Lynn Garrison | ... and F4U experience. Bob Love, a Korean war ace, Chuck Lyford, Ben Hall and | are believed to have flown combat missions but it has never been confirmed ... |
PowerBASIC | ... decided to stop publishing it, Zale bought it back from them, renamed it to | and set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue support and development of it |
Ibn Battuta | ... enone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de' Conti, or | , a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who passed through the present-day Middle E ... |
John Cameron Mitchell | ... Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby", which opens the film Shortbus (2006) by | |
Peter Tomlinson | ... orter Trevor East (later director of sport at Setanta Sports) and announcer | (later to become managing director of Saga Radio West Midlands and High Sh ... |
Edgar Wallace | ... ahl who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and | who lived at Bourne End and is buried in Little Marlow. Modern-day writers ... |
Jack Higgins | ... rs who made Jersey their home. Contemporary authors based in Jersey include | , and Sinclair Forrest, author of the 2007 novel, The Dragon of Angur |
Nas | ... , several other Wu-Tang members made appearances, as well as Black Thought, | and Rick Ross, among others. Shortly after Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang was complet ... |
Vyasa | ... srava's epic Mahabharata, the Kurukshetra War is narrated by a character in | 's Jaya, which itself is narrated by a character in Vaisampayana's Bharata ... |
James Wilson | Like Daniel Webster, | , and Joseph Story before him, Lincoln argued that the Declaration of Inde ... |
Sigismund I the Old | ... ge was granted the title "Duke of Prussia" by his new feudal overlord, King | of Poland, who was also his uncle. In a deal partially brokered by Luther, ... |
Jules Verne | Additionally, inspired by the fiction of | , Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion ... |
GDRT | ... E, the South Arabian kingdoms were in continuous conflict with one another. | of Aksum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs, signing an alliance ... |
David Hume | Popper and | agreed that there is often a psychological belief that the sun will rise t ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... hind Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for | at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs M ... |
Bryan Fuller | Another remake, from Pushing Daisies creator | , is in development for NBC. A reboot of The Munsters, it is intended to b ... |
Abu 'Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham | ... ized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic; and | , who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics. Ibn al-Haytham is said ... |
Turbo C | ... period and features the Borland "black screen" similar to Turbo Pascal 4.0, | 1.0/1.5, and Turbo Prolog 1.1. Borland did not adopt its trademark "blue s ... |
Domitian | ... he Jews, completed during the last year of the reign of the Emperor Flavius | (between 1.9.93 and 14.3.94, cf. AJ X.267). In expounding Jewish history, ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... rial army. The Pico family would reign as dukes until Mirandola, an ally of | , was conquered by his rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and an ... |
Holly Black | The children's fantasy series "The Spiderwick Chronicles", by | and Tony DiTerlizzi, includes will o'the wisps; they are listed in "Arthur ... |
Edward Crankshaw | ... pting the dress of a Spanish monarch, which, according to British historian | , consisted of "a black doublet and hose, black shoes and scarlet stocking ... |
Aristo of Pella | ... sed only in the Dialogue, may be identical to a lost dialogue attributed to | on the divine nature of the Messiah, the Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus (c ... |
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 ... |
John Tukey | ... e American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as | , condemned the sampling procedure. Tukey was perhaps the most vocal criti ... |
Woodrow Wilson | In 1916, Baruch left Wall Street to advise president | on national defense and terms of peace. He served on the Advisory Commissi ... |
Sir Peter Ustinov | ... s and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, | , Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet |
John Betjeman | ... d into writing. In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the | poem "Indoor Games Near Newbury", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's ... |
Larry King | ... an in January 1997 (shortly after losing the presidential election). On the | show Dole had a heated exchange with Democratic presidential primary candi ... |
Francisco Franco | ... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimo | and Christopher Columbus as saints. According to his supporters, Pope Greg ... |
Tony DiTerlizzi | ... e children's fantasy series "The Spiderwick Chronicles", by Holly Black and | , includes will o'the wisps; they are listed in "Arthur Spiderwick's Guide ... |
Guillem de Castro | ... translated as 'The Lord'), is based on the play Mocedades del Cid (1621) by | . Both plays were based on the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (nicknamed ... |
John I of Castile | ... erdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married king | , but popular sentiment was against an arrangement in which Portugal would ... |
Ma Ying-jeou | In the 2008 presidential election, KMT candidate | defeated DPP candidate Hsieh with 58.48% of the vote. The party also retai ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... nce and central Europe. In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when | Francis II kept Francis I of Austria as his only official title. These ach ... |
Thomas Beecham | ... ng to establish itself as a self-governing body after the withdrawal of Sir | . In 1949 the opera The Olympians by Arthur Bliss, to a libretto by Priest ... |
Tatian | ... ests that Justin had composed an early harmony along the lines of his pupil | 's Diatesseron. However, the existence of a harmony independent of a colle ... |
Dhu Nuwas | ... d the Sabaean kingdom. They traded from the port of al-Muza on the Red Sea. | , a Himyarite king, changed the state religion to Judaism in the beginning ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ntil Mirandola, an ally of Louis XIV of France, was conquered by his rival, | , in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke Rinaldo d'Este, the exiled male li ... |
Plato | The structure of The Symposium and Phaedo, attributed to | , is of a story within a story within a story |
Terry Pratchett | ... e End and is buried in Little Marlow. Modern-day writers from Bucks include | who was born in Beaconsfield, Tim Rice who is from Amersham and who is fro ... |
Lenny Henry | ... with his contribution that he decided to make a regular fixture out of Bob. | made sporadic appearances throughout this series, but was not established ... |
Larry Wall | ... t list) is a per-user file used by some Usenet reading programs (originally | 's rn) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matc ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... "S" on the duchy's coat of arms represented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund. | , and Pope Clement VII objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided ... |
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 ... |
Peter Cook | ... ewbury", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's Britain that also starred | and Susannah York. That saw the start of a relationship with producer/dire ... |
Gordon Campbell | ... , but failed to meet the required "supermajority" threshold of 60%. Premier | announced due to the large support shown for electoral reform a second ref ... |
Wesley Clark | ... w Dole had a heated exchange with Democratic presidential primary candidate | in which Dole correctly predicted that Clark would lose the New Hampshire ... |
Matteo Maria Boiardo | ... arship of the Italian Renaissance. His cousin and contemporary was the poet | , who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine patron ... |
Hipparchus | ... , three centuries after the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes by | around 130 BC, but he ignored the problem by dropping the concept of a fix ... |
Scheherazade | ... rated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by | . In many of Scheherazade's narrations there are also stories narrated, an ... |
Jermaine | ... member of the Jackson family to be on the show, the first being her brother | in 2007. Jackson's goal in participating in show was to get over her shyne ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... iverse as Pat Metheny, John Zorn, Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista, | , Keiji Haino, tap dancer Will Gaines, Drum 'n' Bass DJ Ninj, Susie Ibarra ... |
Alexander the Great | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias: Drawing inspiration from | , Veidt was once the superhero Ozymandias, but has since retired to devote ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... n sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of | 's army and inspired Southern morale |
Bobby Jindal | ... ean Americans, Chinese Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. The election of | as Governor of Louisiana has been hailed as pathbreaking. He is the first ... |
Richard Dutcher | ... filmmaker Don Bluth '54, Jeopardy! all-time champion Ken Jennings '00, and | , the "Father of Mormon Cinema." In the music industry BYU is represented ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... cal, Tsiolkovsky influenced later rocket scientists throughout Europe, like | . Russian search teams at Peenemünde found a German translation of a book ... |
Saitō Mokichi | ... on of his poetry anthology Sachio kashu in 1920. His own disciples included | and Tsuchiya Bunmei |
D. B. Wyndham-Lewis | ... 1926, he married Jane Wyndham-Lewis (ex-wife of the original 'Beachcomber' | , no relation to the artist Wyndham Lewis); they had two daughters and one ... |
Gerald Durrell | ... he Jersey Zoological Park) founded by the naturalist, zookeeper, and author | |
Natsume Sōseki | As an author, he studied under | , who was a teacher at his high school in Kumamoto. Terada is best known f ... |
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... his advisors went about arranging a marriage for him. Their eyes fell upon | , the eldest child of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She w ... |
John Nance Garner | ... 932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs McAdoo and | , can also be seen as part of his vendetta against Smith, who was an oppon ... |
Louis the German | ... ildren, but one illegitimate son, Hugh. The kings of East and West Francia, | and Charles the Bald, agreed to divided Lotharingia between them, and in 8 ... |
Moses | ... n. Abraham taught science to the Egyptians , who in turn taught the Greeks. | set up a senatorial priestly aristocracy, which, like that of Rome, resist ... |
Daniel Dennett | ... include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, Henry Margenau, and | |
Abraham Maslow | ... re, or had been, prison inmates, and 5% were male prostitutes. Psychologist | asserted that Kinsey did not consider "". The data represented only those ... |
Zach Taylor | ... inch (76 mm) rifled gun and was purchased for $155 on June 25, 1892, by the | Post No. 42 of the Grand Army of the Republic |
Lewis Carroll's | ... commonly. "Brunch" is an example of a portmanteau word (breakfast + lunch). | "snark" (snake + shark) is also a portmanteau. Neologisms also can be crea ... |
E.C. Quist | ... mbly met on 20 February, with Nkrumah as Leader of Government Business, and | as President of the Assembly |
Justin I | ... the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Emperor | invaded and annexed Yemen. About fifty years later, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan ask ... |
Carl Theodor Dreyer | ... neighbours through a miracle. A 1955 film version of Ordet was directed by | , and won the Golden Globe Award that year for Best Foreign Language Film |
Neil Young | ... single remake of We Are the World. On October 24, 2010, Bridges appeared at | 's annual Bridge School Benefit concert and played a set with Neko Case |
Taylor Branch | ... s. Though Kennedy may have intended this to remain a more nominal position, | in Pillar of Fire contends that Johnson served to push the Kennedy adminis ... |
Robert Pipon Marett | ... n in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, | , and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were ... |
Goethe | ... presentation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. | defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his ideal of a ... |
Hugh Downs | ... on, The Today Show with Bryant Gumbel, The Dick Cavett Show, Over Easy with | , The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder, and several others. She also toured E ... |
Wyndham Lewis | ... f the original 'Beachcomber' D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, no relation to the artist | ); they had two daughters and one son. In 1953, he divorced his second wif ... |
Shah Jahan | ... ed the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince | , the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out ... |
Erichthonius | ... A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of Erechtheus/ | through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate that Erichtho ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... ecame a doctor, and served as a surgeon on the staff of Confederate general | during the American Civil War. He was a pioneer in physical therapy. His m ... |
Chris Tarrant | ... lms and cartoons that ATV would transmit on Saturday mornings. Presented by | and John Asher from just a desk in a continuity studio, the pair had to re ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... a itself by Austrian troops; and, though the invasion of Bohemia in 1744 by | enabled him to return to Munich, at his death on 20 January 1745 it was le ... |
Brothers Grimm | ... a Barbe bleue (Bluebeard). Many of Perrault's stories were rewritten by the | , continue to be printed and have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as T ... |
Lew Grade | ... ly a child audience. Henson was finally able to convince British impresario | to finance the show, which would be shot in the United Kingdom and syndica ... |
President | ... any credit the speech by Robert F. Kennedy, who was in town campaigning for | that night, for helping to calm the tensions. Racial tensions heightened i ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... ch John investigates the brutal murder of a former girlfriend, Isabel by an | style magician, Josh Wright. The story introduces, or reintroduces many ch ... |
Charles Baudelaire | In the essay "The Painter of Modern Life" (1864), | gives a literary definition: "By modernity I mean the transitory, the fugi ... |
Janet | ... on a number of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and | and Stewart Farrar. In other Wiccan traditions and amongst a number of sol ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... made his TV debut the same year and was soon commanding enormous audiences. | called Wisdom his "favourite clown" |
Charles Gide | ... ty professor of law and died in 1880. His uncle was the political economist | |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... t the Jewish religion." These were the charges brought by the government of | and Isabella I of Castile against the Jews. They constituted the grounds f ... |
Hadrian | ... known to the Romans, and the foundation of the town refers to the emperor, | , with an inscription of somewhat doubtful authenticity. The bath-consciou ... |
Girolamo Benivieni | trip to Florence, he met Angelo Poliziano, the courtly poet | , and probably the young Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola. For the rest ... |
Darko Macan | Following a brief interlude by Croatian writer | , the series was then taken over by Brian Azzarello, once again hired on t ... |
Chuck Jones | Renowned animator/director | is reported to have said, "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc, Mel Bla ... |
Jan Potocki | ... is narrated within it, and within that there are three more tales narrated. | 's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1805) has extremely rich interl ... |
Oscar Wilde | He befriended | in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. There, Wilde had the ... |
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 ... |
Augustus Asplet Le Gros | ... r Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and | . Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were among authors who made Jersey ... |
Paolo Soleri | Yavapai County is home to Arcosanti, a prototype arcology, developed by | , and under construction since 1970. Arcosanti is open Monday through Sund ... |
Willmoore Kendall | ... ch as Harry V. Jaffa, praised this development. Critics of Lincoln, notably | and Mel Bradford, argued that Lincoln dangerously expanded the scope of th ... |
Tom Snyder | ... el, The Dick Cavett Show, Over Easy with Hugh Downs, The Tomorrow Show with | , and several others. She also toured Europe, performed a 50th Anniversary ... |
Frederick Tennyson | ... hilippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. | and Gerald Durrell were among authors who made Jersey their home. Contempo ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... f Pentecost, but the Orthodox Church estimates the followers as 20,000. The | report having 28,859 active members |
Caracalla | ... iption of somewhat doubtful authenticity. The bath-conscious Roman emperor, | , once came here to ease his arthritic aches. Baden was also known as Aure ... |
Dave Carley | ... s been translated into English (2007) by his granddaughter Arense Lund, and | |
Steve Ditko | ... utlaw status. Moore said he was trying to "come up with this quintessential | character—someone who's got a funny name, whose surname begins with a 'K,' ... |
John Lindley | ... each of its four gardens. The library is based upon the book collection of | |
Edmundo O'Gorman | ... exico. Other Mexicans of Irish descent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, | , Anthony Quinn, Alejo Bay (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conduc ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... se were the charges brought by the government of Ferdinand II of Aragon and | against the Jews. They constituted the grounds for their expulsion and ban ... |
Enid Blyton | ... S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who lived at Great Missenden, | who lived in Beaconsfield and Edgar Wallace who lived at Bourne End and is ... |
Duke Ellington | ... the Northeast. Several notable musicians passed through his band, including | , Coleman Hawkins, and Cozy Cole. Sweatman also continued to record for su ... |
Sir Thomas Browne | ... orated dozens of invented words. The early modern English prose writings of | are the source of many neologisms as recorded by the Oxford English Dictio ... |
Tom Baker | ... was a short comedy called The Passionate Pilgrim in which he was joined by | and Madeline Smith. Again produced by Charles Wallace for MGM/UA, it was r ... |
Nestor | As the battle turned against the Greeks, thanks to the influence of Zeus, | declared that the Trojans were winning because Agamemnon had angered Achil ... |
Wilfred Owen | ... ar Requiem of Benjamin Britten juxtaposes the Latin text with the poetry of | , Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem includes a traditional Polish hymn ... |
Milton Friedman | In 1947, Popper founded with Friedrich Hayek, | , Ludwig von Mises and others the Mont Pelerin Society to defend classical ... |
Sophocles | ... nnos), also known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex, is an Athenian tragedy by | that was first performed c. 429 BCE. It was the second of Sophocles's thre ... |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist | . It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of apprehension, an ... |
George Washington | ... outing their choice to the clerk, as supporters cheered or booed. Candidate | spent L39 for treats for his supporters. The candidates knew they had to " ... |
Charlemagne | ... or, he should rule in Aachen, the capital of the first Carolingian emperor, | , and in Rome, the ancient capital of emperors. Middle Francia (Latin Fran ... |
Brian Azzarello | ... interlude by Croatian writer Darko Macan, the series was then taken over by | , once again hired on the strength of his own series for Vertigo, 100 Bull ... |
Odin | ... e "-", anglicized as Hermod) is a figure in Norse mythology, the son of god | |
Premier | ... visive issue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by Alberta | Ralph Klein and some Conservatives and Liberal backbenchers. However, Paul ... |
Titus | ... pression of the Jewish revolt, Josephus would have witnessed the marches of | 's triumphant legions leading their Jewish captives, and carrying treasure ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The American | was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ... |
Brooke Shields | ... te Bill Clinton on CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's | sitcom Suddenly Susan in January 1997 (shortly after losing the presidenti ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... fantry regiment would include two companies of pikemen, a plan supported by | . Many pikes were produced but were never used in battle and the plan to i ... |
Gerald Durrell | ... t, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and | were among authors who made Jersey their home. Contemporary authors based ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... he visit would prove of benefit to Jews, Hearst visited Berlin to interview | . Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press. "Because ... |
Frederick I of Denmark | On 1 March 1526 Albert married Princess Dorothea, daughter of King | , thereby establishing political ties between Lutheranism and Scandinavia. ... |
Alexandre Pétion | ... th, Port-au-Prince was the capital of the republic, under the leadership of | . Henri Christophe renamed the city Port-aux-Crimes after the assassinatio ... |
Bernie Taupin | ... 85 and scored two No.1 hits. The first was "We Built This City", written by | , Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf and was engineered by Grammy ... |
Henri Christophe | ... was the capital of the republic, under the leadership of Alexandre Pétion. | renamed the city Port-aux-Crimes after the assassination of Jacques I at P ... |
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 ... |
Zoroaster | ... his character is taken from the ancient prophet usually known in English as | , the Persian founder of Zoroastrianism. Nietzsche is clearly portraying a ... |
Shah Jahan | ... en he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas". Fearing the worst | sealed an official Firman allowing the English to trade in Gujarat in the ... |
Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
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 ... |
ANTLR | ... escent parser which is usually coded by hand (although not always; see e.g. | for an LL(*) recursive-descent parser generator) |
Harald I of Norway | ... tacks upon the Viking peoples. Another possible contributing factor is that | ("Harald Fairhair") had united Norway around this time, and the bulk of th ... |
Claudius | The Emperor | paid a visit while Britain was being conquered and was honoured with the a ... |
William Shakespeare | ... ften used a historical background for his plays - among his influences were | , Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and George Bernard Shaw. In his drama ... |
François Quesnay | ... communalism and egalitarianism. This influenced European intellectuals like | , an avid Confucianist and advocate of China's agrarian policies, forming ... |
Ferdinand I | On the death of his half-brother | without a male heir in October 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure ... |
H. P. Lovecraft | Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer | . He is the so-called "Mad Arab" credited with authoring the imaginary boo ... |
Ann Jellicoe | ... lean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of | . Simultaneously he developed in the field of music and played a pivotal r ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... om novels, religion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially | , T. S. Eliot, and (and other Russian novelists) |
Ptolemy | ... It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It is found in a reg ... |
Memnon | ... of Patroclus, Achilles' closest companion was Nestor's son Antilochus. When | , king of Ethiopia slew Antilochus, Achilles once more obtained revenge on ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ntury the Roman Empire was plunged into a civil war. When the dust settled, | emerged as emperor, establishing the Severan dynasty. Unlike previous empe ... |
Adriane Galisteu | ... 0 and 1991. By the time of his death, Senna had been dating Brazilian model | for just over a year |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... connotation. The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher | (1813–1855). In The Concept of Anxiety (also known as The Concept of Dread ... |
Wace | | is Jersey's earliest known author. Printing arrived in Jersey only in the ... |
H. G. Wells | ... , Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was | who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity ... |
Frank Oz | ... becoming typecast as a purveyor of solely children's entertainment, Henson, | , and his team targeted an adult audience with a series of sketches on the ... |
Jean Chapelain | ... and served under Jean Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV. | , Amable de Bourzeys, and Jacques Cassagne (the King's librarian) were als ... |
Nigel Tranter | ... others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction. | wrote a historical novel titled The Wallace, published in 1975, which is s ... |
Alton B. Parker | ... cated. The conservative wing of the party was ascendant and nominated Judge | instead. An opponent of the British Empire, Hearst opposed American involv ... |
Bram Stoker | The Will o' the wisp makes an appearance in the first chapter of | 's Dracula, as the Count, masquerading as his own coach driver, takes Jona ... |
Álvaro Obregón | ... he Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is also famous in Mexican history. | (possibly O'Brian) was president of Mexico during 1920-24 and Obregón city ... |
Roger Ebert | ... predecessor Rocky II, and became the fourth highest grossing film of 1982. | and Gene Siskel attributed the film's success to the positive reaction fro ... |
Laius | ... of Oedipus takes place before the opening scene of the play. In his youth, | was a guest of King Pelops of Elis, and became the tutor of Chrysippus, yo ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... plays - among his influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, | , and George Bernard Shaw. In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination ... |
Vicente Fox | ... 920-24 and Obregón city and airport are named in his honour. More recently, | served as President from 2000 to 2006. Mexico also has a large number of p ... |
John II of France | ... mongst Edward's successes were the battles of Crécy and Poitiers where King | was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King David II of Scotland at Ne ... |
Nick Fury | ... mics character Peacemaker, with elements of the Marvel Comics spy character | added. Moore and Gibbons saw The Comedian as "a kind of Gordon Liddy chara ... |
Mel Gibson | ... known account is presented in the film Braveheart, directed by and starring | , written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland. The ... |
Eric Idle | Next there was a comedy interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe ( | , Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My ... |
Elinor Glyn | ... en ordre, edited by Abraham Mourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include | , John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augu ... |
Albert Einstein | ... nics. He strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr's instrumentalism and supported | 's realist approach to scientific theories about the universe. Popper's fa ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it. | resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the ... |
Denise Mina | | was unknown in comics when she took over the title in 2006, but had three ... |
Beatrice | ... ber 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure the succession for Princess | , Ferdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... ion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially Samuel Beckett, | , and (and other Russian novelists) |
Anote Tong | ... e in March 2003 by a no-confidence vote and replaced by a Council of State. | of the opposition party Boutokaan Te Koaua was elected to succeed Tito in ... |
King John | ... meaning navel, because it was thought to be the navel of England. In 1203, | granted Naseby its market charter and the village became a flourishing mar ... |
C. S. Lewis | At least one line in the | book The Last Battle implies that Lewis learned of Narnia's events - and t ... |
Marc Allégret | ... iterary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review). In 1916, | , only 15 years old, became his lover. Marc was the son of Elie Allégret, ... |
Blake | ... ll as politically revolutionary visions of a post-monarchist world, such as | 's portrayal of Newton as a divine geometer, or David's propagandistic pai ... |
Gene Siskel | ... ky II, and became the fourth highest grossing film of 1982. Roger Ebert and | attributed the film's success to the positive reaction from critics and au ... |
Conor Cruise O'Brien | According to | , the Butchers brought a new, frightening level of paramilitary violence t ... |
GDRT | ... riod the Kingdom of Aksum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs. King | of Aksum acted by dispatching troops under his son, BYGT, sending them fro ... |
Władysław Sikorski | ... of his officials were stationed at nearby Addington and Wingrave. Meanwhile | , military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived a ... |
John Rutledge | ... f his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice | also declared in Talbot v. Janson, "a man may, at the same time, enjoy the ... |
Ezra Taft Benson | ... urch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including two Church presidents: | '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Ch ... |
Anote Tong | ... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president | said that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, | along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then Michael Palin cam ... |
John Lemprière | ... ted by Abraham Mourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, | , Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le G ... |
Captain Atom | ... insic Field Subtractor" in 1959. Doctor Manhattan was based upon Charlton's | , who in Moore's original proposal was surrounded by the shadow of nuclear ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as Albert Camus and | . In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; however, when he def ... |
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 ... |
Erichthonius | ... t she eluded him. His semen fell to the earth and impregnated the soil, and | was born from the Earth, Gaia. Athena then raised the baby as a foster mot ... |
Anote Tong | ... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president | said that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ... |
King Hussein | ... yrian position deteriorated, Jordan sent an expeditionary force into Syria. | , who had come under intense pressure to enter the war, told Israel of his ... |
Randall Wallace | ... ted in the film Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson, written by | , and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland. The film, a highly fictionalize ... |
Charles Darwin | In On the Origin of Species (1859), | proposed evolution through natural selection, a theory central to modern b ... |
Louis the Younger | ... n Lotharingia but was defeated near Andernach by Louis. In 879 Louis's son, | , was invited by a faction of the West Frankish nobility to succeed Louis ... |
Amable de Bourzeys | ... Jean Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV. Jean Chapelain, | , and Jacques Cassagne (the King's librarian) were also appointed. Using h ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and | . In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination for "strong characters" ... |
Bernard McKenna | In a bar about 1975, he asked Graham Chapman and | to do a "treatment" for a "mad movie". They asked a thousand pounds, Moon ... |
Terry Jones | ... was a comedy interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe (Eric Idle, | , Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then M ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's work The Lord of the Rings, will o' the wisps are present in the Dead M ... |
Bob Dylan | Smith mentioned his admiration for | in several interviews, citing him as an early musical influence. He once c ... |
Bill Wyman | ... The line-up did not at that time include drummer Charlie Watts and bassist | . By 1963, they were finding their stride as well as popularity. By 1964, ... |
Polybus of Corinth | ... th, where Oedipus is taken in and raised in the court of the childless King | as if he were his own |
King Charles I | ... oor a small distance north of the village the Royalist forces, commanded by | , battled the Roundhead army commanded by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax ... |
Diocletian | ... These reforms were finally realized late in the century under the reign of | , one of them being to divide the empire into an eastern and western half, ... |
Apocalypse | ... llfire Club, the arrival of the mysterious Madelyne Pryor, and the villains | , Mister Sinister, Mojo, and Sabretooth |
Richard I | ... was elected Bishop of Salisbury shortly after the accession of Henry's son | to the throne of England |
Monivong | ... amily. An older sister of Pol Pot had been a concubine at the court of King | . Three of the Paris group forged a bond that survived years of revolution ... |
Lorne Michaels | ... ances in March, April, May, and September. Henson recalled that "I saw what | was going for and I really liked it and wanted to be a part of it, but som ... |
Albert Camus | In the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as | and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic called the war illegal. French President | commented on the statement of the ten Eastern European countries saying: " ... |
George McGovern | ... globe. In addition to numerous domestic programs, along with former Senator | (D-South Dakota), Dole created an international school lunch program throu ... |
Jacques Cassagne | ... finance minister to King Louis XIV. Jean Chapelain, Amable de Bourzeys, and | (the King's librarian) were also appointed. Using his influence as Colbert ... |
Philippe Le Sueur Mourant | ... ourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, John Lemprière, | , Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and ... |
Charles X Gustav | After | , the son of John Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded ... |
Lew Grade | During its ATV days, the chairman of the station | , was said to have taken a personal dislike to the show but was persuaded ... |
Hermann Oberth | ... and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German | and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the foun ... |
David II of Scotland | ... here King John II of France was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King | at Neville's Cross. During this period, the Tower of London held many nobl ... |
Mary Shelley | ... a book called The Horse And His Boy after the events related in the novel. | 's Frankenstein at one point features the narration of an Arctic explorer, ... |
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. ... |
Harry Shearer | ... gh her "Itchy" and "Scratchy" voices were performed by Dan Castellaneta and | , respectively |
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 ... |
Hadrian | ... in agony under the heel of the emperor. She appeared on coins issued under | , as a more regal-looking female figure. Britannia was soon personified as ... |
Ezra Pound | ... in Paris in March 1928. Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: | , W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met wi ... |
Michael O'Donoghue | ... ting for the characters, and frequently disparaged Henson's creations; one, | , memorably quipped, "I won't write for felt. |
Washington Irving | ... Hollow, New York is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including | , whose story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent Old Dut ... |
Louis the Stammerer | ... Younger, was invited by a faction of the West Frankish nobility to succeed | , Charles's son, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, C ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1923, he published a book on | ; however, when he defended pederasty in the public edition of Corydon (19 ... |
Pausanias | ... indeed have touched with excitement. But it was being shown in the time of | in the 2nd century AD |
Shah Jahan | ... ab. He was succeeded by his third son, Prince Khurram who took the title of | . Jahangir's elegant mausoleum is located in the Shahdara locale of Lahore ... |
Zeno | ... tself was saved by the Isaurian troops of the magister militum per Orientem | and protected by the intervention of the prefect Constantinus, who organiz ... |
Charles Mackay | ... rd Baruch was Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by | , first published in 1841. It was also a favorite book of his best friend, ... |
Saint Paul | ... ands immediately to the east of the transept, or ritual choir; the altar of | (B) in the eastern, and that of St Peter (C) in the western apse. A cylind ... |
Laius | ... t of religious pollution, caused because the murderer of their former King, | , had never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him ... |
Frank Marcus | ... alone on stage". But when it opened at the Palace Theatre in February 1968, | , reviewing for Plays and Players, commented that: "She sings well. The ti ... |
John | ... rd's death in 1199, Walter helped assure the elevation of Richard's brother | to the throne. Walter also served John as a diplomat, undertaking several ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, | ; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request ... |
Claude Perrault | ... influence as Colbert's administrative aide, he was able to get his brother, | , employed as an a designer the new section of the Louvre, built between 1 ... |
M. Thomas Inge | In the introduction to his 1969 book Agrarianism in American Literature, | defines agrarianism by the following basic tenets |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch remained a prominent government adviser during this time, and supported | 's domestic and foreign policy initiatives after his election |
Edward | ... by Portuguese historians as the "illustrious generation" (Ínclita Geração): | , the future king, was a poet and a writer; Peter, the Duke of Coimbra, wa ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Banks | ... cessor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir | (President of the Royal Society), James Dickson (a nurseryman), William Fo ... |
Tim Rice | ... ay writers from Bucks include Terry Pratchett who was born in Beaconsfield, | who is from Amersham and who is from Aylesbury |
August Derleth | | later made alterations to the biography of Alhazred, such as redating his ... |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing King | to flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ... |
Sheridan Morley | ... n 1968, she was offered the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret. As | later reported: "At first she thought they were joking. She had never done ... |
Otto I | ... a bridgehead to Italy, which was re-affirmed during the Italian Campaign of | . In the years 1007 and 1027 the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire granted ... |
Xenophon | In Greece, Hesiod, Aristotle and | promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as ... |
Masaoka Shiki | His interest in poetry led him to visit the famous author | , who accepted him as a student. Itō established the literary magazine Ara ... |
Nas | ... In addition, Raekwon was selected as 'Emcee of the Year' (fellow New Yorker | had won in 2008). Their staff justified this pick with this description of ... |
Cecrops | ... fered them the first domesticated olive tree. The Athenians (or their king, | ) accepted the olive tree and with it the patronage of Athena, for the oli ... |
Hiroshi Aramata | ... ntral character in the fantasy/historical fiction novel Teito Monogatari by | |
Chris Tarrant | Midway through this series, | decided to leave upon the series' conclusion. Also leaving him, on the fin ... |
Dawid Wdowiński | ... Betar, Hatzohar and Polish Irgun members, under the political leadership of | , and known as Żydowski Związek Wojskowy (Jewish Military Union). There we ... |
Al Smith | ... backed by Tammany Hall leaders for the U.S. Senate nomination in New York. | vetoed this, earning the lasting enmity of Hearst. Although Hearst shared ... |
Andrew Loog Oldham | ... little equipment and needed to borrow Alexis' gear to play. This was before | became their manager |
John Webster | ... l best actress awards. Among her roles with the RSC, she was the Duchess in | 's The Duchess of Malfi in 1971. In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at ... |
Emperor | ... capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the | Valentinian I. Ambrose never married |
Maria Theresa | ... an Succession, nominally a struggle over the legitimacy of the accession of | to the Austrian throne, began in 1740, but at first did not involve either ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... on, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes. | 's novel The Blind Assassin also uses this technique. The novel's exposito ... |
Livy | ... tended to men, and celebrations took place five times a month. According to | , the extension happened in an era when the leader of the Bacchus cult was ... |
Tony Dungy | ... tatistically worst rushing defense in the league during the regular season. | became only the third man to have won the Super Bowl as both a head coach ... |
Qabus | ... ur and Merv to the borders of Khorasan, seeking an opening for his talents. | , the generous ruler of Dailam and central Persia, himself a poet and a sc ... |
Louis XIV | ... return to the stage in 1659. He wrote the play Oedipe, which was favored by | . In the next year, Corneille published Trois discours sur le poème dramat ... |
Charles the Bald | ... itimate son, Hugh. The kings of East and West Francia, Louis the German and | , agreed to divided Lotharingia between them, and in 870 they came to an a ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... the disaffected. In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of | (1558) and its form has more than once been altered since. Up to the time ... |
Henri Christophe | ... the Musée National is a museum featuring historical artifacts such as King | 's actual suicide pistol and a rusty anchor that museum operators claim wa ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... arrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), about the "unmaking" of a | retelling of Don Quixote, tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixot ... |
Aristotle | In Greece, Hesiod, | and Xenophon promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roma ... |
Kenneth Williams | ... ayed by the actor Kenny Doughty in the BBC film , starring Michael Sheen as | |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer | , who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprison ... |
Alexis Korner | In their earliest days, the members played for no money in the interval of | 's gigs at a basement club opposite Ealing Broadway tube station (subseque ... |
Berlioz | ... Hauptmann, acquiring the then-conventional prejudices against the music of | , Liszt and Wagner. (This would be in sharp contrast to his brother Walter ... |
Hesiod | In Greece, | , Aristotle and Xenophon promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential we ... |
Neil L. Andersen | ... presidents:Ezra Taft Benson '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles ( | , D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 ... |
Horace | ... rian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, | , and Virgil. They all praised the virtues of a life devoted to the tillin ... |
Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Traianus (or, less frequently, year 851 Ab urbe condita). The denomina ... |
Martin Luther | At Wittenberg in 1522 and at Nuremberg in 1524, | encouraged him to convert the order's territory into a secular principalit ... |
Pausanias | ... of fifty Roman miles from Peuce by the Danube Delta, and the temple there. | has been told that the island is "covered with forests and full of animals ... |
Gordon Astley | The new presenting team consisted of Midlands DJ | , former Darts frontman Den Hegarty and comic impressionist Fogwell Flax. ... |
Friedrich Ebert | ... ber Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin, to the fury of | and James Mitchell, the leaders of the MSPD, who thought that the question ... |
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 ... |
Catullus | ... . At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Domitianus and | (or, less frequently, year 826 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 73 for t ... |
Tom Flores | (along with | {IV-player, XV and XVIII-coach} and Mike Ditka {VI-player, XX-coach}), as ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... full term of his presidency. The late President's brother, Attorney General | , with whom Johnson had a notoriously difficult relationship, remained in ... |
Thomas Mann | ... arius, Taurus, and Scorpio, respectively. Such connections were taken up by | , who in his novel Joseph and His Brothers attributes characteristics of a ... |
Marc Allégret | ... 27, he travelled through the French Equatorial Africa colony with his lover | . He went successively to Middle Congo (now the Republic of the Congo), Ou ... |
Pausanias | ... ce, containing the Temple of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by Aleus, | was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric and Archaic pe ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peter | ... ration" (Ínclita Geração): Edward, the future king, was a poet and a writer | ;, the Duke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; a ... |
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" ... |
Abraham Lincoln | The Declaration's relationship to slavery was taken up in 1854 by | , a little-known former Congressman who idolized the Founding Fathers. Lin ... |
Franz Kafka | ... strife during the war. However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and | in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in ... |
Johnny Depp | ... tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which would have starred | as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero. Bridges had previ ... |
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 ... |
Harry Vardon | ... wo golfers from Jersey have won The Open Championship 7 times between them, | winning 6 times and Ted Ray winning once. Harry and Ted also won the US Op ... |
King Edward VIII | In 1920, the Prince of Wales (the future | ) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, he recommended the place in ... |
St Louis | ... rchbishops, the two generals of the Carthusians and Cistercians, the king ( | ), and three of his sons, the queen mother, Baldwin, count of Flanders and ... |
Teburoro Tito | ... ts of the main island group would be resettled onto less-populated islands. | was elected president in 1994. Kiribati's 1995 act of moving the internati ... |
Virgil | ... Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, Horace, and | . They all praised the virtues of a life devoted to the tilling of the soi ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... wed the explosion of a nuclear bomb. The message conveyed was that electing | president held the danger of nuclear war. Although it only aired one time, ... |
Fernão Lopes | ... n was the natural son of Peter I by a woman named Teresa, who, according to | , was a noble Galician. In the eighteenth century, António Caetano de Sous ... |
Stanisław Lem | ... contains a science fiction story written by one of that novel's characters. | 's Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius from The Cyberia ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... ch notables as former President Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor | |
Mike Ditka | and | {VI-player, XX-coach}), as well as the first African-American Head Coach t ... |
Wagner | ... ng the then-conventional prejudices against the music of Berlioz, Liszt and | . (This would be in sharp contrast to his brother Walter, who would become ... |
Charles Wyville Thomson | Prompted by the Scot, | —of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School—the Royal Soc ... |
Harry S. Truman | In 1946 President | appointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations ... |
Napoleon III | ... was then nicknamed the European summer capital and reached its zenith under | during the 1850s and 1860s. The Russian writer, Dostoevsky, wrote The Gamb ... |
Doreen Valiente | ... original Book composed by Gerald Gardner with the aid of his High Priestess | , along with alterations and additions that have been made since then, is ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... at the edge of the (known) world. Similar coin types were also issued under | |
Michael Morton | ... ppeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by | from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
Benjamin Franklin | ... o owned their own land and voted for their local and provincial government. | , in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... Hearst shared Smith's opposition to Prohibition he swung his papers behind | in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for Franklin D. Roosev ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, | , and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation technique ... |
Michael Parkinson | Morecambe headed back to his hotel, and recounted in an interview with | in November 1972 that, as the pains spread to his chest, he became unable ... |
Fulke Greville | ... es Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – | – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George ... |
Marco Polo | ... ten report back to the Mongols. Around the same time, the Venetian explorer | became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China, and hi ... |
Thomas Telford | ... pment of the network, therefore, had to be left to other engineers, such as | |
Ho Chi Minh | In 1930 | founded the Vietnamese Communist Party by unifying three smaller communist ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as | and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ... |
Charles Darwin | | 's theory of evolution is based on three principles: natural selection, he ... |
Julian Assange | ... ished works is not 'Sunshine Policy' but wholesale copyright infringement." | replied: "We thought it was a small issue, and our normal fare is governme ... |
Pope Paul IV | Two years later | issued orders to have all the conversos thrown into the prisons of the Inq ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... f the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and | . Austria supported the former, France the latter; thus, a war broke out. ... |
John of Lancaster | ... Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, at Greenwich in the 1430s, as well by his son, | at Fulbrook. The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and par ... |
Hans Reichenbach | ... can be resolved, and that discretization can therefore remove the paradox. | has proposed that the paradox may arise from considering space and time as ... |
Philippa of Lancaster | John I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 | , daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Blanche of Lancaste ... |
Henry VI | ... it is an honorary title and a royal style. The Dukedom became extinct after | , as the original charter restricted it to 'heirs male'. Despite this, app ... |
John M. Ford | ... uch as Gene Roddenberry's novelization of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, | 's The Final Reflection, Margaret Wander Bonanno's Strangers from the Sky ... |
Orson Scott Card | ... re and journalism, BYU has produced several best-selling authors, including | '75, Brandon Sanderson '00 & '05, and Stephenie Meyer '95. Other media per ... |
Orson Welles | ... Kid Ory's band, which was featured for a time on a radio program hosted by | . Noone played a few broadcasts with the band, but died suddenly of a hear ... |
Coen brothers | ... cademy Award nomination for his role in True Grit, a collaboration with the | in which he starred alongside Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and H ... |
Benjamin Nugent | Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, a biography by | , was rushed to publication and hit stores shortly after From a Basement o ... |
Alaric | ... negotiation to Leo. Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of | —who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410—gave him pause |
Malcolm Hardee | ... 'Balloon Dance' performed by The Greatest Show on Legs, including comedian | . The theme tune was recorded by Roy Wood and was released as a singl |
Dick Higgins | ... rs, including Hannah Higgins, daughter of fluxus artists Alison Knowles and | , assert that although Maciunas was a key participant, there were many mor ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... st Dole early, painting him as a mere clone of unpopular then-House Speaker | , warning America that Dole would work in concert with the Republican Cong ... |
Edward the Confessor | ... there and was a regular visitor himself. Other medieval residents included | , who had a palace at Brill, and John Wycliffe who lived in |
John Amos Comenius | ... s displaced by French, Italian, and English by the end of the 16th century. | was one of many people who tried to reverse this trend. He composed a comp ... |
Sulpicius Severus' | ... ry developed in association with that of St. Martin of Tours as a result of | Vita Sancti Martini and spread early to western Britain. The villages of S ... |
Robert Rozhdestvensky | ... e war", and Dmitry Kabalevsky's War Requiem, a setting of a poem written by | especially for the composition. Herbert Howells's unaccompanied Requiem us ... |
Helen Atkinson-Wood | ... y hosted a late-night show - with the up and coming comics Alexei Sayle and | called O.T.T. (standing for "Over the Top") which was effectively an "adul ... |
Abraomas Kulvietis | ... rotestant Lithuanian pastors as professors (e.g. Stanislovas Rapolionis and | ), making the Albertina also a centre of Lithuanian language and literatur ... |
Frederick I Barbarossa | The Hohenstaufen Emperor | created a Reichsvogtei (roughly "Imperial Bailiwick"), and in 1180 put Wet ... |
Sheri L. Dew | ... FO Gary Crittenden '76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO | , and Matthew K. McCauley, CEO of children's clothing company Gymboree |
Nitobe Inazō | ... pacifism made a lasting impression upon Uchimura. He and his Sapporo friend | were influential in the establishment of the Friends School in Tokyo as a ... |
Gene Roddenberry | Several Star Trek tales are stories or events within stories, such as | 's novelization of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, John M. Ford's The Fi ... |
Acting President | ... of the Polish presidential election on July 4, 2010, Bronisław Komorowski, | , Marshal of the Sejm and a Civic Platform politician, defeated Jarosław K ... |
President of Ghana | ... on's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first | and the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocat ... |
George Orwell | ... only one work of that author. This includes such words as "Orwellian" (from | , referring to his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four) and "Ballardesque" or "Ball ... |
Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales | The third creation was on 10 November 1399, for | , eldest son of the new king. In 1413, the 1st Duke ascended the throne as ... |
Herodotus | The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in The Histories of | around 450 BC (Hdt. 1.202.4): Atlantis thalassa (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς θάλασσα; ... |
Henry VIII | ... ongside population growth, inflation was a major reason for enclosure. When | became King in 1509, the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the p ... |
Andrew Bisset | See: | . Black Roots White Flowers, Golden Press, 197 |
Akbar | ... verge of conversion," a notion which proved to be very false. Instead, both | and Jahangir studied this artwork very closely and replicated and adapted ... |
Stendhal | ... merent bonds are characterized by "entropy" crystallization as described by | in his 1821 treatise On Love, where a new love infatuation perceptually be ... |
Charles the Bold | ... oyed an extremely refined court culture in his lands; she was the mother of | |
Anne Boleyn | ... ieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and | also owned property in the same town. It is said that King Henry VIII made ... |
Blanche of Lancaster | ... Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and | . From that marriage were born several famous princes and princesses of Po ... |
Charlemagne | The Kingdom of the Franks under | was particularly hard-hit by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine wi ... |
Mark Twain | ... in the past, among the most renowned of them are Bernardin de Saint Pierre, | , Nicholas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian write ... |
Henry King | ... E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – | – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Lon ... |
Rob Zombie | ... almost $20,000 to build. Barris also built the DRAG-U-LA (which inspired a | song by the same name), a dragster built from a coffin, which Grandpa used ... |
William Lloyd Garrison | ... l as well as a political document". Abolitionist leaders Benjamin Lundy and | adopted the "twin rocks" of "the Bible and the Declaration of Independence ... |
Otto Jespersen | ... anesca, Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803–1865), Henry Sweet (1845–1912), | (1860–1943), and Harold Palmer (1877–1949). They worked on setting languag ... |
U.S. Presidents | ... sultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising | Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a ... |
Emperor Meiji | ... most famous such incident was his refusal to bow deeply to the portrait of | and the Imperial Rescript on Education in the formal ceremony held at the ... |
Juan Pujol | On 16 June 1944, British double agent Garbo ( | ) was requested by his German controllers to give information on the sites ... |
Alessandro Barbero | | (2007). The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the ... |
Leonard Cohen | ... ayed the huge Isle of Wight Festival alongside Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, and | |
Marquis de Sade | ... r of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices | described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of ... |
Artie Shaw | ... " flavoring. Noone was an important influence on later clarinetists such as | , Irving Fazola and Benny Goodman |
Charles the Bold | ... ing with the astonishing battlefield victories of the Swiss cantons against | of Burgundy in the Burgundian Wars, in which the Swiss participated in 147 ... |
Henry VI | ... hey did not secure their independence nor become "abbeys" till the reign of | . The Cluniac revival, with all its brilliancy, was but short-lived. The c ... |
Edward VI | ... tion (and therefore enclosures) until the Duke of Somerset was Protector of | . Until then enclosures were seen as the cause of inflation, not the outco ... |
Shah of Iran | ... traits of Jagger in 1975. One of these was owned by Farah Diba, wife of the | . It hung on a wall inside the royal palace in Teheran. In 1967, Cecil Bea ... |
Stephenie Meyer | ... g authors, including Orson Scott Card '75, Brandon Sanderson '00 & '05, and | '95. Other media personalities include award-winning ESPN sportscaster and ... |
Edmund Waller | Buckinghamshire later became home to some notable literary characters. | was brought up in Beaconsfield and served as Member of Parliament for both ... |
George II | ... nglish merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, | ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to t ... |
Pindar | ... atises all arose in this period.The two major lyrical poets were Sappho and | |
Zoroaster | ... in books to fall into my hands. They are Chaldean books [...] of Esdras, of | and of Melchior, oracles of the magi, which contain a brief and dry interp ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... V specials as the Timex All-Star Jazz Show and The Swingin' Years hosted by | . She recorded infrequently after the expiration of her Verve contract in ... |
Jo Lustig | Bruce May had bowed out and McTell was now being managed by impresario | . In October 1970, McTell sold out the Royal Festival Hall again and the a ... |
Walter Scott | In the early 19th century, | wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ng his opponent's term. Dole was defeated, as pundits had long expected, by | in the 1996 election. Clinton won in a 379-159 Electoral College landslide ... |
The Prince of Wales | ... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by | . Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ... |
Pausanias | ... ers: Achilleion in Messenia (Stephanus Byzantinus), Achilleios in Laconia ( | , III.25,4) Nicolae Densuşianu (Densuşianu 1913) even though he recognized ... |
Sigismund II Augustus | ... llern with the Prussian dukedom. So he tried for gaining his brother-in-law | of Poland and finally succeeded, including the then usual expenses |
Ron Paul | ... y combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and | strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which they v ... |
Des O'Connor | ... ase from hospital, two weeks after the heart attack, Morecambe learned that | had told his audience in Paignton to pray for Morecambe's recovery as he w ... |
Greek theatre | ... as a model for Wilhelm Adolf Becker's Gallus and Charicles. The second, the | , which Böttiger had been interested in since his time as a drama critic i ... |
Rudolph I | ... ad already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When the rightful king, | heard of this and came to Wetzlar, the city leaders seized Tile Kolup and ... |
Isaac Asimov | | claims that Gothic cavalry adopted technology reverse-engineered from the ... |
Justina | ... ved a formidable task for Ambrose. In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother | , along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially militar ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'" | offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ... |
Hipparchus | ... , where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like | and Xanthippe; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds has his ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... racy lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the Nazi Party and | in 1933. The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and M ... |
Henry VII | ... the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the prudence of his father | . But this soon changed as Henry VIII doubled household expenditure and st ... |
Blind Harry | ... d Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by | the minstrel. Harry wrote from oral tradition describing events 170 years ... |
Harold Wilson | ... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of | , Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ... |
John Wycliffe | ... val residents included Edward the Confessor, who had a palace at Brill, and | who lived in |
Brandon Sanderson | ... has produced several best-selling authors, including Orson Scott Card '75, | '00 & '05, and Stephenie Meyer '95. Other media personalities include awar ... |
François Quesnay | ... were partially influenced by Chinese agrarianism; leading physiocrats like | were avid Confucianists that advocated China's agrarian policies |
Matt Damon | ... Grit, a collaboration with the Coen brothers in which he starred alongside | , Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and Hailee Steinfeld. Both the film, and Brid ... |
Giannina Braschi | Latin American writer | wrote the philosophical novel "United States of Banana" based on Walter Ka ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... aw," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis' loss to | . The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al ... |
Graham Greene | ... than complimentary about his work, and Priestley began legal action against | for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul ... |
Goethe | ... ble review of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Ion was withdrawn at the request of | . It was mainly as a schoolmaster in Weimar that he wrote his papers on th ... |
Sappho | ... ophical treatises all arose in this period.The two major lyrical poets were | and Pindar |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... hn I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of | and Blanche of Lancaster. From that marriage were born several famous prin ... |
Bill Clinton | The incumbent, | , had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ... |
Charles the Simple | In 911, French King | was able to make an agreement with the Viking warleader Rollo, a chieftain ... |
Hank Moody | In season 5 of the television series Californication, the protagonist | mentions the Kinsey report as a derogatory comment directed towards the ch ... |
Bill O'Reilly | ... g break in Acapulco just a week after the dissemination of the email, while | devoted a segment of his show, The O'Reilly Factor, to urge students to st ... |
Thomas Campbell | ... m Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – | – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... y campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against Richard Nixon and | , and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry Southern states. Accordin ... |
Bob Dylan | ... nuclear disarmament and antiwar protester subculture. Folk rock songs like | 's 1963 Masters of War and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall articulated the drea ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... s father considered other possibilities (such as marrying her to the future | ) before announcing the engagement of the couple. France demanded that Mar ... |
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 ... |
Conradine | ... latter case, most likely referring to wooden defences around the town). The | Gebhard, Count in the Wetterau, and as of 904 Duke of Lorraine, had a Chur ... |
Brian Henson | ... he commercial failure of Labyrinth demoralized Henson to the point that son | remembered the time of its release as being "the closest I've seen him to ... |
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 ... |
Hermes Trismegistus | ... , which fascinated him, as did the late Classical Hermetic writers, such as | . The Kabbalah and the Hermetica were thought in Pico's time to be as anci ... |
Guy III of Spoleto | ... Arnulf their king, possibly under coercion. Arnful was initially opposed by | , who eventually made himself king in Italy, and by Rudolph of Auxerre, wh ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... ed from the cruel sexual practices Marquis de Sade described in his novels. | 's Cat's Cradle was the container of the Bokononism family of nonce words |
Margaret Wander Bonanno | ... n of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, John M. Ford's The Final Reflection, | 's Strangers from the Sky (which adopts the conceit that it is book from t ... |
Hountondji | ... ican socialism" in the sense Nyerere, one of the "ideology of continuity" ( | left) was arrested from |
Attila the Stockbroker | The performers at the festival in 2009 included 3 Daft Monkeys, | , the Swanvesta Social Club, and Rory McLeod |
Pete Townshend | ... ets culminated in what they later described as "auto-destructive art", with | (and Moon delightedly following suit) destroying their equipment in elabor ... |
Leo McCarey | Although Hal Roach employed writers and directors such as H. M. Walker, | , James Parrott and James W. Horne on Laurel and Hardy films, Laurel would ... |
Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Saturninus (or, less frequently, year 794 Ab urbe condita). The denomi ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... e its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of | , who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders ... |
Richard Wagner | ... d not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, | , or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere. Gershwin responded to the critics, " ... |
Constantius II | About the same time, he wrote to Emperor | a remonstrance against the persecutions by which the Arians had sought to ... |
Yu Shyi-kun | ... ulted into President Chen resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier | resigned, and Frank Hsieh assumed premiership on 25 January 2005 |
Jane Porter | In the early 19th century, Walter Scott wrote of Wallace in , and | penned a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in ... |
St Bernard | ... of the order are undoubtedly to be attributed to the enthusiastic piety of | , abbot of the first of the monastic colonies, subsequently sent forth in ... |
King George V | ... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later | , with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ... |
Premier of the Republic of China | ... etropolis. Hsieh resigned from the office of mayor to take up the office of | in 2005. The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted i ... |
Saint Paul | ... d the chisel of Algardi", reporting that the Pope, aided by Saint Peter and | , convinced Attila to turn away from the city. According to a version of t ... |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... am, was successfully invested with the duchy in 1623 by the king of Poland, | , thus the personal union Brandenburg-Prussia was confirmed. Many of the P ... |
Elizabeth II | ... entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch, | . The Sovereign is styled as Duke of Lancaster, regardless of gender, alth ... |
Augustine | Ambrose ranks with | , Jerome, and Gregory the Great, as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... uent incursions into Spanish territory to recapture escaped slaves. General | 's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Semi ... |
Michael Palin | ... nes, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then | came out as an over the top announcer who eventually states that he only e ... |
Arnulf of Carinthia | When in November 887 | called a council of the East Frankish nobility to depose Charles the Fat, ... |
Frank Hsieh | ... resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier Yu Shyi-kun resigned, and | assumed premiership on 25 January 2005 |
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | ... digenous languages of the area have the ñ sound. Another theory states that | and the crew of the ship Florida, wrecked off the Sonora coast, were force ... |
Zwentibold | ... ent himself with a rump state. In 895 Arnulf appointed his illegitimate son | King of Lotharingia. He ruled independently until he was overthrown and ki ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... mington. Johnson decided to seek the Vice Presidency and with House Speaker | 's help pressured Kennedy to give him a spot |
Peter IV | ... his life, he had to contend with the son of his first marriage, the future | |
Friedrich Ebert | ... t modernising its form, including a reduction of the heads from two to one. | initially declared the official German coat of arms to be a design by Emil ... |
Ashur-dan III | ... . He succeeded his father Adad-nirari III, and was succeeded by his brother | . Very little information about his reign has survived |
Paul | ... was helped by Ambrose's sermons, owes more to him than to any writer except | |
Rabban Bar Sauma | ... Silk Road was in the hand of Genghis Khans' daughters. The Mongol diplomat | visited the courts of Europe in 1287–1288 and provided a detailed written ... |
Alexei Sayle | ... therland and Henry hosted a late-night show - with the up and coming comics | and Helen Atkinson-Wood called O.T.T. (standing for "Over the Top") which ... |
Roger of Wendover | ... he same time Saint Rumwold was buried in Buckingham. In the medieval period | was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and Anne Boleyn also owned proper ... |
Anna Pavlovna of Russia | ... King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen | |
Agatha Christie | Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by | . Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long ... |
Nathaniel Macon | ... should not be added to the country. Proslavery Congressmen, led by Senator | of North Carolina, argued that since the Declaration was not a part of the ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... t elect a replacement until 925, when under Gilbert's leadership they chose | , the East Frankish king. In 930 Gilbert's decision was rewarded and he re ... |
Akbar | ... hem various books, engravings, and paintings and, when they saw the delight | held for them, sent for more and more of the same to be given to the Mugha ... |
Thomas Ford | ... – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – | – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Regi ... |
Theodosius I | ... e powerful adversaries. The Goths, though partly tamed by Valens' successor | (who accepted them once more as allies), were to remain as a distinct enti ... |
Charles V | ... e was eagerly solicited by the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor | ) and by those of Francis I, King of France, and he appears to have receiv ... |
Tom Hanks | ... He was then joined by the Pythons, Innes, Carol Cleveland and special guest | , to perform "The Lumberjack Song" |
Plato | ... ns of people his starting-point. Aspects of Socrates were first united from | , who also combined with them many of the principles established by earlie ... |
James II | ... Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of | and Blanche of Anjou. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urg ... |
Steven Barnes | ... d Gen Jaramet-Sauner), and J.R. Rasmussen's "Research" in the anthology II. | 's novelization of "Far Beyond the Stars" partners with Greg Cox's (Volume ... |
John Cecil Masterman | ... he Germans had ready access to through the neutral nations. In addition, as | , chairman of the Twenty Committee, commented, "If, for example, St Paul's ... |
Vilhelm Moberg | ... ncluding Erik Norelius, whose personal journals in part formed the basis of | ’s novels of the Swedish emigration to the United States, The Emigrants. M ... |
John Dudley | ... s one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact. The stables built by | in the 1550s also survive and lie along the east side of the base court. T ... |
Julius Caesar | ... me for the group was subsequently dropped. That island was first invaded by | in 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to ... |
Tommy Boyd | ... t Clair, folksinger and former co-host of The Generation Game on BBC TV and | , former co-presenter of ITV's Magpie. It ran from 1982 to 1984 |
G. A. Henty | ... ed a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in 1810. | wrote a novel in 1885 about this time period titled In Freedom's Cause. He ... |
Sadyattes | ... –560 BC), considered to be the founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of | , of the house of the Mermnadae |
John Peel | ... was featured on radio programmes including Country Meets Folk in August and | 's Top Gear. The release of the album meant more live work so McTell's bro ... |
Richard Nixon | ... outcomes of real-world events such as the Vietnam War and the presidency of | . In keeping with the realism of the series, although the costumed crimefi ... |
Michael Jackson | In 1984, American musician | 's album Thriller became the first album by a Western artist to sell over ... |
Eddie Braben | ... the plane. John Ammonds, the show's producer, replaced Hills and Green with | , who had just parted from Ken Dodd. With Braben as chief writer, Morecamb ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... ized in three films — Judgement at Nuremberg, where the character played by | is a widow whose fictional German general was tried and put to death for t ... |
John Cage | ... noise attacks. (The sounds he produced have been compared to those made by | 's prepared piano.) Typically, he played a conventional instrument, in sta ... |
Ion Iliescu | ... affected Romania or Bulgaria's chances for EU accession. Romanian President | called Chirac's remarks irrational, saying "such reproaches are totally un ... |
Francis I | ... the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor Charles V) and by those of | , King of France, and he appears to have received a large amount of money ... |
Jack Kemp | ... on in income tax rates and made former Congressman and supply side advocate | his running mate. Dole also found himself criticized from both the left an ... |
Sharlene Wells Hawkes | ... rsonalities include award-winning ESPN sportscaster and former Miss America | '86 and former co-host of CBS's The Early Show Jane Clayson Johnson '90. I ... |
Aristotle | ... eloped the whole of this material into the unity of a comprehensive system. | of Stagira, the most important disciple of Plato, shared with his teacher ... |
John Davidson | ... ion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – | – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michae ... |
Emperor Wilhelm II | ... ied propaganda referred to Germans as the "Huns", based on a 1900 speech by | praising Attila the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of W ... |
William II of the Netherlands | ... he Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of King | and in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia |
Augustine | ... late handling of Biblical and doctrinal subjects. His spiritual successor, | , whose conversion was helped by Ambrose's sermons, owes more to him than ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... a Theresa's fiancé surrender his ancestral Duchy of Lorraine to accommodate | , the deposed King of Poland. Maria Theresa's father compelled Francis to ... |
Adad-nirari III | Shalmaneser IV was king of Assyria (783 - 773 BC). He succeeded his father | , and was succeeded by his brother Ashur-dan III. Very little information ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican Party abolished slavery under | , defeated the Slave Power, and gave blacks the vote during Reconstruction ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... hieve complete intuitive understanding), from Stranger in a Strange Land by | ; "McJob", from by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by Wil ... |
Henry Dodge | ... as a private in an independent company that was taken into federal service. | , a Michigan territorial militia colonel who would prove to be one of the ... |
Augustine's | ... Bishop of Milan at the time of Augustine's conversion, and is mentioned in | Confessions |
Johnny Cash | ... e film The Contender, in which he co-starred, Bridges recorded a version of | 's standard "Ring of Fire" with Kim Carnes that played over the pivotal op ... |
Jane Clayson Johnson | ... merica Sharlene Wells Hawkes '86 and former co-host of CBS's The Early Show | '90. In entertainment and television, BYU is represented by Jon Heder '02 ... |
Paul | ... and is not merely a witness. Thus in Acts 23:21, over forty men, enemies of | , bound themselves, under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they h ... |
Emperor Xuanzong | The Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. Chinese | brings the Tang Dynasty to its pinnacle. Nara period in Japan |
Jerome K. Jerome | ... e visited there and John Wilkes was MP for Aylesbury. Later authors include | who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who ... |
Blanche of Anjou | ... Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and | . His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens ... |
Philip IV of France | ... , but there is some evidence that he left on a mission to the court of King | to plead the case for assistance in the Scottish struggle for independence ... |
Valentinian I | ... igh in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Summoned to appear before Emperor | at Milan and there maintain his charges, Hilary was mortified to hear the ... |
Rurik | ... along coastlines and along the major river valleys of north-western Europe. | also expanded to the east and in 859 became ruler either by conquest or in ... |
Richard McCourt | ... dition of the song back in 1980 on Tiswas when he was aged five. Presenters | and Dominic Wood took the opportunity to praise Matthew, as they are fans ... |
Anne Boleyn | Howard was the great-grandfather of | and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ... |
K. Satchidanandan | ... t malayalam literary figures like Kovilan, Kunhunni Mash, Sukumar Azhikode, | , Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, P. ... |
Alfred Kinsey | ... sire. It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by | , Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary ... |
King Hussein | ... en and levied illegal taxes—all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored. | considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security ... |
John Wilkes | ... n lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there and | was MP for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at ... |
Grand Duke Constantine | ... Allies was confirmed by the decision to send in the Russian Imperial Guard | ;, Tsar Alexander's brother, commanded the Guard and counterattacked in Va ... |
Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 by | has several characters seeing a play called 'The Courier's Tragedy' by the ... |
St. Augustine of Hippo | ... posing the hymn Te Deum, which he is said to have composed when he baptised | , his celebrated convert |
Evan Smith | ... al number of men and women, most of whom are between the ages of 30 and 55. | , former president of Texas Monthly, said in the September 16, 2009 issue ... |
Earl Hamner, Jr. | The Waltons is an American television series created by | , based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. ... |
Chris Tarrant | ... ning shows, including Tiswas. Representing Tiswas was Sally James, although | did a video link-up for a brief interview of the show. Out of the cult Sat ... |
Akbar | ... ngir did not seem to have anything against Christianity. He wrote fondly of | 's reign, when "Sunnis and Shias met in one mosque, and Franks and Jews in ... |
Bruce Schneier | However, at the end of the AES process, | , a developer of the competing algorithm Twofish, wrote that while he thou ... |
Aristotle | ... posed, among the earliest recorded being those of Aristotle and Archimedes. | (384 BC−322 BC) remarked that as the distance decreases, the time needed t ... |
George Soros | ... r's students at the London School of Economics was the billionaire investor | , among whose philanthropic foundations is the Open Society Institute, a t ... |
Maximilian I of Bavaria | ... came a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. Consequently, King | introduced far reaching economic, religious and administrative reforms. Wh ... |
Bob Dylan | ... les singing and playing acoustic guitar of the film's theme song written by | , "Man in Me |
Robert Owen | ... living conditions for their workers. One of the earliest such reformers was | , known for his pioneering efforts in improving conditions for workers at ... |
Sukumar Azhikode | ... s home to prominent malayalam literary figures like Kovilan, Kunhunni Mash, | , K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, ... |
Bobby Kennedy | ... on with the murders of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator | , and backed into the shadows, largely to make way for the feminist revolu ... |
Sammy Cahn | ... United States to star in a Broadway production of the James Van Heusen and | musical comedy Walking Happy. His performance was nominated for a Tony Awa ... |
Cyaxares | ... d Babylonians. On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against | , king of Media, a solar eclipse took place (see also Thales); hostilities ... |
A. J. Liebling | ... e the lack of any apparent demand for them by his readers. The press critic | reminds us how many Hearst stars would not be deemed employable elsewhere. ... |
Jeff Nuttall | ... ll articulated the dread caused by the threat of nuclear war. A key text is | 's book Bomb Culture (1968) which traced this pervasive theme in popular c ... |
Abraham Lincoln | On December 8, 1863, President | issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or ... |
Dorothy L. Sayers | The Bodleian is used as background scenery in | Gaudy Night, features in Michael White's Equinox, and is one of the librar ... |
Jordanes | ... s appearance. There is, however, a possible second-hand source, provided by | , who cites a description given by Priscus. It suggests a person of Asian ... |
Ambrose | Among 4th-century Latin writers earlier than | , Hilary holds first place. Augustine of Hippo called him "the illustrious ... |
Baron Harkonnen | ... urned from Caladan with questionable intentions. The ego-memory of the evil | , Jessica's secret father, seduces Alia from within, promising his help in ... |
Robert Mugabe | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
Ralph Ellison | ... The term was used in this manner in the title of the book Invisible Man, by | , in reference to the protagonist, likely modeled after himself, being ove ... |
Augustine's | In this same passage of | Confessions is a curious anecdote which bears on the history of reading |
Ronnie Barker | ... by, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Albert Arkwright ( | ), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack for being able to sel ... |
Aurelius Severus | ... his arthritic aches. Baden was also known as Aurelia Aquensis, in honour of | , during whose reign Baden would seem to have been well known. Fragments o ... |
Roald Dahl | ... Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, | who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and Ed ... |
Bryant Gumbel | ... on 60 Minutes, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Today Show with | , The Dick Cavett Show, Over Easy with Hugh Downs, The Tomorrow Show with ... |
Cole Porter | The Kinsey report was mentioned in | 's contemporaneous song, "Too Darn Hot", for his musical Kiss Me Kate (194 ... |
Galen of Pergamon | ... the threads which comprise Unani healing can be traced all the way back to | , who lived in the 2nd century AD, the basic knowledge of Unani medicine a ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ess, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and | on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
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 ... |
Lenny Henry | | appeared on the BBC's It Started With Swap Shop programme in 2006 in which ... |
Philip V of Spain | ... to defend from foreign aggression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised | 's son, Don Carlos, as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of T ... |
Frank Hsieh | ... ds the Pan-Green Coalition since late 1990s, and Kaohsiung is no exception. | of the Democratic Progressive Party was reelected twice as Mayor of Kaohsi ... |
David Leland | The event was filmed and a motion picture version, directed by | and photographed by Chris Menges was released on DVD on 17 November 2003. ... |
Norodom Sihanouk | ... Khmer Rouge", French for "Red Khmer," was coined by Cambodian head of state | and was later adopted by English speakers. It was used to refer to a succe ... |
Archduke Charles' | After | Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ... |
Nyerere | ... d Nkrumah therefore rejects the idea of an "African socialism" in the sense | , one of the "ideology of continuity" (Hountondji left) was arrested from |
Zhou Enlai | On 6 April 1936, Zhang Xueliang met with | to plan the end of the Chinese Civil War. In the Xi'an incident (12 Decemb ... |
Douglas Coupland | ... g), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein; "McJob", from by | ; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita ... |
Jon Heder | ... Clayson Johnson '90. In entertainment and television, BYU is represented by | '02 (best known for his role as Napoleon Dynamite), Golden Globe-nominated ... |
Augustine | ... author is now usually spoken of as Ambrosiaster, or pseudo-Ambrose. Because | cites part of the commentary on Romans as by "Sanctus Hilarius" it has bee ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... is success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents | and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
Bill Clinton | ... y Show with Jon Stewart. Dole was, for a short time, a commentator opposite | on CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's Brooke Shields ... |
Sarah Joseph (author) | ... ke Kovilan, Kunhunni Mash, Sukumar Azhikode, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, | , Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, P. Bhaskaran, Joseph Mundassery |
Catherine Howard | Howard was the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and | , the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of King Henry VIII. T ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, | who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Bl ... |
Ghanima | ... urner, and Chani dies giving birth to his only heirs, the twins Leto II and | . Paul disappears into the desert, in accordance with Fremen custom for th ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... omination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker | wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an admini ... |
Dominic Wood | ... ack in 1980 on Tiswas when he was aged five. Presenters Richard McCourt and | took the opportunity to praise Matthew, as they are fans of Tiswas, and al ... |
Hu Jintao | ... 2006. The center was completed in 2009 and opened by the Chinese President | |
Alfred Molina | ... John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, | and David Suchet |
Archimedes | Before 212 BC, | had developed a method to derive a finite answer for the sum of infinitely ... |
James Madison | In the Federalist No. 39, | argued that the Constitution was designed to be a mixture of state-based a ... |
Augustine's | In a passage of | Confessions in which Augustine wonders why he could not share his burden w ... |
Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay | ... earst's photographer and at least three Hearst correspondents. One of them, | , by that flight became the first woman to travel around the world by air |
Colin Dexter | ... libraries consulted by Christine Greenaway (one of Bodley's librarians) in | 's Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead. The denouement of Michael Inne ... |
Martin Dillon's | Much of what is known about the Butchers came first from | The Shankill Butchers: A Case Study of Mass Murder (1989 and 1998). In com ... |
Thomas Love Peacock | ... e Mary lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by their friend | who also lived there. John Milton lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cotta ... |
Kenneth Clarke | ... ity of their MPs rebelled against the party line, including figures such as | . The Liberal Democrats opposed the war, and their MPs were visibly unanim ... |
Zack Snyder | ... fter a number of attempts to adapt the series into a feature film, director | 's Watchmen was released in 2009 |
Venantius Fortunatus | A vita of Hilary was written by | c. 550 but is not considered reliable. More trustworthy are the notices in ... |
Astyages | ... eded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of | , King of Media |
Augustine | ... eteris et Novi Testamenti, which manuscripts have traditionally ascribed to | . Most scholars consider this work to be that of Pseudo-Ambrose as well |
Louis William | ... French, who pillaged it in 1643 and left it in ashes in 1689. The margrave | , popularly known as Türkenlouis, moved to Rastatt in 1705 |
Malcolm de Chazal | ... olas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian writers like | , Marcel Cabon, Moose Allain, Félix Laventure, Loys Masson and Marie-Thérè ... |
Henry Morgenthau | ... Armenians by the Turks. Among them there are Armin T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, | , Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, Giacomo Gor ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... ing up, La Toya was a shy homebody. After her mother became a member of the | in 1965, La Toya, along with the rest of her siblings followed. She would ... |
William Gibson | ... nlein; "McJob", from by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by | ; "nymphet" from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov |
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 ... |
Al Gore | ... Bush. The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after | lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President a ... |
Thomas Wolfe | ... econd half of the 15th century to the present (the last author discussed is | ) |
Paul-Jean Toulet | ... rnardin de Saint Pierre, Mark Twain, Nicholas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and | . Mauritian writers like Malcolm de Chazal, Marcel Cabon, Moose Allain, Fé ... |
Shantel | ... overed by Mighty Dub Kats ("Son Of Wilmot"), Sabres of Paradise ("Wilmot"), | ("Bucovina") and Eleftheria Arvanitaki ("Den milo ghia mia nychta ego") |
Hosea Ballou | According to | , then Pierre Batiffol (1911) and George T. Knight (1914) Amalric was a be ... |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... consfield and served as Member of Parliament for both Amersham and Wycombe. | and his wife Mary lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by ... |
Philip Norman | In the words of British dramatist and novelist | , "the only point concerning Mick Jagger's influence over 'young people' t ... |
Plato | ... uspicious day Ficino had chosen to publish his translations of the works of | from Greek into Latin under Lorenzo’s enthusiastic patronage. Giovanni app ... |
Statius | Later legends (beginning with a poem by | in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his ... |
Mount Cithaeron | It emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on | , and that he was given a baby, which the childless Polybus then adopted. ... |
Joseph Mundassery | ... Books set its first shop in Thrissur by former education Minister Professor | , it become the abode of writer’s like O V Vijayan, Kovilan, VKN, Uroob, E ... |
Louis XIV | ... y (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of | (the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de ... |
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 ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... aq has undercut the influence of this doctrine within the Republican Party. | , mayor of New York at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and ... |
Menander | The origin of Attila's name is unclear. | used the term Attila as the name of the Volga River. Pritsak considers it ... |
Marsilio Ficino | ... ttle for a time in Florence in November 1484 and met Lorenzo de' Medici and | , on the astrologically auspicious day Ficino had chosen to publish his tr ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of | . In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the Sherloc ... |
Charles Baudelaire | ... renowned of them are Bernardin de Saint Pierre, Mark Twain, Nicholas Pike, | , and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian writers like Malcolm de Chazal, Marcel C ... |
Plato | ... rojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. | named Achilles the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy |
Des O'Connor | ... a television series that year. An estimated 28,385,000 viewers watched it. | was frequently the butt of their humour, often because of his allegedly aw ... |
John Milton | Harris Fletcher (1892–1979), academic, author, and leading authority on | was born in Superior Townshi |
Croesus | He was succeeded by his son | . His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of Astyages, King of Med ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time." | offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ... |
William of Rubruck | ... e had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as | , Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau. ... |
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 ... |
Philippa of Lancaster | On 11 February 1387, John I married | , daughter of John of Gaunt, who had proved to be a worthy ally, consolida ... |
Thomas Telford | ... ty of some turnpike trust. New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, | and John Macadam. The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the me ... |
Kenneth Williams | ... e Wisp appeared as a short cartoon series on BBC TV in the 1980s, voiced by | |
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 ... |
Katherine Jackson | ... , Indiana, La Toya Jackson is the fifth of nine children born to Joseph and | and the middle female child between Rebbie and Janet. Growing up, La Toya ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... g 4th-century Latin writers earlier than Ambrose, Hilary holds first place. | called him "the illustrious doctor of the churches", and his works continu ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... list theories of language acquisition dovetail with linguistic work done by | and others. These have led to a wider variety of teaching methods ranging ... |
John McCain | ... followed in regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as | , Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrog ... |
Paulin Hountondji | ... ining egalitarianism. Hence, socialism. Hence, also, scientific socialism." | has emphasized the breaks in the thinking of Nkrumah. During the early Nkr ... |
Joseph Heller | ... of a book becomes the neologism, for instance, Catch-22 (from the title of | 's novel). Alternatively, the author's name may become the neologism, alth ... |
Henry Ford | ... nal to connect Lake Erie with Lake Michigan. This effort ultimately failed. | was attracted to the water power of the Huron River, and in 1925 he establ ... |
King Talal | ... in, among them Muammar Gaddafi, who mocked him and his schizophrenic father | . The attempt to establish a peace agreement between the two sides failed. ... |
John Junkin | ... xclusive contract with the corporation shortly thereafter); Barry Cryer and | were brought in to contribute to the early Thames shows (Braben eventually ... |
Henry Clay | ... . As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,864. Its name is in honor of | , American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and ... |
Kenneth Grahame | He also adapted | 's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. The t ... |
Roy Clarke | Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by | which ran for four series (26 episodes in all over three broadcast runs) a ... |
David Lodge | ... ting a precedent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, | , Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associated with The ... |
Frank Oz | ... Master Yoda. Henson suggested to Star Wars creator George Lucas that he use | as the puppeteer and voice of Yoda. Oz voiced Yoda in The Empire Strikes B ... |
Henry the Navigator | ... uke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; and Prince | , the duke of Viseu, invested heavily in science and the development of na ... |
Britney Spears | ... sman for such products as Viagra, Visa, Dunkin' Donuts and Pepsi-Cola (with | ), and as an occasional political commentator on the popular American inte ... |
Kovilan | ... ent Corner"). Thrissur is home to prominent malayalam literary figures like | , Kunhunni Mash, Sukumar Azhikode, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Jo ... |
Peleus | Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and | , the king of the Myrmidons. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the han ... |
Albrecht Dürer | ... His engravings are scarce and valuable, and are chiefly copies of Mantegna, | , Parmigianino and Titian. The most remarkable of his works are Mercury an ... |
Thomas Day | ... ds of slaves. Referring to this seeming contradiction, English abolitionist | wrote in a 1776 letter, "If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, ... |
Martin Duberman | ... e results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist | , "Instead of Kinsey's 37% (men who had at least one homosexual experience ... |
Colin Firth | ... s' performance as Rooster Cogburn, were critically praised. Bridges lost to | , whom he had beaten for the Oscar in the same category the previous year |
Liliuokalani | ... irst order of business for the Provisional Government after the deposing of | was to form an interim government while Lorrin A. Thurston was in Washingt ... |
George Lucas | ... lation of enigmatic Jedi Master Yoda. Henson suggested to Star Wars creator | that he use Frank Oz as the puppeteer and voice of Yoda. Oz voiced Yoda in ... |
Steven Seagal | ... available throughout the world. Aikido was exhibited in Hollywood films by | in the 1990s |
Ambrose | ... Testament. This commentary was erroneously attributed for a long time to St | |
Khal Torabully | ... oetry. Other Port Louis born poets and writers, like Robert Edward Hart and | , also made of this intricate and fascinating town the setting of some of ... |
Stefan Nemanja | The medieval Serbian state is formed by | and continued by the Nemanjić dynasty. By the end of the century, both the ... |
Raymond Chandler | ... writing in The Red House Mystery (although this was severely criticised by | for the implausibility of its plot). But once Milne had, in his own words, ... |
Sulpicius Severus | ... ble. More trustworthy are the notices in Saint Jerome (De vir. illus. 100), | (Chron. ii. 39-45) and in Hilary's own writings |
Manetho | ... ons ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer Apion, and myths accredited to | are also addressed |
Dorothy Tennov | Limerence is a term coined c. 1977 by the psychologist | to describe an involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a roma ... |
James Bryce | ... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, | , Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ... |
John Milton | ... acted to the town by their friend Thomas Love Peacock who also lived there. | lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there and ... |
Barry Cryer | ... BBC (signing an exclusive contract with the corporation shortly thereafter) | ;and John Junkin were brought in to contribute to the early Thames shows ( ... |
George W. Bush | ... went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to | . In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President and was re-elected U.S. ... |
Kovilan | ... fessor Joseph Mundassery, it become the abode of writer’s like O V Vijayan, | , VKN, Uroob, Edassery, M T Vasudevan Nair, K G Sankarapillai and Sarah Jo ... |
Polybus | ... pherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that he was given a baby, which the childless | then adopted. The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd from ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... ventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by | ' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their inco ... |
John Lennon | ... ay around as was often believed. The riff was provided to "Fame" co-writers | and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who had briefly been a member of Bro ... |
Che Guevara | ... . Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa, written in 1968 as a requiem for | , is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but re ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by | |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of | 's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character ... |
Chen Shui-bian | ... ree recall motions votes in the Legislative Yuan aimed at ousting President | . All of them had failed since the Pan-Blue Coalition lacked the two third ... |
Tina Turner | ... ity concert, he performed at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium; he did a duet with | of "It's Only Rock and Roll", and the performance was highlighted by Jagge ... |
Septimius Severus | ... s Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt), was made a colonia by | in 193, having been part of the territory of Berytus on the Phoenician coa ... |
Giambattista Vico | ... on the methodological approach of Hobbes include those of Locke , Spinoza , | (1984 xli), and Rousseau (1997 part 1). David Hume made what he considered ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... were the only ones by Western actors permitted by Enver Hoxha to be shown. | once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown" |
David Hume | ... erning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher | , published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Trea ... |
Jan Timman | ... ccount of the 1972 World Chess Championship match, co-authored by Euwe with | , was written in 1972 but not published in English until 2002 |
Ezra Taft Benson | ... include former Secretary of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, | '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor General under Pres ... |
Ursula K. Le Guin | ... Orbit 18 edited by Damon Knight. Robinson gave the novella in rough form to | to read and edit while he was enrolled in her writing workshop at UCSD in ... |
Artie Shaw | ... Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller and | |
Rugila | The death of | (also known as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, A ... |
Amélie of Leuchtenberg | ... diately went to the Janelas Verdes palace, where he met with his stepmother | . The two had not seen each other in forty years, and the meeting was emot ... |
Henry II | ... ley. His efficiency in those posts led to Theobald recommending him to King | for the vacant post of Lord Chancellor, to which Becket was appointed in J ... |
Charles the Bald | ... lemagne’s death, his newly empowered warrior class grew stronger still, and | declared their fiefs to be hereditary. The period of chaos in the 9th and ... |
Alexandros Papadiamantis | ... ikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, | , Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xeno ... |
Rex E. Lee | ... of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ezra Taft Benson '26 and | '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan ... |
Peter II of Aragon | In 1213, forces led by King | , came to the aid of Toulouse. The force besieged Muret, but in September ... |
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 ... |
Plato | The Greek philosopher, | (429–347 BC), identified her with the Libyan deity Neith, the war goddess ... |
David Hume | ... Locke , Spinoza , Giambattista Vico (1984 xli), and Rousseau (1997 part 1). | made what he considered to be the first proper attempt at trying to apply ... |
Beatrice of Savoy | ... , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, and | |
Bernadotte's | ... tled upon a secondary line of retreat through Brunn. The Imperial Guard and | I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under Lannes guarded the no ... |
Andrew Jackson | The situation was complicated by the American spoils system. After | assumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ... |
Stephen Oppenheimer | ... nd the conclusion has been questioned even by the authors themselves and by | , who pointed out that much earlier migrations, 5000 to 10,000 years ago f ... |
Gary Oldman | ... Brown was featured in Tony Scott's 2001 short film, , alongside Clive Owen, | , Danny Trejo and Marilyn Manson. Brown also made a cameo appearance in th ... |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ... s, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, | , Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine ... |
Peadar Ua Laoghaire | ... s by Henry Glassie. The first modern novel in the Irish language, Séadna by | , is a version of the tale |
Duke Magnus | The house became extinct when | died in 1106 without sons; the family's property was divided between his t ... |
Septimius Severus | ... gest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of | (193-211 CE), whose coins first show the two temples. In commemoration, no ... |
Theodosius II | ... thers' accession, the Hun tribes were bargaining with Eastern Roman Emperor | 's envoys for the return of several s (possibly Hunnic nobles who disagree ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... een seven executions within the castle on Tower Green; as was the case with | , this was reserved for prisoners for whom public execution was considered ... |
Malcolm Bradbury | ... campus novels, setting a precedent for later generations of writers such as | , David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associa ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President | . Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presid ... |
Hummay | ... African traders, Berbers and Arabs, brought the new religion. Towards 1068, | , a member of the Sayfawa establishment, who was already a Muslim, discard ... |
Molière | ... rneille’s Tite et Bérénice (1671) was inferior to Racine’s play (Bérénice). | was also prominent at the time and Corneille even composed the comedy Psyc ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... series postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service. Along with | he was one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusi ... |
Philo | ... West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like | , Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchang ... |
Walt Disney | For | , she played Lucifer the Cat in the feature film Cinderella, Lambert's mot ... |
the actor | ... le producers, all long-time staffers. Adam Sandler (not to be confused with | ) is the current producer of the show. Stan Blits, who joined the show in ... |
Jean de Joinville | ... t of Provence, perhaps due to the strong relationship she had with her son. | tells of the time when Queen Margaret was giving birth and Blanche entered ... |
Bleda | ... own as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, Attila and | (Buda), in control of the united Hun tribes. At the time of two brothers' ... |
George William Russell | There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: | 's Deirdre (1902), William Butler Yeats' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deir ... |
Maximian | ... he Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of | , AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanc ... |
Jerome | ... dered an important document of the Latin text of Paul before the Vulgate of | , and of the interpretation of Paul prior to Augustine of Hippo |
Léopold Clément's | ... ews reached Vienna that he had died of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. | younger brother, Francis Stephen, was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... parable to those they might expect outside; one such example was that while | was held in the Tower his rooms were altered to accommodate his family, in ... |
A. E. W. Mason | Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to | 's fictional detective—Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté—who, first ap ... |
Howard Chaykin | ... stunned. Gibbons recalled, "What really clinched it ... was [writer/artist] | , who doesn't give praise lightly, and who came up and said, 'Dave what yo ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... s story. During this run on the title, Grant Morrison (issues #25 & 26) and | (issue #27) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's st ... |
The Wind in the Willows | He also adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel | for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. The title was an implicit admission th ... |
Henry Cowell | By the middle decades of the 20th century, however, composers like | , Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen and George Crumb, re-introduced im ... |
Thomas Hobbes | Starting with | , attempts were made to use the methods of the new modern physical science ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... ul before the Vulgate of Jerome, and of the interpretation of Paul prior to | |
Sauron | ... Necromancer was a pseudonym used by Tolkien in The Hobbit for the character | . The song departs from the story of the book as Part III sees the return ... |
Gennadi Sosonko | ... ng in originality and in the mental toughness required of a world champion. | thought Euwe's modesty was a handicap in top-class chess (although Euwe wa ... |
Boiardo | ... nd Count of Concordia (1415–1467), by his wife Giulia, daughter of Feltrino | , Count di Scandiano. The family had long dwelt in the Castle of Mirandola ... |
Daniel arap Moi | At Kenyatta's death (August 22, 1978), Vice President | became interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally aft ... |
Sir John Sinclair | ... nd as early as 1669 and was described in France in 1700. It was asserted by | in his Husbandry of Scotland to have been introduced to Scotland around 17 ... |
Alfonso XI of Castile | ... er James, who had refused to consummate the marriage. She was the sister of | . Because of some favoritism he showed towards his second wife, the last y ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... n was the first President to arrest and prosecute members of the Klan since | about 93 years earlier. He turned the themes of Christian redemption to pu ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... xteenth century sense, marrano was used by rival "Old Christians" to insult | , supposedly of Muslim or Jewish descent, to disparage him as a "New Chris ... |
Eppie Lederer | ... 40) is an American advice columnist, and the only child of advice columnist | (better known by her pen name, Ann Landers) and business executive Julius ... |
Taliesin | ... n of the Head of Annwn. The narrator of the poem is possibly intended to be | himself. One line can be interpreted as implying that he received his gift ... |
Guy Gavriel Kay | ... for publication in 1977; his assistant for part of this work was the young | , who would later become a noted fantasy author. Christopher Tolkien had t ... |
Cnut the Great | ... York. The Viking presence continued throughout the reign of the Danish King | (1016–1035), after which a series of inheritance arguments weakened power ... |
Benito Juárez | ... ken reeds." The "de Juárez" was added to the official name in 1885 to honor | , the former president of Mexico. The seal for the city shows broken reeds ... |
Francis Stephen | ... of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. Léopold Clément's younger brother, | , was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa's father considered other possi ... |
Damon Knight | ... ella On the North Pole of Pluto in 1980 in the anthology Orbit 18 edited by | . Robinson gave the novella in rough form to Ursula K. Le Guin to read and ... |
Teresa d'Entença | By | |
Vladimir Kramnik | ... e was well aware of how much stronger he was than "ordinary" grandmasters). | also says Euwe anticipated Botvinnik's emphasis on technical preparation, ... |
Witch-king | ... terial derived from them) name the eight other than Khamûl; Er-Murazor (the | , of Númenórean race), Dwar of Waw, Ji Indur Dawndeath, Akhorahil (Númenór ... |
Hugh X of Lusignan | ... English Queen mother Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême and her second husband | from supporting the English side. Pierre Mauclerc did support the English ... |
Valentinian I | ... in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor | . Ambrose never married |
Penelope Delta | ... omos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, | , Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embe ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... ism in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in 1898 was also criticized in | 's 1919 book, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. According t ... |
Philip the Arab | ... entury BCE (reign of Augustus) and over a period of two centuries (reign of | ), the Romans had built a temple complex in Baalbek consisting of three te ... |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... by recalling both its shabbiness and the fact that the greatest Polish poet | died there from the cholera in 1855. Mickiewicz´ museum at Dolapdere, stil ... |
Jean Racine | ... eer. Other writers were beginning to gain popularity. In 1670 Corneille and | , one of his dramatic rivals, were challenged to write plays on the same i ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President | , Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ... |
Gennadi Sosonko | ... to Chess, and Strategy and Tactics in Chess Play. Former Soviet grandmaster | used Euwe's Practical Chess Lessons (Practische Schaaklessen) as a textboo ... |
Maurice Sendak | ... ngdom, and the other in Hardy's birthplace, Harlem, Georgia, United States. | showed three identical Oliver Hardy figures as bakers preparing cakes for ... |
Livy | ... us (c. 280/260 BC – c. 200 BC), not to be confused with the later historian | , was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. He be ... |
Margaret of Provence | ... e same year, he was married, and Blanche became Queen mother. Louis married | , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, an ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... he title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo Creed, | as Rocky's trainer Mickey, and Talia Shire as Rocky's wife, Adrian |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ps from starring roles to background ensemble, in support of comedians like | and Fatty Arbuckle. The Keystone Kops serve as supporting players for Mari ... |
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur | ... n history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, | (1735–1813), and John Taylor of Caroline (1753–1824) in the early national ... |
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 ... |
Richard III of England | He was appointed Lord High Steward and walked in front of King | , carrying the crown at his coronation. However, John was the eldest (alth ... |
House Speaker | ... 2.5 million to the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader Trent Lott and | Newt Gingrich slipped a last-minute provision into a hotly contested compr ... |
Prince Edward | ... Lewes in 1264 he was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, under which his son, | , was given over to the rebels as a hostage. Edward was taken back to Keni ... |
Philip II of Macedon | ... the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father, | , and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries ... |
Valentinian II | ... stern Emperor Gratian held orthodox belief in the Nicene creed, the younger | , who became his colleague in the Empire, adhered to the Arian creed. Ambr ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1938, Wyman co-starred with | in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They ... |
John Milton | ... avelli in turn influenced Francis Bacon , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , | , David Hume , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
Sarah Palin | ... with the people" and needed to step down—a call echoed by his running mate, | , governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ... |
Charles Darwin | ... to think and behave independently. The Emperor accepted new ideas, such as | 's theory of evolution, of which he remarked that "the laws that he [Darwi ... |
Epicurus | ... s friends, who again presents them in an imagined speech by the philosopher | . His friend argues that, though it is possible to trace a cause from an e ... |
Sally James | ... as the initial edition of this series began with some significant changes. | was drafted in as the series' first regular female presenter. She had been ... |
Charles II of Spain | ... in as Charles III following the death of its ruler, and Charles's relative, | , in 1700. He married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by wh ... |
Carter Braxton | ... d in 1836 from parts of Lewis, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties and named for | , a Virginia statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The ... |
Walther Rathenau | ... rom the League of Nations. Thus, Germany seized the chance to make an ally. | , the Jewish Foreign Minister who signed the treaty, was assassinated two ... |
Alexander the Great | ... thod described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of | 's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... il the later inclusions of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, | , and William J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a l ... |
Emmanuel Rhoides | ... odern Greece include Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, | , Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, ... |
Jim Davidson | ... day morning show in London called Saturday Scene, produced by LWT. Comedian | was intended to be a regular presenter, but left after only a few editions ... |
David Hume | ... influenced Francis Bacon , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , | , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... its ruler, and Charles's relative, Charles II of Spain, in 1700. He married | , by whom he had his two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habs ... |
Arctinus of Miletus | ... find description of the hero's death, Kúpria (unknown author), Aithiopis by | , Ilias Mikrá by Lesche of Mytilene, Iliou pérsis by Arctinus of Miletus, ... |
James Baker | ... m public remarks by President George H. W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State | that the economic sanctions would only be lifted when Saddam Hussein was r ... |
Philip Larkin | ... St. John's College, Oxford, where he read English. It was there that he met | , with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. While at ... |
Theodosius I | ... eed. Ambrose did not sway the young prince's position. In the East, Emperor | likewise professed the Nicene creed; but there were many adherents of Aria ... |
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 ... |
George Padmore | ... ved in London in May 1945 intending to study at the LSE. After meeting with | , he helped organize the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England ... |
Kim Stanley Robinson | Icehenge (1984) is a science fiction novel by | |
David Nasaw | According to | , Hearst was a supporter of Adolf Hitler from 1934 until 1938: Hearst beli ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... committee of 30 Florentine citizens that comprised many artists, including | and Sandro Botticelli, to decide on an appropriate site for David. While n ... |
Philip IV of France | ... n Friday 13 October 1307 the Knights Templar were ordered to be arrested by | . It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemas ... |
Johnny Speight | ... and In Sickness and in Health (BBC, 1985–92), all of which were written by | . He holds both British and Australian citizenship and has enjoyed conside ... |
Blake Edwards | ... ights; and The Great Race, a large-scale salute to slapstick which director | dedicated to "Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy." For many years the duo were imper ... |
Duke Ellington | ... andleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, | , Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller and Artie Sh ... |
George W. Bush | ... ffluent Teton and college county Albany. In the 2004 presidential election, | won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice Presiden ... |
Leo Tolstoy | ... n the basic fundaments of insight and on the innermost character of things. | identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person t ... |
Augustus | ... r divination. Starting in the last quarter of the 1st century BCE (reign of | ) and over a period of two centuries (reign of Philip the Arab), the Roman ... |
Mitch McConnell | ... mate, Sarah Palin, governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader | , as well as fellow Republican Senators Norm Coleman, John Sununu and Gord ... |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as | (1803–1882) and Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosoph ... |
Orson Welles | One of the most influential films of all time was | ' 1941 film Citizen Kane, which was loosely based on parts of Hearst's lif ... |
George W. Bush | After | (March 26, 2003) mentioned Warsaw's contribution prominently in a speech, ... |
Albert Frederick | On 19 July 1569, when | rendered King Sigismund II homage and was in return enfeoffed as Duke of P ... |
Noah Gordon | In his book The Physician (1988) | tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himsel ... |
Henry VIII | ... yed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King | . The king also destroyed Becket's bones and ordered that all mention of h ... |
Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips | Her aunt, | , wrote the Dear Abby column. Although her mother and aunt were twin siste ... |
Vincent Woods | ... ge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), John Coulter's (playwright) (1944), and | ' A Cry from Heaven (2005). There are also three books: Deirdre (1923) by ... |
Alexander Alekhine | ... jor contributions to chess theory. Paradoxically his two title matches with | were displays of tactical ferocity from both sides. But the comments by Km ... |
Charles Martel | ... Europe in 711. So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord | , which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, ... |
Albert Frederick | When Albert died in 1568, his teenage son (exact age is unknown) | inherited the duchy. Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, who had co ... |
Michael Jackson | ... ed with The Jacksons on the song "State of Shock", sharing lead vocals with | . For his own personal contributions in the 1985 Live Aid multi-venue char ... |
Michael K. Young | ... cademia include former Dean of the Harvard Business School Kim B. Clark and | '73, current President of the University of Washington. The University als ... |
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Gouverneur Morris | ... each state "in such manner as its Legislature may direct." Committee member | explained the reasons for the change; among others, there were fears of "i ... |
Bertolt Brecht | ... nd Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach. He has also translated a | play into English. He appeared on the programme on BBC Four in 2012 called ... |
Kostis Palamas | ... de Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, | , Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzak ... |
Neil Peart | Many rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including | and Dave Grohl The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from thei ... |
Ulrich von Hutten | Albert's large and liberal ideas, his friendship with | , and his political ambitions, appear to have raised hopes that he would b ... |
Rinaldo d'Este | ... rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke | , the exiled male line becoming extinct in 1747 |
Trajan | ... when the sanctuary of the Heliopolitan Jupiter-Baal was a pilgrimage site. | 's biographer records that the emperor consulted the oracle there. Trajan ... |
Mitt Romney | ... '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. | , former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential Candid ... |
Matthew Arnold | ... reline buildings with the naked eye, and the lights of land at night, as in | 's poem "Dover Beach" |
Melvyn Bragg | ... fessor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by | |
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Karl Marx | ... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of | |
Orson Bean | ... unded in New York City in 1965 by Laurel and Hardy biographers John McCabe, | , Al Kilgore, and John Municino, with the sanction of Stan Laurel. Since t ... |
Elizabeth I | ... nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as | in Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of ... |
Lyman Draper | ... less qualified men such as Felix St. Vrain. In the 19th century, historian | argued that the Black Hawk War could have been avoided had Forsyth remaine ... |
Simon de Montfort | Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to | , Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons' War ( ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... stallment in the Rocky film series. It is written and directed by and stars | as the title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo C ... |
Joanna of Castile | Philip and | had six children |
Niccolò Machiavelli | Politically, modernity's earliest phase starts with | 's works which openly rejected the medieval and Aristotelian style of anal ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as | , King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia (Charles III), Archduk ... |
John McCain | ... or his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, Barack Obama and | , were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said that Stevens ne ... |
Edward IV of England | ... prowess on the field during the Battle of Towton, he won the admiration of | who made him Constable of Norwich Castle, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suff ... |
Dan Marino | ... e two clubs' 1999 meetings were dramatic affairs between Hall Of Fame-bound | and up-and-coming star Peyton Manning. Marino led a 25-point fourth quarte ... |
Andreas Kalvos | Leading literary figures of modern Greece include Dionysios Solomos, | , Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Ya ... |
Jeremy Marre | ... rs television documentary James Brown: Soul Survivor, which was directed by | |
Francis Bacon | ... as favoring free republics over monarchies . Machiavelli in turn influenced | , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , David Hume , and many ot ... |
patron of the arts | ... a Boiardo, who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine | and scholar-poet, |
Ed Helms | Cedar Rapids is an American comedy film about a naive insurance agent | who is sent to represent his company at a regional conference in big town ... |
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 ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... ve plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre (1902), | ' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), John Coulter ... |
John Barrasso | ... ay, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, Mike Enzi and | , and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Cynthi ... |
Kisshomaru Ueshiba | ... 1974. Tohei left as a result of a disagreement with the son of the founder, | , who at that time headed the Aikikai Foundation. The disagreement was ove ... |
Lew Grade | On the back of their success on stage and on screen, in 1961 | offered the duo a series for the London-based ITV station ATV. Entitled Tw ... |
Bent Larsen | ... with the Soviets; for example, in 1973 he accepted the Soviets' demand that | and Robert Hübner, the two strongest non-Soviet contenders (Fischer was no ... |
Alexander the Great | ... in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by | 's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect |
Benjamin Franklin | In American history important spokesmen included | , Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and John ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... ienced in this kind of work might examine it and express an opinion. Though | and others were consulted, it was Michelangelo, only twenty-six years old, ... |
Ron Ben-Yishai | ... Marranos of Portugal" the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) sent reporter | to carry out interviews with families about their religious practice. Afte ... |
Grace Lee Boggs | ... st C.L.R. James, Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chinese-American | , all of whom were members of a US based Trotskyist intellectual cohort. N ... |
Florey | Since the first pioneering efforts of | and Chain in 1939, the importance of antibiotics, including antibacterials ... |
Naevius | ... this view on the grounds that it would make Livius younger than Plautus and | , though he was supposed to have been the first to produce a play. Livy sa ... |
Mabel Normand | ... their popularity stemmed from the 1913 short The Bangville Police starring | |
Pete Townshend | ... Rodgers and Bill Laswell, featuring Herbie Hancock, Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer, | , and the Compass Point All Stars. It sold fairly well, and the single "Ju ... |
Robert Hübner | ... ; for example, in 1973 he accepted the Soviets' demand that Bent Larsen and | , the two strongest non-Soviet contenders (Fischer was now champion), shou ... |
Angelos Sikelianos | ... iterary figures of modern Greece include Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, | , Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexand ... |
George Seldes | ... ed payments from abroad to slant the news. After the war, a further critic, | , repeated the charges in Facts and Fascism (1947) |
Ameen Rihani | ... partnership with Saudi officials. Through his advisers St. John Philby and | , he granted substantial authority over Saudi oil fields to American oil c ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... ple narratives into one story are various novels written by American author | . Vonnegut includes the recurring character Kilgore Trout in many of his n ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... at the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started with President | in August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by President George H ... |
John Cargher | ... and he was eventually nicknamed "Mr Sunday Morning" by the general public. | , a record retailer, avid collector of records and author of many books, p ... |
Marchamont Needham | ... republics over monarchies . Machiavelli in turn influenced Francis Bacon , | , Harrington , John Milton , David Hume , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
Aristotle | ... mesis or representation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of | . Goethe defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his i ... |
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John F. Kennedy | ... e, but colonial officials opposed the program anyway. The next year Senator | helped fund the program, which trained some 70% of the top leaders of the ... |
Galen | ... icine provides a complete system of medicine according to the principles of | (and Hippocrates) |
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Telephus | ... left for the Trojan War, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King | . In the resulting battle, Achilles gave Telephus a wound that would not h ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... rgaret of Austria. The succession thereby passed to Queen Isabella and King | . She died in 1498, while giving birth to a son, the Infante Miguel, to wh ... |
Julian | ... ave reached about 361, within a very short time of the accession of Emperor | |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... nd God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater are sprinkled with these plot descriptions. | 's later books (The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls a ... |
Joséphine | ... anyone about the upcoming battle because he did not want to disturb Empress | . According to Frederick C. Schneid, the main concern of Napoleon was not ... |
Charlemagne | ... ce as a mounted warrior. Both arose under the reign of the Frankish emperor | , from which the knighthood of the Middle Ages can be seen to have had its ... |
William S. Burroughs | Moore named | as one of his main influences during the conception of Watchmen. He admire ... |
Simon Maginn | ... awcett directed the film The Dark. Based on the novel book Sheep written by | , the movie tales the story of Adèlle, a divorced woman who travels to Wal ... |
John Selden | ... ded between 1610–1612, (known as the Arts End) and again in 1634–1637. When | died in 1654, he left the Bodleian his large collection of books and manus ... |
Mack Sennett | ... silent film comedies in the early 20th century. The movies were produced by | for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. The idea came from Ha ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author | lived in a cottage on Horton's estate for a time in the late 1930s |
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | ... Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk and Alice Tendring; by whom he descended from | , through his illegitimate daughter Joan of Cornwall |
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 ... |
Liberty Hyde Bailey | ... (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce (1855–1916), botanist | (1858–1954), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John ... |
Mikhail Botvinnik | ... ar second place finish in the great tournament at Groningen in 1946, behind | . But Euwe consented to participate in a five-player tournament to select ... |
Adamantios Korais | ... er, during the period of Greek enlightenment (Diafotismos), writers such as | and Rigas Feraios will prepare with their works the Greek Revolution (1821 ... |
Erechtheus | ... Parthenos. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of | /Erichthonius through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate ... |
Julian Lombardi | ... arted, along with David A. Smith, David P. Reed, Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, | , and Mark McCahill, the Croquet Project, which is an open source networke ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... scape, shortly before running into the First of the Fallen, in the guise of | . There then follows a small break where he meets the spirit of a dead fri ... |
Lenny Kravitz | ... uld keep the celebrity guests to a minimum on Wandering Spirit, only having | as a vocalist on his cover of Bill Withers' "Use Me" and bassist Flea from ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
Orson Welles | ... 975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina. (Legendary actor and director | voiced her husband, the cobra "Nag". |
Euripides | According to other reports in | ' lost play about Telephus, he went to Aulis pretending to be a beggar and ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... of Americans. Johnson gave the first two Medicare cards to former President | and his wife Bess after signing the medicare bill at the |
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 ... |
Dionysios Solomos | Leading literary figures of modern Greece include | , Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Pe ... |
U.S. President | ... a joined the group at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and | Gerald Ford and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Uni ... |
Hippocrates | ... des a complete system of medicine according to the principles of Galen (and | ) |
Karl Marx | ... initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of | , and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, i ... |
Henry III | ... a Carta, before it reverted to royal control early in the reign of his son, | |
Richard DeVos | ... auty, and home care markets. Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and | . Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Altico ... |
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Martin Amis | ... econd half of the twentieth century." He was the father of English novelist | |
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Marshall Faulk | ... playoff loss to the Oakland Raiders and the 1999 trade of star running back | ; this included a 0–8–1 record during the NFL's strike shortened 1982 seas ... |
Joseph Stiglitz | ... l organizations and academics, notably including its former Chief Economist | , who is equally critical of the International Monetary Fund, the US Treas ... |
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Duke Ellington | ... stra. Other influential large ensembles included Fletcher Henderson's band, | 's band (which opened an influential residency at the Cotton Club in 1927) ... |
George H.W. Bush | ... modest lifestyle, Dennis Ross, former Middle East negotiator for Presidents | and Bill Clinton, stated that Arafat's "walking-around money" financed a v ... |
Ramiro I of Aragon | ... or his own scribes, but by the notaries of his half-brother, the petty king | , whose notaries were also calling Ferdinand's predecessor as king of León ... |
Bobby Fischer | In 1957 Euwe played a short match against 14-year-old future world champion | , winning one game and drawing the other. His lifetime score against Fisch ... |
Cassiodorus | ... , one of the Livia gens. The praenomen Lucius is given by Aulus Gellius and | |
Rigas Feraios | ... of Greek enlightenment (Diafotismos), writers such as Adamantios Korais and | will prepare with their works the Greek Revolution (1821–1830) |
Chuck Jones | ... Sylvester, and, memorably, a series of witches, including Witch Hazel, for | |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... ning, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, | , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's ... |
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 ... |
Marchamont Needham | ... ndeavoured to prevent the Restoration of the English monarchy. He published | 's book News from Brussels in a Letter from a Near Attendant on His Majest ... |
Gratian | ... atiaria and Secundianus of Singidunum, confident of numbers, prevailed upon | to call a general council from all parts of the empire. This request appea ... |
Henry David Thoreau | ... ers included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) and | (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce (1855–1916), botanis ... |
Paul Keres | He played a match with | in The Netherlands in 1939–40, losing 6½–7½ |
Raul Boesel | ... , Mauricio Gugelmin, Hans Stuck, Johnny Herbert, Pedro Lamy, Maurizio Sala, | , Emerson Fittipaldi, Wilson Fittipaldi, and Christian Fittipaldi. Neither ... |
Alexander III | The reforms of | replaced many of the traditional privileges of the German nobility with el ... |
Thomas of Celano | ... if present). The sequence employed in the Requiem, Dies Irae, attributed to | (c. 1200 – c. 1260–1270), has been called "the greatest of hymns", worthy ... |
Rebbie | In 1976 and 1977, La Toya and her sisters | and Janet appeared in all twelve episodes of The Jacksons—a CBS-TV variety ... |
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Adolf Hitler | ... ayments to the victorious allies, and the controversial "War Guilt Clause". | later blamed the republic and its democracy for the oppressive terms of th ... |
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Auguste Vermorel | ... e executed by firing squad on May 24 in the prison de la Roquette. This led | to ironically (and perhaps naively, since had refused any negotiation) dec ... |
Bruce Elder | ... admission to concerts, for writing unfavourable reviews. Writer and critic | , in a mid-1980s newspaper review described their music as "narrow and xen ... |
Johann Gottfried Herder | ... of Saxony, and educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig. Under the influence of | , he was for 13 years headmaster at the gymnasium and consistorial council ... |
Arctinus of Miletus | ... by Arctinus of Miletus, Ilias Mikrá by Lesche of Mytilene, Iliou pérsis by | , there is no trace of any reference to his general invulnerability or his ... |
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester | ... This collection continued to grow steadily, but when, between 1435 and 1437 | (brother of Henry V of England), donated a great collection of manuscripts ... |
Andrew Young | ... Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – William Butler Yeats – | |
Alfonso | ... rdinand I in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, | . The title is currently carried by Prince Felipe, Prince of Asturias, the ... |
George Eliot | ... 3 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. In her 1859 novel Adam Bede, | refers to this when she makes Jacob Storey say: "He thought it [Z] had onl ... |
John, Prince of Asturias | Philip's sister Margaret married | , only son of Ferdinand and Isabella and successor to the unified crowns o ... |
Ptolemy | ... one of the 48 Greek constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
Edward Frankland | ... new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of | . From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und an ... |
President McKinley | ... l equipment and is still a going concern. In 1900 Spalding was appointed by | as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games. In 1905, af ... |
Robert of Courtenay | ... o fleets, one of which was commanded by Eustace the Monk, and an army under | . With French forces defeated at Lincoln in May 1217 and then routed on th ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... River. Black Hawk rejected the messages advising him to turn back. Colonel | , a regular army officer who served under Atkinson, later stated that Atki ... |
Henry V of England | ... y, but when, between 1435 and 1437 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (brother of | ), donated a great collection of manuscripts, the space was deemed insuffi ... |
John Adams | ... ters in the elections of 1796 and 1800. In 1796, Federalist Party candidate | won the presidential election; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Re ... |
Vitsentzos Kornaros | ... is period of Greek literature. It is a verse romance written around 1600 by | (1553–1613). Later, during the period of Greek enlightenment (Diafotismos) ... |
Henry the Lion | ... s desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Bavaria to | , duke of Saxony and son of Henry the Proud. In return, Austria was elevat ... |
Ferdinand I | ... of Aragon gave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, King | in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, Alfonso. ... |
Gene Roddenberry | ... the first official place name of the Star Trek television series created by | (who was born in El Paso, Texas) |
Henry of Grosmont, 4th Earl of Lancaster | The first creation was on 6 March 1351, for | , a great-grandson of Henry III; he was also 4th Earl of Leicester, 1st Ea ... |
Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine | ... s had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent Grand Duke's daughter, | |
Friedrich Ebert | ... s of this treaty. The Republic's first Reichspräsident ("Reich President"), | of the SPD, signed the new German constitution into law on 11 August 1919 |
Léopold Clément of Lorraine | ... e was raised early in her childhood. She was first engaged to be married to | , who was supposed to come to Vienna and meet Maria Theresa in 1723. Inste ... |
Vladimir Kramnik | ... standard of play was worthy of a world championship. Former World Champion | has said that Euwe won the 1935 match on merit and that the result was not ... |
Augustine | ... Phrygia under Constantius and the quality of his later major works. Because | cites part of the commentary on Romans as by "Sanctus Hilarius" it has bee ... |
Khosrau I | The Persian king | , sent troops under the command of Vahriz, who helped Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan t ... |
Herodotus | ... lays by Aristophanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while | and Thucydides are two of the most influential historians in this period |
Harlan Ellison | ... ot know where that sentence originated. After reading the interview, author | informed Moore that the sentence is a translation of the question "Quis cu ... |
William Gibson | His final role on stage was as Jerry in Two for the Seesaw by | , at the Civic Theatre in Rotherham. He was left stranded on stage because ... |
William Rehnquist | ... t, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice | . Justice Black is buried to the right of the main cemetery entrance, and ... |
Don Carlos | ... throne, however, Charles was obliged to surrender the Kingdom of Naples to | of Spain, in exchange for the minuscule Duchy of Parma |
Aristophanes | ... vived: those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The surviving plays by | are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus and Thucy ... |
Conradin | ... owerful prince in southern Germany. He served as the guardian of his nephew | of Hohenstaufen, and after Conradin's execution in Italy in 1268, Louis an ... |
Jeanne Phillips | ... of that rivalry, Howard has had several public differences with her cousin | , who took over the Dear Abby column when her mother became ill with Alzhe ... |
Garry Kasparov | ... . Former World Champions Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, and | analyzed the match for their own benefit and concluded that Euwe deserved ... |
Nicholas I of Russia | ... carried 14 passengers at 3 mph. It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor | on the Neva River |
Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford | ... ke of this creation died on 4 February 1399, the Dukedom passed to his son, | . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England fro ... |
Edward Thomas | ... Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – | – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – ... |
Wilkie Collins | ... ok about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and | . In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves such inconsequent ... |
Blanche of Castile | ... in November and was succeeded by the child king Louis IX. But Queen regent | allowed the crusade to continue under Humbert de Beaujeu. Labécède fell in ... |
Henry | ... uring the revolt of 1173–74 he faced a significant uprising led by his son, | , backed by the French crown. The conflict spread across England and Kenil ... |
Sally James | ... ence, which would debut in 1982. The only regular Tiswas presenter left was | , who stayed on for series 8 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... 's philosophy using historicism and updated Hegelian historiographic ideas. | was accused of brandishing a poker at Popper during a meeting of the Cambr ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... . The Lebor Gabála synchronises Conn's reign with that of the Roman emperor | (161-180). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn date ... |
Brian Henson | ... osaurs and their society has this strange toxic life style,' said [his son] | . But until The Simpsons took off, said Alex Rockwell, a vice president of ... |
Richard III of England | ... t Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King | with whom he died in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field |
James Whale | ... humorous writer and critic. His novel Benighted (1927) was adapted into the | film The Old Dark House (1932); the novel has been published under the fil ... |
Wendell Berry | ... ldo Leopold (1887–1948), Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors | (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson (b. ... |
Peter Jackson | ... ention for his stance toward The Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by | . He expressed doubts over the viability of a film interpretation that ret ... |
Prince | Gentleman callers during this period included Diana Ross' brother Chico, | , and a young David Gest. Jackson also dated Bobby DeBarge, and was the in ... |
Richard Nixon | President | first considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ... |
Charles Wolfe | ... – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – | – William Wordsworth – William Butler Yeats – Andrew Youn |
Prince of Wales | In 1920, the | (the future King Edward VIII) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, ... |
Reuben Fine | ... a worthy champion, even if he was not as dominant as the earlier champions. | wrote, "In the two years before the return match, Euwe's strength increase ... |
Richard II | ... . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England from | , ascending the throne as Henry IV, at which point the Dukedom merged in t ... |
Sauron | ... R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to | 's power and attained near-immortality as wraiths, servants bound to the p ... |
Saint Jerome | ... c. 550 but is not considered reliable. More trustworthy are the notices in | (De vir. illus. 100), Sulpicius Severus (Chron. ii. 39-45) and in Hilary's ... |
Ralph Borsodi | ... A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), | (1886–1977), and present-day authors Wendell Berry (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon ... |
Richard Nixon | File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President | doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the W ... |
Pete Wentz | ... nything", vocals on Box Car Racer's track "Elevator", and "In Transit" with | of Fall Out Boy, recorded for Almost Alice (2010), as well as vocals in To ... |
Murat's | ... s to contain the French at Vienna, and instructed the Allied Army to accept | ceasefire proposal so that the allied army could have more time to retreat ... |
Thucydides | ... phanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus and | are two of the most influential historians in this period |
Carl Linnaeus | The species was first officially described by Swedish botanist | in 1758. In the two centuries since then, numerous subspecies have been id ... |
Henry VII of England | ... , forcing them on shore near Melcombe Regis. The couple stayed as guests of | but were in fact hostages for the duration of their stay. In order to get ... |
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart | ... rm in the United States House of Representatives. Archibald was a cousin of | . Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, Jeb's mother, who was known as a stric ... |
Richard I | Henry's successor, | , paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth but under King John signi ... |
Horace | ... t is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. Varro, Cicero, and | , all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, conside ... |
Anne Boleyn | Among those held and executed at the Tower was | . Although the Yeoman Warders were once the Royal Bodyguard, by the 16th a ... |
Prince Shōtoku | Spying in Japan dates as far back as | (572–622), although the origins of spying and assassination date much earl ... |
Aristophanes | ... ord for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe; the character Pheidippides in | ' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp- inserted to sound more aris ... |
Conaire Cóem | ... riors dressed as women from Emain Macha to kill him at Tara. His son-in-law | succeeded him as High King, and Conn's son Art would later succeed him. Th ... |
Henry II | ... rs of the Anarchy (1135–54), delayed any further development of the castle. | succeeded to the throne at the end of the Anarchy but during the revolt of ... |
Aeschylus | ... ge, only a limited number of plays by three authors have survived: those of | , Sophocles, and Euripides. The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a ... |
William Howard Taft | ... tter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice | , Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice ... |
Joseph Stiglitz | ... asury Department, and US and other developed country trade negotiators. See | , The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, and Making Glob ... |
Philippe Quinault | ... eille even composed the comedy Psyché (1671) in collaboration with him (and | ). Most of the plays that Corneille wrote after his return to the stage we ... |
Vasily Smyslov | ... atch, and Alekhine himself said he would win easily. Former World Champions | , Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, and Garry Kasparov analyzed the match for ... |
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 ... |
Donald Knuth | CWEB is a computer programming system created by | and Silvio Levy as a follow up to Knuth's WEB literate programming system, ... |
Suetonius | ... dy, came to be called comoedia palliata, "the Greek comedy," by the Romans. | later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and Ennius (referring to thei ... |
John Steinbeck | ... Bailey (1858–1954), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist | (1902–1968), historian A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist A ... |
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 ... |
Afrika Bambaataa | ... nce on modern hip-hop and R&B music, Brown collaborated with hip-hop artist | on the single "Unity. |
Henry Chadwick | ... the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games. In 1905, after | wrote an article saying that baseball grew from the British sports of cric ... |
Salo Flohr | ... hine was unlikely—and is sometimes attributed to Alekhine's alcoholism. But | , who was helping Euwe during the match, thought over-confidence was more ... |
Agnes of Merania | ... and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and his controversial wife | . Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped ... |
King Edward III | ... of Richmond, who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of | . John had married Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster, daught ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young | . Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Shaw was quoted as saying: "Th ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... hur Joseph Goldberg, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, | , Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justi ... |
John Suckling | ... obert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – | – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dy ... |
Nicholas Negroponte | ... hine, and the XO-1. The program was begun and is sustained by Kay's friend, | , and is based on Kay's Dynabook ideal. Kay is a prominent co-developer of ... |
Oliver North | ... to travel secretly between Cyprus and Lebanon and his appearance with Capt. | , however, meant that he was compromised when the Irangate scandal broke. ... |
Brendan Behan | ... popular works. He also references the music of The Pogues and the poetry of | , both of these being relevant to Ennis' Irish heritage |
Walter Lantz | ... ice of Grandmother Fa in Mulan in 1998; she also did a variety of voices in | 's Woody Woodpecker cartoons. For Warner Brothers Cartoons, she was Granny ... |
Charles the Fat | ... t a sovereign, joined the other East Frankish lands in deposing their king, | , in 887. Under a series of dukes that began under the child king Louis IV ... |
Michelangelo | The history of the statue begins before | 's work on it from 1501 to 1504. Prior to Michelangelo's involvement, the ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ry a legend appeared in various chronicles according to which the Pope, the | , and the King of France demanded a tribute from Ferdinand. In certain ver ... |
Anatoly Karpov | ... he would win easily. Former World Champions Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, | , and Garry Kasparov analyzed the match for their own benefit and conclude ... |
Euripides | ... of plays by three authors have survived: those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and | . The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a treasure trove of comic p ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... election of 1968 ended with Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes to | 's 191. Yet, Nixon had only received 511,944 more popular votes than Humph ... |
Henry III of England | ... muster an army to protect Capetian interests against rebellious nobles and | . One of the barons tried to kidnap Louis. He took refuge in a castle and ... |
Fred Brooks | ... Chapter 6 called "A programming language" for the book he was writing with | , Automatic Data Processing, which would later be published in 1963 |
George Bernard Shaw | ... , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, | was quoted as saying: "This is what God would have built if he had had the ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with | and Wilkie Collins. In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... rk Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine) are fictional characters in | 's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to Sauron's ... |
Jerry Dumas | ... al creator. Over the years, Mort Walker has been assisted by (among others) | , Bob Gustafson, Frank Johnson and Walker's sons Neal, Brian and Greg Walk ... |
Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster | ... Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edward III. John had married | , daughter of the 1st Duke of the first creation. When John of Gaunt, the ... |
Alexander I | ... to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units. Tsar | then appointed general Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov to the commander-in-c ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... stinguished Flying Cross, and he was awarded the Harmon Trophy by President | |
Aldo Leopold | ... ck (1902–1968), historian A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist | (1887–1948), Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors Wendell Be ... |
Ennius | ... " by the Romans. Suetonius later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and | (referring to their genre, not their ethnic backgrounds). The genre was im ... |
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 ... |
Robert Owen | ... ups against times of economic hardship. Enlightened industrialists, such as | also supported these organisations to improve the conditions of the workin ... |
Sophocles | ... limited number of plays by three authors have survived: those of Aeschylus, | , and Euripides. The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a treasure t ... |
Richard Nixon | ... rred during the 91st Congress. The presidential election of 1968 ended with | receiving 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had onl ... |
Fatty Arbuckle | ... es to background ensemble, in support of comedians like Charlie Chaplin and | . The Keystone Kops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel ... |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | ... ristopher Tolkien was born in Leeds, England, the third and youngest son of | . He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then at the Oratory S ... |
Zarathustra | ... of their problems. Nietzsche achieves all of this through the character of | (referring to the traditional prophet of Zoroastrianism), who makes speech ... |
Archduke Charles | | , brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army ... |
Valentinian III | ... attack the Visigoth kingdom of Toulouse by making an alliance with Emperor | . He had previously been on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and i ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... buy as much Native American land as possible. In 1804, territorial governor | negotiated a treaty in St. Louis in which a group of Sauk and Meskwaki lea ... |
Wendell Berry | ... thinkers are sometimes referred to as neo-Agrarian and include the likes of | , Paul B. Thompson, and Gene Logsdon. They are characterized by seeing the ... |
Martin Gardner | ... TAC-TIX); Nash's fellow players at first called the game Nash. According to | , some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as J ... |
Jackson Mac Low | ... when Maciunas met them through minimalist composer La Monte Young and poet | in the early 1960s. John Cage's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition clas ... |
Newt Gingrich | On January 26, 2012, Dole issued a letter critical of | , focusing on Dole's and Gingrich's time working together on Capitol Hill. ... |
Alexander Alekhine | At Zürich 1934, Euwe finished second, behind only World Champion | , and he defeated Alekhine in their game. Alekhine was in an eight-year st ... |
George Washington | ... vernment through the war that raised an army to fight the British and named | its commander, made treaties, declared independence, and instructed the co ... |
Lugh | ... , and war and continued oppression followed. When the youthful and vigorous | joined Nuada's court, the king realised the multi-talented youth could lea ... |
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 ... |
Theodosius I | ... ricaded themselves inside the church, and the imperial order was rescinded. | , the emperor of the East, espoused the cause of Justina, and regained the ... |
Zhengde Emperor | ... between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the | . The handover of Macau (Macao) to Portugal in 1557 by the Emperor of Chin ... |
Philip II of Savoy | Pico fled to France in 1488, where he was arrested by | , at the demand of the papal nuncios, and imprisoned at Vincennes. Through ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... rices and ration production and distribution in periods of acute shortages. | considered the federal reserve as a public cartel of private banks |
Ernie Wise | ... by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with | formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership la ... |
Guillaume Colletet | ... ts”; also translated as “the society of the five authors”). The others were | , Boisrobert, Jean Rotrou, and Claude de L'Estoile |
Cratylus | Plato, in | (407B) gave the etymology of her name as signifying "the mind of god", the ... |
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 ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... the action of the plot of the outer story. An example is "The Mad Trist" in | 's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means t ... |
Robert Conquest | ... ther displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the Sovietologist | , the science fiction anthology series Spectrum I–V, which drew heavily up ... |
Gene Logsdon | ... neo-Agrarian and include the likes of Wendell Berry, Paul B. Thompson, and | . They are characterized by seeing the world through an agricultural lens. ... |
Mel Brooks | ... Hank Mann as a prop man. Sennett also starred in a cameo role-as himself.) | directed a Keystone Kops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie |
Stephen Schiff | Jagger told | in a 1992 Vanity Fair profile: "I wasn't trying to be rebellious in those ... |
Emperor | ... ment was entered into by Dejazmach Agew Niguse of Tigray, in revolt against | Tewodros II of Ethiopia, to cede Zula to the French. Agew Niguse was defea ... |
Shakespeare | ... d Henry's decision to fight the Agincourt campaign. The account was used by | as the basis for a scene in his play Henry V |
Cathair Mór | ... ding to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he took power after killing his predecessor | . In other sources his predecessor is Dáire Doimthech. The Lia Fáil, the c ... |
Speaker of the House | ... the Senate has chaired the proceedings instead. The Vice President and the | sit at the podium, with the Vice President in the seat of the Speaker of t ... |
Maria Feodorovna | ... nd a note from Pope Leo XIII. Because of support from Russian tsarist widow | and other donations, his financial situation improved remarkably |
William John Gruffydd | ... and the Mabinogion does not contain the only version of them. Welsh scholar | noted that 15th- and 16th-century poets apparently knew an alternate tradi ... |
Charles Darwin | ... g to similar projects. His efforts were recognized both at home and abroad. | said of him: "The Emperor does so much for science, that every scientific ... |
Valentinian II | In 385 Ambrose, backed by Milan's populace, refused | 's imperial request to hand over the Portian basilica for the use of Arian ... |
Ralph Kiner | "Ozark Ike" was the nickname of two major league baseball players, | and Gus Zernial |
Harvey Kurtzman | ... layouts "was a very deliberate thing", although his inspiration was rather | , but it was altered enough to give the series a unique look. The artist a ... |
Allan C. Carlson | ... authors Wendell Berry (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and | (b. 1949) |
John Cage | The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer | in his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage explored notions of indetermi ... |
Iain Banks | Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer | , published in 1987 |
Christina of Sweden | ... hn Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded his cousin Queen | on the Swedish throne, Pfalz-Zweibrücken was in personal union with Sweden ... |
King Henry VII | ... dfather of Elizabeth I. His titles were declared forfeit after his death by | , but his son, the 1st Earl of Surrey, was later restored as 2nd Duke (the ... |
Guthrum | ... Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking | , arrived in East Anglia. They proceeded to cross England into Northumbria ... |
Henry | ... custom of wearing a leek as an “ancient tradition” in Henry V. In the play, | tells Fluellen that he is wearing a leek “for I am Welsh, you know, good c ... |
Władysław I the Elbow-high | ... hts and then with the German Prussian state. The Kingdom was restored under | , strengthened and expanded by his son Casimir III the Great. The western ... |
Edward Frankland | With | he found that nitriles can be hydrolyzed to the corresponding acids |
Frederik Pohl | ... nd society. Amis was particularly enthusiastic about the dystopian works of | and C. M. Kornbluth, and in New Maps of Hell coined the term "comic infern ... |
Jerry Lewis | ... of the new generation of comedians and celebrities, including Dick Cavett, | , Peter Sellers, Marcel Marceau and Dick Van Dyke. Laurel lived until 1965 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ons, Gwenwynwyn and Gwanar, who both accompany Caswallawn in his pursuit of | , who has been chased from Britain. This triad is the only source connecti ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ican government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), | postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... l stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden, | who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjami ... |
Casimir III the Great | ... ored under Władysław I the Elbow-high, strengthened and expanded by his son | . The western provinces of Silesia and Pomerania were lost after the fragm ... |
Robert Sheckley | ... be a type of humorous dystopia, particularly as exemplified in the works of | . Amis further displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the So ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... d Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of | , which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Mi ... |
Jan Hein Donner | ... e Salo Landau in 1936, when Euwe, then world champion, did not compete, and | in 1954. He became the world amateur chess champion in 1928, at The Hague, ... |
Livy | Livius’ first play, according to Cicero, was staged in 240 BC. | tells us that Livius was the first to create a fabula with a plot. One sto ... |
Lenny Henry | ... nt between 1974 and 1981, and later Sally James, it also featured the young | and occasionally Jim Davidson together with Bob Carolgees and his puppet, ... |
Philip the Good | ... chiermonnikoog in writing dates from October 1440, in a document written by | |
President pro tempore of the Senate | ... The sitting Vice President is expected to preside, but in several cases the | has chaired the proceedings instead. The Vice President and the Speaker of ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... s The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and | ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other ... |
Pedro II | On 6 September 1850 the emperor, | , sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ... |
Cyril Fagan | Some modern Western astrologers, such as | , have advocated abandoning the tropical system in favour of a sidereal on ... |
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 ... |
King Henry VIII | ... and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of | . Thus, through Anne Boleyn, he was the great-great-grandfather of Elizabe ... |
Baldassare Castiglione | ... rary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, | 's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well ... |
Magnus Maximus | ... nciples of Ambrose, however his aid was soon solicited by the Emperor. When | usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy ... |
Jean Shepherd | ... classic 1983 comedy movie “A Christmas Story”, co-writer and film narrator | described the hectic holiday season as a “. . . yearly bacchanalia of peac ... |
Herodotus | ... t was also used by ancient Egyptians to embalm mummies. The Greek historian | said hot bitumen was used as mortar in the walls of Babylon |
Iakovos Kambanelis | ... : Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, | , Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, Ellie Lambeti, Irene Papas etc. More t ... |
Gene Logsdon | ... Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors Wendell Berry (b. 1934), | (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson (b. 1949) |
George Padmore | ... e writings of black intellectuals like Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and | , and his relationships with them. Nkrumah's biggest success in this area ... |
RZA | ... ut in 1999 to mixed reviews, which were mainly attributed to the absence of | and Ghostface Killah. The Lex Diamond Story followed in 2003 on Universal ... |
Gordon Brown | ... that he had managed to get through to Margaret Beckett whilst impersonating | , with her revealing "embarrassing indiscretions" |
Hipparchus | ... s responded to this phenomenon of precession once it had been discovered by | around 130 BC. Today, some read Ptolemy as dropping the concept of a fixed ... |
Bolesław II the Bold | ... y a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under Casimir I. Casimir's son | became fatally involved in a conflict with the ecclesiastical authority, a ... |
Thomas Corneille | ... guilbert and Pierre Corneille, a distinguished lawyer. His younger brother, | , also became a noted playwright. He was given a rigorous Jesuit education ... |
Bres | ... that their king must be physically perfect, and he was replaced as king by | , a half-Fomorian prince renowned for his beauty and intellect. The Fomori ... |
Paruyr Sevak | On 27 September 2004, Yerevan adopted a hymn, "Erebuni-Yerevan", written by | and composed by Edgar Hovhanissian. It was selected in a competition for a ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... n 1934, Grofé announced that he was working on an opera, to be based on the | story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
Eddie Campbell | Following a brief interlude by From Hell artist | , the series' direction was taken over by Paul Jenkins in 1995. He had bee ... |
Ptolemy | ... n once it had been discovered by Hipparchus around 130 BC. Today, some read | as dropping the concept of a fixed celestial sphere and adopting what is r ... |
Tomé Pires | ... Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and | diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of ... |
Karl Marx | ... l new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to | to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologie ... |
Lafcadio Hearn | ... dhist monk U Dhammaloka (?Laurence Carroll?) in Burma, Buddhist sympathiser | in Japan, the Hindu nun Sister Sanghamitta (Margaret Noble) and the Theoso ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of Marcus Licinius Crassus (played by | ). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, Jack and stayed at the house for pa ... |
King Arthur | ... ks he must complete before he can win her hand. With the help of his cousin | , Culhwch succeeds and the giant dies, allowing Olwen to marry her suitor |
Donna Shalala | That same year, President George W. Bush appointed Dole and | co-chairs of a commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medi ... |
Chris Tarrant | Most famously hosted by | between 1974 and 1981, and later Sally James, it also featured the young L ... |
Michael Wilding | ... ne Dietrich. Hitchcock used a number of prominent British actors, including | , Richard Todd, and Alastair Sim. This was Hitchcock's first production fo ... |
Bertolt Brecht | ... at the Young Vic Theatre in London celebrating the work of German dramatist | , where a series of newly-translated versions of some of his short plays w ... |
Miguel Alemán Valdés | ... ommercial wharf and warehouses has been built. In the early 1950s President | upgraded the port’s infrastructure, installing electrical lines, drainage ... |
Leopold I | ... f Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor | . The government of de facto collectively ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, seate ... |
Kenny Everett | ... admired by the British DJ & comedian Maurice Cole, who took the stage name | in his honor |
Pindar | ... her clarion cry of war. And Ouranos trembled to hear, and Mother Gaia..." ( | , Seventh Olympian Ode). Plato, in the Laws, attributes the cult of Athena ... |
Conn of the Hundred Battles | ... echt, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill. A rival to | was Mug Nuadat ("Nuada's Slave"). The Delbhna, a people of early Ireland, ... |
Speaker of the House | ... wn by then, then under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the sitting | would become Acting President until either the House should select a Presi ... |
Bolesław I Chrobry | Mieszko's son | established a Polish Church province, pursued territorial conquests and wa ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... eir time entertaining, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included | , Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon v ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Two Will-o-the-wisps appear in | 's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795). They are desc ... |
Harry Graf Kessler | ... s of woodcut illustrations for an edition of Vergil's Eclogues published by | in 1926–27. He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (1937) and Cha ... |
Norodom Sihanouk | ... e returned to the WPK's liberated areas. Despite friendly relations between | and the Chinese, the latter kept Pol Pot's visit a secret from Sihanouk. I ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals like Marcus Garvey, | , and George Padmore, and his relationships with them. Nkrumah's biggest s ... |
Aeschylus | ... rst extensive works of literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists | , Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The militar ... |
Valentinian II | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, | and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p. ... |
Louis XVIII of France | ... , lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King | lived in exile at from 1809 to 1814 |
Ficino | ... He was interred at San Marco and Savonarola delivered the funeral oration. | wrote: “Our dear Pico left us on the same day that Charles VIII was enteri ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ing able to exercise his rule in Catalonia, until the death of his brother, | ; he returned to Vienna to assume the imperial crown. Not wanting to see A ... |
Pausanias | The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that | saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there dur ... |
Michelangelo | ... Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist | . It is a marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the ... |
Marianne Faithfull | ... ; one of their early compositions, "As Tears Go By", was a song written for | , a young singer being promoted by Loog Oldham at the time. For the Rollin ... |
Longus | ... by Harry Graf Kessler in 1926–27. He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by | (1937) and Chansons pour elle by Paul Verlaine (1939) |
Paul Wolfowitz | ... Bush nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed | as President of the World Bank Group. The Executive Directors unanimously ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... rsonification of Britain, in imagery that was developed during the reign of | . With the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish ... |
General Wesley Clark | ... he mistake on his May 31, 2011 show. Both times he was interviewing retired | |
Lugaid Riab nDerg | ... st time since Cúchulainn split it with his sword when it failed to roar for | . In the saga Baile in Scáil ("The Phantom's Ecstatic Vision"), Conn tread ... |
Carl Linnaeus | ... in his 1620 Prodromus. Brassica napobrassica was first validly published by | in his 1753 work Species Plantarum as a variety of B. oleracea: B. olerace ... |
Dick Higgins | ... ch in New York City were attended by Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht, and | , many of whom were working in other media with little or no background in ... |
Paul Verlaine | ... so illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (1937) and Chansons pour elle by | (1939) |
Nuadu Necht | ... haracters of the same name include the later High Kings Nuadu Finn Fáil and | , and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill. A rival to Co ... |
Peter the Great | ... 18,000 of them were Nemtsy, which means either German or western foreigner. | was greatly influenced by the international community located in the Germa ... |
Constance | ... an in England next to the king himself. After Blanche's death, John married | , who had a claim to the kingdom of Castile, and John styled himself the k ... |
John Steinbeck | In | 's novel East of Eden, the atmosphere of Jenny's whorehouse is described a ... |
Jeroen Blijlevens | ... amples of famous cyclists who won the race once or more are Servais Knaven, | and Alessandro Petacchi. Regularly, the NK (Dutch Championships) Survival ... |
Albert, Duke of Prussia | ... tonic Knights, Albert, secularized the order's Prussian territory, becoming | . His duchy, which had its capital in Königsberg (Polish: Królewiec), was ... |
Simon Mario Reuel Tolkien | ... They have two children, Adam Reuel Tolkien and Rachel Clare Reuel Tolkien. | , his son by his first marriage, to Faith Faulconbridge, is a barrister an ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... g of Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil: | 's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner describes the Will o' the wisp |
Gratian | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors | , Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. Ma ... |
Richard I | ... s a leader involved in the massacre of the Jews at Cliffords Tower in York. | dismissed the sheriff and constable of York and imposed severe penalties o ... |
Molière | ... as one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with | and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produce ... |
Xuxa | ... ionship was broken off by Senna in late 1988. Senna dated Brazilian TV star | from late 1988 until 1990. He then dated Christine Ferracciu, who lived wi ... |
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. | In media, alumni include Meredith Vieira, journalist and TV personality | ;, The New York Times publisher; Lew Rockwell, founder of Ludwig von Mises ... |
Robert Zoellick | ... 007, US President George W. Bush nominated former deputy secretary of state | to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank Group. The Execut ... |
Donna Tartt | In | 's novel The Secret History, four of the central characters hold a bacchan ... |
Michael Drayton | ... place in a leek field. This story may have been made up by the English poet | , but it is known that the leek has been a symbol of Wales for a long time ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, Princess Anne, Cliff Richard, | , John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jon ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Tolkien (born 21 November 1924) is the third and youngest son of the author | (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posth ... |
Wendell Berry | ... essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1953). | Wendell Berry is an author of several books, essays, and poems whose writi ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... nces abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include | 's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, a ... |
Nia Segamain | ... ated with the eagle or hawk. The name of the legendary High King of Ireland | , which translates as "sister's son or champion of Segamon", may be relate ... |
Scram Jones | ... Linx mindset", and RZA, with RZA handling most of the production. Dr. Dre, | , and were other producers that were announced early on as working on the ... |
Nikos Tsiforos | ... national acclaim: Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, | , Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, Ellie Lambeti, Ire ... |
Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory was the first novel by Scottish writer | . It was published in 1984 |
Meredith Vieira | In media, alumni include | , journalist and TV personality; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., The New York ... |
St. Paul | Domínguez claimed that he was visited by Christ, along with St. Peter and | , who told hi |
Nuadu Finn Fáil | ... bly Nechtan. Other characters of the same name include the later High Kings | and Nuadu Necht, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... and on the other hand influenced by Islamic (Saracen) ideals of furusiyya. | (1459–1519) is often referred to as the last true knight. He was the last ... |
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 Milton | In Book IX of | 's Paradise Lost, Satan is compared to a "will-o-the-wisp" in tempting of ... |
Francis II | ... ope. In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when Holy Roman Emperor | kept Francis I of Austria as his only official title. These achievements, ... |
Arthur Grimble | Sir | wrote about his time working in the British colonial service in Kiribati ( ... |
Henry IV of Castile | ... city was Alvar Gomez de Cibdad Real, who had been private secretary to King | . He was a protector of the conversos. Together with prominent conversos F ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... population of about 50,000. In 1958, The Diocese of Acapulco was created by | . It would become an archdiocese in 1983 |
Bertolt Brecht | ... ons suggested a pirate theme, and Moore agreed in part because he is "a big | fan": the Black Freighter alludes to the song "Seeräuberjenny" ("Pirate Je ... |
Jerome | | has some additional detail that tends to support the capture at Tarentum a ... |
Charles Dickens | ... nce been extended to refer to any drunken revelry. In A Tale of Two Cities, | uses the words: "the law was certainly not behind any other learned profes ... |
Edward III | ... aster inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of | ; their union, and combined resources, made John the second richest man in ... |
Peter Gallagher | ... ater from the United States; Rainn Wilson, American actor and comedian; and | , American actor |
J. Maarten Troost | ... e Islands (1957). He also undertook academic studies of Gilbertese culture. | 's more recent autobiographical experiences on the Tarawa Atoll are docume ... |
Peter I | John was the natural son of | by a woman named Teresa, who, according to Fernão Lopes, was a noble Galic ... |
Alfred Frankenstein | A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is | 's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters ... |
Charles Avery | ... he original Kops numbered only seven: George Jeske, Bobby Dunn, Mack Riley, | , Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy, Hank Mann |
Nero | ... the 2nd millennium BCE. The leek was the favourite vegetable of the Emperor | , who consumed it in soup or in oil, believing it beneficial to the qualit ... |
Stephen Slesinger | Gotto presented Ozark Ike to promoter | , who also managed Red Ryder, King of the Royal Mounted and the merchandis ... |
Galla Placidia | When Valentinian discovered the plan, only the influence of his mother | convinced him to exile, rather than kill, Honoria. He also wrote to Attila ... |
Caesar of Heisterbach | ... s in Arnaud-Amaury's report to the Pope. According to the Cistercian writer | , Arnaud-Amaury, when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars f ... |
Valentinian II | In 392, after the death of | and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the p ... |
George W. Bush | On 30 May 2007, US President | nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed Paul ... |
James Bond | ... ht him to laugh." He calls their three seasons together (1990 to 1992) "the | years" since, as biographer Tom Rubython notes, "money, success, and girls ... |
Peter Tomlinson | It was created by ATV continuity announcer | (later to become a regular presenter on the show) following a test period ... |
Angela Rippon | ... enabled them to have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including | , Princess Anne, Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Ar ... |
Aldo Leopold | ... particular religion and patriarchal tendency have subsided to some degree. | Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University. He developed the ... |
Dáire Doimthech | ... er killing his predecessor Cathair Mór. In other sources his predecessor is | . The Lia Fáil, the coronation stone at Tara which was said to roar when t ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... r the modern evolutionary synthesis was established (roughly 1936 to 1947). | called this approach to explaining evolution as terminal addition; as if e ... |
Tony Fletcher | ... of the tale. Another version of the night was recounted by Moon biographer | in the book Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legen |
Sally James | ... McDonald - takes over as a surprise) and the 'viewer's letters' clip where | is pied and drenched in semolina, baked beans and custard. Moving slightly ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... Edgar Kennedy, and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown cameo with | as a Keystone Kop |
Daniel Inouye | ... senator in history with a career spanning over 38 years. His colleague Sen. | (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The Strom Thurmond of the Arctic Circle. |
Plautus | ... agrees with this view on the grounds that it would make Livius younger than | and Naevius, though he was supposed to have been the first to produce a pl ... |
Agamemnon | ... . It begins with Achilles' withdrawal from battle after he is dishonored by | , the commander of the Achaean forces. Agamemnon had taken a woman named C ... |
Charles VIII | ... ession of several Italian princes—all instigated by Lorenzo de' Medici—King | had him released, and the Pope was persuaded to allow Pico to move to Flor ... |
King Richard III | ... , someone had left John Howard a note attached to his tent warning him that | , his "master," was going to be double-crossed (which he was) |
Vasili III | The earliest German settlement in Russia dates back to the reign of | in the 16th century. A handful of German and Dutch craftsmen and traders w ... |
Marx | ... ased by selling it), then profit was impossible. David Ricardo (seconded by | ) responded to this paradox by arguing that Smith had confused labour with ... |
RZA | ... Rhymes, whom Raekwon cited as getting him in the "Cuban Linx mindset", and | , with RZA handling most of the production. Dr. Dre, Scram Jones, and were ... |
Alla Amidas | ... be supported by the die-links between his coins and those of his successor, | . An inscription of Sumyafa' Ashwa' also mentions two kings (nagaśt) of Ak ... |
Captain Ángel Rivero Méndez | ... r of Spain, name unknown, resulting in a Spanish victory. Around this time, | was assigned the command of the Spanish forces in the fortress of San Cris ... |
Alekos Sakellarios | ... gures in Greece and some gained international acclaim: Mihalis Kakogiannis, | , Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nik ... |
Ring Lardner | ... g. The characters and the baseball park settings are apparently inspired by | 's well-known baseball short story "Alibi Ike" (1915), filmed in 1935 as t ... |
Banshee | ... neration X, featuring Jubilee and other teenage mutants led and schooled by | and former villainess Emma Frost at her Massachusetts Academy. In 1998, Ex ... |
George Jeske | The original Kops numbered only seven: | , Bobby Dunn, Mack Riley, Charles Avery, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy, ... |
Wen Jiabao | ... the name Unihub. It is owned by Wen Yunsong, son of China's prime minister | . Unihib was a re-branding of PCCW's Business eSolutions division, from 1 ... |
Henry of Grosmont, the Duke of Lancaster | ... nued to use Kenilworth as a royal castle until her fall from power in 1330. | , inherited the castle from his father in 1345 and remodelled the great ha ... |
Jerome | Ambrose ranks with Augustine, | , and Gregory the Great, as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church. Theolo ... |
Richard Nixon | ... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, | politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ... |
Allen Ginsberg | ... early 1960s. Besides reading the works of writers such as Jack Kerouac and | , he discovered African American music - jazz, blues and R&B. Inspired by ... |
Herman Melville | ... leases of films. An example of this is the chapter The Town Ho's Story from | 's famous novel Moby-Dick, which tells a fully formed story of an exciting ... |
James Dewar | Hydrogen was liquefied for the first time by | in 1898 by using regenerative cooling and his invention, the vacuum flask. ... |
Philip Larkin | ... ped in a pattern which was the inverse of that followed by his close friend | . Before becoming known as a poet, Larkin had published two novels; Amis, ... |
Ptolemy | ... an anciently recognized constellation, catalogued along with many others in | 's Almagest, but not historically referred to as a zodiac constellation |
Isaac Newton | ... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines . | , influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... in the 1950s and early 1960s. Besides reading the works of writers such as | and Allen Ginsberg, he discovered African American music - jazz, blues and ... |
Demosthenes | ... own because they are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, | , Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher Ar ... |
Mihalis Kakogiannis | ... portant historical figures in Greece and some gained international acclaim: | , Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, ... |
Frederick Douglass | ... or women. The suffrage movement was supported by William Lloyd Garrison and | |
Bento de Góis | ... s, but others were not convinced yet. To check the situation on the ground, | , a Portuguese former soldier and explorer who had joined the Jesuits as a ... |
President | ... (PNA)—the provisional entity created by the Oslo Accords. Arafat became the | and Prime Minister of the PNA, the Commander of the PLA and the Speaker of ... |
Xenophon | ... d to some universally read and admired history, the works of Thucydides and | . Slightly less known because they are more technical and legal are the or ... |
Tony Blair | Bremner supported Reg Keys in the 2005 election when he stood against | as an anti-war candidate |
Neal Stephenson | | 's novel Cryptonomicon includes a fictitious U-691, a Type IXD/42, launche ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... oversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: | alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, ... |
Warren Ellis | | took over the title in 1999, after his work on Transmetropolitan which had ... |
Botvinnik | Vladimir Kramnik also says Euwe anticipated | 's emphasis on technical preparation, and Euwe was usually in good shape p ... |
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 ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... es of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of | shortly after 550 BC. The Persians found the Ionians difficult to rule, ev ... |
Francisco Solano López | Meanwhile, in December 1864 the dictator of Paraguay, | took advantage of the situation to establish his country as a regional pow ... |
Ivar the Boneless | ... r encampment. The following year the Great Heathen Army led by the Brothers | , Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking Guthrum, arrived ... |
William Lloyd Garrison | ... vention demanded suffrage for women. The suffrage movement was supported by | and Frederick Douglass |
Abu Rayhan Biruni | ... me. Aruzi Samarqandi describes how before Avicenna left Khwarezm he had met | (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Iraqi (a renowned mathematic ... |
Alexander II | The decline of the Russian German community started with the reforms of | . In 1871, he repealed the open-door immigration policy of his ancestors, ... |
Thucydides | ... he Athenians led to some universally read and admired history, the works of | and Xenophon. Slightly less known because they are more technical and lega ... |
Alexander the Great | After | conquered the Near East in 334 BCE, the existing settlement was named Heli ... |
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 ... |
Charles II of Spain | Following the death of | , in 1700, without any ostensible heir, Charles declared himself King of S ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... were invited by Cage to attend his classes unofficially at the New School. | and Allan Kaprow (who is credited as the creator of the first "happenings" ... |
James I of Scotland | ... d many distinguished prisoners. The heir to the Scottish throne, later King | , was kidnapped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. ... |
Black Canary | ... oore was not impressed by the character and drew more from heroines such as | and Phantom Lady |
René Descartes | Influenced both by Galileo's new physics and Bacon, | argued soon after that mathematics and geometry provided a model of how sc ... |
Christopher Golden | ... ch as the title characters of Two Guys and a Girl and the lead character of | 's Body of Evidence mystery novels |
Neal Stephenson | | 's novel Cryptonomicon includes a fictitious U-553 which runs aground abou ... |
Sigismund III | Following King | 's Prussian regency contract (1605) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg ... |
Benjamin Franklin | The colonies were independent of each other before 1774 as efforts led by | to form a colonial union through the Albany Congress of 1765 had not made ... |
Lugh | ... see a phantom, a tall beautiful man, on a throne, who introduces himself as | . The woman is the sovereignty of Ireland, and she serves Conn a meal cons ... |
Ted Marchibroda | ... fensive lineman Will Wolford serves as color commentator. Former head coach | of both Baltimore and Indianapolis Colts franchises, who served as color c ... |
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 ... |
Prince's | ... his album were "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'", "Hot Potato", and a cover of | "Private Joy." Jackson and Amir Bayyan co-wrote "Reggae Nights" for Heart ... |
Kaleb of Axum | ... e capital, killing many and destroying the church there. The Christian King | learned of Dhu Nuwas's persecutions of Christians and Aksumites, and, acco ... |
Gregory Maguire | ... k Times publisher; Lew Rockwell, founder of Ludwig von Mises Institute; and | , novelist. Such alumni have been known to write characters as students of ... |
Orestis Laskos | ... there were several minor productions such as newscasts before this. In 1931 | directed Daphnis and Chloe (Δάφνις και Χλόη), contained the first nude sce ... |
Georges de Scudéry | ... mie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid (1638). Even the prominent writer | harshly criticized the play in his Observations sur le Cid (1637). The int ... |
Jehoahaz | On his return march to Egypt in 608 BC, Necho found that | had been selected to succeed his father, Josiah. Necho deposed Jehoahaz, w ... |
Choricius of Gaza | ... other Attic poets, the chief source of his phraseology was the rhetorician | . The style is remarkable for the absence of hiatus and a laboured use of ... |
Daniel Moynihan | ... that year, Kennedy created the Friends of Ireland organization with Senator | and House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconci ... |
John Ruskin | After passing his 11-plus school examination, McTell attended the | Grammar School. He hated his time there, and despite being a very bright p ... |
Aristophanes | ... Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and | in the 5th century BC. The military exploits of the Athenians led to some ... |
James VI of Scotland | ... the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish cousin, | , to the English throne. He became James I of England, and so brought unde ... |
Euripides | ... literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, | and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The military exploits of the Athen ... |
Charles the Bald | ... 817 was a further claimant besides Louis's three grown sons. A fourth son, | , was born to Louis's second wife, Judith of Bavaria, in 823. When Louis t ... |
Will Wolford | ... itle from 1984 to 1991 and again since 1995. Former Colts offensive lineman | serves as color commentator. Former head coach Ted Marchibroda of both Bal ... |
Epicurus | ... nd was therefore materialist, like the ancient philosophy of Democritus and | . But he also added a theme that science should seek to control nature for ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... cases considered significant to the history of religious freedom. In 1779, | wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, enacted in 1786 by the V ... |
Odysseas Elytis | ... have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Seferis in 1963 and | in 1979 |
Aleister Crowley | ... ating the antagonistic character, Demon Constantine, with the assistance of | . The landmark hundredth issue gave more detail on John Constantine's fath ... |
Sophocles | ... ve works of literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, | , Euripides and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The military exploits ... |
Jean Chapelain | ... tion. The Académie's recommendations concerning the play are articulated in | 's Sentiments de l'Académie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid (1638). ... |
Elizabeth Jane Howard | In 1963, Hilary discovered Amis's love affair with novelist | . Hilary and Amis separated in August; he went to live with Howard. He div ... |
Reshevsky | Euwe finished equal fourth with Alekhine and | in the AVRO tournament of 1938 in The Netherlands, which featured the worl ... |
Theodosius I | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and | carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p.100 quote: See al ... |
Mr. A | ... ho's got an oddly designed mask". Moore based Rorschach on Ditko's creation | ; Ditko's Charlton character The Question also served as a template for cr ... |
Democritus | ... final causes, and was therefore materialist, like the ancient philosophy of | and Epicurus. But he also added a theme that science should seek to contro ... |
Queen Beatrix | ... ouse of Orange dynasty, the later royal family of the Netherlands. In fact, | is Countess of Buren. Also, the royals have been known to use the name Van ... |
Lew Rockwell | ... d TV personality; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., The New York Times publisher | ;, founder of Ludwig von Mises Institute; and Gregory Maguire, novelist. S ... |
Frederick III of Brandenburg | Ducal Prussia's full sovereignty allowed Elector | to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor Leopold I. T ... |
Bob Lamey | ... gship station was WFBQ 94.7FM (with additional programming on WNDE 1260AM). | is the team's play-by-play announcer, holding that title from 1984 to 1991 ... |
Geoffrey Palmer | Judi Dench has frequently appeared with her close friend | . They co-starred in the series As Time Goes By, where she played Jean Par ... |
Robert Barnard | ... he tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist | called the best of the Christie novels |
Piet Hein | The game was invented by the Danish mathematician | , who introduced it in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was independen ... |
Richard Curtis | ... levision special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson and inspired screenwriter | , who attended the London service, to write the growing-orchestra wedding ... |
Margaret Beckett | ... he entered the news after it emerged that he had managed to get through to | whilst impersonating Gordon Brown, with her revealing "embarrassing indisc ... |
Tewodros II of Ethiopia | ... entered into by Dejazmach Agew Niguse of Tigray, in revolt against Emperor | , to cede Zula to the French. Agew Niguse was defeated by Emperor Tewodros ... |
Stu Nahan | ... ion to the main cast several others had cameo appearances. Bill Baldwin and | returned as the fight commentators for the two Rocky-Lang fights. Veteran ... |
Gus Kahn | ... uite includes lyrics to the central section of "On the Trail" by songwriter | |
Sargon of Akkad | ... empires succeeded the last, and conquerors grew in stature until the great | pushed his empire to the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. It would not be ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... ss takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing | commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 2 ... |
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 ... |
Charles Laughton | The first actor to portray Hercule Poirot was | . He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been ada ... |
Henry Cowell | The idea of the event began in | 's philosophy of music. Cowell, a teacher to John Cage and later to Dick H ... |
Demetrius Vikelas | ... irikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, and | . Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Georg ... |
Queen Victoria | ... f the navy, lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. By the time of | , Britannia had been renewed. Still depicted as a young woman with brown o ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... anish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, Philippe, Duke of Anjou, | 's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for almost 14 years. The Ki ... |
William Shakespeare | ... Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of | 's Pericles, Prince of Tyre (particularly in Act III) |
Arthur Ransome | ... s eloquence and intelligence by telling the story to his impressed friends. | uses the device to allow his young characters in the Swallows and Amazons ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Francis II | ... ecisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I and | , after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting. The battle took place nea ... |
Edward II | ... many of the other English barons, found himself in increasing opposition to | . War broke out in 1322, and Lancaster was captured at the Battle of Borou ... |
Joseph Lyons | ... President of the Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial. Australian Prime Minister | described the section of keel as "intimately associated with the discovery ... |
Elizabeth I | ... age productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as | in the film Shakespeare in Love |
Louis the Pious | ... awn up for a division of the Carolingian Empire on the death of the emperor | . Unforeseen in 817 was a further claimant besides Louis's three grown son ... |
Sean B. Carroll | ... in the evolution of morphological diversity. Several biologists, including | of the University of Wisconsin–Madison suggest that "changes in the cis-re ... |
George W. Bush | ... few left of them, so the once massive tributes are growing thin. President | was the first American president who visited the cemetery, on 8 May 2005. ... |
Jon Hendricks | ... ettes, beginning with their 1933 program featuring Grofé and his orchestra. | wrote lyrics for "On the Trail", and the song was recorded for Hendricks' ... |
James Madison | ... icenses from the Anglican Church. Both Patrick Henry and the young attorney | defended Baptist preachers prior to the American Revolution in cases consi ... |
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 |
King Arthur | ... early medieval poem found in the Book of Taliesin describes a voyage led by | to the numerous otherworldy kingdoms within Annwn, either to rescue the pr ... |
Jackie Chan | ... ny Trejo and Marilyn Manson. Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 | film The Tuxedo, in which Chan was required to finish Brown's act after Br ... |
Photius | ... th independent additions, to elucidate the portions of Scripture concerned. | (cod. 206), while blaming the diffuseness of these commentaries, praises t ... |
Arthurian legends | ... tiltyard in an event called "the Round Table", in imitation of the popular | |
Jeffrey Archer | ... Declaration document is at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by | in which Saddam Hussein tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly ... |
Emperor of China | ... e Zhengde Emperor. The handover of Macau (Macao) to Portugal in 1557 by the | (as a reward for services rendered against the pirates who infested the So ... |
Francis Bacon | ... de his famous proof of uniform acceleration in freefall using mathematics . | , especially in his Novum Organum, argued for a new experimental based app ... |
King Cadwaladr | ... "Peter's Leek," Cenhinen Bedr) on St. David’s Day. According to one legend, | of Gwynedd ordered his soldiers to identify themselves by wearing the vege ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... an legend, and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by | , and a speculative explanation of the writing of Kubla Khan, and what the ... |
Constantine P. Cavafy | ... s Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, | , and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Pri ... |
Gordon B. Hinckley | ... ion for several years running, an honor which the late LDS Church president | had commented on with pride. BYU's 2010 "#1 stone cold" sober rating marke ... |
Mwai Kibaki | ... s of the National Rainbow Coalition (NaRC) to parliament and NaRC candidate | (b. 1931) to the presidency. Voters rejected the Kenya African National Un ... |
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 ... |
John Dickson Carr | ... micide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist | to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time |
Sarah Palin | ... d by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor | , current Governor Sean Parnell and three other former governors, 11 senat ... |
Flohr | ... (1926), Capablanca (1931), and Spielmann (1935); and Euwe drew a match with | in 1932. His playing strength gradually increased, so that by 1932 he and ... |
Shigeru Mizuki | ... wide variety of situations and locations. These phenomena are described in | 's 1985 book Graphic World of Japanese Phantoms (妖怪伝 in Japanese) |
Julius Pokorny | ... ho of the ancient fame of the magic hand of Nodens the Catcher". Similarly, | derives the name from a Proto-Indo-European root *neu-d- meaning "acquire, ... |
Dunama Dabbalemi | Kanem's expansion peaked during the long and energetic reign of Mai | (ca. 1203–1242), also of the Sayfawa dynasty. Dabbalemi initiated diplomat ... |
Frank Graham | ... issue up for discussion again at the 1954 bi-annual convention. ACLU member | , president of the University of North Carolina, attacked the anti-communi ... |
Aristotle | ... enes, Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher | (384-322 BC), whose mentor was Plato, dates from the period of transition ... |
Paul Revere | ... gement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after | 's now-legendary ride. The Second Continental Congress takes various steps ... |
John Gower | ... offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of | and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare' ... |
Tsar Alexander I | ... Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by | and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fi ... |
Jesse Helms | ... ted to the United States Senate in 2002, to succeed the retiring Republican | . However, she lost her seat in 2008, a heavily Democratic year, to Kay Ha ... |
Mwai Kibaki | ... s routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president | , was elected President by a large majority |
Howard Jacobson | ... enerations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and | . As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement |
Gregorios Xenopoulos | ... os Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, | , Constantine P. Cavafy, and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have bee ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ame Nuada probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which | suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning "acquire, have the use of ... |
Wolverine | ... ishop, and Gambit — who became one of the most popular X-Men (rivaling even | in size of fanbase), but many of the later additions to the team came and ... |
Isocrates | ... more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, Demosthenes, Lysias, | and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC) ... |
Marilyn Manson | ... ott's 2001 short film, , alongside Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, Danny Trejo and | . Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxe ... |
James Bond | In 1995, she took over the role of M ( | 's boss) with the James Bond film series, starting with GoldenEye replacin ... |
Burgess Meredith | Rocky's trainer Mickey ( | ) initially wants no part of it and admits to the champion that Lang was r ... |
Lionel Hampton | In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman hired pianist Teddy Wilson, vibraphonist | and guitarist Charlie Christian to join small groups. An early 1940s style ... |
Bhob Stewart | ... ng and visual impact that he could now predict and use to dramatic effect." | of The Comics Journal mentioned to Gibbons in 1987, that the page layouts ... |
Lysias | ... hey are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, Demosthenes, | , Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher Aristotle ... |
Spielmann | ... n matches against the world's best: Alekhine (1926), Capablanca (1931), and | (1935); and Euwe drew a match with Flohr in 1932. His playing strength gra ... |
Tom Sharpe | ... ent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, | and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement |
Marinus of Neapolis | This role is expressed in a number of stories about Athena. | reports that when Christians removed the statue of the Goddess from the Pa ... |
King Charles II | During the reign of | , Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ... |
Mitt Romney | ... letter was issued immediately before the Florida primary. Dole has endorsed | for the Republican nomination |
Schiller | ... ällino, der grosse Bandit (1793; subsequently also dramatized), modelled on | 's Die Räuber, and the melodramatic tragedy Julius von Sassen (1796) |
Jack Hylton | ... , most notably in Hoylake in 1940, the prize for which was an audition with | . Also present was another young talent named Ernest Wiseman, already a fa ... |
Choricius | ... m is to be found in his letters and the encomium by his pupil and successor | . He was the author of numerous rhetorical and theological works. Of the f ... |
Jean Rotrou | ... iety of the five authors”). The others were Guillaume Colletet, Boisrobert, | , and Claude de L'Estoile |
Manasseh | During the long reign of | (c. 687/686 - 643/642 BC), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennach ... |
Dick Van Dyke | ... ties, including Dick Cavett, Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers, Marcel Marceau and | . Laurel lived until 1965, surviving to see the duo's work rediscovered th ... |
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 ... |
Kostas Karyotakis | ... is Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, | , Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Demetrius Vikelas. Two ... |
Claude de L'Estoile | ... authors”). The others were Guillaume Colletet, Boisrobert, Jean Rotrou, and | |
King Edward V | For his support of King Richard III during the deposition of | in 1483, he was created The Duke of Norfolk, third creation, on 28 June 14 ... |
Justin I | ... rding to Procopius, was further encouraged by his ally and fellow Christian | of Byzantium, who requested Aksum's help to cut off silk supplies as part ... |
Alain Robbe-Grillet | ... with writers usually unconnected with the cinema, such as Marguerite Duras, | and Jorge Semprún |
Bob Fosse | ... ole as the vampish Lola, and it was on this show that she first worked with | as her choreographer. In the story, Verdon's Lola is a woman who was once ... |
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 ... |
St Jerome | ... from Justin's "Apology" of a "Refutation of all Heresies ". Epiphanius and | mention Justin |
Theodoric I | ... vitus, and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king | (Theodorid) to ally with the Romans. The combined armies reached Orléans a ... |
Persi Diaconis | Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career (like | a generation later) was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the Univers ... |
James Agee | ... Paramount Pictures. The quality and variety of her roles began to improve. | , in his review for The Dark Mirror (1946), noted the change, and stated t ... |
Carmel Schrire | ... tes of the frequency of newborn female infanticide in the Inuit population. | mentions diverse studies ranging from 15-50% to 80% |
Zheng He | ... n the early Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was the staging area and supply depot of | 's naval expeditions. Further development was severely hampered by the sea ... |
Dian Parkinson | ... eauties included Kathleen Bradley (1990–2000), Holly Hallstrom (1977–1995), | (1975–1993) and Janice Pennington (1972–2000). Pennington and Bradley were ... |
Steven Emerson | ... as threatened the United States through covert cells on US soil. Researcher | in 2006 alleged that the group had "an extensive infrastructure in the US ... |
Theodosius I | ... ed at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of | (379-395) |
Barbara Ehrenreich | ... on, as has the Boston Women's Health Collective. Other criticism comes from | and colleagues who see this new sexuality as one that privileges the male ... |
William Blake | ... interest in this technique is a result of the influence of artists such as | and , and the style of political editorial cartoons |
former President Lyndon Johnson | ... ular bluebonnets, some planted in an effort by "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of | |
Vernor Vinge | The poem was referenced in | 's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep |
James Kent | The village was named for New York jurist and legal scholar, | , as was Kent County |
Donna Shalala | ... sion to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with | , a former member of the Clinton cabinet. Dole is married to former U.S. c ... |
Virgil | ... llowed in 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of | 's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification |
Dave McKean | ... initial creative team was writer Jamie Delano and artist John Ridgway, with | supplying distinctive painted and collage covers. Delano introduced a poli ... |
Niccolò Machiavelli | ... Renaissance, Florence was the hometown of political writer and philosopher | , whose ideas on how rulers should govern the land, detailed in The Prince ... |
Hagop Baronian | ... nificant theatres include: Yerevan State Musical Comedy Theatre named after | , Russian Drama Theatre named after Constantin Stanislavski, Yerevan State ... |
Muhammad al-Idrisi | ... brew word, as string-like shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking. | , wrote in 1154 that itriyya was manufactured and exported from Norman Sic ... |
Roberto Bolaño | In | 's novel 2666, the philosophy professor Oscar Amalfitano begins his three- ... |
King of Italy | Louis II the Younger (825 – Ghedi 12 August 875) was the | and Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, ... |
Paul Greengrass | ... ed attached, collaborating with Aronofsky's producing partner, Eric Watson. | replaced Aronofsky when he left to focus on . Ultimately, Paramount placed ... |
Sam Houston Johnson | ... and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: Johnson and his brother, | (1914–1978), and sisters Rebekah (1910–1978), Josefa (1912–1961), and Luci ... |
Miles Malleson | ... Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and | |
Dickens | ... here he had been publicized and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since | , he returned to England where Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed ... |
Lothair | ... re for the benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, | , Pepin, and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punct ... |
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 ... |
James Wilson | ... he magazine The Economist was initiated during September 1843 by politician | with help from the Anti-Corn Law League; his son-in-law Walter Bagehot lat ... |
Hosni Mubarak | ... n of one's first name was common; notable Egyptians such as Anwar Sadat and | did so. However, Arafat also dropped Abdel Rahman and Abdel Raouf from his ... |
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 ... |
Hovhannes Tumanyan | ... , Yerevan State Hamazgain Theatre and the State Pupppet Theatre named after | . The Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan is the oldest modern the ... |
William Joyce | ... ho fought on the opposite side, with the Republican International Brigades. | became an English-language propagandist for the Third Reich, known colloqu ... |
Ronald Reagan | Wyman was the first wife of | . They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public ... |
Poul Anderson | It was also an influence for | 's hard science fiction novel "Tau Zero |
Philip II of France | ... he spent little time in England, instead concentrating on the war with King | , which began with Philip's attempts to acquire Richard's possessions on t ... |
Christina of Sweden | ... ite of the city of Wilmington, which they named Fort Christina, after Queen | |
Maupassant | ... pect, an influence which Bennett himself acknowledged was the French writer | whose "Une Vie" inspired "The Old Wives' Tale." Maupassant is also one of ... |
Darren Aronofsky | ... was announced Paramount Pictures would produce Watchmen, and they attached | to direct Hayter's script. Producers Gordon and Levin remained attached, c ... |
Werner Herzog | He next starred alongside Nicolas Cage in the | film , and alongside Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson in Streets of Blood. Both we ... |
Zack Snyder | ... Levin met with Warner Bros. to develop the film there again. Impressed with | 's work on 300, Warner Bros. approached him to direct an adaptation of Wat ... |
Osama bin Laden | On 2 May 2011, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh condemned the killing of | in Pakistan by the United States. Haniyeh praised Bin Laden, the founder o ... |
Anwar El Sadat | ... fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. | , President of Egypt, was instrumental in the event and consequently becam ... |
Pope John X | Pope Leo VI, a Roman, succeeded | (914–928) as Pope in 928. He reigned a little over seven months; the exact ... |
Kendrick Frazier | ... he name The Zetetic and retitled after a few months under the editorship of | , former editor of Science News. Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope calls Sk ... |
Stan Laurel | ... rly Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. Composed of thin Englishman | (1890–1965) and heavy American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), they became well ... |
Lothair I | ... was the King of Italy and Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his father | until 855, after which he ruled alone. Louis's usual title was imperator a ... |
Bert Jones | ... These consecutive championship teams featured 1976 NFL Most Valuable Player | at quarterback and an outstanding defensive line, nicknamed the "Sack Pack ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... re-enactments, and speeches from a host of dignitaries, including President | , the first Southerner elected to the White House since the War. (Note: He ... |
Stan Lee | The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer | and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963) ... |
Harihara | ... g the life of Lord Krishna leading up to his fight with the demon Banasura. | , (also known as Harisvara) a Lingayati writer and the patron of King Nara ... |
Robert Graves | ... it the patronage of Athena, for the olive tree brought wood, oil, and food. | was of the opinion that "Poseidon's attempts to take possession of certain ... |
Ayumi Hamasaki | Today, game soundtracks are sold on CD. Famous singers like Hikaru Utada, | and Gackt sometimes sing songs for games as well, and this is also seen as ... |
Pepin | ... e benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, Lothair, | , and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punctuated b ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader Trent Lott and House Speaker | slipped a last-minute provision into a hotly contested compromise tax bill ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... d as a quality inseparable from art and thus necessary for its success; for | , art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation ... |
William Bulfin | ... rish emigrants it does form part of the Irish diaspora. The Irish-Argentine | remarked as he travelled around Westmeath in the early 20th century that h ... |
Alex Tse | ... rner Bros. approached him to direct an adaptation of Watchmen. Screenwriter | drew from his favorite elements of Hayter's script, but also returned it t ... |
Andrew Greeley | Roman Catholic priest and author | criticized liberation theology in his 2009 fictional book Irish Tweed. In ... |
King Abdullah | ... ian revolution in 1935 which led him and his followers in rebellion against | of Jordan. And later at 1937, when they were forced to leave Jordan, Princ ... |
George V | ... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or as | put it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ... |
Serge Gainsbourg's | ... in and Greek borrowings like tænia and ex æquo. It was great popularized in | song "Elaeudanla Teiteia" (trans.Elayeeina Tee I Tee I A, which is the pho ... |
Yasser Arafat | ... asting peace." The failure to come to an agreement was widely attributed to | , as he walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer ... |
Bernardo Bertolucci | ... the Holy See never did so. This is partly due to the erroneous reference in | 's 1987 film The Last Emperor, that the Holy See diplomatically recognised ... |
Jacques Chirac | In 1996, | , then French President, granted the former French members of the Internat ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... , Kilmer was filming in Kelseyville, California; he is the lead role in the | film Twixt. The film is being filmed mostly on Coppola's estate in Napa Co ... |
Alan Ayckbourn | ... music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of two plays by | , and two different styles of musical in On connaît la chanson (Same Old S ... |
Louis VII of France | ... aimed at all his friends and supporters as well as Becket himself; but King | offered Becket protection. He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abb ... |
Jack Kirby | ... e a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist | , and first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963). The basic concept o ... |
Ranjit Singh | Undivided Punjab was ruled by a Sikh dynasty founded by Maharaja | for 50 years from 1799 to 1849 AD, before its conquest by the British. Bef ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... mer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as | in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Ju ... |
Charles II | ... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs from | to George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ... |
Claudia Jordan | ... and the show. Following the departures of Nikki Ziering, Heather Kozar and | in the 2000s (decade), producers decided to use a rotating cast of models ... |
Franz von Papen | Hindenburg then appointed | as new Reichskanzler. Von Papen lifted the ban on the NSDAP's SA paramilit ... |
Charles I | ... ntury history, while a film set in Bray, County Wicklow, in Ireland, covers | , the English Civil War, the Commonwealth of England, The Protectorate, an ... |
Johnny Olson | | , the announcer of choice for most Goodson-Todman shows of the era, was th ... |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... in a span of 12 months, coming as it did just after the deaths of President | and General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Bro ... |
Mary Baker Eddy | Since 2010, Kilmer has been working on a film about the life of | , the founder of the Christian Science church, and Mark Twain, one of her ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... g's "Metropolis", which offer an example of how technophobia can occur, and | 's "Modern Times", in which people are reduced to nothing but cogs in the ... |
Brian Azzarello | ... writers who have written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, | , Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
François Mitterrand | ... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by | , the former Socialist President |
Penny Lernoux | Journalist and writer | described this aspect of liberation theology in her numerous and committed ... |
Habibullah Khan | ... -Afghan War of 1919 was precipitated by the assassination of the then ruler | . His son and successor Amanullah declared full independence and attacked ... |
Akbar | ... ed Sheykhu Baba, he was the third and eldest surviving son of Mogul Emperor | . Akbar's twin sons, Hasan and Hussain, died in infancy. His mother was th ... |
Ovid | ... the myth of the Athenian maidens is told in Metamorphoses by the Roman poet | (43 BC – 17 AD); in this late variant Hermes falls in love with Herse. Her ... |
Warren Ellis | ... o date. Other writers who have written for the series include Paul Jenkins, | , Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently ... |
UCSD p-System | ... s, which were released by Apple at about the same time. These ran under the | operating system, which had its own disk format and emitted code for a "vi ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death of | and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite fa ... |
Galen | ... d sheets of dough called lagana. In the 2nd century CE, the Greek physician | mentioned itrion, made of flour and water. The Jerusalem Talmud records th ... |
Mark Twain | ... e life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science church, and | , one of her most famous critics. Kilmer wrote the screenplay, describing ... |
Rod Roddy | ... uncer until shortly before his death in October 1985. Olson was replaced by | in 1986, who remained with the program until shortly before his death in O ... |
Yan Xishan | ... of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and | . As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchuria and even extended his inf ... |
Wolverine | In the aftermath of the Schism series, the fallout between | and Cyclops will lead to the revival and rebuilding of the original X-Mans ... |
Robin Cook MP | ... ng personal attack on the Prime Minister, calling his behaviour 'reckless'. | and a few other government ministers resigned to the backbenches over the ... |
Cadmus | ... ugh no classical source explicitly connects the two, Ino is the daughter of | of Tyre. Lewis Farnell thought not, referring in 1916 to "the accidental r ... |
Chen Shui-bian | ... e end of his term in 2000. That year Democratic Progressive Party candidate | won the national election with 39% of the vote in a three-way race. Chen's ... |
Saud | ## | (12 January 1902 – 23 February 1969); reigned 1953–196 |
Ernst Lubitsch | ... have been based on an ancient Sanskrit play, The Little Clay Cart. The 1942 | comedy To Be or Not to Be confuses the audience in the opening scenes with ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, | , Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
Charles Gounod | ... a matter of debate. Other men closely linked to her included the composers | (she created the title role in his opera Sapho) and Hector Berlioz (who in ... |
Rurik | ... al relation with the Varagians defending the cities that they ruled. Led by | and his brothers Truvor and Sineus, the invited Varangians (called Rus') s ... |
Horace | In the 1st century BCE, | wrote of fried sheets of dough called lagana. In the 2nd century CE, the G ... |
Shelley | ... son's interpretation "in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of Blake and | ." As the poet William Blake famously wrote, "The reason Milton wrote in f ... |
Billy Wilder | He became a favorite actor of director | , starring in his films Some Like It Hot (for which he was awarded Best Ac ... |
Louis | ... f Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, Lothair, Pepin, and | . A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punctuated by brief per ... |
Charlemagne | ... of the Frankish Kingdom. On conquering the Lombard Kingdom of Italy in 774, | had himself crowned King of the Lombards. Consequently, Tyrol came to be o ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... Martin Gardner, a maxim regularly put into practice by the organization is | 's "one horse-laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms." Skeptical Inquirer ha ... |
Yukio Mishima | ... to the West End from 13 March – 23 May 2009, playing Madame de Merteuil in | 's Madame De Sade, directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar seas ... |
Charles II | ... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns of | to George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ... |
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | ... ine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and | |
Russell Kirk | ... cal theorist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author | . Kirk resided at Piety Hill, currently the location of the Russell Kirk C ... |
Yidya | ... BC, contains seven letters to the Egyptian pharaoh, from its 'King'/mayor: | . Yidya was the only ruler of Ašqaluna during the 15–20-year time period. ... |
Harold Wilson | In 1964, the new British government under | announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ... |
Hector Berlioz | ... omposers Charles Gounod (she created the title role in his opera Sapho) and | (who initially had her in mind for the role of Dido in Les Troyens, but ch ... |
Athenaeus | ... xplain the figure of Ino that is aboriginally inseparable from Melikertes." | (392d) summarizes a story by Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 355 BCE ) telling how H ... |
Peter Ustinov | | played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978) ... |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King | . During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, ... |
Akbar | In 1600, when | was away from the capital on an expedition, Salim broke into an open rebel ... |
Denise Mina | ... e Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, | , and currently Peter Milligan |
Andrew Huxley | ... hysiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with | and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
Rich Fields | ... m until shortly before his death in October 2003. Los Angeles meteorologist | took over as the announcer in April 2004, and stayed on until the end of s ... |
Mohammed Nadir Shah | ... cated under pressure. The individual who most benefited from the crisis was | , who reigned from 1929 to 1933. Both the Soviets and the British played t ... |
Diego Durán | ... because they were considered equals in power. 16th century Dominican Friar | wrote, "These two gods were always meant to be together, since they were c ... |
David Hayter | ... tober 2001, Gordon partnered with Lloyd Levin and Universal Studios, hiring | to write and direct. Hayter and the producers left Universal due to creati ... |
Ermengarde of Tours | He was the eldest son of the Emperor Lothair I and | . He was designated King of Italy in 839 and took up his residence in that ... |
Alp Arslan | ... manus IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultan | of the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the Battle of Manzikert. The ba ... |
Marc Chagall | ... ins – his last original Broadway staging. The set, designed in the style of | 's paintings, was by Boris Aronson. A colorful logo for the production, al ... |
John Milton | ... radise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet | . It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over t ... |
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 ... |
Bob Bartlett | ... avel. In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat | , Governor Wally Hickel appointed Stevens to the U.S. Senate. Since Gravel ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... icher asked for new elections. On 28 January, von Papen described Hitler to | as only a minority part of an alternative, von Papen-arranged government. ... |
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 ... |
Louis II | ... ed his kingdom between his three sons in the Treaty of Prüm. To the eldest, | , went Italy, with the imperial title. To the youngest, Charles, still a m ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... d to England to raise the king's ransom. Richard wrote to his mother, Queen | , that Walter should be chosen for the see of Canterbury, as well as to th ... |
Simon Bisley | ... d on the series as well, such as John Ridgway (the original series artist), | , Mark Buckingham, Richard Corben, Steve Dillon, Marcelo Frusin, Jock, Dav ... |
George W. Bush | ... ong live for the 2004 Republican National Convention, saying that President | , whom he said is a fan and a family friend, had asked him to write a song ... |
Frank Capra | ... She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright (1950), | on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rog ... |
Galen | ... itation of the male, mapping the female body onto the male, as if, like the | ic view, it was incomplete. Furthermore, overemphasis of ejaculation may i ... |
Marguerite Duras | ... in collaboration with writers usually unconnected with the cinema, such as | , Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jorge Semprún |
Leonardo Pieraccioni | ... is home to renowned Italian actors and actresses, such as Roberto Benigni, | and Vittoria Puccini |
Peter Cotes | Their elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and stage producer as | ; he was the original director of The Mousetrap |
Umberto Eco | In | 's novel Foucault's Pendulum the protagonist Casaubon claims that the idea ... |
Eugene O'Neill | ... Tony came when Verdon memorably played a role associated with Greta Garbo, | 's Anna Christie, the hard-luck girl fleeing from her past as a prostitute ... |
Clare Short MP | ... few other government ministers resigned to the backbenches over the issue. | threatened to resign from the cabinet, but then remained for two months be ... |
Richard Matheson | Also in the 1960s, the film Omega Man (loosely based on the | novel I am Legend) showed a world scarred by biological warfare and only a ... |
King Richard III | For his support of | during the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... serves as an important throughline in the film, as suggested by the title. | sets the opening scene of his 1944 film of Henry V in the tiring room of t ... |
Charles the Bold | ... t. Arnhem entered the Hanseatic League in 1443. In 1473, it was captured by | of Burgundy. In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, took it from th ... |
Mike Gravel | ... age Mayor Elmer E. Rasmuson. Rasmuson lost the general election to Democrat | . In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat Bo ... |
Sheila Jeffreys | Even some radical feminist writers, such as | (1985) were dismissive, claiming it as a figment of male fantasy |
Henry VIII | ... ority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under | and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I |
Anatole France | ... Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, | , Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el Husseini". This p ... |
Richard Wagner | ... vements. The introduction of valves made this process unnecessary (although | wrote horn parts as if crooks were still in use, evoking the tradition whi ... |
Kathy Troccoli | ... was Chris Rice, who had written "Go Light Your World", a No. 1 hit song by | , in 1995. In 1999, Smith collaborated with Jim Brickman on "Love of My Li ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by | took place in 1973 |
Lord Goldsmith | Before the invasion, the then UK Attorney General | , advised that the war would be in breach of international law for six rea ... |
Charles Lyell | ... as (though not his thoughts on evolution) by John Playfair in 1802 and then | in the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, tho ... |
Oscar II | ... an). Due to the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905, | had to change his motto |
Tom Wolfe | Novelist | coined the term Me decade in his article "The "Me" Decade and the Third Gr ... |
Augustus | ... ond century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of | ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor. The Areopag ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... t into turnaround in 1991, and the project was moved to Warner Bros., where | was attached to direct and Charles McKeown to rewrite it. They used the ch ... |
Mel Brooks | ... ,” but the visuals show a Bollywood-style devi and a Taj Mahal-like castle. | 's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles leaves its Western setting when the climact ... |
Alexander III | ... of government ministers of Russia who were personally appointed by the Tsar | and by his son, Tsar Nicholas II. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway w ... |
Madonna | ... ed after this city based on the results of a dart thrown randomly at a map. | was born here and once referred to Bay City as "a stinky, little town in N ... |
Theodor Herzl | ... nd Zionism by engaging in discussions with Jews and reading publications by | and other prominent Zionists. At the same time, he became an Arab national ... |
George Sand | ... ed. However, she remained on good terms with him for many years. Her friend | (who later based the heroine of her 1843 novel Consuelo on her) had a role ... |
Liu Yu | The dynasty was founded by | 劉裕 (363–422), whose surname together with "Song" forms the most commonly u ... |
Arctinus of Miletus | ... funeral games were held. He was represented in the lost Trojan War epic of | as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the river ... |
Anne Boleyn | The ghost of | , beheaded in 1536 for treason against Henry VIII, allegedly haunts the ch ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... . They miscalculated however, and his son quickly pledged his allegiance to | , turning his forces over to Kuomintang control and supported Chiang in hi ... |
Art Rooney | Prior to the 1970 season, Rosenbloom, Art Modell of the Browns, and | of the Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to have their teams join the ten AFL tea ... |
Gerald Ford | ... cond longest-lived president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by | and Ronald Reagan. He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, ... |
Graham Greene | ... erious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon (1950) and | 's Brighton Rock (1947), both with Roy producing and John directing. They ... |
Paul Éluard | ... ing of the town, and presented it to the accompaniment of a text written by | . A political perspective on art also underpinned his next project, co-dir ... |
Charles Darwin | ... ks had widespread influence, not least on the up and coming young geologist | who read them with enthusiasm during his voyage on the Beagle, and has bee ... |
Giacomo Gorrini | ... ry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, | , Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el Husseini". This place of remembran ... |
Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
William B. Davis | ... 996, as well as co-producing a TV documentary series Critical Eye hosted by | (the actor who played the Smoking Man in The X-Files). CSI members can als ... |
Liu Shao | ... which at least partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include | , Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emper ... |
Peleus | ... ds and goddesses as well as various mortals were invited to the marriage of | and Thetis (the eventual parents of Achilles). Only Eris, goddess of disco ... |
Moses | ... cribe the same God. De ente et uno, has explanations of several passages in | , Plato and Aristotle |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... dstone. The last picture he exhibited at the Royal Academy was a scene from | 's The Deserted Village in 1857 |
King Charles I | ... n applauded the English people for having the courage to depose and execute | . In his poem, however, he takes the side of 'Heav'n's awful Monarch' (iv ... |
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 ... |
James Joyce | In | 's Ulysses, the precocious Stephen Dedalus recalls with disdain his boyhoo ... |
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 ... |
Lothair II | ... ll a minor, went Provence. To the second eldest and namesake of his father, | , went the remaining territories to the north of Provence, a kingdom which ... |
Jeffrey Katzenberg | ... e him raves... I had a wonderful experience in spite of all the naysayers." | (producer of Prince of Egypt) talks about the actor. "Val was one of the f ... |
Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
Bob Dole | ... ught the position of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against | , Dick Lugar, Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens w ... |
Guido Cavalcanti | ... nte with his Divine Comedy (1306–1321) and Petrarch, but also poets such as | and Lapo Gianni composed their most important works. Dante's masterpiece i ... |
Paul of Tarsus | ... temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor. The Areopagus, the "mount of Ares" where | preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis; from archaic times ... |
Mary Shelley | An early example of technophobia in fiction and popular culture is | 's Frankenstein. It has been a staple of science fiction ever since, exemp ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... Brüning was appointed as successor of Chancellor Müller by Reichspräsident | on 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General Kurt von S ... |
Mullah Omar | ... gious force, reportedly in opposition to the tyranny of the local governor. | started his movement with fewer than 50 armed madrassah students in his ho ... |
Norman Finkelstein | ... best we're likely to see – on the [one-sided diplomacy] Miller describes." | published an article in the winter 2007 issue of Journal of Palestine Stud ... |
Heather Wilson | ... funding from Amway in 1998 included Representatives Bill Redmond (R-N.M.), | (R-N.M.), and Jon Christensen (R-Neb) |
Ernest Rutherford | ... perty of matter, and isolated the radioactive elements radium and polonium. | and Frederick Soddy identified two of Becquerel’s forms of radiation with ... |
Charles McKeown | ... t was moved to Warner Bros., where Terry Gilliam was attached to direct and | to rewrite it. They used the character Rorschach's diary as a voice-over a ... |
Arthur, Prince of Wales | ... man who sat on the commissions in the Welsh Marches and clerk controller to | , at Ludlow Castle. Thomas More, writing when she was still alive, but old ... |
Ivan Turgenev | ... iage did not stop the steady stream of infatuated men. The Russian novelist | in particular fell passionately in love with her after hearing her renditi ... |
Fritz Hochwälder | ... e on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by | . In the following year, Ayckbourn appeared in six other plays at the Conn ... |
Lapo Gianni | ... omedy (1306–1321) and Petrarch, but also poets such as Guido Cavalcanti and | composed their most important works. Dante's masterpiece is the Divine Com ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, | , Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry o ... |
Pietro Kuciukian | ... remembrance was created by Laurenti Barseghian, the Museum's director, and | , the founder of the "Memory is the Future" Committee for the Righteous fo ... |
H. P. Lovecraft | Of minor interest is a passing reference to Mirandola by | , in the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927). Mirandola is given ... |
Emperor Xiaowu | ... east partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, | , Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was espe ... |
Alexander the Great | Ashkelon was soon rebuilt. Until the conquest of | , Ashkelon's inhabitants were influenced by the dominant Persian culture. ... |
James Joyce | ... in Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly | , and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance ... |
Achilles | ... were invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis (the eventual parents of | ). Only Eris, goddess of discord, was not invited. She was annoyed at this ... |
Li Zongren | ... d supported Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as | , Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchu ... |
Abraham Rees | ... ng technology. Encyclopaedias such as Harris's Lexicon Technicum (1704) and | 's Cyclopaedia (1802–1819) contain much of value. Cyclopaedia contains an ... |
Osbert Sitwell | ... of that Department at the end of the war. He refused a knighthood in 1918. | , in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current ... |
Blake | ... places Empson's interpretation "in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of | and Shelley." As the poet William Blake famously wrote, "The reason Milton ... |
Chen Shui-bian | During the 2004 Presidential campaign, President | publicly campaigned with Lee Teng-hui and developed a campaign platform, i ... |
Dave McKean | ... oyd, Leonardo Manco, and Sean Phillips. Notable cover artists have included | (who designed the first run of the series' covers), Tim Bradstreet (who de ... |
Frank H. Easterbrook | Stephanos Bibas writes in a 2003 analysis for Cornell Law Review that Judge | and a majority of scholars "praise these pleas as efficient, constitutiona ... |
Charles Darwin | ... ular conditions and was evidence of benevolent design in nature. Studies of | 's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natu ... |
Edna Ferber | ... gain (1953), The Blue Veil (1951) (another Oscar nomination), the remake of | 's So Big (1953), Magnificent Obsession (1954) (Oscar nomination), Lucy Ga ... |
James Randi | According to | , controlled tests by several other researchers, eliminating several sourc ... |
Haakon IV of Norway | ... age proper in Scotland is generally considered to be in 1266. In 1263, King | , in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast ... |
Álvaro Obregón | President | was awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Me ... |
Ronald Neame | ... ain (Jack Gold, 1984), The Dunera Boys (Ben Lewin, 1985) and Foreign Body ( | , 1986) |
Ronald Reagan | ... ed president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by Gerald Ford and | . He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, who had died in ... |
Puyi | ... y 1932, and renamed to Manchukuo. The Japanese military commander appointed | as regent (reign name Datong) for the time being and would become Emperor ... |
Virgil | ... real characters of his age or before. He is first guided by the Roman poet | , whose non-Christian beliefs damned him to Hell. Later on he is joined by ... |
Emperor Qianfei | ... ed to many military revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, | , Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, m ... |
August von Kotzebue | Only one year after the inception of the Rhein University the dramatist | was murdered by Karl Ludwig Sand, a student at the University of Jena. The ... |
Michael Johns | ... Pakistan. Others included two Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts, | and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resis ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ng the Middle East destabilized. In a June 1973 meeting with U.S. President | , Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had proposed Israel pull back to its 1967 ... |
Sydney Grundy | The Vicar of Bray is an 1882 comic opera by | and Edward Solomon. The opera is based on the character described in the 1 ... |
Mary Renault | | , in Funeral Games, translates the sobriquet into English: "One Eye. |
Carloman II | ... rer, Charles's son, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, | and Louis III, ceded western Lotharingia to Louis. The border between the ... |
Emma Goldman | ... ortrayed this in more positive terms. Thus we find Almeda Sperry writing to | in 1918, about the "rhythmic spurt of your love juices". Anatomical knowle ... |
Bertha von Suttner | ... of "A memory of Solferino". Dunant began an exchange of correspondence with | and wrote numerous articles and writings. He was especially active in writ ... |
Engelberga | ... joint emperor at Rome by Pope Leo IV, and soon afterwards, in 851, married | and undertook the independent government of Italy. He marched into the sou ... |
Evelyn Scott | Happy to get away from the company of | , in 1923 Merton returned to Douglaston to live with the Jenkins family an ... |
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 ... |
Clausewitz | ... on-trinitarian theory of warfare, which he juxtaposes to the famous work by | , On Wa |
Samuel Beckett | ... made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later | (who became a courier for the French Resistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a briga ... |
Aristotle | As a teenager, he was greatly troubled by the Metaphysics of | , which he could not understand until he read al-Farabi's commentary on th ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ustody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President | |
Armin T. Wegner | ... Genocide committed against the Armenians by the Turks. Among them there are | , Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bry ... |
Oliver Stone | In the 2004 | film Alexander, Antigonus is played by Ian Beattie |
Thomas More | ... Marches and clerk controller to Arthur, Prince of Wales, at Ludlow Castle. | , writing when she was still alive, but old, declared that even then an at ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... was a close friend of one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman | . In 1930, Johnson campaigned for Texas State Senator Welly Hopkins in his ... |
William Wordsworth | ... he mechanical, and a longing for a simpler, more pastoral times. Poets like | and William Blake believed that the technological changes that were taking ... |
George Orwell | ... contemporary account of the Spanish Civil War which also takes this view is | 's book Homage to Catalonia |
Bill Dally | ... he CSX700 (2008) has 192. Stream Processors is headed by computer architect | . Their Storm-1 processor (2007) contains 80 SIMD cores controlled by a MI ... |
Sammo Hung | Films featuring cycle rickshaws and their drivers include Kickboxer and | 's 1989 martial arts film Pedicab Driver, which dealt with a group of pedi ... |
Aleus | ... nt Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by | , Pausanias was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric an ... |
François Truffaut | The | film Day for Night is about the making of a fictitious movie called Meet P ... |
Valentinian III | Emperor | sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Triget ... |
William Blake | ... nging for a simpler, more pastoral times. Poets like William Wordsworth and | believed that the technological changes that were taking place as a part o ... |
Emperor of China | ... become Emperor of Manchukuo but that he could not reign using the title of | . Manchukuo was proclaimed a monarchy on 1 March 1934, with Puyi assuming ... |
Petrarch | In the 14th century, | and Giovanni Boccaccio led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's de ... |
Sparta | In | , Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical ... |
George R. R. Martin | A character in | 's A Song of Ice and Fire series is forced to perform a penance walk model ... |
Ralph Nader | He made a donation to | 's 2008 presidential campaign. On January 30, 2009, Kilmer was chosen to b ... |
Philip J. Klass | ... bers, along with others such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, B.F. Skinner, and | joined Kurtz to form CSICOP |
Molly Ivins | ... ublished in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper in August 1997, reporter | wrote that Amway had "its own caucus in Congress...Five Republican House m ... |
Emperor Ming | ... ry revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, | , and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a lar ... |
Albert Einstein | ... cal new physical theories also began to emerge in this same period. In 1905 | , then a Bern patent clerk, argued that the speed of light was a constant ... |
Ben Affleck | ... Melrose has become a popular place to shoot films. In the fall of 2009, the | movie The Town captured many key scenes in a historic bank on Main Street ... |
Franz Werfel | ... Turks. Among them there are Armin T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, | , Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict ... |
Louis III | ... on, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, Carloman II and | , ceded western Lotharingia to Louis. The border between the two kingdoms ... |
André Breton | ... of 14 he discovered surrealism and through that an interest in the works of | |
Cleopatra VII | ... fell in 63 BC, and the area was incorporated into the Roman Republic. Queen | used Ashkelon as her place of refuge when her brother and sister exiled he ... |
Prince Faisal | His last words to his two sons, the future king Saud and the next in line | , who were already battling each other, were: 'You are brothers, unite! |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... his era, de Haviland was also notable as a staunch liberal, campaigning for | and Harry Truman. In 1946, determined to protect liberalism from infiltrat ... |
Richard P. Gabriel | ... y and Peter Norvig's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by | 's Lucid Inc. where he was eventually put to work on Lucid's Energize C++ ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... spapermen and lobbyists. Johnson's friends soon included aides to President | , as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President John Nance Garner. He be ... |
Gustav Vasa | ... stemming from the early 16th century. All regents of Sweden, beginning with | , have had their own motto during their respective periods of reign. The S ... |
Harold Pinter | ... ipt to Karel Reisz's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by | , is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book. In addition to ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | In the 14th century, Petrarch and | led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's death in 1321. Petrarch w ... |
Zhang Zuolin | Zhang Xueliang, known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of | , warlord of Manchuria in northeast China. For sometime prior to the Kuomi ... |
James III of Scotland | ... pledged them as security on the dowry of his daughter, who was betrothed to | . Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem ... |
Emperor Houfei | ... rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and | . Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a large number of his bro ... |
Thomas Jefferson | In 1803 President | obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ... |
Sam Hamm | ... ay based on his story, but he declined, so the studio enlisted screenwriter | . Hamm took the liberty of re-writing Watchmens complicated ending into a ... |
Julius Caesar | ... 49 BC. She organized an army on the site but did not need to use it due to | 's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of Hero ... |
Marsilio Ficino | ... tual heroes, St. Augustine of Hippo, and also by ideas held by his teacher, | , who may have encouraged him to write it. Pico’s antagonism to astrology ... |
Martin Gardner | Science writer | , and others, describe the topic of remote viewing as pseudoscience. Gardn ... |
Sparta | ... going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites. At | , however, youths each sacrificed a puppy to Enyalios before engaging in r ... |
Uri Geller | ... ying, therapeutic touch, astrology, fire walking, voodoo, magical thinking, | , alternative medicine, channeling, Carlos hoax, psychic hotlines and dete ... |
George Antheil | ... ncluded the phonographic playback of a nightingale recording. Also in 1924, | created a work titled Ballet Mécanique with instrumentation that included ... |
George III | ... esponsible for Lady Sarah Lennox's embarrassing rejection by the young King | , as well as her disastrous marriage to Sir Charles Bunbury soon afterward ... |
George W. Bush | ... t Chen, leading to a public rebuke of Chen from the United States President | in December 2003. It is believed that this rebuke in part was intended to ... |
Stephen Sondheim | The Vicar of Bray is also referenced in the song Parlour Songs in the | musical, Sweeney Todd, although the song has been removed from more recent ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... ility required in the production of the artistic object. In conceptual art, | 's "Fountain" is among the first examples of pieces wherein the artist use ... |
Shirley MacLaine | ... tized, Broadway-ized storyline. It was followed by a movie version starring | as Charity, featuring Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Chita Rivera ... |
Alan Dershowitz | ... at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side." | , an Israel advocate and a law professor at Harvard University, said that ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... so close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau, and | . He made two films with Curtis, three films with Kovacs (Operation Mad Ba ... |
John Nance Garner | ... dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President | . He became a surrogate son to Sam Rayburn |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... and the introduction of censorship laws. One victim was the author and poet | , who, freshly appointed university professor in Bonn, was banned from tea ... |
Alfred de Musset | At the age of 17, she met and was courted by | , who had earlier been taken with her sister Maria Malibran. Some sources ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... other Hollywood figures, including her own star-recruit to the reform camp, | . Ironically, given her role in galvanizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet ... |
Prosper of Aquitaine | ... ise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the Emperor. | gives a short, reliable description of the historic meeting, but gives all ... |
George Orwell | ... gh the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical. | wrote an essay called A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray |
Tran Anh Hung | ... with romance and organized crime. Cyclo, a 1995 film by Vietnamese director | , is centered on a cycle rickshaw driver. Tollywood films with cycle ricks ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Varley is often compared to | . In addition to a similarly descriptive writing style, similarities inclu ... |
Mark Z. Danielewski | The Whalestoe Letters (2000) by cult author | is an epistolary novella which more fully develops the literary correspond ... |
Jared Diamond | ... n of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent after about 8000 BC. | traces the spread of cultivated emmer wheat starting in the Fertile Cresce ... |
Maureen Dowd | ... Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and | for incorrectly referring to the act as "Hoot Smalley," and for blaming pr ... |
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 ... |
Shah Jahan | In 1622, Khurram ( | ), younger brother of Khusrau Mirza, had murdered Khusrau in a conspiracy ... |
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 |
George Washington | ... uccess of the Canadiens was underscored during the French and Indian War by | 's defeat at Great Meadows and Edward Braddock's embarrassment at the Mono ... |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | The term "dramaturgy" was created by the German dramatist | . From 1767-1770 he wrote and published a series of criticisms entitled th ... |
Anne Louise Germaine Necker | ... Suzanne before the end of the year. On 22 April 1766, they had a daughter, | , who became a renowned author under the name of Madame de Staël |
Septimius Severus | The Roman Emperor | was a native of Lepcis Magna in North Africa, an originally Phoenician cit ... |
Gervase of Canterbury | ... d Chronica, Ralph Diceto's works, William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum, and | 's works |
Rudyard Kipling | ... an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for | . The ZIP code is 49780 |
Keith Olbermann | ... tates Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator | and Maureen Dowd for incorrectly referring to the act as "Hoot Smalley," a ... |
Edgar of Scotland | ... odred Crovan was killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and King | agreed a treaty. The islands would be controlled by Norway, but mainland t ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | As a skilled technocrat, Lee soon caught the eye of President | as a strong candidate to serve as Vice President. Chiang sought to move mo ... |
Guru Arjan Dev | ... in the fort of Agra. As punishment Khusrau Mirza was blinded, and the Sikh | |
Nelson Mandela | ... choice of a new flag was part of the negotiation process set in motion when | was released from prison in 1990. When a nationwide public competition was ... |
Richard DeVos | High-ranking Amway leaders such as | and Dexter Yager were owners and members of the board of Gospel Films, a p ... |
Bill Polian | ... r assuming control from his father by firing Coach Lindy Infante and hiring | to run the organization. Polian in turn hired Jim E. Mora to coach the tea ... |
Michael Madsen | ... ane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, | , Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb and former NWA World Heavyweight Cha ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
Rudolph of Auxerre | ... ed by Guy III of Spoleto, who eventually made himself king in Italy, and by | , who had been elected king in the south of Lotharingia, in Transjurane Bu ... |
Seyyedeh Khatun | ... the last Buwayhid emir, was nominal ruler under the regency of his mother ( | ). About thirty of Ibn Sina's shorter works are said to have been composed ... |
Menander | Josephus records (Antiquities 8.5.3), following | the historian, concerning King Hiram I of Tyre (c. 965–935 BCE ) |
Andy Warhol | ... atles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, | and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins (see photo) |
Cadmus | ... unding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by | , for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung ... |
Louis XVI | ... 9 April 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of | , a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789 |
John McCabe | Laurel said to | : "Of all the questions we're asked, the most frequent is how did we come ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... nd the Eurythmics, fitting in more easily with urban contemporary formats". | , senior editor for Allmusic, described specifically Culture Club as a new ... |
Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
Ronald Firbank | ... iters. They collaborated on a number of unpublished novels (often imitating | ), and had little success. The rejection of their great hope, The Last Day ... |
Bette Davis | ... MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity (film) | ;screams about it in All About Eve; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt a ... |
Godred Crovan | ... Kings of Scotland and Strathclyde. In 1095, the King of Mann and the Isles | was killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and King Edgar of Sc ... |
Sparta | According to Pausanias, local inhabitants of Therapne, | , recognized Thero "feral, savage" as a nurse of Ares |
Bob Fosse | ... is also strongly identified with her second husband, director–choreographer | , remembered as the dancer–collaborator–muse for whom he choreographed muc ... |
Hubert Howe Bancroft | ... itory, and Spain was worried about Russian advances southwards from Alaska. | , in his multi-volume History of California, only notes that, in connectio ... |
Abbie Hoffman | The Universal Life Church was referenced by | in his 1970 book Steal This Book, which encouraged readers to request an o ... |
Malcolm X | ... following the murder of Scott La Rock, with the title and cover alluding to | . KRS-One became involved with the Stop the Violence Movement at this time ... |
Benedict Arnold | ... Boston, and who also served in the Invasion of Canada (1775) under Colonel | . Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, ... |
Decius | ... Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up by Roman Emperor | in a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 479, the ... |
Porfirio Díaz | ... mber 20, 1910 when Francisco I. Madero planned an uprising against dictator | 's 31-year-long iron rule. Article 74 of the Mexican labor law (Ley Federa ... |
Emperor John VIII | In 1428 Gemistos was consulted by | on the issue of unifying the Greek and Latin churches, and advised that bo ... |
Guy Hamilton | His cinema début came in 1957 in | 's Manuela, and he began a career of minor roles as sinister foreign agent ... |
Ptolemy | ... 0s AD in the land of the Celtic Cornovii, according to ancient cartographer | , as a fortress during the Roman expansion northward. It was named Deva ei ... |
Charlemagne | ... ). A popular, but ultimately unconfirmed, attempt tries to relate Attila to | |
Grace Coddington | American Vogue's creative director | , then a model herself said "It was the Sixties, it was a raving time, and ... |
Nostradamus | ... aranormal and pseudoscientific. These include biographies of Uri Geller and | as well as reference material on other major paranormal figures. He is cur ... |
Cycnus | There are accounts of a son of Ares, | (Κύκνος) of Macedonia, who was so murderous that he tried to build a templ ... |
Neil Ardley | ... a nearby lake. In 1978 he played guitar on album Harmony of the Spheres by | |
new king | ... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the | , and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ... |
Ronnie Barker | ... with comedians, first writing a monologue for Tommy Cooper, and later with | , who played Lord Slingsby-Craddock in the London production of Mr Whatnot ... |
Vicente Fox | ... n the country would eventually lead to the end of the one party system when | was elected president in 2000. PAN has since dominated most of the north o ... |
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 ... |
Mubarak | ... o those that formed the backdrop to the overthrow of ben-Ali in Tunisia and | in Egypt earlier in the year. "The remarkable spread of the 2011 Arab revo ... |
Cassander | ... Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to Polyperchon, excluding | , his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to recognize Polypercho ... |
John Mitchel | ... Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and Nationalist journalist and politician | . Alongside English convicts, they were used to build the Royal Naval Dock ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... s who were inspired by the Self-Determination of Nations (民族自決) proposed by | after World War I, and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka ( ... |
Charles II of England | ... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of | . In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ... |
C. S. Forester | ... ictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by | . He was later the subject of films and television programs |
Uri Geller | ... rks about the paranormal and pseudoscientific. These include biographies of | and Nostradamus as well as reference material on other major paranormal fi ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... ican rights. Most of the ACLU's cases came from the Communist party and the | . In 1940, ACLU leadership was caught up in the Red Scare, and voted to ex ... |
Iris Murdoch | ... kespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of writer | in Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for Mr ... |
Shakespeare | In his play Coriolanus, | references the aediles. However, they are minor characters, and their chie ... |
John Betjeman | ... rt or the blurbs before returning them to the library. A volume of poems by | , for example, was returned to the library with a new dustjacket featuring ... |
Silas Weir Mitchell | ... tly known as CRPS was originally described during the American Civil War by | , who is sometimes also credited with inventing the name "causalgia." Howe ... |
Henry VIII | Since | broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the E ... |
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 ... |
Declan McCullagh | Cnet Journalist | called "series of tubes" an "entirely reasonable" metaphor for the Interne ... |
D.H. Hill | ... tening Turner's Gap, and required assistance from the infantry of Maj. Gen. | to defend the South Mountain passes in the Battle of South Mountain. His h ... |
king | ... n London, where daily life is affected by the illness and then death of the | . The couple are personally happy, having resolved many of the problems in ... |
Madame Necker | ... ne Necker, who became a renowned author under the name of Madame de Staël . | encouraged her husband to try to find himself a public position. He accord ... |
Humphry Davy | ... of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir | and independently by George Stephenson. However, the lamps proved a false ... |
Tennessee Williams | The Two-Character Play by | has a concurrent double plot with the convention of a play within a play. ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... e 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, and for | 's 10 May inauguration. Although the flag had mixed reception, the interim ... |
Stefan Raab | ... n 2003, there were the first official World Wok Championships, initiated by | |
Nicolae Densuşianu | ... essenia (Stephanus Byzantinus), Achilleios in Laconia (Pausanias, III.25,4) | (Densuşianu 1913) even though he recognized Achilles in the name of Aquile ... |
Terence Rattigan | ... to stir controversy over his plays. Orton chose the name as an allusion to | 's "Aunt Edna", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, | , Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
Chiang Ching-kuo | | died in January 1988 and Lee succeeded him as President. The "Palace Facti ... |
James Randi | In 2005, | offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US$1 million prize to d ... |
Mary | ... Parliament for both Amersham and Wycombe. Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife | lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by their friend Thoma ... |
Stella Tillyard | ... ox from 1744 to 1762, was the eldest of the Lennox Sisters, immortalised in | 's book Aristocrats, and the television series based on it |
Heinrich Heine | ... dalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, | , Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years 2010 and 2011, t ... |
Aristotle | ... ther important work to the Western theatre tradition work is the Poetics by | (written around 335 BC). In this work Aristotle analyses tragedy. He consi ... |
Edward VIII | ... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surrounding | and his relationship with Wallis Simpson |
Louis the German | ... ry outside Italy, aroused his discontent, and in 857 he allied himself with | against his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, and King Charles the ... |
Jon Gries | ... Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, | , Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb and former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry ... |
Somerled | ... m of Man and the Isles", but the Inner Hebrides came under the influence of | , a Gaelic speaker, who was styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was ... |
Marianne Faithfull | ... for record album sleeve art for performers including The Rolling Stones and | . One of Bailey's most famous works depicts the Rolling Stones. It feature ... |
Alexander the Great | ... is, Lycia, a port on the Pamphylian Gulf. The city was visited in 333 BC by | , who envisioned himself as the new Achilles and carried the Iliad with hi ... |
Benito Juárez | This day commemorates President | 's birthday on March 21, 1806. Juárez is popularly regarded as an exemplar ... |
Andrew L. Stone | | | | 194 |
Rich Fields | ... mpanied by a series of announcers that included Johnny Olson, Rod Roddy and | , as well as a cast of long-running models known collectively as "Barker's ... |
William the Conqueror | ... towns in England to fall to the Normans in the Norman conquest of England. | ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby ... |
George W. Bush | ... onal friends with several prominent Republicans, including former President | |
Lee Huan | ... headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister | , was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui and sought to block his accession ... |
Archie Manning | ... Volunteers quarterback Peyton Manning, the son of New Orleans Saints legend | , with the first pick in the 1998 NFL Draft. After recording a 3–13 record ... |
Benedict XVI | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now | ), who was prefect of the CDF at the time when the Instructions were issue ... |
Yu Kuo-hwa | ... a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier | , and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui ... |
Ellac | His sons | (his appointed successor), Dengizich, and Ernakh fought over the division ... |
President of the United States | ... August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th | (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice Pres ... |
Rod Roddy | ... arker was accompanied by a series of announcers that included Johnny Olson, | and Rich Fields, as well as a cast of long-running models known collective ... |
John R. Commons | ... hrough the UW-Extension system at this time. Later, UW economics professors | and Harold Groves helped Wisconsin create the first unemployment compensat ... |
Julius Caesar | ... initiated the Julian calendar of that name, 46 BC was allotted 445 days by | . Before then, the Romans added whole intercalary months in an unsystemati ... |
Hesiod | ... s companions in war and also his children, borne by Aphrodite, according to | . The sister and companion of the violent Ares is Eris, the goddess of dis ... |
Johnny Olson | ... y took over. Barker was accompanied by a series of announcers that included | , Rod Roddy and Rich Fields, as well as a cast of long-running models know ... |
Tim Pat Coogan | ... cents of the people – are so reminiscent of rural Ireland that Irish author | has described Newfoundland as "the most Irish place in the world outside o ... |
Thucydides | ... ssion of rebellions, Athens exercised hegemony over the rest of the league. | describes how Athens's control over the League grew |
Queen Elizabeth II's | He is the only president serving during | reign to have never met her |
Martin O'Malley | ... of Columbia have joined the compact. The first was Maryland, when Governor | signed the bill into law on April 10, 2007. New Jersey joined on January 1 ... |
President of the Republic | ... -creation of the Grito de Dolores by all executive office-holders (from the | down to municipal presidents) and lasts through the night |
Herbert of Bosham | ... e-Maxence, Robert of Cricklade, Alan of Tewkesbury, Benet of St Albans, and | . The other biographers, who remain anonymous, are generally given the pse ... |
Krišjānis Barons | Latvian folk songs, named Dainas by | , presumably could be the best sources due to the need to keep rhythm whil ... |
John F. Kennedy | After President | was assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ... |
Philip II | ... n during the 1550s, sheep husbandry was discouraged in certain provinces by | due to the harmful effects of fires used in transhumance. As early as the ... |
Cassiodorus | ... e silken tent where Attila lay in state, singing in his dirge, according to | and Jordanes: "Who can rate this as death, when none believes it calls for ... |
Hau Pei-tsun | ... Faction" of the KMT, a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General | , Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrust ... |
Herodotus | The historian | recorded (2.44) |
Abraham Lincoln | Following President | 's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemor ... |
Bertolt Brecht | In | 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers ... |
Yasser Arafat | ... tion (PLO) to the West Bank and Gaza and in the event of a victory promised | that he would be given control of them. Hussein still saw the West Bank as ... |
Charles the Bald | ... s the German against his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, and King | . But after Louis had secured the election of Pope Nicholas I in 858, he b ... |
Josephus | ... mmortal, while in the other the honours paid are such as are due to a hero. | records (Antiquities 8.5.3), following Menander the historian, concerning ... |
Francisco I. Madero | ... commemorates the Mexican Revolution which started on November 20, 1910 when | planned an uprising against dictator Porfirio Díaz's 31-year-long iron rul ... |
Rhys ap Gruffydd | ... xpanded into Welsh territory in 1195, causing a concern that the Welsh lord | would strike back across the border. In 1196, Walter quickly suppressed a ... |
McLean Stevenson | ... citing the lacklustre careers of former M*A*S*H regulars Larry Linville and | after their departures. Burghoff was nominated for six Emmy Awards for the ... |
Berlioz | ... being readily used in an ordinary funeral service; the requiems of Gossec, | , Verdi, and Dvořák are essentially dramatic concert oratorios. A counter- ... |
Ernakh | His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), Dengizich, and | fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which vassal kings wo ... |
Dave Finkel | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) Pamela Fryman .... executiv ... |
Edwin Anderson Alderman | ... th Governor of North Carolina, David Lowry Swain (president 1835–1868); and | (1896–1900), who was also president of Tulane University and the Universit ... |
Agatha Christie | ... in various Charlie Chan films. On 22 February 1945, "speaking from London, | introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave. |
Millard Fillmore | ... he Massachusetts Militia, and the Continental Army. The mother of President | , Phoebe Millard (Fillmore), was born in Northbridge. Ezra Taft Benson, Sr ... |
Roman Emperor | ... es that these Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up by | Decius in a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 47 ... |
Shade, the Changing Man | ... ths, Infinite Crisis, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and | . He was a recurring supporting character in both Swamp Thing and The Book ... |
Trey Callaway | In 2004, | produced a screenplay entitled "Quantum Leap: A Bold Leap Forward" for the ... |
Rudolph | ... tried to swap Lotharingian allegiance to the West Franks, since their king, | , was weak and would interfere less in aristocratic matters. In 939 Henry' ... |
Ashoka | Emperor | the Great erected the capital to mark the spot where Gautama Buddha first ... |
Jennifer Celotta | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) Dave Finkel .... supervisin ... |
Nees von Esenbeck | ... r Clemens August of Bavaria. The first director of the Botanical Garden was | from 1818 to 1830. In May 2003 the world largest Titan arum, some 2.74 m h ... |
Terence Rattigan | ... loane lost money in its three-week run, but critical praise from playwright | , who invested £3,000 in it, ensured its survival. The play was transferre ... |
Lyotard | Some authors, such as | and Baudrillard, believe that modernity ended in the mid or late 20th cent ... |
Stephen Holden | ... he English rock trio The Police (Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group)". | , music critic for The New York Times, said in his article Rock: British C ... |
Charles V | ... elders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor | . As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of ... |
Mike Farrell | ... year to tape a special two-part farewell episode, "Goodbye Radar." Castmate | tried to persuade Burghoff to stay on the show, citing the lacklustre care ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the |
Dengizich | His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), | , and Ernakh fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which va ... |
Virginia Joan Bennett | While attending law school, Kennedy met | while he was delivering a speech at Manhattanville College in October 1957 ... |
Brett Baer | | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) Jennifer Celotta .... super ... |
Boy George | In the 1980s, | said about the music style of his band Culture Club, "We play rock 'n' rol ... |
Denzel Washington | ... united with director Tony Scott a third time for a supporting role opposite | in the box-office hit Déjà Vu. The song "Val Kilmer" was named after him o ... |
Harry Martinson | ... och rum) is a poem of science fiction written by the Swedish Nobel laureate | in 1956. It was published on 13 October 1956. The title comes from ancient ... |
Robert of Torigni | ... f the events of Becket's life in the chroniclers of the time. These include | 's work, Roger of Howden's Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica, Ralph ... |
Edward Grim | ... iography has given them names. The known biographers are John of Salisbury, | , Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fitz Stephen, G ... |
Joseph Banks | ... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist | , Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ... |
Akbar | ... kbar had to hastily return to Agra and restore order. There was a time when | thought of putting his eldest grandson Khusrau Mirza on the throne instead ... |
Charlie Kaufman | Director | uses this concept often in his films. It can be seen most in the 2008 film ... |
Andy Warhol | Pop artists like | became both noteworthy and influential through work including and possibly ... |
Brian Azzarello | ... en" banner. Among the creators involved are writers J. Michael Straczynski, | , Darwyn Cooke, and Len Wein, and artists Lee Bermejo, J. G. Jones, Adam H ... |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... al power, namely, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Sikhs. During this period | stated that a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh c ... |
Nonnus | ... mes rescued him and Artemis tricked the Aloadae into slaying each other. In | ' Dionysiaca Ares also killed Ekhidnades, the giant son of and a great ene ... |
Jacques Delors | ... ommunity Council, Ruud Lubbers, and with the European Commission president, | , pledging closer Japanese – European Community consultations on foreign r ... |
St Augustine of Hippo | ... he first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine (not to be confused with | ), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by Pope Gregory I on a ... |
Anthony Romero | The ACLU is led by an executive officer and a president ( | and Susan Herman, respectively, in 2011). The executive officer acts as ch ... |
Long John Nebel | ... New York radio station WOR in the mid 1960s. This radio show, which filled | 's old slot with similar content after Nebel went to WNBC in 1962, had fre ... |
Lester Lewis | .... executive producer (unknown episodes) | .... co-executive producer (unknown episodes) Carla Myres .... associate ... |
George Mitchell | ... joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, and | to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit think tank that works ... |
President of the Republic | The | exercises the administrative function, in collaboration with several Minis ... |
Captain Atom | ... o editorial mandate, such as "Gregori Eilovotich Rasputin" in Firestorm and | (who refers to Constantine as "an impertinent bumbler in England") and "Am ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Haydn | She also arranged instrumental works by | , Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms as songs. She was on very friendly te ... |
Bill Clinton | ... East by reducing "people's tension". In a letter to presidential candidate | , Hagelin accepted Clinton's offer to debate "any serious candidate" and i ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by | to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election |
Kit Pedler | ... ctor as giving them the appearance of 'dead men walking'. Series consultant | also used this fear as a basis for the inspiration of classic Doctor Who m ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... 13. Luo himself was a member of the Tongmenghui, an organization founded by | and was the precursor to the Kuomintang |
Lien Chan | ... received Ph.D.s in the United States. Prominent among the appointments were | as foreign minister, and Shirley Kuo as finance minister |
Uri Geller | ... the focus of the organization's attention. TV celebrity and claimed psychic | , for example, was until recently in open dispute with the organization, f ... |
Howie Carr | ... ugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, | , and Michael Savage, as well as many local commentators, support Republic ... |
Reagan | ... 1989, Dole was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President | . Then, on January 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded him the Presidentia ... |
Sholem Aleichem | ... based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman and Other Tales) by | . The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attemp ... |
Queen Latifah | ... ative Tongues groups—The Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, | and Monie Love—along with fellow travellers like Leaders of the New School ... |
Mullah Omar | ... ystematic and they all lead back to the [Taliban] Ministry of Defense or to | himself. |
Mel Gibson | ... ch, New Hampshire. In the late summer and fall of 2008, various scenes from | 's film Edge of Darkness were shot on Church Street |
John of Salisbury | ... traditional historiography has given them names. The known biographers are | , Edward Grim, Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fi ... |
Okwui Enwezor | ... 2002, Pettibon participated in Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany, curated by | . He also had a solo exhibition, Raymond Pettibon Plots Laid Thick, organi ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... uced at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, on May 18, 1917, that was conceived by | , with design by Pablo Picasso, choreography by Leonid Massine, and music ... |
Leo Bruce | ... ater sketch sees him meeting a ship captain who is also played by Mitchell. | parodied Hercule Poirot with the character Amer Picon in his book Case For ... |
Basil I | ... o the lack of a fleet. So in 869 he made alliance with the eastern emperor, | , who sent him ships to assist in the capture of Bari, capital of a local ... |
Augustus | ... ereales, whose special duty was the care of the cereal (corn) supply. Under | the office lost much of its importance, its judicial functions and the car ... |
Cole Porter | ... came when choreographer Michael Kidd cast her as the second female lead in | 's musical Can-Can (1953), starring French prima donna Lilo. Out-of-town r ... |
Aldo Leopold | ... reputation as "America's Dairyland." Meanwhile, conservationists including | helped reestablish the state's forests during the early 20th century, pavi ... |
He Yingqin | ... along the Great Wall in 1933. Then in 1935, under the accord signed between | , the commander of Kuomintang armies in Northern China, and Yoshijiro Umez ... |
President of Argentina | Between 1943 and 1946, the de facto | was Edelmiro Farrell, whose paternal ancestry was Irish |
Bede | Historians since | have traditionally represented the years preceding AD 1 as "1 BC", "2 BC", ... |
Mary Wilson | In 1983, Ross reunited with former Supremes | and Cindy Birdsong for the television special . The three performed their ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... members of the Danbury Baptist Association wrote a letter to then president | expressing their concern that as Baptists they may not be able to express ... |
Sparta | ... rotector of not only Athens but also of many other cities, including Argos, | , Gortyn, Lindos, and Larisa |
Sun Tzu | ... on the list of required reading for United States Army officers, and (with | and Clausewitz) the third non-American entry on the list. Van Creveld's Su ... |
Charles Scott Sherrington | ... class honours) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under | at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Ph ... |
Sholem Aleichem | ... based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman) and other tales by | that he wrote in Yiddish and published in 1894. The musical's title stems ... |
Richard Barre | ... ices. Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, Ralph Foliot, | , William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Hervey, had mostly ... |
Alice Cooper | During | 's 1973–1974 tour, Randi performed as the dentist and executioner on stage ... |
Pat Buchanan | ... and by the Perot wing of the Reform Party, which disputed the nomination of | . Hagelin's running mate in the 2000 election was Nat Goldhaber |
Madonna | ... istory of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. | would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the ... |
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 ... |
Imelda Staunton | ... ench, as Miss Matty Jenkins, co-starred with Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon, | and Francesca Annis, in the BBC One five-part series Cranford. The series ... |
Zhang Zuolin | During the warlord period in China, the warlord | established himself in Inner Manchuria with Japanese backing. Later, the J ... |
Emperor | ... f the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks , is dedicated to the | Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 AD ... |
Jordanes | ... known as the Sword of Attila, because of the Miholjanec legend and because | embellished the report of Priscus with a fairytale by describing that Atti ... |
Diomedes | ... hrodite was able to persuade Ares to side with the Trojans. During the war, | fought with and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans' side. Diomedes called fo ... |
Brendan Sullivan | ... n October 2, 2008, denied the mistrial petition of Stevens's chief counsel, | , due to allegations of withholding evidence by prosecutors. Thus, the lat ... |
Áed mac Boanta | ... king of the Picts, his brother Bran and the king of the Scots of Dál Riata, | , along with many members of the Pictish aristocracy in battle. The sophis ... |
Millard Fillmore | ... ain, the Residence of Ezra T. Benson 1830-1832, the birthplace of President | 's mother, Phoebe, and home to the Whitin Machine Works from 1831 to 196 |
Livy | Hannibal was a faithful worshiper of Melqart: the Roman historian | records the legend that just before setting off on his march to Italy he m ... |
Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... e region. Later counts would hold much of their territory directly from the | . The Meinhardinger family, originating in Gorizia, held not only Tyrol an ... |
Darwyn Cooke | ... the creators involved are writers J. Michael Straczynski, Brian Azzarello, | , and Len Wein, and artists Lee Bermejo, J. G. Jones, Adam Hughes, Andy Ku ... |
Bill Clinton | ... nee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat | . Dole is currently special counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of law ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... entre for centuries, notably during the Renaissance with scientists such as | |
Richard Nixon | ... the 1968 New Hampshire primary, he ended his bid for reelection. Republican | was elected to succeed him. Historians argue that his presidency marked th ... |
Livy | According to | (vi. 42), after the passing of the Licinian rogations in 367 BC, an extra ... |
Chaim Herzog | According to | |
Noël Coward | ... , making Alan Ayckbourn rich and earning him a congratulatory telegram from | . This was not quite the end of Ayckbourn's hit-and-miss record, because h ... |
Karen Berger | ... selected to start the character's first run in his own comic by then editor | in 1988. Delano's run was characterised by his political satire, taking on ... |
George W. Bush | ... s President, Saddam Hussein. The United States, under the administration of | , argued that Saddam Hussein was a threat to global peace, a vicious tyran ... |
Glenn Beck | ... adio hosts, including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, | , Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Sav ... |
Chester A. Arthur | ... ng newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from | to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all ... |
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 ... |
Erik Lindegren | ... arl-Birger Blomdahl also called Aniara premiered in 1959 with a libretto by | based on Martinson's poem; it was also staged in Hamburg, Brussels and Dar ... |
Neil Peart | All songs written by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and | , except where noted |
Kenneth Halliwell | Orton met | at RADA in 1951 and moved into a West Hampstead flat with him and two othe ... |
Juliet Stevenson | In 1992 Bailey directed the BBC Drama "Who Dealt?" starring | , story by Ring Lardner. In 1995 he directed and wrote the South Bank Film ... |
Blake Edwards | He also had a longtime working relationship with director | , starring in My Sister Eileen (1955), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The ... |
Brian Boru | ... on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king | 's army and for the Viking-led army opposing him. Irish and Viking literat ... |
David Hume | ... ho traced the idea back through the Principle of Laplace to the philosopher | .) CSI members argue that none of the paranormal claims have met the stric ... |
Neil Peart | ... mitted in the 2010 documentary film that he thought bandmates Alex Lifeson, | and he were "pretty high" during the making of Caress of Steel |
Shinichi Hoshi | ... (named after Tezuka's longtime friend, the Japanese science fiction writer | ) becomes their ally throughout the series. He is the only person who know ... |
Cecil Adams | ... hs under the editorship of Kendrick Frazier, former editor of Science News. | of The Straight Dope calls Skeptical Inquirer "one of the nation's leading ... |
Gackt | ... tracks are sold on CD. Famous singers like Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamasaki and | sometimes sing songs for games as well, and this is also seen as a way for ... |
Marshall Faulk | ... to the playoffs until the 1995 season, with Jim Harbaugh at quarterback and | at running back, clinching a wild card berth with a 9–7 record. They advan ... |
John Ruskin | ... primarily concerned with ideas of truth and beauty. The aesthetic theorist | , who championed what he saw as the naturalism of J. M. W. Turner, saw art ... |
Gerald Ford | ... Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was | 's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and w ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was Rudolf Hess, | 's deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the last state prison ... |
Levon Ter-Petrossian | ... al between the authorities and opposition demonstrators led by ex-President | occurred after the 2008 Armenian presidential election. The events resulte ... |
Bill Scott | ... ted television series, where she worked with her Rocky & Bullwinkle co-star | for the final time until his death in 1985 |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role during | 's funeral |
Rush Limbaugh | ... ome well-known conservative radio hosts, including national figures such as | , Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, H ... |
Herman J. Mankiewicz | ... ne, which was loosely based on parts of Hearst's life (Welles and co-writer | added bits and pieces from the lives of other rich men of the time, among ... |
Sean Hannity | ... conservative radio hosts, including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, | , Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... oviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving Erich Ludendorff and | took place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Republic, though, Bava ... |
Jerry Bock | Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by | , lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russ ... |
Hugh Laurie | In the movie Spice World, Hercule Poirot ( | ) is about to blame a weapons-packing Emma Bunton, but after she flashes h ... |
Agrippa von Nettesheim | ... ure of man" (OED). Authors whose usage predates Steiner's include occultist | , alchemist Thomas Vaughn (Anthroposophia Theomagica), and philosophers Im ... |
Jim Courier | ... ollege. The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, | , Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, ... |
Jim Davidson | ... later Sally James, it also featured the young Lenny Henry and occasionally | together with Bob Carolgees and his puppet, Spit the Dog. John Gorman, for ... |
Scott Ritter | ... affaji, and Iraqi-American businessman to produce a film by ex-UN inspector | discrediting the weapons searches |
Andy Warhol | ... hosted world class and award nominated exhibitions, including the works of | , Grant Wood, and the Iowa Biennial, among others |
William of Orange | ... s Anne, who followed his advice in regard to the settlement of the crown on | . He possessed the special confidence of William and Mary, and was made cl ... |
Theodore Sturgeon | | , reviewing a 1964 American edition for a genre audience, declared that "M ... |
Augustus | ... view that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was "the most foolish war since Emperor | in 9 sent his legions into Germany and lost them", a reference to the Batt ... |
Bette Davis | Most accepted this situation, while a few tried to change the system. | had mounted an unsuccessful lawsuit against Warner Bros. in the 1930s. De ... |
Varina Davis | ... bout the war, beginning with biographies of major southern figures, such as | ' of her husband Jefferson Davis. Later, women began adding more of their ... |
George W. Bush | In 2007, President | appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at ... |
Marshall Berman | According to one of | 's books (Berman 1982, 16–17), modernity is periodized into three conventi ... |
Lysimachus | ... r of the city, Seleucus fled to Ptolemy and entered into a league with him, | and Cassander (315 BC) against Antigonus. In 314 BC Antigonus invaded Phoe ... |
Sun Quan | ... t the end of the 2nd century AD, paving the way for the Three Kingdoms era. | , the founder of the Kingdom of Wu, spent nearly twenty years subduing the ... |
Michael Reagan | ... ch as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, | , Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well as many local commentators, supp ... |
Griselda Pollock | ... ged, such as Michael Fried, T. J. Clark, Rosalind Krauss, Linda Nochlin and | among others. Though only originally intended as a way of understanding a ... |
George Sand | She spent many happy hours at | 's home at Nohant, with Sand and her lover Frédéric Chopin. The warmth of ... |
Duke Ellington | ... azz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play. | summed it up by saying, "It's all music." Some critics have even stated th ... |
Livy | ... ulation of the public markets, or what we might call "economic regulation". | suggests, perhaps incorrectly, that both Curule as well as Plebeian Aedile ... |
Marcel Duchamp | An early Dada-related work from 1916 by | also worked with noise, but in an almost silent way. His ready-made With H ... |
Ruhollah Khomeini | ... archy to a theocratic Islamist government under the leadership of Ayatollah | ; The popularity of the disco music genre peaked during the middle to late ... |
Locomotive BASIC | ... e time, the CPC has its OS and a BASIC interpreter built in as ROM. It uses | - an improved version of Locomotive Software's Z80 BASIC for the BBC Micro ... |
Hesiod | In the Iliad (4.514), the Homeric Hymns, and in | 's Theogony, Athena is given the curious epithet Tritogeneia. The meaning ... |
J. Michael Straczynski | ... under the "Before Watchmen" banner. Among the creators involved are writers | , Brian Azzarello, Darwyn Cooke, and Len Wein, and artists Lee Bermejo, J. ... |
Jarvis Cocker | ... uence on rock n' roll, photographing several artists including Paul Weller, | , Razorlight, Brian Eno, M.I.A., Ian Brown, The Futureheads, Belle & Sebas ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ing us by not admitting it." The famous author and believer in spiritualism | had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician Harry Hou ... |
Integer BASIC | The original Apple II operating system was contained in ROM along with | . Programs were entered, then saved and loaded on cassette tape. When the ... |
Gunnar Jarring | ... nwar Sadat. In 1971, Sadat, in response to an initiative by UN intermediary | , declared that if Israel committed itself to "withdrawal of its armed for ... |
John McCabe | ... 3). It was founded in New York City in 1965 by Laurel and Hardy biographers | , Orson Bean, Al Kilgore, and John Municino, with the sanction of Stan Lau ... |
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria | ... conveyed. An attempt supported by a wide coalition of parties, to establish | , as a Staatskommisar with dictatorial powers in 1932 to counter the Nazis ... |
Varro | ... ure in general; that is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. | , Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical L ... |
Maria Shriver | Schwarzenegger was married to | . The couple separated in 2011 after 25 years of marriage |
Sally James | Most famously hosted by Chris Tarrant between 1974 and 1981, and later | , it also featured the young Lenny Henry and occasionally Jim Davidson tog ... |
Neal Boortz | ... including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, | , Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well ... |
Joseph Stein | ... a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by | , set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (o ... |
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 ... |
President | ... II, was planted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by | Bill Clinton. Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, kno ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Beer Hall Putsch, also called the Munich Putsch, staged by the NSDAP under | in Munich. In 1920, the German Workers' Party had become the National Soci ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... eir numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to | . Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from ... |
W. Clement Stone | ... he 1960s) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America (founded by | in 1919). In 1987, that company was renamed to Aon, a Gaelic word meaning ... |
president | In the federal government, the executive branch, led by the | , controls the federal executive departments, which are led by secretaries ... |
Jim Lee | ... it back under those kinds of terms." DC Comics co-publishers Dan DiDio and | responded, "DC Comics would only revisit these iconic characters if the cr ... |
Hugh MacDiarmid | ... been translated in English as Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by | and E. Harley Schubert in 1956. A new English translation was published in ... |
Uri Geller | ... which occurred at a meeting where Randi was duplicating the performances of | : A professor from the University at Buffalo shouted out that Randi was a ... |
Henry II of England | ... the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with | over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers ... |
Barack Obama | ... ipartisan calls for his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, | and John McCain, were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said ... |
David Mercer | ... 1977), Resnais made his first film in English, with a screenplay written by | , and a distinguished cast that included John Gielgud and Dirk Bogarde. Th ... |
Elisabeth of Bavaria | ... uri (Γαστούρι) to the south of the city of Corfu Greece, Empress of Austria | also known as Sissi built in 1890 a summer palace with Achilles as its cen ... |
Karen Berger | ... l in with a travelling community of environmental activists. Indeed, editor | noted on Delano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in t ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | President | of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. In 1971, ... |
William Harrison Ainsworth | ... ic interest was partly fuelled by contemporary writers, of whom the work of | was particularly influential. In he created a vivid image of underground t ... |
Laura Ingraham | ... ional figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, | , Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well as many local co ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... severe criticism of B.F. Skinner's work in 1971 by the cognitive scientist | |
Charles Higham | ... ent a name, taking first Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine. Biographer | records that the sisters have always had an uneasy relationship, starting ... |
Rush Limbaugh | ... pposed the Patriot Act. The ACLU has supported conservative figures such as | , George Wallace, Henry Ford, and Oliver North; and it has supported liber ... |
Ovid | ... dons) over whom Aeacus ruled, or that he made men grow up out of the earth. | , on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the t ... |
Aristotle | ... aro in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of Plato and | , since he believed they both used different words to express the same con ... |
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 ... |
George Orwell | ... y those in enemy and occupied territories who often had to listen secretly. | broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II |
Stephen Sondheim | ... where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of | 's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award |
Gratian | ... t after suffering many hardships. Valens (of the Eastern Empire) then asked | , the western emperor, for reinforcements to fight the Goths. Gratian sent ... |
Frederick Jackson Turner | ... id-Atlantic region, including Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. | wrote in 1893 about the important role the Mid-Atlantic or "Middle region" ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ing for Northcutt Ely, Stevens volunteered for the presidential campaign of | , writing position papers for the campaign on western water law and lands. ... |
William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg | ... cle appeared in The Times, written by its traditionally conservative editor | , but the Rolling Stones continued to face legal battles for the next deca ... |
Gregory Benford | A variation, developed by brothers James Benford and | , is to use thermal desorption of propellant trapped in the material of a ... |
Doreen Valiente | Although his own book had been put together with the help of | and included material from a variety of modern sources, (notably from Arad ... |
Pope Leo XIII | In 1882 | had a Mass and an Office composed for his feast day, which he set at 14 Ap ... |
Eleanor | ... us. Philip insisted that John hand over Arthur of Brittany, Arthur's sister | , and renounce all of his continental possessions before the French king w ... |
Nerva | ... time. The work arose, he says, from a conversation he had with the emperor | at Frontinus's house at Formiae. He promises a work on Naval Tactics also; ... |
Charles the Simple | ... y against the Vikings. Nevertheless, in 911 the Viking leader Rollon forced | to sign the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, under which Charles gave Rouen ... |
Kermit the Frog | ... ppets, and the show included a prototype of Henson's most famous character: | .Henson would remain at WRC for seven years from 1954 – 1961. "Among the f ... |
William Lindsay Gresham | ... ound in Home's belongings after his death. According to Randi 'around 1960' | told Randi he had seen these mouth organs in the Home collection at the So ... |
Jacques I | ... French revolution imposed on them". It was later renamed Port-au-Prince by | , emperor of Haïti. When Haiti was divided between a kingdom in the north ... |
Kitty Pryde | ... mita, Jr., and Marc Silvestri. Additions to the X-Men during this time were | /Shadowcat, Dazzler, Forge, Longshot, Psylocke, Rogue, Rachel Summers/Phoe ... |
Phil McGraw | In March 2004, TV personality | (aka Dr. Phil) pulled his “Shape Up” line of supplements off the market in ... |
Rafael Caldera | ... on AD slates. A similar deal had been struck by COPEI in 1968 on behalf of | , promising Miguel Angel Capriles a Senate seat and the right to designate ... |
Michael Jackson | ... in Starr, Temptations David Ruffin, and Dennis Edwards. A then-prepubescent | took Brown's shouts and dancing into the pop mainstream as the lead singer ... |
Arrian | ... the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to | , but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... ces, (notably from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches and the writings of | ) it also included sections written in an antique (or mock-antique) style, ... |
Aeschylus | The Greek tragedian | wrote a trilogy of plays about Achilles, given the title Achilleis by mode ... |
Robert L. Forward | ... m. This concept, called a laser-pushed lightsail, was analyzed by physicist | in 1989 as a method of Interstellar travel that would avoid extremely high ... |
Jaime Lusinchi | ... ats to publishers in exchange for favourable coverage. In 1983, a deal with | 's presidential campaign resulted in four representatives of the Bloque De ... |
Ada Louise Huxtable | ... crowds visited the new museum, and critics generally voiced their approval. | wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was "a palatial statement ... |
Benjamin Hoff | The Te of Piglet was written by | following the publication of The Tao of Pooh. Both books feature the origi ... |
Oliver Stone | Additionally, Lemmon and Matthau had small parts in | 's 1991 film, JFK (the only film in which both appeared without sharing sc ... |
Johnny Miller | ... er Jim McMahon. In golf, BYU alumni include two major championship winners: | ('69) at the 1973 U.S. Open and 1976 British Open and Mike Weir ('92) at t ... |
Tatian | The earliest mention of Justin is found in the Oratio ad Graecos by | , who calls him "the most admirable Justin," quotes a saying of his, and s ... |
John McCain | ... won nine of these eleven states (for 222 electoral votes), with Republican | taking a combined 49 electoral votes from Texas and Georgia |
Menachem Begin | ... ith David Raziel, who proved to be the most prominent Irgun commander until | . Jabotinsky simultaneously instructed the Irgun to end its policy of rest ... |
Orson Welles | ... ar cast, including Christopher Plummer as Oedipus, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta, | as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Livesey as the Shepherd, and ... |
Lysimachos of Thrace | ... sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, Philip II of Macedon in 350 BC; later by | , the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC th ... |
Thomas Stone | ... l of St. Thomas Jenifer was a signer of the United States Constitution; and | was one of four of the Maryland delegation who signed the Declaration of I ... |
Louis XVIII | ... circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, | , the brother of Louis XVI, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled ... |
Agatha Christie | ... ience of the king." Hamlet calls this new play The Mouse-trap (a title that | later took for the long-running play The Mousetrap). In the Hamlet-based f ... |
Julia Keller | | . 2008. Mr Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... nfluence in her life." Around this time Jackson was disfellowshipped by the | . Defying her father, Jackson made a stormy exit from the family's Encino ... |
Hyder Ali | ... sore for 300,000 rupees. After the death of Krishnaraja Wodeyar II in 1759, | , Commander-in-Chief of the Mysore Army, proclaimed himself the de facto r ... |
Liu Zixun | ... ce, to commit suicide. However, his claim to the throne was not accepted by | , one of his nephews, who then rose against him |
Dowager Empress Maria | ... Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the | in the 1986 miniseries |
Valens | ... man Empire. Hoping that they would become farmers and soldiers, the emperor | allowed them to establish themselves in the Empire as allies (foederati). ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... re's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by | , Doctor Destiny escapes the asylum to wreak havoc on both the real and dr ... |
George McGovern | ... e Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Dole joined liberal Senator | to lower eligibility requirements for federal food stamps, a liberal goal ... |
Rousseau | ... mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by | and took responsibility herself for Vigny's early education |
Alexander the Great | ... Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of | . The author claims to have consulted all the best authorities, the most i ... |
Belus on the Euphrates | ... climactic burst of syncretism, Dionysus identifies the Tyrian Heracles with | , Ammon in Libya, Apis by the Nile, Arabian Cronus, Assyrian Zeus, Serapis ... |
Paul Robeson | ... ts leadership ranks, when it defended Neo-Nazis, when it declined to defend | , or when it opposed the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. Conv ... |
BBC Radio 2 | Paying tribute to Martyn, | 's folk presenter Mike Harding said |
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 ... |
Mike Harding | Paying tribute to Martyn, BBC Radio 2's folk presenter | said |
Gerald Ford | ... Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President | . Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from considera ... |
Elaine Paige | ... of Cats, but was forced to pull out due to a torn Achilles tendon, leaving | to play the role. She has acted with the National Theatre in London where, ... |
Marcos Pérez Jiménez | ... as the ninth country in the world to have television, introduced in 1952 by | . By 1963 a quarter of Venezuelan households had television; a figure risi ... |
Robert Caro | ... the people whose names appeared on the ballots being dead on election day. | argued in his 1989 book that Johnson had stolen the election in Jim Wells ... |
Louis XVI | ... After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, Louis XVIII, the brother of | , was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | ... ercial relations with their former homes. Some migrated as far as Scotland. | invited some New Christian families to settle at Glückstadt about 1626, gr ... |
Plato | ... molao Barbaro in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of | and Aristotle, since he believed they both used different words to express ... |
Sir Thomas Malory's | ... Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in the 1130s. | Le Morte d'Arthur ("The Death of Arthur"), written in 1485, was important ... |
Mary Pickford | ... work for Lubin Studios, advising her fellow young Canadian, the 18-year-old | , to take her place as IMP's star |
Xie Lingyun | ... World (Shishuo xinyu). The "Three Giants of Yuanjia," Bao Zhao 鮑照 (d.466), | 謝霊運 (385–433), and Yan Yanzhi 顏延之 (384–456) are perhaps the most famous po ... |
Trina Robbins | ... zi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, | & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston, Stan Sakai, Michael Kaluta ... |
Abbas I of Persia | ... Howdahs well decorated in gold and silver, in order to negotiate peace with | after a brief conflict in the region around Kandahar. Khan Alam soon retur ... |
Integer BASIC | ... an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the | programming language built into the ROMs. The video controller displayed 4 ... |
Herodotus | By the time of | (c. 475 BCE), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2,857 km from ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... ublican county. It was one of only three counties in the state to be won by | in 1964. Along with Lincoln County it is the only county in Washington tha ... |
François Truffaut | ... or the set design in his own productions. In his book-length interview with | , Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock also said he wa ... |
Tina Turner | In 1996, White recorded the duet "In Your Wildest Dreams" with | . 1996 also saw the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack, on which Whit ... |
Liu Ruyi | Qi was born in Dingtao, Shandong. She bore Emperor Gaozu a son | , who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that the crown prin ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... and Valiente, but containing sections adopted from various sources, such as | , Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even Rudyard Kipling, went on ... |
Rudolf Steiner | Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by | , postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible ... |
Larry Semon | ... assisted star comics Billy West, a Charlie Chaplin imitator, Jimmy Aubrey, | and Charley Chase. In total, Hardy starred or co-starred in more than 250 ... |
Aristotle | ... e best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see Averroes, Avicenna) on | in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 1485. It was always Pico’s a ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... d by the halfpenny later the same year. The figure of Britannia was said by | to have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Rich ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded by his son | . When the younger Chiang came to power he began to liberalize the system. ... |
James Boswell | ... f letters, who likely had Tourette syndrome as evidenced by the writings of | . Johnson wrote in 1747, and was a prolific writer, poet, and critic |
Hadrian | ... eeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks , is dedicated to the Emperor | , though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 AD has be ... |
Methodius of Olympus | ... beheaded with six other Christians in Rome for his beliefs. Hippolytus and | also mention or quote him. Eusebius of Caesarea deals with him at some len ... |
Bo Yang | ... nder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese writer | 's book Zhongguo Diwang Huanghou Qinwang Gongzhu Shixi Lu (中國帝王皇后親王公主世系錄) ... |
Olivia Floyd | ... ccount of the Blue Dog legend dates back to 1897. His house's former owner, | , told the Port Tobacco Times that she had seen the ghost of the Blue Dog |
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 |
Hadrian | ... eld first appeared on Roman bronze coins of the 1st century AD struck under | , Britannia's first appearance on British coinage was on the farthing in 1 ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... a the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of World History by | |
Barry Goldwater | ... g defeated Democrats that year was McFarland, who lost to then-little-known | , Johnson's future presidential opponent |
JFK | ... adversary Papa Midnite, a Vodun shaman. He is accompanied by the spirit of | , who has to hold his brain in place from his infamous wound. He eventuall ... |
Daniel arap Moi | Kenyatta was succeeded by | , who ruled until 2002. Moi attempted to transform the de-facto single-par ... |
Philip II | ... and satrap under Alexander the Great. During his early life he served under | , and he was a major figure in the Wars of the Diadochi after Alexander's ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... esuits, explored the Chesapeake Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen | granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florid ... |
Luke Ford | ... t women a year—1.8 women a day—for the next 21 years. Pornography historian | calculated the number of Holmes' sexual partners over the course of his li ... |
Moses | ... rgin birth, the miracles of Jesus Christ, and the parting of the Red Sea by | , are not believable. For example, Randi refers to the Virgin Mary as bein ... |
Amatus of Monte Cassino | ... this date exists in the Chronica monasterii Cassinensis by Leo of Ostia and | gives us our best source on the early Normans in the south |
Benjamin Disraeli | In a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Minister | proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Casp ... |
Harvey Kurtzman | ... ly after its transformation from comic book format to magazine. When editor | left in a dispute, Jaffee went with Kurtzman. Jaffee contributed to Kurtzm ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... Martial law was lifted one year later by Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang selected | , a Taiwanese born technocrat to be his Vice President. The move followed ... |
Chris Rock | ... the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack, on which White had a duet with | , called "Basketball Jones," a remake of Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jone ... |
Fritz Lang | ... uffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock also said he was influenced by | 's film Destiny (1921) |
Dan Slott | Living Hell was written by | , penciled by Ryan Sook with inks by Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jim Roy ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... lternatives to this policy during the Great Depression is an open question. | became Reichspräsident in 1925 |
Antoninus Pius | # The First Apology addressed to | , his sons, and the Roman Senat |
Said Aburish | ... and other Palestinian militias, within the occupied West Bank. According to | , the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat ... |
Porfirio Díaz | During the regime of | from the 1800s to the 1900s, major economic changes occurred. These change ... |
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 |
Harihara I | ... erritories of the Hoysala empire were merged with the areas administered by | in the Tungabhadra region. This new Hindu kingdom resisted the northern in ... |
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 ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted | a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida. In 1584, Raleigh sen ... |
Aristotle | ... egan by asking Avicenna eighteen questions, ten of which were criticisms of | 's On the Heavens |
Katherine Jackson | ... der Gordon's management, Jackson's public image became increasingly sexier. | recalled her shock seeing La Toya dance in a suggestive manner in 1988 for ... |
Charles the Bald | ... nded to have contradictory politics, which had severe consequences. In 867, | signed the Treaty of Compiègne, by which he agreed to yield the Cotentin P ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... idate in last 48 years. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. The Republican candidate has won by more than 13% in every Presid ... |
Caracalla | ... b of Achilles at Achilleion while passing Troy. In AD 216 the Roman Emperor | , while on his way to war against Parthia, emulated Alexander by holding g ... |
Sebastianus | ... ft Antioch for Constantinople, and arrived on the 30th of May. He appointed | , newly arrived from Italy, to reorganize the Roman armies already in Thra ... |
Frederick William IV | ... hein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, | gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität |
Trajan | ... is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for | , and the date 106 AD has been assigned to it. It is a handbook of Greek, ... |
Smith Hempstone | ... were no longer tolerated. Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador | , to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991 |
Integer BASIC | ... capabilities and one of two built-in BASIC programming languages (initially | , later Applesoft BASIC). The Apple II was targeted for the masses rather ... |
Empress Lü Zhi | ... Liu Ying with Liu Ruyi, as his desire was objected to by Liu Ying's mother | . Because of this, Lü Zhi hated Qi deeply. Nevertheless Gaozu ordered Liu ... |
James McGee | ... out the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He also plays a significant role in | 's thriller Crow's War. Another is Fire by Sebastian Junger. Junger was on ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... help pass measures favored by the Democrats. Johnson, Rayburn and President | worked smoothly together in passing Eisenhower's domestic and foreign agen ... |
Boy George | ... o were part of the 1980s New Romantic movement. The original band comprised | (lead vocals), Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards) a ... |
Moira Anderson | ... d by a large number of showbusiness personalities and, at Wisdom's request, | sang "Who Can I Turn To," which was specially arranged for the occasion by ... |
Lilli Palmer | ... ces and boasted an all-star cast, including Christopher Plummer as Oedipus, | as Jocasta, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Live ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... via comes from the Latin for "sea mew", as used by ancient Roman naturalist | |
John Adams | ... hington. Its name is in honor of the second President of the United States, | . As of 2010, the population is 18,728. The county seat is at Ritzville, a ... |
Richard I of England | ... strategic importance to the Christians, but the leader of the Crusade, King | , constructed a citadel upon the ruins. Ashkelon subsequently remained par ... |
Kenneth Branagh | ... staging of Much Ado About Nothing, set in the Napoleonic era, which starred | and Samantha Bond as Benedick and Beatrice |
Emperor Gaozu | ... h day of the eighth lunar month every year, Qi would play a weiqi game with | in the bamboo forest on the north side of the palace. The winner would mak ... |
Alexander the Great | ... Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son, Neoptolemus. | , son of the Epirote princess Olympias, could therefore also claim this de ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... ers and values of art; it is term associated with Dadaism and attributed to | just before World War I, when he was making art from found objects. One of ... |
Frederick William III | ... ersity professor in Bonn, was banned from teaching. Only after the death of | in 1840 was he reinstated in his professorship. Another consequence of the ... |
Roald Dahl | ... with whom tourist attractions have been established: for example the author | who included many local features and characters in his works |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... for this accession of dignity was the marriage of his daughter Augusta with | . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon |
Virginia Lee Burton | ... t Newbury and its residents were the models for Popperville, the setting of | 's children's story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. The town hall wher ... |
Averroes | ... at he believed to be the best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see | , Avicenna) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 148 ... |
Liu Ying | ... who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that the crown prince | (his eldest son) was an unsuitable heir to his throne. He tried several ti ... |
Tacitus | ... hem, had their heads shaved at Paul's expense. Among the ancient Chatti, as | relates (Germania, 31), young men allowed their hair and beards to grow, a ... |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... is a major financial and commercial hub of Kerala. Historians say that King | had invited several Syrian Christian families and Brahmins to settle in Th ... |
John Huston | ... ly acclaimed neo-noir boxing film Fat City, directed by legendary director, | . He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opp ... |
Ronald Reagan | Dole ran for the 1980 Republican Presidential nomination, eventually won by | . Despite Dole's fame from the '76 campaign, he was viewed as a lower tier ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
Thomas Kyd | This dramatic device was probably first used by | in The Spanish Tragedy around 1587, where the play is presented before an ... |
W. C. Handy | ... e Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. Blues music was published and popularized by | , whose "Memphis Blues" of 1912 and "St. Louis Blues" of 1914 both became ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... e of a person who may have used obsessive–compulsive traits to advantage is | , the 18th-century English man of letters, who likely had Tourette syndrom ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... ated from the former dumping ground characterized as "a valley of ashes" in | 's The Great Gatsby. The site, known at the time as the Corona Ash Dumps, ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... the University of California, San Diego. His doctoral thesis, The Novels of | , was published in 1984 |
Richard Nixon | After US President | made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ... |
Asopus | He was son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god | . He was born on the island of Oenone or Oenopia, to which Aegina had been ... |
Stan Sakai | ... , Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston, | , Michael Kaluta, Moebius, Rebecca Guay, Geoff Darrow, Brian Froud and Cha ... |
William Shakespeare | ... n of Hamlet (the so-called Ur-Hamlet), with a play-within-a-play interlude. | used this device in many of his plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream ... |
Frederick William III | ... ofessorship. Another consequence of the Carlsbad Decrees was the refusal by | to confer the chain of office, the official seal and an official name to t ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
Bertrand R. Brinley | ... geographical inspiration for the Mad Scientists' Club series of stories by | . Portions of John Cena's music video, "Right Now", were shot in West Newb ... |
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 ... |
Tertullian | ... ple. Irenaeus quotes Justin twice, and shows his influence in other places. | , in his Adversus Valentinianos, calls Justin a philosopher and martyr, an ... |
Dave McKean | ... n Serious Earth is a graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and painted by | . It was published by DC Comics in 1989. It made reference to the treatmen ... |
Ahmad Shukeiri | ... declared by Nasser to be the "leader of the Palestinians." In December 1967 | resigned his post as PLO Chairman. Yahya Hammuda took his place and invite ... |
William Blake | Some of the most notable illustrators of Paradise Lost included | , Gustave Doré and Henry Fuseli (1799); however, the epic's illustrators a ... |
Julian Sanchez | ... his own works on Usenet and elsewhere. After investigative work by blogger | , Lott admitted to use of the Rosh persona. Sanchez also pointed out that ... |
Bashō | | visited and wrote about Iwate in the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi ... |
Francis La Flesche | ... ced back to the late 19th century, when researchers like Alice Fletcher and | studied the music of the Omaha peoples, working for the Bureau of American ... |
Sister Bliss | ... Martyn appeared on the track Deliver Me by Faithless keyboard player and DJ | |
William Empson | ... uperior' and that Charles Stuart was not." Others, like the literary critic | argued that "Milton deserves credit for making God wicked, since the God o ... |
Pevsner | ... uding most of the black-and-white buildings, is Victorian, a result of what | termed the "black-and-white revival" |
Kenneth Williams | Codron had manoeuvred Orton into meeting his colleague | in August 1964. Orton reworked Loot with Williams in mind for Truscott. Hi ... |
George Washington | ... bout historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, | 's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebell ... |
Ahab | ... in the Tanach, whose worship was prominently introduced into Israel by King | and largely eradicated by King Jehu. In 1 Kings 18.27 it is possible there ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... ennedy" coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, and | , Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at the Democratic conventi ... |
Emperor Gaozu | Qi was born in Dingtao, Shandong. She bore | a son Liu Ruyi, who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that ... |
Veera Ballala III | ... influence spread over Pandya kingdom also. Toward the end of 13th century, | recaptured territory in the Tamil country which had been lost to the Pandy ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... the name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts. | 's father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office. S ... |
Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid, written by | and illustrated by Dave McKean, also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-win ... |
Titus | ... mpanions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flavius Vespasian and his son | , both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to surrender, but they ... |
Henry II of France | ... together. King Henry III of France confirmed the privileges granted them by | , and protected them against such slanders and accusations as those which ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... es, including three votes cast for the deceased Greeley. However, President | , the Republican incumbent, had already won an absolute majority of electo ... |
Charley Rogers | ... them together officially as a team and paid their wages for over 20 years. | worked closely with the three men for many years and said "It could not ha ... |
Aristotle | ... n, and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of | . But the Canon of Ibn Sīnā is distinguished from the Al-Hawi (Continence) ... |
Harvey Kurtzman | ... ew York City in the late 1930s, along with future Mad personnel Will Elder, | , John Severin and Al Feldstein |
Neil Gaiman | The Corinthian is a fictional character in | 's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... he swore his son into office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents | and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Philip II of Macedon | ... valuable prize, the city was repeatedly sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, | in 350 BC; later by Lysimachos of Thrace, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, an ... |
Dave McKean | Black Orchid, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by | , also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-winning graphic novel introduced ... |
James Whale | Rich, shadowy photography echoed | 's expressionistic Frankenstein films, emphasizing the family's ghoulishne ... |
Adolfo de la Huerta | ... 920 to the early 1930s, four Sonorans came to occupy the Mexican presidency | , Obregón, Calles and Rodríguez |
William Blake | ... in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of Blake and Shelley." As the poet | famously wrote, "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angel ... |
U. R. Ananthamurthy | ... arnataka announced that it had accepted a proposal by Jnanpith Award winner | to rename Bangalore to Bengaluru. On 27 September 2006, the Bruhat Bengalu ... |
Genghis Khan | ... at Bamian and the rock-cut topes of Haibak. The district was devastated by | , and has never since fully recovered its prosperity. For about a century ... |
Louis XIII of France | Under | the conversos of Bayonne were assigned to the suburb of St. Esprit. At St. ... |
Nicholas Murray Butler | ... ously. The 8 electoral votes that Sherman would have received were cast for | |
Tip O'Neill | ... only ballot at the Democratic convention, which nominated John F. Kennedy. | , then a representative from Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts, recall ... |
Bill Cullen | ... first called The New Price Is Right to distinguish itself from the earlier | version (1956–1965), but it proved so popular in its own right that, in Ju ... |
Warren A. Taylor | ... e temper, which was focused particularly on a criminal defense lawyer named | who would later go on to become the Alaska Legislature's first Speaker of ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... by Kakadu National Park to encourage biodiversity. In 1937, U.S. President | initiated a nationwide fire prevention campaign, highlighting the role of ... |
Jehu | ... minently introduced into Israel by King Ahab and largely eradicated by King | . In 1 Kings 18.27 it is possible there is a mocking reference to legendar ... |
Suetonius | The Roman historians | and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium (acc ... |
Arthur of Brittany | ... 's choice was John, but Walter initially leaned towards John's young nephew | . When Marshall was insistent on John, who was an adult, the author of the ... |
Heliodorus of Emesa | The Hellenistic novelist | in his Aethiopica refers to the dancing of Tyrian sailors in honor of the ... |
Nathan Bailey | ... is from the Greek, virtually , from "human", and "wisdom". It is listed by | (1742) as meaning "the knowledge of the nature of man" (OED). Authors whos ... |
Bob Fosse | ... husbands, tabloid reporter James Henaghan (married 1942, divorced 1947) and | (married 1960, his death 1987). She and Henaghan had one son, Jim Henaghan ... |
François Truffaut | ... e MacGuffin is a stolen set of design plans. Hitchcock told French director | |
Bill Clinton | ... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and | have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Pat Buchanan | ... s and more moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. However populist | upset Dole in the early New Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second ... |
Chaim Herzog | ... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.) | placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... llowing year, he was named "National Hero" by the order of Afghan President | . The date of his death, September 9, is observed as a national holiday kn ... |
Paul Jenkins | ... by From Hell artist Eddie Campbell, the series' direction was taken over by | in 1995. He had been former editor of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and oth ... |
Democritus | ... causing stupidity, but the city counted among its citizens the philosophers | , Protagoras and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Ab ... |
Arthur Conolly | The term "The Great Game" is usually attributed to | (1807–1842), an intelligence officer of the British East India Company's S ... |
Uri Geller | ... e international spotlight in 1972 when he publicly challenged the claims of | . Randi accused Geller of being nothing more than a charlatan and a fraud ... |
Charley Chase | ... omics Billy West, a Charlie Chaplin imitator, Jimmy Aubrey, Larry Semon and | . In total, Hardy starred or co-starred in more than 250 silent shorts, ab ... |
Louis the Pious | ... intered in Scandinavia. Several coastal areas were lost during the reign of | (814–840). But the Vikings took advantage of the quarrels in the royal fam ... |
Nero | ... Prior to this, in his early twenties, he traveled to negotiate with Emperor | for the release of several Jewish priests. Upon his return to Jerusalem, h ... |
John McCain | In the 2008 elections | received 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for gov ... |
Samuel Johnson | The writer and critic | wrote that Paradise Lost shows off "[Milton's] peculiar power to astonish" ... |
Anton Chekhov | In | 's The Seagull there are specific allusions to Hamlet: in the first act a ... |
Herodotus | ... ncluding the poet Anacreon) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( | i.168). The chief coin type, a griffon, is identical with that of Teos; th ... |
Bill Brock | ... a senator, he did not hire a full time campaign manager, former TN Senator | , until the fall of 1987, well after Bush's team had been in place. Despit ... |
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 ... |
Aristotle | ... Plato, as did his teacher, Marsilio Ficino, but retained a deep respect for | . Although he was a product of the studia humanitatis, Pico was constituti ... |
Larry Sabato | In his book A More Perfect Constitution, Professor | elaborated on this advantage of the Electoral College, arguing to "mend it ... |
Vira Narasimha II | ... an politics that began a period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan. | 's son Vira Someshwara earned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pand ... |
Linford Christie | The 100 m Olympic Gold and Silver medallist, | of Great Britain famously had frequent false starts that were marginally b ... |
William J. Mann | In | 's novel The Biograph Girl (2000), Mann asks the question, "What if Floren ... |
Augustine | ... spiritual roots and traditions. He suggested Merton read The Confessions of | and The Imitation of Christ. Although Merton was surprised to hear the mon ... |
Galen | ... t from that of his predecessor Rhazes, because he presented the doctrine of | , and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | ... d the Anglo-French military attempt to topple the Egyptian dictator Colonel | , and tried to prevent the US government from criticising the Israeli inva ... |
Henry III of France | ... pt the Sabbath and feast-days as best they could, and prayed together. King | confirmed the privileges granted them by Henry II of France, and protected ... |
Valerie D'Orazio | ... h inks by Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jim Royal. The series was edited by | . Eric Powell created the painted cover art which appeared on both the ori ... |
Achilles | ... ge of the god, and never polled them afresh until the vow was fulfilled. So | consecrated his hair to the river Spercheus and vowed not to cut it until ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ilkes Booth made his escape through Charles County after shooting President | . He was on his way to Virginia |
Joseph Pulitzer | Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 famed newspaper publisher | , who had purchased The New York World and quickly transformed it into one ... |
Pindar | A legend preserved in | relates that Apollo and Poseidon took Aeacus as their assistant in buildin ... |
Pauline Kael | ... tics to be one of his best performances. One critic dubbed it a masterpiece | ;wrote that he "may be the most natural and least self-conscious screen ac ... |
Plutarco Elías Calles | ... regón’s and his allies’ (primarily Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Benjamín Hill and | ) resistance to Carranza. This movement soon came to dominate the politica ... |
Tony Hawks | In his book and TV series One Hit Wonderland, | united with Wisdom and, along with Sir Tim Rice, released a single, "Big I ... |
Xiang Yu | ... fall of the Qin Dynasty, however, civil war broke out between two warlords, | and Liu Bang; the Minyue king Wuzhu sent his troops to fight side-by-side ... |
Rob Shearman | ... r playwrights, in order to concentrate on his own plays, the last one being | 's Knights in Plastic Armour in 1999; the exception being in 2002 when he ... |
Vira Someshwara | ... period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan. Vira Narasimha II's son | earned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pandyas and Cholas. The Hoy ... |
Chris Claremont | ... series was illustrated by Cockrum, and later by John Byrne, and written by | . Claremont became the series' longest-running contributor. The run met wi ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist | in his novel Kim (1901) |
Ayumi Hamasaki | ... the highest-selling album in Japan with over 7 million copies sold, whereas | became Japan's top selling female and solo artist, and Morning Musume rema ... |
Marie François Sadi Carnot | ... September 187316 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of | , President of the French Third Republic |
Hippocrates | ... cause he presented the doctrine of Galen, and through Galen the doctrine of | , modified by the system of Aristotle. But the Canon of Ibn Sīnā is distin ... |
Vespasian | ... e with forty of his companions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flavius | and his son Titus, both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to su ... |
Charles Darwin | This was the first stop the HMS Beagle made on its journey on which | would make his amazing discoveries |
Emperor Gaozu | ... ine Qi (died 194 BC), also known as Lady Qi or Consort Qi, was a consort of | , founder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese ... |
Tim Firth | ... in 1999; the exception being in 2002 when he directed the world première of | 's The Safari Party |
Norman Granz | ... y's place in the jazz pantheon, however, are the 17 albums she recorded for | 's Norgran and Verve labels between 1952 and 1962 |
Harry Solter | She was married three times. First to | (1908–1913), then to Charles Woodring (May 12, 1921–1931), and lastly to H ... |
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 ... |
Bob Mosher | The show was produced by Joe Connelly and | , who were already known for creating the Leave It to Beaver television se ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ning the Silk Road between the East and the West came with the expansion of | 's empire into Central Asia. In August 329 BCE, at the mouth of the Fergan ... |
Veera Ballala II | ... yphal, though popular, anecdote recounts that the 11th century Hoysala king | , while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hun ... |
Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
Augustus | ... ivine Augustus") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor | ' stewardship. It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which enco ... |
Bill Clinton | ... confidence in action", to which incumbent president and Democratic nominee | responded, "We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... e. Biodiversity became a cause of major concern as habitat destruction, and | 's theory of punctuated equilibrium revolutionized evolutionary thought |
Janet Farrar | ... aterial from the Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In the 1970s, the Alexandrians | and Stewart Farrar decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much ... |
Gregory the Great's | According to | biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was ... |
Sophocles | The tragedian | also wrote The Lovers of Achilles, a play with Achilles as the main charac ... |
Vespasian | ... vius from his patrons. This was standard practice for "new" Roman citizens. | arranged for the widower Josephus to marry a captured Jewish woman, who ul ... |
Alexander the Great | ... f Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under | . During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figu ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he belligerent victory of the Icamiaba “women” over the Spanish invaders to | , who, recalling the of Greek mythology, baptized the river Amazonas, the ... |
Arthur Miller | ... ney by Will Evans and Valentine, with adaptations by Ayckbourn (Lyttelton), | 's A View From the Bridge (Cottesloe), his own A Small Family Business (Ol ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... nd Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, | , Rockwell Kent, and Dr. Benjamin Spock |
Tatian | ... of Antoninus Pius (138-161), he arrived in Rome and started his own school. | was one of his pupils. In the reign of Marcus Aurelius, after disputing wi ... |
Ayumi Hamasaki | ... p dance form Para Para. While Avex's artists such as Every Little Thing and | became popular in 1990s, new names in the late 90s included Hikaru Utada a ... |
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | ... t President by the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation | ;was a signer of the United States Constitution; and Thomas Stone was one ... |
Roseanne Barr | The Roseanne Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by American actress | following the end of her long-running sitcom. The show featured Roseanne i ... |
Bill Amerson | ... dles and was deeply afraid of them. Both his first wife, Sharon, as well as | , separately confirmed later that Holmes could not have contracted HIV fro ... |
Mohammad Najibullah | ... Cold War". After the collapse of the communist Soviet-backed government of | in 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of Bu ... |
Stewart Farrar | ... Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In the 1970s, the Alexandrians Janet Farrar and | decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much of the Gardnerian ... |
Marsilio Ficino | Pico based his ideas chiefly on Plato, as did his teacher, | , but retained a deep respect for Aristotle. Although he was a product of ... |
Nick Cave | ... ey Cricket Ground, also included performances by Powderfinger, Silverchair, | , John Butler Trio, Finn Brothers and others |
Brychan | ... emi-legendary. Saints associated with kistvaens include Callwen daughter of | , Geraint, Begnet, and Melangell. Foundation remains of stone slab- or gab ... |
August von Kotzebue | The second son of | , he was born in Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), then part of the Russian Em ... |
Thomas Telford | The road was re-paved in the early 19th century by | who brought it back into use as a turnpike road for use by mail coaches br ... |
Stephen | ... ing royal action was the aftermath of the disastrous civil war between King | and the Empress Maud. The two competing factions had hired mercenary soldi ... |
John Gower | ... aws in part on the 14th century Confessio Amantis (itself a frame story) by | and Shakespeare has the ghost of Gower "assume man's infirmities" to intro ... |
Anacreon | ... es from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos (including the poet | ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke (Herodotus i.168). The chi ... |
Riccardo Schicchi | ... Roman Empress (originally released in Italy as Carne Bollente) for director | . The film starred Holmes, the later Italian Parliament member Ilona 'Cicc ... |
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 |
Asopus | ... colonists from Phthiotis, the seat of the Myrmidons, and from Phlius on the | . Aeacus while he reigned in Aegina was renowned in all Greece for his jus ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... terest afterward, feeling that since the country had accomplished President | 's goal of landing on the moon by the end of the 1960s, there was no need ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... n a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined the words monomyth and quark. | has been called "the king of neologistic poems" because of his poem, "Jabb ... |
Abelardo L. Rodríguez | ... a Prieta which was signed to formalize Obregón’s and his allies’ (primarily | , Benjamín Hill and Plutarco Elías Calles) resistance to Carranza. This mo ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... after the end of the American Civil War and the assassination of President | , its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Re ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... e and started his own school. Tatian was one of his pupils. In the reign of | , after disputing with the cynic philosopher Crescens, he was denounced by ... |
Jiddu Krishnamurti | ... ant, then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child | as the reincarnated Christ. Steiner strongly objected and considered any c ... |
Doreen Valiente | ... e Alexandrians Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar decided, with the consent of | , that much of the Gardnerian book should be published in its true form. M ... |
George V | ... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 and | announced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ay that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against | and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry ... |
Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... lah in 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of | . Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud returned to the role ... |
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | ... ministration of the Seleucid Empire, and then with the establishment of the | in Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign ... |
Spener | ... tion. He came strongly under the influence of the pietists, particularly of | , and there was a mystic vein in his thought; but other elements of his na ... |
John Peel | ... lt was released, this being a collection of the single, radio sessions with | for Radio One and live performances - one of which was recorded by an audi ... |
Mary Rowlandson | ... the entrance to which is within Princeton. According to tradition, in 1675, | was ransomed upon Redemption Rock, now within the town of Princeton, by Ki ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President | |
Barack Obama | ... es, and John Kerry won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, | carried the state by 381,000 votes and with 56%. Republicans had a strongh ... |
Averroes | ... uropean universities, and eclipse the names of Rhazes, Ali ibn al-Abbas and | . His work is not essentially different from that of his predecessor Rhaze ... |
Venustiano Carranza | ... n began in earnest, and Díaz was quickly deposed. The governor of Coahuila, | , sought refuge in Sonora, and became one of the principal political leade ... |
Jastrow | ... ue; Yer. Nazir vii.56a; Yer. San. i.18a; compare Josephus, B. J. ii.14, § 5 | ;, Dict. p. 838), whence some of the most prominent teachers of the next g ... |
Boudica | ... D between the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and the Briton leader | |
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 ... |
Henry Ford | ... U has supported conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, George Wallace, | , and Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Greg ... |
Chen Shui-bian | ... arked the end of the Kuomintang's status as the ruling party. DPP candidate | won a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent James ... |
Paul Oliver | ... nted, though they can be seen as the secular counterpart of the spirituals. | has drawn attention to similarities in instruments, music and social funct ... |
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 ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... s of a philosopher himself and traveled about teaching. During the reign of | (138-161), he arrived in Rome and started his own school. Tatian was one o ... |
Eleanor H. Porter | ... om the main character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol), or a pollyanna (from | 's book of the same name). James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, composed in a uni ... |
Henry M. Morris | ... it would be conjurable by incantations. Literal Christian interpreters like | say that the stranger was "God Himself and, therefore, Christ in His prein ... |
Charles X Gustav of Sweden | ... o territorially connect his two fiefs. Yet, during the Second Northern War, | invaded Ducal Prussia and dictated the Treaty of Königsberg (January 1656) ... |
René Goscinny | ... The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by | and illustrated by Albert Uderzo (Uderzo also took over the job of writing ... |
Oliver North | ... conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, George Wallace, Henry Ford, and | ; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, H. L. Mencken ... |
Ed Brubaker | The Man Who Laughs is a one-shot prestige format comic book written by | and illustrated by Doug Mahnke and Patrick Zircher, released in February 2 ... |
Chaucer | working pilgrims could assemble quite a collection, as mentioned by | in his 'Canterbury Tales' |
Leo VI the Wise | ... nd later on the Arabs, (who translated the text for their own use). Emperor | incorporated much of Aelian's text in his own work on the military art (Τέ ... |
Lamar Alexander | ... Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second and former Tennessee governor | finishing third. Publisher Steve Forbes also ran and broadcast a stream of ... |
John Aubrey | ... lton was nearly sixty when he published Paradise Lost in 1667. [The writer] | (1626-97) tell us that the poem was begun in about 1658 and finished in ab ... |
Ptolemy | ... nce of Southeast Asia had been known to the Greeks. The Egyptian astronomer | in his Geographia named the Malay Peninsula as Aurea Chersonesus (Golden P ... |
Leo McCarey | ... because Laurel and Hardy were the best actors. The teaming was suggested by | , who was their supervising director between 1927 and 1930; during this pe ... |
Plato | Pico based his ideas chiefly on | , as did his teacher, Marsilio Ficino, but retained a deep respect for Ari ... |
Álvaro Obregón | ... orfirian elite. After Díaz was deposed, Carranza competed for power against | and others. The Yaquis joined with Álvaro Obregón’s forces after 1913 |
Tony Dungy | The firing led to the hiring of head coach | , the former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who had led his forme ... |
Albert Uderzo | ... a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by | (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Go ... |
James Joyce | ... as Carol), or a pollyanna (from Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name). | 's Finnegans Wake, composed in a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined ... |
Barack Obama | ... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator | . Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ... |
John Tasker Howard | ... s might arise from American culture, in his 1915 Music in America. In 1930, | 's Our American Music became a standard analysis, focusing on largely on c ... |
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 ... |
Leo Durocher | ... rnations is described as a small town outside of Los Angeles, California. ( | , who was then coaching with the Los Angeles Dodgers, guest-starred as him ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... hysics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit, and the laser. | developed his theories of black holes and the boundary-condition of the un ... |
Annie Besant | ... mbraced Christianity and natural science. The split became irrevocable when | , then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child J ... |
King Arthur | ... is epic to be based on a legendary English or Saxon king like the legend of | |
Aristotle | ... and functions of parts of the body are also covered. The Canon agrees with | (and disagrees with Hippocrates) that tuberculosis was contagious, a fact ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... ward nomination, for his role in The Contender. He also starred in the 2005 | film Tideland, his second with the director (the first being 1991's The Fi ... |
Arthurian legend | ... ted. Jenkins' run is more traditionally English in its themes, with Albion, | , and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by Samuel ... |
Lopez Arellano | ... anti-Salvadoran. This group put pressure on the Honduran president, General | , to protect the property rights of wealthy landowners |
Hippocrates | ... body are also covered. The Canon agrees with Aristotle (and disagrees with | ) that tuberculosis was contagious, a fact which was not universally accep ... |
Ali Abdullah Saleh | ... ion of Yemen. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for President | to resign |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... s after legal release and distribution rights were granted to video and TV. | directed a heavily modernized Italian film version of the play in 1967. Th ... |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | ... Johnson was offered the vice-presidential nomination. Some sources (such as | 's) state that Kennedy offered the position to Johnson as a courtesy and d ... |
Lien Chan | ... dependent James Soong (formerly of the Kuomintang) and Kuomintang candidate | . Chen garnered 39% of the vote. After the election, Soong formed the Peop ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political philosophy of | and Samuel Pufendorf, and continued the study of law at Frankfurt an der O ... |
Emperor Wen | ... ouse sponsored many literary works, and many wrote themselves. The court of | was especially active in literary circles, with Liu supporting the compila ... |
Maximilian Kolbe | ... yr in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on August 14, alongside | |
Anote Tong | ... jing suspended ties on 29 November after failed attempts to lobby President | to change his mind. With relations first established with the PRC in 1980, ... |
Kurt Warner | ... ed a number of professional athletes such as Ryan Sweeney, Trent Green, and | . The city is also the setting for a musical, The Pajama Game and the come ... |
Edward VII | Since the reign of | a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ... |
Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens ( | ) made his last public appearance on June 9, 1909, at the commencement cer ... |
Paul Goldberger | ... other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic | to declare 1989 "the year of Pei" in The New York Times. It was also the y ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as Carl Sagan, | , B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSICOP |
Peter III | ... alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, | , Paul I, and Alexander II |
Mike Carey | Following Azzarello's run, writer | took over the title, following his Eisner award-winning title Lucifer, set ... |
Milton Friedman | ... ughart. The book also received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, | , and Thomas Sowell |
John Lahr | | wrote a biography of Orton entitled Prick Up Your Ears, a title Orton hims ... |
Veera Ballala III | ... ith such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana, Veera Ballala II and later | . During this time, peninsular India saw a four way struggle for hegemony ... |
Laius | ... he King. In lines 711 to 714, Jocasta relates the prophecy that was told to | before the birth of Oedipus. Namely |
Veera Ballala II | ... r own empire in Karnataka with such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana, | and later Veera Ballala III. During this time, peninsular India saw a four ... |
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 ... |
John | ... d peers attempted to undo Henry's reforms by the Magna Carta forced on King | , but by that time the reforms had progressed too far — and their superior ... |
David Hykes | ... music by Dead Can Dance, L. Subramaniam, Ciro Hurtado, Inkuyo, Brother and | , is noticeably different from the minimalist one provided by Philip Glass ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | From the 1930s onward a civil war was underway in mainland China between | 's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong. When ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | found Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particular ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | The government of | increasingly distanced itself from the Afghan communists and the Soviet Un ... |
Perseus | ... similarities to Oedipus can for example be seen in the myth of the birth of | |
Ivan VI | ... n Russia alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: | , Peter III, Paul I, and Alexander II |
Euripides | ... in it he praised the merits of Alceste over the tragedy of the same name by | . His treatise was one of the first documents of the literary debate that ... |
David Letterman | Live performers such as television talk-show hosts (e.g., Conan O'Brien, | ) sometimes enhance their reputation for wit by the delivery of material t ... |
Louis IV | ... es the Fat, in 887. Under a series of dukes that began under the child king | in 903, the Lotharingians frequently swapped allegiance between the East a ... |
Ian McKellen | ... focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both | in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices. " ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... and based on a novel by English author Daphne du Maurier. The film starred | and Joan Fontaine. This Gothic melodrama explores the fears of a naïve you ... |
Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri | ... gainst four southern leaders--Ali Salim al-Baidh, Haydar Abu Bakr Al-Attas, | , and Salih Munassar Al-Siyali -- for misappropriation of official funds. ... |
Trent Green | ... a has also produced a number of professional athletes such as Ryan Sweeney, | , and Kurt Warner. The city is also the setting for a musical, The Pajama ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... ospital in Battle Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians | and Philip Hart). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in ... |
Arthur Grimble | ... part of the colony in 1919 and the Phoenix Islands were added in 1937. Sir | was a cadet administrative officer based at Tarawa (1913-1919) and became ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... n of Sharpsburg, where they engaged Confederate troops commanded by General | at the Battle of Antietam |
Roald Dahl | ... ed by her monster boyfriend in what turns out to be a movie within a dream. | 's story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is about a rich bachelor who f ... |
Julius Caesar | ... village in Armorica, a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC. | has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Empire. The little Armorica ... |
UCSD Pascal | ... he BASIC ROM expansion card. The language card was also required to use the | and FORTRAN 77 compilers, which were released by Apple at about the same t ... |
Gylfi | ... n chapter 53 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells Gangleri (king | in disguise) that two people, Líf and Lífþrasir, will lie hid in Hoddmímis ... |
Conan O'Brien | Live performers such as television talk-show hosts (e.g., | , David Letterman) sometimes enhance their reputation for wit by the deliv ... |
Harold Pinter | ... nto the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life". | read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Acco ... |
Daphne du Maurier | ... first American movie, set in England and based on a novel by English author | . The film starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This Gothic melodra ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ust before the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 12 December 1936, Generalissimo | , the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Mars ... |
Johann Heermann | ... in the United States (on which day the achievements of Philipp Nicolai and | are also commemorated) |
Poliziano | In 2007, the bodies of | and Pico della Mirandola were exhumed from St. Mark's Basilica in Florence ... |
Janet Jackson | ... 2 while taping an Exotic Club Tour in Minneapolis Jackson approached sister | , also in town recording her fifth studio album with Jimmy Jam and Terry L ... |
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 ... |
Margaret Drabble | ... arrilow (Etruscan Publications, 1966). Also, Arnold Bennett: A Biography by | (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1974) |
Josephus | ... , a Jewish client king of Rome. Ashkelon may have even been his birthplace. | states Ashkelon was not ceded to Herod the Great in 30 BC, yet he built mo ... |
Carl Sagan | ... sful in his aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as | , Isaac Asimov, B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSI ... |
Vishnuvardhana | ... transformation into a strong subordinate of the Western Chalukyas. Through | 's expansive military conquests, the Hoysalas achieved the status of a rea ... |
Alice Cooper | ... one reason he became an American citizen was an incident while on tour with | where the Royal Canadian Mounted Police searched the band's lockers during ... |
Salvador Allende | ... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate | for the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ... |
Robert Caro | ... life by an exceptional lust for power and control. As Johnson's biographer | observes, "Johnson's ambition was uncommon—in the degree to which it was u ... |
Stan Laurel | | (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965) was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in U ... |
Michael Jackson | In the beginning of the music video for the | song "Thriller", the heroine is terrorized by her monster boyfriend in wha ... |
Philipp Nicolai | ... me Lutheran Churches in the United States (on which day the achievements of | and Johann Heermann are also commemorated) |
Hector Berlioz | ... ounterpoint and harmony classes with Anton Reicha, the teacher of Liszt and | , and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. It was with the greatest regret that ... |
Emperor Wen | ... Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the reign of its third emperor, | , is known for its political stability and capable administration, not onl ... |
Plato | ... Rhadamanthus and Minos) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to | especially for the shades of Europeans. In works of art he was represented ... |
Virginia Woolf | Contemporary critics— | in particular—perceived weaknesses in his work. To her and other Bloomsbur ... |
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 ... |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso | ... s. In 1998, a constitutional reform, led by the government of the President | , introduced regulatory agencies as a part of the executive branch. Since ... |
Doreen Valiente | High Priestess | made the claim that Gardner found the term "Book of Shadows" from a 1949 e ... |
Demetrius Zvonimir | ... by assassins. High medieval sources also mention the assassination of king | (1089), dying at the hands of his own people who objected to a proposition ... |
The Wind in the Willows | ... one image that is strikingly similar to one of Rackham's illustrations for | . On the other hand, she sees also in Stardust clear references and struct ... |
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak | ... by his father the Mughal Emperor Akbar, alongside Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan and | to defeat the renegade Vir Singh Deo of Bandela and capture the city of Or ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... the 13th child of the Emperor Leopold II. He is thus descended from various | s and other European royalty. His father, Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'H ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... of sub-stories in the Season 17 episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". | 's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples ... |
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 ... |
Ibn Bajjah | ... dy, and wrote a great deal on psychology, likely influencing Ibn Tufayl and | . He also introduced medical herbs |
Emperor Wu | ... stability eventually led to the dynasty's destruction. However, its founder | was considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northe ... |
James Madison | ... d Hughes bought a section of the grant and began subdividing lots for sale. | , the fourth U.S. President, appointed Hughes postmaster of the developing ... |
President of the United States | The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the | , Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the So ... |
Jerry Juhl | ... he first drafts of a live-action experimental film script were written with | , which would eventually become Henson's last unproduced full-length scree ... |
King George III | On 16 February 1768, the Royal Society petitioned | to finance a scientific expedition to the Pacific to study and observe the ... |
Richard Nixon | ... was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, | and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leon ... |
Philippe Quinault | ... at the royal press, Paris, in 1677, and illustrated by Sebastien le Clerc. | , who was a longtime family friend of the Perraults, was gaining a quick r ... |
George W. Bush | ... r's abstention did not change who won that year's presidential election, as | received a majority (271) of the electoral votes |
James I of England | ... her Scottish cousin, James VI of Scotland, to the English throne. He became | , and so brought under his personal rule the Kingdoms of England (and the ... |
David O. Selznick | At the end of the 1930s, | signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, when th ... |
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 ... |
A. A. Milne | Piglet is a fictional character from | 's Winnie-the-Pooh books. Piglet is Winnie-the-Pooh's closest friend among ... |
Henry Dodge | ... the war, Congress created the Mounted Ranger Battalion under the command of | , which was expanded to the 1st Cavalry Regiment in 1833 |
Norman Thomas | ... rights violations. One faction, including Baldwin, Arthur Garfield Hays and | , believed that direct, militant action was the best path. Hays was the fi ... |
Sir Thomas Malory's | ... The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well as | Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Histor ... |
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 ... |
Richard Claverhouse Jebb | ... ipus the King, even if they don't always agree on the reasons. For example, | claimed that "The Oedipus Tyranus is in one sense the masterpiece of Attic ... |
Julie B. Beck | ... Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents ( | '73 and '20) |
Joseph McMoneagle | ... t nuclear research facility by Pat Price's (Kress 1977/1999, Targ 1996) and | , a description of a new class of Soviet strategic submarine by a team of ... |
Odin | In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, collected in the Poetic Edda, the god | poses a question to the jötunn Vafþrúðnir, asking who among mankind will s ... |
Gene Raymond | ... some heifers onto the set with name tags of Lombard, Robert Montgomery, and | , the stars of the film, to surprise the director. Hitchcock said he was m ... |
Bernard Levin | ... nedick in John Barton's "British Raj" revival of Much Ado About Nothing. As | wrote in The Sunday Times: "...demonstrating once more that she is a comic ... |
Aristotle | ... ew Philocles took first prize at that competition. However, in his Poetics, | considered Oedipus the King to be the tragedy best matched his prescriptio ... |
Henry IV | ... Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and | (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieval sources also menti ... |
Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
famous physicist | ... y career. He changed his surname from Einstein (to avoid confusion with the | ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and ... |
Ben Watson | ... arding what is considered noise, relative to music, have changed over time. | , in his article Noise as Permanent Revolution, points out that Ludwig van ... |
Arthur Garfield Hays | ... w to challenge the civil rights violations. One faction, including Baldwin, | and Norman Thomas, believed that direct, militant action was the best path ... |
Alan Bennett | ... as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay. | wrote the screenplay |
Æthelberht of Kent | ... y sited for communication with the Continent. In the late 6th century, King | married a Christian Frankish princess named Bertha, possibly before becomi ... |
Isaac de Benserade | ... tures. There was a plaque with a caption and a quatrain written by the poet | next to each fountain. Perrault produced the guidebook for the labyrinth, ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... s through which the imperial authority could be exercised. By the reigns of | and especially of Otto the Great, comites palatini were sent into all part ... |
Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... ch of the Jamiat-i Islami ("Islamic Society"), whose chairman was professor | . This Islamist organization opposed the rising communist and Soviet influ ... |
Ursula K. Le Guin | ... ience with a left-wing libertarian and anti-capitalist utopian vision since | 's 1974 novel, The Dispossessed |
Michael Faraday | ... ern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, | , Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Th ... |
Lorenzo Da Ponte | ... art's Don Giovanni in the United States, in the presence of the librettist, | ) and . By the age of six she was fluent in Spanish, French, English and I ... |
Haruki Murakami | ... i, during his days as political prisoner in the People's Republic of China. | 's 1995 novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle deals greatly with Manchukuo thro ... |
Plato | In his dialogue Cratylus, the Greek philosopher | , 428/427 BC – 348/347 BC, gives the etymology of Athena's name, based on ... |
Roman Emperor | ... as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the | Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Goth ... |
James Randi | ... of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, | , and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the Scientific Eva ... |
Henry III | ... (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings | (1589) and Henry IV (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieva ... |
Arthur Ransome | This bird is central to the plot of the novel Great Northern? by | (in which it is referred to throughout as Great Northern Diver, with the o ... |
Arthur Miller | ... as received two Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards—for playing Willie Loman in | 's (National Theatre, 1979) and as best supporting actor in a 2003 perform ... |
Aeschylus | In 467 BCE, Sophocles's fellow tragedian | won first prize at the City Dionysia with a trilogy about the House of Lai ... |
Puyi | ... ented a controversial portrait of Manchukuo through the memories of Emperor | , during his days as political prisoner in the People's Republic of China |
Herman De Croo | ... is 56.46 km² which gives a population density of 243 per km². The mayor is | |
Thomas Lodge | ... by the Dutch humanist Arnoldus Arlenius. The first English translation, by | , appeared in 1602, with subsequent editions appearing throughout the 17th ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... 1980, when U.S. President Jimmy Carter was running for re-election against | , the misery index (the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rat ... |
premier | ... he would later seek to take revenge on Zhang. As Chiang was the legitimate | of China at the time, Zhang’s actions could be characterized as treasonous ... |
Chris Ware | ... ted literary narrative, it rivals in artistic merit, say, masterpieces like | 's 'Acme Novelty Library' or almost any part of the witty and brilliant wo ... |
Thomas Chatterton | In 1835, he produced a drama titled Chatterton, based on the life of | , and in which Marie Dorval starred as Kitty Bell. Chatterton is considere ... |
Jerry Pournelle | ... uch of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and | being prominent examples), and his work has been called the most successfu ... |
William Empson | ... nterpret the poem as a genuine Christian morality tale, other critics, like | , view it as a more ambiguous work, and Milton's complex characterization ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
John Howard Lawson | The movie was written by Frank Cavett, | , Dorothy Parker, and Lionel Wiggam, and was directed by Stuart Heisler |
Stewart Farrar | ... r of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and Janet and | . In other Wiccan traditions and amongst a number of solitary practitioner ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and | |
Gervase of Canterbury | ... ate to become Archbishop of York in September 1186. The medieval chronicler | said that during Henry II's reign, Walter "ruled England because Glanvill ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... ier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | . Scholarly theories have been proposed about the location and its potenti ... |
Alfred Molina | ... hr's research. Directed by Stephen Frears, it starred Gary Oldman as Orton, | as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay. Alan Bennett wrote the ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... presario, Fred Karno, working as a supporting actor and as an understudy of | . Laurel said of Karno "There was no one like him. He had no equal. His na ... |
Bernardo Bertolucci | | 's 1987 film, The Last Emperor, presented a controversial portrait of Manc ... |
Larry Niven | ... ak prevalent in much of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, | , and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples), and his work has been cal ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... nced as un-American or unpatriotic. In one typical instance in 1923, author | was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an Industrial W ... |
Dorothy Parker | The movie was written by Frank Cavett, John Howard Lawson, | , and Lionel Wiggam, and was directed by Stuart Heisler |
Tacitus | ... f this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by | ' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself |
Raúl Castro | ... st Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By meeting President | to discuss "mutual friendship and cooperation", he became the first Pacifi ... |
Gary Oldman | ... on's diaries and on Lahr's research. Directed by Stephen Frears, it starred | as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay. ... |
Bacurius | ... imperial scholae of shield-archers under the command of the Iberian prince | attacked, but lacking support they were easily pushed back. Then the Roman ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... mber 1980, the highest in history. By the time of 1980, when U.S. President | was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the s ... |
Pablo Neruda | ... influenced by artists like Violeta Parra, Atahualpa Yupanqui, and the poet | . Jara began his foray into folklore in the mid-1950s when he began singin ... |
Charles Darwin | ... y was also the beginning of modern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, | , Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and in ... |
Eglon | ... ral hundred years. Another example may have been the murder of Moabite King | , by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Ma ... |
Johnny Speight | ... of mini-episodes called A Word With Alf featuring Alf and his friends. When | died in 1998, the series was cancelled at Mitchell's request |
Peleus | ... of Aeacus are mentioned by Ovid. By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and | (father of Achilles), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to ... |
Charles Baudelaire | ... the band's original hardcore roots with dark romantic influences (a poem by | , "De profundis clamavi," is present in the hidden track "Midnight Sun") a ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... e machinations of Vice President John Nance Garner and Speaker of the House | . Johnson was immediately appointed to the Naval Affairs Committee. He wor ... |
Poul Anderson | ... ibertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, | , Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples), and his work ... |
Ali Abdullah Saleh | In November 1989, the leaders of the YAR ( | ) and the PDRY (Ali Salim al-Baidh) agreed on a draft unity constitution o ... |
Mao Zedong | ... en Chiang Kai-shek's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by | . When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from ... |
Dallin H. Oaks | ... Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, | '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Juli ... |
Anote Tong | In September 2008, President | attended the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By ... |
Philip II | ... . The people joined with the other Dutch and rebelled against Charles' heir | . Overijssel became governed by the most powerful mayors and lords in the ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... l times for the permanent representative of the Frankish king, later of the | , in a palatial domain of the crown (pfalz). Grafio is probably from the G ... |
first emperor | ... n securely identified as belonging to the Liu Song: the Chuning Tomb of the | of the dynasty. Two qilin statues of this tomb survive in the appropriatel ... |
Laius | ... e Theban Cycle recounted the sequence of tragedies that befell the house of | , of which the story of Oedipus is a part |
Augustus | The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, | prepared a rationarium (account) which listed public revenues, the amounts ... |
Otto I | ... nce between the East and West Frankish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king | brought the reigning duke Gilbert to heel and incorporated Lotharingia int ... |
Atahualpa Yupanqui | ... an countries; he was particularly influenced by artists like Violeta Parra, | , and the poet Pablo Neruda. Jara began his foray into folklore in the mid ... |
Speaker of the House | ... eration Texas) and the machinations of Vice President John Nance Garner and | Sam Rayburn. Johnson was immediately appointed to the Naval Affairs Commit ... |
Martin Gardner | ... ng critically a wide range of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were | , Ray Hyman, James Randi, and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resource ... |
Janet Jackson | ... R&B producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who had a proven track record with | , the SOS Band, Alexander O'Neal, and Cherelle. Jam and Lewis had expresse ... |
Ovid | ... Several other incidents connected with the story of Aeacus are mentioned by | . By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus (father of Achilles), ... |
Adelbert von Chamisso | ... y-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and | , and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue set out on July 30, 1815 to find a ... |
Sean Penn | ... ined was inspired by seeing the 2008 biographical drama film Milk, in which | portrayed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public of ... |
Protagoras | ... idity, but the city counted among its citizens the philosophers Democritus, | and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Abdera |
Alexander | ... er made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, including two of | 's generals Nicanor and Philip. Another famous example come from the Thugg ... |
Nathan Hale | ... ovember 19, 1778, at which the Reverend Enoch Hale, brother of American spy | , was chosen to be the town's first ministe |
Thich Nhat Hanh | ... ng the Dalai Lama, the Japanese writer D.T. Suzuki, and the Vietnamese monk | . Merton has also been the subject of |
Henry II of England | The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of | that began the transformation of English law from such systems for decidin ... |
Rubem Alves | Principal texts | , a Brazilian theologian working at Princeton, wrote Towards a Theology of ... |
Charles V | ... nd was known as het Sticht. The Bishops ceded the Oversticht to the Emperor | in 1528, who styled himself Lord of Overijssel, thereby giving the provinc ... |
C.B. Forgotston | ... na, New Orleans attorney, political activist, and state government watchdog | relocated to Hammond in 2006. Lawson Swearingen, a former Democratic membe ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... to the right-wing libertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction ( | , Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples ... |
John Nance Garner | ... politics in Texas (Operation Texas) and the machinations of Vice President | and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Johnson was immediately appointed to ... |
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 ... |
Robert Gates | ... tes by surprise. According to the future CIA Director and Defense Secretary | , he was briefing a US arms negotiator on the improbability of armed confl ... |
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 ... |
Frank Oz | ... raise their children. Henson hired writer Jerry Juhl in 1961 and puppeteer | in 1963 to replace her. Henson later credited both writers with developing ... |
James Joyce | ... which reversed a ban by the Customs Department against the book Ulysses by | . The ACLU only achieved mixed results in the early years, and it was not ... |
Dorothy Bridges | ... . He is son of showbiz parents, actor Lloyd Bridges. and actress and writer | (née Simpson). His older brother, Beau Bridges, is also an actor. He has a ... |
President | ... uino, Jr. triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of | Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the pol ... |
Stanley Baxter | ... . It opened at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Coral Browne, | , and Hayward Morse |
Shah Jahan | ... t Gosain and Princess Manmati, who gave birth to Prince Khurram, the future | , Jahangir's successor to the throne. The total number of wives in his har ... |
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | ... on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty. The task was given to | , at the time a colonel in the Russian army, who travelled to China with F ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | ... ril 1975, and was succeeded to the presidency by Yen Chia-kan while his son | succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang (opting to take the title "C ... |
Babrak Karmal | This expansion prompted | to demand that the Red Army resume their offensives, in order to crush the ... |
Victor Hugo | ... ent, though this role would soon be usurped by one of Vigny's best friends, | . Unlike his friend, Vigny retained his Royalist sympathies in politics: " ... |
Kenneth Kaunda | ... ckel 5, 10 and 20 ngwee were introduced. These coins all depicted president | on the obverse and flora and fauna on the reverse. A twelve sided 50 ngwee ... |
Gerald of Wales | ... earned", or educated at a university. His contemporary, the medieval writer | said of Walter that the Exchequer was his school |
Mack Gordon | ... minated: Best Music, Original Song in Academy Awards) Harry Warren (music), | (lyrics). See 15th Academy Awards |
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | ... e, an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perrault became a target of mockery from | |
Larry King | On Larry King Live, March 6, 2001, | asked Sylvia Browne if she would take the challenge and she agreed. Then R ... |
William Crookes | ... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and | . Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ... |
Tony Dungy | In week 16, the Colts played without coach | following the suicide of his son James earlier in the week. With the team ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... ech activities to encompass censorship of art and literature. In that year, | deliberately broke Boston law by distributing copies of his banned America ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... te: nine votes for Republican Benjamin Harrison and five votes for Democrat | . Once the Republican party regained control of the state legislature, the ... |
Herb Wesson | ... vernor, Schwarzenegger engaged in a light-hearted exchange with Assemblyman | over their heights. At one point Wesson made an unsuccessful attempt to, i ... |
Jezebel | ... ten erratic behavior related to those problems earned her the nickname "The | of Jazz" |
François Mitterrand | When | was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for ... |
Getúlio Vargas | ... arge tracts of land. The original architect of this expansion was President | , with the demand for rubber from the Allied forces in World War II provid ... |
Alexander the Great | ... t by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons. | traced his ancestry (through his mother) to Aeacus |
Yen Chia-kan | Chiang Kai-shek died in April 1975, and was succeeded to the presidency by | while his son Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuominta ... |
Harold Pinter | ... cal acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and | 's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming and ... |
Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler's introduction in | 's continually introduces a new story about a page into the previous one, ... |
Serj Tankian | ... ed host to many world-famous musical acts including Charles Aznavour, Cher, | , Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Joe Cocker, J ... |
Sylvia Browne | On Larry King Live, March 6, 2001, Larry King asked | if she would take the challenge and she agreed. Then Randi appeared with B ... |
Joseph Devlin | ... of London for funerals at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. When | , an Irish Parliamentary Party MP, tried to bring up the Croke Park killin ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ly the highest quality DVD that's ever been made". Chicago Sun-Times critic | describes the Blu-ray release as "the finest video disc I have ever viewed ... |
Henry III | King | had a palace here. The spot is still marked on modern maps as "Cippenham M ... |
Kathy Troccoli | ... re he wrote a number of gospel hits penned for artists such as Sandi Patty, | , Bill Gaither and Amy Grant, to the effect that some of these popular wor ... |
Ernest Renan | Jean Boucher's statue of the seated skeptical thinker | , shown to the left, caused great controversy when it was installed in Tré ... |
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 ... |
Kevin Spacey | Actor | recalled that Lemmon is remembered as always making time for other people. ... |
Stephen Colbert | ... episode of The Colbert Report aired on Jaffee's 85th birthday, and comedian | saluted the artist with a Fold-in birthday cake. The cake featured the sal ... |
Mwai Kibaki | ... constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 election, which was won by | . Widely reported electoral fraud on Kibaki's side in the 2007 elections r ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... n). The plan worked, and Michigan split its vote: nine votes for Republican | and five votes for Democrat Grover Cleveland. Once the Republican party re ... |
Roman Emperor | Louis II the Younger (825 – Ghedi 12 August 875) was the King of Italy and | from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which he ru ... |
Harry Warren | ... tra Wives. This was nominated: Best Music, Original Song in Academy Awards) | (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics). See 15th Academy Awards |
Alexander Gradsky | The Soviet musician | created the rock opera Stadium (Стадион, Stadion) in 1985 based on the eve ... |
Fritigern | ... gs as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels) led by | . The battle took place about north of Adrianople (modern Edirne in Europe ... |
Anthony Haswell | ... cluded the assertion that Jefferson had fathered children by a slave woman. | was an English immigrant and Jeffersonian printer in Vermont. Haswell call ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... since 1928, had strong connections to the Vatican Secretary of State, later | . In return for pledging his support for the act, Kaas would use his conne ... |
President | ... r Hersh that the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started with | George H. W. Bush in August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by ... |
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 ... |
Stan Lee | In early 1963, with the success of Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy, Creator | devised the series title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down ... |
Aidan Higgins | ... o Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the | novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster ... |
Jerry Juhl | ... e time. Jane quit muppeteering to raise their children. Henson hired writer | in 1961 and puppeteer Frank Oz in 1963 to replace her. Henson later credit ... |
Jean Chapelain | ... e de Nôle (St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, about Paulinus of Nola). Just like | 's La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perr ... |
Carl Van Vechten | ... t Wood, journalist and historian William L. Shirer, writer and photographer | , and aerodynamics pioneer Dr. Alexander Lippisch. In the 1990s and 2000s, ... |
Daniel Handler | ... hing, and parallels a character in the main story and hints at his actions. | 's introduction in Lemony Snicket's continually introduces a new story abo ... |
Joe Rock | ... with; dressing room arguments between the two were common, so film producer | paid her to leave Laurel and return to her native Australia. In 1925 Laure ... |
George W. Bush | ... ress taking positions in support of the U.S. Republican Party and President | on topics such as the validity of the 2000 Presidential Election results i ... |
Valens | ... of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor | and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alan ... |
Thomas Rau | ... and Joachim Eble in Germany, Erik Asmussen in Sweden, Kenji Imai in Japan, | , Anton Alberts and Max van Huut in Holland, Christopher Day and Camphill ... |
Sophie Kerr | The college is known nationally as the home of the | Prize, which is awarded to the graduating senior with the most literary po ... |
gcc | ... as added to Wine 1.1.10, in December 2008. This currently requires at least | version 4.4, and the Wine developers expect that it will take significant ... |
Brontë sisters | Following the release of Devotion, a Hollywood biography of the | filmed in 1943 but withheld from release during the suspension and litigat ... |
Lester Bangs | ... Styx's early progressive rock sound, only cleaner." Rolling Stone reviewer | was more critical of the album, however, saying that "What's really intere ... |
Michael Faraday | ... cientists started in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included | , Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and William Crookes. Their wor ... |
Charles Aznavour | ... night. The city has played host to many world-famous musical acts including | , Cher, Serj Tankian, Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep P ... |
Arthur Miller | On stage he received extensive critical acclaim for his performances in | 's Death of a Salesman and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the National T ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
William L. Shirer | ... tes, including American Gothic painter Grant Wood, journalist and historian | , writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and aerodynamics pioneer Dr. A ... |
Ernest Gruening | ... cial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: | and William Egan as U.S. Senators and as U.S. representative |
Hodding Carter | In 1932 | founded the now-defunct Hammond Daily Courier, which he left in 1939 to mo ... |
Hadrian | Rufinus borrows from his Latin original of | 's letter |
Felix Frankfurter | ... he ACLU were divided on the best tactics to use to promote civil liberties. | felt that legislation was the best long-term solution, because the Supreme ... |
Harold Pinter | ... ision film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by | from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Napoleon III | ... e. She and her family left France due to her husband's public opposition to | and settled in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 1870, however, Johannes Brahms per ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... ition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, | , and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
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 ... |
Liu Chuyu | ... himself emperor Ming. He ordered Liu Ziye's brother Liu Zishang and sister | , who were reputed to have participated in the late emperor's sexual immor ... |
Michael Edward Reagan | ... had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941–2001), their adopted son | (born March 18, 1945), and Christine Reagan (born prematurely on June 26, ... |
Emma Thompson | In the late 1990s British actress | started to work on a screenplay, which she planned to use as the basis for ... |
Akbar | In the year 1594 Jahangir's was dispatched by his father the Mughal Emperor | , alongside Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak to defeat the ... |
Clive Barker | ... title was revised before publication due to the contemporaneous release of | 's unrelated film of the same name |
George W. Bush | On December 13, 2001, | gave Russia notice of the United States' withdrawal from the treaty, in ac ... |
Eilífr Goðrúnarson | ... d in Skáldskaparmál; once for "jötunn" ("hearth-stone-Syn") in Þórsdrápa by | , and for "woman" ("Syn [woman] of soft necklace-stand [neck]") in a work ... |
Frederick William III | ... ein-Universität) was then founded on October 18, 1818, by the Prussian king | . It was the sixth Prussian University, founded after the universities in ... |
Baldwin III of Jerusalem | ... er a five-month siege, the city was captured by a Crusader army led by King | . It was then added to the County of Jaffa to form the County of Jaffa and ... |
Queen Victoria | ... f the town's popularity, Leamington was granted a "Royal" prefix in 1838 by | , who visited the town as a Princess in 1830 and as Queen in 1858. A statu ... |
Jack Morris | ... ball, BYU alumni include All-Stars Rick Aguilera '83, Wally Joyner '84, and | '76. Professional basketball players include three-time NBA Finals champio ... |
Jeremy Irons | ... a romantic role in the BBC television film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with | and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed b ... |
Esarhaddon | ... ole in the development of the Silk Road. Scythians accompanied the Assyrian | on his invasion of Egypt, and their distinctive triangular arrowheads have ... |
Madeleine Albright | ... rom the option of returning to Israel. According to U.S. Secretary of State | , some of the Palestinian negotiators were willing to privately discuss a ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... urces as Gardner had initially claimed, but from the works of the occultist | , from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, from the Key of Solomon and a ... |
Lucius Verus | ... from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and | his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
Agrippa II | ... lots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and | , John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centuries-long dispu ... |
Ali Nasir Muhammad | ... president Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile. His successor, | , took a less interventionist stance toward both North Yemen and neighbour ... |
Rudolf Simek | | says that Syn ranks among the female goddesses whose names are recorded fr ... |
John Sebastian | ... Joe McDonald, Tom Constanten, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Melanie, | , Mountain, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Levon Helm Band, although no ... |
Jamie Delano | The initial creative team was writer | and artist John Ridgway, with Dave McKean supplying distinctive painted an ... |
Ivan Turgenev | The Russian writer | based his novel Smoke (1867) in Baden-Baden, describing it as a place wher ... |
Walter Wanger | ... spondent (1940), based on Vincent Sheean's Personal History and produced by | , was nominated for Best Picture that year. Hitchcock and many other Engli ... |
Emperor Kammu | ... wned that day. The Japanese general Ki no Asami Kosami was "rebuked" by the | when he returned to Kyoto |
Abdul Fattah Ismail | In 1980, PDRY president | resigned and went into exile. His successor, Ali Nasir Muhammad, took a le ... |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | ... erence to an early game of hockey on ice occurring in Halifax in that year. | , in The Attache: Second Series, published in 1844, reminisced about boys ... |
Frank W. Mayborn | ... on, with the last vote cast on Johnson's behalf by Temple, Texas, publisher | , who rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee. T ... |
John Desmond | In 1953, | opened the first architectural firm in Hammond. He was chief architect of ... |
Doreen Valiente | In 1953, | joined Gardner's Bricket Wood coven, and soon rose to become its High Prie ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... Iowa Territory. Some settlers started drifting into Iowa in 1833. President | on July 4, 1838, signed the U.S. Congress laws establishing the Territory ... |
Dean Reed | ... d El Cantor (the Singer) was made in 1978. It was directed by Jara's friend | , who also played the part of Jara |
Edgar Allan Poe | The title character in | 's The Raven famously sits upon "a Bust of Pallas" |
Emperor Joseph II | ... cademy had schools for theology, law, pharmacy and general studies. In 1784 | granted the academy the right to award academic degrees (Licentiat and Ph. ... |
Henry II of England | ... lanvill, who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer. Walter served King | in many ways, not just in financial administration, but also including dip ... |
LL Cool J | ... on by members of the hip-hop community, such as Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, | , Eminem, Kangol Kid of UTFO, and The Notorious B.I.G.. The release of mor ... |
Agrippa I | ... us and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, | and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centur ... |
Alan Moore | ... ances in the comic book series Swamp Thing, where he had been introduced by | during his authorship of the title, the character was given his own comic ... |
Vincent Sheean | ... ican film, the European-set thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), based on | 's Personal History and produced by Walter Wanger, was nominated for Best ... |
Jostein Gaarder | ... ibiki Unbalance manga, being translated and published by Del Rey/Tanoshimi. | 's books often feature this device. Examples are The Solitaire Mystery, wh ... |
Julian Lennon | ... worldwide tour with new drummer Les Warner (who had previously played with | and Johnny Thunders). Two more official singles from the Love album follow ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... e date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to | , Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 14 ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo hand-picked | as vice-president of the Republic of China, first-in-the-line of successio ... |
Alexander II | ... re assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, and | |
Jerome Bettis | ... regained possession and put 8 points on the board to make it 21–18. After a | fumble on the goal line, Nick Harper picked up the fumble and almost ran i ... |
Rudolf Simek | ... is another name for Mimir, and that the two survivors hide in Yggdrasill." | theorizes that the survival of Líf and Lífþrasir is "a case of reduplicati ... |
Arnold Palmer | ... products graced the heads of the rich and famous, including the Beatles and | , and later Princess Diana. The company also supplied uniformed organisati ... |
Josephus | ... ta (Insurrectionary Synagogue; Yer. Nazir vii.56a; Yer. San. i.18a; compare | , B. J. ii.14, § 5; Jastrow, Dict. p. 838), whence some of the most promin ... |
Allan Burns | ... milar idea was submitted to Universal Studios by Rocky & Bullwinkle writers | and Chris Hayward. This format was later handed to writers Norm Liebman an ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... rituals of the Ordo Templi Orientis which had been devised by the occultist | . Gardner had gained access to these rituals in 1946, when he had purchase ... |
James Lovelock | ... them or books that describe them (SimAnt: E.O. Wilson’s The Ants, SimEarth: | ’s Gaia Theory, SimCity: Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics and World Dynamics ... |
Bob Dylan | ... rk in 1974. Titled "An Evening With Salvador Allende", the concert featured | , Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and Ochs |
Aristophanes | In The Frogs (405 BC) by | , Dionysus descends to Hades and announces himself as Heracles. Aeacus lam ... |
Fulk of Jerusalem | ... as constantly unstable. In response to these incursions into Outremer, King | constructed a number of Christian settlements around the city during the 1 ... |
Ranulf de Glanvill | Walter owed his early advancement to his uncle | , who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer. Walter served King Henry ... |
Sylvia Browne | ... ively challenge notorious high-profile alleged psychics and mediums such as | , Allison DuBois and John Edward with a campaign in the media |
Prince | ... lude Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Sade, En Vogue, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, | , Naughty by Nature, Johnny Mathis and Janet Jackson. Aaliyah expressed th ... |
Leonardo | ... hat she thought of the voice, she replied 'Ah! It is a ruin, but then so is | 's Last Supper |
Roosevelt | ... declared "the first international airport of the Americas" by US president | |
Grandmaster Flash | ... on history with their adoption by members of the hip-hop community, such as | , Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Eminem, Kangol Kid of UTFO, and The Notorious B.I.G. ... |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... DPA, حزب دیموکراتیک خلق افغانستان) orchestrated a bloody coup assassinating | , his family and bodyguards and consequently assuming power. The PDPA soon ... |
Chris Hayward | ... ubmitted to Universal Studios by Rocky & Bullwinkle writers Allan Burns and | . This format was later handed to writers Norm Liebman and Ed Haas, who wr ... |
Louis XV | ... ravelling around the Cape of Good Hope. The Port is named in honour of King | . The first Governor was Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais |
Josip Broz Tito | ... schar (1st Croatian), the first non-Germanic division, was formed, to fight | 's Yugoslav Partisans. This was followed by the 14th Waffen Grenadier Divi ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... refusal. Syn is attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | ; and in kennings employed in skaldic poetry. Scholars have proposed theor ... |
Philip III of Spain | ... f the Inquisition. The New Christians of Portugal breathed more freely when | came to the throne. By the law of April 4, 1601, he granted them the privi ... |
Aristotle | ... f science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses | 's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several point ... |
Bill Clinton | ... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of | , remarking, "There is no crisis in health care. |
Thomas Sowell | ... received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, Milton Friedman, and | |
Aeschylus | ... esentation of Laius's oracle in this play differs from that found in (e.g.) | 's Oedipus trilogy produced in 467 BCE. Helaine Smith argues |
King Louis XIII | ... 'Ancre, a historical drama recounting the events leading up to the reign of | . Frequenting the theater, he met the great actress Marie Dorval, and beca ... |
Edmund Morris | ... he marriage was mentioned in , the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan by | , who says that the marriage certificate is on file with the State of Cali ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... h rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under | . The events of Bloody Sunday have survived in public memory. The Gaelic A ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... imply was no popular vote for President in those states. Even in 1824, when | lost in spite of having pluralities of both the popular and electoral vote ... |
Ronald Reagan | The treaty was undisturbed until | announced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on March 23, 1983. On the ... |
Henry Nottidge Moseley | ... ic work was conducted by Wyville Thomson, John Murray, John Young Buchanan, | , and Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm. The official expedition artist was John J ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Egyptian president | , a leader of the Free Officers Movement, agreed to allow the United Natio ... |
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 ... |
Ian Ayres | ... bles such as cocaine prices. Others agreed, and some researchers, including | and John J. Donohue, claimed that the model contained significant coding e ... |
Paul I | ... emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, | , and Alexander II |
Alan Moore | ... s the streetwise magician John Constantine, following his popularity in the | run on Swamp Thing. It has been published continuously since January 1988, ... |
Kazuki Tomokawa | ... wrote Japanese lyrics. Takada used modern Japanese poetry as lyrics, while | made an album using Chuya Nakahara's poems. Tomobe Masato, inspired by Bob ... |
Licinia Eudoxia | ... acidia, younger daughter of Western Emperor Valentinian III and of his wife | , thus creating a bond between a member of the senatorial aristocracy and ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... s, audiences had an appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and | becoming international stars. Schwarzenegger's roles reflected his sense o ... |
James Madison | ... was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and | |
President of the United States of America | ... 0 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after James Monroe, fifth | . Its county seat is the city of Rochester |
Jeconiah | ... em. Jehoiakim died in 598 BC during the siege, and was succeeded by his son | at an age of either eight or eighteen. The city fell about three months la ... |
Mohammad Najibullah | ... n 1989, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime, then headed by | , proved unexpectedly capable of holding its own against the mujahideen. B ... |
Steve Martin | ... comedic stagecraft, influenced other '70s post-modern comedians, including | , Martin Mull and Andy Kaufman |
Terry Jones | A novel, Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic written by | , is based on Adams's computer game of the same name, which in turn is bas ... |
Philip José Farmer | ... s written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell. In 1975 real-world author | wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he pub ... |
Jackie Robinson | ... century, no Major League Baseball team employed an African American player. | became the first African American to play for a Major League Baseball team ... |
Ovid | ... tian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, | , Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by bot ... |
H. G. Wells | ... ence fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian | written during the period 1936-38. Throughout the book, Wells describes hi ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
Valentinian III | Olybrius married Placidia, younger daughter of Western Emperor | and of his wife Licinia Eudoxia, thus creating a bond between a member of ... |
Croesus | ... sits in the river Pactolus that were the source of the proverbial wealth of | (Lydia's last historical king) were said to have been left there when the ... |
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty | ... se afterwards was known “Gandhi Mandiram” in Chembukkavu. In the mean time, | , the controversial Diwan of Cochin Kingdom from 1935 to 1941, was develop ... |
Thomas Mann | ... prevented Hedwig and Alfred Pringsheim (whose daughter Katia was married to | ) from being arrested by the Gestapo |
Tim Johnson | ... n County and across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation helped narrowly elect | to office. The county has the distinction of having the highest percentage ... |
John Adams | ... rance, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President | . Opposition to Federalists among Democratic-Republicans reached new heigh ... |
Xenophon | ... eir internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of | , Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch ... |
Owen Gleiberman | ... tle character, played by Tobey Maguire. The film was directed by Sam Raimi. | of Entertainment Weekly remarked on Dunst's ability to "lend even the smal ... |
Evelyn Waugh | ... is brief role as a casket salesman in the film adaptation of The Loved One, | 's satire of the funeral business and movie industry in Southern Californi ... |
Robert Skimin | In the 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory, author | depicts Stuart surviving his wound from the battle of Yellow Tavern. After ... |
Horace | ... on-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, | , Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized ... |
John Travolta | ... immediately lost the weight she gained for the role and dropped the accent. | 's mother Helen and sister Ann both appeared in minor roles in this movie. ... |
Terri Windling | ... Susanna Clarke. Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, | , Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, Mark Crill ... |
A. E. Housman | ... ert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – | – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jenn ... |
United States President | Three | s were elected following a process that selected them as a national nomine ... |
Placidia | Olybrius married | , younger daughter of Western Emperor Valentinian III and of his wife Lici ... |
Albert II of Belgium | ... r Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, | , Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Count of Paris and the c ... |
Marina Warner | The jury included musician Neil Tennant, author | , curator Fumio Nanjo and British Council officer Ann Gallagher, chaired b ... |
Slavoj Žižek | ... f film theorists with psychoanalytic potential, including Jacques Lacan and | . Hitchcock again filmed extensively on location, this time in the Norther ... |
A. A. Milne | In 1926 | wrote Winnie-the-Pooh, chapter stories about an adorable bumbling teddy be ... |
George Orwell | ... monstrated in the documentary “The Corporation”. In the early 20th-century, | originally wrote a preface for his book “”, which focused on the British s ... |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... uchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of | , Albert II of Belgium, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Co ... |
Ice Cube | ... 70s funk samples; the best-known proponents were the rappers 2Pac, Dr. Dre, | and Snoop Dogg. Gangsta rap continued to exert a major presence in America ... |
Neneh Cherry | # Move With Me (Dub) – | # The Adversary – Crime and the City Solution # What's Good – Lou Reed # L ... |
Gus Van Sant | ... Despite setbacks as a screenwriter, Ellis teamed up with acclaimed director | in 2009 to adapt the Vanity Fair article "The Golden Suicides" into a film ... |
Neil Gaiman | In the late 1990s, Avary was hired by Warner Bros studio to adapt | 's comic series The Sandman to the big screen. He frequently sparred with ... |
Brigitte Hamann | According to biographer | , Winifred Wagner was reported to be "disgusted" by Hitler's persecution o ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... f this was the fictitious author Kilgore Trout, who appears in the works of | . In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called ... |
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 ... |
Averroes | ... de the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, | , Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has b ... |
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger | ... pecially influenced at this time by the study of Jens Immanuel Baggesen and | , during a visit to Copenhagen. Mellem Slagene was followed by Halte-Hulda ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... Barry Smith for "The Shadow of the Vulture" and "The Song of Red Sonja" in | issues 23 and 24 (1973), she did not have as full a figure and dressed a l ... |
Sam Raimi | ... t of the title character, played by Tobey Maguire. The film was directed by | . Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly remarked on Dunst's ability to " ... |
Frederick Jackson Turner | ... of American regions. It has been called "the typically American" region by | . Religious pluralism and ethnic diversity have been important elements of ... |
James Cameron | ... what some would say was the signature role in his acting career in director | 's science fiction thriller film The Terminator. Following The Terminator, ... |
Rufus Thomas | ... ion '82 (Disco Wax, 1982), Grand Wizard Theodore cuts the first six bars of | 's "Do the Funky Penguin" together for five and a half minutes while an MC ... |
Muhammad Salih | ... ntested election. Karimov drew 86% of the vote against opposition candidate | (also spelled "Salih" or "Salikh" ), whose showing experts praised in view ... |
Samuel Daniel | ... classical quantitative verse. Campion's theories on poetry were refuted by | in "Defence of Rhyme" (1603) |
Juvenal | ... Latin at University College London and later, at Cambridge. His editions of | , Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative |
Jerome | ... y may been a blending of the Quo Vadis story with some information given by | in a letter |
Ronald Reagan | ... Best Actor. Co-star Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husband | for him, albeit unsuccessfully |
Grazia Deledda | The writer | won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 |
John Keats | ... sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by | . His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of though ... |
Ricky Tomlinson | ... , meetings, product launches and lectures. Past notable appearances include | , Joe Longthorne and Patrick McGuinness. Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra g ... |
Owen Barfield | ... h not well known among philosophers, his philosophical work was taken up by | (and through him influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian wri ... |
Abraham Lincoln | On August 27, 1856, | spoke at a rally in Bronson Park, promoting the presidential candidacy of ... |
Zeca Afonso | ... was also credited as one of the discoverers of the Newfoundland fisheries. | was a singer and composer |
Don Rosa | Dingus McDuck, nicknamed "Dirty Dingus", was created by | for his Duck Family Tree and has not appeared in person. Dingus, who was S ... |
Gabriel Byrne | ... opedia Americana sits on the shelves of psychotherapist Dr. Paul Weston's ( | ) home office |
Gerald of Wales | ... erson at 165 m (180 yards) "part of the time" and could always hit an army. | commented on the power of the Welsh longbow in the 12th century |
William Connor | ... m. In 1956, an article in The Daily Mirror by veteran columnist Cassandra ( | ) mentioned that Liberace was "…the summit of sex—the pinnacle of masculin ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | In his 1962 book Profiles of the Future, | predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain ... |
George Washington | ... elphia in 1793. During his flight, Blanchard carried a personal letter from | to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to la ... |
Islam Karimov | ... d replaces provincial governors. Under terms of a December 1995 referendum, | 's first term was extended. Another national referendum was held January 2 ... |
James Madison | ... ted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by Thomas Jefferson and | , which were foundational to the states rights theory that helped lead to ... |
Maziar Bahari | ... creen his or her personal Top 10 favorite films. In 2007, Iranian filmmaker | selected O Dreamland and Every Day Except Christmas (1957), a record of a ... |
David Irving | ... e I would not have missed." She was also interviewed that year by historian | who reports that she said that she would then still welcome Hitler at the ... |
Kingdom of Cochin | ... 7, when India gained independence from the British rule, Thrissur was under | . Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949, with the headquarters at T ... |
Bob Dylan | ... kawa made an album using Chuya Nakahara's poems. Tomobe Masato, inspired by | , wrote critically acclaimed lyrics. The Tigers was the most popular Group ... |
Midas | ... historical king) were said to have been left there when the legendary king | of Phrygia washed away the "Midas touch" in its waters |
Plato | ... vine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, | , and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by both East and West, as one ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... of Balls Bluff took place near Leesburg on October 21, 1861. Future jurist | was critically wounded in that battle along the Potomac River. During the ... |
Lewis Morris | ... renamed "Tinton Falls" in 1975, to avoid postal errors. The name came from | 's plantation, Tinton Manor, which employed free white workers and slaves. ... |
Herodotus | ... The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, | and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several cen ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... Terminator 2: Judgment Day which, in the fictional alternate universe, had | as its star |
A. N. Wilson | The friendship of Winifred and Hitler is treated fancifully in | 's novel, Winnie and Wolf (2007) |
Jeff Gerth | ... sta: The Hundred-Million-Dollar Resort with Criminal Clientele," written by | and Lowell Bergman. The article indicated that the La Costa Resort and Spa ... |
Charlie Kaufman | The movie Adaptation was presented as if it had been written by | and his fictitious brother Donald Kaufman. Both 'brothers' were nominated ... |
Robert Zemeckis | ... tating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair in 2007 with | directing, utilizing the Performance capture technology pioneered in The P ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... s of the Bavaria, Brazil, Parma, Saxony and the Two Sicilies. The late Lady | (1961-1997) is a descendant of Lucrezia |
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 ... |
George Stevens | ... outsiders, often "victim-heroes," - examples include the social climber in | 's A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock's I Conf ... |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... is sometimes called Erythraea, from Erythrae, a small place on Mount Ida ( | i. 55), and at others Gergithia ('of Gergis') |
Branch Rickey | ... a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It happened mainly due to General Manager | 's efforts. The deeply religious Rickey's motivation appears to have been ... |
Islam Karimov | | | |
Thomas Jefferson | ... osition to them resulted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by | and James Madison, which were foundational to the states rights theory tha ... |
Bryan Talbot | ... Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, | , Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth ... |
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | ... Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, Albert II of Belgium, | , as well as the Count of Paris and the claimants to the Thrones of the Ba ... |
Laura Ingalls Wilder | In 1933 | (1867–1957) published the first installment of the Little House on the Pra ... |
Michael Powell | ... man for All Time), originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, | . This led to a more significant role in Bertrand Tavernier's jazz movie R ... |
William Morris | ... generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably | and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists a ... |
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | ... son – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – | – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Ke ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... cess of presidential succession had been known since the death of President | in 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendm ... |
Al Gore | ... n effect on the content of the media. For example, according to Fair, ‘When | proposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Adv ... |
Rowland Detrosier | ... al and no democratic control by its students was intended. In 1829, radical | led a breakaway group to form the New Mechanics' Institution in Poole Stre ... |
Neil Gaiman | Avary and novelist | 's long gestating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair ... |
Bruce Halpenny | Additionally, board games can be therapeutic. | , a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “With crime you d ... |
King James II | ... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of | . During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ... |
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) ... |
John Steinbeck | Working at 20th Century Fox, Hitchcock adapted a script of | 's that chronicled the experiences of the survivors of a German U-boat att ... |
Thucydides | ... al affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, | , Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing ... |
Harry Turtledove | In the alternate-history novel How Few Remain by | , Stuart is the commanding Confederate general in charge of the occupation ... |
Richard III of England | ... y ship coming to an English port had to bring four bowstaves for every tun. | increased this to ten for every tun. This stimulated a vast network of ext ... |
Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of | , was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused Geor ... |
Nicholas Jarecki | Later, Ellis was approached by young screenwriter | to adapt The Informers into a film; the script they co-wrote was cut from ... |
Emperor Maximilian | ... y of Leuven. His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of | , while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Ma ... |
Jehoiakim | ... d been king for only three months, and replaced him with his older brother, | . Necho imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver (about 3 3/ ... |
Martin Scorsese | In 1976 he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in | 's landmark Taxi Driver; Scorsese allowed Brooks to improvise much of his ... |
Philip Sidney | ... ongs of Divers Noblemen and Gentlemen", appended to Newman's edition of Sir | 's Astrophel and Stella, which appeared in 1591. In 1595 "Poemata, a colle ... |
Elizabeth Siddal | ... linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses | , Fanny Cornforth, and Jane Morris |
Gundobad | ... sted in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew | |
Bill Clinton | ... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President | . Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of | , which began in the following year. Morison and a number of other histori ... |
Thomas Overbury | He was implicated in the murder of Sir | , but was eventually exonerated, as it was found that he had unwittingly d ... |
Teresa Hooley | ... thea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – | – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T ... |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | ... ough. John M. Stahl ended up directing the 1944 film, which was produced by | and starred Gregory Peck, among other luminaries |
Lester B. Pearson | ... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, | , at the party's leadership convention in 1958 |
Thomas Jefferson | The presidents selected by the party were | (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ... |
Dean Wesley Smith | ... itten in the real world: Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth, a comic, by | , who presumed that in the Star Trek universe, the holonovel Captain Proto ... |
Edward Dmytryk | ... nemann's From Here to Eternity, and the Jewish GI bullied by antisemites in | 's The Young Lions. Later, after a disfiguring car crash in 1956, and alco ... |
Bob Gregory | In a 1960s story by | and Tony Strobl Scrooge's grandfather is referred to as Titus McDuck |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... sidered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but Prof. | proposed a later date of about 1275, noting their triplets of Early Englis ... |
Jesse Ventura | ... ul film, Schwarzenegger led a cast which included future Minnesota Governor | (Ventura also appeared in The Running Man and Batman & Robin with Schwarze ... |
Jean-Yves Tadié | ... brother and someone very much like himself..." — Marcel Proust: A Life, by | , 1996. Racine's influence can also be seen in A.S. Byatt's tetralogy ( Th ... |
Lowell Bergman | ... d-Million-Dollar Resort with Criminal Clientele," written by Jeff Gerth and | . The article indicated that the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Cali ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, | 's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 19 ... |
President of Ireland | ... lsion from Fianna Fáil. Lynch also declined to accept nominations to become | , a position he had little interest in. In 1992 he suffered a severe healt ... |
Loren Pope | Millsaps was one of 40 schools in | 's Colleges That Change Lives |
Galen | ... icine, and similarly to earlier Islamic writers he followed the approach of | (and Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcas ... |
Christina Rossetti | ... 1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by | , his sister and celebrated poet |
Orel Hershiser | ... were affectionately dubbed "Fernandomania." In 1988, another pitching hero, | , again led them to a World Series victory, aided by one of the most memor ... |
Romulus Augustulus | ... overthrow of the rebellious magister militum Orestes and his pretender son | in 476. In the East Theodosius II also barred the eunuchs from holding it, ... |
Peter Bogdanovich | ... cted the late American actress Marion Davies in The Cat's Meow, directed by | . Derek Elley of Variety described the film as "playful and sporty," sayin ... |
Joe Longthorne | ... ct launches and lectures. Past notable appearances include Ricky Tomlinson, | and Patrick McGuinness. Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra give three concert ... |
Thomas Hood | ... – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – | – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Ea ... |
Jim Barnes | ... r Played), and Arthur Havers. From America came Walter Hagen, Tommy Armour, | and Al Watrous |
Marcel Proust | ... ionary proportions. His work is still widely read and frequently performed. | developed a fondness for Racine at an early age, "whom he considered a bro ... |
Patti Smith | # It Takes Time – | (With Fred Smith |
Tommy Armour | ... atest Game Ever Played), and Arthur Havers. From America came Walter Hagen, | , Jim Barnes and Al Watrous |
Lord Byron | On 15 October 1816, the Romantic poet | visited the Ambrosian Library of Milan. He was delighted by the letters be ... |
Samuel Eliot Morison | ... worst vice presidents in American history in a 2008 Time Magazine article. | wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the ... |
Plutarch | ... ries of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and | , none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several centuries after ... |
Isabella of France | ... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife, | , spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations |
Antonin Artaud | In his essay, The Theatre and Cruelty, | claimed that 'the misdeeds of the psychological theater descended from Rac ... |
Hubert Harrison | Some of Razaf's early poems were published in 1917-18 in the | -edited Voice, the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement". Razaf coll ... |
George W. Bush | ... istered voters participating. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 49.9% of the vote in South Hackensack (499 cast), ahead of Democr ... |
Henry VI | ... st force. The Tower was damaged by artillery fire but only surrendered when | was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of Richard Nevill ... |
Sam Houston | Torrey Trading Houses opened as a part of the | peace policy to develop friendly relationships with native tribes. They bo ... |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | ... lso used, especially in the Middle East and Balkans (the initial attempt on | 's life was with a grenade). With heavy weapons, the rocket-propelled gren ... |
Xenophon | ... y, a town of very great antiquity (Herodotus iv: 122). Gergis, according to | , was a place of much strength. It had a temple sacred to Apollo Gergithiu ... |
Edward V | ... ent is one of the most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. | 's uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester was declared Lord Protector while the ... |
Truman | ... tten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by the | Administration, although it can be said that the committee's investigation ... |
Jens Immanuel Baggesen | ... produced in 1857. He was especially influenced at this time by the study of | and Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, during a visit to Copenhagen. Mellem Slag ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... and in 1510 the Venetians obtained sixteen pounds per hundred. In 1507 the | asked the Duke of Bavaria to stop cutting yew, but the trade was profitabl ... |
Blanche of Lancaster | ... nd remodelled the great hall with a grander interior and roof. On his death | inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edwa ... |
James Monroe | ... the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and | (1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state gover ... |
Ibn al-Nafis | ... nd Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, | , and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Musl ... |
Justinian I | ... it, although this restriction had been overturned by the 6th century. Under | (r. 527-565), the title proliferated and was consequently somewhat devalue ... |
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 ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... lavius Anicius Probus (suggested by Settipani) or, according to some clues, | |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... r the Srirangapattanam war. In the meantime, Rama Varma X, the successor of | signed a treaty with East Indian Company, and made Cochin a subsidiary of ... |
King George V | ... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was | ) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ... |
Hugh Lofting | In 1920 | wrote The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the first of ten Doctor Dolittle books |
John Humphrey Noyes | ... y successful communes in American history. The Oneida Community, founded by | in Oneida, New York, was a utopian religious commune that lasted from 1848 ... |
Józef Wybicki | ... onal anthem - Dąbrowski's Mazurka - was written in praise of his actions by | in 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ... |
Deborah Pratt | ... t the series, but are mostly unseen. Ziggy (voiced by co-executive producer | ) is the artificial intelligence that runs the project and attempts to ded ... |
James Monroe | | constructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ... |
George Washington | ... d tyrants. It is its natural manure." In contrast to Jefferson's sentiments | , who had been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in ... |
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 ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... g Alive, was released in 1983. It starred John Travolta and was directed by | . (Staying Alive was rated PG; it also predated the introduction of the PG ... |
Mike Mignola | ... His Horse by Susanna Clarke. Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, | , Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Rus ... |
King Gylfi | ... nning, where it is described partially in euhemerized form. In the chapter, | sets out to Asgard in the guise of an old man going by the name of Gangler ... |
Anna d'Este | ... dern Europe including that of the United Kingdom. Through her granddaughter | , Duchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestres ... |
Thomas Jefferson | | , who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ... |
Victor Silvester | ... generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and | . These professionals analysed, codified, published and taught a number of ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included | and C. S. Lewis) and Richard Tarnas |
Charles V | ... as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor | . Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrol ... |
James Madison | The presidents selected by the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809), | (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated ... |
David Storey | ... ciate Artistic Director 1971–75, directing premiere productions of plays by | , among others |
Richard Adams | ... ith his warhorse Skylark, is featured prominently in the novel Traveller by | |
Moses | ... int. In 1998, he lent his voice to the animated film The Prince of Egypt as | , before starring in the independent film Joe the King (1999) and playing ... |
Rod Blagojevich | ... he Capitol Steps, poking fun at Illinois politics, especially then-Governor | . The Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps performs the "Bottle Dance ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... the most memorable home runs of all time, by their injured star outfielder | coming off the bench to pinch hit with two outs in the bottom of the ninth ... |
George Washington | ... anklin, was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused | of incompetence and financial irregularities, and "the blind, bald, crippl ... |
Gregory Peck | ... cting the 1944 film, which was produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starred | , among other luminaries |
Kathy Reichs | ... spends much of her free time writing novels about a forensic anthropologist | . This mimics Reichs' own real-life second career of writing the Temperanc ... |
Theodosius II | ... ilitum Orestes and his pretender son Romulus Augustulus in 476. In the East | also barred the eunuchs from holding it, although this restriction had bee ... |
Edward IV | ... Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time in 1470. However, | soon regained control and Henry VI was imprisoned in the Tower of London, ... |
Billy Bragg | ... in September 2009 to record the 1970s Clash B-side "Jail Guitar Doors" with | . The song is the namesake of a charity founded by Bragg which gives music ... |
Hippocrates | ... similarly to earlier Islamic writers he followed the approach of Galen (and | as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, Ibn al-Nafis, ... |
P.G.T. Beauregard | ... the ancestress of many notable people, including American Civil War general | . She is a collateral relative of most of the royal families of modern Eur ... |
Jane Siberry | # Calling All Angels (Remix Version) – | with k.d. lan |
Laurence Housman | ... itor, later remarried, to an elder cousin, Lucy, in 1873. Housman's brother | and sister also became writers |
William Van Horn | According to a story by | , Fergus at some point had a short marriage with an unidentified woman, wi ... |
Alexander II | ... Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to | |
Stephen Hawking | ... ongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, | as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Rog ... |
Ranavalona III | ... Paul Razafinkarefo. He was the son of Henri Razafinkarefo, nephew of Queen | of Imerina, and Jennie (Waller) Razafinkarefo, the daughter of John L. Wal ... |
Herodotus | According to | the Heraclids ruled for 22 generations during the period from 1185 BC, las ... |
Jonas Lie | ... ur Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, | , and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Nor ... |
Aristotle | In astronomy, he criticized | 's view of the stars receiving their light from the Sun. Ibn Sīnā stated t ... |
Afrika Bambaataa | ... thms"—was a keynote of hip hop's early days. By 1975, Grandmaster Flash and | had taken up Kool Herc's breakbeat style of DJing, each with their own acc ... |
Freda Payne | ... replaced by Scherrie Payne, the sister of Invictus Records recording artist | |
Branch Rickey | ... nership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the shares of his co-owners, | and the John L. Smith. Before long he was working to buy new land in Brook ... |
Robert Altman | ... s second film appearance was as a deaf mute hit-man for the mob in director | 's The Long Goodbye (1973), which was followed by a much more significant ... |
Christina Rossetti | ... name Dante first (in honour of Dante Alighieri). He was the brother of poet | , the critic William Michael Rossetti, and author Maria Francesca Rossetti |
Patti Smith | ... rd is featured briefly in the film , a 2008 documentary about rock musician | |
John Nance Garner | Red River County is the birthplace of | , 32nd Vice President of the United States. B.P. Newman (1927–2008), a Tex ... |
Mary McAleese | ... onoured with a state funeral which was attended by the President of Ireland | , Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and ... |
Boudica | ... ll) in Staffordshire, Manduessedum (modern day Mancetter - possible site of | 's last battle), Tripontium (modern day Newton and Biggin), Venonis (moder ... |
Cormac McCarthy | ... amed for Alexander W. Terrell, a Texas state senator. It is the setting for | 's novel No Country for Old Men, and the Academy Award winning film adapta ... |
Maximilian Joseph | ... s annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia. In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, | , the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zwei ... |
Hyder Ali | However, during 1750-60 | from Mysore attacked Thrissur and was forced to become tributary of Mysore ... |
Kenneth Grahame | In 1908 | wrote The Wind in the Willows from his retired position as secretary of th ... |
Afonso V | ... na"), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of | , St. Joana, who died in 1490. The presence of this royal personage, beati ... |
Hákon Hákonarson | ... s Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King | at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III. Godwinson was sub ... |
William Michael Rossetti | ... Dante Alighieri). He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, the critic | , and author Maria Francesca Rossetti |
Gladys Knight | ... eared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside | . At age 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerso ... |
Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. Edward V's uncle | was declared Lord Protector while the prince was too young to rule. The 12 ... |
Antonin Artaud | ... s also celebrated by the Cinémathèque Française, who heralded Avary as "the | of cinema" during their Cinema of Cruelty retrospective |
Stephanus of Byzantium | ... 350 BCE. (cf. Phlegon, quoted in the 5th century geographical dictionary of | , under 'Gergis'). Other places claimed to have been her home. The sibylli ... |
Jonathan Lethem | ... Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt, | , Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom were aware of his li ... |
Don Rosa | In | 's "A Letter from Home", it's revealed that Fergus tried to find the Knigh ... |
Charles Baudelaire | ... else; there could be nothing new to say about him. However, as writers like | and Gustave Flaubert came onto the scene to soundly shake the foundations ... |
Charles Kingsley | ... eigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – | – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydg ... |
Patrick Moore | ... laner as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as the voice of Deep Thought, | as the voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Bu ... |
Charles Dickens | ... late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and | was serializing Oliver Twist. The majority of the book takes place sevente ... |
Rædwald of East Anglia | ... the church beyond Kent encountered difficulties due to the attitude of King | , who had become the leading king in the south after Æthelberht's death. R ... |
President of Ireland | ... e age of 82. He was honoured with a state funeral which was attended by the | Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert ... |
Donna Tartt | ... He attended Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers | , Jonathan Lethem, Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom wer ... |
Sanjeev Bhaskar | ... ogramme, broadcast in late 2003. The film, directed by Deep Sehgal, starred | as Arthur Dent, alongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as t ... |
Agis II | ... began his kingship after the end of the Peloponnesian war after his brother | died and was left without an heir. (Agis’ son Leotychidas was rumored to b ... |
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya | ... a leading figure in the 2005 Mauritanian coup d'état that deposed President | . In August 2008 General Ould Abdel Aziz led the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'é ... |
Charles VII | ... burg on 23 September, Bavarian troops, for the first time since the days of | , fought side by side with the French, and by the Treaty of Pressburg, sig ... |
Constantius III | ... to the powerful magistri militum who dominated the state, such as Stilicho, | , Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize ... |
Procopius Anthemius | ... s were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor Leo I the Thracian chose the noble | . His association with Gaiseric did not harm Olybrius' career: in 464 the ... |
Otto Jahn | ... His tenure was from 1819 until his retirement in 1854. He was succeeded by | and Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, who shared the directorship. From 1870 to 1 ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... one of The Four Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being | , Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... es who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like Friedrich Schiller and | dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "courtly drama" too restricted by ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... magazine. Buscema drew her again in this costume in issues 43, 44 and 48 of | (1974) and Dick Giordano in the first issue of Marvel Feature (1975) befor ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... ce success, but eventually became a huge critical success both for director | and actor Robert De Niro, who gained about 60 pounds during the shooting o ... |
Alan Cranston | ... aign to win the United States Senate seat held by Democratic incumbent Sen. | , as he received less than two percent of the vote in the Republican Party ... |
Walter O'Malley | Real estate businessman | had acquired majority ownership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the ... |
Learned Hand | ... by Morris Ernst, appealed her conviction and won a reversal, in which judge | ruled that the pamphlet's main purpose was to "promote understanding" |
John Keats | ... f Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – | – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry ... |
King Vanlandi | ... the 10th century skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir describing that, upon his death, | went to Valhalla |
Alexander the Great | ... Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus, | , and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, ... |
Hector Berlioz | ... xophone was invented for use in both orchestras and concert bands. Composer | wrote approvingly of the new instrument in 1842. By 1846 Sax had designed, ... |
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 |
Dante Alighieri | ... him Gabriel, but in publications he put the name Dante first (in honour of | ). He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, the critic William Micha ... |
The Wind in the Willows | In 1908 Kenneth Grahame wrote | from his retired position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved to ... |
Odoacer | ... tilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to | to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after his overthrow of the rebelli ... |
Charles Dickens | The number of visitors increased, including Queen Victoria and | . Work was undertaken during the 19th century to protect the stonework fro ... |
Richard | ... d Edward was confined to the Tower of London along with his younger brother | . The Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King Richard III in July. The prin ... |
John Sparrow | ... d humorous poems published posthumously under the title Unkind to Unicorns. | found statements in a letter written late in Housman's life which describe ... |
James Madison | ... s, its population was 13,664. Its seat is Madisonville, and it is named for | , the fourth president of the United States |
President Jimmy Carter | ... process. There was a hopeful precedent in the 1978 Camp David Accords where | was able to broker a peace agreement between Egypt, represented by Preside ... |
Henry Sass | ... inter, having shown a great interest in Medieval Italian art. He studied at | 's Drawing Academy from 1841 to 1845 when he enrolled at the Antique Schoo ... |
Philip V of Spain | ... between 1700 and 1720. After it was assigned to Emperor Charles VI in 1714, | briefly recovered the island in 1717, but in 1720 the European powers assi ... |
Mao Zedong | ... n principles of guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of | and Che Guevara. His forces were considered the most effective of all the ... |
John McCain | ... the 226 counties in Texas to cast the majority of its votes for Republican | . McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat Barack Obama won 3 ... |
Fallopius | ... professorship, which had become vacant by the death of his friend and pupil | |
John Quincy Adams | ... ke down. The party split between Andrew Jackson and the incumbent President | . What began as Jackson's ideas of democracy ("Jacksonian democracy") lead ... |
Charles Einstein | ... at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates. His half-brother was | (1926–2007), a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou ... |
Susanna Clarke | ... ok was a short story entitled The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse by | . Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windli ... |
Don Rosa | ... Seafoam is used as back-story. The character's story was later expanded by | , and he appears among the McDucks in heaven in The Life and Times of Scro ... |
Patricia Bosworth | ... gomery, after whom she named her younger son. According to Clift biographer | , Ethel was the illegitimate daughter of Woodbury Blair and Maria Anderson ... |
Barack Obama | ... publican John McCain. McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat | won 30% of the vote and 23,726 votes. Other candidates won 648 votes and 1 ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... th Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – | – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – ... |
Ennodius | ... his place. Very little is known of Olybrius' policy; in his Vita Epifanius, | describes him as a pious man and that he acted accordingly. An important c ... |
Jay McInerney | ... lis became closely associated and good friends with fellow Brat Pack writer | : the two became known as the "toxic twins". The writer became a pariah fo ... |
Rick Riordan | Athena appears in | 's Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series. Her daughter, born from her ... |
Elbridge Gerry | ... ample of the confederation government's weaknesses, while opponents such as | thought that a federal response to the rebellion would have been even wors ... |
Croesus | In 547 BC, the Lydian king | besieged and captured the Persian city of Pteria in Cappadocia and enslave ... |
Goscelin | ... Justus. A Vita (or Life) was written about the time of his translation, by | , but it is mainly based on information in Bede. His tomb was opened in 19 ... |
Gustave Flaubert | ... thing new to say about him. However, as writers like Charles Baudelaire and | came onto the scene to soundly shake the foundations of French literature, ... |
Alexander Kielland | ... ire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and | . Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, ... |
Ptolemy | Soon after, he wrote the Compendium of the Almagest, a commentary on | 's Almagest. Avicenna concluded that Venus is closer to the Earth than the ... |
Laurence | ... more in his lifetime. This proved true. After his death Housman's brother, | , published further poems which appeared in More Poems (1936) and Collecte ... |
Alexander III | ... e defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to | . Godwinson was subsequently defeated within a month by another Viking des ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... ter publication, Vesalius was invited as Imperial physician to the court of | . He informed the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, w ... |
James I of England | ... able shipbuilding location by John Wood, a shipbuilder, who petitioned King | for a land grant. The surrounding area was soon settled as a plantation co ... |
Joseph Lyons | Founding leader | began his political career as an Australian Labor Party politician and ser ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... ess, but in the late 1820s, that system broke down. The party split between | and the incumbent President John Quincy Adams. What began as Jackson's ide ... |
Carl Barks | Captain Hugh "Seafoam" McDuck first appeared in an untitled | story (known as "The Horseradish Story"), where the story of Swindle McSue ... |
Herodotus | According to | , the Lydians were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silve ... |
Henry VIII | ... ders have been the Royal Bodyguard since at least 1509. During the reign of | , the Tower was assessed as needing considerable work on its defences. In ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... ilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place | on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tilty ... |
Galen | ... tion of Aristotle (into orycta and metals) and three-part classification of | (into terrae, lapides and metals). The four parts of Ibn Sina's classifica ... |
Montgomery Blair | ... e her birth and subsequent adoption. This would make her a granddaughter of | , Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddau ... |
Peter I of Russia | During the war, | had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish ... |
Arthur Goldberg | ... nd British were supporting Israel in the conflict, United States Ambassador | announced that the U.S. forces were hundreds of miles from the conflict. A ... |
Elizabeth Jennings | ... – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – | – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Ki ... |
Anton Chekhov | ... ive Speech) and the Chekhov Method originated by Michael Chekhov (nephew of | ) |
Mousse T. | ... ventually certified platinum and double gold by the IFPI. Producers such as | and Pontus Söderqvist consulted on Now... Us!, whose media-critical leadin ... |
Jean Anouilh | ... completed filming a new work, Vous n'avez encore rien vu, an adaptation of | 's 1941 play Eurydice. It is scheduled to be released in 2012. The film ha ... |
James Bond | ... e his complete office was on the top level of a double-decker bus. (Several | films of the 1970s would make use of a similar gimmick for Bond's briefing ... |
Ezekiel | ... rom the land and dispersed throughout the Babylonian Empire. Among them was | . Nebuchadnezzar appointed , Jehoiakim's brother, king of the reduced king ... |
Phlegon of Tralles | ... ions. Some genuine Sibylline verses are preserved in the Book of Marvels of | (2nd century CE) |
Gene Roddenberry | ... eator of the title android, in The Questor Tapes, written for television by | and Gene L. Coon and directed by Richard A. Colla, who, almost four years ... |
John Keats | ... friendship. The painting illustrated a poem by the then still little-known | . Rossetti's own poem "The Blessed Damozel" was an imitation of Keats, so ... |
John McCain | ... he national and state levels. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Ibsen | ... hristiania to prepare for university. This was the same school that trained | , Lie, and Vinje |
Vincent of Beauvais | ... fluential, having influenced later medieval chemists and alchemists such as | |
T. E. Hulme | ... ey – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – | – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry Ki ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ng the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement in 1931, under the auspices of | 's Wickersham Commission. In 1934, the ACLU lobbied for the passage of the ... |
John McCain | ... nal level, Fairfield leans toward the Republican Party. In 2008, Republican | received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat Barack Obama received ... |
Patrick Dennis | ... ny Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play in 1957 for her iconic role. | dedicated his second Auntie Mame book Around the World with Auntie Mame to ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... y") lead to the founding of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by | and Henry Clay, formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it e ... |
Steve Israel | ... rict, which includes Huntington, Brentwood and Bay Shore, is represented by | . A Democrat, Israel won the seat vacated by Rick Lazio in 2000 when he ma ... |
Alcuin | ... s Eadbald's actions as a repudiation of his father's pro-Frankish policies. | , a later medieval writer, wrote that Laurence was "censured by apostolic ... |
Che Guevara | ... guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of Mao Zedong and | . His forces were considered the most effective of all the various Afghan ... |
Caroline Coon | ... Burning", about the bleakness and boredom of life in the inner city. Artist | , who was associated with the punk scene, argued that "[t]hose tough, mili ... |
P. V. Narasimha Rao | ... continuing the policies initiated by the previous Congress Government under | and Manmohan Singh, pushed through major privatizations of big government ... |
Aristotle | ... es, which was a significant improvement over the two-part classification of | (into orycta and metals) and three-part classification of Galen (into terr ... |
Margaret Beckett | Other notable alumni include | , a politician who in 2006 became Foreign Secretary |
Barack Obama | ... Republican John McCain received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat | received 1137 (about 28%) |
Henry Tudor | ... until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by the Lancastrian | , who ascended to the throne as Henry VII |
J. K. Rowling | ... for fans. A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of | , where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits ... |
Nostradamus | ... ings of sibyls and oracles were notoriously open to interpretation (compare | ) and were constantly used for both civil and cult propaganda. The Sibylli ... |
Truman | ... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the | administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption. |
L. Frank Baum | In 1900 | (1856–1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It has been constantly i ... |
LL Cool J | ... s, there were popular hip hop songs, and the celebrities of the scene, like | , gained mainstream renown. Other performers experimented with politicized ... |
Gene L. Coon | ... droid, in The Questor Tapes, written for television by Gene Roddenberry and | and directed by Richard A. Colla, who, almost four years later, again dire ... |
Pharaoh | ... chadnezzar, ceasing to pay tribute to him and entered into an alliance with | Hophra of Egypt. In 589 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II returned to Judah and again ... |
Sigurd the Crusader | ... National Theatre, Bjørnson received an ovation, and his saga-drama of King | was performed at the opening of Nationaltheatret in Oslo |
Joseph Cotten | ... ie" Newton (Teresa Wright), who suspects her beloved uncle Charlie Oakley ( | ) of being a serial murderer. Critics have said that in its use of overlap ... |
Wang Anshi | ... action at court, resolutely opposed to the reformist policies of Chancellor | . Sima presented increasingly critical memorials to the throne until 1070, ... |
Hope Mirrlees | ... ish fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and | . It is concerned with the adventures of a young man from the village of W ... |
Grandmaster Flash | ... ] West African polyrhythms"—was a keynote of hip hop's early days. By 1975, | and Afrika Bambaataa had taken up Kool Herc's breakbeat style of DJing, ea ... |
Don Rosa | According to | , Seafoam McDuck and Hugh McDuck are the same character; "Seafoam" is just ... |
Jesse Frank Ford | ... ite for a possible nuclear waste disposal repository but was later dropped. | , founder of Arrowhead Mills, led the opposition to the Deaf Smith site on ... |
Richard Dreyfuss | ... southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School with the likes of | and Rob Reiner |
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 ... |
Anastasio Somoza Debayle | ... lebrated the left-wing rebels who had recently overthrown Nicaraguan despot | , and the album was filled with songs driven by other political issues ext ... |
Augustus | ... he king” (Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of | , Alexander the Great, and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Light ... |
Ted Theodore | ... dvocated orthodox fiscal management. When Labor reinstated the more radical | as Treasurer in 1931, Lyons and Fenton resigned from Cabinet |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... and started the most spectacular cultural festival called Thrissur Pooram. | laid the modern foundation stone of Thrissur and made the city in to a maj ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | The | administration proposed the New Deal to combat the depression. ACLU leader ... |
Bollandist | ... nt Veronica or Berenice, according to the "Acta Sanctorum" published by the | s (under February 4), was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity ... |
John William Draper | The story begins in late April 1839, as | had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serializing Oliver ... |
Virgil | ... alongside the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as | , Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avic ... |
Darrell Waltrip | ... tel. Many NASCAR drivers also got their start in racing from karts, such as | , Danica Patrick, Lake Speed, Ricky Rudd, Juan Pablo Montoya, Tony Stewart ... |
Rob Reiner | ... attending Beverly Hills High School with the likes of Richard Dreyfuss and | |
Friedrich Schiller | ... iticism from many sources who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like | and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "co ... |
Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
Bob Dylan | "Love and Theft" is the 31st studio album by | , released by Columbia Records on September 11, 2001. It featured backing ... |
Brendan Sullivan Jr | ... d that Stevens had hired "Washington's most powerful and expensive lawyer", | ., in response to the investigation. In 2006, during wiretapped conversati ... |
John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... ry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – | – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip La ... |
Gavin Lambert | | 's memoir, Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, in which he claimed that Anderso ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... anddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President | , and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, t ... |
Mary Stuart | ... opular comedy of De Nygifte (The Newly Married) and his romantic tragedy of | in Scotland. In 1870 he published Poems and Songs and the epic cycle Arnlj ... |
Frank Miller | The Dark Knight Returns, written by | , takes place about 10 years after Batman "retires." It depicts an "Arkham ... |
Neil Gaiman | Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by | . It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. S ... |
Nixon Administration | ... 1), he voted to allow newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers despite the | 's contention that publication would have security implications. In his co ... |
Omar Khayyám | ... owne claims that the following Persian verses are incorrectly attributed to | , and were originally written by Ibn Sīnā |
Alyattes II | ... ginning of the reign of King Alyattes (sometimes incorrectly referred to as | ), who ruled Lydia c. 610-550 BC. The first coins were made of electrum, a ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President | , and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adv ... |
Henry Clay | ... ng of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by John Quincy Adams and | , formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it evolved into th ... |
Dante Alighieri | As early as the 14th century when | depicted him in Limbo alongside the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... and Spain, assemblies called juntas were established to rule in the name of | |
King Mohamed VI | Policies associated with foreign relations are determined by the king, | , and his advisors, despite the fact that Morocco has a constitutional mon ... |
Beatrix Potter | In 1902 | published The Tale of Peter Rabbit, that follows Peter Rabbit, a mischievo ... |
John Adams | ... of foreign debt payments. Even comparatively conservative commentators like | observed that these levies were "heavier than the People could bear. |
John Lydgate | ... s Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – | – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Me ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... hapter 31 of Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , Ullr is referred to as a son of Sif (with a father unrecorded in survivi ... |
Florence Turner | Griffith had intended to give the part to Biograph's leading lady, | , but Lawrence managed to convince Solter and Griffith that she was the be ... |
C. L. R. James | ... Indian songs, and epitomised an event that historian and cricket enthusiast | defined as crucial to West Indian post-colonial societies. The song, later ... |
Sophocles | ... icles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and | . He gradually acquired such a high reputation that in 1892 he was offered ... |
Geoffrey Perkins | ... sounding nature, but also for the fact that it had a banjo in it, which, as | recalls, Adams said would give it an "on the road, hitch-hiking feel. |
King Philip II's | ... y, the Knights Hospitaller based in Malta, and others, under the command of | illegitimate half brother, John of Austria) that defeated the Ottoman flee ... |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... when he was collector of Thrissur district. He is also known as the second | of Thrissur by shifting the Municipal Stand near the M.O. Road to Shaktan ... |
Cameron Crowe | ... alongside Orlando Bloom, in Elizabethtown, a movie written and directed by | . The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival. Dunst revealed tha ... |
Pierre Corneille | ... d himself compared constantly with his contemporaries, especially the great | . In his own plays, Racine sought to abandon the ornate and almost otherwo ... |
Edward III | ... Tower and release the prisoners held there. For three years he ruled while | was too young to do so himself; in 1330, Edward and his supporters capture ... |
Scheherazade | ... rated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by | . In most of Scheherazade's narrations there are also stories narrated, an ... |
Jay McInerney | ... ays Blair in the 1987 film adaptation of Less Than Zero. Allison Poole from | 's 1988 novel Story of My Life appears as a torture victim of Patrick's. 1 ... |
Carl Barks | Sir Stuft McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by | and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree |
Lorenzo Mattotti | ... Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, Terry Moore, Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, | , Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, ... |
Cyprian Norwid | ... stic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, | , and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the occupied and repressed Poland, some ... |
Alexander Pope | ... replaced, the well-known formal gardens of England which were criticized by | and others from the 1710s. Starting in 1719, William Kent replaced these w ... |
Princess Alexandra of Kent | ... Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (his maternal granduncle) | ;(his 1st cousin once removed); the Earl of Euston; the Lord Elphinstone ( ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | 's final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the spring 1865. Here the ... |
Chuck Dixon | A three-part comic-book adaptation with script by | and Sean Deming and illustrated by David Wenzel was published by Eclipse C ... |
Joshua Reynolds | ... d Raphael and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir | . Their approach was to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, an ... |
Don Rosa | Sir Donald McDuck is mentioned in "The History of The Clan McDuck" by | , a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it nev ... |
Donald Bellisario | ... 1989 to May 5, 1993, for a total of five seasons. The series was created by | , and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist from six years ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... He had a cameo in the opening scene of , playing a driver whose passenger ( | ) has a shocking secret. In James L. Brooks's hit Broadcast News (1987), A ... |
Aristotle | ... e critics insisted on judging him according to the traditional standards of | and his Italian commentators from which he tended to stray. Attitudes shif ... |
Harry Solter | ... films directed by Griffith in 1908. Toward the end of 1908 Lawrence married | |
Alpha Oumar Konaré | ... t, National Assembly, and municipal councils were elected. On June 8, 1992, | , the candidate of ADEMA, was inaugurated as the president of Mali's Third ... |
Hannah More | ... atest refinement in Brown's landscapes. At Hampton Court, Brown encountered | in 1782 and described his "grammatical" manner in her literary terms: "'No ... |
James Madison | ... esolutions. Though the resolutions followed the "interposition" approach of | , Jefferson advocated nullification and at one point drafted a threat for ... |
Jared Leto | Between 2006 and 2007, he replaced | in Awake, with Jessica Alba, which tells the story of a man who remains aw ... |
Pierre Berton | Noted Canadian author | once wrote: "In so many ways the story of Tim Hortons is the essential Can ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... lm, and saw Schwarzenegger, reunited with James Cameron, appearing opposite | |
Emperor Yingzong of Song | In 1064, Sima presented to | a book of five volumes , the Liniantu (歷年圖 "Chart of Successive Years"). I ... |
Michelangelo | ... c approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and | and the formal training regime introduced by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Their ap ... |
Dennis Potter | ... nnaît la chanson (Same Old Song) (1997), his tribute to television works of | , the characters express their key emotions or private thoughts by burstin ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... Aaliyah's "girlish, breathy vocals rode calmly on R. Kelly's rough beats". | of Allmusic felt that the album had its "share of filler", but described t ... |
Ming | ... emi-legendary account of an embassy sent to the West by the Chinese Emperor | (58–75 CE). Extensive contacts however started in the 2nd century CE, prob ... |
Don Rosa | ... in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in | 's Duck Family Tree |
Barack Obama | ... y won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate | won by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47% |
Henry the Fowler | ... ford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader Widukind. In Herford she met | , who later became king of Germany |
John McCain | ... party's electors since 1912. Although Texas as a whole voted for Republican | in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama won 33,435 votes ... |
James L. Brooks | ... , playing a driver whose passenger (Dan Aykroyd) has a shocking secret. In | 's hit Broadcast News (1987), Albert Brooks was nominated for an Academy A ... |
Leonard Smithers | ... ssed, his reputation destroyed in England. In 1898, when no-one else would, | agreed with Wilde to publish the two final plays. Wilde proved to be a dil ... |
Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
Dick Bruna | The Dutch artist | , creator of Miffy, has suggested that Hello Kitty is a copy of Miffy (in ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In 1894 | published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ... |
James II of Scotland | ... mer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440. His temper while playing golf resulted in | outlawing the sport |
Charles I | In 1649, the English Civil War raged and King | was beheaded in Whitehall, London. The execution resulted in the outbreak ... |
Sri Aurobindo | ... n Tagen, Stockhausen had read a biography by Satprem about the Bengali guru | (Guerreri 2009), and subsequently he also read many of the published writi ... |
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James K. Polk | ... Place is named after North Carolina native and university alumnus President | , and McCorkle Place is named in honor of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, the or ... |
James Buchanan | ... idge. The county was originally named Buchanan County, after U.S. President | , but was renamed in 1861 for Alexander H. Stephens, the vice president of ... |
Bertrand Tavernier | ... d developed after a series of discussions Wenders had with French filmmaker | , Until the End of the World is Wenders' most ambitious film. Filmed in 15 ... |
H. P. Lovecraft | ... on the Roof called A Shoggoth on the Roof, which incorporates the works of | . In the film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), parodies "Matchmaker" |
Robert Stigwood | Producer | said in a recent interview on "The Inside Story: Saturday Night Fever", ab ... |
George W. Bush | ... between its north and south. While the north (Oak Harbor) is conservative - | received almost 65 percent of the 2004 vote and carried all precincts - al ... |
Princess Beatrice | ... itish or Commonwealth realms monarch since Queen Victoria's youngest child, | , was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter Bea ... |
Isaac Stevens | ... ly formed Washington Territorial Government and signed into law by Governor | |
Robert Lepage | ... n the April 2011 production of Die Walküre. The staging of Das Rheingold by | involved 24 identical wedges able to rotate independently on a horizontal ... |
Alan Moore | Arkham Asylum also features in other DC Universe publications. In | 's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by ... |
Jeanne Moreau | ... er has been filming his extended family to bring home to his blind mother ( | ) |
Garry Wills | ... d measures as inimical as the Alien and Sedition Acts themselves. Historian | argued "Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have ... |
Louis MacNeice | ... – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – | – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William ... |
Andrei Bely | ... cians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, | , Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma La ... |
Barack Obama | ... oted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | won 33,435 votes (71 percent) of the ballots in Webb County. McCain was a ... |
Antonia Fraser | ... itle character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette. Adapted from | 's book , the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola. The mov ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... s is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and a Commonwealth realm with | as head of state (represented by a Governor-General) |
Romano Scarpa | ... nastia dei paperi (History and glory of the Duck Dynasty) by Guido Martina, | , Giorgio Cavazzano and Giovan Battista Carpi, first published between Apr ... |
Emperor Shenzong of Song | ... n 1067, Sima was invited to the palace to introduce his work in progress to | . The new emperor not only confirmed the interest his father had shown, bu ... |
Gwen Ifill | ... anson. She appeared on Saturday Night Live on October 4, 2008, as moderator | impersonator in a comedic sketch depicting the recent vice-presidential de ... |
Neil Gaiman | In by | , the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storyte ... |
Richard Ellmann | ... insisting that a playbill from the first performance be reproduced inside. | argues that the proofs show a man "very much in command of himself and of ... |
John Ruskin | ... ex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art. The eminent critic | later wrote |
Owain Glyndŵr | One famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 when | fought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas. He strategically placed ... |
Ray Lyman Wilbur | ... years earlier Ely had been executive assistant to Secretary of the Interior | during the Hoover administration, and by 1950 headed a prominent law firm ... |
Al Pacino | ... n Wings of Courage, a 3D IMAX film, and that same year, he starred opposite | and Robert De Niro in Heat, which is now considered one of the best crime/ ... |
Tony Cozier | ... er recorded by Lord Beginner, is rarely credited to Lord Kitchener although | and many who attended the Test at The Oval can attest that it was a Kitch ... |
President of the United States | ... of the United States twice, in Advise & Consent and The Man, as well as the | in the made-for-TV Earth II |
Don Rosa | Sir Simon McDuck is mentioned in A Letter From Home by | . According to his tombstone he lived from 1437 to 1509. He was treasurer ... |
Saul Bellow | ... ists and musicians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate | , Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laure ... |
Pierre de Nolhac | | arrived at the Palace of Versailles in 1887 and was appointed curator of t ... |
Dave McKean | ... erry Moore, Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, | , Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston ... |
Beatrice | ... trice, was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter | ). As the child of the sovereign, Prince Andrew was styled from birth as H ... |
Andrew Marvell | ... – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – | – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin M ... |
Osama bin Laden | The media focused on a large computer simulation of a former hideout of | by Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, as well as the fact that one of their exh ... |
Jean de La Fontaine | ... n French history. This period saw the rise of literary giants like Molière, | , Boileau, and François de La Rochefoucauld as well as Louis Le Vau's hist ... |
Norman Thomas | ACLU leadership was split on whether to purge its leadership of communists. | , John Haynes Holmes, and Morris Ernst were anti-communists who wanted to ... |
King Charles I | ... in earnest during the 1630s by the various investors who had contracts with | to do so. The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, w ... |
Giovan Battista Carpi | ... of the Duck Dynasty) by Guido Martina, Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano and | , first published between April 5, 1970 and May 24, 1970 |
Nas | ... with hardcore rappers such as the Wu-Tang Clan and gangsta rappers such as | and The Notorious B.I.G coming to dominate the East Coast scene |
Aurangzeb | The Mughal power in northern India had been declining since the reign of | , who died in 1707; In 1751-52, Ahamdiya treaty was signed between the Mar ... |
Sarah Ferguson | In 1986, Prince Andrew married | ; the couple's marriage, subsequent separation and eventual divorce in 199 ... |
Eysteinn Valdason | Three skaldic poems, Þórsdrápa, Haustlöng and a fragment by | , refer to Thor as Ullr's stepfather, confirming Snorri's information |
Jill Eisenstadt | ... ture novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and | . In Tartt's The Secret History (1992), her version of Bennington is given ... |
Sue Townsend | In | 's , Adrian writes a book entitled Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland, in w ... |
President of Uzbekistan | ... zbekistan take place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the | is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised ... |
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 ... |
Rupert N. Richardson | ... ander H. Stephens, the vice president of the Confederate States of America. | , the Texas historian who later served as president of Hardin-Simmons Univ ... |
Owen Barfield | ... er Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, | , Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and Albert Schweitzer, ... |
BBC Radio 2 | ... ebrating the 25th anniversary of Machine Gun Etiquette. On 21 October 2006, | broadcast an hour-long documentary titled Is She Really Going Out With Him ... |
Robert May | ... s. The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the English biologist | , in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic e ... |
Tony DiTerlizzi | ... Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, Terry Moore, | , Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, ... |
William Bell Scott | ... (1849) and Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850) both portray Mary as a teenage girl. | saw Girlhood in progress in Hunt's studio and remarked on young Rossetti's ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... years, Rossetti worked on English translations of Italian poetry including | 's La Vita Nuova (published as The Early Italian Poets in 1861). These and ... |
Viktor Rydberg | In | 's idiosyncratic Teutonic Mythology Ullr is the son of Sif and Egill-Örvan ... |
Carlo Collodi | In 1883 | wrote his puppet story, The Adventures of Pinocchio as a first Italian fan ... |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... e greatest Polish literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets | , Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the o ... |
George W. Bush | ... e Jeremy Deller won the prize with his film Memory Bucket, documenting both | 's hometown Crawford, Texas – and the siege in nearby Waco. The prize mone ... |
Magnus the Good | ... ising the Baltic. As a reprisal, in 1043 it was attacked by the Danish king | |
the 'last' Tasmanian Aboriginal | ... albums chart. The single "Truganini" referenced multiple issues, including | , the treatment of indigenous artist Albert Namatjira, the Australian flag ... |
The Duke of Edinburgh | ... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and | , and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... Gun director Tony Scott to play Elvis in True Romance, which was written by | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e, has been associated with the Democratic Party since the 1932 campaign of | . Since the 1950s, however, music has declined in importance in politics, ... |
Selma Lagerlöf | ... ndrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates | and Albert Schweitzer, Andrei Tarkovsky Bruno Walter, and Alternative Nobe ... |
The Queen | ... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of | and The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ... |
Philip K. Dick | In | 's novel The Man in the High Castle, each character comes into interaction ... |
Elizabeth Siddal | In 1850, Rossetti met | , an important early model for the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Over the next ... |
Philip Larkin | ... el Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – | – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... District Attorney, and ran unopposed in 2005. Although Suffolk voters gave | a victory here in 1992, the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and cont ... |
Chrissie Hynde | ... uring interviews with James, Sensible, Scabies, Glen Matlock, Don Letts and | , the programme gave some new insights into the bands and personalities ar ... |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ... n Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – | – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masef ... |
Matt Damon | ... delabra to air on its network. Michael Douglas is to star as Liberace, with | playing Scott Thorson, in a story centered on a relationship the two share ... |
William Shatner | ... Chair". In the Family Guy episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" (2003), | is depicted as playing Tevye in a scene from Fiddler. The second episode o ... |
Leibniz | ... rs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu. | , echoing the prevailing perception in Europe until the Industrial Revolut ... |
Charlemagne | The town was founded in 789 by | in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre river. A century later, ... |
Michael Jackson | ... 2008 and singing "I'll Be Seeing You" during the montage. Latifah spoke at | 's memorial service in Los Angeles. She also hosted the 2010 People's Choi ... |
Richie Unterberger | ... ago. But it is there and unignorable." When it finally saw in 1998, critic | declared the record "an important document of rock history. |
Dion Boucicault | ... yn, New York acting as Moya, an Irish peasant girl in a one-reel version of | 's The Shaughraun |
U.S. President | ... inent. In recognition of its support for the War on Terrorism, in June 2004 | George W. Bush designated Morocco as a major non-NATO ally |
Alan Ayckbourn | ... diptych of Smoking/No Smoking (1993): Resnais, having admired the plays of | for many years, chose to adapt what appeared the most intractable of them, ... |
Bill Clinton | ... voters gave George H. W. Bush a victory here in 1992, the county voted for | in 1996 and continued the trend by giving Al Gore an 11-percent victory in ... |
The Duke of Gloucester | ... en Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: | (his maternal granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once ... |
George W. Bush | ... f that group's votes. In Webb County, Kerry received 23,654 (57 percent) to | 's 17,753 (42 percent). Nearly 57,000 registered voters in Webb County did ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... of Warner Bros.' biggest stars, Jane Wyman, with the sultry German actress | . Hitchcock used a number of prominent British actors, including Michael W ... |
Carl Barks | ... of Baghdad). The latter was featured in the story King Scrooge the First by | and Tony Strobl, first published in October, 1967, as the earliest known a ... |
Don Letts | ... nk scene. Featuring interviews with James, Sensible, Scabies, Glen Matlock, | and Chrissie Hynde, the programme gave some new insights into the bands an ... |
King George II | Created by Royal Charter of | , "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ... |
Harry Solter | Also at Vitagraph was a young actor, | , who was looking for 'a young, beautiful equestrian girl' to star in a fi ... |
Patricia Highsmith | With the film Strangers on a Train (1951), based on the novel by | , Hitchcock combined many elements from his preceding films. He approached ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... mies of the Visconti in Pisa soon removed the last judge, Nino, a friend of | , in 1288 |
Edward I of England | ... e battlefields of France and Scotland. Their skill was exercised under King | (r. 1272–1307), who banned all sports but archery at the butts on Sundays, ... |
Margit Sandemo | ... ter, no reason was given. Anders was the father of Norwegian-Swedish author | . Audun Thorsen has written a book about Bjørnson's affair; "Bjørnsons kvi ... |
Patti Smith | ... s asking various recording artists—Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, | , Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc.—for music t ... |
David Letterman | ... band made appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with | , Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, and TRL with Carson Da ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | In 1883 | wrote the classic pirate adventure novel Treasure Island. Traditionally co ... |
Dennis O'Neil | Arkham Asylum first appeared in 1974, in Batman #258 by | . In this story, it is named as "Arkham Hospital", although it is not clea ... |
Emma Peel | New female partner Mrs. | (Diana Rigg) debuted in this series, in October 1965. The name of the char ... |
George Washington | ... 1784, the name "Charlotte County" was changed to Washington County to honor | , the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United ... |
Tom Holt | ... bers of the audience to participate as Valkyries and as Gunther's vassals). | 's 1982 humorous fantasy novel, Expecting Someone Taller, includes many of ... |
Steven Soderbergh | ... Palm Springs during the summer of 2012. The production is to be directed by | with screenplay by Richard LaGravenese based on Thorson's book . The score ... |
Euripides | ... minated. The mangled Hippolyte is not brought back, as is the Hippolytus of | . The one exception to this is that Atalide stabs herself before the audie ... |
Juliusz Słowacki | ... literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, | , Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the occupied and repres ... |
Al Gore | ... the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and continued the trend by giving | an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate Joh ... |
Charles I | ... l Assemblies, moreover, met only at times and places approved by the crown. | inherited a settlement in Scotland based on a balanced compromise between ... |
Richard LaGravenese | ... 2. The production is to be directed by Steven Soderbergh with screenplay by | based on Thorson's book . The score will be by |
Robert Lansing | On October 5, Secretary of State | was the first official to propose that Marshall forcibly assume the presid ... |
Richard Owen Cambridge | ... e compositions of grass, tree clumps and rather shapeless pools and lakes". | , the English poet and satirical author, declared that he hoped to die bef ... |
William Morris | ... MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – | – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love P ... |
Jean Anouilh | ... thus the play is commonly known as De l'importance d'être Constant, though | translated the play under the title: Il est important d'être Aimé ("" is a ... |
Gladys Knight | ... uncle, Barry Hankerson, was an entertainment lawyer who had been married to | . As a child, Aaliyah traveled with Knight and worked with an agent in New ... |
Mary Mapes Dodge | Also in 1865, | published Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the story of a Dutch boy who ... |
Stephen R. Donaldson | ... the characters of Wagner's operas, and features the Ring and the Tarnhelm. | 's science-fiction space opera series The Gap Cycle also shares elements w ... |
H. P. Lovecraft | ... d domination per se, but he is a friend of Hastur and Cthulhu (based on the | Mythos characters). He was hired in September 2000 and he had formerly wor ... |
Queen Elizabeth | ... ." The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court of | to develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish s ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... gs, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and | ) and Richard Tarnas |
Philip K. Dick | ... , and was a science fiction script directed by Paul Verhoeven, based on the | short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Kindergarten Cop (199 ... |
William Allingham | ... illustration was "The Maids of Elfen-Mere" (1855), for a poem by his friend | , and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of A ... |
Mark Crilley | ... rri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, | , Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, Terry Moo ... |
Mae West | ... hom he claimed he nearly married), skater Sonja Henie, aging Hollywood icon | , and famous transsexual Christine Jorgenson. Many publicity releases and ... |
Robert F. Wagner | Senator | proposed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, which empowered workers ... |
Boccaccio | ... ubtless intended that they should be to Spanish nearly what the novellas of | were to Italians. Some are mere anecdotes, some are romances in miniature, ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... e declaration, Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, with | of Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independe ... |
Dolly Parton | ... wood. Latifah hosted the 2010 BET Awards on June 27, 2010. She starred with | in (2012) |
Carl Barks | ... s Scrooge McDuck's uncle. He was mentioned in "The Great Steamboat Race" by | and later appeared in person in a handful of stories by Don Rosa |
Johanna Spyri | In 1880 | (1827–1901) published Heidi (1880) in Switzerland. The subtitle declared t ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... ham, and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of | 's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister Christina Rosset ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | | 's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1937-1949) shares elements with De ... |
William Byrd | In 1728, | headed an expedition sent to determine the true boundary between Virginia ... |
Floyd Little | ... er of movies, the first African American Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis, | , who played for the Denver Broncos, and Kyle Johnson, who played majority ... |
Nick Cave | ... —Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, | , Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc.—for music to be used in the film; specifica ... |
Magic Johnson | ... y Guggenheim CEO Mark Walter and including former Los Angeles Lakers player | , baseball executive Stan Kasten and film mogul Peter Guber, was announced ... |
Don Rosa | ... Race" by Carl Barks and later appeared in person in a handful of stories by | |
Christina Rossetti | ... red, Lord Tennyson's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister | |
Ibrahim Nasir | In 1957, however, the new prime minister, | , called for a review of the agreement in the interest of shortening the l ... |
Ivar Aasen | ... of the farmers at this point. Although he seems to have been supportive of | and friendly towards farmers (in the peasant-novels), he later denounced t ... |
Alexander Esenin-Volpin | ... mathematicians accept the reality of countably infinite sets (however, see | for a counter-example) |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... oligarchies, in part through miscegenation with the local elites. In 1532, | imposed a vice-king to Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, in order to prevent Cor ... |
King Charles II | In 1670 | granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ... |
President Johnson | ... ski notes: “It was significant that, in contrast to his secretary of state, | fully accepted the Israeli version of the tragic incident.” He notes that ... |
John Dickinson | ... Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independence. | made one last effort to delay the decision, arguing that Congress should n ... |
Jonathan Lethem | ... nington College, which Ellis himself attended, where he met future novelist | and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt's ... |
Ludwig I | ... ll his death as a model constitutional monarch. On 13 October 1825, his son | succeeded him |
Richard Tarnas | ... up of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis) and | |
Doug Moench | # Issue 78, "The Day of the Sword", Roy Thomas/ | (w), Howard Chaykin (layouts) Dick Giordano/Terry Austin (a). (Origin re-d ... |
Edwin Muir | ... Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – | – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – Geor ... |
Joseph Mundassery | ... m Chembukavu.Government Engineering College, Thrissur, is another gift from | , the controversial former education minister who introduced Kerala Educat ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President | |
Jane Siberry | ... E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, | , etc.—for music to be used in the film; specifically for the music that t ... |
Stan Kasten | ... ncluding former Los Angeles Lakers player Magic Johnson, baseball executive | and film mogul Peter Guber, was announced on March 27, 2012. The total sal ... |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by | . This film was a critical and box office failure, but the soundtrack reco ... |
Howard Chaykin | # Issue 78, "The Day of the Sword", Roy Thomas/Doug Moench (w), | (layouts) Dick Giordano/Terry Austin (a). (Origin re-drawn). (Reprint from ... |
Samuel Chase | ... , all appointed by Washington. Many of them, particularly Associate Justice | , were openly hostile to the Federalists' opponents. Individual Supreme Co ... |
Brian Clemens | ... were auditioned before the show's casting director suggested that producers | and Albert Fennell check out a televised drama featuring the relatively un ... |
Harvey Fierstein | ... e tour in November 2009 due to torn muscles in his arms. He was replaced by | |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ... |
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 ... |
Lars von Trier | ... ived reasonable reviews, and earned $640 thousand worldwide. Dunst stars in | 's science-fiction film Melancholia as a depressed woman at the end of the ... |
Ron Sexsmith | ... Hawkwind, Half Man Half Biscuit, John Martyn, Ocean Colour Scene, The Beat, | , Suzi Quatro, Saxon, and The Beat have performed |
Bill Moore | More prosaically, Clark cites | , who asserts that "the Men in Black are really government agents in disgu ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... provide entertainment at political functions. The presidential campaign of | was the first to greatly benefit from music, after which it became standar ... |
Richard II | When | was crowned in 1377, he led a procession from the Tower to Westminster Abb ... |
Henry Newbolt | ... hn Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – | – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexa ... |
Robert Morris | ... n and voted for independence. In the Pennsylvania delegation, Dickinson and | abstained, allowing the delegation to vote three-to-two in favor of indepe ... |
Gregory Peck | ... red psychoanalysis and featured a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí. | plays amnesiac Dr. Anthony Edwardes under the treatment of analyst Dr. Pet ... |
William Morris | His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired | and Edward Burne-Jones. Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti perso ... |
Kaiser | ... became one of the most prominent critics of German expansionism and of the | 's war policies. He publicly attacked the Belgian annexation policy and un ... |
Émile Zola | ... itional acceptance and integration of the Jews in Europe. He also supported | 's position in the Dreyfus affair |
Warren G. Harding | ... evelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of | and Calvin Coolidge. On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge i ... |
Joel Chandler Harris | In 1881 | (1845–1908) published Uncle Remus, a collection of stories narrated by the ... |
Horace | ... l studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as | , Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acqui ... |
Donna Tartt | ... where he met future novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers | and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt's The Secret History (1992), her version of ... |
Shakespeare | ... s in English, made by Thomas Shelton in 1608, but not published until 1612. | had evidently read Don Quixote, but it is most unlikely that Cervantes had ... |
John McCain | ... ama received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican | , who received 48.7% of the vote (487 ballots), with 83.4% of registered v ... |
Richard Matheson | ... lm works was the music to The Omega Man, based upon the book I Am Legend by | and starring Charlton Heston. The soundtrack was not released on CD until ... |
Atahualpa | ... tage of a recent civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor | and Huáscar, and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated ... |
Michael Jackson | ... to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the memorial service for | in July 2009 |
John Travolta | Tony Manero ( | ) is a skirt-chasing Italian American from the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn neighbo ... |
Jill Thompson | ... e illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, | , Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael ... |
Moses | ... tral part of the curricula of Waldorf schools, in particular the history of | and the establishment of the Land of Israel. A number of early anthroposop ... |
Lynn Barber | ... mation Act, The Sunday Telegraph obtained emails between the Tate and judge | , which revealed that the judges had been sent a list of shows by artists ... |
Maya Angelou | Latifah was asked by | , who was unable to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the mem ... |
William Bell Scott | In February 1857, Rossetti wrote to | |
Eoin Colfer | It was announced on 17 September 2008 that Artemis Fowl author | had been commissioned to write the sixth instalment entitled And Another T ... |
Henry Ford | ... (NLRB) posed a dilemma for the ACLU, because in 1937 it issued an order to | , prohibiting Ford from disseminating anti-union literature. Part of the A ... |
Maximilian II | ... ng the force of public opinion against him, abdicated in favour of his son, | |
Larry McMurtry | Glasgow is mentioned in the novel Boone's Lick by | . The Cecil family stops journeys from Boone's Lick by wagon to meet a fla ... |
Henry de Monfreid | ... and spearheads made of stingray stingers, used in Micronesia and elsewhere. | stated in his books that before World War II, in the Horn of Africa, whips ... |
John Masefield | ... Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – | – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbo ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... t, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and | . On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge in which he offered ... |
Salvator Rosa | ... for in an ideal landscape, where the painterly inspiration would come from | rather than Claude Lorrain. During the nineteenth century he was widely cr ... |
Henrik Wergeland | From his youth and forwards, Bjørnson admired | , and became a vivid spokesman for the Norwegian Left-wing movement. In th ... |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... as in the security of the Tower rather than Windsor as was more usual. When | returned from exile in 1399, Richard was imprisoned in the White Tower. He ... |
Paul Jenkins | ... on the book to date. Other writers who have written for the series include | , Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President | . Over the following days, they would reached the present sites of Kelso a ... |
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty | ... city had been a breeding ground of famous politicians and bureaucrats like | , P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai ... |
John Adams | ... s down in those communities in September and October. James Warren wrote to | on October 22, "We are now in a state of Anarchy and Confusion bordering o ... |
Jim Morrison | ... he band of the same name. Kilmer memorized the lyrics to all of lead singer | 's songs prior to his audition, and sent a video of himself performing som ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... er Chiang Ching-kuo. The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, | , which culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. ... |
Huáscar | ... nt civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor Atahualpa and | , and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated, such as t ... |
Oliver Parker | ... ted a version using an all black cast, set in the United States of America. | , an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, mad ... |
Fidel Castro | ... had joined the FBI and in the 1960s had contracted to the CIA to eliminate | using Mafia bosses Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. In late 1971, the P ... |
Paul Chadwick | ... y William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, | , P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mu ... |
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother | The Comet was a hit with passengers including | and Princess Margaret, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 ... |
Chen Shui-bian | ... culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. In 2000, | was elected the president, becoming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. ... |
Lewis Carroll | In 1865 | (1832–1898) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in England. The tal ... |
Alice Meynell | ... n Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – | – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noye ... |
Shintaro Tsuji | In 1962, | , founder of Sanrio, began selling rubber sandals with flowers painted on ... |
Ivar Aasen | ... okesman for the Norwegian Left-wing movement. In this respect, he supported | , and joined forces in the political struggles in the 1860s and -70s. When ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President | on 25 July 2006 |
Ovid | ... tly and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, | , Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high re ... |
Louis Marshall | ... at Syracuse University, under the leadership of Syracuse University Trustee | , with the active support of Syracuse University Chancellor Day. Its found ... |
Princess Margaret | ... t was a hit with passengers including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and | , who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 hosted by Sir Geoffr ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ummit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between United States President | , Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Ya ... |
Charles I | ... f Arms Hotel. The hotel was built by Sir Thomas Morgan, during the reign of | . Cardiff Arms Park was named after this hotel. From 1803, the Cardiff Arm ... |
Arthur Garfield Hays | ... on. But part of the ACLU supported Ford's right to free speech. ACLU leader | proposed a compromise (supporting the auto workers union, yet also endorsi ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Valley Days under the title Trails West; the series' original host had been | . He also turned in an appearance as a hand surgeon in the Night Gallery e ... |
Samuel Adams | ... ommanded the legislature to "vindicate the insulted dignity of government." | claimed that foreigners ("British emissaries") were instigating treason am ... |
Dan Savage | ... so long," he clarifies. "But I still use it, I still say it." Responding to | 's It Gets Better campaign, aimed at preventing suicide among LGBT youth, ... |
Julian Lennon | ... ings Castle and released the environmental charity single with her cover of | 's song "Saltwater". All the money from this single went to charity. In 19 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
H. P. Lovecraft | ... recent comic books have featured Jeremiah Arkham. Inspired by the works of | , and in particular his fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, the asylu ... |
David Lee Roth | ... itar player to record the parts. He eventually found former Frank Zappa and | guitar player Steve Vai, whom Coverdale had seen in the 1986 film Crossroa ... |
Colin Firth | ... had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002; it stars | (Jack), Rupert Everett (Algy), Dame Judi Dench (Lady Bracknell), Reese Wit ... |
George Washington | ... he site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads. | was served breakfast at Dobson's tavern on June 2, 1791. Joseph Kerner bou ... |
Adolf Hitler | In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and | labelled Anthroposophy "Jewish methods." The anthroposophical institutions ... |
Alexander the Great | ... the Achaemenid Persian Empire until the fall of the Empire in c. 333 BCE to | . The period under Persian rule after the construction of the second Templ ... |
Julie Andrews | ... ext Broadway production was Camelot. The production starred Richard Burton, | and Robert Goulet.The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few ... |
Henry V | ... pped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. The reign of | (1413–1422) renewed England's fortune in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ... |
John Ruskin | ... ch were called later the third and fourth "Mycenaean"; but these, bought by | , and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they de ... |
Diocletian | Under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor | in 296 AD, Lydia was revived as the name of a separate Roman province, muc ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... court cases and established new civil liberties. One such defendant was the | , who were involved in a large number of Supreme Court cases. Cases that t ... |
Aeschylus | ... d published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, | , Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high reputation th ... |
John Lott | ... he authors find a slight Democratic lead in the average endorsement choice. | and Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute study the coverage ... |
Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
Humphry Davy | Clathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir | |
William Shakespeare | As regards the unity of action, Racine differs sharply from | in excluding minor plots (compare the parallel themes of blind and unnatur ... |
Simon Pegg | In 2008, Dunst starred alongside | in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, an adaptation of the memoir of ... |
Margaret Roper | ... hurch in Canterbury, possesses More's head, rescued by his beloved daughter | . This is sealed in the Roper family vault beneath the altar of the Nichol ... |
Ma Ying-jeou | ... oming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. The 2008 election of President | marked the second peaceful transfer of power, this time back to the KMT |
P. Craig Russell | ... , Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, | , Mark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snelli ... |
Bud Selig | | , the Commissioner of Baseball, announced on April 20, 2011, that MLB woul ... |
Yasser Arafat | ... nton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman | . Ultimately, it was an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a "final status ... |
George W. Bush | In late 2005 President | visited Kernersville's Deere-Hitachi plant to give a speech about the Amer ... |
James Madison | Jefferson and | also secretly drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions denouncing the ... |
Islam Karimov | ... ratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU), but the party leadership, under President | , remained in place. Independence brought a series of institutional change ... |
Dennis O'Neil | ... ular his fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, the asylum was created by | and first appeared in Batman #258 (October 1974); much of its back-story w ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | to cut Robert E. Lee's final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the sp ... |
Toby Young | ... on of the memoir of the same name by former Vanity Fair contributing editor | . After she signed on to the film, she revealed that she had joined the pr ... |
Harold Monro | ... . Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – | – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owe ... |
Frederick William IV | ... my, not Austria. In refusing to agree to the offer of the imperial crown to | , Maximilian had the support of his parliament. In withholding his assent ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... nd they wanted Hello Kitty to be different. Shimizu got the name Kitty from | 's Through the Looking-Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice pla ... |
George Lucas | ... ng as Anakin Skywalker in the next two prequels (2002) and (2005). Director | had turned down such big names as Leonardo DiCaprio and Ryan Phillipe for ... |
Rupert Everett | ... ted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002; it stars Colin Firth (Jack), | (Algy), Dame Judi Dench (Lady Bracknell), Reese Witherspoon (Cecily), Fran ... |
Joseph Mundassery | ... s like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, | , Vinod Rai etc. after the independence. These individuals have changed th ... |
Christopher Wren | ... ry tilt yard tower — the only surviving example of the five original towers | ;'s Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-ce ... |
Euripides | ... scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, | and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high reputation that in 1892 h ... |
August Wilhelm Schlegel | ... amous thinkers that were faculty at the University of Bonn include the poet | , the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and Jos ... |
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford | ... irst as Souhegan East, then as Bedford in 1750. The town was named for Lord | , Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1748–1751), and a close ... |
Rosie O'Donnell | ... y Fierstein, starred as Tevye, and Randy Graff, and later Andrea Martin and | , was Golde. This production replaced Yente's song "The Rumor" with a song ... |
George Soros | ... Hong Kong dollar in August 1998 and after the Russian ruble collapsed. (See | |
John Lloyd | ... t episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by | . In 2000 the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the "1 ... |
Peter O'Malley | ... ayers from Asia; mainly, Japan, Korea, Iran, Iraq, and Taiwan. Former owner | began reaching out in 1980 by starting clinics in China and Korea, buildin ... |
Bob Dylan | ... sts were fundamental to The Band's existence and growth: Ronnie Hawkins and | . Other guests they admired (and in most cases had worked with before) inc ... |
Dolly Parton | ... r his album "Duets II". In January 2012, while appearing on 106 & Park with | , to promote Joyful Noise, Latifah stated that she had been working on a n ... |
Sun Tzu | ... ive development in martial philosophy and strategy emerged, as described by | in The Art of War (c. 350 BC) |
Julius Caesar | ... II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul | (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this w ... |
Leslie Phillips | ... Blofeld and Fred Trueman as themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, | as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole, Sir Patrick Moore as hims ... |
Jeremy Clarkson | ... rms "Little Englanders". His critical targets also include celebrity chefs, | , Vanessa Feltz and, especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous criti ... |
King George III | ... me a member of the Company of Surgeons. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon to | |
Donald Knuth | In Introduction to MMIX, | proposed that this unit be called a large kilobyte (abbreviated KKB). Othe ... |
Roger Penrose | ... created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematician | independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "i ... |
Dave Barry | The Hawley-Smoot Tariff appears repeatedly in | 's because, "We think it has a wonderful ring to it, and we just like to s ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... Aurum Solis, Ragon, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, | , and Arthur Machen. Many Hermetic, or Hermetically influenced, groups exi ... |
Flaubert | ... nd Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, | , Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... c attention. This culminated at the Cronkite's Universe talk show hosted by | in New York in 1981, where Leakey and Johanson held a fierce debate on liv ... |
Quentin Tarantino | In the | film Inglourious Basterds, the Nazi-Propaganda film Nation's Pride is dire ... |
Juan Diego Solanas | ... ndry's upcoming biographical film about the band. Dunst is due to appear in | ' science fiction-romance film Upside Down co-starring Jim Sturgess. Dunst ... |
John James Audubon | ... ted States during the 19th century; outstanding early practitioners include | , as well as early Hudson River School painters such as William H. Bartlet ... |
Joseph | ... João V died on July 31, 1750 in Lisbon, and was succeeded by his son Prince | |
Robert Michael Pyle | ... tories of wildmen are found on every continent except Antarctica. Ecologist | argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: "W ... |
Charles V | ... ng of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the emperor | obtained the help of the duke during the war of the league of Schmalkalden ... |
Alexander Pope | ... ewbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – | – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rosset ... |
Eric Pinkett | ... ra in 1972, when Symphonies Nos. 10 and 21, conducted by James Loughran and | respectively, were recorded at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester. The produc ... |
Richard Dutcher | Kilmer was in negotiations with | (a leading director of Mormon-related films) to play the lead role in a fi ... |
King Henry VIII | ... dover and Anne Boleyn also owned property in the same town. It is said that | made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because Boleyn' ... |
George Wythe | Wythe County was formed from Montgomery County in 1790. It was named after | , the first Virginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. During th ... |
Óengus mac Fergusa | ... ship, which had been stable for more than a hundred years since the time of | (The accession of Cináed mac Ailpín as king of both Picts and Scots can be ... |
Scott La Rock | ... ) left that element behind for political radicalism following the murder of | , with the title and cover alluding to Malcolm X. KRS-One became involved ... |
Ben Stein | ... Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former Richard Nixon speech writer | , in the role of a high school teacher, leads a class discussion about the ... |
Alexander the Great | ... scribed in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of | , and Roman consul Julius Caesar (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of R ... |
Virginia Woolf | Yourcenar's first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. She translated | 's The Waves over a 10-month period in 1937 |
Jacob Grimm | ... dern German became attached to the activities of these courts specifically. | thought that the word is identical in origin to a homophonous word for the ... |
Michael Stoyanov | ... tian, James Morrison, Gregory Itzin, Lauren Tom, Jane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, | , Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, ... |
Richard Nixon | The 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former | speech writer Ben Stein, in the role of a high school teacher, leads a cla ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... th a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president, | , and the fear of the soldiers. From 1902 till 1930, she and Matilda ran S ... |
Stanley Rous | ... rst to run the full length of the pitch. It was opened on 23 August 1961 by | , secretary of the Football Association. The 10,008 capacity all-seater st ... |
Stanley Unwin | The comedian | moved to Long Buckby in 1940 when he got a job with the British Broadcasti ... |
Peter Maas | ... United States. Valachi mentions, in the book The Valachi Papers, written by | , a certain "Sandino," as the Family counselor. The mysterious "Sandino" w ... |
Barack Obama | ... Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat | won Klickitat County over Republican by only 21 votes or percentage wise 4 ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... ntinued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President | ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and th ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... ssions. The composer showed the taste for social life and the dandyism that | emphasized in his literary portrait of Bellini (Florentinische Nächte, 183 ... |
Bram Stoker | ... a major influence on later vampire fiction, particularly Dracula (1897) by | . Many of today's standard vampire tropes originated in Varney: Varney has ... |
Francis I | ... f Dreux and of Rethel, governor of Champagne (d. 1524), who was employed by | in many diplomatic negotiations, more particularly in his intrigues to get ... |
Mark James | ... out the match. Sam Torrance branded it "disgusting," while European captain | referred to it as a "bear pit" in a book recounting the event. There were ... |
Dickens | ... elding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, | , Flaubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century work ... |
Lynne Cheney | Several CC alumni are engaged in political careers. Its graduates include | , wife of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and their two daughters, ... |
Neil Young | ... d a stellar list of guests, including other Canadian acts Joni Mitchell and | . Two of the guests were fundamental to The Band's existence and growth: R ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... f only included one small paragraph about the Liberty in his autobiography, | , Vantage Point, p.300–301 We learned that the ship had been attacked in e ... |
Donald Johanson | Leakey and | were at the time considered to be the most famous palaeoanthoropologists, ... |
King Charles I | ... med by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of | , in 1634. The county was largely composed of farms and undeveloped land u ... |
Michel Gondry | ... xpressed interest in playing the role of Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in | 's upcoming biographical film about the band. Dunst is due to appear in Ju ... |
Henry Clay | ... rinciples of 1798, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by | and John C. Calhoun |
Philip II of Macedon | ... oabite King Eglon, by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the Book of Judges. | (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesa ... |
George W. Bush | ... % of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and | all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Obama won Klickitat Coun ... |
Washington Irving | ... ted as meeting with the accused and having sexual intercourse with them. In | 's story "The Devil and Tom Walker" set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks ... |
Mary Harron | ... reen, and a starkly different Less Than Zero film was released in 1987, and | 's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive re ... |
Edith Wharton | ... England perhaps London, circa 1890, we see a man pedaling a penny-farthing. | 's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) opens with a description of a perform ... |
Michelangelo | ... ly Renaissance, the Sibyls were also represented in publicly available art. | fixed our image of the sibyls forever, in his powerful representations of ... |
Mihály Károlyi | In October 1918, | established the Hungarian Democratic Republic, and Polanyi became Secretar ... |
Lew Grade | ... ial television in the 1950s, where it was broadcast on Sunday afternoons by | 's Associated TeleVision. This exposure gave Liberace a dedicated followin ... |
Tony Shaw | The 1990 Premiership team, coached by Leigh Matthews and captained by | , had a one-sided grand final win against Essendon, the Magpies recording ... |
Al Gore | ... sage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) then-Vice President | mentioned the Smoot-Hawley tariff as a response to NAFTA objections voiced ... |
Henry IV | ... , who married Anthony de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, and became the mother of | , king of France |
Bill Clinton | ... county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, | , and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Oba ... |
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 ... |
Ferdinand | ... of opposition to the Habsburgs until in 1534 he made a treaty at Linz with | , king of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the em ... |
John Cage | ... sound of one drone could make music. Also in 1949, Pierre Boulez befriended | , who was visiting Paris to do research on the music of . John Cage had be ... |
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 ... |
Queen Mary II | ... in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for King William III and | of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in ... |
Harvey Fierstein | ... iews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre. Alfred Molina, and later | , starred as Tevye, and Randy Graff, and later Andrea Martin and Rosie O'D ... |
Grace Kelly | ... scheming villain, an ex-tennis pro who tries to murder his unfaithful wife | for her money. When she kills the hired assassin in self-defense, Milland ... |
John Ruskin | ... "The Elements of Drawing", a watercolor tutorial by the English art critic | , has been out of print only once since it was first published in 1857. Co ... |
Dirk Bogarde | ... en by David Mercer, and a distinguished cast that included John Gielgud and | . The story shows an ageing, maybe dying, novelist grappling with alternat ... |
Tina Turner | ... med. Footage from the show was used on the Delicate Sound of Thunder video. | played here in 1990 during her Foreign Affair Tour |
Bill Roy | ... ne truly enthusiastic and well-financed challenger – in 1974 by Congressman | . Much of Roy's popularity was in response to the fallout from Watergate. ... |
Mohamed Nasheed | ... r. Waheed opposed the arrest order and supported the opposition that forced | to resign. A day later, Nasheed stated that he was forced to resign at gun ... |
Joanna Lumley | ... ole of Steed, with two new partners, Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey ( | ). It aired on ITV in the UK in 1976-1977, CTV in Canada, CBS in the Unite ... |
George Melly | ... chard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèsa Oulton. The prize was presented by | |
Régis Wargnier | ... photographer in P. Pavlikovsky's movie The Stringer. The second role was in | 's movie East/West. Sergey played Sasha, the neighbour of an unlucky coupl ... |
George Peele | ... Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – | – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – ... |
Shah Alam II | ... athas under Mahadji Shinde recaptured Delhi and restored the Mughal Emperor | to the throne in 1772 |
Björn Ulvaeus | ... d radio. Subsequently, her relationship with Andersson, and friendship with | and Agnetha Fältskog led to the formation of ABBA. In 1972, after five yea ... |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... 97, Brian's 1951 opera in eight scenes The Cenci, based on the 1819 play by | , was premiered in a concert performance by the Millennium Sinfonia, condu ... |
François Rabelais | ... ic number. See, for example, the Apennine Sibyl, though sometimes, e.g. for | , ten was still the proverbial number: “How know we but that she may be an ... |
Alfred Molina | ... 2004, and ran for 36 previews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre. | , and later Harvey Fierstein, starred as Tevye, and Randy Graff, and later ... |
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 ... |
Pope Leo XIII | The Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus was eventually approved by | in 1885. St Veronica is commemorated on 12 July |
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 ... |
Stan Lee | ... e same name. Schwarzenegger inspired the character and co-developed it with | , who would have produced the series. Schwarzenegger would have voiced the ... |
Puyi | ... Mukden Incident and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with | , the last Qing emperor, installed as the nominal regent and emperor. Manc ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... to which the United States should strive. This view was notably promoted by | , who considered the Declaration to be the foundation of his political phi ... |
Hesiod | The Greek poet | , around the 8th century BCE, in his compilation of the mythological tradi ... |
Helena Charles | ... ts and politicians from a number of political parties. Its first leader was | . Its first election win came in 1953, with its members running as indepen ... |
Sterne | ... uixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, Defoe, Fielding, and | , as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flauber ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... ed the Magyars in their 915 campaign against the Duchy of Saxony under Duke | |
Francis I | ... 550 before he was born in 1553. By his wife Margaret d'Angoulême, sister of | , he had a daughter, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre, who married Anthon ... |
Albert Einstein | ... he wrote a PhD thesis on adsorption. His research, which was encouraged by | , was supervised by Gusztáv Buchböck, and in 1919 the University of Budape ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of | , addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the po ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... n the county courts of Franconia. They received their jurisdiction from the | , from whom they also received the capacity to pronounce capital punishmen ... |
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 ... |
James Monroe | ... party unity was greatly diminished and the party's organization faded away. | ran under the party's banner in the 1820 election and built support by con ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... hose involved wanted a similar framework for international trade. President | launched this process in December 1945 with negotiations for the creation ... |
Edmund Campion | ... was given Scota in marriage as a reward for his services. Writing in 1571, | named the pharaoh Amenophis; Keating named him Cincris |
King William III | ... ounty was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for | and Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of t ... |
Mary Shelley | ... im. This sub-plot has an obvious similarity to the story of Frankenstein by | and even more so, perhaps, to subsequent film adaptations of the novel (th ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... arrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), | , Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democ ... |
Marcos Pérez Jiménez | ... , though not yet cohesive. Already under the government of Division General | , the American influence (cultural, political and military) became more pr ... |
Mohamed Nasheed | | won the 2008 Presidential election, resulting in Gayoom having to step dow ... |
Biz Markie | ... rom Shanté followed: "Bite This" (1985), "Queen of Rox" (1985), introducing | on "Def Fresh Crew" (1986), "Payback" (1987), and perhaps her greatest rec ... |
Anna Komnene | ... ions about it. Again and again their historians refer to that dreadful day" | , writing a few decades after the actual battle, wrote |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ." In 1988 Michael Dukakis narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. | (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... hivists". Among this group, Avary met an odd and brilliant film enthusiast, | . The two became friends, introducing each other to their favorite films |
Isaías Medina Angarita | ... lf), were the General in Chief Eleazar López Contreras and Division General | |
Giovan Battista Carpi | ... nald Duck and the Man from the West), written by Guido Martina and drawn by | |
George W. Bush | ... ewers by television executives), the Iraq War and other foreign policies of | and Tony Blair, British cuisine, and organic farming. He supports Britain' ... |
Nicolas Roeg | ... music had been used for films previously (most notably, parts of Hymnen in | 's Walkabout in 1971), this was the first time he had been asked to provid ... |
William Worthy | ... hose to not defend him. The ACLU later reversed their stance, and supported | and Rockwell Kent in their passport confiscation cases, which resulted in ... |
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 ... |
Milton Friedman | ... of the United States' GNP and exports were only 5.0%. Monetarists, such as | , who emphasize the central role of the money supply in causing the depres ... |
Thomas Love Peacock | ... William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – | – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John ... |
Tim Holland | ... ampionship competition in backgammon was held in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1967. | was declared the winner that year and at the tournament the following year ... |
John Keel | ... ally and most frequently reported in the 1950s and 1960s, some researchers— | and others—have suggested similarities between Men in Black reports and ea ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir | |
Machiavellian | ... replacing the medieval worldview. This period saw the adoption of the very | realpolitik and the primacy of the raison d'état in international relation ... |
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh | ... ersy continued to dog the National Coalition when the President of Ireland, | , resigned in 1976 after being called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minis ... |
Anne Rice | ... k Shadows, Mick St.John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in | 's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Mar ... |
Fielding | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, Defoe, | , and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dick ... |
William V | The succeeding duke, Albert's son, | (called the Pious), had received a Jesuit education and showed keen attach ... |
George III | ... rd (1987) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of | , and finally Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) in 1917, set in the trenches of ... |
William McKinley | After the two terms of Democrat Grover Cleveland, the election of | in 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence of Republican dominance and is some ... |
Henry the Lion | ... of importance only after the division of the duchy of Saxony on the fall of | , when the archbishop of Cologne, duke of Westphalia from 1180 onwards, pl ... |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet | |
Andrew Jackson | ... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to | , a longtime political rival |
Jerome Clark | ... period since modern sightings began in 1947, but according to UFO historian | , "All MIB are not necessarily garbed in dark suits. |
Lynn Ahrens | ... erforming a cover version of "Journey to the Past" which earned songwriters | and Stephen Flaherty a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original ... |
Qin Shi Huang | ... o well known in ancient China, as in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King | (227 BC). In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, w ... |
Érimón | ... and was the wife of Míl, that is Milesius, and the mother of Éber Donn and | . Míl had given Neferhotep military aid against ancient Ethiopia and was g ... |
Giorgio Vasari | Among Bandinelli's pupils were | and Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati). His sons Clemente Bandinelli, a col ... |
Lactantius | ... Tibur or the Greek Sibyl of Cumae is not always clear. The Christian author | had no hesitation in identifying the sibyl in question as the Tiburtine si ... |
Peter Haining | ... ared in The Television Crimebusters Omnibus, a hardback anthology edited by | , first published by Orion in 1994.(This Steed and Tara story first appear ... |
Samuel Adams | ... e arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as | , James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the ... |
Roman Dmowski | ... waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with | and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist fac ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, Henry Clay backed | to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longtime political rival |
Grover Cleveland | After the two terms of Democrat | , the election of William McKinley in 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence ... |
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Elected to replace Nasir for a five-year presidential term in 1978 was | , a former university lecturer and Maldivian ambassador to the United Nati ... |
Zeno | ... he state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. | granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after his ov ... |
Van Morrison | ... (and in most cases had worked with before) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, | , Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamo ... |
President of Ireland | Controversy continued to dog the National Coalition when the | , Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, resigned in 1976 after being called a "thundering d ... |
George W. Bush | ... in an internal e-mail message that reporters should not "artificially hold | and John Kerry 'equally' accountable" to the public interest, and that com ... |
Bede | ... once imprisoned) represents Dinbaer; and the name of Coldingham is given by | as Coludi urbs ("town of Colud"), where Colud seems to represent the Briti ... |
King Harald Fairhair | In 875, | led a fleet from Norway to Scotland. In his attempt to unite Norway, he fo ... |
Paul Robeson | ... tinued to steer a moderate course through the Cold War. When leftist singer | was denied a passport in 1950, even though he was not a communist and not ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... safety reasons. Hillsborough is the only football ground to be mentioned in | 's Buildings of England due to this stand. At the time of opening the stan ... |
Henry Clay | ... 24 elections. When the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, | backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longt ... |
Edith Kinney Gaylord | Colorado College’s | Cornerstone Arts Center, completed in 2008 and located at the intersection ... |
Nozhat al-Majales | ... m Ibn Sina is recorded in various manuscripts and later anthologies such as | |
Sandy Mölling | ... o prepare. After a final elimination round, Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, | , Vanessa Petruo and Jessica Wahls were chosen, and signed a recording con ... |
Hermes Trismegistus | The tale is given in the first book of the Corpus Hermeticum by God to | after a meditation. It begins as God, by an act of will, creates the prima ... |
Defoe | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, | , Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists S ... |
Albert V | ... many. William, whose death occurred in March 1550, was succeeded by his son | , who had married a daughter of Ferdinand of Habsburg, afterwards the empe ... |
Roger Lewin | ... ll it erectus) who died 1.6 million years ago at about age 9-12. Leakey and | describe the experience of this find and their interpretation of it, in th ... |
Leo Tolstoy | Nilsson is mentioned briefly in | 's novel Anna Karenina |
Jay McInerney | ... of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and | . He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, the latter of which earned both him and | an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. He also ... |
Roger Bacon | ... قيه (hikmat-al-mashriqqiyya, in Latin Philosophia Orientalis), mentioned by | , the majority of which is lost in antiquity, which according to Averroes ... |
Tao Yuanming | The Peach Blossom Spring, a prose written by | , describes a utopian place. The narrative goes that a fisherman from Wuli ... |
Maggie Brooks | The county's executive branch is headed by the County Executive, | . The executive's office is located on the first floor of the County Offic ... |
Cruz Bustamante | ... f the vote to choose a successor to Davis. Schwarzenegger defeated Democrat | , fellow Republican Tom McClintock, and others. His nearest rival, Bustama ... |
Mark Halperin | One such allegation of misleading balance came from | , political director of ABC News. He stated in an internal e-mail message ... |
King James I | ... first permanent English settlement in the "New World", Jamestown. Named for | , it was founded in May 1607 by Christopher Newport. In 1619, colonists to ... |
Mayrhofer | ... ek (hélos) ‘swamp’, the Rigvedic term refers mostly to stagnant waters, and | considers unlikely a connection with the root * ‘run, flow’ |
Copernicus | ... sks their reputation by committing to a hypothesis. He gives the example of | , who declared that, contrary to our experience, the Earth revolves around ... |
Smollett | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of | , Defoe, Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century nove ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... in their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of | , a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong ... |
Moses | ... received poor reviews. Also in 2004, Kilmer returned to the theatre to play | in a Los Angeles musical production of , produced by BCBG founder Max Azri ... |
Anne of Brittany | ... incourt in 1415. Alain the Great, lord of Albret (d. 1522), wished to marry | , and to that end fought against Charles VIII; but his hopes being defeate ... |
Wilfred Owen | ... Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – | – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch ... |
Ibrahim Nasir | The Second Republic was proclaimed in November 1968 under the presidency of | , who had increasingly dominated the political scene. Under the new consti ... |
President of the United States | ... S. medal, for his actions. The Medal of Honor is generally presented by the | in the White House, but this time it was awarded at the Washington Navy Ya ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... lii suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, and dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
Eli Roth | ... nglourious Basterds, the Nazi-Propaganda film Nation's Pride is directed by | |
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Tama Janowitz | ... as regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included | and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark techn ... |
Louis XIV | ... effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when the army of | entered the city |
Herbert Aptheker | ... Frederick Sharp's decision to allow speaking invitations to Marxist speaker | and civil liberties activist Frank Wilkinson; however, the two speakers ca ... |
President of Ireland | ... comeback by securing the election of its candidate, Erskine H. Childers, as | in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the National Coalition's Tom O'H ... |
Ron Joyce | Soon after Horton opened the store, he met | , a former Hamilton police constable. In 1965, Joyce took over the fledgli ... |
Alfred Noyes | ... lice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – | – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Fre ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful | , the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ... |
Jeff Grubb | ... blished an expanded edition, entitled the Marvel Superheroes Advanced Game. | designed both editions, and Steve Winter wrote both editions. Both use the ... |
Teri Hatcher | ... Robert Duncan McNeill, Jason Priestley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, | , Marcia Cross, Eriq La Salle, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Warburton, Ann ... |
J. William Fulbright | ... ining more information about the attack, as expressed by Committee Chairman | : "We asked for [the attack investigation report] about 2 weeks ago and ha ... |
John Milton | ... found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups. | 's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, ... |
Denzel Washington | ... e played the role of Thelma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside | and Angelina Jolie |
Karl Marx | ... thus maximise their profits, an opinion shared by the socialist Chartists. | said: "The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the w ... |
Barack Obama | ... er, the Washington Democratic caucus awarded two-thirds of its delegates to | and one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray switch ... |
Bette Davis | De Havilland was good friends with | with whom she starred in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Private L ... |
John Skelton | ... alter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – | – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevens ... |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... ssassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra. His student | , the founder of the Maurya Empire, later made use of assassinations again ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... o the League of Nations, high tariffs, and promotion of business interests. | , Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 19 ... |
Oliver Stone | ... in 2003 but not released until 2005. Kilmer next appeared in the big budget | production, Alexander, which received poor reviews. Also in 2004, Kilmer r ... |
Orestes | The story is an update of the Greek myth of | to the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War. Agamemnon i ... |
Paul the Deacon | ... rius Scholasticus l.2.c.7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l.1, | , vi): Ricimer captures Rome, frees his sister Teodolinda and enslaves Pla ... |
Constantine | ... known in the Republic, ceased to have meaning in everyday life. The Emperor | reintroduced the term as the empire's senior honorific title, not tied to ... |
Geoffrey Keating | In | 's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's "ninth appellation it received likewise ... |
Angelina Jolie | ... helma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside Denzel Washington and | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... d to influence from his own party and business leaders and signed the bill. | spoke against the act while campaigning for president during 1932 |
Martin Scorsese | The concert was directed and filmed by | . Concert footage and interviews with the band members and friends were co ... |
Augustus | ... s the ancient Etruscan town of Tibur (modern Tivoli). The mythic meeting of | with the Sibyl, of whom he inquired whether he should be worshiped as a go ... |
Adam McKay | ... filming the independent comedy, Bachelorette, produced by Will Ferrell and | .Reports have stated that she will join Clive Owen and Orlando Bloom in th ... |
Maximilian I | Whatever lustre the international position won by | might add to the ducal house, on Bavaria itself its effect during the next ... |
Richard, Earl of Cornwall | ... diminished territories of Outremer throughout most of the 13th century and | reconstructed and refortified the citadel during 1240–41, as part of the C ... |
Charles II | ... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of | in 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ... |
Biz Markie | ... ords and assembled various hip hop acts, including MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, | , Roxanne Shanté, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, and Masta Ace. His Juice Crew coll ... |
Antonin Artaud | ... mposed significant electronic, vocal, and instrumental works. In late 1947, | recorded (To Have Done with the Judgment of God), an audio piece full of t ... |
David Arquette | On June 25, 2002, in an episode of Son of the Beach, | guest-starred as Johnny Queefer in a send-off episode entitled "Saturday N ... |
Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
James Hilton | ... "—a place like Shangri-La, hidden in the Tibetan mountains and described by | in his utopian novel Lost Horizon (1933). Christopher Columbus followed di ... |
Carol Truax | ... the most famous of these being Liberace Cooks, with co-author cookbook guru | , which included "Liberace Lasagna" and "Liberace Sticky Buns". The book f ... |
Ayumi Hamasaki | ... pop-rock band Tokio Hotel. In Asia, idols range from Japanese pop megastars | and Namie Amuro as well as Kana Nishino and Japanese music groups such as ... |
Charles Sherrington | ... of the brain as a dynamic entity. Reflecting the new understanding, in 1942 | visualized the workings of the brain waking from sleep |
Jean-Luc Godard | ... 7 Resnais participated with six other directors, including Chris Marker and | , in a collective work about the Vietnam war, (Far from Vietnam) |
Prince Albert | ... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of | . Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ... |
Bob Dylan | A famous and widely bootlegged concert by | at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 17 May 1966 was mistakenly labelle ... |
Will Ferrell | ... 1, Dunst finished filming the independent comedy, Bachelorette, produced by | and Adam McKay.Reports have stated that she will join Clive Owen and Orlan ... |
Lordship of the Isles | ... styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was to develop latterly into the | |
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | ... peration of the Stars: There are two different types of magic, according to | 's Apology, completely opposite of each other. The first is γοητεια, Goëti ... |
Lew Wasserman | MCA head | , whose client list included James Stewart, Janet Leigh and other actors w ... |
elder brother | ... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his | , and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ... |
Eugen von Hippel | The German ophthalmologist, | first described the angiomas in the eye in 1904. Arvid Lindau described th ... |
President of Ireland | ... eventually nominated (without election) as Ó Dálaigh's successor and sixth | |
Evagrius Scholasticus | ... one, despite the fact that Zeno claimed to use several historical sources ( | l.2.c.7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l.1, Paul the Deacon, ... |
William Howard Taft | ... party ticket of the Progressive Party and challenged his previous successor | . The party controlled the presidency throughout the 1920s, running on a p ... |
Aleksei Balabanov | ... stival in Sochi in 1996, Sergey Bodrov became acquainted with stage manager | , who invited him to studio STV. Just in this studio, the movie Brother wa ... |
Raymond Chandler | ... s preceding films. He approached Dashiell Hammett to write the dialogue but | took over, then left over disagreements with the director. Two men casuall ... |
Rudy Giuliani | In 2000, at the Inner Circle press dinner, mayor | spoofed John Travolta by dancing to "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps. Giulia ... |
Jackie Chan | ... of Around the World in 80 Days, where he appeared onscreen with action star | for the first time. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the film The Kid & I ... |
Chuck Jones | ... Sonny with a Chance & Kappa Mikey feature a sketch show within the TV show. | 's 1953 cartoon Duck Amuck shows Daffy Duck trapped in a cartoon that an u ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... arpessus near the small town of Gergitha, during the lifetimes of Solon and | . Marpessus, according to Heraclides of Pontus, was formerly within the bo ... |
Don Rosa | ... is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge), but | picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in |
Jason Priestley | ... iston, Michael Beach, Terry Farrell, Diedrich Bader, Robert Duncan McNeill, | , Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eriq La ... |
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of | and his third wife, Eleonore Magdalena of the Palatinate-Neuburg, thus str ... |
Eugene O'Neill | Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright | . The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 w ... |
Alan Hodgkin | ... igation of the electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by | , Andrew Huxley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and ... |
John Hancock | ... ts passed on this demand to their customers, although the popular governor, | , did not impose hard currency demands on poorer borrowers and refused to ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... re cemented as the party of business, though mitigated by the succession of | who embraced trust busting. He later ran on a third party ticket of the Pr ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... stian Edward; born 19 February 1960), is the second son, and third child of | and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was sec ... |
Chanakya | Perhaps the earliest-recorded instance is found in India. | (c. 350–283 BC) wrote about assassinations in detail in his political trea ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... t about $450/person. Catching a fatal disease was a distinct possibility as | in 1852 learned when his unit of about 600 soldiers and some of their depe ... |
William Shakespeare | The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by | (1605) |
Maximilian I | ... the family for nearly 200 years. In 1597 he abdicated in favour of his son | , and retired into a monastery, where he died in 1626 |
Don Lancaster | ... software routine to drive a common Teletype Model 33 machine. One hacker ( | ) used the game I/O to drive a LaserWriter printer |
Jacob Bernoulli | For example, the Swiss mathematician | discovered that arises in compound interest: An account that starts at $1, ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... e the expansion of slavery it chose its name to echo the Jefferson's party. | and other members sought to combine Jefferson's ideals of liberty and equa ... |
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John Crowe Ransom | ... acock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – | – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – ... |
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Zachary Taylor | ... after John Taylor of Caroline, while a minority believe it was named after | |
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Twain | ... s in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, | , and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina ... |
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George Sand | ... rd in Paris is his "Heroic" Polonaise, a song for Poland. The appearance of | , played by Merle Oberon, alters Chopin's life. Vidor portrays George Sand ... |
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Pope Pius XII | | showed high regard for Benedict, who had consecrated him a Bishop on 13 Ma ... |
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Charles Dixon | # Issue 144, "The Waiting Doom", | (w), Ernie Chan (i) |
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Jim Marrs | In a 2004 documentary titled The Secret of Redgate by Lynda J. Cowen and | , a number of Deer Lodge residents explain about their experiences with ex ... |
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Ayumi Hamasaki | ... m foreign music, today the most powerful singers and bands in the genre are | , Namie Amuro, Koda Kumi and the new popular DJ Kawasaki knowns in all the ... |
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Marc Shaiman | ... singing debut in the 2001 film Get Over It, performing two songs written by | . She also lent her voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow, singing He ... |
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Josiah | ... erusalem in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC during the time of king | and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians. The book is writt ... |
Charles Albert | Untaught by Maximilian II Emmanuel's experience, his son, | (1726–1745), devoted all his energies to increasing the European prestige ... |
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Gene Siskel | Film critic | , who listed this as one of his favorite movies, praised the film: "One mi ... |
Steve Martin | In 2003, she starred with | in the film Bringing Down the House, which was a major success at the box ... |
Edward VI | ... olitical and historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of | , Mary I, and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronat ... |
Aeschylus | ... vided into three plays with themes corresponding to The Oresteia trilogy by | . In order, the three plays are titled Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Hau ... |
Sam Peckinpah | ... terrorised by intruders, Robert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and | 's TV film of Katherine Anne Porter's novella Noon Wine (1966). In 1965, s ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... 15, the Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses and the second part of Don Quixote. | noted that, "Cervantes leaves open the pages of a book where the reader kn ... |
Pope Gregory I | He had been sent by | as Apostolic nuncio, to Constantinople, but he apparently was not entirely ... |
Charles VI | ... sing the European prestige and power of his house. The death of the emperor | proved his opportunity: he disputed the validity of the Pragmatic Sanction ... |
James Owsley | # Issue 195, "Blood of Ages", | /Val Semeiks (w), Geof Isherwood (f) |
Pierre Schaeffer | ... rake drums, flower pots, gongs, and more. In Europe, during the late 1940s, | coined the term musique concrète to refer to the peculiar nature of sounds ... |
Donald Johanson | ... nd The Making of Mankind (1981). Leakey had an open scientific rivalry with | during the 1980s |
Galen | The Roman physician | also argued for the importance of the brain, and theorized in some depth a ... |
Leo I the Thracian | ... supporter, but once again his hopes were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor | chose the noble Procopius Anthemius. His association with Gaiseric did not ... |
King Edward II | In the 14th century Napton was granted a market charter by | and throughout the Middle Ages it was one of the largest settlements in Wa ... |
King Henry II | ... en Jaromír of Bohemia was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor | of the Holy Roman Empire, with the promise that he hold it as a vassal onc ... |
Willis C. Hawley | ... moot Tariff, was an act, sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative | , and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 2 ... |
Oswald Jacoby | The Jacoby rule, named after | , allows gammons and backgammons to count for their respective double and ... |
Kingdom of Cochin | ... ama Varma IX or popularly known as Sakthan Thampuran ascended the throne of | (1769 to 1805). He changed the capital of Cochin Royal Family to Thrissur ... |
Dudley Nichols | In 1947 the play was adapted for film by | , starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxi ... |
Michael Powell | ... Voyeuristic photography has also been centrally explored in movies such as | 's Peeping Tom, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup, and has appeared to c ... |
Mary I | ... d historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of Edward VI, | , and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronations |
Marguerite Duras | ... lm incomprehensible suffering. Then however in discussion with the novelist | a fusion of fiction and documentary was developed which acknowedged the im ... |
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. ... |
Hilary Mantel | ... shed satirical novel, An Island in the Moon. He is a principal character in | 's 1998 novel, The Giant, O'Brien |
Don Rosa | The character was later used by | , and appears in three of twelve original chapters of Rosa's The Life and ... |
Charlie Kaufman | ... r Spike Jonze's Adaptation. follows a fictionalized version of screenwriter | as he struggles to adapt a book into a script, while the movie features sc ... |
Leonard Maltin | ... e lead role), he felt Kilmer had given the best interpretation. Film critic | (who heavily criticized the dark tone contained in Batman Returns) complim ... |
Katherine Anne Porter | ... bert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Sam Peckinpah's TV film of | 's novella Noon Wine (1966). In 1965, she was the first woman to preside o ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... assoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – | – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lo ... |
Odin | ... ain") is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god | . Chosen by Odin, half of those that die in combat travel to Valhalla upon ... |
Andrew Morton | ... Americans, which ABC said was a record for a news show. She cooperated with | in his telling of her life and her side of the Clinton affair in Monica's ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland. | , meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various a ... |
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 ... |
Libius Severus | ... ed, because Ricimer, who had become the Magister militum of the West, chose | as new Emperor (461–465). However, Placidia was now free, and re-joined he ... |
Cadwallon ap Cadfan | ... Hatfield Chase on 12 October 633, in which Edwin was defeated and killed by | of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria again was divided into Bernici ... |
John Travolta | ... , and danced. The film rated highly with critics. It starred, among others, | (Grease), Michelle Pfeiffer (Stardust), Allison Janney (Juno), James Marsd ... |
Peter Bazalgette | ... Nigel Kennedy, Ben Elton and Jo Brand. His other pet hates include Endemol, | and Big Brother, and the general direction of Channel 4 since the 1990s |
John Huston | ... g occasional television programs. He last appeared, in a major role, in the | film Freud the Secret Passion (1962) |
Billy Bragg | ... while the Clash were active and acknowledged their debt to the band include | and Aztec Camera. U2's The Edge has compared the Clash's inspirational eff ... |
Emma Fielding | ... hasuble", Celia Imrie as "Miss Prism", Victoria Hamilton as "Gwendolen" and | as "Cecily", with music composed by Dominic Muldowney. The production was ... |
Robert E. Howard | ... omas and Barry Windsor-Smith, and loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in | 's 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture". She first appeared in the ... |
Edmund Spenser | ... – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – | – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Char ... |
Bob Dylan | In the 1960s, Japanese bands imitated The Beatles, | and the Rolling Stones, along with other Appalachian folk music, psychedel ... |
Tolkien | ... Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre- | English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsan ... |
Jean Terrell | ... ly Syreeta Wright—were considered to replace Ross. After seeing 24-year-old | perform with her brother Ernie, Berry Gordy decided on Ross' replacement. ... |
Derrick Jensen | ... and freedom brought by division of labour. Authors such as John Zerzan and | consider that modern technology is progressively depriving humans of their ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor | |
Mark Ruffalo | ... ll begin in Spring of 2012. In January 2012, Dunst will also star alongside | and Billy Crudup in the drama film, Red Light Winter |
Richard Wagner | ... June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was an English woman married to Siegfried Wagner, | 's son. She was the effective head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... zed power in a coup d'état in 1987, betraying his long-time friend and ally | , who was killed in the coup |
Barry Windsor-Smith | ... aracter, a high fantasy sword and sorcery heroine created by Roy Thomas and | , and loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in Robert E. Howard's 1934 sh ... |
Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... nst the Taliban. Most major leaders including the Islamic State's President | , Abdul Rashid Dostum, and others were living in exile. The Taliban repeat ... |
Matthew of Westminster | ... ica seu Vultus Domini") of ("Saint Veronica, or the Face of the Lord"), and | speaks of the imprint of the image of the Savior which is called Veronica: ... |
Don Rosa | Locksley McDuck is mentioned in "The History of The Clan McDuck" by | , a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it nev ... |
Hippocrates | ... ple would put silver coins in milk bottles to prolong the milk's freshness. | , the "father of medicine", wrote that silver had beneficial healing and a ... |
Don Rosa | Molly Mallard was created by | for his Duck Family Tree and has not appeared in any stories. She was the ... |
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 ... |
Blaise Compaoré | ... elections. The amendment also would have prevented the incumbent president, | , from being reelected |
Lyndsay | ... ces of Middle Scots literature. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, | , Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie |
Michiel van den Bos | ... he Unreal soundtrack was written by MOD music authors Alexander Brandon and | with a few selected tracks by Dan Gardopée and Andrew Sega. Alexander Bran ... |
Tiberius | ... er a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured the Emperor | . The linking of this with the bearing of the cross in the Passion, and th ... |
Deborah Pratt | # Prologue (Saga Sell) – Music by Mike Post/Velton Ray Bunch, narrated by | (1:05 |
Rafael Urdaneta | ... en Colonel of the Militia of Aragua), the general in chief Santiago Mariño, | , among many others. With the establishment of an independent captaincy ge ... |
Solomon | ... beginning of 2 Chronicles (chapters 1–9) is a history of the reign of King | , son of David |
Dorothy Kilgallen | ... Russell disguised her voice. Her voice however, was so well disguised that | was convinced that the Mystery Guest was a man. After Russell's identity w ... |
Rudolph II | ... ries of the Christian world during that period. In 1609, Holy Roman Emperor | who made Prague again the capital of the Empire at the time, himself a Rom ... |
Saul | ... (chapters 1–10) mostly contains genealogical lists, including the House of | and Saul's rejection by God, which sets the stage for the rise of David |
Timothy Leary | ... murder, he jumped bail to flee to Cuba and later went to Algeria. Following | 's Weather Underground assisted prison escape, Leary stayed with Cleaver i ... |
Henryson | ... of the great sources of Middle Scots literature. It contains many works by | , Dunbar, Lyndsay, Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie |
Ferdinand | ... g Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke | of Austria became King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent sta ... |
Tony Blackburn | ... e 1970s by the prominent local grocery company. It was opened by Radio 1 DJ | and occupied an unusual location over the River Holme beside the town's sm ... |
Dante | ... edieval than in the modern side of the movement, working on translations of | and other Medieval Italian poets, and adopting the stylistic characteristi ... |
Eoin Colfer | In 2001, | (born 1965) published the first installment of his Artemis Fowl series in ... |
Stephen King | | used a fictionalized version of Hemingford in three of his stories, with t ... |
Bollandist | It is thus designated in several medieval texts mentioned by the | s (e.g. an old Missal of Augsburg has a Mass "De S. Veronica seu Vultus Do ... |
David C. Smith | Sonja has been featured in several novels by | and Richard L. Tierney with covers by Boris Vallejo |
Norman Solomon | ... ost critiques combine elements of both strains. Journalist and media critic | reflects in Columbus Day: A Clash of Myth and History that many people cho ... |
Carl Barks | Quagmire McDuck was first mentioned by | in the story "The Heirloom Watch", published on June, 1955 |
David Eagleman | ... tic ratio, computed using quantum electrodynamics. Also, the neuroscientist | noted tha |
Charles IV | ... he Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I of Bohemia in 1310. His son, | became King of Bohemia in 1346. He founded Charles University in Prague, c ... |
Galen | ... niversity of Paris, where he moved in 1533. Here he studied the theories of | under the auspices of Jacques Dubois (Jacobus Sylvius) and Jean Fernel. It ... |
Vera Miles | ... store thief who is arrested and tried for robbery while his wife (newcomer | ) emotionally collapses under the strain. Hitchcock told Truffaut that his ... |
Harold McGee | ... nd served with boiled meat and other vegetables as part of a boiled dinner. | has studied the development of unpleasant smells when cooking brassicas an ... |
Martin Gardner | Not all accusations of bias are political. Science writer | has accused the entertainment media of anti-science bias. He claims that t ... |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | ... interrupts the JFK assassination, preventing Lee Harvey Oswald from killing | . This history change, however, from a timeline where both President Kenne ... |
Ottokar II | ... e. The title of king became hereditary under Ottokar I (1198). His grandson | (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-lived empire which contained moder ... |
Jo Brand | ... ve a particular loathing of "Mockneys" such as Nigel Kennedy, Ben Elton and | . His other pet hates include Endemol, Peter Bazalgette and Big Brother, a ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... In The Simpsons Movie (2007), he is portrayed as the President, and in the | movie, Demolition Man (1993, ten years before his first run for political ... |
Alain Robbe-Grillet | ... Year at Marienbad) (1961), which he made in collaboration with the novelist | . The tantalisingly fragmented and shifting narrative presents three princ ... |
Prince of Orange | ... the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, he received a dispatch from the | and was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's advance. He hastily ordered his ... |
Ecgberht | ... hers Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivar the Boneless, who installed an Englishman, | , as a puppet king. By 870 the "Great Summer Army" arrived in England, led ... |
U.S. President | ... . The county seat is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after | James A. Garfield |
Deborah Pratt | ... o appears in the first season episode "How the Tess Was Won"), and later by | (Bellisario's wife, as well as a co-producer and writer on the show). A sh ... |
Erica Kane | ... earance on ABC's All My Children, in a storyline that put him on the set of | 's talk show "The Cutting Edge" |
John Zerzan | ... n responsibility and freedom brought by division of labour. Authors such as | and Derrick Jensen consider that modern technology is progressively depriv ... |
Sigismund of Luxembourg | ... s passed despite the fact that Hus was granted formal protection by Emperor | prior to the journey. Hus was invited to attend the council to defend hims ... |
Gray Barker | In his article, " | : My Friend, the Myth-Maker," John C. Sherwood claims that at age 18, he c ... |
Brian Clemens | ... run, particularly between the third and fourth series, but the influence of | was felt throughout. He wrote the second episode and became the series' mo ... |
Richard Roeper | ... ifah appeared in a romantic comedy/drama entitled Last Holiday. Film critic | stated that "this is the Queen Latifah performance I've been waiting for e ... |
Robert Southey | ... John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – | – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Sucklin ... |
current Prince of Wales | ... y dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the | ). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star ... |
Huneric | ... ybrius for the purple; the reason for this decision was that Gaiseric's son | and Olybrius had married the two daughters of Valentinian III (Petronius' ... |
Daphne du Maurier | ... gement with Plaid's Blaenau Gwent branch, and to a lesser extent with the . | , the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as ... |
Robert I of Scotland | ... connotation is still ethnic. This is how it is used, for instance, by King | and Domhnall Ua Néill during the Scottish Wars of Independence, when Irela ... |
Vickie LaMotta | ... aMotta, while accusing him of having an affair with his (Jake's) then wife, | . (In real life, this altercation was between LaMotta and his best friend ... |
President of the Republic of China | ... politician of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan). He was the | and Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He presided over m ... |
Roger Ebert | ... en, gave a wooden performance as Bruce Wayne. Other critics though, such as | , had kind words for Kilmer. Batman creator Bob Kane said in a Cinescape i ... |
Sonia Sanchez | ... d the Black House political/cultural center in San Francisco. Amiri Baraka, | , Askia Toure, Sarah Webster Fabio, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Avotcja, Regi ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | | showed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ... |
Tim Marlow | ... esented as part of the coverage of the award. The discussion was chaired by | and also included Roger Scruton, Waldemar Januszczak, Richard Cork, David ... |
Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh | ... ower. The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son | (who calls himself "The Black Adder") in his various attempts to increase ... |
Emperor | ... ed Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of | Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Angl ... |
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 ... |
Walt Disney | ... Servants' Entrance (1934), which featured a combination of live action and | animation in a musical dream sequence. He played the title role in Young D ... |
Wenceslaus | ... his wife Drahomíra, a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, | and Boleslaus, both of whom succeeded him as Bohemian dukes. Střezislava, ... |
Doris Lessing | ... omen until puberty, and gender has no bearing on social roles. In contrast, | 's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) suggests that m ... |
Björn Ulvaeus | ... was hesitant to perform with her boyfriend Benny Andersson, his best friend | and his girlfriend, Agnetha Fältskog. Their first project together was the ... |
John Michael Hayes | ... ies to sway both his glamorous model-girlfriend (Kelly), which screenwriter | based on his own wife, and his policeman buddy (Wendell Corey) to his theo ... |
Cato the Elder | ... sea cabbage and wild cabbage, it was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans | ;praised this vegetable for its medicinal properties, declaring that "It i ... |
Howard Chaykin | ... irst appeared in Kull and the Barbarians #3 by Roy Thomas, Doug Moench, and | , and was later redrawn by Dick Giordano and Terry Austin for The Savage S ... |
John Adams | ... emselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. | put forth a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration ... |
John Lennon | ... chedelic rock, mod and similar genres; this was called Group Sounds (G.S.). | of The Beatles later became one of most popular Western musicians in Japan ... |
John Cage | ... asis of noise. In remarking on Varese's contributions the American composer | stated that Varese had "established the present nature of music" and that ... |
Irving Fisher | ... n mainstream neo-classical economics, NPV was formalized and popularized by | , in his 1907 The Rate of Interest and became included in textbooks from t ... |
Theodoric II | ... the Gallic-Roman senator Avitus was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king | and ruled for two years, then was deposed by Majorian, who ruled for four ... |
Boleslaus | ... íra, a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, Wenceslaus and | , both of whom succeeded him as Bohemian dukes. Střezislava, the wife of t ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | In Washington, President | had received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Liberty had been ... |
Ben Elton | ... appears to have a particular loathing of "Mockneys" such as Nigel Kennedy, | and Jo Brand. His other pet hates include Endemol, Peter Bazalgette and Bi ... |
Cipriano Castro | ... portant at this stage are: Marshal Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, General in Chief | , Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual |
Augustus | ... to Bohemia, where their king Maroboduus established a powerful kingdom that | perceived as a threat to Rome. Before he could act, however, the war in Il ... |
Don Rosa | ... n this story, Scrooge states that he is the last of the Clan McDuck. Though | hasn't used him in his family tree or his timelines it has been purposed t ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... tics, Le Chant du styrène. Poetry was brought to the project, literally, by | who wrote the narration for the film in rhyming couplets |
John Willison Green | ... the rest of North America. Some Bigfoot advocates, such as cryptozoologist | , have postulated that Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon. The most notable ... |
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 ... |
Joanna Lumley | The series also featured guest appearances by such noted personalities as | as the Sydney Opera House Woman, Jackie Mason as the East River Creature, ... |
Alexander Montgomerie | ... e. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, Lyndsay, Alexander Scott and | |
Joanna Russ | ... his sort were written in the 1970s; the most often studied examples include | 's The Female Man and Suzy McKee Charnas's Walk to the End of the World an ... |
Livy | According to | , the first 100 men appointed as senators by Romulus were referred to as " ... |
Waldemar Januszczak | ... . The discussion was chaired by Tim Marlow and also included Roger Scruton, | , Richard Cork, David Sylvester and Norman Rosenthal. Emin 'wrote' about t ... |
Napoleon | ... om of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor | was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... s of making the notation more concise. A standard convention, instigated by | in the 18th century, is to use lower case letters from the beginning of th ... |
Roald Dahl | In 1964 | wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of Charlie Bucket's adv ... |
Frederick II | ... t of endless intrigues with the Austrian cabinet and the immediate cause of | 's League of Princes (Fürstenbund) of 1785, was to exchange Bavaria for th ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
Emperor Maximilian | ... e, the functions of the Fehmic courts were superseded. By the action of the | and of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more rest ... |
William Baldwin | ... ird Batman film after 1992's Batman Returns, due to "creative differences." | (who previously worked with Schumacher on Flatliners) was reported to be a ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... hen congress voted on independence. Adams persuaded the committee to select | to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit t ... |
Goethe | ... condemned and executed by the Vehmgericht. Scott drew his inspiration from | 's play Goetz von Berlichingen which he had translated, incorrectly |
Edward R. Murrow | McCarthyism declined in late 1954 after television journalist | and others publicly chastised McCarthy. The controversies over the Bill of ... |
Aristotle | ... sy, this time disproving not just Galen but also Mondino de Liuzzi and even | ; all three had made assumptions about the functions and structure of the ... |
Wendell Corey | ... nwriter John Michael Hayes based on his own wife, and his policeman buddy ( | ) to his theory, and eventually succeeds. As with Lifeboat and Rope, the p ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , Heimskringla, also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and ... |
J. K. Rowling | In 1990 | wrote The Harry Potter Series, in which 3 characters embark on new adventu ... |
Coretta Scott | ... which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951. King married | , on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of H ... |
Majorian | ... the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two years, then was deposed by | , who ruled for four years, before being killed by his general Ricimer (46 ... |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King Qin Shi Huang (227 BC). In 1192, | , the de facto King of Jerusalem, was assassinated by hashshashin |
Marcus Aurelius | ... f the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to | , the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son. The ... |
Israel Regardie | ... balah, and the magic of Hermes along with the principles of occult science. | claims that there are many orders, who know what they do of magic from wha ... |
Penda of Mercia | ... n which Edwin was defeated and killed by Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd and | , Northumbria again was divided into Bernicia and Deira. Bernicia was then ... |
Kingdom of Cochin | ... ains and left for Mecca to embrace Islam. This place was later ruled by the | (Perumpadapu Swaroopam). During the time of the Chera ruler, Kodungallur w ... |
Charles I | ... they had moved to a position in the inner ward. Political tensions between | and Parliament in the second quarter of the 17th century led to an attempt ... |
Don Rosa | Downy O'Drake is Scrooge McDuck's mother. She was created by | and appears in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and on the Duck Family ... |
Richard Wagner | ... enrietta Karop, and her husband Karl Klindworth, a musician and a friend of | |
Michael Wilding | ... ee County co-star and close friend Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, | . Alerted by friend Kevin McCarthy, who witnessed the accident, Taylor rac ... |
Norman Thomas | ... anti-communists from ACLU leadership. In 1953, the anti-communists, led by | and James Fly, proposed a set of resolutions that inferred guilt of person ... |
John Lloyd | ... adder and was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by | . The series was originally aired on BBC1 from 15 June 1983 to 20 July 198 ... |
James Malcolm Rymer | ... r, the Feast of Blood was a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story by | (alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest). It first appeared in ... |
Jean Cayrol | ... of the sites in long tracking shots. The accompanying narration (written by | , himself a survivor of the camps) was intentionally understated to add to ... |
Joseph Judge | ... rding to calculations made in 1986 by National Geographic writer and editor | based on Columbus's log. Evidence in support of this remains inconclusive. ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... olden Dawn, making the policies a success. This secrecy was broken first by | , in 1905, and later by Israel Regardie himself in 1940, giving a detailed ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... r Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of | , his successor and adoptive son. The Emperor meditates on his past, descr ... |
Adam Rifkin | ... by Tarantino, and one written and directed by a third filmmaker, reportedly | . When the third filmmaker never materialized, Tarantino and Avary took th ... |
C. S. Lewis | In 1950 | (1898–1963) published the first of installment of his Chronicles of Narnia ... |
Joanna Lumley | ... d become a patron of the trust joining existing high profile personalities, | and David Shepherd |
Thomas Mann | ... annes Maria Verweyen were deported and died in concentration camps. In 1937 | was deprived of his honorary doctorate. His honorary degree was restored i ... |
Joel Schumacher | In December 1993, Batman Forever director | had seen Tombstone and was most impressed with Kilmer's performance as Doc ... |
R. S. Thomas | ... e – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – | – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Towns ... |
Ed Bullins | In 1967, Eldridge Cleaver, along with Marvin X, | and Ethna Wyatt, formed the Black House political/cultural center in San F ... |
Romano Scarpa | The character was created by | , and first appeared in a story published on February 10, 1956 |
Mary Gentle | ... r a societal construct, or a hard-wired imperative. The fictional aliens in | 's Golden Witchbreed start out as gender-neutral children and do not devel ... |
McGovern | ... (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon's defeat of Senator | in 1972). Johnson's popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a ... |
Molly Meldrum | ... ver appear on the show, a promise they faithfully kept. Countdown presenter | shaved his head bald, imitating Garrett, for its final show on 19 July 198 ... |
Robert Capa | ... helma Ritter and Raymond Burr. Stewart's character, a photographer based on | , must temporarily use a wheelchair; out of boredom he begins observing hi ... |
Alfred of Wessex | ... thern England, where Jorvic had become the centre of the Viking kingdom but | managed to keep them out of his country. Alfred and his successors continu ... |
Carl Barks | Gideon's existence is inconsistent with | 's view of Scrooge as presented in "The Old Castle's Secret". In this stor ... |
Karl Marx | ... resent value as a valuation methodology dates at least to the 19th century. | refers to NPV as fictitious capital, and the calculation as capitalising, ... |
Galen | ... y these topics had been taught primarily from reading classic texts, mainly | , followed by an animal dissection by a barber-surgeon whose work was dire ... |
Anne Henderson | ... the Depression with a debt crisis and a credit crisis. According to author | of the Sydney Institute, Lyons held a steadfast belief in "the need to bal ... |
Ivor Gurney | ... h's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music | ;, another most important setter of Housman (Ludlow and Teme, a work for v ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... sion by the fascist regime of its opponents within the region was ruthless. | , one of the founders of Italian Communist Party, was arrested and died in ... |
Amiri Baraka | ... a Wyatt, formed the Black House political/cultural center in San Francisco. | , Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Sarah Webster Fabio, Art Ensemble of Chicago ... |
Pope John Paul II | The visit of | to Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ... |
Sir Edmund Hillary | ... rst accomplished in 1913 by Freda du Faur and guides Peter and Alex Graham. | made his first ascent in January 1948. In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, H ... |
King Richard III | ... Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that | won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and ... |
Charles II, Duke of Zweibrücken | ... dren to the status of princes of the Empire. The protests of the next heir, | (Deux-Ponts), supported by the king of Prussia, led to the War of Bavarian ... |
Doug Moench | ... of the Sword", first appeared in Kull and the Barbarians #3 by Roy Thomas, | , and Howard Chaykin, and was later redrawn by Dick Giordano and Terry Aus ... |
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón | ... political figures) of the Army's most important at this stage are: Marshal | , General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and ... |
Abba Eban | ... n. Apologies were soon sent by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Minister | , and chargé d'affaires Efraim Evron. Within 48 hours, Israel offered to c ... |
Agnès Varda | ... Le Chant du styrène); and with other film-makers (Resnais was the editor of | 's first film, La Pointe courte, and co-directed with Chris Marker Les sta ... |
Martin Day | ... ial problems. Television researcher Andrew Pixley and authors Paul Cornell, | and Keith Topping in their book The Avengers Dossier: The Unauthorised and ... |
Suzy McKee Charnas | ... s; the most often studied examples include Joanna Russ's The Female Man and | 's Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines. Utopias imagined by male ... |
Gabriel Narutowicz | ... governments changed frequently, corruption was commonplace. The open-minded | was constitutionally elected president by the National Assembly in 1922, b ... |
Palladius | ... Empress Licinia Eudoxia, widow of Valentinian. He also elevated his own son | to the rank of Caesar, and had him marry to Eudocia, elder daughter of Val ... |
Roman Emperor | ... ted the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the | Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of ... |
David Geffen | ... es, plus the return of bassist Neil Murray in place of Hodgkinson, producer | insisted that the album be remixed for the US release. In addition to the ... |
John Tyler | ... n was 9,208. The County is named after John Tyler, Sr., father of President | . Its county seat is |
Greg Dyke | ... especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous critic of Director-General | and BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, who he blamed for lowering the sta ... |
Felice Romani | ... Bellini's faithful and fruitful collaboration with the librettist and poet | , and cemented his friendship with his favored tenor Giovanni Battista Rub ... |
Robert Aldrich | ... (1964), as a crippled widow trapped in a lift and terrorised by intruders, | 's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Sam Peckinpah's TV film of Katherine ... |
Keith Topping | ... elevision researcher Andrew Pixley and authors Paul Cornell, Martin Day and | in their book The Avengers Dossier: The Unauthorised and Unofficial Guide ... |
Prince Edmund | ... der character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling | of the first series. To make the show more cost-effective, it was also sho ... |
Dylan Thomas | ... ing – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – | – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chid ... |
Jérôme Bonaparte | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811 |
Walter O'Malley | ... ying at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan. After the 1957 season, Dodgers owner | decided to move the team to Los Angeles for financial reasons, among other ... |
Howard Hawks | ... comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), directed by | . In the film, a reworking of Ben Hecht's story The Front Page, Russell pl ... |
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Michael Faraday | ... ons is always valid but more restrictive than that originally formulated by | . |
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Eleazar López Contreras | ... relevant (apart from the general Gómez himself), were the General in Chief | and Division General Isaías Medina Angarita |
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Leonard Nimoy | ... nclude Herschel Bernardi (in the original Broadway run), Theodore Bikel and | . Mostel's understudy in the original production, Paul Lipson, went on to ... |
Hadrian | ... nd death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor | , who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antonin ... |
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 ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... ashi was the first who became widely recognized. Wataru Takada, inspired by | , also became popular.. They both were influenced by American folk music b ... |
Yoshiyuki Tomino | is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by | , it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, a ... |
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Michelangelo | ... e Sistine Chapel. Five sibyls were painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by | ; the Delphic Sibyl, Libyan Sibyl, Persian Sibyl, Cumaean Sibyl and the Er ... |
Maximilian IV | ... gain occupied the country, in preparation for renewing the war with France. | Joseph (of Zweibrücken) the new elector succeeded to a difficult inheritan ... |
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Bob McNamara | ... t difficult unless you want to 'kiss his behind' all the time. That is what | suggested to me...if I wanted to get along. |
Rufus King | ... President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalist | in the general election |
Oliver Stone | ... as a favor. The scene, known as the "Hun Brothers" scene, was described by | as the best scene in the script. It was, however, cut from the final film ... |
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E. Blackadder | ... 8th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency. In the series, | Esquire is the butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the princ ... |
Pamela Anderson | ... ), beginning with photos from the famed Stolen Honeymoon sex tape featuring | and Tommy Lee. It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female mod ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... th an action film opening, which turns out to be a sequence being filmed by | . Near the ending, the events of the film itself are revealed to be a movi ... |
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Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
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Frank Lloyd | Russell approached director | for help changing her image; but, instead of helping her, Lloyd cast her a ... |
Wu Sangui | ... oncurrently the last Ming pretender had been captured and killed by General | , extinguishing any hope Koxinga may have had of re-establishing the Ming ... |
Sparta | The polis of | was the greatest military land power of classical Greek antiquity. During ... |
Barack Obama | Other well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President | David Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ... |
Richard O'Brien | ... orld of popular music is the enduring Rocky Horror Show musical, written by | , and first performed on stage in London during 1973 |
Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual | ... ón, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and | |
Bill Clinton | ... (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom United States President | admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the ... |
John Adams | ... from a lack of leadership after the death of Hamilton and the retirement of | , quickly declined; it revived briefly in opposition to the War of 1812, b ... |
Emperor Zeno | ... meaning "table" or "board", was a game mentioned in an epigram of Byzantine | (AD 476–481). It was similar to modern backgammon in that the object of th ... |
Robert Barr | ... Arm, an 1899 novel set in the Holy Roman Empire by British-Canadian author | |
Prince of Wales | ... as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by the | and his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen ... |
Loren Coleman | ... many of the sightings are hoaxes or misidentified animals. Cryptozoologists | and Diane Stocking have estimated that as many as 70 to 80 percent of sigh ... |
David Axelrod | ... -known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama | , former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and former chairma ... |
David Toop | | writes of 1984 that "pundits were writing obituaries for hip hop, a passin ... |
Arthur Machen | ... th M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, William Butler Yeats, and | . Many Hermetic, or Hermetically influenced, groups exist today, most of w ... |
Schwarzenegger | ... tions. Bodrov responded: The Americans make movies about the Russians where | as a policeman tears off gumbah's leg and drugs are hailing from it and be ... |
Pervez Musharraf | Pakistani President | - then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ... |
Princess of Wales | ... e journey by the Prince of Wales and his two sons during the funeral of the | , and was seen on television screens across the world as they got off the ... |
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 ... |
Cheraman Perumal | ... of Kerala with their capital at Vanchi. Kodungallur was also the capital of | , the last Chera ruler in the 7th century A.D. The legend is that he abdic ... |
Przemysł II | ... ical reasons—became more common again in Western Europe. The reigns of King | of Poland (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the Fr ... |
Blake | ... een. As Roger Fry wrote in 1916, "Rossetti more than any other artist since | may be hailed as a forerunner of the new ideas" in English Art |
Michael Savage | ... y, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and | , as well as many local commentators, support Republican causes, while voc ... |
Paul Cornell | ... due to financial problems. Television researcher Andrew Pixley and authors | , Martin Day and Keith Topping in their book The Avengers Dossier: The Una ... |
Louis IX | ... during the 11th Century and became a favorite pastime of gamblers. In 1254, | issued a decree prohibiting his court officials and subjects from playing. ... |
Vanessa Feltz | ... nders". His critical targets also include celebrity chefs, Jeremy Clarkson, | and, especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous critic of Director-Ge ... |
Eric Bloodaxe | ... d in stanzas of an anonymous 10th century poem commemorating the death of a | known as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna. Valhalla has inspired variou ... |
Horace Henry Hart | ... ity Press guidelines were originally drafted as a single broadsheet page by | and were, at the time (1893) the first guide of their type in English; the ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... soldiers who had served under Aetius, probably instigated by the Patricius | , who succeeded to obtain the throne. Petronius, who was a high-ranking im ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... s Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – | – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony ... |
Robert E. Howard | The character was loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in | 's short story "The Shadow of the Vulture" (The Magic Carpet, January 1934 ... |
Cassiodorus | Gregory Nazianzen (Oratio 4.108) and | (Variae 1.2) relate how Tyrian Heracles and the nymph Tyrus were walking a ... |
Bob Guccione | Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by | , combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials t ... |
Albert Einstein | The maser is based on the principle of stimulated emission proposed by | in 1917. When atoms have been induced into an excited energy state, they c ... |
Juan Vicente Gómez | ... first half of the 20th century, is the political figure of General in Chief | , who originally based on the plans of General in Chief Cipriano Castro, b ... |
E. B. White | In 1945 | (co-author of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style), wrote Stuart Litt ... |
Edward R. Murrow | ... ws like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, | 's Person to Person and on the shows of Jack Benny and Red Skelton, on whi ... |
John Tyler, Sr. | ... t Virginia. As of 2010, the population was 9,208. The County is named after | , father of President John Tyler. Its county seat is |
Edwin of Northumbria | ... of Deira (632–633 or 633–634) in northern England. He was a cousin of king | , being the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the fat ... |
Sennacherib | ... syrian vassalage, (despite a disastrous rebellion against the Assyrian king | ), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE Assyria suddenly collapsed, ... |
Nicole Fontaine | In April 2001, the president of the European Parliament | (who called Massoud the "pole of liberty in Afghanistan") invited Massoud ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | In 1968 after the assassination of | , Brown released "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" following pressur ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... 60s, when the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan began his career. Allmusic editor | attributes The Beatles' shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid- ... |
Tim Powers | ... shbless is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers James Blaylock and | |
King Christian X | He was the son of | of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fou ... |
Henry Bird | In 1882 | in his Chess History and Reminiscences estimated that there were 150 chess ... |
David I | ... in the service of Walter fitz Alan, who had been appointed Steward by King | |
Sancho III of Navarre | ... ain (1056), and his heirs carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of | and Mayor of Castile, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of ... |
Aratus | Libra is a constellation not mentioned by Eudoxus or | . In Roman mythology, Libra is considered to depict the scales held by Ast ... |
James Blaylock | William Ashbless is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers | and Tim Powers |
Æthelric of Deira | ... e was a cousin of king Edwin of Northumbria, being the son of Edwin's uncle | . Osric was also the father of Oswine |
Sancho VII | ... lians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under Peter II, Navarrese under | , and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Narbonne all flocked to the ef ... |
Carolyn Parrish | ... ith "the Keystone Kops running around" by one of its parliamentary members, | . In criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's response to Hurrica ... |
Jogaila | Beginning with the Lithuanian Grand Duke | (Władysław II Jagiełło), the Jagiellon dynasty (1386–1572) formed the Poli ... |
Richard Wagner | ... oal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla (mit einziehenden Einheriern) (1880), | 's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848– ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 5th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess | with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who bec ... |
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 ... |
Terry Bradshaw | ... k Teixeira, Vernon Wells, professional golfers Choi Kyung-Ju and Ben Crane, | , the former chief of Exxon, Lee Raymond, former FOX News Host and Radio C ... |
Cyrus | ... gly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus, Alexander the Great, and | alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, 1999). For ... |
Rosalind Miles | Cecil appears as a character in the novels I, Elizabeth by | , The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory and is a prominent secondary charact ... |
Alexandrine | He was the son of King Christian X of Denmark and Queen | , born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the House ... |
LL Cool J | ... in hip hop music starting 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D.M.C. and | . Like the hip hop preceding it, it came predominately from New York City. ... |
Cadwallon ap Cadfan | After Edwin was killed in battle against | of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfr ... |
William Shawcross | ... rvention "was probably the most important single factor in Pol Pot's rise". | and other commentors asserted that the bombings caused the domino effect i ... |
Alexander III | When Wallace was growing up, King | ruled Scotland. His reign had seen a period of peace and economic stabilit ... |
Britney Spears | ... kthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s. Other Female Teen Pop stars such as | , Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson then also became very popular at ... |
Pearl Poet | ... ther Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the | 's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.) |
Alison Bechdel | ... 06, a resident of Marshall attempted to have the graphic novels Fun Home by | and Blankets by Craig Thompson removed from the Marshall Public Library. S ... |
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus | In the early 6th century BC, during the reign of Rome's fifth king | , the Sabines attacked Rome. Tarquinius had been preparing to construct a ... |
Alice Cooper | ... ith Courvoisier along with amphetamines), they concluded there was no hope. | remembers their drinking club, The Hollywood Vampires, commenting that Moo ... |
Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... e, Irgun representatives purchased a ship, renamed Altalena (a pseudonym of | ), and weapons. The ship sailed on June 11 and arrived at the Israeli coas ... |
John Acquaviva | ... x (with his brother Matthew Hawtin), 0733, Cybersonik (with Daniel Bell and | ), Final Exposure (with Joey Beltram and Mundo Muzique), Just For Fun (wit ... |
Charles VIII | ... war with the League of the Public Weal. The matter became more urgent after | 's invasion of Italy (known as the First Peninsular War) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... he was greeting the President of the United States as he did when President | thanked him for donating money to school drop-out prevention programs |
Mary Robinson | ... led the Anti-Amendment Campaign, which included future President of Ireland | . The Pro Life Amendment Campaign subsequently became the Pro Life Campaig ... |
Milton Friedman | ... have learned about business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from | to Donald Trump... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned ... |
Arieh O'Sullivan | ... out the Liberty. The journalist who transcribed the tapes for that article, | , later confirmed that "the Israeli Air Force tapes he listened to contain ... |
Pavel Klushantsev | ... hievable in science fiction films. The pioneering work of directors such as | would be used by major motion pictures for decades to come |
Roland Emmerich | Cecil, portrayed by David Thewlis, is in | 's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of William Shakespear ... |
Oswald of Bernicia | ... paganism that it was decided to add that year to the reign of the Christian | , who defeated Cadwallon and came to rule both Bernicia and Deira, so as t ... |
Billy Crystal | ... tic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars | as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows the title characters fro ... |
Patrick White | ... itle of the 1989 novel Ashes Under Uricon. The Nobel Prize winning novelist | named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and ... |
Karl Marx | ... odity is something other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), | quotes Adam Smith and sums up |
Al Gore | ... minee George W. Bush were colored red, and states won by Democratic nominee | were colored blue. Although the assignment of colors to political parties ... |
Craig Mathieson | ... t ranked no. 1 in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by Toby Creswell, | and John O'Donnell |
Cecil B. DeMille | ... rest Lawn was a filming location used by directors such as Carl Laemmle and | . The climactic battle scenes for D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation w ... |
Donald Trump | ... business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from Milton Friedman to | ... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned a thing or two ... |
Steve Meretzky | ... game, distributed by Infocom. It was designed by Adams and Infocom regular | and was one of Infocom's most successful games. As with many Infocom games ... |
William Shakespeare | ... s in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of | were written by Edward de Vere. His part largely revolves around his being ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author | . It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Eart ... |
Joey Beltram | ... 733, Cybersonik (with Daniel Bell and John Acquaviva), Final Exposure (with | and Mundo Muzique), Just For Fun (with Holger Wick), Narod Niki (with Akuf ... |
Nguyễn Du | ... Vietnamese writers and poets composed their works in Chữ Nôm, most notably | and Hồ Xuân Hương (dubbed "the Queen of Nôm poetry") |
Peter II | ... gainst the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under | , Navarrese under Sancho VII, and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Na ... |
Stanley Kubrick | ... a new high-bench mark for special effects, it would be 1968's , directed by | , who assembled his own effects team (Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pe ... |
Mack Sennett | ... eared with the troupe authentically. In the This Is Your Life TV tribute to | several Sennett alumni ran on stage dressed as Keystone Kops |
Nazi Boni | ... rkinabè writers in the post-independence Burkina Faso of the 1960s, such as | and Roger Nikiema. The 1960s saw a growth in the number of playwrights bei ... |
Gaston Kaboré | ... ill in Ouagaoudougou). Among the best known directors from Burkina Faso are | , Idrissa Ouedraogo and Dani Kouyate. Burkina also produces popular televi ... |
Alfred the Great | ... dorus Siculus. Ninus continued to be mentioned by European historians (e.g. | ), even up until knowledge of cuneiform enabled a more precise reconstruct ... |
Thomas McKean | ... , abstained. Delaware cast no vote because the delegation was split between | (who voted yes) and George Read (who voted no). The remaining nine delegat ... |
Mayor of Castile | ... carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and | , and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, ... |
Johnny Cash | Upon being cast as | in Walk the Line after Cash himself approved, Phoenix responded by buying ... |
Glenn Beck | ... mer chief of Exxon, Lee Raymond, former FOX News Host and Radio Commentator | , and Matthew K. Rose |
Ptolemy | ... Manetho (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by | in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and Joha ... |
Eleanor | ... cultural achievement. His marriage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with | (Leonora), daughter of Henry II of England and , brought him under the inf ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... e named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and | 's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman ... |
Tony Robinson | ... rogramme episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and | as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different his ... |
Thomas Bartholin | In Scandinavia | and Ole Worm, the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden ... |
Bertrice Small | ... Philippa Gregory and is a prominent secondary character in several books by | |
Marc Shaiman | ... performed by Harry Connick, Jr., with a big band and orchestra arranged by | . Connick won his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance |
Mirabeau B. Lamar | ... mission to seek a site for a new capital to be named for Stephen F. Austin. | , second president of the newly formed Republic of Texas, advised the comm ... |
Albrecht Dürer | ... rt medium begins in the Renaissance. The German Northern Renaissance artist | (1471–1528) who painted several fine botanical, wildlife and landscape wat ... |
Tycho Brahe | ... , and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, | 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20 |
Crown Prince Frederick | ... was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of | and Princess Louise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise) ... |
Charles Thompson | ... iss America 2007 Lauren Nelson, infamous University of Oklahoma quarterback | , NFL Pro Bowlers Will Shields and Jammal Brow |
George Lucas | ... y the blockbuster success of two science fiction and fantasy films in 1977. | 's ushered in an era of fantasy films with expensive and impressive specia ... |
Sandy Mölling | ... ll-female pop trio from Germany, consisting of band members Lucy Diakovska, | , and Jessica Wahls. Critically acclaimed, the band has won dozen of award ... |
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 ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... e viewer until he turns his face toward the camera during a scene featuring | and George Raft. MacLaine also briefly appears in Ocean's Eleven as a drun ... |
Boyd Rice | ... noise music appeared with Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and NON (aka | ). These cassette culture releases often featured zany tape editing, stark ... |
García Sánchez III of Navarre | ... e, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, | . While Ferdinand inaugurated the rule of the Navarrese Jiménez dynasty ov ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... amount of labor which has been expended in the improvement of commodities". | in his 1729 essay entitled "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity ... |
Peter Cook | ... naged to stay, ad-libbing his way through surrealistic fantasy stories à la | , which Cooper reaffirms, saying he was not even certain he ever knew the ... |
Eliphas Lévi | ... ermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aurum Solis, Ragon, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, | , Frederick Hockley, William Butler Yeats, and Arthur Machen. Many Hermeti ... |
Geminus | ... he goddess of justice. Libra is mentioned by Manetho (3rd century B.C.) and | (1st century B.C.), and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy c ... |
James Lapine | ... ania, opposite Roger Daltrey as Liszt, and by Bernadette Peters in the 1991 | film Impromptu, which last dramatized encounters between d'Agoult, Liszt ( ... |
Penda of Mercia | After Edwin was killed in battle against Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd and | , Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfrith taking power in the sub-ki ... |
Daniel Gookin | ... , was given "600 acres at Kequatan, now called Elizabeth Cittie." A partner | completed founding the settlement |
Shakespeare | ... fter a ship on which her parents had traveled, not after the character from | 's As You Like It. She attended Roman Catholic schools, including Marymoun ... |
Rowan Atkinson | ... ith several one-off installments. All television programme episodes starred | as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, ... |
Hồ Xuân Hương | ... iters and poets composed their works in Chữ Nôm, most notably Nguyễn Du and | (dubbed "the Queen of Nôm poetry") |
Howard Staunton | ... rvived until 1873. From February 15, 1845 onwards it faced competition from | 's column in the Illustrated London News, a column which outlived Walker's ... |
King Christian IX | ... lace in Kongens Lyngby on Zealand during the reign of his great-grandfather | . His father was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... a movie based on the book. The cast included Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, | and Betty Field. The suit worn by Ronald Reagan in the film is on display ... |
Craig Thompson | ... mpted to have the graphic novels Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and Blankets by | removed from the Marshall Public Library. Supporters of the books' removal ... |
Aristotle | Early insights in the labour theory of value appear in | ´s Politics. He developed a "theory of the value of labour", holding that ... |
Saul | ... break-up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by | , David and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. Aft ... |
Plato | ... ent and modern ethical thinkers, particularly of Kant and Fichte, with only | and Spinoza finding favour in his eyes. He failed to discover in previous ... |
Karl Marx | ... early labour values theories. Some writers (including Bertrand Russell and | ) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. In his Summa ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... after the birth in Flanders of Joanna and Philip's second child (the future | ), the succession to the Castilian and Aragonese crowns was thrown into tu ... |
Gerald Ford | ... cal community called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. Vice President | said, "While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed pa ... |
Queen Margaret | ... e Lancastrians and the Yorkists. With the mental collapse of King Henry VI, | used the Duchy of Lancaster lands in the Midlands, including Kenilworth, a ... |
President pro tempore | ... 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history. He was | in the 108th and 109th Congresses from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007 ... |
Prince Christian of Denmark | ... during the reign of his great-grandfather King Christian IX. His father was | (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and Pri ... |
Mark Twain | ... ally intended for adults are now commonly thought of as works for children. | 's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was originally intended for an adult aud ... |
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 ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (including | and Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ... |
Philippa Gregory | ... character in the novels I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles, The Other Queen by | and is a prominent secondary character in several books by Bertrice Small |
Sir Hans Sloane | ... al museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the physician and naturalist | (1660–1753). During the course of his lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable ... |
Edward III of England | ... ly associated with the status of knighthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), | sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and ... |
Moses | ... ter moved to Egypt. The remaining four books of the Torah tell the story of | , who lived hundreds of years after the patriarchs. He leads the Children ... |
John Adams | ... . On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of | of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of V ... |
Michael Lind | ... Cambodian Communists. Not one of them in his opinion was the U.S. bombing. | , in his book on the Vietnam War, notes: "In 1970, the Committee of Concer ... |
P. D. James | ... s 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for | ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh s ... |
Rehoboam | ... of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the northern tribes refused to accept | , the son of Solomon, as their king. At first, only the tribe of Judah rem ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... 1946 address built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: | , Margaret Thatcher, Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, Geo ... |
Ludwig I of Bavaria | ... mples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for | between 1830–1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens V ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... ice, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), consisted of an effort to trace | following the 1998 embassy bombings. The U.S. and the European Union provi ... |
Stanley Keyes | ... lectronic score to an Off-Broadway production of Dragon Slayers, written by | and directed by Brad Mays in 1986 at the Union Square Theatre in New York, ... |
King George II | ... ot wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to | , for the nation, for the princely sum of £20,000 |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... ghthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), Edward III of England sent his son, | , to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, ... |
Frederick III | ... ties of the Franc (Flanders), nor Imperial support from Maximilian's father | proving decisive. Both sides came to terms in the Peace of Senlis in 1493, ... |
Leon Uris | ... ed when Hitchcock was unsatisfied with his score. Topaz (1969), (based on a | novel), is partly set in Cuba. Both received mixed reviews from critics |
Wilhelm II | ... elves at the front of the movement, and on 7 November, demanded that Kaiser | abdicate. When he refused, Prince Max of Baden simply announced that he ha ... |
Augustus Hill Garland | ... ted in 1887. The new location was named Garland after U.S. Attorney General | . Soon after, the towns of Embree and Duck Creek were combined, and the th ... |
Franz Bardon | ... e the 17th century as the adjective Hermetic (as in "Hermetic writers" e.g. | ). The synonymous Hermetical also occurs in the 17th century. Sir Thomas B ... |
Henry VII | ... as a military balance to the nearby castle of Warwick. With the victory of | at Bosworth, Kenilworth again received royal attention; Henry visited freq ... |
Ron Joyce | ... al venture in hamburger restaurants. In 1967 Horton partnered with investor | , who assumed control over operations after Tim Horton died in a car crash ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... ll but once, the exception being 1964 when Warren County voted for Democrat | over Barry M. Goldwater. Before the Republican party was formed, Warren Co ... |
St Jerome | ... time Asser entered the church. Asser may have been familiar with a work by | on the meaning of Hebrew names (Jerome's given meaning for "Asser" was "bl ... |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko | ... ely summed up in his response, reported in his Memoirs, to the Russian poet | ’s question, in his broken English: “You atheist?” Amis replied, “It’s mor ... |
John Lennon | The Hollywood Vampires was also attended by the likes of | , Ringo Starr, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all of whom Moon maintained ... |
George Sand | ... encounters between d'Agoult, Liszt (Julian Sands), Chopin (Hugh Grant), and | (Judy Davis) |
Solomon | ... United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, David and | , which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the northern tri ... |
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 ... |
Hermes Trismegistus | ... s beliefs based primarily upon the pseudepigraphical writings attributed to | . These beliefs have heavily influenced the Western esoteric tradition and ... |
Evliya Çelebi | ... ebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator who, according to an account written by | , made a successful manned rocket flight |
William, Prince of Orange | ... should the battle be lost. They were mostly composed of Dutch troops under | 's younger brother Prince Frederik of the Netherlands |
Karl Marx | ... ture and Necessity of a Paper Currency" is sometimes credited (including by | ) with originating the concept in its modern form. However, the theory has ... |
Jerome | ... ive, and retains the form deus. "My God!" in Latin is thus mī deus!, though | 's Vulgate consistently (and in deviation from classical use) uses deus me ... |
Julian Bond | ... laws. The ACLU's southern office also defended African-American congressman | in Bond v. Floyd, when the Georgia congress refused to formally induct Bon ... |
Bede | ... n the sub-kingdom of Bernicia and Osric taking power in Deira. According to | , Osric was, like Eanfrith, a Christian who reverted to paganism upon comi ... |
Kit Woolsey | ... ata generated from self-play. According to assessments by Bill Robertie and | , TD-Gammon's play was at or above the level of the top human players in t ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | An American Civil rights activist, | was assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee |
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 ... |
Jacques Gauthier | ... graphica. However, an alternate definition proposed by scientists including | and adherents of the Phylocode system defined Aves to include only the mod ... |
Julie Andrews | ... ld War-related themes. The first, Torn Curtain (1966), with Paul Newman and | , displays the bitter end of the twelve-year collaboration between Hitchco ... |
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 ... |
Alfred | Much of what is known about Asser comes from his biography of | , in particular a short section in which Asser recounts how Alfred recruit ... |
Iris Murdoch | ... on display ranging over books such as Colin Wilson’s The Outsider (panned), | ’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or William Empson’s Milton’s God ( ... |
Sven Väth | He has also released an album Sounds of the Third Season with | |
Thomas Nast | The traditional mascot of the party is the elephant. A political cartoon by | , published in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874, is considered the firs ... |
Dave Filoni | According to | , supervising director of the animated television series , the look of the ... |
Edward Moxon | ... ing Arthur and the Weeping Queens, one of two illustrations by Rossetti for | 's illustrated edition of Tennyson's Poems (1857 |
Jehoash of Judah | ... ise had prophetic powers. And thinking a child of seven – the age of Joas ( | ) in the Second Book of Kings – too young to have the part given him in At ... |
James Madison | ... the area was organized to form Madison County. The name was chosen to honor | , who had been the two-term President of the United States up until two ye ... |
Tullus Hostilius | In the 7th century BC, during the reign of Rome's third king | , the Sabines and the Romans again warred. The pretexts for the war were, ... |
Rob Reiner | ... a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by | . It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows ... |
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 ... |
Casimir IV Jagiellon | ... tle of Žalgiris) (1410) and in 1466 the milestone Peace of Thorn under King | ; the treaty created the future Duchy of Prussia. In the south, Poland con ... |
Brad Mays | ... dway production of Dragon Slayers, written by Stanley Keyes and directed by | in 1986 at the Union Square Theatre in New York, which was re-staged with ... |
George Washington | ... on. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who was a personal bodyguard to Gen. | at Valley Forge. He was also one of the pioneers at Fort Boonesborough in ... |
Toby Creswell | ... Diesel and Dust ranked no. 1 in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by | , Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell |
John James Audubon | ... life illustration reached its peak in the 19th century with artists such as | , and today many naturalist field guides are still illustrated with waterc ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... nsisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, | of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connec ... |
Emperor Henry III | ... ed, in Juan de Mariana, who wrote that in 1055, at a synod in Florence, the | urged Victor II to prohibit under severe penalties the use of the imperial ... |
Enid Blyton | ... ry in a sequel or to launch a series, such as L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. | and R. L. Stine have specialized in open-ended series. Sometimes a series ... |
Ferdowsi | In the 11th century Shahnameh, the Persian poet | credits Burzoe with the invention of the tables game nard in the 6th centu ... |
Numa Pompilius | ... n customs, as well as Etruscan, despite the fact that they were espoused by | , second king of Rome and a Sabine |
Ronald Reagan | ... istic slab of stone.” James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under President | , initially refused to issue a building permit for the memorial due to the ... |
Colin Wilson | ... and literary and social opinions were on display ranging over books such as | ’s The Outsider (panned), Iris Murdoch’s debut novel Under the Net (praise ... |
Adam Dalgliesh | ... on for P. D. James' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her | series. The last words of the poem "On Wenlock Edge" are used by Audrey R. ... |
Arthur Goldberg | ... eral wing of the Court, together with Warren, Douglas, William Brennan, and | . They said the Court had a role beyond that of Congress. Yet while he oft ... |
Solomon | ... te tribes. After the northern tribes refused to accept Rehoboam, the son of | , as their king. At first, only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the h ... |
Jeremy Northam | A 1999 movie named Happy, Texas starring | , Steve Zahn, Ally Walker, Ileana Douglas and William H. Macy was named fo ... |
Tom Tykwer | The Wachowskis are collaborating with | on Cloud Atlas, an adaptation of David Mitchell's novel of the same name, ... |
Ian Miller | ... " that had the same impact as his adult-oriented films. British illustrator | and comic book artist Mike Ploog were hired to contribute backgrounds and ... |
Jacob Bernoulli | In real analysis, Bernoulli's inequality (named after | ) is an inequality that approximates exponentiations of 1 + x |
Benjamin Franklin | ... appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, | of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New ... |
John Lloyd | ... a parody of Batman with Baldrick as the counterpart of Robin (suggested by | ). This idea eventually came to surface as part of the Comic Relief sketch ... |
Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by | and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan a ... |
Washington Irving | ... the Columbia. The account of his explorations in the west was published by | in 1838.). John C. Frémont of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engin ... |
Rosalind Russell | ... g at local clubs, such as Ciro's and Mocambo's, for Hollywood stars such as | , Clark Gable, Gloria Swanson, and Shirley Temple. He did not always play ... |
L. Frank Baum | ... the author to continue the story in a sequel or to launch a series, such as | 's Wizard of Oz. Enid Blyton and R. L. Stine have specialized in open-ende ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... eme restaurants (modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe) along with Bruce Willis, | and Demi Moore. Schwarzenegger severed his financial ties with the busines ... |
Thomas Browne | ... anz Bardon). The synonymous Hermetical also occurs in the 17th century. Sir | in his Religio Medici of 1643 wrote "Now besides these particular and divi ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... eer among other animals, is located on property formerly owned by president | in the period between the Mexican War and the Civil War |
Thomas Jefferson | ... arty" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by | 's Republican party. The idea for the name came from an editorial by the p ... |
Jordanes | ... tion (east of the Swabians) is in the History of the Goths by the historian | dating from 551. Then follows a remark by Venantius Fortunatus in his desc ... |
Infanta Joanna | ... rived from a council of Burgundian notables. On 20 October 1496, he married | , daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, ... |
Charles II of Spain | In 1701, following the death in late 1700 of King | , war broke out over who should succeed him to the Spanish throne. Althoug ... |
Steven Spielberg | That same year, | 's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind boasted a finale with impressiv ... |
Gene Roddenberry | ... nterfaces throughout the series. She was also the wife of Star Trek creator | |
Donald Spoto | ... sually against his new films, although some critics, such as Robin Wood and | , contend that Marnie (1964) is first-class Hitchcock, and some have argue ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... the first member of the house of Habsburg to be King of Castile. The son of | , Philip inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Burgu ... |
Nguyễn Du | ... rst six lines of Truyện Kiều, an epic narrative poem by the celebrated poet | , ), which is often considered the most significant work of Vietnamese lit ... |
Hezekiah | ... s that they failed to enforce worship of Yahweh alone. Of the "good" kings, | (727–698 BCE) is noted for his efforts at stamping out idolatry (in this c ... |
William III of Orange | ... ampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for | . The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths. It ... |
Bede | Some traditions call the festival "Litha", a name occurring in | 's "Reckoning of Time" (De Temporum Ratione, 7th century), which preserves ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... ld at that point become overwhelming in the empire triggered France, led by | and Cardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's ... |
Duke Ellington | ... , for example, on Bix Beiderbecke's piano playing. And it is also true that | adopted and reinterpreted some harmonic devices in European contemporary m ... |
Thucydides | ... , Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, | , and Xenophon |
Richard Holbrooke | ... In late 2009 Raphel was (again) appointed to the Af-Pak region as deputy to | , the US. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, by the Obama ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... prominent supporting character in the 1937 film Fire Over England, starring | , Vivien Leigh, and Flora Robson. Burghley (spelled Burleigh in the film) ... |
Henry II | ... 16 against King John, it was Blanche's English ancestry as granddaughter to | that led to Louis being offered the throne of England as Louis I. However, ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... published a letter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including | , Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which describe ... |
Andrés Manuel López Obrador | ... Robles Berlanga became the first woman mayor of Mexico City. In 2000, PRD's | became the second democratically elected mayor of Mexico City. López Obrad ... |
Ian Fleming | Amis became associated with | 's James Bond novels, which he greatly admired, in the late 1960s, when he ... |
Leopold II | ... the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of Joseph II and | , who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise for the Czech ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | ... e was largely based on Icelandic Sagas, the history of the Danes written by | , the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigne ... |
Jake Thackray | ... ttist Artie Shaw (nominated for a Grierson award); one on singer/songwriter | ; a BBC Four programme about British experimental music of the 1960s and 7 ... |
Geoffrey Palmer | ... nnor, Bill Wallis, Ronald Lacey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warren Clarke and | , who played Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in "Goodbyeee", the final, fat ... |
Christiane Fellbaum | ... lowing members of the Cognitive Science Laboratory: George Armitage Miller, | , Randee Tengi, Pamela Wakefield, Helen Langone and Benjamin R. Haskell. W ... |
Queen Margrethe II | He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, | . Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, | , and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catal ... |
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 ... |
Charles I | The sole reason | assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since th ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... This made a perfect place to build an irrigation system. In 1902 President | signed the Reclamation Act, and in 1906 the Sun River Irrigation Project w ... |
Ibn Khaldun | ... (including Joseph Schumpeter) have traced back the concept even further to | , who in his Muqaddimah (1377), described labour as the source of value, n ... |
Gyges | ... hese in the Greek tradition are associated with Sardis, the capital city of | , constructed in the 7th century BC |
Jerome | ... n of Jeremiah also includes the Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah. | 's says he excluded them: "And the Book of Baruch, his scribe, which is ne ... |
Larry King | ... this annulment did not occur until April 2004. In an interview on CNN with | , Hynie produced a 2001 marriage certificate as proof of her marriage to J ... |
Tom Stoppard | Housman is the main character in the 1997 | play The Invention of Love. Many titles for novels and films have been dra ... |
Robert Bork | ... the Justice Department willing to fire Cox ended with the Solicitor General | . Though Bork believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he consi ... |
William Empson | ... e Outsider (panned), Iris Murdoch’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or | ’s Milton’s God (inclined to agree with). Amis’s opinions on books and peo ... |
George Washington | ... built the first water-works in America to pump water for public use. While | and his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effe ... |
Artie Shaw | ... s of Sound, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; a biography of clarinettist | (nominated for a Grierson award); one on singer/songwriter Jake Thackray; ... |
Sophocles | ... tus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, | , Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Urraca | ... of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and John of England, Blanche's sister | was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother Eleanor of Aquitai ... |
Vivian Stanshall | ... ugh his behaviour was outrageous, it was in the humorous vein as his friend | , of the Bonzo Dog Band claimed. Moon produced Stanshall's version of Terr ... |
Joseph II | ... ace German as the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of | and Leopold II, who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise ... |
Jacques Brel | ... d documentaries about British views on eschatology, the Belgian chansonnier | , the musical partnership of Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth, and the ... |
Yoshitaka Amano | ... remixed soundtrack, added full motion video sequences, and art galleries of | 's illustrations. Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls is, like Final Fanta ... |
Henry IV of France | ... ardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father | had once been a Huguenot leader.) In 1635 Ferdinand signed his last import ... |
Edward VI | ... o prominence under Henry VIII and became the leading political figure under | . Dudley was a patron of John Shute, an early exponent of classical archit ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands (as Philip IV) from his mother, | , and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Jo ... |
Peter Powell | ... their first TV appearance on BBC TV Top of the Pops on 8 May 1980 opening a | presented show with Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2". This was to be ... |
JF Buddeus | ... superintendent. He studied at Leipzig and Jena, amongst his teachers being | , whose only daughter he married. He published in 1716 a work, Historia cr ... |
Queen Victoria | In 1796, the Great Hall was restored and in 1838, during the reign of | , the restoration was completed and the palace opened to the public. The h ... |
Mikhail Frunze | ... year old orphan boy who they named Petya. They also adopted the children of | , following his death in 1925. During Stalin's rule they lived in the at t ... |
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... uise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was | , a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ... |
Sidney Hook | ... umber of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, | , and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a terrorist, rig ... |
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 ... |
Pausanias | ... the, was reported to be of the family of Noah. The 2nd-century AD traveller | , pausing at to enumerate four sibyls, mentions the "Palestinian Sibyl" wh ... |
Raymond Gubbay | Many events are promoted by the Hall themselves, whilst | promotes over 70 events a year, having brought a range of events since the ... |
Henry VIII | ... ntly and had a tennis court constructed at the castle for his use. His son, | , decided that Kenilworth should be maintained as a royal castle. He aband ... |
Joseph Pulitzer | ... acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with | 's New York World which led to the creation of yellow journalism—sensation ... |
Bill Richardson | ... e, Assistant Secretary of State Rick Indefurth and American U.N. Ambassador | flew to northern Afghanistan and tried to convince the leadership of the U ... |
Duke Ellington | ... se of non-diegetic jazz was another modernist innovation, such as jazz star | 's score for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
Henry | ... 1216, the barons changed their allegiance to John's son, the nine-year-old | |
Doreen Valiente | ... nately as "Old Dorothy". Gardner's statements were interpreted by his pupil | as implying that Clutterbuck had personally initiated him into the coven, ... |
Alyattes | ... by Mysia, Caria, Phrygia and coastal Ionia. Later on, the military power of | and Croesus expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, whi ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, | , Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a t ... |
Uzziah | ... Kirjath-jearim to Mount Zion (1 Chr. 13; 15:2–24; 16:4–43; comp. 2 Sam. 6), | 's tzaraas (commonly translated as "leprosy") and its cause (2 Chr. 26:16– ... |
Charles Colson | ... who became known as the "Watergate Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, | , Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring ... |
Ptolemy | ... are sometimes called Ptolemaic aspects since they were defined and used by | in the 1st Century, AD. These aspects are the conjunction (approx. 0-10°), ... |
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 ... |
Ferdinand II of León | ... houses of Lara and Castro both claimed the regency, as did the boy's uncle, | . In 1159 the young Alfonso was put briefly in the custody of García Garcé ... |
King Charles I | ... te. This unfortunate quarrel became the fruitful source of infinite evil to | and to his government. Two parties were formed in the cabinet, and through ... |
Byron Preiss | In 1993, DC Comics, in conjunction with | Visual Publications, published a three-part comic book adaptation of the n ... |
Philippa Pearce | ... telage is shaken off. In the classic British novels Tom's Midnight Garden ( | , 1958) and Jessamy (Barbara Sleigh, 1967), for example, the responsibilit ... |
Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song | ... thematics. When he was only a youth his talent earned him much repute. When | heard of him, he was sent to an Academy, the Hualin Xuesheng (華林學省), and l ... |
James Bond | Amis became associated with Ian Fleming's | novels, which he greatly admired, in the late 1960s, when he began composi ... |
Marie-Louise | ... apartments were, however, arranged and decorated for the use of the empress | . The emperor chose to reside at the Grand Trianon. The château continued ... |
Varro | ... tius' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of | , 1st century BC) these ten sibyls were those in the following list. Of th ... |
Peter O'Donnell | ... lood and breath,/ they give a man a taste for death" supplies the title for | 's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration f ... |
Robert M. La Follette | ... ry was also notable for the emergence of progressive politics championed by | . Between 1901 and 1914, Progressive Republicans in Wisconsin created the ... |
Sir Hans Sloane | ... ed in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist | . The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu Hous ... |
John Stockwell | ... i Kotoka and the National Liberation Council. Several commentators, such as | , have claimed the coup received support from the CIA |
Billy Crystal | The story begins in 1977. Harry Burns ( | ) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) finish college at the University of Chicag ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... 1817), and who had handled the Louisiana Purchase as Secretary of State for | . At the time that Madison County was organized, the land south of Saline ... |
Xenophon | ... vid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and | |
Romany Society | ... t to hostage families. He is also president of Emmaus UK, and patron of the | |
Oswine | ... ng the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the father of | |
Leo Ruickbie | ... ion from his true magical partner, Edith Woodford-Grimes. Ronald Hutton and | have concluded that Clutterbuck is unlikely to have been involved in Gardn ... |
Ward Churchill | American Indian Movement of Colorado leader and activist | takes this argument further, contending that the mythologizing and celebra ... |
Josiah | ... E), revived idolatry, drawing down on the kingdom the anger of Yahweh. King | (640–609 BCE) returned to the worship of Yahweh alone, but his efforts wer ... |
Sancho III of Castile | Alfonso was born to | and Blanche, daughter of García Ramírez of Navarre, in Soria on 11 Novembe ... |
Walt Whitman | ... s. Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of | in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provi ... |
Zakir Hussain | Dr | the former President of India once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on Nov ... |
Allen Ginsberg | ... ings and live and tape performances by a wide variety of figures, including | and William S. Burroughs |
Bob Dylan | ... tered the mainstream in the middle of the 1960s, when the singer-songwriter | began his career. Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes The B ... |
Clare Hollingworth | ... ruiting tactics amongst Displaced Persons (DP) in the camps across Germany: | , the Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman correspondent in Jerusalem during 1 ... |
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 ... |
Louis VIII | ... arch 1188 – 26 November 1252), was a Queen consort of France as the wife of | . She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX |
Charles Martel | ... 17, had achieved complete independence from the feeble Frankish kings. When | became the virtual ruler of the Frankish realm he brought the Bavarians in ... |
Naevius | | names the Cimmerian Sibyl in his books of the Punic War and Piso in his an ... |
Andrew Huxley | ... electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by Alan Hodgkin, | , and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of Be ... |
Leopold I | ... the Mutual Pact of Succession he had signed during the reign of his father, | . Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ... |
Caesar Rodney | ... nce. The tie in the Delaware delegation was broken by the timely arrival of | , who voted for independence. The New York delegation abstained once again ... |
Le Corbusier | ... school. It was here that he first encountered the works of Swiss modernist, | . His discovery of the drawings of the Palace of the Soviets in a foreign ... |
Julian Rathbone | Tostig features in the novels The Last English King (2000), by | (where he is depicted as Edward the Confessor's catamite), Harold, The Las ... |
Ferdinand II | After Emperor | began oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohem ... |
Nigel Short | ... appears daily in The Times and Sunday Times. Ex-world championship finalist | wrote each Sunday for The Daily Telegraph (taken over by the daily chess c ... |
Barbara Sleigh | ... British novels Tom's Midnight Garden (Philippa Pearce, 1958) and Jessamy ( | , 1967), for example, the responsibility is enhanced by isolating the chil ... |
Hesiod | ... isitor to these "dells of Parnassus", at the end of the eighth century, was | , who was shown the omphalos |
Kirk Cameron | At the end of the 1980s, actor | became a major teen idol teenage heartthrob. Cameron was best known for hi ... |
Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark | ... holas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather | , the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) and hi ... |
Cyrus the Great | The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of | , the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE; this sets an earliest ... |
Luther | ... theca theologica (1757–1765); Bibliotheca patristica (1770); his edition of | 's works in 24 vols. (1740–1752); Historische und theologische Einleitung ... |
Catharine Parr Traill | ... Traill, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and son of Canadian pioneer | |
George I | ... five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and | ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
commentators | ... of Paul Hardcastle's number one hit, 19, with Bremner impersonating cricket | , including Richie Benaud and Brian Johnston, and replacing references to ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... tial election was highly sought; despite being good friends with candidates | and Senator John McCain, Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 a ... |
Queen Anne | ... example of the five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for | and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
Manasseh of Judah | ... erah, among other traditional Near Eastern divinities), but his successors, | (698–642 BCE) and Amon (642–640 BCE), revived idolatry, drawing down on th ... |
Eleanor of England | With | he had 11 children |
Pamela Des Barres | ... he wheel of the car. However, Keith never recovered from feelings of guilt. | , a with whom Moon had had an ongoing relationship over the course of thre ... |
Ahmed Sékou Touré | ... ican unity. He lived in exile in Conakry, Guinea, as the guest of President | , who made him honorary co-president of the country. He read, wrote, corre ... |
Elizabeth I | ... son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, four years after the succession of | to the throne. Leicester's lands in Warwickshire were worth between £500–£ ... |
Plato | ... asis on human emotion and the imagination. Meanwhile he studied Spinoza and | , both of whom were important influences. He became more indebted to Kant, ... |
Helen Mirren | ... orton Selten. He also appears in the television miniseries Elizabeth I with | , in which he is played by Ian McDiarmid. He was also portrayed by Ronald ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... s of Judah to the time of the Babylonian exile, concluding with the call by | for the exiles to return to their land |
Raymond Keene | | 's column appears daily in The Times and Sunday Times. Ex-world championsh ... |
Princess Louise of Sweden | ... mark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and | (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was Alexandrine o ... |
Ole Worm | In Scandinavia Thomas Bartholin and | , the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden were the fir ... |
Queen Mary | ... egan the process of modernising Kenilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by | for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the ... |
Edward Rutledge | ... e next step was for the resolution to be voted upon by the Congress itself. | of South Carolina, who was opposed to Lee's resolution but desirous of una ... |
John McCain | ... ry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican | in 2008 |
Henry I | ... fonso died at Gutierre-Muñoz and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, | , named after his maternal grandfather |
Henry | ... to Italy in 1605, and during 1611–12 arranged to sell Kenilworth Castle to | , the Prince of Wales. Henry died before completing the full purchase, whi ... |
Ferdinand | ... g year, leaving a pregnant Joanna behind in Madrid, where she gave birth to | , later Holy Roman Emperor. Philip's life with Joanna was rendered extreme ... |
Ioan Gruffudd | ... he struggle against the slave trade, directed by Michael Apted and starring | was released in 2007 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Parliament' ... |
Philip Augustus | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between | and John of England, Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son ... |
2Pac | # "Call It What You Want" (featuring: | , Money-B |
John Lennon | ... , the same sort of bass has a tea chest as a resonator. Before the Beatles, | and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as di ... |
Terry George | ... ruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village (2004), a disillusioned cameraman in | 's Hotel Rwanda (2004), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 (2004) |
Sara Douglass | ... Gold, by Ray Bryant, and God's Concubine book 2 of The Troy Game series by | , The Bastard King by Jean Plaidy |
Olof von Dalin | ... tic in the works of a Danish-Norwegian historian Ludvig Holberg and Swedish | . During the later half of the 18th century the Icelandic Sagas were still ... |
Eanfrith | ... Cadfan of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, with | taking power in the sub-kingdom of Bernicia and Osric taking power in Deir ... |
Dirk Bogarde | ... was portrayed by Geneviève Page in the 1960 film Song Without End, opposite | as Liszt, by Fiona Lewis in the 1975 Ken Russell film Lisztomania, opposit ... |
García Ramírez of Navarre | Alfonso was born to Sancho III of Castile and Blanche, daughter of | , in Soria on 11 November 1155. He was named after his grandfather Alfonso ... |
W. H. Auden | ... erse (1978), which he edited, was a revision of the original volume done by | . Amis took the anthology in a markedly new direction: Auden had interpret ... |
Constantine the Great | The reign of | saw the division of the Empire into its Eastern and Western halves, as wel ... |
Mr. Magic | ... she entered the influential world of record producer Marley Marl, radio DJ | , and Tyrone Williams, who were talking about how UTFO had canceled its ap ... |
Arthur Ransome | ... ng the child not just spatially, but in time, through the use of time slip. | used the device of children acting for themselves extensively in his Swall ... |
Madonna | ... enced many electro-pop, other synthpop, and mainstream performers including | , La Roux, Moby, Pet Shop Boys, and Little Boots. They have been sampled a ... |
Livy | According to | , after the conflict the Sabine and Rome states merged, and the Sabine kin ... |
Thomas Hodgskin | ... or and the value of the product, the "Ricardian socialists" — Charles Hall, | , John Gray, and John Francis Bray — applied Ricardo's theory to develop t ... |
R. J. Rummel | ... mately 1.7 million, which was about 21 percent of the country's population. | , an analyst of historical political killings, gives a figure of 2 million ... |
Eleanor of England | ... ncia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, and | . Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Pharaoh | ... ngholds, along with fortified cities. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign | Shishaq of Egypt, brought a huge army and took many cities. When they laid ... |
Campanella | ... writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, | and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a w ... |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... ssian government with "demagogic agitation" in conjunction with the patriot | |
Anderson Cooper | ... lues Club in New York, in addition to performing a song live on CNN for the | . However, Brown remained hospitalized, and his medical condition worsened ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Reaganomics, a term popularized during the Presidential administrations of | . This theory holds that reduced income tax rates increase GDP growth and ... |
Rehoboam | ... petual war between them. Israel and Judah were in a state of war throughout | 's seventeen year reign. Rehoboam built elaborate defenses and strongholds ... |
Jacob Grimm | ... word for "east". It has been connected to the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre by | in his Deutsche Mythologie |
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf | ... 1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter of | (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, Princess Margar ... |
John Acquaviva | With Canadian DJ | he formed the label Plus 8 in 1990 to release his own tracks under the nam ... |
George Drew | ... o victory in the election against the Progressive Conservative Party led by | . The Liberals won 190 seats—the most in Canadian history at the time, and ... |
Jessica Mitford | ... os Angeles Magazine described it as a "theme-park necropolis", paraphrasing | , indicating "Forest Lawn’s kitsch was just a sophisticated strategy for l ... |
Alfonso VIII | She was born in Palencia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of | , king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry ... |
Edward the Confessor | ... s The Last English King (2000), by Julian Rathbone (where he is depicted as | 's catamite), Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ... |
President of Ireland | ... hoice lobby group called the Anti-Amendment Campaign, which included future | Mary Robinson. The Pro Life Amendment Campaign subsequently became the Pro ... |
Elizabeth Stuart | ... ian throne, and was known as the Winter King. Frederick's wife, the popular | and subsequently Elizabeth of Bohemia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen ... |
Sparta | ... other account mentioned in Dionysius's work, a group of Lacedaemonians fled | since they regarded the laws of Lycurgus as too severe. In Italy, they fou ... |
Frederick V | ... g Bohemian Revolt led to outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in 1618. Elector | of the Electorate of the Palatinate, a Protestant, was elected by the Bohe ... |
Ludvig Holberg | ... me more rational and pragmatic in the works of a Danish-Norwegian historian | and Swedish Olof von Dalin. During the later half of the 18th century the ... |
Moses | The Torah, or "Instruction", is also known as the "Five Books" of | , thus Chumash from Hebrew meaning "fivesome", and Pentateuch from Greek m ... |
Elia Kazan | ... onally renowned filmmakers in the Greek diaspora such as the Greek-American | |
John McCain | ... ought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator | , Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani ... |
Louis IX | ... wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, | |
Atys | ... the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their king, Lydus (Λυδός), son of | , in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the Heracleid dynasty. T ... |
Johannes Kepler | ... he traditional minor aspects, introduced by the famed astronomer/astrologer | in the 16th Century AD, were long considered to be of relatively secondary ... |
Bob Dylan | ... popular artist came in 1973 with the film Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, by | . However the album received very little critical acclaim. This had not be ... |
Hein Verbruggen | ... about this, suggested that high IOC officials (probably including the Dutch | and IOC Director of the Olympic Games, Gilbert Felli, and most likely with ... |
William S. Burroughs | ... ape performances by a wide variety of figures, including Allen Ginsberg and | |
Porphyry | ... egistus dates back to the first century CE, and Tertullian, Iamblichus, and | are all familiar with Hermetic writings |
Idi Amin | ... gether with his wife, Frances, and their four children, Waite witnessed the | coup in Uganda, he and his wife narrowly escaping death on several occasio ... |
George Clooney | ... e village is also mentioned in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou starring | in a lead role. There's a street sign reading "Satartia — 7 miles" in one ... |
Noël Coward | ... n) in 1926. The play was performed on the London stage in 1926 and featured | and |
Hitler | ... th anniversary of the failed Munich Putsch the regiment swore allegiance to | . The oath given: Pledging loyalty to him alone and Obedience unto death. ... |
Malcolm III of Scotland | ... ted him decisively. Deserted by his men, he fled to his sworn brother, King | . Tostig spent the summer of 1066 in Scotland |
Bill Gates | On March 6, 1988 Alan Cooper showed | his shell prototype that allowed widgets to be added dynamically. March 20 ... |
Joanna Lumley | ... man and Diana Rigg later co-starred in Bond films. The New Avengers regular | had, prior to that series, appeared in the James Bond film On Her Majesty' ... |
Caroline of Brunswick | ... uccessful mediation attempts between King George IV, and his estranged wife | , who had sought her rights as queen. Nevertheless, Wilberforce still hope ... |
Richard Nixon | ... y saw election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, | , Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Re ... |
Rhys Gryg | ... Britons and its southern part soon became Anglicised. In 1215 a local lord, | of Deheubarth claimed control of the peninsula, but in 1220 he ceded contr ... |
Charles II | ... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England, | . In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ... |
Richard Curtis | The Black Adder was the first series of Blackadder and was written by | and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by John Lloyd. The series was originally ... |
David Mitchell's | ... chowskis are collaborating with Tom Tykwer on Cloud Atlas, an adaptation of | novel of the same name, for Warner Bros. Pictures. Tykwer and The Wachowsk ... |
Thomas Hughes | ... e a common device for this, beginning with Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by | and F.W. Farrar's Eric, or, Little by Little, although the framework had b ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... brother, Charles. When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, | ; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... tt returned to acting, appearing in a small role as Bob Sheldon in the 1983 | film The Outsiders. In 1985 he starred in Shaker Run as a mechanic and in ... |
Mel Gibson | ... re based upon the series circulated during the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s, with | at one point being considered a front-runner for the role of Steed. Ultima ... |
Susie Dent | ... intended to name his new band 'Mad Dog'. According to Oxford lexicographer | , Moon and Entwistle were speculating with Page about the possible formati ... |
Painter | ... togonia and 48 in oogonia, concluding an XX/XO sex determination mechanism. | in 1922 was not certain whether the diploid number of humans was 46 or 48, ... |
Sigismund I the Old | ... e. The European Renaissance currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings | and Sigismund II Augustus) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lit ... |
Tertullian | ... ch's mention of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to the first century CE, and | , Iamblichus, and Porphyry are all familiar with Hermetic writings |
Alan Dershowitz | ... presentatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British." | wrote in his book The Case for Israel that unlike the Haganah, the policy ... |
Louis the German | ... ngian empire. Given at the partition of 817 to the king of the East Franks, | , Bavaria formed part of the larger territories confirmed to him in 843 by ... |
Sophocles | ... alism. But, being a Christian, he can no longer assume, as did Æschylus and | , that God is merciless in leading men to a doom which they do not foresee ... |
Rowan Atkinson | ... er was the first series of Blackadder and was written by Richard Curtis and | , and produced by John Lloyd. The series was originally aired on BBC1 from ... |
Albert Einstein | In 1915, | developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that grav ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, | , Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen F ... |
Gerald Ford | ... or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, | , Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Part ... |
Theodosius I | ... y BCE. The last recorded response was given during AD 393, when the emperor | ordered pagan temples to cease operation |
BBC Radio 2 | ... ight entertainment and music from 1945 until 1967, when it was rebranded as | . It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the longwave frequency used befor ... |
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 ... |
William Blake | ... Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, Thomas Hearne and John Warwick Smith. | published several books of hand tinted engraved poetry, illustrations to D ... |
Ralph Fiennes | ... e of Steed. Ultimately, the 1998 film starring Uma Thurman as Emma Peel and | as John Steed received poor reviews from critics and fans |
Euripides | ... est of Egypt. The mother of the Libyan Sibyl was Lamia, meaning "devourer". | mentions the Libyan Sibyl in the prologue to his tragedy Lamia |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... g monarch in Spain. He never inherited his father's territories, nor became | , because he predeceased his father, but his son Emperor Charles V eventua ... |
President | ... nized in 1830 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later | ) Martin Van Buren |
Euripides | As already in the works of | , the gods have become symbolic. Venus represents the unquenchable force o ... |
Ingrid of Sweden | Instead, he married Princess | (1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter ... |
Jeroboam | ... efforts to bring Israel under his control. He waged a major battle against | of Israel and was victorious with a heavy loss of life on the Israel side; ... |
Octavian | ... the Roman Republic. It was a naval engagement fought between the forces of | and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. The battle took ... |
Aeschylus | ... nstitutions of the classical Greeks. Authors who mention the oracle include | , Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodot ... |
Ted Hughes | ... thologies The Rattle Bag (1982) and The School Bag (1987) (both edited with | ). Originally entitled The Faber Book of Verse for Younger People on the F ... |
Aristotle | ... of the classical Greeks. Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, | , Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, ... |
Clive James | ... n possible without this kind of self discipline. Nevertheless, according to | , Amis reached a turning point when his drinking ceased to be social, and ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, | , George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House ... |
Duke of Cumberland | ... uding the Queen's Staircase, (1733) and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the | . Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include ... |
Maria Theresa | ... rth to a baby boy in 1716. Unfortunately, he died soon after. A year later, | , his elder surviving child, was born. At her baptismal ceremony, contempo ... |
Trina Schart Hyman | ... controversy about The Fortune Tellers (1993), a picture book illustrated by | . Some felt that the story was European in origin and therefore inappropri ... |
Iamblichus | ... of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to the first century CE, and Tertullian, | , and Porphyry are all familiar with Hermetic writings |
Hierocles | ... eonia existed, according to Pliny the Elder (Natural History book v:30) and | |
Frank Collin | In 1977, a small group of American Nazis, led by | , applied to the town of Skokie, Illinois for permission to hold a demonst ... |
Statius | ... (the river of lamentation) and Phlegethon (the river of fire). According to | , it bordered Elysium, the final resting place of the virtuous. Ovid wrote ... |
Henry VIII of England | The future King | met Philip the Handsome on a visit Philip made to Henry's father's court i ... |
William Strachey | ... (William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is thought to have been inspired by | 's account of this shipwreck.) The island was claimed for the English Crow ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat | over Republican John McCain in 2008 |
Otto III | ... ny-Anhalt). He is rumored to have been a relative of the Holy Roman Emperor | . At the age of six he was sent to be educated in Magdeburg, seat of Adalb ... |
Werner Herzog | ... ar cabin. Phoenix then realized that the man was famed German film director | . While Herzog helped Phoenix out of the wreckage by breaking the back win ... |
Louis IX | # | (Poissy, 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270, Tunis), King of France as success ... |
King George VI | ... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizing | as Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ... |
Prince of Wales | ... rth. Thereafter Gower remained beyond the reach of Llewelyn's successors as | ; but its population suffered at the hands of Rhys ap Maredudd during his ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, | , Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, an ... |
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, ... |
Indira Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers | and her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, ... |
James Bamford | ... uld not have to perform this task itself and thus trigger World War Three." | , a former ABC News producer, in his 2001 book Body of Secrets, proposes a ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, | and George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority ... |
Charles the Fat | ... ter his death in 880 it formed part of the extensive territories of Emperor | . This incompetent ruler left its defence to Arnulf, an illegitimate son o ... |
Maria Anna | ... ed upset at the child's sex. The next year saw the arrival of another girl, | |
Charles I's | ... ment was regarded as having been automatically dissolved from the moment of | execution on 30 January 1649. This view was confirmed by a court ruling du ... |
Aristotle | Thus, in Racine the hamartia, which the thirteenth chapter of | ’s Poetics had declared a characteristic of tragedy, is not merely an acti ... |
Bob Dylan | ... ylan of The Wallflowers ranked London Calling above the work of his father, | , as the record that “changed his life”. Bands identified with the garage ... |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | According to | , many Roman historians (including Porcius Cato and Gaius Sempronius) rega ... |
Grace Kelly | ... (played by Tippi Hedren) is a thief. In To Catch a Thief (1955), Francie ( | ) offers to help a man she believes is a burglar. In Rear Window, Lisa (Gr ... |
Bragi Boddason | ... tree among both gods and men. A quote from a work by the 9th century skald | is presented that confirms the description |
Peter Hitchens | ... mien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, | , Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. T ... |
Euripides | ... le include Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, | , Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, ... |
Richard Henry Lee | ... 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and | , calling on colonies without a "government sufficient to the of their aff ... |
Ovid | ... g to Statius, it bordered Elysium, the final resting place of the virtuous. | wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, wher ... |
Fritz Lang | ... ures and matte paintings could be used to depict worlds that never existed. | 's film Metropolis was an early special effects spectacular, with innovati ... |
Sigismund II Augustus | ... nce currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings Sigismund I the Old and | ) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lithuania's territorial expa ... |
Hugh Hefner | ... ckers. Cigarette, liquor and car companies began to sponsor tournaments and | held backgammon parties at the Playboy Mansion. Backgammon clubs were form ... |
Princess Margaret of Connaught | ... nce Gustaf Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, | . They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and ... |
Geoffrey Perkins | ... on by Simon & Schuster's Audioworks in the mid-1980s. Both were produced by | and featured cover artwork by Hipgnosis |
Archibald Cox | ... of the regular Justice Department hierarchy. In May 1973, Richardson named | to the position |
Lactantius | Many Christian writers, including | , Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico ... |
Hugh Laurie | ... n the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by (Tim McInnerny), with | playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince ... |
Charles II | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and | ratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ... |
Howard Hawks | ... perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the | screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in th ... |
Michael Jackson | ... ities who attended Brown's public and/or private memorial services included | , Jimmy Cliff, Joe Frazier, Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little ... |
Herodotus | ... Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, | , Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, S ... |
Duke Ellington | ... 15-piece 'big band', who performed a jazz repertoire covering Glenn Miller, | and Count Basie; her vocal idols being Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. In 1 ... |
Percy Sutton | ... ewel of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. A co-founder of Inner City was | , a former Manhattan borough president and long one of the city's most pow ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | In A Study in Scarlet, a novel by | , the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht |
Þjóðólfr of Hvinir | ... shields, as if they were shingles. Snorri then quotes a stanza by the skald | (c. 900). As he continues, Gangleri sees a man in the doorway of the hall ... |
Pausanias | ... s, while pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke 2.7.8) gives the name Agelaus, and | (2.21.3) names Tyrsenus son of Heracles by "the Lydian woman. |
Queen Anne | ... oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of | . Opposite the altar, at first floor level, is the royal pew where the roy ... |
Peter Shapiro | ... the time" , and "an explosive emergence of an underground alternative". For | , Run-D.M.C.'s 1983 two-song release "It's like That"/"Sucker MCs" "comple ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ansmitted long-distance 128-line television images of Secretary of Commerce | from Washington to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was f ... |
Schuyler Colfax | Garner and | are the only two Vice Presidents to have been Speaker of the House of Repr ... |
Heinrich II | ... athedral of Basel (known locally as the Münster) began under German Emperor | |
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia | ... a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and | |
Kathy Burke | ... ey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, | , Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (to ... |
Virgil | ... e waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life. In the Aeneid, | writes that it is only when the dead have had their memories erased by the ... |
Sarah Fielding | ... tle by Little, although the framework had been explored as early as 1749 by | in The Governess, or The Little Female Academy. Life begins for Tom Sawyer ... |
Hesiod | ... on of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often associated. | 's Theogony identifies her as the daughter of Eris ("strife"), and the sis ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... hat the troubled grandee came to disapprove of his own conduct." His friend | said: "The booze got to him in the end, and robbed him of his wit and char ... |
Livy | ... nt of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, | , Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thuc ... |
David Letterman | ... omote Two Lovers. He seemed incoherent and was largely unresponsive towards | 's questions about the film and his career plans. Phoenix appeared on Late ... |
Theobald IV of Champagne | ... Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped by | and the papal legate to France, Romano Bonaventura, she organized an army. ... |
Cameron Crowe | ... e romantic science fiction Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and | 's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in Sofia Co ... |
Giordano Bruno | Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, | , Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered ... |
James I | ... after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular location for both | and Charles and accordingly was well maintained. The most famous royal vis ... |
Laura Ingalls Wilder | Little | with her family, aunt Polly Melona Ingalls and uncle Henry Odin Quiner wit ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... 30 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later President) | |
Osama bin Laden | Analysts believe | ordered the assassination to help his Taliban protectors and ensure he wou ... |
Tacitus | ... refer to the area they invaded as Boihaemum, the earliest mention being in | ' Germania 28 (written at the end of the 1st century AD). The name appears ... |
Thomas Frank | ... ollar, yet conservative political outlook of the backlash mold described by | . It is the headquarters of Lon Mabon, whose Oregon Citizens Alliance has ... |
Ally Sheedy | ... ll, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and | . They starred in many coming of age films together in some fashion and be ... |
John Adams | ... blockade of American ports and declared American ships to be enemy vessels. | , a strong supporter of independence, believed that Parliament had effecti ... |
Dennis Potter | ... Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter. Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by | , takes its title from "Into My Heart an Air That Kills" from A Shropshire ... |
Ovid | ... ria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, | , Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and X ... |
Stephen Fry | ... ard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, | , Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (totalling twent ... |
John Lennon | On 15 December 1969, Moon joined | 's Plastic Ono Band for a live performance at the Lyceum Ballroom in Londo ... |
Seneca the Younger | ... it simply an error of judgment (as when Deianira, in the Hercules Furens of | , kills her husband when intending to win back his love); it is a flaw of ... |
Hugo Chávez | ... criticism from the United States, which opposes the government of President | . The U.S. accuses Venezuela of starting an arms race, which they claim wi ... |
Karl Marx | ... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to | , industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ... |
Malcolm X | ... rican community in 1949 and regularly interviewed civil rights leaders like | and aired live broadcasts from conferences of the NAACP. Influential WQHT, ... |
Joanna of Castile | ... undy, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen | , who was also heiress-presumptive to the Crown of Aragon. He was the firs ... |
Bart Veldkamp | ... is countryman Ådne Søndrål) and silver on the 10,000 m (behind Dutch skater | ) |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor | He died in 1637, leaving to his son | an empire still entangled in a war and whose fortunes seemed to be increas ... |
Christian IX of Denmark | ... 1899. The young prince had 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather | , Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grand ... |
Henry VI | ... round the White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include | , Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January ... |
Agron | ... f the Lydians. Later chronographers also ignored Herodotus's statement that | was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and Ninus in thei ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... umbia River High School in Vancouver, Murray made a number of remarks about | , as she attempted to explain why the US had such problems winning hearts ... |
Sofia Coppola | ... eron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in | 's Marie Antoinette (2006) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & ... |
Marsilio Ficino | Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, | , Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered Hermes Trismegis ... |
Josiah | ... resulting peace kept Judah free from Egyptian incursions until the time of | some centuries later |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, | , George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ... |
Fred Thompson | ... 6, 1973, in front of a live, televised audience, the Chief Minority Counsel | asked Butterfield if he was "aware of the installation of any listening de ... |
Martin Amis | # | , a novelist, twice married: first in 1984 (divorced) to Antonia Phillips, ... |
George I of Greece | ... them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, | , Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, t ... |
Pindar | ... ogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, | , Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Vegetius | ... Theoria by Aelianus Tacticus and De Re Militari ("On military matters") by | . Taktike Theoria examined Greek military tactics, and was most influentia ... |
Orson Welles | ... ges in novel ways and create new illusions. One early showcase for Dunn was | ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu (and some of Gregg Toland's ... |
comte d’Artois | ... sieur Fayolle during his voyages in America. The collection was sold to the | and was later confiscated by the state. Fayolle, who had been nominated to ... |
King James II | In 1323 the Catalan, under Peter, son of | , disembarked near Iglesias, in Southern Sardinia. The Pisane intervened b ... |
Edmund Goulding | ... Fontaine and Alexis Smith. It was adapted by Kathryn Scola and directed by | |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... hite's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with | , in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth. ... |
Elizabeth Jane Howard | Kingsley Amis was married a second time, to the novelist | from 1965 to 1983, with whom he had no children |
George H. W. Bush | ... ecame an issue in the 1988 presidential campaign, when Republican candidate | accused Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis (a member of the ACLU) of bei ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... alf of the 20th century saw election or succession of Republican presidents | , Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George ... |
Hsinbyushin | ... xemplified their possession of white elephants in their formal titles (e.g. | , lit. 'Lord of the White Elephant' and the third monarch of the ) |
Baasha of Israel | In his 36th year, Asa was confronted by | , who built a fortress at Ramah on the border, less than ten miles from Je ... |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | When | subdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but ... |
Sam Houston | Initially, the new capital thrived. But Lamar's political enemy, | , used two Mexican army incursions to San Antonio as an excuse to move the ... |
Plato | ... Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, | , Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Richard Aldington | | – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William ... |
Mark Twain | ... ttle Female Academy. Life begins for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in the | stories (1876 and 1885) once Aunt Polly's ineffectual tutelage is shaken o ... |
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | ... ding Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and | considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan prophet who foresaw the ... |
Charlemagne | ... n to the war in Aquitaine. Moreover, during the early years of the reign of | , Tassilo gave decisions in ecclesiastical and civil causes in his own nam ... |
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 ... |
Paul Revere | ... County, and named for Dr. Joseph Warren, a hero of the Revolution who sent | on his ride and who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill |
Jabby Crombac | ... iled in the summer of 1961, the "MRD" was soon renamed. Motoring journalist | pointed out that "[the] way a Frenchman pronounces those initials—written ... |
Desiderius | ... his position as an ally of the Avars and as son-in-law of the Lombard king | formed so serious a menace to the Frankish kingdom that Charlemagne determ ... |
Plutarch | ... es, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, | , Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Walter Raleigh | ... Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir | . The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the flagship, the Sea Venture ... |
Ho Chi Minh | | reading his Declaration of Independence. Ho Chi Minh is from Nghe An Provi ... |
Oscar II of Sweden | ... dfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, | , his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Prince of Wales ( ... |
Lars von Trier | ... st Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 for her performance in | 's Melancholia |
Ice Cube | ... ial services included Michael Jackson, Jimmy Cliff, Joe Frazier, Buddy Guy, | , Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, Jess ... |
Maria Shriver | ... ly estimated at $100–$200 million. But with his recent split from his wife, | in 2011, it has been estimated that his net worth has been hovering around ... |
Le Corbusier | Influenced from an early age by the Swiss modernist, | , Tange gained international recognition in 1949 when he won the competiti ... |
George W. Bush | ... s. However, it is a very mixed area overall, narrowly voting for Republican | over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barac ... |
William Blake | ... antic movement. Its major exponents in English included the artist and poet | and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord By ... |
President of the United States | ... reason to enter the war against Egypt. Convinced that that attack was real, | Lyndon B. Johnson launched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo fro ... |
Jerome | ... ions from some of his senior generals. Later on, being told by his brother, | , of some gossip overheard by a waiter between British officers at lunch a ... |
Eric Bloodaxe | ... f Fagrskinna, a prose narrative states that, after the death of her husband | , Gunnhild Mother of Kings had a poem composed about him. The composition ... |
Pausanias | ... iodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, | , Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Sam Shepard | ... bout Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role opposite | in 1983's The Right Stuff. He has appeared in small roles in a number of o ... |
Deep Throat | ... onymous sources was an individual whom Woodward and Bernstein had nicknamed | ; thirty years later in 2005, he was revealed to be William Mark Felt, Sr. ... |
Louis XIV | ... t of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when | moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capit ... |
Charles II | ... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death | gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ... |
Vicente Fox | ... ree Trade Agreement, creating the world's largest free trade area. In 2000, | became the first non-PRI candidate to win the Mexican presidency in over 7 ... |
K. M. Briggs | One version, from Shropshire, recounted by | in her book A Dictionary of Fairies, refers to Will the Smith. Will is a w ... |
William Wordsworth | ... r exponents in English included the artist and poet William Blake and poets | , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley ... |
Colm Tóibín | ... assination of his family members and close friends, lynchings and bombings. | wrote, "throughout his career there have been poems of simple evocation an ... |
Belus | ... us's statement that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, | , and Ninus in their list of kings of Lydia. Strabo (5.2.2) makes Atys, fa ... |
Benigno Aquino, Jr. | In the Philippines, the assassination of | triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of Presiden ... |
Loretta Lynn | ... ts for his acting debut in Coal Miner's Daughter, a biographical film about | , and for his narration and small supporting role opposite Sam Shepard in ... |
François Truffaut | ... rançois and Andrej." This is a reference to fellow filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu, | , and Andrei Tarkovsky |
Dorothy Straight | ... Brown was published while Pamela Brown herself was still only 17 years old. | 's How the World Began and S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders are more recent exa ... |
Tom Friedman | ... imate of the cost of rebuilding. And with whom? As New York Times columnist | points out, there's a retail store mentality that suggests to some — if "y ... |
Charles VII of France | ... ritory. The Château Trompette (Trumpet Castle) and the Fort du Hâ, built by | , were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city ... |
Carl Bernstein | ... ns. Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters Bob Woodward and | uncovered information suggesting knowledge of the break-in, and attempts t ... |
Arthurian | ... mary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to | legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake. Another lege ... |
Kenneth Allott | Richard Aldington – | – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver ... |
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" ... |
Emilio Estevez | ... k, the whole group collectively and separately became teen idols. They were | , Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ees were Senator John McCain, of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor | for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... |
Harold Godwinson | ... September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King | , the last crowned English King of England |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... ion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of | , Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As ... |
Ramiro I of Aragon | ... e neighboring taifa of Tortosa and defending his northeastern frontier from | and Raymond Berengar I of Barcelona. The emir, up until then paying tribut ... |
Belgarion | ... asy series; The Malloreon is the sequel. The books follow the adventures of | , Polgara, Belgarath, and their companions |
Tony Robinson | ... o entwined with their servant, all from the Baldrick family line (played by | ). Each generation acts as the dogsbody to his respective Blackadder. They ... |
Douglas Hyde | Dr | Park, with a capacity of 30,000 is an important Gaelic Athletic Associatio ... |
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 ... |
Lester Bangs | ... , well-known example of commercial studio noise music that the music critic | has called the "greatest album ever made in the history of the human eardr ... |
Ernest Lehman | ... iller, The Short Night, collaborating with screenwriters James Costigan and | . Despite some preliminary work, the story was never filmed. This was due ... |
Matthew Arnold | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – | – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire ... |
Willie Aames | ... ll), on the ABC series The Odd Couple, a part that previously was played by | |
Matilda of Flanders | ... t Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V of Flanders, and aunt of | , who married William the Conqueror. The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six ... |
Saddam Hussein | Chemical weapons employed by | killed and injured numerous Iranians, and possibly Iraqis. According to Ir ... |
Louis XIII | ... ailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invited | on several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles. Pleased wi ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... sh included the artist and poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth, | , John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The movement stressed t ... |
Gene Siskel | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from | and Roger Ebert on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News T ... |
Victor Amadeus | ... ty of The Hague, Charles swapped Sardinia, which went to the Duke of Savoy, | , for Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, which was more diff ... |
George W. Bush | ... of Osama bin Laden might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of | might enlarge his ears to the size of an elephant's; a caricature of Jay L ... |
Barack Obama | ... aska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator | of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... process clause. His chief rival on the issue (and on many other issues) was | , who advocated a substantive view of due process based on "natural law" - ... |
James Costigan | ... a projected spy thriller, The Short Night, collaborating with screenwriters | and Ernest Lehman. Despite some preliminary work, the story was never film ... |
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 ... |
Plato | Like Heraclitus, | speaks of only one Sibyl, but in course of time the number increased to ni ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... tion of the face of the individual in question—for example, a caricature of | might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of George W. Bush mi ... |
John McCain | ... idential election, 60.2 percent of Union County voters voted for Republican | , while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3.22 percent of ... |
Samuel Chase | ... s's preamble, instructing its delegates to remain against independence, but | went to Maryland and, thanks to local resolutions in favor of independence ... |
August Derleth | ... brief (and only) mention it is not clear what Lovecraft meant Hastur to be. | developed Hastur into a Great Old One in his controversial reworking of Lo ... |
Nikolaos Mantzaros | ... χολή), established in 1815. Prominent representatives of this genre include | , Spyridon Xyndas, Spyridon Samaras and Pavlos Carrer. Manolis Kalomiris i ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... was consulted by active Democratic politicians and was especially close to | |
Taytu Betul | The site of Addis Ababa was chosen by Empress | and the city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor Menelik II. The n ... |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... ets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and | . The movement stressed the importance of "nature" in art and language, in ... |
Walter A. Shewhart | In 1924, Bell Labs physicist Dr. | proposed the control chart as a method to determine when a process was in ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... e married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen | , in Lier, Belgium |
Henry II of England | ... iage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with Eleanor (Leonora), daughter of | and , brought him under the influence of the greatest governing intellect ... |
Hugo Chávez | ... lished in 1921 under President Juan Vicente Gómez. In 2002, under president | , the name was changed to Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenou ... |
Plato | ... , so they would not remember their past lives. The Myth of Er at the end of | 's Republic tells of the dead arriving at the "plain of Lethe", through wh ... |
Ed Victor | ... nd Simon and Schuster were later negotiated by Douglas Adams and his agent, | , after gaining full rights to the recordings from Original Records, which ... |
Patti Smith | ... before evolving into mainstream New Wave. Other major acts include Blondie, | and Television. In the 1980s some punk fans and bands became disillusioned ... |
Juan Vicente Gómez | ... ns. The original holiday was officially established in 1921 under President | . In 2002, under president Hugo Chávez, the name was changed to Día de la ... |
Nate Thayer | ... mer Rouge insurgency, giving speeches to his followers. Journalists such as | who spent some time with the Khmer Rouge during that period commented that ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... n notables. On 20 October 1496, he married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King | and Queen Isabella I of Castile, in Lier, Belgium |
Chris Vance | ... gued that this constituted support for bin Laden. Republican state chairman | was outraged, and said it was "despicable to imply that the American gover ... |
W. H. Auden | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – | – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Lauren ... |
Thomas Paine | ... ties did lead to the imprisonment of Thomas Williams, the London printer of | 's The Age of Reason. Wilberforce's attempts to legislate against adultery ... |
Norbert Zongo | ... a in Burkina Faso have been intermittent. In 1998, investigative journalist | , his brother Ernest, his driver, and another man were assassinated by unk ... |
John Keats | ... d poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, | , Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The movement stressed the importanc ... |
Sir Edward Hyde | ... g as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to | , whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon. The ruined c ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... Egypt. Convinced that that attack was real, President of the United States | launched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo from a U.S. aircraft ... |
Roger Ebert | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from Gene Siskel and | on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News Toronto claims it ... |
Rebbie | Born on her sister | 's 6th birthday on May 29, 1956, in Gary, Indiana, La Toya Jackson is the ... |
Chuck Norris | Some episodes of the | television series Walker, Texas Ranger were filmed in Garland, as well as ... |
Barack Obama | ... rs voted for Republican John McCain, while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat | and 3.22 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wro ... |
Lion Feuchtwanger | Alfonso was the subject for | 's novel Die Jüdin von Toledo (The Jewess of Toledo), in which is narrated ... |
George W. Bush | ... he 2004 presidential election, when 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for | , 32.8% voted for John Kerry, and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third ... |
Jack Higgins | ... en most dangerous areas in France with flashbacks to her growing up. Author | wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who ha ... |
John F. Kennedy | On the morning of Garner's 95th birthday on November 22, 1963, President | called to wish the former Vice President a happy birthday, just hours befo ... |
Paul Thomas Anderson | Phoenix will make his return to acting in the upcoming | film The Master |
Alexander III | Lydia remained a satrapy after Persia's conquest by the Macedonian king | of Macedon. When Alexander's empire fell apart after his death, Lydia went ... |
Max Holland | ... ing and protecting the justice system against Presidential abuse, historian | in his 2012 book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat claimed Felt plant ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... tional Airport) upon returning home from exile. His death thrust his widow, | , into the limelight and, ultimately, the presidency following the peacefu ... |
Carl Sagan | ... he charting/graphing routines were written in Forth by Jeremy Sagan (son of | ) and the printing routines by Paul Funk (founder of Funk Software) |
James I of England | ... nglish colonies in Virginia, a more determined effort was initiated by King | (James VI of Scotland), who granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Compan ... |
Clive Barker | ... arvel Comics' Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid (created by horror novelist | ) in 1993 as well as writing for EPIC Comics "Clive Barker's Hellraiser" a ... |
Don Carlos | ... gression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised Philip V of Spain's son, | , as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Charles ha ... |
Hermes Trismegistus | The predominant literary form is the dialogue: | instructs a perplexed disciple on some point of hidden wisdom |
W. S. Di Piero | ... times; the Anglo-Saxon influences in his work and study are strong. Critic | noted "Whatever the occasion, childhood, farm life, politics and culture i ... |
Lactantius | ... rtine Sibyl, probably Etruscan in origin, added by the Romans. According to | ' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of Va ... |
Cyrus II | ... f the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Croesus was defeated in battle by | of Persia in 546 BC, with the Lydian kingdom losing its autonomy and becom ... |
William Laud | ... the impeachment and subsequent execution of the king's advisers, Archbishop | and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford |
Victor Hugo | ... uildings (about 5,000), including those on the quays, are from this period. | found the town so beautiful he once said: "take Versailles, add Antwerp, a ... |
Cyrus | ... of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, Augustus, | , etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
Bush | ... de Range. She eventually succeeded, with the bill being signed by President | on May 8, 2008. Murray has also supported legislation to increase the size ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ), a short story written by Marcel Schwob—a French novelist and a friend of | —was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris. In this ... |
William the Conqueror | ... land. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by | in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by ... |
Maria Shriver | ... was out of town, we were free to do whatever we wanted." Schwarzenegger met | at the Robert F. Kennedy Tennis Tournament in August 1977, and went on to ... |
Oscar I of Sweden | ... s Margaret of Connaught. They were related in several ways. In descent from | and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In desce ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... elections. In 1964, it was one of two Oregon counties to give a majority to | . The last Democratic candidate to win the county was Franklin D. Roosevel ... |
Alexander the Great | ... bylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of | . The Persian Sibyl, by name Sambethe, was reported to be of the family of ... |
Philip the Good | ... y of Flanders (today in Belgium) and was named after his great-grandfather, | . In 1482, upon the death of his mother Mary of Burgundy, he succeeded to ... |
Jehoshaphat | Asa's successor, | , changed the policy towards Israel and instead pursued alliances and co-o ... |
Adam Osborne | ... 1985 largely in the C language, followed by VP-Planner, which was backed by | . These were able to not only read 1-2-3 files, but also execute many or m ... |
Hilaire Belloc | ... ew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – | – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Ruper ... |
Jules Verne | ... His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), a whimsical parody of | 's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and a ... |
Terry Pratchett | The Last Continent is the twenty-second Discworld novel by | . First published in 1998, it mocks the aspects of time traveling such as ... |
George W. Bush | ... isenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and | . The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingric ... |
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ministration under King James I. His daughter Anne became the first wife of | in 1571; she served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth before her marr ... |
Mark Twain | ... y and the rest of the black community fled the town. This incident prompted | to write the essay The United States of Lyncherdom. A 2007 PBS documentary ... |
Judith | ... ex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Sprakaleg. In 1051, he married | , the daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V o ... |
Shaun Cassidy | ... gia: the legacy of bubblegum pop. Performers in this category would include | , Leif Garrett, Donny Osmond, Tony DeFranco, and The Bay City Rollers. Eve ... |
Idrissa Ouedraogo | ... ougou). Among the best known directors from Burkina Faso are Gaston Kaboré, | and Dani Kouyate. Burkina also produces popular television series such as ... |
Mike Judge | ... d television series King of the Hill was created by former Garland resident | , who used elements of Garland as an inspiration for its setting — the fic ... |
King Albert II of the Belgians | ... He was knighted in 1992, and in 2002 elevated to the noble rank of Count by | |
Henry II of England | ... ntagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King | . The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of S ... |
Queen Anne | ... om his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-law | who continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Qu ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ity to Barry Goldwater. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years John McCain rec ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... St. André was built. It was also the capital of an independent state under | (1362–1372), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon (1453) it was a ... |
HRH The Princess Royal | ... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympian | unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ... |
Alexander Cockburn | ... admitted that prisoners of war were murdered in the 1967 War. According to | , Israeli reporter Gabriel Bron, a former IDF soldier allegedly witnessed ... |
Yoshitaka Amano | The game's characters and title logo were designed by | , and the scenario was written by freelance writer Kenji Terada, based on ... |
Paul I of Russia | ... opold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In descent from | , Frederick was a fourth cousin of Ingrid's mother |
John Betjeman | ... th Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – | – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Rober ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... sed of still regularly engaging in such operations. In 1986, U.S. President | (who survived an assassination attempt himself) ordered the Operation El D ... |
Donny Osmond | ... pop. Performers in this category would include Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, | , Tony DeFranco, and The Bay City Rollers. Even modern classic hits and ol ... |
Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... unisian. Waiting for almost three weeks (during which they also interviewed | and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf) for an interview opportunity, on September 8, 2001 ... |
Rainer Maria Rilke | | 's poetry partially inspired the movie; Wenders claimed angels seemed to d ... |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | ... en to serve as minority floor leader for the Democrats in 1929, and then as | in 1931 |
Henry II of England | ... so VIII, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of | and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Karen Black | ... er lover Bruce Dern making a living from her phoney powers. William Devane, | and Cathleen Nesbitt co-starred. It was the only Hitchcock film scored by ... |
Lilian Rolfe | ... the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: Denise Bloch, Cecily Lefort, and | . Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen were killed in action or died in ... |
Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden | ... t. They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and | , they were double third cousins. In descent from Paul I of Russia, Freder ... |
Denise Bloch | Three other women members of the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: | , Cecily Lefort, and Lilian Rolfe. Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen ... |
Jackie Stewart | ... gers Ken Tyrrell, Peter Collins, Ron Dennis, and Frank Williams, and driver | . The pallbearers included drivers Gerhard Berger, Michele Alboreto, Alain ... |
Nayan Chanda | ... orks about Cambodia are Ben Kiernan, David P. Chandler and Michael Vickery. | , the Indochina correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review, is also ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ped rocket him to stardom. In 1950, he performed for music-loving President | in the East room of the White House. Despite his success in the supper-clu ... |
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 ... |
Stanley Coren | ... epts of "intelligence" and "obedience" in discussions of canine brainpower. | 's survey of canine obedience trainers, published in the book The Intellig ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip | campaigning on the Contract with America, was elected to majorities to bot ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... mocks the aspects of time traveling such as the grandfather paradox and the | short story "A Sound of Thunder". It also parodies Australian people and a ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... s great-grandfather, Philip the Good. In 1482, upon the death of his mother | , he succeeded to her Burgundian possessions under the guardianship of his ... |
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá | ... are linked to drug-trafficking and illegal weapons. In mid-July 2005, Gov. | announced a series of measures aimed at lowering Ponce's high murder rate. ... |
Ben Elton | ... is and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and | . The shows were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000 the fourth series, Blacka ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... of the Court. The most prominent opponents of Black's theory were Justices | and John Marshall Harlan II. Frankfurter and Harlan argued that the Fourte ... |
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 ... |
Louis the Child | ... own election as German king in the following year. In 899 Bavaria passed to | , during whose reign continuous Hungarian ravages occurred. Resistance to ... |
Henry Bellamann | The Fulton area owns national acclaim to a novel written by | , who was born in Fulton in 1882, raised there and attended college there. ... |
Thomas McKean | ... the colonial assembly, and on June 18 a new Conference of Committees under | authorized Pennsylvania's delegates to declare independence. On June 15, t ... |
Maria Shriver | On April 26, 1986, Schwarzenegger married television journalist | , niece of President John F. Kennedy, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. ... |
Cecily Lefort | ... r women members of the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: Denise Bloch, | , and Lilian Rolfe. Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen were killed in ... |
Harald III Hardrada | He made contact with King | of Norway and persuaded him to invade England. One of the sagas claims tha ... |
Augustus | ... e. The name Austin is considered to be derived from Augustine, a variant of | . The location was seen as a convenient crossroads for trade routes betwee ... |
John McCain | ... l election, Barack Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and | and Sarah Palin 46% |
John McCain | ... lin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years | received 55.2% of the county's vote in the 2008 U.S. presidential election ... |
Radio 2 | ... e same day it was replaced by Radio 1 on its mediumwave frequencies, and by | (the renamed Light Programme) on its longwave frequency. The FM frequencie ... |
Henry the Fowler | In 920 Conrad's successor as German king, | of the Ottonian dynasty, recognized Arnulf as duke, confirming his right t ... |
George II | Queen Anne's successor was George I; he and his son | were the last monarchs to reside at Hampton Court. Under George I six room ... |
Dr. Alan Ashton | ... Young University (BYU) graduate student, and BYU computer science professor | joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Da ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... , and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and | |
Margaret Kennedy | The Constant Nymph is a 1924 novel by | . It tells how a teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who even ... |
Þjóðólfr of Hvinir | ... eferenced in the phrase "visiting Odin" in a work by the 10th century skald | describing that, upon his death, King Vanlandi went to Valhalla |
Sam Rayburn | ... after Prohibition had ended and Garner had left the House by future Speaker | . |
Larry Niven | ... e fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author | . It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars ... |
Ahab | ... ued alliances and co-operation with the northern kingdom. The alliance with | was based on marriage. This alliance led to disaster for the kingdom with ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah P ... |
Tom Hanks | ... on after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), as | 's daughter. In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in "Dark Page", the seventh epis ... |
King George III | ... e, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 | presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President | , in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ... |
Oscar Wilde | It is also possible that the play Salomé by | , published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The K ... |
Peter Handke | ... laimed angels seemed to dwell in Rilke's poetry. The director also employed | , who wrote much of the dialogue, the poetic narrations, and the film's re ... |
Ahaziah of Israel | ... dom with the Battle of Ramoth-Gilead. He then entered into an alliance with | for the purpose of carrying on maritime commerce with Ophir. But the fleet ... |
Haakon I of Norway | In chapter 32 of Hákonar saga Góða, | is given a pagan burial, which is described as sending him on his way to V ... |
Elias Ashmole | ... reated the order of the Hatchet (orden de la Hacha) in 1149. As reported by | in The Institution, Laws, and Ceremony of the Most Noble Order of the Gart ... |
Constantine the Great | ... ructures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of | , during which the Empire was divided into its Eastern and Western halves, ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... che's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother | , upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's pers ... |
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 ... |
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 |
James Ellroy | ... aken from a work in Housman's More Poems. The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by | takes its title from Housman's poem "Reveille", and a line from Housman's ... |
Michael Jackson | ... iod, rarely play cuts from the teen idols of the era, with the exception of | , who began his career as a teen idol but whose career eventually evolved ... |
John McCain | In the Presidential election of 2008, the party's nominees were Senator | , of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice Presi ... |
John of England | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and | , Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their gran ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... was shot by the 77 year-old cinematographer Henri Alekan, who had worked on | 's La Belle et la Bête). It represents the angels' point of view in monoch ... |
Basil Dean | The novel was adapted into a play by Kennedy and | |
Anne Rice | The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in , a 1994 film based on | 's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daugh ... |
Pope Innocent III | Finally, in 1212, through the mediation of | , a crusade was called against the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Ara ... |
Sophocles | ... gods indifferent to its sufferings and aspirations. In the Œdipus Tyrannus | 's hero becomes gradually aware of the terrible fact that, however hard hi ... |
Laurence Binyon | ... . Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – | – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Rober ... |
Louis XV | During the reign of | , Versailles underwent transformation, but not on the scale that had been ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ck Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and | 46% |
George II | ... ge I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Under | and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the archit ... |
Mark Antony | ... gyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occurred when | , the other most influential member of the Triumvirate, abandoned his wife ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... n 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared. Their adaptation of | 's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being pla ... |
Stefan Zweig | ... were translated into more than twenty languages. His German translator was | He travelled, giving lectures, throughout Europe. The outbreak of World Wa ... |
Robert Browning | ... tjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – | – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Har ... |
Alfonso II | ... s King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of Bermudo I, he succeeded | |
George W. Bush | ... les for the move to The Tonight Show. Will Ferrell made a surprise visit as | , which quickly devolved into Ferrell tearing off his business suit to rev ... |
Edmund Spenser | In The Faerie Queene (first published in 1590) | wrote of the river |
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 ... |
Sun Tzu | Assassination for military purposes has long been espoused – | , writing around 500 BC, argued in favor of using assassination in his boo ... |
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 ... |
Gary Hart | ... aid he too would have ordered the invasion. Indeed Mondale attacked Senator | , his chief opponent for the Democratic nomination, as isolationist and we ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ,000,000 copies in his day, and was even read by a young and impressionable | . The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under t ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... Chinese civil war, the ROC government under the KMT withdrew to Taiwan and | declared martial law. Japan formally renounced all territorial rights to T ... |
John Milton | ... e hath been affirmed by Inhabitants thereabout reporting triall made of it. | (c. 1562–1647) described the river a |
Nancy Pelosi | ... ence on Aging, Martin by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Lyon by Congresswoman | |
Marcel Schwob | ... Roi au masque d'or" ("The king in the gold mask"), a short story written by | —a French novelist and a friend of Oscar Wilde—was published in 1893 while ... |
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 ... |
Michael Barrier | ... esult as a "typical 1967 limited-animation theatrical". Animation historian | called the film "an offensively bad picture, the kind that makes people wh ... |
Barney Frank | ... and other scandals. This led to House Financial Services Committee Chairman | to ask the agency to investigate the charges which they did. In April 2012 ... |
Michael Drayton | In Poly-Olbion (first published in 1612) the poet | described the journey taken by the River Thames to the sea |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e labor unions and the New Deal's deficit spending. He broke with President | in early 1937 over the issue of enlarging the Supreme Court, and helped de ... |
Will Ferrell | ... as he could not bring him to Los Angeles for the move to The Tonight Show. | made a surprise visit as George W. Bush, which quickly devolved into Ferre ... |
Julius Caesar | ... m in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of | and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... of the Achaemenid Empire, with Sardis as its capital. Tabalus, appointed by | , was the first satrap (governor). (See: Lydia (satrapy)) |
Roger Ebert | ... ambivalent reviews, but many film critics complimented Dunst's performance. | commented that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was one of th ... |
Godwin | Tostig was the third son of | (d. 1053), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Spraka ... |
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 ... |
Rupert Brooke | ... Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – | – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | Possible influences may include | 's "The Masque of the Red Death". Its synopsis is similar to Chambers's im ... |
Walter Scott | ... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir | 's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ... |
Stan Lee | Marvel Feature #4 was reprinted in the book The Superhero Women edited by | . Red Sonja was featured arching among many of Marvel Comics's female char ... |
Bermudo I | ... miro I (c. 790 – 850) was King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of | , he succeeded Alfonso II |
John Carpenter | ... tember 1993, when he was 12. The following year he acquired a minor role in | 's In the Mouth of Madness. From 1995 through 1999, he appeared in several ... |
Robert La Follette | ... the first half of the 20th century, Wisconsin's politics were dominated by | and his sons, originally of the Republican Party, but later of the revived ... |
Hans Christian Andersen | Between 1835 and 1848 | (1805–1875) of Denmark published his beloved fairy tales: The Little Merma ... |
Nathaniel Benchley | ... rge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), | (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, ... |
Dan Neil | ... e shark" in a broader context, Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive journalist | used the expression to describe the Mini Countryman, a much larger and les ... |
Ludwig II | Maximilian was succeeded on 10 March 1864 by his son | , a youth of eighteen. The government was at first carried on by Schrenk a ... |
Edmund Blunden | ... Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – | – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thoma ... |
Hugh Laurie | ... Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and idealistic Edwardian twit Lieutenant George ( | ). General Melchett (Stephen Fry) rallies his troops from a French château ... |
João Bernardo Vieira | In Guinea Bissau, President | was assassinated in the early hours of March 2, 2009, in the capital, Biss ... |
Edward I of England | ... ieve Wallace must have had some earlier military experience; campaigns like | 's wars in Wales provided a good opportunity for a younger son of a landho ... |
Erasmus | ... h century and further restored in the late twentieth century. A memorial to | lies inside the Münster. The City Hall from the 16th century is located on ... |
Nicholas I | ... seat of the newly-formed Armenian Oblast between 1828-1840. By the time of | 's visit in 1837, Yerevan had become an uyezd. In 1840, the Armenian Oblas ... |
Caesarion | ... ed for a five-year term in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive | , the son of Julius Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major th ... |
Ron Paul | In 2010 Congressmen | questioned whether the Federal Reserve Bank had been used to funnel illega ... |
Jehoram of Israel | ... ugh it was successful, the trade was not prosecuted. He subsequently joined | in a war against the Moabites, who were under tribute to Israel. This war ... |
James Worthy | ... in field hockey; Phil Ford, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, | and Michael Jordan in men's basketball; and Mia Hamm (twice), Shannon Higg ... |
Lenny Kravitz | ... esse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, | , 50 Cent, Stevie Wonder, and Don King, among others. All of the public an ... |
Henry VIII of England | ... nd tariffs on goods traded amongst them. Internal tariffs were abolished by | , they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain |
Andrew Jackson | ... st because of a policy of Indian removal developed by the administration of | . Then, in 1831, Jacob Stem, the founder of Green Springs, bought the land ... |
William Lenthall | The Speaker of the House during the Long Parliament was | . On Tuesday, 4 January 1642, the King entered the House of Commons to sei ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... e traditional, supply-oriented interpretation of the Industrial Revolution. | has proposed that the Industrial Revolution had its origins in the Early M ... |
John Mayer | ... clips from past shows and a reflection on the show's sixteen-year-long run. | sent a farewell video message, singing a song about how Los Angeles is "go ... |
John Canaparius | ... much time at the monastery where Adalbert had become a monk and where abbot | may have written a life of Saint Adalbert. Later, Bruno entered a monaster ... |
John Vanbrugh | ... ton Court. Under George I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of | . Under George II and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took plac ... |
President Millard Fillmore | ... territory's first governor and superintendent of American Indian affairs by | . During his time as governor, Young directed the establishment of settlem ... |
Lloyd Corrigan | ... ny television appearances. He starred from 1953–1955 with Phyllis Avery and | in the CBS sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley in the role of a college English and l ... |
Edward the Confessor | ... the foundation of Westminster Abbey and the old Palace of Westminster under | had marked it as a centre of governance, and with a prosperous port it was ... |
Ambrose Bierce | Chambers borrowed the names Carcosa, Hali, and Hastur from | : specifically, his short stories "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" and "Haïta th ... |
William Blake | ... Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – | – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... of Oregon. As of 2010, its population was 203,206. The county is named for | , the seventh president of the United States. There are 11 incorporated ci ... |
John Travolta | ... urday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring | as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against | |
Henry Kissinger | ... professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, Secretary of State | predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a ... |
John McCain | ... hen he won 48.6 percent of the vote compared to 50.9 percent for Republican | . In 2010, political experts have now dubbed Fort Bend County a battlegrou ... |
Mike Ilitch | ... ral recognition for some tribes. Pombo got money for his 2006 campaign at a | -backed fundraiser. Disclosure documents on file with the Secretary of the ... |
Pierre Corneille | ... eived from Cardinal Richelieu eventually secured their complete triumph and | , who had not conformed to them in his earlier plays, did so from the time ... |
Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... unty was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide nationwide against | — but only by three percentage points in Klamath County |
LL Cool J | ... , MC Hammer, Prince, Jesse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, | , Lil Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, 50 Cent, Stevie Wonder, and Don King, among ot ... |
Zhang Zuolin | ... of Manchuria and much of North China after the assassination of his father, | , by the Japanese on 4 June 1928. As an instigator of the Xi'an incident h ... |
Oliver Stone | After several delays, director | finally started production on the film The Doors, based on the band of the ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... too"" came from not only Ireland but from the continent, led by playwrights | , Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Alan Simpson was later released. The pre ... |
Tomie dePaola | ... The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush" here. The title was based on a book by | and was narrated by Harold Littlebird (born 1951). Santa Fe's Dominic C. A ... |
William Whipple | ... als; 5% of George Washington's forces consisted of African-American troops. | , a signer of the Declaration of Independence who had fought in the war, f ... |
Euthydemus | ... Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign of | (230–200 BCE) who extended his control beyond Alexandria Eschate to Sogdia ... |
Barack Obama | ... 964, when Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat | came very close in heavy voting, when he won 48.6 percent of the vote comp ... |
John III Sobieski | ... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. | , fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... nt bicentennial, however, controversy erupted when neither French president | nor prime minister Dominique de Villepin attended any functions commemorat ... |
James J. Montague | ... ics, and all of Pulitzer's Sunday staff as well. Another prominent hire was | , who came from the Portland Oregonian and started his well-known "More Tr ... |
Dann Thomas | # Issue 192, "On the Road of Kings", Roy Thomas/ | (w), Tony DeZuniga (a) |
G. K. Chesterton | ... rooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – | – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donal ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | ... tic reforms were mandated during the final year of authoritarian rule under | . The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, Lee Teng-hui, whi ... |
Stephen Fry | ... transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington (played by | ) |
Ahab | ... Judah formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of | . Despite this alliance with the stronger northern kingdom, Jehoram's rule ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... an chief of the Slavic Obodrites began his open resistance when Lothar III, | invaded Slavic lands. In August 1160 Niklot was killed and German coloniza ... |
Harold Godwinson | ... orwegian king Harald III (Haraldr Harðráði), who was defeated by Saxon King | in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge; in Ireland, the capture of Dubli ... |
Brendan Behan | ... but from the continent, led by playwrights Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey and | . Alan Simpson was later released. The presiding judge, Justice O'Flynn, r ... |
Renee Chenault-Fattah | Penn Law has also produced media professionals and artists, like | (co-anchor of weekday edition of WCAU NBC 10 News in Philadelphia), Mark H ... |
Thomas Campion | ... lunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – | – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – Jo ... |
Richard Hamming | ... (and who subsequently shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956). In 1947, | invented Hamming codes for error detection and correction. For patent reas ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... rea, resulting in his being the first King of Bohemia to also be elected as | . Under his rule the Bohemian crown controlled such diverse lands as Morav ... |
Rush Limbaugh | During the 2004 trial regarding allegations of | 's drug abuse, the ACLU argued that his privacy should not have been compr ... |
Herodotus | ... nection has been a long-standing subject of conjecture. The Greek historian | stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem ... |
Elizabeth Siddal | Rossetti's wife | died of an overdose of laudanum in 1862, shortly after giving birth to a s ... |
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 ... |
Xerxes the Great | ... o provinces as far out as India and the Kingdom of Kush during the reign of | (485–465 BCE) |
Leo Tolstoy | The Battle of Austerlitz is a major event in | 's novel War and Peace. As the battle is about to start, Prince Andrei, on ... |
Gene Weingarten | ... ion of the phrase is "Marrying Irving", coined by Washington Post columnist | . A recent cinema-specific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to th ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... has carried Fort Bend County in the presidential election since 1964, when | of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama came very clo ... |
Margaret, Maid of Norway | The heir to the throne was Alexander's granddaughter, | . As she was still a child and in Norway, the Scottish lords set up a gove ... |
Athaliah | ... at's successor, Jehoram of Judah formed an alliance with Israel by marrying | , the daughter of Ahab. Despite this alliance with the stronger northern k ... |
Virgil | ... historian Herodotus stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in | 's epic poem the Aeneid, and Etruscan-like language was found on the Lemno ... |
George Washington | ... first settler, Ariel Bradley, was only nine years old when he was a spy for | during the American Revolution. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley ca ... |
Indiana Jones | ... ecific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to the scene in the fourth | movie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) when Jones hides inside an inexplicab ... |
Aristotle's | Some of Zeno's nine surviving paradoxes (preserved in | Physic |
Kenneth Johnson | ... Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading | 's script for the pilot episode he was persuaded to change his mind (and a ... |
André Gide | ... ghe and his friend, the famous French writer (and later Nobel Prize winner) | who informed Marthe Verhaeren of the death of her husband |
Iris Burton | ... were eventually discovered by one of Hollywood's leading children's agents, | , who got the five children acting work, mainly doing commercials and tele ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... es from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President | and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 13. (6 Democratic Senators ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... , the Chairman of the DNC. In 1968, O'Brien was appointed by Vice President | to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, ... |
Robert Bloomfield | ... er Pope (1688–1744) wrote in his poem Windsor Forest (first published 1713) | (1766–1823) writes the following lines about the Mole Valley in his 1806 p ... |
Robert W. Chambers | The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by | and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fi ... |
Christopher Hussey | ... a favourable account of his talent in Marie-Luise Gothein's which predated | 's positive account of Brown in The Picturesque (1927). Dorothy Stroud wro ... |
House of Luxembourg | The | accepted the invitation to the Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ce frame, and to understand the symmetries of the laws of electromagnetism. | later re-derived the transformation from his postulates of special relativ ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... disapproved of interventionist foreign policy actions. Republicans opposed | 's intervention in World War I and his subsequent attempt to create the Le ... |
Jehoram of Judah | Jehoshaphat's successor, | formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab. ... |
Maurice Maeterlinck | ... sed the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 which was awarded to his friend, | |
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 ... |
Atahualpa | ... s Andean Indian auxiliaries native allies ambushed and captured the Emperor | of the Inca Empire. It was the first step in a long campaign that took dec ... |
Fritz Lang | ... luential in the era of silent movies, provided some original scores such as | 's movies Die Nibelungen (1924) and Metropolis (1927) which were accompani ... |
David | ... s covenant can be fulfilled with the re-establishment of the throne of King | |
Reyner Banham | For | , Tange was a prime exemplar of the use of Brutalist architecture. His use ... |
Roger Ebert | Some critics and Hitchcock scholars, including Donald Spoto and | , agree that Vertigo represents the director's most personal and revealing ... |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545 |
Joseph Pulitzer | ... and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with | , owner and publisher of the New York World, from whom he "stole" Richard ... |
Andy Richter | Former sidekick | joined O'Brien onstage for two segments, watching clips and reminiscing ab ... |
Karen Black | ... film, 1976's Family Plot. In the same film, the diamond smuggler played by | could also fit that role, as she wears a long blonde wig in various scenes ... |
Marie-Luise Gothein | ... ggested that the latter resulted from a favourable account of his talent in | 's which predated Christopher Hussey's positive account of Brown in The Pi ... |
Benedict Arnold | ... tly been moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1816, James Arnold, the son of | , fortified Bermuda's Royal Naval Dockyard against possible U.S. attacks. ... |
Rush Limbaugh | ... that the HPV vaccine causes "mental retardation", conservative commentator | said "Michele Bachmann, she might have blown it today. Well, not blown it ... |
Ordoño I | ... er being the name of the queen of a later Ramiro). Given the age of his son | , this must have been a second marriage |
President | ... um of the Twelve Apostles was to lead the church with Young as the Quorum's | . Young was ordained President of the Church in December 1847, more than t ... |
Plato's | ... lar that motion is nothing but an illusion. It is usually assumed, based on | Parmenides 128c-d, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradox ... |
Hal Kanter | The film was adapted by Williams and | and directed by Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa ... |
Robert Burns | ... Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – | – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge ... |
King Farouk I | ... ity after a coup was carried out by the Free Officers Movement overthrowing | . By that time, Arafat had graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil eng ... |
Alexander Pope | In a similar vein, | (1688–1744) wrote in his poem Windsor Forest (first published 1713 |
Julie Andrews | ... ry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and | , was a huge hit in New York and London. The partnership won the Tony Awar ... |
Mesha | ... his war was successful, with the Moabites being subdued. However, on seeing | 's act of offering his own son in a human sacrifice on the walls of Kir-ha ... |
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 ... |
Achilles | In the paradox of | and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles al ... |
Thorvald Stoltenberg | ... ally opened on January 11, 1993, initiated by Norway under foreign minister | . It includes the administrative regions Nordland, Troms, Finnmark in Norw ... |
Spinoza | ... ce more emphasis on human emotion and the imagination. Meanwhile he studied | and Plato, both of whom were important influences. He became more indebted ... |
Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye | ... y theoreticians of the New Learning (Jean de La Taille) and other writers ( | and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities received from Cardinal Ric ... |
Ron Paul | Among the first Republicans elected was fiscally conservative | to the U.S. House of Representatives. He became known for opposition to th ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... s led an international coalition invaded Afghanistan, the base of terrorist | . This invasion led to the toppling of the Taliban regime. After a surpris ... |
Chris Morris | ... scribes Lewis-Smith as having been "almost entirely eclipsed by the rise of | , who tends to occupy similar ground". Morris (then working in BBC Radio B ... |
Robert Mugabe | ZANU-PF | , elected Prime Minister in 1980, revised the constitution in 1987 to make ... |
Cleopatra VII | ... t between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and | . The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the c ... |
Bermudo III | ... h of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry Sancha, sister of | , King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, Sancho III of Navarre nomi ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... Theatre at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Kilmer turned down a role in | 's 1983 film, The Outsiders, as he had prior theatre commitments. That sam ... |
Joseph I | ... Habsburg sovereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother, | , as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia ... |
Mark Antony | ... engagement fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of | and Cleopatra VII. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ioni ... |
Bonnie Hunt | ... of the dice. She was part of an ensemble cast that included Robin Williams, | , and David Alan Grier. The movie grossed $262 million worldwide. That yea ... |
Dave Gibbons | ... twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist | , and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during ... |
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 ... |
Jesse Ventura | ... ooks, coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late F. Scott Fitzgerald | ;, former Independent Governor of Minnesota and Pro Wrestler and several o ... |
Micky Dolenz | ... the late 1960s after their TV show became an over night success, especially | and Davy Jones. The English born member of The Monkees Davy Jones was regu ... |
Graham Chapman | In a bar about 1975, he asked | and Bernard McKenna to do a "treatment" for a "mad movie". They asked a th ... |
Tennessee Williams | The Rose Tattoo is a | play. It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and a film adaptation was re ... |
Sam Torrance | ... plaining about the behavior of the American galleries throughout the match. | branded it "disgusting," while European captain Mark James referred to it ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... ude the late Herb Brooks, coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late | ; Jesse Ventura, former Independent Governor of Minnesota and Pro Wrestler ... |
Ahaziah of Judah | ... king's house, and carried off all of his family except for his youngest son | |
Sancha | ... entering the church of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry | , sister of Bermudo III, King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, San ... |
Porfirio Díaz | ... they had become much more secure. George Hearst was on friendly terms with | , the Mexican dictator, who helped him settle boundary disputes profitably ... |
Robert Conquest | ... – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – | – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la ... |
Alan Moore | Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer | , artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was publishe ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) mounts. Lieutenant | was the first commanding officer of PT-59 after its conversion. On Novembe ... |
Parmenides | ... on about Zeno and his teachings, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher | was the first to introduce the Achilles and the Tortoise Argument. But in ... |
Croesus | ... ia, Phrygia and coastal Ionia. Later on, the military power of Alyattes and | expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, which controlle ... |
Luitpold | ... s crisis, had been declared insane, and, on 10 June 1886, his uncle, Prince | , became regent. Three days later, on 13 June, Ludwig II was found dead in ... |
Empress Matilda | ... gh the king had persuaded his most powerful barons to swear support for the | , just a few days after Henry's death Stephen of Blois arrived from France ... |
Pierre Schaeffer | ... xus style of Ono as well as the musique concrète works of composers such as | and Pierre Henry |
Pelasgus | ... s, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and was the home of | and his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practic ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... Redemptor the Pontiff called acts of reparation a duty for Roman Catholics: | referred to the concept as |
Thomas Heggen | Mister Roberts is a 1946 novel written by | |
W. Edwards Deming | ... e the world and the United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, | , Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead ... |
Jean de La Taille | ... e were in fact read into the Poetics by theoreticians of the New Learning ( | ) and other writers (Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The s ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... au's brother John Patrick Schmitz is the former deputy counsel to President | |
Reza Deghati | ... nture Magazine, along with photographs by the renowned Iranian photographer | |
Stansfield Turner | Former CIA chief, Admiral | , claimed that De Beers restricted US access to industrial diamonds needed ... |
"Bullet" Bill Dudley | ... years from NFL-associated employment if they left the NFL to join the AAFC. | attributed Bell's nervous nature, during his contract negotiations with th ... |
Walter A. Shewhart | ... rance Department gave the world and the United States such statisticians as | , W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. J ... |
Favorinus | ... rtius, a fourth source for information about Zeno and his teachings, citing | , says that Zeno's teacher Parmenides was the first to introduce the Achil ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... which embodies many of the educational and philosophical tenets espoused by | - and Maria and 's Practical Education: The History of Harry and Lucy (178 ... |
Paul Wellstone | ... he city briefly entered the national news in October 2002 when U.S. Senator | , along with seven others, died in a plane crash, two miles away from the ... |
Helen Atkinson-Wood | ... heir usual roles, this series starred Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent, and | as Mrs. Miggins. The series features rotten boroughs (or "robber buttons") ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Black was an ardent supporter of President | and the New Deal. In particular, he was an outspoken advocate of the Judic ... |
Matthias | ... support of the Spanish Habsburgs in the succession of his childless cousin | , in exchange for concessions in Alsace and Italy. In 1617, he was elected ... |
C. Cornelius Gallus | ... ns as a private citizen, found himself in the spring attacked on two sides. | was advancing from Paraetonium; and Octavian himself landed at Pelusium, w ... |
García Sánchez | Ferdinand was barely in his teens when | , Count of Castile, was assassinated by a party of exiled Castilian noblem ... |
Elia Kazan | ... s (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Clift starred with Lee Remick in | 's Wild River in 1960. In 1958, he turned down what became Dean Martin's r ... |
Adam of Bremen | ... described by German monks: Helmold in the manuscript Chronicon Slavorum and | in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum. The Polabian language surviv ... |
Euripides | ... tragedy. Æschylus's The Eumenides has two settings and in The Suppliants of | it is sometimes impossible to tell where the action is taking place at all ... |
Charles Granville Bruce | ... ell for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to | , the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922 |
Hartley Coleridge | ... ning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – | – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lew ... |
Ken Follett | ... d movies have been made about Ahmad Shah Massoud. Massoud is the subject of | 's Lie Down With Lions, a novel about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ... |
Roger Ebert | ... am of the Crop" designation) and a 76 metascore on Metacritic. The film led | to call Reiner "one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy", and sai ... |
Claude Jade | ... tchcock's last blonde heroine was—years after Dany Robin and her "daughter" | in Topaz—Barbara Harris as a phony psychic turned amateur sleuth in his fi ... |
Chris Van Allsburg | In 1995, she appeared in the fantasy movie Jumanji, loosely based on | 's 1981 book of the same name. The story is about a supernatural and omino ... |
Yan Xishan | In 1930, when warlords Feng Yuxiang and | attempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government, Zhang Xuel ... |
Pierre de Coubertin | ... was awarded for a sport that did not lend itself very well for tournaments: | presented a prize for alpinisme to Charles Granville Bruce, the leader of ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. President | called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on t ... |
Maria Anna of Bavaria | He was born at Graz, the son of Charles II, Archduke of Austria, and | . He was educated by the Jesuits and later frequented the University of In ... |
Mahlon Pitney | ... etition. In International News Service v. Associated Press of 1918, Justice | wrote for the majority in ruling that INS was infringing on AP's "lead-tim ... |
Marty Schottenheimer | McDonald also was the home of NFL coaches Marvin Lewis and | , Oscar-winning songwriter Jay Livingston and his brother Alan Livingston, ... |
president of the church | While in jail awaiting trial for alleged treason charges, Joseph Smith, | , was killed by an armed mob in 1844. Several claimants to the role of chu ... |
von Hindenburg | ... bowed in apparently respectful humility before President and Field Marshal | |
Hugh Laurie | ... Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in their usual roles, this series starred | as the Prince Regent, and Helen Atkinson-Wood as Mrs. Miggins. The series ... |
Julian P. Boyd | ... Archives is usually regarded as the Declaration of Independence, historian | argued that the Declaration, like Magna Carta, is not a single document. B ... |
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 ... |
Chuck Norris | ... status in the polls, due to his use of the Walker Texas Ranger Lever while | was coincidentally sponsoring Huckabee. Stephen Colbert made the claim tha ... |
Thomas Day | ... ch of English literature." Popular examples of this growing branch included | 's The History of Sandford and Merton (1783-9) - which embodies many of th ... |
Hugh Laurie | ... e butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the prince is played by | as a complete fop and idiot). Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and ... |
Speaker of the House | ... om 1898 to 1902, and U.S. Representative from 1903 to 1933. He was the 44th | in 1931–1933. In 1932, he was elected the 32nd Vice President of the Unite ... |
Pope Pius XI | As expressed by | in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, in the Roman Catholic traditi ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Henry II | ... e pagan peoples of Eastern Europe. Owing to a regional conflict between the | and Duke Boleslaus I of Poland he delayed the plans for the monastery, and ... |
Agamemnon | ... re many plays in which no such limitation existed. For instance, Æschylus's | compresses into about fifteen minutes a journey (from Troy to Argos) which ... |
Oliver North | In 1990 the ACLU defended Lieutenant Colonel | , whose conviction was tainted by coerced testimonya violation of his fift ... |
Saddam Hussein | On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by | , invaded Kuwait. President Bush formed an international coalition and sec ... |
Lydus | ... tories i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their king, | (Λυδός), son of Atys, in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the ... |
Sam Torrance | ... o one walked in or crossed Olazábal's putting line – although Europe player | has said in TV interviews that a TV cameraman stood on Olazábal's line whi ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch as releasing recent income tax forms, became expected. Presidents since | had recorded many of their conversations, but after Watergate, this practi ... |
Alexander Trocchi | ... D. H. Lawrence Memorial. Another novelist who lived for a while in Taos was | |
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 ... |
Alexander Pushkin | From 1830 to 1834 Russian poet | published his Russian folklore-based fairy tales in verse: The Tale of the ... |
Alan Jay Lerner | ... t for theater performers, producers, managers, and directors. There, he met | in 1942. Their first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conno ... |
Virgil | ... . More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from Plato to | |
Tommy Douglas | ... Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for | ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal hea ... |
Wil Wheaton | ... e Takei, Walter Koenig, her on-screen daughter Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, | and many Trekkies |
Woody Allen | Evan Rachel Wood's character, Melodie St. Ann Celestine, in the | fictional film Whatever Works is from Eden, Mississippi |
Michael Drayton | ... avidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – | – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – ... |
Alice B. Toklas | The Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, named after San Francisco-born author | , was formed on Valentine's Day 1972 at the offices of the Society for Ind ... |
George Orwell | ... opened on February 6, 1984. The first book checked out of Davis Library was | 's 1984. The R.B. House Undergraduate Library is located between the Pit a ... |
Josiah | When | became king of Judah in c. 641/640 BC, the international situation was in ... |
Herodotus | ... 85); Hyde may have been the name of the district where Sardis stood. Later, | (Histories i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their ... |
Achilles | ... refutation of some of them. Three of the strongest and most famous—that of | and the tortoise, the Dichotomy argument, and that of an arrow in flight—a ... |
Ramiro | ... rded. Most, and the most reliable, charters name Sancho's sons in the order | , García, Gonzalo, then Ferdinand. Three documents from the Cathedral of P ... |
Lynn Swann | ... US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against | |
George Clooney | ... te, Charlie Chiemingo, taken under the guidance of Dr. Doug Ross, played by | . In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia in the animated musical fi ... |
Mohammed Heikal | At the same time, Nasser contacted Arafat through the former's adviser | and Arafat was declared by Nasser to be the "leader of the Palestinians." ... |
Plato | ... in detail. More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from | to Virgil |
Esarhaddon | ... C), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennacherib and his successors, | and after 669 BC. Manasseh is listed as being required to provide material ... |
George H. W. Bush | During the 1988 presidential election: then-Vice President | noted that his opponent Michael Dukakis had described himself as a "card-c ... |
George W. Bush | ... 4 presidential election, in which 69.5% of Wheeler Country voters voted for | , while 27.8% voted for John Kerry, and 2.7% of voters either voted for a ... |
Ludwig II | ... rown prince, against Germany's common enemy. It was on the proposal of King | that the imperial crown was offered to King Wilhelm I of Prussia |
Keith Allen | Lewis-Smith is currently writer and Executive Producer for | 's documentaries for Channel 4, which have so far included Little Lady Fau ... |
John McCain | ... column in 2008, with Barack Obama receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for | . In 2011 the GOP won a majority on the county commissioners board |
John McCain | ... sh received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 | received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, Rick Santorum and both had significan ... |
Ernest Dowson | ... J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – | – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – Jam ... |
Otto III | In | hoped to open a monastery between the Elbe and the Oder (somewhere in the ... |
Steve Lyons | ... y as color commentator. If Scully is not calling the game, Eric Collins and | call the entire game on television while Steiner and Monday do the same on ... |
Barack Obama | ... 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, with | receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for John McCain. In 2011 the GOP won ... |
Giamatti | ... his possible inclusion in the Hall of Fame. In a meeting with Commissioner | , Rose, having failed in a legal action to prevent it, accepted his punish ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... s played by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja, which also starred | as High Lord Kalidor (originally intended to be Conan). The film was direc ... |
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 ... |
John Lennon | ... se of sound collage, credited to Lennon–McCartney, but created primarily by | with assistance from George Harrison and Yoko Ono. Lennon said he was tryi ... |
Walter Koenig | ... es. More than 250 people attended including Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, | , her on-screen daughter Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton and many ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... a building project, which attracted attention from senior leaders. Because | saw himself as both an architect and artist, he warmed to Speer and gradua ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | The Overland Campaign, Lt. Gen. | 's offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, began at the Battle of the ... |
Sancha | ... ation of the realm of León–Castilla under Fernando el Magno and [his queen] | (1037–1065) is a history that remains to be researched and written. |
Eric Collins | ... , with Rick Monday as color commentator. If Scully is not calling the game, | and Steve Lyons call the entire game on television while Steiner and Monda ... |
Henry V | ... aces where bone prevented the arrow being pushed through. Prince Hal, later | , was wounded in the face by an arrow at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403). ... |
Eadbald | Æthelberht died in 616, during Laurence's tenure; his son | abandoned Christianity in favour of Anglo-Saxon paganism, forcing many of ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under President | following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan then ordered a massiv ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... Henry Donald, he overcame his opium addiction and declared his support for | . He was given the nickname of 千古功臣 (Hero of history) by PRC historians no ... |
Jean Mairet | ... ng (Jean de La Taille) and other writers (Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye and | ). The support which the unities received from Cardinal Richelieu eventual ... |
Gavin Lambert | ... re he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist | ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics; and Magdalen College, ... |
Emanuel Swedenborg | According to the doctrine of The New Church, as explained by | , there is no such thing as substitutionary atonement. Swedenborg's accoun ... |
Sennacherib | ... made a stand against Assyria by refusing to pay tribute. (; ) In response, | of Assyria attacked the fortified cities of Judah. Hezekiah paid three hun ... |
Ronald Reagan | The election of | as president in 1981 ushered in an eight year period of conservative leade ... |
Hamid Karzai | In 2001, the Afghan Interim Government under president | officially awarded Massoud the title of "Hero of the Afghan Nation". One a ... |
President Nasser | Encouraged by the rhetoric of | of Egypt against British colonial rule in the Middle East, pressure for th ... |
Richard L. Tierney | Sonja has been featured in several novels by David C. Smith and | with covers by Boris Vallejo |
George W. Bush | ... run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. In 2004, | received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 J ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... cation within Britain. Largely, modern British spelling was standardised in | 's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), although previous writers ... |
George W. Bush | ... 7.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that | carried it by in 2004. Each of the three row-office statewide winners carr ... |
President | ... r Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the | of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ty voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 34.61% voted for Democrat | and 4.06% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a ... |
Donald Davie | ... terton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – | – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – Law ... |
Edmond Picard | Having gained his law degree, he became a trainee (1881–1884) with | , a renowned criminal lawyer, who also played a pivotal role on the Brusse ... |
Joachim Fest | ... ed these notes out, and returned to them after his release. He was aided by | . The manuscript led to two books: first Erinnerungen ("Recollections") (P ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son | (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ... |
Otto Erich Hartleben | ... The composer Arnold Schönberg set a German language version (translated by | ) of selections from his Pierrot Lunaire to innovative atonal music |
Machiavellian | Lucrezia's family later came to epitomize the ruthless | politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaiss ... |
Guido van Rossum | ... tors of Python, became part of the company in the year 2000. Python founder | left Zope Corp in 2003 |
William Henry Donald | ... ved to be more independent than anyone had expected. With the assistance of | , he overcame his opium addiction and declared his support for Chiang Kai- ... |
John McCain | ... presidential election, 61.33% of Wheeler County voters voted for Republican | , while 34.61% voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 4.06% of voters either ... |
Henry Ford | During the 1920s | , founder and president of the Ford Motor Company, bought a sizable tract ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... n the county has voted for the non-Republican only two times. The first was | 's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. ... |
Jean Elliot | ... – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – | – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Rober ... |
Brian Clevinger | ... ed Fantasy of Captain N". 8-Bit Theater, a sprite-based webcomic created by | parodying the game, has become very popular in the gaming community since ... |
Charles Perrault | ... st picture book published specifically for children. Also during this time, | (1628–1703) laid the foundations of the fairy tale in France. His stories ... |
Gavin Lambert | ... g for the influential Sequence magazine (1947–52), which he co-founded with | and Karel Reisz; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Si ... |
Johnny Cash | ... the "Monteagle Grade." There is also a song called "Monteagle Mountain" by | on the album Boom Chicka Boom |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... e Once and Future King), Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), | , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investig ... |
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 ... |
Dennis Sharp | ... tional attention. Paolo Soleri participated, among others: Justus Dahinden, | , Bruno Zevi, Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Pierre Vago, Erns ... |
Georgi Markov | ... case of state-sponsored assassination, poisoning can be more easily denied. | , a Bulgarian dissident was assassinated by ricin poisoning. A tiny pellet ... |
King Hussein | ... other Arab states showed much more reluctance to fully commit to a new war. | of Jordan feared another major loss of territory as had occurred in the Si ... |
William Gilpin | ... oung man or woman of the time. In the late 18th century, the English cleric | wrote a series of hugely popular books describing his "picturesque" journe ... |
Lucy Mangan | ... ares". The compilation has continued to be offered for sale. The Guardian's | described some of the recordings as being "touched with genius". Writing a ... |
Henry III | During the reign of | the Assize of Arms of 1252 required that all "citizens, burgesses, free te ... |
Bruno Zevi | ... on. Paolo Soleri participated, among others: Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, | , Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Pierre Vago, Ernst Gisel, Ion ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... al Protection Agency in 1970. More recently, California Republican Governor | , with the support of 16 other states, sued the Federal Government and the ... |
Billy Wilder | ... he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in | 's film The Lost Weekend (1945). He was the first Welsh actor to ever win ... |
John McCain | ... and Republicans, the county trends Republican in statewide elections. While | received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-close ... |
Yoshitaka Amano | Warrior of Light, based on | 's design of the lead character, and Garland are the respective hero and v ... |
Joey Smallwood | ... n 1949, following two referenda within the province, St-Laurent and Premier | negotiated the entry of Newfoundland into Confederation |
Thomas McKean | ... the Declaration had been signed by Congress on July 4. But in 1796, signer | disputed that the Declaration had been signed on July 4, pointing out that ... |
Marx | The thinking of | and Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ... |
Mark Twain | ... ls (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, | and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
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 ... |
Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
Jerome | ... ntly used to today, most notably the Synod of Hippo in AD 393. Also c. 400, | produced a definitive Latin edition of the Bible (see Vulgate), the canon ... |
Barack Obama | ... ifference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican John McCain won 51% to Democrat | 's 46% and each of the three state row office winners carried Washington C ... |
Al Gore | ... in 2008. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties. | received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for George W. Bush in 2000, but ... |
Barack Obama | ... tewide elections. While John McCain received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for | , this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that George W. Bush carr ... |
E. Howard Hunt | # | (R) ‘security consultant,’ convicted of burglary |
Jorge Glusberg | ... leri participated, among others: Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, Bruno Zevi, | , Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Pierre Vago, Ernst Gisel, Ionel Schein |
Caesarion | ... bite of a snake (an asp) conveyed to her in a basket of figs. Octavian had | killed later that year, finally securing his legacy as Julius Caesar's onl ... |
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart | ... ism with psychic training and instruction in the Martian language. In 1968, | (then Tim Zell) founded the Church of All Worlds, a Neopagan religious org ... |
Charlemagne | ... start of the Viking Age, with the sack of Lindisfarne, also coincided with | 's Saxon Wars, or Christian wars with pagans in Saxony. Historians Rudolf ... |
George W. Bush | ... ompetitive counties. Al Gore received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for | in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for John Kerr ... |
Adrian Edmondson | ... who had appeared in the final episode of the first series as "Mad Gerald"), | , Nigel Planer, Mark Arden, Stephen Frost, Chris Barrie and Jeremy Hardy. ... |
Sparta | ... f Zeus on Mt. Lykaion during the Second Messenian War, a revolt against the | ns. The inscription supposedly commemorated the execution of Aristocrates ... |
Pausanias | In | , Description of Greece, the first Sibyl at Delphi mentioned ("the former" ... |
Akira Kurosawa | is a 1962 black-and-white Japanese samurai film directed by | and starring Toshirō Mifune |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... first was Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was | in 1964. In 2004, George W. Bush received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 vote ... |
Jim Morrison | ... Kilmer is best known for his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever, | in Oliver Stone's The Doors, he became popular in the mid-1980s after a st ... |
Pelasgus | Lycaon, son of | , the mythical founder of the Greek race, is said to have instituted the w ... |
Robert Bloch | ... on (Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), | , H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d political system. The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of | , a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, b ... |
Mae West | He impersonated a camp fashion designer in Sextette (1978), starring | |
Joachim Fest | Even his editorial aide, | , noted in later editions of Inside the Third Reich that much of what Spee ... |
Euripides | ... ean traditions is obvious: if Andromaque had been Pyrrhus's mistress (as in | ), why should she refuse to marry him? Racine, like Homer, conceives her a ... |
Lawrence Durrell | ... avie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – | – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy ... |
Oliver Stone | ... known for his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever, Jim Morrison in | 's The Doors, he became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appeara ... |
Aristophanes | ... minent historical figures in antiquity are referenced in other works (e.g., | mocking Socrates in his plays), but as he could not find any such referenc ... |
US president | ... Republican politicians for years; the last time a Democratic candidate for | carried Klamath County was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide ... |
Ovid | ... eus slew Lycaon and his fifty sons. Other sources, including the Roman poet | , claim instead that Lycaon’s punishment was transformation into a wolf, a ... |
William Rotsler | ... some cases, the X ratings were applied by reviewers or film scholars, e.g. | , who wrote "The XXX-rating means hard-core, the XX-rating is for simulati ... |
H. G. Wells | ... in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), Robert Bloch, | (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M ... |
John McCain | ... ote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican | won 51% to Democrat Barack Obama's 46% and each of the three state row off ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... of the most Republican counties in Pennsylvania. This has a long history as | reportedly received 78.57% of the county's vote in the 1860 Presidential e ... |
John Ramsey | ... ndful of well-known public address announcers; the most famous of which was | , who served as the PA voice of the Dodgers from 1958 until his retirement ... |
Gus Van Sant | ... itive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in | 's To Die For (1995) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublem ... |
Papen | ... ity than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, | , Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed throug ... |
Richard Nixon | ... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President | was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... struction of a helipad) to accommodate the President. When Attorney General | advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the entertaine ... |
Barack Obama | ... This has made Loudoun more competitive. Nevertheless, after giving Senator | nearly 54% of its presidential vote in 2008, the county shifted back to th ... |
Madonna | ... pop music, it earned them their best reactions yet, drawing comparisons to | 's album Ray of Light (1998) as well as other female groups such as All Sa ... |
Charles II, Archduke of Austria | He was born at Graz, the son of | , and Maria Anna of Bavaria. He was educated by the Jesuits and later freq ... |
Gitta Sereny | ... om prison, and some of the things said in these interviews, like those with | , contradicted with both his court testimony and memoirs |
Philo | In Of the Special Laws, Book 1, the Jewish philosopher | (20 BC - AD 50) gives six reasons for the practice of circumcision |
Jomini | General Baron | , one of the leading military writers on the Napoleonic art of war had a n ... |
Walter Francis White | Black was close friends with | , the black executive secretary of the NAACP who would help assuage critic ... |
Ben Elton | | 's arrival after the first series heralded the more frequent recruitment o ... |
Euripides | ... (III 8) between maternal love and a reluctance to marry Pyrrhus must (as in | ) be paramount. And so Astyanax is brought back to life |
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 ... |
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui | ... ument at all, but a philosophical document influenced by Emerich de Vattel, | , and Samuel Pufendorf. Historian David Armitage has argued that the Decla ... |
William I | ... alighting, proceeded to examine the field". In 1820, the Netherlands' King | ordered the construction of a monument on the spot where it was believed h ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545. It is an important source for ... |
Brian Sewell | ... Tom Parker Bowles, ran the "Alternative Turner Prize" with judges including | , who said it was for "a wider and more generous choice of art and artist. ... |
Catherine II of Russia | ... onnected to a major magnate faction, but hand-picked and imposed by Empress | , who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower. The King according ... |
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. ... |
Æthelberht of Kent | ... bout points of dispute. Laurence faced a crisis following the death of King | , when the king's successor abandoned Christianity; he eventually reconver ... |
Carrie Fisher | ... friends, they set each other up with their respective best friends, Marie ( | ) and Jess (Bruno Kirby). The four go to a restaurant, where Marie and Jes ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... d not want to appear in the film's suggestive sexual scenes or kiss co-star | . She later explained: "When I read it, I was 15 and I don't think I was m ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... jor stirrings came in the 1950s, with the early work of Ornette Coleman and | . In the 1960s, performers included Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Ph ... |
Aristotle | ... ustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of Plato and | . At the same time he studied the writings of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich ... |
Garry Wills | ... luence of republicanism rather than Locke's classical liberalism. Historian | argued that Jefferson was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, partic ... |
Chomsky | Herman and | (1988) proposed a propaganda model hypothesizing systematic biases of U.S. ... |
Wolverine | ... duced in issue #4). The X-Men universe also includes such notable heroes as | , Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gamb ... |
John Varley | ... the important and highly talented contemporaries of Turner and Girtin were | , John Sell Cotman, Anthony Copley Fielding, Samuel Palmer, William Havell ... |
James I of England | ... mia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen of Hearts, was the daughter of King | . However, after Frederick's defeat in the Battle of White Mountain in 162 ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637), a member of the House of Habsburg, was | (1619–1637), King of Bohemia (1617–1619, 1620–1637), and King of Hungary ( ... |
Grace Kelly | ... for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1954, he starred opposite | and Robert Cummings in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder |
John Acquaviva | ... s and digital mixing equipment. In May 1990, Hawtin and fellow second-waver | founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's ... |
Polyaenus | In his Stratagems, the 2nd-century Macedonian rhetorician | describes a battle between the Spartans and Demetrius of Macedon in 294 BC ... |
Leopold I | ... ccession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father, | . Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ... |
Al Gore | ... trended Republican at the national level in recent years. In 2000, Democrat | won 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democr ... |
Roy Fuller | ... rrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – | – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – ... |
Augustus | ... e actions of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, | , Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
Tommy Steele | Likewise, | , The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were teen idols, especially during th ... |
William Blake | ... ich oral tradition of storytelling for children and adults. But by the time | 's Songs of Innocence was published in 1789, books written specifically fo ... |
Plutarch | Polybius and | , a Greek author writing under the Roman empire, cite a battle at Mt. Lyka ... |
Idi Amin | ... mentaries include The Man Who Ate His Archbishop's Liver? (Channel 4) about | ; Alchemists of Sound, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; a biography of ... |
Aristotle | The philosopher | points out the ways in which tragedy differs from epic poetry |
Ovid | ... ikram and the Vampire. Both The Golden Ass by Apuleius and Metamorphoses by | extend the depths of framing to several degrees. Another early example is ... |
Erik Christopher Zeeman | In a 1964 paper, | showed that the causality preserving property, a condition that is weaker ... |
Alan Jay Lerner | ... 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist | on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and , with book and lyr ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... rade. He then attended Chatsworth High School—where his classmates included | and Mare Winningham—as well as the Hollywood Professional School. At the a ... |
George W. Bush | ... recent years. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won 53% of the vote and Republican | won 44%. In 2004, Democrat John Kerry received 50.14% of the vote and Bush ... |
Orson Welles | ... ry was a source of inspiration for the development of the lead character in | ' film Citizen Kane. His mansion, Hearst Castle, near San Simeon, Californ ... |
Commodus | ... liver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts (1997), the cruel Roman emperor | in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) (for which he was nominated for the Aca ... |
Andrew Davis (A.D.) Bruce | ... for the tank destroyer testing and training, which Texas had in abundance. | was assigned to organize a new Tank Destroyer Tactical and Firing Center, ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ported the protection of the environment. For example, Republican President | was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creat ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... r to the 2008 election, it had not voted for a Democrat for President since | in 1964. In recent years, however, the county has experienced rapid growth ... |
Thomas J. Farnham | ... ioneers to traverse most of the Oregon Trail. The men were initially led by | and called themselves the Oregon Dragoons. They carried a large flag embla ... |
Bourdieu | Thinkers such as Althusser, Foucault or | theorize the subject as a social construction. According to Althusser, the ... |
Anwar Sadat | ... ent Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by | . In 1971, Sadat, in response to an initiative by UN intermediary Gunnar J ... |
James Elroy Flecker | ... wson – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – | – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | The metal itself was first produced by | in England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ... |
Pharaoh | ... time being without foreign intervention. However, in the spring of 609 BC, | Necho II personally led a sizable army up to the Euphrates to aid the Assy ... |
Carl L. Becker | ... ved", is usually cited as one of the primary influences. In 1922, historian | wrote that "Most Americans had absorbed Locke's works as a kind of politic ... |
Jonathan Swift | A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by | |
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 ... |
Rupprecht | ... I of Bavaria. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince | , commanded the Bavarian army and became one of the leading German command ... |
Joyce Kilmer | ... te developer. Kilmer's grandfather was a gold miner in New Mexico; the poet | is a distant cousin of Kilmer's. Kilmer is of German, Swedish, Irish, and ... |
George Washington | ... th the county and the city were named for American Revolutionary War leader | , later to become the first President of the United States. It was the fir ... |
Seneca the Younger | Phèdre differs from Euripides's Hippolytus and | 's Phædra in the very important respect that, taking the character of Aric ... |
Curtis Strange | ... have been hosted in 2001) still read "The 2001 Ryder Cup", and U.S. captain | deliberately referred to his team as "The 2001 Ryder Cup Team" in his spee ... |
Thucydides | ... ss 2009. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 17 February 2011 | , a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king ... |
Plato | ... Johann Augustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of | and Aristotle. At the same time he studied the writings of Immanuel Kant a ... |
George Washington | ... r North Carolina Governor General Benjamin Smith, who was a special aide to | during the American Revolutionary War and was an early benefactor to the u ... |
John Huston | He then co-starred in | 's The Misfits (1961), which was both Marilyn Monroe's and Clark Gable's l ... |
Maria Theresa | ... abeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his two children: | , born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and Maria Anna, born 1718, Gover ... |
Jack Nicklaus | With the United States and Great Britain all tied at 15.5 each, | led Tony Jacklin by the score of 1 up as they played the 17th hole. Jackli ... |
Karl Marx | Another Young Hegelian, | , was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to ... |
Magneto | The first issue also introduced the team's archenemy, | , who would continue to battle the X-Men for decades throughout the comic' ... |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | ... legorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past ( | , Augustus, Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
William Rehnquist | ... of congressional power under the Commerce Clause, such as in the opinion of | in United States v. Lopez. Many Republicans on the more libertarian wing w ... |
Shirley Jackson | Some notable writers whose works were used in the collection include | (Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), R ... |
Oliver Stone | ... Die For (1995) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in | 's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts (1997), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus ... |
Floris V, Count of Holland | ... is from 1276 when Dirk van Santhorst received the "Soetrewold" fiefdom from | |
Pliny the Elder | ... r along the River Hermus, where a town called Maeonia existed, according to | (Natural History book v:30) and Hierocles |
Michael Booth | Osaka is known for its food, both in Japan and abroad. Author | and food critic François Simon of Le Figaro have both suggested that Osaka ... |
Frank Sturgis | # | guilty of burglary |
Virgil | ... dra in the very important respect that, taking the character of Aricie from | , Racine introduces the jealousy motive. Despite the fact that Hippolyte, ... |
Maria Anna | ... is two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and | , born 1718, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands |
Shūgorō Yamamoto | The story is largely based on | 's short story "Peaceful Days" (日日平安 Nichinichi hei-an). Originally Sanjur ... |
Derek Jacobi | ... portrayed in the movie by Rutger Hauer, Goebbels by Ian Holm, and Hitler by | , a role for which he was nominated for an Emmy. The miniseries did win 2 ... |
Alistair Cooke | ... ular the pursuit of objectivity. Taking as an example some comments made by | in 1935, where Cooke claimed to be without politics as a critic, Anderson ... |
Colin Firth | ... cted before the end. The film includes cameo appearances from Kate Moss and | |
Michael Crichton | She appeared in | 's 1973 sci-fi western, Westworld as a prostitute |
William Rehnquist | ... nited States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice | , ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were ... |
Paul | Pavlovsk Palace was built by Catherine the Great’s son | . The czarevitch and his wife, Marie Feodorovna, were avid francophiles, w ... |
Stephen Crane | ... mother, he bought the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like | and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with ... |
Elizabeth Siddal | ... eata Beatrix, 1864-1870.jpg|Beata Beatrix (1864–1870), Tate Britain (model: | |
Jeffry D. Wert | ... c images, although the latter seems to have been more deliberately crafted. | wrote about Stuart |
Hadrian | ... hat the decrease of importance of the Oracle after the era of Roman Emperor | was due in part to the fact that there had not been an earthquake in the a ... |
Reginald Heber | ... Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – | – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson ... |
Joel Godard | ... producers, backstage crew, his family, the Max Weinberg 7, David Letterman, | , Jay Leno, and Lorne Michaels, as well as a final assurance that he would ... |
Ruth Plumly Thompson | ... times a series will outlive its author; when Baum died, his publisher hired | to write more Oz books. The Nancy Drew series and others were written by s ... |
Frank Miller | ... Watchmen as a "revisionary superhero narrative." He considers Watchmen and | 's to be "the first instances ... of [a] new kind of comic book ... a firs ... |
Jane Seymour | ... heir, the future Edward VI, was born at the palace and the child's mother, | , died there two weeks later. Four years afterwards, whilst attending Mass ... |
Arthur Robison | ... earned him work as an extra at the British International Pictures studio on | 's 1929 production of The Informer. While he was working on The Informer h ... |
Barack Obama | ... ion of any county in the US (85%) and in 2008 with 88.69% of votes cast for | . It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county; i.e., taxes on alcohol illeg ... |
Thomas Gray | ... Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – | – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E ... |
Bede | ... nothing else is known of his history or background. The medieval chronicler | says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the ... |
Afrika Bambaataa | ... Kentucky. The tribute, organized by Bootsy Collins, featured appearances by | , Chuck D of Public Enemy, The Soul Generals, Buckethead, Freekbass, Triag ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray, a rhythm section honed with | as leader. Coltrane championed many younger free jazz musicians, (notably ... |
Frank Miller | ... dividual issues were collected and sold in trade paperback form. Along with | 's 1986 mini-series, Watchmen was marketed as a "graphic novel", a term wh ... |
Marie Feodorovna | ... e was built by Catherine the Great’s son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, | , were avid francophiles, who, on a visit to France and Versailles in the ... |
Johnny Depp | ... died, outside the Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room, which was co-owned by | at the time. Joaquin's call to 911 to save his brother was recorded and re ... |
Ovid | ... t least one son born to Omphale and Heracles: Diodorus Siculus (4.31.8) and | (Heroides 9.54) mention a son Lamos, while pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke ... |
Merlin Stone | Another interpretation, by art historian | , suggests the use of venom rather than ethylene. She indicates that when ... |
Parmenides's | ... een devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 - 430 BC) to support | doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our sense ... |
Catherine Howard | ... ce's chapel, the King was informed of his fifth wife's adultery. The Queen, | , was then confined to her room for a few days before being sent to the to ... |
Jackie Robinson | ... Dodgers would face them in their next six World Series appearances. Led by | , the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era, and thre ... |
Pindar | ... the first to introduce gymnastic competition. The ancient Greek lyric poet | records the victories of several athletes in his Victory Odes, and two ins ... |
Philippe, Duke of Anjou | ... The ensuing War of the Spanish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, | , Louis XIV of France's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for al ... |
Julian Hawthorne | ... the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like Stephen Crane and | and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer, own ... |
Euripides | ... rmer à l'idée que nous avons maintenant de cette princesse”. Astyanax, whom | describes (in The Trojan Women and the Andromache) as having been thrown f ... |
Max Marcin | ... k. He was given the role of second lead, in a production of Sam Shipman and | 's The Woman in Room 13. Despite being released from the play after five w ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, | himself |
Jessie Benton Frémont | ... California and Oregon. His explorations were written up by him and his wife | and were widely published. The first "decent" map of California and Oregon ... |
Alicia Keys | ... rned some mainstream recognition through the work of D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, | , and Lauryn Hill. D'Angelo's critically acclaimed album (2000) has been r ... |
Pete Townshend | ... f-destructive side, better than anyone else on the planet." In the words of | , "The production of our [The Who's] records has got nothing to do with so ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... r became Holy Roman Emperor, because he predeceased his father, but his son | eventually united the Habsburg, Burgundian, Castilian, and Aragonese inher ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president | |
René Descartes | ... een subject and object corresponds to the distinction, in the philosophy of | , between thought and extension. Descartes believed that thought (subjecti ... |
Jane Porter | ... arry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and | and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
Libby Purves | ... Midweek, during which he booked Arthur Mullard as a stand-in presenter for | (interviewing Prof. A. J. Ayer). That programme was featured on the BBC Ra ... |
George Washington | President of Congress John Hancock sent a broadside to General | , instructing him to have it proclaimed "at the Head of the Army in the wa ... |
Konrad Adenauer | ... drich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, Karl Barth and Sam ... |
Mark Haines | ... -Fattah (co-anchor of weekday edition of WCAU NBC 10 News in Philadelphia), | (host on CNBC television network), El McMeen (guitarist), Norman Pearlstin ... |
Mark Twain | ... ipment and the most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, | and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish sto ... |
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 ... |
Robert Graves | ... Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – | – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea ... |
Richard Nixon | On November 25, 1969, President | unilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ... |
Charles Dickens | The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on | ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" ma ... |
Patricia Bosworth | | , who had access to Clift's family and many people who knew and worked wit ... |
Claudius | ... and formed the north border of the Roman Empire. Since the rule of Emperor | (41–54 CE), divisions of the Roman army were stationed here. Consequently, ... |
Walt Disney | Along with | , Hitchcock was among the first prominent motion picture producers to full ... |
Ambrose Bierce | ... red the best equipment and the most talented writers of the time, including | , Mark Twain and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on t ... |
Omphale | In Greek myth, Lydia was also the first home of the double-axe, the labrys. | , daughter of the river Iardanos, was a ruler of Lydia, whom Heracles was ... |
Catherine the Great’s | Pavlovsk Palace was built by | son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, Marie Feodorovna, were avid francop ... |
Leopold I | ... eslaus Balthasar Johannes Antonius Ignatius), the second son of the Emperor | and of his third wife, Princess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on ... |
Euripides | ... cters and, above all, to present the old stories in a modern light. Whereas | , in his Iphigenia in Aulis, only averts the heroine's death by causing Ar ... |
Erykah Badu | ... e, and has earned some mainstream recognition through the work of D'Angelo, | , Alicia Keys, and Lauryn Hill. D'Angelo's critically acclaimed album (200 ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... ation. In 1993, stop-motion animators working on the realistic dinosaurs of | 's Jurassic Park were retrained in the use of computer input devices. By 1 ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia. | , an imperial Roman polymath, states that the games at Lykaion were the fi ... |
Charles Gounod | The series used a curious little tune by the French composer | (1818–1893), the composer of the 1859 opera Faust, as the theme for his te ... |
Sofia Coppola | In | 's independent film The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dunst played the role of t ... |
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 |
David Hume | ... an consciousness began its career with the German Idealists, in response to | 's radical skepticism. The idealists' starting point was Hume's conclusion ... |
David Letterman | ... s fans, writers, producers, backstage crew, his family, the Max Weinberg 7, | , Joel Godard, Jay Leno, and Lorne Michaels, as well as a final assurance ... |
R. L. Stine | ... r to launch a series, such as L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. Enid Blyton and | have specialized in open-ended series. Sometimes a series will outlive its ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... ndon Bridge created dangerous rapids. This gatehouse is also known today as | 's gate, after Henry's second wife. Work was still underway on Anne Boleyn ... |
Magneto | Early X-Men issues introduced the team's archenemy | and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants featuring Mastermind, Quicksilver, Sca ... |
Russell Baker | ... ge C. Marshall resided at Dodona Manor in Leesburg. Essayist and journalist | grew up in Morrisonville, Virginia and his book Growing Up highlights his ... |
William the Conqueror | ... t the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the invading Duke of Normandy, | , spent the rest of the year securing his holdings, by fortifying key posi ... |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... Across from the Parliament is the Shengo Hall, built by the Derg regime of | as its new parliament hall. The Shengo Hall was the world's largest pre-fa ... |
Ralph Klein | ... ssue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by Alberta Premier | and some Conservatives and Liberal backbenchers. However, Paul Martin's Li ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... er was able to describe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including | , Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of co ... |
Jack London | ... most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain and | . A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish stories of municip ... |
Sebastian Shaw | ... s used in the 2004 DVD release of , where he was inserted in place of actor | as the ghost of Anakin Skywalker. This was one of the most controversial c ... |
Gary Player | ... the charity had raised £1.5 million. Dalglish often competes in the annual | Invitational Tournament, a charity golfing event which raises money for ch ... |
Jack Nicklaus | ... ange to include continental Europeans arose from discussion in 1977 between | and the Earl of Derby, who was serving as the President of the Professiona ... |
Rosanne Cash | ... , Leanne Womack, The Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, Jakob Dylan, and | , amongst others |
Bob Monkhouse | ... ore becoming ABC Television. The station also received a joke nickname from | , namely All Bloody Commercials |
John F. Kennedy | Peter Lawford was a brother-in-law of President | (dubbed "Brother-in-Lawford" by Sinatra), and the group played a role in c ... |
Simon Bates | ... Radio 1 (producer: John Walters) under the name "Steve Nage", parodying the | mid-Atlantic, nasal style of Radio 1 disc jockey . This style of parody wa ... |
Edmund Crouchback | Henry granted Kenilworth to his brother, | , in 1267. Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th cen ... |
François Truffaut | ... 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and | , were among the first to see and promote Hitchcock's films as artistic wo ... |
Ellery Queen | Mystery author | can also be considered a "fictional artist" of sorts, though the proverbia ... |
Pierre Schaeffer | In December 1952, he composed a Konkrete Etüde, realized in | 's Paris musique concrète studio. In March 1953, he moved to the NWDR stud ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... merican Civil War Brigadier General Robert H. Chilton (Chief of Staff under | ) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general George C. Marshall ... |
Don Drysdale | ... mes in 1959. Spearheaded by the dominant pitching style of Sandy Koufax and | , the Dodgers captured three pennants in the 1960s and won two more World ... |
Ptolemy | During the Roman period, the geographer | noted that Sardinia was inhabited by the following peoples, from north to ... |
Rob Reiner | ... ket. I do have platonic (women) friends, but not best, best, best friends." | initially envisioned actress Susan Dey for the role of Sally Albright. Whe ... |
Spike Lee | ... Day. It has been said that a biographical film is in the works about Brown | ;has signed on to direct, with Brian Grazer producing and Jez and John-Hen ... |
John Hancock | The most famous signature on the engrossed copy is that of | , who, as President of Congress, presumably signed first. Hancock's large, ... |
John Lennon | ... Revolver. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by | . The track included looped tape effects. For the track Paul McCartney sup ... |
Thomas Malory | ... ories which became popular among children were written in the 15th Century. | 's Morte d'Arthur (1486) and the tales of Robin Hood (c. 1450) were not wr ... |
Walter Scott | ... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir | and Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
Ashur-uballit II | ... ght and where Josiah was killed. Necho then joined forces with the Assyrian | and together they crossed the Euphrates and lay siege to Harran. The combi ... |
Fernando Valenzuela | ... went on to win the World Series again in 1981, thanks to pitching sensation | . The early 1980s were affectionately dubbed "Fernandomania." In 1988, ano ... |
Henry IV of England | ... bowstaves to England was in 1294. In 1350 there was a serious shortage, and | ordered his royal bowyer to enter private land and cut yew and other woods ... |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... ounded by colonists from Lydia led by Tyrrhenus, brother of Lydus. However, | was skeptical of this story, pointing out that the Etruscan language and c ... |
Alice Cooper | ... ock2Wgtn two day festival, which also featured Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Poison, | and Lordi, with special effects by the Academy Award winning WETA Workshop ... |
Clinton | ... Chen Li-an and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President | to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battl ... |
Lew Wasserman | ... ylor, who was in Paris, sent flowers, as did Roddy McDowall, Myrna Loy, and | |
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, ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... wever, after Chief Justice Harlan Stone died in 1946, rumors that President | would appoint Jackson as Stone's successor led several newspapers to inves ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... his characters, for example the song "Namarie" in The Lord of the Rings by | , which Tolkien attributes to the character Galadriel |
Ralph Hodgson | ... Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – | – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – He ... |
William Shatner | ... BC network executives who insisted that Roddenberry give the role to a man. | corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at ... |
Blind Harry | ... pic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by | . Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Ja ... |
Éric Rohmer | In the late 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially | , Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and pr ... |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... have been strongly influenced by the Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher | |
Shirley MacLaine | ... ief stint, Norman Fell. Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, Juliet Prowse, and | were often referred to as the "Rat Pack Mascots". The post-Bogart version ... |
Sandy Koufax | ... ite Sox in six games in 1959. Spearheaded by the dominant pitching style of | and Don Drysdale, the Dodgers captured three pennants in the 1960s and won ... |
Karl Hanke | ... ity, and how she in turn had had an affair with one of Speer's old friends, | . Personally meeting with Göring on his estate, Speer wrote how the by-the ... |
Benjamin Franklin | Contrary to popular legend, there is no evidence that | ever supported the Wild Turkey, rather than the Bald Eagle, as a symbol of ... |
Roger Penrose | ... no singularities appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties | and Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities are ... |
Charles Laughton | ... . MGM started Milland out in films such as Payment Deferred (1932) starring | |
George Herbert | ... reville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – | – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. ... |
Sun King | ... restoration and maintenance at Versailles undoubtedly surpass those of the | |
Baruch Spinoza | ... In the process, they became the first non-religious Biblical scholars since | in his Theologico-Political Treatise |
John Hancock | ... was transposed on paper, adopted by the Continental Congress, and signed by | , President of the Congress, on July 4, 1776. On August 2, 1776 a parchmen ... |
Lisa Scottoline | ... rk), El McMeen (guitarist), Norman Pearlstine (editor-in-chief of Time) and | (author of legal thrillers) |
Elia Kazan | ... oncert music," the 1950s saw the rise of the modernist film score. Director | was open to the idea of jazz influences and dissonant scoring and worked w ... |
Sparta | ... ttoman Empire, European travelers and scholars began to systematically tour | and the Peloponnnese. Ernst Curtius, Charles Beulé, and Guillaume Blouet p ... |
Stephen Glass | ... eviews for 2003's Shattered Glass, which tells the true story of journalist | , who was discovered fabricating stories as a writer for The New Republic. ... |
Gerald Ford | ... both on the Federal and State level. Nixon was succeeded by Vice President | as President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pa ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... ecedents were thus upheld. In 1939 Black was joined on the Supreme Court by | and William O. Douglas. Douglas voted alongside Black in several cases, es ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ty came to also support environmentalism. For example, Democratic President | did not send the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification, as he ... |
Kathy Reichs | ... e of Québec. Brennan has made at least one other reference to the real-life | most notably by stating in the series pilot that the closest other forensi ... |
Dave Marsh | ... . It's got to do with trying to keep Keith Moon on his fucking drum stool." | 's The New Book of Rock Lists ranks Moon at No. 1 on its list of The 50 Gr ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | Among its notable alumni and faculty are | , Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... emian diet, in 1618, King of Hungary by the Hungarian estates, and in 1619, | |
Philip II of Spain | ... mpton Court that Queen Mary I (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King | to spend her honeymoon, after their wedding at Winchester. The marriage wa ... |
Neil Peart | ... ble rock drummers have been influenced by Keith Moon, including Dave Grohl, | , Tommy Lee, Peter Criss, and Brad Wilk |
Edward I of England | ... 05, Wallace was captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over to King | , who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes aga ... |
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart | In 1968, Tim Zell (now | ) and others formed a neo-pagan religious organization called the Church o ... |
Psamtik I | ... that the Assyrians and Egyptians were weakened by the death of the pharaoh | only a year earlier (610 BC). Presumably in an attempt to help the Babylon ... |
George W. Bush | ... e for ratification, as he thought it unfair to the United States. President | also publicly opposed ratification of the Kyoto Protocols on the grounds t ... |
Claude Chabrol | In the late 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, | and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and promote Hitchcock's ... |
George W. Bush | ... d of many prominent leaders in industry and government, including President | |
Kaleb | ... eginning of the 6th century and began to massacre the Christians. Outraged, | , the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Empe ... |
Lorne Michaels | ... his family, the Max Weinberg 7, David Letterman, Joel Godard, Jay Leno, and | , as well as a final assurance that he would not "grow up" as he moved to ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties Roger Penrose and | used global techniques to prove that singularities are generic |
Albert Einstein | ... add increased dimensionality, such as intentionality (used for x), people ( | ) and colloquial terminology more relevant to Internet search (i.e., blogg ... |
Henry Winter | ... erms of discipline and spirit" and a "defensive masterplan" by David Pleat, | wrote, "it can only be a matter of time before he [Dalglish] is confirmed ... |
Matthew Thornton | ... ot present when the original Declaration was adopted on July 4. One signer, | , from New Hampshire, who agreed to the Declaration and having joined the ... |
Heinrich Heine | Among its notable alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI, | , Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Aug ... |
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 ... |
Charles I of England | ... and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King | (played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly ... |
Achilles | ... . In an almost identical line (X.391) that suggests a formulaic expression, | tells the Myrmidons to sing the paean after the death of Hector |
President | ... "an examination ... of rival claims." Great Britain reacted favourably but | Woodrow Wilson rejected the plan. Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary were favora ... |
James I | ... ly. This was when, on the death of Robert III in 1406, his heir, who became | , was a prisoner in England. James was eventually released and crowned in ... |
Stesichorus | ... m in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of | onwards. As Milton says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of st ... |
Wolfman Jack | Rock music has a long and honorable radio tradition going back to DJs like | and Alan Freed, and as a result variations on rock radio are fairly common ... |
Malcolm, son of Kenneth II | ... ed mac Duib), who became Kenneth III on Constantine's death, or perhaps for | (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) |
Hitler | ... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited | 's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ... |
Anwar al-Awlaki | ... such as Al-Qaeda and Hamas. In early 2010, with President Obama's approval, | became the first U.S. citizen to be publicly approved for targeted killing ... |
Llywelyn the Great | ... ng and soon the archbishop was sent to Wales to negotiate peace with Prince | |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Escape was filmed in 1930 and 1948. The latter was directed by | , starring Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell. The screenplay w ... |
William the Conqueror | ... father Eustace II appeared at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 as an ally of | , and is listed as a possible killer of Harold II; he is also believed to ... |
Ellen Glasgow | ... s extensive and sometimes troubled past. The works of Pulitzer Prize winner | often dealt with social inequalities and the role of women in her culture. ... |
Slavoj Žižek | ... Ideological State Apparatuses has been of interest to Slovenian philosopher | ; the attempt to view history as a process without a subject garnered symp ... |
Hector Berlioz | ... er, Paganini also became close friends with composers Gioachino Rossini and | . Rossini and Paganini met in Bologna in the summer of 1818. In January 18 ... |
Talcott Parsons | ... pretations of his writings were produced by such sociological luminaries as | and C. Wright Mills. Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a fun ... |
Bill Hader | ... f a hearse winding through a foggy landscape and cemetery, and the voice of | as Vincent Price in place of Joel Godard |
Jonathan Demme | ... Hours fits in well with popular low-budget "cult" films of the 1980s, e.g. | 's Something Wild and Alex Cox's Repo Man |
Hipparchus | ... oman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer | of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a disc ... |
James Branch Cabell | ... ities and the role of women in her culture. Glasgow's peer and close friend | wrote extensively about the changing position of gentry in the Reconstruct ... |
Dave Mustaine | ... from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist | , bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's ... |
Alan Freed | ... long and honorable radio tradition going back to DJs like Wolfman Jack and | , and as a result variations on rock radio are fairly common. The classic ... |
Pausanias | He was a son of Talaus and Lysimache. | calls his mother Lysianassa, and Hyginus calls her Eurynome. He was one of ... |
Rod Serling | ... Fantasy Island, and two episodes each of The Streets of San Francisco, and | 's Night Gallery |
Milton | ... acred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of Stesichorus onwards. As | says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed for the ... |
Robert Ingersoll | ... is autobiography, “In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of | 's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confir ... |
George W. Bush | ... a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing that | is a war criminal. A spokeswoman for the university said that the test que ... |
Robert III | ... able to be crowned more or less immediately. This was when, on the death of | in 1406, his heir, who became James I, was a prisoner in England. James wa ... |
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 ... |
Russell Grant | ... omedian Jim Davidson, tennis player/TV presenter Sue Barker, and astrologer | also originate from the area |
Lady Diana Spencer | ... dest son, Charles, counselling him to make up his mind to either propose to | , or break off their courtship. Charles felt pressured by his father to ma ... |
King Henry II | ... de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, the castle was seized by the crown in 1102. | , who added on to the castle, in 1155 confirmed William d'Aubigny as Earl ... |
Paul Tillich | ... has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel Kant, Hastings Rashdall and | . It remains the most popular view of atonement among liberal Christians. ... |
Hesiod | ... o as a god capable of bringing disease and propitiated as a god of healing. | identifies Paeon as a separate god, and in later poetry Paeon is invoked i ... |
Victor Anderson | ... e in the Neopagan community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and trained with | , founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with Zsuzsanna Budapest ... |
Romano Scarpa | ... talian comic strip artist. He started his career at age 14, as an inker for | . He made stories about Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scroo ... |
President of Ireland | ... Uachtaráin , formerly the Viceregal Lodge, is the official residence of the | . It is located in the Phoenix Park on the northside of Dublin |
Thomas Hobbes | | (1588–1679) defined power as a man's "present means, to obtain some future ... |
Alexander the Great | ... t family was named Psittacus alexandri, meaning "Alexander's parrot", after | whose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece. Linnaeus' trivial nam ... |
Danaus | ... their wedding night, as her 49 sisters did. (See the myth at the entry for | .) The author of the Bibliotheca, in his list of names for the Danaids, do ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... February 1, 1956 and commanded by Major General John B. Medaris with Doctor | |
Henrik Ibsen | ... ay visit Hægstad Gård which contains woodcarvings, scenes from Peer Gynt by | , and in Geiranger the new Norwegian Fjord Centre shows local history and ... |
Stephen of England | ... V (c. 1129 – 17 August 1153), count of Boulogne, was the eldest son of King | and Countess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English thr ... |
Art Rooney | ... d among his friends and companions the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, Tim Mara, | , and George Preston Marshall, among others. Marshall met Bell in Atlantic ... |
Jim Jarmusch | ... Tarantino, Jane Lynch, Gael García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, | , Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and John Waters. Waters, a summer resident, i ... |
Dwight Eisenhower | ... ioned endlessly for an exemption which had finally been approved by General | . However Saint-Exupéry had been suffering pain and immobility due to his ... |
Lex Luthor | ... c (who murders Alexi Luthor of Earth-Two for trying to take leadership) and | to conquer the Earths, while the Anti-Monitor causes chaos on the Earths b ... |
Danaus | In Greek mythology, Amymone (the "blameless" one) was a daughter of | . As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identica ... |
Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit is a serial novel by | published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the ... |
Steven Pinker | ... are common in discussions of homosexuality, environmentalism and veganism. | has described two logical fallacies. "The naturalistic fallacy is the idea ... |
Uri Avnery | ... ded the ceremony. Also attending were at least one Israeli peace activist ( | , head of Gush Shalom) and a Christian minister. Arafat was buried in a st ... |
Ian Dury | ... come to prominence in the British pub rock scene of the mid-1970s, such as | , Nick Lowe, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr. Feelgood; and according to All ... |
Thomas Hobbes | In the 17th century | collected the current evidence to conclude outright that Moses could not h ... |
Harold Lamb | ... world for me." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs, | , Talbot Mundy," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years ... |
Charles Darwin | ... tionary view of nationalism has its origins in the evolutionary theories of | that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides. ... |
Branch Rickey | ... "minor" – a term that did not come into vogue until St. Louis Cardinals GM | pioneered the farm system in the 1930s. Nevertheless, these financially tr ... |
Emperor Gong of Western Wei | ... AD). Afterwards, Yuwen Tai's son Yuwen Jue seized the throne of power from | , establishing the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557–580 AD). The Northern Zhou D ... |
George Sanders | ... ar. The car he jumps into happens to have in it Carol and Scott ffolliott ( | ), another reporter, who explains that the capital letter in his surname w ... |
Stever Committee | In early 1958, NACA's " | " included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by W ... |
Baruch Spinoza | ... not have written the bulk of the Torah. Shortly afterwards the philosopher | published a unified critical analysis, arguing that the problematic passag ... |
Peter Jackson | In | 's , Frodo and his companions arrive at Bree almost immediately after they ... |
Charlotte Auerbach | ... a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mice maintained by geneticist | . Histopathological studies in the 1960s revealed that the cerebellum of r ... |
Talbot Mundy | ... ." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs, Harold Lamb, | ," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years later |
Charles Dickens | ... ry, but the word was considered vulgar. (Note the exclamation by Estella in | 's novel Great Expectations: "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!") Howe ... |
Haakon V | ... peared claiming to be her, known as the False Margaret; she was executed by | , King Eric's brother and successor, in 1301 |
Sue Barker | ... sh, supermodel Lily Cole, comedian Jim Davidson, tennis player/TV presenter | , and astrologer Russell Grant also originate from the area |
Judith Butler | ... ion has been popularised and adapted by the feminist philosopher and critic | ; the concept of Ideological State Apparatuses has been of interest to Slo ... |
Joseph II | On Maria Theresa's death in 1780, she was succeeded by her son | , already Holy Roman Emperor since Francis I's death in 1765. A reformer h ... |
Edward Granville Browne | ... overy of numerous compounds and chemicals including kerosene, among others. | considers him as "probably the greatest and most original of all the physi ... |
Niccolò Machiavelli | ... chel Foucault (1926–1984), who, following the Italian political philosopher | (1469–1527), sees power as "a complex strategic situation in a given socie ... |
Baldwin of Bourcq | ... he travelled all the way to Apulia before learning that a distant relative, | , had been crowned in the meantime. Eustace returned to Boulogne and died ... |
Jerome Bettis | ... swell as well as former Pittsburgh Steeler and current NBC Sports announcer | |
Edgar Rice Burroughs | ... venth birthday, he "had gotten The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars" by | , books which "opened up a complete new world for me." In a time before co ... |
Agatha Christie | ... to artifacts from Kents Cavern, other local archaeology, information about | , and a replica old farmhouse interior, the museum has galleries dedicated ... |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Privately, however, the CIA and President | were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret sp ... |
Baldwin of Boulogne | ... 1096 with his brothers Godfrey of Bouillon (duke of Lower Lotharingia) and | . He soon returned to Europe to administer his domains. He married Mary of ... |
Malcolm X | ... ivists felt it presented an inaccurate, sanitized pageant of racial harmony | ;called it the "Farce on Washington," and the Nation of Islam forbade its ... |
Philip | ... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince | |
Henry of Anjou | ... ssibility of a peaceful settlement between Stephen and his rival, the young | . According to William of Newburgh, King Stephen was "grieved beyond measu ... |
Catherine the Great | ... ntral Europe, faced with the alliance of Frederick the Great of Prussia and | of Russia. The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 caused a serious crisis in e ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... rsity as undergraduate students, graduate students or were faculty members. | , who received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was Hopkins' first affi ... |
Milton Friedman | While | described The General Theory as "a great book", he argues that its implici ... |
Henry Ford | According to | |
Larry King | ... sode was created from an episode which originally aired in May and featured | , among other guests. Using a process the show called "Skelevision", all t ... |
Vincent Hanna | ... ecruited for one episode essentially to play himself. Political commentator | played a character billed as "his own great-great-great grandfather" in th ... |
Benedict Arnold | ... -copy," and "We started out with too much cargo / So I'm glad we got rid of | , yo |
Roger Ebert | ... aid it was very gripping and scary despite some minor unanswered questions. | gave the film "Thumbs Down" and felt it was boring and "borderline ridicul ... |
Annie Dillard | Norman Mailer's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and | 's novel The Maytrees are primarily based in Provincetown |
Aeschylus | The Greek poet | who took part in the Battle of Salamis, commented on the power of the paea ... |
Kim Il-sung | In April 1982, | announced a new economic policy giving priority to increased agricultural ... |
Matilda of Boulogne | ... cotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, | |
Niccolò Machiavelli | ... s of bolstering the power of capitalism and of the nation-state. Drawing on | in The Prince, and trying to understand why there had been no Communist re ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U.S. President | and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d' ... |
Casimir IV | ... tiated with Lithuania in the hope of placing itself under the protection of | , King of Poland and Grand Prince of Lithuania, a would-be alliance regard ... |
Miyamoto Musashi | ... ar in Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai's anthropomorphic-rabbit samurai based upon | and in the Artemis Fowl series of children's books |
Tom Wolfe | ... history in works such as The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. | has occasionally dealt with his southern heritage in bestsellers like I Am ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated | . However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 |
Ibn al-Nadim | Razi studied medicine under Ali ibn Rabban al-Tabari, however, | indicates that he studied philosophy under al-Bakhi, who had travelled muc ... |
Richard Roeper | ... ixed or average) from 36 reviews. On the television program Ebert & Roeper, | gave the film "Thumbs Up" and said it was very gripping and scary despite ... |
E. P. Thompson | ... ry of structuration; Althusser was vehemently attacked by British historian | in his book The Poverty of Theory |
Plato | ... wrote a satyr play about the abduction called Orithyia which has been lost. | writes somewhat mockingly that there may have been a rational explanation ... |
Achilles | ... s married the Ocean goddess Thetis. Peleus later gave the horses to his son | who took them to draw his chariot during the Trojan War |
Lucian | From Syria her worship extended to Greece and to the furthest West. | and Apuleius give descriptions of the beggar-priests who went round the gr ... |
Lydia Lunch | ... ncluded, from the UK, The Fall, and from the US, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, | , Elliott Sharp, Swans, the Ordinaires and Arto Lindsay. This was followed ... |
Baldwin I of Jerusalem | When his youngest brother king | died in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne. Eustace was at f ... |
David Letterman | ... l War, Ancient Greece, The future, and The early '80s (featuring a cameo by | in the cold open, who occupied Conan's studio in 1983, cruelly brushing of ... |
Rawhi Fattouh | Upon Arafat's death, PLC Speaker | succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General Ma ... |
Ibn al-Nadim | ... zi allegedly returned to Rey where he gathered many students around him. As | relates in Fihrist, Razi was then a Shaikh (title given to one entitled to ... |
Daniel Nathans | ... Herbert Spencer Gasser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, | and Hamilton O. Smith won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ... |
Sam Harris | ... some extent. Proponents of this view, such as the author and neuroscientist | , see morality as a budding science. This view is critical of Moore's "sim ... |
William Styron | ... uction era, and challenged its moral code with Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. | approached history in works such as The Confessions of Nat Turner and Soph ... |
Daniel of Galicia | ... mogitia). Vykintas died in 1251 or 1252, and Tautvilas was forced to rejoin | |
Aeschylus | ... ar the Erginos River in Thrace. There she was wrapped in a cloud and raped. | wrote a satyr play about the abduction called Orithyia which has been lost |
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 ... |
Leopold II | ... roved a boon for Austria, as he was succeeded by his more sensible brother, | , previously the reforming Grand Duke of Tuscany. Leopold knew when to cut ... |
Stan Sakai | ... a series of novels by Greg Rucka. Bodyguards also appear in Usagi Yojimbo, | 's anthropomorphic-rabbit samurai based upon Miyamoto Musashi and in the A ... |
Roger Ebert | ... eron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003). Film critic | called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". ... |
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 ... |
Vasili | ... rty three years, dying on 27 October 1505 and he left his empire to his son | |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... -lived, as the Northern Zhou was overthrown in 581 by Yang Jian, who became | . With greater military power and morale, along with convincing propaganda ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... since he was one of the key figures who acceded to the wishes of President | in changing the focus of the march. Kennedy initially opposed the march ou ... |
Karl Marx | ... c sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along with | and Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of mode ... |
Margaret Dovey | ... tralian athlete Decima Norman, who won five gold medals in track and field. | , the future wife of the former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam, f ... |
Peleus | Poseidon gave the two horses to King | of Phtia, as a wedding gift, when Peleus married the Ocean goddess Thetis. ... |
Byron Erickson | ... he epic Disney fantasy comic World of the Dragonlords, which was written by | |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... le all over the country. On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinated | in County Sligo. On the same day the IRA killed 18 British soldiers at War ... |
Gene Siskel | ... ck's facade was one of many used as the backdrop for the opening credits of | and Roger Ebert's "At the Movies." The uptown area is currently under deve ... |
Empress Matilda | ... ouis in an abortive raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the title of the | , and was now defended by her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou |
Greg Rucka | ... nal bodyguard who acts as narrator and protagonist in a series of novels by | . Bodyguards also appear in Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai's anthropomorphic-ra ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... ze such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister | , assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
Malcolm III of Scotland | ... pe to administer his domains. He married Mary of Scotland, daughter of King | , and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, Matil ... |
Antonio Gramsci | In the Marxist tradition, the Italian writer | elaborated the role of cultural hegemony in ideology as a means of bolster ... |
Alexander III of Scotland | ... e was the daughter of King Eric II of Norway and Margaret, daughter of King | . Margaret was born in Tønsberg, on 9 April 1283, while her mother did not ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... matured, calling her progress a "declaration of strength and independence". | of Allmusic described her eponymous album, Aaliyah, as "a statement of mat ... |
Norman Mailer | ... Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in the festival. | 's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and Annie Dillard's novel The Maytrees are ... |
Stanley Kubrick | ... riginal score written by the film composer. One of the most famous cases is | 's , where Kubrick opted for existing recordings of classical works, inclu ... |
Richard M. Nixon | ... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President | |
Peter Abelard | ... ity during the Middle Ages and is most often associated in that period with | . Since the Reformation it has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel ... |
Isaiah Berlin | ... itically, rather than any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, including | and Piero Sraffa. Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewi ... |
Jennifer Crusie | ... ite of the kind of hypocrisy that is typically attributed to women". Writer | interprets this as Cordelia's "lack of depth" becoming "her strength". She ... |
Bob Black | ... ards mysticism, occultism, and irrationalism. Bey did not respond publicly. | wrote a rejoinder to Bookchin in Anarchy after Leftism |
Adolf Hitler | ... when British attacks had become more effective than earlier in the battle. | , then a Gefreiter of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, fought in the Bat ... |
Louis VII of France | ... ers dated no later than August 1131. In 1137, he did homage for Normandy to | , whose sister, Constance, he subsequently married in 1140 (as a widow she ... |
Eric II of Norway | She was the daughter of King | and Margaret, daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland. Margaret was bor ... |
Hyginus | ... s a son of Talaus and Lysimache. Pausanias calls his mother Lysianassa, and | calls her Eurynome. He was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iph ... |
Gus Van Sant | ... l García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes, | , and John Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in th ... |
Aldo Leopold | ... ion, yet survive and revive after water absorption. A. Carl Leopold, son of | , began studying this capability at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant ... |
Henry VIII | ... ard Family were Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of | . Both women were nieces of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, who played ... |
DJ Yella | ... t behind the scenes it was a group effort. Music was handled by Dr. Dre and | ; the lyrics were largely written by MC Ren, with contributions from Ice C ... |
James Whale | ... ne More River (a film version of Galsworthy's Over the River) was filmed by | in 1934. The film starred Frank Lawton, Colin Clive (one of Whale's most f ... |
Paul Scarron | ... hands. In 1649 he painted the Vision of St Paul (Louvre) for the comic poet | , and in 1651 the Holy Family (Louvre) for the duc de Créquy. Year by year ... |
Keith Dowding | ... se power relationships. One rational choice definition of power is given by | in his book Power |
Adolf Hitler | ... Davenport) is concerned about the "crisis" in Europe, the growing power of | and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents i ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... and Christian holidays. There are also places of worship in George Town for | , and followers of Bahá'í Faith. The Cayman Islands also hosts a small Jew ... |
James Wolcott | ... loating around for over a decade." The term was used by American journalist | in a 1975 article about musician Todd Rundgren, although with a different ... |
David Cross | ... Jones. The performer Usher lives in the same Roswell neighborhood. Comedian | lived in Roswell during his childhood in the 1970s and early 1980s Former ... |
President of the Church | ... restrictions remained in place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by | Spencer W. Kimball |
Chris Claremont | According to George Pérez in a Wizard magazine interview in 1994, | suggested that Superman of Earth-One dies in the final battle with the Ant ... |
John Wycliffe | ... i-clericalism and England had already given rise to the Lollard movement of | , which played an important part in inspiring the Hussites in Bohemia. Lol ... |
Napoleon I | ... as a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against | at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Water ... |
Le Corbusier | ... ntly. In December 1919 he married Jeanne-Augustine Lohy, and in 1920 he met | , who would remain a lifelong friend |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... he hometown of former First Lady & current United States Secretary of State | . When she visited Park Ridge on the occasion of her 50th birthday in 1997 ... |
Aristotle | ... viding his time between Oxford and Paris, and helped introduce the study of | . He is the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the site where he lived ... |
Erskine H. Childers | ... Fianna Fáil's electoral comeback by securing the election of its candidate, | , as President of Ireland in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the Na ... |
Hume's | ... related to (and even confused with) the is–ought problem, which comes from | Treatise |
Pindar | The most famous paeans are those of Bacchylides and | . Paeans were sung at the festivals of Apollo (especially the Hyacinthia), ... |
Rudolph Grey | ... h night three to five acts performed, including Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, | , Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day, Off Beach and others |
Janet Jackson | ... ylized steps such as the robot and moonwalk over the course of his career." | collaborated with former Prince associates Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on he ... |
President | ... staing (; born 2 February 1926) is a French centre-right politician who was | of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. , he is a member of the Const ... |
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 ... |
Gordon Lyon | ... proxy is a forwarding proxy server that is accessible by any Internet user. | estimates there are "hundreds of thousands" of open proxies on the Interne ... |
President Bush | On September 26, 2006, | urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that U.S. armed forces ... |
Emperor Charles VII | ... a to the Prussians. In 1745, following the reign of the Bavarian Elector as | , Maria Theresa's husband Francis of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was ... |
Bacchylides | The most famous paeans are those of | and Pindar. Paeans were sung at the festivals of Apollo (especially the Hy ... |
Edward R. Murrow | ... med on 5 July, presciently foreshadowing the celebrated radio broadcasts of | |
Richard Bartle | ... that the online female persona has a number of positive social attributes. | , author of Designing Virtual Worlds, classified multiplayer RPG-players i ... |
Zsuzsanna Budapest | ... with Victor Anderson, founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with | , a feminist separatist involved in Dianic Wicca |
President of India | ... tion of SPG for a period of 5 years, after stepping down from the post. The | is also protected by SPG while the President's Bodyguards, which is a mech ... |
Cephalus | ... mage:Cephalus and Aurora - Poussin - 1627-30 National Gallery, London.jpg | | and Aurora - Nicolas Poussin - 1627 - National Gallery, London |
Talaus | He was a son of | and Lysimache. Pausanias calls his mother Lysianassa, and Hyginus calls 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 ... |
Johann Gottfried Herder | The term nationalism was coined by | (nationalismus) during the late 1770s. Precisely where and when nationalis ... |
Irving R. Levine | ... se worked for INS were future broadcasters William Shirer, Edwin Newman and | , who in 1950 covered the outbreak of war in Korea for INS. Marion Carpent ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... el written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and | |
Ben Hecht | ... at the Germans would begin bombing London at any time. To accommodate this, | was called in to write the epilogue of the film, the scene in the radio st ... |
Edward, the Prince of Wales | ... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by | ; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ... |
Edwin Newman | Among those worked for INS were future broadcasters William Shirer, | and Irving R. Levine, who in 1950 covered the outbreak of war in Korea for ... |
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 ... |
Paul Krugman | ... been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as George Akerlof, | , Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian stimulus, over 30 ... |
Salvador Allende | ... overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely | |
William Shakespeare | ... ssic. The result is a compendium of Elizabethan England during the youth of | . "No work of the time contains so vivid and picturesque a sketch," was th ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... Award nominated novel written in collaboration between the English authors | and Neil Gaiman |
Lynceus | ... meless, was eventually reconciled with her father, and given in marriage to | , with whom she founded a race of kings that led to Danae, the mother of P ... |
Odin | ... Munin, two Common Ravens who whispered news into the ears of the Norse god | . In several civilizations of ancient Italy, particularly Etruscan and Rom ... |
Achaemenes | His character seems to have been chosen by Virgil treating the Persian name | as Greek and extracting a meaning "he who waits with affliction" |
Zoroaster | ... original temple of Mithras was a natural cave, containing fountains, which | found in the mountains of Persia. To Zoroaster, this cave was an image of ... |
Chen Shubao | ... er and morale, along with convincing propaganda that the Chen Dynasty ruler | was a decadent ruler who had lost the Mandate of Heaven, the Sui Dynasty w ... |
Anthony Blunt | The most famous 20th-century scholar of Poussin was the Englishman | , Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, who in 1979 was disgraced by revelations ... |
Justinian | ... tiquity, Awjila was nominally within the Roman Empire, evidenced by emperor | 's decree that forbade the worship of Amun |
Jackie Robinson | ... ague baseball, a time when it produced some of its greatest stars. In 1947, | signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier th ... |
Clement Attlee | ... current stones were dedicated in September 1946 by the then Prime Minister | , replacing those destroyed during WW2 as an anti-invasion measure. The lo ... |
Pliny | ... re probably disposed groups of statuary. The pteron consisted (according to | ) of thirty-six columns of the Ionic order, enclosing a square cena. Betwe ... |
Richard D. Wolff | Althusser's influence is also seen in the work of economists | and Stephen Resnick, who have interpreted that Marx's mature works hold a ... |
Erwin Rommel | Protests followed from Generalfeldmarschall | ; General Gleiniger, German commander in Limoges; and the Vichy government ... |
Albrecht Dürer | ... cluding 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by | and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East an ... |
Charles Shaar Murray | ... ame musical scene; the term was also used in that sense by music journalist | in his comments about The Boomtown Rats. For a period of time in 1976 and ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... eciated at the time. Along with those of other writers of the time, such as | , his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best ... |
Patsy Ramsey | ... The Southern Skillet, when he lived there off and on in the '90s. John and | , the parents of JonBenét Ramsey, lived in the area in the early 2000s. Fo ... |
Johnny Cash | ... r the show, remarked that in his 12 years of working for Late Night, U2 and | were the "dream artists" he'd tried, but never succeeded in getting. The b ... |
Sarpedon | ... of Eetion. Pedasos was mortal, but he could keep up with the divine horses. | , prince of Lycia and ally of Troy, killed Pedasos when his spear missed P ... |
Don Carlos | ... whose settlement saw Austria cede Naples and Sicily to the Spanish Infante | in exchange for the tiny Duchy of Parma and Spain and France's adherence t ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... prevent a blood feud. The lawyer called on Palestinian Authority president | to reopen the investigation into Arafat's death. |
Michelle Yeoh | ... ead actors: Chow Yun Fat is from Hong Kong and spoke Cantonese natively and | is from Malaysia and spoke English. Only Zhang Ziyi spoke with a native Ma ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... tured their own takes on space suit design. Science fiction authors such as | contributed to the development of fictional space suit concepts |
Maria Theresa | ... rs' worthless recognitions of the Pragmatic Sanction that made his daughter | his heir. The most notable instance of this was in the War of the Polish S ... |
Michael Jackson | ... often voiced that she was inspired by a number of performers. These include | , Stevie Wonder, Sade, En Vogue, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Prince, Naughty by ... |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ... on of Christ, based on the 1951 (English translation 1960) novel written by | , who was introduced to the director by actress Barbara Hershey when they ... |
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 ... |
Vonones II of Parthia | ... Tiridates I of Armenia, during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of | , and his coronation by Nero in 66 AD confirmed the end of a war between P ... |
Tim Healy | ... tate planned to place the new representative of the Crown, Governor-General | in a new, smaller residence, but because of death threats from the anti-tr ... |
Bertrand Tavernier | ... y one of his heroes, Michael Powell. This led to a more significant role in | 's jazz movie Round Midnight |
Ronald Reagan | United States President | ordered that the plane be intercepted by F-14 Tomcats from the VF-74 "BeDe ... |
Nero | ... ring the state visit to Rome of Tiridates I of Armenia, during the reign of | . (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthia, and his coronation by N ... |
David Greenwalt | ... ent role as the damsel in distress. Angel co-creator and executive producer | describes Cordelia in her Buffy years as "a somewhat shallow, somewhat vai ... |
Bertrand Russell | | named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ... |
Douglas LePan | | , an official from the Canadian High Commission, wrote |
Tina Turner | ... Prince, dance-pop star Michael Jackson, and a wave of female vocalists like | and Whitney Houston. Michael Jackson and Prince has been described as the ... |
David O. Selznick | ... satisfied with, by which time Hitchcock was in the U.S. under contract with | and available to direct this film on a loan-out. Hitchcock, who enjoyed no ... |
Bill Finger | ... , just two issues after the characters' debut by artist Bob Kane and writer | , Fox wrote the first of his several tales of the Batman, introducing an e ... |
J. I. Packer | ... cal understandings of the atonement need not conflict'. Reformed theologian | , for example, although he maintains that 'penal substitution is the mains ... |
Vitruvius | ... of drawing the complex geometry was devised by the ancient Roman architect | from classical buildings and structures |
Steven Lukes | ... enabling nature of power. A comprehensive account of power can be found in | Power: A Radical View where he discusses the three dimensions of power. Th ... |
Polynices | ... aughter of Pronax, or to Demonassa. His daughters Argea and Deipyle married | and Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale, Aegialeus, a ... |
Edward R. Murrow boys | ... nchorman, political commentator, and film actor. He was one of the original | |
Charles | ... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince | , and Prince Philip |
Jonathan Miller | ... nd fractured scenery to represent the twists of fate reflected in the plot. | , in a 1986 production for the 49th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, transferre ... |
Kenneth II | Constantine became king upon the death of | (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim), supposedly killed by Finnguala, daughter of Cunc ... |
John Balliol | ... eace in Scotland between the competing claims of Margaret, Robert Bruce and | |
Vincent Sheean | Producer Walter Wanger bought the rights to journalist | 's memoir Personal History in 1935, but after several adaptations proved u ... |
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 ... |
Donald Davidson | ... t-winged Dryad of the trees", in his Ode to a Nightingale. In the poetry of | they illustrate the themes of tradition and the importance of the past to ... |
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 ... |
Cuilén, King of Scotland | ... III, (before 971–997) was king of Scots from 995 to 997. He was the son of | (Cuilén mac Iduilb) |
Caroline Coon | ... "New Musical Express" magazine. In a November 1976 article in Melody Maker, | used Malcolm McLaren's term "New Wave" to designate music by bands not exa ... |
Baudouin | ... ave been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King | of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Pri ... |
Alain Badiou | ... students became eminent intellectuals in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s: | , Étienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière in philosophy, Pierre Macherey in l ... |
Joel Godard | ... cape and cemetery, and the voice of Bill Hader as Vincent Price in place of | |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, | and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919 |
Tommy Lapid | ... d strengthen Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem. Israeli cabinet minister | stated that "Jerusalem is the burial place of Jewish kings, not of Arab te ... |
Osama bin Laden | Already long time affiliates of Al-Qaeda, Hazmi and Mihdhar were chosen by | as respected jihadists due to their extensive fighting experience for an a ... |
Andrew Davies | ... TV series co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, Little Dorrit, written by | , and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, Ma ... |
Billy Wilder | Mulholland Drive has been compared with | 's film noir classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), another tale about broken dr ... |
Jane Lynch | ... director Darren Aronofsky. Prior honorees have included Quentin Tarantino, | , Gael García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarmusch, Todd H ... |
Jacques-Louis David | ... usness on Wolfe's death after securing British domination of North America. | resurrected a style already known as "Poussinesque" during the French Revo ... |
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky | ... or of Philadelphia), Martin J. Silverstein (U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay) and | (member of the U.S. House of Representatives and women's rights activist) |
Henry III of England | ... ecclesiastical office. In the name of his fellow bishops he admonished King | at Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, Kin ... |
Charles de Gaulle | After the war, General | decided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain ... |
Janet Jackson | ... Vogue, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Prince, Naughty by Nature, Johnny Mathis and | . Aaliyah expressed that Michael Jackson's Thriller was her "favorite albu ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... e in the place of man . A variation that also falls within this metaphor is | ’ "", which sees Jesus receiving a punishment as a public example of the l ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ions. According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993–97, | has used body doubles |
Michael Jackson | ... arose in the 1980s, with the funk-influenced singer Prince, dance-pop star | , and a wave of female vocalists like Tina Turner and Whitney Houston. Mic ... |
Daniel of Galicia | ... augas, along with the Samogitians of western Lithuania, the Livonian Order, | (Tautvilas and Edivydas' brother-in-law), and Vasilko of Volhynia. The pri ... |
Sparta | ... manner the Rhodians celebrated Ptolemy I of Egypt, the Samians Lysander of | , the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians Craterus of Macedon |
Walter Wanger | Producer | bought the rights to journalist Vincent Sheean's memoir Personal History i ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... ss Vera Farmiga and director Darren Aronofsky. Prior honorees have included | , Jane Lynch, Gael García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarm ... |
Pompey | ... historian Appian. The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that | settled some of these pirates in in southern Italy |
Ferdinand III | In 1799, King | created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the ti ... |
Diomedes of Thrace | ... not to be confused with the horse mentioned above, was one of the horses of | , who fed these animals on human flesh. The capture of these horses was th ... |
Chip Berlet | | , writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), identified Horowitz' ... |
Thackeray's | Dryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in | work The Virginians. Keats addresses the nightingale as "light-winged Drya ... |
John James Audubon | ... ere commissioned for books. Among the most famous of these bird artists was | , whose paintings of North American birds were a great commercial success ... |
Mary Pickford | ... roducing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With | , Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 19 ... |
Prince Rainier III | ... the Áras an Uachtaráin have been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, | ; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope J ... |
Tarquin the Proud | ... ic was established around 509 BC, when the last of the seven kings of Rome, | , was deposed by Lucius Junius Brutus, and a system based on annually elec ... |
Ricky Tomlinson | ... uction company. The company financed and produced Stepdad in 2007, starring | and Chris Bisson among others; it was entered into the Cannes Film Festiva ... |
Charles V | In 1520 | united the twenty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the t ... |
Halle Berry | ... er subsequent films, North Country and Æon Flux, she ranked seventh, behind | , Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renée Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon and Nic ... |
George Washington | ... and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies. | , who had more than sufficient difficulties with the British, brushed off ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... a and the South by figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and | . Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of America and the Sout ... |
Queen Latifah | ... thing of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stewart, Tony Bennett and | putting their own interpretation on the music |
Salman Rushdie | ... into seclusion, and are rarely heard from or seen in public, such as writer | . A related form of protection is the use of body doubles a person built s ... |
Robert Fourer | ... y Steven Chu and team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by | , David M. Gay and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories. Also in 1985, Bel ... |
J. Hoberman | ... here than the power to enter and to program the dream life of the culture?" | from The Village Voice echoes this sentiment by calling it a "poisonous va ... |
Sylvain Lazarus | Eventually, a was organized in France at the University of Paris VIII by | on May 27, 1992. The general title was Politique et philosophie dans l'oeu ... |
Princess Grace of Monaco | ... of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have been | and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King J ... |
Harry | ... xtended royal family. In their grief, Diana's two sons, Princes William and | , wanted to attend church, and so their grandparents took them that mornin ... |
Darren Aronofsky | ... de film. Among the honorees for 2011 were actress Vera Farmiga and director | . Prior honorees have included Quentin Tarantino, Jane Lynch, Gael García ... |
Alexander the Great | ... s of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured by | at the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC |
Marc Galanter | ... y, Massimo Introvigne, John Hall, Lorne Dawson, Anson Shupe, Gordon Melton, | , (amongst other scholars researching NRMs) have argued and established to ... |
Gramsci | ... these he added a third 'critical' dimension which built upon insights from | and Althusser |
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 ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... later found it expedient and profitable to break with the Papacy. His wife, | , bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary. As England had ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... d spread across America and the South by figures such as George Washington, | , and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of A ... |
Appian | ... ween Mithridates and the pirates is also mentioned by the ancient historian | . The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that Pompey settled ... |
Johnny Depp | ... g area for use in the 2009 film Public Enemies featuring Christian Bale and | |
George V | ... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and | . American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ... |
Amphiaraus | ... her Eurynome. He was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iphis and | , the husband of Adrastus's sister Eriphyle. He was married either to Amph ... |
Pervez Musharraf | ... ction teams from the military's elite Special Service Group unit. President | , as civilian head of state, was due to have this withdrawn after retiring ... |
Mohammad Najibullah | ... Afghanistan as well as to remove the Soviet-backed government of President | |
Joseph Stiglitz | ... many economists, such as George Akerlof, Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and | , support Keynesian stimulus, over 300 economists signed a petition statin ... |
Francis of Lorraine | ... ign of the Bavarian Elector as Emperor Charles VII, Maria Theresa's husband | , Grand Duke of Tuscany, was elected Emperor, restoring control of that po ... |
Spencer W. Kimball | ... place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by President of the Church | |
Michael Sprinker | ... de at the "Althusserian Legacy" Conference organized at SUNY Stony Brook by | . The proceedings of this conference were published in September 1992 as t ... |
president | ... state senator and U.S. Congressman and, after changing parties, he ran for | as an American Independent Party candidate in the |
Queen Victoria | Various visiting British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably | and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. K ... |
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DJ Yella | ... 8-Ball," "Dopeman," which marked the first collaboration of Arabian Prince, | , Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. Mexican rapper Krazy-Dee co-wrote "Panic Zone," wh ... |
King George V | ... ucted, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by | and Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints ... |
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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 . |
Lech Kaczyński | ... r of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS candidate | |
Joseph Cotten | ... as adapted to the radio program Academy Award Theater on July 24, 1946 with | starring |
E. M. Forster | ... lloway (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia Warren Smith on Lopokova. | would later write in contrition: "How we all used to underestimate her" |
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George V | In 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of King | and Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ... |
James Madison | ... an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican President | and a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton, nephew of Madison's ... |
Daniel Defoe | The author, | (who attended school in Dorking and probably grew up in the village of Wes ... |
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Van Morrison | ... , Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and | . However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of ... |
Roger Ebert | ... subscribe to the theory that Betty is Diane's projection of a happier life. | and Jonathan Ross seem to accept this interpretation, but both hesitate to ... |
Sparta | | was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece |
Philip III of Spain | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married Anne of Austria, daughter of | . This marriage followed a tradition of cementing military and political a ... |
Lycurgus | ... n account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g. Pentheus or | ) |
Alfonso II of Aragon | ... ueen of Aragon, and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, | who inherited all their respective territories creating the Crown of Arago ... |
Empress Alexandra of Russia | ... ists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of | 's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Pr ... |
Statius | The Thebaid (c.80 AD) an epic poem by | , pictures Mithras in a cave, wrestling with something that has horns. The ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future president | as the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ... |
Robert M. La Follette | ... l Democrats bolted the party and backed the third-party campaign of Senator | of Wisconsin, who ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party |
Emperor Yizong of Tang | ... tten by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang (daughter of | ) playing the "leaf game" in 868 with members of the Wei clan (the family ... |
Beatrix Potter | ... s. The caves have attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, | , King George V and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit tha ... |
George Washington | ... e ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In this election, | was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams be ... |
Jonathan Ross | ... theory that Betty is Diane's projection of a happier life. Roger Ebert and | seem to accept this interpretation, but both hesitate to overanalyze the m ... |
Mary | ... house underwent a large extension for the visit of King George V and Queen | . With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the office of Lord Li ... |
John Adams | ... rge Washington was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and | became the first vice-president |
Ice Cube | ... oth formerly members of the World Class Wreckin' Cru, as DJs and producers. | was added to the roster after he had started out as a rapper for the group ... |
Eurytion | ... when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd | out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos. |
Tigran Petrosian | Spassky defeated | in 1969 to become World Champion, then lost the title in the Fischer–Spass ... |
Douglas Adams | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by | is referenced several times in Crowley's bad memories of the 14th Century. ... |
Khosrau II | ... CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general Shahrbaraz in 614 when | 's armies besieged and took Jerusalem |
Brian Blessed | ... teran stage of their careers, were also recruited for roles. These included | , Peter Cook, John Grillo, Simon Jones, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Pad ... |
Robert M. La Follette | Senator | , who had left the Republican Party and formed his own political party, th ... |
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | ... Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and | , Caesar's best friend, established the Second Triumvirate. Lepidus was fo ... |
Richard Wagner | ... udes Der Ring des Nibelungen. It is a manga version of the opera written by | |
John Stow | ... d, and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends | and William Camden. He also used his own observation, experience and wit, ... |
Ouyang Xiu | ... family of the princess' husband). The Song dynasty statesman and historian | has noted that paper playing cards arose in connection to an earlier devel ... |
Dalibor Brozović | A number of Croatian linguists, specifically Radoslav Katičić, | , and Tomislav Ladan, consider the appropriate name to be "Bosniak" rather ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... and Spain with Royal marriages. The tradition went back to the marriage of | with the French Princess, Elisabeth of Valois. The marriage was only brief ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... ntion from at least one professional propagandist: Nazi Propaganda Minister | , who called Foreign Correspondent: A masterpiece of propaganda, a first-c ... |
Hesiod | - | , Theogony 28 |
Peter Cook | ... their careers, were also recruited for roles. These included Brian Blessed, | , John Grillo, Simon Jones, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Paddick, Frank ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... Shatt al-Arab. By the late 1960s, the build-up of Iranian power under Shah | , who had gone on a gargantuan military spending spree, led Iran to take a ... |
Isaac D'Israeli | ... reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers Plowman with the Crede appended, and | (1766–1848) wrote in his Amenities of Literature that Pope had "very caref ... |
Richard Overy | ... by the brutal treatment of the German civilians and tried to protect them. | cites an approximate total 7. 5 million evacuated, migrated, or expelled G ... |
Emperor Wen of Liu Song | ... aoism was highly influential during the Southern Dynasty, to the point that | established a Neo-Daoist Academy and promoted it, along with Confucianism, ... |
Dennis Ritchie | ... e atomic layer at a time. In 1969, the UNIX operating system was created by | and Ken Thompson. From 1969 to 1971, Aaron Marcus, the first graphic desig ... |
Fidel Castro | ... d in the murder. The CIA has allegedly made several attempts to assassinate | , many of the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, K ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... uses being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and | . In her novel Mrs Dalloway (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia War ... |
Adam Sandler | ... da. The guests for these episodes were all Canadians (with the exception of | ), and included such stars as Jim Carrey and Mike Myers. As the show was t ... |
John Hughes | ... ch as Valley Girl, Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, and The Breakfast Club. | , a director of several of these films, was enthralled with British New Wa ... |
John | ... as a part of the 'Holy Club' at Oxford University with the Wesley brothers, | and Charles. An illness, as well as Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the ... |
Sergei Diaghilev | In the first years of the Ballets Russes Pavlova worked briefly for | . Originally she was to dance the lead in Mikhail Fokine's The Firebird, b ... |
Régis Debray | ... terary criticism and Nicos Poulantzas in sociology. The prominent Guevarist | also studied under Althusser, as did the aforementioned Derrida (with whom ... |
Paracelsus | ... wed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and | later taught. At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to ... |
King | ... e in Iraq and Qatif in opposition to the Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain. | Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa declared a three-month state of emergency on 15 M ... |
Abu Rayhan Biruni | ... ophical views were later criticized by Persian Islamic philosophers such as | and Avicenna in the early 11th century. Biruni in particular wrote a short ... |
Obama | ... e governor of Alabama did not request military assistance nor did President | authorize their deployment. Subsequent investigation found that the Posse ... |
Shahrbaraz | ... lah in the 6th century CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general | in 614 when Khosrau II's armies besieged and took Jerusalem |
Adolf Hitler | ... the film's theme of war in Europe. Also, there is an unmistakable image of | in the windmill scene. Right after McCrea rescues his coat from the grindi ... |
Mary of Guise | ... ible by a revolution against French hegemony under the regime of the regent | , who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter Mary, Queen ... |
George Stevens, Jr. | Stevens is the father of television and film writer-producer-director | (who was named the first CEO and director of the American Film Institute), ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Mary of Guise, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter | (then also Queen of France) |
Anne of Austria | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married | , daughter of Philip III of Spain. This marriage followed a tradition of c ... |
Amédée Ozenfant | They also share traits with the work of Le Corbusier and | who together had founded Purism, a style intended as a rational, mathemati ... |
Vaišvilkas | ... kavysk, and the Principality of Polotsk. In about 1239 he appointed his son | to govern these areas, then known as Black Ruthenia. In 1248, he sent his ... |
Allan Pinkerton | ... d named the town Dundee in honor of his Scottish hometown. In 1843 Scotsman | , later the renowned detective, set up business as a cooper. The town was ... |
Steven Hassan | ... r in the West and was largely superseded by exit counseling. Exit counselor | promotes what he calls the "BITE" model in his book (2000). The BITE model ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... f the world. Macmillan returned in 1961 for the third summit with President | , who was familiar with Bermuda, having made numerous personal visits. The ... |
Agatha Christie | ... Enery's hypothesis. The caves have attracted many famous people, among them | , Beatrix Potter, King George V and Haile Selassie who was so impressed wi ... |
Wang Dulu | ... a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist | . The martial arts and action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping |
President | The United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent | Calvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate |
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 ... |
Henry VIII of England | ... d was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The abbey was dissolved by King | in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel. At this time, only 12 monks were livi ... |
Sheldon Mayer | In the pages of All-Star Comics #3, under the direction of editor | and with artists including E. E. Hibbard, Fox created the first superhero ... |
Andreas Vesalius | ... ica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by | (1514–1564) |
Polynices | ... the Seven against Thebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes, | , Tydeus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of ... |
Bill Clinton | ... e White House since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President | |
Paul Bahn | Along with fellow Archaeologist | , Renfrew has come up with the 'Renfrew and Bahns indicator of Religion an ... |
Andy Warhol | ... originally released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Recorded in 1966 during | 's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Undergro ... |
Johnny Depp | ... to other projects. The film was removed from IMDB. There was a rumour that | was originally cast as Crowley and Robin Williams as Aziraphale. However N ... |
Edmund Gosse | ... her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, | and Rudyard Kipling. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with ... |
George W. Bush | ... cent meeting was on 23 June 2008, between Premier Ewart Brown and President | . Prior to this, the leaders of Bermuda and the United States had not met ... |
Marc Connelly | ... e of The Bells of St. Mary's was shown in 1959, starring Claudette Colbert, | , Glenda Farrell, Nancy Marchand, Barbara Myers, Robert Preston and Charle ... |
Steve Martin | The | and John Candy comedy, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, was partially filmed ... |
Ice Cube | The original lineup consisted of Arabian Prince, DJ Yella, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, | , and MC Ren; Arabian Prince embarked on a solo career in 1989 and Ice Cub ... |
John Belushi | ... s. Elwood Blues (as played by Dan Aykroyd) explains that his brother Jake ( | ) was in prison for holding up a gas station, and then says "He pulled tha ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... most important trading-partner: Great Britain. (It is from this period that | took his subject, when he created his famous poem Terje Vigen.) It was sou ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | The FBI, under written directive from Attorney General | , began telephone tapping King in the fall of 1963. Concerned that allegat ... |
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Bob Dylan | ... lapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, | , Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's comm ... |
President | ... e House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under | Bill Clinton; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Co ... |
Peter Cook | ... ersion of the borough), Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse and Rudyard Kipling. | , comic, (half of a famous comedy team with Dudley Moore); the great indus ... |
President of Russia | ... on in Russia. Shortly before his death he issued a statement accusing then- | Vladimir Putin of involvement in his assassination. President Putin denies ... |
Neil Gaiman | Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series The Sandman |
Clive Anderson | Stiles took part in the regular practice of mocking host | on the UK series, though he did so with less frequency than others. By con ... |
Edward I of England | ... ather Eric who raised the question again. Eric sent official ambassadors to | , then in Gascony, in May 1289, with papers referring to Margaret as "Quee ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... chorus form, post-rock groups generally make greater use of soundscapes. As | states in his "Post-Rock" from Audio Culture, "A band's journey through ro ... |
David Hume | ... pted to reduce the number of distinct ontological categories. For instance, | famously regarded Space and Time as nothing more than psychological facts ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common", wrote | . One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met ... |
Bob Clark | He was a frequent interviewer with | on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 bu ... |
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 ... |
Rick Riordan | In the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians by | , there is a dryad named Juniper who is the girlfriend of Grover Underwood |
Alex Jones | ... Endgame. According to Dave Mustaine, the name "Endgame" is an homage to the | documentary of the same name |
Kathleen Taylor | ... ing the subject from the perspective of neuroscience and social psychology, | suggests that manipulation of the prefrontal cortex activates "brainwashin ... |
Cædwalla of Wessex | ... of Northumbria was converted in the mid 620s. However, later kings, such as | , who ruled in the 680s, are recorded as pagan at their accession |
Catherine Parr | ... , Edward VI, and was made king's chaplain and almoner to the queen dowager, | . In 1551, he became Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the s ... |
Murray Bookchin | In , | included Bey's work in what he called "lifestyle anarchism", which he crit ... |
Nikolai Gogol | ... 77, Rimsky-Korsakov thought increasingly about the short story May Night by | . The story had long been a favorite of his, and his wife Nadezhda had enc ... |
George Washington | ... ion. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (by | ), 1791, 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fr ... |
Leo McCarey | The film was written by | and Dudley Nichols, and directed by McCarey. The film was produced by McCa ... |
Lytton Strachey | ... ly involved, were relaxed about homosexuality. Keynes, together with writer | , had reshaped the Victorian attitudes of the influential Cambridge Apostl ... |
Norman Geisler | ... elation to its writings. In their book A General Introduction to the Bible, | and William Nix wrote: "The process of inspiration is a mystery of the pro ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... was their own idea, not that of their publisher, to collaborate on a novel. | has said |
Sylvia Plath | ... themes of tradition and the importance of the past to the present. The poet | uses them to symbolize nature in her poetry in "On the Difficulty of Conju ... |
Walter Scott | ... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on | 's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ... |
Justin Theroux | ... bilities for a lot of different roles, so it was a beautiful full package." | also met Lynch directly from his airplane. After a long flight with little ... |
Francis II | ... ch, he died in March 1792. The French declared war on his inexperienced son | a month later |
Elisabeth of Valois | ... n went back to the marriage of Philip II of Spain with the French Princess, | . The marriage was only briefly happy, and the King's duties often kept th ... |
Roger Ebert | Film critic and Urbana native | is a graduate of Urbana High School. During his senior year he was co-edit ... |
Carl III | The town of Levanger was founded by | , king of Sweden on 18 May 1836, on the site where the village of Levanger ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... d the Last, a short play, was adapted as 21 Days, starring Vivien Leigh and | |
Jacques-François Ancelot | ... ts libretto is by Count Carlo Pepoli, based on Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by | and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on Walter Scott's novel ... |
Marilyn Manson | ... des world-famous stars, such as Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie, The Black Eyed Peas, | and Placebo |
George Lakoff | ... lated by a single conceptual metaphor was called an ontological metaphor by | and Mark Johnson, who claimed that such metaphors arising from experience ... |
Polynices | ... es. During the time he reigned there it happened that Tydeus of Calydon and | of Thebes, both fugitives from their native countries, met at Argos near t ... |
John Ruskin | ... er compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of Thomas Carlyle, | , and the Fabians |
Marie Louise | ... 1835, Paganini returned to Parma, this time under the employ of Archduchess | of Austria, Napoleon's second wife. He was in charge of reorganizing her c ... |
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Michelle Yeoh | ... ought to learn Wudang skills. Mu Bai is also a good friend of Yu Shu Lien ( | ), a female warrior. Mu Bai and Shu Lien have developed feelings for each ... |
Manuel Quimper | In 1790, | of the Spanish Navy set sail from Nootka, a temporary settlement on Vancou ... |
Aleksander Kwaśniewski | ... 995, Poland held its second post-war free presidential election. SLD leader | defeated Wałęsa by a narrow margin—51.7% to 48.3% |
Michael Drayton | ... m Camden uses the Latinized form Molis in the 1586 edition of Britannia and | is the first to use Mole in his poem Poly-Olbion published in 1613. The Ox ... |
Moses | Young had a variety of nicknames, among the most popular being "American | ," (alternatively the "Modern Moses" or the "Mormon Moses") because, like ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... tioned in the classic comedy The Blues Brothers. Elwood Blues (as played by | ) explains that his brother Jake (John Belushi) was in prison for holding ... |
Tertullian | ... in the Caesares of Julian the Apostate refers to "commandments of Mithras". | , in his treatise 'On the Military Crown' records that Mithraists in the a ... |
René Descartes | ... nds occupy a different category of beings from physical objects. Some, like | , have thought that this is so (this view is known as dualism, and functio ... |
Cynegils of Wessex | ... ghout his life. Records survive of the baptism of other kings at this time— | was baptized in about 640, for example, and Edwin of Northumbria was conve ... |
Terry Gilliam | A film, directed by | , was planned. As of 2002 Gilliam still hoped to make the film with its al ... |
Dudley Nichols | The film was written by Leo McCarey and | , and directed by McCarey. The film was produced by McCarey's production c ... |
Agatha Christie | Famous former residents of Torbay include authors | (who set many of her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), ... |
Queen Mary I | ... , Oxford and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. During the reign of | , Christ Church became a centre of Catholic support, and Harrison converte ... |
Constantine I of Greece | ... s made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, the reigning King | , was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrest ... |
Terry Pratchett | while | has said |
Barack Obama | ... candidates. Austin also hosted one of the last presidential debates between | and Hillary Clinton during their heated race for the Democratic nomination ... |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... st famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator | (1900–1944, Mort pour la France) |
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte | ... dent of France at 48, the third youngest president in French history, after | and Jean Casimir-Perier. He promised "change in continuity". He made clear ... |
John Calvin | ... f Christianae religionis institutio (Institutes of the Christian Religion – | 's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine) was published at Basel in March ... |
Neil Young | ... of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, | , Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul ... |
Edward II of England | ... ition since Edward and Eric could arrange Margaret's marriage to the future | , or some other if they chose, without reference to the Guardians. Accordi ... |
Javier Cercas | Spanish writer | uses Urbana as the geographical background for two of his novels ("La velo ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... of his novel Good Omens "is in the works from Terry Jones." with a link to | 's webpage confirming the news |
Jimmy Savile | ... n residents include Hamish MacInnes, inventor of the McInnes Stretcher, and | , TV personality and a former Chieftain of the Lochaber Highland Games |
Presidential | Amador is a strongly Republican county in | and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ... |
Vasily Smyslov | ... t age eighteen, he tied for 3rd–6th places with 11½/19, after joint winners | and Efim Geller, which was sufficient to qualify him for the Gothenburg In ... |
Vida Dutton Scudder | ... ry—in a dichotomy common to all modern humanistic studies. Four years later | compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of Thomas Carlyle, J ... |
Ken Thompson | ... e UNIX operating system (also developed at Bell Laboratories by Ritchie and | ). Additionally, the AWK programming language was designed and implemented ... |
Hamish MacInnes | Well known residents include | , inventor of the McInnes Stretcher, and Jimmy Savile, TV personality and ... |
Terry Jones | ... ry 2011, it was reported that a television adaptation may be produced, with | and Gavin Scott being "in talks" to write the series |
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Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
Maud Gonne | ... eanwhile, back home Irish pro-Boer fever, whipped up by Arthur Griffith and | in what was the most popular and most violent of the European pro-Boer mov ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ritish colonies in North America in 1765, where it was first grown for hay. | wrote a letter in 1770 mentioning sending soybeans home from England. Soyb ... |
Thomas MacDonagh | ... ton St and saw Thomas MacDonagh in full uniform. He offered his services to | and was appointed second-in-command at the Jacob's factory. MacBride, afte ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... g the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are Winston Churchill and | |
DJ Yella | The original lineup consisted of Arabian Prince, | , Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and MC Ren; Arabian Prince embarked on a solo ... |
Commodus | ... ied in the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh. Accounts of the cruelty of the emperor | describes his amusing himself by enacting Mithriac initiation ordeals in h ... |
George W. Bush | ... Service-issued collectible envelope commemorating the 2004 inauguration of | |
Creon | After the battle, | , king of Thebes, ordered that none of the fallen enemies were to be given ... |
Brian Kernighan | ... language was designed and implemented by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and | of Bell Laboratories |
Efim Geller | ... tied for 3rd–6th places with 11½/19, after joint winners Vasily Smyslov and | , which was sufficient to qualify him for the Gothenburg Interzonal later ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ty. The County Seat found its home in Mineola on July 13, 1900, as Governor | laid the cornerstone of the Nassau County Court House. A celebration was h ... |
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 |
Mitterrand | Giscard was defeated in the 1981 presidential election by | . At the time, Chirac ran against Giscard in the first round of runoff vot ... |
Gil Scott-Heron | ... lectic blend of poetry, jazz-funk and soul was practiced by such artists as | and The Last Poets, and featured critical political and social commentary ... |
Arabian Prince | The original lineup consisted of | , DJ Yella, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and MC Ren; Arabian Prince embarked ... |
Princess Alice of Battenberg | ... ly son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and | . Philip's four elder sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophi ... |
Elisa Baciocchi | ... nnexed by Napoleonic France, and the region was ceded to Napoleon's sister, | . Paganini became a violinist for the Baciocchi court, while giving privat ... |
Hamid Karzai | Zahir Shah attended the 7 December 2004 swearing in of | as President of Afghanistan. In his final years, he was frail and required ... |
Brian Blessed | ... nd is depicted as a big, red-haired, bearded man (somewhat resembling actor | ; Gaiman has mentioned that he would like Blessed to play Destruction in t ... |
Robert E. Howard | :For the metal band, see Atargatis (band). For the god in | 's Conan series, see Derketo (Conan |
Aristotle | Category came into use with | 's essay Categories, in which he discussed univocal and equivocal terms, p ... |
Ptolemy | ... the sense of "ascendant" and "observation of the ascendant" is in use since | (Tetrabiblos 33, 75) |
King George III's | ... e of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, | queen |
Jerome | ... books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in AD 382. He commissioned Saint | to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Gree ... |
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 ... |
Vasily Smyslov | ... 12/19, an event won by his trainer, Alexander Tolush, and where he defeated | who would challenge for the World Championship the following year. He was ... |
Michael Davitt | ... ish camp of an Irish-American Ambulance Corps bolstered MacBride's Brigade. | who had resigned as an M.P due to the Boer War visited MacBride's Brigade. ... |
Amphiaraus | ... hebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes, Polynices, Tydeus, | , Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of Tydeus and Polynices ... |
Eric S. Raymond | The Cathedral and the Bazaar (abbreviated CatB) is an essay by | on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux ke ... |
Bede | ... of Wessex, who ruled in the 680s, are recorded as pagan at their accession. | writes that after Wulfhere became king: "Free under their own king, they [ ... |
William Howard Taft | On June 22, 1919, former President | visited Paxton while on his way to Champaign. After disembarking from a lo ... |
Richard Powers | University of Illinois English Professor and National Book Award winner | set his novel Galatea 2.2 at the multidisciplinary Beckman Institute for A ... |
Arja Saijonmaa | ... n the Swedish reality show "Stjärnorna på slottet" along with Britt Ekland, | , Jan Malmsjö and Magnus Härenstam. He appears in as Dr. Zelinsky, a Russi ... |
Jerome K. Jerome | ... y writers and music hall comics for many years in the late 19th century. In | 's book Three Men in a Boat no one at Waterloo knows the wanted train's pl ... |
Augustine | ... prevalent estimation of Priscillian as a heretic and Manichaean rested upon | , Turibius of Astorga, Leo the Great and Orosius (who quotes a fragment of ... |
Emperor Muzong of Liao | ... inese dominoes are also available as playing cards. It is not clear whether | really played with domino cards as early as 969, though. Legend dates the ... |
Dennis Ritchie | ... the Bell Laboratories as part of the personal computing revolution. In 1970 | developed the compiled C programming language as a replacement for the int ... |
Theodoric | Odoacer's rule came to an end when the Ostrogoths, under the leadership of | , conquered Italy. This led to the Gothic War against the armies of Byzant ... |
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 ... |
Dan Patrick | ... in the nation. This sentiment was echoed by Scott Van Pelt in July 2010 on | 's ESPN radio show when he proclaimed Madison the best college sports town ... |
Humaira Begum | He married | (1918–2002) on 7 November 1931 and had six sons and two daughters |
Adolf Hitler | ... that became Soviet-controlled following the partition of eastern Europe by | and Joseph Stalin in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 were resettled to ... |
King Charles I | ... o discovers that she is Enrichetta (Henrietta Maria), widow of the executed | . Elvira appears singing a joyful polonaise ("Son vergin vezzosa"), but dr ... |
Scott Van Pelt | ... ison the #1 college sports town in the nation. This sentiment was echoed by | in July 2010 on Dan Patrick's ESPN radio show when he proclaimed Madison t ... |
Indiana Jones | ... e Township High). Actor Harrison Ford known as playing the lead role in the | movies, went to Maine East, and has been credited as being the radio stati ... |
Tobias Smollett | Sarah died, in the words of | , "immensely rich and very little regretted, either by her own family or t ... |
Mary Wollstonecraft | In Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, | wrote extensively while visiting Risør in 1783, including the following re ... |
Barack Obama | ... e Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President | , who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a ... |
George Orwell | In his classic essay on the topic | distinguishes nationalism from patriotism, which he defines as devotion to ... |
DJ Yella | ... Deuce, which featured MC Ren, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Six-Two. Dr. Dre and | were present in the studio for the latter song |
Violeta Chamorro | ... from the court in September 1992 (under the later, post-FSLN, government of | ), following a repeal of the law requiring the country to seek compensatio ... |
Richard Wagner | ... ion and orchestration were further enriched by his exposure to the works of | |
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 ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | In the 16th century, scientist and artist | compared metabolism to a burning candle. In 1747, Dr. James Lind, a physic ... |
George Bancroft | ... Public Education in Prussia." Calvin E. Stowe, Henry Barnard, Horace Mann, | and Joseph Cogswell all had a vigorous interest in German education. In 18 ... |
Jeffrey Tucker | ... dy seem quaint even to the baby boomers who grew up with them." Conversely, | of the Ludwig von Mises Institute has argued that "The whole scene — which ... |
Mikhail Tal | ... iet final, URS-ch24 at Moscow, Spassky finished tied 4th–5th with 13/21, as | won the first of his six Soviet titles, which began his ascent to the worl ... |
Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg | ... e sole legal religion of France. In response to the Edict of Fontainebleau, | declared the , giving free passage to Huguenot refugees, and tax-free stat ... |
Samson Raphaelson | ... comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by | based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete. The music score was by A ... |
Bartlett | ... t the time the Cambridge University Senate were wary of his appointment. As | writes: "how many times have I heard Rivers, spectacles waving in the air, ... |
Hammer DeRoburt | ... tional convention, it became independent in 1968, led by founding president | . In 1967, the people of Nauru purchased the assets of the British Phospha ... |
Sidney Sheinberg | ... nded and Wasserman took over as chairman and chief executive officer, while | was appointed president and chief operating officer of MCA. Other executiv ... |
John A. Widtsoe | ... seph Angell Young. Another descendant, Leah D. Widtsoe, was wife of apostle | and herself a leading expert in home economics. Other descendants include ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... self, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leader Heinrich Himmler and Propaganda Minister | . When Smith refused to include Nazi propaganda in his reports, the Gestap ... |
Peter Hofschröer | Historian | has written that Wellington and Blücher met at Genappe around 22:00, signi ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... e British authors of his time, Keynes was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. | 's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and T. S. El ... |
Philip K. Dick | "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is a short story by | first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in April 1966 ... |
Vytautas the Great | ... assing references from Grand Duke Gediminas and was not mentioned at all by | . His known family relations end with his children; no historic records no ... |
Penelope Spheeris | In June 1988, Megadeth appeared in | ' documentary film, . The documentary chronicled the Los Angeles heavy met ... |
Jean-Jacques Annaud | ... fe is briefly explored in Wings of Courage, an IMAX film by French director | |
Daniel Bernoulli | ... university, the University of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, | , Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. M ... |
Franz Joseph | ... dinand I were forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew | . Separatist tendencies (especially in Lombardy and Hungary) were suppress ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | Eidsvoll Verk was opened to smelt iron ore by King | in 1624, relying on the excellent water power from the Andelva river. In 1 ... |
Scriblerus Club | Arbuthnot was one of the founding members of the | , and was regarded by the other wits of the group as the funniest, but he ... |
William Shatner | ... Gene Evans. In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and | in the last episode, entitled "The Scarlet Ribbon", of NBC's western serie ... |
Allectus | Carausius was assassinated and replaced by his treasurer, | . Constantius marched up the coast to the Rhine and Scheldt estuaries wher ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... iversity of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, | , Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. More recently, it ... |
Ernst Lubitsch | Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 American comedy film produced and directed by | . The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Le ... |
Hippocrates | ... nerative components), suggesting the existence of nutrients. Around 400 BC, | said, "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. |
Joseph Angell Young | ... lude three LDS Church apostles: Brigham Young, Jr., John Willard Young, and | . Another descendant, Leah D. Widtsoe, was wife of apostle John A. Widtsoe ... |
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James Monroe | ... tter in this category in competition between multiple candidates (incumbent | was the only candidate in 1820 and thus took every vote). The Republicans ... |
Franz Ferdinand | ... rife increased during the decades until 1914. The assassination of Archduke | , who was the presumed heir of Franz Joseph as Emperor, in Sarajevo by a S ... |
Don Ameche | ... prove he belongs in Hell by telling his life story. It stars Gene Tierney, | and Charles Coburn. The supporting cast includes Marjorie Main, Laird Creg ... |
Vyacheslav Ivanov | The Russian poet and philosopher | elaborated the theory of Dionysianism, which traces the roots of literary ... |
Nunnally Johnson | ... ars Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall and Anne Baxter. The movie was adapted by | from the novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. It was directed by Irving ... |
Albert Einstein | ... the individual's capacity to judge his or her fatherland's foreign policy. | stated that "Nationalism is an infantile disease... It is the measles of m ... |
Marie de' Medici | ... age of eight-and-a-half, upon the assassination of his father. His mother, | , acted as Regent until Louis XIII came of age at thirteen. Marie maintain ... |
Lord Beaverbrook | On 15 May the Minister of Aircraft Production, | , ordered that resources should be concentrated on the production of five ... |
Stan Lee | ... in a two-hour pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the | and Jack Kirby Marvel comic book of the same name. Its success (coupled wi ... |
Ian McKellen | ... tic Arts" presented by the US-based Shakespeare Guild. Past winners include | , Kenneth Branagh, Glen Joseph, Kevin Kline and Judi Denc |
Roger Ebert | ... n recent cinematic history". It received acclaim from many critics, such as | of the Chicago Sun-Times, who had given negative or mixed reviews to most ... |
Nevil Shute | ... he movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel of the same name by | . It was directed by Irving Pichel |
Julius Caesar | In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of | and became part of the Roman Empire |
José Santos Zelaya | ... r President Taft. In 1909, he ordered the overthrow of Nicaraguan President | . During August and September 1912, a contingent of 2300 US Marines landed ... |
Alan Wenkus | ... was researched and written by filmmaker S. Leigh Savidge and radio veteran | , who worked closely with Eazy-E's widow, Tomica Woods-Wright. Wright, Ice ... |
Wormtongue | ... As a consequence of eliminating the Battle of Bywater, Saruman is killed by | much earlier (at the beginning of the extended edition of ) and the palant ... |
David Bronstein | Spassky tied for first place at Moscow 1959 on 7/11, with Smyslov and | . He nearly won the title at the next Soviet final, URS-ch26 at Tbilisi 19 ... |
Robert Rodriguez | In May 2007, director | entered talks with Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to film a live actio ... |
James Bond | ... tions. He played Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish secret agent similar to | . He was discovered by international audiences for his critically acclaime ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... ror Jing of Northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself | . He proceeded to invade the south to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just ... |
William Gillette | ... d was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside | , the original Holmes. "It was like tidings from heaven", Chaplin recalled ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... 1809, Little Turtle suffered a break with other Miami leaders when Governor | came to Fort Wayne to renegotiate treaty terms. Little Turtle admitted Pot ... |
Stanley Crouch | ... a close second). In his Newsweek article "The Problem With Jazz Criticism" | considers Miles Davis' playing of fusion as a turning point that led to sm ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... inia Woolf's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and | would discuss religion at a dinner party, in the context of their struggle ... |
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 ... |
David Axelrod | Rahm Emanuel worked for the Daley campaign as a fundraiser, | as campaign strategist, William Daley as chief strategist, and as a campai ... |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... onal Capital Region Command is in Metro Manila and was created by President | to defend the metropolis from insurgents and terrorist groups. Philippine ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... il 7 a national day of mourning for the civil rights leader. Vice-President | attended King's funeral on behalf of the President, as there were fears th ... |
Sauron | ... were also created for the Ents, but, in the Second Age, were driven out by | |
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury | James I’s ambassador to Paris, | , who presented his credentials to Louis XIII in 1619, remarked on Louis’ ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifist | criticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ... |
Yuri Averbakh | ... the Interzonal, and a draw would have ensured a share of fourth place with | , with qualification possible via a playoff |
Edmund Waller | ... enerall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), and | 's poem, Battle of the Summer Islands (1645) |
Susa Young Gates | ... honri Young, best-selling novelist Orson Scott Card, women's right activist | , NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve Young, and Richard Whitehead Young, U.S. ... |
Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy | ... thune, duc de Sully, who was unpopular in the country. She mainly relied on | , Noël Brûlart de Sillery, and Pierre Jeannin. Marie pursued a moderate po ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... gate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, | , the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President Gerald Ford, th ... |
Edmund Bolton | ... e texts. Perhaps it refers to Rogers' 1561 edition which put them together. | argued for the language of the court as the appropriate language for writi ... |
Michael Korda | ... e, divorce, and her long struggle with manic depression. In Curtain (1991), | 's novel based on the marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Gielg ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | The plot was loosely adapted into the 1990 film Total Recall, starring | . In the film, the hero, renamed Quaid, actually travels to Mars, but the ... |
Taylor Branch | ... onounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p.m. According to biographer | , King's autopsy revealed that though only 39 years old, he had the heart ... |
Diocletian | In 297, as Emperor | reformed the administrative structures of the Roman Empire, Aquitania was ... |
King Haakon | ... Norwegian troops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's | , Crown Prince, and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue t ... |
Gerald Ford | ... gia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President | , the Republican candidate. Ford was saddled with a slow economy and paid ... |
Mark Taimanov | ... URS-ch23, held in Leningrad, Spassky shared 1st–3rd places on 11½/19, with | and Yuri Averbakh, but Taimanov won the subsequent playoff to become champ ... |
Richard Nixon | ... States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President | in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown fo ... |
Chen Shubao | ... th to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just died and his son incompetent son | (Houzhu of Chen) took power. He was licentious and wasteful, resulting in ... |
Orson Scott Card | ... cs. Other descendants include sculptor Mahonri Young, best-selling novelist | , women's right activist Susa Young Gates, NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve ... |
Warren G. Harding | Upon the death of President | in 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, John Cal ... |
Jack Kirby | ... r pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the Stan Lee and | Marvel comic book of the same name. Its success (coupled with some theatri ... |
US President | Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th | ) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from Roswell and Bulloch Ha ... |
Christopher Nolan | ... poser Hans Zimmer was asked to write music in this way in 2010 for director | 's film Inception; composer Gustavo Santaolalla did the same thing when he ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Treebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from | 's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is ... |
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 ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Upon the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923, | was sworn in as President by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., a Verm ... |
Roger Garaudy | ... -Stalinisation". For many Marxists—including the PCF's leading theoretician | and the pre-eminent existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recover ... |
William L. Shirer | ... rvations from Berlin in the year after the departure of Berlin Diary author | . Last Train from Berlin became an American best-seller and was reprinted ... |
Stephen Colbert | On July 21, 2008, | on The Colbert Report made a comment about John McCain making a campaign s ... |
Hyginus | ... grew up to become Semiramis, the Assyrian queen. In another story, told by | , an egg fell from the sky into the Euphrates, was rolled onto land by fis ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... arrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South since | in 1848 |
Seth Rogen | ... edy My Mother's Curse the green light to begin shooting, with Streisand and | playing mother and son. Anne Fletcher is slated to direct the project with ... |
Magic Johnson | ... to 300. The honorees inducted in 2002 included the Harlem Globetrotters and | , a five-time NBA champion, three-time NBA finals MVP and Olympic gold med ... |
Woodrow Wilson | In 1918, U.S. President | addressed the issue as Point 8 in his Fourteen Points speech |
John Weever | ... well as its judgment and invention. He gives the author as Robert Langland. | (1631) also names Robert Langland, as does David Buchanan (1652). Buchanan ... |
Malcolm X | Earl Little Sr., the father of | , was born in Reynolds on July 29, 1890. Former Lieutenant Governor of Geo ... |
Fidel Castro | ... included a two-part program on Nikita Khrushchev, the St. Lawrence Seaway, | in Cuba, and unemployment problems in distressed areas |
Offa of Mercia | ... down in Wulfhere's reign, but other suggested origins include the reign of | , or Edwin or Oswiu of Northumbria |
Bobby Rush | ... , 1999, Daley garnered 68.9 percent of the vote, defeating U.S. Congressman | to win a fourth term |
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... l, living with his maternal grandmother at Kensington Palace and his uncle, | , at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire. In the next three years, his four si ... |
Red Grange | ... of New York, argued that the NFL draft was illegal and should be abolished. | testified before the committee and rejected Celler's assertions and said t ... |
Crown Prince | ... oops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's King Haakon, | , and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue the Elverum Aut ... |
Ashurbanipal | ... d Nineveh. Of particular interest to curators was the eventual discovery of | 's great library of cuneiform tablets, which helped to make the Museum a f ... |
Robert E. Cox | ... ine ran a regular column called "Gleanings for ATMs" edited by Earle Brown, | & Roger Sinnott. The ready supply of surplus optical components after Worl ... |
Jeff Cooper | ... he Scout Rifle is a class of general-purpose rifles defined and promoted by | in the early 1980s |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... PCF's leading theoretician Roger Garaudy and the pre-eminent existentialist | —this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of Marx's thought, and the ... |
Steve Irwin | ... s. These included Carol Channing, Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, | and Christopher Lloyd's character in Taxi, Jim Ignatowski. He made his dis ... |
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 |
Laurence Olivier | ... pression. In Curtain (1991), Michael Korda's novel based on the marriage of | and Vivien Leigh, Gielgud becomes Philip Chagrin |
Schoeneus | ... lment of the oracle, settled there and married a third wife, Themisto (son: | ). The spot was afterwards called the Athamanian plain. When Athamas retur ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... , Kentucky, Kansas City, and dozens of other cities. Presidential candidate | was on his way to Indianapolis for a campaign rally when he was informed o ... |
Terence Davies | ... n directors such as Chinese auteur Tian Zhuangzhuang, and British filmmaker | , both of whom ranked it among their ten favorite films |
William II | ... ds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbells acting on the orders of King | . The village is not actually in Glencoe but occupies an area known as Car ... |
Hector Berlioz | ... ury. While Rimsky-Korsakov's style was based on those of Glinka, Balakirev, | and Franz Liszt, he "transmitted this style directly to two generations of ... |
Yuri Averbakh | ... Leningrad, Spassky shared 1st–3rd places on 11½/19, with Mark Taimanov and | , but Taimanov won the subsequent playoff to become champion. Spassky then ... |
Stanley Tucci | From the world of entertainment, actor | , actresses Mindy Cohn and Jennifer Lopez, television host David Horowitz, ... |
Igor Bondarevsky | ... iners, from the volatile attacker Alexander Tolush to the calmer strategist | . This proved the key to his resurgence. He won his first of two USSR Cham ... |
Paul of Tarsus | ... Jesus, with the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ first touched on by | and Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35–107 AD), then given more consideration by t ... |
Ashley Montagu | According to | , "The Mongoloid skull has proceeded further than in any other people. |
David Fury | ... on track', but Sarah Michelle Gellar had other obligations. Writer/director | explains that since "we couldn't get Sarah" the episode was instead writte ... |
Sue Townsend | In the book Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by | , Adrian names the swan that terrorises him outside his apartment Gielgud ... |
Lorne Michaels | ... nne Fletcher is slated to direct the project with a script by Dan Fogelman. | and John Goldwyn will produce it with Evan Goldberg. Executive producers i ... |
Eric Bogosian | ... gh, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn, Judy Parfitt, John C. Reilly and | and directed by Taylor Hackford |
Madonna | ... to these types of pacts. Several artists such as Paramore, Maino, and even | have signed such types of deals |
John Calvin | ... thousand French Protestants fled the country during this time, most notably | , who settled in Geneva |
Carus | ... arinus (; died 285), was Roman Emperor 282 to 285. The elder son of emperor | , he was appointed Caesar and co-emperor of the western portion of the emp ... |
Genghis Khan | ... eparing food was banned and forbidden by the Mongol Emperors, starting with | who banned Muslims and Jews from slaughtering their animals their own way, ... |
Rudolfo Anaya | ... pared to Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include | , Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... census. The city is the county seat of Heard County. The town is named for | |
Roman Emperor | Carinus (; died 285), was | 282 to 285. The elder son of emperor Carus, he was appointed Caesar and co ... |
Hans Herbjørnsrud | ... orway's excellent organist Kåre Nordstoga, the internationally known author | who was born in Heddal, and the Hardanger fiddlemaker Olav Gunnarsson Hell ... |
Peter Singer | ... benefit that individual. Another prominent position is that of philosopher | , who argues that there are no grounds to include a being's species in con ... |
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse | ... em, Philip moved to Gordonstoun. In 1937, his sister Cecilie, her husband ( | ), her two young sons and her mother-in-law were killed in an air crash at ... |
William III | Henley suffered from both parties in the Civil War. | on his march to London in 1688 rested here, at the nearby recently rebuilt ... |
Warren Beatty | Half a century later, | made the 1981 film Reds, based on the life of John Reed. Beatty starred as ... |
Alexander Tolush | Spassky decided upon a switch in trainers, from the volatile attacker | to the calmer strategist Igor Bondarevsky. This proved the key to his resu ... |
Ambassador to the United Nations | ... sonnel overseas, as well as selected dignitaries in the U.S., including the | , the Secretary of State, and visiting foreign dignitaries other than head ... |
Isaac Newton | ... sits that pressure is due not to static repulsion between molecules, as was | 's conjecture, but due to collisions between molecules moving at different ... |
Henry VIII | ... y took on powerful positions in government. An example of this was found in | 's England where his chief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. An even more prom ... |
Emperor Yang of Sui | ... ty. In 588 AD, Emperor Wen of Sui sent his son Yang Guang (who would become | ) to finally vanquish the Chen dynasty. Chen Shubao relied on the natural ... |
Sergei Eisenstein | John Reed has also been an influence upon the cinema. Soviet director | 's influential 1927 silent film was based on Reed's book |
Piers Anthony | ... g from a dream. A novelization of the film (ISBN 0-380-70874-4), written by | , was published the year before the film was released |
Carter administration | ... es had long been opposed to the socialist FSLN and after the revolution the | moved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. W ... |
President | Unpopular incumbent | Harry S. Truman decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nomina ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... sounds of late 1960s to mid 1970s rock music. According to music journalist | , the music had a twitchy, agitated feel to it. New Wave musicians often p ... |
Bobby Fischer | ... where he shared first place, ahead of Bronstein, at Mar del Plata 1960 with | on 13½/15, defeating Fischer in their first career meeting |
José Antonio Villarreal | ... es's "Yo Soy Joaquin" is one of the first examples of Chicano poetry, while | 's Pocho is widely recognized as the first major Chicano/a novel. The nove ... |
President | ... United States, the United States Secret Service safeguards the lives of the | , his family, and other executive officials, including former presidents a ... |
Charles Lindbergh | ... Lindbergh, the young, golden-haired son of the pioneering American aviator | and his wife Anne Morrow, who lived not far from Saint-Exupéry and who met ... |
Christian V of Denmark | ... ll preserved today. It was renamed Christiansfjell Fortress in 1685 by King | during his visit to Hammersberg Skanse on June 14. Although the fortress w ... |
Henry VIII | ... t and New Street. To the west it included Bell Street and the Market Place. | , having granted the use of the titles "mayor" and "burgess", the town was ... |
Stan Laurel | ... r seen here." The tour lasted 21 months, and the troupe—which also included | of later Laurel and Hardy fame—returned to England in June 1912. Chaplin r ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President | , the Republican candidate |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... penheimer claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologist | many years ago was that the package of the Mongoloid anatomical changes co ... |
Henry VIII | ... me the Herbert family became the most powerful family in the area. In 1538, | closed the Dominican and Franciscan friaries in Cardiff, the remains of wh ... |
Henry Miller | ... hoven, Van Gogh or Dostoyevsky, or the American writers he admired, notably | , Jackson Pollock or Walt Whitman |
Titus | ... tely fell to the sustained might of Rome. Roman legions under Vespasian and | besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and burned Herod's Temple (in the ... |
Alexander Pope | ... Bradstreet (1612–72), brought a copy of Crowley's Piers Plowman to America. | (1688–1744) owned a copy of Rogers' reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers ... |
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 ... |
Ze'ev Schiff | ... half of the airlifted Soviet hardware actually went to Syria. According to | , Arab losses were so high and the attrition rate so great that equipment ... |
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei | Widespread social and cultural transformation in northern China came with | (reigned 471–499 AD), whose father was a Xianbei, but whose mother was Chi ... |
John Wooden | ... utors, one referee, and one team, will enter the Hall on September 7, 2012. | , Lenny Wilkens, and have each been inducted as both player and coach (Woo ... |
Julius Epstein | ... dialogue, causing confusion among other actors, and infuriated the writer, | , who was called upon to rewrite scenes at her whim. Davis later explained ... |
Albert Einstein | ... y from collisions between the particle and gas molecules. As pointed out by | in 1905, this experimental evidence for kinetic theory is generally seen a ... |
Vespasian | ... ut they ultimately fell to the sustained might of Rome. Roman legions under | and Titus besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and burned Herod's Temp ... |
Johnny Cash | ... re portrayed in the novel Murder in Coweta County. The film version starred | , Andy Griffith, and June Carter |
Orson Welles | ... rom films such as Luchino Visconti's Senso and his Il Gattopardo as well as | 's The Magnificent Ambersons and also Roberto Rossellini's La Prise de pou ... |
Stephen Oppenheimer | ... ted was disturbing to many Eurocentric nineteenth century anthropologists." | claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologist Stephen ... |
Manwë | ... Power’, singular 'Vala'), of which there are fourteen principal characters: | , Ulmo, Aulë, Oromë, Mandos, Lórien, Tulkas, Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Estë, ... |
Mack Sennett | ... Angeles, home of the Keystone studio, in early December 1913. His boss was | , who initially expressed concern that the 24-year-old looked too young. C ... |
Tupac Shakur | ... sta" music scene had however fallen out of the spotlight since the death of | in 1996, and it was only after Dr. Dre's successful patronage of Eminem an ... |
Peder Claussøn Friis | ... rims could find food and shelter. In speaking of this route, Gjerset quotes | as writing |
Andy Griffith | ... in the novel Murder in Coweta County. The film version starred Johnny Cash, | , and June Carter |
Len Wiseman | ... Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel will star in the film directed by | |
F. Van Wyck Mason | ... made Bermuda their home, or have had homes here, including A.J. Cronin and | , who wrote on Bermudian subjects |
Stuart Lake | ... nfight was relatively unknown to the American public until 1931 when author | published what has since been determined to be a largely fictionalized bio ... |
Sandra Cisneros | ... Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, | , Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, De ... |
Richard Grossinger | ... races are explained in terms of being the most extreme pedomorphic humans." | claimed, "The intuition that advanced human development was pedomorphic ra ... |
Tertullian | ... 00–165). Treatment of eschatology continued in the West in the teachings of | (c. 160–225), and was given fuller reflection and speculation soon after b ... |
Xǔ Shèn | ... 水 (water), may be wholly pictorial in origin. In 100 CE, the famed scholar | in the Hàn Dynasty classified characters into six categories, namely picto ... |
Diocletian | ... areer have been filtered through the propaganda of his successful opponent, | |
Henry II | ... was a busy port in the Middle Ages, and was declared a Staple port in 1327. | travelled through Cardiff on his journey to Ireland and had a premonition ... |
Shigeru Egami | ... ght to Tokyo from Okinawa by Gichin Funakoshi in 1922. One of his students, | introduced modifications designed to incorporate the values of traditional ... |
Madonna | ... Herb Alpert's A&M Records, now owned by Universal Music Group). Similarly, | 's Maverick Records (started by Madonna with her manager and another partn ... |
George Pérez | ... r-old continuity. The series was written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by | (pencils/layouts), along with Mike DeCarlo, Dick Giordano, and Jerry Ordwa ... |
Michael Buerk | ... ar (October 23), a BBC news crew was the first to document the famine, with | describing "a biblical famine in the 20th Century" and "the closest thing ... |
Marv Wolfman | ... 1985 to simplify its then 50-year-old continuity. The series was written by | and illustrated by George Pérez (pencils/layouts), along with Mike DeCarlo ... |
J. B. S. Haldane | The geneticist | wondered why the dominant mutation that causes Huntington's disease remain ... |
Míchel | ... endary Quinta del Buitre, along with Manolo Sanchís, Rafael Martín Vázquez, | and Miguel Pardeza |
Andrea Green | ... rom this era of Doctors was cheerful Receptionist Sarah Finch, with Actress | winning the Best Newcomer Award at the British Soap Awards in 2005 |
Dominic Olejniczak | ... laced at Bell's funeral ceremony was one presented by members of the NFLPA. | , president of the Packers, and the 11 owners of the NFL were honorary pal ... |
King Oscar II | The history of these arms is quite curious. When on 18 July 1891 | visited the city, a menu had to be printed. It was printed with a coat of ... |
Stephen King | In the book by | , Eddie Dean remembers hearing an audiobook version of The Lord of the Rin ... |
Gichin Funakoshi | ... in karate(空手, empty hand), which had been brought to Tokyo from Okinawa by | in 1922. One of his students, Shigeru Egami introduced modifications desig ... |
Jerry Ordway | ... George Pérez (pencils/layouts), along with Mike DeCarlo, Dick Giordano, and | (who shared inking/embellishing chores). The series removed the concept of ... |
Frederick the Great | ... for promotion to Major. Blücher sent in a rude letter of resignation, which | granted in 1773: Der Rittmeister von Blücher kann sich zum Teufel scheren ... |
Tom Regan | ... s have moral rights (animal rights) is a philosophical position proposed by | , among others, who argues that animals are beings with beliefs and desire ... |
Voltaire | ... rial visitor to Earth had already been used by the philosopher and satirist | in his story Micromégas of 1752—a classic work in French literature which ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Bree is a fictional village in | 's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thoug ... |
Ashley Montagu | ... eoteny, "Asians", not whites, are "clearly" the most neotenized human race. | mirrored this statement when he stated that the "Mongoloid skull, whether ... |
Numerian | ... death of Carus, the army in the East demanded to be led back to Europe, and | , the younger son of Carus, was forced to comply. During a halt at Chalced ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... is mentioned in the Heimskringla (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway) by | . In 1021, King Olaf laid hold of all the best men, both at Lesja and Dovr ... |
Alice Cooper | In February 1987, Megadeth was added as the opening band on | 's Constrictor tour, followed by a brief tour supporting Mercyful Fate in ... |
Fulgencio Batista | ... uly Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the American-backed | in 1959, Ireland's Sinn Féin, Wales's Plaid Cymru, Scotland's SNP, the Awa ... |
Nick Cave | ... ic scene which had sprung up in Melbourne came The Boys Next Door featuring | . The Boys Next Door would eventually become The Birthday Party |
Oscar Zeta Acosta | ... nt writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, | , John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto ... |
Tigran Petrosian | ... iet final, URS-ch26 at Tbilisi 1959, finishing half a point behind champion | , in equal second place with Tal, on 12½/19. Soon after Spassky notched a ... |
Agrippa I | The later Herodian rulers | and Agrippa II both had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristob ... |
Steve Allen | ... . Next to the door were framed pictures of Letterman, Carson, Jack Paar and | , each of whose groundbreaking late-night shows originated from studio 6A ... |
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 ... |
Elizabeth I | ... 573, it was made a head port for collection of customs duties, and in 1581, | granted Cardiff its first royal charter. Pembrokeshire historian George Ow ... |
Kim Dae-jung | In response to the summit between Kim Jong-il and | in 2000, North and South Korea agreed in August 2000 to reconnect the sect ... |
Alexander the Great | ... d later Persians in the mid 6th century BC. In 331 BC, Van was conquered by | and after his death became part of the Seleucid Empire. By the early 2nd c ... |
Guénonist | ... ring the Islamic Revolution. In the 1980s, his ideas evolved from a kind of | neo-traditionalism to a synthesis of anarchism and Situationist ideas with ... |
Machiavelli | ... of the Courtier) laid out his vision of the ideal gentleman and lady, while | cast a jaundiced eye on "la verita effetuale delle cose"the actual truth o ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | | objected to the ranking of races as more or less neotenous. But Gould argu ... |
Stephen King | The Eyes of the Dragon is a novel by | , published for the mass market by Viking in 1987. Previously, it was publ ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President | ; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | A palantír (pl. palantíri) is a magical artifact from | 's fantasy legendarium. A palantír (sometimes translated as "Seeing Stone" ... |
Stephen King | Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by | . The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King nove ... |
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 ... |
Sergei Vasilyev | The 1958 Soviet film , directed by the highly regarded | , also featured roles for Reed and Bryant |
Evan Goldberg | ... cript by Dan Fogelman. Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn will produce it with | . Executive producers include Streisand, Rogen, Fogelman, and David Elliso ... |
Gary Soto | ... Steinbeck. Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, | , Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez ... |
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 ... |
Warren G. Harding | Coolidge was vice-president under | and became president in 1923 when Harding died in office. Coolidge was giv ... |
Kenneth Branagh | ... ented by the US-based Shakespeare Guild. Past winners include Ian McKellen, | , Glen Joseph, Kevin Kline and Judi Denc |
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 ... |
Wolfgang Petritsch | ... nd as a result had constitutional amendments imposed by High Representative | . However, the constitution of Republika Srpska refers to it as the "Langu ... |
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 ... |
Shapur I | ... r Satiran), probably the Parthian governor of Bahrain. He appointed his son | as governor of Bahrain. Shapur constructed a new city there and named it B ... |
Henry Ford | Richmond Hill has a historical connection to industrialist | . Ford used the town, formerly known as Ways Station, as a winter home, an ... |
Henry VI | ... own of Henley. The existing Corpus Christi fair was granted by a charter of | |
Shaun Micallef | In the Australian satirical news television show Newstopia, | 's impersonation of Gielgud acts as the African correspondent |
President | Image:Gerald Ford.jpg| | Gerald Ford of Michiga |
Frederick the Great | During the lifetime of | , Blücher was unable to return to the army, but after the king's death in ... |
Charles Laughton | ... m was a stylized thriller taking its cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and | 's The Night of the Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received a mixed critical rec ... |
Henry Ford | ... ties. Farms were increasing production to meet with government demands, and | was a great leader of the soybean industry |
Mabel Normand | ... directors. During the filming of his tenth picture he clashed with director | , and was almost released from his contract. Sennett kept him on, however, ... |
Robert Stephenson | ... ned by the architect John Dobson, and was constructed in collaboration with | . The first services were operated by the North Eastern Railway company. T ... |
Ferdinand I | ... in the Revolutions of 1848. Metternich and the mentally handicapped Emperor | were forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew Franz J ... |
Michael Pollan | ... ealth. It was originally credited to Gyorgy Scrinis, and was popularized by | . Since nutrients are invisible, policy makers rely on nutrition experts t ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... ost other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and | at the end of the 15th century, and this union was progressively consolida ... |
Ana Castillo | ... a, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, | , Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Al ... |
Stephen King | The Long Walk is a novel by | published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback origi ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... umerism on society has often been fiercely criticized by intellectuals like | and film directors like Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola, that ... |
Fëanor | ... by the Elves of Valinor in the Uttermost West, by the Noldor and maybe even | himself. Many palantíri were made, but the number is not known. Some had p ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | His 1152 marriage to | allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions ... |
Viktor Korchnoi | ... next Soviet final, URS-ch27 at Leningrad, with 10/19, as fellow Leningrader | scored his first Soviet title victory. Spassky travelled to Argentina, whe ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... on County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of | , general in the United States Army and President of the United States of ... |
Jason Gould | ... tt Gould, to whom she was married from 1963 until 1971. They had one child, | , who would go on to star as her on-screen son in The Prince of Tides. Her ... |
Diocletian | ... forced to comply. During a halt at Chalcedon, Numerian was found dead, and | , commander of the body-guards, claimed that Numerian had been assassinate ... |
Kevin J. Anderson | ... ba's palace is also the main setting in Tales From Jabba's Palace edited by | , as well as a playable area in the video games and . The palace was origi ... |
the civil rights leader | ... ther corner of the plaza was designated "Andrew Young Crossing" in honor of | , who received his first beating in the movement in St. Augustine in 1964. ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... dison still won the Presidency by a comfortable margin. Madison, along with | , are the only US Presidents to win re-election with a lower percentage of ... |
Bruce Robinson | Gielgud is referenced in | 's 1986 cult film Withnail and I. In an early scene in which Withnail is c ... |
Edward R. Murrow | ... was sent to Berlin, where he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under | . He visited Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed ma ... |
Isaac Newton | ... e enjoyed collecting books: for example, he collected and protected many of | 's papers. It is in part on the basis of these papers that Keynes wrote of ... |
Akira Kurosawa | ... role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by legendary Japanese director | |
John | ... rded that King Henry II "had bought land for the making of buildings". King | granted the manor of Benson and the town and manor of Henley to Robert Har ... |
Alexander the Great | ... he centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus discovered it while serving under | . From the 3rd century BC to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, B ... |
Richard Nixon | ... al times by others), as well as numerous territories and trust possessions. | confidant Robert Abplanalp was a notary for many years, as were Fawn Hall, ... |
King Henry II | ... first record of medieval settlement dates to 1179, when it is recorded that | "had bought land for the making of buildings". King John granted the manor ... |
Jeff Vintar | Syfy is developing an adaptation of Eyes of the Dragon. Michael Taylor and | will pen the script, with Taylor and Bill Haber as executive producers |
John Rechy | ... Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, | , Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alici ... |
Agrippa II | The later Herodian rulers Agrippa I and | both had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristobulus IV, son of ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... c union with Castile and most other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon at the end of the 15th century, and this union ... |
Gaston Bachelard | ... r, properly Marxist texts, borrowing a term from the philosopher of science | . His essay "Marxism and Humanism" is a strong statement of anti-humanism ... |
Roger Ebert's | ... one of many used as the backdrop for the opening credits of Gene Siskel and | "At the Movies." The uptown area is currently under development. There are ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... l of multiple causality in political situations (an idea closely related to | 's concept of ) |
Eleanor of Castile | ... iliation; he arranged the marriage between Edward, his 14 year old son, and | , daughter of Alfonso X. Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assis ... |
John Dryden | ... iers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly John Milton, and | .) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts, it is usually n ... |
Rob Corddry | ... e sister, Stacy. Other notable comedians such as Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle, | , H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, ... |
Frank Darabont | | has secured the rights to the film adaptation of the novel. He said that h ... |
Alexander Pope | ... . He proposes to teach people to lie well. Similar lists and systems are in | 's Peri Bathos and John Gay and Pope's Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Als ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... in 1998. His final (silent) acting performance was in a film adaptation of | 's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator Harold Pinter an ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer | , published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first desc ... |
Borislav Ivkov | ... passky won at Belgrade 1964 with an undefeated 13/17, ahead of Korchnoi and | . He was fourth at Sochi 1964 with 9.5/15, as Nikolai Krogius won |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... y theorists propose that neoteny has been a key feature in human evolution. | believed that the "evolutionary story" of humans is one where we have been ... |
Catullus | ... poetry; for example, Homer incorporated Nightingales into his Odyssey, and | used a sparrow as an erotic symbol in his Catullus 2. The relationship bet ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | The dynastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, when | wed Isabella I of Castile, led to the formal creation of Spain as a single ... |
H. Jon Benjamin | ... cy. Other notable comedians such as Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle, Rob Corddry, | , Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and A ... |
Ivan IV of Russia | ... likii Kniaz of Muscovy appeared as the Grand Duke for "all of Russia" until | in 1547 was crowned as tsar |
Siegfried Sassoon | ... cked soldiers during World War I. Rivers's most famous patient was the poet | . He is also famous for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition ... |
Gildas | ... redate the Historia. It was clearly a historical battle, being described by | , who does not mention the name of the Britons' leader (he does, however, ... |
Peter David | ... by Kevin Smith) and the final Supergirl story arc, "Many Happy Returns" (by | ), revealed that the Spectre (Hal Jordan) is aware of the Crisis on Infini ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... t Britain resolved that lingering issue and the British departed the forts. | saw the nearby British imperial presence as a threat to republicanism in t ... |
Michael Azerrad | ... radio interview for a 20th anniversary special edition, with liner notes by | |
Edmund Spenser | Crowley's (or Rogers') edition may have reached | , Michael Drayton, John Milton, and John Bunyan, but no records, citations ... |
Sauron | ... e is also apparently a 'price' to be paid for these manifestations, as when | is deprived of the ability to appear in a wholesome form |
John Gay | ... lie well. Similar lists and systems are in Alexander Pope's Peri Bathos and | and Pope's Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Also in 1713, Arbuthnot was mad ... |
Harold Pinter | ... of Samuel Beckett's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator | and directed by American playwright David Mamet; Gielgud died mere weeks a ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ailed from Roswell and Bulloch Hall was her home. Emily Dolvin, the aunt of | (the 39th U.S. President), lived in Roswell the majority of her life and w ... |
George I of Great Britain | ... (the great grandson of James I through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King | |
Edward I | All past and present dukes have been descended from | ; see Dukes of Norfolk family tree |
Benjamin Franklin | | attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia and was greatly impressed with ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... nastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, when Ferdinand II of Aragon wed | , led to the formal creation of Spain as a single entity in 1516. See List ... |
Manwë | 2. The Valar and their characteristics are described thus: | – (‘Blessed One’) Brother of Melkor. Between the two, Melkor is ‘mightier’ ... |
Robert Christgau | ... wing individuality, and wickedly prankish humor." He gave it a grade of B+. | gave the album an A- and said "I like it and I enjoy it; I think it repres ... |
Spencer Christian | ... street appeared on the "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers," and weatherman | later visited the town. After the hoopla died down, Flora lost their bid t ... |
Elizabeth II | | | |
David Mamet | ... ite longtime collaborator Harold Pinter and directed by American playwright | ; Gielgud died mere weeks after production was completed at the age of 96 ... |
Ellie Kemper | ... comedians such as Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle, Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, | , Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Andrew Daly als ... |
Bryan A. Garner | ... tal agencies that administer a jurisdiction's prisons and parole system" in | , editor, Black's Law Dictionary, 9th ed., West Group, 2009, ISBN 0-314-19 ... |
Harry S. Truman | Unpopular incumbent President | decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adl ... |
Kevin Murphy | ... its neighboring suburb Oak Park, former Mystery Science Theater 3000 actor | grew up in River Forest. Famed radio commentator Paul Harvey also resided ... |
René Descartes | ... as human beings feel it traces back to the 17th-century French philosopher, | , who argued that animals do not experience pain and suffering because the ... |
Terry Sanford | Image:Terry Sanford.jpg|Former Governor | of North Carolin |
President Taft | ... e first armed intervention by the United States in Nicaragua occurred under | . In 1909, he ordered the overthrow of Nicaraguan President José Santos Ze ... |
Wolfman Jack | ... ing the 1950s because of controversial white DJs such as Dewey Phillips and | with an appreciation for black music |
Nikolai Krogius | ... of Korchnoi and Borislav Ivkov. He was fourth at Sochi 1964 with 9.5/15, as | won |
Louis IX of France | In December 1259, | ceded to Henry land north and east of Gascony. In return, Henry renounced ... |
James Buchanan | ... truction of federal officials in Utah (most notably judges), U.S. President | decided to install a non-Mormon governor. Buchanan accepted the reports of ... |
Denis de Rougemont | ... untryman. Included among the reviewers was Consuelo's Swiss writer paramour | , who also modeled for a painting of the Little Prince lying on his stomac ... |
Michael Drayton | Crowley's (or Rogers') edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, | , John Milton, and John Bunyan, but no records, citations, borrowed lines, ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ial or religious divisions. Other examples of left-wing nationalism include | 's 26th of July Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the Am ... |
Hippocrates | ... decline or loss of senses and movement, numbness", a term used by Homer and | . Narcosis produces a state similar to alcohol intoxication or nitrous oxi ... |
James Komack | ... s Miyoshi Umeki, who played the role of Tom's housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston, | (one of the series' producers) as Norman Tinker (Tom's pseudo-hippie, quir ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... the author himself. Subsequently, French General (later, French President) | , whom Saint-Exupéry and others held in low regard, publicly implied that ... |
Aragorn | ... Shire. A day's ride east along the road lay The Forsaken Inn, according to | , although nothing more is known of it |
Alexander Nevsky | Regional conflicts with the Order escalated. | of Novgorod, Tautvilas, and Tautvilas's son Constantine agreed to form a c ... |
John Broome | ... with a radically overhauled Flash character by writers Robert Kanigher and | with penciler Carmine Infantino |
Edward II | ... without an heir in 1307, so their titles and estates reverted to the crown. | then created his brother Thomas of Brotherton earl in 1312. It passed to T ... |
Phil Esposito | ... re ineligible to play in a men's league. She also turned down an offer from | to play for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. Finland's Hockey Federati ... |
John Charles Daly | ... Sundays, opposite CBS's long-running quiz program What's My Line? hosted by | , who had been the first ever ABC news anchorman. ABC stood by Smith on th ... |
Henry IV of France | ... avour of intervening on behalf of the Protestant powers (and Louis's father | was once a Huguenot leader). On the other hand, Louis XIII had had a stric ... |
Ashley Montagu | | notes the following neotenous traits in women relative to men: more delica ... |
James Francis Edward Stuart | ... Protestants. The Tories were suspected of supporting the Catholic Pretender | . George I rewarded the Whigs by forming a Whig government; at his welcome ... |
John Wesley | ... clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman | and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley (the Younger), and father of musician ... |
Bobby Moynihan | ... h as Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle, Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, | , Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Andrew Daly also frequently app ... |
Maxentius | ... Augusti to the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. Presumably Maximian's son | and Constantius' son Constantine – children raised in Nicomedia together – ... |
Philip IV of France | In May 1286, King Edward I paid homage before the new king, | , for the lands in Gascony. However, in May 1295, Philip 'confiscated' the ... |
John Milton | ... ey's (or Rogers') edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, | , and John Bunyan, but no records, citations, borrowed lines, or clear all ... |
Scriblerus Club | ... rovided him with a house. It was this house that hosted the meetings of the | , which had as its members Harley (now Earl of Oxford), St. John (now Vico ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... oquent orator. The Republican Party countered with popular war hero General | and won in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control ... |
Phillis Wheatley | Whitefield is remembered as one of the first to preach to the enslaved. | wrote a poem in his memory after he died. In an age when crossing the Atla ... |
John Kass | ... ed Meigs because he wanted to, because he could," Chicago Tribune columnist | wrote of Daley. "The issue is Daley's increasingly authoritarian style tha ... |
Arch Ward | ... of the Steelers from Bell. Compounding Bell's financial problems, in 1944, | organized a group of investors to create the AAFC for the purpose of compe ... |
Samuel Wesley (the Younger) | ... he younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman | , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel ... |
Benjamin of Tudela | In 1170, | visited the city, which he called by its Frankish name, St.Abram de Bron. ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... The relationship between an albatross and a sailor is the central theme of | 's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which led to the use of the term as a ... |
Jimmy Carter | The surprise winner of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination was | , a former state senator and governor of Georgia. When the primaries began ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... bringing, and his natural inclination was therefore to support the Catholic | , the Habsburg Ferdinand II |
Justin Theroux | Adam Kesher ( | ) is established in the first portion of the film as a "vaguely arrogant", ... |
Newton | Following the classical dynamics of | and Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of exte ... |
Jim Flaherty | Federal finance minister | appointed retired judge James Farley, who had presided over Air Canada's 2 ... |
Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein | The Augustenborg male line died out in 1931, upon the death of | , a grandson of queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Their female-line de ... |
Edward II of England | In 1325, the land was confiscated by Charles IV when | , in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispu ... |
Bill Clinton | ... million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President | ’s climate change initiative |
Ernest Renan | ... ntity is not ethnicity. This civic concept of nationalism is exemplified by | in his lecture in 1882 "What is a Nation?", where he defined the nation as ... |
Sauron | ... n's influence over it. According to Gandalf, it is beyond the skill of both | and Saruman to create the palantíri and that Sauron cannot make the palant ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... 558. Russell Cave was declared a National Monument in May 1961 by President | . The Monument consists of of land donated by the National Geographic Soci ... |
Miguel Najdorf | ... of 14.5/20. Spassky shared 2nd–3rd at Havana 1962 with 16/21, behind winner | . He placed joint 5th–6th at Yerevan 1962, URS-ch30, with 11.5/19. At Leni ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of | , he stayed on the job. ... It is doubtful any individual has ever given m ... |
Victoria of the United Kingdom | ... , upon the death of Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, a grandson of queen | . Their female-line descendant today holds the throne of Sweden |
Allan W. Eckert | ... Revolutionary War. This story, popularized in historical novels written by | in the late 1960s, remains well known in Ohio, where an outdoor drama cele ... |
Euler | Following the classical dynamics of Newton and | , the motion of a material body is produced by the action of externally ap ... |
Charles Lindbergh | ... Lindbergh, the young, golden-haired son of the pioneering American aviator | and his wife Anne Morrow. The couple also stayed in Quebec, Canada for fiv ... |
John III of Sweden | In 1582 King | added Grand Prince of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish king ... |
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 ... |
Casiri | ... patron, al-Mansour. Abulfaraj (Historia Compendosia Dynastiarum, p.291) and | claim that the cause was eating beans. Another attributes the cause of his ... |
Edwin Justus Mayer | The movie was adapted by | and Bess Meredyth from the play by Edward Sheldon. It was directed by Clar ... |
Walt Whitman | ... r the American writers he admired, notably Henry Miller, Jackson Pollock or | |
Maurice Wilkes | ... arts of the matrix to implement different instructions. The design inspired | to develop the concept of microprogramming |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... s cause was the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) insurgency. In 1984, President | announced that 46% of the Ethiopian Gross National Product would be alloca ... |
James Buchanan | Eisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to become President since | in 1856. Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the de ... |
Penda of Mercia | ... est Mercian king about whom definite historical information has survived is | , Wulfhere's father |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... closing credits for the special were airing, word came in that U.S. Senator | of New York had just been shot. ABC simply showed a wide shot of the chaot ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... dez de Avilés sighted land on August 28, 1565. As this was the feast day of | , the territory was named San Agustín. The Spanish sailed through the St. ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... Though Reid proclaimed he was a soldier of God (Allah) under the command of | , Judge Young declared: Reid reportedly demonstrated a lack of remorse and ... |
Bess Meredyth | The movie was adapted by Edwin Justus Mayer and | from the play by Edward Sheldon. It was directed by Clarence Brown |
King Richard II | When | created Thomas Mowbray duke in 1397, he conferred upon him the estates and ... |
Thorin Oakenshield | Gandalf and | met by coincidence in Bree, setting in motion the events recounted in The ... |
Woody Allen | Along with directors | and Francis Ford Coppola, in 1989 Scorsese provided one of three segments ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... theorized that many of Treebeard's mannerisms are based on Tolkien's friend | , a loud, bombastic man known for his powerful stride and overwhelming pre ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... the war. John Bull (England) is suing Louis Baboon (i.e. Louis Bourbon, or | ) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (Charles II of Spain). Bull's la ... |
Clarence Brown | ... Mayer and Bess Meredyth from the play by Edward Sheldon. It was directed by | |
Harry M. Miller | ... Michael Gudinski, Michael Chugg, Ray Evans, Dennis Charter, Glenn Wheatley, | , Harley Medcalf, Michael Browning, Peter Rix, Ron Tudor, Roger Davies, Fr ... |
King Edward IV of England | ... s arranged between Anne and Richard, Duke of York, the four-year-old son of | . She remained Richard's child bride until she died at the age of 8 |
Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, John Westbrook provi ... |
Ernest Renan | ... with liberal values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights. | and John Stuart Mill are often thought to be early liberal nationalists. L ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... 56. Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the death of | , and 64 when elected President in 1948 |
president | ... the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986, Kurt Waldheim was elected | amid considerable national and international protest because of his possib ... |
Edward Sheldon | ... movie was adapted by Edwin Justus Mayer and Bess Meredyth from the play by | . It was directed by Clarence Brown |
Francis Ford Coppola | Along with directors Woody Allen and | , in 1989 Scorsese provided one of three segments in the portmanteau film ... |
President | In Pakistan, the | and Prime Minister receive close protection teams from the military's elit ... |
Charles I | During the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), under | , by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord ... |
David Axelrod | ... t proper procedures were always followed," Daley admitted a few days later. | , a Democratic political consultant whose clients included Daley, contribu ... |
President of the United States | ... s Guild (SAG), then election as Governor of California in 1966, and finally | in 1980 |
Prince Albert | ... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that year | became the patron of the regatta |
Alex de Waal | ... ed for the 1983–5 famine, this figure has been challenged by famine scholar | . In a major study, de Waal criticized the United Nations for being "remar ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of | (the 26th US President) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from ... |
Ingmar Bergman | ... es characterized film-making in Germany. The movies of the Swedish director | reached a new level of expression in motion pictures like Cries and Whispe ... |
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 ... |
Stephen Thorne | ... n of The Lord of the Rings, John Westbrook provided the voice of Treebeard. | voiced the character in BBC Radio's 1981 serialization. Treebeard was orig ... |
Amy Poehler | ... ent episodes. Several years before joining the cast of Saturday Night Live, | often appeared as a regular in many sketches, though she was best remember ... |
Roger Ebert | ... hed, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released | , a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the best mob movie ... |
Tertullian | The Christian apologist | wrote that as a prelude to the Mithraic initiation ceremony, the initiate ... |
Augustus | ... the Principate to become the first truly professional firefighting service. | called for the creation of a trained fire guard, paid and equipped by the ... |
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 ... |
Roseanne Barr | ... nced guest appearance on the show, surprising Myers and guests, Madonna and | . Mike Myers also appeared as the Linda Richman character on stage with St ... |
Charles II of Spain | ... Bourbon, or Louis XIV of France) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt ( | ). Bull's lawyer is the one who really enjoys the suit, and he is Humphrey ... |
President | In Turkey, the | is closely protected by two organizations: the Karşı Saldırı Timi'nde (KST ... |
Harold Pinter | ... y Television. Playing themselves, they were in Toronto during their tour of | 's No Man's Land. According to Dave Thomas, in his book, , their sketch wa ... |
Amitabh Bachchan | ... d cinema of India, this was epitomized by the movies of Bollywood superhero | . Another Asian touchstone beginning in the early 1970s was Hong Kong mart ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ife (e.g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named | ), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the "real world" and used to expl ... |
Harry Reasoner | ... irst with Frank Reynolds, then the following year with another CBS alumnus, | . He began making increasingly conservative commentaries, in particular ad ... |
William Prynne | ... nother ploughman text and thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, | , possibly John Milton, and John Dryden.) Given the diffusion of different ... |
Peter Jackson | In | 's films (2002) and (2003), Treebeard is a combination of a large animatro ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... 978 in the famous Camp David Accords after negotiations hosted by president | . In accordance with the treaty, Israeli forces withdrew gradually from Si ... |
Sauron | ... the enemies' eyes. Knowledge of this technique was lost long ago, although | probably knew of it |
Ernest Renan | ... nationalism. Membership of the civic nation is considered voluntary, as in | 's "daily referendum" formulation in What is a Nation?. Civic-national ide ... |
Daniel Bernoulli | In 1738 | published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory of ga ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... derable that Sarah hoped to marry her granddaughter, Lady Diana Spencer, to | , for which she would pay a massive dowry of £100,000. However, Robert Wal ... |
Edwin of Northumbria | ... imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms. The fifth of these was | , who was killed at the battle of Hatfield Chase by a combined force inclu ... |
Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei | ... successive leaders, Gao Huan took control of the east and Luoyang (holding | as a puppet ruler) by 534, while his rival Yuwen Tai took control of the w ... |
Didymus of Alexandria | ... ks, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the Suda, from | and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis in Crete). In the work, t ... |
Hippocratic | ... imes into Latin and other European languages. Its lack of dogmatism and its | reliance on clinical observation show Razi's medical methods. For example |
Ernest Renan | ... e because they regarded it as a diabolical imitation of their own religion. | , in 1882, set forth a vivid depiction of two rival religions: "if the gro ... |
Lessing | ... aelis, he was compensated for this by the esteem of Frederick the Great, of | , Carsten Niebuhr, and many foreign scholars |
Rob Riggle | ... essed teenage sister, Stacy. Other notable comedians such as Jack McBrayer, | , Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, ... |
Ælla of Deira | Æthelfrith married Acha of Deira, daughter of | . They had eight children |
Gene Siskel | ... mob movie ever" and is ranked #1 on Roger's movie list for 1990, along with | and Peter Travers, the film is widely considered one of the director's gre ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... of a prominent game show, an excerpt from the Count from Sesame Street, or | 's remark that walking is a good form of exercise |
Victor Hugo | ... nken main road and then routed. , note 18 An episode famously used later by | in Les Miserables. The sunken lane acted as a trap which funnelled the fli ... |
Mikhail Lomonosov | ... s of the kinetic theory (which were neglected by their contemporaries) were | (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1 ... |
Frank Borman | ... Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 ( | , Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) |
Julius Schwartz | ... bly the "real world" and used to explain how real-life DC staffers (such as | ) could occasionally appear in comics stories, and so forth. If something ... |
John Milton | ... thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly | , and John Dryden.) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts ... |
John Wesley | In terms of theology, Whitefield, unlike | , was a supporter of Calvinism. The two differed on eternal election, fina ... |
George W. Bush | ... nt. In the, 2004 Presidential Election, Jackson County voted for Republican | over Democrat John Kerry. It was the first time Jackson County voters chos ... |
Robert Crumb | ... ings, and even a similar Keep On Truckin' figure later to be made famous by | . His characters were frequently seen chasing butterflies; when asked why ... |
John Ostrander | ... ven his own series, this time written by writer and former theology student | , who chose to re-examine the Spectre in his aspects as both the embodied ... |
King Arthur | ... ention because of its role in influencing the legends and myths surrounding | . It is the earliest source that presents Arthur as an historical figure, ... |
Gallienus | ... at Pons Sarravi (Sarrebourg) in Gallia Belgica, in a series that runs from | (253-68) to Theodosius I (379-395). These were scattered over the floor wh ... |
King Haakon VII | ... f Norwegians. In 1940, when Norway was under attack from the German forces, | received the power from the parliament to govern the country, in its best ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ened in 1853 after Beacon Hill headland was dynamited to make space for it. | was said to have made readings there. In the 1900s a ballroom and a new se ... |
Hadrian | ... as a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor | (AD 117-138) |
Leo Strauss | ... elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. According to Austrian economist Ludwi ... |
Harold B. Lee | Oxford has several historical links. It is the location | , a future president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, t ... |
William Shakespeare | ... lioz's treatise on orchestration. He found time to read the works of Homer, | , Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he saw London, Ni ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... in MMORPGs. 2007 saw the release of The Lord of the Rings Online, based on | 's Middle-earth. Other licensed MMORPGs include The Matrix Online, based o ... |
Janet Jackson | Aaliyah was honored at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards by | , Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Ginuwine and her brother, Rashad, who all paid ... |
Olaf | ... a (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway) by Snorri Sturluson. In 1021, King | laid hold of all the best men, both at Lesja and Dovre, and forced them ei ... |
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 ... |
Leonard Woolf | Virginia Woolf's husband | said that in her experimental novel, The Waves, "there is something of Lyt ... |
Karl Marx | ... uages resulting in many people being unable to communicate with each other. | wrote about the creation of nations as requiring a bourgeois revolution an ... |
Brian Mulroney | ... ement and Victor Li. The Cerberus bid would have seen former Prime Minister | installed as chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... sts and of the Soviet Union; Craxi himself pushed in favour of US president | 's positioning of Pershing missiles in Italy |
Nipsey Russell | ... as part of a sketch on Late Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce Brothers, | , Abe Vigoda, James Lipton, Bob Saget and William Preston as the character ... |
Elendil | ... iven to the Dúnedain of Númenor as a gift, during the Second Age. Of these, | took seven with him on his flight to Middle-earth, and after the Kingdoms ... |
Tino Villanueva | The Chicano poet and writer | traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a th ... |
Jimmy Carter | Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governor | of Georgi |
Julius Caesar | | initially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ... |
Benedict Arnold | ... adio" from AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted: Ice Cube is first addressed by the name | (after the infamous traitor of the American Revolution) but then named out ... |
Richard III | ... ared illegitimate. Richard was sent to the Tower of London by the new king, | , in mid-1483, thus ending his claim to both York and Norfolk |
Barack Obama | ... 008. On October 28, Colbert turned his attention back to Canton, Ohio after | made a campaign stop there, forcing Colbert to find it "crappy" |
Vandal Savage | ... he central antagonists in the animated film . The members here are Cheetah, | , Star Sapphire, Bane, Metallo, Mirror Master, and Ma'alefa'ak. Cheetah is ... |
Paul Schrader | ... al Hollywood, Scorsese made a major return to personal film-making with the | -scripted The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988. Based on Nikos Kazantzaki ... |
Efim Geller | ... riumphing in the last game to win 6–4 (+4 =4 −2). Also at Riga, he defeated | with mating attacks, winning by 5½–2½ (+3 =5 −0). Then, in his Candidates' ... |
Raymond Aron | ... sized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and | . According to Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who had met Weber duri ... |
Susan Seidelman | ... Freddy, Thurston Moore, Richard Kern, Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, | , Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn, and Nick Zedd. The soundtrack includes ... |
Theodosius I | ... ebourg) in Gallia Belgica, in a series that runs from Gallienus (253-68) to | (379-395). These were scattered over the floor when the Mithraeum was dest ... |
Alan Bennett | ... rge Birthday present, which provoked tremendous approval. He also read from | 's 40 Years On, in which he had appeared in earlier years |
John McCain | The trending Republican has continued since 2004. In 2008 | won the county with 67.7% of the vote. In 2010 Republican gubernatorial ca ... |
Deborah Tannen | ... e would object to their classification as "self-help" literature, as with " | 's denial of the self-help role of her books" so as to maintain her academ ... |
Edward Heath | ... enson played at Marine Spa ballroom, and the place was regularly visited by | |
Steven Spielberg | In another notable example, the finale of | 's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was edited to match the music of his long-ti ... |
Dan Quayle | ... s chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory board chair | , himself the former vice president of the United States. Cerberus was rej ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... crowd. It is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and | 's Infamy Speech, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... many acts, ranging from Hilary Duff and Bob Dylan to an annual rodeo event. | also use The Silver Spurs Arena for their annual District Conventions. In ... |
Bruce Jay Friedman | Also in 1973, he starred in Steambath, a play by author | , on PBS with Valerie Perrine and Jose Perez |
Samuel Pepys | ... ts typically associated with it contributed to this generic classification. | owned a copy of Piers Plowman. A Crowley edition owned in 1613 by an educa ... |
Licinius | ... tantine was again demoted to Caesar, with Maximinus the Caesar in the east. | , a loyal military companion to Galerius, was appointed Augustus of the We ... |
Mark Richard | ... he screen adaption of the short story The Ice at the Bottom of the World by | , and it was to be directed by Kimberly Peirce and produced by Theron's co ... |
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 ... |
Dolly Parton | ... the U.S. Between 1977 and 1979, it became more mainstream, as Kenny Rogers, | , Willie Nelson and Allman Brothers Band all scored hits which reached bot ... |
Vortigern | The Historia contains a story of the king | , who allowed the Saxons to settle in the island of Britain in return for ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... rist. He also made a brief venture into television, directing an episode of | 's Amazing Stories |
John F. Kennedy | ... ed the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senator | of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon |
Ecgfrith of Northumbria | ... rd of Northumbria as his father had been. In 674, he challenged Oswiu's son | , but was defeated. He died, probably of disease, in 675. Wulfhere was suc ... |
Rod Blagojevich | Daley and Illinois Governor | held a joint press conference on January 17, 2006 calling for a state-wide ... |
Osama bin Laden | | held Hazmi and Mihdhar in high respect, with their experience fighting dur ... |
Mark Antony | ... e so manifest that, when he defended Herod against the Sanhedrin and before | , the latter stripped Hyrcanus of his nominal political authority and his ... |
Marv Wolfman | ... originally conceived to be a celebration of DC's 50th anniversary; however, | and Len Wein saw it as a chance to clean up DC's rather convoluted continu ... |
Friedrich Schiller | ... chestration. He found time to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, | and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio ... |
Stephen of Ripon | ... in 675. Wulfhere was succeeded as King of Mercia by his brother, Æthelred. | 's Life of Wilfrid describes Wulfhere as "a man of proud mind, and insatia ... |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ... the Paul Schrader-scripted The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988. Based on | 's controversial 1960 book, it retold the life of Christ in human rather t ... |
Michael Holroyd | ... iration behind the character of St. John Hirst in her novel The Voyage Out. | describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewi ... |
Mikhail Tal | ... mines who will challenge the reigning world champion for the title) against | the legendary tactician (Tbilisi 1965), Spassky often managed to steer pla ... |
Victor Emmanuel II | ... h 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under king | of the Savoy dynasty, which ruled over Piedmont. The architects of Italian ... |
Leonard J. Arrington | ... e Mountain Meadows massacre, which took place in Washington County in 1857. | reports that Brigham Young received a rider at his office on the same day. ... |
James Lipton | ... Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce Brothers, Nipsey Russell, Abe Vigoda, | , Bob Saget and William Preston as the character, Carl 'Oldy' Olsen, also ... |
Al Gore | ... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including | and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phi ... |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... obert Straker wrote that Mann had been “crucified by crusading sectarians.” | lamented “what seems the fatal waste of labor and life at Antioch.” Mann’s ... |
Metallo | ... ed film . The members here are Cheetah, Vandal Savage, Star Sapphire, Bane, | , Mirror Master, and Ma'alefa'ak. Cheetah is the only original member in t ... |
Brian Cant | ... elderly couple, Margaret (Patricia Greene) and her husband Derek Richmond ( | ), who is suffering from the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. After years of ... |
Sallust | ... id to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author | , which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian |
Lewis Carroll | ... hed patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as | ) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House |
King Christian IV | ... 909 and are based on the oldest seal of the city, dating from 1643. In 1643 | (of Denmark and Norway) granted the young city the right to use a seal wit ... |
John II Sigismund Zápolya | ... ism became official in 1583, following the faith of the only Unitarian King | 1541-1571) were declared as accepted (recepta) religions, while Orthodox C ... |
Actor | ... me from her, where, however, Philonides speaks of an Alope as a daughter of | . There was a monument of Alope on the road from Eleusis to Megara, on the ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... from Alan Bennett's 40 Years On, in which he had appeared in earlier years. | 's friendship with Gielgud was peppered with barely acknowledged competiti ... |
Yehudi Menuhin | ... acking characteristics of true polyphonism, as pointed out by Eugène Ysaÿe. | , on the other hand, suggested that this might have been the result of his ... |
Eric Zorn | ... midnight bulldozing of Meigs Field," according to Chicago Tribune columnist | . Fresh off his huge re-electoral mandate, one of Daley's first major acts ... |
Wyndham Lewis | ... chael Holroyd describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in | ' The Self-Condemned. In Wyndham Lewis' novel The Apes of God, he is seen ... |
Lewis Arquette | ... the role; he had retired from acting and was replaced in a single scene by | . |
Burroughs | ... and of course the old standbys - Merritt I always particularly liked - and | . |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... A's talent agency—which represented most of the industry's biggest names—by | 's Department of Justice, as owning both the movie studio and a talent age ... |
Tim Conway | In 1975, he co-starred with | and Don Knotts in the Disney movie The Apple Dumpling Gang, which was well ... |
Graham Parker | ... tense, aggressive energy of punk" such as Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, and | . In the U.S., the first New Wavers were the not-so-punk acts associated w ... |
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 ... |
Talcott Parsons | ... ism include: Henry Maine, Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and | |
Ibn Battuta | ... ulers encouraged. But even in the 14th century, the North African traveller | visiting Qatif around 1331, found it inhabited by Arabs whom he described ... |
King Christian IV | The city was named after its founder | in 1641. The last element sand refers to the sandy headland the city was b ... |
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 ... |
Vasily Smyslov | ... al the same year. At Amsterdam, he tied for 1st–4th places, along with Tal, | , and Bent Larsen, on 17/23, with all four, along with Borislav Ivkov and ... |
Wyndham Lewis | ... e inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewis' The Self-Condemned. In | ' novel The Apes of God, he is seen in the character of Matthew Plunkett, ... |
Meja Mwangi | ... ce, there are notable Kikuyu literature icons such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and | . Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's literary works include Caitani Mutharabaini (1981), ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... es in the Empire seems to have happened quite quickly, late in the reign of | and under Marcus Aurelius. By this time all the key elements of the myster ... |
Baldwin I of Jerusalem | ... cceeded the following year in wresting Hebron back from the crusaders under | , who personally led the counter-charge to beat the Muslim forces off |
Sheridan Morley | ... onstage, whispering "Come on, John darling, they won't boo me." Biographer | writes that while Gielgud never denied being homosexual, he always tried t ... |
Henry VIII | ... f the arms (shown to the right) was granted as an Augmentation of Honour by | to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk to commemorate his victory at the Ba ... |
king | ... to. Many leading revolutionaries wanted a republic, but eventually it was a | and his chief minister who had the power to unite the Italian states as a ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... oldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to | 's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture |
King of Kings | Shah or shahanshah (" | ") was the title of Persian emperors or kings. It includes rulers of the f ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... nited States Congress as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of | . His first speech in that body was in advocacy of its right and duty to e ... |
Barack Obama | In the final days before the 2008 election, Costner campaigned for | , visiting various places in Colorado—a state in which he has a home. In h ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... ate 1950s and early 1960s following the "cognitive revolution" initiated by | 's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally. The origins ... |
Jim Jarmusch | ... he East Village. Filmmakers included: Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, James Nares, | , Vivienne Dick, Scott B and Beth B, and Seth Tillett, and led to the Cine ... |
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | ... ountry. As a consequence, there are notable Kikuyu literature icons such as | and Meja Mwangi. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's literary works include Caitani Muthar ... |
Matt Besser | ... er, Rob Riggle, Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, | , Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Andrew Daly also frequently appeared as sket ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... of the Taliban government and its replacement by the current government of | , there has been significant progress toward revitalization of the nationa ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | The tower story is repeated and embellished by | in his Historia Regum Britanniae, though he attributes it to Merlin, sayin ... |
Christian IX of Denmark | ... ousins through Queen Victoria, and second cousins once removed through King | . Elizabeth fell in love with Philip and they began to exchange letters. E ... |
Bent Larsen | ... Amsterdam, he tied for 1st–4th places, along with Tal, Vasily Smyslov, and | , on 17/23, with all four, along with Borislav Ivkov and Lajos Portisch, t ... |
Sergio Leone | ... composer Philip Glass's music. Similarly, the relationship between director | and composer Ennio Morricone was such that the finale of The Good, the Bad ... |
Baldwin II of Jerusalem | In the year 1113 during the reign of | , according to Ali of Herat (writing in 1173), a certain part over the cav ... |
Akbar | ... cluding those of the Mughal Empire. For instance, the third Mughal emperor, | the Great (1542–1605), was formally known as "Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam" |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... to the Chatahoochee River. It operated for 40 years, and in 1905, President | made a campaign whistle stop in Dunwoody along the way to Roswell, Georgia |
Nicholas de Jongh | ... e 'Gielgud case' of 1953, above, was dramatised by critic turned playwright | in the play Plague Over England and performed at the Finborough, a small L ... |
György Lukács | ... uenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, | and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by ... |
Max Horkheimer | Weber has influenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, | , György Lukács and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought wer ... |
Thomas Parnell | ... Earl of Oxford), St. John (now Vicount Bolingbroke), Pope, Gay, Swift, and | . According to all the members of the Club, Arbuthnot was the one who cont ... |
Andrew Daly | ... min, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and | also frequently appeared as sketch actors on the show for several years. T ... |
Mary Tudor | ... pass from their possession. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to | , sister of King Edward VI |
Don Tapscott | ... g of new patterns of thought and feeling. As business strategy communicator | puts it, "The design industry is something done to us. I'm proposing we ea ... |
Bede | ... itain from northwestern Europe, starting in the early 5th century. The monk | , who wrote in the 8th century, considered the Mercians to be descended fr ... |
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 ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... ime to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller and | , and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio de Janeiro during his stops in ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... have happened quite quickly, late in the reign of Antoninus Pius and under | . By this time all the key elements of the mysteries were in place |
Alan Moore | ... with the tagline that "the DC Universe will never be the same." Along with | 's Watchmen and Frank Miller's , it contributed to the commercial and crea ... |
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 ... |
Duarte Barbosa | ... ersian Gulf. Reputedly, the first Portuguese traveller to visit Bahrain was | in 1485 |
Albert Einstein | ... etical constructs, rather than real objects. An important turning point was | 's (1905) and Marian Smoluchowski's (1906 |
Brigham Young, Jr. | Descendants of Young include three LDS Church apostles: | , John Willard Young, and Joseph Angell Young. Another descendant, Leah D. ... |
Borislav Ivkov | ... h Tal, Vasily Smyslov, and Bent Larsen, on 17/23, with all four, along with | and Lajos Portisch, thus qualifying for the newly created Candidates' Matc ... |
Noël Coward | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, | and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always been a popular ... |
Victor Emmanuel II | ... ore conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Cavour and | , who would later become the first king of a united Italy |
Aragorn | In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins met Strider ( | ) at the largest and most popular inn in Bree, The Prancing Pony, owned by ... |
Diego Durán | ... ifferent city wards and markets – often accompanied by large-scale betting. | , an early Spanish chronicler, said that "these wretches... sold their chi ... |
Michael Jackson | Along with the 1987 | music video "Bad", in 1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to t ... |
James Francis Edward Stuart | ... St. John, the first Viscount Bolingbroke from declaring for the Pretender, | . The Marlboroughs returned home on the afternoon of Anne's death. The Act ... |
Robert Byrd | Image:Sen robert byrd.jpg|Senator | of West Virgini |
Scott Crary | In 2004, | made a documentary, Kill Your Idols, including such No Wave bands as Suici ... |
Abraham Fraunce | ... edge of the poem is indirect. Francis Meres later repeated Webbe's remarks. | mentions Piers Plowman, but he merely repeats the identifying features pri ... |
Barack Obama | On 4 May 2009, United States President | declared his intentions to curb the use of financial centres by multinatio ... |
Jürgen Habermas | ... social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, György Lukács and | . Different elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Josep ... |
Nauplius | ... ite of great antiquity near the shores of the Argolid. To Poseidon she bore | , "the navigator," who gave his name to the port city of Argos |
Abraham Lincoln | ... s "I Have a Dream" speech electrified the crowd. It is regarded, along with | 's Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, as one of ... |
Rudyard Kipling | Visited by Somerset Maugham, | , Noël Coward and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always ... |
King Edward VI | ... ssion. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to Mary Tudor, sister of | |
Alger Hiss | ... th included in the broadcast an interview with Nixon's longstanding nemesis | , a convicted Cold War perjurer. Howard K. Smith: News and Comment aired i ... |
Zbigniew Siemiątkowski | ... d's Prosecutor General's office initiated investigative proceedings against | , the former Polish intelligence chief. Siemiątkowski is charged with faci ... |
Walker Percy | The self-help world has become the target of parodies. | 's odd genre-busting Lost in the Cosmos has been described as "a parody of ... |
Robert Smigel | ... s. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (created and voiced by original head writer | ) began as part of a sketch on Late Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce B ... |
Rod Blagojevich | ... plan to move under cover of darkness included the city's 50 aldermen, Gov. | , Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Homeland Security offi ... |
Henry I's | ... ountess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English throne on | death in 1135, he became to the English throne |
Sophia of Hanover | ... udwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of James I through his mother | ), King George I of Great Britain |
Paul Keres | ... inct advantage in beating many top grandmasters. In the 1965 cycle, he beat | at Riga 1965 with careful strategy, triumphing in the last game to win 6–4 ... |
Hippothoon | ... pe, his granddaughter through Cercyon, and from the union she gave birth to | . Alope left the infant in the open to die of exposure, but a passing mare ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | The last shah of Persia, | , officially adopted the title شاهنشاه shâhanshâh (literally King of Kings ... |
Kevin Smith | The 2001 Green Arrow story "Quiver" (written by | ) and the final Supergirl story arc, "Many Happy Returns" (by Peter David) ... |
Fred Schepisi | ... of Jimmie Blacksmith (based on his novel) and played Father Marshall in the | movie, The Devil's Playground (1976) (not to be confused with a similarly ... |
Stanley Morgan | Nassau is also heavily featured in the novel Tobin in Paradise by | . The story is centered around the visit by the main character, Russ Tobin ... |
Bob Dylan | ... Silver Spurs Arena has been host to many acts, ranging from Hilary Duff and | to an annual rodeo event. Jehovah's Witnesses also use The Silver Spurs Ar ... |
Paracelsus | ... nd's oldest university, the University of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, | , Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzs ... |
Elizabeth II | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward and Queen | among many others, Penang has always been a popular tourist destination, b ... |
Commodus | ... ks are now lost. According to the 4th century Historia Augusta, the emperor | participated in its mysteries but it never became one of the state cults |
Hitler | ... forbidden the unification of Austria and Germany, but native Austrian-born | was vastly striving to annex Austria during the late 1930s, which was fier ... |
Harold II | ... as an ally of William the Conqueror, and is listed as a possible killer of | ; he is also believed to have given William his own horse after the duke's ... |
Robert Rossen | ... ad", in 1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to the much admired | film The Hustler (1961) with Paul Newman. Although typically visually assu ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents. The Habsburg | s had long been interested in mercantilist policies, but the vast and dece ... |
Mikołaj Rej | ... ng most important Protestants of the Commonwealth, there are such names, as | , Marcin Czechowic, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Symon Budny |
Nazgûl | ... Dark Tower" (Barad-dûr), snaga, meaning "slave", and ghâsh "fire". The name | is a combination of "nazg" meaning "ring" and "gûl" meaning "wraith(s)", t ... |
Brockhaus | Lieber presented the idea of an American encyclopedia, based on | ' Conversations-Lexikon, to Carey, Lea & Carey of Philadelphia in January ... |
Henry II | ... n, became king of Navarre by his marriage with Catherine of Foix. Their son | , king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer of France in 1550 b ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | Jung Chang and Jon Halliday claim that | allowed the Communists to escape on the Long March, allegedly because he w ... |
Michelangelo | ... orkshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven by jealousy of Benvenuto Cellini and | ; and recounts that |
Barack Obama | ... t headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as Bill Clinton and | ), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, un ... |
Mickey Deans | ... nhagen during March 1969. She married her fifth and final husband, musician | , at Chelsea Register Office, London, on March 15, 1969, her divorce from ... |
Derek Jarman | ... Baldwin and Mel Ramsden), sculpture/printing artist Victor Burgin, painter | , painter Stephen McKenna and sculptor Bill Woodrow |
Christian IV of Denmark | ... ears' War (1618–1648), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, | being notable proponents. The Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors had long been i ... |
King Henry II | ... court, but was almost certainly at least known about at the royal court of | of England. Virtually nothing is known of her life; both her given name an ... |
Joe Torre | ... during a regular season game until Jolbert Cabrera wore it in 2003. Manager | wore it during his tenure with the Dodgers |
Joe Garagiola, Sr. | ... of the campaign was a series of popular television appearances he did with | , a retired baseball star for the St. Louis Cardinals and a well-known ann ... |
Frank S. Nugent | | of The New York Times called it, "a grand adventure film, magnificently st ... |
Darius I of Persia | ... also made voyages using Maka to communicate with India. After Cyrus' death | succeeded his throne. According to Greek historian Herodotus, Darius wante ... |
Gregory Peck | Philip Schuyler Green ( | ) is a widowed journalist who has just moved to New York City with his son ... |
Francis Bacon | ... e and a lover of hers, took Fuentes' statement literally and suggested that | wrote Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote, both claims which are considere ... |
Philip | ... ek city-states were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of | 's and Alexander the Great's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might gene ... |
Benvenuto Cellini | ... upil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven by jealousy of | and Michelangelo; and recounts that |
Gene Hackman | On January 13, 2012, actor | was struck by a pickup truck while riding his bicycle in Islamorada |
Bill Clinton | ... er Liberal Cabinet headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as | and Barack Obama), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanis ... |
Ovid | ... no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before the first century BC. | in Book 14, lines 812-828, of the Metamorphoses gives a description of the ... |
Tewodros II | ... ue of Nations in 1923 by promising to eradicate slavery; each emperor since | had issued proclamations to halt slavery, but without effect: the internat ... |
John I of Portugal | ... attle of Ceuta, the city was captured by the Portuguese during the reign of | . The King of Spain, Phillip II, seized the Portuguese throne in 1580 and ... |
John Hughes | ... f Universal Pictures. Tanen was behind Universal hits such as Animal House, | 's Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club |
Catherine of Foix | ... . John of Albret, son of Alain, became king of Navarre by his marriage with | . Their son Henry II, king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer ... |
Laura Elena Harring | ... nd exhibits several instances of temporal disruption. A dark-haired woman ( | ) escapes her own murder by being the sole survivor of a car accident on M ... |
Jon Halliday | Jung Chang and | claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to escape on the Long Ma ... |
Ray Lankester | ... nimal testing. The legislation was promoted by Charles Darwin, who wrote to | in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree tha ... |
Giorgio Vasari | ... e for Giuliano de' Medici, identified as Bandinelli's by John Pope-Hennessy | , a former pupil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven b ... |
Charles Dow | ... has gone into the study of financial markets and how prices vary with time. | , one of the founders of Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal, ... |
Christina of Sweden | ... entral Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), with | , Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable propone ... |
Polly Adler | ... involved in prostitution. In her memoirs, well-known New York society madam | scoffed at the idea of Luciano being part of an extensive prostitution rin ... |
Abu Hamza al-Masri | ... Park Mosque in North London headed at that time by the anti-American cleric | and described as "the heart of the extremist Islamic culture" in Britain. ... |
Maximilian I | ... ing, and also successor of Philip, count palatine of the Rhine. The emperor | , interested as archduke of Austria and count of Tirol, interfered in the ... |
Gordon Lightfoot | ... edwagon's "Take It on the Run", The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", | 's "Carefree Highway", and Gin Blossoms' "Follow You Down" |
Nick Park | ... gory, with six Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category is | 's Wallace and Gromit with two wins so far |
Samuel Pepys | ... g mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and | . However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time student and was al ... |
Numa Pompilius | ... in the ordainment of Roman religion attributed to Romulus' royal successor, | . There is however no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before t ... |
Hiroshi Ōnogi | ... Kawamori attended Keio University in the same years as Macross screenwriter | and character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, where they had a Mobile Suit Gun ... |
George W. Bush | The | administration consolidated many of these activities under the United Stat ... |
Thoas | ... future wife of Acastus (otherwise known as Astydameia); Myrina, who married | ; and an unnamed daughter, who became the mother of Asterius by Teutamus |
Newt Gingrich | ... arty. In 2012, he went on record on Fox News as supporting the candidacy of | for the Republican Presidential Nomination. In the same interview, he also ... |
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 ... |
Charles Goren | ... ard American" was the label given to the bridge bidding system developed by | in the 1940s. This system was the first to employ the point-count method t ... |
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 ... |
Daumantas | ... e midst of these events Mindaugas' wife Morta died, and he took her sister, | ' wife, as his own. In retaliation, Daumantas and Treniota assassinated Mi ... |
H. Emilie Cady | ... t when people do this, they experience a more fulfilling and abundant life. | 's 1896 book Lessons in Truth, A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Chr ... |
Charlemagne | ... who wanted to maintain Bavarian independence, was defeated and displaced by | in 789. An eastern march (military borderland), the Avar March, was establ ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... e operations. It was abruptly halted during the administration of President | in the mid-late 1980s, part of the War on Drugs |
David | ... idetes attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, John Hyrcanus opened King | 's sepulchre and removed three thousand talents which he paid as tribute t ... |
Agamemnon | The word Atreides refers to one of the sons of Atreus— | and Menelaus. The plural form Atreidae or Atreidai refers to both sons col ... |
John of Albret | ... o the liberal grants which it had obtained from successive kings of France. | , son of Alain, became king of Navarre by his marriage with Catherine of F ... |
John Julius Norwich | ... simplest terms, the loss of the Eastern Roman Empire's Anatolian heartland. | says in his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire that the defeat was "its death ... |
Barack Obama | ... uerto Rico's head of state is the President of the United States, currently | . The governor and legislators are elected by popular vote every four year ... |
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 ... |
Steve Garvey | ... f Fernando Valenzuela in 1991, although it has not been officially retired. | 's No.6 was not reissued for 19 years until it was given to Dante Bichette ... |
Charles Darwin | ... fically aimed at regulating animal testing. The legislation was promoted by | , who wrote to Ray Lankester in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on v ... |
Pliny | Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, | , Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally ... |
John Cage | Stockhausen, along with | , is one of the few avant-garde composers to have succeeded in penetrating ... |
President of the United States | ... House of Representatives lower chamber. Puerto Rico's head of state is the | , currently Barack Obama. The governor and legislators are elected by popu ... |
Aeschylus | ... amous religious events of the ancient Greek religion, and the birthplace of | , one of the three great tragedians of antiquity. Today Eleusina is a majo ... |
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 ... |
Jung Chang | | and Jon Halliday claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to esca ... |
Laura Z. Hobson | ... ct, Crossfire, which was also released the same year. The film was based on | 's 1947 novel of the same name |
Ian Hamilton Finlay | ... g But My Own." Other nominees included Terry Atkinson, sculptor Tony Cragg, | , Milena Kalinovska and painting/printing artist John Walker. The prize wa ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... d High School and Enrico Fermi High School are the district's high schools. | Middle School is the town's middle school. There are nine elementary schoo ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... xote, but it is most unlikely that Cervantes had ever heard of Shakespeare. | raised the possibility that Cervantes and Shakespeare were the same person ... |
Charles II | ... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored | , who granted the most liberal political terms |
Fernando Valenzuela | The Dodgers have not issued No.34 since the departure of | in 1991, although it has not been officially retired. Steve Garvey's No.6 ... |
Char Aznable | ... Amuro Ray, to whom the young Japanese of that time could easily relate, and | , who was "simply [...] fascinating", made a major contribution to the ser ... |
Wagner | ... portant characters, events, ideas or objects, an idea often associated with | 's use of leitmotif. These may be played in different variations depending ... |
Jack Kirby | In 1998, he was posthumously awarded a Harvey Award and entered into the | Hall of Fame; a year later, he was inducted into the Eisner Award Hall of ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... , he was apprenticed under Giovanni Francesco Rustici, a sculptor friend of | . Among his earliest works was a Saint Jerome in wax, made for Giuliano de ... |
Junji Ito | Spirals was also the source of material for Japanese horror manga artist | for his manga Uzumaki about a town obsessed with spirals, which was adapte ... |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... co-founded the United Artists film distribution company with Mary Pickford, | and D. W. Griffith, all of whom were seeking to escape the growing power c ... |
Isaac Newton | ... olars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, | , and Samuel Pepys. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time ... |
Louis XV | ... pulation was not forced out but rather their religion was declared illegal. | ordered all blacks to be deported from France, but was unsuccessful |
Garrison Keillor | ... nrelated to the television show such as recent performances by story-teller | , and music groups Return to Forever and George Thorogood. South by Southw ... |
Josephus | ... Simon, Seleucid King Antiochus VII Sidetes attacked Jerusalem. According to | , John Hyrcanus opened King David's sepulchre and removed three thousand t ... |
Ecgfrith | ... Deira had its own sub-kings at times during the reigns of Oswiu and his son | |
Pope Paul VI | In 1965 | decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the ... |
Elia Kazan | ... : Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director ( | ). The movie was controversial in its time, as was a similar film on the s ... |
Peter II | ... uese João Francisco António de Bragança, in Lisbon and succeeded his father | in December 1706, and was proclaimed on January 1, 1707 |
Charles VIII | ... (d. 1522), wished to marry Anne of Brittany, and to that end fought against | ; but his hopes being defeated by the betrothal of Anne to Maximilian of A ... |
Bacchylides | ... rces, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets (Ibycus, | ) Plisthenides (son of Plisthenes) is used as an alternative name for Atre ... |
Michael Wilson | ... writing duo, with Jim Taylor, or writing trio, with Jim Rash and Nat Faxon. | also won twice, but because he was blacklisted the second award was given ... |
Lyndon Johnson | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1964 |
Mary Pickford | ... 1919, Chaplin co-founded the United Artists film distribution company with | , Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, all of whom were seeking to escape ... |
Jimmy Swaggart | On October 11, 1991 | was pulled over into an Indio gas station off Indio Blvd. Swaggart was wit ... |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... ations into Polish). The period of tolerance ended during the reign of King | , who was under strong influence of Piotr Skarga and other Jesuits. After ... |
Sidney Buchman | ... and, on January 12, 1937, reshot scenes involving the High Lama written by | , who declined screen credit for his work, which placed more emphasis on t ... |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | ... his Seleucid suzerains. Within a year of the death of Simon, Seleucid King | attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, John Hyrcanus opened King David ... |
Oswiu | ... kingdom, although Deira had its own sub-kings at times during the reigns of | and his son Ecgfrith |
Giannina Braschi | ... Ricky Martin were born in the city. Other notable residents include writers | and Tomas Blanco, award-winning actors Raúl Juliá and Benicio del Toro, an ... |
Ibycus | ... ent sources, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets ( | , Bacchylides) Plisthenides (son of Plisthenes) is used as an alternative ... |
Ottonian | As allies of the Carolingian kings and the empire of their | successors, the Obotrites fought from 808 to 1200 against the kings of Den ... |
Alcuin | ... as quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century - Aldhelm, Bede, | - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanus Maurus ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... ern half of Oman as well as Balochistan and the Sindh province of Pakistan. | united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empire |
President of France | In 1974, he was elected | at 48, the third youngest president in French history, after Louis Napoleo ... |
Erykah Badu | ... ater in 2007, Latifah released an album titled Trav'lin' Light. Jill Scott, | , Joe Sample, George Duke, Christian McBride, and Stevie Wonder made guest ... |
Dion Fortune | In | 's novel The Winged Bull, the main character invokes the name of Iacchus w ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... wo consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and | |
Kevin Smith | ... Thing (where he meets Matthew Cable). Morpheus also appears briefly during | 's run on Green Arrow in a flashback showing him in Alexander Burgess' bas ... |
Richard Nixon | ... d United States Senator George Smathers and then former U.S. Vice President | , who had promised to leave politics. During his subsequent presidency fro ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... Movement. Moreover, he benefited from the divisions in the Gaullist party. | and other Gaullist personalities published the "Call of the 43" where they ... |
Robert Burton | The most extended treatment of melancholia comes from | , whose The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) treats the subject from both a li ... |
Christopher Morley | ... hen it moved to CBS in 1934. In 1935, it became the Socony Sketchbook, with | and the Johnny Green orchestra |
Bede | ... mmar was quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century - Aldhelm, | , Alcuin - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanu ... |
Jules Verne | ... the San Diego ComiCon in 1978. In 1982, at Skycon II, he was awarded the " | Award for Life-time achievement. |
Rick Veitch | ... ant Morrison, as well as in Gaiman's own The Books of Magic series and in a | -authored issue of Swamp Thing (where he meets Matthew Cable). Morpheus al ... |
Richard Nixon | ... attractive in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which had led to President | 's resignation. Ford, although personally unconnected with Watergate, was ... |
Erich von Falkenhayn | ... of surprise; they did not expect such a big attack by the British. General | , agitated by the additional losses in one sector of the Somme front, sack ... |
Isaac Newton | ... e same time was put on the board trying to publish the Historia coelestius. | and Edmund Halley wanted it published immediately, to support their work o ... |
Mary Baker Eddy | ... studying spiritual healing, and being influenced by Emma Curtis Hopkins and | (the founder of Christian Science) |
Alvin Sargent | ... (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, | , and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Persius | ... ero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and | |
Bob Odenkirk | ... of several now-prolific comics including Robert Smigel as the head writer, | , Louis C.K., Tommy Blacha and Dino Stamatopoulos. Smigel left his positio ... |
Irving Thalberg | ... went to the Mayer Company on Mission Road to meet with the Vice-President, | . Shearer was momentarily thrown by their confused introduction, but soon ... |
Constantine VII | ... Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the future | , Nicholas forbade the emperor from entering the church and may have becom ... |
Eurystheus | ... refuge in Mycenae, where they ascended to the throne in the absence of King | , who was fighting the Heracleidae. Eurystheus had meant for their steward ... |
King of Lithuania | ... ing antagonist of the Lithuanians. During the summer of 1253 he was crowned | , ruling between 300,000 and 400,000 subjects |
Vin Scully | ... again in 1956 – was inducted as a manager having never managed the Dodgers. | is permanently honored in the Hall's "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit as a resu ... |
Antiochus IX Cyzicenus | ... 6 BCE, a civil war between Seleucid half-brothers Antiochus VIII Grypus and | broke out, resulting in a further breakup of the already significantly red ... |
Luis Fortuño | ... ial branches. The executive branch is headed by the Governor, currently Mr. | , who is also the head of government. The legislative branch consists of a ... |
Zoe Karbonopsina | ... , he fell out with Leo VI over the latter's fourth marriage to his mistress | . Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the fut ... |
Presidential | Inyo is a strongly Republican county in | and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ... |
Louis XVIII | ... 2, when Hugo was only twenty years old, and earned him a royal pension from | . Though the poems were admired for their spontaneous fervor and fluency, ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... o who was being held hostage by Joseph Stalin back. This is contradicted by | himself, who wrote in his diary, "It is not worth is to sacrifice the inte ... |
Robert Smigel | ... e show the writing staff consisted of several now-prolific comics including | as the head writer, Bob Odenkirk, Louis C.K., Tommy Blacha and Dino Stamat ... |
Oswald | ... ar he went to Cadwallon to sue for peace and was killed. Eanfrith's brother | then raised an army and finally defeated Cadwallon at the Battle of Heaven ... |
Joel Godard | | , a long-time announcer for NBC shows, was the show's announcer and a freq ... |
Emma Curtis Hopkins | ... sulted in the Fillmores studying spiritual healing, and being influenced by | and Mary Baker Eddy (the founder of Christian Science) |
Jackie Chan | ... s of kickboxing were introduced in 1993, based on 1980s Seidokaikan karate. | and Jet Li are prominent movie figures who have been responsible for promo ... |
President | ... honored with his own memorial in the National Mall area and the first non- | to be commemorated in such a way. The King Memorial will be administered 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 ... |
Livy | ... ence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, | and Persius |
Marie I of Boulogne | ... bury and half-sister to Henry II, King of England; Marie, Abbess of Reading | ;; Marie, Abbess of Barking; and Marie de Meulan, wife of Hugh Talbot |
Leo VI the Wise | ... isfavor after Photios' dismissal in 886 and retired to a monastery. Emperor | retrieved him from the monastery and made him mystikos, a dignity designat ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... oly See. Relations with the Holy See were defined during the pontificate of | (1922–1939 |
Lex Luthor | ... esentations of the Flash (Barry Allen), Earth-2 Superman, the Anti-Monitor, | , and Brainiac. The third and final wave included action figure representa ... |
Andrew W.K. | American musician | also released an album called Gundam Rock on September 9, 2009 in Japan. T ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... e is also reflected in works of literature. For example, he is mentioned in | 's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick 1993, 101) and in Th ... |
Mario Puzo | ... Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, | , Alvin Sargent, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Myrtle Fillmore | ... ounded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 by Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) and | (1845–1931) after Mrs. Fillmore had been cured of her tuberculosis, she be ... |
Nazgûl | ... existing in two forms, the ancient "pure" forms used by Sauron himself, the | , and the Olog-hai, and the more "debased" form used by the soldiery of th ... |
Cris Freddi | ... d a second goal, in The Complete Book Of The World Cup (HarperSport, 2006), | writes: "…and Bregy's free kick skimmed a defender's head on its way in (s ... |
Eanfrith | ... ain was divided into Bernicia and Deira. Bernicia was then briefly ruled by | , son of Aethelfrith, but after about a year he went to Cadwallon to sue f ... |
John James Audubon | ... squirrels," probably in reference to the sound they make. In the mid-1800s, | and his sons included a lithograph of the chipmunk in their Viviparous Qua ... |
Adam Sandler | ... ds of thousands of people to the city, and bringing famous celebrities like | and Madonna |
Michael Choniates | ... nae. The town was the birthplace of the Byzantine Greek writers Nicetas and | |
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 ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... stern end that hold annual polo and special events. The Prince of Wales and | were seen in the polo clubs |
Ovid | ... m, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, | , Livy and Persius |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... nclude: George Seaton, Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), | , Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Gregory Peck | Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist (played by | ) who goes undercover as a Jew to conduct research for an exposé on antise ... |
George Lucas | ... I and III, which brought in Star Wars fans from around the world, including | . Also, Indianapolis hosted Super Bowl 46 in 2012, bringing hudreds of tho ... |
Henry II, King of England | ... s twelfth century poet are: Marie, Abbess of Shaftesbury and half-sister to | ; Marie, Abbess of Reading; Marie I of Boulogne; Marie, Abbess of Barking; ... |
Prince George of Denmark | In 1702, he was at Epsom when | , husband of Queen Anne fell ill. According to tradition, Arbuthnot treate ... |
Phraates II of Parthia | ... s and in 129 BCE Antiochus VII Sidetes was killed in Media by the forces of | , permanently ending Seleucid rule east of the Euphrates. In 116 BCE, a ci ... |
Robert J. Serling | ... President's Plane Is Missing (1973, a made-for-television production of the | novel of the same name), Nashville (1975), Close Encounters of the Third K ... |
Nick Nickson | ... for the Lakers, Kings, indoor soccer and indoor tennis events at the Forum. | , a radio broadcaster for the Los Angeles Kings, replaced John Ramsey as t ... |
Sauron | ... in the realm of Mordor. Tolkien describes the language as being created by | as an artificial language to be the sole language of all the servants of M ... |
Porphyry | ... ppers wrote the nominative form of the god's name as "Mithras". However, in | 's Greek text De Abstinentia («Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων»), there is a reference ... |
Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena | ... his children. However, Pachelbel spent only one year in Eisenach. In 1678, | , Johann Georg's brother, died and during the period of mourning court mus ... |
Isabella Rossellini | He was married to actress | from 1979 to their divorce in 1983. He then married producer Barbara De Fi ... |
Robert Bolt | ... 1950 and 1951. Others to win twice in this category include: George Seaton, | (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, ... |
Statius | ... ext to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, | , Ovid, Livy and Persius |
Herodotus | ... death Darius I of Persia succeeded his throne. According to Greek historian | , Darius wanted to know more about Asia. He wished to know where the "Indu ... |
Ibn Hud | ... until 1147, when the Almohads who conquered the land and ruled, apart from | 's rebellion of 1232, until the Tunisian Hafsids established their control ... |
Jimmy Carter | The act jump-started the peace process. United States President | invited both Sadat and Begin to a summit at Camp David to negotiate a fina ... |
Micky Moody | ... ake. At this time, the band was made up of David Coverdale, Bernie Marsden, | , Neil Murray and drummer David "Duck" Dowle with keyboardist Brian Johnst ... |
Charles V | ... ci. Bandinelli, a supporter of the Medici, was also exiled. In 1530 Emperor | retook Florence after a long siege. Pope Clement VII subsequently installe ... |
Agamemnon | ... was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of | and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atrei ... |
Paula Deen | ... s interested in performing on Dancing with the Stars, on the condition that | also appear |
Rex Stout | ... is the imagined assassin of Medgar Evers, was published in The New Yorker. | used the event as a plot device in his civil rights-themed mystery A Right ... |
George Seaton | ... ecutive years, 1950 and 1951. Others to win twice in this category include: | , Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppol ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | ... een disintegrating in the face of the Seleucid–Parthian wars and in 129 BCE | was killed in Media by the forces of Phraates II of Parthia, permanently e ... |
King of Lithuania | ... 1200 – fall 1263) was the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the only | . Little is known of his origins, early life, or rise to power; he is ment ... |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | The first person to win twice in this category is | , who won the award in two consecutive years, 1950 and 1951. Others to win ... |
Romanos Lekapenos | ... ther failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral | , who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally ... |
Julia Cameron | ... raine Marie Brennan; they have a daughter, Catherine. He married the writer | in 1976; they have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, who is an actres ... |
Otis Ferguson | Less enthusiastic was | , who in his review for National Board of Review Magazine observed, "This ... |
Thomas Churchyard | ... rted by the contemporary proliferation of texts that responded to it; e.g.: | 's. The poem's obscure record may have had something to do with Crowley's ... |
Joe Torre | ... who was appointed at the conclusion of the 2010 season as the successor to | |
Sallust | ... l, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, | , Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
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 ... |
Julius J. Epstein | Philip G. Epstein and | were the first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. James Gol ... |
John Stow | ... me from Bale and Crowley in his preface to the various impressions. In 1580 | attributed Piers Plowman to "John Malvern," a name that surfaces again wit ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | The Black Speech is a fictional language created by | |
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough | ... tional and familial reasons. Anne was advised (and many said controlled) by | , who was a champion of Whig causes. In 1706, the Duchess of Marlborough f ... |
Johnny Cash | ... on Billboard's charts for that year were Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel" | ;, "I Walk the Line"; and Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes" |
Albert Einstein | The concept of fields was introduced by, among others, Faraday. | wrote |
Augusto Pinochet | ... e Juan Guzmán Tapia (the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator | ), Armin von Bogdandy (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparativ ... |
Agamemnon | ... boy. Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus had two sons, | and Menelaus |
Mack David | ... The Trouble with Harry (1955, "Flagging the Train to Tuscaloosa"; words by | ); Never Love a Stranger (1958, score); The Pusher (1960, score); Clean an ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... 1983, he made his second onscreen appearance with fellow theatrical knights | and Ralph Richardson (following Olivier's own Richard III) in a television ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... ædia Britannicas Great Books of the Western World, while the Russian author | called it "the ultimate and most sublime work of human thinking". It is in ... |
Edwin | ... was defeated and killed by Rædwald of East Anglia (who had given refuge to | , son of Ælle, king of Deira) around the year 616. Edwin then became king. ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... slow pace of the peace process. In a 1977 interview with CBS News anchorman | , Sadat admitted under pointed questioning that he was open to a more cons ... |
Sam Houston | ... blish the street grid that is still current. In those years, the Texas hero | , for whom the street is sometimes incorrectly said to have been named, wa ... |
Simeon I of Bulgaria | ... f the regency for the young emperor, and as such had to face the advance of | on Constantinople. Nicholas negotiated a peaceful settlement, crowned Sime ... |
Pete Townshend | According to rock historian Walter Rasmussen, | once said that The Who's 1969 album Tommy was inspired by the rock opera " ... |
Philostephanus | Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, Pliny, | ) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally it was imagined ... |
Jon Glaser | ... s, Fan-tastic Guy, Clive Clemmons, Frankenstein, Ira, Slipnut Brian, etc.), | (Segue Sam, Pubes, Awareness Del, Wrist Hulk, Ahole Ronald, Gorton's Fishe ... |
Rosalynn Carter | ... is work with the parade, Gacy met and was photographed with then First Lady | on May 6, 1978. Rosalynn Carter signed one photo: "To John Gacy. Best wish ... |
Charles Mackay | ... evous spirit that makes noises unexplainable except by supernatural causes. | , in his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), ... |
Aepytus | #A daughter of Poseidon and Pitane who was raised by | of Arcadia and became the mother of Iamus by Apollo. When Aepytus discover ... |
Sally Field | ... the 1978 film Hooper which starred Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, and | , and 1981's appearance in The Cannonball Run. In 1980, he had a cameo in ... |
Whoopi Goldberg | ... th and DeLaughter were played by James Woods and Alec Baldwin, respectively | ;played Myrlie Evers. Evers was portrayed by James Pickens, Jr. |
David Samuels | ... tion to legally (State level only) grow up to 99 plants in Humboldt County. | of The New Yorker describes the county as "the heartland of high-grade mar ... |
Charles Aznavour | ... me Expo New York 2002 that the name was originally based on the French name | , a popular French-language singer. (Interestingly, the 2004 edition of th ... |
Michael A. Stackpole | ... quadron" (rather, the "Red Squadron" designation is used). The , written by | and published by Dark Horse Comics, were the first works of Star Wars lite ... |
Maurizio Giuliano | ... him – heavily rely on humanitarian aid for their survival. UN spokesperson | stated to The Washington Post: "If we do not manage to provide aid at suff ... |
Æthelfrith | Ida’s grandson, | (Æðelfriþ), united Deira with his own kingdom by force around the year 604 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Rodgers | ... a castle to collect a debt and is mistaken for a baron. Featuring songs by | and Lorenz Hart, it was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who, with the help o ... |
Ingmar Bergman | ... they saw the films or not." He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, | , Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his car ... |
Jim Davidson | ... Kingdom Brunel; Prog-rock band Wishbone Ash, supermodel Lily Cole, comedian | , tennis player/TV presenter Sue Barker, and astrologer Russell Grant also ... |
Brian Stack | ... hole Guy, Bulletproof Legs Guy, Adrian "Raisin" Foster, S&M Lincoln, etc.), | (Hannigan the Traveling Salesman, Artie Kendall the Ghost Crooner, The Int ... |
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 ... |
President | After the exile of King Zahir Shah in 1973, | Daud Khan forged stronger ties with the Soviets by signing two highly cont ... |
Maya Angelou | In March 2008 | stated that she planned to spend part of the year studying at the Unity Ch ... |
Philip G. Epstein | ... e the first to win for adapting their own work, for The Life of Emile Zola. | and Julius J. Epstein were the first siblings to win in this category, for ... |
Lew Wasserman | ... s run by legendary notorious Chicago mobsters such as Al Capone and others. | joined MCA in 1936 at the age of 23 and rose through the ranks to MCA for ... |
Aegisthus | ... e a son by his daughter, Pelopia, who would then kill Atreus. However, when | was first born, he was abandoned by his mother who was ashamed of her ince ... |
G. Stanley Hall | ... July 1892 at Clark University by a group of 26 men. Its first president was | . There are currently 56 divisions in the APA, and it is affiliated with 6 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport. The Indio (renamed | ) hospital opened in a new location in 1983 on land donated by hospital co ... |
Jaime Jarrin | ... were on KABC. KABC radio's Captain Jorge Jarrin (son of Dodger broadcaster | ) and Doug Dunlap handled those duties during the pre-game and post-game s ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from Michigan; and | , the leader of the GOP's conservative wing and the former two-term govern ... |
Romanos I | ... e supporters of Euthymios followed, which did not end until the new Emperor | Lekapenos promulgated the Tomos of Union in 920. In the meantime Alexander ... |
Matt Hoverman | ... Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, | , author Victoria Moran, Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and |
George W. Bush | ... ing, a record only matched decades later by Richard Nixon, and surpassed by | |
Barbara Walters | ... ed as co-anchor at ABC until 1975, after which Reasoner anchored solo until | joined the broadcast a year later. Continuing as an analyst until 1979, Sm ... |
Tommy Blacha | ... omics including Robert Smigel as the head writer, Bob Odenkirk, Louis C.K., | and Dino Stamatopoulos. Smigel left his position as head writer of the sho ... |
Mary Tyler Peabody | ... st 1, 1832; His grief over her death never fully subsided. He later married | |
Lynn Barber | ... ely considered to have negligible effect — a suspicion confirmed in 2006 by | , one of the judges. Typically, there is a three-week period in May for pu ... |
Jean-Bédel Bokassa | ... ally profited. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was at first a friend of its ruler, | ; he supplied Bokassa's regime with much financial and military backing. H ... |
Zahir Shah | ... 924. The military of Afghanistan was reconstructed and improved during King | 's reign, which reached a strength of 70,000 in 1933. Following the Second ... |
Van Morrison | ... have covered his songs, including Sammy Davis, Jr. Irish singer-songwriter | and American singer-songwriters like John Mellencamp an |
Victoria Moran | ... Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, Matt Hoverman, author | , Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and |
Francisco Franco | ... ea forces of the republican government. A monument was constructed to honor | called the Llano Amarillo, which was inaugurated on the 13th of July 1940 ... |
Dino Stamatopoulos | ... obert Smigel as the head writer, Bob Odenkirk, Louis C.K., Tommy Blacha and | . Smigel left his position as head writer of the show in 1995 to pen sever ... |
Dr H.V. Evatt | ... al, being called to the New South Wales bar in 1938. At Fort Street, he met | who later became a judge of the High Court of Australia, and became a prot ... |
Frances Marion | ... r, the Academy officially recognized him as the winner several years later. | was the first woman to win in this category, in 1930 |
Axayacatl | ... 16th century Spanish missionary and historian, tells that the Aztec emperor | played Xihuitlemoc, the leader of Xochimilco, wagering his annual income a ... |
Vitellius | ... AD it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Othos and | |
Alec Baldwin | ... on in federal court. Beckwith and DeLaughter were played by James Woods and | , respectively; Whoopi Goldberg played Myrlie Evers. Evers was portrayed b ... |
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 ... |
DJ Mark the 45 King | ... Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer | , who made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. ... |
Oprah Winfrey | ... President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. The ceremony was emceed by | . In addition, Daryl Hall, Jon Secada and Diana Ross gave musical performa ... |
President of Bolivia | ... United States President Bill Clinton, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and | Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. The ceremony was emceed by Oprah Winfrey. In ad ... |
Louis C.K. | ... w-prolific comics including Robert Smigel as the head writer, Bob Odenkirk, | , Tommy Blacha and Dino Stamatopoulos. Smigel left his position as head wr ... |
Howie Long | ... ith Children and The League; He also appeared on Malcolm in the Middle with | as the trashy coach of a women's ice hockey team. He hosted a short-lived ... |
Erykah Badu | ... censed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, | , Matt Hoverman, author Victoria Moran, Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and |
Fernando Valenzuela | ... dgers since 1959. The color analyst for some games is former Dodger pitcher | , for whom Jarrin once translated post-game interviews. The Spanish-langua ... |
Alexander Payne | ... Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | also won twice, but as part of either a writing duo, with Jim Taylor, or w ... |
George Friedman | ... Peace Treaty, the first ever between Israel and an Arab state. According to | , the war gave the Israelis increased respect for the Egyptian military an ... |
Sandi Jackson | ... ransit Authority. Voting in opposition were Aldermen Robert Fioretti (2nd), | (7th), Sharon Denise Dixon (24th) and Rey Colón (35th), Brian Doherty (41s ... |
Gerald Ford | ... Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between two serious candidates: | , the leader of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from ... |
Satyajit Ray | ... ince, whether they saw the films or not." He has also cited filmmakers like | , Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major infl ... |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... the she-wolf, the twins in a cave, seldom a fig tree, and never any birds ( | ) |
Charles VI | ... t part in the affairs of France, where his sister Isabella had married King | . About 1417 he became involved in a violent quarrel with his cousin, Henr ... |
Richard Nixon | ... hat he had a 66% disapproval rating, a record only matched decades later by | , and surpassed by George W. Bush |
Rob Reiner | The 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi, directed by | , tells the story of the 1994 retrial of Beckwith, in which prosecutor DeL ... |
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada | ... nt Bill Clinton, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia | . The ceremony was emceed by Oprah Winfrey. In addition, Daryl Hall, Jon S ... |
James Agee | ... ights has been praised for its mixture of comedy and sentimentality. Critic | , for example, wrote in Life magazine in 1949 that the final scene in City ... |
Yoshiyuki Tomino | ... nly one episode out of the 43 episode will not be dubbed, at the request of | . Bandai will release the TV series in two sets in summer of 2011. The fir ... |
Larry McMurtry | ... with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | is the only person who has won (for Brokeback Mountain) for adapting someo ... |
Gerald Ford | Image:Gerald Ford.jpg|President | of Michiga |
Moses | ... rew Bible, or Torah, states that God revealed the design for the menorah to | and describes the construction of the menorah as follows |
Ronald Reagan | ... ent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, and | , whom Wasserman became very close with personally. In later decades, Wass ... |
Richard Wagner | ... lowing Olivier's own Richard III) in a television miniseries about composer | . In 1996 he played a wizard in the TV adaptation of Gulliver's Travels. G ... |
Richard M. Sudhalter | ... r suggested something new and significant in jazz, according to biographers | and Philip R. Evans |
Strymon | #A daughter of | and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epida ... |
Chuck Norris | ... ction stars with martial arts background, such as Jean-Claude Van Damme and | |
Francisco Franco | On July 1936, General | took command of the Spanish Army of Africa and rebelled against the Spanis ... |
Ronald Reagan | Image:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg|Former Governor | of Californi |
Ann Hui | Anshan was the birthplace of | (born 1947), a Hong Kong-based film director, one of the most critically a ... |
Bette Davis | ... encies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, | , and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with personally. In ... |
Acastus | ... d Amythaon. He also had several daughters, namely Hippolyte, future wife of | (otherwise known as Astydameia); Myrina, who married Thoas; and an unnamed ... |
Andy Warhol | ... um's year-long delay and unsuccessful release, Lou Reed's relationship with | grew tense until Reed finally fired Warhol as manager in favor of Steve Se ... |
Wally Amos | ... ll known persons affiliated with Unity include Betty White, Eleanor Powell, | , Licensed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schne ... |
Denis Piramus | ... d his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. A contemporary of Marie, the English poet | , mentions in his Life of Saint Edmund the King, written in around 1180, t ... |
Bill Gates | ... oele" is located in the mountains of Lānai and was designed by Greg Norman. | was married on the 12th hole tee-box at The Challenge at Manele |
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 ... |
Ernst Lubitsch | ... r the studio. She was rewarded for this consistent success by being cast in | 's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, her first prestige production, wi ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... r, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for | |
Andy Blitz | ... nsy the half-man/half-pansy, Joe's Bartender, Todd the Tiny Guy, etc.), and | (Awful Ballgame Chanter, Vin Diesel's brother Leonard Diesel, Slipnut Andy ... |
Lynn Barber | ... criticising exhibits, a guest of honour (Madonna) swearing, a prize judge ( | ) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir Nicholas Serota (about the pur ... |
Ruth Warrick | ... ity include Betty White, Eleanor Powell, Wally Amos, Licensed Unity Teacher | , Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, Matt Hoverman, aut ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... chose Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, a liberal and political protégé of | , as his running mate |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | ... lective preparatory schools for girls in the country. Famous alumni include | , Lilly Pulitzer and members of the Bush, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller fami ... |
Luis Fortuño | ... er turnout was 22.6% of the electorate.) However, the new government led by | and Thomas Rivera Schatz (from the New Progressive Party) discarded the al ... |
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. | ... reed with that paper's editorial criticisms of Wisconsin Republican Senator | for his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I. Through Capital Newspap ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, including United States President | , Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánch ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... the US public for his time frame, and was struggling to convince President | to approve widening the war into Cambodia and Laos in order to interdict t ... |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... alow of Mary Pickford at United Artists brought together Chaplin, Pickford, | , Norma Talmadge, John Barrymore, Dolores del Río, Gloria Swanson and D.W. ... |
Carl Banks | ... fficer who gave orders to his squad (played by NFL members Ken Norton, Jr., | and Jim Harbaugh) in a huddle using football diagrams |
Paul Robeson | ... baseball winter meetings in 1943, noted African American athlete and actor | campaigned for integration of the sport. After World War II ended, several ... |
Afonso VI of Portugal | ... n was recognized by the Treaty of Lisbon by which, on January 1, 1668, King | formally ceded Ceuta to Carlos II of Spain. However, the originally Portug ... |
Benny Green | ... death has been seen as a martyrdom for the sake of art. The musician-critic | sarcastically called Beiderbecke "jazz's Number One Saint," while Ralph Be ... |
Helena Lekapene | ... upplanted in 919 by the admiral Romanos Lekapenos, who married his daughter | to Constantine VII and finally advanced to the imperial throne in 920. The ... |
Jack Nicklaus | ... ons resort. "The Challenge at Manele" borders the ocean and was designed by | . "The Experience at Koele" is located in the mountains of Lānai and was d ... |
Philip II | ... petitions for the young”. Arrow firing machines in action are reported from | 's siege of Perinth (Thrace) in 340 BC. At the same time, Greek fortificat ... |
Mario Puzo | ... third pair of siblings to win in this category for No Country for Old Men. | is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted resulting in two sep ... |
Harold C. Schonberg | American music critic and journalist | wrote that the operas "open up a delightful new world, the world of the Ru ... |
Kevin Dorff | ... , Wrist Hulk, Ahole Ronald, Gorton's Fisherman, Jeremy, Slipnut Jon, etc.), | (Coked-up Werewolf, Jesus Christ, Mansy the half-man/half-pansy, Joe's Bar ... |
John Lydgate | ... ngland" as a possible alternative, and Henry Peacham attributed the poem to | in 1622. Except for Crowley and Francis Meres (who simply cribs Webbe) Wil ... |
Henry Peacham | ... 4. Wood also supplied "Robertus de Langland" as a possible alternative, and | attributed the poem to John Lydgate in 1622. Except for Crowley and Franci ... |
Lorenz Hart | ... a debt and is mistaken for a baron. Featuring songs by Richard Rodgers and | , it was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who, with the help of the songwrite ... |
James Goldman | ... J. Epstein were the first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. | and William Goldman are the first pair of siblings to win for separate fil ... |
Alan Cross | ... e Guardian and Classic FM. In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, | placed the album in the #1 spot on the list of '10 Classic Alternative Alb ... |
Moses | ... ancient lampstand made of gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by | in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem. Fresh olive oil of ... |
Bruce Lee | ... eached the peak of its popularity largely in part due to its greatest icon, | |
Cyrus the Great | Maka was an important early eastern satrapy of | , founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Makra corresponds to modern day Bahrai ... |
Mary Pickford | On 29 March 1929 at the bungalow of | at United Artists brought together Chaplin, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, N ... |
Grant | ... l War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and | , and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves, the Fou ... |
Samuel Wesley | Charles Wesley was the son of Susanna Wesley and | . He was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, where his father was rect ... |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... ned and approved the conditions established by . On July 25, 1952, Governor | proclaimed that the Constitution of Puerto Rico was in effect |
Kevin Brennan | ... e) in Cardiff North, Alun Michael (Labour) in Cardiff South and Penarth and | (Labour) in Cardiff West |
Johnny Cash | ... rmers retained popularity, however, such as the long-standing cultural icon | . The Bakersfield sound began in the mid to late 1950s when performers lik ... |
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary | From | , gun-founders, gold- and silversmiths and (Italian) master builders were ... |
William Goldman | ... e first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. James Goldman and | are the first pair of siblings to win for separate films. Joel Coen and Et ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... ted to the US House of Representatives. Mann was a brother-in-law to author | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... g a hard-line stance in support of the Vietnam War. He contrasted President | 's decisive stance in Vietnam with the international failure to take preem ... |
Zhou Enlai | ... treasure of the State and listed as a protected property by Chinese Premier | . Anshan city government commissioned the carving which took a team of 120 ... |
Bill Maynard | ... six. He studied accounting and served in the Navy during World War II. With | he appeared at Butlin's Holiday Camp in Skegness and partnered him in the ... |
Hermeric | ... ere considered foederati and founded the Suebi Kingdom of Gallaecia. There, | swore fealty to the Emperor in 410. Bracara Augusta, the modern city of Br ... |
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 ... |
Frederick II | ... city, of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1242, during the war of Emperor | against the Pope, the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried III, ordered the city ... |
Gina Swainson | In 1979, | was crowned "Miss World" |
Sylvia Plath | ... teristic of speech and writing, metaphors can serve the poetic imagination, | , in her poem "Cut", to compare the blood issuing from her cut thumb to th ... |
Donald Crisp | Lost Horizon was adapted as a radio play starring Ronald Colman and | for the September 15, 1941 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater. Colman reprised ... |
Niki Caro | Whale Rider is a 2002 drama film directed by | , based on the novel of the same name by Witi Ihimaera. The film stars Kei ... |
Ford Avenue | ... n Richmond Hill is between U.S. 17, running north and south, and S.R. 144 ( | ), running east and west. Interstate 95 has two exits within the city limi ... |
Pete Townshend | ... d LP released in the US, "Happy Jack", their primary composer and guitarist | , is said to have "an interest in Stockhausen". Rick Wright and Roger Wate ... |
Pelias | #A daughter of | , given by Jason in marriage to Canes, son of Cephalus and a king of Phoci ... |
Peter Jackson | ... Huston have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting categories. | and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win in this category, for |
Frederick Law Olmsted | ... of Boston, Massachusetts, and the Olmsted Brothers, the landscaping firm of | 's sons, Frederick Jr and John Charles. Since then, the boundaries of Lake ... |
William Wordsworth | ... Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – | – William Butler Yeats – Andrew Youn |
Achilles | ... in some versions of the story on the pretense that she was to be married to | ). Iphigenia accepted her father's choice and was honored to be a part of ... |
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 ... |
Charley Steiner | ... ay-by-play announcers and color commentators was installed, led by newcomer | and Monday. Scully, however, continues to announce solo |
Edward Rydz-Śmigły | ... ken (one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal | ) |
Vo Nguyen Giap | ... criticized the battlefield prowess of his opponent North Vietnamese General | . "Of course, he [Giap] was a formidable adversary," Westmoreland told cor ... |
Geoffrey S. Fletcher | ... n and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win in this category, for . | is the only African American to win in this category (for ); Fletcher is t ... |
Tammy Bruce | ... ommitted suicide on April 7, 1982, following a break-up with her assistant, | |
William Langland | It is now commonly accepted that Piers Plowman was written by | , about whom little is known. This attribution of the poem to Langland res ... |
Sir Garfield Barwick | ... period his political views became more conservative. He became a friend of | , the Liberal Attorney-General who became Chief Justice of the High Court ... |
Cephalus | #A daughter of Pelias, given by Jason in marriage to Canes, son of | and a king of Phocis |
King Edward VII | | granted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ... |
Dante | ... or's achievements is sometimes difficult to sort out from other intentions. | was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing ... |
Fran Walsh | Peter Jackson and | are the only married couple to win in this category, for |
Witi Ihimaera | ... 02 drama film directed by Niki Caro, based on the novel of the same name by | . The film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a 12-year-ol ... |
James Bond | ... fest as a disembodied voice. His goal was world domination in the vein of a | villain. Tracy eventually used an atomic laser beam to annihilate Intro an ... |
Francis II of the Two Sicilies | When the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 (see | ) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the isla ... |
Leslie Halliwell | ... lt the film made no sense without the scene, and in later years film critic | described the missing 12 minutes as "vital. |
Barbara Walters | On March 3, 1999, Lewinsky was interviewed by | on ABC's 20/20. The program was watched by 70 million Americans, which ABC ... |
Emma Thompson | ... k has been adapted by someone else resulting in a win, Terms of Endearment. | is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... riendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by John Adams and | in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its ratification by Congre ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rocities and ethnic cleansings in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Allied leaders, | of the United States, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and Joseph S ... |
Don Drysdale | ... ired after the 1987 season, he was replaced by Hall-of-Fame Dodgers pitcher | , who previously broadcast games for the California Angels. Drysdale died ... |
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 ... |
Maria Leopoldina | ... he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona | and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza. His fa ... |
John Adams | ... st non-broken friendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by | and Thomas Jefferson in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its r ... |
Maximilian I | ... e Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor | |
Charles Q. Murphy | ... atifah starred alongside Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, | , Jill Marie Jones, and Faizon Love. In 2008, Latifah appeared in the crim ... |
Marcel Lefebvre | ... er, almost immediately a lightning rod for conservative attacks. Archbishop | cited this document as one of the fundamental reasons for his difficulties ... |
Alfred the Great | ... Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People attributed to | where the Jutes (iutarum, iutis) once are rendered as gēata (genitive) and ... |
Irwin Chusid | ... udes a 144-page hardcover book). Microphone Music (Basta, 2002, produced by | with Blom and Winner as project advisors), explores the original Scott Qui ... |
Chomsky | | initially hoped to overcome the limitations of context-free grammars by ad ... |
Criasus | ... era, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epidaurus and | |
Queen Elizabeth | ... and pets. A Lakeland resident who mourned the passing of the swans wrote to | . The royal family allowed the capture of two of the royal swans, and the ... |
John Huston | ... the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton and | have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting categories |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... 40, date at which the prince-bishop Georges-Louis de Berghes bought it from | . By that time, the town was mainly known for its able craftsmen: ceramist ... |
George Washington | ... zation of the U.S. federal government upon the 1787 Constitution, President | wrote a now venerated letter to the Sultan Sidi Mohamed strengthening the ... |
Ptolemy's | ... o lived in the vicinity at that time. The town also appears as Mattiacum in | Geographia (2.10). The line of Roman frontier fortifications, the Limes Ge ... |
Scriblerus Club | ... best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the | (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and A ... |
Rick Monday | ... nnouncement of the death made. He was replaced by former Dodgers outfielder | . Porter's tenure was terminated somewhat controversially after the 2004 s ... |
Charles V | ... ance. The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by | at the (1525) |
Chris Rock | ... "one of the best rap songs ever crafted." The album was later ranked #21 on | 's list of the Top 25 Hip-Hop Albums of all time. In September 2010 "Spott ... |
George Crile III | ... ocumentary, shown on January 23, 1982, and prepared largely by CBS producer | , alleged that Westmoreland and others had deliberately underestimated Vie ... |
U.S. President | ... ble to operate independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration of | Barack Obama announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan ... |
Billy Bob Thornton | Emma Thompson is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners | and John Huston have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting ca ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... ns of the Reformation, then Seventh-day Adventist Church, Christadelphians, | , and theologians of different traditions reject the idea of the immortali ... |
Matilda Betham | In 1816, the English poet | wrote a long poem about Marie de France in octosyllabic couplets, The Lay ... |
Alicia Gaspar de Alba | ... n Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, | and Gloria Anzaldua |
Erskine Caldwell | The author | was born in Moreland in 1903. Newspaper columnist Lewis Grizzard grew up i ... |
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 ... |
Aristotle | ... The most noted of these was the Italian Ridolfo di Fioravante, nicknamed " | " because of his extraordinary knowledge, who built several cathedrals and ... |
Charles | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: | , Anne, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, des ... |
Sylvester Stallone | Cleve Dean - World Arm Wrestling Champion featured in | 's 1987 movie, Over the Top |
Premier | ... who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and its | is Wen Jiabao, who is also a senior member of the CPC Politburo Standing C ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund | ... ismund was christened as the namesake of his mother's maternal grandfather, | , who had died in 1437 |
Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
James Wilson | ... officially traces its origins to a series of lectures delivered in 1790 by | , a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and United Sta ... |
Prince | ... shops such as Boots the Chemists, which was opened in November 1981 by the | and Princess of Wales. It has entrances located opposite Chesterfield Mark ... |
Max Weinberg | ... as he played all of his comedy and commentary directly to the audience and | instead of towards Richter |
Gerald Ford | In 1982, along with his friend | , he co-founded the annual AEI World Forum |
Władysław Sikorski | ... ously diminished by the death of its most prominent leader — Prime Minister | — on July 4, 1943 |
John Wycliffe | ... hip was attributed by various antiquarians (such as John Bale) and poets to | and Geoffrey Chaucer, amongst others. Some sixteenth and seventeenth-centu ... |
Herman Rosenblat | ... e that satirized the recent scandal over a fake Holocaust memoir written by | . Since 2010 Terry Bradshaw has been hosting television shows produced by ... |
Galen | ... 304–258 BCE) were among the first to perform experiments on living animals. | , a physician in 2nd-century Rome, dissected pigs and goats, and is known ... |
Yen Chia-kan | ... his son, and when he died in April 1975, the presidency was turned over to | and Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang (he opt ... |
Roman Emperor | ... uries, after Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the " | " on December 25, 800, an act which eventually led to the formation of the ... |
Bruce Lee | ... edia interest in the Chinese fighting systems, influenced by martial artist | . Jeet Kune Do, the system he founded, has its roots in Wing Chun, western ... |
Alexander Pope | ... aphy of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records. | noted to Joseph Spence that Arbuthnot allowed his infant children to play ... |
S. Parkes Cadman | ... f their popularity. One of the first ministers to use radio extensively was | , beginning in 1923. By 1928, Cadman had a weekly Sunday afternoon radio b ... |
Steven Spielberg | In 1997, | shot various scenes for the film Amistad at Mystic Seaport |
Vasily III | Intermittently at war with | of Muscovy, starting in 1507 (before his army was fully under his command) ... |
Sthenelus | ... ughter of Iphis or Phylax and wife of Capaneus, with whom she gave birth to | . Her husband was killed by a lightning bolt at the siege of Thebes and sh ... |
William Shakespeare | ... o celebrate this death. To honor the date that both Miguel de Cervantes and | died, UNESCO established April 23 as the International Day of the Book. Ho ... |
Lafcadio Hearn | ... s considerably smaller than the Heike biwa (平家琵琶) played by the biwa hōshi. | related in his book "Mimi-nashi Hoichi" (Hoichi the Earless), a Japanese g ... |
C. Farris Bryant | ... posed by State Representative Rupert Smith and approved by Florida Governor | |
Aristotelian | ... during the 15th century, giving the Italian Renaissance a major boost. The | philosophical tradition was nearly unbroken in the Greek world for almost ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, when President | provided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that th ... |
D. H. Lawrence | ... er. Among them were Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, author | and his wife, Frieda von Richthofen. Artist Dorothy Brett came to Taos in ... |
Isaac I Komnenos | ... tine IX and again under Constantine X—a brief two year rule of reform under | only delaying the decay of the Byzantine military. It was under Constantin ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... by various antiquarians (such as John Bale) and poets to John Wycliffe and | , amongst others. Some sixteenth and seventeenth-century persons regarded ... |
Andy Behrman | In Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by | , he describes his experience of mania as "the most perfect prescription g ... |
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 ... |
Daumantas | ... and was assassinated in 1263 by his nephew Treniota and another rival, Duke | . His three immediate successors were assassinated as well. The disorder w ... |
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi | ... o the vacation course in African Studies. Doke supported the appointment of | as member of the staff, as he believed a native speaker was essential for ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... of customary international law. At the conference, United States President | and Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared the Good Neighbor Policy, whi ... |
Princess of Wales | ... as Boots the Chemists, which was opened in November 1981 by the Prince and | . It has entrances located opposite Chesterfield Market and escalators lea ... |
George Alfred Barnard | ... n the subject while reviewing a work written in 1755 by Thomas Simpson, but | thinks he learned mathematics and probability from a book by de Moivre. Hi ... |
Lewis Grizzard | ... e author Erskine Caldwell was born in Moreland in 1903. Newspaper columnist | grew up in the town |
Jaime Jarrin | ... ish, and the play-by-play is handled by another Ford C. Frick Award winner, | . Jarrin has been with the Dodgers since 1959. The color analyst for some ... |
John F. Kennedy | In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President | 's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled ... |
Barack Obama | ... ith the others being Samuel Tilden, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and | |
George Berkeley | ... foundation of Isaac Newton's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of | , author of The Analys |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... erman Chief of the General Staff, Erich Falkenhayn, was replaced by General | , with General Erich Ludendorff as his deputy, but in effect the operation ... |
Martin Luther | Although | personally believed and taught resurrection of the dead in combination wit ... |
Tom Hanks | ... d down the opportunity and decided to pursue a career in acting. Stars like | agreed to appear on Late Night, which boosted audience awareness. Even Let ... |
Ossie Davis | ... from style to living life to the fullest from his wise chauffeur Marshall ( | ). Joe purchases four top-of-the-line, handcrafted, waterproof steamer tru ... |
Tewodros II | ... the United Kingdom presented Ras Tafari with the imperial crown of Emperor | for its safe return to Empress Zewditu. The crown had been taken by Robert ... |
Ronald Reagan | Hart has called herself a fan of Peggy Noonan and | . Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
Dagoberto Gilb | ... Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, | , Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Gloria Anzaldua |
Greco-Bactrian | In the Indo-Greek and | kingdoms, Greco-Buddhism was spreading and Greek missionaries would play a ... |
Peggy Noonan | Hart has called herself a fan of | and Ronald Reagan. Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
Isaac Newton | ... lished anonymously in 1736), in which he defended the logical foundation of | 's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... ilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – | – Andrew Youn |
Aristotle | ... g are found in the writings of the Greeks in the 2nd and 4th centuries BCE. | (Αριστοτέλης) (384–322 BCE) and Erasistratus (304–258 BCE) were among the ... |
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 ... |
Daniel Silva | ... er Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists Tony Hillerman and | . Naked City photographer Weegee and 60 Minutes creator and producer Don H ... |
Alexander Pope | ... ub (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and | 's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scribl ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... t the Axis powers. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and President | were determined not to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. They met ... |
Princess Elizabeth | ... Navy at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with | , the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI. During Wo ... |
Charley Steiner | If Scully is calling the game, | takes over play-by-play on radio beginning with the fourth inning, with Ri ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... rab Emirates. The sense of regional uncertainty was further heightened when | 's Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the 1991 Persian Gulf War |
Presidential | Humboldt is a Democratic county in | and congressional elections. The last Republican presidential candidate to ... |
Carol Ann Duffy | In September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureate | who gave a speech to pupils from the school and others from the whole of A ... |
Enki Bilal | ... Steve Zissou as did the Emmy winning 2005 TV film The Girl in the Café. In | 's Immortel (Ad Vitam) the song "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)" is used. ... |
Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda | ... continuation of it by an unknown writer, who masqueraded under the name of | . Cervantes produced his own continuation, or Second Part, of Don Quixote, ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | The fight for the Republican (GOP) nomination was between General | , who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; ... |
Yoshiyuki Tomino | ... ume DVD set. There was no Japanese audio track included, apparently because | felt that the original mono mix was in too poor of a condition to use. How ... |
Ed Sullivan | ... med for many decades both in Bermuda and the United States, and appeared on | 's televised variety show, jazz pianist Lance Hayward, singer-songwriter H ... |
Stephen Stigler | In his later years he took a deep interest in probability. | feels that he became interested in the subject while reviewing a work writ ... |
Rick Monday | ... ner takes over play-by-play on radio beginning with the fourth inning, with | as color commentator. If Scully is not calling the game, Eric Collins and ... |
Ramón Novarro | ... on tire of her "good girl" image, and took the advice of friend and co-star | to visit an unknown photographer named George Hurrell. There she took a se ... |
George Finch | The British returned for a 1922 expedition. | ("The other George") climbed using oxygen for the first time. He ascended ... |
Alexios I Komnenos | ... of had been lost to the empire. It took a decade of internal strife before | (1081 to 1118) restored stability to the empire. Historian Thomas Asbridge ... |
Ronald Reagan | (a) Mike Padden, a Republican faithless elector from Washington, gave | one electoral vote |
René Clair | He started to paint and collect and acted in (1946) by | . He still toured throughout the United States and other parts of the worl ... |
President | ... state body) has been described as a "rubber stamp" body. China's incumbent | is Hu Jintao, who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of ... |
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ts marketplace are again mentioned in an 887 document. By the 13th century, | and Count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332, John the B ... |
Thomas Hobbes | ... best the other in a ruthless competition, was integrated into the works of | . The dark view of human nature also fit well with the Puritan view of the ... |
Ma Jun | Environmental campaigners such as | have warned of the danger that water pollution poses to Chinese society. A ... |
Michael Faraday | ... out his 1861 paper, derived theoretically using a molecular vortex model of | 's "lines of force" and in conjunction with the experimental result of Web ... |
Al Gore | ... The trophy was handed to captain Dunga from the hands of the vice-president | . The Brazilian national team dedicated the title to the deceased Brazilia ... |
Mabel Dodge Luhan | Many artists were drawn to Taos due to the presence of | , a wealthy heiress from Buffalo, New York who had run a prominent art sal ... |
Max Weinberg | The show's house band was The Max Weinberg 7, led by drummer | , who also served as a sounding board for O'Brien on the show (more so aft ... |
June Havoc | At the magazine, Phil is assigned a secretary, Elaine Wales ( | ), who reveals that she too is Jewish. She changed her name in order to ge ... |
Edward | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Anne, Andrew and | . Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and El ... |
Wes Anderson | ... in the TV series 24 with "Ný batterí", and with "Svefn-g-englar". In 2004, | used "Starálfur" in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as did the Emmy win ... |
Jimmy Carter | However, in December 1978, U.S. President, | announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the ... |
Anthony Greenwood | ... nding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, | , Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations ... |
Pedro I | Through his father, Emperor | , he was a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portug ... |
Anthony Thwaite | ... Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – | – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – Jo ... |
Richard Donner | ... oductions would add this to their upcoming projects with the possibility of | directing or Jackman himself making his directing debut |
Anne Moody | ... ors, both black and white: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and | . In 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, New York as p ... |
Julius Caesar | ... hillfort". At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by | (B. G. ii. 12). Caesar (B.C. 57), after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), ... |
Michael Markowitz | ... asky Csupo. In later years, the show running duties went to David Misch and | . Creator and Executive Producer, Everett Peck, was with the show for its ... |
Peter Greenaway | ... e to satisfy his life's ambition by immortalising his Prospero on screen in | 's extremely offbeat version of The Tempest, a film called Prospero's Book ... |
President | ... States and Saudi Arabia while trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces. After | Najibullah's resignation in 1992 and the end of Soviet support, the milita ... |
Lionel Barrymore | ... by Victor Fleming and featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and | . The movie tells the story of a daredevil test pilot (Gable), his wife (L ... |
Louis XIII | | conferred on him the title of First Painter in Ordinary. In two years at P ... |
Richard Cohen | ... imes columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist | , sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, military author Jo ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... the Goths. According to the historian Eutropius, the forces of the Emperor | battled against the Marcomannic confederation for three years at the fortr ... |
Melody Maker | ... red material recorded during the period 1979 to 1981 for British radio BBC. | dubbed the album "a perfect and classic nostalgia trip into the world of g ... |
Freeway Face-Off | ... ay Series" also inspired the official name of the regions' NHL rivalry: the | |
Howard Hawks | Test Pilot was written by | , Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and Waldemar Young. The scr ... |
Mahatma Gandhi | ... 's missionary work had taken him abroad where he had met and conferred with | . When he was a student at Boston University, King often visited Thurman, ... |
Orestes | ... , in book IV of the Aeneid, references the House of Atreus and specifically | in describing the death of |
Romanos IV Diogenes | ... ). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor | played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority in Anatolia an ... |
Steve Albini | ... ry Norman's accent. While recording the Pixies' album Surfer Rosa, producer | recognized the Pixies' references and realized that he and Black both "had ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... nation ... of rival claims." Great Britain reacted favourably but President | rejected the plan. Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary were favorable but Germany ... |
Barack Obama | ... e 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported Democrat | in the 2008 presidential election. Dunst revealed that she supported Obama ... |
Gene Laufenberg | ... tive Producer, Everett Peck, was with the show for its entire run. Producer | was with the show for most of its run. Scott Wilk and Todd Yvega created o ... |
John Pardoe | ... been ex-members of Mebyon Kernow, including Peter Bessell (Liberal Party), | (Liberal Party), David Mudd (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal Part ... |
Lord Simon | ... D were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, | , D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations that had pr ... |
John Lee Mahin | Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, | , Frank Wead and Waldemar Young. The screenplay was largely based on an or ... |
Soleil Moon Frye | ... campaign for Gain detergent with former Sabrina, the Teenage Witch co-star | |
George V | ... Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King | of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological Garden (Jardin Zoologique) of ... |
Cyrus the Younger | ... ap Tissaphernes was lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of | . Pliny tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... l Wang Sheng, to Paraguay as an ambassador (November 1983), and hand-picked | as vice-president of the Republic of China (formally elected May 1984), fi ... |
Louis | For some years after Louis' death in 1294 his sons Rudolph I and | , afterwards the emperor Louis IV, ruled their duchy in common; but as the ... |
Najibullah | ... d Saudi Arabia while trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces. After President | 's resignation in 1992 and the end of Soviet support, the military dissolv ... |
President pro tempore of the Senate | ... uns from the Vice President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, | , and then through the Cabinet secretaries in a sequence specified by Cong ... |
Maria of Tver | Ivan's son with | , Ivan the Young, died in 1490, leaving from his marriage with Helen of Mo ... |
Eugene O'Neill | ... c March, was one of the most successful films of its year. An adaptation of | 's four hour experimental Strange Interlude (1932), which also starred Cla ... |
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 ... |
Charles Collingwood | ... ury, several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: | , Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. ... |
Marc Seguin | ... riginal innovator of multiple fire-tubes is unclear, between Stephenson and | . It is known than Seguin visited Stephenson to observe Locomotion and tha ... |
Robert Smigel | ... he show's humor also had a streak of biting sarcasm and irony. According to | , who served as head writer in 1993, the show's comedic approach was to fo ... |
Bill Clinton | ... rétien was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he and | were known to be golfing partners. Their governments had many small trade ... |
Ottokar II of Bohemia | ... in the 13th century, Austria came briefly under the rule of the Czech King | . Contesting the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg as emperor, Ottokar was ... |
Francis Thompson | ... tes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – | – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner ... |
Anne | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, | , Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendan ... |
Eudora Welty | ... rialized by leading Mississippi and national authors, both black and white: | , James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers Col ... |
Madonna | ... a live action all-star cast film, along with Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and | |
John Bolitho | ... one in Restormel (the party leader Dick Cole) and, until his death in 2005, | in North Cornwall. One of the MK councillors in Kerrier, Loveday Jenkin, j ... |
Mike Myers | ... cters, who were fans of less flamboyant hard rock and heavy metal. However, | insisted that the song fit the scene |
Cameron Crowe | ... n-unreleased "Njósnavélin" (later 'un-named' "Untitled #4") appeared in the | film Vanilla Sky. The former two also subsequently appeared in the US vers ... |
Aeschylus | This story is the major plot line of | 's trilogy The Oresteia |
Plato | | in his dialogue The Statesman tells a "famous tale" that "the sun and the ... |
George W. Bush | Relations between Chrétien and | were strained throughout their overlapping times in office. Jean Chrétien ... |
Palpatine | ... returned to his command as Rogue Leader to battle against Thrawn, Krennel, | 's clones and lead the team to other battles |
Barack Obama | ... to obtain a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, until | won about 53% of the vote 32 years later. Carter is one of five Democrats ... |
Pope Leo XIII | Pope Pius IX had condemned the idea of religious freedom. | , who had established working relationships with both the French and Germa ... |
Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini | ... A few days before he signed, together with the President of Atomium Culture | , the European Manifesto of Atomium Culture |
Roger Ebert | ... ibuted to it, but there's no disbelieving the grim evidence on the screen." | gave it (3.5 out of four stars) and called it "new and fresh and not shy o ... |
Zahir Shah | ... g Amanullah Khan's rule in the early 20th century, and upgraded during King | 's forty year rule. From 1978 to 1992, the Soviet-backed Afghan army fough ... |
Ladislaus IV of Hungary | ... defeated and killed by Rudolf, who took Austria with the assistance of King | |
Yen Chia-kan | ... the Republic of China by the National Assembly after the term of President | on May 20, 1978. He was reelected to another term in 1984. At that time, t ... |
Billy Wilder | ... can tour was in 1955, with Vic Schoen as arranger and musical director. The | film Love in the Afternoon (1957) with Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper was ... |
Virgil | ... gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus." | , in book IV of the Aeneid, references the House of Atreus and specificall ... |
Speaker of the House of Representatives | ... dential Succession Act of 1947, ). This runs from the Vice President to the | , President pro tempore of the Senate, and then through the Cabinet secret ... |
Stanisław Wojciechowski | ... staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting President | and overpowering the troops loyal to him. Piłsudski was supported by sever ... |
Paul White | ... let, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. The founding director of CBS News, | , for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organizatio ... |
Paul Robeson | # | , singer and actor (former resident) |
Margaret Walker | ... pi and national authors, both black and white: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, | and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ber 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President | that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts ... |
Bobby Jones | ... odge. This lodge was well known and many celebrities stayed there including | , Babe Ruth and William Jennings Bryan |
John of Austria | ... nd others, under the command of King Philip II's illegitimate half brother, | ) that defeated the Ottoman fleet on October 7 in the Gulf of Lepanto near ... |
Roger Ebert | ... a sterling cast, and a wonderful one from newcomer Keisha Castle- Hughes." | gave the film four out of four stars and said, "The genius of the movie is ... |
Lucianne Goldberg | ... pp's motivations was her reporting of their conversations to literary agent | . Tripp also convinced Lewinsky to save the gifts that Clinton had given h ... |
John Steinbeck | ... en is a 1939 film based on the novella of the same title by American author | . It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bickfor ... |
Alexios Komnenos | ... urks ransomed him back to his wife, and it was not before the young general | pursued him that he was captured. These events all interacted to create a ... |
Ron Rosenbaum | Blue boxing hit the mainstream media when an article by | titled Secrets of the Little Blue Box was published in the October 1971 is ... |
Richard Jenkin | ... n the first elections to the European Parliament, Mebyon Kernow's candidate | was able to attract almost ten percent of the vote in the Cornwall seat. M ... |
Martin Jarvis | ... ve been recorded by British actors, including Simon Callow, Jonathan Cecil, | , Frederick Davidson, and Alexander Spencer |
Ritchie Calder | ... its organising secretary. The other members of its executive committee were | , journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, King ... |
Charlemagne | ... n in northern Germany (see Polabian Slavs). For decades they were allies of | in his wars against Germanic Saxons and Slavic Veleti. In 798 the Obodrite ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... n the novella of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars | , Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele ... |
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" |
Princess George of Greece | ... led in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud in a house lent to them by his aunt, | |
J. William Fulbright | ... . Dever of Massachusetts, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, and Senator | of Arkansas |
Mario Lopez | ... lso starred in the ABC Family Original Movie Holiday in Handcuffs, opposite | . The movie premiered on December 9, 2007, and was the highest rated progr ... |
Allan Jones | ... peratic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance". The newspaper's critic | heard only a "superficially impressive pastiche" of operatic styles |
Galen | ... of vivisection, so did criticism and controversy. In 1655, the advocate of | ic physiology Edmund O'Meara said that "the miserable torture of vivisecti ... |
St. Paul | It does not appear that | had visited this city when he wrote his Epistle to the Colossians (, ), si ... |
Prince Charles | ... Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit". | wrote to him: "It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dr ... |
Ronald Reagan | Relations between Brian Mulroney and | were famously close. This relationship resulted in negotiations on a poten ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – | – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wor ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... r policy goals of Mulroney, that would be finalized under the presidency of | |
Barack Obama | ... d the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2008, the county voted to establish a | Day, a legal holiday, every second Monday of November |
I. A. Richards | The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936), by | describes a metaphor as having two parts: the tenor and the vehicle. The t ... |
W. C. Fields | Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, | as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock ... |
Jerry Doggett | Vin Scully has called Dodgers games since 1950. His longtime partners were | (1956–1987) and Ross Porter (1977–2004). In 1976, he was selected by Dodge ... |
William Caxton | The most conspicuous omissions from | 's press were the Bible and Piers Plowman. Both may have been avoided for ... |
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 ... |
President | ... tourage he even included a pride of lions, which he distributed as gifts to | Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King ... |
Hugh Jackman | In 2003, while promoting X2, | mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... that Marie de France was known at the court of King Henry II and his wife, | . A contemporary of Marie, the English poet Denis Piramus, mentions in his ... |
George V | ... he London premiere of Der Schwanendreher when he heard news of the death of | . He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra in tribu ... |
Maria of Tver | ... the family circumstances of Ivan III. After the death of his first consort, | (1467), at the suggestion of Pope Paul II (1469), who hoped thereby to bin ... |
King William III | William Prince of Orange (afterwards | ) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, an ... |
Jean Chrétien | Although | was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he and Bill ... |
President | ... has been a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, when | Dwight D. Eisenhower provided (via executive order) various measures desig ... |
Earle Birney | ... elling Place (1961) was published after Lowry's death. The scholar and poet | edited Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (1962). He also collaborated with L ... |
Alp Arslan | ... dan Savaşı) was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks led by | on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turke ... |
James Cameron | ... he other members of its executive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist | , Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestl ... |
Bob Dylan | The murder and subsequent trials caused an uproar. Musician | wrote his 1963 song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about Evers and his assass ... |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... r is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author | . An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones ... |
Kamehameha I | ... nai to their own devices. Life on Lānai remained relatively calm until King | or Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao took control, slaughtering people on every part ... |
Michael Jackson | ... osted many music concerts including David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, U2 and | |
Titus | ... after the event about the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman general | (see Dating of the Gospel of Mark) |
Henry II of England | ... welfth century; they are dedicated to a "noble king", usually assumed to be | , or possibly his eldest son, Henry the Young King. Another of her works, ... |
John MacArthur | ... criticism from other Christian ministers. For example, well-known preacher | published a number of articles in December 2009 that were highly critical ... |
Chidiock Tichborne | ... homas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – | – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Roche ... |
James II | ... ow Revolution House, was the site of a meeting between conspirators against | in 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, ... |
Oprah Winfrey | ... al apartment buildings, an observatory, and a private marina. Boris Becker, | , and Mel Brooks are among the celebrities with homes on the island |
Jean Bodin | ... g Italy's Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) and Antonio Serra (1580-?); France's, | , Colbert and other physiocrats precursors; and the Spanish School of Sala ... |
Merrill Denison | ... an affairs. Canadian historian Frank Underhill, quoting Canadian playwright | summed it up: "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, whereas C ... |
Frank Wead | Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, | and Waldemar Young. The screenplay was largely based on an original story ... |
Linda Tripp | ... ending too much time around Clinton. Lewinsky confided in a co-worker named | about her relationship with the President. Beginning in September 1997, Tr ... |
Earls of Danby | ... n conspirators against James II in 1688. Among those meeting there were the | and Devonshire, commemorated by the ducal crowns around the supporters' ne ... |
Robert Stephenson | ... ology. It was based on experience gained from earlier designs by George and | , including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher (1814); Locomotion No 1 (1 ... |
Kate Hudson | The Campaign's General Secretary is | |
Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of | . The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. ... |
Duchamp | ... the Turner Prize is Turner", and concluding that it "should be re-named The | Award for the destruction of artistic integrity." The Guardian announced t ... |
Zack de la Rocha | ... Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 | ;, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist; and Los ... |
Queen Olga of Greece | ... Sophie. He was baptised into the Greek Orthodox Church. His godparents were | and the Mayor of Corfu |
Pāṇini | Since the time of | , at least, linguists have described the grammars of languages in terms of ... |
David Penhaligon | ... ll (Liberal Party), John Pardoe (Liberal Party), David Mudd (Conservative), | (Liberal Party) and currently Andrew George (Liberal Democrats |
Sparta | ... wed the treaty with the Roman Republic and exchanged friendly messages with | and other places. However, one should note that the documents referring to ... |
Alexander Ossovsky | ... Konstanty Gorski. Other students included the music critic and musicologist | , and the composer Lazare Saminsky |
Hubert Humphrey | ... ma Senator Robert S. Kerr, Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts, Senator | of Minnesota, and Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas |
D. H. Lawrence | Inspired by the area and artists, | (1885–1930) painted while in Taos, signing his work "Lorenzo"; Nine of his ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... uter. On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as | (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who ... |
Basil II | ... ed: Prince Mikhail Andreevich of Vereia, who had been awarded a Appanage by | . In 1478 he was pressured into giving Belozersk to Ivan who got all of Mi ... |
Henry the Young King | ... ng", usually assumed to be Henry II of England, or possibly his eldest son, | . Another of her works, the Fables, is dedicated to a "Count William", who ... |
Waldemar Young | ... s written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and | . The screenplay was largely based on an original story by former naval av ... |
Mel Brooks | ... ngs, an observatory, and a private marina. Boris Becker, Oprah Winfrey, and | are among the celebrities with homes on the island |
Michael Moorcock | The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author | and is a recurrent feature in many of his novels |
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 |
Walt Disney | ... one Gingold, with whom he shared the song "I Remember It Well", and several | films. The success of Gigi prompted Hollywood to give him an Academy Honor ... |
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski | ... f the Commonwealth, there are such names, as Mikołaj Rej, Marcin Czechowic, | and Symon Budny |
Noam Chomsky | The formalism of context-free grammars was developed in the mid-1950s by | , and also their classification as a special type of formal grammar (which ... |
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, ... |
Sir Paul Hasluck | ... New South Wales in 1972. He was knighted in the New Year's Honours of 1974. | was due to retire as Governor-General in July 1974, and the Prime Minister ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... ved on the Trilateral Commission after being president, writing papers with | |
Pliny | ... lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus the Younger. | tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the colour o ... |
Peter Collier | ... matter. In the spring of 1985, however, Horowitz and longtime collaborator | wrote an article for the Washington Post entitled, Goodbye to All That. Th ... |
Pete Rock | ... 10. Remixes of their single Here to Fall were done by De La Soul, RJD2, and | . This was Yo La Tengo's third out-of-the-box remix EP in 14 years, follow ... |
Karl Marx | ... attach to their own actions. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and | , as one of the three principal architects of modern social science |
Peter Collier | In May 1989, Horowitz, Ronald Radosh, and | travelled to Poland for a conference in Kraków calling for the end of Comm ... |
Vin Scully | | has called Dodgers games since 1950. His longtime partners were Jerry Dogg ... |
Madonna | ... ls of the room containing Creed's work as a protest. At the prize ceremony, | gave him the prize and said, "At a time when political correctness is valu ... |
Brian Aldiss | A contemporary of | and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox E ... |
Frederick II | ... g part in German affairs during the early years of the reign of the emperor | , and died (assassinated) at Kelheim in September 1231. His son Otto II, c ... |
Brian Mulroney | Relations between | and Ronald Reagan were famously close. This relationship resulted in negot ... |
Louella Parsons | ... the new UPI and the columns of popular INS writers, such as Bob Considine, | and Ruth Montgomery, were carried by UPI |
Marcel Pagnol | ... the drama Fanny with Leslie Caron and Charles Boyer, an updated version of | 's "Marseilles Trilogy." In 1962, he filmed Panic Button; (not released un ... |
A. O. Scott | ... ell as some surreal scenes and images that relate to the cryptic narrative. | of The New York Times writes that while some might consider the plot an "o ... |
Whoopi Goldberg | In the 1996 comedy "The Associate", | plays a business woman, Laurel Ayers, who creates a business associate, Ro ... |
Charles of Héristal | ... e major cities of Tongeren, Maastricht, and Liège. Pippin was the father of | , victor of the decisive Battle of Tours that stopped the Arab-Muslim adva ... |
Michael de la Bédoyère | ... e Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, | , Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A.S.Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victo ... |
Ralph W. Sockman | ... 1930s include (years of radio broadcast shown): Bob Jones, Sr. (1927–1962), | (1928–1962), G. E. Lowman (1930–1965), The Lutheran Hour (1930–present), a ... |
Ruth Montgomery | ... columns of popular INS writers, such as Bob Considine, Louella Parsons and | , were carried by UPI |
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 ... |
Cristina Ferrare | ... armon, on 31 May 1969 and divorced in 1972. His third marriage was to model | (with whom he had a daughter on 15 November 1977), ending in divorce in 19 ... |
Bob Considine | ... ugh some joined the new UPI and the columns of popular INS writers, such as | , Louella Parsons and Ruth Montgomery, were carried by UPI |
Barack Obama | ... an John Warner. Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democrat | in 2008, after being won by Republican candidates in the previous ten pres ... |
President of Ireland | In 1959 de Valera was elected | and Seán Lemass became the new Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader. Lynch was ... |
Robert E. Sherwood | ... d an unusual role in the dark comedy Idiot's Delight, adapted from the 1936 | play. It was the last of Shearer's three films with Clark Gable, after A F ... |
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | ... than wait until the promulgation of the new constitution in 2008. His son, | , became King upon his abdication |
Orson Welles | ... Mycroft. This series was co-produced by the American Broadcasting Company. | appeared as Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem |
Alane Ferguson | In the novel The Christopher Killer by | , the main setting is in Silverton |
Sulpicius Severus | ... contemporary source for the career of Priscillian is the Gallic chronicler | , who characterized him (Chronica II.46) as noble and rich, a layman who h ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king | |
Eric Idle | ... Pythons' stay are said to include the owner, Donald Sinclair, having thrown | 's suitcase out of the window thinking it was a bomb. Cleese later describ ... |
Casey Kasem | ... & Chase, Randy Jackson, Walt Love, Al Gross, Dick Bartley, and (via reruns) | . Other types of weekend programming include niche programming, retrospect ... |
Helen Keller | ... ate complete with research laboratories, working with deaf people—including | —and continued to invent. Baddeck would be the site of his experiments wit ... |
Richard Nixon | A notable event of the 1952 campaign concerned a scandal that emerged when | , Eisenhower's running mate, was accused by several newspapers of receivin ... |
Lionel Barrymore | Jim loses his job with Drake ( | ) and takes a job with another outfit, flying a very experimental plane. A ... |
Albert, Duke of Prussia | The Polish wars against the Teutonic Knights ended in 1525, when | , their marshal (and Sigismund's nephew), converted to Lutheranism, secula ... |
Will Friedwald | ... n of his groundbreaking 1937–39 six-man quintet. A year earlier, Chusid and | produced a CD of live Scott quintet broadcasts titled The Man Who Made Car ... |
Joseph Locke | ... ar driven by his brother Robert Sr. and Rocket driven by assistant engineer | . The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ... |
J. M. Coetzee | ... Glass's Waiting for the Barbarians, written by University of Texas alumnus | ). The Austin Symphony Orchestra performs a range of classical, pop and fa ... |
Douglas Day | ... ital, which Lowry was in the process of rewriting as a complete novel. With | , Lowry's first biographer, Lowry's widow also completed and edited the no ... |
Joseph Spence | ... e difficult by his own reluctance to leave records. Alexander Pope noted to | that Arbuthnot allowed his infant children to play with, and even burn, hi ... |
Elizabeth | In 1613, his sister | married Frederick V, Elector Palatine and moved to Heidelberg. In 1617 the ... |
William and Mary | ... rother George, who fled to France and became a wine merchant. However, when | came to the throne and the new Act of Settlement required all ministers to ... |
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 ... |
John Belushi | ... Dylan, James Taylor and others). He was featured alongside Chevy Chase and | in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon's Lemmings. Two of his earliest ... |
George W. Bush | ... ps of Streisand's heated exchange with a supporter of former U.S. president | were sampled in the 2009 Lucian Piane dance song "Bale Out", making it sou ... |
Bona Sforza | ... humanism and the revival of classical antiquity. He and his third consort, | , daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan, were both patrons of Renaissa ... |
Jacques-Louis David | ... he remained the major inspiration for such classically oriented artists as | , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne |
Kenneth Branagh | ... t was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. The cast included Judi Dench, | , Derek Jacobi, and Simon Russell Beale |
Ira Gershwin | ... n the city. Theatrical composers and lyricists like the brothers George and | created a uniquely American theatrical style that used American vernacular ... |
Charles Lindbergh | On May 20, 1927, at 7:52 a.m., | started his historic flight from nearby Roosevelt Field. Thirty-three hour ... |
Richard Wagner | In March 1889, Angelo Neumann's traveling " | Theater" visited Saint Petersburg, giving four cycles of Der Ring des Nibe ... |
George Tibbles | My Three Sons was created by | and produced by Don Fedderson Productions throughout the show's run, with ... |
Emperor Frederick I | The struggle for its possession continued until 1156, when | , in his desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Ba ... |
Johannes Theodor Baargeld | ... artistic pursuits in the years to come. Also in 1919 Ernst, social activist | , and a number of their friends and colleagues founded the Cologne Dada gr ... |
Mary Tudor | ... crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII and | |
Hamid Karzai | ... al unity. The title of the 'Father of the Nation' dissolved with his death. | , a prominent figure from the Popalzai clan, became the president of Afgha ... |
Lewis Milestone | ... duced by the Hal Roach Studios, was adapted by Eugene Solow and directed by | . It was nominated for four Oscars. The musical score was by American comp ... |
Abba Eban | ... d the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and Yigal Allon, while it was opposed by | and Pinhas Sapir. After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bl ... |
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 ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ia Theresa's death in 1780, she was succeeded by her son Joseph II, already | since Francis I's death in 1765. A reformer herself, Maria Theresa always ... |
Henry VIII | ... loyalty to the crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, | and Mary Tudor |
Frank Robinson | ... rience long-delayed gains in managerial positions within baseball. In 1975, | (who had been the 1956 Rookie of the Year with the Cincinnati Reds) was na ... |
Irving Berlin | ... wer was an issue-free, feel-good animated cartoon with a soundtrack song by | called I Like Ike. For the first time the candidates' personal medical his ... |
Stephanus of Byzantium | ... have lived after Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 AD), whom he mentions, and before | and Sopater (c. 500 AD), who quote him. His work makes no mention of Neopl ... |
Chevy Chase | ... parodies (of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others). He was featured alongside | and John Belushi in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon's Lemmings. Tw ... |
King James VII | ... ith his father. These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting for | in 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to ... |
Anthony DeCurtis | ... n the hit film Wayne's World) hit number two. In a retrospective interview, | from Rolling Stone magazine explains the song's relatively poor performanc ... |
Terry Bradshaw | ... tsburgh Steelers are the dominate teams of the decade. Steelers were led by | and Chuck Noll, and the Cowboys were led by Roger Staubach and Tom Landry |
Mary Shelley | ... rial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about | and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee |
Thomas Mayr-Harting | ... on, and the current Ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations, | . People who have lived in Epsom at some time include writer Isabella Beet ... |
Conrad III | ... obtained the Duchy of Saxony in 1137. Alarmed at this prince's power, King | refused to allow two duchies to remain in the same hands, and declared Hen ... |
Edward VI | ... ven some who had the power to relax restrictions on the press at the end of | 's reign. The first edition may have had little or only partial commercial ... |
Mike Wallace | | interviewed Westmoreland for the CBS special The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietna ... |
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 ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... of Lowry's final work in progress, La Mordida, and his screen adaptation of | 's Tender Is the Night have also been published |
Paul Bartel | ... accept the role of a gangster in exploitation movie Cannonball directed by | . In this period there were also several directorial projects that never g ... |
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 ... |
Renan | ... uvres choisies (1861, 4 vols.); Histoire de Jésus (1872), a counterblast to | 's Vie de Jésus |
Aegialeus | ... y on the advice of Tiresias. The only Argive hero that fell in this war was | , the son of Adrastus. After having built a temple of Nemesis in the neigh ... |
Eudora Welty's | ... dom Singers paid tribute to Evers in the haunting "Ballad of Medgar Evers." | short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From," in which the speaker is the ... |
Berry Gordy | ... er Smokey Robinson, to help the group land an audition for Motown executive | , who had already proven himself a capable songwriter. Robinson liked the ... |
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 ... |
Jordanes | ... ar (Isl. Gotar, OEng. Gotenas); on the other, however, the Gothic historian | wrote that the Goths came originally from Dacia to the island of Scandza. ... |
Aristeas of Marmora | ... s the father of Greek hero Orpheus by the muse Calliope, and once-patron of | , taking the role given in legend to Apollo, with whom he is often confuse ... |
Howard Thurman | Civil rights leader, theologian, and educator | was an early influence on King. A classmate of King's father at Morehouse ... |
Edgar Wallace | ... as early as 1924, making his debut in Who Is the Man? and appearing in the | -based thriller The Clue of the New Pin (1929), he did not make an interna ... |
Louella Parsons | ... h around three million dollars. When she took the story to gossip columnist | , the studio was forced to give in and granted all the profits from MGM mo ... |
Montaigne | ... lue, as giving us an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages, led | to exclaim that he wished that instead of one Laërtius there had been a do ... |
Henry III | ... ter whose death in 1026 it passed successively to Henry, afterwards Emperor | , and then to another member of the family of Luxembourg, ruling as Duke H ... |
King John | The town received its market charter in the year 1204 from | and around 250 stalls can still be found in the town centre every Monday, ... |
Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng | ... In the context of weak democratic institutions at independence, Tutsi King | established a constitutional monarchy comprising equal numbers of Hutus an ... |
Metastasio | ... Alessandro Scarlatti was the most noted composer. In Vienna the court poet | produced annually a series of oratorios for the court which were set by Ca ... |
Peter Collier | (co-authored with | |
Simon Russell Beale | ... birthday. The cast included Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and | |
Barack Obama | ... independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration of U.S. President | announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and p ... |
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 ... |
Albert Camus | ... depict events just preceding an execution. The latter explanation points to | 's novel The Stranger, in which a young man confesses to an impulsive murd ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... their electoral campaign on Chiang's successor, President and KMT Chairman | because of Lee's support of Taiwan for Taiwanese. Chiang Ching-kuo, howeve ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... possession of the Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were | and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women wer ... |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | ... ould be guided by India in its foreign policy. Succeeded in 1952 by his son | , Bhutan began to slowly emerge from its isolation and began a program of ... |
Lyndon Johnson | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1964, although Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 an ... |
John Arlott | ... cademics, journalists, writers, actors and musicians. Its sponsors included | , Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britt ... |
David Charles Manners | ... writer Isabella Beeton, comedian Norman Wisdom, author and charity-founder | , snooker player Jimmy White and football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme ... |
Richard Nixon | Following Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senator | of California as Eisenhower's running mate; it was felt that Nixon's crede ... |
Derek Jacobi | ... celebrate his 90th birthday. The cast included Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, | , and Simon Russell Beale |
Edward R. Murrow | ... ity, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down | 's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anch ... |
Andy Warhol | ... lly sing lead with the band at the instigation of their mentor and manager, | . Nico sang lead on three of the album's tracks—"Femme Fatale", "All Tomor ... |
Janis Ian | ... ukah/Solstice/New Year's songs including actor Jeff Daniels, Grammy-winners | and Julie Gold, and the Guitar Man Of Central Park David Ippolito |
Chiang Kai-shek | Unlike his father | , Chiang Ching-kuo built himself a folk reputation that remains generally ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ted by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on | 's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. I ... |
Napoleon III | ... e majority of his life. However, he decided to live in exile as a result of | 's Coup d'état at the end of 1851 |
Lech Wałęsa | ... st 31, workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, led by an electrician named | , signed a 21-point agreement with the government that ended their strike. ... |
Charles II | ... so referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared. Charles's son, | , who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up th ... |
Presidential | Butte is a Republican-leaning county in | and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ... |
Julius Caesar | at:44 text: | murdered. (44 BCE |
Amphiaraus | ... d fallen in the war against Thebes to make a new attack upon that city, and | now declared that the gods approved of the undertaking, and promised succe ... |
Henry IV | ... Henry VII. In 1061, Empress Agnes, mother of and regent for the German king | , entrusted the duchy to Otto of Nordheim |
Kenny Everett | ... d bypassed this corporate decision by playing the song for Capital Radio DJ | : "we had a reel-to-reel copy but we told him he could only have it if he ... |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck | In 1972, | ascended the throne at age 20. He emphasized modern education, decentraliz ... |
Cao Zhi | ... ge, as their sophistication and complexity reached new heights. The earlier | , son of Cao Cao, is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his day. His ... |
Michael Weller | ... h one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in | 's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Was ... |
Madonna | ... a Culture Minister (Kim Howells) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour ( | ) swearing, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech ... |
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) ... |
Émile Littré | ... ed the election of agnostic intellectuals. Dupanloup resigned in 1875 after | , an agnostic, was elected to the Academy |
Roger Tatarian | ... ipressers" (as cited in the introductory note by UPI VP and Editor-in-Chief | in an undated 28-page booklet: "For the beginning Unipresser") were weaned ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... ant field workers in California during the Great Depression—George Milton ( | ), an intelligent and quick-witted man, and Lennie Small (Lon Chaney, Jr.) ... |
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 ... |
Christopher Ruddy | ... avid Horowitz Freedom Center, edits FrontPage Magazine, and also writes for | 's NewsMax. Horowitz has also founded the organization , whose self-stated ... |
Kenny Everett | ... eve the lyrics were only written to fit with the music, and have no meaning | ;quoted Mercury as claiming the lyrics were simply "random rhyming nonsens ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... rs, Lynch became speech writer and research assistant for the party leader, | |
Francis I of France | ... rgs and Russia, in 1524 Sigismund signed a Franco-Polish alliance with King | . The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by Ch ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... urope, Man Ray's early paintings display facets of cubism. Upon befriending | who was interested in showing movement in static paintings, his works begi ... |
Peter King | # | , football columnist for Sports Illustrated and author |
Irwin Chusid | ... lease of Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights (Columbia, 1992, produced by | with Hal Willner as executive producer), the first major-label CD compilat ... |
Julius Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
Rob Sheffield | ... irst Yo La Tengo to feature James McNew on every song. Ira Kaplan explains: | , writing in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide remarked that McNew "became ... |
Roger Sherman | ... ,581 at the 2010 census. The town is named for New Haven's Founding Father, | |
Jean-Luc Godard | ... lodramas turned out to be one of his most freewheeling and personal films." | is another admirer of the film |
Aristotelian | ... unt &c. He poked fun at the arrogance of the work and Woodward's misguided, | insistence that what is theoretically attractive must be actually true. In ... |
Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao | ... devices. Life on Lānai remained relatively calm until King Kamehameha I or | took control, slaughtering people on every part of the island. So many wer ... |
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 ... |
Victor Saville | ... des of his life. His early important film roles included Inigo Jollifant in | 's The Good Companions (1933), the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent ... |
Florida Friebus | ... nd Through the Looking-Glass. It also drew heavily from Eva LeGallienne and | 's then-recent stage adaptation |
Severus | ... Galerius refused to recognize him, but failed to unseat him. Galerius sent | against Maxentius, but during the campaign, Severus' armies, previously un ... |
Chen Shui-bian | Under President | , pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo and his father gradually disappeared from p ... |
Justin Theroux | ... e nightmare to collapse in fright. A Hollywood director named Adam Kesher ( | ) has his film commandeered by apparent mobsters, who insist he cast an un ... |
Jim Webb | ... 2006, both parties have seen success. In the 2006 Senate election, Democrat | won on a populist platform over the Republican incumbent following a very ... |
Britney Spears | ... lming Next to You, starring alongside Adrian Grenier. Hart asked her friend | to do a remix of her song "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and add it to the movie's ... |
Ntare V | ... nd intellectuals. In 1966, King Mwambutsa IV was deposed by his son, Prince | , who himself was deposed by his prime minister Capt. Michel Micombero in ... |
Catherine Howard | ... he Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were Anne Boleyn and | , second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women were nieces of Thomas H ... |
Theseus | ... Polynices and was put to death, but Adrastus escaped to Athens to petition | , the city's king, to attack Thebes and force the return of the bodies of ... |
Elizabeth I | ... g the burgesses of Chesterfield the same privileges as those of Nottingham. | granted a charter of incorporation in 1594, creating a corporation consist ... |
Elizabeth I of England | Charles was a weak and sickly infant. When | died in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as Jame ... |
William S. Burroughs | ... . Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, | , Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in ... |
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 ... |
John the Blind | ... man Emperor and Count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332, | , his son, granted the city its charter and had it encircled by defensive ... |
Bush | ... it favors fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that the Clinton and | administrations publicly recognized through Presidential Task Force Report ... |
Norman Finkelstein | According to political scientist | transfer was considered as an acceptable solution to the problems of ethni ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1976 |
Gil Kane | ... on of the new Atom, who debuted in Showcase #34 (Sep-Oct, 1961) with art by | three years after his creation of sci-fi hero Adam Strange, who debuted in ... |
Jerry Lewis | ... ishing debut before the Hollywood film world of the team of Dean Martin and | |
Lee Miller | ... ntal films. In 1929 he began a love affair with the Surrealist photographer | |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... raits, Bon Jovi and R.E.M. The last music concert was held on 14 July 1996. | held their annual conventions at the National Stadium |
Umberto Eco | ... the life of a Byzantine girl during the carnage and falls in love with her. | 's novel Baudolino begins shortly after the Sack of Constantinople |
Saint Paul the Apostle | ... esarem"(1625), (a reference to an appeal against Jewish persecution made by | ). See Acts 25:10–12 (NRSV translation): "Paul said, 'I am appealing to th ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | Patterson contains churches for the denominations of Lutheran, Catholic, | , Pentecostal, LDS Christian/Mormon, Baptist, and Non-denominational Chris ... |
John Keats | ... Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by | . In the 20th century, much of the counterculture of modernism was fueled ... |
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 ... |
Otto II | ... , succeeded him, but in 974 he became involved in a conspiracy against King | . The rising occurred because the king had granted the duchy of Swabia to ... |
Lord Speaker | ... matically ceases when the allotted time expires. In the House of Lords, the | does not possess an equivalent power. Programme motions are often referred ... |
Roger Penrose | ... Big Bang singularity exist in the universe. The hypothesis was conceived by | in 1969. Cosmic censorship hypotheses should be distinguished from chronol ... |
Ovid | ... fish — which again is intended to explain the Syrian abstinence from fish. | in his Metamorphoses (5.331) relates that Venus took the form of a fish to ... |
Andy Richter | O'Brien's Late Night debuted on September 13, 1993, with | chosen as O'Brien's sidekick. The premiere episode featured John Goodman ( ... |
Raymond Chandler | ... about such topics for shock value. Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as | , Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, J ... |
Albrecht Dürer | Artists using this technique include | |
Geoffrey Chaucer | In the late-fourteenth century, at broadly the same time that | included The Franklin's Tale, itself a Breton lai, in his Canterbury Tales ... |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ... vious highlights away." Critical reaction was quite positive, with reviewer | calling it "a subtly addicting album." Robert Christgau also praised the g ... |
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 ... |
Mohammed Nadir Shah | ... on 8 November 1933 at the age of 19, after the assassination of his father | . Following his ascension to the throne he was given the regnal title "He ... |
Theodosius | ... thraism came to an end with the anti-pagan decrees of the Christian emperor | during the last decade of the 4th century |
Chuck Jones | ... form and shooting scores of takes until he had the shot he wanted. Animator | , who lived near Charlie Chaplin's Lone Star studio as a boy, remembered h ... |
Henrietta Maria | On 11 May 1625 Charles was married by proxy to | in front of the doors of the Notre Dame de Paris, before his first Parliam ... |
Martin Parr | ... my White and football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme. Magnum Photographer | was born in Epsom. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame is also a famous son of ... |
Pierre Juneau | The Juno Awards are named in honor of | , the first President of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunicati ... |
Nelson Algren | ... for shock value. Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, | , William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reas ... |
Mike Kilian | ... an Collins was fired from the strip, and Tribune staff writer and columnist | took over the writing. Kilian was paid less than half of what Collins was ... |
Poul Anderson | The Fourth Crusade is depicted in | 's novel There Will Be Time from the point of view of a 20th Century time- ... |
Haydn | ... life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since | or Mozart. More remarkably, he completed 14 of these symphonies in his 80s ... |
Hubert Selby, Jr. | ... Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and | , saw no reason why the content in their works couldn't translate well to ... |
Léopold Sédar Senghor | ... ch Academy, taking the seat that his friend and former President of Senegal | had held. As a former President, he is a member of the Constitutional Coun ... |
Pierre Juneau | ... w name for these awards. The name "Juneau" was submitted, which represented | , the first head of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission. Juneau was i ... |
Charles V | ... t, Cortés sent a troupe of ōllamanime (ballplayers) to Spain to perform for | where they were drawn by the German Christoph Weiditz. Besides the fascina ... |
Nikolai Gogol | ... rtunity—to write for the Imperial Theaters and to compose an opera based on | 's short story Christmas Eve, a work on which Tchaikovsky had based his op ... |
United States President | ... 7 June at Chicago's Soldier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, including | Bill Clinton, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia G ... |
Michael Jackson | ... ber 2 on the UK charts when sung by Nat King Cole in the 1950s. It was also | 's favourite song. "This Is My Song", written and composed by Chaplin for ... |
Paul Schrader | ... marked the start of a series of collaborations between Scorsese and writer | , whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer a ... |
Sotion | ... ion is somewhat dubious and appears to be drawn from the lost doxography of | . The biographies of the former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clito ... |
Roger Penrose | The hypothesis was first formulated by | in 1969, and it is not stated in a completely formal way. In a sense it is ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, | , Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud posed for his camera |
D'Jalma Garnier | ... st of a progressive radio jazz program, Passport to Modern Jazz on KRVS-FM, | , plays New Orleans jazz from all periods, as well as latest contemporary ... |
Hulagu Khan | ... dad and the execution of Abassid caliph al-Musta'sim by Mongol forces under | . A surviving member of the Abbasid House was installed as Caliph at Cairo ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ed of little worth to Maria Theresa. The peace was initially broken by King | , who invaded Silesia. Soon other powers began to exploit Austria's weakne ... |
Charles Bennett | ... was Rebecca) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, | , Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Laws ... |
consul and patrician | ... xposition of Latin grammar. The dedication to Julian probably indicates the | , not the author of a well-known epitome of Justinian's Novellae, who live ... |
Paul Morley | According to critic | , "The Gang spliced the ferocious precision of Dr. Feelgood's working-clas ... |
Jigme Wangchuck | ... dvice in its external relations. When Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926, his son | became the next ruler, and when India gained independence in 1947, the new ... |
Mwezi IV Gisabo | ... n monarchy, which decided to accept the German advances, the Burundian king | opposed all European influence, refusing to wear European clothing and res ... |
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 ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... Ball was possibly the British leader most loved by the Maltese population. | became an assistant to Ball in 1804 and later described his administration ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | ... war eroded the power of the shabdrung for the next 200 years when in 1885, | was able to consolidate power and cultivated closer ties with the British ... |
Porphyry | ... evidence from the mithraeum itself. He reminds us that the Platonic writer | wrote in the 3rd century AD that the cave-like temple Mithraea depicted "a ... |
Giambattista Marino | After two abortive attempts to reach Rome, he fell in with | , the court poet to Marie de Medici, at Lyon. Marino employed him on illus ... |
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 ... |
Julian Huxley | ... , E.M.Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Sir | , Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir C ... |
Newton | ... n Uranus's observed orbit and the one predicted from the laws of gravity of | . At the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were m ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... liated with various evangelical Christian groups. Members of the Bahá'í and | religious communities also are present in the country. Both faiths were in ... |
Howard Stern | ... peared in a commercial for Ocean Spray. She also served as an intern on the | radio show |
Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda | ... the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) known under the pseudonym | . Avellaneda had referred to Cervantes as an "old and one-handed" man |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... s formed part of the Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with the | Maximilian I |
Allen Ginsberg | ... and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, | , and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in their works coul ... |
Charles | ... ogne became part of the lands of the Spanish Crown when the Burgundian heir | became King of Spain in 1516 |
James Joyce | ... rk on the art of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as | , Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud ... |
Henry II | ... res to reform the monasteries. His son and successor, chosen German king as | in 1002, gave Bavaria to his brother-in-law Henry of Luxembourg, after who ... |
Theuderic III | ... ful Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and of Neustria under Merovingian king | , probably chose this location as his main residence because of its proxim ... |
Peter Ackroyd | Little Dorrit formed the backdrop to | 's debut novel, The Great Fire of London (1982) |
Judith Tarr | The second volume of | 's trilogy The Hound and the Falcon - titled The Golden Horn - also depict ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... called "Unipressers" and were noted for their fiercely competitive streak. | , who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his covera ... |
Gertrude Stein | ... of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, | , Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud posed for his ca ... |
Jimmy Carter | #Redirect | |
Valentin Conrart | ... lzac, where he had retired, he continued to correspond with Jean Chapelain, | and others |
Alexander Severus | ... t he flourished in the first half of the third century, during the reign of | (222–235) and his successors |
Cyrus the Great | ... provinces, originates from the conception of the first Persian Empire under | , beginning at around 530 BCE. However, Provincial organization originated ... |
King James I | English (and Scottish) monarch | granted a patent to the Earl of Carlisle for Tortola, as well as "Angilla, ... |
Pete Townshend | ... live and make movies. The 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival included | , Iggy Pop, Tom Morello, and Rickie Lee Jones.Austin has been the location ... |
Jean Terrell | ... ndy Birdsong. Ross left to pursue a solo career in 1970 and was replaced by | , at which point the group's name reverted to The Supremes. After 1972, th ... |
Emperor | ... rians and others) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC. By the time of | Augustus, present-day Italy was included in the Roman Italy (Italia) as a ... |
Zeno | ... iginating with Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople and published by Emperor | with the view of allaying the strife between the Miaphysite Christians and ... |
John Patrick Shanley | ... e Versus the Volcano is a 1990 romantic comedy film written and directed by | and starring Tom Hanks and—in three roles—Meg Ryan. The film is writer Sha ... |
Harold Stassen | ... ower won the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Oregon primaries. | won his home state of Minnesota, and Warren won his home state of Californ ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ationally well known fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, | , Hippocrates, and Jesus. Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, ... |
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 |
Louis XIII | ... aris while en route to Spain. It was a good match since she was a sister of | (their father, Henry IV, had died during her childhood). Parliament reluct ... |
Laura Harring | ... tten and directed by David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, and | . The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lync ... |
Neil Gaiman | Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series, The Sandman |
Martin Short | Along with | , Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast ... |
Terrence Malick | The 1973 | film Badlands as well as the 1974 film Mr. Majestyk starring Charles Brons ... |
Antonin Artaud | ... ch as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and | posed for his camera |
Ruth Jones | ... Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, Russell Tovey, Janine Duvitski, James Fleet, | , Eve Myles, Mackenzie Crook, Stephane Cornicard, Anton Lesser, Alun Armst ... |
Vaišvilkas | ... earlier wife; her existence is presumed because two children – a son named | and an unnamed daughter married to Svarn in 1255 – were already leading in ... |
Anne Dudley Bradstreet | ... entions both Malvern and Langland as author names. Thomas Dudley, father of | (1612–72), brought a copy of Crowley's Piers Plowman to America. Alexander ... |
Orson Welles | ... , George, Duke of Clarence to Olivier's Richard III (1955), and Henry IV to | ' Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight (1966). A brief glimpse of his Hamlet fro ... |
Elia Kazan | ... f the film, however, upset the House Un-American Activities Committee, with | , Darryl Zanuck, John Garfield, and Anne Revere all being called to testif ... |
Joan Harrison | ... large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, | , Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Mai ... |
Johnny Cash | ... Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings. American musician | is a descendant |
Adam of Bremen | ... he Elbe. The list includes the Nortabtrezi (Obotrites) - with 53 civitates. | referred to them as the Reregi because of their lucrative trade emporium R ... |
Orhan Pamuk | ... nd did not or could not do enough for God in this world. The Turkish writer | , in the book , further elaborates on the added meaning hüzün has acquired ... |
Dave Winfield | ... to 29% by 2007), other factors have been cited as well. Hall of Fame player | , for instance, has cited the fact that urban America places less emphasis ... |
John III Sobieski | ... s. Following the successful defense of Vienna in 1683 led by King of Poland | , a series of campaigns resulted in the return of all of Hungary to Austri ... |
Casimir IV Jagiellon | The son of King | and Elisabeth of Austria, Sigismund followed his brothers John I of Poland ... |
Jean Chapelain | ... om Chateau de Balzac, where he had retired, he continued to correspond with | , Valentin Conrart and others |
Robert W. Ford | ... effectively organize and resist their imprisonment. British radio operator | and British army Colonel James Carne also claimed that the Chinese subject ... |
Queen Elizabeth | In 1939, King George VI and | toured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and ... |
Frank S. Nugent | When the film was first released | , the film critic of The New York Times praised the film and the acting, w ... |
Justin Theroux | ... o-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring | , Naomi Watts, and Laura Harring. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed ... |
Prince Henry | ... ries from all over the world. Among those in attendance were George V's son | , Marshal Franchet d'Esperey of France, and the Prince of Udine representi ... |
Galileo Galilei | Lyrical references in this passage include Scaramouche, the fandango, | , Figaro and Bismillah, as rival factions fight over the narrator's soul. ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... l to Francois de Malherbe's in verse. In 1631 he published a eulogy of King | entitled Le Prince; in 1652 the Socrate chrétien, and Aristippe ou de la C ... |
Elizabeth | ... Queen and Earl Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters, | and Margaret, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and ... |
William Langland | ... ers Plowman) is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by | . It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections calle ... |
Joe Baca | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +13 and is represented by Democrat | |
Paul Tillich | ... dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of | and Henry Nelson Wieman". A 1980s inquiry concluded portions of his disser ... |
Harry Shearer | Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and | , Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the season on NBC's S ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... er, when John Hinckley, Jr. made an assassination attempt on then-President | . He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi ... |
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor | In 995 defeated by | |
Adolph of Nassau | ... and became part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. The deposed duke | in 1890 became the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (see House of Nassau) |
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 ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... vote totals. Eisenhower's managers, led by Dewey and Massachusetts Senator | , accused Taft of "stealing" delegate votes in Southern states such as Tex ... |
Xenophon | ... early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by | , the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great |
Barack Obama | In September 2010, President | informed Congress that the State of Emergency in effect since September 14 ... |
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 ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by | . One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greate ... |
Sonny Bradshaw | ... tin American rhythms and Jamaican reggae, most notably Kingston band leader | . A second characteristic of jazz-funk music is the use of electric instru ... |
Max Allan Collins | In one of | ' first stories as the strip's writer, the gangster known as "Big Boy," wh ... |
Julius Schwartz | ... ng Comics Code Authority body. In partial response to this shift, DC editor | began a widespread reinvention/revival of many Golden Age heroes, and "Fox ... |
Tom Hanks | ... antic comedy film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring | and—in three roles—Meg Ryan. The film is writer Shanley's directorial debu ... |
Louis the Bavarian | ... d thereby, Wiesbaden, received the right of coinage from Holy Roman Emperor | |
Salvian | ... wers threatened the authority of the church when the bishops Instantius and | were won over by his eloquence and his severely ascetic example |
Hippocrates | ... own fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, Charles Dickens, | , and Jesus. Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, but cleverly ... |
Jacques Rogge | ... e invitation from China to the world to share in its culture. IOC president | was very happy with the emblem, saying, "Your new emblem immediately conve ... |
Yasser Arafat | ... s commander-in-chief by the PLO Executive Committee in June 1969. Then when | took on that role in September 1970, al-Yehiyeh became chief-of-staff of a ... |
Robert Smigel | ... originality and quality of the comedy, however, led by original head writer | , was widely praised. Although O'Brien benefited by comparison from the qu ... |
Billy Crystal | Along with Martin Short, | and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the ... |
Berry Gordy | In 1969, Motown Records impresario | , tipped off about a mad musical scientist engaged in mysterious works, vi ... |
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 ... |
Conrad I | ... rians in 911, uniting Bavaria and Carinthia under his rule. The German king | unsuccessfully attacked Arnulf when the latter refused to acknowledge his ... |
Stephanus of Byzantium | ... the Suda. The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer, and occurs in | , and in a lemma to the Greek Anthology. He is also referred to as "Laerte ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ion focused on Aurora for seven weeks during the fall of 1955, as President | recovered from a heart attack at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. In 1943 t ... |
Roger Ebert | Despite positive reviews from some critics, including | , Joe Versus the Volcano was a box office flop. It has since attracted a c ... |
Artaxerxes III | The last great rebellions were put down by | |
Charlemagne | ... the nickname Martellus (“hammer”). Charles, in turn, was the grandfather of | , also supposedly born in Héristal, where he lived for at least fifteen ye ... |
Favell Lee Mortimer | The use of phonics in American education dates at least to the work of | , whose works using phonics includes the early flashcard set Reading Disen ... |
Henry IV | ... in. It was a good match since she was a sister of Louis XIII (their father, | , had died during her childhood). Parliament reluctantly agreed to the mar ... |
Kazimieras Būga | ... be reconstructed as Mindaugas or Mindaugis. In 1909 the Lithuanian linguist | published a research paper supporting the suffix -as, which has since been ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gareth Edwards | Barbarians: Tries: | , Fergus Slattery, John Bevan, J P R Williams; Conversions: Phil Bennett ( ... |
Arthur Darvill | ... Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, | , Russell Tovey, Janine Duvitski, James Fleet, Ruth Jones, Eve Myles, Mack ... |
John Cassavetes | ... and one of the editors on the documentary Woodstock and met actor-director | , who would also go on to become a close friend and mentor. Scorsese is al ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... n presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, | , Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other famous visitor ... |
Cináed | ... the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and | were later kings. American musician Johnny Cash is a descendant |
G. K. Chesterton | ... in and Abel, and Fiddler's Green, a sailor's dream of paradise who emulates | when in human form. He recruits or creates (or re-creates) servants to per ... |
Andy Richter | ... m Central and 12:37 am Mountain in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, | served as O'Brien's sidekick; following his departure, O'Brien was the sho ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ond World War in textbooks illustrated with Low's cartoons. German dictator | had a personal hatred of the cartoonist. It is, therefore, not surprising ... |
William de Croÿ | :For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor Charles V, see: | |
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 ... |
Aeneas Tacticus | ... nse and varied: Arrow firing machines (katapaltai) are briefly mentioned by | in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC. An extant inscription ... |
Agatha Christie | ... le biographical works of literary figures, such as those of Virginia Woolf, | , and J.R.R. Tolkien |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | ... pictures including Cross Creek (1983) and Doc Hollywood (1991). The home of | , where she wrote The Yearling and Cross Creek, is in nearby Cross Creek. ... |
Khan Ahmed | ... Tatar yoke. In 1476 Ivan refused to pay the customary tribute to the grand | . All through the autumn the Russian and Tatar hosts confronted each other ... |
David S. Ward | ... in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Created by screenwriter | , the story was inspired by real-life con games perpetrated by the brother ... |
Louis XV of France | ... François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King | by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769) through h ... |
Margaret | ... Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters, Elizabeth and | , who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and second cousi ... |
Jean Meschinot | ... ue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of | . Ideas of reflection and the workings of imagination are blended in the t ... |
Sergei Diaghilev | The next year he collaborated with Joan Miró on designs for | . With Miró's help, Ernst pioneered grattage in which he troweled pigment ... |
Walter Burley | ... Eleatics and sceptics are treated under the Italic. From the statements of | (a 14th-century monk) in his De vita et moribus philosophorum the text of ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... their second album Queen II. The photo, inspired by a photograph of actress | , was the band's favourite image of themselves. The video then fades into ... |
Hans Sloane | ... since its foundation in 1753 after receiving 160 Egyptian objects from Sir | . After the defeat of the forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... r among merchants because it was what is now called "rent seeking". However | argued that encouraging production was just as important as consumption,an ... |
Ragnvald Knaphövde | One of these Swedish kings was | , who in 1125 was riding with his retinue in order to be accepted as king ... |
Henry Ford | ... h the mission of employing Americans in need, founded by Lyndon Johnson and | . GM was a major contributor to the group, and agreed to continue his sala ... |
Porphyry | The philosopher | (3rd-4th century AD) gives an account of the origins of the Mysteries in h ... |
Val Gielgud | Gielgud's brother | became the head of BBC Radio Production in 1928, and John made his radio d ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... role of "Adenoid Hynkel", Dictator of Tomainia, modelled on German dictator | , who was only four days his junior and sported a similar moustache. The f ... |
Moses | ... nting the Sabbath. It is also said to symbolize the burning bush as seen by | on Mount Horeb |
Russell Tovey | ... ndy Serkis, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, | , Janine Duvitski, James Fleet, Ruth Jones, Eve Myles, Mackenzie Crook, St ... |
Barack Obama | ... Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and | all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have ... |
Eleanor Holmes Norton | ... arshals, bus captains to direct traffic, and scheduled the podium speakers. | and Rachelle Horowitz were aides |
Jackie Robinson | ... him to tolerate the inevitable abuse. Rickey's sights eventually settled on | , a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs. Although likely not the best ... |
Ľudovít Štúr | ... the 150th birthdays of 19th century leaders of the Slovak National Revival | and Jozef Miloslav Hurban, the centennial of the Matica slovenská in 1963, ... |
Bill Clinton | ... sted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, | and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras a ... |
Jules Verne | ... ong his output was the modern novelisation of the Irwin Allen production of | 's Five Weeks in a Balloon, two books in the "Llarn" series; five books ab ... |
John Peel | ... g of Four and Bob Last and Tim Inman. It was a Number 1 indie chart hit and | radio show favourite. This led to two Peel radio sessions, which, with the ... |
Harrison's | ... er does not appear until the sixteenth century, first occurring as Moule in | Description of Britain of 1577. The antiquarian William Camden uses the La ... |
Estêvão Cacella | Circa 1627, during the first war with Tibet, Portuguese Jesuits | and João Cabral were the first recorded Europeans to visit Bhutan on their ... |
TobyMac | ... d Randy Stonehill in 1970; Grammy Award-winning recording artist and rapper | , who described Norman as "socially relevant, spiritually significant and ... |
Magnus Maximus | ... n and the accession, at Trier (Trèves, in Germany) at least, of the usurper | (383), Ithacius fled to Trier, and in consequence of his representations a ... |
J. B. Priestley | On 2 November 1957, the New Statesman magazine published an article by | on "Britain and the Nuclear Bombs", which was critical of Aneurin Bevan fo ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... nalism, Chauvinism", in The Review of Politics 7.4, (October 1945), p. 457, | , the political theorist, describes the concept |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... ha for B-movie producer Roger Corman, who had also helped directors such as | , James Cameron, and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who t ... |
Théophile de Viau | In 1612, he met | when de Viau's troupe visited Angoulême, and fled from home with the troup ... |
Albrecht Dürer | A famous allegorical engraving by | is entitled Melencolia I. This engraving portrays melancholia as the state ... |
Ayn Rand | In | 's novel Atlas Shrugged, the protagonist's secret hideaway was in a beauti ... |
Thomas Paine | ... rst kind of mainstream popular music. These included "The Liberty Tree", by | . Cheaply printed as broadsheets, early patriotic songs spread across the ... |
Jim Henson | ... c music soundtracks for some early experimental films by Muppets impresario | |
Jozef Miloslav Hurban | ... ays of 19th century leaders of the Slovak National Revival Ľudovít Štúr and | , the centennial of the Matica slovenská in 1963, and the twentieth annive ... |
Koji Suzuki | Both films are based on | 's novel Ring and focus on a mysterious cursed videotape that contains a s ... |
Jacques Feyder | ... adapted by Frances Marion, translated by Walter Hasenclever and directed by | , also starring Garbo, with Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, and Salka Viertel |
Andy Warhol | Edward Ruscha, and | |
George Sanders | ... ld War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, | , Albert Bassermann and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn |
Constantine IX | ... , the Empire began to decline under the reign of the militarily incompetent | and again under Constantine X—a brief two year rule of reform under Isaac ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... akie as "Benzino Napaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator | |
Benito Mussolini | The Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator | , and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco "harmonizing" and getting along qu ... |
Max Weinberg | ... ow's house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7, led by E Street Band drummer | |
Peter Estenberg | ... n carried off to Saxony by August. During this time the King of Sweden sent | to King Stanislaw to act as an ambassador and correspondence secretary. Th ... |
Arnulf | ... ries of Emperor Charles the Fat. This incompetent ruler left its defence to | , an illegitimate son of Carloman. Due mainly to the support of the Bavari ... |
Pierre de Coubertin | ... be able to hold well-organized games, they received some support. However, | , the founder of the International Olympic Committee opposed this. Coubert ... |
Émile Zola | ... g distance between himself and literary contemporaries such as Flaubert and | , whose realist and naturalist novels were now exceeding the popularity of ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... e explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for President | |
Walter Hasenclever | ... so released in 1930. This film was adapted by Frances Marion, translated by | and directed by Jacques Feyder, also starring Garbo, with Theo Shall, Hans ... |
Theodora | ... n prefect in Gaul. Constantius left Helena to marry Maximian's stepdaughter | in 288 or 289 |
Lee Miller | Together with | , who was his photography assistant and lover, Man Ray reinvented the phot ... |
James Joyce | ... laubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of | , Giannina Braschi, and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also ins ... |
Asfaw Wossen | ... Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince | , Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... inier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia | ;; Prince Charles, and Prince Philip |
Charlemagne | ... t of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d'Estaing was a multiple descendant of | |
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 ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... liary cavalry unit. The thermal springs of Wiesbaden are first mentioned in | 's Naturalis Historia. They were famous for their recreation pools for Rom ... |
John the Apostle | ... himself up in an area rug, saying that he was following the instructions of | |
Jackie Stewart | ... ident. Ickx finished second in the drivers' championship, with 37 points to | 's 63. Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three f ... |
Roger Bacon | ... involved Gerbert of Aurillac (d. 1003 AD), Albertus Magnus (1198–1280), and | (1214–1294) |
Paul Samuelson | ... cantilism have sometimes led critics to call them neo-mercantilism. Indeed, | , writing within a Keynesian framework, defended mercantilism, writing: "W ... |
Michel Micombero | ... is son, Prince Ntare V, who himself was deposed by his prime minister Capt. | in the same year. He abolished the monarchy and declared a republic. A de ... |
William Julius Wilson | Rustin's analysis was supported by the later research by | . Wilson documented an increase in inequality within the Black community, ... |
Giannina Braschi | ... ille, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, | , and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-cen ... |
Alisa Kwitney | ... n set in the Dreaming, most notably a series of the same name (chief author | ) |
John Sayles | ... had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and | launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining ... |
Kingsley Martin | ... he rooms of Canon John Collins, chaired by the editor of the New Statesman, | , to launch the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as it ... |
Jean Hersholt | ... films received Special or Honorary Awards. Academy leader and board member | argued that "an international award, if properly and carefully administere ... |
Alexander I | ... uslim regional powers. The first attempt at forging an alliance was made by | , king of a small Georgian kingdom of Kakheti, who dispatched two embassie ... |
Victor Bockris | ... l Tomorrow's Parties" was written by Reed at Warhol's request (as stated in | and Gerard Malanga's Velvet Underground biography Up-Tight: The Velvet Und ... |
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 ... |
David Letterman | ... incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after | , who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Lat ... |
Berry Gordy | ... eved mainstream success with Ross as lead singer. In 1967, Motown president | renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, and replaced Ballard with Cin ... |
Epicurus | ... the view that he was an Epicurean, is the fact that he passionately defends | . Book 10, which discusses Epicurus, is of high quality, and contains thre ... |
Hesiod | ... cause most of the monsters in Greek myth were mothered by her. In Theogony, | described her as |
Amber Tamblyn | 16-year old Katie Embry ( | ) and 17-year old Becca Kotler (Rachael Bella) discuss a supposedly cursed ... |
Francisco Franco | ... cts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Spanish dictator | "harmonizing" and getting along quite well. When this cartoon was publishe ... |
James Cameron | ... r Roger Corman, who had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, | , and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese ... |
Skeeter Davis | ... rk "licks". Leading artists in this genre included Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, | , The Browns, and Eddy Arnold. The "slip note" piano style of session musi ... |
Sidney Blumenthal | ... co-hosted a "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, D.C., described by | in The Washington Post as his "coming out" as a social conservative. Accor ... |
Alan Caillou | ... Lord) Ferguson McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge. The voice of English actor | is dubbed for MacMurray's as Lord Douglas. The plot centers around Lord Do ... |
Elizabeth II | On 17 May 2011, | became the first British monarch to visit the Áras on the occasion of her ... |
Theophrastus | ... biographies of the former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clitomachus, | and Chrysippus; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with Epicurus. ... |
David Lavender | Telluride native | related his experiences working at the Camp Bird Mine in the 1930s in his ... |
Pauline Kael | Championed by influential movie critic | , Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, De Niro, and Keitel. By no ... |
Ivan V | ... by Anna Ivanovna, daughter of Peter the Great's half-brother and co-ruler, | |
Georgios I | ... hing behind their flags. The official opening of the games was done by King | |
Alexander Cockburn | ... on Post as his "coming out" as a social conservative. According to attendee | , Horowitz related how his Stalinist parents had not permitted him or his ... |
George Washington | ... some of which date back to the 17th century. During the Revolutionary War, | passed through Farmington on several occasions and referred to the town as ... |
Justinian | ... dicates the consul and patrician, not the author of a well-known epitome of | 's Novellae, who lived somewhat later than Priscian. The grammar is divide ... |
Bob Merrill | In 1957, a musical version by | , called New Girl in Town, opened on Broadway |
Chaucer's | ... critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with | Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Age ... |
Maturin Murray Ballou | Ballou married Ruth Washburn; children included | |
Flavius Constantius | ... bia, on 27 February of an uncertain year, probably near 272. His father was | , a native of Moesia (later Dacia Ripensis). Constantius was a tolerant an ... |
Rick Dees | ... ing since 1970; current hosts of countdown shows in various formats include | , Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Foxworthy, Kix Brooks, Bob Kingsley, Crook & Chase, ... |
Charles II of England | The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was | 's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ... |
James Thomson (B.V.) | ... dron. The image in turn inspired a passage in The City of Dreadful Night by | , and, a few years later, a sonnet by |
Douglas Hyde | The first President, | lived in the residential quarters on the first floor of the main building. ... |
Bill Clinton | ... mocrat to win a majority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although | and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
Gustave Flaubert | ... ; Taine found it insincere, Barbey d'Aurevilly complained of its vulgarity, | found within it "neither truth nor greatness", the Goncourts lambasted its ... |
Jorge Luis Borges | ... evsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina Braschi, and | . The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-century French artists Hon ... |
James II | ... on and take Anglican communion. When Charles II's openly Catholic successor | attempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for gener ... |
Paul Morley | ... Gill's staccato, aggressive style has proved an enduring influence in turn. | described the band's music as "a kind of demented funk, incredibly white b ... |
Salka Viertel | ... Jacques Feyder, also starring Garbo, with Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, and | |
Oxylus | ... . The Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus lists eight Hamadryads, the daughters of | and Hamadryas |
Pratibha Parmar. | ... egan on Beauty in Truth, a documentary film about Walker's life directed by | |
Gilles Deleuze | | , the twentieth century French philosopher, compared voting for political ... |
Bruce Lee | According to | , martial arts also have the nature of an art, since there is emotional co ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... on-fiction also became a popular topic. Irreverence and satire, typified in | 's Breakfast of Champions, were common literary elements. The horror genre ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. These provisions were later used by | to subvert the rest of the constitution and institute rule by decree, allo ... |
Robert Benchley | ... atures Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann and | , along with Edmund Gwenn |
Graydon Carter | ... atriates maintain homes in New Preston. Current inhabitants of note include | , the editor of the magazine Vanity Fair, comedian Joan Rivers, actress Ch ... |
Gratian | ... f Ávila, and the orthodox party found it necessary to appeal to the emperor | us, who issued an edict threatening the sectarian leaders with banishment. ... |
Johannes de Sacrobosco | ... stronomy. In July 1662, he was fascinated by the thirteenth century work of | , De sphaera mundi, and on 12 September 1662 observed his first partial so ... |
Greil Marcus | ... ultimately as close to the depraved edge of the blues and Hendrix." Critic | found his first viewing of the group's performance so shattering that he l ... |
Barack Obama | ... on. In the 2008 Presidential election, the town's voters supported Democrat | with 8,177 votes over Republican John McCain with 6,839 votes |
Antonín Novotný | ... e Slovak branch unseated Karol Bacílek and Pavol David, hard-line allies of | , First Secretary of the KSČ and president of Czechoslovakia. In their pla ... |
Maxine McKew | ... e 11th count, and three-fourths of her preferences went to Labor challenger | . This margin was enough to make McKew only the second person to unseat a ... |
Pausanias | ... arents. Another account says her parents were Peiras and Styx (according to | , who did not know who Peiras was aside from her father). Echidna was a dr ... |
Eric Bloodaxe | ... ing, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. | took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Amlaíb Cuaran ... |
Apollonius | Priscian's grammar is based on the earlier works of Herodian and | . The examples it includes to illustrate the rules preserve numerous fragm ... |
President of Afghanistan | ... l Army Air Corps). Being a landlocked country, Afghanistan has no navy. The | is the commander-in-chief of the military, acting through the Ministry of ... |
Stephen King | ... mmon literary elements. The horror genre also emerged, and by the late '70s | had become one of the most popular genre novelists |
E. Nesbit | ... isused platforms hosted a theatrical performance of The Railway Children by | . The audience is seated either side of the actual railway track. The show ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | Hamadryad is referenced as a whole in | 's poem, "Sonnet To Science. |
Samuel Fuller | ... yle, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, | , and early Jean-Luc Godard. (Indeed the film was completed with much enco ... |
William Safire | The development was originally to be named "Sunnydale", but | , a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his m ... |
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | ... daptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The celebrity chef and TV presenter | has his River Cottage H.Q. at a farm in the Axe valley. He has since purch ... |
Barack Obama | ... ajority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton and | won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
Herodian | Priscian's grammar is based on the earlier works of | and Apollonius. The examples it includes to illustrate the rules preserve ... |
Bolesław Bierut | ... d. The People's Republic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as | and Konstantin Rokossovsky |
Bruce Cockburn | A Humanitarian Award was inaugurated in 2006. | was the first artist to be given this honour |
Walter William Skeat | ... rface of the water. Robinson replied, "A schooner let her be." According to | , the term schooner comes from scoon, while the sch spelling comes from th ... |
Robert J. Samuelson | ... an essay appearing in the 14 May 2007 issue of Newsweek, business columnist | argued that China was pursuing an essentially mercantilist trade policy th ... |
Andy Serkis | ... by Andrew Davies, and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, | , Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, Russell ... |
Hero of Alexandria | ... of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor | (fl. 1st c. AD), who referred to the now lost works of the 3rd century BC ... |
Eudoxia Lopukhina | ... f Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his first consort | , and Princess Charlotte |
Andy Warhol | ... opics. Certain songs were written by Reed as observations of the members of | 's "Factory Superstars". "Femme Fatale" in particular was written about Ed ... |
George Washington | ... rmington en route to Westchester County to offer crucial support to General | 's army |
Mary Robinson | ... had been built on for the visit of King George V in 1911. However, in 1990 | moved back to the older main building. Her successor, Mary McAleese lived ... |
Salvian | ... arian leaders with banishment. Consequently, the three bishops, Instantius, | us and Priscillian, went in person to Rome, to present their case before D ... |
Friedrich Ebert | ... e political alignments in Germany at that time and which may have prevented | , the new social-democratic President of Germany, from appointing Weber as ... |
Michael Jackson | ... e also held at the National Stadium from 1987 until 1996, they included U2, | , The Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi and R.E.M. The last music con ... |
Ronald Radosh | In May 1989, Horowitz, | , and Peter Collier travelled to Poland for a conference in Kraków calling ... |
Prince Charles | ... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born: | in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950 |
John McCain | ... n's voters supported Democrat Barack Obama with 8,177 votes over Republican | with 6,839 votes |
Ambrose | ... son to Rome, to present their case before Damasus. But neither the Pope nor | , bishop of Milan, granted them an audience. Salvianus died in Rome, but t ... |
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 ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... atened to undermine the post-World War II international economic structure. | , representing the Austrian School of economics, describes it this way |
Michael J. Fox | The film Doc Hollywood starring | (based on the book What, Dead Again? by Neil B. Shulman, M.D.), was filmed ... |
Peter Kent | ... hange positions. In January 2011, the Canadian minister of the environment, | , explicitly stated that the policy of his government with regards to gree ... |
Robert Benchley | ... 1939 (the first was Rebecca) and had an unusually large number of writers: | , Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, ... |
Mary McAleese | ... in 1990 Mary Robinson moved back to the older main building. Her successor, | lived in the 1911 wing |
Thomas Browne | ... Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir | , and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Ho ... |
Branch Rickey | ... anager who would be eventually successful in breaking the color barrier was | of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rickey himself had experienced the issue of segre ... |
Jean-Luc Godard | ... vel direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller, and early | . (Indeed the film was completed with much encouragement from Cassavetes, ... |
Jimmy Fallon | ... ave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. | began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009 |
Scott Adams | ... gement Handbook (ISBN 0-88730-788-4) is the second Dilbert business book by | , published in 1997. Written from the point of view of his unscrupulous al ... |
Julius Scheiner | ... eath the misnomer Johann Christian Doppler was introduced by the astronomer | . Scheiner's mistake has since been copied by many |
Joseph Campbell | ... lessness, and/or an acceptance of one's own negative qualities, as it is by | |
Bill Gates | ... t's INS to the Bettman Archive. Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder | 's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of U ... |
W. W. Skeat | All modern discussion of the text revolves around the classifications of | . Skeat argued that there are as many as ten forms of the poem, but only t ... |
Ben Hecht | ... f writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, | , James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and B ... |
Alois Senefelder | Lithography is a technique invented in 1798 by | and based on the chemical repulsion of oil and water |
John F. Kennedy | ... n Victoria and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents | , Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish ... |
Richard Nixon | ... orge V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, | , Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... many high-profile biographical works of literary figures, such as those of | , Agatha Christie, and J.R.R. Tolkien |
Varro | ... wise have been lost, including Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and | . But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to ... |
Historia Augusta | ... of Mithras, although both works are now lost. According to the 4th century | , the emperor Commodus participated in its mysteries but it never became o ... |
Princess Anne | ... rence House. Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 and | in 1950 |
Charles XII of Sweden | The following year, Stanisław was selected by | after a successful Swedish invasion of Poland, to supersede Augustus II, w ... |
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 ... |
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling | ... a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander’s son, | established the first incarnation of “New Scotland” at Port Royal, Nova Sc ... |
Cato | ... uld otherwise have been lost, including Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, | and Varro. But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, ... |
Epicurus | ... eophrastus and Chrysippus; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with | . The Socratic school, with its various branches, is classed with the Ioni ... |
Tony Blair | ... 00 from a peak of 110,000 in 1983, increased threefold after Prime Minister | made a commitment to nuclear energy |
Saul | ... the years that the Ark of the Covenant was moved in the times of Samuel and | . There is no further mention of the menorah in Solomon's temple, except i ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as Albert Camus, | , and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a r ... |
Sparta | ... wound around it on which is written a message. The ancient Greeks, and the | ns in particular, are said to have used this cipher to communicate during ... |
Bob Gale | ... out in 1985, featuring DeLorean's namesake car, DeLorean wrote a letter to | , one of the movie's producers and writers, thanking him for immortalizing ... |
Emlyn Williams | ... of Being Earnest, The Tempest, and Hamlet, one production of which featured | as Claudius, Celia Johnson as Ophelia, and Martita Hunt as Gertrude (the p ... |
Steven Lukes | In Power: A radical view (1974) | outlines two dimensions through which power had been theorised in the earl ... |
Boris Johnson | ... g, the Mayor of Beijing handed over the Olympic flag to the Mayor of London | , followed by a performance organized by the London Organising Committee o ... |
Thomas Pynchon | ... Dick's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick 1993, 101) and in | 's 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49. The Pynchon novel features "The Scope" ... |
J. B. Priestley | ... t James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, | and Joseph Rotblat |
Jerome | ... explains the charge of Manichaeism some levelled against Priscillian (even | , for his talk of the sordes nuptiarum, had been similarly accused, and to ... |
Peter De Vries | ... w the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as Saul Bellow and | , who both released poorly received novels at the start of the decade. Rac ... |
James Hilton | ... Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, | , John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, ... |
Edward Bishop Elliott | AD 70. | , in the Horae Apocalypticae (1862), argues that John wrote the book in ex ... |
David Hume | Adam Smith and | were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. A number of schola ... |
Charles Fillmore | It was founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 by | (1854–1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845–1931) after Mrs. Fillmore had been c ... |
Virgil | ... ucilius, Cato and Varro. But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are | , and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, ... |
Adam of Bremen | ... be and being a collective term including the Geats, and this is the case in | 's work where the Geats (Goths) appear both as a proper nation and as part ... |
Charles IX of France | On May 1, 1561, King | received a lily of the valley as a lucky charm. He decided to offer a lily ... |
Goethe | ... during Sturm und Drang, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by | or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats. In t ... |
Bill Weber | ... onal Date Festival's executive director Bruce Latta and commissioned artist | of San Francisco to paint a mural of the Taj Mahal on the Taj Mahal (Garde ... |
Scott Adams | ... ert principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation by Dilbert cartoonist | stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competen ... |
Terence | ... ut the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to him, | , Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Li ... |
Vincenzo Giustiniani | ... 630–32, Louvre); Cardinal de Richelieu, who commissioned various Bacchanals | ;, for whom he painted the Massacre of the Innocents (uncertain early date ... |
Sophocles | ... s described as being named Iacchos at Eleusis, where he "brings salvation". | , in the Paean in the play Antigone, names the god of the Mysteries at Ele ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... the United States Navy. The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) under Dr. | had suggested using a modified Redstone rocket (see: Juno I) while the Air ... |
Vespasian | ... states that it was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph of | and Titus. The menorah probably remained in the Temple of Peace in Rome un ... |
Albert Einstein | ... Transformation or even the FitzGerald - Lorentz - Einstein Transformation. | dismissed the notion of the aether as an unnecessary one, and he concluded ... |
Ted Turner | ... International Television News (UPITN). Senior UPITN executives later helped | create CNN, with its first two presidents, Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinha ... |
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 ... |
Loretta Lynn | ... "hard country" artists emerged during this period and dominated the genre: | , Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, and Sonny James among them |
Darius III of Persia | ... son-in-law, a Persian named Orontobates, received the satrapy of Caria from | |
John Howard Lawson | ... y, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, | , John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Bench ... |
Karel Lamač | ... a as Little Dorrit and Mathias Wieman as Arthur Clennam. It was directed by | . The fourth, in 1988, is Little Dorrit, a UK feature film starring Alec G ... |
Archilochus | From indirect evidence, the scytale was first mentioned by the Greek poet | , who lived in the 7th century BC. Other Greek and Roman writers during th ... |
Songtsän Gampo | Buddhism was first introduced to Bhutan in the 7th century AD. Tibetan king | (reigned 627–49), a convert to Buddhism, ordered the construction of two B ... |
Apollonius of Rhodes | ... ters during the following centuries also mentioned it, but it was not until | (middle of the 3rd century BC) that a clear indication of its use as a cry ... |
Causantín mac Áeda | ... 00–954) was king of Scots (before 943 – 954), becoming king when his cousin | abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín |
Alexander the Great | When | entered Caria in 334 BC, Ada, who was in possession of the fortress of Ali ... |
John Updike | ... novels at the start of the decade. Racism remained a key literary subject. | emerged as a major literary figure. Reflections of the 1960s experience al ... |
John Dickson Carr | ... ond [sic]. I have every book he ever wrote. The other is the mystery writer | , whose style I admire tremendously... and of course the old standbys - Me ... |
Titus | ... t was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph of Vespasian and | . The menorah probably remained in the Temple of Peace in Rome until the c ... |
Francis X. Bushman | ... d of feminine interest as Tess Trueheart; and FBI Director Clive Anderson ( | and others) is the same kind of avuncular superior as Chief Brandon |
Nonnus | ... Eleusis as both Bacchos (Dionysus) and Iacchos. The 4th or 5th century poet | describes the Athenian celebrations given to the first Dionysus Zagreus so ... |
René Clair | ... camera on Fernand Léger's Ballet Mécanique (1924). Man Ray also appeared in | 's film Entr'acte (1924), in a brief scene playing chess with Duchamp |
Axayacatl | Cuitláhuac was the eleventh son of the ruler | and a younger brother of Moctezuma II, the previous ruler of Tenochtitlan. ... |
John Lee Mahin | ... Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, | , Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, a ... |
Louis XV | ... he had the satisfaction of seeing his daughter Maria become the consort of | and queen of France. From 1725 to 1733, Stanisław lived at Chateau Chambor ... |
Moctezuma II | ... láhuac was the eleventh son of the ruler Axayacatl and a younger brother of | , the previous ruler of Tenochtitlan. His mother's father, also called Cui ... |
Maria Miloslavskaya | Fyodor was born in Moscow, the eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexis and | . In 1676, at the age of fifteen, he succeeded his father on the throne. H ... |
Plautus | ... om he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, | ; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
Tycho Brahe | Further advances in the instrument were made by | (1546–1601), whose elaborate armillary spheres passing into astrolabes are ... |
Asfa Wossen | ... taged an unsuccessful coup, briefly proclaiming Haile Selassie's eldest son | as emperor. The coup d'état was crushed by the regular army and police for ... |
princess | ... e Thirty Years' War, coupled with the fact that he married a Roman Catholic | , generated deep mistrust concerning the king's dogma. Charles further all ... |
Yang di-Pertua Negeri | The head of the state executive is the | (Governor) appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia). The ... |
Reese Schonfeld | ... ecutives later helped Ted Turner create CNN, with its first two presidents, | and Burt Reinhardt, coming from UPITN ranks |
Marv Wolfman | ... of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, written by Crisis writer | , with art by Paul Ryan and Bob McLeod. It took place during and after Cri ... |
Horace | ... quently are Virgil, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, | , Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
Domnall mac Causantín | ... his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of | |
Plutarch | ... device appeared. A description of how it operated is not known from before | (50-120 AD) |
Joyce Carol Oates | ... ience also found roots in the literature of the decade through the works of | and Morris Wright. With the rising cost of hard-cover books and the increa ... |
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 ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | Another ad, featuring | drawing the Mona Lisa as she eats a Caramilk has won a Clio award |
Richard Maibaum | ... Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, | , and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the onl ... |
Debra Byrne | ... , Olivia Newton-John, Ross D. Wylie, The News, Max Merritt and the Meteors, | , Rose Tattoo, The Reels, The Saints, Sebastian Hardie, Lash, William Shak ... |
Edmund of Wessex | In 945 | , having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devas ... |
Douglas Hyde | ... of President of Ireland was created in 1937. In 1938, the first President, | lived there temporarily while plans were made to build a new presidential ... |
Carolyn Arends | ... for several months learning the craft of songwriting; Canadian CCM musician | . Songwriter Bob Hartman, credits Norman and his 1972 song "Why Should the ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... ossils, was subtropical, and supported an environment lush with vegetation. | suggests that Antarctica, "provided a clement and ratite-friendly land bri ... |
Carl Linnaeus | The genus name Glycine was originally introduced by | (1737) in his first edition of Genera Plantarum. The word glycine is deriv ... |
George Washington | ... after the Declaration of Independence was signed. The town was named after | , who, in his capacity as Commander of the Continental Army during the Ame ... |
Derek Jacobi | ... th, in 1988, is Little Dorrit, a UK feature film starring Alec Guinness and | amongst a large cast of over 300 British actors directed by |
Jerome | ... ed with Priscillian at Trier, was noted as a poet worthy of the ancients by | |
Frederick Winslow Taylor | ... nt, had been pioneered by other engineers (most of whom are not famous, but | is one of the well-known ones), whose work would later be synthesized into ... |
Felicity Urquhart | ... of successful country music artists. Homegrown country music stars include | and up-and-coming talent Chasing Bailey, whose music style is a mixture of ... |
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. ... |
Jeff Daniels | ... writers singing Christmas/Hanukah/Solstice/New Year's songs including actor | , Grammy-winners Janis Ian and Julie Gold, and the Guitar Man Of Central P ... |
Sergei Diaghilev | ... a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of | . Pavlova is most recognised for the creation of the role The Dying Swan a ... |
Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart's | ... to sing it on TV) and received regular airplay on BBC Radio (in particular | Saturday and Sunday morning programme Junior Choice which was simultaneous ... |
Yang di-Pertuan Agong | ... he state executive is the Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) appointed by the | (King of Malaysia). The present Governor is Tun Dato' Seri Haji Abdul Rahm ... |
Dana Carvey | ... an and Late Night. Aside from the name, it needed to build a new show. Both | and Garry Shandling declined to host it. Saturday Night Live producer Lorn ... |
Robert Christgau | ... 89 did much to establish the band's reputation among rock critics including | who praised the "mysterioso guitar hook" in the first song titled Barnaby, ... |
Stanley Kubrick | After seeing Cunningham's work on the 1994 film version of Judge Dredd, | head-hunted Cunningham to design and supervise animatronic tests of the ce ... |
Alaric I | ... he Temple of Peace in Rome until the city was sacked by the Visigoths under | in 410 CE |
Budd Schulberg | ... cht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and | , with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited i ... |
Billy Childish | ... 4, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Rapture. Elsewhere, the Oblivians from Memphis, | and The Buff Medways from Britain, The (International) Noise Conspiracy fr ... |
Jogaila | ... s the only King of Lithuania; while most of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes from | onward also reigned as Kings of Poland, the titles remained separate. Now ... |
Akira Kurosawa | Japanese director | 's film Yojimbo depicts a samurai bodyguard in Japan |
Paul Éluard | ... e his father, but Ernst's marriage to Luise was short-lived. In 1921 he met | , who became a close lifelong friend. Éluard bought two of Ernst's paintin ... |
Helen Thomas | White House reporter | became the public face of UPI, as she was seen at televised press conferen ... |
Queen Mary | ... th would typically have taken Philip's last name on marriage; however, when | , Elizabeth's paternal grandmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed ... |
King Ferdinand IV | ... this period. Napoleon's troops succeeded in entering Naples itself, forcing | to flee the city with his family. For the Maltese this meant that only Bri ... |
Casimir IV | ... at they would turn to Lithuania again, he marched against them. Deserted by | and surrounded on every side by the Moscow armies, that occupied the major ... |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... s and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of | . King has become a national icon in the history of modern American libera ... |
Roger Staubach | ... lers were led by Terry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll, and the Cowboys were led by | and Tom Landry |
Skeat | ... g.) There is little actual evidence for this proposal, and much against it. | believed that the A-text was incomplete and based his editions on a B-text ... |
André Breton | ... ar later the two collaborated on Les malheurs des immortels, and then, with | whom Ernst met in 1921, on the magazine Litterature. In 1922, unable to se ... |
Cassiodorus | ... the capital of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. According to | , he taught Latin at Constantinople |
Bertrand Russell | ... h the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as its Chairman, | as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary. The other mem ... |
Garry Shandling | ... t. Aside from the name, it needed to build a new show. Both Dana Carvey and | declined to host it. Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels was broug ... |
Hippocrates | ... larly determined by the dominant humor in a particular person. According to | , melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, hence the name, which ... |
Robert Graves | ... Tilman survived the battle, along with the British writers J.R.R. Tolkien, | , David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister Harold Macmill ... |
Dale Wasserman | ... eography by George Balanchine, an American musicalMan of La Mancha (1965)by | , Mitch Leigh, and Joe Darion. which was made into a film in 1972, directe ... |
George Pérez | ... mics continuity, another version of this god, clearly not Dream, appears in | 's Wonder Woman #11 (December 1987) — what relation this figure, an old ma ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... ike many young writers of his generation, Hugo was profoundly influenced by | , the famous figure in the literary movement of Romanticism and France's p ... |
Vincent Sheean | ... and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film. It was based on | 's political memoir Personal History (1935), the rights to which were purc ... |
Tom Landry | ... rry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll, and the Cowboys were led by Roger Staubach and | |
Henry Ford | ... manufacturing engineering, operations research, and management consultancy. | downplayed the role of Taylorism in the development of mass production at ... |
György Lukács | ... g Jellinek, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, Marc Bloch, Robert Michels and | . Weber also remained active in Verein and the Evangelical Social Congress ... |
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 ... |
James III of Scotland | ... arete of Denmark (1456–1486), 13 years old married to the 17 years old King | # Frederick (1471–1533), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later ... |
Albrecht Dürer | Artists using this technique include | , Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Edward Hoppe ... |
Jeremy Vine | Notable people who were born in Epsom include television personalities | , Mel Giedroyc and Michaela Strachan (born in Ewell) as well as artist Sim ... |
Charles Dickens | ... character Little Dorrit (Amy) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper (née Mitton): | sometimes visited her and her family; they lived in The Cedars, a house on ... |
James I | ... le' is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the accession of | in 1406 |
Hussein Ibish | While Horowitz was on the Riz Khan television show with | , he was reported by Ibish to have published on his Frontpage Mag website: ... |
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 ... |
Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba | ... er neighbours and competing with Rwanda. Its greatest growth occurred under | , who ruled the nation from about 1796 to 1850 and saw the kingdom double ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... tee" included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by | . Von Braun's Group was referred to as the "Working Group on Vehicular Pro ... |
Cristina Ferrare | According to his autobiography, both DeLorean and ex-wife | became born-again Christians following the entrapment controversy. DeLorea ... |
Ennius | ... ragments from Latin authors which would otherwise have been lost, including | , Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and Varro. But the authors whom he quot ... |
Erich Segal | ... early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned storytelling, especially with | 's Love Story. The seventies also saw the decline of previously well-respe ... |
Catherine I | During the reign of | , Peter was quite ignored; but just before her death it became clear to th ... |
David Levy Yulee | In 1851, | established a sugar plantation on the Homosassa River, close to the curren ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... in 1963, and it and the Delaware Turnpike were both dedicated by President | . The highway extended from the northern Baltimore city limits to the Dela ... |
Stanley Fish | ... udies on faculty party affiliation. Critics of the proposed policy, such as | , have argued that "academic diversity", as Horowitz describes it, is not ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... om there he became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: | , Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palm ... |
Joe Darion | ... American musicalMan of La Mancha (1965)by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh, and | . which was made into a film in 1972, directed by Arthur Hiller, and a son ... |
Charles VI | ... d three-quarters of the nobility were on his side, while his uncle, Emperor | , through the imperial ambassador at Saint Petersburg, persistently urged ... |
Simon Reynolds | The term "post-rock" is believed to have been coined by critic | in his review of Bark Psychosis' album Hex, published in the March 1994 is ... |
Bona Sforza | In 1517, Sigismund married | , with whom he had |
Brian De Palma | ... ends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, | , George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palma who introduced ... |
Betty Friedan | ... opted by critics of some types or aspects of feminism; second-wave feminist | is a notable example. Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite se ... |
Princess Margaret | In the early 1950s, his sister-in-law, | , considered marrying a divorced older man, Peter Townsend. The press accu ... |
Sergei Diaghilev | ... Rimsky-Korsakov conducted a pair of concerts in Paris, hosted by impresario | , which featured music of the Russian nationalist school. The concerts wer ... |
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 ... |
Eustache Deschamps | ... rt poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of | , "monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme", and in Geor ... |
Ariel Levy | ... pects of feminism; second-wave feminist Betty Friedan is a notable example. | used the term in similar, but opposite sense in her book, Female Chauvinis ... |
Pacuvius | ... from Latin authors which would otherwise have been lost, including Ennius, | , Accius, Lucilius, Cato and Varro. But the authors whom he quotes most fr ... |
Jane Alexander | ... aby to term and adopted a child named Samara (Daveigh Chase). Dr. Grasnik ( | ) recounts that Anna soon complained about gruesome visions that only happ ... |
Severus | ... It was not to be: Constantius and Galerius were promoted to Augusti, while | and Maximin were appointed their Caesars respectively. Constantine and Max ... |
Aristophanes | The most famous mention of Iacchus is in The Frogs by | , where the Mystae (mystics) invoke him as a riotous dancer in the meadow, ... |
Pope John Paul II | Of the 232 cardinals that | elevated, four were named in pectore. The identities of three of these wer ... |
Emperor Frederick III | ... , Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire (a rank bestowed by | on the Leszczyński family) |
George Lucas | ... fluential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, | , and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to R ... |
Walter Wanger | ... oir Personal History (1935), the rights to which were purchased by producer | for $10,000 |
Pliny the Elder | ... C (of grief, according to Cicero; Tusculan Disputations 3.31). According to | the craftsmen continued to work on the tomb after the death of their patro ... |
Jackie Chan | In the film Shanghai Noon martial arts and cinema star | plays the role of an Imperial Guard of China on a mission to America to he ... |
Michael Foot | ... ive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, | , Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat |
Saul Bellow | ... eventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as | and Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start ... |
Edgar Faure | ... ded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister | (1955–1956) |
Mel Giedroyc | ... people who were born in Epsom include television personalities Jeremy Vine, | and Michaela Strachan (born in Ewell) as well as artist Simon Starling, ac ... |
Tom Harmon | ... 1969. DeLorean then married Kelly Harmon, daughter of Heisman Trophy winner | and actress Elyse Knox and also sister of actor Mark Harmon, on 31 May 196 ... |
Denzel Washington | In the film Man on Fire, John Creasy ( | ) is a burnt-out ex-CIA officer and counter-insurgency operative who grudg ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... rats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and | . It was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to Robert De Niro. During ... |
Albert Camus | ... f a Condemned Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as | , Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary shor ... |
Michaela Strachan | ... orn in Epsom include television personalities Jeremy Vine, Mel Giedroyc and | (born in Ewell) as well as artist Simon Starling, actor Warwick Davis, act ... |
Arthur Hiller | ... itch Leigh, and Joe Darion. which was made into a film in 1972, directed by | , and a song by Brazilian tropicalia-pioneers Os Mutantes |
George Bernard Shaw | ... ayers, a theater group for young people that performs uncut Shakespeare and | plays |
Chrysaor | ... of Tartarus and Gaia, while according to Hesiod, either Ceto and Phorcys or | and the naiad Callirhoe were her parents. Another account says her parents ... |
Mohammed Nadir Shah | ... who was born on October 15, 1914, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was the son of | , a senior member of the Barakzai royal family and commander in chief of t ... |
Kingsley Martin | ... Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, | , J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat |
Richie Hawtin | ... t Stockhausen a package of recordings from contemporary artists Aphex Twin, | (Plastikman), Scanner and Daniel Pemberton, and asked him for his opinion ... |
Lorne Michaels | ... arvey and Garry Shandling declined to host it. Saturday Night Live producer | was brought in to develop the new show and comedians Jon Stewart, Drew Car ... |
John Cage | ... the band. Cale, who was influenced greatly by his work with La Monte Young, | and the early Fluxus movement, encouraged the use of alternative ways of p ... |
Gareth Edwards | ... as the venue for what is considered to be "the greatest try ever scored" by | for the Barbarians against the New Zealand All Blacks in what is also call ... |
Georges Chastellain | ... champs, "monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme", and in | 's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century ... |
Melody Maker | ... "post-rock" before using it in Mojo, previously using it in music newspaper | . He also said he later found the term to not be of his own creation, sayi ... |
Conan O'Brien | Late Night with Conan O'Brien an American late-night talk show hosted by | that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured ... |
Euripides | In the Heracleidae of | , Macaria ("she who is blessed") is a daughter of Heracles. Even after Her ... |
Aristotle | ... the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, | , and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, Porphyry, a ... |
Charles V | :For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor | , see: William de Croÿ |
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 ... |
Sergei Eisenstein | ... ets factory that is well known in Russia, and a fictional Soviet submarine. | 's film describes and glorifies the revolution and was commissioned to com ... |
William Hazlitt | ... who also take a less critical approach to the character of Othello such as | saying that "the nature of the Moor is noble... but his blood is of the mo ... |
Reggie Jackson | ... relationships between teammates, who included Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue and | , gave the lie to the need for "chemistry" between players. The National L ... |
Speaker of the House of Commons | ... be signed by government ministers, Parliamentary Private Secretaries or the | and very few are debated on the floor of the Chamber of the House. EDMs re ... |
Numitor | ... er is sometimes said to be the sole founder. Their maternal grandfather was | , rightful king of Alba Longa, a faithful descendant of the Trojan prince ... |
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas | ... Florida and mentions de León looking for them there; his account influenced | ' history of the Spanish in the New World. Fontaneda had spent seventeen y ... |
Theseus | ... zes and labyrinths, due to her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and | . Her father put her in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made ... |
Plato's | Platonic idealism usually refers to | theory of forms or doctrine of ideas |
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 ... |
Fidel V. Ramos | ... Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. General | took a stand against Marcos, ushering in the bloodless People Power Revolu ... |
Amphiaraus | Pausanias (author of Periegesis of Greece) wrote this of | in Oropos, Attica, in the 2nd century A.D. |
Nicholson Baker | Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of | 's novel The Fermata for director Robert Zemeckis, although the project wa ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... n envelope of anti-government materials that included a bumper sticker with | slogan, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the ... |
John Wesley | The Methodist Church, founded by | , upholds Article VII in the Articles of Religion in the Book of Disciplin ... |
James Ellroy | ... It had a number of photographs and recently was reissued with a foreword by | , the author of LA Confidential |
Emile Chautard | ... e keeper Mrs. Haggerty (Louise Closser Hale), French officer Major Lenard ( | ), and a mysterious Eurasian, Henry Chang (Warner Oland) |
Clarence Brown | Another adaptation by Frances Marion was released in 1930 directed by | , starring Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion and Marie Dress ... |
Eurystheus | ... o is blessed") is a daughter of Heracles. Even after Heracles's death, King | pursues his lifelong vendetta against the hero by hunting down his childre ... |
Robert Zemeckis | ... a screenplay adaptation of Nicholson Baker's novel The Fermata for director | , although the project was stalled while Zemeckis made The Polar Express a ... |
Richie Ashburn | ... m a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder | and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the out ... |
Shen Kuo | ... uncing special times of the day. There was also the scientist and statesman | (1031–1095). Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo ... |
Robert III | ... ll of Saint Baldred. A century on Wyntown's Cronykil relates: "In 1406 King | , apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards James I) from the Du ... |
Nero | ... the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor | , a great multitude of native Egyptians (as opposed to or Jews) embraced t ... |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | ... during Wright’s time. One of the major works that influenced Native Son was | ’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This novel was published in 1852 and was not only th ... |
François Truffaut | Interviewed in 1966 by | , Alfred Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story |
Alexander I of Scotland | ... oir, Bishop of Dunkeld. Later tradition placed it back in the reign of King | (1107–24), who probably had some involvement in the island. He was apparen ... |
John Denver | ... music. It started with pop music singers like Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, | , Olivia Newton-John, Anne Murray, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas, The Bellamy ... |
Niccolò Machiavelli | ... ould have trouble maintaining his domain without continued Papal patronage. | cites Cesare's dependence on the good will of the Papacy, under the contro ... |
Nelly Sachs | ... Literature. He was the first German-born author to receive this award since | in 1966. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he ... |
Ibn Bajjah | The first planetary model without any epicycles was that of | (Avempace) in 12th century Andalusian Spain, but epicycles were not elimin ... |
Philostratus | ... n the framing device that gives an air of authenticity to the narratives of | ' Heroicus, a late literary representation of Greek hero-cult traditions t ... |
Martin McDonagh | The Cripple of Inishmaan by | is a play set on the Aran Islands at the time of the filming of Man of Ara ... |
Terpander | ... ringing of the Greek lyre in the heroic age. Plutarch says that Olympus and | used but three strings to accompany their recitation. As the four strings ... |
Plato | ... that truth is an abstraction. In other words, we are urged to believe that | 's theory of ideas is an abstraction, divorced from the so-called external ... |
Theseus | ... thens, depending on the version of the myth); however, she would later help | in overcoming the Minotaur and saving the would-be sacrificial victims. In ... |
George II | In 1737, | began paying some London and Middlesex watchmen with tax moneys, beginning ... |
Joseph Goebbels | In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister | told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that British political cartoon ... |
Lincoln Steffens | ... use of a valuable contact he had made at Harvard, the muckraking journalist | , who appreciated Reed's skills and intellect at an early date. Steffens l ... |
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 ... |
Alice Cooper | ... anuary 2000, Megadeth enlisted guitarist Al Pitrelli, formerly of Savatage, | , and Trans-Siberian Orchestra, as Friedman's replacement |
Herodotus | Since | , Typhon has been identified by some scholars with the Egyptian Set. In th ... |
Ray Fosse | ... to Kings game at the same time. On TV, Glen Kuiper covers play-by-play, and | provides color commentary. Fosse also does color commentary on the radio w ... |
Alfonso the Chaste | In 1177, | went to the siege of Al- Madinat kunka (Cuenca) with a group armed and ide ... |
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 ... |
Isabella | As one of their first acts after the war of succession, Ferdinand and | established the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brotherhood (Santa ... |
Salomea of Berg | ... lklingen. If this parentage is correct, Judith was the great-grandmother of | , second wife of (her later stepson) |
Boris Yefimov | ... died in December 2006 at the age of 104. Another witness of revolution was | who died in 2008 |
John Battelle | ... cknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by , a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student. | , co-founder of Wired magazine, wrote of Page that he had reasoned that th ... |
Su Song | ... l hour, the device was also a striking clock. The famous clock tower of the | built by 1094 during the Song Dynasty would employ Yi Xing's escapement wi ... |
George W. Bush | ... e Atlantic Ocean surrounding the island, but this was ended after President | ordered the closure of the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station and the Vieques I ... |
Ferdinand | As one of their first acts after the war of succession, | and Isabella established the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brothe ... |
Plato | ... . With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, | , Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, ... |
Glenn Beck | ... kshop telling our impressionable youth what to think." in an act 'spoofing' | |
Árpád | ... settlement was established in 1896 by Hungarians, under the name Árpádhon ( | , the leader of the Hungarian tribes and -hon as home(land)) |
Livy | ... Antiochus IV was pressured by the Roman Republic to withdraw. According to | , "Popilius...placed in [Antiochus'] hand the tablets on which was written ... |
Barack Obama | ... won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat | won 54% of the county's vote |
Harold Bloom | ... rthering his control over the characters . A. C. Bradley, and more recently | , have been major advocates of this interpretation. Other critics, most no ... |
Philip II | ... nds above every other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings | and Alexander the Great are included), although modern historians have que ... |
John Cage | Many of the later 20th-century composers, such as | , John Corigliano and Steve Reich, used modernist and minimalist technique ... |
Ernesto Zedillo | In 1997, President | commemorated the 150th anniversary of the execution of the San Patricios a ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... was George Washington Baines, maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President | . Within Saline is the Magnolia Baptist Church. Several miles east of Sali ... |
Frances Marion | Another adaptation by | was released in 1930 directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Cha ... |
Dashiell Hammett | ... s the sequel to the film The Thin Man. The movie presents Powell and Loy as | 's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dy ... |
Demophon | ... gs and her father's old friend Iolaus to Athens, where they are received by | , the king |
Rod Roddy | ... n died in late 1985, Gene Wood filled in as announcer until producers chose | as Olson's replacement. The nighttime version did not feature rotating aud ... |
J. Michael Straczynski | He was the only person other than | to write a Babylon 5 script in the last three seasons, contributing the se ... |
Jordanes | ... andinavia) from Götaland (Gothland) in southern Sweden. The Roman historian | refers to an Evagreotingi (Greuthung island) in Scandza, as part of his de ... |
Julian | ... nt, most other sources report his death as occurring in its middle. Emperor | , writing in the mid-350s, observes that the Sassanians escaped punishment ... |
Louise Closser Hale | ... r Eric Baum (Gustav von Seyffertitz), boarding house keeper Mrs. Haggerty ( | ), French officer Major Lenard (Emile Chautard), and a mysterious Eurasian ... |
Alexander of Pherae | ... e to a petition of the Thessalians, Pelopidas was sent with an army against | . After driving Alexander out, he passed into Macedon and arbitrated betwe ... |
Stephen Sondheim | ... ees are Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Past awardees are composers such as | and performers such as Carol Channing. The 2010 award will go to |
Jimmy Carter | ... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President | 's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ... |
President | ... – January 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician and leader, was the son of | Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic ... |
Lorenz Hart | ... ry that the actual translator, uncredited, was Rodgers' first major partner | . The Theatre Guild presented it in New York City in 1921, with Joseph Sch ... |
George Washington | ... ildings are located; and Washington Street, which was named after President | . The street-numbering system centers not on the Circle, but rather one bl ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... scene of the film depicting Buckaroo's test run of the latter-day Jet Car. | plays Buckaroo Banzai's mother, Sandra Banzai |
Bill Clinton | ... n a majority in the county before 2008 was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although | won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat ... |
Francisco López de Gómara | ... ally inspired to generate favor in the courts. A similar account appears in | 's Historia General de las Indias of 1551. In the Memoir of Hernando D'Esc ... |
Edward Rowe Snow | ... ppeared in True Tales of Buried Treasure, written by explorer and historian | in 1951. In this book he states he was given this set of symbols by Revere ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... e refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" (from | ). He also carried an envelope of anti-government materials that included ... |
Stephen Sondheim | His advice and work influenced | , a friend of the Hammerstein family from childhood. Sondheim has attribut ... |
Albert Hackett | ... on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel or short story. | and Frances Goodrich wrote the screenplay |
Theseus | ... of "heavenly" Dia, fathered either by Ixion or by Zeus. His best friend was | . In Iliad I, Nestor numbers Pirithous and Theseus "of heroic fame" among ... |
Max Eastman | ... position than theirs. In 1913 he joined the staff of The Masses, edited by | and his sister Crystal. To this publication Jack contributed more than 50 ... |
Matthew Fontaine Maury | ... The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, Commander | , advocate of the creation of the United States Naval Academy, after whom ... |
Augustine of Hippo | An interpretation of | 's notion of original sin was strongly affirmed by the Protestant Reformer ... |
Frances Goodrich | ... ick and Nora, but not a particular novel or short story. Albert Hackett and | wrote the screenplay |
Alexander the Great | ... wenty-seven years after his death, a recalcitrant Thebes was obliterated by | . Thus Epaminondas—who had been praised in his time as an idealist and lib ... |
Henry I of France | ... n 9 April 1054, Judith was betrothed to Philip, eldest son and heir of King | . However, the engagement was broken in September 1058, when her brother E ... |
Marcos Pérez Jiménez | Television in Venezuela began in 1952 when the dictator | launched the state channel Televisora Nacional, making Venezuela the ninth ... |
Bradley King | In 1923 Anna Christie was adapted by | for a film and directed by John Griffith Wray and Thomas H. Ince with star ... |
Dave McKean | ... ere. He cowrote the screenplay for the movie MirrorMask with his old friend | for McKean to direct. In addition, he wrote the localized English language ... |
Johnny Bench | ... rson's team, which included Pete Rose as well as Hall of Famers Tony Perez, | and Joe Morgan, succeeded the A's run in 1975 |
Dian Parkinson | ... nd racial discrimination. Allegations of sexual harassment brought by model | led to Barker calling a press conference to admit a past consensual sexual ... |
Patty Duke | ... ony to present the Honorary Juvenile Award. The following year, 16 year-old | starred in The Miracle Worker and in 1963, was nominated for and won the A ... |
Chris Claremont | Its first issues were written by longstanding X-Men writer | and drawn and co-plotted by Jim Lee. Retailers pre-ordered this book at 8 ... |
Anna May Wong | Among the other passengers are fellow coaster Hui Fei ( | ), zealous missionary Mr. Carmichael (Lawrence Grant), inveterate gambler ... |
Euripides | If | ' tragedy, Protesilaos, had survived, his name would be more familiar toda ... |
Sparta | ... loponnesian League. Henceforth, its policy was usually determined either by | or Corinth |
Lynn Swann | ... ship Game against the Oakland Raiders, his fourth-quarter touchdown pass to | proved to be the winning score in a 24-13 victory. In the Steelers’ 16-6 S ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... ters news agency. The photo included a protest sign that depicted Bert with | , an image that had been inadvertently placed there by the owner of a post ... |
Dashiell Hammett | The film's story was written by | , based on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel or sho ... |
Rowan Williams | ... appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, | , at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and journalism, amo ... |
Acastus | Laodamia was the wife of Protesilaus and daughter of | and Astydameia. After Protesilaus was killed in the Trojan War he was allo ... |
Theseus | ... ven or nine years to the Minotaur. One year, the sacrificial party included | , the son of King Aegeus, who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur. A ... |
Bernard of Clairvaux | Gregory the Great, Alcuin of York, | and Nicholas Gorranus all made passing references to 'chastity belts' with ... |
Aristophanes | ... dicated to the nymphs and to Pan, and to the rivers Achelous and Cephisus." | mentions Iaso humorously in Ploutos, when one of the characters, Cario, re ... |
Arthur Pigou | ... ly funded only by two Dons at the university – his father and the economist | . In 1909 Keynes published his first professional economics article in the ... |
Stephanie Morgenstern | ... nako's seiyū is Rika Fukami. In the English-language dub, Mina is voiced by | (the original and R seasons and movies) and Emilie-Claire Barlow (S and Su ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ich was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of | ) and "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the bl ... |
Twyla Tharp | In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer | , scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album, The Catherine Wheel f ... |
Frank Herbert | ... adimir Harkonnen is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by | . He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent ... |
Robert Zemeckis | He cowrote the script for | 's Beowulf with Roger Avary, a collaboration that has proved productive fo ... |
Joe Morgan | ... h included Pete Rose as well as Hall of Famers Tony Perez, Johnny Bench and | , succeeded the A's run in 1975 |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... extinction of the dinosaurs under which to accumulate relevant differences. | describes many of the same examples as parallel evolution starting from th ... |
Maxwell Anderson | ... ng and ZaSu Pitts. It opens with a stage re-enactment of the final scene of | 's Elizabeth the Queen, with Fontanne as Elizabeth and Lunt as the Earl of ... |
Aegeus | ... Minotaur. One year, the sacrificial party included Theseus, the son of King | , who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur. Ariadne fell in love at f ... |
Jerry Bock | ... y in New York City is the Administrator of the award. The 2009 awardees are | and Sheldon Harnick. Past awardees are composers such as Stephen Sondheim ... |
Thomas H. Ince | ... s adapted by Bradley King for a film and directed by John Griffith Wray and | with stars Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion and Eugenie Be ... |
James IV | In 1497 King | visited the Bass and stayed in the castle with a later Sir Robert Lauder o ... |
Ratchis | ... y Abbot Petronax, when among the monks were Carloman, son of Charles Martel | ;, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and Paul the De ... |
Aegisthus | In Greek mythology, Aletes was the son of | and Clytemnestra, the king and queen of Mycenae. He had two sisters: Erigo ... |
Joseph Scaliger | The Julian day number is based on the Julian Period proposed by | in 1583, at the time of the Gregorian calendar reform, but it is the multi ... |
Ernest Vajda | The movie was adapted by | (screenplay) and Claudine West (continuity) and was directed by Sidney Fra ... |
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 ... |
William Morris | ... , prosperous once more, left him indifferent. (Böll seemed to be a pupil of | – he made known that he would have preferred Cologne cathedral unfinished, ... |
Peadar O'Donnell | Notable supporters of the Irish CND included | , Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Hubert Butler |
Vince Cable | ... n Time on 18 September 2008, he praised Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman | for his analysis of the ongoing economic and financial crisis, and apparen ... |
Jim Lee | ... en by longstanding X-Men writer Chris Claremont and drawn and co-plotted by | . Retailers pre-ordered this book at 8 million copies, but probably sold c ... |
Merrill Edward Gates | # | , 1890—189 |
Herodotus | ... e same time. With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, | , Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laë ... |
Milton Friedman | David Friedman is the son of economists Rose and | . His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and m ... |
Stephen Colbert | ... xas Ranger Lever while Chuck Norris was coincidentally sponsoring Huckabee. | made the claim that because of "the Colbert bump", he was responsible for ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... tension of the Civil War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln, | and Grant, and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves ... |
Joseph Campbell | ... Metrical Dindsenchas in which the Dagda fights a giant octopus. Mythologist | also makes parallels to the slaying of Leviathan by YHWH, about which YHWH ... |
Paul Schrader | ... ker, cinematographers Michael Ballhaus and Robert Richardson, screenwriters | Mardik Martin, and John Logan, costume designer Sandy Powell, production d ... |
Charlie Carlson | Author | claims to have spoken with a supposed St. Augustine-based secret society c ... |
James A. Garfield | During the American Civil War, Union troops under future president | occupied the town from December 1861 until the end of the war, despite sev ... |
John de Courcy Ireland | ... n the same year, a branch of CND was also set in the Republic of Ireland by | , and his wife Beatrice, aiming to campaign for the Irish government to su ... |
Beatrix I, Abbess of Quedlinburg | ... a (who also died in infancy). In addition, Judith had an older half-sister, | and Gandersheim, born from her father's first marriage with Gunhilda of De ... |
Sadi Carnot | ... n royalty. Also present were General Joseph Brugère, representing President | ; the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies as well as thei ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... and the play was a success, running 300 performances. A 1940 revival, with | and Ingrid Bergman was seen by both Hammerstein and Rodgers. Glazer, in in ... |
Sparta | ... C who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of | n subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek politics. In the process ... |
Sparta | ... tury BC, when Dorian supremacy was re-established, perhaps by the agency of | under the ephor Chilon, and the city was enrolled in the Peloponnesian Lea ... |
Zhang Heng | ... liptical ring by 84 CE. With the famous statesman, astronomer, and inventor | (张衡, 78-139 CE), the sphere was totally complete in 125 CE, with horizon a ... |
Alan Marshall | ... . S. Van Dyke and also featured Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, | , and Penny Singleton |
Constantine II | ... the Holy Apostles there. He was succeeded by his three sons born of Fausta, | , Constantius II and Constans. A number of relatives were killed by follow ... |
Ferenc Molnár | The Guardsman is a 1931 film based on the play Testőr by | . It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts. It ope ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... lway, which also links Florence with Rome. The station is located at Piazza | , in the frazione of Santa Maria degli Angeli, about southwest of the city ... |
Tom Hanks | ... kroyd as the stiff Joe Friday (the original Detective Friday's nephew), and | as his partner Pep Streebeck. The film contrasted the terse, clipped chara ... |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... nd's lush landscape has a strong bearing on its economy and culture. Author | drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setti ... |
James I | ... n 1406 King Robert III, apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards | ) from the Duke of Albany, placed the youthful prince in the safe-custody ... |
Sparky Anderson | ... ue, on the other hand, belonged to the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati, where | 's team, which included Pete Rose as well as Hall of Famers Tony Perez, Jo ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... ever, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President | (who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid), the Palestinian fighter ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... r four years of Union campaigns in April 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to | , and the Confederacy effectively collapsed |
Alexander Woollcott | ... il 1923. The production was staged by Arthur Hopkins starring Pauline Lord. | in the New York Times called it "a singularly engrossing play", and advise ... |
Jerome | ... al School of Alexandria is the oldest catechetical school in the world. St. | records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by Saint Mark ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Julian | ... ated succession. He also had two daughters, Constantina and Helena, wife of | |
Saxo Grammaticus | ... person. In his Gesta Danorum (book 13), the Danish 12th century chronicler | noted that the Geats had no say in the election of the king, only the Swed ... |
Harry Morgan | ... edic effect. Beyond Aykroyd's effective imitation of Webb's Joe Friday (and | 's small role reprising his earlier role as Bill Gannon, now a captain and ... |
G. S. Viereck | ... could not understand the nature of God in an interview published in 1930 in | 's book Glimpses of the Great explaining: "I'm not an atheist. I don't thi ... |
Ken Korach | ... ics' flagship radio station is KGMZ 95.7 FM. The current announcing team is | and Vince Cotroneo |
Ricki Lake | ... tured on the series Gameshow Marathon, hosted by talk show host and actress | . This version combined aspects of the Barker and Davidson versions with t ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... e striking example of similar placental and marsupial forms is described by | in The Blind Watchmaker as a case of convergent evolution, because mammals ... |
Boudica | ... eni revolted against the Roman invasion in 47 AD, and again in 60 AD led by | . The crushing of the second rebellion opened the county to the Romans. Du ... |
Fëanor | ... e later largely replaced by the Tengwar (which were enhanced and brought by | ), they were adopted by Dwarves to write down their Khuzdul language (Ange ... |
Eric V of Denmark | ... nt Danish throne, as king Christian I. He was a cognatic descendant of King | through his second daughter Richeza. The throne was first offered by the S ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... overnment. Richmond fell after four years of Union campaigns in April 1865, | surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, and the Confederacy effectively collapsed |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... s longevity. It is a frequently used plot device in age regression stories. | used the Fountain in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" to demonstrate that posi ... |
Ernest Rutherford | ... aper, with some unknown radiation that could not be turned off like X-rays. | continued these experiments and discovered two different kinds of radiatio ... |
Dicaearchus | ... rk on the Pythagoreans, which unfortunately has not survived. His disciples | , Aristoxenus, and Heraclides Ponticus had written on the same subject. Th ... |
Mike Myers | ... h the exception of Adam Sandler), and included such stars as Jim Carrey and | . As the show was taped at a theater, unlike the trip to L.A., the set bui ... |
Roger Ebert | ... s and currently holds a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Film critic | named The Right Stuff best film of the year, and wrote, "it joins a short ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... e only major city in which rioting did not occur. Many credit the speech by | , who was in town campaigning for President that night, for helping to cal ... |
Blot-Sweyn | ... Swedish king Inge the Elder fled to Västergötland when deposed in favour of | , a king more favourable towards Norse paganism, in the 1080s. Inge would ... |
Josephus | ... n dynasty is the first book of The Wars of the Jews by the Jewish historian | , (37–shortly after 100 CE). Josephus' account is the only primary source ... |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... ich the AFP played a key role. The revolution installed then Vice-President | into the presidency |
Eugenio Montale | ... re, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including | , Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. ... |
Thamyris | ... Turkey) bordering the Lydian empire. Some mythic masters like Musaeus, and | were believed to have been born in Thrace, another place of extensive Gree ... |
Eugene O'Neill | Anna Christie is a play in four acts by | . It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921 ... |
Philip II | ... Thebes, he brought home hostages, including the king's brother, afterwards | . Philip learned there many tactics of the southern Greeks, both in politi ... |
Thomas Killigrew | ... Cassio; Walter Clun won fame for his Iago. Soon after, on 8 December 1660, | 's new King's Company acted the play at their Vere Street theatre, with Ma ... |
Henry VIII | The political separation of the Church of England from Rome under | , beginning in 1529 and completed in 1536, brought England alongside this ... |
Shigesato Itoi | ... latter considered an official translation of its title. It was designed by | , who also developed its predecessor, the Japan-exclusive Mother. EarthBou ... |
Italo Calvino | ... other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, | , Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third pag ... |
Jacob Grimm | ... r fairy tales. This was notably attempted by the Brothers Grimm, especially | in his Teutonic Mythology, and Elias Lönnrot with the compilation of the K ... |
Jules Furthman | ... e Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by | , based on a story by Harry Hervey. It was the fourth of seven teamings of ... |
Zeno | ... an episode of the struggle for power between Aspar and the Isaurian general | , Aspar persuaded the emperor to appoint his second son, Julius Patricius, ... |
Anthony Haden-Guest | ... ied in 1996. He succeeded upon the ineligibility of his older half-brother, | , who was born prior to the marriage of his parents. According to an artic ... |
Ghassan Kanafani | ... ur civilians. Israel later claimed that the assassination of PFLP spokesman | was a response to the PFLP's involvement in masterminding the latter attac ... |
King George II | ... of her £500 income as Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Sarah was also rude to | –making it clear that he was "too much of a German"–which further alienate ... |
Euler | ... stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz and | ). A special case of Fermat's theorem may have been known much earlier by ... |
Franco Harris | ... s featured the "Steel Curtain" defense and a powerful running attack led by | , but Bradshaw's strong arm gave them the threat of the deep pass, helping ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... talian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, | , Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entir ... |
A. J. P. Taylor | ... her prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, | , Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Rus ... |
Castor of Rhodes | ... fter him comes the Dorian usurper Phalces. Pausanias shares his source with | , who used the king-list in compiling tables of history; the common source ... |
Mel Brooks' | The term lent itself to several "in" jokes: in | s film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot poi ... |
Satyajit Ray | ... ard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, | , and François Truffaut |
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 ... |
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | ... Matilda (later wife of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Duke of Swabia and Antiking), | and Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria (who also died in infancy). In addition, Ju ... |
John D. Winters | ... nd the task of holding the cadets in class hopeless. According to historian | of Louisiana Tech University |
William Luther Pierce | ... ocks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter (a 1989 novel by | , the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance) and ... |
Richard Nixon | NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after | proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better ... |
François Truffaut | ... , Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and | |
Nelson Algren | Native Son was the original title of Chicago writer | 's first novel Somebody in Boots, based on a piece of doggerel about the f ... |
Lattice C | The company also sold the | compiler for the Sinclair QL and the Atari ST and range of other languages ... |
Guillermo del Toro | ... or Warner Independent. Don Murphy and Susan Montford are the producers, and | is the film's executive producer |
James VII | Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass for | for a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ... |
Tim Powers | ... n Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend; and | featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 18th century pirate-voodoo ad ... |
Aristoxenus | ... hagoreans, which unfortunately has not survived. His disciples Dicaearchus, | , and Heraclides Ponticus had written on the same subject. These writers, ... |
Edward II | ... and Aylsham webb or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of | and III |
David Maraniss | ... he led the construction of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Monona Terrace. | wrote a book, They Marched into Sunlight, which incorporated the 1967 Dow ... |
Elias Lönnrot | ... y the Brothers Grimm, especially Jacob Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology, and | with the compilation of the Kalevala. The work of the Brothers Grimm influ ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... last Republican presidential candidate to win a majority in the county was | , a Californian, in 1984 |
Henry Kissinger | ... purchase Lockheed L-1011 aircraft (the Lockheed bribery scandals). Although | tried to stop the details from making their way to the Japanese government ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... pared the United States for World War II and promoted the career of General | , known for his organizational skills |
Rosanne Cash | ... & Dunn; Faith Hill; Garth Brooks; Dwight Yoakam; Steve Earle; Dolly Parton | ;and Linda Ronstadt moved country further towards rock influence |
Ralph Nader | ... rebel" corporate businessman with his trendy dress style and casual banter. | 's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, published in 1965, criticized a number of De ... |
Cyrus the Great | To ensure that the new conquered peoples did not revolt, | showed respect to their customs and allowed them to continue to practice t ... |
Musaeus | ... r, modern day Turkey) bordering the Lydian empire. Some mythic masters like | , and Thamyris were believed to have been born in Thrace, another place of ... |
Stenkil | ... the Swedish House of Munsö became extinct with the death of Emund the Old. | , a Geat, was elected king of Sweden, and the Geats would be influential i ... |
Queen Caroline | ... the royal family continued, and Sarah was occasionally invited to court by | , who attempted to cultivate her friendship |
Frank Capra | Scorsese has earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, | , Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, ... |
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 ... |
Iamblichus | ... and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, Porphyry, and | for the biographical details. Aristotle had written a separate work on the ... |
Aistulf | ... of Charles Martel; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King | ; and Paul the Deacon, the historian of the Lombards |
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor | She was the daughter of | by his second wife Agnes, daughter of William V, Duke of Aquitaine and Cou ... |
Thomas Malory | ... th the "Carduel" of the French romances. However, in the late 15th century, | created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in hi ... |
Frantz Fanon | ... e wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." | discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay L'Experience Vecue du Noir, or "T ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... or previously granted to only two other heads of state: Peter the Great and | . Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philosophers, musicians and ... |
Sandy Koufax | ... form the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). The same year, | and Don Drysdale – both Cy Young Award winners for the Los Angeles Dodgers ... |
Dostoyevsky | ... biography was now fully developed and mature. He was greatly influenced by | , whose novels Strachey had been reading and reviewing as they appeared in ... |
Lucien Bouchard | ... om the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founder | was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... 2 American film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars | , Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Fu ... |
Jean-Luc Godard | ... earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, | , Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, S ... |
Ptolemy | ... f the ecliptic. Hipparchus probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. | describes his instrument in the Syntaxis (book v. chap. i). It consisted o ... |
Pindar | ... g her cheeks in mourning him, and games were organised there in his honour, | noted. The tomb of Protesilaus at Elaeus in the Thracian Chersonese is doc ... |
Augustine of Hippo | Catholic interpretation goes back to | , who taught that the tree should be understood both symbolically and as a ... |
President of the United States | ... he Native American village of Chiconcte. In 1810 it was renamed in honor of | James Madison |
Samuel Ferguson | ... Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and | |
Paul the Deacon | ... artel; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and | , the historian of the Lombards |
Brian McCann | ... he audience watched a montage of highlights from the show, and staff writer | greeted the audience (this task was formerly undertaken by head writer Mik ... |
E. P. Thompson | ... bara Wootton. Other prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, | , A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric B ... |
Thoas | ... er of Oenopion, the personification of wine, Staphylus (related to grapes), | , Peparethus, Phanus, Eurymedon, Enyeus, Ceramus, Maron, Euanthes, Latramy ... |
Prince Henry | ... or - described as the King's "familiar councillor" - and tutor to the young | |
Ferenc Molnár | ... stein II (book and lyrics). The work premiered in 1945 and was adapted from | 's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coast ... |
James Madison | ... hiconcte. In 1810 it was renamed in honor of President of the United States | |
Werner Herzog | ... m many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, | , Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, an ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... served as American Consul in Sweden during the administration of President | , to be State Immigration Commissioner. On March 23, 1870 the Legislature ... |
Tony Benn | ... French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minister for Technology, | , announced that he would change the spelling back to Concorde. This creat ... |
James I | During the 15th century | consigned several of his political enemies, including Walter Stewart to Th ... |
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 ... |
Luigi Albertini | ... by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction of | , it became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its impor ... |
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 ... |
Elia Kazan | ... ends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, | , Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and François T ... |
Don Drysdale | ... eague Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). The same year, Sandy Koufax and | – both Cy Young Award winners for the Los Angeles Dodgers – refused to re- ... |
Fabian Nicieza | ... cters from The New Mutants, led by Cable; it was written by Rob Liefeld and | . Internal friction soon split the X-books' creative teams. In a controver ... |
Alexander the Great | ... h not always accredited as the first practitioner of psychological warfare, | undoubtedly showed himself to be effective in swaying the mindsets of the ... |
Winston Churchill | ... I, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides. | claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues a ... |
Orson Welles | ... is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures | ;directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend; and Tim Po ... |
Pope Pius II | The city came again under papal jurisdiction under the rule of | (1458–1464) |
Hesychius | ... nyi (and Robert Graves) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from | ' listing of Άδνον, a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne, "utterly pure") was ... |
William McKinley | ... tary actions in Puerto Rico were suspended August 13, 1898, after President | and French Ambassador Jules Cambon, acting on behalf of the Spanish govern ... |
Anna May Wong | ... ef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, | , and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Furthman, based on a story by ... |
Teri Hatcher | ... ased on 6 February 2009, with Henry Selick directing and Dakota Fanning and | in the leading voice-actor roles |
Hugo Chávez | ... Perhaps the best known television show internationally is however President | ' weekly talkshow Aló Presidente, which began in 1999 |
Lenny Kravitz | ... . Bowie also would say later: "he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image." | , in the Rolling Stone magazine edition for their List of 100 Greatest Sin ... |
Alfonso X of Castile | ... clopaedia Britannica on Astronomy during the 1960s, in a discussion of King | 's interest in astronomy during the 13th century. (Alfonso is credited wit ... |
President | ... y Council, the Homeland Security Council, the Secretary of Defense, and the | . The Chief of Naval Operations is typically the highest ranking officer o ... |
Dino Buzzati | The Italian novelist | was a journalist at the Corriere, as were many other leading Italian write ... |
emperor | ... sulship in 434 after campaigning in Africa. However, Aspar could not become | because of his Arian religion. Instead, he played the role of kingmaker wi ... |
Akira Kurosawa | ... ng Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, | , David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and François Truffaut |
Agamemnon | ... ginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus. The penultimate king of the list, | , compels the submission of Sicyon to Mycenae; after him comes the Dorian ... |
Genghis Khan | | , leader of the Mongols in the 13th century AD, united his people to event ... |
Brothers Grimm | ... n mythology from folklore or fairy tales. This was notably attempted by the | , especially Jacob Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology, and Elias Lönnrot with ... |
Charles Seymour | ... marriage after the death of her husband, including one from her old enemy, | , the sixth Duke of Somerset. Ultimately, she decided against remarriage, ... |
Phillip Knightley | According to historian | , "The remaining years of Sir John Kerr's life were miserable ones. He was ... |
Justinian | ... ius are the primary source of information for the rule of the Roman emperor | . Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought ... |
Frederick V, Elector Palatine | ... the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and | |
Bolesław | ... ey wanted an eventual alliance with the only legitimate son of Władysław I, | , born from his first marriage with the Bohemian princess |
Frederick | # | (1471–1533), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later also King o ... |
Minos | ... ] "most" and αδνος [adnos] "holy"), in Greek mythology, was the daughter of | king of Crete, and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan. ... |
Marianne Faithfull | ... ersions had been made, by an eclectic mix of artists including Cilla Black, | , Tose Proeski, The Mamas and the Papas and Barry McGuire, The Seekers, Jo ... |
Pindar | ... of many such archaic adversaries, or he was confined beneath Mount Aetna ( | , Pythian Ode 1.19–20; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 370), where "his bed sc ... |
Paul Green | It was adapted for the stage by Wright and | , with some conflict between the authors affecting the project. The initia ... |
Marcian | ... for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, over Theodosius II, | and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed |
Woodrow Wilson | ... d used non-recognition as a political tool or symbolic statement. President | had refused to recognise the Mexican Revolutionary governments in 1913 and ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
Diogenes Laërtius | ... tus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on | , Porphyry, and Iamblichus for the biographical details. Aristotle had wri ... |
George Washington | ... st of the Mississippi River. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of | , and Thomas Jefferson planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The ... |
Commodus | ... the prow of a boat;" Gisela Richter noted coins of Elaeus from the time of | that show on their reverses Protesilaus on the prow of a ship, in helmet, ... |
Uriah Smith | Early Adventists Pioneers (such as George Storrs and | ) tended to de-emphasise the morally corrupt nature inherited from Adam, w ... |
Alistair Cooke | ... towering figure among the informative programmes was Letter from America by | , which was broadcast for over 50 years. For many years, a daily reading f ... |
Shapur | ... s for a campaign against Persia. In a letter written to the king of Persia, | , Constantine had asserted his patronage over Persia's Christian subjects ... |
Bertolt Brecht | ... and sometimes written to be played by amateurs. The concept was inspired by | . An example of this is his Trauermusik (Funeral Music), written in Januar ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... "Runes") are the letters of a semi-artificial script which was invented by | for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works. The initia ... |
Samuel Pepys | At the start of the Restoration era, on 11 October 1660, | saw the play at the Cockpit Theatre. Nicholas Burt played the lead, with C ... |
John Tidmarsh | ... irst broadcast in July 1966 and was presented for more than thirty years by | , who was awarded an OBE for his services to broadcasting |
Thomas Jefferson | ... iver. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of George Washington, and | planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The Lewis and Clark Expedi ... |
Hirohito | ... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regent | on 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident) |
Alcmaeon | ... is to Hestia and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the children of Amphilochus. But | , because of his treatment of Eriphyle, is honored neither in the temple o ... |
Ferenc Molnár | | 's Hungarian-language drama, Liliom, premiered in Budapest in 1909. The au ... |
Steven Berkoff | ... ected by Pantelis Voulgaris and starred Victoria Haralabidou, Damien Lewis, | and Kosta Sommer |
Emund the Old | ... e 11th century, the Swedish House of Munsö became extinct with the death of | . Stenkil, a Geat, was elected king of Sweden, and the Geats would be infl ... |
James I | ... anor. The ownership of the Lancaster manor changed hands many times, before | assigned it to his son, the future Charles I |
Frank Oz | ... children's television show, Sesame Street. Bert was originally performed by | . Since 2001, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary ... |
Aeschylus | ... saries, or he was confined beneath Mount Aetna (Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.19–20 | ;, Prometheus Bound 370), where "his bed scratches and goads the whole len ... |
Joseph Estrada | On 2000, then President | ordered the AFP to launch an "all-out war" against the Moro Islamic Libera ... |
Franklin Buchanan | ... h the founding and establishment of USNA. The first Superintendent, Admiral | , joined the Confederate States Navy as its first and primary admiral. Cap ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... hinese or the Japanese, and the secretary was further hampered by President | ’s clear indication that he would not support economic sanctions as a mean ... |
Nelson Mandela | EDMs tabled on serious topics have included one demanding the release of | when he was incarcerated in apartheid South Africa, and one calling for a ... |
Charles I | ... changed hands many times, before James I assigned it to his son, the future | |
Ingmar Bergman | Scorsese has earned praise from many film legends including | , Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, ... |
Hipparchus | ... ably used a solstitial armilla for measuring the obliquity of the ecliptic. | probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. Ptolemy describes his ins ... |
Oriana Fallaci | ... tellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, | and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entirely dedicated to ... |
William Caxton | ... popular over the centuries, though it was rejected by Malory's own editor, | , who preferred a Welsh location |
John Peel | ... ). Apart from news, there were music programmes, such as those presented by | , classical music programmes presented by Edward Greenfield, religious pro ... |
Olof Skötkonung | ... tland, and about Olaf the Holy's battles with the Geats during his war with | |
Alexander the Great | ... ecuted Artayctes, returning the treasure. The tomb was mentioned again when | arrived at Elaeus on his campaign against the Persian Empire. He offered a ... |
Van Morrison | ... & roll. He broke open the door for everyone else. Suddenly, Eric Burdon and | weren't so weird — even Bob Dylan. |
Isocrates | ... f a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and | , we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, Porphyry, and Iamblichus f ... |
Eratosthenes | The Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited | (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor of the armillary sphere. The name of this d ... |
David E. Talbert | ... United States Africa Command, The New York Times columnist William Rhoden, | , who is a playwright, TV producer and entrepreneur and Zaina Adamu, video ... |
Ruth White | ... is group consisted mostly of opponents of the Bahá'í administration such as | and Mirza Ahmad Sohrab |
George W. Bush | On March 23, 2007, President | signed legislation naming the United States Department of Education headqu ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | Guest married actress | in 1984 at the home of their mutual friend Rob Reiner. They have two adopt ... |
D. H. Pennington | ... r Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, | , Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations that had previously opposed B ... |
Virginia Stephen | ... s Thoby Stephen and Clive Bell, and they, together with sisters Vanessa and | (later Bell and Woolf respectively), eventually formed the Bloomsbury grou ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... odless People Power Revolution that removed Marcos from power and installed | as the new president of the Philippines |
Benito Mussolini | ... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator | , Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times |
Charles Lever | ... ical and cultural milieu"; guests at their salon included Sheridan le Fanu, | , George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson |
Ted Okuda | ... g of the dozens of Chaplin films and alternate versions can be found in the | -David Maska book Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tra ... |
Indro Montanelli | ... ing Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and | . The "third page" (a page once entirely dedicated to culture, in the Ital ... |
Curt Flood | ... challenge came in 1970. Backed by the MLBPA, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder | took the leagues to court to negate a player trade, citing the 13th Amendm ... |
John | # | (1455–1513), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Duke of Schleswig and Hol ... |
Belus | In Greek mythology, Lybie (, Lubiē; often written Lybië) was the mother of | by Poseidon and a personification and queen of the country of Libya. Some ... |
Ian Roberts | ... e, Rob Corddry, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, | , Matt Walsh and Andrew Daly also frequently appeared as sketch actors on ... |
Aristotelian | ... e Renaissance's revival of classical learning and thought. A revolt against | logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals through eloquence ... |
M. K. Asante, Jr. | ... ulty currently teaching at Morgan State University include author/filmmaker | , gerontologist Gaynell Simpson, and scholar Raymond Winbush who directs t ... |
Basava | ... opments took place in present day Karnataka inspired by three philosophers, | , Madhvacharya and Ramanuja |
Adolf Hitler | ... in fanatical support through the use of microphone technology was Germany's | . By first creating a speaking environment, designed by Joseph Goebbels, h ... |
Sparta | Upon the seizure of the Theban citadel by the | ns (383 or 382) he fled to Athens, and took the lead in a conspiracy to li ... |
Theodosius II | ... Roman Emperors for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, over | , Marcian and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed |
Philip II of Spain | ... rtuguese in 1641 while Spain began to colonize the Philippines (named after | ) from 1560s. Acting through the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch estab ... |
Pausanias | ... od" status. She did, however, have followers, the Iasides ("sons of Iaso"). | (author of Periegesis of Greece) wrote this of Amphiaraus in Oropos, Attic ... |
Matt Walsh | ... y, H. Jon Benjamin, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, | and Andrew Daly also frequently appeared as sketch actors on the show for ... |
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 ... |
Rob Reiner | ... married actress Jamie Lee Curtis in 1984 at the home of their mutual friend | . They have two adopted children: The Hon. Anne (born 1986) and The Hon. T ... |
Henry VIII | In 1519 | granted a market on Saturdays and an annual fair to be held on March 12, w ... |
Norman Newell | ... as that of teen idol Adam Faith: Faith was assigned to the label in 1959 by | , an EMI A&R man "without portfolio". Treading a path similar to other Bri ... |
Bob Dylan | ... eryone else. Suddenly, Eric Burdon and Van Morrison weren't so weird — even | . |
Laurence Olivier | ... have the magic touch, staging a disappointing revival of Twelfth Night with | and Vivien Leigh in 1955 and a disastrous production of Macbeth with Ralph ... |
Kirkvaag | ... portrayal. He narrated the short film "Diplomatix" by Norwegian comedy trio | , Lystad and Mjøen, which went on to win the "Special Prize of the City of ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator | , Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and ot ... |
Petra Kelly | During her 1984 visit to Australia, West German Greens parliamentarian | urged that the various Greens groups in Australia develop a national ident ... |
St. Helena | Scholars debate whether Constantine adopted his mother | 's Christianity in his youth, or whether he adopted it gradually over the ... |
Brian McCann | ... frequently appeared in sketches on the show. Among the most prolific were: | (Preparation H Raymond, FedEx Pope, The Loser, Airsick Moth, Jerry Butters ... |
George Tibbles | To keep the show's title plausible, the show's head writer, | , fashioned a three-part story arc in which an orphaned friend of youngest ... |
Theodoric II | ... n 455 Avitus had sent an ambassador, comes Fronto, to the Suebi and then to | to ask them formally to recognise Roman rule. When the Suebi invaded the R ... |
Hipparchus | The Greek astronomer | (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited Eratosthenes (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor ... |
President Wilson | ... t Versailles were Britain's Lloyd George, France's Clemenceau and America's | |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ster Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China | issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire ... |
Richard Nixon | Tanaka's foreign policy mirrored that of | , and his most notable achievement was the normalization of Japan's relati ... |
Giorgio Vasari | ... rew his Notizie, in which he consciously intended to build upon the Vite of | ; Baldinucci's was the first art history to trace the lives and work of ar ... |
Edmund the Martyr | ... e region again came under attack, this time from Danes who killed the king, | . In the centuries before the Norman Conquest the wetlands of the east of ... |
Grace Kelly | ... televise her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, by | for The Country Girl (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly c ... |
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 ... |
Conrad Nagel | ... my Award for Best Actress. Also starring in the film are Robert Montgomery, | , and Florence Eldridge |
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 ... |
Maximilian I | ... visited Charles of Burgundy, acting as intermediary between him and emperor | . He stayed in Burgundy for several months, moving to the Netherlands in t ... |
William Gibson | In 2000, Cunningham and cyberpunk author | began work on the script for Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer. However, bec ... |
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 ... |
Christian III | ... The next year, following his victory in the Count's War, he became king as | and continued the reformation of the state church with assistance of Johan ... |
Melampus | ... hology, Bias was a brother of Melampus who received one third of Argos (see | for more information). Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, Tal ... |
Walter Pater | ... lvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, | and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable ... |
Terry Pratchett | In a collaboration with author | (best known for his series of Discworld novels), Gaiman's first novel Good ... |
Harry Enfield | ... nd guest appearance on Room 101. He has also been a comedy screenwriter for | |
Tertullian | ... 4th century seems most plausible. An earlier example has been suggested in | De Corona Militis xi, "Apud hunc [sc. Christum] tam miles est pagan ... |
Elizabeth II | ... at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen | . The honour had been first proposed in 1931. Knighthood was suggested aga ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... chose to ‘blacken up’ include Ralph Richardson (1937), John Gielgud (1961), | (1964), Anthony Hopkins (1981) and Orson Welles. Ground-breaking black Ame ... |
Frederick I | Under the reign of | (1523–33), Denmark remained officially Roman Catholic. But though Frederic ... |
William Henry Fry | ... oser to write for a symphony orchestra. Many other composers, most famously | and George Frederick Bristow, supported the idea of an American classical ... |
Alec Baldwin | ... 3). Daniel Day-Lewis, who had become very reclusive to the Hollywood scene, | , Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Emily Mortimer, John C. Reilly, Frank Sivero, an ... |
Verne Lundquist | ... to become an NFL game analyst in 1984, where he and play-by-play announcer | had the top rated programs. Prior to his full-time work for them, he serve ... |
Aristotle | ... lian Physics was not designed with these sorts of calculations in mind, and | 's philosophy regarding the heavens was entirely at odds with the concept ... |
Harry Shearer | ... ichael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, | , Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Begley, Jr. and Fred Willard. Guest and Levy write ... |
Daniel Rosen | ... l performers, including Roger Lodge and Todd Newton hosting and Randy West, | or Dave Walls announcing |
Herbert Read | ... Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir | , Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist 'Vicky', Professor C. H. W ... |
Emilio Aguinaldo | ... ry Army was founded on March 22, 1897 in Cavite. The armed force of General | revolutionary government, with General Artemio Ricarte as its first Captai ... |
Robert Osborne | ... him in any way. Critics, however, generally were favorable toward the film. | , who introduced showings of the movie on Turner Classic Movies, was quite ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Graham Greene | ... Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author | , and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval (1930–1996), foo ... |
David Keck | ... l number of species known to over 250. The genus was extensively revised by | between 1932 and 1957; in 1946 the American Penstemon Society was formed t ... |
Randy West | ... with several performers, including Roger Lodge and Todd Newton hosting and | , Daniel Rosen or Dave Walls announcing |
Pauline Marois | ... e next day that he was withdrawing from the race, and that he would support | who had also announced her intention to run |
Charles of Burgundy | ... which would be created in 1478 or 1479. In the autumn same year he visited | , acting as intermediary between him and emperor Maximilian I. He stayed i ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... apolis, gave the orders which led to the occupation of California, and sent | into the contested land between Texas and Mexico. He also continued his pl ... |
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 ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... rrender of Japan in World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States President | , United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nat ... |
Robert Altman | ... mpus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He is tied with | and Alfred Hitchcock for the most Academy Award nominations for best direc ... |
Prince of Wales | ... spite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly the | know the Pimpernel's true identity. Like many others, Marguerite is entran ... |
Haakon I of Norway | ... hout the assistance of the Swedish king Erik Emundsson. He also wrote about | 's expedition into Götaland and Harold I of Denmark's battle against Jarl ... |
President Truman | In July 1946, as Chairman of the Council on African Affairs, he telegraphed | on the lynching of four African Americans in Georgia, demanding that the f ... |
Martin Brundle | ... season. Italian driver Stefano Modena drove alongside the more experienced | . The team finished in eighth place, and Modena took the team's last podiu ... |
Jonathan Demme | ... nse in 1984. Byrne added "Loco de Amor" (Crazy for Love) with Celia Cruz to | 's 1986 film Something Wild |
Melampus | In Greek mythology, Bias was a brother of | who received one third of Argos (see Melampus for more information). Bias ... |
Frederick III | ... Ribe 5 March 1460 (Treaty of Ribe). In 1474 Lauenburg's liege lord Emperor | elevated Christian I as Count of Holstein to Duke of Holstein, thus becomi ... |
Sergei Eisenstein | ... which showed a huge storming of the Winter Palace and fierce fighting (See | 's ). In reality the Bolshevik insurgents faced little or no opposition. T ... |
Zheng He | ... was referred to as Bīnláng Yù in the navigational drawings used by Admiral | of Ming-dynasty China in his expeditions to the South Seas. Fifteenth-cent ... |
Alexander Mair | ... in, also of the Liberal Party. The member for Albury between 1932 and 1946, | , was the Premier of New South Wales from 1939 to 1941 |
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' ... |
Ptolemy | ... ata that would convincingly support the heliocentric model did not exist in | 's time and would not come around for over fifteen hundred years after his ... |
Joe Montana | ... According to reports, Bradshaw (along with three time MVP and close friend | ) requested a $100,000 guarantee for his appearance in the Super Bowl MVP ... |
Charles Spencer | ... or political disagreement occurred when Sarah insisted that her son-in-law, | , the third Earl of Sunderland, be admitted into the Privy Council. Sarah ... |
Maximilian I | ... it is no coincidence either that the reign of his nationalistic predecessor | saw the beginning of the movement. While the centralized states of western ... |
Porphyry | ... agoras was famous for leaving behind him a way of life. Both Iamblichus and | give detailed accounts of the organisation of the school, although the pri ... |
Roger Lodge | ... e Price Is Right Live!) at their venues, with several performers, including | and Todd Newton hosting and Randy West, Daniel Rosen or Dave Walls announc ... |
Williamson affair | For instance, during the | , Monsignor Robert Wister publicly declared that the negationist comments ... |
Al-Walid I | In 711, Tariq ibn Ziyad, under the orders of the Umayyad Caliph | , led a large army from the north coast of Morocco on April 29 711. The ar ... |
Idi Amin | ... relationships with a variety of world leaders, including Saddam Hussein and | . Arafat was Amin's best man at his wedding in Uganda in 1975 |
Boris Bittker | Tax law professor | and his co-authors have stated |
Roger Ebert | ... mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 77 based on 22 reviews. | of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: "A powerfu ... |
Jane Lynch | ... These include Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, | , John Michael Higgins, Harry Shearer, Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Begley, Jr. a ... |
Edward III | ... rative, than poundage and tonnage before it. Under statutes of Edward I and | , collection of ship money had been authorised only during wars, and only ... |
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... the collection of the Uffizi. For Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, brother of | and a scholar and patron of the arts, he began as bookkeeper in 1664 and d ... |
Erlend Loe | ... theory was also used in the Norwegian book Organisten (The Organ Player) by | and Petter Amundsen. It has also been asserted that the pit may have been ... |
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 |
Premier of Quebec | The day after the referendum, Parizeau stepped down as PQ leader and | . Bouchard left federal politics and succeeded Parizeau in both posts on 2 ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... n. In this position, two of Bancroft's appointees were Orestes Brownson and | . In 1844, he was the Democratic candidate for the governorship of Massach ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... nder of the cruiser , undertook a confidential mission to meet Qing General | in Seoul, Korea (1890). Afterwards, he assumed command of the |
Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman | In 1970, several years after his retirement, songwriters | got him to sing the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats, which en ... |
Edward I | ... ular, and lucrative, than poundage and tonnage before it. Under statutes of | and Edward III, collection of ship money had been authorised only during w ... |
Nick Lane | from:1999 till:2012 color:sub text: | —trombon |
William Faulkner | ... minations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of | 's Intruder in the Dust |
Alan Moore | ... atman R.I.P. It is titled "" a play off of the classic Superman story "" by | . He also contributed a twelve-page Metamorpho story drawn by Mike Allred ... |
René Lévesque | ... Québécois and the Action démocratique du Québec on 12 June 1995. It revived | 's notion that the referendum should be followed by the negotiating of an ... |
Charles V | Though | fought the Reformation, it is no coincidence either that the reign of his ... |
William Shakespeare | ... rancis Bacon used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of | 's plays. Author and researcher Mark Finnan elaborated upon this theory. T ... |
Robert Ross | ... more sympathetic to Wilde. Of Wilde's other close friends, Robert Sherard, | , his literary executor; and Charles Ricketts variously published biograph ... |
Tim Considine | ... r taking his job. Frawley died a short while later in March 1966 at age 79. | , who had worked with MacMurray on The Shaggy Dog, had played oldest son M ... |
Oscar Hammerstein II | ... usel is the second stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and | (book and lyrics). The work premiered in 1945 and was adapted from Ferenc ... |
Eddy Merckx | ... out that a recent article in Sports Illustrated magazine had declared that | , the great Belgian cyclist, had the highest recorded "oxygen uptake" of a ... |
Michael de Larrabeiti | The Wombles are vitriolically parodied in The Borrible Trilogy by | as the Rumbles, the upper-class, rodent-like enemies of the working-class ... |
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 ... |
Patrick Bateson | ... g Sheldrake's prediction. In an independent analysis of the data, biologist | agreed with Rose that the results ran counter to the prediction of morphic ... |
Melampus | ... veral daughters. According to Pausanias, Amythaon is the father of Bias and | . Their mother was Idomene, daughter o |
Henri Murger | ... y Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by | . The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1 ... |
Jeremy Clarkson | ... a person who is well-meaning but absent-minded or ineffectual. For example, | often refers to Highways Agency Traffic Officers, who exasperate him as a ... |
Pauline Kael | ... Shepard gives the film much well-needed heft. He is the center of gravity". | wrote, "The movie has the happy, excited spirit of a fanfare, and it's ast ... |
Dolly Parton | ... Twain; Brooks & Dunn; Faith Hill; Garth Brooks; Dwight Yoakam; Steve Earle | ;; Rosanne Cash and Linda Ronstadt moved country further towards rock infl ... |
Baal-Eser/Balazeros | ... in 841 BC, with 𐤓𐤅𐤑𐤏𐤋𐤏𐤁 Ba‘al-‘azor (Phoenician form of the name) or | (Greek form of the name), Dido’s grandfather. This lends credibility to th ... |
Manuel I | ... e modern flag of Portugal and has been a national symbol since the reign of | |
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 Rodgers | Carousel is the second stage musical by the team of | (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The work premiered in ... |
Mary | ... e of flux. Following a brief Roman Catholic restoration during the reign of | 1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of Elizabeth I, th ... |
Henry David Thoreau | ... ter. CORE was conceived as a pacifist organization based on the writings of | . It was modeled after Mohandas Gandhi's non-violent resistance against Br ... |
Bud Selig | ... an Jose as the team's "best option", but Major League Baseball Commissioner | said he would wait on a report on whether the team could move to the area ... |
Dick Vermeil | ... s leaders speaking to midshipmen, including Henry Kissinger, football coach | , and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia |
Manna Dey | ... ajans and kirtans have been recorded by well known singers in India such as | Anuradha Paudwal and Anup Jalota |
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 ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from | to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric. This interpr ... |
Snorri Sturluson | In the Heimskringla, | writes about several battles between Norwegians and Geats. He wrote that i ... |
Steven Rose | In 1990 neurobiologist | experimented jointly with Sheldrake to test the hypothesis of morphic reso ... |
Ceawlin | ... obyrig or Old Sarum, near Salisbury, in 552, and that in 556 he and his son | won a battle against the Britons at Beranburh, now identified as Barbury C ... |
Henry Morgenthau | ... United States (including Harry Dexter White, Secretary of the Treasury and | ), but opposed by John Maynard Keynes, head of the British delegation. The ... |
Majorian | ... prestige gained through their victories, Ricimer and the comes domesticorum | rebelled against Avitus; the Emperor was obliged to leave Rome in early au ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... tan. He retained that title until his death on 6 February 1952, after which | became Queen of Pakistan. Pakistan became an Islamic and Parliamentary rep ... |
Pygmalion | ... ’s translation, with a longer discussion of the Nora stone, is found in the | article.) If Cross’s interpretation is correct, this presents inscriptiona ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... to take command of the ruins on May 18. The Abbey was rebuilt after the war | ;reconsecrated it in 1964 |
Lewis Wolpert | ... who have sought to discuss his work, thoroughgoing metaphysical naturalists | and , reportedly refused to even examine his evidence—a fact cited as illu ... |
Ibn Khaldun | ... to have said: "There is no way for two (leaders) together at any one time" | the famous 14th century Muslim scholar, economist and historian said |
Joseph II | ... l ("national Singspiel"), a pet project (1778–1783) of the Austrian emperor | . The Emperor had set up the company to perform works in the German langua ... |
George Washington | ... colonies, called the Virginia Regiment, was led by then-Lieutenant colonel | |
Chairman | ... ident Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and | of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issued the document ... |
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 ... |
Robert Ross | Wilde spent mid-1897 with | in Berneval-le-Grand, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... ted. This has resulted in various leaders speaking to midshipmen, including | , football coach Dick Vermeil, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia |
Ian MacDonald | Personnel as given by Mark Lewisohn and | |
Kenneth Branagh | ... actor as Othello would not come until 1995 with Laurence Fishburne opposite | 's Iago. In the past, Othello would often have been portrayed by a white a ... |
Giuseppe Giacosa | ... in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and | , based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The world premiere ... |
Pelias | ... Proetus's kingdom. Bias and Iphianassa had a daughter Anaxibia who married | , to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. According to Pausanias, ... |
William Taubman | ... hysicist Arthur Zajonc, Pulitzer Prize-winning Nikita Khrushchev biographer | , African art specialist Rowland Abiodun, Natural Law expert Hadley Arkes, ... |
Bill Clinton | ... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President | by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was al ... |
James Merrill's | ... within each other. A particularly ingenious example of nested narratives is | 1974 modernist poem "Lost in Translation" |
Robert Z. Leonard | ... lda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by | , who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film was ... |
Athanaric | ... om Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king | and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the hei ... |
Isabel Martínez de Perón | ... onarch women heads of state and heads of government in this period included | as the first woman President in Argentina and the first woman non-monarch ... |
Ovid | ... the results in his favor. In the disputes that followed, Remus was killed. | has Romulus invent the festival of Lemuria to appease Remus' resentful gho ... |
Luigi Illica | ... hème is an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by | and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. ... |
Tad Williams | ... featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Gene Wolfe, | , and others |
Robert Browning | Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial is the title of a poem by | from his 1876 collection, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper. It ... |
Lord Charles Townshend | ... nd, to settle here. Some were veterans of the Revolution of 1688. Named for | , this settlement survived and was incorporated November 3, 1764. It was r ... |
Bob Gibson | ... t pitcher to win 30 games in a season. St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher | achieved an equally remarkable feat by allowing an ERA of just 1.12 |
Richard I of England | ... er own library. A deep affection existed between Marie and her half-brother | , and his celebrated poem J'a nuns hons pris, lamenting his captivity in A ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... n Time editions (13 as of September 2010). In one he made an open attack on | , who had been imprisoned for perjury, when his wife, Mary Archer, was a f ... |
Mary | ... e, Catherine of Aragon, bore him only a single child that survived infancy, | . As England had recently gone through a lengthy dynastic conflict (see Wa ... |
Christopher of Denmark, Sweden and Norway | King | died in January 1448. His death resulted in the break-up of the union of t ... |
Roger Staubach | ... U.S. Naval Academy a National Historic Landmark on 21 August 1961. In 1963, | , class of 1965, was awarded the Heisman Trophy |
John Calvin | Reformers Martin Luther and | equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it persisted even ... |
Zelda Sears | ... orcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and | , based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert ... |
Premier of Quebec | ... e way to sovereignty created by PQ leader Jacques Parizeau. Parizeau became | in the Quebec election of 1994 (the second of the Three Periods) |
Alexander the Great | ... had been occupied in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, the Achaemenid Empire, and | 's Hellenic Macedonian empire (c. 330 BCE), although Jewish religious prac ... |
Varro | ... ation between Aeneas and Dido. Servius in his commentary (4.682; 5.4) cites | (1st century BC ) for a version in which Dido's sister Anna killed herself ... |
Laurence Fishburne | ... production casting a black actor as Othello would not come until 1995 with | opposite Kenneth Branagh's Iago. In the past, Othello would often have bee ... |
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 ... |
Cerdic | ... from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There he is stated to have been the son of | , and also (in the regnal list in the preface) to have been the son of Cer ... |
Steven Rose | ... nconsciously, or to other conspecifics. A neuroscientist and memory expert, | , has been critical of this view. A major reason for the criticism is that ... |
Charles Knutsson | Meanwhile, Sweden had on 20 June 1448 elected | as king. Norway was now faced with the choice between a union with Sweden ... |
Jacques Parizeau | ... ods, a plan intended to lay out the way to sovereignty created by PQ leader | . Parizeau became Premier of Quebec in the Quebec election of 1994 (the se ... |
Talaus | ... mpus for more information). Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, | , with her. When Pero died he remarried Iphianassa, daughter of Proetus, a ... |
John Kenrick | ... significantly cut—as was the 1950 London cast recording. Theatre historian | notes that a number of songs had to be abridged to fit the 78 format, but ... |
Henry VIII | ... he separation of the Church of England (or Anglican Church) from Rome under | , beginning in 1529 and completed in 1537, brought England alongside this ... |
President | ... for the Surrender of Japan in World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States | Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chai ... |
Chrétien de Troyes | ... n of literature, including Andreas Capellanus, who served in her court, and | . She was literate in French and Latin and maintained her own library. A d ... |
Orson Welles | ... ween the authors affecting the project. The initial production, directed by | and with Canada Lee as Bigger opened at the St. James Theatre on March 24, ... |
Gene Wolfe | ... on anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, Clive Barker, | , Tad Williams, and others |
Dmitry Medvedev | In November 2008, Russian president | announced government support for the construction of the Sakhalin Tunnel, ... |
Alaric II | ... supported by Jordanes. He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to | as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostro ... |
Julius Caesar | ... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to | , who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC |
Galileo Galilei | ... ns was entirely at odds with the concept of heliocentrism. It was not until | observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610, and the phases of Venus ... |
Queen Isabel II | ... 843 to 1852, who founded Isabel Segunda, the "town of Vieques", named after | of Spain). Vieques was formally annexed to Puerto Rico in 1854 |
Charlemagne | When | destroyed the walls of Pamplona after a failed attempt to conquest the Mus ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... attention to what they perceived as being the limitations of Paganism. Thus | wrote: "The Pagan set out, with admirable sense, to enjoy himself. By the ... |
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 ... |
Xenophanes | ... ent places at one and the same time. With the exception of a few remarks by | , Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly de ... |
Miles Malleson | ... yn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, | , Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicho ... |
Robert Stevenson | ... cated there. The Bass Rock features in numerous works of fiction, including | 's Catriona and The Lion is Rampant by contemporary Scottish novelist Ross ... |
Sarpedon | # Antíphatês, son of | . Who accompanied Aeneas to Italy where he was killed by Turnus |
Joseph Priestley | ... ciation of Ideas). A friend, associate, and one of his chief advocates, was | (1733–1804), the discoverer of oxygen. Priestley was one of the foremost s ... |
Benjamin Baker | ... ced, and the project was subsequently taken over by Sir John Fowler and Sir | . who designed a structure that was built by Glasgow based company Sir Wil ... |
Robert Lucas | ... m Hayek's Austrian School. So successful were these criticisms that by 1980 | was saying economists would often take offence if described as Keynesians |
J. Hudson Taylor | #A Retrospect by Protestant Christian missionary | (1832–1905), which documented how he founded the China Inland Mission (ren ... |
Andreas Capellanus | ... of the Albigensian Crusade. She was also a patron of literature, including | , who served in her court, and Chrétien de Troyes. She was literate in Fre ... |
John Meehan | The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, | and Zelda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was dire ... |
Eugene Levy | His frequent writing partner is | . Together, Levy, Guest and a small band of other actors have formed a loo ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... f Rights, which was then included in a new constitution. Another Virginian, | , drew upon Mason's work in drafting the national Declaration of Independe ... |
Chaim Herzog | ... ge was repaired, but only a trickle of Israeli forces crossed. According to | , the Egyptians continued attacking the bridgehead until the cease-fire, u ... |
Surdas | # Tulsidas or | # Marathi Abhangs on Lord Pandurang |
Owen Gingerich | ... rate for its day and was still in use at the time of Copernicus and Kepler. | describes a planetary conjunction that occurred in 1504 that was apparentl ... |
Tulsidas | # | or Surda |
Marie Antoinette | ... sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of | (which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collection ... |
John Dryden | ... nd Hislop recounted the history of the post from the first official holder, | , to the then recently announced first female, first Scot and first openly ... |
David William Thomas | In the 1920s, | edited a weekly newspaper in Hammond prior to moving to Minden, the seat o ... |
Paul Laurence Dunbar | ... ert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hughes and | . Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, vi ... |
Jayadeva | # | Ashtapadi (Geeta Govindam |
Pauline Kael | ... too ambitious, facetious and hip for its own box-office good". Film critic | wrote, "I didn't find it hard to accept the uninflected, deadpan tone, and ... |
Prince George | ... nt at Abigail’s secret wedding to Samuel Masham, groom of the bedchamber to | , in 1707, without Sarah’s knowledge |
Mehmed II | ... the Ottoman Empire grew in size and strength, Ottoman rulers beginning with | began to claim caliphal authority. Their claim was strengthened when the O ... |
John D. Winters | ... General Nathaniel P. Banks who occupied Opelousas found what the historian | describes as "a beautiful town boasting several churches, a fine convent, ... |
Théodore Barrière | ... ly called a novel, it has no unified plot. Like the 1849 play by Murger and | , the opera's libretto focuses on the relationship between Rodolfo and Mim ... |
James V. Kern | ... n followed by former actor-turned-director Gene Reynolds from 1962 to 1964. | , an experienced Hollywood television director who had previously helmed t ... |
Jimmy Fallon | ... inal "Scrambled Eggs" version of the song, plus additional new lyrics, with | and The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon |
Perseus | She remained faithful to Dionysus, but was later killed by | at Argos. In other myths Ariadne hanged herself from a tree, like Erigone ... |
John III of Navarre | ... with France (reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d'Albret, sister of | ), in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499: aft ... |
Purandara Dasa | # | # Sadasiva Brahmendr |
Bernardo Bertolucci | ... dtracks, most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on | 's The Last Emperor, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. I ... |
Camille Chamoun | ... the Tigers Militia—which was led by Dany Chamoun, a son of former President | |
James Madison | ... elers during the Colonial era. Famous Americans, such as George Washington, | and others have passed through Rock Hall numerous times traversing between ... |
second president | ... the second president and eighth prime minister of the Czech Republic or the | of the Slovak Republic having German surnames. After 1948 skilled Sudeten ... |
Simon Conway Morris | ... re re-wound and played back, life would have taken a very different course. | counters this argument, arguing that convergence is a dominant force in ev ... |
Philip IV | ... he Palatinate, Charles declared war on Spain, which under the Catholic King | had sent forces to help occupy the Palatinate |
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 ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... the critical failure of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, | said, "I sympathize with people who didn't like the MacGuffin (the crystal ... |
Hesiod | In | and most other accounts, Theseus abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, and ... |
Melampus | # Antíphatês, son of | and Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes. He married Zeuxippe, the daug ... |
Louise Bryant | ... ution, Ten Days that Shook the World. He was married to writer and feminist | . Reed died in Russia in 1920, and was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropol ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... connection for travelers during the Colonial era. Famous Americans, such as | , James Madison and others have passed through Rock Hall numerous times tr ... |
Richard Henry Lee | ... opposition to taxation without representation was led by Patrick Henry and | , among others. Virginians began to coordinate their actions with other co ... |
General Foch | ... pval Ridge but Haig would not agree to this and Joffre then referred him to | to settle the matter. Foch remembers that Haig was "upset with his losses. ... |
Johannes Kepler | ... ope had on astronomy came quickly and were both controversial and profound. | was able to formulate his famous three laws of planetary motion, which des ... |
Stephen Merchant | In the fifth season of The Ricky Gervais Show, | compared Ricky Gervais to a Womble while discussing Ricky's experiences as ... |
Tom Wolfe | ... mination had, in fact, been made long before the movie was filmed, and even | 's book only states that this possibility was considered, not that it was ... |
Stephen Hawking | In 1991, John Preskill and Kip Thorne bet against | that the hypothesis was false. Hawking conceded the bet in 1997, due to th ... |
Ptolemy | ... n (it did so until 1925). The astronomical day had begun at noon ever since | chose to begin the days in his astronomical periods at noon. He chose noon ... |
Gene Reynolds | ... ins for one season and was in turn followed by former actor-turned-director | from 1962 to 1964. James V. Kern, an experienced Hollywood television dire ... |
Oenopion | With Dionysus, she was the mother of | , the personification of wine, Staphylus (related to grapes), Thoas, Pepar ... |
Langston Hughes | ... Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets | and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionis ... |
Megapenthes | # Antíphatês, son of Melampus and Iphianeira, the daughter of | . He married Zeuxippe, the daughter of Hippocoon. Their children were Oecl ... |
Ferdinand II | ... , had lost his hereditary lands in the Palatinate to the Holy Roman Emperor | . Having agreed to help his brother-in-law regain the Palatinate, Charles ... |
Wu Ming | Examples in literature include the television set in | 's novel 5 |
Nathaniel P. Banks | The Union forces led by General | who occupied Opelousas found what the historian John D. Winters describes ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... lution is the subject of a popular controversy. In his book Wonderful Life, | argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and played back, life would ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... sianus, one of his collaborators in his embassy to the Visigoths ordered by | , as the new magister militum; then he probably went to Gaul (Hydatius say ... |
Agamemnon | ... lled by Orestes, who was their half-brother and the son of Clytemnestra and | (this was in revenge for Clytemnestra killing Agamemnon, which she did in ... |
Ricky Gervais | In the fifth season of The Ricky Gervais Show, Stephen Merchant compared | to a Womble while discussing Ricky's experiences as an unemployed artist i ... |
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 ... |
William Gibson | and the container in | 's Spook Country |
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 ... |
Henri Murger | According to its title page, the libretto of La bohème is based on | 's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying ... |
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 ... |
Plato | ... , or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on | , and through him, all of Western philosophy |
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 ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... p Fiction and Ronin, and the mineral unobtainium in Avatar (2009). The 2011 | film initially focuses on a mysterious notebook taken from the main charac ... |
Philip II of Macedon | ... cient sources, especially compared to some of his near contemporaries (e.g. | , Pelopidas). One principal reason for this is the loss of Plutarch's biog ... |
Bretzner | ... lmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail, an earlier work by | , who later complained loudly and publicly about the theft |
Judith of Bohemia | ... me to Sophia, perhaps to distinguish herself from Władysław I's first wife, | . She bore her husband four daughters: Sophia (by marriage Princess of Vla ... |
Sarah Palin | ... had finished. In another, he suggested that USA vice-presidential candidate | was rare among politicians in being good-looking; the laughter from the au ... |
Bachir Gemayel | ... ry components of the Christian front were the Maronite Phalangists loyal to | and the Tigers Militia—which was led by Dany Chamoun, a son of former Pres ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... nship with the historian Macaulay and the poet Hallam. With the election of | his post was not renewed; on his return to the United states in 1849 he wi ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... obile Bay on 5 August 1864. On 12 April 1865, 3 days after the surrender of | at Appomattox Courthouse, the city of Mobile surrendered to the Union army ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... errell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, | , and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ fa ... |
Ronald F. Maxwell | Burnside was portrayed by Alex Hyde-White in | 's 2003 film Gods and Generals, which includes the Battle of Fredericksbur ... |
Elizabeth I | ... he reign of Mary 1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of | , though this point is one of considerable debate among historians. Yet it ... |
Saul Williams | Bigger Thomas is mentioned in one of the lyrical hooks of "The Ritual" in | 's The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust |
Rihanna | ... nds. Hip-hop artists commonly sample 1980s synthpop and R&B artists such as | have also embraced that subgenre |
Ilan Stavans | ... rd, Beowulf translator Howell Chickering, Jewish and Latino studies scholar | , novelist and legal scholar Lawrence Douglas, physicist Arthur Zajonc, Pu ... |
Harriet Tubman | ... t judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, | , W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ch ... |
Duke Ellington | ... OKeh label, artists like Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer, | , Miff Mole, and other major artists who recorded for OKeh. These records ... |
Doris Lessing | ... ton, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, | , Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis ... |
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 ... |
Lord Alfred Douglas | ... in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, | , prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in ... |
Edward Bunker | Native Son is mentioned in | 's 1981 novel Little Boy Blue as being read by the main character, Alex Ha ... |
Paul Robeson | Among the residents and guests were | , D.C. municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church T ... |
Robert Graves | Karl Kerenyi (and | ) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from Hesychius' listing o ... |
second president | ... rman ancestry were counted as "Czechs" and allowed to stay, for example the | and eighth prime minister of the Czech Republic or the second president of ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... s still an important pop label with artists such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, and | among others. It is also EMI's oldest active label: its contemporary HMV, ... |
Manuel L. Quezon | During the Philippine Commonwealth era, President | , the first president of the Commonwealth, renamed the Philippine Army to ... |
Akka Mahadevi | ... n dance and music, and the 12th century Vachana poet and Lingayatism mystic | 's devotion to the bhakti movement is well known. Temple dancers (Devadasi ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Lloyds, as well as nineteenth-century philanthropists and reformers such as | and Elizabeth Fry |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... il 1985, when then Governor Rafael Hernández Colón decided to name it after | , Puerto Rico's first democratically elected governor |
emperors | ... hly diverse, drawing on several millennia of culinary history. The dynastic | of ancient China were known to host banquets with over 100 dishes served a ... |
Lidia Gueiler Tejada | ... he People's Republic of China continuing their leadership from the sixties, | becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Mar ... |
Chrétien de Troyes | The castle is mentioned for the first time in | ' poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it do ... |
Xenophon | ... his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. | , who idolized Sparta and its king, Agesilaus, avoids mentioning Epaminond ... |
James I | ... nts and proclaiming Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of | through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King George I of Great Britain |
John of England | ... and, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and | |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... h century, a number of Italian musicians were guests at the royal courts of | and Władysław IV. These included Luca Marenzio, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, ... |
Mary Church Terrell | ... re Paul Robeson, D.C. municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. | , Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hugh ... |
Pausanias | ... arried Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. According to | , Amythaon is the father of Bias and Melampus. Their mother was Idomene, d ... |
Cassiodorus | ... mpire. The term "Visigoth", however, was an invention of the sixth century. | , a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term "Visigo ... |
Ahmat Taboye | ... apha, Antoine Bangui and Koulsy Lamko. In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, | , published his to further knowledge of Chad's literature internationally ... |
Percival Everett | A large section of | 's Erasure (1999) contains a parody, entitled "Fuck," of Native Son |
Lemony Snicket | ... Boris Max, is woven into the plot of The Penultimate Peril, a 2005 book by | . "Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famo ... |
King Alfonso XIII of Spain | ... , he was released through the secret intervention of Mistinguett's admirer, | , the only king of a neutral country who was related to both the British a ... |
Richard I of England | ... am IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, | , Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and J ... |
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 ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... of baptizing infants, guilty of no actual personal sin, was given by Saint | , not all of whose ideas on original sin have been adopted by the Catholic ... |
Jeffry D. Wert | ... y accepting when told that the command would otherwise go to Joseph Hooker. | described Burnside's relief after Fredericksburg in a passage that sums up ... |
Koulsy Lamko | ... renowned writers are Joseph Brahim Seïd, Baba Moustapha, Antoine Bangui and | . In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, Ahmat Taboye, published his to furt ... |
Soong Ching-ling | ... ice again in 1980), Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel and acting Chairman | of the People's Republic of China continuing their leadership from the six ... |
William Huggins | ... the English chemist William Allen Miller and English amateur astronomer Sir | used the wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic ... |
President of the United States | ... and Senator John Glenn (Ohio) was running for the Democratic nomination for | . It was felt that the movie might help his chances, but in fact, his cand ... |
Philip the Fair | ... in were ruled by the kings of Sicily of the house of Anjou. The French King | , who had inherited from his father all the rights of Alphonse de Poitiers ... |
Thucydides | ... ed by the historian Xenophon, who evidently saw his work as continuation of | 's History of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon, who idolized Sparta and its ... |
Chuck Austen | ... the meantime, Ultimate X-Men was launched, set in Marvel's revised imprint. | also began his controversial run on Uncanny X-Men |
John Mauchly | ... ration, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and | , and the associated line of computers which continues to this day in one ... |
Richard Wagner | ... Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) is an opera, with music and libretto by | |
Barack Obama | In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President | |
Baroness Emmuska Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel is a play and adventure novel by | , set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolut ... |
Stephen Sondheim | ... l and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form. According to | , "What few people understand is that Oscar's big contribution to the thea ... |
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | ... rs, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, | , Leonora of England, Joan of England and John of England |
Ramon Muntaner | ... d "Awake sword, kill, kill, Aragon, Aragon..." as referred to by chronicler | . Christian Almogavers were incorporated and increasing its share. Eventua ... |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... lage (real or fictitious) featured in the 1770 poem The Deserted Village by | . Originally part of Cumberland County, the town became county seat of And ... |
Paul Robeson | ... thony Hopkins (1981) and Orson Welles. Ground-breaking black American actor | played the role from 1930 to 1959. The casting of the role comes with a po ... |
Władysław I Herman | In 1089, Judith married with | , Duke of Poland. This union considerably benefitted German-Polish relatio ... |
Bruce Catton | ... relief after Fredericksburg in a passage that sums up his military career: | summarized Burnside |
Isaac Newton | ... he tells us, was drawn from certain speculations as to nervous action which | had published in his Principia. His psychological theory was suggested by ... |
Walter Lippmann | Jack also attended meetings of the Socialist Club, over which his friend | presided, but he never joined. Still, the club left its impact on his psyc ... |
Francis Bacon | ... o the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary believed that English philosopher | used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of William Sha ... |
Amulius | ... hea Silvia (also known as Ilia). Before their conception, Numitor's brother | deposed his brother, killed his sons and forced Rhea to become a Vestal Vi ... |
Girolamo Fracastoro | ... appeared in 1898. It may have been inspired by the non-Ptolemaic system of | , who used either 77 or 79 orbs in his system inspired by Eudoxus of Cnidu ... |
Penthilus | ... troops, kills Aletes, and takes the throne. Orestes is said to have a son, | , with his half-sister Erigone, though stories differ as to whether this w ... |
Zosimus | ... s were displaced by the Hunnic invasions. In support of this, Wolfram cites | as referring to a group of "Scythians" north of the Danube who were called ... |
Subcomandante Marcos | ... 's supporters association, was evoked in a Saint Patrick's Day message from | of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and has been remembered as a ... |
Michael McKean | ... y group, which appear across several films. These include Catherine O'Hara, | , Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, Harry Shear ... |
Norman Thomas | ... Disillusioned, Rustin began working with members of the Socialist Party of | , particularly, A. Philip Randolph, the head of the Brotherhood of Sleepin ... |
Arthur Ashe | ... orce. Celebrities with homes here have included Alex Haley, Bill Cosby, and | . Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Henson, Augusta, Douglass, Langs ... |
Francis Meynell | ... Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir | , Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, ... |
King Arthur | Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary | . Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-c ... |
Robert Altman | ... aracters), in depicting the chaotic Douglas household, a full decade before | was credited with innovating such aural realism in feature films such as M ... |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... sm in his books. He sold millions of copies in the Soviet Union alone. When | was expelled from the Soviet Union, he first took refuge in Heinrich Böll' ... |
George Washington | When the American Revolutionary War began, | was selected to head the colonial army. During the war, the capital was mo ... |
Edward VII | ... s. The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King | , who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscri ... |
Conrad II | In 1033, when | inherited the Kingdom of Arelat, Avignon passed to the Holy Roman Empire. ... |
Goethe | ... a during Mozart's lifetime, and throughout German-speaking Europe. In 1787, | wrote (concerning his own efforts as a librettist) |
George Lucas | ... the commentary soundtrack to the 2004 DVD release of , writer and director | describes R2-D2 as "the main driving force of the movie ... what you say i ... |
Queen Anne | ... eached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself. | died on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace; the Protestant Whig Privy Coun ... |
Charles Carroll | ... along this route by Richard Caton, under the authority of his father-in-law | , a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Travelers along "the turnpi ... |
Antoine Bangui | ... st internationally renowned writers are Joseph Brahim Seïd, Baba Moustapha, | and Koulsy Lamko. In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, Ahmat Taboye, publi ... |
Henry the Young King | ... he was also an older maternal half-sister to William IX, Count of Poitiers, | , Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of B ... |
Robert Lucas | ... tes economy recover from the late-2000s recession. Some economists, such as | , questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Rob ... |
Gizur | ... Angantyr desperately tried to marshal the defenses, it was the Geatish king | who answered his call. In fact, no explanation is needed, because there is ... |
Xenophon | ... iod of Greek history from 411–362 BC is primarily attested by the historian | , who evidently saw his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of th ... |
Steve Young | ... professional football players including two-time NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP | '84 & '96, Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer '90, and two-time Super Bowl wi ... |
Alfredo Stroessner | ... th century: Germans, the majority are Mennonites with long-reigned dictator | himself of German ancestry, Japanese with Okinawans, Koreans, ethnic Chine ... |
Frederick Douglass | Highland Beach was founded in the summer of 1893 by Charles Douglass ( | ' son) and his wife Laura after they had been turned away from a restauran ... |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... neously the gubernatorial mansion La Fortaleza, where Puerto Rican governor | resided, and the United States Federal Court House which is located close ... |
Theodosius I | ... e last vestiges of Paganism were crushed with great severity by the emperor | Rome was seized by Alaric in 410. This led to murmuring that the gods of P ... |
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 ... |
James Whitcomb Riley | ... the highest point was Crown Hill Cemetery (the tomb of famed Hoosier writer | ) with an elevation of . The lowest point in Indianapolis lies at the Mari ... |
Orson Welles | ... ), John Gielgud (1961), Laurence Olivier (1964), Anthony Hopkins (1981) and | . Ground-breaking black American actor Paul Robeson played the role from 1 ... |
Matthew Fox (priest) | With | |
Agrippa I | ... n procurator side by side with the rule of the Herodian kings (specifically | 41–44 and 50–100) |
Sparta | ... Dioscuri (Helen's twin brothers Castor and Pollux) had taken Helen back to | ; they had taken captive Aethra and Physadeia, the sister of Pirithous, wh ... |
Peter Atkins | ... e University of East Anglia, which resulted in criticism from Lord Winston, | , Richard Wiseman and the Royal Societ |
Alex Haley | ... to maintain its own police force. Celebrities with homes here have included | , Bill Cosby, and Arthur Ashe. Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Hen ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... te is an alternate opening detailing Buckaroo's tragic childhood, featuring | as Banzai's mother) and director Richter's commentary, which reveals some ... |
Philip II of France | ... paternal half-sister to Marguerite of France, Alys, Countess of the Vexin, | and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal half-sister to William ... |
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 ... |
Constantine II | ... in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and | , and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars |
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 ... |
Baba Moustapha | ... on. Among the most internationally renowned writers are Joseph Brahim Seïd, | , Antoine Bangui and Koulsy Lamko. In 2003 Chad's sole literary critic, Ah ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | signed into law an act of Congress on 25 May 1933 providing for the Bachel ... |
Carol Ann Duffy | ... ntly announced first female, first Scot and first openly bisexual laureate, | . His series on Victorian social reformers, Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Goo ... |
John Ruskin | ... sing philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and | . After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and so ... |
Bill Cosby | ... its own police force. Celebrities with homes here have included Alex Haley, | , and Arthur Ashe. Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Henson, Augusta ... |
Boso | ... he Franks under Charles Martel for having sided with the Arabs against him. | having been proclaimed Burgundian King of Provence, or of Arelat (after it ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ide in Fayette County, GA. Their two children are now in college. President | appointed Lee Haney Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitnes ... |
Cornelius Nepos | ... viving (and possibly abridged) biography of Epaminondas by the Roman author | from the first century BC, in the absence of Plutarch's, this becomes a ma ... |
William IX, Count of Poitiers | ... f France and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal half-sister to | , Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, ... |
Catherine de' Medici | ... rst, a simple velvet-covered hoop and plate of iron, was supposedly worn by | . The other—said to have been worn by Anna of Austria—is a hinged pair of ... |
Angus MacPhail | ... and for Dick Cavett's interview. According to author Ken Mogg, screenwriter | , a friend of Hitchcock, may have originally coined the term |
Catherine O'Hara | ... d a loose repertory group, which appear across several films. These include | , Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higg ... |
Hunter Davies | The song's composition is unusually well documented as | was present and described the writing process in the Beatles' official bio ... |
James Madison | Virginians were instrumental in writing the United States Constitution. | drafted the Virginia Plan in 1787 and the Bill of Rights in 1789. Virginia ... |
Salman Rushdie | ... he Six Billionth Citizen". The essay was written by British-Indian novelist | , who found controversy in 1988 over one of his books gaining him a religi ... |
Numitor | ... ather lived, and refused to live in the city as his subjects. They restored | as king, paid due honours to their mother Rhea and left to found their own ... |
Elisabeth Beresford | ... ycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways. Wombles were created by author | , originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. Althoug ... |
Eleanor Bron | Cook expanded television comedy with | , John Bird and John Fortune. His first regular television spot was on Gra ... |
Robert Graves | ... ephone, for whom Leuce seems to be a doublet, as a goddess of regeneration. | used the myth of Leuce in developing his poetic theories of mythology. Gra ... |
Richard Wagner | ... own tone row, meaning that the tone rows act rather like the leitmotifs in | 's operas |
Tulsidas | ... tion are related to bhajan. Nanak, Kabir, Meera, Narottama Dasa, Surdas and | are notable composers. Traditions of bhajan such as Nirguni, Gorakhanathi, ... |
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner | ... ngspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by | with adaptations by Gottlieb Stephanie. The plot concerns the attempt of t ... |
Achilles | ... roy, and attacked their camp in the Iliad. Though when the Myrmidons led by | turn the tide of battle and Hector is killed, foreshadowing Troy's imminen ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ng and two other Chinese KMT officials visited Germany and were received by | in June 13. Hitler told Kung that "I understand that people in China think ... |
Charles I of England | Sir Owen's descendants include | and Oliver Cromwell; King Juan Carlos of Spain and Elizabeth II, the curre ... |
Surdas | ... idasi tradition are related to bhajan. Nanak, Kabir, Meera, Narottama Dasa, | and Tulsidas are notable composers. Traditions of bhajan such as Nirguni, ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... 843 Autobiographical Sketch Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from | 's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mist ... |
John Maddox | ... d reviews. Then in September 1981, Nature published an editorial written by | , the journal's senior editor, entitled "A book for burning?" In it, Maddo ... |
Frederick Maurice | ... battle. In compiling his biography of General Rawlinson, Major-General Sir | was supplied by the Reichsarchiv with a figure of 164,055 for the German k ... |
St. Catherine of Siena | ... ancis. The gentle saint founded the Franciscan order and shares honors with | as the patron saint of Italy. He is remembered by many, even non-Christian ... |
Plato | ... as to his definite philosophical views. Everything of the kind mentioned by | and Aristotle is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. He ... |
BBC Radio 2 | ... tt Monro. "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 | poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the #1 Pop song of ... |
Amulius | ... e twins grew up as shepherds. They came into conflict with the shepherds of | , leading to battles in which Remus was captured and taken to Amulius, und ... |
Herodotus | ... recounted across the world for thousands of years, appearing in writings by | , the Alexander romance, and the stories of Prester John. Stories of a sim ... |
Alan Moore | ... pany. McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, | , Frank Miller, and Dave Sim each write a single issue |
Henry Fielding | ... atchmen with tax moneys, beginning the shift to government control. In 1749 | began organizing a force of quasi-professional constables known as the Bow ... |
Louis the Pious | ... em was composed by a renowned vernacular poet at the command of the emperor | ; the text then adds that this poet had known nothing of vernacular compos ... |
Henry II | ... ained pastors to lead congregations in France. Despite heavy persecution by | , the Reformed Church of France, largely Calvinist in direction, made stea ... |
Sterling Price | ... ine in the Battle of Dry Wood Creek. The battle was a pro-South victory for | and his Missouri State Guard. Price did not hold the fort and instead cont ... |
Ruhollah Khomeini | ... his books gaining him a religious fatwa for Rushdie's death from Ayatollah | which ultimately resulted in United Kingdom and Iran breaking diplomatic t ... |
Kabir | Bhajans by | , Mirabai, Surdas, Tulsidas and a few others are considered to be classic. ... |
Harry Dexter White | ... ported by other European delegates, as well as the United States (including | , Secretary of the Treasury and Henry Morgenthau), but opposed by John May ... |
Aristotle | ... definite philosophical views. Everything of the kind mentioned by Plato and | is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. Heraclitus state ... |
Qin Shi Huang | The first unified Chinese state was established by | of the Qin state in 221 BC. Qin Shi Huang proclaimed himself the "First Em ... |
William Laud | ... imself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as Richard Montagu and | , whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Many of Charles's subje ... |
Gottlieb Stephanie | ... The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by | . The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his serv ... |
Todd McFarlane | In 1993, Gaiman was contracted by | to write a single issue of Spawn, a popular title at the newly created Ima ... |
Richard Ellmann | ... he library, returned the presentation copy to Wilde with a note of apology. | argues that Wilde's poem "" was a sincere, though flamboyant, attempt to e ... |
Pope Gregory XIII | ... himself and his supporters led to a renewal of the condemnation in 1579 by | . Baius, however, was allowed to retain his professorship, and even became ... |
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher | ... cience and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, | , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Chris ... |
Francis I | Though he was not personally interested in religious reform, | (1515–47) initially maintained an attitude of tolerance, arising from his ... |
Surdas | Bhajans by Kabir, Mirabai, | , Tulsidas and a few others are considered to be classic. The language of ... |
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 ... |
Johann Mattheson | ... mberg musical tradition, who had been at one time a pupil of Johann Staden. | , whose Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte (Hamburg, 1740) is one of the most imp ... |
Petronius Maximus | In the late spring of 455, Avitus was recalled to service by emperor | and was elevated to the rank of magister militum, probably praesentalis; M ... |
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson | ... la and Henry Nottidge Moseley described the mathematics of univalve shells. | 's On Growth and Form gives extensive treatment to these spirals. He descr ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... xter White, Secretary of the Treasury and Henry Morgenthau), but opposed by | , head of the British delegation. The disagreement led to Chase Bank repre ... |
Louis VII of France | ... ce, Countess of Champagne (1145 – March 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of | and his first wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Dave Sim | ... his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, and | each write a single issue |
Sir William Cubitt | ... ived a knighthood in recognition of his work. The project was engineered by | |
Ridgely Torrence | ... esbyterian Hospital. Robeson then gave his theatrical debut as Simon in the | play about Simon of Cyrene. After a year of courtship, Essie and Robeson m ... |
President Soeharto | His state visit to Indonesia as invited by | to discuss Indo-Japanese trade relations was protested by a number of loca ... |
Zhou Enlai | ... moved to Chongqing, Kung was running his own secret service. The Communist | , while serving as the CCP ambassador to Chongqing, was notably successful ... |
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland | The Percy family were powerful lords in northern England. | (1341–1408), rebelled against King Richard II and helped dethrone him. The ... |
Gottlieb Stephanie | The inspector of the Nationalsingspiel was | . When the 25-year-old Mozart arrived in Vienna in 1781, seeking professio ... |
Peada | ... when Saxwulf founded a monastery on land granted to him for that purpose by | of Mercia, who was briefly ruler in the Middle Angles. The abbey church wa ... |
Attila | ... led Avitacum, near Clermont. Here he lived until 451, when the Huns, led by | , invaded the Western Roman Empire; Avitus used his own influence over The ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... satellite alarms the United States government. Politicians such as Senator | and military leaders demand that NASA help America defeat the Russians in ... |
Richard D'Oyly Carte | ... ntly in vogue to be caricatured by Gilbert and Sullivan in Patience (1881). | , an English Impressario, invited Wilde on a lecture tour of North America ... |
André Bellavance | Elected to Parliament in this election were incumbents Louis Plamondon, | , Maria Mourani and rookie MP Jean-François Fortin. When the 41st Canadian ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... t the piece of fiction was based on a real-life liaison between Giscard and | . He later stressed that the story was entirely made up and no such affair ... |
Marianus Scotus | ... pon Martin's account, and not a possible source for it. The same is true of | 's Chronicle of the Popes, a text written in the 11th century. Some manusc ... |
Theodoric II | ... m, probably praesentalis; Maximus sent Avitus in an embassy to the court of | , who had succeeded to his father, at Toulouse: this embassy probably conf ... |
Freddie Fields | ... and and CBS settled their contract disputes with the help of her new agent, | , and negotiated a new round of specials. The first, entitled The Judy Gar ... |
Harold Hobson | ... ormed the title role in at least six productions. His Othello was called by | of the London Sunday Times "the best Othello of our time," continuing: ".. ... |
Kabir | ... well known singers. Kabir refers to his body as a chadar, a sheet of cloth. | is the best-known exponent of Nirguni bhajan, which celebrate a formless ( ... |
Prince William of Orange | ... spread. In 1688, a group of politicians known as the Immortal Seven invited | , husband of James's Protestant daughter Mary, to invade England and remov ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... o the site of a World War I German awards ceremony in August 1918, in which | was presented the Iron Cross (First Class) on recommendation from his supe ... |
Hyginus | ... as grandson of the eponymous Phylacos, he was the leader of the Phylaceans. | surmised that he was originally known as Iolaus—not to be confused with Io ... |
Tulsidas | Bhajans by Kabir, Mirabai, Surdas, | and a few others are considered to be classic. The language of their works ... |
James II | The early reign of | was relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ... |
Clovis I | ... e too strong, and motivated his subsequent alliance with the Frankish king, | , to counter and ultimately overthrow the Ostrogoths |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France and his first wife, | |
Frederic Whitehurst | ... o weeks. Jones presented 25 witnesses over a one-week period, including Dr. | . Although Whitehurst described the FBI's sloppy investigation of the bomb ... |
Elisabeth Beresford | | was a freelance ghost writer and children's book author. She was born in P ... |
Brian Crozier | ... 61, "a private sector operational intelligence agency" said by its founder, | , to be funded by "rich individuals and a few private companies". It is sa ... |
Achilles | In Book 6 of the Iliad, Andromache relates that | killed Eëtion and his seven sons in a raid on Thebe, but in Book 17, Podes ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... further foreign relations with the United States, during a 1988 summit with | |
Seth Green | ... pearance, playing himself, in the film The Italian Job (2003). In the film, | 's character accused Fanning of stealing Napster from him while he was tak ... |
Edward Bond | ... Albee (Tiny Alice), Alan Bennett (Forty Years On), Charles Wood (Veterans), | (Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare), David Storey (Home), ... |
Pausanias | ... first man who dared to leap ashore when the Greek fleet touched the Troad, | recalled, quoting "the author of the epic called the Cypria". An oracle ha ... |
Janna | The Hoysala court supported scholars such as | , Rudrabhatta, Harihara and his nephew Raghavanka, whose works are endurin ... |
Leopoldina | ... mproved. Later Teresa Cristina gave birth to more children: Isabel, in 1846 | ;, in 1847; and lastly, Pedro, in 1848. However, both boys died when very ... |
Mary | ... en invited Prince William of Orange, husband of James's Protestant daughter | , to invade England and remove James from power, though the plan became pu ... |
Alexander the Great | ... depicted barefoot, and the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet and | conquered half of the ancient world with barefoot armies |
Justinian I | ... a man with legal training. In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor | 's reign, he became the adsessor (legal adviser) for , Justinian's chief m ... |
Lenny Bruce | ... don, presenting fellow comedians in a nightclub setting, including American | . Cook said it was a satirical venue modelled on "those wonderful Berlin c ... |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... 8. This conception of God influenced New England transcendentalists such as | . The term was popularized by Charles Hartshorne in his development of pro ... |
Dirk Bogarde | ... Burt Lancaster. Her final film was I Could Go On Singing (1963), costarring | |
Henry II | ... e Wars of Religion. The civil wars were helped along by the sudden death of | in 1559, which began a prolonged period of weakness for the French crown. ... |
his wife | ... cism and demonstrate against Kerr. He found the personal attacks on him and | (whom Whitlam and others accused of having been a sinister influence) deep ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | The son of President | and his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Zhejia ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... till not accomplished when Roosevelt died. In April 1945, the new president | and the British suspended the dissolution and the decision to liquidate th ... |
Alan Bennett | ... new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee (Tiny Alice), | (Forty Years On), Charles Wood (Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gi ... |
Francesco Redi | ... hrough their own experiments and interest in arthropods and death, Song Ci, | , Bergeret d’Arbois, Jean Pierre Mégnin and the German doctor Hermann Rein ... |
James Hepburn | ... ish language and American culture in a private school run by the missionary | (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University, and went abroad with a son of ... |
Pedro Almodóvar | ... in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! by Spanish director | . She began doing casting calls for an agent, but was rejected multiple ti ... |
Benjamin Constant | ... sias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, | and Alessandro Manzoni |
Louis IV | ... policies of his predecessor. He chose to make peace with Holy Roman Emperor | , and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who were then ... |
William Shakespeare | ... s On), Charles Wood (Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gielgud played | ), David Storey (Home), and Harold Pinter (No Man's Land), the latter two ... |
Xerxes | ... 0–428). It was said that Democritus' father was so wealthy that he received | on his march through Abdera. Democritus spent the inheritance which his fa ... |
Rudrabhatta | ... title "Emperor among poets" (Kavichakravarthi) from King Veera Ballala II. | , a Smartist Brahmin, was the earliest well-known Brahminical writer whose ... |
George V | ... wfoundland Regiment was given the name "The Royal Newfoundland Regiment" by | on 28 November 1917. Because of the slaughter, the first day of the Battle ... |
Lorna Luft | ... re married on June 8, 1952, in Hollister, California. Garland gave birth to | , herself a future actress and singer, on November 21, 1952, and to Joey L ... |
Murray Bookchin | ... ironmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as Rachel Carson and | had warned of. The moon landing that had occurred at the end of the previo ... |
Macareus | ... of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were Ochimus, Cercaphus, | or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Auges and Thr ... |
Rachel Carson | ... rmation of the environmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as | and Murray Bookchin had warned of. The moon landing that had occurred at t ... |
Alfred the Great | ... pired by the latter city's history. It had been the capital of Wessex under | , and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 1 ... |
Bede | The sole source of original information about Cædmon's life and work is | 's Historia ecclesiastica. According to Bede, Cædmon was a lay brother who ... |
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 ... |
Lady Kerr | ... ld normally be considered automatic for a former Governor-General. His wife | died in 1997. They were survived by two children |
Hugh Laurie | ... ed as being a very capable pianist and singer, making use of actor/musician | 's musical talents. He often plays and sings show tunes and popular songs ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and | |
Shidehara Kijurō | ... nipotentiary to the Washington Naval Conference, and worked with Ambassador | in the negotiations that led to the Five-Power Treaty |
Anastasius Bibliothecarius | ... s in manuscripts that predate the Chronicon. The one most commonly cited is | (d. 886), a compiler of Liber Pontificalis, who was a contemporary of the ... |
George Fischbeck | Dr. | was a widely viewed newscaster in Southern California in the 1970s and 198 ... |
George II of Great Britain | ... can Forbes of Culloden, was Lord President of the Court of Session for King | 's government in London. Duncan Forbes and Alexander Ross the Pitcalnie ch ... |
Hall, Manly Palmer | ... 31151131*Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.* | , The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928. , , *Herodotus, The Histories* * ... |
Kabir | ... the kirtan or song in the Haridasi tradition are related to bhajan. Nanak, | , Meera, Narottama Dasa, Surdas and Tulsidas are notable composers. Tradit ... |
Ptolemy | ... d by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by | of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest. I ... |
Steve Coll | ... ny sources, notably Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile, and Ghost Wars by | |
Achilles | ... Palladium, brought the bones of Pelops to Troy, and persuaded Neoptolemus ( | ' son by the Scyrian princess Deidamia) and Philoctetes (who possessed Her ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ember 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then-Governor General | , stating |
F. W. de Klerk | ... uth Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, | and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such ... |
Queen Victoria | ... ace, which was also the boundary between Surrey and Kent. Within two years, | again performed an opening ceremony. The new site hosted concerts, exhibit ... |
Harold Pinter | ... ngo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare), David Storey (Home), and | (No Man's Land), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph R ... |
Blaise Pascal | ... to the latter movement of Jansenism and the Port-Royal theologians such as | |
Henry IV | ... en 30,000 and 100,000 Huguenots across France. The wars only concluded when | , himself a former Huguenot, issued the Edict of Nantes, promising officia ... |
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 ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... th the title mimicking the controversial book by one of Sheldrake's critics | , who wrote The God Delusion. [In an interview with Fortean Times, Sheldra ... |
Michael Field | ... own over the issue of employment in the forestry industry, and the premier, | , called an early state election which the Liberals won. Later, Labor and ... |
Aurangzeb Alamgir | ... rd "Urdu" was used by Sirajuddin Ali Khan Arzoo in 1741. The Mughal Emperor | (1658–1707) spoke Urdu (or Hindustani) fluently as did his descendents whi ... |
Rob Pike | Bruce Ellis did the code and | did the design. Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov chain code, demonstrating ... |
Xerxes | ... d with the Chaldean magi. A certain "Ostanes", one of the magi accompanying | was also said to have taught him |
Herodotus | | mentions a fountain containing a very special kind of water located in the ... |
Hugh Whitemore | ... uke of York's Theatre in 1978, but he made a successful comeback in 1988 in | 's play The Best of Friends as museum curator Sydney Cockerell |
Ibn Khurradadhbih | ... re with 3 strings, sounded by a horse tail hair bow. The Persian geographer | (d. 911) of the 9th century, in his lexicographical discussion of instrume ... |
Michael Pillsbury | ... IA was not doing enough to support the Mujahideen in the Soviet Afghan war. | , Vincent Cannistraro, and others put enormous bureaucratic pressure on th ... |
Mary I of England | ... o make them look taller or larger than life, such as Catherine de Medici or | . By 1580, men also wore them, and a person with authority or wealth was o ... |
Aurelian | ... r. Constantius was an officer in the Roman army in 272, part of the Emperor | 's imperial bodyguard. Constantius advanced through the ranks, earning the ... |
Xerxes | ... ed at his tomb was plundered by the satrap Artayctes, under permission from | . The Greeks later captured and executed Artayctes, returning the treasure ... |
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 ... |
Joss Whedon | ... duced called Astonishing X-Men, written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator | , following Morrison's departure. Another X-Book titled took its place foc ... |
the Duke of Somerset | ... ms also emerged. In 1689, Anne's supporters (including the Marlboroughs and | ) demanded that she be granted a parliamentary annuity of £50 000, a sum t ... |
Ovid | ... s master, claiming that Odysseus' violence was not unwarranted by the gods. | mentions the "cruel" Medon as one of the suitors; he is also included on t ... |
Napoleon III | ... arly years of the war, British foreign secretary Lord John Russell, Emperor | of France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... in portraying weightlessness in a realistic manner. He discussed this with | , who suggested using a KC-135 airplane, which can be flown in such a way ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... Radio 4 series Gush, a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of | . With Newman he also wrote the family-friendly satirical sitcom My Dad's ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... y Act of Parliament, subsequently repealed, of the marriage of Edward IV to | caused the English people to rally behind the last reasonably legitimate B ... |
Nero | ... s going to the Lateran Church between the Colossean Theatre (so called from | 's Colossus) and St. Clement's her travail came upon her, and she died upo ... |
Said Aburish | ... Palestinian territories within the PLO command and according to biographer | , had "impressive knowledge of local conditions" in the Israeli-occupied t ... |
George Bernard Shaw | Wilde was the sole literary signatory of | 's petition for a pardon of the anarchists arrested (and later executed) a ... |
Augustus | ... rs) was made a Roman citizen (and thus, the tribe a Roman vassal) by either | or Caligula |
Aegidius | From 457 to 486, under | and his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soisso ... |
Ethan Mordden | ... also used to introduce the characters and situation to the audience. Author | described the effectiveness of this opening |
Lactantius | ... ary and political events, to the neglect of cultural and religious matters. | ' De Mortibus Persecutorum, a political Christian pamphlet on the reigns o ... |
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria | ... ience and effectiveness of the German army. The German Army Group Commander | stated: "What remained of the old first-class peace-trained German infantr ... |
Ed Harris | ... nd mental tests select the Mercury Seven astronauts, including John Glenn ( | ) of the United States Marine Corps, Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) of the Uni ... |
Franz II | ... I. His mother was the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, daughter of | , the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of N ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... om the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and | 's call for volunteers. On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate State ... |
Charles Seymour | ... eaving the court as well, and Sarah and she went to stay with their friends | , the sixth Duke of Somerset, and Elizabeth, the Duchess of Somerset at Sy ... |
John Webster | ... ts in 1963. Among his non-Shakespearean Renaissance roles, his Ferdinand in | 's The Duchess of Malfi was well-known |
Frank Herbert | In the Dune series, | tells the story of Leto, Paul and Leto II of House Atreides, the enemies o ... |
Gerard Henderson | ... ally not appearing to know that The Age was published in Melbourne, sacking | , a prominent conservative columnist, from the paper and by making remarks ... |
Badrachala Bhakta Ramdas | # | # Purandara Das |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician and leader, was the son of President | and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China (ROC). ... |
Syagrius | From 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son | , Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell t ... |
Gloria Steinem | ... brought the women's rights movement into the national political spotlight. | , Betty Friedan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, ... |
Georges Pompidou | French Presidents from | to Jacques Chirac have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible ... |
Nick Cave | The 1980s saw a breakthrough in the independence of Australian rock— | said that before the 80s, "Australia still needed America or England to te ... |
William Shakespeare | ... character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both | and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from w ... |
Marco Polo | ... for China popularized in Europe by the account of the 13th-century explorer | . The first recorded use in English dates from 1555. The Persian word is, ... |
Baden-Powell | ... form is a specific characteristic of the Scouting movement, in the words of | at the 1937 World Jamboree, "it covers the differences of country and race ... |
Roger Ebert | ... l of Silvia as "enchanting." Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic | wrote "[The film] stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most parti ... |
Karol Wojtyła | ... reasingly internationalist College of Cardinals, were figures like Cardinal | . Over the days following the conclave, cardinals effectively declared tha ... |
Philip II | Harsh persecution of Protestants by the Spanish government of | contributed to a desire for independence in the provinces, which led to th ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... st prose draft of the story in Paris early in May 1840, basing the story on | 's satire "The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski" (Aus den Memoiren de ... |
Amulius | ... cendant Numitor, who inherits the kingship of Alba Longa. Numitor’s brother | inherits its treasury, including the gold brought by Aeneas from Troy. Amu ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... World War), the entire remaining Baltic German community was repatriated by | to areas Nazi Germany had invaded in western Poland (especially in the War ... |
Nero | ... rowly escaped execution. During the disturbances that followed the death of | , he took up arms under pretence of siding with Vespasian and induced the ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of | and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France, Franz Joseph I (Franci ... |
Ron Moody | ... tured on record in 1964 with Jay Robinson as Iago and on video in 1981 with | as Iago. The 1982 Broadway staging starred James Earl Jones as Othello and ... |
Jacques Chirac | French Presidents from Georges Pompidou to | have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible Citroën SM présid ... |
Richard Ellmann | ... of estranging himself from his family. A precocious seventeen year old, by | 's account, he was "...so young and yet so knowing, was determined to sedu ... |
John William Draper | ... he long exposure meant the photograph came out as an indistinct fuzzy spot. | , an American physician, chemist and scientific experimenter, managed to m ... |
Maximilian I | ... summoned to Munich where, in 1638, he became court chaplain to the elector | . He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and af ... |
Napoleon's | ... me in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by | . It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes ... |
Irving Berlin | ... ted States. Whilst there, he met the American composers George Gershwin and | and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922. He also developed an interest in act ... |
Ernest Hemingway | In 1928 | and his pregnant wife, Pauline, stayed at the house of W. Malcolm and Ruth ... |
Clovis I | ... he capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell to the Frankish king | in the Battle of Soissons |
Raghavanka | ... (poems in blank verse) in praise of Lord Virupaksha (a form of Lord Shiva). | was the first to introduce the Shatpadi metre into Kannada literature in h ... |
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | The final say-so came down to | , the Pakistani dictator, through whom the CIA had to pass all of its fund ... |
Bill Walsh | ... s television's longest running (live-action) family sitcom. Disney producer | often mused on whether the concept of the show was inspired by the movie T ... |
Marcian | ... both the civil institutions, the Roman senate and the Eastern Roman Emperor | , as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals Majorian an ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... reen is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both William Shakespeare and | appear as characters, as do several characters from within A Midsummer Nig ... |
Diocletian | ... ' De Mortibus Persecutorum, a political Christian pamphlet on the reigns of | and the Tetrarchy, provides valuable but tendentious detail on Constantine ... |
Premier of the Republic of China | ... ernment of the Republic of China (ROC). He succeeded his father to serve as | between 1972 and 1978, and was the President of the Republic of China from ... |
Betty Friedan | Gloria Steinem, | , Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, El ... |
President of the Republic of China | ... erve as Premier of the Republic of China between 1972 and 1978, and was the | from 1978 until his death in 1988. Under his tenure, the government of the ... |
Arthur Koestler | ... f extrasensory perception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as | , Brian Inglis and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
Daniel Mendelsohn | ... .so young and yet so knowing, was determined to seduce Wilde". According to | , Wilde, who had long alluded to Greek love, was "initiated into homosexua ... |
William of Ockham | ... ed in long theological debates with other noted figures of the age, such as | and |
Wagnerian | ... uses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used | leitmotifs (short musical statements) to identify characters, objects and ... |
president | In the United States, the | is indirectly elected by the Electoral College made up of electors chosen ... |
Vespasian | ... t followed the death of Nero, he took up arms under pretence of siding with | and induced the inhabitants of his native country to rebel. The Batavians, ... |
Justinian I | ... Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by | , a panegyric on Justinian's public works throughout the empire, and a boo ... |
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 ... |
Cal Ripken, Jr. | On September 6, 1995, Baltimore Orioles shortstop | played his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's 56-year-old rec ... |
Edward Albee | ... gud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by | (Tiny Alice), Alan Bennett (Forty Years On), Charles Wood (Veterans), Edwa ... |
Milton Friedman | ... conomies from the start of the decade, and partly because of critiques from | and other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments ... |
Ptolemy | It is called Ptolemaic after the Greek astronomer | , although it had been developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apo ... |
Oscar Micheaux | ... and negotiated his first movie appearance in a silent race film directed by | , |
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 ... |
Majorian | ... peror Marcian, as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals | and Ricimer) and the Vandals of Gaiseric |
Brian Inglis | ... rception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as Arthur Koestler, | and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
Rudy Giuliani | ... , with service to New York JFK, where passengers were welcomed by the mayor | |
Michael G. Vickers | ... ing". Their increasingly successful Afghanistan strategy, formed largely by | , was based on a broad mix of weapons, tactics, and logistics, not a 'silv ... |
Alexander the Great | ... " appears in the Eastern versions of the Alexander romance, which describes | and his servant crossing the Land of Darkness to find the restorative spri ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | ... erences to the female Pope abound in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. | wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). The Chronicon of Adam of U ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... dship of the hundred of Nassaburgh, which was coextensive with the Soke, to | , who gave it to Lord Burghley, and from that time until the 19th century ... |
Jack Vance | The Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by | , first published in 1958, in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is a centra ... |
Harlan Ellison | ... Clarion's 1971 anthology; another short story, "Childfinder," was bought by | for the never-published collection The Last Dangerous Visions. (Like other ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... d allowed native Taiwanese into positions of power, including his successor | |
John James Audubon | ... . The average weight of these pigeons was 340–400 grams (12–14 oz) and, per | 's account, length was 42 cm (16.5 in) in males and 38 cm (15 in) in femal ... |
George W. Bush | ... ng for economic policies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents | and Barack Obama of the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the ... |
Vasari | ... the Baroque period. Patronised by the Medici, he aspired to become the new | by renewing and expanding his biographies of artists, to which Baldinucci ... |
Herman Melville | ... 90s, Stella created a large body of work that responded in a general way to | ’s Moby-Dick. During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s p ... |
Clovis I | ... during the rule of the Merovingian kings (A.D. 447-751). After the death of | in 511, Soissons was made the capital of one of the four kingdoms into whi ... |
Brian Herbert | ... to the original Atreides of the Trojan War. In one of the prequel novels by | and Kevin J. Anderson, the Play The Oresteia is performed in Castle Calada ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... West Virginia, which chose to remain loyal to the Union. Virginian general | took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions i ... |
Sparta | ... divination and prophecy. In the visits to various places in Greece – Delos, | , Phlius, Crete, etc. which are ascribed to him, he usually appears either ... |
Elizabeth Holtzman | ... edan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, | , amongst many others, led the movement for women's equality |
Mark Antony | ... ian Empire. This short independence was rapidly crushed by the Romans under | and Octavian. The installation of Herod the Great (an Idumean) as king in ... |
Paul Robeson | ... arships. In 1939 he was in the chorus of a short-lived musical that starred | . Blues singer Josh White was also a cast member, and later invited Rustin ... |
president | In Mexico, the | is directly elected for a six-year term by popular vote. The candidate who ... |
Song Ci | ... ations. Through their own experiments and interest in arthropods and death, | , Francesco Redi, Bergeret d’Arbois, Jean Pierre Mégnin and the German doc ... |
Franz Xaver Niemetschek | The anecdote originally appeared in an early biography of Mozart by | . Its authenticity is not accepted by all scholars |
John Cornwell | ... ople in the Vatican who were opposed to Luciani's policies. In the words of | , "they treated him with condescension"; one senior cleric discussing Luci ... |
Craig Kyle | ... crossover between X-Force and Cable series entitled Messiah War, written by | and Chris Yost, commenced in March 2009 and served as a second part in the ... |
Joanna, Countess of Provence | ... d from that time till 1377 was the papal seat. In 1348 the city was sold by | , to Clement VI for 80,000 florins |
Valentinian III | ... reiterated this initiative, recalling the treaty subscribed by Gaiseric and | in 442 and entrusting the defence of the Empire to the Roman army and its ... |
Bartolomeo Platina | ... eminated and believed. Joan was used as an exemplum in Dominican preaching. | , the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ Ponti ... |
Xenophanes | ... ythagoreans. Heraclitus stated that he was a man of extensive learning; and | claimed that he believed in the transmigration of souls. Xenophanes mentio ... |
Michael Backman | In 2009, The Age suspended its columnist | after one of his columns condemned Israeli tourists as greedy and badly be ... |
Hipparchus | ... een developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apollonius of Perga and | of Rhodes, who used it extensively, during the second century BC, almost t ... |
Janet Jackson | ... recorded by many singers and groups, ranging from R&B / pop singers such as | to nu metal band Korn and hip hop groups like TLC |
Kevin J. Anderson | ... reides of the Trojan War. In one of the prequel novels by Brian Herbert and | , the Play The Oresteia is performed in Castle Caladan, during the reign o ... |
Barack Obama | ... icies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents George W. Bush and | of the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, P ... |
Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff | ... ivine punishment, with Hitler as an instrument in a greater plan, was Rabbi | . When Rav Kook died in 1935, Risikoff—with "a presentiment of the catastr ... |
Nellie Melba | ... ally produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with | as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mar ... |
Greg Gumbel | ... o television studio analyst for The NFL Today in 1990 (which he hosted with | through the 1993 season), and Fox NFL Sunday, where he normally acts as a ... |
Gerry Anderson | ... e and Dud. Other sketches included "Superthunderstingcar", a send-up of the | marionette TV shows, and Cook's pastiche of 1960s trendy arts documentarie ... |
Alexander Afanasyev | ... Korsakov's interest in pantheism was whetted by the folkloristic studies of | . That author's standard work, The Poetic Outlook on Nature by the Slavs, ... |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... ntheism was a major force in the Unitarian church for a long time, based on | 's concept of the Oversoul. This survives today as the panentheistic relig ... |
Peter Capaldi | ... 2009 Christmas season. The series starred Jack Dee as 'John Tweedledum' and | as 'Jim Tweedledee'; the two present the "news of the day" in the world of ... |
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 ... |
Sir Garfield Barwick | ... November, Kerr consulted the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, | . Kerr asked Barwick to advise him on whether he had the constitutional po ... |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... Ab Urbe Condita and several Greek-language histories of Rome: these include | 's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and Plutarch ... |
Edward III | ... aim to France was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King from | to George III, regardless of the amount of French territory actually contr ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... lations included English and American poetry and a masterpiece in rendering | 's epic, Peer Gynt, into Icelandic. Einar Benediktsson was buried at Icela ... |
Alaric II | A time of confusion followed the death of | , the son-in-law of Theodoric, at the Battle of Vouillé. The Ostrogothic k ... |
Oliver Postgate | ... eries (of the same name) and series of illustrated books, the brainchild of | and Peter Firmin. The TV series is considered a 'cult classic' from the go ... |
Robert Sherard | ... him to move to Paris between February and mid-May 1883. Whilst there he met | , whom he entertained constantly. "We are dining on the Duchess tonight", ... |
Theodosius II | ... esiastic disputes of Constantine's later reign. Written during the reign of | (408–50), a century after Constantine's reign, these ecclesiastic historia ... |
Zheng He | ... ared in the "The Nautical Charts of Zheng He" written on the expeditions of | (Cheng Ho) in Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Yongle Emperor. In 15 c ... |
George III | ... was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King from Edward III to | , regardless of the amount of French territory actually controlled.) The a ... |
Lionel Jeffries | ... rchive interviews with Bonnie Langford, David Tomlinson and writer/director | |
Padishah Emperor | ... tories against Beast Rabban threaten to disrupt the trade of the spice. The | Shaddam Corrino IV decides to intervene himself and arrives on Arrakis alo ... |
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 ... |
Rav Kook | ... s an instrument in a greater plan, was Rabbi Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff. When | died in 1935, Risikoff—with "a presentiment of the catastrophe" yet to com ... |
Harry Morgan | ... e role of Joe Friday's partner: Bill Gannon, played by movie and TV veteran | , a lifelong friend of Webb. Morgan in 1949 had a voice role as rooming ho ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... not carry out the policies of his predecessor. He chose to make peace with | Louis IV, and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who w ... |
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 ... |
James Weldon Johnson | ... ncement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and | were frequent guests in the Rustin home. With these influences in his earl ... |
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 ... |
Jordanes | ... ere referred to as Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) by | and as Gautoi by Procopius. In the Norse Sagas they are referred to as Gau ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... e was the only surviving ex-president since he left office until the end of | 's term on 16 May 2007, with the exception of a brief period between Franç ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... tion) of the leader of the cymeks who gave himself the pseudonym Agamemnon. | 's short story, "The Purloined Letter", makes reference to Atreus and Thye ... |
Constance Lloyd | In London, he had been introduced to | in 1881, daughter of Horace Lloyd, a wealthy Queen's Counsel. She happened ... |
Baba Bulleh Shah | ... nirguna) divinity, encouraging listeners to shed dogma and look at reality. | is another and the Bauls of Bengal have developed from these roots. The Si ... |
King William III | In 1702, | died, and Anne became Queen. Anne immediately offered John Churchill a duk ... |
Kangxi | Heilongjiang as an administrative entity was created in 1683, during the | era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the northwestern part of the Jilin pr ... |
George W. Bush | ... rove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execution to proceed. After President | approved the execution (McVeigh was a federal inmate and federal law dicta ... |
King Charles I | When civil war broke out, Peterborough was divided between supporters of | (known as Cavaliers) and supporters of the Long Parliament (known as Round ... |
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 ... |
Idi Amin | ... Emperor and Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator | had seven of them. The Shah of Iran drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and L ... |
David Lee Roth | ... ". He was replaced by bassist James LoMenzo, who had previously worked with | , White Lion, and Black Label Society. On March 16, 2006, the new Megadeth ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... for years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid, | made his first public speech in decades on 11 February 1990 from the balco ... |
Richard Rubenstein | Prof. | 's original piece on this issue, "After Auschwitz", held that the only int ... |
Frederik Pohl | | reported that Vance had "pretty carefully" worked out his extrapolation, b ... |
Hipólito Mejía | ... e, there are signs this would have changed with the government of President | . Growing immigration from and political instability in Haiti have forced ... |
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 ... |
Aristarchus of Samos | ... the ground seems still and steady underfoot. Some Greek astronomers (e.g., | ) speculated that the planets (Earth included) orbited the Sun, but the op ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ristobulus II, Simon's great-grandsons, became pawns in a proxy war between | and Pompey the Great. The deaths of Pompey (48 BCE), Caesar (44 BCE), and ... |
John Cleese | ... f the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike. | was a cast member |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | easily won in Indianapolis by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while ... |
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 ... |
Hirohito | ... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whether | was to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ... |
Numitor | ... s destruction by the Achaeans. Their maternal grandfather is his descendant | , who inherits the kingship of Alba Longa. Numitor’s brother Amulius inher ... |
David Langford | ... en brilliantly", but that his prose sometimes seemed uneven and artificial. | cited Vance's "engaging speculation", but concluded that the protagonist " ... |
Alexander Prokhanov | ... wing aircraft shot down. According to Crile, who includes information from | , the Stinger was a "turning point". Milt Bearden saw it as a "force multi ... |
Shelley's | ... is also used metaphorically to refer to the work or skill of a poet, as in | "Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is" or Byron's "I wish to tune my qu ... |
Ronald Skirth | ... ho Wouldn't Fight, featuring the stories of conscientious objectors such as | , was aired on 10 November 2008. He also presented one episode of the BBC' ... |
Caroline Kennedy | In a column assessing | 's candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in ea ... |
Eugene O'Neill | ... earch in Black Culture. In December, he acquired the lead role of Jim in an | production of All God's Chillun Got Wings, whose plot culminated in Jim sy ... |
Amalaric | ... of Vouillé. The Ostrogothic king stepped in as the guardian of his grandson | , and preserved for him all his Iberian and a fragment of his Gaul dominio ... |
Maureen Dowd | ... dacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in early 2009, | likened the Kennedy family role in US politics, from grandfather Joe Kenne ... |
Philostratus | ... a tradesman, a courtesan, etc. In his book The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, | wrote that Pythagoras knew not only who he was himself, but also who he ha ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... ters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on | , both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as d ... |
Broad, William J. | ====References==* | , New York : Penguin, 2006. ISBN 1-59-420081-5.*Burkert, Walter, Greek Rel ... |
Andrew Jaspan | In 2004 Gawenda was succeeded as editor by British journalist | . Jaspan aroused controversy by initially not appearing to know that The A ... |
Martin Van Buren | His entry into politics came in 1837 with his appointment by | as Collector of Customs of the Port of Boston. In this position, two of Ba ... |
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 ... |
John McCain | ... is by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while 35% of the votes went to | |
K. Eric Drexler | | later took the Feynman concept of a billion tiny factories and added the i ... |
Alison Stewart | Partial List | , Ira Glass, Mary Louise Kelly, Tony Co |
Karl Maeser | ... when Brigham Young's choice for principal arrived—a German immigrant named | . The school did not become a university, however, until the end of Benjam ... |
Maxentius | The foremost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors | and Licinius during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Fr ... |
Arrigo Boito | ... e character: in Meyer Lutz' Mephistopheles, or Faust and Marguerite (1855), | 's Mefistofele (1868), Klaus Mann's Mephisto, and Franz Liszt's Mephisto W ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... auch shelved his work for a few years while he wrote New York, New York for | and other un-produced screenplays |
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 ... |
James Buchanan | ... orn nation. Previously John B. Floyd, U.S. Secretary of War under President | , had moved arms south out of northern U.S. armories. To economize War Dep ... |
William III | ... tion; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, | and Mary II. When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, t ... |
Teucer | ... om the former was slain in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus, and the latter by | |
Numitor | When Romulus' grandfather | dies, the people of Alba Longa offer him the crown as rightful heir. Romul ... |
Mary Louise Kelly | Alison Stewart, Ira Glass, | , Tony Co |
Ira Flatow | 1991-Present: | - Science Frida |
Lawrence Langner | ... roduce. Hammerstein and Rodgers met weekly in 1943 with Theresa Helburn and | of the Theatre Guild, producers of the blockbuster musical, who together f ... |
Kitty Pryde | ... al and rebuilding of the original X-Mansion by Wolverine, with support from | , Iceman, and Beast. Enrollment in The Jean Grey School for Higher Learnin ... |
Licinius | ... first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, Constantine and co-Emperor | issued the Edict of Milan in 313, which proclaimed religious tolerance of ... |
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 ... |
Robert Kirkman | ... res as the base of operations of the sadistic Governor and his followers in | 's zombie-themed comic series The Walking Dead. However, it is possible th ... |
Theodoric the Great | The greatest of all Ostrogothic rulers, the future | (whose name means "leader of the people") of Ostrogothic Kingdom, was born ... |
Art Rooney | ... n unintentional estrangement from the Steelers. When team founder and owner | died in 1988, Bradshaw did not attend his funeral. A year later, during hi ... |
King Charles II | ... y constituted in 1303, by Boniface VIII in a Papal Bull. Boniface VIII, and | of Naples should be considered one of the first great protectors and benef ... |
Trevor N. Dupuy | ... and keep up its defensive positions, to the surprise of many. According to | , the Israelis, Soviets and Americans overestimated the vulnerability of t ... |
Neal Conan | 2001-Present: | 1991-Present: Ira Flatow - Science Frida |
Isobel Armstrong | ... ce centre. There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor | , the literary critic) and Ursula spent a childhood left chiefly to their ... |
Roman Emperor | ... ry 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, was | from 306 to 337. Well known for being the first Roman emperor to convert t ... |
President | ... corner of 200 East and 200 North. On October 16, 1875, Brigham Young, then | of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, personally purchased t ... |
Florenz Ziegfeld | ... a letter of introduction for Norma, acquired from a local theatre owner, to | , who was currently preparing a new season of his famous Follies |
Achilles | ... re names of the tribe (also called "Myrmidones") settled in Pyhthia, led by | |
Ray Suarez | 1993-1999: | 2000-2001: Juan William |
Tom Hanks | On 20 July 1969, veteran astronaut Jim Lovell ( | ) hosts a party for other astronauts and their families, who watch on tele ... |
Augustine | Among his friends were | , Jerome, and Paulinus. Jerome speaks of him as a man of great holiness wh ... |
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 ... |
Károly Kisfaludy | He was born at Szücsi and was first published in | 's Aurora, a literary paper he edited from 1830 to 1837. He also contribut ... |
Neil Simon | In 1985, Harrelson married Nancy Simon, daughter of playwright | , in Tijuana. The two intended to divorce the following day, but the store ... |
USS George Washington | ... re for U.S. merchant ships in the Mediterranean. Upon arrival in the 24-gun | , he allowed the harbor pilot to guide him directly under the guns of the ... |
Juan Williams | 2000-2001: | 2001-Present: Neal Cona |
Barack Obama | ... 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT. President | stated during his 2008 election campaign that "As president, I will reach ... |
James II | ... she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father, | , was deposed during the Glorious Revolution; and she promoted her interes ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... of the partisan-controlled Supreme Headquarters and the capture of Marshal | . The offensive took place in April and May, 1944. The Waffen-SS units inv ... |
Walt Disney | ... the category. Only American films were nominated for the award until 1952. | 's Silly Symphonies and Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry was the category's m ... |
Ptolemy | The earliest mention of the Geats may appear in | (2nd century A.D.), where they are referred to as Goutai. In the 6th centu ... |
Ernst Lubitsch | ... w Kind of Love" (or "The Nightingales"). He collaborated with film director | . He appeared in Paramount's all-star revue film Paramount on Parade (1930 ... |
Sparta | ... Pentapolis after 410, was born of wealthy parents, who claimed descent from | n kings, at Balagrae (Bayda now) near between 370 and 375 |
Fidel V. Ramos | ... eer military officer who reached the five-star general/admiral is President | (USMA 1950) (president from 1992–1998) who rose from second lieutenant up ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both | and J. R. R. Tolkien before graduating in 1956. In the same year she marri ... |
Iamblichus | ... ing, "He spoke (agor-) the truth no less than did the Pythian (Pyth-)," and | tells the story that the Pythia prophesied that his pregnant mother would ... |
Jim Cramer | Commentator | has expressed concern about short selling and started a petition calling f ... |
Yan Xishan | ... nxi. During the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, Kung mobilized forces in support of | , helping Yan to overthrow the authority of the Qing government in Shanxi. ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ay. In 1912, Robeson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in | , Othello, sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseb ... |
Abraham Lincoln | In his first Inaugural Address, | tried to contain the expansion of the Confederacy. To quiet the rising cal ... |
Mary II | ... omoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, William III and | . When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, the Duke of ... |
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' ... |
Charles II | ... vention Parliament which restored Charles I's eldest son to the monarchy as | . Following the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was exhumed and posthumously ... |
Temenus | #Medon (Μήδων), a son of Ceisus and grandson of | . He was a king of Argos but his powers were limited to the minimum in fav ... |
Ennius | | (fl. 180s BC) refers to Romulus as a divinity without reference to Quirinu ... |
Jerome | Among his friends were Augustine, | , and Paulinus. Jerome speaks of him as a man of great holiness who was ri ... |
President of the Philippines | ... 1972), issued an order conferring the five star general/admiral rank to the | , making himself as its first rank holder. Since then, the rank of five-st ... |
William Shakespeare | ... t the time to name towns after the birthplace of prominent British men. The | 'connection' led to the naming of 67 streets after Shakespearian character ... |
Walt Disney | ... ed by the other nominees for that year. This category is notable for giving | 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 1 ... |
Lyndon Johnson | ... recently, the last Democrat to win a majority in the county before 2008 was | in 1964, although Bill Clinton won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1 ... |
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 ... |
Iamblichus | ... who hears not me but the Logos will say: All is one." Neoplatonists such as | attempted to reconcile this perspective by adding another hypostasis above ... |
Queen Margherita | ... Puccini opera was a national event. Many Roman dignitaries attended, as did | , though she arrived late, after the first act. The Prime Minister of Ital ... |
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 ... |
Al Sherman | ... the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" with words and music by Al Lewis and | , plus "A New Kind of Love" (or "The Nightingales"). He collaborated with ... |
Benjamin Cluff, Jr's | ... l Maeser. The school did not become a university, however, until the end of | term at the helm of the institution. At that time, the school was also sti ... |
Licinius | ... remost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors Maxentius and | during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Franks, Alamann ... |
Pirithous | #Medon, a Centaur at the wedding of | and Hippodamia |
Coretta Scott King | ... ited the leadership position of the civil rights movement from her husband, | , as leader of the black movement, called for an end to all discrimination ... |
Chris Mitchell | ... later in the year without explanation, to the amusement of The Australian's | , who called the about-face "a bit embarrassing" |
Klaus Mann | ... opheles, or Faust and Marguerite (1855), Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868), | 's Mephisto, and Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltzes |
Ferdinand Marcos | President | , who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965–1967 and 1971–19 ... |
Bob Dylan | ... n the Mesabi Range in Hibbing; Robert Allen Zimmerman, later to be known as | , was raised in Hibbing. His song "North Country Blues" is about the decli ... |
Paul Robeson | ... notable American production may be Margaret Webster's 1943 staging starring | as Othello and Jose Ferrer as Iago. This production was the first ever in ... |
Charlemagne | ... III (750 – 12 June 816) was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. Protected by | from his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's posit ... |
Dolly Parton | ... the 1980s: "Lady" by Kenny Rogers, from the late fall of 1980; "9 to 5" by | , "I Love a Rainy Night" by Eddie Rabbitt (these two back-to-back at the t ... |
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 ... |
Presidential | San Joaquin is a Republican-leaning county in | and Congressional elections. Until recently, the last Democrat to win a ma ... |
John, Jr. | ... paquiddick incident, and four airplane crashes (Joe, Jr., Kathleen, Ted and | ; all but Ted's were fatal) |
Acastus | ... the war in his place. The gods had pity on his widow, Laodamia, daughter of | , and brought him up from Hades to see her. She was at first overjoyed, th ... |
Trajan | ... 9 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor | or Hadrian, but this is improbable |
Theodoric II | ... s had a good relationship with the Visigoths, in particular with their king | , who was a friend of his and who acclaimed Avitus Emperor, but the possib ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... passed by the U.S. Congress 1806–1808, during the second term of President | . Britain and France were engaged in a major war; the U.S. wanted to remai ... |
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen | ... Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians | and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman Joseph Jacobs |
William III | ... ight of succession was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between | , and James II, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popula ... |
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 ... |
Edward Dowden | ... lassical schools, set him with scholars such as R.Y. Tyrell, Arthur Palmer, | and his tutor, J.P. Mahaffy who inspired his interest in Greek literature. ... |
Arcadius | ... l praetorian prefect Aurelianus. Synesius composed and addressed to Emperor | a speech entitled De regno, full of topical advice as to the studies of a ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis and | before graduating in 1956. In the same year she married John Burrow, a sch ... |
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose | ... ort time only to become a covenanter again and was present at the defeat of | in 1650. During the Civil War at the Battle of Carbisdale the Clan Ross an ... |
Roman Emperor | ... from 108 or 109 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the | Trajan or Hadrian, but this is improbable |
Sun Yat-sen | Kung was an early supporter of | , and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of Chiang ... |
Alexander Afanasyev | ... eglect of cross-cultural influence. Among those influenced were the Russian | , the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the English ... |
Duke Ellington | ... songs originally recorded by artists like Sarah Vaughan, Glenn Miller, and | (from whom the album mainly got its inspiration). Session guitarist Bruce ... |
Henry Home, Lord Kames | ... Margaret, who became wife of Walkinshaw of Barrowfield, and grandmother of | . Another descendant was Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress of Charles Edward ... |
Pausanias | ... pire it was quite obscured by the restored cities of Corinth and Patrae; in | ' age (A.D. 150) it was almost desolate. In Byzantine times it became a bi ... |
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 ... |
Willie Wilde | ... ty College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874, sharing rooms with his older brother | . Trinity, one of the leading classical schools, set him with scholars suc ... |
Michael Leunig | ... ng editorial cartoonists, notably Les Tanner, Bruce Petty, Ron Tandberg and | |
Chris Morris | ... Christmas. Unscripted interviews with Cook as Streeb-Greebling and satirist | were recorded in late 1993 and broadcast as Why Bother? on BBC Radio 3, on ... |
Christopher Wren | The study of spirals in nature have a long history, | observed that many shells form a logarithmic spiral. Jan Swammerdam observ ... |
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville | ... erica. These earlier accounts clearly inspired the popular medieval fantasy | , which also mentions the Fountain of Youth as located at the foot of a mo ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U.S. President | 's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the Brit ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... at on other planets beings could exist in an unfallen state was explored by | in his novel |
Ben Lilly | ... dden commissioned Dunton to paint a full-length portrait of big-game hunter | . The portrait was exhibited by the National Academy of Design before bein ... |
Mary I | ... atholic heir, and consequent persecution of the Protestant Church (as under | ), or foreign intervention by the Habsburgs or French, meant that the righ ... |
Ira Flatow | ... ded John Hockenberry, Ira Glass, Ray Suarez, and Juan Williams. Each Friday | hosts Science Friday, with discussion topics from science and technology. ... |
Lewis Wolpert | Sheldrake has entered into a scientific wager with fellow biologist | on the importance of DNA in the developing organism. Wolpert bet Sheldrake ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... advisors, and Yan was soon recognized as the military governor of Shanxi by | , and effectively controlled Shanxi until 1949, when the Communists took c ... |
Alfred de Vigny | ... y among nineteenth-century French Romantics, poet, playwright, and novelist | created a French translation of Othello, titled Le More de Venise, which p ... |
Charles Lindbergh | ... rd by Woolson, and the aircraft was a Stinson SM1B, X7654. Later that year, | flew the same aircraft. In 1929, it was flown nonstop from Detroit to Lang ... |
Margaret Whitlam | ... Jim McClelland and Joe Riordan. Kerr's wife Alison was a fellow student of | during university days. Whitlam seems to have believed that, because of Ke ... |
Paul Ferrier | ... 898 at the Théâtre des Nations. The production used a French translation by | and starred Julia Guiraudon as Mimì, Jeanne Tiphaine as Musetta, Adolphe M ... |
Paul Émile de Puydt | ... hy" was invented and the concept proposed by a Belgian political economist, | in an article called "Panarchy" published in 1860. The word "panarchy" has ... |
Juan Williams | ... st regular hosts have included John Hockenberry, Ira Glass, Ray Suarez, and | . Each Friday Ira Flatow hosts Science Friday, with discussion topics from ... |
President of the Philippines | ... Philippine Constitution placed the AFP under the control of a civilian, the | , who acts as its Commander-in-Chief. All of its branches are part of the ... |
Alan E. Nourse | ... mic processes or by direct apposition. According to the volume The Body, by | , the islets are "busily manufacturing their hormone and generally disrega ... |
Roger Sherman | ... stitutions influenced the US Constitution as one of the leading authors was | of New Haven |
Carl Jung | ... oposed as the theory of the collective unconscious by renowned psychiatrist | . According to Sheldrake, the theory of "morphic fields" might provide an ... |
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 ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... hed success, and was rewarded by a series of academic appointments. In 1552 | , appointed him professor of scriptural interpretation in the university. ... |
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 ... |
Jim Cairns | ... the sacking of two senior ministers, Rex Connor and Deputy Prime Minister, | . The Liberal Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser, decided to use the Senate ... |
Theodemir | ... lied with the former vassal and rival, the Gepids and the Ostrogoths led by | broke the Hunnic power of Attila's sons in the Battle of Nedao in 454 |
Barack Obama | ... taking some steps to allow limited economic exchanges with Cuba, President | recently reaffirmed the policy, stating that without improved human rights ... |
John Hockenberry | 1991-1992: | 1993-1999: Ray Suare |
Frederick Nolan | ... merstein conceived the graduation scene that ends the musical. According to | in his book on the team's works: "From that scene the song "You'll Never W ... |
Alfred Marshall | ... Cambridge after receiving a scholarship for this also to study mathematics. | begged Keynes to become an economist |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... n Yat-sen, and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of | . Kung began his career in the government of the Republic of China as the ... |
Steven Van Zandt | ... f Global Rock Showcase dates across the United States. Dates include Little | 's "Save CBGB Rally" concert in Washington Square Park, New York City. H.R ... |
Joseph Jacobs | ... the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman | |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... lection of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, | and Edward M. Kennedy, soon all held prominent positions in the federal go ... |
Nellie Melba | ... ropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with | as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, G ... |
stakes | ... y, President Wilkinson reorganized the LDS church units on campus, with ten | and over 100 wards being added during his administration |
Andy Warhol | ... t passed during the decade. Many celebrities, including Freddie Mercury and | , also "came out" during this decade, bringing gay culture further into th ... |
Isocrates | ... Johann Caspar von Orelli, who regarded him as his right-hand man. He edited | , Panegyricus (1831); with Sauppe, Lycurgus, Leocralca (1834) and Oratores ... |
William Shakespeare | ... d (1500–1750), holds the world's largest collection of the printed works of | , as well as collections of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts. ... |
Oscar Wildian | ... itings of men like H.G. Wells and Graham Wallas, wrenching us away from the | dilettantism which had possessed undergraduate litterateurs for generation ... |
Elia Kazan | ... vinced Weller to do the film. The actor says that he based his character on | , Jacques Cousteau, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant |
Agathias of Myrina | ... rocopius' work was written after Procopius' death by the poet and historian | |
Emperor Frederick II | ... d after the Third Crusade allowed for Christian pilgrims to visit the site. | regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he h ... |
Peter the Great | ... of Sciences, an honor previously granted to only two other heads of state: | and Napoleon Bonaparte. Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philos ... |
Isocrates | Herodotus, | , and other early writers all agree that Pythagoras was born on Samos, the ... |
Mao Zedong | ... s. By then, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under | had signed a ceasefire to create the Second United Front and fight the Jap ... |
Fernández | The United States supports the | administration's efforts to improve Dominican competitiveness, to attract ... |
Charles Osborne | ... ent", but still hails the work as "a triumph of pure theatre". Music critic | ascribes Toscas immense popularity with audiences to the taut effectivenes ... |
Neil Peart | ... these songs feel like a faster tempo than anything we’ve ever done before." | of the Canadian rock band Rush plays drums on three songs on the album, "S ... |
Mike Shinoda | ... sful audition with Linkin Park, who were then called "Xero". Bennington and | , the band’s other vocalist, made significant progress together, but faile ... |
Plato | ... ad, he studied at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. At Göttingen he studied | with Arnold Heeren; history with Heeren and Gottlieb Jakob Planck; Arabic, ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ep South cotton states passed secession ordinances by February 1861 (before | took office as president), while secession efforts failed in the other eig ... |
Charles Edward Stuart | ... Home, Lord Kames. Another descendant was Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress of | |
Plotinus | Neoplatonism is polytheistic and panentheistic. | taught that there was an ineffable transcendent "God" (The One) of which s ... |
James II | ... n was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between William III, and | , it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popular defender of ... |
Wang Jingwei | Kung was an early supporter of Sun Yat-sen, and worked with | before serving in the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Kung began his career ... |
Jørgen Moe | ... e Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and | , and the Englishman Joseph Jacobs |
Debendranath Tagore | ... ian intellectuals of the age, including Navin Chandra Roy, Rajnarayan Basu, | and Hemendranath Tagore all of whom were actively involved in the Brahmo S ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author | in his 1942 story Waldo |
Jim Dale | ... uch as Humphrey Lyttelton, the Vipers Skiffle Group, the pianist Mrs Mills, | , Keith Kelly, Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, the Temperance Seven, Laur ... |
Clive Anderson Talks Back | On 17 December 1993, Cook appeared on | as four characters – biscuit tester and alien abductee Norman House, footb ... |
Hadrian | ... r 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Trajan or | , but this is improbable |
Kylie Minogue | ... Not Ashamed, Step Up to the Microphone, Devotion, and more. Then soap star | began her music career in the late 1980s and released The Loco-Motion whic ... |
Dolly Parton | ... k-to-back at the top in early 1981); and "Islands in the Stream", a duet by | and Kenny Rogers in 1983, a pop-country crossover hit written by Barry, Ro ... |
Henry Nottidge Moseley | ... matical characteristics of a wide range of shells from Helix to Spirula and | described the mathematics of univalve shells. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's ... |
Herodotus | | , Isocrates, and other early writers all agree that Pythagoras was born on ... |
Íñigo Arista | ... of Roncevaux Pass through an ambush of a coaliated vascon and Muslim force. | of Pamplona was stepbrother of Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi, by mother |
John F. Kennedy | Following the 1960 election of U.S. President | , he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy ... |
Mark of Cornwall | ... n the Palamedes and other works, the castle is eventually destroyed by King | after the loss of Arthur at the Battle of Camlann. However maddening to la ... |
Oileus | #Medon, half-brother of Ajax the Lesser and son of | , king of Locris, by Rhene or Alcimache. He resided in Phylace, to where h ... |
Alan Bennett | ... ur-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, | and Dudley Moore |
Queen Caroline | ... John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole; King George II; and his wife, | . The money she inherited from the Marlborough trust left her as one of th ... |
Brian Herbert | ... a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by | and Kevin J. Anderson. The character is brought back as a ghola in the Her ... |
Cercaphus | ... seven sons of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were Ochimus, | , Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Au ... |
Alan Moore | In | 's graphic novel , Bertie appears in the segment "What Ho, Gods of the Aby ... |
Douglas Fairbanks | When | was on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his ne ... |
John Lennon | ... s" (originally titled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by | and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hea ... |
Yasser Arafat | ... of sympathy, including those from Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, | of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Narasimha Rao of India. Iran ... |
Hypatia | ... as c. 414, because he appears to have been unaware of the violent death of | |
Neal Conan | The show began broadcasting in November 1991. It has been hosted by | since late 2001. Each episode includes special guests involved in the topi ... |
Philip Kaufman | ... ere not satisfied with Goldman's take on the book. They approached director | who shared their dissatisfaction with the existing script. Kaufman began w ... |
Kevin J. Anderson | ... ter in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by Brian Herbert and | . The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert/Anderson sequels ... |
Franco Harris | ... ised Monday Night Football game, Bradshaw joined former teammates including | and Joe Greene to accept their position on the Pittsburgh Steelers 75th An ... |
John III of Navarre | ... Castle of La Mota, Medina del Campo, from which he escaped and joined King | . He was killed in 1507 while fighting for the Navarrese king in the city ... |
King George II | ... architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole | ;; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited from the Marlboro ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... ing a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, | publicly denounced Hindemith as an "atonal noisemaker. |
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... note that the earliest incarnation of Chianti was as a white wine. In 1716 | issued an edict legislating that the three villages of the Lega del Chiant ... |
Plato | ... res Atticae (1838–1850); with Orelli and Winckelmann, a critical edition of | (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance in the text, two new manuscri ... |
William Goldman | ... outbid Universal Pictures for the movie rights to Tom Wolfe's book, hiring | to write the screenplay. Goldman's adaptation focused on the astronauts, e ... |
Dolly Parton | During the mid-1970s, | , a highly successful mainstream country artist since the late '60s, mount ... |
James Bond | ... the 1988 action-war film, Rambo III. Also, Stinger missiles are appeared in | film Licence to Kill |
Eardwulf of Northumbria | Leo helped restore King | and settled various matters of dispute between the Archbishops of York and ... |
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 ... |
Julius Nepos | ... stris), Ecdicius Avitus (later patricius and magister militum under Emperor | ), and, clarissima femina (who married the praetorian prefect of Gaul Tona ... |
Neil Gaiman | Jones' works are also compared to those of Robin McKinley and | . She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones and Gaiman are ... |
Ochimus | ... were the seven sons of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were | , Cercaphus, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Non ... |
Jonathan Miller | ... own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with | , Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore |
Hubert Butler | ... ers of the Irish CND included Peadar O'Donnell, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and | |
Augustus | Under the reign of | , when the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, 14 wards w ... |
Albert Einstein | ... The actor says that he based his character on Elia Kazan, Jacques Cousteau, | , Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant |
Wagnerian | Budden describes Tosca as the most | of Puccini's scores, in its use of musical leitmotifs. Unlike Wagner, Pucc ... |
Robin McKinley | Jones' works are also compared to those of | and Neil Gaiman. She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones ... |
Richard II | The idea of trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (Edward II, | and Henry VI) had been overthrown and murdered by their successors, but ha ... |
Charles Clarke | ... em with no Commons representative in East Anglia; the former Home Secretary | being a high level casualty in the 2010 election |
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 ... |
Queen Mary | ... l of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of George V and | |
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew | ... in structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by Max Perutz and | , respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-resolution structures of protein ... |
Lindsay Anderson | ... fter some initial reluctance. The march was the subject of a documentary by | , . Thereafter, CND organised annual Easter marches starting at Aldermasto ... |
F. L. Lucas's | ... hology (VII.141) on Protesilaus by Antiphilus of Byzantium in turn inspired | poem 'The Elms of Protesilaus' (1927) |
James M. McPherson | ... the election of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 elections. Civil War historian | wrote |
Rufus of Ephesus | ... 335–280 BC), a Greek anatomist and surgeon. Only a few hundred years later, | , another Greek anatomist, gave the pancreas its name. The term "pancreas" ... |
Dan Aykroyd | In 1987, a comedy movie version of Dragnet appeared starring | as the stiff Joe Friday (the original Detective Friday's nephew), and Tom ... |
James II | ... st. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, Duke of York (the future | , brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiations for the recover ... |
Mabel Dodge Luhan | ... tists. In addition to the attention brought by the Taos Society of Artists, | was instrumental in promoting Taos to artists and writers within her circl ... |
Earl of Plymouth | ... osts became unsustainable, and in 1911 bankruptcy was declared. In 1913 the | purchased it, to save it from developers. A public subscription quickly re ... |
Ray Suarez | ... on that day. Past regular hosts have included John Hockenberry, Ira Glass, | , and Juan Williams. Each Friday Ira Flatow hosts Science Friday, with dis ... |
Roland Emmerich | ... or comedy Zombieland, and is to reprise his role in its upcoming sequel. In | 's 2012, he played Charlie Frost, a man who warns of the end of the world. ... |
Theodoric I | ... ative of his, Theodorus, was hostage at the court of the King of Visigoths, | : in 425/426 Avitus went and met him, thus meeting the King, who let Avitu ... |
Martin of Opava | ... est prominence when it appeared in the third recension (edited revision) of | 's Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum later in the 13th century. This ver ... |
Hesiod | | narrates Typhon's birth in this poem |
James II | ... d with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read | 's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specia ... |
Alfred Marshall | ... so in 1909, Keynes accepted a lectureship in economics funded personally by | . Keynes's earnings rose further as he began to take on pupils for private ... |
Richard Ingrams | ... d he founded and edited the magazine Passing Wind, for which he interviewed | , who was then editor of Private Eye. Hislop joined the publication immedi ... |
Bram Stoker | ... Florence Balcombe, a childhood sweetheart. She, however, became engaged to | and they married in 1878. Wilde was disappointed but stoic: he wrote to he ... |
Bret Harte | ... of the February 26, 1860 massacre of the Wiyot people that was recorded by | , then living in Union, now called Arcata. Between 60 and 200 Wiyot men, w ... |
Odoacer | ... n 488, by commission from the Byzantine emperor Zeno, to recover Italy from | . By 493 Ravenna was taken, where Theodoric would set up his capital. It w ... |
Richard Wagner's | In 2004, Viola began work on a new production of | opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, con ... |
Amphictyon | ... Hellenes , the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, brother of | and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus. His name is also another name for ... |
Pierre de Marivaux | ... character from Harlequin. They appeared together in a number of comedies by | including L'Île des esclaves |
King Diamond | ... ist James MacDonough of Iced Earth and guitarist Glen Drover of Eidolon and | . While in rehearsal for the tour, drummer Nick Menza parted ways with the ... |
Triopas | ... lectryone. They were Ochimus, Cercaphus, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, | , and Candalus (Nonnus adds Auges and Thrinax). They were expert astrologe ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... n be produced by the free market. This differs from the version proposed by | , where a legal code would first be consented to by the parties involved i ... |
Mary Pickford | ... n honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his new wife | , but Chevalier doubted his own talent for silent movies (his previous one ... |
Ed Harris | On 11 April 1970, Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz ( | ) gives the go-ahead from Houston's Mission Control Center for launch. As ... |
Goethe | ... he late 16th century Faust chapbooks. In the 1725 version which was read by | , Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust i ... |
David I of Scotland | ... eivers. The castle was first mentioned in 1136 when it was captured by King | . at this point it was described as "very strong". It was besieged in 1172 ... |
Edward II | The idea of trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs ( | , Richard II and Henry VI) had been overthrown and murdered by their succe ... |
Drew Gilpin Faust | ... evolved primarily around the maintenance or expansion of slavery. Historian | observed that "leaders of the secession movement across the South cited sl ... |
Niccolò Machiavelli | | met the Duke on a diplomatic mission in his function as Secretary of the F ... |
John Hockenberry | ... olved in the topics discussed on that day. Past regular hosts have included | , Ira Glass, Ray Suarez, and Juan Williams. Each Friday Ira Flatow hosts S ... |
Premier of the Republic of China | ... e central executive committee of the Kuomintang (KMT) in 1931. He served as | from 1 January 1938 – 20 November 1939. Kung then served as the Vice-Premi ... |
Horace | ... for the Tauchnitz series (1860–1869). New editions of Orelli's Tacitus and | were also due to him. It is worth noting that, with Sauppe, he translated ... |
John Davidson's | A colourful description of a visit to the Crystal Palace was described in | poem 'The Crystal Palace' published in 1909 |
Hypatia | ... ascinating interest. His scientific interests are attested by his letter to | , in which occurs the earliest known reference to a hydrometer, and by a w ... |
George V | ... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of | and Queen Mary |
Joss Whedon | Cordelia Chase is a fictional character created by | for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer; she also appeared on B ... |
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas | ... mization of knowledge" was first used and proposed by the Malaysian scholar | in his book "Islam and Secularism" ISBN 983-99628-6-8 (first published in ... |
Maury Wills | ... It hurt the minor and independent leagues most. People stayed home to watch | rather than watch unknowns at their local baseball park. Major League Base ... |
Amanda Palmer | Gaiman is married to songwriter and performer | . The couple publicly announced that they were dating in June 2009, announ ... |
St. Catherine of Siena Praying | ... Room 2001, has many scene by scene parallels with Andrea di Bartolo's 1393 | |
William III | ... f Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from | 's Act of Indemnity |
Pauline Marois | ... simply the provincial wing of the Bloc. Gilles Duceppe has recently helped | campaign in the 2008 Quebec provincial election, she did not win and the L ... |
Richard Court | ... eld in December. He was heavily defeated by the Liberal Party government of | , taking only 35.8 percent of the primary vote--its lowest total since 190 ... |
Pausanias | ... reds of votive statues remained, described by Pliny the Younger and seen by | |
Princess Anne | Sarah became close to the young | in about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older. In ... |
Pausanias | ... erritory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia. The king-list given by | comprises twenty-four kings, beginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus. T ... |
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Michael Chabon | ... y 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers Ayelet Waldman and | |
Alan Carpenter | ... lop as Acting Premier, pending a leadership vote at the State Labor Caucus. | was elected unoppose |
Pylades | #Medon, the son of | and Electra and brother of Strophius |
James Hilton | ... screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same title by | |
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Josephus | ... 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by Jewish historian | (37–c. 100 CE), after Antiochus IV's successful invasion of Ptolemaic Egyp ... |
Peter Cook | ... Nigel Dempster, with the former taking the magazine's majority shareholder, | , out for lunch in an attempt to dissuade him from appointing Hislop. Cook ... |
Roald Hoffmann | ... sigma and pi electrons, and has its origins in work by William Lipscomb and | for nonplanar molecules in 1962 |
President | ... ege consists of the electors appointed by each state who formally elect the | and Vice President of the United States. Since 1964, there have been 538 e ... |
Henry IV | ... cousin, Lord Rhys. At the age of seven he was sent to the English court of | as page to the King's Steward. He went on to fight for the English at Agin ... |
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Kristen Wiig | ... the rim of a cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Aunt Martha ( | ), who think that The Deer Hunter was hilarious, and who are hosts of a Ni ... |
Stephen Merchant | ... he chant when answering a telephone call from his friend "The Oggmonster" ( | ) |
Gottfried Leibniz | ... highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and | . Newton was even accused of introducing occult agencies into natural scie ... |
Ovid | ... re firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, | , Lucan, and Juvenal. Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic ex ... |
Empress Dowager Longyu | ... nephew Puyi, who became the Xuantong Emperor. Guangxu's consort became the | . In another coup de'tat, Yuan Shikai overthrew the last Qing emperor, and ... |
Kenny Everett | ... eased Beatles songs. Some originated as spoofs or parodies: "Bye Bye Bye" ( | ), "Cheese and Onions" (The Rutles), "Magical Misery Tour" (National Lampo ... |
Aeschylus | ... uary that was dedicated to Apollo during the classical period. According to | in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and ... |
Chaucer's | ... s within stories, and even within some of these, more stories are narrated. | The Canterbury Tales is also a frame story |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | ... sensible Camelot; inspired by Alcock's Cadbury-Camelot excavation, writers | , Mary Stewart, and Catherine Christian place their Camelots in that city ... |
Paul of Tarsus | ... hat sexual abstinence is the norm outside of that. But for married couples, | wrote that they should not deprive each other, except for a short time for ... |
Louis the Stammerer | ... 6 – 12 December 884), King of Western Francia, was the youngest son of King | and Ansgarde of Burgundy, and became king, jointly with his brother Louis ... |
Daniel Dennett | ... Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosopher | , Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), regular featured columnist ... |
Bob Dylan | ... ion Home is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that tells of the life of | , and his impact on American popular music and culture of the 20th century ... |
Æscwine | ... t evidently lost some degree of control over the south as a result; in 675, | , one of the kings of the West Saxons, fought him at Biedanheafde. It is n ... |
Bede | | tells of Æthelfrith's great successes over the Britons, while also noting ... |
Robert Graves | ... nd never drop below the horizon, hence explaining why they are circumpolar. | interprets the use of the term nurse in Classical myths as identifying dei ... |
Virgil | ... s that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal. | 's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic example of Latin hexameter |
Carl Linnaeus | In his 18th century work Systema Naturae, | coined the specific name cucullatus, meaning hooded, but combined it with ... |
Gottlieb Schuler | ... Under the management of Sir Geoffrey Syme (1908–42), and his chosen editors | and Harold Campbell, The Age failed to modernise, and gradually lost marke ... |
Michael Jackson | ... nklin, Otis Redding, the Supremes, the Commodores, Jerry Lee Lewis and even | , are funky influences on the music. One of the most influential tracks in ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... and early 50s after the second world war, the man where "The Buck Stopped" | was president of the United States, and the baby boomer generation was evo ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... uangxu's consort became the Empress Dowager Longyu. In another coup de'tat, | overthrew the last Qing emperor, and forced empress Dowager Longyu to sign ... |
Charlemagne | ... The Visigoths ruled in Girona until it was conquered by the Moors. Finally, | reconquered it in 785 and made it one of the fourteen original countships ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... rand duchy" was the Medici sovereignty of Tuscany under overlordship of the | s. They received the title in 1569. Tuscany remained a grand duchy until 1 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... etanyahu opposed the idea of Palestinian statehood. In 1998, U.S. President | persuaded the two leaders to meet. The resulting Wye River Memorandum deta ... |
Agatha Christie | Torquay was the home of the writer | , who lived most of her life there. The town contains an "Agatha Christie ... |
Servius Tullius | ... she had a temple on the north side of the Forum Boarium, allegedly built by | , destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt by Marcus Furius Camillus in 396 B.C. ... |
Robert Nozick | ... have criticized Objectivist ethics. In the essay "On the Randian Argument", | , while sympathetic to Rand's political conclusions, is particularly criti ... |
Doctor Watson | In the Doyle stories, narrated by Holmes' assistant | , Watson never meets Moriarty (only getting distant glimpses of him in "Th ... |
Nennius | ... ives in numerous recensions, in manuscripts from the 11th century or later. | is commonly ascribed to be its author, since the the preface is written in ... |
Louis III of France | ... ammerer and Ansgarde of Burgundy, and became king, jointly with his brother | , on his father's death in 879 |
Brian May | ... arly songs with such figures as Rory Gallagher, Ringo Starr, Elton John and | called Putting on the Style. A follow-up album featuring Albert Lee saw Do ... |
Harvey Pekar | ... Rogers and reedsmith Jimmy Giuffre which was freely improvised. Jazz critic | has also pointed out that one of Django Reinhardt's recorded improvisation ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Martianus Capella | In the cosmological schema of | , Fons is located in the second of 16 celestial regions, with Jupiter, Qui ... |
James Berardinelli | ... point, Lynch had so wonderfully succeeded in creating genuine involvement." | also criticized it, saying: "Lynch cheats his audience, pulling the rug ou ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ed the power of putting things in brackets." Another childhood favorite was | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which he called "a favourite forever. ... |
Louis VIII of France | ... ring Albi). After the citizens refused to open the gates of Avignon to King | and the papal Legate, a three month siege ensued starting on 10 June 1226, ... |
John Wycliffe | Martin Luther's spiritual predecessors included | and Jan Hus, who likewise had attempted to reform the Roman Catholic Churc ... |
Frank Capra | ... al and ecological awareness, government propaganda, and leftist viewpoints. | 's Why We Fight (1942–1944) series was a newsreel series in the United Sta ... |
Alan Moore | ... he League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in the graphic novels of that title by | and Kevin O'Neill and make a more significant appearance in The Black Doss ... |
John Maynard Keynes | In 1921 the economist | published a book on probability theory, A Treatise of Probability. Keynes ... |
George W. Bush | In 2006, the | administration expanded abstinence programs from teens to adults, by intro ... |
Catullus | ... standard for later Latin epic. Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, | and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at t ... |
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 ... |
E. M. Forster | A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by | set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence mo ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... ilius Lepidus on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by | but demolished by Caesar in 44 BC. This temple no longer existed by the ti ... |
Isaac Newton | ... ly credited with being the first to develop the theory of atomism, although | preferred to credit the obscure Moschus the Phoenician (whom he believed t ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ble of the site's ruins. It is enriched with refined reliefs and sculpture. | (193-211) added a pentagonal temple of Venus, who as Aphrodite had enjoyed ... |
Virgil | ... consistent with the romantic intrigues between Dido and Aeneas imagined by | in the Aeneid |
Zeno | ... s together that he set out in 488, by commission from the Byzantine emperor | , to recover Italy from Odoacer. By 493 Ravenna was taken, where Theodoric ... |
Posidonius | ... d to be the biblical Moses) as the inventor of the idea on the authority of | and Strabo. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "This theologic ... |
Isaac Newton | ... y was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as | , and Gottfried Leibniz. Newton was even accused of introducing occult age ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... English volunteers, had lost his hereditary lands in the Palatinate to the | Ferdinand II. Having agreed to help his brother-in-law regain the Palatina ... |
Puyi | ... empty, he was succeeded by Cixi's handpicked heir, his two year old nephew | , who became the Xuantong Emperor. Guangxu's consort became the Empress Do ... |
Napoleon III | The war with Prussia, initiated by | in July 1870, turned out disastrously for France, and by September Paris i ... |
Henry II | ... er. In 1157, the abbey was given the manor of Glossop in Derbyshire by King | . The hilltop Monks' Road and the Abbot's Chair in Glossop is a reminder o ... |
Aristotle's | ... BC), but only occurred in the fifth century. The standard account, found in | Athenian Constitution 22.3, attributes the establishment to Cleisthenes, a ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... govia as a fittingly opulent Camelot. The symbolism of Camelot so impressed | that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attem ... |
Benjamin Netanyahu | In mid-1996, | was elected Prime Minister of Israel by a margin of just one percent. Pale ... |
William Warde Fowler | ... d to have been buried near the altar of Fons (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum. | observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons ... |
Johnny Depp | ... to bring him into line and do what needs to be done." Richards, along with | , tried unsuccessfully to persuade Jagger to appear in , alongside Depp an ... |
Hadrian | ... demolished by Caesar in 44 BC. This temple no longer existed by the time of | , and its site probably lies under the church of Santi Martina e Luca |
Constantine IX Monomachos | ... ing was finally completed with the financing of the huge expense by Emperor | and Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople in 1048. As a concession, the m ... |
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Queen Elizabeth I | ... saoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab King of Barbary to | in 1600, was one inspiration for Othello. He stayed with his retinue in Lo ... |
David Quammen | ... name for the bird, dodô, is taken from the internationally used word dodo. | considered the idea that dodo was an approximation of the bird's own call, ... |
Barack Obama | ... e was invited to perform at the White House concert series before President | . When Mick held out a mic to him, Obama sang twice the line "Come on, bab ... |
Aragorn | ... ess, nightmares, and eventual death: an effect known as "the Black Breath". | used the herb athelas to treat victims of the Black Breath, including Frod ... |
John Dunning | ... r). Gradually, Friday's deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by | as "a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring." (Dunning, 2 ... |
Richard Wagner | ... her intellectuals. Many of his correspondents became his friends, including | , Louis Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Che ... |
Virgil | ... meter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as | , Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal. Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a clas ... |
Premier of Western Australia | ... September 1951) is an Australian academic and former politician. He was the | from 2001 to 2006. He currently resides in Sydney |
Æthelric | ... th-century Anglo-Saxon genealogies (of doubtful historicity) was the son of | and grandson of Ida |
John Denver | ... od Mac, The Carpenters, Elton John, Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, | , The Eagles, America, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and Wi ... |
Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... nd wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, a sister of | . Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by Plutarch to have ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... ee jazz movement coalesced around such important (and disparate) figures as | , Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known ... |
Tullus Hostilius | ... man champion at the time of Romulus. This would make her the grandmother of | , the fourth king of Rome |
Charles the Fat | ... on 12 December 884 and was succeeded in the rule by his cousin, the Emperor | |
Prince George of Denmark | ... her out when Anne suffered bereavement. After the death of Anne's husband, | in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at Kensington Palace to find Anne with th ... |
Will Forte | ... " Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you're lookin' right into my noggin!" ( | also appears as a waiter at the beginning of the sketch, but does not do a ... |
Graham Perkin | ... f the paper to a professional editor from outside the Syme family. This was | , appointed in 1966, who radically changed the paper's format and shifted ... |
T. H. White | ... 0 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on | 's literary version of the legend, The Once and Future King. The musical w ... |
Diogenes Laërtius | The many anecdotes about Democritus, especially in | , attest to his disinterest, modesty, and simplicity, and show that he liv ... |
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 ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds in preference to | , with whom he shared, as author of The Epic (1914), a professional intere ... |
Callimachus | ... beit rare), but such violations are exceedingly rare in a later author like | |
Cecil O. Samuelson | ... bordinate to the Church Board of Education. The President of BYU, currently | , reports to the Board, through the Commissioner of Education |
Alfred Marshall | ... financial consultant. In 1924 Keynes wrote an obituary for his former tutor | which Schumpeter called "the most brilliant life of a man of science I hav ... |
Althouse | ... web site RotoWire.com. There is a strong community of local blogs including | , dane101, and The Critical Badger |
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 ... |
Gladys Knight | ... k or syncopated rock & roll breaks, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Ella Fitzgerald, | & the Pips, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Supremes, t ... |
Victor Davis Hanson | ... rought closer the day when all of Greece would be subjugated by an invader. | has suggested that Epaminondas may have planned for a united Greece compos ... |
Pausanias | ... e portion of the preceding layers, including the Troy of the Homeric Iliad. | , who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote in his book Description of Greece ... |
Will Ferrell | In 2008, Harrelson appeared in several films, among them the | basketball comedy Semi-Pro and the Will Smith stark drama Seven Pounds |
Lydia Koidula | ... stonian anthem was strictly forbidden. Throughout the years of prohibition, | 's poem, Mu isamaa on minu arm, with a melody by Gustav Ernesaks served as ... |
George Carlin | ... Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV", a comedy routine by American Comedian | . In the United States, although the use of the word is censored on broadc ... |
Compton Mackenzie | ... took possession of Villa San Michele. This was described by Scottish author | in his diaries |
Yaron Brook | ... ing to specific, objectively defined laws. Objectivists Leonard Peikoff and | have since expressed support for other government functions |
Premier of Victoria | ... nment, and opposition to White Australia and the death penalty. The Liberal | , Henry Bolte, called The Age "that pinko rag," a view conservatives have ... |
Felipe, Prince of Asturias | ... na to his first-born son, Alfonso. The title is currently carried by Prince | , the first since the 16th century to do so |
Guangxu Emperor | ... e to become a modern Meiji-style constitutional monarchy was drafted by the | in 1898, but was opposed and stopped by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who plac ... |
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 ... |
Galileo | ... ntegrated with scientific knowledge from the time of Aquinas to the time of | , and that too was a deliberate program. Critics suggest that this also de ... |
Ennius | ... t example of the use of hexameter in Latin poetry is that of the Annales of | , which established the dactylic hexameter as the standard for later Latin ... |
Presidential | ... needed. Terminal 4 is currently named after former Arizona Senator and 1964 | candidate . After Goldwater's death in 1998, the mayor of Phoenix proposed ... |
King Henry II | ... ly member of the family to Ireland was during 1171, as a Standard Bearer to | . The surnames "Wesley" was adopted from a childless wealthy cousin, Garre ... |
Livy | The principal source of traditions relating to Hersilia is | , I.11 |
Michael Fleisher | ... he 12-page "The Wrath of ... the Spectre" in issue #431 (Feb. 1974). writer | , and artist Jim Aparo, he produced 10 stories through issue #440 (July 19 ... |
Conan O'Brien | ... ed the claims. When asked about the hoax in a September 2006 interview with | , Walken said he was amused; and when asked to come up with a campaign slo ... |
Numa Pompilius | Fons was the son of Juturna and Janus. | , second king of Rome, was supposed to have been buried near the altar of ... |
Empress Dowager Cixi | ... drafted by the Guangxu Emperor in 1898, but was opposed and stopped by the | , who placed Emperor Guangxu under house arrest in a coup d'état. Further ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... e envelope?" It was presented to him by his longtime friends and colleagues | , Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas. The Departed also received the A ... |
Jean Shepherd | ... nce was made to Griffith, Indiana. The movie was based on a book written by | . Shepherd, who was born and raised in northwest Indiana, used his hometow ... |
Lucretius | ... ter as the standard for later Latin epic. Later Republican writers, such as | , Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and ... |
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 ... |
Richard III | ... England, founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of | at Bosworth Field in 1485. While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended a ... |
Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
Peleus | ... fused with another sea goddess who became the sea-nymph Thetis, the wife of | and mother of Achilles during Classical times. Some myths imply a second g ... |
Nicolas Roeg | ... also had an intermittent acting career, most notably in Donald Cammell and | 's Performance (1968) and as Australian bushranger Ned Kelly (1970). He co ... |
Ken Ludwig | In Moon Over Buffalo, the stage play by | , the lead character, George, hoping to be cast by Frank Capra as the Scar ... |
Ambrosius | ... out a father on the site to lift the curse. Vortigern finds such a youth in | , who rebukes the wise men and reveals that the cause of the disturbance i ... |
Iasion | ... r of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, Demeter lured | away from the other revelers. They proceeded to have intercourse in a plou ... |
Livy | ... mulus, the founder and first King of Rome. She is described as such in both | and Plutarch; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded ... |
Elizabeth | ... 's Men during the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess | and Frederick V, Elector Palatine |
David Hume | ... nstance of begging the question. Nozick also argues that Rand's solution to | 's famous is-ought problem is unsatisfactory. In response, philosophers Do ... |
Alan Jay Lerner | ... a High Middle Ages palace. It lends its name to the 1960 musical Camelot by | and Frederick Loewe, which is based on T. H. White's literary version of t ... |
Edward Bellamy | ... y type in the United States, with a circulation around 500,000. His brother | is the noted author of the socialist utopian novels Looking Backward (1888 ... |
Antigonus II Gonatas | ... er of Regent Antipater by whom he had two children: Stratonice of Syria and | . His second wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, ... |
Stéphane Mallarmé | The French symbolist | 's famous masterpiece L'après-midi d'un faune (published in 1876) describe ... |
Matt Damon | ... Departed, based on the Hong Kong police drama Infernal Affairs. Along with | , Leonardo Di Caprio, The Departed was Scorsese's first collaboration with ... |
Septimius Severus | ... drian's Wall in the summer and autumn. Constantius's campaign, like that of | before it, probably advanced far into the north without achieving great su ... |
Al McGuire | ... gram, is known for its men's basketball team, which, under the direction of | , won the NCAA National Championship in 1977. The team returned to the Fin ... |
Plato | ... as friends with Hippocrates. He may have been acquainted with Socrates, but | does not mention him and Democritus himself is quoted as saying, "I came t ... |
Tony Hendra | ... and Onions" (The Rutles), "Magical Misery Tour" (National Lampoon featuring | ). Some were by obscure artists whose names were subject to misinterpretat ... |
Achilles | ... a goddess who became the sea-nymph Thetis, the wife of Peleus and mother of | during Classical times. Some myths imply a second generation relationship ... |
Philip the Arab | ... th her consort Adonis ("Lord", the Aramaic translation of "Baal."). Emperor | (244–249) was the last to add a monument at Heliopolis: the hexagonal fore ... |
Henry VI | ... land on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King | , before moving to Wallingford Castle early in his reign and taking Tudor ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... strong negative impact on the salmon population, and in 1908 U.S. President | observed that the salmon runs were but a fraction of what they had been 25 ... |
Robert McNamara | He often privately cursed the Vietnam War, and in a conversation with | , Johnson assailed "the bunch of commies" running The New York Times for t ... |
Charles XIII | ... he Swedish throne because the Swedish royal family was dying out with King | . Baron Carl Otto Mörner (22 May 1781 – 17 August 1868), who was a Swedish ... |
Frithuwold | ... en a charter shows Wulfhere confirming a grant made to Bishop Eorcenwald by | , a sub-king in Surrey, which may have extended north into modern Buckingh ... |
Louis VIII | ... his son, also named Raymond. In 1223, Philippe II died and was succeeded by | . In 1224, Amaury de Montfort abandoned Carcassonne. The son of Raymond-Ro ... |
Oswiu | ... t of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons Eanfrith, Oswald, and | fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle has been seen as caus ... |
Arthur | Chapter 56 discusses twelve battles fought and won by | , here called dux bellorum (war leader) rather than king |
William Cowper | ... re the combined work of curate John Newton (1725–1807) and his poet friend, | (1731–1800). The hymns were written for use in Newton's rural parish which ... |
Charles the Fat | ... the northern parts of Boso's realm. They united their forces with those of | and unsuccessfully besieged Vienne from August to November. Only in the su ... |
Frank Capra | ... stage play by Ken Ludwig, the lead character, George, hoping to be cast by | as the Scarlet Pimpernel. In The Desert Song, the heroic "Red Shadow" has ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... e 11th century. The ancient countship later became a duchy (1351) when King | gave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, King Ferdinan ... |
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, ... |
Alexander the Great | ... dence was put to an end. Three years later, heartened by a false rumor that | had been assassinated, the Thebans revolted; Alexander squashed the revolt ... |
Barbara Olson | ... hijackers set the flight's autopilot heading for Washington, D.C. Passenger | called her husband, United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson, and re ... |
Kenneth Anger | ... alian bushranger Ned Kelly (1970). He composed an improvised soundtrack for | 's film Invocation Of My Demon Brother on the Moog synthesiser in 1969. He ... |
Robert Frost | ... ock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and | . Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Professor of Englis ... |
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 ... |
Jane Francesca Wilde | ... College, Dublin) the second of three children born to Sir William Wilde and | , two years behind William ("Willie"). Jane Wilde, under the pseudonym "Sp ... |
Aristotle | ... ocritus himself is quoted as saying, "I came to Athens and no one knew me." | placed him among the pre-Socratic natural philosophers |
Graham Chapman | ... hon comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for | |
Claudius | ... C campaign in Spain. The temple was destroyed by a fire during the reign of | and was never rebuilt |
Edward, Earl of March | ... , Owen led the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross against | . They were defeated. Owen was subsequently executed, beheaded at Hereford ... |
Latinus | In Roman mythology, Marica was a nymph, the mother of | . Latinus was fathered by Faunus, who was also occasionally referred to as ... |
Hesiod | so that the crop will be full and strong. In the Theogony of | she is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage of Cadmus and Harm ... |
Mark Twain | ... d about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, | wrote about this university in a letter to a friend. He said: 'A few month ... |
Solomon | ... occurred 143 years and eight months after Hiram of Tyre sent assistance to | for the building of the Temple. Using the 825 date, this Tyrian record wou ... |
James Branch Cabell | ... ger, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, | , Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Ru ... |
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 ... |
Frank Lawrence Owsley | Historian | argued that the Confederacy "died of states' rights." The central governme ... |
Trajan | ... turn. Nero (54–68 CE) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter | ;(98-117) added the forecourt to the Temple of Jupiter, with porticos of p ... |
Victorien Sardou | The French playwright | wrote more than 70 plays, almost all of them successful, and none of them ... |
Oswiu of Northumbria | ... father, Penda, was killed in 655 at the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against | . Penda's son Peada became king under Oswiu's overlordship but was murdere ... |
Henry V of England | ... p with, and probable secret marriage to, Catherine of Valois, widow of King | |
Ron Shelton | ... n the comedy EDtv. Also in 1999, he appeared as boxer Vince Boudreau in the | film Play It to the Bone |
John F. Kennedy | ... e word "Camelot" is sometimes used to refer admiringly to the presidency of | , as his term was said to have potential and promise for the future, and m ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... In the 2003 film Al sur de Granada, Strachey was portrayed by James Fleet. | 's husband Leonard Woolf said that in her experimental novel, The Waves, " ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ild and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, | , James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Gui ... |
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 ... |
Hella Wuolijoki | ... adical friends, including a future politician and SDKL member of parliament | , and, with their help, was hidden in the hold of a freighter. On the 13th ... |
Nasir-i-Khusraw | ... ebron's version, it found its most famous expression. The Persian traveller | who visited Hebron in 1047 records in his Safarnama tha |
Marcus Aurelius | ... ctor Hugo told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of | ", and Alexandre Herculano called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... 935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by | . Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) ... |
Hippocrates | ... He also praises Anaxagoras. Diogenes Laertius says that he was friends with | . He may have been acquainted with Socrates, but Plato does not mention hi ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... #31 (Nov. 1989). A few months after this, the Spectre has a cameo in writer | 's The Books of Magic, a four-issue miniseries starring many DC occult cha ... |
Garry Kasparov | In 2003 Deep Junior played a six-game match against | that resulted in a 3-3 tie. It won a 2006 match with Teimour Radjabov |
Van Morrison | Donegan experienced another late renaissance when in 2000 he appeared on | 's album The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast 1998, a critically acclaim ... |
Shari Lewis | ... uists who followed him, including Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson, Jeff Dunham, | , Willie Tyler and Jay Johnson |
Cadmus | ... eogony of Hesiod she is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage of | and Harmonia, Demeter lured Iasion away from the other revelers. They proc ... |
Bertrand Russell's | ... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against | |
Alexandre Herculano | ... ire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus Aurelius", and | called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion holds as the foremost of hi ... |
Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... for a short time as a party nickname in the civil wars during the reign of | |
Dennis Lehane | ... on the Laeta Kalogridis screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by | , began in Massachusetts in March 2008 |
Owain Glyndŵr | ... ith) had been (together with his two brothers Rhys and Gwilym) stalwarts of | 's uprising of 1400. When that uprising ebbed away Maredudd lost most of h ... |
Alexander the Great | ... y other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings Philip II and | are included), although modern historians have questioned his larger strat ... |
John Bunyan | ... e still supported two Dissenting chapels. Notable local Dissenters included | , of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn ... |
Marianne Faithfull | ... You", "What Goes On", "Eleanor Rigby", "Etcetera" (a 1968 song intended for | ), and "The Long and Winding Road" |
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | ... ple in Rome was planned by Julius Caesar and was erected after his death by | on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by Lucius Corne ... |
Irving Berlin | ... ole was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of | 's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman (although he is heard singing a so ... |
Frank Wedekind | ... a by the composer Alban Berg. The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from | 's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora ... |
Calixa Lavallée | ... of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony | ;wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed ... |
Sarah Bernhardt | ... early 1880s Sardou began a collaboration with the immensely popular actress | , whom he provided with a series of historical melodramas. He reached his ... |
Bob Dylan | ... "Jet Airliner" exists in which the word "shit" is faded out. Likewise, the | song "Hurricane" has a line about having no idea "what kind of shit was ab ... |
President Roosevelt | In December 1943, | decided that Eisenhower—not Marshall—would be Supreme Allied Commander in ... |
Edward III | ... ng of the king's eldest daughter; and by a statute of the 25th year of King | , sleeping with the king's eldest daughter before her marriage constitutes ... |
Johannes Semper | ... ic's anthem was composed by Gustav Ernesaks, and the lyrics were written by | . It and the Karelo-Finnish SSR anthem were the only ones not to mention t ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, | , Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lo ... |
Jake Hooker | ... rize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, | , Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago |
Árpád Pusztai | ... lutinin. Potatoes have been genetically modified with the GNA gene. In 1998 | said in an interview on a World in Action programme that his group had obs ... |
Virgil | ... l poetry. The premier examples of its use are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and | 's Aeneid |
Clock King | ... egion are Lex Luthor, Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, | , and Amazo |
Raymond Poincaré | ... reparations; he described the French Prime Minister (and former President) | as a "horrid little man" |
Leni Riefenstahl | ... ading an audience of a point. One of the most notorious propaganda films is | 's film Triumph of the Will (1935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party C ... |
Thomas Pynchon | ... Durham savant John Bird Emerson makes an appearance in Mason and Dixon by | Emerson’s works include |
Nero | Other emperors enriched the sanctuary of Heliopolitan Jupiter each in turn. | (54–68 CE) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter; Trajan (9 ... |
Jordan Galland | ... ain collaberated with friend Jordan Galland, as he contributed the score to | s 2012 film "", and he appears as the character "Electric Death. |
Matt Wayne | ... team up with the League to face Darkseid's invasion of Earth by Parademons. | stated that he consciously tried to round up the original 13 Legion of Doo ... |
Princess Louisa Maria | ... ollowing is a complete list of women officially styled as "Princess Royal": | (1692–1712), the last daughter of King James II (d. 1701), born after he l ... |
Victor Hugo | The Emperor's erudition amazed Friedrich Nietzsche when both met. | told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus A ... |
Doug Moench | ... fourth solo series and second self-titled comic, the Spectre, under writer | , Corrigan became the central figure in this story of an occult-oriented p ... |
Erwin Rommel's | ... ground for Eisenhower's combat command skills; during the initial phase of | move into the Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower created some confusion in the ran ... |
Archimedes | ... writings regarding levers date from the 3rd century BC and were provided by | . "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth with a lever" is a ... |
George W. Bush | ... American election, Rick Mercer approached Republican presidential candidate | on a campaign stop in Michigan, asking for comment on the news that Bush h ... |
Fredrik Pacius | ... of Estonian independence in 1991 however, the national anthem from 1920 by | with lyrics by Johann Voldemar Jannsen has been restored |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... s presented to him by his longtime friends and colleagues Steven Spielberg, | , and George Lucas. The Departed also received the Academy Award for the B ... |
Hong Xiuquan | ... llion, a civil war which lasted from 1851 to 1862. The rebellion was led by | , who was partly influenced by an idiosyncratic interpretation of Christia ... |
Áedán mac Gabráin | ... antly inland from the coast, and penetrated further into British territory. | , the Irish king of Dál Riata (to the northwest of Bernicia), was alarmed ... |
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 ... |
Rimbaud | ... had participated in the Commune (Courbet was its quasi-minister of culture, | and Pissarro were active propagandists) or were sympathetic to it. The fer ... |
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 ... |
Joseph F. Smith | ... counts of two visions, one from Joseph Smith and the other from his nephew, | in 1918. The revelations were earlier accepted as scripture when added to ... |
King George I | ... James II & VII, and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of | , were eligible for this honour but did not receive it. At the time she be ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... hat help themselves", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in | 's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758). In the 20th century, "Carnegie's re ... |
Eorcenberht of Kent | ... nce in Surrey, Essex, and Kent. He married Eormenhild, the daughter of King | |
Hadrian | ... le statue from about 200 BCE that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor | (the Castel Sant'Angelo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Ma ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, | , Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, U ... |
William R. Brody | In his 2001 undergraduate commencement address, university president | said about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was foun ... |
Addison Emery Verrill | ... cting them and figuring out Verrill's mistakes" (quoted in Schram, p. 126). | had been an earlier expert in invertebrate classification |
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Lex Luthor | ... aseball against the Justice League International. Members of the Legion are | , Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, Clock King, and Am ... |
Amy Poehler | ... ohn (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg) and daughter Maxine ( | ) (who carries a doll that also has a pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), a ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... deral gun regulations came as a response to the murders of John F. Kennedy, | , and Martin Luther King Jr. |
Sir Walter Scott | The legend was actually formalised by | and was later instigated in a town festival called "The Cleikum Ceremonies ... |
Catherine of Valois | ... dynasty – including his relationship with, and probable secret marriage to, | , widow of King Henry V of England |
Gildas | ... A. VIII), but no one now seriously advocates this document to be penned by | , the near contemporary of Arthur |
John Wycliffe | ... church. The first of a series of disruptive and new perspectives came from | at Oxford University, then from Jan Hus at the University of Prague. The R ... |
Jeff Rovin | ... onality" programmed onto them. Of these systems, the Odyssey² was listed by | as being the third in total of sales, and one of the seven major video gam ... |
William of Orange | ... lowing the Battle of the Boyne, Finglas was used as a camp for four days by | en route to Dublin city. He is believed to have camped near the Labour Exc ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... e expansion of federal gun regulations came as a response to the murders of | , Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. |
C. S. Lewis | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of | , J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, M ... |
George W. Bush | ... because of lead singer Natalie Maines's comments disparaging then-President | while overseas |
George Lucas | ... longtime friends and colleagues Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and | . The Departed also received the Academy Award for the Best Motion Picture ... |
Johann Voldemar Jannsen | ... 991 however, the national anthem from 1920 by Fredrik Pacius with lyrics by | has been restored |
Archimedes | This is the law of the lever, which was proven by | using geometric reasoning. It shows that if the distance a from the fulcru ... |
King James II | Princess Louisa Maria (1692–1712), the last daughter of | (d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the Glorious Revolution, was gi ... |
Lysimachus | ... admit him into their city. But he soon afterwards ravaged the territory of | and effected a reconciliation with Seleucus, to whom he gave his daughter ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... rcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and | . He later became a fan of science fiction, reading the works of authors a ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... sible form. During the assault on Minas Tirith, the leader of The Nine, the | , cast back his hood to reveal a crown, but the head that wore it was invi ... |
Ecgfrith | ... poet. However, the next datable event in the Historia ecclesiastica is King | ’s raid on Ireland in 684 (Book IV, Chapter 26). Taken together, this evid ... |
Samuel Smiles | ... roper self-control, largely inaugurated the self-help movement;" but it was | (1812–1904) who published the first self-consciously personal-development ... |
Victorien Sardou | ... iered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on | 's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece s ... |
Daniel Coit Gilman | ... ry 22, 1876 and named for its benefactor, the philanthropist Johns Hopkins. | was inaugurated as first president on February 22, 1876 |
Antoninus Pius | ... mple of Jupiter, with porticos of pink granite brought from Aswan in Egypt. | (138-161) built the Temple of Bacchus, the best preserved of the sanctuary ... |
Bruce Marshall | Scottish writer | used Bass Rock as the miraculous destination of the "Garden of Eden", a da ... |
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 ... |
Oswiu of Northumbria | ... how he converted from Anglo-Saxon paganism. His accession marked the end of | 's overlordship of southern England, and Wulfhere extended his influence o ... |
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 ... |
Baal-Eser II | ... as the father of Dido in the Aeneid may be a reference to her grandfather, | /Balazeros |
Louis XIII of France | ... recusants, he promised to do exactly that in a secret marriage treaty with | . Moreover, the price of marriage with the French princess was a promise o ... |
Ebenezer Syme | ... was not initially a success, and in June 1856 the Cookes sold the paper to | , a Scottish-born businessman, and James McEwan, an ironmonger and founder ... |
Theseus | ... t's historical novel The King Must Die, set in the time of the mythological | , who lived - if he existed at all - a thousand years or more before Alexa ... |
Augustine | ... t a deity can pose a question to which the deity would not know the answer. | , in his City of God, argued, instead, that God could not do anything that ... |
Malcolm IV of Scotland | ... tury, when it was recorded as "Inverlethane". It is said that a son of King | (who was staying at Traquair House on a hunting trip), drowned accidentall ... |
Samuel R. Delany | ... of science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, | , Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Ge ... |
Graham Berry | ... rmous political power in Victoria. It supported liberal politicians such as | , George Higinbotham and George Turner, and other leading liberals such as ... |
Prince Michael of Kent | ... named Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express was launched on 26 April 2007 by | |
emperor | ... tas as a divine personification was part of the religious propaganda of the | , under the name Aequitas Augusti, which also appeared on coins. She is de ... |
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. | By 1991, the . | building was added with its sixteen teaching laboratories and five researc ... |
Michael Holroyd | ... roup), it was not widely publicised until the late 1960s, in a biography by | . He had an unusual relationship with the painter Dora Carrington. She lov ... |
Billy Dee Williams | ... ay production, I Have a Dream, was directed by Robert Greenwald and starred | as King. In spring of 2006, a stage play Passages of Martin Luther King ab ... |
James E. Talmage | In 1930, a small volume edited by Apostle | titled Latter-day Revelations was published, which was a highly edited sel ... |
Tom Wolfe | The Right Stuff is a 1983 American film adapted from | 's 1979 book The Right Stuff about the test pilots who were involved in hi ... |
Jim Morrison | ... y 70s, were the deaths of popular rock stars Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and | all at the age of 27. Funk, an offshoot of Soul music with a greater empha ... |
Angelica Balabanoff | ... s of the revolution deserved their fate. However, he suggested that she see | , a critic of the current situation, indicating he wanted Goldman to hear ... |
Madonna | ... f people to the city, and bringing famous celebrities like Adam Sandler and | |
Baal-Eser II | ... e. However, the publication of the Shalmaneser text mentioning tribute from | of Tyre in 841 BC caused a re-examination of this question, since the best ... |
Alan Moore | ... became a fan of science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as | , Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Th ... |
President | ... n the Oklahoma City area to be released from their duties for their safety. | Bill Clinton learned about the bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was mee ... |
King Arthur | ... nds heavy scrutiny for being the earliest source of any substance regarding | , naming the twelve battles he fought (cf. Annales Cambriae which assigns ... |
Ursula K. Le Guin | ... ien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, | , Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He l ... |
Mark Ruffalo | In December 2007, actors | , Max von Sydow, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams joined the cast, mark ... |
Joe Abercrombie | ... brief but important notes, while a great-grandson of the poet is the author | |
Alexander of Pherae | ... into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas and Ismenias, who had been imprisoned by | while serving as ambassadors. The Theban force not only failed to overcome ... |
Dafydd ap Llywelyn | ... s under the patronage of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, and his son | gave St Winefride's Well to the abbey. The monks harnessed the power of th ... |
Fred Armisen | ... xine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has a pompadour); Nathan ( | ), a gay relative for whom "flamboyance" means dressing all in black and r ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... until just before the outbreak of war. In late 1933 Keynes was persuaded by | to address President Roosevelt directly, which he did by letters and face ... |
Ptolemy Keraunos | ... ely. Antiochus was soon compelled to make peace with his father's murderer, | , apparently abandoning Macedonia and Thrace. In Anatolia he was unable to ... |
Philip Henry Gosse | ... Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by | , in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be "functional", Go ... |
Pliny the Younger | ... cle. Even in Roman times, hundreds of votive statues remained, described by | and seen by Pausanias |
Walt Disney | Modern viewers also remember Lukas for his role as Professor Aronnax in | 's classic 1954 film version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ... |
Michael Moorcock | ... wis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, | , Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... an Military, one was used by Vijitha Rohana to attack Indian Prime Minister | in 1987 |
Karl Kraus | Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a production by | , but did not begin work on his opera until 1929, after he had completed h ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... of the Black Sea in the 3rd century AD and, in the late 5th century, under | , established a Kingdom in Italy |
Llywelyn the Great | ... lesworth in 1328. In the 13th century, the abbey was under the patronage of | , Prince of Gwynedd, and his son Dafydd ap Llywelyn gave St Winefride's We ... |
Tibor R. Machan | ... n (1995). Surveys such as On Ayn Rand by Allan Gotthelf (1999), Ayn Rand by | (2000), and Objectivism in One Lesson by Andrew Bernstein (2009) provide b ... |
Callimachus | ... g "grandmother", and she is often portrayed as being extremely ancient (cf. | , Iamb 4.52, fr. 194) |
Hesiod | Within classical antiquity, | 's Works and Days "opens with moral remonstrances, hammered home in every ... |
Saul | ... han all the great men of the English, insomuch that he might be compared to | , once king of the Israelites, excepting only this, that he was ignorant o ... |
Lydia Lunch | ... ct inspiration from both free jazz and punk. Examples of this style include | 's Queen of Siam, the work of James Chance and the Contortions, who mixed ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... t his homosexuality with his Bloomsbury friends (he had a relationship with | , who also was part of the Bloomsbury group), it was not widely publicised ... |
Bernard White | The New Dragnet starred Jeff Osterhage and | as the detectives, and Don Stroud as Capt. Lussen. The show lasted two sea ... |
Alan Moore | ... to be guarding an entrance to Hell in a Swamp Thing Annual story by writer | . Then, in the conclusion to Moore's "American Gothic" serial in the regul ... |
Plutarch | Additionally, according to | 's essay on the meaning of the "E at Delphi"--the only literary source for ... |
Harlan Ellison | ... James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, | , Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fa ... |
David A. Embury | The Old Fashioned is one of six basic drinks listed in | 's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks |
Theophrastus | ... ticularly mentions the Egyptian mathematicians, whose knowledge he praises. | , too, spoke of him as a man who had seen many countries. During his trave ... |
Emma Goldman | ... feelings about the revolution were now ambiguous: on the one hand, he told | , who had recently arrived aboard Buford and especially complained about t ... |
Harry Turtledove | ... al characters in the alternate history novel The Man with the Iron Heart by | |
Walter Cronkite | ... s," with space-suited astronauts as the actors, and proceedings narrated by | as if they were a NASA moon mission. "[Spacesuit transmission from astrona ... |
Robert Stanley Weir | ... . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906. | wrote in 1908 another English version, one that is not a literal translati ... |
Heraclius | ... under Khosrau II, invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperor | marched triumphantly into Jerusalem and restored the True Cross to the reb ... |
Giuseppe Giacosa | ... in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and | . It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... m Almogavars became less numerous. In 1502, violating the 1492 peace treaty | forced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert to Catholicism or be e ... |
Luigi Illica | ... osca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by | and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 Ja ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... Robert Heinlein Omnibus is an anthology of science fiction short stories by | published i |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier | ... setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir | . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906 |
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 ... |
Mary Renault | Thalestris is also the name of a character in | 's historical novel The King Must Die, set in the time of the mythological ... |
Maxentius | ... d, until the very last moment, that Diocletian would choose Constantine and | (Maximian's son) as his successors. It was not to be: Constantius and Gale ... |
Rhys ap Gruffydd | Owen was a descendant of | (1132–1197) via the lineages that follow |
Jules Verne | ... his role as Professor Aronnax in Walt Disney's classic 1954 film version of | 's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. By that time, however, he was, at age 63, ... |
Carl J. Murphy | ... building, a new student union, a new parking garage, and a new library. The | Fine Arts Center has also become a much used venue for plays and concerts ... |
George Combe | For some, | 's "Constitution[1828], in the way that it advocated personal responsibili ... |
Khosrau II | This building was damaged by fire in 614 when the Persians, under | , invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperor Heraclius marc ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... yday of Henry Irving and the actor-managers more than fifty years earlier." | said that Gielgud's performance in The School for Scandal was "the best li ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... uctures in multicellular organisms. Books around 1900 from Valentin Häcker, | and Oscar Hertwig still referred to cellular organs |
Richard of Cornwall | ... y period of Ottoman rule. Richard the Lionheart retook the city soon after. | , brought from England to settle the dangerous feuding between Templars an ... |
Queen Henrietta Maria | The title Princess Royal came into existence when | (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charle ... |
Tom Stevenson | ... ffing wines to those approaching the level of Chianti Classico. Wine expert | notes that these basic everyday-drinking Chiantis are at their peak drinki ... |
Li Ban | :For the Chinese prince, see | (李班). For the country whose French name is Liban, see Lebanon |
Bill Hader | ... n order of appearance, the other Walkens are Christopher's cousin Stanley ( | ); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg ... |
Sigehere | ... helm of the East Saxons also died in 664; he was succeeded by his two sons, | and Sæbbi, and Bede describes their accession as "rulers ... under Wulfher ... |
Ken MacLeod | In Dark Light (the middle of the Engines of Light trilogy) by | , a character says |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... the story is sometimes explained internally, as in The Lord of the Rings by | , which depicts the Red Book of Westmarch (a story-internal version of the ... |
King Charles XIII | ... he received the homage of the Riksdag of the Estates, and he was adopted by | under the name of "Charles John" (Karl Johan). Many honours were bestowed ... |
Timur | ... (1282), during which Abulfeda describes it as a very strong place. In 1400 | pillaged it |
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 ... |
Cearl | ... s clear that he spent time in Mercia, because he married a daughter of king | . Ultimately, he took refuge in East Anglia, where his presence precipitat ... |
Oliver Stone | ... or Razzie Award. After that film's success, Harrelson played Mickey Knox in | 's Natural Born Killers and Dr. Michael Raynolds in the Michael Cimino fil ... |
Henry IV, King of France | ... yal came into existence when Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of | , and wife of King Charles I (1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the el ... |
Mark Ronson | ... The Strokes) and model/singer Irina Lazareanu. In October 2007 Sean joined | in the BBC Electric Proms where he sang "Sail on, Sailor", as well as "We ... |
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 ... |
Frank Miller | ... ane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, | , and Dave Sim each write a single issue |
Allectus | ... office of Caesar, and dispatched to Gaul to fight the rebels Carausius and | . In spite of meritocratic overtones, the Tetrarchy retained vestiges of h ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... quarter still existed in the town during the early period of Ottoman rule. | retook the city soon after. Richard of Cornwall, brought from England to s ... |
Don Nigro | In | 's satirical comedy Paganini (1995), the great violinist seeks vainly for ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... itary service. Other notable American participants included Winfield Scott, | , and Jefferson Davis. The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian rem ... |
George Soros | ... tulip market in the eighteenth century. In another well-referenced example, | became notorious for "breaking the Bank of England" on Black Wednesday of ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. When | took office, he augmented the direct support to an anti-Sandinista group, ... |
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 ... |
Irwin Chusid | ... issues of several of Esquivel's albums. The first reissues were compiled by | , who also produced the first CD reissues of Raymond Scott and The Langley ... |
Ron Goulart | ... uary 9, 1954) and Mel Keefer (Jan. 11, 1954-May 21, 1955). Comics historian | in his book The Funnies states the frequent turnover of artists on the str ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... t, an amazingly strong showing for such a challenger. Four days later, Sen. | of New York entered the race. Internal polling by Johnson's campaign in Wi ... |
Charles August | ... tive to the Swedish throne had become acute since the previous crown prince | had died of a stroke on 28 May 1810, just a few months after he had arrive ... |
Aristotle | ... f science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses | 's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several point ... |
Karin Spaink | ... , and Dennis Erlich (California). Internationally, raids took place against | (The Netherlands) and Zenon Panoussis (Sweden). In addition to filing laws ... |
Scott Carpenter | ... ered by many test pilots to be the best of them all. The Mercury Seven were | , Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and ... |
Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated film version of The Lord of the Rings, the Nazgûl hack an ... |
Henrietta Maria of France | ... t Parliament sanction the marriage between the Prince of Wales and Princess | , whom Charles had met in Paris while en route to Spain. It was a good mat ... |
Prithviraj Chauhan | As per Bhavishya Purana(Sanskrit-भविष्य पुराणम्), | , the King of Indraprastha built a new fort for convenience of all four ca ... |
Cecil B. DeMille | ... year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of | as a director |
Victoria of Baden | ... . In particular, he served as the personal physician of the Crown princess, | , and he continued in these duties while she was Queen consort, up until t ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... ven the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. In particular, | never held the title as her aunt, , was in possession of the title |
Sargon of Akkad | ... powerful role held by a princess, most notably Enheduanna, daughter of King | , and was the primary cult role associated with the cult of Nanna/Sin |
Jack Webb | Dragnet was created and produced by | , who starred as the terse Sergeant Joe Friday. Webb had starred in a few ... |
Haakon IV of Norway | ... texts such as the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. According to the latter, King | anchored his fleet, including the flagship Kroussden that could carry near ... |
Darwin | 230 years before | 's theory of evolution, the appearance of the dodo and the red rail led Pe ... |
Wu Sangui | ... he city fell. The Manchu Qing Dynasty then allied with Ming Dynasty general | and overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty, and subsequently seized contr ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... rnment's lower house is selected by sortition. In Songs of Distant Earth by | , the futuristic society on Thalassa is ruled by demarchy |
Ira Remsen | ... sleeve and Charles D. Morris; the economist Richard T. Ely; and the chemist | , who became the second president of the university in 1901 |
Jonathan Tisch | ... Inc; Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Jeff Kindler, Former CEO of Pfizer | ;, CEO of Loews Hotels; Ellen J. Kullman, CEO of DuPont; and Andy Fastow, ... |
Bob Dylan | ... Yesterday", however, has also been criticised for being mundane and mawkish | ;had a marked dislike for the song, stating that "If you go into the Libra ... |
Math fab Mathonwy | According to the Fourth Branch, Arianrhod's uncle | would die if he did not keep his feet in the lap of a virgin when he was n ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... pace Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by | |
Arthur | ... a similar story in another work. The speaker relates how he journeyed with | and three boatloads of men into Annwfn, but only seven returned. Annwfn is ... |
Carausius | ... romoted to the office of Caesar, and dispatched to Gaul to fight the rebels | and Allectus. In spite of meritocratic overtones, the Tetrarchy retained v ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... a Jacobean brick-built manor house, and was formerly the home of the young | , later to become Henry VIII's second wife |
Bolesław Prus | ... extraneous diversions from the plot. In his 1895 historical novel Pharaoh, | introduces a number of stories-within-the-story, ranging in length from vi ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... s referred to as the Cheshire Cat principle, after the fading to a smile of | 's Cheshire Cat. It is expected that a first-principles solution of the eq ... |
Centwine | ... ere defeated and the kingdom reunited, probably by Cædwalla but possibly by | . A decade after Wulfhere's death, the West Saxons under Cædwalla began an ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... ssion, the bells have rung faithfully every evening, a promise made to King | when he sent the original bells to the Mission in 1777. He asked that the ... |
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 ... |
Julius Schwartz | In the mid-1950s and 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, DC Comics editor | had the Spectre revived and returned to the role of an avenging undead spi ... |
Kim Stanley Robinson | In Blue Mars, the conclusion of | 's Mars Trilogy, the Martian government's lower house is selected by sorti ... |
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | In 1975, French President | invited the heads of government from West Germany, Italy, Japan, the Unite ... |
John Lennon | ... many skiffle groups that followed was The Quarrymen formed in March 1957 by | . Donegan's "Gamblin' Man" / "Puttin' On the Style" single was number one ... |
Baz Luhrmann | | produced the opera for Opera Australia in 1990 with modernized supertitle ... |
Princess Anne | ... o have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, | , Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda ... |
Richard T. Ely | ... classical scholars Basil Gildersleeve and Charles D. Morris; the economist | ; and the chemist Ira Remsen, who became the second president of the unive ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ander loose in the hilly terrain. There is also a full-size reproduction of | 's log cabin and a totem pole in the park |
Anastasio Somoza García | ... t the National Guard in charge of internal security and elections. In 1934, | , the head of the National Guard, ordered his forces to capture and murder ... |
Charles XIII | ... ernor of Rome when he was unexpectedly elected the heir-presumptive to King | of Sweden, who was childless and old |
Harry Dexter White | ... the final outcomes accorded more closely to the more conservative plans of | . According to US economist Brad Delong, on almost every point where he wa ... |
Ealdwulf | In 664, Æthelwald of East Anglia died, and was succeeded by | , who reigned for fifty years. Almost nothing is known of Mercian relation ... |
Alec Baldwin | ... ebrity hosts who have a Best of... SNL DVD are Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, and | ), an honor usually reserved only for SNL cast members |
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 ... |
John Singleton | As of September 2011, | was selected as director. Ice Cube and Singleton previously collaborated o ... |
Bertram Fletcher Robinson | ... the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidaying in Cromer with | after hearing local folklore tales regarding the mysterious hound known as ... |
Quintus Smyrnaeus | According to | , Odysseus came up with the idea of building a great wooden horse (the hor ... |
Francis Bacon | ... onopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of | by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment ... |
Roman Polanski | ... xy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it." Director | urged Kinski to study acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States and c ... |
Fedlimid Rechtmar | Conn Cétchathach ("of the Hundred Battles", pron. ), son of | , was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon (382-336 BC), father of the conqueror | , were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other ... |
Theophilus Cibber | ... s of Aesop's Fables. These, according to the short life of him published by | , were 'generally confessed to have exceeded whatever hath been done befor ... |
Urien | In the Welsh Triads, Modron becomes impregnated by | and gives birth to Owain and Morvydd |
Rob Pike | ... rom the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system, designed and implemented by | . It can use the sam command language. The design of the interface was inf ... |
Abraham Lincoln | The Black Hawk War is now often remembered as the conflict that gave young | his brief military service. Other notable American participants included W ... |
Boucher | Groff Conklin described the novel as "a thoroughly delightful job". | and McComas praised it as "easily the most plausible, carefully detailed p ... |
Æthelwealh | ... river Meon, on the mainland north of the Isle of Wight, to his godson King | of the South Saxons. It seems likely that the ruling dynasty on the island ... |
Eugene McCarthy | ... ed to run against a sitting president of the Democratic party. Only Senator | of Minnesota challenged Johnson as an anti-war candidate in the New Hampsh ... |
Frank Hurley | Also during this period | 's documentary film, South (1919), about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expe ... |
V. S. Pritchett | ... se. The opera was also adapted into a 1983 short story form by the novelist | for publication by the Metropolitan Opera Association |
Edwin | ... unknown. That he gained Deira through conquest is suggested by the exile of | , son of the former king Ælla, and Hereric, Edwin's nephew, who were both ... |
Jancis Robinson | | notes that Chianti is sometimes called the "Bordeaux of Italy". The flexib ... |
Joan D. Vinge | ... ant. The "demarchy" in this society is actually more of a direct democracy. | also uses demarchy in the sense of electronic direct democracy in her 1978 ... |
Jack Webb | Actor and producer | 's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved ... |
Lorna Luft | ... accidental drug overdose at the age of 47, leaving children Liza Minnelli, | , and Joey Luft |
Iestyn ap Gwrgant | ... went. (Meurig was the son of Ithel, grandson of Rhydd and great-grandson of | . Iestyn had been the last King of Gwent (reigned 1081–1091) before its co ... |
Michael Chabon | ... the term "power pop" was not widely used until around 1978. As the novelist | has written, "Power pop in its essential form... did not come into existen ... |
Camilo Castelo Branco | ... hur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, | and James Cooley Fletcher |
Hector Boece | | offers the following description (original spelling) |
Andy Samberg | ... y (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott ( | ) and daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has a po ... |
Sam Merwin, Jr. | ... 1947 under the title "Grow Old with Me" for Startling Stories, whose editor | had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the m ... |
Jordan Galland | ... oko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band. Lennon has again collaberated with friend | , as he contributed the score to Jordan Gallands 2012 film "", and he appe ... |
Judge Lindsey | ... the Immaculate Conception which was completed in 1911. Margaret worked with | to help destitute children and establish the United States' first juvenile ... |
Spanish Match | ... Infanta, Maria Anna of Spain, since Prince Henry's death, began to see the | as a possible means of achieving peace in Europe |
Catherine of Valois | Owen entered the service of Queen | as keeper of the Queen's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the ... |
William III | ... bourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1890 when | , King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, died without leavi ... |
Juozas Kralikauskas | ... omualdas Granauskas' Jaučio aukojimas (The Offering of the Bull, 1975), and | ' Mindaugas (1995) |
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II | ... was mentioned in an inventory of specimens in the Prague collection of the | to whom Savery was contracted at the time (1607–1611). Savery's several la ... |
Pope Leo XIII | The authenticity of the relics at Compostela was asserted in the Bull of | , Omnipotens Deus, of 1 November 1884 |
Philip II of Macedon | ... inance of the Athenian Empire and the later adoption of Attic Greek by king | (382-336 BC), father of the conqueror Alexander the Great, were the two ke ... |
President of the European Commission | ... up became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Union is represented by the | and the leader of the country that holds the Presidency of the Council of ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... ham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, | , Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and James Cooley Fletcher |
Roger II of Sicily | ... had been ordained and instituted by Anacletus or any of his adherents. King | was excommunicated for maintaining what was thought to be a schismatic att ... |
King James II & VII | ... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of | , and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ... |
Galerius | ... 's first appointee for the office of Caesar was Constantius; his second was | , a native of Felix Romuliana. According to Lactantius, Galerius was a bru ... |
Chongzhen Emperor | ... g, a minor Ming official turned leader of the peasant revolt. The last Ming | committed suicide when the city fell. The Manchu Qing Dynasty then allied ... |
Euripides | ... is the author of four stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of | ' The Madness of Heracles. He was commissioned in 1996 by the National The ... |
Italo Calvino | If on a winter's night a traveler is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer | . The narrative is about a reader trying to read a book called If on a win ... |
Jimmy Johnson | ... reputation of being the "ol' redneck," but, in co-host and former NFL coach | 's words, the act is a "schtick." According to Johnson, Bradshaw deflects ... |
Alexei Panshin | The early Heinlein biographer and critic | , in his 1968 biography Heinlein in Dimension, took note of a controversia ... |
King Arthur | ... ho was stolen away from her when he was three days old and later rescued by | |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... the Indian Wars were happening in the west and famous military men such as | , Philip Henry Sheridan, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and George Crook were stat ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ded soirees that included soldiers, politicians, literary lights (including | , Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins), and artists (in ... |
Mae West | ... im Wrong is a Pre-Code 1933 Paramount Pictures comedy romance film starring | and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noa ... |
Larry Flynt | ... red in the Milos Forman film The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which he played | , publisher of Hustler magazine. The film was a success and Harrelson's pe ... |
James Buchanan | In January, President | had attempted to resupply the garrison with the Star of the West, but Conf ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... 25 seconds into the flight there was an "[U]nscheduled yaw-lift maneuver": | wrote several years later that Mariner 1 was "wrecked by the most expensiv ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... Shelter, which was made as the band was gaining fame in the United States. | worked with Jagger on Shine a Light, a documentary film featuring the Roll ... |
David Mitchell | Author | described himself as being "magnetised" by the book from its start when he ... |
Gerald Gardner | It was at Spielplatz that Ross Nichols first met | |
Mary II of England and Scotland | Princess Mary (later Queen | ) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of King James II & VII, and Princess Sophia ... |
Jeane Kirkpatrick | ... Court did not have jurisdiction, with U.S. ambassador to the United Nations | dismissing the Court as a "semi-legal, semi-juridical, semi-political body ... |
Paracelsus | ... 1571), and finally theoretical medicine (1580). While originally hostile to | , in his later career he took an interest in Paracelsian medical theory fo ... |
Whitley Strieber | ... ornia—and the nuclear war leaves no lasting trauma. The 1984 book Warday by | and James Kunetka takes up a limited nuclear attack in precisely the locat ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... he arranged for the escape of numerous refugees from the military junta of | ; this brought him into conflict with the regime, and he was eventually fo ... |
Fran Walsh | ... ter Jackson's films are mixed from that of his partner and co-screenwriter, | |
Maximilian Kolbe | ... site of the martyrdom (according to the Catholic Church) of saints such as | |
Charles II | ... fused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration of | in 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | In One From the Heart, director | brought Kinski to the U.S. to act as a "Felliniesque circus performer to r ... |
David Hume | ... ence for their own products. Following their lead, the Scottish philosopher | used Ogilby's work to illustrate the idea that common sense frequently app ... |
David Gerrold | ... ed Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". According to screenwriter | , the show's producers noticed similarities in the two stories and asked H ... |
William Allingham | ... t stature "sinister, clever face" and with a "voice like a carving knife" ( | 's diary 1872), she moved into the Langham Hotel, London in 1867, where sh ... |
Romualdas Granauskas | ... y Vara (Power, 1944), Justinas Marcinkevičius' drama-poem Mindaugas (1968), | ' Jaučio aukojimas (The Offering of the Bull, 1975), and Juozas Kralikausk ... |
Caesar | ... all gave their votes for it. And when the senate was separated, Antony and | [Augustus] went out, with Herod between them; while the consul and the res ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... cations for people from the conurbations to purchase weekend holiday homes. | first conceived the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidayi ... |
Ayn Rand | ... tivism is a philosophy created by Russian-American philosopher and novelist | (1905–1982). Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independ ... |
Jordan Galland | ... z and Guildenstern Are Undead, directed by long time friend and school mate | In the same year, Lennon produced a second album on Chimera for his mother ... |
Li Zicheng | ... o Beijing. In 1644 Beijing was sacked by a coalition of rebel forces led by | , a minor Ming official turned leader of the peasant revolt. The last Ming ... |
William I | ... dent kingdom and Luxembourg was handed over to the King of the Netherlands, | . Luxembourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1 ... |
Nelson Mandela | This name was also given to | prior to his arrest and long incarceration for his anti-apartheid activiti ... |
Fabio | ... radio stations playing drum and bass shows are The Drum and Bass Show with | and Grooverider on BBC Radio 1, simulcast in the US and Canada on Sirius X ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... led the Empire novels or trilogy) is a science fiction sequence of three of | 's earliest novels, and extended to one short story. They are connected by ... |
Mārtiņš Zīverts | ... s been portrayed in several 20th-century literary works: the Latvian author | ' tragedy Vara (Power, 1944), Justinas Marcinkevičius' drama-poem Mindauga ... |
James Wright | ... in Dartmouth governance has been the subject of ongoing conflict. President | announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard Univ ... |
Frédéric Mistral | ... eul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, | , Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and James ... |
Ludwig Scotty | ... country for alternating periods. Dowiyogo died in office in March 2003 and | was elected as the President. Scotty was re-elected to serve a full term i ... |
Petrus Ramus | ... es Baptista Montanus. In Paris he studied with the iconoclastic philosopher | . He joined the faculty of the University of Basel as a member of the cons ... |
Ibn at Athir | ... , caused the place to be closed once more". Similar information is given in | 's Chronicle under the year 1119; "In this year was opened the tomb of Abr ... |
Dave Hughes | ... ett) and released as a single (right) – this gave the band their first hit. | , a founder member of Dalek I Love You who joined OMD in early 1980, is fe ... |
Christopher Marlowe | This legend also inspired the drama Dido, Queen of Carthage by | . Even today, Dido appears in Sid Meier's strategy games Civilization II a ... |
Ellis Parker Butler | Heinlein later credited the 1905 | short story "Pigs is Pigs" with informing the flat cat incident. A similar ... |
Luigi Illica | ... Nonetheless, Ricordi reached terms with Sardou, and assigned the librettist | to write a scenario for an adaptation. In 1891, however, Illica advised Pu ... |
Peter Jackson | In the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy (2001–2003) by | , the Nazgûl also attack the inn themselves. Emphasis is given to their lo ... |
Henry Dodge | ... the U.S. troops tried to track down the British Band. Militia under Colonel | caught up with the British Band on July 21 and defeated them at the Battle ... |
Jack London | ... ed four times as a film). As another sign of influence, the American author | cited her novel Signa, which he read at age eight, as one of the eight rea ... |
Mike Figgis | ... she appeared in films such as Terminal Velocity opposite Charlie Sheen, and | ' One Night Stand |
Edith Stein | ... bjected to what they perceived as a desire to "Christianize" the Holocaust. | 's (a German nun who converted from Judaism in 1922 and was killed in Ausc ... |
Alanis Morissette | ... the previously mentioned Liz Phair, PJ Harvey and the massively successful | fit into this sub group |
Daniel Coit Gilman | The University's viability depended on its first president, | , recruited from the presidency of the University of California. Gilman la ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... , 2007 when it was removed by the SEC (SEC Release No. 34-55970). President | condemned short sellers and even J. Edgar Hoover said he would investigate ... |
Caswallawn | ... nection for Arianrhod. Her father is named as Beli Mawr, and her brother is | (the historical Cassivellaunus). She has two sons by Lliaws son of Nwyfre, ... |
Justinas Marcinkevičius | ... rary works: the Latvian author Mārtiņš Zīverts' tragedy Vara (Power, 1944), | ' drama-poem Mindaugas (1968), Romualdas Granauskas' Jaučio aukojimas (The ... |
Napoleon I | ... in the name of brotherhood the Vendôme Column, celebrating the victories of | , and considered by the Commune to be a monument to Bonapartism and chauvi ... |
Bollandist | ... s, while numerous modern scholars, following Louis Duchesne, reject it. The | s however defended it (their Acta Sanctorum, July, VI and VII, gives furth ... |
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 ... |
Juliusz Słowacki | Mindaugas is the primary subject of the 1829 drama Mindowe, by | , one of the Three Bards. He has been portrayed in several 20th-century li ... |
Hero of Alexandria | ... cientists added the inclined plane to the five simple machines described by | . The force required to lift the load is reduced by pulling it up the ramp ... |
Margaret Wilson | ... e Minister Helen Clark, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives | and Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias |
Alexander Pope | ... the attacks made on him by John Dryden in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by | in The Dunciad. Whatever the justice of these, it should be borne in mind ... |
Hussa | Æthelfrith, son of Æthelric and grandson of Ida, apparently succeeded | as king of the Bernicians around the year 592 or 593; Æthelfrith's accessi ... |
Constantine I | Emperor | ordered in about 325/326 that the temple be demolished and the soil - whic ... |
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 ... |
René Harris | ... 2003, a series of no-confidence votes and elections resulted in two people, | and Bernard Dowiyogo, leading the country for alternating periods. Dowiyog ... |
Pacorus | ... ound Syria to rally to his cause. The Parthians split their army, and under | conquered the Levant from the Phoenician coast through the Land of Israel: ... |
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 ... |
Johannes Baptista Montanus | ... n medicine at the University of Padua with Bassiano Landi, the successor of | . In Paris he studied with the iconoclastic philosopher Petrus Ramus. He j ... |
James Buchanan | ... bears his name, the Burnside carbine. The Secretary of War under President | , John B. Floyd, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company to equip a larg ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
Three Bards | ... primary subject of the 1829 drama Mindowe, by Juliusz Słowacki, one of the | . He has been portrayed in several 20th-century literary works: the Latvia ... |
Thucydides | ... t of the Ionic dialect group. "Old Attic" is a term used for the dialect of | (460-400 BC) and the dramatists of Athens' remarkable 5th century; "" is u ... |
Sigehere | ... 663), were present. The endowment was signed by Wulfhere and Oswiu, and by | and Sæbbi, the Kings of Essex |
Bernard Dowiyogo | ... f no-confidence votes and elections resulted in two people, René Harris and | , leading the country for alternating periods. Dowiyogo died in office in ... |
Zheng He | ... y and a flourishing of the arts and culture. It was during this period that | led explorations throughout the world, possibly reaching America. During t ... |
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 ... |
King Charles I | ... rietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of | (1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of ... |
George Washington | ... eat significance: 1876 was the nation's centennial year and February 22 was | 's birthday |
Gerald Ford | ... oup at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and U.S. President | and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Union is repres ... |
Oswald | ... king not just of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons Eanfrith, | , and Oswiu fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle has been ... |
Werner Herzog | ... in 1978. In the late 1970s, Jagger was cast as Wilbur, a main character in | 's Fitzcarraldo. However, a delay and the illness of main actor Jason Roba ... |
Leopold II of Belgium | ... ganized Congolese troops, known as the (FP), were created in 1888 when King | , who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secre ... |
George Orwell | ... om a Teac 4 track tape-recorder christened "Winston" (after the antihero of | 's novel Nineteen Eighty-four). Their debut performance was in October 197 ... |
Napoleon Hill's | ... for a noble person, whilst lowly thoughts make for a miserable person; and | Think and Grow Rich (1937) described the use of repeated positive thoughts ... |
Asa Gray | ... a strong interest in flowers, which she learned to classify with a copy of | 's . She also collected butterflies and moths and later wrote, "I believe ... |
Temple, Robert | ... ge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN 0521374510* | , , Proceedings of 4th Philosophical Meeting on Contemporary Problems, No ... |
Arthur de Gobineau | ... Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, | , Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castel ... |
Paul Samuelson | ... ate 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably John Hicks, Franco Modigliani, and | ) attempted to interpret and formalise Keynes's writings in terms of forma ... |
Rich Karlgaard | Upside was started by banker Anthony B. Perkins and technical writer | as a magazine "for Silicon Valley about Silicon Valley." Venture capitalis ... |
Bud Selig | Commissioner | imposed a very strict anti-drug policy upon its minor league players, who ... |
George W. Bush | ... n Ramallah, following an attack in the Israeli city of Hadera; US President | supported Sharon's action, claiming that Arafat was "an obstacle to the pe ... |
Augustan History | The | ("Tyrrani Triginta" 27, 30) claims that Zenobia queen of Palmyra in the la ... |
Giuseppe Giacosa | ... while her lover Cavaradossi, of Roman descent, is born in Paris. Illica and | , the playwright who joined the project to polish the verses, needed not o ... |
Wihtred | ... is marriage to Eormenhild he was the uncle of Egbert's two sons, Eadric and | . It has been speculated that Wulfhere acted as the effective ruler of Ken ... |
Varian Fry | | was a 32-year-old Harvard-educated classicist and editor from New York Cit ... |
Roman Polanski | In 1976, Kinski began a romantic relationship with | , when she was 15 years old and he was 43 |
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 ... |
Robert McNamara | ... Presidential Library oral history archives, Johnson's Secretary of Defense | stated that a carrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, sent on a training ... |
Plato | ... nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher Aristotle. | is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books burned. ... |
Rupert Brooke | ... for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included | and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Pro ... |
Silius Italicus | ... nibal belonged, claimed descent from a younger brother of Dido according to | in his Punica (1.71–7) |
Sam Shepard | ... nds $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero Chuck Yeager ( | ) receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback ride with his w ... |
Phil Hartman | ... arks, having a giant sea sponge instead. A captive James Bond, portrayed by | , offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lai ... |
Wilkie Collins | ... rary lights (including Oscar Wilde, Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and | ), and artists (including John Millais). Many of her stories and character ... |
Krist Novoselic | ... um In Utero (1993) was an intentionally abrasive album that Nirvana bassist | described as a "wild aggressive sound, a true alternative record." Neverth ... |
Lord Byron | ... related that his ancestor of the same name had sat in the same garden with | , discussing publication of Byron's works |
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 ... |
Vishnu Sarma | ... d in ancient Indian literature, such as the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana, | 's Panchatantra, Syntipas' Seven Wise Masters, the Hitopadesha, and Vikram ... |
Aristotle | ... ocritus was nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher | . Plato is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books ... |
Mike Figgis | ... Delta and beyond. Seven film-makers including Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, | , and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90 minute film (Scorsese's entry ... |
Susan Elaine | ... . John and Barbara had four children: Dwight David II "David", Barbara Ann, | and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married Richard Nixo ... |
Hadrian | ... does not say as much, the temple of Aphrodite was probably built as part of | 's reconstruction of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina in 135, following the d ... |
Eanfrith | ... in became king not just of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons | , Oswald, and Oswiu fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle h ... |
Charles Dickens | ... uired to do much of the housework. She enjoyed reading, especially books by | in her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, whic ... |
Porphyry | ... peratures in which plant life flourishes. However the ancient commentary by | did not understand the myth in this way and saw Persephone's descent as co ... |
Abraham Lincoln | Hopkins was a prominent abolitionist who supported | during the American Civil War. After his death, reports said his convictio ... |
Ceretic | The Deiran exile Hereric was poisoned while at the court of | , king of Elmet; Æthelfrith may have been responsible for this killing. Ed ... |
Eadric | ... s through his marriage to Eormenhild he was the uncle of Egbert's two sons, | and Wihtred. It has been speculated that Wulfhere acted as the effective r ... |
Geoffrey Ashe | ... trade) and Saxon artifacts. The use of the name Camelot and the support of | helped ensure much publicity for the finds, but Alcock himself later grew ... |
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 ... |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ... iz, John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, | , Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herc ... |
Cinthio | Othello is an adaptation of the Italian writer | 's tale "Un Capitano Moro" ("A Moorish Captain") from his Gli Hecatommithi ... |
James Bond | ... his shark tank lacked sharks, having a giant sea sponge instead. A captive | , portrayed by Phil Hartman, offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the aba ... |
Vic Allen | ... ormer German Democratic Republic) that a member of CND's governing council, | , had passed information to them about CND. This discovery was made public ... |
Pope Gregory XIII | ... ange of Marquisate of Saluzzo for Avignon, however his offer was refused by | |
Hadrian | ... of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that | had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his o ... |
Robert Browning | ... s, politicians, literary lights (including Oscar Wilde, Algernon Swinburne, | and Wilkie Collins), and artists (including John Millais). Many of her sto ... |
Prince of Wales | Charles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry, | , whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate. In 1605, Charle ... |
Elinor Glyn | After a long affair with the romance novelist | , Curzon married in 1917 the former Grace Elvina Hinds, the wealthy Alabam ... |
Theseus | ... Italy. There the deity appears in a depiction of the story of These (Greek | ) visiting the underworld. These and his friend Peirithous (only his head ... |
John Landis | ... rances include Somebody Is Waiting (1996), Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), | ' Susan's Plan (1998), The Lost Son (1999), and Inland Empir |
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 ... |
Henry V of England | ... een's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the death of her husband | on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King Hen ... |
Bengt Lidforss | Later, both terms came to be used side by side: | wrote 1915 (in German) about "Organs or Organells" |
Theodosius I | ... e, making an effort to curb the Venus cult, built a basilica in Heliopolis. | erected another, with a western apse, occupying the main court of the Jupi ... |
Ovid | Letter 7 of | 's Heroides is a feigned letter from Dido to Aeneas written just before sh ... |
Patrice Chéreau | ... ierre Boulez, with Teresa Stratas singing the lead role; the production (by | ) was a sensation and the recording won the Gramophone Award for 1979. The ... |
Kublai Khan | In 1271, the Mongol leader and fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empire | established the Yuan Dynasty, with the last remnant of the Song Dynasty fa ... |
Ishtori HaParchi | ... te about Hebron over the next two centuries, among them Nachmanides (1270), | (1322) and Rabbi Meshulam from Volterra (1481). HaParchi in 1322 does not ... |
Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar | ... religion. The western system of education was introduced during the rule of | , when two schools were established in Bangalore. Subsequently, Wesleyan M ... |
Josie Bissett | ... ;Heather Locklear, Laura Leighton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Daphne Zuniga and | |
Hlothhere | ... death in 673 is not clearly recorded. It appears that a year passed before | , Egbert's brother, became king. Wulfhere may have had an interest in the ... |
Sam Shepard | ... epard, Ed Harris as Glenn, Fred Ward as Grissom, Dennis Quaid as Cooper and | as Yeager |
David MacMichael | | was an expert on counter-insurgency, guerrilla warfare, and Latin American ... |
Tim Curry | ... ntually played by the original performer from its run on London's West End, | . Appeared as himself in The Rutles film All You Need Is Cash in 1978. In ... |
David Lee Roth | ... n 100,000 people alongside Iron Maiden, Kiss, Helloween, Guns N' Roses, and | . The band was soon added to the "Monsters of Rock" European tour, but dro ... |
Stephen Sondheim | ... next appeared, and bow. Rodgers' daughter Mary caught sight of her friend, | , across several rows; both had eyes wet with tears |
Walter Cronkite | ... nated by the Vietnam War more than ever. Following evening news broadcaster | 's editorial report during the Tet Offensive that the war was unwinnable, ... |
Henry Sidgwick | ... y" as our highest concern. Such an inclusion would pave the way for ethics. | longed for the fusion of ethics and rationality and, while Parfit admits t ... |
Barack Obama | ... size in the 2008 and 2012 elections. 2008 Republican presidential candidate | visited the town twice during his campaign and again while President Augus ... |
Lugh | ... son of Bec-Felmas was a poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and in particular of | . He was killed by Óengus in front of Midir, according to a poem by Fland ... |
Simon Newcomb | ... hat Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer | . Newcomb was revered as a multitalented genius, with a special mastery of ... |
L. Ron Hubbard | ... ious legal tactics to stop distribution of unpublished documents written by | . The Church of Scientology is often accused of through the filing of SLAP ... |
Florus of Lyon | ... f predestination whatsoever, a denial which raised the ire of Ratramnus and | . In response, Ratramnus composed the two-book work On the Predestination ... |
Henry VII of England | Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, Owen Tudor's Welsh grandson, became King | , founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of Richar ... |
Carnegie | ... jamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758). In the 20th century, " | 's remarkable success as a self-help author" further developed the genre w ... |
Jim Bouton | ... as no particular secret, having been discussed in Sports Illustrated and in | 's groundbreaking book Ball Four, but there was virtually no public backla ... |
John Lennon | ... was trying to get all of their music on to the cartridge. Suzuki also cited | as an influential figure to all the composers while the soundtrack was bei ... |
Haydn | ... fic hymns from the Olney books. For example, the tune 'Austria' (originally | 's 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser') is associated today with the hymn 'Glo ... |
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower | ... ree; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Their second son, | , was born on August 3, 1922 while they were in Panama; John served in the ... |
Bill Richardson | ... Minister; Scott Brown, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts | ;, Democratic Governor of New Mexico; and Peter DeFazio, Democratic United ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... her and Calvin thought along lines linked with the theological teachings of | . The Augustinianism of the Reformers struggled against Pelagianism, a her ... |
C. S. Lewis | For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received | 's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He later recalled that "I admired his ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... odern anaesthetics, who was born above a shop overlooking the Market Place. | stayed in Aylsham in 1732 and enjoyed a meal at the Black Boys Inn. Parson ... |
Augustus | ... e for the story is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of | . The event does not occur in Homer's Iliad, which ends before the fall of ... |
Alan Alda | ... Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cate Blanchett), and | for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Despite having a leading tally, the f ... |
Alastair Reynolds | In | ' Revelation Space series of novels the concept of demarchy has been used ... |
Hyder Ali | ... were utilized as battleships by the Sultanate of Mysore during the rule of | |
Quentin Tarantino | ... n of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder. In 2011, Costner confirmed his role in | 's Django Unchained. Later on, it was announced that Costner had to drop o ... |
Francis I of France | In 1536 king | invaded the papal territory, in order to overthrow Emperor Charles V, who ... |
Peter Greenaway | ... n of this practice is in dispute; one source describes a similar act in the | movie The Belly of an Architect |
Edward Norton | | was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as D ... |
Steve Martin | ... ailable (other celebrity hosts who have a Best of... SNL DVD are Tom Hanks, | , and Alec Baldwin), an honor usually reserved only for SNL cast members |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His paternal grandmother was | . Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a cere ... |
Egbert | ... ulfhere married Eorcenberht's daughter Eormenhild. In 664 Eorcenberht's son | succeeded to the Kentish throne. The situation in Kent at Egbert's death i ... |
Frederik Pohl | The concept of demarchy played an important role in | 's science fiction novel The Years of the City, which is set in a near-fut ... |
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 ... |
Bede | ... mpose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century monk | . He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational rel ... |
Queen Mary | ... tour of Canada by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later King George V and | ) |
Lauren Willig | ... a concept created by Philip Jose Farmer. In addition, a series of novels by | , beginning with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (2005), chronicl ... |
Charles Edward Stuart | ... pher Layer (born 1683), who was a militant Jacobite and supporter of Prince | , the 'Young Pretender'. He was tried for high treason and hanged at Tybur ... |
Bruce Timm | ... p is never referred to by this name in the series (According to a post from | on Toon Zone.net, this was a direct order from DC, every script his team w ... |
John Greenleaf Whittier | ... became his friends, including Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, | , Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfello ... |
Tom Hanks | ... L DVD is available (other celebrity hosts who have a Best of... SNL DVD are | , Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin), an honor usually reserved only for SNL ... |
Rod Serling | The all-black principal cast was a novelty for television in 1960. Said | at the time (quoted in The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree) |
Zack Snyder | ... than Kent in the upcoming rebooted Superman film, Man of Steel, directed by | . In 2011, Costner confirmed his role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchai ... |
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 ... |
Maximian | In July 285, Diocletian declared | , another colleague from Illyricum, his co-emperor. Each emperor would hav ... |
George Lucas | ... d LucasArts. The site replaced portions of what was the Letterman Hospital. | won the development rights for 15 acres (61,000 m²) of the Presidio, in Ju ... |
Gerald Posner | ... Pepper's claims that the government killed King. He is supported by author | who has researched and written about the assassination. In 2003, William P ... |
Anne of Denmark | The second son of James VI of Scotland and | , Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His pa ... |
Wes Craven | ... three piece band. The version later appeared on the soundtrack to the 1989 | horror movie Shocker. While the band was holding auditions for the new lea ... |
Shashi Tharoor | ... overnment sector include Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece | ;, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Ministe ... |
Alfred Duggan | ... onze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itself with his siege of Rhodes. | 's novel Elephants and Castles provides a lively fictionalised account of ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ng and provocative story led by an excellent performance by Edward Norton." | gave the film three out of four stars, regarding it as "always interesting ... |
Eorcenberht | | was the king of Kent at Wulfhere's accession, and the two families became ... |
Tiberius | ... edication of the rebuilt temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium by emperor | is the day of the Portunalia, August 17 |
Charles the Bald | When | visited Corbie in 843, he apparently met Ratramnus and requested an explan ... |
Queen Victoria | ... s Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as | in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such fi ... |
Alice Cooper | ... ind a suitable lead guitarist in time, Megadeth recorded a cover version of | 's "No More Mr. Nice Guy" as a three piece band. The version later appeare ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... because I'd read it." One work that made a particular impression on him was | 's The Lord of the Rings from his school library, although it only had the ... |
George Fenneman | Two announcers were used. Episodes began with announcer | intoning the series opening ("The story you are about to hear is true; onl ... |
Virgil | The main ancient source for the story is the Aeneid of | , a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The event does not occur in ... |
L. Sprague de Camp | Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in | 's historical novel, The Bronze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itse ... |
Charles the Bald | ... itionally, he appears to have had a reasonably close relationship with King | |
Diocletian | ... vanced through the ranks, earning the governorship of Dalmatia from Emperor | , another of Aurelian's companions from Illyricum, in 284 or 285. Constant ... |
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Nelson Mandela | ... obel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk and | . Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such as HIV/AIDS, tuber ... |
Antiphon | ... ly less known because they are more technical and legal are the orations by | , Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the p ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by | , originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Octo ... |
David Garrow | King biographer | disagrees with William F. Pepper's claims that the government killed King. ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... infrastructure and perhaps attacking Damascus" Ultimately, Syrian President | decided to cancel the offensive. On October 23, the day the offensive was ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien's | ... play somewhat similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and a storyline reminiscent of | The Lord of the Rings. Later, two other games were released in this series ... |
Levon Helm | ... ight become known, Yeager confides in friend and fellow pilot Jack Ridley ( | ). Ridley cuts off part of a broomstick and tells Yeager to use it as a le ... |
Mattan I | ... and is synchronized properly with history then this Belus should stand for | , father of the historical Pygmalion |
Irving Berlin | He performed a song and dance rendition of the | standard, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". Finally, there was the "Colone ... |
Marcus Furius Camillus | ... , allegedly built by Servius Tullius, destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt by | in 396 B.C., and she was also associated with the sea harbors and ports, w ... |
Jonathan Larson | Rent, a 1996 musical by | , is based on La bohème. Here the lovers, Roger and Mimi, are faced with A ... |
Edward Thomas | ... tershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. | also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Professor of English at the Univers ... |
Wes Anderson | ... ghlights for Smith in 2001 was inclusion of his song "Needle in the Hay" in | 's dark comedy The Royal Tenenbaums. The song plays during a suicide attem ... |
Leonard Peikoff | ... se it in the process of any attempt to deny it." As Objectivist philosopher | noted, Rand's argument for axioms "is not a proof that the axioms of exist ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Johnson continued the FBI's wiretapping of | that had been previously authorized by the Kennedy administration under At ... |
Voltaire | ... d much attention. Later deism spread to France, notably through the work of | , to Germany, and to America |
Daniel Defoe | ... ng a rich, thriving industrious place full of weaving, knitting and dyeing. | in his Tour of the whole Island of Great Britain (1724) wrote of the City |
Moses | ... utionary nature of the Halacha point to a famous story in the Talmud, where | is miraculously transported to the House of Study of Rabbi Akiva and is cl ... |
Lex Luthor | The Legion of Doom is a group of supervillains led by | that appeared in Challenge of the Super Friends, an ABC animated series th ... |
William Shakespeare | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by | , believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the It ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher (see, for example, | 's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the ... |
René Descartes | ... ipotent would mean the omnipotent being is above logic. A view supported by | He issues this idea in his Meditations on First Philosophy |
Tertullian | It was in the West that precise definition of the doctrine arose. | , Cyprian, Ambrose and Ambrosiaster considered that mankind shares in Adam ... |
Oswine | ... in: Oswald's son Oswiu succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, and Osric's son | to Deira, the southern of the two kingdoms |
Dennis Eckersley | ... ve pennants and the 1989 World Series behind Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco and | . In more recent years, the A's have often been playoff contenders but hav ... |
Darren Aronofsky | ... pires III campaign "Blood, Ice and Steel". Recently, characters in the 2006 | film The Fountain search for the Tree of Life to cure a brain tumor. Jorge ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... and covered the Presidential nominating conventions. Reed himself endorsed | , believing that he would make good on his promise to keep America out of ... |
John the Apostle | ... welve Apostles of Jesus. He was a son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of | . He is also called James the Greater to distinguish him from James, son o ... |
Perseus | ... escendants remained in possession of the Macedonian throne till the time of | , when Macedon was conquered by the Romans in 168 BC |
Richard Rodgers | ... udolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, but his most famous collaboration was with | |
Marlene Dietrich | Blonde Venus, starring | and Cary Grant, predates She Done Him Wrong by a year even though Mae West ... |
Kevin Saunderson | ... ject, Kevin Saunderson), as first featured on "Just Want Another Chance" by | (also famous for the group Inner City) released in 1988. Mid-1995 saw the ... |
Al Pacino | ... ached to direct The Irishman, which will star Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and | . It has also been announced that Scorsese is attached to direct an adapta ... |
M. Carey Thomas | ... as the one led by daughters of trustees of the university; Mary E. Garrett, | , Mamie Gwinn, Elizabeth King, and Julia Rogers. They donated and raised t ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... it was largely ignored. In 2003, Arafat ceded his post as Prime Minister to | amid pressures by the US |
Creophylus | ... ers exclusively Egyptian and Oriental. We find mentioned as his instructors | , Hermodamas of Samos, Bias, Thales, Anaximander, and Pherecydes of Syros. ... |
Milton Friedman | ... cluded Austrian school economist Ludwig von Mises along with the then young | . Initially the society had little impact on the wider world – Hayek was t ... |
Norman Lamm | ... ocaust was God's fault. Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Joseph Soloveitchik, | , Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, Emanuel Rackman, Eliezer Berkovits and ... |
George Borrow | ... ed the City as a courtier to King Charles II in 1671 and described it thus: | in his semi-autobiographical novel Lavengro (1851) wrote of Norwich as |
Karen Berger | ... is work, DC Comics hired him, and he wrote the limited series Black Orchid. | , who later became head of DC Comics's , read Black Orchid and offered Gai ... |
Andrew Jackson | The town was named in 1825 for future president | , the commander of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and ... |
Mark Kermode | ... e writer Jo Nesbø's novel The Snowman. In an interview discussing Hugo with | and Simon Mayo on their BBC Podcast Scorsese mentioned that he is working ... |
Mae West | ... Dietrich and Cary Grant, predates She Done Him Wrong by a year even though | always claimed to have discovered Cary Grant for her film, elaborating tha ... |
King George III | ... t. John's in Newfoundland. The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of | , Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent (1767–1820), who subsequently l ... |
Oscar Hammerstein I | ... liam Hammerstein. His grandfather was German-born Jewish theater impresario | , and his mother was the daughter of Scottish and English parents. Hammers ... |
Juan Bosch | ... ctly supported the overthrow of left-wing, democratically elected president | of the Dominican Republic and João Goulart of Brazil, maintaining US suppo ... |
William of Ockham | ... another major schism of Christendom. The crisis of theology beginning with | in the 14th century was occurring in conjunction with the new burgher disc ... |
James Duane Doty | Madison was created in 1836, when former federal judge | purchased over a thousand acres (4 km²) of swamp and forest land on the is ... |
Jean Mayer | The university experienced tremendous growth during the presidency of | (1976–1992). Mayer was, by all accounts, some combination of "charming, wi ... |
Jim Northrup | ... he decade, with outfielders Willie Horton (1963), Mickey Stanley (1964) and | (1964) also coming aboard at this time |
Coenred | ... iage and there is no record of any children in the earliest sources, though | , who was king of Mercia from 704 to 709, is recorded in John of Worcester ... |
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 ... |
Oscar Hammerstein II | ... e a mountain” told Martin that he thought she had something special. It was | (pp. 58–59). This marked the start of her career |
Mae West | The story is set in New York in the 1890s. A bawdy singer, Lady Lou ( | ), works in the Bowery barroom saloon of her boss and benefactor, Gus Jord ... |
Amélie of Leuchtenberg | Two and a half years after the death of Leopoldina, the Emperor married | . Prince Pedro spent little time with his stepmother; nevertheless, they h ... |
Ambrose | ... he West that precise definition of the doctrine arose. Tertullian, Cyprian, | and Ambrosiaster considered that mankind shares in Adam's sin, transmitted ... |
Dave Mustaine | ... fferent artwork, with its cover based on the version originally designed by | in 1985 |
Julien Josephson | The movie was written by | (story) (adaptation), John W. Krafft (titles) and Sonya Levien. It was dir ... |
Hua Guofeng | ... volution, Deng Xiaoping quickly wrested power from Mao's anointed successor | . Although he never became the head of the party or state himself, Deng wa ... |
Augustine | ... ." The term was not a neologism, however, as paganismus was already used by | |
Ira Remsen | ... he medical school. Other graduate schools were opened to women by president | only in 1907. Christine Ladd-Franklin was the first woman to earn a PhD at ... |
Roger Dee | ... year. The first paperback edition was an Ace Books double novel along with | 's An Earth Gone Mad; The Stars, Like Dust was retitled The Rebellious Sta ... |
King George V | ... e attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, Beatrix Potter, | and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit that he gave his gu ... |
Larry Elliott | ... estricted by the capital controls in place after Bretton Woods. Journalists | and Dan Atkinson say 1968 was a pivotal year when power shifted in the fav ... |
Sonya Levien | ... itten by Julien Josephson (story) (adaptation), John W. Krafft (titles) and | . It was directed by William K. Howard |
John Maynard Keynes | ... ted with other men who would greatly influence him like G. Lowes Dickinson, | , Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, Bertrand Ru ... |
Simon Mayo | ... 's novel The Snowman. In an interview discussing Hugo with Mark Kermode and | on their BBC Podcast Scorsese mentioned that he is working on a TV series ... |
Lucius Papirius Cursor | ... ea have been discovered; on the hill, there was the tomb of Quirinus, which | transformed into a temple for his triumph after the third Samnite war. Som ... |
emperor | Despite the establishment of the shogunate, the | in Kyoto was still the legitimate ruler of Japan. Regardless of the politi ... |
Jason of Pherae | ... ted Athens to join them in doing so. However, their Thessalian allies under | dissuaded them from shattering what remained of the Spartan army. Xenophon ... |
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 ... |
Dave Mustaine | Two months after lead guitarist | was fired from Metallica due to drinking, drug use, violent behavior and p ... |
Fulgencio Batista | ... e island in Santiago Bay, Cuba. Following the 1933 Cuban Revolution, led by | , which overthrew President Gerardo Machado, Alberto Arnaz was jailed and ... |
Sparta | ... g the coolie slave trade, or the century-long exile of the Messenians under | n rule |
Sam Kieth | ... remain in print (14 if the spin-off is taken into account). Artists include | , Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, lettering by Todd Klein, colors ... |
Sher Shah Suri | ... r more than three centuries, with a sixteen-year hiatus during the reign of | , from 1540 to 1556. During 1553–1556, the Hindu king, Hemu Vikramaditya a ... |
João Goulart | ... , democratically elected president Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic and | of Brazil, maintaining US support for anti-communist, authoritarian Latin ... |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... nie Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, and sister of | 's wife Julie Clary - Désirée had previously been engaged to Napoleon. Ber ... |
Oscar Hammerstein II | ... m car crashes leading to vocal instruction, unknowingly singing in front of | , to her final break on Broadway granted by the very prominent producer, L ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of | . The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; t ... |
Rex E. Lee | ... alem, now called the BYU Jerusalem Center. In 1989, Holland was replaced by | . Lee was responsible for the Benson Science Building and the Museum of Ar ... |
Philippe II | ... penalties on him, and he soon reconciled with the Church. The French king, | , decided to act against those nobles who permitted Catharism and undermin ... |
Mesha | ... He was significant enough that his name is mentioned on a stele erected by | , king of Moab, who records his victory over a son of Omri—but omits the s ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... throw of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under | , produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia |
William Jewett Tucker | ... ds of instruction and was relatively poorly funded. Under the presidency of | (1893–1909), Dartmouth underwent a major revitalization of facilities, fac ... |
Alaric | ... crushed with great severity by the emperor Theodosius I Rome was seized by | in 410. This led to murmuring that the gods of Paganism had taken greater ... |
Thomas Hobbes | | – a 17th century deist and important influence on subsequent deists – used ... |
Carly Simon | ... ta Pallenberg, Marsha Hunt, Pamela Des Barres, Uschi Obermaier, Bebe Buell, | , Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, Carla Bruni, Sop ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... he old alliance between reason and faith of the medieval period laid out by | |
Ed Rush | ... "Mutant Jazz" which appeared on S.O.U.R. Recordings in 1995 (co-produced by | and Nico). Also note that Trace (artist), Ed Rush and Nico already had a h ... |
Dan Atkinson | ... apital controls in place after Bretton Woods. Journalists Larry Elliott and | say 1968 was a pivotal year when power shifted in the favour of private ag ... |
Queen Victoria | ... adquarters in Halifax. (Prince Edward later became the father of the future | . |
Michael Lindsay-Hogg | In January 1969, the group got together with director | to film the rehearsals for the band's first live concert since 1966. The r ... |
Titus Livius | ... Alba Longa, according to the traditional history of the city handed down by | . He was the successor (and probably son) of Capetus, the eighth king of A ... |
David Hume | ... ose of natural theology. This became a point of attack for thinkers such as | as they studied the "natural history of religion" |
Jimmy Carter | ... eign policy towards Latin America remained largely static until election of | to the presidency in 1977 |
Ecgfrith | ... nown but which may have been Stirling, in Scotland. Penda took Oswiu's son, | , as hostage, and Oswiu paid tribute, in the form of treasure, to secure P ... |
Jorge Luis Borges | ... nofsky film The Fountain search for the Tree of Life to cure a brain tumor. | refers to the Fountain of Life in a short story in the book , in which the ... |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | ... rried his sister Laodice V, by whom he had three sons Demetrius II Nicator, | and Antigonus |
Gerardo Machado | ... 1933 Cuban Revolution, led by Fulgencio Batista, which overthrew President | , Alberto Arnaz was jailed and all of his property was confiscated. He was ... |
U.S. presidency | ... complicated by the American spoils system. After Andrew Jackson assumed the | in March 1829, many competent Indian agents were replaced by unqualified J ... |
Harry Lauder | ... liest recorded proprietors are the Lauder of the Bass family, from whom Sir | is descended. According to legend, the island is said to have been a gift ... |
Scarlett Thomas | Novelist and lecturer | uses it to teach innovative contemporary fiction, as an example of differe ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... sidered that mankind shares in Adam's sin, transmitted by human generation. | taught that Adam's sin is transmitted by concupiscence, resulting in manki ... |
Joe Greene | ... Football game, Bradshaw joined former teammates including Franco Harris and | to accept their position on the Pittsburgh Steelers 75th Anniversary All-T ... |
Charles Darwin | In 1959, the centenary year of | 's publication of The Origin of Species, the Ecuadorian government declare ... |
Alexander V | ... he same year he established himself on the throne of Macedonia by murdering | , the son of Cassander. In 291 BC he married Lanassa, the former wife of P ... |
Isaac Newton | ... wever, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir | . In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life i ... |
Lawrence Kasdan | ... his corpse in the movie's opening scenes. Costner was a friend of director | , who promised the actor a role in a future project. That became 1985's Si ... |
Zadok Casey | Mt. Vernon was founded in 1817 by | , who was elected to the State Senate in 1822 and was elected Lieutenant G ... |
Alice Cooper | ... earance at the Monsters of Rock festival in Brazil, co-headlining alongside | and Ozzy Osbourne. In January 1995, Megadeth appeared on the soundtrack of ... |
Margaret Trudeau | ... , Marsha Hunt, Pamela Des Barres, Uschi Obermaier, Bebe Buell, Carly Simon, | , Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, Carla Bruni, Sophie Dahl and , amo ... |
Bruce Dickinson | ... uise of fictitious record producer Bruce Dickinson (not to be confused with | , lead singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly unhin ... |
Mark Twain | ... gon on the opposite side of the platform. In his book Tramps Abroad, writer | spoke of the break of gauge at Albury and changing trains: "Now comes a si ... |
Nathaniel Branden | ... e first read Rand's works in their "formative years." Rand's former protégé | referred to Rand's "especially powerful appeal to the young," while Onkar ... |
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... 6. It is preserved at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. | , the second Nimitz-class supercarrier, was named in his honor |
Guy Torry | ... s. Derek also develops a friendly rapport with black prison inmate Lamont ( | ) who works with him in the prison laundry. His fellow neo-Nazis take noti ... |
Benjamin Glazer | The movie was adapted by | , Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by Kenyon Nicholso ... |
Domitius Alexander | ... ed tax rates and depressed trade; riots broke out in Rome and Carthage; and | was able to briefly usurp his authority in Africa. By 312, he was a man ba ... |
George Washington | ... e served in the U.S. Congress between 1833 and 1843. The town was named for | 's plantation, Mount Vernon, which was named for Edward Vernon, a British ... |
Oswald | ... humbria briefly fell apart into its two constituent kingdoms. Within a year | killed Cadwallon and reunited the kingdoms, and subsequently re-establishe ... |
Otto Harbach | ... merstein began his first professional collaboration, with Herbert Stothart, | and Frank Mandel. He began as an apprentice and went on to form a 20-year ... |
Dallin H. Oaks | ... , with ten stakes and over 100 wards being added during his administration. | replaced Wilkinson as President in 1971. Oaks continued the expansion of h ... |
Timur | In 1526, Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant of | and Genghis Khan from the Fergana Valley (in modern day Uzbekistan), invad ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... e named or identified individually in Tolkien's works. Their leader was the | , and his second in command was named Khamûl, the "black Easterling" or th ... |
Lester B. Pearson | Prime Minister | in 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national an ... |
Prince Igor | The cathedral square in Putivl | is about to set out on a campaign against the Polovtsy and their Khans who ... |
Herman J. Mankiewicz | The movie was adapted by Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and | from the play by Kenyon Nicholson. It was directed by George Fitzmaurice. ... |
Avery Brooks | ... ack, Derek is visited by his black former English teacher Dr. Bob Sweeney ( | ), whom he asks for help to be paroled. Although Derek later became an ant ... |
William Walker | ... ability immediately after the war made it susceptible to buccaneers such as | , Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon and Henry Alexander Crabb who attacked Sonora ... |
Michel de Montaigne | ... relationship between their followers turned quickly to conflict. Frenchman | told a story of a Lutheran pastor who declared over dinner that he would r ... |
Milton Friedman | ... article with the title inspired by a possibly tongue-in-cheek comment from | , a comment later echoed by U.S. President Richard Nixon, that "We are all ... |
Kenyon Nicholson | ... y Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by | . It was directed by George Fitzmaurice. The Barker is a silent film with ... |
Hosea Ballou II | ... ing been one of the biggest influences in the establishment of the College, | became the first president in 1853, and College Hall, the first building o ... |
John Vanbrugh | ... ughter the second Duchess of Marlborough; the architect of Blenheim Palace, | ; prime minister Robert Walpole; King George II; and his wife, Queen Carol ... |
Aristotle | ... , and metaphysics. It was influenced by ancient Greek philosophers, such as | , Hellenistic thinkers such as Ptolemy, earlier Persian and Muslim scienti ... |
Leonard Woolf | ... e were three with whom Strachey soon became closely associated: Clive Bell, | and Saxon Sydney-Turner. With another undergraduate, A. J. Robertson, the ... |
Owain Glyndŵr | In 1404 | burned Cardiff and took Cardiff Castle. As the town was still very small, ... |
Richard Nixon | ... heek comment from Milton Friedman, a comment later echoed by U.S. President | , that "We are all Keynesians now". The article described the exceptionall ... |
Vitruvius | ... making it the most popular site at Delphi for tourists to take photographs. | (vii, introduction) notes Theodorus the Phocian as the architect of the Ro ... |
Jimmy Johnson | ... coach Jim Zorn and starting quarterback Jason Campbell to a good marriage. | immediately joked, "What would you know about a good marriage? |
Dave McKean | ... m Jones III, lettering by Todd Klein, colors by Daniel Vozzo, and covers by | |
Jimmy Carter | ... ter Stapleton (Donna Hanover), a Christian activist and sister of President | , seeks out Flynt and urges him to give his life to Jesus. Flynt seems mov ... |
Julius Caesar | ... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from | , in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution |
Woody Guthrie | ... tained audiences with folk and blues songs by artists such as Leadbelly and | . This proved so popular that in July 1954 he recorded a fast-tempoed vers ... |
President | ... r-future New York City. In the novel, all government offices, including the | , Congress, and the Supreme Court, are filled by average citizens chosen u ... |
Maria Leopoldina of Austria | ... King Dom João VI and nephew of Dom Miguel I. His mother was the Archduchess | , daughter of Franz II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, P ... |
Oswiu | ... ated Oswald. On Oswald's death, Northumbria was divided again: Oswald's son | succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, and Osric's son Oswine to Deira, the ... |
José Sulaimán | ... and controversial split decision. The fight was so close that WBC president | decided to give Laporte a rematch vs Sanchez for the World Boxing Council' ... |
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Arthur Balfour | | 's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir ... |
Dirty South (DJ) | Individual DJ's are also pioneering the electronic music scene globally. | was ranked 59 in the 2009 DJ Mag Top 100 DJ poll. In recent years electron ... |
Zhou Enlai | ... in Chinese society. In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao and | met Richard Nixon in Beijing to establish relations with the United States ... |
Pyrrhus | ... r V, the son of Cassander. In 291 BC he married Lanassa, the former wife of | . But his new position as ruler of Macedonia was continually threatened by ... |
Louise Bryant | ... paid a visit to his mother in Portland, where he met and fell in love with | , who joined him on the East coast in January 1916. Though happy, both had ... |
Ptolemy | ... ancient Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers such as | , earlier Persian and Muslim scientists and philosophers such as Al-Kindi ... |
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 |
Maximilian I | ... exico, Sonora was invaded by French troops as part of the effort to install | as a monarch in Mexico. The port of Guaymas was attacked by forces under A ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, daughter of Franz II, the last | . Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte and first c ... |
John Connally | ... h that anything he said was more likely to help McGovern. Johnson's protege | had served as President Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury and then stepped ... |
LTJ Bukem | ... o the more relaxed style of drum and bass associated with producers such as | |
John Waters | ... ilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and | . Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in the festival |
Osric's | ... divided again: Oswald's son Oswiu succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, and | son Oswine to Deira, the southern of the two kingdoms |
Pope Pius XI | ... pecially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum Novarum and | in Quadragesimo Anno |
Claudian | ... he Ostrogoths are first named in a document dated September 392 from Milan. | mentions that they together with the Gruthungi inhabit Phrygia. According ... |
James Madison | ... reen Bay in the northeast. Being named for the much-admired founding father | , who had just died, and having streets named for each of the 39 signers o ... |
Eugene O'Neill | ... of sexual liberation in common currency in that day. Early in 1916 Reed met | , and beginning that May the three rented a cottage in Provincetown. Not l ... |
Queen Mary | ... ular with white audiences, and it even gained a royal audience, principally | . Subsequently, Robeson was summoned for a Royal Command Performance at Bu ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | ... iety. In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao and Zhou Enlai met | in Beijing to establish relations with the United States. In the same year ... |
Antigonus | His son | offered all his possessions, and even his own person, in order to procure ... |
John Ney Rieber | ... wizard. The miniseries was popular, and sired an ongoing series written by | |
Igor Svyatoslavich | ... epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince | against the invading Polovtsian tribes in 1185. The opera was left unfinis ... |
Carl Jung | ... from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." The psychoanalyst | saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believe ... |
Pedro Anaya | ... atrick Dalton of the San Patricios tore the white flag down, prompting Gen. | to order his men to fight on, with their bare hands if necessary. American ... |
Eumolpus | In Greek mythology, King Tegyrios of Thrace welcomed the exiled | and married his daughter to Eumolpus' son Ismarus. Eumolpus then planned t ... |
Robert Browning | ... thousand word short novel for the magazine. The title was a misquotation of | 's Rabbi ben Ezra, the first few lines of which (starting "Grow old along ... |
Howard S. McDonald | ... rediting organizations at the time. He was eventually replaced by President | , who received his doctorate from the University of California. When he fi ... |
Edward Norton | Critics mostly praised the film and | was given an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. It was also named by ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... d a total population of 790, up from 772 at the 2000 census. U.S. President | was born there and lived there for two brief periods of his childhood |
Lord Camden | ... f secretary of war in the new Irish government but the new lord-lieutenant, | , was only able to offer him the post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. ... |
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 ... |
Abraham ibn Ezra | ... w expressed by some classical Jewish authorities, such as Abraham ibn Daud, | , and Gersonides |
Richard Wagner | ... as Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to | , Louis Pasteur and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others |
Eleazar Wheelock | Dartmouth was founded by | , a Puritan minister from Columbia, Connecticut, who had previously sought ... |
Magnus Maximus | ... 4th century, as the last Roman legions left the province of Britannia with | |
Frank Whittle | In 1930, having found no interest from the RAF for his idea, | patented the design for a centrifugal gas turbine for jet propulsion. The ... |
Howard Zinn | Damon narrated the audiobook version of historian | 's A People's History of the United States, published in 2003. Zinn had be ... |
Courtney Love | ... t, a habitual womanizer, becomes particularly smitten with Althea Leasure ( | ), a runaway-turned-stripper who works at one of his dance clubs. With hel ... |
Abbie Hoffman | The album title is a reference to | 's book Steal This Book, which is regarded as a classic example of counter ... |
Randolph Bourne | ... s, which as a result of an article by Reed and one earlier in the summer by | , had its financial backing cut off and ceased publication. Reed was stunn ... |
Albert Brisbane | ... few readers followed his suggestions. Utopia fascinated him; influenced by | he promoted Fourierism. His journal had Karl Marx (as well as Friedrich En ... |
James II | ... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards to | to uphold it |
Mr Justice Wills | The final trial was presided over by | . On 25 May 1895 Wilde and Alfred Taylor were convicted of gross indecency ... |
Æthelric | Æthelfrith, son of | and grandson of Ida, apparently succeeded Hussa as king of the Bernicians ... |
Meurig ap Tewdrig | ... the absence of Roman rule, Wales was divided into small kingdoms; early on, | emerged as the local king in Glywysing (which later became Glamorgan). The ... |
Billy Bob Thornton | ... From 2001 to 2003, he dated Odessa Whitmire, a former personal assistant of | and Ben Affleck |
Alfonso XIII | ... yal Command Performance at Buckingham Palace in honor of the King of Spain, | . and he was befriended by MPs from the House of Commons Consequently, fee ... |
Christopher Wren | Ogilby died in London in 1676 and was buried at St. Brides, one of Sir | 's new churches |
Christian X | ... stival at the park. The first Rebild Festival took place in 1912, when King | spoke to a crowd of 10,000. The day has been celebrated every year since t ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of the only things that could hurt the Spectre, which had been obtained by | , giving him control over superheroes that entered Nazi-occupied areas |
Samson Occom | ... or such an establishment resulted from his relationship with Mohegan Indian | . Occom became an ordained minister after studying under Wheelock from 174 ... |
Alfonso II | ... postela placed the discovery of the relics of the saint in the time of king | (791-842) and of bishop Theodemir of Iria. These traditions were the basis ... |
Richard Nixon | ... Senator. Weicker was known as a liberal Republican. He broke with President | during Watergate and successfully ran for governor in 1990 as an independe ... |
Pasha Glubb | ... es from Bethlehem to Hebron had been cut off from their lines of supply and | sent 350 Arab Legionnaires and an armoured car unit to Hebron to reinforce ... |
Michelangelo | ... ted Italy. In the same palazzo were also the two statues of river gods that | moved to the steps of Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill |
John W. Campbell | ... round in time to adjust their ages a bit." The novel "worried and bothered" | , who said "Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, t ... |
Sergei Diaghilev | ... otable premieres were given in Prague in 1899, and in Paris in 1909, with a | production featuring Feodor Chaliapin as Galitsky and Maria Kuznetsova as ... |
Kenneth Branagh | ... d Chamberlain, and finally in a radio production starring Gielgud's protégé | |
President of the European Commission | ... country that holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The | has attended all meetings since it was first invited by the United Kingdom ... |
Karl Marx | ... him; influenced by Albert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had | (as well as Friedrich Engels) as European correspondent in the early 1850s ... |
Errol Fuller | ... hirioux’s grey parrot, was captioned with the following Dutch poem, here in | 's 2002 translation |
Richard Nixon | ... ident realized his position was actually closer to the Republican candidate | . Personal correspondences between the President and some in the Republica ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... the song live as a mash-up with Linkin Park and Jay-Z's Numb/Encore. It is | 's favourite Beatles song |
D. A. Pennebaker | ... rt Drew), Harlan County, USA (directed by Barbara Kopple), Dont Look Back ( | ), Lonely Boy (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor) are all frequently deemed ci ... |
Irving Greenberg | Rabbi | is a Modern Orthodox rabbi who has written extensively on how the Holocaus ... |
Sloan Wilson | ... e for R&R for soldiers from nearby Camp Blanding, including Andy Rooney and | who went on to write the classic 1950s novel The Man in the Gray Flannel S ... |
Celeus | ... he form of an old woman called Doso, she received a hospitable welcome from | , the King of Eleusis in Attica. He asked her to nurse Demophon and Tripto ... |
Karl Marx | ... kbinder Eugène Varlin, an associate of Michael Bakunin and correspondent of | , and by other radicals) for the creation of a "Committee of Public Safety ... |
Ida | Æthelfrith, son of Æthelric and grandson of | , apparently succeeded Hussa as king of the Bernicians around the year 592 ... |
Pete Townshend | ... ggressive melodies and loud distorted guitars put the "power" in power-pop. | of The Who coined the term "power pop" in a 1967 interview in which he sai ... |
Pygmalion | ... nal information about Dido’s activities after leaving Tyre are found in the | article, along with a summary of later scholars who have accepted Peñuela’ ... |
Morgan Freeman | The film The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring | and Walken, about security guards in an art museum, debuted at the Edinbur ... |
Fleeming Jenkin | ... e power input. He considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, | , William Thomson, Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid govern ... |
Ben Affleck | ... ated Odessa Whitmire, a former personal assistant of Billy Bob Thornton and | |
Ron Shelton | Costner then starred in the golf comedy Tin Cup (1996) for | , who had previously directed him in Bull Durham. He developed the film Ai ... |
Robert Graves | According to the personal mythology of | , Persephone is not only the younger self of Demeter, she is in turn also ... |
Richard Rodgers | ... 's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with | to write a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs. Rodgers' ... |
Sinestro | ... to the past or future. It resembled Darth Vader's helmet. In Doomsday after | , Black Manta and Cheetah (comics) are abandoned by the rest of the Legion ... |
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Lorenz Hart | ... sical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs. Rodgers' first partner, | , originally planned collaborate with Rodgers on this piece, but his alcoh ... |
Wagner | ... ng double bass. In the Romantic era and the 20th century, composers such as | , Mahler, Beethoven, Busoni, and Prokofiev also requested notes below the ... |
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Edward Norton | ... nent court cases, and befriends a young, whip-smart lawyer, Alan Isaacman ( | ). In 1975, Flynt loses a smut-peddling court decision in Cincinnati, but ... |
Virgil | ... olars who had been impressed by his industry. He then ventured to translate | into English verse (1649–1650), which brought him a considerable sum of mo ... |
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Bill Clinton | ... inister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and President of the United States | , Russia formally joined the group in 1997, resulting in the Group of Eigh ... |
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Jordanes | ... e the Vesi/Visigothi and the Greuthungi the Ostrogothi is also supported by | . He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the hei ... |
Demetrius of Bactria | ... tended by Ashoka the Great until 185 BCE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom founded by | (180-165 BCE) included Gandhara and Punjab and reached its greatest extent ... |
Charles Darwin | ... captain and others on board, including his companion, the young naturalist | , made observations on the geology and biology on Chatham, Charles, Albema ... |
Jerry Siegel | ... ived his first story the following month, #52 (Feb.1940). He was created by | and Bernard Baily, although several sources attribute creator credit solel ... |
Louis the Pious | ... started anew. The revolt in Pamplona crossed the Pyrenees north and in 816 | deposed the Basque Duke Seguin of Bordeaux. Failure to suppress the rebell ... |
Dante | ... the Bible in French, Italian and German grammars, some Ancient Greek texts, | 's Divine Comedy, En Route, Joris-Karl Huysmans's new French novel about C ... |
Frederik Pohl | ... Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on | , on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title ... |
Schuyler Colfax | ... en Lafayette and Indianapolis; it was later renamed to honor Vice President | |
Andrew Johnson | ... took an erratic course, mostly favoring the Radicals and opposing president | in 1865–66. In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $100,000 bond f ... |
Charles Darwin | ... ure and the sciences. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as | , Victor Hugo and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, ... |
Akbar | ... kbar at Agra and Delhi. However, the Mughals reestablished their rule after | 's army defeated Hemu during the Second Battle of Panipat. Shah Jahan buil ... |
Blind Harry | ... an early date a castle on the island. Sir Robert de Lawedre is mentioned by | in The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir Willi ... |
Jack Williamson | Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, | characterized Heinlein's story as "a dream of personal freedom" written wi ... |
Anne Hyde | ... rah’s sister, Frances, was appointed maid of honour to the Duchess of York, | |
Henry V of England | King | is credited with having invented what some consider the first true passpor ... |
Alfonso II of Asturias | ... outed their enemies and killed Velasco, along with García López, kinsman of | , Sancho "warrior/knight of Pamplona", and pagan warrior "Ṣaltān". This de ... |
Frederik VI | ... eived status as a merchant town under the name of Frederikshavn, after King | |
Shalmaneser III | ... pand westward from Mesopotamia: the Battle of Qarqar (853 BC), which pitted | of Assyria against a coalition of local kings, including Ahab, was the fir ... |
George R. R. Martin | ... e company. Liz Danforth created the art for each of the Nazgûl in the game. | 's novel The Armageddon Rag is about a rock band named the Nazgûl. The ban ... |
Augustus | ... is possible that this temple was erected over the ruins of another temple. | , too, ordered the building of a temple, dedicated to Mars. On a slope of ... |
Bill Murray | ... ble celebrities played in the 2006 Wolf Challenge in Sellersburg, including | , Kevin Costner, John Daly, and Cris Judd |
Victor Hugo | ... nces. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as Charles Darwin, | and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur ... |
Mary of Modena | ... , and in 1673 Sarah entered court as maid of honour to James’s second wife, | |
Menander | ... 165 BCE) included Gandhara and Punjab and reached its greatest extent under | (165-150 BCE), prospering the Greco-Buddhist culture in the region |
Servius Tullius | ... part of the city of Rome, along with the Viminal Hill, during the reign of | , Rome' sixth king, in the 6th century BC |
Ignaz Maybaum | ... t been adopted by any sizable element of the Jewish or Christian community, | has proposed that the Holocaust is the ultimate form of vicarious atonemen ... |
Shah Jahan | ... rule after Akbar's army defeated Hemu during the Second Battle of Panipat. | built the seventh city of Delhi that bears his name (Shahjahanabad), and i ... |
James Shirley | ... lby to learn Greek from David Whitford, who was usher in the school kept by | the dramatist |
Theophrastus | ... he was critic of alchemy) with the mineralogical theories of Aristotle and | . He created a synthesis of ideas concerning the nature of the mineral and ... |
Cork Graham | ... Bones. Additionally, the Oak Island/Money Pit Mystery led to the ill-fated | /Richard Knight hunt for Captain Kidd's treasure off western Vietnam in 19 ... |
Duns Scotus | ... the Franciscans, though the most prominent Franciscan theologians, such as | and William of Ockham, eliminated the element of concupiscence |
James Blish | Science-fiction writer and critic | , writing in 1957, shortly after publication, criticized the lack of chara ... |
Clara Barton | ... t was one of the first disasters to which the American Red Cross responded. | herself directed the relief efforts |
Harry Northup | ... ous one with De Niro. Other frequent collaborators include Victor Argo (6), | (6), Harvey Keitel (5), Murray Moston (5), Joe Pesci (3), Frank Vincent (3 ... |
Alexander | He also roused the jealousy of | 's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and ... |
Aristotle | ... leontology with his explanation of how the stoniness of fossils was caused. | previously explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations, which Ibn Sina m ... |
Thomas Nast | ... rank who could not be trusted. The most vicious attacks came in cartoons by | in Harper's Weekly. Greeley ultimately ran far behind Grant, winning only ... |
Gratian | ... rtress was built to protect Britannia from raiders. Coins from the reign of | indicate that Cardiff was inhabited until at least the 4th century; the fo ... |
Theodosius I | The temple survived until 390 AD, when the Christian emperor | silenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and w ... |
Ethan Allen | ... e New Hampshire Grants (which later became the state of Vermont). Headed by | and members of his extended family, they were instrumental in resisting Ne ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ributed information and contraceptives to people's commune members. By 1973 | was personally identified with the family planning movement, signifying a ... |
William of Ockham | ... , though the most prominent Franciscan theologians, such as Duns Scotus and | , eliminated the element of concupiscence |
Mao Zedong | ... y to only Taiwan, Hainan, and their surrounding islands. On 1 October 1949, | proclaimed the People's Republic of China, which was commonly known in the ... |
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire | ... Paris, for Auguste Blanqui, but flatly refused and his personal secretary, | , declared: "The hostages! The hostages! too bad for them (tant pis pour e ... |
George H. Brimhall | ... that is to this day embedded on a mountain near campus.) The Board elected | as the new President of BYU. He had not received a high school education u ... |
St Augustine | ... -Karl Huysmans's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by | , Cardinal Newman and Walter Pater |
Pierre Perrault | ... more accurately ""), pioneered by, among others, Canadians Allan King, and | , and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman and Albert ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... aynard Keynes, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, | , and G. E. Moore. Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that the summum ... |
Eanfrith | ... Pictland, in northern Britain. His nephew the Pictish king Talorgan, son of | , had died in 657 |
William Shatner | ... , sudden off-beat pauses, and strange speech rhythm, in a manner similar to | , which was subject to parody in a Robot Chicken episode. He is revered fo ... |
Harold Kushner | Rabbis | , William E. Kaufman, Milton Steinberg believe that God is not omnipotent, ... |
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 ... |
President of France | ... resents the Government of France in each department and is appointed by the | . The prefect is assisted by one or more sub-prefects (sous-préfet) based ... |
Petrarch | ... oles, seigneur of Vaucluse, was the great protector of the Renaissance poet | |
Alaric I | ... othi is also supported by Jordanes. He identified the Visigothic kings from | to Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric ... |
Milton Steinberg | Rabbis Harold Kushner, William E. Kaufman, | believe that God is not omnipotent, and thus is not to blame for mankind's ... |
James Whitcomb Riley | A statue of | , which stands in front of the Hancock County Courthouse, was erected in 1 ... |
Martin Luther | Reformers | and John Calvin equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it ... |
Gary Oldman | ... s in Hollywood, MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch aired a match between Walken and | in 1998, citing their portrayals of such villains |
Gerald Ford | ... n resigned under the pressure of the Watergate scandal and was succeeded by | . With the war growing incredibly unpopular at home, combined with a sever ... |
Franco | Spain sent many political activists into exile during | 's military regime from 1936 to his death in 1975 |
Albert of Saxony | ... ory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus), which was elaborated on by | in the 14th century and accepted in some form by most naturalists by the 1 ... |
Clive Barker | ... original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, | , Gene Wolfe, Tad Williams, and others |
Gus Van Sant | In 1996, Smith was tapped by director and fellow Portland resident | to be a part of the soundtrack to his film, Good Will Hunting. Smith recor ... |
Brian Epstein | ... el proved popular in Liverpool, like many Broadway albums, and in 1963, the | -managed band, Gerry and the Pacemakers had a number-one hit with the song ... |
Selena | ... nd Far Between". Byrne worked with the "Queen of Tex-Mex", Tejano superstar | , writing, producing and singing a song ("God's Child (Baila Conmigo)"), i ... |
Eleazar Wheelock | Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Congregational minister | . After a long period of financial and political struggles, Dartmouth emer ... |
Larry Flynt | ... gpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, magazine publisher | in The People vs. Larry Flynt, country singer Dusty in A Prairie Home Comp ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... ielgud directed and alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with a young | in his first professional Shakespearean leading role. Olivier's performanc ... |
Jaan Anvelt | On , Bolshevik leader | led his leftist revolutionaries in an uprising in Tallinn, the capital of ... |
Pamela Des Barres | ... men: Chrissie Shrimpton, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Marsha Hunt, | , Uschi Obermaier, Bebe Buell, Carly Simon, Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Ph ... |
Virgil | In | 's Aeneid, Deiphobus appears in the Underworld to Aeneas. He tells Aeneas ... |
Larry Flynt | ... nicality, thereby beginning his long clash with the legal system. (The real | plays the presiding judge in a cameo appearance.) Ruth Carter Stapleton (D ... |
Franklin S. Harris | | was appointed President of the University in 1921. He was the first Presid ... |
Cardinal Newman | ... 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, | and Walter Pater |
Spinozist | Here Gottfried says that Pliny is not | , but 'could be called a Pandeist' whose nature-God 'is not separate from ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ch of the Ohio. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82, | stated: "The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle ... |
James L. Brooks | ... reator Matt Groening conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of | 's office. Brooks, the producer of the sketch comedy program The Tracey Ul ... |
Stevenson's | Catriona is | 1893 sequel to Kidnapped. Both novels are set in the aftermath of the Jaco ... |
Chakravartin | File:Mandala of the Six Chakravartins.JPG|Mandala of the Six | |
Mao Zedong | ... iedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and | tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as regards the "dic ... |
Ronald Reagan | At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President | signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. Observed for the f ... |
James K. Galbraith | ... he dream of global free-market capitalism. In the same month macroeconomist | used the 25th Annual Milton Friedman Distinguished Lecture to launch a swe ... |
Philip the Fair | ... Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countries for the family. His son | married the heiress of Castile and Aragon, and thus acquired Spain and its ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... eacher" urban legend supposes the town is named after, as well as President | (President from 1829–1837) after whom the town's officials say it is actua ... |
Copernicus | ... ble advance in scientific knowledge: the scientific revolution. The work of | , Kepler, and Galileo set aside the old notion that the earth was the cent ... |
Philip | Soon after her birth on 9 April 1054, Judith was betrothed to | , eldest son and heir of King Henry I of France. However, the engagement w ... |
Lenny Kravitz | ... Starpeace and Onobox. At 16 Sean co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with | for his 1991 album Mama Said. By 1995 Sean had formed the band IMA (with S ... |
Richard Nixon | President | dispatched more bombers in Operation Linebacker to provide air support for ... |
Mr. E. Blackadder | ... and Nobility", in which the Scarlet Pimpernel is praised by everyone except | , who sees nothing admirable in "filling London with a load of garlic-chew ... |
H. P. Lovecraft | ... diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, | , Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
Bob Dylan | ... and Barry McGuire, The Seekers, Joan Baez, Donny Hathaway, Michael Bolton, | , Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles (1967), ... |
Haydn | ... from southern Germany and Italy. In some respects, Pachelbel is similar to | , who too served as a professional musician of the Stephansdom in his yout ... |
Giannina Braschi | ... to' Trinidad, baseball superstar Carlos Delgado, writers Ana Lydia Vega and | , and Guatemala's Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. Kennedy, while serv ... |
Carly Simon | Jagger was allegedly a contender for the anonymous subject of | 's 1973 hit song "You're So Vain", in which he sings backing vocals. Altho ... |
Ben Stiller | ... red in Barry Levinson's Envy in which he plays J-Man, a crazy guy who helps | 's character, and in his starring role in 2004's Around the Bend he again ... |
Andy Warhol | ... took place about a year after accusations of shoplifting, and a year after | 's short film Hedy (1966), also known as The Shoplifter. The shoplifting c ... |
Ahaziah | ... litary campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included Ahab, | and Joram |
Hamon L'Estrange | ... sources state that the dodo used gizzard stones. The English historian Sir | , who witnessed a live bird, described it as such |
Kepler | ... in scientific knowledge: the scientific revolution. The work of Copernicus, | , and Galileo set aside the old notion that the earth was the center of th ... |
Martin Wolf | ... free market consensus even from some on the economic right. In March 2008, | , chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, announced the death ... |
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 ... |
Roger Zelazny | ... n, reading the works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, | , Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
W. H. Auden | ... A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings). Their work involved poets such as | , composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as J. B. Priestley. ... |
Erwin Rommel | ... he landings were a diversion and of keeping reserves away from the beaches. | was the primary target of the psychological aspects of this operation. Con ... |
John V Palaiologos | ... , an agreement was concluded with the empress Anna of Savoy, whereby he and | would rule jointly. The agreement was finalized in May when John V married ... |
Barry Levinson | Walken also starred in | 's Envy in which he plays J-Man, a crazy guy who helps Ben Stiller's chara ... |
John G. Rowland | ... ve in many elections favored moderate Republicans including former Governor | and former Congressman Chris Shays, however they have favored Democrats in ... |
Petronila, Queen of Aragon | The dynastic union between | , and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, Alfonso II o ... |
Philip Stanhope | ... g Whig ministers such as William Pitt, later the first Earl of Chatham, and | , the fourth Earl of Chesterfield. Although she left little to the poor an ... |
Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer | , describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape ... |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... iarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by | . Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon ... |
Terence Winter | ... ok Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City. | , who previously wrote for The Sopranos, created the series. In addition t ... |
Matt Groening | The Simpsons creator | conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brooks's o ... |
Ana Lydia Vega | ... os, boxer Félix 'Tito' Trinidad, baseball superstar Carlos Delgado, writers | and Giannina Braschi, and Guatemala's Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... red by Mozart's tune. The line "The True North strong and free" is based on | 's description of Canada as "that true North, whereof we lately heard / A ... |
Lord Herbert of Cherbury | ... ts and religious wars since the beginning of the Reformation. In 1642, when | 's De Veritate was published, the Thirty Years War had been raging on cont ... |
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 ... |
Matthew Fox | ... Christian denominations (such as the Unity Church) and theologians (such as | ). Under such different views, Augustine's example of newborn babies would ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, | , H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
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 ... |
Zimri | Omri was "commander of the army" of king Elah when | murdered Elah and made himself king. Instead, the troops at Gibbethon chos ... |
Joseph Stiglitz | and | |
Lenny Kravitz | ... along with other "Handsome Men" including Matthew McConaughey, Rob Lowe and | . At the end of the skit Kimmel has a door slammed in his face by Damon st ... |
E.C. Stedman | ... tertained the other passengers with "", about the rise and fall of empires. | , in Victorian Poets describes this "lyric to England" as "manly verse – a ... |
Æthelwealh | ... y. He conquered the Isle of Wight and the Meon valley and gave them to King | of the South Saxons. He also had influence in Surrey, Essex, and Kent. He ... |
Richard Wright | Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author | . The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African Ameri ... |
Lysimachus | ... e also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and | united to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the Ipsus ... |
John 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 ... |
Béla I | ... aw, Solomon could recover the Hungarian throne after the death of his uncle | in 1063 and soon after married with Judith in (Stuhlweißenburg) Székesfehé ... |
Lysimachus | ... nesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King | of Thrace who was on the original expedition, the king smiled at him and s ... |
Abibaal | ... ility to the account in Josephus/Menander that names the kings of Tyre from | and Hiram I down to the time of Pygmalion and Dido |
Michael Jackson | ... r album Rising. Sean also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of | 's 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of vario ... |
George Antheil | Avant garde composer | , a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with ... |
Immortal Technique | ... n songs by various musicians, including Puerto Rican rock band Puya, rapper | and reggaeton artist Tego Calderón |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... and enrolled at the American Theater Wing, working off Broadway, including | 's The Victors. He also attended the Geller Drama School in Los Angeles on ... |
John Connally | ... s), a few yards from the house in which he was born. Eulogies were given by | and the Rev. Billy Graham, the minister who officiated the burial rites. T ... |
Courtney Love | ... ynt, and his subsequent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, | , and Edward Norton |
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp | ... Pimpernel in order to get the money. Other TV references include the series | , which had an episode entitled "The Scarlet Chimpernel". The title charac ... |
Irving Berlin | ... alk" with a hard consonant, which does not allow the singer a vocal climax. | later stated that "You'll Never Walk Alone" had the same sort of effect on ... |
Elah | Omri was "commander of the army" of king | when Zimri murdered Elah and made himself king. Instead, the troops at Gib ... |
John Loftus | ... ng, "any doctor would tell you that these are the symptoms of a poisoning". | reported on ABC radio that Arafat had died of AIDS. According to Loftus, t ... |
Andrew I, King of Hungary | ... ember 1058, when her brother Emperor Henry IV concluded a peace treaty with | ; as a part of the alliance, she was engaged to the Hungarian King's son a ... |
Larry Flynt | ... y Miloš Forman about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor | , and his subsequent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, C ... |
Paul Krugman | Nobel laureate | also actively argued the case for vigorous Keynesian intervention in the e ... |
Theodosius I | ... ld not improve matters. The Oracle continued until it was closed by emperor | in AD 395. The site was abandoned for almost 100 years, until Christians s ... |
Edmond de Goncourt | ... experience of the Commune. A more pragmatic lesson was drawn by the diarist | , who wrote, three days after La Semaine Sanglante, "…the bleeding has bee ... |
Thorne Smith | ... oore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, | , and Gene Wolfe |
J. B. Priestley | ... uch as W. H. Auden, composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as | . Among the best known films of the movement are Night Mail and Coal Face |
Miloš Forman | ... ople vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by | about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... ary 20, 1986, it is called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following President | 's 1992 proclamation, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of Janua ... |
Theodore Spencer | In 1951, in the first | Memorial Lecture at Harvard University, Eliot criticized his own plays in ... |
Shalmaneser III | ... holars have identified Baa‘li-maanzer, the king of Tyre who gave tribute to | in 841 BC, with 𐤓𐤅𐤑𐤏𐤋𐤏𐤁 Ba‘al-‘azor (Phoenician form of the name) o ... |
Kevin Saunderson | ... ising layered 'clashing' sawtooth waves. The term is a result of producer's | 's notable use of it in his work under the Reese/Master Reese alias |
Johann Georg I | ... Kapellmeister Daniel Eberlin (also a native of Nuremberg), in the employ of | , Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. He met members of the Bach family in Eisenach (wh ... |
Solomon | ... part of the alliance, she was engaged to the Hungarian King's son and heir, | . When King Andrew I died in 1060, his widow and sons took refuge in the G ... |
John Fowles's | ... man (1980), written by Harold Pinter, is a film-within-a-film adaptation of | book. In addition to the Victorian love story of the book, Pinter creates ... |
Brian Selznick | Hugo is a 3D adventure drama film based on | 's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chl ... |
Theodoric the Great | Aspar was the teacher of | , who later became king of the Ostrogoths. Aspar had another son, Ermanari ... |
Robert Reich | ... ntion to mitigate the financial crisis include George Akerlof, Brad Delong, | |
Ferdinand | ... pire when, in 1520, Emperor Charles V left them to the rule of his brother, | |
Antonio López de Santa Anna | They then marched northward after joining a larger force commanded by | sent from Mexico City, the "liberating army of the North". At the Battle o ... |
Gene Wolfe | ... lany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and | |
Felipe V | ... Spanish Army in the battle of Saragossa in 1710. As a result of the battle | was forced to abandon Madrid and retreated to Valladolid |
Rigoberta Menchú | ... ers Ana Lydia Vega and Giannina Braschi, and Guatemala's Nobel Prize winner | . Kennedy, while serving jail time in Puerto Rico for his role in the prot ... |
Cassander | ... ed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city from the power of | and Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under De ... |
Hadrian | ... s of the Flavian dynasty contributed significantly towards its restoration. | offered complete autonomy. Also Plutarch was a significant factor by his p ... |
Larry Flynt | The film opens with a 10-year-old | (Cody Block) in 1953, as selling moonshine in an Appalachian region of Ken ... |
William Laud | ... ng actions of both king and council, particularly in the form of Archbishop | |
William Henry Harrison | ... the Log Cabin which reached 90,000 subscribers nationwide, and helped elect | president on the Whig ticket. In 1841 he merged his papers into the New Yo ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... er, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president | . JHU's library was previously housed in Gilman Hall, and other smaller de ... |
Abu Hamza al-Masri | ... fugees from the Algerian Civil War) to take it over. In 1996 they installed | as imam of the mosque, which subsequently developed a reputation as a cent ... |
Pope Gregory XIII | ... antiquity. A visit to the villa of Cardinal Luigi d'Este in 1573 convinced | to start the building of a summer residence the following year, in an area ... |
Haydn | ... an Stefani and Maciej Kamieński), others imitated foreign composers such as | and Mozart |
Bertrand Russell | ... ve-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher | that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago fro ... |
István I | ... Visegrád until 15 August 1083, when on the occasion of the canonization of | , the first King of Hungary, Solomon was released |
Valentinian III | ... ern usurper, Joannes of Ravenna, and to install Galla Placidia and her son, | , in his place. He also helped to negotiate a peace treaty with Geiseric a ... |
Toulmin | ... f earthquakes; formation of minerals; and the diversity of earth’s terrain. | and Goodfield (1965), commented on Avicenna's contribution: "Around A.D. 1 ... |
Philip IV of France | ... of political humiliation, such as the apprehension of Pope Boniface VIII by | , the "Babylonian Captivity." the Great Schism, and the failure of concili ... |
Richard Wright | ... rded scholar of African-American literary works. This edition also contains | 's 1940 essay How 'Bigger' Was Born |
Plutarch | ... nificantly towards its restoration. Hadrian offered complete autonomy. Also | was a significant factor by his presence as a chief priest |
Frederick V | ... ol and Further Austria. The territories were only reunified by Ernest's son | (Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor), when the Albertinian line (1457) an ... |
Peter III of Aragon | On March 30, 1282, | waged war on Charles of Anjou after the Sicilian Vespers for the possessio ... |
Jorge Luis Borges | | , in his 1940 work, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, describes a fictional worl ... |
Kim Newman | ... d Duran Duran, as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with | . Even though Gaiman thought he did a terrible job, the book's first editi ... |
Stephen Sondheim | ... cene is almost entirely drawn from Molnár and is one extended musical piece | ;described it as "probably the single most important moment in the revolut ... |
Ethan Allen | ... olled the area where New Hampshire grants had been issued. They were led by | , his brother Ira Allen, and their cousins Seth Warner and Remember Baker. ... |
Steven Van Zandt | ... uttural belt style of singing, and the buzz, a more nasal and raspy sound". | also wrote: "The acceptance of Jagger's voice on pop radio was a turning p ... |
Ibn Battuta | By the time of the Moroccan traveller | 's appearance on the Somali coast in 1331, the city was at the zenith of i ... |
Park Benjamin, Jr. | ... he lawyer, writer, editor, encyclopedist and Naval Academy graduate (1867), | It was adopted by the Navy Department in 1898 due to the efforts of anothe ... |
Gnaeus Naevius | A fragment of an epic poem by | who died at Utica in 201 BC includes a passage which might or might not be ... |
Sacha Baron Cohen | ... o Cabret. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, | , Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer and Jude Law. The film has been met with cr ... |
John Travolta | ... tion Hairspray—where he is seen singing and dancing in a romantic duet with | —and he portrayed the eccentric but cruel crime lord and Ping-Pong enthusi ... |
James Baldwin's | ... he book was criticized by some of Wright's fellow African-American writers. | 1948 essay Everybody's Protest Novel dismissed Native Son as protest ficti ... |
Chris Date | ... uent years, the most recent being the Sixth Normal Form (6NF) introduced by | , Hugh Darwen, and Nikos Lorentzos in 2002 |
Robert Kuttner | ... d even continued to be called "Keynesian". Writing in The American Prospect | argued it was not so much excessive Keynesian activism that caused the eco ... |
Edward Norton | ... uent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and | |
Alan Moore | ... t Victoria Station in 1984, Gaiman noticed a copy of Swamp Thing written by | , and carefully read it. Moore's fresh and vigorous approach to comics had ... |
Thomas Aquinas | | acknowledged difficulty in comprehending a deity's power. Aquinas wrote th ... |
John Hughes | Later in 1985, the band wrote the song "If You Leave" for the | film Pretty in Pink. The song was featured on the soundtrack and became a ... |
Robert Speaight | ... ce was given on June 15, 1935 in the Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral. | played the part of Becket. The production then moved to the Mercury Theatr ... |
Lewis Black | ... ama Click, and he also appeared in Man of the Year, with Robin Williams and | . He costarred in the 2007 film adaptation Hairspray—where he is seen sing ... |
Queen Anne | ... all is chiefly attributed to her selfish and self-serving relationship with | , she was a vibrant and intelligent woman, who loyally promoted Anne's int ... |
Luis Gonzalez | ... a baseball also has a proud tradition, producing professional stars such as | , Juan Pierre, Jon Lieber, and Adam Lind |
Yaqut al-Hamawi | Following his visit to the city, the 12th century Syrian historian | wrote that it was inhabited by dark-skinned Berbers, the ancestors of the ... |
Galla Placidia | ... on in 424 to defeat the western usurper, Joannes of Ravenna, and to install | and her son, Valentinian III, in his place. He also helped to negotiate a ... |
Augustine | ... that, man remains free. Instead of accepting the Lutheran interpretation of | 's teaching, Orthodox Churches accept the teaching of John Cassian, which, ... |
Milton S. Eisenhower | ... erving Johns Hopkins academic programs worldwide. The library was named for | , former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president ... |
Joel Spolsky | ... l mis-steps during introduction, like the lack of a macro language or undo. | blames it on the design itself, claiming it was too perfectly aimed at a s ... |
Walter Scott | ... macy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sir | called him, of great local fame—James Veitch of Inchbonny—a man who was pa ... |
László I | ... t for the Hungarian throne; in 1077 he accepted the rule of his cousin King | , who gave him in exchange extensive landholdings after his formal abdicat ... |
Carl Barks | ... his nephews that it really works. Seven years later, in "That's no fable!" | revisited the myth this time with Scrooge McDuck and his nephews finding t ... |
Alexander the Great | ... eek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris of the Amazons brought 300 women to | , hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he. Acco ... |
Thomas Dick | ... s the priority must be assigned to others. A lesser-known classmate of his, | , also went on to become a popular astronomical writer |
Ramiro I | ... arre). After King Sancho's death, the kingdom was divided between his sons. | was initially named king of Aragon in 1035; later, after his brother Gonza ... |
Emperor Frederick III | ... ar from the Hereditary Lands. In 1477, the Archduke Maximilian, only son of | , married the heiress of Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countrie ... |
Sir Leslie Stephen | ... wide variety of positions on a wide variety of religious issues. Following | 's English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, most commentators agree that ... |
Richard Strachey | ... mon, London, the fifth son and the eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir | , an officer in the colonial British armed forces, and his second wife, th ... |
Goodfield | ... s; formation of minerals; and the diversity of earth’s terrain. Toulmin and | (1965), commented on Avicenna's contribution: "Around A.D. 1000, Avicenna ... |
Artie Shaw | ... ienced her first serious adult romances. The first was with the band leader | . She was deeply devoted to him and was devastated in early 1940 when he e ... |
Licinius | ... n was forced to abdicate again and Constantine was again demoted to Caesar. | , one of Galerius' old military companions, was appointed Augustus of the ... |
Katie Stam | ... n Hill, Texas lawyer Paul Eggers, singer John Mellencamp, Miss America 2009 | , retired professional wrestler Rip Rogers, and Robert Shields whose perso ... |
Robert Burton | In England, the term deist first appeared in | 's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier | The original French lyrics of "O Canada" were written by Sir | , to music composed by Calixa Lavallée, as a French Canadian patriotic son ... |
Anthemius | ... rong candidate to the purple, the magister militum and Marcian's son-in-law | , the choice was quite different. Aspar, who in this occasion was probably ... |
Constantine I | ... cus Aurelius and removal of statues and other riches (in effect looting) by | caused it to decay. The short reign of Julian could not improve matters. T ... |
Alan Moore | After forming a friendship with comic book writer | , Gaiman started writing comic books, picking up Marvelman after Moore fin ... |
Josephus | ... s given in Menander of Ephesus's list of the kings of Tyre, as preserved in | 's Against Apion, i.18. Josephus ends his quotation of Menander with the s ... |
Plutarch | ... graphers dispute the claim, including the highly regarded secondary source, | . He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so Onesicritus, ... |
Calixa Lavallée | ... O Canada" were written by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, to music composed by | , as a French Canadian patriotic song for the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society ... |
The Scorpion King | ... continuity of the album". An alternate version of "Streamline" was used in | soundtrack, which was released in early 2002, and as a B-side on some copi ... |
Bill Cosby | ... (on album Penguin) and Peter Frampton (on I'm in You), and also by comedian | on Bill Cosby Sings Hooray For the Salvation Army Band |
Barack Obama | ... rically Republican-leaning wealthy town of Wilton voted in the majority for | in the 2008 Presidential Election. Norwalk and Stamford, two larger, afflu ... |
Sparta | ... ed Athens for 36 years up to 527 BC. After his son Hippias was deposed with | n help in 510 BC, the family sought refuge with the Persians, and nearly t ... |
Robert Speaight | The play, starring | , was broadcast live on British television by the BBC in 1936 in its first ... |
Anna of Savoy | ... Constantinople. On 8 February, an agreement was concluded with the empress | , whereby he and John V Palaiologos would rule jointly. The agreement was ... |
George Bancroft | ... nstitution was founded as the Naval School in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy | . The campus was established at Annapolis on the grounds of the former U.S ... |
Kevin Saunderson | ... nd can be said to be a direct precursor to the UK breakbeat/hardcore scene. | released a series of bass-heavy, minimal techno cuts as Reese/The Reese Pr ... |
King Sancho | ... uchy of Castile united under the Kingdom of Pamplona (later Navarre). After | 's death, the kingdom was divided between his sons. Ramiro I was initially ... |
Marcian | ... an religion. Instead, he played the role of kingmaker with his subordinate, | , who became emperor by marrying Theodosius II's sister Pulcheria |
Michaëlle Jean | In the Throne Speech delivered by Governor General | on March 3, 2010, a plan to have parliament review the "original gender-ne ... |
Jonathan Tisch | ... his wife Pam. The school was renamed in 2006 after a $40 million gift from | . It has been called the "most ambitious attempt by any research universit ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... pse of the Hun empire after the Battle of Nedao (453), the Ostrogoths under | first moved to Moesia (c. 475–488) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ress in which Damon commented on the Republican Vice Presidential candidate | , whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case John McCain were to n ... |
Theodosius II | ... of kingmaker with his subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying | 's sister Pulcheria |
Demetrius of Phalerum | ... der and Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under | , and besieged and took Munychia (307 BC). After these victories he was wo ... |
C. S. Lewis | In recent times, | has adopted a scholastic position in the course of his work The Problem of ... |
Edward Norton | ... History X is a 1998 American drama film directed by Tony Kaye and starring | and Edward Furlong. It was distributed by New Line Cinema |
Frankie Bones | ... house scene which emerged in the 1980s, the most famous artist being NYC's | whose infamous 'Bones Breaks' series from the late '80s onwards helped pus ... |
Serj Tankian | ... is of the same quality as the tracks which made it onto Toxicity. Vocalist | has said that the songs were left out of Toxicity "because they didn't fit ... |
Marcus Aurelius | However, barbarian raids during the reign of | and removal of statues and other riches (in effect looting) by Constantine ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... awarded the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by | calling for all people to strive for peace |
John VI Kantakouzenos | On 2 February the Byzantine Empire's civil war between | and the regency ended with John VI entering Constantinople. On 8 February, ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... from that he wrote the opening of what would become his collaboration with | on the comic novel Good Omens, about the impending apocalypse |
John McCain | ... l candidate Sarah Palin, whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case | were to not make it through his first term. Damon referred to Palin as a " ... |
Archduke Maximilian | ... began also to accumulate lands far from the Hereditary Lands. In 1477, the | , only son of Emperor Frederick III, married the heiress of Burgundy, thus ... |
Pulcheria | ... subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying Theodosius II's sister | |
Zachary Taylor | In frustration U.S. Commander | , referring to the Saint Patrick's Battalion, ordered a squadron of the 1s ... |
William R. Brody | ... n will be named the Brody Learning Commons in honor of University President | and will function as a "…collaborative learning space." It is scheduled to ... |
Allan Nevins | ... s life, using it as a platform for advocacy of all his causes. As historian | explains |
Al Gore | ... e National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall. Former Vice President | presented, and artists such as Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed |
Kingdom of Etruria | ... , the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was converted to a puppet successor state, the | |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... igion by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and members of the | , most of whom are foreign workers employed by the government-owned Nauru ... |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... inland United States and abroad, including political leaders Rubén Berríos, | , Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Rivera and Ricky Martin, ac ... |
Icel | ... on Chronicle and the Anglian collection the early kings were descended from | ; the dynasty is therefore known as the Iclingas. The earliest Mercian kin ... |
Louis IX | ... 26. He died in November of that year, but the struggle continued under King | and the area was reconquered by 1229; the leading nobles made peace, culmi ... |
Harold Kushner | The most popular works espousing this point are from | (in Judaism). The need for a modified view of omnipotence was also articul ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... . Six years later, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to King by | . King and his wife were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 |
Charles Darwin | ... the older English names, principally because those were the names used when | visited |
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus | ... he oracle was also known to the early Romans. Rome's seventh and last king, | , after witnessing a snake near his palace, sent a delegation including tw ... |
Odoacer | ... (c. 475–488) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom of the German warrior | . Theodoric became King of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in 493 and died in 526. ... |
Cecil O. Samuelson | ... Bateman led the student body in a prayer for peace. Bateman was followed by | in 2003, who is the current president |
Augustine of Hippo | ... her and Calvin thought along lines linked with the theological teachings of | . The Augustinianism of the Reformers struggled against Pelagianism, a her ... |
Al Jean | Mimi Pond wrote the episode and staff writer | came up with the title. David Silverman directed this episode, while Rich ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... over their respective territories. In the late 1920s, the Kuomintang, under | , was able to reunify the country under its own control with a series of d ... |
Ascanius | ... k of Troy (traditionally 1184 BC), and settled in Latium. Alba was built by | , the son of Aeneas and Lavinia, and founder of the Alban royal line. The ... |
John Steinbeck | ... nd Tortilla Flat (1942) with Tracy and John Garfield, based on the novel by | . White Cargo, one of Lamarr's biggest hits at MGM, contains arguably her ... |
Benedict Arnold | ... in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel | , marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important mi ... |
Joash | ... he other defining term for "Israel" is "Samaria", beginning in the reign of | ). The Assyrian Black Obelisk in the British Museum credits Jehu as being ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... d to look after the family's shipping business. During these travels he met | , then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... d'état carried out by ARVN officers and encouraged by US officials such as | In the confusion that followed, General Duong Van Minh took control, but h ... |
Jim Dale | ... e foppish exterior of British aristocrat Sir Rodney Ffing. It also features | as his assistant, Lord Darcy. They must rescue preposterously effete arist ... |
Edward Grim | ... dral in 1170, first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of | , a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event |
Louis VIII | The situation turned again following the intervention of the French king, | , in 1226. He died in November of that year, but the struggle continued un ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... e a ceasefire was signed in Vietnam and just a month after former president | died. (Truman's funeral on December 28, 1972 had been one of Johnson's las ... |
Sophie Dahl | ... Simon, Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, Carla Bruni, | and , among others |
de la Madrid | ... PAN won important municipal victories in the state in 1983, which President | refused to officially recognize but was forced to let stand. PAN's growing ... |
USS Harry S. Truman | ... e Fox NFL Sunday crew, doing their pregame show aboard the aircraft carrier | , while Fox covered the game live. Bradshaw expressed regret that he could ... |
Alexandre Millerand | ... ublican Defence at the turn of the century (alongside independent socialist | ) |
Julian Lennon | ... n was born in New York City on October 9, 1975, his father's 35th birthday. | is his half-brother and Kyoko Chan Cox is his half-sister. After Sean's bi ... |
President pro tempore | ... nor presides over the Senate, except when absent from the chamber, when the | presides. The Speaker of the House presides over the House |
Mos Def | ... , Run DMC, Public Enemy, Schooly D, N.W.A, Kid Frost, Wu-Tang Clan, Dr Dre, | , Beastie Boys and the Pharcyde are very often directly sampled, regardles ... |
Candace Allen | ... ced in 1995 after 15 years of marriage. In 1996 he married his second wife, | , a Boston-born writer. This second marriage ended after Rattle began a re ... |
Æthelred | ... f disease, in 675. Wulfhere was succeeded as King of Mercia by his brother, | . Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid describes Wulfhere as "a man of proud ... |
Ferdinand II | ... ted Emperor to succeed his cousin Mathias, the ultra-pious and intransigent | , as he became known, embarked on an energetic attempt to re-Catholicize n ... |
King George III | ... r Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the fourth son of | and the father of Queen Victoria |
George Bancroft | ... s, Maryland, United States. Established in 1845 under Secretary of the Navy | , it is the second-oldest of the United States' five service academies, an ... |
David Marsh | ... est singles ever made. Ranking it second of the three at #467, music critic | , identifying Junior Walker as "the one gutbucket star in Motown's heaven" ... |
James Madison | ... tes of America in 1810, with the annexation of West Florida under President | . It then left that union in 1861 when Alabama joined the Confederate Stat ... |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | Carroll County is named in honor of | , Maryland. He was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Inde ... |
Shusaku Endo | Scorsese anticipates filming an adaptation of | 's novel Silence, a drama about the voyages of two Portuguese Jesuit pries ... |
Aristotle | ... affiliated with the American Philosophical Association's Eastern Division. | scholar and Objectivist Allan Gotthelf, chairman of the Society, and his c ... |
Æthelred | ... g of Mercia. His children included two future kings of Mercia: Wulfhere and | |
Richard Nixon | Starting in 1969 President | started the process of "Vietnamization", pulling out American forces and r ... |
Mary | ... ame Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the succession of Queen | . He went to Denmark (where his brother-in-law was chaplain to the king), ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... e Done Him Wrong but Grant had already made seven movies, including playing | 's leading man in Blonde Venus the previous year. Of the people who appear ... |
Jimmy Kimmel | Comedian | at some point started stating near the end of his ABC television show Jimm ... |
Sancho Ramírez | Already in 1095 troops named Almogavars served King | I of Aragon. These forces took part in the conquest of a Muslim city, whic ... |
John | ... at Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, King | . A week after his consecration he again appeared before the king with the ... |
Heraclius | ... rectly replaced. He pressed Emperor Constans II to withdraw the Ecthesis of | . While his efforts made little impression on Constantinople, it increased ... |
Lorna Luft | ... e to the Academy; prompting Luft to instead turn the award over to daughter | who had expressed a desire to keep it in the family |
Nero | When | came to Greece in AD 66, he took away over 500 of the best statues from De ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... g steeds figure prominently in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, where the | , the Lord of the Nazgûl, rides one against King Théoden of Rohan. Tolkien ... |
Tibni | ... y seven days. Although Zimri was eliminated, "half of the people" supported | in opposition to Omri. It took Omri four years to subdue Tibni and at last ... |
Cadwallon | ... ho was killed at the battle of Hatfield Chase by a combined force including | , a British king of Gwynedd, and Penda. At the time of this victory, Penda ... |
Bill Dedman | ... 980s, a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by investigative reporter | showed that banks would often lend to lower-income whites but not to middl ... |
Louis XIV | ... ough the French secured control of Spain and its colonies for a grandson of | , the Austrians also ended up making significant gains in Western Europe, ... |
Chris Miller | The 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by | '63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his frater ... |
Parmenides | The atomistic void hypothesis was a response to the paradoxes of | and Zeno, the founders of metaphysical logic, who put forth difficult to a ... |
George Ade | Kentland is the birthplace of the famous turn-of-the-century humorist | , author of such plays as The College Widow, Artie, and The Sultan of Sulu ... |
David Spade | ... , Walken played a gangster who was in the witness protection program in the | comedy Joe Dirt and an eccentric film director in America's Sweethearts |
Kenneth Williams | ... escue preposterously effete aristocrat Charles Hawtrey from the clutches of | ' fiendish Citizen Camembert and his sidekick Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterw ... |
Ahab | ... ful military campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included | , Ahaziah and Joram |
Duong Van Minh | ... ials such as Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. In the confusion that followed, General | took control, but he was only the first in a succession of ARVN generals t ... |
Bruce Lee | ... ng wealthy, Prinze took martial arts lessons from Robert Wall, a student of | , who appeared in Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon. Soon after, W ... |
Alexios I Komnenos | ... rom the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor in response to the appeal of Emperor | . Historians agree that the fate of Jerusalem and thereby the Church of th ... |
Albert I of Belgium | ... landers - Advisory Committee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium - | - Albert II of Belgium - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan ... |
Mikhail Bakunin | ... participatory democracy from the grass roots up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, | , and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong tried to draw majo ... |
Andocides | Oration IV of | purports itself to be speech urging the ostracism of Alcibiades in 415 BC, ... |
Malcolm Gladwell | ... cupy movement in creating meaningful change with the civil rights movement, | described King as "one of the foremost tacticians of the 20th century. |
David McKenna | ... same path as he did. The film is told in the style of nonlinear narrative. | scripted the film and shooting took place in Los Angeles, California. The ... |
Philip Dunne | ... arring Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell. The screenplay was by | |
Phil Alden Robinson | ... sese reported that his long-planned Frank Sinatra biopic is coming up, with | writing the screenplay. He is also attached to direct The Irishman, which ... |
Ion Mihai Pacepa | ... racted AIDS as a result of homosexual affairs with his bodyguards, based on | 's book Red Horizons in which Pacepa reported that he had a conversation w ... |
Rudolf II | ... verted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, Maximilian II, | , and Mathias largely tolerated |
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 ... |
Reggie Jackson | ... hips in a row from 1972 to 1974 led by players including Catfish Hunter and | , and colorful owner Charlie O. Finley. Finally, a "Fourth Dynasty" won th ... |
Roger Sherman | ... pivotal role in the federal constitutional convention of 1787, during which | and Oliver Ellsworth helped to orchestrate what became known as the Connec ... |
Grandmaster Flash | ... racteristics with hip-hop, though it is nowadays mostly stripped of lyrics. | , Afrika Bambaata, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Schooly D, N.W.A, Kid Frost, Wu- ... |
Ausonius | ... dding unusual restrictions to the standard hexameter. The rhopalic verse of | is a good example; besides following the standard hexameter pattern, each ... |
Maxentius | ... e as emperor, Constantine's portrait was brought to Rome, as was customary. | mocked the portrait's subject as the son of a harlot, and lamented his own ... |
Dan Rather | ... osoft PowerPoint. It includes one image that depicts, according to Byrne, " | 's profile. Expanded to the nth degree. Taken to infinity. Overlaid on the ... |
Don Cheadle | ... 24, 2008, and featured Affleck along with a host of celebrities, including | , Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Harrison Ford, and Robin Williams |
Titus | ... s destruction and hardship, such as the massive loss of life in Judea under | and Hadrian. They would also refer to the dire warnings in Leviticus and D ... |
King George V | ... ed in the town – and it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 | and Queen Mary visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched a ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... g the first blacks in the U. S. Signal Corps. Among its faculty members was | ; a historic marker is placed at the house where she lived while teaching ... |
Isocrates | According to the Athenian rhetorician | , the greatest gifts which Demeter gave were cereal (also known as in mode ... |
Maximilian II | ... ves largely converted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, | , Rudolf II, and Mathias largely tolerated |
Cecil B. DeMille | ... ). After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in | 's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Matu ... |
Virgil | ... rn-day Tunisia). She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet | in his Aeneid. In some sources she is also known as Elissa |
Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, one of the Nazgûl is sh ... |
Dave Mustaine | ... l, was not intended to be the original artwork. Both guitarist and vocalist | and bassist Dave Ellefson had many phone conversations with Combat records ... |
Juvenal | ... asies or hallmarks of personal style, and were not imitated by later poets. | , for example, was fond of occasionally creating verses that placed a sens ... |
Philipp Melanchthon | Luther, along with his colleague | , emphasized this point in his plea for the Reformation at the Reichstag i ... |
Erysichthon | In another tale, Demeter punished | of Thessaly by inflicting him with insatiable hunger after he cut down a t ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... e Republic of China was established, heralding the end of the Qing Dynasty. | of the Kuomintang (the KMT or Nationalist Party) was proclaimed provisiona ... |
Sarah Silverman | Kimmel's girlfriend at the time, comedian | , appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on January 31, 2008 and aired a clip where ... |
Porphyry | ... to, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, | , and Iamblichus for the biographical details. Aristotle had written a sep ... |
Tom Glavine | ... pitchers such as Tim Lincecum, Pedro Martinez, Trevor Hoffman, Greg Maddux, | , Johan Santana, Justin Verlander and Cole Hamels |
David Frum | ... espread connotations of the disease with homosexuality would discredit him. | , a former speechwriter for U.S. President George W. Bush, speculated that ... |
Charles II of England | ... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by King | through the Connecticut Charter of 1662 |
Molefi Kete Asante | In 2002, scholar | listed King on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans |
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 ... |
Laurens Reael | ... mber 12, 1616. Here they were enthusiastically welcomed by Governor-General | , admiral Steven Verhagen, and the governor of Ambon, Jasper Jansz |
Placidia | ... icated in 649. In response, Paul destroyed the Roman altar in the palace of | and exiled or imprisoned the papal nuncios. But he also sought to end the ... |
Dave McKean | ... te three graphic novels with his favorite collaborator and long-time friend | : Violent Cases, Signal to Noise, and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Trage ... |
Horace | ... tance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of | , line 263 |
Sun Tzu | ... pe of warfare, being rooted in Chinese Stratagems outlined in words such as | ’s The Art of War and The Thirty-Six Stratagems, has become so engrained i ... |
Charles Darwin | In 1848, Broca founded a society of free-thinkers, sympathetic to | 's theories. Broca was rather inspired with the whole idea of evolution. H ... |
Michael Jackson | ... ms were selling for upwards of $200,000, to famous musicians such as Sting, | and Stevie Wonder, and to major studios the world over. The Synclavier was ... |
Simón Bolívar | In 1816, Vieques was briefly visited by | while fleeing defeat in Venezuela |
Karl Marx | | found it aggravating that the Communards "lost precious moments" organisin ... |
Andrew Gimson | However, journalist | , writing in The Spectator, cast doubt upon the official version of events ... |
T. S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by | that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury ... |
Arthur Freed | ... ich she would forever be identified, "Over the Rainbow". Although producers | and Mervyn LeRoy had wanted her from the start, studio chief Mayer tried f ... |
Hadrian | ... ion and hardship, such as the massive loss of life in Judea under Titus and | . They would also refer to the dire warnings in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, ... |
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 ... |
Ross Laidlaw | ... venson's Catriona and The Lion is Rampant by contemporary Scottish novelist | |
Oscar Browning | ... d at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. At Eton he was a favorite of | , an over-intimate relationship that led to his tutor's dismissal. While a ... |
Luisa Fernanda Rudi | ... overnment, for a four-year term. The current president (since July 2011) is | |
Andy Warhol | Pop artist | painted a series of silkscreen portraits of Jagger in 1975. One of these w ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | Crusading against the corruption of | 's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's ca ... |
Petrarch | ... re far more orthodox, but by then the form had become an academic exercise. | , for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... Attorney General (1829–1832) and most famously an early political enemy of | . The projectors of the town were Forquer and Daniel P. Cook. The latter w ... |
Artaxerxes I | ... Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King | of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and ... |
Lucretius | However | , describing atomism in his De rerum natura gives very clear and compellin ... |
Peada | ... t the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against Oswiu of Northumbria. Penda's son | became king under Oswiu's overlordship but was murdered a year later. Wulf ... |
Albert II of Belgium | ... mittee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium - Albert I of Belgium - | - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan Beter - Alveringem - An ... |
George W. Bush | ... by the Supreme Court of the United States and looks at the track record of | as Governor of Texas |
Boso | However, Duke | had renounced his allegiance to both brothers and had been elected King of ... |
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | ... Society of Jesus began to make its influence felt, and the Jesuit-educated | , who ruled over Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola before becoming Holy Roma ... |
Edgar O'Ballance | ... third parties affected by the Arab oil embargo. This claim was disputed by | , who claimed that no oil went to Israel during the blockade, and the Eila ... |
Vo Nguyen Giap | In 1972, General | launched the "Easter Offensive", an all-out attack against South Vietnam f ... |
Alfred Douglas | In mid-1891 Lionel Johnson introduced Wilde to | , an undergraduate at Oxford at the time. Known to his family and friends ... |
Attic orators | ... sis of the much fuller sources available in the 4th century, especially the | , after ostracism had fallen into disuse. Most of such references are a 4t ... |
L. Frank Baum | ... thy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film based on the children's book by | . In this film, she sang the song for which she would forever be identifie ... |
Penda | Wulfhere's father, | , was killed in 655 at the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against Oswiu of No ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... ional president of the republic. However, the presidency was later given to | , a former Qing general, who had ensured the defection of the entire Beiya ... |
Pygmalion of Tyre | ... k form of Carthage. Timaeus made Carchedon's wife Elissa the sister of King | . Archaeological evidence of settlement on the site of Carthage before the ... |
Marcus Stephen | ... c Games, where team members have been somewhat successful in weightlifting. | has been a medallist, and he was elected to Parliament in 2003, and was el ... |
Philochorus | From | , Atthi |
Bertrand Russell | ... had a solid empirical basis for our modern concepts of atoms and molecules. | states that they just hit on a lucky hypothesis, only recently confirmed b ... |
Peter Jackson | ... does ride a creature more in line with the book when he confronts Éowyn. In | 's film trilogy based on The Lord of the Rings, all nine Nazgûl are shown ... |
Jeph Loeb | Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and | developed a 4-minute pilot episode for Buffy the Animated Series, which wa ... |
Theocritus | Demeter might also be invoked in the guises of: | , wrote of an earlier role of Demeter as a poppy goddess |
Aristotle | From | Constitution of the Athenians |
Fausta | ... ul to confer with Constantine in late 307. He offered to marry his daughter | to Constantine, and elevate him to Augustan rank. In return, Constantine w ... |
Queen Mary | ... nd it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 King George V and | visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched an advertising c ... |
Lorenzo de Zavala | ... the northeastern curve of the Houston Ship Channel. Channelview was home to | , one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Texas. During World War I ... |
Gustav III of Sweden | ... edish War against Sweden, a conflict instigated by Catherine's cousin, King | , who expected to simply overtake the Russian armies still engaged in war ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... y successful Broadway show and as the musical director for John Belushi and | whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers. Shaffer was to ... |
Gustaf Vasa | ... h a yellow cross date from the early 16th century, during the reign of King | . This flag was a swallow-tailed (double-tailed), and the first legal desc ... |
Henry Tudor | ... brother, Richard, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against | at Bosworth Field |
Fran Drescher | ... Raton is almost idiomatically used for indicating retirement. For example, | 's character in The Nanny is always pushing her parents to move to Boca, a ... |
Augustus | ... ndar. The calendar reforms were completed during the reign of his successor | . Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of Julius Caesar in 44 BC ... |
Clive James | ... llander wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence. | wrote a poem titled "A Line and a Theme from Noam Chomsky" in his book, . ... |
Bob Dylan | ... ertainers such as Gwen Stefani, Rob Zombie, Ozzy Osbourne, Josh Groban, and | . The annual Apollo Night talent show draws about 1,500 people to the Stoc ... |
B W Aston | The Texas historian | is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery near Tolar |
Jean Chrétien | ... vate companies and chairperson of interest groups; while Pierre Trudeau and | returned to legal practice. Former prime ministers also commonly penned au ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... such as "I Love Louie", where Desi lived with Louis Armstrong. He also read | 's poem "Jabberwocky" in a heavy Cuban accent (he pronounced it "Habberwoc ... |
Agatha Christie | ... of Harvest Home (1978) and the theatrical film Death on the Nile (1978), an | murder mystery. The bulk of her remaining work was for television. She won ... |
William Roache | ... (Guiding Light) in the USA, the longest-serving members of a drama series ( | for Coronation Street in the UK, Ray Meagher for Home and Away in Australi ... |
Netanyahu | ... mon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the | government of 1996–1999 and supported it from the outside |
Martin Olson | ... Show, hosted by his friend Lenny Clarke and written by Boston comedy writer | . Leary and Clarke both spoke about their early affiliations and influence ... |
Thomas Hardy | ... nd a slug of rum added under the counter, plays a major role in the plot of | 's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. It is also mentioned in Lewis Carroll' ... |
George McGovern | ... fianakis avoided mention of his party's presidential candidate, the liberal | , Helms employed the slogans "McGovernGalifianakis – one and the same", "V ... |
Edward V of England | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to | and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the onl ... |
Larry Sabato | ... d it "McCain's plan" and University of Virginia political science professor | said, "McCain owns Iraq just as much as Bush does now." The surge and the ... |
John III's | ... banners. Prior to this, a similar flag appeared in the Coat of Arms of King | duchy, which is today Finland Proper. The same coat of arms is still used ... |
Robert Penn Warren | ... e procedure and, at times, changed it. The 1946 novel All the King's Men by | described a lobotomy, saying it "would have made a Comanche brave look lik ... |
Stenger | ... rd subjective experience to be more valid than objective material reality." | states that the term "bioenergetics" "is applied in biochemistry to refer ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | The department was established on September 9, 1965, when | signed the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act into law. It st ... |
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to Edward V of England and | . The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabet ... |
Aleksander Kamiński | ... he Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, | , Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
Katherine Anne Porter | From 1892 to 1901 Kyle was home to the Pulitzer Prize winning author, | . Many of her most famous short stories such as Noon Wine are set in locat ... |
Ken Thompson | ... applies an extended regular expression syntax that was added to Unix after | 's original regular expression implementation. fgrep searches for any of a ... |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | ... 24 August 1736, he married Mary Wortley Montagu (daughter of Sir Edward and | ), bringing the large Wortley estates to his family. In 1737, due to the i ... |
Friedrich Schlegel | ... rasting it with "classic" but in terms of spirit rather than merely dating. | , wrote in his Dialogue on Poetry (1800): "I seek and find the romantic am ... |
Saint Augustine | ... , the Vandals laid siege to the walled city of Hippo Regius in 430. Inside, | and his priests prayed for relief from the invaders, knowing full well tha ... |
Herbert C. Hoover | The 1928 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate | made his only southern campaign stop at Elizabethton and delivered his nat ... |
Ethan Allen | ... he omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that the being cannot lift it?" | 's Reason addresses the topics of original sin, theodicy and several other ... |
Marsilio Ficino | ... th century writers such as the poet Poliziano and the Platonist philosopher | made extensive translations from both Latin and Greek. In the early 16th c ... |
St Edward the Martyr | ... he solemn translation of the relics of King Eadward II, soon to be known as | , from their grave at Wareham to a shrine at Shaftesbury Abbey. In 984, in ... |
Tennessee Williams | ... ge others with love but instead resorted to "high-grade carpentry work." In | 's 1958 play, Suddenly, Last Summer, the protagonist is threatened with a ... |
Stanley Jackson | ... uropean club in Chittagong in 1932, while Bina Das attempted to assassinate | , the Governor of Bengal inside the convocation hall of Calcutta Universit ... |
Elvis Mitchell | ... major critics (listed as "Top Critics") gave favorable reviews. Film critic | of the New York Times lauded it as a "vital and sharply intelligent film," ... |
Edward IV of England | ... ard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of | and Elizabeth Woodville alive at the time of their father's death. Sometim ... |
Herod Antipas | ... ore precise than Mark in the titles he gives to rulers, and initially gives | the correct title of "tetrarch", yet he lapses into calling him "king" at ... |
Irving Thalberg | ... backing, The Pottery Maker (1925) and The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1927). | of M-G-M invited Flaherty to film White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) i ... |
President | ... s in the White House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first | Coolidge in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 193 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... of his successor Augustus. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of | in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of Augustus ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... g nonsense words; a famous such example is "The gostak distims the doshes". | 's Jabberwocky is also famous for using this technique, although in this c ... |
Johann Mattheson | ... 733 notes, "mi against fa", which the ancients called "Satan in music", and | in 1739 writes that the "older singers with solmization called this pleasa ... |
President | ... more people than ever before will be able to witness the swearing-in of the | from a vantage point in sight of the Capitol." The Committee made this arr ... |
Merckx, Eddy | ... ut - Meetjesland - Meeuwen-Gruitrode - Melle - Menen - Mercator, Gerardus - | - Merelbeke - Merksplas - Mertens, Pierre - Mesen - Meulebeke - Meuse-Infé ... |
John Erskine | To commemorate Bacon's seven hundredth anniversary, Professor | wrote A Pageant of the Thirteenth Century, a biographical play which was p ... |
Byron Nelson | ... he American West, R&B singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham (manager for ZZ Top), | , a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Ben ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of | |
Indiana Jones | Although some sources speculate that Andrews was the inspiration for | , neither George Lucas nor the other creators of the films have ever confi ... |
Woody Guthrie | In 1941, the BPA hired Oklahoma folksinger | to write songs for a documentary film promoting the benefits of hydropower ... |
Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... ly preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with | 's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Nors ... |
Magnus Birgersson's | ... a combination of King Albert of Mecklenburg's coat of arms of 1364 and King | coat of arms of 1275, and is blue divided quarterly by a golden cross patt ... |
DJ Zinc | ... nglist Gappa G who had a big hit with Information Center after remix's from | and Ray Keith |
Ben Barnes | ... itizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later Lieutenant Governor | , a protege of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1955 Pulitz ... |
Helen Hunt | ... including Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner or John Travolta to play Lester, and | or Holly Hunter to play Carolyn. Mendes did not want a big star "weighing ... |
Noah Webster | ... nnecticut themes include Nathan Hale, Eugene O'Neill, Josiah Willard Gibbs, | , Eli Whitney, the whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan which is docked in M ... |
Władysław Bartoszewski | ... Home Army was awarded Polish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: | , Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Wol ... |
Dominic Lawson | ... the father of food writer and celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, and journalist | |
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 ... |
Nigella Lawson | Lawson is the father of food writer and celebrity cook | , and journalist Dominic Lawson |
Bertrand Russell | The philosopher | used the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ... |
Honorius | ... was the famous magister militum Stilicho, the chief minister of the Emperor | |
George Lucas | ... urces speculate that Andrews was the inspiration for Indiana Jones, neither | nor the other creators of the films have ever confirmed this. Other candid ... |
Poliziano | ... d Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso). 15th century writers such as the poet | and the Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino made extensive translations ... |
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 ... |
Alfonso X of Castile | ... rst with the Old Fuero (Charter) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted by | in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339. On the other hand, the town of ... |
Xiang Yu | ... authority had collapsed in the face of rebellion. Two former rebel leaders, | (d. 202 BCE) of Chu and Liu Bang (d. 195 BCE) of Han, engaged in a war to ... |
Natalis Comes | ... as the Moon producing winter storms. The 16th-century Italian mythographer | interpreted the whole story of Orion as an allegory of the evolution of a ... |
Bill Wendell | ... Shaffer, Chris Elliott, Calvert DeForest as "Larry 'Bud' Melman," announcer | , writer Adam Resnick, scenic designer Kathleen Ankers, stage manager Biff ... |
Aristotle | ... force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, | , and other early Greek philosophers. Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) was one o ... |
Henry III | Leiden was sacked in 1047 by Emperor | . Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she w ... |
Caracalla | ... atterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by Septimius Severus and | , who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. The city was th ... |
Mertens, Pierre | ... Melle - Menen - Mercator, Gerardus - Merckx, Eddy - Merelbeke - Merksplas - | - Mesen - Meulebeke - Meuse-Inférieure - Meuse-Rhenish - Middelkerke - Mil ... |
John Belushi | ... da Radner's highly successful Broadway show and as the musical director for | and Dan Aykroyd whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers. ... |
Egyptian President | ... ul Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the third | Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David A ... |
Ken Thompson | Grep was created by | as a standalone application adapted from the regular expression parser he ... |
Richard | ... sumed killed) within a year of Edward's death. The king's youngest brother, | , (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against Henry Tudor at ... |
Gustaf Vasa | ... 20, and became blue with a golden cross only during the early reign of King | , who successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish ... |
Joss Whedon | ... atural-based plots involving vampires, witches, and werewolves. The popular | series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, with their continuing serial pl ... |
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka | ... olish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, | , Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
John Hollander | ... ersially nonsensical, and Chomsky's example remains by far the most famous. | wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence |
Christian II | ... ho successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish King | in 1521 |
Offa of Mercia | ... ounding agricultural region from the early Middle Ages The Anglo-Saxon King | was buried in the town in 796. In 886 it became a boundary town separating ... |
Bill Murray | ... ertes by Liev Schreiber, Uncle Claudius by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by | |
Theodor Heuss | ... aced by a simpler Greek cross. On 1 October 1956, the President of Germany, | , gave directions to use the Iron Cross as the official emblem of West Ger ... |
Beah Richards | ... them a black man as their future son-in-law. John's parents (Roy E. Glenn, | ) fly up from Los Angeles to the Draytons' dinner but don't know that Joan ... |
Edward I | ... tagonist, a fictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns of | and Kublai Khan. Costain's narration includes technology such as the compa ... |
David Hume | ... n at second order questions about ethics. Earlier, the Scottish philosopher | had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values |
Carlo Collodi | ... he Adventures of Pinocchio (, ; ) is a novel for children by Italian author | , written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 ... |
Ethan Hawke | ... emporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. | plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes ... |
Alhazen | ... e and later pseudo-Aristotelian works, like the works of Egyptian scientist | . However, more recent reevaluations emphasize that he was essentially a m ... |
Daniele Luttazzi | In 2003, comedian | published the screenplay Tabù, an almost parody of the film. In the variat ... |
Guillermo Rodríguez | ... rthrew the government of Velasco Ibarra. The coup d'état was led by General | and executed by navy commander Jorge Queirolo G. The new president exiled ... |
Augustus | ... ius Caesar in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of | in 8 BC |
William Henry Harrison | ... oint du Sable near the mouth of the Chicago River. That same year, Governor | of the Indiana Territory appointed Kinzie as a justice of the peace |
Jimmy Carter | ... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, President | reopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ... |
LTJ Bukem | ... vertising Guerrilla Media Group. Bringing back UK Jungle Music legends from | 's label Good Looking artists Bay B Kane Breakbeat Hardcore heavyweight Ne ... |
Nixon Administration | ... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and the | reversed all dishonorable discharges |
Marc Guggenheim | ... ment will be releasing a Galactica 1980 comic series. It will be written by | and will be a re-imagining of the original series and is expected to be re ... |
Duke of Halland | ... went on a private visit to Wuppertal, Germany; at the same time, H.R.H. the | was on a private visit to Sainte-Maxime, France. The Government therefore ... |
Louis XVIII | ... e island of Elba, and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of | . They signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau (11 April 1814) and initiated th ... |
Karin Boye | ... include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound and | |
Sir Alec Rose | ... ht boxing champion, Alan Pascoe, Olympic medallist, was born in Portsmouth, | , famous single-handed yachtsman, Katy Sexton, former world champion swimm ... |
Eugene O'Neill | ... e United States Postal Service with Connecticut themes include Nathan Hale, | , Josiah Willard Gibbs, Noah Webster, Eli Whitney, the whaling ship the Ch ... |
Sol Linowitz | ... position. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter reopened negotiations, appointing | as co-negotiator without Senate confirmation, and Helms and Strom Thurmond ... |
Constantine | ... he popes and the church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors | and Theodosius, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western ... |
Carl XVI Gustaf | Under H.M. | , the present King of Sweden since 1973, the plain triple-tailed flag has ... |
Ole Torvalds | ... roadcast journalist, writer and politician. Torvalds is the son of the poet | , and the father of the computer programmer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... es, joined the International Bible Students Association, which later became | . The Eisenhower home served as the local meeting hall from 1896 to 1915, ... |
another brother | ... d brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and | were executed for treason. Edward's two sons were imprisoned and disappear ... |
Bill Murray | ... also regularly appeared in the show's sketches, notably as the pianist for | 's Nick the Lounge Singer character, and as Don Kirshner |
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 ... |
President | ... ear conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late | Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a str ... |
Gerald Ford | ... unsel. After Nixon's resignation, the nomination was continued by President | , and Scalia was confirmed by the Senate on August 22, 1974 |
Horst Köhler | ... the Ministry of Defence to decide on the matter. On 6 March 2008, President | approved a proposal by Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung to institute a ... |
Augustine of Hippo | This was essentially the position taken by | in his The City of God |
Æthelred | ... accession was disputed by his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wished her own son | to reign. Through the influence of Dunstan, Eadward was chosen and crowned ... |
Chris Elliott | ... members of the show. Common contributors included bandleader Paul Shaffer, | , Calvert DeForest as "Larry 'Bud' Melman," announcer Bill Wendell, writer ... |
Theodosius | ... church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors Constantine and | , later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, ... |
Xiang Yu | ... d copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later when | burned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC |
Glen A. Larson | These Battlestar Galactica softcover novelisations were written by | with the authors listed below. All novels except Battlestar Galactica #14: ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | The philosopher | is often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of des ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... the cult of the Martyr King; however, no other eyewitness source, including | , records this. Henry's account was written during the Restoration, some 1 ... |
Livy | | mentions some of the most familiar roads near Rome, and the milestones on ... |
John Travolta | ... io suggested several alternatives, including Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner or | to play Lester, and Helen Hunt or Holly Hunter to play Carolyn. Mendes did ... |
David Starkey | ... been carried out by other parties. Many modern historians though, including | , and Michael Hicks, or writers such as Alison Weir, do regard Richard him ... |
Liev Schreiber | ... lays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes by | , Uncle Claudius by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by Bill Murray |
Septimius Severus | ... ely rebuilt on Roman patterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by | and Caracalla, who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. Th ... |
Amy Fisher | ... esponse". In 1992, Ball became preoccupied with the media circus around the | trial. Discovering a comic book telling of the scandal, he was struck by h ... |
Richard Nixon | ... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. President | appointed him as the general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications ... |
Captain Mikey | ... -written by Norman and Mason, and produced by their manager, Mikel Hunter " | " Herrington. It failed to chart. In 1968 Capitol released People!'s secon ... |
Jan Dobraczyński | ... er war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, | , Henryk Woliński, and others |
Lewis | ... der brother Val came to be a pioneering influence in BBC Radio. His brother | was a scholar, writer, intelligence officer and humanitarian worker. His n ... |
Conan O'Brien | ... S. citizenship. Through marriage, Leary is a third cousin of talk show host | . He attended , in Worcester |
Jim Doyle | ... pson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat | , the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCa ... |
Coolidge | ... hite House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first President | in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 1931 — choos ... |
Gustavus Adolphus | ... ame coat of arms is still used by the province. Not until the reign of King | in the 1620s, there is reliable evidence of a double-tailed blue flag with ... |
Francisco Franco | ... s figures by anti-Franco Anarchists. After the civil war was won by General | , Escrivá was able to return to Madrid. Escriva himself recounted that it ... |
August Strindberg | ... ho have acknowledged their debt to the Poetic Edda include Vilhelm Ekelund, | , J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound and Karin Boye |
Sidgwick | ... ntral error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and | . Since then, the term has become common in English-language ethical theor ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... arly inspired by his frequent collaborator David Lean. Praise also came for | 's cameo as the Duke of Wellington, with Philip French of The Times writin ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... ke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and | alive at the time of their father's death. Sometime around 1483, it is ass ... |
Marlier, Marcel | ... Marollen - Marols - Martens, Wilfried - Matsys, Quentin - Mariage, Benoît - | - Mechelen - Meerhout - Meetjesland - Meeuwen-Gruitrode - Melle - Menen - ... |
Richard Rush | ... n for appreciating films that did not fit standard industry niches, such as | 's multi-layered The Stunt Man (1980). SIFF was instrumental in the entry ... |
Drusus Germanicus | ... riot relays, the emperor Tiberius hastened in 24 hours to join his brother, | , who was dying of gangrene as a result of a fall from a horse |
Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
Edward the Elder | ... rating Wessex and Danelaw. It was the seat of the Barony of Bedford. In 919 | built the town's first known fortress, on the south side of the River Ouse ... |
George W. Bush | ... lo, co-founder of Yahoo!, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President | ; from entertainment Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Mi ... |
Omar Torrijos | ... oric American achievement", and warned that it would fall into the hands of | 's "communist friends". It had appeared as an issue in the 1976 presidenti ... |
Michael Almereyda | ... referred to as Hamlet 2000) is a 2000 American film written and directed by | , set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of ... |
Robert Hughes | ... olars see romanticism as essentially continuous with the present, some like | see in it the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Nov ... |
King Farouk I | ... ssador in Tehran. In the same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of | , married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then crown prince (later shah) of Ira ... |
Lagaf' | ... to July 2004, Carrefour was a partner in the program Le Bigdil presented by | , a French actor who has the same age as the store. The group used the slo ... |
Faith Bandler | Back in Australia, he was introduced to | who enlightened the Robesons to the deep deprivation the Australian Aborig ... |
Aristotle | ... European advocates of the modern scientific method inspired by the works of | and later pseudo-Aristotelian works, like the works of Egyptian scientist ... |
DJ Marky | ... well as Pendulum are already hovering in the mainstream and singles like " | and XRS – LK" have in the past topped the UK charts. A new movement has be ... |
Ezra Pound | ... the Poetic Edda include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, | and Karin Boye |
Michael Faraday | In 1820, the British scientist | liquefied ammonia and other gases by using high pressures and low temperat ... |
Edward (II) "the Martyr" | ... ar died two years after his coronation, and was succeeded by his eldest son | . His accession was disputed by his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wished her ... |
Rob Zombie | ... s teams, and has hosted nationally known entertainers such as Gwen Stefani, | , Ozzy Osbourne, Josh Groban, and Bob Dylan. The annual Apollo Night talen ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both Winston Churchill and | , and having played both roles on more than one occasion. He played Church ... |
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 ... |
Xiang Yu | ... s of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty the hegemon | appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named for its ... |
Josep Sunyol | ... n the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising. On 6 August, | , the club president and representative of a pro-independence political pa ... |
Henry VIII | ... e of Repeal Act (1553); the Protestant religious laws passed in the time of | were repealed; and the Revival of the Heresy Acts were passed in 1554. The ... |
Eyvindr skáldaspillir | ... in poems by known poets such evidence is difficult to evaluate. For example | , composing in the latter half of the 10th century, uses in his Hákonarmál ... |
Terry Sanford | ... ch-counter demonstrations in Greensboro, compelled him to run. Lake lost to | , who ran as a racial moderate willing to implement the federal policy of ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ncastrian line had virtually been extinguished, and the only rival left was | , who was living in exile |
Berry Gordy | ... ny more releases from T-Neck after getting an offer from Motown Records CEO | to sign with Motown. Sent to the label's Tamla division, the brothers reco ... |
Ray Strachey | ... e best known of these essays, called Cassandra, was previously published by | in 1928. Strachey included it in The Cause, a history of the women's movem ... |
Sam Harris | ... g article titled "Drugs and the meaning of life", author and neuroscientist | argues "The fact that we pointlessly ruin the lives of nonviolent drug use ... |
Francisco Macías Nguema | ... ngomo-based Esangui clan. Obiang was a general when he overthrew his uncle, | |
Abraham Lincoln | The Act of Incorporation, signed by President | on March 3, 1863, created the National Academy of Sciences and named 50 ch ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... of Bakshi's art, was released on April 1, 2008. The foreword was written by | and the afterword by Bakshi |
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 ... |
Dougal Dixon | ... r and broadcaster), grew up in Ayr and Dumfries. Author and earth scientist | is from Dumfries. Hunter Davies (author, journalist and broadcaster) lived ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the | books |
Christina | ... s. The child was temporarily called Joan until Crawford changed her name to | . She married actor Phillip Terry on July 21, 1942 after a six-month court ... |
Elizabeth II | Queen | approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ... |
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | In July 2010, after the visit of Brazilian president, | , the sale of a Barroso-class corvette to be constructed in Brazil was ann ... |
K Callan | ... e. It stars George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Hildegarde Neil, Paul Sorvino and | |
Benjamin Franklin | In 1758, | and John Hadley, professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, conducted ... |
Numa Pompilius | | , the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, reformed the calendar ... |
Charles Dickens | | makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mu ... |
Francisco Franco | ... y the railway system, which could have been used to transport artillery had | not used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the Spanish Civil War ... |
George Washington | ... rtraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, | , and Abraham Lincoln. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simpl ... |
Cephalus | ... nal Orion could be made immortal, as well as an astronomical scene in which | is thought to stand in for Orion and his constellation, also reflecting th ... |
Frank Branston | ... r who holds the title 'Mayor of Bedford', an office which was first held by | , until his death in 2009. The current Mayor of Bedford is Dave Hodgson fr ... |
Hunter Davies | ... Ayr and Dumfries. Author and earth scientist Dougal Dixon is from Dumfries. | (author, journalist and broadcaster) lived in Dumfries for four years as a ... |
Annie Besant | ... Home Rule League in 1916-18 with G. S. Khaparde and Muhammad Ali Jinnah and | . After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radical factions, he g ... |
Queen Victoria | ... f Foot, on 18 June 1853 (the 38th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo) by | |
Henry VI | ... s royal motto was modus et ordo, or "method and order"). The latter days of | 's government had been marked by a general breakdown in law and order, as ... |
Maurizio Giuliano | ... thing, such as the youngest person to visit all nations of the world, being | |
Epicurus | Epicurean ethics is a hedonist form of virtue ethics. | "presented a sustained argument that pleasure, correctly understood, will ... |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... im after he promised that he had just come to reclaim his dukedom - just as | had done seventy years earlier. As he marched southwards he began to gathe ... |
Noam Chomsky | "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by | in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is gramm ... |
Adam Freeland | # | - Fear* (Rez Edit) (5:06 |
Roddy Doyle | Irish writer | wrote a short story by the same title about an Irish girl who brings home ... |
Alfonso VIII of Castile | In 1187, King | made the abbot of San Emeterio lord of the town, and in 1248 Santander par ... |
Banjo Paterson | ... by American Country and Western music. The lyrics were composed by the poet | in 1895. Other popular songs from this tradition include The Wild Colonial ... |
Ki Longfellow-Stanshall | ... songs such as "Headbutts". In the mid 80s, he often appeared on Vivian and | 's showboat, the Old Profanity Showboat, in Bristol's Floating Harbour. Wh ... |
Andrew Breitbart | ... , from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and | , conservative journalist; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... gnised the Court's jurisdiction in, following a long and drawn out process. | had first suggested US involvement in 1923, and in 9 December 1929, three ... |
Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother | . The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy ... |
René Descartes | ... ason to reject the concept of 'absolute' omnipotence, while others, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem |
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 ... |
Ken Ishii | # | - Creation the State of Art (Full Option) (6:33 |
Wen Jiabao | ... o the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and its Premier is | , who is also a senior member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee |
Brothers Grimm | ... le devices that would be familiar to a reader of Alice in Wonderland or the | ; in fact earlier in his career Collodi worked on a translation of Mother ... |
Byron Nelson | ... he main east-west road through town, State Highway 114 Business, is named " | Boulevard" in honor of the legendary golfer who resided in the community. ... |
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 ... |
Qin Er Shi | ... worked, and the younger son Huhai became the Second Emperor, later known as | or "Second Generation Qin. |
Edward VI | In 1553, Mary I, a Roman Catholic, succeeded her Protestant half-brother, | , to the English throne. Mary set about trying to restore Roman Catholicis ... |
Ken Ishii | # | - Creative State (6:20 |
John Bunyan | In 1660 | was imprisoned for 12 years in Bedford Gaol. It was here that he wrote The ... |
Sun Yat-sen | In 1906, the Chinese Republican leader | proposed that Hainan should become a separate province although this did n ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... né Descartes, argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem. | argues that when talking about omnipotence, referencing "a rock so heavy t ... |
Robert E. Howard | The fire spared the nearly century-old house (now a museum) of | , author of the Conan the Barbarian books |
Herb Hendler | ... s offered a position with Youth For Christ, and a week later was invited by | to come to Hollywood to write musicals for Capitol Records. Norman recalle ... |
President Bush | ... servative Republicans are not committed to improving public education. When | 's 2003 budget proposal threatened to cut education grants, she responded, ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... nch as the long-suffering Mr Lamb (a role first offered to Timothy Dalton), | as the Duke of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richard ... |
Prince George, the new Prince of Wales | ... e of the Prince. Upon the Prince's death in 1751, the education of his son, | , became a priority and in 1755 Bute was appointed as his tutor. Bute arra ... |
Neil Oliver | ... Kirsty Wark was born in the town as was fellow broadcaster Stephen Jardine. | (archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster), grew up in Ayr and Dum ... |
Paul Lazarsfeld | ... Robert Dahl, Philip Converse, and in the collaboration between sociologist | and public opinion scholar Bernard Berelson |
John F. Kennedy | ... to avoid inconveniencing the Chicago traveling public, including President | . In a common pattern, Air Force One would land at a larger area airport, ... |
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 ... |
Ryan Adams | ... ic, including The Beatles, Beach Boys, David Bowie and other acts including | . Hoon has recently also stated that he was a follower of early punk rock, ... |
Duff McKagan | ... m The Spaghetti Incident? Guitarist Slash left in 1996, followed by bassist | in 1997. Axl Rose, the only original member, worked with a constantly-chan ... |
Nikos Kavvadias | ... hos. A famous Greek poet of the 20th century was also a Chinese-born seaman | |
Doug Flutie | ... erally features Canadian guest stars, with some exceptions such as athletes | and Carlos Delgado |
Roger II of Sicily | ... n Castle, widely known as the Castello Svevo (Swabian Castle), was built by | around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by Frederick II of Hohensta ... |
Robert Bolt | ... of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and directed by | and starred his wife, Sarah Miles, as Lady Caroline |
Ronald Reagan | ... campaign was managed by Thomas F. Ellis, who would later be instrumental in | 's 1976 campaign and also become the chair of the National Congressional C ... |
John Mayne | ... t spent the last five years of his life as the British consul in Barcelona. | was born in Dumfries in 1759 and contributed in the field of poetry. World ... |
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 ... |
Madelyn Pugh | ... series Alice, starring Linda Lavin and produced by I Love Lucy co-creators | (Madelyn Davis) and Bob Carroll, Jr |
third wife | ... England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after King Henry VIII's | |
Julius Caesar | ... r shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. It was while | was pontifex maximus that the calendar was overhauled, with the result bei ... |
Hu Jintao | ... has been described as a "rubber stamp" body. China's incumbent President is | , who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and i ... |
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 ... |
Louis Livingston Seaman | ... nghuzi roam freely, since many of them used to be comrades, as described by | (Dr. Seaman): " They can not be caught, the plain truth being that the bes ... |
Lord Byron | ... a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of | and wife of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and di ... |
Richard Skinner | ... ockeys such as John Peel (who championed alternative music on BBC Radio 1), | , and . Artists that had cult followings in the United States received gre ... |
King Henry VIII's | ... Hertfordshire, in England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after | third wife |
Andy Warhol | ... rds of the Rolling Stones, the "brother" of co-host Colin Quinn, and artist | |
Joe Clark | ... l sector; Lester B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University | ;and Kim Campbell, who became university professors, Clark also consultant ... |
Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales | ... bellion of 1745, Bute moved to Westminster, London, and two years later met | there, soon becoming a close associate of the Prince. Upon the Prince's de ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... sertion since the American Civil War. Sheen's performance ultimately led to | choosing him for a starring role in 1979's Apocalypse Now, a film that gai ... |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ... f J M W Turner. In 1836, his son, Miles Edmund was appointed to assist him. | was one of his pupils |
St Æthelberht | ... ce at Mass and the daily office. He visited the shrines of St Augustine and | , and there are reports of a vision of angels who sang to him heavenly can ... |
Jack Rose | It was adapted by Melvin Frank and | from the story "She Loves Me, She Told Me So Last Night" by Frank, who als ... |
Timothy Freke | ... n classical civilization and is known mainly for his books co-authored with | which argue that Jesus is a purely mythical construct |
Bob Carroll, Jr. | ... in and produced by I Love Lucy co-creators Madelyn Pugh (Madelyn Davis) and | |
Keats | ... Imperial War Museum. To all intents and purposes, Sassoon became to Owen " | and Christ and Elijah"; surviving documents demonstrate clearly the depth ... |
Boscán | ... g his contemporaries, and the success of his innovation no doubt encouraged | to introduce the Italian metres into Castilian. His verses were transmitte ... |
Queen Mary I | ... d-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from | , some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged. "Weaned off u ... |
Martin Fowler | ... pply the method and s for when you should (or should not) apply the method. | 's book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code is the canonica ... |
DJ Hype | ... rooverider on BBC Radio 1, simulcast in the US and Canada on Sirius XM, and | on Kiss 100 in London. The BBC's "urban" station BBC 1Xtra also features t ... |
Sleeper agent | ... g Cylon agents, either aware at start of the game or become aware later, as | s. Each of the 10 playable character has their own abilities and weaknesse ... |
Shirley Ann Grau | ... ces and to the political and business realms. For example, from literature: | , Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative jo ... |
John Kass | ... alized. "He ruined Meigs because he wanted to, because he could," columnist | wrote of Daley in the Chicago Tribune. Daley himself played the populist a ... |
Attila | The few demonstrably historical characters mentioned in the poems, like | , provide a terminus post quem of sorts. The dating of the manuscripts the ... |
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 ... |
Hugo Brandt Corstius | ... ates into English as thermometer. The Dutch Wikipedia states, however, that | , in his book, Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde, came up with the longest e ... |
Zhang Zuolin | ... s under Japanese officers, as is charged." The Japanese had in their employ | (Chang Tso-lin), a famous Honghuzi leader who led his men against the Russ ... |
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln | ... Carter was promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general and assigned by | to engage cavalry based in Kentucky against Confederate held railroad line ... |
James Hannay | ... hor, journalist and broadcaster) lived in Dumfries for four years as a boy. | as well as being a novelist and journalist spent the last five years of hi ... |
Darwin's | ... e well known as a region of distinct fauna, famous as the place of birth of | Theory of Evolution, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
Aristotle | ... wise man will know what is right, do what is good, and therefore be happy. | (384 BC – 322 BC) posited an ethical system that may be termed "self-reali ... |
Gilda Radner | ... lated project. Shaffer later reported that he was in (unrequited) love with | . He would go on to appear in 1998's |
Alexander I | ... eteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar | . Finally, the two armies engaged in the Battle of Borodino on 7 September ... |
John Milton | ... have delivered if Charles had entered a plea, while Parliament commissioned | to write a rejoinder, the Eikonoklastes ("The Iconoclast"), but the respon ... |
David Letterman | Since 1982, Shaffer has served as musical director for | 's late night talk shows: as leader of "The World's Most Dangerous Band" f ... |
Richard Nixon | ... Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married | 's daughter Julie in 1968 |
Harvey Pekar | ... ts like Letterman's verbal sparring matches with Cher, Shirley MacLaine and | |
Banjo Paterson | ... and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and | . Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and harmonica c ... |
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 ... |
Grooverider | ... tions playing drum and bass shows are The Drum and Bass Show with Fabio and | on BBC Radio 1, simulcast in the US and Canada on Sirius XM, and DJ Hype o ... |
Henry VI | ... ated the Lancastrians in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian | and Queen Margaret of Anjou were campaigning in the north of England, Warw ... |
Henry Lawson | ... haped by British and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like | and Banjo Paterson. Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fidd ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ns when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? He points out that | demonstrated the equivalence of mass-energy. That is, according to relativ ... |
Colin Quinn | ... haracters as Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, the "brother" of co-host | , and artist Andy Warhol |
Shirley MacLaine | ... was born out of moments like Letterman's verbal sparring matches with Cher, | and Harvey Pekar |
William Shakespeare | ... sh knight who fought for the House of York on many occasions. Some, notably | , regard him as the most likely culprit. Tyrrell was arrested by Henry VII ... |
George IV | ... e of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King | . The film is also notable because it is the last film in which Michael Wi ... |
Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... te by an Act of Parliament of 1483 known as Titulus Regius, and their uncle | was crowned as Richard III. There are reports of the two princes being see ... |
Hamani Diori | ... -Nguesso, of the Republic of the Congo, Idriss Déby, president of Chad, and | former president of Niger |
Robert Zemeckis | ... the content". Nevertheless, the studio offered the film to Mike Nichols and | ; neither accepted. In the same year, Mendes (then a theater director) rev ... |
Jehoiakim | ... Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with | . He brought Jehoahaz back to Egypt as his prisoner, where Jehoahaz ended ... |
Donald Rumsfeld | ... 003, after a trip to Iraq, he was publicly questioning Secretary of Defense | , saying that more U.S. troops were needed; the following year, McCain ann ... |
Poggendorff | ... 1833 they installed a long wire above the town's roofs. Gauss combined the | -Schweigger multiplicator with his magnetometer to build a more sensitive ... |
José Gustavo Guerrero | ... hi, Altamira, Anzilotti, Bustamante, Jonkheer van Eysinga, Henri Fromageot, | , Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, Frank B. Kellogg, Negulesco, Mich ... |
Henry II | ... ddle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress. Incorporated first by | , a new charter was granted by Elizabeth in 1589. A high stone wall was bu ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... und to a differentiated location in space contra transcendent omnipresence. | , a confirmed atheist, answered a variation of this question: what happens ... |
Nabopolassar | ... lonian king was planning on reasserting his power in Syria. In 609 BC, King | captured Kumukh, which cut off the Egyptian army, then based at Carchemish ... |
Leonardo | ... in an abbey whose library henceforth "sparked the Renaissance", inspired " | and Michelangelo", and motivated Marco Polo and his father to journey to t ... |
Oliver Stone | ... , The Thomas Crown Affair, and Operation Dumbo Drop. He had a small part in | 's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot; hi ... |
Ice Cube | Rammstein embarked on a live tour with Korn, | , Orgy and Limp Bizkit called the Family Values Tour in September through ... |
Provoost, Anne | ... k, Retie - Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy - Progressive Party (Belgium) - | - Proost (company) - Province of Antwerp - Province of Brabant - Province ... |
John Case | ... ndorra during the Spanish Civil War.* In the 1997 novel The Genesis Code by | , the leader of Opus Dei is portrayed as the novel's antagonist. In the no ... |
Menahem | ... ssume the throne , and Pekahiah's two-year reign was preceded by his father | 's ten-year reign . Menahem gave tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III, as is rec ... |
René Descartes | Some Philosophers, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent. In addition, some philosophers ... |
Emily's | ... vels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular Charlotte's Jane Eyre and | Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
James I of England | ... piritual matters. The theory came to the fore in England under the reign of | (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). Louis XIV of France (164 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... ong them Jo Byrns, Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably President | . Although the Great Depression destroyed many Americans' disposable incom ... |
Cosmas Indicopleustes | ... led to Iberia and beyond, Nearchus, the 6th century merchant and later monk | (Cosmas who sailed to India) and the explorer of the Northwestern passage ... |
Madonna | ... 989, Wright became involved with actor Sean Penn following his divorce from | . Their daughter Dylan Frances Penn was born on April 13, 1991. Their son ... |
Ahaz | ... began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC , and that Jotham's successor | began to reign in his 17th year, 735 BC |
Edwin Markham | ... a junior at Campbell High School, he was the youngest person voted into the | Poetry Society, and won first place in the Society's student poetry contes ... |
William Rehnquist | ... U.S. Supreme Court Justices have taught at Tulane, including Chief Justice | . Tulane has also hosted several prominent artists, most notably Mark Roth ... |
Emory Upton | ... rfield Road with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery in support. He had Gen. | 's Division placed across the Range Line Road with Battery I, 4th US Artil ... |
Robert Graves | In The Greek Myths (1955), | views Oenopion as his perennial Year-King, at the stage where the king pre ... |
Robert Grosseteste | ... ions should be submitted for further experimental testing is very much like | 's 'Method of Verification', and Bacon's work on optics and the calendar a ... |
Françoise Hardy | ... sed his first solo album, Deserted Palace, and from 1973–74 wrote music for | and Gérard Lenorman, as well as directing Christophe's Olympia show |
Dorothy Day | ... ke it as an actor. It was there that he met the legendary Catholic activist | . Working with her Catholic Worker Movement, he began his commitment to so ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... ign of James I of England (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). | (1643–1715), though Catholic, strongly promoted the theory as well |
Pekahiah | ... year of Azariah (Uzziah) of Judah, i.e. in 740 BC. Also, Pekah assassinated | to assume the throne , and Pekahiah's two-year reign was preceded by his f ... |
Matt Groening | ... e episode was the first to feature the series' full title sequence. Creator | developed the lengthy sequence in order to cut down on the animation neces ... |
Francisco José Urrutia | ... 30, with 14 candidates receiving a majority on the first ballot and a 15th, | , receiving a majority on the second. The full court was Urrutia, Mineichi ... |
Siculus Flaccus | ... or to a public river (one with a constant flow), or to another public road. | , who lived under Trajan (AD 98-117), calls them viae publicae regalesque, ... |
Luigi Pulci | ... s vernacular poets of the 15th century include the renaissance epic authors | (Morgante), Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato), and Ludovico Ariost ... |
Julian Beck | ... d during the 19th century as a religious zealot named Reverend Henry Kane ( | ). Kane was the leader of a utopian cult, who had sealed themselves in an ... |
John Dewey | ... origin of pragmatic ethics in the United States, especially in the work of | |
Walter Scott | ... atchewan on 23 May 1906, by the first provincial government, led by Premier | ; the monumental Saskatchewan Legislative Building was built between 1908 ... |
Charlotte's | ... he undoubtedly Romantic novels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular | Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
Jotham of Judah | ... d by Hoshea, the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of | . (; ; compare ; ; ) Tiglath-Pileser in an inscription mentions the slayin ... |
Nina Hagen | ... how the band had played there up to that date. Supporting acts were Danzig, | , Joachim Witt and Alaska. The show was professionally filmed, intended to ... |
Zhou Enlai | ... olicy is reportedly based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence of | —non-interference in other states' affairs, non-aggression, peaceful coexi ... |
Lynn Thorndike | ... stantially modified. Starting with works of Pierre Duhem, Raoul Carton, and | , Bacon's advocacy of scientia experimentalis has been argued to differ fr ... |
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani | ... crisis in which the main candidates were Abdullah bin Jassim's eldest son, | , and Hamad bin Abdullah's teenage son, Khalifa ibn Hamad Al Thani |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... s of Hungary and Bohemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted by | Maximilian I in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by ... |
President | ... itution needed for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner and | Jacques Delors. It was established on 1 June 1998 |
Henry Ford | ... pped machine shop, and a huge cast-iron steam engine which once belonged to | built into the center atrium of the house (which is actually small in comp ... |
Odin | In Baldrs draumar, | rides to the edge of Hel to investigate nightmares Baldr has had. He bring ... |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The phrase was further popularised by | 's 1857 poem "Santa Filomena" |
Cao Pi | ... cracy and military governors to become warlords and divide the empire. When | , King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han Dynasty cease ... |
Mohandas Gandhi | ... e and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as | in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Ac ... |
Abdoulaye Wade | ... cently Mourides have become more involved in the highest level of politics. | who is the current president of Senegal is also a devout Mouride. The day ... |
Livy | ... 58 BC relative to the start of the Julian calendar. Also, the histories of | give us exact Roman dates for two eclipses in 190 BC and 168 BC, and we ha ... |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ... n 2 September 1967 in Saint Jacob's Church in The Hague. His godparents are | , Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra, and Queen |
Omar al-Bashir | ... onsumption and extends serious penalties to offenders pursuant to President | 's policy of enacting Shari`a as national law. Despite this, there exists ... |
Alexander I | ... n and many soldiers of allies or subject areas). He aimed to compel Emperor | to remain in the Continental System and to remove the imminent threat of a ... |
Alexander Bogdanov | ... Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and | 's followers. Zinoviev remained Lenin's constant aide-de-camp and represen ... |
Jotham of Judah | ... is starting date in 752 BC. This date is consistent with the statement that | began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC , and that Jotham's successo ... |
Ross McWhirter | Christopher Chataway recommended student twins Norris and | , who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. The brothers were ... |
Tina Turner | According to a 1990s interview with singer | 's mother, Zelma Bullock, the singer was born Anna Mae Bullock in a sharec ... |
Herodotus | ... le was fought and Josiah was killed (2 Kings 23:29, 2 Chronicles 35:20-24). | reports the campaign of the pharaoh in his Histories, Book 2:159 |
Charles II | ... seventeenth century Guildhall, built shortly after the restoration of King | , is supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter ... |
Hoshea | Soon after this Pekah was assassinated by | , the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of Jotham of ... |
Gil Scott-Heron | ... lso a predecessor for beat poetry, as well as the rapping in hip hop music. | , a jazz poet/musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as "The R ... |
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 ... |
Claudius | It would seem that in the reign of | (41-54 AD) the quaestors had become responsible for the paving of the stre ... |
Robert E. Howard | The pulp fiction author | , creator of the character Conan the Barbarian among others, lived in Cros ... |
14th Dalai Lama | ... ment sales. Political meetings between foreign government officials and the | are also opposed by China, as it considers Tibet to be formally part of Ch ... |
Stanley Coren | ... well as thoroughly cunning, particularly with strangers. They rank 42nd in | 's |
Al-Ghazali | ... ed by the Qadiriyya and Tijaan brotherhoods, as well as the Islamic scholar | |
Karen Black | ... nt Offerings (1976) and The Disappearance of Aimee (1976), but clashed with | and Faye Dunaway, the stars of the two respective productions, because she ... |
Henry VII | ... usation against Richard III on the matter. The Bill of Attainder brought by | made no definitive mention of the Princes in the Tower, though author and ... |
Marie-Louise | ... impregnable lines of Torres Vedras) and to besieged Cadiz. Napoleon married | , an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ensuring a more stable alliance ... |
Stephen Jardine | BBC Broadcaster Kirsty Wark was born in the town as was fellow broadcaster | . Neil Oliver (archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster), grew up ... |
Dushyanta | ... o sees Eastern parallels in the figures of Aqhat, Attis, Dumuzi, Gilgamesh, | , and Prajapati (as pursuer of Ushas) |
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 ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... hes such as the Assemblies of God, as well as Restorationist churches, like | and , also take the position that homosexual sexual activity is sinful |
Jason Segel | On November 19, 2011, Miss Piggy, fellow Muppets, and | participated in the opening monologue of Saturday Night Live by singing "I ... |
Keir Hardie | ... this time, Connolly became involved with the Independent Labour Party which | had formed in 1893 |
Conan the Barbarian | The pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard, creator of the character | among others, lived in Cross Plains from the age of 13 until his death by ... |
Barack Obama | ... ntion, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, President | nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH ... |
Brian Winston | ... ocumentary is scrutinised in the 2010 documentary ' ", written by Professor | of , UK, and directed by . The film explores the nature of 'controlled act ... |
David Lee Roth | ... um seller that would be the band's last with Sammy Hagar on vocals. In 1996 | returned briefly and his replacement, former Extreme singer Gary Cherone, ... |
Boy George | ... falo Girls." Later the Hilltoppers' home was visited by the Sex Pistols and | |
President | ... Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. The current | of the ECB is Mario Draghi, former governor of the Bank of Italy |
Galen | ... ribed by Celsus (ca 30 BC–38 AD), while loss of function was added later by | even though the attribution is disputed and the origination of the fifth s ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ation. Among the holders of the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class was | , who held the rank of . Hitler can be seen wearing the award on his left ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... to school in 1925, where he received daily meals in a program organized by | . In school, Zapf was mainly interested in technical subjects. One of his ... |
Marshal Bernadotte | ... rians at Wagram, on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle that | was stripped of his command after retreating contrary to Napoleon's orders ... |
Wendy Beckett | ... grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. | stated that Eisenhower's work, "simple and earnest, rather cause us to won ... |
Edward I | ... d. The Scots king William the Lion was imprisoned in Newcastle in 1174, and | brought the Stone of Scone and William Wallace south through the town. New ... |
Dahlia Lithwick | ... to Scalia's and sometimes the two question counsel in seeming coordination. | of Slate described Scalia's technique |
Jean Bodin | ... o the church, centering on the pope. The immediate author of the theory was | , who based it on the interpretation of Roman law. With the rise of nation ... |
Gratian | ... e as heads of the pagan priesthood, as would his Christian successors on to | (r. 375–83). According to Christian writers, Constantine was over 40 when ... |
Kirsty Wark | BBC Broadcaster | was born in the town as was fellow broadcaster Stephen Jardine. Neil Olive ... |
Wagner | ... n Siegfried's family; his mother named him Siegfried because of her love of | 's operas. His middle name, Loraine, was the surname of a clergyman with w ... |
Philip Pullman | ... Weeks Later. The docklands also appear in The Ruby in the Smoke, a novel by | |
Elizabeth I | ... lliam Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen | for most of her reign. The country house, with a park laid out by Lancelot ... |
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 ... |
Gnassingbé Eyadéma | ... sident of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of Côte d'Ivoire, | , former president of Togo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, of the Republic of the C ... |
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 ... |
Aristotle | ... Bacon had received showed him the rare defects in existing academic debate. | was known only through translations, as none of the professors would learn ... |
Frank B. Kellogg | ... ri Fromageot, José Gustavo Guerrero, Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, | , Negulesco, Michel Rostworowski, Walther Schücking and Wang Ch'ung-hui |
William of Ockham | ... rgne, Henry of Ghent, Albert Magnus, Thomas Acquinas, John Duns Scotus, and | |
Peter Maurin | ... he began his commitment to social justice, and would one day go on to play | , cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement, in . Sheen deliberately faile ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... h as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and | . Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simple and earnest, rather ... |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale | Tilak opposed the moderate views of | , and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Ben ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... ere is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in | 's |
Robert E. Lee | ... of stagecoaches and military roads prior to the Civil War. It is said that | and U.S. Grant camped with their troops at a grove of live oak trees on th ... |
Richard III | ... idence is ambiguous, and has led people to various conflicting conclusions. | had eliminated the princes from the succession. However, his hold on the m ... |
Sean Penn | Wright was married to actor | from 1996 to 2010, with whom she had two children |
Frank Porter Graham | ... or for Willis Smith in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal | . Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith (a con ... |
Charles the Bold | ... brésis to the states of Burgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of | in 1477. Louis XI immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Ca ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... reamWorks. With the help of executives Glenn Williamson and Bob Cooper, and | in his capacity as studio partner, Ball was convinced to develop the proje ... |
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 ... |
Sidney Poitier | ... eson, was held at Carnegie Hall, as a benefit for the Paul Robeson Archive. | proclaimed, "When Paul Robeson died, it marked the passing of a magnificen ... |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ... therlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and | . From birth Willem-Alexander has the titles Prince of the Netherlands , P ... |
Matteo Maria Boiardo | ... e 15th century include the renaissance epic authors Luigi Pulci (Morgante), | (Orlando Innamorato), and Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso). 15th century ... |
Cephalus | ... ss; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, Leucippus (son of Oenomaus), | , Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. Fontenrose also sees Easte ... |
Peter III of Russia | ... 761), Peter, the Grand Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, succeeded to the throne as | , and Catherine became Empress Consort of Russia. The imperial couple move ... |
Emperor Ferdinand I | ... d of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later | |
Galerius | ... rship whichever deity they chose. A similar edict had been issued in 311 by | , then senior emperor of the Tetrarchy; Galerius' edict granted Christians ... |
William Rose | ... rginia. The film was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and written by | . The movie's Oscar-nominated score was composed by Frank DeVol |
Tiglath-Pileser III | ... s preceded by his father Menahem's ten-year reign . Menahem gave tribute to | , as is recorded in (where Pul = Tiglath-Pileser) and also in Tiglath-Pile ... |
John the Fearless | ... arts by Burgundy's possessions and John of Burgundy, an illegitimate son of | , was made bishop. However what looked like an impending annexation of Cam ... |
Charles II | ... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders of | the remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ... |
Floyd Mutrux | ... he Shirelles' story was shown in Baby It's You!, a musical revue written by | and Colin Escott, which follows the story of Greenberg and Scepter Records ... |
Juliana of the Netherlands | ... ands and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen | and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. From birth Willem-Alexander has ... |
Félix Houphouët-Boigny | ... mentioned are the recently deceased Omar Bongo, former president of Gabon, | , former president of Côte d'Ivoire, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, former president ... |
Saul Steinberg | ... rt's visualization of the math problem was partially inspired by the art of | . The increasing appearance of numbers in that sequence derived from Silve ... |
John Henry Faulk | ... city in the United States for 2008. The Austin Public Library operates the | Library and various library branches. In addition, the University of Texas ... |
Charles V | ... to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother | , and later Emperor Ferdinand I |
Vincent Schiavelli | ... m an aortic dissection the day before the off-Broadway opening of Rent; and | , an actor and spokesperson for the National Marfan Foundation |
Helgi Hundingsbani | ... seen as a whole in the Edda, but they consist of three layers, the story of | , the story of the Nibelungs and the story of Jörmunrekkr, king of the Got ... |
John Buchan | ... itics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and | . Goldfinger was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the D ... |
Archduke Charles | ... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander, | , failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ... |
Milton Friedman | ... sm articulated by economists working in the Neoclassical tradition, such as | . Neoliberalism emphasizes the Ricardian concept of comparative advantage ... |
John Kennedy Toole | ... or Medicine: Louis J. Ignarro and Andrew V. Schally. Other notables such as | , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces, Rudolph Matas, ... |
Walt Disney | ... pped balked at the idea because of the cost of color broadcasting. In 1961, | struck a deal with NBC to move the show to their network. At the time, NBC ... |
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | ... ted by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne was married to | , then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later Emperor Fe ... |
Sam Davis | ... e major events of the war for the town involved the Confederate States hero | who after being charged with spying gave up his life instead of giving any ... |
Jane Fonda | ... s would still like to refilm a scene from The Letter to which Davis nodded. | , Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland were among the actors ... |
John Orloff | In October 2011 writer | was reported to have been hired as the script writer of this new feature f ... |
Jack Straw | ... dinance preventing resettlement unlawful. In 2004, the Privy Council, under | 's tenure, overturned the ruling. In 2006 the High Court of Justice found ... |
Jonathan Larson | ... 's Volleyball (1984) who died suddenly at a match from an aortic dissection | ;, the author and composer of Rent, who died from an aortic dissection the ... |
Douglas Coupland | The eponymous heroine of | 's novel Girlfriend in a Coma is Karen Ann McNeil. She collapses after a p ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... n the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and | , records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many yea ... |
Oenomaus | ... vine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, Leucippus (son of | ), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. Fontenrose also ... |
Kenneth McIntyre | ... that the islands were charted by Portuguese navigators in the 16th century. | , for example, claimed that Houtman was in possession of Portuguese maps o ... |
Jerry Falwell | ... rginia Beach that criticized Christian leaders, including Pat Robertson and | , as divisive conservatives, declaring "... we embrace the fine members of ... |
Katharine Houghton | ... Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece | . The film was groundbreaking for its positive representation of the contr ... |
Ludovico Ariosto | ... hors Luigi Pulci (Morgante), Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato), and | (Orlando Furioso). 15th century writers such as the poet Poliziano and the ... |
Jakob Meckel | ... the trench warfare of World War I. A German military advisor sent to Japan, | , had a tremendous impact on the development of the Japanese military trai ... |
Augustus | ... all days after the Ides, and had some odd effects. For example, the emperor | was born in 63 BC on the 23rd day of September. In the pre-Julian calendar ... |
Ben Affleck | ... he film Good Will Hunting (1997), from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend | . The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Gold ... |
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 ... |
Hesychius | ... s used as a symbol in textual criticism for the Alexandrian text-type (from | , its once-supposed editor) |
Tiglath-Pileser III | ... his from the Assyrian side, Stanley Rosenbaum maintains that the records of | demonstrate that the Assyrian king distinguished between two kingdoms in t ... |
Jeff Tamarkin | As described by | , "The Grape's saga is one of squandered potential, absurdly misguided dec ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... e helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, aiding | 's quest for the White House and helping many local and regional candidate ... |
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 ... |
Maximilian I | ... s II was married to Mary of Habsburg, a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of | , as stipulated by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne w ... |
Johnny Cash | ... hn Butler Trio. Nick Cave has been heavily influenced by the country artist | . In 2000, Cash, covered Cave's "The Mercy Seat" on the album American III ... |
Walt Disney | ... me park of the same name, changed its name to Walt Disney Presents in 1958. | had long wanted ABC to broadcast his show in color, but the network still ... |
William Rehnquist | ... of his intent to retire. Reagan first decided to nominate Associate Justice | to become Chief Justice. This choice meant that Reagan would also have to ... |
Aristotle | ... been a disciple of Grosseteste. He became a master at Oxford, lecturing on | . There is no evidence he was ever awarded a doctorate — the title Doctor ... |
Ruy Barbosa | ... ea of Spain, Dionisio Anzilotti of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, | of Brazil, Yorozu Oda of Japan, Charles Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sán ... |
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 ... |
Edward III | ... he became dissatisfied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of | , through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Thomas of Woodstock, 1s ... |
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 ... |
Maximilian | ... ath Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1515. When | I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian, his cousin Georg v ... |
Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
President for Life | ... 972 Macias took complete control of the government and assumed the title of | . The Macias regime was characterized by abandonment of all government fun ... |
Jon Vitti | The concept for the episode developed from writer | coming up with a long list of bad things Bart would do for attention imagi ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734–1783), | , Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess Ekat ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... king and precedent-setting case quotes extensively from an address given by | to medical professionals on the matter of preservation of life |
Mongo Beti | In 1972, | , a writer in exile from Cameroon published Main basse sur le Cameroun, au ... |
Emperor Wu of Han | ... rtner. When, despite the treaty, the Xiongnu continued to raid Han borders, | (r. 141–87 BCE) launched several military campaigns against them. The ulti ... |
Henry Tudor | ... rd's rival claimants; alternatively, he could have been acting on behalf of | (later to become King Henry VII). On the other hand, if Buckingham were gu ... |
Francisco Macías Nguema | In September 1968, | was elected first president of Equatorial Guinea, and independence was gra ... |
Maximilian I | ... hemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor | in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal gua ... |
Conan O'Brien | ... y, a onetime producer for both men. On April 25, 1993, Lorne Michaels chose | , who was a writer for The Simpsons at the time and a former writer for Mi ... |
David Coulthard | ... n McNish, as it was to David Leslie (racing driver). Another racing driver, | was born in Dumfries and raised in nearby Twynholm. Scotland rugby union i ... |
Schlegel | ... (where Fichte lived, as well as Schelling, Hegel, Schiller and the brothers | ) a center for early German romanticism ("Jenaer Romantik"). Important wri ... |
Nick Cave | ... music of successful contemporary bands The Waifs and The John Butler Trio. | has been heavily influenced by the country artist Johnny Cash. In 2000, Ca ... |
Robert Bork | ... tration officials put Scalia on a short list with fellow D.C. Circuit Judge | , to be considered if a justice left the Court. In 1986, Chief Justice War ... |
Henry III of England | ... . His family appears to have been well-off, but, during the stormy reign of | , their property was despoiled and several members of the family were driv ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | On the orders of allied leaders | , Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and t ... |
Sidney Poitier | ... ho's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, | and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. T ... |
David Bivin | ... hristian scholars such as Robert Lindsey, David Flusser, Shmuel Safrai, and | have proposed that there was a Hebrew version of the Gospel before it was ... |
Lorne Michaels | ... esident Peter Lassally, a onetime producer for both men. On April 25, 1993, | chose Conan O'Brien, who was a writer for The Simpsons at the time and a f ... |
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 ... |
Walter Wild | ... in a meeting at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. Eleven players attended— | (the first director of the club), Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Ku ... |
James Boswell | Count Andrei Shuvalov, chamberlain to Catherine, knew the diarist | well, and Boswell reports that Shuvalov shared private information regardi ... |
Uncle Claudius | ... film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes by Liev Schreiber, | by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by Bill Murray |
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. |
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 ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ded more fuel to the already simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an event | had hoped to avoid entirely by taking intransigent negotiating stances pri ... |
Marianne Faithfull | ... s sang a medley of songs after being presented the awards by Merry Clayton, | , and Darlene Love. In 2002, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall ... |
Louis Bonaparte | ... unst-Gallerij). In 1808 the museum moved to Amsterdam on the orders of king | , brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as ... |
Eleazar Wheelock | ... of a seal for use on official documents and diplomas. The College's founder | designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal ... |
Glen A. Larson | For many years, original series creator | has often declared plans for a Battlestar Galactica motion picture. All at ... |
Albert of Mecklenburg's | ... arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coat of arms is a combination of King | coat of arms of 1364 and King Magnus Birgersson's coat of arms of 1275, an ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both Bill Clinton and | asserted that free trade would gradually open China to democratic reform. ... |
Eugene Levy | ... production of Godspell, starring Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, | , Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin. He went on to play piano for a Broadway s ... |
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 ... |
James I | ... he remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her son | when he became King of England |
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 ... |
Jon Vitti | ... on the Fox network on January 14, 1990. It was the first episode written by | . It was also the first ever episode to use the signature title sequence, ... |
Van Morrison | People! performed about 200 concerts a year, appearing with | and Them, The Animals, The Dave Clark Five, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The ... |
Obama | ... d would receive copies of the swearing-in invitation and program, photos of | and Vice President , and a color print of the ceremony |
Madeleine Albright | ... residential appointees. However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State | |
Charles Knutsson | ... rding to this theory, the Swedish flag was created during the reign of King | , who also introduced the Coat of arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coa ... |
Matt Stone | ... terest stirred by discussions involving a series based upon Trey Parker and | 's video Christmas card, Jesus vs. Santa. Bakshi enlisted a team of writer ... |
Andrew Dickson White | ... ters of the period carried this account further. For instance, according to | , Bacon was repeatedly persecuted and imprisoned because of the opposition ... |
Roland Barthes | ... ists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault and structuralists such as | challenged the possibilities of individual agency and the coherence of the ... |
Ernest Hemingway | Among his friends were Orson Welles and | . Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the eul ... |
Bill Clinton | ... exports in at the same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both | and George W. Bush asserted that free trade would gradually open China to ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... priest St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei was given final approval in 1950 by | . In 1982, by decision of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church made it i ... |
Oedipus | ... sent forms). Orion's blinding is therefore parallel to that of Aegypius and | |
Sidney Poitier | ... young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( | ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii. The plot c ... |
Rachel Held Evans | Author | resides in Dayton and writes about the town in the spiritual memoir Evolvi ... |
Galen | ... ncient cultures. A pure vitalistic doctrine, however, can be traced back to | of the second century, a physician who became a surgeon for gladiators at ... |
Orson Welles | Among his friends were | and Ernest Hemingway. Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Hust ... |
Numa Pompilius | ... he calendar year was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to | . Varro states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), ... |
Hilda Ellis Davidson | | , writing on Snorri's unique description of Hel in his Prose Edda, states ... |
Shakespeare | ... d by Michael Almereyda, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the | play of the same name. Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia S ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | In 1543 Cambrai was conquered by | , and annexed to his already vast possessions. He had the medieval monaste ... |
Augustus | ... description of the road system, after the death of Julius Caesar and during | tenure, is as follows |
Augustine of Hippo | ... 0-200), Origen (c. 185-254), Eusebius (c. 260-340) Jerome (c. 340-420), and | (c. 354-430), had been that Matthew was the first gospel to be written. Th ... |
Rex E. Lee | ... osition of Solicitor General of the United States, but the position went to | , to Scalia's great disappointment. Scalia was offered a seat on the Chica ... |
Gilda Radner | ... al director for the Toronto production of Godspell, starring Victor Garber, | , Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin. He went on to ... |
John Bassett Moore | ... e Council and Assembly on the first ballot taken. The second ballot elected | of the United States, and the sixth Didrik Nyholm of Denmark and Max Huber ... |
Carl von Clausewitz | ... Under Conner's tutelage, he studied military history and theory (including | 's On War), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military th ... |
Katharine Houghton | The film tells the story of Joanna "Joey" Drayton ( | ), a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prent ... |
Georgius Agricola | By | 's time, the term had become a generic term for all of the sulfide mineral ... |
Hadingus | ... what has often been interpreted as a trip to Hel. While having dinner, King | is visited by a woman bearing stalks of hemlock who asks him if he knows w ... |
Paris Hilton | ... y may through sheer exposure become involved in causes or controversies (as | did in the US presidential election, 2008) it's clearly not correct to lab ... |
Eric the Holy | According to the mythology, the 12th century Swedish king | saw a golden cross in the sky as he landed in Finland during the First Swe ... |
Pierre Schaeffer | ... e Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1969, then under the direction of | ("father" of musique concrète), proved hugely influential. Jarre was intro ... |
John Sebastian | ... s death in 1997 returned to Brownsville to perform Jug Band recordings with | and the J-Band |
Trey Parker | ... or adults, an interest stirred by discussions involving a series based upon | and Matt Stone's video Christmas card, Jesus vs. Santa. Bakshi enlisted a ... |
Julius Caesar | ... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of | and during Augustus tenure, is as follows |
Joachim Murat | ... ari was wakened from its provincial somnolence by Napoleon's brother-in-law | . As Napoleonic King of Naples, Murat ordered the building in 1808 of a ne ... |
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 ... |
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands | ... has two younger brothers: Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, born in 1968, and | , born in 1969. He lived with his family at the castle Drakesteijn in the ... |
Ronald Reagan | When | was elected President in November 1980, Scalia hoped for a major position ... |
Joanne Colan | ... an of Invention, a TV show on Planet Green starring Kamen and correspondent | , in which they investigate new technologies, premiered on October 22, 201 ... |
Jerome | ... 60-130), Irenaeus (c. 130-200), Origen (c. 185-254), Eusebius (c. 260-340) | (c. 340-420), and Augustine of Hippo (c. 354-430), had been that Matthew w ... |
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 ... |
French President | ... tably come under intense criticism since the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as | . Sarkozy has sought to make the ECB more susceptible to political influen ... |
Konrad I of Masovia | Upon the invitation of Duke | , the Teutonic Knights took possession of Prussia in the 13th century and ... |
Gladys Knight | ... later they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, together with | and The Pips. At the ceremony in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, th ... |
Lorraine Hansberry | On January 15, 1965, Robeson gave the eulogy at the Harlem funeral of | recalling her work at Freedomways and her contributions to civil rights. F ... |
Henry Tudor | ... reated to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of | and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other like ... |
Michael Jackson | Popular singer and song writer | paid a visit to Cleveland Elementary School to see the children and famili ... |
Magnus Birgersson's | ... flag. Blue and yellow have been used as Swedish colours at least since king | royal coat of arms of 1275 |
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau | He has two younger brothers: | , born in 1968, and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, born in 1969. H ... |
Samson Occom | ... uth College were raised primarily by the efforts of a Native American named | , and at least some of those funds were used to help found the College |
Saint Paul | The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, | and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of th ... |
John Dewey | ... with the pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and especially | , pragmatic ethics holds that moral correctness evolves similarly to scien ... |
Robert Ingersoll | ... els and Spence, who named the community Ingersoll, in honor of the agnostic | . A post office was established in 1881, and by 1884 the town had an estim ... |
John Julius Norwich | ... ad a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with | ; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's deat ... |
Eleazar Wheelock | It is often pointed out that the charter of Dartmouth College, granted to | in 1769, proclaims that the institution was created "for the education and ... |
Michael Dertouzos | ... ap test), Nicholas Negroponte, Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, | , John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis and Dimitri Nanopoulos |
Elijah Wald | ... e of the Emancipation Proclamation. Grammy-winning blues musician/historian | and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 19 ... |
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) ... |
Aurelian | ... enerable day of the sun, referencing the esoteric eastern sun-worship which | had helped introduce, and his coinage still carried the symbols of the sun ... |
Bona Sforza | ... ged the castle, which she made her residence, 1499–1524. After the death of | , Queen of Poland, Bari came to be included in the Kingdom of Naples and i ... |
Hippocrates | ... tinguish living from non-living matter. In the Western tradition founded by | , these vital forces were associated with the four temperaments and humour ... |
Henry VII | ... ted for himself, on Richard's orders, or in collusion with the Tudor party. | (Henry Tudor) following his accession, proceeded to find a legal excuse to ... |
Gian Carlo Menotti | ... n Françaix's Concerto (1975), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk (1980), | 's Concerto (1983), Christopher Rouse's Concerto (1985), and Henry Brant's ... |
John Keats | In Endymion (1818), | includes the line "Or blind Orion hungry for the morn", thought to be insp ... |
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 ... |
Leopold II of Belgium | ... r husband Albert, Prince Consort, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother | . These last two, Leopold and Carlota, were also first cousins of Ferdinan ... |
Martin Jarvis | ... lay was adapted from Fleming's novel by Archie Scottney and was directed by | |
Plato | These four studies compose the secondary part of the curriculum outlined by | in The Republic, and are described in the seventh book of that work |
Harold Robbins | ... twin sisters and Where Love Has Gone (1964) was a romantic drama based on a | novel. Davis played the mother of Susan Hayward but filming was hampered b ... |
Hu Jintao | ... development gap between urban and rural areas. As a result, under President | and Premier Wen Jiabao, the PRC government initiated policies to address t ... |
Dillinja | ... ted edited amens at the drop. Influential artists include DJ Zinc, DJ Hype, | and Aphrodite (artist) among many others. The Dream Team would also produc ... |
Ivan Southall | ... published in England. The first non-British author to receive the award was | in 1972. The original rules also stated that an author could only win the ... |
Kublai Khan | ... urney to the Orient, paying back the library by adding the Great Books from | 's Empire of Cathay to it upon Marco's return. The Venice Library was lost ... |
John Lennon | James is mentioned in The Beatles' song "For You Blue": while | plays the slide guitar (James' trademark), George Harrison says, "Elmore J ... |
Larry Kramer's | ... 0. In the mid-1980s, he appeared in two different productions of playwright | early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart. In 1992, he starred in a Shakespear ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... May 1846. The first battle of the war occurred on 8 May 1846, when General | received word of the siege of the fort. They rushed to help, but were inte ... |
John Belushi | ... l life, she frequently played straight-woman characters, often as a foil to | and Gilda Radner |
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar | ... d the Deccan Education Society with a few of his college friends, including | , Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi and Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar whose goal was to ... |
Lorenzo Snow | ... was 245 at the 2010 census. The town received its name from Mormon apostle | . He named it Portage after his birth place of Portage County, Ohio |
Boethius | ... iis of Martianus Capella, although the term "quadrivium" was not used until | early in the sixth century. As Proclus wrote |
Philip II | In 1561, King | made Madrid the capital of the empire. The surrounding territories became ... |
Peter Gallagher | ... curring motif. Carolyn begins an affair with a business rival, Buddy Kane ( | ). When Lester is about to be laid off his job he blackmails his boss for ... |
Alan King | ... htclubs and resorts became the new breeding ground for stand-ups. Acts like | , Danny Thomas, Don Rickles and Jack E. Leonard flourished in these new ar ... |
Manuel I Komnenos | Bari was occupied by | between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground; Frede ... |
Menahem | ... on is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with | being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC |
Albert Camus | ... the former does not necessarily lead to the latter, as philosophers such as | believed. Happiness is not inextricably linked to optimism, nor is pessimi ... |
Snorri | ... tailed account of a venture to the region after the death of the god Baldr. | 's descriptions of Hel in the Prose Edda are not corroborated outside of B ... |
Martianus Capella | ... adrivium is implicit in early Pythagorean writings and in the De nuptiis of | , although the term "quadrivium" was not used until Boethius early in the ... |
Peter Dickinson | ... r consideration. The first author to be awarded a second Carnegie Medal was | in 1981 |
Ian Fleming | Goldfinger is the seventh novel in | 's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 Mar ... |
Gilda Radner | ... ently played straight-woman characters, often as a foil to John Belushi and | |
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 ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... . The Science Museum is next to Pisuerga river. The only surviving house of | is also located in Valladolid. Although unfinished, Cathedral of Valladoli ... |
William Lenthall | ... ommons with an armed guard on 4 January 1642. Having displaced the Speaker, | from his chair, the king asked him where the MPs had fled. Lenthall famous ... |
John II of Portugal | ... pe the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). It was later renamed (by King | ) the Cape of Good Hope (Cabo da Boa Esperança) because it represented the ... |
Edward Bond | ... was adapted as a film of the same name in 1951. Nightingale also appears in | 's surrealist play Early Morning, in which she is depicted having a lesbia ... |
Averroes | ... text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and | ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics w ... |
Louis Veuillot | ... scribers. He edited it for three years. (It afterwards became his co-editor | 's ultramontane organ, L'Univers. |
Wen Jiabao | ... n urban and rural areas. As a result, under President Hu Jintao and Premier | , the PRC government initiated policies to address these issues of equitab ... |
Philip Pullman | ... nning book of all time. The poll was launched on 20 April, and the winner - | 's Northern Lights - was announced on 21 June at the British Library |
Roger Ebert | ... or Rotten Tomatoes records an average response of 91%, based on 22 reviews. | , a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie three stars out o ... |
Eric Bentley | ... el is about life and death." Another view was advanced by critic and writer | , who disliked the ending, stating, "the last scene of Carousel is an impe ... |
James Bond | Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's | series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959. Goldf ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... rtin anchored SNLs "Weekend Update" segment in 1976–77, and was paired with | in 1977–78 and Bill Murray in 1978–80 |
Asif Ali Zardari | ... cy on 18 August 2008 when threatened with impeachment, and was succeeded by | , the current President. By its own estimates, Pakistan's involvement in t ... |
William Hazlitt | ... ne "Or blind Orion hungry for the morn", thought to be inspired by Poussin. | may have introduced Keats to the painting—he later wrote the essay "On Lan ... |
G. K. Chesterton | At the turn of the century, | and Hillaire Belloc drew together the disparate experiences of the various ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ich Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), and | took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to strengthen the friendship betwe ... |
Pêro da Covilhã | ... , it is likely that they received valuable information from a secret agent, | , who had been sent overland to India and returned with reports useful to ... |
Mary Seacole | ... her independence and feeling of religious calling, but in Channel 4's 2006 | : The Real Angel of the Crimea and Simon Schama's A History of Britain she ... |
Christina | ... by his birth mother. Crawford's relationships with her two older children, | and Christopher, were acrimonious. Crawford disinherited the two and, afte ... |
Roger Ebert | Reviews were generally favorable. Film critic | gave the film 3 stars (out of 4) stating "Much depends on exactly what Emm ... |
Philip V | ... the region was not solved despite the several attempts. During the reign of | , the intendencia was created as a policial and administrative division. N ... |
Brian Crozier | ... itics, especially the Francoist regime, British historians Paul Preston and | state that the Opus Dei members who were Franco's ministers were appointed ... |
Mahatma Gandhi | ... national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (birthdate of | ) are meant to be dry days nationally. The state of Andhra Pradesh had imp ... |
Nicholas Negroponte | ... nclude Dimitrios Galanos, Georgios Papanikolaou (inventor of the Pap test), | , Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Arg ... |
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... omnenos between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground | ;and King of Sicily, repaired the fortress of Baris but it was subsequentl ... |
William Watson | ... he Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as Alfred Austin, Stephen Phillips, and | , had been working very much in the shadow of Tennyson, producing weak imi ... |
Bernard Cornwell | ... cdonald Fraser himself. Both companies took an extensive role in developing | 's Sharpe (TV series). No further news has been forthcoming since this tim ... |
Bill Murray | ... Update" segment in 1976–77, and was paired with Dan Aykroyd in 1977–78 and | in 1978–80 |
Hoshea | ... ian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and | being king from 732 BC |
Nouriel Roubini | ... ons of pessimism may be used to silence legitimate criticism. The economist | was largely dismissed as a pessimist, for his dire but accurate prediction ... |
Descartes | ... n, as we are in thought by the laws of logic." This position is advanced by | . It has the theological advantage of making God prior to the laws of logi ... |
Rob Reiner | ... en pitched around Hollywood for a long time. Receiving advice from director | , screenwriter William Goldman, and their friend writer/director Kevin Smi ... |
Emperor Gaozu of Han | ... 280 CE). It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as | . It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former re ... |
Jim Northrup | ... nsive replacement. This allowed Smith to play an outfield of Willie Horton, | and Al Kaline in every Series game |
Max Schott | The screenplay is very different from the | novella. In the Schott story, Murphy and Emma stay just platonic friends. ... |
Ruy Barbosa | ... t, along with three deputies, since Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, | and Chung-Hai Wang were unable to attend, the latter being at the Washingt ... |
John George Kemeny | In 1970, longtime professor of mathematics and computer science | became president of Dartmouth. Kemeny oversaw several major changes at the ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | American President | offered to mediate, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his effort. Sergius ... |
Van Morrison | ... wn features in the song Snow in San Anselmo by Irish born singer/songwriter | , about an unusual bout of winter weather that occurred when he was living ... |
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 ... |
John Belushi | As a TV anchorwoman, Curtin played as a foil to | , who often gave a rambling and out-of-control "commentary" on events of t ... |
Joanna of Castile | On 21 June 1511, queen | ordered the creation of the Consulate of Bilbao. This would become the mos ... |
Rob Pike | ... stems by Peter Fraser. A University of Toronto team consisting of Tom Duff, | , Hugh Redelmeier, and David Tilbrook implemented a version of QED that ru ... |
Philip Roth | The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by | . It is set in late 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is ... |
Richard Henry Horne | ... cholas Poussin", published in Table Talk, Essays on Men and Manners (1822). | , writing in the generation after Keats and Hazlitt, penned the three volu ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... n extreme, crisis situations. Near the end of her time as governor general, | stated: "My constitutional role has lain in what are called 'reserve power ... |
Frank Rich | New York Times critic | said of the 1992 London production: "What is remarkable about Mr. Hytner's ... |
Vishal Bhardwaj | ... (Bianca) and Konkona Sen Sharma as Indu (Emilia). The film was directed by | who earlier adapted Shakespeare's Macbeth as Maqbool. All characters in th ... |
Allegra Huston | ... attorney and who is father of actor Jack Huston. Soma also had a daughter, | , as the result of an extramarital affair with John Julius Norwich; Huston ... |
Mavrodes | ... this definition. Let X = "to make something that its maker cannot lift". As | points out there is nothing logically contradictory about this; a man coul ... |
William Goldman | ... od for a long time. Receiving advice from director Rob Reiner, screenwriter | , and their friend writer/director Kevin Smith, the two made changes to th ... |
Santiago Bernabéu | ... cribed with the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman and Franco supporter | . In preparation for the 1992 Summer Games two tiers of seating were insta ... |
Tatian | ... ault. Rather, each man is what he will appear to be through his own fault.” | said, “We were not created to die. Rather, we die by our own fault. Our fr ... |
John Lennon | ... biting his Kinetic Light Sculptures at the Indica Gallery. Mardas impressed | with the Nothing Box; a small plastic box with randomly blinking lights, a ... |
Bill Clinton | ... censed, McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing the governor to | , which Bush said was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican ... |
Jess Oppenheimer | ... et research indicated, however, that this scenario would not be popular, so | changed it to make Ricky Ricardo a struggling young orchestra leader and L ... |
Rafael Calvo Serer | ... ble members of Opus Dei who were vocal critics of the Franco Regime such as | and Antonio Fontan, who was the first Senate President of Spain's democrac ... |
George Lucas | San Anselmo's most prominent resident, movie director | , bought an old Victorian in San Anselmo with some of the proceeds from hi ... |
Herodotus | ... ds, 1955.*Hall, Manly Palmer, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928. , , * | , The Histories* * Manas, John Helen, , New York, Pythagorean Society, 194 ... |
Wang Mang | ... t was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent | . This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (20 ... |
Nathan Zuckerman | ... te 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is 65-year-old author | , a character in previous Roth novels, including American Pastoral (1997) ... |
Spike Lee | ... 6 – Part 1 and 1989 – Part 2) by Henry Hampton, Four Little Girls (1997) by | , and The Civil War by Ken Burns, UNESCO awarded independent film on slave ... |
Thomas Hardy's | ... till had a large audience; volumes of verse published in that time included | The Dynasts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson ... |
Rupert Sheldrake | ... nd an advocate of vitalism is very rare, however the work of the biochemist | has been described as vitalistic. In 1981 in his book A New Science of Lif ... |
Jane Jacobs | ... ionals" as a full style of capital of its own. Some ethicists, most clearly | , see this as simple corruption. Nonetheless, corruption clearly has a cas ... |
Chanakya | ... the Rig-Veda, Samhitas, Brahmanas, the Mahabharata and Buddhist Pali Canon. | (c. 350–275 BC) was a political thinker in Takshashila. Chanakya wrote the ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... e last months of the Roosevelt administration) and 10 June, and in 1925 (by | ) expanded the National Forest. An early supervisor of the forest was Will ... |
Ed Rush | ... s in 1995 (co-produced by Ed Rush and Nico). Also note that Trace (artist), | and Nico already had a history of producing jungle/drum & bass and hardcor ... |
Ahaz | When Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram to attack | , the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Ass ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Madeira was a favorite of | , and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ... |
Patrice de Plunkett | ... orked independently on Opus Dei, such as John Allen, Jr., Vittorio Messori, | , Maggy Whitehouse, Noam Friedlander many of the criticisms against Opus D ... |
Ernest Fox Nichols | ... ng "refounded Dartmouth" and bringing it into national prestige. Presidents | (1909–16) and Ernest Martin Hopkins (1916–45) continued Tucker's trend of ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... om of branding a criminal with the sign (fleurdeliser). During the reign of | , known as the Elizabethan era, it was a standard name for an iris, a usag ... |
Stephen Sackur | In a September 2010 interview with | for the BBC’s HARDtalk program, May said that he would rather be remembere ... |
Jimmy Swaggart | While Norman was denounced by television evangelists like Bob Larson | ;, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and Jerry Falwell; and oth ... |
Mari Sandoz | ... anes made reference to pennyroyal as abortifacient in Lysistrata and Peace. | writes in her book, Slogum House, "She was the fifth of twelve children in ... |
Tiglath-Pileser III | ... ith Rezin, king of Aram to attack Ahaz, the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to | , the king of Assyria, for help. This the Assyrian king obliged, but Judah ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors | and Hilaire Belloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponent ... |
Anatoly Karpov | ... feature images of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited and chess grandmaster | |
Jerry Falwell | ... ob Larson; Jimmy Swaggart, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and | ; and others within the conservative religious establishment, who consider ... |
Maggy Whitehouse | ... n Opus Dei, such as John Allen, Jr., Vittorio Messori, Patrice de Plunkett, | , Noam Friedlander many of the criticisms against Opus Dei are myths and u ... |
Lord Speaker | ... l, as is the Lord Chamberlain, the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the | |
Hans Christian Andersen | Prévert adapted several | tales into animated or mixed live-action/animated movies, often in version ... |
George Washington | ... Thomas Jefferson, and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. | , Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to ha ... |
Gene Hackman | ... semble prep-school drama School Ties. In 1992, he landed a big part in with | and Jason Patric. Four years later, he auditioned for a small role in Cutt ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ons. After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President | , then assumed the post of President at Columbia University |
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 ... |
José Ángel Gutiérrez | ... movement known as La Raza Unida Party founded by three Chicanos, including | over a conflict about the ethnicity of cheerleaders at Crystal City High S ... |
William Carlos Williams | ... by Tom Robbins, pennyroyal is used by Kudra to keep from becoming pregnant. | opens his "Kora in Hell: improvisations" city lights books wit |
John Henry Wigmore | ... ternational Court of Justice as an advance in the science that we pursue?", | said that the creation of the Court "should have given every lawyer a thri ... |
DJ Zinc | ... p tracks incorporated edited amens at the drop. Influential artists include | , DJ Hype, Dillinja and Aphrodite (artist) among many others. The Dream Te ... |
Princess Margriet | ... lhelmina went to Canada in 1943 to attend the christening of her grandchild | on 29 June 1943 in Ottawa and stayed awhile with her family before returni ... |
Madonna | ... usic videos in the 1990s. His first video role was as the Angel of Death in | 's 1993 "Bad Girl". The second appearance was in Skid Row's "Breakin' Down ... |
Tom Robbins | In the book Jitterbug Perfume by | , pennyroyal is used by Kudra to keep from becoming pregnant |
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 ... |
Odin | ... n the Poetic Edda, Brynhildr's trip to Hel after her death is described and | , while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In Snorri Sturluso ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... e are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life. Some, such as | , believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as Thomas Paine w ... |
Yu the Great | ... of alcohol date back to the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC) in China. | , the first ruler of the Xia Dynasty, prohibited alcohol throughout the ki ... |
Julie Andrews | ... e recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite | two years earlier) |
Hilaire Belloc | ... velopment of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and | , two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents |
Kenneth Branagh | The second major film, directed by and starring | in 1989, attempts to give a more realistic evocation of the period and lay ... |
Lucian | ... he sun"), after learning of the description by the 2nd-century Greek author | , of a picture of Orion recovering his sight; Poussin included a storm-clo ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... rt was about to consider the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, supposed driver to | , who was challenging the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. A group ... |
Joseph Cotten | ... cess and brought renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included | , Mary Astor and Agnes Moorehead. The following year, Davis was cast as th ... |
Noam Friedlander | ... s John Allen, Jr., Vittorio Messori, Patrice de Plunkett, Maggy Whitehouse, | many of the criticisms against Opus Dei are myths and unproven tales. Alle ... |
Oliver Stone | The film was written by | and Richard Boyle, and was directed by Stone. Stone's portrayal is sympath ... |
Philip Reeve | In the Mortal Engines by | , Professor Pennyroyal is a bogus historian who leads the protagonists of ... |
Ernest Martin Hopkins | ... ging it into national prestige. Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols (1909–16) and | (1916–45) continued Tucker's trend of modernization, further improving cam ... |
Thomas Paine | ... enjamin Franklin, believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as | were agnostic about the immortality of the soul |
John L. Allen, Jr. | ... ation which provides them religious education. Writer and broadcast analyst | states that Opus Dei provides abundant information about itself. These jou ... |
Mark Salter | In August 1999, McCain's memoir Faith of My Fathers, co-authored with | , was published; a reviewer observed that its appearance "seems to have be ... |
Bob Dylan | ... his 2003 album Poodle Hat, consists of rhyming palindromes and parodies the | song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues". There is an accompanying video for th ... |
Emilio Estevez | ... name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of actors | , Ramon Estevez, Carlos Irwin Estevez (Charlie Sheen), and Renée Estevez. ... |
James L. Brooks | ... Bart the Genius" as his favorite among the episodes he wrote to that point. | also mentioned the episode among his favorites, saying that "we did things ... |
Juliana | ... gn of 57 years and 286 days, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of her daughter | , because of advancing age and illness which had already caused two regenc ... |
Jiang Zemin | President | and Premier Zhu Rongji, both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in ... |
Michelangelo | ... whose library henceforth "sparked the Renaissance", inspired "Leonardo and | ", and motivated Marco Polo and his father to journey to the Orient, payin ... |
George MacDonald Fraser | ... to take on the role of Harry Flashman in a film adaptation of the books by | |
Romantic | ... s. . The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much | and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Ge ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, | and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... escribed and Odin, while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In | 's Prose Edda, Baldr goes to Hel upon death and subsequently Hermóðr uses ... |
DJ Hype | ... incorporated edited amens at the drop. Influential artists include DJ Zinc, | , Dillinja and Aphrodite (artist) among many others. The Dream Team would ... |
Bruce Sterling | ... . In the keynote address to a computer security conference on June 8, 2004, | described the city as the "Capone-Chicago of cyber fraud" |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | ... ed by both sides throughout this period. Cuba, the Soviet bloc, Egypt under | , and some governments of newly independent African states, charged the Un ... |
James Brown Scott | ... he Court "should have given every lawyer a thrill of cosmic vibration", and | wrote that "the one dream of our ages has been realised in our time". Much ... |
Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving Winston Churchill and | . Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leaders of the Jewish undergro ... |
George Stevens, Jr. | To producer | , Huston symbolized "intellect, charm and physical grace" within the film ... |
John Adams | ... Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and | are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. On one occasio ... |
Rick Stein | ... coastline with few easily navigable harbours. The influence of restaurateur | can be seen in the port, and tourists travel from long distances to eat at ... |
Mary Astor | ... t renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included Joseph Cotten, | and Agnes Moorehead. The following year, Davis was cast as the lead in an ... |
Borland C++ | ... done with pre-compilers that generated C code). The next version was named | to emphasize its flagship status and completely rewritten in-house, with P ... |
Lytton Strachey | ... r as an entirely sympathetic character and draws much characterisation from | 's biography of her in Eminent Victorians. It was adapted as a film of the ... |
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani | In February 1972, the Heir Apparent, Sheikh | , deposed his cousin, Ahmed bin Ali Al Thani, and assumed power. Key membe ... |
Kambri Crews | | , producer and publicist located in New York City, and author of in which ... |
Johann Stumpf | ... e land better known by translating into Latin parts of the great Chronik of | . With this view he collected materials, and in 1574 published a specimen ... |
John Kennedy Toole | ... or other flowers. It also appeared in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by | on a sign composed by the main character |
Zhu Rongji | President Jiang Zemin and Premier | , both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in the 1990s. Under Jiang ... |
John Sloan Dickey | ... roving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s. | , serving as president from 1945 until 1970, strongly emphasized the liber ... |
George W. Bush | ... ated to serve". The leader for the Republican nomination was Texas Governor | , who had the political and financial support of most of the party establi ... |
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 ... |
Tertullian | ... t of Alexandria said, “We…have believed and are saved by voluntary choice.” | said, “I find, then, that man was constituted free by God. He was master o ... |
Elizabeth I | ... nt college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter in 1592 under | and was closed to Roman Catholics until Catholic Emancipation. The Catholi ... |
Marco Polo | ... arked the Renaissance", inspired "Leonardo and Michelangelo", and motivated | and his father to journey to the Orient, paying back the library by adding ... |
Cedric Belfrage | ... oup held a conference and concert at St Pancras Town Hall, London headed by | , on May 26, 1957 with Robeson singing direct from New York over a telepho ... |
Roger II of Sicily | ... moald increased the cult of St Nicholas in his city. He later did homage to | , but rebelled and was defeated in 1132 |
Plato | ... rough all things" was "both willing and unwilling to be called Zeus (God)". | envisaged God as a Demiurge or 'craftsman'. Outside ancient Greece many ot ... |
Allen Ginsberg | ... by Grape performed along with the Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, | , The Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Jo ... |
Paul Preston | ... in right-wing politics, especially the Francoist regime, British historians | and Brian Crozier state that the Opus Dei members who were Franco's minist ... |
Julius Caesar | ... , and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like | , Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the repub ... |
Carl Jung | ... over the other vitalistic theories. The work of Reinke was an influence for | |
Andy C | ... ised by Dylan, to jokingly describe how "Swing-beat" tunes like Bodyrock by | made him think of clowns. DJ Clipz often produces songs adhering to the cl ... |
Kenneth Branagh | ... actor as Othello would not come until 1995 with Laurence Fishburne opposite | 's Iago (not that there have been many major screen productions of Othello ... |
Tiglath-Pileser III | ... ed with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem. (; ) Ahaz appealed to | , the king of Assyria, for help. Ahaz's "dread" of Rezin and Pekah, "Son o ... |
Nina Hagen | ... lues Traveler, Cher, Chicago, Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, | , Robert Plant, Peter Criss, Scandal, Late Show regular Warren Zevon, jazz ... |
Turbo Basic | ... ping applications for the PC. Borland followed up that success by releasing | , Turbo Prolog and Turbo C |
Bill Murray | ... Conehead family), and as "Enid Loopner" (in sketches with Gilda Radner and | ) |
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 ... |
Bob Dole | ... list of possible vice-presidential picks, this time for Republican nominee | . The following year, Time magazine named McCain as one of the "25 Most In ... |
Ovid | ... sed by Horace, who tells of his death at the hands of Diana/Artemis, and by | , in his Fasti for May 11, the middle day of the Lemuria, when (in Ovid's ... |
Nathan Zuckerman | The Human Stain is set in the 1990s United States. The story is told by | , a writer who lives a secluded life where Coleman Silk is his neighbor. S ... |
Gilda Radner | ... d" (mother of the Conehead family), and as "Enid Loopner" (in sketches with | and Bill Murray) |
Ahaz | ... 2 BCE, Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem. (; ) | appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help. Ahaz's "dr ... |
Paul Kruger | ... e of 20, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship to South Africa to rescue | , the embattled President of the Transvaal |
Boris Vian | ... instruments was sparked by his discovery at the Saint-Ouen flea market of a | Trumpet Violin. He often accompanied his mother to Le Chat Qui Pêche (The ... |
Immanuel Wallerstein | ... aintain this amounts to a de facto control over less powerful nations ('see | 's World Systems Theory') |
Andrei Konchalovsky's | ... ississippi. He starred as Joseph Stalin's projectionist in Russian director | 1991 film The Inner Circle. In 1996, he won an Emmy Award for his role as ... |
Plato | ... olini scoured the libraries in search of works by such classical authors as | , Cicero and Vitruvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
Samuel Pepys | ... hich an exact date is known, however, occurred on 7 January 1605, at Court. | saw a Henry V in 1664—but it was written by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrer ... |
Robert Service's | ... humous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last Poems, | Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems. Future Nobe ... |
Isabel II | ... Letras (Liberal Arts) and Medicina (Medicine). In 1836, during the reign of | , the University was moved to Madrid, where it took the name of Central Un ... |
Statius | ... ufferer from unrequited love: "Pale Orion wandered in the forest for Side." | mentions Orion four times in his Thebaïd; twice as the constellation, a pe ... |
Oliver James | ... ion is fit only for dumbing down and cultural careerism. Intellectuals like | correlate economic progress with economic inequality, the stimulation of a ... |
Osbern | ... fe in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer, | , himself an artist and scribe, states that Dunstan was skilled in "making ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... e first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was Joseph Bell who | has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observa ... |
Federico Brito Figueroa | Proponents of such theories include | a Venezuelan historian who has written widely on the socioeconomic underpi ... |
Rupert Holmes | ... een famous in Puerto Rico since 1978, and it became more widely known after | released his song "Escape", commonly known as "The Piña Colada Song" |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rate strong public support for public ownership of dams. In 1933, President | signed a bill that enabled the construction of the Bonneville and Grand Co ... |
Lattice C | ... e. Turbo C competed with other professional programming tools (Microsoft C, | , Watcom C, etc.). Turbo C did, however, have advantages in speed of compi ... |
Woody Allen | Her upcoming roles include | 's To Rome with Love, and she is set to reunite with Italian director Serg ... |
Jeffrey Simpson | ... cretion. At the end of the 20th century and into the 21st, analysts such as | , Donald Savoie, and John Gomery argued that both parliament and the Cabin ... |
Vitruvius | ... libraries in search of works by such classical authors as Plato, Cicero and | . The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Arist ... |
Sally Field | Emma Moriarty ( | ) is a 33-year-old, divorced mother who moves to a rural Arizona town to m ... |
Athelstan | ... mous author of the earliest Life places Dunstan's birth during the reign of | , while Osbern fixed it at "the first year of the reign of King Æthelstan" ... |
Alekos Sakellarios | ... Award winner Katina Paxinou, Dimitris Horn, Manos Katrakis and Irene Papas. | , Michael Cacoyannis and Theo Angelopoulos are among the most important di ... |
Nonnus | ... s of Tanagra, one of the defenders of Thebes. The very late Greek epic poet | mentions the oxhide story in brief, while listing the Hyrians in his Catal ... |
Joan Gamper | Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by | , the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence th ... |
Joe Torre | ... ng an authentic 1934 Babe Ruth hat, which Wells bought for $35,000. Manager | made Wells take it off after the first inning because it didn't conform to ... |
Yeats | ... dancing, and films. The Abbey was founded in 1904 by a group that included | with the aim of promoting indigenous literary talent. It went on to provid ... |
John Masefield's | ... , George Meredith's Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and | Ballads and Poems. Future Nobel Prize winner William Butler Yeats was devo ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... roup of Hollywood friends, including the producer Alan Ladd, Jr., directors | , Brian DePalma, and Martin Scorsese, and screenwriters Jay Cocks, Willard ... |
Constantine I | ... ylvester II, alluding to Pope Sylvester I (314–335), the advisor to Emperor | (324–337). Soon after he was elected Pope, Sylvester II confirmed the posi ... |
Kevin Spacey | Lester Burnham ( | ) is a middle-aged magazine writer who despises his job. His wife, Carolyn ... |
Hugo Chávez | ... d theories strongly influenced the thinking of current Venezuelan president | |
Earl Bathurst | ... of discipline caused an enraged Wellington to write in a famous dispatch to | , "We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers" |
Rogge, Jacques | ... n - Retie - Rexism - Riemst - Rijkevorsel - Rivers of Belgium - Roeselare - | - Rogier, Charles - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai - Roman Catholic ... |
Plato | ... and Vitruvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as | , Aristotle, Euclid, and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into ... |
Michael Moore | ... The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris incorporated stylized re-enactments, and | 's Roger & Me placed far more interpretive control with the director. The ... |
Henry the Lion | ... an be found in the town of Rerik (which still bears a Slavic name). In 1160 | conquered the region; afterwards German monks, peasants and traders arrive ... |
William Cobbett | ... This liberalism is different from most modern forms, taking influence from | and John Ruskin, who combined elements of radicalism, challenging the esta ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... e have been two major film adaptations. The first, directed by and starring | in 1944, is a colourful and highly stylised version which begins in the Gl ... |
Ashur-uballit II | ... ed around a general holding out at Harran, who had taken the throne name of | . Necho attempted to assist this remnant immediately upon his coronation, ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve was established by | in a presidential proclamation of 20 August 1902. Another presidential pro ... |
James Larkin | ... ipation 60 years earlier. On his return to Ireland he was right hand man to | in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. He stood twice for the W ... |
Frank Harvey | ... roductions. Notable collaborators included C. J. Dennis, George Wallace and | . Film production continued only until 1934, when it ceased as a protest o ... |
Barack Obama | President | established a new position in the White House, the Assistant to the Presid ... |
Clara Hughes | ... peed Skating, and was present to see her former teammates Cindy Klassen and | win their personal and national record achievements |
Hezekiah | ... is recorded in the Immanuel prophecy in where the birth of a son (possibly | ) is a sign of the defeat of both kings by the King of Assyria before the ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... of John B. Anderson, and the Reagan camp was split: eventually designating | as his preferred candidate. At the convention, Helms toyed with the idea o ... |
Richard Nixon | ... privilege. He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, | . He was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies, expanded ... |
Sally Field | | and director Martin Ritt had to fight Columbia Pictures in order to cast G ... |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | She also arranged the marriage of her daughter Juliana to | , a German aristocrat. Although it was claimed that he was initially a sup ... |
Chekhov's | ... s. That production went far toward Gielgud's successful effort to establish | 's viability on the English-speaking stage. Gielgud's own performance as V ... |
Voltaire | ... of the country. A notable example of enlightened despot, a correspondent of | and an amateur opera librettist, Catherine presided over the age of the Ru ... |
John Lithgow | ... playing a human, Dr. Mary Albright, opposite the alien family, composed of | , Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As with SNL, ... |
Aristotle | ... truvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, | , Euclid, and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christ ... |
John Hancock | ... to revolution in which Madeira played a key role was the British seizure of | ’s sloop the Liberty on May 9, 1768. Hancock's boat was seized after he ha ... |
Giambattista Vico | ... universally-applicable cyclic model of history — notably in the writings of | |
Isaac Newton | ... , who was joining it, "I don't know any scientist who looks as much as like | as you do". May replied that "that could be my after dinner comment, thank ... |
Shah of Iran | ... f a dozen royal families for Mardas, and had close contact with the deposed | , who had moved to Mexico. The Shah was one of the first customers for the ... |
Barack Obama | ... hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under the administration of | . He is also the first and only Nobel Prize winner to be a Cabinet secreta ... |
John Steinbeck | ... so been associated with a negative cultural stereotype first popularized by | 's novel "The Grapes of Wrath", which described the plight of uneducated, ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... . Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher Seneca and the emperor | . Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is often criticized by some modern co ... |
Pedro II | ... Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor | , so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark. In 1845 some ... |
Bill Murray | ... enwriter, actor and voice artist. He is the older brother of actor/comedian | and has acted together with him in several films, including Caddyshack, Sc ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... umbents publicly outshine the actual head of state; former governor general | alluded to what she saw as "an unspoken rivalry" that had developed betwee ... |
George Stevens, Jr. | | notes that while many directors rely on post-production editing to shape t ... |
Josep Maria Espinàs | ... he official Barça anthem is the "Cant del Barça" written by Jaume Picas and | . Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelo ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ctober 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President | signed the Department of Energy Organization Act. Originally the post focu ... |
Antonio Fontan | ... who were vocal critics of the Franco Regime such as Rafael Calvo Serer and | , who was the first Senate President of Spain's democracy. The German hist ... |
Sophie of Württemberg | King William III had three sons with his first wife, | . However, when Wilhelmina was born, William had already outlived two of t ... |
Pauline Green | ... cess, against the spirit of consultation that the new EU treaty brought in. | MEP, leader of the Socialist group, stated that her group thought "Parliam ... |
Duke of York and Albany | ... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English | , the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ... |
James O. Freedman | During the 1990s, the College saw a major academic overhaul under President | and a controversial (and ultimately unsuccessful) 1999 initiative to encou ... |
Esthero | ... li Khan, Amalia Rodrigues, as well as Caetano Veloso, Juanes, Jeff Buckley, | , Björk, Cornershop, Oasis, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins and Beck. Fur ... |
Prince Juan Carlos | In 1974, Mardas held an expensive party for the then Spanish heir, | , which secured Mardas a contract. After the assassination of Admiral Carr ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured as a character in | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With the popularity of the book, the ... |
DJ Hype | ... t a hard working Hackney man doing this thing called Drum and Bass/Jungle." | |
Pindar | ... write of him: The brief passages in Aratus and Vergil are mentioned above. | celebrates the pancratist Melissus of Thebes "who was not granted the buil ... |
Ben Affleck | ... , where they lived in a six-family communal house. Damon grew up near actor | , a close friend since childhood and collaborator on several films (Damon ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... portrayed a controlled liberal viewpoint (referencing Shana Alexander) vs. | , who (referencing James J. Kilpatrick) prototyped the right-wing view, al ... |
Kateb Yacine | ... ation with the French language is often more complex. Algerian intellectual | wrote in 1966 tha |
Bertolt Brecht | ... An die Nachgeborenen based on diverse texts, the title taken from a poem of | . Mikis Theodorakis composed the cantatas According to the Sadducees and C ... |
Peter Berglar | ... te President of Spain's democracy. The German historian and Opus Dei member | calls any connection made between Opus Dei and Franco's regime a "gross sl ... |
Dorothy Day | ... adopted by the Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of | and Peter Maurin concerning localized and independent communities. It also ... |
Charles Seife | ... du–Arabic digits and applied this knowledge to the abacus, but according to | without the numeral of zero. According to William of Malmesbury (c. 1080–c ... |
Isaac Newton | ... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science. | 's (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ... |
Bede | ... Brito" to distinguish him from a different man called Pelagius of Tarentum. | refers to him as "Pelagius Bretto". St. Jerome suggests he was of Scottish ... |
Plutarch | ... ociety, 1947.*Parke, Herbert William, History of the Delphic Oracle, 1939.* | "Lives"*Rohde, Erwin, Psyche, 1925.* Seyffert, Oskar, , London: W. Glaishe ... |
Jared Diamond | | describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced s ... |
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands | ... ed two of them and only the childless Prince Alexander and the King's uncle | were alive, so under the Semi-Salic system of inheritance that was in plac ... |
Peter Shaffer's | ... ikov) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version of | play Amadeus. In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Acto ... |
Emperor Go-Toba | ... a shogunate completely excluded those of the imperial family descended from | from the Chrysanthemum throne, thus forcing Emperor Chūkyō to abdicate. Af ... |
James Carville | ... hko, who was a Visiting Artist from 1956–1957. Currently on the faculty are | , Nick Spitzer, and Melissa Harris-Perry. Several football alumni play in ... |
Pervez Musharraf | ... s in the Kargil district led to the Kargil War of 1999, after which General | took over through a bloodless coup d'état and assumed vast executive power ... |
Christina Rossetti's | ... olumes of verse published in that time included Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts, | posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last P ... |
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 ... |
Arnaud Montebourg | ... e Paris region. Many famous French people like Edith Piaf, Isabelle Adjani, | , Alain Bashung, and many others have Maghrebi ancestry |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... a post office was established. The town was named Burkburnett by President | , who visited the area for a wolf hunt that was hosted by the wealthy ranc ... |
Shana Alexander | ... am 60 Minutes, Curtin portrayed a controlled liberal viewpoint (referencing | ) vs. Dan Aykroyd, who (referencing James J. Kilpatrick) prototyped the ri ... |
Ptolemy | ... ncient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and | ) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christian world, providing ... |
Jim Yong Kim | ... ebruary 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician | on July 1, 2009 |
Rosalind Russell | ... r discussed her career and answered questions from the audience; Myrna Loy, | , Lana Turner, Sylvia Sidney, and Joan Crawford were the other participant ... |
Emperor of Austria | ... an admirer of German Emperor Wilhelm II (his second cousin once removed) or | Franz Josef I whom he described as "that idiot, that old dotard of a Franc ... |
William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | ... ime period, Wilhelmina's heir presumptive was her first cousin once removed | , and next in line was his aunt (and Wilhelmina's cousin) Princess Marie A ... |
Horace | Orion is used by | , who tells of his death at the hands of Diana/Artemis, and by Ovid, in hi ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... ought to light a new space for politics and political action. Works such as | 's The City of God synthesized current philosophies and political traditio ... |
Celsus | The first four (classical signs) were described by | (ca 30 BC–38 AD), while loss of function was added later by Galen even tho ... |
Sir John Masterman | ... ames used in the novel; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from | , an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during ... |
Sean Penn | ... um. More recently, "Hey Grandma" was included in the soundtrack to the 2005 | -Nicole Kidman film, The Interpreter, as well as being covered in 2009 by ... |
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... enthroned on 6 September 1898. On 7 February 1901 in The Hague, she married | |
Peter Maurin | ... Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of Dorothy Day and | concerning localized and independent communities. It also influenced the t ... |
John Turturro's | In 1998, Walken played an influential gay New York theater critic in | film Illuminata |
Victoria of the United Kingdom | In 1895, Queen Wilhelmina visited Queen | , who penned an evaluation in her diary |
Robert II, Duke of Normandy | ... called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the castle built in 1080, by | , the eldest son of William the Conqueror. The city grew as an important c ... |
Max Schott | ... y film adapted by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch from a 1980 novel by | and directed by Martin Ritt. The film stars Sally Field (also executive pr ... |
Al-Ghazali | ... to endure. Optimistic attitudes are favored and of emotional consideration. | and William James have rejected their pessimism after suffering psychologi ... |
Petrarch | ... ultural achievements. Accounts of Renaissance literature usually begin with | (best known for the elegantly polished vernacular sonnet sequence of the C ... |
Albert Einstein | In the opening scene, Maggie spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to | 's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on ... |
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 ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king | , was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ... |
Boethius | ... re four roads meet"), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to | or Cassiodorus in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadriviu ... |
Ralph Nader | ... the Warren and Burger Courts, which shaped the law in the 1960s and 1970s. | has stated that Scalia's claim to an originalist philosophy is inconsisten ... |
Turbo C++ | In May 1990, Borland replaced Turbo C with | . In 2006, Borland reintroduced the Turbo moniker |
George Meredith's | ... sts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, | Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's B ... |
Bill Clinton | ... er is also the only secretary to be dismissed from the post. Hazel O'Leary, | 's first Secretary of Energy, was first female and African-American holder ... |
Emperor Shijō | ... n 1232, he began his own cloistered rule, abdicating to his 1-year-old son, | . However, being of a weak constitution, his cloistered rule lasted just u ... |
Conrad Hall | ... f static shots and slow pans and zooms to generate tension. Cinematographer | complemented Mendes' style with peaceful shot compositions to contrast wit ... |
Jehovah's Witness | ... st Sikh temple in the United Kingdom outside London. There are also Quaker, | and Wiccan communities who meet in the town. There is no longer a synagogu ... |
Larry McMurtry | ... miles by wagon for burial. The story is the inspiration behind Texas author | ’s novel, Lonesome Dove |
Sally Field | ... from a 1980 novel by Max Schott and directed by Martin Ritt. The film stars | (also executive producer), James Garner, Brian Kerwin, and Corey Haim |
James A. McClure | ... churches, and its counterpart was defeated in the House. Senators Helms and | blocked Ted Kennedy's comprehensive criminal code that did not relax feder ... |
John II of Portugal | ... d sailing-master of the man-of-war, São Cristóvão (Saint Christopher). King | appointed him, on 10 October 1487, to head an expedition to sail around th ... |
Cassiodorus | ... s meet"), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to Boethius or | in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the ... |
Don Rosa | Guardians of the Lost Library is a comic book story made by | for The Walt Disney Company, mentioned by Comics Buyer's Guide as "possibl ... |
Josiah | ... lley, but here he found his passage blocked by the Judean army. Their king, | , sided with the Babylonians and attempted to block his advance at Megiddo ... |
Howard Zinn | ... New England ancestor). Another neighbor of Damon's was historian and author | , whose biographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio ... |
James J. Kilpatrick | ... l viewpoint (referencing Shana Alexander) vs. Dan Aykroyd, who (referencing | ) prototyped the right-wing view, albeit with an over-the-top "attack" jou ... |
Gerald Durrell | ... rell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoological Park, founded by | |
Armando Guebuza | ... bility and maintaining a local staff. After contacting Mozambican president | to verify that the Mozambican government had no objections, the couple dec ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... found to date is in 1787, in translator Gottfried Große’s interpretation of | ’s Natural History |
Vesalius, Andreas | ... rk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - Verlooy, Jan-Baptist - | - Veurne - Vieille Montagne - Vink, Karel - Visa requirements for Belgian ... |
Pope John XXIII | In 1960, | commented that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, ... |
K Callan | In the morning, Vicky bumps into an American lady and her children, Patty ( | ) while shopping for her son. She invites Vicky to dinner, but Vicky sharp ... |
President's | ... ergy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the | Cabinet, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The positio ... |
emperor | (March 22, 1212 – August 31, 1234) was the 86th | of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This reign spa ... |
Empress Carlota of Mexico | ... also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Consort, | and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These last two, Leopold and Carlota ... |
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 |
Francis I | ... ine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano - sailing in service of the French king | - was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City ... |
George Clooney | ... two major film franchises. He co-starred as thief Linus Caldwell, alongside | , Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts, in Steven Soderbergh's 2001 remake of the ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... rtress) into a rich noble residence, at the cusp of Gothic and Renaissance. | was his guest at Vigevano, as was Bramante, who is ascribed with the tall ... |
John Bassett Moore | ... rles Andre Weiss elected Vice-President. Weiss died the following year, and | resigned; Max Huber was elected Vice-President on 12 September 1928 to suc ... |
Laurence Olivier | The play's ambiguity has led to diverse interpretations in performance. | 's 1944 film, made during the Second World War, emphasises the patriotic s ... |
Jia Yi | The famous Han poet and statesman | concluded his essay The Faults of Qin (過秦論) with what was to become the st ... |
Prince Alexander | ... a was born, William had already outlived two of them and only the childless | and the King's uncle Prince Frederick of the Netherlands were alive, so un ... |
Alexandros Papadiamantis | ... the most important poets of the 20th century. Novel is also represented by | and Nikos Kazantzakis |
James Agee | ... there is the Huston look". The "Huston look" was also noted by screenwriter | , who adds that this "look proceeds from Huston's sense of what is natural ... |
Jacques Delors | The Presidential system had started to develop since | and has since been cemented, a strong President with competent mandarins i ... |
H. H. Kung | ... ie Soong, father of the Shanghai-born Soong sisters: Soong Ai-ling, wife of | (once China's richest man); Soong Ching-ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soo ... |
Alexander Suvorov | ... temkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Pyotr Rumyantsev and | , and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Rus ... |
Josiah Bartlet | ... 006), his role as The Illusive Man in the Mass Effect trilogy and President | in the television series The West Wing |
Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum | ... yer, Ken Brodziak, Denis Handlin, Stan Rofe, Jade Johnson, Terry Blamey and | . These were the people largely responsible for promoting and developing t ... |
Eadwig | In 955, Eadred died, and the situation was at once changed. | , the elder son of Edmund, who then came to the throne, was a headstrong y ... |
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 ... |
Odysseas Elytis | ... . Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and | are among the most important poets of the 20th century. Novel is also repr ... |
Alexander the Great | ... of France, and the Black Sea coasts. Greeks founded more than 400 colonies. | 's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenist ... |
Arthur Miller | ... s, "he threw himself into each role with a sense of dedication." Playwright | commented that Muni "was pursued by a fear of failure. |
Leopold I | ... , Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and of | , first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of Ferdina ... |
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 ... |
Benito Juárez | ... certain national holidays, such as Natalicio de Benito Juárez (birthdate of | ) and Día de la Revolución, which are meant to be dry nationally. The same ... |
Caetano Veloso | ... LC, world music artists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Amalia Rodrigues, as well as | , Juanes, Jeff Buckley, Esthero, Björk, Cornershop, Oasis, Radiohead, The ... |
Carl Jung | ... h in vitalist concepts, particularly through the ideas of Sigmund Freud and | . Freud was a student of the notable anti-vitalist Hermann von Helmholtz, ... |
King William III | ... born on 31 August 1880 in The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child of | and his second wife, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her childhood was charac ... |
Beckett's | ... Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in | Endgame, saying that the play offered "nothing but loneliness and despair" ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President | |
Pierre Schaeffer | ... tar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by | , a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales |
Licinius | ... tary superiority over his rivals in the crumbling Tetrarchy. In 313, he met | in Milan to secure their alliance by the marriage of Licinius and Constant ... |
Amy Fisher | ... s a play in the early 1990s, partly inspired by the media circus around the | trial in 1992. He shelved the play after realizing the story would not wor ... |
Pete Townshend | ... centric. His first album, recorded with Wild Willy Barrett, was produced by | but sold only fitfully. The follow-up singles fared no better despite some ... |
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 ... |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ... the 20th century. Novel is also represented by Alexandros Papadiamantis and | |
Frédéric Bastiat | ... s coined in 1914 by Friedrich von Wieser in his book "". • However, in 1848 | described this concept in his essa |
Emperor Go-Toba | In 1221, because of the Jōkyū Incident, an unsuccessful attempt by | to seize real power, the Kamakura shogunate completely excluded those of t ... |
Robert Bork | ... onfirm nominees of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, including | and Clarence Thomas |
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: ... |
Roger Ebert | According to | , on his review of Fat City, "His fascination with underdogs and losers. T ... |
Piers Paul Read | Criticisms against Opus Dei have prompted Catholics like | and Vittorio Messori to call Opus Dei a sign of contradiction, in referenc ... |
Dorothy L. Sayers | Much of | ' writings on social and economic matters has affinity with distributism, ... |
Barack Obama | ... John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the 2009 inauguration ceremony for | , along with Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill ... |
Kenneth Branagh | ... ilm, made during the Second World War, emphasises the patriotic side, while | 's 1989 film stresses the horrors of war. A 2003 Royal National Theatre pr ... |
Harold Pinter | ... his wife. When his wife then calls demanding to know why he is late for the | play, he tries to call Vicky, but is unable to reach her. Vicky sees Steve ... |
Neil Young | ... on Polydor Records in Germany. Thereafter, Mosley and Craviotto joined with | to form The Ducks, which played in and around the Santa Cruz area during 1 ... |
President Clinton | ... Employment, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from then | for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide. In April 2002, K ... |
Emperor Horikawa | This 13th century sovereign was named after the 10th century | and go- (後), translates literally as "later;" and thus, he is sometimes ca ... |
Soong Ching-ling | ... Soong sisters: Soong Ai-ling, wife of H. H. Kung (once China's richest man) | ;, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President C ... |
John Travolta | ... Cool (2005), a crime/comedy about the film and music industries that stars | , Uma Thurman and The Rock. She produced and starred as "Lucy" in Illegal ... |
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 ... |
Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ... Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Roberto I of Parma and | , on 20 April 1893 at the Villa Pianore in Lucca in Italy, producing four ... |
O. Henry | ... ded in 1983. Austin is also home to the O. Henry House Museum, residence of | from 1893–1895. Farmers markets are popular attractions, providing a varie ... |
Juliana | ... onal and economic", according to one contemporary publication. The birth of | , on 30 April 1909, was met with great relief after eight years of childle ... |
Eadred | ... stan's appointment, in 946, King Edmund was assassinated. His successor was | . The policy of the new government was supported by the Queen Mother, Eadg ... |
Gus Van Sant | ... et experimental film Gerry (2002), which he co-wrote with Casey Affleck and | . Damon garnered generally positive critical reaction for his Golden Globe ... |
William Shakespeare | ... does not appear on old documents, in the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by | , there is a reference of swords presumably made of Biscayan iron to which ... |
Albert Einstein | In the early 20th century, Frederick Frost Blackman along with | investigated the effects of light intensity (irradiance) and temperature o ... |
E. R. Thiele | ... kah's reign. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while | , following H. J. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... participated actively in the Surrealist movement. Together with the writer | and artist Marcel Duchamp, he was a member of the Rue du Château group. He ... |
Hugh Williamson | ... mas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, Gouverneur Morris, and | . Their political speeches show distinct deistic influence |
Benjamin Franklin | ... tigate mesmerism; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by | , included Bailly and Lavoisier. The commissioners learned about Mesmeric ... |
Justinian I | ... cally a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors Theodosius I and | ) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came under the administr ... |
James Rado | ... an and produced by Michael Butler and the Smothers Brothers. As co-creators | and Gerome Ragni and half of the cast were leaving the production to join ... |
Rajendra Prasad | ... ic of India was officially proclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr. | as the first President of India, taking over from Governor General Rajgopa ... |
Sally Field | The 1983 film Places in the Heart starring | was also filmed in Waxahachie. Unlike Mercies, it was filmed deliberately ... |
Constantine P. Cavafy | ... lamas, Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian | and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis are among the most ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and | |
Abel Muzorewa | ... support for the Internal Settlement government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, under | , and campaigned along with Samuel Hayakawa for the immediate lifting of s ... |
Sima Qian | The Chinese historian | , writing a century after the First Emperor's death, wrote that it took 70 ... |
Edmund | ... f great influence, and on the death of King Æthelstan in 940, the new King, | , summoned him to his court at Cheddar and made him a minister |
Stanislaus II of Poland | ... cember 1757 – 8 March 1758), fathered by Catherine's lover, the future King | #Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to Friedrich Maximil ... |
Suetonius | ... generic term for the governor of a Roman province, known after the time of | , and specifically a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors Th ... |
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 ... |
Joan Biskupic | ... ervened: "Maybe we should go through counsel." According to his biographer, | , Scalia "ridiculed" the majority in his dissent for being so ready to cas ... |
John Ruskin | ... different from most modern forms, taking influence from William Cobbett and | , who combined elements of radicalism, challenging the establishment posit ... |
Jotham | ... king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years. In the second year of his reign | became king of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded ... |
James Joyce | ... n the Oxford English Dictionary is the onomatopoeic tattarrattat, coined by | in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gi ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ant figures in American politics who participated in the Enlightenment were | and Thomas Jefferson |
Mathieu Kérékou | ... about many changes of government. The last of these brought to power Major | as the head of a regime professing strict Marxist-Leninist principles. The ... |
Aelia Eudocia | ... tine direction, and is said to have been built at the behest of the Empress | . This pool, having been somewhat abandoned and left to ruin, partly survi ... |
Alexander I | ... lexander (whom she greatly favored, and who subsequently became the emperor | in 1801). Her harshness towards Paul probably stemmed as much from politic ... |
Gouverneur Morris | ... philosophy include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, | , and Hugh Williamson. Their political speeches show distinct deistic infl ... |
Melvin Frank | It was adapted by | and Jack Rose from the story "She Loves Me, She Told Me So Last Night" by ... |
Theodosius I | ... nius, and specifically a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors | and Justinian I) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came unde ... |
Keynesian | ... trade policy of the United States and Britain during the 19th Century, with | stimulus policies |
Pliny the Elder | ... me authors identify the old settlement of Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by | , or with Flaviobriga, by Ptolemy. There are also ancient walls, discovere ... |
William II | ... e received the area's submission. This fortress was destroyed by the Danes. | gave the barony of Bedford to Paine de Beauchamp who built a new, strong c ... |
Charles Wood | ... aring in plays by Edward Albee (Tiny Alice), Alan Bennett (Forty Years On), | (Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespear ... |
Idi Amin | ... omplaining of the inconsistency of lifting them on Uganda immediately after | 's departure, but not Zimbabwe Rhodesia after Ian Smith's. Helms hosted Mu ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of | 's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/B ... |
President of the European Parliament | ... als in technical matters such as the free trade agreement with Ukraine. The | meanwhile articulates the EU's values |
Eric Manes | ... The first film to take full advantage of this change was Martin Kunert and | ' Voices of Iraq, where 150 DV cameras were sent to Iraq during the war an ... |
Ptolemy | ... Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by Pliny the Elder, or with Flaviobriga, by | . There are also ancient walls, discovered below the Church of San Antón, ... |
Elia Kazan | ... role in the original Broadway production. Both productions were directed by | |
Janet Jackson | ... e first MTV Australia Video Music Awards in Sydney's Luna Park, she spoofed | 's wardrobe malfunction by pulling down her dress to reveal both breasts, ... |
Kyril | ... d by the People's Republic of Bulgaria, under which his sole surviving son, | , was executed. On hearing of his son's death he said, "Everything is coll ... |
Varro | ... was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to Numa Pompilius. | states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), who had ... |
George Washington | ... is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and | |
Terrence Malick | ... iety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, | , David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Ol ... |
Elaine Showalter | ... is advances he cursed her so that her prophetic warnings would go unheeded. | called Nightingale's writing "a major text of English feminism, a link bet ... |
James Madison | ... r notable Founding Fathers may have been more directly deist. These include | , possibly Alexander Hamilton, Ethan Allen |
President of India | ... oclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as the first | , taking over from Governor General Rajgopalachari. Subsequently India inv ... |
Frances H. Flaherty | Flaherty was married to writer | from 1914 until his death in 1951. Frances worked on several of her husban ... |
Desta Damtew | ... ork married Dejazmatch Beyene Merid. Princess Tenagnework first married Ras | , and after she was widowed later married Ras Andargachew Messai. Princess ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, | , Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... he Surrealist movement. Together with the writer Raymond Queneau and artist | , he was a member of the Rue du Château group. He was also a member of the ... |
Martin Kunert | ... equipment prices. The first film to take full advantage of this change was | and Eric Manes' Voices of Iraq, where 150 DV cameras were sent to Iraq dur ... |
Su Shi | The poet | (1036–1101) popularized Hainan's isolation and exoticism when he was exile ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. | stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife crisis when he be ... |
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 ... |
Gerome Ragni | ... by Michael Butler and the Smothers Brothers. As co-creators James Rado and | and half of the cast were leaving the production to join the Acapulco prod ... |
Talvin Singh | ... rtists such as Bill Laswell, Incubus, Pitchshifter, Linkin Park, The Roots, | , MIDIval Punditz, Missy Elliott, The Freestylers, Nine Inch Nails and Dav ... |
Arthur Miller | ... uni starred as Willy Loman in the English opening of Death of a Salesman by | , on July 28, 1949 at the Phoenix Theatre, London. He took over from Lee J ... |
Alexander the Great | ... contains at least one potential historical error: It apparently claims that | intended Alexandria to be the capital of his empire. Actually, he built it ... |
Giorgos Seferis | ... os and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates | and Odysseas Elytis are among the most important poets of the 20th century ... |
Ethan Allen | ... e directly deist. These include James Madison, possibly Alexander Hamilton, | |
Sima Qian | ... opened and there is evidence suggesting that it remains relatively intact. | 's description of the tomb includes replicas of palaces and scenic towers, ... |
Empedocles | ... ted from the nearby harbour of Porto Empedocle (named after the philosopher | who lived in ancient Akragas). However, nowadays Agrigento is one of the p ... |
Frank Capra | ... ue to "chronic illness". She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the | film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady f ... |
Patrick Pearse | ... olly out of any such rash action, the IRB leaders, including Tom Clarke and | , met with Connolly to see if an agreement could be reached. During the me ... |
Claudius | ... en a crossing of the River Thames at Staines since Roman times. The emperor | sent the Romans into Britain in 43 A.D and they settled in Staines the sam ... |
DJ Zinc | ... 's Shogun Audio, DJ Fresh's Breakbeat Kaos and DJ Hype, Pascal and formerly | 's True Playaz (now known as Real Playaz as of 2006) |
Kenneth Branagh | ... soldier, whose name is an attempt at a phonetic rendition of "Llywelyn". In | 's acclaimed 1989 film version of the play, most of these scenes were play ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | In 1956, Robeson, along with close friend | , compared the anti-Stalinist revolution in Hungary to the "same sort of p ... |
Kebek | ... e 11 day caravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khans | and Qazan built palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan's summer pasture. ... |
Robert Osborne | ... sentials on Turner Classic Movies, but was replaced in May 2006 by TCM host | and film critic Molly Haskell. Bogdanovich is also frequently featured in ... |
Princess Zenebework | ... children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, | , Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle Selassie |
Mao Zedong | ... rm their way into organs of political authority and usurp important posts." | , chairman of the People's Republic of China, was reviled for his persecut ... |
Peter III | ... spicious of Catherine upon her accession because she had annulled an act by | that had essentially freed the serfs belonging to the Orthodox Church. Nat ... |
Victor Hugo | ... Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, a character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by | , and the mention in Dumas's The Three Musketeers of the old custom of bra ... |
Stephen I of Hungary | The alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given to | by Sylvester in the year 1000 (hence the reign title 'Apostolic King') is ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... press as a short list vice-presidential running mate for Republican nominee | , and was named chairman of Veterans for Bush |
Stuart M. Kaminsky | ... . Besides directing, he also narrates portions of the story. Film historian | notes that Huston presents Sigmund Freud, played by Montgomery Clift, "as ... |
Adolf Bastian | ... hological "motifs," Hubert and Mauss's "categories of the imagination," and | 's "primordial thoughts. |
John Calvin | Later writers, such as Martin Luther (1483-1546), | (1509-1564), and Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) reacted in different ways ag ... |
Ken Wilber | ... authors associated with the new age community have also advocated vitalism. | (1996) has argued that a purposive force guides the course of evolution. D ... |
Michael Heseltine | ... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, | , formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ... |
Emmanuel Todd | ... ively high propensity to " with rates ranging from 20% to 50%. According to | the relatively high exogamy among French Algerians can be explained by the ... |
Yayi Boni | ... this was not changed and he stood down after the election of his successor, | |
Chuck Norris | ... ed there. The long-running television series Walker, Texas Ranger, starring | , was filmed in Waxahachie on occasion |
Emperor Joseph II | In 1780, the son of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, | , toyed with the idea of determining whether or not to enter an alliance w ... |
DJ Hype | ... e's Lifted Music, DJ Friction's Shogun Audio, DJ Fresh's Breakbeat Kaos and | , Pascal and formerly DJ Zinc's True Playaz (now known as Real Playaz as o ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... of stardom." After meeting Damon on the set of Good Will Hunting, director | cast Damon as the titular character in the 1998 World War II film Saving P ... |
Martin Luther | Later writers, such as | (1483-1546), John Calvin (1509-1564), and Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) rea ... |
Princess Tenagnework | By Menen Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: | , Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince ... |
Arthur Miller | ... roblems also led to the breakup of her marriage to the film's scriptwriter, | , "virtually on set." Huston later commented about this period in her care ... |
Hilaire Belloc | ... jection of this new program was due to the direct influence of the ideas of | over American distributists |
Leonhard Euler | ... sis of the lunar data in the early decades of the Nautical Almanac, £300 to | for his (assumed) contribution to the work of Mayer, £50 each to Richard D ... |
Sarah Orne Jewett | In Maine writer, | 's novel, Country of the Pointed Firs, one of the residents of Dunnet, Mai ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Zhao's | ... ilitary. The minimum age for the military draft was reduced to twenty after | (r. 87–74 BCE) reign. Conscripted soldiers underwent one year of training ... |
Henry II | Bedford traces its borough charter in 1166 by | and elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons |
Henry Frederick | ... manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old son | king "acknowledgeth himself ordained for his people, having received from ... |
Damon Runyon | ... (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady for a Day), based on a story by | . She accepted her next role, in the Grand Guignol horror film What Ever H ... |
Menen Asfaw | By | , Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfa ... |
Henry VIII | ... seven schools established, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King | during the Dissolution of the Monasteries to pray for his soul. In 2006, 3 ... |
Ben Hecht | ... k. Also in 1946, he appeared on Broadway in A Flag is Born, also written by | , to help promote the creation of a Jewish state in Israel. Directed by St ... |
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 ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protege of John B. Connally and | , and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story f ... |
Yayi Boni | | | |Independen |
Angelos Sikelianos | ... rldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as Kostis Palamas, Dionysios Solomos, | and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates G ... |
Isabella I of Castile | In 1469 Queen | and King Ferdinand of Aragon were married in the city; by the 15th century ... |
Joseph Haydn | The earliest known concerto for double bass was written by | ca.1763, and is presumed lost in a fire at the Eisenstadt library. The ear ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... after the 18th century. In 1860, the inhabitants enthusiastically supported | in his conquest of southern Italy (in the course of the Unification of Ita ... |
Hadrian | ... iginally the Shrine of the Four Nymphs (Tetranymphon), a nymphaeum built by | during the construction of Aelia Capitolina in 135, and mentioned in Byzan ... |
Medferiashwork Abebe | ... Princess Wolete Israel Seyoum and then following their divorce to Princess | . Prince Makonnen was married to Princess Sara Gizaw. Prince Sahle Selassi ... |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... 62 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between Harold Macmillan and | , the United States would supply Britain with Polaris missiles, launch tub ... |
Van Rompuy, Herman | ... , Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - Van Hoegaerden, Victor - | - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - Emile Verhaere ... |
Andrew Jackson Downing | During the early 1850s, architect and horticulturist | designed a landscape plan for the Mall. Over the next half century, federa ... |
Princess Fawzia | ... asha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran. In the same year, | of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, | and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 19 ... |
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 ... |
Gordon Campbell | ... e effectively portrayed the BC Liberals' new leader, former Vancouver mayor | , as a pawn of big business and a dangerous right-wing extremist. Clark wa ... |
Dionysios Solomos | ... -selling singers worldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as Kostis Palamas, | , Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy ... |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ... he long-running British legal programme Crown Court. In 1975, he starred as | in the BBCs historical drama The Love School. He found fame only years lat ... |
Vittorio Messori | ... nalists who have worked independently on Opus Dei, such as John Allen, Jr., | , Patrice de Plunkett, Maggy Whitehouse, Noam Friedlander many of the crit ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... elt the humour was outdated and incomprehensible to modern audiences, while | , in his equally praised 1944 film version of the play, staged the comic s ... |
Bruno Amoussou | ... president) 27.1%, Adrien Houngbédji (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and | (Minister of State) 8.6%. The second round balloting, originally scheduled ... |
E. F. Schumacher | Distributism is known to have had an influence on the economist | , a convert to Catholicism |
Spike Lee | ... ilter journalism to interview various NBA stars. The spots were directed by | |
Grand Empress Dowager Lü Zhi | ... rivate minting of coins. This decision was reversed in 186 BCE by his widow | (d. 180 BCE), who abolished private minting. In 182 BCE, Lü Zhi issued a b ... |
Gustav IV Adolph | ... esses, they ended with two failures. Her Swedish cousin (once removed) King | visited her in September 1796, the empress's intention being that her gran ... |
Ian McKellen | ... ly, Goldfinger was adapted for BBC Radio with Toby Stephens as Bond and Sir | as Goldfinger |
Santiago Bernabeu | ... pressive centralism and the fascist regime at management level and beyond ( | , the former club president for whom the Merengues stadium is named, fough ... |
Larry King | Though her announcement did not provide any details, in an interview with | on CNN's Larry King Live after her daughter's birth and her son's death, S ... |
Harry Turtledove | Humble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in | 's alternate history novel |
Benito Mussolini | ... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when | 's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name |
Patricia Highsmith | ... come known for choosing a wide variety of film roles, from his portrayal of | 's anti-hero Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to a fallen ange ... |
Genghis Khan | ... The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek and Qazan built palaces here on the site of | 's summer pasture. In 1364, Timur also built a fortified palace with moats ... |
Richard Viguerie | ... as the second most-expensive nation-wide (John Tower's in Texas), thanks to | and Alex Castellanos's pioneering direct mail strategies. However, it was ... |
Alicia Keys | ... Furtado also hosted a program about AIDS on MTV, which also featured guests | and Justin Timberlake. On September 27, 2011, Furtado announced during Fre ... |
Aristophanes | ... red wine but accepts a drink of barley, water and pennyroyal called kykeon. | made reference to pennyroyal as abortifacient in Lysistrata and Peace. Mar ... |
Prince Makonnen | ... nagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, | , and Prince Sahle Selassie |
Bill Clinton | ... e Roadless Initiative passed on 5 January 2001, during the last days of the | Administration, and the initiative prevented the construction of new roads ... |
Ferdowsi | In Persia, works such as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Epic of Kings by | provided evidence of political analysis, while the Middle Eastern Aristote ... |
Kostis Palamas | ... one of the best-selling singers worldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as | , Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Con ... |
Prince Sahle Selassie | ... ce Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and | |
Martin Scorsese | ... ugh, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, | , Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Wa ... |
George Washington | ... rea that would lie between the Capitol building and an equestrian statue of | to be placed directly south of the White House (see L'Enfant Plan). The Na ... |
Adrien Houngbédji | ... athieu Kérékou (incumbent) 45.4%, Nicephore Soglo (former president) 27.1%, | (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and Bruno Amoussou (Minister of State) ... |
Jehoahaz | ... urned to Egypt. On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selected | to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiak ... |
St. Catherine of Siena | ... Adrian Dominican Sister in Michigan, travels around the country portraying | . Doyle-Murray uses his hyphenated name (Doyle is his grandmother's maiden ... |
Joseph Priestley | ... ant's biomass comes from the inputs of photosynthesis, not the soil itself. | , a chemist and minister, discovered that, when he isolated a volume of ai ... |
Isaac Newton | ... greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir | , and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or me ... |
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 ... |
Andy C | ... most prominent DJ–producers, such as London Elektricity's Hospital Records, | 's Ram, Goldie's Metalheadz, Chris Renegade's Lifted Music, DJ Friction's ... |
Irving Thalberg | ... Buck, of the same name. Because he was not of Asian descent, when producer | offered him the role, he stated, "I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover. |
Queen Beatrix | ... a status retained by her daughter, Queen Juliana, and by her granddaughter, | |
Benjamin Franklin | ... the first official U.S. stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting | and George Washington. A few other countries issued stamps in the late 184 ... |
Charles I | ... o held their tenure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), | and Charles II |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... soil. Several groups developed competing proposals, and in 1933, President | authorized the Columbia Basin Project. The Grand Coulee Dam was the projec ... |
Pekahiah | ... kh; "open-eyed"; ) was king of Israel. He was a captain in the army of king | of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah (; ... |
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 ... |
Crispus | ... le of Mardia in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons | and Constantine II, and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars |
Aristotle | ... Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and Averroes, continued | 's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing commentaries on Aristotle ... |
Will Shortz | ... stlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with Arianna Huffington, and | . Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jockey in Kill Bill Vo ... |
Henry VI of England | ... France, and made his England bleed" – a reminder of the tumultuous reign of | , which Shakespeare had previously brought to the stage in a trilogy of pl ... |
Averroes | ... the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and | , continued Aristotle's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing comm ... |
Arianna Huffington | ... n the "Robots Versus Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with | , and Will Shortz. Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jocke ... |
Vittorio Messori | ... riticisms against Opus Dei have prompted Catholics like Piers Paul Read and | to call Opus Dei a sign of contradiction, in reference to the biblical quo ... |
Maria Theresa | ... h the agency of Prince Henry), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under | ) began preparing the ground for the partitions of Poland. In the first pa ... |
Robert Aldrich | ... forced by circumstance to share a decaying Hollywood mansion. The director, | , explained that Davis and Crawford were each aware of how important the f ... |
Gil Noble | ... he 5,000 gathered there as he had earlier in the year to London. Journalist | called the concert "perhaps the most emotional and moving in Robeson's lon ... |
Oliver Stone | ... lick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and | . He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In televisio ... |
Julius Scheiner | The Scheinergrade (Sch.) system was devised by the German astronomer | (1858–1913) in 1894 originally as a method of comparing the speeds of plat ... |
Sammy Cahn | ... est Music, Original Dramatic Score, Best Music, Song (for George Barrie and | for "All That Love Went to Waste"), Best Picture and Best Writing, Story a ... |
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 ... |
Queen Elizabeth | ... in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against | , but he was acquitted of those charges. He succeeded his father as Baron ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... at heroes of Chinese history". Ma compared him with the contemporary leader | and saw many parallels in the careers and policies of the two men, both of ... |
Prince Henry | Prussia (through the agency of | ), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ... |
James Joyce | ... y comes from the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake by | . On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the ... |
Kay Bailey Hutchison | ... ral level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and | ; Waxahachie is part of Texas' US Congressional 6th District, which is cur ... |
Kevin Smith | ... Rob Reiner, screenwriter William Goldman, and their friend writer/director | , the two made changes to the script. The script eventually became Good Wi ... |
Catherine of Valois | ... lowing the victory at Agincourt, Henry attempts to woo the French princess, | . This is difficult because he does not speak French well and she does not ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General | |
Gary Dornhoefer | ... son and the Flyers recorded their first winning season. An overtime goal by | in Game 5 turned the tide of their first round series with the Minnesota N ... |
Donna Hogan | According to a story published in the New York Daily News, | , Smith's younger half-sister, has said that the model froze the sperm of ... |
Thomas Hobbes | Like Machiavelli, | , well known for his theory of the social contract, believed that a strong ... |
Alan Bates | ... starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as Otto von Bismarck and | as Rudi von Sternberg |
Dorothy Day | ... an by making him more dependent on the Servile State. Distributists such as | did not favor social security when it was introduced by the United States ... |
Henry III | ... d game. El Pardo was a region visited frequently by kings since the time of | , in the 14th century. The Catholic Monarchs started the construction of t ... |
Arthur Koestler | ... force is guiding the course of biological evolution was the science writer | (1967, 1978). Koestler provided examples of evolutionary development that ... |
Jonathan Aitken | ... d expulsion. The last individual to leave the Privy Council voluntarily was | , who left on 25 June 1997 following allegations of perjury |
Carl Jung | Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, coined by | . It is proposed to be a part of the unconscious mind, expressed in humani ... |
Julius Caesar | ... and its inhabitants received full Roman citizenship following the death of | in 44 BC |
Otto von Bismarck | ... by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as | and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg |
Albert Einstein | ... Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to | 's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this p ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... Domingo in 1498, far from the reach of the Medici and the Spanish King, but | soon found out and had Columbus put into chains |
Attila the Stockbroker | ... ll of his albums. In the 1990s, he toured as "Headbutts and Halibuts", with | with whom he wrote a surreal rock opera called Cheryl. In 1992 Otway appea ... |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband | , Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ... |
Ferdinand IV of Castile | ... unicipal charter dated in Valladolid on June 15, 1300 and confirmed by king | in Burgos, on January 4, 1301. Diego López stablished the new town on the ... |
Maxine Hong Kingston | ... y High School. Silhouette artist Kara Walker was raised in Stockton, as was | , author of The Woman Warrior. Mixed martial artists Nick and Nate Diaz we ... |
Grigory Potemkin | | had had involvement in the coup d'état of 1762. In 1772, Catherine's close ... |
Niccolò Machiavelli | During the Italian Renaissance, | established the emphasis of modern political science on direct empirical o ... |
King Hussein of Jordan | ... ardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs. | bought a fleet of cars that Mardas had customised, but the cars proved to ... |
George Washington | ... . stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting Benjamin Franklin and | . A few other countries issued stamps in the late 1840s. Many others, such ... |
Charles II | ... enure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), Charles I and | |
Sir Frank Whittle | Coventry has been the home to several pioneers in science and engineering. | , the inventor of the jet engine, was from the city, as was the inventor J ... |
George Washington | ... l carved nobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers. | gave Connecticut the title of "The Provisions State" because of the materi ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... de of How I Met Your Mother along with Arianna Huffington, and Will Shortz. | also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jockey in Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill ... |
Serge Gainsbourg | ... ican singers Joan Baez and Nat King Cole. In 1961, French singer-songwriter | paid tribute to "Les feuilles mortes" in his own song "La chanson de Préve ... |
Alfonso XI | ... th the Royal Fuero, granted by Alfonso X of Castile in 1262 and ratified by | in 1339. On the other hand, the town of Buitrago de Lozoya, Alcalá de Hena ... |
Roy Castle | ... e McWhirters co-presented the BBC television programme Record Breakers with | from 1972 until Ross's death in 1975; Norris continued appearing on the sh ... |
Richard Brodie | | , Charles Simonyi, and David Luebbert, members of the Microsoft Word devel ... |
Licinius | In the year 320, | reneged on the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan in 313 and ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture | upon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona |
Bob Phillips | ... . The steel house was featured on an episode of Texas Country Reporter with | shortly before Bruno's death |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... ernardino Ferrari and others, as well as tempera polyptych of the school of | |
Tiger Woods | ... ics for the Salaam Remi produced track are reported to be influenced by the | cheating scandal, in which was originally referred to as "Elin's Song". On ... |
Ferdinand II of Portugal | ... Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of | , and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Co ... |
Ahaz | ... g of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded by his son, | in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. William F. Albright has dated hi ... |
German Emperor Wilhelm II | ... outbreak of the First World War, the young Wilhelmina visited the powerful | , who boasted to the Queen of a relatively small country, "my guards are s ... |
Malcolm IV | ... Crown came to his youngest son, David. David was succeeded by his grandsons | , and then by William the Lion, the longest-reigning King of Scots before ... |
John Belushi | ... ns from 1973 to 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer, | , Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis and his younger brother Bill. He appears in m ... |
Lewin Bentham Bowring | ... strongly posted, and whose posts have not been reconnoitered by daylight". | gives this alternative account |
Eric Idle | ... uccess. He assessed happiness by his friendships and his enjoyment of life. | and Stephen Fry said Cook had not wasted his talent but rather that the ne ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... ic place name Oddi, site of the church and school where students, including | , were educated. The derivation of the word "Edda" as the name of Snorri S ... |
Van Rompuy | Since the creation of the European Council presidency, President | and Commission President Barroso have begun to compete with each other as ... |
Lindsay Thompson | ... being John Cain (1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was | (1981–82), on 16 July 2008 |
Tony Rundle | As of 24 January 2011, seven former premiers are alive, the oldest being | (1996–98, born 1939). The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ... |
Alfredo Poveda | ... oved by another military government. That military junta was led by Admiral | , who was declared chairman of the Supreme Council. The Supreme Council in ... |
Gunderic | ... taces. The remainder of his people subsequently appealed to the Vandal king | to accept the Alan crown. Later Vandal kings in North Africa styled themse ... |
Martin Seligman | Psychologist | provides the acronym PERMA to summarize Positive Psychology's correlationa ... |
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 ... |
Justinian I | ... for the founding of the Justinian Dynasty that included his eminent nephew | and for the enactment of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old ... |
David Baddiel | ... t more racism. In April 2011, Jewish comedian, author and Chelsea-supporter | produced a short film stating that the anti-semitic chanting is as unaccep ... |
Joseph Priestley | ... of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated by | in England |
Harry Heilmann | ... y. (The Elias Book of Baseball Records, 2008, p. 88) That year, outfielders | and Ty Cobb finished #1 and #2 in the American League batting race with ba ... |
Cato the Elder | ... ng Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of | in 184 BC. It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter met ... |
Christopher Moltisanti | ... ode of The Sopranos entitled "Luxury Lounge", playing himself. In the show, | and Carmine Lupertazzi offer him a role in the fictional slasher film Clea ... |
Amr Moussa | ... f the League is traditionally an Egyptian. Former Egyptian Foreign Minister | is the present Secretary General of the Arab League. Egyptian Deputy Prime ... |
Walter Scott | ... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young | , but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ... |
William Shakespeare | ... d questionable. There is no confirmation for the view - as fictionalised in | 's Richard III (Act 3, Scene 5) - that Richard made any claims about his b ... |
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 ... |
Gilda Radner | ... o 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer, John Belushi, | , Harold Ramis and his younger brother Bill. He appears in most films that ... |
Jaime Roldós Aguilera | Elections were held on April 29, 1979, under a new constitution. | was elected president, garnering over one million votes, the most in Ecuad ... |
Flodoard | ... , Gregorovius, von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon of Naples, | , and others make no mention of this story |
Barroso | ... European Council presidency, President Van Rompuy and Commission President | have begun to compete with each other as Van Rompuy has benefited from the ... |
Virgil | ... als became a school text for Roman schoolchildren, eventually supplanted by | 's Aeneid. About 600 lines survive. A copy of the work is among the Latin ... |
Paolo Giordano | ... y. Prime numbers are used as a metaphor for loneliness and isolation in the | novel , in which they are portrayed as "outsiders" among integers |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... h century as a reaction against then-dominant systematic philosophies, with | generally considered to be the first existentialist philosopher |
Stephen Phillips | Well-known poets of the Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as Alfred Austin, | , and William Watson, had been working very much in the shadow of Tennyson ... |
Constans | ... ceeded by his three sons born of Fausta, Constantine II, Constantius II and | . A number of relatives were killed by followers of Constantius, notably C ... |
Terry Gilliam | Damon played a fictionalized version of Wilhelm Grimm in | 's fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm (2005), which was a critically pan ... |
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 ... |
Abul Kalam Azad | ... 47, the nationalist leaders of British India—including Jawaharlal Nehru and | representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, and Mast ... |
E. M. Forster | ... y in Wiltshire, although he maintained contact with a circle which included | and J. R. Ackerley. One of his closest friends was the young cricketer Den ... |
Jim Bacon | ... (1969–72), on 27 August 2004. The most recently-serving premier to die was | (1998–2004), on 20 June 2004 |
Alfred Austin | Well-known poets of the Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as | , Stephen Phillips, and William Watson, had been working very much in the ... |
Malcolm | ... tle at the hands of Macbeth, who was killed himself in 1057 by Duncan's son | . The following year, after killing Macbeth's stepson Lulach, Malcolm asce ... |
Maximilian III | The Administrator of Prussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order | , son of emperor Maximilian II died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 161 ... |
Peter III of Russia | ... 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husband, Emperor | , but claimed by Catherine to be the son of her lover, Count Serge Saltyko |
Ezra Pound | ... specially Cubism. Although Imagism isolates objects through the use of what | called "luminous details", Pound's Ideogrammic Method of juxtaposing concr ... |
James Macpherson | In 1761 | announced the discovery of an epic written by Ossian (Oisín) in the Scotti ... |
Rostam Mirlashari | ... ntury. However, a Swedish folk band, Golbang and Padik with the lead singer | originally from Zahedan & Lashar in Balochistan, has made progress in intr ... |
Odoacer | ... avenna. In 476, the last Western Empreror Romulus Augustulus was deposed by | ; for a few years Italy stayed united under the rule of Odoacer, but soon ... |
Sartre | ... k, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and | . A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud and studied with ... |
Maury Wills | ... record with 96 steals in 1915 that stood until 1962, when it was broken by | . Baseball historian Bill James has ranked the 1915 Tigers outfield as the ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... man and Arabic naturalists and physicians. Several ancient writers, such as | and Scribonius Largus, attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks d ... |
Richard Belzer | ... some 600 stations from 1973 to 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included | , John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis and his younger brother Bill. H ... |
Bob Dylan | ... itten by Gordon Lightfoot and popularized by artists such as Elvis Presley, | , and Peter, Paul and Mary |
Paul I of Russia | #Emperor | (1 October 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husba ... |
Mark Twain | ... st doubt on the protagonist's version of events. Another influence might be | 's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually ... |
Lothair | ... for his succession, but Hugh Capet appointed Arnulf, an illegitimate son of | instead. Arnulf was deposed in 991 for alleged treason against the King, a ... |
Richard III | ... t, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as | , both Elizabeth and her mother Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to ... |
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York | ... the monarchy), Richard III is described as "the undoubted son and heir" of | , and "born in this land" — an oblique reference to his brother's birth at ... |
Tipu Sultan | ... the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War broke out in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore, | . Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture ... |
Charles II | The principal advisor to | , the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ... |
Daron Hagen | ... ologue and two acts with a libretto by Irish poet Paul Muldoon and music by | was performed by the opera theatre at The University of Texas in Austin. T ... |
Euphemia | ... emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. His consort was Empress | |
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger | #Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to | , fathered by Catherine's lover, Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlo |
John Fiske | ... ames said most philosophers have an "antipathy to chance." His contemporary | described the absurd decisions that would be made if chance were real |
Daniel Dennett | In his book "Kinds of Minds", philosopher | wrote, "Dualism...and Vitalism (the view that living things contain some s ... |
Horace | Authors of antiquity, such as | and Pliny, were major influences on 18th century thinkers through their de ... |
Constantius II | ... s there. He was succeeded by his three sons born of Fausta, Constantine II, | and Constans. A number of relatives were killed by followers of Constantiu ... |
Tony Kornheiser | ... ring an episode of Pardon the Interruption that first aired August 3, 2010, | mentioned that in Frackville it's 20 degrees colder than anywhere else on ... |
Itzik Feffer | ... two emissaries from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels and | —who doubled as an informant for the NKVD |
Maximilian II | ... ussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order Maximilian III, son of emperor | died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 1618, and the Duchy of Prussia pas ... |
Sidney Lumet | ... ken made his feature film debut with a small role opposite Sean Connery, in | 's The Anderson Tapes. In 1972's The Mind Snatchers A.K.A. The Happiness C ... |
Henry W. Grady | Named The Model City by Atlanta newspaperman | for its careful planning in the late 19th century, the city is situated on ... |
Herodotus | ... merist version that begins the account of Persian-Hellene confrontations of | , she was kidnapped by Minoans, who likewise were said to have taken her t ... |
Wilhelm Grimm | Damon played a fictionalized version of | in Terry Gilliam's fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm (2005), which was ... |
Dave Barrett | The NDP first won election in 1972 under | , who served as Premier for three years. The NDP passed a great deal of le ... |
John Cain | As of December 2010, five former premiers are alive, the oldest being | (1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was Lindsay Thompso ... |
Philip II of France | ... 's daughter, Margaret of Geneva, to France for her intended wedding to King | . Thomas carried off Marguerite and married her himself, producing some ei ... |
Alastair Campbell | ... rhaps the best-known person in the UK often described as a "spin doctor" is | , who was involved with Tony Blair's public relations between 1994 and 200 ... |
David | ... s successively became king. Eventually, the Crown came to his youngest son, | . David was succeeded by his grandsons Malcolm IV, and then by William the ... |
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 ... |
John Travolta | ... it was Pan Am's frontline airliner during that time. Additional footage of | 's Boeing 707 in Pan Am livery has also been used in the TV series |
Scribonius Largus | ... alists and physicians. Several ancient writers, such as Pliny the Elder and | , attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks delivered by catfish a ... |
Bill James | ... hat stood until 1962, when it was broken by Maury Wills. Baseball historian | has ranked the 1915 Tigers outfield as the greatest in the history of majo ... |
Merlin Holland | ... s to the cause of the meningitis: Richard Ellmann claimed it was syphilitic | ;, Wilde's grandson, thought this to be a misconception, noting that Wilde ... |
Carl Sagan | In his science fiction novel Contact, NASA scientist | suggested that prime numbers could be used as a means of communicating wit ... |
Neil Young | ... t there would be no further financial support from Katz unless they did so. | , then of Buffalo Springfield, was in the room at the time, and kept his h ... |
Anastasius I | ... s ability, rose through the ranks to become a general and under the Emperor | ; by the time of Anastasius' death in 518, he held the influential positio ... |
Willy Russell | ... l other notable performers: Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite, Jonathan Pryce, | and Alan Bleasdale |
Franz Kafka | ... urd has been prominent in literature throughout history. Søren Kierkegaard, | , Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre an ... |
Romulus Augustulus | ... tal was moved from Mediolanum to Ravenna. In 476, the last Western Empreror | was deposed by Odoacer; for a few years Italy stayed united under the rule ... |
Muhammad Iqbal | ... ct of Muslims in politics. In his presidential address of 29 December 1930, | called for "the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State ... |
Thomas Browne | ... "electric" and "electricity", which made their first appearance in print in | 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646 |
Alexander III | ... s succeeded by his son Alexander II. Alexander II, as well as his successor | , attempted to take over the Western Isles, which were still under the ove ... |
Bill Murray | ... d his younger brother Bill. He appears in most films that star his brother, | . However, he has also landed a series of roles in other films. He memorab ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alan Bennett | ... on of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of | 's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Cr ... |
Max Beerbohm | ... sent a telegram to Ross: "Terribly weak. Please come." His moods fluctuated | ;relates how their mutual friend Reginald 'Reggie' Turner had found Wilde ... |
Justin II | ... ssimus and had Praejecta (b. ca 520), married to the senator Areobindus and | (b. ca 520) |
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos | ... as followed in 1984 by León Febres Cordero from the Social Christian Party. | of the Democratic Left (Izquierda Democrática or ID) party won the preside ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of | " |
Maria Clementina Sobieska | ... e female bust bears a resemblance to the Jacobite Queen and Polish Princess | , wife of James the Old Pretender. The two putti with reddish hair who acc ... |
Frederick II | ... had several times mediated between the Lombards and the Holy Roman Emperor | reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending parties. In the n ... |
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 ... |
Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach | The Teutonic Order lost eastern Prussia when Grand Master | converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teuton ... |
Dick Bruna | ... emale rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist | . The original Dutch name, Nijntje, is a shortening of konijntje, "little ... |
Lord Byron | Mary and Percy Shelley and | holidayed by the lake and wrote ghost stories, one of which became the bas ... |
Henry VIII | The chief minister of | , the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Rom ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... prominent in literature throughout history. Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, | and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus contai ... |
Gordon Lightfoot | ... Miller Band and written by Paul Pena; and "Early Morning Rain", written by | and popularized by artists such as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Peter, Pa ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... om were women) an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl. | wrote of her |
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 ... |
Brian Kernighan | ... ve a Wang C/A/T phototypesetter owned by the Labs; it was later enhanced by | to support output to different equipment, such as laser printers and the l ... |
Chevy Chase | ... has also landed a series of roles in other films. He memorably appeared as | 's uptight boss in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and co-st ... |
Albert Frederick | ... viate of Brandenburg became co-regents with Albert's son, the feeble-minded | |
Alan Bleasdale | ... rformers: Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite, Jonathan Pryce, Willy Russell and | |
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 | |
Will Rogers | The Will Rogers Scout Reservation, named for | , one of Oklahoma's favorite sons, is the premier camping facility of the ... |
Sir Angus Bethune | ... being Tony Rundle (1996–98, born 1939). The most recent premier to die was | (1969–72), on 27 August 2004. The most recently-serving premier to die was ... |
Speaker of the House of Commons | ... vereign is always appointed to the Council, as is the Lord Chamberlain, the | , and the Lord Speaker |
Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... ave had their births recorded). Furthermore, the christening celebration of | , the second son of Richard and Cecily, was a lavish and expensive affair ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... r, Richard Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen | at the trial of the Earl of Strafford earlier that year; referring to John ... |
Otto I | ... erbert with him. There Gerbert met Pope John XIII (965–972) and the Emperor | , surnamed the Great (936–973). The Pope persuaded Otto I to employ Gerber ... |
Hyperides | ... red only 110 triremes, which ties in with Aeschylus's numbers. According to | , the Greek fleet numbered only 220. The fleet was effectively under the c ... |
Abdalá Bucaram | ... D) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against | (brother in law of Jaime Roldos and founder of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Pa ... |
Alexander II | ... needed for the Crusades. William died in 1214, and was succeeded by his son | . Alexander II, as well as his successor Alexander III, attempted to take ... |
Ludovic Kennedy | ... k returned to the BBC as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling for an appearance with | in A Life in Pieces. The 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life bas ... |
Milo Parker Jewett | ... ye Anne Fox (PhD. in Chemistry, 1974), founding president of Vassar College | , founder and first president of Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and ... |
James Joyce | ... ly in modern Irish literature. Most notably he makes several appearances in | 's Finnegans Wake, and some have posited that the title, taken from the st ... |
John Travolta | ... has been replaced with an Airbus A310-325, YR-LCB "Moldova". American actor | owns, and is qualified to fly as second in command, an ex-Qantas 707-138B, ... |
Giovannino Guareschi | ... Camillo is the main character created by the Italian writer and journalist | (1908-1968), and is based on the historical Roman Catholic priest, WW II p ... |
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 ... |
Bill Nighy | ... in Liverpool in the mid 1970s, alongside several other notable performers: | , Pete Postlethwaite, Jonathan Pryce, Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale |
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 ... |
León Febres Cordero | ... ely succeeded by Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado who was followed in 1984 by | from the Social Christian Party. Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic ... |
Pharaoh | ... f Jehoiakim, he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with | Hophra of Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah. . Nebuchadnez ... |
Dalmatius | ... ives were killed by followers of Constantius, notably Constantine's nephews | (who held the rank of Caesar) and Hannibalianus, presumably to eliminate p ... |
Steven Hill | Las Vegas castmembers Trishelle Cannatella and | appeared in the horror film Scorned. Cannatella has also appeared on other ... |
Gary Dornhoefer | ... , Bill Sutherland, Ed Van Impe, Joe Watson, Lou Angotti, Leon Rochefort and | . Having purchased the minor-league Quebec Aces, the team had a distinctly ... |
Samuel Johnson | Conversely, in 1774, | published The Patriot, a critique of what he viewed as false patriotism. O ... |
Jill Johnson | ... Southern tune "Cotton-Eyed Joe". Other notable Swedish country acts include | and Calaisa |
J. R. Ackerley | ... though he maintained contact with a circle which included E. M. Forster and | . One of his closest friends was the young cricketer Dennis Silk. He forme ... |
Mike Harding | ... st successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, | and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose betwe ... |
Douglas Hofstadter | ... del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a 1979 book by | , described by his publishing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds an ... |
James H. Street | ... Muskogee. In literature, Lochapoka was the destination of the colonists in | 's 1940 novel Oh, Promised Land |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... e notion of the absurd has been prominent in literature throughout history. | , Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-P ... |
Dennis Silk | ... ster and J. R. Ackerley. One of his closest friends was the young cricketer | . He formed a close friendship with Vivien Hancock, headmistress of Greenw ... |
Haydn | ... section. Most classical pieces written for full orchestra since the time of | and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, a ... |
Hugh Hefner | In 1992 Smith was chosen by | to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed ... |
Plato | ... cient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of | and |
Henry VIII | ... nerations down to Catherine's sister, Anne, who would serve all six of King | 's |
William Butler Yeats | ... Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems. Future Nobel Prize winner | was devoting much of his energy to the Abbey Theatre and writing for the s ... |
Hitler | ... k, states, "The work of the Eugenics Board was not far from the thinking of | . |
Harold Ramis | ... kers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, | and his younger brother Bill. He appears in most films that star his broth ... |
Simeon of Bulgaria | ... f heirs and princes in several Christian royal houses, such as the cases of | or James Ogilvy |
George I | ... ious Stuart monarchs, chose to rely on a small committee of advisers. Under | even more power passed to this committee. It now began to meet in the abse ... |
John Irving | ... o major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of | 's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's ... |
Rod Serling | ... es Bemis for his antisocial behavior, and his greatest desire is thwarted." | 's conclusion alludes to the Scots language poem "To a Mouse" (for which O ... |
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 ... |
Victoria Wood | ... ces their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from Lenny Bruce. | launched her stand-up career in the early 1980s, which saw observational c ... |
President of Ireland | ... s the national parliament of Ireland, the Oireachtas. It is composed of the | , Seanad Éireann as the upper house, and Dáil Éireann as the lower house. ... |
Edmund Gosse | ... At the Grave of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, | , Thomas Hardy and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space ... |
Julius Caesar | ... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator | , who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ... |
Frederick II | ... ssia, was merged with the former Duchy of Prussia. On 31 January 1773, King | announced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as the Province of ... |
David | gained by the Ammonites over the king of Bashan. After | ha |
Bill Clinton | ... osted the Sharm El-Sheikh "Summit of the Peacemakers" attended by President | and other world leaders |
Eloy Alfaro | ... rorist group, "¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo!" ("Alfaro Lives, Dammit!") named after | . However, continuing economic problems undermined the popularity of the I ... |
Neil Strauss | ... ion. In the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. In 1997, | of defined alternative rock as "hard-edged rock distinguished by brittle, ... |
George W. Bush | ... tiations suspended in July 2000, and in June 2003, Mubarak hosted President | for another summit on Middle East peace process. Another summit was conven ... |
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 ... |
Derek Jacobi | ... scriva. It is directed by Roland Joffe, and stars Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, | , Golshifteh Farahani, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, and Lily Cole |
President of India | The Constitution envisages a scheme of affairs in which the | is the head of the executive in terms of Article 53 with office of the Pri ... |
Saparmurat Niyazov | The last living person to be officially proclaimed president for life was | of Turkmenistan |
Claude Simon | ... e length in his 1978 work René Char: the Myth and the Poem. French novelist | likewise found Orion an apt symbol, in this case of the writer, as he expl ... |
Edward VI | ... the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542. Henry VIII's son and successor, the young | , continued with further religious reforms but his early death in 1553 pre ... |
Augustus | ... to the revival of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from | to Trajan, which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Afri ... |
Jacques Diouf | ... future survival." The head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), | , has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form ... |
James Buchanan | ... th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since | in 1856. Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th ... |
Thomas Hardy | ... of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, Edmund Gosse, | and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space of time, came a ... |
Lucio Gutiérrez | ... e political capital, as illustrated by the most recent removal of President | from office by Congress in April 2005. Vice President Alfredo Palacio took ... |
Peter Lombard | ... law, including commentaries on the Pauline epistles and on the Sentences of | . He is sometimes referred to as famosissimus doctor |
James Keach | ... gels (2010). She also co-authored several children's books with her husband | for the This One 'N That One series |
Arrigo Boito | Giuseppe Verdi and librettist | adapted Shakespeare's play to Otello, an Italian grand opera in four acts ... |
Eglon | ... om which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to put | king of Moab to death, were probably the "graven images" (as the word is r ... |
Peter Andreas Munch | ... . Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch (1776–1839) and historian | (1810–1863) |
Trajan | ... val of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from Augustus to | , which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Africanus. Th ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... k, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author | described as "patronising and unfair" |
Stefan Rowecki | ... ible to the Government Delegate's at Home in the civilian chain of command. | (pseudonym Grot, or "Arrowhead"), served as the AK's first commander until ... |
Selina Scott | In 2008, Seymour replaced | as the new face of the British fashion label CC (formerly known as Country ... |
d'Holbach | ... heir actions are determined. "Hard determinists", such as Martin Luther and | , are those incompatibilists who accept determinism and reject free will. ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... Orion aveugle of 1970. Marion Perret argues that Orion is a silent link in | 's The Waste Land (1922), connecting the lustful Actaeon/Sweeney to the bl ... |
Nicolae Ceauşescu | ... ut they have not proclaimed themselves as President for Life. For instance, | of Romania, who ruled until his execution (see Romanian revolution) |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... the most influential proponents of this classical notion of patriotism was | |
Samuel Hahnemann | The founder of homeopathy, | , promoted an immaterial, vitalistic view of disease: "...they are solely ... |
Edward IV | ... or Woodville), sister of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King | consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1 ... |
Charles II | ... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished. | restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... but that it was part of some elaborate and dangerous intrigue instigated by | . |
Philippe de Commines | ... racted; both parties were dead by this time, but a clergyman (named only by | as Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells), claimed to have carried ... |
Humphry Davy | Sir | 's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of ele ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ately, the conflict culminated in success for the Lancastrian branch led by | , in 1485, when Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field |
Robert de Boron | ... a number of explanations are given for Arthur's possession of Excalibur. In | 's Merlin, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone. In ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... in the state and features call boxes built prior to the American Civil War. | , later president of the United States, was an apprentice tailor in Moores ... |
Amel-Marduk | ... reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor | (Evil Merodach) as 562/561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's cap ... |
François Duvalier | ... hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera, Josip Broz Tito and | died in office. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic af ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... rkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of | and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdit ... |
René Char | The twentieth-century French poet | found the blind, lustful huntsman, both pursuer and pursued, a central sym ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... e. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic after his death. | appointed himself in 82 BC to an entirely new office, dictator rei publica ... |
Gunderic | ... ozen, to invade Gaul, which they devastated terribly. Under Godigisel's son | , the Vandals plundered their way westward and southward through Aquitaine |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... "higher authority" by wire, which turns out as an all-ears U. S. President | (Attorney General William Henry Moody: "They say a billionaire from Scotla ... |
Henry VIII's | ... ishment except death, without being bound by normal court procedure. During | reign, the Sovereign, on the advice of the Council, was allowed to enact l ... |
Philip II | ... the Kingdom of Spain until 1561, when the city was destroyed by a fire and | , born here, moved the capital to Madrid, starting a period of decadence f ... |
Albert Camus | ... , Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre and | contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdity of the world |
President of India | ... me Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, chief advisor to the | , head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in ... |
T. E. Hulme | ... rigins of Imagism are to be found in two poems, Autumn and A City Sunset by | . These were published in January 1909 by the Poets' Club in London in a b ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... . This method was first introduced and made popular by New York City Mayor, | , in the early 1990s |
Lenny Bruce | ... ritish audiences their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from | . Victoria Wood launched her stand-up career in the early 1980s, which saw ... |
Josiah | Zedekiah was the third son of | , and his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he w ... |
President | ... cing the war himself. Nehemiah Clark, of the cast, expressed disapproval of | George W. Bush and the Iraq War, coming into conflict with Rachel Moyal, w ... |
Henry Vaughan | Sassoon was a great admirer of the Welsh poet | . On a visit to Wales in 1923, he paid a pilgrimage to Vaughan's grave at ... |
Steven Soderbergh | ... Linus Caldwell, alongside George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts, in | 's 2001 remake of the Rat Pack's 1960 caper film Ocean's 11; the successfu ... |
David | ... byword or collective name for the oppressors of the Israelite nation before | . Muslim tradition sees the battle with the Philistines as a prefiguration ... |
Poets' Club | ... d A City Sunset by T. E. Hulme. These were published in January 1909 by the | in London in a booklet called For Christmas MDCCCCVIII. Hulme was a studen ... |
Walthéry, François | ... lo - West Flanders - West Flemish - Western Hainaut - Wetteren - Wevelgem - | - Westhoek (region) - Wichelen - Wielsbeke - Wijnegem - Willebroek - Wille ... |
Charles Augustus Aiken | ... fessor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of Union College | . Nine of Dartmouth's 17 presidents were alumni of the College |
Philip III | ... him. It was made the capital of the kingdom again between 1601 and 1606 by | . The city was again damaged by a flood of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers |
Aurelian | ... , Constantine had reoccupied most of the long-lost province of Dacia, which | had been forced to abandon in 271. At the time of his death, he was planni ... |
Henry VIII | ... agued previous monarchs came to an end. The reign of the second Tudor king, | , was one of great political change. Religious upheaval and disputes with ... |
Hosni Mubarak | This support has continued to the present, with President | often intervening personally to promote peace negotiations. In 1996, he ho ... |
Paul of Tarsus | Most New Testament scholars believe | wrote this letter from Corinth, although information appended to this work ... |
Og | In a similar way the Israelites took the country of | , and these two victories gave them possession of the complete country eas ... |
Taylor Branch | ... ller, Damon Strange, who worked for a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Historian | called the conviction of Damon Strange a "breakthrough verdict" on p. 391 ... |
Albert Camus | ... elation to the concept of the devastating awareness of meaninglessness that | claimed that "there is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and t ... |
Og | ... bedstead (translated as "sarcophagus" in NIV Archaeological Study Bible) of | wa |
Edward VII | ... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by | "in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ... |
Frederick III | ... supporting Emperor Leopold I in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector | was allowed to crown himself "King in Prussia" in 1701. The new kingdom ru ... |
Vincenzo Scamozzi | ... y designs by architects such as Andrea Palladio, Inigo Jones, John Webb and | , which were ready for inspection. The ceiling is supported by eight large ... |
Rafael Correa | ... ce and remained in office until the presidential election of 2006, in which | gained the presidency |
Margaret Mead | ... rana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and | , among many others. He influenced generations of students as a teacher an ... |
Jennifer Saunders | ... , where many alternative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and | , Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began thei ... |
John Lennon | In a 1972 interview on the Dick Cavett Show, | stated that James Connolly was an inspiration for his song, Woman Is the N ... |
James Keach | In 1993, Seymour married her current husband, | . Together they had twins, Johnny Stacy and Kristopher Steven, born 30 Nov ... |
Victoria Wood | ... reatest Stars in the UK. She is also well known for her collaborations with | , such as appearing in and co-writing with her the award-winning sitcoms V ... |
Lenny Henry | ... Reilly's performances receiving largely negative notices. Stand up comedian | was the latest big name to play Othello. He did so on a tour at the start ... |
Sangara | ... hat Shamgar may actually have been a Hittite, a similar name occurring with | , a Hittite king of Carchemish; it is also the case that Anath is the name ... |
Patti Smith | ... formation of the Sex Pistols as well as the release of the albums Horses by | and Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed as three key events that gave birth to ... |
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor | Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting | , and the Catholic League against the Protestants--to the tune of a millio ... |
William Howard Taft | ... ho did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, | and Herbert Hoover. |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... erature, and entertained the children with vivid ghost-stories and tales of | |
Alexandre Pétion | ... in fact successfully serve a life term. On the other hand, presidents like | , Rafael Carrera, Josip Broz Tito and François Duvalier died in office. Ki ... |
Duke of Gloucester | ... arl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the | became King in 1483, as Richard III, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice w ... |
Pirandello's | ... 928, and John made his radio debut there the following year in a version of | The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, which he was then performing at the ... |
Abraham ibn Ezra | ... hBDBSh NTB`R WNShRP or parasnu ra`abhtan shebad'vash nitba'er venisraf), by | , referring to the halachic question as to whether a fly landing in honey ... |
Malcolm II | ... ven consecutive monarchs were either murdered or killed in battle. In 1005, | ascended the throne having killed many rivals. He continued to ruthlessly ... |
Al Kaline | ... ing Detroit's fall in the standings, the decade saw the debut of outfielder | . One of the few Major League players who never played a day in the minor ... |
Johnny Cash | ... nd Kristopher Steven, born 30 November 1995, and named after family friends | and Christopher Reeve |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | ... h her leading man, Gary Merrill, which led to marriage. The film's director | later remarked, "Bette was letter perfect. She was syllable-perfect. The d ... |
Sarpedon | ... d. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and | , the three of whom became the three judges of the Underworld when they di ... |
Luise of Prussia | ... composer, writing an operetta called Die Maske and sending a copy to Queen | . The official reply advised to him to write to the director of the Royal ... |
Praxagoras of Athens | ... is sons, Constantine was presented as a paragon of virtue. Even pagans like | and Libanius showered him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 3 ... |
Rafael Carrera | ... lly serve a life term. On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, | , Josip Broz Tito and François Duvalier died in office. Kim Il-Sung was na ... |
Rafael Correa | ... elected President, for a four year term. The current president of Ecuador, | , exercises his power from the presidential Palacio de Carondelet in Quito ... |
Arnold Palmer | ... n Lake Golf Club, which opened in 1974, and was the first to be designed by | , Northwinds Golf Course (public), Indian Lake Resort (fine dining, banque ... |
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 ... |
Liutprand of Cremona | The pontificate of Sergius III, according to | , was remarkable for the rise of what papal historians saw as a "pornocrac ... |
Christopher Reeve | ... even, born 30 November 1995, and named after family friends Johnny Cash and | |
Libanius | ... presented as a paragon of virtue. Even pagans like Praxagoras of Athens and | showered him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 361, however, ... |
Alfonso VIII | ... grew rapidly, thanks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings | and Alfonso X, as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconq ... |
James Cameron | ... ude the French lyrics.) She was offered the chance to compose the score for | 's 1997 feature film Titanic, but she declined. A 1989 recording of Enya s ... |
James Q. Wilson | ... n windows policing was another, related approach introduced in the 1980s by | and George L. Kelling, who suggested that police should pay greater attent ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | Von Foerster was influenced by the Vienna Circle and | . He worked in the field of cybernetics and is known as the inventor of se ... |
Alexei Sayle | ... ative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, | , Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began their careers. The ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... term. On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera, | and François Duvalier died in office. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal Presid ... |
Nikolai Berdyaev | ... n postmodern Christianity and on theologians and religious thinkers such as | , Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
Richard Posner | ... by liberals, and applauded by conservatives. However, Seventh Circuit judge | , disagreed with Scalia's opinion, stating that the Second Amendment "crea ... |
İsmet Özel | ... when much of humanity leaves Earth to settle on far-flung "colony worlds". | wrote a poem titled "Of not being a Jew" in which he lamented the fact tha ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... ession of the 1930s. The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier | , and made major inroads in British Columbia |
Edward III | ... l lion was, according to Wilfrid Scott-Giles, "said to have been granted by | ". By the 19th century the city corporation had added supporters, two ange ... |
James Larkin | Connolly's fellow labor leader | said of him that |
Herbert Hoover | ... ected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and | . |
Duncan I | ... nate opposition, and when he died in 1034 he was succeeded by his grandson, | , instead of a cousin, as had been usual. In 1040, Duncan suffered defeat ... |
Robert Burns | Dumfries was the hometown of | from 1791 until his death in 1796. The poet is now buried in St. Michael’s ... |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... against the Protestants--to the tune of a million gold ducats)--as well as | , King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire. ... |
A C Fox Davies | ... apparently originated in a carving of about 1534 outside Norwich Guildhall. | noted that "whether or not these figures were then intended for heraldic s ... |
Charlemagne | ... ty over much of central Italy, thus estabilishing the Papal States. In 800, | was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope in Saint Peter's ... |
Milton S. Eisenhower | ... 942 with Executive Order 9102 and officially ceased to exist June 30, 1946. | , then an official of the Department of Agriculture, was chosen to head th ... |
Richard Baxter | However, | ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria ... |
Alfonso X | ... nks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings Alfonso VIII and | , as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconquista |
Clive Bull | Cook occasionally called in to | 's night-time phone-in radio show on LBC in London. Using the name "Sven f ... |
Julian the Apostate | ... him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 361, however, his nephew | wrote the satire Symposium, or the Saturnalia, which denigrated Constantin ... |
Frederick William I | ... East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regions. Crown Prince | led the rebuilding of East Prussia, founding numerous towns. Thousands of ... |
Pauline Kael | ... ch as Gene Ringgold described her Margo as her "all-time best performance". | wrote that much of Mankiewicz's vision of "the theater" was "nonsense" but ... |
Raymond Benson | ... oldfinger, Bond "was presented as a complex character". Continuation author | agrees, and sees Goldfinger as a transitional novel, with Bond becoming mo ... |
Minos | ... cluding Phoenix as a third. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: | , Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon, the three of whom became the three judges of ... |
Jacob Zuma | ... ith the country having one of the highest rates of violent crime, president | states that South Africa needs to handle crime differently than other coun ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... Guericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, | conducted extensive research in electricity, selling his possessions to fu ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... E, Alexander the Great's empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by | and extended by Ashoka the Great until 185 BCE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom fou ... |
Michael Faraday | In 1832, | 's experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry. In 1836, ... |
Napoleon I | ... the little island of Saint Helena and stayed in the same building to which | would later be exiled |
President | ... ather. His daughter Renée had a supporting role in The West Wing, as one of | Josiah Bartlet's (Sheen) secretaries |
Zachary Taylor | ... residency. (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were | , Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
King George VI | ... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by | as the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ... |
Molière | ... has sometimes been criticized as begging the question by inventing a name. | had famously parodied this fallacy in Le Malade imaginaire, where a quack ... |
Phocas | ... Scipio Africanus. This new Roman imperial fashion lasted until the reign of | |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... self the basis for the story: when she found out about Edward's marriage to | in 1464, Cecily flew into a rage. Mancini reported that the Duchess, in he ... |
Wendy Wasserstein | ... ard for his role as a gay pediatrician in a television-movie version of the | play The Heidi Chronicles, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Also in 1996, he pro ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, | in Philippines, for example |
Adam Sandler | ... musical director for 2001's The Concert For New York City, and accompanied | 's Opera Man sketch and the Backstreet Boys' "Quit Playing Games (With My ... |
Robert II, Duke of Burgundy | He was married to Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of | and Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy. They had a daughter, Joan (Giova ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | Bishop Brynjólfur sent the Codex Regius as a present to King | , hence the name Codex Regius. For centuries it was stored in the Royal Li ... |
Sandy Alderson | ... Pillsbury, founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family, | (San Diego Padres), John Donahoe (eBay), Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (IBM), Cha ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... 93, her recording of "Marble Halls" from Shepherd Moons was featured in the | film, The Age of Innocence |
Elizabeth I | ... heretics. She died in 1558, and was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister | . England returned to Protestantism, and continued its growth into a major ... |
Alfredo Palacio | ... ident Lucio Gutiérrez from office by Congress in April 2005. Vice President | took his place and remained in office until the presidential election of 2 ... |
French President | In reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then- | , Charles de Gaulle, who was sceptical of the rising supranational power o ... |
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 ... |
Ben Jonson | ... the Greek roots (; "again") and (; "way, direction") by the English writer | in the 17th century. The Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is, (; "c ... |
Douglas Adams | ... he fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" written by | . Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet ... |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... most extensive treatments of the existentialist notion of Angst is found in | 's monumental work Begrebet Angest |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, | , William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
Leopold I | ... masters under jurisdiction of the Emperor. In return for supporting Emperor | in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Frederick III was allowed to ... |
President for Life | ... nda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example. | is a title assumed by some dictators to try to ensure that their authority ... |
Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy | ... o Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy and | . They had a daughter, Joan (Giovanna), who married to John III the Good, ... |
Max Perutz | The first protein structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by | and Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-reso ... |
Rhadamanthus | ... Phoenix as a third. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: Minos, | , and Sarpedon, the three of whom became the three judges of the Underworl ... |
Charlemagne | ... carried the name. Monumental Constantinian forms were used at the court of | to suggest that he was Constantine's successor and equal. Constantine acqu ... |
Seneca | ... ole would remain stable. Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher | and the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is oft ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... -movie version of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles, starring | . Also in 1996, he provided both the speaking and singing voice of the pro ... |
Orson Welles | ... ly related to each other. (The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath starring | was not one of these, since that movie was a straightforward adaptation of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ramón Novarro | ... came the romantic interest for some of MGM's leading male stars, among them | , William Haines, John Gilbert and Tim McCoy. Crawford appeared in The Unk ... |
Julia Keller | ... not the first presidential candidate to have a temper, and cultural critic | argues that voters want leaders who are passionate, engaged, fiery, and fe ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... zi (c.1547–1632), Jean Lemaire (1598–1659), Francisque Millet (1642–79) and | (1452–1519). The Venetian window in this room is derived from the Queen's ... |
John of Gaunt | ... mily, the Neville's, were already established at court being descendants of | 's daughter Lady Joan Beaufort and her second husband, Ralph Neville, 1st ... |
Frantz Fanon | ... s include Subaltern Studies (specifically its postcolonial manifestations), | 's "psychopathology of colonization", and filmmakers of the Latin American ... |
Laurence Fishburne | ... production casting a black actor as Othello would not come until 1995 with | opposite Kenneth Branagh's Iago (not that there have been many major scree ... |
E. M. Forster | ... was responsible for employing several eminent names as reviewers, including | and Charlotte Mew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Ar ... |
President John F. Kennedy | ... ll, to avoid KKK mob domination of the city. In a telephone conference with | , the President informed the HRC that after the Birmingham church bombing ... |
George Orwell | ... itical pessimism has sometimes found expression in dystopian novels such as | 's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Political pessimism about one's country often cor ... |
Elizabeth of York | ... from the throne and replaced by Richard of Gloucester, Edward IV's daughter | later became the Queen consort of Henry VII of England. The grounds for Ti ... |
Gratian | ... of Lucca and Cardinal Deusdedit inserted it in their collections of canons | ;excluded it from his Decretum, but it was soon added to it as Palea; the ... |
Abraham Pierson | ... 1745–1766). Modern custom omits the use of the term "rector" and identifies | as the first Yale president (1701–1707). Clap is construed to have been th ... |
Rehoboam | E. R. Thiele offers the dates 914/913 – 911/910 BCE. As explained in the | article, Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an int ... |
Dominic Lawson | ... and food writer Nigella Lawson, the late Thomasina Lawson, Horatia Lawson, | , the former editor of The Sunday Telegraph, Tom Lawson, housemaster of Ch ... |
Ramiro I of Aragon | ... ave been William VII of Aquitaine), she may have previously been married to | . They had two daughters, Agnes, d.after1110; m.1080 Ct Friedrich von Luet ... |
Diziet Sma | ... ide of the Culture but was recruited into it by Special Circumstances agent | to work as an operative intervening in less advanced civilizations. The no ... |
Ian McKellen | ... atford, cast black opera singer Willard White in the leading role, opposite | 's Iago |
Michael Faraday | André-Marie Ampère in 1819-1820 | ;invented the electric motor in 1821, and Georg Ohm mathematically analyse ... |
Richard, Duke of York | ... House of York, so called because its head, a descendant of Edward III, was | . Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son Edward ... |
Nigella Lawson | His six children are journalist and TV presenter and food writer | , the late Thomasina Lawson, Horatia Lawson, Dominic Lawson, the former ed ... |
Claudius | ... st extent; the most notable being the conquest of Britain, begun by emperor | (47), and emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia (101-102, 105-106). In the 1s ... |
Willard Huyck | ... Spielberg, Brian DePalma, and Martin Scorsese, and screenwriters Jay Cocks, | , and Gloria Katz |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's History of the Kings of Britain is the first non-Welsh source to speak ... |
Paul Masterson | Judge Jules also appeared on the BBC's Top of the Pops show (2000) with | , to perform the single "Pitchin'", off their album Hi-Gate. Judge Jules a ... |
Thomas Spring-Rice | ... icability". He submitted a copy of this to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, | , on 4 January 1837. This first edition was marked "private and confidenti ... |
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 ... |
Jeroboam | According to , Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of | , and reigned for three years |
Émeric Crucé | ... ional court had long been proposed; Pierre Dubois suggested it in 1305, and | in 1623. The idea of an international court of justice arose in the politi ... |
Norodom Sihanouk | ... Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference. It was a derogatory term used by | , dismissing the Cambodian leftists who had been organizing pro-independen ... |
Thomas Clap | ... to become Yale University was termed the "rector". As head of Yale College, | was both the last to be called "rector" (1740–1745) and the first to be re ... |
Allan Bloom | ... into moral and political decay. Robert Bork's Slouching Toward Gommorah and | 's The Closing of the American Mind are famous expressions of this point o ... |
Julius Eduard Itzig | ... er, and meeting his future biographer, a neighbour and fellow jurist called | (who changed his name to Hitzig after his baptism). Itzig had been a membe ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Godigisel | ... 00 or 401, possibly because of attacks by the Huns, the Vandals, under king | , along with their allies (the Sarmatian Alans and Germanic Suebians) move ... |
Jacques Delors | However the Commission began to recover under President | ' Commission. He is seen as the most successful President, being credited ... |
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 ... |
Henry VI | ... e. Although he was victorious, his sudden death in 1422 left his infant son | on the throne, and gave the French an opportunity to overthrow English rul ... |
Hammurabi | ... d Testament, vol II (1888), pp 299ff) this king was usually associated with | , who ruled in Babylon from 1792 BC until his death in 1750 BC. However, a ... |
Pierre Dubois | An international court had long been proposed | ;suggested it in 1305, and Émeric Crucé in 1623. The idea of an internatio ... |
Edward V of England | ... and the Marches, a body that had originally been set up to help the future | in his duties as Prince of Wales. The prince was accompanied to Ludlow by ... |
Livy | ... ms, as Vergil's epic Aeneid and also historiographical works, like those of | . The works of this literary age lasted through Roman times, and are class ... |
Carl Jung | ... or abnormal condition). The term was however most influentially defined by | and Sigmund Freud over a century later. It has continued to be used in con ... |
William F. Buckley, Jr. | ... ch as Robert Robb and Matthew Continetti have used a formulation devised by | to describe McCain as "conservative" but not "a conservative", meaning tha ... |
George W. Bush | Rossum, writing in 2006, before | appointees Roberts and Alito had time to make an impact, said that Scalia ... |
U.S. President | Sheen has played | John F. Kennedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Atto ... |
Norm Cash | ... ailed to reach the postseason despite winning over 100 games. First baseman | had the best batting average in the American League, a remarkably high .36 ... |
Zosimus | ... s, and given over to luxury and greed. Following Julian, Eunapius began—and | continued—a historiographic tradition that blamed Constantine for weakenin ... |
Edmund Goulding | ... d MGM cast her in the film where she first made an impression on audiences, | 's Sally, Irene and Mary (1925). She played Irene, a struggling chorus gir ... |
Hans Jæger | Munch also received his father's ire for his relationship with | , the local nihilist who lived by the code "a passion to destroy is also a ... |
Stephen King | ... eacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in David Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of | 's The Dead Zone. That same year, Walken also starred in Brainstorm alongs ... |
Livy | During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, | and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organizati ... |
Robert Bork | ... Greek philosophy, leaving it doomed to fall into moral and political decay. | 's Slouching Toward Gommorah and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American ... |
Snorri Sturluson | It was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian | around 1220. It survives in seven main manuscripts, written down from abou ... |
Henry V | ... ns; his success was partly due to the military skill of his son, the future | . Henry V's own reign, which began in 1413, was largely free from domestic ... |
Jackie Robinson | ... speech caused the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) to seek | 's testimony on the subject. Robinson was reluctant to testify, in part be ... |
Maureen Dowd | ... 009, openly gay Congressman Barney Frank described Scalia as a "homophobe". | described Scalia in a 2003 column as "Archie Bunker in a high-backed chair ... |
Paul Tillich | ... on theologians and religious thinkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, | , Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
Augustus III of Poland | King | died in 1763, and therefore Poland needed to elect a new ruler. Catherine ... |
Boy George | ... ard and Judy Show in 2003 with his counterpart Paul Masterson and singer/DJ | promoting their album, on which Boy George made a cameo singing contributi ... |
Benazir Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and | , daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime M ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... to gain statehood for Nevada before the next presidential election so that | would have enough votes to win. They rushed to send the entire state const ... |
Queen Ranavalona | ... ing adventurer. It notes encounters with the "White Rajah" of Sarawak, with | of Madagascar, and with Emperor Maximilian of Mexico; and service as a Uni ... |
Glen Clark | ... rtheless and the party was led into the 1996 provincial general election by | |
Dominic Lawson | Lawson's son | is also a climate change sceptic, taking a similar viewpoint as his father ... |
Federico García Lorca | ... ly Béla Bartók. George Crumb also used musical palindrome to text paint the | poem "¿Por qué nací?", the first movement of three in his fourth book of M ... |
Barney Frank | ... ves, many liberals dislike his views. In March 2009, openly gay Congressman | described Scalia as a "homophobe". Maureen Dowd described Scalia in a 2003 ... |
Frederica Sagor Maas | ... ven, Crawford embarked on a campaign of self-promotion. As MGM screenwriter | recalled, "No one decided to make Joan Crawford a star. Joan Crawford beca ... |
Hugh Capet | ... attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) by supporting | (987–996). Capet became King of France, ending the Carolingian line of Kin ... |
Prince of Wales | Edward IV's eldest son was invested with the title of | at the age of seven months. At the age of three, he was sent by his father ... |
Ovid | ... steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Poets like Vergil, Horace, | and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Augustus. ... |
Eunapius | ... great pagan emperors, and given over to luxury and greed. Following Julian, | began—and Zosimus continued—a historiographic tradition that blamed Consta ... |
Laurence Olivier | Unlike Welles's film, | 's Othello (1965), based on John Dexter's National Theatre Company's produ ... |
Saul Williams | DJ Krust and | ' track "Coded Language" opens with the line "Whereas, breakbeats have bee ... |
Sheldon Rampton | ... cy, and is the creation of Center director John Stauber and PR Watch editor | |
Martin Scorsese | ... the producer Alan Ladd, Jr., directors Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma, and | , and screenwriters Jay Cocks, Willard Huyck, and Gloria Katz |
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia | ... im a daughter named Anna Petrovna in December 1757 (not to be confused with | , the daughter of Peter I's second marriage) |
John Boorman | ... lm, Hugo, and has signed up to appear in the new feature by Neil Jordan and | entitled Broken Dream |
Paul Masterson | ... 000) and featured on the Richard and Judy Show in 2003 with his counterpart | and singer/DJ Boy George promoting their album, on which Boy George made a ... |
George Washington | ... ating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators. | was given of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French a ... |
Kenneth Williams | ... they had worked, including Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd and | . In May 2009 the play was seen again in London's West End at the Leiceste ... |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... in his own hands. In 1399, while he was campaigning in Ireland, his cousin | seized power. Richard was deposed, imprisoned, and eventually murdered, pr ... |
Dave Mustaine | | is notorious for making inflammatory statements in the press, usually rega ... |
Whitley Strieber | ... ontana in Milagro Beanfield War in 1988. He also played the leading role of | in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film written by Strieber that was ... |
Bảo Đại | ... ệm, who was previously appointed Prime Minister of South Vietnam by Emperor | , eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. Presid ... |
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 ... |
Bradbury's | ... dith) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence. This notion, akin to | "The Pedestrian", is also alluded to in "Number 12 Looks Just Like You", i ... |
Terry Ramsaye | ... ard to Moving Objects, likely due to erroneous citations by film historians | and Arthur Knight (see Anderson and Anderson below) |
Doreen Valiente | Many confuse the esbat with the ritual observance of the full moon. While | writes that in full moon rites were known as Esbats in the rest of Europe, ... |
Neil Young | ... s two cover versions—The Beatles' "Because" performed by Elliott Smith, and | 's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" performed by Annie Lennox. Produced by th ... |
Lothair of France | ... olitics of his time. In 985, with the support of his archbishop, he opposed | 's (954–986) attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) ... |
Giordano Bruno | In the sixteenth century the Italian philosopher | , an early supporter of the Copernican theory that the Earth and other pla ... |
Horace | ... ure grew steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Poets like Vergil, | , Ovid and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Au ... |
Odin | ... sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god | |
Martin Gardner | ... of FreeCell is Eight Off. In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, | described in his "Mathematical Games" column a game by C. L. Baker that is ... |
David Irving | ... with Hitler while alluding to the Creativity Movement and Holocaust denier | |
John Stauber | ... the Center for Media and Democracy, and is the creation of Center director | and PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton |
Francis Ford Coppola | Damon had an uncredited cameo in | 's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 Che Guevara bi ... |
Chief Martial Law Administrator | ... stan's defeat in the war, Yahya Khan was replaced by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as | . Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 1977. During this period Pakistan beg ... |
Antonio José de Sucre | The icons of the Ecuadorian military forces are the Marshall | and Gral. Eloy Alfaro. The Military Academy "Gral. Eloy Alfaro" (c. 1838) ... |
Victoria Wood | ... ecial, Julie Walters and Friends, which featured writing contributions from | and Alan Bennett. In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pa ... |
Irving Thalberg | ... first of its kind in Hollywood. Furthermore, it was Chico's connection with | of MGM that led to Thalberg's signing the Brothers when they were in a car ... |
Woody Allen | Later that year, she starred in | 's Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena, a mentally unstable woman. Pet ... |
Bohumil Hrabal | The main action of the novel Closely Observed Trains, by Czech author | , takes place on the night of the first raid |
Osbert Sitwell | ... ew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and | . His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxford he was introdu ... |
André Gide | ... , who have produced a number of original biographies and monographs on him. | , on whom Wilde had such a strange effect, wrote, In Memoriam, Oscar Wilde ... |
Cadmus | ... n, the "sun-red" Phoenix. It is generally agreed that she had two brothers, | , who brought the alphabet to mainland Greece, and Cilix who gave his name ... |
Whittaker Chambers | ... amously remarked that he was "standing athwart history yelling 'stop!'" and | was convinced that capitalism was bound to fall to communism, though he wa ... |
Stewart Farrar | ... ts within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. Janet and | describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic ... |
Penny Lernoux | ... riter and editor, and supporters of Liberation theology, such as journalist | and Michael Walsh, a writer on religious matters and former Jesuit. instru ... |
Carl Jung | | found his approach particularly fitting for people who are successfully ad ... |
Pat Riley | ... of the streak, Hearn was paired with several different color men, including | , Keith Erickson, and Stu Lantz |
Roy Jenkins | ... Rey secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President | became the first Commission President to attend a G7 summit on behalf of t ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... anish vicerroyalty. Once the Gran Colombia was dissolved after the death of | in 1830, Ecuador inherited the same border disputes and had the need of cr ... |
Euripides | ... rodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and | |
Richard III | ... d intermittently during his reign and those of his son Edward V and brother | . Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Richard. Ultimately, the co ... |
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 ... |
Donald Trump | ... iberal Democrat, joined the Scottish Green Party in protest to the plans by | to develop on an important environmental site at Menie. On 13 October 2009 ... |
Salvator Rosa | ... ne (1577–1660), Peter Paul Rubens (1573–1640), Rembrandt van Ryn (1606–69), | (1615–1673), Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666), Jacopo Ligozzi (c.1547–1632) ... |
Stephen Fry | ... s the basis for the 1997 film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert and starring | as the title character |
Joy MacPhail | ... ared in the administration as Attorney-General Dosanjh and Finance Minister | challenged Clark's legitimacy. The party and province endured a few chaoti ... |
Bradbury's | ... that today's technology-dependent world, where books have become passé (cf. | "The Pedestrian"), could render an outage both a liberator and an executio ... |
Tony Hancock | ... d by other comic actors with whom they had worked, including Peter Sellers, | , Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Williams. In May 2009 the play was seen again ... |
Aristophanes | ... historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, | , and Euripides |
Mary Astor | ... following year, Crawford was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with | , Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray ... |
Kukrit Pramoj | ... Don Camillo was taken and adapted by the famous Thai writer and politician, | , into his own 1954 novel, Phai Daeng (Red Bamboo) |
Adolf Hitler | ... ich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader | termed it "the final solution of the Jewish question" |
Jacques Delors | ... il refused to renew his term, despite being the most 'dynamic' leader until | |
Józef Mackiewicz | ... etation of the events called "Symphony No. 1 (In Memorium, Dresden, 1945)". | , a Polish writer, included a shockingly realistic description of the bomb ... |
Adolf Hitler | The Queen called | "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | When Otto II became | in 973 (he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967), he appointed Gerbert the ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... pope Gregory IX who had several times mediated between the Lombards and the | Frederick II reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending part ... |
Saul | ... ars in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative of David and | 's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an is conc ... |
Lord Salisbury | Curzon became Assistant Private Secretary to | in 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-w ... |
Arnold Bennett | ... ter and Charlotte Mew, and commissioned original material from "names" like | and Osbert Sitwell. His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxf ... |
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 ... |
Michael Azerrad | ... punk rock bands, but soon diversified their sounds and became more melodic. | asserted that Hüsker Dü was the key link between hardcore punk and the mor ... |
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 ... |
Charles de Gaulle | In reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then-French President, | , who was sceptical of the rising supranational power of the Commission, a ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... is or her experiences. Individuals are thus defined by their choices alone. | 's principle that existence precedes essence, as he explains in "Existenti ... |
Henry VII of England | ... r, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of | . The grounds for Titulus Regius, passed to justify the accession of Richa ... |
David Cone | ... stseason play, and was until then the only perfect game thrown by a Yankee. | would add a third Yankee perfect game in 1999. Wells claims that he threw ... |
Sophocles | ... nd Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as | , Aristophanes, and Euripides |
Robert Andrews Millikan | In 1909, | began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by ... |
Franco | ... . Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a changing room visit from | 's director of state security. He "reminded" them that they were only play ... |
Janet | ... the Sabbats within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. | and Stewart Farrar describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, he ... |
Orson Welles | Shot between 1948 and 1952, | directed (1952), produced as a black-and-white film noir. The film stars W ... |
Irving Thalberg | ... ted the roles that Shearer played but knew that Shearer's husband, producer | , guaranteed Shearer first choice of roles in any MGM property. "How can I ... |
Arthur Blessitt | Norman, along with Pat Boone | ;; Duane Pederson; Jack Sparks, a founder of the Spiritual Counterfeits Pr ... |
Lazare Carnot | ... the Directory. France also lacked funds, and no longer had the services of | , the war minister who had guided it to successive victories following ext ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... orwich received a royal charter from Henry II in 1158, and another one from | in 1194. Following a riot in the city in 1274, Norwich has the distinction ... |
Agatha Christie | ... erman. She also appeared in ITV's Marple: Ordeal By Innocence, based on the | novel. She was a contestant on season five of the US reality show, Dancing ... |
Moses | ... who, along with his brother Dathan, joined Korah in the conspiracy against | and Aaron. He and all the conspirators, with their families and possession ... |
Brian Blessed | ... es, starring Italian-German actor Mario Adorf as Don Camillo and Englishman | as Peppone. The narrator and Voice of the Christ was Cyril Cusack |
Edward V | ... evertheless, continued intermittently during his reign and those of his son | and brother Richard III. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Rich ... |
Bill Murray | ... parents were Irish American and Catholic. He is the older brother of actors | , Joel Murray and John Murray. A sister, Nancy, who is an Adrian Dominican ... |
Andy Samberg | ... ices of a pair of wasps in the film Antz. In 2009, she played Paul Rudd and | 's mother in I Love You, Man |
John Macquarrie | ... nkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and | |
Jonathan Safran Foer | ... erspective of the RAF pilots as well as the Germans in Dresden at the time. | 's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) incorporates the bombi ... |
Neal Katyal | In May 2011, U.S. Solicitor General | , after a year of investigation, found Charles Fahy intentionally withheld ... |
James Bond | In 1985, Walken played a | villain, Max Zorin, in A View to a Kill. Walken dyed his hair blond to bef ... |
Richard Ellmann | Wilde's life was still waiting for independent, true scholarship when | began researching his 1987 biography Oscar Wilde, for which he posthumousl ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... e same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married | , the then crown prince (later shah) of Iran. However, since the 1979 Isla ... |
Bob Dylan | ... Who, Bill Withers, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and | , as well as two cover versions—The Beatles' "Because" performed by Elliot ... |
Cleopatra VII | ... after betraying Octavian in Sicily. Antony settled in Egypt with his lover, | . Mark Antony's affair with Cleopatra was seen as an act of treason, since ... |
Henry II | Norwich received a royal charter from | in 1158, and another one from Richard the Lionheart in 1194. Following a r ... |
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 ... |
John Cage | (Sometimes referred to as "found" instruments or as custom percussion) | , Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, c ... |
James II | ... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with | , and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ... |
Jeroboam | ... by bringing Israel under his control. He waged a major battle against King | of Israel in the mountains of Ephraim. gives the sizes of the two armies a ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... on, the sister of John Simpson of Ohio. John Simpson was the grandfather of | who became President of the United States. This family bond meant that man ... |
Gloria Katz | ... Palma, and Martin Scorsese, and screenwriters Jay Cocks, Willard Huyck, and | |
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 ... |
Philip Roth | ... n 2008, Cruz appeared in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the | story The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo. Ray Be ... |
Peter Jackson | ... o enter the German charts at number one. The video features scenes from the | film |
Charlotte Mew | ... r employing several eminent names as reviewers, including E. M. Forster and | , and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and ... |
Joseph Haydn | | 's Symphony No. 47 in G is nicknamed "the Palindrome". The third movement, ... |
Moschus | ... be the daughter of Agenor, the Phoenician King of Tyre; the Syracusan poet | makes her mother Queen Telephassa ("far-shining") but elsewhere her mother ... |
President | ... ips to large number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. | Pervez Musharraf studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
William Plomer | ... the eyes and a rose in its mouth. The book was dedicated to "gentle reader, | ", the editor of a number of the Fleming novels. Fleming took part in a se ... |
Paul Rudd | ... ther as the voices of a pair of wasps in the film Antz. In 2009, she played | and Andy Samberg's mother in I Love You, Man |
Thucydides | ... he works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and | , and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides |
William S. Burroughs | ... g on audio tape versions of the cut-up technique using recorded readings by | . Oswald discovered in repeated instances of Burroughs speaking the phrase ... |
Edward IV | ... e of York. Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son | led the Yorkists to victory in 1461. The Wars of the Roses, nevertheless, ... |
Graham Chapman | They also appeared in smaller supporting roles in | 's Yellowbeard and Martin Scorsese's After Hours |
Greco-Bactrian kingdom | ... of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela and Afghanistan became part of the new | . Some eastern parts of the country were controlled by the Indian Maurya E ... |
Gorgias | In ~400 BCE, pre-socratic philosopher | argued in a lost work, On Nature or the Non-Existent |
King Charles I | ... the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against | and his supporters, the Cavaliers (Royalists), who claimed absolute power ... |
Louis XVI of France | ... cant impact throughout Europe, which only increased with the arrest of King | in 1792 and his execution in January 1793 for "crimes of tyranny" against ... |
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 ... |
William Henry Hudson | ... s Historic essays, but his arguments were in turn refuted by the naturalist | in his 1920 book Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn |
Adolf Hitler | ... s Dei. There have also been allegations that Escrivá expressed sympathy for | |
Edward Albee | ... mp!", which became closely associated with Davis after it was referenced in | 's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and impersonators began to use it in t ... |
Hesiod | ... f the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The name Europa occurs in | 's long list of daughters of primordial Oceanus and Tethys. The story of h ... |
Fidel Castro | ... isenhower administration also planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow | in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry out. |
Leslie Lamport | ... als more with appearance than structure. The LaTeX macro package written by | at the beginning of the 1980s offered a simpler interface, and an easier w ... |
Vyvyan Holland | ... ut when Hesketh Pearson wrote Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946). In 1954 | published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties W ... |
Lorne Michaels | ... ng him one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL ( | , Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol). He was a regular performer on The Nat ... |
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 ... |
Franklin Roosevelt | ... lics to supporting repeal led by liberal politicians such as La Guardia and | . She, and they, emphasized that repeal would generate enormous sums of mu ... |
Merlin Holland | ... fe and children faced after his imprisonment. It was revised and updated by | in 1989 |
Rob Reiner | ... of motion pictures over the years, including a small role (Artie Fufkin) in | 's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in th ... |
Harold Brown | ... awrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by Edward Teller and | . The Navy accepted delivery of the first 16 warheads in July 1960. On May ... |
Herodotus | ... be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like | and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripi ... |
Geri Halliwell | ... was a #2 hit in the UK for The Weather Girls in 1984 and a UK #1 remake for | in 2001. Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band perform the Chuck Ber ... |
Hesiod | ... al reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and | , historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocl ... |
Jehoiakim | ... uch ben Neriah and his other family and advisors, as well as the example of | , he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh H ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... and Freedom, a political rally for African American civil rights, at which | gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) | ... rsian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire. In 330 BC, | invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gau ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... Europe in the 1940s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers | , Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other schol ... |
James III of Scotland | ... backed an attempt by Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, brother of King | , to take the Scottish throne in 1482. Gloucester led an invasion of Scotl ... |
Robert Burns | ... his army, with only £1,000 and 255 pairs of shoes having been handed over. | moved to Dumfriesshire in 1788 and Dumfries itself in 1791, living there u ... |
Dizzy Dean | ... pitcher had won 30 or more games in a season since the St. Louis Cardinals' | accomplished the feat in 1934; no pitcher has accomplished it since. McLai ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... his mother, but he had good relations with the Papacy and, for a time, the | |
Neleus | ... up by a stripling, the youngest in his family (Nestor is the twelfth son of | , David the seventh or eighth son of Jesse). In each case an older and mor ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... dimir Lenin rented a little "chalet" at the French bank, near Geneva. Actor | spent his final years and passed away in Vevey (there is a memorial statue ... |
Walter Hallstein | ... and the Commission of Euratom in 1967. The Commission's first president was | (see Hallstein Commission) who started consolidating European law and bega ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | La rabbia, 1963. Co-director with | |
Edward II | ... However, gains in Scotland were reversed during the reign of his successor, | , who also faced conflict with the nobility. Edward II was, in 1311, force ... |
Simone de Beauvoir | ... s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, | , Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other scholars extend the term ... |
Edward IV | ... enhanced their standing. Catherine's grandfather, William, was part of King | 's court. William held the office of comptroller of the household from 147 ... |
Theodosius I | ... nded the legions attention on several occasions. After the death of Emperor | (395), the Empire was divided into an Eastern and a Western Roman Empire. ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... y the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel in the mid-1940s. It was adopted by | who, on October 29, 1945, discussed his own existentialist position in a l ... |
George of Poděbrady | Pope Paul rejected King | of Bohemia because he upheld the conventions of the Council of Basel in fa ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... Harry Truman and that Justice Byron White went skiing with Attorney General | . Scalia stated that he was never alone with Cheney during the trip, the t ... |
Jody Lynn Nye | Asprin's ofttimes co-author, | , has completed one further Griffen McCandles novel, Dragons Deal, and may ... |
Mallarmé | ... r Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers' Club generation of British poets to | .and the Symbolist source was amplified further in Taupin's study publishe ... |
Conn of the Hundred Battles | ... e after her father refused him her hand, so Tadg appealed to the High King, | , who outlawed him. The Battle of Cnucha was fought between Conn and Cumha ... |
John Peel | ... ed extensively on the radio in the UK, particularly by disc jockeys such as | (who championed alternative music on BBC Radio 1), Richard Skinner, and . ... |
Chris Bartlett | ... s portraying Cook. At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a play, written by | and Nick Awde, examined the relationship from Moore's view, . Tom Goodman- ... |
Isaac Newton | In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by | in the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ... |
Wilfred Owen | At Craiglockhart, Sassoon met | , a fellow poet who would eventually exceed him in fame. It was thanks to ... |
Hesketh Pearson | ... ndence. The first more or less objective biography of Wilde came about when | wrote Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946). In 1954 Vyvyan Holland publish ... |
Hedda Hopper | ... iner described the film as "an unfortunate finale to her brilliant career". | wrote, "If Bette had deliberately set out to wreck her career, she could n ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ve Party candidate Henry A. Wallace, who had served as Vice-President under | . Wallace was running on an anti-lynching, pro-civil rights platform and h ... |
Hosni Mubarak | ... protests took center stage, McCain urged that embattled Egyptian President | step down and thought the U.S. should push for democratic reforms in the r ... |
Mike Kim | ... at birth (such as the philologist Revilo P. Oliver and the Korean-American | ) |
Terry Pratchett | ... prin died of a myocardial infarction at home in his bed on May 22, 2008,. A | novel and his reading glasses were found next to him. He was to have been ... |
Michael McKean | ... llar Celebrity Invitational, winning $250,000 for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. | won the tournament, while Cheech Marin came in third |
Alberto Fujimori | ... orted radical right-wing governments, such as those of Augusto Pinochet and | of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimori's ministries and pr ... |
Nick Awde | ... At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a play, written by Chris Bartlett and | , examined the relationship from Moore's view, . Tom Goodman-Hill played C ... |
August Strindberg | ... tists and critics, including the Swedish dramatist and leading intellectual | , whom he painted in 1892. During his four years in Berlin, Munch sketched ... |
Chrétien de Troyes | In several early French works such as | ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section ... |
Jody Lynn Nye | ... ly 2000s, he wrote several novels in collaboration with authors Peter Heck, | , and . These novels included continuations of the "Myth" series and the " ... |
Bertolt Brecht | ... in Günter Grass's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, | , shortly before both of them died in the summer of 1956. It is unclear if ... |
Bob Dole | ... member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President Bill Clinton seized upon opponent | 's promise to take America back to a simpler time, promising in contrast t ... |
James Keach | ... eries Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, she met her fourth husband, actor-director | |
Xenophon | ... be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC), | (c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Political Science") (384–32 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ther argued that all people of Japanese heritage were loyal subjects of the | ; Japanese language schools, furthermore, according to the manifesto, were ... |
Yahya Khan | ... economic downfall and internal instability. Ayub Khan's successor, General | (President from 1969 to 1971), had to deal with a devastating cyclone whic ... |
Jeconiah | ... zzar II, king of Babylon, after a siege of Jerusalem to succeed his nephew, | , who was overthrown as king after a reign of only three months and ten da ... |
Tom Standage | ... hers. These points of comparisons have spurred modern commentators, such as | , to refer to the 19th Century telegraphic network as the "Victorian Inter ... |
Jacques Delors | ... of primus inter pares but had an increasing impact on the Community. Under | it became increasingly presidential in style and now is the dominant force ... |
Eloy Alfaro | ... Ecuadorian military forces are the Marshall Antonio José de Sucre and Gral. | . The Military Academy "Gral. Eloy Alfaro" (c. 1838) graduates the army of ... |
Victoria Wood | Walters first received notice as the occasional partner of comedienne | , whom she had briefly met in Manchester. The two first worked together in ... |
Margaret Murray | The term esbat in this sense was described by | |
Simon de Montfort | ... aving the Crown to his nine-year-old son Henry III. Later in Henry's reign, | led the barons in another rebellion, beginning the Second Barons' War. The ... |
Jordanes | According to | ' Getica, the Hasdingi came into conflict with the Goths around the time o ... |
Carl Hiaasen | She also has narrated several audio books, including | 's novel Nature Girl |
Augusto Pinochet | ... the organisation supported radical right-wing governments, such as those of | and Alberto Fujimori of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimor ... |
Aristotle | ... c political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC), Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), and | ("The Father of Political Science") (384–322 BC). These authors, in such w ... |
George Lucas | ... at costarred Margot Kidder. Along with Nick Nolte, Walken was considered by | for the part of Han Solo in ; the part ultimately went to |
Louis Bonaparte | ... were killed, over 2000 were injured and some 220 homes were destroyed. King | personally visited the city to provide assistance to the victims. Although ... |
Shakespeare | ... ich a perfect and equal world contradictorily considers works like those of | "smut" |
Revilo P. Oliver | ... hile others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as the philologist | and the Korean-American Mike Kim) |
Gabriel Marcel | The term "existentialism" was coined by the French philosopher | in the mid-1940s. It was adopted by Jean-Paul Sartre who, on October 29, 1 ... |
Hume | ... n or vision or intent, nor vice versa - a distinction sometimes credited to | who distinguished also the morality of a statement from its truth. The ver ... |
Tipper Gore | ... ommon theme in Megadeth songs, as seen in Mustaine's scathing assessment of | , the PMRC, and music censorship in the song "Hook In Mouth". Mustaine tak ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | Edward IV had ten legitimate children by | , seven of whom survived him. They were declared illegitimate by Parliamen ... |
Roma Ryan | ... album Amarantine Enya sings in Japanese and Loxian, a language invented by | . The vocabulary is formed by Enya singing the notes to which Roma provide ... |
Joe Torre | ... aseball (Clemens ended up delaying his retirement). Regular Yankees manager | let Clemens manage the final game of the regular season, and Clemens pulle ... |
Donna Hogan | ... orced on November 4, 1969. She had five half siblings including half-sister | . Anna Nicole was raised by her mother and aunt. Virgie subsequently marri ... |
George MacDonald Fraser | Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by | (1925–2008), but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schoolda ... |
Bill Clinton | ... pelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President | seized upon opponent Bob Dole's promise to take America back to a simpler ... |
Plato | ... Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, | (427–347 BC), Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Poli ... |
Emperor Kimmei | ... ficient material available for further verification and study. The reign of | (509–571), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of ... |
Michael Cunningham | ... He also produced the 2004 movie A Home at the End of the World, based upon | 's novel |
Radio Caroline | ... mbourg. During the post-1964 period, western Europe offshore radio (such as | broadcasting from ships at anchor or abandoned forts) helped to supply the ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... was one of the first episodes written for The Twilight Zone. It introduced | to the series; he went on to star in three more episodes, being introduced ... |
Neil Jordan | ... orsese's next film, Hugo, and has signed up to appear in the new feature by | and John Boorman entitled Broken Dream |
Robert Sherard | ... biography he was more sympathetic to Wilde. Of Wilde's other close friends, | , Robert Ross, his literary executor; and Charles Ricketts variously publi ... |
Al Kaline | ... . This allowed Smith to play an outfield of Willie Horton, Jim Northrup and | in every Series game |
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 ... |
Chris Ballew | ... My Own Planet, on CD and vinyl in 1998. It is essentially a solo effort by | (ex-Presidents of the United States of America), recorded in Ballew's base ... |
Shakespeare | ... w it. Stymied, he spent his time in translating works such as the Bible and | . This enforced delay led to continued improvement. In July 1887 he publis ... |
George Westinghouse | ... Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, | , Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electri ... |
Michaëlle Jean | ... 's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on 6 February 2006 by Governor General | , following the general election that took place that year. As with all ot ... |
King of Kings | ... ium Dei/Domini) the Divine is held to have a superior imperium, as ultimate | , above all earthly powers. Whenever a society accepts this Divine will to ... |
Gerald Durrell | ... tos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and of British naturalist/humorist | |
Michelle Malkin | The controversial conclusions drawn by Lowman were defended by pundit | in her book In Defense of Internment; The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in W ... |
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 ... |
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | ... e was then called, was in the midst of arid and featureless grassland. When | , and her husband, the then Governor General of Canada, passed through the ... |
Pedro Almodóvar | ... n 2006, Cruz received favourable reviews for her performance as Raimunda in | 's Volver. Carina Chocano of The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Cruz, who has r ... |
Nisio Isin | ... Eve, Otto, and Renner. Lon Nol (1913–1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. | is a Japanese novelist and manga writer, whose real name (西尾 維新, Nishio Is ... |
Hesiod | ... the 8th century BC. Another early reference to her is in a fragment of the | ic Catalogue of Women, discovered at Oxyrhynchus. The earliest vase-painti ... |
Valens | ... this time, the Hasdingi had already been Christianized. During the Emperor | 's reign (364–78) the Vandals accepted, much like the Goths earlier, Arian ... |
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 ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... ised Modernist English language literary movement or group. In the words of | : "The point de repère usually and conveniently taken as the starting-poin ... |
Günter Grass | ... ) and even after World War II (as the 'Static' poet). He was referred to in | 's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, Bertolt Brecht ... |
Elliot Goldenthal | ... three acts based on the Shakespeare play and Cinthio's tale with a score by | . The work has been staged by the San Francisco Ballet with Desmond Richar ... |
Jehoahaz | ... was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he was the brother of | (, , , ) |
Joseph Goebbels | ... is diary entry of December 13, 1941, the day after Hitler’s private speech, | wrote |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... ow. The even was viewed by an audience of about 3.5 million. The funeral of | , had taken place on the same day, and the Frenchman therefore dedicated " ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... III, and starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island, directed by | . He appeared in Scorsese's next film, Hugo, and has signed up to appear i ... |
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John Travolta | ... ene with Miles Davis in the Bill Murray film Scrooged and as a passenger in | 's taxicab in Look Who's Talking Too. In addition, Shaffer lent his voice ... |
Lord Alfred Douglas | ... ometimes factually inaccurate, it offers a good literary portrait of Wilde. | wrote two books about his relationship with Wilde: Oscar Wilde and Myself ... |
Richard II | ... ses. In 1377 Edward III died, leaving the Crown to his 10-year-old grandson | . Like many of his predecessors, Richard II conflicted with the nobles by ... |
Gustavo Noboa | ... rency of Ecuador, and although Mahuad was forced from office, his successor | continued with the plan, and also entered into negotiations with the IMF |
Ken MacLeod | ... 's cryptic acknowledgement credits friend and fellow science fiction author | with the suggestion "to argue the old warrior out of retirement" (to rewri ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... s, which would have been the second-longest reign in Europe (behind that of | ), seventh-longest in the world, and the longest reign by a female monarch ... |
Søren Kierkegaard | | and Friedrich Nietzsche were two of the first philosophers considered fund ... |
Pierre Schaeffer | ... esisers of the 1970s with Oxygène 7–13, dedicated to his mentor at the GRM, | , who had died two years before. Eschewing digital techniques developed in ... |
Louis XI of France | ... political setbacks — usually at the hands of his great Machiavellian rival, | — Edward was a popular and very able king. While he lacked foresight and ... |
Budd Schulberg | In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by | , Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillip ... |
Joan Biskupic | ... eventy, Scalia characterizes his victories as "[d]amn few". His biographer, | , speculates that Scalia, given good health, may remain on the Court for a ... |
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Rob Zombie | ... il will feature alongside Megadeth for the next Gigantour. In February 2012 | and Megadeth announced nine-date co-headlining U.S. tour scheduled for May ... |
Frank Harris | ... ic accounts which can be good character sketches, but factually unreliable. | , his friend and editor, wrote a biography, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Conf ... |
Michael Palin | ... peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and | . The dedication displays photos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and ... |
Roma Ryan | ... o composes and performs the music; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums; and | , who writes the lyrics in various languages, except Irish, in which Enya ... |
Bill Murray | ... 's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in the | film Scrooged and as a passenger in John Travolta's taxicab in Look Who's ... |
Edward III | ... deposed and then murdered by his wife Isabella. His 14-year-old son became | . Edward III claimed the French Crown, setting off the Hundred Years' War ... |
Edward IV | ... of only two courtiers to become Knight of the Garter in the second reign of | . Sir William Parr could claim royal descent through King John of England, ... |
Jamil Mahuad | ... ate a default on external loans later that year. In January 2000, President | announced a policy to adopt the U.S. dollar as the official currency of Ec ... |
Cormac mac Airt | ... d and Gráinne – one of the most famous stories of the cycle – the High King | promises the now aging Fionn his daughter Gráinne as his bride, but Gráinn ... |
the emperor | ... ulfilling Stephen's request for a crown without the support and approval of | . |
John of England | ... le, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King | in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was ... |
Eric Sykes | ... wise) in wartime concert parties and moved into professional entertainment. | , Peter Sellers and the other Goons, and Tommy Cooper all began their care ... |
Albert Camus | ... ilosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and | . Other scholars extend the term to Kierkegaard, and yet others extend it ... |
Bob Gibson | ... met the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, led by starter | (who had posted a record 1.12 ERA during the regular season) and speedy ou ... |
Rehoboam | ... ing an internal consistency that Thiele never resolved, as explained in the | article |
Rihanna | ... The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring" in 2001. In 2010, singer | sampled "One By One" on a song from her new album Loud |
John F. Kennedy | ... o planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which | was left to carry out. |
Forest Ray Moulton | ... 70 Ophiuchi system with a 36-year period around one of the stars. However, | published a paper proving that a three-body system with those orbital para ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... so appeared in smaller supporting roles in Graham Chapman's Yellowbeard and | 's After Hours |
Ujjal Dosanjh | ... ch of his term in office, Harcourt and his newly-appointed Attorney-General | succeeded in regaining substantial public support by taking a hard line ag ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... ten by John Cleese about a zoo in peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, | , Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. The dedication displays photos and the li ... |
Trajan | ... being the conquest of Britain, begun by emperor Claudius (47), and emperor | 's conquest of Dacia (101-102, 105-106). In the 1st and 2nd century, Roman ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... played an undercover mobster working for the Massachusetts State Police in | 's The Departed, a remake of the Hong Kong police thriller Infernal Affair ... |
Maggy Whitehouse | ... similar Catholic organizations) will decrease.In her 2006 book on Opus Dei, | , a non-Catholic journalist, argues that the relative autonomy of each dir ... |
Edward V of England | ... orge's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, | |
Jehoiachin | ... The Bablyonian Chronicles allow the fairly precise dating of the capture of | and the start of Zedekiah's reign, and they also give the accession year o ... |
Lou Brock | ... d posted a record 1.12 ERA during the regular season) and speedy outfielder | . This was the first time the Tigers and Cardinals had met in the World Se ... |
Isabella | ... 322. Nevertheless, in 1327 Edward was deposed and then murdered by his wife | . His 14-year-old son became Edward III. Edward III claimed the French Cro ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... ation in the rubble of a ruined world" and tells of Henry Bemis , played by | , who loves books, yet is surrounded by those who would prevent him from r ... |
Constans | ... dria, at a synod held in Antioch in 341, they resolved to send delegates to | , Emperor of the West, and also to Julius, setting forth the grounds on wh ... |
Vernor Vinge | ... science fiction writing on occasion. In the novel A Deepness in the Sky by | , the spacefaring Qeng Ho culture is depicted as using metric units such a ... |
Lady Elizabeth | ... assing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both Lady Mary and | to the line of succession to the throne |
David Drake | ... in the mid-1980s, and several other authors, including Andrew J. Offutt and | , published novels about their characters. In 2002, Lynn Abbey resurrected ... |
Arthur Miller | ... to drama. In 2001, she won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in | 's All My Sons. She received her second Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA f ... |
Pompey | ... rful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Crassus, his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, | . The First Triumvirate ("three men"), had satisfied the interests of thes ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ter the final episode of his season aired), he was lauded by then-President | . Zamora’s friend and roommate during the show, Judd Winick, went on to be ... |
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 ... |
Sarah Bernhardt | ... to him as "le great event" of the season. Rehearsals of the play, including | , began but the play was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, since ... |
Moses | ... ce their rulings) was created alongside the line of High Priests created by | through Aaron. Later still, the Prophet Samuel re-instituted the line of k ... |
King of Scots | ... to Edgar shortly afterwards at Chester. Six kings in Britain, including the | and the King of Strathclyde, pledged their faith that they would be the ki ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... esbefehl No. 47, that originated with Hitler's Reich Minister of Propaganda | |
Lady Mary | ... l in Henry's passing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both | and Lady Elizabeth to the line of succession to the throne |
William I, Count of Holland | ... nd took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, | . He besieged the stronghold and captured Ada |
Coen brothers | ... een, but removed the sequence as he believed it to be too whimsical—"like a | movie"—and therefore inappropriate for the tone he was trying to set. The ... |
Wells Spicer | Wyatt and Holliday were arrested and brought before Justice of the Peace | . Morgan and Virgil were still recovering at home. All four were required ... |
Ippolit Bogdanovich | ... inspired the Russian Enlightenment. Gavrila Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin, and | laid the groundwork for the great writers of the nineteenth century, espec ... |
Gaspar Roca | ... editions. José M. Saldaña is a frequent op-ed contributor to the newspaper. | was responsible for most, if not all, of the successful freedom-of-informa ... |
Glenn Gould | ... itions evocative of the Second Viennese style, such as the Canadian pianist | . By extension, however, certain pupils of Schoenberg's pupils (such as Be ... |
Shelley Berman | Other notable comics from this era include Woody Allen, | and Bob Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1 ... |
Hans Kamper | On 22 October 1899, | placed an advertisement in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a footb ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... declined to return to duty; instead, encouraged by pacifist friends such as | and Lady Ottoline Morrell, he sent a letter to his commanding officer, tit ... |
Edward VIII | ... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of | . Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ... |
Eric Idle | ... e the 1960s. He also appeared in a Monty Python sketch, taking the place of | . Cook was on the cast album of the show and in the film, Pleasure At Her ... |
William II | William I was succeeded by two of his sons: | , then Henry I. Henry made a controversial decision to name his daughter M ... |
Jo Byrns | ... ess and industry, famous musicians and singers, and politicians, among them | , Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably President Woodrow Wilson. ... |
Charles II of England | ... e Edward Morgan was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration of | in 1660. Henry Morgan married his uncle's daughter Mary, a cousin. Morgan ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... d to the youngest daughter, Carol Anne. The original film was co-written by | . The Poltergeist films collected a total of approximately $132 million in ... |
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut | ... order to conquer the city since Leiden did not pay the new Count of Holland | , his niece and only daughter of Count William VI of Holland. The army was ... |
Bartolomeo Platina | The 16th-century Italian historian Onofrio Panvinio, commenting on one of | 's works that refer to Pope Joan, theorized that the story of Pope Joan ma ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... GMC). Central to this was a group of German scientists and engineers led by | that had originally been brought to America by Colonel Holger Toftoy under ... |
Charles Stross | The novels Accelerando and Glasshouse by | have several uses of metric time, including kiloseconds, megaseconds, and ... |
King Edward III | ... rr, Lord of the Manor of Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria), descendant of | , and the former Maud Green (1492 –1531), daughter and co-heiress of Sir T ... |
Gaspar Roca | On April 8, 2007, | , the paper's founding publisher and editor in chief died due to a respira ... |
Aldo Leopold | ... ctices which prevented many other species from becoming extinct. Naturalist | paid tribute to the vanished species in an observance held at Wyalusing St ... |
Josephus | ... uscripts — the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel, the first-century historian | , and the fourth century Septuagint manuscripts — all give his height as " ... |
Alexander Pushkin | ... groundwork for the great writers of the nineteenth century, especially for | . Catherine became a great patron of Russian opera (see Catherine II and o ... |
Lionel Johnson | ... published in 1929. In 1915, Pound edited the poetry of another 1890s poet, | for the publisher Elkin Mathews. In his introduction, he wrot |
Lionel Johnson | In mid-1891 | introduced Wilde to Alfred Douglas, an undergraduate at Oxford at the time ... |
Charles XIV John | ... mself with the liberal opposition critical of the conservative rule of King | |
Margaret of Anjou | ... re defeated and forced to flee to France. There, they made an alliance with | , and Warwick agreed to restore Henry VI in return for French support in a ... |
Goethe | ... ic Language. His cycle of poems had widespread influence on such writers as | and the young Walter Scott, but there was controversy from the outset abou ... |
Plato | ... problems. Some attribute it as a carefully constructed myth by followers of | over two centuries after the death of Pythagoras, mainly to bolster the ca ... |
Mordecai Kaplan | ... n the theology of Reconstructionist Judaism as presented in the writings of | |
President of the United States | ... nally used during the Cold War, to describe either the United States or the | . The term implies that the US is the principal democratic superpower of t ... |
Plutarch | ... orem occurred five centuries after his death, in the writings of Cicero and | |
Alexander Radishchev | When | published his Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow in 1790 (one year afte ... |
Henry VII | ... sion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort. However, on the accession of | following the Battle of Bosworth Field, Lincoln took the oath of allegianc ... |
Margaret of York | ... Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy, and his sister | . Despite the fact that Charles was initially unwilling to help Edward, th ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... ext major film role was opposite Dennis Hopper in True Romance, scripted by | . His so-called Sicilian scene has been hailed by critics as the best scen ... |
Terry Jones | ... for the cast album and TV special. Cook performed monologues and skits with | |
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 ... |
Saul | ... h Aaron. Later still, the Prophet Samuel re-instituted the line of kings in | , under the inspiration of God |
Frederick Barbarossa | ... r the command of Richard Lionheart instead). The elderly Holy Roman Emperor | responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army across Anatolia, but ... |
William Harvey | William Osler records that Hunter gave Jenner | 's advice, very famous in medical circles (and characteristic of the Age o ... |
Scott Westerfeld | The Risen Empire by | uses metric time to measure time within an empire that extends over many s ... |
Richard The Lionheart | In 1194 King | returned from being held captive in Austria, and set about summoning a fle ... |
Jonathan Magonet | ... ce after he is struck by a stone that sank into his forehead. British rabbi | has discussed some of the textual difficulties this raises. In the first p ... |
H.D. | ... group: his former fiancée Hilda Doolittle (who had started signing her work | ) and her future husband Richard Aldington. These two were interested in e ... |
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 ... |
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | ... nephew from Mongomo and former director of the infamous Black Beach prison, | , led a successful coup d'état; Macias was arrested, tried, and executed. ... |
President | ... icians, among them Jo Byrns, Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably | Woodrow Wilson. Although the Great Depression destroyed many Americans' di ... |
Judd Winick | ... then-President Bill Clinton. Zamora’s friend and roommate during the show, | , went on to become a successful comic book writer, and wrote the Eisner A ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ere he used to recuperate with his leg elevated while watching the films of | and others. After the war, Renoir followed his father's suggestion and tri ... |
Henry I | William I was succeeded by two of his sons: William II, then | . Henry made a controversial decision to name his daughter Matilda (his on ... |
John B. Keane | The Field is a play written by | , first performed in 1965. It tells the story of the hardened farmer "Bull ... |
Richie Unterberger | ... nces, all distributed free through various fan trading sites online. Author | noted that it is "now theoretically possible to assemble a complete collec ... |
Jacques Delors | ... eded for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner and President | . It was established on 1 June 1998 |
Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
Hesketh Pearson | ... ng Earnest was no exception. Allan Aynesworth (who played Algy) recalled to | , "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triumph t ... |
Ousmane Sembène | ... ry. Senegal and Ghana also has long traditions of producing films. The late | , the Senegalese film director, producer and writer is from the region, as ... |
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 ... |
Sappho | ... ton. These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially | , an interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they a ... |
Conrad Hall | | was not the first choice for director of photography; Mendes believed he w ... |
Herman Wouk | ... n Europe during World War II. The series was based on a successful novel by | , and is noted for its accurate, and graphic, depiction of the Holocaust. ... |
Wim Duisenberg | The first President of the Bank was | , the former president of the Dutch central bank and the European Monetary ... |
Louis XI of France | ... by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England, | , Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Naples; one was the able ... |
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 |
Lothair I | ... 29 September. Coins that bear both the image of Benedict III and of Emperor | , who died 28 September 855, exist; therefore, Benedict must have been rec ... |
Edward IV of England | ... ere candidates pressed by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, | , Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Napl ... |
Stephen | ... as his heir. Following Henry's death in 1135 one of William I's grandsons, | , laid claim to the throne, and took power with the support of most of the ... |
E. Arnot Robertson | ... was well received by critics and made a profit of $2.2 million. The critic | observed that "only Bette Davis . . . could have combated so successfully ... |
Paul Reiser | ... Billy Elliot (2000). In 2002, she again won a BAFTA for her performance as | 's mother in My Beautiful Son |
George W. Bush | President | made note of the anniversary in a written statement, part of which echoed ... |
Fritz Lang | An opening scene of | 's 1927 film Metropolis shows a metric clock with ten numbers instead of t ... |
Morgan Freeman | ... g the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features | as Nelson Mandela. Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for B ... |
Richard Aldington | ... da Doolittle (who had started signing her work H.D.) and her future husband | . These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially S ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1988, Congress passed and President | signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U. ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... the original film in the trilogy, directed by Tobe Hooper and co-written by | and released on June 4, 1982. The story focuses on the Freeling family, wh ... |
Erich von Stroheim | ... mics, but he soon set that aside to make films, inspired, in particular, by | 's work |
Richard Nixon | | (1913-1994) was the 37th President of the United States |
Peter Simon Pallas | ... ted to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist | . The chemical element palladium, on the other hand, was named after the a ... |
Henry III | ... and hospice. During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by | and Edward I as a base for attacks against France |
Julius Caesar | ... risis and social unrest. Into this turbulent scenario emerged the figure of | . Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Cra ... |
Henry Koster | ... vey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name, directed by | , and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull. The story is about a man ... |
James Wickersham | ... didates for the seat of Territorial Delegate. (Labor won in 1908, but Judge | won the Ester precinct in 1910.) By 1909 Ester City had a baseball field, ... |
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary | ... respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, | and Ferdinand I of Naples; one was the able administrator of the Francisca ... |
Magha | ... mes appear in the 19th canto of the 8th-century epic poem Śiśupāla-vadha by | . It yields the same text if read forward, backward, down, up, or diagonal ... |
Lady of the Mercians | ... was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused with the | ), and Æthelred, the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth. He was succ ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... n Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as | . Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Ac ... |
King Henry VIII | ... as was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Master of the Wards, and Comptroller to | . Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King Henry VIII. Her mothe ... |
the Queen | ... her ministers in cabinet, is appointed by the governor general on behalf of | . However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maint ... |
John Cage | ... xtended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as | , Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a g ... |
Harald Fairhair | The family of | , who was most likely the first king of the whole Norway, is said to have ... |
Henry | ... ecarious hold on power but agreed to a compromise under which Matilda's son | would succeed him. Henry accordingly became the first monarch of the Angev ... |
Ibn Arabi | Several Sufi saints and thinkers, primarily | , held beliefs that were somewhat panentheistic. These notions later took ... |
Edward | ... ter, and was buried at Glastonbury Abbey. He left two sons, the elder named | , who was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused w ... |
J. D. Hayworth | ... , a primary challenge from radio talk show host and former U.S. Congressman | materialized in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Arizona and drew support ... |
Bill Cosby | ... b Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George Kirby, | and Dick Gregory began to cross over to white audiences during this time |
Charlemagne | ... s, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, | and his successors, the Catholic Holy Roman Emperors |
Paul | ... ecame fanatical anti-Communists, and Saul, persecutor of Christians, became | , a fanatical Christian. For the "true believer", substance is less import ... |
Friedrich Clemens Gerke | ... stems, such as those designed by Claude Chappe for the French military, and | for the Prussian military, thus becoming the first form of electrical tele ... |
Maximilian | ... who was subsequently executed for these actions. Edmund sought the help of | , the Roman-German king. In 1506, Maximilian's son, Phillip of Burgundy, w ... |
Gottfried Leibniz | ... al occurrence. However, other Protestant writers, such as David Blondel and | , rejected the story |
Sparta | ... , who had been driven from Naupactus, Zacynthus, and the Peloponnese by the | ns after the close of the Peloponnesian War. These had at first been estab ... |
Stephen Colbert | On July 21, 2008, | made a comment on The Colbert Report about John McCain making a campaign s ... |
Phil Foglio | ... nother Fine Myth. Originally illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas, and later by | , the highly pun-driven books follow a "demon" magician who has lost his p ... |
Richard I | ... nobility. Henry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchs | and John. Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. President | formally dedicated the MSFC |
Marie Antoinette | ... ed in both French and English. Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen, | ; the actress's two children, Katherine and Sean, appeared as the queen's ... |
President of the United States | On October 25, 2010, the 44th | , Barack Obama, visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small ... |
Robert Reich | ... mos T. Akerman, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor | , former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretar ... |
Ferdinand I of Naples | ... Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and | ; one was the able administrator of the Franciscans; and the last two elev ... |
Carl Linnaeus | ... name used in the first modern scientific description of a Gavia species (by | ) in 1758. Unfortunately, confusion about whether Linnaeus' "wastebin genu ... |
Ezra Pound | ... d what came to be seen as "Imagism's enabling text", the haiku-like poem of | entitled "In a Station of the Metro" |
Sartre | ... himself agree that it was ethical; the religious suspends the ethical), and | 's final words in are "All these questions, which refer us to a pure and n ... |
Mulla Sadra | ... a panentheistic trend, represented by scholars such as Sayyid Haydar Amuli, | (all of whom were influenced by Ibn Arabi). Some Sufi Orders, notably the ... |
Jean-Claude Trichet | ... gium) just before the ECB came into existence, the French government wanted | , former head of the French central bank, to be the ECB's first president |
George W. Bush | ... at least one 'rapid reaction' battalion. When Kabila visited U.S. President | in Washington D.C., he also asked the U.S. Government to train a battalion ... |
Æthelred | ... te son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused with the Lady of the Mercians), and | , the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth. He was succeeded by Edward ... |
Eisenhower | ... eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. President | |
Henry VIII | ... ller to King Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King | . Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen Catheri ... |
Mel Gibson | ... at Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of | 's antisemitic comments. As an ice hockey fan, Leary hosted the National H ... |
Paul Thomas Anderson | He has received two Academy Award nominations for Sound Editing: for | ’s There Will Be Blood at the 80th Academy Awards and for Pixar sci-fi fil ... |
Johnny Cash | ... is also noted for its tributes to country music legends like Hank Williams, | , Merle Haggard, and Waylon, Willie and the Boys. Other genres of music pe ... |
Bill James | ... me, Henderson was still in the all-time top 100 home run hitters, with 297. | wrote in 2000, "Without exaggerating one inch, you could find fifty Hall o ... |
Robert W. Service | ... later became the Ester Gold Camp, featured a musical variety show including | 's poetry, held at a sawdust-strewn bar known as the Malemute Saloon, afte ... |
Tertullian | The doctrine also derives in part from a repudiation of Greek thought by | , who argued that a material body was created for each immaterial soul |
Bartolomeo Platina | ... , had long been accustomed to benefiting from employment in such positions. | , who was one of these, wrote a threatening letter to the Pope, and was im ... |
John | ... ry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchs Richard I and | . Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's death, h ... |
Lord Kelvin | ... n, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and | , electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential too ... |
Edmund I of England | ... Peaceable, was a king of England (r. 959–75). Edgar was the younger son of | |
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 ... |
Prince of Wales | ... Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. The Lancastrian heir, Edward of Westminster, | , was killed on the battlefield. A few days later, on the night that Edwar ... |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | ... ulation was already a standard practice but involved serious risks. In 1721 | had imported variolation to Britain after having observed it in Istanbul, ... |
George Orwell | ... did Catalonia recover its autonomy and reconstitute the Generalitat (1979). | served with the POUM in Catalonia from December 1936 until June 1937. His ... |
Barack Obama | On October 25, 2010, the 44th President of the United States, | , visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small Business Admi ... |
Kevin Powell | ... Hall of Fame for his pioneering work in reality television. His housemate, | , became a successful author, poet, journalist, and 2006 candidate for Uni ... |
Bảo Đại | ... ognized by France as an independent country ruled by the Vietnamese Emperor | , and the Vietnamese National Army (VNA) was soon created. The VNA fought ... |
Ptolemy | ... n Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of | (the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer) in about 140 AD provide possibl ... |
Henry | Like the family of King | 's second wife, the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a ... |
Amalric I | ... kuh's troops camped outside of Cairo, Egypt's sultan, Shawar called on King | of Jerusalem for assistance. In response, Amalric sent an army into Egypt ... |
James Macpherson | ... mes from a retelling of these legends in epic form by the 18th century poet | |
Abel Ferrara | ... mpire flick The Addiction, which was his second collaboration with director | and writer Nicholas St. John. He also appeared in Nick of Time, which also ... |
Neltje Blanchan | ... l marker commemorates the events, including the last great nesting in 1878. | , in her book Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted documented that over a millio ... |
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York | His mother was the second surviving daughter of | and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England ... |
Herod Antipas | A tragedy, it tells the story of Salome, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch | , who, to her stepfather's dismay but mother's delight, requests the head ... |
Aristoxenus | ... t — did circulate in antiquity. Critical ancient sources like Aristotle and | cast doubt on these writings. Ancient Pythagoreans usually quoted their ma ... |
Anne Neville | ... r (later King Richard III of England), were married to Isabella Neville and | . They were both daughters of Warwick by Anne Beauchamp and rival heirs to ... |
George Carlin | ... coming major stars based on stand-up comedy performances. Richard Pryor and | followed Lenny Bruce's acerbic style to become icons. Stand-up expanded fr ... |
Peter Heck | ... 990s and early 2000s, he wrote several novels in collaboration with authors | , Jody Lynn Nye, and . These novels included continuations of the "Myth" s ... |
Erich von Stroheim | ... of his most well-known films, Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion), starring | and Jean Gabin. A film on the theme of brotherhood about a series of escap ... |
Georgi Markov | In 1978 Bulgarian dissident writer | was killed in London by a dose of ricin injected via a modified umbrella. ... |
Emlyn Williams | ... Academy Award, and instead made The Corn Is Green (1945) based on a play by | . Davis played Miss Moffat, an English teacher who saves a young Welsh min ... |
Margaret of York | ... ard IV of England and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to | , George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England |
Arrian | ... ut Darius was still outflanked, defeated, and forced to flee. It is told by | that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces und ... |
Benjamin Franklin's | ... y. This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by | one-fluid theory later in the century |
David Irving | ... locaust deniers and pro-Nazi polemicists—most notably by the British writer | in his book The Destruction of Dresden—in an attempt to establish a moral ... |
Aurelian | ... ttacked the Romans in the lower Danube area. In about 271 the Roman Emperor | was obliged to protect the middle course of the Danube against them. They ... |
Timothy Geithner | ... ry of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretary of the Treasury | . C. Everett Koop was the Surgeon General of the United States under Presi ... |
Paul Greengrass | In 2010, Damon re-teamed with director | , who directed him in the Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum, for the a ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist | . Somewhere between $3 million and $20 million was expended on the failed ... |
Richard III of England | ... hers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King | ), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daugh ... |
Filip Callimachus | ... y against the Pope, and was tortured along with other abbreviators, such as | , who fled to Poland in 1478, all of whom had been accused of pagan views. ... |
Edward IV of England | ... enet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to | and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York ... |
second wife | Like the family of King Henry's | , the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a result of roy ... |
Mike Davis | ... of India were affected and millions died, and Curzon has been criticised by | , an American Marxist, for allegedly having done little to fight the famin ... |
Voltaire | ... ving observed it in Istanbul, where her husband was the British ambassador. | , writing of this, estimates that at this time 60% of the population caugh ... |
Henry III | ... upt end after John died in 1216, leaving the Crown to his nine-year-old son | . Later in Henry's reign, Simon de Montfort led the barons in another rebe ... |
Marie Stubbs | ... rán Hinds; in 2005, Walters again starred as inspirational real-life figure | in the ITV1 drama Head of the Class |
William Shakespeare | ... ic Borderline. They returned to the West End for Robeson's starring role in | 's Othello, opposite Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. Essie's Paul Robeson, Ne ... |
Pat Barker | The novel Regeneration, by | , is a fictionalised account of this period in Sassoon's life, and was mad ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... s doctoral studies; the situation was resolved by a special dispensation of | himself, on 27 March 1941. His thesis (The origin of the human soul accord ... |
Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... d Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England and | as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Du ... |
Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa | ... alifa assumed the throne in March 1999 upon the death of his father, Shaikh | , the ruler of Bahrain since 1961. He continued to implement democratic re ... |
Aristotle | ... h remain extant — did circulate in antiquity. Critical ancient sources like | and Aristoxenus cast doubt on these writings. Ancient Pythagoreans usually ... |
Johnny Depp | ... riter Nicholas St. John. He also appeared in Nick of Time, which also stars | , and an art house film by David Salle, "Search and Destroy. |
Johann von Goethe | The castle is surrounded by a park, where the famous poet | once walked. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway runs from Kornmak ... |
Molière | ... poets. (e.g. SOE agents often used verses by Shakespeare, Racine, Tennyson, | , Keats, etc.) |
Che Guevara | ... cis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 | biopic Che. He lent his voice to the English version of the animated film ... |
Karol Wojtyła | Cardinal | was elected John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 Octob ... |
Wen Jiabao | ... n favor of reforms, while others remain more conservative. In 2010, Premier | stated that China needs "to gradually improve the democratic election syst ... |
Alan Bennett | ... rs and Friends, which featured writing contributions from Victoria Wood and | . In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pantomime – Jack a ... |
Antonin Artaud | ... ism (e.g., in the "Vies imaginaires" by Marcel Schwob, "Uccello le poil" by | and "O Mundo Como Ideia" by Bruno Tolentino) |
Frank Harris | ... Griffiths Wainewright, in the Fortnightly Review, edited by Wilde's friend | . Two of Wilde's four writings on aesthetics are dialogues, though Wilde h ... |
Baldwin IV | Amalric also died in 1174, leaving Jerusalem to his 13-year old son, | . Although Baldwin suffered from leprosy, he was an effective and active m ... |
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence | ... and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, | and Richard III of England |
Mark Antony | ... the dictator's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague, | . Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and Marc ... |
Alfred Kreymborg | ... blish an anthology under the title Des Imagistes. It was first published in | 's little magazine The Glebe and was later published in 1914 by Alfred and ... |
Sybilla | ... ing year, Baldwin V died before his ninth birthday, and his mother Princess | , sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, Guy of Lusi ... |
Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... the eldest of the four sons who survived to adulthood. His younger brother | , died along with his father fighting for the Yorkist cause. The Duke of Y ... |
Steve Martin | ... , and coffee houses into major concerts in sports arenas and amphitheaters. | and Bill Cosby had levels of success with gentler comic routines. The olde ... |
Günter Grass | German author | is one of a number of intellectuals and commentators who have also called ... |
Peter Simon Pallas | ... on in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists Leonhard Euler and | from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to the Russian capital |
Chanyu | ... BCE) and Emperor Wen (r. 180–157 BCE) to reopen border markets, many of the | 's Xiongnu subordinates chose not to obey the treaty and periodically raid ... |
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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 ... |
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E. R. Thiele | William F. Albright has dated his reign to 915 – 913 BCE. | offers the dates 914/913 – 911/910 BCE. As explained in the Rehoboam artic ... |
Richard III of England | ... er sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and | |
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Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa | ... irsty, undisciplined, unwashed (literally). The leader of the Third Crusade | openly plotted with the Serbs, Bulgars, Byzantine traitors, and even the M ... |
Huayna Capac | ... Spanish conquistadors arrived from the north, the Inca Empire was ruled by | , who had two sons: Atahualpa, being in charge of the northern parts of th ... |
James Bond | ... ymour achieved international fame in her role as Bond girl Solitaire in the | film Live and Let Die. IGN ranked her as 10th in a Top 10 Bond Babes list. ... |
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George Orwell | ... en of necessity, effort which can instead be expended on artistic creation. | summarised, "In effect, the world will be populated by artists, each striv ... |
Elihu Thomson | ... e metric pattern of a base unit and prefixed units. James Clerk Maxwell and | (through the British Association for the Advancement of Science - BAAS) in ... |
Khosrau I | ... the 'Nika' revolt in Constantinople in 532, the war by Kavadh's successor, | , in 540 and his destruction of Antioch and the transportation of its inha ... |
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Jörg Friedrich | ... y from the fighting on the Eastern Front. In Fire Sites, Austrian historian | agrees the RAF's relentless bombing campaign against German cities in the ... |
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 ... |
William Nicholson | In 1800, | and Johann Wilhelm Ritter succeeded in decomposing water into hydrogen and ... |
Atahualpa | ... rom the north, the Inca Empire was ruled by Huayna Capac, who had two sons: | , being in charge of the northern parts of the empire, and Huáscar, seated ... |
Frederick I Barbarossa | The elderly Holy Roman Emperor | responded to the call immediately. He took up the Cross at Mainz Cathedral ... |
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Paul R. Ehrlich | Naturalist | wrote that the Passenger Pigeon's extinction "illustrates a very important ... |
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 |
Harold Monro | ... d was later published in 1914 by Alfred and Charles Boni in New York and by | at the Poetry Bookshop in London. It became one of the most important and ... |
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Kurt Vonnegut | | 's novel (1969) was a satirical novel that used some elements from his exp ... |
Rehoboam | ... he House of David and the second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of | , the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of David. The Chronicler ... |
Elizabeth | ... rown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, Frederick V. (He was married to | , eldest daughter of James I and VI of England and Scotland). He became kn ... |
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King George VI | ... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by | . The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ... |
Chanyu | ... jority that a limited engagement at Mayi involving the assassination of the | would throw the Xiongnu realm into chaos and benefit the Han. When this pl ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ver was also sometimes referred to as McAllister's Town in its early years. | spent the night of April 12, 1776 at the Sign of the Horse, an inn owned b ... |
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 ... |
Bill Cosby | ... es into major concerts in sports arenas and amphitheaters. Steve Martin and | had levels of success with gentler comic routines. The older style of stan ... |
Elmer Blaney Harris | ... red in Montgomery's Anne books, is in Cavendish, on the north shore of PEI. | founded an artists colony at Fortune Bridge and set his famous play Johnny ... |
Claude Richmond | ... islature's speaker, former Social Credit cabinet minister-turned BC Liberal | , as Leader of the Official Opposition, MacPhail's caucus was not granted ... |
Huáscar | ... o sons: Atahualpa, being in charge of the northern parts of the empire, and | , seated in the Incan capital Cusco. Upon Huayna Capac's death in 1525, th ... |
Solomon | ... second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of | and the great-grandson of David. The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ... |
Adrian Edmondson | ... he ITV pantomime – Jack and the Beanstalk, alongside actors Neil Morrissey, | , Paul Merton, Denise van Outen and Julian Clary. The show was first broad ... |
Paul Schrader | The Comfort of Strangers, an art house film directed by | , had the distinction of providing a role for Walken that disturbed even h ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... ch was released December 24, 2004. Included is an audio-only interview with | as well as the clip of The Drew Carey Shows parody of the episode |
Bill Richmond | ... e Michaels, Phil Hahn, Jim Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, | , Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, Larry Siegel, John Rappaport, Allan Mani ... |
Mark Antony | ... colleague, Mark Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general | and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Caesar's best friend, established the Second ... |
Chevy Chase | ... , Seymour returned to the big screen in the comedy Oh Heavenly Dog opposite | , and as Elise McKenna in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time opposite ... |
Kevin Warwick | ... riment with RFID implants was conducted by British professor of cybernetics | , who implanted a chip in his arm in 1998. In 2004 Conrad Chase offered im ... |
John Daniell | ... y's experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry. In 1836, | invented a primary cell in which hydrogen was eliminated in the generation ... |
David | ... was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of | . The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ; ) |
Darren Tate | ... vocals for the group Angelic, which was a grouping between Judge Jules and | . They had two hits, "It's My Turn" in 2000 and "Can't Keep Me Silent" in ... |
Pliny | ... coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities; and | gives it the title of a Colonia. It is probable that it received a colony ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... feature film, What's Up, Tiger Lily. John Sebastian composed the music for | 's second film, You're a Big Boy Now, and The Lovin' Spoonful played the m ... |
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 ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... fire in 1771, but by 1774 the house, though incomplete, was inhabited. Dr. | visiting the house in 1781 is quoted as saying, "This is one of the places ... |
Alexander the Great | In 334 BC, | began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Per ... |
Stéphane Mallarmé | ... . He was received at the salons littéraires, including the famous mardis of | , a renowned symbolist poet of the time. Wilde's two plays during the 1880 ... |
Thomas Chaucer | ... War, and later Lord Chamberlain of England. Alice Chaucer was a daughter of | , Speaker of the Commons on three occasions, Chief Butler of England for a ... |
Gore Vidal | ... or McVeigh typically described his deed as an act of war, as in the case of | 's essay The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh. Other journalists compared him to ... |
Ring Lardner | ... n in Chicago, he was the son of Ellis (Abbott) and journalist and humorist, | . After being educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Princeton Univers ... |
Christopher Reeve | ... se, and as Elise McKenna in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time opposite | . In 1981, she appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on the ... |
Thomas Berger | In outline there are some similarities to | 's 1964 novel Little Big Man, in which a 121-year-old man recounts his num ... |
Steven Soderbergh | Damon next appeared in | 's dark comedy, The Informant! (2009), in which his Golden Globe-nominated ... |
Pope Pius II | He was elected to succeed | by the accessus in the first ballot of the papal conclave of 1464 with a m ... |
Miles Tripp | ... rer, includes a first-hand account of the firestorm in his published works. | , who was a bomb aimer in one of the aircraft which bombed Dresden, wrote ... |
John James Audubon | ... popular, commercial hunting started on a prodigious scale. The bird painter | described the preparations for slaughter at a known pigeon-roosting site |
Margaret of Anjou | ... ns in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian Henry VI and Queen | were campaigning in the north of England, Warwick gained control of the ca ... |
Che Guevara | In 1965 Argentinian revolutionary | used the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training camp for guerrill ... |
Helen Mirren | ... th extreme sexual tastes and murderous tendencies who lives with his wife ( | ) in Venice |
Amy Lowell | ... six by Pound. The book also included work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, | , William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and ... |
Giorgio Vasari | ... ician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. | in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his in ... |
Joseph Campbell | ... work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in | 's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Gaiman says that he started reading The ... |
Pius XII | ... his sermons mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of | or Paul VI. Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact t ... |
Hank Marvin | ... g streets and parks, 200,000 people watched Jarre and guests like guitarist | perform in less than ideal conditions. Inclement weather had threatened to ... |
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 ... |
John Steinbeck | ... 81, she appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on the novel by | . Her portrayal of main antagonist Cathy Ames won her a Golden Globe. In 1 ... |
Miguel de Unamuno | ... s. Of those, some have been notable Spanish scholars, such as Basque writer | , Rector of the University of Salamanca from 1901 until 1936 |
Danny Rampling | ... d, his show went out between 17:00 and 19:00 on Saturday evenings, ahead of | 's show. From 31 July 2004, after the departure of Seb Fontaine from the s ... |
John Lennon | ... ly Damage Your Health. She portrays Diana, a fan of The Beatles band member | ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him. Years later, after multiple failed ... |
Jim Price | ... XYT-FM (97.1 FM). Dan Dickerson does play-by-play and former Tigers catcher | does color commentary. Games are carried on both stations unless a conflic ... |
Billy Barnes | ... ected the band as they stopped and started between jokes. Composer-lyricist | , who wrote all of the original musical production numbers in the show. Ba ... |
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 ... |
Alex Haley | ... g them QB VII, and Rich Man, Poor Man. The most successful, Roots, based on | 's novel, became one of the biggest hits in television history. Combined w ... |
Coty | ... a short time in 1948. Pineau was designated as prime minister by president | after the February 1955 resignation of Pierre Mendès-France, but the Natio ... |
William Carlos Williams | ... d. The book also included work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, | , James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and John Cournos |
John Lennon | ... s by Glyn Johns of the Get Back album (which would later become Let It Be). | may have been the unintentional source for one of the Get Back bootlegs; L ... |
Cassiodorus | ... n up, in his name and in the names of his successors, by his Roman minister | . The Goths seem to have been thick on the ground in northern Italy; in th ... |
Maynard Smith | ... opt T instead of S. This fact represents the point of departure of the ESS. | and Price specify two conditions for a strategy S to be an ESS. Eithe |
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 ... |
Francisco Franco | ... , Israel, India, and undemocratic anti-communist states such as Spain under | , South Africa under apartheid, Greece under the military junta (1967–74), ... |
Seb Fontaine | ... , ahead of Danny Rampling's show. From 31 July 2004, after the departure of | from the station, his show was moved to between 19:00 and 21:00 on Saturda ... |
Lynn Abbey | Over the next few years, he created and edited (with his then-wife, | ) the Thieves' World series of shared world anthologies, credited as the f ... |
Émile Zola | ... n Beast (La Bête Humaine) (1938), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by | and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin |
Joe Ghiz | ... pitals; the then-governing Prince Edward Island Liberal Party under Premier | acquiesced and the ban was upheld. The Government of Prince Edward Island ... |
Richard Eberhart | ... lism, Dartmouth has produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, | , Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, ... |
Eleanor Bron | ... sire – the unattainable beauty and waitress at his cafe, Margaret Spencer ( | ) – in exchange for his soul, but repeatedly tricks him. The film features ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... and "They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave" with a guitar I borrowed that was | 's; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside. I included a song of ... |
Pausanias | ... directly in cult anywhere in classical Greece, but at Lebadaea in Boeotia, | noted in the 2nd century AD that Europa was the epithet of Demeter— "Demet ... |
Michael Palin | ... yika featured in the documentary series Pole to Pole. The BBC documentarian | stayed on board the MV Liemba and traveled across the lake |
Pedro Almodóvar | ... r unusual circumstances. Also in 1997, she appeared in the opening scene of | 's Live Flesh as a prostitute who gives birth on a bus and in Et hjørne af ... |
Lady Louisa Stuart | # | (12 August 1757 – 4 August 1851 |
Denise van Outen | ... Beanstalk, alongside actors Neil Morrissey, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton, | and Julian Clary. The show was first broadcast 25 December 1998 on ITV1 an ... |
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 ... |
Jordanes | ... of the Lugian federation, which was composed of Germanic and Slavic tribes. | refers to Vandals as Gothic (East Germanic) speakers, and name etymologies ... |
Robert Frost | ... s produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, | , Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Ship ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ef Butler of England for almost thirty years, and granddaughter of the poet | |
Gwion Bach | ... and the salmon of knowledge bears a strong resemblance to the Welsh tale of | |
Anthony Boucher | Even the "avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man", | , writing for The New York Times appeared to enjoy Goldfinger, saying "the ... |
James Joyce | ... work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, | , Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and John Cournos |
Nigel Jaquiss | ... Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, | , Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago |
Matt Damon | ... featured in the 2000 movie The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Will Smith, | and |
Michel de Montaigne | ... had gone in search of gold. Snowed in for the winter, he read the Essays by | . Montaigne's book impressed Hoffer deeply, and he often made reference to ... |
Richard I | Henry II of England died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son | (Lionheart) and Philip II. Richard inherited the crown and immediately beg ... |
King Henry VI | ... oners in 1876. The Bridge Fair, as it is now known, granted to the abbey by | , survives. Prayers for the opening of the fair were once said at the morn ... |
Robert Graves | ... oits. On 27 July 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; the citation read: | described Sassoon as engaging in suicidal feats of bravery. Sassoon was al ... |
Abel Ferrara | King of New York (1990), directed by | , stars Walken as ruthless New York City drug dealer Frank White—recently ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... a major European power. Edward then alienated Warwick by secretly marrying | , the widow of a Lancastrian sympathiser, in 1464 |
Amalasuntha | ... Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter | . Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. Theodahad, cous ... |
Jean Giraudoux | ... ssigny in France's Haute-Marne department. His father-in-law was the writer | , who was married to Pineau's mother. Later, Christian Pineau would say th ... |
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 ( ... |
Petrarch | ... happenings. Giacomo Penzio (fl. 1495-1527), in a work falsely attributed to | (1304–74), wrote in his Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Rom ... |
Ian McKellen | ... be. In 1982, she appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and | . In 1984, Seymour appeared nude in the film Lassiter, co-starring Tom Sel ... |
Herodotus | ... g boats, fishing and other skills required to survive in their environment. | also mentions that Darius had made use of the ocean in this region of Sind ... |
Laurence Olivier | When | gave his acclaimed performance of Othello at the Royal National Theatre in ... |
Janet Morris | ... els and stories outside the anthologies, beginning with Beyond Sanctuary by | , the first "authorized" Thieves World novel, published in 1985. Janet Mor ... |
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 |
Tim Westwood | ... his show was moved to between 19:00 and 21:00 on Saturday nights, ahead of | . The show was widely advertised as, "The UK's Saturday Warmup", or "The W ... |
Julian Clary | ... actors Neil Morrissey, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton, Denise van Outen and | . The show was first broadcast 25 December 1998 on ITV1 and continues to b ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... high that television cameras were blown over. The audience, which included | , was on the second evening soaked by rain and wind |
Henry Cowell | ... Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, | , Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzys ... |
Jacquetta of Luxembourg | Elizabeth's mother was | , widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her f ... |
Ford Madox Ford | ... Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, | , Allen Upward and John Cournos |
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright | ... he Nineteenth Century, and Pen, Pencil and Poison, a satirical biography of | , in the Fortnightly Review, edited by Wilde's friend Frank Harris. Two of ... |
Gertrude Stein | ... iday on the French Riviera socializing with political free thinkers such as | and Claude McKay. Robeson and Brown began a series of concert tours in Ame ... |
Gavrila Derzhavin | ... classical and European influences that inspired the Russian Enlightenment. | , Denis Fonvizin, and Ippolit Bogdanovich laid the groundwork for the grea ... |
Dave Thomas | ... in Toronto during their tour of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land. According to | , in his book, , their sketch was very poor and the actors gave bad perfor ... |
Arsames | ... i and was serving at the time as a royal courier. Codomannus was the son of | , son of Ostanes, one of Artaxerxes's brothers, and Sisygambis, daughter o ... |
Edward | ... hree children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and | , both of whom became English monarchs. She was influential in Henry's pas ... |
Andrew J. Offutt | ... phic novels followed in the mid-1980s, and several other authors, including | and David Drake, published novels about their characters. In 2002, Lynn Ab ... |
Jake Tapper | ... uthors and media personalities include ABC Senior White House correspondent | , novelist/screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, ... |
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers | ... ow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her father, | , was a new-minted baron. Elizabeth's marriage to Edward IV made the unmar ... |
Denis Fonvizin | ... pean influences that inspired the Russian Enlightenment. Gavrila Derzhavin, | , and Ippolit Bogdanovich laid the groundwork for the great writers of the ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... . Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of | and Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in huma ... |
Allen Upward | ... Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, | and John Cournos |
Marcel Schwob | ... nter Melvin Day) and literary criticism (e.g., in the "Vies imaginaires" by | , "Uccello le poil" by Antonin Artaud and "O Mundo Como Ideia" by Bruno To ... |
Pope John Paul II | On Sunday, October 9, 1979, | celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ... |
David K. Shipler | ... t, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, | , and Joseph Rago |
Dave Pearce | ... to 01:00 every Friday evening. The reason for the move was the departure of | , whose Dance Anthems show was moved to BBC 6 Music. His show attracts a w ... |
William IV | ... eat, death, or resignation. The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was | , who dismissed Lord Melbourne in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 201 ... |
Kavadh I | ... (roughly modern-day Georgia). It details the campaigns of the Sasanian Shah | , the 'Nika' revolt in Constantinople in 532, the war by Kavadh's successo ... |
Theobald IV | ... Champagne. He received an education befitting a young noble at the court of | , count of Champagne: reading, writing, and the rudiments of Latin. On the ... |
Michael Parkinson | ... s to have been a disappointment. He was replaced after only two episodes by | , the start of Parkinson's career as a chat show host. Parkinson later ask ... |
Louis XIV | ... iage of his daughter Liselotte to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, the brother of | , king of France. In 1685, after the death of Charles Louis' son Elector C ... |
Claude McKay | ... Riviera socializing with political free thinkers such as Gertrude Stein and | . Robeson and Brown began a series of concert tours in America, with and w ... |
Salvatore Quasimodo | ... ous sanctuary and is also famous for the poem "Vento a Tindari", written by | |
Æthelred the Unready | ... sinated at Corfe Castle, possibly at the instigation of his stepmother, and | became king. His coronation on Low Sunday 31 March, 978, was the last stat ... |
Karol Wojtyla | ... his papal name. This legacy was so remarkable that his successor, Cardinal | , chose the same name |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... the Charlottetown Festival, hosted at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. | , who was born in Clifton (now New London) in 1874, wrote some 20 novels a ... |
Charles de Gaulle | A World War II French Resistance leader and a close ally of | , Pineau was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and survived Buchenwald conce ... |
Justinian I | ... Ostrogothic position in Italy now showed itself. The Eastern Roman Emperor | always strove to restore as much of the Western Roman Empire as he could a ... |
Henry II of England | ... g control of the city. In response to Strongbow's successful invasion, King | reaffirmed his sovereignty by mounting a larger invasion in 1171 and prono ... |
Laura Ingraham | ... iter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host | , commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. Norman Maclean, ... |
Elmar Huseynov | ... ts Watch, several Azerbaijani journalists, including Eynulla Fatullayev and | , have been persecuted or been killed for their criticism of the governmen ... |
Adrian Edmondson | ... French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and | began their careers. The stand-up comedy circuit rapidly expanded from Lon ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ormed to oppose the Diem administration. The United States, under President | sent advisors and a great deal of financial support to aid the ARVN in com ... |
Fidel | ... the President of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until | and Raúl Castro leave power and a prescribed course of transition is follo ... |
Henry Tudor | ... h this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker than that of | , who dislodged the House of York from the throne in 1485 |
Vicente Rocafuerte | ... who was ultimately deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as | ; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Ar ... |
John of England | ... reland, was founded in 1204 as a major defensive work on the orders of King | . Following the appointment of the first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1229, the ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... ies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General | . He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over question ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ry furnishings were rented from private collectors, including the estate of | |
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 ... |
Mort Kondracke | ... al analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator | , and journalist James Panero. Norman Maclean, a former professor at the U ... |
Bill Clinton | ... udents were given the results of student and national polls indicating that | was in the lead. Others were not exposed to the results of the polls. Seve ... |
Nestor | ... similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, where the young | fights and conquers the giant Ereuthalion. Each giant wields a distinctive ... |
John Maynard Smith | Evolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced by | and George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper. Such was the time taken in pee ... |
Liz Smith | ... others, including Betty Hutton, Helen Hayes, James MacArthur, June Allyson, | , and Rex Reed witnessed abuse. Bette Davis supported Christina's version, ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... nd to emerge during the 1980s was Manchester's The Smiths. Music journalist | singled out The Smiths and their American contemporaries R.E.M. as "the tw ... |
Numitor | ... ded from the Trojan prince Aeneas and who were grandsons of the Latin King, | of Alba Longa. King Numitor was deposed from his throne by his brother, Am ... |
Donald Knuth | In 1983, Zapf had completed the typeface AMS Euler with | and David Siegel of Stanford University for the American Mathematical Soci ... |
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 ... |
Juan José Flores | ... uccession of rulers. The first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born | , who was ultimately deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such ... |
Edward I of England | ... not permitted to live in Wales between the 1290 Edict of Expulsion—given by | —and the 17th century. A Welsh Jewish community was re-established in the ... |
Agnes Boulton | ... ime they had one son, Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (1910–1950). In 1917, O'Neill met | , a successful writer of commercial fiction, and they married on April 12, ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... homage to "Time Enough at Last". In , Albert Brooks recounts the episode to | as they drive along an empty stretch of highway. "This thing freaked me ou ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... d became a major literary and artistic patron. Among his beneficiaries were | , Tobias Smollett, Robert Adam, William Robertson and John Hill. He also g ... |
Mark Twain | ... e Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included | , Charles Dickens and Christopher Marlowe |
Eynulla Fatullayev | ... criticism by Human Rights Watch, several Azerbaijani journalists, including | and Elmar Huseynov, have been persecuted or been killed for their criticis ... |
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Ann-Marie MacDonald | Canadian playwright | 's 1988 award-winning play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a ... |
President of The United States of America | ... urpose design meant to serve as Air Force One, the secure transport for the | . These models were in operational use from 1962 to 1990. The two aircraft ... |
Dinesh D'Souza | ... ondent Jake Tapper, novelist/screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst | , radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and jou ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... escribes an umbrella as a "screen commonly used by women to keep off rain." | 's Robinson Crusoe constructs his own umbrella in imitation of the ones he ... |
President | ... nited States diplomats to vote in favor of sanctions on Cuba, stripping the | of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until Fidel and Raú ... |
Martin Gardner | ... a tiling of the plane with integral squares, each having a different size. | has published an extensive article written by about the early history of s ... |
Albert Brooks | ... erican popular culture frequently pay homage to "Time Enough at Last". In , | recounts the episode to Dan Aykroyd as they drive along an empty stretch o ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... d III in the first episode of Blackadder, "The Foretelling", which parodies | 's portrayal. He narrated the short film "Diplomatix" by Norwegian comedy ... |
Budd Schulberg | ... ude ABC Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, novelist/screenwriter | , political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, c ... |
Fynes Moryson | In | 's "Itinerary" (1617) is a similar allusion to the habit of carrying umbre ... |
Alyattes | ... me “Goliath” itself is non-Semitic and has been linked with the Lydian king | , which also fits the Philistine context of the biblical Goliath story. , ... |
Robert Graves | ... n written, one of which, Count Belisarius, was written by poet and novelist | in 1938 |
Craig Ferguson | ... tars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, | , Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began their careers. The stand-up comedy ... |
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 ... |
Britney Spears | On September 4, 2003, | , Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, Aerosmith and others performed in a nati ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... t the Battle of Pichincha, near Quito. Following the battle, Ecuador joined | 's Republic of Gran Colombia – joining with modern day Colombia and Venezu ... |
Isa Gambar | ... been observing and monitoring the election directly or indirectly declared | winner in the October 15 election. Another view shared by many internation ... |
Baroness Catherine Ashton | ... further five years. His vice president, as of 2010, is High Representative | |
Jonas Hanway | ... ound their value, and got over the shyness natural to a first introduction. | , the founder of the Magdalen Hospital, has the credit of being the first ... |
Sadakichi Hartmann | ... thology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of | , and contemporary French-language translations |
Norman Maclean | ... st Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. | , a former professor at the University of Chicago and author of A River Ru ... |
Donna Woolfolk Cross | ... 's feminist play Top Girls (1982). The story is reworked in American writer | 's 1996 novel. Pope Joan. There have been two film versions, a 1972 film d ... |
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 ... |
Al Gore | While serving in the Army, | was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ... |
Robert I of Scotland | ... 3th century. Dublin prospered as a trade centre, despite an attempt by King | to capture the city in 1317. It remained a relatively small walled medieva ... |
Ptol. | Tindari , anciently Tyndaris or Tyndarion (Greek: , Strab.; , | ) is a small city (a frazione) in the comune of Patti, in the Province of ... |
Amulius | ... tor of Alba Longa. King Numitor was deposed from his throne by his brother, | , while Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, gave birth to the twins. Because ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, | in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example |
Don Cheadle | ... to create Water.org in July 2009. He, along with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, | , and Jerry Weintraub, is one of the founders of , an organization that fo ... |
Winston Groom | Bayou La Batre is mentioned in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and in | 's book of the same name on which the movie is based as the home of Forres ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles Maturin | ... stian, and the titular character of Melmoth the Wanderer; a gothic novel by | , Wilde's great-uncle. Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the D ... |
Eric Sevareid | ... ublic television in 1964 and then in two one-hour conversations on CBS with | in the late 1960s |
Caryl Churchill | ... 6 novel The Papess Joanne. Pope Joan is a character in the opening scene of | 's feminist play Top Girls (1982). The story is reworked in American write ... |
Prince of Wales | ... irm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as | and as king |
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 ... |
José Joaquín de Olmedo | ... deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as Vicente Rocafuerte | ;; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásub ... |
Fred Thompson | ... Pundits credited the third-place finisher, Tennessee's former U.S. Senator | , with drawing votes from Huckabee in South Carolina, thereby giving a nar ... |
Stefan Aust | ... Meinhof Complex, an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name by | . Wokalek's performance in the film was awarded with a nomination for the ... |
Guillermo Rodríguez Lara | ... cial government. It was made a province by presidential decree by President | on 18 February 1973. The province is divided into cantons, each covering c ... |
Astyages | ... mbyses I, who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of | , a Median king |
Genseric | The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who in 429 under king | entered Africa and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman A ... |
David Yallop | ... llectual lightweight not up to the responsibilities of the papacy, although | ("In God's Name") says that this is the result of a whispering campaign by ... |
Tobias Smollett | ... literary and artistic patron. Among his beneficiaries were Samuel Johnson, | , Robert Adam, William Robertson and John Hill. He also gave considerably ... |
Idi Amin | ... ted and/or military-backed leaders. Such is the case in many African states | ;in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for ... |
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 ... |
Emmanuel Rhoides | ... worked in a number of modern works. The story is retold in the Greek author | ' 1866 novel The Papess Joanne. Pope Joan is a character in the opening sc ... |
Mao Zedong | ... . To propel the country towards a modern, industrialized communist society, | instituted the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s, although this had de ... |
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 ... |
14th Dalai Lama | In Southwest China, many Tibetan people emigrated to India, following the | in 1959 after the failure of his Tibetan uprising. This wave lasted until ... |
Charles Dickens | ... press Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, | and Christopher Marlowe |
George V | ... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King | , responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... i industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that Benito Mussolini and | attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 she disguised her ... |
Alexander the Great | ... nd kingdoms ruled the region: the Persian Achaemenid Empire around 519 BCE, | 's empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya ... |
Queen Victoria | ... liticians. John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, where | permitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a ... |
Christopher Marlowe | ... and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and | |
Einstein's | ... inguishes these spaces from the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and | general theory of relativity, and is named for the Greek mathematician Euc ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ut for Bluehouses at the Nevill Ground, where he sometimes played alongside | . He also played cricket for his house at Marlborough College, once taking ... |
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 ... |
Noël Coward | ... ined a King's Scholarship, Gielgud trained briefly at RADA and understudied | in Coward's The Vortex at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead under the dire ... |
Manuel de Ascásubi | ... osé Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta | ;; and Flores's own son, Antonio Flores Jijón, among others. The conservat ... |
Moses | ... e 40-day period of repentance is also analogous to the 40 days during which | repented and fasted in response to the making of the Golden calf. (Jews to ... |
Arnaut Daniel | ... ion of the condensed, direct expression that he detected in the writings of | , Dante, and Guido Cavalcanti, amongst others. For example, in his 1911–12 ... |
Blair Brown | In 2000, Walken was cast as the lead, along with | , in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway. A "play with music", The Dead fea ... |
Colen Campbell | ... uildings including the 'Bagnio' (or Casino, designed by Lord Burlington and | ) in 1716, the 'Pagan Temple' (designed by the Catholic Baroque architect ... |
Philip III of Spain | ... he Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and | in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate of Montferrat. In Septe ... |
Pierre Schaeffer | ... nd of one of Jarre's fellow-pupils at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of | , where Jarre had learned to use synthesizers, including the EMS VCS 3, wh ... |
Isa Gambar | ... 15, 2003, an official release of the Central Election Committee (CEC) gave | — leader of the largest opposition bloc, Bizim Azerbaycan ("Our Azerbaijan ... |
Ebenezer Porter | ... ea of religion and theology, Dartmouth alumni include priests and ministers | , Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Caleb Sprague Henry, Arthur Whipple Jenks, Solo ... |
George V | ... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon. | , who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ... |
Joe Posnanski | ... nuous, regular move like Rickey's can't be thrown out, and he's proven it." | of the Kansas City Star and Sports Illustrated wrote |
Mary Whitehouse | Walters played | in the BBC Drama , an adaptation of the real-life story of Mrs. Whitehouse ... |
King George II | ... n South Carolina. In 1730, Camden became part of a township plan ordered by | . Kershaw County’s official web site states, “Originally laid out in 1732 ... |
Chris Rock | ... Some notable people from South Carolina are Peg Leg Sam actor and comedian | and a notable descendent from the people of the state, is young family his ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... trative rule in Ireland. Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen | established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ... |
Barack Obama | ... r the nomination, McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while | and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic no ... |
Rupert Brooke | ... this time his younger brother Hamo was killed in the Gallipoli Campaign. ( | , whom Siegfried had briefly met, died on the way there.) Hamo's death hit ... |
Barbara La Marr | ... choosing the surname in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent era, | , who had died in 1926 from tuberculosis |
Ada Leverson | ... lloway and, shunning attention, went into hiding at the house of Ernest and | , two of his firm friends. Edward Carson approached Frank Lockwood QC, the ... |
Harold II | ... he petty kingdoms of early medieval Britain. The last Anglo-Saxon monarch ( | ) was defeated and killed in the Norman invasion of 1066 and the English m ... |
Pedro José de Arteta | ... Vicente Rocafuerte; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa | ;; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son, Antonio Flores Jijón, among o ... |
Julian the Apostate | ... the poor had to cope with ever-degrading bronze pieces. Later emperors like | tried to present themselves as advocates of the humiles by insisting on tr ... |
Nick Tosches | In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and | , whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and h ... |
Pyrrhus of Epirus | After | failed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ... |
Dr. Seuss | ... d from Dartmouth in 1924. Theodor Geisel, better known as children's author | , was a member of the class of 1925 |
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy | ... 1616 the pope sent him as nuncio to the Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between | and Philip III of Spain in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate ... |
Ilham Aliyev | President | 's ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party got a majority of 73 out of 125 seats. The ... |
Plato | ... the Pythagoreans, allegedly exercised an important influence on the work of | . According to R. M. Hare, this influence consists of three points: (1) Th ... |
James Lipton | ... credited cameo in the sixth season of the show. He is named as the only man | has ever called a coward in an episode of Arrested Development. He current ... |
Sydney Pollack | ... g films like Bob Fosse's Cabaret, Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run, and | 's They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, while other films like Song of Norway a ... |
Rowan Atkinson | ... e had been Ronald before he dropped the "n". The cast included John Cleese, | , Beryl Reid, Paula Wilcox and Terry Jones. The show has never been repeat ... |
Foglio | ... glory. Some of the early "Myth" novels were later adapted as comic books by | and others. The Myth books have passed through three publishing companies ... |
Choudhary Rahmat Ali | ... and of (the) Pure" in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by | , a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Ne ... |
Diego Noboa | ... aders such as Vicente Rocafuerte; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina | ;; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son, Antonio ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... empire, as they are not mentioned as one of the ancient Iranian tribes that | and Darius I had fought with. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ... |
Johnny Depp | ... rtel and Lost It All. She had a supporting role as Mirtha Jung, the wife of | 's character. The film received mixed reviews, but made $80 million worldw ... |
Mark Twain | ... sh Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as | and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics. Comedians of this era often ... |
Calvin Harris | Chart-topping record producer | is from Dumfries. Ray Wilson, lead singer of Stiltskin and later Genesis w ... |
Giorgio Vasari | His daughter Antonia Uccello (1456–1491) was a Carmelite nun, whom | called "a daughter who knew how to draw". She was even noted as a "pittore ... |
Gary Player | ... res five award-winning golf courses designed by the likes of Jack Nicklaus, | , Tom Fazio, and Pete Dye. The courses snake along the skinny island, movi ... |
Eloy Alfaro | The coast-based Liberal Revolution of 1895 under | reduced the power of the clergy and the conservative land owners of the hi ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... hed on her suggestion in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists | and Peter Simon Pallas from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to ... |
Carrie Fisher | ... y the producers of Dynasty, who used it as the fictional hotel The Carlton. | was originally contracted to portray Miss Scarlet but withdrew to enter tr ... |
Robert Graves | ... 1915, and in November was sent to the 1st Battalion in France. There he met | and they became close friends. United by their poetic vocation, they often ... |
David | ... ctional persons. Among those still available are his letters to Jesus, King | , Figaro the Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written ... |
Randle Cotgrave | In | 's "Dictionary of the French and English Tongues" (1614), the French Ombre ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... e Curtiss-Wright Corporation. His character is also an oblique reference to | , in that his ambitions lie not only in Hollywood, but also the Presidency ... |
Charles Darwin | ... g and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by | during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contribu ... |
Walter Pater | ... about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, Cardinal Newman and | |
Bill Drummond | ... orn in Dumfries as were fellow musicians Geoffrey Kelly and Ian Carr. While | of KLF is from Newton Stewart he is one of the Queen of the South fans inc ... |
Mo Mowlam | ... ters played the late MP and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, | in a drama for Channel 4, broadcast in early 2010. She had misgivings abou ... |
Cambyses I | ... th. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ancestry as his father was | , who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of Astyag ... |
Diane Sawyer | ... 20/20 special on poverty in America broadcast on January 26, 2007, in which | profiled the lives of three young children growing up in Camden. A follow- ... |
Björn Ulvaeus | Per Gessle is one of three people (also including | ) who own NoteHeads, a Swedish company which publishes the music notation ... |
President | ... rifle that bears his name, the Burnside carbine. The Secretary of War under | James Buchanan, John B. Floyd, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company t ... |
Charles Dickens | ... rature contains many references to him, for example in A Christmas Carol by | , and in this folk rhyme |
Jack Nicklaus | ... he island features five award-winning golf courses designed by the likes of | , Gary Player, Tom Fazio, and Pete Dye. The courses snake along the skinny ... |
Max Hastings | ... f the city provoked unease in intellectual circles in Britain. According to | , by February 1945, attacks upon German cities had become largely irreleva ... |
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 ... |
Guido Cavalcanti | ... ct expression that he detected in the writings of Arnaut Daniel, Dante, and | , amongst others. For example, in his 1911–12 series of essays I gather th ... |
Justinian I | ... ity of Rome. Their kingdom collapsed in the Vandalic War of 533–4, in which | managed to reconquer the Africa province for the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... nfluenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and | , to name a few |
Peter Gallagher | ... ed Bentley with a video camera, telling the actor to film what Ricky would. | and Alison Janney were cast (as Buddy Kane and Barbara Fitts) after filmin ... |
Ian Carr | ... er Genesis was born in Dumfries as were fellow musicians Geoffrey Kelly and | . While Bill Drummond of KLF is from Newton Stewart he is one of the Queen ... |
Alexander Severus | ... the Roman Emperor Elagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of | . It is believed that Urban's pontificate was during a peaceful time for C ... |
Terry Jones | ... The cast included John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Beryl Reid, Paula Wilcox and | . The show has never been repeated |
Thomas Coryat | In | 's "Crudities", published in 1611, about a century and a half prior to the ... |
Julian Lennon | ... the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of | . His godfather is Sir Elton John |
Billy Bob Thornton | ... documentary, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, narrated by | , and he also scripted Sam Cooke - Legend, narrated by |
Joris-Karl Huysmans | ... German grammars, some Ancient Greek texts, Dante's Divine Comedy, En Route, | 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). | , in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while Barack Obama and | fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ... |
principality of Wales | ... sh monarchy passed to the Norman conquerors. In the thirteenth century, the | was absorbed by England, and Magna Carta began the process of reducing the ... |
Lord Camden | ... the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in honor of | , the champion of colonial rights |
Antonio Flores Jijón | ... iego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son, | , among others. The conservative Gabriel Garcia Moreno unified the country ... |
George Burns | The fathers of modern American stand-up comedy, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, | , Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all came from vaudeville. They sp ... |
Albrecht Dürer | ... his paintings has influenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, | and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few |
John Lennon | ... t and actor of English, Japanese and Irish Descent. He is the only child of | and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon. His godfather ... |
Edward Louis Bernays | ... d individuals to achieve mutual understanding and realize strategic goals." | , who is considered the founding father of modern public relations along w ... |
Crispus | On some date between 15 May and 17 June 326, Constantine had his eldest son | , by Minervina, seized and put to death by "cold poison" at Pola (Pula, Cr ... |
Voltaire | She wrote comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating | , Diderot, and d'Alembert—all French encyclopedists who later cemented her ... |
Roman Emperor | Urban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of the | Elagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus ... |
Louis XIV | ... held the role of the dominant power in Europe, as it had since the times of | . In its place, the United Kingdom emerged as by far the most powerful cou ... |
Josie Bissett | ... son 1 to mean-spirited, adulterous villain from Season 2 on; Jane Mancini ( | ), his budding fashion designer wife; Billy Campbell (Andrew Shue), the st ... |
Paula Wilcox | ... dropped the "n". The cast included John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Beryl Reid, | and Terry Jones. The show has never been repeated |
Horace | ... British politics and Whig values. However, it was the figures of the poets | , Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus ... |
Elagabalus' | Urban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of the Roman Emperor | assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus. It is beli ... |
Larry Stark | ... 964) and Mister Downchild (1967), were short story collections published by | , whose small press in Cambridge, Larry Stark Press, was devoted to storie ... |
Fausta | ... on" at Pola (Pula, Croatia). In July, Constantine had his wife, the Empress | , killed at the behest of his mother, Helena. Fausta was left to die in an ... |
Cameron Crowe | ... hen Cruz starred in the feature films Vanilla Sky and Blow. In Vanilla Sky, | 's interpretation of Open Your Eyes, she played Sofia Serrano, the love in ... |
Decian | Following the | persecution of 250–251, there was disagreement about how to treat those wh ... |
Henry VIII | ... k. In 1527, with some of the money from the dissolution of the monasteries, | built Southsea Castle and decreed that Portsmouth be home of the Royal Nav ... |
Nadezhda Krupskaya | ... rime minister Alexei Rykov. Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with Lenin's widow, | , and Grigory Sokolnikov, the Soviet Commissar of Finance and non-voting P ... |
Zoltan Korda | Sanders was released in 1935 and editing by | produced an imperial film. The film was immensely popular and made Robeson ... |
Copernican | ... h century the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, an early supporter of the | theory that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun, put forward the vie ... |
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 ... |
Ken Kesey | A damning portrayal of the procedure is found in | 's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and its 1975 movie adaptatio ... |
King of Bahrain | ... r term. The upper house, the Shura Council, has 40 members appointed by the | . Among the members of the current Shura Council are representatives of Ba ... |
Spike Milligan | ... omedy sections were originally intended to be performed by a cast including | and Peter Ustinov, but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once th ... |
José María Velasco Ibarra | ... tability and emergence of populist politicians, such as five-time President | |
Frederick Law Olmsted | ... estructuring and labor tension, Pittsburgh steelmaker George McMurtry hired | 's landscape architectural firm in 1895 to design Vandergrift as a model t ... |
Charles Darwin | William Charles Wells, predecessor to | on the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. Geolo ... |
Tim Marchman | In July 2007, New York Sun sportswriter | wrote about Henderson's accomplishments |
Gustav Graves | ... ast a radio adaptation of Goldfinger with Toby Stephens (who played villain | in Die Another Day) as Bond, Ian McKellen as Goldfinger and Stephens' Die ... |
Henry VII | ... nd Tower be built at the mouth of the harbour, which was completed in 1426. | rebuilt the fortifications with stone, raised a square tower, and assisted ... |
Aristoxenus | ... of metempsychosis. Other authorities contradict the statement. According to | , he allowed the use of all kinds of animal food except the flesh of oxen ... |
Solomon Spalding | ... Porter, Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Caleb Sprague Henry, Arthur Whipple Jenks, | , and Joseph Tracy; and rabbis Marshall Meyer, Arnold Resnicoff, and David ... |
Richard of Gloucester | Although his son was quickly barred from the throne and replaced by | , Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of ... |
Victoria Wood | ... f the public's 50 Greatest Stars, coming four places above frequent co-star | . Also in 2006, she starred in the film Driving Lessons alongside Rupert G ... |
Queen Wilhelmina | ... e to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote a letter in 1899 to | regarding his opposition to becoming a signatory to the Berne Convention f ... |
Stephen of Bourbon | ... y in the year 1099. De Mailly's 'account' was acknowledged by his companion | |
King Charles II | By 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with | , who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ... |
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Laurence Binyon | ... ongst the defining qualities of Imagist poetry. Through his friendship with | , Pound had already developed an interest in Japanese art by examining Nis ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... 2007 began, McCain was in second place behind former Mayor of New York City | in as the year progressed |
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 ... |
Wilson Mizner | ... al, Road Show, which centers on the lives of Addison Mizner and his brother | |
George V | ... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from | both as Prince of Wales and as king |
Thucydides | ... stic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were Herodotus and especially | , and their subject matter was secular history. They avoided vocabulary un ... |
Valerian | ... 354 speaks of Pope Stephen I as not a martyr. In the year 258, the emperor | began persecuting Christians, and Stephen was sitting on his pontifical th ... |
Richard III | Prior to his succession, on 22 June 1483, | declared that Edward V was illegitimate, and three days later the matter w ... |
Rachel Beer | ... arn a living (however, he would later be left a generous legacy by an aunt, | , allowing him to buy the great estate of Heytesbury House in Wiltshire. H ... |
Lester Bangs | In contrast to contemporaries such as | , Ian Penman and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosync ... |
Steven Spielberg | In August 2009 it was announced that | was to direct a remake of the film, with production beginning in 2010. The ... |
Lenny Bruce | ... ries of stand-up venturing into politics, race relations, and sexual humor. | became known as 'the' obscene comic when he used language that usually led ... |
Glenn Beck | ... some conservative ideologies, such as support for the military. Leary told | , "I was a life-long Democrat, but now at my age, I've come to realize tha ... |
John Lennon | ... in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, | wrote, "the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been w ... |
Roald Dahl | ... Unexpected spoof "Tales Of The Much As We Expected". This involved Cook as | , explaining his name had been Ronald before he dropped the "n". The cast ... |
Gus Van Sant | ... ife. He will also star in Elysium. He will shoot Promised Land, directed by | , in April 2012 |
Remy de Gourmont | In an article in La France , 1915, the French critic, | described the Imagists as descendants of of the French Symbolistes and in ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... .. did not feel that the group attracted the wrong element". Vice President | said of The Beach Boys, "They're my friends and I like their music". When ... |
Lucius Verus | ... e poets Horace, Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders | and Lycurgus which once graced the exedra whose political message was one ... |
Jorge Rafael Videla | ... ach church's entries for the poor churches in the Third World. The visit of | , president of the Argentine junta, to the Vatican caused considerable con ... |
Barack Obama | ... ut you have to go within the system to find what you want." Leary supported | in the 2008 presidential election |
Ian Penman | In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, | and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-r ... |
Aristoxenus | ... various anecdotes in antiquity. Iamblichus (apparently on the authority of | ) gives a long description of the daily routine of the members, which sugg ... |
President | In 1988, Congress passed and | Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on be ... |
Jonathan Tropper | ... n between 20th Century Fox and Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios, and novelist | had written the adaptation for the new version. Spielberg approached Tom H ... |
Herodotus | ... tions of the Second Sophistic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were | and especially Thucydides, and their subject matter was secular history. T ... |
Alexander Pope | ... who named the area Twickenham after the home village of his distant kinsman | |
George Antheil | Lamarr also co-invented – with composer | – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hop ... |
Virgil | ... and Whig values. However, it was the figures of the poets Horace, Homer and | , the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus and Lycurgus whic ... |
James Agee | ... whined". Some reviewers criticized Davis for the excess of her performance | ;wrote that she "demonstrates the horrors of egocentricity on a marathonic ... |
Sparta | ... ve been urged. It is also stated that they had common meals, resembling the | n system, at which they met in companies of ten |
President Bartlet | ... olden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of | in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown |
Sylvia Plath | Other sources include | 's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with ... |
Ian McKellen | ... oby Stephens (who played villain Gustav Graves in Die Another Day) as Bond, | as Goldfinger and Stephens' Die Another Day co-star Rosamund Pike as Pussy ... |
Adolphus Frederick | ... named Point Adolphus (today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) after | , seventh son of King George III. In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a c ... |
John of Damascus | ... ely fictional Passion of Artemius, probably penned in the eighth century by | , makes the legendary connection explicit. As an interpretation of the exe ... |
Edward VII | In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later | ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ... |
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 ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ned his daughter Oona for marrying the English actor, director and producer | when she was 18 and Chaplin was 54. He never saw Oona again |
Jeremy Thorpe | ... umming-up by Mr Justice Cantley in the trial of former Liberal Party leader | – a summary condemned for alleged bias in favour of Thorpe. Cook performed ... |
Tom Verducci | ... lf the problem. When he gets on base he's more trouble still." Sportswriter | wrote, "Baseball is designed to be an egalitarian sort of game in which on ... |
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 ... |
Livy | According to tradition and later writers such as | , the Roman Republic was established around 509 BC, when the last of the s ... |
Archestratus of Gela | The Hedyphagetica took much of its substance from the gastronomical epic of | . The eleven extant hexameters have prosodical features avoided in the mor ... |
Plato | Both | and Isocrates affirm that, above all else, Pythagoras was famous for leavi ... |
Hans Staden | The practice of cannibalism among the Tupí was made famous in Europe by | , a German soldier and mariner who was captured by the Tupí in 1552. In hi ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... er, these three statues were later speculatively 'identified' by the writer | (1659–1731) as Caesar (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for t ... |
Philip Pullman | ... rry Potter series), and later had a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of | 's novel The Ruby in the Smoke. In the summer of 2006, she published her f ... |
Tim Burton | ... h his suburban home. The same year, he appeared as the Headless Horseman in | 's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. He also appear ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... hy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch, | , has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertak ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... chool District. Harrison City is named after former United States President | |
John Milton | ... to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet | in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates |
Euric | ... successors. Among the Visigothic written laws had already been put forth by | . Alaric II put forth a Breviarium of Roman law for his Roman subjects; bu ... |
Billy Bob Thornton | ... 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is Matt Damon's love interest in | 's film adaptation of the western bestselling novel, All the Pretty Horses ... |
Robert Graves | ... il Murderer (1913), was a parody of John Masefield's The Everlasting Mercy. | , in describes it as a "parody of Masefield which, midway through, had for ... |
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 ... |
Tom Hanks | ... ropper had written the adaptation for the new version. Spielberg approached | and later Robert Downey, Jr. for the lead role, but in December 2009 Spiel ... |
Eleanor Bron | ... with John Cleese. Cook performed a couple of solo pieces and a sketch with | . He also led the ensemble in the finale – the "End Of The World" sketch f ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | During the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War, | and the Continental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 de ... |
Matt Damon | ... nchecked sensuality." Also in 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is | 's love interest in Billy Bob Thornton's film adaptation of the western be ... |
King George III | ... known humpback whale feeding area) after Adolphus Frederick, seventh son of | . In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a coastal survey, saw "Adolphus" on ... |
John Masefield | ... His first published success, The Daffodil Murderer (1913), was a parody of | 's The Everlasting Mercy. Robert Graves, in describes it as a "parody of M ... |
Conrad Weiser | ... e from attacks. Subsequently, in 1783, he worked with Samuel Weiser (son of | , the famous Native Americans liaison who died in 1760, and with whose fam ... |
John Adams | According to US President | , Ponet's work contained "all the essential principles of liberty, which w ... |
George Carlin | ... Lenny Bruce, arrests for obscene language on stage nearly disappeared until | was arrested on 21 July 1972 at Milwaukee's Summerfest after performing th ... |
Xenophanes | ... he had lived four lives that he could remember in detail, and, according to | , Pythagoras heard the cry of his dead friend in the bark of a dog |
Edward I | ... During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by Henry III and | as a base for attacks against France |
Shakespeare's | ... ge in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from | Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to Samuel Beckett's Waiting For G ... |
Valens | ... and the Breviarium of Eutropius, a handbook compiled in 369 for the Emperor | , which has Constantine dying in a nameless state villa in Nicomedia. From ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... n (1982), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), the ill-fated queen | in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, and the American t ... |
Plato | | believed in the pre-existence of the soul, which tied in with his innatism ... |
Sixto Durán Ballén | ... try blamed the other for the onset of hostilities, known as the Cenepa War. | , the Ecuadorian president, famously declared that he would not give up a ... |
Woody Allen | Other notable comics from this era include | , Shelley Berman and Bob Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... out the decisions of voters in other time zones. In 1980, NBC News declared | to be the winner of the presidential race on the basis of the exit polls s ... |
Henry V | ... mouth as a threat, the French again sacked the city in 1369, 1377 and 1380. | built the first permanent fortifications of Portsmouth. In 1418 he ordered ... |
Justin I | ... the reign of Justinian in 518, which was actually the start of the reign of | , Justinian’s predecessor and uncle. This discrepancy can be seen as part ... |
Robbie Ross | ... nt for his arrest was applied for on charges of sodomy and gross indecency. | found Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel, Knightsbridge with Reginald Turner; both ... |
Stephen Colbert | ... ht Zone-style TV show that airs in the year 3000] on "A Head in the Polls") | ;'s (in the DVD's second alternative ending); and The Simpsons (on the sea ... |
Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... mony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid of | in 281 BC, but this effort failed as well. In the 3rd century BC Rome had ... |
King Arthur | Excalibur is the legendary sword of | , sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful ... |
Darren Star | ... om July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999 for seven seasons. The show was created by | for Fox and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for his company, Spelling ... |
Arthur Symons | ... s indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, | and the Rhymers' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.and the Symb ... |
John of Gaunt | ... ough his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of Edward III through | and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan Beaufort, Countess of ... |
Aulus Gellius | ... , Greek, and Latin languages were in contact with one another; according to | 17.17.1, Ennius referred to this heritage by saying he had "three hearts" ... |
Henry Clay | ... apitol to Annapolis Junction in Maryland. That day the Whig Party nominated | at its national convention in Baltimore. News of the nomination was hand-c ... |
Gordon Brown | The Rt. Hon. | , the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was Rector of the Unive ... |
Alan Ayckbourn | ... (1981), and Michael Gambon in a stage production at Scarborough directed by | in 1990. Gambon had been in Olivier's earlier production. In an interview ... |
Gustav Machatý | In early 1933 she starred in | 's notorious film Ecstasy, a Czechoslovak film made in Prague, in which sh ... |
Sergei Eisenstein | ... Robeson, Essie, and Marie Seton embarked to the USSR on an invitation from | in December 1934. During their sojourn, they encountered a racist Nazi Ger ... |
Edward III | ... m to the throne through his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of | through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan ... |
Mordechai Vanunu | ... d John Cleese and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as | at Glasgow. In many cases, particularly with high-profile rectors, attenda ... |
Isocrates | Both Plato and | affirm that, above all else, Pythagoras was famous for leaving behind him ... |
Pompey | ... dentified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as Caesar (100–44 BC) and | (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a sta ... |
Edward III | ... roying much of the town, with only the local church and hospital surviving. | gave the town exemption from national taxes to aid reconstruction. Only te ... |
Scaliger | ... der Werff) and the Pieterskerk (church of St Peter (1315) with monuments to | , Boerhaave and other famous scholars. From a historical perspective the M ... |
President | ... solution's language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean | Augusto Pinochet, who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands confli ... |
William of Apulia | ... speration to the Normans own spiritual chief, Pope Leo IX and, according to | , begged him "to liberate Italy that now lacks its freedom and to force th ... |
John Wilkes | The journalist | published a newspaper called The North Briton, in which both Bute and the ... |
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | ... schal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by | , and later sacked by the Normans. This also agrees with the earliest know ... |
Iamblichus | ... all else, Pythagoras was famous for leaving behind him a way of life. Both | and Porphyry give detailed accounts of the organisation of the school, alt ... |
Lluís Companys | Under its two presidents, Francesc Macià (1931–1933) and | (1934–1939), the republican Generalitat carried out a considerable task, d ... |
Johnny Depp | ... e appeared as the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring | and Christina Ricci. He also appeared in Kiss Toledo Goodbye with Michael ... |
Albert Goldman's | ... luding 1,150 pages of text), the work countered earlier biographies such as | Elvis from 1981 with an in-depth, scholarly examination of Presley's life ... |
James Bond | ... February 1951) is an English actress best known for her performances in the | film Live and Let Die (1973), Somewhere In Time (1980), East of Eden (1982 ... |
Philip II of Spain | Finally, after several years her pleadings by letter with King | secured relief. As a result, in 1579, the processes before the inquisition ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... , and imperfect but clear English on the other") to United States President | , proposing an "alliance" between the two democratic nations and offering ... |
Chaz | ... survived by his wife Mary Bono and children Christy, Chianna, Chesare, and | . His mother Jean Bono, also survived him, and died on January 15, 2005 at ... |
Eudocia | The margin of the Empress | 's copy of the Iliad has a note summarizing a Hellenistic poet who tells a ... |
Harold Reynolds | ... season due to a nagging hamstring injury, allowing Mariners second baseman | to win the title. Henderson had one more league-leading season after that ... |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... and emergence of Indian leadership at both national and provincial levels. | formed the East India Association in 1867, and Surendranath Banerjee found ... |
Lord Byron | In contrast | and Walter Scott achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe wi ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... , and it set term limits to the presidency of two terms. It stipulated that | , the incumbent at the time, would not be affected by the amendment. In 19 ... |
Archibald Cox | ... cre", U.S. President Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor | , following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixo ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... plication of the law of the State". In April 2010, Christopher Hitchens and | wanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humanity due to what they ... |
Yazdegerd III | ... ned the official religion of Persia until the defeat of the Sassanian ruler | —over a thousand years after its founding—by Muslim Arabs. In what is toda ... |
Peter III | ... came to power following a coup d'état and the assassination of her husband, | , at the end of the Seven Years' War. Russia was revitalized under her rei ... |
Amlaíb Cuarán | ... new lands for long, dying just two years later in 941. He was succeeded by | |
Steven Soderbergh | ... ole as Corporal Patrick Tully opposite George Clooney and Cate Blanchett in | 's The Good German, based on the Joseph Kanon novel of the same name |
Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
François Rabelais | ... h a vengeance in the 16th century, when farcical texts such as the works of | tackled more serious issues (and incurred the wrath of the crown as a resu ... |
Richard Nixon | ... bert Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President | 's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's r ... |
Paul Tillich | ... of at the time, resulting in alienation from fellow writers such as Camus. | , an important existentialist theologian following Kierkegaard and Karl Ba ... |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | The third Druk Gyalpo, | , was enthroned in 1952. Earlier he had married the European-educated cous ... |
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 ... |
William Hazlitt | ... inal group of radicals, though they were supported by the critic and writer | and others |
Voltaire | ... orm, thus including him in a tradition that includes Cervantes, Diderot and | |
Albert Speer | During his post-war interrogation, | , Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich, indicated ... |
George Clooney | ... ire starred in his first villainous role as Corporal Patrick Tully opposite | and Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, based on the Jo ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... rship roster of the most respected names in 20th century science, including | and many nobel laureates such as Charles Hard Townes |
Tony Hillerman | ... Korry, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists | and Daniel Silva. Naked City photographer Weegee and 60 Minutes creator an ... |
Jigme Wangchuck | Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, | (reigned 1926–52). The second Druk Gyalpo continued his father's centraliz ... |
Thomas More | After his return he settled in London—where he became friends with | —as a private teacher of grammar, and is believed to have been the first w ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | | died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, Jigme Wangchuck (reigned 1926–5 ... |
Hadrian | ... rebellion. The last straw was a series of laws enacted by the Roman Emperor | , including an attempt to prevent Jews from living in Jerusalem; a new Rom ... |
Robert Bork | On October 20, 1973 Solicitor General | was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President Richard ... |
Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
Guy of Lusignan | ... ncess Sybilla, sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, | , king |
Vic Reeves | ... al cats, before moving to France in January 2003. They sold the property to | , shortly after Baker had worked with him on Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased). ... |
Ulpia Severina | Aurelian was married to | , about whom little is known. Like Aurelian she was from Dacia. They are k ... |
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 ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... n al-Shibh traveled to terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and met with | who recruited the four Hamburg cell members for the attacks in the United ... |
Odin | ... the bird emblem perhaps represents the raven associated with the battle-god | . Noted in Richard Hall, Viking Age Archaeology 1995:25 and fig. 9. He did ... |
Thomas More | ... Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (1494), Erasmus' Moriae Encomium (1509) and | 's Utopia (1516) |
Pervez Musharraf | ... ge number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. President | studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
Sir Isaac Newton | ... even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of | and Leonhard Euler. She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézo ... |
Jacopo Sannazaro | ... to. He is there represented together with his patron Alfonso and his friend | in adoration before the dead Christ |
Sebastian Brant | ... examples of Renaissance satire include Till Eulenspiegel, Reynard the Fox, | 's Narrenschiff (1494), Erasmus' Moriae Encomium (1509) and Thomas More's ... |
Thomas Ince | ... again to a reworking of the past, this time the supposed murder of director | by Orson Welles's bête noire William Randolph Hearst, The Cat's Meow was a ... |
Mikhail Bakhtin | The twentieth-century Russian literary theorist | characterised Hoffmann's works as Menippea, essentially satirical and self ... |
Cole Porter | ... e nomination for Best Actress, for her performance in the 2004 biography of | , De-Lovely, opposite |
Charlie Chaplin | ... n addition to composing new film scores, Timothy Brock has restored many of | 's scores |
Olaus Magnus | ... of Johannes Schefferus, Acta Lapponica (1673), but was also used earlier by | in his Description of the Northern peoples (1555). There is another sugges ... |
Wang Mang | ... acter long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98% after the usurping | banned all two-character names outright. Although his Xin Dynasty was shor ... |
Larry Hovis | ... er the 1970–1971 season. He and Johnson were replaced by Richard Dawson and | , both of whom had appeared occasionally in the first season. Both of them ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... its best to avoid any application of the law of the State". In April 2010, | and Richard Dawkins wanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humani ... |
Stan Grant | ... air host Ray Martin, Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host | |
Ramsey Clark | Nicholas Katzenbach (1964–1965), | (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as acting attorney general i ... |
Heydar Aliyev | The National Council conferred presidential powers upon its new speaker, | , former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party (1969–81) and ... |
Rufus Thomas | ... d funk groups like the Temptations, the political songs of the Impressions, | ' southern funk, doo-wop groups like the Coasters for the humour and Frank ... |
François Rabelais | ... wo major satirists of Europe in the Renaissance were Giovanni Boccaccio and | . Other examples of Renaissance satire include Till Eulenspiegel, Reynard ... |
Ray Martin | ... of several high-profile television figures, including A Current Affair host | , Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host Stan Grant |
Lew Welch | ... s another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets like | and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl (1 ... |
Emperor Wu | ... of the Great Wall for additional goods. In a court conference assembled by | (r. 141–87 BCE) in 135 BCE, the majority consensus of the ministers was to ... |
K. M. Peyton | Flambards is a novel by the English author | |
Hadrian | ... nd 985 villages razed. Yet so costly was the Roman victory that the Emperor | , when reporting to the Roman Senate, did not see fit to begin with the cu ... |
Napoleon III | ... 314. In all, thirty-four sovereigns, from Louis VI, the Fat, (1081–1137) to | (1808–1873), spent time at Fontainebleau |
Brian Lamb | ... ed Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPAN founder | , ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silv ... |
Simone de Beauvoir | ... st philosophy in the works of Kierkegaard, Shestov, Heidegger, and Jaspers. | , an important existentialist who spent much of her life as Sartre's partn ... |
Alexander the Great | ... not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of | but he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls "Maketa". The re ... |
Franz Kafka | ... e (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), | (1883–1924) and Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). Hoffmann's story Das Fräulei ... |
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 ... |
José Bustamante y Rivero | ... that his parents had separated. During the government of Peruvian President | , Vargas Llosa's maternal grandfather obtained a diplomatic post in the Pe ... |
William Carlos Williams | ... lar were influenced by the Imagist emphasis on Chinese and Japanese poetry. | was another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets l ... |
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 ... |
Lorne Michaels | ... Many famous successful comedians like Jim Carrey, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, | , Russell Peters, Howie Mandell, Rich Little, Norm Macdonald, Harland Will ... |
Al Gore | ... rt of the working group of the IPCC which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with | for their dissemination of the effects of climate change |
Bob Fosse | ... res, later renamed ABC Motion Pictures. It made some moneymaking films like | 's Cabaret, Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run, and Sydney Pollack's The ... |
Gallienus | ... is successes as a cavalry commander ultimately made him a member of emperor | ' entourage. In 268, Aurelian and his cavalry participated in general Clau ... |
George W. Bush | ... mber 11 attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor George Pataki, and President | vowed to rebuild the World Trade Center site. On the day of the attacks, G ... |
Zoroaster | It has also been surmised by many researchers that the Aryan prophet | was born somewhere in ancient Aryana, possibly in the ancient northern Per ... |
Lillian Hellman | ... to giggles and squirms. William Wyler directed Davis for the third time in | 's The Little Foxes (RKO, 1941), but they clashed over the character of Re ... |
George MacDonald | ... l (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), | (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Franz Kafka (1883–1924) and Al ... |
Owen I of Strathclyde | ... aíb married the daughter of Causantín mac Áeda. He also allied himself with | . In 937, Amlaíb led his allies into battle against Athelstan, king of Eng ... |
US President | ... the air America/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a clear reference to then | Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly ... |
Stefan Aust | ... e German governments former and present. The exhaustive study of the RAF by | (revised in 2009 as "Baader-Meinhof: the inside story of the RAF") is cate ... |
Vsevolod Pudovkin | | noted that the editing process is the one phase of production that is trul ... |
Sisyphus | ... he absurd. In the titular book, Camus uses the analogy of the Greek myth of | to demonstrate the futility of existence. In the myth, Sisyphus is condemn ... |
Philip Ridley | ... n Michael Mann's Heat. That same year she also played the role of Callie in | 's dark, adult fairy tale, The Passion of Darkly Noon |
Lalla Ward | ... aland allowed them to renew their relationship. In December 1980 he married | who had co-starred in Doctor Who (playing his companion Romana) with him f ... |
Charles Baudelaire | ... an Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), | (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), ... |
Athelstan of England | ... m 934 to 941. Gofraid ua Ímair, his father, held both Dublin and York until | expelled him from York in 927 |
Eugenio Espejo | ... bamba in 1707, and the printer, independence precursor, and medical pioneer | , born in 1747 in Quito |
Julius Caesar | ... m Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were defeated at Lawrenceburg by | 's armies and then sent back. The alpine region became integrated into the ... |
Jules Verne | ... vehicles of every sort featured large in adventure stories such as those of | and the Tom Swift books. The masters of electricity, whether fictional or ... |
Val Kilmer | ... ole as Harvey Keitel's estranged daughter in Wayne Wang's Smoke and also as | 's wife in Michael Mann's Heat. That same year she also played the role of ... |
Allen Ginsberg | Among the Beats, Gary Snyder and | in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis on Chinese and Japan ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... Many Austrians and Germans regarded this as hypocrisy since U.S. president | had proclaimed in his famous "Fourteen Points" the "right of self-determin ... |
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 ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... waves on the big screen. Many famous successful comedians like Jim Carrey, | , John Candy, Lorne Michaels, Russell Peters, Howie Mandell, Rich Little, ... |
Johnny Colt | from:1989 till:1997.6 text:" | |
Jean Hersholt | ... roval and resistance of the committee, Davis resigned, and was succeeded by | , who implemented the changes she had suggested. Davis starred in three mo ... |
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 ... |
Theodore Laskaris | ... uccessor states, the most notable of these being the Empire of Nicaea under | (a relative of Alexios III), the Empire of Trebizond, and the Despotate of ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), | (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), ... |
Thurston Clarke | American author | 's analysis of the bombing gave timings for calls and for the explosion wh ... |
Rudy Giuliani | Soon after the September 11 attacks, Mayor | , Governor George Pataki, and President George W. Bush vowed to rebuild th ... |
Wayne Wang | ... ther critical acclaim for her role as Harvey Keitel's estranged daughter in | 's Smoke and also as Val Kilmer's wife in Michael Mann's Heat. That same y ... |
Walter Scott | In contrast Lord Byron and | achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ... |
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 ... |
Khalifa Al Dhahrani | ... niversal suffrage, and the Shura Council appointed directly by the king. MP | is the Speaker of Parliament |
Aaron Sorkin | In an episode of NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (also written by | ), an elderly man is discovered in the studio. When asked his name, he rep ... |
Mary Pickford | ... ect acting style, making for more subtlety of expression. Actresses such as | in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere (1916), Janet G ... |
Rafael Correa | ... ti-partisan National Assembly on August 4, 2010 but vetoed by the president | , who wanted to keep the law strictly as it was originally redacted by his ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... inal assault on the summit with its second climbing pair, the New Zealander | and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali sherpa climber from Darjeeling, India. They r ... |
John Cassavetes | ... d François Truffaut and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and | also pushed the limits of editing technique during the late 1950s and thro ... |
Cygwin | ... Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS/2, | , AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs. Freeciv.net is a ... |
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 ... |
Marshall Neilan | ... esence of stage actors in film was the cause of this outburst from director | in 1917: "The sooner the stage people who have come into pictures get out, ... |
Ann Elder | ... quietly zany characters and straight man for anybody's jokes; comic actress | , who also contributed to scripts, tap dancer Barbara Sharma, who would la ... |
Nikolai Gogol | ... d with realism that influenced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), | (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), ... |
Zhuge Liang | ... y popularized two-character surnames and a number of important figures like | and possessed them. As of 2009, in the United States, 70,000 family names ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Wen | ... the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu (r. 174–160 BCE) and | (r. 180–157 BCE) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu su ... |
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 ... |
Prince Philip | ... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and | , it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ... |
Gary Snyder | Among the Beats, | and Allen Ginsberg in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis o ... |
King of Bahrain | ... ework of a constitutional monarchy where the government is appointed by the | , King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The head of the government since 1971 is ... |
John Gay | ... tion of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, | , John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St John, 1st Vi ... |
Charles XIII | ... Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: Gustav III and | . In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the ruling dynasties of ... |
Baldwin of Flanders | ... married to Maria Komnene, empress in the 1170s and 80s. Instead they placed | on the throne. Boniface went on to found the Kingdom of Thessalonica, a va ... |
Lil Jon | ... ea (Mac Dre, E-40), Houston (Chamillionaire, Paul Wall), Atlanta (Ludacris, | , T.I.), and Kentucky (Nappy Roots). The Nation of Gods and Earths, aka Th ... |
Ban Gu | ... huanti history of dynasties, was codified in the second dynastic history by | ’s (班固) History of Han (漢書), but historians regard Sima’s work as their mo ... |
Andy Warhol | ... an Luc Godard and François Truffaut and their American counterparts such as | and John Cassavetes also pushed the limits of editing technique during the ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... r only color film made during the height of her career. To play the elderly | , Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited o ... |
Wells Spicer | ... watchmaker from New York, one of three men implicated in the robbery. Judge | issued an arrest warrant for Holliday. The Earps found witnesses who could ... |
Livy | The author's chief sources are Cicero, | , Sallust and Pompeius Trogus, especially the first two. Valerius's treatm ... |
Lily Tomlin | ... that season, Teresa Graves, Jeremy Lloyd, Pamela Rodgers, and Stu Gilliam. | joined in the middle of the season. Jo Anne Worley, Goldie Hawn, and Judy ... |
Charles Olson | ... the San Francisco Renaissance. In his seminal 1950 essay Projective Verse, | , the theorist of the Black Mountain group, wrote "ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMM ... |
Quintillus | When Claudius died, his brother | seized power with support of the Senate. With an act typical of the Crisis ... |
Nicander | ... ecially attracted him. He published editions of Aelian, De natura animalium | ;, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; Aristotle, His ... |
Heraclius | ... ncreasingly influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century, when Emperor | (AD 575 - 641) decided to make Greek the empire's official language. Certa ... |
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 ... |
Leonard Maltin | ... tasy and romance.". In his book The Disney Films, film critic and historian | stated that, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People is not only one of Disney ... |
Aristotle | ... nimalium; Nicander, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae | ;, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; T ... |
Karl-Heinz Kurras | The police officer who shot Ohnesorg, | , was revealed in 2009 to be an undercover Stasi (East German State Securi ... |
Juhi Chawla | ... artially successful. In 1997, he co-starred alongside Ajay Devgn, Kajol and | in Ishq, which performed well at the box office. The following year, Khan ... |
Louis the German | ... to Lotharingia, and Alemannia (the eastern part) to the eastern kingdom of | which would become part of the Holy Roman Empire |
Archimedes | ... . E. Montucla's L'Histoire des Mathématiques, and his story of the death of | intrigued her |
Omar al-Bashir | ... ritarian state where all effective political power is obtained by President | and the ruling National Congress Party (NCO) |
Virgil | ... ol. Specifically, the authors derived from Erasmus are Cicero, Terence, and | |
Louis XIII of France | ... eneralitat, Pau Claris, declared a Catalan Republic under the protection of | . This allowed French troops to draw that much closer to the heartland of ... |
Sarah Hudson-Pierce | The Shreveport, Louisiana, publisher | was born near Sulphur Springs in 1948 |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... taste for the macabre combined with realism that influenced such authors as | (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charl ... |
Peter of Holstein-Gottorp | The choice of Sophia as wife of her second cousin, the prospective tsar | , resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which Count Lestoc ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of Sir Isaac Newton and | . She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézout and Le Calcul D ... |
Sallust | The author's chief sources are Cicero, Livy, | and Pompeius Trogus, especially the first two. Valerius's treatment of his ... |
Philip Dunne | ... Huston had, with friends including director William Wyler and screenwriter | , established the "Committee for the First Amendment", as a response to th ... |
François Truffaut | The French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean Luc Godard and | and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and John Cassavetes al ... |
Aaron Sorkin | ... Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" (written by Paul Redford and | ), Sam Seaborn, while attempting to gain a pardon for someone whom he beli ... |
Mary Shelley | ... edical literature shortly after Galvani's work. These results were known to | when she authored Frankenstein (1819), although she does not name the meth ... |
Juvenal | ... Fast. lib. ii., 1. 31 I.; Martial, lib. xi., ch. 73.; lib. xiv, ch. 28, 130 | ;, ix., 50.; Ovid Ars. Am., ii., 209). From such mentions the umbrella doe ... |
Jeremy Lloyd | ... n saw several new people who only stayed on for that season, Teresa Graves, | , Pamela Rodgers, and Stu Gilliam. Lily Tomlin joined in the middle of the ... |
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 ... |
President | | | |İlham Aliye |
Gustav III | ... n") in Stettin, Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: | and Charles XIII. In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the rul ... |
Isaac Adamson | Maguire's company is also co-producing an adaptation of a mystery novel by | called Tokyo Suckerpunch with Sony Pictures. The film, scheduled to be rel ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... ent, were rounded up in large numbers; these included clergy of all faiths, | , Freemasons, Communists, and Rotary Club members |
Michelangelo | ... laced buon fresco, and was used by painters such as Gianbattista Tiepolo or | . This technique had, in reduced form, the advantages of a secco work |
Perez Hilton | ... ndence Day weekend in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Celebrity gossip blogger | had also been posting items on his website about Bass's orientation since ... |
Queen Mary | ... ngdom's dynasty as the future "House of Mountbatten", whereupon the Dowager | reportedly refused to have anything to do with "that Battenberg nonsense." ... |
Harriette Wilson | ... rom issuing an edition of the rather racy memoirs of one of his mistresses, | , in exchange for financial consideration. The Duke promptly returned the ... |
Joan Collins | ... Burgess Meredith (the Penguin), Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and | (the Siren) added to the show's mass appeal. A two-part episode featuring ... |
Bill Clinton | ... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President | |
Serafino Mazzolini | ... Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to | , a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dema ... |
Louis XIV | ... to 150 million today. And if one starts the comparison at the time of King | (the Sun King), then France would in fact have the same population as the ... |
Hugh Hefner | ... e "Best Small Towns in America" on numerous lists during the last 50 years. | built his first Playboy resort, which was much larger than any Playboy Clu ... |
Stella Adler | ... stian. He was an actor in the 1950s, studying his craft with acting teacher | , and appeared on television and in summer stock. In the early 1960s, Bogd ... |
Justinian | ... Procopius writes that he was "a very particular friend and guest-friend of | , who had not yet come to the throne", noting that Hilderic and Justinian ... |
Augustus | ... imen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to Caesar's murderers and to | hardly pass beyond the conventional style of the writer's day. The only pa ... |
Tony Gwynn | ... s about Henderson. A Padres teammate (variously reported as Steve Finley or | ) once offered him a seat anywhere on the bus, saying that Henderson had t ... |
Robert the Bruce | ... ted chevauchée raids over the enemy territory to damage its infrastructure. | counselled using these operational methods to hold off the English King Ed ... |
Calydonian Oeneus | ... mably the eponym of Hyria. He is also called Oeneus, although he is not the | . Other ancient scholia say, as Hesiod does, that Orion was the son of Pos ... |
Sri Aurobindo | ... an society. The work of men like Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, | , Subramanya Bharathy, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rab ... |
Anatoli Boukreev | ... wards published the bestseller Into Thin Air, which related his experience. | , a guide who felt impugned by Krakauer's book, co-authored a rebuttal boo ... |
Álvaro Vargas Llosa | ... married his first cousin, Patricia Llosa, with whom he had three children: | (born 1966), a writer and editor; Gonzalo (born 1967), a businessman; and ... |
Meghan | In 1984, McCain and Cindy had their first child together, daughter | , followed two years later by son John Sidney (Jack) IV, and in 1988 by so ... |
Alexander Pope | ... and also, in 1714, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included | , Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... raphic recuperation and some measure of economic recuperation. The reign of | as Charles I of Spain was a harmonious period, during which Catalonia gene ... |
John McCain | ... t known resident is U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate | . McCain's home in the community, referred to in the media as his "Sedona ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... riedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and | . His most critically acclaimed film is The Last Picture Show (1971) |
Teresa Graves | The third season saw several new people who only stayed on for that season, | , Jeremy Lloyd, Pamela Rodgers, and Stu Gilliam. Lily Tomlin joined in the ... |
King Edward's | ... he Bruce counselled using these operational methods to hold off the English | forces when the English invaded Scotland, according to an anonymous 14th-c ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ia as his "Sedona Cabin," is where he and his running-mate, Alaska governor | , prepared for their debates |
Sam Rayburn | ... the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker | in the House, both of Texas. Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947– ... |
Paul Redford | ... itled "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" (written by | and Aaron Sorkin), Sam Seaborn, while attempting to gain a pardon for some ... |
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 ... |
Michael McKean | ... m Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, | , Madeline Kahn, Colleen Camp, and Lee Ving. The film was produced by Debr ... |
Germanicus | ... also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of the imperial family, | |
Alexios V | ... rangled to death in January 1204. Alexios Doukas took the throne himself as | ; Isaac also died in January 1204, probably of natural causes |
Scriblerus Club | ... n of the Tory and Whig parties - and also, in 1714, by the formation of the | , which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... " directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, | , Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. His most critically acclaimed ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... yrus. The extraction of starch is first described in the Natural History of | around AD 77-79. Romans used it also in cosmetic creams, to powder the hai ... |
Stephen J. Dubner | In the best-seller Freakonomics, economist Steven D. Levitt and co-author | both confirm and cast doubt on the notion that the broken windows theory w ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... es in the 1954 election. He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader | in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas. Joe Mar ... |
Phil Hartman | ... e of Saturday Night Live, Kirk (guest host William Shatner) directs McCoy ( | ) to help a man who's choking. McCoy snaps, "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, no ... |
Julian | In the year AD 363, the Emperor | 's invasion of Persia was turned back by a scorched earth policy |
George Cram Cook | ... for Cardiff which took place in the living room of Glaspell and her husband | 's home on Commercial Street, adjacent to the wharf (pictured) that was us ... |
Bob Dole | ... who also happened to be the wife of long-time colleague and former Senator | of Kansas. Dole held the seat for a single term, losing her 2008 re-electi ... |
Martial | ... rstood, and he has been represented as a mean flatterer of the same type as | . But, if the references to the imperial administration are carefully scan ... |
Clifford Odets | ... nd Jean Marais (1956). During the same period, Renoir produced in Paris the | play, The Big Knife, and wrote and produced in Paris for Leslie Caron his ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to | and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Seraf ... |
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa | ... nal monarchy where the government is appointed by the King of Bahrain, King | . The head of the government since 1971 is Prime Minister Prince Khalifa b ... |
Martial | ... s to it are tolerably frequent in the poets. (Ovid Fast. lib. ii., 1. 31 I. | ;, lib. xi., ch. 73.; lib. xiv, ch. 28, 130; Juvenal, ix., 50.; Ovid Ars. ... |
President of Sri Lanka | ... framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the | is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. ... |
André Breton | ... and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, | and Jacques Lacan. A selection from Heidegger's Being and Time was publish ... |
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 ... |
Aelian | ... tings of ancient authors especially attracted him. He published editions of | , De natura animalium; Nicander, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptore ... |
Subhash Kak | ... lism, addressed for example by K. D. Sethna and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . | (1994) claimed that there is an "astronomical code" in the organization of ... |
Mark Twain | ... ome sum for that day of one hundred dollars a month. Famous American author | , who saw the Pony Express in action first hand, described the riders in h ... |
Jon Krakauer | Journalist | , on assignment from Outside magazine, was in one of the affected parties, ... |
Edward Abbey | ... experiment. Oracle was also the postal address for environmentalist author | , who never lived in the town but visited often. Oracle is becoming a bedr ... |
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 ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... ebruary 1862, while preparing for an advance against Fort Henry, Brig. Gen. | sent two wooden gunboats (timberclads) down the Tennessee River for one la ... |
Rehnquist | ... regulation. It was thus seen as a (narrow) victory for federalism when the | Court reined in federal regulatory power in United States v. Lopez (1995) ... |
Mary Shelley | ... produced the hugely influential novel Frankenstein by Shelley's wife-to-be | and the novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The l ... |
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 ... |
Ovid | ... ed to the East in 27. Pompeius was the center of a literary circle to which | belonged; he was also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of th ... |
Ian Hancock | ... omanis, it is impossible to accurately assess the actual number of victims. | , director of the Program of Romani Studies at the University of Texas at ... |
Man Ray | ... or of 1924's Entr'acte which starred famous dada artists Marcel Duchamp and | ). Both filmmakers, Clair and Buñuel, experimented with editing techniques ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... e other space advocates such as actor Tom Hanks and author and futurist Sir | . In a 2007 interview with GQ magazine, Bass stated that he "absolutely" s ... |
George Lucas | ... "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, | , Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. His most crit ... |
René Clair | ... filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel (director of the 1929 Un Chien Andalou) and | (director of 1924's Entr'acte which starred famous dada artists Marcel Duc ... |
Ptolemy | ... sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially Pliny and | ) gives the following account |
Philip the Good | ... inal manuscript. This copy remained in the royal library and then passed to | , Duke of Burgundy, before reaching Brussels, where it was lost. It was re ... |
Karl Marx | In the most influential of all socialist theories, | and Friedrich Engels believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage o ... |
K. D. Sethna | ... topic of great significance in Hindu nationalism, addressed for example by | and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . Subhash Kak (1994) claimed that there is a ... |
F. Passow | ... independent work of the kind since Stephanus's Thesaurus, and the basis of | 's and all succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contempora ... |
Brian De Palma | ... of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, | , George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. ... |
Frederick William III of Prussia | King | appointed an Immediate Commission for the investigation of political dissi ... |
James Bond | Connery's breakthrough came in the role of secret agent | . He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... René Clair (director of 1924's Entr'acte which starred famous dada artists | and Man Ray). Both filmmakers, Clair and Buñuel, experimented with editing ... |
Goethe | ... es Brahms in his Rinaldo, that—like the Walpurgisnacht—was set to a text by | . Other cantatas, Beethoven's Meeresstille, works of Brahms and many notab ... |
Tiberius | ... thor of a collection of historical anecdotes. He worked during the reign of | (14 AD to 37 AD) |
Zachary Taylor | ... egimental adjutant and the rank of first lieutenant, serving in the army of | , although he personally did not participate in combat. After hostilities, ... |
William Friedkin | ... ritic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included | , Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Franc ... |
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 ... |
Princess of Wales | ... te the Book", aided by a music video featuring lookalikes of the Prince and | undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The song became Costello's ... |
Dictionary of Welsh Biography | ... ld, he was knighted in 1934. Under his editorship, the first edition of the | was compiled, though not published until after his death (1950) |
Thomas Parnell | ... ed Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, | , and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. This club included several ... |
Gary Gygax | ... nd Geneva Resort. Lake Geneva was also home to Dungeons and Dragons creator | until his death in 2008. Guns N' Roses lead singer, Axl Rose, also owned p ... |
Charles IV | On 29 October 1807, Manuel Godoy, chancellor to the Spanish king, | and Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which authorized the pass ... |
Sergei Eisenstein | ... ov further explored and theorized about editing and its ideological nature. | developed a system of editing that was unconcerned with the rules of the c ... |
Moshe Sneh | The leaders of Haganah opposed the idea initially. On July 1, 1946, | , chief of the Haganah General Headquarters, sent a letter to the then lea ... |
President | ... omy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of | Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal |
Basil Bunting | ... arried the Imagist focus on formal concerns to a high level of development. | , another Objectivist poet, was a key figure in the early development of t ... |
Tom Hanks | ... Governors since October 2004, alongside other space advocates such as actor | and author and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke. In a 2007 interview with GQ ... |
7th Earl of Shaftesbury | ... red William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the | . She was the favourite granddaughter of the Edwardian magnate Sir Ernest ... |
Constantine the Great | The First Council of Nicea was convened by | upon the recommendations of a synod led by Hosius of Córdoba in the Easter ... |
President of Azerbaijan | ... f Azerbaijan take place in a framework of a presidential republic, with the | as the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of gove ... |
Surendranath Banerjee | ... ial levels. Dadabhai Naoroji formed the East India Association in 1867, and | founded the Indian National Association in 1876 |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... ng over 90 stores and including parking for 2,300 cars, was opened by Queen | in 1982. 34 miles (55 km) of urban roads were planned and a network of hig ... |
Lance Parrish | ... the Royals won 20 fewer games during the season. In Game 1, Alan Trammell, | and Larry Herndon went deep to crush the Royals 8–1 at Royals Stadium (now ... |
Salman Khan | ... ally and commercially. Other successes include Andaz Apna Apna, co-starring | . At the time of its release the movie was reviewed unfavorably by critics ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ish contingent under the command of Richard Lionheart instead). The elderly | Frederick Barbarossa responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army ... |
Prince | ... ryday I Write the Book", aided by a music video featuring lookalikes of the | and Princess of Wales undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The s ... |
Lou Brock | On May 1, 1991, Henderson stole his 939th base to pass | and become the sport's all-time stolen base leader. Henderson's speech (at ... |
Louis XIV | ... United States. While France had been very powerful in Europe at the time of | or Napoleon, the demographic decline the country experienced after 1800 re ... |
Melody Maker | ... l Quinn, "One Day." It flopped, leading Clarke to place an advertisement in | looking for a vocalist for a new musical project. He selected Peterborough ... |
Lu Xun | ... ctions; his innovative use of informal, humorous, and varied language (even | (魯迅) regarded Shiji as "the unique work of all historians, the songs of Qu ... |
Wang Mang | ... oldest reference to a collapsible umbrella dates to the year 21 A.D., when | (r. 9–23) had one designed for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd ... |
Desta Damtew | ... Shum of Sidamo Province by Birru Wolde Gabriel who himself was replaced by | |
Horace | The chicory plant is one of the earliest cited in recorded literature. | mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simpl ... |
Erskine Bowles | ... Richard Burr, who, like Elizabeth Dole two years earlier, defeated Democrat | to win the other North Carolina Senate seat. In September 2005, Random Hou ... |
Georges Bataille | ... e audience included not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, | , Louis Althusser, André Breton and Jacques Lacan. A selection from Heideg ... |
Tarquinius Superbus | ... Roman colony at an early date—according to some authorities in the time of | ,—but more probably about 390 BC. The existence of a previous population, ... |
Manuel A. Odría | In 1953, during the government of | , Vargas Llosa enrolled in Lima's National University of San Marcos, the o ... |
Pope Gregory XIII | ... , and others were dropped, which allowed the reform to continue. A brief of | allowed a special provincial for the younger branch of the discalced nuns, ... |
Joseph Kanon | ... ney and Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, based on the | novel of the same name |
Caesar | ... a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to | 's murderers and to Augustus hardly pass beyond the conventional style of ... |
Weegee | ... nton and novelists Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva. Naked City photographer | and 60 Minutes creator and producer Don Hewitt worked for UP Newspictures ... |
Charles Laughton | ... irline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited on the set by the actor | . She commented that she had a "nerve" playing a woman in her sixties, to ... |
Qu Yuan | ... Xun (魯迅) regarded Shiji as "the unique work of all historians, the songs of | without rhyme |
Lev Kuleshov | Early Russian filmmakers such as | further explored and theorized about editing and its ideological nature. S ... |
Frank Gifford | ... egis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey. In 1985, Kathie Lee Johnson (who would marry | a year later) became Philbin's co-host. Buena Vista Television (now Disney ... |
Debra Hill | ... McKean, Madeline Kahn, Colleen Camp, and Lee Ving. The film was produced by | |
Albert Capellani | ... es made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue. Directors such as | (a French director who also did work in America directing Alla Nazimova fi ... |
Charles V of France | ... ose to the original. It is found in the inventory of 1373 of the library of | . Furthermore, according to the illuminations, it can be dated to the year ... |
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 |
Omar al-Bashir | ... c of Sudan was restructured following a military coup on 30 June 1989, when | , then a colonel in the Sudanese Army, led a group of officers and ousted ... |
Charlemagne | ... terms Solmonath (mud month) and Kale-monath (named for cabbage) as well as | 's designation Hornung. In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning ... |
William Shakespeare | The swallow is also notably cited in several of | 's plays for the swiftness of its flight; for example: "True hope is swift ... |
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, ... |
Oskari Tokoi | ... of its prominent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of | , Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
Ernie Hudson | The ensemble cast included Christopher Meloni, | , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Harold Perrineau Jr., Eamonn Walker, Rita More ... |
Jorge Luján | ... ez. Stepping up, he immediately beat former WBA World Bantamweight Champion | and then, on December 3 of that year, he and Gómez met as part of the Carn ... |
Leucippus | ... nt lover of the Divine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, | (son of Oenomaus), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. ... |
Edward of Portugal | ... the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King | , whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power |
Edmund Hillary | ... before the confirmed ascent (and of course, safe descent) of Everest by Sir | and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 |
Mike Read | ... rie would return for the band's next single, "The Power of Love", imitating | in a parody of the DJ's banning of their previous single, "Relax" |
Woodrow Wilson | ... yphal account, because he threw "a beer bottle into the window of Professor | ," future president of the United States). He spent several years at sea, ... |
Hedrick Smith | ... ms passed few laws of his own in part because of this bridge-burning style. | 's The Power Game depicts several senators specifically blocking Helms's g ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The founder of the empire, | , confronted a Macedonian invasion force led by Seleucus I in 305 BC and f ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned | as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... trayed a fictional version of Jannings in Inglourious Basterds, directed by | |
John William Polidori | ... ley's wife-to-be Mary Shelley and the novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor | . The lyrics of Robert Burns in Scotland and Thomas Moore, from Ireland bu ... |
Herodotus | ... e that circumcised females have been found among Egyptian mummies, and that | (c. 484 BCE – c. 425 BCE) referred to the practice when he visited Egypt. ... |
Greg Tate | ... ld his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true. Music critic | described it as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme. In 2008, Rolling Stone cited ... |
Sir Lawrence Bragg | ... y. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of | , who won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25. Bragg was influential ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... , hosted 126,000 visitors annually. Famous visitors to the springs included | , Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms. In those years t ... |
Richard Wagner | ... tors to the springs included Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, | , and Johannes Brahms. In those years there were more millionaires living ... |
Louis X of France | ... 1309 to her son, Louis, king of Navarre and count of Champagne, the future | |
President of Russia | ... emlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the | , from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. As major streets ... |
Aristophanes | ... s an indispensable adjunct to a lady of fashion in the late 5th century BC. | mentions it among the common articles of female use; they could apparently ... |
Gerald Ford | ... after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, | and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventu ... |
Mac Mahon | ... iment of Zouaves, were part of the Second Brigade of the Second Division of | 's Corps. The Foreign Legion acquitted itself particularly well against th ... |
Henry III | ... ant political services to his relative Conrad II, and afterwards to Emperor | . He became widely known as an earnest and reforming ecclesiastic by the z ... |
Samuel David Luzzatto | ... scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi | better known as Shadal. It was in Trieste that Achille La Guardia met and ... |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, | and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
Robert Burns | ... novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The lyrics of | in Scotland and Thomas Moore, from Ireland but based in London or elsewher ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President | — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ... |
Conrad II | ... mily was of noble rank, and his father, Count Hugh, was a cousin of Emperor | (1024–1039). He was educated at Toul, where he successively became canon a ... |
Louis Zukofsky | ... nly in free verse. Clearly linking Objectivism's principles with Imagism's, | insisted, in his introduction to the 1931 Objectivist issue of Poetry, on ... |
David Hume Kennerly | ... her Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns,1970s White House photographer | , White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longti ... |
Philip II of France | ... pture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, Henry II of England and | ended their conflict with each other to lead a new crusade (although Henry ... |
Edna Lewis | Celebrated traditional Southern chef and author | wrote a series of books between 1972 and 2003, including A Taste of Countr ... |
John Saltmarsh | ... mber at Lincoln College. Thence he put forth a witty and effective reply to | , who had attacked his views on ecclesiastical reform. Fuller subsequently ... |
Teucer | ... ean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, where | is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor. Ar ... |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and | . His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ... |
Alexander I | In 1812 Czar | was able to render Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia useless by util ... |
Wallace Stevens | ... on their operations from positions won by the Imagists." On the other hand, | found shortcomings in the Imagist approach: "Not all objects are equal. Th ... |
Che Guevara | ... classes for the purpose of suppressing the oppressed classes, withers away. | sought socialism based on the rural peasantry rather than the urban workin ... |
Pindar | ... Ruhnken nicknamed him "Orpheomastix"); an essay on the life and writings of | and a collection of his fragments. His Eclogae physicae is a selection of ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ones are included, they are noted via tone marks. In pinyin, 毛泽东 is written | |
Rowland Evans | In 1994, Helms created a sensation when he told broadcasters | and Robert Novak that Clinton was "not up" to the tasks of being commander ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... egislation which was finally enacted during the administration of President | that created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Norris was later an important ... |
Clinton Thomas Dent | In 1885, | , president of the Alpine Club, suggested that climbing Mount Everest was ... |
President of Finland | Kyösti Kallio (, April 10, 1873 – December 19, 1940) was the fourth | (1937–1940). He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and served ... |
Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... 3, after the revolt of the last count, James II of Urgell, against the king | |
James Madison | ... eir fate at the hands of the Indians, including John Madison, the cousin of | the future president, who was killed on a surveying trip in the area in 17 ... |
Hubert van Es | ... Oscar Fraley, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer | , photographer Stan Stearns,1970s White House photographer David Hume Kenn ... |
Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... Ferdinand of Antequera, who after the Compromise of Caspe (1412), was named | |
Vertamae Grosvenor | ... ways, compiled by African Americans, have been published and well-received. | 's Vibration Cooking, or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, originally pu ... |
Isabella | To support | 's claim to the Spanish throne against her uncle, the French government de ... |
President of Finland | Lauri Kristian Relander (May 31, 1883 – February 9, 1942) was the second | (1925–1931). A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a mem ... |
Boniface of Montferrat | | , meanwhile, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his ... |
Samuel Ornitz | ... an, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, | and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions. Known as the " ... |
Katherine Mansfield | The graves of G. I. Gurdjieff and | can be found in the cemetery at Avon |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... ir own country, albeit as part of the Empire. This trend was personified by | , who went as far as contesting, successfully, an election to the British ... |
Vitruvius | ... icae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of Xenophon and | ; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken nicknamed hi ... |
Constantine I | ... ed in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperor | in AD 325. This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain co ... |
Ian Fleming | ... persuading Cubby that Sean Connery was the right man. James Bond's creator, | , originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisione ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... 4, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and | as Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his son Maximilia ... |
Sima Qian | ... consists of more than one character, it too should be written as a unit: " | ", not "Si Ma Qian" or "Si Maqian". However, as the Chinese language makes ... |
Philip IV of France | Jeanne of Navarre, wife of | (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), asked Joinville to write Louis' ... |
Alexios Angelos | ... id excommunication, or he may have wanted to meet with the Byzantine prince | , Philip's brother-in-law and the son of the recently deposed Byzantine em ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ing commander-in-chief, and suggested two days later, on the anniversary of | 's assassination, that Clinton "better not show up around here [Fort Bragg ... |
George Washington | ... Robert Rutherford, a Revolutionary War financier and an intimate friend of | . In 1799, Rutherford sold his Forks of Buffalo holdings to James Brown of ... |
Darren Lynn Bousman | ... mother/guardian of a teen surfer on the brink of greatness. She appeared in | 's Mother's Day (2010) |
Henry II of England | ... stian states and to recapture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, | and Philip II of France ended their conflict with each other to lead a new ... |
The emperor | ... the lost revenue was recouped through heavily taxing private entrepreneurs. | was at the pinnacle of Han society. He presided over the Han government bu ... |
Les Claypool | ... om The Living End and Jimbo Wallace from The Reverend Horton Heat. Primus's | used an upright bass for the song Mr. Krinkle, from Pork Soda, and for the ... |
Larry Hovis | Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Henry Gibson, | , Arte Johnson and Jo Anne Worley were originally in the pilot special fro ... |
Sam Raimi | In an article for Premiere magazine, | confirmed the long-standing rumor that Maguire and his Spider-Man co-star ... |
Objectivist poets | The influence of Imagism can be seen clearly in the work of the | , who came to prominence in the 1930s under the auspices of Pound and Will ... |
Robert Novak | ... 1994, Helms created a sensation when he told broadcasters Rowland Evans and | that Clinton was "not up" to the tasks of being commander-in-chief, and su ... |
Rumer Godden | ... ade The River, his first color film. Based on the novel of the same name by | , the film is both a meditation on human beings' relationship with nature ... |
Daniel Bernoulli | ... ronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by | ). He was a contemporary of Carl Gauss, also a mathematician and physicist ... |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... lege, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included | and Lord Byron. In 1805 he succeeded his elder brother as heir to his fath ... |
Seneca | ... were astronomers, the last two merely translating Aratus' poem Phaenomena. | , too, had described Sirius as being of a deeper red colour than Mars. How ... |
John Howard Lawson | ... Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and | , he refused to answer any questions. Known as the "Hollywood Ten", they c ... |
Pharaoh | ... circumcision" (Type III) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under the | s, and "fibula" (in "infibulation") refers to the Roman practice of pierci ... |
James Madison | ... ing trip in the area in 1783. Although not necessarily as a result of this, | did procure, as an investment, some land on Brush Run and Pyles Fork just ... |
Charles the Bold | ... nfederation's power and wealth increased significantly, with victories over | of Burgundy during the 1470s and the success of Swiss mercenaries |
Marshal Mannerheim | On the eve of the Winter War, when | once again threatened to resign from his post as chairman of Finland's Def ... |
Prince Albert | ... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband | as well as on herself |
Fidel Castro | ... companies to be sued in American courts if, in dealings with the regime of | , they acquired assets formerly owned by Americans |
Dirk Bogarde | ... h Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring | and Laurence Olivier |
Ovid | ... er their mistresses. Allusions to it are tolerably frequent in the poets. ( | Fast. lib. ii., 1. 31 I.; Martial, lib. xi., ch. 73.; lib. xiv, ch. 28, 13 ... |
Chris Sanders | ... eature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it was written and directed by | and Dean DeBlois, and features the voices of Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Tia C ... |
Sri Aurobindo | ... ome reformers like Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of the Arya Samaj and | have attempted to re-interpret the Vedas to conform to modern and establis ... |
Xenophon | ... Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of | and Vitruvius; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... Kruger, 1941) and The Dismissal of Bismarck (1942). Minister of Propaganda | named him "Artist of the State" in 1941 |
Edward Dmytryk | ... , Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, | , Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions ... |
Walter Lowenfels | In 1929, | jokingly suggested that Aldington should produce a new Imagist anthology. ... |
Alexander Pope | ... itten in response to a rivalry with Thomas Shadwell and eventually inspired | to write his satirical The Rape of the Lock. Other satirical works by Pope ... |
Tim Curry | ... y Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars | , Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Micha ... |
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 ... |
Andreas Vesalius | ... s (Pope Adrian VI), Desiderius Erasmus, Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, | , Ferdinand Verbiest and Gerardus Mercator |
Lester Cole | ... Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, | , Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answ ... |
Julie Newmar | ... villains such as Cesar Romero (the Joker), Burgess Meredith (the Penguin), | and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and Joan Collins (the Siren) added to the show' ... |
Ptolemy | ... s included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
Mike Willesee | ... n figures, including A Current Affair host Ray Martin, Martin's predecessor | , and Real Life host Stan Grant |
Oscar Fraley | ... ngton Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author | , military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van ... |
Oppian | ... litica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; Theophrastus, Eclogae physicae | ;, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of Xenophon and Vitruvius ... |
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 ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... eau novel, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, starring Paulette Goddard and | . The Woman on the Beach (1947) starring Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan was ... |
Maximilian | ... urgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick's son | . With the inheritance of Burgundy, the House of Habsburg began to rise to ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by Budd Schulberg '36 and | |
Andrea Palladio | ... eenth century in other parts of Romania, although never to the same extent. | , the famous Italian architect of the 16th century, built many mansions wi ... |
Juan Carlos Onetti | ... onal Novel Prize in 1967, contending with works by veteran Uruguayan writer | and by Gabriel García Márquez. This novel alone accumulated enough awards ... |
Gabriel García Márquez | ... contending with works by veteran Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and by | . This novel alone accumulated enough awards to place the author among the ... |
Judd Winick | ... credits of each episode is designed as an aquarium, but also by a poem that | wrote during his stay in the house called "Fishbowl". In some seasons, the ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... e and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and | |
Richard Crossman | In March 1946, British Labour Party MP | gave the following description of activity at the hotel: "private detectiv ... |
Demetri Martin | ... r, David Cross, Louis C.K., Hannibal Buress, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Foley, and | . In 2005, Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, established an archiv ... |
Roman Emperor | Aurelian (; 9 September 214 or 215 – September or October 275), was | from 270 to 275. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni after a devast ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... pular in New York during the 1930s. As a New Dealer, he supported President | , a Democrat, and in turn Roosevelt heavily funded the city and cut off pa ... |
William Carlos Williams | ... e of her own that retained an Imagist concern with compression of language. | developed his poetic along distinctly American lines with his variable foo ... |
Thorstein Veblen | ... nomic system. Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, and later evolutionary economist | , believed that socialism would be the result of innovative engineers, sci ... |
Susan Glaspell | ... o have arrived for the summer in Provincetown with "a trunk full of plays." | describes what was probably the first ever reading of Bound East for Cardi ... |
Cole Porter | Also in 1990, Erasure contributed the song "Too Darn Hot" to the | tribute album "Red Hot + Blue" produced by the Red Hot Organization. Later ... |
Paul Morley | ... -UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's | , dispassionately reported details of the relative nuclear arsenals of eac ... |
Deepa Mehta | ... engaged in fighting border terrorism, was well received, as was his role in | 's art house film Earth. His first release for the new millennium, Mela, i ... |
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 |
Eleanor of Portugal | Frederick had 5 children from his marriage with | |
Thorstein Veblen | Other theorists, such as Joseph Schumpeter, | and some of the utopian socialists, believed that socialism would form nat ... |
John Landis | ... tories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth. In a CNN interview, | said the movie was "based on Chris Miller's real fraternity at Dartmouth," ... |
D. H. Lawrence | Lowell persuaded | to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes, making him the only writ ... |
Adrian Scott | ... on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, | , Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howar ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... ties of Roussillon and Cerdanya, which it had occupied during the conflict. | ("Ferdinand the Catholic") finally resolved the major grievances of the re ... |
Duchess of Kent | ... s only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the | , and her mother's advisor, John Conroy. Over the next four years Melbourn ... |
Epicurus | ... ca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; Aristotle, Historia animalium and Politica | ;, Physica and Meteorologica; Theophrastus, Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Hali ... |
Jimmy Carter | On September 9, 1979 Norman performed for US president | and about 1,000 guests at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... college campuses. Special guest villains such as Cesar Romero (the Joker), | (the Penguin), Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and Joan Collins (t ... |
Robert Whittington | ... m Hormannum, 1521) is directed against a rival schoolmaster and grammarian, | , who had "under the feigned name of Bossus, much provoked Lily with scoff ... |
Sister Nivedita | ... nath Tagore, and Dadabhai Naoroji, as well as women such as the Scots–Irish | , spread the passion for rejuvenation and freedom. The rediscovery of Indi ... |
Desiderius Erasmus | ... olars and professors, such as Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens (Pope Adrian VI), | , Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, Andreas Vesalius, Ferdinand Verbiest ... |
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 ... |
Pupi Avati | ... 1987), and The Beiderbecke Connection (1988). In 1991, the Italian director | released . Filmed partially in the Beiderbecke home, which Avati had purch ... |
Thorstein Veblen | ... al element to Marxism and initiating the concept of evolutionary socialism. | saw socialism as an immediate stage in an ongoing evolutionary process in ... |
Tom Verducci | Sports Illustrateds | wrote in 2003, "There are certain figures in American history who have pas ... |
John Dryden | ... ut the flaws in human society in general and English society in particular. | wrote an influential essay entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original a ... |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... y, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rabindranath Tagore, and | , as well as women such as the Scots–Irish Sister Nivedita, spread the pas ... |
President of Sri Lanka | ... Commonwealth of Nations, with the last Governor General becoming the first | . Under the first republican Constitution, the unicameral legislature was ... |
Gail Collins | ... , Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and | , Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables c ... |
Gustavus Adolphus | ... hirty Years' War. Forced to retreat from the advancing Swedish army of King | , Conti ordered his troops to burn houses, destroy villages and generally ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... d, his voice was restored. He returned to Europe, where he starred opposite | in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, filmed in English simultaneously with its ... |
John Milton | When | wrote his Latin grammar Accedence Commenc't Grammar (1669), over 60 percen ... |
Tetricus | ... Aurelian won this campaign largely through diplomacy; the "Gallic Emperor" | was willing to abandon his throne and allow Gaul and Britain to return to ... |
Speaker of the Parliament | ... leader of the Agrarian League, and served as Prime Minister four times and | six times |
Ronald Reagan | ... ca/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a clear reference to then US President | , who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the ... |
Spencer Christian | ... New York, whose co-hosts in the last years of its run in that form included | , Andrea Kirby, Judy Licht, Dick Wolfsie, and longtime Eyewitness News rep ... |
Amalric of Lusignan | ... accidental fall in 1197. Queen Isabella then married for a fourth time, to | , who had succeeded his brother Guy, positioned as King of Cyprus. After t ... |
Raúl Castro | ... dent of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until Fidel and | leave power and a prescribed course of transition is followed. The bill al ... |
Isabella I of Castile | Ferdinand's 1469 marriage to | brought about a dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon with Castile. In 151 ... |
Louise Bryant | ... ed. O'Neill also had a brief romantic relationship with Reed's wife, writer | . O'Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds about the ... |
Theophrastus | ... totle, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica | ;, Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works ... |
George Lily | A sketch of Lily's life by his son | was written for Paulus Jovius, who was collecting for his history the live ... |
Bruce Hoffman | ... ilitary command and their Criminal Investigation Division. Security analyst | has written that the "Hotel housed the nerve centre of British rule in Pal ... |
Constantine | ... nciple of "one god, one empire", that was later adopted to a full extent by | . On some coins, he appears with the title deus et dominus natus ("God and ... |
Marianne Moore | ... king him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist. | also became associated with the group during this period. However, with Wo ... |
John Landis | ... The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with | , and stars Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Chr ... |
Budd Schulberg | ... bject of the 1939 film Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by | '36 and F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Mahinda Rajapaksa | | | |Freedom Part |
Thomas Moore | ... 's doctor John William Polidori. The lyrics of Robert Burns in Scotland and | , from Ireland but based in London or elsewhere reflected in different way ... |
Dalton Trumbo | ... 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, | , Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he re ... |
Thomas Shadwell | ... world. His satirical Mac Flecknoe was written in response to a rivalry with | and eventually inspired Alexander Pope to write his satirical The Rape of ... |
Jonathan Lynn | ... nd other various murder/dinner parties of mystery. The film was directed by | , who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Tim Curry, Ei ... |
Gilbert White | | studied the Barn Swallow in detail in his pioneering work The Natural Hist ... |
Johnny Depp | ... chose to release the story exclusively to People magazine, who bumped actor | off of that week's cover in favor of Bass. In his coming out interview, Ba ... |
Robert Owen | ... subjectively better attributes. Examples of this form of socialism include | 's New Harmony community |
Mel Brooks | ... , including Jacques Tati with his Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and | with Silent Movie (1976). Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's acclaimed d ... |
Charles Laughton | ... nti-Nazi film set in France, This Land Is Mine, starring Maureen O'Hara and | . Two years later, he made The Southerner, a film about Texas sharecropper ... |
Tony Gwynn | ... g a rare run in the top of the 8th inning, Willie Hernandez got the save as | flied out to Larry Herndon to end the game, sending Detroit into a wild vi ... |
Virgil | ... made structures and bridges since time immemorial. An early reference is in | 's Georgics (29 BC) ...garrula quam tignis nidum suspendat hirundo (...the ... |
Oliver Stone | ... ust a matter of creating the scene and trusting that it was worth telling." | , who had seen her in Nuñez's film, cast Judd in Natural Born Killers, but ... |
Herbert Biberman | ... ardner appeared before the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, | , Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... ous attention; this prejudice has held considereable influence to this day. | pursued a more journalistic type of satire, being famous for his The True- ... |
Alan Ball | ... Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by | . Kevin Spacey stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife cr ... |
Stanley Kubrick | ... robably the most effective fusion of existentialist philosophy and cinema." | 's 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory "illustrates, and even illuminates... ... |
Alexander the Great | ... s were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and | 's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an ... |
Bob Dole | ... ntt's 1,173,875 (45.9 percent). Helms supported his former Senate colleague | for president, while Gantt endorsed Bill Clinton. Although Helms is genera ... |
Eleanor | ... e Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta | , daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate ... |
Henry II | ... own, he entered the household of Henri d'Angoulême, the illegitimate son of | , governor of Provence. He served this prince as secretary in Provence, an ... |
Hannibal Buress | ... next generation of comedians, including Bill Burr, David Cross, Louis C.K., | , Mitch Hedberg, Dave Foley, and Demetri Martin. In 2005, Emerson College ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed | for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPA ... |
Tan Twan Eng | #The Gift of Rain by | set in World War II Penang, was nominated for 2007 Man Booker Prize |
Holly Johnson | ... great warrior tribes go to war", from the film (the line is also spoken by | at the beginning of the session version) |
Louis Philippe | The French Foreign Legion was created by | , the King of the French, on 10 March 1831. The direct reason was that for ... |
C. S. Lewis | A version of Bacchus also appears in | ' Prince Caspian, part of The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis depicts him as d ... |
President | The village was named after | Grover Cleveland |
David Hume | ... l). Religion is not always positively associated with morality. Philosopher | stated that, "the greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to b ... |
Saint Paul | ... s Physician (1959) was about Saint Luke; Great Lion of God (1970) was about | ; and I, Judas (1977) was about Judas Iscariot |
Charles II | Fuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to | . In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ... |
Walter Hill | ... newer, pristine film clips, and additional interviews with Clint Eastwood, | , Harry Carey, Jr., Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and others |
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade | ... scribed as "the dullest problem imaginable") in the laboratory of physicist | at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II (in p ... |
Anton Chekhov | ... ican drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright | , Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindb ... |
Albert Maltz | ... fore the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, | , Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | | 's emergence as the national leader coincided with the realization that th ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... ulture expanded into the islands of the Western Mediterranean. The reign of | ("the Great") included the conquest of Sicily and the successful defense a ... |
Farhan Akhtar | ... g his love interest. The film was written and directed by the then newcomer | . According to critics, the film broke new grounds by showing Indian urban ... |
Susan Arnold Elston | On May 6, 1852, Wallace married | . They had one son, Henry Lane Wallace (born February 17, 1853) |
Alexander the Great | ... the decisive Battle of Gaugamela in 330 BC against the advancing armies of | . The Achaemenids were decisively defeated by Alexander and retreated from ... |
Aristotle | ... out the necessity for more than one piece of evidence goes back at least to | 's Nicomachean Ethics: "For as one swallow or one day does not make a spri ... |
David Weber | ... attracted considerable interest from other best selling writers, including | and Mercedes Lackey. The premise of the series is that, in about April 200 ... |
Octave Mirbeau | In 1945 he made Diary of a Chambermaid, an adaptation of the | novel, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, starring Paulette Goddard and Bu ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by | and Frederik Pohl, Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subra ... |
King Emeric | ... enice throughout the 12th century, but had rebelled in 1181 and allied with | of Hungary and . Subsequent Venetian attacks were repulsed, and by 1202 th ... |
Coleridge | ... ary." Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.. "Wit," wrote | after reading the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ed his former Senate colleague Bob Dole for president, while Gantt endorsed | . Although Helms is generally credited with being the most successful Repu ... |
Augustus | ... to being "a son of god", "a son of a god" or "son of Heaven". Roman Emperor | referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... ka as "Mykians" who were also previously involved in several conquests with | and after the conquest of Egypt with Cambyses, they went to Sindh in comma ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... lier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright | , and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first ... |
Eric Flint | Mannington is the model for the fictional town of Grantville in | 's best selling hit 1632 series of alternate history novels: 1632, 1633, R ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of | (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ... |
Pliny the Elder | According to The Natural History of Pliny, by | (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor Tiberius had the cucumber on his ... |
David Cross | ... d serve to influence the next generation of comedians, including Bill Burr, | , Louis C.K., Hannibal Buress, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Foley, and Demetri Mart ... |
Rick Riordan | In literature, Dionysius has proven equally inspiring. | 's series of books Percy Jackson & The Olympians presents Dionysus as an u ... |
Madonna | Directors Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer | have publicly stated they are fans of the series. As a child, Johnny Depp ... |
Santo Cilauro | The series was written, directed and produced by Jane Kennedy, | , Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner. They created and performed in The D-Generati ... |
Elizabeth II | ... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of | ). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ... |
Jules Verne | ... nt of her journey in 1889 to see if she could beat the fictional journey in | ’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days |
Wyndham Lewis | ... went on to co-found the Vorticists with his friend, the painter and writer | |
Richard Helms | ... akes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director | , who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, ... |
Shakespeare | ... hestral work, Il Sogno, was performed in New York. The work, a ballet after | 's A Midsummer Night's Dream, was commissioned by Italian dance troupe Ate ... |
David O. Selznick | ... ew material especially for the network. Shortly after the death of producer | , ABC acquired the rights to a considerable amount of the Selznick theatri ... |
Colin Wilson | ... , dividing many existentialists such as de Beauvoir, who sided with Sartre. | , an English writer, published his study The Outsider in 1956, initially t ... |
John McCain | ... ck Obama 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for | .. In the 2010 gubernatorial election, Democrat Ethan Berkowitz received 4 ... |
Rob Sitch | ... e series was written, directed and produced by Jane Kennedy, Santo Cilauro, | and Tom Gleisner. They created and performed in The D-Generation and The L ... |
Agamemnon | In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as | . The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the scr ... |
Emperor Gaozu | ... eror" (huangdi) at the urging of his followers and is known posthumously as | (r. 202–195 BCE). Chang'an was chosen as the new capital of the reunified ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... life; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with | in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg. However, his endorsem ... |
Pierre Giffard | ... on's behavior was savagely criticised by Le Vélo and its Dreyfusard editor, | . De Dion responded by starting L'Auto. He was supported by other wealthy ... |
Tiberius | ... tory of Pliny, by Pliny the Elder (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor | had the cucumber on his table daily during summer and winter. The Romans r ... |
Domitian | ... of the Third Century, earning him the title Restorer of the World. Although | was the first Emperor who had demanded to be officially hailed as dominus ... |
President | ... pollution), a meticulously planned terrorist attack was staged against the | and the Congress, which was afterwards referred to as "the President's Day ... |
James II of Majorca | ... d Roussillon and the city of Montpellier were left as a kingdom for his son | as the Kingdom of Majorca. This division began a period of struggle that e ... |
Kanishka I | ... i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman Empire, the 2nd century Kushan King | used the title devaputra meaning "son of God" |
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 ... |
Tom Fontana | Oz is an American television drama series created by | , who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes. It was the fi ... |
Alvah Bessie | Lardner appeared before the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like | , Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole ... |
John Gould Fletcher | ... of the original poets ,(also including imagist poetry by the American poet | ), with the exception of Pound, who had tried to persuade her to drop the ... |
Fred Saberhagen | ... ldish and spoilt god who as a punishment has to work in Camp Half-Blood. In | 's 2001 novel, God of the Golden Fleece, a young man in a post-apocalyptic ... |
Louis C.K. | ... fluence the next generation of comedians, including Bill Burr, David Cross, | , Hannibal Buress, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Foley, and Demetri Martin. In 2005, ... |
H. G. Wells | #The Man Who Could Work Miracles by | (1866–1946) |
Michael Palin | ... the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke | included in the script, in which he describes the character removing his m ... |
John Peel | A version of "Two Tribes" was originally recorded for a BBC | session in October 1982. The session version makes clear that the basic st ... |
Jean Genet | The French director | 's 1950 fantasy-erotic film Un chant d'amour shows two inmates in solitary ... |
Sparta | ... . The Peloponnesian War, the large scale Greek civil war between Athens and | and their allies, is a case in point |
German king | In 1440 he was elected | as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by ... |
Robert Altman | ... er would later distance himself from the film due to the fact that director | changed the script so much |
William, Duke of Nassau | ... rrounded by several outstanding buildings. The ducal palace was begun under | . Its foundations were laid in 1837 and it was completed in November 1841 ... |
Hans Henny Jahnn | ... 964, the couple moved to West Berlin where Gudrun would began her thesis on | at the Free University |
Steven Spielberg | ... Dragonheart. Both Last Crusade and The Rock alluded to his James Bond days. | and George Lucas wanted "the father of Indiana Jones" (although Connery is ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... ries by MLB Productions and played on TV a number of times since then. When | came to bat in the eighth inning with runners on second and third and the ... |
German King | ... was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as | as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 14 ... |
Eratosthenes | ... and the Vulture - and still lying between them, whence the title Herculea. | claimed it as the arrow with which Apollo exterminated the |
Ambrose Bierce | Twain's younger contemporary | gained notoriety as a cynic, pessimist and black humorist with his dark, b ... |
Constantius | ... singly repressed, often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors | and Constans declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in t ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | ... ntial Russian advances in Lhasa, wanted to open trade relations with Tibet. | , on the advice of his closest adviser Ugyen Dorji, saw the opportunity to ... |
Sam Hall | ... one actor). Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, | , Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles |
President's | ... of the Department of Defense. The Secretary of the Navy was a member of the | Cabinet until 1947, when the Navy, Army, and newly created Air Force were ... |
David Mamet | Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film was adapted by | from the novel by Barry Reed and is not a remake of the 1946 film of the s ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ty (c. 1000 B.C.) in China to Jimmu Tenno of Japan (perhaps c. 600 B.C.) to | (c. 360 BC) have assumed titles that reflect a filial relationship with de ... |
Ted Gioia | ... articular mention of Beiderbecke's "amount of teaching," the jazz historian | also has emphasized Beiderbecke's lack of formal instruction, suggesting t ... |
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 ... |
Maximilian I | ... an Emperor as Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his son | after ten years of joint rule |
John F. Kennedy | ... endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat | . He told friends, "I will do almost anything to avoid turning my chair an ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... us love in the Pervigilium Veneris, a late Latin poem. In "The Waste Land", | quoted the line "Quando fiam uti chelidon [ut tacere desinam]?" ("When wil ... |
St. Basil | ... esolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues, and unsuccessfully confronted | over the Nicene Creed |
Emperor of the French | ... eaty of Fontainebleau stripped Napoleon of his powers (but not his title as | ) and sent him into exile on Elba |
Menachem Begin | ... tch ancestry, would visit Schneerson and corresponded extensively with him. | , Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu ... |
Charles Dickens | ... umbrellas are sometimes called "gamps" after the character Mrs. Gamp in the | novel . Mrs. Gamp's character was well known for carrying an umbrella |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ts of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival Kyösti Kallio, so that | , Relander's former Prime Minister, was elected. In Relander's opinion, Ka ... |
Barack Obama | ... th Star Borough. In the 2008 presidential election, the Ester precinct gave | 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for John Mc ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... soon fell a prey to the Achaemenian Dynasty during the reign of Achaemenid, | (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to Pliny's evide ... |
Pāṇini | ... ter addition though they must have already formed part of it at the time of | (ca. 5th c. BC), if, as seems probable, one of his grammatical sutras, reg ... |
Guido Cavalcanti | ... in poems written to be sung to music, such as those by the troubadours and | . The book met with little popular or critical success, at least partly be ... |
Jeanne of Navarre | At the request of | , the queen, he began work on the Histoire de Saint Louis, which he comple ... |
Barbara Boxer | ... the more conservative Bruce Herschensohn, and the election to the Democrat | . Bono and Herschensohn became close friends after the campaign. Bono was ... |
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 ... |
John Keats | ... n image of the assembly of Swallows for their southward migration concludes | 's ode "To Autumn" |
George Lucas | ... t Crusade and The Rock alluded to his James Bond days. Steven Spielberg and | wanted "the father of Indiana Jones" (although Connery is only 12 years ol ... |
Guy Maddin | ... og is an odd mix of European languages, increasing the film's universality. | won awards for his homage to Soviet era silent films with his short The He ... |
Augustus | ... the divine one) was specially, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor | (as adopted son of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to Dom ... |
David O. Selznick | ... Gone with the Wind. Davis expressed her desire to play Scarlett, and while | was conducting a search for the actress to play the role, a radio poll nam ... |
Chris Sanders | ... ney film produced in the wake of the more expensive Pinocchio and Fantasia. | , a head storyboard artist at Disney Feature Animation, was approached to ... |
Pliny the Elder | According to | (The Natural History, Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Ancient Greeks grew cucum ... |
Jeanne of Navarre | | , wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), as ... |
Kyösti Kallio | ... by the fact that some of the party's key figures, such as Santeri Alkio and | , declined to stand |
Mercedes Lackey | ... derable interest from other best selling writers, including David Weber and | . The premise of the series is that, in about April 2000, irresponsible al ... |
Nancy Friday | | 's book, Men in Love - Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love over Ra ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | ... the anti-British, pro-Tibetan ponlop of Paro—resulted in the ascendancy of | , the Ponlop of Tongsa. From his power base in central Bhutan, Ugyen Wangc ... |
William I of the Netherlands | ... next became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1830), and | founded a new university in 1816 in Leuven as a state university |
John Cournos | ... ll, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and | |
Juho Kusti Paasikivi | ... Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and | |
Julius Caesar | ... n Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, | as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by Do ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | | commemorate Christ's death as a ransom or propitiatory sacrifice by observ ... |
Louis IX | In 1241, he accompanied Theobald to the court of the king of France, | (the future Saint Louis). In 1244, when Louis organized the Seventh Crusad ... |
Gerardo Diego | ... m all German speaking countries. as well as a bilingual edition of poems by | . In 1963–1964, Gudrun Ensslin earned her elementary school teacher's dipl ... |
Terry Teachout | ... mstrong began to make their most important records. According to the critic | , they are "the two most influential figures in the early history of jazz" ... |
Frederik Pohl | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by Arthur C. Clarke and | , Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subramanian to solve F ... |
Prince Charles | ... a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and | , called Jacob's Vow. The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterized by c ... |
Charles Dickens | Other tourist attractions include the birthplace of | , the Blue Reef Aquarium (formerly the Sea Life Centre), Cumberland House ... |
August Strindberg | ... ht Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright | . His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacula ... |
Jane Austen | ... st in English during the peak Romantic period, other than Walter Scott, was | , whose essentially conservative world-view had little in common with her ... |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale | ... all things British. The moderates led by leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji and | on the other hand wanted reform within the framework of British rule. Tila ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... the protection of the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, | and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, ... |
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 ... |
Ebenezer Cooke | | , author of "The Sot-Weed Factor," was among the first American colonialis ... |
Karl Pilkington | ... "Clive Warren" (a play on the name Clive Owen) as part of a movie pitch by | |
Domitian | ... sar as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by | and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament |
Noam Chomsky | ... al governments, and to the support they receive from their host population. | states that Interview |
William Wyler | ... el (1938), and during production Davis entered a relationship with director | . She later described him as the "love of my life", and said that making t ... |
Mary Whitehouse | ... ere criticized for their violent content by the press, commentators such as | and various religious organizations |
Stanley Tucci | ... e Times (2005) is silent during its middle third, complete with intertitles | ;'s The Impostors has an opening silent sequence in the style of early sil ... |
Mark Twain | ... to shape an emerging nation's culture through its sense of the ridiculous. | was a great American satirist: his novel Huckleberry Finn is set in the an ... |
president's | ... wyer of the U.S. government. The attorney general serves as a member of the | cabinet, and is one of only two cabinet department heads who are not given ... |
Richard A. Fineberg | ... o lived in the immediate vicinity of Ester, at No. 8 Below Discovery Claim. | is an investigative journalist living in Ester who specializes in petroleu ... |
Ray Martin | The series comprehensively lampooned | , and it's relevance in exposing the hypocrisy of ratings driven current a ... |
Omar al-Bashir | In December 1999, a power struggle climaxed between president | and NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament Hassan ... |
Daniel Negreanu | ... d in the money in several events and has been tutored by poker professional | . Maguire can be seen on ESPN's coverage of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 World ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... actor," was among the first American colonialists to write literary satire. | and others followed, using satire to shape an emerging nation's culture th ... |
Abdullah Hussain | #Interlok by | . Book 2 was set in Simpang Empat, Penang, Seberang Perai and Book 3 was s ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and | , left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, Eisenhower was ent ... |
Stephen Howarth | In 2009 the poet | and veteran theatre producer Andrew Hobbs collaborated on a play entitled ... |
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg | ... ckname of Reissu-Lasse ('Travelling Larry'). He was continually compared to | and his performance as president |
Grover Cleveland | The village was named after President | |
Sidney Lumet | Directed by | , the film was adapted by David Mamet from the novel by Barry Reed and is ... |
Zalman Shazar | ... nt to visit him and they were grandly received. One of Israel's presidents, | , who was of Lubavitch ancestry, would visit Schneerson and corresponded e ... |
Richard Nixon | ... hoose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican | against Democrat John F. Kennedy. He told friends, "I will do almost anyth ... |
Aristophanes | ... rms cynicism and parody were used. Modern critics call the Greek playwright | one of the best known early satirists: his plays are known for their criti ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... dress. . Donga.com. Retrieved March 8, 2007. In 2001, then President | announced a plan for building up a Strategic Mobile Fleet. . Kim Dae-ju ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... tube while in blossom, the Cucumber will grow to a most surprising length.’ | wrote in his diary on September 22, 1663: “this day Sir W. Batten tells me ... |
Jack Hanrahan | ... George Schlatter, Jack Mendelsohn, Lorne Michaels, Phil Hahn, Jim Mulligan, | , Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Richmond, Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, L ... |
John Reed | ... e also befriended many radicals, most notably Communist Labor Party founder | . O'Neill also had a brief romantic relationship with Reed's wife, writer ... |
Michael Faraday | Quantitative aspects of electrolysis were originally developed by | in 1834. Faraday is also credited to have coined the terms electrolyte, el ... |
Helen Thomas | ... ion (RTDNA) is named, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Merriman Smith, | , Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit ... |
Hanoch Levin | ... that period were written in advance, like those of the Pale Tracker trio or | 's cabarets. Another prominent stand-up performance in the 1970s was Yehon ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... Isaac II Angelos was deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as | , the new emperor had his brother blinded (a traditional punishment for tr ... |
Jeri Taylor | ... racters talking shortly before the Romulan's attack; Next Generation writer | suggested that the opening should be something "fun", leading to the switc ... |
Fernando Belaúnde Terry | ... Sendero Luminoso uprising, Vargas Llosa was asked by the Peruvian President | to join the Investigatory Commission, a task force to inquire into the mas ... |
Michael Faraday | The concept of the electric field was introduced by | . An electric field is created by a charged body in the space that surroun ... |
August Strindberg | File:August Stindberg.jpg| | . 1892. Oil on canvas, 120 × 90 cm. Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Swede |
Nikolai Berdyaev | Two Ukrainian/Russian thinkers, Lev Shestov and | , became well known as existentialist thinkers during their post-Revolutio ... |
Billy Graham | Helms was close to fellow North Carolinian | (whom he considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, Pat Robe ... |
John Aubrey | ... hn Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to | , Fuller was "a boy of pregnant wit." At thirteen he was admitted to Queen ... |
Haakon IV of Norway | ... attle of Largs in 1263 in support of Alexander III of Scotland against King | . The Norwegian forces were defeated by the victorious Scots |
Michelle Yeoh | # The Touch (Hong Kong, 2002) featuring | |
Henry VI of England | After defeat at the Battle of Towton, | crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of Q ... |
Jorge Enrique Adoum | Contemporary Ecuadorian writers include the novelist | ; the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade; the essayist Benjamín Carrión; the poets ... |
Lorne Michaels | Laugh-In writers included: George Schlatter, Jack Mendelsohn, | , Phil Hahn, Jim Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Ric ... |
Pausanias | ... ng the common articles of female use; they could apparently open and close. | describes a tomb near Triteia in Achaia decorated with a 4th-century BC pa ... |
Milton | ... 'Whoever would assert an equality of genius and elegance between Ogilby and | , or Bunyan and Addison, would be thought to defend no less an extravaganc ... |
Isaac II Angelos | It was also in 1195 that | was deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as Alexios III Ange ... |
Alexander J. Dallas | William Jones served as acting secretary between the resignation of | and appointment of William H. Crawford |
Frank G. Slaughter | ... ticised, novelised account of Constantine's life written by American author | and published in 1965. It largely drew on Edward Gibbon's history of the R ... |
Hans Sloane | ... ney to Paris. And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society — or at least, Sir | , their president — in two dialogues, entitled The Transactioner. At Mount ... |
Pāṇini | ... Pakistan, the language of the masses was refined by the ancient grammarian | , who set the rules of a structurally rigorous language called Sanskrit wh ... |
James Q. Wilson | The broken windows theory was first introduced by social scientists | and George L. Kelling, in an article titled "Broken Windows" and which app ... |
Horace | ... and of Cajamai. He then wrote the Art of Love, a poem; and in 1709 imitated | in an Art of Cookery, which he published with some letters to Lister. The ... |
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 ... |
Alexander III of Scotland | ... Clan Ross by tradition fought at the Battle of Largs in 1263 in support of | against King Haakon IV of Norway. The Norwegian forces were defeated by th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peter II of Aragon | ... erritory (the "Reconquista"); to the east, in 1213, the defeat and death of | ("Peter the Catholic") in the Battle of Muret put an end to the project of ... |
Jonathan Swift | The term big-endian originally comes from | 's satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of Danny Cohen in 1980. In 17 ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author | and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near fut ... |
Geoffrey of Villehardouin | ... pt, the object of their crusade; one of the envoys was the future historian | . Genoa was uninterested, but in March 1201 negotiations were opened with ... |
Benjamín Carrión | ... novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum; the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade; the essayist | ; the poets Medardo Angel Silva, Jorge Carrera Andrade; the novelist Enriq ... |
Warren Beatty | In 1990, | directed and starred as the title character in a live action all-star cast ... |
Noël Coward | ... ic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with | , Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion; Be My Gu ... |
Larry Siegel | ... han, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Richmond, Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, | , John Rappaport, Allan Manings, Jack Margolis, Bob Howard, John Jay Carse ... |
Menen Asfaw | On 3 August he married | of Ambassel, niece of heir to the throne Lij Iyasu |
Leni Riefenstahl | ... videos and concerts, including the use of excerpts from the film Olympia by | in the video for the Depeche Mode cover "Stripped". Their cover of their d ... |
Nicholas Meyer | ... different manner to express living in the future. Taking cues from director | 's approach to , Zimmerman noted that even in the future humanity will sti ... |
Jerry Falwell | ... considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, Pat Robertson, and | , whose Liberty University dedicated its Jesse Helms School of Government ... |
Louise Bertin | ... te song on the piano – with only one finger. Hugo also worked with composer | , writing the libretto for her 1836 opera La Esmeralda which was based on ... |
Tom Hanks | ... llo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars | , Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. T ... |
Allan Katz | ... im Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Richmond, Don Reo, | , Jack Wohl, Larry Siegel, John Rappaport, Allan Manings, Jack Margolis, B ... |
Ludwig Tieck | ... er for early German romanticism ("Jenaer Romantik"). Important writers were | , Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and Friedr ... |
Muryeong of Baekje | ... rean King. Kim has theorized that Emperor Keitai may have been a brother of | , and they may be sons of Konchi of Baekje (곤지, 昆支). If so, then this lege ... |
Pierre Nkurunziza | ... lections in June and July, on 19 August 2005, the good governance minister, | , became the first post-transitional president |
known posthumously | ... e Three Kingdoms (220–280 CE). It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, | as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9– ... |
Ovid | ... hne's arrogance, Athena set a contest between the two weavers. According to | , the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal we ... |
Scott Adams | ... a interactive fiction video game based on the franchise. It was written by | and published by Adventure International |
François Mitterrand | In 1985, President | commissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be ... |
Roh Moo-hyun | ... rch 12, 2007. As a part of "Defense Reform 2020," which was proposed by the | Administration, the ROK Navy is required to reform the organizations under ... |
Kate Webb | ... ABC News president Elmer Lower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, | , Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, Ne ... |
Don Reo | ... l Hahn, Jim Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim Abell, Bill Richmond, | , Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, Larry Siegel, John Rappaport, Allan Manings, Jack ... |
John Lennon | ... ased Home at Last. Included on this album is "God Part III", which draws on | 's "God" and the U2 riposte ("God II"); "Come Away", written about his 197 ... |
Stephen King | ... pular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in | 's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining |
Apollonius of Rhodes | ... rary version of his adventures comparable, for example, to that of Jason in | ' Argonautica or Euripides' Medea; the entry in Ovid's Fasti for May 11 is ... |
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 ... |
Jorge Carrera Andrade | ... orary Ecuadorian writers include the novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum; the poet | ; the essayist Benjamín Carrión; the poets Medardo Angel Silva, Jorge Carr ... |
Lenny Bruce | ... about the Israeli society and was mainly inspired by the American comedian | |
Gia Long | ... h century a rebellion overthrew the Nguyễn, but one of its members, Emperor | , by the aid of a French force, in 1801 acquired sway over the whole of pr ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... an outbreak of cancers, birth defects, and other health problems. President | eventually declared the Love Canal area a state of emergency, and all resi ... |
Nikki Finke | A 2006 comment from LA Weeklys | reflects the same sentiments |
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 ... |
Gabriel Marcel | ... ts. He published a major work on these themes, The Destiny of Man, in 1931. | , long before coining the term "existentialism", introduced important exis ... |
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 ... |
Zheng He | ... prominent in the trading ports of the Song Dynasty. Later, Muslims such as | , Lan Yu and Yeheidie'erding became influential in government circles, and ... |
Yehonatan Geffen | ... h Levin's cabarets. Another prominent stand-up performance in the 1970s was | 's stand-up performance which was satirical about the Israeli society and ... |
Pope Innocent III | | succeeded to the papacy in 1198, and the preaching of a new crusade became ... |
Al Kaline | ... the hero of '68, took the hill and allowed just one run over nine innings. | hit a solo homer to break a 1–1 tie in the 11th inning, only to be charged ... |
Sun Yat-sen | # | biography film Road to Dawn (China, 2007) featuring Winston Chao and Angel ... |
Lê Lợi | In 1428, a Vietnamese general named | founded an independent dynasty in Vietnam which lasted till the end of the ... |
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, ... |
Adela Rogers St. Johns | ... by Gerald C. Duffy (titles), Winifred Dunn, Casey Robinson (uncredited) and | from the story by Rupert Hughes. It was directed by Alfred Santell |
James I of Aragon | ... to the project of consolidating Catalan power over Provence. His successor | did not fully consolidate his power until 1227; once he consolidated his i ... |
President of Ireland | ... h century has been home to a herd of wild Fallow deer. The residence of the | (Áras an Uachtaráin), which was built in 1754, is located in the park. The ... |
Voltaire | ... in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that espoused by | . A census-taker asked Hugo in 1872 if he was a Catholic, and he replied, ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... ssing methods and background checks on all those arrested. Republican Mayor | hired Bill Bratton as his police commissioner who adopted the strategy mor ... |
Oenopion | ... otia, his visit to Chios where he met Merope and was blinded by her father, | , the recovery of his sight at Lemnos, his hunting with Artemis on Crete, ... |
Chris Meledandri | ... Jethro Rothe-Kushel ("The Oscars"), VP of Fox Searchlight, Zola Mashariki, | Executive Producer of Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who! (film), and "Despicable ... |
Domitien Ndayizeye | ... ational human rights groups claimed that the current government was framing | by torturing him into false confessions of a coup plot. Along with these a ... |
Karl Marx's | ... n, thinking it to be from the book of Acts. Ironically, the quote is wholly | , but does exist partially within the Bible (Acts 11:29 & Matthew 25:15) |
Frederick Marryat | #The Phantom Ship by | (1792–1848) |
Dorothy Baker | In 1938, | borrowed the titles of her friend Otis Ferguson's two articles and publish ... |
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | ... ark the Indian Rebellion of 1857 or the 'First War of Indian Independence'. | 's award-winning Rang De Basanti was Khan's first release in 2006. His rol ... |
Eugenio Espejo | Famous authors from the late colonial and early republic period include: | a printer and main author of the first newspaper in Ecuadorian colonial ti ... |
Menander | ... filth and disease. His bawdy style was adopted by Greek dramatist-comedian | . His early play Drunkenness contains an attack on the politician |
Patrick O'Neal | ... ether on Risky Business. She later married, secondly, to Ryan O'Neal's son, | from 1995 to 2002, which union produced two daughters. She had previously ... |
Arthur Twining Hadley | ... ed in 1927 at Scollay Square, near the site of Yale's birth. Yale president | penned the inscription, which reads: "On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of ... |
Romantic | ... velopment of the poetic rules of "Classicism" that would dominate until the | s. The critical and restraining tendency of Malherbe who preached greater ... |
Charles Lamb | ... ng the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's intellect". | made some selections from Fuller, and admired his "golden works. |
Maria of Montferrat | ... sitioned as King of Cyprus. After their deaths in 1205, her eldest daughter | (born after her father's murder) succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem |
Richard II | ... Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), rebelled against King | and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King Henry IV and ... |
Casey Robinson | The movie was adapted by Gerald C. Duffy (titles), Winifred Dunn, | (uncredited) and Adela Rogers St. Johns from the story by Rupert Hughes. I ... |
Victoria Hamson | Ian married | on 16 April 1988 in Oxford. They have two children, both born in the Londo ... |
Emperor Ninken | Empress: Kasuga no Yamada no Himemiko (春日山田皇女), daughter of | Satehime (紗手媛), daughter of Kose no Ohito no Ōomi (許勢男人大臣 |
Domitien Ndayizeye | Former President | and his political supporters were arrested in 2006 and accused of plotting ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... accidentally transported back in time to the 15th century; there they meet | and, upon realising which age they are in, travel to Spain to try to stop ... |
Tony Gwynn | ... ble off Rockies pitcher John Thomson. That final game was also Padre legend | 's last major league game, and Henderson had originally wanted to sit out ... |
Delphine de Girardin | ... g his exile (where he participated also in many séances conducted by Madame | ), and in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that esp ... |
Michael Faraday | ... process now known as electrolysis. Their work was greatly expanded upon by | in 1833. Current through a resistance causes localised heating, an effect ... |
Buckminster Fuller | "High Tech" architecture moved forward as | continued his experiments in geodesic domes while the George Pompidou Cent ... |
Henry IV | ... ent, turned. He was presented by his countryman, the Cardinal Du Perron, to | ; and, though that economical prince did not at first show any great eager ... |
King of Burma | ... of the white elephant, and Lord of the twenty-four umbrellas." In 1855 the | directed a letter to the Marquis of Dalhousie in which he styles himself " ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... ones. In addition to emperors, successful courtiers and politicians such as | also occasionally received posthumous titles |
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 ... |
W. D. Richter | ... nce fiction film that was released in 1984. It was directed and produced by | , and concerns the efforts of the multi-talented Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a ph ... |
Richard I of England | ... away Byzantine province of Cyprus. But rather than return it to the Empire, | sold the island to the Knights Templa |
Novalis | ... erman romanticism ("Jenaer Romantik"). Important writers were Ludwig Tieck, | (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Hölder ... |
Howard K. Smith | ... med Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, | , and Larry LeSueur. The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for wh ... |
Roman Polanski | ... as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with Noël Coward, | 's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion; Be My Guest in 1965, fea ... |
Billy Martin | ... let go after a disappointing fourth-place finish in 1970, to be replaced by | . Following his playing career with the New York Yankees, Martin had worke ... |
Jello Biafra | ... rt." On the final track of his Become the Media spoken word album, activist | discusses a conversation he had with cast member Irene McGee, who was slap ... |
Emperor Ōjin | ... etsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of | , Keitai, came and ascended the throne |
Edmund Hillary | ... ally easier and is the more frequently used route. It was the route used by | and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 and the first recognized of fifteen routes to t ... |
Macaulay | ... iary to London, where he lived in constant companionship with the historian | and the poet Hallam. With the election of Zachary Taylor his post was not ... |
Juan Montalvo | ... in Guayaquil), famous for his ode to Simón Bolívar titled Victoria de Junin | ;, a prominent essayist and novelist; Juan Leon Mera, famous for his work ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | #The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir | (1859–1930) |
Imru Haile Selassie | Ras Makonnen arranged for Tafari as well as his first cousin, Ras | to receive instruction in Harar from Abba Samuel Wolde Kahin, an Ethiopian ... |
Plato | ... e two were inseparable, reading together the best Greek authors, especially | , and discussing, either during their walks by the sea-shore and the banks ... |
William Broyles, Jr. | ... Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. The screenplay by | and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an ad ... |
Robert Owen | ... e system based on some form of social ownership. Utopian socialists such as | (1771–1858) tried to found self-sustaining communes by secession from a ca ... |
Nellie Bly | #Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by American woman journalist | (birth name Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, 1864–1922). It is a true account of ... |
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 ... |
George Weigel | ... covery of the much larger — and ongoing — abuse scandal in public schools." | , the Chair of Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in ... |
Shantel | ... selves, draw heavily on Romani music, as do Spitalul de Urgenţă in Romania, | in Germany, Goran Bregović in Serbia, Darko Rundek in Croatia, Beirut and ... |
Lord of the Isles | ... female line, and that later led to dispute between two rival claimants—the | and the Duke of Albany. This resulted in the Battle of Harlaw 1411, where ... |
Heinrich von Kleist | ... ortant writers were Ludwig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), | and Friedrich Hölderlin |
Emperor Buretsu | If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then | would have been the last monarch of the first recorded dynasty of Japan |
Seneca | ... and of greater positive value. It consists of some translations of Livy and | , and of a very large number of interesting and admirably written letters, ... |
Quintilian | The first Roman to discuss satire critically was | , who invented the term to describe the writings of Lucilius. The two most ... |
Jeff Bond | ... he Next Generation, was given the task of composing for the feature. Critic | wrote that while McCarthy's score was "tasked with straddling the styles o ... |
Camille Chamoun | ... The deployment came in response to the urgent request of Lebanese president | after sectarian violence had erupted in the country. Washington considered ... |
President of France | ... reyfusards at the Auteuil racetrack in Paris in 1899. In this incident, the | , Émile Loubet, was struck on the head with a walking stick by Count Alber ... |
Victor Lewis-Smith | ... ed actor/writer/composer Peter Serafinowicz and satirist/writer/broadcaster | . Multiple cameras recorded the event but it has yet to be broadcast or re ... |
Joseph Conrad | #An Outcast of the Islands by | (1857–1924) |
Dolly Parton | ... ppeared to be completely arbitrary, one raid famously netting a copy of the | musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) under the mistaken beli ... |
Jack Mendelsohn | Laugh-In writers included: George Schlatter, | , Lorne Michaels, Phil Hahn, Jim Mulligan, Jack Hanrahan, Gene Farmer, Jim ... |
Adolf Hitler | Starting in the 1930s, | and Joseph Stalin murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-n ... |
President's | ... ment of Homeland Security. The Secretary of the Treasury is a member of the | Cabinet, and since the Clinton Administration, has been a member of the U. ... |
Rupert Hughes | ... n, Casey Robinson (uncredited) and Adela Rogers St. Johns from the story by | . It was directed by Alfred Santell |
Simón Bolívar | ... al times; Jose Joaquin de Olmedo (born in Guayaquil), famous for his ode to | titled Victoria de Junin; Juan Montalvo, a prominent essayist and novelist ... |
Ed Harris | ... tars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and | . The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert, that dramatizes t ... |
John Conroy Hutcheson | #The Penang Pirate by | (1840–1897) |
Louis XIII | ... , elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses - the odes to Marie de' Medici and to | , are the best-remembered of his works |
King Edward | ... de according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King. It was held against | until its surrender in mid-September 1461 after the Battle of Towton. Re-c ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... e Hurston", published in Ms Magazine, helped revive interest in the work of | , who inspired Walker's writing and subject matter. In 1973, Walker and fe ... |
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 ... |
Ernoul | ... ld French Continuation of William of Tyre (parts of which are attributed to | ), and by Ambroise, Roger of Howden, Ralph of Diceto, and Giraldus Cambren ... |
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 ... |
Larry LeSueur | ... arles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and | . The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award gi ... |
Peter Serafinowicz | ... sion of the theme tune. Celebrated attendees included actor/writer/composer | and satirist/writer/broadcaster Victor Lewis-Smith. Multiple cameras recor ... |
Flip Wilson | ... ason on the show into the title role of the police drama Get Christie Love! | took Geraldine and his other characters to his own variety show from 1970 ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
Ronsard | ... was animated against Malherbe, not merely by reason of his own devotion to | but because of Malherbe's discourtesy towards Régnier's uncle Philippe Des ... |
Henry IV | ... ng Richard II and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King | and after defeating the earl in the Battle of Shrewsbury, the king chased ... |
Alexandra Robbins | In her article for Atlantic Monthly about Skull and Bones, | alleges that the gravestone of Elihu Yale was stolen years ago from its pr ... |
Mos Def | East Coast hip hop artists such as KRS One, Public Enemy, | , Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., and dead prez are known f ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ve, and that by protons positive, a custom that originated with the work of | . The amount of charge is usually given the symbol Q and expressed in coul ... |
Horace | ... ucilius. The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are | and Juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire. Other im ... |
Genghis Khan | In The Earth Is the Lord's (1941), she fictionalized | ; in The Arm and the Darkness (1943), Cardinal Richelieu; in A Pillar of I ... |
Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark | ... f Hesse and were given the less exalted Battenberg title. His siblings were | (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and ... |
Martin Niemöller | Lutheran pastor and theologian | , founder of the Confessing Church resistance movement against the Nazis, ... |
Buffon | ... 1801. The bulk of his work was in illustrating scientific books by Basedow, | , Lavater, Pestalozzi and others. He also painted many portraits of Polish ... |
Charles II | ... he was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of inviting | to Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. ... |
James Berardinelli | | of ReelViews gave Generations two and a half stars out of four, saying: "D ... |
Emperor Sujin | Jien records that Suinin was the third son of | , and that he ruled from the palace of Tamaki-no-miya at Makimuku in what ... |
Melissa Mathison | The film is adapted by | , Jeanne Rosenberg and William D. Wittliff. It is directed by Carroll Ball ... |
Joe Carter | ... final play of the World Series that year, as he and Paul Molitor scored on | 's Series-ending home run. After winning his second World Series ring with ... |
Queen Elizabeth | ... ull 552 but when launched, on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of | , who was then Queen Consort and in 1952 became the Queen Mother. With a d ... |
Clemens Brentano | ... ater became a center of German romanticism, where writers and poets such as | , Achim von Arnim, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff met regularly in li ... |
Emperor Ling | ... rban Rebellion and the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion. Following the death of | (r. 168–189 CE), the palace eunuchs suffered wholesale massacre by militar ... |
Timothy Geithner | ... Secretary of the Treasury from January 20, 2009, until the confirmation of | , which occurred January 26, 2009 |
Howard Estabrook | ... Davis nominated. This prompted an announcement from the Academy president, | , who said that under the circumstances "any voter ... may write on the ba ... |
James I of Scotland | The title reverted to the crown in 1424. King | restored the title to Margaret, whose son was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the I ... |
Lorenzo Valla | ... papal worldliness by the poet Dante Alighieri. The 15th century philologist | proved the document was indeed a forgery |
Dr. Seuss | ... om he grew up watching on I Love Lucy re-runs. He is a self-described "huge | fan", devoting an entire room in his Jackson, Mississippi, estate to Seuss ... |
Benito Mussolini | Between 1924 and 1945, | 's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ... |
Alan Plater | ... as featured in three British comedy drama television series, all written by | : The Beiderbecke Affair (1984), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987), and The Bei ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | Her film debut was a small part in | 's 1982 film One from the Heart. Soon thereafter came her star-making role ... |
Pierre de Ronsard | ... tion, was a sober correction to the luxuriant importation and innovation of | and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux begin ... |
Orson Welles | ... y of the Red Lectroids to Earth in an incident that was reported in 1938 by | in his radio broadcast The War of the Worlds, only to have it retracted as ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... baden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of | . Beck was designated by his fellow conspirators to be future Head of Stat ... |
Kyle Baker | ... their 1990 film. This miniseries, True Hearts and Tommy Guns, was drawn by | and edited by Len Wein. The third issue was a direct adaptation of the fil ... |
Tommy Steele | ... tish rock and rollers soon began to appear, including Wee Willie Harris and | . During this period American Rock and Roll remained dominant, however, in ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... to fit into society and unhappy with the identities he creates for himself. | , in his book on existentialism Existentialism is a Humanism, quoted Dosto ... |
David Ogden Stiers | ... an DeBlois, and features the voices of Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, | , Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames, Jason Scott Lee, and Kevin Michael Richards ... |
Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and | |
Jien | ... scovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned. | records that Suinin was the third son of Emperor Sujin, and that he ruled ... |
William Shakespeare | ... from the underworld; In Sondheim and Shevelove's, George Bernard Shaw faces | |
Pliny | ... yrus the Great (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to | 's evidence, Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) had destroyed Kapisa in Capiscene ... |
Lord Fitzwilliam | In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee | . He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the ... |
Curt Flood | ... inning, only to be promptly picked off first base by Lolich. One out later, | followed with another single, and was also picked off first by Lolich. In ... |
Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder | ... lieb von Hippel the Younger (1775–1843), the son of a pastor, and nephew of | , the well-known writer friend of Immanuel Kant. During 1792, both attende ... |
Keith Olbermann | ... rie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, | , New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington P ... |
Constantin Mille | ... cques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supérieure. | , a Romanian socialist writer and émigré in Paris, described the anti-Drey ... |
President Lincoln | In April 1864, at Bancroft's request, | wrote out what would become the fourth of five known manuscripts of the Ge ... |
Hugh Capet | ... the count Borrell II made official in 987 when he failed to swear fealty to | , the first Capetian monarch. In those years of the formation of the Catal ... |
La Pléiade | ... ection to the luxuriant importation and innovation of Pierre de Ronsard and | , but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux beginning Enfin Mal ... |
LL Cool J | ... hree, and later, in the golden age of hip hop, Big Daddy Kane, Heavy D, and | would continue this tradition |
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 ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... Emperor Otto III and lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet | . The 15th century philologist Lorenzo Valla proved the document was indee ... |
E. T. A. Hoffmann | ... , nature, and Germanic myths. The later German Romanticism of, for example, | 's Der Sandmann (The Sandman), 1817, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff's ... |
Bob Dylan | American singer/songwriter | refers to Rainey in the song "Tombstone Blues" on his 1965 album, Highway ... |
Joseph Campbell | ... read as to suggest a very ancient origin of the practice. See, for example, | 's map in his The Historical Atlas of World Mythology [Vol I: The Way of t ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
Teresa Graves | ... ogan's Heroes, appeared on Laugh-In during the first and the fifth seasons. | parlayed her season on the show into the title role of the police drama Ge ... |
Thomas Friedman | ... n Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists | and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter an ... |
Shonda Rhimes | ... hel Dratch, a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy | , film director and producer Jethro Rothe-Kushel ("The Oscars"), VP of Fox ... |
Philippe Desportes | ... on to Ronsard but because of Malherbe's discourtesy towards Régnier's uncle | , whom the Norman poet had at first distinctly plagiarized |
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 ... |
Bob Harris | ... t music. It was devised by BBC producer Rowan Ayers. According to presenter | , the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years be ... |
Mike Shannon | ... han double. Detroit added an insurance run in the ninth. A solo home run by | was all the Cardinals could muster against Lolich as the Tigers took the g ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
Sidney Lumet | ... , Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991) and in 1993, starred as a defense lawyer in | 's murder drama Guilty as Sin |
Plato | In | 's Symposium, written around the 4th century BC, Aristophanes relates a cr ... |
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 ... |
Lord of the Isles | ... ty in England, restored it to the heiress of line, the mother of Alexander, | |
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor | ... standard from the walls of Acre. He was later transferred to the custody of | , and it took a ransom of one hundred fifty thousand marks to obtain his r ... |
King Cole | ... ria Anglorum that Constantine's mother Helena was a Briton, the daughter of | of Colchester. Geoffrey of Monmouth expanded this story in his highly fict ... |
Emperor Xian | ... ds and divide the empire. When Cao Pi, King of Wei, usurped the throne from | , the Han Dynasty ceased to exist |
Livy | ... ression, and of greater positive value. It consists of some translations of | and Seneca, and of a very large number of interesting and admirably writte ... |
Joey Fatone | ... rs himself to be non-denominational. He is the godfather of former bandmate | 's daughter, Brianna. Bass and Fatone are best friends |
Nas | ... hip hop artists such as KRS One, Public Enemy, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, | , The Notorious B.I.G., and dead prez are known for their sociopolitical s ... |
Emperor Ingyō's | ... a grandson of Ohi no Kimi, a great-grandson of Ohohoto no Kimi (brother to | consort), a great-great-grandson of Wakanuke Futamata no Kimi, and a great ... |
Larry Hovis | ... 's Heroes, went on to success on the game shows Match Game and Family Feud. | , also a regular on Hogan's Heroes, appeared on Laugh-In during the first ... |
Alexander | It had taken | only six months to conquer Persia (Iran), but it took him nearly three yea ... |
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | ... innovation of Pierre de Ronsard and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by | beginning Enfin Malherbe vint ("Finally Malherbe arrived") are rendered on ... |
Jeffrey Kluger | ... daptation of the book by astronaut Jim Lovell (the story's protagonist) and | . Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, emp ... |
The Queen | ... ntended to be complete for the ship to enter service in the spring of 1940. | herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938 and the ship ... |
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | ... ism, where writers and poets such as Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, and | met regularly in literary circles |
Peter Jackson | ... and "Aníron" (in Sindarin)—the latter two, which she composed, appearing in | 's movie and its soundtrack album. "May It Be" was nominated for the Acade ... |
John Huston | The Battle of San Pietro is a 1945 documentary film directed by | about the Battle of San Pietro Infine during World War II. It was shot by ... |
Amole Gupte | ... film was initially conceived of and developed by the husband and wife team, | and Deepa Bhatia. It was a story of a young child who suffers in school un ... |
Aspasia | ... the Roman senator and orator Cicero; and in Glory and the Lightning (1974), | , mistress of the Athenian leader Pericles |
Norm Cash | ... p of the seventh, an exhausted Gibson finally cracked, giving up singles to | and Willie Horton. Jim Northrup then struck the decisive blow, lashing a t ... |
Queen Louise of Sweden | ... s Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), | , and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven |
Alfred the Great | During the great Viking invasion of England opposed by | and various other Saxon and Welsh rulers, the Viking chieftain Hastein in ... |
Rutherford's | ... i had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering | atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If ... |
Emperor Ankan | When | died, he had no offspring; and succession passed to his youngest brother w ... |
George Weigel | ... n The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church, | claims that it was the infidelity to orthodox Roman Catholic teaching, the ... |
Eddie Campbell | Both | and Grant Morrison have utilised the character. Morrison claims that the m ... |
Emperor Keitai | According to the Kojiki Ankan was the elder son of | , who is considered to have ruled the country during the early-6th century ... |
King William IV | ... t acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister. | 's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in ... |
Lord of the Isles | ... was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the Isles. The earldom of Ross remained with the | until that lordship was forfeited to the crown in 1476 |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale | ... had brought with them were required to alleviate many of India's problems. | , a veteran Congressman and Indian leader, became Gandhi's mentor. Gandhi' ... |
Roger Vadim | ... iller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. She also appeared in a 1988 remake of | 's provocative And God Created Woman, Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991) and in ... |
Gustave Flaubert | ... st Kathryn Harrison argues is a rewrite (rather than simply a recycling) of | 's Madame Bovary (1856). In Vargas Llosa's version, the plot relates the d ... |
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 ... |
Ibn al-Nafis | ... iruni were mutakallimiin; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz; the physician | was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theolog ... |
Mathurin Régnier | ... theory and practice is excellently described by his contemporary and rival | , who was animated against Malherbe, not merely by reason of his own devot ... |
Michael Radford | ... i came to international fame through the success of Il Postino, directed by | . Troisi died in 1994 of a heart attack in his sister's house in Ostia (Ro ... |
Isaac Newton | ... o flow". As fluxion, this term was introduced into differential calculus by | |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
Dean DeBlois | ... Disney Animated Classics, it was written and directed by Chris Sanders and | , and features the voices of Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, David Og ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... s created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Enya has performed several songs relating to | 's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's "Lothlórien" (instrumental), an ... |
Dylan Moran | ... l stand-up comedians, including Dave Allen, Spike Milligan, Andrew Maxwell, | , Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Ed Byrne and Sean Hughes |
Lucien Carr | ... ower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, | , Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thom ... |
Persius | ... e Roman Empire. Other important satirists in ancient Latin are Lucilius and | . Satire in their work is much wider than in the modern sense of the word, ... |
George Washington | Robert Morris was the first person appointed Secretary of the Treasury by | , but Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasur ... |
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | ... of, for example, E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (The Sandman), 1817, and | 's Das Marmorbild (The Marble Statue), 1819, was darker in its motifs and ... |
Sam Hall | ... ture film titled House of Dark Shadows in 1970. Dan Curtis directed it, and | and Gordon Russell wrote the screenplay. Many cast members from the soap o ... |
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' ... |
Habte Giyorgis | ... ing to the movement that deposed Iyasu were conservatives such as Fitawrari | , Menelik II's longtime Minister of War. The movement to depose Iyasu pref ... |
Diocletian | ... AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor | issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini ... |
Luigi Tansillo | ... n of his life during this period. His Larmes de Saint Pierre, imitated from | , appeared in 1587 |
David Bronstein | ... sia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and | in 1960 in which Spassky ("Kronsteen") was victorious |
Sidney Poitier | In Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film starring Glenn Ford and | , Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symbol of cultural con ... |
Bruce Hoffman | Security analyst | wrote of the bombing in his book Inside Terrorism that |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... .4% of the population, or about 185,000 members. In 2010, there were 73,215 | in the country |
Roger Grimsby | For sixteen years starting in 1970, | and Bill Beutel were the faces of Eyewitness News. Grimsby came to channel ... |
Nicolaus Copernicus | ... s a theologian and historian of Protestantism; the astronomer and physician | was a priest |
Cotton Mather | In 1718, | contacted Yale and asked for his help. Mather represented a small institut ... |
Neil Sheehan | ... n Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, | , Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman an ... |
Bede Griffiths | ... for the Semi-Arid Tropics. For a year and a half he lived in the ashram of | , where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life |
Emperor Yūryaku | Ninken married to | 's daughter Kasuga no Ōiratsume no Himemiko, a second cousin of him. Their ... |
Jess Stearn | ... d in reincarnation. She had become friends with well-known occultist author | , who suggested that the vivid detail in her many historical novels was ac ... |
John Ralston Saul | ... ose made using the verb "to be". This is desirable according to philosopher | who claims that a state of "permanent psychological discomfort" can serve ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... brain size, and in particular the development of theory of mind abilities. | in The God Delusion suggested that our morality is a result of our biologi ... |
Seymour Hersh | ... esident Elmer Lower, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, | , Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times co ... |
The Shah of Iran | ... I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had seven of them. | drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the ... |
Euripides | ... able, for example, to that of Jason in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica or | ' Medea; the entry in Ovid's Fasti for May 11 is a poem on the birth of Or ... |
Valerian | ... ult was that the Empire could not endure the blow of the capture of Emperor | in 260. The eastern provinces found their protectors in the rulers of the ... |
Emperor Seinei | ... s younger brother, Prince Woke, Oyoke was raised to greater prominence when | died without an heir. The two young princes were said to be grandsons of E ... |
Al Pacino | ... rred as the title character in a live action all-star cast film, along with | , Dustin Hoffman and Madonna |
Spike Milligan | ... d many successful and influential stand-up comedians, including Dave Allen, | , Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlo ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... various means by which they gain agency. The novel's title was inspired by | 's , which is a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The P ... |
Xenophon | The Greek general | records in his Anabasis that the Armenians burned their crops and food sup ... |
Zarathustra | ... of Bactria (which later became Balkh), is believed to have been the home of | , who founded the Zoroastrian religion. The Avesta refers to eastern Bactr ... |
Thomas Campbell | ... t bequests to Southey (who would later write Telford’s biography), the poet | (1777–1844) and to the publishers of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (to which ... |
James Bond | ... . The chess game between "Kronsteen" and "McAdams" in the early part of the | movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played betw ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... nguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity (as in 'is')." | , "[r]egarded as the father of modern linguistics" |
Timothy Geithner | The current Secretary of the Treasury is | . The Secretary of the Treasury earns $191,300 per year |
Emperor Kammu | ... early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of | (737–806), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty. The name Suinin-tennō ... |
Sidney Howard | ... y Samuel Goldwyn and directed by F. Richard Jones, the movie was adapted by | and Wallace Smith from the pulp novels by Herman C. McNeile. It was nomina ... |
W. D. Richter | In 1974, | 's wife read a review of Dirty Pictures from the Prom, the debut novel fro ... |
Queen Anne of Great Britain | ... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with | |
Ashutosh Gowariker | ... or Most Popular Film, an award shared between Khan and the film's director, | . Khan later commented on the loss of Lagaan at the Oscars: "Certainly we ... |
Hipponax | ... eiled ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th century BC poet | wrote satirae that were so cruel that the offended hanged themselves |
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. ... |
Walt Disney | ... tral myths explored in the 2011 Weaponized anthology The Immanence of Myth. | has depicted the character on a number of occasions. The first such portra ... |
Ardal O'Hanlon | ... Spike Milligan, Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, | , Ed Byrne and Sean Hughes |
James Conant | ... d, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, to | , chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. The conversation wa ... |
Ron Rosenbaum | Journalist | , in his book , found that the phrase "final solution" had been used much ... |
Ludwig Beck | General | of Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination at ... |
Rachel Dratch | ... ps, who won the Academy Award for best picture as co-producer of The Sting, | , a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy Shonda R ... |
James Q. Wilson | The theory was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists | and George L. Kelling. Since then it has been subject to great debate both ... |
Robert Owen | ... cal socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including Karl Marx, | and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour vouchers or l ... |
Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine | ... ife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. His maternal grandparents were | , and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Vi ... |
Theodor Herzl | The Hungarian-Jewish journalist | had been assigned to report on the trial and its aftermath. Soon afterward ... |
Emperor Buretsu | Ninken was succeeded by his son, who would accede as | |
Peter IV of Aragon | ... gon in a new state, this union later being confirmed in the 14th century by | ("Peter the Ceremonious"). Ramon Berenguer IV used "Aragon" as his primary ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... nd many other modern artists) and removed his 82 works from German museums. | announced in 1937, "For all we care, those prehistoric Stone Age culture b ... |
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 ... |
Bruce Wagner | ... 002, which union produced two daughters. She had previously been married to | |
Augustus | ... orous writing with little or no real mocking intent. When Horace criticized | , he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th cen ... |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... nk the French lines, Wellington caught up with and smashed the army of King | in the Battle of Vitoria, for which he was promoted to field marshal on 21 ... |
Jimmy Akin | ... ry was said.Director of Apologetics and Evangelization for Catholic Answers | also pointed out, "Back in 1996 the CDF did not have a mandate to handle c ... |
Dorothy L. Sayers | The whodunit Five Red Herrings by | involves the artistic community of Kirkcudbright. In 1975, the book was ma ... |
Schleyer | ... from contributing to the language. One such ultimately disastrous case was | 's Volapük. In contrast, Zamenhof declared that "Esperanto belongs to the ... |
Bill Freehan | ... ail Lou Brock (who tried to score from second base standing up), as catcher | blocked the plate with his foot. The Tigers came back with three runs in t ... |
Robert Baird | He was a son of | (1798–1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked both in the Uni ... |
Ovid | ... ason in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica or Euripides' Medea; the entry in | 's Fasti for May 11 is a poem on the birth of Orion, but that is one versi ... |
Gene Roddenberry | Star Trek creator | had worked with Kelley on previous television pilots, and Kelley was Rodde ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... important literary author also important to existentialism was the Russian | . Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground portrays a man unable to fit into s ... |
Karl Marx | ... a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including | , Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour ... |
Tupac Shakur | ... Coast counterparts include Emcee Lynx, The Coup, Paris, and Michael Franti. | was also known for rapping about social issues such as police brutality, t ... |
Bill Beutel | For sixteen years starting in 1970, Roger Grimsby and | were the faces of Eyewitness News. Grimsby came to channel 7 in 1968 from ... |
Flavius Constantius | ... his rank: he studied law. Before 421 he was sent to the powerful patricius | (shortly Emperor in 421), to ask for a tax reduction for his own country. ... |
Rafael Trujillo | ... ence and the abuse of power on the individual. Based on the dictatorship of | , who governed the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in ... |
Henry Rollins | In 1990, Bad Brains backed longtime friend, fan, and protege | on a cover version of The MC5's "Kick out the Jams". The recording appears ... |
Brit Hume | ... Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, | , Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Coll ... |
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Tommy Tiernan | ... ing Dave Allen, Spike Milligan, Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, | , Ardal O'Hanlon, Ed Byrne and Sean Hughes |
Jean Paul | ... Germany. He had however read Schiller, Goethe, Swift, Sterne, Rousseau, and | , and wrote part of a novel called Der Geheimnisvolle |
Bill Clinton | ... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US President | visiting the cit |
Jo Benkow | ... nfarction. An interview given by King Harald V, and hints in a biography by | , who was the president of the parliament in that time, mention the possib ... |
Plato | Such practices are presumably very ancient. | wrote in his Phaedrus that the "first prophecies were the words of an oak" ... |
Paul Éluard | ... ted to Paris on the outbreak of World War II. Thanks to the intercession of | and other friends, including the journalist Varian Fry, he was discharged ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... octor of Divinity at Cambridge. He resumed his lectures at the Savoy, where | heard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his se ... |
Euell Gibbons | ... ific Coast of North America, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus was praised by | ; Strongylocentrotus purpuratus is also eaten |
William James Henderson | ... the absence of a disruptive vibrato from his singing. The scholarly critic | wrote in The Sun newspaper, for example, that Caruso "has a pure tenor voi ... |
Queen of Sheba | ... and Queen Makeda, Empress of Axum, known in the Abrahamic tradition as the | . Haile Selassie is a defining figure in both Ethiopian and African histor ... |
David Langford | Hugo-winning science fiction critic | observed in a column: "(…The Handmaid's Tale, won the very first Arthur C. ... |
Mircea I of Wallachia | ... idely used in the Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. Prince | used it against the Ottomans in 1395 and prince Stephen III of Moldavia sc ... |
Al-Jahiz | ... Satire was introduced into Arabic prose literature by the Afro-Arab author | in the 9th century. While dealing with serious topics in what are now know ... |
Malcolm Marmorstein | ... played by more than one actor). Major writers besides Art Wallace included | , Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles |
Walter Cronkite | ... , news executives, novelists and high government officials. Among them were | , David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core me ... |
Lev Kuleshov | | was among the very first to theorize about the relatively young medium of ... |
Humphry Davy | Since the discovery of potassium by | , it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal i ... |
George Orwell | ... nd with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named Nineteen Eighty-Four after | 's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ord ... |
Queen Anne | ... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of | ; and the Danish Minister protested |
Michael Moore | In 2005, it was reported that Bradbury was upset with filmmaker | for using the title Fahrenheit 9/11, which is an allusion to Bradbury's Fa ... |
Tony Blair | ... nipulation of the Civil Service. In particular, under the administration of | , the influence of two Downing Street special advisers, Jonathan Powell an ... |
Anne Nightingale | ... eneration for calling the New York Dolls "mock rock" and left OGWT in 1978. | took over as host in 1978 when it was felt the programme was behind the ti ... |
Megan McArdle | Atlantic Monthly columnist | has argued that if the act was "part of the problem, it would be the comme ... |
Mary Austin | The home of author | , the author of "The Land of Little Rain", is preserved as a museum locate ... |
Herodotus | ... possible to arrive at this conclusion. Maka is mentioned by Greek historian | as one of the early satraps of Cyrus the Great, who successfully united se ... |
Jonathan Meades | In literature, Portsmouth is the chief location for | ' novel Pompey, in which it is inhabited largely by vile, corrupt, flawed ... |
Aristotle | ... 0), or 'New Method', and was supposed to replace the methods put forward in | 's Organon. This method was influential upon the development of scientific ... |
Morgagni | ... animals). His very innovative work may be viewed as sitting between that of | whose work Virchow studied, and that of Paul Ehrlich, who studied at the C ... |
John Foxe | ... the Haven. Not far away, in the opposite direction, was the boyhood home of | , the author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
Isaac Newton | ... he advised proceeding by this method (building a case from the ground up). | , a noted Baconian, used such principles in the Philosophy section of his ... |
David Brinkley | ... , novelists and high government officials. Among them were Walter Cronkite, | , Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of Edward ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... ka is mentioned by Greek historian Herodotus as one of the early satraps of | , who successfully united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empi ... |
Fernando Belaúnde Terry | ... of Peru's two principal conservative politicians at the time, ex-president | (of the Popular Action party) and Luis Bedoya Reyes (of the Partido Popula ... |
Alexander the Great | ... a card game. He gives him a pocket knife and a small statue of Bucephalus, | 's horse, from the loot and tells him the story of how Alexander became Bu ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... mission for Latin America is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on 19 April 1958, it is charged with providing assistance to and examining ... |
G. Wayne Clough | # | , 2008 |
Maximilian | When he was twelve, his kinsman the emperor | placed him among his pages. He remained for seventeen years in the service ... |
Scott La Rock | ... elebrating crime and a hedonistic lifestyle, but after the death of his DJ, | , KRS-One went on to speak out against violence in hip hop and has spent t ... |
Varian Fry | ... the intercession of Paul Éluard and other friends, including the journalist | , he was discharged a few weeks later. Soon after the Nazi occupation of F ... |
Richard Skinner | In the early 1980s, Andy Kershaw, David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and | also took turns as presenters. The same four presenters co-presented The B ... |
Aristotle | The terms "comedy" and "satire" became synonymous after | 's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where ... |
Gordon Russell | ... . Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, Sam Hall, | , and Violet Welles |
Sergei Eisenstein | ... er Soviet filmmakers and greatly influenced their understanding of editing. | was briefly a student of Kuleshov's, but the two parted ways because they ... |
Brothers Grimm | ... folk tales, in 1806–08. The first collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales by the | was published in 1812. Unlike the much later work of Hans Christian Anders ... |
Numa Pompilius | ... Romans originally considered winter a monthless period. They were added by | about 713 BC. February remained the last month of the calendar year until ... |
Francis I | ... e Palace of Fontainebleau. This was accomplished by the great builder-king, | (1494–1547), who, in the largest of his many construction projects, recons ... |
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | ... onomy is a contested issue. Socialists including Karl Marx, Robert Owen and | advocated various forms of labour vouchers or labour-credits, which like m ... |
Buckminster Fuller | ... ean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name was an homage to | , whose geodesic domes it resembles. The structure was also identified som ... |
Robert the Bruce | ... supported Robert the Bruce of Scotland. The Clan Ross fought alongside King | when Earl Fearchar's grandson William led the clan against the English at ... |
Leonard Carmichael | # | , 1953–196 |
Jean Paul | ... han twenty years after the latter's death. The theme alludes to the work of | , who invented the term Doppelgänger the previous decade, and continued to ... |
W. Somerset Maugham | ... n the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage (1934), a film adaptation of | 's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim. Many actresses fe ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... o allocate resources within the production process. Bolshevik revolutionary | argued that, following a socialist revolution, money could not be arbitrar ... |
Ramsey Campbell | ... ki first appeared in "The Inhabitant of the Lake" (1964), an early story by | |
Edwin Newman | ... high government officials. Among them were Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, | , Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's fa ... |
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner | In 1962, | stated in his North-West Norfolk and Norwich volume of The Buildings of En ... |
John Lennon | ... to find the world's favourite song. In 2000 it came second to "Imagine" by | in a Channel 4 television poll of The 100 Best Number 1s. It has been in t ... |
Gerhard Weinberg | ... Cold War, this could had helped cause World War III. The American historian | wrote that the explusions of the Sudeten Germans was justified as the Germ ... |
Shun | ... t monuments, including the renowned graves of the ancient sage kings Yu and | . Places he visited include Shandong, Yunnan, Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Ji ... |
Francis I | From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, every monarch, from | to Louis XV, made important renovations at the Palace of Fontainebleau, in ... |
Johnny Mercer | ... r discussed "That Old Black Magic" which was just emerging as a new song by | and Harold Arlen. Miller told Tormé to pick up every song by Mercer and st ... |
Damon Knight | ... professional science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded in 1965 by | under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the ... |
Nolan Ryan | ... nd a homer), while stealing three more bases. On August 22, 1989, he became | 's 5,000th strikeout victim, but Henderson took an odd delight in the occu ... |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... in 1189. He attempted to take command of the Christian forces at Tyre, but | held power there after his successful defence of the city from Muslim atta ... |
Leonora Carrington | ... and flee to America with the help of Guggenheim. He left behind his lover, | , and she suffered a major mental breakdown. Ernst and Guggenheim arrived ... |
Charlemagne | ... d the Pyrenean portion of Catalonia extending their power as far as Girona. | 's son Louis took Barcelona from the Moorish emir in 801, ultimately formi ... |
Edmund Spenser | ... Munster in the 1560s and 1570s, actions which earned the praise of the poet | in his A View of the Present State of Ireland in 1596 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | ... ist, discovered that microorganisms can cause disease. A few years earlier, | , the American physician, poet and essayist, noted that sepsis in women fo ... |
Maxine Hong Kingston | ... 2003, International Women's Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Alice Walker, | , author of The Woman Warrior; and Terry Tempest Williams, author of An Un ... |
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 ... |
King Charles II | He visited the City as a courtier to | in 1671 and described it thus |
Nicholas II | ... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to | , the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie |
Marcel Duchamp | ... and were married the following year. Along with other artists and friends ( | and Marc Chagall) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Er ... |
Edmund Spenser | ... in Ireland. Much of the entire province of Munster was laid waste. The poet | left an account of it |
Rudolph I of Habsburg | ... rritory south of the Rhine under their control, aiding their rise to power. | , who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1273, effectively revoked the status of ... |
Jack Morris | The 1984 team started out at a record 35–5 pace (including | throwing a no-hitter early in the season against Chicago en route to the T ... |
Terry Tempest Williams | ... q War, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior; and | , author of An Unspoken Hunger; were arrested along with 24 others for cro ... |
Patrick O'Brian | In | 's Aubrey-Maturin series, Portsmouth is most often the port from which Cap ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... al; members of the audience included not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but | , Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, André Breton and Jacques Lacan. A sel ... |
Harrison Salisbury | ... t officials. Among them were Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, | , several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: C ... |
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 ... |
Miranda Devine | Conservative commentators such as | categorised the crimes as racially motivated hate crimes The Sydney Mornin ... |
Burt Shevelove | ... acter of Aristophanes' play The Frogs, later updated to a modern version by | (libretto) and Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) ("The time is the prese ... |
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | Born in London, the son of Ezekiel King, he was related to the family of | . From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under Richard Busby, at ... |
Dayo Wong | A famous stand-up comedian in Hong Kong is | Tze-Wah, who first started stand-up comedy in Hong Kong in early 1990s |
Isaac Newton | ... ed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and | in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version of Flamsteed's cat ... |
Clovis I | After the Franks under | defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac in 496, the Franks eventual ... |
Tim Burton | Directors | and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer Madonna have publicly stated they ar ... |
Hans Christian Andersen | ... by the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812. Unlike the much later work of | , who was publishing his invented tales in Danish from 1835, these German ... |
Lev Kuleshov | Sometime around 1918, Russian director | did an experiment that proves this point. (See Kuleshov Experiment) He too ... |
King Harald | ... It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. | was consecrated at Nidaros Cathedral on June 23, 1991 |
Averroes | ... sophers and writers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and | . Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from Greek dramat ... |
Bob Dylan | ... y the Barratt Band, recorded songs for Before and After, a tribute album of | covers scheduled to be released in 1982 to celebrate the 20th anniversary ... |
Neil Shubin | ... fusion is apparent for the non-specialist in the book "Your Inner Fish", by | , who describes the origin of teeth in chapter 4. In this chapter, the aut ... |
Stephen Sondheim | ... e Frogs, later updated to a modern version by Burt Shevelove (libretto) and | (music and lyrics) ("The time is the present. The place is ancient Greece. ... |
Lech Kaczyński | ... d in Poland. It was strongly opposed by the Polish government and president | . Current Polish prime minister Donald Tusk restricted his comments to a r ... |
Minos | ... , Orion was likely the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Euryale, daughter of | , King of Crete. Orion could walk on the waves because of his father; he w ... |
D. C. Fontana | ... "abrasive sand" Kelley used in creating McCoy's demeanor. Star Trek writer | said that while Roddenberry created the series, Kelley essentially created ... |
Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel Prize-winning economist | has also argued that the Act helped to create the crisis. An article in th ... |
Aristophanes | In Plato's Symposium, written around the 4th century BC, | relates a creation myth involving three original sexes: female, male and a ... |
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 ... |
Edvard Beneš | ... membership in the European Union, since the authorisation decrees issued by | had not been formally renounced |
Fidel Castro | ... as Llosa was initially a supporter of the Cuban revolutionary government of | . He studied Marxism in depth as a university student and was later persua ... |
Henry II of England | | died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son Richard I (Lionheart) a ... |
August Wilson | The 1982 | play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom took its title from her song of the same nam ... |
Rush Limbaugh | ... priests. former U.S. Senator said the same thing:Santorum also agreed with | summary that it was "no surprise that the center of the Catholic Church ab ... |
Roger Bacon | ... our fallacies are sometimes compared to a similar list in the first part of | 's Opus Majus which, although it was much older, had not been printed in B ... |
Émile Zola | ... al achievements who took positions on grounds of higher principle – such as | , novelists Octave Mirbeau and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poinca ... |
Cy Endfield | ... ton and Norman Wooland. He then played a rogue lorry driver Johnny Yates in | 's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins ... |
Isaac Newton | ... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (as | had been) by the work of Horrocks |
William Shatner | "Exquisite chemistry" among Kelley, | and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captai ... |
Melody Maker | ... revered in popular music history, some initial critical reaction was poor. | said that Queen "contrived to approximate the demented fury of the Balham ... |
Judd Winick | ... veloped romantic relationships with their castmates. roommates Pam Ling and | have since married, as have their roommate Rachel Campos and Sean Duffy of ... |
Robert Altman | ... Actress Oscar in 1975 for Nashville). Henry Gibson later co-starred in the | film Nashville and was nominated for a Golden Globe. Ruth Buzzi became a r ... |
William the Conqueror | In the Harrying of the North, | 's brutal conquest and subjugation of the North of England, William's men ... |
Anatole France | ... unds of higher principle – such as Émile Zola, novelists Octave Mirbeau and | , mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Jacques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, lib ... |
Alfred Marshall | ... as found support in notable classical and neoclassical economists including | , John Stuart Mill and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of se ... |
President | ... e than 11,000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by | Theodore Roosevelt, who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a Whit ... |
John F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... o 2001, the company also published the magazine George which was founded by | |
James I | ... Buchan and Ross, at that battle, the Earldom of Ross reverted to the crown. | on his return from his long captivity in England, restored it to the heire ... |
William II of Sicily | ... consisted of 650 knights, 1,300 horses, and 1,300 squires to the Holy Land. | had died the previous year, and was replaced by Tancred, who placed Joan o ... |
Thomas Browne | The English physician Sir | (1605–82) was one of the earliest scientists to adhere to the scientific e ... |
Octave Mirbeau | ... ok positions on grounds of higher principle – such as Émile Zola, novelists | and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Jacques Hadamard, an ... |
Art Wallace | ... . The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by | , does not mention any supernatural elements. It was unprecedented in dayt ... |
Emperor Ninken | Empress: Tashiraka no Himemiko (手白香皇女), daughter of | Menokohime (目子媛), daughter of Owari no Muraji Kusaka (尾張連草香 |
Richard Crossman | ... . No remorse was expressed for the largest group of victims, the Arab dead. | , a British Labour Party MP, whose experience on the Anglo-American Commit ... |
Galen | ... ology, such as the development of ideas about the circulation of blood from | to Harvey. The flowering of genetics and molecular biology in the 20th cen ... |
Gaston Tong Sang | ... (with 27 of 44 votes cast in Tahiti assembly). He replaced former President | , who lost a no-confidence vote in the 31 August parliament |
Michael Faraday | ... herefore the capacitance. The unit of capacitance is the farad, named after | , and given the symbol F: one farad is the capacitance that develops a pot ... |
Helen Thomas | ... a, Japan, and South America. The next day, UPI's White House correspondent, | , resigned her position, after working for UPI 57 years |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... he film features music by Carmine Coppola, the father of Hollywood producer | , who was the executive producer of the film |
Todd McCaffrey | According to | , the organization immediately "acquired great status in its efforts to he ... |
Lou Brock | ... ost noted records when he stole the 939th base of his career, one more than | 's total compiled from 1963 to 1979, mainly with the St. Louis Cardinals |
Antonín Novotný | ... Ota Šik and Alexander Dubček, took action: they challenged First Secretary | at a Central Committee meeting. Novotný faced a mutiny in the Central Comm ... |
Bill Clinton | ... l basis by the regulators that had regulated those activities prior to GLB. | , as well as economists Brad DeLong and Tyler Cowen have all argued that t ... |
François Maynard | Malherbe's two most important disciples were | and Racan; Claude Favre de Vaugelas is credited with having purified Frenc ... |
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 |
Brooks Robinson | ... for 1976 at third base, snapping a 16-season streak in which Hall of Famer | had won every award at the position |
Louis VII | This hamlet was endowed with a royal hunting lodge and a chapel by | in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, Louis IX, also call ... |
Charles the Bald | ... the title of count). At the end of the 9th century, the Carolingian monarch | designated Wilfred the Hairy — a noble descendant of a family from Conflen ... |
Chaim Weizmann | ... n the Anglo-American Committee had made him sympathetic to Zionism, visited | shortly after the attack. Weizmann's ambivalence towards Zionist violence ... |
Queen Margaret | ... nd crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of | at Linlithgow. The town also successfully withstood a siege in 1547 from t ... |
Alexis Korner | ... tish blues scene developed, initially led by purist blues followers such as | and Cyril Davies who were directly inspired by American musicians such as ... |
William Wordsworth | ... p of poets now considered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes | , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much ... |
Euripides | ... n the world will fix all nature of earthly problems. In Aristophanes' play, | competes against Aeschylus to be recovered from the underworld; In Sondhei ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... l. All classes of men and women are defined by the colours they wear (as in | 's dystopia Brave New World), drawing on color symbolism and psychology. A ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
Heberto Padilla | ... the so-called 'Padilla Affair', when the Castro regime imprisoned the poet | for a month in 1971. Vargas Llosa, along with other intellectuals of the t ... |
Howard Zinn | ... in the U.S. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist | , who was one of her professors at Spelman College. Continuing the activis ... |
John Stuart Mill | ... in notable classical and neoclassical economists including Alfred Marshall, | and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of self-management, incl ... |
Johnny Cash | Austin got her start in music opening for | in Australia at the age of 14. She later moved to the United States where ... |
James IV | ... thumberland, in northern England, between an invading Scots army under King | and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. It ended i ... |
Bob Carr | Actions taken by government ministers, including Premier of New South Wales | , who publicly identified the perpetrators' background, led to controversy ... |
Leonard Nimoy | "Exquisite chemistry" among Kelley, William Shatner and | manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk an ... |
Emperor Kōkō | Nyōgo: Princess Chūshi/Tadako (忠子女王), daughter of Imperial Prince Tokiyasu( | later |
Louis IX | ... chapel by Louis VII in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, | , also called Saint Louis, who held Fontainebleau in high esteem and refer ... |
Tyler Cowen | Bill Clinton, as well as economists Brad DeLong and | have all argued that the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act softened the impact of the ... |
Isaac Newton | ... from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning. | was a noted Baconian—his famous quote hypotheses non fingo (I don't frame ... |
Bob Harris | ... elody Maker, the music weekly. From 1972, the programme was presented by DJ | (nicknamed "Whispering Bob Harris", due to his quiet voice and "laid back" ... |
Napoleon III | When Louis Napoleon ( | ) seized complete power in 1851, establishing an anti-parliamentary consti ... |
Oenopion | ... to the island of Chios where he got drunk and attacked Merope, daughter of | , the ruler there. In vengeance, Oenopion blinded Orion and drove him away ... |
Odin | ... event is described primarily in the Poetic Edda. In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, | poses the question to Vafþrúðnir as to who of mankind will survive the Fim ... |
Philip the Fair | ... as "his wilderness", had a country house and a hospital constructed there. | was born there in 1268 and died there in 1314. In all, thirty-four soverei ... |
Emperor of Ethiopia | ... st 1975), born Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and | from 1930 to 1974. He was the heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to ... |
Emperor Montoku | Nyōgo: Minamoto no Seishi (源済子), daughter of | Nyōgo: Minamoto no Sadako (源貞子) (?–873 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... dered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, | , John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, foll ... |
Berengaria of Navarre | ... l out over the issue of Richard's marriage, as Richard had decided to marry | , breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister Alys. P ... |
Ubayd Zakani | ... he term "comedy" thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature. | introduced satire in Persian literature during the 14th century. His work ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... Aeschylus to be recovered from the underworld; In Sondheim and Shevelove's, | faces William Shakespeare |
Tertullian | ... masculated man, or a metaphor for chastity. The early Christian theologian, | , wrote that Jesus himself was a eunuch (c. 200 AD). Tertullian also noted ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... w's restoration was later distributed in America re-edited and shortened by | with a live orchestral score composed by his father Carmine Coppola |
John Keats | ... the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, | , Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, followed later b ... |
Man Ray | ... and in Beverly Hills, California in October 1946, in a double ceremony with | and Juliet P. Browner, he married Dorothea Tanning. The couple first made ... |
Carlo Gozzi | ... g Tieck, Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, | , and Calderon. These relatively late introductions marked his work profou ... |
Reggie Jackson | ... Detroit an early lead in the deciding fifth and final game in Detroit, but | 's steal of home in the 2nd tied it up. Tenace's two-out single to left fi ... |
Brian Helgeland | In the film's actor/director DVD commentary, | , co-commentating with Paul Bettany, states that the film was intended to ... |
Lisa Tuttle | In 1982, | withdrew her short story "The Bone Flute" from the final Nebula ballot, to ... |
August Wilhelm Schlegel | He moved in the circles of | , Adelbert von Chamisso, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rahel Levin, and Da ... |
Octavio Paz | A month after losing the election, at the invitation of | , Vargas Llosa attended a conference in Mexico entitled, "The 20th Century ... |
Titus | Jews led into captivity after the destruction of Jerusalem by | and Vespasian, and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew name into its l ... |
Béla III of Hungary | ... f 2,000 men from the Hungarian prince Géza, the younger brother of the king | also went with Barbarossa to the Holy Land |
Narai | ... as one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the East. The court of King | (1656–88) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose am ... |
Emperor Kammu | ... rincess Hanshi (班子女王) (833–900), daughter of Imperial Prince Nakano (son of | |
Benito Juárez | ... the constitutions of Geneva, Portugal and Colombia. He had also pleaded for | to spare the recently captured emperor Maximilian I of Mexico but to no av ... |
William the Lion, King of Scotland | ... as described as "very strong". It was besieged in 1172 and again in 1174 by | and William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick. E ... |
John Landis | ... created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé. Tormé, Weiss, Leslie Belzberg, | , David Peckinpah, Bill Dial and Alan Barnette served as executive produce ... |
Adelbert von Chamisso | He moved in the circles of August Wilhelm Schlegel, | , Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rahel Levin, and David Ferdinand Koreff |
Leibniz | ... e to deny all that Cardan affirms and to affirm all that Cardan denies. Yet | and Sir William Hamilton recognize him as the best modern exponent of the ... |
Margaret Atwood | The Republic of Gilead is a fictional country that is the setting of the | dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale |
Melchior Ndadaye | ... t, non-ethnic government, and a parliament. Burundi's first Hutu president, | , of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) Party, wa ... |
Václav Havel | ... VPN) and the Civic Forum. On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared with | on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, He was greeted with uproarious ... |
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 ... |
Louis XIV | ... rom great territorial nobles, some of whom were leaders of the Fronde. When | became king in 1643, he was only a child, and though Richelieu had died th ... |
Joseph Banks | ... inking the Pacific and southern Indian Ocean. Governor Hunter thus wrote to | in August 1797 that it seemed certain a strait existed |
Ernest Hemingway | ... cknowledgments and Notes". The later US hardcover edition adds a quote from | , has 43 chapters, drops the subtitle, and expands the Acknowledgements an ... |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... movement includes William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, | , and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... dren lived in Washington, D.C., where she struck up a close friendship with | . She died in 1954, before her husband ascended the throne |
Dolly Parton | ... a Feelin', which produced another single in its lead-off single, a cover of | 's "Jolene" |
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué | He moved in the circles of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Adelbert von Chamisso, | , Rahel Levin, and David Ferdinand Koreff |
Governor Steve Beshear | ... oup". In 2010, Judd signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's petition to urge | to protect Kentucky's homeless animals through tough enforcement of the st ... |
Charles II of England | ... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by King | at the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ... |
Tony Blair | ... political neutrality of public administration. In 2000, then-Prime Minister | was criticised for appointing 20 special advisers (compared to eight under ... |
Melody Maker | The first host was Richard Williams, features editor of | , the music weekly. From 1972, the programme was presented by DJ Bob Harri ... |
Emperor Ankan | Among his sons, | , Emperor Senka and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne |
Eric Sevareid | ... ore members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, | , Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. The founding di ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... East. The court of King Narai (1656–88) had strong links with that of King | , whose ambassadors compared the city in size and wealth to Paris |
Emperor Montoku | Seiwa was the fourth son of | . His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Akirakeiko (明子), also called ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally, | was visiting his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray ... |
Immanuel Velikovsky | Famous examples of exoheretics are psychiatrist and psychoanalyst | , Erich von Däniken, linguist and language teacher Charles Berlitz, Johann ... |
Emperor Kimmei | Among his sons, Emperor Ankan, Emperor Senka and | ascended to the throne |
Lily Tomlin | ... Owens was not in the 1967 pilot and Buzzi missed two first-season episodes. | and Goldie Hawn later became noted film stars (Hawn won an Academy Award w ... |
Richard C. Hottelet | ... Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, | , Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. The founding director of CBS News, P ... |
Maximilian I of Mexico | ... e had also pleaded for Benito Juárez to spare the recently captured emperor | but to no avail. His complete archives (published by Pauvert) show also th ... |
David Peckinpah | ... obert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé. Tormé, Weiss, Leslie Belzberg, John Landis, | , Bill Dial and Alan Barnette served as executive producers at different t ... |
Roberto Orci | For the 2009 reboot film Star Trek, writers | and Alex Kurtzman saw McCoy as an "arbiter" in Kirk and Spock's relationsh ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... tural movement, mainly through the public prominence of two French writers, | and Albert Camus, who wrote best-selling novels, plays and widely read jou ... |
Isaac Asimov | Scientist/author | defined two types of scientifi |
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 ... |
Eduard Gufeld | ... Fribourg 1987. He finished equal first at Wellington 1988 with Chandler and | . Spassky maintained a top ten world ranking into the mid-1980s |
Hermann Kelly | ... ne's story is "largely invented" according to Kathy's Real Story, a book by | , a Derry born journalist on the Irish Daily Mail and former editor of The ... |
Billy Bob Thornton | ... lice thriller film entitled One False Move, starring actors Bill Paxton and | , and written by Thornton. However, only some filming was reportedly done ... |
Emperor Senka | Among his sons, Emperor Ankan, | and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne |
Joseph Gutnick | Soon after Rabbi Schneerson's death, philanthropist | of Melbourne, Australia established the Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch Center on Fr ... |
R.A. Fisher | ... was appointed assistant statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station by | . In 1933 he became head of statistics when Fisher went to University Coll ... |
Bill Oddie | ... on area, with a focus on the region's parakeets, in an episode presented by | |
John F. Kennedy | ... ernatives. After the election of November 1960, Eisenhower in briefing with | pointed out the communist threat in Southeast Asia as requiring prioritiza ... |
Penelope Spheeris | ... 2 as part of the soundtrack to the film Wayne's World. The film's director, | , was hesitant to use the song, as it did not entirely fit with the lead c ... |
Larry Collins | ... urma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and | 's Freedom at Midnight (of which he was the main quoted source) — his reco ... |
William Blake | ... muel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older | , followed later by the isolated figure of John Clare. The publication in ... |
Peter Schamoni | Max Ernst's life and career are the subject of | 's 1991 documentary Max Ernst. Dedicated to the art historian Werner Spies ... |
Dowager Empress | ... reform in reviving monasticism; a negative example would be the role of the | in the subjugation of China to European interests). Within nationalist mov ... |
Cyprien Ntaryamira | ... The Rwandan Genocide in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye’s successor | , further aggravated the conflict in Burundi by sparking additional massac ... |
Vespasian | and | , and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew nam |
Charles Berlitz | ... alyst Immanuel Velikovsky, Erich von Däniken, linguist and language teacher | , Johannes Lang, inventor an |
Micky Dolenz | ... Burbank, California into a show business family, Dolenz is the daughter of | of the 1960s group the Monkees, and British television presenter Samantha ... |
Malcolm IV of Scotland | Clan Ross is a Highland Scottish clan first named as such by King | in 1160. The first of the chiefs was Fearchar, Earl of Ross from the O'Beo ... |
Tacitus | ... on Lapponicum as "Fenn". The first known historical mention of Fenni was by | , about 98 CE. The exact meaning of this old term, and the reasons it came ... |
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 ... |
John | ... ord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert Fitzwalter against King | in 1212. In response, John ordered the demolition of Alnwick Castle and Ba ... |
Saul | ... ic periods. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander of | and David's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city |
Albert Camus | ... y through the public prominence of two French writers, Jean-Paul Sartre and | , who wrote best-selling novels, plays and widely read journalism as well ... |
Peter Eisenman | ... s a means of communicating with a broader public. Other architects, such as | of the New York Five advocated the pursuit of form for the sake of form an ... |
Samantha Juste | ... cky Dolenz of the 1960s group the Monkees, and British television presenter | . Her paternal grandparents were the film actors George Dolenz and Janelle ... |
Pierre Buyoya | ... operated under a power-sharing political system until July 1996, when Tutsi | seized power in a military coup. Under international pressure, the warring ... |
George W. Bush | ... ar himself. Nehemiah Clark, of the cast, expressed disapproval of President | and the Iraq War, coming into conflict with Rachel Moyal, who served in Ir ... |
LL Cool J | Eric Roberts, Joyce Van Patten, Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, | , Rick Fox, Dana Ivey and Peter Criss have made appearances on the show |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... reduced by fever. Young Frederick had to ask the assistance of his kinsman | to lead him safely to Acre, by way of Tyre, where his father's bones were ... |
Speaker of the House | ... of the Salton Sea, bringing the giant lake's plight to national attention. | Newt Gingrich made a public appearance and speech at the shore of the lake ... |
Emperor Wu of Han | ... of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to | . His definitive work laid the foundation for later Chinese historiography |
Aisha Tyler | ... Office), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose Place, | of Friends and 24, Dan Rush the director of Everything Must Go and Connie ... |
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 |
Alex Kurtzman | For the 2009 reboot film Star Trek, writers Roberto Orci and | saw McCoy as an "arbiter" in Kirk and Spock's relationship. While Spock re ... |
Duke Ellington | ... . Examples include swing era players such as Jimmy Blanton, who played with | , and Oscar Pettiford, who pioneered the instrument's use in bebop. Paul C ... |
Oscar Temaru | On September 14, 2007, | , 63, was elected president of French Polynesia for the 3rd time in 3 year ... |
Alexander II of Scotland | Ferquhard Ross helped King | (1214–1249) crush a rebellion in Moray and Ross-shire. When King Alexander ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... g, feeling human being incarnate — embodied — in a concrete world. Although | adopted the term "existentialism" for his own philosophy in the 1940s, Mar ... |
Garry Kasparov | ... te fields. At Belfort WC 1988, he scored 8/15 for a joint 4th–7th place, as | won. At Reykjavík WC 1988, he scored 7/17 for a joint 15th–16th place, wit ... |
Alberto Fujimori | ... he vote, Vargas Llosa was defeated by a then-unknown agricultural engineer, | , in the subsequent run-off. Vargas Llosa included an account of his run f ... |
Quentin Tarantino | Directors Tim Burton and | , and pop singer Madonna have publicly stated they are fans of the series. ... |
Napoleon I | When French emperor | completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towa ... |
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 ... |
Lou Piniella | ... kees owner George Steinbrenner issued a press release claiming that manager | wanted to trade Henderson for "jaking it" (playing lackadaisically). Still ... |
Gerald R. Ford, Jr. | ... mains the only one of its kind in the country. On April 23, 1975, President | , spoke at Tulane University's Fogelman Arena at the invitation of Congres ... |
John Wycliffe | ... written with Edward Hannes, a confutation of Antoine Varillas's account of | . He had already made some translations from the French language, and writ ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... 000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by President | , who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a White House reception ... |
Clement Attlee | British Prime Minister | commented in the House of Commons |
John Clare | ... and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure of | . The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, with many of the finest poem ... |
Edouard Drumont | ... e who condemned him (the anti-Dreyfusards), such as Hubert-Joseph Henry and | , the director and publisher of the anti-semitic newspaper La Libre Parole ... |
George Arliss | ... ths, and six unsuccessful films, Laemmle elected not to renew her contract. | chose Davis for the lead female role in The Man Who Played God (1932), and ... |
Brian Moore | ... tand, to be named the Brian Moore Stand after television sports commentator | , who was a well-known Gills fan, but the club's financial situation has n ... |
Zacharias Werner | ... the same atmosphere he had enjoyed in Berlin, renewing his friendship with | , and meeting his future biographer, a neighbour and fellow jurist called ... |
Bill Clinton | ... artwork of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe". In 1993, when then-president | wanted to appoint 'out' lesbian Roberta Achtenberg to assistant secretary ... |
Augustus | ... d others) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC. By the time of Emperor | , present-day Italy was included in the Roman Italy (Italia) as a province ... |
Henry II of England | ... ristians across Europe. The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. | and Philip II of France ended their war with each other, and both imposed ... |
Munju of Baekje | ... 곤지, 昆支). If so, then this legendary figure would also be the descended from | |
Francisco Franco | ... extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again with | accepting the honorary patronage of the |
Harold Reynolds | ... from 1980–1991 in which Henderson did not lead the AL in steals. Seattle's | led the league with 60 steals; Reynolds tells the story of getting an impi ... |
Johnny Depp | ... inger Madonna have publicly stated they are fans of the series. As a child, | was so obsessed with Barnabas Collins that he wanted to be him. He has col ... |
John Calvin | ... as the sacramental union. The Reformed churches, following the teachings of | , believe in an immaterial, spiritual (or "pneumatic") presence of Christ ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | ... the Norse language, but it may have been introduced by the Danish historian | to distinguish between Fish-Fennians (coastal tribes) and Lap-Fennians (fo ... |
Einhard | ... the Frankish kingdom. The first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by | , the biographer of Charlemagne, whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometim ... |
Marc Chagall | ... he following year. Along with other artists and friends (Marcel Duchamp and | ) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Ernst helped inspi ... |
Philip II of France | ... The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. Henry II of England and | ended their war with each other, and both imposed a "Saladin tithe" on the ... |
Otis Ferguson | The New Republic critic | wrote two short articles for the magazine, "Young Man with a Horn" (July 2 ... |
Novalis | ... rlin literary group called the Nordstern, and he gave Hoffmann the works of | , Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Gotthilf Heinrich von S ... |
Tycho Brahe | ... his star catalogue, which would eventually triple the number of entries in | 's sky atlas. Unwilling to risk his reputation by releasing unverified dat ... |
Sir Francis Bacon | The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by | . The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum (1620), or 'New ... |
Jon Anderson | ... score, which included pop songs by Freddy Mercury of Queen, Pat Benatar and | of Yes was controversial, the door had been opened for a new approach to p ... |
Charlemagne | ... first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of | , whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime between 828 and 830 |
Emperor Yōzei | ... ototsune was influential in the process by Kōkō became emperor. At the time | was deposed, Prince Tokiaytsu was already Governor of Hitachi and Chief Mi ... |
Babur | ... ntres of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. The autobiography of Mughal emperor | , Tuzk Babari was also written in Turkish |
Emperor Ankan | ... hes of the Yamato, pitting the supporters of sons who would become known as | and Emperor Senka against those who were backers of the son who would beco ... |
Ludwig Tieck | ... rary group called the Nordstern, and he gave Hoffmann the works of Novalis, | , Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Carlo ... |
Edward R. Murrow | ... Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of | 's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hot ... |
Emperor Wu of Han | ... logers. His father, Sima Tan, served as the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of | (Emperor "Han Wudi"). His main responsibilities were managing the imperial ... |
Juan Domingo Perón | ... rk in fact existed, and in Argentina was largely run by Argentine President | , a Nazi sympathiser who had been impressed by Mussolini's reign in Italy ... |
CN Tower | ... ion was flawed and glass panes fell from the façade. In 1976, the completed | in Toronto became the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, an ... |
Isaac D'Israeli | ... e married Sarah Siprut de Gabay Villareal, on 28 May 1765. Their only child | was born the next year, on 11 May 1766 |
Prince George of Denmark | ... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended | , the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested |
Francesco Redi | ... eved, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat | ;carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim ... |
Brent Butt | ... Green, Jeremy Hotz, Angelo Tsarouchas, Dave Foley, Jon Dore, Jay Sankey and | all began doing stand-up at comedy clubs in Canada |
Robert A. Heinlein | In | 's 1948 novel Space Cadet, aerobraking is used to save fuel while slowing ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ), the many jousting scenes and the thin plot. However, notable film critic | gave the film 3 stars out of a possible 4 and commented that "Some will sa ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... h stylized "Armanen" sig runes) was a major paramilitary organization under | and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Hi ... |
Chris Noonan | Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by | . It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... tter dated July 25, 1946, Prime Minister Attlee wrote to American President | : "I am sure you will agree that the inhuman crime committed in Jerusalem ... |
Ashutosh Gowariker | ... December 2005, Khan married Kiran Rao who had been an assistant director to | during the filming of Lagaan. Khan is a follower of spiritual leader J. P. ... |
Isaac Newton | ... fied data, he kept the incomplete records under seal at Greenwich. In 1712, | , then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data ... |
Clemens Brentano | ... , and he gave Hoffmann the works of Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, | , Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Carlo Gozzi, and Calderon. These relativ ... |
Menelik I | ... c traditions, which hold that all monarchs must trace their lineage back to | , who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the ... |
Euric | ... alled themselves in Tarraconensis (410) and when in 475 the Visigothic king | formed the kingdom of Tolosa (modern Toulouse, France), he incorporated th ... |
President of French Polynesia | | | |Oscar Temar |
Seneca | ... neration Scaliger prized Virgil above Homer. His praise of the tragedies of | over those of the Greeks influenced both Shakespeare and Pierre Corneille |
C. Rajagopalachari | ... ence of new generation of Indians from within the Congress Party, including | , Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- wh ... |
Art Wallace | ... Network officials greenlit production and Curtis began hiring crew members. | was hired to create a story from Curtis’s dream sequence. Wallace wrote th ... |
James Doohan | ... lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death | ;as Montgomery Scott says "He's dead already" instead. The line has entere ... |
Emperor Senka | ... pitting the supporters of sons who would become known as Emperor Ankan and | against those who were backers of the son who would become known as Empero ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
Victoria of the United Kingdom | He convinced the government of Queen | to spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terrorist activities a ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... fter high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, | , and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with som ... |
Queen of Sheba | ... I, who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the | |
John Waters | ... he 2005 documentary film Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (narrated by | ) features Bono and documented the lives of the inhabitants of Bombay Beac ... |
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 ... |
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza | In 1976, Colonel | took power in a bloodless coup. Although Bagaza led a Tutsi-dominated mili ... |
Oscar Temaru | | | |Tavini Huiraatir |
Jerome Cardan | ... n the De plantis attributed to Aristotle, and in 1557 his Exercitationes on | 's, De subtilitate. His other scientific works, commentaries on Theophrast ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from | , to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. From around 1 ... |
Seymour Hicks | ... irely on quality productions. He began to make more expensive films such as | 's Scrooge (1935) and Spy of Napoleon which he hoped to gain both a nation ... |
Orson Welles | On his death, fellow director and friend | wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, "Jean Renoir: The Greatest of ... |
Emperor Kimmei | ... r Senka against those who were backers of the son who would become known as | |
Dick King-Smith | ... The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by | and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog. The main animal c ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... pts to submit it to the Papal States failed; and its wish to be left out of | 's Italian unification in the mid-nineteenth century was granted, since it ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | The elderly | Frederick I Barbarossa responded to the call immediately. He took up the C ... |
Galileo Galilei | ... Cesi (1585–1630) who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed | as its president. The current president is the microbiologist Werner Arber ... |
Mindy Kaling | ... ble film and television figures include Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break), | (The Office), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose P ... |
Tracy Tormé | ... n different parallel universes. The show was created by Robert K. Weiss and | . Tormé, Weiss, Leslie Belzberg, John Landis, David Peckinpah, Bill Dial a ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | Two major satirists of Europe in the Renaissance were | and François Rabelais. Other examples of Renaissance satire include Till E ... |
Pierre Buyoya | In 1987, Major | overthrew Col. Bagaza in a military coup d'état. He dissolved opposition p ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | The spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in | 's novel uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to e ... |
Murrow's Boys | ... Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's famed | : Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith ... |
George W. Bush | ... have its citizens pass a resolution endorsing the impeachment of President | , and in 2011 it was one of thirteen Vermont towns isolated by flooding ca ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ributions toward world education, morality, and acts of charity". President | spoke these words at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony |
John Huston | Bradbury was hired in 1953 by director | to work on the screenplay for the 1956 film Moby Dick, which was faithfull ... |
Alastair Reynolds | The main antagonists in the 2004 novel Century Rain, by | – The Slashers – are named after Slashdot users |
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 ... |
Rich Hall | ... of theatre sized shows with comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Stephen K. Amos, | , Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, and |
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 ... |
Princess Märtha of Sweden | On 21 March 1929 in Oslo, he married his first cousin | with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. ... |
Albert Boadella | ... Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, Rosa Díez, Álvaro Pombo, | and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán. He continues to write, both journalism and ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... r characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to | 's Waiting For Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almos ... |
Brel, Jacques | ... raine-le-Comte - Brakel - Brasschaat - Brecht - Bredene - Bree - Bree BBC - | - Brepols - Brepols, Philippus Jacobus - Brueghel, Pieter the Elder - Brug ... |
Diderot | She wrote comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, | , and d'Alembert—all French encyclopedists who later cemented her reputati ... |
Anatole France | ... ench society between those who supported Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as | , Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him (the ... |
Jack London | ... own, little or no interest, and whatever they could pay on a monthly basis. | describes the artists' colony in his novel, The Valley of the Moon. Among ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... ted debate in Congress, Massachusetts Representative (and former President) | successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest. Though Congre ... |
Abraham Flexner | At the urging of | , who had done pioneering studies of medical education, and University of ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 8 May 1969, | issued the Apostolic Constitution Sacra Rituum Congregatio, dividing it in ... |
Licinius | # The status of the lapsed in the persecution under | The council was formally opened May 20, in the central structure of the im ... |
Andy Kershaw | In the early 1980s, | , David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and Richard Skinner also took turns as presen ... |
Wang Fu | ... ng (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and | (78–163 CE) questioned whether human nature was innately good or evil and ... |
Zoltán Ribli | ... orchnoi. At Reggio Emilia 1986, he tied for 2nd–5th places with 6/11 behind | . He swept Fernand Gobet 4–0 in a match at Fribourg 1987. He finished equa ... |
Olusegun Obasanjo | ... 9 May 2000, the Lagos Guardian newspaper reported that the now ex-president | commuted to retirement the dismissal of all military persons who fought fo ... |
Gaius Julius Hyginus | ... e name of a famous scholar, such as Apollodorus of Athens, Eratosthenes, or | , what survives is either an ancient forgery or an abridgement of the orig ... |
Alexander the Great | ... eece played an important role in the art of the western world. In the East, | 's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Centra ... |
Robert Frost | ... e farms by Walter Hendricks, for returning World War II veterans, with poet | as its first trustee. The , founded in 1951, is headquartered on the campu ... |
Walt Disney | ... The idea was inspired by the production of Dumbo, an economically-made 1941 | film produced in the wake of the more expensive Pinocchio and Fantasia. Ch ... |
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... ilt by Roger II of Sicily around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by | . The castle now serves as a gallery for a variety of temporary exhibition ... |
Terence Young | Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director | , polishing the actor while using his physical grace and presence for the ... |
John Lennon | ... g task of presenting the show in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of | (who had himself appeared on the show in 1975). This particular episode co ... |
Bernard Kouchner | ... ivilians being murdered and starved by the blockading forces. French doctor | also witnessed these events, particularly the huge number of starving chil ... |
President | The | is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ex officio. The military aut ... |
Ardal O'Hanlon | ... has since seen the presentation of theatre sized shows with comics such as | , Stephen K. Amos, Rich Hall, Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, and |
Álvaro Pombo | ... r in the book Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, Rosa Díez, | , Albert Boadella and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán. He continues to write, bo ... |
Eratosthenes | ... ing work bears the name of a famous scholar, such as Apollodorus of Athens, | , or Gaius Julius Hyginus, what survives is either an ancient forgery or a ... |
Venus Williams | ... ce in Stowe on hard courts in July. Vania King, Lisa Raymond, Meilen Tu and | made up the team for the U.S. A 4100 capacity stadium was built at Topnotc ... |
Kay Bailey Hutchison | ... ral level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and | ; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional district, which is curr ... |
Émile Zola | ... letter published in a Paris newspaper in January 1898 by the notable writer | . Progressive activists put pressure on the government to reopen the case |
Bob Fosse | ... uerile preference for ingenues". Carpenter's article served as the basis of | 's film (1983), in which Bogdanovich, for legal reasons, was portrayed as ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... ves—sponsored by Congressman Charles Schumer and cosponsored by John Lewis, | , and Jerry Lewis, as well as 220 other Congressmen—to posthumously bestow ... |
Judith Butler | Theorists including Calvin Thomas and | have suggested that homophobia can be rooted in an individual's fear of be ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... e delivered this ultimatum to the Lombard envoy who was sent by the Emperor | , who was the pretender's uncle and had seized the throne from the pretend ... |
Borat | ... character of the film Ali G Indahouse. Cohen's character Ali G, along with | and Brüno, has been retired |
Tom Stoppard | ... th, the meaning of human existence and the place of God in human existence. | 's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist tragicomedy first s ... |
M. H. Abrams | ... and few dates much earlier than 1770 will be found. In English literature, | placed it between 1789, or 1798, this latter a very typical view, and abou ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | In 1764 Catherine placed | , her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ... |
Hugh Hefner | ... s article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul | , claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, P ... |
Gabriel Byrne | ... ichael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney and | . The best known theatres include the Gaiety, Abbey, Olympia, Gate, and Gr ... |
Yang Xiong | ... texts were created and studied by scholars. Philosophical works written by | (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and W ... |
Victor Hugo | As described in | 's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the medieval French referred to the ... |
Descartes | | was not only a pioneer of analytic geometry but formulated a theory of mec ... |
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 ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... ar withdraws at the last minute after learning his true identity is that of | (who assumed another identity hoping he will get a rare chance to compete ... |
Taytu Betul | ... rt. By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen | , had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ... |
Harry Morgan | ... time watching Gleason more than once, because Miller would start laughing. | appears as Cully Anderson, the unrequited love interest of Ann Rutherford' ... |
Tracy Tormé | ... e network-enforced relinquishment of day-to-day creative control by creator | ), episodes became far more action-oriented, going so far as to devolve in ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist | had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically-structured sonnet ... |
Haakon VII of Norway | ... , Prince of Denmark. He was given the name Olav when his father became King | in 1905 |
Gary Hart | ... n and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators William Cohen and | attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, and several year ... |
Albrecht Dürer | ... distinguishing himself as a soldier and as a captain. He studied art under | |
Herodotus | Hecataeus of Miletus believed the earth was flat and surrounded by water. | in his Histories ridiculed the belief that water encircled the world, yet ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... lizabeth would make him a Prince and Field Marshal on becoming Empress. The | would also make Razumovsky a Count of the Holy Roman Empire |
Margaret Drabble | ... tween different countries and different artistic media or areas of thought. | described it in literature as taking place "roughly between 1770 and 1848" ... |
Joseph Needham | ... used by Chinese astronomers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian | quotes Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) as saying |
Zheng He | ... and economically fortified. In the early fifteenth century the Ming Admiral | had established one of his bases of operation in the port city, so the Chi ... |
Charles, duke of Lorraine | ... le de Montpensier, while the archduke took more fortresses in Flanders, and | , with an army of plundering mercenaries, marched through Champagne to joi ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... w York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, Herman Klein, and | , castigated a succession of visiting Mediterranean tenors for resorting t ... |
Claude Henri de Saint-Simon | ... s members of society who desire a more rational, efficient economic system. | , and later evolutionary economist Thorstein Veblen, believed that sociali ... |
Robinson Jeffers | ... terling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, | , Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritsc ... |
Stephen Crane | ... on soldiers. While in the army during World War II, he became interested in | 's classic American Civil War novel of the same title. For the starring ro ... |
Harry Essex | ... brought Bradbury to movie theaters in 1953 with It Came from Outer Space, a | screenplay developed from Bradbury's screen treatment "Atomic Monster". Th ... |
Arthur Frommer | In October 2009, | 's Budget Travel Magazine listed Cayucos as one of the "Coolest Small Town ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
Robert Osborne | ... affinity for makeup and often played characters much older. Film historian | notes that his makeup skills were so creative, that for most of his roles, ... |
Bill Gates | ... ft CEO Steve Ballmer's chair-throwing incident from 2005. Microsoft founder | is a popular target of jokes by Slashdotters, and all stories about Micros ... |
Zhang Heng | ... omers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian Joseph Needham quotes | (78-139 AD) as saying |
Daniel Speer | ... ata à 7 for two cornetts, two trumpets, three trombones and basso continuo. | published a four part sonata in Neu-gebachene Taffel-Schnitz (1685). In 16 ... |
Joanna Russ | ... exts of this kind are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), | ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) an |
Michael Faraday | ... dies could be magnetized; these discoveries were completed and explained by | |
Montesquieu | ... ng (as she frankly admitted) the philosophers of Western Europe, especially | and Cesare Beccaria |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... increasing grounds within the Congress leadership. Under the presidency of | at its historic Lahore session in December 1929, the Indian National Congr ... |
McKinley | ... ed the first phones in Burke and his stables housed the horses of President | and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Produce from his farm was transport ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... otege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, | , Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Kei ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, | , Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, Will ... |
Tiberius | ... dici, or veterinarians. Using these stations in chariot relays, the emperor | hastened in 24 hours to join his brother, Drusus Germanicus, who was dying ... |
Ursula K. Le Guin | ... f social constructs in understanding gender. Notable texts of this kind are | 's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), O ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... een chosen as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Commander, US General | , during D-Day |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... e was the last surviving grandchild of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and | |
Sterling Hayden | It starred | and Huston's personal friend, Sam Jaffe. It also became the first serious ... |
R. J. Rummel | or as ethnic cleansing. | has classified these events as democide |
Herman Klein | ... , for instance, New York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, | , and George Bernard Shaw, castigated a succession of visiting Mediterrane ... |
Aaron Hill | ... eare. Shakespeare's play returned to the stage in 1723, in an adaptation by | |
Lewis Carroll | ... plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as | 's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had ... |
Humayun | ... ammad' during Friday khutbas. Sher Khan, an adversary of the Mughal emperor | , was content if Bengal was given to him in return of the emperor retainin ... |
Motilal Nehru | ... esistance among people. The conference appointed a drafting committee under | to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian Na ... |
Augustus | ... der the empire, one public and one private. The Cursus publicus, founded by | , carried the mail of officials by relay throughout the Roman road system. ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | ... hes such as the Assemblies of God, as well as Restorationist churches, like | and Mormons, also take the position that gay sexual activity is immoral |
Frankie Boyle | ... s with comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Stephen K. Amos, Rich Hall, Ed Byrne, | , and |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... eat of a battle in 1718 between Spain and Austria, and of another fought by | against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies during his Expedition of the Thousand |
John Calvin | ... re of intellectual influence from the Continent, including the teachings of | that became known as Calvinism. This, in turn, revolutionised the Christia ... |
Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
Jean Anouilh | ... he implications, and muse on the irrationality and randomness of the world. | 's Antigone also presents arguments founded on existentialist ideas. It is ... |
Walt Disney | ... s that brought in record audiences was Disneyland, produced by and starring | ...the beginning of a relationship between the studio and the network whic ... |
Dean DeBlois | | , who had co-written Mulan (1998) with Sanders, was brought on to co-write ... |
Clark Ashton Smith | ... the village were Mary Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling and his protege | , Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney ... |
Sacha Baron Cohen | ... a satirical fictional character invented and performed by English comedian | . Originally appearing on Channel 4's Eleven O'Clock show, as the title ch ... |
Michael Frayn | ... him off the big screen for several years. One, Noises Off..., based on the | play, has subsequently developed a strong cult following, while the other, ... |
Murray Chandler | ... ond. At London Lloyds' Bank Open 1984, he tied for first with John Nunn and | , on 7/9. He won at Reykjavík 1985. At Brussels 1985, he placed second wit ... |
Babur | The sovereign's name was also declared in khutbas during the Mughal rule | ;was styled 'Zahir-ud-Din Bábar Muhammad' during Friday khutbas. Sher Khan ... |
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 ... |
David Ackert | ... so features Shaun Toub as her father, Shohreh Aghdashloo as her mother, and | as her cousin, Ali, who becomes an Islamic fundamentalist |
Ambrose Bierce | ... y Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, | , Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand ... |
Emilio Aguinaldo | In the hunt for the Guerrilla General | American troops also poisoned water wells to try to force out the Filipino ... |
Lou Brock | In 1982, Henderson broke | 's major league single season record by stealing 130 bases, a total which ... |
d'Alembert | ... te comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, Diderot, and | —all French encyclopedists who later cemented her reputation in their writ ... |
John Nunn | ... who shared second. At London Lloyds' Bank Open 1984, he tied for first with | and Murray Chandler, on 7/9. He won at Reykjavík 1985. At Brussels 1985, h ... |
John Aikin | deathbed by a noted physician, Dr. | , who happened to be his neighbour |
Andrew Jackson | ... nowledge among men". After the nephew died without issue in 1835, President | informed Congress of the bequest. Richard Rush was appointed as agent of t ... |
George Sterling | ... ists who lived in or frequented the village were Mary Austin, Armin Hansen, | and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robins ... |
Bulleh Shah | ... in is known for his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Abdul Latif, | , Mian Muhammad Bakhsh and Khawaja Farid are very popular in Pakistan. Mir ... |
Mark Ellen | In the early 1980s, Andy Kershaw, David Hepworth, | and Richard Skinner also took turns as presenters. The same four presenter ... |
Schiller | ... ed-headed woman holds the mirror of truth, while above it is a quotation by | in stylized lettering, "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and ... |
Haakon VII of Norway | ... nderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King | and Queen Maud of Norway. At birth Olav was given the names Alexander Edwa ... |
William Wyler | ... n ill-fitting costume with a low neckline, she was rebuffed by the director | , who loudly commented to the assembled crew, "What do you think of these ... |
Bapsi Sidhwa | ... , as to which Mountbatten was the principal informant, and more latterly in | 's novel Ice Candy Man (published in the United States as Cracking India), ... |
Dolly Parton | ... dian film The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, Furtado lent her vocals for the | gospel cover "The Seeker" featured during the credits of the film. Furtado ... |
Count Roger I | Agrigento was captured by the Normans under | in 1087, who established a Latin bishopric there. The population declined ... |
encyclopedists | ... and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, Diderot, and d'Alembert—all French | who later cemented her reputation in their writings. The leading economist ... |
Subramanya Bharathi | ... , Mahars in Maharashtra, and Sikhs in Punjab. However, people like Mahakavi | , Vanchinathan and Neelakanda Brahmachari played a major role from Tamil N ... |
Isaiah Berlin | According to | , Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to bu ... |
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh | ... or his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Abdul Latif, Bulleh Shah, | and Khawaja Farid are very popular in Pakistan. Mirza Kalich Beg has been ... |
Hank Marvin | ... ay on separate occasions with both Cliff Richard and Shadows lead guitarist | . He has collaborated with Cliff Richard on a re-recording of the Cliff Ri ... |
Ben Hecht | ... so became one of Hollywood's first major gangster films, and was written by | , a leading screenwriter. The film, notes critic Richard Corliss, while a ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... 1953); and Beat the Devil (1953). Moby Dick (1956), however, was written by | , although Huston had his name added to the screenplay credit after the co ... |
Thomas R. Pickering | ... squads' ... I'd repudiate him instantly." Helms opposed the appointment of | as Ambassador to El Salvador. alleged that the CIA had interfered in the S ... |
The Big Bopper | ... roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, | and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, ... |
Henry III | In 1585 Pasquier was appointed by | advocate-general at the Paris cours des comptes, an important body having ... |
William Wyler | ... friends in the movie industry. Huston had, with friends including director | and screenwriter Philip Dunne, established the "Committee for the First Am ... |
Pierre Corneille | ... ragedies of Seneca over those of the Greeks influenced both Shakespeare and | |
Mahinthrathirat | ... der in 1564. The royal family was taken to Pegu, with the king's eldest son | installed as the vassal king. In 1568, Mahinthrathirat revolted when his f ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | | wrote No Exit in 1944, an existentialist play originally published in Fren ... |
Catharine MacKinnon | ... censorship. Anti-pornography feminist activists such as Andrea Dworkin and | made alliances with the religious right. This critique was adopted and mad ... |
Quintus Smyrnaeus | ... d of Achilles with the encircling ocean is also found repeated far later in | ’ Posthomerica (4th century AD) which continues the narration of the Troja ... |
Eric Idle | ... parody of the show as part of Rutland Weekend Television in 1975, featuring | as Harris, is the first known mention of fictional band, Toad The Wet Spro ... |
King George V | Guisborough has a King George's Field in memory of | , and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ... |
Aristophanes | ... ea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in Stasinus of Cyprus, Mimnermus, | , and Apollonius Rhodius |
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 ... |
Harald V | ... died in the evening of a myocardial infarction. An interview given by King | , and hints in a biography by Jo Benkow, who was the president of the parl ... |
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin | After her affair with her lover and adviser | ended in 1776, he allegedly selected a candidate-lover for her who had the ... |
Nikos Engonopoulos | ... kopoulos (El Greco), Panagiotis Doxaras, Nikolaos Gyzis, Yannis Tsarouchis, | , Constantine Andreou, Jannis Kounellis, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, so ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... and his stables housed the horses of President McKinley and Vice President | . Produce from his farm was transported to Georgetown where it became part ... |
Cathy Young | ... nts of time working, but women still spend more time on housework, although | responded by arguing that women may prevent equal participation by men in ... |
Andrea Dworkin | ... that they favoured censorship. Anti-pornography feminist activists such as | and Catharine MacKinnon made alliances with the religious right. This crit ... |
Francis Scott Key | ... ed for the failed British assault on Baltimore, which was the influence for | 's writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Many slaves escaped to the Briti ... |
Maha Chakkraphat | ... but failed. The second Burmese invasion led by King Bayinnaung forced King | to surrender in 1564. The royal family was taken to Pegu, with the king's ... |
Tiësto | ... ence + the Machine. The album has attracted producers such as The Neptunes, | , Timbaland, Rick Nowels, Ryan Tedder and Rodney Jerkins. The first single ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... r assaulted. An invitation was extended to Nixon's opponent, Vice-President | , but he declined. According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, "Hum ... |
Virgil | ... history of literary criticism. Like many of his generation Scaliger prized | above Homer. His praise of the tragedies of Seneca over those of the Greek ... |
Charles I | ... the higher proportion of Calvinists and other Reformed churches, as well as | 's refusal to take up the case of some Guernsey seamen who had been captur ... |
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 ... |
Charles Bukowski | ... works of artists such as Chuck Palahniuk, David Lynch, Crispin Glover, and | , and one often finds in their works a delicate balance between distastefu ... |
Richard Nixon | During the September 16, 1968 episode, | , running for president, appeared for a few seconds with a disbelieving vo ... |
Mimnermus | ... aiaokhos) sea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in Stasinus of Cyprus, | , Aristophanes, and Apollonius Rhodius |
Charles Lederer | ... the alleged Ince murder by Welles, who in turn said he heard it from writer | |
Queen Alexandra | ... Wales's Yorkshire Regiment), the British regiment named for his grandmother | |
Stasinus | ... earth-encircling (gaiaokhos) sea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in | of Cyprus, Mimnermus, Aristophanes, and Apollonius Rhodius |
Henry V of England | ... fe of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). It tells the story of King | , focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt ... |
Peter III | ... rts during the reign of Catherine. Under her leadership, she completed what | had started; the church’s lands were appropriated, and the budget of both ... |
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 ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... sville was the Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lieut. Gen. | 's 1864 Overland Campaign. This was fought over the same ground as the Bat ... |
John McCain | ... nt in all but one election since 1952. In 2004 and 2008, George W. Bush and | swept every county in the state, both receiving over 65 percent of the sta ... |
Khatir Afridi | ... th century, Pakhto or Pashto has produced some great poets like Ghani Khan, | and Amir Hamza Shinwari. There are also many Pakistani's from the adjacent ... |
E. O. Wilson | ... Council (NRC). It first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist | used it as the title of the proceedings of that forum |
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 ... |
Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ionysus and the figure of the Christ in Christian theology can be traced to | , whose identification of Dionysus with Christ is most explicit in Brod un ... |
Isaac II Angelos | ... ilip's brother-in-law and the son of the recently deposed Byzantine emperor | . Alexios had recently fled to Philip in 1201 but it is unknown whether or ... |
Bayinnaung | ... ith an invasion in 1548 but failed. The second Burmese invasion led by King | forced King Maha Chakkraphat to surrender in 1564. The royal family was ta ... |
Crispin Glover | ... artmann permeate the works of artists such as Chuck Palahniuk, David Lynch, | , and Charles Bukowski, and one often finds in their works a delicate bala ... |
Billy Martin | ... teals (56). In so doing, he became the emblematic figure of Oakland manager | 's aggressive "Billyball" philosophy, which received much media attention. ... |
George W. Bush | ... ublican for President in all but one election since 1952. In 2004 and 2008, | and John McCain swept every county in the state, both receiving over 65 pe ... |
Achilles | Both Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of | |
Marie Stopes | ... started in the 1910s in the U.S. under Margaret Sanger and elsewhere under | . In the final three decades of the 20th century, Western women knew a new ... |
Alejandro Toledo | ... t in the Peruvian general election, 2011 by saying he was going to vote for | (Peruvian former president 2001-2006). After cast his vote, he said his co ... |
Ronald Reagan | McCain's politics at this point were mainly in line with President | , including support for Reaganomics, and he was active on Indian Affairs b ... |
Hesiod | Both Homer and | described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles |
William Shakespeare | Henry V is a history play by | , believed to be written in approximately 1599. Its full titles are The Cr ... |
Brian Epstein | ... oined her and tried to kiss her until she (in her words) "pushed him away". | 's personal assistant, Peter Brown, maintains that Cynthia did sleep with ... |
C. S. Forester | ... n was already in Africa shooting The African Queen (1951), a story based on | 's popular novel. It starred Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in a co ... |
Buddhaghosa | ... s well as other Sanskrit scriptures. Leonard Zwilling refers extensively to | 's Samantapasadika, where pandaka are described as being filled with defil ... |
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 ... |
Philip of Swabia | ... while, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his cousin | . The reasons for his visit are a matter of debate; he may have realized t ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... f the vote, compared to 56% statewide. In the 2006 state governor election, | won over 72% of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides won nea ... |
Chuck Palahniuk | ... lles Deleuze, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of artists such as | , David Lynch, Crispin Glover, and Charles Bukowski, and one often finds i ... |
Noah Webster | ... in the 1630s and 1640s". The first two notebooks were published in 1790 by | . The third notebook, long thought lost, was rediscovered in 1816, and the ... |
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 ... |
Maurice Schwartz | He was quickly recognized by | , who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. Edward G. Robinson and P ... |
David Gordon | In 2004, post-modern choreographer | created a dance-theatre version of the play called Dancing Henry Five, whi ... |
Rahman Baba | ... r Pashto spoken in the southern areas. Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689) and | (1633–1708) were the most famous poets in the Pashto language. In the last ... |
Hal David | ... Live Stiffs album, notable for Costello's recording of the Burt Bacharach/ | standard "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" – the band recorded Th ... |
John Bidwell | ... e events as the most seminal in Chico history. They included the arrival of | in 1850, the arrival of the California and Oregon Railroad in 1870, the es ... |
John Murray Anderson | ... cribed her attitude as "insincere" and "frivolous". She was accepted by the | School of Theatre, and studied dance with Martha Graham |
Colm Meaney | ... l Purcell, Sir Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, Colin Farrell, | and Gabriel Byrne. The best known theatres include the Gaiety, Abbey, Olym ... |
Charles II | ... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross until | sold it to the king of France in 1662 |
Pléiade | ... essible. As a poet Pasquier is chiefly interesting as a minor member of the | movement. As a prose writer he is of much more account. The three chief di ... |
Barack Obama | Also circulating is the Chesterfield Observer, a county-wide newspaper. | stopped at John Tyler Community College in Chester on August 21, 2008, whe ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... t the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Novalis' and | see it as the beginning of a tradition of resistance to Enlightenment rati ... |
Charles Darwin | ... local foraminifera (single-celled protists with shells), corresponded with | , and had two gastropods (snails or slugs) named after him |
John F. Kennedy | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as | , Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference ... |
Gregory Peck | ... r his father, Walter Huston. However, his father died in 1950, and he chose | to play the starring role of Captain Ahab. The movie was filmed over a thr ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... mous examples of using gibberish in literature is the poem "Jabberwocky" by | |
Linnaeus | The Barn Swallow was described by | in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rec ... |
Orson Welles | ... and starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and | as Father Mapple. A significant result of the film was Bradbury's book Gre ... |
Ragnhild | ... ncess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, | and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, Crown Princess Märtha and the R ... |
BBC 6 Music | The Jon Holmes radio show on | has a feature called the Old Gay Whistle Test, a parody where a homosexual ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Carter, then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity | ;was elected as his successor using a specifically Christian discourse |
Khushal Khan Khattak | ... ern (Peshawar) variety, and the softer Pashto spoken in the southern areas. | (1613–1689) and Rahman Baba (1633–1708) were the most famous poets in the ... |
Solomonic dynasty | ... ts acknowledgment of his imperial legitimacy, and announcing the end of the | |
Pat Barker | ... life of W. H. R. Rivers and his encounter with Sassoon was fictionalised by | in the Regeneration Trilogy, a series of three books including Regeneratio ... |
Aristotle | ... be printed. In 1556 he printed his Dialogue on the De plantis attributed to | , and in 1557 his Exercitationes on Jerome Cardan's, De subtilitate. His o ... |
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H. L. Mencken | ... late 19th and early 20th century, when critics like Nathaniel Hawthorne and | pointed out the negative aspects of Puritan rule, leading to modern assess ... |
Callimachus | ... egins with the oxhide story of Orion's birth, which this source ascribes to | and Aristomachus, and sets the location at Thebes or Chios. Hyginus has tw ... |
Novalis | ... hes see in it the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, ' | ' and Samuel Taylor Coleridge see it as the beginning of a tradition of re ... |
Robert Graves | In the poem The Red Ribbon Dream, written by | not long after Rivers's death, he touches on the peace and security he fel ... |
Michael Heseltine | Meanwhile | had introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( ... |
Henry IV | ... d at Tours, working steadily at his great book, but he returned to Paris in | 's train in March 1594. He continued until 1604 at his work in the chambre ... |
Naresuan | ... ated Burmese invasions (1584–1593), capped by an elephant duel between King | and Burmese heir-apparent Mingyi Swa in 1593 in which Naresuan famously sl ... |
Herman Edwards | | is formerly the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Footb ... |
Jon Holmes | The | radio show on BBC 6 Music has a feature called the Old Gay Whistle Test, a ... |
Harald | ... arried his first cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, | , and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, C ... |
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 |
Richard Ayoade | ... es was parodied in the sketch comedy show Snuff Box. The host was played by | |
Manuel A. Odría | ... the Cathedral is based on the tyrannical dictatorship of Peruvian President | . The protagonist, Santiago, rebels against the suffocating dictatorship b ... |
Herman Melville | Huston had been planning to film | 's Moby Dick for the previous ten years, and originally saw it as an excel ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offered | a place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ... |
Wil Wheaton | ... these celebrities include: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, writer and actor | , and id Software technical director |
Euler | The following infinite product definitions for the gamma function, due to | and Weierstrass respectively, are valid for all complex numbers z, except ... |
Prince Carl of Denmark | ... in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom to | and Princess Maud of Wales, (daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kin ... |
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 ... |
Russell Howard | ... ought to Switzerland comedians Brendon Burns, Craig Campbell, Jim Jeffries, | , Arthur Smith, Nina Conti and Kevin Bridges. Growing demand and success a ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... xistentialist themes are displayed in the Theatre of the Absurd, notably in | 's Waiting for Godot, in which two men divert themselves while they wait e ... |
Qazan | ... aravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek and | built palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan's summer pasture. In 1364, ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... d-1970s had led to the growth of the religious right through televangelism. | , then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity; Rona ... |
Leibniz | ... tended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously with | ). He provided a comprehensive formulation of classical mechanics and inve ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... own accord – some of the most famous in Italy being Giacomo da Lentini and | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... utation suffered in the late 19th and early 20th century, when critics like | and H. L. Mencken pointed out the negative aspects of Puritan rule, leadin ... |
Abel Ferrara | Later, Schoolly D contributed songs and music to many | films, such as "Saturday Night" (from Saturday Night! – The Album), as wel ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... of the Pope if they would sail to Byzantium and topple the reigning emperor | , brother of Isaac II. It was a tempting offer for an enterprise that was ... |
Hippocrates | ... tieth year that (with the exception of a brief tract on the De insomniis of | ) he felt that any of them were sufficiently complete to be printed. In 15 ... |
Lou Brock | ... rn-era player to steal 100 bases in a season (Maury Wills's 104 in 1962 and | 's 118 in 1974 had preceded him). His 100 steals set a new American League ... |
Maury Wills | ... Henderson became the 3rd modern-era player to steal 100 bases in a season ( | 's 104 in 1962 and Lou Brock's 118 in 1974 had preceded him). His 100 stea ... |
Maha Thammarachathirat | ... The ensuing third invasion captured Ayutthaya in 1569, and Bayinnaung made | vassal king |
Ulrich von Liechtenstein | ... nts to joust, and joins the jousting circuit under the assumed name of "Sir | " from Gelderland. Chaucer is then discovered to have a gambling problem, ... |
James Bond | The charred wreck was featured in the 1974 | movie The Man with the Golden Gun, as a covert headquarters for MI6 |
Gregory Peck | ... ick, which was faithfully based on the novel by Herman Melville and starred | as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and Orson Welles as Father M ... |
Democritus | ... o Aristotle, pre-Socratic philosophers, including Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and | (c. 460–370 BC) believed in a flat Earth |
Giacomo da Lentini | ... the vernacular of their own accord – some of the most famous in Italy being | and Dante Alighieri |
Ken MacLeod | The site was mentioned briefly in the 2000 novel Cosmonaut Keep, written by | |
Aristotle | ... sidered the world to be flat, at least according to Aristotle. According to | , pre-Socratic philosophers, including Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and Democritu ... |
DJ Code Money | Schoolly D teamed up with | in the mid-1980s. His lyrics reflected urban realism, violence, and sexual ... |
Dominique Lapierre | ... et Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and | , and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight (of which he was the main quoted ... |
John Lennon | ... ed with a cover of "Twist and Shout", which had to be recorded last because | had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal w ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ome of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, | and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), remained particula ... |
Newton | ... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. | extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ... |
Herman Melville | ... tion of the project. Although Huston had personally hired Bradbury to adapt | 's novel into a screenplay, Bradbury and Huston did not get along during p ... |
Joachim Murat | ... o a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat quarter (erected by | ), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-p ... |
Robert Hübner | ... e tied for 1st–4th places with 8½/13, with Yuri Balashov, Ulf Andersson and | . He shared first at Baden, Vienna in 1980, on 10½/15 with Alexander Belia ... |
Herman Melville | ... lay for the 1956 film Moby Dick, which was faithfully based on the novel by | and starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and ... |
Hippocrates | ... respiratory problem separate from others was first recognized and named by | circa 450 BC. During the 1930s–50s, asthma was considered as being one of ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... husband, Harmon O. Nelson, known as "Ham". In 1926, she saw a production of | 's The Wild Duck with Blanche Yurka and Peg Entwistle. Davis later recalle ... |
Michael Faraday | | formulated that electromotive force (EMF) produced around a closed path is ... |
Tim Westwood | ... ved part of his life in Staines. Baron Cohen has stated that BBC Radio 1 DJ | was an influence on the development of the Ali G character – Westwood host ... |
Camille Paglia | ... . This critique was adopted and made popular by dissident feminists such as | . Atwood warns that the consequences of such an alliance may end up empowe ... |
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 ... |
James Bond | ... ived in Llandaff, Shirley Bassey is familiar to many as the singer of three | movie theme tunes, while Charlotte Church is famous as a crossover classic ... |
Michael Faraday | ... mers, induction motors, electric motors, synchronous motors, and solenoids. | is generally credited with the discovery of induction in 1831 though it ma ... |
Symon Semeonis | In 1322, an Irish Franciscan monk, | encountered a migrant group, "the descendants of Cain", outside the town o ... |
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 ... |
Tacitus | ... dence of Germanic languages comes from names recorded in the 1st century by | (especially from his work Germania), but the earliest Germanic writing occ ... |
Cloris Leachman | ... ademy Awards nominations, including Best Director, and won two statues, for | and Ben Johnson in the supporting acting categories. Bogdanovich co-wrote ... |
Galen | ... tory Aristotle remained as much a law to him as in poetics, and in medicine | , but he was not a slave to the text or the details of either. He thorough ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... the way to his first tournament in Rouen, William and his friends come upon | (Paul Bettany), trudging down a road with no clothes or money. William per ... |
Chakravartin | ... peared. The king was considered chakkraphat, the Sanskrit-Pali term for the | who through his adherence to the law made all the world revolve around him ... |
Yuri Balashov | ... 1978 with 6½/9. At Munich 1979, he tied for 1st–4th places with 8½/13, with | , Ulf Andersson and Robert Hübner. He shared first at Baden, Vienna in 198 ... |
John McCain | ... ived 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Republican | , who received 44.5% of the vote (2,788 ballots cast), with 81.3% of regis ... |
Carl Bildt | The term was coined by Swedish Prime Minister | in a debate against the opposition leader Ingvar Carlsson 1994 |
Hannah Arendt | ... nd René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, | ’s book (1958) and Masaki Kobayashi’s film trilogy (1959-1961). Ningen no ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... Leslie, set in colonial Massachusetts. He also makes a brief appearance in | 's The Scarlet Letter in the chapter entitled "The Minister's Vigil. |
Daniel Bernoulli | ... g the factorial to non-integer arguments was apparently first considered by | and Christian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same ... |
Thomas Warton | ... es such as Joseph Warton (headmaster at Winchester College) and his brother | , professor of Poetry at Oxford University Joseph maintained that inventio ... |
H. G. Wells | ... Socratics and brought to it some of his most influential friends, including | , Arnold Bennett, Bertrand Russell and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conf ... |
President | ... he Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by | Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual ancho ... |
Rafael Trujillo | ... lides da Cunha in 1902. The Feast of the Goat, based on the dictatorship of | , takes place in the Dominican Republic; in preparation for this novel, Va ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... tian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same decade by | . Euler gave two different definitions: the first was not his integral but ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... had some limitations. It did, however, bring him into fruitful contact with | . He wanted to train in Psychoanalysis and in 1938 he began a training ana ... |
Perseus | ... he bore him a son named Oenopion, but he committed suicide or was killed by | . In some variants, he had her crown put into the heavens as the constella ... |
Mary Astor | ... with Huston. In addition, the supporting cast included other noted actors: | , Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet (his first film role), and his own fathe ... |
Olav IV | ... was the first heir to the Norwegian throne to be brought up in Norway since | , and his parents made sure he was given as Norwegian an upbringing as pos ... |
Masaki Kobayashi | ... 3 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, Hannah Arendt’s book (1958) and | ’s film trilogy (1959-1961). Ningen no joken I, the first instalment the H ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... received 51.5% of the vote here (3,333 ballots cast), outpolling Republican | , who received 47.8% of the vote (3,092 ballots), with 6,475 of the 7,931 ... |
Horace | Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist, | (65 BCE – 8 BCE), playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mi ... |
Emperor Shao | ... ately two thousand eunuchs were killed. Zhang Rang had previously fled with | (r. 189 CE) and his brother Liu Xie—the future Emperor Xian of Han (r. 189 ... |
W. Edwards Deming | In his managerial and statistical writings, | placed great importance on the value of using operational definitions in a ... |
Martianus Capella | In late antiquity such widely read encyclopedists as Macrobius (4th c.) and | (5th c.) discussed the circumference of the sphere of the Earth, its centr ... |
Irvin D. Yalom | ... writers on techniques and theory of existentialist psychology in the USA is | . Yalom states tha |
Juvenal | Juvenalian satire, named after the Roman satirist | (late 1st century - early 2nd century CE), is a type of satire that is mor ... |
Robert | In 1803 their son | was born, and in 1804 they moved to West Moor, near Killingworth while Geo ... |
H. P. Lovecraft | Other fictional settings from the stories of | |
Larry McMurtry | ... the supporting acting categories. Bogdanovich co-wrote the screenplay with | , and it won the 1971 BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. Bogdanovich cast th ... |
Arnold Bennett | ... brought to it some of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, | , Bertrand Russell and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), ... |
Jeri Taylor | ... ce in the upcoming Voyager, which was scheduled to begin airing in 1995. As | commented, "we knew that we wanted to include a renegade element in Voyage ... |
Susan McClary | Through the 1980s and 1990s, this trend continued as musicologists like | , Marcia Citron and Ruth Solie began to consider the cultural reasons for ... |
Tom Snyder | ... . In the U.S., the single "Watch Your Step" was released and played live on | 's Tomorrow show, and received airplay on FM rock radio. In the UK, the si ... |
Ronald Reagan | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, | , Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference to Winthrop's ... |
Harvey | ... ch as the development of ideas about the circulation of blood from Galen to | . The flowering of genetics and molecular biology in the 20th century is r ... |
Honoré de Balzac | ... rd Fauntleroy (1921), and changed the spelling of her name to "Bette" after | 's La Cousine Bette. She received encouragement from her mother, who had a ... |
Theophrastus | ... erome Cardan's, De subtilitate. His other scientific works, commentaries on | ' De causis plantarum and Aristotle's History of Animals, he left in a mor ... |
Grand Duke Paul | ... s a Regent or as an usurper, tolerable only during the minority of her son, | . In the 1770s, a group of nobles connected with Paul (Nikita Panin and ot ... |
Ptolemy | ... considers the possibility of an imperfect sphere, "shaped like a pinecone". | derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude, ... |
Marcus Claudius Tacitus | ... that there was an interregnum between Aurelian's death and the election of | as his successor. Additionally, some of Ulpia's coins appear to have been ... |
Diocletian | ... ragmentation of the decade in which he reigned. 20 years later the reign of | would fully restore stability and end the Crisis of the third century. The ... |
Margaret Elaine Dovey | ... ce. In 1942, while awaiting entry into the service, Whitlam met and married | , who had swum for Australia in the 1938 British Empire Games and was the ... |
Honoré de Balzac | ... brother, Étienne Vincent de (1802–1892), is said to have collaborated with | in The Heiress of Birague, and from 1822 to 1847 wrote a great number of l ... |
Aeschylus | ... ants to bring back to life one of the great tragedians. After a competition | is chosen in preference to Euripides |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... ressed. A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as | and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government. While ... |
Efraín Ríos Montt | | utilized this method in the Guatemalan highlands in 1982-3, resulting in t ... |
Hector Berlioz | ... or the French Prix de Rome prescribed that each candidate submit a cantata. | failed in three attempts before finally winning in 1830 with Sardanapale. ... |
Richard Wagner | Music by late Romantic composers such as | and Johannes Brahms is now played with a fairly continuous vibrato. Howeve ... |
George W. Bush | ... presidential nomination in 2000 but lost a heated primary season contest to | . He secured the nomination in 2008 after coming back from early reversals ... |
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu | ... cile, on 26 May the Eastern region voted to secede from Nigeria. On 30 May, | , the Eastern Region's military governor, announced the Republic of Biafra ... |
U.S. President | Since inception, 17 | s, 37 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1 NFL MVP, 1 Heisman Trophy winner, and ... |
Empress He | General-in-Chief He Jin (d. 189 CE), half-brother to | (d. 189 CE), plotted with Yuan Shao (d. 202 ) to overthrow the eunuchs by ... |
Barack Obama | ... 08 after coming back from early reversals, but lost to Democratic candidate | in the general election. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservativ ... |
André Malraux | The term has been used in | ’s novel (1933) and René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La ... |
Francisco Franco | ... Republic (founded 1931) in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) brought General | to power. Even though public use of the Catalan language was banned some p ... |
Kūkai | ... sexuality was "invented" by the Bodhisattva Manjusri of wisdom and the sage | , the founder of Buddhism in Japan. Japanese Buddhist scholar and author o ... |
Theseus | When | abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, Dionysus found and married her. She b ... |
Sarah Palin | ... iticians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and | , have all made reference to Winthrop's writings in their speeches. Ronald ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... he murderers. Without a chance to defend themselves in a hearing, President | dishonorably discharged the entire 167 member regiment due to their accuse ... |
Euclides da Cunha | ... on is the non-fiction account of those events published by Brazilian writer | in 1902. The Feast of the Goat, based on the dictatorship of Rafael Trujil ... |
Dashiell Hammett | For his first directing assignment, Huston chose | 's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon, a film which had already failed ... |
Marilyn Manson | Rammstein performed The Beautiful People with | at the Echo Awards on March 22nd, 2012 |
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 ... |
Joseph Haydn | ... k of trombone players. Most of these works derive from Vienna and Salzburg. | uses trombones in Il rotorno di Tobia, Die Sieben Letzten Worte, The Creat ... |
Euripides | ... great tragedians. After a competition Aeschylus is chosen in preference to | |
Roger II of Sicily | The Norman | (1095–1154), employed a Greek Christian known as George of Antioch, who pr ... |
emperor | In the hierarchical social order, the | was at the apex of Han society and government. However the emperor was oft ... |
Aaron Klug | ... cluded James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, | , Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, th ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... trammeled and "pure" nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as | and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult a ... |
Michael Jackson | In June 2009, after the death of pop superstar | , this message appeared to many internet users who were searching Google f ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... all honeymooners went there"), and to Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and | in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a widely seen home movie "Nice and Friendly ... |
Plato | ... ry or anthropology. In a prominent example from Ancient Greece, philosopher | , when asked by a friend for a book to understand Athenian society, referr ... |
Paul Gallico | Prince Philip is a minor character in | 's novel Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Moscow, in which Mrs. Ada Harris, the main ch ... |
Charlie Chaplin's | ... lk Stories, a low budget salute to sentimental silent comedies particularly | The Kid |
Olusegun Obasanjo | ... Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, popularly called 'The Black Scorpion' and later | . Ojukwu fled to the Ivory Coast, leaving his chief of staff, Philip Effio ... |
Hans Sloane | ... The first written record in English of the use of the word 'avocado' was by | in a 1696 index of Jamaican plants. The plant was introduced to Indonesia ... |
Valens | ... ed by two Arian Emperors in the Eastern Empire: his son, Constantius II and | . Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues, and unsu ... |
Cosmas Indicopleustes | ... avels through the northern parts as if hidden by a wall". The Egyptian monk | (547) in his Topographia Christiana, where the Covenant Ark was meant to r ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and | , based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology. Ro ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... s partner of Sir John Gladstones (sic), father of four times Prime Minister | . Gladstone junior was named after Ewart, his godfather |
Marc Scott Zicree | ... lvement caused the show to "jump the shark", despite new executive producer | 's decision to restore Tracy Tormé's original "alternate history" premise ... |
Albert Einstein | ... 998, and others have been produced for the birthdays of notable people like | , historical events like the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary an ... |
Tiësto | ... released in early July 2009. Nelly Furtado also made a guest appearance on | 's single "Who Wants to Be Alone" on his new album Kaleidoscope. Furtado s ... |
Aristophanes | ... end for a book to understand Athenian society, referred him to the plays of | |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... House, the Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought and won by the Confederates. | sent Union General Frederick Steele to Brownsville to patrol the Mexican-A ... |
Flora Tristan | ... gely in France and Tahiti. Based on the biography of former social reformer | , it demonstrates how Flora and Paul Gauguin were unable to find paradise, ... |
Julian the Apostate | ... times re-establish paganism into the seat of the Emperor (see Arbogast and | ). Arians and Meletians soon regained nearly all of the rights they had lo ... |
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 ... |
Frederic Bartlett | Not only Sassoon, but his patients as a whole, loved him and his colleague | wrote of hi |
Bette Davis | In 1942, he directed two more hits, In This Our Life (1942), starring | , and Across the Pacific, another thriller starring Humphrey Bogart |
Speaker of the House | ... nts are three members of the U.S. House of Representatives appointed by the | ; three members of the Senate, appointed by the President pro tempore of t ... |
Adolf Hitler | In 1945, | ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide s ... |
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg | ... wn in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named after Prince | . The population was 107 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH– ... |
Owain Lawgoch | ... n 1372 the island was invaded by Aragonese mercenaries under the command of | (remembered as Yvon de Galles), who was in the pay of the French king. Law ... |
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 ... |
Louis XIII | ... dua (where he attended Cesare Cremonini's lessons), and became physician to | |
Tom Clancy | Prince Philip is a minor character in | 's novel Patriot Games |
the Speaker | ... voked an interruption by future Prime Minister John McEwen, who was told by | that maiden speeches are traditionally heard in silence. Whitlam responded ... |
Bud Selig | ... ged again. Despite large fan support for overturning the call, commissioner | let the call stand, but said he would look into expanding instant replay f ... |
Enzo Tortora | ... in reductions in jail time. A famous case regarded the popular TV anchorman | , who was falsely accused of cocaine trafficking and Camorra membership by ... |
Aristophanes | A third descent by Dionysus to Hades is invented by | in his comedy The Frogs. Dionysus, as patron of the Athenian dramatic fest ... |
Philip Effiong | ... segun Obasanjo. Ojukwu fled to the Ivory Coast, leaving his chief of staff, | , to act as the "officer administering the government". Effiong called for ... |
George W. Bush | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while John Kerry won 46% o ... |
Matt Selman | ... the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. The writer of the episode | was nominated for a |
Gabriel García Márquez | Also, In the short story "La Santa," by Nobel Prize | a character is named after Zavattini. In the story, the character is a tea ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and | (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the kingdom of Granada, the last ... |
Galileo | ... s and quantum mechanics. Many mathematically inclined scientists, including | , were also musicians |
Sami Shah | ... stani stand-up comedians are Umar Sharif, Shakeel Siddiqui, Kashif Khan and | . Hasb-e-Haal, the weekend comedy show starring Sohail Ahmed, is one of th ... |
Burl Ives | ... hen renamed to Willow Creek, then Starr, before receiving its present name. | was once jailed in Mona for singing "Foggy Foggy Dew", because it was cons ... |
Jeremy Griffith | Australian biologist | has written a number of books on the subject of the human condition includ ... |
Nixon | ... irm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the | and Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then ... |
Quintilian | The word satura as used by | , however, was used to denote only Roman verse satire, a strict genre that ... |
Nonnus | Another myth according to | involves Ampelos, a satyr. Foreseen by Dionysus, the youth was killed in a ... |
John Bidwell | The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by | , a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1843. D ... |
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 ... |
Stendhal | ... d by France, with Balzac and Flaubert in literature and Courbet in painting | ;and Goya were important precursors of Realism in their respective media. ... |
Irvin D. Yalom | The existentialist psychotherapist | has identified what he refers to as the four "givens" or ultimate concerns ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... t recovered by Sauron and sent to Carn Dûm so he could communicate with the | or his Steward, Mordirith. When the player successfully attacks Mordirith, ... |
Lactantius | After his conversion to Christianity, | (245–325) became the tutor to the son of emperor Constantine and a trencha ... |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... ed a visit to Niagara Falls (because "all honeymooners went there"), and to | , Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a wide ... |
Emperor Wen of Wei | ... had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known posthumously as | . This formally ended the Han Dynasty and initiated an age of conflict bet ... |
Catherine Des Roches | ... lection of poems on flea (La Puce de Madame Des Roches, published 1583; see | ) |
Nas | ... y become faster and more ‘complex’”. He cites “members of the Wu-Tang Clan, | , AZ, Big Pun, and Ras Kass, just to name a few” as artists who exemplify ... |
Charles Nisard | ... ted, they contain more faults than those Scaliger has discovered in Cardan. | wrote also that his object seems to be to deny all that Cardan affirms and ... |
Artur Yusupov | ... r 6th–7th places, behind joint winners Andrei Sokolov, Rafael Vaganian, and | , but only four players advanced to matches. This was Spassky's last appea ... |
Charles William Eliot | ... h century descendants include Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and educator | . The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts and Winthrop, Maine are named in hi ... |
Tracy Tormé | The series co-creator, | , has often been critical of the direction the series took in the third se ... |
Bret Harte | ... em as Duluwat Island. A local newspaper editor, who would later be known as | , was forced to leave the Humboldt Bay area after he editorialized his dis ... |
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 ... |
Nevil Shute | ... nate history novels. Prince Philip also appears as a fictional character in | 's novel In the Wet (1952) |
Catherine I of Russia | Elizabeth, the second-oldest surviving daughter of Peter I of Russia and | , was born at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, on 18 December 1709 (O.S.). Her p ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... elieving that anything that could be given a name must refer to a thing and | and others have criticized psychologists for doing just that. A committed ... |
Ford | ... came a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and | administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then as an as ... |
Christopher J. Date | ... model which itself is a precursor to creating or enhancing a database (see | "An Introduction to Database Systems"). There are a number of different ap ... |
Mary Pickford | ... ra Falls (because "all honeymooners went there"), and to Douglas Fairbanks, | , and Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a widely seen home mo ... |
David Peckinpah | ... s often been critical of the direction the series took in the third season. | was brought onto the series in the third season (around the time when Trac ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | ... that would burn without causing an explosion. At the same time, Cornishman | , the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem. Despite his lack ... |
Joseph Justus Scaliger | ... uninterrupted happiness, and by the birth of fifteen children who included | |
Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... the ghosts he saw. Victoria also encountered the ghost of Josette Collins ( | ) when she was looking through the closed-off west wing of Collinwood. Lau ... |
Constantius II | ... himself was succeeded by two Arian Emperors in the Eastern Empire: his son, | and Valens. Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues ... |
Kathie Lee Johnson | ... o"s), and was originally hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey. In 1985, | (who would marry Frank Gifford a year later) became Philbin's co-host. Bue ... |
K'naan | ... tists for Haiti song, in which many Canadian artists came together and sang | 's inspirational song "Wavin' Flag" to raise money for the victims of the ... |
Aristophanes | ... topics it deals with. From the earliest times, at least since the plays of | , the primary topics of literary satire are politics, religion and sex. On ... |
Arthur Adamov | ... mporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and | wove into their plays the existentialist belief that we are absurd beings ... |
Donald Wandrei | ... ng company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, August Derleth and | , takes its name from this city as a tribute |
John Dryden | ... dramatic adaptation of the novel for radio was produced for BBC Radio 4 by | in 2000. An operatic adaptation, The Handmaid's Tale, by Poul Ruders, prem ... |
John Kendrew | ... with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz and | at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was und ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. President | was perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ... |
Barry Took | ... edlock Jr., Coslough Johnson (Arte Johnson's twin brother), Hart Pomerantz, | , Digby Wolfe, |
Aristotle | Around 330 BC, | maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that ... |
Mussolini | ... ri developed into the most important port city of the region. The legacy of | can be seen in the imposing architecture along the seafront |
Fidel Castro | With | assuming control of Cuba in 1959, Cruz and her husband, Pedro Knight, refu ... |
Conrad | ... finished it. He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevenson, Melville and | |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... one of a new breed of A-list directors that included Academy Award winners | and William Friedkin, with whom he formed The Directors Company. The Direc ... |
Delahaye, Gilbert | ... éon - De Haan - Dehaene, Jean-Luc - de Haussy, François-Philippe - Deinze - | - de Merode, Alexandre - Demographics of Belgium - Dender - Denderleeuw - ... |
Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... fulfill his longing and remorse for Josette by transforming Maggie Evans ( | ) into Josette. Her father Sam Evans, and boyfriend Joe Haskell, cannot pr ... |
Martín Adán | ... first literary influences were relatively obscure Peruvian writers such as | , Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and César Moro. As a young writer, he looked to ... |
Ronald D. Moore | Berman informed | and Brannon Braga that Paramount had approved a two-picture deal. Moore an ... |
Yair Lapid | ... u Topaz's entertainment show (In which Naor Zion was discovered) as well as | 's talk show (which had guest appearances by Adi Ashkenazi, Adir Miller an ... |
Mary Austin | ... one of the first outdoor theatres west of the Rockies, was built, with poet | and actor/director Herbert Heron leading the endeavor. Numerous groups inc ... |
Jean Genet | ... t how many contemporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, | , and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the existentialist belief that w ... |
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 ... |
Earl of Cambridge | ... of Henry's fleet for France, and include a real-life incident in which the | and two others plotted to assassinate Henry at Southampton. Henry's clever ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ships with such historical figures as Edward, the Black Prince of Wales and | |
Fujiwara no Teika | ... 首, lit. 100 people, 1 poem). Compiled in the early 13th century by the poet | , this game contains one hundred poems, with each one written by a differe ... |
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 ... |
Carlos Oquendo de Amat | ... ry influences were relatively obscure Peruvian writers such as Martín Adán, | , and César Moro. As a young writer, he looked to these revolutionary nove ... |
Andrew W.K. | ... hinedown and Seether. Acts with more conventional hard rock sounds included | , Beautiful Creatures and Buckcherry, whose breakthrough album 15 (2006) w ... |
Michael Piller | ... producer Maurice Hurley to develop possible story ideas. Executive producer | turned down the opportunity to develop ideas, objecting to what he saw as ... |
Thomas Hobbes | ... that the state of nature does in the classical social contract tradition of | , Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke. The original position figures pro ... |
Louis XIV | ... 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by | |
George Burns | ... hy Stars Come Out at Night". The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, | , Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson an ... |
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 ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | An early German influence came from | , whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout E ... |
Isabella I of Castile | The marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the ki ... |
Eratosthenes | The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by | . Eratosthenes knew that in Syene, in Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead ... |
William Friedkin | ... list directors that included Academy Award winners Francis Ford Coppola and | , with whom he formed The Directors Company. The Directors Company was a g ... |
Bill James | Once asked if he thought Henderson was a future Hall of Famer, statistician | replied, "If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers. |
Todd Jones | ... do Rodney assumed the closer role in spring training, replacing the retired | . Rodney responded with 37 saves in 38 tries, while Bobby Seay, Brandon Ly ... |
Luciano Violante | ... s, instead of a genuine preoccupation of the common citizen's civil rights. | , a politician and former president of the Italian Antimafia Commission, c ... |
John Birmingham | ... p (in his capacity as a World War II naval officer) is a minor character in | 's Axis of Time series of alternate history novels. Prince Philip also app ... |
Brannon Braga | Berman informed Ronald D. Moore and | that Paramount had approved a two-picture deal. Moore and Braga, who were ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/ | |
Alistair Taylor | ... tney and Jane Asher, Pattie Boyd's 16-year-old sister, Paula, Mal Evans and | set off for Athens |
Cyrus the Great | ... uch as the release of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity by Zoroastrian | in 537 BC, and the Biblical account of the Magi visiting the infant Jesus. ... |
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 ... |
Allan Manings | ... ill Richmond, Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jack Wohl, Larry Siegel, John Rappaport, | , Jack Margolis, Bob Howard, John Jay Carsey, Richard Goren (also credited ... |
Nicolas Sarkozy | The head of state is President | of France as represented by Préfet (Prefect) Albert Dupuy (since 10 Januar ... |
Charles XII of Sweden | ... Anna was betrothed to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, nephew of the late King | , Peter's old adversary. Her father had tried to also find a brilliant mat ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... ve been a dominant religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic. | writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the le ... |
Ptolemy | ... m that was used for terrestrial maps in the same way as Marinus of Tyre and | , who were contemporaries |
Marinus of Tyre | ... or coordinate system that was used for terrestrial maps in the same way as | and Ptolemy, who were contemporaries |
Harold Pinter | The 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale was based on a screenplay by | and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It starred Natasha Richardson as Offre ... |
Lou Brock | ... s. His 1,406 career steals is 50% higher than the previous record of 938 by | . Henderson is the all-time stolen base leader for the Oakland A's and pre ... |
Oliver North | ... old different offices. For example, the Sliders find alternate Earths where | , Hillary Clinton, Jocelyn Elders, and even B-movie filmmaker Ed Wood were ... |
Walter Scott | ... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young | . Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as | , Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the ... |
Max Perutz | ... Bridget Fell, with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined | and John Kendrew at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at ... |
Thomas Hobbes | ... he imagery of a savage state of nature of prior political philosophers like | . In the original position, the parties select principles that will determ ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as | , and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/Edward, the Black Prince |
Avvakum | ... in print in 1672, in the published memoirs of the exiled Russian churchman | . This word was then introduced to the English-speaking world by the Dutch ... |
duke of Parma | ... oseph, duc de Vendôme, commander of the French forces in Italy, to whom the | had sent him. That a low-ranking priest was used as envoy was due to the d ... |
Herodotus | ... and the Iron Age in Europe and the Middle East. The ancient Greek historian | states in The Histories of the 5th century BC that Glaucus of Chios "was t ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... 9), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) and | 's Handmaid's Tale (1985) |
Virginia Woolf | ... mic effects and uses simpler spatial shifts. This device is similar to both | 's mixing of different characters' soliloquies and Gustave Flaubert's coun ... |
William Howard Taft | ... er a fire burned much of the town, the name was changed to Taft in honor of | |
President of the United States | ... even B-movie filmmaker Ed Wood were at one time in their respective worlds, | . In the pilot episode, the former cast of The People's Court guest starre ... |
Queen Christina | ... y was sold by the parlement of Paris during the troubles of the Fronde, and | invited Naudé to Stockholm. He was not happy in Sweden, and on Mazarin's a ... |
Parmenides | ... tion credited the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, and | , in the 5th, with recognizing that the Earth is spherical |
August Derleth | ... m House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, | and Donald Wandrei, takes its name from this city as a tribute |
Chris Bearde | ... Jay Carsey, Richard Goren (also credited as Rowby Greeber and Rowby Goren), | (credited as Chris Beard), Chet Dowling, David Panich, Marc London, Paul K ... |
Ed Wood | ... e Oliver North, Hillary Clinton, Jocelyn Elders, and even B-movie filmmaker | were at one time in their respective worlds, President of the United State ... |
Rowby Goren | ... Howard, John Jay Carsey, Richard Goren (also credited as Rowby Greeber and | ), Chris Bearde (credited as Chris Beard), Chet Dowling, David Panich, Mar ... |
Eugène Ionesco | ... bsurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, | , Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the existentialist b ... |
Oliver Stone | ... shot for the film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by | , with Glen Rock having had 11 residents who were killed in the September ... |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... al community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of | 's novel Anne of Green Gables, following the adventures of Anne Shirley, a ... |
Nicander | ... n attacks Artemis while hunting on Chios, and the Scorpion kills him there. | , in his Theriaca, has the scorpion of ordinary size and hiding under a sm ... |
Steve Symms | ... had occurred since the purchase requirement was dropped. When Helms' ally, | of Idaho, proposed to reinstitute the purchase requirement, the motion was ... |
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 ... |
Elihu Thomson | ... ring the final decades of the 19th century, with the first patents going to | in 1885, who produced further advances over the next 15 years. Thermite we ... |
Michael Drayton | ... ate doth stand With towns of high'st regard the fourth of all the land", as | noted in Poly-Olbion (1612). The wealth generated by the wool trade throug ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... around topsy-turvy under the Earth to be absurd. But by the 1st century AD, | was in a position to claim that everyone agrees on the spherical shape of ... |
Aragorn | ... m Saruman's corpse instead of Wormtongue throwing it from the tower window. | also reveals himself to Sauron after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in ... |
Lynn Garrison | In 1966 Bradbury helped | create AVIAN, a specialist aviation magazine. For the first issue Bradbury ... |
Bob Dole | ... ement for food stamps. With that position he ran afoul of fellow Republican | , who claimed that the purchase requirement had contributed to fraud and a ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... looked abroad for literary inspiration. Two French figures, existentialist | and novelist Gustave Flaubert, influenced both his technique and style. Sa ... |
Pentheus | ... y, Dionysus returns to his birthplace, Thebes, which is ruled by his cousin | . Dionysus wants to exact revenge on Pentheus and the women of Thebes (his ... |
Dario Fo | ... but is not really firing at the target. Nobel laureate satirical playwright | pointed out the difference between satire and teasing (sfottò). Teasing is ... |
Matt Groening | The Simpsons creator | named Nelson after the wrestling hold of the same name. Cast member Nancy ... |
Gustave Flaubert | ... spiration. Two French figures, existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and novelist | , influenced both his technique and style. Sartre's influence is most prev ... |
Walter V. Robinson | ... ases* Bernard Cardinal Law* Roger Cardinal Mahony;Anti-abuse* Ferns Report* | * Sex Crimes and the Vatican (Panorama documentary Episode)* Survivors Net ... |
Leonard Nimoy | ... in "Invasive Procedures", and later joined the cast of as the Vulcan Tuvok. | and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as Spock and McCoy, w ... |
Sauron | Aragorn also reveals himself to | after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in the extended version of The Lor ... |
H. P. Lovecraft | ... nal city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by | and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu ... |
James Agee | ... the film achieved widespread public and critical acclaim. Hollywood writer | called it "one of the most beautiful and visually alive moves I have ever ... |
Viktor Korchnoi | ... , by 8½–6½, to qualify for the final. But at Belgrade 1977, Spassky lost to | , by (+4 −7 =7) |
Mary Somerville | ... t in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's anonymous 1834 review of | 's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly Re ... |
Peter Wright | | , in his book Spycatcher, claimed that in 1967 Mountbatten attended a priv ... |
Philip V | ... n furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain, | . Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appoi ... |
Euripides | | composed a tragedy about the destructive nature of Dionysus in The Bacchae ... |
Hesiod | ... r to have had diverse kinds of plough from the earliest historical records. | advised the farmer to have always two ploughs, so that if one broke the ot ... |
Max Eastman | ... tween satire and grotesque on one side, and jest with teasing on the other. | defined the spectrum of satire in terms of "degrees of biting," as ranging ... |
William Whewell | English philosopher and historian of science | coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ... |
Samuel Daniel's | ... en consulted, and scholars have supposed that Shakespeare was familiar with | poem on the civil wars |
Aratus | ... ed either Artemis or the Hyperborean maiden Opis in her band of huntresses. | 's brief description, in his Astronomy, conflates the elements of the myth ... |
Emperor Wu | ... state decisions and shaping government policy. However, the Han court under | gave Confucianism exclusive patronage. He abolished all academic chairs or ... |
César Moro | ... y obscure Peruvian writers such as Martín Adán, Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and | . As a young writer, he looked to these revolutionary novelists in search ... |
William Friedkin | Part of the film Bug (2007) directed by | , starring Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon and Harry Connick, Jr., was filmed ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... of nature does in the classical social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, | , and John Locke. The original position figures prominently in his book, A ... |
Thomas Chatterton | ... intained that invention and imagination were the chief qualities of a poet. | is generally considered to be the first Romantic poet in English. The Scot ... |
Lubomir Kavalek | ... hibition match over Robert Hübner at Solingen, 1977 by 3½–2½, then defeated | , also at Solingen, by 4/6 in another exhibition match. His next Candidate ... |
Brian Helgeland | ... s Tale is a 2001 American adventure film written, directed, and produced by | . The film stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Ru ... |
Lucretius | ... zone (equator) and the ocean. This took a strong hold on the medieval mind. | (1st. c. BC) opposed the concept of a spherical Earth, because he consider ... |
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ... eration of Expellees staunchly defending the higher figure. The writings of | and Rudolph Rummel continue to remain influential in the English speaking ... |
François Truffaut | ... red in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), an adaptation of Bradbury's novel directed by | |
Harold Budd | Ambient composer | (raised in the desert town of Victorville, CA) recites his "Poem: Distant ... |
Akmal Saleh | ... best stand-up comedians from around the world with the likes of Greg Fleet, | , Gina Yashere and Jeff Green in sold-out performances. Local stand-up com ... |
José María Arguedas | ... of land and rural life made famous by Peru's foremost novelist at the time, | . Vargas Llosa wrote of Arguedas's work that it was "an example of old-fas ... |
Orson Welles | ... (1946), although he was not credited. The film was directed and produced by | , who also acted the part of a Nazi war criminal who manages to settle in ... |
Jean Gerson | ... of Cardinal Richelieu he began a controversy with the Benedictines, denying | 's authorship of De Imitatione Christi. Richelieu intended to make Naudé h ... |
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 ... |
Bill Monroe | ... s a permanent panelist. He retired on November 9, 1975, and was replaced by | , who stepped down on June 2, 1984 |
James Macpherson | ... ally considered to be the first Romantic poet in English. The Scottish poet | influenced the early development of Romanticism with the international suc ... |
Robert Nozick | In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, | argues that, while the original position may be the just starting point, a ... |
Averroes | ... ert was received at Paris as an authority equal to Aristotle, Avicenna, and | , leading Bacon to proclaim that "never in the world [had] such monstrosit ... |
Cornelius Gallus | ... lection of melodramatic plots drawn up by an Alexandrian poet for the Roman | to make into Latin verse. It describes Orion as slaying the wild beasts of ... |
William Everson | ... indbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included | , Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz and Edward Abbey |
Edgar Rice Burroughs | ... , reading such authors as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and his favorite author, | who wrote novels such as Tarzan of the Apes and The Warlord of Mars. He lo ... |
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 ... |
Paul Volcker | ... ree year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under | , initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing ... |
Ivan VI | ... fter the death of Empress Anna, the regency of Anna Leopoldovna with infant | was marked by high taxes and economic problems. Such a course of events co ... |
Bill Collins | ... was mediocre. Individual performances continued to receive praise; in 1987, | analyzed The Letter (1940), and described her performance as "a brilliant, ... |
William Faulkner | ... s, and arguably the most influential on his writing career, is the American | . Vargas Llosa considers Faulkner "the writer who perfected the methods of ... |
Emilio Estevez | ... , with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Harry Dean Stanton and | |
Jamling Tenzing Norgay | ... e of commercialization of Mount Everest is a frequent subject of criticism. | , the son of Tenzing Norgay, said in a 2003 interview that his late father ... |
Vaballathus | ... on bread. In the beginning, Aurelian had been recognized as Emperor, while | , the son of Zenobia, hold the title of rex and imperator ("king" and "sup ... |
Kazuo Ishiguro | ... me; established by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include | and Ian McEwan. The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre ... |
Alhazen | ... and lenses. His research in optics was primarily oriented by the legacy of | through a Latin translation of the latter's monumental Kitab al-manazir (D ... |
Naresuan | ... s vassal king at Ayutthaya. Thai independence was restored by his son, King | (1590–1605), who turned on the Burmese and by 1600 had driven them from th ... |
Emilio Estevez | Otto Maddox ( | ), a young punk rocker living in Los Angeles, gets fired from his boring j ... |
Imru Haile Selassie | ... h fleeing before an invading force. Haile Selassie appointed his cousin Ras | as Prince Regent in his absence, departing with his family for Djibouti on ... |
David | ... oleon's Château de Malmaison was one of the earliest. Girodet's old teacher | was puzzled and disappointed by his pupil's direction, saying: "Either Gir ... |
François Truffaut | ... able directors known for their existentialist films include Ingmar Bergman, | , Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick ... |
Aegidius | In 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General | , who was based in Soissons, he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to exten ... |
Hugo Pratt | ... , a complex sailor-adventurer. It was created by Italian comic book creator | in 1967. The Corto Maltese series has been translated into numerous langua ... |
Sean Penn | In 1996, she married | and changed her name to Robin Wright Penn. The same year, she starred in t ... |
Angus Wilson | ... own for its creative writing programme; established by Malcolm Bradbury and | , its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan. The university camp ... |
Pentheus | ... troduction on account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g. | or Lycurgus) |
Merovech | He succeeded his father | as king, traditionally in 457 or 458 (?). With his Frankish warband he was ... |
Jan Timman | ... ed his place. Spassky won an exhibition match with rising Dutch grandmaster | at Amsterdam 1977 by 4–2. He triumphed narrowly in extra games in his firs ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's | "—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on" |
Peter McCarthy | ... 1984 cult film directed by Alex Cox. It was produced by Jonathan Wacks and | , with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Harry Dean Stanton an ... |
Victor Davis Hanson | ... r been out of print and has been adapted for film four times. The historian | has argued that the novel drew from Wallace's life, particularly his exper ... |
Ingmar Bergman | ... t qualities. Notable directors known for their existentialist films include | , François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosa ... |
Jules Verne | ... Carnegie library in Waukegan, Illinois, reading such authors as H.G. Wells, | , and his favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs who wrote novels such as T ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... l oil reserves were created to ease any future short term shocks. President | started phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Depa ... |
Tom Robbins | Author | is a long-time resident of La Conner. Many of his books, most notably Anot ... |
Frederick II | ... tricities and policies, including a great admiration for the Prussian king, | , alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated. Besides, Peter ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... arty. While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980, | had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976, Gerald ... |
Jean-Luc Godard | ... n for their existentialist films include Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, | , Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick ... |
Robert Grosseteste | ... ediated through the influence that this Muslim scholar had on the optics of | . Moreover, Bacon's investigations of the properties of the magnifying gla ... |
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 ... |
Naomi Klein | ... emitism. In a 2002 op-ed, alter-globalisation activist and critic of Israel | criticised Indymedia for perpetuating conspiracy theories about the Jews, ... |
Sean Penn | In 1989, Wright became involved with actor | following his divorce from Madonna. Their daughter Dylan Frances Penn was ... |
Bill Clinton | ... nies included commencement speakers former Presidents George H. W. Bush and | , who commended the students for their desire to return to Tulane and serv ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 2006 state governor election, | got just over 62% of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides go ... |
Nawal El Saadawi | In 1980 and 1982 feminist physicians | and Asma El Dareer wrote about FGM as a dangerous practice intended to con ... |
Robert Hübner | Spassky won an exhibition match over | at Solingen, 1977 by 3½–2½, then defeated Lubomir Kavalek, also at Solinge ... |
Anschutz Entertainment Group | ... arena which opened in late 2008. It is owned by Ontario, but is operated by | . It is an 11,000-seat multi-purpose arena, and is home to the Ontario Rei ... |
Albert Einstein | In August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared and | signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the pr ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... be a viable career, and he focused on it. His self-esteem was enhanced when | , editor of the popular magazine, American Mercury, bought two of his stor ... |
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 ... |
Ma Ying-jeou | ... entitled a "Celebration Drill" and not a traditional military parade. Since | became president, one parade has been held on the centenary celebrations o ... |
Edward Abbey | ... ater visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz and | |
Peter Jackson | In | 's The Lord of the Rings films, the palantíri of Minas Ithil, Orthanc, and ... |
Tiberius | ... resort. Cicero compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both | and Domitian resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained importa ... |
Minos | ... ould be blinded. One source tells the same story but converts Oenopion into | of Crete. It adds that an oracle told Orion that his sight could be restor ... |
Napoleon | ... s the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall of | in 1814. The Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty was restored on the throne of Tusca ... |
Gerald Ford | ... W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976, | had severely criticized Reagan's proposal to turn back a large part of the ... |
Kurt Waldheim | ... alition with the FPÖ under the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986, | was elected president amid considerable national and international protest ... |
Tomé Pires | ... ucts from the inland jungle such as sapan(Bridge) woods, deerskin and rice. | , a Portuguese voyager, mentioned in the sixteenth century that Ayutthaya, ... |
Apollonius of Tyana | ... he spared Tyana after having a vision of the great 1st-century philosopher | , whom he respected greatly, in a dream |
William Lyon Mackenzie | ... led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led by | , Lord Durham was appointed governor general of British North America and ... |
Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
Ian McEwan | ... Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and | . The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art ... |
Don Burke | ... shows: Mike Moore appeared on fictitious episodes of Burke's Backyard with | , Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman. Stuart ... |
Robert Bly | ... Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included William Everson, | , Czesław Miłosz and Edward Abbey |
Joe Shell | ... son, Clayton James, and Barbara Straker James have close ties to La Conner. | (born in La Conner in 1918) is a former member and floor leader of the Cal ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... 006, graduation ceremonies included commencement speakers former Presidents | and Bill Clinton, who commended the students for their desire to return to ... |
Ed Harris | ... upporting role in the television film Empire Falls as Grace Roby, mother of | 's character Miles Roby. Wright received her third Screen Actors Guild Awa ... |
Mike Ilitch | ... in franchise history. Following the 1992 season, the franchise was sold to | , the President and CEO of Little Caesars Pizza who also owns the Detroit ... |
David McWilliams | ... lly been positive from some economic commentators including Eddie Hobbs and | who have praised the proposals stating that they have considerable potenti ... |
Czesław Miłosz | ... Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, | and Edward Abbey |
Chen Shui-bian | ... i City) killing both pilots. The parade was not held again until 1975. When | became President, the parade was not held until 2007 and then it was entit ... |
Sidney Poitier | ... a and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, | and Harry Belafonte have cited his lead film roles as being the first to d ... |
Rex Hunt | ... e Moore appeared on fictitious episodes of Burke's Backyard with Don Burke, | 's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman. Stuart Littlemore ... |
Umberto II | ... society. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king | , was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a referendum to ... |
Al Smith | ... rding in 1920; he had to be silent in the 1928 campaign although he favored | , a Democrat. In 1929, he lost the election for mayor to incumbent Democra ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ew film industry and motion pictures, but as a spectator only. To Huston, " | was a god. |
Charles Darwin | ... was the basis of a lifelong friendship between Rivers and the genial son of | |
Tiberius | ... y mentioned) denounced the magistratus and mancipes of the Italian roads to | . He pursued them and their families with fines and imprisonment for 18 ye ... |
Midas | ... ied him to their king (alternatively, he passed out in Midas' rose garden). | recognized him, and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days ... |
Lucian | | includes a picture with Orion in a rhetorical description of an ideal buil ... |
Stephen J. Cannell | ... April 27, 1982 in Santa Barbara, California. Sarah was the sister-in-law of | and had previously been married to Randy Stonehill from 1975–1980. They fi ... |
Emperor Zhang's | | (r. 75–88 CE) reign came to be viewed by later Eastern Han scholars as the ... |
Dan Duchaine | ... published in magazines at one point or another. Popular bodybuilding writer | even suggested that Mentzer was drinking his own urine at the time. Mentze ... |
Martha Rountree | ... on debut on November 6, 1947. It has been hosted by 11 moderators, first by | . The current host is , who assumed the role in December 2008. The show go ... |
Dungal | ... rs discussed Macrobius's view of the antipodes. One of them, the Irish monk | , asserted that the tropical gap between our habitable region and the othe ... |
George W. Bush | In the 2004 presidential election John Kerry won 52% of the vote, whereas | won 46% of the vote. In the 2006 state governor election, Arnold Schwarzen ... |
Governor Isaac I. Stevens | Believed to be named after | , Lake Stevens was first settled in 1886 on a homestead along the east sho ... |
Simone de Beauvoir | French philosopher | provided a Marxist solution and an existentialist view on many of the ques ... |
Odoacer | ... raiders under the command of a certain Adovacrius (perhaps, but not surely | ) reached Angers but Childeric arrived the next day and a battle ensued. C ... |
William Feller | ... uld return one day so that he could learn all of the math necessary to read | 's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, An Introduction to Pr ... |
Julius Caesar | ... Among those who performed this duty in connection with particular roads was | , who became curator (67 BC) of the Via Appia, and spent his own money lib ... |
Kanishka | ... untains to the Ganges river valley in India. Early in the 2nd century under | , the most powerful of the Kushan rulers, the empire reached its greatest ... |
Emperor of Ethiopia | ... Ethiopia an Italian province. Victor Emanuel III was proclaimed as the new | . However, on the previous day, the Ethiopian exiles had left Djibouti abo ... |
Empress Dowager Dou | ... he aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE), Emperor He (r. 88–105 CE) had | (d. 97 CE) put under house arrest and her clan stripped of power. This was ... |
Ernest Rutherford | Radiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented by | as a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the cent ... |
Athamas | ... rge of Hermes. One version of the story is that Hermes took the boy to King | and his wife Ino, Dionysus' aunt. Hermes bade the couple raise the boy as ... |
Ramathibodi II | ... e sent a diplomatic mission headed by Duarte Fernandes to the court of King | of Ayutthaya. Having established amicable relations between the kingdom of ... |
John McCain | ... election, however, Barack Obama won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while | only won 29% of the vote. Overall, Agoura Hills is perhaps the most libera ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... of other authors that he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, | , and Jean-Paul Sartre. The main goals of his non-fiction works are to ack ... |
Akira Kurosawa | ... Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, | , Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes An ... |
David Starkey | ... ibuted to the perception that he is "a cantankerous old sod". The historian | has described him as a kind of " H.R.H Victor Meldrew". For example, in Ma ... |
Fëanor | When the Elves came to Valinor, the Noldor became the students of Aulë. | was his greatest pupil, and from him learned to make gems through craftsma ... |
emperor Henry VI | ... hout the Middle Ages; the Reichsapfel was used in 1191 at the coronation of | . However the word 'orbis' means 'circle' and there is no record of a glob ... |
Chen Cheng | ... n October 10, 1949 was the first public military parade held in Taiwan with | serving as the Grand Review Officer. The 1964 National Day parade was stru ... |
Nadir Shah | The five prominent Musahiban brothers included | , the eldest, who had been Amānullāh's minister of war. They were permitte ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... árd prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President | of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. B ... |
Pierre Gassendi | The friend of Gui Patin, of | and all the liberal thinkers of his time, Naudé was no mere bookworm; his ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... he subject among prominent mountaineers are strictly negative. For example, | , who went on record saying that he hasn't liked "the commercialization of ... |
Jordi Pujol | ... th Spanish. New elections under this statute gave the Catalan presidency to | , a position he would hold until 2003. During this time he also led Conver ... |
Sam Newman | ... ckyard with Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with | . Stuart Littlemore, who at the time was hosting the media commentary show ... |
Albert Camus | ... ry criticisms of other authors that he has admired, such as García Márquez, | , Ernest Hemingway, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The main goals of his non-fictio ... |
Emperor He | ... imperial consort clans. With the aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE), | (r. 88–105 CE) had Empress Dowager Dou (d. 97 CE) put under house arrest a ... |
Orson Welles | Returning to journalism, Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with | while interviewing him on the set of Mike Nichols's Catch-22 (1970). Bogda ... |
Domitian | ... ro compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both Tiberius and | resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained important artistic w ... |
Stuart Littlemore | ... Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman. | , who at the time was hosting the media commentary show Media Watch, appea ... |
Barack Obama | ... nt Phil Angelides got over 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, however, | won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while John McCain only won 29% of the ... |
Louis XV | ... he bogus Lopukhina Conspiracy and other attempts of Frederick the Great and | to get rid of Bestuzhev (making the Russian court the centre of a tangle o ... |
George Brett | ... batting average with a mark of .325, losing out to the Kansas City Royals' | on the final day of the season. Henderson had a remarkably consistent seas ... |
George W. Bush | ... 4, Democrat John Kerry received over 70 percent of the vote, and Republican | received just over a quarter |
Yasser Arafat | ... i, and Ahad Olma, fled to the Palestinian National Authority. Israel placed | under siege in the Ramallah compound to force the handing over of the susp ... |
William Wyler | ... arred his father, Walter Huston. In addition, House Divided was directed by | , who gave Huston his first real "inside view" of the filmmaking process d ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, and | . The main goals of his non-fiction works are to acknowledge the influence ... |
Julius Caesar | ... n Aurelian's time. (It had already been damaged by fire during the visit of | to Alexandria. |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... d writer throughout his youth who was greatly influenced by the writings of | . Bradbury was especially impressed with Poe's ability to draw readers int ... |
Dave Dombrowski | In late 2001, | , former general manager of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins ... |
Germanicus | ... Orion a horse. Fontenrose, Orion, p. 26–27, note 9, citing the scholion to | ' translation of Aratus, line 331 (p 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so l ... |
Richard Nixon | ... e favored stimulus resulting in an expansion of the money supply. President | 's wage and price controls were abandoned. The federal oil reserves were c ... |
Empress Dowager Yan | ... exiled them and forced many to commit suicide. After An's death, his wife, | (d. 126 CE) placed the child Marquess of Beixiang on the throne in an atte ... |
Frederick the Great | ... tain and Russia. Elizabeth sided against Prussia over a personal dislike of | . She wanted him reduced within proper limits, so that he might no longer ... |
Finarfin | ... Arda. On the Flight of the Noldor, the Noldor who returned to Valinor under | named themselves the Aulendur, Followers of Aulë |
Amānullāh Khān | | reigned in Afghanistan from 1919, achieving full independence from the Bri ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... ing of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of | , but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, show ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... on one day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 tons (73 tonnes) of bombs. | , the Supreme Allied Commander, said of the Typhoons; "The chief credit in ... |
Frederick II | ... s, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Swabian Castle built for | , which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat ... |
Hadrian | ... quatuorviri among them. The latter were certainly still in existence under | (117-138 AD). Augustus abolished the duoviri, no doubt because the time ha ... |
Jon Krakauer | The aftermath of the 1996 disaster further intensified the debate. | 's Into Thin Air (1997) expressed the author's personal criticisms of the ... |
Terrence Malick | ... François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, | , Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody ... |
Jack London | ... er. He also knows and meets various real-life historical figures, including | , Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick R ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... influences on the African Independence movements and his work was cited by | and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, ... |
Emperor An | When Empress Dowager Deng died, | (r. 106–125 CE) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs Li Run (李閏 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... d the Congressional don't ask, don't tell law, signed into law by President | in 1993, and in force until 2011, which forbade homosexuals serving in the ... |
Herodotus | According to | |
Narai | Foreigners were cordially welcomed at the court of | (1657–1688), a ruler with a cosmopolitan outlook who was nonetheless wary ... |
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 |
Edward, the Black Prince of Wales | ... winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as | and Geoffrey Chaucer |
Paul Harvey | Reaganomics (; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to | ) refers to the economic policies promoted by the U.S. President Ronald Re ... |
Robert Grosseteste | ... astrology, and the calendar. Bacon often mentioned his debt to the work of | and Adam Marsh, as well as to other lesser figures. He was clearly not an ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... . In the 1980 Mr. Olympia he placed fourth (in a tie with Boyer Coe) behind | , Chris Dickerson and Frank Zane. He retired from competitive bodybuilding ... |
Anatoly Karpov | ... ico by 4½–1½ (+3 =3); he then lost the semifinal match to the up-and-coming | in Leningrad, despite winning the first game, (+1 −4 =6). Karpov had publi ... |
Bellerophon | Parnassus was also the home of Pegasus, the winged horse of | |
Ronald Reagan | ... Paul Harvey) refers to the economic policies promoted by the U.S. President | during the 1980s, also known as supply-side economics, or pejoratively as ... |
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James Bond | Connery is best known for portraying the character | , starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six "official" Eon p ... |
Menippus of Gadara | The oldest form of satire still in use is the Menippean satire by | . His own writings are lost. Examples from his admirers and imitators mix ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... stablished in 1906. Kermit was named for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President | , and incorporated in 1909 |
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... k (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and | |
Haydn | ... d biographies of several prominent figures of his time, including Napoleon, | , Mozart, Rossini and Metastasio |
Constantine | ... o Christianity, Lactantius (245–325) became the tutor to the son of emperor | and a trenchant critic of all pagan philosophy. In Book III of The Divine ... |
Jorge Luis Borges | ... erican writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, | , Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. In his book The New Novel in ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... and cultural celebrities were guests of the Jeffers family. Among them were | , Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gers ... |
Charles VIII | ... Medici in 1492, he was succeeded by his son Piero II. When the French king | invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army. But when he rea ... |
Lactantius | ... et dominus natus ("God and born ruler"), also later adopted by Diocletian. | argued that Aurelian would have outlawed all the other gods if he had had ... |
Forrest J Ackerman | ... ublish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by | to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met a ... |
Frederick William III of Prussia | ... of 26, Bessel was appointed director of the Königsberg Observatory by King | . There he published tables of atmospheric refraction based on Bradley's o ... |
Amanda Keller | ... e Desert Angel; Cheryl Kernot in We Ain't Got Dames (series 1); Bert Newton | ;and Anne Fulwood in This Night of Nights (series 1); Glenn Ridge in Add S ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... us personality quirks. Notable re-occurring figures included Prime Minister | (Abbott), who could barely speak a single sentence of English without comm ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... nows and meets various real-life historical figures, including Jack London, | , Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conra ... |
Manwë | ... nyar. He dwells with them on the slopes of Taniquetil, beneath the halls of | |
Anna Komnene | ... rence and exclusion, (the word barbarian was used by 12th century historian | to describe non-Greek speakers), a sense of Greek identity and common sens ... |
Julio Cortázar | ... a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, | , Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. In his boo ... |
Steve Wright | ... a fact under the heading "factoid" during newscasts. BBC Radio 2 presenter | uses factoids extensively on his show |
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 ... |
Trajan | ... ptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, | , and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The ... |
Callimachus | ... ntly used in several Greek and Roman cults, and variants of it are found in | and Nonnus, who refer to this Dionysus with the title Zagreus, and also in ... |
Louis XV | Simultaneously, Elizabeth caused to be conveyed to | a confidential letter in which she proposed the signature of a new treaty ... |
Lynn Thorndike | ... ubleday and Broadway Books. In strongly worded terms, historians of science | and George Sarton have dismissed these claims as unsupported |
Jezebel | ... ripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as | , The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Ser ... |
Johnny Cash | ... abilly was underlined by the success of songs like "Folsom Prison Blues" by | , "Blue Suede Shoes" by Perkins and "Heartbreak Hotel" by Presley. For a f ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... hnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford and | tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventually appointed on ... |
Ivan VI | ... posed assassination. Other potential rival claimants to the throne existed: | (1740–1764), in closed confinement at Schlüsselburg, in Lake Ladoga, from ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | ... 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so late that it uses caballus for "horse". | cites a lost Latin writer for the story that Orion and Candiope were son a ... |
Phetracha | ... bles and Buddhist clergy. When word spread that Narai was dying, a general, | , killed the designated heir, a Christian, and had Phaulkon put to death a ... |
Consort Deng Mengnü | ... 159 CE), brother of Empress Liang Na (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of | (later empress) (d. 165 CE) killed after Deng Mengnü resisted Liang Ji's a ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ssante and Antonio Banderas in the film The Mambo Kings. In 1994, President | awarded Cruz the National Medal of Arts. In 2001, she recorded a new album ... |
Clara Barton | ... iven by wars, such as in the case of the American Civil War, which prompted | to organize the American Red Cross. Today, there are several groups that p ... |
Photius | In 858, | , a scholar who taught philosophy and lectured at the University of Consta ... |
Stephen D. Lee | ... turgis, after some doubts and trepidation, departed Memphis on June 1. Gen. | , alerted of Sturgis's movement, warned Forrest. Lee had also planned a re ... |
Kermit Roosevelt | ... o "Kermit" when a post office was established in 1906. Kermit was named for | , son of President Theodore Roosevelt, and incorporated in 1909 |
Stephen Colbert | ... as served as the alma mater for a number of fictional characters, including | 's fictional persona, Michael Corleone of The Godfather, Meredith Grey of ... |
Alfonso XII | ... pos in Sagunto led to a restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in the person of | . A period of political stability, of repression of the workers movement, ... |
Robert Hunter | ... s contributed to two Grateful Dead tribute albums and covered Jerry Garcia/ | tunes such as "Ship of Fools", "Friend of the Devil", "It Must Have Been t ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of | ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ... |
Commodus | ... d in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of | , who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor |
Domitian | ... the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, | , Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emér ... |
Octavio Paz | ... s considered a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as | , Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fue ... |
Heath | Into | 's Downing Street came the Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS), and they we ... |
Basil I | ... tinople but deposed by a Council of Constantinople called in 869 by Emperor | the Macedonian and Pope Adrian II. Called in 879, this Greek Fourth Counci ... |
Sheila Copps | ... Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy | (Goy), the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard, the dopey and overly-image consciou ... |
Emil Petaja | ... downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, | , Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His f ... |
Maria Theresa | ===Forced assimilation===In the Habsburg Monarchy under | (1740–1780), a series of decrees tried to force the Romanies to permanentl ... |
Finarfin | ... cond wife of Finwë (the king of the Noldor) and the mother of Fingolfin and | , the latter of whom founded the only house of Noldorin Elves to sport gol ... |
William Safire | ... -language style and usage guides recommend against its use. Language expert | in his On Language column advocated the use of the word factlet to express ... |
George W. Bush | ... the 1990s expansion that began with George H.W. Bush in 1991 and ended with | in 2001. This economic expansion continued through the Clinton administrat ... |
Shapur I | ... inor, preparing another campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings | (272) and Hormizd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a ... |
Mark Taimanov | ... won convincingly by Fischer, and the second a close battle. Before Spassky, | , Larsen, and Petrosian, had lost convincingly to Fischer, but Spassky mai ... |
Archestratus | ... the ancient world would be missing, and many ancient Greek authors such as | would be almost entirely unknown. Book XIII, for example, is an important ... |
James Bond | NAC executive director Dennis Wend says that he was inspired by a | film when producing the SmarTrucks |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | ... ebrities were guests of the Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, | , Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. ... |
Theodoric the Great | #Audofleda (467 – 511). Queen of the Ostrogoths. Wife of | #Lanthilde (468 – ¿¿??) |
Carlos Fuentes | ... Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and | . In his book The New Novel in Latin America (La Nueva Novela), Fuentes of ... |
Peter of Holstein-Gottorp | ... find a legitimate heir to secure the Romanov dynasty. She chose her nephew, | . Elizabeth was only too aware that the deposed Ivan VI, whom she had impr ... |
Etchegoyen | As summarised by | , "Reversible perspective is an extreme case of rigidity of thought...As B ... |
Quintillus | ... support of some senators, probably those who had supported the election of | , and thus had something to fear from Aurelian |
Taksin | One general, Phraya | , former governor of Taak, began the reunification effort. He gathered for ... |
Glenn Ridge | ... t Newton; Amanda Keller and Anne Fulwood in This Night of Nights (series 1) | ;in Add Sex and Stir and Office Mole (series 2); Glenn Robbins and Molly M ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... mainstream media throughout the world covered the match. Secretary of State | spoke with Fischer urging him to play the match, and chess was at its apex ... |
Statius | ... nd became known as the son of Neptune. His son begat the Dryas mentioned in | |
Clovis I | # | (466 – 511) |
Alexander the Great | ... achines and (what we today call) submarines, attributing their first use to | |
Hermann Hesse | ... ious real-life historical figures, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, | , Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, ... |
Ladislaus the Posthumous | ... thus resorted to more subtle means. He held his second cousin once removed | , the ruler of the Archduchy of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, (born in 144 ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... fton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers | , Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Will ... |
Sauron | 2. | the Cruel: Sauron (‘The Abhorred’) is Morgoth’s chief lieutenant. He was a ... |
Gabriel García Márquez | ... gside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, | and Carlos Fuentes. In his book The New Novel in Latin America (La Nueva N ... |
Konstantin Chernenko | ... wrestling match between then-President Ronald Reagan and then-Soviet leader | for the benefit of group members and an eagerly belligerent assembly of re ... |
Alaungpaya | ... a starting around 1715. But a greater threat came from Burma, where the new | dynasty had subdued the Shan states |
Haydn | ... on the Romantic movement generally. In 1810 E.T.A. Hoffmann called Mozart, | and Beethoven the three "Romantic Composers", and Ludwig Spohr used the te ... |
Norman Mailer | Factoid was coined by | in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer described a factoid as "fa ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ey & Creme-directed video depicted a wrestling match between then-President | and then-Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko for the benefit of group membe ... |
Septimius Severus | ... storers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and | were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The Itinerary of Antoninus, ... |
Saint Augustine | ... ad and admired and were among those printed first in the fifteenth century. | (354–430) took a more cautious approach in arguing against assuming that p ... |
Anatoli Boukreev | Guide | 's decision not to use bottled oxygen was sharply criticized by Jon Krakau ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... r 1991, while serving as Minister without Portfolio, he called US President | an "anti-Semite." In 1997 he called US Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk ... |
Anne Fulwood | ... ryl Kernot in We Ain't Got Dames (series 1); Bert Newton; Amanda Keller and | in This Night of Nights (series 1); Glenn Ridge in Add Sex and Stir and Of ... |
Pliny | ... When Horace criticized Augustus, he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, | reports that the 6th century BC poet Hipponax wrote satirae that were so c ... |
Jim Murray | ... which reduced his strike zone without sacrificing much power. Sportswriter | described Henderson's strike zone as being "smaller than Hitler's heart". ... |
Nonnus | ... eral Greek and Roman cults, and variants of it are found in Callimachus and | , who refer to this Dionysus with the title Zagreus, and also in several f ... |
Ian Baker-Finch | ... Stir, George Negus in Add Sex and Stir and Dick on the Line (series 3) and | in A Hole in the Heart. Harry Shearer appeared in the series 2 episode Cha ... |
Lucien Bouchard | ... out "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical | , the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, cluck ... |
Isabella II | ... solutist "Carlist" partisans of Infante Carlos and the liberal partisans of | led to the First Carlist War, which lasted until 1840 and was especially v ... |
James Boyle Uniacke | ... uary 1848. Following a vote of want of confidence in the preceding Council, | , who had moved the resolution, became Attorney General and leader of the ... |
Blaise Pascal | ... were laid in the 17th century with the development of probability theory by | and Pierre de Fermat. Probability theory arose from the study of games of ... |
Zosimus | ... s to corrupt officials or soldiers. A secretary of Aurelian (called Eros by | ) had told a lie on a minor issue. In fear of what the Emperor might do, h ... |
Yasser Arafat | ... similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, | and John F. Kennedy. The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eve ... |
James Joyce | ... res, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, | , Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian gen ... |
Robert Grosseteste | ... ecently discovered Greco-Muslim astronomy and on the calendaric writings of | , Bacon criticized the Julian calendar, describing it as intolerable, horr ... |
Emperor Ling | Under | (r. 168–189 CE) the eunuchs had the partisan prohibitions renewed and expa ... |
Aretaeus of Cappadocia | ... which literally means “a passer through; a siphon”. Ancient Greek physician | (fl. in the first century CE) used that word, with the intended meaning “e ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... layed a key role in the birth of the ROC since the nation’s founding father | , a medical doctor by training, received financial support mainly from the ... |
Infante Carlos | ... conflict over the succession between the absolutist "Carlist" partisans of | and the liberal partisans of Isabella II led to the First Carlist War, whi ... |
Catherine I | ... her husband as Empress Regnant. She followed the precedent established when | (born in the lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeed ... |
Charles Lindbergh | ... . Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, | , George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included Willia ... |
Plato | ... n of the arts. It is thus a dialogue within a dialogue, after the manner of | , but the conversation extends to enormous length. The topics for discussi ... |
George Negus | ... ffice Mole (series 2); Glenn Robbins and Molly Meldrum in Add Sex and Stir, | in Add Sex and Stir and Dick on the Line (series 3) and Ian Baker-Finch in ... |
Richard Nixon | ... (based on the "Hibakusha" mix) included an introductory cut-up monologue by | taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign ("No.. firm diplom ... |
Paul I | ... 's mother. The marriage took place on 21 August 1745 with a son, the future | , finally born on 20 September 1754 |
Joseph Howe | ... y the colony of Nova Scotia in January–February 1848 through the efforts of | . The plaque in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly erected by the Historic ... |
Waris Shah | ... ranwala and Sheikhupura districts of the Pakistani Punjab which was used by | (1722–1798) in his famous book Heer Ranjha and is also now days the langua ... |
Caligula | ... imprisonment for 18 years (21-39 AD), and was rewarded with a consulship by | , who was himself in the habit of condemning well-born citizens to work on ... |
Bahram I | ... zd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler ( | ), set the possibility to attack the Sassanid Empire |
Shakespeare | ... iolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appeared in | 's Henry V on stage and in television's An Age of Kings (1960), and subseq ... |
Barack Obama | ... 2010, the 22 year old ban was lifted after having been signed by President | on October 30, 2009 |
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 ... |
Empress Dowager Dou | ... 81 CE), and Wang Fu (王甫). When the plot was uncovered, the eunuchs arrested | (d. 172 CE) and Chen Fan. General Zhang Huan (張奐) favored the eunuchs. He ... |
Gríma Wormtongue | Later, | cast the stone down from Orthanc, where it was recovered by Peregrin Took ... |
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 ... |
Langston Hughes | ... he Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, | , Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors h ... |
Glenn Robbins | ... ghts (series 1); Glenn Ridge in Add Sex and Stir and Office Mole (series 2) | ;and Molly Meldrum in Add Sex and Stir, George Negus in Add Sex and Stir a ... |
Hormizd I | ... ther campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings Shapur I (272) and | (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler (Bahr ... |
Hank Marvin | ... la (United Artists - Album "Greasy Kid Stuff"), The Ventures, Agent Orange, | , Lively Ones. Dick Dale with the help of Stevie Ray Vaughan (Grammy Nomin ... |
Penélope Cruz | ... Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Cole Hauser, Sam Elliott, Patricia Arquette, | and Enrique Castillo, was filmed in part in the town of Pritchett |
Joe Clark | ... and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, clucking, pompous | , and the power-hungry Paul Martin (all Ferguson). Many of the real politi ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and | . Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz ... |
Enrique Castillo | ... y Harrelson, Cole Hauser, Sam Elliott, Patricia Arquette, Penélope Cruz and | , was filmed in part in the town of Pritchett |
Tim Burton | Warner Bros. has produced a film adaptation of the soap opera. | directed the film, and Johnny Depp stars as Barnabas Collins |
Titus | ... tly in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, | , Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capaci ... |
Lawrence E. Spivak | ... Meet the Press, a program to promote The American Mercury, a magazine that | had purchased in 1939. Before the program aired, Spivak asked the journali ... |
Sigismund I of Poland | ... Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King | . They had seventeen children |
Joe Buck | Hank Williams III's bass players ( | and Zach Shedd, most notably) have used upright basses for recording as we ... |
Ulpia Severina | There is substantial evidence that Aurelian's wife | , who had been declared Augusta in 274, may have ruled the Empire by her o ... |
Andrew Gilligan | ... y, who committed suicide on 17 July 2003 after being named as the source of | 's disputed Today programme contribution |
Feast of Saint Louis | ... t a church in the central village of La Plaza Medio and dedicated it on the | , June 21, 1851. The village was renamed San Luis de la Culebra in honor o ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... , particularly when he had the honour of spending a month in the company of | ; he later described how he spent "many hours every day talking – the grea ... |
Aragorn | ... egacy comes in the form of her progeny (from Lúthien to Elrond to Arwen and | , who share somewhat of her temperament — especially the healing, though t ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... rviews with Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., Martin Scorsese, | , and others |
Peter the Great | ... lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeeded her husband | in 1725 |
Malcolm Bradbury | ... is especially well-known for its creative writing programme; established by | and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan. The ... |
Charles V of Spain | ... a personal hunting park. The castle was later mostly rebuilt in the age of | |
Bill Bradley | ... e tax base, eliminate many deductions, and reduce rates. In 1983, Democrats | and Dick Gephardt had offered a proposal to clean up/broaden the tax base; ... |
Huppen, Hermann | ... (Dutch-speaking Belgium) - Human Rights League (French-speaking Belgium) - | |
Vespasian | ... cur frequently in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, | , Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this ... |
Hans Ree | ... 8/11, behind winners Vlastimil Hort and Ulf Andersson. He shared first with | at the 1971 Canadian Open Chess Championship in Vancouver |
John Bradshaw Layfield | ... this type occurred at WWE No Mercy 2004 in which The Undertaker challenged | for the WWE Championship. It is said that The Undertaker created this matc ... |
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 ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Aulë is a fictional character from | 's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in The Silmarillion, but appear ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... nest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, | , Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman Ungern von Sternberg ... |
Barbara Boxer | U.S. Senate: California | (Democrat |
Aristotle | ... itings of 1260–1280 Bacon cited Secretum secretorum, which he attributed to | , far more than his contemporaries did. Often used as an argument for the ... |
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... was conquered by the Arabs, who built here the first nucleus of the castle. | further fortified the town and created here a personal hunting park. The c ... |
Isildur | Using the stone, Aragorn declared himself as the heir of | to Sauron, seeking to distract him from Frodo. Sauron was led to believe t ... |
Mikhail Lomonosov | ... rnment while shortening their terms of service to the state. She encouraged | 's establishment of the University of Moscow and Ivan Shuvalov foundation ... |
Corinna | ... are attached to Orion in this way: A papyrus fragment of the Boeotian poet | gives Orion fifty sons (a traditional number). This included the oracular ... |
Harry Shearer | ... and Dick on the Line (series 3) and Ian Baker-Finch in A Hole in the Heart. | appeared in the series 2 episode Changing the Face of Current Affairs wher ... |
J. J. Abrams | ... king cities. The most recent depiction of a giant monster is the monster in | 's Cloverfield, which was released in theaters January 18, 2008. The intri ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ons from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and | . The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eventually released as ... |
Frederick Rolfe | ... g Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, | , Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman Ungern ... |
Francis Stephen | The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of | , duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... d additional interviews with Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., | , Steven Spielberg, and others |
Mariana van Zeller | ... haemorrhage, and hypovolemic shock. A film shot in Lunsar, Sierra Leone, by | in 2007 discusses how girls who bleed excessively are regarded as witches |
Claudius | ... f condemning well-born citizens to work on the roads. It is noticeable that | brought Corbulo to justice, and repaid the money which had been extorted f ... |
Qasim Amin | In 1899, | , considered the "father" of Arab feminism, wrote The Liberation of Women, ... |
Desta Damtew | ... aile Selassie suffered several personal tragedies. His two sons-in-law, Ras | and Dejazmach Beyene Merid, were both executed by the Italians. The empero ... |
Howard Hawks | ... and Sergeant York. Huston writes that Sergeant York, which was directed by | , has "gone down as one of Howard's best pictures, and Gary Cooper had a t ... |
Max Perutz’s | ... right place, in the right frame of mind, at the right time (1949), to join | project at Cambridge University, and he began to work on the X-ray crystal ... |
Aragorn | ... nadvertently contacted Sauron, after which Gandalf turned the stone over to | |
Jackie Speier | ... ict, which has a Cook PVI of D +22 and is currently represented by Democrat | . However, of the town's 6,849 registered voters, 42% are registered as Re ... |
Harold Bloom | ... or Death in the Andes) and the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. The literary critic | has included his novel The War of the End of the World in his list of esse ... |
Donne | ... tires targeting everything from literary fads to corrupt noblemen. Although | had already circulated satires in manuscript, Hall's was the first real at ... |
Bianca Maria Sforza | # 1494 | (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforz |
Martha Rountree | ... ad purchased in 1939. Before the program aired, Spivak asked the journalist | , who had worked in radio and had worked for Spivak as a roving editor for ... |
Dave Mustaine | ... , Eddie Vedder, and thrash metal band Megadeth founder and guitarist/singer | |
Johnny Depp | ... uced a film adaptation of the soap opera. Tim Burton directed the film, and | stars as Barnabas Collins |
Genseric | Hilderic was the grandson of king | , founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son H ... |
Julia Kristeva | ... ubversive exercise. The work of the feminist psychoanalyst and philosopher, | , has influenced feminist theory in general and feminist literary criticis ... |
Bette Davis | ... ar sentence. The case was made into the 1937 movie 'Marked Woman', starring | |
Philip the Arab | In 248, Emperor | had celebrated the millennium of the city of Rome with great and expensive ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... ndon bombings, and several articles about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, | 's capture, and Fahrenheit 9/11 |
Count Lestocq | ... lstein-Gottorp, resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which | , Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), and Frederick II of ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean President | , who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands conflict. Helms was st ... |
George Sterling | In 1905, poet | came to Carmel and helped to establish the town's literary base. He was as ... |
Asopus | ... is included the oracular hero Acraephen, who, she sings, gave a response to | regarding Asopus' daughters who were abducted by the gods. Corinna sang of ... |
Wang Zhengjun | | (71 BCE–13 CE) was first empress, then empress dowager, and finally grand ... |
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 ... |
Elizabeth | ... management in which Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress | ), and Frederick II of Prussia took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to ... |
Bob Dylan | ... ngs (including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by | , and Emmylou Harris) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman ... |
Gordon Russell | ... led House of Dark Shadows in 1970. Dan Curtis directed it, and Sam Hall and | wrote the screenplay. Many cast members from the soap opera reprised their ... |
Paul Krugman | Economist | argues the economic expansion during the Reagan administration was primari ... |
Bram Stoker | ... playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, | . It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of Jame ... |
Huneric | ... ric, founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son | , and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinia ... |
Yuan | ... owager, and finally grand empress dowager during the reigns of the Emperors | (r. 49–33 BCE), Cheng (r. 33–7 BCE), and Ai (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. Du ... |
Charlemagne | ... claim to the Roman legacy for several centuries, after Pope Leo III crowned | , king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor" on December 25, 800, an act w ... |
Orson Welles | ... in his youth, Bogdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as | and John Ford, whom he later wrote a book about based on the notes he had ... |
Toshio Sakai | ... Smith (National Reporting, 1964), Kyoichi Sawada (News Photography, 1966), | (Feature Photography, 1968), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (National Re ... |
Xerxes the great | ... mbyses, they went to Sindh in command of Darius I, and also took in army of | at the battle of Thermopylae, where they were equipped the same as Pactyan ... |
Valentinian III | ... son Huneric, and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor | and Licinia Eudoxia. Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Ca ... |
James Farley | ... ference with a single guest and a panel of questioners. Its first guest was | , who served as Postmaster General, Democratic National Committee Chairman ... |
Simone de Beauvoir | ... sexual conquests. His genuine empathy towards women is evident in his books | ;spoke highly of him in The Second Sex. He seems to have preferred desire ... |
Jack London | ... sh the town's literary base. He was associated with Mary Austin, as well as | , who also spent considerable time in the Carmel and Monterey area. In San ... |
Evelyn Waugh | ... Egypt, Turkey, Sweden, Belgium, and Japan were also present. British author | was also present, penning a contemporary report on the event, and American ... |
Jan Hein Donner | ... quadrangular event at Leiden 1970 with 7/12, ahead of Larsen, Botvinnik and | . Spassky shared first at Amsterdam 1970 with Lev Polugaevsky on 11½/15. H ... |
Cadmus | ... mpian pantheon. His mother was a mortal woman, Semele, the daughter of king | of Thebes, and his father was Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus' wife, Hera ... |
Corinna | ... sponse to Asopus regarding Asopus' daughters who were abducted by the gods. | sang of Orion conquering and naming all the land of the dawn. Robert Weir ... |
Nicholas I | ... lost its independence when Russia's army crushed the Polish Uprising under | . Revival and reinterpretation of ancient myths, customs and traditions by ... |
Raghuram Rajan | ... w much deregulation took place during the Reagan administration. Economists | and Luigi Zingales point out that many of the major deregulation efforts h ... |
Chuck Palahniuk | ... 1968) (now republished as Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick and Fight Club by | all distort the line between reality and appearance while simultaneously e ... |
James Joyce | ... Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of | , including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail. Du ... |
Leo Tolstoy | ... ave led some to Christian anarchism, including the notable Russian novelist | , author of the nonfiction book The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
Ronald Reagan | ... Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by President | in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the Court ... |
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 |
Christopher Isherwood | ... nce encounter in a Los Angeles bookstore with the British expatriate writer | gave Bradbury the opportunity to put The Martian Chronicles into the hands ... |
Lucinda Franks | ... Sawada (News Photography, 1966), Toshio Sakai (Feature Photography, 1968), | and Thomas Powers (National Reporting, 1971), and David Hume Kennerly (Fea ... |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | In 1966, to increase the efficiency of government administration, | made Thimphu the year-round capital. In May 1968, the comprehensive Rules ... |
Roman Polanski's | ... ed for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role. He acted in | Chinatown (1974) as the film's central corrupt businessman, in 1974, and a ... |
Licinia Eudoxia | ... s mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III and | . Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Catholics, but Hilder ... |
Ambrose Bierce | Sterling wrote to his long-time literary mentor, | |
Adolf Hitler | He was an outspoken and early critic of | and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... neously espousing strong existentialist themes. Ideas from such thinkers as | , Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Gill ... |
Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... d their roles. These included Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Roger Davis, and | , among others. 1971 saw the release of Night of Dark Shadows, also direct ... |
Ai | ... ng the reigns of the Emperors Yuan (r. 49–33 BCE), Cheng (r. 33–7 BCE), and | (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. During this time, a succession of her male rel ... |
Herodotus | Contrary to popular belief, the term delta was not coined by | |
Joaquin Miller | Sterling's visitors included poet | , writer Charles W. Stoddard and photographer Arnold Genthe, known for his ... |
Álvaro Arzú | ... municipal government (Municipalidad de Guatemala) headed by long time Mayor | , has implemented a plan to control its growth based on transects along it ... |
Louis XV | ... was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the young French King | , but the Bourbons declined the offer as Elizabeth`s mother`s origin was d ... |
Ferdinand VII | The reign of | (reigned 1808–33) saw several Catalan uprisings and after his death the co ... |
Howard Hawks | ... n the notes he had produced for the MoMA retrospective of the director, and | . Bogdanovich also brought attention to such forgotten pioneers of America ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ) to Hunt's 1,070,488 (47.8%). Helms might not have won had it not been for | 's popularity in the state; Reagan carried North Carolina by 24 points tha ... |
Elizabeth | ... tria's influence and ruin the Russian chancellor Bestuzhev, on whom Empress | relied, and who acted as a known partisan of Russo-Austrian co-operation. ... |
Lynn Thorndike | ... 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. An early critic of this claim was | , starting with a letter in the 1915 edition of the journal Science , and ... |
George Washington | ... that was chosen was the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of | , Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the ... |
John Boswell | ... rosecutions are rarely recorded and the provisions of the law are vague; as | has noted, "if there was a law against homosexual relations, no one in Cic ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | In the works of | , the Vanyar are the fairest and most noble of the High Elves. They are th ... |
Lev Polugaevsky | ... Botvinnik and Jan Hein Donner. Spassky shared first at Amsterdam 1970 with | on 11½/15. He was third at Gothenburg 1971 with 8/11, behind winners Vlast ... |
Hal David | ... t and sing ballads, the group had decided on cutting the Burt Bacharach and | song, "Make It Easy on Yourself", until being told that someone else had r ... |
Thomas More | Corto's favourite reading is Utopia by | , but he never finished it. He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevens ... |
Thomas Powers | ... graphy, 1966), Toshio Sakai (Feature Photography, 1968), Lucinda Franks and | (National Reporting, 1971), and David Hume Kennerly (Feature Photography, ... |
Jackie Speier | ... gressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +22, represented by Democrat | |
Abba Jifar II | ... om of Jimma was formally absorbed into Ethiopia following the death of King | of Jimma |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Euripides | Evius, in | ' play, The Bacchae |
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 ... |
Fredric Brown | ... Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, | , Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His first published ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... s the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, | , Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage ... |
Robinson Jeffers | In 1914, poet | (1887–1962), and his wife, Una (1884–1950), found their "inevitable place" ... |
Seán O'Casey | ... during the early 20th century. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, | , Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest librarie ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... w, Amalafrida, imprisoned; he escaped war with her brother, the Gothic king | , only by the latter's death in 526 |
Charles II | ... areas. However, at the end of the century, after the death of the childless | (1700), the crown of Spain went to Philip V of the House of Bourbon. The G ... |
Jayapala | ... jua overlord, Jayapala, of the Panduvanshi dynasty. The last Shahi emperors | , Anandapala and Tirlochanpala fought invading Muslim Turks from Central A ... |
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 ... |
George Carlin | ... th Robert Klein in 1975, and was instrumental in reaching larger audiences. | was a perennial favorite appeared in fourteen HBO comedy specials |
Franz Kafka | ... st themes. Ideas from such thinkers as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, | , Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze, and Eduard von Har ... |
Jim Henson | ... s in films such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (both in conjunction with | 's Creature Shop). He collaborated with Terry Jones, who was a screenwrite ... |
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 ... |
Mahmud Tarzi | ... reforms could not match his achievement of complete, lasting independence. | , Amanullah's father-in-law and Foreign Minister, encouraged the monarch's ... |
Martha Rountree | ... st two terms of the New Deal Administration. Its first host was its creator | , to date the program's only female moderator. She stepped down November 1 ... |
Josef II | ... ties (1767), and prohibited marriage between Romanies (1773). Her successor | prohibited the wearing of traditional Romani clothing and the use of the R ... |
Henricus Valesius | ... nt readings. The fundamental early modern edition, however, was produced by | (Henri Valois) (Paris, 1668), who used the Codex Regius, a Codex Vaticanus ... |
Augustus | ... te a history of the world up to his own time (the beginning of the reign of | ). He starts with the gods and the heroes. At the end of this part of the ... |
Bent Larsen | ... Sukhumi, and won by the same margin as in 1965 (5½–2½, +3 =5). He next met | at Malmö, and won by 5½–2½. The final was against his Leningrad rival Vikt ... |
François Truffaut | ... he 1950s who wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma, especially critic-turned-director | . Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film wr ... |
Emperor Ping | ... i, Wang Zhengjun's nephew Wang Mang (45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for | (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). When Ping died in 6 CE, the Empress Dowager appointed W ... |
Henry Kuttner | ... as where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, | , Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His first published story was "Holl ... |
Liu Ying | ... CE, the Empress Dowager appointed Wang Mang to act as emperor for the child | (d. 25 CE). Wang promised to relinquish his control to Liu Ying once he ca ... |
Vitruvius | # The directions for making pavements given by | . The pavement and the via munita were identical in construction, except a ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... opia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s. | 's Fascist regime was keen to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffer ... |
Prince of Wales | ... y Act of Parliament". This meant the Duke took precedence over his son, the | , except, officially, in the British parliament. In fact, however, he atte ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, | and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistake ... |
Philip V | ... er the death of the childless Charles II (1700), the crown of Spain went to | of the House of Bourbon. The Grand Alliance of England, the United Provinc ... |
José Napoleón Duarte | ... lvadoran election March and May 1984, in favor of the incumbent centre-left | instead of D'Aubuisson, claiming that Pickering had "used the cloak of dip ... |
Aragorn | ... Men of the West, an island sea-people, founders of Gondor and ancestors of | from The Lord of the Rings; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate o ... |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck | ... til his death in July 1972 and was succeeded by his seventeen-year-old son, | . The close ties of the Wangchuck and Dorji families were reemphasized in ... |
Nazgûl | ... ains that came to be known as the Ephel Dúath. When Minas Ithil fell to the | in , the Ithil-Stone came into Sauron's hands, and leading up to the War o ... |
Brendan Behan | ... rly 20th century. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, | , Maeve Binchy, and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary ... |
David Hume Kennerly | ... hy, 1968), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (National Reporting, 1971), and | (Feature Photography, 1972). John H. Blair (spot news photography) a speci ... |
Victor Emmanuel III | ... was far better armed than the Fascist militias, the liberal system and King | were facing a deeper political crisis. The King was forced to choose which ... |
Maeve Binchy | ... y. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, | , and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are fo ... |
Ned Brooks | ... ly female moderator. She stepped down November 1, 1953, and was replaced by | , who remained as moderator until December 26, 1965. Spivak became the mod ... |
Rita Mae Brown | Crozet is also the setting for author | 's Mrs. Murphy series |
Terry Jones | ... (both in conjunction with Jim Henson's Creature Shop). He collaborated with | , who was a screenwriter on Labyrinth, on The Goblins of the Labyrinth (19 ... |
Chuck Palahniuk | ... "Always",Hamish and Andy (Australia),ESPN,KHQ's "The Derby", and also in by | . It has also been featured on CMT. Lind also is surrounded by fields of w ... |
King Charles III | ... children sent to orphanages. Similar prohibitions took place in 1783 under | , who prohibited the nomadic lifestyle, the use of the Calo language, Roma ... |
Sauron | ... l Dúath. When Minas Ithil fell to the Nazgûl in , the Ithil-Stone came into | 's hands, and leading up to the War of the Ring was kept by him in Barad-d ... |
Jim Webb | The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2006, who announced his intention to retire and not to run in ... |
Statius | # A passage in | describing the repairs of the Via Domitiana, a branch road of the Via Appi ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... isclosed details of CIA financial support for Duarte, earning a rebuke from | , but Helms replied that his information came from sources in El Salvador, ... |
Bennett Cerf | According to Try and Stop Me by | , LaGuardia often officiated in municipal court. He handled routine misdem ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... nly the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and | were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistaken for an actual sta ... |
Sarah Palin | ... Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, in which Judd condemned Alaska governor | for supporting aerial wolf hunting. In response, Palin stated the reason t ... |
Mahmud Tarzi | ... occurred in Turkey under Kemal Atatürk. Socially, Amanullah enjoyed many of | 's thoughts at the time, such as giving women more rights and allowing fre ... |
Charles Augustus | ... e family well: she herself had intended to marry Princess Johanna's brother | (Karl August von Holstein), who had died of smallpox in 1727 before the we ... |
Joseph Needham | ... ertium, extensively analyzed by J. R. Partington, several scholars cited by | concluded that Bacon had most likely witnessed at least one demonstration ... |
Aristotle | ... 6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. | accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 ... |
Constans | ... , often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors Constantius and | declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 C ... |
Leigh Brackett | ... the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, | , and Jack Williamson. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilem ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | ... en recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by | through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide |
Roger Mudd | ... as it struggled in the ratings against ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. | and Marvin Kalb (as co-moderators) followed Monroe for a year, followed by ... |
Rita Mae Brown | Author | along with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, have written a mystery series common ... |
Jack Williamson | ... A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and | . His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma", which appeared i ... |
Gerry Goffin | ... ed by "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", written by husband-wife songwriting team | and Carole King; the song went on to become either the first Billboard Num ... |
Lord Adrian | ... ch consensus, prompting the intervention of then University Vice-Chancellor | . Lord Adrian first offered the professorship to a compromise candidate, , ... |
Jean-Luc Godard | ... 973). In 1968, following the example of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, | , Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New ... |
Gelimer | ... ven years on the throne, Hilderic fell victim to a revolt led by his cousin | , an Arian, who led the people in a religious rebellion. Gelimer then beca ... |
Viktor Korchnoi | ... arsen at Malmö, and won by 5½–2½. The final was against his Leningrad rival | at Kiev, and Spassky triumphed (+4 −1 =5), which earned him another match ... |
Roddy Doyle | ... writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, and | . Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are found in Dublin, in ... |
Valentinian II | ... ame-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors | , Theodosius I and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and thos ... |
Marvin Kalb | ... in the ratings against ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. Roger Mudd and | (as co-moderators) followed Monroe for a year, followed by Chris Wallace i ... |
Elizabeth Massie | ... ue's Descent and The Salem Branch, and Dreams of the Dark by horror authors | and Stephen Mark Rainey |
William of Rubruck | ... ibly obtained with the intermediation of other Franciscans, like his friend | , who had visited the Mongols. The most telling passage reads: "We have an ... |
Slobodan Milošević | ... ommanders and politicians, notably Serbia and Yugoslavia's former president | , were put on trial by the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal ... |
Paris Hilton | ... mber 2003, she officially joined the show, adding celebrity figures such as | and Liza Minnelli, and Canadian politicians such as Belinda Stronach, to t ... |
Hans Küng | ... sexuals. In the 20th century, theologians like Karl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, | , John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt, challenged traditional ... |
King Henry VIII | ... nians. As the English Reformation progressed, their friaries were closed by | . The refectory of the Dominican friary was eventually converted into a th ... |
Stephen Mark Rainey | ... Salem Branch, and Dreams of the Dark by horror authors Elizabeth Massie and | |
Rob Wagner | ... limited to under 100 copies. Between 1941 and 1947, he was a contributor to | 's film magazine, Script |
Claude Chabrol | ... llowing the example of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, | , and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave") by makin ... |
Constantine II of Greece | ... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King | (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ... |
William I | In 933 the islands, formerly under the control of | , then Duchy of Brittany were annexed by the Duchy of Normandy. The island ... |
Clovis | ... 440 – 481/82) was a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and the father of | |
Archduke Charles | ... rlands) and Austria gave military support to a rival claimant to the crown, | . Catalonia initially accepted Philip V following prolonged negotiations b ... |
Robert Southey | ... us of Roads was given to Telford by his friend, the eventual Poet Laureate, | . Telford’s reputation as a man of letters may have preceded his fame as a ... |
Gilles Deleuze | ... yevsky, Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, | , and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of artists such as Chuck Pala ... |
Demetrius of Montferrat | ... rians, and his head was sent to Kaloyan. He was succeeded by his infant son | , who ruled until he reached adulthood, but was eventually defeated by The ... |
Alfonso XIII | In the early 1900s Santander became the favoured summer residence of King | , who built the Palacio de la Magdalena as the residence of the royal fami ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governor | used his influence in the United States Department of War for Carter to or ... |
Julius Caesar | ... om time to time undertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. | and Mark Antony commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodox ... |
Ken Follett | ... ntury Welsh leader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as Roald Dahl, | , Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones. In pa ... |
Peter II | ... liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent half-nephew | . The Dolgorukovs, an ancient boyar family, deeply resented Menshikov. Wit ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ll children regardless of their ability to pay, and was keenly supported by | |
Theodosius I | ... to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, | and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guil ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | In 1956, President | of Egypt initiated "state feminism", which outlawed discrimination based o ... |
Jerome | ... ates Scholasticus recorded more than 300, and Evagrius, Hilary of Poitiers, | and Rufinus recorded 318. Delegates came from every region of the Roman Em ... |
Philip II | ... om of the former Aragonese confederation, eclipsing Barcelona. The reign of | marked the beginning of a gradual process of deterioration of Catalan econ ... |
Harris Newmark | ... businessmen including banker Isaias Hellman and wholesale grocer/historian | for $60,000, approximately $12 per acre. The land was later divided among ... |
Éric Rohmer | ... of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and | who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave") by making their own films, ... |
Tim Russert | Network officials, concerned for the show's future, turned to | , the network's Washington bureau chief. He took over on December 8, 1991, ... |
Roald Dahl | ... the 12th century Welsh leader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as | , Ken Follett, Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin ... |
Andrew Johnson | On the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee | , U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ... |
Casey Viator | ... red his worst defeat, placing 10th at the AAU Mr. America, which was won by | . Mentzer considered his presence at this contest important later on, as i ... |
Milton Friedman | ... rade barriers than any administration since Hoover." By contrast, economist | has pointed to the number of pages added to the Federal Register each year ... |
Arvedui | ... and taken to Fornost. It remained there until Fornost too was overrun, when | took it to Forochel. It was lost in when the ship on which he was travelli ... |
Leonid Shamkovich | ... ared 1st–5th places at Sochi 1967 on 10/15 with Krogius, Alexander Zaitsev, | , and Vladimir Simagin |
Griff Rhys Jones | ... eader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as Roald Dahl, Ken Follett, | and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones. In particular, the city ... |
Raymond Arroyo | Similarly, in | 's autobiography of Mother Angelica, she recounts a similar event seeing a ... |
Murray the K | After the success of their singles, The Shirelles became frequent guests of | , who hosted them on his "All Star Rock Shows" on the New York radio stati ... |
Charles the Bold | ... s were astonishingly successful. In the Siege of Neuss (1474–75), he forced | of Burgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick' ... |
Lionel Hampton | His songs attracted countless covers over the years. The first cover was by | featuring Sonny Parker, then Wynonie Harris, and lastly, Loy Gordon & His ... |
Francis Bacon | ... es outlining a philosophy of science which might as easily be attributed to | centuries later. The novel's Roger Bacon serves to motivate Costain's prot ... |
Philip IV | ... of the kingdoms, and were jealously guarded by the Catalan oligarchy. After | acceded to the throne in 1621, the Count-Duke of Olivares attempted to sus ... |
Robert Southey | ... ose this as their place of interment, that the 19th-century poet and writer | gave Bunhill Fields the memorable appellation: the Campo Santo of the Diss ... |
Stanley Kubrick | ... , Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, | , Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody Allen. Charlie K ... |
Mark Antony | ... dertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. Julius Caesar and | commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodoxus, Theodotus an ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... book was later made into a film titled Schindler's List (1993) directed by | , earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting w ... |
Elizabeth Hawley | ... was subject to an unprecedented dispute by renowned Mt. Everest chronicler | and other mountaineers in Nepal . Pemba was later arrested and jailed for ... |
King Basin | ... Franks, whose women he was taking; of his eight-year stay in Thuringia with | and his wife Basina; of his return when a faithful servant advised him tha ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... n his career as a classical actor. In 1959 he appeared as Sicinius opposite | in Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appe ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... s (1474–75), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter | as wife to Frederick's son Maximilian. With the inheritance of Burgundy, t ... |
Arvedui | ... to Fornost, they took the palantír with them. This Stone was also lost when | was shipwrecked |
William Butler Yeats | ... having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates | , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and pl ... |
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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 |
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Audre Lorde | ... wave, such as Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Cherrie Moraga, | , Maxine Hong Kingston, and many other black feminists, sought to negotiat ... |
Karl Renner | In April 1945 | , an Austrian elder statesman, declared Austria separate from Germany and ... |
Oliver North | ... iega. After the Drug Enforcement Administration encountered opposition from | in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with ... |
Gethin Jones | ... ald Dahl, Ken Follett, Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter | . In particular, the city has been the birthplace of sports stars such as ... |
Polly Platt | ... ng their own films, Bogdanovich decided to become a director. With his wife | , he headed for Los Angeles, skipping out on the rent in the process. Inte ... |
Empress Anna | With the death of her father and the later accession of the | , no royal court or noble house in Europe could allow a son to pay court t ... |
Arcadius | ... hortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I and | declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guilty of it were ... |
William Wordsworth | ... n painter Caspar David Friedrich that "the artist's feeling is his law". To | poetry should be "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". In order ... |
President of the Republic of China | ... Chinese culture, like the lion dance and drum teams. Later in the day, the | addresses the country and fireworks displays are held throughout the major ... |
Theodosius II | ... hed in 439 or soon thereafter, and certainly during the lifetime of Emperor | , i.e., before 450. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of ... |
Mother Angelica | Similarly, in Raymond Arroyo's autobiography of | , she recounts a similar event seeing an apparition of the child Jesus in ... |
Faiz Ahmed Faiz | ... ell-known representatives of contemporary Pakistani Urdu literature include | . Sadequain is known for his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Ab ... |
Emperor Jing | Emperor Gengshi of Han (r. 23–25 CE), a descendant of | (r. 157–141 BCE), attempted to restore the Han Dynasty and occupied Chang' ... |
Nora May French | ... ff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Keith, Percy Gray, Arnold Genthe and | |
Hal David | ... which peaked at #3, followed by "Mama Said", written by Burt Bacharach and | , then "Baby It's You", "Soldier Boy", and "Boys", with saxophonist King C ... |
Clovis | He died in 481 and was buried in Tournai. His son | succeeded him as king of the Franks |
Kublai Khan | ... ictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns of Edward I and | . Costain's narration includes technology such as the compass, the telesco ... |
Julian Thompson | ... y two years later. However, military historians such as former Royal Marine | have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as D ... |
Colin Jackson | ... ity has been the birthplace of sports stars such as Tanni Grey-Thompson and | as well as many Premier League, Football League and international football ... |
Anna | ... ria (having previously been relieved of his tongue) by order of the Empress | , she turned to a coachman and even a waiter. Eventually she consoled hers ... |
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 ... |
Chris Morris | ... k series. One of the most well-known and controversial British satirists is | , co-writer and director of Four Lions |
Emperor Guangwu | ... monarch Liu Penzi. Emperor Gengshi's brother Liu Xiu, known posthumously as | (r. 25–57 CE), after distinguishing himself at the Battle of Kunyang in 23 ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... ortstop Alan Trammell to manage the team in 2003. With fellow '84 teammates | and Lance Parrish on the coaching staff, the rebuilding process began. In ... |
John Prendergast | ... el unspeakable violence" by Ashley Judd and the Enough Project's co-founder | regarding the continued violence in Congo. Her Op-ed discusses the recent ... |
Bill Walton | La Mesa is the hometown of NBA player | , football star Alex Smith, actor Dennis Hopper, baseball players Aaron Bo ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Osca ... |
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 ... |
Justinian I | ... e who were guilty of it were condemned to be publicly burned alive. Emperor | (527–565 CE) made homosexuals a scapegoat for problems such as "famines, e ... |
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 ... |
Licinius | ... he Edict of Milan, issued in February of AD 313 by Emperors Constantine and | |
Tom Brokaw | ... ture). The former NBC Nightly News anchor and current special correspondent | hosted a special edition of Meet the Press dedicated to the life of Russer ... |
Robert Stevenson | In 1959, Connery landed a leading role in | 's Walt Disney Productions film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) ... |
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 |
Pau Claris | The president of the Generalitat, | , declared a Catalan Republic under the protection of Louis XIII of France ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... d States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President | |
Bob Dylan | ... song "He Was a Friend of Mine", which had been popularized by The Byrds and | , which was re-titled "He is a Friend of Mine", and "I Love You", the song ... |
President of Ireland | ... e Gael was responsible for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first | , Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the off ... |
Tom Brokaw | Following Russert's death, | was named the interim moderator through the 2008 general elections. Brokaw ... |
Ibn Hazm | ... e same sex. However, sexual activities between them are totally prohibited. | , Ibn Daud, Al-Mutamid, Abu Nuwas and many others used this edict to write ... |
Ron MacLean | ... ired December 31, 2008, at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. It featured special guests | , Peter Mansbridge, and former Air Farce member Dave Broadfoot. The final ... |
Lance Parrish | ... mmell to manage the team in 2003. With fellow '84 teammates Kirk Gibson and | on the coaching staff, the rebuilding process began. In 2003, still playin ... |
Louis XIV | ... atin. The treasure went first to the Habsburgs in Vienna, then as a gift to | , who was not impressed with the treasure and stored it in the royal libra ... |
Kunigunde of Austria | The marriage of his daughter | to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, was another result of intrigues and decepti ... |
Anwar al-Awlaki | ... r also stayed. This mosque had recently in January 2001 hired the same imam | with whom Hazmi had spent time at the Rabat mosque in San Diego. He rememb ... |
Joe Baca | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
Wes Anderson | ... Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, | , and Woody Allen. Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the p ... |
Maxine Hong Kingston | ... s Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, | , and many other black feminists, sought to negotiate a space within femin ... |
Metastasio | ... ominent figures of his time, including Napoleon, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini and | |
The Prince of Wales | ... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events. | and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs |
Chuck Todd | ... tor on December 14, 2008. On December 18, 2008, NBC News Political Director | was named Contributing Editor of Meet the Press |
Gertrude Atherton | ... be divided into large parcels and would not contain businesses. The author | , daughter-in-law to Faxon D. Atherton wrote in "The Californians", "Menlo ... |
Habibullah Khan | ... ost rebellion of 1923-24. Religious leaders, who had gained influence under | , were unhappy with Amānullāh's extensive religious reforms |
Douglas Hyde | ... for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, | , a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of Preside ... |
William Rehnquist | ... o the Supreme Court to fill the associate justice seat vacated when Justice | was elevated to Chief Justice. Whereas Rehnquist's confirmation was conten ... |
Jacques Étienne Victor | ... –1836) emigrated to North America and became a general in the Mexican army. | (1799–1855) took part in Louis de Freycinet's exploring voyage in the Uran ... |
Barack Obama | ... Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President | as a state gift |
Bill Richardson | ... rdon promised and not delivered by Wallace, to then-Governor of New Mexico, | . On December 31, 2010, on the eve of leaving office, Richardson turned do ... |
Giuseppe Carpani | In his works, Stendhal "plagiarized", reprised, appropriated, excerpts from | , Théophile Frédéric Winckler, Sismondi and others |
Alfonso | ... and the successful defense against a French crusade; his son and successor | ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son James II, who f ... |
Peter Mansbridge | ... 31, 2008, at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. It featured special guests Ron MacLean, | , and former Air Farce member Dave Broadfoot. The final episode was viewed ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... es, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | . Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan ... |
Abu Nuwas | ... vities between them are totally prohibited. Ibn Hazm, Ibn Daud, Al-Mutamid, | and many others used this edict to write extensively and openly of brother ... |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck | On December 15, 2006, the fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty | , abdicated all of his powers as King to his son, Prince Jigme Khesar Namg ... |
Mary McAleese | ... 9.3% of the vote. In 2004, Fine Gael supported the re-election of President | |
Augustus | The Romans had a preference for standardization whenever they could, so | , after becoming permanent commissioner of roads in 20 BC, set up the mili ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ussed by a number of twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including | and Noam Chomsky |
Kwame Nkrumah | The term "neocolonialism" was first coined by | , the first post-independence president of Ghana, and has been discussed b ... |
Elaine Showalter | In the field of literary criticism, | describes the development of feminist theory as having three phases. The f ... |
Inayatullah Khan | ... rth. In January 1929, Amanullah abdicated the throne to his oldest brother, | , who ruled for only three days before escaping into exile in British-Indi ... |
Woody Allen | ... Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and | . Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the protagonist's desi ... |
James II | ... uccessor Alfonso ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son | , who first acceded to the throne of Sicily and then succeeded his older b ... |
Kristina Keneally | Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, | |
Oscar Wilde | ... Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include | , Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably m ... |
Jon Krakauer | According to | , the era of commercialization of Everest started in 1985, when the summit ... |
Terence Young | ... Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. Later in 1957 Connery appeared in | 's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Joh ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and | |
Alfonso V | Ferdinand's successor, | ("the Magnanimous"), promoted a new stage of expansion, this time over the ... |
Craig Simpson | ... ppearances by Peter Mansbridge, Battle of the Blades winners Jamie Salé and | , and the Dragons of Dragons' Den. The special also featured the successor ... |
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 ... |
Charles the Bold | # 1477 Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy | # 1494 Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo ... |
Bobby Fischer | ... Santa Monica 1966 (the Piatigorsky Cup), with 11½/18, half a point ahead of | . Spassky also won at Beverwijk 1967 with 11/15 ahead of Anatoly Lutikov, ... |
Graham Parker | ... he pair of Steve Goulding (drums) and Andrew Bodnar (bass), both members of | 's backing band The Rumour (whom he had used to audition for The Attractio ... |
Maeterlinck, Maurice | Maarkedal - Maaseik - Maasmechelen - Maddens Doctrine - | - Magritte, René - Maingain, Olivier - Maldegem - Malle - Malmedy massacre ... |
Neal Cassady | ... ne nickname (handle), CowboyNeal, is inspired by a Grateful Dead tribute to | in their song, "That’s It for the Other One" |
Kathryn Leigh Scott | ... rst season featured David Selby (Quentin Collins), Lara Parker (Angelique), | (Maggie Evans), and John Karlen (Willie Loomis). Robert Rodan, who played ... |
Damon Knight | At the other extreme, science fiction author and critic | wrote |
Mary of Burgundy | # 1477 | (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bol |
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | ... me Singye Wangchuck, abdicated all of his powers as King to his son, Prince | , with a specific intention to prepare the young King for the country's tr ... |
James Blish | ... iction book Doctor Mirabilis, written in 1964 by the science fiction author | . This is the second book in Blish's quasi-religious trilogy After Such Kn ... |
Aragorn | ... ver Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and | arrive to pick up the two hobbits |
Charlie Kaufman | ... ley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody Allen. | 's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the protagonist's desire to find existe ... |
Humphry Davy | ... , but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated by | in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the sixth most ... |
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 ... |
Menen Asfaw | ... d that in the interest of preserving the Imperial house, the emperor's wife | and the rest of the imperial family should immediately depart for Djibouti ... |
Christopher Isherwood | ... radbury's work is sharply divided. In his review of The Martian Chronicles, | wrote |
Bulfinch's Age of Fable | ... uraged his reading, providing him with classics such as The Arabian Nights, | , and children's versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey. His grandfather al ... |
Alice Cooper | Groucho developed friendships with rock star | —the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine—and televis ... |
Jason Priestley | ... was based on the adjustment and culture shock that twins Brandon (played by | ) and Brenda Walsh (played by Shannen Doherty) experienced when they and t ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... cting the newly formed Republic of India, from a planned coup to topple the | Administration in Delh |
A. J. P. Taylor | In 1969, along with Hugh Trevor-Roper and | , he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Winston Churchill's fou ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations (1946) and Ophelia in | 's Hamlet (1948), for which she received her first Oscar nomination. It wa ... |
Tennessee Williams | ... the theatre playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, written by | and staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in t ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from | (a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by | , Arthur Miller, Philip Jordan and André Roussin. She then moved to Paris, ... |
Albert Einstein | ... time or lived in Halesite include comedian/singer Fanny Brice and scientist | |
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 ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... arried Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of | and his wife Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her materna ... |
Arthur Miller | ... 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by Aldous Huxley, | , Philip Jordan and André Roussin. She then moved to Paris, where she appe ... |
Mickey Rourke | ... cenes of which were filmed at the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, and the 2008 | drama The Wrestler, which was partially filmed in at the Color & Cuts Salo ... |
Richard E. Grant | ... rchward, Colin Firth as Arthur Holmwood, Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes, | as John Seward, and Harvey Keitel as |
Henry VIII | ... whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Arms to | in 1526, Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1532, and a Justice of the Peace f ... |
Barbara Amiel | ... cated. Following these revelations and others, Trevor-Roper told journalist | in 1995 that he was no longer certain about the allegations, and that Bern ... |
Ralph Fiennes | ... Daniel Day-Lewis and Isabelle Adjani for Beauregard and Geneviève, and then | and Juliette Binoche after they became too old. Other of Newman's suggesti ... |
Charles I | ... ent in an act of posthumous revenge for their part in the beheading of King | |
Greg Bear | The setting for | 's City at the End of Time is one hundred trillion years in the future and ... |
Edward Fitzgerald | ... erman. He began to write poetry when he was fourteen under the influence of | 's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam. ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... legislation intending to fulfill the Contract with America was coming from | 's House of Representatives. Many Democrats in the Senate and the country ... |
Valerio Massimo Manfredi | ... ventors on the island of Ortygia near Syracuse. He is the main character in | 's novel Tyrant (2003). He is also featured in the 1962 film Damon and Pyt ... |
John III Sobieski | ... of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King | |
Aelius Aristides | ... n Economics, were widely distributed in manuscript and in print. His use of | ' Panathenicus (Panegyric to Athens) to buttress his republican theses in ... |
George W. Bush | ... Presidential election, John Kerry carried the county by a 6.6% margin over | , with Kerry carrying the state by 6.7% over Bush |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. Senator Hatch and First Lady | also played major roles in SCHIP passing |
Johnson administration | ... egan to be released from this and other North Vietnamese prisons during the | , their testimonies revealed widespread and systematic abuse of prisoners ... |
Colin Firth | ... e Jane Horrocks as Katie Reed, Helena Bonham Carter as Penelope Churchward, | as Arthur Holmwood, Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes, Richard E. Grant as ... |
Nero | ... centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, Charles Laughton as | , and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus falls i ... |
Henri I | ... 06. The country was then divided between a kingdom in the north directed by | ; and a republic in the south directed by Alexandre Pétion, an homme de co ... |
Helena Bonham Carter | ... me too old. Other of Newman's suggestions were Jane Horrocks as Katie Reed, | as Penelope Churchward, Colin Firth as Arthur Holmwood, Christopher Lee as ... |
Zoroaster | ... c. AD 120) asserted that Ninus' opponent, the king of Bactria, was actually | (or first of several to bear this name), rather than Oxyartes |
Stephen Baxter | In | 's short story " " describes a Big Rip |
Eugene O'Neill | ... uri joined the National Theatre of Greece and played the role of Electra in | 's play Mourning Becomes Electra in 1945. In 1949 she had her first major ... |
Charles Laughton | ... ng Fredric March as centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, | as Nero, and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus ... |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... ectors' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Presenting the awards was | ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman (writers of Round ... |
Colette | ... us French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, | and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli Prize and ... |
Julian Beck | ... eers of performance based works of art. Groups like The Living Theater with | and Judith Malina collaborated with sculptors and painters creating enviro ... |
John Sebastian | ... e Clearwater Revival, Steppenwolf, The James Gang, Miles Davis, Tom Paxton, | and others |
Ferdowsi | ... by the Persian literary tradition of Iran, particularly by the Shahnameh of | , which probably explains the fact that he named all of his sons after Sha ... |
Jesse Helms | ... ows. In a letter dated April 8, 1997, then Halliburton-CEO Cheney told Sen. | , the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that it would be ... |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... rs." Ted now served as a role model for Maria Shriver, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, | , Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, and other family members. The Boston Globe wr ... |
Ibn Athir | 10) The Arab Historian | remarks in his book titled Al-Kamil: "If we name it the Quran of 'Ajam, we ... |
Sanai | 5) | believes that in reality the foundation of poetry was established by Ferdo ... |
Yuan Hao | ... n garrison towns, he sent his general Chen Qingzhi to support the pretender | . Despite the fact that Chen was only given 7,000 troops, Chen still manag ... |
Asadi Tusi | 2) | was born in the same city as Ferdowsi. His Garshaspnama was inspired by th ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... hard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, | , Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli ... |
Anthony West | ... d Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society; and in 1914, a son, | (1914–1987), by the novelist and feminist , twenty-six years his junior |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... were educated at Harvard during Eliot's tenure, including such notables as | (Class of 1890). Booker T. Washington was awarded an honorary degree by Ha ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... ted with the Royal Family (for instance, immediately following the death of | ). However, recent polls show that around 70–80% of the British public sup ... |
Bob Dylan | ... resley in the 1964 motion picture Viva Las Vegas, The Cadets, Roger Miller, | , Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger ... |
Judith Malina | ... nce based works of art. Groups like The Living Theater with Julian Beck and | collaborated with sculptors and painters creating environments; radically ... |
Chaucer's | ... nded him for the part. He also appeared in Pier Paolo Pasolini's version of | The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a younger husband of the |
Françoise Sagan | ... aywrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and | . In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli Prize and returned to Greece ... |
John Cassavetes | ... n Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by | . It focuses on a woman whose unusual behavior leads her husband to commit ... |
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 ... |
Charles Chilton | ... at Dixon, except the final episode, produced by Jacques Brown. In Series 8, | produced Episodes 1-5 and 17-26, Roy Speer produced Episodes 6-14 and Tom ... |
Francis George Fowler | Henry Watson Fowler moved to Guernsey in 1903 where he and his brother | composed The King's English and the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and much of ... |
Crown Prince | ... Loerzer had been regularized. They were assigned as a team to FFA 25 in the | 's Fifth Army – "though it seems that they had to steal a plane in order t ... |
Alan García | ... 1990, he reached the position of Secretary General after the resignation of | . He was also Prime Minister from 1985 until 1987, when serious disputes w ... |
Francis Veber | ... mperator of the Rosicrucian organization AMORC. One of his grand-nephews is | , a screenwriter, director and playwright whose films have been frequently ... |
John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | ... ncess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her maternal grandfather was | . In 1725 Charles Albert visited Versailles for the wedding of Louis XV an ... |
Sarah Palin | ... episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart parodied former Alaska Governor | 's reality television series, Sarah Palin's Alaska, in the form of a trail ... |
Alan García | ... resident of Peruvian Chamber of Deputies during the government of President | |
Alexander the Great | ... o the age of heroes, extending from Manuchehr's reign until the conquest of | (Sekandar). The main feature of this period is the major role played by th ... |
John F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... tic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The accident killed its pilot | , and also his wife and sister-in-law. As patriarch, Ted consoled his exte ... |
Gordon Brown | The government of | has announced several new reforms for care in England. One is to take the ... |
Alfred the Great | ... yfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by | to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was rec ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... n a cabin (which he dubbed "Marin-an") outside Mill Valley, California with | . It was also at this time that Snyder was an occasional student at the Am ... |
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 ... |
Anvari | 1) | a famous poet in his own right remarks about the eloquence of the Shahname ... |
Maria Shriver | ... he had every gift but length of years." Ted now served as a role model for | , Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, ... |
Henry Watson Fowler | ... riod when Guernsey was under German occupation during the Second World War. | moved to Guernsey in 1903 where he and his brother Francis George Fowler c ... |
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 |
Yazdegerd III | ... h Keyumars, the first man, and ended with his fiftieth scion and successor, | , six thousand years of history of Iran. The task of Ferdowsi was to preve ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... and Marcel Achard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as | , Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the ... |
Nimrod | ... ified in the Recognitions (part of Clementine literature) with the biblical | , who, the author says, taught the Persians to worship fire. In many moder ... |
Elizabeth II | ... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch, | , succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ... |
Joseph Locke | ... ed men were starting to make their marks, such as his son Robert, his pupil | and finally Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His conservative views on the capabil ... |
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia | ... icholas was identified from DNA obtained from among others his late brother | . Grand Duke George had died of tuberculosis in the late 1890s and was bur ... |
Marcel Achard | ... moved to Paris, where she appeared in boulevard plays by Jacques Deval and | , and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Je ... |
Frederick Taylor | The modern history of workflows can be traced to | and H. Gantt. Rudolf Laban and Warren Lamb contributed to this in England. ... |
William | ... he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whose parents, | and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society; and in 1914 ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... along with President Clinton at the public memorial service. He paraphrased | by saying of his nephew: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, t ... |
Anne of Denmark | ... 00. James VI and I, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, | , the daughter of Frederick II of Denmark also lived at the Palace until t ... |
Marx's | ... entialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of | thought, and the opening of a dialogue between Marxists and moderate socia ... |
Petrarch | ... st modern historian. The foundation of Bruni's conception can be found with | , who distinguished the classical period from later cultural decline, or t ... |
George W. Bush | ... er, many Democrats in Congress did not want to work with incoming President | . Kennedy, however, saw Bush as genuinely interested in a major overhaul o ... |
Hou Jing | ... n and Western Wei, Emperor Wu granted asylum to rebel Eastern Wei commander | , sending him on Northern Expeditions against Eastern Wei. After some init ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... The properties of lodestones and their affinity for iron were written of by | in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia |
Alexandre Dumas | ... nt of the Occitan Language. It is also the land of d'Artagnan, who inspired | 's character in The Three Musketeers. It is also home to the hero of the p ... |
Joseph Locke | ... tar" driven by his brother Robert and "Rocket" driven by assistant engineer | . The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ... |
William Wyler | ... rl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran | . Streisand won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, shar ... |
Carl Sagan | ... those like Robert Zubrin, Martyn J. Fogg, Richard L. S. Taylor and the late | who believe that it is humanity's moral obligation to make other worlds su ... |
Barbara Dickson | In popular culture, the singer | ; Dan McCafferty and Peter Agnew from the Scottish rock band Nazareth; Ian ... |
King Harold | ... shire and Monmouthshire, and traced his descent from an Owen of the time of | and a Sitsyllt of the reign of William Rufus. Sitsylt is the original Wels ... |
John Cage | ... Paxton and others collaborated with artists Robert Morris, Robert Whitman, | , Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver. These performances ... |
L. Sprague de Camp | ... historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominently in | 's historical novel The Arrows of Hercules (1965) as a patron of inventors ... |
Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria | He and his wife | were parents of seven children |
Mary Renault | ... river of boiling blood. A fictional version of Dionysius is a character in | 's historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominentl ... |
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland | ... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for | |
David Denby | ... the original story". Vincent Canby found it "both numbing and impressive". | of New York felt that the film would not make sense to viewers who had not ... |
Paul Krassner | ... s. The film got almost universally negative reviews. As a side note, writer | published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how G ... |
William Shakespeare | ... er. At the Kotopouli-Rex Theatre, Mercouri starred in plays like Macbeth by | and L'Alouette by Jean Anouilh |
Agustin de Iturbide | Honduras later joined the Mexican Empire of | , a fact which lasted until the formation of the Federal Republic of Centr ... |
Matthew Arnold | ... nnection of Georgian culture with that of Shahnama: Furthermore he remarks: | used a famous episode from the epic as the basis of his poem Sohrab and Ru ... |
Donald Trump | ... t season. In the final episode of the second season, he was matched against | , with King being killed again, this time in the ring |
Hallie Flanagan | ... Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, Paul Appleby '13, | '11, and Florence Kerr '12 became influential New Deal administrators |
Jean Anouilh | ... ouri starred in plays like Macbeth by William Shakespeare and L'Alouette by | |
Maximilian I | In 1505, Holy Roman Emperor | established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und ... |
James I of Scotland | ... e David II of Scotland (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324 | ;(reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and Charles I of England, King of England, S ... |
David II of Scotland | A number of British monarchs were born in Dunfermline Palace. These include | (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland ... |
Charles I of England | ... ert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland (reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and | , King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. James VI ... |
Prison Notebooks | ... the material, literally pens and paper, with which Gramsci would write his | ), brought John Maynard Keynes to prudently invite Sraffa to the Universit ... |
Julius Caesar | ... activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, | built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both ... |
Castor of Rhodes | ... name that may represent a Semitic title such as Ba'al, "lord". According to | (apud Syncellus p. 167), his reign lasted 52 years, its commencement falli ... |
Al Gore | ... ential election battle in Florida in 2000, Kennedy supported Vice President | 's legal actions. After the bitter contest was over, many Democrats in Con ... |
Nero | ... Barrett incarnated Marcus Superbus, an old Roman patrician of the years of | , who falls in love with a young woman and converts to Christianity for he ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... stein-Friesian Association of America. Susan Cleveland, sister of President | married into the Yeomans family |
Robert Zubrin | On the pro-terraforming side of the argument, there are those like | , Martyn J. Fogg, Richard L. S. Taylor and the late Carl Sagan who believe ... |
Iain Banks | ... ht up in nearby Crossgates. In literature, the critically acclaimed author, | ; poet and novelist, John Burnside; Robert Gilfillan and Robert Henryson w ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | He was born in Brussels as the son of | , and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King John III ... |
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 ... |
Henry VII | ... e best inn in Stamford. David somehow secured the favour of the first Tudor | , to whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Ar ... |
John Burnside | ... literature, the critically acclaimed author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, | ; Robert Gilfillan and Robert Henryson who wrote about life in the royal b ... |
King George V | ... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of | . In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ... |
David Stannard | ... es and European colonizers came into widespread conflict, resulting in what | has called a genocide of the indigenous populations. Early European immigr ... |
Juan Antonio Bardem | ... rman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language The Uninhibited by | . She continued her stage career in the Greek production of Tennessee Will ... |
Hippocrates | Early references to the condition can be found in the work of | , Erasistratus, Plutarch and Galen . In the psychiatric literature it was ... |
Augustus | ... nd his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first emperor, | , (r. 27 BC–AD 19), had shared power with his colleagues and more formal o ... |
Bill Cosby | ... He also made an appearance in 1973 on a short-lived variety show hosted by | , who idolized Groucho |
Khosrau I | During the reign of the later Sassanid king | (531–579), a gift from an Indian king (possibly a Maukhari Dynasty king of ... |
John Snagge | ... ies 3, original announcer Andrew Timothy was replaced (at the suggestion of | ) by Wallace Greenslade, who provided spoken narrative links as well as oc ... |
Finarfin | Dorthonion was originally ruled by Angrod and Aegnor, two of the sons of | , under the suzerainty of their older brother Finrod. The north-eastern ar ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... with his colleagues and more formal offices of co-emperor had existed from | (r. 161–180) on |
Tennessee Williams | ... n Antonio Bardem. She continued her stage career in the Greek production of | 's Sweet Bird of Youth (1960), under the direction of Karolos Koun. In 196 ... |
Dante | ... ther in The Hollow Men." This is a striking claim for a poem as indebted to | as anything else in Eliot’s early work, to say little of the modern Englis ... |
Robert Gilfillan | ... e critically acclaimed author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, John Burnside | ;and Robert Henryson who wrote about life in the royal burgh in the 15th c ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ly nine days before the U.S. presidential elections, causing U.S. President | great embarrassment. Truman reacted by making a strongly pro-Zionist decla ... |
Pauline Kael | ... charged at the time that it was made "under direct orders of the Kremlin." | , who reviewed the film for Sight and Sound in 1954, said it was "as clear ... |
Darren Star | ... fictitious California University after graduation. The show was created by | and executive producers Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent. The "90210" in ... |
Daniel Dennett | ... been developed into numerous versions by thinkers as diverse as David Marr, | , Jerry Fodor, and David Lewis. Functionalism helped lay the foundations f ... |
Carl Foreman | ... us directors as well, such as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, Ronald Neame, | , Norman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language The Uninhibit ... |
Cecil B. DeMille | In 1932, | produced and directed a highly successful film version of The Sign of the ... |
Carus | ... sily removed from power. In contrast, just a few years earlier, the emperor | and his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first empero ... |
Zhang Heng | ... Using a water clock, waterwheel and a series of gears, the Court Astronomer | (78–139 CE) was able to mechanically rotate his metal-ringed armillary sph ... |
Charles Lindbergh | ... st Neck became incorporated as a municipality which was named Lloyd Harbor. | , Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Joel at one point lived on the Neck. Currently ... |
Moira Shearer | ... an Anderson the singer of the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull and | , ballerina and actress were all born in the town. Manny Charlton the prod ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... mber of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and | from 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745. Charles was notably the only ... |
Ronald Neame | ... ith other famous directors as well, such as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, | , Carl Foreman, Norman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language ... |
Victor Hugo | ... acuated to the UK for five years during the German occupation of 1940–1945. | wrote some of his best-known works while in exile in Guernsey, including L ... |
Saparmurat Niyazov | In January 2006, | ordered to stop paying pensions to ⅓ (more than 100,000) of elderly people ... |
Ardashir I | ... and 7th centuries AD (Common Era). This ancient Persian text refers to Shah | , who ruled from 224–241, as a master of the game |
Craig Morton | Before being taken out of the game, Denver's starting quarterback | completed just 4 out of 15 passes for 39 yards and was intercepted 4 times ... |
Richard Brooks | ... e Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), (directed by her second husband, | ), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of James Agee's nove ... |
Frank Miller | ... major changes to many of their major revenue-generating comic book series. | 's revamp of Batman with , George Pérez's relaunching of Wonder Woman in G ... |
Nursultan Nazarbayev | ... akhstan and is a regular goose hunting companion of the country's President | . He is a supporter of Norwich City Football Club |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by | in September 2006 |
James Agee | ... and, Richard Brooks), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of | 's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending (1969), again direc ... |
Xiao Dong | ... ering. Despite Emperor Wu's assurances, Hou decided to rebel in the name of | , the grandson of the former crown prince Xiao Tong who died in 531 AD and ... |
Aristotle | ... translating into Latin many works of Greek philosophy and history, such as | and Procopius. Bruni's translations of Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachea ... |
Richard Brooks | ... citizens; they divorced in 1960. On 1 November, 1960, she married director | ; they divorced in 1977. Although both men were significantly older than S ... |
Ivereigh | ... ode of the Catholic Church (Theo Press Ltd., 2007) ISBN 978-0-9554133-0-8.* | & Griffin: Catholic Voices, (Darton Longman and Todd, 2010) ISBN 978-0-232 ... |
Oswaldo López | ... a bloody coup. These officers exiled PLH members and governed under General | until 1970 |
President Reagan | ... rd Nixon announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, | added the position of drug czar to the President's Executive Office |
Fredric Jameson | ... years before postmodernism became a dominant attitude in the visual arts." | , too, considers pop art to be postmodern |
Melvin A. Eggers | ... ention of the NCAA. The day after the bombing, the university's chancellor, | , said on nationwide television that he should have canceled the event. Af ... |
Andy Warhol | ... ious Dadaist — with a sense of humor; and Pop Artists like Claes Oldenburg, | , Roy Lichtenstein and the others |
Jason Priestley | ... fall. Viewership increased dramatically and the cast members, particularly | and Luke Perry, became teen idols, while the series would make actresses S ... |
Alan Jay Lerner | ... musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969), and | 's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vince ... |
Xenophon | ... ever, afforded him unusual facilities for obtaining material. His model was | , whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains fr ... |
Alfonso IX of León | ... i had established himself in the city of Cordoba. Sensing the vacuity, both | and Sancho II of Portugal opportunistically ordered their own raids into A ... |
George Tupou V | In July 2008, three days before his coronation, King | announced that he would relinquish most of his power and be guided by his ... |
John Bartlow Martin | ... teland" was suggested to Minow by his friend, reporter and freelance writer | . Martin had recently watched twenty consecutive hours of television as re ... |
Paul Chaikin | ... d by Denis Jerome and Klaus Bechgaard in 1979. Recent experimental works by | 's and Michael Naughton's groups as well as theoretical analysis of their ... |
Gil Fates | ... eing hustled off the stage by announcer Johnny Olsen and executive producer | . Daly merely apologized to the panel, and the program continued |
Ferdinand III of Castile | ... aeza. He set up a rebel camp and forged an alliance with the hitherto quiet | . Sensing his greater priority was Marrakesh, where recusant Almohad sheik ... |
Bill Clinton | ... tone of the Clinton campaign and what he saw as racially tinged remarks by | . Kennedy gave an endorsement to Obama on January 28, 2008, despite appeal ... |
Samuel Rogers | ... he subject of a play The Two Foscari by Lord Byron (1821) and an episode in | ' long poem Italy. The Byron play served as the basis for the libretto wri ... |
C. S. Lewis | Fantasy fiction is particularly rich in references to flat worlds. In | ' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the fictional world of Narnia is "round l ... |
Louis IV | ... emperor at Frankfurt. Charles VII was the second Wittelsbach Emperor after | and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of Rupert of G ... |
Julia Kristeva | ... iterary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, | , Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
John Charles Daly | ... n appeared on-stage and proclaimed himself "the second mystery guest". Host | quickly called for "the relieving crew" and said "schedule two" (a code wo ... |
Andy Warhol | ... movement. While later American examples include the bulk of the careers of | and Roy Lichtenstein and his use of Benday dots, a technique used in comme ... |
Walter Pater | ... oets, a group whose writings derived, in many ways, from the prose works of | , Hopkins's academic coach for his Greats exams, and later his lifelong fr ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... federal military reservation established by President of the United States | in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the campus of the U.S ... |
Marc Ravalomanana | The government of former President | was aggressively seeking foreign investment and had planned to tackle many ... |
David Hockney | ... advertising, and iconography of the mass production age. The early works of | and the works of Richard Hamilton, John McHale, and Eduardo Paolozzi were ... |
Plato | ... , such as the historian Philistus, the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher | , but treated them in a most arbitrary manner. Once he had Philoxenus arre ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senator | and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ... |
Jeremy Clarkson | ... x Warp he plays TV presenter Geoffrey Vantage, parodying Top Gear presenter | (this episode broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 26 October 2008). He also plays ... |
Charlie Chester | ... hael Bentine, who appeared in the first series, had just begun appearing in | 's peak time radio show Stand Easy |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... G (13 September 1521 – 4 August 1598) was an English , the chief advisor of | for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) ... |
Saul Kripke | Putnam, along with | , Keith Donnellan, and others, contributed to what is known as the causal ... |
Craig Morton | ... ar (2-5 at Shea). Their coach was Bill Arnsparger and their quarterback was | |
Barack Obama | ... cratic nomination battle between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator | intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also running. After the initial ... |
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | ... left with the prisoners. Alexandra kept only two bracelets which her uncle, | , had given her as a child and which she could not take off. He did not kn ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... schenberg and Jasper Johns as part of the transitional phase, influenced by | , between modernism and postmodernism. Both these artists used images of o ... |
Neal Cassady | ... he inspiration for the novel's main character, Japhy Ryder, in the same way | had inspired Dean Moriarty in On the Road. As the large majority of people ... |
Jason Priestley | ... e of Blossom (and to a lesser extent, Joey's brothers, Matthew and Andrew), | and Luke Perry of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame, and Erik Von Detten of variou ... |
Karl Marx's | ... rk of Althusser and his students in an intensive philosophical rereading of | Capital. The book reflects on the philosophical status of Marxist theory a ... |
Michael Bentine | ... and acting in the high profile BBC show Hip-Hip-Hoo-Roy with Derek Roy, and | , who appeared in the first series, had just begun appearing in Charlie Ch ... |
Henry IV | ... a Parisian) and to Henry III of Navarre who later became king of France as | |
Lord Byron | ... Frari, Venice. Foscari's life was the subject of a play The Two Foscari by | (1821) and an episode in Samuel Rogers' long poem Italy. The Byron play se ... |
Robert Henryson | ... author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, John Burnside; Robert Gilfillan and | who wrote about life in the royal burgh in the 15th century have connectio ... |
John McCain | ... Security, and Refugees, and in 2005, Kennedy teamed with Republican Senator | on the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. The "McCain-Kennedy bil ... |
Michael Psellos | ... s (such as his father and father-in-law) Bryennios made use of the works of | , John Skylitzes and Michael Attaleiates. As might be expected, his views ... |
Mithridates I of Parthia | ... g Syria and northern Mesopotamia; the nomadic Parthians, brilliantly led by | had overrun uppland Media (home of the famed Nisean horse herd); and Roman ... |
Roland Barthes | ... c tradition of literary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, | , Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
Stephen Sondheim | ... d her focus to stage and television acting. She toured the United States in | 's well-reviewed musical A Little Night Music, then took the show to Londo ... |
President of the United States | West Point is a federal military reservation established by | Thomas Jefferson in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... tts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and political commentator | praised the film because of the way people were portrayed doing the real w ... |
López | ... is time round, he adopted more progressive policies, including land reform. | 's successors continued armed forces modernization programs, building army ... |
Juan Alberto Melgar | ... air force superiority over its neighbors. During the governments of General | (1975–78) and General Policarpo Paz (1978–82), Honduras built most of its ... |
Philip Whalen | Independently, some of the Beats, including | , had become interested in Zen, but Snyder was one of the more serious sch ... |
Richard Dreyfuss | ... stival, where it captured the attention of film critics like Rex Reed. When | appeared on The Mike Douglas Show with Peter Falk, he described the film a ... |
Tigranes the Great | Mithridates' ambitious son-in-law, | , king of Armenia, however, saw opportunity for expansion in the constant ... |
Gerry Adams | ... ough the move caused some controversy in the UK due to his connections with | of the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin. Later in March, a bill ... |
William Morris | ... ip Webb designed Red House for the artist, reforming designer and socialist | on the western edge of the heath, in the hamlet of Upton — before Upton be ... |
Oswaldo López | ... NH, Ramón Ernesto Cruz, took power briefly in 1970 until, in December 1972, | staged another coup. This time round, he adopted more progressive policies ... |
Dick Higgins | ... orum Fluxus in Düsseldorf with George Maciunas, Wolf Vostell, Joseph Beuys, | , Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Emmett Williams and others |
Dermot MacMurrough | ... x Ireland and bring the Irish church into line with Rome. Around 1170, King | of Leinster was deposed by his arch-enemy King Rory O'Connor of Connacht. ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | ... ange the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in | 's poem "The Last Leaf". Herman visited him in Boston, and his father turn ... |
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 ... |
Huan Tan | The waterwheel appeared in Chinese records during the Han. As mentioned by | in about 20 CE, they were used to turn gears that lifted iron trip hammers ... |
Marx's | Althusser's contention is that | thought has been fundamentally misunderstood and underestimated. He fierce ... |
Umberto Eco | ... v, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and | |
Ramón Ernesto Cruz | A civilian president for the PNH, | , took power briefly in 1970 until, in December 1972, Oswaldo López staged ... |
Sancho II of Portugal | ... lf in the city of Cordoba. Sensing the vacuity, both Alfonso IX of León and | opportunistically ordered their own raids into Andalusian territory that s ... |
Burton Lane | ... n's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969), and Alan Jay Lerner's and | 's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1970 ... |
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 ... |
Roger Ebert | ... d "cinema at its finest". In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, | , who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a ... |
Coluccio Salutati | ... , Tuscany circa 1370. Bruni was the pupil of political, and cultural leader | , whom he succeeded as chancellor of Florence. Bruni's years in office—141 ... |
Dick Higgins | ... luded Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht and | |
Nikos Gatsos | One of her first songs was by Manos Hadjidakis and | . It was titled Hartino to Fengaraki ("Papermoon") and was a part of the G ... |
Francesco Maria Piave | ... poem Italy. The Byron play served as the basis for the libretto written by | for Giuseppe Verdi's opera I due Foscari, which premiered on 3 November 18 ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... Penn Station—called "an act of irresponsible public vandalism" by historian | —led directly to the enactment in 1965 of a local law establishing the New ... |
Jackson Mac Low | ... or no background in music. Cage's students included Fluxus founding members | , Al Hansen, George Brecht and Dick Higgins |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... ayment. The Duke's entourage denied he knew of the situation. In July 2011, | stated that her multi-million pound debts had been cleared due to the inte ... |
Hannah More | ... rkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, | and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of ... |
W H Russell | File:Wh russell cartoon.png| Punch: war reporter, | , Crimean Wa |
Maria Theresa | ... ies were overrun by the Austrians and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of | . Therefore the emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in ... |
John Cage | ... 931-78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. Fluxus traces its beginnings to | 's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Soc ... |
Odin | The Norse god | in his many forms, astride his eight-legged steed Sleipnir, came to be ass ... |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti | ... ce and interest in things rural, a refreshing and almost exotic individual. | later referred to Snyder as 'the Thoreau of the Beat Generation' |
Robert Zubrin | ... it could only be terraformed with greater difficulty. Mars Society founder | produced a plan for a Mars return mission called Mars Direct that would se ... |
Henry II of England | In the 12th century the only English pope, Adrian IV, authorised King | to take possession of Ireland as a feudal territory nominally under papal ... |
Caroline Kennedy | ... 25, 2008, where a video tribute to him was played. Introduced by his niece, | , the senator said, "It is so wonderful to be here. Nothing – nothing – is ... |
Johnny Cash | Country singer | parodied the song in 1959 on the television show Town Hall Party, imitatin ... |
James I’s | | ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, who pr ... |
Joseph Locke | ... e, rather than the West Coast Main Line taking the direct route favoured by | over Shap between Lancaster and Carlisle, Stephenson was in favour of a lo ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's fictional Middle-earth, the Dagor Bragollach (Sindarin for Battle of Su ... |
Speaker of the Flemish Parliament | ... Southeast Limburgish dialect - South Tower (Brussels) - Spaak, Paul-Henri - | - Special law - Spiere-Helkijn - Spirit - Stabroek - Staden - State reform ... |
Roger Ebert | | referred to the city in his review of as a "spectacular achievement", and ... |
Kenneth Rexroth | ... t Allen Ginsberg when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of | . Then, through Ginsberg, Snyder and Kerouac came to know each other. This ... |
Ludvig Holberg | An early mention in literature was | 's comedy Erasmus Montanus (1723). Erasmus Montanus meets considerable opp ... |
Debbie Barham | ... , Garden wrote the Radio 4 series About a Dog, based on an original idea by | , with a second series in 2007 |
Henry II | His 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the future | to gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony. Th ... |
Chris Claremont | ... sha first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #235 (October 1988), and was created by | and Rick Leonardi |
Marcel Duchamp | ... Press, a Concrete poet, married to artist Alison Knowles and an admirer of | . Ihab Hassan includes, "Intermedia, the fusion of forms, the confusion of ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from | |
Mitt Romney | ... that Kennedy "changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans". | , former Massachusetts Governor and Kennedy's opponent in the 1994 senate ... |
Pompey | ... instability in Syria under the Seleucids. Once Mithridates was defeated by | in 63 BC, Pompey set about the task of remaking the Hellenistic East, by c ... |
Edward Bruce | Around Lent of 1314, | , brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which ... |
Paul Krugman | In 1991, | , as a highly regarded international trade theorist, put out a call for ec ... |
Robert Byrd | ... eagan] and I have been to the Kennedy family. ... I will miss him." Senator | of West Virginia, the President pro tempore of the Senate, issued a statem ... |
President | ... ere constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointed Ramón Villeda as | , and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term. The PLH rule ... |
Organa | ... uly 27, 1999, a digitally restored print of the film was released in DVD by | through Geneon (Pioneer), and packaged with the documentary The Hollywood ... |
John Cage | Precursors to conceptual art include the work of Duchamp, | 's 4' 33" which is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence and Ra ... |
John II Komnenos | ... y set afoot by his mother-in-law Irene Doukaina and his wife Anna to depose | , the son of Alexios, and raise himself to the throne. His wife attributed ... |
John André | ... ut $1.3M in 2009 dollars). However, Arnold's plot failed when British Major | was captured as a spy by the Americans. Arnold received a decreased cash r ... |
Constantine | ... divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself. When Licinius and | began to make common cause with one another, Maximinus entered into a secr ... |
Carolly Erickson | ... Starkey, feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, | , Alison Plowden and Susan James and Linda Porter. Biographers have descri ... |
Indira Gandhi | In 1975, the Indian Government under the Prime Minister Mrs. | , proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby suspending the fundamental r ... |
Robert Bridges | ... . These impulses seem to have taken on a degree of specificity after he met | 's distant cousin, friend, and fellow Etonian Digby Mackworth Dolben, "a C ... |
H. A. Guerber | ... ong with the host; those that joined in sincerity were rewarded with gold ( | , 1922). In the wake of the passing storm, with which the Hunt was often i ... |
Allen Ginsberg | Snyder met | when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of Kenneth Rexroth ... |
Andy Hamilton | ... vable Truth (which he co-devised), starring, among others, Jeremy Hardy and | |
Dick Higgins | ... e use of a number of different media together. Intermedia, a term coined by | and meant to convey new artforms along the lines of Fluxus, Concrete Poetr ... |
Ramón Villeda | ... it back). There were constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointed | as President, and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term. ... |
Emperor Yuan of Liang | ... f his generals Wang Sengbian and Chen Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself | . His brother Xiao Ji based in Sichuan was still a major threat. Emperor Y ... |
Aurobindo Ghosh | ... ds political independence proposed by leaders such as the Lal, Bal, Pal and | |
Sparta | ... came a sea of Syracuse. In the Peloponnesian War, he joined the side of the | ns and assisted them with mercenaries |
David Starkey | ... and devotion have earned her many admirers among historians. These include | , feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carol ... |
Nathan Hale | ... hore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Named after | , a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War ... |
the Queen | ... the Privy Council at Whitehall on 18 March 1588, as a result of petition to | . On these occasions he maintained the principle of separatism, denouncing ... |
Roland Barthes | ... terature have often been less systematic (or, in some special cases such as | 's S/Z, they have been so specifically and exhaustively systematic as to r ... |
Rider Strong | ... from TV at around the same time were most of the cast of Saved by the Bell, | of Boy Meets World, Joey Lawrence of Blossom (and to a lesser extent, Joey ... |
Mickey Spillane | In the late 1940s | and a friend of his from the Army bought a woodlot on Rock Cut Road and li ... |
Hal Foster | ... on the context can be construed as a precursor to the postmodern movement. | , in his essay The Crux of Minimalism, examines the extent to which Donald ... |
Alan Watts | ... student at the American Academy of Asian Studies, where Saburō Hasegawa and | , among others, were teaching. Hasegawa introduced Snyder to the treatment ... |
Erykah Badu | ... hievement Award by her five children and singer Alicia Keys. Stevie Wonder, | and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to Ross, covering several of her ... |
Benedict Arnold | In perhaps the most infamous act of treason in American history, General | attempted to turn the site over to the British Army in 1780 for a bribe co ... |
Danny Howells | ... l publish mix CDs by the likes of Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, James Lavelle, and | recording mix compilations. The label is still going strong today with off ... |
Timur Leng | ... he late Middle Ages, but their hold upon the area was transitional as later | and Uzbeks contested the land |
Clement Scott | ... and Henry Arthur Jones produced Hoodman Blind and in 1886 co-operated with | in Sister Mary. In 1886 Barrett left the Princess's Theatre, and in this s ... |
Mike Easley | ... %. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to re-elect Democratic Governor | against local Republican Patrick J. Ballantine |
George Gamow | ... expertise in the interpretation of X-ray diffraction patterns of proteins. | established a group of scientists interested in the role of RNA as an inte ... |
James Bond | ... y in 1989. In 1995 Pierce Brosnan filmed train crash sequences for the 17th | film, GoldenEye, at the former sugar beet factory. A scene for the film Th ... |
Basil II | ... hen led his armies against Bulgaria, in alliance with the Byzantine Emperor | , and collected several relics during his campaign |
Edward II of England | ... . It was now two years since an English army had come to Scotland, and King | had recently been on the verge of war with his barons after the murder of ... |
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 ... |
Damon Wayans | ... ting classmates—until "King" was revealed as a young Don King (portrayed by | ), who promoted the schoolyard scuffle |
Villeda | ... nservative military officers preempted constitutional elections and deposed | in a bloody coup. These officers exiled PLH members and governed under Gen ... |
Emile Verhaeren | ... Rompuy, Herman - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - | - Verhofstadt, Dirk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - Verl ... |
Roger Ebert | ... elling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion." | of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... build boats to transition goods from the rails to the seas. With President | 's declaration to create a Great White Fleet, the company entered the wars ... |
Charles VI | ... d claimed the German territories of the Habsburg dynasty after the death of | in 1740. With the treaty of Nymphenburg concluded in July 1741, Charles Al ... |
Galerius | ... 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of the emperor | near their family lands around Felix Romuliana; a rural area then in the D ... |
Marie Amalie | On 5 October 1722, Charles married | , Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of Joseph I, Holy Ro ... |
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 ... |
Mikhail Bakhtin | ... rs in the semiotic tradition of literary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, | , Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
Charlotte Chandler | ... mpanied by new books of transcribed conversations by Richard J. Anobile and | . In a BBC interview in 1975, Groucho called his greatest achievement havi ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... ançois Lyotard, it was painting of the artists Valerio Adami, Daniel Buren, | , Bracha Ettinger, and Barnett Newman that, after the avant-garde's time a ... |
Michael Bentine | ... igan (who played only minor roles in the early shows), Sellers, Secombe and | as the nominal 'hero' of each episode, madcap inventor Dr Osric Pureheart. ... |
George Washington | ... ld was best known as the site of the Springfield Armory, a site selected by | and Henry Knox in 1777. Closed controversially during the Vietnam War, the ... |
Isaac I Komnenos | ... ials for a History", ) of the period from 1057 to 1081, from the victory of | over Michael VI to the dethronement of Nikephoros III Botaneiates by Alexi ... |
Edward I | ... of Chelsea (Chelsey), Kensington (Kensing town) and Charing. In the time of | , the manor of Knightsbridge appertained to the abbey of Westminster. It w ... |
Griselda Pollock | ... d practices of women artists including painters and feminist theorists like | , were systematically reevaluating modern art. Brian Massumi claims that D ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... . Present at the funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents | , Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former Pr ... |
George W. Bush | ... ear equal measure. In the 2004 presidential elections, the county supported | over John Kerry by 56% to 44%. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to ... |
Roman Emperor | ... – July or August 313), also known as Maximinus Daia or Maximinus Daza, was | from 308 to 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Paul Oakenfold | ... ty's Global Underground record label publish mix CDs by the likes of Sasha, | , James Lavelle, and Danny Howells recording mix compilations. The label i ... |
George W. Bush | ... e were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and | (also representing his father, former President George H. W. Bush, who dec ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President | , who declined to attend), along with Vice President Biden, three former V ... |
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Henry Arthur Jones | In 1885 he and | produced Hoodman Blind and in 1886 co-operated with Clement Scott in Siste ... |
Bill Clinton | ... he funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, | and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President George ... |
Char Aznable | ... example of this is how the personalities of longtime rivals, Amuro Ray and | , are influenced by their experiences in the Gundam saga |
Digby Mackworth Dolben | ... ty after he met Robert Bridges's distant cousin, friend, and fellow Etonian | , "a Christian Uranian". The Hopkins biographer Robert Bernard Martin asse ... |
Alison Plowden | ... activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carolly Erickson, | and Susan James and Linda Porter. Biographers have described her as strong ... |
Simon de Montfort | In 1248, | was appointed Governor in the unsettled Duchy of Gascony. Bitter complaint ... |
Xiao Ji | ... en Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself Emperor Yuan of Liang. His brother | based in Sichuan was still a major threat. Emperor Yuan asked for assistan ... |
Ibn al-Nadim | ... ss is in the Fihrist, a general bibliography produced in 377 AH (988 CE) by | . It includes an entire section on the topic of chess, listing |
Félix Guattari | ... with the conservative cultural politics of the Reagan-Bush era in the U.S. | disregards the "large promotional operations dubbed 'neo-expressionism' in ... |
Peter Moon | In 1992, Long Island residents Preston B. Nichols and | wrote a science fiction novel, (ISBN 0-9631889-0-9) in which it was claime ... |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... he nineteenth century it was largely rural with only scattered settlements. | lived at Hyde Farm in Kingsbury from 1771 to 1774. David William Murray, 3 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... n was under French control as Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by | brought the area under United States control. In 1830, Congress passed the ... |
Otto Höfler | ... removed by trickery; it must be kept for a whole year and carefully tended. | (1934) and other authors of his generation emphasized the identification o ... |
Elizabeth I | ... "Tyburn Tree" was Dr John Story, a Roman Catholic who refused to recognise | . Among the more notable individuals suspended from the "Tree" in the foll ... |
Agatha Christie | Garden has also played a minor role in the 2007 television adaptation of | 's 'Nemesis' |
Ermengarde of Tours | He married | , who died in 851 |
Lew Welch | ... or a time roomed with the education author, Carl Proujan, Philip Whalen and | . At Reed, Snyder published his first poems in a student journal. He also ... |
Organa | ... This Special Edition with the Hollywood Ten film is still available through | at organa.com. In 2004, a budget edition DVD was released by Alpha Video. ... |
Marcel Bigeard | ... nel Pierre Langlais, Geneviève de Galard ("The Angel of Dien Bien Phu") and | , the Officer in Command of the 6th BPC. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. is also a ... |
Sparky Anderson | ... offseason. With the deaths of George Kell, Mark Fidrych, Ernie Harwell and | , the slogan has new appreciation, for players and personalities of the te ... |
Ferdinand II | ... tion was therefore to support the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor, the Habsburg | |
David X. Cohen | ... t Springfield". The Flanders/Lovejoy segment of that episode was written by | . "22 Short Films about Springfield" in turn inspired the Futurama episode ... |
Henry III | ... eigneurs of the nobility and the contending factions in the great communes. | yielded to the outcry and instituted a formal inquiry into Simon's adminis ... |
Oliver St. John Gogarty | ... objectors was the property-owner, Dr Gogarty, the father of the Irish poet, | |
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 ... |
Kate Edmondson | ... us people notable in the media are known for coming from Portsmouth such as | , presenter on MTV and TMF, Matt Edmondson, Radio 1 and Channel 4 presente ... |
David Wu | ... ile at Harvard he shared an apartment with future United States Congressman | |
Benjamin Franklin | ... police suspicion that they were English spies, they visited Paris, meeting | , General Lafayette, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and joined the French ... |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | The Russian schoolmaster and physicist | foresaw elements of the space community in his book Beyond Planet Earth wr ... |
Galerius | In 305, his maternal uncle | became the eastern Augustus and adopted Maximinus, raising him to the rank ... |
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor | According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of | , sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic ... |
David Hume | Historian and philosopher | , in his history of England, recounts how in the reign of Henry III (r.121 ... |
Paul Robeson | ... skill Riots of 1949, involving the Civil Rights Congress benefit concert of | , specifically occurred in the neighboring suburb Van Cortlandtville |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ught Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance with | during the Second Silesian War finally forced the Austrian army to leave B ... |
Adam Freeland | ... ay with offices in London and New York, and new releases from Deep Dish and | |
Craig Morton | ... t, and the Broncos advanced to the Cowboys' 33-yard line before quarterback | was sacked for an 11-yard loss on third down. On the ensuing punt, Cowboys ... |
Giovanni Verga | In her works we can recognize the influence of the verism of | and, sometimes, also that of the decadentism by Gabriele D'Annunzio |
Numa Pompilius | Rome's second king, | (r. 715-673 BC), is said to have begun the cult of Vesta, building its hou ... |
the Queen | ... ided to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister. Fearing that Whitlam would go to | and have him removed, Kerr did not give Whitlam any hint of what was comin ... |
Porphyry | ... in the anonymous Parmenides commentary (Fragment XIV) ascribed by Hadot to | [...] and is also found in Plotinus' Ennead 6.7, 17, 13-26. |
Robert Burns | "Scots Wha Hae" is the title of a patriotic poem by | . The chorus of Scotland's unofficial national anthem refers to Scotland's ... |
Alicia Keys | ... presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by her five children and singer | . Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to ... |
Edward | ... ascony, pursuing a policy of conciliation; he arranged the marriage between | , his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X. Alfo ... |
Larry Stephens | ... by Spike Milligan with the regular collaboration of other writers including | , Eric Sykes (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 4), Maurice Wilt ... |
Dave Chappelle | ... Live! and The Howard Stern Show to promote fights. He has been portrayed by | in a skit about a "Gay America", promoting a boxing match between two homo ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... rnor of New York, and then fourth Vice President of the United States under | and James Madison; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary o ... |
Licinius | In 308, after the elevation of | to Augustus, Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum ("so ... |
Offa | ... Crane or Yeading Brook). The first land grant including Yeading was made by | in 790 to Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury: "in the place called on lin ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... Lasswitz in 1897 and Bernal, Oberth, Von Pirquet and Noordung in the 1920s. | contributed his ideas in a 1952 Colliers article. In the 1950s and 1960s, ... |
Eric Sykes | ... n with the regular collaboration of other writers including Larry Stephens, | (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 4), Maurice Wiltshire and Joh ... |
Michael Longley | ... bring Heaney into contact with other Belfast poets such as Derek Mahon and | . In August 1965 he married Marie Devlin, a school teacher and native of A ... |
Karl Pearson | ... obability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by | . A histogram consists of tabular frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangle ... |
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale | Image:John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale by Jacob Huysmans.jpg| | (1616-1682) |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a joined the so-called "cafeteria group", together with Frank P. Ramsey and | , a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's theory of probability an ... |
Porphyry | ... xts, which shed light on some of the more puzzling comments by Plotinus and | regarding the Gnostics. More importantly, the texts help to distinguish di ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... sh spies, they visited Paris, meeting Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, | and Louis XVI, and joined the French court at Fontainebleau |
Thomas Tickell | The house and lands of the poet | were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin So ... |
Olaf Stapledon | ... ly excluded from science fiction's explorations of the end of our universe. | 's 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker describes intelligent life in the ... |
Princess Royal | ... e of this is the adjective "naff" to denote bad or shoddy, even used by the | (as a verb) in a clash with the press some years later. They were able to ... |
Jim Northrup | ... crucial Game 6 on just two days' rest, aided by a grand slam home run from | . Teammate Mickey Lolich won three games during the series, including a co ... |
Sidney Poitier | Along with Paul Newman, | and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company ... |
Henry Cowell | ... udied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark and | . Gershwin began his career as a song plugger. Soon after, he began to com ... |
John Antrobus | ... ykes (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 4), Maurice Wiltshire and | , initially under the supervision of Jimmy Grafton |
Genghis Khan | ... al system in the world was established by Ugedei Khan, who was successor of | of Mongolian empire in thirteen century, which territory included China. D ... |
James Bond | ... e complicated by the arrival of a British secret agent called Bond (but not | ), on the trail of a Russian spymaster who never goes anywhere without his ... |
Robert Torrens | In 1817, David Ricardo, James Mill and | showed that free trade would benefit the industrially weak as well as the ... |
Alfonso X | ... ge between Edward, his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of | . Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assisted the Plantagenets ag ... |
Chulalongkorn | ... at and any attempts at colonialization. By 1887 during the next reign, King | a permanent military command in the Kalahom Department was established. Ho ... |
Josh Fisher | ... he term VLIW, and the concept of VLIW architecture itself, were invented by | in his research group at Yale University in the early 1980s. His original ... |
Thomas Jefferson | In 1803, President | issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ... |
Reuven Frank | ... ber 29, 1956, with Huntley in New York and Brinkley in Washington. Producer | , who had advocated pairing Huntley and Brinkley for the convention covera ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed | |
Adam Clymer | Biographer | rates Kennedy's silence during the Thomas hearings as the worst moment of ... |
Matt Edmondson | ... or coming from Portsmouth such as Kate Edmondson, presenter on MTV and TMF, | , Radio 1 and Channel 4 presenter, Kim Woodburn of How Clean is Your House ... |
Ira Gershwin | ... er. Soon after, he began to compose Broadway theatre works with his brother | and Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris in an attempt to study with Nadia Bou ... |
Tullus Hostilius | ... use and temple as well as the Regia as the city's first royal palace. Later | (r. 673-642 BC) enclosed the Comitium around the old Etruscan temple where ... |
Henry IV | In order to continue the exploration efforts of his predecessor | , Louis XIII considered a colonial venture in Morocco, and sent a fleet un ... |
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 ... |
Maxentius | ... e another, Maximinus entered into a secret alliance with the usurper Caesar | , who controlled Italy. He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313, h ... |
James Madison | ... then fourth Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and | ; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury un ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | In 1792 Congress under | authorized construction of the Montauk Lighthouse. It was completed in 179 ... |
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 ... |
James Oberg | In March 1979, NASA engineer and author | organized the First Terraforming Colloquium, a special session at the Luna ... |
Abba Eban | ... otte's body was returned to Sweden, where the state funeral was attended by | on behalf of Israel. Folke was survived by a widow and two sons, a 12 year ... |
Herman Edwards | ... ht the pass as it carried just over the outstretched arms of defensive back | and took off to the end zone for a Super Bowl record 80-yard touchdown rec ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... sidered using chemical warfare. One of the earliest such references is from | , who proposed a powder of sulfide of arsenic and verdigris in the 15th ce ... |
George Fenneman | ... uge hit, being one of the most popular on television by the mid-1950s. With | , as his announcer and straight man, Groucho slayed his audiences with imp ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... died law (he passed the final state examination in 1926) and rose to become | 's personal legal adviser. In this capacity, Frank was privy to personal d ... |
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 ... |
Erwin Rommel | ... sh. Hitler had to intervene with the sending of the Afrika Korps of General | , that was the mainstay in the North African campaign. Continuing indicati ... |
Karl Pearson | ... f a histogram); and gramma 'drawing, record, writing'. It is also said that | , who introduced the term in 1895, derived the name from "historical diagr ... |
Attar | 8) | remarks about the poetry of Ferdowsi |
Henry VIII | ... ce. Be that as it may, there has been an inn on the site since the reign of | , and it is certainly one of the most famous public houses in London. It i ... |
Anna Quindlen | ... during the Thomas hearings as the worst moment of his Senate career. Writer | said "[Kennedy] let us down because he had to; he was muzzled by the facts ... |
Kublai Khan | ... teen century, which territory included China. During the Yuan Dynasty under | , China was integrated first into the much larger Örtöö system of the Mong ... |
Xiao Yuanming | ... efeats to the forces of Northern Qi, Wang Sengbian allowed their pretender, | to establish himself as Emperor Min of Liang. However, Chen Baxian was dis ... |
Charles IV | In 1325, the land was confiscated by | when Edward II of England, in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to ... |
Irene Doukaina | ... ios, he refused to enter into the conspiracy set afoot by his mother-in-law | and his wife Anna to depose John II Komnenos, the son of Alexios, and rais ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... n the past and of those more complex Cosmoses He will create in the future. | 's 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" treats non-scientific ... |
Terry Bradshaw | ... also was the last NFL appearance for Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback | , who threw two touchdown passes to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 34-7 ... |
Alexandre Pétion | ... ers under Leclerc were accompanied by mulatto troops led by gens de couleur | and André Rigaud from Saint-Domingue. Pétion and Rigaud, both wealthy with ... |
James Stockdale | Future U.S. Vice Presidential candidate | and decorated U.S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the H ... |
Sophia of Hanover | ... lement restricts the succession to the legitimate Protestant descendants of | (1630–1714), a granddaughter of James I |
Franklin D. Roosevelt's | ... consciousness fostered at Grinnell during these years became evident during | presidency, when Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, ... |
Ferdinand III of Castile | ... tacks, launched almost yearly by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León, | and James I of Aragon. The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the ... |
Irving Berlin | ... ers written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress. | quipped, "The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho in ... |
Emersonian | Eliot’s educational vision incorporated important elements of Unitarian and | ideas about character development, framed by a pragmatic understanding of ... |
Sparta | ... back to the 5th century BC, during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and | . Spartan forces besieging an Athenian city placed a lighted mixture of wo ... |
George W. Bush | ... ndchildren. King is politically active and made media appearances promoting | during the 2004 U.S. presidential election, which included attendance at t ... |
Jayavarman VII | ... King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of Angkorean emperor | , and in the present period. He is currently at work on a new historical n ... |
Tom Hanks | ... es, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia (1993) in which she played the mother to | ' character, and in television. She appeared in the television films Sybil ... |
Emperor Wu of Chen | ... g. After a short reign, Chen deposed Emperor Jing and took power himself as | in 557 AD |
Quentin Tarantino | | was an uncredited screenwriter on The Rock. LA-based British screenwriting ... |
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg | ... and the elevation of several members of the gentry to peers of the Empire. | was declared full age ahead of time in 1744. Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prin ... |
Val Kilmer | ... break Hotel" and "All Shook Up", while the same year in True Romance, actor | performed an a cappella version. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman covered th ... |
Freeman Dyson | In 2001, the space news website Space.com asked | , J. Richard Gott and Sid Goldstein for reasons why some humans should liv ... |
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 ... |
William Weld | ... nvestigation, and had Kennedy losing a hypothetical Senate race to Governor | by 25 points |
Aristotle | ... ecurity of despots rests entirely on the loyalty and power of mercenaries”. | wrote how some form of ‘guard’ (viz. a personal army) is needed for absolu ... |
Dave Mustaine | ... e Clash of the Titans tour (and, to a lesser extent, Mike Muir's brawl with | on the aforementioned tour) only helped expand their popularity. They also ... |
his wife | ... ity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispute. Edward sent | and then his heir, to whom he had transferred the title, to sort out the m ... |
James I of Aragon | ... by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and | . The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the Christian reconquista ... |
Dick Clement | ... an uncredited screenwriter on The Rock. LA-based British screenwriting team | and Ian La Frenais were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lin ... |
Wolverine | ... . In the first storyline to feature the nation, some members of the X-Men ( | , Rogue, and their ally Madelyne Pryor) were kidnapped by Genoshan Magistr ... |
James Lovelock | In 1984, | and Michael Allaby published The Greening of Mars. Lovelock's book was one ... |
George Kell | ... though the team lost many key players in the offseason. With the deaths of | , Mark Fidrych, Ernie Harwell and Sparky Anderson, the slogan has new appr ... |
Patrick Kavanagh | ... hael McLaverty from County Monaghan, who introduced Heaney to the poetry of | . With McLaverty's mentorship, Heaney first started to publish poetry, beg ... |
Sally Field | ... er, and in television. She appeared in the television films Sybil, opposite | , and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorsese's s ... |
Aragorn | ... he rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of | . As with most other landmarks in the film, the city is portrayed as relat ... |
Kim Woodburn | ... presenter on MTV and TMF, Matt Edmondson, Radio 1 and Channel 4 presenter, | of How Clean is Your House? was born in Portsmouth |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President | let it be known that he was displeased by the switch. In the summer of 195 ... |
John Lennon | ... ublished in 2005; the book records similar sayings between Groucho Marx and | |
Ernest Thompson Seton | ... s, and the idea of new members pledging themselves to the new organization. | 's Woodcraft Indians program was also consulted for its use of American In ... |
Susan Travers | ... ccept women in its ranks, there has been one official female member, Briton | who joined Free French Forces during the Second World War and became a mem ... |
Ian La Frenais | ... eenwriter on The Rock. LA-based British screenwriting team Dick Clement and | were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lines, but ended up al ... |
James Blish | ... observed by mankind: Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. | 's Cities in Flight series of books (1955 and 1962) ends with the disrupti ... |
Henry VIII | ... the Succession", barred both Elizabeth and Mary, the remaining children of | , from the throne, in favour of Lady Jane Grey.) Cecil resisted for a whil ... |
James K. Polk | ... for George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States of America under | |
Martin Scorsese | ... opposite Sally Field, and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for | 's screen version of The Age of Innocence |
Alexios I Komnenos | ... against the feeble Michael VII, but had been defeated by the future Emperor | and was blinded. The son, who was distinguished for his learning, personal ... |
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 ... |
Bob Chandler | ... nkett completed a 13-yard pass to King and a 32-yard completion to receiver | to move the ball to Philadelphia's 33-yard line. Then after a 4-yard run b ... |
Roger Staubach | ... 35-yard line. Dallas then drove to the 8-yard line, but Cowboys quarterback | was sacked by Lyle Alzado for a 10-yard loss on third down, forcing them t ... |
William McKinley | ... region. Years of controversy and legal maneuvering ensued before President | issued a proclamation on July 4, 1901, that gave the federal government co ... |
King Arthur | ... fairies; its leaders also varied, but they included Gwydion, Gwynn ap Nudd, | , Nuada, King Herla, Woden, the Devil and Herne the Hunter. Many legends a ... |
Emperor Wen of Chen | ... s. After the sudden death of Emperor Wu, his nephew Chen Qian took power as | . After the fall of Liang, the general Wang Lin had established an indepen ... |
Philip Whalen | ... Here he met, and for a time roomed with the education author, Carl Proujan, | and Lew Welch. At Reed, Snyder published his first poems in a student jour ... |
Alan Bleasdale | ... ichard Harvey, the title and incidental music for the mini-series G.B.H. by | . This entirely instrumental, and largely orchestral, soundtrack garnered ... |
James Boswell | ... peaking voice to great effect in political speeches; the diarist and author | witnessed Wilberforce's eloquence in the House of Commons and noted |
Lyle Estill | ... d at a local bank at the rate of $9 for every $10 of PLENTY. Local resident | , president of a Pittsboro company named Piedmont Biofuels, which accepts ... |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | Demetrius Nicator's brother, | , took the throne after his brother's capture. He faced the titanic chore ... |
Forest Evashevski | ... ncluded segments with celebrity guests such as Chico Marx, Alfred Drake and | , among others |
Alfred Marshall | ... turns to scale and perfect competition, underlining some doubtful points of | 's theory of the firm. This was amended for British readers and published ... |
Tallemant des Réaux | ... t rumours insinuated that he may have been homosexual or at least bisexual. | , drawing from rumours told to him by a critic of the king (the marquise d ... |
Philip Hobsbaum | ... ntributing various articles to local magazines, he came to the attention of | , then an English lecturer at Queen's University. Hobsbaum was to set up a ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | During her reign | made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh a ... |
Tori Spelling | ... ls, while the series would make actresses Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and | household names in the US. The show also had many cast changes, though Gar ... |
Hugh Jackman | ... omance, actor Val Kilmer performed an a cappella version. Nicole Kidman and | covered the song in a medley with Prince's "Kiss", for the 2006 Warner Bro ... |
Herodotus | ... wap his horse with a fresh one, for maximum performance and delivery speed. | described the system in this way: "It is said that as many days as there a ... |
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 ... |
Ernie Harwell | ... key players in the offseason. With the deaths of George Kell, Mark Fidrych, | and Sparky Anderson, the slogan has new appreciation, for players and pers ... |
Anna Komnene | ... ging qualities, gained the favour of Alexios I and the hand of his daughter | , receiving the titles of Caesar and panhypersebastos (one of the new dign ... |
Geoffrey Palmer | ... hn Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor | , Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister Charle ... |
Mary I | ... hat he had only signed the devise as a witness, but in his apology to Queen | , he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse; he preferred to lay st ... |
Walter Cronkite | ... s and maintained higher viewership levels for much of the 1960s, even after | took over CBS's competing program (initially named Walter Cronkite with th ... |
Brigitte Hamann | ... ere not allowed to return until the 1860s, scholars such as Ian Kershaw and | dismiss as baseless the Frankenberger hypothesis, which before had only Fr ... |
Shirley Jackson | ... or an Emmy Award.) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of | 's story Come Along with Me, for which husband Newman provided the voice o ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... 927, Sraffa's yet undiscussed theory of value, but also his friendship with | (a risky and compromising endeavor in the context of the Italian fascist r ... |
Lyle Alzado | ... ve to the 8-yard line, but Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach was sacked by | for a 10-yard loss on third down, forcing them to settle for a 35-yard Efr ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... which isolates them from local space-time at the instant of the collision. | 's short story, "The Last Question" was published in 1956. The story is br ... |
Alexandre Pétion | Disaffected members of Dessalines' administration, including | and Henri Christophe, began a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. Dessali ... |
George Tupou V | ... s death in September 2006 and is currently under study by the present king, | , and members of parliament |
John Maynard Keynes | ... ns and paper, with which Gramsci would write his Prison Notebooks), brought | to prudently invite Sraffa to the University of Cambridge, where he was in ... |
Augustine | ... the school moved into Syria, Northern Arabia, Egypt and North Africa (where | was a member of the school from 373-382); from Syria it progressed still f ... |
Henri Christophe | ... ected members of Dessalines' administration, including Alexandre Pétion and | , began a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. Dessalines was assassinated ... |
Giovanni Verga | Her work has been highly regarded by Luigi Capuana and | plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi and Renat ... |
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 ... |
Luigi Capuana | Her work has been highly regarded by | and Giovanni Verga plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro ... |
Andrew W.K. | ... of the song "Ai Senshi" from the Soldiers of Sorrow film. American musician | released an album called Gundam Rock on September 9, 2009 in Japan. The al ... |
Gore Vidal | Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author | prior to marrying Paul Newman. However, there was no real engagement: Vida ... |
Derek Mahon | ... ) and this would bring Heaney into contact with other Belfast poets such as | and Michael Longley. In August 1965 he married Marie Devlin, a school teac ... |
Sylvanus Morley | In 1931 | led a Carnegie Institution expedition to Yaxchilan, mapped the site and di ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... or Distinguished Federal Civilian Service at a 1962 ceremony with President | . In September 2010, the FDA honored Kelsey with the first Kelsey award. T ... |
Piers Anthony | ... e proclamation "'LET THERE BE LIGHT!' And there was light—" the story ends. | 's soft science fiction novel Ghost, deals with the topic of an energy-poo ... |
Xenophon | ... but the point of invention remains in question. The best documented claim ( | ) attributes the invention to the Persian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), w ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... used the various sites as backgrounds. Today the most prominent example is | who shot the movie-in-a-movie Stolz der Nation (Pride of the Nation) for I ... |
Edward VI | ... Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young | . Cecil accompanied Somerset on his Pinkie campaign of 1547 (part of the " ... |
George H. W. Bush | Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States | and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor ... |
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 ... |
Bryant Gumbel | ... , and Len Dawson (who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen). | and Mike Adamle of NFL '80 anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame cov ... |
Mahadev Desai | During M. K. Gandhi's visit to RSS Camp accompanied by | and Mirabehn at Wardha in 1934, he was surprised by the discipline and the ... |
Pepin II of Aquitaine | ... enay-en-Puisaye on 25 June 841, when, in spite of his and his allied nephew | 's personal gallantry, Lothair was defeated and fled to Aachen. With fresh ... |
Choe Bu | In 1488, the shipwrecked Korean scholar | travelled the length of the Grand Canal on his way from Zhejiang to Beijin ... |
Peter Jackson | ... out of the city of Minas Tirith itself is followed relatively faithfully in | 's film , (the city also has a cameo in , when Gandalf goes there to disce ... |
Mario Impemba | ... rs' current exclusive local television rights holder is Fox Sports Detroit. | does play-by-play with former outfielder handling color commentary |
Jack Williamson | ... eloped from both science fiction and actual science. The term was coined by | in a science-fiction story ("Collision Orbit") published during 1942 in As ... |
Philip Livingston | ... s Mountain; Abraham was married to Catherine Livingston, a granddaughter of | (1686–1749, and 2nd Lord of the Manor) |
Lu You | In 1170 the poet, politician and historian | travelled upon the Grand Canal from Shaoxing to the river Yangtze, recordi ... |
Len Dawson | ... e play-by-play duties and color commentators Merlin Olsen, John Brodie, and | (who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen). Bryant Gumbel a ... |
Johnny Giles | ... r from Ken Keyworth, Banks leapt high in the air to claim a high cross from | , only to drop the ball at Herd's feet. Herd scored his second to conclude ... |
Qin Shi Huang | ... from rice in the 1st century CE. This date could be revised if the tomb of | is excavated and the account in the Records of the Grand Historian concern ... |
Henry Cowell | ... ed with classical composer Rubin Goldmark and avant-garde composer-theorist | |
Porphyry | ... balus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor. His accounts were quoted by | (On Abstinence 4:17) and Stobaeus (Eccles., iii, 56, 141). Clement of Alex ... |
Mike Figgis | ... other gangster film, the 1988 film noir thriller Stormy Monday, directed by | and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Melanie Griffith, Sting and Sean Bean |
Cyrus the Great | ... st documented claim (Xenophon) attributes the invention to the Persian King | (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor Darius I of Persia (521 ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | In the fictional world of | 's Middle-earth, Dorthonion ("Land of Pines"), later Taur-nu-Fuin, was a h ... |
Liam D'Arcy Brown | In 2006, the travel-writer | went one stage further in travelling on most of the canal which is still i ... |
Aegeus | ... is a back-formation from "Aegean", the sea that was named for an eponymous | in early levels of Greek mythology. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) me ... |
Robinson Jeffers | ... on the first syllable in a foot. It is similar to the "rolling stresses" of | , another poet who rejected conventional metre. Hopkins saw sprung rhythm ... |
Rupert of Germany | ... ter Louis IV and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of | |
Nelson Goodman | ... is true if it would be accepted by anyone under ideal epistemic conditions. | had formulated a similar notion in Fact, Fiction and Forecast in 1956. In ... |
Fëanorian | ... Anfauglith, the Gasping Dust. Both Fingolfin, High-king of the Noldor, and | Noldor led by Maedhros had maintained camps of cavalry on Ard-galen as a f ... |
Ben Stiller | ... he Fockers (a sequel to Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, | , Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro |
Galen | ... ndition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Plutarch and | . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred to in 1623 in a trea ... |
King Arthur | ... he ages been modified to accommodate other gods and folk heroes, among them | and, more recently, in a Dartmoor folk legend, Sir Francis Drake. At Cadbu ... |
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 ... |
Salvator Rosa | ... ning the work into a history painting in the manner of Claude Lorrain, like | a late Baroque artist whose landscapes had elements that Romantic painters ... |
Nicomedes I | ... s the king of Bithynia from 149 to c. 127 BC. He was fourth in descent from | . Nicomedes II was the son and successor of Prusias II and Apame IV. His p ... |
Sancho II of Portugal | ... le to stem the rising flood of Christian attacks, launched almost yearly by | , Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and James I of Aragon. The ... |
Julian Barratt | Recent and current inhabitants of Highgate include Tariq Ali, | , Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Brono ... |
Mirabehn | During M. K. Gandhi's visit to RSS Camp accompanied by Mahadev Desai and | at Wardha in 1934, he was surprised by the discipline and the absence of u ... |
DJ Paul Elstak | ... r Bos, Jan Marijnissen, Robert Eenhoorn, Arjan Erkel, Dennis van der Geest, | , , Vincent Le Blanc, and Renate Verbaan |
Jimmy Fallon | Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs | , television personalit |
Cincinnatus Leconte | Dessalines was a great-grandfather of | , who served as President of Haiti from 1911 to 1912 |
Mike Adamle | ... who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen). Bryant Gumbel and | of NFL '80 anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame coverage |
George W. Bush | ... e descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and | , the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First L ... |
Darius I of Persia | ... ian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor | (521 BC). Other sources claim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal sy ... |
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 ... |
Alfonso IX of León | ... lood of Christian attacks, launched almost yearly by Sancho II of Portugal, | , Ferdinand III of Castile and James I of Aragon. The next twenty years sa ... |
Robert Lowell | ... rton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet | , cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs ... |
George Bernard Shaw | Many people have criticized the golden rule | ;once said that "the golden rule is that there are no golden rules". Shaw ... |
President of the Republic | Greece is a parliamentary republic. The nominal head of state is the | , who is elected by the Parliament for a five-year term. The current Const ... |
Stanley Baxter | ... cent and current inhabitants of Highgate include Tariq Ali, Julian Barratt, | , Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, Craig Char ... |
Stephen Leacock | ... London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included Hugh Dalton and | . Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generosity of an uncle, Au ... |
Louis the Pious | ... texts to write his Life. The style is similar to that of two biographies of | : Vita Hludovici Imperatoris, written c. 840 by an unknown author usually ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... nomy first in Perugia, and later in Cagliari, Sardinia. In Turin he had met | (the most important leader of Italian Communist Party). They became close ... |
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 ... |
Charles V | ... e Spanish governors began importing enslaved Africans as laborers. In 1517, | authorized the draft of slaves. The Taíno people became virtually, but not ... |
Poul Anderson | The Big Crunch as the fate of the Universe was also explored in | 's 1970 novel Tau Zero which posits a cyclic universe where the big crunch ... |
Nicomedes III | ... assisted them against Eumenes III of Pergamon. He was succeeded by his son | |
Charles Lindbergh | ... er the City of Tucson acquired land southeast of town for a runway in 1925, | , fresh from his nonstop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, flew his "Spirit ... |
William Blake | ... y very largely abandoning classical drawing and proportions. These included | and Samuel Palmer and the other members of the Ancients in England, and in ... |
Marc Seguin | ... t innovation was the use of a fire-tube boiler, invented by French engineer | that gave improved heat exchange. This was suggested by Henry Booth, the t ... |
Filippo Turati | ... due to their shared ideological views. He also was already in contact with | , perhaps the most important leader of Italian Socialist Party, whom he al ... |
Emperor Fei of Chen | ... of Emperor Wen, his son, the weak-willed Chen Bozong, took power and became | . His uncle, Chen Xu, after essentially controlling the country through hi ... |
Ferdowsi | ... ment of poetry and historiography, being mainly the poetical recast of what | , his contemporaries, and his predecessors regarded as the account of Iran ... |
Jacob Bronowski | ... ulian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir | , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry ... |
Simon Mawer | ... isand's Barwood Films, Gary Smith, and Sonny Murray purchased the rights to | 's book Mendel's Dwarf. In December 2008, she stated that she was consider ... |
Irving Caesar | ... 9 he scored his first big national hit with his song "Swanee" with words by | . Al Jolson, a famous broadway singer of the day, heard George perform "Sw ... |
Hammurabi | ... laim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal system, with credit given to | (1700 BC) and Sargon II (722 BC). Mail may not have been the primary missi ... |
Henry IV of France | Born at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of | (1553–1610) and Marie de' Medici (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a ... |
Bill Clinton | ... mbitions left, Kennedy formed a good relationship with Democratic President | upon the latter taking office in 1993, despite his having initially backed ... |
Ian McEwan | Examples of de Clerambault's syndrome (erotomania) in fiction include | 's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called End ... |
Robert Bridges | ... pkins was a supporter of linguistic purism in English. In an 1882 letter to | , Hopkins writes: "It makes one weep to think what English might have been ... |
Douglas Adams | The end of the universe has been used for satirical and comedic effect. In | 's science-fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the "Resta ... |
Tom Wolfe | Sparta was stated as the hometown of Charlotte Simmons in | 's 2004 novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" |
Jehovah's Witnesses | The Watchtower Society (a legal entity of | ) has operated the facility since 1963, initially to produce food cost-eff ... |
Raymond Chandler | ... tists. (The private investigator, though not named in the story, is clearly | 's Philip Marlowe, and his ex-wife is the recurring character Linda Loring ... |
five Australia-based TV personnel | ... 007, Whitlam testified at an inquest into the death of Brian Peters, one of | killed in East Timor in October 1975. Whitlam indicated that he had warned ... |
George Washington | ... tant in the Revolutionary War due to its location near Ramapo Pass. General | and other important military leaders used John Suffern's home as headquart ... |
Ted Hughes | ... t Queen's University Belfast. During his time in Belfast he found a copy of | 's Lupercal, which spurred him to write poetry. "Suddenly, the matter of c ... |
Ferdowsi | ... ma ( , "The Book of Kings") is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet | between c.977 and 1010 AD and is the national epic of Iran and related soc ... |
Nursultan Nazarbayev | In 1997 the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan | approved the Decree to transfer the capital from Almaty to Astana |
Barack Obama | ... d Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) was signed into law by President | on March 23, 2010. Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation ... |
Carl Sagan | | , an astronomer, proposed the planetary engineering of Venus in an article ... |
Pat Summerall | ... time, was broadcast in the United States by CBS with play-by-play announcer | and color commentator Tom Brookshier. The game kicked off at 5:17 p.m. Cen ... |
Marie de' Medici | ... leau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of Henry IV of France (1553–1610) and | (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a Fils de France, and as the eldes ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... his father Charles Albert aspired to an even higher rank. As son-in-law of | , Charles Albert rejected the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and claimed the G ... |
George Washington | ... land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after | , the first president of the United States |
Francis Ford Coppola | 1976. | is making the film for which he will always be remembered—an adaptation of ... |
Tom Lehrer | ... rom the 1965 song "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" by the satirist | |
Luigi Einaudi | ... on inflation in Italy during and after World War I. Notably, his tutor was | , one of the most important Italian economists and later a president of th ... |
George Whitefield | ... hornton, a philanthropist and a supporter of the leading Methodist preacher | |
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 ... |
King George V | Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to | , where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ... |
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... or after 995. By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the future | . Giselle arrived at her husband's court accompanied by German knights |
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 ... |
Abu-Mansur Daqiqi | ... y such accounts already existed in prose, an example being the Shahnameh of | . A small portion of Ferdowsi's work, in passages scattered throughout the ... |
Cadmus | ... o him the twins Phrixus and Helle. He subsequently married Ino, daughter of | , with whom, he had two children: Learches and |
Tori Spelling | ... in the 2008 spin-off series, 90210 along with former costars Jennie Garth, | , Ann Gillespie, and Joe E. Tata |
Alexander Pope | They couple were friends of Dean Jonathan Swift and, through him, of | . Pope encouraged the Delaneys to develop a garden in a style then becomin ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of | 's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charlest ... |
H. A. Guerber | According to | : "The object of this phantom hunt varied greatly, and was either [that of ... |
Zoroaster | ... ng only 1,000 verses. These verses, which deal with the rise of the prophet | , were afterward incorporated by Ferdowsi, with acknowledgment, in his own ... |
Jack Newfield | ... s own lawyer present, he signed four "contracts of servitude" (according to | ). One was an exclusive promotional contract with Don King, two were manag ... |
George Washington | ... an alliance with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. In 1797, he met cordially with | , who presented him with a ceremonial sword. On this trip he also met Comt ... |
DuBose Heyward | ... ning to New York City, he began writing Porgy and Bess with Ira, and author | . The opera, however, became a failure. Gershwin moved to Hollywood and co ... |
Rusty Egan | ... fit concert in aid of Steve New. He was joined on stage by original members | and Midge Ure, as well as Mick Jones of The Clash and Gary Kemp from Spand ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ed. Honorary membership was once bestowed in special circumstances, as with | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, but this practice was officially discontinued in ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... authors to explore the more human-centric topics of fate and free will. In | 's classic novel Slaughterhouse Five, the primary character is a war veter ... |
Louis Marshall | ... crosse teams. In 1911, under the leadership of Syracuse University trustee, | , the New York State College of Forestry was re-established in close assoc ... |
John McCain | ... anoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee | , who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there. Air Force c ... |
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | ... r, associated with beryl and juniper. Its astrological symbol was listed by | |
Andrew Dickson White | ... bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell and | to locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca. White pressed th ... |
Robert Lowell | ... 1996. Heaney's personal papers are held by the National Library of Ireland. | called him "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, in ... |
Walter Cronkite | The program's ratings slipped late in the decade as CBS's | gained fame for his coverage of the space program, a field in which neithe ... |
Emperor Xuan of Chen | ... e country through his short reign, eventually deposed him and took power as | . At that time, the Northern Wei intended to conquer Northern Qi and thus ... |
Frederick Law Olmsted | ... of the largest urban parks in the United States. It was designed in 1891 by | , the designer of New York City's Central Park |
Tom Brookshier | ... ates by CBS with play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator | . The game kicked off at 5:17 p.m. Central Standard Time |
Spike Milligan | The show's chief creator and main writer was | . The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrase ... |
Steve Krantz | ... 7 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968. Through producer | , Bakshi made his debut feature film, Fritz the Cat, released in 1972. It ... |
Larry Kramer | ... cember 2008, she stated that she was considering directing an adaptation of | 's play The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s ... |
Sander Vanocur | ... fy two anchors, veteran correspondent Frank McGee took over as anchor, with | substituting, although the broadcast kept the HBR name. The Frank McGee Re ... |
Bernard B. Fall | ... t adds that the number of these recruits has been subsequently exaggerated. | , who was a supporter of the French government, writing in the context of ... |
Marco Polo | ... even made a distinct impression on some of China's early European visitors. | recounted the Grand Canal's arched bridges as well as the warehouses and p ... |
Sparky Anderson | ... 1 last worn by Lou Whitaker in , after which Whitaker retired as a player. | 's #11, which also was last issued in 1995 when he himself retired from ma ... |
Khosrau II | ... of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of | (590–628). The xvatāynamāk contained historical information on the later S ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a direct realist view of this relation. For a time, under the influence of | , he adopted a pluralist view of philosophy itself and came to view most p ... |
Evliyâ Çelebi | The 17th century writings of | relate this story of Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, circa 1630-1632 |
George Washington | ... the seventh year of the war, Continental Army troops, commanded by General | , were encamped in Dobbs Ferry and neighboring localities, alongside allie ... |
Val Guest | ... nrolled at the Aida Foster School of Dance, she was spotted by the director | , who cast her in the Margaret Lockwood vehicle Give Us the Moon. Small ro ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... s once bestowed in special circumstances, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt and | , but this practice was officially discontinued in 1953 |
Magneto's | ... period of general turmoil and a number of attacks by superhumans, including | Acolytes who were unwilling to forgive the former Genoshan government for ... |
Ardashir I | ... s originally written during the late Sassanid era, and gave accounts of how | came to power which, because of its historical proximity, is thought to be ... |
Jaegwon Kim | ... organism of the same species). Other criticisms of MR have been proposed by | , David Lewis, Robert Richardson and Patricia Churchland |
Aeëtes | ... fter her) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King | took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope ... |
Sauron | The eagle who brings the news of | 's defeat to Minas Tirith refers to the city as the Tower of Anor. The eag ... |
Red Grange | ... the game's referee tossed the coin. Pro Football Hall of Fame running back | participated in the coin toss ceremony |
Virginia Woolf | ... am-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as James Joyce, | , and William Faulkner |
Robert G. Ingersoll | | , political leader and orator, born in Dresden |
Joshua Slocum | In 1898, during his solo circumnavigation of the world, | encountered a group of flat-Earthers in Durban. Three Boers, one of them a ... |
Andy Warhol | ... pire blood) and socially successful (befriending many luminaries, including | ), but risks losing it all when the many enemies he makes along the way jo ... |
Ron Jaworski | Oakland linebacker Rod Martin intercepted Eagles quarterback | 's first pass of the game and returned it 17 yards to Philadelphia's 30-ya ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... d in formation of the Clinton health care plan, which was run by First Lady | and others. It failed badly and damaged the prospects for such legislation ... |
James Joyce | ... g use of stream-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as | , Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner |
Evliya Çelebi | ... century Constantinople (present day Istanbul), purported in the writings of | to have achieved sustained unpowered flight |
Marcus Furius Camillus | ... d was added in the following century, possibly by the soldier and statesman | . A long held tradition of speaking from the elevated speakers' Rostra—ori ... |
Henry III of France | ... er was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ninth cousin, | (1574–1589), in application of Salic law. Louis XIII's paternal grandparen ... |
Magneto | The United Nations ceded the island nation to the powerful mutant | , after he demanded an entire mutants-only nation. Magneto and his Acolyte ... |
Pharaoh | ... d courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where | s used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the ... |
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... ndôme and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre; his maternal grandparents were | and Johanna, archduchess of Austria, and Eleonora de' Medici, his maternal ... |
William Faulkner | ... would be utilised by such later authors as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and | |
Thomas Jefferson | ... his trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents John Adams and | . He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce American agriculture to ... |
Tariq Ali | Recent and current inhabitants of Highgate include | , Julian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, ... |
Mongkut | ... i Armed Forces came into existence as permanent force at the behest of King | , who needed a European trained military force in order to thwart any west ... |
Frederick Law Olmsted | ... Avenue retains its name along the eastern border). The park was designed by | and Calvert Vaux. The park offers extensive walking tracks, two ice-skatin ... |
Achilles | ... humans whom they had bitten. Homer, in the Iliad, describes the approach of | toward Troy in these words |
Victor Cherbuliez | ... n, which had wide popularity, his work being commonly compared with that of | |
Kostas Karyotakis | ... as admitted to the National Theatre's Drama School after reciting a poem by | . Dimitris Rontiris was her teacher and she graduated in 1944 |
José Agustín Goytisolo | ... created in 1960 by Ricardo Bofill. Its collaborators included poets such as | , politicians like Salvador Clotas, artists like Daniel Argimon and , actr ... |
William III of England | ... r fish." This land was located in the eastern segment of an tract that King | granted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt of New York City in 1697. The part of V ... |
Philoxenus | ... of having literary men about him, such as the historian Philistus, the poet | , and the philosopher Plato, but treated them in a most arbitrary manner. ... |
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 ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... e and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town. | spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, p ... |
Zabihollah Safa | ... rases and words which can be matched between these two sources according to | |
Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou | ... ng Jian defeated his rival General Weichi Jiong, he usurped the throne from | and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself Emperor Wen of Sui. He p ... |
John Adams | ... ial sword. On this trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents | and Thomas Jefferson. He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce Ame ... |
Paul Kruger | ... cum with a pamphlet in which they set out to prove that the world was flat. | , President of the Transvaal Republic, advanced the same view: "You don't ... |
Kelly Brook | ... all been focused around Tyneside. The comedy School for Seduction starring | was also filmed in Newcastle |
Orson Welles | 1981. | receives funding from a mysterious source to film the ultimate version of ... |
Roger Black | ... famous single-handed yachtsman, Katy Sexton, former world champion swimmer, | (Olympic medallist) was also born in Portsmouth, Robert Styles, an FA Prem ... |
Dan Dickerson | ... ations are Detroit sister stations WXYT-AM (1270 AM) and WXYT-FM (97.1 FM). | does play-by-play and former Tigers catcher Jim Price does color commentar ... |
Stella Gibbons | ... urzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, | , Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, ... |
Dinabandhu Mitra | In literature, the play Nildarpan by | is based on the indigo slavery and forceful cultivation of indigo in India ... |
Giovanni Boccaccio | ... irca 1309–1367), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani (c. 1275–1348), and | (1313–1375), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of C ... |
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 ... |
David Tennant | ... r" category only three times: once to Sylvester McCoy in 1990, and twice to | in 2006 and 2009 |
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | ... iters such as Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, | and Daphne Patai oppose some forms of feminism, though they identify as fe ... |
Bill Oddie | Garden, along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and | , became a co-writer and performer in the comedy series The Goodies (1970– ... |
Emperor An of Jin | ... ause he believed in a prophecy saying there would be one more emperor after | , he deposed Emperor An, and soon afterwards Emperor An's replacement, Emp ... |
Albert, Duke of Prussia | ... en und etliche umbliegende lender (Map of Prussia and Neighboring Lands) to | , who had been trying to compute the exact time of sunrise. Rheticus made ... |
President | ... e county was officially organized on December 14, 1818, and was named after | James Madison |
Septimius Severus | ... the writings of the ancients. The former is last mentioned in the reign of | (circa 200 AD) |
Terry Gilliam | ... s, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, | , Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, Ulrika Jonsson ... |
Virgil | ... axon Chronicle. It is also clear from the text that Asser was familiar with | 's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, a ... |
Daphne Patai | ... a, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and | oppose some forms of feminism, though they identify as feminists. They arg ... |
Catherine Howard | ... belonging to Catherine Parr and the cameo beads appear to have belonged to | , from whom they would have passed to her successor as queen |
Dorothy L. Sayers | ... His detective novel, Trent's Last Case (1913), was much praised, numbering | among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can ... |
Alcuin | ... astica gentis Anglorum; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh source; the Life of | ; and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is also clear from the text that Asser ... |
Ed Harris | ... Michael Bay, director of Bad Boys, and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and | . It was produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers of Top G ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... hn in the National Portrait Gallery was for many years thought to represent | . The painting has recently been re-identified as Catherine Parr, with who ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... C miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan (NBC, 1988) starring Jack Lemmon and | and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in ... |
Kennedy | By targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas the | administration realized that political favors could be bought. This is als ... |
Stephen Gately | ... , Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, | , Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoski ... |
Allectus | ... ximian's subordinate, Constantius, campaigned against Carausius' successor, | , while Maximian held the Rhine frontier. The rebel leader was ousted in 2 ... |
Chico Buarque | ... ldwide success. But over the 1960s and 1970s, many artists who emerged—like | , Billy Blanco, Martinho da Vila, and Paulinho da Viola—advocated the retu ... |
Milton Friedman | ... along with other three left-wing intellectuals, in with the known economist | , who was in Iceland to give a lecture on the "tyranny of the status quo" ... |
Alfonso Cuarón | ... of Men was the basis for a 2006 feature film of the same name, directed by | and starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. Despite substan ... |
Don Simpson | ... oys, and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. It was produced by | and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers of Top Gun and Crimson Tide, and released ... |
Tim Brooke-Taylor | Garden, along with | and Bill Oddie, became a co-writer and performer in the comedy series The ... |
Prince William | ... from William Congreve and John Arbuthnot. In 1727 he wrote for six year old | , later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he na ... |
Tori Spelling | ... ut the producers felt that she would be better for the part of Andrea. When | auditioned for the show, she used the name Tori Mitchell and auditioned fo ... |
Francisco Franco | ... Spanish Civil War between the socialist Republicans and nationalists led by | , Italy sent arms and over 60,000 troops to aid the nationalist faction. T ... |
John Stow | ... ore than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. | , the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a fi ... |
Kate Garraway | ... , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, | , Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Hig ... |
Cho Ramaswamy | According to | , the editor of Tughlaq magazine, the RSS-sponsored Sewa Bharati did yeoma ... |
Camille Paglia | Writers such as | , Christina Hoff Sommers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and ... |
Charles the First | ... its buildings were commandeered by the Royalists and used to house many of | 's court when Oxford was used as the Royalists' capital. This included the ... |
Khushwant Singh | ... Anti-Sikh Riots. Sikh intellectual and author of 'A History of the Sikhs', | , credits members of the RSS with helping and protecting Sikhs who were be ... |
Ronan Keating | ... The Dubliners, The Thrills, Horslips, Jedward, The Boomtown Rats, Boyzone, | , Thin Lizzy, Paddy Casey, Sinéad O'Connor, The Script and My Bloody Valen ... |
Josephus | ... ortion of which has been lost. We are enabled thus to contrast Tacitus with | , who warped his narrative to do honour to Titus. In his allusions to the ... |
Bill Oddie | ... d performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke-Taylor ( | joined the series for the second season) |
Dante Alighieri | Chronicle of Fredegar mentions Carantania as Sclauvinia, | (1265–1321) mentions Carantania as Chiarentana. The same name was also use ... |
Julius Caesar | Over time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and to | 's rearrangements before his assassination in 44 BC. That year two supreme ... |
Christina Hoff Sommers | Writers such as Camille Paglia, | , Jean Bethke Elshtain, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Daphne Patai oppose som ... |
Katrina Trask | ... by the great Wall Street financier, Spencer Trask and his wife, the author | . Since its inception in 1900, Yaddo has been home to 60 Pulitzer Prize wi ... |
Ptolemy | ... works of cosmology from Constantinople, including Aristotle's De caelo and | 's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad |
Noël Coward | ... ch We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and | , and inspired by the sinking of Kelly, under Mountbatten's command. Cowar ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... ere U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and | have all attended services. Because of this, it is now called the "Church ... |
Grand Prince of the Hungarians | ... 38, Esztergom or Székesfehérvár, Kingdom of Hungary), born as Vajk, was the | (997–1000) and the first (1000–1038) |
Daniel Ortega | Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President | , Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa r ... |
Herman Melville | ... lt Whitman. The poetry of Emily Dickinson—nearly unread in her own time—and | 's novel Moby-Dick can be taken as epitomes of American Romantic literatur ... |
Emanuel Swedenborg | Both Michael Servetus and | have been interpreted as being proponents of Modalism. Neither, however, d ... |
Jonathan Miller | ... detailed in his 2010 autobiography, "Life". The director, wit and physician | was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British World War II flier ... |
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) |
John F. Kennedy | ... television career that spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young | in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for ... |
Titus | ... ys suggested that he based his narrative of the destruction of Jerusalem by | on the account given by Tacitus in his Histories, a portion of which has b ... |
Æthelbald of Mercia | ... t surviving documented allusion to Yeading dates from 757 AD, in which year | made a land grant which mentioned Geddinges (Yeading) and Fiscesburne (Cra ... |
Abraham Lincoln | On February 18, 1861, | , on the way to his inauguration, bowed from a coach platform. and on Apri ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... i nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad, to prevent the regime of | from using the reactor for the creation of nuclear weapons |
Rafael Correa | ... ent Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian president | refer to their political programmes as socialist. Chávez has adopted the t ... |
Evo Morales | ... esident Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President | , and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa refer to their political programm ... |
Lulach | ... y Duncan's son Malcolm. The following year, after killing Macbeth's stepson | , Malcolm ascended the throne as Malcolm III |
Carausius | The man he appointed to police the Channel shores, | , rebelled in 286, causing the secession of Britain and northwestern Gaul. ... |
Jean Bodin | ... of the coronation of Meinhard II of Tyrol in 1286. It is also mentioned in | 's book Six livres de la République in 1576 |
Speaker of the House | ... the county, they named it for another grandson, James K. Polk, who was the | in the U.S. Congress at the time, and later, President of the United State ... |
Gabriel Harvey | ... ops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both Thomas Nashe and | , two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a complete ban on a ... |
George Washington | ... arding acts of individual gallantry by American soldiers was established by | on August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed t ... |
Hesiod | ... d Osiris. The name's earliest recorded use dates from the 7th century BC in | 's poetic work Works and Days. Sirius has over 50 other designations and n ... |
Noel Fielding | ... kwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, | , Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, ... |
Domenico Panaroli | The Colosseum has a wide and well-documented history of flora ever since | made the first catalogue of its plants in 1643. Since then, 684 species ha ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... came unpopular with the onset of the Great Depression. He advised President | to "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real e ... |
Merlin Olsen | ... BC with Dick Enberg handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators | , John Brodie, and Len Dawson (who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enbe ... |
Jonathan Lynn | ... dy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and | |
Emperor Ming of Han | ... an and was first mentioned in 65 CE. Liu Ying (d. 71 CE), a half-brother to | (r. 57–75 CE), was one of its earliest Chinese adherents, although Chinese ... |
Aristotle | ... iphate, most of the Greek works of cosmology from Constantinople, including | 's De caelo and Ptolemy's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the Hous ... |
Buffon | ... frequent visits to the home of a relation where he could borrow volumes of | 's massive Histoire Naturelle. All of these he read and re-read, retaining ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... s Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, | , and Benjamin Harrison have all attended services. Because of this, it is ... |
Jane Seymour | ... . Coincidentally, this was also the illness that killed Henry's third wife, | . It was not uncommon, due to the lack of hygiene around childbirth. Never ... |
Adam Dalgliesh | ... uding the USA on its PBS channel. These productions featured Roy Marsden as | . The BBC has since adapted Death in Holy Orders (2003) and The Murder Roo ... |
Diana Prince | ... either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glasses as | |
John Brodie | ... nberg handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators Merlin Olsen, | , and Len Dawson (who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen) ... |
Jacob Zuma | ... he pen name Zapiro) came under fire for depicting then-president of the ANC | in the act of undressing in preparation for the implied rape of 'Lady Just ... |
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 ... |
Victor Hugo | ... ies have consulate presence in the island. The French Consulate is based at | 's former residence at Hauteville House. The is based at local design and ... |
Elmer Ambrose Sperry | The company was founded in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company by | to manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly his own inventions – the mari ... |
Bob Dole | ... s a potential presidential candidate for the Republican party in 2008, like | , a previous holder of the Senate Majority Leader position. On November 28 ... |
Charles Dickens | ... bling dens and brothels, and was known as a dangerous place to go. In 1842, | visited the area and was appalled at the horrendous living conditions he h ... |
Samuel Smiles | ... of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate | particularly praising his achievements. His rail gauge of , sometimes call ... |
Marshall Brickman | ... r who aids her boyfriend (Christopher Collet) in building a nuclear bomb in | 's The Manhattan Project (1986). Nixon was part of the cast of the NBC min ... |
Dick Enberg | The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC with | handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators Merlin Olsen, John ... |
Dean Jonathan Swift | They couple were friends of | and, through him, of Alexander Pope. Pope encouraged the Delaneys to devel ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... arallel to Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s in the United Kingdom and | 's in the United States |
Michael Palin | ... former in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, | and Jonathan Lynn |
Queen Anne | ... seven inches in diameter, i.e. . It had been redefined during the reign of | , in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly , which is the result of the earlie ... |
Gary Spivey | ... (The Star Hotel Bed and Breakfast) is still standing today and is owned by | . In 1897 the Aberdeen and West End Railroad merged with the Asheboro and ... |
Wonder Woman | ... well known for wearing 1950s style horn-rimmed glasses as Clark Kent, while | wears either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glas ... |
Kenneth MacAlpin | ... eir name to Scotland), of the Irish petty kingdom of Dál Riata in the west. | is traditionally viewed as the first king of a united Scotland (known as S ... |
Herodotus | ... dating back to 4000 BC; the slow burning oil was used mostly to fuel lamps. | and other Greek travellers noted the use of castor seed oil for lighting, ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... he had seen. The area was so notorious that it even caught the attention of | , who visited the area before his Cooper Union Address in 1860. The predom ... |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... Jin in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself | , he remained diligently frugal. However, he did not care for education an ... |
Princess Margaret of Prussia | ... e up her faith to become Russian Orthodox. The tsar then sent emissaries to | , daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of German Emperor Wi ... |
David Sedaris | ... inning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, and | have all been artists-in-residence. The Yaddo grounds are adjacent to the ... |
Barry Letts | ... on the role of the Doctor from Jon Pertwee. He was recommended to producer | by the BBC's Head of Serials, Bill Slater, who had directed Baker in Play ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... hurches in Oakland is St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents | , James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison have all attende ... |
Maxentius | In late 306, Maximian took the title of Augustus again and aided his son | ' rebellion in Italy. In April 307, he attempted to depose his son, but fa ... |
Jon Pertwee | In 1974, Baker took on the role of the Doctor from | . He was recommended to producer Barry Letts by the BBC's Head of Serials, ... |
Gitta Sereny | The British writer | (born in 1921 in Hungary), who conducted interviews with SS men, considers ... |
Saul Kripke | ... eory regarding the mind-body problem. In philosophy of language, along with | and others, he developed the causal theory of reference, and formulated an ... |
Craig Charles | ... anley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, | , Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... dmirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy and | in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political science at the School of ... |
Richard Wagner | ... 9th century and is now used solely for the Bayreuth Festival. Only works by | are put on |
Raúl Castro | ... urney to Union City to interview citizens when news items involving Cuba or | arise. Moreover, Union City still boasts the largest Hispanic population p ... |
Derek Roy | ... as writing for and acting in the high profile BBC show Hip-Hip-Hoo-Roy with | , and Michael Bentine, who appeared in the first series, had just begun ap ... |
Lawrence Summers | ... sicist Lisa Randall, appointed to a task force at Harvard by then-president | after his controversial discussion of why women may be underrepresented in ... |
Evan Davis | ... which she seemed critical of some of his decisions. Regular Today presenter | commented that "She shouldn't be guest editing; she should be permanently ... |
Bede | ... f Trier. It is possible that Asser may have known these works. He also knew | 's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh ... |
Sacha Baron Cohen | In 2006 British comedian | released , a "mockumentary" that satirized everyone, from high society to ... |
Berry Gordy | ... anne Silberstein was born on August 14, 1971, Rhonda's biological father is | . She is now married; her married name is Rhonda Ross Kendrick. Ross and S ... |
Sarolt | ... n of Esztergom. His father was Grand Prince Géza of Hungary; his mother was | , daughter of Gyula of Transylvania a Hungarian nobleman who had been bapt ... |
King Constantine I | ... its territory and population. In the following years, the struggle between | and charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's fo ... |
President of the United States | ... n presented to the recipient or, for posthumous awards, to next of kin. The | presents the medal in person, on behalf of the Congress, representing and ... |
Terry Jones | ... riter and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, | , Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn |
Truman Capote | ... 60 Pulitzer Prize winning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. Sylvia Plath, | , and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The Yaddo grounds ... |
Sylvia Plath | ... been home to 60 Pulitzer Prize winning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. | , Truman Capote, and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The ... |
Clarissa Dickson Wright | Philosopher A.J. Ayer was born and grew up in the area, as did Chef | , and the former Wrights' home is now home to supermodel Kate Moss. Actor ... |
Adolf Hitler | Mussolini and | first met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisi ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | An admirer of | , she campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S ... |
Charlie Waters | ... ondary led by future hall of famer Mel Renfro and safeties Cliff Harris and | |
Washington Irving | Tarrytown was described in 1820 by the writer | in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Irving began his story, "In the bosom of ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... concrete in 1938, but demolished in 1969 to make way for the current pool. | and Thomas Edison both traveled through Sylva, Edison in 1911 and FDR in 1 ... |
Roger Neilson | ... 7–69), general manager (1969–83) and executive vice-president (since 1980), | , head coach (1997–2000), mainly for his overall NHL coaching career, Bud ... |
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) | ... nly at Princess Alix, safe in the knowledge that Alexander III and his wife | , both vigorously anti-German, had no intention of permitting a match with ... |
Michael J. Fox | ... ar (1924). More recently, the 1987 movie The Secret of My Success (starring | ) was filmed in Lasdon Park and Muscoot Farm. Muscoot Farm was also used a ... |
Laozi | ... of the Five Pecks of Rice. Its followers believed that the sage-philosopher | (fl. 6th century BCE) was a holy prophet who would offer salvation and goo ... |
Bill Oddie | ... den was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with | , Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn |
Cato the Elder | ... have ridiculed his fondness for old words and phrases (in which he imitated | ) as an affectation, but this very affectation and his rhetorical exaggera ... |
Emperor Gong of Jin | ... f Jin, he deposed Emperor An, and soon afterwards Emperor An's replacement, | in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself Emp ... |
Géza of Hungary | He was born as Vajk in the town of Esztergom. His father was Grand Prince | ; his mother was Sarolt, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania a Hungarian nob ... |
Evelyn Fox Keller | ... en the social and natural worlds." Some feminists, such as Ruth Hubbard and | , criticize traditional scientific discourse as being historically biased ... |
Jason Priestley | | left the show at the beginning of the ninth season. However, he remained c ... |
Warren G. Harding | Andrew Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by new President | in 1921. He served for ten years and eleven months; the third-longest tenu ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | An admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for | and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political scie ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... d Alexandra after Olivier recommended him for the part. He also appeared in | 's version of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a young ... |
Herman Edwards | ... age. Philadelphia also had a fine secondary, led by veteran defensive backs | (3 interceptions) and Brenard Wilson (6 interceptions), along with rookie ... |
Regiomontanus | ... icus and decided to seek him out. From Petreius Rheticus was given works by | and others, intended as presents for Copernicus. He went on to Peter Apian ... |
Livy | and declares that he is a greater historian than | |
Bob Dylan | ... ght life. Caffè Lena was one of the first venues in the Eastern US at which | performed, in 1961. Arlo Guthrie played at Cafè Lena early in his career a ... |
Quintilian | ... allust as an historian. Tacitus speaks highly of him (Annals, iii. 30); and | does not hesitate to put him on a level with Thucydides |
Arthur Bernède | ... uddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and | formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to publish novels si ... |
Bill Bergey | ... ey led the team in sacks with 14 and a half. Linebackers Jerry Robinson and | excelled at both stopping the run and pass coverage. Philadelphia also had ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... elder half-sister Mary to succeed, and therefore drew up a will designating | as his heiress. Jane's reign however lasted only nine days; with tremendou ... |
Lanford Wilson | ... f John Guare's Lydie Breeze. In 1985 she appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in | 's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre |
Thucydides | ... nals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate to put him on a level with | |
Samuel Rowbotham | English writer | (1816–1885), writing under the pseudonym "Parallax," produced a pamphlet c ... |
Lady Jane Grey | In early 1548, Catherine invited Lady Elizabeth and her cousin, | to stay in the couple's household at Sudeley. The Dowager Queen promised t ... |
Tacitus | On the whole, antiquity looked favourably on Sallust as an historian. | speaks highly of him (Annals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate t ... |
Laurence Olivier | In the late 1960s and early 1970s Baker was part of | 's National Theatre company, and had his first big film break in 1971 with ... |
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 ... |
Andrew I | ... ed for the crown. Nine years of instability followed until Stephen's cousin | was crowned King of Hungary in 1047 to re-establish the Árpád dynasty. Hun ... |
Madonna | ... zgerald, Sam Cooke, Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, | , Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole ... |
Henry David Thoreau | ... wthorne's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as | and Ralph Waldo Emerson still show elements of its influence and imaginati ... |
Charles Dickens | ... in in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by | . He created the role in the original West End production, and reprised it ... |
Philip V of Macedon | ... situation now looked propitious for another western campaign. Antiochus and | then made a pact to divide the Ptolemaic possessions outside of Egypt, and ... |
Milton Work | ... r choice to pursue bridge competitions, where he attracted the attention of | , who had developed the Work Point Count system. Goren began helping Work ... |
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 ... |
Sallust | ... us to show that sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of | and Tacitus could appreciate and enjoy. The style is lucid and almost clas ... |
William Styron | ... w Urbanism projects. One is Port Warwick, named after the fictional city in | 's novel, Lie Down in Darkness. Port Warwick includes housing for a broad ... |
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom | ... e the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Tsarevich and Tsarevna, HRH | , the Duchess of Cambridge, and HRH Princess Anna of Prussia. Her family n ... |
Jeff Daniels | ... ay productions of John Guare's Lydie Breeze. In 1985 she appeared alongside | in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre |
Ely Culbertson | ... ted, he briefly attempted a law career in Philadelphia. The growing fame of | , however, prompted Goren to abandon his original career choice to pursue ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... : The film was directed by Mark Hartley and interviews filmmakers including | , Dennis Hopper, George Miller and Barry Humphries |
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck | ... eology in the early 19th century, and opposing the evolutionary theories of | and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. His most famous work is Le Règne Animal (1817; ... |
Mos Def | ... 75 out of 100 on review aggregation site . The group also collaborated with | on the track "I Against I", which appeared on the "Special Cases" single a ... |
Carl Sandburg | ... 963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as T. S. Eliot and | . Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is feat ... |
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 ... |
Buffalo Bill Cody | ... Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to have been awarded the medal, and | ), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by President Jimm ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... in France than at home, but the romantic American novel developed fully in | 's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry ... |
U.S. President | ... working group began work on chemical disarmament in 1980. On April 4, 1984, | Ronald Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons. U.S. Pr ... |
Tom Lewis | ... he same political party as the former senator. The New South Wales premier, | felt that this convention only applied to vacancies caused by deaths or il ... |
Judge Jules | ... , Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, Ulrika Jonsson, | , Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, Yehudi Menuhin (and later ... |
Jane Austen | ... d as Northanger Abbey in the 2007 ITV dramatisation of that name during its | season |
Dimitris Christofias | ... arliament in the general election on 27 September 2009. Communist candidate | won a crucial presidential runoff in Cyprus, defeating his conservative ri ... |
William McKinley | ... veral soldiers died during the quarantine, prompting a visit from President | |
Marcus Porcius Latro | ... ht by modern scholars to have probably come from the pen of the rhetorician | , also the supposed author of a counter-invective attributed to Cicero |
Tertullian | The chief critic of Sabellianism was | , who labeled the movement "Patripassianism", from the Latin words pater f ... |
John Guare | ... (1981) and I Am the Cheese (1983) and the 1982 Off-Broadway productions of | 's Lydie Breeze. In 1985 she appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in Lanford Wi ... |
Lionel Bart | ... iety of genres, but is perhaps best known for his starring role as Fagin in | 's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ... |
Professor George D. Herron | ... ered on the campus of Iowa (now Grinnell) College. Its leading figures were | and President George A. Gates". Other firsts pointed to the lighter side o ... |
Henry Ford | ... hird highest income tax payer in the US behind only John D. Rockefeller and | . During this period, while he served as Secretary of the U.S. Treasury De ... |
Pompey | ... Lucullus against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of | in the East (66-62 BC) |
Jeremy Silman | The popular "Winning Chess" series (with co-author IM | ) |
Earl Granville | ... nd was first owned, surveyed, and mapped by William Churton (a surveyor for | ). Originally to be named Orange, it was named Corbin Town (for Francis Co ... |
Washington Irving | ... loration believed that Earth was flat entered the popular imagination after | 's publication of A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbu ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ntly Italian, it was settled by a large migration of Cuban refugees fleeing | 's regime, making Union City for many years the city with the largest Cuba ... |
Diocletian | ... two sons, and is one of the most visible landmarks there today. The Emperor | (r. 284-305) was the last of the great builders of Rome's city infrastruct ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... a Mangy Lover (1963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as | and Carl Sandburg. Much of his personal correspondence with those and othe ... |
George W. Bush | ... Democrat John Kerry received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republican | received 16.7%. The borough is the most important source of funding for pr ... |
Einhard | ... s Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, and | 's Vita Karoli Magni ("Life of Charlemagne"). He quotes from Gregory the G ... |
Jonathan Downes | ... Portsmouth, Hertha Ayrton, a scientist and Suffragette was born in Portsea. | , cryptozoologist is known for living in Portsmouth, William Tucker, trade ... |
Ron Rosenbaum | ... cause one of theirs caused the destruction of Germany". But American author | suggested another reason for Frank's story: "On the other hand, a differen ... |
Hideo Kojima | ... deo game industry; he was never interested in video games before seeing it. | also described it as the first video game that impressed him and got him i ... |
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 ... |
William Lawrence Bragg | ... tempt to do so. They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both | and Wilkins. In order to construct their model of DNA, Watson and Crick ma ... |
Ulrika Jonsson | ... s, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, | , Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, Yehudi Menuhi ... |
John R. Bolton | ... onfirmation fight over Bush's pick for US ambassador to the United Nations, | . Twice Frist failed to garner the 60 votes to break cloture, getting fewe ... |
Arthur O'Shaughnessy | ... Marseillaise" in his choral work The Music Makers, Op. 69 (1912), based on | 's Ode, at the line "We fashion an empire's glory", where he also quoted t ... |
Gaius Caesar | The heir of Augustus, | , was killed there in 4 AD |
Galerius | ... At the Council of Carnuntum in November 308, Diocletian and his successor, | , forced Maximian to renounce his imperial claim again. In early 310, Maxi ... |
Alex von Tunzelmann | ... ffair between his wife and Nehru. It was to be loosely based on the book by | |
Edwin Montagu | ... ing the war and in response to renewed nationalist demands. In August 1917, | , the secretary of state for India, made the historic announcement in Parl ... |
Conrad II | ... t Hungary, but Stephen's troops forced them to retreat. Stephen and Emperor | concluded peace negotiations in 1031, and the territories between the Leit ... |
Bill Oddie | Garden and | co-wrote many episodes of the television comedy series Doctor in the House ... |
John McCain | ... rrying the state by 6.7% over Bush. In the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by an 8.1% margin over , with Obama carrying the state ... |
Constantine II | King | 's dismissal of George Papandreou's centrist government in July 1965 promp ... |
Augustus | The heir of | , Gaius Caesar, was killed there in 4 AD |
Robert Osborne | ... lear that he was willing to sue the actor if he quit the film. According to | of the television network Turner Classic Movies in the introduction to the ... |
Aristophanes | ... censor it or prosecute its practitioners. In a very early instance of this, | was persecuted by the demagogue Cleon |
Emperor Shao of Liu Song | After the death of Emperor Wu, his son | ruled briefly before being judged incompetent and killed by government off ... |
Hugo Weaving | ... hett and won five Australian Film Institute Awards including Best Actor for | , Best Actress for Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress for screen vetera ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... or" elements in Washington Irving's essays and especially his travel books. | 's tales of the macabre and his balladic poetry were more influential in F ... |
Martial | ... cter; of an epic poem Amazonis; and of a prose work on wit (De urbanitate). | often alludes to Marsus as one of his predecessors, but he is never mentio ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... American War. The most prominent of the returning quarantined soldiers were | and his Rough Riders. Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompti ... |
Aristotle | ... nce in Greek pagan philosophy, including pagan philosophers like Euclid and | , who based their logic on Monism and Aristotle's arguments around his con ... |
Septimius Severus | ... It was dedicated in 203 AD to commemorate the Parthian victories of Emperor | and his two sons, and is one of the most visible landmarks there today. Th ... |
Aurelian | ... ntier. Maximian joined the army, serving with Diocletian under the emperors | (r. 270–275) and Probus (r. 276–282). He probably participated in the Meso ... |
Terry Jones | ... Stella Gibbons, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, | , Ulrika Jonsson, Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandi ... |
Thomas Nashe | ... in which the bishops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both | and Gabriel Harvey, two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a ... |
Newton | ... niana, and the introduced Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera suffruticosa. | used "indigo" to describe one of the two new primary colors he added to th ... |
Adam Dalgliesh | ... isters' chambers, a theological college, an island or a private clinic. The | novel, The Private Patient, was published in August 2008 in the U.K. by Fa ... |
Prince George, Duke of Kent | ... to soldiers she spotted on the roads. In 1942, her youngest surviving son, | , was killed in an air crash while on active service. Queen Mary finally r ... |
Dore Schary | ... e to be made because he felt the story was subversive. The film's producer, | , wanted Spencer Tracy for the leading role. Concerned that Tracy might no ... |
George S. Kaufman | ... ed his perfect woman: “Someone who looks like Marilyn Monroe and talks like | . |
Lou Boudreau | ... s future wife, Sharyn Boudreau, the daughter of former major league player, | . McLain was also musically talented, learning to play the organ from his ... |
Tom Seaver | ... and the stadium the Mets called home for 45 years. The ceremony ended with | throwing a final pitch to Mike Piazza, then, as the Beatles "In My Life" p ... |
Ely Culbertson | ... the development and popularization of the game following upon the heels of | in the 1940s and rising to prominence in the 1950s to the early 1960s |
Michael Servetus | Both | and Emanuel Swedenborg have been interpreted as being proponents of Modali ... |
Philipp Melanchthon | During the Reformation the theologian and educator | reorganized the whole educational system of the Lutheran Protestant parts ... |
John André | In 1780, in a famous Revolutionary War incident, Major | was arrested as a spy in Tarrytown. André, a British army officer, was tra ... |
Aldhelm | ... sser was familiar with Virgil's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, | 's De Virginitate, and Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni ("Life of Charlemagne") ... |
Andrew Dickson White | ... s of the Middle Ages were highly influential (19th century view typified by | ); current historians (late 20th century view typified by historian and re ... |
Hugo Chávez | Venezuelan President | , Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and ... |
Vespasian | ... Claudius annexed Lycia to the Roman Empire as a province and by the time of | , it was united with Pamphylia as a Roman province |
Joel Edgerton | ... Animal Kingdom which featured major Australian screen stars Ben Mendelsohn, | , Guy Pearce and Jackie Weaver. Animal Kingdom achieved success at the 201 ... |
Elizabeth of York | ... I, Henry Tudor neutralised the remaining Yorkist forces, partly by marrying | , a Yorkist heir. Through skill and ability, Henry re-established absolute ... |
Claudius | In 43 AD, the emperor | annexed Lycia to the Roman Empire as a province and by the time of Vespasi ... |
Henry IV of France | The Edict of Nantes, issued on 13 April 1598, by | , granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) su ... |
Ovid | He survived Tibullus (d. 19 BC), but was no longer alive when | wrote (c. AD 12) the epistle from Pontus (E Ponto, iv. 16) containing a li ... |
George Washington | ... rolina State Legislature met here once in 1787 and again in 1987. President | is known to have slept in Tarboro during a visit on his 1791 Southern tour ... |
George W. Bush | ... Jersey's more Republican counties. In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 15.8% margin over John Kerry, with Kerry carrying ... |
Edward I | ... ck to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to | , first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and establi ... |
Marina Lewycka | ... setting for two popular novels, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by | and A Spot of Bother by |
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 ... |
Rüdiger Safranski | For | , the Übermensch represents a higher biological type reached through artif ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... ity of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 41.20%–39.55%. | was the most recent Republican presidential candidate to win a majority of ... |
Emily Dickinson | ... nd imagination, as does the romantic realism of Walt Whitman. The poetry of | —nearly unread in her own time—and Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick can b ... |
Michael Jackson | ... iness, respectively. Arthur became a songwriter for Motown writing hits for | , The Miracles and Marvin Gaye while Chico became a professional dancer an ... |
Hixxy | ... nclude Simon Heartfield, Techno musician, Ian Hicks, aka hardcore artist DJ | , electronic music artist Christopher Reeves, better known as The Gasman, ... |
Louis XVI | ... igning of the Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance, by | 102 years later, on 7 November 1787. This edict was enacted by parlement t ... |
Richard Wagner | The town is best known for its association with the composer | , who lived in Bayreuth from 1872 until his death in 1883. Wagner's villa, ... |
Horace | ... Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and Tibullus, and contemporary of | |
C. S. Forester | | 's 1937 novel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a ... |
Appian | ... utheast as far as Cyrenaica, so that Numidia entirely surrounded Carthage ( | , Punica, 106) except towards the sea |
Bryan A. Garner | ... g guidance for citing electronic works. Other changes included a chapter by | on American English grammar and usage, and a revised treatment of mathemat ... |
Henry III | ... dation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to | and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic ... |
Tibullus | Domitius Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and | , and contemporary of Horace |
Barbara Cartland | ... 008 television film In Love with Barbara, a biopic of the romantic novelist | which was shown on BBC Four in the UK |
Robert E. Lee | ... olina History) in an attempt to reach Weldon to cut off supplies to General | during the Civil War. The fort protected Weldon until the day after the Ge ... |
Pallava | ... he earliest surviving manuscript in Malay is the Tanjong Tanah Law in post- | characters. This 14th century pre-Islamic legal text produced in the Adity ... |
Olivier Besancenot | ... tionary Communist League (LCR) candidate in the 2007 presidential election, | , received 1,498,581 votes, 4.08%, double that of the Communist candidate. ... |
Thomas Middleton | ... he decree ordered the burning of certain volumes of satire by John Marston, | , Joseph Hall, and others; it also required histories and plays to be spec ... |
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort | ... t, she decided to live at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, with her niece, | , the daughter of her brother, Lord Cambridge. Her personal belongings wer ... |
Walt Whitman | ... elements of its influence and imagination, as does the romantic realism of | . The poetry of Emily Dickinson—nearly unread in her own time—and Herman M ... |
Virgil | Domitius Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of | and Tibullus, and contemporary of Horace |
George H. W. Bush | ... ates. The Faith Fourth achieved national visibility in 1992, when President | not only made a speech praising small town virtues, but also participated ... |
Pim Fortuyn | ... o because the final was held several days, after Rotterdam's political hero | was murdered. Lots of fans were still full of emotion, before and after th ... |
Otho | He was immediately met by a troop of his rival | 's cavalry near the Lacus Curtius in the Forum, where he was killed. Durin ... |
James K. Polk | ... legislature acted to create the county, they named it for another grandson, | , who was the Speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress at the time, and l ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... Republican has won the presidential election in Manhattan since 1924, when | won a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 4 ... |
Trajan | ... movable trees and buildings. Such events were occasionally on a huge scale | ;is said to have celebrated his victories in Dacia in 107 with contests in ... |
President of India | Dr Zakir Hussain the former | once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on November 20, 1949 "The allegation ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... devastated several times during the Thirty Years' War and conquered by King | in 1742. In 1871 it was connected by rail to Liegnitz and Glogau. During W ... |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry David Thoreau and | still show elements of its influence and imagination, as does the romantic ... |
Arthur Marx | ... as 29 and she 19 at the time of their wedding. The couple had two children, | and Miriam Marx. His second wife was Kay Marvis (m. 1945–51), née Catherin ... |
Eugene Levy | ... ied, and Montalbán subsequently became a favorite subject of impersonators. | , for example, frequently impersonated him on SCTV. (In deference to Ameri ... |
Galba | ... C). The Forum was witness to the assassination of a Roman Emperor in 69 AD: | had set out from the palace to meet rebels, but was so feeble that he had ... |
Tacitus | ... hat sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of Sallust and | could appreciate and enjoy. The style is lucid and almost classical. Thoug ... |
Emperor Wen of Liu Song | ... nt and killed by government officials led by Xu Xianzhi, replacing him with | , another son of Emperor Wu. Those government officials were soon killed b ... |
Daphne Patai | ... and criticize radical feminist positions as harmful to both men and women. | and Noretta Koertge argue that the term "anti-feminist" is used to silence ... |
Bill Clinton | ... Luxembourg; Hormel eventually received a recess appointment from President | , bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination of ... |
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ... se, Volume 2 of The Morland Dynasty a series of historical novels by author | . The lead female character, Nanette Morland, is educated alongside Cather ... |
Ranavalona III | ... f the island, missionaries and foreigners were particularly terrible. Queen | was deposed on January 1897 and was exiled to Algiers in Algeria, where sh ... |
Christopher Frayling | ... e true beginning of the Italian invasion of their privileged cultural form. | , in his noted book on the Italian Western, describes American critical re ... |
Vinicius de Moraes | ... and Garoto, this sub-genre was inaugurated by João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, and | . It then had a generation of disciples and followers including Carlos Lyr ... |
Emperor Qianfei of Liu Song | ... or Xiaowu died naturally in 464 AD and was succeeded by his son, who became | . Emperor Qianfei proved to be similar to his father, engaging in both kin ... |
Theodosius II | ... an Empire. It is attested from the time of the Christian late-Roman emperor | (423) throughout the Middle Ages; the Reichsapfel was used in 1191 at the ... |
Henry II | ... rnal politics Stephen I allied himself with his brother-in-law, the Emperor | against Prince Boleslaw I of Poland, who had extended his rule over the te ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir | also had residences here in this era. It was at this time that Mitcham bec ... |
Viktor Shklovsky | ... arly semiotic authors included Vladimir Propp, Algirdas Julius Greimas, and | . These critics were concerned with a formal analysis of narrative forms w ... |
President | ... straight from the airport to Áras an Uachtaráin for champagne with the then | Mary Robinson |
Tupac Shakur | ... member of the Black Panther Party and, more famously, the mother of rapper | - was born in Lumberton on January 10, 1947 |
John Ruskin | ... ntinue to sketch throughout his life, inspired, as an adult, by the work of | and the Pre-Raphaelites. Hopkins became a skilled draughtsman and found th ... |
Christopher Nolan | ... egor, George Michael, Piers Morgan, Kate Moss, Chris Moyles, Paul Nicholas, | , Clive Owen, Cliff Parisi, Tim Pigott-Smith, J. B. Priestley, Jonathan Pr ... |
Emperor Ming of Liu Song | ... he "Prince of Pigs" for his obesity, eventually assassinated him and became | . Emperor Ming began his reign by killing all the descendants of Emperor X ... |
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 ... |
Michael Wilson | Salt of the Earth (1954) is an American drama film written by | , directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had b ... |
Matt Millen | ... Ted Hendricks, Pro Bowler Rod Martin (3 Interceptions) and standout rookie | |
Agnes Strickland | ... in the 19th century from the work of Victorian moralist and proto-feminist, | . This assumption has been challenged by David Starkey in his book Six Wiv ... |
Oscar II of Sweden | ... ke of Gotland) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila. His grandfather was King | |
The Wind in the Willows | ... Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for | (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Re ... |
Charles Manners-Sutton | ... the Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham and the Speaker of the House of Commons | |
Presidential | Holmes is a heavily Democratic county in | and Congressional elections. The last Republican to win a majority in the ... |
Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... printed with a variety of colored inks ranging from sepia, blue, and green. | was the first person to purchase Das Werk Gustav Klimts in 1908 |
David Starkey | ... nd proto-feminist, Agnes Strickland. This assumption has been challenged by | in his book Six Wives in which he points out that such a situation would h ... |
Charles Darwin | ... discover exactly which molecule was the genetic molecule. In Crick’s view, | ’s theory of evolution by natural selection, Gregor Mendel’s genetics and ... |
Lin Carter | ... i enlisted comic book and pulp fiction artists and writers Harvey Kurtzman, | , Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood and Jim Steranko to work at the ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... ovember 25 of that year that the last Polish king and Lithuanian grand duke | abdicated. In the Russian Empire, the city continued to serve its role as ... |
Henry II | After the death of | ( 3 July 1024), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Ho ... |
Johnny Hunt | Dr. | , who was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2008, wa ... |
Carinus | ... that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against | (r. 283–285) but there is no direct evidence for this |
Julius Caesar | ... prolifically on military campaigning. Among the best-known Roman works are | 's commentaries on the Gallic Wars and the Roman Civil war - written about ... |
Epiphanius | ... on incorrect interpretations of scripture, or simply duplicitous in nature. | provides an example when he writes of the "Archontics": "Some of them ruin ... |
Wu Sangui | ... id 17th century, allowed through the northern passes by the Chinese general | once the Ming capital at Beijing had fallen into the hands of a rebel army ... |
Elizabeth II | ... l family remained Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of | and Prince Philip, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to ... |
John Cleese | ... corporate video company Video Arts, famous for its training films starring | |
Adam Dalgliesh | ... 1950s. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator and poet | of New Scotland Yard, named after a teacher at Cambridge High School, was ... |
Michael McLaverty | ... ediate School in west Belfast. The headmaster of this school was the writer | from County Monaghan, who introduced Heaney to the poetry of Patrick Kavan ... |
Dave Mustaine | ... hbone. Mike Clark joined a band called Creeper, while Jimmy DeGrasso joined | 's side project MD.45, and eventually replaced Nick Menza in Megadeth who ... |
Ranavalona III | ... Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. After a few skirmishes, the Queen | promptly surrendered. The Foreign Legion lost 226 men, of whom only a tent ... |
Philip V of Spain | statesman in the service of | |
Nancy Pelosi | ... e reform legislation. But Democrats rallied and passed the measure; Speaker | , who was instrumental in doing so, credited Kennedy's life work in her fi ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ore metaphysics. Herbert Marcuse criticized Being and Nothingness (1943) by | for projecting anxiety and meaninglessness onto the nature of existence it ... |
Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song | ... spelled with a different character than the aforementioned Jun), who become | . Emperor Xiaowu proved to be licentious and cruel, supposedly committing ... |
Sergio Leone | ... Western, seemed to be evolving into a new rougher beast. For many critics, | 's films were part of the problem. Leone's Dollars Trilogy (1964–1967) was ... |
Carus | ... obus (r. 276–282). He probably participated in the Mesopotamian campaign of | in 283 and attended Diocletian's election as emperor on November 20, 284 a ... |
Robert Byrd | ... as the second most senior member of the Senate, after President pro tempore | of West Virginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behin ... |
James Madison | ... as officially organized on December 14, 1818, and was named after President | |
John McCain | ... or bills with him". In May 2008, soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee | said, "[Kennedy] is a legendary lawmaker and I have the highest respect fo ... |
Darwin's | ... al History Museum narrating commentary to some of the exhibits that support | theory of natural selection |
John Terraine | ... d Mountbatten, produced by Associated-Rediffusion and scripted by historian | . The list of episodes were |
Chris Moyles | ... nuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Michael, Piers Morgan, Kate Moss, | , Paul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Cliff Parisi, Tim Pigott-S ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... d Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (he was passed later in 2009 by | ) |
George H. W. Bush | ... s to the irritation of Democrats. During the 101st Congress under President | , fully half of the successful proposals put forward by the Senate Democra ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... d generous partner." Republican Governor of California and Kennedy relative | described "Uncle Teddy" as "a liberal icon, a warrior for the less fortuna ... |
Stephen Báthory of Poland | ... ew Castles were often visited by the Commonwealth monarchs including famous | who made a royal residence here. In 1793 the last Sejm in the history of t ... |
Tertullian | ... ; trinitas in Latin) could be found in the writings of Origen (185-254) and | (160-220), and a general notion of a "divine three", in some sense, was ex ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... y as a reliable "bogeyman" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par with | and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Th ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... ary Rodham Clinton and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning | . The famous racially motivated "Hands" negative ad used in North Carolina ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
President | ... torical events happened in reverse of how they occurred in real life (e.g., | John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named Abraham Lincoln), a ... |
Aelianus Tacticus | ... major works on tactics come from the late Roman period: Taktike Theoria by | and De Re Militari ("On military matters") by Vegetius. Taktike Theoria ex ... |
Julius Caesar | ... e beginning of his public career, Sallust operated as a decided partisan of | , to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the ... |
Harvey Kurtzman | ... ce Culhane. Bakshi enlisted comic book and pulp fiction artists and writers | , Lin Carter, Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood and Jim Steranko to ... |
Jesse Helms | ... amous racially motivated "Hands" negative ad used in North Carolina Senator | 's 1990 re-election campaign against Harvey Gantt accused Gantt of support ... |
William Horwood | ... Wind in the Willows won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. In the 1990s | came up with a series of sequels |
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 ... |
Mario Amendola | ... rely Italian western movie was Il terrore dell'Oklahoma (1959), directed by | . The best-known and perhaps archetypal Spaghetti westerns were directed b ... |
Winston Churchill | ... nrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister | and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The m ... |
Bill Clinton | One of former President | 's great-grandfathers is buried here |
Sun Tzu | ... e oldest military publications is The Art of War by the Chinese philosopher | . Written in the 6th century BCE, the 13-chapter book is intended as milit ... |
Jeremy Irons | ... Mike Nichols. These were The Real Thing, where Nixon played the daughter of | and Christine Baranski; and Hurlyburly, where she played a young woman who ... |
All-father | ... who is often demon-like and dangerous, without any clear connection to the | of Norse mythology, instead being drawn from a earlier "Black God of the H ... |
Octavia Hill | ... tin Chuzzlewit whilst staying at Cobley Farm near Bow Lane, North Finchley. | , a social reformer and a founder of the National Trust, Kyrle Society and ... |
Averroes | ... plished man who wrote a good Arabic style and who protected the philosopher | . His title of "al-Mansur," "The Victorious," was earned by the defeat he ... |
Bert Evatt | ... overnment's defeat in 1949, and since 1951 had been under the leadership of | , whom Whitlam greatly admired. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return t ... |
Julius Caesar | ... of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of | . Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to hi ... |
Julie Bindel | ... who hold such views on prostitution include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, | , Sheila Jeffreys, Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Lederer; the has also con ... |
John Sutherland | ... t important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, including the academic | , have echoed the sentiment that he is "the greatest poet of our age" |
Sergio Leone | ... . The best-known and perhaps archetypal Spaghetti westerns were directed by | and scored by Ennio Morricone: the "Dollars Trilogy" (A Fistful of Dollars ... |
Bocchus I | ... uretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurtha. With the help of | of Mauretania, Sulla captured Jugurtha and brought the war to a conclusive ... |
Jean Renoir | ... nst the tsar. The mood of the army is perhaps captured well by one scene in | 's movie, La Grande Illusion. Alexandra sends boxes to Russian prisoners o ... |
Don King | ... ll is also the location of the King Training Camp, owned by boxing promoter | . The facility, housed on State Route 45 South, often features famous boxe ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... o convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President | without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The main point of the proposal was ... |
Henry II | ... ria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor | (who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ... |
Alfonso VIII of Castile | ... of "al-Mansur," "The Victorious," was earned by the defeat he inflicted on | in the Battle of Alarcos (1195) |
George II of Greece | ... Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King | , to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explan ... |
Choe Bu | ... n the Grand Canal and away from the main delta. Even the shipwrecked Korean | (1454–1504)—while traveling for five months throughout China in 1488—ackno ... |
Emperor Shun of Liu Song | ... er and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his brother who became | . After defeating his rival general Shen Youzhi, Xiao forced Emperor Shun ... |
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 ... |
Vladimir Kramnik | ... s: Ruslan Ponomariov had gained the title under the auspices of FIDE, while | had beaten Garry Kasparov to take the Einstein title. It called for one ma ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... Common rendered Übermensch as "Superman"; Common was anticipated in this by | , who had done the same in his 1903 stage play Man and Superman. Walter Ka ... |
Nero | ... ther late 67 or early 68, he rebelled against the tax policy of the Emperor | . According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex "was powerful in body and ... |
Luther | ... o the invention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, | , John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, S ... |
King George IV | ... es, although he became embroiled in unsuccessful mediation attempts between | , and his estranged wife Caroline of Brunswick, who had sought her rights ... |
Sheila Jeffreys | ... views on prostitution include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, | , Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Lederer; the has also condemned prostituti ... |
Adam Dalgliesh | ... s, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet | |
Piers Morgan | ... later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Michael, | , Kate Moss, Chris Moyles, Paul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, C ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... er Winston Churchill and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of | . The main point of the proposal was that Germany would only surrender to ... |
Queen Victoria | In 1876, | took the additional title of Empress of India |
Simon Kuznets | GDP was first developed by | for a US Congress report in 1934, who immediately said not to use it as a ... |
Antoninus | ... d those who devised heresies, and they continued until the age of the elder | . |
Alexander III | ... nnockburn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of | |
Garry Kasparov | ... ned the title under the auspices of FIDE, while Vladimir Kramnik had beaten | to take the Einstein title. It called for one match between Ponomariov and ... |
Pauline Kael | ... ll called Khan the "greatest role of Montalbán's career". New Yorker critic | said Montalbán's performance as Khan "was the only validation he has ever ... |
Jerome | ... been speculated that this may have provided motivation for canon lists. In | 's Prologue to Judith he claims that the was "found by the Nicene Council ... |
Lactantius | ... were purely military; he left politics to Diocletian. The Christian rhetor | suggested that Maximian shared Diocletian's basic attitudes but was less p ... |
Conrad II | ... varia). In 1027, Stephen had Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, the envoy sent by | to the Byzantine Empire, arrested at the frontier. In 1030, the emperor le ... |
William Hooper | ... ution was later ratified by North Carolina at a convention in Fayetteville. | , a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was buried in the Presbyter ... |
Hans Reichenbach | ... oncept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences". Putnam's teacher | (his dissertation supervisor) was a leading figure in , the dominant schoo ... |
Thucydides | ... fragments survive). Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian | , and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Afric ... |
Catharine MacKinnon | ... tion include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, Sheila Jeffreys, | and Laura Lederer; the has also condemned prostitution as "an intolerable ... |
Phocas | ... Rostra and dedicated or rededicated in honour of the Eastern Roman Emperor | . This proved to be the last monumental addition made to the Forum. By the ... |
Richard Wagner | ... sometimes stage-directing as well as conducting, as in a 1963 production of | 's Lohengrin. He also conducted Mozart's The Magic Flute there in 1963 |
Pauline Kael | ... d admit that they were, in fact, "bored with an exhausted Hollywood genre." | , he notes, was willing to acknowledge this critical ennui and thus apprec ... |
James Fenimore Cooper | ... n Winkle (1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the Leatherstocking Tales of | , with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape des ... |
Tom Flores | The Raiders were led by Head Coach | , the first minority coach to win a Super Bowl |
N. Scott Momaday | ... drummer Steven Drozd. Notable authors include Pulitzer Prize winning author | , poet Don Blanding, and Hugo Award winner, C.J. Cherryh |
Prince George, Duke of Kent | ... scuous with both sexes. One report suggests he would procure guardsmen with | . Private Eye magazine, which termed Mountbatten 'a raging queen' brought ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... is, a work he and Alfred subsequently collaborated in translating, and from | 's Enchiridion. About half of the Life is little more than a translation o ... |
Kwame Nkrumah | ... alists. Other African socialists include Jomo Kenyatta, Kenneth Kaunda, and | . Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism and called for a democratic African ... |
Jane Seymour | ... ly small, given that the drama's second part focused more on the stories of | and Catherine Howard |
Charles Dickens | ... in England and Wales since the Reformation lived in Finchley. The novelist | wrote Martin Chuzzlewit whilst staying at Cobley Farm near Bow Lane, North ... |
Anatoly Karpov | ... Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training for his world title match against | |
Nicholas Meyer | ... t during filming of Star Trek II to make him appear more muscular; director | replied that even in his sixties Montalbán had a vigorous training regimen ... |
Dick Vermeil | Under Head Coach | , Philadelphia advanced to their first ever Super Bowl in team history, an ... |
Yehudi Menuhin | ... Ulrika Jonsson, Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, | (and later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Mi ... |
Boyd Rice | ... ollins, William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, Psyclones, The Haters, | , Pole, Stephen Vitiello, If, Bwana, PBK, Howard Stelzer, Chris Douglas a. ... |
Eleanor Bron | ... and appeared in the BBC radio comedy sketch show The Right Time, along with | , Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, Roger Blake, and Neil Innes. He was also scri ... |
John Barbour | ... e for Edward to gather a powerful army. According to the historian and poet | , King Robert Bruce rebuked the folly of his brother, even though Dundee h ... |
King George III | ... ually important goals. At the suggestion of Wilberforce and Bishop Porteus, | was requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury to issue in 1787 the Proclam ... |
Don Blanding | ... otable authors include Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday, poet | , and Hugo Award winner, C.J. Cherryh |
James Hopwood Jeans | ... and as founded on exercises using the method of inversion, such as found in | textbook Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism |
Catherine Howard | ... hat the drama's second part focused more on the stories of Jane Seymour and | |
Jakob von Uexkull | ... nt challenges facing the world today". The prize was established in 1980 by | , and is presented annually in early December. An international jury, invi ... |
Emperor Houfei of Liu Song | ... y regained in the other Southern Dynasties. Emperor Ming's young son became | . The political situation was volatile. The general Xiao Daocheng slowly g ... |
Yoshiyuki Tomino | Mobile Suit Gundam was principally developed by renowned animator | , along with a changing group of Sunrise creators who went under the colle ... |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ... rganized on January 2, 1833 from part of Ray County, Missouri and named for | , a signer of the |
Conrad II | ... Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, | claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the ... |
Paula Wilcox | ... n the BBC radio comedy sketch show The Right Time, along with Eleanor Bron, | , Clive Swift, Roger Blake, and Neil Innes. He was also script editor for ... |
Robert Bruce | ... her a powerful army. According to the historian and poet John Barbour, King | rebuked the folly of his brother, even though Dundee had probably fallen t ... |
Emperor | ... s. In either late 67 or early 68, he rebelled against the tax policy of the | Nero. According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex "was powerful in body ... |
Akira Kurosawa | ... g to acknowledge this critical ennui and thus appreciate how a film such as | 's Yojimbo (1961) "could exploit Western conventions while debunking its m ... |
Frank Miller | ... e DC Universe will never be the same." Along with Alan Moore's Watchmen and | 's , it contributed to the commercial and creative revitalization of DC Co ... |
Claude Ponsard | ... ons; Albert O. Hirschman's (1958) The Strategy of Economic Development; and | 's (1958) Histoire des Théorie Économique Spatiales. Nonetheless, Walter I ... |
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 ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... d then returned to Numidia to take control of the war. He sent his Quaestor | to neighbouring Mauretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurth ... |
Ron Jaworski | ... game since their 1960 NFL championship. The Eagles were led by quarterback | , who completed 257 out of 451 passes for 3,529 yards during the regular s ... |
Claudius | ... index, of a noble Gaulish family of Aquitania given senatorial status under | , was a Roman governor in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis. In either la ... |
Mindaugas | ... he most of Black Ruthenia, was controlled by princes of Lithuanian origin ( | and others) to form the Baltic-Slavic state - Grand Duchy of Lithuania on ... |
Dan Bakkedahl | ... lliam Ivey Long, Chris Elliott, Terrence Mann, and Daily Show correspondent | |
Hitler | The term Übermensch was a favorite of | and the Nazi regime, which borrowed from Nietzsche's work and sought to ad ... |
Paul Jarrico | ... written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by | . All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their all ... |
Gonçalves Dias | ... examples include José de Alencar, who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and | , renowned by the poem "Canção do Exílio" (Song of the Exile). The second ... |
Bahadur Shah | ... native Indian ones, and only allowed British soldiers to handle artillery. | was exiled to Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), where he died in 1862 |
Andrew Jackson | ... 9 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under | , making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was firs ... |
Emperor Wu of Southern Qi | ... eign and his heir, who was only 13 years younger than him, succeeded him as | . Emperor Wu made peace with the Northern Wei, content to protect his bord ... |
Grand Prince | He was born as Vajk in the town of Esztergom. His father was | Géza of Hungary; his mother was Sarolt, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania ... |
Roger Staubach | The main storyline surrounding Super Bowl XII was Cowboys quarterback | versus Broncos quarterback Craig Morton. Morton began his career playing f ... |
H. G. Wells | ... uthor of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight Mr Tom and | author, lived in Portsmouth during the 1880s. and actresses and actors Emm ... |
Basil Bunting | ... a major venue for poetry readings in the North East, being the place where | gave the first reading of Briggflatts in 1965 |
Henry II of England | ... a grand jury can be traced back to the Assize of Clarendon, an 1166 act of | . In fact, Henry's chief effect on the development of the English monarchy ... |
Bob Chandler | ... r Cliff Branch (44 receptions, 858 yards, 7 touchdown), while wide receiver | contributed 49 receptions for 786 yards and 10 touchdowns. Running back Ma ... |
Barack Obama | ... win a majority in the county was Barry Goldwater in 1964. In 2008, Democrat | won 81% of the county's vote |
Astrid Lindgren | ... to a diverse group of people and organisations, including Wangari Maathai, | , Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, Petra Kelly and Memorial |
Alan Seeger | ... stic volunteers and the hardened mercenaries of the old Legion, as the poet | pointed out, making assimilation difficult. Nevertheless, the old and the ... |
Henry VIII | When | broke from Rome an era of religious repression began. During the Dissoluti ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ntury Republican attorney and black civil rights activist who served in the | administration, was born in Holmes County in 1877 |
Mordechai Vanunu | ... d organisations, including Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, | , Petra Kelly and Memorial |
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 ... |
Digby Mackworth Dolben | ... accept his sexual attraction to other men, including a deep infatuation for | . There is nothing to suggest, however, any physical consummation and inde ... |
Patrick Hillery | The President of Ireland, | , and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial service for Mountbatt ... |
Alexander Berkman | ... mbing attacks planned by anarchists associated with the radical journalists | and Luigi Galleani |
Millard Kaufman | ... on, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. The film was adapted by Don McGuire and | from the short story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin. The original s ... |
Guy Garvey | ... to be Tunde Adebimpe's "Pray For Rain", Martina Topley-Bird's "Psyche" and | 's "Bulletproof Love". The latter two tracks appear as remixes of the inte ... |
Xiao Zhaoye | The short reigns of Emperor Wu's grandsons, | and Xiao Zhaowen (his first son predeceased him), were dominated by Xiao L ... |
William the Conqueror | ... iminal justice more effective, Henry employed the method of inquest used by | in the Domesday Book. In each shire a body of important men was sworn (jur ... |
Henry II | ... cal rulers continued fighting amongst themselves the Norman King of England | was invited to intervene. He arrived in 1171, took control of much land, a ... |
Craig Morton | ... Bowl XII was Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach versus Broncos quarterback | . Morton began his career playing for Dallas in 1965. After Staubach joine ... |
Eutropia | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, | : Maxentius and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources ... |
Richard Nixon | In 1959, following the Kitchen Debate between United States Vice President | and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, includ ... |
President of Ireland | The | , Patrick Hillery, and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial serv ... |
Viktor Korchnoi | ... t 19 he won the World Junior Chess Championship. He also won a game against | , who then invited Seirawan to Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training fo ... |
Walter Pater | ... in 1864. During this time he studied with the prestigious writer and critic | , who tutored him in 1866 and who remained a friend till September 1879 wh ... |
Barry Cryer | Garden wrote for and appeared with | and Alison Steadman in the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show The Long Hot ... |
Haydn | ... ethoven's late quartets". Mendelssohn was not thought of highly, Mozart and | "were considered out of date and naïve", and J.S. Bach merely mathematical ... |
Kit Woolsey | ... a major (especially if 1NT is in 15-18 range). Puppet Stayman, invented by | and Steve Robinson, is a variation of the Stayman convention intended to s ... |
Barack Obama | ... ties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored John McCain over | , although not as strongly as most of the other rural counties throughout ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister | 's more conservative coalition partners |
Barack Obama | ... ounties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
Ida M. Tarbell | One of the original "muckrakers" was | , an American author and journalist. Her father was an oil producer whose ... |
John McCain | ... e many rural counties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored | over Barack Obama, although not as strongly as most of the other rural cou ... |
Brendan Cowell | ... 010 World War I drama Beneath Hill 60, directed by Jeremy Sims and starring | |
Gerry Adams | Sinn Féin vice-president | said of Mountbatten's death |
Pompey | ... ued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and | . After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide (46 ... |
Antiochus II Theos | Antiochus I (reigned 281–261 BC) and his son and successor | (reigned 261–246 BC) were faced with challenges in the west, including rep ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... xism. In 1980, with the rise of conservative neoliberal politicians such as | in the U.S., Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, t ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like | , the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or ... |
Andy Griffith | ... the only interruption being during World War II. Alumni of the cast include | (who played Sir Walter Raleigh), William Ivey Long, Chris Elliott, Terrenc ... |
Herbert Croly | ... head was Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) and most eloquent spokesman was | (Class of 1889). Eliot was also involved in philanthropy, serving as a tru ... |
John Hancock | ... st rocket engine test facility. Hancock County is named for Founding Father | |
Ibn Battuta | ... kingdom had converted to Islam. Marco Polo visited the island in 1292, and | visited twice during 1345–1346. Samudra was succeeded by the powerful Aceh ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Christina Rossetti | ... , and his posthumous acclaim. Hopkins was deeply impressed with the work of | and she became one of his greatest contemporary influences, meeting him in ... |
Tom Pickard | ... e has a strong reputation as a poetry centre. The Morden Tower, run by poet | is a major venue for poetry readings in the North East, being the place wh ... |
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 ... |
Juba II | ... Numidia became briefly the province of Africa Nova until Augustus restored | (son of Juba I) after the Battle of Actium |
Han Shan | ... translation of the "Cold Mountain" poems by the 8th-century Chinese recluse | ; this work appeared in chapbook-form in 1969, under the title Riprap & Co ... |
Yongle Emperor | ... 4). A magistrate of Jining, Shandong sent a memorandum to the throne of the | protesting the current inefficient means of transporting 4,000,000 dan (42 ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... essional elections. The last Republican to win a majority in the county was | in 1964. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama won 81% of the county's vote |
José de Alencar | ... ional identity, using the ideal of the heroic Indian. Some examples include | , who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and Gonçalves Dias, renowned by the ... |
Johann Christoph de Jordan | ... tarting point in the autochtonic/allochtonic debate was the year 1745, when | published De Originibus Slavicis. The works of Slovak philologist and poet ... |
Michael Jackson | ... et list, stage design, and costumes galore, and was dedicated to her friend | who died in June 2009. The tour, which commenced on May 15, 2010, in Bosto ... |
Carl von Clausewitz | ... r the Prussian Major-General and leading expert on modern military strategy | defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of ... |
Hoover | ... a Secretary of the Treasury. His service continued through the Coolidge and | administrations. Along with James Wilson and James J. Davis, he is one of ... |
Chris Elliott | ... t include Andy Griffith (who played Sir Walter Raleigh), William Ivey Long, | , Terrence Mann, and Daily Show correspondent Dan Bakkedahl |
Queen Victoria | ... ment for British rule. In a royal proclamation made to the people of India, | promised equal opportunity of public service under British law, and also p ... |
Robert Bridges | ... y poetic pieces. It was at Oxford that he forged a lifelong friendship with | (eventual Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom) which would be of importanc ... |
Cato the Younger | ... rned by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. After | was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide (46 BC) in Utica, and Numidia ... |
Ronald Reagan | President | launched his 1980 presidential campaign from the Neshoba County Fair, deli ... |
Michelle Magorian | ... as born in Portsmouth, Rudyard Kipling, poet and author of the Jungle Book, | , author of Goodnight Mr Tom and H. G. Wells author, lived in Portsmouth d ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... res states that although feminists were among those who opposed the rise of | , feminism has a complicated relationship with the Nazi movement as well, ... |
Dolores Ibárruri | ... organization in the U.S. and is still active. During the Spanish Civil War, | (La Pasionaria) led the Communist Party of Spain. Although she supported e ... |
Mark Twain | ... ecommendation of economically motivated cannibalism. Again, some critics of | see Huckleberry Finn as racist and offensive, missing the point that its a ... |
Xiao Baojuan | ... ry to find silver fish (银鱼). He died in 498 AD and was succeeded by his son | , whose killed high officials and governors at his whim, sparking many rev ... |
António Nobre | ... 20th century, notably through the works of poets such as Cesário Verde and | . However, an early Portuguese expression of Romanticism is found already ... |
DJ Spooky | ... ew Deutsch, Leif Elggren, Robin Rimbaud, Alva Noto, Oval, Boards of Canada, | , Florian Hecker, Farmers Manual, Negativland, Thanasis Kaproulias, Fennes ... |
Bill Clinton | ... George W. Bush carried Texas County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004. | was the last Democratic presidential nominee to carry Texas County in 1992 ... |
William Morris | ... ious materials, was founded in Mitcham as a silk-printing business in 1781. | opened a factory on the River Wandle at Merton Abbey. Merton Abbey Mills w ... |
George W. Bush | At the presidential level, Texas County is Republican-leaning. | carried Texas County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004. Bill Clinton ... |
Cesário Verde | ... e beginning of the 20th century, notably through the works of poets such as | and António Nobre. However, an early Portuguese expression of Romanticism ... |
Dizzy Dean | ... nd Athletics to become Major League Baseball’s first 30-game winner since . | , the last man to have won 30 games, was on hand to congratulate him |
Thomas Aquinas | ... scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with Eratosthenes' method. | (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught theologian of the Middle ... |
President | ... head, the Secretary of the Interior, is a Cabinet officer nominated by the | and confirmed by the Senate. Most of the direct management of the NPS is d ... |
George W. Bush | ... Madison County have seldom been lockstep in their voting tendencies. While | carried Madison County both times in 2000 and 2004, Bill Clinton also carr ... |
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 ... |
Jim Bunning | ... , Callison's teammate, future Hall of Fame member and United States Senator | , pitched a perfect game against the Mets |
J. B. Priestley | ... ul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Cliff Parisi, Tim Pigott-Smith, | , Jonathan Pryce, Dizzee Rascal, Heath Robinson, John James Sainsbury, Pet ... |
William Wordsworth | ... impious lord, the flying hart To chase for ever through aërial grounds," ( | ), "Though narrow be that old man's cares" (1807), quoted in ; "Gabriel's ... |
Simon Kuznets | ... ch as social and environmental concerns. Examples of externalities include: | in his very first report to the US Congress in 1934 said: ...the welfare o ... |
Fausta | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, Eutropia: Maxentius and | . There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources for their birthdates. ... |
Hope Sandoval | ... tured guest vocals of TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Damon Albarn and | all check in for a song or two |
Albert Speer | He and | were allegedly the only defendants to show remorse for their war crimes. " ... |
Emperor He of Southern Qi | ... ao Yan to revolt under the banner of Xiao Baojun's brother who was declared | . Xiao Baojun was killed by one of his general during the siege of his cap ... |
Boethius | ... h century, believed that Asser also assisted Alfred with his translation of | |
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | ... United Kingdom impaled with her family arms – the arms of her grandfather, | (the royal arms used by the House of Hanover), in the 1st and 4th quarters ... |
Mickey Mantle | ... ber 19, 1968. McLain had grown up idolizing New York Yankee center fielder, | , who entered the game tied with Jimmie Foxx for third place in the major ... |
John McCain | ... ny of the rural counties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... he goals of the progressive movement -- whose most prominent figurehead was | (Class of 1880) and most eloquent spokesman was Herbert Croly (Class of 18 ... |
Robert Rodriguez | ... voices for animated films and supported his Nosotros foundation. Filmmaker | created the role "Grandfather" specifically for Montalbán in his Spy Kids ... |
Aristotle | ( , trans. Colburn) | also found cause to quote him |
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | ... exandra had lost a brother, Friedrich, to the disease, as well as an uncle, | . Her sister Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was also a carrier of th ... |
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 ... |
Washington Irving | ... the United States, romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with | 's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) and Rip Van Winkle (1819), followed ... |
Wally Wood | ... tists and writers Harvey Kurtzman, Lin Carter, Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, | and Jim Steranko to work at the studio. After finishing Culhane's uncomple ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... ind" are heard in the movie Places in the Heart, by the character Mr. Will. | dedicated his popular detective novel on anarchist terrorism, The Man Who ... |
Bill Clinton | ... s. While George W. Bush carried Madison County both times in 2000 and 2004, | also carried the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like many rural count ... |
Julius Nyerere | ... cialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent. | was inspired by Fabian socialist ideals. He was a firm believer in rural A ... |
Lord Grenville | ... Wilberforce and Charles Fox led the campaign in the House of Commons, while | advocated the cause in the House of Lords |
Gladys Knight | ... l's 'Divas with Heart' concert event, which also featured fellow performers | , Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle. The following month she was a headliner at ... |
Alexander Alekhine | ... shment of a chess school under Bogoljubow and the World Chess Champion, Dr. | , and he visited a chess tournament in October 1942 at the "Literary Café" ... |
King John | ... sents information for an indictment. The grand jury was later recognized by | in Magna Carta in on demand of the nobility |
Theognis of Megara | ... lides (Φωκυλίδης ὁ Μιλήσιος), Greek gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of | , was born about 560 BC |
Lauren Nelson | ... Stacey King, former NBA All-Star Michael Ray Richardson, Miss America 2007 | , infamous University of Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson, NFL Pro Bo ... |
Petra Kelly | ... ncluding Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, | and Memorial |
Booker T. Washington | ... liot's tenure, including such notables as W. E. B. Du Bois (Class of 1890). | was awarded an honorary degree by Harvard in 1896. Unlike his successor, A ... |
Julian Hatcher | ... lowback than as an adhesion-locked breech action. Some authorities, such as | , felt the Blish Lock as employed in the submachine gun did not accomplish ... |
Appius Claudius Pulcher | ... hom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the censor | removed him from the Senate on the grounds of gross immorality (probably r ... |
Xiao Zhaowen | The short reigns of Emperor Wu's grandsons, Xiao Zhaoye and | (his first son predeceased him), were dominated by Xiao Luan, Emperor's Wu ... |
Maxentius | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, Eutropia: | and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources for their b ... |
Eratosthenes | ... the earliest Christian scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with | ' method. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught ... |
Betty Friedan | ... ritain, the women's movement was allied with the Labour party. In the U.S., | emerged from a radical background to take leadership. Radical Women is the ... |
Robin Rimbaud | ... d Stelzer, Chris Douglas a.k.a. O.S.T., Aube, Andrew Deutsch, Leif Elggren, | , Alva Noto, Oval, Boards of Canada, DJ Spooky, Florian Hecker, Farmers Ma ... |
Spike Milligan | ... to live in Dulwich and Chelsea before and after her time in Downing Street. | , the comedian who was the chief creator and main writer of The Goon Show, ... |
Steven Isserlis | ... rformers. Musicians who have performered in the JdP in recent years include | , the Jerusalem Quartet, the Chilingirian Quartet and the Belcea Quartet |
Demetrius I of Bactria | ... verrun by the invasion of northern nomads. One of the Greco-Bactrian kings, | , invaded India around 180 BC to form the Greco-Indian kingdom, lasting un ... |
Franz Blei | ... erotic drawings however: 15 of his drawings were selected by Viennese poet | for his translation of Hellenistic satirist Lucian's Dialogues of the Cour ... |
Septimius Severus | ... midia was divided between Mauretania and the province of Africa Nova. Under | (193 AD), Numidia was separated from Africa Vetus, and governed by an impe ... |
Castro Alves | ... especially the abolitionist movement; the greatest writer of this period is | |
Maria Luisa of Savoy | ... use her influence in carrying out his plans. Upon the death of the Queen ( | ), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 b ... |
John Keats | Manley Hopkins moved his family to Hampstead in 1852, near to where | had lived thirty years before and close to the wide green spaces of Hampst ... |
Kurt Warner | ... first quarterback to start a Super Bowl game for two different franchises ( | being the second with St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals). The next year ... |
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Adolf Hitler | ... purpose of the SS, that of safeguarding the leadership of the Nazi Party ( | ) continued until the very end of the group's existence. Hitler had used b ... |
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Walt Whitman | ... nal ballads and folk songs, Native American songs and poems, William Blake, | , Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico García Lorca, an ... |
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Sebastian Klonowic | ... and writers of the Polish renaissance lived and worked in Lublin, including | and Jan Kochanowski, who died in the city in 1584. In 1578 the Crown Tribu ... |
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William IV | ... e British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ruled in Hanover was | : Salic law, which required succession by the male line, forbade the acces ... |
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Richard Hakluyt | ... retaliation, the village was sacked and burned. English writer and courtier | 's contemporary reports of the first voyage to Virginia, compiled from acc ... |
Craig Owens | ... n his 1980 essay The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, | identifies the re-emergence of an allegorical impulse as characteristic of ... |
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Marco Polo | ... te 13th century, the monarch of the Samudra kingdom had converted to Islam. | visited the island in 1292, and Ibn Battuta visited twice during 1345–1346 ... |
Assad | ... spleasure at Hamas's failure to hold public rallies in support of President | " in the face of the Syrian uprising, and funding from the Muslim Brotherh ... |
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Christopher Hitchens | ... Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and historian was born in Portsmouth, | author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, Rudyard Kip ... |
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Nero | ... tes back to the 1st century AD, when Seneca the Younger, a tutor of Emperor | of Rome, wrote: "Letters, however small and indistinct, are seen enlarged ... |
Walter O'Malley | ... ew York City official Robert Moses tried to interest Brooklyn Dodgers owner | in this site as the location for a new Dodger stadium, but O'Malley refuse ... |
John Mitchel | ... lism was heavily influenced by the anti-Liberal rhetoric of Young Irelander | . Griffith made a number of highly controversial statements and opinions. ... |
Walter Schellenberg | ... ches of SD were commanded by various SS officers such as Otto Ohlendorf and | . Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions were taken over by Erns ... |
Queen Kapiolani | ... p around the world, he brought his native language with him. When his wife, | , and his sister, Princess (later Queen) Liliuokalani, took a trip across ... |
Jacob Bronowski | ... and artists including James Reeves, Norman Cameron, John Aldridge, Len Lye, | , and Honor Wyatt. The house is now a museum. Progress of Stories (1935) w ... |
Bob Gibson | ... n, a sore-armed McLain lost twice to National League Cy Young Award winner, | to help put the Tigers down three games to one. Trailing three games to tw ... |
Nancy Hughes | With the immortal words "Good morning, dear," actress Helen Wagner ( | ) opened As the World Turns on April 2, 1956 |
S. T. Joshi | ... diploma (although he maintained for most of his life that he did graduate). | suggests in his biography of Lovecraft that a primary cause for this break ... |
John D. Barrow | ... of universal gravitation. While Kant's argument is historically important, | says that it "...gets the punch-line back to front: it is the three-dimens ... |
George I Louis | ... of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). The first of these was | , who acceded to the British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwick Papers was born in Portsmouth, | Author of the Sherlock Holmes Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and hi ... |
Noam Chomsky | Academic | argues that Drug laws are currently, and have historically, been used by t ... |
Rick Atkinson | ... n of the causes of death between the gas and other causes is far from easy. | , in his book The Day of Battle, describes the intelligence that prompted ... |
Walt Disney | ... rt direction, effects animation and special effects. Hench was respected by | as one of the studio's most gifted artists and teamed him with Salvador Da ... |
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 ... |
David Kalākaua | ... mar of Hawaiian ("Über die Hawaiische Sprache") in 1837. When Hawaiian King | took a trip around the world, he brought his native language with him. Whe ... |
Paul Kruger | ... with the Orange Free State. Peaceful overtures having failed, Pretorius and | placed themselves at the head of a commando which crossed the Vaal with th ... |
Seneca the Younger | ... iest written record of magnification dates back to the 1st century AD, when | , a tutor of Emperor Nero of Rome, wrote: "Letters, however small and indi ... |
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 ... |
John Greenleaf Whittier | ... Review believed Dickens’s "fellow feeling with the race is his genius"; and | thought the book charming, "inwardly and outwardly" |
Jason Priestley | ... opening was designed by Kathie Broyles. The cast shown in this version are | , Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Per ... |
Barack Obama | ... ohn McCain received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat | 's 20,701 (47.26%), even as Obama carried the state by a double-digit marg ... |
David Armand | Imbruglia made a surprise appearance alongside | midway through a performance of his 'interpretative dance' routine to sing ... |
Manuel José Quintana | ... an Tenorio. Before them may be mentioned the pre-romantics José Cadalso and | . The plays of Antonio García Gutiérrez were adapted to produce Guiseppe V ... |
John McCain | In the 2008 presidential election, Republican candidate | received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat Barack Ob ... |
Duchess of York | ... reer, as well as relentless, often critical, media attention focused on the | , led to fractures in the marriage. On 19 March 1992 the couple announced ... |
Bill Clinton | ... eorge W. Bush carried Ripley County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004, | won the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like most of the rural countie ... |
Trygve Haavelmo | ... s at the University of Oslo, where he was taught by the Nobel Prize winners | and Ragnar Frisch. He graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1953. Since ... |
Catherine de' Medici | ... n a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with | 's entourage |
Adrian Edmondson | ... red on BBC2 between 1991 and 1995. It was written by and starring comic duo | and Rik Mayall as Richie and Eddie, two flatmates living on the dole in Ha ... |
Craig Owens | ... compatible with the pictorial field of premodernist and modernist painting. | goes further, identifying the significance of Rauschenberg's work not as a ... |
Brian Friel | ... at the time on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Anne Friel, playwright | 's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, Donna Leon and Robert Harri ... |
Ragnar Frisch | ... of Oslo, where he was taught by the Nobel Prize winners Trygve Haavelmo and | . He graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1953. Since 1951, Willoch wa ... |
Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of | , Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph ... |
George IV | ... he final three joint rulers (1760–1837), there was only one short visit, by | in 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroy Adolphus represented the monarch in Han ... |
Quinn Buckner | ... e won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, having won it in the 2005–06 season. | and Jim Cleamons have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Mav ... |
Aratus | ... 2, and a final summary in 1926. He cited not only Ptolemy but also the poet | , the orator Cicero, and general Germanicus as colouring the star red, tho ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham with | as one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, An ... |
Carl Foreman | ... n to say he would never regret having helped blacklist liberal screenwriter | from Hollywood. Ironically, Gary Cooper himself had conservative political ... |
Olaudah Equiano | ... of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was published in London, England, written by | , a former slave, featuring 79 Igbo words. The narrative also illustrated ... |
Yehudi Menuhin | ... Armstrong, Dean Martin, Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, Percy Grainger, Art Tatum, | , Bing Crosby, The Moody Blues, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra ... |
Theodora | ... have varied from c. 277 to c. 287, and most date Fausta's birth to c. 298. | , the wife of Constantius Chlorus, is often called Maximian's stepdaughter ... |
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 ... |
Rick Dees | ... arch to July 1998. It was knocked down to No. 2 by The Goo Goo Dolls' Iris. | , in his Top 40 Chart show also declared "Torn" as the 'number one radio s ... |
George W. Bush | ... ver, like many rural counties, it does have a slight Republican lean. While | carried Ripley County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004, Bill Clinton ... |
Federico García Lorca | ... William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, | , and Robert Duncan as significant influences on his poetry, but added, "t ... |
Irna Phillips | As the World Turns was the creation of | who, beginning in the 1930s, had been one of the foremost creators and wri ... |
Frances Willard | ... d its roots to the early days of the Genesee College where suffragists like | and Belva Lockwood began to distinguish themselves nationally. However, th ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... of the buildings are listed, including the Cheltenham Synagogue, judged by | to be one of the architecturally "best" non-Anglican ecclesiastical buildi ... |
Edward F. Daas | ... kson. The ensuing debate in the magazine's letters column caught the eye of | , President of the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA), who invited Lo ... |
Matt Lucas | ... ipts were written by the same writers as Little Britain (David Walliams and | ) and Baker assumed his Little Britain persona. He used lines such as "Hel ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... xisting Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by President | on May 26, 1864. At this time Deer Lodge County (today Deer Lodge, Granite ... |
grandfather | ... leagh all titles previously held by both his maternal great-grandfather and | . Prince Andrew had known Miss Ferguson since childhood, and they had met ... |
Harry Mathews | ... es (1935) would later be highly esteemed by, among others, John Ashbery and | . Between 1936 and 1939 Riding and Graves lived in England, France, and Sw ... |
Craig Morton | ... oys' current quarterback, Roger Staubach, against their former quarterback, | . Led by Staubach and the Doomsday Defense, Dallas advanced to their secon ... |
President | ... treet in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for the future | and First Lady. Today it is known as The Roosevelt House of Public Policy ... |
Washington Irving | ... to an 1808 short story describing a spread of "fire-cakes and dough-nuts." | 's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is more com ... |
José Cadalso | ... author of Don Juan Tenorio. Before them may be mentioned the pre-romantics | and Manuel José Quintana. The plays of Antonio García Gutiérrez were adapt ... |
Donald Trump | ... FL quarterback. He was selected by the USFL's New Jersey Generals (owned by | ) in the 1985 territorial draft, which took place months before the 1985 N ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... extual criticism as pedantry. His classical controversies also called forth | 's Battle of the Books |
John VI of Portugal | ... one another. In the Portuguese colony, the heir apparent Pedro, son of King | , proclaimed the country's independence in 1822 and became Brazil's first ... |
Roger Staubach | The game pitted the Cowboys' current quarterback, | , against their former quarterback, Craig Morton. Led by Staubach and the ... |
Paul Hasluck | ... ecember, once Labor's win was secure, Whitlam had the Governor-General, Sir | swear him in as Prime Minister and Labor's deputy leader, Lance Barnard, a ... |
Bindusara | ... an ambassador, Megasthenes, to Chandragupta, and later Deimakos to his son | , at the Mauryan court at Pataliputra (modern Patna in Bihar state). Megas ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Royal Standard of Scotland | ... ngham Palace, Windsor Castle and Sandringham House, whereas in Scotland the | is flown at Holyrood Palace and Balmoral Castle |
Bernard Cornwell | Fictional residents also include | 's Richard Sharpe, an officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wa ... |
William III | The following century, | 's massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles w ... |
David Walliams | ... 21:30 GMT. The scripts were written by the same writers as Little Britain ( | and Matt Lucas) and Baker assumed his Little Britain persona. He used line ... |
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 Bloch | ... e of the great letter writers of the century. Among his correspondents were | (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian se ... |
Nancy Hughes | ... t of Greek chorus to the stories. The primary purpose of characters such as | (Helen Wagner) was to comment on the crises faced and decisions made by th ... |
Don Drysdale | ... rned run average, the lowest in 54 years while, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher | threw a record 58 and two-thirds consecutive scoreless innings during the ... |
Mitchum | ... at small, out-of-the-way Bridgeport, California in search of Jeff Bailey ( | ). Jeff is dating local girl Ann Miller (Virginia Huston), whose parents a ... |
Úlfr Uggason | ... us other deities. Later in the book, Húsdrápa, a poem by 10th century skald | , is cited, during which Heimdallr is described as having ridden to Baldr' ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... 931 Hitler sent Göring on a mission to the Vatican, where he met the future | |
Al Gore | In 2000, Bush received 21,887 votes (56.28%) to Democrat | 's 15,959 (41.04%) |
Getúlio Vargas | The ideology of | 's Estado Novo contaminated the scene of the samba. With Aquarela do Brasi ... |
Ian McFarlane | ... a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World "Rock historian, | described her as having a "rich, soulful, passionate and husky vocal deliv ... |
Jacob Grimm | | theorized that Hel (whom he refers to here as Halja, the theorized Proto-G ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... ner of the Mayflower, and was also a base for that ship. The famous diarist | was the Member of Parliament for Harwich. Christopher Newport, captain of ... |
Marcus Manilius | ... wever, not all ancient observers saw Sirius as red. The 1st century AD poet | described it as "sea-blue", as did the 4th century Avienus. It is the stan ... |
Frank Bough | ... And Round The Horne was broadcast on 18 September 1976. It was presented by | and included interviews with Kenneth Williams and Barry Took |
Johnnie Mortimer | ... an for 16 episodes from 25 February 1968. The scripts were written by Took, | , Brian Cooke and Donald Webster. The cast was Horne, Williams, Paddick, M ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... tugal, forks began being used with Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, king | 's mother. That happened around 1450. Still forks were not commonly used i ... |
Antonio García Gutiérrez | ... ioned the pre-romantics José Cadalso and Manuel José Quintana. The plays of | were adapted to produce Guiseppe Verdi's operas Il trovatore and Simon Boc ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... nship) and it was named after the incumbent President of the United States, | |
George Eliot | ... Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, | , Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney No ... |
Howard Hawks | In 1959, Wayne teamed up with director | to make Rio Bravo as a conservative response. Hawks explained, "I made Rio ... |
Henning Mankell | ... birthday of Anne Friel, playwright Brian Friel's wife. He read the works of | , Donna Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the t ... |
Brian Cooke | ... from 25 February 1968. The scripts were written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer, | and Donald Webster. The cast was Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden and Smi ... |
Damiano Damiani | ... Mexican Revolution, often seen from a leftist political perspective (e.g., | 's A Bullet for the General, 1966; Sergio Corbucci's The Mercenary, 1968), ... |
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 ... |
Azra Akın | ... Lebanon, Christina Sawaya won the Miss International pageant, Miss Turkey, | won Miss World, and the original winner of Miss Earth for that year was Dž ... |
Marshall McLuhan | ... oli. The "re-tribalization" of the modern, mass-society world envisioned by | , with all of the ominous, dystopian possibilities that McLuhan warned of, ... |
Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian | published in 1958. The novel depicts influences of British colonialism and ... |
James Day | ... jor comprehensive university were due to the efforts of two men, Chancellor | and John Archbold. James Roscoe Day was serving the Calvary Church in New ... |
Barack Obama | ... t of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
Władysław II the Exile | ... m the 11th-12th centuries it was also a castellany. After the death of Duke | , Silesia was divided in 1163 between two Piast lines- the Wrocławska line ... |
Ron Jaworski | ... om. Oakland linebacker Rod Martin also intercepted Philadelphia quarterback | three times for a Super Bowl record. Plunkett was named the Super Bowl MVP ... |
President of the United States | ... nship (present day Long Hill Township) and it was named after the incumbent | , Warren G. Harding |
Richie Hawtin | ... be trending heavily with "lo-fi" acts such as Wavves and Times New Viking. | , Jan Jelinek, Ricardo Villalobos, Decomposed Subsonic, Trentemøller, and ... |
George W. Bush | In 2004, Republican president | received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat John Kerry's 18,355 (42.41%) |
George W. Bush | ... htly toward Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 56% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
Douglas Adams | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, | , George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... , published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies. The critic | found a copy of the poem in the New York Public Library in 1925 "with its ... |
Al Gore | ... with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth ( | ) |
Neneh Cherry | ... inger-songwriter Carlton McCarthy, and then, with considerable backing from | , they signed to Circa Records in 1990 – committing to deliver six studio ... |
Alexander | ... jepan Radić was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before king | would establish his dictatorship, Šufflay wrote Hrvatska u svijetlu svjets ... |
Willa Cather | Acomita is mentioned in | 's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Three Chapter 1 |
John McCain | ... nd 1996. Like most of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
Christina Sawaya | ... rom countries with a majority Muslim population. In that year Miss Lebanon, | won the Miss International pageant, Miss Turkey, Azra Akın won Miss World, ... |
Richard Helms | ... t year, he portrayed a fictional Director of Central Intelligence (based on | ) in Washington: Behind Closed Doors, an adaptation of John Ehrlichman's r ... |
Mae Boren Axton | ... and was the best-selling single of 1956. It was written by Tommy Durden and | |
Adolphus | ... e was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroy | represented the monarch in Hanover |
Jane Seymour | ... spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset (a brother of the late queen, | ), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephe ... |
Peyton Randolph | ... s elected as the President of Continental Congress, when previous president | was forced to return to Virginia to take his position as Speaker of the Vi ... |
Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by | , first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ction campaign was one of many causes that led to his defeat in November by | |
Frank Fenton | ... inwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes), with uncredited revisions by | and James M. Cain, from his novel Build My Gallows High (also written as H ... |
Stephen Báthory | ... ians of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King | , suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings ... |
Michael Faraday | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, | , Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Chri ... |
Germanicus | ... d not only Ptolemy but also the poet Aratus, the orator Cicero, and general | as colouring the star red, though acknowledging that none of the latter th ... |
Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu | In Portugal, forks began being used with | , king Manuel I of Portugal's mother. That happened around 1450. Still for ... |
Baum | ... ized in open-ended series. Sometimes a series will outlive its author; when | died, his publisher hired Ruth Plumly Thompson to write more Oz books. The ... |
Gerald Ford | ... the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. His successor, | , then issued a pardon to Nixon |
Frank Capra | ... . The book's issues are detectable from a slightly different perspective in | 's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon Dr ... |
Fanny Cradock | ... harine Whitehorn and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her | take-off from Beyond Our Ken |
David Markson | ... the same person), as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, | , and David Foster Wallace, who have all stated their admiration for Gaddi ... |
Stephen Sondheim | ... featured tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and | , who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this record ... |
Melody Maker | ... 92 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". They were also labeled by | as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World" and the reader ... |
George Washington | During the American Revolutionary War, both Comte de Rochambeau & | 's troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle S ... |
Moctezuma II | ... nd returned in a few months, bearing reports of the wealth and splendour of | 's empire |
King James | ... r in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon: " | having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with ... |
Allen Tate | ... e Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the Fugitives through | , and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriag ... |
James I of Aragon | ... December 31, 1229, after three months of siege, the city was reconquered by | and was renamed Palma de Mallorca. In addition to being kept as capital of ... |
Napoleon | After | imposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on July 5, 1 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... 6 December, Kentucky passed in review before President of the United States | as a unit in the Second Squadron. After calling at Trinidad and Rio de Jan ... |
Jennifer Saunders | ... her friend Patsy, and is played by Edmondson's Comic Strip fellow and wife | ). Edmondson played an unrelated character also called Eddie Monsoon in th ... |
Arthur Middleton | ... il his resignation in 1776, citing ill health. He was succeeded by his son, | |
Prince | ... a version. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman covered the song in a medley with | 's "Kiss", for the 2006 Warner Bros film Happy Feet. The song was also fea ... |
Charles Lindbergh | ... lorous act that warrants the award, exceptions have been made. For example, | , while a reserve member of the U.S. Army Air Corps, received his Medal of ... |
Trentemøller | Richie Hawtin, Jan Jelinek, Ricardo Villalobos, Decomposed Subsonic, | , and other minimal techno and microhouse DJs have been using noise elemen ... |
Edward Martyn | ... so-called Constitution of 1782 was still in effect. Its first president was | |
Mitch McConnell | ... red from CIA custody. He stated that his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. | of Kentucky and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary C ... |
José de Espronceda | ... s and playwrights. The most important Spanish poet during this movement was | . After him there were other poets like Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Mariano Jo ... |
Giovanni Battista Ramusio | ... 1492. It is written in Raccolta delle Navigationi e Viaggi ( 1550–1556 ) of | that in June 1492, before Christopher Columbus leaves the South of Spain, ... |
Jean-François Lyotard | ... cribes postmodernism as "a creation of modernism at the end of its tether." | , in Fredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold that there is a postmodern ... |
Paul Magrs | ... ed story under the banner title Hornets' Nest, written by well-known author | . He returns with a sequel to Hornets' Nest called Demon Quest. Baker has ... |
Philip the Good | ... ken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, | , Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes. By the latter half of the fi ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... ents to the imperial constitution that replaced the authoritarian system of | with a parliamentary system |
Mary Robinson | ... rom the airport to Áras an Uachtaráin for champagne with the then President | |
Shelagh Delaney | The works for which she is now best remembered are probably | 's A Taste of Honey (1958), which gained great critical acclaim, and the s ... |
George III | ... d Hanover. The Convention also meant the disbanding of the army of Hanover. | did not recognize the Convention of the Elbe. As a result of this, a great ... |
Leonard Leslie Brooke | The first incarnation of the band,"Mr. Crowe's Garden"; named after | s children's book Johnny Crow's Garden, began in 1984 in Atlanta. Influenc ... |
Clark Ashton Smith | ... riters of the century. Among his correspondents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), | , and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian series) |
Jacob Bronowski | ... he burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, | , Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Li ... |
Joseph McElroy | ... , Pynchon, and Jack Green were the same person), as well as authors such as | , William Gass, David Markson, and David Foster Wallace, who have all stat ... |
Mary Edwards Walker | ... r his role in the Andrews Raid. The only female Medal of Honor recipient is | , a Civil War surgeon. Her medal was rescinded in 1917 along with many oth ... |
Robert Crumb | ... the East Side Book Store on St. Mark's Place, Bakshi came across a copy of | 's Fritz the Cat. Impressed by Crumb's sharp satire, Bakshi purchased the ... |
Bertolt Brecht | ... on. One of Littlewood's most famous productions was the British première of | 's Mother Courage and Her Children (1955), which she directed and also sta ... |
Félix Guattari | ... uch as Clement Greenberg, as well as radical opponents of modernism such as | , who calls it modernism's "last gasp". The neo-conservative Hilton Kramer ... |
Ralph Wilson | ... s by coach Wade Phillips, who later said he had been ordered by Bills owner | to do so. The Bills lost 22–16 to the eventual AFC Champion Tennessee Tita ... |
Wojciech Jaruzelski | ... jailed when martial law came into effect on December 13, 1981 under General | . After a one year prison term the high-ranking members of the union were ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ing his term, but served as the groundwork for various policies laid out in | 's New Deal. After 1933 he became a leading conservative spokesman in oppo ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... cleaned." Thus the two men have lost their lives for nothing. (Compare with | 's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Evagrius | ... n his predecessors, Eusebius, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, Theodoret and | , his additions showing very little critical faculty; for the later period ... |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... cil to campaign against the visit to Ireland of King Edward VII his consort | |
Robert Penn Warren | ... ion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist | , who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and ... |
James Dobson | ... We Are Family Foundation video promoting tolerance, which was criticized by | of Focus on the Family because of the foundation's link to homosexuality |
Sigismund III | ... ry, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings | and Władysław IV. The Commonwealth fought wars with Russia, Sweden and the ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... 7 along with many other non-combat awards, but it was restored by President | in 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above) |
Christina Rossetti | ... araday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, | , Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe H ... |
Robert Graves | ... in 1925, at the end of which year she went to England at the invitation of | and his wife Nancy Nicholson. She would remain in Europe for nearly 14 yea ... |
Flavius Constantius | In early 288, Maximian appointed his praetorian prefect | , husband of Maximian's daughter Theodora, to lead a campaign against Cara ... |
Alexander Litvinenko | ... acob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, | , Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall |
King | ... oirs of Saint-Simon: "King James having his Queen on his right hand and the | on his left, and each with their cadenas." In Perrault's contemporaneous f ... |
D. H. Lawrence | ... ped fan the Revival flames were Carl Van Doren's The American Novel (1921), | 's Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), Carl Van Vechten's essay ... |
Queen Victoria | ... m and Hanover ended as William IV's heir in the United Kingdom was female ( | ). According to Salic Law Hanover could only be inherited by males. As a c ... |
Robert Lowell | ... ; his verse is renowned for elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what | described as a 'diamond-edge', and the 'glory of its hard, electric rage'. ... |
Jean-Jacques Dessalines | ... ndence after the French transported Louverture to France. The native leader | – long an ally and general of Toussaint Louverture, brilliant strategist a ... |
Mariano José de Larra | ... e Espronceda. After him there were other poets like Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, | and the dramatist José Zorrilla, author of Don Juan Tenorio. Before them m ... |
William L. Shirer | ... of the Prussian political police, ignored the order. Researchers, including | and Alan Bullock, are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible ... |
Phillip Noyce | ... wn; Rolf de Heer's The Tracker, starring Gary Sweet and David Gulpilil; and | 's Rabbit-Proof Fence in 2002. In 2006, Rolf de Heer's Ten Canoes became t ... |
Sarah Ferguson | Prince Andrew married | at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him D ... |
Tex Schramm | ... oughout his tenure, Landry worked closely with the Cowboys general manager, | . The two were together during Landry's entire tenure with the team. A thi ... |
John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Helen Gray Cone | ... ents; and its rigorous academics. The first female professor at the school, | , was elected to the position in 1899. The college's student population qu ... |
Alan Bullock | ... cal police, ignored the order. Researchers, including William L. Shirer and | , are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible for starting th ... |
Leo VI the Wise | ... e of contents of another five books, continuing the history to the death of | in 911, also exists, but whether the books were ever actually written is d ... |
Emperor Gong of Jin | ... nal invasion, though, but because the general Liu Yu seized the throne from | , becoming Emperor Wu of Liu Song (reigned 420–422 AD), starting the South ... |
Edward Rutledge | ... randson of South Carolina Governor William Bull. Henrietta married Governor | , and Sarah was the first wife of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney |
Jonathan Franzen | ... their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recognitions in particular. | , who in an essay in The New Yorker called Gaddis "an old literary hero of ... |
Radclyffe Hall | ... tina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and | |
Harry S. Truman | ... ion to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal. In 1947 President | brought him back to help make the federal bureaucracy more efficient throu ... |
Hitler | ... ended classes at the University of Berlin from 1931 to 1933. In 1933, after | took over Germany and began instituting anti-Semitic policies, Mendel and ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... Maximilian urged Emperor William II to abdicate. Despite similar advice by | and Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff, the Emperor considered abdicatio ... |
Martin Niemöller | #Redirect | |
David Foster Wallace | ... as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and | , who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recog ... |
Napoleon | ... ork appeared ultimately in a published form. Thus, in 1808 he was placed by | upon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presi ... |
Johannes Kepler | ... ia that commonly develops as a symptom of aging. It was not until 1604 that | published the first correct explanation as to why convex and concave lense ... |
Asser | ... rome and Trent rivers which was ruled by Alfred. According to the historian | , Guthrum’s initial battle with Alfred resulted in a victory, as he was ab ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... quarter of the 19th century, in the Spanish American wars of independence. | (Greater Colombia, Peru, Bolivia), José de San Martín (United Provinces of ... |
Władysław IV | ... dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings Sigismund III and | . The Commonwealth fought wars with Russia, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire ... |
Harry Shearer | ... l character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by | , and first appeared in the series premiere episode "Simpsons Roasting on ... |
Fredric Jameson | ... creation of modernism at the end of its tether." Jean-François Lyotard, in | 's analysis, does not hold that there is a postmodern stage radically diff ... |
Chagatai | ... s Khan and the Mongols in 1220. Genghis Khan gave the territory to his son, | and the area became the Chagatai Khanate. Timur took over the area in 1369 ... |
Pausanias | The traveller | reported seeing a painting in the temple of Dionysus in Athens, which had ... |
Garret Hobart | ... soldiers had camped during the war, was built in 1788 and was once owned by | , later Vice President of the United States. The stone with the engraved d ... |
Lionel Barrymore | ... her media adaptations include a popular radio play version in 1934 starring | , an American television version from the 1940s, and, in 1949, the first c ... |
Benjamin Franklin | The American scientist | , who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia, invented bifocals. Serious ... |
William IV's | In 1837, the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended as | heir in the United Kingdom was female (Queen Victoria). According to Salic ... |
Tom Donahoe | ... 366 yards and three touchdowns. Following the 2000 season, Bills President | and head coach Gregg Williams decided to keep Johnson as the starter and c ... |
King Charles II | ... ry of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to | , purchased the land from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This acquisit ... |
James II of Majorca | ... joint capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, together with Perpignan. His son, | , championed the construction of statues and monuments in the city: Bellve ... |
Eve Gil | ... tic Ignacio Mondaca Romero, narrator César Gándara, essayist and journalist | , short story and novel writer Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny and poet and novelist ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... of France's internal history. His demonstration that letters attributed to | were not genuine roused much interest in France. It was of the greatest im ... |
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | ... this movement was José de Espronceda. After him there were other poets like | , Mariano José de Larra and the dramatist José Zorrilla, author of Don Jua ... |
Ernest Augustus | ... herited by males. As a consequence, Hanover passed to William IV's brother, | , and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during ... |
Bill Clinton | ... has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and | |
Paul Muldoon | ... d to build their large existing archive from Irish writers including Yeats, | , Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley and other members of the The Belfast Grou ... |
David Lindsay-Abaire | ... 006, Nixon won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Play) for | 's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole. This part was later played by ... |
Sarah Jane Smith | ... record a series of stories reuniting him with Elisabeth Sladen's character | (for which special permission was obtained from the producers of The Sarah ... |
Roger Bacon | ... to "read the smallest letters at incredible distances". A few years later, | is also known to have written on the magnifying properties of lenses in 12 ... |
William Beveridge | In the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer | , who had identified five "Giant Evils" afflicting the working class of th ... |
Hilda Ellis Davidson | ... that "half-goddesses" stand higher than "half-gods" in Germanic mythology. | (1948) states that Hel "as a goddess" in surviving sources seems to belong ... |
Chris Columbus | ... cally in 1988. It starred David Keith as Elvis Presley, and was directed by | . In 1999, Elvis Presley Enterprises purchased a Wilson World Hotel branch ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... ids. Seleucus invaded India (modern Punjab Pakistan) in 305 BC, confronting | (Sandrokottos), founder of the Maurya empire. It is said that Chandragupta ... |
Philippe de Rothschild | ... a time of drifting she settled in France and became the companion of Baron | , the vintner and poet, and wrote his memoirs, Milady Vine. In the mid-198 ... |
Derek Mahon | ... ny eminent poets have attempted to do so, including Lowell, Ted Hughes, and | into English, and Schiller into German. The latest to attempt to translate ... |
Ernie Dingo | ... s and early 21st Century, with Nick Parson's 1996 film Dead Heart featuring | and Bryan Brown; Rolf de Heer's The Tracker, starring Gary Sweet and David ... |
George W. Bush | ... ne. In 2004 it was one of only two counties in Maine to vote for Republican | over Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Demo ... |
Carl Van Vechten | ... vel (1921), D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), | 's essay in The Double Dealer (1922), and Lewis Mumford's biography, Herma ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... hen, in 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of | 's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. They have said Bottom was oft ... |
Henri Michaux | ... i, and several of the prominent writers of his time, such as Jean Genet and | |
Hussein Shah of Johor | ... of territories extending from Lingga and Johor to Mount Muar". This man was | , who, although having had no previous contact with the British, had certa ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... ents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard ( | series) |
Jean Genet | ... berto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers of his time, such as | and Henri Michaux |
Robert E. Howard | ... mong his correspondents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and | (Conan the Barbarian series) |
Antigonus II Gonatas | ... onsisting of nearly all of the Asian portions of the Empire, but faced with | in Macedonia and Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Egypt, he proved unable to pic ... |
Charles Chilton | ... Oh, What a Lovely War! (1963), her stage adaptation of a work for radio by | . Both were subsequently made into films. Theatre Workshop also championed ... |
O. Henry | ... ana trade and the influence of outsiders, particularly North Americans, led | , the American writer who took temporary refuge in Honduras in 1896-97, to ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ng by U.S. presidents. It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents | and Bill Clinton |
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | ... Henrietta married Governor Edward Rutledge, and Sarah was the first wife of | |
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 ... |
Snorri Sturluson | Heimdallr is mentioned once in Háttatal. There, in a composition by | , a sword is referred to as "Vindhlér's helmet-filler", meaning "Heimdallr ... |
Jan Kochanowski | ... sh renaissance lived and worked in Lublin, including Sebastian Klonowic and | , who died in the city in 1584. In 1578 the Crown Tribunal was established ... |
Perrault | ... n his right hand and the King on his left, and each with their cadenas." In | 's contemporaneous fairy tale of La Belle au bois dormant (1697), each of ... |
Georges Bataille | ... l Hegarty (2007) cites the work of noted cultural critics Jean Baudrillard, | and Theodor Adorno and through their work traces the history of "noise". H ... |
Brendan Behan | ... e into films. Theatre Workshop also championed the work of Irish playwright | , and Littlewood is often rumoured to have a significant role in his work |
Benjamin Franklin | ... Union. The county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father | |
John Hancock | ... lsworth. It was incorporated on June 25, 1789. Hancock County was named for | , the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
Henry IV of Castile | ... rder of Santiago, Lord of Castellanos, a Maestresala official instructor of | and General of the Frontier of Portugal. Pedro de Alvarado's mother was Di ... |
Robert Grosseteste | Englishman | 's treatise De iride ("On the Rainbow"), written between 1220 and 1235, me ... |
Ted Hughes | ... ble, although many eminent poets have attempted to do so, including Lowell, | , and Derek Mahon into English, and Schiller into German. The latest to at ... |
The Belfast Group | ... eats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley and other members of the | |
Rolf Gerhardsen | ... two sons Truls and Rune Gerhardsen and a daughter Torgunn. His brother was | and with him Einar Gerhardsen also had a lifelong working relationship |
Robert Stephenson | ... he Tyne Bridge of 1928 which was built by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough, and | 's High Level Bridge of 1849, the first road/rail bridge in the world |
Marco Polo | ... e been exposed as hoaxes. Furthermore, although there have been claims that | encountered eyeglasses during his travels in China in the 13th century, no ... |
Roger Ascham | ... where he was brought into contact with the foremost educators of the time, | and John Cheke, and acquired an unusual knowledge of Greek. He also acquir ... |
Felicia Hemans | ... and a public library, or from little toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poet | , and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiveness finds a way, ho ... |
Queen Victoria | In 1859 Cunard was created a baronet by | |
James Connolly | ... Despite his opposition to communism and socialism, he sometimes worked with | , who also supported Irish nationalism |
John Cage | ... starting with 18th century concert hall music. Hegarty contends that it is | 's composition 4'33", in which an audience sits through four and a half mi ... |
Walt Kelly | ... he Senate as an assemblage of freaks and crooks... boobs and undesirables." | 's Pogo was likewise censored in 1952 over his overt satire of Senator Joe ... |
Barack Obama | ... r Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat | narrowly defeated John McCain, 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republi ... |
Arne Treholt | ... not acting sooner to stop the activities of politician and career diplomat | , who was arrested in 1984 and convicted of treason and espionage in favor ... |
Zygmunt Krasiński | ... at Polish poets such as Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz), Juliusz Słowacki and | , as well as the writers (Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trylogia). This close conne ... |
King Charles I | ... ther groups whose adherents believed the English Reformation was in danger. | had ascended the throne in 1624, and he had married a Roman Catholic. Char ... |
President of the United States | ... nderway from Hampton Roads on 16 December, Kentucky passed in review before | Theodore Roosevelt as a unit in the Second Squadron. After calling at Trin ... |
W. N. P. Barbellion | Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of | 's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919. Since "B ... |
Daniel Mainwaring | ... rring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by | (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank F ... |
Menelik II | ... mpress Taytu Betul and the city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor | . The name of the city (ኣዲስ ኣበባ) was taken from parts of the city called h ... |
Michael Longley | ... ng archive from Irish writers including Yeats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, | and other members of the The Belfast Group |
Tori Spelling | ... ering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green, Douglas Emerson, | |
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 ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... ed for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President | , making Ingham one of Michigan's so-called Cabinet counties |
Ben Affleck | ... for CBS, and was a consulting producer on the ABC series Push, Nevada with | |
John Greenleaf Whittier | ... widely believed during the Civil War and was the subject of an 1864 poem by | , a poem that remained popular for decades. Barbara Fritchie, a significan ... |
Juliusz Słowacki | ... t and in works of great Polish poets such as Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz), | and Zygmunt Krasiński, as well as the writers (Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trylog ... |
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Njörðr | ... gave dwelling places to the temple priests." Snorri adds that, after this, | dwelt in Nóatún, Freyr dwelt in Uppsala, Heimdall at Himinbjörg, Thor at Þ ... |
George II | ... amed after the George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, as suggested by King | , who approved the royal patent on March 26, 1759. Montague was incorporat ... |
James M. Cain | ... he pseudonym Geoffrey Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and | , from his novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes) |
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati | ... later came to adopt a militant approach to the movement, while others like | wanted both political and economic freedom for India's peasants and toilin ... |
William L. Shirer | ... earing a potentially devastating Allied retaliatory nerve agent deployment. | , in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, writes that the British high co ... |
Baldinucci | ... truction, including Dürer (1520), Vasari (1568), Molanus (c.1570–1580), and | (1688) |
Mark Ronson | ... riweather, has after several successful collaborations with artists such as | , released his official debut album, Love & War, in June 2009. It entered ... |
Daisy Ashford | Some books written for children, such as The Young Visiters by | (aged nine) or the juvenilia of Jane Austen, written to amuse brothers and ... |
Tom Jackson | ... xt play, Dallas gave the ball right back to Denver after Broncos linebacker | recovered tight end Billy Joe Dupree's fumble. 5 plays later, defensive ba ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... owerful supporter of the union and was greatly responsible for its success. | , who himself publicly displayed Catholic piety, confirmed the Pope's infl ... |
Moisés Naím | ... o Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, | , Tomas Eloy Martine |
Warren Beatty | ... eutenant PT boat captain. Kennedy chose Robertson over Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, | (Jacqueline Kennedy's choice), and Jeffrey Hunter |
Anton Delvig | ... 839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), | , and Wilhelm Küchelbecker |
Snorri Sturluson | Hel is referenced in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , various times. In chapter 34 of the book Gylfaginning, Hel is listed by ... |
Ron Paul | ... s, the majority of Washington County voters cast their votes for Republican | , but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow. Mitt ... |
Tony Kushner | ... vision series Law & Order. She replaced Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in | 's Angels in America (1994), received a Tony nomination for her performanc ... |
Zach Galifianakis | Actor and Comedian | also attended NC State University |
Robert Reich | ... rofessor Rob Reich (not to be confused with former U.S. Secretary of Labor, | ) wrote in The Civic Perils of Homeschooling (2002) that homeschooling can ... |
Mario Vargas Llosa | ... ique Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, | , Moisés Naím, Tomas Eloy Martine |
Frank Sturgis | ... gilio González, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord, Jr., Eugenio Martínez, and | , who were charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception of t ... |
Charles II | After the Restoration, King | and his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ... |
Albrecht Dürer | ... f a clear working proof of an old master print, like the two impressions of | 's Adam and Eve (1504, British Museum and Albertina, Vienna) which show th ... |
John F. Kennedy | Robertson was President | 's personal choice to play him in 1963's PT 109 as a young Lieutenant PT b ... |
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 ... |
Ambrose Philips | ... d him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of | , who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guard ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ang Kai-shek, whom he taught to paint lotuses; and as personal physician to | in Taiwan and perhaps earlier |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... as far as India, where after two years of war he reached an agreement with | , in which he exchanged his eastern territories for a considerable force o ... |
Alex Steffen | ... ize. It also influenced numerous West Coast Generation X writers, including | , Bruce Barcott and Mark Morford. Snyder wrote numerous essays setting for ... |
John McCain | ... 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated | , 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republican Presidential Caucuses, th ... |
Pope John Paul II | In Solicitudo Rei Socialis, a major document of Catholic Social Teaching, | identifies the concept of solidarity with the poor and marginalized as a c ... |
Sarah Dunant | ... blishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like Janet Frame and | |
Wilhelm Küchelbecker | ... hev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and | |
King Edward VII | ... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland of | his consort Alexandra of Denmark |
John Milton | ... has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the poet | had employed both an amanuensis and an editor, who were responsible for cl ... |
Fugitives | ... –26) under the name Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the | through Allen Tate, and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. ... |
Bruce Barcott | ... nfluenced numerous West Coast Generation X writers, including Alex Steffen, | and Mark Morford. Snyder wrote numerous essays setting forth his views on ... |
Severus | ... not entirely to Maximian's liking: perhaps because of Galerius' influence, | and Maximinus were appointed Caesar, thus excluding Maxentius. Both the ne ... |
Mitt Romney | ... on Paul, but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow. | ultimately won the state by a narrow margin |
Irna Phillips | ... sion soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. | created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guidin ... |
Sergio Leone | ... oad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of | 's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office s ... |
Bolesław III | ... with the ecclesiastical authority, and was expelled from the country. After | divided the country among his sons, internal fragmentation eroded the init ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... d Old Cholmeleians, the name given to old boys of the school. These include | , who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins ... |
Romano Scarpa | ... untry of origin for some of the most famous Disney comic artists, including | , Giorgio Cavazzano, and Giovan Battista Carpi. Italy has introduced sever ... |
Mos Def | ... cades, the group have collaborated with Neneh Cherry, Madonna, David Bowie, | , Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amongst many others. Despite the gr ... |
Theocritus | ... Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English | . Gay's pastorals achieved this goal and his ludicrous pictures of the Eng ... |
Ronnie Barker | ... ly used word futtock, rarely encountered outside the radio show (apart from | 's TV series Futtock's End), had a spillover effect on words like fetlock, ... |
George W. Bush | ... e 2004 Presidential Election, In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 58.7% of the vote in Jackson Township (12,451 cast), ahead of Dem ... |
Rommel | ... seek Axis help to raise an army to fight the British. Here, he raised with | 's Indian POWs what came to be known as the Free India Legion. Bose made h ... |
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. ... |
Janet Frame | ... n 1973, which publishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like | and Sarah Dunant |
Mortimer J. Adler | ... what matters morally is simply being human. For example, noted philosopher | wrote, "Those who oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that ... |
Lysimachus | Following his and | ' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in ... |
Francis Walsingham | ... he creation of a highly capable intelligence service under the direction of | made him the most important minister for the majority of Elizabeth's reign |
Devaki Nandan Khatri | ... made Hindustani popular among the educated people. Chandrakanta, written by | , is considered the first authentic work of prose in modern Hindi. The per ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... egan work on chemical disarmament in 1980. On April 4, 1984, U.S. President | called for an international ban on chemical weapons. U.S. President George ... |
Marcel Proust | ... earn the French language, he began teaching himself by reading the works of | . Living among the gathering of young artists in the Montparnasse quarter, ... |
John Betjeman | ... boys of the school. These include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate | there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and Joh ... |
Antonin Artaud | ... ts (1999), discusses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of | , George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kapro ... |
One of the regional Piast dukes | ... eroded the initial Piast monarchy structure in the 12th and 13th centuries. | invited the Teutonic Knights to help him fight the Baltic Prussian pagans, ... |
James Dobson | ... ate. The decision quickly drew criticism from some Christian groups such as | , but garnered praise from some Democrats and many Republicans, including ... |
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 ... |
A. A. Milne | ... managed to find a post as a teacher at Henley House School where he taught | |
Miguel de la Madrid | Mexican presidents | , in the early 80s and Carlos Salinas de Gortari in the late 80s, started ... |
Robin Morgan | The Oxford English Dictionary credits | with coining the term in her 1970 book, Sisterhood is Powerful. Concerning ... |
Giovan Battista Carpi | ... amous Disney comic artists, including Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, and | . Italy has introduced several new characters to the Disney universe, incl ... |
Marco Polo | ... anskrit and spent four years of his life working in Palembang. The explorer | visited Sumatra in 1292 |
Charles I | A strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, England's | persecuted religious dissenters. Waves of repression led to the migration ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... t he could strike hard when necessary; and his action over the execution of | , proved that he was willing to take on responsibilities from which the Qu ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... sion was "firm, final, and unconditional." The eventual Democratic nominee, | , built little by way of a relationship with Kennedy during his primary ca ... |
Albert Einstein | While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of | 's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mat ... |
Paul Volcker | ... former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair | ; Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehea ... |
Newton’s | ... forces that Herbart attempted to explain by means of mathematical formulas. | influence can be seen in Herbart’s beliefs about how forces mechanically i ... |
Charlemagne | ... came part of the semifeudal Frankish Empire (which was ruled by the emperor | from 771 to 814), due to the pressing danger posed by Avar tribes from the ... |
James II | After the Restoration, King Charles II and his successor | visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ... |
The Queen | Her Majesty | visited on |
Jane Austen | ... such as The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford (aged nine) or the juvenilia of | , written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. Ann ... |
Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi | ... f Dwivedi") in Hindi literature lasted from 1900 to 1918. It is named after | , who played a major role in establishing the Modern Hindi language in poe ... |
Jacques Pradon | ... ichel le Clerc produced an Iphigénie in the same year as Racine (1674), and | also wrote a play about Phèdre (1677). The success of Pradon's work (the r ... |
Benito Mussolini | Thenceforth, the National Fascist Party of | successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ... |
Larry Grayson | Mining obscure and invented words for double entendres was a feature of | 's act, who preferred to use well-known words with phallic connotations (e ... |
Al Capp | Cartoonists often use satire as well as straight humour. | 's satirical comic strip Li'l Abner was censored in September 1947. The co ... |
Mark Morford | ... West Coast Generation X writers, including Alex Steffen, Bruce Barcott and | . Snyder wrote numerous essays setting forth his views on poetry, culture, ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... g in the north of the country forced the resignation and exile of President | . A provisional government took control with security provided by the Unit ... |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari | Mexican presidents Miguel de la Madrid, in the early 80s and | in the late 80s, started implementing liberal economic strategies that wer ... |
Jim Turner | ... ine, and then Otis Armstrong ripped off an 18-yard gain. Seven plays later, | finished the drive with a 47-yard field goal, cutting the score to 13-3. B ... |
Jaishankar Prasad | ... and the literary figures belonging to this school are known as Chhayavaadi. | , Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Varma and Sumitranandan Pant, are ... |
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 ... |
Roger Ebert | In a 2004 review of the film, critic | wrote "Out of the Past is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story ... |
Hugh Jackman | ... el, Ghostopolis was released; it was optioned by Disney in Spring 2009 with | attached to star and produce |
Anne Frank | ... usten, written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. | wrote a novel and many very short stories in addition to her diary (which ... |
William of Orange | ... s strategic position, Harwich was the target for the invasion of Britain by | on November 11, 1688. However, unfavourable winds forced his fleet to sail ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... sudden burst of charitable giving in Britain to Dickens's novella; in 1874, | waxed enthusiastic after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to gi ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker | ;, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of ... |
Bernard Landry | ... and the amalgamation of Quebec's larger cities undertaken by his successor | . Other aspects of his legacy include the creation of a low-cost, universa ... |
Thomas Otway | ... all it?, a dramatic skit on contemporary tragedy, with special reference to | 's Venice Preserv'd. It left the public so ignorant of its real meaning th ... |
Blake Morrison | ... accused Heaney of being "an apologist and a mythologizer" of the violence, | suggests the poet "has written poems directly about the Troubles as well a ... |
Ewan MacColl | ... 1934 where she met folksinger Jimmie Miller who would later become known as | . After joining his troupe, Theatre of Action, Littlewood and Miller were ... |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... er the rise of Napoleon; it is often taken to begin with the publication of | 's first poems in 1822, and end with the crushing of the January Uprising ... |
Christina Hoff Sommers | | has been a vocal critic of the concept of herstory, and presented her argu ... |
Caesar | ... ity) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between | and Pompey. After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed su ... |
Tolkien | ... Eddings did not realize it until several years later. Upon seeing a copy of | 's The Lord of the Rings, in a bookshop, he allegedly muttered, "Is this o ... |
George W. Bush | ... ers, for a turnout of 72.3%.. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 55.2% of the vote (14,069 cast), ahead of Democrat John Kerry, wh ... |
Philip III of Spain | ... e Spanish ambassador to England, who had secured a copy and passed it on to | ), drawn circa 1607 by the Jamestown settler Francis Nelson, also gives cr ... |
Emperor Shōmu | In 744, Naniwa once again became the capital by order of | . Naniwa ceased to be the capital in 745, when the Imperial Court moved ba ... |
Mahadevi Varma | ... l are known as Chhayavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', | and Sumitranandan Pant, are the four major Chhayavaadi poets |
President of Poland | ... led coalition government was formed and in December 1990 Wałęsa was elected | . Since then it has become a more traditional, liberal trade union |
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas | ... 1988 were forecast to be very competitive and they were. Leftist candidate | , son of Lázaro Cárdenas one of the most beloved Mexican presidents, creat ... |
David I | ... augurated by Queen Margaret and carried through by her sons Alexander I and | . Gradually the whole position passed into the hands of Thurgot and his su ... |
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | He is a descendant of the scholar and politician | and a second cousin to former Chairperson of Rajya Sabha Dr Najma Heptulla |
Elizabeth von Arnim | ... including the American birth-control activist Margaret Sanger and novelist | . In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whos ... |
Ferdinand II | ... onarchs, the recently enthroned Isabella I Queen of Castile and her husband | King of Aragon. Although Columbus had presented his navigational plan to t ... |
Taran | Those five novels detail the adventures of a young man named | , who dreams of being a sword-bearing hero but has only the title Assistan ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | The idea of a unified spacetime is stated by | in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka (1848) that "Space and duration ar ... |
Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Montague Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
Hugo Grotius | ... s which regulate conduct in war and during peacetime. An early exponent was | , whose Rights of War and Peace (1625) had a major impact of the humanitar ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... and managing his farm. While living at Arrowhead, he befriended the author, | , who lived in nearby Lenox. Melville was tremendously inspired and encour ... |
Colonel Tom Parker | ... . With a publishing deal in place, Axton arranged through Presley's manager | to present the song to Presley at the annual Country Music Disc Jockey Con ... |
Yves Michaud | ... air, regarding allegedly anti-Semitic comments by Parti Québécois candidate | , was another factor favouring Bouchard's departure |
John Cameron Mitchell | ... l troupe The Drama Dept., which included Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker, | and Billy Crudup among its actors, appearing in the group's productions of ... |
George Orwell | ... father into the Indian Imperial Police, where he was posted to Burma (like | a generation later). Two years later, having contracted malaria, he resign ... |
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' | ... gures belonging to this school are known as Chhayavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, | , Mahadevi Varma and Sumitranandan Pant, are the four major Chhayavaadi po ... |
John Denham | ... lustrating the use of heroic couplets is this passage from Cooper's Hill by | , part of his description of the Thames |
Alfred the Great | ... the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw. He is mainly known for his conflict with | |
Louisa May Alcott | ... ne (Christmas Shadows, 1850), Horatio Alger (Job Warner's Christmas, 1863), | (A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True, 1882), and others who followed S ... |
Carl Sagan | | , pondering the question of whether life on Earth could be easily detected ... |
Mikhail Lermontov | ... eventual recognition as Russia's greatest poet. Other Russian poets include | (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Ba ... |
Rupert Holmes | ... Way in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of | , including "On My Own" (from Les Misérables), a medley of "How Are Things ... |
Sterling Price | ... supporters of the Union during the U.S. Civil War. The Confederate General | led his troops in ransacking the area during the war |
Henry Miller | ... took a job as a journalist. He soon became friends with the American writer | , and the French writers. Léon-Paul Fargue and Jacques Prévert. In the lat ... |
William of Orange | ... alace's antiquated state was addressed. England had two new joint monarchs, | and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen Mary II. Within months of th ... |
Spy Kids | ... Rodriguez created the role "Grandfather" specifically for Montalbán in his | film series, including a jet-propelled wheelchair |
Zhou Enlai | ... In 1971, Whitlam flew to Beijing and met with Chinese officials, including | . McMahon attacked Whitlam for the visit and claimed that the Chinese had ... |
George Washington | According to local tradition, | spent the night in a local home, which still stands to this day. Supposedl ... |
William Huggins | In 1868, Sirius became the first star to have its velocity measured. Sir | examined the spectrum of this star and observed a noticeable red shift. He ... |
Jacques Prévert | ... American writer Henry Miller, and the French writers. Léon-Paul Fargue and | . In the late 1920s, he lived in the same hotel as Tihanyi |
Mary II | ... t monarchs, William of Orange and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen | . Within months of their accession they embarked on a massive rebuilding p ... |
Sumitranandan Pant | ... yavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Varma and | , are the four major Chhayavaadi poets |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... use the general Liu Yu seized the throne from Emperor Gong of Jin, becoming | (reigned 420–422 AD), starting the Southern and Northern Dynasties period |
Getúlio Vargas | ... quarela do Brasil, by Ary Barroso, followed by Carmen Miranda (supported by | government and the US Good Neighbor policy), which led samba to the United ... |
Philip V | ... duced to revolt against Roman political control, while the Macedonian king, | pledged his support to Hannibal – thus initiating the First Macedonian War ... |
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 ... |
Hugo Chávez | ... Colombia) and the election of a sequence of left wing presidents began with | ' victory on the 1998 presidential election in Venezuela. As a matter of f ... |
George Bush | ... later, via Maryland's Jerome Segal, the group sent a letter to US President | stating they "we don't mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders ... |
Jeff Probst | ... t seasons of the US version, a special message, held in a bottle or by host | , has been given to the winners or the losers of the challenge, with instr ... |
Jean le Rond d'Alembert | The first reference to spacetime as a mathematical concept was in 1754 by | in the article Dimension in Encyclopedie. Another early venture was by Jos ... |
Ethan Allen | ... States. The population was 448 at the 2010 census. The town is named after | |
Sergei Eisenstein | ... and explores the ideas of Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, | , Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi ... |
Leibniz | ... ngoing, and viciously personal disputes between the followers of Newton and | concerning priority over the analytical techniques of infinitesimal calcul ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... organization NSZZ Solidarity. It officially registered on 10 November 1980. | and others formed a broad anti-Soviet social movement ranging from people ... |
Arthur Ransome | ... hitlock and Katharine Hull sent their manuscript of The Far-Distant Oxus to | , who persuaded his publisher Jonathan Cape to produce it, characterising ... |
Lázaro Cárdenas | ... ry competitive and they were. Leftist candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, son of | one of the most beloved Mexican presidents, created a successful campaign ... |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... rhyme is always masculine. Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by | in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales |
Amber Reeves | ... Elizabeth von Arnim. In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer | , whose parents, William and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fa ... |
Léon-Paul Fargue | ... came friends with the American writer Henry Miller, and the French writers. | and Jacques Prévert. In the late 1920s, he lived in the same hotel as Tiha ... |
Carl Sagan | In his book Pale Blue Dot, author Dr. | also reflects on what he perceives to be the conceitedness and pettiness o ... |
Neneh Cherry | ... ather that of its bands. Over the decades, the group have collaborated with | , Madonna, David Bowie, Mos Def, Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amon ... |
Richard Nixon | ... at the Chinese had manipulated him. This attack backfired when US President | announced that he would visit China the following year. His National Secur ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... activities. In September 1981 Solidarity's first national congress elected | as a president and adopted a republican program, the "Self-governing Repub ... |
Dionisio de Herrera | ... federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras, | , a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitu ... |
Alfred Rosenberg | ... s to meetings of leading Nazis, including her husband, Hitler, Rudolf Hess, | , and Ernst Röhm. Hitler later recalled his early association with Göring |
Ronald Reagan | In the United States president | attempted to move the United States back towards a hard anti-communist lin ... |
Leibniz's | ... l external objects existing in the world as reals, which can be compared to | concept of monads |
Sir Jeremy Greenstock | British diplomat and former British ambassador to the UN | stated in early 2009 that the Hamas charter was "drawn up by a Hamas-linke ... |
André Kertész | ... e city through this medium, in which he was tutored by his fellow Hungarian | . He later wrote that he used photography "in order to capture the beauty ... |
Rob Sitch | ... all dealt with aspects of the migrant experience or Australian subcultures. | and Working Dog Productions followed the success of The Castle with period ... |
King Charles I | ... setts Bay Company in 1628, he became involved in 1629 when the anti-Puritan | began a crackdown on Nonconformist religious thought. In October 1629 he w ... |
Franklin | ... he last living member of the Coolidge administration. He also outlived both | and Eleanor Roosevelt who died in 1945 and 1962, respectively. By the time ... |
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 ... |
Paul McGann | While Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and | have all reprised their roles for audio adventures produced since the 1990 ... |
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ic boys whose fathers had died before they reached maturity. These included | , Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,and Roger Manners, 5th Earl o ... |
Fyodor Tyutchev | ... . Other Russian poets include Mikhail Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), | (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and Wi ... |
Robert Clark Young | ... w generation of authors interested in writing about the Far East, including | , whom he mentored. Snyder is now professor emeritus of English |
John Dryden | ... e. The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of | and Alexander Pope. Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the work ... |
Rob Neyer | ... rotation for his starters. Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield later told | that when Williams yanked McLain early from a July 5 game against the Clev ... |
Sir Christopher Wren | ... taining only Henry VIII's Great Hall. The country's most eminent architect, | , was called upon to draw the plans, while the master of works was to be W ... |
Mieszko I of Poland | ... es, the Dziadoszanie and the Trzebowianie, whose lands were subdued by King | about 990. It is unclear which of the two tribes, if either, founded the t ... |
Publilius Syrus | ... ion. In 1726 he also published the Fables of Phaedrus and the Sententiae of | |
Charles III of Spain | ... is still colloquially named Ciutat ("city") in Catalan. In the 18th century | removed interdiction of commerce with Spanish colonies in America and the ... |
Francisco Morazán | ... aders and brought the collapse of the Federation from 1838 to 1839. General | , a Honduran national hero, led unsuccessful efforts to maintain the feder ... |
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 ... |
Pete Townshend | ... y be emphasized, "by muting the strings and plucking the chord repeatedly." | , having been influenced by Link Wray, is often credited for introducing t ... |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ... luence of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers. It was formed in 1838 and named for | , the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. The populatio ... |
Joyce Carol Oates | ... ne of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to | , Lovecraft—as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century—has exerted "an in ... |
Bob Woodward | ... tical repercussions. Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters | and Carl Bernstein uncovered information suggesting knowledge of the break ... |
Nancy Cunard | ... rald, Lady Cunard (wife of the third baronet), and the great-grandfather of | |
Francisco Morazán | Gen. | , Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835–1839, whose figure embodies the ide ... |
Galileo | At the same time, the experimental tradition established by | and his followers persisted. The Royal Society and the French Academy of S ... |
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 ... |
Julian | ... Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, | , Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles ... |
Georges Sorel | ... ich can be said to be legitimate others non-legitimate. Anarcho-syndicalist | advocated the use of violence as a form of direct action, calling it "revo ... |
Alexander Pope | ... uplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of John Dryden and | . Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Po ... |
Brian Mulroney | Canada's | ran on a similar platform to Reagan, and also favored closer trade ties wi ... |
Yevgeny Baratynsky | ... l Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), | 's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and Wilhelm Küchelbecker |
Donna Leon | ... Friel, playwright Brian Friel's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, | and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by Bill C ... |
Newton | ... e major centers for the performance and reporting of experimental work, and | was himself an influential experimenter, particularly in the field of opti ... |
Janet Jackson | ... e feat for an artist of Streisand's age, especially given that it relegated | 's Janet to the No. 2 spot). One of the album's highlights was a medley of ... |
José Rizal | ... emiere park, Rizal Park, which was erected for the country's national hero, | . Besides having parks and green areas, Manila is the home to several plaz ... |
Lady Duff-Gordon | ... attitude encouraged by the Romantic school towards the Middle Ages. In 1861 | published an English translation of a part of this book, to which were add ... |
Pompey | ... n king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general | |
Benito Mussolini | ... od, attempting to gain supporters in a bid for political power. Inspired by | 's March on Rome, the Nazis attempted to seize power in Munich on 8–9 Nove ... |
George W. Bush | ... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
Jim Harrison | ... unning conversations between Snyder and poet, writer and longtime colleague | , filmed mostly on the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California. The film al ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... r poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are | 's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, an ... |
Descartes' | ... d and the way the world really is, skeptical scenarios such as this one (or | Evil demon) present a formidable challenge. Putnam, by arguing that such a ... |
Diocletian | ... om 286 to 305. He shared the latter title with his co-emperor and superior, | , whose political brain complemented Maximian's military brawn. Maximian e ... |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | ... nard, married Laura Charlotte Haliburton, daughter of author and politician | . The couple had three sons and one daughter |
Woodrow Wilson | ... d in the creation of a National Park Service. On August 25, 1916, President | signed a bill that mandated the agency "to conserve the scenery and the na ... |
Leslie Phillips | ... tary Horne A' Plenty was broadcast on 14 February 1994. It was presented by | and included new interviews with Betty Marsden and Barry Took, period inte ... |
Colin Burgess | ... detail of her life and spaceflight in the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea by | and Francis French, including interviews with Tereshkova and her colleague ... |
Nikolay Karamzin | ... of the Lethe, 1809), Vasily Zhukovsky (The Bard, 1811; Svetlana, 1813) and | (Poor Liza, 1792; Julia, 1796; Martha the Mayoress, 1802; The Sensitive an ... |
Robert Altman | ... ter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in Tanner '88 (also 1988), | 's political satire for HBO. She reprised the role for the 2004 sequel Tan ... |
Emlyn Williams | ... Presents" and alluded to in a few other stories. (This is stated as fact by | in his 1978 introduction to a Saki anthology) It may, however, be a refere ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... ters of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft—as with | in the 19th century—has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding g ... |
William Cobbett | ... ion, fearing and opposing radical causes and revolution. The radical writer | was among those who attacked what they saw as Wilberforce's hypocrisy in c ... |
Stewart Brand | The author and editor | once wrote: "Gary Snyder's poetry addresses the life-planet identification ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... hat he would visit China the following year. His National Security Advisor, | , had actually been in Beijing (unknown to Whitlam) at the same time as th ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... vision for a "Medal of Honor", was signed into law (12Stat329) by President | on December 21, 1861. The medal was "to be bestowed upon such petty office ... |
Hugh Jackman | ... tralia, which showcased a host of Australian stars including Nicole Kidman, | and David Wenham and went on to become the second highest grossing film in ... |
Sir John Summerson | ... ce on palatial architecture, published in 1510. The architectural historian | asserts that the palace shows "the essence of Wolsey—the plain English chu ... |
Nick Cave | ... music, from the internationally renowned work of the Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, | , Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva Kylie Minogue to the popular loc ... |
Chinua Achebe | ... guage means knowing how to intersperse speech with a good dose of proverbs. | (in Things Fall Apart) describes proverbs as "the palm oil with which word ... |
Anthony Hope | ... kshire in 1932. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Grahame's cousin | , also a successful author, wrote his epitaph, which reads |
Michael McClure | ... George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, | , Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov |
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 ... |
John Lennon | ... s a key component in individuals' personal image. Musicians Buddy Holly and | became synonymous with the styles of eye-glasses they wore to the point th ... |
Drew Pearson | ... lso gaining 171 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns on the ground. Wide receiver | was the leading receiver on the team with 48 receptions for 870 yards, whi ... |
John Dean | ... b Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel | , that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party. ... |
Thomas Coryat | ... on in northern Europe was slower. Its use was first described in English by | in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many years ... |
Bill Clinton | ... na Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by | |
Herbert Hoover | On March 3, 1933, President | signed the Reorganization Act of 1933. The act would allow the President t ... |
Richard Helms | ... rth, played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence | in the 1977 adaptation of John Ehrlichman's Watergate novel The Company, a ... |
David I | ... -Norman monastic architecture. The Abbey built between 1128 and 1150, under | was a reconstruction of the Benedictine chapel dedicated to the Holy Trini ... |
Suharto | ... b speech while visiting Washington, and a statement to Indonesian President | that Australia was a "West European nation", also damaged the government |
John McCain | ... John Kerry, who received 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican | received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
Charles Clarke | ... y Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister | |
D. H. Lawrence | ... as written about his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like | , William Butler Yeats, and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. Willi ... |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, | 's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia. The form was immensely po ... |
Ron Moody | ... sary. It was presented by Jonathan James-Moore and included interviews with | , Bill Pertwee, Eric Merriman's son Andy, Brian Cooke, Barry Took's ex-wif ... |
John Gay | ... rrangement of the music for The Beggar's Opera (1728) -- to the libretto of | -- he composed many other works including stage and church music as well a ... |
Charles I | ... e on the North wall. A brass to Veare Jenyns (1644) relates to the Court of | , while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with Sarah, Duch ... |
Policarpo Bonilla | ... stry in Honduras was growing rapidly and the peaceful trasfer of power from | to General Terencio Sierra would mark the first time in decades that such ... |
Huan Xuan | ... otably won the Battle of Fei River in 383 AD. In 404 AD, he helped suppress | 's rebellion, leading to his dominance over the Eastern Jin court. In orde ... |
David Benson | ... wife Lyn, and extracts from Kenneth Williams's diary read "in character" by | . The special included the first and final episodes of Beyond Our Ken and ... |
Burn's | ... festivities now is to study old traditions, and hold a Scotch party, using | poem Hallowe'en as a guide; or to go a-souling as the English used. In sho ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... e Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, Nick Cave, Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva | to the popular local content of John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes or Paul Kelly. ... |
Stephen King | ... lculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction". | called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the cla ... |
Gideon Welles | ... d other seamanlike qualities during the present war." Secretary of the Navy | directed the Philadelphia Mint to design the new decoration. Shortly after ... |
Eric Sykes | ... d metal eyeglass frames called "John Lennon Glasses." British comedic actor | is known in the United Kingdom for wearing thick, square, horn-rimmed glas ... |
Julius Pollux | ... nfluenced by Bentley. His letters to Tiberius Hemsterhuis on his edition of | made the latter one of Bentley's most devoted admirers |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... tates government. It wasn't until later that summer when the new President, | , made use of this power. Deputy Director Horace M. Albright had suggested ... |
H. G. Wells | ... ught of using a space theme. Nishikado drew inspiration for the aliens from | ' The War of the Worlds—he had watched the 1953 film adaptation as a child ... |
David Icke | ... ed the fourth most eccentric star. He was beaten by Björk, Chris Eubank and | |
Alexander Pushkin | ... the Cold, 1803). However the principal exponent of Romanticism in Russia is | (The Prisoner of the Caucasus, 1820–1821; The Robber Brothers, 1822; Rusla ... |
Tu'i Kanokupolu | ... was founded in the 10th century AD and expanded between 1200 and 1500. The | is the title held by Tongan monarchs since 1600. George Tupou II of Tonga ... |
Barack Obama | ... n, Republican John McCain received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 40%. This gives Hampton Township a Cook PVI of R+14 |
Christina Rossetti | ... ty in Highgate was a refuge for former prostitutes - "fallen women" - where | was a volunteer from 1859 to 1870. It may have inspired her best-known poe ... |
John Keats | ... 's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and | 's Lamia. The form was immensely popular in the 18th century. The looser t ... |
Terencio Sierra | ... rapidly and the peaceful trasfer of power from Policarpo Bonilla to General | would mark the first time in decades that such a constitutional transition ... |
George W. Bush | ... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... t emerged on August 31, 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of | . It was the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw ... |
Alexander Pope | ... feated his academic adversaries in the Phalaris controversy. The attacks by | (he was assigned a niche in The Dunciad), John Arbuthnot and others demons ... |
King Kamehameha III | ... waiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii. | established the first Hawaiian-language constitution in 1839 and 1840 |
Aristophanes | ... r ridiculed as often as they have been idolized. The classical Greek writer | , devoted an entire comedy, the Lysistrata, to a strike organised by milit ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like D. H. Lawrence, | , and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. William Carlos Williams was ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | The administration of President | subjected Mellon to intense investigation of his personal income tax retur ... |
Álvaro Uribe | The government of Colombian President | has resisted criticism of aerial spraying of coca and poppy and has seen m ... |
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 ... |
Stephen Holden | In 1993, New York Times music critic | wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other America ... |
Irving Berlin's | ... lar culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London, through its association with | song, 'Puttin' on the Ritz'. The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is famed ... |
Dornford Yates | ... uel Mercer; and her nephew, Cecil William Mercer, became a famous writer as | . Charles Munro was an Inspector-General for the Burmese Police |
E. Howard Hunt | ... ddy was put in charge of the operation. He was assisted by former CIA Agent | and CRP Security Coordinator James McCord. John Mitchell resigned as Attor ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... er taking alternate measures against vision problems: United States Senator | and comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after b ... |
George Tupou II of Tonga | ... 1500. The Tu'i Kanokupolu is the title held by Tongan monarchs since 1600. | became the first king of Tonga in 1893 |
Kerry Armstrong | ... icture, Best Director, Best Actor for Anthony LaPaglia and Best Actress for | |
Brian Cooke | ... End in January 2004. Based on the original radio scripts, it was adapted by | , the last surviving writer from the series, and directed by Michael Kings ... |
Stephen Leacock | In Canada, satire has become an important part of the comedy scene. | was one of the best known early Canadian satirists, and in the early 20th ... |
Dicuil | ... osiers in Iceland when they arrived. This is also hinted at in the works of | . The Norse called the priests papar, a name found as an element in many p ... |
Seru Epenisa Cakobau | From the 1850s | tried to unite the Fijian Islands, and became the first Tui Viti, or king ... |
John McCain | , Republican | received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
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 ... |
The Wind in the Willows | ... gap between Grahame's penultimate book and the publication of his triumph, | . During this decade Grahame became a father. The wayward headstrong natur ... |
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough | ... of Charles I, while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with | . Judge John Heath, after whom Judge Heath Lane was named, is also buried ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... d often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, | , and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. W ... |
President of the United States | Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st | (1929–33). Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author ... |
Edward VI | ... any historic events. In 1537, the King's much desired male heir, the future | , was born at the palace and the child's mother, Jane Seymour, died there ... |
Manuel Bonilla | ... p down after a new president was elected in 1902 and would be overthrown by | in 1903. After toppling Sierra, Bonilla, a conservative, imprisoned ex-pre ... |
John Selden | ... ked with the great heroes of classical learning. Before him there were only | , and, in a more restricted field, Thomas Gataker and Pearson. "Bentley in ... |
George W. Bush | ... old for the Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
Sauron | ... his previous gains and exploited the disarray of the Noldor. From Angband, | was sent in command of a great force of Orc-hosts, Werewolves, and Wolves ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is | 's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poe ... |
Wendy Wasserstein | ... ival production of Romeo and Juliet and acted in the workshop production of | 's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, playing several characters ... |
William Hazlitt | ... lic meetings and seditious writings. Wilberforce's actions led the essayist | to condemn him as one "who preaches vital Christianity to untutored savage ... |
Scriblerus Club | ... 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the | . He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Joh ... |
Rachel Ward | Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds (1984) with | in the Greer role, Jeff Bridges filling in for Mitchum, and James Woods as ... |
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 ... |
William Strachey | ... othed that came from roonock" were living in an Iroquois site on the Neuse. | , a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in his The historie of travai ... |
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 ... |
Mithridates I of Parthia | ... Much of the eastern part of the empire was conquered by the Parthians under | in the mid-2nd century BC, yet the Seleucid kings continued to rule a rump ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and | . At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ... |
Louis the German | ... ermanic (primarily Bavarian) ascendancy. In 843 it passed into the hands of | (804-876). In 887 Arnulf of Carinthia (850-899), a bastard grandson of Lou ... |
William Carlos Williams | ... awrence, William Butler Yeats, and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. | was another influence, especially on Snyder's earliest published work. Sta ... |
Bill Clinton | ... year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President | into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... with demands that could not be met. In 1952, with the support of President | , he began Mission 66, a ten-year effort to upgrade and expand park facili ... |
Andrew Breitbart | TenNapel is politically conservative and has written articles for | 's "Big Hollywood" blog |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... extremely well preserved. Included were films by Pearl White, Harold Lloyd, | , and Lon Chaney. These films are now housed at the Library of Congress. T ... |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso | ... authors it is more humane and efficient. The signers of this document are: | , Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Varg ... |
Mel Brooks | ... e played Ippolit Vorobyaninov alongside Frank Langella (as Ostap Bender) in | ' version of The Twelve Chairs (1970). In 2003, he starred in the black co ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | In 1817 the poet, aesthetic philosopher and critic | came to live in the Highgate home of Dr James Gillman in order to rehabili ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... d Mary, the remaining children of Henry VIII, from the throne, in favour of | .) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: "Seeing ... |
Augustine | ... (Modern Skikda); Hippo Regius or (near Bône), well known as the see of St. | . To the south in the interior military roads led to Theveste (Tebessa) an ... |
Michael MacLaverty | ... t Belfast Festival 2010 in celebration of his mentor, the poet and novelist | , who had helped Heaney to first publish his poetry |
Daan Jippes | ... of Disney comics. The first Dutch Disney comics appeared in 1953. In 1975, | became the art director for production of these comics, and created a heav ... |
A. A. Milne | ... nfluenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced | , Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse |
Emperor Wu of Liang | ... pass power of rule onto their heirs to continue their dynasty successfully. | (502–549 AD), however, was the most notable ruler of his age, being a patr ... |
Taliesin | ... ass of the period, captured the popular imagination. Writers and poets like | , Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring ... |
Pierre Corneille | ... w of Hector, and her fate following the Trojan War. Amongst his rivals were | and his brother, Thomas Corneille. Tragedians often competed with alternat ... |
John of Bohemia | ... ts city rights about 1295. In 1329 Duke John of Ścinawa paid homage to King | , who upon the death of John's brother Duke Przemko II of Głogów in 1331 i ... |
Robinson Jeffers | ... published work. Starting in high school, Snyder read and loved the work of | , his predecessor in poetry of the landscape of the American West; but, wh ... |
John McCain | , Republican | received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
Jonathan Rigby | Both the stage and TV versions starred | (Horne), Robin Sebastian (Williams), Kate Brown (Marsden), Nigel Harrison ... |
Chrétien de Troyes | ... period, captured the popular imagination. Writers and poets like Taliesin, | and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, L ... |
Arnulf of Carinthia | ... ancy. In 843 it passed into the hands of Louis the German (804-876). In 887 | (850-899), a bastard grandson of Louis the German, assumed his title of Ki ... |
Emperor Kōtoku | In 645, | built his palace, the Naniwa Nagara-Toyosaki Palace in Osaka, making this ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... ates Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and | , he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubri ... |
Ernesto Zedillo | ... and efficient. The signers of this document are: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, | , Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Moisés ... |
John Lindow | Regarding Heimdallr's whiteness and the comparison to the Vanir, scholar | comments that there are no other indications of Heimdallr being considered ... |
Noël Coward | ... Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, | , and P. G. Wodehouse |
Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Fredon Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
Terry Pratchett | In the United Kingdom, a popular modern satirist is Sir | , author of the internationally best-selling Discworld book series. One of ... |
Kenny Hulshof | ... Governor Governor Jay Nixon solidly defeated Republican U.S. Representative | with 58.40 percent of the total statewide vote. Nixon performed extremely ... |
Ruth Padel | ... in 2006 which left him "babyish" and "on the brink". Poet and Forward judge | described the work as "a collection of painful, honest, and delicately wei ... |
Bill Gothard | ... ng with Taylor tradition, took aim once again at religious leaders, such as | ("I Manipulate"), greedy TV evangelists (again) ("You Don't Owe Me Nothing ... |
G. A. Henty | ... readers, pursuing the vogue for sea stories represented by such writers as | , rediscovered Melville's novels, he experienced a modest revival of popul ... |
Queen Mary I | ... rd VI, and then by both his daughters in turn. It was to Hampton Court that | (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King Philip II of Spain to spend ... |
Snorri Sturluson | In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century by | , Hel is referred to, though never by name. In chapter 17, the king Dyggvi ... |
James I | ... -twice-removed, the Scottish King, James VI, who became known in England as | of the House of Stuart |
James W. McCord, Jr. | ... side the DNC's office. The five men were Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, | , Eugenio Martínez, and Frank Sturgis, who were charged with attempted bur ... |
Colm Tóibín | ... and delicately weighted poems...a wonderful and humane achievement". Writer | described Human Chain as "his best single volume for many years, and one t ... |
Lamarck | ... er was critical of the evolutionary theories proposed by his contemporaries | and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, which involved the gradual transmutation of on ... |
Patti Smith | ... eet Band, Jon Bon Jovi and Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, | , Arthur Pryor, Count Basie, Gary U.S. Bonds, along with many more |
Konstantin Batyushkov | Early Russian Romanticism is associated with the writers | (A Vision on the Shores of the Lethe, 1809), Vasily Zhukovsky (The Bard, 1 ... |
Charles IV | ... El Kébir. Both cities were held until 1792, when they were sold by the king | to the Bey of Algiers |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... s Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and | |
Woodrow Wilson | United States President | responded to the Columbus raid by sending 10,000 troops under Brigadier Ge ... |
José Santos Zelaya | Nicaragua's powerful President | saw this friendship pact as an alliance to counter Nicaragua and began to ... |
Paulo Coelho | ... is document are: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, | , Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Moisés Naím, Tomas Eloy Martine |
Thomas Corneille | ... g the Trojan War. Amongst his rivals were Pierre Corneille and his brother, | . Tragedians often competed with alternative versions of the same plot: fo ... |
Tigranes the Great | ... ntinued to rule a rump state from Syria until the invasion by Armenian king | and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey |
Catherine of Aragon | ... e mainly owed his immunity. He had, moreover, had no part in the divorce of | or in the humiliation of Mary during Henry's reign, and he made no scruple ... |
Dyggvi | ... turluson, Hel is referred to, though never by name. In chapter 17, the king | dies of sickness. A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the b ... |
Bill Clinton | ... counties, its voters often favor Republican and conservative issues. While | did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, Georg ... |
William Howard Taft | ... ent of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with | ) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high milit ... |
James J. Andrews | ... he General, a Confederate locomotive were the first recipients. Raid leader | , a civilian hanged as a Union spy, did not receive the medal. Many Medals ... |
Thomas Malory | ... opular imagination. Writers and poets like Taliesin, Chrétien de Troyes and | wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Galaha ... |
Daniel Defoe | Writer | devotes a few pages to the town in A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... e was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to | , "of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation", he soon re ... |
Roman Emperor | Maximian (; c. 250 – c. July 310) was | from 286 to 305. He was Caesar from 285 to 286, then Augustus from 286 to ... |
Charles I | King James was succeeded in 1625 by his son, the ill-fated | . For this king, Hampton Court was to become both his palace and his priso ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... the military power amassed in the north by Yang Jian, who declared himself | and invaded the south to reunify China |
Vasily Zhukovsky | ... writers Konstantin Batyushkov (A Vision on the Shores of the Lethe, 1809), | (The Bard, 1811; Svetlana, 1813) and Nikolay Karamzin (Poor Liza, 1792; Ju ... |
King John II of Portugal | ... later India. In 1485, Christopher Columbus unsuccessfully tried to persuade | (João II) to sponsor an expedition to Asia, meant to be reached by sailing ... |
George W. Bush | ... linton did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, | strongly carried Franklin County in 2000 and 2004 and like many of the rur ... |
Al Smith | ... mistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat | |
Mae Boren Axton | The song was written in 1955 by | , a high school teacher with a background in musical promotion, and Jackso ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... passive. The stigma began to fall away in the early 1900s when the popular | was regularly photographed wearing eyeglasses, and in the 1910s when popul ... |
Alexander Pope | The dedication of his Rural Sports (1713) to | was the beginning of a lasting friendship. In 1714, Gay wrote The Shepherd ... |
Quintus Fabius Maximus | ... lect a dictator itself. As this was unconstitutional, the person appointed, | , was given the title of prodictator (acting dictator) although he held th ... |
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 ... |
Tom Jackson | ... ckers, including Randy Gradishar (3 interceptions, 4 fumble recoveries) and | (4 interceptions, 93 return yards, 1 touchdown). Defensive End Lyle Alzado ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... on County was formed on January 21, 1839. It was named for the US President | |
Alberto Fujimori | ... FREDEMO) coalition, advocating neoliberal reforms, but lost the election to | . He has subsequently supported moderate conservative candidates until the ... |
Władysław Jagiełło | In 1392, the city received an important trade privilege from king | , and with the coming of the peace between Poland and Lithuania developed ... |
Valens | ... anaric gained the advantage, and Fritigern asked for Roman aid. The Emperor | and the Thracian field army intervened, Valens and Fritigern defeated Atha ... |
Jürgen Habermas | ... phy of convergence proposed by the Frankfurt School (e.g. Theodor W. Adorno | ) |
Harry Morgan | ... o deal with the situation. Mildrid Fuller (Eve McVeagh) wants her husband ( | ) to speak with Kane when he comes to their home, but he makes her claim h ... |
Marcel Duchamp | In the early 20th century | exhibited a urinal as a sculpture. His point was to have people look at th ... |
Jean Froissart | A century or so later, in the hands of writers such as | , Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the fictional knight Tirant lo ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... hort story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by | , Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Cowa ... |
Clarence Day | ... as part of his Mercury Theatre on the Air program. The episode also adapted | 's Life with Father |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by | and others). It is also designated Uranus IX |
Giovanni Maria Vian | ... e" and the other 90 per cent concerned sex between priests and adolescents. | , editor of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, said t ... |
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 ... |
Angus Deayton | ... iz show Have I Got News For You and was subsequently described by presenter | as the funniest guest in the show's history. A particular highlight of the ... |
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | ... mbers of a third sex in Europe from at least the 1860s with the writings of | and continuing in the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, John ... |
Stephen Colbert | ... satiric. Refer to the careful definition of satire that heads this article. | ’s television program, The Colbert Report, is instructive in the methods o ... |
Orson Welles | A radio adaptation starring | aired in the USA on November 6, 1938, as part of his Mercury Theatre on th ... |
Bill Pertwee | ... neth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Ron Moody (soon succeeded by | ). Around the imperturbable establishment figure of Horne the other perfor ... |
Leo the Armenian | ... in the air, Michael preempted events by abdicating in favor of the general | and becoming a monk (under the name Athanasios). His sons were castrated a ... |
Pygmalion | ... s to steer her onto the path of morality. It constitutes a variation of the | story |
William Shakespeare | ... named after the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in | 's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and ... |
George W. Bush | ... y, especially in state and federal elections. In 2004, Republican President | won the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Demo ... |
James Burrill Angell | ... gress to Chinese immigration led President Rutherford B. Hayes to authorize | to renegotiate the treaty in 1880. The treaty was amended to suspend, but ... |
John Mauchly | ... ght by various parties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued to | and J. Presper Eckert, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Ra ... |
George Meyer | ... he Leftorium" first appeared in "When Flanders Failed". It was suggested by | , who had had a friend who had owned a left-handed specialty store which f ... |
Sir Walter Raleigh | ... er became the Virginia Colony. The enterprise was financed and organized by | and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cou ... |
Alp Arslan | ... d another brother, Andronikos. When Romanos IV was defeated and captured by | of the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in August 1071, Michael VII ... |
Levon Helm | ... fferent running order. These albums resulted from five days of recording at | s Studio in Woodstock, and presents a combination of new material and a fe ... |
Zosimus | Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, and | refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric. Ammianus Marcellinus a ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... orenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, | and Botticelli. Lorenzo was an accomplished musician and brought composers ... |
John McCain | ... ma in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while | received 44% |
Rutherford B. Hayes | ... was encouraged. Opposition in Congress to Chinese immigration led President | to authorize James Burrill Angell to renegotiate the treaty in 1880. The t ... |
Stendhal | ... or her novels and criticism and her affairs with Chopin and several others. | is today probably the most highly regarded French novelist of the period, ... |
Adam Hochschild | In King Leopold's Ghost (1998), | argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspe ... |
Konstantios Doukas | ... throne late in 1059, together with or shortly before his newly born brother | . When Constantine X died in 1067, Michael VII was 17 years old and should ... |
Bill Walsh | ... by Ted Osborne (1934–49), Merrill De Maris (1934–42), Dick Shaw (1942–43), | (1943–64), Roy Williams (1964) and Del Connell (1968–82). There were a var ... |
Dorothy Parker | ... s considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and | . Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influe ... |
Tommaso Campanella | ... f the Sun (; ) is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher | . It is an important early utopian work |
Barack Obama | ... tchell County was the whitest county in the country, at 99.27%, to vote for | in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while J ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | ... An episode in the Latin work Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by | , is generally considered to refer to Hel, and Hel may appear on various M ... |
Eudokia Makrembolitissa | Michael VII was the eldest son of Constantine X Doukas and | , and was born c. 1050, in Constantinople. He had been associated with his ... |
Orson Bean | ... then hosted by Jack Paar, in 1961, singing Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee". | , who substituted for Paar that night, had seen the singer perform at a ga ... |
Ron Moody | ... s supporting players were Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and | (soon succeeded by Bill Pertwee). Around the imperturbable establishment f ... |
John McCain | U.S. Senator | (R-Arizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Gov ... |
O. Henry | ... culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to | and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, ... |
King Henry I | ... nes, created 1st Baron de Louis Dessalines on 8 April 1811, aide-de-camp to | , Privy Councilor, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War between 1811 a ... |
Natsume Sōseki | ... ura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. Mori Ōgai and | studied in the West and introduced a more modern view of human life |
Israel Zangwill | ... ibe the densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side in | 's play The Melting Pot, which was an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... on and received an unexpected boost after the assassination of US President | . As a result, the Coalition easily defeated Labor. Whitlam had hoped Calw ... |
Fidel Castro | ... osition. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of | , Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with the Cuban dictator and his a ... |
Allen Ginsberg | ... early 1960s he traveled for six months through India with his wife Joanne, | , and Peter Orlovsky. Snyder and Joanne Kyger separated soon after a trip ... |
Vladimir Putin | Tereshkova was invited to Prime Minister | 's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo for the celebration of her 70th birthday. Wh ... |
Cem Kaner | | and Grady Booch have publicly stated that the document could be improved. ... |
Plato | ... library in which he immersed himself, reading many classic works, including | 's Republic, and More's Utopia. This would be the beginning of Herbert Geo ... |
Xiao Fangzhi | ... hen Baxian and Wang Sengbian set up the last surviving son of Emperor Yuan, | , as Liang ruler, but he was not given the imperial title. After some defe ... |
Michelangelo | ... nzo in 1469. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by | , Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. Lorenzo was an accomplished musician a ... |
Karl Marx | ... itutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by | . On 25 January 1918, at the Petrograd Soviet, Lenin declared "Long live t ... |
John Gay | ... of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation (Jonathan Swift and | , in particular) |
Justinian II | In 710, | demanded in an iussio that Constantine appear before the emperor in Consta ... |
King James II | ... now Lakeville Road. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, as | and his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland |
Averroes | ... k and Roman ancient writers, while contemporaries cultural figures included | and the Jewish philosopher Maimonides |
Domitian | ... rian as the son of divus Trajan. By the end of the 1st century, the emperor | was being called "dominus et deus" i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman ... |
Kim Newman | The Anno Dracula series by | —named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel—is a work of fan ... |
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore | ... in which Frederick the town was named for, but the likeliest candidates are | (one of the proprietors of Maryland ) |
Mori Ōgai | ... ukiyo-e. Okakura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. | and Natsume Sōseki studied in the West and introduced a more modern view o ... |
Les Dawson | ... ght of his death. After one experience during an engagement there, comedian | refused to play the venue again. He never revealed why and would not talk ... |
Grace Kelly | ... f Hadleyville, New Mexico Territory, has just married pacifist Quaker Amy ( | ) and turned in his badge. He intends to become a storekeeper elsewhere. S ... |
George Sand | ... , whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872. | took over from Germaine de Staël as the leading female writer, and was a c ... |
Roseanne Barr | ... roles, working opposite such actors as Chuck Norris (Walker, Texas Ranger), | (Roseanne), and Tracey Ullman (Tracey Takes On...). Eventually, Maguire wa ... |
Bolesław I Chrobry | ... the region of Upper Lusatia, it became part of the Kingdom of Poland during | 's conquest of Lusatia. After his death the town fell to the Margraviate o ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | In 1505, | Maximilian I established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz v ... |
Alexander the Great | ... s a Greek-Macedonian state that was created out of the eastern conquests of | . At the height of its power, it included central Anatolia, the Levant, Me ... |
Barack Obama | ... of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
President | ... legraph Company v. Oregon, 223 U.S. 118 in 1912 (Zimmerman, December 1999). | Theodore Roosevelt, in his "Charter of Democracy" speech to the 1912 Ohio ... |
William I | ... liam V, Prince of Orange was handed over to the Dutch state by his son king | . This collection formed the basis of the Royal Cabinet of Paintings of ar ... |
Francis French | ... and spaceflight in the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea by Colin Burgess and | , including interviews with Tereshkova and her colleagues |
Okakura Kakuzō | ... ochika adopted western painting styles while continuing to work in ukiyo-e. | kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. Mori Ōgai and Natsume S ... |
Diego Álvarez Chanca | Chilies were cultivated around the globe after Columbus. | , a physician on Columbus' second voyage to the West Indies in 1493, broug ... |
Jerry Jones | ... s dismissed as head coach, shortly after H.R. "Bum" Bright sold the team to | . Bright had suffered major losses in his banking, real estate and oil bus ... |
Trajan | ... to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus and Hadrian as the son of divus | . By the end of the 1st century, the emperor Domitian was being called "do ... |
Washington Irving | ... the poor and their children during the boom decades of the 1830s and 1840s, | 's essays on Christmas published in his Sketch Book (1820) describing the ... |
Sukarno | ... 961 election, events began to turn against Labor. When Indonesian President | announced that he intended to take over West New Guinea as the colonial Du ... |
John Mitchel | ... unty is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is named in honor of | . The population was 10,776 in the 2010 census, a decline from 10,874 in t ... |
Alfred Thayer Mahan | ... ting vote from the United States. The American representative, Navy Captain | , justified voting against the measure on the grounds that "the inventiven ... |
Fritigern | ... vehemently opposed, fearing that Christianity would destroy Gothic culture. | , his rival, was an Arian and had the favor of Valens, who shared his reli ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... follows the model of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation ( | and John Gay, in particular) |
John McCain | ... 04 and like many of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
Théophile Gautier | ... lfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant | , whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872 ... |
Chinua Achebe | In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer | , author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in hi ... |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | ... 6, when Robert Goddard considered the possibility in his personal notebook. | published the idea in 1911 |
Melvin Van Peebles | ... come in California. By the time production wrapped, Cinemation had released | ' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song to considerable success, despite the X ... |
Mike Scully | ... st few episodes that it was decided Flanders would be a faithful Christian. | noted that Flanders is "everything Homer would love to be, although he'll ... |
John O'Hara | ... he age of 38 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital following surgery for the tumor. | remarked: "George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to beli ... |
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 ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | Then-U.S. Senator | (D-New York) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then- ... |
Barack Obama | ... is one of the Democratic-leaning counties in Central Florida. It voted for | 59% to 40% in 2008. However, the county also voted for Republicans Richard ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | The most famous adaptation is | 's 1979 motion picture Apocalypse Now, which moves the story from the Cong ... |
Kobayashi Issa | He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from | , a famous Japanese haiku poet. The result is known as Issa's theorem in c ... |
Hadrian | ... emperor from 14-37 AD) came to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus and | as the son of divus Trajan. By the end of the 1st century, the emperor Dom ... |
Graham Stark | ... it of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: | , for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Bet ... |
Mariel Hemingway | ... lm, The Golden Boys, starring Bruce Dern, David Carradine, Charles Durning, | , and Rip Torn, also included Edwards as Reverend Perley. It is a romantic ... |
Matt Groening | ... ed after Flanders St. in Portland, Oregon, the hometown of Simpsons creator | . Groening described the inspiration for Flanders as "just a guy who was t ... |
Richard Nixon | ... that were savage, biting satires of politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and | , the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the War on Drugs |
Gofraid ua Ímair | ... ber of the Norse-Gael Uí Ímair dynasty, was King of Dublin from 934 to 941. | , his father, held both Dublin and York until Athelstan of England expelle ... |
Edward Carpenter | ... the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, John Addington Symonds, | , Aimée Duc and others. These writers described themselves and those like ... |
Alphonse de Lamartine | ... tic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, | and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolific output in various for ... |
Valens | ... ed history in 369, when he engaged in battle with the Eastern Roman Emperor | and ultimately negotiated a favorable peace for his people. During his rei ... |
Davies Gilbert | ... Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of | 's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822), William B. Sandys's Selection of ... |
Tiberius | ... to the "position of emperor" rather than the person of the emperor. Later, | (emperor from 14-37 AD) came to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus a ... |
Jesse Helms | ... the late 1980s Kennedy and Hatch staged a prolonged battle against Senator | to provide funding to combat the AIDS epidemic and provide treatment for l ... |
Shakespeare | ... han three hundred years. It was so widely used by Elizabethan scholars that | was able to refer to it in the second scene of Act IV of Titus Andronicus, ... |
Ketan Mehta | ... ater, he made his adult acting debut in a role that went quite unnoticed in | 's Holi (1984) |
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas | The Spanish record two different stories about what happened next. | writing in the 17th century, records that Olid's soldiers rose up and murd ... |
Charles VII of France | ... that the town took on a new lease of life, as the heir apparent, the future | , had sought refuge in 1418 in the province. The town remained faithful to ... |
Ron Paul | ... ent of the vote in Franklin County. Libertarian-leaning U.S. Representative | (R-Texas) finished a distant fourth with 4.07 percent in Franklin County |
Thomas Jefferson | When President | commissioned the building of the National Road from Baltimore to St. Louis ... |
Xiao Yan | ... ed after Xiao Baojun killed his prime minister Xiao Yi, leading his brother | to revolt under the banner of Xiao Baojun's brother who was declared Emper ... |
Charles | ... led royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to James on | 's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasant and agr ... |
Gérard de Nerval | French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, | , Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolif ... |
Maria of Alania | ... an was undermined by the Caesar John Doukas, and Nikephoros instead married | . They married in contravention of church canons, as Maria was still at th ... |
Natalie Bassingthwaighte | ... ular TV Presenter. In March 2011, it was announced that she was replaced by | as a judge on the third season of The X Factor |
Maria De Filippi | ... st 28, 1938) is an Italian television host and journalist. He is married to | , an Italian television host |
Rudolf Steiner | ... Stoltenberg. He was raised in the Waldorf Education system as formulated by | , and educated at the Oslo katedralskole and the University of Oslo. He li ... |
Henry VIII | ... other parts were added and a stable form finally appeared in 1540. In 1542 | authorised it as the sole Latin grammar textbook to be used in education a ... |
Augustus | ... ius" (divus Iulius). His adopted son, Octavian (better known by the title " | " given to him 15 years later, in 27 BC) thus became known as "divi Iuli f ... |
Constantine IV | ... there in 680/681. He also delivered a combative letter from Pope Leo II to | in 682. He met and developed a rapport with Prince Justinian, the heir app ... |
King Louis XIV | ... ater, Racine accepted a position as a royal historiographer in the court of | , alongside his friend Boileau. He kept this position in spite of the mino ... |
John Addington Symonds | ... richs and continuing in the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, | , Edward Carpenter, Aimée Duc and others. These writers described themselv ... |
President William McKinley | ... chair was carried out at Auburn Prison. In 1901, Leon Czolgosz, assassin of | , was executed at Auburn Prison. A riot occurred when the Prisoners rebell ... |
Marty Feldman | ... replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and | . Horne remained the genial and unflappable focal figure, and the writers ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... apparent leader of the Italian unification movement was Italian nationalist | . He was popular amongst southern Italians. Garibaldi led the Italian repu ... |
Alfred de Musset | French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include | , Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gau ... |
Mikhail Bakunin | ... om the Mutualists who opposed communism and statism. However, shortly after | and his followers (called Collectivists while in the International) joined ... |
Theodosius | ... y fleeing to Caucaland in the Carpathians, Athanaric was warmly received by | in Constantinople in 381, where he signed a treaty of friendship with the ... |
Magnus Hirschfeld | ... of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and continuing in the late nineteenth century with | , John Addington Symonds, Edward Carpenter, Aimée Duc and others. These wr ... |
Stewart Stern | ... use 90 aired a 90-minute loose adaptation in 1958. This version, written by | , uses the encounter between Marlow (Roddy McDowall) and Kurtz (Boris Karl ... |
James | ... d the exiled royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to | on Charles's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasa ... |
Eudokia Makrembolitissa | ... is position, on the death of his second wife Nikephoros III sought to marry | , the mother of Michael VII and the widow of Constantine X and Romanos IV. ... |
Kyokutei Bakin | On the other hand, the famous 18th century writer | renounced his allegiance to Matsudaira Nobunari, in whose service Bakin's ... |
Carl Foreman | ... forced to face a gang of killers by himself. The screenplay was written by | |
King James I | ... and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under | . His daughter Anne became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of ... |
Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
Shaka | ... , the region was invaded by Mzilikazi, originally a lieutenant of Zulu King | who was pushed from his own territories to the west by the Zulu armies. Af ... |
Bahadur Shah II | ... afire, and marched into the Red Fort, where they asked the Mughal emperor, | , to become their leader and reclaim his throne. The emperor was reluctant ... |
Odin | ... dda book Gylfaginning, Hel is described as having been appointed by the god | as ruler of a realm of the same name, located in Niflheim. In the same sou ... |
Nasir Hussain | ... al decades. His father, Tahir Hussain, was a film producer while his uncle, | , was a film producer as well as a director and an actor. His family on hi ... |
Paul Krassner | ... Frost, Eleanor Bron and the television program That Was The Week That Was. | 's magazine The Realist was immensely popular during the 1960s and early 1 ... |
Camille Paglia | Like Gloria Steinem and | , Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist th ... |
Charles VIII of France | ... nso. The most doubtful passage in his diplomatic career is when he welcomed | upon the entry of that king into Naples in 1495, thus showing that he was ... |
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 ... |
Nicolas Boileau | ... ing with poetry yielded high praise from France's greatest literary critic, | with whom Racine would later become great friends, and Boileau would often ... |
Causantín mac Áeda | Amlaíb married the daughter of | . He also allied himself with Owen I of Strathclyde. In 937, Amlaíb led hi ... |
Fred Hoyle | ... me to be called the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. In 1948, | set out his opposing steady state theory in which the universe continually ... |
Pete Townshend | ... -sequenced Among Us , a CD by Simon Townshend, younger brother of the Who's | |
Grace Kelly | ... erican Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and | . The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a ... |
William Shakespeare | ... later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and | , the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri John ... |
Xiao Daocheng | ... peror Houfei of Liu Song. The political situation was volatile. The general | slowly gained power and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his ... |
William Shakespeare | ... Side in Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot, which was an adaptation of | 's Romeo and Juliet set by Zangwill in New York City in 1908. The iconic F ... |
Domitian | ... vely, associated with Emperor Augustus. Later, it was also used to refer to | . There are textual and contextual arguments for and against the translati ... |
Tahir Hussain | ... lved in the Indian motion picture industry for several decades. His father, | , was a film producer while his uncle, Nasir Hussain, was a film producer ... |
Gloria Steinem | ... olithic feminist orthodoxy", noting in response that she has disagreed with | about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion |
George W. Peck | ... h. The first known printed use of donut was in Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa by | , published in 1900, in which a character is quoted as saying, "Pa said he ... |
Mel Gibson | ... d by 1981's World War I drama Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring | . These films, now considered classics of Australian cinema explored conte ... |
Kublai Khan | ... system named Örtöö within the Mongol Empire. During the Yuan Dynasty under | , this system also covered the territory of China. Postal stations were us ... |
Mzilikazi | ... long distance direct and indirect trade. In 1817, the region was invaded by | , originally a lieutenant of Zulu King Shaka who was pushed from his own t ... |
Princess Elizabeth | ... of Northumberland had employed Cecil in the administration of the lands of | . Before Mary died he was a member of the "old flock of Hatfield", and fro ... |
Casimir III | ... centre of Poland back then. Because of its strategic location, in 1343 king | signed there a peace treaty with the Teutonic Order. As a royal town, the ... |
Ferdinand II | ... shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of Isabella I and | , Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus reached land in t ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... he had become friendly, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and | . He soon accused Krantz of ripping him off, which the producer denied |
Naomi Wolf | ... n response that she has disagreed with Gloria Steinem about pornography and | about abortion |
Alfred de Vigny | ... t known as the originator of the story of Carmen, with his novella of 1845. | remains best known as a dramatist, with his play on the life of the Englis ... |
Carl Foreman | ... with the second Red Scare and the Korean War. Writer, producer, and partner | was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) while ... |
Mark Antony | ... h of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played | . Most notably, in Carry On Cowboy, he adopted an American accent for his ... |
Charles II | ... Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke | married Frederick William III of Hohenzollern and in 1797 became queen con ... |
Pepys | ... Temple, ed. by TP Courtenay; C North's Examen, 26; Dalrymple's Mem. (1790) | ;'s Diary (17 Feb. 1663); Cal. of Clarendon St. Pap. iii. 295; Carte's Lif ... |
Ptolemy | ... the star's emanations would not cause wheat rust on wheat crops that year. | of Alexandria mapped the stars in Books VII and VIII of his Almagest, in w ... |
Walt Disney | ... four-month-old Mickey Mouse comic strip. It had originally been scripted by | and drawn by Ub Iwerks who was succeeded by Win Smith. In May, Disney had ... |
Stjepan Radić | In 1928, when | was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before king Alexander ... |
Gloria Steinem | Like | and Camille Paglia, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in ac ... |
Ferdinand I | ... King Louis II of Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács, Silesia was inherited by | , placing Opole under the sovereignty of the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria. ... |
Marco Polo | ... eliable attendants working for the mail service. Foreign observers, such as | , have attested to the efficiency of this early postal system |
Augustus | ... "son of a god" was specially, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor | . Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian. There are textual and cont ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ures, were considered sons of gods such as Zeus, from around 360 BC onwards | may have implied he was a demigod by using the title "Son of Ammon–Zeus". ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... lay and film are a one-man show about former President of the United States | . Give 'em Hell, Harry! stars James Whitmore and was directed by Steve Bin ... |
Francis Ford Coppola | ... llow directors with whom he had become friendly, including Martin Scorsese, | and Steven Spielberg. He soon accused Krantz of ripping him off, which the ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... ere inspired by the concept of direct democracy are: Cornelius Castoriadis, | , and Pierre Clastres |
Snorri Sturluson | ... al; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by | ; in the poetry of skalds; and on an Old Norse runic inscription found in ... |
Andy Warhol | ... st is as associated with the downtown pop art movement of the late 1970s as | , who socialized at clubs like Serendipity 3 and Studio 54 |
President of Harvard | ... in honor of him and of his descendant John Winthrop, who briefly served as | |
Władysław Łokietek | ... Voivodeship, one of the provincial capitals Voivodeships of Poland, by king | . A notable centre of trade, Kalisz was also located more or less in the c ... |
Isabella I | ... rope to find a shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of | and Ferdinand II, Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus r ... |
David Thomson | ... for Hughes, including Angel Face, directed by Otto Preminger. According to | "if she had made only one film – Angel Face – she might now be spoken of w ... |
Philip Livingston | ... Gilbert. He was also uncle of Robert Livingston the Younger, grandfather of | and William Livingston |
King James I | ... to return without even making it to Roanoke Island. Having been arrested by | for treason, Raleigh was unable to send any further missions |
John Edwards | ... eit exurban county. Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator | (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
George W. Bush | ... egimental Combat Team, among them Senator Daniel Inouye. In 2005, President | presented the Medal of Honor to Jewish veteran and Holocaust survivor Tibo ... |
Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach | The peninsula became part of the Duchy of Prussia when | , the 37th Grand Master, secularized the Monastic State of the Teutonic Kn ... |
Niccolò Machiavelli | A second individual of unusual insight was | , whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of | , star Vivien Leigh's partner and future husband. She eventually worked wi ... |
William Livingston | ... ncle of Robert Livingston the Younger, grandfather of Philip Livingston and | |
H. G. Wells | The topic of heat death was explored in science fiction as early as 1895 in | ' The Time Machine, which includes an evocation of the heat death of the u ... |
Roman Emperor | ... imperial coronation); they saw their rule as a continuation of that of the | s and used the title derived from the title Caesar to reflect their suppos ... |
Eleanor Bron | ... . Other significant influences in 1960s British satire include David Frost, | and the television program That Was The Week That Was. Paul Krassner's mag ... |
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 ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... ht advice from fellow directors with whom he had become friendly, including | , Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg. He soon accused Krantz of rip ... |
Jim Cairns | ... m was elected leader of the party, defeating leading left-wing candidate Dr | |
Przemysł II of Poland | In 1282 the city laws were confirmed by | and in 1314 it was made the capital of the Kalisz Voivodeship, one of the ... |
Prosper Mérimée | ... ch Romanticism, stating that "there are no rules, or models". The career of | followed a similar pattern; he is now best known as the originator of the ... |
Charles Darwin | Local attractions include Down House (the home of | ), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House (the home of William Pitt the Younger) ... |
Michael Aspel | ... tween its inception in 1955 and his death in 1987, when he was succeeded by | (who had also succeeded Andrews as host of Crackerjack 22 years earlier). ... |
Henry | ... e reflects the Tudor period with emblems of the crucifixion and the arms of | and Aragon (the lands passed to Henry VIII as a consequence of the ) |
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 ... |
Genghis Khan | | installed an empire-wide messenger and postal station system named Örtöö w ... |
King George III | ... of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, by marrying | became queen consort of Great Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklen ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... tter's death in 1937. Norman Malcolm famously credits Sraffa with providing | with the conceptual break that founded the Philosophical Investigations, b ... |
Bill Oakley | ... Simon. Generally, fans reacted with confusion as to why the short existed. | and several other writers loved the short so much that they wanted to do m ... |
Charles Lyell | ... ol of geological thought lost ground to uniformitarianism, as championed by | and others, which claimed that the geological features of the earth were b ... |
President of the United States | ... wright Samuel Gallu. Both the play and film are a one-man show about former | Harry S. Truman. Give 'em Hell, Harry! stars James Whitmore and was direct ... |
Sir William Temple's | ... was appointed a commissioner of the treasury in March 1679, was included in | new modeled council the same year, and was a member of the inner cabinet w ... |
Marty Feldman | ... kly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The series was created by Barry Took and | - with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to perfo ... |
Sam Raimi | ... 980s. While perhaps best known for his role as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in | 's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007), he has also appeared in films such ... |
Cornelius Castoriadis | ... t modern thinkers who were inspired by the concept of direct democracy are: | , Hannah Arendt, and Pierre Clastres |
Reuven Frank | ... ews with Walter Cronkite did so. It was developed and produced initially by | . Frank left the program in 1962 to produce documentaries (Eliot Frankel r ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... se American members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, among them Senator | . In 2005, President George W. Bush presented the Medal of Honor to Jewish ... |
Presidents of the United States | Notable descendants include | George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, F ... |
Bill Clinton | A similar study of Asian Americans in 1998 resulted in President | presenting 21 new Medals of Honor in 2000, including 20 to Japanese Americ ... |
George W. Bush | ... imed that this immunity was granted after intervention by then US President | . The Department of State "recognize[d] and allow[ed] the immunity of Pope ... |
Albert Einstein | ... attempts of the Banovina of Croatia to have them extradited were fruitless. | and Heinrich Mann sent a letter to the International League for Human Righ ... |
Wes Craven | After On The Line, Bass appeared in Zoolander and | 's Cursed as himself, and played a wedding singer in I Now Pronounce You C ... |
Mieszko I | ... nd a nation. The historically recorded Polish state begins with the rule of | in the second half of the 10th century. Mieszko chose to be baptized in th ... |
Wakako Hironaka | Hironaka is married to | , a politician, and they have two children |
Antonio Gramsci | ... Sraffa is known also for his close friendship with Italian Marxist thinker | and for being instrumental in securing Gramsci's Prison Notebooks from the ... |
John W. Cunningham | ... imilarities between Foreman's outline and the short story "The Tin Star" by | , which led Foreman to purchase the rights to Cunningham's story and proce ... |
Charlemagne | In 812 Michael I reopened negotiations with the Franks, and recognized | as basileus (emperor) without saying anything else. In exchange for that r ... |
Roman Gabriel | ... play or have played in the NFL. Notable former players include Torry Holt, | , Ted Brown, Dick Christy, Haywood Jeffires, Dr. Jerry Punch, Jim Ritcher, ... |
Barack Obama | ... ) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then-U.S. Senator | (D-Illinois) received 40.28 percent of the vote from Franklin County Democ ... |
Archie Roach | ... oli "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", and indigenous Australians like | and Paul Kelly. Kelly's lyrics capture the vastness of the culture and lan ... |
Heinrich Mann | Albert Einstein and | sent a letter to the International League for Human Rights in Paris appeal ... |
John Cameron Swayze | ... inkley in Washington, D.C. It succeeded the Camel News Caravan, anchored by | . The program ran for 15 minutes at its inception but expanded to 30 minut ... |
Themistius | ... his fellow tribesmen and forced to seek asylum on the Roman territory. Cf. | (oratio 15, 190-1), who likewise describes Athanaric as a supplicant and a ... |
Madonna | ... its bands. Over the decades, the group have collaborated with Neneh Cherry, | , David Bowie, Mos Def, Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amongst many ... |
Sam Simon | ... by Adam I. Lapidus, "Love That God" was written by Mike Reiss, Al Jean and | . Generally, fans reacted with confusion as to why the short existed. Bill ... |
Barry Took | ... r series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The series was created by | and Marty Feldman - with others contributing to later series after Feldman ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... e Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Chief Minister of Victor Emmanuel, and | , a general and national hero. In 1866 Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bi ... |
Carl Sagan | ... total dispersal of Galileo's plutonium in the Earth's atmosphere. Scientist | , for example, a strong supporter of the Galileo mission, said in 1989 tha ... |
Constantius II | ... osed a work entitled De errore profanarum religionum, which he dedicated to | and Constans, the sons of Constantine, and which is still extant. He holds ... |
William Buckland | ... sh geologists and fossil collectors such as Mary Anning, William Conybeare, | , and Gideon Mantell, who found and described the first ichthyosaurs, ples ... |
Casimir I | ... land. This was followed by a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under | . Casimir's son Bolesław II the Bold became fatally involved in a conflict ... |
Alfonso | ... ingular gifts of the young scholar, and made him tutor to his sons, notably | , who would reign for a single year but whose energies in the decade 1485- ... |
Tony Hancock | Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with | in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ... |
Chuck Jones | ... out of the studio the next day, Krantz called several directors, including | , in search of a replacement. Arkoff threatened to withdraw his financial ... |
Emperor of Japan | Jimmu Tenno, the first | (perhaps c. 600 BC) was also called the Son of Heaven, (Ten for Heaven and ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... l style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of Philip José Farmer, and | helped develop the series (and was originally going to be its co-author). ... |
William Bunn | ... named after Henry H. Bingham, a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of | , Idaho's Territorial Governor. As a young officer in the Civil War, Bingh ... |
Odin | ... 00 AD. On the inscription, the god Heimdallr is mentioned alongside the god | and Þjálfi, a name of one of the god Thor's servants. Regarding the inscri ... |
Emil Jannings | ... Todes (The fighter against death), directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring | as Koch |
Kenneth Williams | ... and, for the first two series, Barry Took; Horne's supporting players were | , Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Ron Moody (soon succeeded by Bill Pertwe ... |
Chuck Norris | ... iety of commercials and TV and movie roles, working opposite such actors as | (Walker, Texas Ranger), Roseanne Barr (Roseanne), and Tracey Ullman (Trace ... |
William | ... Garter; the same month he proceeded with Buckingham on a mission, first to | at The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Utrecht, endeavouring to force up ... |
Yu Xin | ... ty literature was rougher and more straightforward. Notable writers include | , Xing Fang, Wei Shou, and Wen Zisheng of the Northern Dynasty. In the Sou ... |
Barry Took | ... Ken. This show was written by Eric Merriman and, for the first two series, | ; Horne's supporting players were Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Ma ... |
Jonathan Miller | ... s with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, | , and Dudley Moore, whose stage show Beyond the Fringe was a hit not only ... |
Gerald Ford | ... premiere was hosted by Truman's daughter Margaret and attended by President | . The play then went on to a six-city tour, during which it was videotaped ... |
Bill Pertwee | ... arred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and | . The show's announcer was Douglas Smith and from time to time he took par ... |
Al Jean | ... was scripted by Adam I. Lapidus, "Love That God" was written by Mike Reiss, | and Sam Simon. Generally, fans reacted with confusion as to why the short ... |
Constans | ... d De errore profanarum religionum, which he dedicated to Constantius II and | , the sons of Constantine, and which is still extant. He holds up to scorn ... |
Todd Slavkin | ... g adults living in a West Hollywood apartment complex. Smallville producers | and Darren Swimmer wrote the pilot script and became the executive produce ... |
Nuh | ... Nameh" came into the possession of King Yaqub Lais and then the Samani king | ordered the poet Daqiqi to complete it but Daqiqi was killed by his slave ... |
Corneille | ... the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and | ), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was p ... |
Nathaniel Parker Willis | ... often entertained by telling stories to his admirers. As writer and editor | wrote, "With his cigar and his Spanish eyes, he talks Typee and Omoo, just ... |
Harry Turtledove | ... fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in | 's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium |
Alphonso the Magnanimous | ... delli, through whose influence he gained admission to the royal chancery of | . Alphonso discerned the singular gifts of the young scholar, and made him ... |
Isabella Rossellini | ... re length silent film Silent life started in 2006, features performances by | and Galina Jovovich, mother of Milla Jovovich, will premiere in 2012. The ... |
Leonard Nimoy | ... the character Sentinel Prime's features were mostly based on Connery. When | was to voice the role, however, the effects were altered to incorporate Ni ... |
Michael Longley | ... was born. A second son, Christopher, was born in 1968. That same year, with | , Heaney took part in a reading tour called Room to Rhyme, which led to mu ... |
David Brinkley | ... until July 31, 1970. It was anchored by Chet Huntley in New York City, and | in Washington, D.C. It succeeded the Camel News Caravan, anchored by John ... |
Tori Spelling | In guest appearances, Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty and | reprised their roles as Kelly Taylor, Brenda Walsh and Donna Martin, respe ... |
Huygens | ... ad to be justifiable in terms of direct physical action, a position held by | and the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, who, while following in the ... |
Flavius Honorius | ... nd of the 1st century BC. Rome's population started dropping in 402 AD when | , Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423, moved the government to Ravenna a ... |
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius | The first president of the South African Republic was | , elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, ... |
Mike Reiss | ... the episode was scripted by Adam I. Lapidus, "Love That God" was written by | , Al Jean and Sam Simon. Generally, fans reacted with confusion as to why ... |
Charlemagne | ... luding dogsled, balloon, rocket, mule, pneumatic tubes, and even submarine. | extended to the whole territory of his empire the system used by Franks in ... |
Angelus Sabinus | ... e by the Turks. He then went on to Italy, where he attended the lectures of | , Sulpitius Verulanus and Pomponius Laetus at Rome, and of Egnatius at |
Jim Morrison | ... pa John Creech of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna). Other tracks included " | 's Grave", which once again brought Taylor some MTV exposure, and the Flan ... |
Tina Turner | ... enor saxophone solos by 17-year-old Raymond Hill (later to be the father of | 's first child, before she married Ike). Willie Sims played drums for the ... |
Constantine I | ... a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of | and his successors |
Philip José Farmer | ... period. The metafictional style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of | , and Neil Gaiman helped develop the series (and was originally going to b ... |
Zosimus | Orosius (Historiae adversum paganos 7, 34) and | (New History 4, 34, 3-5) affirm this, but a more reliable source, Ammianus ... |
Descartes | ... by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton. Where | held that all motions should be explained with respect to the immediate fo ... |
Bolesław Krzywousty | ... in 9th century as a provincial capital castellany and a minor fort. In 1106 | captured the town and made it a part of his feudal domain. Between 1253 an ... |
Alan Bennett | ... the early 1960s with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, | , Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, whose stage show Beyond the Fringe wa ... |
Kenji Miyazawa | ... d a section at the end of the book to his translations of eighteen poems by | |
René Laennec | The stethoscope was invented in France in 1816 by | at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris. It consisted of a wooden ... |
Eric Merriman | ... his three major BBC radio series, Beyond Our Ken. This show was written by | and, for the first two series, Barry Took; Horne's supporting players were ... |
Minucius Felix | ... een reprinted several times, both separately and along with the writings of | , Cyprian or Arnobius. The Neoplatonist work was first printed by Aldus Ma ... |
Emperor of China | ... d reflected the Zhou belief that as Son of Heaven (and as its delegate) the | was responsible for the well being of the whole world by the Mandate of He ... |
Staurakios | ... propriate candidate for the throne than his severely injured brother-in-law | . When Michael's wife Prokopia failed to persuade her brother to name Mich ... |
Louis XIV | ... ed in the treaty, and for making terms with France. He refused a bribe from | , but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10,000 crowns; in 1670 he was t ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... McCain - a difference of 296 votes. It was the first time since 1964, when | was the Democratic candidate, that Salt Lake County had voted for a Democr ... |
Melody Maker | ... r, it reached the top spot in the musical magazines New Musical Express and | but not on the chart published by Record Retailer (now Music Week). On the ... |
Michael Psellos | ... ound, while the initiative was taken by his uncle John Doukas and his tutor | . They conspired to keep Romanos from regaining power after his release fr ... |
Frederick William III of Hohenzollern | ... r niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles II married | and in 1797 became queen consort of Prussia |
Charlie Chaplin | ... atermass 2. He also had a supporting part as a TV advertisement producer in | 's A King in New York (1957) and played Master Henry in Outlaw Money an ep ... |
James Joyce | ... me as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own ingenious wordplay. | , author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, is another noted word-player. For ... |
Theodosius I | ... tinople. According to Jordanes, he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, | , that made some Thervings foederati, or official allies of Rome allowed t ... |
Eric Chaisson | ... irections distinct from the scenarios set out by Dyson. Theoretical work by | finds that an expanding spacetime gives rise to an increasing "entropy gap ... |
Maria Theresa of Austria | ... d the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of | , led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian ... |
Jorge Luis Borges | ... sm of Henry Corbin, Thelema, and even in fiction such as The Theologians by | in Labyrinths. According to Irenaeus, a certain sect known as the "Cainite ... |
Peter Cook | ... n the UK in the early 1960s with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as | , Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, whose stage show Beyond ... |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | ... ooning military leaders for political purposes. A pamphlet directed against | is a typical example. During the 19th century, irreverence towards authori ... |
Titus Manlius Torquatus | ... e aware of their intentions and had reinforced the unpopular garrison under | to 20,000 infantry and 1,200 cavalry. These engaged and defeated the Carth ... |
Bill Clinton | ... gnised experts, including Benjamin Barber (formerly an adviser to President | ), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (United Nations adviser on environmental issues) ... |
Carl Barks | ... ic strip. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as | had on the Donald Duck comics. Two decades after his death, his memory was ... |
Orosius | ... l allies of Rome allowed to settle on Roman soil as a state within a state. | (Historiae adversum paganos 7, 34) and Zosimus (New History 4, 34, 3-5) af ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... reliz was first mentioned in a document from the King of Germany, and later | , Henry IV in 1071. This document granted Görlitz to the Diocese of Meisse ... |
Prince Harry of Wales | ... ate are: The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, | and The Duke of York |
Nicolas Roeg | On March 13, 1993, TNT aired a new version of the story directed by | , starring Tim Roth as Marlow and John Malkovich as Kurtz |
Lionel Chetwynd | ... t High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents, written, produced, and directed by | , Foreman's role in the creation and production of High Noon has over the ... |
Philip's | Following his erstwhile ally | defeat by Rome in 197 BC, Antiochus saw the opportunity for expansion into ... |
Charles the Bold | Image:Charles the Bold 1460.jpg|Portrait of | , 146 |
Ma Fuxiang | ... northern provinces of Ningxia and Suiyuan in China, Chinese Muslim General | both prohibited and engaged in the opium trade. It was hoped that Ma Fuxia ... |
Barack Obama | ... the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat | won Salt Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over ... |
Bill Cowher | Several NC State students later became professional athletes. | coached 15 seasons with the Steelers including the Super Bowl XL champions ... |
A-bian | ... lic figures who are well known by their nicknames, including the politician | and the singer A-mei |
Chris Heimerdinger | The curelom and cumom have appeared in Mormon literature. For example, | , a popular LDS novelist, chose to make cureloms mammoths in his time-trav ... |
Henry VIII | ... ms of the crucifixion and the arms of Henry and Aragon (the lands passed to | as a consequence of the ) |
Julius Caesar | ... – began about 449 BC and lasted the approximately 400 years to the death of | in 44 BC. Many historians mark the end of the Republic on the passage of a ... |
Albert Goldman | ... nville, this time interviewing him for the local media. According to author | , Axton made writing Presley's first big hit one of her ambitions |
John McCain | ... Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over Republican | - a difference of 296 votes. It was the first time since 1964, when Lyndon ... |
Josh Fisher | One of the licensees of the Multiflow technology is Hewlett-Packard, which | joined after Multiflow's demise. Bob Rau, founder of Cydrome, also joined ... |
Joseph Doria | ... in a Special Election in November 2008 to fill out the term of former Mayor | , who was appointed by then-Governor Jon Corzine to head the New Jersey De ... |
Kenneth Williams | ... ries after Feldman returned to performing — and starred Kenneth Horne, with | , Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. The show's announcer was D ... |
Prokopia | ... patrician Theophylact Rhangabe, the admiral of the Aegean fleet. He married | , the daughter of the future Emperor Nikephoros I, and received the high c ... |
Elizabeth I | On March 25, 1584, Queen | granted Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North Americ ... |
William Morris | ... Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of | . He was also among the founders of The Science School Journal, a school m ... |
Indiana Jones | ... red Serpent. Similarly, Thom Duncan published an independent novel where an | -type character escapes from a curelom, described as a mammoth. In another ... |
Jordanes | ... unexpectedly came to the East Roman capital of Constantinople. According to | , he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, Theodosius I, that made some ... |
Arsaces | ... his Bactrian neighbour. Soon after however, a Parthian tribal chief called | invaded the Parthian territory around 238 BC to form the Arsacid Dynasty — ... |
Alex Karras | ... f the 1960s were the shorter, stockier, leverage players like Willie Davis, | and Andy Robustelli. But Landry drafted the taller, leaner linemen like Ge ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... s death came just a little less than a week after Michael Kennedy, a son of | , died in a similar skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. After Bono's death ... |
Don DeLillo | ... autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly "Bill Gray" in | 's 1991 novel Mao II. (DeLillo was a friend of Gaddis.) The characters "Ri ... |
Franz Joseph I | ... elm II, and with the emperors of Austria-Hungary, in particular with Kaiser | |
Thomas Hood | ... d the uncharitable ... a dainty dish to set before a King." Poet and editor | wrote, "If Christmas, with its ancient and hospitable customs, its social ... |
Jonathan Rigby | ... e for Horne and Kenneth Williams, the 21st century version was performed by | and Robin Sebastian. The show was recorded at the Radio Theatre, Broadcast ... |
Galileo Galilei | ... dy the planet Jupiter and its moons. Named after the Renaissance astronomer | , it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on th ... |
Conall | The Senchus says that Comgall had one son, | , and that Conall had seven sons, although six are named, Loingsech, Necht ... |
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 ... |
Jonathan Rigby | ... one focused on Horne's frequent ghost-writer, Mollie Millest, and featured | as Horne |
William Trevor | ... Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in | 's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea ... |
Tony Blair | ... Baker's voice was found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, | and Margaret Thatcher |
Sinclair Lewis | ... ed as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Novelist | was known for his satirical stories such as Babbitt, Main Street, and It C ... |
Joey Fatone | ... usly unreleased songs by 'N Sync and Britney Spears. Bass collaborated with | , Mandy Moore, Christian Burns and True Vibe (as the "On The Line Allstars ... |
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... ng King George III became queen consort of Great Britain. In 1793 her niece | , daughter of Duke Charles II married Frederick William III of Hohenzoller ... |
Griselda Pollock | ... was over, and that the new artistic era is post-liberal and post-progress. | studied and confronted the avant-garde and modern art in a series of groun ... |
DuBose Heyward | Based on the novel Porgy by | , the action takes place in the fictional all-black neighborhood of Catfis ... |
Victor Hugo | ... famously The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both of 1844. | published as a poet in the 1820s before achieving success on the stage wit ... |
Louis XIV of France | In 1604, King | sent a large number of people to settle in Guyana, which would bring the F ... |
Charles Aznavour | In 1999, Costello contributed a version of "She", released in 1974 by | and Herbert Kretzmer, for the soundtrack of the film Notting Hill, with Tr ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... espread areas and in greater yield. In April 2004, Afghan interim president | declared a jihad on drugs (after opium output reached a near-record 3,600 ... |
David Gerstein | ... blication of the series. The volumes of this Library published to date are: | (co-editor of the series) notes there are enough Gottfredson daily strips ... |
Yoshihito | On July 30, 1912, the Meiji Emperor died and Crown Prince | became the new emperor of Japan and succeeded to the throne, beginning the ... |
Meiji Emperor | On July 30, 1912, the | died and Crown Prince Yoshihito became the new emperor of Japan and succee ... |
Mary Edwards Walker | ... who served as Abraham Lincoln's funeral guard, six civilians (including Dr. | , the only woman to have been awarded the medal, and Buffalo Bill Cody), a ... |
Joseph Locke | ... railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant | who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | In May 2010, | was filmed by a News of the World reporter claiming that the Duke of York ... |
Aesop | The 6th century BC Greek scribe | featured corvids as intelligent antagonists in many fables. Later, in west ... |
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | West European social critics, including Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, | , Louis Blanc, Charles Hall and Saint-Simon, were the first modern sociali ... |
King Diamond | Conspiracy is a name of a concept album by | , being the second part of a story that begun on the album "Them". It was ... |
Nasir Hussain | Starting his career as a child actor in his uncle | 's film Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973), Khan began his professional career eleve ... |
King Juan Carlos I | On 4 February 2011, Vargas Llosa was raised into the Spanish nobility by | with the hereditary title of Marqués de Vargas Llosa (English: Marquis of ... |
Ben Travers | ... appearances in Flint, The Tea Ladies and Bergerac. Onstage, she appeared in | 's comedy Plunder, as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and S ... |
Bridei | ... Cenél Comgaill married the Pictish princess Der-Ilei, and the Pictish kings | and Nechtan mac Der Ilei were the result of this marriage |
Josip Frank | ... ty of Rights, a right-wing Croatian political party inspired by the work of | , a fervent nationalist. The party had reportedly not managed to win more ... |
Britney Spears | ... ured a soundtrack which included previously unreleased songs by 'N Sync and | . Bass collaborated with Joey Fatone, Mandy Moore, Christian Burns and Tru ... |
Flannery O'Connor | ... rrison's Grave", which once again brought Taylor some MTV exposure, and the | inspired "Harder to Believe Than Not To". Some stores also pulled the albu ... |
Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness is a novella written by | . Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) i ... |
James Bond | Horne's adversary in many | parodies was the Oriental criminal mastermind (and Fu Manchu parody) Dr Ch ... |
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... Empire. Nevertheless, its princesses achieved prominent marriages: In 1761 | , sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, by marrying King George III became ... |
Robert Owen | West European social critics, including | , Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Louis Blanc, Charles Hall and S ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... smond Tutu and also visited Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned black leader | . Upon returning, Kennedy became a leader in the push for economic sanctio ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... s" in Chandler Brossard's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, "Harold Sand" in | 's autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly "Bill Gray ... |
Walt Disney | ... box office. Bakshi became the first person in the animation industry since | to have two financially successful movies released consecutively. Heavy Tr ... |
Max Perutz | ... hese data were shown to them, without her knowledge, by Maurice Wilkins and | . Her experimental results provided estimates of the water content of DNA ... |
Policarpo Paz | ... During the governments of General Juan Alberto Melgar (1975–78) and General | (1978–82), Honduras built most of its physical infrastructure and electric ... |
Jonathan Rigby | Horne was played in the West End and in the film by | , who in 2008-9 reprised the role in a new show, devised this time by Barr ... |
Olaudah Equiano | ... ks and pamphlets. These included books by former slaves Ottobah Cugoano and | , who had published influential works on slavery and the slave trade in 17 ... |
Darren Swimmer | ... n a West Hollywood apartment complex. Smallville producers Todd Slavkin and | wrote the pilot script and became the executive producers on the series. T ... |
Joseph Heller | ... thousand syllogisms" in the persuasion of the public to accept a criticism. | 's most famous work, Catch-22, satirizes bureaucracy and the military, and ... |
Alexander II | ... uke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, a niece of | , Czar of Russia |
Thomas Aquinas | For Saint | (who also taught the Perfection of Christ) the "'Son of God' is God as kno ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... as being spherical, with Narnian king Caspian X being amazed by this fact). | 's Discworld novels (1983 onwards) are set on a flat, disc-shaped world th ... |
Leopold | ... aden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of Prince Wilhelm of Baden, third son of | , grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, ... |
George Burns | ... rstood any of his jokes. Groucho's final appearance was a brief sketch with | in the television Special Joys in 1976 |
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. |
George H. W. Bush | In 1990, President | awarded Atanasoff the United States National Medal of Technology, the high ... |
Jan Petersen | ... d criticism by fellow Conservative party member and former foreign minister | |
Mark Evanier | ... was pushing their weak father beyond his physical and mental limits. Writer | concurred. Fleming's influence on Marx was controversial. Many close to hi ... |
Queen Latifah | ... female rap stars, including Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, | , Da Brat, Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, M.I.A., Foxy Brown, and Lisa Lop ... |
James Dobson | ... video contained "no reference to sex, sexual lifestyle or sexual identity." | of Focus on the Family accused the makers of the video of promoting homose ... |
Roberto Suazo | ... ber 1981. A new constitution was approved in 1982 and the PLH government of | assumed power |
Edward de Vere | ... ich supports the idea that the works of William Shakespeare were written by | . His part largely revolves around his being father-in-law to de Vere, and ... |
Jewel Kilcher | In Ride with the Devil (1999), Maguire performed as Jakob Roedel, opposite | . Here he played the son of a unionist German immigrant who joins his sout ... |
Joseph Jacobs | ... e Christian groups first called "gnostic" a branch of Christianity, however | and Ludwig Blau (Jewish Encyclopedia, 1911) note that much of the terminol ... |
Alexander Bashlachev | ... abri (the Great Octobers), a rock band. Dyagileva was greatly influenced by | , who was her friend, and Letov, her lover and mentor. Her songs were a mi ... |
Corneille | ... s after the enemy has fled. These discrepancies – and others besides, which | admits to in his Examen of the play – are obvious even to the most inatten ... |
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 ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... graph saying "I will not be marrying Andrew now or in the future." In 2007, | purchased Dolphin House, a mansion directly beside the Royal Lodge. In 200 ... |
Philippikos Bardanes | The new emperor | was an adherent of Monothelitism, rejected the arrangements of the Third C ... |
John Greenleaf Whittier | ... resident Barbara Fritchie was commemorated in the poem of the same name by | . Union Major General Jesse L. Reno's IX Corps followed Jackson's men thro ... |
Jon Crosby | ... ter and is the main creation of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist | . The band is signed to 2blossoms, an independent record company created b ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... rish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | , Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill at the bottom of a ... |
Tipu Sultan | ... har, and Orissa, following the Battle of Buxar in 1765. After the defeat of | , most of South India came either under the Company's direct rule, or unde ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... picture The Upside of Anger was partly based on McLain (and also partly on | , another Tiger of World Series note) |
Mieszko the Old | ... s initial privileges and in 1426 a new town hall was built. The Polish king | was buried in Kalisz |
Aristotle | ... socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers Plato and | |
Henry II, King of England | ... lished in the early 7th century. It was still an ecclesiastical centre when | stayed here in 1171, and except for a brief period after 1185 when his son ... |
Napoleon III | ... de Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and bore a resemblance to his cousin, | , emperor of the French |
Matt Groening | ... mes from Flanders St. in Portland, Oregon, the hometown of Simpsons creator | . When he was created, he was intended to just be a neighbor who was very ... |
Vardis Fisher | ... to the canyon of the Boise River near Caldwell. However, both John Rees and | believed it was named for the Snake River canyon which forms a natural bou ... |
Dorothy Parker | ... atire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, | and H. L. Mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and Mencken in partic ... |
Ron Sexsmith | ... l Theatre, New York, in Steve Nieve's opera Welcome to the Voice, alongside | and John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants. In 2001, Costello was artist- ... |
Louis XIV | ... Lully's revolution in Baroque music, and most importantly, the ascension of | to the throne of France |
Dayanita Singh | ... jras visiting Humsafar clinics are nirwaan (castrated). Indian photographer | writes about her friendship with a Hijra, Mona Ahmed, and their two differ ... |
MC Lyte | ... male, there have been a number of female rap stars, including Lauryn Hill, | , Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Da Brat, Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj ... |
Robert Cantwell | Critic | wrote in his unpublished memoir Twigs of Folly |
Geraldine Ferraro | ... presidential nominee Walter Mondale and defended vice presidential nominee | from criticism over being a pro-choice Catholic, but Reagan was re-elected ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | Florence was established by | in 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ... |
Queen Victoria | 1888. Dracula has married the widowed | , and rules as Prince Consort. A virtual checklist of fictional vampires h ... |
Chandler Brossard | Characters based on Gaddis include "Harry Lees" in | 's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, "Harold Sand" in Jack Kerouac's autobi ... |
Friedrich Ebert | ... t that for the first time included representatives of the Social Democrats, | and Philipp Scheidemann. To improve Germany's standing with the Allies, he ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ndidates polled more than 90 percent of the county's vote on two occasions, | in 1984 and George W. Bush in 2004. came close to this level in 2008, draw ... |
Daniel Dennett | ... ubjectively aware of by way of introspection. Rey suggests that people like | are wrong to view "beliefs" as only being useful instruments by which Folk ... |
Emeric Pressburger | ... dramas. In 1949 he played the alcoholic hero's barman in Michael Powell and | 's The Small Back Room |
John Dewey | ... He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as Horace Mann and | and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in education in th ... |
Molière | ... tist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with | and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. ... |
George W. Bush | ... ed as a commentator and asked several people (including then-Texas governor | ) what they thought of "Prime Minister Jean Poutine" and his endorsement o ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... er. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, Dorothy Parker and | , used satire as their main weapon, and Mencken in particular is noted for ... |
Laurie Oakes | ... ill come when you may interrupt me". According to early Whitlam biographers | and David Solomon, this cool response put the Coalition government on noti ... |
Adam Hochschild | ... historic background, including possible models for Kurtz, are recounted in | 's King Leopold's Ghost |
duc de Chartres | ... become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of the | to Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the ... |
George Lakoff | ... s can be understood in the book Philosophy in the Flesh by Mark Johnson and | . They argue that the contents of human thoughts are to some degree depend ... |
Albert Einstein | ... rtz helped establish the photoelectric effect (which was later explained by | ) when he noticed that a charged object loses its charge more readily when ... |
Bill Clinton | President | performed the song on saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall ... |
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 ... |
James VI and I | ... of England, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. | , the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, Anne of Denmark, ... |
Maximilian II of Bavaria | ... dation of Ranke, Sybel accepted the post of professor at Munich, where King | , a generous patron of learning, hoped to establish a school of history. H ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... l Cody), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by President | in 1977. Cody and four other civilian scouts who rendered distinguished se ... |
Brenda Maddox | ... blish two additional papers from King's College along with the helix paper. | suggested that because of the importance of her experimental results in Wa ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... ta. Asked how it felt having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring | , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like bei ... |
Sam Huff | ... up and move back two yards. The Giants' middle linebacker was the legendary | |
Michael Faraday | ... avel over some distance. This had been predicted by James Clerk Maxwell and | . With his apparatus configuration, the electric and magnetic fields would ... |
Sparta | ... him. Morpheus is his chief minister and prevents noises from waking him. In | , the image of Hypnos was always put near that of death |
Grand Duke Frederick II | ... , spent the rest of his life in retirement. In 1928, following the death of | , he became head of the House of Baden. He died at Salem the following yea ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | The district of Altötting was established in 1837. The current | was born here 1927 in the village of Marktl |
Fredric Jameson | American Marxist philosopher | argues that the condition of life and production will be reflected in all ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... tates. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin is a satire on | . Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, Dorothy Parker and ... |
Frederick II | King | of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Siles ... |
Pope John Paul II | ====2003==== | stated that "there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for th ... |
Simon Dee | ... entertainers such as Eamonn Andrews ("Seamus Android", played by Pertwee), | , Wilfred Pickles (both played by Williams), and "Daphne Whitethigh", pres ... |
Stuart Maconie | ... and John Dobson, and recently extensively restored. Broadcaster and writer | described Newcastle as England's best-looking city and the late German-bor ... |
A-bian | ... rely used in formal or semi-formal settings, although a famous exception is | |
Robert Owen | ... ibuted to Pierre Leroux, and to Marie Roch Louis Reybaud; and in Britain to | in 1827, father of the cooperative movement. Socialist models and ideas es ... |
Joshua Reynolds | ... le:Sir Joshua Reynolds 008.jpg|Colonel John Hayes St. Leger (detail) by Sir | File:Thomas Rowlandson (12).jpg|Rowlandson often satirised the military Fi ... |
Manuel Zelaya | On February 22, 2008 Honduras President | called on the United States to legalize drugs, in order, he said, to preve ... |
Prokopia | By his wife | , Michael I had at least five children |
Bill Pertwee | ... droid in the BBC radio programme Round the Horne in the 1960s, performed by | . At the time Andrews hosted a chat show on ITV. He was also famous for sw ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... in many fables. Later, in western literature, popularized by American poet | 's work "The Raven", the Common Raven becomes a symbol of the main charact ... |
Hector Boece | | in his Latin history of Scotland (1516), makes the Culdees of the 9th to t ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill a ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ecipients be upgraded to the Medal of Honor. On January 13, 1997, President | presented the medal to seven African American World War II veterans. With ... |
Justinian II | ... o wear and then only on 'a great public festival of the Lord'". The Emperor | 's son and co-emperor Tiberios (along with Patriarch Kyros, senators, nobl ... |
Jerry Punch | ... e Torry Holt, Roman Gabriel, Ted Brown, Dick Christy, Haywood Jeffires, Dr. | , Jim Ritcher, Koren Robinson and Dewayne Washington. Notable current play ... |
Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
Plato | ... ements of socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers | and Aristotle |
Hugo Gernsback | ... n writing text books and rules for war games. Together with Jules Verne and | , Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction" |
Charles V | ... 16th century, the Rebellion of the Brotherhoods (a peasant uprising against | 's administration) and the frequent attack of Turkish and Berber pirates c ... |
Karl Kraus | ... aplin is a satire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as | , Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and ... |
François de La Rochefoucauld | ... the rise of literary giants like Molière, Jean de La Fontaine, Boileau, and | as well as Louis Le Vau's historic expansion of the Palace of Versailles, ... |
José Azcona | ... NH candidate, Rafael Leonardo Callejas, who received 42% of the total vote. | , the candidate receiving the most votes (27%) among the PLH, assumed the ... |
Edgar Lee Masters | ... rt Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. It was the home of famous poet/writer | in his early days; he wrote the famous Spoon River Anthology (1915). Fulto ... |
David Williamson | ... screenplay along with its original author Christopher Koch, and playwright | . Williamson rose to prominence in the early 1970s, and has gone on to wri ... |
Alex Van Pelt | ... ley his job. (Buffalo, respectively, finished 3-13 with Johnson and, later, | as starters.) Flutie was Drew Brees' backup in 2002 |
Jerry Lewis | ... cter who was goofy and optimistic in a style similar to that made famous by | |
Charles Darwin | ... from speculating about the gradual transmutation of species, right up until | published On the Origin of Species more than two decades after Cuvier's de ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... around Frederick. It was the site of a Civil War speech given by President | , which he gave at what was then a train depot at the current intersection ... |
James Madison | ... emont County. The newly established county was named for American president | . BYU Idaho, formerly Ricks College (named after early local LDS settler T ... |
Ted Osborne | ... ck to plotting the stories and doing the penciling. Scripts were written by | (1934–49), Merrill De Maris (1934–42), Dick Shaw (1942–43), Bill Walsh (19 ... |
Jo Benkow | ... tinian areas". One of the critics, his long-time friend and party colleague | , commented that "On this topic, Willoch must be the most partisan public ... |
David Storey | ... , as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in | 's Home, in both London and on Broadway |
Oscar Temaru | ... ribe themselves. Te Ao Maohi - the Maohi world - as an expression coined by | gives an example of this |
Jules Verne | ... commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games. Together with | and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science F ... |
Margaret | ... ashington, DC. Its April 17, 1975, premiere was hosted by Truman's daughter | and attended by President Gerald Ford. The play then went on to a six-city ... |
Dan Reeves | ... . In 1986, five NFL head coaches were former Landry assistants: Mike Ditka, | , John Mackovic, Gene Stallings, and Raymond Berry |
Jerry Stiller | ... ny, A Happy Place (later renamed Bacon & Eggs), and featured appearances by | , Al Green, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, former WWE wrestler Chyna, ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ceived the National Medal of Technology (with Steve Jobs) from US President | . In December 1989, he received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree f ... |
Tony Hancock | ... ) was a British-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as | 's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On ... |
Garfield Barwick | ... ntatives, Whitlam called fellow MHRs Bill Bourke "this grizzling Quisling", | (who would, as High Court Chief Justice, play a role in Whitlam's downfall ... |
Zachary Taylor | Taylor County was created in 1856. It was named for | , twelfth President of the United States of America, who served from 1849 ... |
James I of Aragon | ... sed by the Moors (who called it Medina Mayurqa), and finally established by | |
T. S. Eliot | | 's use of a quotation from The Heart of Darkness—"Mistah Kurtz, he dead"—a ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... war films of all types were showing throughout the world, notably those of | who actively promoted war bonds and voluntary enlistment |
Charlemagne | ... e returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. Florence was conquered by | in 774 and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as capital. The ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... chael Dukakis, from the start of the campaign. In the fall, Dukakis fell to | , but Kennedy won re-election to the Senate over Republican Joseph D. Malo ... |
Emperor Min of Jin | ... ht Princes from 291 to 306 AD. During the reigns of Emperor Huai of Jin and | , the country was put into grave danger with the uprising of the northern ... |
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 ... |
Ivan Illich | ... ises and efficacy of compulsory schooling, including Deschooling Society by | , 1970 and No More Public School by Harold Bennet, 1972 |
John II of Castile | ... Berlin, was given in 1445 to the Charterhouse of Miraflores near Burgos by | ; it was described in the deed of gift as the work of great and famous Fla ... |
Stephan Elliott | ... Outback and historical sagas which obtained success in the 1970s and 1980s. | 's 1994 film Priscilla Queen of the Desert mixed traditional outback cinem ... |
Bruce Forsyth | ... films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona. | described him as "a natural at being natural. |
Charlie Chaplin | ... throughout Europe and United States. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by | is a satire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl ... |
James I | ... n Burghley House and Theobalds (which his son, Robert, was to exchange with | for Hatfield House). As the Marquess of Winchester (Burghley's predecessor ... |
Peter Bogdanovich | ... he people of Hollywood had to face changing from making silents to talkies. | 's affectionate 1976 film Nickelodeon deals with the turmoil of silent fil ... |
Fredric Jameson | ... h elements are common characteristics of what is defined as postmodern art. | suggests that postmodern works abjure any claim to spontaneity and directn ... |
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud | The term socialism is attributed to Pierre Leroux, and to | ; and in Britain to Robert Owen in 1827, father of the cooperative movemen ... |
Richard Nixon | In 1972, United States President | announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, Preside ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... hree women left Germany in the 1930s and went to England, after the rise of | . Charles Susskind interviewed Mathilde Hertz in the 1960s and he later pu ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ntly screened it in the White House, as did many other American presidents. | cited High Noon as his favorite film and screened it a record 17 times at ... |
Charles IV | ... his elder brother Duke Wenceslaus I of Legnica a 1359 judgement by Emperor | alloted Lubin along with Krzeczyn Wielki, Krzeczyn Mały, Osiek and Pieszkó ... |
Timur | ... he territory to his son, Chagatai and the area became the Chagatai Khanate. | took over the area in 1369 and the area became the Timurid Empire |
Aaron Klug | ... k addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with Sydney Brenner, | , and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's work, they spe ... |
Miranda Seymour | ... edition published as Under the Influence, 1979), and also was the basis for | 's novel The Summer of '39 (1998). In 1939 Riding and Graves parted, and i ... |
Panjabi MC | ... genre in the United States was "Mundian to Bach Ke" or "Beware the Boys" by | and Jay-Z. Although "Mundian To Bach Ke" had been released previously, the ... |
Edward Jablonski | ... ershwin was not "a notorious hypochondriac," as suggested by his biographer | (who wrote, in a letter to the editor, that "Gershwin was a notorious hypo ... |
John L. Allen, Jr. | ===Vatican responses=== | , Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, has commented ... |
George W. Bush | ... 90 percent of the county's vote on two occasions, Ronald Reagan in 1984 and | in 2004. came close to this level in 2008, drawing 85 percent of the vote |
Joseph McElroy | ... de Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), David Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), | (A Smuggler's Bible) and Stanley Elkin (The Magic Kingdom) |
Charles Gordone | ... types. Bakshi cast Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas, Barry White and | in live-action and voice roles, cutting in and out of animation abruptly r ... |
Paul Green | Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright | wrote The Lost Colony in 1937 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the ... |
Charles Dickens | ... y), and this work sometimes led Wells to be touted as a worthy successor to | . Wells also wrote abundantly about the "New Woman" and the Suffragettes ( ... |
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 ... |
Genghis Khan | ... various times by Turkic forces, such as the Göktürks until the conquest by | and the Mongols in 1220. Genghis Khan gave the territory to his son, Chaga ... |
Joanne Kyger | ... zendo, with about six regular participants. In early June, he met the poet | . She became his girlfriend, and eventually his wife. In 1959, he shipped ... |
Brian Friel | ... ish. Following the success of the Field Day Theatre Company's production of | 's Translations, Heaney joined the company's expanded Board of Directors i ... |
Constantine | ... depose his son, but failed and fled to the court of Constantius' successor, | (who was both Maximian's step-grandson and also his son-in-law), in Trier. ... |
Alexander | | conquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, ... |
Laura Nyro | ... ichard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by | , was a major hit for Streisand |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... s each year. The Marivent Palace was offered by the city to the then Prince | . The royals have since spent their summer holidays in Palma |
Charles Dickens | ... Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall (1996), "Josiah Bounderby" in | ' Hard Times (1998) and a part in the 2001 BBC Radio 4 version of The Thir ... |
Alan Alda | ... logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit). | often vamped in a Groucho-esque manner on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee ... |
Ronald Kessler | Author | mentioned Bono in his exposé book Inside Congress. Kessler pointed out tha ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... y killed him. (Watsuki makes a comparison to President of the United States | with Ōkubo in his notes. |
Lord Dunsany | Furthermore, Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of | with their pantheon of mighty gods existing in dreamlike outer realms, mov ... |
Winston Churchill | ... made about aerial bombardment of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with | , then-Secretary of State at the British War Office, arguing in favor of i ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... of privilege. Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, | , Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppin ... |
Victor Hugo | ... story Carmen by Prosper Mérimée and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, | 's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Miguel de Cervantes' La Gitanilla.The R ... |
John Lennon | In a 1975 interview, | recalled his friend Don Beatty introducing him to Presley's music. Lennon ... |
Plato | ... the comparison of "practical" (praktikos) and "intellectual" (gnostikos) in | 's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner in his The Statesman ... |
George Orwell | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as Aldous Huxley and | to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the dangers of the sw ... |
James K. Polk | ... 1851, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, the county is named after | , the eleventh President of the United States |
Rob Sitch | ... Toni Collette, the gently satirical suburban comedy The Castle directed by | (which cast Eric Bana in his first prominent film role), and Baz Lurhmann' ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... writers than those experiencing it at first hand. The first major figure is | , a minor aristocrat who had remained a royalist throughout the Revolution ... |
Boris Akunin | In | 's novel, The Diamond Chariot, Erast Fandorin investigates the plot to ass ... |
Yitzchak Ben Tzvi | ... world a better place, " and to eliminate suffering. In 1954, in a letter to | , Israel's second President, the Rebbe wrote: "From the time that I was a ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and | ' La Gitanilla.The Romani were also heavily romanticized in the Soviet Uni ... |
Hannah More | ... 1781, and there met Sir Charles Middleton, Lady Middleton, Thomas Clarkson, | and others, a group that later became known as the Testonites. Interested ... |
President of the United States | ... gia General Assembly, the county is named after James K. Polk, the eleventh | |
Halfdan | ... istr's-brother's-daughter"). In chapter 47, the deceased Eystein's son King | dies of an illness, and the excerpt provided in the chapter describes his ... |
Noël Coward | ... lted, extraordinarily polite dialogues, in scenes that were parodies of Sir | 's style, most particularly that of Dame Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard i ... |
Diocletian | ... , the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre. The Emperor | is said to have made Florentia the seat of a bishopric around the beginnin ... |
The Wind in the Willows | ... ters (Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear and Preacher Fox) resembled figures from | were rejected. Bakshi juxtaposed stereotypical designs of blacks with even ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... tually gained the respect of people with conservative/anti-communist views. | , a conservative and fervent anti-Communist, said he appreciated the film ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of World War II. By 1940 Göring was at the peak of his power and influence. | had promoted him to the rank of Reichsmarschall, making Göring senior to a ... |
Henry Ford | In 1987, he portrayed | in Ford: The Man and The Machine |
Stanley Elkin | ... avid Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and | (The Magic Kingdom) |
Emperor Huai of Jin | ... after the War of the Eight Princes from 291 to 306 AD. During the reigns of | and Emperor Min of Jin, the country was put into grave danger with the upr ... |
Mike Ditka | ... oaching tree. In 1986, five NFL head coaches were former Landry assistants: | , Dan Reeves, John Mackovic, Gene Stallings, and Raymond Berry |
George Bernard Shaw | ... ws was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright | . He was educated at the local school, Synge Street CBS. (His first name c ... |
President of the United States | ... ary of War, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, nearly successful candidate for | George Mathews (1739–1812) - Revolutionary hero and twice Governo |
Will Eisner | ... hern California at the age of 81. In 2006 Gottfredson was inducted into the | Comic Industry Awards' Hall of Fame. He also was awarded an Inkpot Award i ... |
Pinball Clemons | ... cause of his relationship with Argonauts head coach and former running back | , and the desire to "say goodbye to the CFL". According to the report, Flu ... |
Judith Chalmers | ... d's dirtiest dirty old man (who wanted, above all else, to get his hands on | ). He was also the self-styled king (later dictator) of Peasemoldia, a sma ... |
Michael Weisskopf | In their book Tell Newt to Shut Up, David Maraniss and | credit Bono with being the first person to recognize Gingrich's public rel ... |
John McCain | ... ). In 2008 Valley County was much more competitive than in recent years, as | defeated Barack Obama by only 7% (52-45%) |
Robert Temple | ... n astronomers. They also refer to a third star accompanying Sirius A and B. | 's 1976 book The Sirius Mystery, credits them with knowledge of the four G ... |
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 ... |
Robert Olen Butler | Past residents include | , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journal ... |
Quintilian | ... ch stood as a standard work until superseded by Madvig's in 1844. He edited | 's Institutio Oratoria (1831), Cicero's Verrines and De officiis (1837), a ... |
Orrin Hatch | ... dy continued his close working relationship with ranking Republican Senator | , and they were close allies on many health-related measures |
Gaius Julius Caesar | ... rived from the personal name of a branch of the gens (clan) Julia, to which | , the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged. Although the Britis ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | After the defeat of | , Kalisz became a provincial capital of Congress Poland and then the capit ... |
Prosper Mérimée | ... t of criminality.Particularly notable are classics like the story Carmen by | and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of ... |
Michael Aspel | ... version of the event omitted the incident, bridging the gap with announcer | saying, "Mr Horne was taken ill at this point and has since died. |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... nty was much more competitive than in recent years, as John McCain defeated | by only 7% (52-45%) |
Theodore Martin | Even the caustic critic | (who was usually virulently hostile to Dickens), spoke well of the book, n ... |
Virgil | ... he population was 2,401 at the 2010 census. The name is from the Roman poet | . It is the birthplace of Groton, NY, mayor Brandon Wing |
David Markson | ... rs clearly influenced by Gaddis include Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), | (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and Stanley Elk ... |
Ottobah Cugoano | ... English-language books and pamphlets. These included books by former slaves | and Olaudah Equiano, who had published influential works on slavery and th ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... ier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | . In addition, she is mentioned in poems recorded in Heimskringla and Egil ... |
Albert Einstein | ... tific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with | 's 1916 theory of general relativity. General relativity can be employed t ... |
Joan Roughgarden | Evolutionary biologist | argues that, in addition to male and female sexes (as defined by the produ ... |
Nick Cave | ... elicity Urquhart and Kasey Chambers. Others influenced by the genre include | , Paul Kelly, The John Butler Trio and |
Henry VIII | ... ters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry (a parody of | ) and Carry On Dick (a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin), in both ... |
William Cullen Bryant | Past residents include Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, | , poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of , and Natalie Portman |
Prince Wilhelm of Baden | Born in Baden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of | , third son of Leopold, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilian ... |
Filarete | ... d increased progressively. In the 1450s and 1460s scholars such as Cusanus, | and Facius referred to him in superlatives: 'the greatest', 'the most nobl ... |
Odin | Various Germanic peoples highly revered the raven. The major deity | was so associated with ravens throughout history that he gained the kennin ... |
Alfred Lansing | ... ulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, | , author of , and Natalie Portman |
Aldous Huxley | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as | and George Orwell to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the ... |
Robert Bork | ... gest battles in the Senate came with Reagan's July 1987 nomination of Judge | to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy saw a possible Bork appointment as lead ... |
Sophocles | ... ord and University of Cambridge. In 1990, The Cure at Troy, a play based on | 's Philoctetes, was published to much acclaim, followed by Seeing Things i ... |
Texas military hero | The county is named not after the familiar | but rather after Georgia governor John Houstoun (who used that spelling du ... |
Ceauşescu | 1984. A covert mission using undead agents to unseat the | regime in Romania |
President of the United States | ... crates his corpse and claim they killed him. (Watsuki makes a comparison to | Abraham Lincoln with Ōkubo in his notes. |
Werner Herzog | ... f Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's classic silent vampire movie Nosferatu (1922). | honored the same film in his own version, (1979) |
Darren Flutie | Flutie is the older brother of the CFL's third all-time receptions leader, | . Flutie also has an older brother, Bill Flutie and an older sister, Denis ... |
David McKenna | ... pic about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme. | and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Tow ... |
Michael Powell | ... (1947), both crime dramas. In 1949 he played the alcoholic hero's barman in | and Emeric Pressburger's The Small Back Room |
James Madison | ... the form of a constitutional republic over a direct democracy. For example, | , in Federalist No. 10 advocates a constitutional republic over direct dem ... |
Charles Dickens | Novelists such as | often used passages of satiric writing in their treatment of social issues ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... d accompanied his father on his expeditions to North America. In 1500, King | sent Gaspar to discover lands and search for a Northwest Passage to Asia |
Rush Limbaugh | ... CD, Liver, in the mid-1990s. Squint included the track "Smug", which mocks | and Barbra Streisand as iconic masters of smugness. The album also include ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... used mostly to glorify or sanctify war. The Charge of the Light Brigade by | , with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of ... |
Henry Morton Stanley | ... ons to Africans. One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was | of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" fame, as he was a principal explorer of "T ... |
Hedda Hopper | ... Pictures (Kramer's brand new boss at the time), John Wayne of the MPA, and | of the Los Angeles Times. Cast and crew members were also affected. Howlan ... |
Julius Caesar | ... y, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor Augustus (as adopted son of | ). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of Vespasian). Aug ... |
William Makepeace Thackeray | ... feelings; and a peep at the Frontispiece sets the animal spirits capering". | in Fraser's Magazine (February 1844) pronounced the book, "a national bene ... |
President of Russia | ... with Russia in the Barents Sea since 1978 was settled when Stoltenberg and | Dimitry Medvedev signed an agreement on 27 April 2010 in Oslo. The agreeme ... |
Henry IV | ... ioned in a document from the King of Germany, and later Holy Roman Emperor, | in 1071. This document granted Görlitz to the Diocese of Meissen, then und ... |
Domitian | ... stus (as adopted son of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to | (as son of Vespasian). Augustus used the title "Divi filius", not "Dei fil ... |
Jonathan Franzen | ... 2) likely are based on Gaddis. Authors clearly influenced by Gaddis include | (The Corrections), David Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A ... |
Adam Gopnik | ... rt of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in Kirk Varnedoe and | 's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Art at New York's ... |
Domangart Réti | ... omangairt was king of Dál Riata in the early 6th century. He was the son of | and grandson of Fergus Mór. The Annals of Ulster report his death in 538, ... |
Bert Coules | ... in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (a pastiche series written by | ) in the 2002 episode "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square" |
Poe' | ... d not refer to these categories himself, he did once write, "There are my ' | pieces and my 'Dunsany pieces' – but alas – where are any Lovecraft pieces ... |
Viviane Reding | ... ating these actions to pursue its political agenda. EU Justice Commissioner | stated that the European Commission should take legal action against Franc ... |
Johnny Speight | ... a lot of silly fuss about a silly moo" which was overheard by script writer | and became the series most enduring catchphrase |
Juan Alberto Melgar | ... main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar (the widow of former leader | ). Flores inaugurated International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs of reform ... |
Fergus Mór | ... in the early 6th century. He was the son of Domangart Réti and grandson of | . The Annals of Ulster report his death in 538, 542 and 545, the Annals of ... |
Major John André | ... 758 – February 18, 1818), who was famous for the capture of the British spy | in 1780 during the American Revolution. André was on a mission carrying se ... |
John Greenleaf Whittier | ... e first ridge of the Appalachians, Catoctin Mountain. The abolitionist poet | immortalized this view of Frederick in his poem to Barbara Fritchie: "The ... |
Constantius | ... vasion fleet was destroyed by storms in 289 or 290. Maximian's subordinate, | , campaigned against Carausius' successor, Allectus, while Maximian held t ... |
Indiana Jones | ... is James Bond days. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wanted "the father of | " (although Connery is only 12 years older than Ford) to be Connery since ... |
Jenny Hocking | ... Parliamentary Joint Committee on Constitutional Review in 1956. Biographer | calls his service on the Committee, which included members from all partie ... |
Charlotte Mason | ... ncluding unit studies, Classical education (including Trivium, Quadrivium), | education, Montessori method, Theory of multiple intelligences, Unschoolin ... |
Vespasian | ... of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of | ). Augustus used the title "Divi filius", not "Dei filius", and respected ... |
Samuel Richardson | ... cal articles and newspapers. Almost by accident, in anger at the success of | 's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Fielding took to writing novels in 1741 and ... |
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 ... |
Lindsay Anderson | ... of the Victorian period. The school was the setting in 1968 for the classic | film . It also hosts the annual Cheltenham Cricket Festival, first staged ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... ringing the giant lake's plight to national attention. Speaker of the House | made a public appearance and speech at the shore of the lake on Bono's beh ... |
Carl Barks | ... n audio interview with Gottfredson and Disney Donald Duck-comic book artist | . During the 1970s Gotfredson attended the OrlandoCon and also the 1983 Sa ... |
Douglas Marland | ... ough facing the full length of Another and One Life to Live once again, the | era of 1985 to 1993 saw a resurgence in ratings, and by 1991 it was back i ... |
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 ... |
W. S. Gilbert | ... amples of Victorian satire, however, are to be found in the Savoy Operas of | and Sir Arthur Sullivan. In fact, in The Yeomen of the Guard, a jester is ... |
Felicity Urquhart | ... n Williamson, Gina Jeffreys, Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Sara Storer, | and Kasey Chambers. Others influenced by the genre include Nick Cave, Paul ... |
David Maraniss | In their book Tell Newt to Shut Up, | and Michael Weisskopf credit Bono with being the first person to recognize ... |
Elio Vittorini | ... he passed four exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by | , Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works ... |
Sophia, Electress of Hanover | ... e succession and made William's nearest Protestant relations, the family of | , next in line to the throne after his sister-in-law Anne. Soon after the ... |
Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... e Irgun founded a new headquarters, staffed by Moshe Rosenberg at the head, | as secretary, David Raziel as head of the Jerusalem branch, Hanoch Kalai a ... |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... eens. It was here that she became acquainted with her future fourth husband | . The atmosphere of the court was much different from the rural and paroch ... |
Peter of Blois | ... bury Cathedral after Walter's death. Another scholar employed by Walter was | , who served both Walter and his predecessor as a Latin secretary |
King Clovis I | ... ed the first adoption of the fleur-de-lis to the conversion of the Frankish | in 493. The story takes various forms, many of which relate to Clovis' con ... |
Mike Shinoda | ... nese-American family's experience during the internment period. Lead singer | 's paternal grandparents were interned during World War II, along with his ... |
President of the United States | ... , they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for Grover Cleveland, the newly elected | |
John Macadam | ... trust. New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and | . The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the means by which the ... |
Queen Victoria | On 22 January 1901, | died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as King ... |
Frank Mankiewicz | ... as he was closest to Robert among those in the Kennedy family; Kennedy aide | said of seeing Ted at the hospital where Robert lay mortally wounded: "I h ... |
Speaker of the House | ... tees elected by members of the House, 2) select committees appointed by the | , and 3) joint committees whose members are chosen according to the statut ... |
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 ... |
Oliver Stone | ... sador for the ScreenSingapore 2011 film festival, joining American director | |
Adrienne Clarkson | On December 12, 2003, he was appointed by then Governor General | as the twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada. When sworn in as Prime Minis ... |
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 ... |
Morgan Woolard | Miss Oklahoma USA and first runner up to Miss USA 2010 - | Randall L. Stephenson, Currently The Chairman of the Board, Chief Executiv ... |
Stuart Gordon | ... rs Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors John Carpenter, | , and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, and artist H. R. ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... icted for defrauding the Post Office, they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for | , the newly elected President of the United States |
Steve Young | Manning and Marvin Harrison broke | and Jerry Rice's NFL record for most touchdowns by a quarterback-receiver ... |
Fulke Greville | ... erary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets | , Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictiti ... |
Steven Pinker | ... tribution makes it impossible to hold others responsible for their actions. | 's view is that fear of determinism in the context of "genetics" and "evol ... |
Sergei Eisenstein | ... s of films that contained the type of large battle scenes needed, including | 's Alexander Nevsky, and spliced together the footage he needed. However, ... |
Livy | ... the Romans. After the loss of the battle the forces of Veii returned home. | writes that later in 509 BC, consul Publius Valerius Publicola returned to ... |
Paul Reubens | ... anka Potente), an airline stewardess, who introduces them to Derek Foreal ( | ), the main dealer. With Derek's help, George and Tuna make a lot of money ... |
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 ... |
Henry | ... in October 1216, many began to support the claim of his eldest son, Prince | . War continued between the factions supporting Louis and Henry, with Fitz ... |
Herodotus | ... contains numerous tumuli – typical for IE originators.The Chernoles culture | is "sometimes portrayed as either a step in the development of the Slavic ... |
Pygmalion myth | Pretty Woman bears striking resemblances to | s: particularly George Bernard Shaw's play of the same name, which also fo ... |
John Steed | ... Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry) and his assistant | (Patrick Macnee). Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the ... |
Francis Fukuyama | ... oreign Affairs article titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", in response to | 's 1992 book, . Huntington later expanded his thesis in a 1996 book The Cl ... |
Leni Riefenstahl | ... ontext. Examples of this exist not only in posters but also in the films of | and Sergei Eisenstein |
George Orwell | ... rld War I, with the creation of modest dwellings of the garden suburb type. | , who adopted this pseudonym while living here, lived and worked in 1932-3 ... |
Junji Ito | ... John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist | , and artist H. R. Giger |
George I | In 1714, Queen Anne was succeeded by her second cousin, and Sophia's son, | , Elector of Hanover, who consolidated his position by defeating Jacobite ... |
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 ... |
Claudius Caesar | ... atement "For Herod the king of the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of | , came together and condemned Him to be crucified." This would place the c ... |
Edward Hempstead | ... ber 15, 1818, alongside Clark and Pulaski counties. The county is named for | , a delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Missouri Territory, which inclu ... |
Herod the king of the Jews | ... aeus reinforced his view that Jesus was at least 45 with the statement "For | and Pontius Pilate, the governor of Claudius Caesar, came together and con ... |
Ryan Murphy | ... "Best TV Series-Comedy Or Musical" at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards, creator | quipped on stage, "Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press and Miss Barbr ... |
Peter Singer | ... The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, the utilitarian philosopher | argues that fundamentally utilitarian ethical reasoning has existed from t ... |
Eugenio Montale | ... exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, | , Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, We ... |
Ivan Turgenev | ... es (1867), L'ogre (1868), and Le dernier sorcier (1869), all to libretti by | - and over fifty lieder. Her remaining two salon operas - Le conte de fées ... |
South African President | ... l, scientific, economic, etc. renewal. This concept has been popularized by | Thabo Mbeki during his term of office. This was first articulated in the 1 ... |
William Morris | ... a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is | ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down (bureau ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... G. M. Anderson, starring in the very popular "Broncho Billy" westerns, and | . Allan Dwan was hired by Essanay Studios as a screenwriter and developed ... |
Aaron Sorkin | ... performing arts include Dick Clark, Taye Diggs, Peter Falk, Frank Langella, | , and Vanessa L. Williams |
King Edward VII | ... ctoria died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as | . For most of the rest of that year, George and May were styled TRH The Du ... |
Sergei Eisenstein | ... his exist not only in posters but also in the films of Leni Riefenstahl and | |
Darwin | ... fish precursors would have lived in shallow water for a long period, and by | , who predicted a gradual migration of the eye, mirroring the metamorphosi ... |
Bob Dylan | In late summer 1965, | was looking for a backup band for his first U.S. "electric" tour. Levon an ... |
Elizabeth I | ... h literature in the half century 1575 – 1625. For example the 1603 death of | falls in the middle of Shakespeare's career as dramatist: he is both an El ... |
Lady Mary | ... rine of Aragon, Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with | . By 16 February 1543, Catherine had established herself with Mary and was ... |
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 ... |
Queen Caroline | His Paradise Lost (1732), suggested by | , has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the po ... |
Mark Hamill | ... s to avoid conflict with Star Wars; Bakshi agreed because Lucas had allowed | to take time off from Star Wars to record a voice for Wizards. Although Wi ... |
Bill Gates | Discussions proceeded rapidly, involving | , then CEO of Microsoft, personally. Gates called Perlman at his home on E ... |
George Bernard Shaw's | Pretty Woman bears striking resemblances to Pygmalion myths: particularly | play of the same name, which also formed the basis for the Broadway musica ... |
Stephen Fry | ... ns, later William Franklyn in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and | in the movie version), also provides general narration |
Richard Ellmann | | says that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had ... |
King Alfonso XIII | ... tour was almost immediately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding of | to Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, at which the bride and groom narrowly a ... |
Cathy Gale | ... eed's most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: | (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), and later Tara King (Linda Thors ... |
Catherine de' Medici | When Italian duchess | married the duc d’Orléans in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to ... |
Carl Barks | Sir Eider McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by | and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree |
Cesare Pavese | ... t year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale, | , Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg ... |
Khushwant Singh | ... nrolling at Somerville College, Oxford where she never finished her degree. | , who has personally known Indira Gandhi, has said that she felt uncomfort ... |
Manco Cápac | ... and his nephews in their latest treasure hunt - locating a hidden temple of | , who was the legendary founder of the Inca dynasty. The temple is hidden ... |
Thabo Mbeki | ... etc. renewal. This concept has been popularized by South African President | during his term of office. This was first articulated in the 1990s; it con ... |
Allan Dwan | ... starring in the very popular "Broncho Billy" westerns, and Charlie Chaplin. | was hired by Essanay Studios as a screenwriter and developed into a famous ... |
Estela Giménez | ... group won the first gold medal of the new competition with a team formed by | , Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and T ... |
Patrice Chéreau | ... famous modern production was the centennial production of 1976 directed by | and conducted by Pierre Boulez. Set in the industrial revolution, it repla ... |
Victorien Sardou | ... man of No Importance and An Ideal Husband—the plot, following the manner of | , is unrelated to the theme of the work, while in Earnest the story is "di ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... die Howe, entertainers like Boris Karloff and Ed Sullivan, and writers like | . From 1957 to 1979, the show featured many non-Canadians whose trips to T ... |
Fred Schepisi | ... l to cinematic audiences. 1976's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith directed by | was an award winning historical drama from a book by Thomas Keneally about ... |
Donald Mitchell | Blumine was rediscovered by | in 1966, while doing research for his biography on Mahler in the Osborn Co ... |
Oscar De La Hoya | ... public appearance in Phoenix, Arizona to see the Pay Per View fight between | and Julio César Chávez together with fans at a public fight viewing held a ... |
Theodor Herzl's | ... haron Haichman as commander of Tel Aviv. On 20 Tammuz, (June 29) the day of | death, a ceremony was held in honor of the reorganization of the undergrou ... |
Phaedrus | ... his most determined his reputation. In 1726 he also published the Fables of | and the Sententiae of Publilius Syrus |
Aristotle | ... introduced much of Plato to the Western world, shaking the domination which | had come to exercise over Western European thought in the high and later m ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... io series of six episodes (called "Fits" after the names of the sections of | 's nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC ... |
Jacques Maritain | ... ourse on Thomas Aquinas with Walsh. Through Walsh, Merton was introduced to | at a lecture on Catholic Action, which took place at a Catholic Book Club ... |
King Philip II Augustus | ... y names. King John lost all his territories in mainland Normandy in 1204 to | , but retained possession of Jersey and the other Channel Islands. The isl ... |
Wonder Woman | ... feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character | . Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (who live ... |
Jimmy Hill | ... st famous former managers are Jesse Carver, George Raynor, Harry Storer and | . Others include Noel Cantwell, Dave Sexton, John Sillett, Bobby Gould, Ph ... |
Charles I of England | ... efs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets. One hundred years later, | was, it was reported, so impressed by the "frozen snow" that he offered hi ... |
King Henry | ... elf with Mary and was now part of her household. It was in the household of | and Catherine of Aragon's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught ... |
John Betjeman | Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by | to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made pop ... |
George II | ... e United Kingdom, although the title was not then in use. The next monarch, | , witnessed the final end of the Jacobite threat in 1746, when the Catholi ... |
Frederick William II of Prussia | ... ly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by King | as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. ... |
Queen Maud | ... in, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of King Haakon VII and | (George's sister) |
James Madison | Madison County was created in 1827. It was named for | , fourth President of the United States of America, who served from 1809 t ... |
Richard Cumberland | ... eterborough, and himself later a bishop of the Church of Ireland. Their son | developed as a prolific dramatist, while earning his living as a civil ser ... |
Feroze Gandhi | ... se she had no real education. During her stay in the UK, she frequently met | , whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the . The marriage ... |
J. D. Frazer | Drawn and authored by | , a.k.a. "Illiad", it has been running since November 17, 1997. Frazer is ... |
Moses | ... lars believe that Exodus 3:13-15 describes the moment when YHWH first tells | that he is the same god as El, the supreme being. This could be the recoun ... |
Hilary Mantel | ... ical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris. The novelist | portrays More as a religious and masochistic fanatic in her 2009 novel Wol ... |
Henry III | In the 13th century, Kings | (1216–1272) and Edward I (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially crea ... |
Eric Frank Russell | ... (For more information see the History of Socialism article.) Also consider | 's book The Great Explosion (1963) whose last section details an economic ... |
Livia | ... y in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the Romans. | had an estate there, according to Suetonius. The city under Roman control, ... |
King Haakon VII | ... r returning to Britain, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of | and Queen Maud (George's sister) |
Louella Parsons | ... y Studios as a screenwriter and developed into a famous Hollywood director. | was also hired as a screenwriter and went on to be a Hollywood gossip colu ... |
Don Rosa | ... in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in | 's Duck Family Tree |
Rainer Knopff | ... without its critics. Alberta politician Ted Morton and political scientist | have been very critical of this phenomenon. Although they feel the basis f ... |
Thomas Keneally | ... ected by Fred Schepisi was an award winning historical drama from a book by | about the tragic story of an Aboriginal Bushranger |
Li Zongren | ... id promote conditions calling for Chiang's death. However, warlords such as | and Yan Xishan who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die. They ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... l is 1 mile or long and has a diameter of with a roadbed . It was opened by | on 19 October 1967, but commenced operational use only in 1968, on complet ... |
Philander Chase | Bexley Hall is an Episcopal seminary founded in 1823 by | , the Bishop of Ohio. Most of the East Coast Episcopal leadership did not ... |
Albert | ... George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, | , Mary, Henry, George, and John |
Pope John Paul II | ... visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and | . The former visit came amidst an historical setting after the fall of com ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... ok of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as | , Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albe ... |
Kublai Khan | ... g to do with ice cream. It has also been claimed that, in the Yuan Dynasty, | enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until Marco Polo visited Chin ... |
James II's Catholic son | ... rotestant officials, James fled the realm and William and Mary (rather than | ) were declared joint Sovereigns of England, Scotland and Ireland |
Siegfried Linkwitz | ... design, as the components interact in complex ways. Crossover design expert | said of them that "the only excuse for passive crossovers is their low cos ... |
Dave Marsh | ... reat", half as "nonsense" and worse. In the New Rolling Stone Record Guide, | argued, "Sandinista! is nonsensically cluttered. Or rather seems nonsensic ... |
Emma Peel | ... were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), | (Diana Rigg), and later Tara King (Linda Thorson). Later episodes increasi ... |
Adamantios Korais | ... nated by the Ottoman authorities in 1798. Other influential figures include | and Anthimos Gazis |
Indira Gandhi | ... came from all walks of life, including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and | , crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers ... |
Eugenio Scalfari | ... ajority's beliefs”. During this time, he met a brilliant student from Rome, | , who went on to found the weekly magazine L'Espresso and La Repubblica, a ... |
Hilderic | | (523–530) was the Vandal king most tolerant towards the Catholic Church. H ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... ters with Catholicism. Another author Merton began reading at this time was | , whose book Ends and Means introduced Merton to mysticism. In August of t ... |
James Baker | ... rn personalities visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State | and Pope John Paul II. The former visit came amidst an historical setting ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... including the philosophers François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire, 1694–1778) and | (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Je ... |
Edward I | In the 13th century, Kings Henry III (1216–1272) and | (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially creating it as it stands toda ... |
Elizabeth I | ... travelled to France as part of the embassy to negotiate a marriage between | and the Duc D'Alençon. He spent the next several years in mainland Europe, ... |
Gelimer | ... amily led a revolt, raising the banner of national Arianism, and his cousin | (530–533) became king. Hilderic, Hoamer and their relatives were thrown in ... |
King George III | ... he independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against | , and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of ... |
Edmund I of England | ... siege by Anglo-Saxons, raiders who did not care about the treaty that King | and King Malcolm I of Scotland signed in 945. Sir Eider did not supply arr ... |
George W. Bush | ... ction for at least the past 50 years. Recent elections in 2004 and 2000 saw | capture 59.72% and 58.5% of the county vote, respectively. However in the ... |
Aaron Zelman | ... ishment, evasive in argument, lusty for power, and repressive in politics". | 's non-fiction book The State Versus the People includes a comparison of U ... |
Albert Einstein | ... described a ray of light as the "quickest of all the messengers". In 1905, | proposed the existence of a light-particle in answer to the question: "wha ... |
Henry | ... iked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, | , George, and John |
Malcolm X | ... including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like | , sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers like Boris Karloff and Ed ... |
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 ... |
Johnny Depp | The film opens to a young George ( | ) and his parents Fred (Ray Liotta) and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths) of Weymo ... |
Manuel II Palaiologos | ... od. Scholarios later defended Aristotle and convinced the Byzantine emperor | that Plethon's support for Plato amounted to heresy. Manuel had Plethon co ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... "refuses to play the game" of other dramatists of the period, for instance | , who used their characters to draw audiences to grander ideals |
Tiberius | ... pium Augustum Veiens. Veii is famous for its statuary including a statue of | (now in the Vatican), and the Apollo of Veii (now in the National Etruscan ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley and some other party factions feared that | could not unite the party, and so encouraged Ted Kennedy to make himself a ... |
Mike Mignola | ... ific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and | , film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, ho ... |
John Carpenter | ... ng, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors | , Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, an ... |
Stephen Fry | ... rlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp and V for Vendetta with | |
Alfred Rosenberg | ... rom Jewish collections, libraries, and museums throughout Europe. Headed by | , the task force set up a collection centre and headquarters in Paris. Som ... |
Barack Obama | ... nty vote, respectively. However in the 2008 Presidential Election, Democrat | captured McHenry County with 52% of the vote |
I. A. Richards | ... dered to have magical power. Magical language, according to C. K. Ogden and | 's (1923) categories of speech, is distinct from scientific language becau ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... s Rousseau (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and | (1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); the German landscape artist Pr ... |
Zoroaster | ... tire legal codes in his memory. He also wrote a Summary of the Doctrines of | and Plato, which detailed his own eclectic polytheistic beliefs. These wor ... |
Galileo Galilei | ... een raging for at least 340 years, having first been observed by astronomer | . Neptune also had its own lesser known Great Dark Spot |
Marco Polo | ... uan Dynasty, Kublai Khan enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until | visited China and took the technique of making ice cream to Italy |
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 ... |
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Charlie Chaplin | ... where many Broncho Billy westerns were shot, along with The Tramp featuring | . Eventually the studio moved all operations to Los Angeles |
Dharmakirti | ... t millennium BCE, and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists | and Dignāga during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's ... |
Malcolm I of Scotland | ... rs who did not care about the treaty that King Edmund I of England and King | signed in 945. Sir Eider did not supply arrows for his men (because they w ... |
Johnny Depp | ... an Connery overlooking the maze, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring | and V for Vendetta with Stephen Fry |
Yan Xishan | ... itions calling for Chiang's death. However, warlords such as Li Zongren and | who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die. They knew that if t ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... tion of particles, regardless of whether or not free will exists. Physicist | describes such ideas in his 2010 book The Grand Design. According to Hawki ... |
John | ... imple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and | |
Jean Genet | ... ame, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, | , and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albert Camus' co ... |
George | ... relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, | , and John |
Gurdial Singh Dhillon | ... writing. In the 1980 election, Bhindranwale supported Congress-I candidates | and Raghunandan Lal Bhatia. Bhindranwale was originally not very influenti ... |
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Dignāga | ... , and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists Dharmakirti and | during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's Aryabhatiya ... |
Peter Carey | ... German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and | , from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the s ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... ther, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, | , was a pivotal figure in the independence movement of India |
Elizabeth | ... e Fall 2001 issue of the Boston University alumni magazine, it was his wife | 's idea to create a female superhero: "William Moulton Marston, a psycholo ... |
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Don Rosa | ... in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in | 's Duck Family Tree. He also appears as a ghost in Rosa's The Life and Tim ... |
William Blake | ... rd Catholicism. While doing his graduate work, he was writing his thesis on | , whose spiritual symbolism he was coming to appreciate in new ways |
George McGovern | ... nomination. He also declined consideration for the vice-presidential spot. | remained the symbolic standard-bearer for Robert's delegates instead |
John Gambril Nicholson | The name Ernest, it has been posited, might also have an ulterior meaning. | wrote in 1892, "Though Frank may ring like silver bell, And Cecil softer m ... |
Carl Barks | Sir Quackly McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by | and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree. He also appears as a gh ... |
Ronald Fisher | Along with Leonard Tippett and | , he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory. The Gumbel ... |
George Lucas | ... he film. At the same time, Ladd was dealing with similar budget problems on | 's . Bakshi and Lucas had negotiated contracts entitling them to franchise ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... been imagined by the opposite side of the political spectrum. For example, | 's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress portrays an individualistic and libertaria ... |
Heron Carvic | ... ber 1968. It starred Anthony Jackson as narrator, Paul Daneman as Bilbo and | as Gandalf. The series was released on audio cassette in 1988 and on CD in ... |
Justinian I | Byzantine Emperor | declared war, with the stated intention of restoring Hilderic to the Vanda ... |
King George III | ... e usual French spelling, is explained by his having been named in honour of | |
U Thant | ... in September 1975. The UNU creation was set in motion by Secretary-General | in 1969. Over the years, several Institutes of UNU were created to help wi ... |
Daniel Dennett | | uses the case of the Three Mile Island accident as an example of the diffi ... |
Motilal Nehru | ... ather was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather, | , was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, ... |
President of the United States | ... nty, formed on March 28, 1871, and named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth | . It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county |
Arthur Adamov | ... esco alongside such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and | . Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albert Camus' concept of the absurd ... |
Isaac Rosenberg | ... oets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, | and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literature, producing a sl ... |
Chadli Bendjedid | ... was released from house arrest in 1980 by Boumédienne's successor, Colonel | . Boumédienne immediately dissolved the National Assembly and suspended th ... |
George Washington | ... r shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, | , and Thomas Jefferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice c ... |
George W. Bush | In 2007, U.S. President | marked the first time that such a high ranking American official visited A ... |
Boniface Alexandre | ... hes upon boarding the aircraft that was used to remove Aristide from Haiti. | assumed interim authority. René Préval was elected President in February 2 ... |
Don Rosa | ... artists include Carl Barks, Tony Strobl, Paul Murry, William Van Horn, and | . Van Horn and Rosa now work for European publishers |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | ... ttle, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, | , and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ere also buoyed by the Sponsorship Scandal. Martin advised Governor General | to call an election for June 28, 2004 |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... s daughters from his first two marriages, who later became Queen Mary I and | . She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son Edward, Prince o ... |
Huayna Capac | ... 1576 on the foundations of the Amarucancha or the palace of the Inca ruler | , is considered one of the best examples of colonial baroque style in the ... |
Albert Einstein | ... othic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of | |
Arch Oboler | ... ild Theater on January 8, 1939; Good News; Baby, broadcast March 2, 1940 on | 's Lights Out; The Word on Everyman's Theater (1941); Chained on the Lux R ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... oying a stronger and more effective legislative staff. He took on President | and almost succeeded in amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to explicit ... |
Simon de Montfort | ... were becoming dangerously unruly. In 1258, the discontented barons, led by | , forced the King to agree to reforms including holding regular parliament ... |
Louis XIV | ... he Nine Years' War. In a bold envelopment the Duc de Luxembourg, commanding | ’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated Prince Waldeck’s Allied force ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... uture US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) | ;(1706–1790); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muska ... |
William Van Horn | ... comic book writers and artists include Carl Barks, Tony Strobl, Paul Murry, | , and Don Rosa. Van Horn and Rosa now work for European publishers |
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland | ... ir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. His mother was the eldest daughter of | , and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sist ... |
Robert Russa Moton | ... tial aspirations if such knowledge became public, Hoover struck a deal with | , the prominent African-American successor to Booker T. Washington as pres ... |
Edward, Prince of Wales | ... Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son | , later King Edward VI. When she became Queen, her uncle Lord Parr of Hort ... |
Aeschylus | ... s 120 ships from the Greeks of Thrace and nearby islands as reinforcements. | , who fought at Salamis, also claims that he faced there 1,207 warships, o ... |
George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | In 1636 | , ruler of the Brunswick-Lüneburg principality of Calenberg, moved his res ... |
Saint Augustine | ... rio Pontificio gives both forms, as alternatives. Eusebius, Saint Irenaeus, | and Optatus all suggest that both names refer to the same individual. On t ... |
René Préval | ... o remove Aristide from Haiti. Boniface Alexandre assumed interim authority. | was elected President in February 2006, following elections marked by unce ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, and | were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady Dolley ... |
Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau | ... son (1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); the German landscape artist | ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nich ... |
Jean Chrétien | In late 2004, Niyazov met with former Canadian Prime Minister | to discuss an oil contract in Turkmenistan for a Canadian corporation. In ... |
William IV | ... reign, the power of the monarchy declined and by the time of his successor, | , the monarch was no longer able to effectively interfere with parliamenta ... |
Romeo Muller | ... /Bass, debuted as a television movie in the United States in 1977. In 1978, | won a Peabody Award for his teleplay for The Hobbit. The film was also nom ... |
Plotinus | ... ag Hammadi texts, which shed light on some of the more puzzling comments by | and Porphyry regarding the Gnostics. More importantly, the texts help to d ... |
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Carl von Clausewitz | ... ance in the defence of Riga against the French army, where he meets General | of the Prussian Army |
Dalton McGuinty | An unpopular provincial budget by Liberal Premier | , who broke a pledge not to raise taxes, hurt the federal party's numbers ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... lan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and | , have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences. Beyond direct a ... |
Chadli Bendjedid | ... to choose a successor. To break a deadlock between two candidates, Colonel | , a moderate who had collaborated with Boumédienne in deposing Ahmed Ben B ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... or the revolutions to come. Among these monarchs were the viceroy of Italy, | , who tried to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of ... |
Hester Thrale | Baretti was a frequent visitor at the home of | , and his name occurs repeatedly in Boswell's Life. In 1769 Baretti was tr ... |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | ... former deputy prime minister rumored to be the illegitimate son of Niyazov, | , became acting president, although under the constitution the Chairman of ... |
Norman Corwin | ... The Word on Everyman's Theater (1941); Chained on the Lux Radio Theater and | 's Document A/777 (1948). She appeared in episodes of anthology television ... |
Joe Clark | ... e government, though they were now in a minority situation, the first since | 's tenure in 1979-80 |
Ahmed Ben Bella | ... dli Bendjedid, a moderate who had collaborated with Boumédienne in deposing | , was sworn in on February 9, 1979. He was re-elected in 1984 and 1988. Af ... |
Lysias | ... he faced there 1,207 warships, of which 207 were "fast ships". Diodorus and | independently claim there were 1,200 ships in the Persian fleet assembled ... |
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 ... |
Booker T. Washington | ... a deal with Robert Russa Moton, the prominent African-American successor to | as president of the . In exchange for keeping the suffering of African-Ame ... |
Plotinus | ... late antique philosophy, and were rebuffed by some Neoplatonists, including | |
Walker Percy | The protagonist of | 's novels, Love in the Ruins and The Thanatos Syndrome, is "Dr Thomas More ... |
Prince | ... rprised laugh was genuine. During the scene in which Roberts sings along to | in the bathtub sliding down and dunking her head under the bubbles, Robert ... |
Andy Warhol | ... music, Mothersbaugh still paints – in a style influenced by surrealism and | |
Calvin Coolidge | ... date in Presidential elections. The last Republican to carry the county was | in 1924. In the last five Presidential elections the Democratic candidate ... |
Joachim Murat | ... ed to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of Italy, and | , who called for Italian patriots' help for the unification of Italy under ... |
Otto I | In 953 the German king | had appointed his brother Bruno the Great Duke of Lotharingia |
Mary Sidney | ... and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sister, | , married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Mary Sidney, who upon her m ... |
Quentin Tarantino | ... has since gained a cult following through cable television and home video. | stated that he preferred Hey Good Lookin' to Martin Scorsese's Mean Street ... |
Donald Mitchell | ... Weimar performance in 1894, and it was not discovered again until 1966 when | unearthed it. The following year, Benjamin Britten conducted the first per ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... n landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau; the Italian statesman | (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nicholas I (1796–1855) and Alexander I (1777–18 ... |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | In an election on February 11, 2007, | was elected president with 89% of the vote and 95% turnout, although the e ... |
Helena Bonham Carter | The 1986 film Lady Jane by Trevor Nunn, starring | , has scenes filmed at Haddon Hall |
Phillip Noyce | ... 986) and the emergence of such film directing auteurs as Gillian Armstrong, | and Bruce Beresford |
Allen Ginsberg | ... songs, experiments with sound collage, and a spoken word vocal by Beat poet | , it contained two "radio friendly" tracks. The leadoff single in the US w ... |
Howard Dietz | The songs were written by Arthur Schwartz and | , and some were created for the original 1931 Broadway musical also called ... |
William Henry Donald | ... sband. Thus, on 14 December 1936, Madam Chiang sent her Australian adviser, | , who had previously been Zhang’s adviser (and had helped him overcome opi ... |
Fritz Leiber | ... contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and | . Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including autho ... |
Henry Sidgwick | ... lves lead to certain outcomes. One classic philosopher to take this view is | , in his main work |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Gandhi was the only child of | , the first prime minister of independent India. She adhered to the quasi- ... |
Epicurus | ... w that contemplation was the greatest pleasure; the latter aligned him with | , Plethon argued, and he attributed this same pleasure-seeking to monks, w ... |
Rigas Feraios | ... eece's struggle for independence as well as the modern Greek Enlightenment. | , the first revolutionary to envision an independent Greek state, publishe ... |
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 ... |
Plotinus | As a pagan mystic | considered his opponents heretics and elitist blasphemers, arriving at mis ... |
George S. Kaufman | ... e original 1931 Broadway musical also called The Band Wagon, with a book by | and starring Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. (Fred Astaire also stars i ... |
King William | Once again | entrusted Allied forces in the region to Prince Waldeck (William was himse ... |
Charles Donnelly | ... It suffered 120 killed and 175 wounded. Amongst the dead was the Irish poet | and Leo Greene |
Boom Bip | In 2007 Rhys launched a new electro-pop collaborative project with | under the collective moniker Neon Neon. Their album, titled Stainless Styl ... |
David Irving | ... he delivered actually was until after Göring's death. Göring's biographer, | , has dismissed this claim as pure fabrication. Because he committed suici ... |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika | ... ld in April 1999. Although seven candidates qualified for election, all but | , who appeared to have the support of the military as well as the FLN, wit ... |
Carl Barks | Sir Roast McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by | and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree |
Louella Parsons | ... ised that her services were no longer required. After she told the story to | , Pepsi reversed its position and Crawford was elected to fill the vacant ... |
Fernando Wood | ... he immigrant Irish, culminating in the election of the first Tammany mayor, | , in 1854. Tammany Hall dominated local politics for decades. Central Park ... |
Peter Singer | A reason for an egoist to become a utilitarian was proposed by | in Practical Ethics. He presents the paradox of hedonism, which holds that ... |
Lin Huiyin | Zhang has been cast in the role of | in a 2011 film |
James Madison | ... e respected history of ice cream states that, as the wife of U.S. President | , she served ice cream at her husband's Inaugural Ball in 1813 |
Tullus Hostilius | ... efeated by Rome in the 7th century BC during the reign of Rome's third king | |
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 ... |
Rob Reiner | The 1987 film The Princess Bride by | , starring Cary Elwes, was filmed in Derbyshire and includes scenes at Had ... |
Edward II's | During | reign (1307–1327) there was relatively little activity at the Tower of Lon ... |
Isocrates | ... of 1,207 (for the outset only) is also given by Ephorus, while his teacher | claims there were 1,300 at Doriskos and 1,200 at Salamis. Ctesias gives an ... |
Pierre Trudeau | Guests came from all walks of life, including politicians like | and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Ho ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... 32); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740–1817); Prime Ministers | (1809–1898) and Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745); Queen Caroline of Brandenb ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... of Anjou in Palermo, and the invasion of the Sicily by the Catalans of King | . Michael VIII was forced to drain the treasury to pay the enormous bribe ... |
Clive Barker | ... r figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist | , prolific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gai ... |
Don Rosa | ... in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in | 's Duck Family Tree |
Junji Ito | ... iters, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, | , F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have ... |
George Washington | ... rule that followed. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, when | returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city |
Alexander the Great | ... rsians, and went under Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by | . Due to the influx of Greek speakers and the sparsity of the remaining Ly ... |
Mark Evanier | ... lations between Dell and Western had become strained. Former Western writer | states part of this was due to "... a small battle going on between the tw ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... l candidate since Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. In 1912, Democrat candidate | had carried the county with a 3.06% majority over its Republican opponent ... |
Francis Fukuyama | ... eological alternative for nations in the post-Cold War world. Specifically, | argued that the world had reached the 'end of history' in a Hegelian sense |
Servius Tullius | In the 6th century BC Rome's sixth king | warred against Veii (after the expiry of an earlier truce) and the Etrusca ... |
Gustav Vasa | Småland, is a province of Sweden and at the funeral of | in 1560 the province was granted its arms. Today there are also county arm ... |
Suzanne Curchod | ... of a French officer. But while on a visit to Geneva, Madame de Verménou met | , who was the daughter of a pastor near Lausanne and who had been engaged ... |
Johan III | ... tured a red crossbow with roses on a golden shield but at the coronation of | in 1569 a new coat of arms was granted. A lion was wielding the crossbow a ... |
Lady Mary | ... . It was in the household of King Henry and Catherine of Aragon's daughter, | , that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the King. After the death of ... |
Siegfried Sassoon | Leading war poets included: | , Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jone ... |
Yoweri Museveni | ... " that would accomplish the goals of the African Renaissance were President | of Uganda and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda |
Grant Gilmore | ... nd fiercely litigated sections of the UCC is Section 2-207, which Professor | called "arguably the greatest statutory mess of all time." It governs a "b ... |
Charlemagne | ... o have arranged the transfer of the hall's columns from a decayed palace of | from Ingelheim to Heidelberg |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... mpany v. Oregon, 223 U.S. 118 in 1912 (Zimmerman, December 1999). President | , in his "Charter of Democracy" speech to the 1912 Ohio constitutional con ... |
George V | On 6 May 1910, Edward VII died. The Prince of Wales ascended the throne as | , and Mary became queen consort. When her husband asked her to drop one of ... |
Karl Marx | | , in Das Kapital, writes |
Alexis of Russia | ... town rights. In the 17th century, during the Russo–Swedish War initiated by | , the Russians captured Daugavpils, renamed the town Borisoglebsk and cont ... |
Parmenides | ... in the Nag Hammadi Library, is "the same doctrine as found in the anonymous | commentary (Fragment XIV) ascribed by Hadot to Porphyry [...] and is also ... |
Plotinus | ... ary (Fragment XIV) ascribed by Hadot to Porphyry [...] and is also found in | ' Ennead 6.7, 17, 13-26. |
Queen Victoria | ... called Mary, preferring not to take the name of her husband's grandmother, | . Queen Mary was crowned with the King on 22 June 1911 at Westminster Abbe ... |
Michael Powell | The Battle of the River Plate had its genesis in an invitation to | and Emeric Pressburger to attend a film festival in Argentina in 1954. The ... |
Ahmed Ben Bella | ... ember 1963, a constitution was adopted by referendum, and later that month, | was formally elected the first president. The war of national liberation a ... |
Lord Alfred Douglas | ... iginal cast (Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon), and | , wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that 'Earnest' held any sexual ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | In | ' 12th century work Gesta Danorum, where gods appear euhemerized, Ollerus ... |
George III | ... ic Stuarts were completely defeated. During the long reign of his grandson, | , Britain's American colonies were lost, the former colonies having formed ... |
Michael Ian Black | A VH1 promo for I Love the 90s featured Hal Sparks and | sitting in the Peach Pit, with Beverly Hills, 90210s theme music playing. ... |
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 ... |
William I of Scotland | ... of the richest in Scotland, but that changed in 1189. He was asked by King | to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King Richard I of ... |
Eugene McCarthy | ... hnson for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election. Once | 's strong showing in the New Hampshire primary led to Robert's presidentia ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... a diplomat as much as an officer. He foils an assassination attempt on Tsar | and is influential in the monarch's decision to resist the French invasion ... |
Wilfred Owen | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, | , John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar m ... |
Pope John Paul II | | , following his personalist philosophy, considered that a danger of utilit ... |
John III Doukas Vatatzes | ... chael VIII Palaiologos married Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, a grandniece of | , Emperor of Nicaea. Orphaned in childhood, she was raised by her great-un ... |
Lewis A. McArthur | ... er below the outlet of Wallowa Lake. The author of Oregon Geographic Names, | , said that although the origin of this name is disputed, he puts great we ... |
F. Paul Wilson | ... uding Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, | , Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft ... |
Cathy Gale | ... e show into the format it is most remembered for. Honor Blackman played Dr. | , a self-assured, quick-witted anthropologist who was skilled in judo and ... |
Odin | When | was exiled, Ollerus was chosen to take his place. Ollerus ruled under the ... |
Paul Kagame | ... African Renaissance were President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and President | of Rwanda |
Barack Obama | Although | got only 38.45% of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President | from 1979–1981 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since | in 1936 (who himself had also lost the county) |
George IV | ... orphyria, an illness rendering him incapable of ruling. His son, the future | , ruled in his stead as Prince Regent. During the Regency and his own reig ... |
Aeschylus | According to the Athenian playwright | , who actually fought at Salamis, the Greek fleet numbered 310 triremes (t ... |
Peter Jackson | ... oduced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and New Line Cinema, produced and directed by | . and are scheduled to be released on 14 December 2012 and 13 December 201 ... |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... ter the death of Parr's second husband, Catherine began a relationship with | , the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the King took a liking t ... |
James George Frazer | ... t in early records such as the Egyptian pyramid texts and the Indian Vedas. | asserted that magical observations are the result of an internal dysfuncti ... |
Malcolm Arnold | ... r works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, | , Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin |
Richard I of England | ... I of Scotland to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King | 's terms for a treaty that been signed between them. The treaty said that ... |
Jackie Chan | ... and Taiwanese media hinted at ties between Zhang and her Rush Hour co-star | , and also publicly linked Zhang with Erik Fok, grandson of Hong Kong busi ... |
Roman Emperor | ... oman fort and bridge across the River Tyne and given the family name of the | Hadrian who founded it in the 2nd century AD. The population of Pons Aeliu ... |
Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... tand). The anthem adopted by the Irgun was "Anonymous Soldiers", written by | who was at the time a commander in the Irgun. Later on Stern defected from ... |
Zhou Enlai | ... is suppressions, which had damaged the CPC immensely. Some of them, such as | and Zhang Wentian, did realize it could bring more damage to the anti-Japa ... |
John McCrae | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, | , Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occur ... |
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 ... |
Queen Isabella | ... became the first woman imprisoned in the Tower of London after she refused | admittance to Leeds Castle and ordered her archers to fire upon Isabella, ... |
Marsilio Ficino | ... considered one of the most important influences on the Italian Renaissance. | , the Florentine humanist and the first director of the Accademia Platonic ... |
Hannah Glasse | The 1751 edition of The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy by | features a recipe for ice cream. OED gives her recipe: H. GLASSE Art of Co ... |
Livy | ... Battle of Silva Arsia. The Roman army was victorious, and it is recorded by | that although the forces of Tarquinii fought well on the right wing, initi ... |
Champ Clark | ... , but William Jennings Bryan and his delegates endorsed Woodrow Wilson over | , securing the nomination for Wilson. Indiana's delegates lobbied to have ... |
Queen Alexandra | ... ning of Mary's period as consort brought her into conflict with the Dowager | . Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn; sh ... |
Hadrian | ... bridge across the River Tyne and given the family name of the Roman Emperor | who founded it in the 2nd century AD. The population of Pons Aelius at thi ... |
Michael Almereyda | ... artin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker | . Wenders, whose career had been distinguished by his mastery of the road ... |
King George III | ... d the king for repeal of the acts. These measures were unsuccessful because | and the ministry of Prime Minister Lord North were determined not to retre ... |
Fulke Greville | An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, | |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... rds nationalism; and perhaps the most famous of proto-nationalist works was | 's I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Some read this novel as a thinly veil ... |
Brian Lumley | ... ng, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, | , Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of thei ... |
Karl Dönitz | ... g Nazi official tried at Nuremberg, behind Reich President (former Admiral) | and former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. Göring and the others were interview ... |
Dennis Spooner | ... e written for Keel was simply transferred to her. Said series script writer | "there's the famous story of how Honor Blackman played Ian Hendry's part, ... |
Queen Mary I | ... ing Henry with his daughters from his first two marriages, who later became | and Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's ... |
Louisa Albury | ... t at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee New South Wales), Niels and | (1848–1920) married on 7 July 1866; he was 32 and she, 18. On Henry's birt ... |
Ahmed Ben Bella | ... me of those regionalists, tensions increased between Houari Boumédienne and | . In 1965 the military toppled Ahmed Ben Bella, and Houari Boumedienne bec ... |
Ed Harris | The film Knightriders (1981) by George A. Romero starring | used scenes shot in Fawn Township (1980) for the movie |
Gerald Ford | President | 's mother Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford and maternal grandfather Levi Addison ... |
Benedict Arnold | ... the American Revolution. André was on a mission carrying secret papers from | when he was captured |
Lothair II | ... r Lotharingia was an independent Carolingian kingdom under the rule of King | (855–869). Its territory had originally been a part of Middle Francia, cre ... |
Rupert Brooke | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, | , Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literatu ... |
Speaker of the House | ... rolled in the House Journal and printed in the Congressional Record and the | refers the bill to the Committee(s) with jurisdiction by sending the bill ... |
Claudius | ... d had not been since its defeat by the Carians. In 43 AD the Roman emperor, | , dissolved the league. Lycia was incorporated into the Roman Empire with ... |
Bryn Terfel | ... olitan Opera began a new Ring Cycle in 2010, conducted by James Levine with | as Wotan. Deborah Voigt was Brünnhilde in the April 2011 production of Die ... |
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 ... |
Stefan Printz-Påhlson | ... eart returned to prominence in 1979, when Egmont editors Lars Bergström and | decided to revive the character. Since then Flintheart Glomgold has appear ... |
Jeremy Northam | ... outfit The Shins alludes to the socialist interpretation of More's Utopia. | depicts More in the television series The Tudors. In The Tudors, More is p ... |
Carl Barks | Sir Swamphole McDuck is one of the ancient McDucks, created by | |
Prince of Wales | ... of Bute (1713–92) his architect William Burges (1827–1881) and the present | and Princess Margaret |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of | , William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce ... |
Ken Kesey | ... House, a deteriorating house on the Siuslaw River that is said to have been | 's inspiration for the Stamper House in his novel Sometimes a Great Notion ... |
Henry IV | ... ttacked unsuccessfully by the Protestants in 1568, and was taken in 1591 by | , who was crowned there three years afterwards |
Arrian | ... § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57 | ;, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, I ... |
Donna Shalala | ... Cambridge historian Sir Moses I. Finley; Arthur Rock, a cofounder of Intel | ;, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; Joe Biden, ... |
Wallis Simpson | ... d a public scandal by announcing his desire to marry the divorced American, | , even though the Church of England opposed the remarriage of divorcées. A ... |
Emperor Jing | ... s well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan, Emperor Ming, and | ), also set their capital at Jiangling, and Xiao Zhuang, who is considered ... |
Gavin de Beer | ... biology ('evo-devo') played little part in the synthesis, but an account of | 's work by Stephen J. Gould suggests he may be an exception |
William II | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 1097 King | ordered a wall to be built around the Tower of London; it was probably bui ... |
William Shakespeare | The name "Horatio" was inspired by the character in | 's Hamlet and chosen also because of its association with contemporary fig ... |
Kelvin Tatum | ... Coventry teams are Tom Farndon, Jack Parker, Arthur Forrest, Nigel Boocock, | , Chris Harris, Emil Sayfutdinov and World Champions Ole Olsen, Hans Niels ... |
Henry III | ... death in 1216. She had five children by the king including his heir, later | . In 1220, Isabella married Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, by who ... |
Joe R. Lansdale | ... modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, | , Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, ... |
St. Augustine's | The most notable titles are a 12th century manuscript, | Commentary on Genesis, and a 1542 edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... r with Carl Schurz, the American Turners were supportive of the election of | as president of the United States. They provided the bodyguard at his inau ... |
Aragorn | ... the voice actors was the well-regarded John Hurt, who performed the role of | . The project's high profile brought heavy trade journal coverage, and fan ... |
Philo | ... the Nazarenes (sect), Ophites or to the sectarian group called heretics by | |
King Charles VII | ... ntil 1801, when George III abandoned his formal claim to the French throne. | ennobled Joan of Arc's family on 29 December 1429 with an inheritable symb ... |
Nigel Boocock | ... ve represented Coventry teams are Tom Farndon, Jack Parker, Arthur Forrest, | , Kelvin Tatum, Chris Harris, Emil Sayfutdinov and World Champions Ole Ols ... |
Philip IV | ... the mayor was assassinated and noble residences in the city were pillaged. | reimposed order and suppressed the city's charter and the lucrative monopo ... |
Prince Justinian | ... m Pope Leo II to Constantine IV in 682. He met and developed a rapport with | , the heir apparent to the Byzantine throne, on both occasions |
Edward VII | ... ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future | and George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
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 ... |
Vima Kadphises | ... an, to subdue Kashgar and its ally Sogdiana. When a request by Kushan ruler | (r. c. 90–c. 100 CE) for a marriage alliance with the Han was rejected in ... |
Don Rosa | This family tree is based on | 's McDuck Family Tree, and shows the relationship to the Duck family. It i ... |
Maurice of Saxony | ... y. In 1552 a number of insurgent Protestant Imperial princes around Elector | by the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to King Henry II of F ... |
William Shakespeare | ... ich was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, | , and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being cens ... |
Sheldon Mayer | Editor | replaced the name "Suprema" with "Wonder Woman", and the character made he ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... y of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was created in 1807 by | , following his defeat of Prussia. The Duchy's military forces, led by Józ ... |
John | ... 1188 – 31 May 1246) was queen consort of England as the second wife of King | from 1200 until John's death in 1216. She had five children by the king in ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... e. Although he had personal misgivings about the capability of the nominee, | , Hoover publicly endorsed him and made two speeches for Harding |
Carl Schurz | Together with | , the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ... |
George Steiner | ... ewpoint has been supported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, | , and James Fenton |
Chen Cheng | ... came to Xian again, accompanied by many senior Kuomintang leaders including | to monitor the suppression campaign. In the interim between these two visi ... |
Oliver Stone | ... tion", or a black box called "E.P. Collection '84 - '90". In 1991, director | offered Astbury the role of Jim Morrison in Stone's film The Doors. He dec ... |
Emperor Ming | ... r Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan, | , and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, and Xiao Zhuang, ... |
George W. Bush | ... tanding that masculinity and femininity are gender roles and not sex roles. | , the 43rd president of the United States, once said, “The best defense ag ... |
Bentley Little | ... n cartoons. Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, | , Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Ca ... |
Anthony Munday | ... Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, | , William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary ... |
Averroes | ... ch as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and | (Ibn Rushd) reinterpreted Greek thought in the context of their religion. ... |
Bette Davis | ... rly sub-proletarian of Lo scopone scientifico teased by the old millionaire | into endless card games where he hopes to find release from his poverty to ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... igismund to Basel. After over a year of negotiations, Sigismund was crowned | on 31 May 1433 by Pope Eugenius IV, with Oswald probably in attendance |
Gorgias | ... ilosopher and a pupil of Socrates. Antisthenes first learned rhetoric under | before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates. He adopted and developed t ... |
Roger of Wendover | ... collected from both lay and ecclesiastical persons. The medieval chronicler | said that the king "had Archbishop Hubert of Canterbury to act for him in ... |
Edward Said | ... oups share (or do not share), regardless of cultural or religious identity. | issued a response to Huntington's thesis in his "The Clash of Ignorance". ... |
Xenophon | ... 's mind or taking him away from the career path his father had set for him. | has Socrates forecast that the boy will grow up vicious if he studies a pu ... |
Chun Doo-hwan | Roh befriended | while in high school in Daegu. In his younger life, Roh was a keen rugby u ... |
Ferhat Abbas | In March 1943, Muslim leader | presented the French administration with the Manifesto of the Algerian Peo ... |
Barry Dennen | ... y the play's author.) Driftwood ran for only six weeks. When her boyfriend, | , helped her create a club act — first performed at The Lion, a popular ga ... |
Fujiwara no Teika | ... writing over 700 poems between the ages of 17 and 22 while being tutored by | , even having one of his tanka included in the anthology Ogura Hyakunin Is ... |
Louis XIV | ... t was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by Francis I. After the time of | the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary in the family of Orléans |
Ernest Hemingway | ... t Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and named the 1st Baron Hornblower. | is quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," a ... |
Derek Harper | ... nce. Led by Mark Aguirre, original draft pick Brad Davis, Rolando Blackman, | , Sam Perkins and Detlef Schrempf, the Mavericks made the playoffs six of ... |
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot | ... rmer Tonton Macoute leader Roger Lafontant seized the provisional President | and declared himself President. After large numbers of Aristide supporters ... |
Alex Barris | ... proved ill at ease in the moderator's seat, so both Fred Davis and panelist | rotated as guest hosts in the early part of the fall before Davis was chos ... |
France Prešeren | ... published with some changes in 1848, is a poem by the Slovene Romantic poet | , considered the national poet of Slovenes. On 27 September 1989, it becam ... |
Jeffrey Goldberg | ... repare for more fighting rather than peace. The Atlantic magazine columnist | , along with other analysts, believes Hamas may be incapable of permanent ... |
Charles V | ... n Alsace, east of Lorraine. In 1670, the French invaded again, forcing Duke | to flee to a Viennese exile, where he formed strong ties to the Imperial H ... |
Francis X. Bushman | ... the future) as George Periolat, Ben Turpin, Wallace Beery, Thomas Meighan, | , Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Tom Mix, Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, Harold ... |
Craig Raine | ... king Jews undesirable." Eliot never re-published this book nor the lecture. | , in his books In Defence of T.S. Eliot (2001) and T. S. Eliot (2006), has ... |
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 ... |
Jenny Hocking | ... about any other Australian prime minister. According to Whitlam biographer | , for a period of at least a decade, the Whitlam era was viewed almost ent ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... Freeport in 1858. There the four-year-old Marshall met Stephen Douglas and | and sat on the lap of whichever candidate was not speaking. He later refer ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... an, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of | who died two years later |
Diogenes Laërtius | ... re named in later traditions; the Suda adds Pericles, Polus, and Alcidamas, | mentions Antisthenes, and according to Philostratus, "I understand that he ... |
Gorgias | ... n. In his youth he fought at Tanagra (426 BCE), and was a disciple first of | , and then of Socrates, at whose death he was present. He never forgave hi ... |
Val Kilmer | ... Morrison was represented in the film, and the role was ultimately played by | |
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 ... |
Alan Moore | ... d fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, | , Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Ga ... |
King John | ... June 1202, by which time she was already queen of England. Her marriage to | took place on 24 August 1200, at Bordeaux, a year after he annulled his fi ... |
Josephus | ... . 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6 | ;, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; P ... |
Mark Van Doren | ... 18th Century English literature course during the spring semester taught by | , a professor with whom he maintained a friendship until death. Van Doren ... |
Alice Cooper | In the United States, macabre-rock pioneer | achieved mainstream success with the top ten album School's Out (1972). In ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... ting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and | , he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organizatio ... |
Roger Bacon | ... ly passing on to Western Europe where they were studied by scholars such as | and Witelo |
Charles Dickens | Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in | 's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge i ... |
William Howard Taft | ... ess and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, | , and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful ... |
Charles Darwin | | 's On the Origin of Species was successful in convincing most biologists t ... |
Alcidamas | ... students are named in later traditions; the Suda adds Pericles, Polus, and | , Diogenes Laërtius mentions Antisthenes, and according to Philostratus, " ... |
Henry I | The death in 1135 of | left England with a disputed succession; although the king had persuaded h ... |
Archie Roach | ... Nokturnl, the Pigram Brothers, Coloured Stone, Blekbala Mujik, Kev Carmody, | and Ruby Hunter |
Rory O'Connor | ... 170, King Dermot MacMurrough of Leinster was deposed by his arch-enemy King | of Connacht. Dermot escaped to England and asked Henry for help. Henry let ... |
Wonder Woman | Editor Sheldon Mayer replaced the name "Suprema" with " | ", and the character made her debut in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). ... |
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 ... |
Erasmus | ... ace, and also a collection of books by the Dutch philosopher and theologian | published from 1545 to 1548 |
Philemon | ... the Plutus and Nubes of Aristophanes, and on the fragments of Menander and | . He published the last work under the pen name of "Phileutherus Lipsiensi ... |
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, ... |
Adam Czartoryski | ... f Napoleon, a new European order was established at the Congress of Vienna. | became the leading advocate for the Polish national cause. The Congress im ... |
Robert Bolt | The 20th-century agnostic playwright | portrayed Thomas More as the tragic hero of his 1960 play A Man for All Se ... |
Gene Hackman | ... raffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese ( | ), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car followi ... |
Jim Morrison | ... tion '84 - '90". In 1991, director Oliver Stone offered Astbury the role of | in Stone's film The Doors. He declined the role because he was not happy w ... |
Carl Barks | In the early 1950s | was in his second decade of creating comic book stories starring Donald Du ... |
Prince Edward | ... till alive. Catherine retired from court after the crowning of her step-son | on 31 January 1547, to her home at Old Manor in Chelsea |
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 ... |
George V | ... Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and | ) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founde ... |
Decebalus | ... aru, Piatra Roşie, Băniţa and Căpâlna - that formed the defensive system of | were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, as well as the se ... |
James Fenton | ... ported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, George Steiner, and | |
Andrea Palladio | ... nspired in part by several buildings of the 16th-century Italian architects | (1508–1580) and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552–1616). The house is ... |
Barbara Frum | ... ath threat over the change of appearance. The books also include journalist | 's remarks about how influential Robins was for 1950s-era female equality ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... eaturing numerous musical celebrities. This performance was immortalized in | 's 1978 documentary The Last Waltz. The Band reformed in 1983 without guit ... |
Guido Bonatti | 13th century astrologers include Johannes de Sacrobosco and | |
Zeno | ... oics in a later period in order to provide a succession linking Socrates to | , via Antisthenes, Diogenes, and Crates. These tales were important to the ... |
Amartya Sen | In another article explicitly referring to Huntington, | (1999) writes that "diversity is a feature of most cultures in the world. ... |
Colen Campbell | ... dio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda" near Vicenza, due to the fact that architect | had offered Lord Burlington a design for a Villa very closely based on the ... |
Justinian II | ... ntificate was his 710/711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised with | on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council. Constantine was the last p ... |
Eudokia Makrembolitissa | In 1067, he had been considered as a possible husband for the empress | , widowed wife of Constantine X, but she eventually set her heart on Roman ... |
King Henry VII | ... 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of | |
Jack Webster | ... was also part of each episode. In 1990, journalist and radio/TV personality | joined the show as its permanent fourth panelist |
Philip II Augustus of France | ... nsept, choir, and the lowest section of the lantern tower. On 24 June 1204, | entered Rouen and annexed Normandy to the French Kingdom. The fall of Roue ... |
John Dryden | ... en blamed them for its destruction. For example, English Enlightenment poet | wrote, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, / Did all the matchl ... |
U.S. presidents | ... at Yeshiva University, High Noon is the film most requested for viewing by | . It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhowe ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... een a registered Republican before the war, though in 1912 he had supported | 's "Bull Moose" Progressive Party. Now he declared himself a Republican an ... |
Bette Davis | ... y Jane? (1962). Despite the actresses' earlier tensions, Crawford suggested | for the role of Jane. The two stars maintained publicly that there was no ... |
Bill Clinton | ... cember 1996. Bishop Belo capitalised upon this honour through meetings with | of the United States and Nelson Mandela of South Africa. In 1995, he also ... |
Wang Ming | ... rization of Stalin and Comintern, the delegation of CPC to Comintern led by | issued a manifesto urging Chinese to set up a new united front against the ... |
Banjo Paterson | ... owy River starring Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton dramatised the classic | poem of that name and became one of the all time box-office successes of A ... |
Johannes de Sacrobosco | 13th century astrologers include | and Guido Bonatti |
Jürgen Habermas | ... tution are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, | , Karl-Otto Apel and Hannah Arendt. The campus is situated in two urban ar ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... to junior members—an aide rushed in to tell him that his brother, President | , had been shot; his brother Robert soon told him that the President was d ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... n years of U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia, cited among reasons by Saudi-born | for his September 11, 2001 attacks on America, most of U.S. forces were wi ... |
Manuel II | ... zation, the zenith of Greek influence, In his 1415 and 1418 pamphlets urged | and his son Theodore to turn the peninsula into a cultural island with a n ... |
Prosper Avril | ... the fore the increasing prominence of former Tontons Macoutes, and General | led a military regime until March 1990. Throughout the late 1980s and into ... |
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 ... |
Quinn Buckner | ... h eventually got him banned from the NBA, and the injuries and former coach | 's disciplinary approach. The mid-90s were considered the only positive pe ... |
Empedocles | ... generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of | , although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophis ... |
Stephen of Blois | ... swear support for the Empress Matilda, just a few days after Henry's death | arrived from France to lay claim to the throne. The importance of the city ... |
H. P. Lovecraft | ... n/Near Eastern mysticism, history, religion, and art, as well as stories by | |
Dorothy L. Sayers | ... 1928, was the first collection of short stories about Lord Peter Wimsey by | . All of them were included in later complete collections, although some o ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... convictions, greatly influenced her stepdaughter Lady Elizabeth (the future | ) |
James De Mille | ... by Leonid Andreyev and "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" by | |
George Bernard Shaw | ... spects of his self-imposed restrictions somewhat as the work progressed. As | sardonically (and slightly unfairly) noted of the last opera Götterdämmeru ... |
Jonathan Larson | ... rg owns a production, such as the case of Larson and Thomson. Lynn Thomson, | 's dramaturg on the musical Rent, claimed that she was a co-author of the ... |
Jack T. Chick | ... l houses", themed pamphlets, or comic-style tracts such as those created by | in order to make use of Halloween's popularity as an opportunity for evang ... |
Liu Yu | Liu Song founder | was originally a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that no ... |
Pharaoh | During the Amarna Period, | Akhenaten introduced monotheistic worship of Aton, the deified solar disc, ... |
Barack Obama | ... ived 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Democrat | |
Banjo Paterson | ... lkloric tradition, and was only later published in print in volumes such as | 's Old Bush Songs, in the 1890s. The distinctive themes and origins of Aus ... |
Robert Whittington | ... ero of his 1960 play A Man for All Seasons. The title being drawn from what | in 1520 wrote of More |
Vincenzo Scamozzi | ... th-century Italian architects Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) and his assistant | (1552–1616). The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's ... |
Plato | ... sm are still obscure and disputed, but they probably include influence from | , Middle Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism academies or schools of thought, ... |
Allan Fotheringham | ... (who later became a movie actress) and columnist Gordon Sinclair. Columnist | joined the panel after Sinclair's death. A guest panelist, usually another ... |
Queen Latifah | ... es and San Francisco with artists such as Soundgarden, Ice-T, Indigo Girls, | , Iggy Pop, The Charlatans, The Cramps and Public Enemy appearing. This tw ... |
Douglas Adams | ... chhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by | . Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later ... |
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 ... |
Herodotus | ... ed by most major geographers of the period, including: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54 | ;, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp ... |
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 ... |
Sebastiano Serlio | ... cates. He owned books by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as | and Leon Battista Alberti and his library contained books by French archit ... |
Xenophon | Plato's Apology, and likewise that of | , lists Anytus as one of the primary prosecutors in the trial of Socrates. ... |
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 ... |
Xiao Zhuang | ... , Emperor Ming, and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, and | , who is considered by some historians to be a Liang Dynasty emperor, had ... |
Francis I | ... 1286 sold it to the crown. It was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by | . After the time of Louis XIV the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary ... |
President of the Philippines | ... s represented by Malacañan Palace, the official office and residence of the | , and the buildings of the Supreme Court of the Philippines respectively. ... |
claim to the French throne | ... to quarter the French arms until 1801, when George III abandoned his formal | |
Wonder Woman | ... ebowitz of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed | with Elizabeth (whom Marston believed to be a model of that era's unconven ... |
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy | ... amed with Fascist names. A failed assassination attempt was carried towards | by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941, ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... nisext Council. Constantine was the last pope to visit Constantinople until | did again in 1967 |
Isocrates | ... rmances and rhetoric classes. According to Aristotle, his students included | . (Other students are named in later traditions; the Suda adds Pericles, P ... |
W. H. Auden | ... and places it alongside Flatland, Phantastes, and The Wind in the Willows. | , in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring calls The Hobbit ... |
John Milton | ... ed by Jill Paton Walsh and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from | 's Paradise Lost and refers to two categories of angel in the Christian an ... |
Helvétius | ... s greatly frequented as the Mondays of Mme Geoffrin, or the Tuesdays of Mme | . In 1773, Necker won the prize of the Académie Française for a defense of ... |
George Washington | ... oad). It was from this building that General Nathanael Greene, commander of | 's left wing during the Battle of Trenton, made his headquarters during th ... |
Paul Berman | In his Terror and Liberalism, | proposes another criticism of the civilization clash hypothesis. According ... |
Aristotle | ... d the profits made from his performances and rhetoric classes. According to | , his students included Isocrates. (Other students are named in later trad ... |
Milton | ... wo mulberry trees, of which the older was planted in 1608, the same year as | 's birth. Both trees have toppled sideways, the younger tree in the Great ... |
R. A. Lafferty | Catholic science fiction writer | wrote his novel Past Master as a modern equivalent to More's Utopia, which ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... cial statehood ceremony in 1959 and being asked for a private audience with | |
John Bell | ... pported by plurality the Constitutional Union Party candidate, U.S. Senator | of Tennessee, who pledged merely to support the Constitution of the United ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... egel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel and | . The campus is situated in two urban areas and several buildings. In nume ... |
Robert Aldrich | ... under her clothes in a scene in which Davis had to carry her. The director, | , explained that Davis and Crawford were each aware of how important the f ... |
Peter Oresick | ... est for Sherwood Anderson (1947) and She Made the Big Town (1952). The poet | has also written about it in The Story of Glass (1977). A pictorial histor ... |
Ronald Reagan | The president of SAG – future United States President | – also known to the FBI as Confidential Informant "T-10", testified before ... |
Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author | first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of ... |
King Frederick VI | ... he recently established University of Berlin. It was originally named after | of Denmark and Norway and received its current name in 1939. After the dis ... |
Ptolemy | ... and Romans, being noted by most major geographers of the period, including: | , iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. ... |
Pete Townshend | ... eased 1969) inspired many later developments in electronic music, including | 's synthesizer parts on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Ril ... |
Kaiser | ... nded in 1918 with the defeat of Germany and the abdication and exile of the | |
George Westinghouse | Although | had bought Gaulard and Gibbs' patents in 1885, the Edison Electric Light C ... |
Emperor Yuan of Liang | ... as briefly at Jiangling during the reign of Emperor He of Southern Qi), and | , as well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan, Emperor Ming, ... |
Chiaki Kawamata | ... oshi no Daichi, were published in Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Emblem of Roto, by | and Junji Koyanagi, with art by Kamui Fujiwara, consists of twenty-one vol ... |
Thomas Mifflin | ... Pittsburgh. The population was 20,313 at the 2010 census. It is named after | , 1st Governor of Pennsylvania, signer of the United States Constitution, ... |
George III | ... ter of Great Britain) continued to quarter the French arms until 1801, when | abandoned his formal claim to the French throne |
Matthew Paris | ... g's election by the people. This story is only contained in the writings of | , however, and although it seems certain that Walter made a speech, it is ... |
Carl Barks | Notable American Disney comic book writers and artists include | , Tony Strobl, Paul Murry, William Van Horn, and Don Rosa. Van Horn and Ro ... |
Don Rosa | In 1987 | , a long-time fan of Carl Barks and personal friend of Mark Worden, starte ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | In December 1990, the former priest | was elected President in the Haitian general election, winning more than t ... |
Peter Bogdanovich | ... s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer president Dan Melnick, who interrupted a meeting with | when he learned that Bakshi wanted to discuss acquiring the rights to The ... |
Johannes Hartlieb | ... seven artes magicae or artes prohibitae or arts prohibited by canon law by | in 1456 were: nigromancy (which included "black magic" and "demonology"), ... |
Eoin Colfer | ... ogy" of five books published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by | in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ar, and the country became an enormous market for Hohner's goods. President | carried a harmonica in his pocket, and harmonicas provided solace to soldi ... |
Emperor He of Southern Qi | ... though the Southern Qi capital was briefly at Jiangling during the reign of | ), and Emperor Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors ... |
Dorothy L. Sayers | Thrones, Dominations is a Lord Peter Wimsey murder mystery novel that | began writing but abandoned, and which remained as fragments and notes at ... |
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 ... |
Bebe Daniels | ... Turpin, Wallace Beery, Thomas Meighan, Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson, | , Tom Mix, Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, Harold Lloyd, Lester Cuneo, Eugene Pa ... |
Mao Zedong | ... nt stage was Japan instead of Chiang. But this received cold shoulders from | and his associates, who ruled CPC and greatly disagreed with Chiang's poli ... |
Frank Brookhouser | ... es H. Webb, now a U.S. Senator from Virginia. It is also used by the writer | in his books Request for Sherwood Anderson (1947) and She Made the Big Tow ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... pon this honour through meetings with Bill Clinton of the United States and | of South Africa. In 1995, he also won the John Humphrey Freedom Award from ... |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... the parents of three daughters: Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane. When | passes away, or abdicates the throne, the Crown Prince will take the thron ... |
Jill Paton Walsh | ... and which remained as fragments and notes at her death. It was completed by | and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from John Milton's Paradis ... |
Lexington Steele | ... ercenary Motion Pictures; successful former stockbroker and adult performer | ; Robert Jarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart implanted into hum ... |
Henri Grégoire | The term Vandalisme was coined in 1794 by | , bishop of Blois, to describe the destruction of artwork following the Fr ... |
Isabella | # | (1214–1241), the wife of Emperor Frederick II, by whom she had issue |
J. B. S. Haldane | ... igures in the modern synthesis include R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, | , Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverik ... |
Elizabeth Holloway Marston | ... e component of the modern polygraph. According to their son, Marston's wife | was also involved in the development of the systolic blood-pressure test: ... |
Leon Battista Alberti | ... by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as Sebastiano Serlio and | and his library contained books by French architects,sculptors, illustrato ... |
Elizabeth I | In 1952, a romanticised version of Thomas Seymour's obsession with | saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons as the young Elizabeth and sc ... |
Nathan Zuckerman | ... at these parlor games in his 1981 novel Zuckerman Unbound, where alter-ego | is continually accosted by clueless strangers who cannot believe he was ex ... |
Bob Dylan | ... ts to increase the duration of their recordings. The breakthrough came with | 's "Like A Rolling Stone", although CBS tried to make the record more "rad ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... n was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which | 's three-volume novel would be condensed into a single film. Bakshi arrang ... |
Betty Kennedy | ... bly stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian Pierre Berton, | (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a mov ... |
Boris Pahor | ... necessary for Slovenia to use the entire poem as its anthem. Slovene writer | suggested that using a combination of verses of the seventh and the second ... |
Ptolemy | ... ps the law of buoyancy, also known as Archimedes' Principle. The astronomer | wrote the Almagest, a comprehensive astronomical text that formed the basi ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he was not an existentialist and often criticized existentialist figurehead | . Although Ionesco knew Beckett and honored his work, the French group of ... |
Apollonius of Tyana | ... ari islands. His forge was moved there by the poets. The first-century sage | is said to have observed, "there are many other mountains all over the ear ... |
Emperor Frederick II | # Isabella (1214–1241), the wife of | , by whom she had issue |
Søren Kierkegaard | The philosopher | claimed that divine omnipotence cannot be separated from divine goodness. ... |
Plato | ... arning modelled by Murat on the caliphates of Cairo and Baghdad. He admired | so much that late in life he took the similar-meaning name Plethon. In c14 ... |
Charles Darwin | ... ly of artists is attested to by the fact that Francis Galton, the cousin of | used the Bonheurs as an example of "Hereditary Genius" in his 1869 essay o ... |
Friedrich Wilhelm II | The Brandenburg Gate was commissioned by | to represent peace. The Gate was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the C ... |
Carl Barks | ... t of Clan McDuck is the McDuck Castle. The castle was first featured in the | story The Old Castle's Secret in Donald Duck Four Color #189. Barks' only ... |
Mo Mowlam | The Labour politician | was educated in Coventry; trade union organiser Tom Mann and National Soci ... |
Leslie Manigat | ... ns followed, boycotted by opposition candidates, and the elected President, | , was overthrown some months later in the June 1988 Haitian coup d'état wh ... |
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 ... |
John Edwards | ... , military, science, academia, business, arts, and athletics, among others. | , former U.S. Senator and two time presidential candidate, James B. Hunt J ... |
Augustus | ... n protectorate. The process was completed in 27 B.C. when the Roman Emperor | annexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province o ... |
Sesostrie Youchigant | # Tunica: | (ca. mid 20th century |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... Commission was created to administer the emerging metropolis when President | issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ... |
Archimedes | In the 3rd century BCE, the Greek mathematician | laid the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and the explanation of the p ... |
Duff Green | ... issouri during the Bleeding Kansas incidents. In October several men led by | demanded that Daniel Marshall provide medical assistance to the pro-slaver ... |
Manuel L. Quezon | In 1941 with the onset of World War II, President | created the City of Greater Manila as an emergency measure, merging the ci ... |
Dickens' father | ... the dual personality of the tale's protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge. In 1824, | was imprisoned in the Marshalsea and twelve-year-old Charles was forced to ... |
Pierre Berton | ... tured a remarkably stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian | , Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who la ... |
The Prince of Wales | ... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh, | , The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York |
Michael Mulhall | ... heritage. Previously to The Southern Cross Dublin-born brothers Edward and | successfully published The Standard, allegedly the first English-language ... |
Ted Osborne | ... Grant (Merry Menagerie). Writers included Merrill De Maris (Mickey Mouse), | (Mickey Mouse), Bill Walsh (Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus), Bob Karp (Donald D ... |
William H. Sewell | Frederick H. Buttel (1948–2005) was an American sociologist. He was the | Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Douglas Carter Beane | ... h plans to bring the show to Broadway. Gary Griffin directs, with a book by | and choreography by Warren Carlyle. The cast includes Patrick Page as the ... |
Karl Zuchardt | ... t moment right at the end. I cannot think of anyone else who ever had one." | 's novel, Stirb du Narr! ("Die you fool!"), about More's struggle with Kin ... |
Henry II | ... bey and ordered her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside | and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, ... |
Albert Camus | ... eckett, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on | ' concept of the absurd, claiming that Beckett and Ionesco better captured ... |
Shakespeare | ... s: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, | , Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giacomo Leopardi. Between 1972–1973 Calvino publ ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... hey recognised the play's cleverness, humour and popularity with audiences. | , for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that come ... |
Jean-Claude Duvalier | "Papa Doc" was succeeded by his son (born 3 July 1951) | – known also as "Bébé Doc" – who led the country from 1971 until his ouste ... |
Emperor Joseph II | ... 1787, Clerfayt, as a Walloon by birth, came under great pressure to abandon | . But he resisted all overtures, and in the following year went to fight i ... |
Algernon Blackwood | He also cited | as an influence, quoting The Centaur in the head paragraph of The Call of ... |
Thomas Seymour | In 1952, a romanticised version of | 's obsession with Elizabeth I saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons ... |
Plato | ... secutors of the philosopher Socrates, and is depicted as an interlocutor in | 's Meno |
Henri Namphy | ... sts against "Baby Doc" led him to seek exile in France. Army leader General | headed a new National Governing Council |
Ralph of Coggeshall | ... ess that permitted a reconciliation with his monks. The medieval chronicler | described his death as taking four days, and related that he gave vestment ... |
Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives | ... don Dove of Houma. Dove's seat was previously held by Hunt Downer, a former | |
Frederick William | In the time of | (1688), shortly after the Thirty Years' war and a century before the gate ... |
The Duke of York | ... urgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and | |
Diana Trilling | ... Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such as Irving Howe and | |
Gordon Sinclair | ... dian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a movie actress) and columnist | . Columnist Allan Fotheringham joined the panel after Sinclair's death. A ... |
Leonid Andreyev | ... d in Lovecraft's Library by S. T. Joshi) was "The Seven Who Were Hanged" by | and "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" by James De Mille |
William Butler Yeats | ... erhaps the peak of this wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like | , Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen |
George Washington | ... torial legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States, | , in 1849. The original boundaries included the entire northwest corner of ... |
John McCain | ... received. The Republicans fared better still in the 2008 election, in which | received 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Dem ... |
Michael Jackson | | in his music video for "Smooth Criminal" pays tribute to the Fred Astaire ... |
E. B. Ford | ... clude R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, | , Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, George Gaylord Simpson, ... |
Boom Bip | ... e 1990s. He also most recently formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with | . Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008 Nationwide Mercur ... |
Philibert de l'Orme | ... s,sculptors, illustrators and architectural theorists such as Jean Cotelle, | , Abraham Bosse, Jean Bullant, Salomon de Caus, Roland Fréart de Chambray, ... |
John Peel | There was a 1990 novel, Too Many Targets by | , that featured all of Steed's partners except Venus Smith and Dr Martin K ... |
Corazon Aquino | In 1986, after a major government reorganization, President | issued Executive Order No. 392 and changed the structure of the Metropolit ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... den it; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired | 's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would ... |
Bob Karp | ... Mouse), Ted Osborne (Mickey Mouse), Bill Walsh (Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus), | (Donald Duck, Merry Menagerie), Carl Fallberg (Treasury of Classic Tales, ... |
Friedrich Barbarossa | ... ecords dating to as early as 854. The city was declared an Imperial City by | in 1181 |
Hipparchus | ... ents survived. Although he wrote at least fourteen books, almost nothing of | ' direct work survived. Of the 150 reputed Aristotelian works, only 30 exi ... |
Aristotle | ... was the author of De Differentiis, a detailed comparison between Plato and | s' conceptions of God. Scholarios later defended Aristotle and convinced t ... |
Bob Costas | ... ic Communications produced several alumni in sports broadcasting, including | , Len Berman, Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at M ... |
Ivan the Terrible | ... Poland. In 1577, Dünaburg castle was captured and destroyed by Russian tsar | . That same year, a new castle was built 20 km downriver. In 1582 Daugavpi ... |
Ivan Turgenev | The Villa Viardot in Bougival, near Paris, a gift to the Viardots by | in 1874, where so many musicians, painters and poets came, was restored in ... |
Catherine of Bulgaria | ... on November 22, 1059, against the wishes of his brother and of his empress | . Like Isaac, his wife and daughter entered a monastery |
Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
Aristotle | ... ith treason. According to the Constitution of the Athenians associated with | , he was later acquitted by bribing the jury. Anytus later won favor by pl ... |
Giuseppe Mazzini | Two prominent radical figures in the unification movement were | and Giuseppe Garibaldi. The more conservative constitutional monarchic fig ... |
Bob Rae | Former premier of Ontario | has stated that the Charter "functions as a symbol for all Canadians" in p ... |
Prince Francis | ... y's Cambridge Emeralds from Lady Kilmorey, the mistress of her late brother | . See also , Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. In 1924, the famous ... |
Frank McKenna | ... efugee claimants, and defence, and he appointed seasoned Liberal politician | as Canada's ambassador to Washington |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... eferred Hoover as his successor. "There could not be a finer one," asserted | , then a rising star from New York. Hoover briefly considered becoming a D ... |
Damon Knight | ... ded in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. | and Kate Wilhelm were among the first teachers at the workshop. In 1972 th ... |
Protagoras | ... philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with | , he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report t ... |
Michael Abrash | An undocumented but popular technique nicknamed Mode X (first coined by | ) or "tweaked VGA" was used to make programming techniques and graphics re ... |
Len Berman | ... tions produced several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, | , Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and ... |
King Louis IX | In the reign of | (St. Louis) the three petals of the flower were said to represent faith, w ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ten abbreviated "HHGTTG" (as used on fan websites) or "H2G2" (first used by | as a chapter title in and later by the online guide run by the BBC). The s ... |
Dowager Empress Marie of Russia | ... . She paid above-market estimates when purchasing jewels from the estate of | and paid almost three times the estimate when buying the family's Cambridg ... |
Henry James | ... lay of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by | . The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Ol ... |
Sueton | ... glect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired by Augustus ( | . Aug. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population |
Peter Milliken | ... Chuck Cadman, caused a tie during a May 2005 confidence vote, meaning that | , Speaker of the House needed to cast the deciding vote. He voted with the ... |
George W. Bush | ... n parishes in Louisiana and the entire United States. In the 2004 election, | received 33,976 votes, or 77% of the county's total, more than three times ... |
Toby Robins | ... storian Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), | (who later became a movie actress) and columnist Gordon Sinclair. Columnis ... |
Richard Marius | A number of modern historians and writers, such as | , have evaluated More in his political capacity and have criticised him fo ... |
William Wyler | ... n the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by | , with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, M ... |
Napoleon III | However, in 1865, | allowed them to apply for full French citizenship, a measure that few took ... |
Napoleon III | ... rbances in Italy from 1820 until after unification. The Carbonari condemned | to death for failing to unite Italy, and the group almost succeeded in ass ... |
Jean-Georges Noverre | Rhythmic gymnastics grew out of the ideas of | (1727–1810), François Delsarte (1811–1871), and Rudolf Bode (1881-1970), w ... |
Robert Curthose | ... mans, Monkchester was all but destroyed. Because of its strategic position, | , son of William the Conqueror, erected a wooden there in the year 1080 an ... |
Colin Jordan | ... ntry; trade union organiser Tom Mann and National Socialist Movement leader | also came from the city |
Maxim Gorky | ... e of the "Ten Most Important Living Americans". In July 1922, Soviet author | wrote to Hoover |
Elizabeth I | ... ised her role as Catherine Parr in Part 1 of a 6-part series on the life of | in 1971, called Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson in the title role |
Ron Sexsmith | ... documentaries about singers Dusty Springfield, Brian Wilson, Wanda Jackson, | and Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records. He has also interviewed one of ... |
Sparta | ... eaux riches. While a general in the Peloponnesian War, he lost Pylos to the | ns and was charged with treason. According to the Constitution of the Athe ... |
Irving Howe | ... n uproar in the Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such as | and Diana Trilling |
Alfred Jarry | Ionesco claimed instead an affinity for ’Pataphysics and its creator | . He was also a great admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially ... |
Don Rosa | ... ly other story to have McDuck Castle was in The Hound of the Whiskervilles. | used the castle in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Parts 1, 5, and 9 ... |
Tevfik Esenç | # Ubykh: | (October 1992 |
Charles VII | ... pported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy. The king of France | recaptured the town in 1449, 18 years after the death of Joan of Arc and a ... |
Horace | ... d and became heavily influenced by the achievements of Greek culture, hence | 's famous statement: Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Greece, although ... |
William of Ockham | However, some philosophers follow | in holding that necessity and possibility are defined with respect to a gi ... |
the King | ... alth. The defensive war fought by the forces of the Commonwealth ended when | , convinced of the futility of resistance, capitulated by joining the Targ ... |
Richard | ... after the King's father, Henry II. He was quickly followed by another son, | , and three daughters, Joan, Isabel, and Eleanor. All five children surviv ... |
Plato | Chronologically, the first recorded utopian proposal is | 's Republic. Part conversation, part fictional depiction, and part policy ... |
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 ... |
André Breton | ... ryman Tristan Tzara. Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, | , whom he revered. In Present Past, Past Present, Ionesco wrote, "Breton t ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of | comedies of 1915 |
Thomas Moore | ... nal single version has an additional intro of a Celtic fiddle solo, playing | 's Irish folk song Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms |
Michelangelo | ... entrates on sculpture works by artists including Donatello, Giambologna and | ; the Palazzo Pitti, containing part of the Medici family's former private ... |
Thucydides | ... had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world. Ancient historian | also contracted the disease, but he survived to write about the plague. Hi ... |
Hobbes | ... n physics in a popular form, and to frame them (especially in opposition to | ) into proof of the existence of an intelligent Creator. He had some corre ... |
Mike Tirico | ... sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, Len Berman, Sean McDonough, and | . Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and former radio broadcaster for Cle ... |
Sténio Vincent | ... anism"), targeting the mostly black inhabitants of his neighboring country. | was succeeded as President in 1941 by Élie Lescot. In 1949, Lescot tried t ... |
Élie Lescot | Sténio Vincent was succeeded as President in 1941 by | . In 1949, Lescot tried to change the constitution to allow for his own re ... |
Ruth Rendell | ... and met with mixed reviews from a variety of high-profile critics. Novelist | , writing in the Sunday Times, declared it "...impossible to tell where Do ... |
Colin Dexter | ... aying that he "used to drive the Aga Khan". The author of the Morse novels, | , is a fan of cryptic crosswords, and Morse is named after champion setter ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... she hears a soft voice speaking to her in greeting; it is a lone passerby, | . He tells her that he is the last man on that road. Frightened, Lavinia b ... |
president | ... and air force. These three branches are constitutionally subordinate to the | through the Minister of Defense. By offering early retirement incentives, ... |
John Adams | ... aron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, | , Thomas Adès, and Esa-Pekka Salonen |
Louis VI | ... rue lilies, it was associated with the Virgin Mary, and in the 12th century | and Louis VII started to use the emblem, on sceptres for example, so conne ... |
James VII and II | ... Abdication Act 1936. The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was | , who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution |
Gore Vidal | ... a comment which the network censors decided to cut from the broadcast tape. | once quipped to Claire Bloom, Roth's second wife: "You have already had Po ... |
Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria | He married Catherine (as nun, Xene) of Bulgaria, a daughter of | . They had at least two children |
Hu Jintao | ... ina by announcing the strategic partnership initiative during PRC President | 's state visit to Canada in September 2005 |
Max Beerbohm | ... f Being Earnest is Wilde's most popular work and continually revived today. | called this play Wilde's "finest, most undeniably his own", saying that in ... |
Steve Martin | ... ackson notably pays homage to the film on at least three successive albums. | and Gilda Radner perform a seriocomic parody homage to the "dancing in the ... |
Jasper Ridley | ... ave criticised him for Anti-Protestantism and, "intolerance." The historian | , author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on ... |
Bayan I | ... Protector mentions a Daurentius (577-579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan | . The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he howe ... |
Henry II | ... a gave birth to a son and heir who was named Henry after the King's father, | . He was quickly followed by another son, Richard, and three daughters, Jo ... |
Tuone Udaina | # Vegliot Dalmatian: | (Italian: Antonio Udina) (10 June 1898 |
Pervez Musharraf | ... in the cities of Peshawar, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. General | faced already fierce opposition from his mostly Muslim population for his ... |
Sparta | ... ncluding their leader Pericles. The balance of power shifted from Athens to | , ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in ... |
John Stuart Mill | ... quences. Two influential contributors to this theory are Jeremy Bentham and | . Utilitarianism was described by Mill as "the greatest happiness principl ... |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... d many years abroad on command of King Henry himself, Catherine's old love, | returned to court. Catherine, who still harbored feelings for Seymour, was ... |
Elizabeth Holloway Marston | ... mic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife | and Olive Byrne (who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship), ... |
Woodrow Wilson | After the United States entered the war in April 1917, President | appointed Hoover to head the U.S. Food Administration. Hoover believed "fo ... |
Rolando Blackman | ... exchange for two future first-round picks that eventually materialized into | in 1981 and Sam Perkins in 1984 |
Richard the Lionheart | ... castle probably retained its form as established by 1100 until the reign of | (1189–1199). The castle was extended under William Longchamp, Richard's Lo ... |
Leopold Joseph | ... raine, including the capital Nancy, were again occupied by France, but Duke | continued to reign at the Château de Lunéville |
Zhou Enlai | ... sident Nikita Khrushchev, former Premier of the People's Republic of China, | and lately former Minister for Foreign Matters of the German Democratic Re ... |
He Yingqin | ... the Kuomintang armies for the rescue of Chiang. Historians used to say that | strongly supported solving this incident by force, for which He contacted ... |
Virgil | ... . But of the union of Hephaestus with Aphrodite, there was no issue, unless | was serious when he said that Eros was their child. Later authors might ex ... |
Alexios Komnenos | ... owned by Patriarch Kosmas I of Constantinople. With the help of his general | , he defeated Bryennios and other rivals, but failed to clear the invading ... |
Ludwig II of Bavaria | By 1869, Wagner was living at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne, sponsored by King | . He returned to Siegfried, and, remarkably, was able to pick up where he ... |
Lew Wallace | ... ng liberties" with the young boys in their boarding house. She hired lawyer | , the author of , and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $20,000 ... |
Bob Dylan | ... ter unsuccessfully trying to plead his innocence (by reciting the lyrics of | 's "It Ain't Me Babe" and insisting that he did no more than "cross an ima ... |
Sean McDonough | ... ed several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, Len Berman, | , and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and former radio br ... |
Kate Wilhelm | ... bin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. Damon Knight and | were among the first teachers at the workshop. In 1972 the workshop moved ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... inent radical figures in the unification movement were Giuseppe Mazzini and | . The more conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Ca ... |
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 ... |
François Duvalier | ... ike. After a period of disorder, an election held in September 1957 saw Dr. | elected President |
Ed Rice | ... view. Also on the Jesters staff were the poet Robert Lax and the journalist | . Lax and Merton became best friends and kept up a lively correspondence u ... |
Julian Huxley | ... etics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology and paleontology. | invented the term, when he produced his book, (1942). Other major figures ... |
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 ... |
Alfred Schulz-Curtius | In 1882, London impresario | organized the first staging in the United Kingdom of the Ring Cycle, condu ... |
Marsilio Ficino | ... influenced Cosimo de' Medici to found a new Platonic Academy, which, under | , would proceed to translate into Latin all Plato's works, the Enneads of ... |
the Duke of Edinburgh | ... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that | (the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances |
Joseph Addison | ... ny letters, owes much to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like | and Jonathan Swift |
Archduchess Maria Theresa | ... ion. The Lorraine duke Francis Stephen, betrothed to the Emperor's daughter | , was compensated with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, where the last Medici r ... |
Peter Singer | | , along with many animal rights activists, has argued that the well-being ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... ch to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like Joseph Addison and | |
Emperor Huan of Han | ... (r. 161–180 CE) is recorded in the Hou Hanshu to have reached the court of | (r. 146–168 CE) in 166 CE, yet Rafe de Crespigny asserts that this was mos ... |
François Duvalier | Former minister of health and labor | , known as "Papa Doc" and initially popular among the blacks, was the Pres ... |
Prince Louis | ... rons. John was deposed in 1216 and the barons offered the English throne to | , the eldest son of the French king. However, after John's death in Octobe ... |
Emperor Xuan | ... ), and Emperor Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors ( | , Emperor Ming, and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, an ... |
Brian Moynahan | Several authors have criticised More for his war against Protestantism. | , in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writin ... |
John of Lancaster | ... ital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, | bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keepin ... |
Roland Fréart de Chambray | ... Cotelle, Philibert de l'Orme, Abraham Bosse, Jean Bullant, Salomon de Caus, | , Hugues Sambin, Antoine Desgodetz, and John James's translation of Claude ... |
Sophie of Württemberg | William III had a rather unhappy marriage with | , and his heirs died young. This raised the possibility of the extinction ... |
Philip's | ... saintliness. Louis VII ordered the use of fleur-de-lis clothing in his son | coronation in 1179, while the first visual evidence of clearly heraldic us ... |
Edward Bellamy | ... tivation of the arts and sciences. One classic example of such a utopia was | 's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is William Morris' News from ... |
Pierre Boulle | ... ed in his society and the reversal of roles, and a possible inspiration for | 's novel Planet of the Apes |
Hunt Downer | ... blican businessman Gordon Dove of Houma. Dove's seat was previously held by | , a former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives |
Thomas Jefferson | ... mers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents George Washington and | , cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer. Frederic Tudor o ... |
Michaëlle Jean | ... government announced that Martin had advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint | as governor general. The reception to the appointment was mixed: some, inc ... |
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 ... |
Gilda Radner | Steve Martin and | perform a seriocomic parody homage to the "dancing in the dark" dance segm ... |
Cervantes | ... ical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, | , Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giacomo Leopardi. Between 1972–1973 ... |
President | | | |Islam Karimo |
Jimmy Carter | ... ril 2008 meeting between Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and former US President | , an understanding was reached in which Hamas agreed it would respect the ... |
Robert Lax | ... the Jester and the Columbia Review. Also on the Jesters staff were the poet | and the journalist Ed Rice. Lax and Merton became best friends and kept up ... |
August Derleth | ... al newspapers. His astronomical telescope is now housed in the rooms of the | Society |
Prince John | ... rtook its expansion while preparing for war with Richard's younger brother, | , who in Richard's absence arrived in England to try to seize power. As Lo ... |
Carl Fallberg | ... Walsh (Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus), Bob Karp (Donald Duck, Merry Menagerie), | , Frank Reilly (Treasury of Classic Tales, holiday), Milt Banta (Mickey Mo ... |
Jack Vance | In the novelette Rumfuddle (1973), | presents a novel twist on the ecological utopia. His hero invents paratime ... |
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 ... |
Comte de Mirabeau | ... sman. Believing that he could save France alone, he refused to act with the | or Marquis de Lafayette. He caused the king's acceptance of the suspensive ... |
Francis Stephen | ... y Russia and Austria in the War of the Polish Succession. The Lorraine duke | , betrothed to the Emperor's daughter Archduchess Maria Theresa, was compe ... |
John Boorman | In late 1976, Bakshi learned that | was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... of creation, a day that would every day be the first day of new creations." | , a former associate of Breton and a champion of Ionesco's work, was a mem ... |
Garfield Barwick | ... . He conferred (against Whitlam's advice) with High Court Chief Justice Sir | , who agreed that he had the power to dismiss Whitlam |
Joyce Carol Oates | ... and the conceited swapping of obvious quotations", but judged it a failure. | in the New York Times called the book "engrossing, intelligent and provoca ... |
George Washington | ... ted by straw. Many farmers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents | and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summ ... |
Karen Black | The novel was adapted into a movie starring Richard Benjamin and | in 1972 |
Anne Boleyn | ... line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of | |
Elizabeth II | On August 4, 2005, the government announced that Martin had advised Queen | to appoint Michaëlle Jean as governor general. The reception to the appoin ... |
Blanche | ... , who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowager | openly snubbed her. This so infuriated Isabella, who had a deep-seated hat ... |
Dante | ... s interests included classical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, | , Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giaco ... |
Paul Magloire | ... ow for his own reelection, but in 1950 this triggered another coup. General | led the country until December 1956, when he was forced to resign by a gen ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... s in search of a defence lawyer and employed future United States President | , then a prominent lawyer in the area. Harrison had the suit dropped by sh ... |
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | ... ous of which is Ptolemaic Egypt. Other states founded by Greeks include the | and the Greco-Indian Kingdom in India. Although the political unity of Ale ... |
Dimitri Kitsikis | ... rived from the "Intermediate Region" geopolitical model first formulated by | and published in 1978. The Intermediate Region, which spans the Adriatic S ... |
Dwight Eisenhower | ... the well-being of the town despite the refusal of the townspeople to help. | loved the film and frequently screened it in the White House, as did many ... |
Wang Jingwei | ... n strongly supported solving this incident by force, for which He contacted | asking him back to China to take charge of Kuomintang. Two armies were mar ... |
Louis VII | ... t was associated with the Virgin Mary, and in the 12th century Louis VI and | started to use the emblem, on sceptres for example, so connecting their ru ... |
Al Gore | ... Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with | . Abdurrahim El-Keib is the interim prime minister of Libya |
Marcus Aurelius | ... Daqin (Rome) in 97 CE with Gan Ying as emissary. A Roman embassy of Emperor | (r. 161–180 CE) is recorded in the Hou Hanshu to have reached the court of ... |
Atahualpa | ... after the death of Huayna Capac in 1527. It was captured by the generals of | in April 1532 in the Battle of Quipaipan. Nineteen months later, Spanish e ... |
Prince Albert | ... oria", which also featured the tenor Ian Partridge singing songs written by | |
Rafael Trujillo | ... isputed land from the latter. After the US left in 1934, Dominican dictator | – in an event known as the Parsley Massacre – ordered his Army to kill Hai ... |
Rush Limbaugh | ... ic senators, complaining about comments made by conservative talk show host | . The winning bid was $2,100,100, with 100 percent of the proceeds going t ... |
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 ... |
John D. Winters | ... nsorship of the American Missionary Association. According to the historian | of Louisiana Tech University, the students "ranged in age from four to for ... |
Bob Lewis | ... ent State as an art student, where he met Devo co-founders Jerry Casale and | . In early 1970, Lewis and Casale formed the idea of the "devolution" of t ... |
Horace | ... directly to the Crown, and backed his application with a dedication of his | to the lord treasurer (Harley) |
Robin Cook | ... oll invited to a reception at the Palace of Westminster hosted by Labour MP | . The collective took its name from a 1919 poster by Russian constructivis ... |
Parmenides | The argument has largely been seen as an ironic refutation of | ' thesis on Being. Gorgias set out to prove that it is as easy to demonstr ... |
Monroe | ... l became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since | and Tompkins in 1820 |
Ovid | In Metamorphoses, the poet | wrote the following depiction of Jupiter's seduction |
Richard Marius | ... nt religious climate of the time, other equally eminent historians, such as | , have been more critical, believing that such persecutions were a betraya ... |
Michael J. Fox | ... n taken must choose a new name. Notable examples include Michael Keaton and | , whose birth names "Michael Douglas" and "Michael Fox", respectively, wer ... |
James I | ... ied in 1406, regents had to rule the country; the monarch, Robert III's son | , had been taken captive by the English. Having paid a large ransom, James ... |
Aristotle | ... nics, but it is by no means certain that he would have recognized the term. | , writing a generation later refers several times to Antisthenes and his f ... |
Rupert Hughes | ... f whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: "Chambers is like | and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and educati ... |
Tsui Hark | ... renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kaige, | , Lou Ye, Seijun Suzuki, Feng Xiaogang and |
Aristarchus of Samos | ... y estimated its circumference. In contrast to Aristotle's geocentric views, | (; 310 BCE – ca. 230 BCE) presented an explicit argument for a heliocentri ... |
Thomas McKean | ... was 5,631 at the 2010 census. It was the birthplace of U.S. Founding Father | |
Markos Moulitsas | The Hill published an op-ed piece by | of the liberal blog Daily Kos titled "Dems: Ignore 'Concern Trolls. The co ... |
Roland Michener | ... he War Measures Act in Canada's history, done by Governor General of Canada | at the direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested b ... |
Lord Alfred Douglas | The Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's intimate friend | (who was on holiday in Algiers at the time), had planned to disrupt the pl ... |
Yuri Felshtinsky | According to | and Vladimir Pribylovsky, top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexand ... |
Orson Welles | ... gene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and | |
Richard Adams | ... asual manner. This down-to-earth style, also found in later fantasy such as | ' Watership Down and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, accepts readers into ... |
Constantine VII | ... l record of Romanians in the Istria region, however, dates back to 940 when | recorded the Romance-language speakers in this area in De Administrando Im ... |
Huayna Capac | ... l to the sphere of Huáscar in the division of the empire after the death of | in 1527. It was captured by the generals of Atahualpa in April 1532 in the ... |
Lincoln | ... ng the first torpedo boats, which carried spar torpedoes. In 1861 President | instituted a naval blockade of Southern ports, which crippled the South's ... |
Jacques Parizeau | ... uebec for sovereignty, according to the Three Periods strategy of PQ leader | . In this election, the Bloc Québécois won 54 out of 75 ridings in Quebec, ... |
Livy | ... ally long tunnels leading into the mound of the city, which may corroborate | 's account of the Roman victory in the Battle of Veii |
Claude Lelouch | ... 1983, Cerdan and Piaf had their lives turned into a big screen biography by | . The film, Édith et Marcel, starred Marcel Cerdan, Jr. in the role of his ... |
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 ... |
Aristotle | ... Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen. Of the three divisions of rhetoric discussed by | in his Rhetoric (forensic, deliberative, and epideictic), the Encomium can ... |
Robert Bourassa | ... me Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, | , and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau |
Menander | ... mendations on the Plutus and Nubes of Aristophanes, and on the fragments of | and Philemon. He published the last work under the pen name of "Phileuther ... |
Richard Wagner | ... s (or "dramas" to use the composer's preferred term) by the German composer | (1813–83). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas ... |
Michael Wilbon | ... FA's 125 best living players (as chosen by Pelé). Washington Post columnist | called Hamm, "Perhaps the most important athlete of the last 15 years. |
Michael II Komnenos Doukas | ... II defeated the alliance of William II Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea, and | of Epirus at the Battle of Pelagonia. In 1263, the emperor sent men (which ... |
Albert Einstein | ... he aging difference, not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth by | and Max Born invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a ... |
Aristophanes | ... the following year, he published his emendations on the Plutus and Nubes of | , and on the fragments of Menander and Philemon. He published the last wor ... |
Lou Ye | ... irectors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, | , Seijun Suzuki, Feng Xiaogang and |
President Harry S. Truman | ... ngressional charter for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which | signed on October 26, 1949. Finley served as the National Trust's first ch ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens about | during a 1958 episode; this is one of the episodes that does not survive |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Her tale is also mentioned in | 's Tanglewood Tales. Though his story titled "Dragon's teeth" is largely a ... |
Vladimir Pribylovsky | According to Yuri Felshtinsky and | , top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexander Komelkov may have plo ... |
Hadrian | ... been theorized that Quietus was executed on the orders of the new emperor, | , for fear of Quietus' popular standing with the army and his close connec ... |
Baldwin III | ... riarch in Antioch. When Manuel came to Antioch later that year to meet with | , King of Jerusalem, Raynald was forced to lead Manuel's horse into the ci ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | The biggest influence was | . Lovecraft had many similarities with Poe; they both lost their fathers a ... |
Premier of Quebec | ... he direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the | , Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau |
Franco | ... esistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a brigade of 700 Irish volunteers to fight for | during the Spanish Civil War, and Frank Ryan led the Connolly column who f ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... ontrast, publicly welcomed Lukashenko's re-election. Then Russian President | phoned Lukashenko and offered a message of congratulations and cooperation ... |
Pliny | ... (rather than topazios) wasn't really known about before the classical era. | says that Topazos is a legendary island in the Red Sea and the mineral "to ... |
Simon Jenkins | ... many as one of the outstanding pieces of Christian architecture in England. | ' book, England's Thousand Best Churches, has St Botolph's ranked within t ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... as first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read | ’s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism. ... |
Brude | ... ven lived on St Serf's Inch, which had been given them by a Pictish prince, | , about 700. In 1093 they surrendered their island to the bishop of St And ... |
Augustus | ... ell into neglect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired by | (Sueton. Aug. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population |
John Lloyd | ... are changed. Much of parts five and six of the radio series were written by | , but his material did not make it into the other versions of the story an ... |
Benjamin Franklin | On September 27, 1786, Mason wrote to | that he had returned to Philadelphia with his wife, seven sons, and one da ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... k themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, | and Orson Welles |
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 ... |
Henry Williamson | ... three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, Edgell Rickword and | |
Empress | ... strong Commonwealth. The nobility's Targowica Confederation appealed to the | for help and in May 1792 the Russian army entered the territory of the Com ... |
René Descartes | ... calculus. They drew on the work of such mathematicians as Isaac Barrow and | . Infinitesimal calculus consists of differential calculus and integral ca ... |
George Washington | ... of the numerous trees and undergrowth. During the American Revolution, Gen. | and many of his troops camped at Malin Hall here. They were preparing for ... |
Agnes of Châtillon | ... 's choice of a husband of such low birth. With Constance he had a daughter, | , in 1154 (who later married the Hungarian Prince Béla, who was living at ... |
Blake | ... ar in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as | in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century." The term In ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... Both were released from prison in December 1997, pardoned by then-president | |
Mary Pickford | ... was Catholic. Fairbanks was the son of Douglas Fairbanks and the stepson of | , who were considered Hollywood royalty. Fairbanks Sr. and Pickford were o ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... ed into a raven and serves as her magical familiar — this is a reference to | 's poem "The Raven". Poe replaces Ratface from the comics. A similar refer ... |
Paul Klebnikov | A 1996 article in Forbes "Godfather of the Kremlin" by | accused Boris Berezovsky of ordering the murder. A few months after the ar ... |
Pachacuti | According to Inca legend, the city was built by Sapa Inca | , the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city-state in ... |
Edgell Rickword | ... omment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, | and Henry Williamson |
Plato | Much debate over both the nature and value of rhetoric begins with Gorgias. | ’s dialogue entitled Gorgias presents a counter-argument to Gorgias’ embra ... |
Gertrude Barrows Bennett | Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as | (who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publi ... |
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 ... |
Plato | ... stronomy are claimed to have been frequented by Orpheus, Homer, Pythagoras, | , Solon, and other Greek philosophers. From Ichonuphys, who was lecturing ... |
Midwest Division | ... Mavericks made the playoffs six of seven times from 1983 to 90, winning the | in 1986–87 and reaching the Western Conference Finals in 1988. However, th ... |
Langston Hughes | ... rs exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, | , Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
Louis XIV | ... defensive lines in the west. Villars moved after him, under new orders from | to prevent the fall of Mons at all costs – effectively an order for the ag ... |
Colin Dexter | ... nal character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author | , as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same na ... |
Terry Wogan | ... rision of the song, including the usual sardonic words from BBC commentator | ("a nicely understated performance there") |
Chrissie Hynde | ... d Masters of the Backside, which also included future Pretenders frontwoman | . Brian James (Brian Robertson) had been a member of the Crawley-based gar ... |
Béla | ... ughter, Agnes of Châtillon, in 1154 (who later married the Hungarian Prince | , who was living at the court of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus in Co ... |
Bennett Cerf | ... about the program, Alex Barris tells an anecdote about what guest panelist | said to challenger Jesse Owens about Adolf Hitler during a 1958 episode; t ... |
Carl Barks | ... ald's cousin Fethry Duck and the hillbilly hermit Hard Haid Moe. Also while | created John D. Rockerduck, he used the character only in a single story ( ... |
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine | ... -Jean-Baptiste Society and became active in politics as campaign manager of | . In 1848, Cartier gave up his law practice and ran for office as a Reform ... |
Queen Anne | ... ttlefield victories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from | . Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone amon ... |
Joan Laporta | ... arp rise being attributed to the influence of Ronaldinho and then-president | 's media strategy that focused on Spanish and English online media |
Wordsworth | ... en 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and | at the turn of the century." The term Industrial Revolution applied to tec ... |
Hesketh Pearson | ... thuasists". Allan Aynesworth, who played Mr Algernon Moncrieff, recalled to | that "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triump ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Pynchon | Mason is one of the titular characters of | 's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon |
Robert III | ... II of the House of Stuart. The reigns of both Robert II and his successor, | , were marked by a general decline in royal power. When Robert III died in ... |
Huáscar | The city fell to the sphere of | in the division of the empire after the death of Huayna Capac in 1527. It ... |
Eratosthenes | ... arth is a sphere ("round"), was generally known by all, and around 240 BCE, | (276 BCE – 194 BCE) accurately estimated its circumference. In contrast to ... |
Ben Bova | ... Ford Coppola's new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by | was published in 1971 |
Wong Kar-wai | ... name, she has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, | , Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, Lou Ye, Seijun Suzuki, Feng Xiaogang and |
Arthur Goldberg | ... was delivered by Justice Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice | , Justice Hugo Black, and Justice William O. Douglas |
Robert W. Chambers | ... tually "emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes"[20]), Oswald Spengler, | (writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clar ... |
Herodotus | According to | ' rationalizing approach, Europa was kidnapped by Minoans who were seeking ... |
Josiah Bartlet | ... daughter Renée had a supporting role in The West Wing, as one of President | 's (Sheen) secretaries |
Geoffrey Chaucer | ... , St. Augustine's Commentary on Genesis, and a 1542 edition of the works of | . Religious books from the time of the early printing press include the Bo ... |
Henry II | ... se which could be removed in the event of an attack. It was probably during | 's reign (1154–1189) that a forebuilding was added to the south side of th ... |
Gloria Estefan | ... official state song, at the opening ceremony. The closing ceremony featured | singing "Reach", the official theme song of the 1996 Olympics. At the clos ... |
Linda Porter | ... arch of documents (including Maud Parr's Will) conducted by Susan James and | for their biographies on Catherine confirm that she married the 2nd Baron' ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... annel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played | in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with R ... |
Randolph Carter | ... theism common within academic circles. Also in The Silver Key the character | attempts after losing access to dreams to seek solace in religion, specifi ... |
Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Sweden | In 1804 the parish of Volgsjö was renamed Vilhelmina in honour of Queen | |
Albert Einstein | In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, | predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and ... |
Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland | ... d III through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) | . Although this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker th ... |
David II | ... nly one year later, Robert died and was succeeded by his five-year-old son, | . On the pretext of restoring John Balliol's rightful heir, Edward Balliol ... |
Jonathan Glazer | ... C series Ashes to Ashes, while "Peaches" appeared in Sexy Beast by director | . "Golden Brown" featured in Guy Ritchie's film Snatch and was used extens ... |
Pete Townshend | ... released in August 1971. The album has origins in a rock opera conceived by | called Lifehouse. The ambitious, complex project did not come to fruition ... |
Hadrian | ... ife Pompeia Plotina who hired someone to impersonate him after he had died. | 's first act as emperor was to abandon the distant and indefensible Mesopo ... |
Chun Doo-hwan | ... successor, Kim Young-sam, led an anti-corruption campaign that saw Roh and | on trial for bribery. Ironically, Kim had merged his party with Roh's in a ... |
Isaac Newton | It was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz and | starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \ ... |
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán | ... became 'More than a club' (Més que un club) for the Catalans. According to | , the best way for the Catalans to demonstrate their identity was by joini ... |
Aristotle | ... e elements called atoms. This was elaborated in great detail by Democritus. | (, Aristotélēs) (384 BCE – 322 BCE), a student of Plato, promoted the conc ... |
James Lipton | In an Actors Studio interview with | , Sheen admitted to being arrested 64 times for protests. "I don't look fo ... |
Sapa Inca | ... h during the Siege of Cuzco of 1536 by Manco Inca Yupanqui, a leader of the | . Although the siege lasted ten months, it was ultimately unsuccessful. Ma ... |
Robert Mitchum | ... in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, | , and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Raff ... |
Wang Mang | ... held the title of regent. Following the death of Ai, Wang Zhengjun's nephew | (45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for Emperor Ping (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). Wh ... |
Leo Tolstoy | Important influences were Henry David Thoreau, | and Elisee Reclus. Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, free love, an ... |
Spencer Brown | ... directed by Deep Sehgal, starred Sanjeev Bhaskar as Arthur Dent, alongside | as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as t ... |
Aristotle | ... rical, political, or other. A number of these are referred to and quoted by | , including a speech on Hellenic unity, a funeral oration for Athenians fa ... |
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 |
John Hughes | The duo express a great interest in | ' films such as Sixteen Candles, the film Purple Rain, the heavy metal mus ... |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... rk City, although neither apparently was Catholic. Fairbanks was the son of | and the stepson of Mary Pickford, who were considered Hollywood royalty. F ... |
Robert II | David II died childless in 1371 and was succeeded by his nephew | of the House of Stuart. The reigns of both Robert II and his successor, Ro ... |
Arthur Machen | ... when his grandfather would tell him Gothic horror stories. The influence of | , with his carefully constructed tales concerning the survival of ancient ... |
Alexander I | ... al reform was inaugurated by Queen Margaret and carried through by her sons | and David I. Gradually the whole position passed into the hands of Thurgot ... |
Kuldip Nayar | In 1999, | , writing for Rediff.com, stated in his article "It is fundamentalism agai ... |
Tim Donovan | ... ts, Sandro Chia (e.g. Studio 1986), Jon Gernon, Fred Wessel, Michael Bergt, | (wildlife artist), Alex Colville, Peca Rajkovic, Beverley Bonner, Estefan ... |
Owen | ... new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and | , between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1 ... |
Plato | Aristotle (, Aristotélēs) (384 BCE – 322 BCE), a student of | , promoted the concept that observation of physical phenomena could ultima ... |
Edmund Blunden | ... also included comment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: | , Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson |
Roger Ebert | ... ew York Times said Spacey was at his "wittiest and most agile" to date, and | of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a ... |
Billy Bragg | Fronted by | (whose 1985 Jobs for Youth tour had been a prototype of sorts for Red Wedg ... |
Bernard Landry | ... uchard retired from politics in 2001, and was replaced as Quebec premier by | . He stated that his relative failure to revive the sovereignist flame was ... |
Wilfred Owen | ... ner. The inscription on the stone was written by friend and fellow War poet | . It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the ... |
Michelangelo | ... he Uffizi and over the Ponte Vecchio. The Galleria dell' Accademia houses a | collection, including the David. It has a collection of Russian icons and ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
Theopompus | ... is Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant, and | even said that Plato stole from him many of his thoughts. However, Cicero, ... |
Southey | ... he idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in | and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the ... |
Joe Cornish | ... voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Buxton and | as Loonquawl and Phouchg |
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Hume | ... s a metaphysician he starts from what he terms the higher scepticism of the | -Kantian sphere of thought, the beginnings of which he discerns in Locke's ... |
Canute IV of Denmark | ... King Canute, who was murdered in the church of St. Alban's Priory in 1086. | , the son of King Sven Estridsen, was born about 1040 and ruled Denmark fr ... |
James Weldon Johnson | ... as well as white writers exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, | , Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
Jimmy Carter | ... ft of an address to the nation that was to have been delivered by President | on July 5, 1979 |
Pharaoh | ... e of the town at least as far back as the Naqada II period. Under the first | s, Mendes quickly became a strong seat of provincial government and remain ... |
Albert I | ... m, such as hosting foreign dignitaries. Among these was the King of Belgium | , the first European monarch to visit the United States. Edward, Prince of ... |
Josep Sunyol | ... ales). However, during the Spanish Civil War, members of both clubs such as | and Rafael Sánchez Guerra suffered at the hands of Franco supporters |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Elder writes that "he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as | or Raymond Carver. With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone descriptio ... |
Richard Nixon | ... in his undescribed cause. (Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by | . |
Anne Boleyn | In 1533, More refused to attend the coronation of | as the Queen of England. Technically, this was not an act of treason, as M ... |
Michael D. Higgins | Sheen maintains links with Galway and "heartily" supported | in the Irish presidential election, 2011, having become a "dear friend" of ... |
Hadrian | ... olis, he suddenly died from edema on 9 August. Some say that he had adopted | as his successor, but others that it was his wife Pompeia Plotina who hire ... |
Gorgias | ... oraries, as on Alcibiades in the second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on | in his Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant ... |
Morgan Llywelyn | ... novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, in passages that parody the style of Irish myths. | 's book Finn Mac Cool tells of Fionn's rise to leader of the Fianna and th ... |
Louis Borno | ... 915, Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave was elected president. He was succeeded by | in the 1922 elections. Borno worked closely with the Americans. Aware that ... |
Huo Guang | ... d court politics in Emperor Wu's reign and during the subsequent regency of | (d. 68 BCE). The Modernists argued for an aggressive and expansionary fore ... |
Alison Bechdel | ... t the 2000 census. It is the setting for Fun Home, a 2006 graphic memoir by | , who grew up there. Brittani Kline, winner of America's Next Top Model, C ... |
Theseus | ... retan beast that was encountered by Hercules, the Marathonian Bull slain by | (and that fathered the Minotaur). Roman mythology adopted the tale of the ... |
William Morris | ... rspersed with songs—may be following the model of The Icelandic Journals by | , an important literary influence on Tolkien |
Ptolemy | ... 4), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), | (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). The city was the capita ... |
Margaret | ... tful heir. Edward chose Alexander's three-year-old Norwegian granddaughter, | . On her way to Scotland in 1290, however, Margaret died at sea, and Edwar ... |
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. | ... rld's population increased over sixfold. In the words of Nobel Prize winner | , "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of or ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... hester, and a major hospital, the Countess of Chester Hospital, named after | and Countess of Chester |
Alp Arslan | ... aud, took possession of Merv and Herat. Toghrul was succeeded by his nephew | (the Great Lion), who was buried at Merv. It was about this time that Merv ... |
Máel Coluim III | ... ladinit, as Kirkcaldy was then known. Crínán of Dunkeld, the grandfather of | , was a lay abbot, and tradition says that even the clerical members were ... |
Suharto | ... se as guerrillas. In September 1974, Whitlam met with Indonesian President, | , in Indonesia and indicated that he would support Indonesia if it annexed ... |
Henry VIII | ... uted to 19th century historian Agnes Strickland's book on the wives of King | . Research of documents (including Maud Parr's Will) conducted by Susan Ja ... |
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 |
Christian II | ... e laid to rest after her death in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King | , with his wife Isabella of Austria, was also interred in the royal family ... |
Gottfried Leibniz | It was independently developed by | and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinites ... |
Raymond Carver | ... he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as Ernest Hemingway or | . With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone description, Lawson created ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... arliamentary Act of Succession. More accepted Parliament's right to declare | the legitimate Queen of England, but he steadfastly refused to take the oa ... |
Chatral Rinpoche | ... in India on three occasions, and also the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen master, | , followed by a solitary retreat near Darjeeling.In Darjeeling, he befrien ... |
Pompeia Plotina | ... at he had adopted Hadrian as his successor, but others that it was his wife | who hired someone to impersonate him after he had died |
Eugene O'Neill | ... rs in the U.S. (as well as white writers exploring black themes), including | , James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Well ... |
Christian Wulff | ... 's communist eastern part—also attended the commemoration. German President | added, "It has been shown once again: Freedom is invincible at the end. No ... |
Georgius Agricola | ... re metallica in 1912. This translation from the Latin of Renaissance author | is still the most important scholarly version and provides its historical ... |
Leonard Cohen | On 26 February 2012, Costello paid tribute to music legends Chuck Berry and | who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting exc ... |
Plato | ... second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on | in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant, and Theopompus even said tha ... |
Madonna | ... e an unannounced guest appearance on the show, surprising Myers and guests, | and Roseanne Barr. Mike Myers also appeared as the Linda Richman character ... |
William Empson | ... e one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century. The critic | once said, "I do not know for certain how much of my own mind [Eliot] inve ... |
Emil Cioran | ... from 1928 to 1933 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met | and Mircea Eliade, and the three became lifelong friends |
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau | ... provincial election. Cartier was elected as a Conservative supporter of the | government. As a result, Cartier was both a member of the Parliament of Ca ... |
Manco Inca Yupanqui | The city was retaken from the Spanish during the Siege of Cuzco of 1536 by | , a leader of the Sapa Inca. Although the siege lasted ten months, it was ... |
Max Beerbohm | ... ed by Alexander in St. James's; he and Aynesworth resumed their lead roles. | said that the play was sure to become a classic of the English repertory, ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... e Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as | in the British film A Question of Attribution |
Stephanus of Byzantium | ... Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and | (s. v.). The city was the capital of the Mendesian nome, situated at the p ... |
Francisco Franco | During the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and especially of | (1939–1975), all regional cultures were suppressed. All of the languages s ... |
Claude Perrault | ... Chambray, Hugues Sambin, Antoine Desgodetz, and John James's translation of | 's Treatise of the Five Orders. Whether Palladio's work inspired Chiswick ... |
Democritus | ... , indivisible elements called atoms. This was elaborated in great detail by | |
Magneto | ... he "Acts of Vengeance" conspiracy, but was attacked by the mutant terrorist | , a Holocaust survivor who wanted to punish him for his involvement in Hit ... |
Bill Clinton | ... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President | by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Manning was also granted a meeting w ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of Joe Clark and | or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
Henry David Thoreau | Important influences were | , Leo Tolstoy and Elisee Reclus. Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by | in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the ... |
Mike Myers | ... in the recurring skit Coffee Talk where character Linda Richman, played by | , hosts a talk show dedicated to, among other things, the adoration of Str ... |
Geoffrey Jellicoe | ... iam Robinson, and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by | |
Juan Antonio Samaranch | At the closing ceremony, IOC President | said in his closing speech, "Well done, Atlanta" and simply called the Gam ... |
Jeffrey Katzenberg | ... for the Broadway musical My Fair Lady. It was then-Disney Studio President | who insisted the film should be re-written as a modern-day fairy tale with ... |
Diana Gabaldon | ... ing its early years; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, Dick Kinney, | and Mark Evanier were among those who at some point did scripts for it. Fr ... |
Conrad Aiken | ... particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, | , and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being written in the E ... |
Barack Obama | ... outnumbers that of the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, | defeated John McCain in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... d Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the daughter of the murdered Tsar | . However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, M ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... Austro-Russian army under the command of Mikhail Kutuzov, with the Emperor | personally present. On 2 December, Napoleon crushed the joint Austro-Russi ... |
John Zerzan | ... of the precursors of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in | . For George Woodcock this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... mmission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under President | . The first step was a gradual, systematic turnover of government function ... |
Stephanus of Byzantium | ... us Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by the Byzantine geographer | , s. v. |
John D. MacDonald | ... the motion picture "The Express", bestselling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, | , Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winnin ... |
Artyom Borovik | ... how watched weekly by as many as 100 million people. The other anchors were | , Evgeny Dodolev, Alexander Lyubimov, Alexander Politkovsky and Dmitry Zah ... |
Roberto Micheletti | ... ing elections, and by presidential line of succession the head of Congress, | , was appointed president. However, due to the stance taken by the United ... |
Friedrich V, Duke of Austria | ... til Sigismund came of age. The Landstände of Tyrol choose Sigismund’s uncle | . The contracts of the guardianship were put in Oswald's care. Oswald used ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... ewellton is the Winter Quarters Plantation restoration, where Union General | and his men spent the winter of 1862-1863, prior to launching the assault ... |
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 ... |
Willie Davis | ... tter linemen of the 1960s were the shorter, stockier, leverage players like | , Alex Karras and Andy Robustelli. But Landry drafted the taller, leaner l ... |
King Edward VII | ... ormed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of | , began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles ... |
Diogenes Laërtius | ... the use of Athenians born of foreign mothers, near the temple of Hercules. | says that his works filled ten volumes, but of these, only fragments remai ... |
Justinian I | ... yzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under | (527-565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocat ... |
Pope Leo XIII | More was beatified by | in 1886 and canonised, with John Fisher, on 19 May 1935 by Pope Pius XI, a ... |
John Sobieski | ... is responsibilities and with Poland's quarreling factions. After his death, | was elected King of the and crowned as John III |
Erichthonius of Athens | ... culate fell on the earth, impregnating Gaia, who subsequently gave birth to | ; then the surrogate mother gave the child to Athena to foster, guarded by ... |
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 ... |
President of Russia | ... egal Immigration, have stated that they would like to see Lukashenko become | in 2008. Lukashenko spoke and said he will not run for the Russian preside ... |
Ida Minerva Tarbell | ... ity was nearly deserted. Tarbell moved to Titusville in 1870. His daughter, | , grew up amidst the sounds and smells of the oil industry. She became an ... |
Sheck Exley | ... ves carried out using technical diving techniques. This term, first used by | , is mostly used by Technical Diving International |
Emperor of Abyssinia | ... y deposed the Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and claimed his title, | , for the King of Italy (Victor Emmanuel III), not all states recognized t ... |
Mary | ... h in the same year left the Crown in the hands of his six-day-old daughter, | . Once again, a regency was established |
Eliot Asinof | The book Eight Men Out by | and the movie based on the book does record that Cicotte, despite being gr ... |
Philostratus | ... ny of the major projects he had started. In 1694, he designed an edition of | , but abandoned it to Gottfried Olearius (1672–1715), "to the joy," says F ... |
Luciano Violante | ... er 16, 1992, Buscetta testified before the Antimafia Commission presided by | about the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and Giulio Andreotti. H ... |
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 ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), | (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). ... |
Shirley Jackson | ... "The Express", bestselling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, | , and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Ca ... |
Philip II of Spain | After the Magellan expedition, King | sent Ruy López de Villalobos and Miguel López de Legazpi in 1543 and 1565 ... |
Edward | ... and Scandinavia has been discussed recently by Timothy Bolton. Emma's sons, | and Ælfred by Æthelred and Harthacnut by Cnut, were also claimants to the ... |
Gilbert Seldes | ... Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, Conrad Aiken, and | thought it was the best poetry being written in the English language while ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... ho served as the 28th Vice President of the United States (1913–1921) under | . A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member ... |
George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
Sebastiano Serlio | ... ced in his choice of octagon from the drawings of the Renaissance architect | (1475–1554), or from Roman buildings of antiquity (for example, Lord Burli ... |
Alexander the Great | | , on his march from Pelusium to Memphis, halted at this city (Arrian, iii. ... |
Alan K. Simpson | ... 1988, which had been sponsored by Representative Norman Mineta and Senator | – the two had met while Mineta was interned at a camp in Wyoming – which p ... |
Guy Bolton | The movie was adapted by | and Arthur Laurents from the play by Bolton and Marcelle Maurette. The str ... |
Sibylla | That year he allied with | and Guy of Lusignan against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed t ... |
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave | In 1915, | was elected president. He was succeeded by Louis Borno in the 1922 electio ... |
John McCain | ... Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama defeated | in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. This was despite Obam ... |
Mark Evanier | ... ; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, Dick Kinney, Diana Gabaldon and | were among those who at some point did scripts for it. From the late 1970s ... |
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 ... |
Levon Helm | ... drums, baritone saxophone, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals), and | (drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals). All five members were notable musicians ... |
Barry E. Jackson | ... s crew included character layout and design artist Louise Zingarelli, Vita, | , and Marcia Adams. Bakshi again used rotoscoping, in an attempt to captur ... |
Ofra Haza | | from Israel, who took the second place, had an enduring success with her s ... |
Isildur | In the year , at the Gladden Fields, | and his three eldest sons (Ciryon, Aratan and Elendur) were ambushed by Or ... |
Terry Milewski | ... as killed in retaliation for revealing the identity of a young rape victim. | reported in a 2006 documentary for the CBC that a minority within Canada's ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... rd, he remained committed to democratic reforms. He also met with President | for a series of talks between the Philippines and South Korea for economic ... |
Shaw | Like | and Brecht, Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical w ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... lakes at the base of the mountains. After congressional approval, President | signed the executive order establishing the Grand Teton National Park on F ... |
Olaf I | ... sure sign that Canute was worthy of veneration. His brother and successor, | , was given the nickname Hunger because he was unable to do anything about ... |
Barney Frank | In 1987, | U.S. House Representative for publicly came out as gay, thus becoming the ... |
Edward, Prince of Wales | ... of Belgium Albert I, the first European monarch to visit the United States. | , the future monarch of the United Kingdom, spent two days with Marshall a ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... rol. Together they helped force an end to the occupation in 1934. President | sent a commission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under ... |
Tiger Woods | ... o had worked during the strike. SAG trial boards found Elizabeth Hurley and | guilty of performing in non-union commercials and both were fined $100,000 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... a diplomatic row with the United States administration after accusing, with | , the US of not listening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejecte ... |
Dick Kinney | ... e artists during its early years; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, | , Diana Gabaldon and Mark Evanier were among those who at some point did s ... |
John William Friso, Prince of Orange | ... ench left wing back into the forest behind them. The Dutch under command of | , on the Allied left wing, attacked the French right flank half an hour la ... |
Guy Ritchie | ... eared in Sexy Beast by director Jonathan Glazer. "Golden Brown" featured in | 's film Snatch and was used extensively in the Australian film He Died Wit ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... on, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger; the "pop princess" | , Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the Joh ... |
Archimedes | ... egan in Antiquity with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as | and Ptolemy. Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called “physics”, f ... |
Liu Penzi | ... rebels who deposed, assassinated, and replaced him with the puppet monarch | . Emperor Gengshi's brother Liu Xiu, known posthumously as Emperor Guangwu ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... mmission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). A harsh critic of Eliot, | , was also a member of the commission, where their antagonism turned into ... |
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 ... |
Sparta | ... invasion followed in 480 BC. Despite a heroic resistance at Thermopylae by | ns and other Greeks, Persian forces sacked Athens. Following successive Gr ... |
Herodotus | The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian | . Herodotus, who has been called the 'Father of History', was born in 484 ... |
Agathon | ... lcibiades who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were already old. | too, the tragic poet, whom Comedy regards as wise and eloquent, often Gorg ... |
Premier of Quebec | ... Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1996, and the 27th | from January 29, 1996 to March 8, 2001. He became a central figure for the ... |
Charlemagne | In the 8th century, ecclesiastical uses of "Europa" for the imperium of | provide the source for the modern geographical term. The first use of the ... |
Jerry Dammers | ... er's band The Style Council, The Communards, Junior Giscombe, Lorna Gee and | , and picked up guest appearances from Madness, Heaven 17, Bananarama, Pre ... |
José Figueres Ferrer | ... a great impact on history. H.G. Wells' book, Outline of History was read by | in 1920 while at MIT, the Costa Rican revolutionary and 3 time president, ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1988, U.S. President | signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which had been sponsored by Repres ... |
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia | ... 9 April, between the French and the Piedmontese, and within only two weeks | was forced to sign an armistice. On May 15 the French general then entered ... |
Mikhail Lomonosov | ... biogenic theory was first introduced by Georg Agricola in 1556 and later by | in the 18th century |
Dmitry Rogozin | ... s had not satisfied his foreign critics. Some Russian nationalists, such as | and the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, have stated that they would ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... liot's poetry, particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like | , Conrad Aiken, and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being wr ... |
Kim Bolan | Canadian journalist | has written extensively on Sikh extremism. Speaking at the Fraser Institut ... |
Eric IV | During the civil war between | and his brother, Abel, Odense and the cathedral were burned down in 1247. ... |
John Cage | Riley also cites | and "the really great chamber music groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davi ... |
Joyce Carol Oates | ... is, immortalized in the motion picture "The Express", bestselling novelists | , John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pu ... |
Valentinian III | ... 441, however it only progressed as far as Sicily. The Western Empire under | secured peace with the Vandals in 442. Under the treaty the Vandals gained ... |
Brecht | Like Shaw and | , Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical writings (W ... |
Sir Henry Bartle Frere | ... African kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. In 1874, | was sent to South Africa as High Commissioner for the British Empire to br ... |
David I | ... ne was inaugurated around 1072, but was not recorded in the town's records. | , King of Scotland (reign 1124–53) would later grant this church dedicated ... |
Joseph Campbell | ... thic archetypes regarding initiation and male coming-of-age as described by | . Chance compares the development and growth of Bilbo against other charac ... |
Marlene Charell | ... was held in Munich, then West Germany, on 23 April 1983. The presenter was | . Corinne Hermes was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, "Si la v ... |
Sir Patrick Moore | ... fle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole, | as himself, and Christian Slater as Wonko the Sane. Finally, Adams himself ... |
Thucydides | ... ns, despite following in his footsteps, criticised Herodotus, starting with | . Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left ... |
James V | ... r noblemen, and hundreds of soldiers were killed. As his son and successor, | , was an infant, the government was again taken over by regents. James V l ... |
Doug Flutie | In November, 2006, Darren Flutie joined his brother, | , on the list of the CFL's Top 50 players of the league's modern era by Ca ... |
Henry VIII | ... d his queen. It was rebuilt by Edward I at a cost of over £300 and again by | in 1519; the current building dates from this period, although the chapel ... |
Ptolemy | ... ty with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and | . Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called “physics”, focused on e ... |
Harold I | ... was the first wife of King Cnut of England and Denmark, and mother of King | of England (1035–40). She served as regent of Norway from 1030 to 1035 |
Gérard Bouchard | ... son of Alice (née Simard) and Philippe Bouchard. His brother is a historian | . Lucien Bouchard graduated from Jonquière Classical College in 1959, and ... |
Alex Massie | Scottish journalist | wrote in National Review |
Critias | ... tus, "I understand that he attracted the attention of the most admired men, | and Alcibiades who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were alread ... |
Billy Dee Williams | ... the Blues (1956) written by Holiday and William Dufty. The movie co-starred | as Holiday's lover, Louis McKay. The cast also included comedian Richard P ... |
Bob Dylan | ... mpositions as well as covers of songs by Memphis Minnie, Sleepy John Estes, | , Neil Young, and others |
Herodotus | ... attracted the notice of most ancient geographers and historians, including | (ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9 ... |
Tara Singh Hayer | On 18 November 1998, the Canada-based Sikh journalist | was gunned down by the suspected Khalistani militants. The publisher of th ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ence unlike anything that other animated features are doing at the moment". | called Bakshi's effort a "mixed blessing" and "an entirely respectable, oc ... |
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 ... |
John Amaechi | ... n and first rugby footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay. | , who played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Ca ... |
James III | ... ccident at the age of thirty, and a council of regents again assumed power. | was defeated in a battle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leadin ... |
William Shakespeare | ... tion of Bermuda and provided the inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest. | 's play The Tempest (1611) was based on the following incident. Sir Thomas ... |
Paul Samuelson | ... unlikely to produce cotton cloth if the cotton had to be grown in England." | coined a term Sraffa bonus to name the gains from trade of inputs |
Pliny the Elder | ... ephus, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21 | ;, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also ... |
Andronikos II Palaiologos | ... the city on 15 August and had himself crowned together with his infant son | . When Michael VIII entered the city, its population was people, but he su ... |
Bob Dylan | ... an't You Hear Me Knocking" by The Rolling Stones, "All the Tired Horses" by | , "Rumble" by Link Wray, "Glad and Sorry" by Faces, "Strange Brew" by Crea ... |
Manuel Zelaya | On 27 November 2005 the PLH candidate | beat the PNH candidate and current Head of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, ... |
Jonathan Swift | More was greatly admired by the Anglican writer | . Swift wrote that More was "a person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ... |
Emperor Yingzong | ... l documentation for this.) Some distorted accounts claim that in the age of | , Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) of China, a poem named "詠冰酪" (Ode to the ic ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | The Gladden Fields (Sindarin Loeg Ningloron) is a location in | 's Middle-earth. In his works, the Gladden Fields are located where the Gl ... |
Gladys Knight | ... Club, Spelman College Glee Club and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus). | sang "Georgia on My Mind", Georgia's official state song, at the opening c ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... ent. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, Kim Young-sam and | (both of whom later became presidents), were unable to overcome their diff ... |
Theodosius II | ... , the Western Roman Empire was too preoccupied with war with Gaul to react. | , emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, dispatched an expedition to deal wi ... |
d'Alembert | Several mathematicians, including Maclaurin and | , attempted to prove the soundness of using limits, but it would be 150 ye ... |
Nick Mason | ... d album Music For Pleasure. They settled for Barrett's Pink Floyd bandmate, | , who they reported was generally uninterested in the task. Music for Plea ... |
Wilhelm Miklas | ... of the plebiscite, Göring telephoned Schuschnigg and Austrian head of state | to demand Schuschnigg's resignation, threatening invasion by German troops ... |
René of Châlon | ... continue the use of the name Châlon-Orange. History knows him therefore as | . After the death of René in 1544 his cousin William of Nassau-Dillenburg ... |
Boris Yeltsin | ... ith. Listyev's wake was visited by thousands of people, and even the ailing | was forced to make a statement |
Simon de Montfort | Following the Battle of Lewes a year earlier, where | had gained control of parliament, the Battle of Evesham in August 1265 was ... |
Traian Băsescu | ... ame in present-day Romania – among others, that of the country's president, | |
Neil Young | ... ians, "one man bands" and singer/songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Tom Harmon, | , Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singers Jimmy Reed and John Ha ... |
Neil Young | ... as well as covers of songs by Memphis Minnie, Sleepy John Estes, Bob Dylan, | , and others |
Hesiod | ... Charis "the grace" or Aglaia "the glorious", the youngest of the Graces, as | calls her |
Plotinus | The Neoplatonic philosopher | taught that above the gods of traditional belief was "The One" and polythe ... |
Timothy Leary | ... featured internationally known controversial figures to match the likes of | , Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' a ... |
G. K. Chesterton | The English Roman Catholic writer | said of More that "He may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or a ... |
Thucydides | ... tention of the most admired men, Critias and Alcibiades who were young, and | and Pericles who were already old. Agathon too, the tragic poet, whom Come ... |
Sapa Inca | According to Inca legend, the city was built by | Pachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city ... |
Henry David Thoreau | ... cal view mainly in the writings of American anarchist and transcendentalist | . In his book Walden he advocates simple living and self-sufficiency among ... |
Laura Ziskin | ... itute friend on the bus to Disneyland. These traits, considered by producer | to be detrimental to the otherwise sympathetic portrayal of her, were remo ... |
Gerald Ford | ... of the internment. The movement's first success was in 1976, when President | proclaimed that the internment was "wrong," and a "national mistake" which ... |
Michaëlle Jean | The next day, Martin officially informed Governor General | of his intention to resign as prime minister. Jean asked Harper to form a ... |
Tacitus | ... Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; Pliny the Elder, v. 9. § 11 | ;, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by ... |
Henry Chettle | ... e 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by | , Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only ... |
James IV | ... tle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leading to another boy-king: | |
Gloria Trevi | ... ardo Díaz discussed allegations of abuse with Ralphy Rodríguez. In another, | spoke about her life |
Brian May | ... n Europe. Following one such performance at the Royal Albert Hall Jarre met | , who proposed he create a concert in Tenerife for the International Year ... |
John Crowe Ransom | ... enging poem like "The Waste Land." Of course, there were some critics, like | , who wrote mostly negative criticisms of Eliot's work but who also had so ... |
Trajan | ... ng the First Dacian War and rebuilt only to be finally destroyed by fire by | 's army during the in 106 CE. The Romans then built a military camp (castr ... |
Alice Sebold | ... elling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and | ; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian ... |
Arthur Laurents | The movie was adapted by Guy Bolton and | from the play by Bolton and Marcelle Maurette. The structure of the play c ... |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Since 2007 the historic Leibniz Letters, which can be viewed in the | Library, are on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register |
Maria | ... ed at Aleppo for the next seventeen years. As the stepfather of the Empress | , he was ransomed by Manuel for the extraordinary sum of 120,000 gold dina ... |
Anténor Firmin | ... 1892, the German government supported suppression of the reform movement of | . In January 1914, British, German and US forces entered Haiti, ostensibly ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ation") magazine entitled “Destroy the Ideas of Bourgeois Legal Ownership.” | ordered the reproduction of the article in Renmin Ribao ("People’s Daily") ... |
Thomas Aquinas | Theologians, such as | , discussed Trajan as an example of a virtuous pagan. In the Divine Comedy ... |
Prince George, Prince of Wales | ... s that took place on them. Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son, | , dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then pr ... |
Jack Vance | ... novel The Book of the New Sun. Set in a bleak, distant future influenced by | 's Dying Earth series, the story details the life of Severian, a journeyma ... |
Mao Zedong | ... an accompanying “Editor’s Note” giving mild approval. He was seen as one of | 's full supporters as he was starting a struggle with rival leader Liu Sha ... |
Fulgentius of Ruspe | ... pression given by ancient sources such as Victor of Vita, Quodvultdeus, and | was that the Vandal take-over of Carthage and North Africa led to widespre ... |
George Bernard Shaw | The Ring has been the subject of myriad interpretations. For example, | , in , argues for a view of The Ring as an essentially socialist critique ... |
George McGovern | ... him in first place in the Democratic nomination race with 28 percent. Once | was near clinching the Democratic nomination in June 1972, various anti-Mc ... |
Baldwin IV | Raynald served as | 's envoy to Manuel and, because his wife Constance had died in 1163, was r ... |
Brendan Mullen | ... became the first British punk band to tour the United States. According to | , founder of the Los Angeles club The Masque, the Damned's first tour of t ... |
David I | ... of the church evolved into an Abbey in 1128, under the reign of their son, | . Dunfermline Abbey would play a major role in the general romanisation of ... |
Julie Stevens | Nightclub singer Venus Smith ( | ) appeared in six episodes. She was a complete "amateur", meaning that she ... |
Steven Spielberg | Baseline Studio Systems announced in January 2010 that | may direct a biopic about the composer's life, which is scheduled for rele ... |
William Safire | ... sts Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold | ;, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian Sir Moses I. Fi ... |
James II | ... cution of several of his enemies. He was assassinated by a group of nobles. | continued his father's policies by subduing influential noblemen but he wa ... |
Angélica Vale | ... ge Lopez, Jennifer Lopez, Grecia Colmenares, Alexandra Cheron, Amelia Vega, | , Angélica María and others |
Philostratus | ... us, and Alcidamas, Diogenes Laërtius mentions Antisthenes, and according to | , "I understand that he attracted the attention of the most admired men, C ... |
China Miéville | ... it, that our mechanical and industrial age is one of frank decadence" (see | 's introduction to "At the Mountains of Madness", Modern Library Classics, ... |
Roger Ebert | ... reviews from mainstream critics, the film scored a 59, based on 36 reviews. | wrote: "M. Night Shyamalan's 'Signs' is the work of a born filmmaker, able ... |
Jordanes | ... istoriographers under Justinian I (527-565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, | and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the ... |
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend | ... for Republican Bob Ehrlich in the 2002 gubernatorial election over Democrat | . The last time that Howard County voted for a Republican candidate for Pr ... |
Robert Bourassa | ... udeau's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier | |
Bob Dylan | ... wks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965. At about the same time, | recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for h ... |
Ujjal Dosanjh | ... ans, including blowing up Air India flights." Canadian Member of Parliament | , a moderate Sikh, stated that he and others who spoke out against Sikh ex ... |
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, ... |
Carola Häggkvist | ... unching her career. This year also marked the first performance of Sweden's | , who took the third place and went on to win the contest in 1991 and repr ... |
William Dufty | ... Holiday's autobiography Lady Sings the Blues (1956) written by Holiday and | . The movie co-starred Billy Dee Williams as Holiday's lover, Louis McKay. ... |
Paul Williams | ... nd Academy Award for Best Original Song as composer (together with lyricist | ) for the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born in 1976 |
Jessica Mitford | ... that year four shows originated from Montreal including one with challenger | . The show continued going on the road, being videotaped in cities across ... |
Emperor Gengshi of Han | ... nsurgent mob forced their way into the Weiyang Palace and killed Wang Mang. | (r. 23–25 CE), a descendant of Emperor Jing (r. 157–141 BCE), attempted to ... |
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 ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... in the south of Scotland were invested with the same rights by an edict of | . The Romanized natives received freedom (the burrows, cairns, and remains ... |
Euripides | ... and Joshua Barnes with a warning as to the spuriousness of the Epistles of | . Barnes printed the epistles anyway and declared that no one could doubt ... |
Bob Dylan | ... e is used by folk musicians, "one man bands" and singer/songwriters such as | , Tom Harmon, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singer ... |
Kim Young-sam | ... tion of the president. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, | and Kim Dae-jung (both of whom later became presidents), were unable to ov ... |
Genghis Khan | Under their commander, | , the Mongols conquered Khwarezm and burned the city of Merv to the ground ... |
Ricardo Maduro | ... H won 55. The PLH candidate Rafael Pineda was defeated by the PNH candidate | , who took office in January 2002. Maduro administration emphasized on sto ... |
Don Rosa | According to | 's timelines the Clan is known since 122 AD, when an, as of yet, unnamed m ... |
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 ... |
Liu Shaoqi | ... ao Zedong's full supporters as he was starting a struggle with rival leader | |
Charles III of Spain | In the 18th century King | commissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint The Triumph of Trajan on the cei ... |
Isaac Newton | ... f I have seen further it is [only] by standing on the shoulders of giants." | |
Pachacuti | ... d to the quarter of the empire in which he had territory. After the rule of | , when an Inca died, his title went to one son and his property was given ... |
Mousse T | ... Fury in the Slaughterhouse are originally from Hanover. Also, acclaimed DJ | has his main recording studio in the area. Eurovision Song Contest winner ... |
Henry David Thoreau | ... ues. An important early influence was the thought of the American anarchist | and his book Walden. In the late 19th century there emerged anarcho-naturi ... |
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 |
James II of England | ... 77, William married his cousin Mary Stuart, the daughter of the future king | . In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in- ... |
Charles Darwin | ... owed the work on the structure and distribution of coral reefs conducted by | in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor Edgewo ... |
Quintilian | ... societies of Plato and Aristotle with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, | , epideictic oratory), it continued into the Enlightenment. Utopias origin ... |
Willy Brandt | ... monstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor | , who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour ... |
King George III | Although her mother was a grandchild of | , May was only a minor member of the British Royal Family. Her father, the ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | Others, such as | , reject the notion that genetic entities are subject to anything other th ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... nthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as | , Jean Baudrillard and Gary Snyder. Many advocates of Green anarchism and ... |
Queen Mary | ... ard and Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter | lived there between 1533 and 1536, when she was sent to wait on the then P ... |
Inca Roca | ... tourists. On the street Hatun Rumiyoq ("Of the Old Rock") was the palace of | , which was converted to the Archbishop's residence |
Orson Welles | On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by | , who two years previous had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The ... |
David Hume | ... will, desire, or inclination to do." In articulating this crucial proviso, | writes, "this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to eve ... |
Raúl Castro | ... nt of hundreds of enterprises in key economic sectors. The military is also | 's base. In numerous speeches, Raúl Castro has emphasized the military's r ... |
Stephen Crane | ... William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, | 's , Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction ... |
King Louis | ... , wanted to order Luxembourg to immediately besiege Namur or Charleroi, but | , concerned about the dauphin’s forces on the Rhine, ordered Luxembourg to ... |
Richard Dawkins | In The Selfish Gene, author | asserts the gene is the only true unit of selection. (Dawkins also attempt ... |
Malcolm Canmore | ... ll, which it is assumed to be referring to the rocky outcrop as the site of | 's tower in Pittencrieff Glen (now Pittencrieff Park). The rest of the nam ... |
Anne Cecil | ... l, to Lord Rich. Sidney was knighted in 1583. An early arrangement to marry | , daughter of Sir William Cecil and eventual wife of de Vere, had fallen t ... |
Samuel Beckett | Like | , Ionesco began his theatre career late: he did not write his first play u ... |
James Laughlin | ... pt Merton had given to friend Robert Lax the previous year was published by | at New Directions: a book of poetry titled Thirty Poems. Merton had mixed ... |
Plotinus | ... lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of Plato, Aristotle and | . This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via Numenius as well |
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 ... |
Bobby Jindal | ... 2007, however, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Representative | , polled a plurality of 40 percent in Tensas Parish. The parish gave a plu ... |
Hesiod | ... s was born of the union of Zeus and Hera. In another tradition, attested by | , Hera bore Hephaestus alone |
Charles II | ... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's son | was declared king |
Carl Barks | Glomgold was created by | and first appeared in The Second-Richest Duck, first published in Septembe ... |
Edward | Henry VIII's children | and Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter Qu ... |
Aristotle | ... ovement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of Plato and | with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epideictic oratory) ... |
Edith Wharton | ... he wanted to play the character "Mattie" in a proposed 1944 film version of | 's novel Ethan Frome (1911) |
Noël Coward | ... f the human story of the film. Powell's work on this film was influenced by | 's film (1942) |
G. K. Chesterton | ... er years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries. | quipped: "Mr. Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for ... |
Carlos Roberto Flores | PLH's | took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras' fifth democratically elected ... |
the Prince of Wales | ... ey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were Queen Victoria, | (later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and Princess Augusta, the ... |
Romano Scarpa | ... ff Voorhees, Al Hubbard, Jack Bradbury, Carson Van Osten, Ellis Eringer and | were among the artists during its early years; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan and | |
Jim Cairns | ... also rose significantly. Unease within the ALP led to Barnard's defeat when | challenged him for his deputy leadership. Whitlam gave little help to his ... |
Ben Macintyre | ... ing up terrace after terrace, three hundred metres into the air"; columnist | of The Times has stated that that was "a prescient description of the sort ... |
Milt Stegall | ... d all-time in career receiving yardage behind Allen Pitts, Geroy Simon, and | . He held the BC Lions club record for receiving yardage in a season, 1731 ... |
Thomas Hobbes | Most "classical compatibilists", such as | , claim that a person is acting on the person's own will only when it is t ... |
Jostein Gaarder | ... ildren's books that has been accepted into mainstream literature, alongside | 's Sophie's World (1991) and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997–200 ... |
Aristotle | ... nt, begetting lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of Plato, | and Plotinus. This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via Numenius as w ... |
Iain Banks | ... nnjin. The name is inspired by the science fiction novel Feersum Endjinn by | , an author whose novel The Wasp Factory was conceptual inspiration for Lu ... |
Plato | ... aissance movement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of | and Aristotle with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epide ... |
Dauphin | ... ed was that the royal household was still in mourning over the death of the | (the king's oldest son) two weeks earlier; ordinarily, political matters c ... |
Charles II | ... ewels of the United Kingdom. From the early 14th century until the reign of | , a procession would be led from the Tower to Westminster Abbey on the cor ... |
Edgar Allan Poe | ... the other characters. In addition to having his name be a reference to the | poem "The Raven", Poe often ends his stanzas with the word "nevermore" |
Robert Lax | ... and leather belt. In November 1944 a manuscript Merton had given to friend | the previous year was published by James Laughlin at New Directions: a boo ... |
Parmenides | ... -Existence is taken to be critical of the Eleatic tradition and its founder | , describes philosophy as a type of seduction, but he does not deny philos ... |
David I | ... dedicated to the Holy Trinity which evolved into an Abbey under their son, | in 1128. The graveyard of this abbey would become the burial place for man ... |
Tim Ralfe | When CBC reporter | asked how far he was willing to go to stop the FLQ, Trudeau replied: "Just ... |
Stephen Colbert | Costello appeared in | 's television special . In the program, he was eaten by a bear, but later ... |
Louisa Lawson | ... lia's "greatest writer". He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist | |
Blair | ... n local government and at the national level. Prime Ministers Callaghan and | have been amongst the many in Britain of part-Irish ancestry, with Blair's ... |
Winston Churchill | ... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir | , and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ... |
James Bond | ... f Australian George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery portraying the superspy | in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
Gypsy Rose Lee | ... are The Screaming Mimi (which became a 1958 movie starring Anita Ekberg and | , and directed by Gerd Oswald, who also directed the "Fun and Games" episo ... |
Gabriel Harvey | ... is friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and | , of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classi ... |
Queen Victoria | ... les Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were | , the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and ... |
Victor Hugo | ... The grotesque and tragic life of Victor Hugo a satirical biography mocking | 's status as a great figure in French literature. The Hugoliade includes e ... |
Carlos Roberto Reina | In 1993, PLH candidate | was elected with 56% of the vote against PNH contender Oswaldo Ramos. He w ... |
Robert Byrd | ... hip when he lost the support of several members and was defeated by Senator | of West Virginia, 31–24. Kennedy would later tell Byrd that the defeat was ... |
Henry VIII | ... wings in a square surrounding a central courtyard. The palace was seized by | with other church properties |
Banjo Paterson | ... tember 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary | , Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of t ... |
Nennius | Twelve of King Arthur's battles were recorded by | in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of Tribruit (the 10th battle), has been ... |
Victor Schoelcher | ... ) – an indemnity for profits lost from the slave trade. French abolitionist | wrote, "Imposing an indemnity on the victorious slaves was equivalent to m ... |
Edward Dyer | ... ncluded membership, along with his friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, | , Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopag ... |
Prosper of Aquitaine | The chronicler | offers the only fifth-century report that on 2 June 455, Pope Leo the Grea ... |
Ernest Fleischmann | In 1969, the orchestra hired | to be Executive Vice President and General Manager. During his tenure, the ... |
Plato | ... the point, begetting lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of | , Aristotle and Plotinus. This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via N ... |
William Goldman | ... is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by | (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Bas ... |
Carson Van Osten | ... ries more variety.” Tony Strobl, Cliff Voorhees, Al Hubbard, Jack Bradbury, | , Ellis Eringer and Romano Scarpa were among the artists during its early ... |
Pliny the Younger | ... e same acclaim as before. It was during this time that he corresponded with | on the subject of how to deal with the Christians of Pontus, telling Pliny ... |
Garry Marshall | ... film set in Los Angeles, California. Written by J.F. Lawton and directed by | , this motion picture features Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and also He ... |
Eric Rücker Eddison | ... hompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, | 's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's , Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer nov ... |
Bill Cosby | ... o television special, Diana!, featuring guest appearances by The Jackson 5, | and Danny Thomas |
John Maynard Smith | ... ent in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of W. D. Hamilton, George C. Williams, | and others led to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution in ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for | in both of his presidential elections |
Jane Austen | In | 's novel Pride and Prejudice, Pemberley—the country home of Fitzwilliam Da ... |
Emeric Pressburger | ... e of the River Plate had its genesis in an invitation to Michael Powell and | to attend a film festival in Argentina in 1954. They decided they couldn't ... |
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, ... |
Henry VII | ... vourite residence of Queen Elizabeth I. Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, | 's minister John Cardinal Morton, it comprised four wings in a square surr ... |
Plato | | is one of Gorgias’ greatest critics. Plato’s dislike for sophistic doctrin ... |
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden | Heidelberg fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1803. | , refounded the University, named "Ruperto-Carola" after its two founders. ... |
Edmund Spenser | ... draft of The Arcadia and A Defense of Poetry. Somewhat earlier, he had met | , who dedicated the Shepheardes Calendar to him. Other literary contacts i ... |
Edwin Muir | Many critics were particularly enthusiastic about it. | maintained that it is one of the most moving poems Eliot wrote, and perhap ... |
Elector of Brandenburg | Prince Waldeck had hoped to delay the campaign to enable the | to move on the Moselle and tie down Boufflers, but Luxembourg’s early mano ... |
John D. Winters | ... ish provided considerable support for units formed in the parish. Historian | in The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), describes Sabine as "a poor piney-hi ... |
Placidia | ... Rome, along with the Empress Licinia Eudoxia and her daughters Eudocia and | |
Barack Obama | ... .In 2008 racist and threatening graffiti directed at (then) President-elect | prompted an investigation from the United States Secret Service. Students ... |
C. Northcote Parkinson | | , more famous for his invention of Parkinson's Law, has written a 'biograp ... |
Bob Gregory | ... d in business. In the 1988 DuckTales comic book story "The Smart Nephew" by | , Cosme Quartieri and Jorge Sanchez, another nephew of Glomgold appears: t ... |
Estela Giménez | ... ew competition by women's rhythmic group all-around. The team was formed by | , Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and T ... |
Cornelis de Graeff | ... ble at peace, at the great distress of the regents. When Andries Bicker and | , the great regents of the city of Amsterdam refused some mayors he appoin ... |
Thalía | ... d Shakira, Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, | , Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan T ... |
Wong Kar-wai | ... he British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2046 (2004), directed by | , starring many of the best-known Chinese actors and actresses, Zhang was ... |
King Arthur | Twelve of | 's battles were recorded by Nennius in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of T ... |
Duke of Savoy | ... ne. Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the | , whilst Marshal Noailles commanded forces deployed on the border of Catal ... |
Alan García | ... tion for an Asian American in the U.S. On June 14, 2011, Peruvian president | apologized for his country's internment of Japanese immigrants during Worl ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... resent house. This palace was the childhood home and favourite residence of | . Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, Henry VII's minister John Cardinal M ... |
Nennius | ... y a missionary. In the list of British towns given by the ancient historian | , the name Caer Peris occurs, which some modern antiquarians suppose to ha ... |
William Kotzwinkle | ... cluding adaptations of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, | 's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's ... |
Charles I | ... reat Britain" in 1604—they remained separate kingdoms. James I's successor, | , experienced frequent conflicts with the English Parliament related to th ... |
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 ... |
Edward I | ... ases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, Henry III, and | in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late ... |
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ration of Ireland in a lengthy document. More seriously, he quarrelled with | , probably because of Sidney's opposition to the French marriage, which de ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... he title The Cruise of the Janet Nichol, together with photographs taken by | and |
George Orwell | ... lves destroying gentler, more-human places such as gardens. In 1984, author | described the Ministry of Truth as an "enormous, pyramidal structure of wh ... |
Barack Obama | ... t in orientation. In the 2008 presidential contest, the successful Democrat | of Illinois, won Tensas Parish, 1,646 (54.1 percent) to 1,367 (45.0) for t ... |
James George Frazer | ... the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of Joseph Conrad and | , which, at least for reasons of textual history, echo in The Waste Land. ... |
Dumas | ... character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, and the mention in | 's The Three Musketeers of the old custom of branding a criminal with the ... |
J. J. C. Smart | In modern times, | has described the problem of admitting indeterminism |
Licinia Eudoxia | ... ween the two factions broke down, and in 455 with a letter from the Empress | , begging Genseric's son to rescue her, the Vandals took Rome, along with ... |
King James I | ... uilt in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to | and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. It is a prime exampl ... |
Ernest Swinton | British Major | saw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ... |
Robert Burns | ... the supernatural associated with the night, "Bogies" (ghosts), influencing | ' Halloween 1785. Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn hu ... |
Kevin Jarre | ... er Stéphanie Jarre, from Maurice Jarre's other marriages. His half-brother, | , died in 2011. Although Maurice and Jean-Michel remained estranged, follo ... |
Queen Victoria | ... ess of Salisbury was three times Prime Minister during the closing years of | 's reign. The city of Salisbury (now Harare) in the colony of Rhodesia (no ... |
Prince | ... s composed by and performed by Gere. Julia Roberts sings the song "Kiss" by | while Richard Gere's character is on the phone. Background music is compos ... |
Sir Robert Baden-Powell | ... ich are used by most national Scout organizations. The symbol was chosen by | as it had been the arm-badge of those soldiers qualified as "Scouts" (reco ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... the classics The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Brave New World, by | |
John Negroponte | Between 1979 and 1985, under | 's appointment as U.S. diplomat from 1981 to 1985, U.S. military and econo ... |
James I | ... facto capital of Scotland for much of the period until the assassination of | in 1437. Following her marriage to King Malcolm III, Queen Margaret encour ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... Douglas of Illinois ran poorly in Louisiana, and the Republican candidate, | , was not listed on the state ballot |
Irving Fisher | ... in The Time Machine and Wells's eugenic beliefs. For example, the economist | said in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: "The Nordic r ... |
Wallis Simpson | ... ated the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Mrs. | . She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as Geo ... |
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 ... |
Napoleon III | ... an claiming to be Napoleon to travel to France. That person turns out to be | , the nephew of Hornblower's great nemesis and the future President (and l ... |
Vitruvius | ... benefit of the Roman people. The Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (‘ | ’) was also writing in the age of Augustus, a fact not lost on Lord Burlin ... |
Fazil Iskander | According to Soviet writer | , "Under the totalitarian regime, it was as if you were forced to live in ... |
John Mayne | ... one of the earliest works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet | , who, in 1780, made note of pranks at Halloween; "What fearfu' pranks ens ... |
U.S. Presidents | ... e houses, insulated by straw. Many farmers and plantation owners, including | George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter f ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... themes present in the political action of the Luddites and the writings of | , when primitivism emerged it was influenced more directly by the works of ... |
Henry VIII | ... s succeeded by the Scottish monarch James VI, who was the great-grandson of | 's older sister and hence Elizabeth's first cousin twice removed. James VI ... |
Isabella of Austria | ... th in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King Christian II, with his wife | , was also interred in the royal family chapel. In 1807 the former Francis ... |
Charles of Lorraine | ... who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death of | . Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the ... |
Akira Kurosawa | is a 1954 Japanese adventure drama film co-written, edited, and directed by | . The film takes place in 1587 during the Warring States Period of Japan. ... |
Georgette Heyer | ... rge Eliot's novel Adam Bede is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth. | 's detective/romance novel The Toll-Gate is set in 1817 around a fictional ... |
Fidel Castro | ... informal control of Revolutionary Armed Forces chief General Raúl Castro ( | 's brother), and large numbers of army officers were moved into the Minist ... |
H. Rider Haggard | Sir | , novelist, was born in Bradenham, and later in his life spent his summers ... |
Sparta | ... r to avoid going to Troy with Agamemnon and Menelaus to bring Helen back to | – pretended to have gone mad and began sowing the fields with salt. Palame ... |
Valentinian III | ... rucial part in the blunders of Rome. Petronius Maximus, the usurper, killed | in an effort to control the Empire. Diplomacy between the two factions bro ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ounder John Hume. In scores of anti-war speeches, Kennedy opposed President | 's policy of Vietnamization, calling it "a policy of violence [that] means ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... portance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by | . First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it ... |
Mahmud al-Kashgari | ... inguistic groups. In the eleventh century, the renowned Muslim Turk scholar | described the language of the Oghuz and Turkmen as distinct from that of o ... |
Plotinus | ... s of inward "knowing" or self-exploration, comparable to that encouraged by | (c. 205–270 AD). This is what helps separate Gnosticism from proto-orthodo ... |
Greek dramas | The cycle is modelled after ancient | that were presented as three tragedies and one satyr play. The Ring proper ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... ed until a few established writers and critics, among them Jean Anouilh and | , championed the play |
Raúl Castro | ... oved under the informal control of Revolutionary Armed Forces chief General | (Fidel Castro's brother), and large numbers of army officers were moved in ... |
Geoffrey Palmer | ... on Russell Beale as "Jack Worthing", Julian Wadham as "Algernon Moncrieff", | as "Rev. Canon Chasuble", Celia Imrie as "Miss Prism", Victoria Hamilton a ... |
Augustus II | ... th most peasant farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon Wettin dynasty, | and Augustus III, brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The Gre ... |
Ed McMahon | ... prior to being selected to host American Bandstand. Television personality | also resided at the Drexelbrook, as Dick Clark's neighbor, prior to teamin ... |
Frederick I of Prussia | ... n Prince John William Friso of Nassau-Dietz of the Frisian Nassaus and King | , who both claimed the title Prince of Orange. Both descended from Frederi ... |
Douglas Adams | The "Deep Thought" episode in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by | appears to be a parody of his short story "Answer" |
Agamemnon | ... reason. In Greek mythology, Odysseus – in order to avoid going to Troy with | and Menelaus to bring Helen back to Sparta – pretended to have gone mad an ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... out, however, politics again played a crucial part in the blunders of Rome. | , the usurper, killed Valentinian III in an effort to control the Empire. ... |
William the Conqueror | When, in 1069, Malcolm Canmore and | held a conference respecting the claims of Edgar Atheling to the English C ... |
Michelle Yeoh | ... was reunited with her 2046 co-star Gong Li and with Crouching Tiger co-star | . For the role, Zhang received a 2006 Golden Globe Award nomination, a Scr ... |
Hunter S. Thompson | ... kshi attempted several projects that fell through, including adaptations of | 's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric ... |
George Eliot | ... hen a character gets a train to Alfreton and walks to Crich to see a lover. | 's novel Adam Bede is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth |
Aeschylus | ... Ctesias of Cnidus, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright | . Archaeological evidence, such as the , also supports some of Herodotus's ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... n from his captivity on Saint Helena, captures a slave ship, and encounters | 's army. He retires to Kent and eventually becomes Admiral of the Fleet |
George H. W. Bush | ... s received their $20,000 redress payments, was signed into law by President | , who also issued another formal apology from the U.S. government |
Margaret Atwood | ... talitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Handmaid's Tale by | and Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley |
John II Casimir Vasa | Following the abdication of King | and the end of The Deluge, the Polish nobility elected Michael to the Poli ... |
Elector of Bavaria | ... (although the Dauphin held honorific command). De Lorge was opposed by the | , who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death ... |
Valentinian III | In an effort to bring the Vandals into the fold of the Empire, | offered his daughter's hand in marriage to Genseric's son. Before this tre ... |
D. H. Lawrence | Alfreton is mentioned in the novel Sons and Lovers by | , when a character gets a train to Alfreton and walks to Crich to see a lo ... |
Christina of Saxony | ... ng Hans of Denmark (d. 1513) was buried in the cathedral in 1513. His wife, | , who lived the latter part of her life in a nunnery in Odense, commission ... |
Gloria Trevi | ... n Taunton, Jorge Ramos, Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio Estefan, Jr., | , Chayanne, Ricky Martin, RBD, Niurka, Noelia, Anaís, George Lopez, Jennif ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... e one of the most powerful sovereigns in Europe, and the only one to defeat | . Many members of the House of Orange were devoted admirers of the King-St ... |
James I | Elizabeth's successor | did not like the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) c ... |
Earl of Bothwell | ... ssination in 1567, Mary contracted an even more unpopular marriage with the | , who was widely suspected of Darnley's murder. The nobility rebelled agai ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as a footnote to the spate of barbarian films that followed in the wake of | 's appearance as Conan. |
Jacques Lanctôt | ... icted of murder. On February 26, 1970, two men in a panel truck – including | – were arrested in Montreal when they were discovered with a sawed-off sho ... |
George Washington | ... States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President) | . Its county seat is |
Doug Flutie | ... areer lasted from 1991 until 2002. He is the younger brother of quarterback | and also attended Boston College, though he did not graduate. He was as an ... |
Vicente Mejía Colindres | ... H, united again following the death of Policarpo Bonilla in 1926, nominated | . To the surprise of most observers, both the campaign and the election we ... |
Jean Paul | ... imar performances, Mahler gave the piece the title Titan after the novel by | , although Mahler specified that the piece was not in any way "about" the ... |
William the Conqueror | ... the castle built in 1080, by Robert II, Duke of Normandy, the eldest son of | . The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade and it later bec ... |
Plato | ... ing both from the exact meaning of the original Greek term and its usage in | nist philosophy |
Jean Anouilh | ... and went unnoticed until a few established writers and critics, among them | and Raymond Queneau, championed the play |
Bob Dylan | ... hortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of | , George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by d ... |
Elizabeth I | ... and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such as | before she became queen, were held within its walls. This use has led to t ... |
Yevgeny Zamyatin | ... iction of totalitarian society, as is their lesser-known predecessor, We by | . Additional totalitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Ha ... |
Kevin Smith | Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and | , respectively, in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, a fictional universe c ... |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor | ... żanka) a Habsburg, born 1653 at Regensburg died 1697 at Vienna, daughter of | , by his third wife Eleonora Gonzaga |
King James' | ... region to Prince Waldeck (William was himself busy in Ireland forestalling | attempt to regain his throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commande ... |
King George III | The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by | following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America ... |
Martin Luther | In 1520 the reformer | published three works in quick succession: An Appeal to the Christian Nobi ... |
Gloria Estefan | ... lejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, Jorge Ramos, | and her husband Emilio Estefan, Jr., Gloria Trevi, Chayanne, Ricky Martin, ... |
Tom Stoppard | The events of the play Arcadia, by | , take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire |
Nicolaus Copernicus | The astronomer | was first to demonstrate to the world that the Earth is moving and the Sun ... |
Lord Darnley | ... endancy was established. Mary caused alarm by marrying her Catholic cousin, | , in 1565. After Lord Darnley's assassination in 1567, Mary contracted an ... |
J. K. Rowling | ... ainstream literature, alongside Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991) and | 's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) |
Queen Mary | ... . After her two months of imprisonment in the Tower of London by her sister | , Elizabeth returned to Hatfield. The Queen Elizabeth Oak on the grounds o ... |
Carl Fallberg | ... lis Eringer and Romano Scarpa were among the artists during its early years | ;, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, Dick Kinney, Diana Gabaldon and Mark Evanier ... |
Sanford B. Dole | ... is section shall not be recognized by the Department. [signed] June 8, 1896 | , President of the Republic of Hawai |
Adelbert von Chamisso | | might have consulted with a native speaker of Hawaiian in Berlin, Germany, ... |
Zhou Enlai | ... d not publicly reveal any more details about the incident and died in 2001. | publicly expressed regrets about the incident, while Zhang privately told ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... of its genre and a superior example of it. It may have provided a model for | when he later created his own stories set in alternate personal realities. ... |
Thomas Seymour | ... ears old, Elizabeth was under suspicion of having illegally agreed to marry | , the House and her servants were seized by Edward VI's agent Robert Tyrwh ... |
Michael Ignatieff | ... ing Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was immediately forced out and replaced by | , who quickly distanced the party from the coalition |
Achilles | ... e Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, | ' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' chariot as well as his own due ... |
Miguel Paz Barahona | ... f an uprising led by General Gregorio Ferrera of the PNH. The PNH nominated | (1925–29), a civilian, for president. The PLH, after some debate, refused ... |
Jean Pierre Boyer | Beginning in 1821, President | , also an homme de couleur and successor to Pétion, managed to reunify the ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ft considered himself a "New Deal Democrat", and was an ardent supporter of | . His political views can be considered as "moderately socialist. |
Robert Mugabe | ... rding to some reports, currently over half the revenue of the government of | in Zimbabwe is in seigniorage. Zimbabwe has experienced hyperinflation (se ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... alked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's | as part of the 20-year celebration of tearing down the Berlin Wall |
Julian of Norwich | ... nd language of such figures as Dante, and mystics St. John of the Cross and | . The "deeper communion" sought in East Coker, the "hints and whispers of ... |
Patrick O'Leary | Among others, writers Neil Gaiman and | have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: "Forget 'Speculativ ... |
Banjo Paterson | ... tic idyll of brave horsemen and beautiful scenery depicted in the poetry of | " |
Kamehameha III | ... ventually finished translating the Bible. Missionaries also influenced King | to establish the first Hawaiian-language constitutions in 1839 and 1840 |
William Ernest Henley | | is known to most people by virtue of this single poem |
George MacDonald | ... like Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie and The Princess and the Goblin by | , both of which influenced Tolkien and contain fantasy elements, it is pri ... |
John Hughes | ... ide to go to be the "blunt connection" in Shermer, Illinois, (where most of | ' films are set) because they believe that all the guys there are jerks an ... |
Paul Hasluck | ... at stake; Whitlam agreed to Gair's request and had the Governor-General Sir | appoint him Ambassador to Ireland. Word leaked of Gair's pending resignati ... |
Joel Fuhrman | ... ounts of food, the health of such methods is questionable, according to Dr. | . A true fast, he contends, consists of an intake solely of water, and can ... |
Agamemnon | ... winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, | 's staff of office, Achilles' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' ch ... |
Thomas Middleton | ... of Elizabethan and Jacobean verse drama; witness his allusions to Webster, | , William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture ... |
Henry Ford | ... s the Tin Lizzie, T‑Model Ford, or T) is an automobile that was produced by | 's Ford Motor Company from September 1908 to October 1927. It is generally ... |
Edward | ... urite of George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: | , Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and John |
Thrasamund | According to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia: "While | (496–523), owing to his religious fanaticism, was hostile to Catholics, he ... |
Charles Lindbergh | ... e to operate the Mexico City-Tuxpan-Tampico-Brownsville, Texas, USA, route. | piloted the first flight on this route |
Dicaearchus | ... the words of Cicero), was ascribed to Aristoxenus (fr. 118-121 Wehrli) and | . This theory is comparable to the one offered by Simmias in Plato's Phaed ... |
President of the United States | ... and the 24 members of the National Science Board (NSB) are appointed by the | , and confirmed by the United States Senate. The director and deputy direc ... |
Rudolf Steiner | ... only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing." | , who collaborated in a complete edition of Arthur Schopenhauer's work, wr ... |
Ron Powers | Pulitzer Prize winner | states in his Twain biography (Mark Twain: A Life) that "Huckleberry Finn ... |
Rudolf Simek | ... originally simply meant "grave," and that "the personification came later." | theorizes that the figure of Hel is "probably a very late personification ... |
William of Orange | ... nown as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughter Mary and her husband | to depose the king. William obliged, arriving in England on 5 November 168 ... |
Arthur Quiller-Couch | ... patron. The title "Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered") was added by editor | when the poem was included in The Oxford Book of English Verse |
Edward I | ... y, there is the outer ward which encompasses the castle and was built under | . Although there were several phases of expansion after William the Conque ... |
Vitruvius | ... udged, not as the Pythagoreans held, by mathematical ratio, but by the ear. | in his De architectura paraphrases the writings of Aristoxenus on music. H ... |
Wes Anderson | ... and television. In film, Mothersbaugh has worked frequently with filmmaker | , and scored most of his feature films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal ... |
Rhys ap Gruffydd | The monastery, which was founded by | in or about 1185, is in the care of Cadw. In common with Strata Florida Ab ... |
Augustus | ... re the descendants of the "melting pot" of the Roman legionnaires (moved by | to eastern Istria to colonize the borders of Italy) and the Aromanian shep ... |
Joel Fuhrman | ... nic fasting helps eliminate hypertension. Natural Hygienist doctors such as | continue to use this method |
Vince Gair | ... to shore up support in that body. Queensland Senator and former DLP leader | signalled his willingness to leave the Senate for a diplomatic post. With ... |
William Ernest Henley | "Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet | (1849–1903) |
Ezekiel | ... Heliopolis and burn the temple of the sun in fire. Jeremiah’s contemporary | , reinforced this message by saying that the "young men of Aven (or Beth-A ... |
Nero | ... gdom over which the two great empires had shared hegemony since the time of | some fifty years earlier. Some modern historians also attribute Trajan's d ... |
Vicente Tosta | ... nt was worked out that provided for an interim presidency headed by General | , who agreed to appoint a cabinet representing all political factions and ... |
Margaret Roper | ... "prison-letters" (in English) which he exchanged with his oldest daughter, | while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London awaiting execution |
Prince George, Duke of York | Albert Victor's brother, | , now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ... |
Prince Albert | ... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, | |
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 ... |
Yang Wanli | ... f China, a poem named "詠冰酪" (Ode to the ice cheese) was written by the poet | . Actually, this poem was named "詠酥” (Ode to the pastry; 酥 is a kind of fo ... |
Lloyd Alexander | ... ou Trust Your Wife?", then "The Tonight Show". Well-known children's author | also lived in Drexel Hill with his wife and several cats |
Daniel Guérin | ... hism was strong enough as to call the attention of the CNT–FAI in Spain. So | in Anarchism: From Theory to Practice reports how "Spanish anarcho-syndica ... |
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, ... |
James Gurney | ... ng sessions to the final shoot. The film's crew included background artists | and Thomas Kinkade, layout artist Peter Chung, and established Bakshi Prod ... |
Tiburcio Carías Andino | ... uras (Partido Nacional de Honduras—PNH), which ran as its candidate General | , the governor of the department of Cortés. However, the liberal PLH was u ... |
Huneric | ... member of the royal house was to succeed. Thus he was succeeded by his son | (477–484), who at first tolerated Catholics, owing to his fear of Constant ... |
James Bond | Bilbao was briefly featured at the start of the 1999 | film The World Is Not Enough |
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | ... river, which moved east and reached Höchstädt on 19 September. Villars and | moved their army of 17,000 to intercept this force, ordering another Frenc ... |
Akira Kurosawa | The film was the first samurai film that | had ever directed. He had originally wanted to direct a film about a singl ... |
Johnny Depp | ... o Crazy" and "Mama's Blues." She began playing at hip nightclubs like actor | 's Viper Room, New York's Algonquin Hotel and Michael's Pub and such Holly ... |
Henry VIII | On 22 November 1539 the abbey was surrendered to | 's commissioners in the Dissolution of the monasteries. It was awarded to ... |
Don Rosa | ... s quitenlly powerful, with only her naivety being her proeminenty weakness. | 's incarnation of Magica De Spell is, however, far more limited as she usu ... |
the Prince of Wales | ... ved, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of | . The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to Queen Victoria's fo ... |
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 ... |
Oliver Parker | ... mportance of Being Earnest (1992) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast; and | 's The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) incorporated some material cut d ... |
Shakespeare | ... olfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. | was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Brown also had the honor of being one of three dedicatees of | 's Stranger in a Strange Land |
Richard Nixon | Following Republican | 's victory in November, Kennedy was widely assumed to be the front-runner ... |
Bill Clinton | On July 12, 1994, U.S. President | spoke at the Gate about peace in post–Cold War Europe |
Zachary Taylor | ... ing back to the 1830s. Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonel | who later became the 12th President of the United States. Taylor's troops ... |
Queen Victoria | ... f the Prince of Wales. The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to | 's fondness for her, as well as to her strong character and sense of duty. ... |
Steve Turner | ... no organized three book deals for Norman: a biography by English journalist | , which would be published by Word; a book of Norman's photographs; and an ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... t to the north, east, and west is the inner ward, built during the reign of | (1189–1199). Finally, there is the outer ward which encompasses the castle ... |
Alexander I of Macedon | ... nd thereby block Xerxes's advance. However, once there, they were warned by | that the vale could be bypassed through the pass by the modern village of ... |
Gunthamund | ... onstantinople, but after 482 began to persecute Manichaeans and Catholics." | (484–496), his cousin and successor, sought internal peace with the Cathol ... |
Eliphas Levi | Presumably following Herodotus' description, the occultist | in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855) called his goat-headed con ... |
John G. Kemeny | ... from Dartmouth BASIC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors | and Thomas E. Kurtz |
Georges Dumézil | ... ns have proven troublesome and enigmatic to interpret for scholars. Scholar | summarizes the difficulties as follows |
Rupert of Germany | ... . In 1401-1402 Oswald participated in the failed Italian expedition of King | . In 1407 he and his brother finally agreed on how to split the inheritanc ... |
Nero | ... mixture of milk and rice was used in China around 200 BC. The Roman Emperor | (37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit topp ... |
Mary | ... roup of Protestants known as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughter | and her husband William of Orange to depose the king. William obliged, arr ... |
Barack Obama | ... n 2003 and was given official status by the United States Congress in 2007. | became the first president to personally attend Diwali at the White House ... |
Rafael Sánchez Guerra | ... uring the Spanish Civil War, members of both clubs such as Josep Sunyol and | suffered at the hands of Franco supporters |
Alexander J. Dallas | ... hin Dallas Township. The township had been formed in 1817 and was named for | , who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father o ... |
Carl Barks | ... d witch, her actual capability to wield magic varies from writer to writer. | ' incarnation is quitenlly powerful, with only her naivety being her proem ... |
Bret Harte | ... nd For the Term of his Natural Life; an aunt had also given him a volume by | . Reading became a major source of his education because, due to his deafn ... |
Joachim Murat | ... the Kingdom of Naples and granted it to his brother and then (from 1808) to | , along with marrying his sisters Elisa and Paolina off to the princes of ... |
Robert Stanfield | ... and subsequently by a number of prominent leaders, including René Lévesque, | , and Tommy Douglas, who believed the actions to be excessive and the prec ... |
Terrence Malick | ... aith restored by a series of meaningful conversations in Paris in 1981 with | , the director of Sheen’s breakthrough film, Badlands (1973) |
Ronald Reagan | On June 12, 1987, U.S. President | spoke to the West Berlin populace at the Brandenburg Gate, demanding the r ... |
Julie Andrews | ... na Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, Madonna, Judy Garland, | , Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, Nina Simone, ... |
Mickey Spillane | ... for high praise in her book The Romantic Manifesto. The famous pulp writer | called Brown "my favorite writer of all time". Science fiction and fantasy ... |
Mack Sennett | In late 1914 Essanay succeeded in hiring Charlie Chaplin away from | 's Keystone Studios, offering Chaplin a higher salary and his own producti ... |
Theophrastus | ... aped insults on Aristotle after his death, because Aristotle had designated | as the next head of the Peripatetic school, a position which Aristoxenus h ... |
Julian of Norwich | ... l experience. From this background, the Quartets end with an affirmation of | : "All shall be well and/All manner of thing shall be well. |
Heinrich Joseph von Collin | ... named after a play, for example, Beethoven's Coriolan Overture (written for | 's tragedy), or Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet fantasy-overture |
Lord Alfred Douglas | ... reer but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, father of | , an intimate friend of Wilde, planned to present Wilde a bouquet of rotte ... |
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham | ... der intense French pressure. It ended in disaster after the Army commander, | , failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled Ant ... |
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 ... |
Plato | Like | does, Gnosticism presents a distinction between a supranatural, unknowable ... |
John F. Kennedy | In 1963, U.S. President | visited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each referred to the America ... |
Alexandre Pétion | ... encountered in his fight for South American independence, Haitian president | provided Bolívar with soldiers, weapons and financial assistance, which we ... |
Henry VIII | ... established during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the auspices of | |
Edmund Spenser | ... litics of his time, he was memorialised as the flower of English manhood in | 's Astrophel, one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies |
Richard II | ... mes under Edward I and was expanded to its current size during the reign of | (1377–1399) |
Henry James | ... n in response to a request for a play "with no real serious interest". When | 's Guy Domville failed, Alexander turned to Wilde and agreed to put on his ... |
Ayn Rand | ... its opening, which is a complete two-sentence short-short story in itself. | singled out Brown for high praise in her book The Romantic Manifesto. The ... |
Dave Filoni | ... an graduated and still resides in Mt Lebanon. The supervising director of , | grew up in Mt. Lebanon. The CEO of Chicago-based Groupon, Andrew Mason, al ... |
Crown Princess of Sweden | ... of Cambridge), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the | helped pass letters from May to her aunt, who lived in enemy territory in ... |
Malcolm III | ... ance. The town was first recorded in the 11th century, with the marriage of | , King of Scotland and Saint Margaret at the church in Dunfermline. As his ... |
George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
Clare Dunne | ... 66's comedy They're a Weird Mob, starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and | was a rare hit of the period which also documented something of the changi ... |
Joh Bjelke-Petersen | ... t close the Rhodesian Information Centre in Sydney. The Queensland premier, | refused to consider any adjustment in Queensland's border with Papua New G ... |
Alexander III (the Great) | ... al dynasts the freedom to rule. Persia held Lycia until it was conquered by | of Macedon during 334–333 BC |
Richard von Weizsäcker | ... n the 1980s, decrying the existence of two German states, West Berlin mayor | said: "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is clos ... |
Rafael López Gutiérrez | ... Honduras. The local military commander and governor of Tegucigalpa, General | , took the lead in organizing PLH opposition to Bertrand. López Gutiérrez ... |
Michael Faraday | The phenomenon of electromagnetic induction was discovered independently by | and Joseph Henry in 1831. However, Faraday was the first to publish the re ... |
Alfred Mombert | ... died of hunger and diseases. Among the deportees from Heidelberg, the poet | (1872–1942) left the camp in April 1941 thanks to the Swiss poet Hans Rein ... |
Roman Emperor | ... that a frozen mixture of milk and rice was used in China around 200 BC. The | Nero (37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit ... |
Danger Mouse | ... y FC Kahuna) and "Do's and Don'ts" (by Boom Bip) as well as "Just War" from | and Sparklehorse's album . He has also featured on the myspace remix track ... |
René Lévesque | ... ed at the time and subsequently by a number of prominent leaders, including | , Robert Stanfield, and Tommy Douglas, who believed the actions to be exce ... |
Unno Juza | ... cs. Other writers involved in that genre Kozakai Fuboku, Yumeno Kyusaku and | |
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden | On 5 September, the main force of the Imperial Army under | had taken the free city of Augsburg, threatening Bavaria from the west. Lo ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... e use of the "out" metaphor. This campaign is endorsed by prominent atheist | , who states "there is a big closet population of atheists who need to 'co ... |
Stan Laurel | ... Chicago in 1953. G. M. Anderson became an independent producer, sponsoring | in a series of silent comedies. Anderson died in Los Angeles in 1971 |
John Lindow | ... ume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention." | states that most details about Hel, as a figure, are not found outside of ... |
Gene Wolfe | ... by authors such as L. Frank Baum and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of | and Jonathan Swift, which are more often considered adult literature. The ... |
Iolo Morganwg | ... Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, but this is one of the discredited theories of | . There are two lakes near the abbey ruins, which was used for fish farmin ... |
Xerxes | Herodotus mentions that the leader of the Lycian fleet under | in the Second Persian War of 480 BC was Kuberniskos Sika, previously inter ... |
Chief Secretary of South Australia | ... am Gosse sighted the landmark and named it Ayers Rock in honour of the then | , Sir Henry Ayers. Since then, both names have been used |
Newton Arvin | ... uments and records for the day by day Melville Log (1951). In the same year | published the critical biography Herman Melville, which won the nonfiction ... |
Brian Moynahan | ... ed violence or torture while interrogating heretics. Later authors, such as | and Michael Farris, cite Foxe when repeating these allegations. More himse ... |
Simón Bolívar | In 1815, | , the South American political leader who was instrumental in Latin Americ ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... s reason, National Park Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. | , Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each ... |
W. S. Gilbert | ... d, an American critic, claims that Wilde drew inspiration for his plot from | 's Engaged. Meticulous revisions continued throughout the Autumn—such that ... |
Aristotle | ... us of Erythrae and Xenophilus the Pythagorean, he finally became a pupil of | , whom he appears to have rivaled in the variety of his studies. According ... |
Lloyd Alexander | ... igh fantasy include works for children by authors such as L. Frank Baum and | alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and Jonathan Swift, which are more often ... |
Sir Henry Ayers | ... med it Ayers Rock in honour of the then Chief Secretary of South Australia, | . Since then, both names have been used |
Arthur Witty | ... blue and red design of the Barcelona shirt. The son of the first president, | , claimed it was the idea of his father as the colours were the same as th ... |
Herodotus | The ram deity of Mendes was described by | in his History as being represented with the head and fleece of a goat: “. ... |
Boom Bip | ... s" (from the album Machine Says Yes by FC Kahuna) and "Do's and Don'ts" (by | ) as well as "Just War" from Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's album . He ha ... |
Michael Farris | ... ure while interrogating heretics. Later authors, such as Brian Moynahan and | , cite Foxe when repeating these allegations. More himself denied these al ... |
Charles Péguy | ... res has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. The poet | (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before ... |
Carl Jung | The Swiss Psychologist | wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dea ... |
Louisa May Alcott | ... ritics, including Leslie Fiedler, Norman Mailer, and Russell Baker.) Writer | criticized the book’s publication as well, saying that if Twain "[could no ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... s ever written before 1965. His short story "The Waveries" was described by | as "what may be the most significant—startlingly so—story SF has yet produ ... |
Hilderic | ... m the primary religion in North Africa. Generally most Vandal kings, except | , persecuted Trinitarian Christians to a greater or lesser extent, banning ... |
Dafydd ap Gwilym | ... it was once claimed to be the site of the grave of the medieval Welsh poet | , but this is one of the discredited theories of Iolo Morganwg. There are ... |
Louis Henkin | Prominent critics in the human rights community, such as Prof. | (non-self-execution declaration incompatible with the Supremacy Clause) an ... |
Hans Christian Andersen | ... te a chamber opera by the Danish Royal Opera, Copenhagen, on the subject of | 's infatuation with Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. Called The Secret Songs it ... |
John Zerzan | ... of the precursors of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in | . For George Woodcock this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea ... |
Ernest Hemingway | Many subsequent critics, | among them, have deprecated the final chapters, claiming the book "devolve ... |
John Foxe | ... cs during his time as Lord Chancellor. The popular anti-Catholic polemicist | , who "placed Protestant sufferings against the background of... the Antic ... |
Giordano Bruno | ... cis Walsingham. In the same year, he made a visit to Oxford University with | , who subsequently dedicated two books to Sidney |
Lord Alfred Douglas | ... were borrowed from people or places the author had known; Lady Queensberry, | ' mother, for example, lived at Bracknell. Michael Feingold, an American c ... |
Carl Barks | ... iginally created in 1956 by the legendary Scrooge McDuck artist and creator | , the creator of much of the Duck universe. He is portrayed as an ambitiou ... |
Thomas Kyd | ... witness his allusions to Webster, Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare and | in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture he said "Every poet would like, I fan ... |
Daniel Dennett | "Modern compatibilists", such as Harry Frankfurt and | , argue that there are cases where a coerced agent's choices are still fre ... |
Henry III | ... asons. The precursor of the Liberties was laid out in the 13th century when | ordered that a strip of land adjacent to the castle be kept clear. Despite ... |
Maria Feodorovna | ... sia. However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, | (Helen Hayes), of her authenticity |
Cornell Woolrich | ... ) and The Far Cry, powerful noir suspense novels reminiscent of the work of | , and The Lenient Beast, with its experiments in multiple first-person vie ... |
John Cage | ... n Young visited Darmstadt in 1959, he encountered the music and writings of | . There he also met Cage's collaborator, pianist David Tudor, who subseque ... |
Alexandre Pétion | ... m in the north directed by Henri I; and a republic in the south directed by | , an homme de couleur. Henri I is best known for constructing the Citadell ... |
George Lucas | THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by | in his directorial debut. The film is written by Lucas and Walter Murch. I ... |
John Lustig | ... s stated that both he and Scrooge are distantly related to Bogey McDivot in | and Vicar's comic book story "Family of Fore. |
Džemal Bijedić | ... e ASIO might have files relating to threats against Yugoslav Prime Minister | , who was about to visit Australia, and feared the ASIO might conceal or d ... |
Russell T Davies | In 1999, | 's Queer as Folk, a popular TV series shown on Channel 4 (UK) debuted and ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... eam music, Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne music, and Edvard Grieg's music for | 's Peer Gynt. Parts of all of these are often performed in concerts outsid ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding | on his way to his inauguration. His agents often worked undercover as Conf ... |
Francis Walsingham | ... allen through in 1571. In 1583, he married Frances, teenage daughter of Sir | . In the same year, he made a visit to Oxford University with Giordano Bru ... |
Roger Ebert | ... tating: "Blow isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told." | gave the film 2½ out of 4 stars, but questioned the value about making Jun ... |
James, Duke of York | ... timate children, and was due to be succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother, | . A parliamentary effort to exclude James from the line of succession aros ... |
Roger Ebert | ... The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven. Film critic | speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( ... |
Aristotle | ... fl. 335 BC) of Tarentum was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of | . Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, hav ... |
Hesychius | ... othrace; they were identified with the crab (karkinos) by the lexicographer | , and the adjective karkinopous ("crab-footed") signified "lame", accordin ... |
William Shakespeare | ... d Jacobean verse drama; witness his allusions to Webster, Thomas Middleton, | and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture he said "Every poet wo ... |
David | ... was Joseph Martin-Dauch from Castelnaudary. He can be seen on the right of | 's sketch, seated with his arms crossed and his head bowed |
L. Frank Baum | ... e definitions of high fantasy include works for children by authors such as | and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and Jonathan Swift, ... |
Jackie Chan | ... ovie was in Rush Hour 2, but because she did not speak English at the time, | had to interpret everything the director said to her. In the movie, her ch ... |
Billy Snedden | From the start of the Whitlam government, the Opposition, led by | (who replaced McMahon as Liberal leader in December 1972) sought to use co ... |
Marguerite de Navarre | ... River"; and he named Upper New York Bay the Bay of Santa Margarita - after | - the elder sister of the king |
David Brin | ... nsparent Society (1998) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author | in which he forecasts social transparency and some degree of erosion of pr ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... was deemed excellent by doctors and recommended for lung disease patients. | , who suffered from tuberculosis, wintered in Davos in 1880 at the recomme ... |
Donald Wandrei | Lovecraft protégés and part owners of Arkham House, August Derleth and | , often claimed copyrights over Lovecraft's works. On October 9, 1947, Der ... |
David Hume | ... happen thereafter." This restated the Scottish Enlightenment concept which | had put in 1777 as "all inferences from experience suppose ... that the fu ... |
Josiah Bartlet | ... esident of the United States," referring to his role as fictional president | on The West Wing. Cindy Sheehan had been demanding a second meeting with t ... |
King William I | ... f the powers gathered at the Congress of Vienna, William proclaimed himself | . He was also made grand duke of Luxembourg, and the title 'Prince of Oran ... |
Princess Augusta of Cambridge | ... was also close to her aunt, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (née | ), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the Crown Prin ... |
Ottonian | After many changes in ownership between the | and Salian noble families, it was the Counts of Sayn, Diez and Wied who fi ... |
Katharine Ross | ... ng. Sundance then leaves to visit his lover, the schoolteacher Etta Place ( | ). The next morning, Butch arrives on a bicycle, and takes Etta for a ride |
Robert Christgau | | , writing in Creem, praised the album, saying "This boy has a lot more of ... |
Agnes Strickland | ... . Some blame for this mistake could be attributed to 19th century historian | 's book on the wives of King Henry VIII. Research of documents (including ... |
Adam of Bremen | Cnut died at Shaftesbury in 1035. Symeon of Durham and | suggest that Cnut had reserved the English throne for Harold, while the En ... |
Elessar | On May 1, 3019 King | 's coronation took place on the plain outside Minas Tirith, he then entere ... |
Jerome | ... a different person to the Apostle John. This opinion, although reported by | , was not held by all, as Jerome himself attributed the epistles to John t ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... staVision with Dolby Sound. Imagine a Star Wars-style space opera penned by | in the throes of a religious conversion. Wolfe has continued in full diapa ... |
Joe Simon | | was inspired at the moment he was considering an appropriate villain for C ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Commission. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President | in 1953. Both found numerous inefficiencies and ways to reduce waste. The ... |
Sean McDonough | ... taff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, | , Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed also hosted a free ... |
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 ... |
Bruce Schneier | ... a magazine article by Brin in Wired in late 1996. In 2008, security expert | called the transparent society concept a "myth" (a characterization Brin l ... |
C. J. Dennis | ... ver 80 shorts and several stage productions. Notable collaborators included | , George Wallace and Frank Harvey. Film production continued only until 19 ... |
President pro tempore | ... hen he died, Kennedy was the second most senior member of the Senate, after | Robert Byrd of West Virginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all ... |
John Zerzan | ... as been traced back through time, language, art, and symbolic culture – see | ). Agriculture introduced the concept of a surplus along with the conditio ... |
Richard Keys | Disgraced former Sky Sports broadcaster | is also a Coventrian, a product of Whitley Abbey School |
Hippolochus | ... esteemed warriors: Sarpedon (son of Zeus and Laodamia) and Glaucus (son of | ) |
Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... out the alliance between Hastings and the Woodvilles which was formed while | , was Protector, before he took the throne as King Richard III. She was ac ... |
Pinklao | ... on during the reign of King Mongkut, Rama IV. It was his brother, Vice-king | , who, after watching demonstration of Western dining etiquette by America ... |
Ian Eagle | ... produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, | , Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed also hosted a free-format sho ... |
Nipsey Russell | ... girl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, | and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 release, the film adaptation of The Wi ... |
Horace | ... rative realism admired by Greco-Roman connoisseurs, succinctly expressed in | 's words ut pictura poesis, "as is painting so is poetry." Apelles seemed ... |
Tommaso Landolfi | ... Rome in Piazza Campo Marzio near the Pantheon and began editing the work of | for Rizzoli. Awarded the French Légion d'honneur in 1981, he also accepted ... |
Orville J. Nave | Galion was the birthplace of | in 1841. Nave was a chaplain in the United States Army and the editor of N ... |
Tom Matte | ... icons like Pro Bowlers Bobby Boyd (db), Mike Curtis (lb), John Mackey (te), | (rb), Fred Miller (dl), Earl Morrall (qb), Willie Richardson (wr), and Bob ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ven though Lott ran as a Republican. Lott won handily, in large part due to | 's landslide victory in that year's presidential election. Nixon won the 5 ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... n 1880 at the recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George Balfour. | wrote an article about skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is a ... |
Decebalus | ... Second Dacian War), the Dacian capital, Sarmizegetusa Regia, was destroyed. | fled but, rather than being captured by the Roman cavalry, committed suici ... |
German Emperor Wilhelm II | ... Margaret of Prussia, daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of | . Nicholas flatly declared that he would rather become a monk than marry t ... |
William II | ... ded to abdicate in 1840. Royal power was curbed during the reign of his son | in a constitution ordered by the King to prevent the Revolution of 1848 fr ... |
George II | ... ow in England. Set in , the house was completed in 1729 during the reign of | and designed by Lord Burlington. William Kent (1685–1748), who took a lead ... |
George W. Bush | ... Wing. Cindy Sheehan had been demanding a second meeting with the President, | |
Raymond Williams | ... ncing that France had entered the race to industrialise. In his 1976 book , | states in the entry for "Industry": "The idea of a new social order based ... |
Charlemagne | ... that had not been accomplished since the days of the Roman Empire (although | had nearly done so around 800 CE). However, France's constant warfare with ... |
Charles Lyell | ... es from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past", and | memorably rephrased in the 1830s as "the present is the key to the past". ... |
President of the United States | ... tates Navy prescribes manning the rail as a possible honor to render to the | and for the heads of state of foreign nations. A similar but less formal c ... |
Ben Affleck | ... lowing him to play a video tape of Rene's new boyfriend, Shannon Hamilton ( | ), having sex with a minor. The film concludes with Brodie and T.S. each r ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ost Honourable Privy Council. After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the | , Charles V, accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was kni ... |
Spike Milligan | ... g, who has had such notable sitters as HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and | |
Paul Lucas | The first drawing of Karnak is found in | ' travel account of 1704, (Voyage du Sieur paul Lucas au Levant). It is ra ... |
Domitian | ... edman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor | , this identification, which no ancient sources suggest, then lost support ... |
Sun Quan | ... divided into three spheres of influence, with Cao Cao dominating the north, | (182–252 CE) dominating the south, and Liu Bei (161–223 CE) dominating the ... |
Harthacnut | ... lish king. She had returned to England (at least) by 1036, while Emma's son | was away in Denmark, at war with the Norwegian king Magnus I, and the Swed ... |
Joe Flaherty | ... Farce comedy troupe. On That '70s Show Mounties were played by SCTV alumni | and Dave Thomas. The British have also exploited the myth: the BBC televis ... |
Jake Humphrey | ... n presenter, Sarah Cawood, who grew up in Maxey; BBC Formula One presenter, | ;, TV presenter and DJ Sir Jimmy Savile, football journalist and talkSPORT ... |
Louis XVIII | ... ater lost this status under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by | and Napoleon III, only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution ... |
William III | William II died in 1849. He was succeeded by his son, King | , a rather conservative, even a reactionary man. William III was sharply o ... |
W. H. Auden | In a 1955 letter to | , Tolkien recollects that he began work on The Hobbit one day early in the ... |
Michael Jayston | ... ngs of the Imperial Court. The Russo-Japanese War is on and Tsar Nicholas ( | ) is warned by Count Witte (Laurence Olivier) and Grand Duke Nicholas (Har ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... ind and neutralize "The Emir", an international terrorist leader modeled on | , while also serving as mentor and trainer to Jack's son Jack Jr., a Campu ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... any of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, | , Myrna Loy, Cesar Romero, Gary Gray, Crawford's first husband, Douglas Fa ... |
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 ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... e for Thomas Kiddell and as a justice of the peace. His father, Sir Thomas, | 's chamberlain, also secured a joint patent in survivorship with his son f ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... hout much difficulty, and even ran unopposed in 1978. In 1980, he served as | 's Mississippi state chairman. He served as (the second-ranking Republican ... |
Cato the Elder | ... which it had been roused by the presence of Hannibal. Others, most notably | , feared that if Carthage was not completely destroyed it would soon regai ... |
Thomas Mann | ... t skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is also the setting of the | novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain). Between 1936 and 1938, Ernst Lu ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... ms - The Song Lyrics of Ralph McTell towards the end of 2005. Dedicated "to | , the man who started it all for me", Time's Poems contains "...all the so ... |
Jack Kirby | ... #1 (cover-dated March 1941), written and drawn by the team of Joe Simon and | |
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 ... |
Sheila Fitzpatrick | ... tly American left-wing historians, some of whose more prominent members are | , Jerry F. Hough, William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and J. Arch Getty. T ... |
Henry VII | ... bourgeois respectability. Lynom lost his position as King's Solicitor when | defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485, but he was ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... se War is on and Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by Count Witte ( | ) and Grand Duke Nicholas (Harry Andrews) that the war is futile and costi ... |
Juliana | ... complete extinction until 1909, when Wilhemina gave birth to her daughter, | . The Dutch royal house remained quite small until the latter 1930s and th ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... ersians, who incorporated them and their lands into the new Persian Empire. | , founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, resolved to complete the conquest of ... |
Alexander I | ... e Diet of Porvoo in 1809 was a landmark in the History of Finland. The Tsar | confirmed the new Finnish constitution (which was essentially the Swedish ... |
Michelangelo Signorile | ... development process, people feel confused and experience turmoil. In 1993, | wrote Queer in America, in which he explored the harm caused both to a clo ... |
Vespasian | Construction of the Colosseum began under the rule of the Emperor | in around 70–72 AD. The site chosen was a flat area on the floor of a low ... |
Bob Dylan | ... rie and The Country Blues', featuring his covers of songs by Woody Guthrie, | and black American blues artists such as Big Bill Broonzy. He also recorde ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... nished the story and then lent the manuscript to several friends, including | and a student of Tolkien's named Elaine Griffiths. In 1936, when Griffiths ... |
Lewis Carroll | Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by | ), also known as Todd's syndrome, is a disorienting neurological condition ... |
William Blake | File:The Wood of the Self-Murderers.jpg| | , c. 1824–27, , Tat |
Judith Butler | ... as living false, unhappy lives. Likewise, philosopher and critical analyst | (1991) states that the in/out metaphor creates a binary opposition which p ... |
Shirley MacLaine | ... ladies, among them Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, | , Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June ... |
Trajan | ... er ascribed to him) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Emperor | 's reign, or 101 AD |
Julia Domna | ... Gaul (now Lyon, France), the son of the later Emperor Septimius Severus and | . At the age of seven, his name was changed to Marcus Aurelius Septimius B ... |
Ezra Pound | In 1915, | , overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the m ... |
Liu Bei | ... o Cao dominating the north, Sun Quan (182–252 CE) dominating the south, and | (161–223 CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By Decembe ... |
Ragnar Frisch | ... n Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with | for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of econom ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... as a reactionary it has been adopted as a self-description by some such as | , Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie and |
Queen Anne | ... nge extinct, and leaving Scotland, England and Ireland to his sister-in-law | |
Tertullian | The earliest possible attestations for 3 John come from | and Origen of Alexandria. Tertullian, "On Monogamy" ch.vi quotes a brief p ... |
Peter Stanford | ... In the book Why I Am Still a Catholic: Essays in Faith and Perseverance by | , the television presenter describes his upbringing as "classic plastic pa ... |
Rupert of Germany | ... Scandinavian king, Eric of Pomerania. Count Palatine John was a son of King | . In 1445, Christopher married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 – 25 November ... |
James Joyce | ... p to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, he met the writer | . Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce doubted Eliot's ability as a po ... |
Ben Affleck | ... , Jay and Silent Bob have found out that comic book artists Holden McNeil ( | ) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) created a popular independent comic book s ... |
Charles II | ... e of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London by | in 1683. The King's Bench adjudged the charter and franchises of the city ... |
Alexander the Great | ... lity of advanced civilizations in ancient Turkmenistan including finds at . | conquered the territory in the 4th century BC on his way to South Asia. In ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... s Antoninus to create a connection to the family of the philosopher emperor | . He was later given the , which referred to the Gallic hooded tunic he ha ... |
Joan Gaspart | ... whiskey were thrown at him from the crowd. President Núñez was replaced by | in 2000, and the three years he was in charge, saw the club decline and ma ... |
Robert Stanfield | ... set by this incident was dangerous. Federal Progressive Conservative leader | initially supported Trudeau's actions, but later regretted doing so. The s ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... ions and four wins), Jack Nicholson (twelve nominations and three wins) and | (ten nominations and one win) |
Crown Prince Naruhito | ... e kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years when | of Japan studied there (1983–85) |
Derrick Jensen | ... domestication or agriculture. Key theorists in the former category include | and John Zerzan while the 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski belongs in the la ... |
Gustav I of Sweden | ... his deceased sister's, the House of Vasa. His great-nephew the future King | had been born a few years before Sten's death. At the time, however, none ... |
Robert M. Price | ... ." Wells' claim of a mythical Jesus has received support from Earl Doherty, | and others. The classical historian R. E. Witt, reviewing The Jesus of the ... |
Princess Irulan | ... mperor Paul remains in a political marriage with Shaddam's eldest daughter, | , and has yet to beget another child with his true love Chani. His rule is ... |
Edward IV of England | ... abeth "Jane" Shore (c.1445 – c.1527) was one of the many mistresses of King | , the first of the three whom he described respectively as "the merriest, ... |
Julius Caesar | Pliny claims that this very painting had been part of the collection of | , but was destroyed when Caesar's mansion on the Palatine Hill burned down ... |
Baldwin II | ... Alexios Strategopoulos captured Constantinople from its last Latin Emperor, | . Michael VIII entered the city on 15 August and had himself crowned toget ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... tatistical Area. The county seat is Jackson. It is named for U.S. President | . It is considered to be one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", named for m ... |
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich | ... iblings and a very small number of the otherwise close-knit Romanov family: | (husband of Nicholas's sister Xenia), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovic ... |
Domitian | ... a decade with the unfavourable (and to some, shameful) peace negotiated by | 's ministers |
Cao Pi | ... CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By December his son | (187–226 CE) had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known po ... |
John Zerzan | ... griculture. Key theorists in the former category include Derrick Jensen and | while the 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski belongs in the latter, though the ... |
Bob Dole | ... k control of the Senate in 1995, succeeding as Majority Leader in 1996 when | resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign. As majorit ... |
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | ... cluded a review of alternative theories, such as those of Thomas Burnet and | |
Steven Spielberg | ... nations and three wins) and Laurence Olivier (ten nominations and one win). | purchased Davis's Oscars for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938) when they ... |
Adam of Bremen | ... the fathers of Svein and Harold were respectively a priest and a shoemaker. | states that Svein and Harold were sons to Cnut and a concubina (but that C ... |
Ernie Wise | ... 5) runners-up (and Brit Award 2010 British Breakthrough Act) JLS. Comedian, | , lived on Thorpe Avenue for many years, next door to Canadian baritone an ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nominee | acknowledged Hoover's absence in his acceptance speech |
Adolf Hitler | ... metimes spelled Shmidt), was a former Nazi general officer and confidant of | . He has been closely affiliated with HYDRA and is an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D ... |
Paul Graham | Arc is a dialect of the Lisp programming language now under development by | and Robert Morris |
Edward I of England | Quo warranto had its origins in an attempt by King | to investigate and recover royal lands, rights, and franchises in England, ... |
Gerald Warner | ... ry it has been adopted as a self-description by some such as H. L. Mencken, | of Craigenmaddie and |
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 ... |
Joe Namath | The result of the game was surprising to many in the sports media as | and Matt Snell led the American Football League champion Jets to a World C ... |
Eric Hoffer | ... tion seemed to fit reality better than the Friedrich-Brzezinski definition. | in his book The True Believer argues that mass movements like communism, F ... |
King Louis XIV of France | ... heir in William III's will. The principality was captured by the forces of | under François Adhémar de Monteil, Count of Grignan, in the Franco-Dutch W ... |
William McKinley | Upon the inauguration of | as president of the United States on March 4, 1897, the Republic of Hawaii ... |
President of Ireland | ... fficial name, Ireland, and its letters of credence are now addressed to the | |
John Ruskin | ... married Joan Ruskin Agnew, a cousin of the Victorian art and social critic | . The Severns had another child, Henry, who died as an infant in a crib ac ... |
Maximilian Schell | In 2006, she appeared alongside Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave and | in the mini-series The Shell Seekers |
Joan Laporta | ... t era, the club bounced back with the combination of a new young president, | , and a young new manager, former Dutch player Frank Rijkaard. On the fiel ... |
F. Hugh Herbert | ... r and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara. Written by | based on his 1951 play of the same title, the film is about a young woman ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... . To date, he has the longest retirement of any President. Former President | will surpass the length of Hoover's retirement on September 7, 2012. At th ... |
Bill Clinton | ... had a major role in the Senate trial following the impeachment of President | . After the House narrowly voted to impeach Clinton, Lott proceeded with t ... |
Nero | ... ited. It was devastated by the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, following which | seized much of the area to add to his personal domain. He built the grandi ... |
Ohthere | ... wulf as Hrefnesholt, the Geatish hillfort which became the prison of Onela, | and their mother until their rescue by Ongenþeow |
Charles Eliot Norton | ... ting a separation from his wife for some time. When Harvard offered him the | professorship for the 1932-1933 academic year, he accepted and left Vivien ... |
Xenia | ... nov family: Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (husband of Nicholas's sister | ), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (the most artistic of the Imperia ... |
Eric of Pomerania | ... r married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 – 25 November 1495), in Copenhagen. | was deposed as king of Denmark and Sweden in 1439. As Eric's nephew, Chris ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Sindarin: ), originally named Minas Anor, is a fictional city and castle in | 's Middle-earth writings. It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondo ... |
Decebalus | During the following winter, King | launched a counter-attack across the Danube further downstream, but this w ... |
Gustav III of Sweden | ... named after Sten Sture. In 1792 it was a prison, where the murderer of King | was jailed before hi |
J. J. Thomson | ... s own as a compressed electron (detected in 1897 by British experimentalist | ) would prove unstable. Meanwhile, other experimenters began to detect une ... |
John le Carré | ... after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate | , himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley ... |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... . Arguably, the most distinguished Romantic poet of this part of Europe was | , who developed an idea that Poland was the Messiah of Nations, predestine ... |
John Keats | ... 1879 at the age of 85, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery alongside | . Both gravestones are still standing today. Shelley and Trelawny are also ... |
George W. Bush | Branstad was appointed by President | to chair the President's Commission for Excellence in Special Education. T ... |
Bob Costas | ... ing. It is best known for its sports staff, which has produced the likes of | , Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and ... |
Leopold I of Belgium | ... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned by | in 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ... |
presidents | ... ished its community and re-formed its government, producing several notable | coming from the Visayas region |
Marv Albert | ... est known for its sports staff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, | , Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton ... |
Kevin Max | ... Vicker as Frank, Leigh Bingham Nash from Sixpence None the Richer as Clare, | as Ivory and Michael Tait as Buzz |
Henry III of Castile | ... lian expedition led by Juan de Bethencourt conquered the Canary Islands for | |
Charlemagne | ... part of Frisia, Groningen became a part of the Frankish Empire around 785. | assigned the Christianization of this new possession to Ludger. In the 11t ... |
Fulvia Plautilla | ... ank space next to Caracalla's. Among those killed were Caracalla's ex-wife, | , and her brother and other members of the family of his former father-in- ... |
Trajan | ... t was banished from Rome to the Chersonesus during the reign of the Emperor | and was set to work in a stone quarry. Finding on his arrival that the pri ... |
Lazare Carnot | But not all the credit for the innovations of this period go to Napoleon. | played a large part in the reorganization of the French army from 1793 to ... |
George Smiley | ... te John le Carré, himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster | was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector Vivian H. H. Green. At least ... |
Lazare Carnot | ... ctionary cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of | 's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor |
Roy Jones, Jr. | ... yson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, Andrew Golota, Félix Trinidad, | Marco Antonio Barrera and Nikolai Valuev |
Queen Victoria | ... stop on the East Coast Main Line and Cross Country Route. Opened in 1850 by | , it was the first covered railway station in the world and was much copie ... |
John Adams | ... 2. At the time of his death he was the second longest-lived president after | ; both were since surpassed by Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. He had outli ... |
Sarah Cawood | ... nd Luke Pasqualino, best known for his role in Skins; television presenter, | , who grew up in Maxey; BBC Formula One presenter, Jake Humphrey;, TV pres ... |
Mike Tirico | ... its sports staff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, | , Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed al ... |
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle | ... (English: "War Song for the Army of the Rhine") was written and composed by | in 1792. The French National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthe ... |
Edward Arnold | Actors known for their early support of SAG (besides the founders) include | , Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, ... |
Honoré de Balzac | ... es) and the University of Urbino. His interests included classical studies: | , Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyra ... |
Alberta Premier | ... Canada and sought to expand its base in the east. Manning, son of longtime | Ernest Manning, gained support partly from the same political constituency ... |
William III | ... illiam died of smallpox on November 6, 1650, leaving only a posthumous son, | (*November 14, 1650). Since there was no Prince of Orange upon the death o ... |
Helen Deutsch | ... uppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets. The screenplay by | was adapted from "The Man Who Hated People," a short story by Paul Gallico ... |
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich | ... e). Alexandra disliked in particular the family of Nicholas's senior uncle, | , and his wife Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who, during the war, openly ... |
dynasty of Shaka | ... er a single king and made internal divisions and civil wars inevitable. The | was deposed, and the Zulu country portioned among eleven Zulu chiefs, incl ... |
Charlemagne | ... the Frankish court. Thus it would seem to be a case of a building work from | 's time ("Charlemagne" is "Karl der Große" – "Charles the Great" (740s–814 ... |
Tom Candiotti | ... ekro (Phil's brother), Charlie Hough, Dave Jolly, Ben Flowers, Wilbur Wood, | , Bob Purkey, Steve Sparks, Eddie Rommel, Tim Wakefield and R. A. Dickey. ... |
Paul Darrow | ... , Bridget Armstrong as Dian de Momerie, Peter Bowles as Major Milligan, and | as Mr. Tallboy. Rachel Herbert appeared as Lady Mary, Gwen Taylor as Pamel ... |
Tomás de Torquemada | Several notorious Inquisitors, such as | , and Don Francisco the archbishop of Coria, were descendants of apostate ... |
Bill Clinton | ... the inspectors were not kicked out by Saddam Hussein, but were withdrawn by | |
Ralph Connor | In 1912, | 's Corporal Cameron of the North-West Mounted Police: A Tale of the MacLeo ... |
Mickey Spillane | ... 's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's , | 's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes. ... |
Robert Bourassa | ... ral to invoke the War Measures Act at the request of the Premier of Quebec, | , and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau. The provisions took effect at 4 ... |
Hugh Jackman | ... wn include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, | , Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger |
Doug Marlette | ... ganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late | , and David Payne |
emperor | ... from 246 BC to 221 BC during the Warring States Period. He became the first | of a unified China in 221 BC. He ruled until his death in 210 BC at the ag ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | According to | , Lincoln College preserves "more of the character of a 15th century colle ... |
Edmund Wilson | The Hollow Men appeared in 1925. For the critic | , it marked "The nadir of the phase of despair and desolation given such e ... |
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 ... |
Christian I | ... ied suddenly at Helsingborg in 1448. On 28 October 1449, Dorothea remarried | . King Christopher was buried in Roskilde Cathedral. In 1654 his Wittelsba ... |
DJ Krush | supposedly sampled on the title track of | 's 1996 album Meiso, featurin |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... was home to the Bulldogs. It was renamed Emerson High School for the writer | , when the two towns merged. Located on New York Avenue at 18th Street, th ... |
Lloyd Osbourne | ... 90, Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son | sailed on the Janet Nicoll, a trading steamer owned by Henderson and Macfa ... |
H. Rider Haggard | ... shortly after. To counter the force of the North Sea and the winds off it, | sloped the cliff on the edge of his property and experimented with growing ... |
Robert William Wilcox | Hawaiian revolutionary | led several rebellions in pursuit of the restoration of the Hawaiian Kingd ... |
Archduke Ferdinand | World War I begins with the assassination of | . Germany declares war on Russia immediately after Nicholas has ordered th ... |
Ovid Densusianu | ... ", I, Halle a.d.S., 1914, p. 122 and following). This opinion was shared by | (1873–1938), a Romanian folklorist, philologist, and poet who introduced t ... |
Abraham Isaac Kook | ... ther Jews in the 14th century include Juan de Valladolid and Astruc Remoch. | , first Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in then Palestine, held that a ... |
Johnny Unitas | The 1958 team, led by coach Weeb Ewbank and quarterback | defeated the New York Giants at Yankee Stadium 23-17 in the NFL championsh ... |
Liev Schreiber | ... hn Clark has been portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Clear and Present Danger and | in The Sum of All Fears. As of now Paramount is trying to get Without Remo ... |
Voltaire | ... letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to | as an epistolarian. Lovecraft's later correspondence is primarily to fello ... |
Tove Jansson | ... rated by pictures from many of the translated editions, including images by | . The edition also presents a number of little-known texts such as the 192 ... |
Laurie York Erskine | ... s who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were James Oliver Curwood, | , James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of Sam Steele) and Will ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... alls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings | , Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layo ... |
Theodore II Doukas Laskaris | ... employment of the emperors of Nicaea. A few days after the death of Emperor | in 1258, Michael Palaiologos instigated a coup against the influential bur ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... most strongly associated with the 1950s innovations of Ornette Coleman and | and the later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other important pioneers ... |
Ludovico Ariosto | ... sity of Urbino. His interests included classical studies: Honoré de Balzac, | , Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, an ... |
Gina Cerminara's | One such example from | works |
Noam Chomsky | ... aration opposing the invasion of Iraq (along with prominent figures such as | and Susan Sarandon); the declaration appeared in the magazine The Nation. ... |
Jamie Oliver | ... owever, the method was found on some Danish farms by British celebrity chef | in a television programme for the UK's Channel 4 in 2009 |
Erick Morillo | ... City High School proper. Alumni of the school include DJ and music producer | and former Green Bay Packers center Frank Winters |
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 ... |
Titus | ... in 79. The top level was finished and the building inaugurated by his son, | , in 80. Dio Cassius recounts that over 9,000 wild animals were killed dur ... |
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | ... red years before the Stonewall Riots, the German homosexual rights advocate | introduced the idea of self-disclosure as a means of emancipation. Claimin ... |
David Berman | ... ocument pictured here, and still distributed today, was typeset by Ottawa's | intentionally in Carl Dair's Cartier typeface: at the time the most promin ... |
Miranda July | ... with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lois Maffeo and director/writer/performer | . The lineup later solidified around the trio of Johnson, bassist Chris Su ... |
Gary Snyder | ... Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillard and | . Many advocates of Green anarchism and primitivism consider Fredy Perlman ... |
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 ... |
Allen Tate | ... , the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, Eliot's failed marriage. | perceived a shift in Eliot's method, writing that, "The mythologies disapp ... |
Choe Bu | ... –864), the Persian historian Rashid al-Din (1247–1318), the Korean official | (1454–1504) and the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) |
T. S. Eliot | Merton alumni include four Nobel prize winners: poet | , physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and chemist ... |
James Oliver Curwood | ... he best-selling authors who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were | , Laurie York Erskine, James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... liards and watching Hollywood movies, especially those of Buster Keaton and | . He also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and nove ... |
Juan de Valladolid | ... tory by attempting the conversion of other Jews in the 14th century include | and Astruc Remoch |
Hitler | ... which would amount to an end or severe curtailment of Poland's sovereignty | ;abrogated the Polish-German pact. Before the war broke out, Poland entere ... |
Paul Gallico | ... Helen Deutsch was adapted from "The Man Who Hated People," a short story by | which appeared in the October 28, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. ... |
Richard Maltby, Jr. | Ain't Misbehavin is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and | , and music by various composers and lyricists. It is named after the song ... |
Nicholas I | ... Muskau; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882); Russian Tsars | (1796–1855) and Alexander I (1777–1825); the king of Persia; Queen Victori ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... of the Pacific "Wall of the Missing" in Honolulu. In March 1963, President | did a wreath-laying ceremony at O'Hare Airport to honor Butch O'Hare. The ... |
Derrick Jensen | ... ters espousing green anarchism include those critical of technology such as | , George Draffan, and John Zerzan; the techno-positive Murray Bookchin; an ... |
Val Kilmer | ... utive Orders, Clark sarcastically suggests to reporter Robert Holtzman "Get | to play me in the movies" to which Holtzman replies "Too pretty, Nick Cage ... |
Maximinus Thrax | ... epended on the support of the military to rule, like his eventual successor | |
W. G. Sebald | German writer (and sometime lecturer at the University of East Anglia) | in his second book The Rings of Saturn details a coastal walk along the Su ... |
Giacomo Leopardi | ... , Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and | . Between 1972–1973 Calvino published two short stories, "The Name, the No ... |
Jorge Luis Borges | In his short story, "The Secret Miracle", | describes how the protagonist, Jaromir Hladik, had translated the Sefer Ye ... |
Amédée Ozenfant | ... n 1912. His preference for clarity and order influenced the Purist style of | and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), and made Gris an important e ... |
Domitian | ... odelled further under Vespasian's younger son, the newly designated Emperor | , who constructed the hypogeum, a series of underground tunnels used to ho ... |
Van Morrison | ... Richard Davis, upright bass player on "The Angel", also played the bass on | 's Astral Weeks |
Francis Ford Coppola's | ... he feature film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and | new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by Ben Bova was ... |
Henry III | ... were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, | , and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout establis ... |
Jerome | ... ning his bones. However, the oldest sources on Clement's life, Eusebius and | , note nothing of his martyrdom |
Mary Stuart | ... predecessors from the Eighty Years War. In 1677, William married his cousin | , the daughter of the future king James II of England. In 1688, William em ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... thropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes. He turned down offers to direct | 's Something Wicked This Way Comes and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream ... |
Charles Dickens | ... also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by | |
Al Gore | ... 000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President | 's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to Jan ... |
Caroline Dormon | ... come under the management of the State of Louisiana in 2007. The naturalist | helped to lay out the park |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... use of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to | , the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, ... |
William Archer | ... "extremely funny" was Wilde's "first really heartless [one]". In The World, | wrote that he had enjoyed watching the play but found it to be empty of me ... |
Boris | ... criticized the Empress. Quite accurately, she considered their sons Kyrill, | and Andrei to be irredeemably immoral and in 1913 refused Boris's proposal ... |
John Zerzan | ... de those critical of technology such as Derrick Jensen, George Draffan, and | ; the techno-positive Murray Bookchin; and others including Alan Carter |
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he "false emperor" Dietrich Holzschuh, called Tile Kolup, who claimed to be | (who actually had already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When th ... |
Magnus Hirschfeld | ... ls to self-disclose to their family members and acquaintances. Years later, | revisited the topic in his major work The Homosexuality of Men and Women ( ... |
Eric of Pomerania | ... merania-Stolp, and Catherine of Pomerania, sister of the Scandinavian king, | . Count Palatine John was a son of King Rupert of Germany. In 1445, Christ ... |
Bill Clinton | ... of those guilty of "Plastic Paddyism" (or, in his words, "Dermot-itis") are | , Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan. Scottish-Australian songwriter Eri ... |
George W. Bush | ... te gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when | took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Re ... |
George W. Bush | ... Kerry and John Edwards carried Tensas Parish, 1,460 to 1,453 for President | and Richard B. Cheney. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore, won Tensas Parish by 250 ... |
Theodosius II | ... inscription records the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under | and Valentinian III (reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by ... |
Caesar Augustus | ... Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of | . His literary style was Atticistic — imitating Classical Attic Greek in i ... |
Lord Byron | ... et, among other notables, the sculptors John Gibson and Antonio Canova, and | 's friend, the adventurer Edward John Trelawny. Severn made a sketch of Tr ... |
Alexander I | ... an Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nicholas I (1796–1855) and | (1777–1825); the king of Persia; Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and Prince Alb ... |
Drew G. Faust | ... oston-area colleges and universities including Harvard University President | and UMass President Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures including Boston Ce ... |
Eric Hobsbawm | ... time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians. | held that it 'broke out' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt un ... |
John IV Doukas Laskaris | ... rat George Mouzalon, becoming joint guardian for the eight-year old Emperor | together with the patriarch Arsenios. Michael was invested with the titles ... |
Dylan Thomas | ... mmissioned and broadcast The Boy With A Note - 'an evocation of the life of | in words and music'. It was re-recorded and released on McTell's Leola lab ... |
Le Corbusier | ... luenced the Purist style of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret ( | ), and made Gris an important exemplar of the post-war "return to order" m ... |
Nick Fury | ... nough for Gail Richards (his mother) to say her goodbyes. Skull explains to | that all he wanted to do with the Cosmic Cube was to turn back time and pr ... |
Andrei | ... the Empress. Quite accurately, she considered their sons Kyrill, Boris and | to be irredeemably immoral and in 1913 refused Boris's proposal for the ha ... |
Louis XV of France | ... Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King | , who despite French support had lost out to a candidate backed by Russia ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... ld Guy Fawkes" of the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of | and James George Frazer, which, at least for reasons of textual history, e ... |
Charles Lyell | ... evolutionary play is performed. Darwin studied evolution in the context of | 's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some c ... |
Theodore Dalrymple | ... es have themselves often been labeled innately "totalitarian". For example, | , a British author, physician, and political commentator, has written for ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... exerting a dominating influence on the surrounding Ommelanden. Around 1500, | gave Groningen and Friesland to Albert, Duke of Saxony, who could however ... |
King Fuchai of Wu | In the late Spring and Autumn Period (722–481 BC), | , ruler of the State of Wu (present-day Suzhou), ventured north to conquer ... |
William Blake | ... e eras, it has been periodically rediscovered by such later artists such as | , the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Joseph Southall. The 20th centur ... |
Nina Bawden | ... Wireless Theatre Company. She appeared in a production of Carrie's War, the | novel, at the in 2009 |
Ivan III of Russia | In 1493, the Danish and Norwegian king, Hans, formed an alliance with | against Sten Sture. From 1495 to 1497, Sten successfully repelled a Russia ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... ed down offers to direct Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and | 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? He passed the latter to Ridley Sco ... |
Sun Tzu's | ... arrows and fire incendiaries in India at Indus Basin in the 4th century BC. | "Art of War" (c. 500 BC) advises the use of fire weapons. In the 4th centu ... |
President of the United States | ... rican particle physicist, three-time candidate of the Natural Law Party for | (1992, 1996, and 2000), and the director of the Transcendental Meditation ... |
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 ... |
German Empress Frederick | ... was unnecessary to attempt to secure the approval of the people. Her aunt, | , wrote to Queen Victoria that "Alix is very Imperious and will always ins ... |
Roger Ebert | ... xtraordinary females in movies." In a 2000 review for All About Eve, (1950) | noted, "Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style, so even her exc ... |
Philip II | ... and he did not persecute his Protestant subjects on a large scale. His son | inherited his antipathy for the Protestants but not his moderation. Under ... |
Julian Huxley | ... s Symbionticism and the origin of species; and there was a brief mention by | in 1930; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking. Symbiosis as ... |
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 ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... o Lippi and Angelico; Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and the universal genius of | and Michelangelo |
Sergei Diaghilev | In 1924, he designed ballet sets and costumes for | and the famous Ballets Russes |
John of Denmark | ... ion to his distant kinsman Sten Sture the Elder, going as far as supporting | . Unwillingly he then switched sides and supported Sten Sture in overthrow ... |
Madonna | ... onymous Messiah (2001, Vitamin Records). Other tributes include material by | and Blondie |
Allan Gurganus | ... tration of residents who are nationally known authors, including Lee Smith, | , Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Dou ... |
Brian J. Ford | ... presenter, Adrian Durham; and the biologist, author and broadcaster, Prof. | , who attended the King's School and still lives in Eastrea near Whittlese ... |
Scamozzi | ... or made detailed drawings on the sites in Italy; he relied on Palladio and | as his interpreters of the classic tradition. Another source of his inspir ... |
Justinian | ... a whose remnants are found along Murat Toptani Street, was built by Emperor | in 520 AD and restored by Ahmed Pasha Toptani in the 18th century. The are ... |
Murray Bookchin | ... uch as Derrick Jensen, George Draffan, and John Zerzan; the techno-positive | ; and others including Alan Carter |
Edward John Trelawny | ... ors John Gibson and Antonio Canova, and Lord Byron's friend, the adventurer | . Severn made a sketch of Trelawny in 1838 |
Bette Davis | ... es, James MacArthur, June Allyson, Liz Smith, and Rex Reed witnessed abuse. | supported Christina's version, saying that Christina could not have made i ... |
Pliny the Elder | Much of what we know of Apelles is derived from | (Natural History, XXXV). His skill at drawing the human face is the point ... |
Michelangelo | ... Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and the universal genius of Leonardo da Vinci and | |
Peter Kropotkin | ... elated to the work and ideas of Murray Bookchin and influenced by anarchist | . Social ecologists assert that the present ecological crisis has its root ... |
Lysimachus | ... he other successors of Alexander, and Lycia became a part of the kingdom of | , who ruled until he was killed in battle in 281 BC. By 240 BC Lycia was p ... |
Nellie Melba | Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame | and Dame Joan Sutherland; country music stars Slim Dusty (Australia's bigg ... |
Henry III | ... osopher David Hume, in his history of England, recounts how in the reign of | (r.1216 - 1272) the English Navy destroyed an invading French fleet, by bl ... |
Aelius Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... date of his death is unknown. It is commonly supposed he is the ancestor of | |
James Goldman | The film was adapted by | from the book by Robert K. Massie. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffne ... |
Joshua Lederberg | The role of symbiosis in cell evolution was revived partly by | , and finally brought to light by Lynn Margulis in a series of papers and ... |
Richard Wagner | On 17 April 1870 | visited Bayreuth, because he had read about the Margrave Opera House, whos ... |
Annie Dillard | ... ionally known authors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, | , Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
Dante Alighieri | The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of | and refers to a number of literary works, including Hamlet and those of th ... |
Albert Einstein | ... wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of Max Planck and | on light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material, passed his thesis ... |
Al Gore | ... 1,453 for President George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. In 2000, Democrat | , won Tensas Parish by 250 votes. The Democratic electors polled 1,580 vot ... |
Kim Il-sung | ... mary and secondary schools is greater than the 1,800 taught in South Korea. | had earlier called for a gradual elimination of the use of hanja, but by t ... |
Dorothy L. Sayers | Murder Must Advertise is a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel by | , published in 1933. Most of the action takes place in an advertising agen ... |
Murray Bookchin | Social ecology is closely related to the work and ideas of | and influenced by anarchist Peter Kropotkin. Social ecologists assert that ... |
Valentinian III | ... s the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under Theodosius II and | (reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by a major earthquake ... |
Rob Reiner | ... ocrats for Life of America's Pregnant Women Support Act. In 2004 along with | , Sheen campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and ... |
Michael Malone | ... ents who are nationally known authors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, | , Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar | , and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra |
J. Arch Getty | ... Sheila Fitzpatrick, Jerry F. Hough, William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and | . Though their individual interpretations differ, the revisionists have ar ... |
Livy | According to | it was "the most memorable of all wars that were ever waged: the war which ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... evious experience with Germany at the end of World War I, in 1946 President | selected the former president to tour Germany to ascertain the food status ... |
Madonna | "No More Words" was also included as the B-side of | 's #1 hit of 1985, "Crazy for You". Both songs were part of the soundtrack ... |
President of the United States | ... nd of South Carolina, a long time conservative leader. Thurmond had run for | in 1948 on the Dixiecrat (or States' Rights) ticket. Lott said: "When Stro ... |
Mel Gibson | ... lian trained actors of renown include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, | , Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Heath Led ... |
Johannes Linnankoski | ... Porvoo and beside the Porvoo river. Suomenkylä has an old school founded by | in 1898. The village of Suomenkylä also has two burial places from Bronze ... |
Augustus | ... a few Roman remains, which were constructed during the reign of the emperor | . There was a military camp at Dorlar and some Roman roadwork. The most im ... |
J. D. Salinger | During this period, Bakshi reread | 's The Catcher in the Rye, which he had first read in high school, and saw ... |
Guy of Lusignan | That year he allied with Sibylla and | against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed to the recognition of ... |
Bud Adams | | established the Titans/Oilers Hall of Fame after the 40th season of the fr ... |
Le Corbusier | ... the Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as | . Pei was inspired by the innovative designs of the new International styl ... |
R. H. Barlow | ... s works, especially his later works. Lovecraft had specified that the young | would serve as executor of his literary estate, but these instructions had ... |
Paul I | ... uld not be the heir presumptive due to the Pauline Laws implemented by tsar | : only a male could succeed to the Russian throne, although there had been ... |
Chet Culver | ... epublican nomination to run again for governor. He faced incumbent Governor | , a Democrat and four third party candidates on November 2, 2010. He won t ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son | to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a dec ... |
Hal Crowther | ... uthors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, | , Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
Constantine Porphyrogenitus | ... rly complete, and the remaining books exist in fragments in the excerpts of | and an epitome discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first t ... |
William Shakespeare | ... of King Richard III, which was never finished, but which greatly influenced | 's play Richard III. Both More's and Shakespeare's works are controversial ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... is job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a decade later, | was assassinated |
Coretta Scott King | ... crime in 1983 by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from Jesse Jackson, | , George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among others, being written ... |
Sverker II of Sweden | ... According to genealogical research, Sten Sture's father descended from King | (both through family of Vinga and through family of Aspenäs) |
Sanford B. Dole | Article 23 of the constitution personally named | as the first president and gave him a term of office stretching through 19 ... |
Rabbel II Soter | At about the same time | , one of Rome's client kings, died. This event might have prompted the ann ... |
Charles Howard Hinton | ... glish Dictionary, the word "tesseract" was coined and first used in 1888 by | in his book A New Era of Thought, from the Greek ("four rays"), referring ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... 35,000 men, with 80 battle tanks and 200 field artillery — was deployed, as | wanted the victory to be credited to Italy. On 9 March 1937, the Italians ... |
Gn. Pompeius | The last two treatises are supplemented by letters to | and Ammaeus (two) |
Andrew Carmellini | ... five Project Runway competitor Stephen "Suede" Baum and New York City chef | |
Theodoric the Great | ... Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King | for their high cost |
James Joyce | ... ern literature, a poetic counterpart to a novel published in the same year, | 's Ulysses |
Lois Maffeo | ... ure of the ensemble led to collaborations with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, | and director/writer/performer Miranda July. The lineup later solidified ar ... |
Tatiana | ... . Olga was well-loved by her young parents. Three more girls followed Olga: | on 10 June 1897, Maria on 26 June 1899 and Anastasia on 18 June 1901. Thre ... |
Scott Ritter | ... ation of UN mandates to justify more severe action. It should be noted that | , chief UN weapons inspector at the time, says that the inspectors were no ... |
Richard Aldington | ... anced himself from its vision of despair. On November 15, 1922, he wrote to | , saying, "As for The Waste Land, that is a thing of the past so far as I ... |
Macrinus | Caracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect, | , who (according to Herodian) was most probably responsible for having the ... |
Marco Polo | | , the famed explorer, saw newborns exposed in Manzi. China's society pract ... |
Prince of Wales | ... ing back in Britain and on the King's sixtieth birthday, George was created | . The family moved their London residence from St James's Palace to Marlbo ... |
Julie Foudy | ... randi Chastain, Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, | , Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Ove ... |
Michelangelo | ... naissance period up to 1500. For example, every surviving panel painting by | is egg tempera |
President pro tempore of the Senate | ... edy family. ... I will miss him." Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the | , issued a statement on Kennedy's death in which he said "My heart and sou ... |
Frances Mayes | ... ing Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, | , the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
Anne Boleyn | ... ion and had bitterly opposed the king's divorce, his subsequent marriage to | and its religious ramifications. In 1536, within two weeks of the riot in ... |
Frank Wycheck | ... ike Keith is the team's play-by-play announcer, and former Titans tight end | provides color commentary during games. Previous to Wycheck, Pat Ryan prov ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | In 1890, | , his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son Lloyd Osbourne sailed on ... |
Gus Kahn | #"I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones/ | ) – 4:0 |
Fynes Moryson | ... o hurt others like millers whose livelihood relied on agricultural produce. | reported on these problems in his 1617 work An Itinerary |
Robert Stephenson | ... accident. The bridge had been designed and built by famed-railway engineer | for the Chester and Holyhead Railway. A Royal Commission inquiry found tha ... |
Conrad Aiken | Eliot wrote to | on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, wh ... |
Danny Williams | ... s over the agreement would be harsh, with Newfoundland and Labrador Premier | , at one point ordering all Canadian flags removed from provincial governm ... |
Lactantius | ... that apologists Tertullian, Athenagoras, Minucius Felix, Justin Martyr and | also maintained that exposing a baby to death was a wicked act. In 318 AD ... |
Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... either Immanuel Neumann or Yehoshua Supersky (of the General Zionists) and | or Eliyahu Ben Horin (of Hatzohar). The committee was in charge of the Irg ... |
Steven Erlanger | New York Times journalist | reported that "Hamas rocket and weapons caches, including rocket launchers ... |
Charles VIII | ... the Sture family and Birgitta Stensdotter Bielke, half-sister of the future | . He was married to Ingeborg Tott, niece by marriage of Magdalen of Sweden ... |
Glen A. Larson | | , the creator and executive producer of Battlestar Galactica, said he had ... |
Alfred the Great | ... unclear, since Truso was at the time little more than a trading center, and | , the West Saxon ruler, already kept in close contact with the continental ... |
William Montgomery Brown | Galion was also home to | , a bishop of the Episcopal Church who was tried by the church and convict ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ces to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and | . Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of national archives ... |
Pepin II | ... rlordship over his brothers' kingdoms and supported the claim of his nephew | as king of Aquitaine, a large province in western France. After his brothe ... |
Carausius | ... one. He ruled until he was betrayed by his Pictish allies and overthrown by | , who, according to Geoffrey, was a Briton, rather than the historically m ... |
Mike Harding | ... included Billy Connolly, Georgie Fame, Simon Nicol with Dave Swarbrick, and | |
Napoleon III | ... tatus under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and | , only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution of 1830. During ... |
Bruce Timm | ... cutives, Kricfalusi insisted that the artists add visual gags as they drew. | , Andrew Stanton, Dave Marshall and Jeff Pidgeon were among the artists wh ... |
Constantine I | ... s also maintained that exposing a baby to death was a wicked act. In 318 AD | considered infanticide a crime, and in 374 AD Valentinian I mandated to re ... |
Sigvatr | ... instance, the following verse is attributed to her contemporary, the skald | |
Louis II | ... English eventually evolved into the modern Lorraine. Lothair's eldest son, | inherited Italy and his father's claim to the Imperial title |
Roland Barthes | ... roir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met | , Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later ... |
Prince of Wales | ... est man in England" and, according to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the | said that he would go anywhere to hear Wilberforce sing. Wilberforce used ... |
Willie Rushton | ... ngs. McTell featured in three series alongside guests including John Wells, | , Kenny Lynch, Penelope Keith and Nerys Hughes. Mays Records released The ... |
Richard Blackmore | ... ctories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from Queen Anne. | 's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone among English poems in ... |
Richard Löwenthal | ... r, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, | , Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Frie ... |
Alexei Nikolaevich | ... e more years passed before the Empress gave birth to the long-awaited heir: | was born in Peterhof on 12 August 1904. To his parents' dismay, Alexei was ... |
Vartan Gregorian | ... Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson, Carnegie Corporation president | , and Jim Rettig, president of the American Library Association |
Hilaire Belloc's | ... removing obstacles to the growth of capitalism. (This point is also made in | The Servile State. |
Hal David | ... for a Motion Picture (not a Musical); Best Music, Song (Burt Bacharach and | for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"); and Best Writing, Story and Scre ... |
Charles VIII | Sture came to power after the death of | and consolidated his position through the victory of Brunkeberg. For a qua ... |
King George VI | ... he "King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia," others to the "King of Italy." | , as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, add ... |
Christopher Anderson | ... ous journals that would eventually be cited in over a hundred other papers. | wrote in a 1992 news article in Nature that Hagelin, co-developer of one o ... |
BBC Radio 2 | During 1983, McTell presented his own music series on | . His guests included Billy Connolly, Georgie Fame, Simon Nicol with Dave ... |
Clovis | ... e command of Clodio the Long-Haired took the town. In the early 6th century | undertook to unify the Frankish kingdoms by getting rid of his relatives. ... |
Dustin Lance Black | In March 2012, Sheen was featured with George Clooney in a performance of | 's play, '8' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned C ... |
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 ... |
Wilhelm II | ... II, while the next two have a "W" for the respective kaisers, Wilhelm I and | . The final version shows a swastika |
John Lennon | ... made a considerable impact on the humour of The Beatles, and especially on | . On 30 September 1973, Lennon reviewed the book The Goon Show Scripts for ... |
Clive Jenkins | ... tionalised" and "When Wales get home rule, do you think they'll nationalise | ". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government of M ... |
Huan Tan | ... ed by scholars. Philosophical works written by Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE), | (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and Wang Fu (78–163 CE) question ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... o was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised with the other 39 by | in 1970 |
Bill Friday | ... lor of UCLA from 1997 to 2006 after a 23 year tenure at Harvard University. | served as president of the University of North Carolina system for 30 year ... |
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 ... |
Wulfstan of Hedeby | Around the year 890, | (by his own account) undertook a seven-days boat journey from Hedeby to Tr ... |
Victor Emmanuel III | ... iopia) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the King of Italy ( | ), not all states recognized this claim (see diplomatic recognition), and ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ment of greatest ignominy, when it predicted that Thomas Dewey would defeat | in the 1948 election, by five to 15 percentage points. Gallup believed the ... |
Barack Obama | ... ry 2010, China promised $4.2 million for the quake-hit island. US President | pledged $1.15 billion in assistance. nations promised more than 400 millio ... |
Jools Holland | #*Sam Brown: lead vocal / | : piano / Jim Capaldi: drum |
Mary Tudor | ... y, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on | , goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The ... |
Chris Rock | ... t Bob fill out their roles as prophets: they predict the arrival of Rufus ( | ), the thirteenth apostle, who was left out of the Bible because he was bl ... |
Janet L. Robinson | ... ecember 2008, and presented by The New York Times Company president and CEO | , Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian, and Jim Rettig, preside ... |
Napoleon I | ... July 1795, making it France's first anthem. It later lost this status under | , and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and Napoleon III, only b ... |
Enzo Biagi | ... n he appeared in documentaries. In an interview with the Italian journalist | , Buscetta cheerfully bragged that he lost his virginity at the age of eig ... |
Lothair II | ... the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's kingdom. However on the death of | , who had no heir, king Charles the Bald tried to gain control of his king ... |
Madame de Staël | ... h as Goostree's and Boodle's in Pall Mall, London. The writer and socialite | described him as the "wittiest man in England" and, according to Georgiana ... |
Hugh Cornwell | ... ng vocals and sometimes misanthropic lyrics of both Jean-Jacques Burnel and | . Over time, their output gradually grew more refined and sophisticated. S ... |
Alfred the Great | ... ertook a seven-days boat journey from Hedeby to Truso at the behest of king | . One possible reason for this expedition was because Alfred needed aid in ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's legendary History of the Kings of Britain makes Caracalla a king of Bri ... |
Moses | ... ined much unchanged since the wooden figurines (of Saint Peter, Saint Paul, | and Aaron) were placed on the front pews and the carved ceiling was instal ... |
John Keats | ... rtrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet | . He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, a ... |
Randolph Quirk | Furthermore, | and Gabriele Stein thought about a Nuclear English, which, however, has ne ... |
Christian I | ... g in 1471, he triumphed against Swedish and Danish forces in the support of | . This victory elevated Sture to the position of a national savior. The sc ... |
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg | ... diately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII to | , at which the bride and groom narrowly avoided assassination. Only a week ... |
Georges Perec | ... ure potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met Roland Barthes, | , and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production. Th ... |
Ibn Tumart | The movement was started by | in the Masmuda tribe, followed by Abd al-Mu'min al-Gumi between 1130 and h ... |
William the third | ... all Dutch monarchs have been buried in the same church. His great-grandson | , King of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, was bur ... |
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland | ... enclosure was a result of inflation, he was only ignored. It was not until | was Protector that his finance minister William Cecil took action on debas ... |
Yu the Great | ... ated it much earlier than the 4th century BC, attributing it to the work of | ; modern scholars now consider it to belong to the 6th century BC |
Abbie Hoffman | Steal This Book is a book written by | . Written in 1970 and published in 1971 the book exemplified the counter-c ... |
Andrew Gilligan | ... partment of State. It was also added to the terrorism list on 27 June 2002. | , reporting for The London Evening Standard, stated that the Sikh Federati ... |
Louis the Pious | ... dun-sur-Meuse, August 843) was a treaty between the three surviving sons of | , the son and successor of Charlemagne, which divided the Carolingian Empi ... |
Livy | ... under Rhodian control since the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. A fragment from | records a "pitiful embassy" in 178 BC from Lycia to the Roman Senate compl ... |
Robert Conquest | ... , Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, | , Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe tot ... |
Enrique of Malacca | ... onesian kingdoms since the tribal groups of Cebu were able to converse with | using the Malay language when the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan a ... |
John L. Stevens | ... ount concluded in his report that the overthrow had utilized the aid of the | , United States Minister to Hawaii who ordered the landing of troops from ... |
Baldwin III of Jerusalem | ... nald in secret in 1153, without consulting her first cousin and liege lord, | . Neither King Baldwin nor Aimery of Limoges, the Latin Patriarch of Antio ... |
Tarell Alvin McCraney | ... ecently had his or her professional debut in New York. The first winner was | for his play "The Brothers Size". In 2010, Dan LeFranc won for his play "S ... |
Rajaraja Chola II | ... which abounds in rare sculpture and architectural workmanship, was built by | (1146–73) |
Adam Gussow | ... lar sound of the harp. Overblowing is used by Howard Levy, Frédéric Yonnet, | , Chris Michalek, Paul Nebenzahl, and Jason Ricci and Carlos del Junco are ... |
Domitian | ... ns, known as the Clementine literature, where he is identified with Emperor | 's cousin Titus Favius Clemens. Clementine Literature portrays Clement as ... |
President | ... n Statistical Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003). | Warren G. Harding was a native of Marion. The current administration is le ... |
Ezra Pound | ... significant of which was his introduction to the acclaimed literary figure | . A connection through Aiken resulted in an arranged meeting and on Septem ... |
Robinson | ... d letters of credence to the President of Ireland by name (e.g., "President | ," "President McAleese," etc.). This compromise was agreed to by the gover ... |
Emilio Estevez | He has played the father of sons | and Charlie Sheen in various projects: he played Emilio's father in The Wa ... |
Padishah Emperor | ... e caught in a plot to destroy them, orchestrated by the Baron Harkonnen and | Shaddam Corrino IV himself, who is threatened by Leto's rising power and i ... |
Al Pacino | ... shall had initially considered Christopher Reeve for the role of Lewis, and | turned it down. Pacino went as far as doing a casting reading with Roberts ... |
Sima Qian | ... er. The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan (d. 110 BCE) and his son | (145–86 BCE) established the standard model for all of imperial China's St ... |
Hector Berlioz | "La Marseillaise" was arranged for soprano, chorus and orchestra by | in about 1830 |
Michael Showalter | ... and the two try to scare away the figure, believing it's Lionel Pritchard ( | ), a local prankster. The brothers run screaming around the house to frigh ... |
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 ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... kas Komnenos Palaiologos by Theodora Angelina, the granddaughter of Emperor | and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina. Even with our imperfect knowledge of B ... |
Hugh Cornwell | ... personnel were bass player/vocalist Jean Jacques Burnel, guitarist/vocalist | and keyboardist/guitarist Hans Wärmling, who was replaced by keyboardist D ... |
Chrétien | ... press their suspicions of this alliance in detail, accusing the Trudeau and | governments of funding litigious groups. For example, these governments us ... |
Magnus I | ... e Emma's son Harthacnut was away in Denmark, at war with the Norwegian king | , and the Swedes under their king Anund Jacob. Emma's other sons, Ælfred a ... |
James Wood | ... is told through the eyes of a sympathetic Thomas Cromwell. Literary critic | calls him "cruel in punishment, evasive in argument, lusty for power, and ... |
Sima Qian | ... e diplomat Su Qin in 330 BC when discussing state boundaries. The historian | (145–90 BC) dated it much earlier than the 4th century BC, attributing it ... |
Constance of Antioch | ... joining the Second Crusade in 1147. In the east, he entered the service of | , whose first husband had died in 1149. She married Raynald in secret in 1 ... |
David Crystal | There are also some who reject both linguistic imperialism and | 's theory of the neutrality of English. They argue that the phenomenon of ... |
Tom Robinson | ... m Madness, Heaven 17, Bananarama, Prefab Sprout, Elvis Costello, Gary Kemp, | , Sade, The Beat, Lloyd Cole, The Blow Monkeys and The Smiths along the wa ... |
Otto I | ... he count, who ruled the city and county, and the bishop, ceased when in 948 | granted the bishop with temporal powers over the city. In 1007 emperor Hen ... |
Valentinian I | ... act. In 318 AD Constantine I considered infanticide a crime, and in 374 AD | mandated to rear all children (exposing babies, especially girls, was stil ... |
Andrew Stanton | ... cfalusi insisted that the artists add visual gags as they drew. Bruce Timm, | , Dave Marshall and Jeff Pidgeon were among the artists who worked on the ... |
Queen Louise's | ... shed the military decoration of the Iron Cross, backdated to March 10, late | birthday. The Iron Cross was awarded to soldiers during the Wars of Libera ... |
Christopher Reeve | ... retty Woman was a rather lengthy process. Marshall had initially considered | for the role of Lewis, and Al Pacino turned it down. Pacino went as far as ... |
Michael Faraday | ... emistry, Thomas Young argued for the interpretation of light as a wave, and | established the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. Meanwhile, the an ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... eonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, | , Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan ... |
John Antrobus | ... ge On The River Wye. They also appeared in the film version of Milligan and | ' The Bed Sitting Room |
Catherine of Aragon | Using her late mother's relationship with Henry's first queen | , Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with Lady Mary. B ... |
Bill Richardson | Sheen initially endorsed New Mexico Governor | in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, and helped raise funds for his cam ... |
Agamemnon | ... e is the mythological Greek House of Atreus. In Homer's Iliad, the brothers | and Menelaus are dubbed "the Atreides," or, sons of Atreus |
McAleese | ... to the President of Ireland by name (e.g., "President Robinson," "President | ," etc.). This compromise was agreed to by the governments of both states. ... |
King Alfonso XIII of Spain | ... ousin of Alexandra, was also a carrier of the haemophilia gene. She married | and two of her sons were haemophiliacs. As an incurable and life-threateni ... |
Duke of Cambridge | ... donations. Sidney Herbert served as honorary secretary of the fund, and the | was chairman. Nightingale was considered a pioneer in the concept of medic ... |
Humphry Davy | ... nded to believe was a unified and organic Nature. The English scientist Sir | , a prominent Romantic thinker, said that understanding nature required “a ... |
John Keats | ... board the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet | . Keats and Severn had known one another in England, but they were only pa ... |
Brian Mulroney | ... Western Canadian discontent with the Progressive Conservative government of | . Led by its founder Preston Manning, the Reform Party rapidly gained mome ... |
Hugo Chávez | ... us". In response to a question about Belarus's domestic policies, President | of Venezuela said "We see here a model social state like the one we are be ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under | in the 1930s |
Peter Straub | ... brary of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by | , and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the "definitive editi ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by | . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being no ... |
Pliny the Elder | ... f Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. | , to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia ... |
Disraeli | The British Prime Minister | 's Tory administration in London did not want a war with the Zulus. "The f ... |
Gina Lollobrigida | ... ive enchantress, so he took inspiration for her look from Italian actresses | and Sophia Loren. He also wanted her to be seductive, amoral, and somewhat ... |
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 ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... nd was now part of her household. It was in the household of King Henry and | 's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the Ki ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... reu as well as Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, who invitated keynote speaker | to Wahnfried house. There he met writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son-i ... |
Tom Forcade | ... r” and Bert Cohen who is listed as “accessory after the fact” on the cover. | was not credited in the book, but Hoffman later admitted that he had taken ... |
promoter | Donald "Don" King (born August 20, 1931) is an American boxing | , whose career highlights include promoting "The Rumble in the Jungle" and ... |
Alan Bennett | ... Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played Queen Elizabeth II in | 's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with Ronnie Barker in ... |
Frank Herbert | ... ouse Atreides is a fictional noble family from the Dune universe created by | . One of the Great Houses of the feudal interstellar empire known as the I ... |
Alfred the Great | ... the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex emerged as the dominant English kingdom. | secured Wessex, achieved dominance over western Mercia, and assumed the ti ... |
Sandro Rosell | After Laporta's departure from the club in June 2010, | was soon elected as the new president. The elections were held on June 13, ... |
Edmund Spenser | ... he Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by | . It was the first time the prize had been awarded in eight years and the ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... . A scientific theory can be thought of as a model of reality. According to | in A Brief History of Time, "a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two ... |
Moses | ... ted over time and are no longer the original divine revelations as given to | , Jesus, and other prophets, which Muslims believe were all prophets of Is ... |
Serge Gainsbourg | ... llaise", which can be heard on Part 2 of the Ken Burns TV documentary Jazz. | recorded a reggae version in 1978, titled "Aux Armes, Et Caetera" |
Barack Obama | In July 2008 | , then the Democratic presidential candidate, said: "If somebody was sendi ... |
King Henry | ... hardt's novel, Stirb du Narr! ("Die you fool!"), about More's struggle with | , portrays More as an idealist bound to fail in the power struggle with a ... |
John Stuart Mill | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as | and Catherine Helen Spence, Hare popularised the idea of proportional repr ... |
Houston Stewart Chamberlain | ... itated keynote speaker Adolf Hitler to Wahnfried house. There he met writer | , son-in-law of Richard Wagner and anti-semitic race theorist. Also on tha ... |
George Clooney | In March 2012, Sheen was featured with | in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, '8' — a staged reenactment ... |
Felix Yusupov | ... two decadent young princes, Grand Duke Dmitri (Richard Warwick) and Prince | (Martin Potter), invite Rasputin to an opium party and kill him in Decembe ... |
Raymond Aron | ... u, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, | , Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl D ... |
Julie Foudy | ... international play at the end of the tour; the others are longtime captain | and Joy Fawcett (Fawcett did not play due to back surgery after the Olympi ... |
Charlemagne | ... n in retrospect to symbolize all the Christian Frankish kings, most notably | |
Genghis Khan | ... hen were further altered by Turkic invaders and rulers such as the Seljuks. | and Mongol invasions devastated the region during the late Middle Ages, bu ... |
Edward III | In 1339, in the early stages of the war, the English king | laid siege to the city but eventually had to withdraw. By the 14th century ... |
Roger Neilson | ... sistently throughout the 1997–98 season. With 21 games to go in the season, | took over as coach while Cashman was retained as an assistant. John LeClai ... |
Don King | ... y Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, 50 Cent, Stevie Wonder, and | , among others. All of the public and private memorial services were offic ... |
Ban Gu | ... d Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son | (32–92 CE), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries ... |
John Cage | ... n (often drawing equally on contemporary composers such as Anton Webern and | for inspiration) |
Augustus | ... e Senate with the wish felicior Augusto, melior Traiano ("[be] luckier than | and better than Trajan"). Among medieval Christian theologians, Trajan was ... |
Albert Einstein | ... apes. Some of the voices to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, | , and Oscar Wilde. Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of ... |
Thomas More | Sir | , in his 1516 work Utopia suggests that the practice of enclosure is respo ... |
Alexander I | ... ime of the Restoration period. He worked furiously to prevent Russia's Tsar | (who aided the liberal forces in Germany, Italy and France) from gaining i ... |
Noah Webster | ... d Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour; on the other hand, | 's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spelling ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the White House. | , an anti-imperialist, assumed the presidency and right away worked to sto ... |
Alanis Morissette | ... ut by shooting his wings off with a MAC-10, turning him to a mortal), God ( | ) arrives, and proceeds to set things in order. After Jay spouts an obscen ... |
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 ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... h initially reluctant to accept the offer, the fact that one of his heroes, | , had composed dozens of songs for children, convinced him it was worthwhi ... |
Alexander the Great | ... 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of | |
John Clute | ... ough not a best-selling author, Wolfe is highly regarded by critics Such as | ; his The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction writes: “Though neither the most ... |
Ben Elton | ... lled in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, | , Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and ano ... |
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles | ... bly Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and | and also posthumously published, Balzac). At one time his works were publi ... |
Henry VIII | ... The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on | and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More ... |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... he Medal around his neck. After receiving the Medal of Honor from President | , then-LT O'Hare was described as "modest, inarticulate, humorous, terribl ... |
Catherine Helen Spence | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as John Stuart Mill and | , Hare popularised the idea of proportional representation worldwide. The ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Author | was a Merton Professor of English Language and Literatur |
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | ... otable alumni with involvement in politics. Combining science and politics, | is the elected chief of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an orga ... |
Henrik Wergeland | ... insbourg recorded a reggae version in 1978, titled "Aux Armes, Et Caetera". | wrote a Norwegian version of the song in 1831, called "The Norwegian Marse ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, which took place between the late Prime Minister | and Harchand Singh Longowal, the then President of the Akali Dal, who was ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... e Provisional Government was dealt a huge blow when United States President | , who was supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the Wh ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ader, but some find this "difficulty" rewarding. Wolfe said, in a letter to | : "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educat ... |
Duke Ellington | ... a revitalization of cartoon style from the '20s and '30s. It was gonna have | and Fats Waller jazzing up the soundtrack." Nickelodeon was initially will ... |
Ronnie Barker | ... II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with | in the (original) one-off Meat, which aired as One Man's Meat as part of a ... |
James Bond | ... rs, Charley Gennini (Joseph Wiseman, who played the title role in the first | film Dr. No) and Lewis Abbott (Michael Strong), are brought in. With his p ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... fluential lexicographers (dictionary writers) on each side of the Atlantic. | 's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as ... |
Hadrian | ... ere laid to rest under Trajan's Column. He was succeeded by his adopted son | |
Dictionary of National Biography | ... He was a member of the London-based Political Economy Club and the British | says of him |
Graham Chapman | Similarly, in the introduction to | 's posthumous anthology (2006, p.xvii) Yoakum notes that while other radio ... |
Barack Obama | ... of the campaign, Sheen stated in a BBC Two interview that he was supporting | |
Janis Ian | ... year's theme: Being Out Rocks. Participating artists include Kevin Aviance, | , k.d. lang, Cyndi Lauper, Sarah McLachlan, and Rufus Wainwright |
Brian De Palma | The 1987 | film The Untouchables featured cooperation between the Treasury Department ... |
Jane Seymour | ... began a relationship with Sir Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen | , but the King took a liking to her and she saw it as her duty to accept H ... |
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 ... |
Lenny Henry | ... ection was called in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring | , Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfie ... |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ecame the first naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor. With President | looking on, O'Hare's wife Rita placed the Medal around his neck. After rec ... |
Louis XVIII | ... s of their lives they had lived under the ancien régime. Nevertheless, King | was worried that he would still suffer an intractable parliament. He was d ... |
Prince Felix Yusupov | ... d to his murder in December 1916. Amongst the conspirators was the nobleman | , married to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna's daughter, Princess Irina o ... |
Gertrude Stein | ... other than Picasso or Braque. Although Gris regarded Picasso as a teacher, | wrote in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that "Juan Gris was the only ... |
William III | ... On being offered the dukedom of Gelderland by the States of that province, | let the offer lapse as liable to raise too much opposition in the other pr ... |
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 |
Mel Gibson | Graham Hess ( | ) is a former Episcopalian priest. His wife Colleen (Patricia Kalember), w ... |
Keith Murdoch | In October 1915, the journalist | reported on the situation in Gallipoli at Fisher's request, and advised hi ... |
John Boswell | ... ] hold it shameful to kill any unwanted child." Modern scholarship differs. | believed that in ancient Germanic tribes unwanted children were exposed, u ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... ing four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and | . Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and Tom Hanks |
Michael Jackson | ... iz; it used the exterior pedestrian ramps for a motorcycle chase scene with | and Diana Ross. The 1960s-style decorations were removed in 1980. The bank ... |
Michael Swanwick | ... g American writer regardless of genre. Award-winning science fiction author | has said: "Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive ... |
David M. Stern | ... third season of the show, most of the writers focused on Bart and Homer, so | decided to write a Marge episode, which became "Homer Alone" (season three ... |
Larry Flynt | Perhaps less prominent but certainly notable, | , publisher of Hustler, also lived in the city at one point, before moving ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... cession Act, because the act disparaged papal power and Henry’s marriage to | . In 1535, he was tried for treason, convicted on perjured testimony and b ... |
Craig Charles | ... organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, | , Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and another tour by the main musical pa ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ason, years later libertarians argued that Hoover's economics were statist. | blasted the Republican incumbent for spending and taxing too much, increas ... |
Office of the President | The city, as the official capital, still hosts the | . Aside from these, important institutions such as the Supreme Court (Kata ... |
Rurik | ... stly from the Primary Chronicle. According to the document, Igor was son of | , the first king of Kievan Rus' |
Ivaylo | ... e armies suffered several major defeats at the hands of the peasant Emperor | . He managed to temporarily impose his son-in-law Ivan Asen III on the Bul ... |
Eric Idle | ... terlude including four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, | and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and Tom Ha ... |
Paul Robeson | ... oire in concert halls around the United States, often sharing the bill with | |
Wilhelm II | ... ple, who accused her of collaboration with the Germans. The German Emperor, | , was also Alexandra's first cousin. Ironically, one of the few things tha ... |
Deborah Grey | ... the Reform Party's fortunes rose. It first entered Parliament in 1989 when | won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding. The party achieved major suc ... |
Tacitus | In his book Germania, | wrote that the ancient Germanic tribes enforced a similar prohibition. He ... |
Chet Culver | ... r, he maintained a 70% favorability rating from Iowans compared to Governor | 's rating of 50%. He may have been helped by an anti-incumbent mood |
Domitian | Along the Rhine River, he took part in the Emperor | 's wars while under Domitian's successor, Nerva, who was unpopular with th ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... mann used part of "La Marseillaise" for his 1840 setting (Op. 49, No. 1) of | 's poem "Die Beiden Grenadiere" (The Two Grenadiers). The quotation appear ... |
Patti Smith | ... their opening for the first British tours of American punks The Ramones and | . Notwithstanding this association, some of the movement's champions in th ... |
Michael Smith | ... ember of the Romanov family Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. Newspaper reporter | wrote in his book that British Secret Intelligence Bureau head Mansfield C ... |
Ban Zhao | ... written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son Ban Gu (32–92 CE), and his daughter | (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen ... |
Terry Jones | #Comic Interlude including four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, | , Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Clevelan ... |
Steele Rudd | ... uccessful with a series of comedies based on the popular writings of author | , which featured the adventures of a fictional Australian farming family, ... |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | ... all hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the Duchess of York, | (the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen Elizabeth. Naseby Hall wa ... |
Frank Borman | After | became president of Eastern in 1975, he moved Eastern's headquarters from ... |
Charles Oudinot | Time was at the essence and Masséna at once sent one of his aides-de-camp, | , the son of Marshal Duke of Reggio, with orders to bring forward the Guar ... |
Josephus | ... corded that the Jews "regard it as a crime to kill any late-born children." | , whose works give an important insight into 1st-century Judaism, wrote th ... |
Michael Palin | #Comic Interlude including four members of Monty Python: | , Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, C ... |
Charlemagne | ... hem as luxury pets, beginning with Harun ar-Rashid's gift of an elephant to | |
Mabel Wisse Smit | ... ch Parliament. For example, this happened with Prince Friso when he married | . This is written down explicitly in the part of the constitution of the N ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ed by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and | (Brian Cox) have formed |
Trevor McDonald | ... y Henry as Trevor McDoughnut (including one where the target of the spoof - | - takes over as a surprise) and the 'viewer's letters' clip where Sally Ja ... |
Inca | ... the empire in which he had territory. After the rule of Pachacuti, when an | died, his title went to one son and his property was given to a corporatio ... |
Michael Swanwick | | published a critical monograph on Cabell's work, which argues for the cont ... |
the King | In April 1772, a paper signed "near Dorchester," was addressed to | (the newspapers taking notice of His Majesty's desire to see the price of ... |
L. Frank Baum | ... ights to the Broadway play The Wiz, an African-American reinterpretation of | 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Although teenage Stephanie Mills, a veteran ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... very well and launched Clancy's successful career as a novelist. President | helped to fuel the success of The Hunt for Red October when he announced t ... |
Richard Wagner | ... fried house. There he met writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son-in-law of | and anti-semitic race theorist. Also on that day, met Hitler for the first ... |
Pietro di Donato | ... istorical marker was dedicated on May 22, 2010 to novelist and screenwriter | , and placed at Bergenline Avenue and 31st Street, where di Donato once li ... |
Joe Torre | ... cided where a batted ball was a home run or still in play. In 1978, Manager | helped move the fences in to in the corners with a wall now in front of th ... |
Xu Shen | ... Ban Zhao (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by | (c. 58 – c. 147 CE) and the Fangyan by Yang Xiong. Biographies on importan ... |
Harry Enfield | ... g Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and | , and another tour by the main musical participants along with The The, Ca ... |
King George II | ... pointed star of the Order of the Garter which Lord Burlington received from | in 1730. This star also represents the Sun at the longest day of the year, ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... of Jonathan Swift, v. 13, Oxford UP, 1959, p. 123), a sentiment with which | agreed. Historian said in 1977 that More was "the first great Englishman w ... |
John Cornford | ... y, our advance continued without loss of land". Poets Ralph Winston Fox and | were killed. Eventually, the Nationalists advanced, taking the hydro elect ... |
William Shakespeare | ... ession. This is the source of the River Avon, Warwickshire, associated with | |
Matt Damon | ... holy quest of stopping two fallen angels, Bartleby (Ben Affleck) and Loki ( | ), from entering a church in New Jersey. The two angels were expelled from ... |
Jon Savage | ... e backlash when Burnel, a martial arts enthusiast, punched music journalist | during a promotional event |
Richard Wagner | ... rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, for solo piano. | also quotes from "La Marseillaise" in his 1839–40 setting of a French tran ... |
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 ... |
Carl Barks | ... fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe, a sorceress created by | . She constantly steals or attempts to steal Scrooge McDuck's Number One D ... |
Kalākaua | ... and he appointed Thurston—who had served as Minister of Interior under King | —to lead a lobbying effort in Washington, DC to secure Hawaiʻi's annexatio ... |
Warren Beatty | ... had already played too many aspects of the Sundance Kid's character before. | was then considered, as was Marlon Brando, but the role of Sundance eventu ... |
Wyndham Lewis | ... ing on foreign accounts. On a trip to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist | , he met the writer James Joyce. Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce ... |
Tertullian | ... y new historical situation. This view influences later Ambrose of Milan and | , who wrote about the virgin birth of the Mother of God. The donor of a ne ... |
Neil Gaiman | Among others, writers | and Patrick O'Leary have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: ... |
Glen A. Larson | Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by | . The franchise began with the original television series in 1978, and was ... |
Charles Perrault | ... rejected many tales they collected because of their similarity to tales by | , which they thought proved they were not truly German tales; Sleeping Bea ... |
Ivan Asen III | ... the peasant Emperor Ivaylo. He managed to temporarily impose his son-in-law | on the Bulgarian throne but after the Byzantine defeat at Devina he had to ... |
Tom Hanks | ... ic Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and | |
Edmund Wilson | ... the period of his fame by Hugh Walpole, W. A. McNeill, and Carl van Doren. | tried to rehabilitate his reputation with a long essay in The New Yorker |
Rexford Tugwell | Even so, New Dealer | later remarked that although no one would say so at the time, "practically ... |
Hadrian | ... summer of 97. According to the Augustan History, it was the future Emperor | who brought word to Trajan of his adoption. When Nerva died on 27 January ... |
Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... ionist Movement made up a popular backing for the underground organization. | , founder of Revisionist Zionism, was the commander of the organization un ... |
Borough President | The office of | was created in the consolidation of 1898 to balance centralization with lo ... |
Bob Dole | ... enate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee | of Kansas |
Pim Fortuyn | ... larized Dutch general election of 2002, dominated by the rise and murder of | , the VVD lost fourteen seats, leaving only twenty-four. The VVD nonethele ... |
Harry McClintock | "Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by | in 1928, is a song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of th ... |
David Hume | ... rous first-class minds in the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher | and economist Adam Smith. Hutton held no position in Edinburgh University ... |
Michael Palin | ... r made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as Spike Milligan, | and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to the previous two ... |
Augustan History | ... jan as his adoptive son and successor in the summer of 97. According to the | , it was the future Emperor Hadrian who brought word to Trajan of his adop ... |
Candace Gingrich | ... atives, to promote awareness of LGBT families living honest and open lives. | became the spokesperson for the day in April 1995. Although still named "N ... |
William Shakespeare | ... feast days of patron saints; 23 April (St George's Day and the birthday of | ) in England and 1 March (St David's Day) in Wales are not currently recog ... |
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" ... |
Ben Affleck | ... been charged with the holy quest of stopping two fallen angels, Bartleby ( | ) and Loki (Matt Damon), from entering a church in New Jersey. The two ang ... |
Phill Jupitus | ... medy tour featuring Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, | and Harry Enfield, and another tour by the main musical participants along ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... s is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of | , although its subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by ... |
Spike Milligan | ... d the inlay cover made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as | , Michael Palin and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to t ... |
Ibn Tumart | The Almohad movement originated with | , a member of the Masmuda, a Berber tribal confederation of the Atlas Moun ... |
President | ... following year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former | Bill Clinton into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduce ... |
Ralph Winston Fox | ... ssued, saying: "[t]oday, our advance continued without loss of land". Poets | and John Cornford were killed. Eventually, the Nationalists advanced, taki ... |
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich | ... ra in charge as Regent in the capital Saint Petersburg. Her brother-in-law, | recorded, "When the Emperor went to war of course his wife governed instea ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... (Something Else! and Tomorrow Is the Question) and the first two albums by | (Jazz Advance and Looking Ahead) mark the beginnings of free jazz, though ... |
Mel Gibson | ... becomes convinced that the phenomena are a result of extraterrestrial life. | , Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin star in principal roles ... |
John Nance Garner | ... everything in Washington as rapidly as possible." Roosevelt's running mate, | , accused the Republican of "leading the country down the path of socialis ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... e Nazi Party gained power in Germany. Schmidt wound up serving the rooms of | himself. By chance, Schmidt was present by bringing refreshments when the ... |
Nerva | ... took part in the Emperor Domitian's wars while under Domitian's successor, | , who was unpopular with the army and needed to do something to gain their ... |
Tom Baker | ... ssian royal court, she is isolated, but is befriended by Grigori Rasputin ( | ), a Siberian peasant who describes himself as a religious pilgrim or holy ... |
Charles of Provence | ... 855, Upper and Lower Burgundy (Arles and Provence) passed to his third son | , and the remaining territory north of the Alps to his second son Lothair ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | "Unlike her father | , who preferred to deal with strong chief ministers in control of their le ... |
Charles Dickens | ... was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and | had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there ... |
Hugh Walpole | ... book-length studies on Cabell were written during the period of his fame by | , W. A. McNeill, and Carl van Doren. Edmund Wilson tried to rehabilitate h ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... illaise" as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by | , and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwan ... |
Lord Robert Baden-Powell | ... tradition on their own. Scouts do not necessarily encounter this tradition. | , the founder of Scouting and the Chief Scout of the World, would gather s ... |
Bob Greene | ... the former governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, U.S. Senator George Voinovich, | --the former Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Your School, c ... |
Philip Yordan | ... Donnell, Lee Grant, among others. The movie was adapted by Robert Wyler and | from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. It was directed by ... |
Harthacnut | ... recently by Timothy Bolton. Emma's sons, Edward and Ælfred by Æthelred and | by Cnut, were also claimants to the throne of her husband. Exactly how the ... |
Scott Stringer | ... w York state government, and corporations. Manhattan's Borough President is | , elected as a Democrat in 2005 |
Henry VIII of England | ... tatesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to | and was from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He is commemorated by the Church ... |
Richard Wagner | Image:La Muse - Wagner - by Fantin-Latour.jpg|La Muse ( | ), lithograph, 186 |
Roman Emperor | ... red, as was each staircase. The northern main entrance was reserved for the | and his aides, whilst the other three axial entrances were most likely use ... |
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 ... |
Dean Devlin | ... urt Russell, in the 1994 military science fiction film Stargate, written by | and Roland Emmerich. Colonel O'Neill has extensive experience in special o ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, Thomas Disch identified | and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too many have already gone ... |
Louis XIII | ... La Rochelle and Montauban. The brevets were entirely withdrawn in 1629, by | , following the Siege of La Rochelle, in which Cardinal Richelieu blockade ... |
Borough President | ... City Council, the New York state government, and corporations. Manhattan's | is Scott Stringer, elected as a Democrat in 2005 |
King George V | ... ily. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra, | refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed ... |
Chris Tarrant | ... ld Tiswas mates' alike joined in the fun. In an interview publicising this, | put out an appeal to the public to submit any surviving video footage of t ... |
Lalitha Lenin | ... e, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, | , P. Bhaskaran, Joseph Mundassery |
Olga of Kiev | ... ten again, thus tearing the prince’s body apart.") and avenged by his wife, | . The Primary Chronicle blames his death on his own excessive greed, indic ... |
John Bunyan | It was the home and prison of | , the author of The Pilgrim's Progress |
John, Lord Hervey | ... r been established and received much speculation. The memoirist and gossip, | , for example, described the newly built Villa as 'Too small to live in, a ... |
Crown Prince Willem-Alexander | ... he population. The first-born son of Beatrix and her husband, Prince Claus, | , was born on April 27, 1967 - the first male heir to the Dutch throne in ... |
Marie de Médecis | ... r a period of eight years, and were renewed by Henry in 1606 and in 1611 by | , who confirmed the Edict within a week of the assassination of Henry, sti ... |
James L. Brooks | ... d Marge and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer | ' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of animated shorts fo ... |
Lothair I | When Louis the Pious died in 840, his eldest son, | , claimed overlordship over his brothers' kingdoms and supported the claim ... |
Jozias van Aartsen | ... lm returning to the ministry of Finance. He was replaced as party leader by | , former foreign minister. On September 2, 2004, VVD MP Geert Wilders left ... |
Roger Wicker | ... resigned from the Senate and became a Washington-based lobbyist. Republican | won the 2008 special election to replace him |
Nandini Satpathy | ... veteran Gandhi supporters like Jagjivan Ram and her most loyal Bahuguna and | , the three were compelled to part ways and form a new political entity CF ... |
James Connolly | ... uneral, Senator Nora Connolly O'Brien, daughter of the Easter Rising leader | , gave the oration |
Matt Groening | | first conceived Marge and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lo ... |
Alexander the Great | Europeans first came in contact with elephants in 327 BC, when | descended into India from the Hindu Kush, but Alexander was quick to adopt ... |
Sam Peckinpah | ... hanged, in the film, to "The Hole-In-The-Wall Gang" to avoid confusion with | 's recently released film The Wild Bunch |
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, ... |
Henry Aldrich | ... church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church | designed a new church; it is thought, however, that on some of the later f ... |
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 ... |
Marcel Proust | He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France | mentions Fantin-Latour's work in In Search of Lost Time |
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 ... |
Sigismund | ... cle (by Ulrich von Richental). Oswald entered as diplomat in the service of | , King of the Holy Roman Empire and of Hungary. His first diplomatic voyag ... |
Leo Tolstoy | The Russian writer | wrote in his journal, in 1896, about a tiny shoot of burdock he saw in a p ... |
Thomas Disch | When asked the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, | identified Isaac Asimov and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too ... |
Louis XIV | The later revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685 by | , the grandson of Henry IV, drove an exodus of Protestants, and increased ... |
Harold Harefoot | ... mark. There she became pregnant again and in 1015 or 1016 she gave birth to | |
Speaker of the House | ... aused a tie during a May 2005 confidence vote, meaning that Peter Milliken, | needed to cast the deciding vote. He voted with the government, following ... |
Nicolaus Copernicus | ... , and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as | 's sole pupil. He facilitated the publication of his master's De revolutio ... |
Charlemagne | ... tween the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of | , which divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms. It ended the t ... |
Beatrix | ... al marriage policy quarrel occurred starting in 1966, when the future Queen | decided to marry Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat. The marriage of a m ... |
Jack Nicklaus | The small but growing satellite town of Kinloch, where a | golf resort is being constructed, is 20 kilometres west along the lake |
Hedd Wyn | The Welsh poet | used Fleur de Lys as his pen name when he won his chair at the National Ei ... |
Noel Edmonds | ... BC's It Started With Swap Shop programme in 2006 in which he was talking to | about Tiswas being their rival during the whole era of Swap Shop |
Rob Cohen | ... was originally cast as Dorothy, Ross convinced Universal Pictures producer | to have Ross cast as Dorothy. Because of Ross' age, the script was modifie ... |
Ronald D. Moore | ... ecember 2003, beginning with a two-part, three-hour miniseries developed by | and David Eick. This led to a weekly TV series which ran for four seasons ... |
Attoor Ravi Varma | ... sh, Sukumar Azhikode, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), | , Lalitha Lenin, P. Bhaskaran, Joseph Mundassery |
King of Italy | ... f Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the | (Victor Emmanuel III), not all states recognized this claim (see diplomati ... |
Lao Tzu | ... e society was founded on men like Confucius, Mencius, Han Feizi (Legalism), | (Taoism), and Buddha (Buddhism). Whereas the Europeans believed that the u ... |
Tertullian | ... ommand. So widely accepted was this teaching in Christendom that apologists | , Athenagoras, Minucius Felix, Justin Martyr and Lactantius also maintaine ... |
John Betjeman | ... in London, where he taught French and Latin—his students included the young | . Later he taught at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, a state schoo ... |
Claudius Ptolemaeus | ... e Nile one must travel to reach it. Maps of Egypt, based on the 2nd century | ' mammoth work Geographia, have been circling in Europe since the late 14t ... |
Prince Friso | ... ithout the consent of the Dutch Parliament. For example, this happened with | when he married Mabel Wisse Smit. This is written down explicitly in the p ... |
Sanford B. Dole | ... military. The Republic of Hawaii was led by men of European ancestry, like | and Lorrin A. Thurston, who were native-born subjects of the Hawaiian king ... |
Xenia Alexandrovna | ... le harm. From Tobolsk, Alexandra managed to send a letter to sister-in-law, | , in the Crimea |
Witch-king | ... of the city was broken by a combination of the battering ram Grond and the | 's sorcery. However, the Witch-king was halted at the entrance by Gandalf |
Midas Touch | ... volcano to turn it into a powerful magical amulet, capable of granting the | |
Jim Bouton | ... Tom Candiotti, and the Niekro brothers. In addition, some pitchers (such as | ) have had success as knuckleballers after their ability to throw hard dec ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... al statements. He has been accused of making a remark in 1995 which praised | : "The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was ... |
Bill Oakley | ... at episodes featuring Marge are among the most difficult episodes to write. | believes that the "junior" writers are usually given Marge episodes becaus ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... a in the Square de Châtillon. Nicknamed L'ironique amusé, he was invited by | in 1968 to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of e ... |
Joseph Mundassery | ... zhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, P. Bhaskaran, | |
Jozias van Aartsen | ... number of seats in the municipal elections, prompting parliamentary leader | to step down. Willibrord van Beek was subsequently appointed parliamentary ... |
Anne Askew | ... me between Henry's death and the publication of the book. Her sympathy with | , the Protestant martyr who fiercely opposed the Catholic belief of transu ... |
Charles the Bald | ... in western France. After his brother Louis the German and his half-brother | defeated his forces at the Battle of Fontenay (841) and sealed their allia ... |
Roland Emmerich | ... the 1994 military science fiction film Stargate, written by Dean Devlin and | . Colonel O'Neill has extensive experience in special operations, and he l ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... orces led by General Douglas MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officers | and George S. Patton to stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... as well as highlighting a statement Lukashenko had made seemingly praising | . Lukashenko referred to the media attack as 'dirty propaganda' |
William Wyler | ... from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. It was directed by | |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | In 2005, Khaled Mashaal called | 's December 14, 2005 statements on the Holocaust that Europeans had "creat ... |
Tom Candiotti | ... ued to pitch professionally well into their forties, such as Tim Wakefield, | , and the Niekro brothers. In addition, some pitchers (such as Jim Bouton) ... |
Michael Jackson | ... ool teacher rather than a schoolgirl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, | , Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 releas ... |
Margaret of Anjou | The unpopularity of Henry's counsellors and his belligerent consort, | , as well as his own ineffectual leadership, led to the weakening of the H ... |
Brothers Grimm | ... ew of nationalism inspired the collection of folklore by such people as the | , the revival of old epics as national, and the construction of new epics ... |
Domitian | ... m in legneis, was added at the very top of the building during the reign of | . This comprised a gallery for the common poor, slaves and women. It would ... |
Tom Minton | ... y morning block. Three days before the meeting, Bakshi, Kricfalusi, Naylor, | , Eddie Fitzgerald and Jim Reardon met to brainstorm. Bakshi remembers, "M ... |
Louis XIV | In October 1685, | , the grandson of Henry IV, renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism ... |
R. L. Stine | ... icago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Your School, children's author | , cartoonist Paul Palnik, and Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner. Also s ... |
Juliana | After a long struggle with neurological illiness, Queen | died on March 20, 2004, and her husband, Prince Bernhard, died on December ... |
Burl Ives | ... y in 1949 when a sanitized version intended for children was re-recorded by | . It has been recorded by many artists throughout the world, but a version ... |
Philip II | ... ned the Dorian thoroughness with the Ionic grace. Attracted to the court of | , he painted him and the young Alexander with such success that he became ... |
Martin Luther | ... tyr". He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of | and William Tyndale |
Roger Ebert | ... pisode." Time also criticized the film's score as absurd and anachronistic. | did not like it. "The movie starts promisingly... a scene where Butch puts ... |
Anthony Berkeley | The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) is a detective novel by | set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have foun ... |
Sidney Kingsley | ... ed by Robert Wyler and Philip Yordan from the 1949 play of the same name by | . It was directed by William Wyler |
Constantine the Great | In 323 AD, | recognised the Christian religion, and in 356 Constantius II ordered the c ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... y, some media outlets alleged that millions were stolen by former president | . However the accuracy of the information is questionable and may have bee ... |
Thorin Oakenshield | ... errands dimly hinted at, only to appear again at key moments in the story. | , the proud, pompous head of the company of dwarves and heir to the destro ... |
Richard Wagner | ... sical experiments for the V2. Wieland Wagner, the grandson of the composer, | , was the deputy civilian director there from September 1944 to April 1945 ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by | and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The ... |
Jia Yi | Han scholars such as | (201–169 BCE) portrayed the previous Qin Dynasty as a brutal regime. Howev ... |
P. Bhaskaran | ... andan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, | , Joseph Mundassery |
Cecil Taylor | ... en strict rules of bebop could be loosened or abandoned at will. Similarly, | , the most prominent free jazz pianist, began stretching the bop boundarie ... |
Louis the German | ... as king of Aquitaine, a large province in western France. After his brother | and his half-brother Charles the Bald defeated his forces at the Battle of ... |
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 ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... so included in the school district, including Blooming Grove, birthplace of | |
Bertrand Russell | ... uch as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London. The philosopher | took an interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some ... |
Hannah Arendt | In The Origins of Totalitarianism, | argued that Nazi and State communist regimes were new forms of government, ... |
Kang the Conqueror | ... im a truly cosmic threat. He was further aided by Korvac, who was posing as | . He was sent to Galactus' ship to steal more power (in particular the pow ... |
Louis IX of France | Some people claim that Isabella formed a conspiracy against King | in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, Blanche of Castile fo ... |
Alberto Lecchi | ... fterwards. The incident was dramatized in a 1999 Argentine film directed by | , Operación Fangio |
Francisco Franco | ... uthoritarian, anti-communist, and régimes such as Vichy France, Spain under | , and Portugal under Antonio Salazar. Communist ideologues often label all ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen. Cabell was also a major influence on | , acknowledged as such in the rear of Gaiman's novels Stardust and America ... |
Heston Blumenthal | ... o be achieved with the more readily available "dry ice" and authors such as | have published recipes to produce ice cream and sorbet using a simple blen ... |
Johann Baptiste Horvath | ... ical approximation. A representative contemporary textbook was published by | . By the end of the century analytical treatments were rigorous enough to ... |
Frank Kermode | ... earning his bachelor's degree after three years, instead of the usual four. | writes that the most important moment of Eliot's undergraduate career was ... |
Roman Emperor | Trajan (; ; 18 September 53 – 9 August 117), was | from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of His ... |
Brothers Grimm | ... tales) on the basis of the question, "Is there an Italian equivalent of the | ?" For two years, Calvino collated tales found in 19th century collections ... |
Kamehameha I | ... the interior plateau to Mauna Loa, but had to turn back. He consulted King | and was astonished to learn he could take canoes to the south and follow t ... |
Alexander the Great | ... the satrapys of Margiana, Chorasmia and Parthia. Later conquerors included | , the Parni, Ephthalites, Huns, Göktürks, Sarmatians, and Sassanid Iranian ... |
Michael S. Berman | ... the 2000 census. During that redistricting process, Sanchez hired lobbyist | , brother of California Democratic Congressman Howard Berman,for "redistri ... |
Ronnie Barker | Years later, Milligan collaborated with | on The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, in which the credits r ... |
Michael Madsen | ... to star in Chamaco with Kirk Harris, Alex Perea, Gustavo Sanchez Parra and | . In November 2010 he filmed Stella Days in County Tipperary, Ireland, nea ... |
Blanche of Castile | ... ing Louis IX of France in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, | for whom she had a deep-seated hatred. In 1244, after the plot had failed, ... |
Thomas More | ... ard III who is said to have confessed to the murder of the princes in 1502. | , a Tudor loyalist (and later Chancellor under Henry VIII), composed his H ... |
William Blake | File:Blake - Albión.jpg| | , Albion Rose, 1794- |
Harlan Ellison | ... te in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers like | and Samuel R. Delany was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerf ... |
Isildur | ... Tower of the Sun", Minas Tirith was built in by Anárion, younger brother of | and second son of Elendil, High King of Arnor. Ostoher rebuilt the city in ... |
Pete Townshend | ... Beck Group. Dave Davies of The Kinks, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, | of The Who, Hendrix, Clapton and Beck all pioneered the use of new guitar ... |
Voltaire | ... inting. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, | , Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas H ... |
Walter Benjamin | ... ped the means to replicate each and everything, including works of art (cf. | 's 1936 essay "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierba ... |
Boris Pasternak | ... all critics of Marxism as reactionary. One example of this took place after | was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago. O ... |
Bill Murray | ... y first comedy segment was a sarcastic tour of the studio. The first guest, | , came out in confrontational fashion, throwing jibes and accusations at t ... |
Elendil | ... irith was built in by Anárion, younger brother of Isildur and second son of | , High King of Arnor. Ostoher rebuilt the city in as a summer residence, a ... |
János Apáczai Csere | ... erman professors brought in improve standards. Among the students there was | . He died in Gyulafehérvár |
Lindsay Anderson | Davis appeared in the television film As Summers Die (1986) and | 's film The Whales of August (1987), in which she played the blind sister ... |
Mahmoud Darwish | ... rming the municipality decision. In response, the Palestinian national poet | warned that "There are Taliban-type elements in our society, and this is a ... |
Arthur Symons | ... tant moment of Eliot's undergraduate career was in 1908, when he discovered | 's The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to Jul ... |
Empress Deng Sui | ... d then concealing her identity from him. After Emperor He's death, his wife | (d. 121 CE) managed state affairs as the regent empress dowager during a t ... |
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 ... |
François Duvalier | ... slave revolution, but a long history of oppression by dictators – including | and his son – has markedly affected the nation. France and the United Stat ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... ho were heavily influenced by Gnosticism in this period include Hans Jonas, | and Harold Bloom, with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg being more moderate ... |
Louis VII of France | ... y ceded it to their son, Henry, which cession was formally ratified by King | the following year |
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley | Six months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband, | . The marriage proved to be short-lived as she died in September 1548, pro ... |
Lenny Bruce | ... vels, has often been likened to the stand-up performances of 1960s comedian | |
King Henry VIII | ... into lawlessness, though the Vicar of Wymondham was appointed by the Abbot. | 's Dissolution of the Monasteries brought about the closure of Wymondham A ... |
Philo | The practice was prevalent in ancient Rome, as well. | was the first philosopher to speak out against it. A letter from a Roman c ... |
Donald Trelford | ... s best known are Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Didcot Power Station. | , journalist and academic, was born in Coventry and attended Bablake Schoo ... |
Charles G. Finney | Fritz Leiber's Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. | 's famous fantasy The Circus of Dr. Lao was influenced by Cabell's work. T ... |
Milton | ... n the depiction of Pandæmonium with its "Belched fire and rolling smoke" in | 's Paradise Lost. Of all the characters, Smaug's speech is the most modern ... |
King George III | ... ch included the profits of the Crown Estate (the royal property portfolio). | agreed to surrender the hereditary revenues of the Crown in return for the ... |
Osroes I | ... es was killed and re-taking Seleucia, he formally deposed the Parthian king | and put his own puppet ruler Parthamaspates on the throne. That done, he r ... |
Tom DeSanto | ... the director and an executive producer of the X-Men movie, Bryan Singer and | , began developing a Battlestar Galactica TV miniseries under the auspices ... |
Henry I | ... he monastery was founded in 1107 by William d'Aubigny, Chief Butler to King | . William was a prominent Norfolk landowner, with estates in Wymondham and ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... it), Jorge Luis Borges (who included it in many of his short stories), and | , with figures such as Hermann Hesse being more moderatedly influenced. Re ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ites. Writing in the 3rd century BCE, Kleitarchos, one of the historians of | , described that the infants rolled into the flaming pit. Diodorus Siculus ... |
Arsenio Lacson | With | becoming the first elected mayor in 1952 (all mayors were appointed prior ... |
Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is the American novel that turned its author | into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit ... |
Algernon Blackwood | ... s wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, | , and Arthur Machen |
William III | ... irst King of the Netherlands since the death of his great-great grandfather | in 1890 |
Scofield Thayer | ... tended Milton Academy in Massachusetts for a preparatory year, where he met | , who would later publish The Waste Land. He studied philosophy at Harvard ... |
Robert Aldrich | Director | cast Crawford and Davis in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). After a c ... |
Reginald Berkeley | The first theatrical representations of Nightingale was | in his "The Lady with the Lamp", premiering in London in 1929 with Edith E ... |
Matt Groening | ... Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Marge was created and designed by cartoonist | while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had ... |
Glen A. Larson | ... of the television series Battlestar Galactica, composed by Stu Phillips and | . The LA Philharmonic also performed the first North American concert for ... |
Gordon B. Hinckley | ... offering, which is then used to help people in need. The late LDS President | asked: “What would happen if the principles of fast day and the fast offer ... |
Isaac Newton | ... adition established by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician | . Where Descartes held that all motions should be explained with respect t ... |
Hugh X of Lusignan | ... by the king including his heir, later Henry III. In 1220, Isabella married | , Count of La Marche, by whom she had another nine children |
Hermann Hesse | ... t in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with figures such as | being more moderatedly influenced. Rene Guenon founded the gnostic review, ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... lle, wrote the "Log Cabin Song." It would inspire the Log Cabin Campaign of | , who would go onto win the Presidential election that year |
Le Corbusier | ... re, and spent his free time researching the emerging architects, especially | . After graduating, he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) ... |
John Clute | ... s he was the most anthologized author alive) and much respected by critics. | wrote in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers ... |
James L. Brooks | ... d designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of | ' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on Li ... |
Arthur Machen | ... ing cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, Algernon Blackwood, and | |
H. C. Andersen | ... tomte would gain popularity. In the English editions of the fairy tales of | the word nisse has been inaccurately translated as goblin (a more accurate ... |
Kevin Warwick | Cyborg scientist | is also a Coventrian, as is Sir John Egan, industrialist and former Chief ... |
Rusty Egan | ... uitarist, singer and keyboard player), Steve New (guitarist and singer) and | (drummer). After The Rich Kids he formed The Spectres with Tom Robinson Ba ... |
Clark Ashton Smith | ... Circus of Dr. Lao was influenced by Cabell's work. The Averoigne stories of | are, in background, close to those of Cabell's Poictesme. Jack Vance's Dyi ... |
Franklin Roosevelt | President | moved the INS from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in ... |
Kermit the Frog | ... into a violent rage whenever she thinks she has been insulted or thwarted. | is often the target of her anger and affection. When she isn't sending him ... |
Andrea Palladio | ... same is true for architecture, as practiced by Brunelleschi, Leone Alberti, | , and Bramante. Their works include Florence Cathedral, St. Peter's Basili ... |
Frank Oz | ... through the air, she is often smothering him in (usually unwanted) kisses. | assigned hooks or personalities to each Muppet. Miss Piggy's hook was a "T ... |
John Calvin | ... vention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, | , Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson ... |
Edward Arnold | ... rold Lloyd, Lester Cuneo, Eugene Pallette, Florence Oberle, Virginia Valli, | , and Rod La Rocque. The mainstays of the organization, however, were stud ... |
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... f King Henry I of England by his first wife Edith of Scotland, and widow of | . The marriage was meant to seal a peace between England/Normandy and Anjo ... |
Ronald D. Moore | ... , a three-hour miniseries. Commissioned by the Sci-Fi Channel, screenwriter | and producer David Eick were the creative forces behind it. Academy Award- ... |
Pushkin | ... came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Soon after meeting | at a dinner, Tolstoy began reading his prose, and once had a fleeting dayd ... |
Queen Victoria | ... t play Early Morning, in which she is depicted having a lesbian affair with | |
Sir Thomas Audley | ... e was tried before a panel of judges that included the new Lord Chancellor, | , as well as Anne Boleyn's father, brother, and uncle. He was charged with ... |
Marilyn Manson | ... albums. The only track to make it on to a full Berlin release is a cover of | 's "The Dope Show", which is included on Berlin's 4play album as well as t ... |
Jehovah's Witnesses | The 1978 International Convention of | was held at Shea Stadium from July 12 to July 16, 1978 |
Akira Toriyama | ... rick Bags, and Dragons. Many monsters in the series were designed by | |
Francisco Franco | ... ction and a nostalgia for a more rural society. The Vichy regime in France, | 's regime, the Salazar regime in Portugal, and Maurras's Action Française ... |
Pliny | Authors of antiquity, such as Horace and | , were major influences on 18th century thinkers through their description ... |
E. H. Carr | ... stern World (published as a book in 1946), the pro-Soviet British historian | claimed that "The trend away from individualism and towards totalitarianis ... |
Louis II | Lothair's kingdom was divided between his three sons—the eldest, | , received Italy and the title of emperor; the second, Lothair II, receive ... |
Jean-Claude Duvalier | ... sed the US of forcing him out – an accusation the US rejected as 'absurd'". | suddenly returned to Haiti in late January 2011, claiming his doing so was ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... Nations. The slum is a stronghold of supporters of former Haitian President | , who, according to the BBC, "accused the US of forcing him out – an accus ... |
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 ... |
Francis, Duke of Teck | ... emberg, she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom. Her parents were | , who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a ... |
John Robb | ... rock consciousness", according to music journalist and former punk musician | . Though the album charted well in the UK, climbing to number 12, CBS refu ... |
Big Bill Neidjie | # Kakadu (Gagadju): | (July 2002 |
Emperor Shun of Han | ... g (d. 132 CE) masterminded a successful overthrow of her regime to enthrone | (r. 125–144 CE). Yan was placed under house arrest, her relatives were eit ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... the 1970s by Monty Python through the surreal animation inserts created by | |
Kamehameha III | ... volcanoes while waiting for better weather to continue the expedition. King | assigned American medical missionary Dr. Gerrit P. Judd to the expedition ... |
Lothair II | ... —the eldest, Louis II, received Italy and the title of emperor; the second, | , received Lotharingia; the youngest, Charles, received Provence |
Klavdiya Plotnikova | # Kamassian: last native speaker, | died in (1989 |
John Lennon | ... s signature song, "Piano Man". includes the harmonica throughout the piece. | played harmonica on early Beatles' hits as "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me ... |
Robert Duncan | The first prominent American to reveal his homosexuality was the poet | . In 1944, using his own name in the anarchist magazine Politics, he claim ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, | , Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. ... |
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 |
Josep Lluís Núñez | Beginning with | in 1978, the president of FC Barcelona has been elected by the club member ... |
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 ... |
Choi Hong Hi | ... ollowing this demonstration, South Korean President Syngman Rhee instructed | to introduce the martial arts to the Korean army. By the mid-1950s, nine k ... |
George W. Bush | ... Tom Daschle of South Dakota as trustworthy. He also reveals that President | , then–Secretary of State Colin Powell, and other GOP leaders played a maj ... |
Charles the Bald | ... thaire's kingdom. However on the death of Lothair II, who had no heir, king | tried to gain control of his kingdom by having himself sacred at Metz. Cam ... |
Allen Ginsberg | ... include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and Harold Bloom, with Albert Camus and | being more moderately influenced. A number of ecclesiastical bodies which ... |
Ze'ev Jabotinsky | ... gun policy was based on what was then called Revisionist Zionism founded by | . According to Howard Sachar, "The policy of the new organization was base ... |
Charles | ... tle of emperor; the second, Lothair II, received Lotharingia; the youngest, | , received Provence |
President | ... His final dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under | Charles de Gaulle to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During thi ... |
Jean Chrétien | On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded | as leader of the Liberal Party and became prime minister on December 12, 2 ... |
Nazgûl | ... ower of the Moon (Moontower), on the borders of Mordor, was captured by the | and renamed Minas Morgul, Tower of Black Sorcery (Dead City, accursed towe ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... o was out of concern for the present situation in Haiti. On the other hand, | was initially denied access to Haiti by Haitian immigration authorities, d ... |
Ned Maddrell | # Manx: | (December 1974) (but is being revived as a second language |
Paul Kruger | ... no right to part with this territory. During the year a Boer commando under | and an army under Cetshwayo were posted to defend the newly acquired Utrec ... |
Jamesian | ... s. And the book's narrative style, a huge departure from the stately, semi- | prose of Roth's earlier novels, has often been likened to the stand-up per ... |
Mikhail Katkov | ... 77 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor | over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpop ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... axony and Bavaria. In addition, to the south, Murat's Kingdom of Naples and | 's Kingdom of Italy had a total of 100,000 armed men. In Spain, another 15 ... |
Empress Matilda | ... 129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the | , daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Cu ... |
Andrew Wilkie | ... the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an ONA intelligence officer named | resigned from the agency, citing pressure from the Australian government t ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... cal Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003). President | was a native of Marion. The current administration is led by Mayor Scott S ... |
Bob Dornan | ... oderate Democrat in the 46th District against six-term Republican incumbent | . The bitterly fought race saw Sanchez charge that Dornan was out of touch ... |
Amos Elon | ... book an "obtuse text, [a] piece of nonsense", but this was perhaps due, as | notes, to the level of comfortable assimilation enjoyed by Viennese Jews a ... |
Philip Larkin | Other Coventrians in the arts include the highly acclaimed poet | , actors Billie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Brendan Price and Clive Owen, a ... |
Henry I of England | ... rench name for the planta genista, or broom shrub) he wore in his hat. King | , having heard good reports on Geoffrey's talents and prowess, sent his ro ... |
Caesar | ... later speculatively 'identified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as | (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roma ... |
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge | ... . Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and | , a member of the British Royal Family. To her family, she was informally ... |
Dolly Parton | ... amous entertainers have performed at the Canfield Fair, including Bob Hope, | , Rascal Flatts, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Brad Pa ... |
Tacitus | ... he ideas and customs of other peoples, which often diverged from their own. | recorded that the Jews "regard it as a crime to kill any late-born childre ... |
Jackie Chan | In the movie Shanghai Noon, | is given the name "The Shanghai Kid" which is parody of "The Sundance Kid" ... |
Choi Hong Hi | ... s unify under a single system. The name "taekwondo" was submitted by either | (of the Oh Do Kwan) or Song Duk Son (of the Chung Do Kwan), and was accept ... |
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | ... g in the unrest. Her Cabinet and government then recommended that President | declare a state of emergency, because of the disorder and lawlessness foll ... |
William Safire | ... re, Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, | , environmental justice advocate Majora Carter, and environmental law atto ... |
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 ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... ancesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, | , and Titian. The same is true for architecture, as practiced by Brunelles ... |
Giordano Bruno | ... published Clavis artis Lullianae. He published the Artificium perorandi of | in 1610; and in the same year the Panacea philosophica, an attempt to find ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... nada in 1982, the result of the efforts of the Government of Prime Minister | |
John the Apostle | ... r. Irenaeus was a student of Polycarp, who was said to have been tutored by | . (John had used Logos terminology in the Gospel of John and the letter of ... |
Conrad II | ... tz (in 1035 as the royal Salian estate of Silewize in a document by Emperor | ) and St. Johannis (possibly 1149 as Altentrebgast). Even the district of ... |
Jungian | ... world, may be seen as a Bildungsroman rather than a traditional quest. The | concept of individuation is also reflected through this theme of growing m ... |
Jack Ryan | ... res of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst | |
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 ... |
Charles IV | As early as 1361 Emperor | had conferred on Burgrave Frederick V the right to mint coins for the town ... |
Ellen Glasgow | ... maintained a close and lifelong friendship with well-known Richmond writer | , whose house on West Main St. was only a few blocks from Cabell's family ... |
Philippe de Commines | The Croyland Chronicle, Dominic Mancini, and | all state that the rumour of the princes' death was current in England by ... |
Harold Bloom | ... luenced by Gnosticism in this period include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and | , with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg being more moderately influenced. A ... |
William X, Count of Poitou | # | (1136–1164) died unmarrie |
Tuone Udaina | # Dalmatian: | , (June 10, 1898 |
Akira Toriyama | ... eo game series to have a stable key development team; Yuji Horii (creator), | (artist) and Koichi Sugiyama (composer). The original concepts, used since ... |
Michael Greenburg | John Symes approached | and Richard Dean Anderson of MacGyver fame. Although Anderson was never a ... |
Marquess of Beixiang | ... fter An's death, his wife, Empress Dowager Yan (d. 126 CE) placed the child | on the throne in an attempt to retain power within her family. However, pa ... |
Peter II of Courtenay | ... mer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by Alice of Courtenay, who was sister of | , Latin Emperor of Constantinople and granddaughter of King Louis VI of Fr ... |
John Calvin | ... t officially enforced, whereas individual voluntary fasting was encouraged. | went further in arguing that in general, instead of relying on designated ... |
Mark Hamill | ... d Silent Bob battle with Bluntman and Chronic's arch nemesis, Cockknocker ( | ), eventually cutting off his hand |
Mary Shelley's | ... "Dark satanic mills" of Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time". | novel Frankenstein reflected concerns that scientific progress might be tw ... |
Ghazi Hamad | ... of Taliban and to publicly support the Erdoğan model were Ahmad Yousef and | , advisers to Prime Minister Hanieh. Yusuf, the Hamas deputy foreign minis ... |
Konstantinos Karamanlis | Former prime minister | was invited back from Paris where he had lived in self-exile since 1963, m ... |
Earl Weaver | ... ra, Gene Freese, and Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, Joe Sewell, Bob Lemon, and | . In Jackson's only season with New Orleans (1910), he hit .354 to win the ... |
Louis VI of France | ... II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople and granddaughter of King | |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... e, at Vitoria, the combined Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish armies won against | , finally breaking French power in Spain. The French had to retreat out of ... |
Marie Smith Jones | # Eyak (a Na-Dené language): | , January 21, 200 |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... half its original length. Repairs to the church were carried out following | 's visit in 1573 (date and initials may be seen on exterior stonework) |
Aristotle | ... e Panacea philosophica, an attempt to find the common ground in the work of | , Raymond Lull, and Petrus Ramus. In 1612 Alsted edited the Explanatio of ... |
Theodor Herzl | ... shed in the Neue Freie Presse, whose literary editor was the Zionist leader | , Zweig was not attracted to Herzl's Jewish nationalism, nor did the publi ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rmers. The RFC had minimal impact at the time, but was adopted by President | and greatly expanded as part of his New Deal |
Julian Barnes | England, England (1998) is a satirical science fiction novel by | which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel is set in the Britai ... |
Dr. Seuss | As a result of the film, Bakshi received an offer to adapt | 's The Butter Battle Book for TNT. Ted Geisel had never been satisfied wit ... |
Giorgio Bassani | In 1952 Calvino wrote with | for Botteghe Oscure, a magazine named after the popular name of the party' ... |
Richard Maltby, Jr. | | | |
Adolf Hitler | ... Introduction, Hayek contrasts Western Anglo values with Nazi Germany under | , stating that "the conflict between the National-Socialist "Right" and th ... |
Albert Camus | ... sm in this period include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and Harold Bloom, with | and Allen Ginsberg being more moderately influenced. A number of ecclesias ... |
Louis | ... valleys of the Rhine and the Rhone. He soon ceded Italy to his eldest son, | , and remained in his new kingdom, engaging in alternate quarrels and reco ... |
Richard I | ... ns on a red background are still part of the arms of Normandy. Henry's son, | , added a third lion to distinguish the arms of England |
Claude-Étienne Savary | ... tists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798–1799. | describes the complex rather detailed in his work of 1785; especially in l ... |
Herman Cohen | ... Did (1965), another William Castle vehicle. She starred as Monica Rivers in | 's horror thriller film Berserk! (1967). After the film's release, Crawfor ... |
Daniel Bernoulli | ... hed at scientific academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as | , Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien- ... |
Al Gore | ... luded Ishmael Beah, author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, | , Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, ... |
Charlemagne | When the treaty of Verdun (843) split | 's empire into three parts the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's king ... |
Leo Tolstoy | ... ; ) (sometimes anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer | , published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The ... |
Petrus Ramus | ... tempt to find the common ground in the work of Aristotle, Raymond Lull, and | . In 1612 Alsted edited the Explanatio of Bernard de Lavinheta, a Lullist ... |
Lee Child | ... lie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Brendan Price and Clive Owen, and the author | |
Barack Obama | ... ublican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of | and Joe Biden. In Canfield City, McCain/Palin received 2,470 votes (52.16% ... |
Mark Twain | ... abell's work was thought of very highly by a number of his peers, including | , Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Jack Woodford. A ... |
Sparta | ... untered the Macedonian threat with a Greek alliance of the Aetolians, Elis, | , Messenia and Attalus I of Pergamon, as well as two Roman clients, the Il ... |
Queen Beatrix | ... one of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of | and Prince Claus, and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the dea ... |
William Roper | | 's biography of More was one of the first biographies in the English langu ... |
king | ... r the marriage Geoffrey's father left for Jerusalem (where he was to become | ), leaving Geoffrey behind as count of Anjou. John of Marmoutier describes ... |
Natalia Ginzburg | ... he interviewed one of his literary idols, Ernest Hemingway, travelling with | to his home in Stresa |
Tom Clancy | The Hunt for Red October is a 1984 novel by | . The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name. | explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... on was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with | in 1901 |
Ptolemy | ... ds and free souls," and Novara believed that his findings would have shaken | 's "unshakable" geocentric system |
Shaka | As ruler, Cetshwayo set about reviving the military methods of his uncle | as far as possible, forming new age-set regiments and even succeeded in eq ... |
Howard Colvin | ... lf, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and his pupil John Webb. According to | , "Burlington's mission was to reinstate in Augustan England the canons of ... |
August von Kotzebue | Also in 1819, | was assassinated in Mannheim |
Sarah Palin | ... ty and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of John McCain and | over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In Canfield City ... |
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 ... |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sturgeon was a distant relative of | , and through his Waldo, Hamilton Dicker and Dunn ancestors, a direct desc ... |
Francisco Franco | ... the Republic. It staved off the prospect of a rapid defeat at the hands of | 's forces. The role of the International Brigades in this victory was gene ... |
Louis XI | ... rgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of Charles the Bold in 1477. | immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Cambrai, but left th ... |
Christiaan Huygens | ... Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and Blaise Pascal in France | ;in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle in England |
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 ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of | (any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out) |
Charles X of France | ... e French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution against | in 1830. In a very strange turn of events after the end of the Second Fren ... |
Dictionary of National Biography | ... , actor and author, "Sir" John Hill, credited with 76 separate works in the | , the most valuable of which dealing with botany, is also said to have bee ... |
Al Taliaferro | ... assic Tales, Scamp, Uncle Remus, holiday), Carson Van Osten (Mickey Mouse), | (Donald Duck), Frank Grundeen (Donald Duck), Al Hubbard (Donald Duck), Kay ... |
Prince Claus | ... of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and | , and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father ... |
Michael Jackson | ... , the exterior pedestrian ramps were used for a motorcycle chase scene with | & Diana Ross |
Jeff Merkley | ... 9,185). For the Senatorial race that year, it was much closer with Democrat | winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republican Gordon H. Smith won 46.5% ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ation (though without serfdom) in their enthusiasm for the corporate state. | said that "fascism is reaction" and that "fascism, which did not fear to c ... |
Plutarch | ... emeteries were merely the cremated remains of children that died naturally. | (ca. 46–120 AD) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius, Diodorus ... |
Louis XIV | In 1677, | , in an effort to "safeguard the tranquility of his borders for ever" ("as ... |
Jean Paul Richter | In 1804, the author | moved from Coburg to Bayreuth, where he lived until his death in 1825 |
Louis the German | ... several occasions, Lothair led his full-brothers Pippin I of Aquitaine and | in revolt against their father to protest against attempts to make their h ... |
Peter Cook | | is described as a "humourist much influenced by the Goons". Whilst at boar ... |
Barack Obama | ... gton County generally leans Democratic but can be closely divided. In 2008, | won with 59.8% of the popular vote (141,544 total votes) to Republican Joh ... |
Greg Stillson | ... Staff A.J. McInnerney in The American President; sinister future president | in The Dead Zone; the President in the two-part TV movie, Medusa's Child; ... |
William Blake | A number of 19th century thinkers such as | , Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Pike and Madame Blavatsky studied Gnostic th ... |
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 ... |
Warren G. Harding | Marion is best known as the hometown and burial location of President | and First Lady Florence Harding. It is also the birthplace and childhood h ... |
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 ... |
Andy Warhol | ... I've done since". Eno had himself performed the piece as a student in 1960. | attended the 1962 première of the static composition by La Monte Young cal ... |
L. Ron Hubbard | Theodore Sturgeon vividly recalled being in the same room with | , when Hubbard became testy with someone there and retorted, "Y'know, we'r ... |
Joseph Hergesheimer | ... a number of his peers, including Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, | , and Jack Woodford. Although now largely forgotten by the general public, ... |
Donald Rumsfeld | ... he Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. | tried to downplay the French and German governmental criticism, most promi ... |
Stephen of Blois | ... itance. The border districts submitted to her, but England chose her cousin | for its king, and Normandy soon followed suit. The following year, Geoffre ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... leyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife, | , was better and more established at Court. Though not of the aristocracy ... |
Steve Scott | ... if I've been an encouragement to other artists." British poet and musician | , who worked closely with Norman at Solid Rock, maintains |
Robert Hood | ... e Tresor club), and then Chicago. There in 1992, with fellow Detroit native | , he set up the record label Axis, and later, sub-labels Purpose Maker, To ... |
Shanawdithit | # Beothuk: | (a.k.a. "Nancy April") (1829 |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... ky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by | , who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by W ... |
Michelangelo | ... i Bondone, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, | , Raphael, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian. The same is true for ... |
Reagan | ... After the book received unexpectedly good reviews and praise from President | , the book became a bestseller. Clancy's later books were published by Pen ... |
Joe Baca | ... action committee, along with 5 other members, because the caucus chairman, | , authorized political contributions to members of his family who were run ... |
Louis the Pious | Lothair was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperor | and his wife Ermengarde of Hesbaye, daughter of Ingerman the duke of Hesba ... |
Henry Curtmantle | ... ss Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, | , who succeeded to the English throne and founded the Plantagenet dynasty ... |
Mike Keith | ... n, again serves as the Titans Radio flagship station since the 2010 season. | is the team's play-by-play announcer, and former Titans tight end Frank Wy ... |
Leonardo da Vinci | ... or center of Neoplatonism. He studied there under Luca Pacioli, a friend of | |
Petrarch | ... to devote himself to poetical composition. He is an undisguised follower of | , carrying the imitation to such a point that he addressed his Cants d'amo ... |
Thomas Hobbes | ... , Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, | , Goethe, and others. In addition, the collection includes the personal li ... |
Louis the Pious | ... f Verdun, when the Carolingian empire was divided between the three sons of | . Middle Francia was allotted to Emperor Lothair I, therefore called Lotha ... |
Elizabeth of York | ... f the rival claimants to the throne. He married the princes' eldest sister, | , to reinforce his hold on the throne, but her right to inherit depended o ... |
Glen A. Larson | ... g the autumn of 1979, ABC executives met with Battlestar Galacticas creator | to consider restarting the series. A suitable concept was needed to draw v ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... a fable of the forest". In 1948, he interviewed one of his literary idols, | , travelling with Natalia Ginzburg to his home in Stresa |
John F. Kennedy | Sheen has played U.S. President | (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General Rob ... |
David Letterman | ... a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC that was created and hosted by | . It premiered in 1982 as the first incarnation of the Late Night franchis ... |
Margaret (Meg) Roper | ... idge for a month, according to the normal custom for traitors. His daughter | rescued it, possibly by bribery, before it could be thrown in the River Th ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and | . His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 19 ... |
Frederick the Great | ... ve Frederick and Margravine Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, the favourite sister of | . During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint- ... |
Tristan Corbière | ... Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have heard of | and his book Les amours jaunes, a work that affected the course of Eliot's ... |
Charles V of France | ... shield "sown" (semé) with a scattering of small golden fleurs-de-lis), but | changed the design from an all-over scattering to a group of three in abou ... |
Venerable Bede | In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the | celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is v ... |
Donald Wildmon | On June 6, 1988, | , head of the American Family Association (AFA), alleged that "The Littles ... |
Booker T. Washington | ... st, a member in the House of Representatives, to dinner at the White House. | was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with T ... |
Ermengarde of Hesbaye | ... was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious and his wife | , daughter of Ingerman the duke of Hesbaye. On several occasions, Lothair ... |
Theodore Dreiser | ... th noted writers including H. L. Mencken, Ellen Glasgow, Sinclair Lewis and | , correspondence with family, friends, editors and publishers, newspaper c ... |
Timothy Leary | ... o, originally intended for an unsuccessful Skateboard Movie, which featured | ) |
John McCain | ... both Canfield City and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of | and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. ... |
Edward III of England | In 1328, King | inherited a claim to the crown of France, and in about 1340 he quartered F ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... "Messalina", although they were pleased with her beauty. Her mother-in-law, | readily accepted her as John's wife |
Floyd Gottfredson | Among the artists working on the Disney comic strips were | (Mickey Mouse, Treasury of Classic Tales, holiday), Roman Arambula (Mickey ... |
William Faulkner | ... kov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by | , who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is current ... |
Lothair I | ... n the three sons of Louis the Pious. Middle Francia was allotted to Emperor | , therefore called Lotharii Regnum. Upon his death in 855, it was further ... |
Empress Liang Na | ... eunuch allies were slaughtered. The regent Liang Ji (d. 159 CE), brother of | (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of Consort Deng Mengnü (later empress) ... |
Blaise Pascal | ... the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and | in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Rob ... |
Hate-Monger | ... S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into his skull-faced slaves. The Skull teamed with the | , a clone of Hitler, and trapped him in a flawed Cosmic Cube. The Skull le ... |
Harold Bloom | ... ted in the religious philosophy of Hegel; one might compare literary critic | 's recent attempts to identify Gnostic elements in contemporary American r ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers |
Catherine of Aragon | ... enry VIII. Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen | . Catherine was presumably named after Queen Catherine, who was also her g ... |
Katharine Ross | ... h Montgomery in the starring role, and Wanted: The Sundance Woman, starring | as Etta Place working with Pancho Villa. In addition a TV movie called The ... |
Choi Hong Hi | The ITF was founded in 1966 by | as a splinter group from the KTA. After Choi's death in 2002, a number of ... |
Conrad Aiken | ... d Advocate published some of his poems, and he became lifelong friends with | , the American novelist |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... nedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General | in the television special The Missiles of October; White House Chief of St ... |
Alex Grey | ... ey was born in New York, the daughter of artists Allyson (born Rymland) and | . Her first role was in the Broadway play The Herbal Bed. In 1999, she had ... |
John Clare | ... e Alcock, one of the most successful visual discoverers of novas and comets | ;, from Helpston, now considered to be one of the most important poets of ... |
Agatha Christie | ... to follow suit. With her health stable, she traveled to England to film the | mystery Murder with Mirrors (1985). Upon her return, she learned that Hyma ... |
Paul Verlaine | ... terature (1899). This introduced him to Jules Laforgue, Arthur Rimbaud, and | . Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have heard of Tristan Corb ... |
Edward I | ... unty to the east of the River Derwent from the reign of Henry II to that of | |
Pope Pius XII | ... ls by the age of eleven. At age seven, he received his First Communion from | in the Vatican. He spent sixth and seventh grades in the Fessenden School, ... |
Mary Robinson | ... an Irish author, historian, solicitor and cartoonist. He is the husband of | , the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former ... |
Johnny Bench | Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher | grew up in Binger |
Merrill Markoe | ... ff responsible for preparing Late Night consisted of Letterman's girlfriend | in the head writing role, in addition to seasoned TV veteran Hal Gurnee di ... |
Carl Jung | ... tury thinkers who heavily studied and were influenced by Gnosticism include | (who supported Gnosticism), Eric Voegelin (who opposed it), Jorge Luis Bor ... |
President of Haiti | ... t of Haiti is a semi-presidential republic, a multiparty system wherein the | is head of state elected directly by popular elections. The Prime Minister ... |
Francis Bacon | ... by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir | , Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and others. In addition, the coll ... |
Joanot Martorell | ... rn. March was twice married—first to Isabel Martorell (sister of the writer | ), and later to Joana Escorna |
Attila | ... ian, German and Gothic in origin. As far as historicity can be ascertained, | , Jörmunrekkr and Brynhildr actually existed, taking Brynhildr to be partl ... |
Walt Disney | Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring | characters |
Charlemagne | ... air's early life, which was probably passed at the court of his grandfather | . Shortly after the accession of his father, Lothair was sent to govern Ba ... |
Henry II | ... covered the whole county to the east of the River Derwent from the reign of | to that of Edward I |
Jerry Dammers | ... iginated in Coventry, including Frank Ifield, Vince Hill, Delia Derbyshire, | , Terry Hall, Neville Staple, Hazel O'Connor, Clint Mansell, Julianne Rega ... |
Princess Alexia | ... i in 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), | (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007). He will become the first Kin ... |
John Keble | Irenaeus' works were first translated into English by | and published in 1872 as part of the Library of the Fathers series |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... ied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of Edward III, through | and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Buckingham may have hoped ... |
Henry Jarvis Raymond | The company was founded by | and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... tially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. In 1966, | in his apostolic constitution Paenitemini, changed the strictly regulated ... |
Regiomontanus | ... er. Novara in turn declared that his teacher had been the famous astronomer | , who was once a pupil of Georg Purbach. Novara was initially educate |
Gottfried Leibniz | ... rect physical action, a position held by Huygens and the German philosopher | , who, while following in the Cartesian tradition, developed his own philo ... |
President | ... tober sold very well and launched Clancy's successful career as a novelist. | Ronald Reagan helped to fuel the success of The Hunt for Red October when ... |
Donna J. Stone | ... from elementary school through 8th grade. The late poet and philanthropist | (née von Schoenweiler) grew up in Bullitt Park. The highly regarded Jewish ... |
Princess Ariane | ... ers Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and | (born 2007). He will become the first King of the Netherlands since the de ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... or practice various forms of magic. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, | 's Thelema and their subsequent offshoots, influenced by Eliphas Levi, are ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... ofessional collaboration with his father. Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by | , jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, whi ... |
Bernard of Italy | ... ' younger sons Pippin of Aquitaine and Louis the German, as well his nephew | . Lothair would also inherit their lands if they were to die childless. Lo ... |
Jorge Luis Borges | ... clude Carl Jung (who supported Gnosticism), Eric Voegelin (who opposed it), | (who included it in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with ... |
Walt Disney | One of Watonga's most notable citizens was Clarence Nash (1904–1985) whom | hired to be the voice of Donald Duck in the 1930s. Nash provided Donald's ... |
Elizabeth II | ... ied the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter, | . Briefly, there were three queens in the country: Mary; her daughter-in-l ... |
Ptolemy | ... ccultation of Aldebaran. Copernicus later used this observation to disprove | 's model of lunar distance |
Sir James Hall | ... took a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast with the geologist | of Dunglass. They found the sequence in the cliff below St. Helens, then j ... |
President of Ireland | ... on, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former | . He was educated at , where he took a degree in Law |
Richard Pipes | Scholars such as Lawrence Aronsen, | , Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jes ... |
Hugh X of Lusignan | In the spring of 1220, she married | , "le Brun", Seigneur de Luisignan, Count of La Marche, the son of Hugh IX ... |
Lee Myung-bak | ... both the former Prime Minister of Japan, Fukuda Yasuo, and Korean President | emphasized the importance of "open[ing] a new era in Japan – South Korea r ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... her, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, | , Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and others. In addition, the collection includes ... |
Nicholas II | ... va (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of | , the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born a granddaughter of Queen Vi ... |
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester | ... descendant of Edward III, through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and | , Buckingham may have hoped to accede to the throne himself in due course. ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... r have to approve constitutional amendments. Subsequently, Attorney General | appointed law professor Barry Strayer to research a potential bill of righ ... |
Sesostris | ... ntiquities, stated in a footnote that he believed Josephus mistook Seth for | , king of Egypt, the erector of the referenced pillar in Siriad (being a c ... |
Louis the Child | ... mont. After the East Frankish Carolingians became extinct with the death of | in 911, Lotharingia once again attached itself to West Francia, but was co ... |
James Blish | ... his work was remarkably influential on later authors of fantastic fiction. | was a fan of Cabell's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of t ... |
Woolf | ... riting "a major text of English feminism, a link between Wollstonecraft and | . |
Tertullian | ... wide influence on the immediately following generation. Both Hippolytus and | freely drew on his writings. But his literal hope of an earthly millennium ... |
René Descartes | The French philosopher | was well-connected to, and influential within, the experimental philosophy ... |
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Ashoka | ... ts celebrate Diwali through the chanting of mantras and remembering Emperor | who is said to have converted to Buddhism on this day, and therefore Buddh ... |
Charles the Bald | ... against their father to protest against attempts to make their half-brother | a co-heir to the Frankish domains. Upon the father's death, Charles and Lo ... |
Isaac Newton | ... llection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir | , Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and ... |
Gordon H. Smith | ... with Democrat Jeff Merkley winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republican | won 46.5% of the vote (106,114) |
Jonas Mekas | ... was initially commissioned to provide music). Uwe Husslein cites film-maker | , who accompanied Warhol to the Trio premiere and claims that Warhol's sta ... |
Albert Pike | ... number of 19th century thinkers such as William Blake, Arthur Schopenhauer, | and Madame Blavatsky studied Gnostic thought extensively and were influenc ... |
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti | ... interested in international water management issues and sports. He married | in 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), ... |
Bill Cosby | ... s, The Monkees, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Brad Paisley, Styx, The Goo Goo Dolls, | , Hank Williams Jr., and Peter Frampton |
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Domitian | ... of Hispania Baetica, Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor | . Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in 89 Trajan su ... |
Jack Woodford | ... cluding Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and | . Although now largely forgotten by the general public, his work was remar ... |
Samuel R. Delany | ... dia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers like Harlan Ellison and | was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerful and generally libe ... |
Philo | ... AD) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius, Diodorus Siculus and | . The Hebrew Bible also mentions what appears to be child sacrifice practi ... |
Gloria Monty | ... well enough to return, Crawford offered to play her role, to which producer | readily agreed. Although Crawford did well in rehearsal, she lost her comp ... |
Roh Moo-hyun | ... and South Korea have had many disputes. The former president of South Korea | rejected a conference with the Prime Minister of Japan following his visit ... |
Shakespeare | ... aders' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of Dickens and | . By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fiction may not ex ... |
Arthur Rimbaud | ... olist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to Jules Laforgue, | , and Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have he ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... nence prescribes that meat be taken only once during the course of the day. | had initially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. ... |
Richard Rich | ... most powerful of the King's advisors, brought forth the Solicitor General, | , to testify that More had, in his presence, denied that the King was the ... |
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. | ... ia company best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times. | has served as Chairman of the Board since 1997. It is headquartered in , N ... |
Charlemagne | ... rectly to the breakup of the Frankish Empire assembled by their grandfather | , and laid the foundation for the development of modern France and Germany |
Tom Snyder | ... announced show thus displaced the Tomorrow Coast to Coast program hosted by | from the 12:30 slot. NBC initially offered Snyder to move his show back an ... |
James I of Scotland | ... nent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and Royal Standard since | |
Nicolás Gómez Dávila | ... relations, with a strong role for the Church. Their utmost philosopher was | |
Will Ferrell | Federal Wildlife Marshall Willenholly ( | ) arrives to take over the case, as it involves the release of animals. Su ... |
Tom Clancy | ... n Clark (real name John Terrence Kelly) is a fictional character created by | who appears in many of Clancy's novels |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ll's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of the Cabell Society. | was greatly inspired by Cabell's boldness, and originally described his fa ... |
Princess Catharina-Amalia | ... s. He married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in 2002. They have three daughters | (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007). ... |
Herman Melville | ... nostic thought extensively and were influenced by it, and even figures like | and W. B. Yeats were more tangentially influenced. Jules Doinel "re-establ ... |
Frank Oz | Miss Piggy is a Muppet character who was primarily played by | on The Muppet Show. In 2001, Eric Jacobson began performing the role, alth ... |
Dickens | ... ous young readers' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of | and Shakespeare. By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fic ... |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... the service of the royal family, in the household of Catherine's ancestor, | . Their marriage alliance with the Ros (or Roos) family enhanced their sta ... |
Hayam Wuruk | ... e epic eulogy poem Nagarakretagama which inscribed its conquest by Maharaja | . Saludong or Selurong which is a historical name for the city of Manila i ... |
Jules Laforgue | ... ymons's The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to | , Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he mig ... |
Harvey Wasserman | ... nd Laurie Lea Schaefer, Miss America of 1972, have also called Bexley home. | , noted writer and leading anti-nuclear activist, lives in Bexley (the fam ... |
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 ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... er and weaker. He was listed as a primary influence of the much more famous | . Kurt Vonnegut based his character Kilgore Trout on Theodore Sturgeon |
Tertullian | Plutarch (ca. 46–120 AD) mentions the practice, as do | , Orosius, Diodorus Siculus and Philo. The Hebrew Bible also mentions what ... |
Friedrich Schiller | ... he oldest "Stage" in Germany. In 1782 the premier of Die Räuber, written by | , was shown |
Friedrich Ebert | ... on and some Roman archeological artifacts from the region. In the honour of | one established the President Friedrich Ebert Memorial which remembers the ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... minated by Germans, but also because it explicitly acknowledges its debt to | (himself a composer, amongst other things) and, by so doing, establishes a ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... t Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President | . It has been enshrined in the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest s ... |
Philip José Farmer | The event was used by the science fiction writer | in his "biographies" of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and ) as the ba ... |
George W. Bush | ... tion because its policies are much better than those of former US president | : "As long as there's a new language, we welcome it, but we want to see no ... |
Appian | ... me discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of | , and Plutarch's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius |
Kim Stanley Robinson | ... es. Recent works involving terraforming of Mars include the Mars trilogy by | and The Platform by James Garvey |
Charles V | Although | resisted the Protestant Reformation, he ruled the Dutch territories wisely ... |
Joseph Conrad | In 1947, he graduated with a Master's thesis on | , wrote short stories in his spare time, and landed a job in the publicity ... |
Woodrow Wilson | Cayce's clients included a number of famous people such as | , Thomas Edison, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin |
Charles V | ... Council. After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, | , accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was knighted and m ... |
Herodotus | ... ng to fill the gap until history begins with the classical Greek historian, | , who mentions them extensively, except legend. The stories of the early L ... |
Jack Vance's | ... lark Ashton Smith are, in background, close to those of Cabell's Poictesme. | Dying Earth books show considerable stylistic resemblances to Cabell; Cuge ... |
Princess of Wales | ... f which were transliterated into German. Her godparents were the Prince and | , the Russian Tsarevich and Tsarevna, HRH Princess Beatrice of the United ... |
Paul Tanner | Writers | , Maurice Gerow, and David Megill have suggested tha |
Bailiff | ... Appeal and, ultimately, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The | is head of the judiciary; the Bailiff and the Deputy Bailiff are appointed ... |
King William III and Queen Mary II | Colleges created by royal charter from | of England |
Archimedes | ... ept of torque, also called moment or couple, originated with the studies of | on levers. The rotational analogues of force, mass, and acceleration are t ... |
Charles of Ghent | ... rik III of Nassau-Breda was appointed stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland by | in the beginning of the 16th century. Hendrik was succeeded by his son Ren ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... thiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included John F. Kennedy, | , and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newborn's godfather, a ... |
Jess Stearn | Cayce has variously been referred to as a "prophet" (cf. | 's book, The Sleeping Prophet), a "mystic", a "seer". While giving a readi ... |
Bailiff | The | is President (presiding officer) of the States Assembly, head of the judic ... |
Napoleon II | ... lted in failure. He was present at Waterloo, and afterwards sought to place | on the throne |
Margaret | ... her in the areas of music and literature. More had four children with Jane: | , Elizabeth, Cicely, and John. When Jane died in 1511, More remarried almo ... |
Steven Bayme | ... Gnosticism as "the Greatest case of metaphysical anti-Semitism". Professor | said gnosticism would be better characterized as anti-Judaism. Recent rese ... |
Ian McLellan Hunter | ... for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy but lost to | , Dalton Trumbo, and John Dighton for Roman Holiday |
Fritz Leiber's | ... medy of Justice), features Jurgen, an appearance of the Slavic god Koschei. | Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Charles G. Finney's famo ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... er of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, | . When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as Richard III, both El ... |
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 ... |
John Dighton | ... for Best Written Comedy but lost to Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo, and | for Roman Holiday |
King George II | Colleges created by | of Great Britain |
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 ... |
Marcus Aurelius | During the persecution of | , the Roman Emperor from 161-180, Irenaeus was a priest of the Church of L ... |
Dalton Trumbo | ... d of America Award for Best Written Comedy but lost to Ian McLellan Hunter, | , and John Dighton for Roman Holiday |
Francis, Duke of Teck | ... was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London. Her father was Prince | , the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countes ... |
René of Châlon-Orange | ... hent in the beginning of the 16th century. Hendrik was succeeded by his son | in 1538, who was, as his full name stated, the Prince of Orange. When René ... |
Alexander | He is the first male heir apparent to the Dutch throne since Prince | , son of King William III, who died in 1884. Prince Willem-Alexander has i ... |
Chris Noonan | ... ve included Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! and | 's Babe. Other award winning productions include Picnic at Hanging Rock, G ... |
Joseph Jacobs | The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) contains an article "Gnosticism" by | and Ludwig Blau which deals only with Jewish gnosticism. Jacobs and Blau c ... |
Kevin J. Anderson | In the Brian Herbert/ | Legends of Dune novels, the Atreides family line goes back to the Greeks o ... |
Paul Francis Webster | ... e Academy Award for Best Song for the title tune but lost to Sammy Fain and | for "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane |
João Goulart | ... ayers were visited in Rio de Janeiro by the Vice President of the Republic, | (a former juvenile player for the team), and went to the Catete Palace to ... |
Sima Qian | According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by | during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first e ... |
Samuel Huntington | ===Other views===Sociologists Peter Berger and | suggest that Opus Dei is involved in "a deliberate attempt to construct an ... |
Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine | ... t of the German Empire. She was the sixth child among the seven children of | , and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen V ... |
Brian Herbert | In the | /Kevin J. Anderson Legends of Dune novels, the Atreides family line goes b ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... for instance, a Yugoslavian, Josip Broz, who would became famous as Marshal | , was in Paris to provide assistance, money and passports for volunteers f ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... eached during the War of the Ring. Sauron's forces under the command of the | besieged the City on March 13. Before dawn on March 15, the battering ram ... |
Louis IV of France | ... he Fowler in 925. Stuck in the conflict with his rival Hugh the Great, King | in 942 renounced all claims to Lotharingia |
Stephen Hawking | ... dern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science". | says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... d one of the wealthiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included | , Robert F. Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newb ... |
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 ... |
James Blish | ... ny other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such Poul Anderson's The Big Rain, and | 's "Pantropy" stories. Recent works involving terraforming of Mars include ... |
Juscelino Kubitschek | ... lace to receive the trophy from the hands of the President of the Republic, | |
John Clare | ... ns from the Jurassic period of international importance; the manuscripts of | , the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet as he was commonly known in his own ti ... |
Gabe Paul | ... s from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and | , among others, being written in support of King |
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 ... |
Judy Woodruff | On September 11, 2001, Clancy was interviewed by | on CNN. During the interview, he observed that Islam does not condone suic ... |
Jeremy Paxman | ... taken off the air in 1987. In 1994 the show was resurrected by the BBC with | as the new quizmaster. It remains very popular in Britain. The show, and t ... |
Elio Vittorini | ... the Arts Faculty. A year later, he was initiated into the literary world by | , who published his short story "Andato al comando" (1945; "Gone to Headqu ... |
Alexander II of Scotland | ... ed the girl's mother. Princess Joan was provided with another husband, King | , whom she wed in 1221 |
John Mayer | ... e former Shea performer Roger Daltrey of The Who, Tony Bennett, Don Henley, | , John Mellencamp, Garth Brooks, and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. The concer ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... again attached itself to West Francia, but was conquered by the German king | in 925. Stuck in the conflict with his rival Hugh the Great, King Louis IV ... |
Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani | ... King Guy, both of whom Saladin ordered brought to his tent. The chronicler | , who was present at the scene, relates |
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers | ... related to Henry by her ancestress Joan Wydville (or Woodville), sister of | , father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of ... |
Clemens Brentano | ... poets, such as Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Joseph von Görres, Arnim, and | . A relic of Romanticism is the Philosophers' Walk , a scenic walking path ... |
Marcus Cocceius Nerva | In September 96, Domitian was succeeded by | , an old and childless senator who proved to be unpopular with the army. A ... |
Sauron | ... es of Minas Tirith. The Great Gate was breached during the War of the Ring. | 's forces under the command of the Witch-king of Angmar besieged the City ... |
Anderson Dawson | ... was Secretary for Railways and Public Works in the seven-day government of | , the first parliamentary socialist government in the world |
Milton Friedman | ... th well several known participants including J.M. Keynes, Ragnar Frisch and | . The debate is sometime referred to as the Tinbergen debate |
Helen Hunt | ... 2010 census. It was featured in the 1996 blockbuster film Twister starring | and Bill Paxton in which Wakita was destroyed by an F4 tornado that was pa ... |
Poul Anderson | ... ack Williamson, but features in many other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such | 's The Big Rain, and James Blish's "Pantropy" stories. Recent works involv ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... Gallery (which served as pilot to the series that followed), marked one of | 's earliest directing jobs. She starred on the big screen one final time, ... |
Bailiff | ... ections. There are also five non-voting members appointed by the Crown: the | , the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, the Dean of Jersey, the Attorney Gene ... |
Franklin Roosevelt | ... or a Jewish state. However, it was not until January 1944 that US President | established the War Refugee Board, which achieved some success in saving E ... |
Bob Dylan | ... her instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include | , Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of Th ... |
Darrell Royal | Hollis is the birthplace of University of Texas football coach | , University of Kansas Head basketball coach Ted Owens, Major League Baseb ... |
Agamemnon | In the original novels, House Atreides claims descent from | , a son of Atreus, in Greek mythology. The descendants of Atreus are calle ... |
H. L. Mencken | ... d belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including | and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the ... |
Herodotus | According to | , Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and Minos. When they contended ... |
Roy Romanow | ... Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minister | . Pressure from provincial governments (which in Canada have jurisdiction ... |
Joseph de Maistre | ... ists and left-wing Revolutionaries. Herein arose the clerical philosophers— | , Louis de Bonald, François-René de Chateaubriand—whose answer was restori ... |
The Electrifying Mojo | ... ly 1980s, Mills, using the name "The Wizard", was a recurring guest DJ on " | " radio show on WJLB. He performed DJ tricks like beat juggling and scratc ... |
Peter Ustinov | At one point later in the series, | was a guest on the one-shot "upside down" episode, during which the televi ... |
Lamar Alexander | ... hip position in the Senate, when he was named Minority Whip after defeating | of Tennessee 24-23 |
her father's | ... Alice herself soon fell ill with diphtheria, and died on the anniversary of | death, 14 December 1878, when Alix was only six years-old. Alix, Victoria, ... |
Ragnar Frisch | ... a lively debate with well several known participants including J.M. Keynes, | and Milton Friedman. The debate is sometime referred to as the Tinbergen d ... |
Mickey Mantle | ... he 2000 census. The town is best known as the birthplace of baseball player | |
Baz Luhrmann | ... ly successful Australian films have included Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee, | 's Moulin Rouge! and Chris Noonan's Babe. Other award winning productions ... |
Prince Claus of the Netherlands | ... Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and | , and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince ... |
Henry III of England | ... of repentance for her many misdeeds. On a visit to Fontevraud, her son King | was shocked to find her buried outside the Abbey and ordered her immediate ... |
Rollo | ... verran Rouen until some of them finally settled and founded a colony led by | (Hrolfr), who was nominated count of Rouen by the king of the Franks in 91 ... |
Richard Wagner | ... ngle concerto". In the 19th century, the triangle was used in some music by | , such as the "Bridal chorus" from "Lohengrin" (opera) |
Joos van Ghistele | ... y who visited only Lower Egypt and published their travel accounts, such as | or André Thévet, put Thebes in or close to Memphis |
Donald Rumsfeld | ... e W. Bush administration, and has been critical of former Defense Secretary | as well |
Jack Williamson | ... o naturally object to the process. The word itself was coined in fiction by | , but features in many other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such Poul Anderso ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... ly twice, to Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher in 1813 and to Field Marshal | in 1918. A third award was planned for the most successful German general ... |
Marianne Faithfull | ... The Girl on a Motorcycle, the University being the ultimate destination of | 's character. Heidelberg is the home of a professional Quidditch team oper ... |
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 ... |
Aristotle | ... pt marked a significant departure from the concept of mimesis formulated by | in the 4th century BC, which was only concerned with "imitation of nature" ... |
Courtney Love | ... ted as "Rock Star" on the album Live Through This). The band's lead singer, | has the line: 'I went to school with Calvin,' a reference to Johnson's inf ... |
Amy Huberman | ... by Irish Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan and stars IFTA award winning actress | . The film sees Martin Sheen play parish priest, Daniel Barry, whose love ... |
Augustine of Hippo | ... ed most modern wars, did not satisfy the just war requirements set by Saint | and other theologians. The method of total war (i.e. any non-accidental at ... |
Elsie Janis | ... America ticket and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). | , the stage name for Elsie Beerbower, musical theatre star and "Sweetheart ... |
Norberto Bobbio | ... his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, | , and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He then left Einaudi ... |
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel | ... third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and | . She was baptised in the Chapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 186 ... |
Viktor Rydberg | ... Yule Nisse). In 1881, the Swedish magazine Ny Illustrerad Tidning published | 's poem "Tomten", where the tomte is alone awake in the cold Christmas nig ... |
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 ... |
Jared Leto | ... ed Cool and the Crazy. The picture, which aired September 16, 1994, starred | , Alicia Silverstone, Jennifer Blanc and Matthew Flint. Reviewer Todd Ever ... |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen | and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Jul ... |
Julius Nyerere | Under the leadership of | , the Tanzanian government guaranteed equal representation for all Tanzani ... |
Afrika Bambaataa | ... instream American hits "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye and "Planet Rock" by | . Other early users of the TR-808 include Australian producer Mark Moffatt ... |
President of the United States | ... s was known to most Ohioans as the birthplace of William McKinley, the 25th | . McKinley was born in Niles on January 29, 1843. He attended school at Ni ... |
John Snagge | ... ngton There were also occasional guest stars including senior BBC announcer | , and actors Valentine Dyall, Dick Emery, Kenneth Connor, Dennis Price and ... |
George W. Bush | ... ncy has also associated himself with General Anthony Zinni, a critic of the | administration, and has been critical of former Defense Secretary Donald R ... |
John Peel | Johnson is also referred to in the | session version of the Hole song, "Olympia" (also credited as "Rock Star" ... |
Natalia Ginzburg | ... i. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, | , Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He ... |
Diocletian | ... sis after Lugdunum (Lyon) itself. Under the reorganization of the empire by | , Rouen became the chief city of the divided province of Gallia Lugdunensi ... |
David Letterman | ... alk shows and was interviewed by Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers, Larry King and | , discussing her career but refusing to discuss her daughter. Her appearan ... |
Emperor Xian of Han | ... ously fled with Emperor Shao (r. 189 CE) and his brother Liu Xie—the future | (r. 189–220 CE). While being pursued by the Yuan brothers, Zhang committed ... |
Panjabi MC | ... Ledger of Skillet (band), Taz (lead singer of the band Stereo Nation), and | |
Gina Cerminara | ... such as Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin. | published books such as Many Mansions and The World Within. Brian Weiss pu ... |
Francis Bacon | ... rimental histories" by philosophical reformists such as William Gilbert and | , drew a significant following in the years leading up to and following Ga ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... deal called the Kitchen Accord, negotiated by the federal Attorney General | , Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minis ... |
Hanns Johst | ... unclear; it did not originate with him. The line comes from Nazi playwright | 's play Schlageter, "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browni ... |
President of the United States | ... cident, and the incident significantly damaged his chances of ever becoming | . His one attempt, in the 1980 presidential election, resulted in a Democr ... |
Emperor Yang Guang | Between 604 to 609, | (or Sui Yangdi) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ... |
Rosalind Russell | ... ublic appearance was September 23, 1974, at a party honoring her old friend | at New York's Rainbow Room. Russell was suffering from breast cancer and a ... |
Wallace Greenslade | ... announcer Andrew Timothy was replaced (at the suggestion of John Snagge) by | , who provided spoken narrative links as well as occasionally performing s ... |
GCC compiler | ... 64-bit addressing and mandates use of the 64-bit GNU development tools. The | and the DIGNUS Systems/C++ and Systems/C are the only supported compilers ... |
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge | ... his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde. Her mother was | , the third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambrid ... |
Brian Weiss | Gina Cerminara published books such as Many Mansions and The World Within. | published a bestseller regarding clinical recollection of past lives, Many ... |
Olaf Stapledon | ... iens in his story The War of the Worlds change Earth for their own benefit. | 's Last and First Men (1930) provides the first example in fiction in whic ... |
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | ... rincess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and younger daughter of | , and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel. She was baptised in the Chapel Roy ... |
Henry Kissinger | ... itch" and "clever fox" in his private communication with Secretary of State | (now released by the State Department). Indira signed the , resulting in p ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... a decree issued by gauleiter and Oberpräsident Erich Koch and initiated by | . Many who would not co-operate with the rulers of Nazi Germany were sent ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... dered by many to be Turner's ideological successor, as Jean Chrétien was to | |
Jimmy Carter | ... tion, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President | |
William McKinley | ... h of the 20th century, Niles was known to most Ohioans as the birthplace of | , the 25th President of the United States. McKinley was born in Niles on J ... |
John Cornford | ... zzi and French from Commune de Paris Battalion. Among them was British poet | . Men were sorted according to their experience and origin, and dispatched ... |
'Mad' Mike Banks | Mills and former Parliament bass player | were founding members of Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance ... |
René of Anjou | ... held by Brabant. After the duchy of the Moselle came into the possession of | the name "Duchy of Lorraine" was adopted again, only retrospectively calle ... |
Isaac Alfasi | The Editio Princeps was printed in Venice in 1521 as an addendum to | 's Halakhot |
Tsarevna | ... godparents were the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Tsarevich and | , HRH Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the Duchess of Cambridge, a ... |
Samuel Johnson | ... really start smuggling (cf. Adam Smith's approval of smuggling); and the " | Dining Experience" turns out to be a flop because Doctor Johnson is regula ... |
Napoleon I | ... ril 1785 – 2 September 1870) was a French general and . He was the lover of | 's stepdaughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, by whom he had ... |
Constantius II | ... 323 AD, Constantine the Great recognised the Christian religion, and in 356 | ordered the closing of pagan temples throughout the empire. Karnak was by ... |
Anne Neville | ... Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to Alice's niece, queen consort Lady | . The profession would span five generations down to Catherine's sister, A ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... d Myrna Loy. Upon her death there was found in her apartment photographs of | , whom she voted for in the 1960 presidential election |
Jane Espenson | ... ad on October 27, 2009 and aired on January 10, 2010, on Sci Fi. Written by | and directed by Edward James Olmos, The Plan storyline begins before the a ... |
Geta | ... ptimius Severus, for a short time he ruled jointly with his younger brother | until he had him murdered in 211. Caracalla is remembered as one of the mo ... |
Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde | ... , the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countess | . Her mother was Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and ... |
Helen Deutsch | Lyrics for the song "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" were written by | for her previously-published short story "Song of Love." Kaper's setting o ... |
Kevin J. Anderson | The prequel trilogy Prelude to Dune (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and | chronicles the upbringing of young Leto I prior to the events of Dune. Son ... |
President of the United States | ... hplace and childhood home of Norman Mattoon Thomas, four-time candidate for | under the Socialist Party of America ticket and co-founder of the American ... |
General Mannerheim | ... art in the fighting at the front of the Finnish Civil War. When the regent, | , later heard about this, he invited Gallen-Kallela to design the flags, o ... |
Yuan Shu | ... 189 CE. Yuan Shao then besieged Luoyang's Northern Palace while his brother | (d. 199 CE) besieged the Southern Palace. On September 25 both palaces wer ... |
Louis IX of France | ... Isabella and Hugh were summoned to the French court to swear fealty to King | 's brother, Alphonse, who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their moth ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... of having had two queens buried beneath its paving, Katherine of Aragon and | . The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her ... |
Larry King | ... ed on several talk shows and was interviewed by Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers, | and David Letterman, discussing her career but refusing to discuss her dau ... |
Andrew Wilkie | ... Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14.8 percent. Independent candidate | , an anti-pokies campaigner, was elected to the Australian House of Repres ... |
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 |
Richard Nixon | ... financial hardship and instability in the country. The United States under | supported Pakistan, and mooted a UN resolution warning India against going ... |
Aragorn | ... y barricade was erected in place of the Great Gate. After the war on May 1, | received the Crown of Gondor in front of the gate and then entered the Cit ... |
Cesare Pavese | ... y Giulio Einaudi. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with | , Natalia Ginzburg, Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectual ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... of collective security against revolution and Bonapartism inspired by Tsar | . This instance of reaction was surpassed by a movement that developed in ... |
Irving Berlin | ... s included a number of famous people such as Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison, | , and George Gershwin |
Joseph Haydn | ... estra since around the middle of the 18th century. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, | and Ludwig van Beethoven all used it, though sparingly, usually in imitati ... |
H. G. Wells | ... g a planet for habitation precedes the use of the word 'terraforming', with | describing a reverse-terraforming, where aliens in his story The War of th ... |
Bernard of Clairvaux | ... only in 1631, and only as a commemoration on 20 August, the feast of Saint | . In 1687, it was moved to 2 September and remained there until the 1969 r ... |
Herodotus | Thebes' exact placement was unknown in medieval Europe, though both | and Strabo give the exact location of Thebes and how long up the Nile one ... |
Arthur Schnitzler | Zweig was a very prominent writer in the 1920s and 1930s, and befriended | and Sigmund Freud. He was extremely popular in the USA, South America and ... |
Henry V of England | ... forgotten after centuries of nonuse. During the late medieval period, King | (lived 1387-1422) ordered the use of the English of his day in proceedings ... |
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | The position taken by | , one of the foremost Renaissance magicians, is ambiguous. The character o ... |
Sauron | ... he largest battle of the Third Age, the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, when | 's Orcs and evil Men overran the Rammas Echor by blasting through it and b ... |
George W. Bush | ... II's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the Church to talk with | to express opposition to the war on Iraq. The Catholic Church said that it ... |
Michael Grais | ... k Mancuso, Sr., had the screenplay rewritten in secret; the new version, by | and Mark Victor, was radically different from Bakshi's original. Paramount ... |
Sanchia of Provence | ... s (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly Isabel Marshal, secondly | , and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had issue |
Alexander II of Scotland | # Joan (22 July 1210 – 1238), the wife of King | . Her marriage was childless |
Dolly Parton | In 1987, Miss Piggy was a guest star on | 's musical variety show, Dolly, singing and performing with Parton, while ... |
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 ... |
Brian Herbert | The prequel trilogy Prelude to Dune (1999–2001) by | and Kevin J. Anderson chronicles the upbringing of young Leto I prior to t ... |
Titus | ... arted in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under | , with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81–96). T ... |
Frank Rich | ... e Ambassador Theatre, where it ran for 176 performances and eight previews. | , in his review for The New York Times, wrote "In their scrupulous re-crea ... |
Vespasian | ... ast of the Roman Forum, its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor | and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being m ... |
Johannes Hartlieb | ... ontroversial during the Early Modern witch-hunts, with some authors such as | denouncing all magical practice as blasphemous, while others portrayed nat ... |
Martin Gardner | ... raneous newspaper articles, affidavits, anecdotes, testimonials, and books. | for example wrote that the trances of Cayce did happen, but the informatio ... |
Isabel Paterson | ... that it more united the Soviet and German dictatorships than divided them. | , in The God of the Machine (1943), used the term in connection with the S ... |
Paul Kruger | ... dispute from the side of the Transvaal. Persistent Boer representations and | 's diplomatic manoeuvrings added to the pressure. There were incidents inv ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... "He understands the rules. He's a strong negotiator." Former House Speaker | (R) said he's "the smartest legislative politician I've ever met. |
King of the Romans | # Richard, Earl of Cornwall and | (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly Isabel Marshal, secondly ... |
Pandion II | ... as Lycia, which was tenented by the Solymi. Subsequently Lycus, the son of | of Athens, driven into exile by his brother, King Aegeus, settled among th ... |
Armistead Long | At 5 p.m., however, Gen. | 's ammunition train in the rear was attacked by advance elements of Forres ... |
Isabel Marshal | ... all and King of the Romans (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly | , secondly Sanchia of Provence, and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had is ... |
Michel Houellebecq | ... ry There Are More Things in memory of Lovecraft. Contemporary French writer | wrote a literary biography of Lovecraft called . Prolific American writer ... |
Bill Walsh | ... iters included Merrill De Maris (Mickey Mouse), Ted Osborne (Mickey Mouse), | (Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus), Bob Karp (Donald Duck, Merry Menagerie), Carl ... |
Charlotte Champe Stearns | ... nd treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis. His mother, | (1843–1929), wrote poetry and was a social worker, a new profession in the ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... ng to David Starkey, Catherine was most likely better educated overall than | . As a child, Catherine could not tolerate sewing and often ironically sai ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator | , both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in act ... |
John 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 ... |
Mary Karr | ... eiser, Professor of Philosophy, one of leading scholars of German idealism, | , the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature, who has received a Gug ... |
Edward I of England | ... Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom he had issue, including his heir, King | |
Harold Schechter | ... series of strokes. Gein was devastated by her death; in the words of author | , he had "lost his only friend and one true love. And he was absolutely al ... |
Charles the Bold | ... Barrois mouvant) as a fief by King Philip IV of France. The Burgundian duke | in 1475 campaigned for the Duchy of Lorraine, but finally was defeated and ... |
Pharaoh | ... ty, and this focus also changed from time to time. When Amenhotep IV became | (circa 1353 BC), the supreme deity was considered to be Amun-Ra (itself th ... |
Albert Einstein | ... han Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and | on physics. Disdainful of Turin students, Calvino saw himself as enclosed ... |
Augustus | ... r Claudius later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather | |
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti | On 2 February 2002, he married | (born 17 May 1971) at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Máxima is an Arg ... |
Willi Münzenberg | ... t Union in September 1936—apparently at the suggestion of Maurice Thorez—by | , chief of Comintern propaganda for Western Europe. As a security measure, ... |
Ellery Queen | Sturgeon ghost-wrote an | mystery novel, The Player on the Other Side (Random House, 1963). This nov ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to | , this system politicizes everything spiritual and human |
Jorge Luis Borges | Argentine writer | wrote his short story There Are More Things in memory of Lovecraft. Contem ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President | and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P ... |
Marie de France | ... Mary, who became a nun and Abbess of Shaftesbury and who may be the poetess | . Adelaide of Angers is sometimes sourced as being the mother of Hamelin |
Roman Emperor | ... passing through Syria on their way to Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty | . His accounts were quoted by Porphyry (On Abstinence 4:17) and Stobaeus ( ... |
Jonathan Swift's | Micropsia has also been related to | novel Gulliver's Travels. It has been referred to as "Lilliput sight" and ... |
Charles Barkley | ... s, science lessons or magic tricks. When they introduce themselves to kids, | also appears, but is immediately shooed away by Jay. In the "Science Sez" ... |
Claudius | ... s Tied Behind Him Following the Triumphal Chariot of Alexander) the Emperor | later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather Augustus |
Henri Theil | ... e Econometric Institute at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam together with | , who also was his successor in Rotterdam. The Tinbergen Institute was nam ... |
Alexander III | ... only securely became part of Scotland during Alexander II's reign in 1234: | visited Dumfries in 1264 to plan an expedition against the Isle of Man, pr ... |
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 ... |
Historia Augusta | ... rsonal fashion, which spread to his army and his court. Cassius Dio and the | agree that his nickname was derived from his cloak, but do not mention its ... |
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 ... |
Charles II | ... recognition for help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s, | gave George Carteret, bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the A ... |
Pauline Kael | The movie was not universally liked, though | ;called it a "sickly whimsy" and referred to Mel Ferrer's "narcissistic, m ... |
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... to I granted the bishop with temporal powers over the city. In 1007 emperor | , extended the bishop's temporal power to the territory surrounding Cambra ... |
John Marsden | ... Mao's Last Dancer; the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae the dramatization of | 's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began; and the crime drama Animal Kingdom ... |
Bobby Jindal | ... Baton Rouge, also use the fleur-de-lis. On 9 July 2008, Louisiana governor | signed a bill into law making the fleur-de-lis an official symbol of the s ... |
Francisco Franco | ... "53 nations" to fight against the Spanish Nationalist forces led by General | and assisted by German and Italian forces |
Lily Tomlin | ... nstabled Theater run by Edith Carroll Canter and Woodie King, Jr.. (Actress | got her start in the same theater company the year Jim joined) |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ain the causes of the war, the military conflict on land and sea, President | 's back channel diplomacy, and the peace negotiations hosted by the United ... |
David Starkey | ... in, and Italian and began learning Spanish when she was Queen. According to | , Catherine was most likely better educated overall than Anne Boleyn. As a ... |
Eleanor of Provence | # King Henry III of England (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married | , by whom he had issue, including his heir, King Edward I of England |
Olivia Williams | ... ologist in Philadelphia, returns home one night with his wife, Anna Crowe ( | ), after having been honored for his work. She says that everything in the ... |
Marc Reisner | ... being allocated to river users than actually flows through the Colorado. As | , author of Cadillac Desert puts it, "[the Colorado is] a 'deficit' river, ... |
Terry Pratchett | In the 2008 TV miniseries adaptation of | 's The Colour of Magic, the characters of Rincewind and Twoflower parody t ... |
Egon Hostovský | Stefan Zweig was related to the Czech writer | . Hostovský described Zweig as "a very distant relative"; some sources des ... |
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 ... |
William the Lion | ... bey and its grounds are now within the Dumfries urban conurbation boundary. | granted the charter to raise Dumfries to the rank of a Royal Burgh in 1186 ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | ... ices, and attacked the abuses and excesses of the Catholic Church. In 1521, | responded to Luther’s criticisms with a work known as the Assertio, writte ... |
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 ... |
Martin Short | ... one liners as an archetypal instrument that requires no skill to play. The | sketch comedy character Ed Grimley is the best known example. A triangle p ... |
Jeff Merkley | ... pulation was 3,439 at the 2010 census. It is the birthplace of U.S. Senator | |
Vivian Beynon Harris | ... as eight years old his parents separated and he and his brother, the writer | , spent the rest of their childhood at a number of English preparatory and ... |
Minos | According to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and | . When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native land, Minos ... |
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 ... |
Tertullian | Few details are known about Clement's life. According to | , Clement was consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a l ... |
Selma Lagerlöf | ... An angry tomte is featured in the popular children's book by Swedish author | , Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (Nils Holgersson's Wonderf ... |
William the Conqueror | ... ates in Wymondham and nearby New Buckenham whose grandfather had fought for | at the Battle of Hastings. The d'Albini (or d'Aubigny) family originated f ... |
Michael Palin | ... radio and played with the very nature of the medium." This is reiterated by | and John Cleese in their contributions to Ventham's (2002) book. Cleese re ... |
Bob Dylan | ... ted with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, | , Rabini Zami, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel ... |
Philip IV of France | ... o receive the western part of his lands (Barrois mouvant) as a fief by King | . The Burgundian duke Charles the Bold in 1475 campaigned for the Duchy of ... |
Henry III of England | # King | (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... a tiny town it was regarded as one of its capitals. In the summer of 1772, | was at the Reichskammergericht as a trainee. His novel The Sorrows of Youn ... |
Princess Christina | ... -Nassau, he has participated in the New York City Marathon, where his aunt, | , and several cousins live. In the Netherlands, he was a participant in th ... |
Elagabalus | ... gious missions of holy men from India passing through Syria on their way to | or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor. His accounts were quoted by Porp ... |
Allan Rock | Several other potential leadership contenders, such as Brian Tobin and | , declined to enter the contest. John Manley's attacks on Martin's refusal ... |
Sarpedon | According to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons, | and Minos. When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native lan ... |
August Strindberg | ... ert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Adam Dörnberger, and the Swedish writer | |
Don Herbert | ... out various civic problems with righteous indignation. The second guest was | , TV's "Mr. Wizard", and the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fes ... |
Archimedes | ... e siege of Syracuse from 214 BC onwards. During this siege the ingenuity of | ' machines defeated all Roman attacks |
Olav Hammer | ... urse with animals to produce giants which were as much as twelve feet tall. | wrote that many of Cayce's readings discussed race and skin colour and tha ... |
Emilio Estevez | ... . The company’s latest film is The Way, written and directed by Sheen's son | who also stars in the film as Martin’s on-screen son, who dies while hikin ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... Herein arose the clerical philosophers—Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, | —whose answer was restoring the House of Bourbon and reinstalling the Roma ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... ed her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside Henry II and | . Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, having few prospects in ... |
Prince Charles | ... celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid. | of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelou ... |
Stuart A. Wright | ... as follows and distinguished it from the defector and whistleblower roles. | , an American sociologist and author, asserts that apostasy is a unique ph ... |
German Emperor Frederick III | ... The tsar then sent emissaries to Princess Margaret of Prussia, daughter of | and sister of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Nicholas flatly declared that he ... |
Gary Lineker | After the 1986 FIFA World Cup, English top scorer | was signed along with goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta, but the team could no ... |
John of Damascus | In 746 | (sometimes St. John of Damascus) wrote the Fount of Knowledge part two of ... |
Gene Lockhart | ... es, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Jean Hersholt, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, | , Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morri ... |
Ermengarde | ... Pious, Lothair also received the Kingdom of Italy. In 821, Lothair married | (d. 851), daughter of Hugh the Count of Tours. In 822, he assumed the gove ... |
Nero | ... was named after the Colossus of Rhodes). This statue was later remodeled by | 's successors into the likeness of Helios (Sol) or Apollo, the sun god, by ... |
Ed McMahon | ... te Night followed The Tonight Show, Letterman couldn't have a sidekick like | , and Paul Shaffer's band couldn't include a horn section like Doc Severin ... |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | In Finland, | of the Centre Party won the elections after she had accused her rival Paav ... |
Nicolaus Copernicus | ... stronomical observations—notably the radical analysis offered by astronomer | concerning the relative motions of the sun, earth, moon, and planets—indic ... |
Brad Wright | ... ef cameo, and is expected to return for the third movie. Executive producer | stressed the importance of O'Neill's presence in the Stargate universe eve ... |
Qianlong | ... nspection tours to southern China. In the Qing Dynasty, emperors Kangxi and | made twelve trips to the south, on all occasions but one reaching Hangzhou |
George Orwell | ... p the anti-enclosure feeling, and has been repeated in many variants since: | wrote in 194 |
Arnie Kogen | ... ublished in Mad Magazine. It was illustrated by Mort Drucker and written by | in regular issue #136, July 1970 |
Charles II of England | ... stocrats. Eventually the bones were gathered up and placed in an urn, which | ordered interred in Westminster Abbey in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Ch ... |
Richard Wagner | ... estival at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer | are presented |
Mpande kaSenzangakhona | ... tlers led by Pretorius at the Battle of Blood River. Dingane's half brother | then defected with some 17,000 followers and allied with the Boers against ... |
Giovanni Amendola | ... talitarianism" a "total" political power by state was formulated in 1923 by | who described Italian Fascism as a system fundamentally different from con ... |
Henry V of England | During the Hundred Years' War, on 19 January 1419, Rouen surrendered to | , who annexed Normandy once again to the Plantagenet domains. But Rouen di ... |
Brian Tobin | Several other potential leadership contenders, such as | and Allan Rock, declined to enter the contest. John Manley's attacks on Ma ... |
King Henry VII | ... Richard III in the Wars of the Roses. More's work, however, little mentions | , the first Tudor king, perhaps for having persecuted his father, Sir John ... |
Terry Jones | ... e traditional conventions of comedy. On p. 73 of the Pythons autobiography, | states "The Goons of course were my favourite. It was the surreality of th ... |
Charles Lindbergh | ... l as a monoplane model—the Lockheed Sirius, the first of which was flown by | . The name was also adopted by Mitsubishi Motors for the Mitsubishi Sirius ... |
Sarpedon | ... , the Lycian contingent was said to have been led by two esteemed warriors: | (son of Zeus and Laodamia) and Glaucus (son of Hippolochus) |
David Brower | ... ew that it had much greater scenic value than Echo Park. Sierra Club leader | fought the dam both during the construction and for many years afterwards ... |
Larry Cohen | ... symphony of misfired synapses." Her last performance was the title role in | 's Wicked Stepmother (1989). By this time her health was failing, and afte ... |
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès | ... ngland and to Montesquieu in 18th century France, the latter especially via | pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? |
Adélaïde Filleul | ... Flahaut de La Billarderie, beheaded at Arras in February 1793, and his wife | , afterwards Mme de Souza-Botelho. Charles de Flahaut was generally recogn ... |
Giles Worsley | ... e by ‘Divine Right’, an interpretation supported by architectural historian | and others |
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 ... |
Galileo Galilei | ... eld universally valid characterizations of motion. The Tuscan mathematician | was the central figure in the shift to this perspective. As a mathematicia ... |
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes | # | (1 June 1134 Rouen- 26 July 1158 Nantes) died unmarried and was buried in ... |
Burebista | ... arded as "the one true god" by most Dacians and many Thracians. During King | 's reign the year of Zalmoxis' death was marked as the first day of the Da ... |
Norris | Christopher Chataway recommended student twins | and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. ... |
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 |
H. G. Wells | ... approach by Wyndham (itself more than a little reminiscent of that taken by | in The War of the Worlds) was a reaction against what he described as the ... |
Jerome | ... kes Clement the immediate successor of Peter. And while in one of his works | gives Clement as "the fourth bishop of Rome after Peter" (not in the sense ... |
David Letterman's | ... n musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been | sidekick since 1982 |
Liev Schreiber | ... most famous character John Clark has been played by actors Willem Dafoe and | . All but two of Clancy's solely-written novels feature Jack Ryan or John ... |
Jean Hersholt | ... ld, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, | , Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners ... |
Rabelaisian | ... y's New York Times obituary described him via a character sketch: "He was a | figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of w ... |
Nick Fury | ... ences his fights with Captain America during World War 2, but is stopped by | , Captain America, and Falcon |
Kangxi | ... s to lead inspection tours to southern China. In the Qing Dynasty, emperors | and Qianlong made twelve trips to the south, on all occasions but one reac ... |
Henry II of England | # | (1133–1189 |
Johann Michael Vansleb | ... ech Thévenot (Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s–1696 editions) and | (The Present State of Egypt, 1678) |
David Starkey | ... er since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and | 's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identifi ... |
Lewis A. Coser | The American sociologist | (following the German philosopher and sociologist Max Scheler) defines an ... |
Ptolemy | ... ccusations by a rival artist that Apelles took part in a conspiracy against | . This almost led to the artist's execution. "In the Renaissance the exemp ... |
Michael Jackson | ... f only more modestly with the 1982 album, Silk Electric. Ross' recording of | 's "Muscles" gave Ross another top ten hit. Ross' 1983 album, Ross, failed ... |
Melchisédech Thévenot | ... elled though the area. Protais' writing about their travel was published by | (Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s–1696 editions) and Johann Mich ... |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... en condemned as a gigantic swindle on the part of large landowners. In 1770 | wrote The Deserted Village, deploring rural depopulation. An anonymous pro ... |
Myleene Klass | ... ong "Streets of London". The interview was filmed in Paris and conducted by | |
Bellerophon | Lycia appears elsewhere in Greek myth, such as in the story of | , who eventually succeeded to the throne of the Lycian king Iobates (or Am ... |
Cruz Bustamante | ... timately adopted Sanchez’s position, paving the way for Lieutenant Governor | to enter the race |
Alexander Lukashenko | President | said Belarus unanimously denounced US aggression in Iraq |
Dingane kaSenzangakhona | ... assinated by one of his iNdunas and two of his half-brothers, one of which, | , succeeded him as king. By the 1830s migrating Boers came into conflict w ... |
Joachim Murat | Meanwhile in Italy, | , whom the Allies had allowed to remain King of Naples after Napoleon's in ... |
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 ... |
Brian Matthew | Broadcaster | , theatre producer Dominic Madden, comedian and writer Emma Fryer and adul ... |
Marquess of Lorne | ... een Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter Princess Louise, wife of the | , then the Governor General of Canada |
Harold Wilson | ... ung parliaments. The first followed the February 1974 general election when | was appointed Prime Minister after Edward Heath resigned the post followin ... |
Mark Victor | ... d the screenplay rewritten in secret; the new version, by Michael Grais and | , was radically different from Bakshi's original. Paramount threatened to ... |
Shen Kuo | ... zi (c. 470–390 BCE) proposed a concept similar to inertia, while in optics, | (1031–1095 CE) independently developed a camera obscura. The study of magn ... |
Sam Shepard | In the 2011 movie Blackthorn, | plays an elderly Butch Cassidy who has survived the Sundance Kid and elude ... |
Shakespeare's | ... 9 which led to the colonization of Bermuda and provided the inspiration for | The Tempest. William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611) was based on th ... |
Félix Guattari | ... ing him a canonical American writer. French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and | made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and called the short st ... |
Princess Louise | ... It was named in 1882 after Queen Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter | , wife of the Marquess of Lorne, then the Governor General of Canada |
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 ... |
Brian Aldiss | Most of Wyndham's novels have a contemporary 1950s English setting. | , another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ril 188 – 8 April 217) was Roman emperor from 198 to 217. The eldest son of | , for a short time he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until he ... |
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton | ... ffluent young English women. Nightingale was courted by politician and poet | , but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her a ... |
Romain Rolland | ... of the Ministry of War, and soon acquired a pacifist stand like his friend | , recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1915. Zweig remained a pacif ... |
Sir Hugh Beaver | On 4 May 1951, | , then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, went on a shooting ... |
Ben Affleck | ... ve been turned into commercially successful films with actors Alec Baldwin, | , and Harrison Ford as Clancy's most famous fictional character Jack Ryan, ... |
Moses | ... nerally agree that the Pentateuch (Torah or Tawrat) is the original work of | (Musa) but has been modified in translation, transliteration or transcript ... |
Henry II of France | ... rice of Saxony by the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to King | in turn for his support |
Hardy Krüger | ... scene and then its German equivalent in quick succession. Johanna Matz and | , the stars of the German adaptation, briefly appear in the English langua ... |
Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... d military issues such as guerrilla warfare, tactics and laying land mines. | was notable among the cell organizers in Europe. In 1937 the Polish author ... |
Aegeus | ... us, the son of Pandion II of Athens, driven into exile by his brother, King | , settled among the Termilae. They named it Lycia after him. Herodotus end ... |
Ioannis Kapodistrias | In 1827 | , from Corfu, was chosen as the first governor of the new Republic. Howeve ... |
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester | ... who would marry firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke; and secondly | , by whom she had issue |
Pete Waterman | Record producer | is also from the city and is president of Coventry Bears |
King George II | ... of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British | . However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander fo ... |
Tsar Alexander III | ... ll come true." Alix reciprocated his feelings. At first, Nicholas's father, | , refused the prospect of marriage |
Shaka | | , the first Zulu king, had, through war and conquest, built the small Zulu ... |
Ferenc Erkel | The last complete opera by the Hungarian composer | is István király (King Stephen) (1885). The best known representations of ... |
Domitian | ... ompleted in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during | 's reign (81–96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespa ... |
Lucian | ... onification, which he carried far in his rendering of Calumny, described by | , in which an innocent youth is falsely accused by Ignorance, Envy, Treach ... |
Sima Qian | ... n Shi Huang" (秦始皇), appear in the Records of the Grand Historian written by | . The longer name "Qin Shi Huangdi" (秦始皇帝) appears first in chapter 5, tho ... |
Alec Baldwin | ... f All Fears have been turned into commercially successful films with actors | , Ben Affleck, and Harrison Ford as Clancy's most famous fictional charact ... |
Carl Jung | ... es occurred because Cayce had been reading other books from authors such as | , Ouspensky and Blavatsky. Gardner's hypothesis was that the trance readin ... |
Antonia Fraser | ... Baron Burgh in 1529, at the age of seventeen. However since the release of | The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six ... |
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 ... |
King Henry VIII | As secretary and personal adviser to | , More became increasingly influential in the government, welcoming foreig ... |
Gilles Deleuze | ... essentially declaring him a canonical American writer. French philosophers | and Félix Guattari made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and ... |
James Freed | ... Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate | served as lead designer. Hoping to create a vibrant community institution ... |