Order of Canada | St. Laurent was appointed a Companion of the | on 6 July 1967. His citation reads |
Royal Guelphic Order | ... eting, Brewster received the honour of knighthood and the decoration of the | . In 1838, he was appointed principal of the united colleges of St Salvato ... |
Order of Canada | ... imarily for his work with the Foundation, he received an appointment to the | , with the official presentation taking place on 21 October 1992, in Ottaw ... |
OBE | ... , who discovered just after arriving in Mexico that he had been awarded the | , played his 60th England game in the opening group victory over Romania b ... |
Order of the Aztec Eagle | ... norary knighthood bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the | from Mexico, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Order of the Merit ... |
KBE | Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, | (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer ... |
Far East Air Force | ... the PAAC was inducted into the United States Army and incorporated into the | |
Order of the Golden Fleece | Louis owed allegiance to the Imperial Habsburgs as a member of the | |
Benedictine | ... us’ life, but some have suggested that he became the teaching master at the | monastery of Corbie in 844, when Paschasius Radbertus was made abbot. Addi ... |
Unified Combatant Command | ... NO also designates naval personnel and naval resources to the commanders of | s. The CNO also performs all other functions prescribed under and those as ... |
Order of the Thistle | ... advice. The monarch alone appoints members of the Order of the Garter, the | , the Royal Victorian Order and the Order of Merit |
Order of Aviz | ... ian Grand Master of the Order of Christ, he was created Grand Master of the | , by which title he was known. He became king in 1385, after the 1383–1385 ... |
United States Africa Command | ... s including General William "Kip" Ward, the first Commanding Officer of the | , The New York Times columnist William Rhoden, David E. Talbert, who is a ... |
OM | John Boynton Priestley, | (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known as J. B. Priestley, was an Eng ... |
OBE | Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, | (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian and sing ... |
executive order | ... ons on Cuba, stripping the President of the option of ending the embargo by | until Fidel and Raúl Castro leave power and a prescribed course of transit ... |
Livonian Order | ... iving records themselves, except for a series of acts granting lands to the | , but their authenticity is disputed. Due to lack of sources, some importa ... |
CBE | Mitchell was awarded the | in 1932 for his contribution to high-speed flight |
Knight Grand Cross | ... On 2 January 1815 the title of his Knighthood of the Bath was converted to | upon the expansion of that order |
Ordained | ... Jesuits, but was denied by the seminary's rector, Bishop Giosuè Cattarossi. | a priest on 7 July 1935, Luciani then served as a curate in his native For ... |
Order of the Crown | ... s sworn of the Privy Council in 1923 and was created a Grand Officer of the | |
Military Order of Maria Theresa | ... 6–1763) he distinguished himself, earning rapid promotion, and received the | decoration. At the conclusion of the peace (Treaty of Hubertusburg, 15 Feb ... |
CC | Paul Edgar Philippe Martin PC, | (born August 28, 1938), also known as Paul Martin, Jr. is a Canadian polit ... |
Franciscan | ... tor Mirabilis, meaning "wonderful teacher"), was an English philosopher and | friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empi ... |
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force | ... the Allies had resorted to terror bombing. At a press briefing held by the | two days after the raids, British Air Commodore Colin McKay Grierson told ... |
Teutonic Knights | ... ring the 13th century, the native Prussians were conquered by the crusading | . The indigenous Balts who survived the conquest were gradually converted ... |
ordained | ... transferred to the seminary of St Sulpice at Paris in 1820. In 1825 he was | priest, and was appointed vicar of the Madeleine at Paris. For a time he w ... |
Légion d'honneur | In December 2011, Jacques Rogge was presented with the | award from French President Nicolas Sarcozy |
Strategic Army Corps | ... orps, and in February 1962, III Corps was assigned as part of the U.S. Army | (STRAC) |
Air Force Materiel Command | Although under ACC, it is best known for its role as the location of the | 's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), better know ... |
Order of the Garter | ... ot granted on ministerial advice. The monarch alone appoints members of the | , the Order of the Thistle, the Royal Victorian Order and the Order of Mer ... |
SSC | Fr. T. Pelham Dale | , famous for having been prosecuted and imprisoned for Ritualist practices ... |
Order of Calatrava | ... ree strategic frontier fortresses: Baños de la Encina, Salvatierra (the old | fortress near Ciudad Real) and Capilla. But Capilla refused to pass over, ... |
Knight of the Bath | ... ssion to return home and as a reward for his service in India he was made a | in September. Whilst in India, Wellesley had amassed a fortune of £42,000 ... |
Order of the British Empire | ... ry (a New Zealander) discovered that they had been promptly knighted in the | , a KBE, for the ascent. Tenzing, a Nepali sherpa who was a citizen of Ind ... |
Knights Templar | ... mundsen. It has also been asserted that the pit may have been dug by exiled | and that it is the last resting place of the Holy Grail or even the holy A ... |
Teutonic Knights | ... not verified by the Holy Roman Empire as well as the previous gains of the | were not verified |
OBE | Jane Seymour, | (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is an Engli ... |
Teutonic Knights | ... 13th century. In 1237, the Brothers of the Sword were incorporated into the | |
First United States Army | ... ed three new army headquarters in the Regular Army (the headquarters of the | was already constituted) and outlined the organization of what became know ... |
Order of the British Empire | Kingsley was named a Commander of the | (CBE) in 2000. He was made a knight bachelor in the 2002 New Year's Honour ... |
Order of the Crown of Italy | ... 880 and was made Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Corona d'Italia (Knight of the | ) by King Vittorio Emanuele II |
Order of St. Gregory the Great | ... ant thing" in his life. In 1998, Pope John Paul II made him a Knight of the | (KSG), the highest honor a Roman Catholic lay person can receive from the ... |
13th Sustainment Command | ... allations in the world, and is the home of III Corps, 1st Cavalry Division, | , First Army Division West, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 41st Fires Briga ... |
Knight of Malta | ... e received the Charlemagne Award of the German city of Aachen. He is also a | |
OBE | John Eric Bartholomew | (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was a ... |
Order of the Dragon | ... orgia (as recounted in "Durch Barbarei, Arabia"), and was inducted into the | . He lived for a time in Seis am Schlern |
Order of Santiago | In 1174, he ceded Uclés to the | and afterwards this became the order's principal seat. From Uclés, he bega ... |
ordained | ... inals who had only received first tonsure and minor orders but not yet been | as deacons or priests. Though clerics, they were inaccurately called "lay ... |
Royal Victorian Order | ... l. In a show of public support, the Queen created Parker a Commander of the | . On 22 February 1957, she granted her husband the style and title of a Pr ... |
Military Sealift Command | ... surface ships and submarines); and an ammunition, oiler, and supply ship of | to provide logistical support. The precise structure and numbers of each t ... |
Order of the Golden Spur | ... lry from his imperial cousin, who conferred upon him with his own hands the | , augmented with the collar and the eagle of gold. But this was the only r ... |
MBE | Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish | (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former footballer and the current manage ... |
Senegalese brotherhoods | ... God will send renewers of the faith every 100 years. The members of all the | claim that their founders were such renewers. The Mouride beliefs are base ... |
Order of the Golden Spur | ... er display his virtuosity. In 1827, Pope Leo XII honoured Paganini with the | |
Royal Victorian Order | On 30 March 1977 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the | (GCVO), an award within the personal gift of the Sovereign, for services a ... |
Légion d'honneur | ... began editing the work of Tommaso Landolfi for Rizzoli. Awarded the French | in 1981, he also accepted to be jury president of the 29th Venice Film Fes ... |
SDB | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo | , GCL (born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Al ... |
Benedictine | ... . St. Benedict of Nursia established his first monastery, the source of the | Order, here around 529. It was the site of Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944 ... |
Benedictine | ... nge an evangelization of the people. Thus, during Columbus's second voyage, | friars accompanied him, along with twelve other priests. As slavery was pr ... |
OBE | John Martyn | (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009) was a British singer-songwriter and ... |
Passionist | ... was conditionally baptised into the Catholic Church by Fr Cuthbert Dunne, a | priest from Dublin (the sacrament being conditional because of the doctrin ... |
Dominican | ... Portuguese first landed near modern Pante Macassar, and in 1556 a group of | friars established the village of Lifau |
Order of the British Empire | ... s, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was made an officer of the | in 2000 |
The Ten Commandments | ... animation, and miniature work to create spectacular alien environments. In | , Paramount's John P. Fulton, A.S.C., multiplied the crowds of extras in t ... |
KSG | Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, | (; ; November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican radio, television ... |
Dominican | ... he ‘Abbey’, it is more accurately described as a friary, it was created for | friars. During the course of its existence, it experienced many misfortuna ... |
Légion d'honneur | ... or his actions at the Battle of Cambrai), and the Croix de Chevalier of the | . He first entered the war zone on 26 June 1917, and was promoted to tempo ... |
GCL | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo SDB, | (born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Along wi ... |
First Army Division West | ... d is the home of III Corps, 1st Cavalry Division, 13th Sustainment Command, | , 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 41st Fires Brigade and many other corps an ... |
Christian Brothers | ... , and the former Honoria Gill, who survived her son. He was educated at the | ' School, Westport and at St. Malachy's College, Belfast. He worked for a ... |
Executive Order 9066 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment with | , issued February 19, 1942, which allowed local military commanders to des ... |
Teutonic Knights | ... in the 12th and 13th centuries. One of the regional Piast dukes invited the | to help him fight the Baltic Prussian pagans, which caused centuries of Po ... |
South East Asia Command | ... October 1943, Churchill appointed Mountbatten the Supreme Allied Commander | . His less practical ideas were sidelined by an experienced planning staff ... |
Ten Commandments | ... nty Courthouse, which has become notable for erecting marble statues of the | and the Mayflower Compact on the front lawn (see Separation of church and ... |
Poales | The APG II system, used here, assigns the plants involved to the order | |
KCIE | Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB | is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), b ... |
OBE | Jack Warner | (24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was an English film and television actor. ... |
Grand Master | Emperor Pedro II was | of the following Brazilian Orders |
Order of the Garter | Many of the Dukes of Norfolk have also been knights of the | . The following list is of those Dukes of Norfolk, along with their year o ... |
Knight Templar | ... e Almogavars, under the leadership of Roger de Flor ("Roger Blum", a former | ), formed the Catalan Company in the service of the emperor of the East, A ... |
KCB | Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC | KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser (1925–200 ... |
Royal Victorian Order | ... appoints members of the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle, the | and the Order of Merit |
ordination | ... of Gnosticism, and who had previously tried to buy sacramental authority of | from St. Peter the Apostle) founded the school of moral freedom ('amoralis ... |
Franciscan | In 1322, an Irish | monk, Symon Semeonis encountered a migrant group, "the descendants of Cain ... |
Knights Templar | ... nasteries, and churches. The best organization, however, was created by the | . The newly instituted universities also had their private services, start ... |
Livonian Brothers of the Sword | ... and missionaries started arriving from central Europe. The German-speaking | conquered most of what is now Estonia and Latvia (the former Livonia) in t ... |
RAF Fighter Command | ... 1970) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the commander of | during the Battle of Britain, and is generally credited with playing a cru ... |
Order of the Bath | ... ous monthly allowance for his cooperation, in 1935 he was knighted into the | |
Tactical Air Command | On 1 October 1976, the base was transferred to | (TAC) after 30 years under SAC. It was also that year the 355th Tactical F ... |
Légion d'honneur | ... ed below. After World War I Amadou Bamba was awarded the prestigious French | for his help in recruiting soldiers from West Africa for the war. The Mour ... |
RAF Bomber Command | ... to fall into buildings and ignite them. As Sir Arthur Harris, commander of | , wrote after the war |
Order of Canada | ... oint Wickenheiser Centre. On June 30, 2011, she was named an Officer of the | in 2011 by Governor General David Johnston |
Benedictine | ... dly a 15th-century alchemist. There are claims that he was the Canon of the | Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but according to John Maxson Stil ... |
Order of the Garter | ... 1944, Queen Wilhelmina became only the second woman to be inducted into the | . Churchill described her as the only real man among the governments-in-ex ... |
Knights Templar | On Friday 13 October 1307 the | were ordered to be arrested by Philip IV of France. It was suggested, in t ... |
Ten Commandments | ... as awarded $150,000 in fees after suing a county demanding the removal of a | display from its courthouse; a second Ten Commandments case in the State, ... |
Knights Templar | ... r than return it to the Empire, Richard I of England sold the island to the | Barbarossa's army had quickly disintegrated and took ship back to Europe a ... |
Order of Canada | ... time in 1967 for the inception of the award, he was made a Companion of the | |
CBE | Sir Alan Ayckbourn | (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific English playwright. He has written and ... |
GCB | ... bert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, | , OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 ... |
CBE | Bailey was awarded the | in 2001 |
KG | John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, | , Earl Marshal (b. between 1421 and 1430 – d. 22 August 1485) was an Engli ... |
Allied forces in the Pacific | Admiral Chester Nimitz, the new commander of | , and his staff discussed the deciphered messages and agreed that the Japa ... |
Order of St. John | ... sidered independence. The fear of the return of the increasingly oppressive | may have pushed Malta indirectly toward becoming a British protectorate. I ... |
Air Combat Command | ... assigned to Twelfth Air Force, which is headquartered at DM and is part of | (ACC). The 355 FW and various tenant units located on base provide A-10 Th ... |
Benedictine | It is the Anglican parish church of Wymondham, but it started life as a | priory |
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South East Asia Command | ... as far as Churchill before being quashed. He would hold the post until the | (SEAC) was disbanded in 1946 |
Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav | ... glish Order of the Garter, the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim, and the | . Each of these orders has its own criteria for eligibility, but knighthoo ... |
Franciscan | ... with the arrival of Nestorian Christianity in 635 AD. This was followed by | missionaries in the 13th century, Jesuits in the 16th century, and finally ... |
General Order No. 11 (1863) | ... on Lawrence, Kansas, and the many civilian casualties there, the U.S. Army | ordered the near-total evacuation of three and a half counties in western ... |
OBE | Jean Merilyn Simmons, | (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared ... |
Companion of Honour | ... lly active for the rest of his life. He was invested with the Insignia of a | in 1982. Popper was a member of the Academy of Humanism and described hims ... |
Order of the Golden Fleece | ... ichael Korybut owed allegiance to the Imperial Habsburgs as a member of the | |
RAF Bomber Command | ... tate that strafing did occur. According to an RAF webpage on the history of | , "[p]art of the American Mustang-fighter escort was ordered to strafe tra ... |
Society of King Charles the Martyr | ... church, Saint Stephen's, Gloucester Road, London, and a life member of the | . He specifically identified as Anglo-Catholic, proclaiming himself "class ... |
Order of the Chrysanthemum | ... before his death, and posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Supreme | and his title raised to shishaku (viscount) |
Air Mobility Command | ... al Guard Base and its host wing, the 161st Air Refueling Wing (161 ARW), an | (AMC)-gained unit of the Arizona Air National Guard. One of two flying uni ... |
Knight Templar | ... on Rosa's "A Letter from Home", it's revealed that Fergus tried to find the | treasure hidden in the castle McDuck by one of his ancestors, a Knight him ... |
Corinthian order | ... he Ruins of Baalbek (1757), which provided some excellent new detail in the | that British and European Neoclassical architects added to their vocabular ... |
Franciscan | The town was named after Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a | missionary and the first European explorer in the region. In 1776, Escalan ... |
CBE | Sir Ben Kingsley, | (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; Gujarati:કૃષ્ણા પંડિત ભાનજી; 31 December 1943 ... |
Franciscan | ... t powerful family in the area. In 1538, Henry VIII closed the Dominican and | friaries in Cardiff, the remains of which were used as building materials. ... |
Livonian Order | ... a Roman Catholic; this action enabled him to establish an alliance with the | , a long-standing antagonist of the Lithuanians. During the summer of 1253 ... |
Livonian Order | The town's history began in 1275 when Dünaburg castle was built by the | 20 km up the Daugava river from where Daugavpils is now situated. In 1561 ... |
Naval Nuclear Power Training Command | Naval Nuclear Power School, | , and SPAWAR are located in Goose Creek and Hanahan on the Naval Weapons S ... |
Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force | ... command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the | (SHAEF), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in ... |
Légion d'honneur | ... ril 1953. In 1961 he received the title of Knight of the Grand Cross in the | . De Broglie was awarded a post as counselor to the French High Commission ... |
CBE | Eamonn Andrews, | (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987), was an Irish television presenter ba ... |
Order of the Bath | ... , promoted to Admiral of the Fleet, knighted as a Knight Grand Cross of the | , and named the 1st Baron Hornblower |
Teutonic Knights | In 1525 during the Protestant Reformation, the Grand Master of the | , Albert, secularized the order's Prussian territory, becoming Albert, Duk ... |
Knights Templar | ... in Europe, precious goods would be entrusted to the Roman Catholic Church's | , who effectively created a system of modern credit accounts |
Teutonic Knights | The Polish wars against the | ended in 1525, when Albert, Duke of Prussia, their marshal (and Sigismund' ... |
Order of the Garter | ... ten, the coat of arms of the Duke of Norfolk appears with the garter of the | surrounding the shield, as seen in the arms of Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Ho ... |
Sword Brethren | ... asin (closely coinciding with the territory of modern Latvia) by the German | had a significant influence on the languages' independent development |
CBE | Sir Simon Denis Rattle, | (born 19 January 1955) is an English conductor. He rose to international p ... |
Knights Hospitaller | ... ances of recorded first aid were provided by religious knights, such as the | , formed in the 11th century, providing care to pilgrims and knights, and ... |
Balkan Air Force | The | supporting the partisans in Yugoslavia was based at Bari |
Sovereign Military Order of Malta | ... ign territory issue passports as well, most notably Iroquois League and the | |
U.S. Airmen | ... the outskirts of the city, Zweibrücken Air Base was for many years home to | and their families. Prior to being a home for the USAFE, the base was oper ... |
Preserve America | ... the Southern Maryland Heritage Area Consortium, Preservation Maryland, and | . It has encouraged participation by the community, with an Internet blog ... |
Military Sealift Command | ... Baker (AE-34). It was decommissioned in 1996 and placed in service with the | as USNS Mount Baker (T-AE-34) |
CH | Dame Judith Olivia “Judi” Dench, | , DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and televisio ... |
Dominicans | ... hirteenth and fourteenth centuries four orders of friars arrived in Boston: | , Franciscans, Carmelites, and Augustinians. As the English Reformation pr ... |
Christian Brothers | ... d on 31 March 1872, of distant Welsh lineage, and was educated by the Irish | |
Teutonic Knights | ... ign the Iron Cross after a royal sketch. It reflects the cross borne by the | in the 14th century |
Knight Commander of the British Empire | Chaplin was knighted in 1975 at the age of 85 as a | (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. The honour had been first proposed in 1931. K ... |
Franciscan | ... moral and didactic, reflecting the speech of the preachers (Dominicans and | s) who surround him. It transmits a moral and religious teaching and often ... |
orders | Some | of knighthood, such as the Knights Templar, have themselves become the sub ... |
Knights Hospitaller | ... he City of the Sun is presented as a dialogue between "a Grandmaster of the | and a Genoese Sea-Captain". Inspired by Plato's Republic and the descripti ... |
Légion d'honneur | At the end of the First World War, France awarded him the | , but he declined it; he did not like decorations of any kind and adhered ... |
Teutonic Order | ... gic location, in 1343 king Casimir III signed there a peace treaty with the | . As a royal town, the city managed to defend much of its initial privileg ... |
Air Force Materiel Command | ... e. Although under ACC, it is best known for its role as the location of the | 's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), better know ... |
Ericales | ... is a family of pitcher plants (along with Nepenthaceae), belonging to order | (previously Nepenthales) |
Muslim brotherhoods | ... ol, the son of a marabout from the Qadiriyya brotherhood, the oldest of the | in Senegal |
DBE | Dame Judith Olivia “Judi” Dench, CH, | , FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television act ... |
Order of Australia | In 1990 he was appointed a Companion of the | (AC) in recognition of service to science, particularly in the field of ne ... |
U.S. Northern Command | ... rt; "homeland defense" refers to its military component, led chiefly by the | headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Officer of the Order of the British Empire | He was appointed an | (OBE) in 1965. In 1973, he was made a Freeman of the City of London. Warne ... |
GCVO | Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding GCB, | , CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was a British officer in the Roya ... |
Lamiales | ... e closely related to Lamiaceae than some of the other families in the order | . It is not yet known which of the families in Lamiales is closest to Lami ... |
Order of the Elephant | ... spiratory infection in December 1945 which prevented him from receiving the | in person from King Christian X of Denmark. Eisenhower was convinced in 19 ... |
Order of the Garter | He was appointed 912th Knight of the | in 1951 |
The Ten Commandments | # | (1923) - $3,400,00 |
Doric | ... ar building that was constructed between 380 and 360 BC. It consisted of 20 | columns arranged with an exterior diameter of 14.76 meters, with 10 Corint ... |
Emancipation Proclamation | Neither Kentucky nor Missouri were declared in rebellion in the | , as Lincoln saw no military necessity to free slaves there. The Confedera ... |
Légion d'honneur | ... rench Army with his prior rank of Major, and made a Chevalier of the French | in July 1906. However, his health had deteriorated during his imprisonment ... |
RAF Fighter Command | ... years prior to the Second World War, Dowding was the commanding officer of | , and was perhaps the one important person in Britain, and perhaps the wor ... |
CBE | Julie Walters, | (born 22 February 1950 in Smethwick (near Birmingham), Staffordshire) is a ... |
Knights of Malta | ... helter for war refugees. In 1950, the owners, the Düsseldorf chapter of the | , turned it into an an orphanage, but it has subsequently returned to priv ... |
Order of Christ | ... 64, by request of D. Nuno Freire de Andrade, a Galician Grand Master of the | , he was created Grand Master of the Order of Aviz, by which title he was ... |
Christian Brothers | ... ed the local English-speaking National School system and, from 1858, in the | in Ennistymon |
Society of St. John the Evangelist | ... t Newbury is home to Emery House, monastery guesthouse and sanctuary of the | |
GCVO | ... George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, | , DSO, PC, FRS (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August ... |
Benedictine | William d'Albini's monastery was a dependency of the | monastery at St Albans, where his uncle Richard was Abbot. Wymondham Prior ... |
House Order of Hohenzollern | ... oss, he was awarded the Zaehring Lion with swords, the Friedrich Order, the | with swords third class, and finally in May 1918, the coveted Pour le Méri ... |
Dominican Order | ... s orders; these are among the first schools established in the country. The | established the University of Santo Tomas in 1611 and took control of the ... |
Sovereign Military Order of Malta | ... ations with 179 sovereign states, and also with the European Union, and the | , as well as having relations of a special character with the Palestine Li ... |
Emancipation Proclamation | ... in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States around the time of the | . Grammy-winning blues musician/historian Elijah Wald and others have argu ... |
Air Transport Command | ... ring World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force | as a hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. It functioned as a ... |
Order of the Red Eagle | ... rder of Sincerity (Ordre de la Sincérité), which was renamed in 1734 to the | and had the monastery church built, which was completed in 1711. In 1716 a ... |
KG | Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington | , PC (1618 – 28 July 1685) was an English statesman |
Franciscan | ... attempt to colonize the area until 1770, when Gaspar de Portolà, along with | Fathers, Junípero Serra and Juan Crespí visited the area in search of a mi ... |
Executive Order 8802 | ... ood faith, the organizers canceled the planned march after Roosevelt issued | (the Fair Employment Act), which banned discrimination in defense industri ... |
Franciscan | Mission Santa Clara de Asís is a Spanish mission founded by the | order in the present-day city of Santa Clara, California. The mission, the ... |
Scalabrini Fathers | ... men were employed by London Brick, mostly at the Fletton works. In 1962 the | , who first arrived in 1956, purchased an old school and converted it into ... |
Knights Templar | Some orders of knighthood, such as the | , have themselves become the subject of legend; others have disappeared in ... |
Légion d'honneur | ... taken hostage by hostile Moors, a perilous task which earned him his first | from the French Government |
OBE | David Graeme Garden | (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish author, actor, comedian, artist and ... |
orders of magnitude | ... o be flat, they arrived at a distance of 100,000 li, a value short by three | |
Order of the Garter | Women were appointed to the | almost from the start. In all, 68 women were appointed between 1358 and 14 ... |
GCIE | ... holas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, | , GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 A ... |
Combatant Commanders | ... val forces as the title implies (that is nowadays within the purview of the | who report to the Secretary of Defense), the CNO does exercise supervision ... |
Order of the Dragon | ... on the spot. In Nuremberg, Oswald became a member of the first rank of the | - a rank King Sigismund awarded only to two dozen nobles. Along with the h ... |
Order of Canada | In 2005, Le May Doan was made an Officer of the | , and was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame |
Order of Australia | In 1983 he was made an Officer of the | (AO). He is an |
Franciscan | ... d fourteenth centuries four orders of friars arrived in Boston: Dominicans, | s, Carmelites, and Augustinians. As the English Reformation progressed, th ... |
Bomber Command | ... f these troop movements should be given a high priority. Arthur Harris, AOC | (nicknamed "Bomber" Harris in the British press, and known as an ardent su ... |
Order of the British Empire | ... n the Queen's birthday honours list of 2005, he was made a Commander of the | "for services to the music industry". May is a friend of singer and musici ... |
Order of Australia | ... became the country's national anthem in place of "God Save the Queen". The | replaced the British honours system in early 1975 |
Order of the Golden Fleece | King Charles John was the 909th Knight of the | in Spain and the 28th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword |
Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary | ... Orders of Knighthood, Awards and the Holy See by H.E. Cardinale (1983), the | was founded by two Bolognese nobles Loderingo degli Andalò and Catalano di ... |
Benedictine | The town grew up around the | Cluny Abbey, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. The height of ... |
Knights Templar | ... e Knights Hospitaller founded at the First Crusade of 1099, followed by the | (1119). At the time of their foundation, these were intended as monastic o ... |
Order of Australia | Whitlam was made a Companion of the | in June 1978, and resigned from Parliament on 31 July of the same year. He ... |
Gentianales | ... system (2009) does not recognize this order and places the families within | |
Knights of St John of Jerusalem | ... g Cross. Once part of the Great Middlesex Forest, it was later owned by the | |
DBE | ... hief Executive (currently Sam Younger) and an executive team. Suzi Leather, | was appointed Chair of the Commission's board on 1 August 2006, after bein ... |
Christian Brother | ... al histories of the Irish in Spain record that they included an ex-Catholic | and an ordained Church of Ireland (Anglican Protestant) Clergyman, fightin ... |
RAF Bomber Command | ... bad weather over Europe prevented any USAAF operations, and it was left to | to carry out the first raid. It had been decided that the raid would be a ... |
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Benedictine | ... y, you can discover along the Meuse River the Romanesque church of a former | Monastery (at Hastière-Lavaux), the Renaissance castle of Freÿr surrounded ... |
Order of the Chrysanthemum | Shortly before his death in 1933, he was awarded the Collar of the Supreme | , the highest possible award in the Japanese honors system. In addition, h ... |
Doric temple | ... ate the Battle of Himera in 480 BC: it is believed to have been the largest | ever built. Although it was apparently used, it appears never to have been ... |
Corinthian columns | Today, only six | remain standing. Eight more were disassembled and shipped to Constantinopl ... |
GCSI | ... or Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, | , GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 ... |
OC | Catriona Ann Le May Doan, | (born December 23, 1970) is a Canadian speed skater and a double Olympic c ... |
United States Central Command | ... particular theatre, or as an aggregate of such forces. In the Gulf War the | controlled military forces (units) of each of the four military services o ... |
Ionic order | The stoa leads off north-east from the main sanctuary. It was built in the | and consists of seven fluted columns, unusually carved from single pieces ... |
Order of the Garter | ... d's two Secretaries of State. In April 1551, Cecil became Chancellor of the | . But service under Warwick (by now the Duke of Northumberland) carried so ... |
Teutonic Knights | ... iginal Lithuania. It was often attacked by various invaders, especially the | . In the 1240-1250s the Grodno area, as well as the most of Black Ruthenia ... |
Chlamydomonadales | ... agella that are displaced in a "clockwise" (CW, 1–7 o'clock) direction e.g. | . Members of the DO clade have flagella that are "directly opposed" (DO, 1 ... |
Royal Order of the Seraphim | ... in several countries, such as the English Order of the Garter, the Swedish | , and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. Each of these orders has its ... |
8th Army | ... lude the British 8th Army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery. The | had advanced across the Western Desert from the east and was ready for the ... |
3rd US Army | ... 5th Infantry and the 7th Armored Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the | commanded by General George S. Patton |
Dominican monk | During this period, the | Girolamo Savonarola had become prior of the San Marco monastery in 1490. H ... |
Emancipation Proclamation | ... and faster emancipation of the slaves. One month later he hailed Lincoln’s | |
Dominican | ... His speech is moral and didactic, reflecting the speech of the preachers ( | s and Franciscans) who surround him. It transmits a moral and religious te ... |
Benedictine | ... th. In gratitude for having successfully given birth, the queen founded the | abbey of the Val-de-Grâce for which Louis XIV himself laid the cornerstone ... |
Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament | Assumption School was built in 1932 and was staffed by the | . Assumption School was the combination of several black schools in the ar ... |
Order of the Garter | ... s of knighthood continue to exist in several countries, such as the English | , the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim, and the Royal Norwegian Order o ... |
Knights Hospitaller | ... ain, the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the | based in Malta, and others, under the command of King Philip II's illegiti ... |
Franciscan | It was the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the | religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare (Chiara d'Offreducci), ... |
Executive orders | ... , rather than the War Department. President Roosevelt agreed and issued two | to make it happen. These two executive orders not only transferred to the ... |
Executive Order 8802 | ... ion, for passage of the federal Fair Employment Practices Act also known as | , anti-lynching and anti-poll tax legislation, and citizens’ action to def ... |
Franciscan | ... hland incident, a maritime disaster in which 157 people died including five | nuns who had been leaving Germany due to harsh anti-Catholic laws (see Kul ... |
Society of St Edmund | His life inspired the formation of the | at Pontigny, France, in 1843 by Rev. Jean Baptiste Muard to keep Saint Edm ... |
Knights of St. John | ... Empire. When the Treaty of Amiens placed Malta again under the rule of the | , this assurance was dashed |
Knights Hospitaller | The first military orders of knighthood were the | founded at the First Crusade of 1099, followed by the Knights Templar (111 ... |
Doric | ... gate were replaced by the current construction. The Gate consists of twelve | columns, six to each side, forming five passageways. Citizens originally w ... |
Poor Clares | ... freducci), the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of | after her death. The 19th-century Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows was ... |
KBE | Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, | (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director ... |
Dominican Order | ... rusade also had a role in the creation and institutionalization of both the | and the Medieval Inquisition |
Benedictine | ... re-create monastic life and to rebuild the abbey. He began by establishing | monasticism at Glastonbury. That the Rule of St. Benedict was the basis of ... |
Franciscan | The | friars renovated it further in 1555, as it had been neglected despite incr ... |
FEAF | ... base and industry center, the city was heavily bombed by Task Force 38 and | during 1944–1945 |
ordained | ... er was as a papal jurist in Rome, and there is no evidence that he had been | . In March 1612, however, Pope Paul V appointed him as the Archbishop of B ... |
Order of the British Empire | Dench was appointed an Officer of the | in 1970 and promoted to Dame Commander of the order in 1988. She was appoi ... |
Legion of Honour | In 1826 he was made grand officer of the | ; he was subsequently appointed president of the council of state. He serv ... |
orders of magnitude of mass | ... ics adequately describes the observed effects of gravity over a range of 50 | , i.e., for masses of objects from about 10 −23 to 10 30 kg |
Order of the Garter | Before he became consort, the Duke was appointed to the | on 19 November 1947. Since then, Philip has received 17 different appointm ... |
CBE | The current Principal is Sheila Forbes, | , a graduate of the college, who took up the post in 2007 |
Sisters of Providence | ... Great Falls a private, four-year Catholic university founded in 1932 by the | and the Ursuline Sisters |
OBE | ... e Freedom of the City of London and of Tirana. The same year he received an | . Wisdom was knighted in 2000 and spent much of his later life on the Isle ... |
Order of the Companions of Honour | ... d to Dame Commander of the order in 1988. She was appointed a Member of the | in 2005. In June 2011, she became a fellow of the British Film Institute ( ... |
Order of Australia | On the establishment of the | on 14 February 1975, as Governor-General he was made Principal Companion o ... |
Order of the Chrysanthemum | President Álvaro Obregón was awarded Japan's | at a special ceremony in Mexico City. On 27 November 1924, Baron Shigetsum ... |
GCIE | George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, | , PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedles ... |
Teutonic Knights | ... of Prussia, dissent began to develop against the Roman Catholic rule of the | , whose Grand Master, Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a member of a cadet b ... |
Order of the Garter | ... of the Privy Purse, and Ranger of Windsor Great Park. The Duke accepted the | , as well as the office of Captain-General of the army |
Dominican | The City of the Sun (; ) is a philosophical work by the Italian | philosopher Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early utopian work |
Templars | ... n until the Hospitallers rushed in to take Saladin's right flank, while the | took the left. Richard then won the battle |
Dominican | ... became the most powerful family in the area. In 1538, Henry VIII closed the | and Franciscan friaries in Cardiff, the remains of which were used as buil ... |
Corinthian order | ... r, found in the capital of the Ionic column. It was later incorporated into | and Composite column capitals. Four are normally to be found on an Ionic c ... |
Executive Order 9102 | ... etention. The WRA was created by President Roosevelt on March 18, 1942 with | and officially ceased to exist June 30, 1946. Milton S. Eisenhower, then a ... |
Marine Corps Combat Development Command | ... arine Corps bases in the world, (MCB Quantico). The base is the site of the | and HMX-1 (the presidential helicopter squadron). The United States Drug E ... |
Order of Santiago | ... f Lobón, Puebla, Montijo and Cubillana, Alcalde of Montanchez, Trece of the | , Lord of Castellanos, a Maestresala official instructor of Henry IV of Ca ... |
Légion d'honneur | ... " Yeo-Thomas, GC, MC & Bar, Croix de guerre (with palms), Commandeur of the | , (17 June 1902 – 26 February 1964) was the British Special Operations Exe ... |
Order of the Thistle | ... viated form of the Scots "In My Defens God Me Defend") and the motto of the | ; "Nemo me impune lacessit". (Latin: "No-one provokes me with impunity"); ... |
Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem | ... ct XV. Upon being elected pope he was also formally the Grand Master of the | , prefect of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, prefect o ... |
Ten Commandments | ... of what has been called by scholars "Ethical Monotheism". The first of the | can be interpreted to forbid the Children of Israel from worshiping any ot ... |
GCSI | George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, | , GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of ... |
Ursuline Sisters | ... ar Catholic university founded in 1932 by the Sisters of Providence and the | |
Order of Friars Minor | ... ventually led him to live as a beggar, renounce the world and establish the | |
Order of the Golden Fleece | Sigismund I was a member of the | |
Christian Brothers | ... t on Peacock Lane, and later at the famous "North Mon", the North Monastery | School. When Lynch was just thirteen years old his mother died suddenly. L ... |
Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire | ... e Sir Norman Cardinal Gilroy did receive the accolade on his appointment as | in 1969. A knight who is subsequently ordained does not lose his title. A ... |
Teutonic Knights | Upon the invitation of Duke Konrad I of Masovia, the | took possession of Prussia in the 13th century and created a monastic stat ... |
Sphaeropleales | ... DO clade have flagella that are "directly opposed" (DO, 12–6 o'clock) e.g. | . They are usually green due to the dominance of pigments chlorophyll a an ... |
Dominican Order | ... Roman Empire, but now in southeastern France. In early life, he joined the | , in which he acquired great fame as a preacher. At the papal conclave of ... |
Ionic order | A volute is a spiral scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the | , found in the capital of the Ionic column. It was later incorporated into ... |
Franciscan | ... ard practical expression to her inward motive was inspired in Teresa by the | priest Saint Peter of Alcantara who became acquainted with her as Founder ... |
Légion d'honneur | ... 1975, the government of France elevated him to the rank of commander in the | |
Eighth United States Army | The postwar Seventh United States Army in Germany and | in Korea were outside the continental United States as they remain today, ... |
Decalogue | ... enses. He declared in 2001 that "a sin against the Sixth Commandment of the | by a cleric with a minor under 18 years of age is to be considered a grave ... |
Knights Templar | ... usader Military orders, such as The Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon ( | ) and the Knights of St John (Hospitallers), were in some way inexplicably ... |
Order of Australia | Gallop was made a Companion of the | in 2008 |
Doric order | ... ide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or | , or decorated with bas-reliefs. Even when neither columns nor pilasters a ... |
Ten Commandments | ... and embedded in the 613 Laws given to the Children of Israel along with the | , which are part of, and not separate from, the 613 mitzvot. These laws ar ... |
Corinthian order | ... nd a link building. The rooms on this level were either of the Composite or | of architecture to illustrate their important status |
Franciscan | ... ago. As the Alta California (Upper California) coast was settled by Spanish | missionaries in the late 18th century, the El Camino Real (the Royal Road ... |
Franciscan | ... Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV, and as far as possible came to terms with the | s, who were then at odds with the Roman See |
FCJ | ... ol, and Beaulieu Convent School in Saint Helier is an all-girls school; and | primary school in St. Saviour. A Catholic order of Sisters has a presence ... |
readers | ... r southern and southwestern Alaska study at St. Herman's in order to become | or clergy in the Orthodox Church |
Order of the Netherlands Lion | ... ds in the Netherlands are issued in three orders, the Order of William, the | , and the Order of Orange Nassau. Additionally there remain a few heredita ... |
Benedictine | The | church of Sant Pere de Galligants is in early Romanesque style. From the s ... |
OBE | Gordon Banks, | (born 30 December 1937) is a retired English football goalkeeper. The IFFH ... |
Franciscan | ... accusations of luring children and youth into sexual acts. Staged trials of | friars held in 1936 did not receive the media attention the National Socia ... |
Order of Merit | ... lone: May 1940 – May 1941". He declined lesser honours before accepting the | in 1977 |
Order of Alcántara | ... ery, the administration of Hispaniola was given to Nicolás de Ovando of the | , founded during the Reconquista. As in the Iberian Peninsula, the inhabit ... |
Dominican | ... ol over the territory was tenuous particularly in the mountainous interior. | friars, the occasional Dutch raid, and the Timorese themselves competed wi ... |
O.C.S.O. | Thomas Merton, | (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an Anglo-American Catholic writ ... |
Battle of Normandy | Some Me 410s were utilized with Junkers Ju 188s during the | for high-altitude night reconnaissance missions |
CBE | Simon Armitage | (born 26 May 1963, Huddersfield) is a British poet, playwright, and noveli ... |
Executive Order 9835 | In 1947, president Truman issued | , which created the Federal Loyalty Program. This program authorized the A ... |
OBE | Martyn was appointed | in the 2009 New Year Honours |
RAF Iraq Command | ... . On 19 August 1924, Air Commodore Dowding was made Chief Staff Officer for | . In 1929, he was promoted to Air Vice Marshal and the following year join ... |
Order of Leopold | ... 9 Versailles peace conference. He was also appointed Officer of the Belgian | |
Ten Commandments | ... htfold Path of Buddhism (see Śīla); the ancient Egyptian code of Ma'at; the | of Judaism and Christianity; the Quran of Islam; Judaism's Noahide Law; an ... |
Universal Sufi | ... e influenced by Ibn Arabi). Some Sufi Orders, notably the Bektashis and the | movement, continue to espouse panentheistic beliefs. Nizari Ismaili follow ... |
Holy Orders | ... own in the cesspool. Whatever the cause, it changed Dunstan's mind. He took | in 943, in the presence of Ælfheah, and returned to live the life of a her ... |
Order of the Garter | ... . At the centre of the painting is positioned the eight pointed star of the | which Lord Burlington received from King George II in 1730. This star also ... |
Franciscan | ... s, it is the most visited site in the Holy Sepulchre. The Roman Catholics ( | s) have an altar to the side, The Chapel of the Nailing of the Cross (11th ... |
Emancipation Proclamation | ... to the British considering intervention for humanitarian reasons. Lincoln's | did not lead to interracial violence let alone a bloodbath, but it did giv ... |
Decalogue | ... II issued a letter stating that "a sin against the Sixth Commandment of the | by a cleric with a minor under 18 years of age is to be considered a grave ... |
Preserve America | ... ionwide. Two specific programs include the Save America's Treasures and the | . The Historic Preservation Offices makes grants available to the States, ... |
Teutonic Knights | Sambia was originally sparsely populated by the Sambians. The German | conquered the region during the 13th century and the Bishopric of Samland ... |
Franciscan | ... ement. The process of Christianization was at first violent: when the first | s arrived in Mexico in 1524, they burned the places dedicated to pagan cul ... |
Order of the British Empire | ... ters has won numerous other acting awards, and was appointed Officer of the | (OBE) in 1999 and raised to Commander level (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Hon ... |
Ionic order | ... t is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the | high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in A ... |
Tactical Air Command | ... an until 1976, when the 100 SRW was inactivated, its DC-130s transferred to | 's 432d Tactical Drone Group, and its U-2s transferred to SAC's 9th Strate ... |
Knights Templar | ... er's expansion of the SS was based on models from other groups, such as the | and the Italian Blackshirts. According to SS-Obergruppenführer and General ... |
Dominican Order | ... as reported that Wyman died in her sleep of natural causes. A member of the | (as a lay tertiary) of the Catholic Church, she was buried in a nun's habi ... |
CBE | David Royston Bailey | (born 2 January 1938) is an iconic figure who is regarded as one of the be ... |
GCB | Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding | , GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was a British officer in th ... |
holy orders | Bede gives no specific dates in his story. Cædmon is said to have taken | at an advanced age and it is implied that he lived at Streonæshalch at lea ... |