a native of Ardea, was Pope for some thirty days in 903 after the death of | (900–903). He was dethroned by antipope Christopher (903–904), who is some ... |
King David | ... uel as being one of The Three, a distinct group of warriors associated with | ; scholars believe that the same individual is meant, and that the passage ... |
Pat Robertson | ... o pay for Republican "infomercials" and televising of the GOP convention on | 's Family Channel, but backed off when Democrats criticized the donation a ... |
Paul Martin | ... invasion of Iraq. Many Canadians, and the former Liberal Cabinet headed by | (as well as many Americans such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama), made a ... |
Harold Wilson | ... d of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister | and without an agreement on the succeeding governance. Their enemies, the ... |
Stephen Fry | ... essed happiness by his friendships and his enjoyment of life. Eric Idle and | said Cook had not wasted his talent but rather that the newspapers had tri ... |
Jimmy Swaggart | ... l-known televangelists began during this period, most notably Oral Roberts, | , Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and Pat Robertson. Most devel ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... an sees (who had been relieved of direct responsibilities for those sees by | three years earlier). Not holding a suburbicarian see, they cannot elect t ... |
Muhyiddin Yassin | ... ls need to be concluded. International Trade and Industry Minister, Tan Sri | has expressed the hope that talks will be concluded by the end of 2008 |
Rabindranath Tagore | ... d economic freedom for India's peasants and toiling masses. Poets including | used literature, poetry and speech as a tool for political awareness. The ... |
David | ... idetes attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, John Hyrcanus opened King | 's sepulchre and removed three thousand talents which he paid as tribute t ... |
Eusebius of Nicomedia | ... known by the part he took in the Arian controversy. After the followers of | , who was now the Patriarch of Constantinople, had renewed their depositio ... |
Sinéad O'Connor | ... a provided spoken (not sung) vocals in Irish on the song "Never Get Old" on | 's debut album, The Lion and the Cobra |
Lanfranc | ... n as archbishop, Walter wielded a power unseen in England since the days of | |
Pope John X | Pope Leo VI, a Roman, succeeded | (914–928) as Pope in 928. He reigned a little over seven months; the exact ... |
Juan Negrín | ... ists. At the time, roughly 600 remained. At the end of 1938, Prime Minister | had promised Spanish citizenship to the Brigadists, a promise which he cou ... |
Jean Casimir-Perier | ... rd youngest president in French history, after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and | . He promised "change in continuity". He made clear his desire to introduc ... |
Pope Sergius III | ... murdered, presumably strangled by Christopher, who was in turn executed by | (904–911) in 904 |
Oral Roberts | ... aham. Many well-known televangelists began during this period, most notably | , Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and Pat Rober ... |
John Charles McQuaid | ... normal law enforcement processes." The report criticized four archbishops – | who died in 1973, Dermot Ryan who died in 1984, Kevin McNamara who died in ... |
Piotr Skarga | ... ing the reign of King Sigismund III Vasa, who was under strong influence of | and other Jesuits. After the Deluge, and other wars of the mid-17th centur ... |
Arthur Griffith | On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of | , Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as ... |
Duane Pederson | ... I See It" in the Hollywood Free Paper, an evangelistic newspaper founded by | , one of the leaders of the Jesus People in Hollywood and Los Angeles. |
Epiphanius | ... f believers at that time favoured the Sabellian view of the oneness of God. | (Haeres 62) about 375 notes that the adherents of Sabellius were still to ... |
Tarō Asō | ... nd nationalist, he enjoyed the respect of his colleagues and enemies alike. | , the 92nd Prime Minister of Japan, is a great-great-grandson of Ōkubo Tos ... |
Eusebius | After Rufinus, Justin was known mainly from St Irenaeus and | or from spurious works. The Chronicon Paschale assigns his martyrdom to th ... |
Per Borten | He was appointed to the same ministerial post in the government of | in 1965-1970. He stepped down from this post to become first the Parliamen ... |
Einar Gerhardsen | ... the uninterrupted chain of Labor governments after World War II, headed by | and Oscar Torp |
Oral Roberts | ... 91 languages and to date the largest coverage of any evangelistic program. | 's broadcast by 1957 reached 80% of the possible television audience throu ... |
Home Minister | ... inister for the third time, and Advani became the Deputy Prime Minister and | . This NDA Government lasted its full term of five years. Vajpayee and his ... |
Andrew Greeley | Roman Catholic priest and author | criticized liberation theology in his 2009 fictional book Irish Tweed. In ... |
Oscar Torp | ... ain of Labor governments after World War II, headed by Einar Gerhardsen and | |
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 ... |
Athanasius as bishop of Alexandria | ... ho was now the Patriarch of Constantinople, had renewed their deposition of | , at a synod held in Antioch in 341, they resolved to send delegates to Co ... |
Norbert of Xanten | ... order was a reformed branch of the Augustinian canons, founded, AD 1119, by | , on the Lower Rhine, c. 1080) at Prémontré, a secluded marshy valley in t ... |
Pope Paul VI | In 1965 | decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the ... |
Prime Minister | ... security; providing protection services for the Monarch, Governor General, | , their families and residences, and other ministers of the Crown, visitin ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... in India. In June 1947, the nationalist leaders of British India—including | and Abul Kalam Azad representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Mus ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... h which combines the elements ("battle, hard"), and ("breach, gap, notch"). | Latinised this to Caliburnus (likely influenced by the medieval Latin spel ... |
Pope Stephen VII | ... ittle over seven months; the exact dates are not known. He was succeeded by | (928 or 929–931). Leo VI was son of the primicerius Christopher and held t ... |
Jimmy Swaggart | On October 11, 1991 | was pulled over into an Indio gas station off Indio Blvd. Swaggart was wit ... |
Jacques Chirac | In 1996, | , then French President, granted the former French members of the Internat ... |
Gregory of Tours | ... entury Lombardic manuscript, which contains De cursu stellarum ratio by St. | . The Latin text taught readers how to determine the times of nighttime pr ... |
Roger Williams | ... eory. He broke with the political leadership in Massachusetts, and, just as | created a new polity in Rhode Island, Hooker and his cohort did the same a ... |
Jacint Verdaguer | ... ere was a national boom of writers in the local languages, like the Catalan | and the Galician Rosalía de Castro, the main figures of the national reviv ... |
Franz von Papen | Hindenburg then appointed | as new Reichskanzler. Von Papen lifted the ban on the NSDAP's SA paramilit ... |
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 ... |
George Washington Baines | Johnson was maternally descended from a pioneer Baptist clergyman, | , who pastored some eight churches in Texas as well as others in Arkansas ... |
Reverend Lovejoy | Flanders has been shown to call | for advice often, even over minuscule things, to the point that Lovejoy ha ... |
Turibius of Astorga | ... stimation of Priscillian as a heretic and Manichaean rested upon Augustine, | , Leo the Great and Orosius (who quotes a fragment of a letter of Priscill ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... deral transfer payments by the federal Liberal government of Prime Minister | and concommitant repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan bill of rights which ... |
François Mitterrand | ... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by | , the former Socialist President |
Jayalalitha | ... in 1996. But the coalition ruptured in May 1999 when the leader of AIADMK, | , withdrew her support, and fresh elections were again held |
Alcide De Gasperi | ... facsimile wartime letters from resistance leader and former Prime Minister | requesting the Allies to bomb the outskirts of Rome in order to demoralize ... |
Adam Smith | | and David Hume were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. A n ... |
Samuel Wilberforce | ... Barbara (b. 1799), Elizabeth (b. 1801), Robert Isaac Wilberforce (b. 1802), | (b. 1805) and Henry William Wilberforce (b. 1807). Wilberforce was an indu ... |
Rex Humbard | After years of radio broadcasting in 1952 | became the first to have a weekly church service broadcast on television. ... |
Oren B. Cheney | ... ar College Milo Parker Jewett, founder and first president of Bates College | , founder and first president of Kenyon College Philander Chase, first pro ... |
Antipope Christopher | When | (903–904) seized the seat of St. Peter by force, the Theophylact faction o ... |
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 ... |
Timothy | ... with them before leaving for Athens. In his concern, he sent his delegate, | , to visit the Thessalonians and to return with a report. While, on the wh ... |
Pope Stephen VI | ... ned, an unwelcome decision reversed again after his death. Sergius honoured | (896–897), who had been responsible for the "Cadaver Synod" that had conde ... |
David Lloyd George | During the Second Dáil the Irish Republic and the British Government of | agreed to hold peace negotiations. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Ai ... |
Mark | He was a native of Rome and was chosen as successor of | after the Roman seat had been vacant for four months. He is chiefly known ... |
Philander Chase | ... Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Kenyon College | , first professor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of U ... |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... on of a museum of Canadian history. The federal prime minister at the time, | , suggested, however, that a preservation of the plains themselves would b ... |
Fulton J. Sheen | ... broadcasting in the Spring of 1949. Another television preacher of note was | , who successfully switched to television in 1951 after two decades of pop ... |
Dermot Ryan | ... report criticized four archbishops – John Charles McQuaid who died in 1973, | who died in 1984, Kevin McNamara who died in 1987, and retired Cardinal De ... |
William of Sainte-Mère-Eglise | ... ily he heard of the king's capture, and diverted to Germany. He, along with | , was among the first of Richard's subjects to find the king at Ochsenfurt ... |
Saud | ## | (12 January 1902 – 23 February 1969); reigned 1953–196 |
Jonathan Swift | ... extual criticism as pedantry. His classical controversies also called forth | 's Battle of the Books |
Ronald Knox | ... s the end of his life, he converted to Roman Catholicism. He had hoped that | , a Roman Catholic priest and writer whom he admired, would instruct him i ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... during this period. In 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to | |
Pope Pius XI | ... oly See. Relations with the Holy See were defined during the pontificate of | (1922–1939 |
provincial heads of government | ... of government is known almost exclusively as the prime minister, while the | are termed premiers (save for within Quebec and New Brunswick, where the p ... |
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 ... |
Robert Isaac Wilberforce | ... than ten years: William (b. 1798), Barbara (b. 1799), Elizabeth (b. 1801), | (b. 1802), Samuel Wilberforce (b. 1805) and Henry William Wilberforce (b. ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ng scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the | , devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby ... |
John Newton | ... between October 1860 and 1864. The painting is permanently displayed at the | , Anglican clergyman and author of many hymns including Amazing Grace was ... |
Charles Haughey | ... blican Minister for Agriculture, Neil Blaney, and the Minister for Finance, | , were involved in an attempt to use £100,000 in aid money to import arms ... |
Michael Choniates | ... nae. The town was the birthplace of the Byzantine Greek writers Nicetas and | |
Harold Wilson | In 1964, the new British government under | announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... r "blessed happiness", described by the 13th-century philosopher-theologian | as a Beatific Vision of God's essence in the next life. Human complexities ... |
Peter Ustinov | | played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978) ... |
Jack Wyrtzen | ... began in the 1930s, it did not become widespread until after World War II. | and Percy Crawford switched to TV broadcasting in the Spring of 1949. Anot ... |
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 ... |
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Saint Basil the Great | ... re currently used: one is attributed to Saint John Chrysostom, the other to | . Among the Oriental Orthodox, a variety of anaphoras are used, but all ar ... |
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | ... about patriotism in general, but the false use of the term "patriotism" by | (the patriot-minister) and his supporters; Johnson opposed "self-professed ... |
Pope Gregory VII | ... he tomb of Saint Peter in Rome to defend the Church around 1070–73. In 1074 | was trying to persuade William I, Count of Burgundy, to remember this vow ... |
Jacques Chaban-Delmas | ... sidency. His two main challengers were François Mitterrand for the left and | , a former Gaullist prime minister. Supported by his FNRI party, he obtain ... |
H. D. Deve Gowda | File:Deve Gowda.jpg| | , 1996-199 |
Joseph Stalin | ... ly because he wanted his son Chiang Ching-kuo who was being held hostage by | back. This is contradicted by Chiang Kai-shek himself, who wrote in his di ... |
Avitus | ... troops from among the Franks, the Burgundians, and the Celts. A mission by | , and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king The ... |
Henry William Wilberforce | ... 1801), Robert Isaac Wilberforce (b. 1802), Samuel Wilberforce (b. 1805) and | (b. 1807). Wilberforce was an indulgent and adoring father who revelled in ... |
Giovanni Giolitti | ... upy Ethiopia failed in the First Italo–Ethiopian War of 1895-1896. In 1911, | 's government sent forces to occupy Libya and declared war on the Ottoman ... |
Francis Xavier | ... ly See. His pontificate was marked by the canonizations of Teresa of Avila, | , Ignatius Loyola, Philip Neri and Isidore the Farmer. He also beatified A ... |
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 ... |
Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden | Winterberg was declared a city by | (1238-’61) about 1270. The foundation of the city of Winterberg was presum ... |
Frederick Brown Harris | ... ohn F. Kennedy and General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate | officiated. All three have two things in common: the commanding general of ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... limit of 70, and this continued under his successors. At the start of 1971, | set an age limit of eighty years for electors, who were to number no more ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... tational son from the scene. Louis attended a lunch with Haile Selassie and | . The conversation turned to fossils and Haile wanted to know why none had ... |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | File:Ab vajpayee2.jpg| | , 1998-200 |
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 ... |
Toshiki Kaifu | ... 8 July 1991, after several months of difficult negotiations, Prime Minister | signed a joint statement with the Dutch prime minister and head of the Eur ... |
Simeon of Bulgaria | ... f heirs and princes in several Christian royal houses, such as the cases of | or James Ogilvy |
Pietro Gasparri | ... try to look for Vatican ties. On 11 April 1919, Cardinal Secretary of State | informed the Estonian authorities that the Vatican would agree to have dip ... |
Pope John IX | ... ds. He was his faction's unsuccessful candidate for the papacy in 896. When | (898–900) was elected instead, he excommunicated Sergius, who had to withd ... |
Lim Chong Eu | ... 970s to the late 1990s the state under the administration of Chief Minister | built up one of the largest electronics manufacturing bases in Asia, the F ... |
Woody Allen | ... me "Chris Walken", playing fictional poet and ladies' man Robert Fulmer. In | 's 1977 film Annie Hall, Walken played the suicidal brother of Annie Hall ... |
Fulton J. Sheen | ... o Pulpit on NBC received 4,000 letters weekly and Roman Catholic archbishop | received between 3,000–6,000 letters weekly. The total radio audience for ... |
Pope Julius II | ... s the unfinished statues of the slaves Michelangelo created for the tomb of | . Other sights include the medieval city hall, the Palazzo della Signoria ... |
Pope Sixtus IV | ... impotent, which prevented her from fulfilling her desire to have children. | commissioned three bishops to decide the case, who granted the annulment |
Johan Nygaardsvold | ... e on the national political scene, with Gerhardsen as the Mayor of Oslo and | as Prime Minister of a minority cabinet. During World War II, Gerhardsen t ... |
Alastair Sim | ... musical film in 1970 but critical consensus deems the 1951 version starring | the very best adaptation on film (Kelly 28). Other media adaptations inclu ... |
David | gained by the Ammonites over the king of Bashan. After | ha |
Raymond Barre | ... alry appeared with his prime minister Jacques Chirac, who resigned in 1976. | , called the "best economist in France", succeeded him. He led a policy of ... |
St. Laurence O'Toole | The Book of Glendalough was written there about 1131. | , born in 1128, became Abbot of Glendalough and was well known for his san ... |
Kwame Nkrumah | ... r II, nationalist movements arose across West Africa. In 1957, Ghana, under | , became the first sub-Saharan colony to achieve its independence, followe ... |
José Saraiva Martins | ... process formally opened in the Cathedral Basilica of Belluno with Cardinal | in charge |
Adam Smith | ... therlands remained supreme in this field. Due to its popularity at the time | 's Wealth of Nations was banned due to its criticism of government control ... |
Saparmurat Niyazov | The last living person to be officially proclaimed president for life was | of Turkmenistan |
Pope Formosus | ... the disbursements, and thus of patronage. Sergius III and his party opposed | (891–896), who ordained him bishop of Caere (Cerveteri) in order to remove ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... ents to the imperial constitution that replaced the authoritarian system of | with a parliamentary system |
Thorbjørn Jagland | ... and Cabinet, respectively. Following the resignation of Brundtland in 1996, | was elected leader of the Labour Party and became Prime Minister, while St ... |
Peter Lombard | ... law, including commentaries on the Pauline epistles and on the Sentences of | . He is sometimes referred to as famosissimus doctor |
Eusebius | ... e first four centuries the author is largely dependent on his predecessors, | , Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, Theodoret and Evagrius, his additions sh ... |
Advani | ... onal Congress. He did however groom future political leaders like Vajpayee, | and others. However, the vast majority of the party workers including Upad ... |
Pope Sergius II | ... 9 and took up his residence in that country and was crowned king at Rome by | on 15 June 844. He at once claimed the rights of an emperor in the city, w ... |
Wojciech Jaruzelski | ... jailed when martial law came into effect on December 13, 1981 under General | . After a one year prison term the high-ranking members of the union were ... |
Samuel Wesley | ... nglish leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet | , the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clerg ... |
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 ... |
Robert Peel | ... They arise from the attempted assassination of the British Prime Minister, | , in 1843 by Daniel M'Naghten. In fact, M'Naghten fired a pistol at the ba ... |
Plutarch | ... st of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying (according to | ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new memb ... |
William Whewell | ... ibed as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s, | coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas ... |
Hydatius | ... ssures to retire "from Italy without ever setting foot south of the Po." As | writes |
Saint Timothy | ... ing to Gentiles. At a later period, Paul's epistles place him with Paul and | at Ephesus, whence he was sent by Paul to Corinth, Greece for the purpose ... |
Karl Barth | ... opponents were ostracized and expelled from the university. The theologian | was forced to resign and to emigrate to Switzerland for refusing to swear ... |
Brynjólfur Sveinsson | ... is known of its whereabouts until 1643 when it came into the possession of | , then the Church of Iceland's Bishop of Skálholt. At that time, versions ... |
Alfonso López Trujillo | Cardinal | was a central figure at the Medellín Conference, and was elected in 1972 a ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister | ... of the British crown; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the | , from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown ... |
Vajpayee | ... ndian National Congress. He did however groom future political leaders like | , Advani and others. However, the vast majority of the party workers inclu ... |
Patrick Hillery | ... e Armageddon. As the violence continued, the Minister for External Affairs, | , met with the British Foreign Secretary and also went to the United Natio ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Becket acquired a position in the household of Theobald of Bec, by now the | |
Andrew Carnegie | ... g located in downtown Medford. It was erected in 1911 thanks to a gift from | , but was vacated in 2004 after a new library building was constructed nea ... |
Pope John XI | ... on the Roman citizenry like a man" and her daughter Marozia, the mother of | (931–935) and reputed to be the mistress of Sergius III, largely upon a re ... |
Robert Stillington | ... e dead by this time, but a clergyman (named only by Philippe de Commines as | , Bishop of Bath and Wells), claimed to have carried out the ceremony. The ... |
John Chrysostom | ... urch service. The latter include settings of portions of the Liturgy of St. | (despite his staunch atheism) |
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 "... ... |
Pope Leo IV | ... was decisively rejected; but in 850 he was crowned joint emperor at Rome by | , and soon afterwards, in 851, married Engelberga and undertook the indepe ... |
Pope Sergius III | ... own monastery, Nicholas regarded his deposition as unjustified and involved | in the dispute |
David | ... byword or collective name for the oppressors of the Israelite nation before | . Muslim tradition sees the battle with the Philistines as a prefiguration ... |
Charles E. Fuller | ... 1928–1962), G. E. Lowman (1930–1965), The Lutheran Hour (1930–present), and | (1937–1968). Time magazine reported in 1946 that Rev. Ralph Sockman's Nati ... |
Theodoret | ... ly dependent on his predecessors, Eusebius, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, | and Evagrius, his additions showing very little critical faculty; for the ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... nistration of the affairs of the executive. The incumbent prime minister is | , in office since 22 May 2004 |
Luigi Sturzo | ... ions as well. This led to a surgence of the Partito Populare Italiano under | . Anti-Catholic politicians were gradually replaced by persons who were ne ... |
Wilhelm von Gennep | ... ed by Gottfried IV. von Arnsberg during his war with the Cologne archbishop | . For the reconstruction the archbishop granted an at first ten-year-old t ... |
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 ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
Giuseppe Caprio | ... des, he was not the naive idealist his critics made him out to be. Cardinal | , the substitute Papal Secretary of State, said that John Paul quickly acc ... |
Theodore Schneider | ... well, Wally Amos, Licensed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, | , Erykah Badu, Matt Hoverman, author Victoria Moran, Patricia Neal, Holmes ... |
Eugênio de Araújo Sales | ... cardinals are barred from the conclave. The current cardinal protopriest is | of Brazil |
Lord John Russell | ... he Corn Laws. His colleagues resisted this. Soon afterwards the Whig leader | declared in favour of repeal. On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ustody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President | |
Liutprand of Cremona | The pontificate of Sergius III, according to | , was remarkable for the rise of what papal historians saw as a "pornocrac ... |
Bob Larson | ... n response to the criticisms of Christian Rock music by American evangelist | , whom Norman regularly lampooned at his concerts. Norman's 1969 apocalypt ... |
Adam Smith | ... to the remainder of society in this sense may be deemed to be "antisocial". | wrote that a society "may subsist among different men, as among different ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | ... Partnership." This was the among many historic steps led by Prime Minister | to strengthen global economic stability |
Sheilagh M. Kesting | ... be chosen since George Buchanan, four centuries before. In May 2007 the Rev | became the first female minister to be Moderator |
Tommy Douglas | ... ession of the 1930s. The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier | , and made major inroads in British Columbia |
Clement Attlee | ... ister in the world: Chris Watson. In 1945, the British Labour Party, led by | , was elected to office based upon a radical socialist programme. Social D ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... on rare occasions, generally due to a building falling into disrepair. When | abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... as turned down both times by Meir. A new government was seated in June, and | , who had spent most of the war as an advisor to Elazar in an unofficial c ... |
Irenaeus | ... ed to a figure called Abraxas who was at the head of 365 spiritual beings ( | , Adversus Haereses, I.24); it is unclear what to make of Irenaeus' use of ... |
Juan Bautista Villalpando | ... ders and an unknown Temple plan (possible derived from the Jesuit architect | who produced a classical reconstruction of the sanctum sanctorum at the he ... |
Jon Sobrino | ... ng theology from the perspective of the poor and the oppressed. For example | , S.J., argues that the poor are a privileged channel of God's grace |
Robert Grosseteste | Englishman | 's treatise De iride ("On the Rainbow"), written between 1220 and 1235, me ... |
Theobald of Bec | ... nd her family may have originated near Caen. Gilbert was perhaps related to | , whose family also was from Thierville. Gilbert began his life as a merch ... |
Richard Baxter | However, | ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria ... |
Howard | The | government in Australia was a strong and largely uncritical supporter of U ... |
Ludovico Ludovisi | ... her, the Duchy of Zagarolo, purchased from the Colonna family by his nephew | in 1622. A second nephew, Niccolò, was made reigning Prince of Piombino an ... |
Prime Minister of Norway | ... Norwegian politician, leader of the Norwegian Labour Party and the current | . Having assumed office on 17 October 2005, Stoltenberg previously served ... |
Lord Stanley | ... d decided to recall Parliament during January 1846 to repeal the Corn Laws. | resigned from the Cabinet in protest. The next day Peel resigned as Prime ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, | in Philippines, for example |
Endymion | ... daughter of Zeus and the Moon (Selene), sister of Pandia and half-sister to | 's 50 daughters |
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 ... |
David | ... en each of the family lines that had descended from those appointed by king | . Luke states that during the week when it was the duty of his family line ... |
Samuel Wesley | Charles Wesley was the son of Susanna Wesley and | . He was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, where his father was rect ... |
John Stuart Mill | ... dels of a school of art and a public library, or from little toy figures of | , poet Felicia Hemans, and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiv ... |
Bob Jones, Sr. | ... U.S. beginning in the 1920s–1930s include (years of radio broadcast shown): | (1927–1962), Ralph W. Sockman (1928–1962), G. E. Lowman (1930–1965), The L ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... ad reached 3,000 "Jews and Partisans". On 1 August, after a meeting between | , Erich von Bach-Zelewski and Hinrich Lohse, the brigades received the fol ... |
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 ... |
Wilhelm Frick | ... , Minister of the Interior for Prussia, and Reich Commissioner of Aviation. | was named Reich Interior Minister. Frick and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS ... |
Gro Harlem Brundtland | ... abour Party, and Progress party joined forces. A minority government led by | took over through the rest of the parliamentary period |
Francis Asbury | Whitefield is honored together with | with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) ... |
Jean Rey | ... rojects of the day, such as the European Monetary Union. In 1970, President | secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President Roy ... |
Thomas Henry Huxley | ... ion of "Why does opium cause sleep?" with "Because of its soporific power." | compared vitalism to stating that water is the way it is because of its "a ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both | 's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the A ... |
Charles Coughlin | ... s, a famous radio evangelist of the period was Roman Catholic priest Father | , whose strongly anti-Communist and anti-Semitic radio programs reached mi ... |
Shimon Peres | ... 994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and | , for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas and other militant ... |
Leonardo Boff | ... nt's most famous books, A Theology of Liberation. Other noted exponents are | of Brazil, Jon Sobrino of El Salvador, and Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay |
Henry de Sully | ... astic cathedral of Worcester, he disciplined the monks between the death of | and the election of John of Coutances, as was his right as the archbishop ... |
Nawaz Sharif | ... elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was followed by | , and over the next decade the two leaders fought for power, alternating i ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... Another 9 million Germans from former eastern German provinces, over which | and eastern neighbour states extended military hegemony in 1945, were expe ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for | . The ZIP code is 49780 |
Heinrich Himmler | ... , a member of the SS, lampooned Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels | ;, however, stepped in to reprimand Willrich and defended Benn on the grou ... |
Najib Tun Razak | On September 2010, in an interview with CNBC, Dato' Seri | , which is the Prime Minister of Malaysia and also the Finance Minister sa ... |
Pope Gregory V | Gerbert now became the teacher of Otto III, and | (996–999), Otto III's cousin, appointed him Archbishop of Ravenna in 998. ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's History of the Kings of Britain is the first non-Welsh source to speak ... |
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 ... |
Adam Smith | ... antilist writers presenting an overarching scheme for the ideal economy, as | would later do for classical economics. Rather, each mercantilist writer t ... |
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 ... |
John Wilkins | ... y Basil and Chrysostom. The result of this reading, and of the influence of | , Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was seen in the general tone of hi ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
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 ... |
Romano Prodi | ... os and being able to force the resignation of Commissioners. When President | took office with the new powers of the Treaty of Amsterdam, he was dubbed ... |
Pope Pius IX | On the apparent contradictions between Dignitatis Humanæ and | 's Syllabus of Errors—seeming contradictions that, e.g., the Society of St ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... i government. In 1994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with | and Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas an ... |
Mitt Romney | ... on Paul, but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow. | ultimately won the state by a narrow margin |
Siegfried III | ... the war of Emperor Frederick II against the Pope, the Archbishop of Mainz, | , ordered the city's destruction |
Jerzy Popiełuszko | In addition, the priest | , who regularly gave sermons to the striking workers, was eventually kille ... |
Seán Fortune | ... BBC Television documentary "Suing the Pope", which highlighted the case of | , one of the most notorious clerical sexual offenders, the Irish governmen ... |
Plutarch | ... he height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and | documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histor ... |
Caesar Baronius | ... ius and the Church historians, and damned Constantine as a tyrant. Cardinal | , a man of the Counter-Reformation, criticized Zosimus, favoring Eusebius' ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... ext of the sponsorship scandal that came to light soon after Prime Minister | left office, Bédard asserted that she had been forced to resign from her m ... |
Pit Preacher | ... ents will gather, often engaging in lively debate with speakers such as the | . The Morehead–Patterson Bell Tower, located in the heart of campus, tolls ... |
Pope Clement IV | ... ów was first mentioned under the Old Polish name of Lubin in a 1267 deed by | as a fiefdom of Trzebnica Abbey |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and Benazir Bhutto, daughter of | , was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was foll ... |
Archbishop of Mainz | ... ever, in 1242, during the war of Emperor Frederick II against the Pope, the | , Siegfried III, ordered the city's destruction |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Michael Collins | ... this idea was never really embraced by later separatist leaders, especially | , and never came to anything, although Kevin O'Higgins toyed with the idea ... |
Raymond Barre | ... wo right-wing candidates, his two former Prime Ministers Jacques Chirac and | . This attitude was interpreted as indicating that he wanted to regain the ... |
Pope John XV | ... much opposition to Gerbert's elevation to the See of Rheims, however, that | (985–996) sent a legate to France who temporarily suspended Gerbert from h ... |
Iphigenia | ... on in the year he killed the sacred deer. This was his first-born daughter, | . He sent word home for her to come (in some versions of the story on the ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... to the British ambassador to the court of Hanover through the influence of | when the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, three months later put an ... |
D. James Kennedy | ... t in the United States. Moser states that DeVos was a supporter of the late | , giving more than $5 million to Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries. DeVos w ... |
Juan Luis Segundo | ... oted exponents are Leonardo Boff of Brazil, Jon Sobrino of El Salvador, and | of Uruguay |
Luis de Molina | ... 3–1546), Domingo de Soto (1494–1560), Martin de Azpilcueta (1491–1586), and | (1535–1600). Themes also existed in writers from the German historical sch ... |
Augustus III of Poland | King | died in 1763, and therefore Poland needed to elect a new ruler. Catherine ... |
Józef Beck | ... in Europe. The government (foreign policy conduct was the responsibility of | ) undertook opportunistic hostile actions against Lithuania and Czechoslov ... |
Anselm of Lucca | ... siastical and political conflicts between the papacy and the secular power: | and Cardinal Deusdedit inserted it in their collections of canons; Gratian ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... documents have led some to question the Church's commitment to ecumenism . | personally endorsed Dominus Iesus, and ratified and confirmed it "with sur ... |
Benazir Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and | , daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime M ... |
Marcel Lefebvre | ... er, almost immediately a lightning rod for conservative attacks. Archbishop | cited this document as one of the fundamental reasons for his difficulties ... |
Benito Mussolini | Thenceforth, the National Fascist Party of | successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ... |
John of Coutances | ... sciplined the monks between the death of Henry de Sully and the election of | , as was his right as the archbishop of the province. In his own diocese, ... |
Sinéad O'Connor | ... ated with Neneh Cherry, Madonna, David Bowie, Mos Def, Elizabeth Fraser and | amongst many others. Despite the group's many associations with Bristol, C ... |
Édouard Balladur | ... st of the UDF politicians supported the candidacy of the RPR Prime minister | at the 1995 presidential election, but Giscard supported his old rival Jac ... |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... hese include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, | the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inven ... |
Bishop Zummáraga | ... Tlatolatl. The statue appeared some years later during an investigation by | in the 1530s, only to be lost again. There is speculation that the statue ... |
Eunapius | ... great pagan emperors, and given over to luxury and greed. Following Julian, | began—and Zosimus continued—a historiographic tradition that blamed Consta ... |
Jon Sobrino | ... Theology of Liberation. Other noted exponents are Leonardo Boff of Brazil, | of El Salvador, and Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay |
Karl Barth | ... tianity and on theologians and religious thinkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, | , Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
Duke of Wellington | ... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the | . The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ... |
Aimee Semple McPherson | ... is powerful oratory reaching a nationwide audience of five million persons. | was another pioneering tent-revivalist who soon turned to radio to reach a ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... re winning a by-election a few weeks later. Similarly, John Turner replaced | as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prim ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tarcisio Bertone | ... eph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and of its then Secretary, Archbishop | , now Cardinal Secretary of State. The declaration was approved by Pope Jo ... |
Egidio Vagnozzi | ... ressure continued on Murray, with Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. Archbishop | attempting to silence him. Cardinal Spellman, along with his Jesuit superi ... |
John Whitgift | ... he had no love for ecclesiastical jurisdiction. He warmly remonstrated with | , the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, over his persecuting Articles of ... |
Benedict XVI | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now | ), who was prefect of the CDF at the time when the Instructions were issue ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
Woody Allen | Later that year, she starred in | 's Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena, a mentally unstable woman. Pet ... |
Antonio Vivaldi | ... wrote concertos in the style of Corelli. He also had a strong influence on | |
Pope Nicholas I | ... gia, and King Charles the Bald. But after Louis had secured the election of | in 858, he became reconciled with his brother, and received some lands sou ... |
Ali Salman | ... ral of the leading Shia clerics who were organising the petition, including | |
Władysław Sikorski | ... ously diminished by the death of its most prominent leader — Prime Minister | — on July 4, 1943 |
Kirill I of Moscow | ... ian Orthodox church of Yerevan was conducted on 18 March 2010, by Patriarch | . The church is being built on Admiral Isakov Avenue, and is set to be fin ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... tical jurisdiction. He warmly remonstrated with John Whitgift, the Anglican | , over his persecuting Articles of 1583. The finest encomium was passed on ... |
Ehud Barak | ... f the Second Intifada led to a sharp swing to the right in Israeli politics | ;was defeated by in 2001 |
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 ... |
Lord Finlay | ... s Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven of Cuba and | of the United Kingdom were elected by a majority vote of both the Council ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... ion of Wilberforce and Bishop Porteus, King George III was requested by the | to issue in 1787 the Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice, as a rem ... |
John Donne | ... losed and self-contained, as opposed to the enjambed couplets of poets like | . The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of ... |
Prime Minister | ... niel McNaughton. They arise from the attempted assassination of the British | , Robert Peel, in 1843 by Daniel M'Naghten. In fact, M'Naghten fired a pis ... |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | With Pakistan's defeat in the war, Yahya Khan was replaced by | as Chief Martial Law Administrator. Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 197 ... |
Arthur Wellesley | ... onnected passenger, Lady Barbara Wellesley, the fictional younger sister of | (later to become the Duke of Wellington) become dangerously attracted to e ... |
Stephen Fry | ... s the basis for the 1997 film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert and starring | as the title character |
Vicelinus | German missionaries such as St | converted the Obotrites to Christianity. In 1170 they acknowledged the suz ... |
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 ... |
John Turner | ... rom the hallway" before winning a by-election a few weeks later. Similarly, | replaced Pierre Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequ ... |
Archbishop of Westminster | ... in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1709 and died there in 1770. Cardinal Basil Hume, | (1976–1999) was born in the city in 1923. Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwoo ... |
Kukrit Pramoj | ... Don Camillo was taken and adapted by the famous Thai writer and politician, | , into his own 1954 novel, Phai Daeng (Red Bamboo) |
Lord Salisbury | Curzon became Assistant Private Secretary to | in 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-w ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | The original inventors of radio, such as Nikola Tesla and | , expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless communication tasks where ... |
bishop | ... cardinal bishops. Those who are named cardinal priests today are generally | s of important dioceses throughout the world, though some hold Curial posi ... |
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 ... |
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | ... lpted in Carrara, Italy in 1882, and was unveiled by future Prime Minister, | on 6 April 1882. Today, it features on the 2007 series of £5 notes issued ... |
George Berkeley | ... foundation of Isaac Newton's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of | , author of The Analys |
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 ... |
Martin Luther | Although | personally believed and taught resurrection of the dead in combination wit ... |
Augustin Bea | ... l both the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity led by Cardinal | and the Theological Commission (led by Cardinal ) introduced revised draft ... |
Pope John XIII | ... ll II made a pilgrimage to Rome, taking Gerbert with him. There Gerbert met | (965–972) and the Emperor Otto I, surnamed the Great (936–973). The Pope p ... |
Brian Cowen | ... on of the in 2005.In response to the Ferns Report, Ireland's Prime Minister | stated that he was "ashamed by the extent, length, and cruelty" of child a ... |
Rudolf Hess | ... played hostess to meetings of leading Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, | , Alfred Rosenberg, and Ernst Röhm. Hitler later recalled his early associ ... |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... of prosperity and a determination to defeat the Axis powers. Prime Minister | and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were determined not to repeat the mist ... |
Arthur Blessitt | Norman, along with Pat Boone | ;; Duane Pederson; Jack Sparks, a founder of the Spiritual Counterfeits Pr ... |
Lord Finlay | ... ice-President on 12 September 1928 to succeed Weiss, while a second death ( | ) left the Court increasingly understaffed. Replacements for Moore and Fin ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... rab Emirates. The sense of regional uncertainty was further heightened when | 's Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the 1991 Persian Gulf War |
Archbishop of Dublin | ... well known for his sanctity and hospitality. Even after his appointment as | in 1162, he returned occasionally to Glendalough, to the solitude of St. K ... |
John Macquarrie | ... nkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and | |
Iphis | #A daughter of | or Phylax and wife of Capaneus, with whom she gave birth to Sthenelus. Her ... |
Francis Spellman | ... Murray was called to the Council in April, 1963 at the request of Cardinal | of New York (who was otherwise a theological conservative) to be a peritus ... |
Paul VI | ... abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes | and John Paul II continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular chu ... |
Ernst Röhm | ... ng Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, and | . Hitler later recalled his early association with Göring |
Dirk Jan de Geer | ... o back them and had few employees to assist them. The Dutch prime minister, | , believed the Allies would not win and intended to open negotiations with ... |
Billy Sunday | Early 20th century American preacher | epitomizes the Evangelical focus on "going to heaven" in his sermon “Heave ... |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... n expected to seek election to the Commons as soon as possible. For example | , after losing his seat in the same general election that his party won, b ... |
David | ... liath appears in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative of | and Saul's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an ... |
Jimmy Swaggart | ... ngs, includes a jab with an impression in the middle eight at televangelist | . The song "On the Fritz", the title track from Taylor's next studio album ... |
Basil Hume | ... y, was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1709 and died there in 1770. Cardinal | , Archbishop of Westminster (1976–1999) was born in the city in 1923. Vice ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... m “Final Solution” to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people.” | was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitl ... |
Joseph Stalin | Meanwhile, | and his Soviet Union in the 1920s and early of 1930s stood by Japan’s inva ... |
Robin Harper | ... er of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) elected by proportional representation, | , the UK's first Green Parliamentarian. On 1 May 2003 the Scottish Greens ... |
Prime Minister | ... tions. The UK has an ethnic Indian population of over 1.6 million. In 2010, | David Cameron described Indian – British relations as the "New Special Rel ... |
Roger Williams | ... ony, clashing with the more conservative Thomas Dudley and the more liberal | and Henry Vane. Although Winthrop was a respected political figure, his at ... |
Lionel Jospin | ... e Dynamics and the missile division of Alenia Marconi Systems to form MBDA. | 's Plural Left government initiated the privatization of Aérospatiale |
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 |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki | ... of August a Solidarity-led coalition government was formed and in December | was elected Prime Minister. Since 1989 Solidarity has become a more tradit ... |
Brian Mulroney | Canada's | ran on a similar platform to Reagan, and also favored closer trade ties wi ... |
Thomas Sydserf | ... eral to Oliver Cromwell. About 1661 he was ordained without subscription by | , a Scottish bishop. Tillotson was present at the Savoy Conference in 1661 ... |
Michael Collins | ... ions in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, attending with | |
Georges Clemenceau | ... rman Protestants rejected any “Papal Peace” as insulting. French politician | regarded the Vatican initiative as anti-French. Benedict made many unsucce ... |
Kirby J. Hensley | The ULC was founded in 1959 under the name "Life Church" by the Reverend | . He operated the church out of his garage. Disappointed with the Pentecos ... |
Giovanni Botero | ... , and Spain produced noted writers of mercantilist themes including Italy's | (1544–1617) and Antonio Serra (1580-?); France's, Jean Bodin, Colbert and ... |
Sancroft | ... ame time named dean of St Paul's. Soon afterwards he was elected to succeed | ; but accepted the promotion with extreme reluctance, and it was deferred ... |
St Augustine | The first Archbishop of Canterbury was | (not to be confused with St Augustine of Hippo), who arrived in Kent in 59 ... |
John Sparrow David Thompson | ... succeeded prime ministers who died in office (John A. Macdonald in 1891 and | in 1894), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... od, attempting to gain supporters in a bid for political power. Inspired by | 's March on Rome, the Nazis attempted to seize power in Munich on 8–9 Nove ... |
Ersilio Tonini | ... e oldest living cardinal, following the death of Cardinal Mayer in 2010, is | , the Archbishop Emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia (born 1914, elevated 1994) |
Ernest Solvay | In 1861, the Belgian industrial chemist | developed a method to convert sodium chloride to sodium carbonate using am ... |
Nicolas Sarkozy | ... chy-era identity documents. During the 2007 presidential election, however, | was polled on the issue and stated that he favoured the collection of data ... |
Ányos Jedlik | ... kola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, | , Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von ... |
James Henry Monk | ... nathan Toup, T Tyrwhitt, Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd and | . Although the Dutch school of the period had its own tradition, it was al ... |
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 ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... ing even a limited defeat on the Israelis, the status quo could be altered. | , the leader of Syria, had a different view. He had little interest in neg ... |
Prime Minister of Norway | ... . He served as Minister of Trade and Shipping in 1963 and 1965–1970, and as | from 1981 to 1986. Willoch was Chairman of the Conservative Party 1970–197 ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... Freeway (Hwy 401) is named after Cartier and fellow Father of Confederation | , as are Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International Airport and the Macdonal ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... and Freedom, a political rally for African American civil rights, at which | gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech |
Michael Collins | ... ed as being due to heart failure. He died at the age of 50, ten days before | ' assassination in County Cork. He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery four d ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... rnment Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( | in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894), a convention that has si ... |
Ruud Lubbers | ... t with the Dutch prime minister and head of the European Community Council, | , and with the European Commission president, Jacques Delors, pledging clo ... |
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 ... |
José María Morelos | ... 1810 by Miguel Hidalgo, starting the Mexican War of Independence. In 1813, | and the Congress of Anáhuac signed the Solemn Act of the Declaration of In ... |
John of Salisbury | ... traditional historiography has given them names. The known biographers are | , Edward Grim, Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fi ... |
Burke | ... of a National Liberal school of thought. Sybel had been much influenced by | , on whom he had published two essays. The work was in fact the first atte ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... ix cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons; however, | began to exceed the overall limit of 70, and this continued under his succ ... |
George Colley | ... from the very beginning, however, other candidates such as Charles Haughey, | and Neil Blaney threw their hats into the ring immediately. None of the ca ... |
Bishop of London | ... Dunstan) from exile to have him made Bishop of Worcester (and subsequently | and Archbishop of Canterbury). Dunstan remained Edgar's advisor throughout ... |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... inister. Two former prime ministers Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir | served in the 1890s while members of the Senate; both, in their roles as G ... |
Albertus Magnus | ... and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris and | , while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas |
Archbishop of Canterbury | John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was an | (1691–1694) |
Guillaume Dubois | ... u was so successful that his successor, Jules Mazarin, was also a cardinal. | and André-Hercule de Fleury complete the list of the "four great" cardinal ... |
Walter Kasper | ... archaic term "Unction of the Sick" or the term "Extreme Unction". Cardinal | used the latter term in his intervention at the 2005 . However, the Church ... |
Pope Urban VIII | ... uly 1623, and was buried in the Church of Sant'Ignazio. He was succeeded by | |
Bishop of Worcester | ... d Dunstan (eventually canonised as St. Dunstan) from exile to have him made | (and subsequently Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury). Dunstan ... |
Prime Minister | ... roposals for a sliding scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new | , the Duke of Wellington, devised a new sliding scale for the Importation ... |
Pope Paul II | ... the death of his first consort, Maria of Tver (1467), at the suggestion of | (1469), who hoped thereby to bind Russia to the Holy See, Ivan III wedded ... |
Robert Peel | ... of Adam Smith and the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws by | symbolised the emergence of free trade as an alternative system. Mercantil ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... to have him made Bishop of Worcester (and subsequently Bishop of London and | ). Dunstan remained Edgar's advisor throughout his reign |
Richard Barre | ... ices. Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, Ralph Foliot, | , William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Hervey, had mostly ... |
Nightcrawler | ... aturing several X-Men in solo series, such as Emma Frost, Gambit, Mystique, | , and Rogue. Another book, Exiles, started at the same time and concluded ... |
Pope Pius IX | ... ers, who held on to traditional ideas of relations with the secular powers. | had condemned the idea of religious freedom. Pope Leo XIII, who had establ ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Queen Mother. Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then | , Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (h ... |
Bishop of Worcester | ... ossibly the third largest in England, was founded by Saint Egwin, the third | , in around 701 AD, following the vision of the Virgin Mary to a local swi ... |
André-Hercule de Fleury | ... hat his successor, Jules Mazarin, was also a cardinal. Guillaume Dubois and | complete the list of the "four great" cardinals to have ruled |
Pope Leo XIII | Pope Pius IX had condemned the idea of religious freedom. | , who had established working relationships with both the French and Germa ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... the most famous speech of his career. Drawing on allusions to and quotes of | , Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Alfred Lord Tennyson to say that American ... |
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 Stuart Mill | ... y, based on the resulting happiness of such behavior. Utilitarians, such as | and Jeremy Bentham, advocated the greatest happiness principle as a guide ... |
Pietro Gasparri | ... hese allegations were rejected by the Vatican’s Cardinal Secretary of State | , who wrote on 4 March 1916 that the Holy See is completely impartial and ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... hat a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh community. | reiterated Gandhi's assurance to the Sikhs at the All India Congress Commi ... |
Stephen Harper | | and George W. Bush were thought to share warm personal relations and also ... |
Francesco Barberini | ... chetti who in turn introduced him to another of his early patrons, Cardinal | . Financial difficulties arose with the departure to Spain of Barberini, a ... |
Geoffrey Fisher | ... the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, | , the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (his maternal grand ... |
Lord Liverpool | ... ent of peace during 1814, corn prices decreased, and the Tory government of | passed the 1815 Corn Law. This resulted in serious rioting in London |
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's | ... r 15) and Aniversario de la Independencia (September 16) commemorate Father | Grito de Dolores — on September 16, 1810, in the village of Dolores, near ... |
John of Viktring | The ceremony was first described by the chronicler | on the occasion of the coronation of Meinhard II of Tyrol in 1286. It is a ... |
Ralph Foliot | ... of royal justices. Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, | , Richard Barre, William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Her ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... licence, or in some cases cloned, on several continents. Former Iraqi ruler | often carried a Browning Hi-Power. Former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi car ... |
Dunstan | Upon Eadwig's death in October 959, Edgar immediately recalled | (eventually canonised as St. Dunstan) from exile to have him made Bishop o ... |
Alexander Fleming | ... tibiotics. Penicillin, a drug produced by P. chrysogenum, was discovered by | in 1929, and found to inhibit the growth of Gram positive bacteria (see be ... |
Chrysostom | ... f to an exact study of biblical and patristic writers, especially Basil and | . The result of this reading, and of the influence of John Wilkins, Master ... |
Pope Adrian II | ... he was released from his oath, and was crowned a second time as emperor by | on May 18, 872 |
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" |
Luigi Facta | ... re intending to restore law and order. The Fascists demanded Prime Minister | 's resignation and that Mussolini be named to the post. Although the Itali ... |
Thomas Gataker | ... g. Before him there were only John Selden, and, in a more restricted field, | and Pearson. "Bentley inaugurated a new era of the art of criticism. He op ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... the United States began to campaign for the overthrow of Iraq's President, | . The United States, under the administration of George W. Bush, argued th ... |
Thomas Becket | ... efore Anthelm himself died on 26 June 1178. He was named in honour of Saint | |
Edward Everett Hale | ... any sources state that Edward Everett Horton's grandfather and namesake was | , author of The Man Without a Country. Horton attended the Boys' High Scho ... |
Thomas Carlyle | ... c after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to give generously; and | expressed a generous hospitality by staging two Christmas dinners after re ... |
Prime Minister of Portugal | ... 2004. He is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and is the former | . Barroso is the eleventh President and in 2009 was re-elected for a furth ... |
Charles Haughey | ... dership election from the very beginning, however, other candidates such as | , George Colley and Neil Blaney threw their hats into the ring immediately ... |
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 ... |
David | ... hence reflecting the changing tribal boundaries. claims that by the time of | , the town was under the control of Philistines, but subsequently was give ... |
Irenaeus | Charges of Gnostic libertinism find their source in the works of | . According to this writer, Simon Magus (whom he has identified as the pro ... |
Domingo de Soto | ... anish School of Salamanca writers Francisco de Vitoria (1480 or 1483–1546), | (1494–1560), Martin de Azpilcueta (1491–1586), and Luis de Molina (1535–16 ... |
Joseph Hall | At the cost of some discomfort to the Mayor, a Royalist, and the bishop, | , a moderate, was targeted because of his position as bishop |
José Manuel Barroso | ... s responsible to Parliament which can censure him. The current President is | , who took office in October 2004. He is a member of the European People's ... |
Jean Chrétien | Although | was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he and Bill ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... ief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. An even more prominent example is that of | , whose power was so great that he was for many years the real ruler of Fr ... |
George Gavan Duffy | ... tment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and | as envoys plenipotentiary for the peace conference in England. Of the five ... |
Pope Sylvester I | ... f the Papacy. Hence, by the early fourth century, a legend had emerged that | (314–35) had cured the pagan emperor from leprosy. According to this legen ... |
Mitt Romney | ... Republican Party presidential primaries, McCain endorsed former 2008 rival | and campaigned for him, but compared the contest to a Greek tragedy due to ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... is diary entry of December 13, 1941, the day after Hitler’s private speech, | wrote |
Roelf Meyer | In February 1994, Cyril Ramaphosa and | , chief negotiators of the African National Congress and the National Part ... |
Bishop of Durham | ... cies, by a wide array of scholars and historians. According to the Anglican | , the Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright, the novel is a "great thriller" but "lousy his ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... as of London, and later Thomas à Becket; circa 1118 – 29 December 1170) was | from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr ... |
Anthony O'Connell | ... hild abuse allegations. Resigned bishop Joseph Keith Symons was replaced by | , who later also resigned in 2002 |
Vadirajatirtha | ... ne of Ramanujacharya's disciples who visited the temple with his Guru. Shri | , most prominent among the Madhva saints, is believed to have climbed the ... |
Bertie Ahern | ... onses==In an address before the Irish parliament on May 11, 1999, Taoiseach | announced a comprehensive program to respond to the scandal of abuse in th ... |
John MacArthur | ... criticism from other Christian ministers. For example, well-known preacher | published a number of articles in December 2009 that were highly critical ... |
Antipope Christopher | Pope Leo V (903) and | both died in 904, allegedly strangled in prison on the order of Sergius, a ... |
vicar | In Anglican churches, a curate may be commonly called a | , a rector or a priest-in-charge (depending upon the way s/he has been lic ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... s of thousands had already been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms. | 's speech at the Posen Conference of October 6, 1943, for the first time, ... |
Pope Alexander III | ... the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonized by | |
Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels | ... ish: Academy of the Prince-elector of Cologne) which was founded in 1777 by | , the prince-elector of Cologne. In the spirit of the Enlightenment the ne ... |
Stephen Harper | The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's | , who was appointed on 6 February 2006 by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, ... |
Vyacheslav Molotov | Sovetsk is the birthplace of | |
Plutarch | ... asury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia. However, | indicates that many of Pericles' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as u ... |
Désiré-Joseph Mercier | ... d to have exclaimed to be sorry not to be a Frenchman. The Belgian Cardinal | , known as a brave patriot during German occupation but also famous for hi ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... claration on Christian Education. It was promulgated on October 28, 1965 by | , following approval by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,290 to 35 |
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 ... |
Patrick Hillery | ... atened to tear Fianna Fáil apart. Lynch, and another favourite of Lemass's, | , ruled themselves out of the leadership election from the very beginning, ... |
Michael Collins | ... ident of Dáil Éireann (1919–21), President of the Republic (1921–1922), and | , Minister for Finance, head of the IRB and the Irish Republican Army's Di ... |
François Mitterrand | ... sign competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president | . Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engi ... |
Anselm | ... ed a number of windows, and more recent additions include windows to Saints | and Nicholas. The Coronation window is in the north aisle above the Tripty ... |
Brian Mulroney | Relations between | and Ronald Reagan were famously close. This relationship resulted in negot ... |
Woody Allen | ... 1988), Dream On (1993) and (1993). Verdon appeared as Alice's mother in the | movie Alice (1990) and as Ruth in Marvin's Room (1996), co-starring Meryl ... |
Pope John XXIII | On 15 December 1958, Luciani was appointed Bishop of Vittorio Veneto by | . He received his episcopal consecration on the following 27 December from ... |
Saint Peter | ... lly to the see of the Bishop of Rome, whom that Church sees as successor of | , the head of the apostles |
Mitt Romney | ... rizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Governor | (R-Massachusetts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while fo ... |
Bishop of Quebec | ... 20 July 1703, by Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier, | . The parish was the first established on the Gulf Coast of the United Sta ... |
Saddam | ... as an “anti-American radical” who “routinely repeats the propaganda of the | regime” and, along with all of the 99 other professors in his book, , Horo ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... esbefehl No. 47, that originated with Hitler's Reich Minister of Propaganda | |
Pope John XI | ... who suggested that Pope Joan's tale may have originated in a satire against | , who died in his early 20s. Blondel, through detailed analysis of the cla ... |
Pope Leo XIII | In 1882 | had a Mass and an Office composed for his feast day, which he set at 14 Ap ... |
Macaulay | ... Borgia the precursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, including | and Lord Acton, have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the adm ... |
Girolamo Bortignon | In 1947, he was named vicar general to Bishop | , OFM Cap, of Belluno. Two years later, in 1949, he was placed in charge o ... |
Archbishopric of Mainz | ... cial title of two sees: as well as Rome, the Bishopric of Mainz (the former | ), which was also of electoral and primatial rank, bears the title of "the ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... early thirteenth centuries in the positions of Chief Justiciar of England, | , and Lord Chancellor. As chancellor, Walter began the keeping of the Char ... |
Levi Eshkol | ... fter heavy lobbying by Levinger, the settlement gained the tacit support of | and Yigal Allon, while it was opposed by Abba Eban and Pinhas Sapir. After ... |
Pope John XII | ... an, theorized that the story of Pope Joan may have originated from tales of | ; John, it is reported, had many mistresses, including one called Joan, wh ... |
Felix of Ravenna | ... had". Prior to Constantine's departure, the Emperor had blinded Archbishop | for plotting to overthrow the Emperor, an act that had improved the papal- ... |
Gioacchino Muccin | ... he following 27 December from Pope John himself, with Bishops Bortignon and | serving as co-consecrators. As a bishop, he participated in all the sessio ... |
Prime Minister | ... ho is represented by the Governor-General and the head of government is the | who chairs the Cabinet drawn from an elected Parliament |
Kevin Dunion | ... ted in February 2011. The current Rector of the University of St Andrews is | OBE the first and current Scottish Information Commissioner |
Hugh Peters | Wenham was originally a part of Salem. | , the minister in Salem, preached to a group on a hill by the Great Pond a ... |
Prime Minister | ... lition government was formed and in December Tadeusz Mazowiecki was elected | . Since 1989 Solidarity has become a more traditional trade union, and had ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... nt—who had only taken the position three months before at the retirement of | —and met with Israeli commanders. The Israelis planned a cautious countera ... |
Robert Crowley | ... ciate it as a critical, reformist but not a revolutionary, Protestant text. | 's 1550 editions of Piers Plowman present the poem as a social-gospelling ... |
Philip Schaff | ... sser quality on some minor points. An American (in fact a German American), | , was commissioned to supervise the first series of the NPNF. He was joine ... |
Menachem Begin | ... ith David Raziel, who proved to be the most prominent Irgun commander until | . Jabotinsky simultaneously instructed the Irgun to end its policy of rest ... |
Vladimir Putin | Tereshkova was invited to Prime Minister | 's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo for the celebration of her 70th birthday. Wh ... |
Plutarch | ... orem occurred five centuries after his death, in the writings of Cicero and | |
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 ... |
Thomas Prince | ... 759, out of land that was once part of Rutland. It was named after the Rev. | . In 1810, it annexed a piece of Hubbardston, and in 1870, it annexed a pi ... |
Eusebius | ... rt in the Christian community by allowing it to elect a new Bishop of Rome, | |
Charles Theodore | ... is residence to nearby Mannheim. The court remained there until the Elector | became Elector of Bavaria in 1777 and established his court in Munich. In ... |
John Pitts | ... attributed Piers Plowman to "John Malvern," a name that surfaces again with | in 1619 and Anthony à Wood in 1674. Wood also supplied "Robertus de Langla ... |
Michael I Cerularius | ... inal Humbert of Silva Candida to Constantinople to negotiate with Patriarch | in response to his actions concerning the church in Southern Italy. Humber ... |
James II of Cyprus | ... ptember 1467. Five were candidates pressed by kings, placating respectively | , Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary a ... |
Pope John VII | ... n was the Western rejection of the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council. | had been sent the canons for approval and instead had sent them back, "wit ... |
Ermolao Barbaro | ... mmentators (see Averroes, Avicenna) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to | in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of Plato and Ar ... |
Pope Alexander VI | ... Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal. He was the son of | and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. He was the brother of Lu ... |
Pope Sergius I | ... d sent them back, "without any emendations at all". John VII's predecessor, | had declared that he would rather die than subscribe to the council |
Robert Schuller | ... sed church services of Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and | 's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, continue to attract larg ... |
Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
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Tarcisio Bertone | ... tered what the Associated Press called "full damage control mode". Cardinal | , the Vatican's secretary of state, during a visit to Chile, linked the sc ... |
John Cleese | ... ook performed all four nights of The Secret Policeman's Ball – teaming with | . Cook performed a couple of solo pieces and a sketch with Eleanor Bron. H ... |
Archbishop of Kraków | In October 1978, the | , Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roma ... |
Patriarch of Venice | On 15 December 1969, he was appointed | by Pope Paul VI and took possession of the archdiocese on 3 February 1970. ... |
Plutarch | ... ed near Athens, once Aegina was under Athenian's power. The Greek historian | (46 AD–120 AD) also refers to an instance during the Parthenon's construct ... |
Giuseppe Piazzi | In 1801, the astronomer | discovered an object which he initially believed to be a comet. Shortly th ... |
Pierre Werner | ... was the final institution needed for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of | and President Jacques Delors. It was established on 1 June 1998 |
Gregory of Tours | ... his classical pagan education, already being looked on with misgivings (see | ). He was an ascetic mystic and regarded the Christian life as continual i ... |
George Pell | ... pinion article for Sydney's Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Cardinal Archbishop | wrote that the Greens were hostile to the family, opposed to religious sch ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... follows the model of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation ( | and John Gay, in particular) |
Cao Cao | ... histication and complexity reached new heights. The earlier Cao Zhi, son of | , is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his day. His style and deep ... |
Niccolò Alamanni | ... ana) was discovered centuries later in the Vatican Library and published by | , Latin Anecdota, "unpublished writings"). The Secret History covers rough ... |
John Newton | ... n whether he should remain in public life. Wilberforce sought guidance from | , a leading Evangelical Anglican clergyman of the day and Rector of St Mar ... |
Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour | ... se of Savoy in the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia whose government was led by | , also had the ambition of establishing a united Italian state. Though the ... |
Palladius | ... ine actively condemned the Pelagians and was zealous for orthodoxy. He sent | to Ireland to serve as a bishop in 431. Bishop Patricius (Saint Patrick) c ... |
Jean-Louis Tauran | ... ereignty in international affairs" (quotations from the treaty). Archbishop | , the Holy See's former Secretary for Relations with States, said that the ... |
Yigal Allon | ... ing by Levinger, the settlement gained the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and | , while it was opposed by Abba Eban and Pinhas Sapir. After more than a ye ... |
Jonathan Edwards | ... undaries of Massachusetts, the town seceded and became part of Connecticut. | preached his famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" in Enfi ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... of most soviets at the second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, while he and | simultaneously led the October Revolution. As a matter of political pragma ... |
Silvio Berlusconi | Costanzo had worked for the main TV channel of the Italian premier, | , Canale 5, of which he was also the artistic director |
Charles Kennedy | ... sh actor Brian Cox, CBE. The current Rector of the University of Glasgow is | MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and a former President of the G ... |
Bonar Law | ... a firm of solicitors called Bona Law - a play on the name of Prime Minister | - and their claim "We've got a criminal practice that takes up most of our ... |
Bishop of Ross | ... er was Mary, Queen of Scots. Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the | , in a ceremony held in Holyrood Abbey and was created Duke of Albany, Mar ... |
Io | ... uropa was kidnapped by Minoans who were seeking to avenge the kidnapping of | , a princess from Argos. His variant story may have been an attempt to rat ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | He spent most of his working life in Rome, except for a short period when | ordered him back to France to serve as First Painter to the King |
Raymond Brown | According to | 's introduction of his edition Epistle of John, the source of the Comma Jo ... |
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 ... |
Ælfsige | ... t a successor to Archbishop Oda, who died on 2 June 958. First he appointed | of Winchester, but he perished of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... the book was based upon the poem "A Tree Song" from Puck of Pook's Hill by | , which she had enjoyed as a child. The chant in question stated that |
Girolamo Savonarola | During this period, the Dominican monk | had become prior of the San Marco monastery in 1490. He was famed for his ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... a the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of World History by | |
Lord John Russell | Throughout the early years of the war, British foreign secretary | , Emperor Napoleon III of France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime M ... |
Edward Carpenter | ... the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, John Addington Symonds, | , Aimée Duc and others. These writers described themselves and those like ... |
Irenaeus | ... ly been preserved in the summaries and assessments of early church fathers. | declares in his treatise "Against Heresies" that Gnostic movements subject ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | In a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Minister | proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Casp ... |
John Cleese | Cook appeared at the first three fund-raising galas staged by humourists | and Martin Lewis on behalf of Amnesty International. The benefits were dub ... |
Abbot Desiderius | ... f Monte Cassino gives us our best source on the early Normans in the south. | sent envoys to Constantinople some time after 1066 to hire expert Byzantin ... |
Vedic priesthood | ... composition, the texts were preserved and codified by an extensive body of | as the central philosophy of the Iron Age Vedic civilization. The Brahma P ... |
Giosuè Cattarossi | ... empted to join the Jesuits, but was denied by the seminary's rector, Bishop | . Ordained a priest on 7 July 1935, Luciani then served as a curate in his ... |
Byrhthelm | ... Alps as he journeyed to Rome for the pallium. In his place Eadwig nominated | , the Bishop of Wells. As soon as Edgar became king he reversed this act o ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... s, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even | , went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca |
Rowan Williams | The current archbishop is the Most Reverend | . He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Aug ... |
Pope Sisinnius | Constantine's predecessor | , a Syrian, was pope for only twenty days. Constantine became pope in Marc ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... mony for British monarchs, in which they are anointed with holy oils by the | , thereby ordaining them to monarchy, perpetuates the ancient Roman Cathol ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... his beliefs. Hippolytus and Methodius of Olympus also mention or quote him. | deals with him at some length, and names the following works |
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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 ... |
Cardinal Mazarin | A centre of cloth production, begun under the patronage of | , supported the town until the late nineteenth century |
Irenaeus | ... otes a saying of his, and says that the Cynic Crescens laid snares for him. | speaks of his martyrdom and of Tatian as his disciple. Irenaeus quotes Jus ... |
primacy over the Archbishop of York | Along with | , the Archbishop of Canterbury also has a precedence of honour over the ot ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... h the now-famous activities launched by inventors Alexander Graham Bell and | |
Nicolas Sarkozy | In March 2011 media outlets reveled that French president | has started using a £10,000 armor-plated umbrella to protect him from atta ... |
Pope Zachary | ... s either destroyed or recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, of | |
Pope John XII | Dunstan went to Rome in 960, and received the pallium from | . On his journey there, Dunstan's charities were so lavish as to leave not ... |
Pope Leo II | ... Constantinople there in 680/681. He also delivered a combative letter from | to Constantine IV in 682. He met and developed a rapport with Prince Justi ... |
John Cleese | ... aying in Torquay at the Gleneagles Hotel with the Python team in 1971, that | found inspiration (and the setting although not the actual film location) ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
Harold Holt | ... 1966, and was succeeded as Prime Minister by the new Liberal Party leader, | . After years of politics being dominated by the elderly Menzies and Calwe ... |
St Anselm | ... Fellowes Prynne. His brother George Fellowes Prynne carved the Reredos with | and St George in the niches. The embossed roof of the Nave reflects the Tu ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... conclusion". It was introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom by | to overcome the obstruction of the Irish nationalist party and was made pe ... |
Pietro Respighi | ... est of the titulus Santi Quattro Coronati, which before him was occupied by | . When after the consistory in Rome, the new cardinal tried to return to B ... |
Tindal | ... Praier and Complaynte of the Ploweman unto Christe was "first set forth by | , since, exemplified by Mr. Fox." Since the language of this text is simil ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... rs, Lynch became speech writer and research assistant for the party leader, | |
Government Leader in the Senate | ... ll served in the 1890s while members of the Senate; both, in their roles as | , succeeded prime ministers who died in office (John A. Macdonald in 1891 ... |
Henry Chadwick | The modern assessment of Priscillian is summed up in Cambridge professor | 's Priscillian of Avila: The Occult and the Charismatic in the Early Churc ... |
François Darlan | ... Tunisia, and intending to facilitate that objective, he gave his support to | as High Commissioner in North Africa, despite Darlan's fascist leanings. T ... |
Pope Innocent I | ... t Milan with St. Ambrose. The first known record of him is in a document of | from the year 416, where he is spoken of as "Celestine the Deacon" |
Wojciech Jaruzelski | ... g Poland's border in December 1980. In February 1981, Defense Minister Gen. | assumed the position of Prime Minister, and in October 1981, was named Fir ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... etts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while former Governor | (R-Arkansas) finished third with 27.70 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
Pat Robertson | ... . Bush in the Iowa caucus—Bush finished third, behind television evangelist | . However, Bush recovered in time to defeat Dole in the New Hampshire prim ... |
Prime Minister | Cabinet is the most senior policy-making body and is led by the | , who is also, by convention, the Parliamentary leader of the governing pa ... |
William Pitt the Younger | ... (the home of Charles Darwin), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House (the home of | ), Crofton Roman Villa, and the site of The Crystal Palace |
Pope Callixtus III | ... re's great-uncle Alonso Borgia (1378–1458), bishop of Valencia, was elected | in 1455. Cesare's father, Pope Alexander VI, was the first pope who openly ... |
Karol Wojtyła | Cardinal | was elected John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 Octob ... |
Ōkuma Shigenobu | ... 1913 Yamamoto Gonnohyōe succeeded Katsura as prime minister. In April 1914, | replaced Yamamoto |
Trevor Huddleston | ... Gollancz, Dr I.Grunfeld, E.M.Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev. | , Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, D ... |
Arago | ... tronomical observations of the known planet Uranus. Encouraged by physicist | , Director of the Paris Observatory, Le Verrier was intensely engaged for ... |
Pope Pius X | ... Rampolla, on 18 December 1907, he received the episcopal consecration from | himself. The Pope donated his own [[:Episcopal ring]] and crosier to the n ... |
Donald Dewar | ... ted for a knighthood in 1997 and 1998, but these nominations were vetoed by | due to Connery's political views |
Bob Hawke | ... ged. The agreement originally made between the community and Prime Minister | that the climb to the top by tourists would be stopped was broken. The Abo ... |
Bishop of Monmouth | ... owan Cantuar. Immediately prior to his appointment to Canterbury he was the | in Wales. Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the ... |
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 ... |
Mr. Fox | ... Ploweman unto Christe was "first set forth by Tindal, since, exemplified by | ." Since the language of this text is similar to that of Piers Plowman, Fu ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | The chief minister of Henry VIII, the | Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Roman Catholic papacy's imperium i ... |
Cardinal d'Estouteville | ... 000 ducats, and a magnificent diamond worth 7,000 ducats, which was sent to | to cover monies he had advanced to the pontiff. The coin was not immediate ... |
Archbishop of Wales | ... h in Wales. Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the | . On 18 March 2012, Rowan Williams announced he would be stepping down as ... |
Aristide Rinaldini | ... mfortable. Italian papers announced that on 15 April 1907, the papal nuncio | in Madrid would be replaced by Della Chiesa, who had worked there before. ... |
John Knox | ... nd broke with Rome, in a process of Protestant reform led, among others, by | . It reformed its doctrines and government, drawing on the principles of J ... |
Frederick V | ... e. In November 1619, the royal crown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, | . (He was married to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I and VI of Engla ... |
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 ... |
Heliodorus of Emesa | The Hellenistic novelist | in his Aethiopica refers to the dancing of Tyrian sailors in honor of the ... |
Thomas Cranmer | The chief minister of Henry VIII, the Archbishop of Canterbury | suggested removal of the Roman Catholic papacy's imperium in imperio (Lati ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... ism saw something of a return to the idea of a mere unchallengeable despot. | condoned extra-legal tyrannicide in the worst of circumstances |
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe | On February 12, 1913 | succeeded Katsura as prime minister. In April 1914, Ōkuma Shigenobu replac ... |
Robert Borden | ... as introduced in the House of Commons, 1913, by Conservative Prime Minister | . The new closure rule was immediately tested by the government only a few ... |
Thomas Henry Huxley | ... ton, now part of Imperial College London) in London, studying biology under | . As an alumnus, he later helped to set up the Royal College of Science As ... |
Prime Minister | ... presides over meetings of British Privy Council; the Cabinet headed by the | is technically a committee of the Council, and all decisions of the Cabine ... |
Guy Mollet | ... he Suez crisis and for signing the Treaty of Rome on behalf of France. With | , he visited Moscow. In October 1956 he signed the Protocol of Sèvres with ... |
see of St David's | ... ster. Walter refused to acquiesce in the election of Gerald of Wales to the | in Wales and opposed the efforts of Gerald and others to elevate St David' ... |
Transportation Secretary | ... ormer Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as Reagan's | (which at that time included the Coast Guard), H.W. Bush's Labor Secretary ... |
Luther | ... ts in their controversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of | ans and Calvinists; he also published a volume on natural law which emphas ... |
Bernice King | ... four children; Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and | . King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Al ... |
Pope Sixtus IV | ... nico d'Arignano, the nominal husband of Vannozza de' Cattanei. More likely, | granted Cesare a release from the necessity of proving his birth in a papa ... |
Glyn Simon | ... evor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr | , Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles ... |
Woody Allen | ... al Hair. The Lovin' Spoonful's song "Pow!" was used as the opening theme of | 's first feature film, What's Up, Tiger Lily. John Sebastian composed the ... |
Lords Spiritual | ... rham and Winchester), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the | of the House of Lords. He is one of the highest-ranking men in England and ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... ppe Garibaldi, a general and national hero. In 1866 Prussian Prime Minister | offered Victor Emmanuel II an alliance with the Kingdom of Prussia in the ... |
same office in the United Kingdom | ... ions are instead governed by constitutional conventions and modelled on the | |
Bob Hawke | On 11 December 1983, Prime Minister | promised to hand back the land title to the traditional owners and agreed ... |
Silvano Maria Tomasi | ... oming more common than reinstatement.In a statement, read out by Archbishop | at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 22 Se ... |
Nicholas of Cusa | ... tant threat. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, many philosophers, such as | and Francisco Suarez, propounded similar theories. The church was the fina ... |
Pope Eugene IV | He was born in Venice, a nephew of | (1431–1447) through his mother. His adoption of the spiritual career, afte ... |
Pope John Paul I | In the work known as Illustrissimi, a collection of letters written by | when he was Patriarch of Venice, Dupanloup is one of the "recipients" of t ... |
David | ... was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of | . The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ; ) |
Pope Gregory II | ... re also of Eastern extraction. Also accompanying Constantine was the future | , then a deacon, and another Latin subdeacon Julian. Constantine specifica ... |
Nicolas Sarkozy | ... independence has notably come under intense criticism since the election of | as French President. Sarkozy has sought to make the ECB more susceptible t ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | ... Good Companions (1933), the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936), | in The Prime Minister (1940), Cassius in Julius Caesar (1953) (BAFTA Award ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist | in his novel Kim (1901) |
Pope Alexander VI | ... rms leading to a more democratic rule. But when Savonarola publicly accused | of corruption, he was banned from speaking in public. When he broke this b ... |
Wakako Hironaka | Hironaka is married to | , a politician, and they have two children |
Katsura Tarō | ... lic outrage over the military manipulation of the cabinet and the recall of | for a third term led to still more demands for an end to genrō politics. D ... |
Prime Minister | ... Tottenham Hotspur Foundation received high-level political support from the | when it was launched at in February 2007 |
Calvin | ... ntroversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of Lutherans and | ists; he also published a volume on natural law which emphasized natural r ... |
Pope Pius II | He was elected to succeed | by the accessus in the first ballot of the papal conclave of 1464 with a m ... |
Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
Stefan Wyszyński | ... rations of the 1,000th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland led by Cardinal | and other bishops turned into a huge demonstration of the power and popula ... |
John III Rizocopo | ... ping in transit in Naples, Constantine crossed paths with Exarch of Ravenna | , then on his way to Rome to execute four high-ranking papal officials by ... |
Adam of Usk | ... Boccaccio wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). The Chronicon of | (1404) gives her a name, Agnes, and furthermore mentions a statue in Rome ... |
Pope Pius X | ... n Cardinal Rampolla had to leave his post with the election of his opponent | , and was succeeded by Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, Della Chiesa was ret ... |
Gregory the Great's | According to | biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was ... |
Ernest Angley | ... mprehensive exposé of faith healers, including Peter Popoff, W.V. Grant and | . When Popoff was exposed, he was forced to declare bankruptcy within the ... |
Felipe González | ... to gain broaden the scope of Catalan autonomy during the last government of | (1993–1996) and the first of José María Aznar (1996–2000) |
Cotton Mather | ... ntless numbers," Gabriel Sagard-Theodat wrote of "infinite multitudes," and | described a flight as being about a mile in width and taking several hours ... |
Sir John Lubbock | ... ithos, "stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age." The term was invented by | in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system |
David | ... e the outcome in single combat, but Saul and all the Israelites are afraid. | , bringing food for his elder brothers, hears that Saul has promised to re ... |
Ludovico Trevisan | ... they had enjoyed under Pius II, a capitulation was subscribed by all except | . It bound the future Pope to continue the Turkish war, but he was not to ... |
Innocent III | ... supporting the monks and the king supporting the archbishop. Finally, Pope | ruled for the monks and ordered Walter to destroy what had been built |
Paul VI | ... mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of Pius XII or | . Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact that he was ... |
Pope Agatho | ... occupied by Pope Vigilius in 547, the representatives of Pope Martin I, and | (while attending the Third Council of Constantinople). Eleven of Constanti ... |
Yamagata Aritomo | ... the army minister resigned, bringing down the Rikken Seiyūkai cabinet. Both | and Saionji refused to resume office, and the genrō were unable to find a ... |
William McMahon | ... on lost a vote of no confidence in the Liberal caucus. The Liberals elected | as their new leader, and he became Prime Minister. With the Liberals in tu ... |
José María Aznar | ... during the last government of Felipe González (1993–1996) and the first of | (1996–2000) |
Joseph Stalin | After the death of | on March 5, 1953, Phil Horowitz commented on how the many titles which the ... |
Hincmar, archbishop of Reims | ... eigns (see the twelve legendary Paladins). A Frankish capitulary of 882 and | , writing about the same time, testify to the extent to which the judicial ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the | 's brother Henry Wellesley and later - in one of the period's more celebra ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... hborhoods built over the Green Line. The Palestinian position, according to | , at that time Arafat's chief negotiator: "All of East Jerusalem should be ... |
Pope Martin I | ... had formerly been occupied by Pope Vigilius in 547, the representatives of | , and Pope Agatho (while attending the Third Council of Constantinople). E ... |
Pope Damasus I | ... inus, bishop of Cordoba, and Hydatius, bishop of Mérida. Their complaint to | (also from Hispania) resulted in a synod held at Zaragoza in 380, in the a ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... which has successfully used this paradigm in the past, likely starting with | , who divided the study of behavior into two broad categories: cognitive ( ... |
Pius XI | ... as the first pope in decades not to have had either a diplomatic role (like | and John XXIII) or role (like Pius XII and Paul VI) in the Church |
John Calvin | ... nox. It reformed its doctrines and government, drawing on the principles of | which Knox had been exposed to while living in Geneva, Switzerland. In 156 ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... ed Operation Gazelle, was launched on October 15. IDF forces spearheaded by | 's division broke through the Tasa corridor and crossed the Suez Canal to ... |
Archbishop of York | ... ereign is the Supreme governor of the church). Along with his colleague the | he chairs the General Synod and sits or chairs many of the church's import ... |
David Ben-Gurion | ... bmitted to the cabinet a proposal building a Jewish settlement near Hebron. | also considered that Hebron was the one sector of the conquered territorie ... |
Peter Popoff | ... money was used for Randi's comprehensive exposé of faith healers, including | , W.V. Grant and Ernest Angley. When Popoff was exposed, he was forced to ... |
François Mitterrand | ... opposition from both sides of the spectrum: from the newly unified left of | , and from a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wi ... |
Arnobius | ... , both separately and along with the writings of Minucius Felix, Cyprian or | . The Neoplatonist work was first printed by Aldus Manutius in 1501, and h ... |
Wilhelm Frick | ... all German police (nominally in that role subordinate to Interior Minister | ) on June 17, 1936. He thereby assumed control of all of the German states ... |
Pope Simplicius | ... regory I. He was a widower with two children when he was elected to succeed | in 483 |
Gavrila Derzhavin | ... classical and European influences that inspired the Russian Enlightenment. | , Denis Fonvizin, and Ippolit Bogdanovich laid the groundwork for the grea ... |
Æthelwold | ... land's undisciplined monastic communities peaked during the era of Dunstan, | , and Oswald. (Historians continue to debate the extent and significance o ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... urgery as well as therapy for lumbago, his cousin and former Prime Minister | staged a coup d'état and established a republican government. As a former ... |
Pope Vigilius | ... stantine stayed in the Placidia Palace, which had formerly been occupied by | in 547, the representatives of Pope Martin I, and Pope Agatho (while atten ... |
Archbishop of Wales | ... included the suburban cathedral 'village' of Llandaff, whose bishop is also | since 2002. There is also a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city. Since 19 ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... rown out of the window of a three-story building and Syrian police loyal to | (Assad and Orabi were "close friends"), suspected Arafat was involved in t ... |
Pope John Paul II | On Sunday, October 9, 1979, | celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ... |
Rafael Merry del Val | ... ith the election of his opponent Pope Pius X, and was succeeded by Cardinal | , Della Chiesa was retained in his post |
Pope Gregory I | ... as born into a Roman senatorial family and was a great-great-grandfather of | . He was a widower with two children when he was elected to succeed Pope S ... |
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 ... |
Lord Melbourne | ... . The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was William IV, who dismissed | in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 removed the monarch's authori ... |
Saionji Kinmochi | ... Crisis in 1912–13 that interrupted the earlier politics of compromise. When | tried to cut the military budget, the army minister resigned, bringing dow ... |
Karol Wojtyla | ... his papal name. This legacy was so remarkable that his successor, Cardinal | , chose the same name |
John Gorton | ... nister for three weeks until the Liberals could elect a new leader. Senator | won the vote and became Prime Minister. The leadership campaign was conduc ... |
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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 ... |
Angela Merkel | ... ly." Until recently, Greek Euro zone exit was rejected by German Chancellor | . The German government's current position is, to keep Greece within the e ... |
Pope Leo XIII | But Della Chiesa's association with Rampolla, the architect of | 's (1878–1903) foreign policy, made his position in the Secretariat of Sta ... |
Thomas Becket | Until | ’s fame overshadowed Dunstan's, he was the favourite saint of the English ... |
Hrabanus Maurus | ... elm, Bede, Alcuin - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by | of Fulda and Servatus Lupus of Ferrières. About a thousand manuscripts exi ... |
Maximilian Kolbe | ... yr in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on August 14, alongside | |
Roberto Tucci | ... rule from which dispensation may be obtained from the pope, as by Cardinals | , Albert Vanhoye, Domenico Bartolucci and most recently Karl Josef Becker. ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and | |
Charles de Gaulle | ... ies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General | . He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over question ... |
Aidan Kelly | ... gical was later found amongst his papers from the Museum after his death by | and was later obtained by Richard and Tamarra James of the Wiccan Church o ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Robeson was one of four hosts who gave speeches to welcome | to Kingsway Hall to support his efforts in the Indian independence movemen ... |
Lanfranc | ... g was destroyed by a fire in 1074, his relics were translated by Archbishop | to a tomb on the south side of the high altar in the rebuilt Canterbury Ca ... |
Home | ... th a special act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lords | and Hailsham were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation p ... |
Bishop of London | ... ia, or court, consisting of some of the senior bishops of his province. The | —the most senior cleric of the church with the exception of the two archbi ... |
Madvig | ... nische Grammatik, 1818), which stood as a standard work until superseded by | 's in 1844. He edited Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria (1831), Cicero's Ve ... |
William Longchamp | ... e Lucy to the see of Winchester, Richard FitzNeal to the see of London, and | to the see of Ely. The elevation of so many new bishops was probably meant ... |
Pope Paul III | ... e Defence of the Seven Sacraments. After Henry broke from the Roman Church, | revoked the grant, but Parliament passed a law authorising its continued u ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... he consorted with Nazi industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that | and Adolf Hitler attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 ... |
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 ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... dollars. On 12 April 1980, he held a meeting with the Indian prime minister | before declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anan ... |
Tony Blair | ... Baker's voice was found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, | and Margaret Thatcher |
Pope Leo XIII | ... and was there in Rome when, in 1878, Pope Pius IX died and was followed by | . The new pope received the students of the Capranica in private audience ... |
Prime Minister | ... and World War II. New Zealanders of German descent include the late former | David Lange . The vast majority of Germans in New Zealand settled in the N ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | The government of | increasingly distanced itself from the Afghan communists and the Soviet Un ... |
George Pell | ... the Greens' Lee Rhiannon lobbied the Vatican to reject Australian Cardinal | as a candidate for the Papacy on the basis of his support for conservative ... |
Richard FitzNeal | ... o bishoprics at this council were Godfrey de Lucy to the see of Winchester, | to the see of London, and William Longchamp to the see of Ely. The elevati ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... tary caste. This impressive and often emotional spectacle — orchestrated by | — aimed to link Hitler's government with Germany's imperial past and port ... |
Scholasticus | ... ppus was overthrown in June 713 and his successor, Anastasius II had exarch | deliver to the Pope a letter affirming his support for the Sixth General C ... |
Hajime Sugiyama | ... . Those orders were transmitted either by prince Kotohito Kan'in or general | |
Mitt Romney | ... Hampshire primary on January 8, defeating former Governor of Massachusetts | in a close contest, to once again become one of the front-runners in the r ... |
Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople | ... first act was to repudiate the Henoticon, a deed of union originating with | and published by Emperor Zeno with the view of allaying the strife between ... |
Mariano Rampolla | ... which cardinals and high members of the Roman Curia were invited. Cardinal | took note of him and furthered his entry in the diplomatic service of the ... |
Canon John Collins | ... nt H-bomb tests. At the end of November, a meeting was held in the rooms of | , chaired by the editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin, to launch t ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... lestinians working there and other Gulf States, such as Qatar (where he met | in 1961). These businessmen and oil workers contributed generously to the ... |
Lester Bird | ... Pacific Whale Sanctuary in Samoa that Japan had linked whale votes to aid. | , prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, had said |
Stanisław Mikołajczyk | ... trolled by the communists. Some democratic and pro-Western elements, led by | , the former Prime Minister in Exile, participated in the Provisional Nati ... |
Salvador Allende | ... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate | for the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... akie as "Benzino Napaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator | |
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 ... |
Benito Mussolini | The Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator | , and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco "harmonizing" and getting along qu ... |
Albertus Magnus | ... he existence of "speaking heads" involved Gerbert of Aurillac (d. 1003 AD), | (1198–1280), and Roger Bacon (1214–1294) |
Thomas Aquinas | For Saint | (who also taught the Perfection of Christ) the "'Son of God' is God as kno ... |
Albert Vanhoye | ... dispensation may be obtained from the pope, as by Cardinals Roberto Tucci, | , Domenico Bartolucci and most recently Karl Josef Becker. A cardinal who ... |
Peter the Fuller | In his first synod, Felix excommunicated | , who had assumed the See of Antioch against papal wishes. In 484, Felix a ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... influence that became especially evident after the coup d'état that brought | to power in 1973: the coup was orchestrated by the Parcham faction of the ... |
Hailsham | ... ial act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lords Home and | were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation permitting the ... |
Martin Luther King, Sr. | ... on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the middle child of the Reverend | and Alberta Williams King. King Jr. had an older sister, Willie Christine ... |
Clarissa Dickson Wright | ... ities elected as rectors, such as Stephen Fry and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, | at Aberdeen, and John Cleese and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political ... |
Michael Collins | On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, | , Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipoten ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... sement of Bush for president. (The Prime Minister of Canada at the time was | ). None of the interviewees noticed the insertion of "Poutine. |
Pope John Paul II | ... inier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia | ;; Prince Charles, and Prince Philip |
Lorraine Kelly | ... f celebrities and personalities elected as rectors, such as Stephen Fry and | at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and John Cleese and Frank ... |
Martynas Mažvydas | ... cabulary used in the first book printed in the Lithuanian language in 1547, | 's Catechism. The majority of loan words in the 20th century arrived from ... |
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 ... |
Alastair Sim | ... eath Do Us Part, Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite | in William Trevor's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances i ... |
William Warham | ... n carried for safety to their abbey. This story was disproved by Archbishop | , who opened the tomb at Canterbury in 1508. They found Dunstan's relics s ... |
Omar Bongo | ... n the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the expense of the President of Gabon, | . Stoltenberg's first tenure as Prime Minister (2000–2001) was controversi ... |
Saint Patrick | ... Hacienda San Patricio", which they named after the patron saint of Ireland, | . A relative of O'Daly, Demetrio O'Daly, succeeded Captain Ramon Power y G ... |
Guy Verhofstadt | ... o called "Hotel agreement", signed on July 17, 2001, Belgian prime minister | met with Swissair boss Mario Corti, who agreed to inject €258 million into ... |
Stephen Fry | ... ificant number of celebrities and personalities elected as rectors, such as | and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and Joh ... |
Martin Luther | ... lwig went on to study at the University of Wittenberg where as a student of | and Philip Melanchthon he earned the academic degree of Magister, in 1552 ... |
the Viscount Bennett | ... in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Only Mackenzie Bowell and | were given private funerals, Bennett also being the only former Prime Mini ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... he bones of one British grenadier" was an echo of a famous sentence used by | : "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian ... |
Alfred Daniel Williams King | ... King Jr. had an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, | . King sang with his church choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movi ... |
Pope Gregory I | ... St Augustine of Hippo), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by | on a mission to the English. He was accepted by King Æthelbert, on his con ... |
Endymion | ... a Greek island; through this cave flowed Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. | , sentenced by Zeus to eternal sleep, received the power to sleep with his ... |
Alejandro Lerroux | ... part of the last openly embracing "propaganda of the deed" as advocated by | . Along with Asturias, Catalonia in general and Barcelona in particular wa ... |
Pope Sixtus III | ... historians accept this belief doubt remains. The basis for this is because | 's list of saints buried in St. Callistus' Catacomb does not include Urban ... |
Senator Orrin Hatch | ... federate flag, Helms ran into Moseley Braun in an elevator. Helms turned to | and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to ... |
Pope John VIII | ... some Medieval writers referred to the female Pope as "John VIII," a genuine | reigned between 872 and 882. Due to the Dark Ages lack of records, confusi ... |
Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
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 ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... urch, which they left to ecclesiastical history—a genre that was founded by | . However, Averil Cameron has argued convincingly that Procopius' works re ... |
Kevin O'Higgins | ... t leaders, especially Michael Collins, and never came to anything, although | toyed with the idea as a means of ending partition, shortly before his ass ... |
William J. Seymour | ... unded in 1906 by Florence L. Crawford, who was affiliated at that time with | and the Azusa Street Revival of Los Angeles, California. By 1908, Crawford ... |
John McEwen | ... House. His maiden speech provoked an interruption by future Prime Minister | , who was told by the Speaker that maiden speeches are traditionally heard ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... involving the Church, which culminated in the murder of Thomas Becket, the | . The problem for the King was that the Church acted like an imperium in i ... |
Jozef Tiso | ... nderground resistance against the wartime pro-German Slovak state headed by | . In August 1944, Dubček fought in the Slovak National Uprising and was wo ... |
Pope Gregory II | The negotiations regarding the Trullan canons were conducted by the future | . A degree of compromise (the "so-called Compromise of Nicomedia")—which " ... |
Herman De Croo | ... is 56.46 km² which gives a population density of 243 per km². The mayor is | |
Katharine Whitehorn | ... layed by Williams), and "Daphne Whitethigh", presumably based on journalist | and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her Fanny Cradock t ... |
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 ... |
Ilham Aliyev | President | 's ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party got a majority of 73 out of 125 seats. The ... |
Louis Rwagasore | ... on for National Progress (UPRONA), a multi-ethnic party led by Tutsi Prince | and the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) supported by Belgium. In 1961, Pr ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
Bolesław Bierut | ... d. The People's Republic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as | and Konstantin Rokossovsky |
Juan Carlos Patino-Arango | ... lawsuit of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys in Texas by | in Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. He sought and obtained immunity from ... |
Irenaeus | ... e Greek adjective gnostikos ("learned", "intellectual", Greek γνωστικός) by | (c.185 AD) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike ha ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | ... traditionally heard in silence. Whitlam responded to McEwen by stating that | had been heckled in his maiden speech, and had responded, "The time will c ... |
Thorbjørn Jagland | ... m Brundtland's cabinet between 1993–1996. In 1996 when Brundtland resigned, | stepped in for her and became the new Norwegian Prime Minister. In Jagland ... |
David | ... ctional persons. Among those still available are his letters to Jesus, King | , Figaro the Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written ... |
José María Aznar | ... f complaint from Spain). After protests from the Spanish government, led by | , the soldiers were replaced by Moroccan navy cadets who then installed a ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | The district of Altötting was established in 1837. The current | was born here 1927 in the village of Marktl |
Jeremy Taylor | ... choly Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and | , whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectiv ... |
Gustáv Husák | ... t predecessors had denigrated Slovak "bourgeois nationalists", most notably | and Vladimír Clementis, in the 1950s, the Slovak branch worked to promote ... |
Sixtus IV | ... sonal splendor that gratified his sense of self-importance. After his death | and a selected group of cardinals inspected the treasure laid up against e ... |
Pope John Paul II | ====2003==== | stated that "there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for th ... |
Louis Duchesne | ... ring of the Popes to exclude Joan from history. Historians have known since | 's critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis that the 'renumbering' was a ... |
Archbishop of York | ... archbishopric of York. Walter was also an unsuccessful candidate to become | in September 1186. The medieval chronicler Gervase of Canterbury said that ... |
John Lyng | ... 's Party and a centre-right minority coalition government was formed, under | . Although this new government lasted only three weeks, until the Socialis ... |
Ludovico Ludovisi | ... licit confidence, to assist him in the government of the Church. His nephew | , a young man of 25 years, seemed to him to be the right person and, at th ... |
Caleb Sprague Henry | ... mni include priests and ministers Ebenezer Porter, Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, | , Arthur Whipple Jenks, Solomon Spalding, and Joseph Tracy; and rabbis Mar ... |
Schaff | ... ys that "Sergius [III] indulged in no resurrection-man tactics himself" and | , Milman, Gregorovius, von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon o ... |
Rousas John Rushdoony | Working in a similar vein was | who focused on education in America and was an advocate of homeschooling, ... |
David | ... d as a giant Philistine warrior, he is famous for his combat with the young | , the future king of Israel. The fight between them is described in the He ... |
Io | ... y, but agree that she is Phoenician, and from a lineage that descended from | , the mythical nymph beloved of Zeus, who was transformed into a heifer. S ... |
Matsukata Masayoshi | ... eople he appointed as governors were young men, some were his friends, like | , and others were the rare Japanese who had gained some education in Europ ... |
Robert Crowley | ... pended to Owen Rogers' 1560 edition of Piers Plowman, a degraded version of | 's 1550 editions.) The character of Piers himself had come to be considere ... |
Pope Lucius I | ... k ancestry, he became bishop of Rome in 254, having served as archdeacon of | , who appointed Stephen his successor |
Patricio Lynch | ... pied Lima during the War of the Pacific in 1881, they put in charge certain | , whose grandfather came from Ireland to Argentina and then moved to Chile ... |
Pope Pius IX | ... Chiesa entered the Collegio Capranica and was there in Rome when, in 1878, | died and was followed by Pope Leo XIII. The new pope received the students ... |
Jacques Necker | ... their writings. The leading economists of her day, such as Arthur Young and | , became foreign members of the Free Economic Society, established on her ... |
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 ... |
Reginald Pole | ... ed only in the order of cardinal deacons. For example, in the 16th century, | was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest. In 1917 it wa ... |
Jeffrey R. Holland | ... postles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, | '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relie ... |
Michel d'Ornano | ... nt of the General Council is the centrist Anne d'Ornano. She is the wife of | , the former dominant figure of the right and centre in the department. Th ... |
Per Borten | ... bour, it formed the basis for an opposition victory under the leadership of | at the 1965 elections. Gerhardsen retired from national politics in 1969 b ... |
Tony Blair | ... 00 from a peak of 110,000 in 1983, increased threefold after Prime Minister | made a commitment to nuclear energy |
Aklilu Habte Wold | ... up, Haile Selassie left much of domestic governance to his Prime Minister, | , and concentrated more on foreign affairs |
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 ... |
Tadija Smičiklas | ... reek. Later in life he learned modern Greek, Albanian, Hebrew and Sanskrit. | considered Šufflay his most gifted student and took him as his assistant w ... |
Georges Lemaître | In 1927, | set out a theory that has since come to be called the Big Bang theory of t ... |
John Ball | ... iating the poem from Lollardy and the religious and political radicalism of | during the Great Rising of 1381. (Ball appropriated Piers and other charac ... |
British prime minister | ... complete control unlike other vampires in his bloodline. Lord Ruthven, the | , says of Dracula |
prime minister | On October 9, 1916, Terauchi Masatake took over as | from Ōkuma Shigenobu. On November 2, 1917, the Lansing-Ishii Agreement not ... |
Rector of the University of Edinburgh | ... Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was | while a student there, but since then most universities have amended their ... |
Victor of Vita | The impression given by ancient sources such as | , Quodvultdeus, and Fulgentius of Ruspe was that the Vandal take-over of C ... |
John Ponet | ... Thomas Wyatt the younger instigated what became known as Wyatt's rebellion, | , the highest-ranking ecclesiastic among the exiles, allegedly participate ... |
Sebastian Kappen | ... d others were censured. Tissa Balasuriya, in Sri Lanka, was excommunicated. | , an Indian theologian, was also censured for his book Jesus and Freedom. ... |
Saint Blane | ... ly known. Dunoon may have been important. The late 6th or early 7th century | was associated with Bute, but modern scholars are less certain that his tr ... |
Beant Singh | On 31 August 1995, Chief minister | was killed by a suicide bomber. The pro-Khalistan group Babbar Khalsa clai ... |
Ivan Illich | ... ises and efficacy of compulsory schooling, including Deschooling Society by | , 1970 and No More Public School by Harold Bennet, 1972 |
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 ... |
Edward Heath | ... o Dandy in 1986 - was when, in 1974, Else took a leaf out of Prime Minister | 's book and went on a "three day week", forcing Alf to fend for and feed h ... |
Ho Chi Minh | ... Far East Expeditionary Corps against the communist Viet Minh forces led by | . The VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to ... |
Antoine Pinay | ... ive grouping. After the proclamation of the Fifth Republic, the CNIP leader | became Minister of Economy and Finance and chose him as Secretary of State ... |
Georges Clemenceau | ... rman Protestants rejected any “Papal Peace” as insulting. French politician | regarded the Vatican initiative as anti-French |
Pope Paul V | ... 54 – 8 July 1623), born Alessandro Ludovisi, was pope from 1621, succeeding | on 9 February 1621 |
Adam Smith | ... t. A number of scholars found important flaws with mercantilism long before | developed an ideology that could fully replace it. Critics like Hume, Dudl ... |
Frank Muir | ... to his wife as a "silly cow". This was firmly vetoed by BBC Head of Comedy | , who thought this was inappropriate. Una Stubbs said that it was "a lot o ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Maidstone | The | was previously a second actual suffragan bishop working in the diocese, un ... |
William McMahon | ... "hereditary streak of insanity". After he stated that future Prime Minister | was a "quean", he apologised |
Lloyd George | ... , India, at the time) and had lost “his old pompous ways”. Curzon served in | 's small War Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords from December 1916. I ... |
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 ... |
François Mitterrand | When | was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for ... |
Pope Sixtus IV | ... coes by Il Romanino in the Malpaga Castle) and Rome, in Italy, where he met | . In that occasion, his wife received by the pope the authorization to fou ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, the former | , was Rector of the University of Edinburgh while a student there, but sin ... |
Pope Sylvester II | ... in the late 10th century with the efforts of Gerbert d'Aurillac, the later | (r. 999–1003). Pope Sylvester II applied the use of sighting tubes with hi ... |
Luigi Sturzo | ... improved as well, as the Pope now permitted Catholic politicians led by Don | to participate in national Italian politics |
Peter Ustinov | ... originally intended to be performed by a cast including Spike Milligan and | , but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once they realised he co ... |
Irenaeus | ... mber 96. Elliot begins his lengthy review of historical evidence by quoting | , a disciple of Polycarp. Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John. Ire ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Patrick Clune | ... of the British agents, together with another man, Conor Clune (a nephew of | , Archbishop of Perth, Australia), who were being held in Dublin Castle, w ... |
Leonardo Boff | ... ssident priests from teaching such doctrines in the Catholic Church's name. | was suspended and others were censured. Tissa Balasuriya, in Sri Lanka, wa ... |
Georges Lemaître | ... erse. Alexander Friedman proposed a number of such solutions in 1922 as did | in 1927. In some of these the universe has been expanding from an initial ... |
Arnold Resnicoff | ... ipple Jenks, Solomon Spalding, and Joseph Tracy; and rabbis Marshall Meyer, | , and David E. Stern |
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 ... |
Mussolini | ... gure could be found for Danes. However, Munk's attitude towards Hitler (and | ) turned to outspoken disgust, as he witnessed Hitler's persecution of the ... |
Plutarch | ... device appeared. A description of how it operated is not known from before | (50-120 AD) |
Pietro Gasparri | ... aw of the Roman Catholic Church, the creation of which he had prepared with | and Eugenio Pacelli during the pontificate of Pius X. The new Code of Cano ... |
Georges Pompidou | During the 1969 presidential campaign, he supported the winning candidate | and returned to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. On the French politic ... |
Robert Walpole | ... f his work being savagely critical of the contemporary government under Sir | |
Ludwig Kaas | ... mocrats were physically removed. After meeting with Centre leader Monsignor | and other Centre Trade Union leaders daily and denying them a substantial ... |
Bishop of Rochester | ... shop of Salisbury as precentor, the Bishop of Worcester as chaplain and the | as |
François Mitterrand | ... e announced his candidacy for the presidency. His two main challengers were | for the left and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former Gaullist prime minister. ... |
Hippolytus | It is believed that the schismatic | was still leading a rival Christian Congregation in Rome, and that he publ ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
Pope Paul V | ... and there is no evidence that he had been ordained. In March 1612, however, | appointed him as the Archbishop of Bologna, for which he was presumably or ... |
John XI | ... the only pope to have fathered an illegitimate son who later became pope ( | ), his pontificate has been described as "dismal and disgraceful" |
Paulinus of Nola | ... and wrote Saint Paulin, évêque de Nôle (St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, about | ). Just like Jean Chapelain's La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, an epic p ... |
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 ... |
Frank Muir | ... e Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and John Cleese and | at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as Mordechai Vanunu at Glasgow ... |
Eusebius of Nicomedia | ... the sacred ceremonies according to custom". He chose the Arianizing bishop | , bishop of the city where he lay dying, as his baptizer. In postponing hi ... |
Georges Pompidou | ... nductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President | , after whom another controversial museum was named. In an attempt to soot ... |
Saint Patrick | ... e sent Palladius to Ireland to serve as a bishop in 431. Bishop Patricius ( | ) continued this missionary work. Pope Celestine strongly opposed the Nova ... |
Henry More | ... rm "Gnosticism" does not appear in ancient sources, and was first coined by | in a commentary on the seven letters of the Book of Revelation, where More ... |
John Witherspoon | ... l, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." | , one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, said "Pure democr ... |
Orrin Hatch | ... dy continued his close working relationship with ranking Republican Senator | , and they were close allies on many health-related measures |
Bishop of Salisbury | ... rts. After an unsuccessful candidacy to the see of York, Walter was elected | shortly after the accession of Henry's son Richard I to the throne of Engl ... |
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | ... of Georgia, Chatham County was created February 5, 1777, and is named after | |
Bishop of Worcester | ... op of Lincoln as vice-chancellor, the Bishop of Salisbury as precentor, the | as chaplain and the Bishop of Rochester as |
Alfredo Ottaviani | ====1962====Cardinal | , Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, sent a letter w ... |
Vyacheslav Molotov | ... United Opposition. In May 1926, Stalin, weighing his options in a letter to | , directed his supporters to concentrate their attacks on Zinoviev since t ... |
Lim Guan Eng | The Chief Minister of Penang is | from the Democratic Action Party (DAP). Following the 12th general electio ... |
Agostino Depretis | ... zation of railways. In 1876, Minghetti was ousted and replaced by socialist | , who began the long Socialist Period. The Socialist Period was marked by ... |
Pope Leo XIII | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth was founded in 1882 by | . Vatican policy in England at the time was to found sees in locations oth ... |
György Lukács | ... g Jellinek, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, Marc Bloch, Robert Michels and | . Weber also remained active in Verein and the Evangelical Social Congress ... |
Theodore Martin | Even the caustic critic | (who was usually virulently hostile to Dickens), spoke well of the book, n ... |
Henry of Huntingdon | ... Biedanheafde. It is not known where this battle was, or who was the victor. | , a 12th-century historian who had access to versions of the Anglo-Saxon C ... |
Ariel Sharon | On the day before the war, General | was shown aerial photographs and other intelligence by Yehoshua Saguy, his ... |
Pope Siricius | ... val of the synod which met at Trier in the same year, but Ambrose of Milan, | and Martin of Tours protested against Priscillian's execution, largely on ... |
Pope Benedict XV | ... a priest. With the revision of the Code of Canon Law promulgated in 1917 by | , only those who are already priests or bishops may be appointed cardinals ... |
Pope Innocent VIII | In February 1487, | halted the proposed debate, and established a commission to review the ort ... |
Nikola Tomašić | ... Rauch appointed him a university professor in Zagreb in 1908. However, when | , his distant cousin and enemy, became ban in 1910, Šufflay had to leave t ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 15 December 1969, he was appointed Patriarch of Venice by | and took possession of the archdiocese on 3 February 1970. Pope Paul creat ... |
Ulfilas | Of Gothic literature in the Gothic language we have the Bible of | and some other religious writings and fragments. Of Gothic legislation in ... |
Apuleius | ... m Syria her worship extended to Greece and to the furthest West. Lucian and | give descriptions of the beggar-priests who went round the great cities wi ... |
John Cleese | ... Fry and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and | and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as Mordechai Va ... |
Gilbert Foliot | In June 1170, Roger de Pont L'Évêque, the archbishop of York, along with | , the bishop of London, and Josceline de Bohon, the bishop of Salisbury, c ... |
Bishop of Salisbury | ... of Winchester as chancellor, the Bishop of Lincoln as vice-chancellor, the | as precentor, the Bishop of Worcester as chaplain and the Bishop of Roches ... |
Francesco Crispi | In 1887, Depretis cabinet minister and former Garibaldi republican | became Prime Minister. Crispi's major concerns before during his reign was ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... n, Robert Graves, David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister | was wounded in the hip, leaving him with a lifelong shuffle to his walk. H ... |
Pope Nicholas I | ... Photius I of Constantinople, who became Patriarch in 858 and was deposed by | in 863, was an enemy of the Pope. He vehemently asserted his own authority ... |
Josceline de Bohon | ... he archbishop of York, along with Gilbert Foliot, the bishop of London, and | , the bishop of Salisbury, crowned Henry the Young King at York. This was ... |
Roger de Pont L'Évêque | In June 1170, | , the archbishop of York, along with Gilbert Foliot, the bishop of London, ... |
Golda Meir | ... tember 25, Hussein secretly flew to Tel Aviv to warn Israeli Prime Minister | of an impending Syrian attack. "Are they going to war without the Egyptian ... |
Pierre Batiffol | ... ristian living, is dependent upon Clement of Alexandria, and is assigned by | to the Novatian Bishop Sisinnius (c. 400). The extant work under the title ... |
Ramakrishna | Hench and his wife were both longtime devotees of the Hindu saint | and members of the Vedanta Society of Southern California |
Pope Martin V | ... cardinals were created by the contending popes. Beginning with the reign of | , cardinals were created without publishing their names until later, terme ... |
Woody Allen | Other notable comics from this era include | , Shelley Berman and Bob Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as ... |
Timothy | ... drinus, Mosquensis, and Angelicus) state that Paul wrote it in Athens after | had returned from Macedonia with news of the state of the church in Thessa ... |
Robert Menzies | ... red. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return to power. The Prime Minister, | , adroitly used the defection of a Soviet official to his advantage, and h ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | Tarō Asō, the 92nd | , is a great-great-grandson of Ōkubo Toshimichi. Ōkubo's second son, Makin ... |
Eusebius' | ... e definitely dated. Two prominent sources do exist for Urban's pontificate: | history of the early Church and also an inscription in the Coemeterium Cal ... |
Franz von Papen | ... e from the memoirs of Ernst Junger ("Storm of Steel") and future Chancellor | indicates severe German casualties during the attritional fighting of the ... |
Andrew Bonar Law | On | 's retirement as Prime Minister in May 1923, Curzon was passed over for th ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... DPA, حزب دیموکراتیک خلق افغانستان) orchestrated a bloody coup assassinating | , his family and bodyguards and consequently assuming power. The PDPA soon ... |
Pope John Paul II | Of the 232 cardinals that | elevated, four were named in pectore. The identities of three of these wer ... |
Gordon Brown | The Rt. Hon. | , the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was Rector of the Unive ... |
Bernabé Cobo | ... s from their description by the Spanish chroniclers Pedro Cieza de León and | |
prime minister | On February 12, 1913 Yamamoto Gonnohyōe succeeded Katsura as | . In April 1914, Ōkuma Shigenobu replaced Yamamoto |
Alfred Hugenberg | ... es, representing a minority in the Reichstag: The Nazis and the DNVP led by | (196 + 52 seats). According to the Nuremberg Trials, this cabinet meeting' ... |
Prime Minister | ... ited to non-partisan functions such as bestowing honours and appointing the | . The Queen is also Commander-in-chief of the British Armed Forces. Though ... |
Bishop of Lincoln | ... s Canterbury's provincial dean, the Bishop of Winchester as chancellor, the | as vice-chancellor, the Bishop of Salisbury as precentor, the Bishop of Wo ... |
John Reith | First hopes for the Empire Service were low. The Director General, Sir | (later Lord Reith) said in the opening programme: "Don't expect too much i ... |
Martin of Tours | ... hich met at Trier in the same year, but Ambrose of Milan, Pope Siricius and | protested against Priscillian's execution, largely on the jurisdictional g ... |
John Ball | | , a priest involved as a leader in the Great Rising of 1381 (also known as ... |
Andrew Bonar Law | ... tion in October 1922. Curzon was thus able to remain Foreign Secretary when | formed a purely Conservative ministry. In 1922-3 Curzon had to negotiate w ... |
Edgar Faure | ... ded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister | (1955–1956) |
Pope Alexander III | ... mmunication and interdict against the king and bishops and the kingdom, but | , though sympathising with him in theory, favoured a more diplomatic appro ... |
W. T. Cosgrave | ... r their aims; it had several local councillors (mostly in Dublin, including | ) and contained a dissident wing grouped from 1910 around the monthly peri ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Winchester | ... xception of the two archbishops—serves as Canterbury's provincial dean, the | as chancellor, the Bishop of Lincoln as vice-chancellor, the Bishop of Sal ... |
Eduardo Francisco Pironio | ... th general great joy they had elected "God's candidate". Argentine Cardinal | stated that, "We were witnesses of a moral miracle." And later, Mother Ter ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... alloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though | had written a scathing reply, The Last of the Light Brigade, criticising t ... |
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 ... |
Robert Tilton | ... cluded the song "Cash Cow", which takes a jab at yet another televangelist, | , as well as "Bannerman" which is a tribute to American Football fans that ... |
Marco Minghetti | ... ialism due to a regionally fragmented right, as conservative Prime Minister | only held on to power by enacting revolutionary and socialist-leaning poli ... |
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 ... |
Bettino Ricasoli | ... ow; most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles. Baron | (later Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Italy) created the Chianti recipe ... |
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna | ... lmar Union. He received the power from temporary Swedish regents archbishop | and lord Erik Axelsson Tott. However, Sweden being volatile and split by f ... |
Bishop of Dunkeld | ... e island, was founded in the 12th century during the episcopate of Gregoir, | . Later tradition placed it back in the reign of King Alexander I of Scotl ... |
Martin Luther | Before Calvin developed a systematic theology of Augustinian Protestantism, | asserted that humans inherit Adamic guilt and are in a state of sin from t ... |
Artur Rasizade | | | |New Azerbaijan Party (YAP |
Nehru | ... ile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and 31 December 1953. Prime Minister | of India voiced the heightened international concern in 1954, when he prop ... |
Plutarch | ... ere is no evidence as to the stringing of the Greek lyre in the heroic age. | says that Olympus and Terpander used but three strings to accompany their ... |
Rabindranath Tagore | ... 35, after finishing school, Indira joined Shantiniketan, a school set up by | . Subsequently, she went to England and sat for the University of Oxford e ... |
John Colet | ... d is believed to have been the first who taught Greek in that city. In 1510 | , dean of St Paul's, who was then founding the school which afterwards bec ... |
Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | One evening in September, Merton was reading a book about | ' conversion to Catholicism and how he became a priest. Suddenly he could ... |
John Wesley | The Methodist Church, founded by | , upholds Article VII in the Articles of Religion in the Book of Disciplin ... |
Prime Minister | | | |Shavkat Mirziyoye |
Benito Mussolini | ... ainly because of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of | in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism. T ... |
Vincenzo Gioberti | ... , different groups could not agree on what form a unified state would take. | , a Piedmontese priest, had suggested a confederation of Italian states un ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... f 50 tanks by the Israeli 143rd Armoured Division, which was led by General | , who had been reinstated as a division commander at the outset of the war ... |
Michael Collins | ... of the secretive Irish Republican Brotherhood and IRA Chief of Intelligence | had operated a clandestine "Squad" of IRA members in Dublin (a.k.a. "The T ... |
Michael Collins | ... ts on the morning of 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, under | and Richard Mulcahy to wipe out the British intelligence organisation in t ... |
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 ... |
Michael Farris | ... Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer | . The novelist Hilary Mantel portrays More as a religious and masochistic ... |
Edmund Scambler | ... ry was that of having a prison for felons taken in the Soke. In 1576 Bishop | sold the lordship of the hundred of Nassaburgh, which was coextensive with ... |
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 ... |
Artur Rasizade | ... art problems. In August 2003, İlham Aliyev was appointed as premier, though | , who had been prime minister since 1996, continued to fulfill the duties ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... Laurent was ranked #4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers (through | ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and ... |
Joseph Goebbels | In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister | told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that British political cartoon ... |
Clement Attlee | ... nomic activity. In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister | , Francis Beckett states: "the government... wanted what would become know ... |
Bishop of Rochester | ... g them in Gaul were Mellitus, who was Bishop of London, and Justus, who was | . Remaining in Britain, Laurence succeeded in reconverting Eadbald to Chri ... |
Paolo Giovio | ... s condottieri in Senigallia, a feat described as a "wonderful deceiving" by | , and had them executed |
Jean Lapierre | ... hartrand, and François Gérin, along with two Liberals, Gilles Rocheleau and | . The first Bloquiste candidate to be elected was Gilles Duceppe, then a u ... |
Cyril of Jerusalem | Karl Ritter (1838) suggested that when | , remarks that one of Scythianus' pupils Terebinthus changed his name to B ... |
John Calvin | ... lt of his sin by imputation. Redemption by Jesus Christ is the only remedy. | defined original sin in his Institutes of the Christian Religion as follow ... |
Henry Wace | ... ned to supervise the first series of the NPNF. He was joined by the British | for the second series |
Thomas Aquinas | ... ime teacher on campus named Daniel Walsh, so he decided to take a course on | with Walsh. Through Walsh, Merton was introduced to Jacques Maritain at a ... |
Stephen Fry | ... ns, later William Franklyn in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and | in the movie version), also provides general narration |
prime minister | ... rts are nominated by the Ministry of Justice and appointed by decree by the | . The Supreme Judicial Council, chaired by the King, appoints the members ... |
George Washington Baines | ... tist congregations, including Old Saline Baptist, whose original pastor was | , maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Within S ... |
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Gregoir | ... tre of the island, was founded in the 12th century during the episcopate of | , Bishop of Dunkeld. Later tradition placed it back in the reign of King A ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... rnment. The rigidity of interpretive possibilities reached its height under | |
Heinrich Himmler | ... known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection). Later under the leadership of | between 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the "Schutz-Staffel" and grew fr ... |
Eusebius | ... tively describe it as a temple to Venus, the Roman equivalent to Aphrodite. | claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had origin ... |
Hydatius | ... l sack of Rome (June 2–16, 455). Oost has pointed out that in his chronicle | wrote Placidia was unmarried as of 455 |
George Canning | In 1827, after a rapid decline in health, Tory Prime Minister | died in the same room where Charles James Fox had died in 1806 |
Prime Minister | | | |Khalifah ibn Sulman al-Khalifa |
Bhajan Lal | ... tion of protests in Delhi during the Asian Games. The Congress leaders like | ordered selective frisking of Sikh visitors to Delhi, which was seen as hu ... |
Pope Gregory VII | ... on, where he was joined by the young monk Hildebrand, who afterwards became | ; arriving in pilgrim garb at Rome in the following February, he was recei ... |
Prime Minister | ... hite Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and 31 December 1953. | Nehru of India voiced the heightened international concern in 1954, when h ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | ... e House of Representatives. On August 8, 2005, then-Prime Minister of Japan | dissolved the Lower House and called for a general election, due to the re ... |
Arthur Balfour | ... nstitute. A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Minister | in October 1902. On the site previously had been cheap crowded inner-city ... |
UK Prime Minister | ... l cover art featured a Soviet mural of Lenin and images of Reagan and then- | Margaret Thatcher. The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, disp ... |
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, ... |
Charles Haughey | ... convinced that he had enough support to defeat the other likely candidate, | , and that Lynch should resign early to catch his opponents on the hop. Ly ... |
Pope Stephen II | ... lly used in Western Europe after the end of the Roman Empire; for instance, | granted the title "Patricius of the Romans" to the Frankish ruler Pepin II ... |
Bartolomé de las Casas | ... lined to sixty thousand by 1509. Although population estimates vary, Father | , the “Defender of the Indians” estimated there were 6 million (6,000,000) ... |
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Ryutaro Hashimoto | ... ita was sidelined by the Recruit scandal, the Tanaka faction rallied behind | , who led the Tanaka faction (now called the Hashimoto faction) until scan ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | ... gained a majority in the House of Representatives. On August 8, 2005, then- | Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the Lower House and called for a general elect ... |
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 ... |
Hippolytus | ... neus exercised wide influence on the immediately following generation. Both | and Tertullian freely drew on his writings. But his literal hope of an ear ... |
Tage Erlander | ... ly, succeeded as party chairman and Prime Minister by Minister of Education | , who consecutively held both offices until 1969, completing most of Hanss ... |
Simon of Southwell | ... had been educated at Bologna in his household, including John of Tynemouth, | , and Honorius of Kent. He also employed the architect Elias of Dereham, w ... |
Philip Schaff | ... d, depending on the congregation. Many Presbyterian Churches, influenced by | 's Mercersburg Theology, have adopted a High Church liturgy. Openness rang ... |
Home Secretary | ... Civil Contingencies Committee is a British cabinet committee chaired by the | . It is intended to deal with major crises such as terrorism or natural di ... |
Woody Allen | ... C Motion Pictures. It made some moneymaking films like Bob Fosse's Cabaret, | 's Take the Money and Run, and Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses, Don't T ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... came from all walks of life, including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and | , crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, | , at the party's leadership convention in 1958 |
Rowan Williams | ... appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, | , at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and journalism, amo ... |
Raymond Poincaré | ... he distributed as gifts to President Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister | of France, to King George V of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological G ... |
Juan de Padilla | ... them was fabulously wealthy in gold. West of Lyons is a cross commemorating | , a member of Coronado's expedition, who returned the following year as a ... |
John Calvin | ... o's notion of original sin was strongly affirmed by the Protestant Reformer | . Calvin believed that humans inherit Adamic guilt and are in a state of s ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | ... ries of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and | , none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several centuries after ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ("scabs") and the business property of the major industrialists, including | |
Prime Minister | ... rt Walpole, the First Lord of the Treasury (effectively the same as today's | ) vetoed the plan. Walpole, although a Whig, had alienated Sarah by suppor ... |
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 ... |
Clemens August of Bavaria | ... e place at least since 1578, and around 1720 a Baroque garden was built for | . The first director of the Botanical Garden was Nees von Esenbeck from 18 ... |
Stephen Fry | ... rlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp and V for Vendetta with | |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... medical attention. Marches and other protests continued for several weeks. | came to Danville and spoke at High Street Baptist Church about the brutali ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... , into the politically influential Nehru Family. Indira Gandhi's father was | and her mother was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a prom ... |
John Lubbock | In his highly influential Pre-historic Times, | described burnt bones indicating the practice of child sacrifice in pagan ... |
Sir Douglas Haig | By 19 December 1915, General | had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British ... |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – | – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... d current affairs from a left wing perspective. It's named after the famous | poem. Suiting both Bell's anarchic artistic style and the paper's politica ... |
Justus | ... ht's death. Among them in Gaul were Mellitus, who was Bishop of London, and | , who was Bishop of Rochester. Remaining in Britain, Laurence succeeded in ... |
Alexandre Millerand | ... even included a pride of lions, which he distributed as gifts to President | and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King George V of the Uni ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... ever, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President | (who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid), the Palestinian fighter ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 4 September 2009, Hislop appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the | , Rowan Williams, at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and ... |
John of the Cross | ... to set up two houses for men who wished to adopt the reforms; she convinced | and Anthony of Jesus to help with this. They founded the first convent of ... |
Walter Bower | Among the Abbots of Inchcolm was the 15th-century chronicler | |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... ther, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, | , was a pivotal figure in the independence movement of India |
Bishop of London | ... that followed Æthelberht's death. Among them in Gaul were Mellitus, who was | , and Justus, who was Bishop of Rochester. Remaining in Britain, Laurence ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | ... old seat in Niigata in 1991, and became foreign minister in the cabinet of | in 2001 |
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 ... |
John Knox | ... common practice in Reformed churches today. Many, on the other hand, follow | in celebration of the Lord's supper on a quarterly basis, to give proper t ... |
Makiko Tanaka | ... of pneumonia at Keio University Hospital at 2:04 p.m. on December 16, 1993. | , who was not associated with Etsuzankai, was elected to her father's old ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... several turns. Initially, some of the leadership, especially Robert Ley and | , wanted to use it as a pretext for abandonment of the Geneva Conventions ... |
Stephen Harper | The Liberals were facing a united Conservative Party led by | , while the Bloc Québécois and NDP were also buoyed by the Sponsorship Sca ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... r death at their gloves' end as they piece and repiece the living wires" in | 's 1907 poem Sons of Martha. Electrically powered vehicles of every sort f ... |
Roger Mahony | ... cealing the priests' problems from those they served. For example, Cardinal | of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said: "We have said repeatedly that ... ... |
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 ... |
Spyridion of Trimythous | ... astopolis; Achilleus of Larissa (considered the Athanasius of Thessaly) and | , who even while a bishop made his living as a shepherd. From foreign plac ... |
Prime Ministers | In India, | Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mo ... |
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 ... |
Nicander | ... ecially attracted him. He published editions of Aelian, De natura animalium | ;, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; Aristotle, His ... |
Rabindranath Tagore | ... bindo, Subramanya Bharathy, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, | , and Dadabhai Naoroji, as well as women such as the Scots–Irish Sister Ni ... |
Michael Collins | ... e and the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, identifying in particular | as the founder of the movement |
Prime Minister | ... 1937–1940). He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and served as | four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times |
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. ... |
Ignatius | ... to the interpretation of Scripture. His writings, with those of Clement and | , are taken to hint at papal primacy. Irenaeus is the earliest witness to ... |
Zenko Suzuki | ... action behind Ohira's. After Ohira died in 1980, the Tanaka faction elected | . Suzuki hated his position so much that he resigned in 1982: Tanaka respo ... |
René Préval | ... o remove Aristide from Haiti. Boniface Alexandre assumed interim authority. | was elected President in February 2006, following elections marked by unce ... |
3rd Marquess of Bute | ... r popular parks include Roath Park in the north, donated to the city by the | in 1887 and which includes a very popular boating lake; Victoria Park, Car ... |
Jean Chrétien | In late 2004, Niyazov met with former Canadian Prime Minister | to discuss an oil contract in Turkmenistan for a Canadian corporation. In ... |
Charles Kingsley | ... eigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – | – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydg ... |
Angelo Sodano | ... division became public, with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn accusing Cardinal | of blocking Ratzinger’s investigation of a high-profile case in the mid 19 ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... 14, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, | , John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St Jo ... |
Ye Jianying | ... resolution to send a delegation consisting of senior leaders such as Zhou, | and Qin Bangxian to Xian at the request of Zhang and Yang |
Saint Gregory the Illuminator | ... opular Santa Claus character would be derived; Aristakes of Armenia (son of | ); Leontius of Caesarea; Jacob of Nisibis, a former hermit; Hypatius of Ga ... |
Jean Charest | ... government in May 1990 in response to the report of a commission headed by | that suggested changes to the Meech Lake Accord. Bouchard felt the recomme ... |
Prime Minister | ... umbent Member of Parliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former | Sir Winston Churchill, and a former junior minister in the Government of J ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | According to Israeli sources, at the start of the war on June 5, General | (then IDF Chief of Staff) informed Commander Ernest Carl Castle, the Ameri ... |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | ... former deputy prime minister rumored to be the illegitimate son of Niyazov, | , became acting president, although under the constitution the Chairman of ... |
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 ... |
Noboru Takeshita | ... of the Tanaka faction on his 1984 cabinet, including future prime minister | |
Joe Clark | ... e government, though they were now in a minority situation, the first since | 's tenure in 1979-80 |
Chaplain of the House | The Speaker calls the House to order, the | then offers a prayer, and the Speaker and House approves the legislative j ... |
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 ... |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | ... s are derived from Islamic civilization, but Turkey's elite, beginning with | , who took power as first President of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, imp ... |
Sirimavo Bandaranaike | ... 980–84). Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after | of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female ... |
Joseph Lyons | ... of the 1930s, through Australia's recovery from the Great Depression under | and into the early stages of the World War II under Robert Menzies |
Aristakes of Armenia | ... holas of Myra, from whom the popular Santa Claus character would be derived | ;(son of Saint Gregory the Illuminator); Leontius of Caesarea; Jacob of Ni ... |
Eleftherios Venizelos | ... han 14 million travellers annually and its name honours the Greek statesman | . The airport has become increasingly popular as a gateway to Asia and the ... |
Hellespontine Sibyl | ... ave been her home. The sibylline collection at Gergis was attributed to the | and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis. Thence it passed to E ... |
Yashwant Sinha | ... term of five years. Vajpayee and his economic team, led by Finance Minister | , continuing the policies initiated by the previous Congress Government un ... |
Charles Spurgeon | ... its, and public entertainment. The new site was also the location of one of | 's famous sermons, without amplification, before a crowd of 23,654 people ... |
Malcolm Fraser | ... onnor and Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Cairns. The Liberal Opposition Leader, | , decided to use the Senate to block the government's budget bills, thus f ... |
Pope Martin V | ... V, Duke of Brabant, made a formal request to the Holy See for a university. | issued a papal bull dated 9 December 1425 founding the University in Leuve ... |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | In an election on February 11, 2007, | was elected president with 89% of the vote and 95% turnout, although the e ... |
Prime Minister | In Israel, | Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995. Yigal Amir confessed a ... |
Martinho da Costa Lopes | On the resignation of | in 1983, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo was appointed Apostolic Administrator ... |
Saint Marcellinus | ... lendar had on April 26 the feast day of Saint Cletus, honoured jointly with | , and on 13 July the feast day of Saint Anacletus. In 1960, Pope John XXII ... |
Ottobuon | ... wing him to regain control of the country and the Tower of London. Cardinal | came to England to excommunicate those who were still rebellious; the act ... |
Secretary of Defense | ... dviser to the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, the | , and the President. The Chief of Naval Operations is typically the highes ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... th Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – | – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – ... |
Michèle Pierre-Louis | ... ug trafficker, human rights violator, and heretical practitioner of voodoo. | was the second female Prime Minister of Haiti (September 2008-Nov. 2009). ... |
Lloyd George | ... es into gold – but with Keynes's help the Chancellor of the Exchequer (then | ) was persuaded that this would be a bad idea, as it would hurt the future ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Gandhi was the only child of | , the first prime minister of independent India. She adhered to the quasi- ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... him von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to | , the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranki ... |
Plutarch | ... , Romulus, the Fidenates and the Veientes were defeated in a war with Rome. | , Life of Romulus, says of them: The first (to oppose Romulus) were the Ve ... |
John Bruton | ... President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh | , Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey, and various political persons from ... |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | ... invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to | , German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini ... |
Robert Menzies | ... sion under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under | |
Shirley Caesar | ... y, James Blackwood, James Cleveland, Doug Oldham, Mighty Clouds of Joy, and | , Norman sang his "The Great American Novel", "a Dylanesque protest song", ... |
Bertie Ahern | ... ral which was attended by the President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach | , former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey, and va ... |
Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida | Before his death, Leo IX had sent a legatine mission under | to Constantinople to negotiate with Patriarch Michael I Cerularius in resp ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... alf of the century, race relations deteriorated. Even so, on the night that | was assassinated, Indianapolis was the only major city in which rioting di ... |
Brian Mulroney | ... as a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of | . The BQ seeks to create the conditions necessary for the political secess ... |
Sir Robert Peel | ... Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and appointed a Tory, | . In the ensuing elections, however, Peel lost. The King had no choice but ... |
James Callaghan | ... e of great importance. The censure motion by which the Labour Government of | was ejected had its origin in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), pu ... |
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 ... |
Pope Pius II | The city came again under papal jurisdiction under the rule of | (1458–1464) |
Margaret Thatcher | ... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by | |
Joseph Lyons | Founding leader | began his political career as an Australian Labor Party politician and ser ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... tion of the Congregation for Rites on the application to local calendars of | 's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum of 25 July 1960 decreed that "the fe ... |
Pierre Trudeau | Guests came from all walks of life, including politicians like | and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Ho ... |
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna | ... almar Union. In Sweden his short tenure as monarch was preceded by regents, | and Erik Axelsson Tott and succeeded by regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa. Also ... |
Nicholas of Myra | ... us of Nicomedia; Eusebius of Caesarea, the purported first church historian | ;, from whom the popular Santa Claus character would be derived; Aristakes ... |
Albertus Magnus | ... onsidered to be magicians in popular legend, notably Gerbert d'Aurillac and | : both men were active in the scientific research of their day as well as ... |
Takeo Miki | The Tanaka faction supported | 's "clean government" bid to become prime minister, and Tanaka once again ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... and biting satire of institutions and individuals became a popular weapon. | was one of the greatest of Anglo-Irish satirists, and one of the first to ... |
Frederick V, Elector Palatine | ... the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and | |
Elefthérios Venizélos | ... ral Athens ( by road, due to intervening hills). The airport is named after | , the prominent Cretan political figure and Prime Minister of Greece, who ... |
Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup | ... for women’s education and its separation from the church. He opposed famous | (1802–1878), Roman Catholic bishop of Orléans, who wanted to keep control ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
Jigme Palden Dorji | ... tion efforts moved forward in the 1960s under the direction of the lonchen, | , the Druk Gyalpo's brother-in-law. In 1962, however, Dorji incurred disfa ... |
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 ... |
Michael Collins | ... many RIC Police Intelligence officers during the Irish War of Independence. | set up a special unit – the Squad – for this purpose, which had the effect ... |
Charles Haughey | ... e, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and | , and various political persons from all parties. The coffin was then flow ... |
Zulfi Ali Bhutto | ... from Pakistan. Great ire was raised in Pakistan, Pakistan's Prime minister | described this test as "Indian hegemony" to intimidate Pakistan. Gandhi di ... |
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 ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... initiated by the previous Congress Government under P. V. Narasimha Rao and | , pushed through major privatizations of big government corporations, the ... |
James Scullin | ... d to the Australian Federal Parliament in 1929 and served in Prime Minister | 's Labor Cabinet. Lyons became acting Treasurer in 1930 and helped negotia ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister | Bahrain has had only one | since the country's independence in 1971, Khalifah ibn Sulman al-Khalifah, ... |
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp | ... the uneasy majority enforced Hansson's resignation, leaving League chairman | to form a three-month "Holiday Cabinet" until the elections in September, ... |
Pope John Paul II | | , following his personalist philosophy, considered that a danger of utilit ... |
Albert Reynolds | ... Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, | and Charles Haughey, and various political persons from all parties. The c ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... t Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG). He had asked | for this appointment shortly after becoming Governor-General in 1974, but ... |
P. V. Narasimha Rao | ... continuing the policies initiated by the previous Congress Government under | and Manmohan Singh, pushed through major privatizations of big government ... |
Pope Alexander II | ... rebuilt and decorated with the utmost splendor, was consecrated in 1071 by | . A detailed account of the abbey at this date exists in the Chronica mona ... |
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 ... |
Pope Damasus II | On the death of | in 1048, Bruno was selected as his successor by an assembly at Worms in De ... |
Tanaka Giichi | ... kahashi continued to serve as Finance Minister under the administrations of | (1927–1929), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1931–1932), Saitō Makoto (1932–1934) and Oka ... |
André Malraux | ... snais married Florence Malraux (daughter of the French statesman and writer | ); she was a regular member of his production team, working as assistant d ... |
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | ... bert Walpole (1676–1745); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683–1737) | ;(1713–92) his architect William Burges (1827–1881) and the present Prince ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... ogical commentaries, had a great influence on Medieval philosophers such as | . Scholastic European scholars, who sought to reconcile the philosophy of ... |
René Préval | ... is 5-year term based on the date of his inauguration. In the 1995 election, | was elected as president for a five-year term, winning 88% of the popular ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator | , Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times |
Inukai Tsuyoshi | ... as Finance Minister under the administrations of Tanaka Giichi (1927–1929), | (1931–1932), Saitō Makoto (1932–1934) and Okada Keisuke (1934–1936). Despi ... |
St. Peter | ... en as Anencletus), also called Pope Cletus, was the third Roman Pope (after | and St. Linus) |
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 ... |
Francis Asbury | ... ort by New York brush manufacturer James A. Bradley, the city was named for | , the first American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Unite ... |
Saint Irenaeus | ... etus". The Annuario Pontificio gives both forms, as alternatives. Eusebius, | , Saint Augustine and Optatus all suggest that both names refer to the sam ... |
Saitō Makoto | ... administrations of Tanaka Giichi (1927–1929), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1931–1932), | (1932–1934) and Okada Keisuke (1934–1936). Despite his considerable succes ... |
Mister Rogers | Bert is one of | 's fans. In one sketch, Bert is trying to write a letter to Mister Rogers ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... ted the royalist forces and joined the White Army, others were committed to | 's Provisional Government, to the Bolsheviks, and even to smaller forces l ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... n dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator | , and other leaders of his times |
Pope Victor III | ... th century under the abbot Desiderius (abbot 1058 - 1087), who later became | . The number of monks rose to over two hundred, and the library, the manus ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... us Islamist leaders, including senior Hamas founder Mahmoud Zahar, met with | as part of "regular consultations" between Israeli officials and Palestini ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ould walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni." A fan of | 's The Jungle Book as a child, Calvino felt that his early interest in sto ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... rmany's Adolf Hitler. By first creating a speaking environment, designed by | , he was able to exaggerate his presence to make him seem messianic. Hitle ... |
Joan Enric Vives Sicília | ... twelfth century. There is still a bishop of Urgell, who since 2003 has been | . This role carries with it the position of joint head of state of Andorra |
Prime Minister | ... rst performed at the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the | , Harold Macmillan. This was one of the first occasions satirical politica ... |
Jens Stoltenberg | ... . The election result allowed them to unseat the Labour Party government of | and replace it with a three-party coalition led by Christian Democrat Kjel ... |
Clemenceau | ... three principal players at Versailles were Britain's Lloyd George, France's | and America's President Wilson |
Pope Damasus I | ... l); Athanasius' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369; and the Letter in 382 to | and the Latin bishops from the First Council of Constantinople |
Pope Paul VI | ... s canonized by Pope Gregory XV, and in 1970 named a Doctor of the Church by | . Her books, which include her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, ... |
Kevin Rudd | ... l Government apology to the Aboriginal Stolen Generations by Prime Minister | . On 21 January 2009, Whitlam achieved a greater age than any other Prime ... |
Lord North | ... ere unsuccessful because King George III and the ministry of Prime Minister | were determined not to retreat on the question of parliamentary supremacy. ... |
Prime Minister | ... hese measures were unsuccessful because King George III and the ministry of | Lord North were determined not to retreat on the question of parliamentary ... |
J. P. Migne | ... form in various European libraries. Most of Pletho's works can be found in | , Patrologia Graeca, collection; for a complete list see Fabricius, Biblio ... |
Thomas Greene | ... ws of Trinity again brought Bentley to trial before the bishop of Ely (then | ), and he was sentenced to deprivation. The college statutes required the ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... ere Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, who also supported the overthrow of the | Government. When the fall of the Winter Palace was announced, the Congress ... |
Plutarch | ... Professor Barry Powell has suggested she was Minoan Crete's Snake Goddess. | , in his vita of Theseus, which treats him as a historical individual, rep ... |
René Préval | ... ational Assembly soon deteriorated, partly over his selection of his friend | as Prime Minister. In September, Aristide was overthrown in the 1991 Haiti ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
Jean Chrétien | ... inst the passage of the Clarity Act, the attempt by Canadian Prime Minister | (himself a Quebecer who represented a strongly nationalist riding) and Sté ... |
Pope Nicholas V | ... as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by | . In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, d ... |
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 ... |
Lloyd George | The three principal players at Versailles were Britain's | , France's Clemenceau and America's President Wilson |
Katō Takaaki | ... in the Lower House of the Diet of Japan in the 1924 General Election. When | became the prime minister and set up a coalition cabinet 1924, Takahashi a ... |
George Canning | ... the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the moderate Tory governments of | and Lord Goderich. Upon the death of his father in 1828 and his becoming V ... |
Hjalmar Branting | ... generally by Karl Kautsky's reformist views on socialism, Hansson succeeded | as editor of Social-Demokraten in 1917 and was appointed his Minister of D ... |
Allenby's | ... that a breakthrough was imminent. On 29 September he had outlined plans for | Third Army to rejoin the battle in the north around Gommecourt and for the ... |
Masayoshi Ōhira | ... s popularity, along with support from the factions of Yasuhiro Nakasone and | , gave him a 282-190 victory over Fukuda in the LDP's 1971 party president ... |
Stephen Nye | ... sympathy with Socinianism in his previous associations with Thomas Firmin, | and others |
Photius | ... lieved to have been the Eighth Ecumenical Council by some Eastern Orthodox. | had been appointed Patriarch of Constantinople but deposed by a Council of ... |
Leo of Ostia | ... sts for the decoration of the rebuilt abbey church. According to chronicler | the Greek artists decorated the apse, the arch and the vestibule of the ba ... |
John Calvin | ... ginal sin was popular among Protestant reformers, such as Martin Luther and | , and also, within Roman Catholicism, in the Jansenist movement, but this ... |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, | and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s chief court was in Caerleon in Wales; this was the king's primary base in | 's Historia Regum Britanniae and subsequent literature. Chrétien depicts A ... |
Cals | ... ell and without elections it was replaced by the KVP-ARP-PvdA cabinet under | , which itself also fell the next year. In the following 1967 elections th ... |
Liam Cosgrave | ... ch's allies or even his own party, but from the former leader of Fine Gael, | . As a sportsman Lynch earned a reputation for decency and fair play, char ... |
Hara Takashi | ... kai political party . He was appointed to the same office by Prime Minister | in 1918. In 1920, Takahashi's title was elevated to viscount (shishaku). A ... |
Yasuhiro Nakasone | ... rime minister, Tanaka's popularity, along with support from the factions of | and Masayoshi Ōhira, gave him a 282-190 victory over Fukuda in the LDP's 1 ... |
Fan S. Noli | ... (Step of Tujan). In 1924, Tirana was at the center of a coup d'état led by | . Since 1925, when they were banned in Turkey, the Bektashis, an order of ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In 1894 | published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ... |
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 ... |
Austen Henry Layard | In the sculptures at Nineveh the parasol appears frequently. | gives a picture of a representing a king in his chariot, with an attendant ... |
John Cotton | A 17th century vicar of Boston, | , made use of the pulpit. His views were questioned by the hierarchy but h ... |
Bishop of Norwich | ... n was abroad. In April 1204 Walter returned to France with John de Gray the | , Eustace the Bishop of Ely, William Marshal, and Robert de Beaumont the E ... |
St Martin | Towards the end of the 4th century, a follower of | , St Mexme, established first a hermitage, and then a monastery on the eas ... |
Martin Luther | ... formulation of original sin was popular among Protestant reformers, such as | and John Calvin, and also, within Roman Catholicism, in the Jansenist move ... |
Plutarch | ... erial era. Roman historians dated the city's foundation from 758 to 728 BC. | says Romulus was fifty-three at his death; his reckoning gives the twins' ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... an, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of | who died two years later |
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 ... |
Stanko Premrl | ... n the national symbols of Slovenia, passed in 1994, the eponymous melody by | , written after the lyrics of the seventh stanza of the Prešeren's poem, e ... |
Williamson affair | For instance, during the | , Monsignor Robert Wister publicly declared that the negationist comments ... |
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe | ... 1913, Takahashi was appointed as the Minister of Finance by Prime Minister | and then joined the Rikken Seiyūkai political party . He was appointed to ... |
John de Gray | ... regent while John was abroad. In April 1204 Walter returned to France with | the Bishop of Norwich, Eustace the Bishop of Ely, William Marshal, and Rob ... |
Shinzō Abe | ... hairman of the Education Rebuilding Council, which was set up by Japan's PM | after he came to power in 2006 |
Saddam Hussein | ... Arafat established relationships with a variety of world leaders, including | and Idi Amin. Arafat was Amin's best man at his wedding in Uganda in 1975 |
Leo of Ostia | ... of the abbey at this date exists in the Chronica monasterii Cassinensis by | and Amatus of Monte Cassino gives us our best source on the early Normans ... |
Frank Forde | ... ny other Prime Minister of Australia, surpassing the previous record holder | . On the 60th anniversary of his marriage to Margaret Whitlam, Gough Whitl ... |
Mohammad Khatami | ... al attention. The concept, which was introduced by former Iranian president | , was the basis for United Nations' resolution to name the year 2001 as th ... |
Plutarch | ... orus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7 | ;, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6; Josephus, ... |
Stalin | ... as later developed into "Liberation Theologies" from suffering people under | ism in Eastern Europe and military dictatorships in South America and Sout ... |
Pope Gregory XV | In 1622, forty years after her death, she was canonized by | , and in 1970 named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI. Her books, whi ... |
Rei Hino | ... agi for some time. The character Minako is closest to being friends with is | , with whom she has a conflicted relationship. Rei is supposed to be the s ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... t of Florestano de Fausto and Armando Brasini, well known architects of the | period in Italy. Brasini laid the basis for the modern-day arrangement of ... |
Pope Boniface VIII | ... ubject of Louis IX, which ended with his canonization, announced in 1297 by | . As Joinville had been a close friend of the king, his counselor and his ... |
Saint Cyril of Alexandria | ... e nature called "the nature of the incarnate word", which was reiterated by | |
Takeo Fukuda | ... Scandal, where Tanaka was accused of shady land deals in Tokyo, meant that | got the job instead |
Leopoldo de' Medici | ... halk portraits of friends are in the collection of the Uffizi. For Cardinal | , brother of Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and a scholar ... |
John Wilkins | ... r year he was alao elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1675 he edited | 's Principles of Natural Religion, completing what was left unfinished of ... |
K. Karunakaran | ... l University in 1971, a university for all agricultural related activities. | , the Bhishmacharya of Kerala politics started his career in Thrissur as a ... |
Deputy Prime Minister of Australia | ... evious Federal MP was Tim Fischer, who was leader of the National Party and | . In State politics, the Electoral district of Albury is currently represe ... |
Plutarch | ... us; Paeon's works are lost, but his narrative is among the sources cited by | in his vita of Theseus (20.3-.5). According to the myth that was current a ... |
Gilbert of Sempringham | ... request of the papacy, Walter also led inquiries into the canonizations of | and Wulfstan of Worcester. Walter refused to acquiesce in the election of ... |
Ismail Haniyeh | ... rs [from] June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital." On 1 December 2010, | again repeated that, "We accept a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... Oslo Accords of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Minister | and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat had provided ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... Kruger, 1941) and The Dismissal of Bismarck (1942). Minister of Propaganda | named him "Artist of the State" in 1941 |
Diarmuid Martin | ... enouncement of every abusive priest to the police. The Archbishop of Dublin | described the cooperation with the Congregation for the Clergy as "disastr ... |
Mahinda Rajapaksa | ... lving a long-running dispute on the length of President Kumaratunga's term. | was nominated the SLFP candidate and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremes ... |
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 ... |
Richard Coppin | ... ury England and 18th-century Europe and America. Gerrard Winstanley (1648), | (1652), Jane Leade (1697), and then George de Benneville in America, taugh ... |
President Svinhufvud | ... nd Progressive) and social democratic coalition which wanted to ensure that | would not be re-elected. Kallio took a role of a parliamentarian president ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | Numerous ancient sources, including | 's Life of Alcibiades, preserve stories of Anytus' tumultuous relationship ... |
Pope Pius V | In 1567, soon after the close of the Council of Trent, | went beyond Trent by sanctioning Aquinas's distinction between nature and ... |
Vadirajatirtha | ... later saints of Madhvacharya's order, Jayatirtha, Vyasatirtha, Sripadaraja, | and devotees (dasa) such as Vijaya Dasa, Gopaladasa and others from the Ka ... |
Horst Seehofer | ... ckstein and Chairman of the CSU, Erwin Huber, announced their resignations. | was quickly proposed as their successor. At a party convention on October ... |
Hayato Ikeda | ... Satō, and partly because his stepdaughter had married future prime minister | 's nephew, giving him a personal relationship with both key heads of the p ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... to take command of the ruins on May 18. The Abbey was rebuilt after the war | ;reconsecrated it in 1964 |
Nobusuke Kishi | When | became prime minister in 1957, Tanaka was given his first cabinet post, Mi ... |
John of the Cross | ... e was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be, along with | , a founder of the Discalced Carmelites |
Home Secretary | ... 5 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as | (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... oncorde, with the French spelling, but was officially changed to Concord by | in response to a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. In 1967, at the Fr ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... other PLO leaders. Although originally aligned with Fatah, Syrian President | feared a loss of influence in Lebanon and switched sides. He sent his army ... |
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake | ... he's 48.43%. Mahinda Rajapaksa took oath as President on November 19, 2005. | was appointed the 22nd Prime Minister on November 21, 2005, to fill the po ... |
George Scholarius | ... n the Differences of Aristotle from Plato, commonly called De Differentiis. | responded with a Defence of Aristotle, which elicited Plethon's subsequent ... |
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 ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... emonstrations in 1955 and 26000 in 1960-61. Finally, in September 1966, the | -led Union Government accepted the demand, and Punjab was trifurcated as p ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... gue, which was built specially for the Court in 1913 with an endowment from | . From 1922 on, the building also housed the distinctly separate Permanent ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... nisext Council. Constantine was the last pope to visit Constantinople until | did again in 1967 |
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 ... |
Prime Minister | ... . On July 26, 1945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom | Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chi ... |
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp | ... , which he ended by forming a coalition government with his main adversary, | . During World War II, in which Sweden maintained a policy of neutrality, ... |
John Calvin | Reformers Martin Luther and | equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it persisted even ... |
Ignatius of Loyola | ... t school, he was intensely pious—before marrying, he completed the whole of | 's Spiritual Exercises to discover whether he should in fact devote himsel ... |
George Lily | A sketch of Lily's life by his son | was written for Paulus Jovius, who was collecting for his history the live ... |
Saint Frumentius | ... der the dominion of the Church of Alexandria. The first bishop of Ethiopia, | , was consecrated as Bishop of Axum by Pope Athanasius of Alexandria in 32 ... |
Peter Ustinov | ... herry Orchard (1954), The Potting Shed (1958), Five Finger Exercise (1959), | 's comedy Half Way Up a Tree (1967), and Private Lives (1972). Gielgud won ... |
John Howard | ... when he opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq, despite Prime Minister | 's warning that Latham risked endangering an alliance with the United Stat ... |
Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki | ... Tamburetta, Sentinella, Bentrovata, and Nova Casa. Other composers include | , Franciszek Lilius, Bartłomiej Pękiel, Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński and ... |
Mahinda Rajapaksa | | | |Freedom Part |
Plutarch | ... ies initially appeared to back their ships away as if in fear. According to | , this was to gain better position, and also in order to gain time until t ... |
Alastair Sim | ... r of prominent British actors, including Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, and | . This was Hitchcock's first production for Warner Bros., which had distri ... |
Henri Grégoire | The term Vandalisme was coined in 1794 by | , bishop of Blois, to describe the destruction of artwork following the Fr ... |
Pope John XXII | ... e was rebuilt it marked the beginning of a long period of decline. In 1321, | made the church of Monte Cassino a cathedral, and the carefully preserved ... |
Gilbert White | | studied the Barn Swallow in detail in his pioneering work The Natural Hist ... |
Bansi Lal | ... to Punjab and had been influenced politically by the Haryana chief minister | , who was also a Union Cabinet minister at the time. A section of Sikhs pe ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941, | founded the Communist Party of Albania. The town soon became the center of ... |
Cyril I of Alexandria | ... ria met in an emergency session and a unanimous agreement was reached. Pope | , supported by the entire See, sent a letter to Nestorius known as "The Th ... |
Sidonius Apollinaris | ... d in Spain, considered the year 457 the third of Avitus' reign; furthermore | tells about a failed coup d'etat in Gaul, organised by one Marcellus and p ... |
Gabriele Amorth | Father | , a Vatican-appointed exorcist in Rome, has said, "if English and American ... |
J. Hudson Taylor | #A Retrospect by Protestant Christian missionary | (1832–1905), which documented how he founded the China Inland Mission (ren ... |
Pope Pius VII | ... n, 1940–1942; Pradel, 1937; Verlet, 1985). Nevertheless, on 3 January 1805, | , who came to France to officiate at Napoléon's coronation, visited the pa ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... ats, military officials, and media producers. In the elections that brought | to power, Schneerson publicly lobbied his followers and the Orthodox membe ... |
Ismail Haniyeh | ... ight of return" to all Palestinian refugees. In November 2008, Hamas leader | re-stated that Hamas was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the ... |
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 ... |
David | ... do boats were virtually invisible. The Davids were named after the story of | and Goliath. The CSS Midge and CSS St. Patrick were David-class torpedo bo ... |
Surdas | # Tulsidas or | # Marathi Abhangs on Lord Pandurang |
Tulsidas | # | or Surda |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... Commission was created to administer the emerging metropolis when President | issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ... |
Shigeru Yoshida | ... cratic Liberal Party, and Tanaka instantly won favor with the DLP's leader, | . Yoshida appointed Tanaka as a Vice Minister of Justice, the youngest in ... |
Ignatius | ... ", in some sense, was expressed in the second century writings of Polycarp, | , and Justin Martyr. But the doctrine in a more full-fledged form was not ... |
Cyril I of Alexandria | When reports of this reached the Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark, Pope Saint | acted quickly to correct this breach with orthodoxy, requesting that Nesto ... |
Iphigenia | ... ng Agamemnon, which she did in revenge for Agamemnon killing their daughter | ). The infant Helen was also killed or at least died young |
Odo of Bayeux | ... cts with the Danes and the devastation north of the River Tyne inflicted by | after the 1080 rebellion against the Normans, Monkchester was all but dest ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | Following his return to Japan, Katō was appointed 21st | in recognition of his performance at the Washington Naval Conference. His ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... ien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, | continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977 (and taking office again ... |
Secretary of Defense | ... he Department of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy was placed under the | . The position of Secretary of the Navy is filled by appointment of the Ex ... |
Takahashi Korekiyo | ... st in the cabinets of Ōkuma Shigenobu, Terauchi Masatake, Hara Takashi, and | . Under Hara and Takahashi, Katō was Japan's chief commissioner plenipoten ... |
Kijūrō Shidehara | ... Party (Minshuto). In the Diet, he became friends with former prime minister | and joined Shidehara's Doshi Club. Then in 1948, the Doshi Club defected t ... |
Paul Martin | ... rre renounced separatism and rejoined the Liberals during the leadership of | |
Pierre Pettigrew | On February 24, 2005, Foreign Affairs Minister | told the House of Commons that Canada would not participate in the America ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President | |
Rimbert | ... at any independent Geatish kingdom no longer existed in the 9th century. In | 's account of Ansgar's missionary work, the Swedish king is the sole sover ... |
Adam Smith | ... . The headstone was for the vintner Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, a relative of | , who had won the catering contract for the visit of George IV to Edinburg ... |
Huldrych Zwingli | The Reformation in Switzerland began in 1523, led by | , priest of the Great Minster church in Zürich since 1518. Zürich adopted ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... eerson and corresponded extensively with him. Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, | , Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu - who was present at his fun ... |
Hugh of Lincoln | ... ays, "one of the most outstanding government ministers in English History". | , a contemporary and later canonized, is said to have asked forgiveness of ... |
Bob Hawke | ... took various academic positions, and when Labor was restored to power under | in 1983, Whitlam was appointed Ambassador to UNESCO, based in Paris. He se ... |
Makonnen Endelkachew | ... aymanot of Gojjam Province, Ras Mulugeta Yeggazu of Illubabor Province, Ras | , and Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase. The primary goal of the trip to Eur ... |
Fridtjof Nansen | ... seen have many similarities to those of Greenland Inuit groups described by | , although a large distance separates Siberia and Greenland. There may be ... |
Plutarch | ... was one of approximately 50 ancient figures given an extensive biography by | in his Parallel Lives, in which he is paired with the Roman statesman Scip ... |
Compton Mackenzie | ... ley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir | , the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis ... |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... iew has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by | |
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 ... |
Vestal Virgin | ... er Amulius deposed his brother, killed his sons and forced Rhea to become a | , intending to deprive Numitor of lawful heirs and thus secure his own pos ... |
Hara Takashi | ... served in this post in the cabinets of Ōkuma Shigenobu, Terauchi Masatake, | , and Takahashi Korekiyo. Under Hara and Takahashi, Katō was Japan's chief ... |
Secretary of Homeland Security | ... Navy has the same powers and duties with respect to the Coast Guard as the | when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy. The princi ... |
Robert Peel | ... urne's resignation led to the Bedchamber Crisis. Prospective prime minister | requested that Victoria dismiss some of the wives and daughters of Whig MP ... |
Frederick V | ... ally confined to Bohemia, was spiralling into a wider European war. In 1620 | was defeated at the Battle of White Mountain and by 1622, despite the aid ... |
Jean Lapierre | ... an independent, since the Bloc had not been registered as a federal party. | renounced separatism and rejoined the Liberals during the leadership of Pa ... |
C. Achutha Menon | ... ontroversial former education minister who introduced Kerala Education Act. | , the former Chief Minister of Kerala gifted Kerala Agricultural Universit ... |
Elisabeth Domitien | ... ead of state in the Western hemisphere in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, | becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, In ... |
Maatia Toafa | ... lation to Australia, New Zealand or Kioa in Fiji, the former Prime Minister | said his government did not regard rising sea levels as such a threat that ... |
Charles Dumouriez | ... and on 18 March 1793 proved instrumental in causing the complete defeat of | at the Battle of Neerwinden. In October, however, his victorious career su ... |
first Earl of Lytton | ... amed "Giles Lytton" after an early sixteenth-century Gyles Strachey and the | , who had been a friend of Richard Strachey's when he was Viceroy of India ... |
Benjamin Netanyahu | ... him. Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, | - who was present at his funeral - also paid visits and sought advice, alo ... |
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 ... |
Alvin Plantinga | ... g, greater than anything else that one can do for it, is to be truly free." | 's "free will defense" is a contemporary expansion of this theme, adding h ... |
Basilios Bessarion | ... graphy, and compiled digests of many classical writers. His pupils included | and George Scholarius (later to become Patriarch of Constantinople and Ple ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by | 's The Jungle Book. , it had been on the New York Times Bestseller childre ... |
Francis Borgia | ... rtifications of the flesh upon herself. But her confessor, the Jesuit Saint | , reassured her of the divine inspiration of her thoughts. On St. Peter's ... |
Joseph Clemens of Bavaria | ... in building was built by Enrico Zuccalli for the prince-elector of Cologne, | from 1697–1705. Today it houses the faculty of humanities and theology and ... |
Jonathan Swift | Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of | 's satirical Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either or .. (Swif ... |
Robert Peel | ... led him to dismiss Melbourne in November. He then gave the Tories under Sir | an opportunity to form a government. Peel's failure to win a House of Comm ... |
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 ... |
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Pope Nicholas I | ... m the Tyrrhenian Sea by the Muslim conquest of Sicily in 827. A letter from | in 864 mentions for the first time the "Sardinian judges", their autonomy ... |
Cameron | ... ction in 2010 of both parties saying they would "stand up for Cornwall. But | and Clegg have devised this Bill which will breach the territorial integri ... |
Kyösti Kallio | ... e sabotaged the prospects of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival | , so that Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Relander's former Prime Minister, was ele ... |
Larry Hryb | ... casting, including Bob Costas, Len Berman, Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. | an employee at Microsoft and former radio broadcaster for Clear Channel Co ... |
Ulfilas | ... influenced by Gothic haiþi "dwelling on the heath", appearing as haiþno in | ' bible as "gentile woman" (translating the "Hellene" in ). This translati ... |
Ismail Haniyeh | ... Christians living under the sovereignty of an Islamic state." In late 2006, | , the political leader of Hamas, said that if a Palestinian state was form ... |
St. Basil | ... esolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues, and unsuccessfully confronted | over the Nicene Creed |
Diego de Torres Vargas | ... Coat of Arms of the City. The orange color was based and taken from Father | ' text and it reads : "Escudo de armas dado a Puerto Rico por los Reyes Ca ... |
Menachem Begin | ... tch ancestry, would visit Schneerson and corresponded extensively with him. | , Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu ... |
Indian Prime Minister | ... ions. Failure to realize such divided loyalties led to the assassination of | Indira Gandhi, assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ts of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival Kyösti Kallio, so that | , Relander's former Prime Minister, was elected. In Relander's opinion, Ka ... |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | ... y of the United Nations in 2005 by the President of the Spanish Government, | and co-sponsored by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The i ... |
Malcolm Fraser | In October 1975, the Opposition, led by | , determined to block supply by deferring consideration of appropriation b ... |
Pope John VIII | ... time the "Sardinian judges", their autonomy now clear in a later letter by | , which defined them as "Princes" |
John Stuart Mill | ... quences. Two influential contributors to this theory are Jeremy Bentham and | . Utilitarianism was described by Mill as "the greatest happiness principl ... |
Risto Ryti | ... Continuation War. On August 27 he suffered a serious stroke. Prime Minister | took over his duties. Kallio's heart became weak while he knowingly took r ... |
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 ... |
Saint Boniface | ... 845 until 1849 by Philipp Hoffmann in Gothic Revival style and dedicated to | |
Bishop of Ely | ... ter returned to France with John de Gray the Bishop of Norwich, Eustace the | , William Marshal, and Robert de Beaumont the Earl of Leicester to seek pe ... |
Makiko Tanaka | ... ildren: a son named Masanori Tanaka in 1942 (d. 1948), and a daughter named | in 1944 |
C. Achutha Menon | ... famous politicians and bureaucrats like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, | , K. Karunakaran, Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai etc. after the independence ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President | on 25 July 2006 |
Ariel Sharon | ... uld visit Schneerson and corresponded extensively with him. Menachem Begin, | , Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu - who was pre ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... aint Marcellinus, and on 13 July the feast day of Saint Anacletus. In 1960, | , while keeping the 26 April feast, which mentions the saint under the nam ... |
Kyösti Kallio | ... by the fact that some of the party's key figures, such as Santeri Alkio and | , declined to stand |
Enver Hoxha | ... Republic, Oskar Fischer. In 1985, Tirana served as the ceremonial venue of | 's funeral. A few years later, Mother Teresa became the first religious fi ... |
Plutarch | ... ch in turn revolved around the Sun. Though the arguments he used were lost, | stated that Seleucus was the first to prove the heliocentric system throug ... |
Juho Kusti Paasikivi | ... Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and | |
The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing | Guided by the vision of founder | the URI Charter was developed through a series of international conference ... |
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 ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... ch to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like Joseph Addison and | |
3rd Marquess of Bute | The | stipulated that the ground could only be used for "recreational purposes". ... |
Lanfranc | ... from the early 16th century. At the time of the Norman Conquest, Archbishop | had contacts with the parish. St Mary's has a 12th century font, and many ... |
Ehud Barak | ... place between United States President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister | , and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Ultimately, it was an ... |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | On 3 March 1924, the Turkish Grand National Assembly, on the initiative of | , dissolved the institution of the Caliphate, transferring its powers to t ... |
K. Karunakaran | ... s and bureaucrats like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, | , Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai etc. after the independence. These individu ... |
Karl Barth | ... l Tillich, an important existentialist theologian following Kierkegaard and | , applied existentialist concepts to Christian theology, and helped introd ... |
Risto Ryti | ... f the electoral college, defeating the National Progressive Party candidate | by 172 votes to 109. He was elected largely due to the fact that he attrac ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... nvolved in ALP attempts to raise $500,000 during the election from the pre- | government of Iraq. No money had actually been paid, and no charges were f ... |
Saint Athanasius | The Council confirmed the teachings of | and confirmed the title of Mary as "Mother of God". It also clearly stated ... |
Joseph Clemens of Bavaria | ... lsdorfer Schloss), which was built from 1715 to 1753 by Robert de Cotte for | and his successor Clemens August of Bavaria. Today the Poppelsdorf Palace ... |
Den Uyl | ... of government by the social-democratic/Christian-democratic cabinet led by | . Although the ties between the VVD and other organizations within the neu ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... yed in the unpublished first draft sketches. It is most probably based upon | 's Skibo Castle, befitting the character of Scrooge McDuck as a loose cari ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... out before the resolution was passed. As they exited, they were taunted by | who told them "You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; yo ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... ared in late 1961 to represent the recent victory of British prime minister | 's Conservative Party in parliamentary elections. The American actress, wh ... |
Stanko Premrl | Zdravljica was first set to music in 1905 by the Slovene composer | in a choral composition |
Golda Meir | ... ister of India until 1977 (and taking office again in 1980), Prime Minister | of Israel and acting Chairman Soong Ching-ling of the People's Republic of ... |
Gregory of Tours | ... ions to the basilica of Saint Julian in Avernia, his homeland. According to | , Avitus died during the journey; according to other sources, he was kille ... |
John Abbott | | (1821–1893) was Prime Minister of Canada, 1891–1892 |
Clemens August of Bavaria | ... to 1753 by Robert de Cotte for Joseph Clemens of Bavaria and his successor | . Today the Poppelsdorf Palace houses the university's mineral collection ... |
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu | ... chings inspired later day philosophers like Vallabha Acharya in Gujarat and | in Bengal. Another wave of devotion (bhakti) in the 17th century–18th cent ... |
Masayoshi Ōhira | Suzuki was appointed Prime Minister following the sudden death of | , who died of a heart attack during a general election campaign. The sympa ... |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | ... ohn Paul II, who was an honorary member, and former prime minister of Spain | . FC Barcelona has the second highest average attendance of European footb ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... vernor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister | , having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the ... |
Saxwulf | ... deshamstede to have possibly been an Anglian settlement before AD 655, when | founded a monastery on land granted to him for that purpose by Peada of Me ... |
Tulsidas | ... tion are related to bhajan. Nanak, Kabir, Meera, Narottama Dasa, Surdas and | are notable composers. Traditions of bhajan such as Nirguni, Gorakhanathi, ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... . It largely drew on Edward Gibbon's history of the Roman Empire as well as | 's contemporary account, as indicated in the afterword of the original edi ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | ... t was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, cabinet minister, and | from 12 June 1922 to 24 August 1923 |
Hjalmar Schacht | Kung also met Dr. | while in Germany. Scherr told him that "German-Chinese friendship stemmed ... |
Surdas | ... idasi tradition are related to bhajan. Nanak, Kabir, Meera, Narottama Dasa, | and Tulsidas are notable composers. Traditions of bhajan such as Nirguni, ... |
Billy Graham | Helms was close to fellow North Carolinian | (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, Pat Robe ... |
Emile Francqui | ... the leader of the Belgian Comite National de Secours et Alimentation (CN), | , to feed the entire nation for the duration of the war. The CRB obtained ... |
Paul Martin | ... ed out on talks with Harper and Duceppe, accusing them of trying to replace | with Harper as prime minister. Both Bloc and Conservative officials denied ... |
Liam Cosgrave | ... t was defeated by the National Coalition of Fine Gael and the Labour Party. | was elected Taoiseach and Lynch found himself on the opposition benches fo ... |
Richard Montagu | ... les further allied himself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as | and William Laud, whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Many of ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | was a Japanese politician and the 70th | from July 17, 1980 to November 27, 1982 |
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle | ... hat, at the time of the charter, Governor Benning Wentworth was indebted to | for his appointment as governor. According to Worcester, it was "very much ... |
Marin Barleti | ... he area had no special importance in Illyrian and classical times. In 1510, | , an Albanian Catholic priest and scholar, in the biography of the Albania ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | Viscount was a Japanese politician and the 20th | from 13 November 1921 to 12 June 1922. He was known as an expert on financ ... |
Yasuhiro Nakasone | ... n for reelection to the presidency of the LDP in 1982, and was succeeded by | |
Walter Lini | ... ginally was called the New Hebrides National Party. One of the founders was | , an Anglican Priest, who later became Prime Minister. Renamed the Vanua'a ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... 854 Cartier was appointed to cabinet. From 1857 to 1862 he served alongside | as co-premier of the united province. Cartier was a loyal friend of Macdon ... |
Bruce Kent | ... l with a banner reading, "Help the Soviets, Support CND!" It also denounced | , the general secretary of CND, as a supporter of IRA terrorism |
Prime Minister | The British | and first chairman of the London County Council, Lord Rosebery, was sent d ... |
Cardinal Albornoz | ... assive presence meant to intimidate the people of the town: it was built by | (1367) and added to by Popes Pius II and Paul III. The smaller of the two ... |
Émile Borel | ... countable intersection, and relative complement. Borel sets are named after | |
Pope Clement VII | ... ed to sign a letter by the leading English churchmen and aristocrats asking | to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine, and also quarrelled with Henry VII ... |
William Laud | ... imself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as Richard Montagu and | , whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Many of Charles's subje ... |
Nicholas Callan | ... ype of transformer to see wide use was the induction coil, invented by Rev. | of Maynooth College, Ireland in 1836. He was one of the first researchers ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 634, following the appointment of the strongly anti-Puritan William Laud as | , the colony saw a large influx of immigrants |
Pietro Gasparri | ... lle Ratti became Pope Pius XI, shaping Vatican policies towards Poland with | and Eugenio Pacelli for the following 36 years (1922–1958) |
Vladimir Putin | ... ontrast, publicly welcomed Lukashenko's re-election. Then Russian President | phoned Lukashenko and offered a message of congratulations and cooperation ... |
Mihály Károlyi | In October 1918, | established the Hungarian Democratic Republic, and Polanyi became Secretar ... |
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 ... |
John Davenant | ... e, he was born at his father's rectory and was baptised on 19 June 1608. Dr | , bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to John Aubr ... |
Surdas | Bhajans by Kabir, Mirabai, | , Tulsidas and a few others are considered to be classic. The language of ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... or the Roman Curia to function". (Pastor Bonus, 172). It was established by | on 15 August 1967. Its current President is Archbishop Domenico Calcagno s ... |
Jonathan Swift | The term big-endian originally comes from | 's satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of Danny Cohen in 1980. In 17 ... |
Pius II | ... of the town: it was built by Cardinal Albornoz (1367) and added to by Popes | and Paul III. The smaller of the two was built much earlier, in the Roman ... |
Joel Osteen | ... political influence. In the 21st century, the televised church services of | 's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathed ... |
Plutarch | ... ur progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age. | , the Greek historian and biographer of the 1st century, dealt with the bl ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... ong doing while placing some blame for the scandal on former Prime Minister | for lack of oversight, although it acknowledged that Chrétien had no knowl ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... as L. Frank Baum and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and | , which are more often considered adult literature. The Hobbit has been ca ... |
Andrés de Urdaneta | ... e Eel River Athapaskan peoples, including the Wailaki, Mattole and Nongatl. | hit the coast near Cape Mendocino, California, then followed the coast sou ... |
Jerry Falwell | ... considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, Pat Robertson, and | , whose Liberty University dedicated its Jesse Helms School of Government ... |
Jean Charest | ... ngs and keep Quebec in Confederation. However, after a commission headed by | recommended some changes to the Accord, Bouchard left the Progressive Cons ... |
Pope Leo XIII | The Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus was eventually approved by | in 1885. St Veronica is commemorated on 12 July |
Fred Rogers | ... "Despicable Me", and the titular character of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, | . Other notable film and television figures include Sarah Wayne Callies (P ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... c figures, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, whom Charles appointed | . Many of Charles's subjects felt this brought the Church of England too c ... |
Patrick Hillery | ... h its nearest neighbour, the United Kingdom and Denmark, on 1 January 1973. | became Ireland's first European Commissioner. In appointing Hillery Europe ... |
Tony Blair | ... executives), the Iraq War and other foreign policies of George W. Bush and | , British cuisine, and organic farming. He supports Britain's involvement ... |
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo | ... jada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, | becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret ... |
Harold Holt | ... eing former Prime Minister Billy Hughes and the young future Prime Minister | . Menzies tried and failed to have the issue of national insurance examine ... |
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 ... |
François Mitterrand | In 1985, President | commissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be ... |
Pope Martin IV | ... t the Latin West, particularly his neighbors in Italy (Charles I of Sicily, | , and the Venetians) would unite against him and attempt the restoration o ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... Ratti's expulsion climaxed in Warsaw. Two years later, Achille Ratti became | , shaping Vatican policies towards Poland with Pietro Gasparri and Eugenio ... |
Paul III | ... it was built by Cardinal Albornoz (1367) and added to by Popes Pius II and | . The smaller of the two was built much earlier, in the Roman era. However ... |
Pat Robertson | ... ly Graham (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, | , and Jerry Falwell, whose Liberty University dedicated its Jesse Helms Sc ... |
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 ... |
Fulk of Neuilly | ... ill engaged in warfare against each other. However, due to the preaching of | , a crusading army was finally organised at a tournament held at Écry by C ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | was a Japanese politician and the 64th and 65th | from 7 July 1972 to 22 December 1972 and from 22 December 1972 to 9 Decemb ... |
Martin Luther | ... ntact. A few months after the proclamation of the 95 Theses, in April 1518, | was received in Heidelberg, to defend them. In 1537, the castle located fu ... |
Tulsidas | Bhajans by Kabir, Mirabai, Surdas, | and a few others are considered to be classic. The language of their works ... |
Robert Menzies | | defeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 Apr ... |
Charles Stanley | ... th Carolinian Billy Graham (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as | , Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell, whose Liberty University dedicated its ... |
Pat Robertson | ... ral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and | . Most developed their own media networks, news exposure, and political in ... |
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 ... |
St. Andrews | ... dee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and John Cleese and Frank Muir at | , and political figures, such as Mordechai Vanunu at Glasgow. In many case ... |
Pope Innocent III | | succeeded to the papacy in 1198, and the preaching of a new crusade became ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister of Japan | ... (20 February 1913–16 April 1914) and 22nd (2 September 1923–7 January 1924) | |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... tine's mother Helena was a Briton, the daughter of King Cole of Colchester. | expanded this story in his highly fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, ... |
Lorenzo Antonetti | ... s Archbishop Domenico Calcagno since 7 July 2011. Cardinals Attilio Nicora, | and are former Presidents |
Basdeo Panday | ... ary in a dispute over the leadership style of then Leader of the Opposition | . Boldon resigned on 11 April 2007 after 14 months as a senator, also citi ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... al to Peel were known as the Peelites and included the Earl of Aberdeen and | . During 1859 the Peelites merged with the Whigs and the Radicals to form ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... bills in the case of Joe Clark and Pierre Trudeau or supply in the case of | |
Prime Minister | ... veden. Other historic houses are still in use as private homes, such as the | 's country retreat Chequers |
John Wallis | ... ntly developed by Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s. | exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \tfrac{1}{\infty} in area calculatio ... |
David Lange | ... II. New Zealanders of German descent include the late former Prime Minister | . The vast majority of Germans in New Zealand settled in the North Island, ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... nrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski and | active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively. ... |
Lloyd George | ... te being asked to do so on three separate occasions in 1920. From 1926 when | became leader of the Liberals, Keynes took a major role in defining the pa ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | In 1716, in a letter to William Wake, | , Bentley announced his plan to prepare a critical edition of the New Test ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... n. Sparrows became a nuisance; Queen Victoria mentioned this problem to the | , who offered the famous solution, "Sparrowhawks, Ma'am" |
Arthur Fadden | ... ewly created Advisory War Council in October 1940. New Country Party leader | became Treasurer and Menzies unhappily conceded to allow Earle Page back i ... |
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 |
Roman Dmowski | ... waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with | and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist fac ... |
Attilio Nicora | ... rent President is Archbishop Domenico Calcagno since 7 July 2011. Cardinals | , Lorenzo Antonetti and are former Presidents |
John Curtin | ... all party unity government to break the impasse, but the Labor Party under | refused to join. Curtin agreed instead to take a seat on a newly created A ... |
Prime Minister | ... Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time | in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save ... |
Bishop of Ostia | ... ch she did many years of penance. Her son from the affair eventually became | , and ordered her entombement in his cathedral when she died |
Peter Ustinov | ... ins of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and | but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon a ... |
Basil Hume | ... s employed part-time at his local bureau. Bruce Kent was warned by Cardinal | not to become too involved in politics |
Clement VII | During the Great Schism (1378–1415) the antipopes | and Benedict XIII returned to reside at Avignon. Clement VII lived in Avig ... |
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 ... |
Juan de Velasco | ... nclude the Jesuits Juan Bautista Aguirre, born in Daule in 1725, and Father | , born in Riobamba in 1727. De Velasco wrote about the nations and chiefdo ... |
Jacques Chirac | On 12 July 2006, President | held an official state ceremony marking the centenary of Dreyfus's officia ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of | |
Desmond Tutu | ... statues of South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, | , F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled wi ... |
Minister of Justice of Canada | ... damages to any person unjustly arrested. On February 3, 1971, John Turner, | , reported that 497 persons had been arrested under the War Measures Act, ... |
Brian Cox | ... tland. The current Rector of the University of Dundee is the Scottish actor | , CBE. The current Rector of the University of Glasgow is Charles Kennedy ... |
Karl Barth | ... ust Wilhelm Schlegel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians | and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
Shidehara Kijurō | ... nipotentiary to the Washington Naval Conference, and worked with Ambassador | in the negotiations that led to the Five-Power Treaty |
Henri de Lubac | | , Augustinianism and Modern Theology (Herder & Herder) ISBN 0-8245-1802-0 ... |
Joseph Stalin | Starting in the 1930s, Adolf Hitler and | murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-nationalistic tende ... |
Émile Loubet | ... euil racetrack in Paris in 1899. In this incident, the President of France, | , was struck on the head with a walking stick by Count Albert de Dion, own ... |
Michael O'Kennedy | ... of Lynch for this move. In the same year the Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, | , published a Fianna Fáil policy document calling for a withdrawal of Brit ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... hteenth Governor-General of Australia. He dismissed the Labor government of | on 11 November 1975, marking the climax of the most significant constituti ... |
Benedict XIII | During the Great Schism (1378–1415) the antipopes Clement VII and | returned to reside at Avignon. Clement VII lived in Avignon during his ent ... |
Ippolito de' Medici | ... ence, republican enemies of the Medici took advantage of the chaos to exile | . Bandinelli, a supporter of the Medici, was also exiled. In 1530 Emperor ... |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | ... e a visit to Cairo and several visits to Ankara where (at the invitation of | ) he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education and the early ef ... |
Joe Clark | ... h the failure of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of | and Pierre Trudeau or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
Charles Haughey | In 1975 Lynch allowed | to return to his Front Bench as Spokesperson on Health. There was much med ... |
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 |
Benedict XIII | ... non. Clement VII lived in Avignon during his entire anti-pontificate, while | only lived there until 1403 when he was forced to flee to Aragon |
Prime Minister | In 1913, Takahashi was appointed as the Minister of Finance by | Yamamoto Gonnohyōe and then joined the Rikken Seiyūkai political party . H ... |
Ahmed Nazif | ... initiatives with Israel in the late 1970s. In 2008, Egyptian Prime Minister | urged the two countries to focus on two specific projects: the Aljazera pr ... |
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 ... |
Clement VII | ... the antipopes Clement VII and Benedict XIII returned to reside at Avignon. | lived in Avignon during his entire anti-pontificate, while Benedict XIII o ... |
Plutarch | ... lly to learn information concerning the secret or mystic cults of the gods. | asserted in his book On Isis and Osiris that during his visit to Egypt, Py ... |
Secretary of Defense | ... rview for the Johnson Presidential Library oral history archives, Johnson's | Robert McNamara stated that a carrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, se ... |
Prime Minister | Count Yamamoto served as | in 1913-14 |
Pierre Trudeau | ... of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of Joe Clark and | or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
James Mackintosh | ... n classics, philosophy and mathematics. He there formed the acquaintance of | , who, though a year younger, was a year his senior as a student. While th ... |
William Wake | In 1716, in a letter to | , Archbishop of Canterbury, Bentley announced his plan to prepare a critic ... |
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 ... |
Pope Leo XIII | ... f the Administration of the Property of the Holy See, a commission to which | entrusted the administration of the property remaining to the Holy See aft ... |
Angela Merkel | ... ay never happen again," Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said. German Chancellor | —who grew up behind the wall in Germany's communist eastern part—also atte ... |
Deputy Prime Minister | ... ir"), which resulted in the sacking of two senior ministers, Rex Connor and | , Jim Cairns. The Liberal Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser, decided to us ... |
Ben Chifley | ... election against the incumbent Labor government led by Curtin's successor, | , and the Coalition stayed in office for a record 23 years |
Lord Grey | When the Whigs came to power under | in November 1830 he became Home Secretary in the new government. During th ... |
Golda Meir | ... n controversial figures to match the likes of Timothy Leary, Indira Gandhi, | and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' attention in the 1960s and mo ... |
Pope Gregory I | ... er embellishment of his legend: it was commonly said in medieval times that | , through divine intercession, resurrected Trajan from the dead and baptiz ... |
Stephen Harper | ... da's interests over softwood and other issues. Wilkins, Conservative Leader | , and NDP leader Jack Layton accused Martin of orchestrating a row with th ... |
Georges Pompidou | French Presidents from | to Jacques Chirac have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible ... |
Geoffrey Keating | In | 's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's "ninth appellation it received likewise ... |
Pope Leo XIII | More was beatified by | in 1886 and canonised, with John Fisher, on 19 May 1935 by Pope Pius XI, a ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... (1941), she fictionalized Genghis Khan; in The Arm and the Darkness (1943), | ; in A Pillar of Iron (1965), the Roman senator and orator Cicero; and in ... |
Karol Wojtyła | ... reasingly internationalist College of Cardinals, were figures like Cardinal | . Over the days following the conclave, cardinals effectively declared tha ... |
Jim McGreevey | ... the first Canadian Member of Parliament to come out. Governor of New Jersey | announced his decision to resign, publicly came out as "a gay American" an ... |
Jan Smuts | ... ns was repealed and all Indian political prisoners were released by General | |
Benito Mussolini | Between 1924 and 1945, | 's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ... |
John Fisher | More was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised, with | , on 19 May 1935 by Pope Pius XI, and his feast day was established as 9 J ... |
Neville Chamberlain | ... make an official visit to discuss Germany's intentions for Czechoslovakia. | was in favour of a meeting, and there was talk of a pact being signed betw ... |
Jacques Chirac | French Presidents from Georges Pompidou to | have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible Citroën SM présid ... |
Rei Hino | ... er series, but are usually considered as separate. Later, she co-stars with | in a special short story titled Rei and Minako's Girls School Battle |
Prime Minister | ... ory, done by Governor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of | Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bou ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... aken by the events of Quebec's October Crisis, especially by Prime Minister | 's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier Rob ... |
John Stuart Mill | ... e Baconian method was further developed and promoted by English philosopher | . His 1843 book, A System of Logic, was an effort to shed further light on ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... parade in Surrey, saying it was a glorification of terrorism. In 2008, Dr. | , Prime Minister of India, expressed his concern that there might be a res ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | In 1958, the | appointed Eliot to a commission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). ... |
federal prime minister | ... ebec battlefields and the construction of a museum of Canadian history. The | at the time, Wilfrid Laurier, suggested, however, that a preservation of t ... |
Zenobius | ... ign. As an emblem of the city, it is therefore found in icons of the bishop | . The currency of Florence, the fiorino, was decorated with it, and it inf ... |
Liam Cosgrave | ... called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minister for Defence, Paddy Donegan. | refused to sack his Minister and the government's popularity took a downtu ... |
Giulio Andreotti | ... had no knowledge of the links that various politicians like Salvo Lima and | had with the Mafia, but in the 1990s he admitted that he knew of such ties ... |
Henry of Huntingdon | ... ons regarded Constantine as a king of their own people. In the 12th century | included a passage in his Historia Anglorum that Constantine's mother Hele ... |
Anthony Eden | ... o met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister | the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion. In 1 ... |
Jean Charest | ... Quebec election which was won by the federalist Quebec Liberal Party led by | . However, things changed during the winter of 2003. The federalist Chares ... |
Laud | ... an answer to Lysimachus Nicanor by John Corbet in the form of an attack on | and his system, in reply to a publication which charged the Covenanters wi ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... in Quebec in support of Canadian unity. As well, the Liberal government of | passed party financing legislation that resulted in the Bloc receiving mil ... |
Bishop of Piacenza | ... h-ranking officer both in the civil and military administration, as well as | |
Vladimír Mečiar | ... iod due to the crony capitalism and other fiscal policies of Prime Minister | 's government. While economic growth and other fundamentals improved stead ... |
Samuel Horsley | ... the third edition. In a new edition of 1821 he omitted the attack on Bishop | , and stated that his political opinions had undergone no substantial chan ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... nationally known controversial figures to match the likes of Timothy Leary, | , Golda Meir and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' attention in the ... |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | Although | had been named Foreign Minister in February 1938, Göring continued to invo ... |
Benjamin Netanyahu | ... the bombing. The conference was attended by past and future Prime Minister | and former members of Irgun. A plaque commemorating the bombing was unveil ... |
Syama Prasad Mookerjee | The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded by Dr | in 1951 to espouse the nationalist cause. The party opposed the appeasemen ... |
Robert Peel | ... 9, 1829, the Metropolitan Police Act was passed by Parliament, allowing Sir | , the then home secretary, to found the London Metropolitan Police. This p ... |
Adam Smith | ... al mercantilism. In the English-speaking world its ideas were criticized by | with the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and later David Rica ... |
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 Corbet | ... his works are Ladensium Aὐτοκατάκρισις, an answer to Lysimachus Nicanor by | in the form of an attack on Laud and his system, in reply to a publication ... |
Rufino | In 238 AD Assisi was converted to Christianity by bishop | , who was martyred at Costano. According to tradition, his remains rest in ... |
Faustulus | ... he-wolf (Lupa) and fed by a woodpecker (Picus). A shepherd of Amulius named | discovers them and takes them to his hut, where he and his wife Acca Laren ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... diplomatic pressure to make them withdraw from Egypt. Controversy surrounds | , who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Min ... |
Marcel Lefebvre | ... sia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop | who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his ... |
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 ... |
Keith O'Brien | ... h descent.) The current head of the Catholic Church in Scotland is Cardinal | |
Pope Benedict XIV | ... Vatican gained the recognition of Portugal as a lawful sovereign country by | in 1748 and the title "Most Faithful King" bestowed upon him and his succe ... |
Sir Peter Scott | ... erland and Mongolia) have joined the IWC. This shift was first initiated by | , the then head of the World Wildlife Fund. Labelling the IWC a "butchers' ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... of Berlin and Dresden. A British interpreter later claimed that Antonov and | asked for the bombing of Dresden, but there is no mention of these request ... |
Martin Luther | ... s whether or not their actions are determined. "Hard determinists", such as | and d'Holbach, are those incompatibilists who accept determinism and rejec ... |
Malcolm Fraser | ... ition, and that Whitlam was dominating him in the House of Representatives. | challenged Snedden for the leadership, and defeated him on 21 March |
Aldhelm | ... omposition of a large of vernacular religious poetry. In contrast to Saints | and Dunstan, Cædmon’s poetry is said to have been exclusively religious. B ... |
Pope Sixtus IV | ... ficum qui hactenus ducenti fuere et XX in 1479 at the behest of his patron, | . The book contains the following account of the female Pope |
Jonathan Swift | More was greatly admired by the Anglican writer | . Swift wrote that More was "a person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ... |
Cotton Mather | In 1718, | contacted Yale and asked for his help. Mather represented a small institut ... |
Prime Minister | ... ) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and | (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for his intense and successful ment ... |
Ismail Qemali | ... n 1908. On 28 November 1912, the national flag was raised in agreement with | . During the Balkan Wars, the town was temporarily occupied by the Serbian ... |
Ignatius of Antioch | ... ich the rite is referred to by the Didache (late 1st or early 2nd century), | (who died between 98 and 117) and Justin Martyr (writing between 147 and 1 ... |
Boris Yeltsin | ... ith. Listyev's wake was visited by thousands of people, and even the ailing | was forced to make a statement |
Traian Băsescu | ... ame in present-day Romania – among others, that of the country's president, | |
Ignacy Daszyński | ... ember the final upsurge of the push for independence was taking place, with | heading a short-lived Polish government in Lublin from November 6. Germany ... |
Pope Gregory I | During his reign, Sabinian was seen as a counterfoil to his predecessor | . Whereas Gregory distributed grain to the Roman populace as invasion loom ... |
Pope John XXII | Fournier succeeded | as Pope in 1334, being elected on the first ballot of the papal conclave. ... |
Gordon Brown | ... idents George W. Bush and Barack Obama of the United States, Prime Minister | of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia, and other g ... |
Plutarch | ... icarnassus's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and | 's early 2nd century Life of Romulus. These accounts provide the broad lit ... |
Hans Frank | ... December 16, 1941, at a meeting of the officials of the General Government, | referred to Hitler's speech as he described the coming annihilation of the ... |
Mikuláš Dzurinda | Two governments of the "liberal-conservative" Prime Minister | (1998–2006) pursued policies of macroeconomic stabilization and market-ori ... |
Saint Boniface | In 744 the Synod of Soissons met at the instigation of Pippin III, and | , the Pope's missionary to pagan Germany, secured the condemnation of the ... |
Desert Sun Stadium | Yuma has a minor league ballpark, | home to the Yuma Scorpions of the North American League and site of home g ... |
Tam Dalyell | The West Lothian question is often said to have been raised by | , then member of Parliament for the former West Lothian constituency, in h ... |
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 ... |
Mohammad Mosaddegh | ... ntral Intelligence Agency to help the Iranian army overthrow Prime Minister | . This resulted in an increased strategic control over Iranian oil by U.S. ... |
Prime Minister | | | |Disanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratn |
Giulio Andreotti | ... by Luciano Violante about the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and | . He indicated Salvo Lima as the contact of the Mafia in Italian politics. ... |
Guillaume Durand | ... and the celebration of the Eucharist. The first attribution was this was in | 's thirteenth-century Rationale Divinorum Officiorum |
Pope Urban III | ... his domains shocked and dismay in the Catholic countries of Western Europe. | literally died of the shock. The Crusader states had been reduced to three ... |
Fridtjof Nansen | ... es and was condemned vigorously by a large number of countries. Undeterred, | worked with both Greece and Turkey to gain their acceptance of the propose ... |
John XXIII | ... lus that he took it as a thankful honour to his two immediate predecessors: | , who had named him a bishop, and Paul VI, who had named him Patriarch of ... |
Kevin Rudd | ... d States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister | of Australia, and other global leaders |
Thomas Aquinas | Theologians, such as | , discussed Trajan as an example of a virtuous pagan. In the Divine Comedy ... |
Disanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratne | | | |Freedom Part |
John Wheelwright | ... ip. These two men, along with Anne Hutchinson and pastors Thomas Hooker and | , espoused religious or political views that were at odds with those of th ... |
Cumaean Sibyl | The sibyl who most concerned the Romans was the | , located near the Greek city of Naples, whom Virgil's Aeneas consults bef ... |
Aaron Bancroft | His family had been in Massachusetts Bay since 1632, and his father, | , was distinguished as a revolutionary soldier, a leading Unitarian clergy ... |
Jimmy Swaggart | ... of the Rodeo" and "He Really Loves You". In response both to televangelist | 's June 1987 book Religious Rock 'N' Roll: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, whi ... |
Pope Leo IV | ... tations, she acquired so great respect and authority that upon the death of | (as Martin says) by common consent she was chosen Pope in his room. As she ... |
Gil de Albornoz | ... people in 1189, was rebuilt in 1367 on orders of the papal legate, cardinal | |
Michael Heseltine | ... irect steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defence | setting up Defence Secretariat 19 "to explain to the public the facts abou ... |
John Cleese | ... f the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike. | was a cast member |
George Colley | ... here was an open mutiny by many backbenchers when the Minister for Finance, | , attempted to impose a 2% levy on farmers. Colley was forced into a humil ... |
Paul VI | ... his two immediate predecessors: John XXIII, who had named him a bishop, and | , who had named him Patriarch of Venice and a cardinal. He was also the fi ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... the Republic of Upper Volta, it was renamed on 4 August 1984, by President | , to mean "the land of upright people" in Mòoré and Dioula, the major nati ... |
Ferdinand Maria | ... ts effect during the next two centuries was more dubious. Maximilian's son, | (1651–1679), who was a minor when he succeeded, did much indeed to repair ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Brian Mulroney | ... th the "Yes" side during the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty. In 1984 | , Bouchard's close friend from his law school days at Université Laval, be ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... , during the Persian Gulf War, speculation on the survival of the regime of | in Iraq. Similar political stability concerns have from time to time drive ... |
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 ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... 1990–91, when the Intifada's intensity began to wear down, Arafat supported | 's invasion of Kuwait and opposed the US-led coalition attack on Iraq. He ... |
Bishop Berkeley | ... s fiercely criticized by a number of authors, most notably Michel Rolle and | . Berkeley described infinitesimals in his book The Analyst in 1734 |
Pope Pius V | ... I. This identification is not found in the Tridentine Missal promulgated by | in 1570. Since nothing is known of the Saints Alexander, Eventius and Theo ... |
Benedict III | ... he 11th to the 9th century, indicating that Joan reigned between Leo IV and | in the 850s. According to the Chronicon |
Christoph Schönborn | ... esthood is morally superior to other sections of society."On 11 March 2010, | , Archbishop of Vienna, said that priestly celibacy could be one of the ca ... |
Martynas Mažvydas | ... l translation in 1545; the first printed book in Lithuanian, a Catechism by | was published in 1547 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). La ... |
Robert Peel | Wellington was gradually superseded as leader of the Tories by | , whilst the party evolved into the Conservatives. When the Tories were re ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the | (played by Stephen Fry) |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... eved its main goals, lost much passion with the murders of the Reverend Dr. | and Senator Bobby Kennedy, and backed into the shadows, largely to make wa ... |
Tony Blair | ... nipulation of the Civil Service. In particular, under the administration of | , the influence of two Downing Street special advisers, Jonathan Powell an ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... hting developed between moderates in the CSP and the radicals, led by Capt. | , who was appointed prime minister in January 1983. The internal political ... |
John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of g ... |
Viscount Wellington | ... ttle of Fuentes de Oñoro ( 3–6 May 1811), the British-Portuguese Army under | checked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal André Mass ... |
John Major | ... er Sir Winston Churchill, and a former junior minister in the Government of | (1990–97). In the 2005 general election, Nicholas Soames held the seat wit ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... refront during the agitation against the emergency (1975–77) imposed by the | regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across Ind ... |
Pope Pius IX | ... gy several times. In 1877, Wilde was left speechless after an audience with | in Rome. He eagerly read Cardinal Newman's books, and became more serious ... |
Pope Martin IV | ... e the diplomatic intent of the union worked out in the West, but in the end | , an ally of Charles of Anjou, excommunicated Michael VIII. In 1275, Micha ... |
Werner von Blomberg | ... ch Affair, which led to the resignations of the War Minister, Field Marshal | , and the army commander, General von Fritsch. Göring had acted as witness ... |
John Foxe | ... the Haven. Not far away, in the opposite direction, was the boyhood home of | , the author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
Robert Peel | ... ws in 1846, with Wellington and most of the former Cabinet still supporting | , but most of the MPs led by Lord Derby supporting a protectionist stance. ... |
Brian Cox | ... Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky ( | ) have formed |
Leo IV | ... date from the 11th to the 9th century, indicating that Joan reigned between | and Benedict III in the 850s. According to the Chronicon |
John Kaye | Boole became a prominent local figure, an admirer of | , the bishop. He took part in the local campaign for early closing. With E ... |
Bismarck's | ... ts who founded St. Ignatius College were exiles from Germany, forced out by | Kulturkampf. They brought with them the traditional structure of the Jesui ... |
Chaplain Extraordinary | Fuller's last promotion was that of | to Charles II. In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with ... |
Émile Borel | ... loped in successive stages during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by | , Henri Lebesgue, Johann Radon and Maurice Fréchet, among others. The main ... |
Winston Churchill | ... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir | , and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ... |
Göring | Hitler, | and Dr. Schacht bestowed upon Kung an honorary degree, and attempted to op ... |
Stalin | ... eater. Additionally, the northern portion of the main boulevard was renamed | Boulevard and his statue erected in the city square. As private car owners ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... o allocate resources within the production process. Bolshevik revolutionary | argued that, following a socialist revolution, money could not be arbitrar ... |
Thomas Lambe | ... ue Fountain of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, etc., a sermon | ; An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland; T ... |
Luis Bedoya Reyes | ... ime, ex-president Fernando Belaúnde Terry (of the Popular Action party) and | (of the Partido Popular Cristiano), to form the tripartite center-right co ... |
John Calvin | ... 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, | and other early Protestants. It was sparked by the 1517 posting of Luther' ... |
Saye Zerbo | ... ountry's traditionally powerful trade unions, and on 25 November 1980, Col. | overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup. Colonel Zerbo establishe ... |
Albert Reynolds | ... consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and | |
John XXIII | ... able to have a great deal of influence in all university affairs. In 1413, | granted the university extensive special privileges, such as university ju ... |
Pope Adrian I | ... Rome and was elected Pope only one day after the burial of his predecessor, | , who had worked for good relations between Rome and the Frankish Empire u ... |
Augustus III | ... farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon Wettin dynasty, Augustus II and | , brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The Great Northern War, ... |
Félix Faure | ... 'Aurore on 13 January 1898. The letter was addressed to President of France | , and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of ... |
Pope Gregory I | He had been sent by | as Apostolic nuncio, to Constantinople, but he apparently was not entirely ... |
Stephen Fry | ... g light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook has been described by | as "the funniest man who ever drew breath", although his work was also con ... |
Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem | ... aks of dysentery and fever, which claimed the lives of Frederick of Swabia, | , and Theobald V of Blois. When the sailing season began again in spring 1 ... |
Pope Pius II | ... do Pandolfo Malatesta, duke of Rimini, who was later defeated. As a result, | gave San Marino some castles and the towns of Fiorentino, Montegiardino an ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... 's water as a vital regional resource was the cause of the war confirmed by | who has said, People generally regard June 5, 1967, as the day the Six Day ... |
Najib Tun Razak | On April 21, 2009, the prime minister | has announce liberalisation of 27 services sub-sector by abolishing the 30 ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | President | , who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965–1967 and 1971–19 ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ver a local road is named after Haggard). He was visited here by his friend | . In a letter to Haggard dated 20 July 1912, his daughter Lillias document ... |
Shimon Peres | ... King Hassan II took the daring step of inviting then-Israeli Prime Minister | for talks, becoming only the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader. ... |
Bill Graham | ... mentary leader of his party on February 1, and the Liberal caucus appointed | , MP for Toronto Centre and outgoing Defence Minister, as his interim succ ... |
Martin Luther | ... mation was the 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by | , John Calvin and other early Protestants. It was sparked by the 1517 post ... |
Robert Peel | ... inst repeal was 303, by 1845 this had decreased to 132. The first year that | voted in favour was 1846, though he had spoken in favour of repeal during ... |
Leo I | ... that contained the first four Pope Leos. In the 18th century, the relics of | were separated from the other Leos, and he was given his own chapel |
Adam Smith | ... f free trade, was elected for the first time. Peel had studied the works of | , David Hume and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: "I have read all that ... |
Richard Busby | ... st Earl of Clarendon. From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under | , at the age of eighteen he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford in 1681. ... |
Charles Theodore | ... arian line of the Wittelsbachs became extinct, and the succession passed to | , the elector palatine. After a separation of four and a half centuries, t ... |
William Tyndale | In 1531, | published An Answer unto Sir Thomas More’s Dialogue in response to More’s ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... e of his life" in Dan Macmillan, older brother of the future Prime Minister | . Despite his middle-class background, Keynes mixed easily with upper-clas ... |
Spottiswood | ... n and itself superseded the term chirch which was derived from Old English. | , in his account of religious houses in Scotland, mentions that the Franci ... |
Stanley Bruce | ... Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down | 's Nationalist government in 1929), merged to form the UAP. Lyons was chos ... |
Adam Smith | ... nomist Frederick Hayek, although the concept can be traced back to at least | . Unlike Hayek however Polanyi argues that there are higher and lower form ... |
Shimon Peres | ... owing year, Arafat and Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with | . The Palestinian reaction was mixed. The Rejectionist Front of the PLO al ... |
Orrin Hatch | ... letics, such as gold-medal wrestler Kurt Angle; politics, such as Utah Sen. | ; business, such as self-made billionaire Mark Cuban; and science, such as ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... Egyptian losses were higher, especially in the sector controlled by General | , who ordered his troops to respond with massive firepower to any Egyptian ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... zed power in a coup d'état in 1987, betraying his long-time friend and ally | , who was killed in the coup |
Edvard Beneš | ... membership in the European Union, since the authorisation decrees issued by | had not been formally renounced |
Adam Smith | | displays trade taking place on the basis of countries exercising absolute ... |
Rajnarayan Basu | ... e pro-Western Indian intellectuals of the age, including Navin Chandra Roy, | , Debendranath Tagore and Hemendranath Tagore all of whom were actively in ... |
John Chrysostom | ... fore at Constantinople from Pope Theophilus of Alexandria towards Patriarch | and the unfortunate turnouts of the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449, w ... |
Bartolomé de las Casas | ... y evidence is the multi-volume History of the Indies by the Catholic priest | who observed the region where Columbus was governor. In contrast to "the m ... |
Berlusconi | ... trial and financial groups in Italy. The newspaper has however not endorsed | 's government on several issues, such as the war in Iraq |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... ncing violence and officially recognizing Israel. In return, Prime Minister | , on behalf of Israel, officially recognized the PLO |
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 ... |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ... ity in 1977 and formed the government with Morarji Desai as Prime Minister. | who had become the leader of the Jana Sangh after Upadhyaya's death in 196 ... |
W. M. Hughes | ... parents as Peter and Louisa. His funeral was attended by the Prime Minister | and the Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang (who was the husband of Lawso ... |
Nicholas V | ... er, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447; in that year a bull of | gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the ... |
Donald Tusk | ... lish government and president Lech Kaczyński. Current Polish prime minister | restricted his comments to a recommendation that Germany pursue a neutral ... |
John Strang | ... e was Mrs. Wilkie, widow, daughter of a former principal of the university, | ; by her he had a daughter, Margaret, who became wife of Walkinshaw of Bar ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope Honorius II | ... e Order was founded in 1120. In 1126, when it received papal approbation by | , there were nine houses; others were established in quick succession thro ... |
Salii | ... Republic, only minor priesthoods with little political importance like the | , the Flamines and the Rex Sacrorum were exclusively filled by patricians |
Ye Jianying | ... mber, but his status was kept secret so only a few people, such as Zhou and | , knew. With eyewitnesses in their advanced years and fewer of them, Zhang ... |
Ahmed Qurei | ... or donations because of his sympathy for Iraq during the Gulf War, in 1991. | —a key Fatah negotiator during the negotiations in Oslo—openly announced t ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... short period of time. Two of these periods were in the feudal era. In 1503, | occupied the republic until his death several months later. On October 17, ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... ice, began negotiations with the United States. In 1873, Prime Minister Sir | , anxious to thwart American expansionism and facing the distraction of th ... |
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 |
Theodore Beza | ... iography of his father, The Life of the Rev. Robert Baird, D.D. (1866); and | , the Counsellor of the French Reformation (1899). He died in New York cit ... |
Archbishops of York | ... Eardwulf of Northumbria and settled various matters of dispute between the | and Canterbury. He also reversed the decision of his predecessor Pope Adri ... |
Deng Yu | ... tored. Guangwu made Luoyang his capital in 25 CE, and by 27 CE his officers | and Feng Yi had forced the Red Eyebrows to surrender and executed their le ... |
Robert Peel | During 1841 Sir | became Conservative Prime Minister and Richard Cobden, a major proponent o ... |
Billy Hughes | ... ts (who had formed the All for Australia League), and former Prime Minister | ' Australian Party (a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled f ... |
John Stuart Mill | ... in notable classical and neoclassical economists including Alfred Marshall, | and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of self-management, incl ... |
Rex Sacrorum | ... hoods with little political importance like the Salii, the Flamines and the | were exclusively filled by patricians |
Martin Luther | In 1520 the reformer | published three works in quick succession: An Appeal to the Christian Nobi ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... aphies dealing with Constantine's life and rule. The nearest replacement is | 's Vita Constantini, a work that is a mixture of eulogy and hagiography. W ... |
Morarji Desai | ... anata Party won with a huge majority in 1977 and formed the government with | as Prime Minister. Atal Bihari Vajpayee who had become the leader of the J ... |
Hugh Candidus | ... version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and a history of the abbey by the monk | . The burgesses received their first charter from "Abbot Robert" – probabl ... |
Giulio Alberoni | ... epublic until his death several months later. On October 17, 1739, Cardinal | , legate (papal governor) of Ravenna who in 1739, aiding certain rebels, p ... |
Hjalmar Schacht | ... ed the economics ministry in his policy-making decisions, to the chagrin of | , the minister in charge. Huge expenditures were made on rearmament, in sp ... |
Joseph Stalin | The leadership of | led to a change in his view of the Soviet Union even though his initial im ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... 1, initiated several forms of government support for film and the arts. The | government continued to support Australian film and state governments also ... |
John Chrysostom | ... ple, two different anaphoras are currently used: one is attributed to Saint | , the other to Saint Basil the Great. Among the Oriental Orthodox, a varie ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... later the library moved to Medford's new city hall, in another four years, | 's donation allowed a dedicated library to be built. Construction on the M ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | | showed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ... |
Avitus | ... as a fast succession of Emperors. After Petronius, the Gallic-Roman senator | was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two ... |
Adam Smith | ... the late 18th century, especially in England, in light of the arguments of | and the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws by Robert Peel s ... |
Randall Balmer | ... was simply way ahead of the curve". American professor of religious history | believed that the causes of the demise of Solid Rock were "Idealism, marit ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... munist ideology, particularly Trotskyism; though following the Great Purge, | privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounce Trotskyism. Ch ... |
Narcissus Marsh | ... e Prizes, Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's Tower, and Vicar-General to | , the primate. King found a friend in Anthony Upton, one of the judges, wh ... |
Home Secretary | ... ons, leaving them with no Commons representative in East Anglia; the former | Charles Clarke being a high level casualty in the 2010 election |
David | ... ng it the final book of the Jewish bible). Chronicles largely parallels the | ic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings. In the Roman ... |
Robert South | ... acked from the high-church side by Peter Heylin. At the Oxford Act of 1657, | , who was Terrae filius, lampooned Fuller, whom he described in this Orati ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... ing a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, | publicly denounced Hindemith as an "atonal noisemaker. |
Pope Sylvester I | ... vice of the Holy See can be traced back to the First Council of Nicaea when | sent legates to represent him during the discussions of the council. The p ... |
Tansu Çiller | ... bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Turkish Prime Minister | at the White House. Prior to addressing the nation, President Clinton want ... |
Bob Hawke | ... but after 1980 became increasingly critical and was a leading supporter of | 's reforming government after 1983. But from the 1970s the political influ ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
Salvador Allende | ... o manage the allocation of economic inputs. The socialist-run government of | in Chile experimented with Project Cybersyn, a real-time information bridg ... |
Georges Clemenceau | ... orted Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as Anatole France, Henri Poincaré and | , and those who condemned him (the anti-Dreyfusards), such as Hubert-Josep ... |
Pope Adrian I | ... ps of York and Canterbury. He also reversed the decision of his predecessor | , in regards to the granting of the pallium to Higbert, Bishop of Lichfiel ... |
Tony Blair | ... political neutrality of public administration. In 2000, then-Prime Minister | was criticised for appointing 20 special advisers (compared to eight under ... |
J. M. Barrie | ... ed (and often marketed as) a fantasy novel, but like Peter Pan and Wendy by | and The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, both of which influen ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... h civil disobedience racial segregation on interstate busing. He recognized | 's leadership, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Co ... |
John II Casimir | ... because of large scale internal conflicts (e.g. Lubomirski's Rokosz against | and rebellious confederations), corrupted legislative processes and manipu ... |
Ernesto Cardenal | ... ion was published in 1961. In a letter to a Latin-American Catholic writer, | , Merton wrote: "The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, | . This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been ... |
Earle Page | ... yons formed an exclusively UAP government supported by the Country Party of | . In 1934, however, the UAP lost six seats, forcing Lyons to renew the tra ... |
Stanley Baldwin | ... itain, and perhaps the world, who did not agree with British Prime Minister | 's 1932 declaration that "The bomber will always get through". He conceive ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... number of prominent leaders, including René Lévesque, Robert Stanfield, and | , who believed the actions to be excessive and the precedent to suspend ci ... |
Pietro Gasparri | ... litus, and, for the codification of Canon Law, which under della Chiesa and | , he as Eugenio Pacelli had the opportunity to participate in |
Angela Merkel | On November 9, 2009, Chancellor of Germany, | , walked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev and Pola ... |
John Major | ... for appointing 20 special advisers (compared to eight under his predecessor | ) and for the fact that the total salary cost of special advisers across a ... |
David Ben-Gurion | ... e condemnation caused the organization to distance itself from the attack." | deemed Irgun "the enemy of the Jewish people" after the attack. Hatsofeh, ... |
R. S. Thomas | ... e – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – | – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Towns ... |
Bishop of Lichfield | ... cessor Pope Adrian I, in regards to the granting of the pallium to Higbert, | . He believed that the English episcopate had been misrepresented before A ... |
Nicolae Iorga | ... i people came to Wallachia and Moldavia as free men or as slaves. Historian | associated the Roma people's arrival with the 1241 Mongol invasion of Euro ... |
Laurence Echard | ... our kept him from extremes. "By his particular temper and management," said | in his History of England, "he weathered the late great storm with more su ... |
Bishop of Pamiers | ... known for his intelligence and organizational ability. In 1317 he was made | . There he undertook a rigorous hunt for Cathar heretics, which won him pr ... |
Wincenty Witos | ... eking his leadership and intent on preventing the three-time prime minister | of the peasant Polish People's Party from forming another coalition, stage ... |
Pope John Paul II | The visit of | to Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... stigation. France offered a special rescue unit, and Israeli prime minister | offered to send agents with anti-terrorist expertise to help in the invest ... |
David | ... s. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander of Saul and | 's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city |
Pope Urban IV | ... had hired earlier, and began a rapprochement with Venice. With the help of | Michael VIII concluded peace with his former enemies. By the terms of the ... |
Pope Julius II | ... ibyl, Persian Sibyl, Cumaean Sibyl and the Erythraean Sibyl. The library of | in the Vatican has images of sibyls and they are in the pavement of the Si ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... United States intelligence agencies issued a report that announced aides of | managed to acquire Belarusian passports while in Syria. The same report me ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... was founded by the Roman Catholic Church in 1936 under its current name by | and is placed under the protection of the reigning Pope). Its aim is to pr ... |
Clement Attlee | British Prime Minister | commented in the House of Commons |
Gabriel Narutowicz | ... governments changed frequently, corruption was commonplace. The open-minded | was constitutionally elected president by the National Assembly in 1922, b ... |
Fred Rogers | ... int Vincent College, and golfer Arnold Palmer. It was the childhood home of | , children's television personality. He was also buried there in Unity Cem ... |
Prime Minister | ... , was deeply shaken by the events of Quebec's October Crisis, especially by | Pierre Trudeau's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Queb ... |
Victor III | ... were several Antipopes; during this time the reign of the legitimate Popes | , Urban II, and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since the c ... |
Bertie Ahern | ... nsatlantic stopovers by the US Army. Under domestic pressure, the Taoiseach | repeatedly glossed over the particulars of the situation, while emphasisin ... |
John Calvin | ... as the sacramental union. The Reformed churches, following the teachings of | , believe in an immaterial, spiritual (or "pneumatic") presence of Christ ... |
George Colley | ... e untenable, with supporters of Haughey caucusing opinion within the party. | , the man who Lynch saw as his successor, went to him and encouraged him t ... |
Alexander Downer | ... ext. Under the direction of Prime Minister John Howard and Foreign Minister | , Australia then sent the text to the United Nations General Assembly in N ... |
Bishop of Chichester | ... dit only for the authorship of one scene and the choruses. George Bell, the | , had been instrumental in connecting Eliot with producer E. Martin Browne ... |
Athanasius of Alexandria | ... y on the teaching put forth by a man who eventually would become Pope Saint | , the chief opponent of Arius |
Pietro Badoglio | ... and requested combat and Italian advancement to cease. The Italian General | sharply rejected the proposal, and threatened to stop all negotiations and ... |
Monroe E. Dodd | The Southern Baptist clergyman | began his long ministry in Fulton early in the 20th century |
Lynden Pindling | In 1967, Sir | of the Progressive Liberal Party became the first black premier of the col ... |
Ernst Röhm | Hitler was deeply concerned that | , the chief of the SA, was planning a coup. Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich ... |
The Prime Minister | ... castle from late 1874 until April 1879—his most productive literary period, | of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnso ... |
Charles Theodore | ... ved with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals, and laid siege to Ingolstadt. | , who had done nothing to prevent wars or to resist the invasion, fled to ... |
Władysław Grabski | ... nomic calamities, but there were also signs of progress and stabilization ( | 's economically competent government lasted for almost two years). The ach ... |
Robert Peel | Along with | , Wellington became an increasingly influential member of the Tory party, ... |
Hans Modrow | ... en Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, walked through to be greeted by | , the East German prime minister. Demolition of the rest of the Wall aroun ... |
Sangoulé Lamizana | ... nded the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lt. Col. | at the head of a government of senior army officers. The army remained in ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... alk over literary subjects, and to read and mutually criticize their works. | offered the society his protection, and in this way (1635) the Académie fr ... |
Michael Farris | ... ure while interrogating heretics. Later authors, such as Brian Moynahan and | , cite Foxe when repeating these allegations. More himself denied these al ... |
John Howard | ... onsensus on the adoption of the text. Under the direction of Prime Minister | and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Australia then sent the text to the ... |
Tony Blair | at St John's College, Oxford University met and became close friends with | |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... of the Tory party, and in 1828 he resigned as Commander-in-Chief and became | . Wellington was the first Irish-born person to be Prime Minister of the U ... |
Comiskey Park | LaMotta and Robinson had their fifth bout at | , Chicago, Illinois on September 26, 1945. Robinson won by a very controve ... |
Canon John Collins | ... on as a possible method of campaigning, but, largely under the influence of | , the CND chairman, the CND leadership opposed any sort of unlawful protes ... |
John Foxe | ... cs during his time as Lord Chancellor. The popular anti-Catholic polemicist | , who "placed Protestant sufferings against the background of... the Antic ... |
Pope Pius V | ... the like. In various respects, Baius was rightly seen as Pelagian. In 1567 | condemned seventy-nine propositions from his writings in the papal bull Ex ... |
Philip Henry | ... from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be." | records that moments after the execution, a moan was heard from the assemb ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the | combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It ... |
Edward Stillingfleet | ... appointed to be the headmaster of Spalding Grammar School before he was 21. | , dean of St Paul's, hired Bentley as tutor to his son, which enabled the ... |
Malcolm Fraser | ... in 1975 The Age returned to a more moderate liberal position. It supported | 's Liberal government in its early years, but after 1980 became increasing ... |
John Cleese | It is believed that the first person to say "shit" on British TV was | of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says ... |
Baldwin of Exeter | ... sed a "Saladin tithe" on their citizens to finance the venture. In Britain, | , the archbishop of Canterbury, made a tour through Wales, convincing 3,00 ... |
Lal Krishna Advani | ... uism, where a temple should be reconstructed. The party under its president | galvanised the nation with various rath yatras and succeeded in awakening ... |
C. Rajagopalachari | ... ence of new generation of Indians from within the Congress Party, including | , Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- wh ... |
Nestorius | ... other theological dispute in the 5th century occurred over the teachings of | , the Patriarch of Constantinople who taught that God the Word was not hyp ... |
Levi Eshkol | ... speed of Israel's notification. Apologies were soon sent by Prime Minister | , Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and chargé d'affaires Efraim Evron. Within 4 ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... was named Reich Interior Minister. Frick and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) | hoped to create a unified police force for all of Germany, but Göring on 3 ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... he political spectrum. After hearing a speech by Schwarzenegger at the 2006 | breakfast, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said that, "[H]e's becoming a ... |
Bishop of Durham | ... Alnwick Castle and the surrounding manor were bequeathed to Antony Bek the | . The Percy family benefited from England's wars with Scotland; through hi ... |
Bettino Ricasoli | ... , Mammolo and Marzemino. It was not until the work of the Italian statesman | that the modern "Chianti recipe" as a Sangiovese-based wine would take sha ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... on of Indians from within the Congress Party, including C. Rajagopalachari, | , Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- who would later on c ... |
Attorney General | ... nty was created in 1848 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for U.S. | and presidential candidate William Wirt. The county is serviced by one hig ... |
Gough Whitlam | Perkin's editorship coincided with | 's reforms of the Australian Labor Party, and The Age became a key support ... |
Stephen II | ... ateran Palace. In the eighth century, most likely during the pontificate of | (752–7), a document called the Donation of Constantine first appeared, in ... |
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 ... |
Earle Page | ... plan. On this issue, deputy leader Robert Menzies and Country Party leader | would have a public falling out |
Heinrich Himmler | ... Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under | 's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during ... |
Gough Whitlam | ... was due to retire as Governor-General in July 1974, and the Prime Minister, | , needed to find a suitable replacement. His first choice, Ken Myer, decli ... |
Gregory XII | ... opo d'Angelo de Scarparia, who visited Rome in 1406 for the enthronement of | . The pope sat briefly on two "pierced chairs" at the Lateran: "...the vul ... |
Prime Minister of Israel | In mid-1996, Benjamin Netanyahu was elected | by a margin of just one percent. Palestinian-Israeli relations grew even m ... |
Joseph Hall | ... the burning of certain volumes of satire by John Marston, Thomas Middleton, | , and others; it also required histories and plays to be specially approve ... |
Chad's | ... is known to have exercised authority there: Wynfrith, who became bishop on | death in 672. In addition it is known that Wulfhere gave land at Barrow up ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | In 1968 after the assassination of | , Brown released "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" following pressur ... |
Adam Smith | ... g other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), Karl Marx quotes | and sums up |
Aidan Kelly | ... abon, which have become popular in North American Wicca, were introduced by | in the 1970s. The word "sabbat" itself comes from the witches' sabbath or ... |
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 ... |
Manetho | ... straea (identified as Virgo), the goddess of justice. Libra is mentioned by | (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by Ptolemy ... |
Abune Merkorios | After the death of Abuna Takla Haymanot in 1988, | who had close ties to the Derg (Communist) government was elected Patriarc ... |
Pope Clement V | In 1309 the city, still part of the Kingdom of Arles, was chosen by | as his residence, and from 9 March 1309 until 13 January 1377 was the seat ... |
Itō Hirobumi | The Japanese statesman | started to negotiate with the Russians. He believed that Japan was too wea ... |
Angelo Amato | Since 9 July 2009, the Prefect is Cardinal | , while the current secretary (appointed 29 December 2010) is Archbishop M ... |
Gaspard Monge | ... of 1809 he was chosen by the council of the École Polytechnique to succeed | in the chair of analytical geometry. At the same time he was named by the ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... d been put in place during peacetime in Canada. A few critics (most notably | and some members of the New Democratic Party ) believed that Trudeau was b ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 8 May 1969, | issued the Apostolic Constitution Sacra Rituum Congregatio, dividing it in ... |
Prime Minister | ... arliament of Canada in 1982, the result of the efforts of the Government of | Pierre Trudeau |
Greek Sibyl | ... tists. Whether the sibyl in question was the Etruscan Sibyl of Tibur or the | of Cumae is not always clear. The Christian author Lactantius had no hesit ... |
Robert Pursglove | ... as a result of restructuring. The Grammar School was originally founded by | , Prior of Gisborough Priory, as a charitable school for poor boys |
Adolphe Thiers | ... istricts. One of the chief "cannon parks" was on the heights of Montmartre. | was elected "Executive Power" of the new government to postpone the issue ... |
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) |
John Calvin | ... inal differences—first between Luther and Zwingli, later between Luther and | —consequently resulting in the establishment of different and rival Protes ... |
Francesco Crispi | ... bers of troops in the field much longer. However, the Italian government of | was unable to accept being stymied by non-Europeans. The prime minister sp ... |
Pythia | ... f the earliest recorded group of prophets to utilise this technique was the | , the priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, who acted as the condui ... |
Abuna Theophilos | Patriarch Basilios died in 1971, and was succeeded on the same year by | . With the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1974, the new M ... |
Bernard Kouchner | ... ivilians being murdered and starved by the blockading forces. French doctor | also witnessed these events, particularly the huge number of starving chil ... |
Thomas Wolsey | | , Archbishop of York, Chief Minister and favourite of Henry VIII, took ove ... |
Marjoe Gortner | ... titled simply Laugh-In – with a new cast, including former child evangelist | . The standout was a then-unknown Robin Williams, whose starring role on A ... |
Garret FitzGerald | ... so put by the Irish government then led by the centre-right Fine Gael under | , and most mainstream Protestant leaders. In the debate, no one actually a ... |
David | ... up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, | and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the n ... |
Archbishop of York | Thomas Wolsey, | , Chief Minister and favourite of Henry VIII, took over the site of Hampto ... |
Melchett | ... t characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example | and Lord Flashheart |
Mark Pattison | ... ary works. C.P. Snow was inspired for his novel The Masters by the story of | , a fellow at Lincoln, whose enthusiastic hopes for Lincoln were frustrate ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Wolsey | ... ing a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, accompanying | to Calais and Bruges, More was knighted and made under-treasurer of the Ex ... |
Wynfrith | ... he Mercian bishops of Lichfield is known to have exercised authority there: | , who became bishop on Chad's death in 672. In addition it is known that W ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ant groups, in attempt to derail the stalled peace talks between Israel and | , President of the Palestinian Authority. According to the Israeli Coordin ... |
Abuna Takla Haymanot | ... n 1979. The Ethiopian government then ordered the Ethiopian Church to elect | as Patriarch of Ethiopia. The Coptic Orthodox Church refused to recognize ... |
Pope Pius IX | ... This was the case throughout the majority of Severn's tenure as Consul, as | managed to retain a fragile hold on power, relying on a garrison of French ... |
Alfred Deakin | ... y, George Higinbotham and George Turner, and other leading liberals such as | and Charles Pearson furthered their careers as The Age journalists. Syme w ... |
Wulfsige | ... year of succession is unknown. Asser's predecessor as Bishop of Sherborne, | , is known to have attested a charter sometime between 890 and 896. Asser' ... |
Benjamin Netanyahu | In mid-1996, | was elected Prime Minister of Israel by a margin of just one percent. Pale ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... erforming benefit concerts for various civil rights organizations including | 's PUSH and The Black Panther Party's Breakfast program throughout the ear ... |
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 ... |
Angelo Liteky | ... knife" of which only 144 were made. It also contains the Medal of Honor of | , who renounced it in 1986 by placing the medal at the memorial in an enve ... |
Erythraea | ... ius, and was said to have given birth to the Sibyl, who is sometimes called | , from Erythrae, a small place on Mount Ida (Dionysius of Halicarnassus i. ... |
Prime Minister | ... to, "God Save the Queen" was employed, while in Montreal it was "O Canada". | Lester B. Pearson in 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the cou ... |
Francis Xavier Pierz | ... ly by Catholic German-Americans, who were attracted to the region by Father | . Lower Town was founded by settlers from New England and the mid-Atlantic ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... vil Service as it is a political position which has always been held by the | , currently David Cameron |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... nts conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla, Jagadish Chandra Bose and | during the 1890s leading to the invention of radio |
Martin Luther | ... from the Catholic Church, was a main cause for the Protestant Reformation. | 's spiritual predecessors included John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, who likewise ... |
David Cameron | ... has always been held by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, currently | |
Aquinas | ... lic theology was well integrated with scientific knowledge from the time of | to the time of Galileo, and that too was a deliberate program. Critics sug ... |
Salam Fayyad | ... ities in the Territories Major Gen. Eitan Dangot, Israel seeks to work with | , to help revive the Palestinian economy, and hopes to ease restrictions o ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... increasing grounds within the Congress leadership. Under the presidency of | at its historic Lahore session in December 1929, the Indian National Congr ... |
Pope Benedict XV | ... Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. It was formally set up by | on 1 May 1917. The title of Prefect was held by the s from 1917 until 1967 ... |
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 ... |
Compton Mackenzie | ... took possession of Villa San Michele. This was described by Scottish author | in his diaries |
John Meyendorff | ... see the epistle as more fraternal than authoritative, and Orthodox scholar | sees it as connected with the Roman church's awareness of its "priority" ( ... |
Albert Lutuli | ... g's work was cited by and served as an inspiration for South African leader | , another black Nobel Peace prize winner who fought for racial justice in ... |
Abuna Basilios | ... ian Church on 14 January 1951. In 1959, Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria crowned | as the first Patriarch of Ethiopia |
Plutarch | ... of the Maenads or Thyades in the Korykion cave on Mount Parnassos, although | informs us that his friend Clea was both a Priestess to Apollo and to the ... |
Marshal Zhukov | ... y, but these rarely upset his relationships with them. He dealt with Soviet | , his Russian counterpart, and they became good friends |
Thomas Henry Huxley | ... in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel, and by comparative anatomists such as | and E. Ray Lankester. Enthusiasm waned: it was often difficult to find evi ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... y Christian writers, who competed with one another to execrate her worship. | , down the coast, averred that 'men and women vie with one another to hono ... |
Georges Darboy | ... he Commune. The Commune unsuccessfully tried to exchange him, first against | , Archbishop of Paris, then against all 74 hostages it detained, but flatl ... |
William Pitt | ... iament was assured. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to his friend | |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | An American Civil rights activist, | was assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... e years 1490 to 1492 as a page in the household service of John Morton, the | and Lord Chancellor of England. Morton enthusiastically supported the "New ... |
Plutarch | ... Pyrrhus of Epirus. Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by | to have spent his life in Egypt, probably in an honourable captivity. His ... |
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 ... |
Edzo Toxopeus | ... 1963, Oud left politics, and was succeeded by the minister of Home Affairs | . With the lead of Toxopeus VVD lost three seats in the 1963 elections, bu ... |
C. D. Howe | ... on 11 April 1936. The newly created Department of Transport under Minister | desired an airline, under government control, to link cities on the Atlant ... |
Stephen Fry | ... glas Adams (ISBN 1-85695-028-X) in 1994.To tie-in with the 2005 film, actor | , the film's voice of the Guide, recorded a second unabridged edition (ISB ... |
Ignatius of Antioch | ... rchangeably for the higher order of ministers above deacons. The letters of | (c. 35 – c. 107) indicate the several congregations were headed by individ ... |
John Calvin | ... re of intellectual influence from the Continent, including the teachings of | that became known as Calvinism. This, in turn, revolutionised the Christia ... |
Richard Montagu | ... igious policies increased with his support of a controversial ecclesiastic, | . In his pamphlets A New Gag for an Old Goose, a reply to the Catholic pam ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... hile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), | (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed |
Eorcenwald | ... early 670s, when a charter shows Wulfhere confirming a grant made to Bishop | by Frithuwold, a sub-king in Surrey, which may have extended north into mo ... |
John Newton | ... were first published in February 1779, and are the combined work of curate | (1725–1807) and his poet friend, William Cowper (1731–1800). The hymns wer ... |
Liaquat Ali Khan | ... here was a dramatic new increase in the number of political assassinations. | , the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a ... |
Prime Minister of Pakistan | Liaquat Ali Khan, the first | , was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951. Conspiracy the ... |
Venantius Fortunatus | ... e Goths by the historian Jordanes dating from 551. Then follows a remark by | in his description of his travels from Ravenna to Tours (565-571) in which ... |
Irenaeus | ... ch has been offered as a parallel showing the use of logos in 3 John 1.7. . | in Adversus Haereses iii. 16. 7 (written ca. 175), quotes 2 John. 7 and 8, ... |
Abuna Basilios | ... s completed when Joseph II consecrated the first Ethiopian-born Archbishop, | , as head of the Ethiopian Church on 14 January 1951. In 1959, Pope Cyril ... |
John Major | ... lack of responsiveness in the quality of public services. The government of | sought to tackle this with a Citizen's Charter programme. This sought to e ... |
Pope Pius IX | ... e "Congregatio de Propaganda Fide pro negotiis ritus orientalis" founded by | on January 6, 1862. Included in the Congregation's membership are all East ... |
Cindy Sheehan | ... magazine The Nation. On August 28, 2005, he visited anti-Iraq War activist | at Camp Casey. He prayed with her and spoke to her supporters. He began hi ... |
Zechariah ben Jehoiada | ... I Chronicles XXIV attributing the gift of prophecy to Joad's son Zacharie ( | ) in order to suppose that the father (whom the Bible does not describe as ... |
David Beaton | ... uder of The Bass, Knt., as "the Cardinal's Secretary" representing Cardinal | at a reconsecration of the restored and ancient St. Baldred's chapel on Th ... |
Victor II | ... rban II) and in other versions Victor (which is plausibly identifiable with | ). Ferdinand was prepared to pay, but one of his vassals, later known as E ... |
Plutarch | ... e founder and first King of Rome. She is described as such in both Livy and | ; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, ... |
Juan Negrín | ... ctively helping General Franco to win the war. The Republican government of | , announced the decision in the League of Nations on 21 September 1938. Th ... |
Thomas Cranmer | ... rine of transubstantiation. It was especially influential in England, where | claimed to have been finally convinced against transubstantion by Ratramnu ... |
Thomas S. Monson | ... is organized under a Board of Trustees, with the President of the Church ( | as of 2012) as chairman. This board consists of the same people as the Chu ... |
Piet de Jong | ... ed relatively stable and entered yet again the cabinet under Prime Minister | |
prime minister | He was twice | under the Tory party and oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 18 ... |
Tun Abdul Razak Hussein | ... ather of Modernisation", the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, Allahyarham | . Shah Alam was once known as Sungai Renggam and was noted for its rubber ... |
Vivian H. H. Green | ... tional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector | . At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a p ... |
Prime Minister | ... was nearly 60 that St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal | William Lyon Mackenzie King appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941 |
First Minister of Scotland | ... nments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Sovereign appoints the | on the nomination of the Scottish Parliament, and the First Minister of Wa ... |
Peter Akinola | ... ence against LGBT people and criminalizing homosexual behavior. Archbishops | of Nigeria and Henry Orombi of Uganda would not condemn violence against g ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... Canadian prime minister "Jean Poutine". The then-prime minister's name was | , and he had not endorsed Bush — it is standard practice for the Canadian ... |
Junípero Serra | ... the area until 1770, when Gaspar de Portolà, along with Franciscan Fathers, | and Juan Crespí visited the area in search of a mission site. Portola and ... |
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig | ... cey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warren Clarke and Geoffrey Palmer, who played | in "Goodbyeee", the final, fatal episode of Blackadder Goes Forth |
Alexander of Constantinople | ... ts. Athanasius eventually spent most of his life battling against Arianism. | , then a presbyter, was also present as representative of his aged bishop |
Tomás de Torquemada | Several notorious Inquisitors, such as | , and Don Francisco the archbishop of Coria, were descendants of apostate ... |
Ralph Connor | In 1912, | 's Corporal Cameron of the North-West Mounted Police: A Tale of the MacLeo ... |
Stanley Baldwin | ... Prime Minister in May 1923, Curzon was passed over for the job in favour of | , despite having written Bonar Law a lengthy letter earlier in the year co ... |
Eric Williams | ... f Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect in abolition was downplayed by historian | , who argued that abolition was motivated not by humanitarianism but by ec ... |
Bishop Atterbury | ... freemasonry, through his cousin Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, through | , through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of York), and via servants such ... |
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 ... |
Minister of War | ... he Marquis de Galliffet, the fusilleur de la Commune who later took part as | in Waldeck-Rousseau's Government of Republican Defence at the turn of the ... |
Prime Minister | ... regarded that he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative | Arthur Meighen in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme ... |
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 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, | , and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catal ... |
Pythia | The name | remained as the title of the Delphic Oracle |
Bishopric of Utrecht | ... entury, the city of Groningen was a village in Drenthe that belonged to the | , while most of the province was in the diocese of Münster. During the Mid ... |
Gerald Gardner | After her death in 1951, Clutterbuck was identified by | as a leading member of the New Forest coven of witches into which he claim ... |
K. B. Hedgewar | It was founded in 1925 by | , a revolutionary and doctor from Nagpur, as a social and cultural organiz ... |
John Bunyan | ... e still supported two Dissenting chapels. Notable local Dissenters included | , of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn ... |
Hellespontine | ... raclitus names at least three Sibyls, the Phrygian, the Erythraean, and the | . Frazer, James, translation and commentary on Pausanias, Description of G ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... July 1956, the third stanza of the lyrics was changed to remove mentions of | . This is the version presented here |
Xanana Gusmão | ... independent as Timor-Leste in 2002 under the presidency of Falintil leader | . Although political strife continued as the new nation coped with poverty ... |
Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka | ... Vietnam and China, his government was overthrown in a military coup led by | and the National Liberation Council. Several commentators, such as John St ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ollapsed owing to poverty, violence and social unrest. The Fascists, led by | , took over and set up an authoritarian dictatorship. Italy joined the Axi ... |
Peter Ustinov | ... uarded by Satwant and Beant. She was to be interviewed by the British actor | , who was filming a documentary for Irish television. According to informa ... |
Pope Urban VIII | ... elo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later | ). Gian Lorenzo Bernini restored and refinished the statue |
Raymond Poincaré | ... reparations; he described the French Prime Minister (and former President) | as a "horrid little man" |
Benito Mussolini | In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of | as part of the Axis Powers' war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small ... |
Secretary of State for External Affairs | ... ction of a post war international order and promoted him to the position of | (foreign minister) in 1945, a portfolio King had previously always kept fo ... |
Hans Wiegel | ... 0. This cabinet fell after a few months. Meanwhile the charismatic young MP | had attracted considerable attention. He became the new leader of the VVD: ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... 3, the emperor was among other heads of state, including France's President | , who traveled to Washington D.C. and attended the funeral of assassinated ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Mountbatten was fond of Congress leader | and his liberal outlook for the country. He felt differently about the Mus ... |
Prime Minister | ... a popular figure. He made many friends, including the more studious future | , William Pitt. Despite his lifestyle and lack of interest in studying, he ... |
Marc Ouellet | ... and arranges the creation of new dioceses. The current Prefect is Cardinal | . The current Secretary is Archbishop |
Mikhail Frunze | ... year old orphan boy who they named Petya. They also adopted the children of | , following his death in 1925. During Stalin's rule they lived in the at t ... |
Philip Heselton | ... buck had personally initiated him into the coven, but later authors such as | and Eleanor Bone claim that his initiator was in fact Edith Woodford-Grime ... |
Polydore Vergil | ... or its historical accuracy. More's work, and that of contemporary historian | , reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing s ... |
Pierre Daniel Huet | ... se, a friendly critic, Mark Pattison, is obliged to approve the judgment of | , who says, "par ses poésies brutes et informes Scaliger a déshonoré le Pa ... |
King David | ... ownfall, since that title was only to be held by descendants of the line of | . The Hasmonean bureaucracy was filled with men with Greek names, and the ... |
Plutarch | ... e of his occasional absence to ravage the defenceless part of his kingdom ( | , Pyrrhus, 7 if.); at length, the combined forces of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy and ... |
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 ... |
Aloysius Schmitt | Father | (1909–1941), the first chaplain to die in World War II, on board the USS O ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... verwhelming in the empire triggered France, led by Louis XIII of France and | , to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father Henry IV of Fra ... |
Clement Attlee | ... egion and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to | appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the ... |
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 ... |
Charles Colson | ... who became known as the "Watergate Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, | , Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring ... |
Plutarch's | From | 'Lives' |
Minister of Justice | ... these recommendations, King recruited St. Laurent to his wartime cabinet as | , Lapointe's old post, on December 9. St. Laurent agreed to go to Ottawa o ... |
John Major | ... as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir | was knighted). The husbands of Dames have no honorific, so Dame Norma's hu ... |
Cardinal Wolsey | ... It is possible that the current design replaced an earlier maze planted for | . It was originally planted with hornbeam; it has been repaired latterly u ... |
William Pitt | ... e. He made many friends, including the more studious future Prime Minister, | . Despite his lifestyle and lack of interest in studying, he managed to pa ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... elia, based on wartime Nazi activities. Created on order of Reichsführer-SS | , a Nazi ethnic German organisation called Selbstschutz carried out execut ... |
Saint Boniface | ... essed indeed a heathen reaction, but the arrival in Bavaria in about 734 of | checked apostasy. Boniface organised the Bavarian church and founded or re ... |
Alfred Deakin | ... eral Protectionists joined Labour. With a majority of seats, the CLP led by | ousted Labour from office, with Fisher failing to persuade the Governor-Ge ... |
Antoine Gizenga | ... regime (totalling about 10,000), and the Kisanagani dissident ANC loyal to | (numbering about 8,000) |
Pope Innocent III | Historian Geoffrey Hindley's The Crusades mentions that in 1202 | forbade the Crusaders of Western Christendom from committing any atrocious ... |
Mark Pattison | ... ve volumes in 1533, 1534, 1539, 1546 and 1547; of these, a friendly critic, | , is obliged to approve the judgment of Pierre Daniel Huet, who says, "par ... |
Thomas Wolsey | ... cuments, and serving as a liaison between the King and his Lord Chancellor: | , the Cardinal Archbishop of York |
Plutarch | ... e minds of many with the Alexander with the spear of the sculptor Lysippus. | was among the unimpressed, deciding that it had failed accurately to repro ... |
John Cleese | ... red in a production of Carrie's War, the Nina Bawden novel, at the in 2009. | said in an 8 May 2009 interview that the role of Sybil Fawlty was original ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... uivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. Cavaliere | ), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Georg Ritte ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... Libya and the Pentapolis. Other supporters included Eusebius of Nicomedia, | , Paulinus of Tyrus, Actius of Lydda, Menophantus of Ephesus, and |
United States Attorney General | ... n the formation of Buchanan County, was named for Felix Grundy (1777–1840), | (1838–1839) and United States Senator from Tennessee (1839–1840). It was i ... |
Jean Chrétien | By 1964, TCA had grown to become Canada's national airline, and in 1964 | submitted a private member's bill to change the name of the airline from T ... |
Junípero Serra | ... in the nearby settlement of Monterey, but was relocated to Carmel by Father | due to the interaction between soldiers stationed at the nearby Presidio a ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... bell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, | . Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fan of science fict ... |
Kirk Cameron | At the end of the 1980s, actor | became a major teen idol teenage heartthrob. Cameron was best known for hi ... |
Michael Heseltine | Meanwhile | had introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( ... |
Bonar Law | ... or Lloyd George. In fact he was also unhappy with Lloyd George’s successor, | , who became Prime Minister in November 1922. Bonar Law’s foreign policy p ... |
Eusebius of Nicomedia | ... all of whom hailed from Libya and the Pentapolis. Other supporters included | , Eusebius of Caesarea, Paulinus of Tyrus, Actius of Lydda, Menophantus of ... |
Mauro Piacenza | ... ests and deacons not belonging to religious orders. The Cardinal Prefect is | , and the secretary is Archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta. The Congregation ... |
Joseph Stalin | During the 1930s and 1940s | 's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, s ... |
Minister of Finance | ... m his election in the 1988 election to his retirement in 2008. He served as | from 1993 to 2002. He oversaw many changes in the financial structure of t ... |
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 |
Canadian Cabinet | ... for Métis and Non-Status Indians was created in 1985 as a portfolio in the | . As the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development is official ... |
Adam Smith | Scottish economist | accepted the LTV for pre-capitalist societies but saw a flaw in its applic ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... rdoned for the crime in 1983 by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from | , Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among o ... |
Archbishop of York | ... aison between the King and his Lord Chancellor: Thomas Wolsey, the Cardinal | |
Pythia | ... thon, Pythia in older myths, but according to some later accounts his wife, | , who lived beside the Castalian Spring. According to some because Python ... |
Endelkachew Makonnen | ... television to agree to the army's demands for still greater pay, and named | as his new Prime Minister. However, despite Endalkatchew's many concession ... |
Hubert Ingraham | ... nt governor-general is Sir Arthur Foulkes and the current Prime Minister is | |
Prime Minister | ... throne. He was proclaimed king from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace by | Knud Kristensen |
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 ... |
Robert Runcie | ... stant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, | , in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Leb ... |
Attorney General | ... nt would no longer have to approve constitutional amendments. Subsequently, | Pierre Trudeau appointed law professor Barry Strayer to research a potenti ... |
Lee Kuan Yew | On May 18, 2010, Bilbao was awarded by the government of Singapore with the | World City Prize, at the World Cities Summit 2010. It is considered the Pr ... |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | ... igh Steward for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1525 he became | , a position that entailed administrative and judicial control of much of ... |
Margaret Thatcher | | came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... an Military, one was used by Vijitha Rohana to attack Indian Prime Minister | in 1987 |
Andrew Carnegie | In 1915 | gave the school a grant of $50,000 for a central academic building. The te ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister | ... mons essentially became the Alliance caucus (with a few exceptions). Former | Brian Mulroney called the party "Reform in pantyhose", and some opponents ... |
Ehud Barak | Arafat continued negotiations with Netanyahu's successor, | , at the Camp David Summit in July 2000. Due partly to his own politics (B ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... is job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a decade later, | was assassinated |
Juan Crespí | ... , when Gaspar de Portolà, along with Franciscan Fathers, Junípero Serra and | visited the area in search of a mission site. Portola and Crespi traveled ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | Waite was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then | , Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he t ... |
Plutarch | Additionally, according to | 's essay on the meaning of the "E at Delphi"--the only literary source for ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... 35,000 men, with 80 battle tanks and 200 field artillery — was deployed, as | wanted the victory to be credited to Italy. On 9 March 1937, the Italians ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... ant of Aeneas. This work was also the "single most important source used by | in creating his Historia Regum Britanniae", and via the enormous popularit ... |
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 ... |
Toshiki Kaifu | Prime Minister | signaled a broadening of Japan's interest in South Asia with his swing thr ... |
Cotton Mather | ... Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England (1654), | 's Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), and Winthrop's Journal were efforts ... |
T. Pelham Dale | Fr. | SSC, famous for having been prosecuted and imprisoned for Ritualist practi ... |
Secundus of Ptolemais | The supporters of Arius included | , Theonus of Marmarica, Zphyrius, and Dathes, all of whom hailed from Liby ... |
Pope Sylvester I | ... are found in the decretals that it gives as those of post-Nicene popes from | (314–335) to Pope Gregory II (715–731). The False Decretals were part of a ... |
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 ... |
C. P. Snow | ... however, demands for change again grew. There was a concern (illustrated in | ’s Strangers and Brothers series of novels) that technical and scientific ... |
Louis Duchesne | ... unanimously admitted afterwards, while numerous modern scholars, following | , reject it. The Bollandists however defended it (their Acta Sanctorum, Ju ... |
Ali Fallahian | ... implicated senior members of the government and issued arrest warrants for | , the head of the Iranian Intelligence. Evidence indicates that Fallahian’ ... |
William Montgomery Brown | Galion was also home to | , a bishop of the Episcopal Church who was tried by the church and convict ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | In 1796, mathematician | promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposi ... |
Carl Bildt | The term was coined by Swedish Prime Minister | in a debate against the opposition leader Ingvar Carlsson 1994 |
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 ... |
Pope Benedict XIV | In 1749, | endorsed as official Church policy the view that the Colosseum was a sacre ... |
Thomas Wolsey | ... sing, Henry VIII imposed a series of taxes devised by his finance minister, | . Soon the people began to resent Wolsey's taxes and a new source of finan ... |
Helmut Schmidt | ... llowing year, Canada joined the group at the behest of Germany's Chancellor | and U.S. President Gerald Ford and the group became the Group of Seven (G7 ... |
Oecolampadius | In 1529 the city became Protestant under | and the bishop's seat was moved to Porrentury. The bishop's crook was howe ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... attempting to overthrow Mazarin and reverse the policies of his predecessor | who had taken power for the crown from great territorial nobles, some of w ... |
Francesco Zantedeschi | ... ery of induction in 1831 though it may have been anticipated by the work of | in 1829. Around 1830 to 1832 Joseph Henry made a similar discovery, but di ... |
Isidore of Seville | ... egislation known as the False Decretals, which was once attributed to Saint | , is largely composed of forgeries. All of what it presents as letters of ... |
Leon Trotsky | Jack was close to the inner circle of the new government. He met | and was introduced to Lenin during a break of the Constituent Assembly on ... |
Charan Singh | ... sh Narayan. The other party leaders of the Janata Party were Morarji Desai, | , Raj Narain and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Janata government's Home Minist ... |
Martin Luther | ... e protests against the corruption emanating from Rome began in earnest when | , an Augustinian monk at the university of Wittenberg, called in 1517 for ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... o was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised with the other 39 by | in 1970 |
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 ... |
Sir John Lubbock | ... ion relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and banker | introduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the tab ... |
Clement Attlee's | St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister | proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white domini ... |
Kevin Rudd | In 2008 Labor Prime Minister | launched a biography titled Andrew Fisher, written by David Day. In turn, ... |
James Cooley Fletcher | ... Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and | |
Gérard | ... hen too far away to reach Waterloo. Grouchy was advised by his subordinate, | , to "march to the sound of the guns", but stuck to his orders and engaged ... |
Helen Clark | ... II of New Zealand, Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright, Prime Minister | , Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives Margaret Wilson and ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's legendary History of the Kings of Britain makes Caracalla a king of Bri ... |
Ingvar Carlsson | ... Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt in a debate against the opposition leader | 1994 |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 78, where he took a job with the British Council of Churches. In 1980, then | , Dr Robert Runcie, appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for ... |
Ruud Lubbers | ... its total up to 36. It entered again cabinet with the CDA under CDA-leader | . The cabinet began a program of radical reform of the welfare state, whic ... |
Saint Remigius | ... anoint and sanctify Clovis at his coronation, perhaps brought by a dove to | . Another variation says a lily appeared at Clovis' baptismal ceremony as ... |
Woody Allen | ... model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by | for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained ... |
Priscillian | ... bility that a cult of James was instituted to supplant the Galician cult of | (executed in 385) who was widely venerated across the north of Iberia as a ... |
Cardinal Mazarin | ... means sling, which Parisian mobs used to smash the windows of supporters of | |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ... eaders of the Janata Party were Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Raj Narain and | . The Janata government's Home Minister, Choudhary Charan Singh, ordered t ... |
Efraín Ríos Montt | | utilized this method in the Guatemalan highlands in 1982-3, resulting in t ... |
Joe Clark | ... th the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The federal PC Party under | rebuffed the initiative to "unite the right". In December 2003, the Canadi ... |
Robert Runcie | ... the British Council of Churches. In 1980, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr | , appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for Anglican Communio ... |
Pope Sixtus I | As early as | , some Christians had set Easter to a Sunday in the lunar month of Nisan. ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... xample is the recurrent use of the vocative phrase, O (my) Best Beloved, by | in his Just So Stories. This use of O may be considered a form of clitic, ... |
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 ... |
André Malraux | The term has been used in | ’s novel (1933) and René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La ... |
Chrétien | ... press their suspicions of this alliance in detail, accusing the Trudeau and | governments of funding litigious groups. For example, these governments us ... |
Nicolas Steno | The existence of angular unconformities had been noted by | and by French geologists including Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who interp ... |
Indira Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers | and her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, ... |
Pope Leo XII | ... f during a performance so he could further display his virtuosity. In 1827, | honoured Paganini with the Order of the Golden Spur |
Pope Gregory II | ... t it gives as those of post-Nicene popes from Pope Sylvester I (314–335) to | (715–731). The False Decretals were part of a series of falsifications of ... |
Jonas Totoraitis | ... anian state". The first academic study of his life by a Lithuanian scholar, | (Die Litauer unter dem König Mindowe bis zum Jahre 1263) was not published ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... elopment is part of the Curia of the Catholic Church. It was established by | on 15 July 1971 and is based in the Palazzo San Callisto, in Piazza San Ca ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ght to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and | . The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize ... |
Pope Leo XIII | The authenticity of the relics at Compostela was asserted in the Bull of | , Omnipotens Deus, of 1 November 1884 |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ntment of secretary to the Paris Observatory. He now became acquainted with | , and through his influence was commissioned, with Jean-Baptiste Biot, to ... |
Bishop of Bristol | In 1963, Waite was appointed Education Advisor to the Anglican | , Oliver Tomkins, and assisted with Tomkins's implementation of the SALT ( ... |
Brian Mulroney | ... Western Canadian discontent with the Progressive Conservative government of | . Led by its founder Preston Manning, the Reform Party rapidly gained mome ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under | in the 1930s |
Jean François Paul de Gondi | ... ister, Madame de Longueville; Madame de Chevreuse; and the astute intriguer | , the future Cardinal de Retz. The military operations fell into the hands ... |
Disraeli | The British Prime Minister | 's Tory administration in London did not want a war with the Zulus. "The f ... |
Lord Palmerston | ... Thomas Cochrane of the Royal Navy. It was considered by the Prime Minister, | , but the British Ordnance Department rejected the proposal as "as bad a m ... |
Peter of Bruys | ... ned the teachings of the Petrobrusians and the Henricians, the followers of | and Henry of Lausanne. Finally, the council drew up measures for the amend ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... f the Renaissance Popes. He fathered seven children, including Lucrezia and | , by at least two mistresses. Fourteen years after his death, the corrupti ... |
Frits Bolkestein | ... t out of government. Voorhoeve was replaced by the charismatic intellectual | |
Harold Wilson | ... the series makes many references to the policy of the Labour governments of | and James Callaghan, with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dea ... |
Latin Patriarch of Antioch | ... , Baldwin III of Jerusalem. Neither King Baldwin nor Aimery of Limoges, the | , approved of Constance's choice of a husband of such low birth. With Cons ... |
Oliver O'Grady | ... e scandal in Latin America* Criticism of Pope John Paul II* Marcial Maciel* | * Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country* Sexual abuse scandal in the E ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... s partner of Sir John Gladstones (sic), father of four times Prime Minister | . Gladstone junior was named after Ewart, his godfather |
Pythia | ... passed it to Phoebe. The Delphic Sibyl has sometimes been confused with the | , the priestess of Apollo who gave prophecies at the Delphic Oracle. The t ... |
Billy Hughes | ... n for three sitting days. Three days later Labor Caucus unanimously elected | leader of the Federal Parliamentary Party. A Wide Bay by-election was held ... |
Pierre de Castelnau | ... ay 1207 and an interdict was placed on his lands. The Church senior legate, | , responsible for these actions was murdered by fanatical supporters of Co ... |
Gerald Gardner | It was at Spielplatz that Ross Nichols first met | |
Pope Innocent III | ... a endorsed the move as necessary to prevent the crusade's complete failure, | was alarmed at this development and wrote a letter to the Crusading leader ... |
Joris Voorhoeve | ... blamed on Nijpels, who stood down as leader of the VVD. He was succeeded by | . In 1989 the CDA-VVD cabinet fell over a minor point. In the subsequent e ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... is home to two Carnegie Libraries funded by the donations of steel magnate | . Both are considered historically and architecturally significant by the ... |
Maximilian Kolbe | ... site of the martyrdom (according to the Catholic Church) of saints such as | |
Stephen Fry | ... ard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, | , Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (totalling twent ... |
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 ... |
Maximos IV | ... it were raised then some mention of the Muslims be made. Melkite patriarch | was among those pushing for this latter position |
Anselm | ... reeks and Latins on the question of the filioque clause in the Creed, which | ably defended, seated at the pope's side. The Greeks were not brought over ... |
Pope Alexander VI | ... ad, thereby establishing a new stream of revenue with agents across Europe. | (1492–1503) was one of the most controversial of the Renaissance Popes. He ... |
Archbishop Byzantius | ... Norman adventurer allies a first foothold in the region. In 1025, under the | , Bari became attached to the see of Rome and was granted "provincial" sta ... |
Saint Nicholas | | ' Anglican Church is home to the de Brus cenotaph. The church was possibly ... |
John Stuart Mill | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as | and Catherine Helen Spence, Hare popularised the idea of proportional repr ... |
Ulfilas | ... The Gothic language was written in the Gothic alphabet developed by Bishop | for his translation of the Bible in the 4th century. Later, Christian prie ... |
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 ... |
Leonidas Polk | ... merican War (including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis), but some such as | (who had attended West Point but did not graduate) had little or no experi ... |
John Stuart Mill | ... ition, in which the specific concept is defined as a measurable occurrence. | pointed out the dangers of believing that anything that could be given a n ... |
John Key | ... are sometimes controversial with the greater New Zealand public. Currently, | , who took control of the National Party from Don Brash, is Prime Minister ... |
Latin Patriarch of Antioch | ... sum of money, and vowed to attack the island of Cyprus in revenge. When the | refused to finance this expedition, Raynald had the Patriarch seized, stri ... |
Joseph Stalin | When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, | ordered both soldiers and civilians to initiate a scorched earth policy to ... |
Wim Kok | ... and the social-liberal Democrats 66. The so-called "purple cabinet" led by | was the first Dutch government without any confessional parties. Like many ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... ssimilated in cosmopolitan areas. India presently has a Sikh Prime Minister | |
Saddam Hussein | ... e of the Iraqi Supergun (Project Babylon) scandal. It had been owned by the | government, via front companies, and closed amidst much controversy and ba ... |
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 ... |
Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar | RSS was founded in 1925 by | , who was a doctor in the central Indian city of Nagpur. Hedgewar as a med ... |
Cardinal Bea | Early in 1964 | notified Cardinal Cicognani, President of the Council's Coordinating Commi ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... er of Bards, Ovates and Druids. In turn he attracted both fellow Druids and | , who later established his first coven at Bricket Wood in his development ... |
Father Damien | | - Flag of Belgium - Flamingant - Flanders - Flanders Investment and Trade ... |
António de Oliveira Salazar | ... 4 military coup in Lisbon abolished the authoritarian regime established by | that had been prevailing in Portugal for decades. The new government decid ... |
Pope Honorius II | ... ralise the after-effects of the schism, which had arisen after the death of | in February 1130 and the setting up of Petris Leonis as the antipope Anacl ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... t General Lavr Kornilov, an attempt to topple the Provisional Government of | by force of arms. Jack and Louise found the Russian economy was in shamble ... |
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 ... |
Stanisław Ryłko | ... their contributions to the Church. The President of the council is Cardinal | . Its secretary is |
Vogel schemes | ... fore British settlement the area was covered in dense forest and swamp. The | of the 1870s provided the necessary impetus to lead to the construction of ... |
Albertus Magnus | ... uslim psychology and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne and | , while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas |
Felix V | ... ntury Council of Basel (1431–1449), including the 1439 election of antipope | |
Winston Churchill | ... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County. | made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ... |
Hugh O'Flaherty | Monsignor | was an Irish priest who saved thousands of people, British and American se ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
David Cameron | ... The Princess Royal unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister | and the Mayor of London had given speeches |
Plutarch | ... es, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, | , Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Martin Luther | ... tury. The council could not prevent schism and the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. | was shocked by the corruption of the clergy on a trip to Rome in 1510. Six ... |
Ho Chi Minh | | reading his Declaration of Independence. Ho Chi Minh is from Nghe An Provi ... |
John Michell | ... massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist | in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society |
Diodorus of Tarsus | ... ople until literacy became more widespread after the invention of printing. | (d. 394) may have argued for a flat Earth based on scriptures; however, Di ... |
Ramsay MacDonald | ... mining theme in honour of Fisher's occupation before entering public life. | , Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, unveiled a memorial to Fisher in ... |
Peter of Capua | ... together and returned home. While the Papal legate to the Crusade, Cardinal | endorsed the move as necessary to prevent the crusade's complete failure, ... |
Thomas Carlyle | ... rongly, and many would say harmfully, influenced by Romanticism. In English | was a highly influential essayist who turned historian, and both invented ... |
Ernest Manning | ... ht to expand its base in the east. Manning, son of longtime Alberta Premier | , gained support partly from the same political constituency as his father ... |
James Callaghan | ... any references to the policy of the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and | , with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dead, as if it had bee ... |
Pope Leo XIII | ... ter designated the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, who was beatified by | in 1886 and canonised with the other 39 by Pope Paul VI in 1970 |
Marcial Maciel | ... olic sexual abuse scandal in Latin America* Criticism of Pope John Paul II* | * Oliver O'Grady* Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country* Sexual abuse ... |
Macarius of Jerusalem | ... which had provided a flat surface for the temple - be removed, instructing | , the local Bishop, to build a church on the site. The Pilgrim of Bordeaux ... |
prime minister | ... for comment on the news that Bush had received the endorsement of Canadian | "Jean Poutine". The then-prime minister's name was Jean Chrétien, and he h ... |
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 ... |
Mussolini | ... ri developed into the most important port city of the region. The legacy of | can be seen in the imposing architecture along the seafront |
Hans Dijkstal | ... Commissioner. He was replaced by the more technocratic and socially liberal | |
Brian Cowen | ... When the issue was (successfully) submitted to a referendum a second time, | , the Taoiseach of Ireland, stated that he had obtained "legal guarantees" ... |
Jerry Falwell | ... rd, Flynt publishes a satirical parody ad where famous evangelical minister | (Richard Paul) "speaks about his first time", and tells of a sexual encoun ... |
Laurence Sterne | ... le in the early revival of Gothic architecture. Tristram Shandy, a novel by | (1759–67) introduced a whimsical version of the anti-rational sentimental ... |
Herbert de Losinga | In 1096, | , the Bishop of Thetford, began construction of Norwich Cathedral. The chi ... |
Sir Robert Menzies | ... on in Canberra to form the Liberal Party of Australia, delegates, including | , met for a second conference in Albury at Mate's Department Store between ... |
Billy Hughes | ... stralia’s war effort. Fisher visited New Zealand during this time which saw | as acting Prime Minister for two months. Fisher and Labor continued to imp ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Saddam Hussein | Chemical weapons employed by | killed and injured numerous Iranians, and possibly Iraqis. According to Ir ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... he Forward reported that sometime before March 2003, Israeli Prime Minister | told Bush that Israel "would not push one way or the other" for or against ... |
John Polkinghorne | ... tion of black holes. In his book Questions of Truth, the particle physicist | has another difficulty with Smolin's thesis, in that one cannot impose the ... |
Billy Sunday | ... Civil War, an Iowa Veteran's Orphans Home was founded here. The evangelist | lived at the orphanage as a child |
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 ... |
Eustathius of Antioch | ... ascribes to him the actual formulation of the creed. Great leaders such as | , Alexander of Alexandria, Athanasius, and Marcellus of Ancyra all adhered ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ed by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and | (Brian Cox) have formed |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of President | . Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political oppositio ... |
Andreas Papandreou | Meanwhile, | founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in response to Karamanl ... |
Sydney Smith | ... hose who did not respect the Sabbath. Years later, the writer and clergyman | criticised Wilberforce for being more interested in the sins of the poor t ... |
Thomas Cranmer | ... her regency council, and to the sympathies of fellow appointed councillors | (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and Lord Hertford, Catherine obtained effec ... |
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 ... |
Clement Attlee | ... spite his popularity as a war hero Churchill suffered a landslide defeat to | whose government's economic policy continued to be influenced by Keynes's ... |
Nicolas Sarkozy | The head of state is President | of France as represented by Préfet (Prefect) Albert Dupuy (since 10 Januar ... |
Francesco Coccopalmerio | ... of the Church". (Pastor Bonus, 154). Its President is currently Archbishop | . The current Vice-President is |
Brian Mulroney | ... y became the Alliance caucus (with a few exceptions). Former Prime Minister | called the party "Reform in pantyhose", and some opponents referred to the ... |
James Callaghan | ... sh from the Industrial North East and Northern Irish. Former Prime Minister | 's father was a Protestant from Northern Ireland. Similarly, some of the l ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... wholly unsuitable to be the wife of a king. After receiving advice from the | , Stanley Baldwin, as well as the Dominion governments, that he could not ... |
Francesco Barberini | ... ançois de Bagni at Rome, and on Bagni's death in 1641 librarian to Cardinal | |
Prime Minister of Canada | ... tized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent), (1 February 188225 July 1973) was the 12th | from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957 |
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 ... |
Todor Zhivkov | The leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, | suggested in the early 1960s, that the country should become a Soviet soci ... |
Hermann Göring | ... ful individual, makes him appear more human and draws sympathy towards him. | propagated s and jokes against himself, with the aim of humanizing his ima ... |
Saint Januarius | ... o, it means "Little Gennaro", like Ratface in Italian comics. San Gennaro ( | in English) is the patron of Naples |
Jonathan Swift | ... England never had and never again will have its like". Two centuries later | said he was "the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced" ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... aid to be "one in being with The Father," in direct opposition to Arianism. | ascribes the term homoousios, or consubstantial, i.e., "of the same substa ... |
Bishop of Basel | ... bero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops (see | , whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat-of-arms ... |
William Laud | ... the impeachment and subsequent execution of the king's advisers, Archbishop | and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford |
Jawaharlal Nehru | "Unlike her father | , who preferred to deal with strong chief ministers in control of their le ... |
John Michell | ... too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by | and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... ncreased and Israeli counter strikes intensified. Following the election of | in February, the peace process took a steep downfall. Palestinian election ... |
Harold Wilson | ... anted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of | , and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the le ... |
Joe Clark | The federal Progressive Conservatives under | refused to participate in these talks, but there was strong support from m ... |
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 ... |
Adam Smith | ... cholars point to Keynes as representing the ideals of modern liberalism, as | represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war Winston Chur ... |
Coman mac Faelchon | The name Roscommon is derived from | who built a monastery there in the 5th century. The woods near the monaste ... |
MC Hammer | ... zier, Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, | , Prince, Jesse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J ... |
Pope Pius IX | ... hern Mexico negotiated local agreements to cover trade on the Texas border. | wrote a letter to Jefferson Davis in which he addressed Davis as the "Hono ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... , and to the sympathies of fellow appointed councillors Thomas Cranmer (the | ) and Lord Hertford, Catherine obtained effective control and was able to ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | On March 17, 2003, Japanese prime minister | said that he supported the U.S., U.K., and Spain for ending diplomatic eff ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... es. In 1980, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, appointed him | 's Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs, on the recommendation of Tomk ... |
John Bunyan | It was the home and prison of | , the author of The Pilgrim's Progress |
Zygmunt Zimowski | ... nto its present form in 1988. It is part of the Roman Curia with Archbishop | as its President. The apostolic constitution describes the work of the cou ... |
Cardinal Mazarin | ... e Naudé his librarian, and on his death Naudé accepted a similar offer from | . For the next ten years he devoted himself to bringing together from all ... |
Soldier Field | The group was the opening band for the final Grateful Dead shows at | , in Chicago, Illinois in July 1995 |
Jozias van Aartsen | ... lm returning to the ministry of Finance. He was replaced as party leader by | , former foreign minister. On September 2, 2004, VVD MP Geert Wilders left ... |
Nandini Satpathy | ... veteran Gandhi supporters like Jagjivan Ram and her most loyal Bahuguna and | , the three were compelled to part ways and form a new political entity CF ... |
W. H. C. Frend | ... been criticized by biblical scholars and ecclesiastical historians such as | and Robert E. Van Voorst. After reviewing criticisms from several authors, ... |
Stanley Baldwin | ... king. After receiving advice from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, | , as well as the Dominion governments, that he could not remain king and m ... |
Papias of Hierapolis | ... e ear of wheat with ten thousand grains, and so forth, which he quotes from | |
Jagjivan Ram | ... split during the election campaign of 1977: veteran Gandhi supporters like | and her most loyal Bahuguna and Nandini Satpathy, the three were compelled ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... e Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, | , Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Krav ... |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... rter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir | . When Laurier led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, 14-year-o ... |
John Nobili | ... iests of the Jesuit Order took over the Mission Santa Clara de Asís. Father | , S.J., was put in charge of the Mission. He began a college on the Missio ... |
Pierre de Castelnau | ... Catharism met with little success and after the murder of the papal legate, | , Innocent III declared a crusade against Languedoc, offering the lands of ... |
Adam Smith | ... the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher David Hume and economist | . Hutton held no position in Edinburgh University and communicated his sci ... |
Woody Allen | ... t. At the age of eight years old she made her film debut in a minor role in | 's Oedipus Wrecks, a short film that was released as one-third of the anth ... |
Eusebius of Nicomedia | ... on, who initially supported Arianism, agreed to the whole creed. Similarly, | and Theognis of Nice also agreed, except for the certain statements |
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | ... Salisbury, descended from his younger son Robert. One of the latter branch, | (1830–1903), served three times as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria and ... |
Gerrit Zalm | ... stal stood down, and was replaced by the popular former minister of finance | . After a few months Zalm "pulled the plug" on the VVD-CDA-LPF-cabinet, af ... |
John Calvin | ... r and condemnation of the Reformation by the Pope, the work and writings of | were influential in establishing a loose consensus among various groups in ... |
prime minister | ... bunker in London where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the | . He met Winston Churchill on several occasions when asked for updates on ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister | in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada |
Di Rupo, Elio | ... smuide - Dilsen-Stokkem - Dioxine affair - Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival - | - Di Rupo I Government - Draining law - Duchy of Brabant - Duchy of Limbur ... |
Siim Kallas | ... a, in order to exert a downward pressure on real estate prices, ccording to | , EU commissioner for administrative affairs |
Alexei Kosygin | ... d it as an offensive move. In a hotline message from Moscow, Soviet Premier | said, "If you want war you're going to get war. |
William Whewell | English philosopher and historian of science | coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ... |
Lu Watters | ... d group of revivalists consisted of younger musicians, such as those in the | band. By the late 1940s, Louis Armstrong's Allstars band became a leading ... |
Jozias van Aartsen | ... number of seats in the municipal elections, prompting parliamentary leader | to step down. Willibrord van Beek was subsequently appointed parliamentary ... |
Pyotr Stolypin | ... d/protector, the Russian Naval Sailor Nagorny (John Hallam). Prime Minister | (Eric Porter), who succeeded Witte, has commissioned the Imperial Duma and ... |
William Tyndale | ... ponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of Martin Luther and | |
Cardinal Richelieu | At the desire of | he began a controversy with the Benedictines, denying Jean Gerson's author ... |
Hotta Masatoshi | ... gun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, when a wakadoshiyori, Inaba Masayasu, assassinated | , the tairō. Fearing for his personal safety, Tsunayoshi moved the rōjū to ... |
Adam Smith | of his hopes that | 's 'invisible hand' can help Britain out of the economic hole it is in: "I ... |
Xiao He | ... reveal that many of the statutes in the Han law code compiled by Chancellor | (d. 193 BCE) were derived from Qin law |
Marcellus of Ancyra | ... ers such as Eustathius of Antioch, Alexander of Alexandria, Athanasius, and | all adhered to the Homoousian position |
Morarji Desai | ... y was Jayaprakash Narayan. The other party leaders of the Janata Party were | , Charan Singh, Raj Narain and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Janata government ... |
Kostas Karamanlis | Tufts alumni in the government sector include | , former Prime Minister of Greece; Shashi Tharoor, former United Nations U ... |
Kerensky | ... , until they were moved to Tobolsk in Siberia in August 1917, a step by the | government designed to remove them from the capital and possible harm. Fro ... |
David | ... abylonian Exile. Many of the psalms in the book of Psalms are attributed to | ; King Solomon is believed to have written Song of Songs in his youth, Pro ... |
Martin Luther | ... tyr". He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of | and William Tyndale |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... hat St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister | appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941 |
Joseph Cook | ... t voting 'No'. At the 1913 election, the Commonwealth Liberal Party, led by | , defeated the Labor Party by one seat |
Ruairi Quinn | ... in May, and was introduced in 1994. Recently, senior politicians (including | ) have been considering the addition of one or two extra public holidays t ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... infrastructure and perhaps attacking Damascus" Ultimately, Syrian President | decided to cancel the offensive. On October 23, the day the offensive was ... |
Toshiki Kaifu | ... g a concerted effort to enhance its diplomatic stature, especially in Asia. | 's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations—Malays ... |
Pope Innocent III | Finally, in 1212, through the mediation of | , a crusade was called against the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Ara ... |
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 ... |
Knud Kristensen | ... proclaimed king from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace by Prime Minister | |
Saparmurat Niyazov | ... alitarian Leninist one during the Soviet era. Independence came in 1991, as | , a former local communist party boss, declared himself absolute ruler for ... |
Hippolytus | ... ne, the followers of Marcellina use the term gnostikos of themselves. Later | uses "learned" (gnostikos) of Cerinthus and the Ebionites, and applied "le ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Johnson continued the FBI's wiretapping of | that had been previously authorized by the Kennedy administration under At ... |
Francqui, Emile | ... ésar - Franco-Belgian comics - France–Habsburg rivalry - Franco-Dutch War - | - Free Belgian Forces - French Community Commission - French Community of ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs | in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... buildings in over 20 countries around the world. In 1985, at the behest of | , the mayor of Paris at that time, Tange proposed a master plan for a plaz ... |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | ... of alcohol for three decades from 1947, but restrictions were introduced by | just weeks before he was removed as prime minister in 1977. Since then, on ... |
Pope John VIII | ... lip Schaff, "To the Greek acts was afterwards added a (pretended) letter of | to Photius, declaring the Filioque to be an addition which is rejected by ... |
Karl Dönitz | ... any. The main body effectively ends when Speer, by this point having joined | 's government seated in Schleswig-Holstein, receives news of Hitler's deat ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... it was largely ignored. In 2003, Arafat ceded his post as Prime Minister to | amid pressures by the US |
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 ... |
Adam Smith's | ... the development of the political and sociological analyses, culminating in | The Wealth of Nations. One of the main arguments for capitalism, presented ... |
The Rev. J. McEnery | ... cating the prehistoric coexistence there of humans and now-extinct animals. | explored the cave between 1825 and 1829 and put forth the coexistence theo ... |
Albertus Magnus | In the Opus Minus he criticizes his contemporaries Alexander of Hales and | who, he says, had not studied the philosophy of Aristotle but only acquire ... |
Eyskens, Gaston | ... - Eupen-Malmedy - European Movement Belgium - Eurostar - Evere - Evergem - | |
Pope Gregory I | ... pitone, a leader of the Barbaricinos (people of Barbagia). According to the | 's letters, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area (t ... |
Francis Spellman | ... s father insisted the wedding not be put off. They were married by Cardinal | on November 29, 1958, at St. Joseph's Church in Bronxville, New York. They ... |
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 ... |
Maurice Bishop | ... t coup d'état had overthrown the established government and shot its leader | . This was the first actual rollback that destroyed a Communist regime and ... |
Severian | ... who were more inclined to follow the letter of the Old Testament. Diodorus, | , and Cosmas Indicopleustes, but also Chrysostom, belonged just to this la ... |
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu | ... supreme goddess in both the Nimbarka Sampradaya and following the advent of | also within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. Other gopis are usually consi ... |
Francis Schaeffer | ... oon included L'Abri, a Christian community started by Christian philosopher | , who had a profound influence on Norman |
Salvador Allende | ... ion's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the | government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced b ... |
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 ... |
Paul Keating | ... guished Australian diplomat, former senior advisor to former Prime Minister | , and founder of the Lowy Institute |
Tomiichi Murayama | ... t. Despite a 1995 apology regarding World War II by Japanese Prime Minister | , tensions still remain, mostly because many Chinese feel there is a lack ... |
Philip Schaff | ... issues and insist on the theological orthodoxy of the clause. According to | , "To the Greek acts was afterwards added a (pretended) letter of Pope Joh ... |
Frederick II, Elector of Saxony | ... he Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of | . His elder half-brother was the Elector Johann Cicero of Brandenburg. Fri ... |
Pope Boniface VIII | ... synods of minor importance were held there, and its university, founded by | in 1303 and famed as a seat of legal studies, flourished until the French ... |
Mussolini | ... itic ethnic origin, and African civilization. As an innocuous example: when | 's regime named the streets of new quarters in Rome with the characters of ... |
Ruth Carter Stapleton | ... em. (The real Larry Flynt plays the presiding judge in a cameo appearance.) | (Donna Hanover), a Christian activist and sister of President Jimmy Carter ... |
João Bernardo Vieira | In Guinea Bissau, President | was assassinated in the early hours of March 2, 2009, in the capital, Biss ... |
Pietro Badoglio | On 5 May, Marshal | led Italian troops into Addis Ababa, and Mussolini declared Ethiopia an It ... |
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 ... |
Stephen Harper | ... roduced a minority government for the opposition Conservative Party, making | prime minister. Martin stepped down as parliamentary leader after the elec ... |
Bruno Kreisky | ... ined a majority in parliament. However, it lost it in 1970, when SPÖ leader | formed a minority government tolerated by the FPÖ. In the elections of 197 ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... he old alliance between reason and faith of the medieval period laid out by | |
Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
Richard Pococke | ... incia (1718 and 1720–21), Granger (1731), Frederick Louis Norden (1737–38), | (1738), James Bruce (1769), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncour ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... nomy under his control. (Some aspects of it had fallen under the control of | 's secret police, and remained so until the collapse of government. |
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 ... |
Virgilio Canio Corbo | ... edicule, and the temple enclosure would have reached back slightly further. | , a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavation ... |
John Calvin | ... vention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, | , Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson ... |
Bill Graham | ... epped down as parliamentary leader after the election, handing the reins to | for the interim. Martin stayed on as party leader until he resigned on Mar ... |
Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury | ... iking invasion. The battle ended in an Anglo-Saxon defeat. After the battle | and the aldermen of the south-western provinces advised King Aethelred to ... |
Alexander Kerensky | ... enalty at the front. The formation of the second coalition government, with | as chairman, was completed on 24 July |
Minister of the Environment | ... on that led to the Bloc was headed by Lucien Bouchard, who had been federal | in the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. Bouchard aba ... |
Pierre Charles | ... ires, Argentina; São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Santiago, Chile. | , the late Prime Minister of the Caribbean island nation of also condemned ... |
Martin Luther | ... of the Eucharist, but fasting is not necessary for receiving the sacrament. | wrote in his "Fasting and bodily preparation are certainly fine outward tr ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... nt bicentennial, however, controversy erupted when neither French president | nor prime minister Dominique de Villepin attended any functions commemorat ... |
Stephen Fry | ... transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington (played by | ) |
George Whitefield | ... ce. Members of holiness movements, such as those started by John Wesley and | , often practice such regular fasts as part of their regimen |
John Wesley | ... iritual observance. Members of holiness movements, such as those started by | and George Whitefield, often practice such regular fasts as part of their ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, | , and Adrien-Marie Legendre. At the end of the century, the members of the ... |
Lester B. Pearson | Prime Minister | in 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national an ... |
Jean Chrétien | On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded | as leader of the Liberal Party and became prime minister on December 12, 2 ... |
Jack Pickersgill | ... inisterial portfolios as the ministers responsible themselves. To that end, | (a minister in St-Laurent's cabinet) said as prime minister St-Laurent had ... |
Bomhoff | ... he plug" on the VVD-CDA-LPF-cabinet, after infighting between LPF ministers | and Heinsbroek |
Ercole Consalvi | On 30 May 1814, the French annexation was recognized by the Pope. | made an ineffectual protest at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 but Avignon ... |
Prime Minister | ... tain's Colonial Office, began negotiations with the United States. In 1873, | Sir John A. Macdonald, anxious to thwart American expansionism and facing ... |
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu | The Bengali saint | (1486–1534) is believed by many (see especially the modern-day ISKCON move ... |
Tulsidas | ... rd of the gate of Bali Maharaja's planet Sutala and will remain so forever. | ' Ramayana too declares that Vamana became the "dwarpal" (gate-defender) o ... |
Tyndale's | ... ation. More vigorously suppressed the travelling country ministers who used | English translation of the New Testament. This English language translatio ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... nada in 1982, the result of the efforts of the Government of Prime Minister | |
N. T. Rama Rao | ... e of Andhra Pradesh had imposed Prohibition under the Chief Ministership of | but this was thereafter lifted. Dry days are also observed on voting days. ... |
Athanasius of Alexandria | ... ut a smaller and unknown number attended. Eusebius of Caesarea counted 220, | counted 318, and Eustathius of Antioch counted 270 (all three were present ... |
Gaugericus | ... rai, an administrative centre for the region. Successive bishops, including | (in French Géry), founded abbeys and churches to host relics, which contri ... |
Martin Luther | ... ing as a purely external observance that can never gain a person salvation. | believed that a Christian may choose to fast individually as a spiritual e ... |
Arthur Balfour | | 's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir ... |
The Reverend Stewart Headlam | ... erdict. Wilde's counsel, Sir Edward Clarke, was finally able to agree bail. | put up most of the £5,000 bail, having disagreed with Wilde's treatment by ... |
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 ... |
Eustathius of Antioch | ... Eusebius of Caesarea counted 220, Athanasius of Alexandria counted 318, and | counted 270 (all three were present at the council). Later, Socrates Schol ... |
Gregory I | ... The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope | to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carr ... |
John Howard | ... ever, a striking exception occurred in 2001 when the former Prime Minister, | , publicly relied upon an ONA assessment to support his claims about asylu ... |
Augustine DiNoia | Antonio Canizares Llovera is the Cardinal Prefect, Archbishop | , O.P. is the Secretary, and Father Anthony Ward, S.M., is Under-secretary |
Pope Leo XIII | ... pon the principles of Catholic social teaching, especially the teachings of | in his encyclical Rerum Novarum and Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno |
David | ... s covenant can be fulfilled with the re-establishment of the throne of King | |
Anselm of Canterbury | ... cal sense, but this identification was challenged by the 11th-century Saint | , who defined original sin as "privation of the righteousness that every m ... |
John Calvin | ... t officially enforced, whereas individual voluntary fasting was encouraged. | went further in arguing that in general, instead of relying on designated ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... n the east and 800 in the west), but a smaller and unknown number attended. | counted 220, Athanasius of Alexandria counted 318, and Eustathius of Antio ... |
Konstantinos Karamanlis | Former prime minister | was invited back from Paris where he had lived in self-exile since 1963, m ... |
Gregory of Tours | ... In a change of alliances, he also joined forces with Odoacer, according to | , to stop a band of the Alamanni who wished to invade Italy |
Philippe Barbarin | ... han hatred," he said during a liturgy attended by Roman Catholic Archbishop | of Lyon, France. "We receive with gratitude and respect your cordial gestu ... |
Huldrych Zwingli | ... for the community. Similarly, the Swiss Reformation of the "Third Reformer" | began with an ostentatious public sausage-eating during Lent—though Zwingl ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... pecially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum Novarum and | in Quadragesimo Anno |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after | |
Prime Minister of Canada | ... l leadership convention of August 1948. St-Laurent won, and was sworn in as | on 15 November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, ... |
Jeffrey R. Holland | ... ration, a new library was also added, doubling the library space on campus. | followed as President in 1980, encouraging a combination of educational ex ... |
Prime Minister of Canada | ... ), also known as Paul Martin, Jr. is a Canadian politician who was the 21st | , as well as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada |
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 ... |
Woody Allen | ... , neurotic New Yorkers"; James characterized it as "the sitcom version of a | film, full of amusing lines and scenes, all infused with an uncomfortable ... |
Prime Minister of Israel | In 1975, Ehud Olmert, later | , accused Ze'evi of protecting organized crime figures. Ze'evi sued Olmert ... |
Peter Lombard | ... tury the identification of original sin with concupiscence was supported by | and others, but was rejected by the leading theologians in the next centur ... |
Manuel Rojo del Rio y Vieyra | ... nal British governor, acting through the Mexican-born Archbishop of Manila, | and the captive Real Audiencia. However, armed resistance to the British p ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... us personality quirks. Notable re-occurring figures included Prime Minister | (Abbott), who could barely speak a single sentence of English without comm ... |
Ehud Olmert | In 1975, | , later Prime Minister of Israel, accused Ze'evi of protecting organized c ... |
Prime Minister of Italy | ... as did Queen Margherita, though she arrived late, after the first act. The | , Luigi Pelloux was present, with several members of his cabinet. A number ... |
Pey Berland | The university was created by the archbishop | in 1441 and was abolished in 1793, during the French Revolution, before re ... |
Goebbels | ... e program for the work's première on June 24, 1935 in Dresden. As a result, | refused to attend as planned, and the opera was banned after three perform ... |
Tony Blair | ... Following the 1997 general election he became a member of the government of | as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Lord Chancellor's Dep ... |
William Pitt the Younger | ... ughs (or "robber buttons"), Dr. Samuel Johnson (played by Robbie Coltrane), | (Simon Osborne), the French Revolution (featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Plan ... |
Frederick V | ... the Belgian general Johann Tserclaes, count of Tilly, smashed the rebels of | , who had been elected as rival King in 1618. After Frederick's flight to ... |
Archippus | ... e was the author of a treatise on the thratta — a kind of fish mentioned by | and other comic poets—and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are ... |
Alexander du Toit | Earlier theories (e.g. by Alfred Wegener and | ) of continental drift were that continents "plowed" through the sea. The ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... , it refused to engage in a war on Iraq without UN approval. Prime Minister | said on October 10, 2002 that Canada would be part of any military coaliti ... |
Shamil Basayev | ... UK citizens Osman Larussi and Yacine Benalia, was loyal to Chechen warlord | . Basayev has boasted of training the men who took control of the school i ... |
David Nitschmann | On Christmas Eve in 1741, | and Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, leading a small group of Moravians, fou ... |
Plutarch | ... emeteries were merely the cremated remains of children that died naturally. | (ca. 46–120 AD) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius, Diodorus ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ation (though without serfdom) in their enthusiasm for the corporate state. | said that "fascism is reaction" and that "fascism, which did not fear to c ... |
Laurence Sterne | ... night a traveler is a good indicator of this novel which is reminiscent of | 's Tristram Shandy. The book commences on a hypothesis of novelistic eleme ... |
Photius | In 858, | , a scholar who taught philosophy and lectured at the University of Consta ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... Redemptor the Pontiff called acts of reparation a duty for Roman Catholics: | referred to the concept as |
Gerald Gardner | ... agic was heralded by the repeal of the last Witchcraft Act in 1951. In 1954 | published a book, Witchcraft Today, in which he claimed to reveal the exis ... |
John Cleese | ... ame to be known as 'alternative'." In Ventham's (2002, p. 151) compilation, | notes that "In comedy, there are a very small number of defining moments w ... |
Boniface IV | In 610 Laurence received letters from Pope | , addressed to him as archbishop and Augustine's successor. The correspond ... |
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. ... |
Laplace | ... on of photography, the grant for the publication of the works of Fermat and | , the acquisition of the museum of Cluny, the development of railways and ... |
Rodrigo Borgia | ... ia Borgia (; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was the illegitimate daughter of | , the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, a ... |
Kolos Vaszary | ... at Esztergom. He was for a time one of the professors there under Cardinal | . After acquiring considerable local reputation as chief notary of his cou ... |
Alois Mock | ... new elections, entered into a coalition with the ÖVP, which was then led by | . Jörg Haider's populism and criticism of the Proporz system allowed him t ... |
Luigi Pelloux | ... though she arrived late, after the first act. The Prime Minister of Italy, | was present, with several members of his cabinet. A number of Puccini's op ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... the song live as a mash-up with Linkin Park and Jay-Z's Numb/Encore. It is | 's favourite Beatles song |
Innocent II | ... I, Petrus Leonis, under the name of Anacletus II, was elected as a rival to | . In 1135, Innocent II held a council at Pisa, which confirmed his authori ... |
Sheila Copps | ... Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy | (Goy), the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard, the dopey and overly-image consciou ... |
Bishops | ... sollicitationis. In this letter, addressed to "all Patriarchs, Archbishops, | and other Local Ordinaries, including those of Eastern Rite", the Holy Off ... |
Gasparo Contarini | ... lace of Venice or Cyprus. For knowledge of this Shakespeare would have used | 's The Commonwealth and Government of Venice, in Lewis Lewkenor's 1599 tra ... |
Eleftherios Venizelos | ... ars, the struggle between King Constantine I and charismatic Prime Minister | over the country's foreign policy on the eve of World War I dominated the ... |
Pope Pius X | ... when the Papal States were lost to the papacy. A reorganization, ordered by | , was incorporated into the Code of Canon Law (promulgated 1917). Further ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... bed the Political 8 (P8) – or, colloquially, the G7+1. At the invitation of | Tony Blair and President of the United States Bill Clinton, Russia formall ... |
Richard B. Haldane | ... would later contribute to his death. He spent two months in the infirmary. | , the Liberal MP and reformer, visited him and had him transferred in Nove ... |
Clement | ... e's action in consecrating Laurence to Saint Peter's action of consecrating | as Bishop of Rome during Peter's lifetime, which the theologian J. Robert ... |
Donald Wildmon | On June 6, 1988, | , head of the American Family Association (AFA), alleged that "The Littles ... |
Fred Phelps | ... with death, and AIDS has been portrayed by some small fringe sects such as | and Jerry Falwell as a punishment by God against homosexuals. In the 20th ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... rejected by the leading theologians in the next century, chief of whom was | . He distinguished the supernatural gifts of Adam before the Fall from wha ... |
Minister of State | ... of State at the Lord Chancellor's Department, being promoted to the rank of | in the same department in 1998. In 1999, he was briefly a minister at the ... |
Luigi d'Este | ... gardens of Sallust had been in antiquity. A visit to the villa of Cardinal | in 1573 convinced Pope Gregory XIII to start the building of a summer resi ... |
Deusdedit | ... een endowed by Peada; for the dedication of Wulfhere's gift both Archbishop | (died 664), and Bishop Jaruman (held office from 663), were present. The e ... |
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 ... |
Gregory Palamas | ... s is known as the psychosomatic union between the body and the soul). Saint | argued that man's body is not an enemy but a partner and collaborator with ... |
Sergei Witte | Delegates who signed the peace agreement were | and Roman Rosen for Russia, and Komura Jutarō and Takahira Kogorō for Japa ... |
Pope Innocent II | ... o have been the Tenth Ecumenical Council by Roman Catholics. It was held by | in April 1139, and was attended by close to a thousand clerics. Its immedi ... |
Tony Blair | ... uially, the G7+1. At the invitation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | and President of the United States Bill Clinton, Russia formally joined th ... |
John of Burgundy | ... entury the county was surrounded on all parts by Burgundy's possessions and | , an illegitimate son of John the Fearless, was made bishop. However what ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... gion, in areas such as the North Caucasus, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. In 1941 | ordered all inhabitants with a German father to be deported, mostly to Sib ... |
Albert Speer | Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by | , the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Hitler's ma ... |
Dominique de Villepin | ... rsy erupted when neither French president Jacques Chirac nor prime minister | attended any functions commemorating the battle. On the other hand, some r ... |
Everett Francis Briggs | Father | oversaw the memorial project and died just a few days after its completion ... |
Georges Lemaître | ... es (see Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates), although it took until 1933 for | to realize that this meant the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was ... |
U.S. Secretary of Defense | ... olled into a new Air Combat Fighter (ACF) competition in an announcement by | James R. Schlesinger in April 1974. Schlesinger also made it clear that an ... |
see of Canterbury | Laurence succeeded Augustine to the | in about 604, and ruled until his death on 2 February 619. To secure the s ... |
Pope Pius XI | As expressed by | in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, in the Roman Catholic traditi ... |
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" ... |
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 " ... |
John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute | ... astle was substantially altered and extended during the Victorian period by | , and the architect William Burges. Original Roman work can, however, stil ... |
George Canning | ... being the place of death of Charles James Fox in 1806. Tory Prime Minister | also died there, in 1827 |
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John Curtin | ... f Japanese intentions. General MacArthur provided Australian Prime Minister | with his assessment of the battle, stating that "all the elements that hav ... |
Saddam Hussein | On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by | , invaded Kuwait. President Bush formed an international coalition and sec ... |
Severian | ... opinion on the matter is known to us only by a criticism of it by Photius. | , Bishop of Gabala (d. 408), wrote that the Earth is flat and the sun does ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... e la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities received from | eventually secured their complete triumph and Pierre Corneille, who had no ... |
Ignacy Paderewski | ... studied the technique of the famous Polish pianist and later family friend | and at eight met him backstage at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. "I was i ... |
Pope Alexander VI | ... hter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became | , and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, Giovanni ... |
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 ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for | ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal hea ... |
Pythia | ... no connection to the oracle of Apollo, and should not be confused with the | |
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 ... |
Ioannis Metaxas | ... rchy via a referendum in 1935. A coup d'état followed in 1936 and installed | as the head of a fascist regime known as the 4th of August Regime. Althoug ... |
John Keble | Irenaeus' works were first translated into English by | and published in 1872 as part of the Library of the Fathers series |
Woody Allen | Evan Rachel Wood's character, Melodie St. Ann Celestine, in the | fictional film Whatever Works is from Eden, Mississippi |
Kálmán Tisza | ... f his county, he entered parliament in 1875. He at once attached himself to | and remained faithful to his chief even after the Bosnian occupation had a ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... tially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. In 1966, | in his apostolic constitution Paenitemini, changed the strictly regulated ... |
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 |
Yitzhak Rabin | In Israel, Prime Minister | was assassinated on November 4, 1995. Yigal Amir confessed and was convict ... |
Boris Yeltsin | ... issue. (The aides claimed vindication later in 1992 when Russian President | said that the Soviet Union had kept some U.S. prisoners in the early 1950s ... |
Pope Adrian II | ... uncil of Constantinople called in 869 by Emperor Basil I the Macedonian and | . Called in 879, this Greek Fourth Council of Constantinople, held after P ... |
Richard Cumberland | The utilitarian philosopher, Dr. | , was 14th Lord Bishop of Peterborough from 1691 until his death in 1718; ... |
Photius | ... Diodorus' opinion on the matter is known to us only by a criticism of it by | . Severian, Bishop of Gabala (d. 408), wrote that the Earth is flat and th ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... r have to approve constitutional amendments. Subsequently, Attorney General | appointed law professor Barry Strayer to research a potential bill of righ ... |
Philippe de Cabassoles | ... y sought him to make him their archbishop. As Bishop of Cavaillon, Cardinal | , seigneur of Vaucluse, was the great protector of the Renaissance poet Pe ... |
Duns Scotus | ... the Franciscans, though the most prominent Franciscan theologians, such as | and William of Ockham, eliminated the element of concupiscence |
Earnie Shavers | ... with Ken Norton, received only $50,000 from a reported $200,000 for facing | , was underpaid $2 million for his fight with Muhammad Ali, that King cut ... |
Stephen Fry | ... nto contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( | ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ... |
Kalyan Singh | ... rime minister, and LK Advani, the party's then (2009) leader in parliament. | , who was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh during the mosque’s demoliti ... |
Gordon H. Smith | ... with Democrat Jeff Merkley winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republican | won 46.5% of the vote (106,114) |
Eva Brunne | ... Mary Glasspool are openly homosexual bishops in the US Episcopal Church and | in Lutheran Church of Sweden. The Episcopal Church's recent actions vis-a- ... |
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 ... |
Salam Fayyad | ... " financed a vast patronage system known as neopatrimonialism. According to | —a former World Bank official whom Arafat appointed Finance Minister of th ... |
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire | ... 4 and his widow in 1758, the property was ceded to the Cavendish family and | , the husband of Charlotte. After William's death in 1764, the villa passe ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... ng asked the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its leader | for assistance. From May until July 1964, they carried out marches, sit-in ... |
Bossuet | ... s the "swan of Cambrai" ("le cygne de Cambrai"), in opposition to his rival | , the "eagle of Meaux" ("l'aigle de Meaux"), and he wrote his Maxims of th ... |
A.H. Layard | ... orld. In the 1840s and 1850s the Museum supported excavations in Assyria by | and others at sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh. Of particular interest to ... |
Peder Anker | ... cluded in the canton. Proposed by the Norwegian Prime Minister and unionist | , the white saltire on a red background was supposed to symbolize Norway, ... |
John Payne | ... nd now lends his name to several places and businesses in the city; and St. | , one of the group of prominent Catholics martyred between 1535 and 1679 a ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Rochester | ... e begun in 1078, however the exact date is uncertain. William made Gundulf, | , responsible for its construction, although it may not have been complete ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... es of Israel – Gad, Reuven, and Menashe. Zeevi urged Israeli Prime Minister | to "lay waste to the Palestinian Authority" and assassinate PLO leader |
Martin Luther | Reformers | and John Calvin equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it ... |
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 ... |
Georgios Kondylis | ... a referendum in 1924 and the Second Hellenic Republic was declared. Premier | took power in 1935 and effectively abolished the republic by bringing back ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son | (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ... |
Archbishopric of Salzburg | ... russia, founding numerous towns. Thousands of Protestants expelled from the | were allowed to settle in depleted East Prussia. The province was overrun ... |
Olof Palme | Olsson called up the Prime Minister | and said he would kill the hostages, backing up his threat by grabbing one ... |
Gene Robinson | ... ns. Within the Anglican communion there are openly gay clergy; for example, | and Mary Glasspool are openly homosexual bishops in the US Episcopal Churc ... |
Surdas | ... butter, Krishna tied to mortar especially in couplets written by poet-saint | , where her deep affection for Krishna becomes an epitome of 'Vatsalya Pre ... |
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 ... |
Cardinal Newman | ... 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, | and Walter Pater |
Lord Kitchener | ... s Act 1986. In addition, the wreck of the , which hit a mine while carrying | north to Murmansk on 5 June 1916 and sank off the west coast of the mainla ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | Laurence (sometimes Lawrence or Laurentius; died ) was the second | from about 604 to 619. He was a member of the Gregorian mission sent from ... |
Pope Gregory XV | In 1622, forty years after her death, she was canonized by | . The Cortes exalted her to patroness of Spain in 1617, and the University ... |
Fray Tomás de Berlanga | European discovery of the Galápagos Islands occurred when Spaniard | , the fourth Bishop of Panama, sailed to Peru to settle a dispute between ... |
Lhendup Dorji | ... situation continued under Dorji's successor as acting lonchen, his brother | , and for a time under the Druk Gyalpo's brother, Namgyal Wangchuck, as he ... |
Pope Eleuterus | ... fering imprisonment for the faith, sent him in 177 to Rome with a letter to | concerning the heresy Montanism, and that occasion bore emphatic testimony ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... al calendar, as they desired more frequent celebrations. Their High Priest, | , was away visiting the Isle of Man at the time, but he did not object whe ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... ndon bombings, and several articles about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, | 's capture, and Fahrenheit 9/11 |
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 ... |
Pope Leo III | ... the Eastern Empire's claim to the Roman legacy for several centuries, after | crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor" on Decembe ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... is founded on a natural law argument informed by scripture and proposed by | , the traditional conservative Protestant view is based on an interpretati ... |
Morarji Desai | ... in two factions, the socialists led by Gandhi, and the conservatives led by | . Rammanohar Lohia called her Gungi Gudiya which means 'Dumb Doll'. The in ... |
Angelo Sodano | ... t peace and a crime against international law". Cardinal Secretary of State | indicated that only the United Nations Security Council had the power to a ... |
Narasimha Rao | ... United Kingdom, Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and | of India. Iran condemned the bombing as an attack on innocent people, but ... |
Chris Watson | ... e Trade Party declined to take office, resulting in Labour taking power and | becoming Labour's first Prime Minister for a four month period in 1904. Fi ... |
Bruno the Great | In 953 the German king Otto I had appointed his brother | Duke of Lotharingia |
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 ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... nned location, the development was cancelled soon after Gordon Brown became | . As a result there are no lawful Category A games in the UK |
Angelo Mai | ... in the excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus and an epitome discovered by | in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of Appian, and Plutarch's Lif ... |
George Bell | ... liot accepted credit only for the authorship of one scene and the choruses. | , the Bishop of Chichester, had been instrumental in connecting Eliot with ... |
Édouard Balladur | ... th the regions was a matter to be dealt with soon. This was soon refuted by | and Gérard Longuet, members of the Committee for the reform of local autho ... |
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 ... |
Aicard | ... h Hugues de Dié, papal legate as council president. During the 1080 council | , usurper of the See of Arles was deposed, and Gibelin placed in his posit ... |
Jacob of Nisibis | ... kes of Armenia (son of Saint Gregory the Illuminator); Leontius of Caesarea | ;, a former hermit; Hypatius of Gangra; Protogenes of Sardica; Melitius of ... |
Woody Allen | ... , You've Got Mail, Ghostbusters, The In-Laws, Little Manhattan, and many of | 's films, such as Annie Hall, Bananas, and Manhattan. The city was also th ... |
Cecil Rhodes | ... nes was formed in 1888 by the merger of the companies of Barney Barnato and | , by which time the company was the sole owner of all diamond mining opera ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... as given the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by | that calls on all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. P ... |
Plutarch | ... genuine exiles, were able to access their income in Attica from abroad. In | , following as he does the anti-democratic line common in elite sources, t ... |
Cecil Rhodes | | , the founder of De Beers, got his start by renting water pumps to miners ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... full university in 1955. The title of Pontifical University was granted by | in 1972. The university has three campuses in the city |
Missionary Bishop | ... n Archbishops, Metropolitan Bishops, Diocesan Bishops, Patriarchal Exarchs, | s, Auxiliary Bishops, Suffragan Bishops, Assistant Bishops, Chorbishops an ... |
U.S. Attorney General | ... s. The move was completed in 1887. The new location was named Garland after | Augustus Hill Garland. Soon after, the towns of Embree and Duck Creek were ... |
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople | The canonization of Saint Stephen was recognized by | in the year 2000 |
John Polkinghorne | ... ch it has created the physical world. However many modern scholars (such as | ) hold that it is part of a deity's nature to be consistent and that it wo ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included | , Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia. It is often suggested that Cesare a ... |
Ignacy Paderewski | ... e independence of Poland had been campaigned for in the West by Dmowski and | . With Woodrow Wilson's support, Polish independence was officially endors ... |
Nightcrawler | ... n universe also includes such notable heroes as Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, | , Shadowcat, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gambit and Emma Frost. Besides the ... |
Wellington | ... dominion in parts of Catalonia lasted until 1814, when the British General | signed the armistice by which the French left Barcelona and the other stro ... |
Gordon Brown | ... en as the single planned location, the development was cancelled soon after | became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. As a result there are no lawf ... |
British prime minister | ... e United Kingdom, which is composed of a cabinet of ministers chosen by the | , as well as three devolved administrations: the Welsh Government, the Sco ... |
Pope Gregory VII | ... of Cavaillon) accompanied the legate to Rome and were consecrated there by | |
Papen | ... ity than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, | , Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed throug ... |
Hippolytus of Rome | ... Flavius Josephus, to be derived from the eponymous Lud son of Shem; however | (AD 234) offered an alternative view that the Lydians were descended from ... |
John Cotton | Boston remained a hotbed of religious dissent. In 1612 | became the Vicar of St Botolph's and, although viewed askance by the Churc ... |
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 ... |
Stephen Fry | ... e, notably re-recordings of "Marvin" and "Reasons To Be Miserable", sung by | , along with some of the "Guide Entries", newly written material read in-c ... |
Apuleius | ... s of Bidpai, Hitopadesha and Vikram and the Vampire. Both The Golden Ass by | and Metamorphoses by Ovid extend the depths of framing to several degrees. ... |
C. P. Snow | ... both theoretically and experimentally. The well-known historian of physics, | , says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could w ... |
William Laud | ... ng actions of both king and council, particularly in the form of Archbishop | |
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 ... |
Louis Massignon | ... VI, who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the Islamologist | . Pope Paul VI chose to follow the path recommended by Maximos IV and he t ... |
Jerry Falwell | ... AIDS has been portrayed by some small fringe sects such as Fred Phelps and | as a punishment by God against homosexuals. In the 20th century, theologia ... |
Ernest Angley | ... ated in Cuyahoga Falls. It is now the church of Christian pastor/evangelist | and was renamed Grace Cathedral |
Pope Paul VI | ... n Law (promulgated 1917). Further steps toward reorganization were begun by | in the 1960s. Among the goals of this curial reform were the modernization ... |
Peter Ustinov | At one point later in the series, | was a guest on the one-shot "upside down" episode, during which the televi ... |
Paul Martin | ... opened Parliament in October, 2004, in which former Liberal Prime Minister | included electoral reform in his plan for the next Parliament. So far Cons ... |
Prime Minister | ... g Quebec voters (34% against 31%). Duceppe announced the Bloc would support | Stephen Harper's budget that same day. By October polls showed that the Bl ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... which is always conferred posthumously and was finally bestowed upon her by | in 1970 along with Saint Catherine of Siena making them the first women to ... |
Plutarch | ... nificantly towards its restoration. Hadrian offered complete autonomy. Also | was a significant factor by his presence as a chief priest |
Trudeau | ... nto a panic. This led in a large part to the articulation of Prime Minister | 's "Third Option" policy of diversifying Canada's trade and downgrading th ... |
Charles Haughey | ... lations at the Moriarty Tribunal on the 16th February, 1999, in relation to | and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirme ... |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Gandhi invited the Pakistani President | to Shimla for a week-long summit. The two national leaders eventually sign ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... period between the first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from | to Pope Paul VI, who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... opia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s. | 's Fascist regime was keen to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffer ... |
Brendan Smyth | ... difficult”.One of the most notorious cases of sex abuse in Ireland involved | , who, between 1945 and 1989, sexually abused and indecently assaulted 20 ... |
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 ... |
Plutarch | Polybius and | , a Greek author writing under the Roman empire, cite a battle at Mt. Lyka ... |
Thomas Aquinas | | acknowledged difficulty in comprehending a deity's power. Aquinas wrote th ... |
Rex Humbard | The Cathedral of Tomorrow, founded by televangelist | in 1958, is located in Cuyahoga Falls. It is now the church of Christian p ... |
Archbishop of Armagh | ... International Commission on Decommissioning, as well as Lord Eames, former | and Sir George Quigley, former top civil servant. Chastelain stated that t ... |
Karl Barth | ... unishment by God against homosexuals. In the 20th century, theologians like | , Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cup ... |
Leterme, Yves | ... ium - Léopold III of Belgium - Leopoldsburg - Lernout & Hauspie - Le Soir - | - Leterme I Government - Leterme II Government - Les XX - Leysen, André - ... |
Pope Boniface VIII | ... ng the recent strings of political humiliation, such as the apprehension of | by Philip IV of France, the "Babylonian Captivity." the Great Schism, and ... |
William of Tyre | The chronicler | reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century. The crusa ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from Pope John XXIII to | , who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the Islamologist L ... |
Dong Zhuo | General | (d. 192 CE) found the young emperor and his brother wandering in the count ... |
Julius Nyerere | Under the leadership of | , the Tanzanian government guaranteed equal representation for all Tanzani ... |
Erythraean | ... h several Sibyls: Heraclitus names at least three Sibyls, the Phrygian, the | , and the Hellespontine. Frazer, James, translation and commentary on Paus ... |
Jean Lapierre | ... is home province, even though the majority of Canadians opposed the accord. | and his supporters, who were in favour of Martin, wore black armbands at t ... |
Nicolas Fouquet | After the disgrace of | in 1661, Louis confiscated Fouquet’s state and employed the talents of Le ... |
Tarcisio Bertone | ... Catholic Church. It is headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, currently | , and performs all the political and diplomatic functions of Vatican City ... |
Jonathan Swift | A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by | |
Jean Chrétien | ... deal called the Kitchen Accord, negotiated by the federal Attorney General | , Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minis ... |
Joseph Chamberlain | ... t rally celebrating the British Empire, the occasion being the centenary of | 's birth. In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during World War ... |
Pope Victor I | ... haereses (Against Heresies). In 190 or 191, he was influential in bringing | to reality over his attempted excommunication of the Christian communities ... |
Aidan Kelly | ... Goddess and the God during the winter months. The name Mabon was coined by | around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh myth ... |
St. Saturnin | ... spania. A rival tradition places the relics of the Apostle in the church of | at Toulouse; if any physical relics were ever involved, they might plausib ... |
Plutarch | ... graphers dispute the claim, including the highly regarded secondary source, | . He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so Onesicritus, ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... dered by many to be Turner's ideological successor, as Jean Chrétien was to | |
Saint Pothinus | ... sacre took place in Lyons. Returning to Gaul, Irenaeus succeeded the martyr | and became the second Bishop of Lyon |
Adam Smith | ... parks and old-English farmyards; the smugglers really start smuggling (cf. | 's approval of smuggling); and the "Samuel Johnson Dining Experience" turn ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... anuary 1880 – 12 January 1951), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by | as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into ... |
Martin Waldseemüller | ... the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer | in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. These were the first maps to show the A ... |
Augustine of Canterbury | ... his arrival is disputed. He was consecrated archbishop by his predecessor, | , during Augustine's lifetime, in order to ensure continuity in the office ... |
Prime Minister of Canada | On December 12, 2003, Martin became the | . On January 28, 2004, the federal government, in response to opposition p ... |
Deputy Prime Minister of India | ... inning 297 seats in the 545 seat Lok Sabha. She had to accommodate Desai as | and Minister of Finance. In 1969 after many disagreements with Desai, the ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... awarded the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by | calling for all people to strive for peace |
Douglas Haig | ... attle has been a source of controversy: senior officers such as General Sir | , the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, th ... |
Plutarch | ... d by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of Appian, and | 's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius |
Don Cupitt | ... arl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, | , challenged traditional theological positions and understandings of the B ... |
Nicasius of Dijon | ... Italia, Cecilian of Carthage from Africa, Hosius of Córdoba from Hispania, | from Gaul, and Domnus of Stridon from the province of the Danube |
Luis Ladaria Ferrer | Cardinal William Levada is the Prefect and Archbishop | is the Secretary |
Pope Alexander VI | ... many mistresses of Lucrezia's father Rodrigo Borgia, who is better known as | |
Archbishop of Canterbury | William Laud was appointed | in 1633, and began a series of unpopular reforms such as attempting to ens ... |
John Turner | In 1984, the Liberal Party was defeated under the leadership of | , falling to just 40 seats. Many Liberals looked to replace Turner with a ... |
Stephen Harper's | ... (34% against 31%). Duceppe announced the Bloc would support Prime Minister | budget that same day. By October polls showed that the Bloc was up to mid ... |
John Diefenbaker | ... e factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by | , in the 1957 election. Because the Liberals were still mostly classically ... |
Karl Barth | ... ter, Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, | and Samson Raphael Hirsch |
Abune Antonios | ... Church does not recognize the deposition of the third Patriarch of Eritrea, | |
Benito Mussolini | ... of the year, the Germans had succeeded in occupying Liguria and setting up | 's puppet Republic of Salò in northern Italy. Now twenty years old, Calvin ... |
Reginald Heber | ... Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – | – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson ... |
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 ... |
Rudolf Hess | ... azi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, | , Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... Ecclesiastica ("Church History"), which departed from its ostensible model, | , in emphasizing the place of the emperor in church affairs and in giving ... |
Stephen Harper | ... ugh Parliament in July 2005 without holding a plebiscite. In December 2006, | 's government introduced a motion to re-open the marriage debate, which lo ... |
Hilary of Poitiers | ... ouncil). Later, Socrates Scholasticus recorded more than 300, and Evagrius, | , Jerome and Rufinus recorded 318. Delegates came from every region of the ... |
Lonnie Frisbee | ... , the story of one of the earliest and most well-known Jesus Freak leaders, | , released in DVD form in January, 2007 |
Pio Laghi | ... t the U.S. plan to invade Iraq. Pope John Paul II's special envoy, Cardinal | , was sent by the Church to talk with George W. Bush to express opposition ... |
Pope Urban II | Many historians maintain that the main concern of | , when calling for the First Crusade, was the threat to Constantinople fro ... |
Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg | ... which Goethe experienced in Wetzlar. In 1803 Wetzlar came under the rule of | , the Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire and a close ally of Napoleon ... |
Alexandre Millerand | ... ublican Defence at the turn of the century (alongside independent socialist | ) |
Karl Barth | ... century, typically (though not without challenge) seen to be spearheaded by | , was in many ways an attempt to challenge his influence |
John Cleese | ... ith the very nature of the medium." This is reiterated by Michael Palin and | in their contributions to Ventham's (2002) book. Cleese recalls listening ... |
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 ... |
Bob Hawke | ... erving a collective total of four years and ten months, Fisher is second to | as Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister |
William Farel | ... movement, led by the Frenchman Calvin, until his death (when Calvin's ally, | , assumed the spiritual leadership of the group). Geneva also was the cent ... |
Wolsey | After | fell, More succeeded to the office of Chancellor in 1529. He dispatched ca ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... II, i.e., before 450. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of | (1.1). It relates in simple Greek language what the Church experienced fro ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to | , this system politicizes everything spiritual and human |
Vivaldi | ... nt), Presto of the violin concerto RV 315 (Summer) from the Four Seasons by | , and a scene in Act II of Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville |
Jonathan Swift's | Micropsia has also been related to | novel Gulliver's Travels. It has been referred to as "Lilliput sight" and ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... expedite the progress of the building project at its permanent location and | laid the foundation stone of the Institute at Powai on March 10, 1959 |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | ... . This directly contradicted the advice given to Hitler by Foreign Minister | (a man whom Göring loathed at the best of times) that Chamberlain would no ... |
Archibald Sinclair | ... d Dresden. That evening Churchill asked the Secretary of State for Air, Sir | , what plans had been drawn up to carry out these proposals. He passed on ... |
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 ... |
Andrei Gromyko | It was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union (represented by | ), the United Kingdom (represented by Lord Home) and the United States (re ... |
C. D. Howe | ... t. Laurent was criticized for a lack of restraint exercised on his minister | , who was widely perceived as extremely arrogant. Western Canadians felt p ... |
Plutarch | ... inspiration. However, most commonly, these refer to an observation made by | , who presided as high priest at Delphi for several years, who stated that ... |
Sheila Copps | ... n easily defeated his sole remaining opponent, former Deputy Prime Minister | by securing ninety-three per cent of the party delegates from across the c ... |
James Hackman | On 19 April 1779, clergyman | was hanged there following his 7 April murder of courtesan and socialite M ... |
Mother Angelica | Similarly, in Raymond Arroyo's autobiography of | , she recounts a similar event seeing an apparition of the child Jesus in ... |
Ben Chifley | ... reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s under John Curtin and | . Serving a collective total of four years and ten months, Fisher is secon ... |
Lal Bahadur Shastri | ... pointed as a member of the Rajya Sabha (upper house) and became a member of | 's cabinet as Minister of Information and Broadcasting |
Arthur Seyss-Inquart | ... ntered Austria, who met celebrating crowds, in order to install Nazi puppet | as Chancellor. With a Nazi administration already in place and the country ... |
Stephen Harper | ... orm in his plan for the next Parliament. So far Conservative Prime Minister | has not made any moves towards reform of the electoral system |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... 007 Saudi-sponsored negotiations in Mecca produced agreement on a signed by | on behalf of Fatah and Khaled Mashal on behalf of Hamas. The new governmen ... |
Neville Chamberlain | ... o communicate with London. The FA's work showed that British Prime Minister | was determined to go to war if Germany invaded Poland in 1939. This direct ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... nalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, | , Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
Jean Chrétien | ... politician or celebrity's characteristics (i.e. Roger Abbott's portrayal of | as a twisted-mouthed man who ridiculously mispronounced English words with ... |
Paavo Lipponen | ... nmäki of the Centre Party won the elections after she had accused her rival | , who was prime minister at the time, of allying neutral Finland with the ... |
Cao Cao | ... fled from Chang'an in 195 CE to the ruins of Luoyang. Xian was persuaded by | (155–220 CE), then Governor of Yan Province in modern western Shandong and ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... hapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 1867 by Charles Thomas Longley, | , and her three godparents were Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales (later ... |
Gordon Brown | ... ewitt jointly called for a secret ballot on the future of the leadership of | . The following day, he said that it appeared to have failed and was "over ... |
Giovanni Gentile | ... torships. The term was later assigned a positive meaning in the writings of | , Italy’s most prominent philosopher and leading theorist of fascism. He u ... |
Pope Pius II | ... Catholics and Utraquists. It would only last for a short period of time, as | declared the Basel Compacts to be invalid in 1462 |
Prime Minister of India | ... father unofficially as a personal assistant during his tenure as the first | . After her father's death in 1964 she was appointed as a member of the Ra ... |
Hermann Göring | ... scribe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, | , Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitl ... |
Katsura Tarō | ... y indemnity as well. The frustration caused the Hibiya riots, and collapsed | 's cabinet on January 7, 1906. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 was fough ... |
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 ... |
Ascanio Sforza | Alexander asked Giovanni's uncle, Cardinal | , to persuade Giovanni to agree to a divorce. Giovanni refused and accused ... |
Lord Home | ... t Union (represented by Andrei Gromyko), the United Kingdom (represented by | ) and the United States (represented by Dean Rusk), named the "Original Pa ... |
Bishop of Chichester | George Bell, the | , was instrumental in getting Eliot to work as writer with producer E. Mar ... |
Al Sharpton | ... abroad, including political leaders Rubén Berríos, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., | and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Rivera and Ricky Martin, actor Edward Jam ... |
Pope John IV | ... He was made a cardinal deacon (possibly around 640) and a full cardinal by | |
John Curtin | ... was a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s under | and Ben Chifley. Serving a collective total of four years and ten months, ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... ng the 1970s about 163,000 people immigrated to Israel from the USSR. Later | , in his capacity as Minister of Housing & Construction and member of the ... |
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 |
Wang Yun | Dong was killed by his adopted son Lü Bu (d. 198 CE) in a plot hatched by | (d. 192 CE). Emperor Xian fled from Chang'an in 195 CE to the ruins of Luo ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... er was able to describe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including | , Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of co ... |
Angela Merkel | ... debate over how to fund the spending. Some leaders and institutions such as | and the European Central Ban |
Eustathius of Antioch | ... , the first rank was held by the three patriarchs: Alexander of Alexandria, | , and Macarius of Jerusalem. Many of the assembled fathers—for instance, P ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... colonel Karol "Walter" Świerczewski. On 17 October 1936, an open letter by | to José Díaz was published in Mundo Obrero, arguing that victory for the S ... |
Kevin Rudd | In March 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia, | , gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President Ba ... |
Irenaeus | ... after Linus and Cletus/Anacletus in the earliest (c. 180) account, that of | , who is followed by . The meaning of these early reports is unclear, give ... |
Paul Martin | ... ing reference questions to higher-level courts; for example, Prime Minister | 's government approached the Supreme Court with Charter questions as well ... |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | In Finland, | of the Centre Party won the elections after she had accused her rival Paav ... |
Billy Hughes | ... ent lasted beyond the divisions that would later occur with World War I and | ' conscription push |
Prime Minister of India | ... der investigation for allegedly crashing a White House state dinner for the | in November 2009 (see: 2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches), hosted a ... |
Abune Paulos | ... essure and went to exile in the United States. The newly elected Patriarch, | was officially recognized by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in 1 ... |
Merrill J. Bateman | ... alled the Rex Lee Run. Lee was replaced shortly before his death in 1996 by | . Bateman was responsible for the building of 36 new buildings for the Uni ... |
Pope Sylvester II | ... Pomerania) to help convert the local population into Christianity. In 1003 | appointed Bruno, at the age of 33, to head a mission amongst the pagan peo ... |
Irenaeus | ... Apostle. ( and ) It began to be developed by the 2nd-century Bishop of Lyon | in his controversy with the dualist |
Pythia | ... his oracle: the sibyl or priestess of the oracle at Delphi was known as the | ; she had to be an older woman of blameless life chosen from among the pea ... |
Pieter Oud | ... e Comité-Oud, a group of liberal members of the Labour Party (PvdA), led by | . The liberals within the PvdA were primarily members of the pre-war socia ... |
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire | ... Savile, and daughter, Charlotte, inherited the house. Charlotte had married | in 1748. Charlotte died in December 1754 and Lady Burlington died in Septe ... |
Macarius of Jerusalem | ... y the three patriarchs: Alexander of Alexandria, Eustathius of Antioch, and | . Many of the assembled fathers—for instance, Paphnutius of Thebes, Potamo ... |
Parson Woodforde | ... l Defoe stayed in Aylsham in 1732 and enjoyed a meal at the Black Boys Inn. | , the famous Norfolk diarist, also dined there in 1781, and Horatio Nelson ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... al authority decayed in the coures of the Thirty Years' War, Chief Minister | urged the occupation of the duchy in 1641. France again had to vacate it a ... |
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès | ... ngland and to Montesquieu in 18th century France, the latter especially via | pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? |
John Wesley | ... he early 13th century, but little remains from that period. John Bunyan and | both preached in the church. In 1865–1868 the tower and spire were complet ... |
Alfred Deakin | ... leted a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist | , the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation. The Fisher gov ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... er-propaganda to the psychological warfare of Nazi Germany (orchestrated by | ). Today, the National Film Board of Canada boasts a vast collection of on ... |
Edward Heath | ... 1974 general election when Harold Wilson was appointed Prime Minister after | resigned the post following his failure to form a coalition. Although Wils ... |
Dr. King | ... hts leaders. This injunction temporarily halted civil rights activity until | defied it by speaking at on January 2, 1965 |
Pietro Bembo | ... cesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as well as a love affair with the poet | . Francesco's wife was the cultured intellectual , the sister of Alfonso, ... |
Pavel Milyukov | In a diplomatic note of the 1 May, the minister of foreign affairs, | , expressed the Provisional Government's desire to carry the war against t ... |
Charilaos Trikoupis | ... ught with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift from Britain. In 1877 | , who is credited with significant improvement of the country's infrastruc ... |
Hugenberg | ... and landowners declared themselves in favour of his opponents — Hitler and | . By late 1931, conservatism as a movement was dead, and the time was comi ... |
Clodoald | ... Île-de-France, near Paris), which was named for the 6th-century French monk | |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... have been strongly influenced by the Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher | |
Leon Trotsky | ... s up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, | and Mao Zedong tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as r ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | Other remarkable attendees were Eusebius of Nicomedia | ;, the purported first church historian; Nicholas of Myra, from whom the p ... |
Aaron Pryor | ... st successful promoters. Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, | , Bernard Hopkins, Ricardo López, Félix Trinidad, Terry Norris, Carlos Zár ... |
William Belton Murrah | ... Millsaps in 1889-90 by the donation of the college's land and $50,000. Dr. | was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of th ... |
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 ... |
John Bunyan | ... cture began in the early 13th century, but little remains from that period. | and John Wesley both preached in the church. In 1865–1868 the tower and sp ... |
George Herbert | ... reville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – | – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. ... |
Harold Wilson | ... ung parliaments. The first followed the February 1974 general election when | was appointed Prime Minister after Edward Heath resigned the post followin ... |
Irenaeus | ... doctrine of original sin was first developed in 2nd-century Bishop of Lyon | 's struggle against Gnosticism. Irenaeus contrasted their doctrine with th ... |
Kwame Nkrumah | The term "neocolonialism" was first coined by | , the first post-independence president of Ghana, and has been discussed b ... |
Bishop of Winchester | # Aymer of Lusignan (1222–1260), | # Agnès de Lusignan (1223–1269). Married William II de Chauvigny (d. 1270) ... |
David | ... contrast to the Muslim position Christians do not credit all the Psalms to | (Daud), indeed a common view is that only half of the psalms were created ... |
Woody Allen | ... Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and | . Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the protagonist's desi ... |
Cecil Rhodes | The company was founded by | , who was financed by Alfred Beit and N M Rothschild & Sons. In 1927, Erne ... |
Eusebius of Nicomedia | Other remarkable attendees were | ; Eusebius of Caesarea, the purported first church historian; Nicholas of ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | Among its notable alumni and faculty are | , Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ... |
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 ... |
Eisaku Satō | ... and attended by foreign dignitaries, led by former Japanese prime minister | , who served as Japanese prime minister during Johnson's presidency. Eulog ... |
Pope Martin I | ... o condemn the Ecthesis, but died before he could convene it. His successor, | , did so instead. Theodore was buried in St. Peter's Basilica |
Edmund Burke | ... and liberal tendencies within the Church. His basic philosophy was based on | , who championed the need for old roots and an orderly development of soci ... |
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 ... |
Ioannis Kapodistrias | In 1827 | , from Corfu, was chosen as the first governor of the new Republic. Howeve ... |
Charles Betts Galloway | ... 00. Dr. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop | of the United Methodist Church organized the college's early fund-raising ... |
Viscount Melbourne | ... otorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of Prime Minister | . The film was written and directed by Robert Bolt and starred his wife, S ... |
Hans Blix | ... act that "substantial progress" had been made since chief weapons inspector | and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed El Baradei ... |
Big Bill Broonzy | ... songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and black American blues artists such as | . He also recorded an album of the material, titled Gates of Eden. McTell ... |
Huldrych Zwingli | ... events in Germany, a movement began in Switzerland under the leadership of | . These two movements quickly agreed on most issues, as the recently intro ... |
Polydore Vergil | ... Chronicle of London, written around the year 1512, also identified Tyrrell. | , in his Anglica Historia (circa 1513), specifies that Tyrrell was the mur ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... uel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, | and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... es voting in favor and three against. Government ministers were sworn in by | , the chairman on the Palestinian Authority, in at a ceremony held simulta ... |
Saddam | ... ts pedestal. The pro-Chávez website Aporrea wrote: "Just like the statue of | in Baghdad, that of Columbus the tyrant also fell this October 12, 2004 in ... |
Prime Minister | ... e life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of | Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and directed by Robert Bolt and s ... |
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