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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Herbert C. Hoover | The 1928 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate | made his only southern campaign stop at Elizabethton and delivered his nat ... |
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 ... |
John Tukey | ... e American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as | , condemned the sampling procedure. Tukey was perhaps the most vocal criti ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | In 1916, Baruch left Wall Street to advise president | on national defense and terms of peace. He served on the Advisory Commissi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Francisco Franco | ... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimo | and Christopher Columbus as saints. According to his supporters, Pope Greg ... |
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 ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of | |
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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Honorius | ... was the famous magister militum Stilicho, the chief minister of the Emperor | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias: Drawing inspiration from | , Veidt was once the superhero Ozymandias, but has since retired to devote ... |
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 ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... n sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of | 's army and inspired Southern morale |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nixon Administration | ... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and the | reversed all dishonorable discharges |
Duke of Halland | ... went on a private visit to Wuppertal, Germany; at the same time, H.R.H. the | was on a private visit to Sainte-Maxime, France. The Government therefore ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Carl XVI Gustaf | Under H.M. | , the present King of Sweden since 1973, the plain triple-tailed flag has ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ely rebuilt on Roman patterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by | and Caracalla, who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. Th ... |
Richard Nixon | ... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. President | appointed him as the general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Titus | ... pression of the Jewish revolt, Josephus would have witnessed the marches of | 's triumphant legions leading their Jewish captives, and carrying treasure ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Claudius | The Emperor | paid a visit while Britain was being conquered and was honoured with the a ... |
Ferdinand I | On the death of his half-brother | without a male heir in October 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ncastrian line had virtually been extinguished, and the only rival left was | , who was living in exile |
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 ... |
Memnon | ... of Patroclus, Achilles' closest companion was Nestor's son Antilochus. When | , king of Ethiopia slew Antilochus, Achilles once more obtained revenge on ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the | books |
Elizabeth II | Queen | approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Numa Pompilius | | , the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, reformed the calendar ... |
Francisco Franco | ... y the railway system, which could have been used to transport artillery had | not used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the Spanish Civil War ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it. | resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the ... |
George Washington | ... rtraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, | , and Abraham Lincoln. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simpl ... |
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 ... |
Beatrice | ... ber 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure the succession for Princess | , Ferdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alfonso VIII of Castile | In 1187, King | made the abbot of San Emeterio lord of the town, and in 1248 Santander par ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Jacques Chirac | ... Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic called the war illegal. French President | commented on the statement of the ten Eastern European countries saying: " ... |
Charles X Gustav | After | , the son of John Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Qin Er Shi | ... worked, and the younger son Huhai became the Second Emperor, later known as | or "Second Generation Qin. |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Sun Yat-sen | In 1906, the Chinese Republican leader | proposed that Hainan should become a separate province although this did n ... |
President Bush | ... servative Republicans are not committed to improving public education. When | 's 2003 budget proposal threatened to cut education grants, she responded, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | ... 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 ... |
third wife | ... England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after King Henry VIII's | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King Henry VIII's | ... Hertfordshire, in England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after | third wife |
Tim Rice | ... ay writers from Bucks include Terry Pratchett who was born in Beaconsfield, | who is from Amersham and who is from Aylesbury |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Attila | The few demonstrably historical characters mentioned in the poems, like | , provide a terminus post quem of sorts. The dating of the manuscripts the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | ... Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married | 's daughter Julie in 1968 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... at the edge of the (known) world. Similar coin types were also issued under | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alaric | ... negotiation to Leo. Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of | —who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410—gave him pause |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Walter Scott | ... atchewan on 23 May 1906, by the first provincial government, led by Premier | ; the monumental Saskatchewan Legislative Building was built between 1908 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 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 ... |
Odin | In Baldrs draumar, | rides to the edge of Hel to investigate nightmares Baldr has had. He bring ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Walter Scott | In the early 19th century, | wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hoshea | Soon after this Pekah was assassinated by | , the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of Jotham of ... |
Harold Wilson | ... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of | , Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... aw," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis' loss to | . The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al ... |
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 ... |
Claudius | It would seem that in the reign of | (41-54 AD) the quaestors had become responsible for the paving of the stre ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dushyanta | ... o sees Eastern parallels in the figures of Aqhat, Attis, Dumuzi, Gilgamesh, | , and Prajapati (as pursuer of Ushas) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ation. Among the holders of the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class was | , who held the rank of . Hitler can be seen wearing the award on his left ... |
Marshal Bernadotte | ... rians at Wagram, on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle that | was stripped of his command after retreating contrary to Napoleon's orders ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Constantius II | About the same time, he wrote to Emperor | a remonstrance against the persecutions by which the Arians had sought to ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... uent incursions into Spanish territory to recapture escaped slaves. General | 's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Semi ... |
Elizabeth I | ... lliam Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen | for most of her reign. The country house, with a park laid out by Lancelot ... |
Gnassingbé Eyadéma | ... sident of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of Côte d'Ivoire, | , former president of Togo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, of the Republic of the C ... |
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 |
Frank B. Kellogg | ... ri Fromageot, José Gustavo Guerrero, Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, | , Negulesco, Michel Rostworowski, Walther Schücking and Wang Ch'ung-hui |
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 ... |
Peter IV | ... his life, he had to contend with the son of his first marriage, the future | |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale | Tilak opposed the moderate views of | , and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Ben ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... h as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and | . Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simple and earnest, rather ... |
Ashur-dan III | ... . He succeeded his father Adad-nirari III, and was succeeded by his brother | . Very little information about his reign has survived |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Anna Pavlovna of Russia | ... King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Ferdinand I | ... d of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later | |
Sadyattes | ... –560 BC), considered to be the founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of | , of the house of the Mermnadae |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican Party abolished slavery under | , defeated the Slave Power, and gave blacks the vote during Reconstruction ... |
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 ... |
Charles V | ... to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother | , and later Emperor Ferdinand I |
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 ... |
Emperor Xuanzong | The Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. Chinese | brings the Tang Dynasty to its pinnacle. Nara period in Japan |
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 ... |
Archduke Charles | ... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander, | , failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Anne Boleyn | Howard was the great-grandfather of | and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... n the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and | , records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many yea ... |
King Hussein | ... en and levied illegal taxes—all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored. | considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | On December 8, 1863, President | issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or ... |
Robert Mugabe | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734–1783), | , Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess Ekat ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ess, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and | on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Catherine Howard | Howard was the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and | , the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of King Henry VIII. T ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hu Jintao | ... 2006. The center was completed in 2009 and opened by the Chinese President | |
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. |
James Madison | In the Federalist No. 39, | argued that the Constitution was designed to be a mixture of state-based a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Astyages | ... eded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of | , King of Media |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Obama | ... d would receive copies of the swearing-in invitation and program, photos of | and Vice President , and a color print of the ceremony |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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), ... |
Croesus | He was succeeded by his son | . His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of Astyages, King of Med ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peleus | Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and | , the king of the Myrmidons. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the han ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stefan Nemanja | The medieval Serbian state is formed by | and continued by the Nemanjić dynasty. By the end of the century, both the ... |
James Bryce | ... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, | , Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Rugila | The death of | (also known as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, A ... |
Philip II | In 1561, King | made Madrid the capital of the empire. The surrounding territories became ... |
Manuel I Komnenos | Bari was occupied by | between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground; Frede ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Spaak, Paul-Henri | ... ) - Sonian Forest - Southeast Limburgish dialect - South Tower (Brussels) - | - Speaker of the Flemish Parliament - Special law - Spiere-Helkijn - Spiri ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Beatrice of Savoy | ... , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, and | |
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 ... |
Andrew Jackson | The situation was complicated by the American spoils system. After | assumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ... |
Bernadotte's | ... tled upon a secondary line of retreat through Brunn. The Imperial Guard and | I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under Lannes guarded the no ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hummay | ... African traders, Berbers and Arabs, brought the new religion. Towards 1068, | , a member of the Sayfawa establishment, who was already a Muslim, discard ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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' ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hoshea | ... ian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and | being king from 732 BC |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joanna of Castile | On 21 June 1511, queen | ordered the creation of the Consulate of Bilbao. This would become the mos ... |
Daniel arap Moi | At Kenyatta's death (August 22, 1978), Vice President | became interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally aft ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Teresa d'Entença | By | |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President | , Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ... |
Wang Mang | ... t was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent | . This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (20 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Madeira was a favorite of | , and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1938, Wyman co-starred with | in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... Thomas Jefferson, and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. | , Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to ha ... |
James Baker | ... m public remarks by President George H. W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State | that the economic sanctions would only be lifted when Saddam Hussein was r ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hilaire Belloc | ... velopment of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and | , two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William IV | ... y coin between 1797 and 1970, occasional issues such as the fourpence under | between 1836 and 1837, and on the 50 pence coin between 1969 and 2008. See ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Simon de Montfort | Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to | , Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons' War ( ... |
Joanna of Castile | Philip and | had six children |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Adams | ... Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and | are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. On one occasio ... |
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 ... |
Zhu Rongji | President Jiang Zemin and Premier | , both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in the 1990s. Under Jiang ... |
Alexander the Great | ... in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by | 's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect |
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 ... |
John Sloan Dickey | ... roving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s. | , serving as president from 1945 until 1970, strongly emphasized the liber ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach | ... gainst the Roman Catholic rule of the Teutonic Knights, whose Grand Master, | , a member of a cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern, lacked the mili ... |
Bagsecg | ... 0 the "Great Summer Army" arrived in England, led by a Viking leader called | and his Five Earls. Aided by the Great Heathen Army (which had already ove ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | ... Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk and Alice Tendring; by whom he descended from | , through his illegitimate daughter Joan of Cornwall |
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 |
Erechtheus | ... Parthenos. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of | /Erichthonius through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate ... |
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 ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry III | ... a Carta, before it reverted to royal control early in the reign of his son, | |
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 ... |
John of Gaunt, 1st Earl of Richmond | The second creation was on 13 November 1362, for | , who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edwar ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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" ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander III | The reforms of | replaced many of the traditional privileges of the German nobility with el ... |
Grand Duke's | ... uchy of Tuscany; Charles had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent | daughter, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | President | established a new position in the White House, the Assistant to the Presid ... |
John, Prince of Asturias | Philip's sister Margaret married | , only son of Ferdinand and Isabella and successor to the unified crowns o ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Khosrau I | The Persian king | , sent troops under the command of Vahriz, who helped Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Don Carlos | ... throne, however, Charles was obliged to surrender the Kingdom of Naples to | of Spain, in exchange for the minuscule Duchy of Parma |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Richard Nixon | President | first considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ... |
Isaac Newton | ... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science. | 's (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ... |
Prince of Wales | In 1920, the | (the future King Edward VIII) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard I | Henry's successor, | , paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth but under King John signi ... |
Anne Boleyn | Among those held and executed at the Tower was | . Although the Yeoman Warders were once the Royal Bodyguard, by the 16th a ... |
Jim Yong Kim | ... ebruary 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician | on July 1, 2009 |
Prince Shōtoku | Spying in Japan dates as far back as | (572–622), although the origins of spying and assassination date much earl ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ernest Bevin | On February 14, 1947, | announced that the Jews and Arabs would not be able to agree on any Britis ... |
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... enthroned on 6 September 1898. On 7 February 1901 in The Hague, she married | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king | , was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... stinguished Flying Cross, and he was awarded the Harmon Trophy by President | |
Alexander I | ... to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units. Tsar | then appointed general Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov to the commander-in-c ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Armando Guebuza | ... bility and maintaining a local staff. After contacting Mozambican president | to verify that the Mozambican government had no objections, the couple dec ... |
Pope John XXIII | In 1960, | commented that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Archduke Charles | | , brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army ... |
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 ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... buy as much Native American land as possible. In 1804, territorial governor | negotiated a treaty in St. Louis in which a group of Sauk and Meskwaki lea ... |
George Washington | ... vernment through the war that raised an army to fight the British and named | its commander, made treaties, declared independence, and instructed the co ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Josiah Bartlet | ... 006), his role as The Illusive Man in the Mass Effect trilogy and President | in the television series The West Wing |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maria Feodorovna | ... nd a note from Pope Leo XIII. Because of support from Russian tsarist widow | and other donations, his financial situation improved remarkably |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Philip the Good | ... chiermonnikoog in writing dates from October 1440, in a document written by | |
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: ... |
Pedro II | On 6 September 1850 the emperor, | , sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Miguel Alemán Valdés | ... ommercial wharf and warehouses has been built. In the early 1950s President | upgraded the port’s infrastructure, installing electrical lines, drainage ... |
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 ... |
Leopold I | ... f Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor | . The government of de facto collectively ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, seate ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Bolesław I Chrobry | Mieszko's son | established a Polish Church province, pursued territorial conquests and wa ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Keynesian | ... trade policy of the United States and Britain during the 19th Century, with | stimulus policies |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 |
President of the European Parliament | ... als in technical matters such as the free trade agreement with Ukraine. The | meanwhile articulates the EU's values |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peter I | John was the natural son of | by a woman named Teresa, who, according to Fernão Lopes, was a noble Galic ... |
George Washington | ... is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 Madison | ... r notable Founding Fathers may have been more directly deist. These include | , possibly Alexander Hamilton, Ethan Allen |
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 ... |
President of India | ... oclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as the first | , taking over from Governor General Rajgopalachari. Subsequently India inv ... |
Desta Damtew | ... ork married Dejazmatch Beyene Merid. Princess Tenagnework first married Ras | , and after she was widowed later married Ras Andargachew Messai. Princess ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | ... contains at least one potential historical error: It apparently claims that | intended Alexandria to be the capital of his empire. Actually, he built it ... |
Frank Capra | ... ue to "chronic illness". She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the | film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady f ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Princess Zenebework | ... children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, | , Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle Selassie |
Richard Nixon | ... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, | politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Isaac Newton | ... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines . | , influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ... |
Michael Heseltine | ... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, | , formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ... |
Yayi Boni | ... this was not changed and he stood down after the election of his successor, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Princess Tenagnework | By Menen Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: | , Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince ... |
Hilaire Belloc | ... jection of this new program was due to the direct influence of the ideas of | over American distributists |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Francisco Solano López | Meanwhile, in December 1864 the dictator of Paraguay, | took advantage of the situation to establish his country as a regional pow ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Alexander the Great | After | conquered the Near East in 334 BCE, the existing settlement was named Heli ... |
Menen Asfaw | By | , Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfa ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles II of Spain | Following the death of | , in 1700, without any ostensible heir, Charles declared himself King of S ... |
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. ... |
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 |
Sigismund III | Following King | 's Prussian regency contract (1605) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg ... |
Isabella I of Castile | In 1469 Queen | and King Ferdinand of Aragon were married in the city; by the 15th century ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Medferiashwork Abebe | ... Princess Wolete Israel Seyoum and then following their divorce to Princess | . Prince Makonnen was married to Princess Sara Gizaw. Prince Sahle Selassi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bruno Amoussou | ... president) 27.1%, Adrien Houngbédji (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and | (Minister of State) 8.6%. The second round balloting, originally scheduled ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Prince Sahle Selassie | ... ce Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Frederick III of Brandenburg | Ducal Prussia's full sovereignty allowed Elector | to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor Leopold I. T ... |
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 ... |
Queen Beatrix | ... a status retained by her daughter, Queen Juliana, and by her granddaughter, | |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... ss takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing | commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 2 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Arthurian legends | ... tiltyard in an event called "the Round Table", in imitation of the popular | |
Prince Henry | Prussia (through the agency of | ), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mwai Kibaki | ... s routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president | , was elected President by a large majority |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Grigory Potemkin | | had had involvement in the coup d'état of 1762. In 1772, Catherine's close ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mitt Romney | ... letter was issued immediately before the Florida primary. Dole has endorsed | for the Republican nomination |
King Charles II | During the reign of | , Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ... |
Licinius | In the year 320, | reneged on the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan in 313 and ... |
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 ... |
Manasseh | During the long reign of | (c. 687/686 - 643/642 BC), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennach ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Theodosius I | ... ed at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of | (379-395) |
former President Lyndon Johnson | ... ular bluebonnets, some planted in an effort by "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barroso | ... European Council presidency, President Van Rompuy and Commission President | have begun to compete with each other as Van Rompuy has benefited from the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | Wyman was the first wife of | . They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public ... |
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 | |
Abul Kalam Azad | ... 47, the nationalist leaders of British India—including Jawaharlal Nehru and | representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, and Mast ... |
Jim Bacon | ... (1969–72), on 27 August 2004. The most recently-serving premier to die was | (1998–2004), on 20 June 2004 |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Paul I of Russia | #Emperor | (1 October 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husba ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Euphemia | ... emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. His consort was Empress | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Chirac | In 1996, | , then French President, granted the former French members of the Internat ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
François Mitterrand | ... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by | , the former Socialist President |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Justin II | ... ssimus and had Praejecta (b. ca 520), married to the senator Areobindus and | (b. ca 520) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | The chief minister of | , the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Rom ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Albert Frederick | ... viate of Brandenburg became co-regents with Albert's son, the feeble-minded | |
Saud | ## | (12 January 1902 – 23 February 1969); reigned 1953–196 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Harold Wilson | In 1964, the new British government under | announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Huxley | ... hysiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with | and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | ... nerations down to Catherine's sister, Anne, who would serve all six of King | 's |
Hitler | ... k, states, "The work of the Eugenics Board was not far from the thinking of | . |
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 ... |
King Richard III | For his support of | during the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 |
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 |
Augusto Pinochet | ... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by | took place in 1973 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Oscar II | ... an). Due to the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905, | had to change his motto |
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 |
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 | ... 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Liu Yu | The dynasty was founded by | 劉裕 (363–422), whose surname together with "Song" forms the most commonly u ... |
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, ... |
Nicolae Ceauşescu | ... ut they have not proclaimed themselves as President for Life. For instance, | of Romania, who ruled until his execution (see Romanian revolution) |
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 ... |
Liu Shao | ... which at least partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include | , Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emper ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... but that it was part of some elaborate and dangerous intrigue instigated by | . |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Humphry Davy | Sir | 's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of ele ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
Amel-Marduk | ... reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor | (Evil Merodach) as 562/561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's cap ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Josiah | Zedekiah was the third son of | , and his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he w ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | Ashkelon was soon rebuilt. Until the conquest of | , Ashkelon's inhabitants were influenced by the dominant Persian culture. ... |
David | ... byword or collective name for the oppressors of the Israelite nation before | . Muslim tradition sees the battle with the Philistines as a prefiguration ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hosni Mubarak | This support has continued to the present, with President | often intervening personally to promote peace negotiations. In 1996, he ho ... |
Og | In a similar way the Israelites took the country of | , and these two victories gave them possession of the complete country eas ... |
Og | ... bedstead (translated as "sarcophagus" in NIV Archaeological Study Bible) of | wa |
Chen Shui-bian | During the 2004 Presidential campaign, President | publicly campaigned with Lee Teng-hui and developed a campaign platform, i ... |
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 ... |
Rafael Correa | ... ce and remained in office until the presidential election of 2006, in which | gained the presidency |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ustody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... ession of the 1930s. The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier | , and made major inroads in British Columbia |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Valentinian III | Emperor | sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Triget ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Sparta | In | , Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Ming | ... ry revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, | , and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a lar ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... residency. (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were | , Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Phocas | ... Scipio Africanus. This new Roman imperial fashion lasted until the reign of | |
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! |
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 ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, | in Philippines, for example |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, | , William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... other Hollywood figures, including her own star-recruit to the reform camp, | . Ironically, given her role in galvanizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet ... |
Thomas 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Shah Jahan | In 1622, Khurram ( | ), younger brother of Khusrau Mirza, had murdered Khusrau in a conspiracy ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Septimius Severus | The Roman Emperor | was a native of Lepcis Magna in North Africa, an originally Phoenician cit ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jeroboam | According to , Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of | , and reigned for three years |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor John VIII | In 1428 Gemistos was consulted by | on the issue of unifying the Greek and Latin churches, and advised that bo ... |
George W. Bush | Rossum, writing in 2006, before | appointees Roberts and Alito had time to make an impact, said that Scalia ... |
Charlemagne | ... ). A popular, but ultimately unconfirmed, attempt tries to relate Attila to | |
U.S. President | Sheen has played | John F. Kennedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Atto ... |
Cycnus | There are accounts of a son of Ares, | (Κύκνος) of Macedonia, who was so murderous that he tried to build a templ ... |
new king | ... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the | , and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Augustus III of Poland | King | died in 1763, and therefore Poland needed to elect a new ruler. Catherine ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... documents have led some to question the Church's commitment to ecumenism . | personally endorsed Dominus Iesus, and ratified and confirmed it "with sur ... |
Benazir Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and | , daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime M ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | Since | broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the E ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | | died in January 1988 and Lee succeeded him as President. The "Palace Facti ... |
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) |
George Washington | ... ating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators. | was given of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French a ... |
Edward VIII | ... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surrounding | and his relationship with Wallis Simpson |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
Odin | ... sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god | |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Queen Elizabeth II's | He is the only president serving during | reign to have never met her |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | Following President | 's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemor ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | When Otto II became | in 973 (he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967), he appointed Gerbert the ... |
Adolf Hitler | The Queen called | "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ernakh | His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), Dengizich, and | fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which vassal kings wo ... |
Robert Andrews Millikan | In 1909, | began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by ... |
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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 ... |
Millard Fillmore | ... he Massachusetts Militia, and the Continental Army. The mother of President | , Phoebe Millard (Fillmore), was born in Northbridge. Ezra Taft Benson, Sr ... |
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 ... |
Edward V | ... evertheless, continued intermittently during his reign and those of his son | and brother Richard III. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Rich ... |
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' ... |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President | ... ips to large number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. | Pervez Musharraf studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
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 ... |
Dengizich | His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), | , and Ernakh fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which va ... |
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, ... |
Joseph Banks | ... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist | , Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ... |
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 ... |
King Charles I | ... the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against | and his supporters, the Cavaliers (Royalists), who claimed absolute power ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... s Dei. There have also been allegations that Escrivá expressed sympathy for | |
Fidel Castro | ... isenhower administration also planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow | in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry out. |
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 ... |
Jacques Delors | ... ommunity Council, Ruud Lubbers, and with the European Commission president, | , pledging closer Japanese – European Community consultations on foreign r ... |
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 ... |
President of the Republic | The | exercises the administrative function, in collaboration with several Minis ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Sun Yat-sen | ... 13. Luo himself was a member of the Tongmenghui, an organization founded by | and was the precursor to the Kuomintang |
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 ... |
Lien Chan | ... received Ph.D.s in the United States. Prominent among the appointments were | as foreign minister, and Shirley Kuo as finance minister |
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 ... |
Reagan | ... 1989, Dole was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President | . Then, on January 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded him the Presidentia ... |
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 ... |
Mullah Omar | ... ystematic and they all lead back to the [Taliban] Ministry of Defense or to | himself. |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
George of Poděbrady | Pope Paul rejected King | of Bohemia because he upheld the conventions of the Council of Basel in fa ... |
President of Argentina | Between 1943 and 1946, the de facto | was Edelmiro Farrell, whose paternal ancestry was Irish |
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 |
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 ... |
Isaac Newton | In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by | in the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | Edward IV had ten legitimate children by | , seven of whom survived him. They were declared illegitimate by Parliamen ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | ... 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 ... |
George Westinghouse | ... Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, | , Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electri ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Levon Ter-Petrossian | ... al between the authorities and opposition demonstrators led by ex-President | occurred after the 2008 Armenian presidential election. The events resulte ... |
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 ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role during | 's funeral |
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 ... |
Jehoahaz | ... was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he was the brother of | (, , , ) |
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 " ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | In 2007, President | appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rehoboam | ... ing an internal consistency that Thiele never resolved, as explained in the | article |
John F. Kennedy | ... o planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which | was left to carry out. |
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 ... |
President | ... II, was planted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by | Bill Clinton. Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, kno ... |
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 ... |
president | In the federal government, the executive branch, led by the | , controls the federal executive departments, which are led by secretaries ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | President | of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. In 1971, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lady Elizabeth | ... assing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both Lady Mary and | to the line of succession to the throne |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gratian | ... t after suffering many hardships. Valens (of the Eastern Empire) then asked | , the western emperor, for reinforcements to fight the Goths. Gratian sent ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1 ... |
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 ... |
Hans Kamper | On 22 October 1899, | placed an advertisement in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a footb ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William II | William I was succeeded by two of his sons: | , then Henry I. Henry made a controversial decision to name his daughter M ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard The Lionheart | In 1194 King | returned from being held captive in Austria, and set about summoning a fle ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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). ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Delors | ... eded for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner and President | . It was established on 1 June 1998 |
Wim Duisenberg | The first President of the Bank was | , the former president of the Dutch central bank and the European Monetary ... |
Gerald Ford | ... Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President | . Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from considera ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | President | made note of the anniversary in a written statement, part of which echoed ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1988, Congress passed and President | signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U. ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | | (1913-1994) was the 37th President of the United States |
Henry III | ... and hospice. During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by | and Edward I as a base for attacks against France |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded by his son | . When the younger Chiang came to power he began to liberalize the system. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... a the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of World History by | |
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 ... |
Charlemagne | ... s, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, | and his successors, the Catholic Holy Roman Emperors |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. President | formally dedicated the MSFC |
President of the United States | On October 25, 2010, the 44th | , Barack Obama, visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small ... |
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 |
Porfirio Díaz | During the regime of | from the 1800s to the 1900s, major economic changes occurred. These change ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Eisenhower | ... eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. President | |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | On October 25, 2010, the 44th President of the United States, | , visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small Business Admi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | After US President | made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ... |
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 |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Karol Wojtyła | Cardinal | was elected John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 Octob ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard III of England | ... er sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and | |
Adolfo de la Huerta | ... 920 to the early 1930s, four Sonorans came to occupy the Mexican presidency | , Obregón, Calles and Rodríguez |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Reagan's | ... Dole, a former Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as | Transportation Secretary (which at that time included the Coast Guard), H. ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Artaxerxes III | After | of Persia and all of his sons were killed by the vizier Bagoas, the vizier ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and | have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Chaim Herzog | ... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.) | placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ... |
President | ... Canadian province of Quebec, the Speaker of the National Assembly is termed | since 196 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 (; ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Plutarco Elías Calles | ... regón’s and his allies’ (primarily Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Benjamín Hill and | ) resistance to Carranza. This movement soon came to dominate the politica ... |
Xiang Yu | ... fall of the Qin Dynasty, however, civil war broke out between two warlords, | and Liu Bang; the Minyue king Wuzhu sent his troops to fight side-by-side ... |
David | ... was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of | . The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ; ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marie François Sadi Carnot | ... September 187316 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of | , President of the French Third Republic |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | In 334 BC, | began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Per ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Augustus | ... ivine Augustus") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor | ' stewardship. It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which enco ... |
Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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), ... |
Brychan | ... emi-legendary. Saints associated with kistvaens include Callwen daughter of | , Geraint, Begnet, and Melangell. Foundation remains of stone slab- or gab ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... a major European power. Edward then alienated Warwick by secretly marrying | , the widow of a Lancastrian sympathiser, in 1464 |
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 ... |
Amalasuntha | ... Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter | . Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. Theodahad, cous ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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) ... |
Jacquetta of Luxembourg | Elizabeth's mother was | , widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her f ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Barack Obama | ... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator | . Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ... |
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 ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... rown out of the window of a three-story building and Syrian police loyal to | (Assad and Orabi were "close friends"), suspected Arafat was involved in t ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... . Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of | and Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in huma ... |
Pope John Paul II | On Sunday, October 9, 1979, | celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ... |
King Arthur | ... is epic to be based on a legendary English or Saxon king like the legend of | |
Annie Besant | ... mbraced Christianity and natural science. The split became irrevocable when | , then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child J ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lopez Arellano | ... anti-Salvadoran. This group put pressure on the Honduran president, General | , to protect the property rights of wealthy landowners |
Ali Abdullah Saleh | ... ion of Yemen. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for President | to resign |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Edward VII | Since the reign of | a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ... |
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 ... |
Peter III | ... alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, | , Paul I, and Alexander II |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Laius | ... he King. In lines 711 to 714, Jocasta relates the prophecy that was told to | before the birth of Oedipus. Namely |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... n of Sharpsburg, where they engaged Confederate troops commanded by General | at the Battle of Antietam |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. , ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Vishnuvardhana | ... transformation into a strong subordinate of the Western Chalukyas. Through | 's expansive military conquests, the Hoysalas achieved the status of a rea ... |
Salvador Allende | ... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate | for the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, | in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Prince of Wales | ... irm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as | and as king |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Guillermo Rodríguez Lara | ... cial government. It was made a province by presidential decree by President | on 18 February 1973. The province is divided into cantons, each covering c ... |
Emperor Wu | ... stability eventually led to the dynasty's destruction. However, its founder | was considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northe ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Astyages | ... mbyses I, who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of | , a Median king |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Julie B. Beck | ... Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents ( | '73 and '20) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
Isa Gambar | ... 15, 2003, an official release of the Central Election Committee (CEC) gave | — leader of the largest opposition bloc, Bizim Azerbaycan ("Our Azerbaijan ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... ch of the Jamiat-i Islami ("Islamic Society"), whose chairman was professor | . This Islamist organization opposed the rising communist and Soviet influ ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pyrrhus of Epirus | After | failed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Raúl Castro | ... st Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By meeting President | to discuss "mutual friendship and cooperation", he became the first Pacifi ... |
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 ... |
Eloy Alfaro | The coast-based Liberal Revolution of 1895 under | reduced the power of the clergy and the conservative land owners of the hi ... |
David | ... ctional persons. Among those still available are his letters to Jesus, King | , Figaro the Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Augustus | The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, | prepared a rationarium (account) which listed public revenues, the amounts ... |
Laius | ... e Theban Cycle recounted the sequence of tragedies that befell the house of | , of which the story of Oedipus is a part |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William Crookes | ... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and | . Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ... |
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 ... |
José María Velasco Ibarra | ... tability and emergence of populist politicians, such as five-time President | |
Jezebel | ... ten erratic behavior related to those problems earned her the nickname "The | of Jazz" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
François Mitterrand | When | was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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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Henry III | King | had a palace here. The spot is still marked on modern maps as "Cippenham M ... |
George V | ... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from | both as Prince of Wales and as king |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
President | In 1988, Congress passed and | Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on be ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
Edward VII | In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later | ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ... |
Hadrian | Rufinus borrows from his Latin original of | 's letter |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | On December 13, 2001, | gave Russia notice of the United States' withdrawal from the treaty, in ac ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lucius Verus | ... from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and | his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | During the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War, | and the Continental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 de ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Adams | According to US President | , Ponet's work contained "all the essential principles of liberty, which w ... |
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 ... |
Edward I | ... During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by Henry III and | as a base for attacks against France |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander II | ... re assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Roosevelt | ... declared "the first international airport of the Americas" by US president | |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... DPA, حزب دیموکراتیک خلق افغانستان) orchestrated a bloody coup assassinating | , his family and bodyguards and consequently assuming power. The PDPA soon ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of | , remarking, "There is no crisis in health care. |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President | ... solution's language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean | Augusto Pinochet, who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands confli ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Paul I | ... emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, | , and Alexander II |
Lluís Companys | Under its two presidents, Francesc Macià (1931–1933) and | (1934–1939), the republican Generalitat carried out a considerable task, d ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... , and imperfect but clear English on the other") to United States President | , proposing an "alliance" between the two democratic nations and offering ... |
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 |
Eudocia | The margin of the Empress | 's copy of the Iliad has a note summarizing a Hellenistic poet who tells a ... |
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 ... |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... and emergence of Indian leadership at both national and provincial levels. | formed the East India Association in 1867, and Surendranath Banerjee found ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | The third Druk Gyalpo, | , was enthroned in 1952. Earlier he had married the European-educated cous ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | | died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, Jigme Wangchuck (reigned 1926–5 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Guy of Lusignan | ... ncess Sybilla, sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, | , king |
Ulpia Severina | Aurelian was married to | , about whom little is known. Like Aurelian she was from Dacia. They are k ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Best Actor. Co-star Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husband | for him, albeit unsuccessfully |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | On August 27, 1856, | spoke at a rally in Bronson Park, promoting the presidential candidacy of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Midas | ... historical king) were said to have been left there when the legendary king | of Phrygia washed away the "Midas touch" in its waters |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Ramsey Clark | Nicholas Katzenbach (1964–1965), | (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as acting attorney general i ... |
Islam Karimov | | | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Heydar Aliyev | The National Council conferred presidential powers upon its new speaker, | , former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party (1969–81) and ... |
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 ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... cess of presidential succession had been known since the death of President | in 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendm ... |
Al Gore | ... n effect on the content of the media. For example, according to Fair, ‘When | proposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Adv ... |
King James II | ... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of | . During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ... |
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 ... |
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/ ... |
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 ... |
Gundobad | ... sted in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Napoleon III | ... 314. In all, thirty-four sovereigns, from Louis VI, the Fat, (1081–1137) to | (1808–1873), spent time at Fontainebleau |
Bill Clinton | ... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President | . Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isabella of France | ... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife, | , spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Athelstan of England | ... m 934 to 941. Gofraid ua Ímair, his father, held both Dublin and York until | expelled him from York in 927 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Walter Scott | In contrast Lord Byron and | achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander II | ... Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Quintillus | When Claudius died, his brother | seized power with support of the Senate. With an act typical of the Crisis ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Boudica | ... ll) in Staffordshire, Manduessedum (modern day Mancetter - possible site of | 's last battle), Tripontium (modern day Newton and Biggin), Venonis (moder ... |
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 ... |
Louis the German | ... to Lotharingia, and Alemannia (the eastern part) to the eastern kingdom of | which would become part of the Holy Roman Empire |
Hyder Ali | However, during 1750-60 | from Mysore attacked Thrissur and was forced to become tributary of Mysore ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. Edward V's uncle | was declared Lord Protector while the prince was too young to rule. The 12 ... |
Omar al-Bashir | ... ritarian state where all effective political power is obtained by President | and the ruling National Congress Party (NCO) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President | | | |İlham Aliye |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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." ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Bill Clinton | ... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Walter O'Malley | Real estate businessman | had acquired majority ownership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the ... |
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, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Croesus | In 547 BC, the Lydian king | besieged and captured the Persian city of Pteria in Cappadocia and enslave ... |
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 ... |
Julian | In the year AD 363, the Emperor | 's invasion of Persia was turned back by a scorched earth policy |
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 ... |
Joseph Lyons | Founding leader | began his political career as an Australian Labor Party politician and ser ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 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 ... |
Frederick William III of Prussia | King | appointed an Immediate Commission for the investigation of political dissi ... |
P. V. Narasimha Rao | ... continuing the policies initiated by the previous Congress Government under | and Manmohan Singh, pushed through major privatizations of big government ... |
Margaret Beckett | Other notable alumni include | , a politician who in 2006 became Foreign Secretary |
Henry Tudor | ... until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by the Lancastrian | , who ascended to the throne as Henry VII |
Barack Obama | ... Republican John McCain received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat | received 1137 (about 28%) |
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, ... |
Truman | ... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the | administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption. |
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 ... |
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 |
Wang Anshi | ... action at court, resolutely opposed to the reformist policies of Chancellor | . Sima presented increasingly critical memorials to the throne until 1070, ... |
Charles IV | On 29 October 1807, Manuel Godoy, chancellor to the Spanish king, | and Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which authorized the pass ... |
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 ... |
John William Draper | The story begins in late April 1839, as | had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serializing Oliver ... |
Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
President | ... omy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of | Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President | , and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adv ... |
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 | |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
John Adams | ... of foreign debt payments. Even comparatively conservative commentators like | observed that these levies were "heavier than the People could bear. |
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, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, | and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
James Madison | ... esolutions. Though the resolutions followed the "interposition" approach of | , Jefferson advocated nullification and at one point drafted a threat for ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Yingzong of Song | In 1064, Sima presented to | a book of five volumes , the Liniantu (歷年圖 "Chart of Successive Years"). I ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ones are included, they are noted via tone marks. In pinyin, 毛泽东 is written | |
James II of Scotland | ... mer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440. His temper while playing golf resulted in | outlawing the sport |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... egislation which was finally enacted during the administration of President | that created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Norris was later an important ... |
Charles I | In 1649, the English Civil War raged and King | was beheaded in Whitehall, London. The execution resulted in the outbreak ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... Ferdinand of Antequera, who after the Compromise of Caspe (1412), was named | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Boniface of Montferrat | | , meanwhile, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Crossman | In March 1946, British Labour Party MP | gave the following description of activity at the hotel: "private detectiv ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Magnus the Good | ... ising the Baltic. As a reprisal, in 1043 it was attacked by the Danish king | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Eleanor of Portugal | Frederick had 5 children from his marriage with | |
The Queen | ... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of | and The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... District Attorney, and ran unopposed in 2005. Although Suffolk voters gave | a victory here in 1992, the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and cont ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charlemagne | The town was founded in 789 by | in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre river. A century later, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King George II | Created by Royal Charter of | , "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Mahinda Rajapaksa | | | |Freedom Part |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Louis Philippe | The French Foreign Legion was created by | , the King of the French, on 10 March 1831. The direct reason was that for ... |
President | The village was named after | Grover Cleveland |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ibrahim Nasir | In 1957, however, the new prime minister, | , called for a review of the agreement in the interest of shortening the l ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King Charles II | In 1670 | granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ... |
Ludwig I | ... ll his death as a model constitutional monarch. On 13 October 1825, his son | succeeded him |
Jacques Chirac | ... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President | |
Elizabeth II | ... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of | ). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Kanishka I | ... i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman Empire, the 2nd century Kushan King | used the title devaputra meaning "son of God" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maximilian II | ... ng the force of public opinion against him, abdicated in favour of his son, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor of the French | ... eaty of Fontainebleau stripped Napoleon of his powers (but not his title as | ) and sent him into exile on Elba |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Jeanne of Navarre | At the request of | , the queen, he began work on the Histoire de Saint Louis, which he comple ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President | on 25 July 2006 |
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 |
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 |
Juho Kusti Paasikivi | ... Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Diocletian | Under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor | in 296 AD, Lydia was revived as the name of a separate Roman province, muc ... |
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 ... |
Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
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 |
Humphry Davy | Clathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir | |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Islam Karimov | ... ratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU), but the party leadership, under President | , remained in place. Independence brought a series of institutional change ... |
James Madison | Jefferson and | also secretly drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions denouncing the ... |
Omar al-Bashir | In December 1999, a power struggle climaxed between president | and NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament Hassan ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King George III | ... me a member of the Company of Surgeons. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon to | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joseph | ... João V died on July 31, 1750 in Lisbon, and was succeeded by his son Prince | |
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 ... |
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' ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | ... scribed in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of | , and Roman consul Julius Caesar (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of R ... |
Richard Nixon | The 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former | speech writer Ben Stein, in the role of a high school teacher, leads a cla ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isaac II Angelos | It was also in 1195 that | was deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as Alexios III Ange ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mihály Károlyi | In October 1918, | established the Hungarian Democratic Republic, and Polanyi became Secretar ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Menen Asfaw | On 3 August he married | of Ambassel, niece of heir to the throne Lij Iyasu |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Shah Alam II | ... athas under Mahadji Shinde recaptured Delhi and restored the Mughal Emperor | to the throne in 1772 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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– ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... ed the Magyars in their 915 campaign against the Duchy of Saxony under Duke | |
François Mitterrand | In 1985, President | commissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marcos Pérez Jiménez | ... , though not yet cohesive. Already under the government of Division General | , the American influence (cultural, political and military) became more pr ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... arrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), | , Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democ ... |
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 ... |
Mohamed Nasheed | | won the 2008 Presidential election, resulting in Gayoom having to step dow ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isaías Medina Angarita | ... lf), were the General in Chief Eleazar López Contreras and Division General | |
George W. Bush | ... ewers by television executives), the Iraq War and other foreign policies of | and Tony Blair, British cuisine, and organic farming. He supports Britain' ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William V | The succeeding duke, Albert's son, | (called the Pious), had received a Jesuit education and showed keen attach ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to | , a longtime political rival |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King Harald Fairhair | In 875, | led a fleet from Norway to Scotland. In his attempt to unite Norway, he fo ... |
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 |
Jacques Chirac | On 12 July 2006, President | held an official state ceremony marking the centenary of Dreyfus's officia ... |
Richard I of England | ... away Byzantine province of Cyprus. But rather than return it to the Empire, | sold the island to the Knights Templa |
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 ... |
Emperor Ōjin | ... etsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of | , Keitai, came and ascended the throne |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Camille Chamoun | ... The deployment came in response to the urgent request of Lebanese president | after sectarian violence had erupted in the country. Washington considered ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... in their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of | , a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... lii suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, and dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Louis XIV | ... effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when the army of | entered the city |
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 ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Bette Davis | De Havilland was good friends with | with whom she starred in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Private L ... |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
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 ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... ssassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra. His student | , the founder of the Maurya Empire, later made use of assassinations again ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Timothy Geithner | ... Secretary of the Treasury from January 20, 2009, until the confirmation of | , which occurred January 26, 2009 |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles Sherrington | ... of the brain as a dynamic entity. Reflecting the new understanding, in 1942 | visualized the workings of the brain waking from sleep |
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 ... |
Lordship of the Isles | ... styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was to develop latterly into the | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President of Ireland | ... eventually nominated (without election) as Ó Dálaigh's successor and sixth | |
President Lincoln | In April 1864, at Bancroft's request, | wrote out what would become the fourth of five known manuscripts of the Ge ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lord of the Isles | ... ty in England, restored it to the heiress of line, the mother of Alexander, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Xian | ... ds and divide the empire. When Cao Pi, King of Wei, usurped the throne from | , the Han Dynasty ceased to exist |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander | It had taken | only six months to conquer Persia (Iran), but it took him nearly three yea ... |
Jérôme Bonaparte | ... hey survived into the 19th century. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811. The last Freigraf died in 1835 |
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 ... |
Roosevelt | Democratic President | and especially his Secretary of State Cordell Hull were critical of the Ne ... |
Robert McNamara | ... tements from several senators and responses from then Secretary of Defense, | , about the Liberty attack. For the most part, the senators were dismayed ... |
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 ... |
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' ... |
Maria Anna of Austria | ... r 1708 he married his maternal first cousin Archduchess & Princess Imperial | , Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of Leopold I ... |
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 ... |
Irving Fisher | ... asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by Paul Douglas, | , James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Seager, Frank Taus ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maria Anna of Austria | John married Archduchess | , daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, his first cousin, in 1708. Fr ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of the next three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of Republican | . African Americans moved into the Democratic Party during Roosevelt's tim ... |
Theodosius II | ... nt Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by Pulcheria, sister of | , for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choice was a sign of the bond ... |
President | ... a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to | Andrew Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cou ... |
Emperor Yūryaku | Ninken married to | 's daughter Kasuga no Ōiratsume no Himemiko, a second cousin of him. Their ... |
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 ... |
King Henry VIII | ... on period. Later, Buckinghamshire became an important political arena, with | intervening in local politics in the 16th century and just a century later ... |
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 ... |
Alexander III | ... Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland Scotland to | , through the Treaty of Perth |
Philip II of Spain | ... and the organization of the two books were quite varied. He dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
Aisin-Gioro Puyi | | | 爱新觉罗溥仪 Àixīnjuéluó Pǔy |
Manuel I Komnenos | ... nt. However, Myriocephalum's implications were initially limited, thanks to | ' holding on to power. The same could not be said of Romanos, whose enemie ... |
Pulcheria | ... nearby church of Saint Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by | , sister of Theodosius II, for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choic ... |
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 ... |
President | ... ould make her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under | Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a jou ... |
Queen Anne of Great Britain | ... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with | |
Herbert Hoover | Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and | were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respectively. The Teapot ... |
Henry VIII | ... the Dissolution of the Monasteries, all monastic manors were seized by King | . They were sold off or given away to the nobility and landed gentry. Gran ... |
Agamemnon | ... h of Orestes to the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War. | is now General Ezra Mannon, Clytemnestra is his second wife Christine, Ore ... |
Peter I | ... antilist policies were imported by Philip V with some success. Russia under | (Peter the Great) attempted to pursue mercantilism, but had little success ... |
Magnus the Law-mender | ... attack that year. Haakon died overwintering in Orkney, and by 1266, his son | ceded the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland S ... |
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 ... |
James Monroe | ... York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after | , fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the ... |
Morcant Bulc | ... have been called Bryneich. John Morris surmised that the line of a certain | referred to these monarchs, chiefly because he identified this man as the ... |
Grace Kelly | After I Confess (1953) with Montgomery Clift, three popular films starring | followed. Dial M for Murder (1954) was adapted from the stage play by Fred ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel | His good work, however, was largely undone by his son | (1679–1726), whose far-reaching ambition set him warring against the Ottom ... |
Harald I of Denmark | ... of the Scandinavian Blåtand/Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king | and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingd ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Herbert Hoover | When campaigning for president during 1928, one of | 's promises to help beleaguered farmers had been to increase tariffs of ag ... |
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 ... |
Nebuchadnezzar | ... en this vast seaport, the last of the Philistine cities to hold out against | finally fell in 604 BC, burnt and destroyed and its people taken into exil ... |
Helgi Hundingsbane | In stanza 38 of the poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, the hero | dies and goes to Valhalla. In stanza 38, Helgi's glory there is described |
Ferdinand Maria | ... ts effect during the next two centuries was more dubious. Maximilian's son, | (1651–1679), who was a minor when he succeeded, did much indeed to repair ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... after John Taylor of Caroline, while a minority believe it was named after | |
Harry S. Truman | ... rs old, and had accumulated an impressive set of legal victories. President | sent a congratulatory telegram to the ACLU on the occasion of their 25th a ... |
Philip V | ... coherent economic policy, but French mercantilist policies were imported by | with some success. Russia under Peter I (Peter the Great) attempted to pur ... |
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. ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Warren G. Harding, | and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ... |
Willis C. Hawley | ... ot was a Republican from Utah and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. | , a Republican from Oregon, was chairman of the House Ways and Means Commi ... |
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 ... |
Frank Porter Graham | Despite initial skepticism from university President | , on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State Co ... |
President | | | |Mahinda Rajapaks |
Blaise Compaoré | ... rriving at its current form, a semi-presidential republic. The president is | |
James A. Garfield | ... at is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after U.S. President | |
Bill Clinton | ... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US President | visiting the cit |
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 ... |
Leo I the Thracian | ... ned by J.B. Bury. In 472 Olybrius was sent to Italy by the Eastern Emperor, | , ostensibly to mediate between Ricimer and the Western Emperor, Anthemius ... |
Mary McAleese | ... by Sinn Féin and DUP politicians. The President of the Republic of Ireland, | , described the decommissioning as "a very positive milestone on the journ ... |
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 ... |
Louis XV | ... g scale projects, with the team Gabriel father and son, architects for King | , under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first Nicolas-Franç ... |
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 ... |
Pope Pius XII | | showed high regard for Benedict, who had consecrated him a Bishop on 13 Ma ... |
Humphry Davy | Since the discovery of potassium by | , it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal i ... |
Queen Anne | ... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of | ; and the Danish Minister protested |
Indira Gandhi | ... refront during the agitation against the emergency (1975–77) imposed by the | regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across Ind ... |
Princess Elizabeth | ... e wrote and arranged three masques, "The Lords' Masque" for the marriage of | , an entertainment for the amusement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and ... |
Simón Bolívar | ... f Independence emerged. Among them were Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda, | (Bolívar's own father had been Colonel of the Militia of Aragua), the gene ... |
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 ... |
Maria Theresa | ... validity of the Pragmatic Sanction which secured the Habsburg succession to | , allied himself with France, conquered Upper Austria, was crowned king of ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... nition of its support for the War on Terrorism, in June 2004 U.S. President | designated Morocco as a major non-NATO ally |
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 ... |
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Maximilian | When he was twelve, his kinsman the emperor | placed him among his pages. He remained for seventeen years in the service ... |
Gundobad | ... or was abandoned by his partisans, captured in a church and put to death by | , Ricimer's nephew. This version implies that Olybrius was secretly suppor ... |
John Adams | ... e president. He was a consistent and strong opponent of the policies of the | administration. Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitut ... |
Ottokar I | ... ould return to the title of duke. The title of king became hereditary under | (1198). His grandson Ottokar II (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-li ... |
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 ... |
Queen Anne | ... r the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, an entertainment for the amusement of | at Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset t ... |
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 ... |
Blaise Compaoré | ... arrest and subsequent efforts to bring about his release, directed by Capt. | . This release effort resulted in yet another military coup d'état on 4 Au ... |
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 ... |
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Prince Henry | ... 613, issued a volume of "Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of | ", set to music by John Cooper (also known as Coperario). The same year he ... |
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | John married Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, daughter of | , his first cousin, in 1708. From that marriage were born six children, th ... |
Charles Pelham Villiers | ... rs 1830–41 decided not to repeal the Corn Laws. However the Liberal Whig MP | proposed motions for repeal in the House of Commons annually from 1837 to ... |
Tullus Hostilius | ... f Alba Longa. The noble Alban families which settled at Rome in the time of | then formed the nucleus of the gentes minores; these included the Tulii, S ... |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... aturely ended when he died of tuberculosis in 1830. Also worthy of note was | , the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose contributions on French t ... |
Shun | ... t monuments, including the renowned graves of the ancient sage kings Yu and | . Places he visited include Shandong, Yunnan, Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Ji ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... and Sargent Shriver became my heroes." Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of | , and mother-in-law to Schwarzenegger; Sargent Shriver is husband to Eunic ... |
Jaromír of Bohemia | ... The jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire was definitively reasserted when | was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor King Henry II of the ... |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... ter Rama Varma Kunhjipilla Thampuran or Rama Varma IX or popularly known as | ascended the throne of Kingdom of Cochin (1769 to 1805). He changed the ca ... |
Francis I | From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, every monarch, from | to Louis XV, made important renovations at the Palace of Fontainebleau, in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Adams | ... one (Kentucky) for Jefferson for Vice President in opposition to incumbent | as well as casting their votes for President Washington. (Before 1804 elec ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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. ... |
Clovis I | After the Franks under | defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac in 496, the Franks eventual ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
King Harald | ... It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. | was consecrated at Nidaros Cathedral on June 23, 1991 |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isaac Newton | ... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (as | had been) by the work of Horrocks |
Blaise Compaoré | ... elections. The amendment also would have prevented the incumbent president, | , from being reelected |
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 ... |
William the Conqueror | In the Harrying of the North, | 's brutal conquest and subjugation of the North of England, William's men ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Kōkō | Nyōgo: Princess Chūshi/Tadako (忠子女王), daughter of Imperial Prince Tokiyasu( | later |
Prince of Orange | ... the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, he received a dispatch from the | and was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's advance. He hastily ordered his ... |
Louis 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
U.S. President | ... . The county seat is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after | James A. Garfield |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 Montoku | Nyōgo: Minamoto no Seishi (源済子), daughter of | Nyōgo: Minamoto no Sadako (源貞子) (?–873 |
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' ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | | showed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ... |
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 ... |
Wenceslaus | ... his wife Drahomíra, a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, | and Boleslaus, both of whom succeeded him as Bohemian dukes. Střezislava, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | In Washington, President | had received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Liberty had been ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Banks | ... inking the Pacific and southern Indian Ocean. Governor Hunter thus wrote to | in August 1797 that it seemed certain a strait existed |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Ankan | Among his sons, | , Emperor Senka and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Kimmei | Among his sons, Emperor Ankan, Emperor Senka and | ascended to the throne |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope John Paul II | The visit of | to Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Gabriel Narutowicz | ... governments changed frequently, corruption was commonplace. The open-minded | was constitutionally elected president by the National Assembly in 1922, b ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Tyler | ... n was 9,208. The County is named after John Tyler, Sr., father of President | . Its county seat is |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eleazar López Contreras | ... relevant (apart from the general Gómez himself), were the General in Chief | and Division General Isaías Medina Angarita |
Henry I | ... rt de Beaumont, Count of Meulan held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107 | made de Beaumont Earl of Leicester and de Beaumont's manor at Napton becam ... |
Ranjit Singh | ... hem, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief, | , as his governor in the Punjab. This "one-eyed" warrior would later becom ... |
Charlemagne | ... first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of | , whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime between 828 and 830 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. |
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 ... |
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 |
Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | Other well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President | David Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ... |
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 ... |
Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual | ... ón, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Victoria of the United Kingdom | He convinced the government of Queen | to spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terrorist activities 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 ... |
Queen of Sheba | ... I, who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the | |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Oscar Temaru | | | |Tavini Huiraatir |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Kimmei | ... r Senka against those who were backers of the son who would become known as | |
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 ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | The elderly | Frederick I Barbarossa responded to the call immediately. He took up the C ... |
Pierre Buyoya | In 1987, Major | overthrew Col. Bagaza in a military coup d'état. He dissolved opposition p ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Nicole Fontaine | In April 2001, the president of the European Parliament | (who called Massoud the "pole of liberty in Afghanistan") invited Massoud ... |
Sennacherib | ... syrian vassalage, (despite a disastrous rebellion against the Assyrian king | ), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE Assyria suddenly collapsed, ... |
King Christian X | He was the son of | of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fou ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Jogaila | Beginning with the Lithuanian Grand Duke | (Władysław II Jagiełło), the Jagiellon dynasty (1386–1572) formed the Poli ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cadwallon ap Cadfan | After Edwin was killed in battle against | of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfr ... |
Alexander III | When Wallace was growing up, King | ruled Scotland. His reign had seen a period of peace and economic stabilit ... |
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 ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... ted debate in Congress, Massachusetts Representative (and former President) | successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest. Though Congre ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peter II | ... gainst the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under | , Navarrese under Sancho VII, and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Na ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Eleanor | ... cultural achievement. His marriage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with | (Leonora), daughter of Henry II of England and , brought him under the inf ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | In 1764 Catherine placed | , her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Haakon VII of Norway | ... , Prince of Denmark. He was given the name Olav when his father became King | in 1905 |
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 |
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 ... |
John Adams | ... . On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of | of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of V ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emilio Aguinaldo | In the hunt for the Guerrilla General | American troops also poisoned water wells to try to force out the Filipino ... |
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 ... |
Numa Pompilius | ... n customs, as well as Etruscan, despite the fact that they were espoused by | , second king of Rome and a Sabine |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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, ... |
Count Roger I | Agrigento was captured by the Normans under | in 1087, who established a Latin bishopric there. The population declined ... |
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 ... |
Isaiah Berlin | According to | , Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to bu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry III | In 1585 Pasquier was appointed by | advocate-general at the Paris cours des comptes, an important body having ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Leopold II | ... the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of Joseph II and | , who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise for the Czech ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Queen Margrethe II | He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, | . Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles I | The sole reason | assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gyges | ... hese in the Greek tradition are associated with Sardis, the capital city of | , constructed in the 7th century BC |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Queen Alexandra | ... Wales's Yorkshire Regiment), the British regiment named for his grandmother | |
Richard Nixon | During the September 16, 1968 episode, | , running for president, appeared for a few seconds with a disbelieving vo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joseph II | ... ace German as the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of | and Leopold II, who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Achilles | Both Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry | ... 1216, the barons changed their allegiance to John's son, the nine-year-old | |
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 ... |
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– ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Oswine | ... ng the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the father of | |
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 |
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 ... |
Zakir Hussain | Dr | the former President of India once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on Nov ... |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as | , Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ferdinand II | After Emperor | began oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohem ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Carter, then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity | ;was elected as his successor using a specifically Christian discourse |
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 ... |
George I | ... five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and | ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
Solomonic dynasty | ... ts acknowledgment of his imperial legitimacy, and announcing the end of the | |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
Eleanor of England | With | he had 11 children |
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–£ ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
Manuel A. Odría | ... the Cathedral is based on the tyrannical dictatorship of Peruvian President | . The protagonist, Santiago, rebels against the suffocating dictatorship b ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry I | ... fonso died at Gutierre-Muñoz and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, | , named after his maternal grandfather |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Constantine the Great | The reign of | saw the division of the Empire into its Eastern and Western halves, as wel ... |
Maha Thammarachathirat | ... The ensuing third invasion captured Ayutthaya in 1569, and Bayinnaung made | vassal king |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Newton | ... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. | extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Theodosius I | ... y BCE. The last recorded response was given during AD 393, when the emperor | ordered pagan temples to cease operation |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Robert | In 1803 their son | was born, and in 1804 they moved to West Moor, near Killingworth while Geo ... |
President | ... nized in 1830 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later | ) Martin Van Buren |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII of England | The future King | met Philip the Handsome on a visit Philip made to Henry's father's court i ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Louis IX | # | (Poissy, 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270, Tunis), King of France as success ... |
Efraín Ríos Montt | | utilized this method in the Guatemalan highlands in 1982-3, resulting in t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Indira Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers | and her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, ... |
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 ... |
Theseus | When | abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, Dionysus found and married her. She b ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Aaron Klug | ... cluded James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, | , Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... s partner of Sir John Gladstones (sic), father of four times Prime Minister | . Gladstone junior was named after Ewart, his godfather |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... 30 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later President) | |
Bette Davis | In 1942, he directed two more hits, In This Our Life (1942), starring | , and Across the Pacific, another thriller starring Humphrey Bogart |
John Adams | ... blockade of American ports and declared American ships to be enemy vessels. | , a strong supporter of independence, believed that Parliament had effecti ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while John Kerry won 46% o ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and | (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the kingdom of Granada, the last ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... alf of the 20th century saw election or succession of Republican presidents | , Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... ecame an issue in the 1988 presidential campaign, when Republican candidate | accused Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis (a member of the ACLU) of bei ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ( ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Kendrew | ... with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz and | at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was und ... |
Charles II | ... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death | gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Fidel Castro | With | assuming control of Cuba in 1959, Cruz and her husband, Pedro Knight, refu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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" ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Louis XIV | ... 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by | |
Saddam Hussein | Chemical weapons employed by | killed and injured numerous Iranians, and possibly Iraqis. According to Ir ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isabella I of Castile | The marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the ki ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/ | |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... was consulted by active Democratic politicians and was especially close to | |
Nicolas Sarkozy | The head of state is President | of France as represented by Préfet (Prefect) Albert Dupuy (since 10 Januar ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... he 2004 presidential election, when 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for | , 32.8% voted for John Kerry, and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third ... |
John F. Kennedy | On the morning of Garner's 95th birthday on November 22, 1963, President | called to wish the former Vice President a happy birthday, just hours befo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... tional Airport) upon returning home from exile. His death thrust his widow, | , into the limelight and, ultimately, the presidency following the peacefu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King Albert II of the Belgians | ... He was knighted in 1992, and in 2002 elevated to the noble rank of Count by | |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry II of England | ... so VIII, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of | and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Harald III Hardrada | He made contact with King | of Norway and persuaded him to invade England. One of the sagas claims tha ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry the Fowler | In 920 Conrad's successor as German king, | of the Ottonian dynasty, recognized Arnulf as duke, confirming his right t ... |
William Whewell | English philosopher and historian of science | coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ... |
Emperor Wu | ... state decisions and shaping government policy. However, the Han court under | gave Confucianism exclusive patronage. He abolished all academic chairs or ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... rs was set up by the Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum of 11 February 1985, by | who reformed the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Assistance to Heal ... |
Louis XV | During the reign of | , Versailles underwent transformation, but not on the scale that had been ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs | in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... buildings in over 20 countries around the world. In 1985, at the behest of | , the mayor of Paris at that time, Tange proposed a master plan for a plaz ... |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | ... of alcohol for three decades from 1947, but restrictions were introduced by | just weeks before he was removed as prime minister in 1977. Since then, on ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Aegidius | In 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General | , who was based in Soissons, he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to exten ... |
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 ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... of the Achaemenid Empire, with Sardis as its capital. Tabalus, appointed by | , was the first satrap (governor). (See: Lydia (satrapy)) |
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 ... |
Godwin | Tostig was the third son of | (d. 1053), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Spraka ... |
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 ... |
Bermudo I | ... miro I (c. 790 – 850) was King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of | , he succeeded Alfonso II |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
João Bernardo Vieira | In Guinea Bissau, President | was assassinated in the early hours of March 2, 2009, in the capital, Biss ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Kurt Waldheim | ... alition with the FPÖ under the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986, | was elected president amid considerable national and international protest ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Zhang's | | (r. 75–88 CE) reign came to be viewed by later Eastern Han scholars as the ... |
Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Euthydemus | ... Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign of | (230–200 BCE) who extended his control beyond Alexandria Eschate to Sogdia ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John III Sobieski | ... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. | , fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... nt bicentennial, however, controversy erupted when neither French president | nor prime minister Dominique de Villepin attended any functions commemorat ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Xerxes the Great | ... o provinces as far out as India and the Kingdom of Kush during the reign of | (485–465 BCE) |
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 ... |
Domitian | ... ro compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both Tiberius and | resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained important artistic w ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
House of Luxembourg | The | accepted the invitation to the Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I ... |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... disapproved of interventionist foreign policy actions. Republicans opposed | 's intervention in World War I and his subsequent attempt to create the Le ... |
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 ... |
Jehoram of Judah | Jehoshaphat's successor, | formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab. ... |
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 ... |
David | ... s covenant can be fulfilled with the re-establishment of the throne of King | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545 |
Narai | Foreigners were cordially welcomed at the court of | (1657–1688), a ruler with a cosmopolitan outlook who was nonetheless wary ... |
Edward, the Black Prince of Wales | ... winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as | and Geoffrey Chaucer |
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 |
Bellerophon | Parnassus was also the home of Pegasus, the winged horse of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Augustus | The governing structure was changed by | . In the course of his reconstitution of the urban administration he creat ... |
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 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... stablished in 1906. Kermit was named for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President | , and incorporated in 1909 |
Achilles | In the paradox of | and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles al ... |
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... k (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Manwë | ... nyar. He dwells with them on the slopes of Taniquetil, beneath the halls of | |
Trajan | ... ptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, | , and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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, ... |
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 ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... au's brother John Patrick Schmitz is the former deputy counsel to President | |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of | ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ... |
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 ... |
Stansfield Turner | Former CIA chief, Admiral | , claimed that De Beers restricted US access to industrial diamonds needed ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Theodoric the Great | #Audofleda (467 – 511). Queen of the Ostrogoths. Wife of | #Lanthilde (468 – ¿¿??) |
García Sánchez | Ferdinand was barely in his teens when | , Count of Castile, was assassinated by a party of exiled Castilian noblem ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Clovis I | # | (466 – 511) |
Alexander the Great | ... achines and (what we today call) submarines, attributing their first use to | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Alaungpaya | ... a starting around 1715. But a greater threat came from Burma, where the new | dynasty had subdued the Shan states |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Saddam Hussein | On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by | , invaded Kuwait. President Bush formed an international coalition and sec ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Yasser Arafat | ... similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, | and John F. Kennedy. The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eve ... |
Emperor Ling | Under | (r. 168–189 CE) the eunuchs had the partisan prohibitions renewed and expa ... |
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 ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for | ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal hea ... |
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 ... |
Paul I | ... 's mother. The marriage took place on 21 August 1745 with a son, the future | , finally born on 20 September 1754 |
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 ... |
Josiah | When | became king of Judah in c. 641/640 BC, the international situation was in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Barack Obama | ... 2010, the 22 year old ban was lifted after having been signed by President | on October 30, 2009 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Otto III | In | hoped to open a monastery between the Elbe and the Oder (somewhere in the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Titus | ... tly in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, | , Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capaci ... |
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 ... |
Sigismund I of Poland | ... Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King | . They had seventeen children |
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. |
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 ... |
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). ... |
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 ... |
Eadbald | Æthelberht died in 616, during Laurence's tenure; his son | abandoned Christianity in favour of Anglo-Saxon paganism, forcing many of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peter the Great | ... lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeeded her husband | in 1725 |
Ronald Reagan | The election of | as president in 1981 ushered in an eight year period of conservative leade ... |
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 ... |
Charles V of Spain | ... a personal hunting park. The castle was later mostly rebuilt in the age of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Vespasian | ... cur frequently in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, | , Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son | (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Aragorn | ... nadvertently contacted Sauron, after which Gandalf turned the stone over to | |
Bianca Maria Sforza | # 1494 | (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforz |
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. ... |
Genseric | Hilderic was the grandson of king | , founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son H ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... ndon bombings, and several articles about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, | 's capture, and Fahrenheit 9/11 |
Henry III | During the reign of | the Assize of Arms of 1252 required that all "citizens, burgesses, free te ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joey Smallwood | ... n 1949, following two referenda within the province, St-Laurent and Premier | negotiated the entry of Newfoundland into Confederation |
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 ... |
Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sparta | ... f Zeus on Mt. Lykaion during the Second Messenian War, a revolt against the | ns. The inscription supposedly commemorated the execution of Aristocrates ... |
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 ... |
Nicholas I | ... lost its independence when Russia's army crushed the Polish Uprising under | . Revival and reinterpretation of ancient myths, customs and traditions by ... |
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 ... |
Pelasgus | Lycaon, son of | , the mythical founder of the Greek race, is said to have instituted the w ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | In 1966, to increase the efficiency of government administration, | made Thimphu the year-round capital. In May 1968, the comprehensive Rules ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | He was an outspoken and early critic of | and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | ... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President | was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ferdinand VII | The reign of | (reigned 1808–33) saw several Catalan uprisings and after his death the co ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abba Jifar II | ... om of Jimma was formally absorbed into Ethiopia following the death of King | of Jimma |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Augustus | ... e actions of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, | , Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | The metal itself was first produced by | in England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | ... en recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by | through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lord Adrian | ... ch consensus, prompting the intervention of then University Vice-Chancellor | . Lord Adrian first offered the professorship to a compromise candidate, , ... |
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 ... |
Magneto | The first issue also introduced the team's archenemy, | , who would continue to battle the X-Men for decades throughout the comic' ... |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | ... legorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past ( | , Augustus, Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
Slobodan Milošević | ... ommanders and politicians, notably Serbia and Yugoslavia's former president | , were put on trial by the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal ... |
Floris V, Count of Holland | ... is from 1276 when Dirk van Santhorst received the "Soetrewold" fiefdom from | |
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 ... |
Maria Anna | ... is two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and | , born 1718, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands |
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 ... |
Clovis | ... 440 – 481/82) was a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and the father of | |
William I | In 933 the islands, formerly under the control of | , then Duchy of Brittany were annexed by the Duchy of Normandy. The island ... |
Archduke Charles | ... rlands) and Austria gave military support to a rival claimant to the crown, | . Catalonia initially accepted Philip V following prolonged negotiations b ... |
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 ... |
Peter II | ... liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent half-nephew | . The Dolgorukovs, an ancient boyar family, deeply resented Menshikov. Wit ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Johnson | On the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee | , U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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' ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, | himself |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Richard Nixon | ... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president | |
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 |
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 ... |
Karl Renner | In April 1945 | , an Austrian elder statesman, declared Austria separate from Germany and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | On November 25, 1969, President | unilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ... |
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' ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Licinius | ... he Edict of Milan, issued in February of AD 313 by Emperors Constantine and | |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Edmund Crouchback | Henry granted Kenilworth to his brother, | , in 1267. Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th cen ... |
Kunigunde of Austria | The marriage of his daughter | to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, was another result of intrigues and decepti ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Sun King | ... restoration and maintenance at Versailles undoubtedly surpass those of the | |
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 ... |
Kwame Nkrumah | The term "neocolonialism" was first coined by | , the first post-independence president of Ghana, and has been discussed b ... |
Sparta | ... ttoman Empire, European travelers and scholars began to systematically tour | and the Peloponnnese. Ernst Curtius, Charles Beulé, and Guillaume Blouet p ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Kristina Keneally | Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alfonso V | Ferdinand's successor, | ("the Magnanimous"), promoted a new stage of expansion, this time over the ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... er complication occurred due to Saint-Exupéry's and others' view of General | , who was held in low regard. Early in the war de Gaulle became the leader ... |
George W. Bush | ... e for ratification, as he thought it unfair to the United States. President | also publicly opposed ratification of the Kyoto Protocols on the grounds t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... d of many prominent leaders in industry and government, including President | |
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 ... |
Aragorn | ... ver Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and | arrive to pick up the two hobbits |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... cting the newly formed Republic of India, from a planned coup to topple the | Administration in Delh |
Llywelyn the Great | ... ng and soon the archbishop was sent to Wales to negotiate peace with Prince | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles I | ... ent in an act of posthumous revenge for their part in the beheading of King | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John III Sobieski | ... of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Alexander the Great | ... t family was named Psittacus alexandri, meaning "Alexander's parrot", after | whose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece. Linnaeus' trivial nam ... |
Johnson administration | ... egan to be released from this and other North Vietnamese prisons during the | , their testimonies revealed widespread and systematic abuse of prisoners ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stever Committee | In early 1958, NACA's " | " included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by W ... |
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 ... |
Haakon V | ... peared claiming to be her, known as the False Margaret; she was executed by | , King Eric's brother and successor, in 1301 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Philip | ... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elizabeth II | ... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch, | , succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Frederick Taylor | The modern history of workflows can be traced to | and H. Gantt. Rudolf Laban and Warren Lamb contributed to this in England. ... |
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 ... |
Kim Il-sung | In April 1982, | announced a new economic policy giving priority to increased agricultural ... |
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 ... |
Matilda of Boulogne | ... cotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, | |
Hou Jing | ... n and Western Wei, Emperor Wu granted asylum to rebel Eastern Wei commander | , sending him on Northern Expeditions against Eastern Wei. After some init ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U.S. President | and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d' ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated | . However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 |
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 ... |
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 |
Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria | He and his wife | were parents of seven children |
Baldwin I of Jerusalem | When his youngest brother king | died in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne. Eustace was at f ... |
Rawhi Fattouh | Upon Arafat's death, PLC Speaker | succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General Ma ... |
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland | ... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for | |
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, ... |
Agustin de Iturbide | Honduras later joined the Mexican Empire of | , a fact which lasted until the formation of the Federal Republic of Centr ... |
Maximilian I | In 1505, Holy Roman Emperor | established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und ... |
Daniel of Galicia | ... mogitia). Vykintas died in 1251 or 1252, and Tautvilas was forced to rejoin | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Vasili | ... rty three years, dying on 27 October 1505 and he left his empire to his son | |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... since he was one of the key figures who acceded to the wishes of President | in changing the focus of the march. Kennedy initially opposed the march ou ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... -lived, as the Northern Zhou was overthrown in 581 by Yang Jian, who became | . With greater military power and morale, along with convincing propaganda ... |
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 ... |
Peleus | Poseidon gave the two horses to King | of Phtia, as a wedding gift, when Peleus married the Ocean goddess Thetis. ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... stein-Friesian Association of America. Susan Cleveland, sister of President | married into the Yeomans family |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... ze such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister | , assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Khosrau I | During the reign of the later Sassanid king | (531–579), a gift from an Indian king (possibly a Maukhari Dynasty king of ... |
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 |
Richard M. Nixon | ... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by | in September 2006 |
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 ... |
Nursultan Nazarbayev | ... akhstan and is a regular goose hunting companion of the country's President | . He is a supporter of Norwich City Football Club |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Oswaldo López | ... a bloody coup. These officers exiled PLH members and governed under General | until 1970 |
President of the Church | ... restrictions remained in place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by | Spencer W. Kimball |
President Reagan | ... rd Nixon announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, | added the position of drug czar to the President's Executive Office |
Napoleon I | ... as a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against | at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Water ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
Barack Obama | ... cratic nomination battle between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator | intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also running. After the initial ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry IV | ... a Parisian) and to Henry III of Navarre who later became king of France as | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Salvador Allende | ... overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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" |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Justinian | ... tiquity, Awjila was nominally within the Roman Empire, evidenced by emperor | 's decree that forbade the worship of Amun |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. |
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 ... |
Maria Theresa | ... rs' worthless recognitions of the Pragmatic Sanction that made his daughter | his heir. The most notable instance of this was in the War of the Polish S ... |
Maria Theresa | ... ies were overrun by the Austrians and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of | . Therefore the emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in ... |
Odin | The Norse god | in his many forms, astride his eight-legged steed Sleipnir, came to be ass ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James I’s | | ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, who pr ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Edward Bruce | Around Lent of 1314, | , brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
Polynices | ... aughter of Pronax, or to Demonassa. His daughters Argea and Deipyle married | and Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale, Aegialeus, a ... |
Indira Gandhi | In 1975, the Indian Government under the Prime Minister Mrs. | , proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby suspending the fundamental r ... |
Charles | ... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince | , and Prince Philip |
Kenneth II | Constantine became king upon the death of | (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim), supposedly killed by Finnguala, daughter of Cunc ... |
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 ... |
John Balliol | ... eace in Scotland between the competing claims of Margaret, Robert Bruce and | |
Sparta | ... came a sea of Syracuse. In the Peloponnesian War, he joined the side of the | ns and assisted them with mercenaries |
Jacques Chirac | ... a memorial to the cruelty of the Nazi occupation. In 1999, French President | dedicated a memorial museum, the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, near the ... |
Tiridates I of Armenia | ... tells how the name of Mithras was spoken during the state visit to Rome of | , during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthi ... |
Cuilén, King of Scotland | ... III, (before 971–997) was king of Scots from 995 to 997. He was the son of | (Cuilén mac Iduilb) |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ions. According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993–97, | has used body doubles |
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 ... |
Timur Leng | ... he late Middle Ages, but their hold upon the area was transitional as later | and Uzbeks contested the land |
Walter Wanger | Producer | bought the rights to journalist Vincent Sheean's memoir Personal History i ... |
Sparta | ... manner the Rhodians celebrated Ptolemy I of Egypt, the Samians Lysander of | , the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians Craterus of Macedon |
Ferdinand III | In 1799, King | created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the ti ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Villeda | ... nservative military officers preempted constitutional elections and deposed | in a bloody coup. These officers exiled PLH members and governed under Gen ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marie Amalie | On 5 October 1722, Charles married | , Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of Joseph I, Holy Ro ... |
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 ... |
Charles V | In 1520 | united the twenty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | ... s of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured by | at the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC |
Jimmy Carter | ... . Present at the funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents | , Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former Pr ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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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Bill Clinton | ... he funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, | and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President George ... |
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 | |
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 | |
Simon de Montfort | In 1248, | was appointed Governor in the unsettled Duchy of Gascony. Bitter complaint ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William McKinley | ... bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons; U.S. President | did this at the public reception where he was assassinated |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... was popularized and spread across America and the South by figures such as | , Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent t ... |
Ermengarde of Tours | He married | , who died in 851 |
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. ... |
Lycurgus | When King | of Thrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned all the fo ... |
Simon bar Kokhba | ... leader, and burnt down by Vespasian's officer Cerealis. After the defeat of | in 135 CE, innumerable Jewish captives were sold into slavery at Hebron's ... |
Ferdinand II | ... tion was therefore to support the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor, the Habsburg | |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Cold War. Participants at the conference included Churchill, U.S. President | and French Premier Joseph Laniel. In 1957, a second summit conference was ... |
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 ... |
Galerius | In 305, his maternal uncle | became the eastern Augustus and adopted Maximinus, raising him to the rank ... |
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 ... |
Gaston, Duke of Orléans | On two occasions the King's younger brother, | had to leave France for conspiring against the King's government, and for ... |
Queen Mary | ... built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and | in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints and Drawings an ... |
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 ... |
president | ... s election, George Washington was elected for the first of his two terms as | , and John Adams became the first vice-president |
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 ... |
Licinius | In 308, after the elevation of | to Augustus, Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum ("so ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Amphiaraus | Afterwards, however, Adrastus became reconciled to | , gave him his sister Eriphyle in marriage, and returned to his kingdom of ... |
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Marie Antoinette | ... sh spies, they visited Paris, meeting Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, | and Louis XVI, and joined the French court at Fontainebleau |
President | ... featured an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican | James Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton, nephe ... |
Justinian I | ... t. Eventually it became part of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine emperor | erected a Christian church over the Cave of Machpelah in the 6th century C ... |
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 ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... spy) to appear before Parliament. Arturo discovers that she is Enrichetta ( | ), widow of the executed King Charles I. Elvira appears singing a joyful p ... |
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 ... |
Robert Torrens | In 1817, David Ricardo, James Mill and | showed that free trade would benefit the industrially weak as well as the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Olusegun Obasanjo | 30 October 2006: President | signed a contract with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to ... |
Thomas Jefferson | In 1803, President | issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ... |
Raymond Pearl | ... the earliest aging theories was the Rate of Living Hypothesis described by | in 1928(based on earlier work by Max Rubner), which states that fast basal ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Archelaus | ... in The Bacchae. Since Euripides wrote this play while in the court of King | of Macedon, some scholars believe that the cult of Dionysus was malicious ... |
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 ... |
Aegialeus | ... ied Polynices and Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale, | , and Cyanippus |
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 ... |
Vespasian | ... ebron was conquered by Simon Bar Giora, a Sicarii leader, and burnt down by | 's officer Cerealis. After the defeat of Simon bar Kokhba in 135 CE, innum ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rutherford B. Hayes | ... Tilden of New York, the Democratic candidate, defeated Republican candidate | of Ohio in the popular vote. Tilden garnered 184 electoral votes to Hayes' ... |
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 ... |
Amphiaraus | ... uring a feud between the most powerful houses in Argos, Talaus was slain by | , and Adrastus being expelled from his dominions fled to Polybus, then kin ... |
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 ... |
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 . |
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 ... |
Lech Kaczyński | ... r of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS candidate | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James Madison | ... an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican President | and a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton, nephew of Madison's ... |
Octavius | ... 's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague, Mark Antony. | (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius ... |
Sparta | | was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Wu of Chen | ... g. After a short reign, Chen deposed Emperor Jing and took power himself as | in 557 AD |
Andrew Jackson | ... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future president | as the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Eurytion | ... when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd | out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos. |
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 ... |
Khosrau II | ... CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general Shahrbaraz in 614 when | 's armies besieged and took Jerusalem |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James K. Polk | ... for George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States of America under | |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
William McKinley | ... region. Years of controversy and legal maneuvering ensued before President | issued a proclamation on July 4, 1901, that gave the federal government co ... |
Fidel Castro | ... d in the murder. The CIA has allegedly made several attempts to assassinate | , many of the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, K ... |
Emperor Wen of Chen | ... s. After the sudden death of Emperor Wu, his nephew Chen Qian took power as | . After the fall of Liang, the general Wang Lin had established an indepen ... |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | Demetrius Nicator's brother, | , took the throne after his brother's capture. He faced the titanic chore ... |
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 ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | During her reign | made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Mary of Guise, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter | (then also Queen of France) |
Henri Christophe | ... ected members of Dessalines' administration, including Alexandre Pétion and | , began a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. Dessalines was assassinated ... |
Anne of Austria | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married | , daughter of Philip III of Spain. This marriage followed a tradition of c ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rupert of Germany | ... ter Louis IV and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cincinnatus Leconte | Dessalines was a great-grandfather of | , who served as President of Haiti from 1911 to 1912 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Carl III | The town of Levanger was founded by | , king of Sweden on 18 May 1836, on the site where the village of Levanger ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nicomedes III | ... assisted them against Eumenes III of Pergamon. He was succeeded by his son | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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% |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... candidates. Austin also hosted one of the last presidential debates between | and Hillary Clinton during their heated race for the Democratic nomination ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after | , the first president of the United States |
Presidential | Amador is a strongly Republican county in | and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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Cadmus | ... o him the twins Phrixus and Helle. He subsequently married Ino, daughter of | , with whom, he had two children: Learches and |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... g the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are Winston Churchill and | |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of | 's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charlest ... |
George W. Bush | ... Service-issued collectible envelope commemorating the 2004 inauguration of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Creon | After the battle, | , king of Thebes, ordered that none of the fallen enemies were to be given ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mitterrand | Giscard was defeated in the 1981 presidential election by | . At the time, Chirac ran against Giscard in the first round of runoff vot ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... the seventh year of the war, Continental Army troops, commanded by General | , were encamped in Dobbs Ferry and neighboring localities, alongside allie ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... s once bestowed in special circumstances, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt and | , but this practice was officially discontinued in 1953 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King George III's | ... e of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, | queen |
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 ... |
Amphiaraus | ... hebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes, Polynices, Tydeus, | , Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of Tydeus and Polynices ... |
William Howard Taft | On June 22, 1919, former President | visited Paxton while on his way to Champaign. After disembarking from a lo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tariq Ali | Recent and current inhabitants of Highgate include | , Julian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, ... |
Achilles | ... humans whom they had bitten. Homer, in the Iliad, describes the approach of | toward Troy in these words |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Humaira Begum | He married | (1918–2002) on 7 November 1931 and had six sons and two daughters |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Kennedy | By targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas the | administration realized that political favors could be bought. This is als ... |
Allectus | ... ximian's subordinate, Constantius, campaigned against Carausius' successor, | , while Maximian held the Rhine frontier. The rebel leader was ousted in 2 ... |
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 ... |
Allectus | Carausius was assassinated and replaced by his treasurer, | . Constantius marched up the coast to the Rhine and Scheldt estuaries wher ... |
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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Prince William | ... from William Congreve and John Arbuthnot. In 1727 he wrote for six year old | , later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he na ... |
James Monroe | ... tter in this category in competition between multiple candidates (incumbent | was the only candidate in 1820 and thus took every vote). The Republicans ... |
Francisco Franco | ... Spanish Civil War between the socialist Republicans and nationalists led by | , Italy sent arms and over 60,000 troops to aid the nationalist faction. T ... |
Franz Ferdinand | ... rife increased during the decades until 1914. The assassination of Archduke | , who was the presumed heir of Franz Joseph as Emperor, in Sarajevo by a S ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... ror Jing of Northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself | . He proceeded to invade the south to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... ere U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and | have all attended services. Because of this, it is now called the "Church ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... came unpopular with the onset of the Great Depression. He advised President | to "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real e ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Warren G. Harding | Upon the death of President | in 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, John Cal ... |
US President | Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th | ) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from Roswell and Bulloch Ha ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... Jin in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself | , he remained diligently frugal. However, he did not care for education an ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... hurches in Oakland is St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents | , James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison have all attende ... |
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 ... |
Zachary Taylor | ... arrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South since | in 1848 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | In 1918, U.S. President | addressed the issue as Point 8 in his Fourteen Points speech |
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 ... |
Fidel Castro | ... included a two-part program on Nikita Khrushchev, the St. Lawrence Seaway, | in Cuba, and unemployment problems in distressed areas |
King Constantine I | ... its territory and population. In the following years, the struggle between | and charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's fo ... |
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 ... |
Offa of Mercia | ... down in Wulfhere's reign, but other suggested origins include the reign of | , or Edwin or Oswiu of Northumbria |
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... l, living with his maternal grandmother at Kensington Palace and his uncle, | , at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire. In the next three years, his four si ... |
Adolf Hitler | Mussolini and | first met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Roman Emperor | Carinus (; died 285), was | 282 to 285. The elder son of emperor Carus, he was appointed Caesar and co ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President | ... United States, the United States Secret Service safeguards the lives of the | , his family, and other executive officials, including former presidents a ... |
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 ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President | , the Republican candidate |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dimitris Christofias | ... arliament in the general election on 27 September 2009. Communist candidate | won a crucial presidential runoff in Cyprus, defeating his conservative ri ... |
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 ... |
William McKinley | ... veral soldiers died during the quarantine, prompting a visit from President | |
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 ... |
Manwë | ... Power’, singular 'Vala'), of which there are fourteen principal characters: | , Ulmo, Aulë, Oromë, Mandos, Lórien, Tulkas, Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Estë, ... |
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 ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ntly Italian, it was settled by a large migration of Cuban refugees fleeing | 's regime, making Union City for many years the city with the largest Cuba ... |
George W. Bush | ... Democrat John Kerry received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republican | received 16.7%. The borough is the most important source of funding for pr ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Emperor Shao of Liu Song | After the death of Emperor Wu, his son | ruled briefly before being judged incompetent and killed by government off ... |
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 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... American War. The most prominent of the returning quarantined soldiers were | and his Rough Riders. Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompti ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Agrippa I | The later Herodian rulers | and Agrippa II both had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristob ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hugo Chávez | Venezuelan President | , Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and ... |
Alexander the Great | ... d later Persians in the mid 6th century BC. In 331 BC, Van was conquered by | and after his death became part of the Seleucid Empire. By the early 2nd c ... |
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 |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... Jersey's more Republican counties. In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 15.8% margin over John Kerry, with Kerry carrying ... |
George Washington | ... rolina State Legislature met here once in 1787 and again in 1987. President | is known to have slept in Tarboro during a visit on his 1791 Southern tour ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry VI | ... own of Henley. The existing Corpus Christi fair was granted by a charter of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | His 1152 marriage to | allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President of India | Dr Zakir Hussain the former | once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on November 20, 1949 "The allegation ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Agrippa II | The later Herodian rulers Agrippa I and | both had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristobulus IV, son of ... |
Bill Clinton | ... Luxembourg; Hormel eventually received a recess appointment from President | , bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President | ... straight from the airport to Áras an Uachtaráin for champagne with the then | Mary Robinson |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ivan IV of Russia | ... likii Kniaz of Muscovy appeared as the Grand Duke for "all of Russia" until | in 1547 was crowned as tsar |
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 ... |
Matt Millen | ... Ted Hendricks, Pro Bowler Rod Martin (3 Interceptions) and standout rookie | |
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 ... |
Oscar II of Sweden | ... ke of Gotland) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila. His grandfather was King | |
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 |
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’ ... |
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 |
Elizabeth II | | | |
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 ... |
Carinus | ... that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against | (r. 283–285) but there is no direct evidence for this |
Harry S. Truman | Unpopular incumbent President | decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adl ... |
Wu Sangui | ... id 17th century, allowed through the northern passes by the Chinese general | once the Ming capital at Beijing had fallen into the hands of a rebel army ... |
Elizabeth II | ... l family remained Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of | and Prince Philip, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to ... |
Terry Sanford | Image:Terry Sanford.jpg|Former Governor | of North Carolin |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ial or religious divisions. Other examples of left-wing nationalism include | 's 26th of July Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the Am ... |
Charles de Gaulle | ... the author himself. Subsequently, French General (later, French President) | , whom Saint-Exupéry and others held in low regard, publicly implied that ... |
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 ... |
Alexander Nevsky | Regional conflicts with the Order escalated. | of Novgorod, Tautvilas, and Tautvilas's son Constantine agreed to form a c ... |
Aragorn | ... Shire. A day's ride east along the road lay The Forsaken Inn, according to | , although nothing more is known of it |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James Madison | ... as officially organized on December 14, 1818, and was named after President | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maxentius | ... Augusti to the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. Presumably Maximian's son | and Constantius' son Constantine – children raised in Nicomedia together – ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Bill Clinton | One of former President | 's great-grandfathers is buried here |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John III of Sweden | In 1582 King | added Grand Prince of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish king ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Penda of Mercia | ... est Mercian king about whom definite historical information has survived is | , Wulfhere's father |
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 ... |
King Richard II | When | created Thomas Mowbray duke in 1397, he conferred upon him the estates and ... |
Antoninus | ... d those who devised heresies, and they continued until the age of the elder | . |
Thorin Oakenshield | Gandalf and | met by coincidence in Bree, setting in motion the events recounted in The ... |
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 ... |
Alexander III | ... nnockburn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of | |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President of the United States | ... s Guild (SAG), then election as Governor of California in 1966, and finally | in 1980 |
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 ... |
Prince Albert | ... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that year | became the patron of the regatta |
Theodore Roosevelt | Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of | (the 26th US President) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Catherine Howard | ... hat the drama's second part focused more on the stories of Jane Seymour and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ... rganized on January 2, 1833 from part of Ray County, Missouri and named for | , a signer of the |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ælla of Deira | Æthelfrith married Acha of Deira, daughter of | . They had eight children |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hitler | The term Übermensch was a favorite of | and the Nazi regime, which borrowed from Nietzsche's work and sought to ad ... |
Hadrian | ... as a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor | (AD 117-138) |
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 |
Emperor Wu of Southern Qi | ... eign and his heir, who was only 13 years younger than him, succeeded him as | . Emperor Wu made peace with the Northern Wei, content to protect his bord ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... 9 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under | , making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was firs ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... sts and of the Soviet Union; Craxi himself pushed in favour of US president | 's positioning of Pershing missiles in Italy |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governor | of Georgi |
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 | ... win a majority in the county was Barry Goldwater in 1964. In 2008, Democrat | won 81% of the county's vote |
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 ... |
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 |
Patrick Hillery | The President of Ireland, | , and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial service for Mountbatt ... |
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 ... |
Edward Heath | ... enson played at Marine Spa ballroom, and the place was regularly visited by | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eutropia | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, | : Maxentius and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | In 1959, following the Kitchen Debate between United States Vice President | and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, includ ... |
Vortigern | The Historia contains a story of the king | , who allowed the Saxons to settle in the island of Britain in return for ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ed the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senator | of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon |
President of Ireland | The | , Patrick Hillery, and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial serv ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ounties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
Gerry Adams | Sinn Féin vice-president | said of Mountbatten's death |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Al Gore | ... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including | and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phi ... |
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 ... |
Juba II | ... Numidia became briefly the province of Africa Nova until Augustus restored | (son of Juba I) after the Battle of Actium |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | President | launched his 1980 presidential campaign from the Neshoba County Fair, deli ... |
Talcott Parsons | ... ism include: Henry Maine, Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and | |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King of Kings | Shah or shahanshah (" | ") was the title of Persian emperors or kings. It includes rulers of the f ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... of the Taliban government and its replacement by the current government of | , there has been significant progress toward revitalization of the nationa ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Fausta | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, Eutropia: Maxentius and | . There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources for their birthdates. ... |
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" |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mary Tudor | ... pass from their possession. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to | , sister of King Edward VI |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Julius Nyerere | ... cialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent. | was inspired by Fabian socialist ideals. He was a firm believer in rural A ... |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | ... city to the Democratic Republic of Armenia. Turkish revolutionaries, led by | rejected the terms of the treaty and instead waged the Turkish War of Inde ... |
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 ... |
Brigham Young, Jr. | Descendants of Young include three LDS Church apostles: | , John Willard Young, and Joseph Angell Young. Another descendant, Leah D. ... |
King John | ... sents information for an indictment. The grand jury was later recognized by | in Magna Carta in on demand of the nobility |
Aragorn | In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins met Strider ( | ) at the largest and most popular inn in Bree, The Prancing Pony, owned by ... |
Victor Emmanuel II | ... ore conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Cavour and | , who would later become the first king of a united Italy |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | On 4 May 2009, United States President | declared his intentions to curb the use of financial centres by multinatio ... |
Maxentius | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, Eutropia: | and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources for their b ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King Edward VI | ... ssion. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to Mary Tudor, sister of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | The last shah of Persia, | , officially adopted the title شاهنشاه shâhanshâh (literally King of Kings ... |
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 ... |
Otto | ... wing his assassination in 1831, the Great Powers installed a monarchy under | , of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach. In 1843 an uprising forced the kin ... |
George I | ... ar later replaced by Prince Wilhelm (William) of Denmark, who took the name | and brought with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift from Britain. ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... purpose of the SS, that of safeguarding the leadership of the Nazi Party ( | ) continued until the very end of the group's existence. Hitler had used b ... |
Elizabeth II | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward and Queen | among many others, Penang has always been a popular tourist destination, b ... |
Hitler | ... forbidden the unification of Austria and Germany, but native Austrian-born | was vastly striving to annex Austria during the late 1930s, which was fier ... |
Piet Joubert | ... blic. Kruger was re-elected president in 1888 and 1893, each time defeating | |
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 |
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 ... |
Diocletian | ... rned by an imperial procurator. Under the new organization of the empire by | , Numidia was divided in two provinces: the north became Numidia Cirtensis ... |
Emperor Ming of Southern Qi | ... Emperor's Wu's first cousin. He killed them in turn and crowned himself as | . Using the government secretaries (典签官), he slaughtered all the descendan ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain and Democrat | tied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This gives Andover a Cook PVI of ... |
Gregory Peck | Philip Schuyler Green ( | ) is a widowed journalist who has just moved to New York City with his son ... |
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 ... |
The Duke of Kent | ... ose friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni’. It was from | that the Duke took over in this position, which involves him representing ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Louis XVI | ... trumps the Duke's claim by alleging that he is the Lost Dauphin, the son of | and rightful King of France. He continually mispronounces the duke's title ... |
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 ... |
Eystein Halfdansson | ... raves") and as taking King Halfdan Hvitbeinn from life. In chapter 46, King | dies by being knocked overboard by a sail yard. A section from Ynglingatal ... |
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 ... |
Paul Kruger | ... upported the Boers against British expansionism and was a strong admirer of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Halfdan Hvitbeinn | ... el as "howes'-warder" (meaning "guardian of the graves") and as taking King | from life. In chapter 46, King Eystein Halfdansson dies by being knocked o ... |
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 ... |
Charlemagne | The Islands were defended by the emperor | in 799 from a Saracen pirate incursion |
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 ... |
Andrew Jackson | Jackson Township, named after | , is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 ... |
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 ... |
King Henry VIII | ... e River Thames. It was originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, a favourite of | , circa 1514; in 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the palace was passed t ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... r days as the assassination of JFK and the transition of power to President | took center stage |
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 ... |
Lech Wałęsa | In 2004 former Solidarity leader | wrote |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ers to deploy mustard gas to Italy. This included Italian intelligence that | had threatened to use gas against Italy if the state changed sides, and pr ... |
William IV | ... e British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ruled in Hanover was | : Salic law, which required succession by the male line, forbade the acces ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | The scandal eventually led to the resignation of | , the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignat ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... d High School and Enrico Fermi High School are the district's high schools. | Middle School is the town's middle school. There are nine elementary schoo ... |
Charles II | ... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored | , who granted the most liberal political terms |
Liliuokalani | ... him. When his wife, Queen Kapiolani, and his sister, Princess (later Queen) | , took a trip across North America and on to the British Islands, in 1887, ... |
Francisco Bertrand | ... d be selected by the United States mediator, Thomas Dawson. Dawson selected | , who promised to hold early, free elections, and Dávila resigned |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lyndon Johnson | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1964 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
President of France | In 1974, he was elected | at 48, the third youngest president in French history, after Louis Napoleo ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... Movement. Moreover, he benefited from the divisions in the Gaullist party. | and other Gaullist personalities published the "Call of the 43" where they ... |
Richard Nixon | ... d United States Senator George Smathers and then former U.S. Vice President | , who had promised to leave politics. During his subsequent presidency fro ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | ... attractive in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which had led to President | 's resignation. Ford, although personally unconnected with Watergate, was ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King of Lithuania | ... ing antagonist of the Lithuanians. During the summer of 1253 he was crowned | , ruling between 300,000 and 400,000 subjects |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Presidential | Inyo is a strongly Republican county in | and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... xisting Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by President | on May 26, 1864. At this time Deer Lodge County (today Deer Lodge, Granite ... |
Oswald | ... ar he went to Cadwallon to sue for peace and was killed. Eanfrith's brother | then raised an army and finally defeated Cadwallon at the Battle of Heaven ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
Bindusara | ... an ambassador, Megasthenes, to Chandragupta, and later Deimakos to his son | , at the Mauryan court at Pataliputra (modern Patna in Bihar state). Megas ... |
Royal Standard of Scotland | ... ngham Palace, Windsor Castle and Sandringham House, whereas in Scotland the | is flown at Holyrood Palace and Balmoral Castle |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
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 ... |
William III | The following century, | 's massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles w ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... 931 Hitler sent Göring on a mission to the Vatican, where he met the future | |
Getúlio Vargas | The ideology of | 's Estado Novo contaminated the scene of the samba. With Aquarela do Brasi ... |
Al Gore | In 2000, Bush received 21,887 votes (56.28%) to Democrat | 's 15,959 (41.04%) |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... stern end that hold annual polo and special events. The Prince of Wales and | were seen in the polo clubs |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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; ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... nship) and it was named after the incumbent President of the United States, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... t of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
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 ... |
President of the United States | ... nship (present day Long Hill Township) and it was named after the incumbent | , Warren G. Harding |
George W. Bush | In 2004, Republican president | received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat John Kerry's 18,355 (42.41%) |
George W. Bush | ... htly toward Republican Party. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 56% of the vote here, defeating Democrat John Kerry, who received ... |
Al Gore | ... with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth ( | ) |
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 ... |
Alexander | ... jepan Radić was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before king | would establish his dictatorship, Šufflay wrote Hrvatska u svijetlu svjets ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... ction campaign was one of many causes that led to his defeat in November by | |
Romanos Lekapenos | ... ther failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral | , who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally ... |
Stephen Báthory | ... ians of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King | , suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Moctezuma II | ... nd returned in a few months, bearing reports of the wealth and splendour of | 's empire |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Mary Robinson | ... rom the airport to Áras an Uachtaráin for champagne with the then President | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Aepytus | #A daughter of Poseidon and Pitane who was raised by | of Arcadia and became the mother of Iamus by Apollo. When Aepytus discover ... |
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 ... |
Æthelfrith | Ida’s grandson, | (Æðelfriþ), united Deira with his own kingdom by force around the year 604 ... |
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 ... |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... cil to campaign against the visit to Ireland of King Edward VII his consort | |
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 ... |
President | After the exile of King Zahir Shah in 1973, | Daud Khan forged stronger ties with the Soviets by signing two highly cont ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... 7 along with many other non-combat awards, but it was restored by President | in 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from Michigan; and | , the leader of the GOP's conservative wing and the former two-term govern ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport. The Indio (renamed | ) hospital opened in a new location in 1983 on land donated by hospital co ... |
Romanos I | ... e supporters of Euthymios followed, which did not end until the new Emperor | Lekapenos promulgated the Tomos of Union in 920. In the meantime Alexander ... |
Flavius Constantius | In early 288, Maximian appointed his praetorian prefect | , husband of Maximian's daughter Theodora, to lead a campaign against Cara ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... ing, a record only matched decades later by Richard Nixon, and surpassed by | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Zahir Shah | ... 924. The military of Afghanistan was reconstructed and improved during King | 's reign, which reached a strength of 70,000 in 1933. Following the Second ... |
Jean-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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Vitellius | ... AD it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Othos and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gerald Ford | ... Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between two serious candidates: | , the leader of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from ... |
William IV's | In 1837, the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended as | heir in the United Kingdom was female (Queen Victoria). According to Salic ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gerald Ford | Image:Gerald Ford.jpg|President | of Michiga |
Bill Clinton | ... has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... ids. Seleucus invaded India (modern Punjab Pakistan) in 305 BC, confronting | (Sandrokottos), founder of the Maurya empire. It is said that Chandragupta ... |
Strymon | #A daughter of | and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epida ... |
Francisco Franco | On July 1936, General | took command of the Spanish Army of Africa and rebelled against the Spanis ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | Image:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg|Former Governor | of Californi |
Conan the Barbarian | ... ents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard ( | 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 ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ng by U.S. presidents. It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents | and Bill Clinton |
Clement Attlee | ... ister in the world: Chris Watson. In 1945, the British Labour Party, led by | , was elected to office based upon a radical socialist programme. Social D ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... on rare occasions, generally due to a building falling into disrepair. When | abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Queen Victoria | In 1859 Cunard was created a baronet by | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cyrus the Great | Maka was an important early eastern satrapy of | , founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Makra corresponds to modern day Bahrai ... |
Grant | ... l War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and | , and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves, the Fou ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... ed for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President | , making Ingham one of Michigan's so-called Cabinet counties |
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Kevin Brennan | ... e) in Cardiff North, Alun Michael (Labour) in Cardiff South and Penarth and | (Labour) in Cardiff West |
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 ... |
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary | From | , gun-founders, gold- and silversmiths and (Italian) master builders were ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pelias | #A daughter of | , given by Jason in marriage to Canes, son of Cephalus and a king of Phoci ... |
Charles II | After the Restoration, King | and his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ... |
John F. Kennedy | Robertson was President | 's personal choice to play him in 1963's PT 109 as a young Lieutenant PT b ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King Edward VII | ... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland of | his consort Alexandra of Denmark |
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 |
Bolesław III | ... with the ecclesiastical authority, and was expelled from the country. After | divided the country among his sons, internal fragmentation eroded the init ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King Edward VII | | granted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ... |
Cephalus | #A daughter of Pelias, given by Jason in marriage to Canes, son of | and a king of Phocis |
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. ... |
Lysimachus | Following his and | ' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Miguel de la Madrid | Mexican presidents | , in the early 80s and Carlos Salinas de Gortari in the late 80s, started ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James II | After the Restoration, King Charles II and his successor | visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ... |
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 ... |
Maximilian I | ... e Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
The Queen | Her Majesty | visited on |
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 ... |
Criasus | ... era, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epidaurus and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William of Orange | ... s strategic position, Harwich was the target for the invasion of Britain by | on November 11, 1688. However, unfavourable winds forced his fleet to sail ... |
Bernard Landry | ... and the amalgamation of Quebec's larger cities undertaken by his successor | . Other aspects of his legacy include the creation of a low-cost, universa ... |
Charles V | ... ance. The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by | at the (1525) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: | , Anne, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, des ... |
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 |
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 |
Alfred the Great | ... the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw. He is mainly known for his conflict with | |
Gerald Ford | In 1982, along with his friend | , he co-founded the annual AEI World Forum |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | According to local tradition, | spent the night in a local home, which still stands to this day. Supposedl ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hugo Chávez | ... Colombia) and the election of a sequence of left wing presidents began with | ' victory on the 1998 presidential election in Venezuela. As a matter of f ... |
George Bush | ... later, via Maryland's Jerome Segal, the group sent a letter to US President | stating they "we don't mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, when President | provided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that th ... |
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 ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... organization NSZZ Solidarity. It officially registered on 10 November 1980. | and others formed a broad anti-Soviet social movement ranging from people ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... licly between the two right-wing candidates, his two former Prime Ministers | and Raymond Barre. This attitude was interpreted as indicating that he wan ... |
Lázaro Cárdenas | ... ry competitive and they were. Leftist candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, son of | one of the most beloved Mexican presidents, created a successful campaign ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | In the United States president | attempted to move the United States back towards a hard anti-communist lin ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | Hart has called herself a fan of Peggy Noonan and | . Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
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 ... |
Greco-Bactrian | In the Indo-Greek and | kingdoms, Greco-Buddhism was spreading and Greek missionaries would play a ... |
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 ... |
Isaac Newton | ... lished anonymously in 1736), in which he defended the logical foundation of | 's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | The fight for the Republican (GOP) nomination was between General | , who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Francisco Morazán | Gen. | , Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835–1839, whose figure embodies the ide ... |
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 ... |
Newton | ... e major centers for the performance and reporting of experimental work, and | was himself an influential experimenter, particularly in the field of opti ... |
Edward | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Anne, Andrew and | . Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and El ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pedro I | Through his father, Emperor | , he was a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portug ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Louis XIII | | conferred on him the title of First Painter in Ordinary. In two years at P ... |
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 ... |
Freeway Face-Off | ... ay Series" also inspired the official name of the regions' NHL rivalry: the | |
Anthony Hope | ... kshire in 1932. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Grahame's cousin | , also a successful author, wrote his epitaph, which reads |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Bill Clinton | ... na Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by | |
Orestes | ... , in book IV of the Aeneid, references the House of Atreus and specifically | in describing the death of |
Herbert Hoover | On March 3, 1933, President | signed the Reorganization Act of 1933. The act would allow the President t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 Pardoe | ... been ex-members of Mebyon Kernow, including Peter Bessell (Liberal Party), | (Liberal Party), David Mudd (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal Part ... |
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 ... |
Charles Clarke | ... y Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maria of Tver | Ivan's son with | , Ivan the Young, died in 1490, leaving from his marriage with Helen of Mo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Anne | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, | , Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendan ... |
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 |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | Relations between Chrétien and | were strained throughout their overlapping times in office. Jean Chrétien ... |
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 |
Palpatine | ... returned to his command as Rogue Leader to battle against Thrawn, Krennel, | 's clones and lead the team to other battles |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | The administration of President | subjected Mellon to intense investigation of his personal income tax retur ... |
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 ... |
Álvaro Uribe | The government of Colombian President | has resisted criticism of aerial spraying of coca and poppy and has seen m ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Ladislaus IV of Hungary | ... defeated and killed by Rudolf, who took Austria with the assistance of King | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stanisław Wojciechowski | ... staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting President | and overpowering the troops loyal to him. Piłsudski was supported by sever ... |
Seru Epenisa Cakobau | From the 1850s | tried to unite the Fijian Islands, and became the first Tui Viti, or king ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President | into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King William III | William Prince of Orange (afterwards | ) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, an ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Titus | ... after the event about the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman general | (see Dating of the Gospel of Mark) |
Emperor Kōtoku | In 645, | built his palace, the Naniwa Nagara-Toyosaki Palace in Osaka, making this ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James I | ... -twice-removed, the Scottish King, James VI, who became known in England as | of the House of Stuart |
Queen Olga of Greece | ... Sophie. He was baptised into the Greek Orthodox Church. His godparents were | and the Mayor of Corfu |
Charles IV | ... El Kébir. Both cities were held until 1792, when they were sold by the king | to the Bey of Algiers |
David Penhaligon | ... ll (Liberal Party), John Pardoe (Liberal Party), David Mudd (Conservative), | (Liberal Party) and currently Andrew George (Liberal Democrats |
José Santos Zelaya | Nicaragua's powerful President | saw this friendship pact as an alliance to counter Nicaragua and began to ... |
Woodrow Wilson | United States President | responded to the Columbus raid by sending 10,000 troops under Brigadier Ge ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... the military power amassed in the north by Yang Jian, who declared himself | and invaded the south to reunify China |
George W. Bush | ... linton did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, | strongly carried Franklin County in 2000 and 2004 and like many of the rur ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | ... than wait until the promulgation of the new constitution in 2008. His son, | , became King upon his abdication |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elizabeth | In 1613, his sister | married Frederick V, Elector Palatine and moved to Heidelberg. In 1617 the ... |
Fidel Castro | ... osition. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of | , Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with the Cuban dictator and his a ... |
Vladimir Putin | Tereshkova was invited to Prime Minister | 's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo for the celebration of her 70th birthday. Wh ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mary Tudor | ... crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
Henry VIII | ... loyalty to the crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, | and Mary Tudor |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | Unlike his father | , Chiang Ching-kuo built himself a folk reputation that remains generally ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Presidential | Butte is a Republican-leaning county in | and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ... |
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 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 ... |
Henry IV | ... Henry VII. In 1061, Empress Agnes, mother of and regent for the German king | , entrusted the duchy to Otto of Nordheim |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck | In 1972, | ascended the throne at age 20. He emphasized modern education, decentraliz ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Causantín mac Áeda | Amlaíb married the daughter of | . He also allied himself with Owen I of Strathclyde. In 937, Amlaíb led hi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bush | ... it favors fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that the Clinton and | administrations publicly recognized through Presidential Task Force Report ... |
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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1976 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Theodosius | ... thraism came to an end with the anti-pagan decrees of the Christian emperor | during the last decade of the 4th century |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pierre Juneau | The Juno Awards are named in honor of | , the first President of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunicati ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... s formed part of the Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with the | Maximilian I |
Charlemagne | In 812 Michael I reopened negotiations with the Franks, and recognized | as basileus (emperor) without saying anything else. In exchange for that r ... |
Charles | ... ogne became part of the lands of the Spanish Crown when the Burgundian heir | became King of Spain in 1516 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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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- ... |
Alexander Severus | ... t he flourished in the first half of the third century, during the reign of | (222–235) and his successors |
Emperor of Japan | Jimmu Tenno, the first | (perhaps c. 600 BC) was also called the Son of Heaven, (Ten for Heaven and ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Constantine I | ... a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of | and his successors |
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 ... |
Queen Elizabeth | In 1939, King George VI and | toured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... gnised experts, including Benjamin Barber (formerly an adviser to President | ), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (United Nations adviser on environmental issues) ... |
Barack Obama | In September 2010, President | informed Congress that the State of Emergency in effect since September 14 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Prince Harry of Wales | ... ate are: The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, | and The Duke of York |
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 |
Louis the Bavarian | ... d thereby, Wiesbaden, received the right of coinage from Holy Roman Emperor | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
A-bian | ... lic figures who are well known by their nicknames, including the politician | and the singer A-mei |
Henry VIII | ... ms of the crucifixion and the arms of Henry and Aragon (the lands passed to | as a consequence of the ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Arsaces | ... his Bactrian neighbour. Soon after however, a Parthian tribal chief called | invaded the Parthian territory around 238 BC to form the Arsacid Dynasty — ... |
Franz Joseph I | ... elm II, and with the emperors of Austria-Hungary, in particular with Kaiser | |
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 ... |
Conall | The Senchus says that Comgall had one son, | , and that Conall had seven sons, although six are named, Loingsech, Necht ... |
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 |
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: | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Louis XIV of France | In 1604, King | sent a large number of people to settle in Guyana, which would bring the F ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | In May 2010, | was filmed by a News of the World reporter claiming that the Duke of York ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bridei | ... Cenél Comgaill married the Pictish princess Der-Ilei, and the Pictish kings | and Nechtan mac Der Ilei were the result of this marriage |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander II | ... uke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, a niece of | , Czar of Russia |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... e explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for President | |
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, ... |
Theodora | ... n prefect in Gaul. Constantius left Helena to marry Maximian's stepdaughter | in 288 or 289 |
Asfaw Wossen | ... Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince | , Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle ... |
George H. W. Bush | In 1990, President | awarded Atanasoff the United States National Medal of Technology, the high ... |
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 | |
Jan Petersen | ... d criticism by fellow Conservative party member and former foreign minister | |
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 ... |
Paul Samuelson | ... cantilism have sometimes led critics to call them neo-mercantilism. Indeed, | , writing within a Keynesian framework, defended mercantilism, writing: "W ... |
William Julius Wilson | Rustin's analysis was supported by the later research by | . Wilson documented an increase in inequality within the Black community, ... |
Roberto Suazo | ... ber 1981. A new constitution was approved in 1982 and the PLH government of | assumed power |
Jean Hersholt | ... films received Special or Honorary Awards. Academy leader and board member | argued that "an international award, if properly and carefully administere ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Francisco Franco | ... cts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Spanish dictator | "harmonizing" and getting along quite well. When this cartoon was publishe ... |
Elizabeth II | On 17 May 2011, | became the first British monarch to visit the Áras on the occasion of her ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mieszko the Old | ... s initial privileges and in 1426 a new town hall was built. The Polish king | was buried in Kalisz |
Charles II of England | The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was | 's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ... |
Napoleon III | ... de Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and bore a resemblance to his cousin, | , emperor of the French |
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 ... |
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 |
Louis XIV | ... Lully's revolution in Baroque music, and most importantly, the ascension of | to the throne of France |
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 ... |
Oxylus | ... . The Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus lists eight Hamadryads, the daughters of | and Hamadryas |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Queen Victoria | 1888. Dracula has married the widowed | , and rules as Prince Consort. A virtual checklist of fictional vampires h ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ajority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton and | won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
Bolesław Bierut | ... d. The People's Republic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as | and Konstantin Rokossovsky |
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 ... |
Eudoxia Lopukhina | ... f Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his first consort | , and Princess Charlotte |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | President | performed the song on saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Prince Charles | ... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born: | in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950 |
Gustáv Husák | ... t predecessors had denigrated Slovak "bourgeois nationalists", most notably | and Vladimír Clementis, in the 1950s, the Slovak branch worked to promote ... |
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 ... |
Mary McAleese | ... in 1990 Mary Robinson moved back to the older main building. Her successor, | lived in the 1911 wing |
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 ... |
A-bian | ... rely used in formal or semi-formal settings, although a famous exception is | |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Oscar Temaru | ... ribe themselves. Te Ao Maohi - the Maohi world - as an expression coined by | gives an example of this |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | In 1972, United States President | announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, Preside ... |
Darius III of Persia | ... son-in-law, a Persian named Orontobates, received the satrapy of Caria from | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Alexander | | conquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Abraham Lincoln | ... y killed him. (Watsuki makes a comparison to President of the United States | with Ōkubo in his notes. |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Domnall mac Causantín | ... his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of | |
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 ... |
James K. Polk | ... 1851, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, the county is named after | , the eleventh President of the United States |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President of the United States | ... gia General Assembly, the county is named after James K. Polk, the eleventh | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... tually gained the respect of people with conservative/anti-communist views. | , a conservative and fervent anti-Communist, said he appreciated the film ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alaric I | ... he Temple of Peace in Rome until the city was sacked by the Visigoths under | in 410 CE |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | After the defeat of | , Kalisz became a provincial capital of Congress Poland and then the capit ... |
Barack Obama | ... nty was much more competitive than in recent years, as John McCain defeated | by only 7% (52-45%) |
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 ... |
James I | ... le' is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the accession of | in 1406 |
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 ... |
Catherine I | During the reign of | , Peter was quite ignored; but just before her death it became clear to th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Odin | Various Germanic peoples highly revered the raven. The major deity | was so associated with ravens throughout history that he gained the kennin ... |
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 ... |
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. |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Bona Sforza | In 1517, Sigismund married | , with whom he had |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Severus | ... It was not to be: Constantius and Galerius were promoted to Augusti, while | and Maximin were appointed their Caesars respectively. Constantine and Max ... |
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, ... |
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) |
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 ... |
Walter Wanger | ... oir Personal History (1935), the rights to which were purchased by producer | for $10,000 |
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 ... |
Constantius | ... vasion fleet was destroyed by storms in 289 or 290. Maximian's subordinate, | , campaigned against Carausius' successor, Allectus, while Maximian held t ... |
Michael Foot | ... ive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, | , Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles V | :For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor | , see: William de Croÿ |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President of the United States | ... , they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for Grover Cleveland, the newly elected | |
Queen Victoria | On 22 January 1901, | died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as King ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. |
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 ... |
Grover Cleveland | ... icted for defrauding the Post Office, they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for | , the newly elected President of the United States |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pygmalion myth | Pretty Woman bears striking resemblances to | s: particularly George Bernard Shaw's play of the same name, which also fo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George II | In 1737, | began paying some London and Middlesex watchmen with tax moneys, beginning ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Queen Caroline | His Paradise Lost (1732), suggested by | , has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the po ... |
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 ... |
Catherine de' Medici | When Italian duchess | married the duc d’Orléans in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to ... |
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) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Árpád | ... settlement was established in 1896 by Hungarians, under the name Árpádhon ( | , the leader of the Hungarian tribes and -hon as home(land)) |
Barack Obama | ... won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat | won 54% of the county's vote |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ernesto Zedillo | In 1997, President | commemorated the 150th anniversary of the execution of the San Patricios a ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Demophon | ... gs and her father's old friend Iolaus to Athens, where they are received by | , the king |
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 ... |
Henry III | In the 13th century, Kings | (1216–1272) and Edward I (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially crea ... |
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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President | 's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ... |
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) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Sparta | ... loponnesian League. Henceforth, its policy was usually determined either by | or Corinth |
Indira Gandhi | ... came from all walks of life, including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and | , crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers ... |
Hilderic | | (523–530) was the Vandal king most tolerant towards the Catholic Church. H ... |
Acastus | Laodamia was the wife of Protesilaus and daughter of | and Astydameia. After Protesilaus was killed in the Trojan War he was allo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Edward I | In the 13th century, Kings Henry III (1216–1272) and | (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially creating it as it stands toda ... |
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 ... |
Elizabeth I | ... travelled to France as part of the embassy to negotiate a marriage between | and the Duc D'Alençon. He spent the next several years in mainland Europe, ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ich was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of | ) and "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the bl ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Aegisthus | In Greek mythology, Aletes was the son of | and Clytemnestra, the king and queen of Mycenae. He had two sisters: Erigo ... |
Henry | ... iked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, | , George, and John |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Merrill Edward Gates | # | , 1890—189 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... nty vote, respectively. However in the 2008 Presidential Election, Democrat | captured McHenry County with 52% of the vote |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... n County is Arkansas's 65th county, formed on March 28, 1871, and named for | , the sixteenth President of the United States. It is an alcohol prohibiti ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John | ... imple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and | |
George | ... relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, | , and John |
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 ... |
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 |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... ther, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, | , was a pivotal figure in the independence movement of India |
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 | |
Ronald Fisher | Along with Leonard Tippett and | , he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory. The Gumbel ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Motilal Nehru | ... ather was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather, | , was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, ... |
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 |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... ich the AFP played a key role. The revolution installed then Vice-President | into the presidency |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | The political separation of the Church of England from Rome under | , beginning in 1529 and completed in 1536, brought England alongside this ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | In 1636 | , ruler of the Brunswick-Lüneburg principality of Calenberg, moved his res ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dalton McGuinty | An unpopular provincial budget by Liberal Premier | , who broke a pledge not to raise taxes, hurt the federal party's numbers ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... or the revolutions to come. Among these monarchs were the viceroy of Italy, | , who tried to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of ... |
Richard Nixon | NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after | proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better ... |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | ... former deputy prime minister rumored to be the illegitimate son of Niyazov, | , became acting president, although under the constitution the Chairman of ... |
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 ... |
James VII | Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass for | for a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ... |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | ... s are derived from Islamic civilization, but Turkey's elite, beginning with | , who took power as first President of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, imp ... |
Edward II | ... and Aylsham webb or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of | and III |
Ronald Reagan | ... last Republican presidential candidate to win a majority in the county was | , a Californian, in 1984 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... pared the United States for World War II and promoted the career of General | , known for his organizational skills |
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 ... |
Otto I | In 953 the German king | had appointed his brother Bruno the Great Duke of Lotharingia |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | In an election on February 11, 2007, | was elected president with 89% of the vote and 95% turnout, although the e ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... or previously granted to only two other heads of state: Peter the Great and | . Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philosophers, musicians and ... |
Lucien Bouchard | ... om the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founder | was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government ... |
Henry Sidgwick | ... lves lead to certain outcomes. One classic philosopher to take this view is | , in his main work |
President of the United States | ... he Native American village of Chiconcte. In 1810 it was renamed in honor of | James Madison |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Gandhi was the only child of | , the first prime minister of independent India. She adhered to the quasi- ... |
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 | |
James Madison | ... hiconcte. In 1810 it was renamed in honor of President of the United States | |
King William | Once again | entrusted Allied forces in the region to Prince Waldeck (William was himse ... |
Tony Benn | ... French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minister for Technology, | , announced that he would change the spelling back to Concorde. This creat ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... served as American Consul in Sweden during the administration of President | , to be State Immigration Commissioner. On March 23, 1870 the Legislature ... |
James I | During the 15th century | consigned several of his political enemies, including Walter Stewart to Th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hugo Chávez | ... Perhaps the best known television show internationally is however President | ' weekly talkshow Aló Presidente, which began in 1999 |
Edward II's | During | reign (1307–1327) there was relatively little activity at the Tower of Lon ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... rule that followed. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, when | returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city |
Frederick V, Elector Palatine | ... the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and | |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Yoweri Museveni | ... " that would accomplish the goals of the African Renaissance were President | of Uganda and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda |
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, ... |
Charlemagne | ... o have arranged the transfer of the hall's columns from a decayed palace of | from Ingelheim to Heidelberg |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Olof Skötkonung | ... tland, and about Olaf the Holy's battles with the Geats during his war with | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | On March 23, 2007, President | signed legislation naming the United States Department of Education headqu ... |
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, ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... odless People Power Revolution that removed Marcos from power and installed | as the new president of the Philippines |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John | # | (1455–1513), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Duke of Schleswig and Hol ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gerald Ford | President | 's mother Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford and maternal grandfather Levi Addison ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | In 1519 | granted a market on Saturdays and an annual fair to be held on March 12, w ... |
Prince of Wales | ... of Bute (1713–92) his architect William Burges (1827–1881) and the present | and Princess Margaret |
Adolf Hitler | ... his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator | , Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and ot ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of | , William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce ... |
Henry IV | ... ttacked unsuccessfully by the Protestants in 1568, and was taken in 1591 by | , who was crowned there three years afterwards |
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 ... |
St. Helena | Scholars debate whether Constantine adopted his mother | 's Christianity in his youth, or whether he adopted it gradually over the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President Wilson | ... t Versailles were Britain's Lloyd George, France's Clemenceau and America's | |
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 ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ster Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China | issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire ... |
Aragorn | ... the voice actors was the well-regarded John Hurt, who performed the role of | . The project's high profile brought heavy trade journal coverage, and fan ... |
Richard Nixon | Tanaka's foreign policy mirrored that of | , and his most notable achievement was the normalization of Japan's relati ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Conrad Nagel | ... my Award for Best Actress. Also starring in the film are Robert Montgomery, | , and Florence Eldridge |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Elizabeth II | ... at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen | . The honour had been first proposed in 1931. Knighthood was suggested aga ... |
Chen Cheng | ... came to Xian again, accompanied by many senior Kuomintang leaders including | to monitor the suppression campaign. In the interim between these two visi ... |
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, ... |
Frederick I | Under the reign of | (1523–33), Denmark remained officially Roman Catholic. But though Frederic ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot | ... rmer Tonton Macoute leader Roger Lafontant seized the provisional President | and declared himself President. After large numbers of Aristide supporters ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Pope John Paul II | ... an, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of | who died two years later |
Karl Dönitz | ... and testament, Hitler stripped Göring of his party membership and appointed | as president of the Reich and leader of the armed forces. Hitler and his l ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... ting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and | , he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organizatio ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry I | The death in 1135 of | left England with a disputed succession; although the king had persuaded h ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... nder of the cruiser , undertook a confidential mission to meet Qing General | in Seoul, Korea (1890). Afterwards, he assumed command of the |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles V | Though | fought the Reformation, it is no coincidence either that the reign of his ... |
Amartya Sen | In another article explicitly referring to Huntington, | (1999) writes that "diversity is a feature of most cultures in the world. ... |
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 ... |
Melampus | ... veral daughters. According to Pausanias, Amythaon is the father of Bias and | . Their mother was Idomene, daughter o |
King Henry VII | ... 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... convictions, greatly influenced her stepdaughter Lady Elizabeth (the future | ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Liu Yu | Liu Song founder | was originally a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that no ... |
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 |
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 | |
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 ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... oing stress he endured began to show their effects on Bishop Belo's health. | accepted his resignation as Apostolic Administrator of Dili on November 26 ... |
de Gaulle's | ... he escaped back to England, where he initially worked as an interpreter for | Free French forces. However, he was quickly prised away from de Gaulle by ... |
Indira Gandhi | ... emonstrations in 1955 and 26000 in 1960-61. Finally, in September 1966, the | -led Union Government accepted the demand, and Punjab was trifurcated as p ... |
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 ... |
Pelias | ... Proetus's kingdom. Bias and Iphianassa had a daughter Anaxibia who married | , to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. According to Pausanias, ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
claim to the French throne | ... to quarter the French arms until 1801, when George III abandoned his formal | |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... cial statehood ceremony in 1959 and being asked for a private audience with | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | The president of SAG – future United States President | – also known to the FBI as Confidential Informant "T-10", testified before ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
George III | ... ter of Great Britain) continued to quarter the French arms until 1801, when | abandoned his formal claim to the French throne |
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 ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | In December 1990, the former priest | was elected President in the Haitian general election, winning more than t ... |
Charles Knutsson | Meanwhile, Sweden had on 20 June 1448 elected | as king. Norway was now faced with the choice between a union with Sweden ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dmitry Medvedev | In November 2008, Russian president | announced government support for the construction of the Sakhalin Tunnel, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isabella | # | (1214–1241), the wife of Emperor Frederick II, by whom she had issue |
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 ... |
Sarpedon | # Antíphatês, son of | . Who accompanied Aeneas to Italy where he was killed by Turnus |
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 |
Emperor Frederick II | # Isabella (1214–1241), the wife of | , by whom she had issue |
Friedrich Wilhelm II | The Brandenburg Gate was commissioned by | to represent peace. The Gate was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the C ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... Commission was created to administer the emerging metropolis when President | issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Perseus | She remained faithful to Dionysus, but was later killed by | at Argos. In other myths Ariadne hanged herself from a tree, like Erigone ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Seymour | In 1952, a romanticised version of | 's obsession with Elizabeth I saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons ... |
Camille Chamoun | ... the Tigers Militia—which was led by Dany Chamoun, a son of former President | |
Henri Namphy | ... sts against "Baby Doc" led him to seek exile in France. Army leader General | headed a new National Governing Council |
James Madison | ... elers during the Colonial era. Famous Americans, such as George Washington, | and others have passed through Rock Hall numerous times traversing between ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Philip IV | ... he Palatinate, Charles declared war on Spain, which under the Catholic King | had sent forces to help occupy the Palatinate |
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 ... |
Melampus | # Antíphatês, son of | and Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes. He married Zeuxippe, the daug ... |
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 ... |
Corazon Aquino | In 1986, after a major government reorganization, President | issued Executive Order No. 392 and changed the structure of the Metropolit ... |
Friedrich Barbarossa | ... ecords dating to as early as 854. The city was declared an Imperial City by | in 1181 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Oenopion | With Dionysus, she was the mother of | , the personification of wine, Staphylus (related to grapes), Thoas, Pepar ... |
Frank McKenna | ... efugee claimants, and defence, and he appointed seasoned Liberal politician | as Canada's ambassador to Washington |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Megapenthes | # Antíphatês, son of Melampus and Iphianeira, the daughter of | . He married Zeuxippe, the daughter of Hippocoon. Their children were Oecl ... |
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 ... |
King Louis IX | In the reign of | (St. Louis) the three petals of the flower were said to represent faith, w ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Napoleon III | However, in 1865, | allowed them to apply for full French citizenship, a measure that few took ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Manuel L. Quezon | During the Philippine Commonwealth era, President | , the first president of the Commonwealth, renamed the Philippine Army to ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
president | ... and air force. These three branches are constitutionally subordinate to the | through the Minister of Defense. By offering early retirement incentives, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President | |
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 ... |
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 |
Władysław I Herman | In 1089, Judith married with | , Duke of Poland. This union considerably benefitted German-Polish relatio ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
King Arthur | Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary | . Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-c ... |
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 |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
François Duvalier | Former minister of health and labor | , known as "Papa Doc" and initially popular among the blacks, was the Pres ... |
Alfredo Stroessner | ... th century: Germans, the majority are Mennonites with long-reigned dictator | himself of German ancestry, Japanese with Okinawans, Koreans, ethnic Chine ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sophie of Württemberg | William III had a rather unhappy marriage with | , and his heirs died young. This raised the possibility of the extinction ... |
Agrippa I | ... n procurator side by side with the rule of the Herodian kings (specifically | 41–44 and 50–100) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Constantine II | ... in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and | , and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars |
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 ... |
Garfield Barwick | ... . He conferred (against Whitlam's advice) with High Court Chief Justice Sir | , who agreed that he had the power to dismiss Whitlam |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | signed into law an act of Congress on 25 May 1933 providing for the Bachel ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Al Gore | ... Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with | . Abdurrahim El-Keib is the interim prime minister of Libya |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Monroe | ... l became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since | and Tompkins in 1820 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Henry II | ... ained pastors to lead congregations in France. Despite heavy persecution by | , the Reformed Church of France, largely Calvinist in direction, made stea ... |
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 ... |
Robert Bourassa | ... me Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, | , and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
William Laud | ... imself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as Richard Montagu and | , whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Many of Charles's subje ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Premier of Quebec | ... he direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the | , Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau |
Vladimir Putin | ... ontrast, publicly welcomed Lukashenko's re-election. Then Russian President | phoned Lukashenko and offered a message of congratulations and cooperation ... |
Francis I | Though he was not personally interested in religious reform, | (1515–47) initially maintained an attitude of tolerance, arising from his ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... Both were released from prison in December 1997, pardoned by then-president | |
Sir William Cubitt | ... ived a knighthood in recognition of his work. The project was engineered by | |
President Soeharto | His state visit to Indonesia as invited by | to discuss Indo-Japanese trade relations was protested by a number of loca ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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, | |
Arthur Goldberg | ... was delivered by Justice Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice | , Justice Hugo Black, and Justice William O. Douglas |
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 ... |
Josiah Bartlet | ... daughter Renée had a supporting role in The West Wing, as one of President | 's (Sheen) secretaries |
Ronald Reagan | ... further foreign relations with the United States, during a 1988 summit with | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Sweden | In 1804 the parish of Volgsjö was renamed Vilhelmina in honour of Queen | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Isaac Newton | It was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz and | starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \ ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Wang Mang | ... held the title of regent. Following the death of Ai, Wang Zhengjun's nephew | (45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for Emperor Ping (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). Wh ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | The son of President | and his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Zhejia ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf of Germany | See also | |
Macareus | ... of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were Ochimus, Cercaphus, | or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Auges and Thr ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Achilles | ... Palladium, brought the bones of Pelops to Troy, and persuaded Neoptolemus ( | ' son by the Scyrian princess Deidamia) and Philoctetes (who possessed Her ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Xerxes | ... d with the Chaldean magi. A certain "Ostanes", one of the magi accompanying | was also said to have taught him |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Xerxes | ... ed at his tomb was plundered by the satrap Artayctes, under permission from | . The Greeks later captured and executed Artayctes, returning the treasure ... |
Francisco Franco | During the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and especially of | (1939–1975), all regional cultures were suppressed. All of the languages s ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Juan Antonio Samaranch | At the closing ceremony, IOC President | said in his closing speech, "Well done, Atlanta" and simply called the Gam ... |
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%. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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). ... |
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 ... |
Syagrius | From 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son | , Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell t ... |
Ulysses S. Grant | ... ewellton is the Winter Quarters Plantation restoration, where Union General | and his men spent the winter of 1862-1863, prior to launching the assault ... |
Georges Pompidou | French Presidents from | to Jacques Chirac have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible ... |
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 ... |
Justinian I | ... yzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under | (527-565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocat ... |
John Sobieski | ... is responsibilities and with Poland's quarreling factions. After his death, | was elected King of the and crowned as John III |
Philip II | Harsh persecution of Protestants by the Spanish government of | contributed to a desire for independence in the provinces, which led to th ... |
Karol Wojtyła | ... reasingly internationalist College of Cardinals, were figures like Cardinal | . Over the days following the conclave, cardinals effectively declared tha ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mary | ... h in the same year left the Crown in the hands of his six-day-old daughter, | . Once again, a regency was established |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jacques Chirac | French Presidents from Georges Pompidou to | have enjoyed touring Paris in the two 4-door convertible Citroën SM présid ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Clovis I | ... he capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell to the Frankish king | in the Battle of Soissons |
Alexander the Great | | , on his march from Pelusium to Memphis, halted at this city (Arrian, iii. ... |
Sibylla | That year he allied with | and Guy of Lusignan against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed t ... |
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 ... |
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave | In 1915, | was elected president. He was succeeded by Louis Borno in the 1922 electio ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isildur | In the year , at the Gladden Fields, | and his three eldest sons (Ciryon, Aratan and Elendur) were ambushed by Or ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... a diplomatic row with the United States administration after accusing, with | , the US of not listening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejecte ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Liu Penzi | ... rebels who deposed, assassinated, and replaced him with the puppet monarch | . Emperor Gengshi's brother Liu Xiu, known posthumously as Emperor Guangwu ... |
Majorian | ... peror Marcian, as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals | and Ricimer) and the Vandals of Gaiseric |
Sparta | ... invasion followed in 480 BC. Despite a heroic resistance at Thermopylae by | ns and other Greeks, Persian forces sacked Athens. Following successive Gr ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... d allowed native Taiwanese into positions of power, including his successor | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eric IV | During the civil war between | and his brother, Abel, Odense and the cathedral were burned down in 1247. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
president | In Mexico, the | is directly elected for a six-year term by popular vote. The candidate who ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Manuel Zelaya | On 27 November 2005 the PLH candidate | beat the PNH candidate and current Head of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, ... |
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 ... |
Alaric II | A time of confusion followed the death of | , the son-in-law of Theodoric, at the Battle of Vouillé. The Ostrogothic k ... |
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 ... |
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 | ... esiastic disputes of Constantine's later reign. Written during the reign of | (408–50), a century after Constantine's reign, these ecclesiastic historia ... |
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, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sapa Inca | According to Inca legend, the city was built by | Pachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James IV | ... tle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leading to another boy-king: | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ation") magazine entitled “Destroy the Ideas of Bourgeois Legal Ownership.” | ordered the reproduction of the article in Renmin Ribao ("People’s Daily") ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Baldwin IV | Raynald served as | 's envoy to Manuel and, because his wife Constance had died in 1163, was r ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Robert Bourassa | ... udeau's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier | |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Genghis Khan | Under their commander, | , the Mongols conquered Khwarezm and burned the city of Merv to the ground ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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- ... |
Maxentius | The foremost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors | and Licinius during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Fr ... |
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 ... |
Willy Brandt | ... monstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor | , who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour ... |
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 ... |
King George III | Although her mother was a grandchild of | , May was only a minor member of the British Royal Family. Her father, the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Numitor | When Romulus' grandfather | dies, the people of Alba Longa offer him the crown as rightful heir. Romul ... |
Inca Roca | ... tourists. On the street Hatun Rumiyoq ("Of the Old Rock") was the palace of | , which was converted to the Archbishop's residence |
Teucer | ... om the former was slain in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus, and the latter by | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Licinius | ... first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, Constantine and co-Emperor | issued the Edict of Milan in 313, which proclaimed religious tolerance of ... |
Theodoric the Great | The greatest of all Ostrogothic rulers, the future | (whose name means "leader of the people") of Ostrogothic Kingdom, was born ... |
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 ... |
Charles II | ... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's son | was declared king |
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 ... |
Edward | Henry VIII's children | and Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter Qu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan and | |
Achilles | ... re names of the tribe (also called "Myrmidones") settled in Pyhthia, led by | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Carlos Roberto Reina | In 1993, PLH candidate | was elected with 56% of the vote against PNH contender Oswaldo Ramos. He w ... |
Henry VIII | ... wings in a square surrounding a central courtyard. The palace was seized by | with other church properties |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for | in both of his presidential elections |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Licinius | ... remost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors Maxentius and | during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Franks, Alamann ... |
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 ... |
Pirithous | #Medon, a Centaur at the wedding of | and Hippodamia |
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 ... |
King Arthur | Twelve of | 's battles were recorded by Nennius in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of T ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | President | , who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965–1967 and 1971–19 ... |
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 ... |
Charles I | ... reat Britain" in 1604—they remained separate kingdoms. James I's successor, | , experienced frequent conflicts with the English Parliament related to th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Presidential | San Joaquin is a Republican-leaning county in | and Congressional elections. Until recently, the last Democrat to win a ma ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Negroponte | Between 1979 and 1985, under | 's appointment as U.S. diplomat from 1981 to 1985, U.S. military and econo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Roman Emperor | ... from 108 or 109 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the | Trajan or Hadrian, but this is improbable |
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 ... |
Sun Yat-sen | Kung was an early supporter of | , and worked with Wang Jingwei before serving in the government of Chiang ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Christopher Wren | The study of spirals in nature have a long history, | observed that many shells form a logarithmic spiral. Jan Swammerdam observ ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 |
George Washington | ... States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President) | . Its county seat is |
Barack Obama | ... taking some steps to allow limited economic exchanges with Cuba, President | recently reaffirmed the policy, stating that without improved human rights ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
stakes | ... y, President Wilkinson reorganized the LDS church units on campus, with ten | and over 100 wards being added during his administration |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Fernández | The United States supports the | administration's efforts to improve Dominican competitiveness, to attract ... |
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 ... |
Sanford B. Dole | ... is section shall not be recognized by the Department. [signed] June 8, 1896 | , President of the Republic of Hawai |
Charles Edward Stuart | ... Home, Lord Kames. Another descendant was Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress of | |
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 ... |
Hadrian | ... r 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Trajan or | , but this is improbable |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cercaphus | ... seven sons of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were Ochimus, | , Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Au ... |
Kamehameha III | ... ventually finished translating the Bible. Missionaries also influenced King | to establish the first Hawaiian-language constitutions in 1839 and 1840 |
Douglas Fairbanks | When | was on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his ne ... |
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 ... |
Agamemnon | ... winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, | 's staff of office, Achilles' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' ch ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eardwulf of Northumbria | Leo helped restore King | and settled various matters of dispute between the Archbishops of York and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Julius Nepos | ... stris), Ecdicius Avitus (later patricius and magister militum under Emperor | ), and, clarissima femina (who married the praetorian prefect of Gaul Tona ... |
Ochimus | ... were the seven sons of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were | , Cercaphus, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Non ... |
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 ... |
Augustus | Under the reign of | , when the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, 14 wards w ... |
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 ... |
Prince George, Duke of York | Albert Victor's brother, | , now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ... |
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 ... |
Prince Albert | ... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, | |
Charles Clarke | ... em with no Commons representative in East Anglia; the former Home Secretary | being a high level casualty in the 2010 election |
John II Casimir | ... because of large scale internal conflicts (e.g. Lubomirski's Rokosz against | and rebellious confederations), corrupted legislative processes and manipu ... |
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 ... |
Queen Mary | ... l of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of George V and | |
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 M. McPherson | ... the election of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 elections. Civil War historian | wrote |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | On 22 November 1539 the abbey was surrendered to | 's commissioners in the Dissolution of the monasteries. It was awarded to ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gunthamund | ... onstantinople, but after 482 began to persecute Manichaeans and Catholics." | (484–496), his cousin and successor, sought internal peace with the Cathol ... |
John G. Kemeny | ... from Dartmouth BASIC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors | and Thomas E. Kurtz |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Triopas | ... lectryone. They were Ochimus, Cercaphus, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, | , and Candalus (Nonnus adds Auges and Thrinax). They were expert astrologe ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | On June 12, 1987, U.S. President | spoke to the West Berlin populace at the Brandenburg Gate, demanding the r ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham | ... der intense French pressure. It ended in disaster after the Army commander, | , failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled Ant ... |
George V | ... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of | and Queen Mary |
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 ... |
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 | |
William III | ... f Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from | 's Act of Indemnity |
Richard II | ... mes under Edward I and was expanded to its current size during the reign of | (1377–1399) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
Princess Anne | Sarah became close to the young | in about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older. In ... |
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 ... |
Ted Turner | ... ta Braves became a power contender with greater revenues generated by WTBS, | 's Atlanta-based Super-Station, that broadcast "America's Team" to cable h ... |
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 ... |
Louis the Stammerer | ... relat (after its capital Arles), by the Synod of Mantaille, at the death of | (879), Avignon ceased to belong to the Frankish kings |
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 ... |
Codrus | #Medon, the son of | , was the first archon of Athens. He was lame, which was why his brother N ... |
Neville Wran | ... 64 he was one of a group of lawyers (which also included future NSW Premier | ) who lent their expertise to the defence of the publishers of the satiric ... |
Theodemir | ... hose name means "leader of the people") of Ostrogothic Kingdom, was born to | in or about 454, soon after the Battle of Nedao. His childhood was spent a ... |
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 |
Charles II | ... into contact with James, Duke of York (the future James II, brother of King | ) in 1663, during negotiations for the recovery of an estate in Kent (Agne ... |
Simón Bolívar | In 1815, | , the South American political leader who was instrumental in Latin Americ ... |
Robert E. Lee | McClellan was removed after failing to pursue General | 's retreat from Antietam, and Burnside was assigned to command the Army of ... |
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 ... |
Nolan Ryan | ... tire in 1976 with 755. There was great pitching too: between 1973 and 1975, | threw 4 "no-hit" games. He would add a record-breaking fifth in 1981 and t ... |
U.S. President | Following the 1960 election of | John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Ed ... |
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 ... |
Theodoric II | ... tus enter his own court. Here, around 439, Avitus met the son of Theodoric, | , who later became King. Avitus inspired the young Theodoric to study Lati ... |
Henry VI | ... trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (Edward II, Richard II and | ) had been overthrown and murdered by their successors, but had never been ... |
Henry Bolte | ... to White Australia and the death penalty. The Liberal Premier of Victoria, | , called The Age "that pinko rag," a view conservatives have maintained ev ... |
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 Martel | ... into the hands of the Saracens and was destroyed in 737 by the Franks under | for having sided with the Arabs against him. Boso having been proclaimed B ... |
Richard Nixon | ... and mines and anti-armor weapons, but were especially heavy after President | ordered US forces into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other caval ... |
Benigno Aquino III | ... of the program. , U.S. observers were uncertain whether Arroyo's successor, | , chosen in Philippine Presidential elections on May 10, 2010, will contin ... |
Hilderic | ... m the primary religion in North Africa. Generally most Vandal kings, except | , persecuted Trinitarian Christians to a greater or lesser extent, banning ... |
Irene of Athens | ... ditionally been seen as the defender of Rome, but the Eastern Roman Empress | was too weak to oppose Charlemagne. Charlemagne was to intervene in church ... |
Otto III | ... the Pope's temporal power, though it was denounced as a forgery by Emperor | and lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet Dante Alighieri. ... |
Patrick Dean | ... that when Wodehouse was recommended for a Companion of Honour in 1967, Sir | , British ambassador in Washington, argued that it "would also give curren ... |
Bill Clinton | ... homa City area to be released from their duties for their safety. President | learned about the bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Tur ... |
Wilson | ... e and her son, putting together Insurgent Mexico and interviewing President | on the subject. The resulting report, much watered down at White House ins ... |
John III of Navarre | ... are married Charlotte of Albret (1480 – 11 March 1514). She was a sister of | . They were parents to a daughter, Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, ... |
Strophius | #Medon, the son of Pylades and Electra and brother of | |
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 ... |
Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland | ... balls. Churchill, who had previously been a lover of Charles II’s mistress, | , had little to offer financially, as his estates were deeply in debt. Sar ... |
Maria Feodorovna | ... sia. However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, | (Helen Hayes), of her authenticity |
Warren Dusenberry | ... igham Young University's origin can be traced back to 1862 when a man named | started a Provo school in a prominent adobe building called Cluff Hall, wh ... |
Newton | ... h included) orbited the Sun, but the optics (and the specific mathematics – | 's Law of Gravitation for example) necessary to provide data that would co ... |
Frank Capra | Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by | . The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same t ... |
Sam Houston | ... in a Southern Convention. Under the influence of men such as Texas Governor | , delay had the effect of sustaining the Union. "Unionists", especially in ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... eluctantly obeyed this order, the third such in his brief career. President | pressured Burnside to take aggressive action and on November 14 approved h ... |
Charles VIII of France | ... o had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until | drove Sforza out of Italy. After Cesare, Leonardo was unsuccessful in find ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Justinian I | ... m Palestine. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor | , he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars o ... |
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 ... |
Bishop Fisher | ... efulness and necessity of Revelation (London, 1709—1710) and the preface to | 's Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1708)—both ... |
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 |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elessar | On May 1, 3019 King | 's coronation took place on the plain outside Minas Tirith, he then entere ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
Louis III of France | ... ammerer and Ansgarde of Burgundy, and became king, jointly with his brother | , on his father's death in 879 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isaac Newton | ... y was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as | , and Gottfried Leibniz. Newton was even accused of introducing occult age ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Trajan | ... er ascribed to him) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Emperor | 's reign, or 101 AD |
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 |
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 ... |
Lex Luthor | ... tomic Skull, Bizarro, Cheetah, Evil Star, Giganta, Heat Wave, Killer Frost, | , Sinestro, Star Sapphire, Toyman and Volcana. They team up with the Leagu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Queen Anne | ... nge extinct, and leaving Scotland, England and Ireland to his sister-in-law | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tullus Hostilius | ... man champion at the time of Romulus. This would make her the grandmother of | , the fourth king of Rome |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Robert Stanfield | ... set by this incident was dangerous. Federal Progressive Conservative leader | initially supported Trudeau's actions, but later regretted doing so. The s ... |
Crown Prince Naruhito | ... e kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years when | of Japan studied there (1983–85) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Xenia | ... nov family: Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (husband of Nicholas's sister | ), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (the most artistic of the Imperia ... |
Ohthere | ... wulf as Hrefnesholt, the Geatish hillfort which became the prison of Onela, | and their mother until their rescue by Ongenþeow |
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 ... |
Elizabeth | ... 's Men during the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess | and Frederick V, Elector Palatine |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | Branstad was appointed by President | to chair the President's Commission for Excellence in Special Education. T ... |
Leopold I of Belgium | ... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned by | in 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
presidents | ... ished its community and re-formed its government, producing several notable | coming from the Visayas region |
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 ... |
Henry III of Castile | ... lian expedition led by Juan de Bethencourt conquered the Canary Islands for | |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Claudius | ... C campaign in Spain. The temple was destroyed by a fire during the reign of | and was never rebuilt |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... the inspectors were not kicked out by Saddam Hussein, but were withdrawn by | |
Stanley Baldwin | ... Prime Minister in May 1923, Curzon was passed over for the job in favour of | , despite having written Bonar Law a lengthy letter earlier in the year co ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... 935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by | . Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Archduke Ferdinand | World War I begins with the assassination of | . Germany declares war on Russia immediately after Nicholas has ordered th ... |
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 ... |
Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... for a short time as a party nickname in the civil wars during the reign of | |
Alexander the Great | ... y other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings Philip II and | are included), although modern historians have questioned his larger strat ... |
Owain Glyndŵr | ... ith) had been (together with his two brothers Rhys and Gwilym) stalwarts of | 's uprising of 1400. When that uprising ebbed away Maredudd lost most of h ... |
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 ... |
President Roosevelt | In December 1943, | decided that Eisenhower—not Marshall—would be Supreme Allied Commander in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maximinus Thrax | ... epended on the support of the military to rule, like his eventual successor | |
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 ... |
Domitian | ... odelled further under Vespasian's younger son, the newly designated Emperor | , who constructed the hypogeum, a series of underground tunnels used to ho ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Eorcenberht of Kent | ... nce in Surrey, Essex, and Kent. He married Eormenhild, the daughter of King | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lex Luthor | ... aseball against the Justice League International. Members of the Legion are | , Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, Clock King, and Am ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... e expansion of federal gun regulations came as a response to the murders of | , Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. |
George W. Bush | ... because of lead singer Natalie Maines's comments disparaging then-President | while overseas |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James E. Talmage | In 1930, a small volume edited by Apostle | titled Latter-day Revelations was published, which was a highly edited sel ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar | , and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... an Military, one was used by Vijitha Rohana to attack Indian Prime Minister | in 1987 |
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 ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... of the Black Sea in the 3rd century AD and, in the late 5th century, under | , established a Kingdom in Italy |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | ... is job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981. Over a decade later, | was assassinated |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rabbel II Soter | At about the same time | , one of Rome's client kings, died. This event might have prompted the ann ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King | for their high cost |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Macrinus | Caracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect, | , who (according to Herodian) was most probably responsible for having the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rhys ap Gruffydd | Owen was a descendant of | (1132–1197) via the lineages that follow |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Li Ban | :For the Chinese prince, see | (李班). For the country whose French name is Liban, see Lebanon |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Louis II | ... English eventually evolved into the modern Lorraine. Lothair's eldest son, | inherited Italy and his father's claim to the Imperial title |
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 ... |
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. |
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 ... |
Charles VIII | Sture came to power after the death of | and consolidated his position through the victory of Brunkeberg. For a qua ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Wilhelm II | ... II, while the next two have a "W" for the respective kaisers, Wilhelm I and | . The final version shows a swastika |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Prithviraj Chauhan | As per Bhavishya Purana(Sanskrit-भविष्य पुराणम्), | , the King of Indraprastha built a new fort for convenience of all four ca ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Napoleon I | ... July 1795, making it France's first anthem. It later lost this status under | , and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and Napoleon III, only b ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... ven the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. In particular, | never held the title as her aunt, , was in possession of the title |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... a Jacobean brick-built manor house, and was formerly the home of the young | , later to become Henry VIII's second wife |
Rajaraja Chola II | ... which abounds in rare sculpture and architectural workmanship, was built by | (1146–73) |
Domitian | ... ns, known as the Clementine literature, where he is identified with Emperor | 's cousin Titus Favius Clemens. Clementine Literature portrays Clement as ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | In 1975, French President | invited the heads of government from West Germany, Italy, Japan, the Unite ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Charles XIII | ... ernor of Rome when he was unexpectedly elected the heir-presumptive to King | of Sweden, who was childless and old |
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 ... |
Ealdwulf | In 664, Æthelwald of East Anglia died, and was succeeded by | , who reigned for fifty years. Almost nothing is known of Mercian relation ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... kas Komnenos Palaiologos by Theodora Angelina, the granddaughter of Emperor | and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina. Even with our imperfect knowledge of B ... |
Fedlimid Rechtmar | Conn Cétchathach ("of the Hundred Battles", pron. ), son of | , was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Urien | In the Welsh Triads, Modron becomes impregnated by | and gives birth to Owain and Morvydd |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James Buchanan | In January, President | had attempted to resupply the garrison with the Star of the West, but Conf ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | In July 2008 | , then the Democratic presidential candidate, said: "If somebody was sendi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charlemagne | ... n in retrospect to symbolize all the Christian Frankish kings, most notably | |
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 ... |
Augustus | ... e Senate with the wish felicior Augusto, melior Traiano ("[be] luckier than | and better than Trajan"). Among medieval Christian theologians, Trajan was ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander the Great | ... 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of | |
Daniel Coit Gilman | The University's viability depended on its first president, | , recruited from the presidency of the University of California. Gilman la ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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: ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hadrian | ... ere laid to rest under Trajan's Column. He was succeeded by his adopted son | |
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 ... |
Barack Obama | ... of the campaign, Sheen stated in a BBC Two interview that he was supporting | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Washington | ... eat significance: 1876 was the nation's centennial year and February 22 was | 's birthday |
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 ... |
William III | ... On being offered the dukedom of Gelderland by the States of that province, | let the offer lapse as liable to raise too much opposition in the other pr ... |
Gerald Ford | ... oup at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and U.S. President | and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Union is repres ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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' |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Domitian | Along the Rhine River, he took part in the Emperor | 's wars while under Domitian's successor, Nerva, who was unpopular with th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abraham Lincoln | Hopkins was a prominent abolitionist who supported | during the American Civil War. After his death, reports said his convictio ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Borough President | The office of | was created in the consolidation of 1898 to balance centralization with lo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President | ... following year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former | Bill Clinton into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduce ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bill Richardson | ... Minister; Scott Brown, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts | ;, Democratic Governor of New Mexico; and Peter DeFazio, Democratic United ... |
Borough President | ... City Council, the New York state government, and corporations. Manhattan's | is Scott Stringer, elected as a Democrat in 2005 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hyder Ali | ... were utilized as battleships by the Sultanate of Mysore during the rule of | |
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 ... |
Francis I of France | In 1536 king | invaded the papal territory, in order to overthrow Emperor Charles V, who ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Queen Mary | ... tour of Canada by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later King George V and | ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maximian | In July 285, Diocletian declared | , another colleague from Illyricum, his co-emperor. Each emperor would hav ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jozias van Aartsen | ... number of seats in the municipal elections, prompting parliamentary leader | to step down. Willibrord van Beek was subsequently appointed parliamentary ... |
Eorcenberht | | was the king of Kent at Wulfhere's accession, and the two families became ... |
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 ... |
Tiberius | ... edication of the rebuilt temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium by emperor | is the day of the Portunalia, August 17 |
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 ... |
Charles the Bald | When | visited Corbie in 843, he apparently met Ratramnus and requested an explan ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... as well as highlighting a statement Lukashenko had made seemingly praising | . Lukashenko referred to the media attack as 'dirty propaganda' |
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 ... |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | In 2005, Khaled Mashaal called | 's December 14, 2005 statements on the Holocaust that Europeans had "creat ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Louis XIV | In October 1685, | , the grandson of Henry IV, renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism ... |
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 ... |
Juliana | After a long struggle with neurological illiness, Queen | died on March 20, 2004, and her husband, Prince Bernhard, died on December ... |
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 ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... infrastructure and perhaps attacking Damascus" Ultimately, Syrian President | decided to cancel the offensive. On October 23, the day the offensive was ... |
Constantine the Great | In 323 AD, | recognised the Christian religion, and in 356 Constantius II ordered the c ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mattan I | ... and is synchronized properly with history then this Belus should stand for | , father of the historical Pygmalion |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Francisco Franco | ... uthoritarian, anti-communist, and régimes such as Vichy France, Spain under | , and Portugal under Antonio Salazar. Communist ideologues often label all ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Oswine | ... in: Oswald's son Oswiu succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, and Osric's son | to Deira, the southern of the two kingdoms |
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 ... |
Perseus | ... escendants remained in possession of the Macedonian throne till the time of | , when Macedon was conquered by the Romans in 168 BC |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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, ... |
Norman Lamm | ... ocaust was God's fault. Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Joseph Soloveitchik, | , Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, Emanuel Rackman, Eliezer Berkovits and ... |
Andrew Jackson | The town was named in 1825 for future president | , the commander of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Juan Bosch | ... ctly supported the overthrow of left-wing, democratically elected president | of the Dominican Republic and João Goulart of Brazil, maintaining US suppo ... |
Jean Mayer | The university experienced tremendous growth during the presidency of | (1976–1992). Mayer was, by all accounts, some combination of "charming, wi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
William III | ... irst King of the Netherlands since the death of his great-great grandfather | in 1890 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
Queen Victoria | ... adquarters in Halifax. (Prince Edward later became the father of the future | . |
Franklin Roosevelt | President | moved the INS from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | ... rried his sister Laodice V, by whom he had three sons Demetrius II Nicator, | and Antigonus |
Queen Victoria | ... t play Early Morning, in which she is depicted having a lesbian affair with | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Oswald | ... humbria briefly fell apart into its two constituent kingdoms. Within a year | killed Cadwallon and reunited the kingdoms, and subsequently re-establishe ... |
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 ... |
Timur | In 1526, Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant of | and Genghis Khan from the Fergana Valley (in modern day Uzbekistan), invad ... |
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 ... |
Charles | ... tle of emperor; the second, Lothair II, received Lotharingia; the youngest, | , received Provence |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Prince Igor | The cathedral square in Putivl | is about to set out on a campaign against the Polovtsy and their Khans who ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | ... heek comment from Milton Friedman, a comment later echoed by U.S. President | , that "We are all Keynesians now". The article described the exceptionall ... |
Owain Glyndŵr | In 1404 | burned Cardiff and took Cardiff Castle. As the town was still very small, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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Jack Ryan | ... res of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst | |
Arthur Balfour | | 's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir ... |
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 ... |
Charles IV | As early as 1361 Emperor | had conferred on Burgrave Frederick V the right to mint coins for the town ... |
William X, Count of Poitou | # | (1136–1164) died unmarrie |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Konstantinos Karamanlis | Former prime minister | was invited back from Paris where he had lived in self-exile since 1963, m ... |
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 ... |
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) |
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 |
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 |
Adolf Hitler | ... Introduction, Hayek contrasts Western Anglo values with Nazi Germany under | , stating that "the conflict between the National-Socialist "Right" and th ... |
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 ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... pecially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum Novarum and | in Quadragesimo Anno |
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 |
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 ... |
Al Gore | ... luded Ishmael Beah, author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, | , Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Antigonus | His son | offered all his possessions, and even his own person, in order to procure ... |
Charlemagne | When the treaty of Verdun (843) split | 's empire into three parts the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's king ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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% ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 |
Eleazar Wheelock | Dartmouth was founded by | , a Puritan minister from Columbia, Connecticut, who had previously sought ... |
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 ... |
Magnus Maximus | ... 4th century, as the last Roman legions left the province of Britannia with | |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... on was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with | in 1901 |
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 ... |
James II | ... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards to | to uphold it |
Francisco Franco | ... the Republic. It staved off the prospect of a rapid defeat at the hands of | 's forces. The role of the International Brigades in this victory was gene ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Louis XIV | In 1677, | , in an effort to "safeguard the tranquility of his borders for ever" ("as ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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; ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ident realized his position was actually closer to the Republican candidate | . Personal correspondences between the President and some in the Republica ... |
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 ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... the song live as a mash-up with Linkin Park and Jay-Z's Numb/Encore. It is | 's favourite Beatles song |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ida | Æthelfrith, son of Æthelric and grandson of | , apparently succeeded Hussa as king of the Bernicians around the year 592 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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’ ... |
John F. Kennedy | Sheen has played U.S. President | (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General Rob ... |
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- ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
President of the United States | ... 1. At the invitation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and | Bill Clinton, Russia formally joined the group in 1997, resulting in the G ... |
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... colony. The British changed the name of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after | , King George III's queen |
King Arthur | ... d Cynric were depicted as Saxon invaders, and were killed, respectively, by | and Lancelot at the Battle of Badon Hill (Mons Badonicus). Cynric was port ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... "Messalina", although they were pleased with her beauty. Her mother-in-law, | readily accepted her as John's wife |
Edward III of England | In 1328, King | inherited a claim to the crown of France, and in about 1340 he quartered F ... |
George W. Bush | ... f former President George H.W. Bush and the grandfather of former President | . He served from 1953–1963 |
Ernest L. Wilkinson | ... den, Utah and rebuilt it to house some of the students. The next President, | , also oversaw a period of intense growth, as the school adopted an accele ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... somewhat in 2000 with Thirteen Days, in which he portrayed a top adviser to | . The western Open Range, which he directed and starred in, received criti ... |
Lyncus | Later, Triptolemus taught | , King of the Scythians the arts of agriculture but he refused to teach it ... |
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 ... |
King Abdullah I of Jordan | ... agreement Shaykh Muhamad 'Ali al-Ja'bari, Mayor of Hebron and supporter of | attended the Jericho Conference presided over a meeting hoping to pass a r ... |
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) ... |
Belus | ... metimes being called Belus II by later commentators to distinguish him from | son of Poseidon and Libya in earlier Greek mythology. If the story of Elis ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... Supreme Court was in session, the important lawyers in Illinois, including | , gathered in Mt. Vernon to argue their cases. The lawyers gathered at the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Attila | ... ian, German and Gothic in origin. As far as historicity can be ascertained, | , Jörmunrekkr and Brynhildr actually existed, taking Brynhildr to be partl ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry II | ... covered the whole county to the east of the River Derwent from the reign of | to that of Edward I |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... tially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. In 1966, | in his apostolic constitution Paenitemini, changed the strictly regulated ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mary of Modena | ... , and in 1673 Sarah entered court as maid of honour to James’s second wife, | |
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 ... |
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 |
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 |
Menander | ... 165 BCE) included Gandhara and Punjab and reached its greatest extent under | (165-150 BCE), prospering the Greco-Buddhist culture in the region |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexander | He also roused the jealousy of | 's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Isaac Newton | ... llection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir | , Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ributed information and contraceptives to people's commune members. By 1973 | was personally identified with the family planning movement, signifying a ... |
Gordon H. Smith | ... with Democrat Jeff Merkley winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republican | won 46.5% of the vote (106,114) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eanfrith | ... Pictland, in northern Britain. His nephew the Pictish king Talorgan, son of | , had died in 657 |
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti | ... interested in international water management issues and sports. He married | in 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 |
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 |
James I of Scotland | ... nent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and Royal Standard since | |
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). ... |
Eleazar Wheelock | Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Congregational minister | . After a long period of financial and political struggles, Dartmouth emer ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Franklin S. Harris | | was appointed President of the University in 1921. He was the first Presid ... |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George W. Bush | ... tion because its policies are much better than those of former US president | : "As long as there's a new language, we welcome it, but we want to see no ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... eacher" urban legend supposes the town is named after, as well as President | (President from 1829–1837) after whom the town's officials say it is actua ... |
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 ... |
Richard Nixon | President | dispatched more bombers in Operation Linebacker to provide air support for ... |
Charles V | Although | resisted the Protestant Reformation, he ruled the Dutch territories wisely ... |
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 ... |
Ahaziah | ... litary campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included Ahab, | and Joram |
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 ... |
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 ... |
King William III and Queen Mary II | Colleges created by royal charter from | of England |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Napoleon II | ... lted in failure. He was present at Waterloo, and afterwards sought to place | on the throne |
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 ... |
King George II | Colleges created by | of Great Britain |
Petronila, Queen of Aragon | The dynastic union between | , and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, Alfonso II o ... |
Marcus Aurelius | During the persecution of | , the Roman Emperor from 161-180, Irenaeus was a priest of the Church of L ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Zimri | Omri was "commander of the army" of king Elah when | murdered Elah and made himself king. Instead, the troops at Gibbethon chos ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Lysimachus | ... e also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and | united to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the Ipsus ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... d one of the wealthiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included | , Robert F. Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newb ... |
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 |
Juscelino Kubitschek | ... lace to receive the trophy from the hands of the President of the Republic, | |
Gabe Paul | ... s from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and | , among others, being written in support of King |
Elah | Omri was "commander of the army" of king | when Zimri murdered Elah and made himself king. Instead, the troops at Gib ... |
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 ... |
Alexander II of Scotland | ... ed the girl's mother. Princess Joan was provided with another husband, King | , whom she wed in 1221 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marcus Cocceius Nerva | In September 96, Domitian was succeeded by | , an old and childless senator who proved to be unpopular with the army. A ... |
Anderson Dawson | ... was Secretary for Railways and Public Works in the seven-day government of | , the first parliamentary socialist government in the world |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Theodoric the Great | Aspar was the teacher of | , who later became king of the Ostrogoths. Aspar had another son, Ermanari ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Hadrian | ... s of the Flavian dynasty contributed significantly towards its restoration. | offered complete autonomy. Also Plutarch was a significant factor by his p ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Agamemnon | In the original novels, House Atreides claims descent from | , a son of Atreus, in Greek mythology. The descendants of Atreus are calle ... |
Roy Romanow | ... Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minister | . Pressure from provincial governments (which in Canada have jurisdiction ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peter III of Aragon | On March 30, 1282, | waged war on Charles of Anjou after the Sicilian Vespers for the possessio ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Julius Nyerere | Under the leadership of | , the Tanzanian government guaranteed equal representation for all Tanzani ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emperor Yang Guang | Between 604 to 609, | (or Sui Yangdi) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Marcian | ... an religion. Instead, he played the role of kingmaker with his subordinate, | , who became emperor by marrying Theodosius II's sister Pulcheria |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Theodosius II | ... of kingmaker with his subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying | 's sister Pulcheria |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Sanchia of Provence | ... s (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly Isabel Marshal, secondly | , and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had issue |
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 ... |
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 |
Alexander II of Scotland | # Joan (22 July 1210 – 1238), the wife of King | . Her marriage was childless |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Cecil O. Samuelson | ... Bateman led the student body in a prayer for peace. Bateman was followed by | in 2003, who is the current president |
Paul Kruger | ... dispute from the side of the Transvaal. Persistent Boer representations and | 's diplomatic manoeuvrings added to the pressure. There were incidents inv ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alexandre Millerand | ... ublican Defence at the turn of the century (alongside independent socialist | ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Edward I of England | ... Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom he had issue, including his heir, King | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Augustus | ... r Claudius later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather | |
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 ... |
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti | On 2 February 2002, he married | (born 17 May 1971) at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Máxima is an Arg ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Æthelred | ... g of Mercia. His children included two future kings of Mercia: Wulfhere and | |
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 ( ... |
Richard Nixon | Starting in 1969 President | started the process of "Vietnamization", pulling out American forces and r ... |
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 ... |
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), ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Francisco Franco | ... "53 nations" to fight against the Spanish Nationalist forces led by General | and assisted by German and Italian forces |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Minos | According to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and | . When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native land, Minos ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sarpedon | According to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons, | and Minos. When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native lan ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rudolf II | ... verted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, Maximilian II, | , and Mathias largely tolerated |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maximilian II | ... ves largely converted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, | , Rudolf II, and Mathias largely tolerated |
Sarpedon | ... , the Lycian contingent was said to have been led by two esteemed warriors: | (son of Zeus and Laodamia) and Glaucus (son of Hippolochus) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charles II of England | ... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by King | through the Connecticut Charter of 1662 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jean Hersholt | ... ld, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, | , Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners ... |
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 |
Lewis A. Coser | The American sociologist | (following the German philosopher and sociologist Max Scheler) defines an ... |
Simón Bolívar | In 1816, Vieques was briefly visited by | while fleeing defeat in Venezuela |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Alexander Lukashenko | President | said Belarus unanimously denounced US aggression in Iraq |
Ulysses S. Grant | Crusading against the corruption of | 's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's ca ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Boso | However, Duke | had renounced his allegiance to both brothers and had been elected King of ... |
Sir Hugh Beaver | On 4 May 1951, | , then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, went on a shooting ... |
Henry II of France | ... rice of Saxony by the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to King | in turn for his support |
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 |
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 |
Penda | Wulfhere's father, | , was killed in 655 at the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against Oswiu of No ... |
Shaka | | , the first Zulu king, had, through war and conquest, built the small Zulu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |